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SATURDAY, APRIL 1,

War Up to Britain,

Hitler Te

Launching Warship

* Hints Munich No-W Agreement Is No Longer Valid.

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British citizen would be assured of his existence. “Germany's mistake was not to] have seen and worked against this] policy of encirclement. “Germany let the encirclement] grow until catastrophe broke out.! We fought this war 3Kke heroes, al-| though we were not the most highly | armed. “Lies Killed Germany” “We know the power that killed | Germany at that time . It was the power and poison of lies and propaganda.” Germany vielded to Wilson's doctrine of equality and friendship and equal justice for all, he said, but "no democrat ever worried about the life of the German people. “Prisoners of war were not returned. Germany was robbed of her colonies. Oupr ships were | lured out and confiscated. Our property was taken from us. : Financial plundering rose to astronomic figures and could be paid only if the German reduced his standard of lviving. That for which German industry and thrift had striven for decades was now lost. Germans were torn from the Reich. | . One man said there were 20 million Germans too many.” It had been the Nazi program, the Fuehrer said, to “break Versailles one way or another.”

“Practical Socialism”

In an open expression of defiance to the British-French “stop Hitler” drive, the Fuehrer said: “I am not here nor are the German people here to live according to the dictates of the English or French, but we are here to defend our life interests. “There were many organizations with private programs and private flags in Germany. Now there is only one community. To bring this to complete realization is our only program. It is a great and noble goal. It is real and practical socialism. “This Reich is now strong enough, thank God. to protect your rights. We are not dependent on other states.” The speech was being made the City Hall Square at Wilhelmshaven where the new 35,000-ton battleship Von Tirpitz was being launched. A German broadcast of the speech has been canceled earliAdmiral Adolf von Trotha, launching the Tirpitz. said: “This proud ship shall carry Germany’s honor into the outside world and break the resistance of our enemies if they oppose Germany's right of equality within the community of nations.”

Cheers Greet Fuehrer

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Herr Hitler arrived at 11 a. m. and was greeted with a roar of cheers. He was welcomed bv Admiral Erich Raeder, Navy Com-mander-in-Chief, and Gen. Walter von Brauchitsch, Army Command-er-in-chief. -t.‘a Av ithe . tv‘ zMo After the launching Herr Hitler made Admiral Roeder the first Grand Admiral of the Third Reich. Nazis, infuriated by the British pledge to Poland. denounced British leaders as war mongers and hoped

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that their Fuehrer, on whose word | Germany's action depended, would voice their wrath to the world. | i

Press Is Angry

Though Nazis had not ventured to predict Herr Hitler's course, their] rage was unconcealed at Prime | Minister Chamberlain's promise. In,

Nazi minds, the Munich agreement confirmed that everything in Europe east of the Rhine was a Ger-| man sphere of infiuence—and Mr. | Chamberlain was challenging this theory by making not the English Channel and the North Sea, not! even the Rhine where his predecessor Stanley Baldwin had put it, but the Vistula, the frontier of Great! Britain. It was evident that the Fuehrer and the Propaganda Ministry had not fully outlined official policy for the early newspapers in Berlin toBut they showed the Nazi

The Boersen-Zeitung charged that Mr. Chamberlain was trying to | change peaceful relations into! troubled ones and commented that! such attempts were smothered in| their own laughableness. “Herr Chamberlain is jousting | against windmills,” the paper commented. “That does not affect our composure. While the democracies orate and gesticulate Germany under Adolf Hitler's leadership fulfills within the German sphere of existence its work of reconstruction. which aims at peace.’

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Renew “Lies” Charge

The Lokalanzeiger said that] Britain was conducting lying propa- | ganda. It said that Mr. Chamberlain “dragged in by the hair” his

{guarantee to Poland “in a super- | fluous laughable effort to give new

nourishment to a synthetic commotion against Germany.” “For the benefit of its encirclement plans,” the newspaper continued. “Britain wants to maintain

trust of Germany. Perhaps. indeed, it is hoped in London that mistrust in Germany may finally become something like the first step toward trust of Britain—this, despite the horrible lessons which Britain has already given other nations to date.”

