Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 June 1939 — Page 1

he Indianapolis Times

VOLUME 51—NUMBER 84

6.0.P. URGES TAX RELIEF IN PRESENT YEAR

Assures House Vote Monday: WPA Bill Passed Over New Deal Protests.

NATIONAL AFFAIRS TAX bill debate Monday to be three hours long. RELIEF restrictions upheld in House vote. GARNER to go home if neutrality delays session. HATCH bill fight becomes 1940 preview. MINIMUM wage requests may give 425,000 raises (Page 11).

WASHINGTON, June 17 (U. P). —The Republican members of the | House Ways and Means Commit- | tee today virtually assured prompt | passage of the tax revision bill on | Monday by indorsing the bill gen- | erally, claiming credit for its con- | structive features, and complain- | ing only that it “does not go far enough.” { The bill, already reported favorably by the Democratic Committee | majority, will be debated for three | hours on Monday. It will abandon | the undistributed profits tax in favor of a uniform corporation in- | come tax. | In approving the bill, the Repub- | licans said “we are in favor of the | tax-relief provisions of the bill so | far as they go—which is not far | enough in our opinion—but we be- | lieve that the ‘proposed relief should be given now, and not held off until next year.

| Cite ‘Drowning Man’ |

“We challenge the Democratic majority to offer any valid and compelling reason for the postponement of the effective date of sev- | eral of the major relief proposals. | «Just as it is no solace to a drowning man to assure him that] he will be thrown a life preserver | tomorrow, so the prospect of future | tax changes is no relief from pres- | ent-day burdens and restrictions.” | The Republicans said “a further modification of Administration tax policies is now under way and we of the Republican minority are happy to see that our constructive, criticisms are gradually bringing | results. There is need for a thor-| oughgoing vevision of the tax | structure all along the line. and it has been too long postponed.” |

Charge Broken Promise {

the fourth time the New Deal has

proposed extension of the nuisance | taxes notwithstanding the assurance given the people that they would be | allowed to expire in 1934 as provided | in the original legislation.” They asserted that nuisance tax) extension and tax relief should be considered separately. crats in their majority report said] they had sought to “stimulate busi- | ness activity . . . without endan- | gering the productivity of the exist- | ing tax structure.” | The Republicans said that the) changes should be made applicable to 1039 taxes, instead of delayed | until 1040. and that otherwise ‘“‘cer- | (Continued on Page Three)

SPENCER HOUSE NOW UNDER NEW CONTROL.

The Spencer House, 248 S. TIlinois| St.. today was leased to Jap Jones | and Sons, Ft. Wayne hotel operators, | by the Spencer Realty Co. The 200-room hotel, located across | the street from Union Station, will) be remodeled. The new operators) control a chain of hotels in Indiana and Ohio, including the Wayne Hotel at Ft. Wayne and the Columbia Hotel at Greenfield. Mr. Jones, prominent Ft. Wayne Democrat, twice has been a member of the State Legislature and also was a candidate for State Treasurer in two elections. He is vice president of the Indina Hotel Associstion.

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SLAIN BABYS KIN UNDERGO LIE TESTS

FREMONT, O.. June 17 (U. P.) —| Authorities watched the funeral of 10-weeks-old Haldon Baker Fink today for a possible clue to his ab-ductor-killer in the faces of persons at the graveside. They continued lie-detector tests in an effort to solve the mystery of who suffocated the infant Tussday night and tossed his body into Green Creek, near Clyde, O., and why. A private detective conducted liedetector tests on the baby’s divorced parents, Irvin and Velma Fink. 23 and 22; its maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Olan Baker, and Edwin Baker, 20-year-old uncle.

W. WASHINGTON ST.

| successful efforts to get local pa

| married when

‘DEATH TRAP’ GONE

The W. Washington St. ‘death | trap” underpass, scene of several fatal traffic accidents, is to be filled | in with dirt, the State Highway Commission announced today. A new underpass at the Rock-| ville Road and W, Washington St., was opened to traffic yesterday. A] new right-of-way to the underpass gives the motorist several hundred | feet of vision. A temporary trestle | for the railroad will be replaced by | permanent tracks over the new tunnel soon, Highway Commission engineers said.

