Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 51, Number 185, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 16 September 1949 — Page 1
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VOL. 51 No. 185
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SULLIVAN DAILY TIMES FRIDAY, SEPT. 16, 1949.
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Sled -Unions Urged
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CLEVELAND, Sept. 16. (UP) A United Steelwork
ers district director said today it begins to look like a
strike" and notified local union presidents to make preparations for a steel walkout. - 1 William Donovan, district director of the union here, said "it begins to look as though a strike will be called in basic steel at midnight Sept. 24 due to the fact that steel companies are showing no inclination to accept recommendations of the President's fact-finding board." He urged local officers to begin strike preparations in accordance with instructions sent out before the strike first was postponed. Donovan said "we are determined to see the fight through in the interests of our membership, even to strike if necessary." His district has about 35,000 members in northern Ohio. ' Yesterday another district director, James P. Griffin Ycungstown, 0., wired all locals there "to take every possible action in order to alert and advise the membership and prepare them for the imminent strike." Steelworkers insisted upon
.company acceptance of the Presidential fact-finding board's recommendation as a basis for resuming negotiations. The union stand-pat attitude
bi ought quick government inter-1
vention in the dispute over acceptance of the board's recommendation.
ton To Get
Chance On Court To Follow Advice
Federal Mediation Chief Cyrus
S. Ching will invite botn the union and the steel companies to "attend mediation meetings next week in an effort to prevent a strike set for Sept. 25.
Expect Acceptance. Ching believes the parties will accept the invitations. He was ordered by President Truman to offer his services to get the parties around the bargaining table. The invitations were being sent, out, it was learned, because the government has given up hope that
By Charlotte G. Moulton
u ii ueu rress siaii correspondent
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (U.R) When Judge Sherman Minton takes his seat on the Supreme Court bench, he will have a rare opportunity to carry out his own advice. He once said the justices should be more open minded. Minton, age 58, was nominated by President Truman yesterday to the seat left vacant by the death of Associate Justice Wiley B. Rutledge. A democrat and a
former Indiana Senator, he has
the union and the companies will j been promised "overwhelmingly"
confirmation by the Senate. He has been on the U. S. Court of
, gfct together of their own accord,
M- At the same time, Murray summoned the union's, international policy committee to meet with him in Pittsburgh next Wednesday, just three days before the end of the Presidential truce. Purpose of the meeting was not revealed but indications were that Murray would seek reaffirmation of his authority to call a' walkout against any , company which does not accept the board's recommendations as a basis for negotiations. The board recommended a company-financed social insur- , arce and pension plan, calling for four cents per man per hour to be set aside for insurance and six cents, per man, per hour, for the pension. Asks Contract Talks. President Benjamin F. Fairless
Appeals in Chicago sin';e 1941
As a-pi'o-New Deal Senator
Program For ' SheEburri Church
Anniversary Set
Cusier Given Ohio Oil Co. Cerlificafe
Melvin Custer of Sullivan was
awarded a certificate in recogni
tion of eighteen years of business
association with- the Ohio Oil
Company at a luncheon yester-
The Shelburn Methodist Church day at the Company's new re-
No!
will celebrate its sixty-Eifth
niversary Sunday, Sept.. 18. The day will start with regular Sunday School
an-
the
finery in Robinson, Illinois. The certificate was presented by C. A. Buechrrer, Retail Sales Man-
church services. Rev. McCullough will speak at the morning service. A bask?t dinner will be served
at noon.
The r'olln-A.'ng prog, am will
begin at 2:00 p. m.
Orchestra, directed oy Orval
Hall.
Opening song Congi elation. Welcome address and p."iyer
Rev. Gillum, home pastor.
Duet Bradys from Midland. Instrumental solo Sharon
Miller.
Vocal solo 3'jd Dudley. Church historv-Mrs. Margaret
Taylor.
Introduction of guests Rev.
Gillum. .
Address Rev. Couchman. Song Congregation. Trio Mrs. Lon Keiser, Mrs.
Olen Reynolds, and Mrs. Lloyd Williams of Hymera. !
Vocal Solo Ronnie Jennings
of Farmersburg.