WABASH BOYS TAKE KEYS FROM 75 CARS

WABASH, April 1 Wabash youths today invented a new game. They removed all keys left in automobiles parked on downtown streets. The thefts were discovered after irate motorists protested to police. Officers apprehended the boys, only to be confronted with the task of returning 75 keys to their rightful owners i

TANKERS MAY BRING STATE MICHIGAN OIL

ST. JOSEPH, Mich, April 1 (U. P).—Crude oil taken from southwestern Michigan fields would be

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by water under a plan oil operators are considering informally. A pipeline would be laid to St. Joseph and the oil then shipped on tankers to refiners to northern Indiana. The oil now is transported from the fields by rail. {

IN INDIANAPOLI

County Deaths Speeding (To Date) 1939

1938

City Deaths (To Date)

13 Reckless ‘ ile 23 driving

Running preferential streets

1939 1938

March 31 Injured Accidents Dead Arrests

14 Running red lights

4 Drunken driving .....

63 Others ....

MEETINGS TODAY

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MARRIAGE LICENSES {These lists are from official records in the County Court House. The Times, therefore, is not responsible for errors in names and addresses.)

Alex M. Stewart. 27 63. Florence Barrett Delaware St

James D. Brooks,

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2 of 319 N. . I of 1438 Fruitdale

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BIRTHS

Girls Leon. Sue England. at Coleman. William, Bernice Clearv. at St. Cecil. Florence Burgett, at 3703 George. Evelyn Kincaid, at 2004 ridian Edward. Loretta Lawton. George, Cora Haves, Bovs George. Blanch Kegg. 2a Harold, Goldie Abram, a

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OFFICIAL WEATHER

By DU. Ss. INDIANAPOLIS

Weather Burean

FORECAST—Fair tocooler tonight with lowest about 33. 3:79 Sunset TEMPERATURE —April 1, 1938 ___ 6:30 a. m..... 1:00 p. m.

Sunrise

36 BAROMETER 6:30 a. m.. 29.53 Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 6:30 a

Total precipitaiton since Jan. 1 Xcess since Jan. :

MIDWEST WEATHER

Indiana—Generallv fair tonight morrow: cooler tonight.

IMineis—Generallv fair tonight and tomorrow: cooler tonight except in extreme northwest portion: rising temperature tomorrow in northwest and west-central portions Lower Michizgan—Fair tonight and tomorrow preceded bv unsettled tonight in north portion: somewhat colder tonight. Ohio—Cioudvy and somewhat colder

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_ snow flurries in northeast portion tonight:

tomorrow partly cloudv, slightly colder in east portion Kentuckv—Partly cloudy and somewhat colder tonight: tomorrow generally fair, slightly ‘colder in ‘east portion.

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES 6:30 A. M. Station. . Bar. Temp. Amarillo. Tex 29.76 48 ismarck. N. D Boston Chicago Cincinnati

Helera, t. Jacksonville, Kansas City. Litle Rock. A Los Angeles 22 60 64 40 48 36 438 64

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| Spain, Franco's Government will be un-

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: : . | Madrid. in other nations, particularly Ger- |

many’s neighbors, a continuous mis- | the civil war, has surrendered the | Spanish Embassy and Gen. Franco

| Spanish civil war was viewed here

Grief and Smiles a Hungary 7 a

Polish and Hungarian soldiers embrace at the Polish border town of Beskid after occupation.

U.S. RECOGNIZES FRANGO REGIME

Ambassador to Be Named, But Bowers Is Not To Return.

