Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 48, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 July 1931 — Page 2

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NATURAL GAS PIPE LINE STRIKES COURTHOUSE SNAG

COMMISSIONERS DELAY DECISION ON ‘RUSH' PLEA Ohio Fuel Gas Company Is Held Up on Petition to Cross County. OTHER PERMITS PENDING Opponents See Effort to 'Crowd’ Citizens’ Cos. Into Line. Permission to enter Marlon county with a natural gas pipe-line was held up today by county commissioners in a hearing on the request of the Ohio Fuel Gas Company. “We’ll take it under advisement,” declared George Snider, commissioner and spokesman for the county board. The Ohio company asked that it be permitted to cross Pike township for three miles in the county with a pipe-line. Warrack Wallace, attorney for the company, urged the commissioners come to an immediate decision. Deplores Delay “We’re in Hamilton county now and within ten days will be ready to lay pipe in Marion county,” Wallace said. He argued that if the commissioners did not rule immediately the company’s work would be he:d up. “We’ve got several permits of a similar nature pending,” retorted Snider, “and we’ll act on this one as soon as possible. Commissioner John Shearer told the company’s officials that before the county would permit the pipelaying that it would be necessary to agree that conduits be used in laying pipe under all Marion county roads. Kentucky Asks Action When the request for the Ohio company’s permit was read, no taxpayers presented themselves to protest the granting of the right-of-way. The pipeline firm asserted it had assurance that a right-of-way could be contracted for in Pike township. Sidney S. Miller, attorney representing the Kentucky Natural Gas Company, intervened during the hearing and suggested to the com- ‘ missioners that his company desired Immediate ruling on its request to enter the county with pipe lines if the commissioners planned to act on the Ohio company’s permit. The Kentucky company has a petition pending in the public service commission for hearing July 16 asking the right to enter the city of Indianapolis with its pipes. Denial Futile, View County commissioners, following the hearing, were of the opinion that they had no power to stop the Ohio company from bisecting the county with its pipe-lines. They declare that as the company Is interstate in its services, all that wolud be necessary to override a refusal of a permit would be a petition filed with the federal court enjoining the commissioners from preventing the construction of the pipe-line. Opponents see in the granting of the right-of-way an attempt upon pipe-line companies to force the Citizens Gas Company to purchase natural gas.

DEBT ON COURTHOUSE Vanderburg County Owes $177,500 on 43-Year-Old Building. By Times Special EVANSVILLE. Ind., July 6. Vanderburg county still owes for its forty-three-year-old courthouse, which cost $1,000,000. The amount unpaid is $177,500. On July 1 an interest payment of $4,700 was paid, and a payment of $7,500 on the principal will be due Jan. 1. For several years no effort was made to pay any part of the principal and it is estimated that interest paid since erection of the building nearly equals the original cost. FORD TOUR IS DELAYED Ony Few of Fourteen Planes Hop, Due to Poor Visibility. By United Press BINGHAMTON. N. Y„ July 6. Poor flying conditions hampered the Ford reliability tour here today. Visibility was poor and only a few of the fourteen competing planes took off for Bradford, Pa., at 10'30. The remainder stayed on the ground, hoping that conditions would improve sufficiently for them to take off in the early afternoon. Two Trials Cost $1,347 By Times Special MARION, Ind., July 6.—Grant county spent approximately $1,347 in the two murder trials of Edward Blotz, according to Robert Newbauer, clerk of Blackford county, where the trials were held on a change of venue. The first jury to hear the case disagreed. The second found him guilty of manslaughter in the slaying of Thomas Tucker* of Marion. Dublin Man KiUed By United Press RUSHVILLE, Ind., July 6.—lnjuries suffered in an automobile accident here ended the life of W. J. Hull. 50, Dublin.

Funny Fellow By United Brest LOS ANGELES, July 6. Every movie fan knows Stan Laurel, who Is teamed with Oliver Hardy in screen comedies, but who is this fellow, Arthur Stanley Jefferson, who was born in Avelilon, Lancashire, England. The fellow is no less than Laurel, himself. So that there may be no confusion, the comedian has asked the superior court to discard his family name of Jefferson and make Laurel his legal cognomen.

