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President Truman appeared to-
FORECAST: Fair, continued cold tonight, tomorrow. Possible frost in south-central counties tonight.
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"SATURDAY, OCTOBER
Plan to Hike Transit Fare
Accuses Railways of ‘Nof Serving Best Interests of Public’
Mayor Feeney said today| the city will fight Indianapolis| 34 Railways’ proposal for a new
transit fare increase.
The Mayor accused thes
transit firm of “not serving the best interests of the public.”
He warned that the proposall would backfire in lost transit|g
patronage if approved. Old, Old Story ... An Editorial «+. « Page 10. : The transit company, which was awarded 2 1-cent fare hike and 2-cent transfer charge less than three months ago, filed an emergency petition with the Publie| Service Commission late yesterday. The petition did rot indicate any suggested rate. However, transit officials said privately they would attempt to get a straight 15 cent fare. Approve 15-Cent Rate The PSC recently approved a temporary 15-cent rate on four express bus lines here. “They have express rates” Mayor Feeney asserted, “but they’ don’t have express service. We are getting complaints daily.” Present rates are 11 cents for regular bus service nlus a 2-cent transfer charge. “Their rates are no longer in the clouds,” Mayor Feeney charged. “Now the rates are in the stratosphere.” The Mayor said he would instruct the city legal staff to assist Public Counselor William Steckler in fighting the proposed fare hike. ; Called ‘Insufficient’ Indianapolis Railways officials based their petition for higher rates on grounds that the present fare schedule is “insufficient, unreasonable and confiscatory.” They said the company has been consistently losing money and customers. “They're going to keep losing riders as long as they keep raising their rates,” the Mayor said. spite the recent PSC-ap-proved fare increase; the transit firm's. new petition states that the company lost $100,000 in two months under the raised fare schedule. . The company also blamed a wage increase for transit employees as contributing to the firm's financial plight.
Craig Reynolds, Film Actor, Dies
Scooter Accident Fatal to Ex-Marine
~ Queen of Valparaiso University activities is Sophomore Ruth Hajen of Hinsdale, Ill Elected by the men of the university to “reign” today and tomorrow, Miss Hajen and her cowt will lead the three-mile paride of floats and bands through Valparaiso today before the 2 p. m. football game with Kalamazoo. Four classes of the university
‘Show Us the Path’—
Unite as One,
Church, Begin Life in
HER WEDDING guests told
They had never seen each other. | They probably never will. | Doris and John are blind. | #® wu # “SHOW US the path that Thou, would’st have us take.” Miss, Norma Holtman sang the words softly from “Wedding Prayer” by Fern Dunlap. The bride had entered on the arm of her father, Elmer Melloncamp, 424 N. Temple Ave. She wore navy accessories with her| blue suit. She carried a white] Bible with orchid streamers, the
HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 22 (UP) — | DOOK she reads by Braille. |
Actor Craig Reynolds, 42, Hollywood’s first wounded Marine, died today of injuries suffered Mong day when his motor scooter collided with a motorcycle. The accident occurred when the motorcycle, piloted by Robert Edrl Smith, 23, skidded into Mr. Reynolds’ s>ooter when its tires caught in car tracks. : Joining the Marines in October, 1940, Mr. Reynolds was wounded at Guadalcanal. He was removed to the San Diego, Cal., Navy hospital. He rose to the rank of lieutenant and had served in Iceland as well as the South Pacific before his discharge in 1944, He entered pictures in 1934 and appeared in such productions as “Penrod and Sam,” “Ceiling Zerp,” “Stage Struck,” and “Four Hours to Kill.” After his discharge from the Marines, Mr. Reynolds appeared in “Divorce” and “The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry.” A war novel, “I Came Back,” writtén by Guy Endore, was based on Mr. Reynolds’ battle experiences.
