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~ COUNTY BUDGET STUDY MONDAY

- Review of School Levies Completed; 12 Days Left for Reviews.

’ : County Tax Adjustment Board members recessed today and will begin consideration of the Marion County budget Monday. The county budget requests a tax levy of 52 cents, 8 cents higher than the 1937 levy. Review of the School City budget was completed in a one-day session yesterday. City civil budget study was temporarily completed Wednesday. Only 12 days remain in which to complete reviews of local budget units. Besides the County budget the tax body must still consider nine township budgets. Delegation Expresses Views

For the first time since the budget | :

review began Monday, a delegation appeared yesterday and asked Board members not to cut budget funds for the proposed 1938 school building program. The program includes the construction of a $275,000 addition to Crispus Attucks High School; new buildings and additions to. the Thomas C. Howe School totaling $29,013, and improvements to Arsenal Technical High School amounting to $12,000. Board members did not indicate whether the building budget reguests would be a focal point for fund cutting when the vote is taken before Oct. 1. Policy fo Be Studied Representatives of five local women’s clubs and civic organizations told the tax -body yesterday they approved the school budget as presented and particularly supported the salary increase and building program budget items. It was expected more than the usual consideration would be given by Board members to’ the new County ‘pay-as-you-go policy” for next year. : Marion County Council members who approved the 52-cent levy announced the increase over the present rate was occasioned primarily by the decision to discontinue the policy of refunding bonds and in- = stead to include all anticipated expenditures in the tax rate. Total funds requested from the 1938 property tax for the County amount to $3,127,954. Expenditure requests total $5,218,862.78 for next year.

BRITISH DESTROYER BOMBED OFF SPAIN

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the border between Spanish Morocco and French Morocco. An impasse between. Great Britain and France on one side and Italy and Germany on the other seemed complete as regards the antipiracy agreement reached at Nyon and Geneva. Premier Mussolini stood fast in his own determination not to make the first move toward effecting Italy’s inclusion in the agreement.

GENEVA, Sept. 18 (U. P.) —Loyalist Spain demanded before the World Assembly of the League of Nations today that Italy and Germany be declared aggressor nations against Spain and that the League. act urgently to end the aggression. Tense delegates heard first the Loyalist plea and then a speech by Yvon Delbos, foreign minister of France, in which he warned: “The world is on a road leading to an abyss. We cannot leave it unless others do.” . Dr. Juan Negrin, Premier of the Loyalist Government, faced delegates of nearly three score nations and outlined his case. He charged that Italy was preparing to send twice as many men to Spain to fight for the Rebels as she had already sent. He charged that the Rebels were

superintendent. Dr. Petzel,

Dr. F. W. Petzel |(right), German air ministry member, inspects Indianapolis’ Municipal Airport with the aid of Nish Dienhart, port communications division chief in the German civil war transporttaion department, is touring the United States, studying commercial aviation methods here.

‘What's the Use?’ Asks Senator, ‘Should Have Been Done Before.’

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F.D.R. May Sound Out West; Glass Laughs at Probe Demand

: President, Rarely in Finer

Form, Restates His Political Ideals.

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mittee deploring the Chief Executive’s “difficult problem,” and by Jouett Shouse, chairman of the Liberty League, saying it was “incredible” that the President was not familiar with the “popular listing” of Justice Black as a Klan member. Senator Glass, who voted against the confirmation of Justice Black, said that he did not consider the charges grounds for impeachment. “If there was to be an investigation, it should have been made before Senator Black was confirmed,” he said. “What's the use of investigating now? >

“Unfit for Position”

“I voted against confirmation because I thought he was utterly unfit for the position.” ~ Senator Connally (D., Tex.) en-

tered the controversy by saying that there was no power to remove Justice Black except through resort to “improbable” impeachment proceedings. Senator Connally said that the furore was ‘politics . . . an effort to embarrass the President” and that Mr. Roosevelt “ought not to be expected to undertake to infiuence a member of the Court by putting pressure on him to resign.” _ Meanwhile, the final installment of the “expose” of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, copyrighted, like the others, by the North American Newspaper Alliance, which started the entire controversy, presented the affidavits of persons who said they had attended the state convention of the Alabama Ku-Klux Klan in 1926, and saw Justice Black and the present | Governor of Alabama, Bibb Graves, receive “gold passports’— life memberships in the Klan. The affidavits were given by Alabamans

mounting guns to dominate British Gibraltar.

who asserted that they were former Klansmen.

