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. BR. HIGGINBOTHAM BY Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, March 26.—A Zurich
dispatch said today that Adolf Hit-
(district leaders) Berchtesgaden, Subject matter of the conference was not disclosed, the
office spokesman as saying that Germany “must be prepared for Berlin said the Nazi capital “was more jittery and tense than at any
The dispatch, distributed by the time since the invasion of Norler has called an emergency meet- | pychange Telegraph agency, : ing of his ministers and gauleiters the plans for the meeting were for tonight at| disclosed by an source.” Ministers and gauleiters will be dispatch’| transported to Hitler's Bavarian resaid, but it quoted a German war treat by plane, it said.
Overseas Soldier Protests Arrest of Wedding Party STATE 10 GET
unfortunate news.”
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~ bub of confusion, not to mention
“The honeymoon was far trom ove Stay tn a ae "Mrs. Alvia Dice’ of 2118 Prospect he. Their marriage celebration was ended abruptly Saturday night by a patroiman who thought there was too ‘much noise. Behind the Purple heart wearer and his bride are drivers who received $2 stickers. They are (left
56—NUMBER 13
Report Hitler Calls W
Reporis reaching Sweden from
to right) Jel Cutan, Bernard L. Taylor and Joseps DiCewss.
‘If They Do If fo Me, They'll MAYOR NAMES
Do It to Other G.I. Joes HOSPITALBOARD
| do it to me, they'll do it to the other. guys when they They'll hand some other Joe the same treatment. |
If theyll geome home.
“But things are going to be. different.
full of war nerves theres’ going to
said |[mandy. Travelers
“unquestionable | from Germany air raids were driving Berliners “to (he said,
dementia.”
at Malmoe the nightly
arriving
said
hind the German dispatches said.
| alzeady had guided Germans expect further surprise|blown up bridges, acted as spies | air-borne landings still deeper be-| and immasked allied spies.
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MONDAY, MARCH 26,
ar Leaders To Berchtesgaden
lines, - Swedish |
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Arthur Axman, Nazi youth leader, {astic boys and girls. . called on German girls as well as) {of Adolf Hitler must eerie the | boys to throw themselves into Ger- | center of our national resistance. |
shock troops, |
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For Public Use.
'Chutists Hang
Across#the Rhine, March 25 (De= layed) —It
that decided the issue in consoli- |
FORECAST: Clearing and a little cooler tonight.” Torarron fair and a little warmer.
1945
Indiana
“Consider the concentrated
strength of our millions of enthusi-
. The youth | |
many's last battles. | You boys and girls must never | “Not words but deeds can help,” capitulate. There is no going hack after reciting how boys for us any longer.”
The Paris newspaper Figaro said |
| (Continued on: Pip 4 —Column 2)
VITAL BATTLE—
From-~Trees in
‘Monkey Wood’
By RICHARD D. McMILLAN United Press Staff Correspondent
| | WITH BRITISH 2D ARMY, | { was called the battle f Monkey Wood, because that is hat it looked like. But it was a vital struggle—one
th
At its initial act, the newly-ap-pointed Indiana conservation com- | mission this afternoon was to accept, a donation of 211 acres in Brown | county as the site for a new state)
memorial.
bank of the Rhine.
the American and British para-
The odd name was picked by
chutists who hung from trees | | among the steel skeletons burned-out gliders. ” n o |
which includes several studio buildings, is valued at $130,000. It is a portion of the thickly-wooded hill country typical of Brown county's ‘summer resort district. Nearby is.located Hoosier- | | dom’s mbst widely-famed art colory. | Identification of the donor and | [other details of the acquisition ‘were ‘tobe withheld pending the com-| | mission's final approval of the con-
The property.
[tribution at its first meeting this]
| afternoon. Plans ‘Living Memorial’ The new conservation commis-| |sion’s director, Milton Matter, also| will propose the establishment of al vast and new state forest area as a “living memorial” to Indiana's world | war II dead. Although specific plans have not | |vet been drafted, this is not a post- | war project, says Mr, Matter. He intends to proceed with the] idea as soon as land values and | forestry sites can be surveyed.
