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TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1946
CHARGES MAY BE PLACED DEGNAN CASE
; Circumstantial ntial Evidence Is ‘Mounting Against Heirens Youth.
By ROBERT T. LOUGHRAN + United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, July 2.—Charges were expected to be. placed today against william Heirens, 17-year-old University of Chicago student suspected in thé kidnap-slaying of Suzanne Degnan. Aughorities have linked him with B.. 8 series of recent Crimes. ; > Basten ooo w ng maintained his thnocence despite a massive amount of circumstantial evidence, will be brought’ into criminal court on" a writ of habeas corpus. State officials were given until noon today to answer defense demands that the youth be formally charged, or released. It was reported that Capt. Michael Ahern would appear before Judge Harold G. Ward to ask that Heirens be charged with burglary and assault with intent to kill. Police hoped to have bail set high enough to enable them to continue efforts to obtain a confession of the slayng. pais ow i Believed Chitage Terrorist
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CURTAIN CALL— Old Art Dies Playing Violin For Children
ST. LOUIS, July 2 (U. P.).—~The yard in front of the Shriner's hos‘pital was lined with crippled children today—having the time of their lives. For them it was circus day. The cast of the Shriner’s annual :ircus, which opened last night, was on hand. And the elephants, the trick ponies — even tanbark — and especially gowns. n CAME TIME tok ‘the last act and - up stepped Arthur Borella, Galveston, Texas—the violin- playing cloWn.
STATE SURVEY 13 FIRST STEP IN EMERGENCY
Old Art probably has made more young hearts glad ‘thay any other)
old. He dumped his stove- pipe hat back at a funny angle and said: “Now, follow ‘me, kids.” Old Art began playing “Jingle Bells.” » un n
their twisted limbs and their many hurts. They relaxed in their wheel-
“Here I go,” said Old Art, He stepped back and fell. The kids thought it was part of the act. “Art was-dead of a heart ailment, | but as the saying goes, “he left
In addition to the Degnan murder, police said Heirens had been | connected with at least 19 crimes, | including robberies, shootings and’ : assaults, = Chief of Detectives Walter Storms i said he was convinced that the burly maladjusted college student was the prowler who had been causing a “reign of terror” on Chieago’s north side during the oy two years, Police listed as new and damagg evidence pointing” to Heirens’ ilt :
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old Suzanne last Jan. 7.
in which Heirens formerly lived.
on move; i.
of Mrs. Marjorie Caldwell, 28.
last Oct. 6, robbing her of $150.
elevated station.
about several unsolved murders.
death in her North side apartment, |
Wave Frances Brown,
wall, reading:
myself.”
Evelyn Peterson, a discharged | gecretary or two,” army nurse, gave what police de-|ones on the payroll There were were reported on the verge of {the man escaped. | special legislative sessions if the
ONE: A federal bureau of investigation report that a print of Heirens' left palm matched a palm print on .the -$20,000 ransom note left by the Kkidnaper of six-year-
TWO: Finding of a pad similar
THREE: Test samples, of Heirens’
FOUR: Discovery of ® 22 caliber target pistol in Heirens’ room which was adjourned, testimony whirled . was identified through ballistics | around the firm's winning an “E” tests as one used in the shooting | award, “bourbon mix” served at a | picnic, the late Dutch Schultz and | FIVE: The tentative identifica-|'‘Owney” Madden of New York | tion of Heirens by an ex-army | City, the Lindbergh kidnaping case | nurse as the man who attacked her|in New Jersey, and the FBI
SIX: The recovery of a bag containing $7310 in war bonds, some of them stolen in burglaries attri- { Illinots Watch Case Co. in Elgin—| do about rent control.
buted to Heirens, in a north side |
As a result of the finding of the pistol in Heirens’ room, Storms said | firm are A. B. Gellman, president; the youth would be questioned |J. T. Weiss, treasurer; H. M. Garsson and M. W. Garsson, vice presi<
These included that of Mrs. Jo-|dents, and J. T. Freeman, Washsephine Ross, who was choked to |ingion representative. The names of these officials are|
and the “lipstick slaying” of ex- | sprinkled through the directorates of hand.”
