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POWER UNIT TO BE BUILT ATJOKOMO f/lillion-Dollar Project Assured; 15,000 Indiana Miners Work. MAY BUILDING DECLINES • 1 f Some Cities Show Gains, With State Total in Slump. BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor, The Times. ■ Selection of Kokomo as the site for a $1,000,000 unit in the high tension electric network of the Central Indiana Power Company was among important developments in Indiana during the week ended today, a business and industrial survey reveals. No electricity will be produced at the Kokomo unit, but it will be used to “step down” a voltage of 132,000 to 66,000. The unit will be an important factor in future industrial plans of Kokomo. 1,300 on Pay Roll Although this time of year is ordinarily a dull period, the Kokomo Steel and Wire Company is working a force of 1,300 on a full schedule. Building in Indiana during May slumped from $9,010,389 for the month last year to $7,901,479, but gains were shown by these cities— Indianapolis, Evansville, Hammond, Kokomo, Mishawaka, Muncie and Sheibyville. Fifteen thousand Indiana miners are now at work, the total having been reached during the week when the Hamilton Coal Company signed wage agreements which will result in reopening of the Mohawk mine near Shelburn, and the Hamilton mine, Linton. The two shafts will employ 500 men. , Conditions elsewhere in the State are as follows: EDlNßUßG—Contract signed for building municipal light and power plant at a cost of $18,465. TIPTON—The Matern Cutlery Company will move into its new building within the next three weeks. New machinery is being installed. COLUMBUS—The Star Metal Furniture Company is anew industry here as a result of purchase at Richmond of the Star Metal Company by Ernest D. Snyder and Joseph H. Staley, this city, who will locate the business in Columbus. Jobs Given 175 Men . HAMMOND—Addition of 175 men to the working force of the Standard Steel Car Company accompanied announcement that the company has sufficient orders on hand to assure steady operation for the remainder of 1928 and into the early part of 1929FT. WAYNE—A new industry here, the Woodard Engineering Company, has started operations in its new $60,000 building, and expects to be running full force by July 1. BLOOMINGTON The Indiana Hill stone mill is being operated on h twenty-four-hour a day basis. WABASH—A night shift will be added to the force of the Mikesei! Asbestos Company within two weeks to bring production up to increasing business. HAGERSTOWN—Business interests here are panning to relieve the serious shore ge of homes in order to house employes of the Perfect Circle Company which is operating steadily. , MONTICELLO—Despite a seasonal slump in furniture trade, the Eaton Chair Company is working steadily with SB,OOO in unfilled orders on hand. Button Factory to Open VINCENNES—About sixty-five men will be employed here July 2 when the Vincennes Pearl Button Company places it factory in operation on a schedule calling for three tons of buttons weekly. PERU —The American Refrigerator Corporation has a display of its producet for 1929 at the mid-sum-mer market of the American furniture mart being held in Chicago. The plant is being operated steadily with 125 men on the pay roll. DECATUR —Clarence E. Bell, president of the La Fontaine Handle Company, will sail for England June 30 in the interest of the company’s export trade. MISHAWAKA—The new Northf\ Indiana Brick Company has arted operations with a daily output of about 60,000 bricks. pancakFeating champ COPS WEINER TITLE Bests Hot Dog King Twenty-Four Hours After Taking First Crown. * CLEVELAND, June 22.—“ Suicide John” Pummer is the undisputed flapjack eating champ of this metropolitan area. And that isn’t all. Less th&m 24 hours after winning the “stack o’ wheats” crown from Doughboy Joyce,” Pummer engaged "him in a duel for wiener eating honors and won six up with a total of thirteen hot puppies under his belt. "I could have got away with more,” said 'Pummer following coronation ceremonies, “but I had a steak a short time before and there was no reason to keep on. ’ Church Proposes University Jhi Times (Special ANDERSON, Ind., June 22.—The Church of God proposes to establish a university here through reorganization of the Anderson Bible school. Action on the plan was taken Thursday during a session of the church’s ministerial assembly held in connection with a twoweeks international general asemfely. ( ...I--, JL.ifu