: Muncie Aviator Brings Crippled
Ship Back Safely
When the boys come
be some hell-raising. Plenty of
celebration. And nothing's gonna stop it.
“I don't mean we'll break the law.
Our home background and army wm
training is all against that. But ad threat of arrest doesn't mean any-|
thing. We've been through a lot] worse. \ and hospitals board. Four members| ‘ ad? ‘of. the former health board also Principle Involved CAUSING MEAT MEAT CRISIS were named to the new board. t
“It didn’t mean anything to onl
Saturay night. I'm thinking of the|
principle involved—the privilege of First Testimony ‘on Food
having a little fun when the occasion calls for it.” That's the way Cpl. Alvia DuRee, an overseas veteran, felt after 8! policeman who was “allergic”
Circle Saturday night. In three cars,
behind. Patrolman Forrest FEuliss | intervened before they had -made | a complete circle, The patrolman issued three $2 | stickers, one to each driver, Violated City Ordinance “Don’t you know that’s a viola~-| tion of a city ordinance?” he asked, |
Ree. celebrate a wedding?” By this time, Patrolman Euliss had more noise than he had bargained for. A crowd of spectators taunted the officer. One soldier, spying Cpl. DuRee's Purple Heart, shouted: “That's a great wedding gift for » soldier that's been overseas.” Crowd Gathers Several other persons pfotestdd the patrolman’s action and servicemen milled around menacingly. By that time the Circle was a hub-
" noises, including horn blowing. Patrolman Buliss later was quoted
SENATORS TOLD OPA.
|artian health board and City hospital board, replacing them with (a non-partisan five- member board.
Shortages Heard.
—A spokesman for small meat |
to packers’ today accused the OPA of{ appointed to four-year terms; Dr. noise tossed a wet blanket over his| | “operating on a social theory which | Ensminger . to . three years, Mrs wedding celebration on Monument | regards profits as a sin.”
The charge was made by Wilbur |
the party Was 1a Roe, Jr, general counsel for the tive May 1. winding its way around the monu- | National Independent “Meat Pack- [only ment an hour after the ceremony, |ers association, in testimony before | only change from horns blowing, tin cans rattling the special senate food investigat- | board is the replacement of Lionel
{ing committee. He also charged that OPA pot] cies were violating the direct will of | congress.
store food to the American table.” Meat on Black Market La Roe, the committee's first wi
markets, He testified, however, tha “a- responsible packer from western
back Dr. Furniss, 4 From Health
Board Appointed.
TWENTY-FIRST BOMBER COMMAND HEADQUARTERS, Guam, March 26 (U. P.).—A Superfortress piloted by Lt: Frank A. Crowcroft, {of Muncie, Ind., made two trips over | the target in Sunday's demolition | ja: on NayoRa. What's more, the, made it on only three. “engines. | Bane plane—the “Going | Fla —was forced to turn around | and repeat’ its hazardous run when the bombs failed to drop the first]
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sat along a dusty roadside, with the. sun beating down on piles of | bloody German bodies among the twisted broken trees.
gallery,” Sgt. Ray Martin, Toledo, O. “You
given new posts are Frank G. Laird,
WASHINGTON, March 26 (U. P.).| Mrs. Roberta Nicholson, Dr. L. A. {Ensminger and Howard Griffith,
| Nicholson two and Dr. Furniss one.
w|board provides that two physicians . His testimony coincided with dis-|be appointed, one of whom shall closure that the committee plans to |be a member of the largest minority use the full facilities of the jus-|facial group. tice department, the federal bureau ment is that all five members must . {of investigation and the treasury be Indianapolis residents and ‘must “Wait a minute,” cut in Cpl. Du-| | department's intelligence units “tobe chosen “without regard to politi“How are you supposed to destroy the black market and re-|cal affiliation.”