Now It's ‘Swing

FORECAST

ing Up Father’

“—and charge it to Dad.”

You Will Know All Ye

Men by Th

ese Presents!

: Partly cloudy and continued wai

m tonight and tomorrow.

SATURDAY, JUNE 17%, 1939

TS AGAIN UPHOLD TRUCK TIRE TAX LAW

Officials Warn Operators That Strict Enforcement

Begins Wednesday.

| RICHMOND SUIT LOST ——— |

Superior Court Judge Wilson Rules Against Action |

| For Injunction. Constitutionality of the much- | maligned State truck tire tax law | was upheld for the third time today, | and Indiana officials warned oper- | ators that strict enforcement of the! law would begin Wednesday. In Superior Court here today, | Judge Herbert Wilson sustained a State demurrer to an injunction | suit filed by a group of Richmond ruling made |

truck operators. It was the second on the law in Marion County. In|

the first, the law was declared un- | constitutional by Superior Court |

Judge Joseph T. Markey, but the! ruling was reversed by the Indiana

Supreme Court. A third suit filed here was venued |

[to Shelby Circuit Court, Where the

Worm Turns and Male Squirms in Fancy Clothes as Papa Has His Day (or Hey-Dey).

By JOE COLLIER The ladies auxiliary to the Indianapolis Brotherhood of Papas has

taken a han For severa pas

Mother of State Senator

And Late Newspaperman | IN for Month. |

ct aan cmt

Mrs. Mary Louise Hendricks, |

Indiana Medical She!

State Senator and Society secretary, died today. was 79. Mrs. Hendricks had been ill a month and never had recovered | fully from the shock of the death last August of her son, Blythe QR. for years active in newspaper, radio | and political circles here. She was born in Terre Haute, the daughter of Abram and becca Hoffhines Quimby. She was) 17 to John Edward f Thomas A.! ice president

Hendricks, a nephew 0 Hendricks, a former Vv

The Demo-|of the United States, U. S. Senator been

and Indiana Governor. Mr. Hendricks, who had business interests in Indianapolis, Peru, Kokomo and Liberty, died in 1907. Mrs. Hendricks, who had lived here since 1901, for vears was active | in civic and social affairs. She had | been a director of the Y. W. C. A.,| the Indianapolis Home for Aged Women and had been president of the Flower Mission. Until recent years she was active in affairs of | the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church | of which she was a member. Up until two years ago she had | never missed a state basketball | tournament and liked to attend! football games with her sons. | Thomas and Blythe. She preferred | She and Blythe lived for years | at the family home, 1127 N. Meri-| dian St. Since his death she made (Continued on Page Three)

PEDESTRIA AS CAR LEAPS CURB

‘Woman Victim Brings City STOCK

Auto Toll to 23.

Indianapolis’ 1939 traffic death)

toll today had risen to 23 following | a crash in which a pedestrian was | killed. | Another pedestiran was struck and | injured today in heavy traffic on Meridian St. near New York St. Three other persons weie hurt in overnight accidents while police | arrested 51 motorists and sought three hit-and-run drivers. Mrs. Lois L. Conlin, 87, of 1321 Marlowe Ave, and a companion, Mrs. Agnes Rogers, ‘41, of 1227 Marlowe Ave. were standing on the curb at Noble and Ohio Sts. late yesterday afternoon when they were struck by a car that hurtled onto the sidewalk after a ‘collision. Mrs. Conlin, who was Marion County’s 40th traffic victim of the year, was killed instantly and Mrs. Rogers received head and arm lacerations. She was taken to City Hospital. The women had started across the street and then stepped back | to the curb as traffic approached, police said. They said that a car) being driven north on Noble St. by | Raymond Moyer, 36, of 4103 Park’ Ave. collided with a taxicab and | then careened to the sidewalk, striking the women. Moyer lost control of his car, police said, and il continued across the sidewalk and struck the porch | at the home of Leona Nickolas, 201! N. Noble St.