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relations with Nationalist said recognition of Gen.

normal

conditional. The United States will send an to Gen. Franco at

Fernando de los Rios, who represented Loyalist Spain here during

will name an ambassador to take it over—probably Juan de Cardenas, who served as representative of the Nationalist Government in New| York during the war. The Government took the posi-| tion that recognition of Gen. Franco |

{does not violate the United States’ 'principle of refusing to recognize

aggressive conquests. On this principle, the United States has refused to recognize Italy's conquest of Ethiopia, Japan's domination of Manchukuo and Germany's blood- | less acquisition of Austria and Czechoslovakia. Officially, t h e

as an internal struggle between two Spanish factions, and there was no official cognizance of the activity of | German and Italian troops in id war. Secretary of State Hull an-| nounced the action at a press conference. He said that he had sent a telegram to the Nationalist Government at Burgos informing it of the United States’ decision to establish normal diplomatic relations with it. | He said no decision had yet been reached regarding persons to be appointed as diplomatic representatives to the new Spanish Govern- | ment, but that this matter was being given careful study. Claude G. Bowers, a native of Ft. Wayne, Ind, who served as U. S. Ambassador to Loyalist Spain during the Spanish civil war. recently returned to this country. Mr. Bowers has conferred with the State Department and Mr. Roosevelt to present a report on the situin Europe. It was certain that he would not he sent back

‘to Spain.

There was no indication as to who would be named as Ambassador to Gen. Franco's Government.

ital Jefferson Cafirey, expert in United

States’ relations with Latin nations! and now Ambassador to Brazil, was mentioned as a possible nominee.

Franco's Troops Occupy Naval Base

MADRID, April 1 (U. P).—The| Spanish Nationalists have extended

. their control to the extreme south00 east of Spain. the last Republican 3

by occupying formally the

ot. cities of Almeria, Murcia and Car-

tagena, it was announced today Cartagena is the great naval base of Spain. It was reported that the Nationalists had arrested Gen. Seigismundo Casado, War Minister in the Republican Defense Council, who volunteered to remain at Valencia until the Nationalists took over, in order to avoid disorders. Previously Julian Besteiro, who volun-! teered to remain at Madrid, was arrested and ordered before a court‘martial tomorrow. It was understood that Gen. Casado had been brought to Madrid under military arrest. A high Republican, who was one of the envoys sent to Burgos to negotiate the surrender also was reported “detained for investigation.” among other prominent Repub- | licans. |

Pope Congratulates

Franco on Victory

BURGOS, Spain, April 1 (U. P). —His Highness Pope Pius XII today telegraphed Generalissimo Franco! the apostolic blessing for him and the Spanish people. The message expressed gratitude | to the Lord for “the victory or Cathelic Spain” and expressed hope Spain would resume “with vigor her former Christian traditions.” Gen. Franco replied with an ex- | pression of his “intense emotion | {caused by the paternal telegram of | | His Holiness in connection with the complete victory of our arms in our heroic crusade against the, ‘enemies of religion, the fatherland jand Christian civilization.” |

CHECK FORGER GETS STATE PRISON TERM

LAFAYETTE, April 1 (U. P).— Judge W. Lynn Parkinson today had sentenced Henry W. Trahan, 32, of | Valparaisc to two to 14 years in the

|. U. Head Believes Return

| Times Special

dent Herman B Wells

‘newspapers, in declaring before the

national nerves to an unprecedented {degree,” time Hitler sneezes the New York

wrong.

(depends the destiny of mankind.”

{of today is more inclined to blame

[troubles than to seek a way out.” | “I am disinclined to believe,” hellished this week by the newspaper | Indiana University, w this | Noticias Graficas, creating a sensa- retary and treasurer at the conven(tion being held here. i It was understood that President, Next year's convention will be | granting special tariff Ortiz had conferred with the Min- held at Chicago and Charleston, W.! Jugoslavia, to offset the disadvan

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Roosevelt at Telephone; Friends Fear for Peace

WARM SPRINGS, Ga., April 1 (U. P.).—President Roosevelt today | intensified his close watch of European developments. At the “Little White House” the President was within arms reach of a telephone through which will come fresh reports from American Embassies in London and Paris.