IN INDIANAPOLIS

MEETINGS TODAY Alliance Francaise, luncheon, Hotel Wash-.

, noon. | = ahiia Society of Indiana, Midwest]

show. Manufacturers Building, State Fair Grounds,

BIRTHS

Boys Casey. Antoinette Green, at

Capitol. : Olden, Vera Mitchell, at City. Leo, Mary Hurley, at City. Earl, Susie Kirkbride. at City. Kenneth, Lida Pate, at City. William, Mary Arnold, at City, Girls

Mike, Carrie Garland, at 916 N. Bel-

mont. hn, Iva Hammond, dt 343 8. State. Ya Ruth Merrifield, at 3260 Or-

hard. e Millard, Myrtle Shoopman, at 737 S.

oble. : Joseph, Pauline Smith, at 1022 River, Howard, Maxine Johnson, at City. John, Loretta Thompson, at City. Francis, Grace Brown, at City. Harold, Jewell Boyd, at City ia Calvin, Ruth Anson, at 2004 S. Meridian.

624 N.

DEATHS

Albert A. Hess, 54. at 6188 Washington 8lvd., ulcers of stomach. William E. Bringhurst. 52, at 2605 Station, mitral stenosis. Louis B. Messang, 57, at 1014 W. 34th, sojonary thrombosis. Joseph H. Underwood, 70, at 1316 W. 20th, chronic myocarditis. Anna M. Pfister, 55, at tuberculosis. Chris Polson, 45, at 3554 N. Illinois, coronary thrombosis. Charles F. Hafer, 64, at 2869 S. Capitol, coronary occlusion. Lillie J. Neiman, 73, at 909 W. 30th, arteriosclerosis. Stella’ Mabel Jones, 58, at Long, carcinoma. Infant Hasting, 14 days, at City, malnutrition. Ella Good, at 812 Elm, chronic myocarditis. . Myrtle L. Hall, 65, at 2625 E. Michigan. coronary occlusion. Clifford Elsea, 56, at City. lobar pneu-

monia. Joseph Stewart. 75. at City. carcinoma.

NAME PSYCHOLOGISTS TO RESEARCH BODY

Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Sept. 18.— Prof. Edmund S. Conklin, Indiana University department of psychology head; Dr. C. A. Ruckmick, University of Iowa, and Dr. D. G. Paterson, University of Minnesota, have been elecied to represent the American Psychological Association on the « National Research Council. They

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OFFICIAL WEATHER

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5:29 | Sunset TEMPERATURE

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Sunrise

BAROMETER 7am... 30.04

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MIDWEST WEATHER Indiana—Generally fair extreme south, mostly cloudy and unsettled central and north portions tonight and tomorrow; somewhat warmer south, cooler extreme northwest portion tonight: cooler tomorTow.

Illinois—Generally. fair tonight and tomorrow except cloudy north portion tonight; somewhat warmer south; cooler extreme north portion tonignt; cooler tomorrow.

Lower Michigan—Showers, cooler west d north portions - tonight; tomorrow y. local showers extreme east morning.

. Ohio—Mostly cloudy, probably showers in extreme north portion tonight and in northeast portion tomorrow; warmer tonight, cooler in central and north portions tomorrow.

