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HOOVER PAINTS COOLIDGE IDEAL AS PRESIDENT G. 0. P. Nominee Makes Two Speeches to 12,000 Persons in Boston. GIVES TARIFF VIEWS Takes Up for First Time ATs Challenge That Issue Be Debated. [; BY THOMAS L. STOKES United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—Herbert Hoover returned here today from Boston, arriving at 11 a. m. He went immediately to his S street home where he will begin work upon his next compaign speech to be delivered in New York Monday flight. The Republican nominee, his wife, and his son Allen went through the station here virtually unnoticed. The Republican presidential candidate, in his speech at Boston, praised the Republican protective tariff as the basis of present prosperity. He declared that the “competitive tariff” plan of A1 Smith would bring lower wages and cut the farmers’ income. Be closed his day with an impromptu speech to an overflow crowd of 3,000 at Symphony hall, after his regular address to 9,000 persons at the Arena. "It might be,” he said in the Symphony hall talk, "that I should be elected President.” Coolidge Is Ideal He then told his audience that, if elected, his ideal of an administration would be that of Calvin Coolidge, now drawing to its close. Mention of the President’s name In his own home state at this time as at others during the day, drew a hearty response. In urging his audience to send B. Loring Young, Republican candidate opposing Senator David I. Walsh to the Senate. Hoover voiced again as he did at Newark, N. J., an appeal for election of a Republican congress. “It is impossible to contemplate a successful Republican administration unless our states will support not only the national ticket, but also their state and congressional ticket,” he declared. Takes Up Al’s Challenge Hoover's campaign took a slightly new direction in Boston both as to personality and method. For the first time, he took up, hi his tariff discussion, a challenge from his Democratic opponent that he discuss the issue. He discussed it in detail as well as the administration’s foreign trade policy, the merchant marine, war debts and protection of American lives and property abroad. Personally, Hoover was a different figure. The enthusiastic welcome seemed to draw him out. He waved everywhere at the crowds and several times on his twenty-two-miie ride from Newtonville to Boston stood up in his car, after the manner of his Democratic opponent. He does not wear a brown derby, but he had more of the campaign manner. /

This Is LILA WARE A Wife Who Loves Her Husband, But Leads Him a Merry Dance. Never theless A SUITOR' MANY By MILDRED BARBOUR Shows You Why! BEGIN IT IN THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Thursday, Oct. 18

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VOLUME 40—NUMBER 126

THIS FICKLE PUBLIC!

Voting Machines ‘Drug ’ Market

COUNTY election commissioners have good reason to think the dear public is fickle, and most particularly when it comes to practice voting machines. Four perfectly good voting machines may be borrowed until Nov. 1 for the asking. A few days ago election commissioners had no machines and many persons wanted them to “practice” on. After a day of letter writing and some wrangling the election commissioners got custody from county commissioners of six machines. The Woman’s Department Club had asked in unvarnished terms for one to place in its clubhouse at 1702 North Meridian street. It finally was placed after Election Commissioner Ira M. Holmes waived away fear the machine would scratch the floor. One was placed on the main floor of the courthouse, but from then on voting machines have been a drug on the market. Omer Hawkins and Leroy J. Keach, Republican and Democratic county chairman, respectively, had wanted a machine each. But now they are not so enhusiastic, according to Holmes. The machines are too cumbersome to be placed in county headquarters, they told him. Statehouse officials also had wanted a machine for their corridor, but have not pressed their demand.

“ Stunning” Killing Fails By United Press CHICAGO. Oct. 16.—William Happer, 50-year-old dining car chef, was accused by police today of trying to electrocute his wife by attaching live wires to the basement door. Happer is said to have sent his wife to the basement after breakfast today and when she was only stunned by the electric shock, according to the police version, he beat her with a meat cleaver and a hammer. Mrs. Happer is in a precarious condition at Pullman hospital and her husband is missing.

