Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 221, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 January 1935 — Page 13

It Seems to Me HEM BROUN THE newspapers of the nation. 1 insist, have gone more than a little mad about the Hauptmann ease. In many iastanres the decision of the Supreme Court in regard to Mooney was all but Crowded out by the fact that a Federal expert was testifying as to Bruno's stock market deal*-, Full transcripts of the testimony at Flemington were printed but only brief excerpts from the opinion read by Chief Justice Hughes. And this seems to m<- strange treatment for the press to accord toward

a court which it constantly hails as the bulwark of our liberties. To be sure, there is much an editor might say in rebuttal. For instance he could argue. “Where’s the hot news in a headline reading Mooney Denied Right’ or ‘Mooney Remains in Jail’? Why those heads might well have been kept standing for a decade. When Tom is turned down that just isn’t news in the United States or California.” But it must be remembered that though the writ was denied in Washington the Supreme Court left the door open and took occasion to administer a sharp rebuke to Gov.

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Memam’s Attorney-General. This layman, with some advice from counsel, interprets the court as deciding that the state is to have one more chance. It indicates the manner in which the question should be raised before the local benrh and intimates that if it fails to function the appeal may once more be brought to Washington. ana ftrrak — ln Sight is a great deal less than a complete victory A for Mooney but it does mark the first breach in the wail which has been built around him. Beyond its legal implications the decision of the Supreme Court sets eprtain psychological forces in motion. It is an ancient native custom that before you can do justice to a man you must first respectabilize him. I have participated informally from time to time in hundreds of Mooney arguments. Generally they were conducted on the plane of the opponent’s saving, ‘But. you're not a Californian and so you can’t possibly understand the case.” And this would boil down to the statement by the native son that whether Mooney were guilty or not he was a dangerous agitator who should be kept in jail. Now the Supreme Court has pointed out that the fact of perjured testimony is actually of moment and may not be ignored. So far so good, but any celebration of the belated triumph of justice would decidedly be premature. It must be remembered that the fate of Tom Mooney is being returned to the state in which Frank F. Merriam sits as Governor. We should not forget that the present incumbent was elected under the slogan, “a vote for Merriam is a vote for God.” Consideration, too, must be taken of the fact that the Mooney case was an election issue and that ♦he winner promised to protect every hearth and home against the announced intention of Upton Sinclair that he himself would pardon the victim in San Quentin. Every California official from Merriam up will have to eat many words the day that Tom Mooney comes out again into the sunlight. nun Merriam Lingers There IF there are delays in legal process, prepare to see them now. Fearless Frank Merriam gives no indication of desiring a prompt review of the case. He has stated that he is "too busy with the budget” to consider any action at present. Tom can not come out of jail until Frank comes out of the counting house, which is a spot where he has been known to linger. Even more discouraging is Merriam’s statement, "in conducting my own investigation, I shall exercise my independent judgment and follow my own conscience.” Who wouid care to hang over an abyss supported by no thicker thread than the conscience of Frank F. Merriam? Columbus who braved the Atlantic without chart or compass was no bolder than the man who would seek to find the home of justice with no other guide than "the independent judgment” of California’s Governor. Asa matter of fact who can tell what will happen in the great sovereign state? As yet San Simeon has neither rejected nor affirmed the advice of the United States Supreme Court, ft may be that William Randolph Hearst will consent to let Tom Mooney go. On the other hand he may decide that the United States Supreme Court is a Communist nucleus and that Charles Evans Hughes is boring .from within. (Copyright. 1935)