“For heaven's sake, catch me be- | fore I kill more; I cannot control! | themselves $12,500 a month in sal-
‘em JOUgRINE" sg »
‘PHANTOM’ WAR ‘PLANTS PROBED
‘Charge Firm em Did Not Exist,
When Given Contracts. WASHINGTON, July 2 (U, P).
—The senate war investigating committee today widened its in-
of war contracts.
words, “waite” and “safty,” as as they no employees and no machinery. were written incorrectly on the ran-
“tar shells.
Say Plant Was “Hired”
contracts which it won later.
clown in the warld.: He's "72 years;
THE CHILDREN - forgot about| senator expressed confidence con-
chairs and began to sing at the top| governor said the senator also exof their lungs. pressed belief the measure would
quiry into the tangled affairs of 16| Estate board and the Apartment Illinois “phantom” firms that were| Qwners’ association to revive the awarded millions of dollars worth| municipal fair rent committee,
Opening testimony brought out| at net higher than 15 per cent
to that on which the note was : 3 th ne the firms—Erie Basin | written in the university. dormitory] L0a5, 9BC Of the firms—gris Basin) above OFA cellings. The com-
The contract was for chemical mor-
Before the first day's hearing
Witnesses testified, that Erie Basin officials “hired” another plant—the
to carry out its $44,879,000 in war |
Governor Advised: Congress Eyed.
Gov. Gates today received a telegram from U. S. Senator Homer E. Capeliart in which the
gress would pass a rent control measure for another year. The
be retroactive to July 1 and said | he would “sit tight” on any action for state control for the present.
| Governor Gates indicated {today he might call a special |session of the general assem‘bly to give him emergency rent control powers unless congress acts soon to stem
rent increases. As four other states moved to clamp their own lids on rents to stop-gap the loss of OPA protection, Attorney General James A,
was virtually without power to act
Legislative Action ested, i
Emmert informed the governor hel’
Mayor Tyndall today held an emergency meeting with representatives of the Indianapolis Real
which will attempt to peg rents
Bandit Slugs Bus Worker,
SEEK TO ‘HOLD LINE' ON AUTOS
mittee existed for a short time was awarded a $3,000,000 army mu-| prior to the OPA under a city nitions contract although it had| Civilian Defense organization. writing in which he misspelled two|not been incorporated, had no plant,
tive action. “I don’t expect to make an im-
in the emergency. without legisla-
Grabs $2000,
in 24 hours.” Congress’ Sentiment Awaited
definite.”
| of other companies up for scrutiny | Other States Act
Miss Brown was stabbed to death | today. in her apartment by a killer who| Salaries Aired scribbled a lipstick message on the |
| the case included assertions that:
Some of the first testimony in|
| aries when they, and “possibly a now have,
scribed as a “tentative identification | never more than 40 employees.
of Heirens as the assailant who, WM. W. Garsson, according to an rent situation becomes acute.
Hl peat and robbed her last Oct. 6.
but let me think it over. I'm confused now.”
Thomas Sentenced To 19-Year Term
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ht PHOENIX, Ariz, July 2 (U. P)— a Richard R. Thomas, 42, who last a dinner and picnic to celebrate an called for the Home Service audi- | week trumped up a confession of| “E” award to the Batavia Metal|torium at 47 S. Pennsylvania st.
terday was sentenced to 19 years| bill came to $16,264. Some $2375.85] Meanwhile, although reports of |
| naper; was linked with some activ ities of Schultz and Madden.
The bill for traveling expenses a request from the Owners and | put in by the firms from Jan, 30, Tenants Leagle of Indianapolis for 1942, to June 30, 1945, totaled $301, ~ | apartment owners to meet tomorrow | ish military personnel had been {to - discuss means of holding the] evacuated from Lebanon. | line on rents, The meeting was
646.41.
i the Suzanne Degnan kidnaping, yes-| Products, Inc. Batavia, nl Th
imprisonment for attempted rape) of it went for “370 dinners and 86 and unnatural sex acts against his| bottles of bourbon mix.”
; b! daughter, Patricia, 13. 4 The ex-radio singer, sentenced b
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six-year-old Degnan girl.