4d and tomorrow, Father's Day, the battle of wills will be on. 1 vears the ladies have made violent but only partially

into sports clothes that appear to be comfortable.

| The answer, until now, has been| | that the clothes were so comfort-

MRS. HENDRICKS

able, and so radically different from the business suits, that it was no dice. . There were even ugly that it was a definite attem the part of the ladies to get into something that would turn any remarks they might make about

ladies’ hats into a pot-kettle-call- |

ing arrangement. Slacks Step Out

partment stores report, the ladies have, with a great deal of determination, bought slacks and those

| mother of Thomas A. Hendricks, shirts with the tails out and woven

shoes and any number of radical play clothes tackle for ths men. They have bought them, the clerks report, with a glint in both eves and clerks are pretty generally predicting that tomorrow will find a lot of Indianapolis papas in clothes they would have been unhappy with three years ago or so. There was not a single downtown

trend toward play clothes as gifts for Father's Day. This trend toward colorful easy clothes of radical design has predicted prematurely for more than five vears by men's clothiers at their various regional and national conventions.

Something to Ponder

Officers of these conv would argue, in interviews,

too restricting for play; and tha they were too drab. In nature, they would say, the males generally are more decorative than the females.

And they woud predict each year that the time had come for the | _Wayne Coy

transition, just as though at a given signal all men in the country would emerge from their homes

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law was upheld and the decision | sustained by the Supreme Court. | The law provides a sliding tax scale ranging from $2 to $75 depending on | the size of truck tires.

Plans Further Resistance

BRITISH-JAPANESE "THREATENS AT S

|Gestapo Has Seized 40,000 Czechs, Escaped Brother of Benes Says

K ATTOWICE, Poland, June 17 (U. P.). —Senator Vojta Benes, political lead-

FIGHT SCHOO! | Where Sub Lies With 71

Teachers’ Association Ap-

Watered ns Becond-Cluss at Postoffice, Indiannpoli

HOME

FINAL

Matter s. Ind.

PRICE THREE CENTS

or who recently escaped fro

vakia, asserted in an interview today that

from 40,000 to 50,000 Czec some of the most distingui

public life, were being tortured and in some cases beaten to death by Nazi Gestapo (se-

cret police) agents in concent

TENURE RULING

peals York Contract Case

| To U. S. High Court. |

The Indiana State Teachers’ As-|

| sociation is appealing to the United | | States Suprem [cision of

e Court from the de- |

the Indiana Supreme |

The Indiana Private Truck Own- court last month dealing a blow |

|that despite the two favorable In-

rumors | pt on] men had upheld the law

cases and that there were no new ciation

| and

entions | GAVE B

that | men’s clothes were too formal and |

t Commisioner Didn't Have

| diana Supreme Court decisions,

[another test of the law.

in two previous |

contentions or points of law

volved.

return of funds already paid by

Cite Use of Funds

‘no friends,” that the “only reason [it escaped repeal during the last session of the Legislature was because of a legislative jam, in which each political party wanted to put the other in a hole.” The truckers also declared at a

[enforcing the t 2 3d | But this year, all downtown de- mg ee

it will “resist purchase of the tags|Tvan R. York case, it

{and suffer The State contended in the latest | though legal action that the Supreme Court were written into his contract.

truckers, | association, he pointed out that

They charged that the “law had

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|ers organization has announced that to the Teacher Tenure Law in the

was an-

leven if arrested.” The group claims | pounced today.

The Tndiana Supreme Court held |

a that Mr. York, who had an indefi- | more recent ruling by the United nite contract as principal of a high States Supreme Court on a Ten- school in Vigo County at a salary | nessee case provides a new basis for of $2400 a vear, could be demoted

a salary change even this position and salary Robert H. Wyatt, Teachers’ Asso- | executive secretary, de-|

in-|clared that the implications of the [eourt’s The Richmond truckers had asked and highly destructive to the funthat the State be restrain2d from damental

decision are far-reachiie |

principles of teachers’)

contracts. Claims Notice Necessary

In a letter to members of

Mr. Wyatt explained that vhe|

hearing Wednesday that the tax “qs | Teacher Tenure Act provides that | not for use on highways, because the cancellation

. : oa | the $1,250,000 it was estimated the | teacher's contract shall Ann Re- store that did not report a marked |, o would raise is Mot earmarked for Only after a written notice is sent

of a permanent

be done” |

‘highway maintenance purposes but|to the teacher and the teacher is)

Fund.”