Alas , Alas! Home Never Was Like This THREE barrels of near beer. Just one little item on the Hoosier Motor Club’s menu for entertaining approximately 150 members of the Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobile Club, largest German motoring organization, who arrived in Indianapolis this afternoon. The brown beverage will be the only reminder of the Fatherland, however, because typical American dishes and decorations will predominate at the banquet to be held tonight at the Atheneum, according to Todd Stoops, chairman of arrangements. A luncheon at the Claypool, exhibition race at the speedway, and the banquet comprise the program arranged in honor of the Germans who are including the Hoosier Capitol in their tour of large American cities where traffic conditions and the the motor industry are objects of special attention.

Things Are Looking Up Note in Boston By United Press BOSTON, Oct. 16.—Elsa Droysen, 7 feet 11 inches tall, and her sister, Brunhilde, 7 feet 2 inches tall, arrived here aboard the steamship Republic for a tour of America. Elsa weighs 360 pounds, and her sister, 340.

And the Poor Girl Didn't Have a Chance By United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 18, —Arrival of the Graf Zeppelin ruined a touching scene in a New York court room. Miss Lydia Hummel, who is suing Dr. Tolyvius N. Coryllos for $50,000 breach of promise, was telling of meeting the doctor for a Sunday outing. She said: “Then suddenly he seized me in his strong arms and —” Someone shouted Zeppelin”—and everyone ran out of the court room. The case was deferred until today. ana it a a “End of Detour!” Huh—End of Everything

W. J. Pulle, Chicago business man, declared in a letter to Governor Ed Jackson today that his ancestors for three generations had been Hoosiers and he is plenty irate about his experience on a visit to Indiana, The Chicagoan explained that he was touring on Road 41, going east on a three-mile detour, north of Kcntland when he came to a sign saying, “End of Detour.” He then turned off on some new

Avast, Avast! Touch Not Them Goils, Sir WITH measured chorus girl tread two maidens with black curls, profusely reddened cheeks and lips and jaunty Alpine hats, took their way across Washington street when the signal was set for cross traffic. The officer on the outskirts whistled twice. The maidens paced on. The officer yelled, managed by strategy to cut across their path, and ordered them back to the curb. The maidens gazed at him blankly. The officer argued. A tall handsome gray man in a gray suit, who looked like a famous actor, and might have been, hastened to the middle of the street.

“You let those girls alone! It’s none of your business if they want to go across the street!” fearlessly he addressed the officer. “Who are you?” demanded the outraged arm of the law. “It’s none of your business who I am. I’m a member of the public who doesn’t propose to see these little girl imposed on.” The famous actor lifted his chin and flourished a dramatic fist. “Get out of here and mind your own business,” began the officer.

HICKMAN WILL KEEP CALM TO END, GUARDS PREDICT

By United Press SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Cal., Oct. 16.—Veteran prison guards who in years of service have learned to study the habits of inmates of death row are of the opinion that* William Edward Hickman will go to the gallows Friday with a minimum’ show of emotion. They point out that the slayer of little Maridn Parker has demonstrated few of the characteristics of the menw ho “crack” when the last door of the death house is opened and they stand at the foot of the thirteen steps leading to the scaffold platform. Hickman has been under close observation during his period in condemned row—a period which began last April and which will end Wednesday when he leaves death cell No. 20 for the “condemned cage” behind the death chamber. The youth, who dubbed himself “The Fojc,” dropped the show of brabbadocio as if it were a mantle when he entered San Quentin. According to Warden James Holohan, Hickman has been a model r.isoner. At no time has he displayed the arrogance which marked

Cal “Waste of Time” By United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—Although he comes from the New England home territory of President Coolidge. Bishop C. B. Brewster, Connecticut, believes posing with the President for a picture is a waste of valuable time. Out of the entire house of bishops, he cast the only negative vote to adjourn sessions early to pose with Coolidge on the White House lawn at noon today. “We shouldn’t take the time from important business to do this,” Bishop Brewster said.

pavement, only to wind up In a corn field. Here he found a flock of other motorists simularly misled, the letter stated. He asks the governor in the name of his Hoosier inheritance to find out “how come?". Referred to the state highway department it was pointed out that a detour has been in service at this point throughout the summer. The department will investigate moving of the sign.

