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FRIDAY, MARCH 2,

1951

Britered ‘as Second-Class Matter at Pestofice Indianapolis, Indiana, Issued Daily,

¢ Bs’ | Sought in Housing

-. Want Vacancy List For Finance Center By DAVID WATSON Times Staff Writer ST. LOUIS, Mar. 2—Indianapolt home buyers will be called on to aid Arty Finance Center employees in: their search for living quarters. . William Keller Jr. Indianapolis realtor, said new buyers will be asked by letter to notify Ft. Harrison authorities when they vacate rental units to take new homes. Builders and real estate) brokers will be asked to distribute the letters. Mr. Keller, who is chairman of the property management division of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board, addressed finance center workers here yesterday as a member of an Indianapolis delegation on hand to welcome the employees to the Hoosier city. The ceriter is being transferred from St. Louis to Ft. Harrison. Other members of the group were Mayor Bayt, Robert Walker, . Who represented Associated North Bide Realtors; Albert E. Thompson, representing Marion County Residential Builders; Fred Byer, Indianapolis Chamber of, Commerce, and Col. M. B, Hale, deputy to Gen. E. J, Bean, center commander. Mr. Keller told the workers “there is a steady turnover in rental housing in Indianapolis, Hut

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"Only Six Divisions Earmarked for Europe WASHINGTON, Mar. 2 (UP)—

TV set manufacturers substitute ‘ersatz’ materials for critical defense metals, . . . Other radio and television NEWS «..... Portuguese Prime Minister tells. ‘Big Three’ to take a firm stand against Russia.. 14 Phi Mu and Kappa Alpha Theta Sororities plan state day luncheons. . .. Seventhday menu of ‘Slim for Spring’ « « + Counter-Spy 17-21 Indiana University Theater's production of ‘Dark of the Moon’ opens tonight at the Bloomington campus ...... Caps assured of playoff spot in the American Hockey League’s Western Division. . . . . Basketball scores. . Bowling results Amusements Jimmie Angelopolous ..

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Births, Deaths, Events ... 5 Comics waeessvisrsininees 39 Editorials ........ sessnes 28 Harold H. Hartley ...... 4 Dan Kidney ......... evan Frederick C. -Othman ..., 26 Radio and Television .... 10 Robert Ruark .....ivsese 25 Ed Sovola ssescissevess 28 Bports «io i viieeeies 28,29 Earl Wilson ccceeevessess 25 Women’s .......+.0s++ 17, 21

Truman Heads For Florida Rest

Plans 3 Weeks in Land of Sunshine

By United Press WASHINGTON, Mar. 2—Presi-

Pefense Secretary George C.

Marshall has told doubtful Sena-| tion, left ‘for Florida today for! three weeks” of work and play|

tors that under “present tentative plans” only six United States di-| visions will be stationed in’ Europe. . Gen Marshall, it was reported today, made the statement to the Senate Foreign Relations and) Armed Services Committees in a letter answering questions by Sen. ‘William F. Knowland (R. Cal.)

"The BIG Mid-Winter = Used Car Clearance

SALE

Ends Tomorrow!

Kconomists, columnists and those in on the “know” predict much higher prices for used cars this spring—and they also feel that the government will impose a very substantial tax. ..-Two big reasons why you ~‘ghould buy now that car that will see you safely thru the period of shortage .that lies ahead. Tomorrow is your last opportunity ‘to take advantage

dent Truman, eager for a vaca-

away from the pressure of the White House. His DC-6 Independence airplane took off at 12 p. m. (Indianapolis time). He was expected to arrive at Boca Chica Naval Air Station near Key West about 4:10 p. m. He was accompanied by 16 staff members, plus 29 reporters and photographers who travelled in another aircraft.

The President was in good spirits but obviously anxious to get away to rest under the southern

parture were being made, a pho-

{tographer’s flash bulb exploded.