FEAR OVERDONE, VIEW OF WELLS

From the temporary executive offices here came fresh indications that President Roosevelt and his Administration were determined to support France and Great Britain lin their effort to call a halt to Nazi dreams of world domination by force. It was the view of President Roosevelt's intimates that world peace was being menaced.

Fears Americas Periled

A White House spokesman disclosed that this Government was gravely concerned lest Hitler aspira- | tions spread to the Americas.

Of Pioneer Spirit Cure

For ‘Jitters.’ At a| railroad way station not far from | ot __. {the President's Pine Mountain] SOUTH BEND, April Tres | Cottage, his special train was re- | ° n 1ana |, rted to be waiting for a hurried | journey back to Washington. Persons close to Mr. Roosevel attributed to him the opinion that Latin-American republics were not] safe from the projected sphere of German influence.

Dedicates Two Buildings The Chief Executive will dedicate “Every (two new buildings of the Warm/ | Springs Foundation, both for the] |care of infantile paralysis sufferers, | this afternoon. One is a school and the other a]

35-bed infirmary. Both were built from private contributions.

ARGENTINA PUSHES NAZI THREAT PROBE

BUENOS AIRES, April 1 (U. PJ).

University quoted extensively from articles now being written by Roy Howard of the Scripps-Howard

t | Indiana Industrial Educaton Association last night that “we as a people have a very bad attack of the jitters.” “We have developed a state of

Dr. Wells said. Stock Exchange takes pneumonia and needs an oxygen tent to aid it

in its recovery.” Quotes From First Article

The I. U. president particularly stressed the statement made by Mr. Howard in the first article of his | series: “Five weeks of first-hand | observation of the tumultuous European situation, of the overnight shifts in opinion, in objectives and in alliances, has revealed graphically the ease with which American opinion can, and in some ways does, g0 It has demonstrated the] importance of employing realism in-| oq, their investigation of reported stead of emotion; of basing judg- : tod od 5 : ments upon today’s actualities German intrigue in Patagonia. rather than yesterday’ts hopes.” Enrique Jurges, who has “We are afraid of everything,” Dr. | identified frequently with local Ger-| Wells said. “And to top it all off, man circles, was questioned last] we have developed a crisis complex njght by Vian Carlos, head of the] which causes us to magnify every police Investigation Bureau, |

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supnew problem which society faces posedly about the activities of into a matter of world-shaking im- | Nazis in Patagonia. portance, upon the soiution of which| Dy, Luis Barberis, Presidential secretary, called a special press conCalls for Pioneer Spirit ference to give the first official con- : ; .. |firmation of the Government's _ Businessmen's “fear of change” is, | concern over the situation. He said | like the fear of war, overdone, Dr. {that police had been investigating | Wells said. He called for a "revival since March 20 the authenticity of of that pioneer spirit which over- |, copy of a document purportedly | came obstacles,” adding that a sig- sent by the German Embassy here nificant need for the pioneer spirit to the Foreign Ministry in Berlin may be found in the field of labor relations, where “the businessman

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1€ | gonia is nobody's land and we can his | annex it.” | A copy of the document was pub-|

the Federal Government for

concluded, “that so far as couniry is concerned, we need be tion. impotent and afraid. In fact, rather than pessimism about our economic |

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kes Its Share

of Czec

hoslovak Spoils

Czech and Ruthenian soldiers flee into Rumania at Sighet after independence is lost.

HINTS BRITISH PLEDGES WEAK

London Times Indicates Poland Is Open to Nazis If Force Is Not Used.

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|Commons yesterday, Prime Minister

Chamberlain promised that there

would be a full-dress debate Monday.

All parties seemed solid in their support of him today, and the opinion was that he was assured a triumph such as he has not known before. a Col. Josef Beck, Polish Foreign Minister, leaves Warsaw tomorrow for an official visit to London and it due to start talks here Tuesday morning.