Who .Wouldn’t Bea State Cop When You Can Get Decorated Like This?

PICNIC GUESTS OF PRESS CLUR MAYBE] 0.000 Boonville Organization Will Hold Annual Affair at Lincoln City. By Tima i'pecial LINCOLN CITY, Ind., July 6. The eighth annual picnic of the Boonville Press Club will be held at the Nancy Hanks park here Sunday, with the expectation that 10,000 persons will attend. This year’s event will emphasize building of the Lincoln national Memorial highway from Hodgesville, Ky., to Springfield, 111., the route being that traversed by Abraham Lincoln, in his youth,, when the family migrated from Kentucky, thence to Indiana and then to Illinois. Three States Assist Lincoln highway commissions of Indiana, Kentucky and Illinois will provide speakers. They will be Judge Haswell, Louisville, for Kentucky; Paul M. Angle, Springfield, for Illinois, and Curtis Shake, Vincennes, for Indiana. Musical organizations booked are the Boonville boys’ band, with Raymond Kirsch directing; Miss Marian Graham’s orchestra, the Boonville Glee Club and Hoosier string band of Dale. Vocal soloists will be Miss Olive O’Neil, Mrs. Lura Barker Jarrett, Evansville, and Walter Donnelly, Boonville. War Mothers to Attend Indiana war mothers will attend in a body and their president, Mrs. Minnie C. Gibson, will place a wreath on the tomb of Nancy Hanks Lincoln. Members of the Grand Army of the Republics In southwestern Indiana will be honor guests. Roscoe Kiper, chairman of the state industrial board, will have charge of a program at the grave of Lincoln’s mother, and will deliver an eulogy. William Herschell, Indianapolis, will read two of his poems, one written for the occasion. Officers of the press club are Philip Lutz, president, and Erpest W. Owen, secretary.

Getting Old! NEW YORK, July 6.—The Statue of Liberty, now forty-five years old, is about to have her face lifted.

A double chin has app e a r e and and there are notice a b 1 e crow’s feet about the eyes when nightfall comes and tour ists go down the bay to see the Bar t h o 1 and i masterpiece. Asa result General Han-

son E. Ely, commandant of the second corps area, has ordered anew set of flood light and “face liftings”—costing about $30,000 —which will result in removal of the shadows causing the double chin and the crow’s feet.

Art Guide Published By Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., July 6. For the purpose of creating state interest in Indiana artists and art, an art guide to Indiana, a pioneer in the field, has been published by the Indiana university extension division, It was prepared from an art survey by the Indiana Federation of Art Clubs, and compiled by Mrs. H. B. Burnet, Indianapolis, president of the federation, and Mrs. Robert E. Burke, Bloomington, assistant in public welfare service of the university extension division. Slayer to Admit Guilt By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., July 6.—Removed to Jail after two suicide attempts, one in a hospital, George Dollar, 71, slayer of Herbert Gooding, is said to be repentant over his crime and is prepared to plead guilty. After killing Gooding, wounding his wife and her son, Weldon Barkdull, Dollar turned a gun on himself, firing three shots into his body. While in the hospital receiving treatment for the wounds, he attempted to jump from a window. Aged Man Dies By Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., July 6.—T. C. Thurman, 77, is dead at his home in northwestern Hamilton county. He leaves a daughter, Mrs. J. B. Kinnaman and two sons, Virgil and Gilbert Thurman. Death Ends Holiday Trip By United Press VALPARAISO, Ind., July 6.—lnjuries suffered in an automobile accident jfchile on a holiday trip were fatal to Mrs. Jeanette Lane, Chicago.

