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MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1933.
No. 151.
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Comment
on the
Diy's Nezvs
By FRANK JENKINS.
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C. ENGLISH. vlce-presiaeni oj
Equitable Bavlnga & Loan asso
ciation, of Portland, who has been
pending several days on business In
Southern Oregon, said the other day
to this writer:
"Our company matures and pays
back tp it certificate holders, on the
arersge, about 160,000 a month, or
approximately a million and three
quarters dollars per year.
"This sum Is paid out In cash."
r"vURINa 1932 only about 50 per
U cent of this money was re
turned to us for reinvestment.
"By April of 1933. however, the
amount of money returned to us for
reinvestment had reached 82 pel cent
of the sum paid out to holders of
manured certificates.
"By May, If was up to 88 per cent.
and by June It had reached 92 per
cent."
11 THAT does thatstatement meanV
W Well, It means that during. 1932
people had so little confidence In the
future of the 'country that they were
reinvesting only about hlf of the
mnnev coming Into their hands
through the maturing of previous in
vestments.
wht thev did with the rest ol
their money can only be guessed at,
but It Is to be presumed that they
hid It away, either In safe deposit
vaults or In tin cans burled out In the
hack yard. '
At any rate, they hid It away some
where. -
WHY? .
There can be only one answer.
They were SOARED of the future,
and wanted to keep their property
. IN CASH where they could lay hands
on It at a moment's notice.
They didn't know what might hap
pen, but FEARED THE WORST even
to the extent of complete collapse ol
our whole social and Industrial sys
tem. BY APRIL, however, they were be
ginning to get their confidence
back, and Instead of hiding out HALF
of the ready money coming Into their
hands were returning 82 per cent ol
it for reinvestment. By May, they
trer returning 88 per cent and by
June 92 per cent.
These figures are interesting. De
cause they reflect so plainly the re
turn of confidence that began to be
evident early last spring:
It waa this return of confidence
that marked the beginning of" the
end of the depression.
SPEAKING of. confidence, Mr. Eng
lish says:
"We have confidence In Southern
Oregon. We have a lot of money
loaned here already, and are PUT
TING IN MORE.
"We are loaning In only a few re
gions these days. Southern Oregon
Is one of them."
That sounds pretty good, doesn't
It?
MR. ENGLISH teooklng for a man
to represent his concern down
In this section. He lays down this as
his principal specification:
"The man we want must be of such
standing, reputation and presence
that when he enters an office who
ever he goes In t see will know that
. because he represents It. the propo
sition he is going to put up must be
all right."
IF THIS writerTwho Is an employer
in a modest way, sees that man
FIRST, Mr. English won t get a chance
at him.
Men like that are scarce.
T IS unfortunate," said Mr.
1 English, "that a great deal of
money has been lost in this commu
nity, aa elsewhere. In unwise Invest
ments.' "That U true," this writer replied.
"and to
certain extent men like iwa him to employ 5000 war vete
. ran. tnr the NimninTi Detroit plants
you -" -
. .,,.n a vniira arc
responsible. "'
using more NEWPAPF.H ADVERT1H -
IVO to famlllarlrc the public with
the difference between sound snd un
sound Investing "
If more of thst had been done in
the ysrs when people had money to
invr.t. much leas money anld h.v
been lost In unaise imcimema.
DnDTi AMn'c urn t t T rv r
FOR LION'S SHARE
BE
Up-State Groups Going to
Highway Commission
Meeting With Fire in Eye
After Multnomah Hint
SAI.EM. Sept. IS (,P) An
answer to demands of Portland
groups that 8.1 per cent of the
federal highway money be spent
In Multnomah county for relief
was being prepared by Leslie M.
Scott, chairman of the state high
way commission, here this after
noon. Scott's statement would stand
llh the commission on the allo
cations already outlined, It was
Indicated.
SALEM. Sept. 15. (AP) The con
troversy between Portland delegates
and up-state groups over allocation
of the more than 6,000,000 federal
funds for road work will feature the
meeting of the highway commission
at Portland tomorrow. It waa Indicat
ed here today. It waa unofficially
stated here Portland would ask about
85 per cent of the funds be spent in
Multnomah county for relief to un
employed.