Pledge Good During Talks

Mr. Chamberlain’s unequivocal pledge to go to Poland's aid if she is forced to defend herself against attack holds good pending negotiations to solidify an agreement backed by military clauses for aid against Nazi aggression. As part of Britain's own contribution, Mr. Chamberlain is expected next week to announce further important defense measures including the institution of a Supply Ministry. For the present all Cabinent ministers and particularly those of the inner circle were asked to remain in close touch with 10 Downing Street.

Improves Hitler Technique

It was remarked here that Mr. Chamberlain, in his “Friday surprise” pledging aid to Poland, went Herr Hitler one day better in the Nazi Fuehrer’s long series of “Saturday surprises.” Further, by a coincidence, Mr. Chamberlain's surprise came at a moment when Herr

partner in were away from their posts of duty.

| Field Marshal Hermann Goering, been Nazi 2, economic dictator and Air

Force generalissimo, was at San Remo, Italy. Dr. Paul Goebbels, Nazi 3, Propaganda Minister, was at Athens. He left there today for the Island of Rhodes.

GYMNASTS ELECT

PURDUE EDUCATOR

Miss Helen Hazelton of the Pur-

| giving details of the Patagonia de- due University faculty today became | (fenses and claiming that “Pata- president of the Midwest Physical | in a businesslike gesture of friend-

Education Association. Another Hoosier, Ben Miller of

Hitler's two | —Police continued in strict secrecy chief aids and Premier Mussolini, the Berlin-Rome axis,

Nye Fears

U. S. Policy Step to War

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill, April (U.P.).—Senator Nye (R. N.D.) warned 3000 Illinois educators last night that whatever steps the United States takes to aid European democracies “are steps which might ultimately lead us into war.” He spoke at a meeting of the Illinois Educational Asso-

ciation. He discussed the neutrality act and proposals to take the profits out of war and attacked President Roosevelt’s foreign policies. “Experience cught to remind us,” he said, “how we were engineered into one war that was none of our business. It was profits from our commerce with other nations which got us into the last war.”

POWERS SEEK RUMANIAN AID

France Moves for Embassy, Protests Japanese Grab Of Pacific Isles.

PARIS, April 1 (U. P.).—Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet proposed to the Cabinet today that the French Legation at Bucharest be raised to the status of an Embassy. The Cabinet at the same meeting decided to protest Japan's occupa-

tion of the Spratly Island group in the Pacific, 700 miles from Manila. | It was understood that the pro|posal to recognize Rumania as a major power was part of a BritishFrench drive to include Rumania along with Poland in their “stop Hitler” bloc.

Britain Due to Follow

Great Britain would be expected to follow suit immediately, and pre[sumably such other powers as Ger-

| many and Italy would be com{pelled to follow unless they chose to have inferior diplomatic representation at Bucharest. Coincidentally

{ship to Jugoslavia, decided to issue |a series of decrees calculated to in|crease imports from Jugoslavia and

‘change of trade.

The decrees were designed, by benefits to

future, I think there is cause for isters of War and Foreign Affairs|Va., was selected for the 1941 meet- tage Jugoslav imports have encoun-

areat optimism concerning it.”

|and other officials on the situation. ing.

Oh, Boy! School's Out for

|State Prison ana fined him $1000]

lafter Trahan pleaded guilty to check | | forgery. | Trahan admitted serving forgery! sentences n Quentin Prison and in Pendleton Reformatory.

Hooray! School's out and for a whole week! This crowd of shouting, ilant youths rushed out of Shortridge High Sch yesterday afternoon when the spring vacation . sounded,

apolis public high

Whole Week

Times Photo.

The same scene was enacted at all other Indian-

schools and grade schools as about

65,000 pupils paraded—or in most cases dashed— away from their studies,

{tered because of the depreciation of Jugoslav currency in the interna{tional market. | There was a growing feeling in | French circles, reflected in the press, that Mr. Chamberlain's declaration, hailed in Paris as the beginning of a

new era in Europe, signified the be-!

