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i Tokyo Alerts Coastal Defense; Fears New Carrier Strike
Weather
FORECAST: Clear to partly
cloudy tonight and Friday
with afternoon thunder
Hormi In moun taint. Con
tinued warm.
Temp.
HlKheit Vnterday ...!M...fl9
Lowest thli Morning t
, Fortieth Year
ARMY TO CEASE
FEEDING EUROPE
. LASTOFAUGUST
Action Will'Save Millions of
Dollars for American Tax
ers But No Food. .
Washington, July 12 (U.R)
The U. S. army will stop supply
ing food to civilians in liberated
Europe on Aug. 31, it was learn
ed today.
The action will save millions
of dollars for American taxpay
ers. But it is not expected to
mean more food for civilians be
cause purchase and distribution
at about the same level will be
bandied by the liberated govern
ment themselves.
At the same time it was dis
closed that the United States,
contrary to earlier announce-
would continue lend-lease ship
ments of meat to Russia during
July, August and September.
Meat To Ruisia
The newly approved food al
locations for the Soviet includes
25,000,000 pounds of meat in the
form of shonka, a canned pork
and beef combination. No other
U.-S. meat will go abroad during
the three-months period except
to the a.rmed forces.
The scheduled Russian ship
ments are 25,000,000 pounds of
flour, 5,000,000 pounds of butter
or other oil, 2,000,000 pounds of
cheese, 4,000,000 pounds of dry
peas, 2,500,000 pounds of dehy
drated vegetables and 2,000,000
pounds of dried milk.
Agriculture department offi
cials said the Russians had re
quested 430,000 tons of food for
the last six months of 1945. The
approved three-month alloca
tions amount to less than 30,000
tons.
Much Goods Sent
The U. S. army has handled
approximately half of all food
shipped from this country for
European civilians but has been
gradually relinquishing the re
lief job since early spring. The
army estimates that it has dis
tributed more than $700,000,000
worth of goods, mostly food, in
Europe during the past two
years.
The army stopped feeding of
French civilians on April 30. In
the Balkans the relief job was
turned over to the United Na
tions Relief and Rehabilitation
administration at the end of
May. Present plans are to halt
the relief progress in western
Europe, including Belgium, Hol
land, Luxembourg and Norway,
at the end of August.
The allies still are determined
not to supply food to Germany.
Any relief there will be "on an
absolute minimum scale," it was
said, and under no circumstances
will Germans eat better than in
any liberated area.
TALK SPUD INSURANCE
Washington, July 12 (U.R)
The Federal Crop Insurance
Corp. said today it was consider
ing a request of potato growers
for a trial crop insurance pro
gram for potatoes.
"City of Medford" Carries
Bombs To Enemy Homeland
B-29 Base, Guam The City of
Medford has a direct representa
tive carrying bombs to the Jap
anese homeland.
That representative is a Su
perfortress based on Guam, and
W- the distinction of bearing the
name 'City of Medford" resulted
from the good American custom
of voting and a little campaign
ing on the side by airplane com
mander, 1st Lieutenant Ralph C.
Wheelock, of Medford, Oregon.
The name has been approved
by Brigadier General Thomas S.
Power, commanding general of
the Superfortress elements at
this Guam base. It is being
painted on the Suprrforfs cylin
drical noso on a flag, the pole
of which points to Medford's lo
cation on a large blue and gold
map of the United Slates.
Crew members who made the
decision to carry the "City of
Medford's " banner are Flight
Officer Kenneth Rich, pilot,
Wichita, Kan.; 2nd Lieutenant
Leroy Jorgenson, navigator, San
Leandro, Calif.; 1st Lieutenant
Thomas R. Spencer, bombardier,
? New York City, N. Y.; Staff Ser
geant Sanford A. Timen, flight
pugiuccr, Columbus, O.j iai
MEDFORD
United Press
MEDFORD PLANE (OPS
FOREST FIRE I iHTERS
Four parachute jumpers from
the public service or conscienti
ous objectors' camp at Redwood
were flown over the Klamath
forest yesterday afternoon by a
forest service plane from Med
ford, and dropped into the
woods to extinguish two fires, it
was stated today by forest serv
ice officials.
