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STATE BEGINS ITS EVIDENCE IN GIN TRIAL Boys Ran When Told Girl Was Dead, Opening Witness Says. COURTROOM IS JAMMED Ten Farmers, Professional Man and Contractor Form Jury, B;t Timex fipteUtl VALPARAISO, Inc!.. Feb. 25. Btory of the tragic night when Arlene Drav:s died unfolded, climax first, before a jury of ten farmers, a contracting mason and a professional man, a:- trial of Virgil Kirkland for murder of the girl continued in Porter circuit court here this morning. The climax was the discovery that Arlene, 17, Gary high school girl, whom Kirkland 3nd four companions, the state declares, thought oniy conscious from liquor or repeated attacks. he,d died. It was related by Dr. Ft. O. Wharton, to whose home the boys took the girl when they found they could not arouse her. ' Kirkland and two companions appeared at my home at 3 a. m„” D’\ Wharton said on the witness stand. "They had the body of Miss Draves. They believed she was unconscious. I told them she was dead, and they ran away.” he de* dared Athlete to Take Stand John Underwood, chief deputy prosecutor, in outlining the state’s case, told the jury the state will present an eye-witness account of a gin party, and said Richard Sturtridge, former all-star athlete at De Pauw. would tell of a fall the defense claims was responsible for the girl's death. “We will show that Miss Draves’ body was found bruised and wounded, with a blood clot on the head. This was not a skull fracture, and was not responsible for her death. Her death was due directly to the treatment she received at the hands of Kirkland and his four companions.'' Underwood said. After Wharton, Chief Deputy Coroner Chester S. Owen and Coroner's Physician J. B. Burcham, who will present medical reports of their examination of the body, waited to testify. Jury Completed Suddenly The jury which is to determine whether Kirkland or youth’s jazz age morals must bear responsibility for the girl's death following alleged attacks at a gin party in Gary Nov. 29, was completed suddenly after counsel and the state bickered a day and a half with men drawn from a venire of sixty-five talesmen. The jury is: Michael Gast, Valparaiso, grocer; Roscoe Durham, fanner; James L. Riggs, farmer; John A. Carlson, contracting mason; A. E. Upp, farmer; John Cuson, farmer; Frank Graves, farmer; John Trede, bachelor farmer; Ed Esserman, farmer, and father of eleven children; George Pomeroy, farmer; Delbert Anderson, farmer, and Leo McNeff, farmer. Before Judge Grant Crumpacker swore the jury, each man in the box had promised that, in their hearts, they held no prejudice against a genertion of youth whose moral standards fell piteously short of their own. Prohibition violations will not influence them in deciding whether Kirkland is guilty of murder. they said. None of the jurors is father of daughters. Outlined Step by Step Before the jury was completed the defense had exercised eight and the prosecution five peremptory challenges. In its opening argument and in evidence elicited from its witnesses, the state is attempting to show that while a drinking party raged inside the home of David Thompson the fateful night of Nov. 29, Kirkland took Miss Draves to the front porch, and there attacked her, inflicting injuries that were at least partly Responsible for her death. Later the state, as the others, Thompson. Harry Shirk, Leon Stanford and Don Barton re tried, will attempt to show that they, too, assaulted and beat her. Countering this, the defense will show that the party was an orgy, of which the girl's death was not an unreasonable result. Kirkland s attornevs, John Crumpacker, Oscar Thiel and Barrett O'Hara, will say and attempt to prove that Miss Draves fell, causing a cerebral hemorrhage from which she died. Thev will demand that the state prove a definite act by Kirkland that was responsible for the girl's death.

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Yes, Noe! By United Press WATSEKA. 111., Feb. 25. The Noes said "yes” for a second time and were embarked today on their second marriage. The Noes—Alice Noe, 51, and William Noe, 52—eloped to Watseka from Kankakee and were married by Judge John J. Gillan. Their first marriage ended in a divorce, but when Noe asked her to remarry him, Mrs. Noe couldn’t say “no.”

