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LQWDEN RAPS PROPERTY TAX FOR FARMERS Former Illinois Governor Asserts Income Method Only Just One. LAND VALUE DWINDLING State Convention Hears Plea for Revision of Constitution. (Settle’s Address on Page A) Income tax instead of property taxes, state and federal aid for rural schools and an economic revo-

lution in agricultural rewards were recommended today by Frank O. former Governor of Illinois, as a program for the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation. The former Illinois Governor addressed 1.000 farmers attending the annual federation meeting at the Claypool.

New constitution and by-laws required by an expansion of the federation and by new' conditions created through the formation cf the federal farm board, are to be adopted. The president and two vice-presi-dents will be elected at the banquet of the federation tonight at the Claypool. Slated for Re-Election Indications are that Settle, Lewis Taylor of Newburgh, first vicepresident, and Mrs. Charles Sewell of Audubon, second vice-president will be re-elected. The address was broadcast from WLS, the Prairie Farmer station, Chicago, and the NBC farm network. Lowden strongly indorsed recommendations made this morning by William H. Settle, president of the federation, for farm support of the referendum next fall or. constitutional revision. “In all our business relations, except taxation, we recognize the fact that real estate becomes all the time a less valued factor in the production of wealth,” the speaker declared. “Yet we are told by the United States census bureau that 75 per cent of the revenue of the states and local units of government is derived from the general property tax. ■While this tax unduly burdens all real estate, it bears more heavily upon farm lands. Only Alternative “The only alternative to the general property tax, I know, is a tax upon incomes. In the complex civilization which we have evolved, there is no other test of ability to pay as just and equitable as ths Income of the citizen.” The speaker pointed out that the United States is the only great nation where the general property tax has not been abandoned. Asserting that the country schools have been going backward while city school advanced, he urged that the entire state support the cost of rural education. “The farmers can not stand the increasing costs of adequate consolidated schools,” he asserted. Equalization Needed “The time has come,” die continued, “when we must drive to equalize conditions of living upon the farm and in the towns and cities. The agricultural problem is world-wide in extent. The greatest problem now confronting the statesmen of ail countries is to hold their farmers on the land. “It is no longer necessary to portray the economic plight of the American farmer. All classes of our citizenship now recognizes the fact that in recent years his lot has been a hard one. All parties and all classes profess a willingness, even an eagerness, to help improve his condition. "The federal and state governments have it within their power to lift or greatly lighten the unjust burden of taxation now resting so heavily on the farmers' shoulders.” The new articles of incorporation were discussed following the Lowden address, and conferences of the Wool Growers’ and the Poultry Producers’ Association were held.

DISTRESS CALL IS FAKE Operator Arrested After British Rush to Rescue on His SOS. Bv I'nited Prerg MALTA. Nov 25.—The radio operator of the steamship Baron Elcho, who sent out a distress call last week, was handed over to civil authorities today, after the British destroyer which had returned from a useless race to the side of the steamer. Caotain J. W. Clayton of the Witch, said the operator had made a lengthy statement concerning his mysterious radio call, but had not produced proof of his claim that sime one had attemnted to murder him, as his S O S call indicated.

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Red Troops in Drive on China Front

Advances on Two Fronts Follow Prolonged Lull in Border Fighting; No Resistance Encountered. By United Pre* A determined Soviet occupation of Manchurian territory appeared to have started on two frontiers today. After a prolonged lull In active border fighting, an advance of Russian forces across the eastern and western frontiers was reported in dispatches from Harbin. The report from Chinese sources indicated the advance was without resistance. Reports of the advance were not confirmed from Moscow, but the Chinese advices from Manchuria indicated the following alignment of fighting forces in the land of Ghenghis Kahn: Headquarters Established Russian troops advanced in the vicinity of the Chinese Eastern railway, which was the direct cause of the present crisis, to Dailanor, where advance headquarters were established, not far from the border town of Manchuli. Chinese troops evacuated Hailar, and withdrew into the western mountain ranges, where they were expected to establish defense lines. It was anticipated that the Russians would occupy Hailar, which is in the interior on the Chinese Eastern railway, Tuesday, thus establishing a wide area of control along the western frontier, extending probably to the mountains which offer a natural defense. Fortress Ls Captured Simultaneously, Chinese sources reported, Soviet troops captured the fortress at Mishan-Hsien on the eastern frontier, indicating a drive on Mulin. The railroad town of Mulin is on the road to Harbin. The first reports of the double advance indicated that the Soviet forces were planning to advance along the railroad—which splits Manchuria—and regain control of it.

