Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 April 1941 — Page 11

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1941

The Indianapolis Times

SECOND SECTION

Hoosier Vagabond

SOME BACK GLANCES over our Clipper trip home from Europe: Of the 25 passengers, four were children, six were women and the 15 others were men, Only eight of us were Americans. The others were English, French, Swiss. Portuguese, Dutch, Indian and Russian. One passenger—James Bowcock—was the American Vviceconsul at Munich, on his way home on leave. Another was a diplomatic courier from the State Department, making his third round trip on the Clipper. He never put down his padlocked satchel, even when he walked up and down the aisle for exercise. One was an American woman who had lived in Paris for 15 vears, but now found Paris so bad she was coming home for the duration. There was a charming French lady with three beautiful children, coming to join her husband now established in America. Mostly they were nice people, as airplane travelers usually are. Of course. we had two or three grumblers —it wouldn't have been a successful trip without the grumblers. Nothing suited them, They wished they'd waited and taken a boat. We wished they had, too. I became best acquainted with Prof. Weigle, who teachers physics at the University of Geneva. In Trinidad we shared a room and took a silghtseeing drive into the mountains. Prof. Weigle had never been in the tropics, and he was enchanted. He kept wondering how he could make ga living if he just threw up his job and came to the tropics to live.

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Another Illusion Gone On our drive into the hills we saw some breadfruit trees. Nothing would do Prof. Weigle but that he must eat some breadfruit. The hotel didn't have any, but our Negro waiter said he would bring some from home, and we could have it for breakfast. Well, he did. And I'm sorry. One more illusion gone. Breadfruit had always been romantic to me.

By Ernie Pyle

Now I know it for just a tasteless dry mass whose only attribute is an ability to choke the eater. Even Prof. Weigle, the old beachcomber, had to quit on the fourth bite. Two of our passengers were Mr. and Mrs. Tom Kinkaid, and they were nice people. He is a captain in the U. S. Navy, and for several years had been attached to our embassy in Rome. They had both crossed the Atlantic more than 20 times, but never by air. In fact, Mrs, Kinkaid had never been up before, and Capt. Kinkaid only once— back in 1913 when airplanes were bamboo box-kites. They both enjoyed their Clipper flight immensely. My trip was made more pleasant by the fact that all three of our captains (we kept changing crews, you know) had followed this column, and so they made the flight a sort of “personally conducted” one for me. The first captain was Haakon Gulbransen, whom I've mentioned before. The second was Marius Lodeesen. He 1s from Holland, and still has a faint trace of accent. Army, and when he retired in 1924 he said: will be another war within 20 years. Let's get out of here.” So they came to America. n n 8

Crossing the Equator

Our third captain was Wallace Culbertson, and we had a slight connection because That Girl knows his brother in Miami. Capt. Culbertson learned to {ly in 1916, and is one of Pan American's old hands, We crossed the Equator the second night out, but they didn’t say anything about giving us Jupiter Rex certificates. I've already got one, so I should worry. One witty passenger asked if they would have the Equator lighted up with a Neon tube when we crossed. The steward said no, but we could tell it because we'd get an awful bump. The berths in the Clippers are really good. They are more roomy than berths on a train. After the first night of accustoming yourself to it, you have no trouble at all in sleeping. The motor noise is lulling rather than disturbing. On this trip home I personally felt much safer in the air than I would have at sea. Once the war is over, and service gets back to normal, and big new planes start running daily across the Atlantic, I don't believe I would consider going any other way.

Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town”)

FOR YEARS NOW, there has been an increasing boem in the proclamation market. Clubs, associations and the like, in order to call attention to the particular project they were sponsoring, would ask the Governor to proclaim a “day” or a “week” in honor of the event. Then the club officers would pose with the Governor while he siened the proclamation. This, however, has reached the point where nearly every week has been ear-marked as an especially proclaimed period So, Governor Henry F, Schricker has decided on a new policy. He has indicated that only those “weeks” or “days” which have grown up through the vears will he able to merit a gubernatorial proclamation. What, no Eta Peesa Pi Week!

Been to Herron Yet?