In Judgeship Battle
WASHINGTON, Oct, 22 (UP)
day to have won a first-round victory over Sen. Guy M. Gillette (D. Iowa) in their battle over a federal judgeship in Iowa. Mr. Truman succeeded in plac ing his candidate, . Carroll 0, Switzer, on the federal bench for the southern Iowa district by giving him a recess appointment. Sen. Gillette, who had recom-| mended two other Iowans, vigorously opposed Mr. Truman's original nomination of Mr. Switz. er. His opposition blocked approval of the appointment by the Senate Judiciary Committee. :
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
Miss Frances Edmonds, 836 N. Beville Ave,, was! maid of honor. Paul Peirce, 936 N. Tacoma Ave, acted as best man. Serving as ushers * were Harlan - Nierman, Frankfort, and Earl Richardson, Lafayette, brother of the bridegroom, # ® . $ “IN ALL Thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths,” Rev. Walter C. Maas read, from Proverbs 3:6. Clarence Elbert, organist, played softly during the double-ring ceremony. The church was hushed while Doris and John vowed to “keep! their bonds of wedlock holy and unbroken till death they part.” “Grant them visions bright, of Thee, as wedding vows they speak,” Miss Holtman sang, from “Wedding Benediction,” by Austin C. Lovelace. - oe. . FIVE YEARS ago the bridegroom was a bashful boy in the Indiana School for the Blind. He wouldn't talk to Doris who sat behind him, but he was gallant. He lost his heart when he loaned her his coat one cold winter day. * Doris is helping her husband adjust to a world of darkness. It's the only world she has known. Delightedly she hears him recall the things he saw before he lost his sight, at 14. He can explain colors—the blue of her wedding suit. iri i The Richardsons are apartment. | hunting, and John is job-hunting. He's a dark room technician in X-ray. He just graduated from the Mallinckrodt Institute of Louis.
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Cold Front
Report skirmish | : Find 2 Sisters, | — With Tito Troops ad Prisoners Brother Slain in 9 Rounded
‘Romania Border
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Breezes In On 45-MPH Wind
FRANKFURT, Germany, Oct.
22 (UP)—The West German News
any other source that two “Cominform units” of 500 men
Trees Felled ‘and | Yugoslavia from Romania on Oct. Windows Smashed % rhe units, supported by two As Mercury Goes fo 45° {274% tnd 15 armored ca, fought
A cold front breezed unex- anny alt, the agency 1epoiisd. . e agenc Yo pectedly into town today. |.ied as Rh ginated pre Winds up to 45 miles an grade. i »” ® » . hour felled trees, smashed a: yup COMINFORM troops were plate glass window and sentireported to have occupied two
the mercury sliding to 45. |villages east of Velika Kikinda.
Slain, 2 Seized Celifornie Home 9 pocaccad
discovered _ today the,
i | | Police said the deaths apparent-| ly were a double murder and a) {suicide. The tragedy took place |five days ago but was not disOne Still + Large {covered until today when neigh- ; {bors noticed the lights in the! PHOENIX, Ariz., Oct. 22 nome had been burning con-| (UP)—Five prisoners tried tol stantly. shoot their way out of the) Maricopa County Jail early! Irene O'Neil, about 85; her sister, today. {Mrs. Mamie A. McKenzie, 73, and
{their brother, But a crippled night watch-|o'Nei, 2,
Mowed Down by Crippled Watchman;
87 8 THE DEAD were identified as!
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{underway today.
Miss Ruth Hajen . . . Valparaiso - will hold reunion dinners during
‘May Spirit of Their Lord
Blind Couple Wed in Trinity Lutheran
wore a suit she was told was blue. The tender words of the bridegroom, hand on ‘hers, promised eternal love, : ad Never was a bride more radiant than Doris Melloncamp. Never was. a bridegroom prouder than John Richardson Jr. of Lafayette. They were married in Trinity Lutheran Church Friday night.
"/tried for two years to get one .| because he thought it would be a
Moving faster than anticipated, jsurprise, Weatherman Paul Miller!