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KILLED IN AMBUSH Cops Interrupt Tryst of Lovers With Lead. Bu United Press MUNCIE, Ind., Nov. 25.—Because the leader ofca gang of auto thieves wanted to see his 16-year-old sweetheart and sent Angus Cox, 20-year-old ex-convict, to arrange a rendezvous, Cox was dead and the gang leader and another member of the band were sought by police throughout Indiana and Illinois today. An ambuscade by officers of three counties was laid at an abandoned store near Hartford City, thirty miles from here, where Albert Nickerson, 23, an ex-convict, and said to be the bandit leader, was to meet his sweetheart, a Muncie girl. Her mother, it was said, intercepted a note young Cox delivered for his chief. The officers lay in wait for five hours and fired as the trysting group fled. Cox’s body was dumped into the doorway of a Marion hospital by two men, who ran. SENATOR TO RUN AGAIN Illinois Solon, Barred Once, Ready for Campaign in 1932. Bn United Press DWIGHT. HI., Nov. 25.—Colonel Frank L. Smith, barred from the United States senate, wall be a candidate for that office again in 1932, “provided I am in good health,” he told the United Press today. * 250 Jobless as Mine Closes BELLAIRE, 0., Nov. 25.—More than 250 miners were thrown out of work today by the closing of the Wheeling & Lake Erie Coal Company mine located at Neffs, Belmont county. The rrrne will remain c’osed until next spring because of the low demand for coal.

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Bu United Press MADISONVILLE. Ky., Nov. 25. Aroused by the killing of Police Chief John H. Ashby, 65, by Houston Cocksey, 28. negro, who in turn was slain, groups of citizens gathered about the county jail here today where Cocksey's brother, A. B. Cocksey, was held. Ashby was shot to death when Patrolman Sam Demoss sought to arrest the brothers on charges of

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SENATE DEAN FALLS VICTIM TO PNEUMONIA Francis Warren Succumbs at Age of 85; Drummer Boy in Civil War, THIRD IN TWO WEEKS Pioneer in Development of West; Genera! Pershing at Bedside. BY JOSEPH S. WASNEY, United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—For the third time this month, death has claimed an outstanding public man in Washington. Senator Francis Emory Warren (Rep., Wyo.)—the grand old man of the senate—died at his home here Sunday at the age of 85 years. He was taken ill with a cold three weeks ago. Bronchial pneumonia developed and he died with General John J. Pershing, widower of the senator’s daughter at his bedside. A state funeral will be held in the senate chamber Tuesday, as for Senator Burton of Ohio, the first of the three to die in the last few weeks. Secretary of War Good died less than a week ago. The oldest senator In years and service, Warren was the last Union soldier in congress. Owner of vast sheep ranches in the west, he often was called by his friends, “the greatest shepherd since Abraham.” A drummer boy In the Civil war and holder of a Congressional medal of honor, Warren lived to serve thirty-seven years in the senate.