THE FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS spent for remodeling the Herron Art Museum is paying off in increased art interest in the city The museum was reopened a month ago yesterday. Before it was closed for remodeling, the museum drew about 3000 visitors a month. In the last 30 days that figure has almost tripled. Wilbur Peat, director, attributes much of the increased attendance to the fact that the building now has, a suitable assembly hall. Previously, the only meeting place had a two-story high ceilnig. Other facilites were equally as inadequate. All the art objects have been rearranged with the rooms containing paintings decorated in a way that

Washington

WASHINGTON, April 9—This Government needs the co-operation and forbearance of the public—especially of the press and the radio—in suppressing certain information in these times. Unless this is obtained voluntarily, we may be sure that efforts will be made to establish compulsory censorship over the press. It will be proposed in the guise of strictly military censorship. But once compulsory machinery is in operation it is apt to go far beyond strictly technical information. The press would then operate under the shadow of a law which would have a repressive effect upon all printed discussion. Recently Secretary of the Navy Knox requested the newspapers, the radio and: the news photographic services to refrain from publishing information about wounded British warships arriving in American ports for repairs under the Lend-Lease Act. The request was put to its first severe test over the last week-end, and several newspapers cracked under the strain of a hot story The British battleship Malaya arrived in New York harbor Sunday forenoon. On Monday morning several newspapers appeared with photographs and detailed accounts of the arrival, and descriptions of the hole in the battleships side. Sailors coming ashora on leave were buttonholed around Times Square for the shipboard gossip, which was duly reported,

Knox Aware of Dangers

I saw accounts of the battleship arrival in the New York Herald-Tribune, the New York Daily News, the Baltimore Sun and the Washington Times-Herald. Perhaps they appeared in other newspapers. But I saw a number of newspapers which omitted any reference to the arrival, some continuing this silence in their afternoon editions. Secretary Knox issued a statement in which he praised newspapers for their co-operation in preserve ing silence about this arriving battleship. He overlooked the instances in which his request had been ignored, but I don't think he can be very happy about them.

My Day

WASHINGTON, Tuesday —An interesting letter came to me the other day. I have known the writer. Dame Rachel Crowdy, for some time: in fact. ever since the last world war. This letter is written on paper which bears the address, “Ministry of Information, Malet Street, London.” I 3 think, perhaps, vou would be interested in it, so I want to share parts of it with you. “Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: “I have intended for nearly two years to write to you and to send you photographs I took of the delightful school in Puerto Rico. I saw it when our West Indian Commission landed there in order to see how the United States was coping with some of the Caribbean problems that are common to us all. The children of the school were most excited when they heard that you and I knew each other. At the moment, alas, in the confusion of the present day, I can not put my hands on the photographs, but I shall send them as soon as I find them. “I have an interesting job with the Government. It consists in being a kind of ambassador for the ministry to the regional organizations, explaining . ‘

brings out the “best” in each particular type of

painting.

On the Fishing Front

THIS IS THE TIME of year to catch the “whoppers.” The Conservation Department points out that the summer months cannot compare with this time of year to hook the fish you write home about. The season is open until May 1. Then the spawning period starts and the season reopens on June 16. And, the Department adds, the big ones are to be had. It cites a recent national contest in which Hoosier catches placed in the first 10 of three classes —big-mouth bass, small-mouth bass and wall-eyed pike. The pike weighed 12'2 pounds.

Sign Here, Please

THE GLADSTONE AVE. important—for a while. The youngsters of the neighborhood approached each for his autograph. The residents signed willingly. Then someone thought to ask what they wanted the signatures for. “Oh,” replied one little boy, who writes the craziest.”

Paint-Up or Clean-Up?

THERE SEEMS TO BE some little anti-yellow paint sentiment in the traffic picture. You will remember that Capt. Leo Troutman presented a plan to inspect all vehicles with part of the proceeds going to buy the curbing paint. Then the City Council has received a proposal to elminate it entirely. Maybe the feeling is that drivers are generally color-blind when it comes to parking, anyway.