Then he turned to look after the subjects of the controversy. With measured tread they were mounting the curb for which they had started. The officer gazed after them. “Well, if' it wasn’t for the women ” he began. Then his gaze came back to rest on the tall, handsome gray man going on across the street. He didn’t finish his remark.

his Los Angeles county jail and trial court days. As the day of his execution nears, Hickman maintains a calm that Is unbroken by any fits of depression or forced hilarity. COOLIDGE TO BROADCAST President Will Speak' to Grange and Radio Audience. By United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—President Coolidge today accepted an invitation to make an address on the night of Nov. 16, before the National Grange at Washington. The address will be broadcast over an extended radio hookup. DIES ON SEEING ZEP Shocked at Sight of Graf Dirigible, Pennsylvanian Succumbs. Bu United Press ALDEN, Pa., Oct. 16.—Charles F. Keyser, 63, was dead today from shock of seeing the dirigible Graf Zeppelin pass near his home. Doctors said he died from excitement, which affected his heart.

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THREE HELD IN SKELETON MURDER CASE Lime-Covered Bones of Woman Found Near Elkhart. SKULL APPEARS BEATEN 1 — Parents Identify Body of Daughter Missing Since March. By United Press SOUTH BEND, Ind.. Oct. 16. A lime-covered human skeleton, found near Elkhart Monday night, | today was identified as remains of Mrs. Genevieve Stultz of South Bend, and immediately after word reached here of the identification three persons were placed under arrest. According to advices here the skull of the skeleton apparently had been beaten with a blunt instrument. Those arrested here are Charles L. Reyher, his wife, Anna, and Jack Kimball, brother of Mrs. Reyher. No charge had been placed against them, but police are questioning them. The skeleton was found by a hunter. Mrs. Stults left here last March 28, presumably to be married. No word had been received from her since that day. The identification of the skeleton was made by Mrs. Stults’ father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Scechowski. They identified the body by a watch, a pair of gloves, a coat, and a set of false teeth. Police said they had learned today that Reyher had been seen in the company of Mrs. Stults on occasions. Mrs. Reyher, according to police, said today that she had paid a private detective SSO to persuade Mrs. Stults to leave town. Police were investigating to learn the name of the detective. A sister of the Mrs. Stults said that she had seen her sister leaving town “toward Elkhart on March 28, in an automobile with a man who was not Reyher.”

U, S. BANK HEAD DIES Federal Reserve Governor Passes After Long Illness. By United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 16.—Benjamin Strong. 56. governor of the Federal Reserve bank of New York, died at New York hospital today, after a long illness. Strong, who had been governor of New York Federal Reserve since its inception, had been suffering for some time from an intestinal complaint. TEST AUTOMATIC PLANE rrans-Atlantic Fliers Approve Mechanistic Pilot. By United Press BERLIN, Oct. 16.—Captain Koehl, Major James Fitzmaurice and Clarence Chamberlain, all of transAtlantic flying fame, today jointly experimented with a Junkers plane of the Bremen type, equipped with an automatic pilot. Through the automatic operation of the controls, the new invention keeps a piano in a mapped course in fogs and squalls. Chamberlain, after the flight, declared he is convinced that the automatics pilot will be an added advantage in flying SHIP’S SOS HUNT FUTILE Lengthy Sea Search Reveals No Sinking Steamer. By United Press NEW YORK. Oct. 16.—The Lapland Line's steamship, Delilian, spent a night and day searching the sea six hundred miles west of Fayal, Azores islands, for trace of a ship which sent an SOS saying it was “sinking fast.” Nothing was found by the Delilian to indicate the presence of another vessel except a stretch of oil.

PERJURY IS CHARGED Mind-Changing Act Gets Witness 'Berth in Cell. Charles Unger, 1203 Vi South Meridian street, changed his mind twice in criminal court Monday afternoon and today faced a perjury charge. Unger was a witness for the state in the liquor trial of Mrs. Laura Hiner, 1Q33 South Capitol avenue. It was upon his statement to John Eisenhut, police ser eant, that he had bought liquor from Mrs. Hiner that a search warrant was issued. Monday afternoon he denied telling Eisenhut he purchased the liquor. But Mrs. Hiner was fined SIOO and sentenced to thirty days in jail by Judge James A. Collins. Then Unger changed his mind again. He admitted in a sworn statement to the prosecutor’s office that he had perjured himself on the stand. He was jailed.