One Confederate Left One Confederate veteran, Representative Charles M. Stedman (Dem., N. C.), is the remaining Civil war survivor in congress out of hundreds who have sat there in the last sixty-five years. The senator was popular with his colleagues and on his 85th birthday last June, the senate paid him high tribute. Besides Pershing, Mrs. Warren, and her son, Fred E. Warren of Cheyenne, were present when the senator died. Warren was bom at Hinsdale, Mass., and when only 18 years old enlisted in the Union army as a drummer boy. After the war he became a farmer, but the pioneering fever caused him to migrate to Wyoming, then a part of Dakota territory, in 1868. He was the first Governor of the territory of Wyoming. He first entered the senate in 1890 and served in the senate thirty-seven years. He will be buried in Cheyenne. Important Post Open Warren’s death leaves vacant the important post of chairman of the senate appropriations committee. Senator Smoot (Rep., Utah), is next in line for the position but as he is chairman of the finance committee, it is believed he will retain his present post. Senator Jones (Rep,, Wash.), acting Republican floor leader is second in line, after Smoot. After the funeral here the body will be taken to Cheyenne for burial, leaving Washington Tuesday afternoon. Members of the family, Pershing and his son, Warren, and a congressional delegation will accompany the body. The senatorial delegation, appointed by Vice-President Curtis, included Senators Kendrick, Simmons, Smith, Overman, Smoot, Borah, Fletcher, Jones, Swanson, Ashurst, Pittman, Sheppard, Norris Ransdell, Robinson, (of Arkansas). Walsh, Watson, Hale, Johnson, McKeliar, Moses, McNary, Harris Keyes, Phipps, Glass, Broussard, Norteck, Oddle, Reed, Copeland, Fess, Metcalf, Bingham, Bratton, Gillett, Pine, Sackett, Nye, Hayden and Glenn. Hourly Temperatures ea. 27 10 a.' m 37 7a. m..... 27 11 a. m 35 Ba. m 28 12 (noon).. 41 9 a. m 32 1 p. m 44

holding up three youths. The Negroes fled and Houston Cocksey was trapped by a posse and killed. His brother fled to Diamond mines where he was captured. Feeling was at high pitch today and a heavy guard was posted about the jail. Cocksey may be charged with murder or as an alleged accesosry. Ashby had been police chief here for more than a decade.

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Optimistic reports that “the nation is building” and that expenditures for public works alone wil ltotal two billion dollars next year were brought to President Hoover by these men, construction leaders of the country, pictured above after their conference with the chief executive at the white house. Left to right are P. W. Reimers, president of the Southern Pine Association of Louisiana: D. T. Riffle, president of the National Building Trades Employers Association, Pittsburgh; Samuel Eckels, president of Association of State Highway Officials, Pa.; Frederick J. Reimer, president of the American Road Builders Association, New Jersey; C. M. Upham, managing directors of the Road Builders Association of Washington, D. C.; A. Trieschmann, president of the Home

TWO DAYS LEFT FOR FUND DRIVE Workers Double Efforts to Make Full Quota. BULLETIN Community Fund workers today reported a total of $71,713.88 in new subscriptions, bringing the total raised to date in the $786,853 campaign to $637,025.67 or 80.9 per cent. Stressing necessity to reach its goal of $786,853, Hugh McK. Landon, president, urged workers in the tenth annual Community Fund drive into the final laps of the campaign, as they met at noon today in the Claypool to report pledges obtained since Friday. “Organized charity in a city as large as Indianapolis eliminates duplication and waste,” said Landon. The report today was the last until the campaign’s end Wednesday noon. Total collections reported Friday were $565,311.79, or 71.8 per cent Os the drive’s mark. Workers in all divisions of the drive doubled their efforts today to reach the required amount within the time specified.

‘Barbs’ Score Butler Fraternity Men Are Behind Unorganized Students.

WEARERS of jeweled fraternity pins on the Butler university campus may known their Greek letters, but their “barbarian” schoolmates know more of the questions and answers of higher learning, figures released today by Miss Sarah Cotton, registrar, revealed. They are scholarship points compiled for the second semester of last year, and show that the averages of unorganized men and women, respectively, are 1.249 and 1.678. Corresponding averages of fraternity and sorority members are 1.170 and 1168, or approximately 78 and 83, computed on the familiar 100 per cent basis. Varsity athletes average 1.0914 and freshmen athletes, .8229. Sigma Nu fraternity led the male Greek letter societies, with 1.243, and Kappa Beta was first in the feminine division with 1.9102. GAS BLAST KILLS THREE Explosion Shakes District; Search for More Bodies Goes On. Bu United Press ESSEN, Germany, Nov. 25.—A gas explosion shook -the residential districts today and wrecked several buildings. Three persons were killed. Police believed that other bodies would be found in the debris of the demolished buildings.