residents felt mighty

“we Just want to see

By Raymond Clapper

As publisher of the Chicago Daily News, Secretary Knox is strongly opposed—even in his present position—to compulsory censorship. He is alert to the dangers of abuse. He would infinitely prefer to rely upon the spirit of co-operation in the press and he

intends to dv so if the press will make that possible. | Obviously news and details concerning the ar-

rival of a damaged British battleship are of great value to Germany. By knowing the date of arrival and the extent of damage, it is possible to estimate with fair accuracy the length of time necessary to put a ship back into service. The idea is that the Germans would lay for the ship when she came out into service again. There doubtless will be other wounded British warships coming over from time to time. If the news

of their arrival and the nature of the damage are to| be broadcast to the world, before long we would ex-|

pect to have a series of incidents off our shores as the repaired ships left to resume sea duty. Furthermore the knowledge of ships laid up over here is of value In numerous ways to those in Berlin who are directing the sea warfare against Britain.

Self-Restraint Necessary

Of course it is said in defense of publication of this information that the Germans know it anyway. It was stupid management in the first place to send a damaged battleship steaming into New York harbor on a Sunday forenoon. Thousands of people on shore saw her. Even if a line had not been published in the press, German consular agents in New York,

their friends or tipoff men, would have had the!

details back in Berlin within an hour, The answer to that is first not to make their job easier by bringing ships inte port in full daylignt view. Second, it is to get rid of Axis representatives in this country who no longer serve a useful purpose

here. Third, it is for the public, including the press, |

to refrain from helping spies with their work. If a few papers disregard the request for silence, other newspapers will be driven in self-defense to po along and print the details. Yet it serves no useful purpose to the American public and can do much harm. The worst harm is that a prolonged exhibition of lack of restraint and co-operation on the part of the press will certainly lead to demand for imposed censorship. And that won't be good for any of us. This is a case where democracy can save its free press only by practicing self-restraint.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

ministerial policy to them and trying to bring their local needs to the attention of the people here. As a sideline, I look out for wartime hardships, which have a remedy, among the people and take them up with the ministers concerned. I have been doing this now for the last 15 months and find it very worth while, though rather tiring sometimes, traveling so much in hard winter weather. “Lately, they have been sending me to the blitzed cities in order that the unbombed regions may profit by the experience of those that have been badly bombed. It is tragic work but it has a humorous side to it. The other day, in one of our worst cities, I noticed that the big cinema (movies) had been entirely destroyed except for the metal canopy, on which the announcement of the film to come is always posted. I went up and looked at it at close range and saw the white lettering spelled, ‘Watch for Reopening Date!’ Talking to one old man, a self-made timber merchant, who had lost 20,000 pounds worth of property in a night, he finished up with his account of the losses to me by saying: ‘But what a wonderful chance for this city to widen its streets!’” I shall have to cut the letter off here and begin again tomorrow. There is much more that I think will interest you, but my space does not allow me to give it to you all at one time.

His father was a general in he Dutch | “There |

BEYOND THE ITALIAN FRONTIER.—There is an old military axiom that the perfect army is the army which has been trained on a given terrain against a given foe. The soundness of this rule is known to every football coach who scouts the plays of the opposing team and trains his own squad in a defense and offense designed to defeat them.

This is exactly what the British general, Sir Archibald Wavell, did with his now famous Army of the Nile. This is exactly what the Italian general, Rodolfo Graziani, did not do when he had an army in Libya. As America begins to build an army for the first time the lessons of how the British beat the Italians in Africa may prove instructive. I know Gen. Graziani and think him a very great general. He has been quarreling with Mussolini since the destruction of the Army of Libya. He said, pretty bluntly, if between the lines, in his official report that Mussolini hadn't given him the equipment and support he asked for in Libya. Mus= solini replied in a recent speech that he had sent millions of dollars’ worth of equipment to Libya. The dictator read off a long list of tanks, guns and whatnots sent down. Each is trying to blame the other for the defeat. The interplay of responsibility between politicians and generals is one of the most setious problems which Americans must study today. It is a problem which the Germans and the British appear to have solved but which the French and the Italians certainly did not solve. That is the primary reason for the defeat of France.