Jackie 111 in Paris

By l nitcd Press PARIS, Oct. 16.—Jackie Coogan. famous juvenile me ;tar has been ill in bed here since Monday. The illness is not serious and Jackie is expected to be well enough to go to Nice Wednesday.

SCHEDULES FOR AIR LINES ANNOUNCED; OPEN ROUTES TO THREE CITIES OCT. 22

Indianapolis to Be Hub of New Aerial Services; Use Ryan Planes. Announcement of flying schedules fer three daiiy airplane passenger and freight lines from Indianapolis to Detroit, Chicago and Louisville to start Oct. 22, was made today by Lieutenant E. H. Jose, Capitol Airways, Inc., president. Jose recently announced plans for these three routes, with similar lines to be opened later to St. Louis, Cleveland and Cincinnati. * One round trip will be made daily from Indianapolis to Detroit, by way of Ft. Wayne: Chicago, by way of South Bend, and Louisville, by way of West Baden. Planes to be used on the route include five new Ryan cabin monoplanes, sister ships to Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis, which have been purchased by the airport. The planes, as comfortable as a sedan, carry four passengers, pilot and baggage. Fares on the lines from Indianapolis will be: Ft. Wayne, $12.50 each passenger; Detroit, S3O; South Bend, sls; Chicago, $25; West Baden, $10; Louisville, $27. Flying schedule on the Detroit line will be: Leave Indianapolis, 8:30 a. m.; arrive Ft. Wayne, 9:40 a. m.; leave Ft. Wayne, 9:45 a. m.; arrive Detroit, 11:30 a. m. Return trip, leave Detroit, 12:30 p. m.; arrive Ft. Wayne, 2 p. m.; leave Ft. Wayne, 2:05 p. m.; arrive Indianapolis, 3:30 p. m. Chicago route: Leave Indianapolis, 8:30 a. m.; arrive South Bend, 9:45 a. m.; leave South Bend, 9:50 a. m.; arrive Chicago, 11:05 a. m. Return trip, leave Chicago, 12:30 p. m.; arrive South Bend, 1:40 p. m.; leave South Bend, 1:45 p. m.; arrive Indianapolis, 3:30 p. m. Louisville route: Leave Indianapolis 9 a. m„ arrive West Baden 9:40 a. m.; leave West Baden 9.45 a. m., arrive Louisville, 10:45 a m. Return trip: Leave Louisville 11:45 a. m„ arrive West Baden 12:45 p. m.; leave West Baden 1 p. m., arrive Indianapolis 2 p. m.

SINCLAIR MAY TESTIFY He May Be Called in Bribery Trial of Revenue Men. By United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 16.—Harry Sinclair may be called to testify today in the trial of Edward F. Brown and Elmer F. Andrews, internal revenue agents, who are charged with ednspiring to bribe Sinclair of $37,500 for approval of a tax return that would have saved the oil man $250,000 in taxes. T MEN TO, ELECT Dormitory Dwellers Will Name Board Tonight. , The annual election of Y. M. C. A. members who live in the building will be held tonight. Five councilmen and a commissioner of religion will be named to represent each of the five floors in the building and annex in the dormitory council. The council controls the government of the dormitory and its 460 occupants.

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Three Smacks By United Press HAMMOND, Ind., Oct. 16. Miss Helen Hoffman, 15, South Chicago, lies in a hospital here with a crushed leg suffered shortly After she kissed Raymond Hawkins while riding on the running board of an auto he was driving. Hawkins, apparently concentrating on the kiss, failed to notice a street intersection and his car and a truck met head on. The girl was thrown to the pavement.