COY DENIES NUTT UCKNER DATA

| Access to Files, He Says.

sistant to Paul V. McNutt, U. S.

High Commissioner to the Philip-

wearing toga-like clothes that were [Dines, denied today that his superior

stay awake in them. Well, no such thing ever pened. But clothing

hap-

store

|so comfortable it would be hard to had given William P. Buckner Jr.

access to confidential

Army data.

can be diverted to the State General [given a hearing before the school

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WASHINGTON, June 17 (U. P)./from an indefinite contract,” administractive as-| Wyatt wrote.

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board. if he requests it.” No Distinctions Drawn

“The Indiana Supreme Courl, however, in this York case, holds | that upon the illegal dismissal of] Mr. York it was he instead of the school corporation who had to, initiate an ‘action to compel school authorities . . . to give him the) definite contract to which his in-| definite contract entitles him.’ | “No mention is made in the] Tenure Act of any such thing as a definite contract being different Mr. |

BOY WATCHES HUNT | FOR HIS OWN BODY

KANKAKEE, Tl. June 17 (U.

| | | Buckner is now on trial for fraud p) Firemen assembled boats and|

clerks will in New York. look you straight in the eve today |

grappling hooks on the shore of The allegation that Mr. McNutt | Soldier Creek.

A 9-year-old boy

and tell vou, perhaps a little ap-| had done so was contained in a watched with interest.

to that will happen tomorrow. Are you srared?

METAL SHARES PACE

bill bolstered the stock market tod

MARKET GAINS nr

! ma “The High Commissioner has no | NEW YORK. June 17 (U. Pp.) — control whatsoever over Army dava Hopes for early action on the tax in the Philippines and he had no |access to the Army files,” Mr. Coy P.). — Ranchers “He did not abandoned homes and cabins west

ay and the list rose fractions to | lof here today as forest fires con- disaster would never be Known. and a beaded bag containing

committee in 1937 when he was in

| N KILLED | prehensively, that there's a very|letter which Buckner sent to ‘he | good chance something pretty close Philippine Railway Co. bondholders firemen.

“What you doing?’ he asked the

“Don't bother us, sonny.” a fire-

ral sense of the word, upon which | he can enforce an action at law.” |

m Czechoslowas prepared

hs, including shed men in

| | |

ration camps.

“Y IFE under the German protectorate is terrible and unbearable,” he said. | “1 tried to hold out in Czechosolvakia.

with my people in hope that at least our national life would be allowed to go on and out cultural treasures would be spared by the German invaders.

“But the invaders spared nothing. They (Continued on Page Three)

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to stick to my place and be

Dead

CLASH HANGHAL

—

Spread of Tientsin’s

Crisis to Bigger City Looms,

RUSSIAN KILLED

English Deny Ships

Ordered to Break Blockade.

A —

FAR EASTERN SITUATION SHANGHAY=-Japs way British ordered warships to Tientsin. LONDON=Britain reported ready for reprisals. TOKYO=U, §. attitude delights Japanese. WASHING TON=Hull withholds protest, lacking complaint, SHANGHAI, June 17 An armed clash was

U. P= threatened

|petween British troops and Japas

nexe-sponsored Chinese police 10

[day in the western suburbs of the

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Spot of Oil Only Clue as

Hopeless Hunt Is Spurred

SAIGON French Thde-China, June 17 (U. P).=(By Radio Tele: |

communique in Paris said that an face where the craft disappeared. All aboard must be regarded as

The communique fixed the ship's) -

complement at a total of 71 after a series of contradictory reports from here, Toulon, the Mediterranean base from which the Phenix sailed] last April, and Saigon, Indo-China |

WASHINGTON, June 17 (U. | P.) Naval officials denied to- | day that they saw any con- | nection in the recent accidents to an American, a British and | a French submarine. But the | world puzzled over the strange cincidence that three sub- { marines should sink within | four weeks with a death toll of | 196 lives.