“There must be a Communist in the crowd,” Mr. Truman sald. Mr. Truman had held his regularly scheduled Friday cabinet meeting before going to the airport. Most of the cabinet members went to see him off, ‘Needs Rest’ A member of the- President's staff, watching as Mr. Truman was being escorted to the plane, said, “he needs this rest more

of this big used car sale. Buy now and save, :

HUNDREDS - OF USED CAR,

BARGAINS ARE LISTED IN “THE CLASSIFIED PAGES OF "TODAY'S TIMES,

{than he ever has.”

. Asked why, "he replied:

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any let-up and he really can use . iN x

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sun. While pictures of his de-|

Driver of One Loses Control " “An early morning auto race

At Plants Here

lof the Communist Party to

E |Communist-controled unions

/the CIO forced the national CIO Post Mr. Stiller- 4 man will

charge of techdetail s-ports depart{ment operation, including page design and per-

ordered party members: : recruiting war II, Smarbers in the auto industry.” [sia There are UAW uhions in ney

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in UAW Unions’

By IRVING LEIBOWITZ The

‘Have: Little Success

efforts” |

“continuous

infiltrate the United Auto

Reuther Says x ‘Nad cee a = : sows 19 Killed as Plane Crashes, Burns on Field in Snowstorm

$a eb T FINAL re PRICE FIVE CENTS

Workers (CIO) union in In-|

diana has met with less suc|cess this year than ever re This statement came, from Walter Reuthet, president of the UAW. Mr. Reuthet was| reached by telephone at’ national] headquarters of the UAW in Detroit. Mr. Reuther said: “The continuous {and acts of sabotage of a few in

|to expel these unions, We in the [UAW must remain ever vigilant| in defense of our union and our | country from acts of those who! are loyal to a foreign power and | who, as colonial agents of the| Kremlin, are prepared to betray

ments in the secret files of the

“Concentrate . on _

disruptions sistant

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imes.

In his

$ l, under America.” . J jennel, : L ~fgeneral direc: : Quoted Documerits . tion of Mr. Ash, In an ‘expose of Communist/who has been

Party activity in Indiana, The sports editor of Times this week quoted docu-|The Times since 1917. | Mr. Stillerman, a graduate of Indiana Communist Party which Manual High School and Indiana! [University and veteran of World!

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be in

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Larry Sfillerman oisy Named Assistant To Eddie Ash

Eddie Ash, Times sports editor, today. announced appointment of |Larry Stillerman as executive aseditor of

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a ' IG 2 er In SR, ¢ ARMFVEY RSA Tepe: wee 1000: TOOT dianapolis, South Bend, Anderson, copy editor, and for the past Hoengseng. Muncie and other cities and towns year as in Indiana. Many are now. con- which capacity he

estate

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editor, int inaugurated

Marine Tanks, Bayonets Send Reds Reeling

Other Allied Units Gain More Than Mile

By EARNEST HOBERECHT United Press Staff Correspondent

TOKYO, Mar. 2—Tank-led in central {Korea broke Chinese rear- ) \guard resistance today, capMr. Stillerman tured the road hub of Hoeng\song without a fight, "and {pushed on to the north.

The fighting Leatliernecks opened their assault with a bay-

| ! “a. Is on md if pge_that killed or routed Mjgrod- hg. Hubei. habe, satement, Jug ‘and "tong + : Spads and captured. a. Fal CIP SRW IIR WN “mambers. 2 a fountain northwest of : pom, ein?