' {morning orders from neighborhood residents. A plate glass window in L. 8S. Ayres & Co. was blown in and 5 GF four trees reported blown over, ine ; % one crushing a parked automo-| . bile at 1110 Bellefontaine St. | homecoming queen. Carries Plane Away Winds broke the rope holding a light airplane at Bob Shank Air-| port, lifted and carried it 75 feet over a stream, where it crashed into a woods. . | Fair and cold weather tonight will send the mercury dipping to, 34-36 degrees the weatherman; said
homecoming week-end. School officials expect several thousand former students to attend. New officers of the Alumni Association who will take office today include Gilbert Drause, Chicago, president; Ted Kretzman, La Grange Park, Ill, vice president, and Margaret Knoll, Milwaukee, Wis., secretarytreasurer.
Fair, windy and cool weather was predicted today and tomorrow. Possible light frost was predicted for lowland areas of southcentral Indiana counties. A special frost warning was issued for southern counties. The mercury is expected to reach 52 here to-| MOrrrow,
Run-Away Boy
Their Souls’
a New World
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Flees Home After Spanking by Father * ALBANY, N. Y,, Oct. 22 (UP) An 8-year-old boy who ran away from home after his father spanked him was found burned to death today in his hiding place—the rumble seat compartment of an automobile parked in nearby Colonie.
U. S. Strike Action Expected Soon
Intervention Seen * As Only Solution
By United P State Police Inspector Charles y ress Government intervention ap- A. Laforge said Richard A. Cohn,
peared today to offer the only oo of Je 3 Mrs. Jacob, 2 f ick settlement of the ~00n of Colonie, apparently hope for Ne seis ot o |started the fire when he lit some!’ coal and steel €8 bul no aC matches and was trapped when tion was likely before Tuesday.
ihe could not raise the compart-| With the nation moving swiftly ment cover. |
down the road to serious eco- y y | nomic difficulties, mine operators Verdict Withheld { i An autopsy disclosed no signs broke off negotiations, adopting of violence, Mr. Laforge said. a “get tough” attitude toward| i .
| However, an official verdict was John L. Lewis’ demands. Federal] | Mediator Cyrus Ching said the Withheld pending further investi
“ , gation. Se hoyutan t8 Were “00 closer’ Mr. Laforge said the boy left . ; _{home last night after his father Jqoite House sources said Pres spanked him for staying out ase. tion in the critical labor situation| A companion, Edward Meisner, before Tuesday and it was ques-| Who was with the Cohn boy tionable whether he would act ®arlier in the evening was found even then. jasleep in the cellar of his home. The President, who was on a| Firenen discovered the boy's Potomac River cruise for the charred body after extinguishing week-end, apparently still hoped|the car blaze. The automobile, that the labor picture would clear parked as few 3 Fas Im he | 0 up without Sragtic acuion ch iZhbor who discovered the (Continued on Page 2—Col. 2) blaze.
Mission fo Moscow—
‘I'd Be a Traitor to Trade With Russ,’ Says Dowling |
Hoosier's $2 Million Vodka Deal Fizzles;
Army Officers Jam Soviet Streets :
NEW YORK, Oct. 22 (UP)—An Indianapolis businessman said! today that a trip to Russia to negotiate a $2 million vodka deal| convinced him that any American who does business with the Soviet is a traitor. Edward Dowling, a retired candy manufacturer, arrived by plane at Idlewild Airport after spending 11 days of a five weeks’ tour of Europe in Russia. ¥ ; “My biggest thrill was to get language, and didn't do any
my exit visa” he sald. “I can|Vodka business at all. tell you I'm never going back “Why I'd be a traitor to doj business with Russia,” he said.
there again.” ‘ , “If you think we've got ning we hal onivary | bureaucracy you should see theirs.