Officials declined to comment on |

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(phone to Manila)—-As seaplanes and submarines searched the sea off Cam Ranh Bay today for the submarine Phenix, lost with its crew lof an estimated five officers and 66 men, an official Marine Ministry

oil spot had appeared on the sur-

lost, the communique said.

KERCHIEF BANDITS ROB COUPLE IN CAR

Wait Outside Carrollton Ave. Home of Tavern Keeper, |

Two men, with handkerchiefs wadded in their mouths to disguise their voices, took $120 from a tavern proprietor and jewelry from his] wife in an early morning holdup

ere. The robbers were pared across the street when Mr. and Mrs. Edward Strothers drove up in front of their home at 4330 Carrollton Ave, at 1 a. m. today, after clos=

Manila. Buckner was chairman of man replied. “We're 100king for a (peir views regarding the possibil-| ing their place of business, the

[the committee and is on trial for irs a

|activities.

e trial session yesterday.

told the United Press.

a point, paced by metal shares. ITm- and could not give Buckner any

proved business reports also aided confidential information concerning | tinued to the Army in the Philippines.”

the market.

letter was mentioned during

I timberlands. land because of the depth of the

little hoy who drowned.” “Whe was it?” the boy persisted. “Adrian Lavine. “I'm Adrian.” FOREST FIRES RAGE LAS VEGAS, N. M, June 17 (U. and vacationists

Maybe the Cucumber Is Keeping

Cool |

~ But Blazing Heat Can’t the Public Fool

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

hl 10 a. m. .. 85 ki 11 a.m. .. 83 12 (Noon). 85 1pm...

“Whew! Tt's hot!” Indianapolis complained in chorus today—and a perspiring Weather Man dared to say: “Continued warm tonight and tomorrow.” He looked at every chart, report and everything else used to determine what an ever weather

a.m am... 87 a.m... 87 a.m... 88

from day

the heat

the 90s. a

expected to look

People could be! plent

| were evidence that it was attend- | cucumbers,

ling to it. | But formality in clothing was | tossed to the warm winds. There was an extensive display of everything the clothing designers have offered to help keep one coel Some men were seen even in ouc-

on tennis courts — shorts, stingy shirt and not much else, The Marion County farmers counted beads of perspiration as signs of perity. "This ho t weather is swell for corn and haymaking,” Farm [Bureau officials said. “We've had of rain and this heat is [stimulating growth. It's ripening

The taxicab, driven by Arthur for cool places, but this being Sat- tomatoes and other vegetation

Lux, 39, of 1855 W. Morris St., was aC intied on Page Three)

urday, Mmdianapolis had business to ttend to downtown

crowds |

| rapidly.’ e heat’s

pros- |

fits which resembled those worn ||

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than which there is]

nothing more cool.

But the heat got eight North | Side boys into a jam with the law. They went in swimming in a gravel | pit at 75th St. and Keystone Ave, | without handicap of swimming suits—and deputy sheriffs appeared at the wrong time | for them, Sheriff Feeney | delivered a lecture to them at the County Jail. He said that his warming goes for | ; all other boys, too. He declared that hereafter anyone caught swimming without a bathing suit would be charged | with public indecency. This is the first week-end swimming pools and playgrounds in City parks have been open and staffs of workers prepared to handle big crowds today and tomorrow, |

water and the turbulence of the

ity that sabotage may have caused the disaster. { The Government commandeered the Paris-Saigon radio telephone’ cation. Cause Is Mystery

It was feared that details of the

spread through the dry There was no clue to the sinking | their command.

sea, salvage work was regarded as almost impossible. | All that was known was that the submarine started down for a half-| hour practice dive Thursday morning and never came wp. Officials suggested that, as there was no alarm of any sort from the striken ship, it might have struck a submerged rock or other obstruction and that its crew might have died at once. The ship had no escape apparatus. The alarm for the Phenix was received here late Thursday. It was too late for effective rescue work but warships already in the vicinity started a search, and seaplanes and additional ships from the Cam Ranh base—the French Singapore joined it yesterday.