Kentucky—Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; warmer tonight and in south portion tomorrow. : WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES AT 7 A. M. Station Weather Bar. Temp, Amarillo, Tex. ....... Clear 29.88 62 Bismarck, N. D, ..... Clear 29.80 46 Boston «Clear 30.00 50 Chicago -...... esses. .Cloudy 29.86 54 Cincinnati «eee... PtCldy 30.08 , 42 Cleveland, O. ........PtCldy 30.02 46 Denver Clear 29.86 58 Dodge City, Kas 29.78 56 Helena, Mont. ....... Clear 29.78 54 Jacksonville, Fla. ....Cloudy 29.98 172 Kansas City, Mo. ...PtCldy 29.88 60 Little Rock, Ark. ....Clear 30.02 Los Angeles Clear 29.76 Miami, Fla. ¢sve0....Clear 29.96 Minneapolis «.sses...Cloudy 29.60 Mobile, Ala. «sves....Cloudy 29.98 New Orleans......... Rain 29.92 New York Clear 30.06 Okla, City, Okla Clear 29.88 Omaha, Neb. ........ 29.78 Pittsburgh 30.10 Portland, Ore. ....... 29.80

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demands of all for the end of that kind of license, often mistermed ‘liberty’, which permits a handful of the population to take far more than their tolerable share from the rest of the people.” This constant reminder will be his theme on the Western trip he will begin next week. - For those are the things he has promised the American people. Those who know the President do not expect him to revive the defeated Court “packing” plan on his Western trip. Generally, that is now regarded as dead, particularly in view of the Black-Ku-Klux Klan incident. They expect him to go no further than he went last night.

> Next Move Up to Court

His next move in the direction of reform, it is generally believed, is up to the Court itself in its forth= coming session. If it switches back —as few expect—to the ‘social and economic philosophy expressed by a majority before its last session, there was promise in the speech last night and there will be promise in the speeches to come that he will offer some reform program to Congress and the people. But hardly the “packing” plan. Some who gathered about the Monument last night thought there might be a show of the Roosevelt dramatics and that he might take the occasion to say something about the Justice Black case. But dramatics seem to be off —fer the moment. There has been enough of that. ! The next step in that episode as far as the President is concerned, it can be sure, will be taken only after some careful counsel and deliberation—at least that is the feeling here. One purpose of his trip West now, it is believed, wili be to see what effect the Klan reve'ations have had, and, for himself, to try, as far as possible, to blanket the story which all Ameriéa seems to be foilowing with the story of social and economic” reform with which he hitherto has been so successful. Some of the President's hearers last night sought to read a veiled reference to the Ku-Klux Klan reaffirmation—three different times—. of his determination to protect racial and religious minorities.

Ancient Mice?

Two Trapped on ‘Island In Sky’ for Study By Scientists.

RAND CANYON, Ariz, Sept. 18 (U. P.).—An exploration party on an “Island in the Skies,” a plateau that has been isolated for perhaps 20,000 years, reported today that it had trapped two mice for scientific study, and found traces of many other small animals. Only meager details had reached the mainland, but word that traces of chipmunks, rabbits, coyotes and foxes had been found, implied that the animal life which has been pent up there since the end of the glacial age was readily typed and was similar to that of the surrounding countryside. The two mice, dead, were brought down to the mainland by Edwin D. McKee, chief naturalist of the Grand Canyon National Park and member of the expedition. They resembled ordinary “leaf-eared” mice. “We still have to compare them with mice wé have found on the north and south rims of the mainland,” Mr. McKee said.

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| and two in Greece.

{W. D. HEADRICK

FUNERAL RITES SET FOR TODAY

Attorney Was Candidate on|

Democratic Ticket for Congress in. 1926.

William D. Headrick, Indianapolis attorney active in Democratic affairs for many years, who died late Thursday in his suburban home on W. 59th St., was to be buried in Washington Park Cemetery following funeral services at 3 p. m. today in Shirley Brothers’ Funeral Home. He was 62. Mr. Headrick, born in Tompkinsville, Ky., and came to Indiana in 1891.. Ordained into the Christian Church ministry in 1896, he held .pastorates in rural Indiana and Kentucky churches. After being graduated from Indiana Law School, Mr. Headrick was admitted to the bar in 1906 and had practiced law here since then. He was the Democratic nominee for Congress from the old Seventh district in 1926. Mr. Headrick was a member of Downey Avenue Christian Church and a Modern Woodmen of America member. . Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Eva Headrick; a brother, Atley Headrick, Tompkinsville; two sisters, Mrs. Prentice Bryant, Indianapolis,