With the announcement of this re
quest, up-state groua Indicated they
would be represented at the meeting
In support of allocations already
made on area and road -mile basis. An
attempt, It was learned, would bo
made to hold up awards of bids to be
opened by the commission tomorrow
morrilng, which move the upstate
delegation would oppose. I
' Expect Crowd
In order to handle the large dele
Rations expected, the commission
secured, the Urge assembly room at
the Multnomah hotel for the session,
which starts at 9 o'clock. It was ex
oected no delegations would be heard
during the early part of the day ax
opening of bids Is the first order of
business.
. Herbert Glalsyer. secretary of the
commission, said today other groups
would be heard at the Saturday ses
sion, but all Information obtained
Indicated requests would dovetail
Into the major controversy on fund
allocations.
To Open Bids
Bids on about $600,000 work will
be opened by the commission, with
the expectation contracts would be
awarded before" 'night. Members of
the department will leave for Port
land later today for a preliminary
conference with the commission to
night. The following Jobs will be awarded:
Clatsop county Bridge over Ne-
canlcum river on Wolf creek highway
near Necaiucum.
Deschutes county Unit No. 3 of
Redmond-Bend section of The Dalles.
California highway, 3.30 miles grad
ing. Grant county Middle Fork forest
boundary section of Pendleton-John
Day highway, 4.25 miles grading.
JACKSON COUNTY Neil creek-
Barron creek section of Pacific high
way,-1.51 miles grading.
Klamath county Merrll-Malln sec
tion of The Dalles-California high
way, four miles bituminous macadam
wearing surface and 6-1 miles oil
mat surface treatment. Terminal
Clty-Klamath Falls section of The
Dallas-Call fornl a highway. 1244 lln.
ft. Portland cement concrete.
Lake countyWhite Rock-Lakevlcw
section of Fremont highway, 802
miles grading.
Linn county Soda Fork section of
Ssntiam highway, 1.06 miles grading.
Multnomah county Multnomah
county llne-Llnnton section of Co
lumbia River highway, construction
of 2.12 miles asphaltlc concrete pave
ment. ;
Tillamook county Kilchls rlver
Tlllamook section of Oregon Coast
highway. 2477 lin. ft. Portland ce
ment concrete pavement. Neahkah
nle mountain section of Oregon Coast
highway, a mile of grading.
VETS IS
DETROIT, Sept. 15. (AP) Rex
Humphrey, commsnder of the Wayne
county (Detroit) council of the
American Legion, announced today
that the Ford Motor Co., had author-
1 -
Humphrey said 300 veterans a day
will be hired by him. beginning Mon
1 d uni tn. quota la filled. The
. Ford company declined to make
crtinn.ent nn the etr.nlovment
Humphrry said that all men hired
muat product pspera to show they
have "a fine war record."
Fste: lilies h!omd In. 6-pfenier
on s plant belonging to a Irl Pierce.
Fis.. womia.
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BASEBALL
National.
CHICAGO.' Sept. 15. (AP) Hal
Schumacher held the Cubs to six hit
today and the New York Giant de
feated the Cubs, A to 1. IB the first
game of the doubleheader. The vic
tory. New York's Ilrat In three games
of the series. Increased the Giant
lead to 614 games. The score:
R. H. E.
New York 5 10 0
Chicago ........... 16 1
Batteries: Schumacher and Man-
cuso; Tinning, Ma lone, Hermann ana
Hartnctt.
First game: R.
Philadelphia 4
Cincinnati - 0
Batteries: Grabowskl and
H. E.
8 0
3 0
Davis;
Johnson. Frey and Crouch,
Lombardl.
H.
E.
Boston 10
Pittsburgh 1
Brandt and Spohrer: Smith,
ley, Chagnon and Padden.
11 1
0 1
Dud-
CRATER
By
PORTLAND. Sept. IB. (AP) Bids
on three forest highways projects, two
in Oregon and one in Washington, to
day were In the hands of W. H. Lynch.
district engineer here for the bureau
or public roads. The jobs are part
of the NRA recovery program.