. The plane, based at Medford,
was piloted by Lawrence Sohler,
a forest service employe here.
On receiving report of the fires,
Sohler flew to Redwood and
Washington, July 12. (U.R)
The house today approved a
$250,000 appropriation for me
fair employment practice com
mittee. The money couia uc
either to terminate its functions
or to continue operations pend
ing approval of additional funds.
Approval of the appropriation
was by voice vote. A motion to
specify that the money be used
for liquidation only was aeteBl
ed by a roll call vote of 188 to
116 after an hour of heated de
bate. The house action indicated
fairly prompt passage of the
$752,000,000 war agencies bill
that has been tied up for several
weeks as the senate and house
wrangled over FEPC.
The senate voted $250,000 to
continue FEPC functions, which
the house ignored until today.
And the senate had refused to
take, any further , action on the
war agencies bill until the house
voted by FEPC.
Washington, July 12. (U.R)
Sen. A. B. (Happy) Chandler,
baseball's new commissioner,
announced today that the major
league baseball club owners had
unanimously approved a formal
contract which will give him the
same unrestricted power enjoyea
by his predecessor, the late
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Lan-
dis.
FRATERNIZATION RULE
WILL BE EASED SOON
Tjritich rwimntinn Ha.. Ger
many, July 12. (U.R) The rule
against troop fraternization wnn
h r.nrmnn. nrnbablv will be
eased in the American as well
as the British zone in about two
weeks, it was reported today.
The soldiers will be permitted
to visit cafes, talk with the Ger
mans and walk with frauleins, it
... unrWctnnH. hut nrobabiy
will not be permitted to visit
German homes.
Lieutenant Robert Kcycs, pre
cision instrument specialist, Oak
Park, 111.; Sergeant Edward J.
Miller, radio operator, Ludlow,
Mass.; Corporal Robert B. Cupp,
mechanical gunner, Haddonfield,
N. J.; Corporal Herman C.
Rcidel, central fire control,
Alice, Tex.; Corporal John E.
Cclentano, electrical gunner,
Rochester, N. Y.; Corporal Loras
R. Winter, tail gunner, Farley,
la.
The "City of Medford" is now
of the mighty force of bombers
considered one of the veterans
operating from the Marianas,
and has an impressive array of
bombs painted on her nose to
prove it. Each bomb is symboli
cal of a mission against Japa
nese military and Industrial tar
getsand each mission means a
long, hazardous over-water haul
from home-base to the Japanese
mainland. The men of the "City
of Medford" have proven them
selves, and their courage and de
termination are characteristic
of those who are bringing us
closer to the climax of the war.
(Ed. note: Lt. Wheelock Is not
listed in available Medford di
rectories,) " i
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Full Leased Wire
MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY
picke jumpers from the
camp s supervised by the
fores :e ranger station.
Two meu ,ere released near
each blaze.
More Fires
Besides the 18 forest fires re
ported to the Rogue River Na
tional Forest service headquart
ers and the State Forest Patrol
during the electrical storm in
this area Tuesday evening, an
additional six small fires were
reported to the National Forest
Service yesterday, all started by
lightning. Three are in the
Butte Falls area, one Applegate
district, and two near Union
Creek.
Supplies and lumber were also
dropped from 6ohler's plane yes
terday on top of Brown moun
tain near Lake o' Woods, and a
lookout will be dispatched later
this week, to be stationed on the
mountain for the remainder of
the summer, or throughout the
current fire danger season, ac
cording to the forest service.
Eugene L. Pyeatt of Klamath
Falls will be the first lookout
ever stationed on Brown moun
tain, and he will receive all his
food supplies and other equip
ment by parachute as no pack
trail ascends the mountain.
AT
Aboard U. S. S. Augusta with
President Truman, July 12 (U.R)
Interrupting his detailed study
of the program for the Big Three
meeting, President Truman paid
close attention to the progress of
the Ui S. third fleet which has
been hammering Japanese home
land with carrier planes.
Mr. Truman was preparing to
put a simple American case be
fore Prime Minister Churchill
and Premier Stalin when they
meet in Potsdam, Germany, next
The Big Three conference It
self was expected to begin Mon
day or Tuesday and probably to
last longer tnan euner oi me ran
previous Big Three parleys. The
Thrnn rnnference lasted less
than a week, the Yalta meeting
eight days.