Address Rev. John Sutch. Son" Congregation. Benediction Rev. Gillum. All members and friend; of the
church are cordially invited t attend all or a part of these ser
vices. Come and make this a
great day in the church.
and ager for the Company.
While in Robinson, Mr. Custer toured the recently completed refinery, construction of whch was started in 1947. The new
plant is up-to-the-minute, he
said, in the newest developments of desipn and equipment. He was particularly impressed by the fluid catalytic unit, a huge ttructure 180 feet high. Mr. Custer, whose Marath;n Service Station is located at Washington and Section Streets, was first asso.:nte1 with 'he Ohio Oil Company in February. 1931.
Brownies, Girl Scouts
To Meet Monday
Brownies and Girl Scout lead
ers will meet wun xneir xroops
beginning Monday, Sept. 19th aftar cnhnnl nt thp following DlaCeS!
Troop II, Canteen, on Wednes- Congress
day; leaders, Mrs. Dewey Weir, program
m Pollnma . imeni.
Troop III, Baptist Church, on
Monday; leaders, Mrs. Carl Meds-
ker,1 Mrs. Wendell Loudermilk.
Troop IV, Christian- Church,
Tri-Counfy Rally For Rep. Noland Saturday Night A tri-county rally .o honor Congressman James E. Noiand, who is touring the Seventh District this week, vvill be held Pat"day night at Shakamak State Park. ' . , The rally is to be given by the counties of Clav, Sullivan ' and Greene and will begin wuh f basket dinner at 7 o'cloc.t. It if arranged to provide a homecoming welcome for Congressman Noland. . The meeting will" feature an address by the Seventh District Congressman, who is expected to report on legislation pending in
There also will be a of music ll enterta'r-
A number of guests representing
distinguished Mi'.n the Dis-
from 1935 to 1941, Minton gave Tuesday; leaders, Mrs. Ruth Poole,
his unqualified support to President Roosevelt's proposal to 1 "pack" the then-conservative court. In a furious attack on the court as then constituted, he once told the Senate: "The blight of the cold, dead hand of the cour? must not be permitted to contaminate the bloodstream of the nation and destroy the right of the people to live and prosper." He said Mr. Roosevelt was entitled to justices who approached their duties "with open judicial minds,', looking solely to power of Congress and not trying to dictate the policies of Congress." I In view of a run-in he had as
a Senator with newsnaner nuh-
of U. S. Steel Corporation twice , lisherSi Minton may be particu. has rejected Murray s demands , larly interested in cases involv-
inai oig sieei accept we oiwra b ing freedom of speech" and the
press. After accusing certain
findings as a basis for negotia
tiens. Last night he called on Murray to fix a time and place for resumption of contract talks. While both parties remained unmoved, local union presidents were talking strike to the rank-and-file. International offices, when queried on the actions of Griffin and Donovan, said 4hey believed
this was going on generally throughout the nation's steel dis-1 tricts. The local presidents hadi
received strike instructions last Jcly just before President Truman succeeded in getting a 60dr.y truce, which subsequently was extended another 11 days.
newspapers of being grossly unfair to the New Deal, he introduced a bill to make it a felony for any publisher to print as a fact anything known to be false.
The measure never came vote.
to a
Mrs. M. Southwood Funeral Sunday Funeral services for Mrs. Myrtle R. Southwood, age 59, of Terre Haute,' formerly of Sheiburn, will be conducted Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at tn? Mi-Hugh Funeral Home in Shelttrn. Burial will bi in Little i'lrck Cemetery. Surviving are the husband, Charles H. Southwood; four sisters, Miss Ida Mustin, Miss Flossie Mustin, and Mrs. Minnie Earle, all of Terre Haute, ' and Mrs. Pearl Davis of Indianapolis, and" two brothers, Cecil McClain of Terre Haute and Emory McClain of Covington, Kentucky.
Vet Conventions On News Reels
trict and the State hava ;u;d
cated tHat they expect to attend
Invitations are be'.ng extended
Mrs. James Sinclair. Ihrough the press ti poisons ir
Troop VI. Presbyterian Church, the tri-county area and in other
Tuesday; leaders, Mrs. Robert counties in the District. Shepherd, Mrs. Perigo. A spokesman planning the af-
Troop VII, Christian Church, 'fair urged the public to attend Monday; leaders, Mrs. Harold and reminded everyone to prtMiller, Mrs. Floyd Dozier. vide his own table service f ir fhe Troop VIII, Methodist Church, picnic dinner.
