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GANG TERROR THROWS COPS INTO FRENZY Unpaid Police Struggle to , Halt Onslaught of Underworld. SILENCE BALKS ACTION Orders Issued for Arrest of Gun-Toting Capone Racketeers. BT RAY BLACK Tailed Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, Feb. 6.—Several thousand unpaid policemen, with the plaints of their underfed children ringing In their ears, stood today between the city’s millions and a gangland aflame with murder and bomb terrorism. Seven gang killings, two racket shootings that may mean death for the victims, and a series of destructive bombings have been crowded into one week of crime. Bandits and robbers have operated on a grand scale. Footpads have waylaid many citizens on the streets. Forces of law and order were mobilizing today to stamp out the onslaught of the underworld. Police heads and the state’s attorney held their third conference in as many days and orders went out to patrolmen to close up certain speakeasies and beer flats in and near the loop. Cops Helpless State’s Attorney John A. Swanson pushed his plan to rid the streets and hotels of gangsters and gunmen by indicting all found with concealed weapons. But the real burden of battling the outburst of lawlessness fell on the policemen, the infantry on the firing line in the war with the gangs. They raced from one murder to another, encountering in most cases the mask of silence peculiar to gangland. They investigated murders without clews and questioned bullet-riddled victims who would not tell who shot them. Police Commissioner William Russell spoke the complaint of his men. Hunt Capone Gang “What can we do when gangsters who, mortally wounded, will not name their assailants?” he asked. Gangsters can not go into court with their differences, so when one double-crosses another a shooting usually follows. The state’s attorney announced he would hasten return of true bills reported voted against Jack McGurn, Capone machine gunner; Danny Stanton, beer runner for the Capone clique; Tony Acardo and Frank Diamond, Capone men at arms, all charged with carrying guns Thursday's developments in the crime wave included the shooting on the University of Chicago campus of Philip H. Meagher, construction company superintendent, and the death in a hospital ot William Healey, south side beer runner shot down Monday by gangsters. ASKS $20,000 DAMAGES Investment Firm Failed to Pay Interest, Suit Charges. Damages of $20,000 are asked in a suit filed today in superior court five by Henry Brill, Indianapolis, against the Greenbaum Sons Investment Company. Chicago. Charges are made that Brill purchased $15,000 of the company’s bonds last year, and that the company has defaulted in payment, of Interest. It also is charged the bonds were sold under fraur and misrepresentation, and that some were not registered with the Indiana securities commission. Interest totalling $5,000 is sought in addition to return of the purchase price. DEATH CASE DISMISSED Whiting Bank Cashier Cleared in Fatal Auto Crash. pu Time* Special VALPARAISO, Ind., Feb. 6.—Albert Scholz, cashier of a Whiting bank, was absolved of manslaughter charges in Porter circuit court here when the state dismissed the case. Scholz was involved in a Dunes highway motor crash in June in which Theodore Turner. Porter, was killed. When Scholz was arrested, it was reported he was drunk, but later it was shown he had fallen asleep. Scholz made a settlement with the victim's widow, giving her $3,500. CARS CRASH: MAN HURT Driver Arrested for Failure to Observe Stop Street. Herbert Ash. 41. of 5125 Guilford avenue, was arrested on charges of failing to stop at a preferential street today after Charles W. Miller, 38, of 842 South Pershing avenue, suffered a fractured shoulder in an automobile collision. Ash's car and a machine driven by Herschel Seaman. 23, of 850 South Pershing avenue.' collided at Forty-sixth street and Winthrop avenue. Miller was riding In Seaman’s car.

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Michigan’s Hiccoughing Champion Bids Fair to Shatter Own Mark

Bv United Press LANSING, Mich., Feb. 6.—The involuntary hiccoughing champion of the world, William Phillips, 72-year-old farmer, in a hospital here, today threatened to break his own record. He rounded out his eighth day and night of almost continuous hiccoughing, while physicians sought desperately to effect a cure for the malady which rapidly is reducing his vitality. Phillips was cheerful enough, despite the hiccoughs which wracked his body every few mo-

40 CHILDREN SAVED IN FIRE Crippled Pupils Are Carried to Safety. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—More than forty crippled children were carried and wheeled to safety today when fire broke out in the Weightman public school here. Although badly frightened, the other students, 125 In all, marched bravely through smoke-filled hallways out of the burning building. Many of the able-bodied children carried, led or wheeled their less fortunate companions, remaining as calm as thought they were practicing a fire drill. Teachers prevented a panic when some of the invalid-students cried aloud and struggled to free themselves as smoke and flames shot out of a hot-air register dangerously close to them.