In intervals between highly
secret bulletins direct from the
American task force off Japan,
the president conferred with Sec
retary of State James F. Byrnes
and Fleet Adm. William D.
Leahy on the Big Three agenda
suggested by the three partici
pating governments.
JAPS 111 ..
Northern Luzon, July 12 (U.R)
Lieut. Gen. O. W. Griswold,
commander of the American
14th corps, promised today that
it won't be long before the Japa
nese are completely cleared from
northern Luzon.
Griswold said American and
Filipino troops are cooperating
In an all-out effort to crush the
remaining scattered enemy
groups, principally in the
Kiangan-Bontoc area.
The Japanese have been driv
en into the gloomy, unexplored
Sierra Madre mountains, which
rise up 7,000 feet and Griswold
said, "we don't want any Japs
sitting in those hills showing
their teeth. Wherever they show
any fight we are going after
them.
REP. WOOD CHAIRMAN
UNAMERICAN PROBERS
Washington, July 12 (U.R)
The. House today elected Rep.
John S. Wood, D., Ga., to the
chairmanship of the committee
on unAmcrican activities. He
succeeds Rep. Edward J. Hart,
D., N. J., who resigned. ,
Wood was nominated for the
post by democratic members of
the ways and meant committee.
SOLONS IN HAWAII
Honolulu, July 1 2 (U.R) A
congressional group surveying
Pacific islands for possible use
as postwar military bases for the
United States arrived here last
night on the first leg of a 25,000
mile trip. The group Is com
posed of members of the House
Nat-Hi Affairs, merchant marine,
fisheries and appropriations
committee, N
JlfclkaTRIBUNE
UNDER SPEED-UP
Testimony Ranges From
Ratification Pleas to
Denunciation of Treaty.
' Washington, July 12 (U.R)
The Senate Foreign Relations
committee ran swiftly through
a list of witnesses on the United
Nations charter today under a
speedup schedule aimed at clos
ing the hearings tomorrow aft
ernoon. For the second successive day
the committee heard a parade of
witnesses whose testimony rang
ed from pleas for prompt ratifi
cation without amendment to
denunciations of the charter as
a violation of the constitution.
Committee Chairman Tom
Connally, D., Tex., said he hoped
to start senate debate on the
treaty early next week.
Most of today's witnesses
were for speedy ratification of
the charter as the first step to
ward international cooperation
to preserve the peace.
Mrs. Helen Dwight Reid of
Washington, D. C, appeared
with endorsements from a dozen
national organizations. They in
cluded the American Association
of University women, the Asso
ciation for Childhood Education,
The General Federation of Wom
en's clubs, Young Women's
Christian Association, National
Congress of Parents and Teach
ers, National Council of Jewish
Women, National Federation of
Business and Professional Wom
en's Clubs, Inc., and the. United
Council' of Church Women
She said the authority to be
granted the American delegate
to the United Nations Security
Council which has been a con
troverted point is a domestic
question and should not be
handled in any reservation to
the charter. ,
William G. Carr, associate sec
retary of the National Education
Association, urged prompt rati
fication. Norwegian Sailor
On Too Many "Sea
Trips" To Suit FBI
Atlantic City, N. J July 12.
(U.R) Blrger Helgesen disdain
ed bell bottom trousers but he
found good use for a coat of
navy blue. That s why the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation
had him in jail today.
New Jersey FBI Agent Sam
uel K. McKee said Helgesen, 51-year-old
Norwegian, appointed
himself a captain in the Norwe
gian royal navy two years ago.
then promoted himself to rear
admiral.
He became a familiar figure
along the New Jersey coast, the
FBI said, as he divided his time
between two women, one his
wife.
When Helgesen decided on a
change of feminine companion
ship, McKee said, he Just Inform
ed his wife he was off on a trans
Atlantic mission for the Norwe
gian navy.
Hoover Declines
Steel Mill Post
San Francisco, July 12 (U.R)
Former President Herbert
Hoover has declined a proposal
that he head a western corpora
tion which would bid for the
$200,000,000 Geneva, Utah, steel
mill now operated for the gov
ernment by the United States
Steel company.