and Mrs. Flora Lyons, Tompkins-

ville; three daughters, Mrs. Law=rence Hopper and Mrs. B. E. Bushong, both of Tompkinsville, and Mrs. John Love, Marshal, Mich:; two granddaughters and a grandson. CHRIS POLSON, Indianapolis resident for 25 years, who died yesterday in his home at 3547 N. Illinois St., is to be buried in the recently completed Greek cemetery section in Crown Hill following funeral services at 2 p. m. Monday in the Trinity Orthodox Church. He was 45. Mr. Polson, born in Greece, was a church and American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association member. He owned a billiard parlor at 50 S. Illinois St. for 25 years. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Helen Polson; two daughters, the Misses Mary and Cecilia Polson; his mother, living in Greece, and three brothers, one living in California

JOSEPH H. UNDERWOOD, 316 W. 20th St., Columbia Club custodian 48 years, who died early yesterday, is to be buried following funeral services at 2:30 p. m. Monday. Mr. Underwood became a waiter at the Columbia Club the year after it dropped the title of the Harrison Marching Club. The last four or five years, he had remained actively in service in the main dining room. Nearly 80, he was known by club members as “Old Joe,” the club’s most faithful servant. He was a native of Lexington, wood, and a son and daughter surKy. His wife, Mrs. Anna Undervive.

LOUIS B. MESSANG, who died in his home, 1014 W. 34th St, Wednesday evening following a brief illness, is to be buried this afternoon in Crown Hill following’ funeral services at 2 p. m. in Flanner & Buchanan Mortuary. He was 57. Mr. Messang .was ‘home office manager of the Empire Life and Accident Insurance Co. Born in Lawrenceburg, he had lived in Indianapolis almost 40 years. He had been connected with the Empire Co. 26 years. He was a member of Broad Ripple Lodge, F. & A. M., Red Men, Roberts Park M. E. Church, Old Settlers’ Club and North Side Boosters’ Club. Survivors are the wife, Mrs. Maude Messang, and two sons, Louis S. aid Raymond F. Messang.

MRS. MYRTLE L. HALL, 2625 E. Michigan St., who died in her home Wednesday, was to be buried this morning in Acton following funeral services at 11 a. m. in J. C. Wilson funeral home, 1230 Prospect St. She was 65. Born in Acton, Mrs. Hall was a resident of Indianapolis 60 years. Survivors are a daughter, Mrs. Clarence Devitt; four sons, Frank B,, Ralph W., Louis C. and Jesse L. Hall, all of Indianapolis; a sister, Mrs. Michael Gruner, and a brother, Roscoe Leavitt, both of Indianapolis.

MRS. HELEN DRAKE, 2226 Shelby St. resident of Indianapolis 20 years, died yesterday in the City Hospital after a short illness. She was 38. Funeral arrangements had not been compieted. The husband, Ora Drake, and several half-brothers and half-sisters are survivors.

JESSE P. PEDEN, former Spencer banker who died suddenly yesterday in his home at 3254 N. Illinois St., is to be buried Monday in Crown Hill

following funeral services at 3 p. m. |

in the Flanner & Buchanan Mortuary. He was 72. Mr. Peden was a native of Spencer where he was a cashier in the Beem-Peden Bank until he came here in 1920. He was a graduate of DePauw . University and a member of Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. Survivors are the wife, Mrs. Ruth Wiles Peden; three sons, Francis A., New York, William J., Washington, and Jesse W. Peden, Indianapolis, and two daughters, Miss Mary Alice Peden and Mrs. J. Porter Seidensticker, both of Indianapolis.