COURT TO RULE ON NEW YORK WORLD’S SALE Scripps-Howard Would Merge Historic Paper With Telegram. By United Pres 4 NEW YORK, Feb. 25. The Morning, Evening and Sunday World papers were ready today to merge into the New York Telegram as The World-Telegram, provided Judge James A. Foley of surrogate's court agreed the World could sell to the Scripps-Howard interests. Foley had under advisement a petition of Herbert, Ralph and Joseph Pulitizer, trustees, under the newspaper trust established by the late Joseph Pulitzer’s will, for permission to sell the papers to the evening paper, The Telegram, controlled by Scripps-Howard. y Tabloids Hurt World A hearing on the petition held late Tuesday revealed that the famous New York World, founded by the Hungarian immigrant, Joseph Pulitzer, had encountered in recent time the vicissitudes attendant upon economic depression and the inroads of the tabloids. Pulitzer, fighting exponent of the "personal journalism” era of Greeley, Bennett, Dana and later, Hearst, had built the property to a splendid and profitable monument of independent newspapering. President Herbert Pulitzer of the Press Publishing Company, publishers of the World, announced his readiness to sell to the ScrippsHoward interests which he praised as of excellent standing in their communities and faithful to their obligations. He depicted a decline in revenue of the World as readers in the socalled middle class field swung over to the tabloids. Sale Price §5,000,000 Roy W. Howard, who once worked on the late Joseph Pulitzer’s St. Louis Post Dis^tch—but failed to land a desired job on the Worldtold the court he was prepared for his organization to deposit at once $500,000 in cash, with another $500,000 within ninety days toward the final purchase price. It was understood the deal eventually would yield the Pulitzer estate $5,000,000. Max attorney, representing Paul Block, publisher, sdught to delay the hearing, claiming his client, which made previous offers for the Morning and Sunday World, was prepared to offer $500,000 above the ScrippsHoward contract figure. Howard pictured the Telegram as a growing paper which he had acquired with a 187,000 circulation four years ago. Since then a practically new circulation had been built, with only slightly more than 25,000 of the original subscribers retained, so that at the - 1 official publication, the circulation stood at 236,581. Paper Has Lost Recently Contract of sale provided for assumption of the name and good will of the world, but not for purchase of its building or equipment. Howard described the proposed price as the largest on record for good will and name, so far as he knew. A banker, Fred J. Fuller, as trust adviser of the ‘trustees, placed an estimate of only $2,000,000 on the properties. The good will and name, he held, were of no great value, since the World was losing money. The hearing had been necessary because stipulations in the will of Pulitzer were such that a sale could not be made without such authority. Pulitzer’s wish that the publication of the World papers be continued as a public institution had been carried out hitherto, but at a glowing loss recently. The World, founded in 1860 by Alexander Cummings and bought later by Pulitzer from Jay Gould, railroad man, for $346,000, achieved fame as a fearlessly independent campaigner against what it held to be political wrongs. Its founder came from Hungary, swam ashore from the boat at Boston during the Civil war to claim a war bounty and lived to become one of the foremost figures of American journalism.

SNARLS GIVE WAY TO SMILES AS SCHROEDER BATTLES FOR LIFE

BY ARCH STEINEL THE lion is in sheep's clothing. Smiles bloom where snarls grew before. Sunny quips have transplanted | sarcasm. This metamorphosis is the mental picturization of the change between Harold Herbert Schroeder, alleged firebrand slayer, at his arrest nine months ago and : today, his "day in court.” For the man who fended off police questioning into the torch mystery of High School road with I °° I’ll tell you nothing," is uot everybody's friend as he ~