Von der Hellen and Plerson of Med
ford, Ore., submitted the low bid ol
308,78B for the grading of 7.8 miles
In Crater Lake National park, between
wineglass and Cloudcap Inn. The
bid was on the basis of metal cul
vert pipe. Dunn and Baker of Klam
ath Falls were second with 354.fi56,
and Morrison-Knudsen of Boise.
IdBho. third with 387,088.
On the grading of 4.1 miles of the
Pendleton-John Day highway, von
der Hellen and Plerson were also low,
bidding 88.579. Myers and Ooulter
of Seattle, at $97,370. were second
low, and Guthrie-McDougall of Port
land, third, with S104.610.
Elliott A Co. of Seattle submitted
the low bid, M,938, for the grading
and surfacing of 1.7 miles of the Na
tional Park highway In Rainier Na
tlonal park. J. D. Harms of Seattle
bid $91,178, second low, and Lulgh
is Co. of Seattle, $83,788, third.
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PLAY SEMI-FINAL
PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 15. (AP)
Two former Walker cup stars. Don
Moe and Dr. O. F. Willing, both of
Portland, faced each other this after
noon In the soml-flnalg of the Ore
gon state amateur golf tournament.
In the other match. Dr. Cliff Baker
of Portland waa meeting Johnny
Robbina, also of Portland.
In the quarter-finals this morning
Moe defeated James Crowell, Port
land, 5 and 4; Dr. William won from
J. Wilson Johnson, Eugene. 5 snd 4
Robblns eliminated Vincent Dolp. of
Portland, 5 and 4. and Dr. Baker
beat Rudle Wllhelm, Portland. 1 up,
H. B. Bentley, Ashland, waa de
feated 3 and 3 by Vincent Dolp of
Portland in the second round of the
championship flight yesterday after
Bentley had defeated Joe Brown, of
Portland, 2 up, In the first round.
Bob Hammond, Medford, defeated
Jack Orosamsyer, Portland. 4 and 8,
In the first round of the second
flight yesterday.
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IN GOLF FINAL
KENWOOD COUNTRY CLUB Cln
clnnatl, Sept. 18. (AP) George T
Dunlap, Jr., of New York won the
right to play Max R. Marston of
Philadelphia, veteran former title
holder, for the United States ama
teur golf championship today by con
quering W. Mason Little, Jr.. of San
Pranclsco, 4 and 8. In the seml-flnats.
Marston turned bark Jack Munger,
16-resr-old Texas star, 0 and A-
GOLD PRICE $30.41
SET BY TREASURER
WASHINOTON, Sept. IS. (API
To1t prtr for nwlv mined gold
th announced by the treasury at
l?0.41.
CONTRACT
MEDFORD
BAY BUILDERS
ernes suppressing
'C GRADE APPLES
NOT TOE SOLD
Growers ' Group ' Decide' to
' Curb Sales of, Boxed' Fruit
to Buoy Market Asking
Price" Scale Also Adopted
. SPOKANE. Wash., Sept. 15. P)
Pacific northwest applegrowers will
market no "C" grade fruit this year.
Frank E. Miller, chairman of tine
apple commodity committee of the
Northwest Fruit Industries, Inc., an
nounced today.
The committee reached this de
cision at recent meeting. Miller said
and at the same time decided that
no sales of boxed apples will be al
lowed at less than 80 cents a, box,
free on board at shipping point.
Northwest Fruit Industries, Inc., Is
the northwest code association for all
tree fruits.
The ruling on "C" grade marketing
applies to stl vsrletles of apples pro-
duced in Montana, Idaho, Oregon and
Washington.
Coincident with the establishment
of a minimum price for apples. Miller
said the committee also established
an asking price scale as follows:
pencioue, extra fancy. $1.3S per
box; fancy, !.. Wlnesaps, extra
fancy. $1.28: fancy, $1.10. Yellow
Newtowns, $1.35 and $1.20. Jona
thans, $1 and 00 cents. Rome Beau
ty, Spltzenberg. stamen and. Winter
Bananas, $1 and 00 cents.