Lesson of Poland

AFTER POLAND, Edouard Daladier asked Gen. Maurice Game=lin if it were not necessary to reorganize French defense in view of the success of mechanized columns. Gen. Gamelin replied that in his opinion panzer columns could not move from Berlin to Paris even in peacetime if the bridges were blown. Daladier, though unconvinced, left it at that instead of assembling every expert, and going to the bottom of the matter and reaching a decision which meant action. Gen. Graziani and Mussolini proved as stupid as Gamelin and Daladier and for exactly that reason their country has suffered the same fate as France. One week before the British offensive in Libya an Italian friend who is close to Graziani came up to Rome. He brought me personal greetings from the general, we discussed the Italian success at Sidi el Barrani and over whisky

At City Hall—

TRAFFIC COURT SUP TO COUNGIL

Cafeteria Plan Speeded; Legal Opinion Sought From State.

By RICHARD LEWIS Another phase of the City's new traffic program, which has been unfolding like a serial story, became known today: Plans for the cafeteria court are virtually complete, awaiting only City Council action. The plans call for the creation of a Traffic Violation Bureau, where motorists charged with minor City code violations would pay fixed fines, upon a plea of gulity, without standing trial. Because of present congestion in the two small municipal courtrooms at Police Headquarters, the bureau would he housed in a building north of headquarters, The Safety Board has requested a transfer of funds by the Council to pay the rent on the building. Under tentative arrangements, motorists charged with minor violations who wish to plead guilty would do so upon appearing in traffic court. They would then pay their fines at the bureau and leave. More time would thus be allowed the traffic judge for the trials of more serious cases involving state law violations. Before undertaking the cafeteria court, however, City officials and municipal judges are seeking an opinion on the legality of the plan from the Attorney General's office. Yesterday, the decision of Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan to create a traffic engineering division was disclosed, the second installment in the safety program. The day before, 1t was learned that the Safety

Board intends to set up a mounted | police patrol of 15 men to supervise |

downtown traffic, In addition, about 100 new stopgo signals, breferential street signs and flasher signals will be erected. The entire traffic program, marking the City Administration's first concerted effort to come to grips with the traffic problem, will be financed by additional gas tax funds allotted the City by the 1041 General Assembly. While the new program evolved from the Mayor's office, the Safety Board at its public meeting yesterday advanced its program of removing parking on key thoroughfares during rush hour traffic. The plan .was first applied to Capitol Ave. and Meridian St. and has worked satisfactorily, according to Safety Board President Leroy J. Keach. It will be extended to College Ave, from Massachusetts Ave, to Fall Creek: from Massachusetts to Olney Ave.; Ft. Wayne Ave, from Pennsylvania

to 10th Sts, and Central Ave, from 10th to 34th Sts.

Tenth St.

In Libya alone the Italian losses are estimated at 100,000, mostly prisoners,

and soda after dinner before a log fire we talked Well, you know the Italian peas= ant soldier, after all,” my friend said. “He is wonderful. He puts up with any hardship, goes without food for two days if necessary and is always cheerful. Graziani is worried but the Italian soldiers will see him through. The British army is superlatively good but it is too small and Anglo-Saxons cannot endure hardships like the Ttalians. The British army is de luxe and their men can't go any=where without whisky and soda, portable ice machines, shower baths and such gadgets.

Wavell's Surprise

“THE BRITISH HAVEN'T a chance. They can make raids but they can never launch an offensive, Wavell’s got the hit-and-run mentality of Lawrence of Arabia. He has got a little de luxe army of 25,000 men. Graziani's got 130,000 whites, carefully trained in Ethiopia, where you saw them vourself, and that many blacks besides A British offensive is quite impossible. Graziani has built pipelines of water through the desert and improvised trucks with anti-guns to turn the British columns. It is only a question of months until we enter Alexandria and Cairo.” A week later Wavell struck with absolute surprise, blinding rapidity and a reckless disregard of the conventional or outmoded rules of warfare. He simply adopted the technique used by the Germans in the lowlands and France, run-

ning his mechanized columns clear through the enemy and counting for safety upon the confusion and destruction of com=munications. It was a brilliant operation, notable primarily for the excellence of British staff work. I have reason to believe after subsequent conversations with officers in a position to know that this offensive did not come to Graziana as a surprise. He had feared it and asked Mussolini for heavy tanks and more air support. Mussolini had talked with Hitler about the tanks and Hitler agreed to provide them but only on the condition that they carried Ger=man crews. Mussolini rejected this condition. As for the aircraft, he dissipated them over the Channel and Albania.