SCARFACE AL GIVES SELFiIP IN U S. COURT Appears Before Federal Judge to Plead Not Guilty in Contempt Case. CITY CHARGE IS FACED During Noon Recess Gang Leader Posts Bond on Vagrancy Allegation. • By United Press CHICAGO, Feb. 25.—The elusive Scarface A1 Capone, "public enemy No. 1,” appeared in federal court today, pleaded not guilty to contempt charges, then during the luncheon lull in his trial surrendered to city police on a vagrancy warrant. The gang leader was hustled amid great commotion from the Federal building to the South State street police court, where he arranged bond, in time to eat a sandwich before resumption of his federal appearance. Stenographers, mail clerks and office boys, deserters from their posts in federal building offices, gaped when Capone was stopped by a patrolman as he started from Judge James H. Wilkerson’s courtroom. "Come on along now. Al, will you?” the patrolman asked, pushing aside the spectators. “Sure, I’ll go along,” Capone replied. Shouts of excitement echoed along the sixth-floor corridors of the federal building. A dozen policemen rushed forward, formed a circle around the gang leader, and gently pushed him into a freight elevator. Bond Is Posted by Al Another crowd, clustered at the street level all morning, hoping to see the gang king had only a glimpse of Capon’e weather-beaten face and sparkling diamonds as he was crowded into an automobile and driven away. Sirens screaming, the automobile was driven to the detective bureau on South State street through the midday traffic. The posting of bond took only a few minutes, and Capone was freed. Capone’s appearance in Federal Judge James H. WUkerson’s courtroom today was the first occasion the gang leader has made a courtroom appearance as a defendant since a Philadelphia judge in 1929 sentenced him to a one-year prison term for pistol carrying. Capone served ten months of that sentence. His present difficulties started a year ago when he dodged down to Miami as the federal grand jury expressed an interest in his underworld dominance, and remained there despite a supena commanding his return. Leaves Bodyguards at Home He countered all the government’s efforts to force him back before the grand jury, sending lawyers and physicians to plead that he was too ill to stand the trip. The contempt citation was issued when witnesses declared Al was shamming. Pleas for further delays having failed, Capone flew from Florida to Illinois over the week-end, remained in hiding “near Chicago” during Wednesday’s primary, and made a dramatic appearance today. Capone was accompanied only by his attorney. If any of his dozen bodyguards were around, they remained discreetly in the background as the gang leader slipped into the federal building, evaded detectives, reporters and cameramen in the corridors, and walked into the six .floor courtroom twenty minutes early. “Feeling Fine,” He Says A squad of deputy marshals moved immediately into the hall outside, threw up a temporary barricade, and permitted none to pass through the narrow passageway to the courtroom door until searched for guns—and cameras. Capone smiled and chatted as he waited for judge Wilkerson to take the bench. He wore a neat-fitting blue suit, a perfect background for the diamond-studded chain across his vest front. On his little finger was a platinum ring with one threekarat diamond and two smaller stones. “I’m feeling fine,” Capone remarked. "I took off eighteen pounds down in Miami.” He slipped his fingers inside his collar to demonstrate how loosely it fitted. “It’s good to be back here, and I’m going to stay,” he continued. “What about the election?” a reporter asked. “Well,” Capone replied slowly, “Judge Lyle wanted to make me an issue but I guess the people outspoke him.” Then he added quickly: “I don’t want to say anything tc hurt anybody’s feelings.”

awaits completion of a jury panel to try him for murder. Nine months ago he scowled, ducked his head, as newspaper photographers “shot” him. Today he joked with them and even aided them in their plateshifting. He's a fatter Schroeder after nine months of jail fare. The whiteness of a bank-clerk has left his face for the yeliow jail pallor that’s fat with lounging behind bars waiting for the trial. He seems cocksure, cocksure of something, as he converses in low tones with hi%,wife Leah, at the

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1931

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Top—Lieutenant Governor Edgar D. Bush besieged by farmers living near his home town, Salem. He hardly had time to say “hello” before they started talking tax relief.' Lower Left—Two dyed-in-the-wool “dirt farmers are telling Speaker of the House Walter Myers just how “tough things are down in Daviess county.”