There are more army officers visa to enter Russia. He said he walking about og the streets than
there were in Washington at the height of the war,” Citizens Poorly Dressed Mr. Dowling said the Russians were poorly dressed and 90 per ; cent of Moscow was slums. He “Russian officials were dumb- said the people of Moscow were founded when I arrived in Mos-|only allowed to leave the city on cow,” he said. “They hadn't been informed | I was coming O course they thought I was someone very important. I told them I was the most important man in the world — an American ‘taxpayer—and they only questioned change their tune.” me two hours.” £4
neighborly gesture to import Russian products “so Americans copld judge what the Communists
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ithe front caught Indianapolis by fire to both.
captured the villages and drove
dealers received early ithe Cominform troops back acrossi® member shivering [the { i
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try to rest when I'm not making instead they grappled with me |my rounds as watchman at the nd beat me over the head—they
and city hall are also in the build-|
The report said Yugoslav troops,
forced out of the villages, set man killed two and two others
were captured before they could It siid the Yugoslavs later re- $001 F107 COUEIOAR Tatum, of the notorious) Tatum gang which once terror-| ized the Southwest, escaped, the sheriff's office said, and a short time later a man “positively identified” as the fugitive was spotted on the fringes of the Phoenix business district. Watchman Kills Pair Hero of the battle was crippled watchman Tom Stowe, 40. He faced the desperadoes alone as 2 they burst from a ground floor Studios Destroyed elevator, and killed two of them LAFAYETTE, Ind, Oct. 22|instantly with his .38 automatic. (UP)—F'ire destroyed the studios When the alarm first sounded, of Radio Station WASK and every available policeman, firesmoke and water damaged offices| man, deputy and highway patrolon two other floors of the Wal- man was called to the scene. A lace building today. cordon of 100 heavily-armed men
surrounded the Courthouse. Read Around the State, Page 2 "py, goad prisoners were Two firemen were injured fight-
Romanian frontier.
2 Firemen Hurt In Lafayette Blaze
Radio Station WASK
Charles McEwen, who had been ing flames which swept the third/8Waiting trial for the murder of floor of the three-story brick an Arizona rancher, and Edward
structure at Fourth and Ferry Corcoran, an itinerant printer
streets in downtown Lafayette, awaiting trial for the murder of The radio station occupied re- his wife in the desert. McEwen modeled studios on the top floor, Previously had tried to break jail Fireman Joe Bertha fell three|/in Oregon. floors from a ladder and sus-| The two prisoners captured tained a broken arm and pos-| Were John Bridges, awaiting trial sible back fracture. Fireman for robbery, and Dinzel McDon-
Woody Trees suffered an eye in- ald, awaiting trial for forgery. A hi They. told officers that” Cor Capt’ Arthur Miller of thé fire coran, the ringleader, had armed department said he could net himself With a table leg and a estimate damage but believed it blackjack made from a brass exceeded $50,000. {door handle entwined with cord. The fire was discovered about, The men broke out of their 5:30 a. m. in the WASK studios|cell by slugging Jailer W. A. when station attaches reported Millett, 60, when he opened the for work. door to give McEwen an aspirin he had requested. Cardinal Case U Take Jail Hers p The prisoners took Mr. Ma lett’s keys and gun and descend To World Court in the elevator, while Mr. MilFLUSHING, N. Y., Oct. 22 (UP) lett yelled the alram from a cell —The United Nations General As-iblock where they locked him. sembly voted overwhelmingly to-iThey stopped at the second floor day to send to the International and exchanged shots with Deputy Court of Justice Western charges/0. Z. Alfred, wounding him in that the prosecution of Joseph (the jaw. Cardinal Mindszenty and other] Then they rode down to the church leaders was a violation of/ground floor and emerged from peace treaties by Russia’s Balkan the elevator, Corcoran with his satellites, ‘ 5 ’ {gun leveled. The vote was 47 to five with] There they met watchman seven abstentions. Yugoslavia ab-|Stowe. They slugged him, but stained, with the negative votes|the crippled man wrenched free coming from her erstwhile Comin-/and shot McEwen through the form partners. head. i The resoluti The others turned to flee, but the "Died. Binion. Conan aby Mr. Stowe. sent another bullet Bolivia asks the - international "Tough Corcoran's heart while court to decide whether a dispute/ Tatum escaped. : | exists between Russia and her| The remaining two backed into] Balkan partners, on one side, and| the elevator, slammed the door
a Southern Pacific engineer, |
Mechanic Held In Wife's Death
Charged With Pushing
Her Out of Car
POTOSI, Mo., Oct. 22 (UP)—A 25 - year - old mechanic has confessed that he beat and then pushed his wife out of their automobile hoping she would be struck by another car, Sheriff Thomas B. Allen said today. He said that Bernard Coleman made an oral confession after his wife, Mrs. Della Coleman, 26, died in an Ironton, Mo., hospital. Coleman was held in jail pending an inquest Monday. She was not hit by a car, the ‘Washington County officer said,
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la fractured skull — when her husband beat her and then {tossed her onto State Highway 21, about 10 miles north of here. Coleman was quoted as saying that after he had pushed his wife out of the car, he drove on a short distance, stopped the car and then sat on an embankment to see if a car would hit her, Then, Coleman told authorife he left the scene whén the t motorist to pass stopped. Sheriff Allen said an argument over marital difficulties preceded the fight in which Coleman pushed his wife onto the highway.