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

MOTHER NATURE will put on a big show the morning of Sunday, Feb. 3. You can have a ringside seat by stepping to your own front door. An eclipse of the sun occurs that morning, the first one visible in the United States since the famous eclipse of Aug. 31. 1932. This eclipse, however, is only a partial eclipse. Consequently it will not arouse the scientific interest which the total eclipse of 1932 did. Nevertheless, will be a beautiful and dramatic spectacle. The exact time of the eclipse and the extent of It both depend upon the location of the observer, Dr. J. P Nassau, director of the Warner and Swasey Observatory of Case School of Applied Science, pointed out. On the Pacific Coast, the eclipse will already have started at the time of sunrise. At Seattle. Wash., the eclipse will be 66 per cent of totalIty. This is about the maximum for the nation. The farther south one is located, the smaller the eclipse will be. At Cleveland. 0.. the’ eclipse wii- begin at 10:15 a m . Eastern Standard Time. At Washington. D. C.. the eclipse will begin at 10 21 a. m., Eastern Standard Time. a a a THE eclipse begins when the moon, moving eastward, just touches the western edge or limb of the sun. Up until that moment, of course, the moon is invisible to us. lost in the bright glare of sunlight. At that instant, however, we will begin to see a bit of the sun disappear. Gradual! ss the moon moves eastward across the face of the jun. more and more of the sun will disappear from view. The line along which the center of the moon is mo’vng is well above the center of the sun and tilted upv. \rd at the eastern end. Consequently, when the eclipse is at its maximum, the upper portion of the sun will be hidden from view. The sun will th®n have the form of a wide crescent with the hu.us pointing upward. It is necessai-y. of course, that spectators protect their eyes In viewing the eclipse. It is possible ic photograph the eclipse with any ordinary camera. Set the range for infinitv. shut down the diaphragm to its smallest setting and use the fastest exposure. If you have a yellow color filter use that also. a a a \ FETTER phtogiaph can be obtained with the -CY aid of a pair of opera glasses or prism binoculars. You will have to attach both the binoculars and the camera to a board or some other suport. Fix the binoculars so that the camera points through one cf the barrels. Focus both the camera and the binoculars on infinity. Use either a yellow filter on the camera lens or a piece of photographic film in front of the binoculars. Do not. under any circumstances, attempt to look at the sun through the binoculars and do not permit the sun to shine upon the lenses long enough to heat them to the cracking point. The Feb. 3 eclipse is the third eclipse of 1935. although the first one visible in the United States. Seven eclipses are the maximum which can occur In any one year and when it happens there are always either three of the moon and of the sun or two of the moon and five of the Q —What is the salary of the City Hospital pharmacist? A-41565.

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LAUGHING AWAY HARD TIMES

8000 Idle Find Happiness

BY ARCH STEINEL Time* Staff Writer vyEBSTERS Interna-. * tional Dictionary, 1933 model, is behind the times in its definition of one word which spells enjoyment to 8000 persons weekly in Marion County. The word is “recreation.” The dictionary says of this word that it means “refreshment of the strength and spirit after toil.” The "toil” portion of the definition is inaccurate if applied to the 8000. for about one-half of those receiving benefits under the leisure hour activities of the Marion County Recreation Committee are unemployed or children attending school, and the other one-half are employed on Federal Emergency Relief Administration projects. In an office at 410 Majestic Building is the headquarters of the men who are blue-printing the leisure time of the city’s residents. The dull night hours of families living on a scant relief salary budget are enlivened w T ith dances and community shows. The days off and hours after pick-and-shovel work of the FERA laborer are occupied with educational classes and athletic events. The high school youth, the former college co-ed who has a useless diploma tucked in the bottom of her hope chest, and all other graduates with nothing to do but hew away at time, are given an opportunity for an outlet of spirits and physical energy through games, dancing, plays, singing and handicraft. nun WHEREVER the depression has left its foot-print on the family carpet, the recreation committee seeks to fill the time of members of that family to keep despondency away. The cost a person, based on the 8000 attending classes and shows, is $1.87 for six months, or approximately the price of one street car token weekly. Supervised indirectly by the Governor’s Commission on Unemployment Relief and the Marion County Works Director, the recre--ation committee is a project under state and Federal control, just as much as the construction of the White River flood prevention levee is. The committee, headed by L. A. Strause, chairman, secretarytreasurer Kahn Tailoring Cos., is formed of civic and welfare leaders of the city. It works in close harmony with the City Recreation Department. Marion County has been allotted $15,000. over a period of 26 weeks, to be expended on filling the idle