Third Party Threat Hurled by Leader on Floor of House. * Threat of a “third party” to fight the farmers’ battles was sounded in the Indiana general assembly today when approximately six hundred Hoosier “sons of the soil” surged into legislative aisles and lobbies enjoining their senators and representatives to relieve the burdensome property tax. Eyes that have scanned discouraging market reports turned intently upon the legislature, carrying the threat of retaliation against Republicans and Democrats alike if tax revision is not accomplished. The threat became vocal in the house of representatives where Larry Brandon, DeKalb county farmer, and one of the keymen of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation, which sponsored the “march” on the legislature, was granted the privilege of the floor. Waiting for Relief “We are waiting for relief,” he said. “I warn you it is dangerous to delay relief, because the time will come when all party lines will be obliterated. We have been taught what organization can accomplish.” “I want to leave this thought with you. ‘An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.’ ” Brandon declared farmers throughout the state are confronted with the necessity of paying their spring installment of taxes in two months, and have no money with which to pay it. Picturing the prospect of many of them being ejected from their farms, Brandon asked: “I wonder if we can afford to jeopardize that stabilizing -element in our civilization—the farmer?” Relate Acute Situation Other bills to which the ‘dirt farmers” reaffirmed their support Tuesday night are those taxing personal incomes (now awaiting consideration of a conference committee), the tobacco tax and general sales tax. Button-holing lawmakers, the farmers related how their problem has been made acute by high taxes and mortgage interest rates on one hand and, on the other, 70-cent wheat, 65-cent corn. 33-cent oats, 7-cent hogs, 22-cent butter and 15cent eggs. Their knocks and telephone calls

defense table. He smiles at the questions Ira Holmes, his attorney, fires at the veniremen and then, cocking his head to one side, points out with mouthed sentences appraisal of this prospective juror and that one to his wife. a a a MRS. SCHROEDER always seems ready to cry. And behind the Schroeders at the trial sit their two boys fingering the tortoise-shell glasses they wear. The glasses are miniature twins of the pair-worn by their father and give them in their ••youth the

Nathan E. Killion of near Plainville is doing most of the talking as the “senior plaintiff,” and emphasizes his remarks with his forefinger, while Charles Turk of near Washington listens with approbation. Lower Right—Towering over Bush, is E. S. Vehslage o/ near Cortland, strapping seven-footer, who is arguing the case of Jackson county farmers, in particular, and that of the entire state in generaL

A Story of Jilted Love u tt tt tt tt tt Spurned Girl Weds Stranger, in Thrilling Serial Which Starts in The Times March 4. TWO women played important roles in the life of Alan Crosby. One was Catherine Langley, artistocratic divorcee, who, at 34, still looked young and lovely. The other two was Gypsy Mcßride, 19-year-old New York typist, l dark-skinned and brown-eyed, whose long brows and lashes made her eyes seem larger. Alan begged Gypsy to marry him, but she refused until he 7 completed his art studies in W&m jp7. . aB But when Alan came home, he Ow deserted Gypsy for Catherine, JmsAM ** a whom he had met in Paris. So Gypsy married an utter stranger the day after she met These are the principal char- ' in a stirring new serial of ’ jilted love, heartache, bewilder- p ment and happiness. It is called • ” “Mad Marriage.” ' : Laura Lou Brookman, whose - 1 1 Gypsy serials, “Rash Romance” and Catherine “Heart Hungry,” were widely acclaimed by newspaper readers, is the author. You’ll want to read it, beginning March 4 in The Times.

roused many legislators from their hotel rooms late Tuesday night, every farmer attending the meeting having been given the name and hotel of his senator and representative. In both houses, largest crowds of the session were on hand. Farmers shared the seats of legislators, filled the aisles, lined the railing six deep and spread to what little room visiting school pupils left in the balconies. They attempted no demonstrations, in keeping with the request sounded by L. L. Needier, Farm Bureau Federation secretary, at a called meeting at the Claypool Tuesday night, attended by about 400 “key men” from all parts of the state. Their presence in the senate was designed to lend pressure to favorable consideration of the house bill taxing net income of corporations at 3 per cent. Lieutenant Governor Edgar D. Bush is determined to have the bill passed over the bit-

varying moods of their parent. Harold, 11, is the Schroeder that Indianapolis police first knew. He is analytical, 'lyes likes tacks burrow into every’ comer of the court. ‘ K Ernest, 9, is the Schroeder of today’s trial. He is debonair, soft and complacent; as debonair as a boy of 9 ever could be, watching his father being tried 'or murder. A* the of " • boys sit the parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Schroeder, Clarion, la, watching hopefully with* the remarks, “We hope our boy will be acquitted. Don’t be hard on him will you?”