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it was made up.
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Superior Judge James A. Walsn, | gave Chicago police a 63-page signed | confession that -he kidnaped the
MOSCOW, July 2 (U. P).—For
By JAMES THRASHER Times Special Writer
TIMES INDEX
Amusements , 18/Don Hoover., 14
Aviation ..:.. 13|In Indpis. 3|and sundry other frustrations. Eddie Ash... 10|Inside Tndpls. 13| But a new one confronted him|finest sun tan in the: business. Boots ........ 22| LaMoore .... 6|last night as he opened Tis third) oo op. ul a Business ..... 30 | Ruth Millett. 13 |straight. season’ as guest tonduetor.| EVEIvthing wént beautifully, an Carnival ..... 14| Movies ...... 18] All three local baseball teams were |®Verybody obviously Had a wonder- plause and a liberal sprinkling of Classified '. 20-22 | Obituaries ... 11|playing night games at home, for ful time. It didn't rain. Nobody yiisties from the bleachers—not “Comics, ..... 23|J, E- O'Brien. 19|the first time in the citys history.|broke a fiddle string.” The public- as many as you'd hear at Ebbetts| Crossword ...*20 Radio ........ 23{The Giants and Yankees had an address michrophone only growled field, but more than at most conDisease Fight. 13| Reflections ., 14 [exhibition game at the = Polo|once at Miss Swarthout. Of course|certs anyway.
Editorials .... 14|Mrs. Roosevelt 13 grounds. Out -in Brooklyn the|the airliners still contrive to fly i ~ Europe Today 14|8Serial ....... 7|league-leading Dodgers were host I Fashions ..... 16|Sports ..... ',19-20 [at Ebbetts field to the Phillies, cur-
Mrs. Ferguson 16 Teen Talk ... 16 ‘ Forum ..,.. . 14 Washington". 14 | tional league,
Meta Given. 16 Women's ..... 16
were the only]
Finally, there was the matter of
much & part of the Lewisohn sta= dium summer concerts as the| ae. ‘gevitzky did have ope adNew York Phitharmonic Symphony .ntage over ye competition, two orchestra, the beer vendors and | {oams had to lose & ball game. But the bleachers. At least in his two [the maestro won, or, at worst, previous seasons as guest conductor | wand up in a tie with his soloist,| I have heard the Indianapolis he ‘has run into protracted rain, &| ihe jovely Gladys Swarthout, who orchestra's conductor many times, {newspaper strike, hard-nosed critics| gti] has one of the finest mezzo and I don't think I ever heard him| |soprano voices and certainly the|in better form. He had authority {and sensitivity and poise, and the lorchestra followed him: with alert |respect, He received prolonged ap-|
showed up ior the concert. How-
= attorneys general,
€lat 3 p.m.!
' Maestro Sevitzky' s N. Y. Concert Opener Successful Despite Baseball Competition
A “few. hours later he admitted] '. : ever, there were enough New| Dvorak : Yorkers remaining who don’t think|Then Miss Sw NEW YORK, July .2—~By (his|that the three B's are Bagby, Bon-| | del aria and the . Habanera fro time Fabien Sevitzky must consid- | [ham and Borowy to provide a good-|* the second day the Moscow press|er competition and obstacles as|gized house for the Indianapolis Sevtky today ignored the Bikini atom bomb |
maestro,
rently the dream boys of the Na- none of them buzzed the field.
COLUMBIA CITY, Ind, July 2 (U. P.).—State police today sought an unidentified man who knocked! a 26-year-old bus station attendant, | unconscious and fled with an esti- | mated $2000 this morning. The victim was Richard Jones, for the Geyhounfi bus lines
mediate decision on the legislative problem,” the governor said, “but I'll probably know: definitely with- |
“My first problem is to determine what the situation is over the state agent and how serious the emergency is.|and the Railway Express agency. After that, we must wait for, con- | gress to decide what it's going to|®
He was in a sefni- conscious state at Wolf Lake hospital. - State Policeman Blaine Schang
“I've also been checking senti-| said the man entered the small
ment in Washington to determine, The officers of the Erie Basin|if I can, what congress’ action is likely to be. So far there's nothing |
| station in the heart of the Colum-| | bia City business district about’ | 10:30 a. m. Jones was alone in the
Schang said ‘Jones revealed before Ihe lapsed into unconsciousness Ra {the man, wearing a gray suit asked for a sili {he was aiag. While Jones sought the package, he man struck him on the head. First states to act ins the rent! Ihe took the money” from Jones’ emergency were New York, Massa- | ,ockets and a cash register. chusetts, New Jersey and Alabama.