annually while the board president, | it-| to be named later, will receive an
ness, said in response to repeated a | questions that he did not know how
'much meat was going into black|Der slum clearance board and a
¢ | four- member. aviation board, both established by recent legislation, were expected to .be announced (Continued on “Page 4—Column 3) |later this week by Mayor Tyndall,
ti Mayor Tyndall today announced |
The legislature abolished the bi-
Former health board members
Mr. Laird and Mr. Griffith were
The appointments become effecMrs. Nicholson is the
Democratic appointee. The the former health
Artis. Salary $600 a Year
The act establishing the new
A further require-
Board members will receive $600
dditional $300 a year. The appointment of a five-mem-
House Jockeys Treatment of
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. LOCAL TEMPERATURES house was given the choice today 6am..... 0 Fam... 59 |of voting an independent inquiry 7am...,58 10am... ¢1 [into the X aus of veterans’ afSam... 58 IIa. mM... 62 |fairs or dpproving a restricted iny vestigation by a committee whose TIMES INDEX . seliairman already has assumed the * |role of defender of the veterans — administration. Amusements ..12| Movies ..... +42} Chairman John Rakin (D. Business ..... 7|Obituaries .... 5| Miss) of the house veterans comComics .......13| Fred Perkins . 9|mittee was }ning up support for his Crossword ....13| Ernie Pyle .... 9|resolution to have the inquiry conEditorials ...:10| Radio ne el ducted by his group. The Rankin . Peter Edson. . 10! Mrs. Roosevelt 9|measure would confine the invesFashions .....11|Wm. P. Simms 10|tigaticn to matters under direct, Forum ........10|Soclety ....11, 12| jurisdiction of the Veterans ad12isports ....... 6 ministration. :
By NED BROOKS Seripps-Howard Staff Writer - WASHINGTON, March 26.—The
on Quiz Into. U. S. Veterans
posing a broader inquiry hy. a special 11-member commjttee, 'including five members of the veterans committee. The. Philbin measure would permit an examination into hospitals and other servicemen's facilities
other government branches, as well as the veterans administration, Rep. Rankin won the first round Saturday when the house ‘rules committee by a split vote; reportedly 4 to 3, gave his resolution right-of-way over Rep. Philbin’s. The| house test will come, probably todays, when the New Englander attempts to ‘have. his. measures SUDstituted on ‘the floor.
Rep. Rankin has fcught for near
fooled the Jap ack-ack gunners,” he said, bursting ahead of us. figured we were going the same speed as the others.”
| by shattering the island's
operated by the army, navy and|
ime over. . Discoveling three “eggs” still in
| the appointment of Dr. Sumner A. the bomb bay, the plane's bomba- | Furniss to the newly-created health | dier crawled into the compartment with a flashlight and |and toggled the bombs by hand into
screwdriver |
he target.
Crowcroft corroborated reports
from other pilots that flak in Sunday’s low-level raid was about the stiffest encountered to date.
But he said his Superfort’s one
bad engine turned out to be a ed Drives darriions. Back on
|
“Our slower speed must have
“because. their. flak kept I guess they |
At ‘any rate, the “Going Jesse”
got out unscathed and returned to the base safely despite the enemy's | heavy and accurate anti-aircraft] | ready within 35 miles of the Aus-| defenses.
Sunday's raid, following on the
FORMOSA INDUSTRY DEALT HEAVY BLOW .
Liberators Pardly Paralyze HydroElectric Plant.
By H. D. QUIGG United Press Staff Correspondent MANILA, March 26. —Liberator | bombers were believed today to have paralyzed all enemy war production in two-thirds of Formosa |
getsu hydro-electric plant. | More than 50 Liberators.and es-|
airforce hit the hydro-electric installations Friday with 145 tons of explosives which wrecked the power plant and transformers. A communique said the raid left “water pouring fromthe penstocks” and a spokesman estimated the attack knocked out 75 per cent of Formosa's hydro-electric generating | capacity. A penstock is a ‘conduit leading from a millrace to a waterwheel. “THe whole southern ‘two-thirds of Formosa and its war industries will
haps even cut off,” a 5th airs force staff member said following a ‘study’ of reconnaissance photographs. “All southern Formosa will suffer an enforced blackout and its indusLtry an enforced layoff,” he said.
ly three weeks to head off the full-
RUSSIAN ARMY. 1S 35 MILES FROM / AUSTRIA i
today that the Russians have
corting Lightnings from the 5th]
be very seriously hampered and per-}.