"I am not Interested In any
commercial business," Hoover
announced late last night from
his home in Palo Alto, Calif.
AUSTRALIANS ELECT
CURTIN'S SUCCESSOR
San Francisco. J'lly 12 (U.R)
Joseph W. Chifflcy was elected
leader of the Australian Labor
party in Canberra and will be
come the 18th prime minister of
the commonwealth, radio Mel
bourne announced today.
Chiffley, now federal treas
urer, succeeds John Curtin as
Labor party leader and prime
minister. Curtin died last week
after a lengthy Illness.
Paris, July 12 (U.R Supreme
headquarters of the allied expe
ditionary forces (Shacf) and the
combined allied command will
be dissolved, effective at 12:01
a. m. July 14, it was announced
toUti i
12, 1945
VIOLENCE FLARES
AS NEWSPAPERS
TRYJEUVERIES
Police Reinforcements Or
dered For Duty in 12-Day
Strike of Delivery Men.
New York, July 12. (U.R)
Police Commissioner Lewis J.
Valentine ordered more uniform
ed policemen and detectives as
signed to guard newspaper
plants today as a result of last
night's violence in the 12-day-old
strike of newspaper delivery
men.
Police said they had been in
formed that morning news
papers will attempt to make de
liveries to railroad terminals
and outlying points tonight, and
that protection will be provided.
By United Press
Back - to - work movements
among striking employes in war
and essential civilian industries
throughout the nation today cut
to less than 40,000 the number
of workers away from their jobs.
With decisions to end work
stoppages in Detroit and along
4hA .Detarn cpnhnnrd. the lar&est
single strike centered in Akron,
O., where a walkout of 16,800
Firestone Tire and Rubber Co.
.mnlnvp, entered its 12th daV.
The strikers, members of the
United Rubber Workers (CIO),
were 'scheduled to meet Satur-
rinv in rnnstripr A war labor
board order to return to work.
End Dairy Strike
Some 1,000 CIO United Dairy
Workers voted yesterday to end
a .strike-at .two -Detroit cream,
eries which had been unable to
deliver milk to 150.000 families.
Elsewhere In Detroit however,
approximately 7,000 workers re
mained away from their jobs at
four war plants and 11 lumber
yards,
Publication of three Birming
ham, Ala., dailies was suspended
last night by a strike of compos
ing room employes, and the Fort
Wayne, Ind., News-Sentinel and
Journal-Gazette failed to publish
for the fourth consecutive day.
In both cases, employes are
members of the International
Typographical Union (AFL).
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Portland, Ore., July 12. (U.R)
The Crown Zellcrbach Corp.
disclosed today plans for a post
war program which will entail
the expenditure of $15,000,000
in operations, employment and
manufacture of new products in
the northwest
The corporation, which oper
ates five pulp and paper mills
and owns extensive forest prop
erties In the Pacific northwest,
will start the program as soon
as materials are available.
Corporation officials also an
nounced the purchase of addi
tional property to add to a scien
tific forest management of about
400,000 acres. It is estimated
that these lands will produce
new growth each year, which
will be sufficient to meet the
pulpwood needs of the five Ore
gon and Washington Zcllerbach
plants.
Dublin, July 1 2 (U.R) A plot
to overthrow Premier Eamon De
Valcra's Eire government by
force has been smashed with the
arrest of 40 members of the out
lawed Irish republican army, it
was disclosed today.
Police authorities revealed
that the would. be rebels were
among some 400 IRA members
who were released from the Cur
ragh interment camp at the end
of the European war.
Acting on Information that
the IRA men were planning a
wholesale assaslnation campaign
against government and police
officicls, flying squadrons of the
Irish Criminal Investigation de
partment rounded up the lead
er, -
United Press Full
Aid in Escape of
v..
Lenora Hodgson, 26 (left), and Fae Burns, 19, both of Seattle, Wash,
charged with aiding Italian prtftmirs of war to escape. Indignant at
rrest, both women claim they Till marry POWs when they obtain
' divorces.