Rents appeared to be Governor Gates’ primary concern and he said | he planned no action on other prices unless the situation gets * ‘out |
Passersby heard the youth groan-
in Development.
(Atom Test Stories and Photo,
State police and sheriff deputies Connecticut and South Carolina | Set Up a road blockade. in Whitley county. They did not know how | was described as “about. or 35 years old, five feet 150 pounds and dark
WASHINGTON, July 2 (U. P).— The house military affairs commit[tee today approved legislation to that OPA would be resurrected. He Mass.) strengthened this contention | ™ said after a conference with Pres- by supporting temporary revival of| fast becoming cautious “after
In { FBI report, was an assistant to the other states governors reported inches tall, Miss Peterson picked Heirens out | secretary of labor ‘during the Hoo- | floods of requests for action but | complexioned. of eight men in a police showup| ver administration; once sought un-|in most cases they were awaiting and said: “I think that is the man,| successfully for the Lindbergh Kid-| definition of their powers by state
[give the military a strong voice in BRITISH QUIT LEBANON control of atomic energy. developCAIRO, July 2 (U. P.).—British ment and production.
| Only new ‘local development was | headquarters in the Middle East Chairman Andrew J. May
said today that with the exception|Ky. said ‘the committee vole Was | | of a small liquidation staff all Brit- 24 to 3
JEWS ON HUNGER ‘STRIKE ROME, July 2 (U. P.).
The house committee provided at least one and not more than two, By FRED W. PERKINS (big strikes, again impeding produc- | ¥ the Associated Press. Rankin jumped on Snipes’ back, witnesses said, tore off his shirt, | Tt also provided the director of mili, Secretary Schwellenbach today ministration is committed: the wage |scratched him and took his camera urged “restraimt” by labor. unions raises to increase the cost of pro-| before onlookers pulled the repre-
against the British policy in Pales-
| (Continued on Page 3=Columm 4) | tine.
the five-member com-
mission must be military personnel,
application created by | measure must be a military man. n While the senate would have kept | policy is undetermined. production of fissionable materials| = ghortly thereafter the bureau of , | entirely under the commission, the | Jabot statistics, a division of Mr: arthoat sang a Han. | house committee changed the bill| gchyellenbach's departmént, gave m | to authorize the President to per-|oyut information that: { mit the army to produce and manu- | ONE: There was a rise, of 3.7 Dubensky’s facture fissionable materials if helper cent in the general index of | Foster | thought it advisable. “This; reflect; would authorize and Miss the army ¥o produce atomic weap-| TWO: Most labor contracts per-
After intermission Mr. |
themes (with a bow to J. K, Lilly] in’ the’ program notes) Swarthout wound it up with a group Ons.
he of folk songs and several encores,
OBSERVATORY SPOTS NEW CONSTELLATION Wat Viewed as tending to ‘promote
2. advised-Jocal units throughout the Comet Brooks, one of several per-| country to stage demonstrations to | |iodic comets expected to visit the [influence actions by congress and | region of ‘the earth this surhmer, |state officials, and added: has been located in the constella-|
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.
a transplanted Hoosier over the stadium during the softest | thought ‘the home folks might be| California. portions of the music. But at least interested in one man’s assurance that Maestro Sevitzky had. all his | . Mr. Sevitzky ’ open the program :stuff ‘last night, and that he gave G.1. Rights, .. 23 Who's Who... 13] So it's a wonder that anybody with Van iVactor's “Overture to a™ big league performance in -his|pr Comedy” and dmnved with the season opener’ at the stadium.