“The probability of repair is out of the question because all transformer stations were destroyed ahd gener.
THEY TOLD me abowt it as we |
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“We called it Monkey Wood be-
cause that's exactly how it looked as we landed our ‘chutes among the —¢rees;” Bill Edwards of England.
said 20-year-old -Pyi..
“It was better than a ste | said an American chutist,
had a target everywhere. I killed three Germans myself. They were hiding in a barn. One looked 4 through a window and I plugged | him. I got two more as they came |
around the hodse.
o THE LINKUP 2 eben the airborne men and the Scots was going all along the line, but we | weren't linked up yet. We fought through Jerry bunkers and came
to a small stream where we saw gj
troops. They came’ closer and we shouted: ‘English?’ They | answered: ‘No, Scots’ {Ki
“There 'was plenty of hand- | la shaking after that.” In the woods we found the Scots and Yanks climbing around |
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| captured German tanks.
“If we could .only have our pictures taken now,” said Pvt. J. C. Upton, Bay Springs, Miss. | n s ” IT WOULD have made a | strange picture. Among the trees were gliders, or rather skeleton steel frames—all that was teft of them after they burned when hit by enemy tracers. Beneath the trees were heaps of German dead, Some parachutists still dangled | from the trees and 4mbulance men were climbing down some of -the trees with the wounded.
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90-Mile Front.
By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, March 26.—Berlin said |
thrown a third army group. into | their Vienna-bound offensive, Bl}
(Continued on inued on Page d--Co 4—Column 7) | (orc seized a bridgehead across | Denny st,
| trian border. Sgt. Warren C. Freeman, 317 E.| were battling for every foot. of an t : oko Ernest Von Hammer, German 24th st, in Germany. ground on the flat Westphalian Wetotsiing J Soe Viiges a DNB commentator, said the new| Pvt. Omer H. Collins, 426 N.|5j5ing northeast of Wesel. S waiting in Germany, |” Even in that sector. however. the the Americans to round them up. | the Hron river near the Slovakian- Pvt. Albert H. Thomas, 412 N. .4uance gathered momentum as A few fanatical German villagers b 6 miles | Keystone ave, in Manila. and local police units attemfited to | Hungarian border some 96 miles N re ini fresh armored and infantry reserves (ove off the 3d ar dvanc iid x Jenna in an attack that| Pvt. William Griffin, 1410 Com- poured across the Rhine. my a ® t 4 a. m. yesterday. i st., in Germany. Spearheads of he | British, Ca-' (Continued on Page A=Cobamn 2), Spe Doman report said the SAFE .
Russians crossed the Hron at three points. The new army group went over 2 the attack north of the Danube hile two others—the 2d and 3d N reiliiatewere driving the Ger- | mans © back - toward Austria in| disorder along a 90-mile front] |'south of the river. vanguards of the 3d Ukrainian | army already had outflanked the western Hungarian fortress city of |
By FRANK TREMAINE United Press Staft Correspondent. GUAM, March 26.—Tokyo said | today tlht 2000 American invasion | | troops were storming two and per- | haps three tiny. islands in the | (Okinawa group in a major am-=-| phibious leap toward Japdn proper, only 380 miles to the northeast, Thirteen aircraft carriers, 11 bat’ tleships, 10 cruisers, 32 destroyers and other smaller craft were supporting the invasion with a terrific air and naval bombardment that | began Friday, | Japanese Droadeasts said. The troops “attempted” to and from 100 invasion barges on Tokoshika and Aka, four and five
'Frankfurt-on-Main today.
‘Hoosier Heroes—
ON IWO- JIMA, | TWO SAME DAY
‘visited the 1st army's Remagen bridgehead today.
smen are wounded, and one has been
| Michigan st., | box 383, on Iwo Jima.
5th ave.