EX-CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT IS IMPROVED AFTER GOOD NIGHT

Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—A slight improvement In the condition of William Howard Taft was noted today by attendants of the former chief justice, who lies critically ill in his home here. Taft spent a restful night and appeared to be in better condition than he was twenty-four hours ago. He obtained almost eight hours' sleep Wednesday night, an attendant said.

The distinguished patient had shown considerable reserve strength Wednesday. He had been able to sit in his chair to receive a visit from President and Mrs. Hoover. In the early evening, he took carefully prepared food with a show of enjoyment. Later, after a brief rest in bed, he was able to leave his bed again, with only slight assistance, and sat again for a time in his chair. Dr. Thomas H. Claytor reported at midnight, however, that Mr. Taft had been unable to sleep during the evening, although at that hour ho showed signs of drowsiness and the doctor predicted that he soon would be resting. About an hour after the doctor left, the light in the Taft sickroom was extinguished, indicating that the expected sleep had come. Senate Takes Action Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—A resolution, expressing regret at former Chief Justice Taft's illness, and wishing him speedy recovery, was introduced in the senate today by Senator Harris (Dem., Ga.), and adopted unanimously. Such action is extremely unusual. NASH OFFICIAL IS DEAD Wealthy Vice-President of Motor Company Passes. Bu United Press KENOSHA. Wis., Feb. 6.—Walter H. Alford, 53, wealthy vice-presi-dent of the Nash Motors Company, died at his home here late Wednesday following an illness of two days from a heart attack. Alford, said to have donated nearly $1,000,000 to social agencies and civic organizations in the last five years, had been an official of the Nesh company since its formation. Royalty to Repay Visit Bu Uniti and Pit ss TOKIO, Feb. 6.—Prince and Princess Takamatsu will depart April 21 for London, England, to return the duke of Gloucester’s recent .visit to Tokio, it was announced officially here today. The royal couple are due to arrive in London on their official visit on June 26. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 31 10 a. m 32 j 7a. m 31 11 a. m 32 j Ba. m 31 12 (noon).. 34 j 9a. m..... 31 Ip. m 40 I

Healer Failed to Heal Breach in Marital Life

Bu United Press VALPARAISO, Ind., Feb. 6. Healing of a broken rib of his baby son by “laying on of hands" was related by Louis Kish. East Chicago, party to a divorce suit in Porter circuit court here, which resulted in granting of a decree to Mrs. Mary Kish. She was given custody of the child, now 2 years old. $6 a week for its support and SIOO attorney's fees. Kish charged the boy was hurt when thrown on a floor by Its mother while she was in a fit of

ments. He sipped hot milk slowly and that seemed to bring him some relief, but physicians were forced to administer anesthetics before he could sleep. He was brought to a hospital here Monday from his home in Portland, Mich., when physicians there despaired of relieving him. Twelve years ago, Phillips hiccoughed for twenty-three days, and five years ago suffered a similar attack which lasted exactly three weeks. Doctors today were to examine X-ray pictures of his stomach.

Maury Graham, Missing Flier, Found, Report B LOS' aNGELES, Feo. Unconfirmed reports were circulated here today that Maury Graham, air mail pilot, missing since Jan. 10, has been found alive in a desolate region between Las Vegas and Caliente, Nev. Union Pacific railroad offices here said one of their employes at Las Vegas sent word he heard the rumor, but could not authenticate it. VOTE PILGRIMAGE FUND Sum to Take Mothers to European BatUefields Is Approved. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 6—Funds for the battlefield pilgrimage of Gold Star mothers were authorized today by congress. The senate adopted the house joint resolution appropriating $5,386,367 for the trip to France. The resolution now goes to the President for signature.