Hog Receipts Soar, Prices Fa Gates May Ask Re
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Twenty thousand porkers on the way to market jammed the road to the Stockyards clear | back to Kentucky ave. this morning.
o Daniel, Wherry Stall Senate Action on Stop-Gap OPA Bill}.
WASHINGTON, July 2 (U. P.. —Prompt senate action on stop-gap | OPA extension legislation was blocked again today amid official warn{ings that higher income taxes can be expected if the government fails | to prevent skyrocketing prices. | “Two identical biils for 20-day extension of price controls, including
3 he one approved ‘by the house yesterday, were | introduced in the a
morning. But administration; — mi
a to send them to committee! | immediately were blocked or = POLITICS B ARED fimer xm | objections of Senators | O'Daniel, (D. Tex), and Kenneth Wherry (R. Neb), This meant that the estan, 24h
| must lie over another | {ore further senate action. The i}
Group--Urges -Nojstep will-be-a-second reading wir 4 Pr Tring To 5:7 Boost on New Cars.
Directors of the Automobile Dealers of Indiana, Inc, a reselution stating that prices on new cars tained at present levels. --Lettérs were to be sent 900 members of the group, representing 95 per cent of the auto dealers in the ! | table to President Truman. state, advising them of the policy, | | Frederick M. Sutter, president, said. | belief that an entire new price Gom-, “Runaway inflation will be dis- | rtrol formula can be handled in the astrous to our individual businesses. | | senate almost as. speedily as thei We want to do everything in our|temporary . extension whipped, | power to maintain a stable na-| through the house yesterday. { tional _&onomy, ” Mr. Sutter said.
‘ATOM CONTROL BILL 0K'D BY HOUSE GROUP
Action in those states was reported |i, and found him lying on the The five officials. voted to pay|taken under emergency powers jing * ying Military Given Strong Voice which Indiana's governor does not
| which one or both of the bills can
i s {be sent to the banking committee. Higher Taxes Hinted | Blame on Other. Senate leaders were not con- By DANIEL M. KIDNEY {cerned over the temporary block- | : Times laff. Weiler
| ures. Both friends and foes of OPA
| track the bills and try instead for Politics” with OPA.
| Noveniber are causing each party The decision was based on the {0 blame the other for killing con-
The house measure moved to the] years hence. So their personal]
| senate as Secretary of the Treasury y, ino" ver OPA’'s demise has council issued a
John W. Snyder warned that both ‘oon on political significance.
Bowles Predicts OPA ‘It would be normal to expect ‘ing OPA right on the White House |
| expressed strong hope, however, that congress would approve a satis- | factory measure to restore the wage,
maintained. _ Favor Price Controls
pired midnight Sunday. . controls” and always have, he conRetiring economic stabilizer tended. Chester Bowles also was confident Minority Leader Martin (R:|
ident Truman that he expected OPA in the house.
“some form” of congressional action! Keynote to the political piteh| (Continued on “Page 5-=Column $3) .| within a few weeks. was sounded from the floor by Rep. ererm——
“It would be insane if we did not Charles A. Halleck (R. Ind). Hel NEWS /S PHOTOGRAPHER
. | do it,” he said, “and I don’t think The measure differs greatly from| we are going to be insane.” (Continued on “Page 5—Column 3) 'ATTACKED BY RANKIN
|" JACKSON, Miss., July 2 WU. BP, |—Rep. John E. Rankin, (D. Miss.), [who is bidding for “another term
bill | ~
| whieh would vest control in an all- L b U | civilian five-man commission. Presi- 'R + + U d — Thou- dent Truman and the war depart-| a or nion es rain rge | sands - of Jews in Italy went on a ment have indorsed the senate ver-
In Price Control Emergency
| | Seripps-Howard Staff Writer tion; the strikes to be followed by!
WASHINGTON, July 2-—Labor the wage raises to which the ad-
| while the government price control (duction, bringing more price hikes, {then more wage raises. . . .