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Who wouldn’t be a state policeman with the privilege of decoration by so comely a young lady as Miss Ann Halbleib, stenographer in the office of Chief Grover C. Garrott. She was caught by a camera in the act of pinning a badge on bashful Arthur Keller of Plymouth, one of twenty-three new state cops who went on duty today. The new contingent is pictured in the top photo; they are: First row (left to right)—Joe Denbo, Newton Stewart; Robert Nordhoff, Jasper; Assistant Chief Henry A. Strange; Chief Garrott; Harl Hollingsworth, Decatur, and Paul Rule, Delphi. Second row—Gilbert Tanvater, Bicknell; Fred W. Morley, Angola; Allen Fendig, Wheatfield; Gilbert H. Behrick, Mt. Vernon; Roy Nugent, Greencastle; Lee Manual, Jasonville and Raymond Ball, Columbus. Third row—Arthur Keller, Plymouth; Ernest R. Pierce, Indianapolis; Art Zimmerman, Auburn; Walter Eckert, Osgood; Eugene Vance, Vernon, and Lester R. Brown, Evansville. Thurman Barnes, Wabash, and Ed Stormes, Winchester, new men, were not in the picture.

23 New Officers Are Sworn In; State Divided Into 10 Districts. Commissioning twenty-three new state policemen today, Chief Grover C. Garrott began operation of his department on the barracks plan, but temporarily without barracks. The state is divided into ten state police districts, in each of which a lieutenant is in command of from four to six patrolmen, who will report to their superior daily. The force now totals sixty-one officers and patrolmen. Districts are: First—Lake. Newton. Porter, Jasper. Pulaski. Starke, La Porte, and western St. Joseph counties, with Lieutenant Walter J. Wilson in command. Second —Eastern St. Joseph, • Elkhart, Kosciusko, Whitley, Allen, De Kalb, Noble, La Grange, and Steuben counties, with Lieutenant Bay Fisher in command. Third—Marshal. Fulton. Cass, Miami. Wabash, Howard, Tipton. Clinton, and Carroll counties, with Lieutenant Claude Louks in command. Fourth —Huntington, Wells. Adams. Jay, Blackford. Grant. Delaware and Randolph counties, with Lieutenant Guy R. Sears in command. Fifth—Hamilton, Madison, Henry, Wayne. Union, Fayette. Rush, Decatur, and Franklin counties, with Lieutenant Bert A. Davis in command. Sixth—Ripley. Dearborn. Ohio. Switzerland. Jefferson. Jennings. Scott. Clark. Floyd. Bartholomew and Shelby counties, with Lieutenant Fred L. Jones in command. Seventh —Lawrence. Jackson. Washington. Orange. Dubois. Crawford. Harrison. Perry. Spencer. Warrick. Vanderburg and

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Posey counties, with Lieutenant John C. Weir In command. Eighth—Gibson. Pike. Knox. Daviess. Martin. Greene. Sullivan. Vigo and Clay counties, with Lieutenant John Hamilton in command. Ninth—Parke. Vermillion. Fountain, Montgomery. Boone. TipDecanoe. Warren. Benton and White counties, with Lieutenant Chester L. Butler In command. Tenth—Marlon. Hancock. Johnson. Brown, Monroe. Owen. Morgan, Putnam and Hendricks counties, with Lieutenant Benjamin E. McMullen In command.

COURT BAILIFF DIESjUDDENLY Oliver P. Bowers Stricken in Drug Store. Oliver P. Bowers, 63, of the Brevort hotel, for six years bailiff of federal court, died today as he sat in a pharmacy at 202 North Meridian street. Mr. Bowers was on his way to the court of Judge Robert C. Baltzell when stricken. He was dead when medical aid reached him. Coroner Fred W. Vehling pronounced apoplexy as cause of death. At one time Mr. Bowers was a saloon keeper and previously had been a horse-trader. Mr. Bowers was born In Hagerstown, Ind., and had resided in Indianapolis since 1924. A sister, Mrs. George C. Jones, of Dayton, 0., survives.

SPUR HUNT FOR YOUNG ACTRESS; FEARKIDNAPING Purse Found in Gutter Near Home Is Only Tangible Clew. By United Press NEW YORK, July 6. Reports Miss Evelyn Wilson, 23, had broken an engagement to marry two months ago, and that she had been followed recently by two men, today enlivened search for the actress reported to have vanished Sunday. The missing girl’s purse, containing $5.74, some cosmetics and addresses of three motion picture actors, Richard Dix, Grant Withers and Buddy Rogers, was the only tangible clew police had today. The purse was found in the gutter near the home of Miss Wilson's sister where her mother and other guests had been attending a party. Miss Wilson left shortly after midnight to get aspirin for her mother, asked an elevator operator for direction to the nearest drug store, started in that direction, and was not seen again. No one, except George Reynolds, the elevator operator, has been found to verify the story. Mrs. Wilson, the girl’s mother, said two men had followed the girl from a Broadway bank after she had withdrawn $2,000. None of the money was taken to the party, the mother said. The missing girl’s most prominent stage role was in George White’s “Scandals of 1929.” She recently concluded a Publix act engagement here after her return from Hollywood.