Supper Waits Grocer Ready to Eat, but Bandits Held Him Captive.

Pu Times Special Anderson, ind., Feb. 6, “Supper is ready, Daddy,” said 9-year-old Arthur Colvin as he entered the grocery of his father, Floyd Colvin, The grocer was hungry, but he was being detained by two bandits. Father and son were forced to stand against one side of the. store while the bandits took $77.30 from the cash register, Colvin had just finished counting the money when the robbers entered. They were driven away by a companion who waited outside in an automobile. Robert Shrader, 21, Marion, gladly accepted a ride home with two strangers after visiting his mother here. Three miles east of Anderson he was robbed of his overcoat, a $55 wrist watch and $5. He walked to the nearest .farmhouse to telephone a report of the robbery to Anderson police. Burns Cause Death Bu United Press BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Feb. 6. Burns which resulted in death of John Kent, 50, night fireman at the Showers Brothers furniture plant in Bloomington, were suffered in an explosion in plant No. 1 Wednesday night. Spontaneous combustion was said to have caused the explosion and fire. Damage estimated at $2,000 weis done to the boiler room. Two File Petitions Two grocers filed voluntary petitions in bankruptcy in federal court today. Walter E. Weddle, 1570 College avenue and 2101 South East street, listed his assets as $1,252 and liabilities $4,094, and Lawrence C. Kirkendall of Kokomo listed $1,280 assets and $12,297 liabilities. Muncie to Get 550.000 pu Times Special _ , MUNCIE, Ind.. Feb. 6.—The city of Muncie has solved its financial situation by authorization of a $50,000 bond issue by the city council to meet current expenses until the spring tax settlement.

anger. He also charged his wife “traveled around” with a minister in East Chicago. The wife charged cruelty and intoxication and said Kish had made threats to kill her. An Indian medicine man, known as Dr. Clayton and who was formerly located in Porter county, told Kish, he testified, that he was a born healer. Kish told the court he had cured two persons who had been confined to bed twenty years each with paralysis and had also cured a woman suffering with asthma.

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BRITAIN READY TO SCRAP SHIPS Cruiser Classes Cause of Parley Controversy. Bm United Press LONDON, Feb. 6.—Great Britain is willing, under agreement with other naval powers, to begin immediate scrapping of battleships down to fifteen in accordance with the Washington treaty, the British spokesman announced today. The spokesman said it would take two years for the British to complete the scrapping processes. He said that, if other powers were willing, Britain saw no reason to wait until 1936. A controversy over the number of classes of warships which shall be established under any agreement for naval limitation arose today at a meeting of the so-called first committee of the naval conference. Japanese sources said the committee, meeting at St. James palace, failed to agree whether to place light cruisers and destroyers in one or two classes. France and Japan favored placing them In one category, while the British and American delegates favored placing light cruisers in one class anti destroyers in another. It was understood the question would be submitted to the committee of experts appointed by the conference. The experts will meet at 11 a. m. Friday. SLAYER GIVEN STAY Rhoads Execution Deferred by Supreme Court. The Indiana supreme court this afternoon granted Dreyfus Rhoads, twice convicted slayer of a Vincennes policeman, a stay of execution until July 11. Rhoads’ execution in the electric chair previously had been set for Feb. 28. The stay was petitioned by his attorneys because of his appeal pending before the supreme court. LIFE TERM FOR SLAYER Indianapolis Negro Convicted in Trial at Noblesvilie. By United Press NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Feb. 6. Thomas Smith, Negro, was found guilty on a charge of second degree murder in the killing of Luther Hunt, Negro, in Hamilton county circuit court here. Judge Fred E. Hines sentenced Smith to life imprisonment. The jury was out only an hour and twenty minutes and its verdict ended one of the shortest murder trials ever held in Noblesvilie. The court was in session ten hours during the trial. The murder, committed In Indianapolis July, 1928, grew out of a quarrel over a craps game, evidence showed. OFFICIALS MAKE DENIAL Muncie Councilman Answered In Health Board Order Dispute. Bv Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., Feb. 6.—Charges directed at Mayor George Dale and Dr. H. D. Fair, health commissioner, that they had forced the state board of health to order Muncie to carry out its sewage disposal project, are denied by both men today. The allegations were made by Councilman Ora Ahroyer. Shroyer declared that he was opposed to construction of the disposal plant wheih, with an intercepting sewer system, will cost half a million dollars, and that the two officials were seeking to force its construction. GAS DEATH ACCIDENTAL Civil War Veteran Found Dead in Newcastle Home. 1 NEWCASTLE, Ind., Feb. 6.—Accidental asphyxiation is the verdict of Coroner Ralph Noblock in the death of Peter Michael, 84, Civil war veteran. The body of the aged man was found in the kitchen of his home Tubing connection of a gas stove was disconnected. The veteran was in a feeble state and it is believed that he grasped the tubing to support himself after turning on the gas, and broke the connection. County Buys Trucks pu Times Pvrcinl _ _ . . , MARION, Ind., Feb. 6.—Material and supplies including four trucks and a grader for the highway department, have been purchased by the Grant county board of commissioners. Four trucks, three of 2*4-ton capacity and one Its-ton truck were purchased on a bid of $9,029. The board also purchased a tractor, plow and disc for the county infirmary on a bid of $690.