ALBERT A. HESS, 6188 Washington Blvd., head of the miscellaneous

Miss Janet Bevor (left) is to serve as editor-in-chief of the Arsenal Cannon, Technical High School student publication, during the current semester, Miss Ella. Sengenberger, director of publications, announced today. Miss Esther Waggoner (right) has been appointed associate

editor.

Methodists Criticize ‘Indirect’

Changes in U. S. Constitution

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ley Foundation house at Indiana University were announced. DePauw and Evansville trustees and visitors were re-elected. Although Bishop Francis J. McConnell declared this morning that “the Methodist Church is not dead,” Dr. Forney Hutchinson, Tulsa, Okla., warned last night that it might be if God is not. included in tlle approaching reunion of Methodist denominations. Making his last address to the conference, Dr. Hutchinson predicted that by 1939 more than eight million Methodists would be included in a single sect by merger of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Methodist Protestant Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Despite their numbers, he said that unless a Pentacostal fire fused them together and made them a living church, they would be a “valley of dry bones.” ; “A man-made church can have a

complete and harmonious organiza-

tion, but it has no breath,” he said. “A church can’t honestly bear the name and be purely human. But there are churches that have not a gesture of the supernatural that makes sinners clean.” Only the breath of God can make a church live, he declared. At today’s business session, only ministers were eligible to vote. The united conference session, which included more than 200 lay delegates, adjourned yesterday after delegating to the ministers power to handle all unfinished business. Laymen took small part in the united sessions and their request that lay conference officers be permitted to meet with the bishop's cabinet never reached the floor for discussion. Although the conference yesterday approved sale of six abandoned church buildings, including one at Sunshine Gardens, the controversial issues ‘raised by the abandonment of the Maple Street Church in Jeffersonville and - the Leavenworih Church after the Ohio River flood were not discussed. In the case of the Leavenworth

Church, the bishop's cabinet ap-

tax division of the Federal internal revenue department here, was to be cremated following services held yesterday in the Flanner & Buchanan Funeral Home,

Mr. Hess was 55. He was born in Pershing, Ind, and was graduated from Earlham College. He taught school in Cambridge and then entered the Government service. He was president of the Men's Garden Club, a member of North M. E. Church, and of the Community Men’s Class of the Broadway -Evangelical Church. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mabel Canary Hess, a daughter, Eleanor, and a brother, Charles E. Hess.

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proved the action of a majority of the church members in joining with Presbyterians to build a new. church on the bluff where the town is being rebuilt. During the temperance rally yesterday afternoon, Bishop McConnell and his cabinet and resident Bishop Edgar Blake struggled to complete the list of pastoral appointments to be read Monday. Pastors’ wives were to be entertained this afternoon at a reception in the Methodist Hospital Nurses’ Home. The educational anniversary service tonight was to be addressed by Dr. F. Marion Smith, presttient of Evansville College. Graduates of DePauw University held a dinner last night at which Dr. Clyde E. Wildman, DePauw president, outlined the educational aims of DePauw’s second century. Indianapolis Methodist pulpits will be supplied tomorrow with pastors attending the conference. Most of the outstate churches represented will be without services tomorrow. Bishop McConnell is to deliver the conference sermon at the Roberts Park Church at-10:30 a. m.

SCHOOL TERMS GOST: 7 MILLION YEARLY

Parents of Students Fix Budgets for Semester.

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fees for engineering and other professional courses increases the yearly cost. A semester at the Lafayette school, excluding clothing and non-

essentials, is estimated to cost ap-

proximately $325. At Indiana University, ordinary costs average about $313 a semester. These costs increase in medical and dental schools, where laboratory fees are higher. At Notre Dame University, approximately $400 a semester is expected to cover board, room, tuition and fees. At Earlham College, tuition is $100 a semester

TOUR TO RETAIN SEAT IN SENATE

Has No Apologies for Stand On Court Bill, Tells Audience.