U. S. CASUALTIES
TOTAL 1.047,680
Washington, July 12 U.R)
Total U. S. combat casualties
reached 1,047.680 today, an In
crease of 10,743 over a week ago,
The total included 243,043
killed.
V'Army casualties compiled here
now .'stand at .815,718 as com
pared with 131,902 for the navy,
marine corps and coast guara.
nf Rfl7 ft74 nrmv wounded.
346,171 have returned to duty.
Of 117,213 army prisoners of
war, 94,020 have been liberated.
Acting Secretary of War Rob
ert P. Patterson disclosed at his
news conference that 3,031 Japa
nese had been killed and 275
captured in the Borneo cam
paign up to July 7.
Allied casualties In the same
campaign were 214 killed and
wounded and 22 missing.
In addition, Australian forces
mopping up New Guinea, Bou
gainville and New Britain have
counted 1,175 more Japanese
dead and taken 27 more prison
ers, bringing the total since Jan.
1 to 10,900 enemy dead and 253
captured in these by-passed
areas.
Quakers To Ship
2,000 Cattle To
Liberated Europe
Elgin, 111., July 12 U.R)
More than 2,000 cattle for liber
ated Europe are ready for ship
ment overseas by the Church of
the Brethren, church officials
said today.
They will be shipped, prob
ably to the people of Poland and
France, as soon as shipping space
is available later in the summer.
Members of the church in the
midwest and Pennsylvania do
nated money or livestock for the
project. Church members in
rural communities are caring for
the' animals until they can be
shipped, officials said.
Indian Self 'Rule
Negotiations Fail
Simla, India, 'July 12 (U.R)
Informed sources said today that
Lord Wavcll, Viceroy of India,
was understood to have told
both Moslem and Hindu leaders
that the negotiations on Indian
self-rule have failed.
These sources said both Mo
handas K. Gandhi and Moham
med All Jlnnah, leader of the
Moslem league, have refused to
accept Wavell's proposed list of
members for the new governing
council.
BASEBALL
American
St. Louis 0 4 0
Philadelphia 4 10 0
Jakuckl, Zoldak and Mancuso,
Hayworth; Newsom and Rosarm.
Detroit 1 6 0
Boston 2 B 0
Newhouscrand Richard, Swift
(5); Wilson and Garbark.
National
Boston 13 1
Chicago 14 0
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Italian POWS
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DRAG LAKE FOR
Volunteer workers are still
dragging Lake O' Woods today
in an attempt to recover the
body of Richard Hollingsworth,
25, of Klamath Falls, who
drowned when his boat capsized
in a wind storm Tuesday night,
forest service officials report.
No' trace of Hollingsworth has
been found since he disappeared
after aiding in the rescue of
four companions who escaped
without injury. The party was
on the lake about 10 p. m., when
a storm came up, making the
water choppy, capsizing the
boat. . v
Three Medford girls, Blllle
Stewart, Georgian Weight and
Shirley DeMoss, and Merle Brad
ley of Talent were rescued from
the water by Ed Miller, a logger
who heard their cries for help
from the lake shore. They re
turned to Medford last night.
Hollingsworth was staying at
the resort, where he had charge
of the boats. He and Tom Necley
have jointly operated the resort
center this year.
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POST IS FILLED
Victor Morgan, sanitary engi
neer, has arrived to assume the
post of city milk inspector and
take over the place made vacant
by the resignation of Charles
Austin, former city milk inspec
tor. Morgan was assigned here
by the state board of health,
under a law passed at the recent
session of the legislature, effec
tive July 1. He will be under
the direction and Jurisdiction of
the county health department.
Morgan will also engage in
sanitation and restaurant inspec
tion, Jointly. with Walter Suther
land, county sanitarian. County
Physician A. E. Merkel said the
policy would be one of helpful
cooperation.
Morgan, the past two years
has been engaged In state milk
surveys with the state board of
health and before that from 1929
to 1943 was a milk Inspector for
the city of Portland.
BEAUTY ON BAIL
Bridgeport, Conn., July 12
(U.R) Mrs. Imogcne Stevens,
Texas beauty held for the flay
ing of a 19-year-old sailor, was
released from county Jail today
under $15,000 bond.