ENDS LIFE UNDER EXHAUST OF AUTO

Solomon Koby, 62, Suicide In Garage in Rear of Home. Crawling under his car, Solomon Koby, 62, of 2338 North Illinois street, today committed suicide by inhaling fumes from the automobile exhaust. The body was found by the widow, Mrs. Gussie Koby, who discovered her husband lying on a newspaper, clothed only in a bathrobe. Before police arrived, the body had been taken into tne house by Mrs. Koby and a neighbor, A. C. Clark, 3211 Kenwood avenue. The motor of the car had been turned off, but, still was hot, police said. Mr, Koby was the proprietor of a malt store at Sixteenth and Illinois streets and previously had been a saloon keeper. He was a resident of Indianapolis more than thirty years. 11l health was given as cause of the act by sons. However. Mrs. Koby insisted to police that her husband had no reason to take his life and Dr. E. G. Winters, deputy coroner, said an autopsy will be performed. Surviving, in addition to the widow, are three sons, Sam, Sol and Isidore Koby of Indianapolis, and three daughters, Mrs. Mollie Gold and Misses Lillian and Elsie Koby of Indianapolis. Funeral arrangements have not been made.

Mother of Seven Dies By Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., July 6. Mrs. Julia Ann Cardwell, 85, widow of Pleasant Cardwell, was found dead of heart disease in the garden at her home by her son John when he returned from his work after being absent all day. She had been a resident of this part of the state since she was 7 years old. She leaves six other children, Melvin Cardwell, Kokomo; Thomas Cardwell, Topton; Mrs. Henrietta Wright, Goldsmith; Mrs. Della Taylor, Anderson ; Mrs. Susan Rayls and Lewis j Cardwell, Kokomo. Former Hoosier Wounded i By Times Special SUMMITVILIE, Ind., July 6. Orville Latchaw, one of three Jackson (Mich.) policemen wounded in a gun duel with William Rightsell, slain by one of the officers, 'is a former Summitville resident, a son of William Latchaw. With Patrolmen Clair Tallman and Spradlin, the former resident was called to the Rightsell home, where it was alleged he was beating his wife. Several shots were exchanged before Rightsell was slain by Tallman. Water Takes Boy’s Life By United Press VERNON, Ind., July 6.—John H. Williamson, 7, drowned in Muscatatuck river near here. The boy was swept off his feet by swift current caused by a heavy rain. Artery Severed in Mishap When a glass bowl she was carrying broke, Sunday night, Miss Catherine Sweeney, 18, of 514 South Missouri street, sustained a severed artery in her right wrist. She was taken to city hospital.

CHILD KILLED, SCORE HURT IN CITHFOURTH Girl Is Burned Fatally When Sparkler Ignites Her Clothes. Another July Fourth came to Indianapolis and sped into history, but in passing inscribed its trail with tragedy and damage, the result of incautious celebration. One child was dead today, and at least a score of persons were suffering injuries by fireworks. A store was damaged when a fireworks display was ignited by a cigaret thrown carelessly, and other forms of holiday celebration left many victims in their wakes. Mardell Bollinger, 8, of South Bend, died Sunday night in St. Francis hospital, from burns suffered when a sparkler fired her clothing Saturday night. Guest of Uncle The little girl was the guest here of her uncle, L. M. Kelly, 901 Woodlawn avenue. The body will be sent to Monterey for burial. A post-Independence day celebration sent 9-year-old Lester Cross, 1545 Southern avenue, to city hospital with serious cuts. He filled a bottle with gunpowder and touched it off. The glass shattered in his face and cut- his body. City hospital physicians today said his injuries were serious. Eardrum Is Broken John Overton, 7, of 1859 Applegate street, suffered a broken eardrum from a firecracker tossed near his head. Almost twenty other persons received treatment at hospitals Sunday for mishaps occurring Saturday. A customer who purchased 50 cents’ worth of firecrackers in the C. W. Schwenzer pharmacy, 1234 South Meridian street, Saturday, dropped his cigaret into the display of fireworks and the resultant explosion caused SB,OOO damage. Other fires city firemen said were caused by fireworks damaged property more than SSO. .394 National Toll By United Press CHICAGO, July 6.—The double holiday over the week-end took a toll of 394 lives in automobile crashes, drownings, fireworks explosions and other violent accidents, a state-by-state survey showed today. Drownings and motor deaths were almost double last year’s toll over Independence day, but were divided fairly even between the holiday and Sunday. Deaths from fireworks threatened to be higher than last year’s total. The number so far reported is lower, but generally a half dozen or so injuries do not prove fatal for several days after the Fourth.