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U. S. ARMY MAY EVACUATE CHINA \ Report Commander Favors Sending Men Home. Bp United Press TOKIO, June 22.—America’s military forces in China, consisting of some five or six thousand Marines and* soldiers on duty at Tientsin, Shanghai, and areas around these cities, may be withdrawn within the next few months, according to reliable American sources it; Japan. Rear Admiral Mark I Bristol, commander-in-chief of the American sources here, believes the forces of the United States should be sent home as soon as possible and that the United States should keep entirely clear of the embroiled Ohina situation. Admiral Bristol is in entire command of the American naval forces, including' the Marines. It is believed here he is entirely opposed to the present program of protecting American interests with troops, and that if events in north China are reasonably satisfactory during the next few weeks he will recommend the naval forces ashore be withdrawn. American warhsips, of course, presumably would remain in China waters as usual. BOY IN COLLEGE AT 14 New Jersey Lad Will Enter Williams This Fall. NEW YORK, June 22. Another

schoolboy prodigy has appeared. William' Gil be r t Cook of New Brunswick, N. J., will be only 14 years old when he enters Williams College next fall, but age will be no handicap. He has led his class all through Rutgers Pr e paratory School,, from which he graduates this week.

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HOLD WEDDING ‘INSANE’ Husband 49, of Wife 88, Loses Will Contest. DENVER, June 22.—Two years ago Mrs. C. Z. Tanner, 88, married Thomas N. Pray, 49. She died shortly after and the estate left by her was disputed by Pray and Mrs. Tanner’s daughter, Mrs. Libbie Crisman. The court ruled that Mrs. Tanner did not have full mental capacity when she wed Pray and for that reason annulled the marriage. Pray will hot share in the estate.

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BY THOMAS L. STOKES United Press Staff Correspondent HOUSTON, Tex., June 22.—Mrs. Clem Shaver, wife of the chairman of the Democratic national committee, is taking a leading part in the fight by allied women’s dry organizations here against the candidacy of Governor Alfred E- Smith, of New York. Shaver himself is saying nothing. He cannot afford to take sides because of his position, it is said. Mrs. Shaver will be one of the/

Deputy prosecutor john M. CAYLOR today submitted to Police Chief Claude M. Worley a draft of what likely will be Indianapolis’ first air traffic ordinance. The height at which planes shall be permitted to fly over the city, the kinds and number of lights planes shall carry at night, and sections’prohibiting acrobatic flying, the carrying of explosives, and giving the city the right to condemn land for flying fields are included in the proposed measure. a

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five—in the various parts of the world. Now that trans-Atlatnic and trans-Paciflc Tights are almost an everyday occurence the public is desirous of comparing times given with local time, in order to determine what time So-and-So took off and what time the fliers ar- j rived. “It is a combined information and advertising idea,” G. Jordan, J

Armed Guard Watches 88 Little Books Bp United Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 22.-Eighty-cight slim volumes, of a value estimated at $420,000, reposed in the Harvard University library today, having been brought here from New York under armed guard The volumes constituted a part of the famous Elizabethan collection of the late William Augustus White of Brooklyn, and were given to the university by his son, Harold T. White, who acted on behalf of the heirs. Among the most valuable of the books are the 1599 edition of “Romeo and Juliet,” of which only twelve copies are believed extant; “Love’s Labdr Lost,” 1598 first editiom “Much Ado About Nothing,” a third edition, 1611, of “Hamlet,” and a 1608 copy of “King Lear.” Negro Baptists Elect Bp Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., June 22.—The Indiana Colored Baptist Young People’s Union in session here elected the Rev. H. A. King, Anderson, president, and R. L. Ronaldson, Indianapolis, first vice president; Mrs. Ida Vena, Muncie, second vice president, and Mrs. Mattie Tribble, Muncie, secretary.