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polis, 9, Ind, Issued daily except Sunday
FRANKFURT'S FALL BELIEVED NEAR AS 3D STABS 40 MILES
Unconfirmed Paris_Radio Report Says Troops Have Entered City; N 240 Miles From Berlin.
United Press Staff Correspondent March 26.—The American 3d army's lout in front of the allied western offensive today with a 40-mile advance beyond The drive caved in the German's southern flank 240 miles from dating our bridgehead on the easy | Berlin and sealed the fate of Frankfurt.
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Iwo Jima has cost the lives of th
five more local mayines, according to today's casualty lists. Two were from jts Remagen bridgehead against the flank of the
lled on the same day. Four other Fr
Indianapolis servicemen have been oyin syper-highway to within 40 miles or less of Franke
lled in other theaters of combat; | fu navy fighter pilot is mi ssing; 10, eed by the Russians. KILLED: 8. Sgt. Jack M. Salter, 3607 E.| on Iwo Jima. James E. Robling, R. R. 10,}
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Beech Grove,
Pvt-James EB. Whited 321 8 Rit- 5 0
Pfc. Robert W. Dillow, R. R. 20, th ox 739, on Iwo Jima. » Sgt. John E. Warner, 3044 Guil-
Imes
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice
The broadcast, recorded by C. B. S of {word of the third army entry came from “the American radio” (U nconfirmed reports reaching London today said the or army was ap-
|Germans were abandoning it and fleeing southeastward into
|W ere less-than eight miles from a juncture with 3d army,
bridgehead were 19 miles beyond the Rhine in the Altenkir« chen area and making rapid | Pfc. Louis G. Prosch Jr, 105 N.|progress against weakening
on Iwo| (resistance. | Jima, the same day as Cpl. Robling, | 5
man defenses along the northern flank of the burning Ruhr,
FINAL HOME
PRICE FIVE CENTS
azi Southern Flank Caves In
By BOYD LEWIS
racing tank columns swept
army troops entered
adio report said American 3 Nii said
oaching Wuerzburg, 60 miles southeast of Frankrt and 228 miles southwest of Berlin.) Headquarters spokesmen expressed confidence that the rman army finally was being beaten to its knees in the eat Rhine assault. Prime Minister Churchill and Field Marshal Sir Bere rd L. Montgomery went across:the Rhine again today. Montgomery said that “the battle is going extremely
The British radio said that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Germans Abandoning Frankfurt?
Frankfurt, Germany's 9th city, was under siege from ree sides. « Heavily-censored field dispatches indicated the
e Bavarian mountains. The United States 1st army to the north swung down
ankfurt defenders. They raced, down the Rhine-Ruhr-
rt. Vanguards.of the 1st army along the Rhine's. east bank . oops south of Coblenz. First army troops storming directly eastward from the
' nadian and airborne forces were res | ported only three miles from Issel | burg, six miles north-northwest of At the top of the Western front, Wesel and seven miles west of the ur “allied” armies were striking communications. center of _Bocholt, rough a 30-mile belt of the Ger-| ‘Along a front of 200 miles northe ward from Lt. Gen. George S. Pate |ton’s U. S. 3d army line at Franke furt, the German defenses were
{ford ave.
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| Manhattan ave.
Grove ave. on Iwo Jima. State st., on Luzon. New Jersey st., on the western front. nent, | Sloane ave.,
ave. over Europe.
| ant st.,
French home service dispatch under a Moscow dateline quoted Hungarian |
sources as saying-the Germans had n the European! | murdered- former Premier Nicholas| -* the 1as} fotnd | PeAn strength for a sustained and gene
[Kallay of Hungary: BBC reported big Jitsu-| (Continued on Page 4—Column 8) today.