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By United Press t LOS ANGELES, July 6.—At least twenty persons were drowned by treacherous rip tides which endangered lives of hundreds of holiday bathers on beaches near Los Angeles. Life guards rescued aboult three hundred others, including Marion Nixon, motion picture actress.

TWENTY-EIGHT DIE AS VIOLENCE TOLL

State Fatality List for Holiday Week-End Shows 14 Drownings. Drowning ended the lives of fourteen persons in Indiana over the holiday wek-end as fireworks, auto accidents and other causes raised the toll to twenty-eight. Five of the drownings occurred in and near Gary. Three of these were at one beach when two persons and a would-be rescuer were victims. Fireworks caused only one fatality, but numerous injuries were reported.

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That Bad? By Scripps-Hoscard Xctcspapcr Alliance NEW YORK, July 6.—T00 much drinking will cause early senility, softening of the brain, irritability, loss of attention, sluggishness, dullness, stupor, convulsions and even death in extreme cases. But, according to Dr. Temple Fay, head of the department of neuro-surgery of Temple university, Philadelphia, it is drinking water that has these awful effects on the human system. Instead of drinking ourselves to a watery grave. Dr. Temple says, that between a quart and a quart and a half of liquid per day is sufficient for all human needs, two quarts on a very hot day.

QUITS EATING IN ORDER TO MAKE PRISONESCAPE Trusty Loses 20 Pounds So Clothes F-it Him, Calmly Strolls From 'Pen.’ BY SAM KNOTT United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, July 6. —Search was made today in Chicago for a good looking man in a gray suit and silk underwear who celebrated Independence day by ending a two months’ fast and walking nonchalantly out of Joliet prison, where he had been sentenced to spend his life for murder. "The joke may be on us now, but it will be on him when w r e catch him," declared Warden Henry C. Hill of the prison, who trusted Arthur A. Miller so much he selected him from among several thousand convicts to be his personal barber. “There’s no particular reason to think he’s in Chicago, but we’re centering the search here because it’s the place escaped convicts usually head for first,” said Hill. “He shouldn’t be hard to find, either, because he has no money, and he’s tco well dressed—in my son’s clothes —to be able to beg or steal train rides without attracting a lot of attention.” Lost Twenty Pounds Miller’s escape was, according to prison officials, one of the most cleverly planned and executed in many years. In order to carry it out the convict had to go hungry for two months and reduce his weight from 160 to 140 pounds, so that he could get into the clothes of the warden’s son Philip and walk to his freedom without being questioned. Miller was sent to the prison from Rock Island in 1919. He became a model prisoner and was allowed many privileges. As personal barber to Warden Hill he had the run of the executive’s quarters. The trusted convict watched the routine of the warden for months and knew that every other week the son Philip came up from Galesburg to play golf with his father. He practically quit eating in preparation for his “break,” and in two months lest twenty pounds, dieting himself down until he was almost the exact size of Philip Hill. Carries Golf Club Selecting Indepdence day as an ideal time to gain his freedom, Miller waited Saturday evening until all members of the Hill family were put on Philip’s clothes, including put on Philips’ cllothes, including the silk underwear, picked up a golf club and started out. As he strolled across the prison yard, the convict stopped now and then to swing the golf club at a dandelion. His years in prison had not dulled his game enough to make him copear amateurish and guards who sa.v him never questioned for a moment his role of a holiday visitor leaving the warden’s home. “I think maybe the feel of the silk underwear gave him confidence,” said Hill. “But, fortunately, Philip didn’t leave any money in his pockets, so without’ any money, hungry as he must be after his two months’ ■ ‘training,’ and dressed as he is, Miller hasn’t much chance of making his holiday an extended one.” Heat Brings Death By United Press BEDFORD, Ind., July 6. Heat prostration caused the death of Morton Beyers, 68, farmer. Veteran, 89, Dies By United Press SHELBYVILLE, Ird., July 6. Joseph Randall, 89, Civil war veteran, died at his home here.