Senator VanNuys today had begun a six week’s speaking tour of the state to open his campaign for re-election to the U, S. Senate in 1038. : Last night in a Constitution Day address before the Sesquicentennial Committee in Anderson, he said: “I have no apologies or explanations to make for my determined opposition to the late Court Bill. The plan proposed fundamental changes in our Constitutional government by legislation. Those fundamental changes had never been submitted to the people nor : had they been given the opportunity to pass upon them. “I shall never be a party to making one of the separate and independent branches of our Constitu-

| tional government a political foot-

ball by legislation at the hands of an ever-changing and in most instances self-serving Congress.” The Senator, who has been denounced by Governor Townsend for his opposition to the Court proposal, announced he will spend the six weeks “lining uf an organization.” Next Friday he is to address a nonpolitical gathering in Washington, he said.

TWO TEAMS READY® FOR Y. M. CAMPAIGN

E. O. Snethen and B. W. Duck, division directors, today said their teams were ready for the “500-mile race’ Y. M. C. A. membership campaign which opens Tuesday. Team leaders still are to be named for five other divisions in the drive which is to end Oct. 1.

and board and room total about $150. Laboratory fees and deposits for all colleges average approximately $50 a semester, statistics show. Franklin College reports tuition at $95 and board and room slightly more reasonable than most other Indiana schools. The semester cost for essentials should approximate $320, according to school announcements. Bocks, laundry and entertainment costs vary. Indiana University estimates a yearly total cost for undergraduates at between $400 and $550.

$25 a Year for Books

« Father's checkbook will be expected to produce about $25 a year for texts, according to estimated costs. Living expenses in fraternity and sorority houses are estimated to be somewhat higher than for unorganized students, living in private homes or dormitories.

At Indiana University, board and room in one of the men’s or women’s | dormitories costs about $200 a semester. Students may live at Forest Hall, reconditioned residence, for $63 a semester by making their own beds and helping with

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° | Says: OLLYWOOD, Sept. 18— I don’t believe a person should make an important decision under the in‘fluence of some strong emotion because after-the emotion has died down and he can view the situation calmly, he might see the thing from an entirely different angle. I remember one time my Uncle " Slug was drivin’ down the road after a heavy rain and he found a city man bogged down in the mud with his big automobile. Uncle Slug unhitched his horses and pulled the man’s automobile out of the mire and the man appreciated it so much he offered my uncle a dollar. Uncle Slug was very indignant. He drew himself up and glared at the man and said, “How dare you offer me money for helping you out of your difficulties. I happen to belong to the ‘Brotherhood of the Helping Hand Club’ and it’s against the rules to accept money for doing a good deed.” The city man apologized and started to get in his car when Uncle Slug went up to him and said, “Brother, I've been thinkin’ this thing over and I believe I'll take that dollar. I haven't paid my dues for over nine years and they've probably thrown me out of the club

anyhow.” | (Copyright, 1937)

MERGER LINKS CITY THEATERS

Apollo, Circle and Indiana To Be Operated Under Single Management.

Three of Indianapolis’ first-run theaters, the Apollo, Circle and Indiana, are to be operated under one management in a merger effective Sept. 24. The new corporation, called the Greater Indianapolis Amusement Co., Inc., was formed yesterday by the three theaters’ lessees. Corporation officers are Harry Katz of New York, president; Fred J. Dolle of Louisville, vice president ‘and secretary, and E. M. Long, Louisville, treasurer. Mr. Katz was president of the Indianapolis Theater Management Associates, Inc., which operated the Circle and Indiana as well as theaters in Youngstown, - Akron, Steubenville, O., and Newcastle, Pa. . Dolle was president, and Mr. Long, secrétary of the Fourth Avenue Amusments Co., operating the Apollo and picture houses in Louisville, Terre Haute and Lafayette.

Indiana Being Renovated

The Indiana, now being renovated, is scheduled for an early October opening. The entire product of Paramount, 20th| Century Fox, RKO-Radio, Warner Bros. and Universal studios is to be available to the three theaters, Mr. Dolle said. Co Policies of the new corporation are to be dictated by the home offices, which will remain in New York and Louisville. “We’ll give the people of Indie anapolis whatever they want in the

entertainment field,” Mr. Dolle said.

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