Monday; leaders, Mrs. Carl Price,
Mrs Ann Tucker.
snd's Court
House Meeting Plans Are Set
Plans are completed for Con
gressman James E. Noland's
Court House Conference at Sul
livan and for the Tri-County reception at Shakamak Park. Mr. Noland will be in the Court
House Rotunda tomorrow, Saturday from 10 a. m. to 12 noon to confer with any citizen of the
county who has any matter they
'esirt to take up with me Congressman. , After his morning conference the Congressman will tour the
county to obtain first hand in
formation on the needs and desires of the people. At 7:00 p. m. Saturday the re
ception by the Democrats of
Clay, Greene and Sullivan coun
ties will be held at the 4-H Mess Hall at Shakamak Park.
Each county is to provide an
outstanding act for the enter
tainment of those present. Demo
cratic County Chairman Hubert Sevier has obtained a great com-
;dy team to present as Sullivan
County's part ofthe entertainment.
Mr.' Sevier wishes to again remind those who have no way to
go to bhakamaK ana aesire to
ittend to contact him immediate
ly at the Auditor's offi'-e. Sulli
van County is hoping to have the
largest delegation at the r:ep-tion.
Lewis Suspends Payments from pilfer Welfare Fund; Refuses I Reveal If He Will Call Strike
District Legion Meet Program
Is Completed
Miner's Picnic
Troop IX, Presbyterian Church,
Monday; leaders. Mrs. Wm. Bill-
man, Mrs. Paul TruelocK. II J Girls in the second grade who L0minill88 L3I GCl wish to become Brownie. Scouts vvmm,,,'v' UMX'U
will be Troop IX and will . meet with Mrs. Wm. Billman at the
Ben Trump, chairman of the fl-11 Minprs' Picnic, has Mllrt a
Presbyterian Church Monday aft- meeting of the planning com
er school.
Seek Cause Of Rushville Blast RUSHVILLE, Sept. 16 (UP) A team of investigators from the State Labor Department today searched for the cause of an explosion in the ruins of a generating plant which blew up yesterday and killed two men. The roof of the building, wRich housed four generators of the Southeastern Indiana Power Co. serving an 11 county area, col-
News reels showing the Legion lapsed as did one of teh walls, convention in Philadelphia and Meanwhile, the Public Service the G.A.R. contention in Ind- Co. of Indiana supplied electriianapolis will be shown at the city to the rural area blacked out Lyric Theatre h-ire Sunday and by the explosion. Emergency orMonday. ders put PSCI electricity oh the George N. Craig, of Brazil, Southeastern lines at Greensburp new national commander of the and Shelbyville within hours of l esion is seen in the scene from the blast yesterday morning, and Philadelphia. The camera . also service was restored to all parecords the last encampment of trons before nightfall.
the G.A.R.
Eagles Lodge Is
Robbed Las) Night
Killed in the explosion were
two employees of the utility, Elbert G. Cross and John H. Woods, both age 33 and from Rushville. Three other employees escaped with their lives. Robert Ratikin, age 34, received minor injuries, but plant man-
into ager George Kreher, age 34. and
last Tonv Barrineer. age 35, all of
Ibis Rushville were notinjured. I Survivors said tnere were "two
only blasts just before 10 a.m., CST,
en-
mittee for 10 o'clock Sunday
morning in the City Hall at Hymera. .
The picnic will be Sept. ?9 and
30 and Oct. 1 and 2 at the Hy
mera City Grove. It is planned
for members of District 8 an J 11,
United Mine Workers of Amer
ica.
A baseball tournament will be
one of the feature? of the four-
day affair. All locals planning to enter are asked to have their
teams represented at Sunday s.
meeting, Mr. Trump said, if at all possible. George Miller, Jr., of 'Hymera and Kelly McCam-
mon of Sullivan are co-chairmen
of the tournament.
Persons planning to enter the
amateur contest are asxed to contact Joe Gallagher of Sullivan, who is chairman of thus event.