Italian Morale Low IF GRAZIANI CAN offer this protest he cannot escape the responsibility on two other charges. First, he did not retrain the Italian army against the new British tactics. No Italian general ever gives his troops special training for the given terrain and given foe. It is a fundamental weakness. Secondly, he did not cut his Josses after the first British success, fall back on a defensive position and get himself set for the next attacks. The alternative of launching attacks himself was not offered him because the morale of the Italian troops was too low, That brings the ultimate responsibility back to Mussolini. Most of the generals knew that the Italians were weary from

Ethiopia and Spain, knew that they loathed the Germans, knew that Mussolini was taking them into a war they had no will to fight. Mussolini disregarded the morale of his troops as easily as he disregarded the recommenda= tions of his field commanders. Graziani asked for the fleet, support but Mussolini kept the fleet in home ports while the Italian peasant soldiers were undefended against British naval bombardments from the coast. Graziani asked for more airplanes and the air force complained that there were no repair shops in Libya, Thus they had to fly back to Italy for normal overhauls and the peasant boys got quite a mouthful of British bombing,

Forced to Act

ALL OF MUSSOLINI'S orders were issued for political or personal reasons, never on a basis of military necessity. And Graziani disregarded Fascist Party necessities. Mussolini forced Graziani to undertake the offensive which took the Italians to Sidi el Barrani before Graziani was prepared for that action. Consequently, the relations between Mussolini and Graziani were no more cordial than those between Daladier and Gamelin, They worked at crosspurposes instead of together because they mistrusted each other, One was thinking politically, the other militarily, instead of the two coming together to think with singleness of purpose of victory alone, Consequently when the collapse

Water Ran Low, Flames Blazed High in Jinx Night That Tested London Firemen's Mettle

By PAUL MANNING Times Special Writer LONDON, April 9. -—- He stood leaning against the counter of the canteen, his hands wrapped around the mug of hot tea so they'd lose a little of that blue, chill feeling. The spring night had been cold, and though the warehouse continued at dawn to blaze with biting

intensity the heat was not warming because the water from the fire hose he had just left was too cold. The young fireman, whose name was Peter Grigg, was hungry and he was worried. “This night was a jinx,” he said. “Why?” “That warehouse, The fire should have been out four hours ago. Instead it's spreading and now we have to drag a hose—me and Wal-

(ter, that is—through a seven-toot-|

wide passageway where the walls are shaky.” The night had been a nightmare for this fire crew. German planes had returned four times to this flaming beacon to release high explosives in sticks of three over vhe area. Two street water tanks near the warehouse had been cracked by the blast. One tank was still all right, but the water being pumped from there wouldn't have put out a garage fire. So nearly everyone

HOLD EVERYTHING

in the fire

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battalion had started stringing hose down the roadway to the Thames. This worked, for a while. Then the tide began golng out, which was serious. The hose lines

had been only dropped into {he river from the bank. And as the Thames has probably the fastest outgoing tide of any of the world’s great rivers, the pumps began sucking up mud from those places along the riverside which a short time before had been covered with deep water. Once again that fire got out of control, until the battalion chief had another idea. He would have the men string hose lines out along the nearby bridge to the center, where they could be dropped into the middle of the Thames. This took nearly 45 minutes-—and a lot of work. But the idea was good, and scon they were again spraying full streams of water over the warehouse. However the fire was too great now, so all they could do was prevent it from spreading. Their troubles weren't , over, though. This was the night when some of those German planes overhead hac evidently been assigned to get the bridges. A bomb intended for the center of the bridge which carried the hose lines fell short. It dug a big crater in the roadwayapproach to the bridge. It wasn't the crater which worried

“What's the matter with you, aren't you a gentleman?”