POUCE CLAIM CONFESSION IN ATTACK CASES One of Two Negroes Held Admits Assaults on Women, Charge. NEITHER IS IDENTIFIED Alleged Statement Comes After Lengthy Grilling by Detectives. Two Negroes were held today In city prison, charged with abduction of and criminal assault on a white woman here Jan. 11. One of the pair is said to have confessed to detectives that he participated in two other similar kidnapings since early in January. The men held are: Edward Davis, 43, of 709 Paca street, and James Walker, 39, of 1848 Boulevard place. After being grilled in detective headquarters almost incessantly since his arrest Tuesday night, Davis today is said to have signed a statement in which he implicated Walker. Name Two Others Walker denied guilt. Davis’ statement is said to have implicated two other Negroes in the other abductions, one of which was a 16-year-old Arsenal Technical high school, the night of Jan. 27. In his statement, police say Davis told of a casual meeting with Walker in a poolroom the night of Jan. 11. They got into an automobile and drove to Drexel and Michigan streets. As Mrs. Mary Conrad, 45, of 617 North Drexel avenue, alighted from a street car, Davis grasped her and threw her bodily into the rear of the machine, according to detectives. Climbing in beside her, Davis bandaged her eyes with her scarf, and Walker drove to an Isolated spot near Sixteenth street and Emerson avenue, where the attack took place, according to the alleged confession. Unable to Identify At police headquarters today, Mrs. Conrad was unable to identify either Davis or Walker, although the former said it was she they kidnaped. After the second attack, circumstances of which were similar to the attack on Mrs. Conrad, was reported, Detective Chief Fred Simcn assigned six detectives to track down the Negroes. The detectives were William Miller, Jesse McCarty, Charles Gollinsh, Robin Taylor, George Sneeds and Claude White. Although he refused to tell what clews led to Davis’ arrest, Simon said it was the hardest case he ever had handled and declared his men began without a clew. TEST SUB DIVING BELL Members of Crew Escape by Use of New Invention. Bn United Press KEY WEST, Fla., Feb. 6.—Members of a sumerged submarine crew liberated themselves by means of a closed diving bell capable of accommodating as many as twenty men at one time. The feat was accomplished in the gulf stream at a depth of seventy feet off here Wednesday in tests involving the S-4 and the submarine tender U. S. S. Falcon. The device used was a closed diving bell invented by the Electric Boat Company, Groton, Conn. FEAR FOR WILKINS Report No Word Received From Polar Explorer. Bv United Press NEW YORK, Feb. 6.—The New Yor kAmerican today printed a copyrighted dispatch to the Hearst newspapers from Deception island saving no word had been received fro mCaptain Sir Hubert Wilkins for eight days. Wilkins is in aAntarctica for a projected flight across the polar cap. He and th peersonnel of his expedition are aboard the steamship William Scoresby. The American’s article said a relief ship would be sent southward if word is not received from Wilkins soon. BURNS CAUSE"~~OEATH Wife of Gary City Council Head Victim of Fire. Bm United Press GARY, Ind., Feb. s.—Burns, received by Mrs. Louise Gray, 55, when naphtha cleaning fluid she was using exploded, resulted in her death in a hospital here. Mrs. Gray leaves her husband, Otto Gray, president oi the Gary city council and assistant manager of the American Sheet and Tin Plate Company mills here. Inventer Meets Hoover Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—Admiral Gordon Campbell of the British navy, inventor of the famous British mysttry ships used in the North Sea during the World war, was presented to President Hoover today by Sir Esme Howard, British