SCHOOLGIRL READY TO MARRY PRINCE

Bp United Press TOKIO, June 22.—A schoolgirl who has become familiar with styles and customs of western civilization arrived today in Tokio, ready to become the bride of the heir apparent to the Japanese throne. Miss faetsuko Matsudaira, daughter of Ambassador Tsuneo Matsudaira, and her family arrived from the United States to prepare for her forthcoming marriage to Prince Chichibu. A fortnight ago this girl, brought; up as a commoner, was a student in an exclusive girls’ school in Washington, where her father represents the T apanese government. She was shy, .etiring, but active in the fashionable affairs of the school. Today when she arrived in Tokio she was looked upon already as a

Too Polite BALTIMORE, June 22. Miss Goldie Brill, salesgirl, brought Dr. Ernest Murillo, Goucher College professor, into court for “excessive politeness.” She said he tipped his hat so frequently that her fellow workers jerred at her. Murillo was /reed.

principal speakers at one of the series of mass meetings to be held Sunday and Monday, before the convention opening, by the allied dry women’s organizations. Headquarters of the allied organizations are distributing a speech Mrs. Shaver made some time ago at Columbus, Ohio, in which she not only said that prohibition is the only issue of the campaign, but spoke out on other parfo' policies and principles in an “unorthodox” way.

NEW AIR TRAFFIC ORDINANCE IS DRAFTED FOR CITY

Deputy Prosecutor Caylor drafted the ordinance at \ Chief Worley’s request. He was aided by City Prosecutor Herbert Spencer and Paul H. Moore, Chamber of ( Commerce aviation secretary. Worley is to submit it to city council for passage, probably Monday night. u n n THE ordinance as drafted sets out that the Federal aviation code permits municipalities to regulate airports and terminal landing fields in and near the cities. j

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office manager of the company, said. “We sell time as part of our service and on the other hand plenty of people like to have the information.” Jordan said each of the Western Union clocks is set‘daily from the Naval Observatory. The time display will remain in the windows until July 1, Jordan stated hundreds of persons stop before the office daily.

CALIFORNIAN TO HEADREALTORS Slated for National Post in Today’s Voting. Bp United Press LOUISVILLE, Ky., June 22 Harry L. Culver, of Culver City, Cal., formally will be elected president of the National Association of Real Estate Boards today at the organization’s twenty-first annual convention here. Culver was chosen to head the ticket selected by the association nominating committee. Other nominations were announced as follows: Harry L. Kissell, Springfield, Ohio, first vice president. Maurice F. Reidy, Worcester, Mass., second vice president. H. E. Rose, St. Catherine, Ontario, third vice president. Leroy E. Brown, Richmond, Va., fourth vice president. William M. Butts, St. Louis, fifth vice president. Earl G. Krumrine, Chicago, treasurer. Directors, three years: Albert M. Swayne, Chicago; John J. Wagner, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Charles E. Rousek, East Orange, N. J.; James Fisher, Brooklyn, and L. T. Stevenson, Pittsburgh.

princess and was elevated, in the public mind at least, from the position of a pretty school girl graduate to a member of the Japanese royalty. The marriage of Prince Chichibu to the daughter of the distinguished commoner probably will be in August or September. thaiam/isitsTnvienna Barred From England, Pittsburgher Goes on to Austria. VIENNA, June 22.—Harry K.

Thaw, barred from Great Britain by authorities on his first visit since the murder of Stanford White, had no difficulty in gaining entrance to France. Then Thaw came on to Vienna for a visit which may extend for several weeks.

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BUFFALO ON RAMPAGE AROUND CONNERSVILLE

Escaped Circus Animal Once Hauled Coolidge in Wagon. Bp Times Special CONNERSVILLE, Ind., June 22. bull in a china shop has nothing on a buffalo in an Indiana farming community. A buffalo belonging to a circus here freed itself by breaking an inch-thick rope and left ruined flower beds, gardens and fences in its wake. More Wild West color was injected when Montana Red, a cowboy traveling with the circus, captured the animal with a lariat. The animal was one of a team of buffalo which drew a wagon in which President and Mrs. Coolidge rode during their vacation last summer in the Black Hills.