Phen Marines in tanks and

Nine of 10 Survivors In Hospital Following

* eo ® ’ ® or Pileup in Sioux City One of Injured in Critical Co ng". Some Victims Thrown Clear of DC-3 at Airfield By United. Press : “ah SIOUX CITY, Iowa, Mar. 2—A Mid-Continent DC-3 airliner, carrying 25 persons, crashed and burned while at« tempting a landing’ during a snowstorm at Municipal Aire port today. - ' 4 The airlines office here said 15 were killed. he “Phere were 25 persons aboard the plane and there

Py : : were 10 survivors,” the office March Lion-Lamb

said, The plane was en route - from Kansas City to Minnes: apolis. 3 :

Os et tm bets, sos stewardess Marilyn - | Kansas City, Mo., was among

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Rainstorm Due

ducting plant elections. Thus far, the

pro-Reuther

{and organized The Times Sunday

anti-Reuther real estate section. While attendforces are lined up against the ing Indiana he was sports editor formes. ‘In many|of the Bloomington World-Tele-

afoot barrelled . through abandoned bombed-out Honegsong. 35 miles south of the 38th Parallel, and seized two hjlls to .the northwest. Chinese rear guards de-

This Afternoon

LOCAL. TEMPERATURES

Although the airline said there

survivors, She suffered a broken | arm and head injuries. 4A

and leftwingers. Ba

‘Unfortunately a Few’

plants, they call themselves right phone. - : : He and Mrs. Stillerman- live at!

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(skirmish.

About his opposition, Mr. Reu-

ther. said; BAA PK CS Eo SERCH on pad ‘Despite the high level of work:

we have made, there are unfortunately a few Communists, reckless opportunists and unprincipled

cratic privileges of our union to carry on a campaign of distortion and division.” 1

: “Idisruptionists, who use the sve FO Mai. 12

Charles St. Tenant's

zacond day of their tral Korean “killer

ported that the Division took two

An 8th: Army ao

{fending the hills fied after a short |.

Gains on Both Sides : Other United Nations forces én

Cuindinn Teial Col. cither side of the. : . ers’ unity, despite the great gains yiction Trial Set Shaliie up gains of most of ‘a. 60-mile front on this

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6a m...38 10am... 36 [were 10 survivors, only . 9 Ta. m...34 11am... 38 {could be found at two Sioux | 8a m... 34 12 (Noon) 40 hospitals where the injured. # 9am... 85 1p. m... 41 |[taken. One, Ray Engel y 2 i

8. D., was in “very gritical” con~ ‘|dition, : fo at

: Sas Pllots Killed ig ‘By CLIFFORD THURMAN - |. Sioux City Rojee Chiet : «The mighty lion of early Marsh pig: were both Rill shook Ms wind-blown miane and| None. of the other: roared as the little lamb of identified immediately

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Latest Humidity, 57%.

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forces, saying: sional want

workers. They

in troubled waters.”

About Communist activity

{Indiana UAW unions,

the

down 8. Meridian St. ended in|ranking labor leader said:

death of one driver and critical {injury for another today. A pas{senger also was injured. | Dead is David E. Thompson, 131, .of 5926 Laurel St. Injured were Henry M. Lov{iscek, 32, of 11290 N. Holmes Ave., driver of the second car, in critlical condition at General Hosipital, and Joan Searfoss, 16, of 5926 Laurel St. fair condition at {Methodist Hospital, passenger in

: |the dead driver's car.

Report Cars Race Police said witnesses reported

22, 23 [that the two late model cars were

{least 75 mph. “ { In the 2200 block of 8. Meridian {St. the car driven by Mr. Loviseck land owned by Albert Brown, of '501 Centennial St., hit the

Dowd, 2213 8. Meridian St. He bounced and hit -the car |

jout of control. Mr. Loviseck’s car then hit another parked car owned by Robert

car owned by Walter Bennett of the same address. Mr. Bennett's car was hit so hard it was shoved 30 feet over {the curb, over a lawn and into the {pillar of the home of Patty Pow|ell, 2242 8. Meridian St.

| Engine Ripped Off

went out of control was ripped from the frame and thrown 350 feet. Meanwhile, Mr. Thompson's car was out of control running half on the sidewalk and half in the street at high speed. It narrowly missed a utility pole and contin-

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Church Here Plans $200,000 Expansion

The Irvington Presbyterian {Church will expand the present stone edifice and educational building at a cost of $200,000. Dr. Howard W. Stone, church pastor, announced today-that the campaign to raise theanamed sum will open Apr. 15 and close June 3. Frank Mutz is chairman of the building committee and Lloyd |Mosiman of the finance commit|tee. High enrollment of Sunday school youngsters, who are attending class rooms in hallways, {the gymnasium, the dining room jand every available corner, are making the increased space necessary, officials. report. The ‘congregation is planning to |invest the campaign funds in re{modeling the educational building

|auditorium, The church is located lat 55 Johnson Ave.