Asking prices, under which all
shippers are expected to be governed
will bo changed from time to time
during the season, aa conditions war
rant, Miller said.'
Enforcement of these decisions up
l all shippers depends upon an-
proval by the agrlcultursl adjustment
administration at Washington, D. C,
of the master code, a formal hearing
which waa held lsst month at
Portland.
Approval of the code, which pro.
vldea for atrlct licensing of shippers
to enforce price and marketing rul-
ings, is expected soon.-
I
Lllllsn Wsrd Stelger, beloved reel
dent of Medford for the past' eight
years, passed away at the family resi
dence. 133 Oregon Terrace, at 13:30
p m. Thursday, after an Illness of the
psst 18 months.
Mrs. stelger was born at Fremont,
WIS., March 35, 1875.
Lillian Ward was united in mar
riage to J. J. stelger at Fremont In
1805. They apent practically all of
their time In the east until 1014.
when the family came to Klamath
Falls. Ore.
During the yeara she spent in Med
ford, Mrs. Stelger msde many friends,
who will mourn her pssslng. she
waa very active In the Daughter? of
the American Revolution and other
social and club groups. Her chil
dren have been with her most of the
time.
She leaves her husband, J. J.
Stelger of Medford; her mother. Mra.
A E. Gregg of Seattle: one daughter,
Mra. Clifford Sevlts, Doris, Csl.: one
son, Jake J. Stelger of Klsmsth Falls.
Ore.; two grandchildren, Maxlne and
Dolores Sevlts.
Funeral services will be conducted
fro mthe Perl Funeral Home Sunday
arierneon at 3:30, with Rev. w. J.
Howell of the Presbyterian church
officiating. Entombment will take
place In the Medford Memorial maus
oleum.
Americans' Buying Power
Shows Continued Growth
NEW YORK, Sept. 15. ( AP) Re-
ports from all parts of the country
this week to Dun and Bradstreet, inc.
emphasize the enlarged spending
power running Into millions of dol
lars and the rapid disappearance of
ruspense and apprehension noted
before the NRA won general support.
The company's weekly review of
business said that even the smaller
merchanta now are beginning to feel
the benefit of the Increased employ
ment and the higher earning of the
working cIbwcp.
"Of dominant Imp'jrtanre In the
trade news this week' says todays
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CREVICE YIELDS BODIES OF THREE
Three Portland, Ore., hikers were swept to death on Mt. Jefferson,
100 miles southeast of the city, while attempting to scale the precipi
tous peak, Upper searchers after discovering the bodies Shopping
way Ice that gripped the trio. The victim were (lower, left to right)
John Thomas, Davis McCamant and Don Burkhardt. (Associated Press
Photo)
REVISED RETAIL
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WASHINGTON. Sept. 15. (AP) A
finally revised draft of the basic re
tall trade code, believed by officials
to afford protection both to the con
aumer and the small merchant, waa
to go today to Hugh 8. Johnaon.
NRA administrator, for hla analysla
before submission to President Roose
velt. Johnson, who hss had ft tentative
version of the code on his desk sev
eral days, said he believed It would
be a week before t,he agreement could
be sent to the White House.
This code established 10 per cent
above wholesale cost as the minimum
price at which ft retailer may sell
goods, and also has ft 31 per cent dla
count limit on trade marked drugs
and toilet articles whose retail price
Is fixed by the manufacturer.
An Idea under consideration at the
NRA today was that ft non-governmental
board of Impartial, prominent
citizens be appointed to observe op
ertalona of the price control provi
sions and determine whether the ex
periment la In the public Interest,
As now drawn, however, the code
contains no provision for limiting
operation of price control to ft trial.