The first section provides that no plane shall fly over the city lower than 2,000 feet altitude, except at the start or end of a flight. The height was set at 2,000 * feet, according to Caylor, because a plane at that height ordinarily can coast to a landing about three miles away if the engine should “go dead” in the air. The second section prohibits “acrobatic” flying over the city and defines acrobatic flying as any maneuvers not necessary to actual navigation of the ship. Acrobatic flying while conveying pas- ,

BOOSTED TAX RATE IN 1029 IS PREDICTED City Needs Must Be Met, Controller Holt Asserts. BUDGETS DUE JULY 1 Expect Departments Will Make Plea for Larger Appropriations. Increase in the ci il city tax rate in 1929 was forecast today by City Controller Sterling R. Holt. Holt would not venture an estimate on the increase before departments submit requests tor 1929 ap- | propriations. “A higher levy than last year will be necessary unless we want to continue borrowing money to pay running expenses. We hope to strike a happy medium. It is unsound business practice to pay current expenditures by bond issue as is necessary in the case of the $450,000 utility deficit,” Holt said. Need Money Streets The total civil city tax levy nor.' is $1,025. Departmental requests are due in the controller’s office July 1. They will be studied by the controller anti Mayor L. Ert Slack and recommendations made to council. The administration officers, council or State tax board may reduce the levy. The tax rate is figured on an assessed valuation of $660,000,000, each cent of the levy raising about $65,000. Park, health and sanitary departments which have separate levies are expected to ask minimum rates for 1929. Tire city plan commission is planinng to ask a 3 cent levy, the maximum for the thoroughfare plan which will bring in about $400,000. The commission favors extensive street widening and straightening Last year the 3 cent request was cut to one-half cent which gave the department only $32,000 with which to widen and straighten streets. 1928 Levies Cut The Chamber of Commerce is understood to be considering advisability of recommending the maximum thoroughfare levy with the view of requesting numerous street improvements believed essential to progress. William H. Book, chamber civic secretary, plans conferences of the civic affairs committee, Mayor L. Ert Slack and plan commission members to discuss the question. The park department has curtailed development and improvement projects because of limited appropriations. Last year’s 9 cent request was cut to 514 cents, giving parks about $380,000. Will Ask Maximum It is likely that the board of health will seek a 12 cent rate again this year. The levy was cut to 8 5 cents last year giving the department $560,000. About $720,000 would be available under a 12 cent levy. This year the health board had additional levies of 1.5 cents for school health which netted $82,000 and .007 cent for the tuberculosis fund. Indications are that the sanitary department will ask the 8 cent maximum levy again. The appropriation last year was cut to $400,000 which was raised by a .063 cent levy. The sanitary board also obtained a .043 cent rate for retirement of bonds. GLOBE TROTTER IS HOME Larz Anderson, World Traveler, Sees U. S. Agkin. NEW YORK, June 22.—Another

“almost man without a country” is back home. Larg Anderson has return e and for a glimpse of the native land he so seldom sees. World traveler, soldier and American diplomat, he has served the United States in many foreign countries. Anderson once was ambassador to Japan.

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Indiana Pioneers Meet Bp Times Special NEW HARMONY, Ind., June 22. A three-day meeting of the Indiana Society of Pioneers will close here Friday. Speakers include Mrs. Kate Milner Rabb, writer; Charles N. Thompson, president of the society, and William H. Insley, vice president. A banquet will be held this evening.

sengers for hire also is prohibited. The third "Section declares the city may exercise the right of eminent domain to condemn land needed for landing and flying fields. When two “engine-driven” aircraft are on crossing courses or lanes, the aircraft to the right shall have the right of way, the fourth section provides. tt u ANOTHER section provides that aircraft must carry a green light on the right side, a

Hitch-Hiking Professors on Tour of 5,000 Miles

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William and Clarice Cunningham

O’Hare, noted old-time Socialist leader, and Professor W. E. Zeuch, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin founded the institution. Cunningham, who teaches English, contends that it is not a socialist school and no particular creed or propaganda is preached. Teachers and students live a communal country life and ideas are brought forward in the class rooms and .the students permitted to make their own se.ection as their education proceeds. “We have twenty buildings now,” said Cunningham. “All were” built by teachers and pupils. There are cottages for the faculty members and in them they conduct their classes. Students are housed in dormitories. There is a common dining hall.