“In the past the Communist son against the tenants.

erans’ benefit bill,

As passed by the Senate, the providing immediate payment

rear of o¢ the : 'a parked car owned by Robert —. state bonus to disabled Gls

bill,

Other Legislature Stories,

Pages 2, 25.

| Editorial, Page 26.

the war.

and relatives of deceased. veterWalker, 2238 8. Meridian St. This'ans, would have included conscicar plowed into a third parked entious objectors who served in

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| Mr. Reuther attacked Commu-| nists and other anti-Reuther|

‘0 on a charge of nonpayment of | 3%

House to Restudy Bonus Measure

Foes of Conscientious Objectors’ Pay Rally

| By NOBLE REED After an hour of debate on the {racing each other at high speed payment of the state GI bonus to down the street. Police said they|conscientious objectors, the House {believed the cars were going at'of Representatives today voted to reconsider the controversial. vet-

driven by the victim, knocking it, Legislative Calendar, Page 186.

in|

Case Is the First

By ED KENNEDY Superior Court 4 Judge Walter

“. . « Communists and profes- Pritchard today ordered to trial miles disrupters are not con-/the first case cerned with what is good for Charles Sts. evictions, turmoil | rather than stability in American William T. Allison, landlord, of PYong drove within 27 to labor relations, for they fish best 3375 W. 10th St., vs. Mrs. Emma Miles of the 38th Parallel agains © Ott, of 1014 Charles St., a tenant. Increasing North Korean reAttorney Robert H. Orbison to-| sistance. top day filed an answer denying the

in the Merrill-

Set for Mar. 12 was the case of

lallegations made by Mr. Alli-

| «

Mr. Allison had ordered eviction]

rent. Mr. Orbison countered that | the tenants offered to pay rent, | but that .it was refused by the, lardlord. * f To prevent eviction before the case was heard, Mr. Orbison ap-' pealed to Superior Court 3 Judge Norman E. Brennan for a temporary restraining order. Judge Brennan issued the order which prevented ‘Mr, Allison from forc-| “ing the sheriff to evict the people. C. K. McCormack, attorney for; Mr. Allison, then appealed to the Indiana Supreme Court, quastion-! ing the jurisdiction of Judge Brennan's court in the matter. | Supreme Court Order The Supreme Court ordered Judge Brennan to suspend all action on the restraining order and the injunction until Mar. 19 and to explain his stand. A hearing onthe . temporary injunction, set for Mar. 12 before Judge Brennan, was postponed until after the high court hears Judge Brennan.

Story of ‘New’

| |

| American, strian forces on the - western

fhts five and seven miles west of A while the U. 8. 2d Division

the east drove . well-en ¢ Reta Brom. Angihes min: seven]s

west of Pangnim

| On

irean forces closing in on C

flank tightened their arc around the no-man’s-land town of Yong15 miles northwest of Hoengsong and 31 miles south of the old frontier between North and South Korea. Patrols Busy United States patrols on the western front also stepped their activity. Americans of the 3d Division probed across the Han River into Seoul at three points during a snowstorm, one of them immediately south of the Red-heid capital. One patrol brought back three North Korean prisoners. For the second straight day, American planes fanning out over North Korea ran into Soviet-built jet fighters. American jets tangled with four to eight enemy fighters at one point and four others at another, but no damage was reported to either side. One Communist jet was shot

down _and “another. damaged by

B-29s in a’ running battle yesterday. Three more were damaged by American jets in a dogfight. :