EDWARD DAVIS DEAD President of Multiple Press Passes Away. Edward H. Davis. 61, president of the Multiple Press, Century building, and former newspaper man, died suddenly today at his home, 425 East New York street. Although he had been in failing health for several years, death followed a heart attack and was unexpected. ' Born at Cincinnati, 0., Mr. Davis came to Indianapolis when a child and was educated in the public schools here and attended Wabash college. He was secretary of the board of safety under Mayor Thomas Taggart. Afterward he became a reporter on the old Indianapolis Sentinel and did newspaper work in New York. Returning to Indianapolis he worked on the Sentinel and later he established the Multiple Press. His wife survives. HEADS HOOVER CLUB J. E. Hall Elected President of Engineer’s Organization. J. E. Hall, of the Hall Construction Company, today was named president of the Indiana Engineers’ Hoovev-for-President Club, and will direct organization of Indiana engineers in support of the candidate.

ASKS KLAN RECEIVER Charges Evans Used Funds to Slander Al. By United Press ATLANTA, Ga., Oct. 16.—C. T. Rice, a knight of the Ku-Klux Klan, in a petition for receivership filed here, charged that Hiram E. Evans, imperial wizard, had rendered the Ku-Klux Klan insolvent by diverting funds for a campaign of “libel and slander” against Governor Alfred E. Smith. Rice’s petition asked that a receiver be appointed for the organization and that Evans, J. A. Comer and W. F. Summbrun, also named defendants, be enjoined from further diversion of organization funds. Federal Judge Samuel H. Sibley ordered the defendants to appear before him Oct 27 to show cause why an injunction should not be issued.

ZEP PASSENGERS AND CREW LEAVE LAKEHURST BY TRAIN FOR NEW YORK’S WELCOME Cigarets ‘Verboten’ on Long Cruise Across Atlantic Because of Explosive Gas That Kept Craft Afloat. ONE BOTTLE OF LIQUOR LEFT Biggest Thrill of Flight Was Repairing Damage to Fin in Storm; Water Supply Ran Low on Journey. By CARL D. GROAT United Press Staff Correspondent LAKEHURST, N. J., Oct. 16.—Leaving behind them in the navy hangar here the Graf Zeppelin in which they completed a flight from Germany Monday, Dr. Hugo Eckener, members of his crew and passengers, left at 1:32 p. m. today on a special train toward New York. They expected to transfer to the New York city tug Macon at Jersey City, about two hours later, and after crossing the harbor parade up Broadway to an official welcome awaiting at Citv hall.

Before departing for New York, Eckener instructed the officers and men left here to push repairs on the damaged fin, to look after ballast and fuel tanks and to attend to other details necessary before the vast aircraft can sart a proposed western flight as far as Chicago prior to the return journey. The Graf Zeppelin leaders have been considering one or two more round trip flights this year, but Dr. Eckener indicated shortly before leaving that he was not entirely certain these plans would materialize. The story of the Graf Zeppelin’s voyage over more than 6,000 miles of land and water, the maiden commercial voyage of a trans- Atlantic air liner, had been told only fragmentarily today by the tired passengers. It had all the interest of a pioneer venture, with a dash of danger averted to heighten the Interest. Thrill in Broken Fin The first reaction of the passengers was relief to be on land again, desire for a drink of water and for a smoke. The chief thrill of the voyage came Friday night in mid-Atlantic southwest of the Azores, when the Graf Zeppelin encountered a small gale. The covering of the port stabilizer, which helps keep the ship on a stead keel, was ripped open by the wind. One passenger said the ship took a fearsome dip, bucking in the wind, and there was fear among the passengers that she was going to plunge into the Atlantic. The ship was held to an even keel, howover, and the speed cut down. Then Knut Eckener, 24, son of the commander, climbed out on the stabilizer with three others of the crew and, clinging to their precarious perch, made fast what remained of the covering to avert further damage and posisble disaster. Dr. Eckener dismissed the ripping of the fin cover' as unimportant, and admitted only under pressure that his son played a leading part in making the repairs. Worked on Exposed Perch Those who examined the stabilizer, however, realized what it must have meant to work on that exposed perch, extending horizontally into the air near the rear of the dirigible, 1,000 feet or more above the tossing waves. The repair work took five hours, from 8 p. m. Friday to 1 a. m. Saturday. “We had to slow down, as it was impossible to make the repairs going at full speed,” Eckener said. “We were in the very center of the Atlantic when we burst the fin cover. Like an ocean ship, we were compelled to slow up for repairs. It was a burst such as we never had before, and never in the future will it happen again.” Eckener said he saw no signs of excitement among the passengers at the time of the accident, and that when they learned what occurred, “they raised their glasses and drank to the health of everybody.” Eckner said he had not slept more than eight hours during the trip. Commander Charles E. Rosendahl, United States navy, who is master of the Los Angeles, joined with Eckener in minimizing the reports of alarm among the passengers when the fin cover burst. Rosendahl was a guest aboard the dirigible. “In a general way, I may say that the ship proved to be a good airship,” Rosendahl said. “It took a hard beating and came out in good shape. No Time in Danger ‘“This is not the ultimate size in dirigibles. They must be bigger and bigger. But we can’t leap into the big sizes all at once.” Rosendahl said the Graf Zeppelin at no time was in danger. He explained that when the fin cover burst, he sent a radiogram to the navy asking for vessels to stand by, at the request of Eckener, purity as a precautionary measure. They were not certain of the ex-