Mayor Ralph Tucker of Terre
Houte will talk on Oct. 2.
Other officers of the commit
tee on arrangements -re Kenneth
Rodgers of Midland, vice chair
man, and Everett Marlowe of
Hymera, secretary.
The Eagles Lodge on North
State Street was broken sometime after midnight night, city police were told morning. ' It is reported that the
things taken from thj lodge were and they blamed one of the
FILES COMPLAINT FOR PERFORMANCE Frederick B. Cline has filect a complaint for performance as promised against the .ko Engineering Corporation in the Sullivan Circuit Court.
two slot machines. , gines which they said had Chief of Police Arthur Murray been functioning properly and City Policeman George before the explosion. Scott investieated the theft. I
not
just
SEEK NEW OHIO jLINE BRIDGE
Three Soldiers
Flee Red Zone
German Jail
BERLIN, Sept. 16. (UP) An
American soldier and three British servicemen broke out of a Soviet sector jail while the Rus
sians were changing the guard and escaped to Western Berlin
today.
The four men told Western
Fewer .officials that. the Russians had fed them "starvation" rations, beaten them, placed them in "ice.
box" rooms and poured hot and' cold water on them.
But an official American announcement said Pvt. John J.i
Sienkiewrcz, Baltimore, Md., "showed fatigue and a generally weakened condition but did not stem unduly undernourished" after his 10 months in Soviet-run prisons. Face Court Martial. The three Britishers now face court martials in connection with several armed robberies in Berlin. Sienkiewrcz was picked up in a Caima nnA-AM AlAttnAj .niltiT.1l
station in November, 1948. The Russians refused to return him to U. S. custody on the grounds that he was a Polish citizen, not an American. . Maj. J. A. Dixon, American military police officer said at the hospital where Siekiewrcz is undergoing treatment, 'we have heard of hard treatment given by the Soviets but this is the hardest we have ever hard of. Perhaps it id a bit exaggerated." , Rough Treatment. Sienkiewrcz said a Russian general had slapped him as a liar for saying theArmy hospital in Berlin was located "right across the street from Fuddy's Tavern" and a Russian soldier had made a pass, at him with a bayonet for asking for a match. Sienkiewrcz, a 26-year-old Pa
cific war veteran, said it was his
I third attempt to get away. He
acwu lie Wtaa bancil LU Uie OUVieL zone town of Oranienburg after his arrest and there was questioned constantly for 16 days and nights by high-ranking Soviet officers.
The program for the week-end
district meeting of the American
Legion has been completed, Tom Jennings and John Vickery, of
the program committee, have an
nounced.
Registration of all delegates
and visitors to the mee'in? from
the posts in the Seventh District will begin at 1 o'clock Saturday afternoon and' wili continue until 9. o'clock that night. A dance, with music by the Brazil Legion band will begin at 9 o'clock and continue until 1 a. n., Sunday.
The business session for both
the Legion and. the Auxiliary will begin at the Post home et
10 a. m. Sunday and will ccn-
tinue through the morning. -Dinner will be served following the meeting.
The Legionnaires and floats
and bands entered in the parade
will assemble at the old Post
home on North Court Street and will begin its line of march at 2 p.m.
The Legion and its units will
meet for a joint session outside
H the Leeion Home at 3 o'clocV.
Sunday afternoon with the ad
dress to be given by Frank
Jessup, department vice-com
mander. This meeting is open to the public. In case of rain it will
be held in the Community Gym.
Hymera Takes Softball Title In Two Games
Hymera won the playoffs in the Sullivan softball league last night by taking their second straight decision from Rickards j 4 to 2 at Legion Field. One of the I
largest crowds of the year was present despite the cold weather. Jones, pitching for Hymera, held the Locker Boys to three hits one of them being a home
run by Jeff ers, who played sec
ond for the Locker team last night. - Myers, pitching for Rickards gave up 7 hits to the winners, with Jones, the Hymera pitcher
hitting two doubles and a triple.1 Hymera won the first half championship and Rickards took the second half championship. 1 Three games were played with Hymera taking two of them and be third ending in a 20 inning
1 to 1 tie.