By The Side Of The Rogue
By Dal Vincent
A card of condolence to the man of rubber who lost the 40-lb.
salmon on Dimmocks Riffle down Calico way. After a good solid
strike, the big Chinook fought for his life. He dragged the iin
man over boulders; through clumps of willows and back eddies.
What a battle they put upl The big fish, with the current of the
river with him, seemed always to have the best of it. The man
with light tackle had to give and give sometimes In a hurry and
on a high lope. Two hundred yards down river the fight ended. A
loose line was reeled in the leader had parted Just above the
hooks and the big fish had won.
Bedraggled, wet, and puffing like an old horse with the het.vcs,
the fisherman gasped: "Blankcty blank! 1 belicva that fellow Wl
tarrying pair oi wire cutler!'
AMERICAN FLEET
BELIEVED LURKING
CLOSE TO SHORE.
Uneasy Japanese Fear At
tack May Cover Landing
Operation On Islands.
Guam, July 12. (U.R) Ameri
can planes struck at southern
Japan again today and Tokyo
alerted its coastal defenses
against a possible new carrier
strike by the blacked-out U. S.
third fleet, lurking somewhere
off the enemy homeland.
Enemy broadcasts said 180
American fighters and bombers
thundered up from Okinawa
early today to attack the Jap
anese - suicide plane bases on
Kyushu, but were turned back
by bad weather over the targets.
Fly Over Shikoku
Some of the raiders also flew
over Shikoku Island, between
Kyushu and Honshu, enroute
back to their Okinawa bases, the
Japanese accounts said.
There was no confirmation of
the reported Kyushu raid nor of
an earlier Japanese report that
18 superfortresses scouted west
ern Honshu during the night.
There was no new word from
Admiral ' Chester W. Nimltz'
headquarters on the where
abouts of the massive American
battle fleet that hurled more
than 1,000 carrier planes into a
savage, 12-hour attack on the -Tokyo
area Tuesday and then
vanished under a naval security
blackout.
But Japanese spokesmen said
the American warships retired
southward after the Tokyo strike
and were still lurking off the
Japanese coast readying for an
other air blow.
Fear New Attack
Japanese garrisons along the
threatened shore were ordered
to stand to and Tokyo speculated
uneasily that another big carrier
attack was in the wind, possib'y
to cover an American landing
operation on one or more of the
islands close to Japan. ,
"The enemy's propaganda on
intensifying air raids cannot be -Ignored,"
said one Tokyo broad-'
cast. "They undoubtedly are a
prelude to the decisive battle of
the homeland."
Other enemy accounts said the
Americans were aiming at win
ning new air bases even closer to
Japan than Okinawa and Iwo
Jlma, and they warned that Hal
Bey's fleet would attack "again
and again" to cover such an am
phibious operation.
They said Japanese planes in
considerable force bombed tiny
Ie island, Just west of Okinawa,
during the night, starting tires
on American airfields there. '
154 Planes Hit .
Nimltz, after announcing that
at least 154 Japanese planes
were destroyed or damaged in
the opening hours of the Tokyo
strike Tuesday, indicated that
Halsey's task force had imposed
radio silence immediately on
breaking off the attack.
Meanwhile, the U. S. army's
B-29 headquarters announced
that two - more Japanese cities .
had been added to the roster of
targets now more than half de
stroyed, running the score to 14.
Mining Meeting at
C'C Friday Evening
All persons In the county in
terested in mining, regardless of
the extent of their operations,
are Invited to attend a meeting
of representatives of the Western
Mining Council at the Chamber
of Commerce Friday at 8 p. m.,
it was stated today by Don Stan-
sell, spokesman.
Organization will be set up for
a chapter of the council here,
Stansell said, and the meeting is
open to the public. The council,
with headquarters at Auburn, ,
Calif., has chapters in all Call- 1
fornia counties, he adds.
COL. HOBBY RESIGNS
DIRECTION OF WACS
Washington, July 12 (U.R)
Col. Oveta Culp Hobby has re
signed as director of the Wom
en's Army corps, Undersecretary
of War Robert P. Patterson an
nounced today.
Mrs. Hobby explained that she
was resigning because she felt
her mission In organizing tha
WACS "has been completed."
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