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tent of the storm they had encountered, he said, nor of the damage that might be caused. Ten minutes later he canceled the request, he added, when the true state of affairs was disclosed. The general opinion of the passengers regarding the trip appeared to have been favorable. The chief complaint was the hardship of not being able to smoke and the shortage of drinking water. Eckener said there was no shortage of food aboard, but the water supply almost gave out. Fortunately, plenty of beer, wine and liquors had been put aboard. It was all gone but one bottle when the airship landed. “We were reduced to the point of trying to save rain water because of the dwindling supply,” said Robert Reiner. Weehawken, N. J., textile manufacturer, who was one of the passengers. Theo Matejo, German cartoonist, gave an interesting account of the accident to the stabilizer. Oh, for a Cigaret “We were all at breakfast," he said, “and we were passing through a heavy windstorm, accompanied by torrents of rain. It was in midocean. Suddenly a burst of wind and rain tore the linen from the fin and simultaneously gave the airship such a terrific jolt that her nose dipped to the sea and many of us thought we were capsizing. You can imagine that they were in a momentary fright. “Asa painter and cartoonist, I was naturally anxious to make a sketch of the damaged part of the dirigible. So, after the storm abated, climbed to a point of vantage and leaned out far enough to obtain a good view of the torn fin, which I sketched from that position.” Because of the great quantity of explosive hydrogen gas which keeps the dirigible aloft, smoking was strictly “verboten” during the voyage. Many passengers, on descending from the dirigible after It was moored, asked for cigare'fs as their first request. The passengers were all in good humor when they landed. They had played cards, chess and other games on the trip. And never tired of watching the vast panorama of sky, ocean and landscape as they passed over various countries, islands and the ocean. Trans-Atlantic Service The flight of the Graf Zeppelin was only preliminary to inauguration of regular trans-Atlantic air passenger service between Spain and South America, Colonel Emilio Herrera, head of the Spanish army’s ajr service, told the United Press today. Colonel Herrera, who was a passenger on the Graf Zeppelin as official representative of King Alfonso of Spain, discussed the future of dirigible passenger service in an exclusive interview a t his hotel here. Colonel Herrera arrived late Monday night from Lakehurst, ih company with several other passengers. Colonel Herrera revealed that the Intention was to lease the Graf Zeppelin for service between Spain and South America until such time as a fleet of regular dirigibles could be built and commissioned. Regarding the report that the Graf Zeppelin had been sold to Spain, Colonel Herrera said it had not been done to his knowledge, although he was over the ocean at the time the announcement was made. CHOOSE MURDER JURY Woman Defendant Watches Filling of Panel. Bn United Pri ss NEW ORLEANS, La., Oct. 16. Oakley Harris’ common law wife, Mrs. Sara Kelloway, watched gravely in district court today the process of picking the remaining jurors to try her for murder of the gambler, shot to death on the grounds of his country home seven months ago. Fi\% jurors were selected tentatively Monday each was said to have no prejudice against inflicting the death penalty, although the defendant is a woman. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m.... 66 10 a. m.... 69 7a. m 66 11 a. m.... 69 8 a. m..., 67 12 (noon). 70 9 a. m.... 68 V '

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