$300,000 LOST IN FIRE Ten Buildings Destroyed; Eight Persons Overcome by Smoke. Bu United Press RUMFORD, Me., Nov. 25.—Fire swept the business section of this town early today, destroying ten buildings at loss estimated at $300,000. Two hotels, a shoe store, two clothing shops, two tenement houses, the plant of the Rumford Times and several small stores were ruined. Eight persons were overcome by ’moke.

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STATE PLEDGED TO PROSPERITY MOVE Governor Harry G. Leslie decided today to make the Hoover prosperity program one that will boom Indiana industry. Having received President Hoover’s telegram urging support of the national administration economic program Saturday, the Governor at once declared it will have the utmost state support. A telegram from Governor Leslie to President Hoover today read: “Will co-operate with you in every way possible. Consider your efforts wise and timely.”

Today he conferred with State Senator John H, Hewitt, Terre Haute, head of the Indiana coal bureau, regarding plans to make the most of the Hoover economic program in boosting state industries. Action will be based on the plan already being followed in Illinois where a buy-Illinois-products commission was created by the 1929 legislature. Hewitt gave the Governor a copy of the Illinois law to study. Announces. Moves In offering concrete backing of the Hoover program, Governor Leslie announced the following moves: Speeding up of state construction as provided under the appropriation bill voted by the 1929 legislature.

Urging local governmental units throughout the state to do likewise. Boosting the use of Indiana-made products as is now being done in the matter of Indiana coal through the Indiana coal bureau. Senator Hewitt assured the Governor of his willingness to use the coal bureau to foster, so far as possible, a general Indiana products boosting program. In Illinois SIO,OOO has been appropriated for this purpose, he pointed out. The Illinois commission membership consists of a farmer, manufacturer, organized labor representative, dairyman, coal mine operator, miner, canner, dealer or distributor of perishable farm products, member of the state chamber of commerce and the director of agriculture, ex-officio. The Governor designtaes one member to act as chairman. Calls on Farmers By United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—Agriculture was called upon by President Hoover today to offer its aid in stimulating business this winter. That the President should summon even this economic invalid to do its bit, limited as that might be, testifies to the sweeping nature of the mobilization which Washington has undertaken to dispel any “foolish pessimism” resulting from the stock market depression. Every major economic group in the country has been summoned by Mr. Hoover—general industry, construction, utilities, railroads, labor, and, now, argriculture. Industry has promised to keep wages up. Labor has promised not to fight for more money. Railroads expect to spend a billion dollars next year. Utilities may spend two billion dollars. Continued expansion of the electric power industry was forecast in the annual report of the federal power commission today. Start Tax Action In addition, Mr. Hoover has called on all state Governors to muster state, county and municipal development projects. He had started action toward a $160,000,000 tax cut. The federal building program is to be expanded. The shipping industry is to be given $12,000,000 to $20,000,000 in ocean mail contracts, and the federal reserve system is exerting steady pressure to force down interest rates so as to enable business to hire money more cheaply. Agriculture, though struggling ' with its own problems, Is in posii tion to contribute no small mite to

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Modernizing Bureau, Chicago; A. M. Lewin, president of the Retail Lumber Dealers Association, Cincinnati; Sam Hotchkiss, president of the National Association of Builders Enchanges, Missouri; Secretary of Labor James J. Davis; Wilson Compton of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, Washington, D. C.; Arthur W. Berresford, president of the American Engineering Council, Washington, D. C.; E. L. Carpenter, president of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association; T. T. Flagler, president of Associated General Contractors, Atlanta, Ga.; D. A. Garber; W. M. Wood, president of the American Institute of Steel Construction, Decatur, 111.; Frank H. Smith, president of the Portland Cement Association, and E. F. Stokes of the Home Organization Bureau, Chicago.