GIRL SEA FLIER TO VISIT RACES TODAY

Will See Royal Event at Ascot Heath; Honors Unknown Dead.

Bp United Press . , LONDON, June 22.—America * “Queen of Fliers,” Miss Amelia Earhart, today will view with England’s socially elect the royal race program at Ascot Heath. The Boston social worker seemed to be enjoying her visit in England, particularly that part jn which she was able to escape public notice. Thursday Miss Earhart went sightseeing and remained close by her sponsor, Mrs. sFrederick E Guest. The party drove to Calshot Thursday night for the regular “tattoo” of the British air forces. This is one of the beautiful maneuvers staged by the air forces in which planes stunt in the air while great searchlights play on the ships. This morning Miss Earhart, Wilmer Stultz and Lou Gordon went to the Cenotaph and laid a wreatn cn the tomb of Britain’s unknown soldier. Four Killed in Rail Crash MOSCOW, June 22.—Four persons were killed and fifteen injured today when a Crimea-Moscow passenger train was detrailed at Tula.

MOODY THREAT TO DEMOCRAT PEACE

Bp Times Special HOUSTON, June 22.—Hopes for Democratic harmony may be upset in this banner Democratic State by its Democrat Governood if he succeeds in executing the program he has outlined. Governor Dan Moody is coming to Houston hoping to have the convention adopt the dryest sort of platform, Texas friends of A1 Smith have been informed. Moody’s object is said to be the build up additional State-wide prestige and to embarrass Smith, should he be the nominee. However, Moody will have a real fight on his hands within the Texas delegation before he reaches the

red light on the left and white lights at the front and rear, visible for two miles, when in the air from a half hour after sunset to a half hour before sunrise. Transportation of explosives, other than necessary for signalling or fuel, is prohibited, except with special authority of council or the chief of police. The last section provides that “air traffic rules may be deviated from when special circumstances render a departurfe necessary to avoid dangers, or when such departure is required because of stress of weather conditions or other unavoidable causes.”

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William Cunningham and his wife, Clarice, fullfledged professors, hiked into Indianapolis, Wednesday, to interest high school graduates in their college. “We outline the regime of the college, explain its purpose and then discourage < the student who thinks he or she wants to attend,” Cunningham explained. “If we are unable to discourage them, then they are. admitted.” In the college Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham represent, there are no degrees, no exami n a tion, no teachers’ salaries and no athletics. Cos - eds wear knickers to classes and smoke if they choose and the professor don’t object. There are no sheiks and flappers. Youths to classes from cow-pasture and wood-lot, often clad in overalls. The school is Comm onwealth College, located on a large farm in the Ozark mountain woods near Mena, Ark. It is an experiment in anew type of “liberal education.” Kate Richards

FINDS STYLES GALORE Follies Designer Back From Paris With Costumes. NEW YORK, June 22.—America’s

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metropolis is to get some new fashions. Back to New York with plenty of new ideas about stage styles and costumes comes Gloria Christy. Her job is designing the attire worn in the Greenwich Village Follies. She has been studying in Paris and London.

Sunday Schools Given Prizes Bp Times Special LOGANSPORT, Ind., June 22. Sunday schools of four counties were awarded American flags as prizes in a 100 per cent efficiency contest which ran a year, at the close of the Indiana Council of Religious Education sixty-fourth annual convention here Thursday, after a three-day session. Winning counties are Morgan, Tippecanoe, Randolph and DeKalb.

resolutions committee, it is predicted. Texans supporting Smith will try to stop him within the State caucus and prevent his appointment to the resolution committee. The Texas governor, nevertheless, claims that if he is halted within his own delegation he will find a way to raise the prohibition issue on the convention floor. While reports have Moody stirring the prohibition issue, Senator Pat Hf.rrison of Mississippi, keynoter at Madison Square Garden four years ago, is here preaching hermon/ and a united front to the Republican enemy. The convention speedily will nominate its candidates, adopt its platform and adjourn, if it follows his advice.

