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Milford chronicle., 1933-09-08
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DELMARVA. CAMP
More Than 5000 Persons Attend
Final Service in Sussex County

More than 5000 persons Sunday
night attended the. closing exercises
of the Delmarva Camp which has
been conducted near Laurel during
the past several weeks. The camp
ended with a pageant, From Beth
lehem to Calvary" with large num-
ber of young folk participating.
DR.. George w. Cooke, the evange-
list, spoke on the NRA and urged
every one in the vast audience to CO.
operate in the movement. He said
the Christian church is opposed to
child labor, sweat shops, long hours
and low pay and expressed the hope
that the NRA would abolish these
conditions throughout the entire
country.
DR.. Cooke announced that the
Bible school, conducted every morn
ing during the camp season from 9
to IL O'Clock, was attended each day
by an average of 400 boys and girls,
conveyed to the camp in busses from
the surrounding sections.
James Morgan, president of the
camp, accepted the invitation of the
board to return next year to conduct
the camp.
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-08
SPEEDY ACTION ON
LEWES CANAL PROJECT
U. s. Engineer Says He VIII For
ward Report at Once

Speedy action ON the proposed in
let to connect the Lewes and Re-
hoboth Canal with the Delaware Bay
is promised by Col. Earl /. Brown,
U. S. engineer for the Philadelphia
Wilmington district, who has ad-
vised Congressman Wilbur L. Adams
that he has submitted a report on
this subject to the Division Engi-
neer, Col G. M. Hoffman, in New
York, who will approve or disap-
prove the report and forward it to
the chief of engineers at Washing
ton, probably by the middle of Sep
tember.
Col. Brown says that so far ais he
is aware this project is not in any
program of public works that has
come before his office. There is
possibility, however," wrote Col.
Brown, that it has been included in
a program submitted by the Della
ware State Advisory Board of Public
Works"
A project autohrized by Congress
calls for improvements at Lewes
estimated to cost $270,000, but busi-
ness interests have sought alter
ations designed to be of greater
benefit to the locality. Early this
year the board of engineers for
rivers and harbors rejected plan
of modification and expressed the
opinion that the original project
ought to stand.
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-08
SUSSEX NRA GROUP
MEETS AT GEORGETOWN
Adopt Resolutions Endorsing Move
ment; VIII Take Up Active Work

Representative women of Sussex
county met at the Georgetown New
Century Club, September 5th to COM
plete arrangements for the Blue
Eagle Drive. Mrs. Lena Harrington
Messick of Bridgeville, chairman for
the county president. Mrs. ]. D. Nc
Cabe of Rehoboth was appointed
secretary, Mrs. George Walls, presi-
dent of Georgetown New Century
Club was hostess. A number were
present from Georgetown, Bridge
vile, Delmar and Rehoboth.
Mrs. w. H. Beacon of Wilmington,
State chairman, was the speaker,
and stressed the part which women
have in the National Recovery pro-
gram, and in the present drive.
Every woman in Delaware a signer
of the consumers pledge, and every
home in the State adorned with the
Blue Eagle is the aim of the Wo-
mems Division of the NRA.
The recovery program can sue
coed only as it has the support of
the buying public. 1t is not enough
for trade and industry to sign the
Presidents agreement-the con-
sumers must do their part.
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Milford chronicle., 1933-09-08
HARRINGTON VOTES
TO BUILD SEWER
Election Results In 572 For, SO
Against Bond Issue For Project

At a special election held at Har-
rington on Tuesday, the residents
voted overwhelmingly in favor of a
bond issue for the purpose of con-
structing a sewer system in the
town. The vote was 572 for the is
sue and So against. Proponents of
the bond issue were busy from the
time the polls opened at 1 o'clock
until they closed at with automo-
biles carrying voters to and from
the polls. 1t is expected the sewer
system will cost about S128,000 and
it is expected to get one-third the
cost from the Federal Government.
This was the third election held
on the project, the first being to de-
eide whether the City Council or
commission should have charge of
the construction. At this election it
was voted that City Council should
be in charge.
The second election was on the
advisability of a bond issue and at
that time the opponents won out by
large majority.
One of the potent reasons given
for the necessity of sewer system
was it's need for the high school.
Here the waste is taken care of by
septic tanks and during the recent
storm the ditch into which they
drain overfiowed and flooded the
basement of the school requiring the
use of fire engines to pump the wa
ter and waste out.
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-08
GRANT LETTERS ON
SUSSEX ESTATES
Register OF Wills, Frank L. Joseph,
Kept Busy