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“Some day, big motor, you’re going to take me way up in the clouds.” “It's a promise.” retorted the motor In the above photo as Miss Helen Hitch of Lafayette, the only Butler university coed enrolled in the university’s aviation course, examined it today. Miss Hitch, sister of Ralph Hitch, director of athletic publicity at the university, is the class’ advanced pupil, despite the fact that she never has had a lesson in the course. She missed this week’s first instruction by Captain Ralph W. Barnes of the Curtiss Flying Service, so today she stole a march on the male members of the class by slipping out to Mars Hill airport to probe a Curtiss Challenger airplane motor at the Curtiss flying school. “I’m majoring in journalism, but I’ve always wanted to study aviation. If I make good in the ground course instruction, I hope to fly,” Miss Hitch explained as she explored the motor she hopes will take her up for a joust with the clouds.

MEXICO PRESIDENT WOUNDED IN FACE BY YOUNG RADICAL

Bu United Press MEXICO CITY, Feb. 6.—Approximately 300 police agents were seeking out political suspects today in an effort to establish a motive for the shooting of President Pascual Ortiz Rubio. While the president was reported resting well after removal of a bullet from his jaw, investigators undertook close surveillance of polotical malcontents to guard against another attempt at assassination and to discover the connections of Young Dniel Flores, who fired six shots at the president Wednesday.

Emilio Portes Gil, former provisional president and secretary of the interior in the new cabinet, announced the government had taken every precaution against disturbances and said the situation was well in hand. The capital was calm, without even so much as a curious crowd at the garrison or at police headquarters, where the questioning of Flores continued relentlessly. The country as a whole was reported calm. The attempt to kill the president took place as his car was leaving the presidential palace, shortly after he had been inaugurated constitutional president of Mexico before a crowd of 50,000, at the national stadium. Flores, dressed somberly in black and standing among the crowd in the square before the palsice, leveled his revolver over the heads of the troops that held back the crowd and fired six rapid shots into the slowly moving automobile. One bullet entered the left side of the president’s face, broke the jawbone and lodged on the right side. Another grazed the scalp and ear of Senora Joseflna Ortiz De Rubio, wife of the president. Their niece, Miss Maria Ross, and the chauffeur, Felix Galvan, were cut by flying glass. The bullet missed the president’s jugular vein by only half an inch. Despite his wound, the president

’Tain’t So! Bv United Press WESTBROOK, Conn., Feb. 6. —Theodore Peterson, son of a Loraine <'o.) city councilman, has appeared to deny his death. Peterson, working as counterman in a Hartford restaurant, read reports that the body of a youth, found hanging from a tree here Sunday, had been identified by Branford police as his. He communicated with police.

was able to talk, although with difficulty. Emilio Portes Gil, former provisional president and new minister of the interior, made the interesting revelation that the president’s wife recently received an anonymous letter saying that her husband ‘‘never would live to become president.” Hoover in Regrets By United Pres * WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—President Hoover today sent a telegram to President Rubio of Mexico expressing regret because of injuries suffered by him and Senora Rubio at the hands of an assassin Wednesday and congratulating them on their escape from more serious harm. ENDS LIFE WITH GUN Suicide of Frank Kinder Laid to Ailing Health. Placing the muzzle of a twelveguage shotgun against his chest, Frank Kinder, 47, shot himself through the heart in the basement of his home, 229 Fulton street, Tuesday. Mrs. Kinder, returning from work Tuesday night, found his body. She told Coroner C. H. Keever that ill health probably motivated the suicide. 7-story~Teap~fatal Woman Despondent Over Health, Makes Death Plunge, Bv United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. Despondent because of failing health. Mrs. Gladys Stem, 25, formerly of Philadelphia, committed suicide here today by jumping from her hospital room on to a coal pile seven floors below. Her boay was crushed badly. It was the second time within six months that Mrs. Stem had plunged from an upper floor window in an effort to end her life.