As seen by some officials, the min
imum price limit actually should re
suit In lower average prlcea to the
consumer t,han the present, unregu
lated system. The price control
would ellmlnste the practice of many
chain and cut-rate estsbllshmenu of
sdvertlslng "loss leader" Items. Which
are ft few selected, well known artl
clea sold at actual loss to attract
customers Into the store to purchase
other goods sold at ft considerable
profit.
rerlew
"was extension of the aus-
talned buying movement to more re- investigating Thompson" psst on the
mot ramifications of the elongated j theory he hss a crime record,
line which the business front now j The state police captured Thomp
has assumed. I n at the state line Im evening,
"The bulkier aggregate of dlstnbu- nl returned him to the county )all.
tlve totals did not afford the sole ; The fiiffitlve was In charge of Wil
tifttalnlng fur tor to the spread of Ham Tetherow. who Is superintending
assured confidence In the potential ; the excavating. Thompson waa grant
betterment aa these were reinforced ; ed permission to leave the work, snd
by Improved earnings statement t fallM to return.
from the second quarter and the first Two other county Jill Inmates were
half of the third which revealM pro- j engaged today in shovelling on the
fit m encoursglng contrast to the j Iswn In order to make it ready for
rate of losses which were general In nras seeing, and shrub and Jlursl
the first quarter." I improvement.
OHEV
College
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PORTLAND, Ore.. Sept. 15. (AP)
Stabilization of lumber production
aa provided in the NRA code must
be accomplished or lumbermen face
the Inability to pay code wages and
another unprofitable winter, mem
bers of the Industry were warned here
yesterday during a meeting of lum
bermen, loggera, millwrights and
manufadtujBrs, called Into session
by the West Coast Lumbermen's as
sociation. Lumber production Increased 100
per cent from April to August, while
ssles during the ssme period ad
vanced but 30 per cent, the assem
blage waa told by Col. W. B. Greeley,
secretary-manager of the association,
aa he warned them of the necessity
of stsblllzed production.
"Since thst period, there has been
ft drop In production, but we are
still producing 25 per cent too much,"
he continued.
"In the week ending September 0.
the flrat week the code waa In ef
fect In thla area, 303 mills produced
67.910.000 feet. The previous week
production reached 80.341,000 feet.
Orders last week totaled 80.0Sfl.000
feet while they called for 60.346.000
feet the week before."
TRIES GETAWAY
Ksrl Thompson, transient youth
held In the county jail awslttng se&
tenc on his plea of guilty to bur
glarizing the office of Dr. B. C. Wil
son, wnlked away from the court
house lawn, where he was employed
Thursday afternoon In removing the
lop covering of dirt. State police are
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Audits
COPIES SUPPLIED
STATE OFFICIALS
SAYS SECRETARY
Matter Handled in Con
formity With Regular
Business Practice Is Dec
laration in Controversy
SAL EM. Ore., Sept. 15. (AP Fol
lowing controversies over audits of
the state college and failure In at
tempts to secure these audits for
publication, Hal B. Hoss, secretary of
state, here today released all Infor
mation pertaining to the Buell and
Kubln audita as well as the college
replies, with a statement of facts
concerning the entire situation
In his statement, given out with
the two-page Kubln comments on the
college audit, Hoss stated that at no
time had his office suppressed these
audits, but w,hen made he supplied
the governors office, the chancel
lor's office and the chairman of the
state board of higher education with
copies. Requests for further copies,
he said, were referred to the chair
man of the board of higher educa
tion, O. L. atarr.
"So much has been sAld about 'se
cret' audits and 'suppressed' audits
In connection witto the college. Hoss
said, "that I would like to state the
faota In order to show that the ac
tion taken by this office has been
exactly rlRht- and in conformity to
regular Business practices."
The comments of Otto Kubln, su
pervisor of the auditing department
under whom 8. B. Buell made the
audits of the state college, were given
out by Hoss at the same time. Ku
bln defends Buell 's audit and takes
Issues with the replies contained in
the fi-page document Issued by the
state college Vie previous March.
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SALEM, Sept. 15 (AP) Postpone
ment of the hunting season because
of a fire hazard Is not possible under
any. Oregon statute, state Forester
Lynn Cronemlller said today.
Cronemlller said the state supreme
court two years ago found that part
of the hunting season law unconsti
tutional. 'There are, however, several laws
which provide for either the closure
or regulated use of forest lands in
the state under conditions of fire
hazard," Cronemlller continued.
"A large amount of the forest land
In the state Is now under regulation
through proclamations issued during
the summer.