How Shocking! By United Press MILWAUKEE, Nov. 25.—The wedding guests had gone home and John Antezak, the bridegroom, was trying to figure out one of those in-a-door bed puzzles. “I think you have to pull that lever first,” suggested the bride. He did and the bed fell down, catching an electric light cord. The bridegroom yelled as the electricity knocked him half way across the room. They had to strap him to a bed in the hospital. By noon, doctors listened to his plea that he wasn’t hurt much and let him go back to his bride.

the nation’s general buying schedules. Agriculture buys nearly a half billion dollars’ worth of farm implements a year. Some twelve million people on farms must have clothes, household goods, automobiles and the other thousands of articles necessary to every home.

DRILLING OF WELL ADVISED BY MOORE Airport to Get Own Water at Estimated Cost of $2,500. Drilling of a 500-foot well at the municipal airport was recommended today by City Engineer A. H. Moore instead of extending the Indianapolis Water Company line at a cast of $30,000. The well will cost about $2,500, it was estimated. The Charles Krauss & Son firm probably will be employed to drill the well. A preliminary test showed that a twelve-inch well must be sunk, Moore said. The board has advertised for bids on the runways which will be considered this fall. Work will be begun this winter if possible, Moore said. PETITION IS SUCCESSFUL Sufficient Signatures Obtained to Force Referendum. B ii United Press EERLIN, Nov. 25.—Sufficient signatures were obtained to the Nationalist petition for a referendum it was announced officially today.

ILL JUROR HALTS TRIAL OF M’MANUS

Bn United Press NEW YORK, Nov. 25.—The trial of George A. McManus, accused of che alleged murder of Arnold Rothotein, was interrupted today by the breakdown of Eugene A. Riker, a juror. Judge Charles R. Nott Jr. excused the juror and by agreement of Counsel ordered a group of talesmen to appear in court Tuesday morning. From them anew juror'will be drawn, the evidence thus far taken will be read to him and the trial then will proceed. Riker was not in his seat when court opened.

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PROPERTY RISES IN MILE SQUARE Center Township Tax Value Nine Million More. Valuation of taxable property In Center township has increased $9,428,300 since 1928, according to figures made public today by Township Assessor Frank Brattain. The 1928 valuation, taxes on which were paid this year, totaled $585,309,610, while the 1929 valuation, taxes on which will be paid next year, is $594,737,910, according to Brattain’s list. The increase comprises a growth of $6,336,640 in the taxable properties of banks, trust companies and public utilities, as levied by the state tax board, and k boost in the Center township taxable property of $3,091,660. Annexation of sections of several townships to Center township accounts for an increase of $2,122,330 in real estate and of $156,920 in personal property in the township. The tax board's enlarged list Includes increases as follows: Building and loan associations. $980,140; trust companies, $8,341,300; banks, $9,865,600; public utilities, $44,590,260; Indiana Bell Telephone Company, $12,649,530; street railways, $8,060,680; railroads, $17,564,600; corporation real (domestic) $91,143,720; all personal, $53,109,000, and all real estate, $290, 830,100.

MISS BANK MILLIONS Rob Gas Station White *2,200,000 Is Moved Down Same Street. By United Preat _ __ WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Nov. 25. The Peoples Bank moved into anew location. Seven policemen and seven private detectives guarded the $2,200,000 being transferred. Down the street, at thta moment, bandits held up a gas station and got $285. They haven’t been found yet to advise them of what they missed. ALMS BOXES ROBBED Thieves Build Fire of Prayer Books to Light Their Way. Bu United Press EVANSTON, 111., Nov. 25.—Vandals lit their way with gold-plated candlesticks to rob the alms boxes in St. Mary’s church. Apparently finding that light insufficient, they built a fire in the vestibule of prayer books. They smoked numerous cigarets, leaving the stubs in the sanctuary and the nave. Landmark Burns Bu Times fiyeeinl JUDAH, Ind., Nov. 25,—The home of Luther Davis, a Lawrence county landmark, was destroyed by fire Sunday afternoon while the family was absent.

“I regret to report to you,” Judge Nott said facing the jury, “that one of your number Is ill. He was examined on Saturday and his physician reports to me this morning that it would be quite impossible for hi/* to be present today. If he should sit today, it would be only a question of time before he would break down. “It thus is made necessary that we adjourn until Tuesday when a panel will be in court from which a Juror will be drawn and sworn. The evidence will be read to him and by the end of Tuesday’s session we should be ready to resume evidence.”