One of the agencies concerned | | with the present uncertain situation is the National Wage Stabili«!| zation Board. It has no power to stabilize wages until congress and | the President re-establish OPA and |
status-but-not-mueh-a : This board now has no ee Lwide cases pending. But it has) about 1500 other smaller cases in-| volving wages.
mit renegotiation of wages on short notice. | Neither of tHese anhouncements
| The C. I O. legislative committee | RENT CEILINGS ON - GI HOMES DOUBTFUL
WASHINGTON, July 2 (U. P,).— | Housing Expediter Wilson W, Wyatt “Organized labor has the respon- | said today there is serious doubt | sibility. of pointing out that our|whefher rent ceilings imposed on
The comet ¥ Was spotted pr \ Satur recent wage increases did not make new homes under the veterans ay by Dr. Hamilton M, Jeffers,iup for thé rise that had already emergency housing program can be Tiof Lick observatory, University of [taken place in the cost of living, enforced if OPA ‘is allowed to die:
and that further price increases will | Mr. ‘Wyatt: told a press confer-
18th!force us fo present hew wage | enee, however, there is no question magnitude. x Perid to brighten as demands.” it gets closer to the sun, it will obably not be visible Jo Ae un- {if prices vontinue to rise; w
about his. power to fix sales ceilings The disturhing possibility is that | on G1. homes, This right is spewith. or |cifically granted him -in the veterwithout- OPA, ‘there will be further ans Suougiug ach.
Generally ‘Hold Line’ On Food Costs.
(Read an editorial, “No Time tor Price Panic,” Page 14.)
Farmers flooded the Indie anapglis stockyards with 20 000 hogs today, sending prices as much as ‘$3 down .|from yesterday's peak price . As yet, however, the effect of yesterday's record prices and to= day’s comedown was not felt in the retail. market as most packers and retaflers adopted & firm “hold the line” attitude. | Hogs which yesterday rose to a peak of $20 per h were selling at $17 today, still Atos the two-year ceiling price a Some large hogs Brough 18
= up several
from the termination of OPA
r A general trend ade of the 20-day extension meas- | WASHINGTON, July 2.—Demo-| “hold the line” on price i crats and Republicans are “playing; all retail lines, edpecially in highly | decided it would be better to side- competitive groups such as grocers, stead « |elothing stores and general retail {a full, one-year extension accep- Rising prices and an election ‘in|ers. Wholesalers also were hewing to a near ceiling sales line, : : The chamber of com= {merce issued a “Take It Easy!" bulletin, urging business men to { Neither President Truman nor | use restraint in hiking prices, to | Senator Taft (R. O.) is up for elec-| ward off hysteria which would bring | tion. But each may head his ticket| about re-establishment of OPA conin the . presidential contest two|trols. THREE: The Indiana C. 1. O. letter itemising ie {steps by. which voters can force Evite 2 hurstions i When National G. O. P. Chair- congress to re-establish price consols are ‘not sevived and prices are Man Carroll Reece, who has been trols. It also asked support for ore allowed 30° SORT: (termed by P. A. C. the “Taftist ganization of a Tenant league to { From Tennessee,” joined in the{fight rent hikes and organize buys scrap he placed the blame for kill-| ers’ strikes. i FOUR: From over the nation axes 0 Jotiow Prices! aecigiazy doorstep. It wis President Tfu-|there were reports of hiked prices . : man's veto that did it, Mr. Reece finding ready buyers. In Indianaphousewives vowed Pes would let goods at increased price and rent controls which ex- Republicans want “basic price ries 2 a outers “In the end, it's the housewife who'll determine the price of meat,” spokesman for Armour & said, as he pointed out buyers were
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| photographer who snapped his picture at the Tupelo eity hall, The photographer was Al ‘Snipes
Snipes said Rankin kept shout=
| + The photographer taken a picture of Rankin's wife as she voted’ here this- 5" morning, :
“THE' MERCURY Y WON'T
market ‘prices of -basi mmoditi i a, hs or sie iuaiogities price controls. It is a bout with! ‘TAKE SHARP UPSWING
“The only thing in India definitely scheduled not » ake a hike in’ the next four [days ia
The U, 8. weather Doan today that tomorrow and Thursday would be “a little warmer” but cool] weather would prevail again Fis day and Saturday. Little change was predicted for Sunday. iil More thunderstorms are in for Indiana Thursday or the bureau said. About a half. of rain will fall between’ now
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