Japanese Report Ariens Are Invading Okinawa Isles
in Germany. | James G. Phillips, 725 { in Belgium. Lloyd F. Posey, 501 S.! in Germany. | Walter H. Doan, 821 8S. on Luzon. MISSING Edward K. Reed, in the Pacific. WOUNDED Cpl. Marcus E. Brown,
Opposition at some points was : | fanatical and almost non-existent at! | others. i U. S. 9th army forces drove 12! miles beyond the Rhine on the | southern wing of the -four-army | assault line to capture Gahen, 3'2 miles west of Dorsten and less than 1121115 miles due north of the Ruhr | [city of Essen, Germany's largest | war production center. 1207 W.| | Pront dispatches said the AmeriOth st. on Iwo Jim | cans had lost all contact with the
Pfc. Melvin E. Miler, 2136 Sugar fleeing enemy in that sector. Forward elements southwest of long flight southeastward in the
Capt. John G. Isgrigg, 1554 S./Gahlen were entering the suburbs path of Patton’s charging tank {of Duisburg and the fall of that} nhs Pvt. Charles W. Musick/1814 N. great Ruhr city appeared mm Front reporters said the Amerie cans everywhere were sweeping up
breaking wide open under the tere rific allied ground and air assault, Great. masses of German troops and armor were reported in heade
Sgt.
8S. Sgt.
S. Sgt. LONDON, March 26 (U. P.). = An Exchange Telegram front dispatch said today that the British 2d army bridgehead across the Rhine has been extended 15 miles beyond the river at an undisclosed point.
Lt. (i)
Sgt. George R. Machlan, 1781 S. Approach Isselburg thousands of dazed prisoners. in France. Farther north, however, shock i es ' ' Germans Await Capture S. Sgt. John W. Ely, 5346 Central {yong of the British 2d, Canadian | 4
. | Eyewitness reports from Patton's | 3 1st and allied 1st airborne armies |g... said hundreds of Germans
Lt. Roy W. Pattison, 1209 Si freed by Russians. | { |
War's End a Queshion ‘Mark: The Big 'If' Is Suicide Army
By LUDWELL DENNY | Scripps-Howard Staff Writer
a (Details, Page Three)
REPORT KALLAY SLAIN
LONDON, March 26 (U, P).—A
(will be desperate local counters | attacks, the allied command is cone WASHINGTON, March 26.—This|fident that the enemy lacks the
r.. But it may not be ended as eral counter-offensive.
{speedily “as Churchill and- ‘some \ 4 in others predict. The truth is that | This assurance is supported by all
cody. knows how long: it will | KROVD factors. Hitler is short of | nobody crack troo 8 take. Our generals admit this, 3 troops, and his tanks and
‘| Tre reason for uncertainty has{ Panes Jack the gasoli ne for a great nothing to do with possible allied| yr.c transport lines and hubs weakness. There is no such basic | have been partially wrecked by weakness. We now have overwhelms | jive re Conclusive proof of a ing superiority=-not only in the air}, is the enemy's inability to hold but also on tne ground, in man-|i,, phinethe best defensive poe power ‘and in firepower. | sition in all Europe—and his failure “Nor. is_the uncertainty connected |; rq)ly quickly to contain the ale with any probable enemy counter- oq bridgeheads after the Rhine | offensive. Counter-attacks are taken |... srossed. for granted, the only surprise being pe example. in | that they have - not developed | sooner. "But, wine nets doubtless | (Continued on Page melvin 6)
Ohi the War Fronts
"Reds are 2 miles from Austriaj seize bridgehead over Hron river, —Patton - forces. PACIFIC—Japs réport Yank iw of the landings available at Pa-| close on’ kfurt-,in 40-mile , vision of ©kinaws isles, 380 miles, cific fleet headquarters, but one stab beyond Rhine. Six armies| i
(Continued on “Page 4—Column 5 east of Rhine advance almost a
land of Okinawa itself at 7:30 a. m. (Tokyo time) Sunday, Tokyo said. One ° broadcast said invasion | | barges also approached Zamami,| | just northwest of Tokoshika. Though not saying specifically | that the Americans had succeeded in landing. on Tokoshika and Aka, Tokyo reported that “our garrison units are now intercepting ‘enemy forces -. + + which attempted . 8 landing.” |, Another broadcast said the gar- | risons were ‘offering: “stiff resist: ance.” * There was no official confirmation WESTERN FRO
in the north the
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