Rescuers Hold No Hope |

They started out again at dawn today but with no real hope that they would find a trace of the third first-class submarine to be sunk in four weeks, all in practice dives. The American Squalus had sunk off the New Hampshire coast May 23 with the loss of 26 men. The British Thetis had sunk off Liver. pool June 1 with 90 of the 103 men aboard it. with-

There were other warships

{ally on a

Lions Den, 444 Massachusetts Ave. As Mr. Strothers turned off his motor, two men came running from a car across the street, and one of

service to irwcure fastest communi- them in muffled tones announced:

“This is a stickup.” Mr. Strothers turned over the cash, and Mrs. Strothers gave up a diamond wedding ring, wrist watch | $4, at

e men evidently did not see Mrs. Strothers’ sister, Miss Bdna | Thrasher, who was sitting in the! back seal, Mr. Strothers said,

ACCEPTS DRIVER'S DRINK--FADE OUT

. A 16-year-old Kentucky ail, | found unconscious early today in| Garfield Park, told police at City Hospital that a man in whose car she was riding “gave me a little | drink and that was the last thing | I remember.” She said she was visiting relatives | here and accepted the motorists | offer last night because she thought she knew him.

CHILD, 2, DROWNS IN POOL FRONTING HOME

GREENCASTLE, Ind, June 17 (U. P).<Allen Rae Oope. 2-year- | old son of Mr. and Mrs. Finley | Cope, drowned yesterday in a pool | of water in front of his home.

BLUFFTON, Ind, June 17 (U.P). | «Paul Johnson, 20, was cuted yesterday touched a

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[fighting [territory on the other side of the [International Road from | tion.

electro: | Forum when he accidents | Gira

International Settlement. The police had attempted to seiz® a police station on the western border of the International Settles ment. British troops intervened and the police retired. Then the British withdrew and the police reformed. An uigent message to British authorities said that the police had taken a threatening attitude, and heavy torces of British troops and Thternational Settlement police were sent to the scene. They quickly brought up maching guns and mounted them facing the police, who withdrew again.

Yarnell Heads for Tientsin Anxiety was acute lest the Japs anese might plan a move against the International Settlement=the richest and biggest foreign area in all China==ax they had done Wn blockading the British and French A Domei (Japanese) News Agence dispatch said that Admiral Marry B, Yarnell, American Navy Commans»

der-in=Chief in the Far Fast, wak expected to arrive at Tientsin Tuess

| concessions at Tientsin.

day.

But for the present, Shanghal

was the dangerous point

Remove Barbed Wire

Police, moving under cover of darkness, went to the western edga of the wettiement and removed barbed wire barricades and seals which British military authorities had placed at the Tatao Police Stas tion in March after jurisdictional disputes, A detachment was rushed to the station, The troops drew a cordon about tha station and replaced their barrie

of British police

| cades.

The without

occupied

retreated Japanese

police into

the stas They continued to loiter the vicinity, however, and anxiety at once giew, lest the Japanesd intended to make this incident the basis for a bid for control of the Shanghai area. After fixing their barricades, tha British troops withdrew, Then a group of police, armed with rifles or with revolvers drawn, returned and lined up across tha street from the station, where they stood awaiting orders

Hints Drastic Steps’

British troops last March evicted these Chinese police, op2rating under the Japanese regime in Shanghai proper==the portion outs side the International Settlement and French Concession—after a series of disputes. They officially sealed the station and the Japane:s had made no move since. However, the Japanese were exs tremely angry at the British action, and the Japanese-sponsored Chis nese Municipal Government mada the formal demand that the station be redelivered to the police. “Drastic steps will be taken nnless (Continued on Page Three)

PLOT AGAINST CAROL OFFICIALLY DENIED

BUCHAREST, June 17 (U. P) == Reports wei? circulated in Bucharest today of a plot to assassinate King Carol, Crown Prince Michael and Premier Calinesen, A Government spokesman ems phatically denied the reports. Ha safd the rumor probably was based on the faet that a drunken customer at a suburban inn had been arrested for threats against the roval family and Government authorities, The spokesman said there was no connection between the man ars rested and the Iron Guard.

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