By Charles II. Herrold , . United Press Staff Correspondent (WASHINGTON, Sept. 16. (UP) John L. Lewis today announced suspension of benefit payments from the United Mine Workers' welfare and retirement fund. The UMW president made the announcement after a five-hour meeting of the fund's board of trustees, which he heads. Lewis has accused several coal companies, particularly those in the South, of "defaulting" on their 20-cent-a-ton contributions to the multi-million-dollar fund. He has threatened to shut the industry down if the payments are not brought up to date.' Eut in a brief news conference at which he announced the suspension of fund benefits, Lewis would not say whether he plans to call a strike.
Seek Bodies In Texas Crash Of B-36 Bomber FORT WORTH, Tex., Sept. 16 (UP Salvage crews worked today to recover the bodies cf five airmen killed in the first fatal crash of a B-36. The huge, six-engined bomber failed on its takeoff from Carswell Air Base last night, and nosedived to the bottom of adjoining Lake Worth. ' Crash boats rescued eight of the plane's crew of 13 and icund the body of TSgt. Willi ir,i G. Seymour, a radio operator who lived in Fort Worth, soon after the crash. A Navy-trained diver, Melvin Best, Arlington, Tex., pulled two more bodies from the wreckage today and continued searching for the others, -believed trapped in the plane's nose. First Killea The victims were the first airmen killed in a. B-36 since the plane, largest land-based bomber in the world, was developed in World War II and became the center of heated controversy over its merits betweei Air Force and Navy officials. Major Toy B. Husband, Woodlake, Cal., pilot of the big plane, said his instruments indicatf-d all equipment was operating normally before the crash. "During the takeoff rjn we were airborne for a few seconds," Husband said. "I don't think we ever got more than five or 10 feet in the air, then the plane settled down again. . Knew Crash Coining' ' "I saw we were running out of runway and goi.ig to crash. 1 tried to apply the b- .k3s and reverse the props. I dont know whether we got them reversed or not we were nt the end of the runway when we tried. "There was a big jar when we hit. Just before the crash, I opened my escape hatch. There was an awful lot of water thrown in on me when the nose hit. 1 don't know what caused us to crash. I don't have any idea.-'
FIRE DEPARTMENT
MAKES RUN I LOUISVILLE, Ky., Sept. 16 - The fire department was called (UP) A committee of Louisville
to the Benny DeFrank residence and New Albany, Ind., business
at 215 West Wall Street this aft- men are expected to confer soon ernoon. It was reported that elec-with the Indiana Toll Bridge trie wiring in the house got hot.(Commission about the possibility No damage was done except to of another bridge across the Ohio the wiring. ' . I River here. . i
DOWNTOWN QUARTERBACKS The 'Downtown Quarterbacks will huddle Tuesday evening. September 20, at 6.30 o'clock at the Davis Hotel Dining Rooni for the eleventh season. Coaches Jones, Marsh, Lucas and Jarrett will be present for the session of eating and talking football. All loyal Sullivan High fans are welcome. Admission is by meal ticket and reservations at $1 a plate must be made with Dr. C. E. Fisher at his office by 11:00 a, m. on Tuesday. The meetings will be held at the same hour, same place, same reservation plan,. . on each Tuesday night throughout the football season.
Two Fliers Escape After Plane Crash MICHIGAN CITY, Sept. 16 (UP) Two Pennsylvania fliers contemplated train, bus or . car
Wravel to their homes todav fol
lowing a narrow escape here yesterday when their private
plane crashed while taking off. Towermen at the airport here said the plane, a Globe Swift, shot across the runway and flipped over on its back during the
i attempted take off. A wing was
sheared, off in the mishap. Pinned inside the 'cabin for a few moments were Pilot Gilbert
Heinddaugh, age 30, Uniontowni
and Edward Cupp, age 27, Connellsville. They were treated for superficial injuries at a city hos
pital and released., Airport officials believed the plane was overloaded.
Stale Orders Cut In Auto Insurance INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 16 (UP) The State of Indiana to
day ordered a 10 per cent reduc
tion in the cost of comprehensive and collision insurance for auto
mobiles driven by persons more than 25 years old.
Frank J. Viehmann, state in
surance commissioner, ordered the reduction effective next
Monday. He said it would save
Hoosiers. more than $1,000,000 a year.