I COVER THE WORLD * # *r a a a By William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—America’s entry into the World Court, proponents told the writer today, is being endangered by the deliberately long-drawn-out debate in the Senate. The Administration's legislative program is not yet ready. The Senate is more or less marking time. Pending the arrival of purely domestic bills, the World Court is being used as a sort of convenient

grist for the mill. A little is fed into the hopper every day, then the mill is shut down. Adjournment is taken. There are indications, it is said, that the country does not quite understand the delay. Many are beginning to blame it on the World Court resolution, which, in reality, is not to blame. The complete confidence voiced by the Senate friends of the court that well over the necessary twothirds majority would line up for adherence, whenever the showdown is called for, is not now shared by all observers. The list of doubtful Senators seems to be growing. nan UNLESS a vote is taken soon, it may not come for weeks. Some of the court's friends feel that such a delay, at this time, might become altogether indefinite. if not disastrous. Impatient at the 13 years of delay over entry into the court, hundreds of women leaders, delegates now here from all parts of the country to the 10th annual Conference on the Cause and Cure of War. plan action. Half the women of the United States are said to be represented at the conference. Salmon O. Levinson. Chicago attorney, widely known as the father of the Kellogg Pact outlawing war, and internationally known authority on the World Court, was also in conference here today with friends of the tribunal. One of the best qualified men in the country to pass judgment, he completely discounted to the writer the fears of Senator Hiram Johnson and other court foes that either membership or advisory opinions would embroil the United States in the political quarrels of Europe. n n n MR. LEVINSON went to Europe in 1929 to clarify these and related issues. His mission was unofficial, but was undertaken at the desire of Secretary Stimson and with President Hoover’s approval. He went over to get two changes made in the court statutes: First* that the statute of the court be amended so that the league could not call upon the court for an advisory opinion in any dispute between nations without their free consent, and. Second, that the power to enforce decisions by war, which in the Senate debate in 1926 was claimed for the League by friends of the court, should be disavowed. - Both objectives, Mr. Levinson said, were achieved, and more. All nations were given protection 5/

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time of its citizeriry. whether they be on or off relief rolls. Activities are divided by s ‘the County Director. R. L. Ball, into athletics and cultural and social recreation. Thirty-five community houses, public buildings and churches, are

against private opinions or ex parte hearings in the same way as the United States. The strongest objections to the court therefore have now been removed, he said. SCHOOL ATTENDANCE BILL IS APPROVED Measure Urged by Labor and Women Voters. The House Labor Committee returned a favorable report today on H. B. 93. which would supplement the law on school attendance and employment of minors to make it apply to all minors residing or having their domicile in the state and those who intend to live in the state at least three months. Representatives from the Indiana League of Women Voters, the Railroad Brotherhoods and the American Federation of Labor appeared before the committee yesterday afternoon and urged the passage of the bill. Mrs. W. K. Mannon, of the League of Women Voters, told the committee that this proposed bill would clarify the law on school attendance and child labor, and add needed provisions. ANALYSIS PREPARED ON SOCIAL SECURITY BILL C. of C. Bureau Compiles Report on Wagner Proposals. The governmental research bureau of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce hns prepared an analysis of the Wagner-Lewis social security bill now pending before both houses of Congress, Virgil Shephard, bureau director, announced today. The bureau is prepared to provide copies of its analysis of the old-age pension provisions of the bill at this time and will have other reports on the bill available later, Mr. Shephard said. • CLUB HOLDS BAKE SALE Cervus Group Sponsors Benefit Event at Store. Proceeds from a bake sale to be held by the Cervus Club at Sears. Roebuck & Cos. today will be used for charitable purposes. The club is furnishing a room in the Indianapolis Flower Mission Tuberculosis Hospital.

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used in holding classes, community programs and leisure hour activities. B B UNWRAPPING the musclebound, teaching the 45-year-old father of five children how to become a boy again, giving youths

MISSIONARY TO LECTURE HERE Methodist Women to Hold Two-Day Parley in City. Miss Beta Sheirich, missionary from Foochow. China, will be the principal speaker at a meeting of Methodist Episcopal Church missionary women tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 in the L. S. Ayres & Cos. auditorium. Plans for Friendship Week will be formulated. Mrs. Ewing Shields, Indianapolis District president of the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society, will preside. Miss Martha Gibson, Disciples of Christ missionary, will speak at the Saturday night meeting of the' society. which will be held at the North Methodist Episcopal Church, 38th and Meridian-sts. Dr. Douglas B. Avison. former missionary physician in Korea, will also be on the program.