Automobile crash deaths were unusually low, only three persons dying from that cause. Two, a pilot and his passenger, were killed when a plane fell near Perm Eight deaths were attributed to other violence. Two were killed by lightning; one child died from eating pills; another was killed by swallowing gasoline; one suicide was reported; two persons died of heat prostration. Cooler weather which /accompanied the holiday weekend kept the heat toll at the low figure. Both victims were men, one an Indianapolis doctor.

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AUDITOR ENTERS BLACKTOP FEUD TO A VIM SUITS Attorney-General’s Ruling May Determine Highway Body’s Course. Whether state highway commissioners at their meeting here Tuesday will proceed further with the blacktop paving program hangs upon an opinion to be given by At-torney-General James M. Ogden regarding the legality of such procedure. The opinion, however, was not requested either by the commissioners or by Director Johij J. Brown of the state highway department. It was asked for in a letter received by the attorney-general today from Floyd E. Williamson, state auditor. The letter follows; “You are aware there is considerable agitation and threats of litigation in reference to certain contracts recently entered into by the state highway commission. Position in Doubt “I would like to ask what, in your opinion, would be the proper position for the auditor’s office to assume relative to drawing state warrants for payments on such contracts in the absence of any direct orders from the court. Would the auditor be responsible for warrants drawn on claims properly filed and approved by the proper state highway officials in event the contracts upon which such payments were made later was declared illegal? “As I am receiving both written and verbal notices requesting me not to make such payments, I would be glad to have an early opinion from you relative to the position this office should take concerning such matters.” Injunction suit in the matter is pending in Marion circuit court, but no temporary restraining order has been issued. Do As They Like Brown said today he will proceed upon commission approval and that so far as the court is concerned at present, highway officials can do as they like. Ogden has held in the past that “blacktop, blacktop and blacktop” does not constitute three paving types as provided under the Indiana This is the point upon w r hich the injunction is sought. Bids were received on projects which were advertised for bituminous construction only, the concrete bids being excluded in the specifications. Williamson refused to disclose who urged him to get the opinion but commented: “Since the cement interests have good legal advisers, I thought that I should have some good legal advice also.”

HELD FOR HUSBAND’S ‘HAMMER MURDER’ Wife Claims She Was Captive of Mate for 25 Years. By United Press CLEVELAND, July 6.—Mrs. Josephine Mercurio, 51, today was a prisoner of police, held for the “hammer murder” of the husband who she claims was her captor for twenty-five years. “I killed him,” Mrs. Mercurio told police. “I am free now for the third time since I married him. The other two periods of liberty were when he was in the pen, once for killing my brother and once for carrying concealed /weapons.” The wife beat her husband, 55, to death/ with a five-pound sledge hammer as he lay asleep In their home, police charge. Jean, 22, eldest of five children, Is alleged to have witnessed the murder. GRAHAM RITES TUESDAY Nineteen Congressmen WU! Attend Services for Pennsylvanian, By United Press NEW YORK, July 6.—A congressional delegation of nineteen will attend funeral services Tuesday for Representative George Scott Graham of Philadelphia, dean of the house and chairman of the judiciary committee, who died at his summer home at Islip, L. 1., Saturday. Motor Hearse Kills Moose By United Press / ROCKLAND, Me., Juiy 6.—A huge moose was killed when it collided with a motor hearse on the Lincoln ville road. Damage to the vehicle was SSOO. /

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