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ter opposition of Indiana business and manufacturing interests. At 10:30 the senate resolved into a committee of the whole and the clerk began reading the voluminous bill. The reading had not been completed when the senate recessed until 2 p. ra. Passed by the senate Tuesday, the senate bill raising auto license fees approximately $2,750,000 a year awaits consideration in the house of representatives. Preceding it to the house was the senate bill diverting all auto license revenues, beginning in 1932, from the highway department to the general fund. If the increase becomes a law, the revenue will approximate $9,000,000 a year, the equivalent of an 18-cent tax levy. The personal income tax bill, awaiting appointment of a conference committee, is counted upon to produce about $5,000,000 a year.

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npHE mother with flour-white A hair is gaited to pie-making, slipping a cookie to her grandchildren, rather than courtroom sitting. The mustached father looks as if he’d make a good partner at checkers. Four sisters and a brother complete the family group about Schroeder. Just a normal family group, nothing abnormal, except that one of them is being tried for murdering an unknown man and that one, Harold Herbert Schroeder, has changed his sp^ts.

JURY CHOICE IS RUSHED IN SCHROEDER TRIAL; EXPECT COMPLETION BEFORE NIGHT State and Defense Work at Record Speed to Finish Task; Defendant in Higrh \ Spirits as He Faces Ordeal. VENIRE OF 75 PERSONS IS CALLED Prisoner Closely Watches Selection of Men Who Will Decide His Fate; Alienists Are Appointed. i Firing questions at prospective jurors with machine-* gun rapidity, prosecutors and defense attorneys today ap-I peared to be on the brink of seating a criminal court jury tof try Harold Herbert Schroeder of Mobile. Ala., on a murder charge. Schroeder is alleged to have slain an unknown man whose burned body was found in Schroeder’s blazing sedan on High School road May 31. After a morning of swift passing of the jury between state and defense, at least ten men tentatively were approved by both sides to be the final judges of Schroeder's fate. Attorneys expect a jury to be sworn late today. To the jurors chosen will go the task of judging whether Schroeder shall pay for the crime in the electric chair.

Watching closely every detail of the trial of the loved one for whose acquittal they will fight, relatives of Schroeder flanked him as he sat at the defense table this morning. Schroeder appeared to be more spirited even than on Tuesday, when his trial began. He greeted his wife Leah, his two sons, Harold Herbert Jr., 11, and Ernest, 9, his mother and father, end four sisters jubilantly as he entered the courtroom before the start of the second court session. Watches Jury Quiz The accused man watched with apparent vital interest all prospective jurors. As Ira Holmes, his attorney, ascertained the attitudes of venirement, Schroeder gave a whispered opinion of each man to Holmes. Prosecutor Herbert Wilson and Floyd Mattice, chief deputy, set what court attaches called record time for examining veniremen. Wilson spent less than one hour examining nine men who passed in and out of the jury box between 9:30 and noon. Wilson’s main question was: “Do you have any conscientious scruples against inflicting the death sentence in cases warranting it?” Four veniremen were found this morning who emphatically said they would not impose the death sentence “under any circumstances.” They were excused for cause. Several Are Retained Occupants of seats 2,3, 6,7, 8. 9 and 11 in the jury box have been retained. These men were seated Tuesday morning. Chairs 10 and 12 proved to be harder to fill, however, as six different veniremen have occupied each. Prospective jurors who have occupied seats since the trial started Tuesday are Lelander Williams, Camby, farmer: A. H. Skinner, 910 East Thirty-eighth street, manufacturer; Walter E. Smith, Pike township, farmer; John Dietrick, 3434 Carrollton avenue, contractor; Omer Ford, 1257 Hiatt street, carpenter; George Bishoff, 2123 North Rural street, coal dealer, and Charles W. Reed, New Augusta, farmer. Occupying other seats when court adjourned for the noon hour were: Albert Shaw, Pike township, farmer; Morris E. George, 631 North La Salle street, merchant; William H. Joyce, 1420 Woodlawn avenue, real estate man; Earl Dillinger, 1966 Winter avenue, grocer, and Harold W. Bechert, 4021 South Meridian street, chemist. Venire of 75 Called Before noon adjournment. Judge Frank P. Baker, who is on the bench, swore a venire of seventyfive persons, some of whom may be called before the jury is seated. The first venire included fifty persons. Lull in the questioning of jurors was probable late this afternoon, when Baker announced he will confer with two alienists appointed Tuesday to examine Schroeder. Crowds of spectacular proportions filled corridors on the first and second floors of the courthouse before this morning’s start. To prevent confusion, Baker kept police officers at each door, and spectators were admitted only when room was made by other spectators leaving. Holmes began the examination. He excused Daniel Bogden, 611 South Fleming street, peremptorily, and immediately after excused John H. Ehrenberger, 515 East Sixtyfirst street, for the same reason. At that time, the defense had exercised three of its twenty peremptory challenges and the state one of its twenty. Two other veniremen had been excused for cause. Jury Passed to State For the defense’s third time Holmes passed the jury to the state, with William H. Joyce, 1420 Woodlawn avenue, anew member. Joyce later was barred by the state peremptorily because he expressed objection to imposing the death penalty. 1 Shortly afterward Ben Afkern,