Drivers’ Dispute Ties Up Busses
MICHIGAN CITY, Oct. 22 (UP) —Bus service in this city of 30,000 residents was stopped today by a dispute between drivers and the Michigan City Transit Lines, Ing. The AFL railway workers union said it wasn’t a strike, but the union was meeting “in continuous business session.” “Thirty-one drivers refused to operate coaches while their representatives dickered with the company for a 30-cent hourly wage increase and pension and welfare benefits. The union rejected a company offer of a 5-cent package increase including a 2-cent raise to be applied to the pension and welfare plan and 3 cents contribution by the company. Drivers get $1.18 an hour for a 51-hour week guarantee under
Britain and the United States, on 2Pd Went up to the third floor, the old contract.
{where they were captured. ” » -
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Eyewitness—
‘Saved Taxpayers Money
In Slayings,’ Says Guard [5:5 imismiion lave tes
‘It Was Luck That | Happened to Meet Pair as They Left Elevator,’ He Adds
By TOM STOWE, As Told to the United Press PHOENIX, Ariz, Oct. 22—They say I saved the taxpayers a little money this morning. It seems the trials of Charles McEwen and Edward Corcoran were the only murder cases pending in Maricopa County. And now they're both dead. I shot ’em when they tried to break out of jail. w > It was just tuck, if you can call ell, they came bursting out of it that, that I happened to meet|the elevator just as I got to it.
elevator. |2 natty brown gabardine suit, had I've got a bad left hand and a/Di8 gun drawn, and I'll never kind of erick in my neck, so I'/Know why he didn’t use ‘it. But
county court house. (The sheriff’s' left a couple of bad scars—and office, jail, police headquarters then tried to break. I pulled loose and shot McEwen right through the head. He was
ing.) & wearing a black suit, and he tum-
Reading Magazine I was sitting on the ground bled right down at my feet. floor near the elevator, reading a] Corcoran started running down magazine, when all of a suddenithe hall, and the two others radio operator Jerry HeffeMinger jumped back into the elevator and let out a yell. went upstairs. But Corcoran didn’t Jerry had heard the commotion/get more than 30 feet before I upstairs. He threw the switch on|shot him in the back, and the bulhis call box and called all cars,let went right through his heart. then raced in to notify police headquarters in an adjoiningjon the floor beneath him as he room. fell. And some matches, a pair I jumped up and pulled out my of glasses and a toothbrush fell little 38 automatic. I'm not ajout of his pockets. : deputy, but I've always carried a! It looked as if he was really set gun, although I never had to useto take a trip. But he didn't get it before on my eight years im|very far. ro this job. I hope I never have to again.