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> i 1935 g* WEA SEW VICE, INC. T. M. REG. U. S. PAT. OFF.

“Js T ow, study hard every day so mother and daddy can be proud when they return next spring.” t

When you clamp that hold, smile! —And that’s what Joe Gett.vs, 740 Ft. Wavne-av, is doing as he puts a toe-hold on Clemit Cummings, 707 S. Sheffield-av, in the (upper) photo at the Stable, 2329 W. Michigan-st. where boxing and wrestling are taught by Reamer Roberts (upper center), under the Marion County Recreation Committee. Cummings’ smile is really his teeth-gritting pain, he says. Here’s a mix-up (lower) of two youths who aspire to be Golden Gloves entrants at the Stable. heavy bags to punch instead of punchboards, teaching the gamble of the chessboard in place of the gamble of the poolroom—these are just a few of the activities of the athletics division of the committee. A rebirth in boxing interest — some recreational workers say it is because of the highly publicized Maxie Baer ancj, his heavyweight ring successes—nas been one out-

The DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Alien

"lIFASHINGTON. Jan. 24.—1 t has been done so quietly that only a ~ ’ few insiders know about it, but the Administration has just added another link in the chain it is forging by which the government will have an iron grip on the Federal Reserve system. The fact that the latest steps have been taken entirely within the existing law, and officially on the initiative of the Federal Reserve

Board, will not increase their palatability to querulous Senator Carter Glass and other dn-hard defenders of Federal Reserve autonomy. What the reserve board has done is this: 1. It has notified the 12 reserve banks that the Federal Reserve agents—who act as chairmen of these banks —will hold office only at the pleasure of the board in Washington. Heretofore they were appointed for 12-month periods. 2. It laid down the rule that future directors of reserve banks will not be eligible for further service if they have filled two terms. They, also, are appointed by the board. This last order is a solar plexus blow. It means that acting through the Federal Reserve Board, which it now dominates, the Administration will be able to junk many of the anti-New Deal bankers who now rule the reserve banks and replace them with New Deal friends. Already the projected housecleaning has created an uproar in Federal Reserve circles. Note—lt is now definitely known that L. B. Williams resigned as agent of the Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank because of resentment over the indefinite tenure of his office. And it was

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growth of the committee’s athletic program. In a dilapidated building at 2329 W. Michigan-st, used as a tool shed for FERA workers. Is a home-made ring where boxers learn how to guard against the "rabbit punch” and how to “left” an opponent into oblivion. Sometimes as many as 50 to 75 FERA workers apply at “the Stable,” as it is called, seeking to become members of the class taught by Reamer Roberts, former featherweight fighter of this city, who is known under his own roof as Jewell Bradburn. Would-be wrestlers learn the “groan-and-grunt” game. Reamer, watch in hand, supervises all. “Time!” he calls after a workout, and another youth steps into the ring to shadow an opponent around the ropes while a swishing showier bath steams to the howls of “Too hot” as the aspirants for ring glory rub each other down after a sparring exhibition. a b it PROUDLY Reamer tells you that “the Stable” will enter at least 20 boxers in the third annual Indianapolis Times-American Legion Golden Gloves contest. “We've got everything but a heavyweight—some boys that can take it and give it, too,” he says. In the gymnasiums of community houses and clubs of the city similar recreational activities are held daily. Basketball, volleyball, calisthenics and the more sedentary games of chess and checkers are played by both youths out of high school and workers on FERA projects. Even the once “sissy” game of ping-pong is raising a crop of “pingers ’ that make the little white ball do a Highland fling across the nets. One hundred and seventy classes in physical education held in the city gross a weekly attendance of approximately 3000. Spring-like weather will see the organization of teams of soft-ball players among the FERA workers and other men, Mr. Ball says. City playground diamonds will be used for contests. Next—A City’s New Night Life in Social Recreation.