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JUGGLING OF STATE FUNDS IS INDICATED Overdrafts of $400,000 Are Laids to Regime of John J. Brown. DEPENDED ON GAS TAX Deficit Practice Is Branded Illegal by Treasurer and Auditor. BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY. Although Director John J. Brown of the state highway department has some $20,000,000 a year to spend, due to the I cent gas tax increase, ho has been spending the money laster than it could be collected and has had overdrafts of nearly $400,000,000 during a three-month period. This was disclosed by highway department bocks in the state auditor’s office today. State Auditor Archie Bobbitt declared that he (Bobbitt) had “made good the overdrafts,” but ordered halted practiceof spending money before received. Cites Illegality Bobbitt admitted that to permit the overdrafts was, in liis opinion, “absolutely illegal.” Illegality of the procedure also was stressed by Mrs. Grace Banta Reynolds, state treasurer. She said her office had been crowded to find funds to cover the highway deficiencies. Lawrence F. Orr. chief examiner of the state board of accounts, asserted that such overdrafts not only are not permissible by statute, out are banned by the Indiana Constitution. Brown got them through by obtaining Bobbitt’s consent, the state auditor admitted. He said that most of the overdrafts went to pay cement manufacturers. Started in October They started in October and the highway director explained to Bobbitt that they were due to the “forcing of construction to make the roads fit for the winter season.” According to Bobbitt’s books the overdrafts were as follows: October, $168,922.14; November. $72,948.92, and December, $147,565.43. The department was saved from an overdraft in January by receipt of the quarterly automobile license payment of $475,000, it was explained. Owen S. Boling, attorney and assistant to Brown without benefit of budget committee approval, furnished the philosophy for making the overdrafts, Bobbitt declared. Boling, according to Bobbitt, said that all the money should come from the general fund and it was needless to pay attention to gasoline tax, license plate and federal revenues, the only sources of highway funds under the law. This theory was not accepted by Bobbitt and Mrs. Reynolds. Both considered the procedure so obviously illegal they never have asked the attorney-general for his opinion regarding it. Tax Is Coverage Overdrafts do not show in the balances at each month’s end, for the monthly gasoline tax has covered the difference. In October, a balance of $956,463.60, Is shown; in November, $1,064,865.30, and in December, $811,322.19. January balance is $1,416,695.81, due to the license payment and $841,482.44 for gasoline tax. Deficits, caused by ovedrafts, ran for periods of a few days to more than two weeks, the books show. “I think it’s illegal all right,” Bobbitt declared, “but the only way we could lose the money in the end would be for gas tax payments to drop below the deficits.” Total overdrafts were $389,436.68, Bobbitt, as state auditor, is protected by a SIOO,OOO bond. GIRL~HELD FOR FRAUD Charged With Opening Accounts, Selling Goods Purchased. Charged with defrauding several downtown stores of merchandise valued at more than $2,000, Miss Susie Johnson, 19, of 1524 West Washington street, was at liberty today on her own recognizance, awaiting grand jury hearing. Deputy sheriffs say she opened accounts in various stores under aliases, obtained goods, and sold them before the bills were due. She was arrested Wednesday, her nineteenth birthday, after private detectives traced her. Criminal Judge James A. Collins released her without bond Wednesday night. INFORMER IS KILLED Police Seek Woman’s Slayer in Akron Underworld. Bv United Press AKRON, 0., Feb. 6.—Mrs. Ruth Murray, federal narcotic informer, who died early today in city hospital here, was murdered, Coroner M. B. Crafts declared. The coroner said the woman’s death had been caused by a fractured skull. Meantime, federal authorities, Akron police and county detectives were moving around Akron’s underworld, and a suspect was being questioned.

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