the firemen when the plane had disappeared. It was the fact that three of their hose lines had been severed. This left only three streams of water to fight two warehouse fires. ’ Yet it was enough to keep the fire under control until the blaze had burned itself out. But to keep it under control meant one hose crew had to drag a line through that narrow seven-foot-wide pas-sage-way in order to get a cross stream on the fire. That's what Peter Grigg was worried about. The walls jn that

came it was complete, T estimate that the Italians have lost 100,000 men in Libya, most of them pris oners. The peasant soldiery knew that they had been let down once again by their leaders, They had never wanted the war and never understood the necessity for it, Once they realized that they were let, down all the fight went out of them. In addition to the men the Italians lost their best tanks, guns, planes and equipment They have nothing with which to ree place it. To illustrate the loss of tanks T know that a tank division training near Rome as a replace» ment to a division destroved in Libya has only four tanks and only three officers of active ex perience in the tank corps. Teo illustrate the loss of equipment, I know an Italian who recently told me that he had been called up for military service but would escape it. “I'll wait until the last mine ute,” he said. “There won't be enough shoes and uniforms to go around and I'll be passed over.” He did just that and avoided the army. ‘ It is clear then that the British feat is remarkable in the exe treme. In roughly four months they assembled, equipped and trained an army which routed an army seasoned in the deserts of Ethiopia and trained in Spain, That ought to be an inspiration to Americans who know how hard it is to improvise an army, which is rarely built overnight but gene erally grows slowly like a tree. NEXT: Mussolini's bribery backs

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STUDY WAGE OF PRISON GUARDS

Budget Committee to Meet With Warden Dowd of State Prison.

The state budget committee will meet tomorrow to study the probe lem of more adequate salaries for guards at Indiana State Prison, ©, Anderson Ketchum, budget director, announced today. Warden Alfred Dowd, who charged last week that an attempted break

narrow alley were getting shaky, bY six inmates of the Prison was he said, and if he had his way directly traceable to inefficient pers he'd use dynamite and forget about |sonnel, will meet with the commite

trying water from that point.

to play a cross stream of tee.

Monthly salaries from $100 to $125

“This night was a jinx,” he said.[for 12 hour working days prevent

“Well, I said.

the worst is over now,”

the hiring of competent guards, Mr, Dowd said. More than 50 expes

He set down his empty tea-cup | rienced men already have left for

and moved away from the canteen private industry and

with a slew, lumbering gait because water-logged boots are heavy. But something happened when he was halfway down that narrow passageway. It was the last jinx for Peter

Grigg, hurrying to relieve Walter | travel,

so he too could take a five-minute break from that chilling nozzle. With ponderous finality, the wall which had been shaky crashed, There was a heavy scream, then complete silence from beneath that mountain of brick and mortar, Complete silence, except for the crackling of flames.

GUARD EQUIPMENT IS DUE BY MAY 25

The 2509 men in the Indiana State Guard will be completely equipped with rifles and uniforms by May 25, Adj. Gen, John D. Friday said today. Bluish grey coats, trousers and caps are being made now for the men at the State Prison and Mr, Friday has asked manufacturers who have Federal uniform contracts to sell shirts and black ties to the

State for the same amount the Government is paying,

13 of these have not been replaced, he said. The budget committee also will take steps to put into operation a new law allowing an extra daily wage for state emplovees who replacing expense allows ances.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—-What are the first seven words of the Declaration of Independence? 2—-The purchase of which territory by the United States was called “Seward’s folly"? 3—Does a Vice Admiral in the U, 8, Navy rank below or above a Rear Admiral? 4—-Name the author of the novel “How Green Was My Valley.” 5--A province in Northern Ireland, a county in New York and a kind of men's overcoat are named Neesma] ? 6-—~Name the cardinal points of the compass. 7—How old will Chief usfice Hughes be on his next birthday, April 11, 1941?

Answers

1—“When, in the course of human events , , J» 2--~Alaska.

Rifles will be borrowed from Ft, |3-—Above. alla Hayes, O., as soon as the War De-|4—Richard Llewellyn.

partment approves the $5000 bond

of Capt. William P, Weimar, Indi-|

anapolis, newiy appointed State property officer.

SPEED TREES’ GROWTH

BUENOS AIRES, April 8 (U, P), —Hercules Pinchi, an inventor,

|| cladms that he can make trees grow

faster. Pinchi is guarding an elec tro-magnetic device, which, he says,

(|when applied to trees, shrubs and ' |other vegetation, over a period of

several days, rapidly accelerates

their growth.

{p—Ulster.

6--North, east, south, west. T-"19.

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