highly significant that no effort' was made to persuade Williams to stay. nun SENATOR HENRY ASHURST, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is sure the Supreme Court will uphold the constitutionality of the gold clause. He bases his confidence on the atitude of the court during the arguments on the case. “From my long experience as a trial lawyer,” he explains, “I have found that when the bench is sympathetic and friendly, that that is the time to become concerned. “But when the court is short and snappy toward you then nine times out of ten you will get the verdict.” Note—During the arguments on the gold cases members of the Supreme Court were unusually sharp in their interrogation of government attorneys. nan JOHN H. TOLAN, rookie Congressman from Oakland, Cal., believes in miracles. He relates an incident that occurred during his election campaign last year as the reason for his faith. Running as a Sinclair Democrat, Tolan was having a difficult time. He was without financial resources and his opponent was openly offering 5 to 1 that he would beat him. One day, with the rent for his campaign headquarters due, no money for campaign literature, and things generally at their blackest, a stranger walked in. “Why aren’t you getting out campaign leaflets?” he demanded. “Because I haven’t the money,” Tolan replied. “How much would you need to get out a batch?” “One hundred sixty-one dollars and eighty-five cents.” The stranger reached into his pocket, counted out the sum to the exact penny and departed without saying another word. And from that day to this, Tolan has never seen o* heard from him. a a a F. RYAN DUFFY, new Democratic Senator from Wisconsin, writes the following about himself in the Congressional Directory: “Was bom at Ford du Lac, Wis., June 23, 1885, and lives today in the house of his birth." . . . Shortest biographical sketch in the Congressional Directory is that of Congressman Hart of New Jersey. It reads: “Edward J. Hart, lawyer, Democrat, Jersey City.” 'Copyright, 1931. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.t CHURCH COUNCIL IS TO STAGE PENNY SUPPER University Park Women’s Group to Sponsor Affair. The Women’s Council of the University Park Christian Church, 29thst and Kenwood-av, will sponsor a “penny supper” tomorrow night at the church from 5 until 7:3Q. Miss Foan Phillips will be piano soloist.

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Fair Enough ROOK HOLER BY a happy coincidence, Ferdinand Pecora, the chunky little Italian attorney, was inducted into office as a judge of the New York Supreme Court on the day after Charles E. Mitchell, late president of the National City Bank, returned to Wall Street, opening a modest office of his own in which to start ail over. The account of Mr. Mitchell's little house-warm-ing reports him undaunted by the misfortune which threw him in the way of Mr. Pecora during the

banking investigation and quotes an eld friend of uis as saying, "There is cne guy who can take it.” The friend did not go on to say what Mr. Mitchell can take, or whose, but his meaning seems clear enough. However, in justice to Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Pecora, himself, has been heard to say ihat when he took it, he took it on behalf of his bank, whereas, A1 Wiggin, late president of the Chase National, was less fastidious Mr. Wiggin iust took it. But, on the whole, it is a happy ending to a distressing episode in the course of which J. P. Morgan bounced a female midget on his lap