ACTRESS HAS OPERATION This gun was one they gave me, PARIS, Oct. 22 (UP)—Movie just about a week ago. My previ- Actress Ann Stewart was under-
them when they burst out of the| ThI8 little guy, Corcoran, wearing
8 U. S. Congressmen
Pay Visit to Pope { CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy, Oct. 22 (UP)—His Holiness, Pius of-¥.-8. immigration laws today Congressmen if American policy was all it could be.
i The Pope spoke to the eight-|
iman standing committee of the {U. 8. House of Representatives injvestigating the spending and ad{ministration of United Nations
{Relief Organizations.
but died of injuries — including)
Popelg7, of 2423 E. » questioned the liberalitylserious condition in General Hose pital with head injuries and body
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36 Others Seized on. Various Charges; 3 Die in State Traffic { An all-out campaign
|against drunken drivers was
Of nine motorists arrested
Eugene Joseph'on drunken driving charges
last night, two were convicted in Municipal Court 4 todayy Seven other cases were cone tinued. y Leroy Penick, 627 Maxwell St.
jail and fined $50 and costs by Judge Clark for operating a mot vehicle under the influence alcohol. On the same charge, McCoy: 350 N. Illinois 8t., n and costs. Judgment was withheld on other charges against both men. 45 Arrests Made Squads of extra police in marked automobiles and cycles swarmed into tion of the city last night as 48
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arrests were made on various charges. . . Despite the preventive came paign announced by Chief
Rouls, 468 accidents were reported and five persons were hurt, ~~ © In the state, three persons died in traffic accidents as state police feared the second highest death rate of the year. State traffic deaths were: °° John Goff Percival, 48, Marion, 0. : R.R &
said. Truck-Car Crash A panel truck-car three miles south of M : Ind. 39 caused the death of Mrs, Elliott, also of a fractured skull, The car in which she
truck on a curve. Mr. Clark and his two sons, Robert, 15, and Frank, 5, were slightly injured. John Hall, of Clayton, driveg of the truck, was uninjured. Third State Death 3 The third state death occurred on Ind. 41, two miles south of Morroceo, when the car J Jesse Dingle was driving went off the road and turned over four
itimes. | An Indianapolis pedestrian, {Arthur DeMunbrum, 50, of 532 N. Keystone Ave, was in critical {condition in ‘General Hospital {with a head injury today after ‘being struck down as he walked jacross Michigan St. at Forest |Ave. last night. & Police said he was hit by & |car driven east on Michigan St. {by Fred A. Bidgood Jr. 25, of |Wanamaker. Another Pedestrian Hurf Another pedestrian, Ollie Crail, - 10th St., was In
{lacerations today. | A car driven by P. J. Grumley, {23, of 2048! E. Michigan St. {struck Mr. Crail as he crossed BE. {10th St. near Keystone Ave. last night. 3 | An 11-year-old girl, Sonja Ree |
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‘He's Had So Little Time'—
AUSTIN, Tex. Oct. 22 Christmas for 2-year-old John “ curable illness. All the weakening child had
| that Santa Claus had truely paid 4 There was a glittering Christmas tree near the couch where
he rested, and under the tree was a heap of presents sent by friends and neighbors. Santa Claus, a beard-wearing University . of Texas student named Grady Robertson, had paid
His gun and blagkjack tumbled) Buster a merry call, He trudged
in laden with.a bag full of toys and picture books that delighted the curly-headed blond boy. Buster, despite his suffering from a malignant tumor, enjoyed old St. Nick's visit. He was too weak to walk, but he kept up a cheerful appearance as his friends, large and small, bade him “Merry Christmas.”
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I'm just hoping that guy who facial injuries she received in an escaped doesn't have it. automobile accident yesterday.
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Santa Pays Early Visit To Boy, 2, Incurably Iii
Friends Gather for Yuletide Celebration iv Of Child Who May Not Live Until Christmas
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day aftem Buster” Evans, victim of an ine
to do was turn his head to sed him a visit last night. s
little chance of recovering were wrong. bi . “He's had so little time to em« loy, Christmases,” Mrs, Echols Physicians told her that Buster is still alive on the most folks celebrate Ch a he will not be
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driven by Oscar Clark, 43, of Coatesville, collided with a panel
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