"Under one of these closure laws,
certain area of forest land In the
state due to the extremely high fire
hazard, have been closed to alt form
of use or entry and will remsln so
until weather conditions are such as
to materially reduce the hazard.
Under this form of closure, no Indi
vidual 1 allowed to enter the area,
regardless of the purpose of the trip.
"Under the second form of closure,
entry la allowed only under permit.
Permits will be Issued to any Individ
uals requesting them.
"The third form prohibit smoking
while traveling in certain areas. It
applies only to those Individuals who
Intend to camp and build fires at
other than designated and posted
camp grounds.
GETAUTSllS
FORMA JUNKET
Medford resident going to the
Vreka Oold Rush ar. urged to call
at the Chamber of Commerce here
and get the free windshield stickers
provided by the chamber to help
Identify Medfordltes at the celebra
tion. 522 CAWeISOUI
OFVALLEYTO DATE
Pear shipment from the valley to
date total S22 cars, according to
Bouthern Pacific freight depot rec
ords. Picking of Boscs began thla week,
and will be In full swing next week.
Harvesting of D'AnJoua la also under.
way. The D'AnJoua will be tha beat
quality pear of the season, according
Ut County Horticulturist L. P. Wilcox.
' Ideal picking conditions prevail.
BUS
Book Lists Are Issued
Teaching Staff Announced
Registration at High
and Junior Under Way
AH schools, elementary, Junior high,
and senior high, will open Mondsy
with Indications of an enrollment
fully up to last year. Registration
Is now being conducted In the senior
and Junior high achoola. Teacher,
of those two buildings will be on duty
for that purpose Saturday after 10
o'clock.
A general teachers' meeting hss
been announced by Superintendent
E. H. Hedrlck, to be held at the
Junior High school. 8:30 a. m.. Satur
day morning. Following thla all
teachera win report back at their
buildings for more detailed Instruc
tion respecting the opening of
schools.
Former pupils of the high school
were registered lsst spring. Only new
pupils and those desirous of making
readjustment m their schedule need
report before Monday morning.
Junior High to Reglstet,
In the Junior High school, advanc
registration was not made last year,
due to the necessity of making nu-
meroua teacher ahlfta during the Bum
mer, ah ninth grade pupils and
those new to the system now enter
ing junior high should report tor
registration Saturday after 10 o'clock.
All others report Monday at B:10.
Registration of elementary school
pupils, gradea ono to six, will not be
started until Monday, September 18.
Due to the fsct that about 10 teach
era have been taken from the corps
this year, It lias been found necea- '
sary to lengthen the school da for
all pupils from the 4th grade to lath.
Elementary puplla for gradea one to
three will report for nine o'clock en
rollment aa usual. Pupils of gradea
four to six must be on hand at 8:37 '
Junior High puplla must re
port at 8:10, and the senior high
school at 8:00 o'clock. .
Vnung Must Take Test.
All pupils who are six years of sgfl
not later than October 34th, may
enter achoo! unconditionally. Pupils
who will be six years of sge between
October 34th and the close of the
(Continued on Page Nine)
BAHLE POSTPONED
CHICAGO, Sept. lB-(AP) The
10-round fight between Jack Sharkey
of Boston and King Levlnsky of Chi
cago, scheduled for tonight at Co
rn lskey psrk, was postponed until
next Monday becsuso of threaten lug
weather.
WILL
ROGERS
BEVERLY HILLS, Cal., Sept.
11. Say, Los Angeles come
throut'li with soinetliinu; yester
day that looks like ono of the
best measures to help offset
this crime racket. It looks like
every tinio a man commits a
crime and is caught his prison
record reads like he had been
a tourist inmate of every pris
on worth attending. Therf
hasn't been an amateur crook
caught in years.
Well, Los Angeles makes
every visiting ex-criminal reg
ister. Course you will say,
"Yes, but he won't register."
Well that's the catch. If he
don't he is liable to six months'
imprisonment for not comply
ing to the law. Certain stale
paroled ones are exempt to
save injustice to ones who are
doing right. But it's mainly to
catch the visiting gentleman.
It might bo worth you other
towns looking into.
5ll HStl7SH.l.U