The French Ambassador to Tokyo! was instructed to protest regarding [the Spratly Islands on the ground that when France took possession | {of the islands in 1933, the powers,

including Japan, were notified and no objections were voiced until Ja|pan reopened the question in 1937. France felt certain of her title to] the islands, but nevertheless offered (to submit the question to arbitration. Japan did not reply, but instead decreed occupation. The French Foreign Office refused to accept Japan's one-sided action, particularly in the face of the arbitration offer. The occupation brings Japan to within about 700 miles of the new British naval base at Singapore, or less than four hours by fast plane. The busiest portion of the French Indo-China coast, in the vicinity of Saigon, is slightly more than 300 miles to the northwest of the island; and the shore of Sarawak, Britain's colony on the island of Borneo, is only 50 miles farther away to the southwest. Spratly has been of no commercial | importance, but deep water exists inot far off its shores. Spratly | Island. itself, is only five times as long as a regulation football field and about one half as wide. Meanwhile, the American University Union advised students planning to come to Europe to have money for their return passage so they would be able to return home quickly if war broke out. This adivce was given after Union officials consulted with officials of the American Embassy and of a number of academic bodies,

the Government, !

NEW BOMBINGS TERRIFY LONDON

Five Exploded by Taxi Gang, Four Smashing Fleet Street Windows.

LONDON, April 1 (U. P.).—Bomb planters terrorized the business dise trict from midnight to dawn today, Five bombs exploded, one in front of a newspaper office, another in

front of a bank. Two bombs were found before they exploded. The terrorists were believed to have roamed the city in a fast automobile disguised as a taxicab. Flying squads of Scotland Yard men sighted the car once, but it outraced them. A strong guard was placed on London Bridge just before dawn he= cause of reports that it was to he blown up. Policemen made a minute search of the parapets, arches and roadway and of craft moored in the vicinity. Another force rushed to the Admiralty in Whitehall where two men were reported seen climbing a parapet in the rear of the building. No casualties had been reported in any of the explosions. The disorders were by far the most serious since the outlawed Irish Republican Army began a series of bombings in protest against the presence of British troops and officials in Northern Ireland. Heretofore, the bombings had been mostly in outlying sections of the city. The first four hombs smashed windows within a two-mile radius of Fleet St., the newspaper row, and nearby fashionable Park Lane. Three of them apparently had been planted on the window ledges, the fourth thrown over an iron gate. A fifth unexploded bomb was found in the same area. A policeman saw a bomb thrown from a taxicab onto a window lane lon Edgeware Lane and decommis= | sioned it with a fire extinguisher. | The last bomb was dropped through lan iron grating in front of a bank |opposite Charing Cross. It wrecked

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(a basement cloakroom and several | women had narrow escapes. |

ARMED THUGS GET $130 IN 4 HOLDUPS

Police and deputy sheriffs today {investigated four holdups which {netted armed bandits $130. Roy Bonwell, 54, of Lebanon, told deputies two bandits took $32 in bills and his wrist watch from him at a filling station at State Road 29 and 50th St, where he is an

as elected sec- perhaps to double the present ex- attendant.

More than $30 was taken at a filling station at 2727 E. New York (St. by a bandit who held up the attendant, Roy Schaefer, 202'z N, | Rural St. | He said the man pushed him into la closet, barricaded the door with | several large oil cans and fled. | Edward Compton, 34, of 728 N. | Pershing Ave. told police he was | robbed of $55 by three men in the | 400 block of Indiana Ave. Paris L. Organ, 32, of 1543 Deloss St., reported five men took $12 from | him at Washington and Illinois Sts.

‘BLUEBEARD’ FACES FRENCH GUILLOTINE

VERSAILLES, France, April 1 (U. P.).—Lawyers hurriedly drafted an appeal today for Eugene Weide mann, German “Bluebeard,” and Roger Million, his accomplice, who were sentenced last night to the guillotine for murdering six persons, * including the 22-year-old American dancer, Jean de Koven, at a suburban cottage.

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