Red Losses Mount

the eastern flank of the as|sault front, U, 8. and South Ko-

Canadian and Au- the lion.

might have been, either.

mild enough in some sections to give the lamb more credit than Showers Expected Showers were expected to

{night and tomorrow, however, in Indianapolis and most of Indiana. Sunday is expected to be cloudy and slightly colder. A five-day outlook carried out {the rain motif throughout the istate. A rainstorm moved into {southern Indiana early today as Evansville was drenched. It was moving northward, expected to hit the Indianapolis area this afternoon. ; | Temperatures to Vary {| - Rather wide fluctuations were seen in temperatures with a low lof 38 anticipated tonight and a high of 58 tomorrow. Tempera{tures generally will average three ito six degrees above normal dur{ing the next five days and rain-| {fall was expected to total more than an inch. The lion roared . . . lamb baaaaaa haaad merrily, It is March in Indiana.

TV Station Loses |

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warm as the weather played tricks with tradition. es ‘ 't nearly so/northwest tro be in early haifa March and if wasn’t so cold as it

To the contrary, it wasn't as

“lwarm as it usually gets along t/about this time although it was

Pi both lion and lamb to-!

KANSAS OITY, Mo, (UP) — An Aberdeen, woman, who survived Continent airlines crash Tuesday at Tulsa, Okla., was today in the airline's second serious accident and first { { crash in 16 years, Ls . | Mrs. J. D. Alway Wvas among the victims of the crash of a Mid-Continent DC-8 at Sioux City, Towa. Sk and 32 others of $4 -aboard the Mid-Continent Convair which crashed at Tulsa escaped injury.

Others, they said, apparently crawled out and some were pulled out by rescuers. The Sioux City unit of the Iowa National Air Guard, recently reactivated, aided in rescue of survivors. Eleven am-. bulances and all Sioux City fire equipment were sent to the scene. Most of Plane Burns Fire consumed most of the twin-engined plane, en route from Kansas City, Mo., to Minneapolis with several stopovers scheduled. Dave Cochran of Sioux Airlines, a private flying service at the municipal field about 10 miles south of here, said he saw the plane circling the field with its wheels down minutes before the crash. “It appeared to be coming in all right,” Mr, Cochran said, “I noticed both engines were op--erating. “Then I heard a thud. I didn’t

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The engine of the car that

Isaid today.

On a voice vote yesterday, the House concurred in the Senate amendment to include COs. But overnight opponents of the plan rallied their forces and maneuvered a debate for reconsiderai tion. Eight House member debafed vigorously to reconsider the bill and’ strike out benefits for COs. i Vote is 77 to 15 Their motion was adopted by a vote of 77 to 15 and the. bill was sent back to a new SenateHouse conference committee for an amendment eliminating COs from the bill, Debate against COs centered on the argument that if the obJectors believed the ‘deed (war) was wrong then the reward is | wrong.”

House Plays Host To French Models

The Indiana House of Representatives today recessed for a few minutes to act as host to four attractive fashion models from! Paris, France, The French girls, attired in the latest Parisian fashions, arrived {in Indianapolis yesterday for-a| {series of modeling shows at the (Wm. H. Block Co. to [ The models were introduced to |Fiouse members by Rep. William | Cockram, Evansville, They were [invited to appear in the House on| a special motion introduced by Rep. Jess Andrew of West Point. ]

Re ee A ee Bs.

Deny Bevin Will: Resign

LONDON, Mar. 2 (UP)--There.

“Well, he's been taking a bat- and an annex to it as well as an is no truth in the report that For-| tering for eight months without added. transept to the worship eign Secretary Ernest Bevin Pranal ito resign, No. 10 Downing Street} “couldn't raise it any higher.

véteran

made.

“Gentlemen, Army,” a series of six articles by George W. Herald begins Sunday in The Sunday. Times | and appears in The Times next

week.