"Cars are in better condition today and drivers are more safety conscious," Viehmann said. "We believe it is time to git the rates back in line." He added that his department was studying experience tables in the fields of liability and property damage for both pass
enger and commercial vehicles, Viehmann said Indiana would pioneer in a system of preferred risk classifications or comprehensive and collision coverage. The new system divides insur
ance buyers into three groups, two of them rated as preferred
risks. ' i
The preferred risks are cars
not driven regularly by anyone under 25, and cars not used more than 7,500 niles a year. The third
group is cars owned by persons
who have in their households
drivers under 25.
Mrs. Beulah Fletcher Dies At Columbus Mrs. Beulah Brown Fletcher, long prominent , in newspaper circles, and more recently owner of a jewelry store m Columbus, died at her home in Columbus
yesterday afternoon. She was the granddaughter of Isaac M. Brown, the founder of The Sullivan Union in 1866, and the daughter of the late Chalmers C. Brown, one of the'founders of The New Albany Tribune, The Edinburg Courier and The Columbus Republican. Her grandfather left here in 1871 and went to Columbus, where he and his son founded The Republican. Her great-grandfather, James Reed, lived in Merom until he moved to Sullivan, where he had a general merchandise
store on the west side of the square. ' She was well-known in Sullivan and visited here with Mrs. Zoe Bays. She worked on newspapers in Columbus, and Cleve
land, Ohio, and St. Louis, Mo.
Private funeral services will be held at the residence in
Columbus Snurday afternoon
Previously operator spokesmen had said the fund, which has been paying out benefits at the rate of about $8,000,000 a month, is "bankrupt." Operators who have discontinued payments into the fund contend they are under no obligation to keep up the contributions because their contract with tho United Mne Workers expired last June 30. Lewis, who this year did not invoke his traditional no-contract, no-work rule, contends that the mine companies are obligated to continue the fund pay-' ments as long as union members continue to dig coal. Miners Leave Pits. East of the Mississippi miners have been working three days a week. When they left the pits ytsterday for a long week-end, there was considerable doubt as to whether they will return next week. Meanwhile, 8,000 UMW member? in Utah and Wyoming walked off their jobs today though the three-day- work week limitation does not apply west of the Mississippi and union leaders said they will not return until a contract is signed. Attending today's fund trustee meeting with Lewis were Ezra Van Horn, the operators' member, and Sen. Styles Bridges, It., N. H., the public member. Lewis said they authorized a temporary suspension of fund benefits, effective tomorrow, because the fund is "faced with diminishing revenues." The trustees took this action, Lewis said, because they - are "conscious of their obligation to protect the sound operations and continuity of the fund." Adopt Resolution. He said the three trustees adopted the suspension resolution but he refused to say what the vote was. Van Horn was not present for the announcement. He left half an hour before it was made for his home in Cleveland. "Suspension of payments by the trustees is a temporary expedient, to continue until funds are available for resumption of benefit payments at the discretion of
ithe trustees," the resolution said.
lhe suspension applies to payments by the fund to beneficiaries for pensions, disability benefits, death benefits, widows' and orphans' assistance, and for medr ical and hospital service, incurred subsequent to Sept. 17, except that in emergency hospital and medical cases as determined by medical administrative officers of the fund payments may be made for hospital care and at
tendant medical care in such
cases."
Meanwhile, Bridges told report
ers that he did not as it had
been predicted he would submit
his resignation from his $35,000-a-year job as trustee. He said he
had agreed however, to suspend the salary paid him and Van Horn.
TODAY'S TEMPERATURES The unofficial temperatures in Sullivan today were: at 7:30 a.m 52 degrees at noon 64 degrees
Former Resident Dies At Ft. Wayne . Word has been received here of the death of Mrs. Robertine Castle, age 36, former resident of Sullivan, now of Ft. Wayne, Indiana. Mrs. Castle had been ill for some time.
Surviving are the husband and one small son; the parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Cox of Sullivan R. 1: two brothers, Wendell Cox of Sullivan and Garland Cox of South America; two sisters, Gwendolyn Dobson and Candace Cole, both of Ft. Wayne. Funeral services will be conducted Monday in Ft. Wayne
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