and. to the amazement of even those callous rapscallions. the press photographers, held still while they blew off flash-bottles in his face. B B tt The Hogs Are Quiet Mow THE Messrs. Mitchell and Wiggm are poorer but better men for the experience, Mr. Morgan is nicer and Sobbin’ Sam Insull is practically honest again, with only one indictment standing between him and the state of legal and official virtue. Moreover, Mr. Insull, when put to it, performed a miracle of management in chartering a seagoing ship on a pocket allowance of $lB a week, a feat which, on his final vindication, should commend him to the government for the job of Secretary of the Navy. At the same rate, the Crying Croesus of Illinois should be able to run the entire United States fleet on something less than SIOOO a month. A good cry worked wonders not only with Mr. Insull’s jury but with the old gentleman himself, for he looked through his tears with anew kindliness in his eyes and took into his intimate confidence many Chicago newspaper reporters who, in other days, found him hard to see and even more difficult to love. The only real tragedy of the case is not the plight of the conventional widows and orphans involved, but the regrettable anonymity of the public relations counsel who told Mr. Insull to get lovable. It was the finest feat of endearment since the late Ivy Lee took John D. Rockefeller Jr. out to the scene of the Ludlow massacre and cued him off on his career of kindness. Mr. Insull’s dramatic coach seems to have professional reasons for disowning his artistic triumph, but perhaps in time it will be possible to tell all. Such is to be hoped, anyway. After all, history has some rights and this was a historic affair. Judge Pecora would seem to have been promoted downstairs, but if he isn’t sore the settlement should be satisfactory all around. The job to which he has been appointed is rather commonly understood to be a very expensive one quoted at SIOO,OOO under ordinary conditions, but Mr. Pecora didn't pay a nickel for it. To be sure, there was still plenty q’s work for him to do in Washington and he might have gone ahead to rile up the affairs of some of the great insurance companies as the next step after the banking investigation. B B B He Handled It Properly BUT that probably would have caused nothing but unrest and loss to still more conventional widow and orphaq types. So it was in the public interest that Mr. Pecora be put away in comfort, dignity security and harmlessness on a strictly local bench. As inquisitor he was a digger and a calm, merciless hand with the witnesses. Few people remembered that he had once investigated the bucket shops in New York so when he went to Washington, he was looked upon as a man who had put in all his time poking around in cheap, though famous murders. Before he got through, he was explaining some financial problems to old Carter Glass, himself and through it all he was neither impressed by the majesty of the Morgans nor tempted by the mischievous possibilities of his own position. He could have lowered his eyes and bent a knee in the presence of grandeur or he might have gone haywire and bullied the great powers appearing before him after the rranner of a Huey Long playing to the rabble. On the bench, however, about the most he can do is apply the statutes and work slowly fpr the amelioration of some of the criminal laws which he found too harsh on the dumb, journeymen types of crim nals and too short to reach the masters. A few minor league bankers went to prison as an indirect consequence of Mr. Pecora’s inquiry, but the great artists all escaped, which was no fault of his. He was merely the investigator, producing the evidence and if the prosecuting arm couldn’t get convictions or wouldn’t even bother about indictments all he could do was feel disgusted. This he did. But this is a disagreeable way to be going on when two happy events have synchronized so prettily and the mood of the day is to let bygones be bygones. Mr. Mitchell is in his mod-’st office, Judge Pecora is in his chambers, New York is in luck, God’s in his heaven and love conquers all. (Copyright. 1935. by United Feature Syndicate. Ine.)

Your Health —BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN-

THE time is past when any informed person is likely to claim that he knows instinctively what is healthful and what is not healthful in the way of food. There are still some women who believe, however, that they know instinctively what is best in the way of food and training for the child. While it is true that many lower animals seem to recognize instinctively the necessity of various food substances to keep them in health, it has been Weil established by scientific feeding experiments that application of human intelligence to feeding animals results in better nutrition even for them. tt n IT has been proved by controlled experiments that it is possible with the right kind of feeling to develop children who are better physically in every way. Some years ago, children in Puerto Rico were observed to suffer little wdth rickets, because it was their habit to play outdoors in the sunlight with very little clothing. In this way they developed enough vitamin D in their bodies to prevent that disorder. These children did, however, suffer from malnutrition of a severe degree, simply because they did not get enough of the right kinds 0/ food. Children in the United States, in most cases, do not get enough vitamin D because, particularly in our large cities, hardly enough sunlight comes through the smoke screen to permit them to develop the vitamin in their own bodies. nan ANOTHER interesting substance about which we have learned much lately is iron. The administration of iron was found helpful in curing infants of anemia Eggs are a good source of iron. Liver is also a good source, but milk, which forms the basis of most infant diets, does not contain much iron. A diet which gives the growing child the right substances must have a considerable amount of milk, certainly from a pint to a quart daily; at least a pound of well-assorted vegetables, and also a pound of such fruits as tomatoes, oranges, bananas and apples, or dried fruits. It should also provide cereals, some meat, fat and sugar, aqd a little cod liver oil as an extra protection.

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