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CLEMENCEAU LAID TO REST IN SIMPLICITY Body of France’s Beloved ‘Father of Victory’ Lowered to Grave. NO RELIGIOUS CEREMONY Cannons Throughout Nation Boom Tribute to Great Warrior. (Picture of Tomb on PafO 16) BY RALPH HEINZEN United l’retx Staff Correspondent SAINT VINCENT SIR JARD. France, Nov. 25.—Amid the tangled briars of a woodland grave in his beloved Vendee, the body of Georges Clemenceau was laid to rest today with all the simplicity asked in Ills dying request. While cannons throughout the nation boomed their tribute to the “father of victory,” the simple uustained oaken box, which held the shell of the fierce old warrior, was lowered into the soft mud of the open grave, which years ago Clemenceau had prepared for himself, beside the grave of his father. His faithful servants, Albert and Francois, loved almost as his own children, lowered the oaken box Into the grave shortly before noon. In every respect, save one, the dying wishes of the Tiger were observed. There was no religious ceremony at the grave. Clemenceau had not wished it. He had refused it as he lay dying, only to have benediction pronounced after he had passed into unconsciousness. Casket Laid Horizontally Only Clemenceau’s wish that be be buried “standing up” was not observed. His family of a son and two daughters had overruled that one last request, and the casket was/ laid horizontally in the grave, whiejf only a few hours before had bejf cleaned of leaves and prepared*.* the servant Francois Brabant, ft, “Dig the ground out of the Hfe and soften up the bottom so thJfc* when I lie there it will be soft,” Clemenceau had ordered. Francois did that less than twenty-four hours ago. Strong gusts of rain and wind, blowing in from the Atlantic, stirred the leaves that lay entangled in the briars of the burial plot. His grave was as near as possible to that in which his father was buried years ago “standing up.” Ceremony Is Impressive With all its simplicity, the ceremony was most impressive, because it represented the simple ending of one of the greatest careers of contemporary French history. Rings of gendarmes kept back thousands of curious, journalists and photographers, while only a few of the late statesman’s closest friends stepped through the barbed wire fence to the side of the grave. The ceremony lasted only three minutes. On the top of the oaken box a few flowers were scattered. They included the withered pale blue blossoms, which were presented to Clemenceau by a French corporal in 1917, and which he had preserved in his library. The handful of blue blossoms offered by Sir Basil Zaharoff, another old friend, also were among the floral offerings at the grave. There had been no attempt to tidy the woods for the ceremony. Clemenceau for years, had resisted any attempts to clear out the briars of his beloved woods, overlooking the Styx-like river Petit Lay. The weeds had grown wild, choking all paths up to the wind-blown cliff, above which Clemenceau chose as his final resting place, because the climb was “so bad that none will wish to disturb me.” Crowds Are Dispersed It had been his theory that man’s destiny was to return to nature in its simplest form. And thus he was returned. All night long, while the funeral cortege of five cars moved swiftly over the 223-mile road from Paris, the crowds had gathered, trampin the fields of Colombier farm into mud, but at daybreak gendarmes forced them back one hundred yards from the woods. There were no official representatives of the government at the grave, only Clemenceau’s son, Michel; his two daughters, Madames Jacquemaire and Young; his grandson, Dr. Andre Jacquemaire; the two servants, Albert and Francois, and a few close personal friends. Albert and Francois had been the last to receive the conscious goodby of the statesman. Just before his death he had kissed their hands in a wordless farewell, which betrayed for one moment his gesture of defiance to all who sought to keep him from meeting death “fighting.” Last to Leave Grave The two faithful retainers were the last to leave the grave. After the family and all others had departed through the rustling leaves, Albert and Francois stood with bared heads in the chill drizzle, lingering for one last tribute. Far off the beaten path, the burial plot was not accessible to the motor hearse, and it was necessary to carry the coffin some distance to the wooded patch on the cliff, above the dark creek. Raised to strong shoulders, the remains of the old warrior were carried through the sticky mud to the foot of the helmeted Minerva, where it was lowered to its final resting place.

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