‘GENTLEMEN, YOU'RE IN.- THE ARMY’ Sunday THE SUNDAY TIMES

Starts

. Army Coming It's true. “The New Army” is different. [wounded - yesterday—more An astonished World War II describes startling changes have been

{enemy troops

three times

just what previous day.

ou're in the Communists were

Parallel.

The Sergeant Stuck the Loser—

GI's Penknife Matches

Bayonet in Death Struggle

YONGDUNGPO, Korea, Feb. 15 (Delayed) — Cpl. Robert L. Boone, 21, dived over a dike when about 40 North Koreans overran a self-propelled gun mount, and a Red

By United Press

soldier went after him.

The Communist Russfan-made burp gun, breaking the bone. Then he piled on the young North Carolinian and slashed him twice across

the face with a bayonet. The two locked in a death embrace

shot Cpl. Boone in the

and all Cpl. Boone had was a penknife.

They thrashed madly in the mud beside the Han River. | Finally Cpl. Boone reached - his penknife -arid*managed to | He tried to stab the enemy but could not He had-lost too much blood. » .

SGT. 1st CLASS John R. Bloomfield, 19, of Wyandotte,

pin the-Red down. ‘drive the knife home.

Mich., slithered down the bank.

“Get up, Bob!” he yelled. “Get up and I'll shoot him.”

. Communist losses in the ground | fighting were mounting steadily. n ec 1004 {The 8th Army reported that 2893 were killed or

as many as the

| Gen. Douglas MacArthur said in his daily communique that the casts of last week's Indianapolis not ground easily, and warned that heavy fighting lay ahead. Despite heavy losses, Gen. MacArthur said, the Communists still! ence between a sellout and the ‘have 31 divisions—about 200,000 g5 573 spectators that did attend. James H. Graham and the first {men—in line across Korea from mpne mjeldhouse capacity is 14,. | Officer as P. K. Toler.

{the Yellow Sea to the Sea Of g43 Thare were seven sessions. {Japan for a stand near the 38th

leg with a

“I’ can’t get up,” Cpl. Boone said. “I'm too tired.”

1st Class Bloomfield said. . . -

The

* Cpl. Boone raised his bleed

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nt used his bayonet.

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“Then lift up a little and I'll shoot him anyway,” Sgt. |§sered Heart .... ing‘ body six inches. He £

see the actual crash. The plane hit about half a mile from the runway.

WEFBM-TV Pays Off “It looked to me like the

For Cut in Crowd {ground just came up too fast for

Sponsors of the WFBM-TV tele-| the pilot. Visibility was bad.”

Saw People Removed

gIVINg oo tional high school basketball Mr. Cochran said the plane was burning and people already were |

tourney have returned §754 to the po taken out of the wreckage IHSAA to compensate the differ-| when he reached the scene. The pilot was identified

than|

| More Boarded at Omaha | The Mid-Continent office at leased today by the Indiana High Omaha sald 16 passengers were |School Athletic Association, re- aboard the plane when it landed |veals that there is a balance of there from Kansas City this morn$4346 remaining to cover any|D8. Six more boarded the plane deficits in .the regionals,” semi- at Omaha. finals and finals at the Fieldhouse, It Was the first fatal accident No Loss Expected n more than 16 years of Mid- | No loss is expected, however,/Continent Airlines operation. |according to IHSAA Commission-| 4A Mid-Continent plane crashed ler L. V. Phillips. last Tuesday at Tulsa, Okla., but The Indianapolis sectional’s 33 of the 34 persons aboard |gross. take was $36,495.98. The ®5caped unhurt, The co-pilot, For. [net balance after expenditures, in-|©8t. Hull, was the only one in[cluding $6012.78 for taxes, was |Jured. The ship, a Convair, was |$22,201.56, one-half of which was Dd route to Houston. “The right |divided evenly among the 16 par- engine went bad and the pilot was {ticipating schools. The gther half/unable to get altitude. He ecrashwas divided among the same landed the ship half a mile northschools, pro-rated per student en-.east of the Tulsa airport runway.

The financial statement, re-

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