A S3OO fine is provided as penalty for violation of any provisions of the measure. Two witnesses of the violations must sign affidavits before violators are arrested. . The only city measure now regufating airplanes, according to Caylor, is an ordinance prohibiting any but naval, military or postal planes from flying over the city. The new measure will replace this ordinance if adopted. The old ordinance is being violated daily, by passenger-carry-ing and private planes, say offldais.

CROW'S NEST FACES BOOST IN VALUATION County May Raise Taxes on Palatial Homes Outside City. EXPECT OWNERS FIGHT Increases to Be Extended to New Additions in ‘ Wayne Township. Millionaire merchants, manufacturers and bankers who established their own exclusive town of Crow’s Nest, in the neighborhood of Kessler Blvd. and White River, several months ago, will see the taxation valuations upon their palatial homes materially increased within a few days, the county board of review indicated today. The wealthy citizens incorporated the town, thereby forestalling any attempt to annex to Indianapolis, and escaping the heavier tax rate for the upkepp of city improvements like sewers, police and fire protection, none of which technically are available to them. The board of review has inspected the beautiful estates in Crow’s Nest once and plans to return early next week before making final decision. Some increases of as much as 100 per cent are contemplated. The board expects to receive a storm of protest. Survey Wayne Township Members of the board, which has been in session since early June, are County Treasurer Clyde E. Robinson, County Auditor Harry Dunn, County Assessor J. W. Elder, Schuyler S. Mowrer of the State tax board; James Berry and William Morrison. Elder is president and Dunn is secretary. Next to Crow's Nest, Wayne Township is occupying the board’s attention. Increases in this township have brought scores of protesting taxpayers asking adjustments, but for the most part'the board is upholding Township Assessor William E. Toms who made the increases. Decreases of approximately $200,000 in valuation in the parts of Wayne inside the city limits, but increases of approximately $2,000,000 outside have been made. City Extends Border The fact that the city Is edging farther and farther into the township, which formerly was agricultural exclusively, has brought about the increases, Toms said. Numerous new additions have gone up, and property in Speedway City, from which many protests emanated, has increased in market value. The decrease inside the city comrs from an approximate Increase of $130,000 on lot valuation, and decrease of approximately $430,000 on buildings. Center, the most populous township in the county, containing a large part of incorporated Indianapolis, will he reviewed next week, starting Monday. Usually manv complaints come from Center, but the board expects no more than the normal number. DESIGNERS IN LONDON GUARD AGAINST PIRATES Stamp Dresses to Protect Origiml Models From Duplication. By VPA Service LONDON, June 22.—At least one London dress designer is protecting her original models by having her fingerprints stamped on her gown creations. Others are patenting materials In an attempt to stem the growing influx of the so-called “dress pirates.” Models recently exhibited indicate some radical changes in the coming mode. Evening frocks using as much as six yards of material In the skirt remind one of past history; while a dance frock requiring 12 yards of almost invisible fine tulle, where three yards has been considered ample, seems to herald a return to an era of easier modesty. LIQUOR SALES BOOM U. S. Loss In Revenue Is Gain for Canada. MONTREAL, June 22.—What the United States lost in revenue through the sale of liquors the last few years, Canada apparently has picked up. The increase in that counW/’s sale of beverages since the vent of prohibition in the United States is significant. For the twelve months ending February of this year, Canada’s liquor sales were valued at nearly $44,220,000, an increase of about $16,000,000 over the preceeding year. BEQUEATHS DOG $5,000 Wealthy Widow Wills $2,000 Cash Income from $3,000 to Pet. Bp United Press NEW ORLEANS, La., June 22 Dogs are not often Iycky and hardly ever are they included in the wills their owners leave when they die, but Grigonette, a New Orleans canine, can literally have a whole steer for dinner if he wishes. Under the terms of the will of his mistress, Mrs. Mary L. McCay Schaffter, a New Orleans widow who died recently, the dog was bequeathed $5,000 —$2,200 in cash and income from an additional $3,000. The state of Louisiana upholds the validity of the will. Youth Killed by Train Bp Times Special FERN, Ind., June 22.—George Akins, 17, was killed when run over by a Big Four train near bnr Thursday. ~ _