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6500 East Sixteenth street. w r as excused peremptorily. In rapid-fire exchange of the jury between defense later. Ulysses G. Axsofe4lo South Roena street, carpenter, was replaced by Fred Alexander, R. R. 8, Box 19, who immediately was excused for cause when he voiced objection to the death penalty. He gave way to Milo Cook, 2442 Broadway, a farmer. A touch of pathos crept into the questioning when George F. Albrecht, 78, of 628 Holt road, farmer, signed, answering questions. “I’m only 78.” Baker rapped for order. Believes the Press “I think, the young man would better be excused,” Baker said. Albrecht did not leave the box until the order was called several times. When Bechert, in Seat 12, was asked by Holmes if he knew anything of the Schroeder case, he said: “All I know is what I read in the newspapers.” Spectators laughed when Holmes retorted quickly: “You know that everything you read in the newspapers isn’t true, don’t you?” Bechert answered “Yes.” Rapid exchange of veniremen in seat 4 followed. Stanley Pool, 529 East Twelfth street, a farmer, in the panel at the start of the trial, was excused peremptority, and Charles C. Spurrier, 4455 North Pennsylvania street, a laundry operator, was seated there. He was excused, and Morris E. George, 631 North La Salle street, a clerk, was seated before the noon adjournment. At that time the defense had used five challenges and the state four. The alienists are under orders to report their findings to the court immediately, and their verdict will determine whether the case will be given to the jury. Alienists Are Named They are Dr. E. Rogers Smith, 821 Hume-Mansur building, and Dr Charles D. Humes, 1028 North Delaware street. Holmes was permitted by the court to give the alienists’ evidence purporting to show that immediate relatives of the Alabaman at one time were insane, fie declared that both the mother and one grandmother had been inmates of a state hospital for the insane in lowa, According to reports this morning, Schroeder will produce five or six witnesses to the accident twentyfive miles west of Terre Haute, in which Schroeder said his unknown passenger died of ,a broken neck. Following the accident, Schroeder said, in his only statement to authorities, that panic seized him, and he returned to Indianapolis and fired his auto and the body on High School road. Nature of the testimony of the surprise witnesses was not known It also was reported that an offer had been made to let Schroeder plead guilty to arson and manslaughter. Holmes denied this. Laugh at Stark Episode Elmer A. Spiegle, 4347 Winthrop avenue, brief occupant of the seat furnished spectators with a laugl Tuesday afternoon on being questioned about Judson L. Stark, exprosecutor, in charge of the Schroeder case until Dec. 31, when he went out of office. “Did you know £tark?” Spiegle was asked by Prosecutor Herbert Wilson. Spiegle answered that he lived in Stark’s neighborhood. “Were you acquainted with him?” Wilson repeated. “Well, no, I wasn’t,” the venireman answered. “Nobody was; he wouldn’t let people know him.” Baker rapped for order. Mrs. Louise M. Smart, 2715 Belle - fontaine street, was among the seventy-five prospective Jurors called today. A woman never has served on a criminal court jury here. “I’m willing to sene, if permitted,” she said. Indicating Schroeder's defense may be based largely on the insanity plea, Holmes, questioning veniremen, asked, “There may be, during the progress of this trial, certain testimony of the defendant’s sanity or insanity. Would that prejudice you?” All renlremea MMnared “N*"

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