Register of Wills Frank L. Joseph
has granted letters on the follow
ing estates in Sussex county: Lee A.
Ellis, late of Little Creek District,
to Horace E. Ellis, of Delmar; Chas.
Willis MCGEE, late of Millville, to
Mrs. Leila Alice MCGEE, of Frank
ford, R. D., administrator; Stephen
G. Hearn, late of Delmar, to former
Magistrate Patrick H. Hearn and
Albert B. Hearn, executors, of Del
mar; Mrs. Sarah ]. Wilson, late of
Nanticoke District, to Minos W.
Wilson, administrator; Robert W.
Carey, late of Baltimore District, to
Mrs. Name E. Carey, administra-
trix; Edward W. Johnson, late of
Indian River District, to Mrs. Sarah
j. Johnson, Administrative; George
T.Chipman, late of Broad Creek Dis
trict, to Mrs. Edna c. Chapman, of
near Laurel, Administrative; Mrs.
Mary H. Daisey, late of Baltimore
District, to Sadie w. Powell, of
Ocean View, executrix; Mrs. Emma
F. Smith, late of Little Creek Dis
trict, to Zadoc NJ Smith, of near
Delmar, administrator; George C.
Murray, late of Baltimore District,
to Mrs. Ida Murray, of near Frank
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Milford chronicle., 1933-09-08
MILFORD SCHO IS
OPENED TUESDAY
WITH 12O1 PUPILS
548 In Old School; 5O4 In
New And 149 In Color
ed School.
z LARGEST
Three Sections Required
In All But One Of Pri-
mary Grades.

Announcing the opening of anoth-
er school year, the school bells rang
on Tuesday, September 5, for the
first time in nearly three months.
One thousand, two hundred and one
school children from Milford and vi
cinity filed in through the open
doors to take their places in the
class-rooms, there to spend another
happy episode in their lives.
In the old school building, on the
corner of Second and North streets
in which are located the first six
grades there are 54S pupils. In the
new school building on Lake View
avenue, grades to 12 there are 504
pupils and in the colored school
there are 149 pupils.
A large number of pupils have not
yet entered school. The total num-
ber of pupils will be in the neigh
borhood of 1850 when the final en-
rollment is reached.
The enrolment list as of Septem-
ber 6, the day after school opened,
is as follows:
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-08
DAMAGED BRIDGES
SURVEYED BY BOARD
Sussex Residents Ask Levy Court To
Open MiddlefOrd Road Link

William S. Lord, of Greenwood;
Edgar M. Baylis, of Selbyville, and
Gardner Bunting, of Lewes, mem
bers of the Sussex County Levy
Court, accompanied by County Engi-
neer R. C. Hill, of Georgetown, were
in Western Sussex County Tuesday
afternoon, on trip of inspection of
county bridges, damaged and wash
ed out by the recent storms. They
also made a trip over the proposed
reopening of the road running from
Seaford through the farm of the
late DR.. J. o. Williams, to the old
Dulany Bridge, connecting with the
road leading to AIiddleford.
The inspection of this road was
made following a meeting of the
Levy Court at Georgetown Tuesday
morning, when a representation of
citizens of that section appeared be-
fore the Levy Court, seeking its re-
opening.
1t was found that this road did
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Milford chronicle., 1933-09-08
PLEDGE MAY AVOID
SPECIAL SESSION
State Political Leaders May Promise
Approval OF Loans In 1885

Through a plan, which has been
proposed for the financing of public
works projects in this State, it is be-
lieved a special session of the Cen
eral Assembly this fall will be un-
necessary.
The suggestion embodies a pledge
TO. the Federal Government from
prominent Republican and Demo-
cratic leaders throughout the State
that Delaware will assume financial
obligation for any loans the govern
ment may make to the State and
that all such loans will be ratified
by act of the Legislature which will
meet in 1885 instead of having Gov
ernor C. Douglass Buck call spe-
cial session this year to pass such
legislation .,
The suggestion of this plan is said
to have originated with member of
the State Public Works Advisory
Commission. AS this commission
was appointed by President Roose-
welt it. is believed the pledge from
the citizens of. the State. would be
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Milford chronicle., 1933-09-08
School Teachers In
Sussex Named By
Education Board
All Districts We're Ready For Opening OF Term This
Week; Sessions In Some Districts VIII Not Be
Resumed Until September Eleventh.

Teachers for the schools through
out Sussex county have been named
by the Department of Public In
struction for the Fall and Winter
term, 1933-1934 except in the four
special districts-Georgetown, Laur-
ell, Lewes and Seaford-and every
thing is in readiness for the opening
of the term next week. A few Of
the schools will not open until Sep
tember IL, Georgetown being one of
them. The list of the teachers, the
school district and the name of the
supervisor follows:
Supervisory District of Professor
Albert Farley, Gumboro No. 81,
Vance McCabe, of Frankford; ]. Otis
West, Mrs. Pamela G. Lynch, Ruth
Brittingham, of Millsboro.
Dorothy No. 421s-Mrs. Pauline
Roberts, Delmar.
Vaughn's No. 45-Carmel Moore,
Laurel.
Ellis Grove No. 5O-Mrs. Dorothea
Ellis, Delmar.
Kings No. 54-Delema Cannon,
Georgetown, R. D.
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-08
GOV.SAYSEXTRA.
SESSION PLAN
HPREMATURE
No Definite Information
Available AS To Funds
Required.
MUST ACT ON AID

Governor Buck said that the mat
ter of calling a special session of
the Legislature to pave the way for
State acceptance of Federal funds
under the NRA is still premature,
due to the fact that no definite in
formation has been forthcoming.
"As the situation stands now,
there is no necessity for calling the
Legislature into special session at
this time," Governor Buck said, 1--WE
have nothing concrete to go on.
Before a special session call can
be issued we must have definite in
formation as to what shall be need
ed. This cannot be determined, of
course, until the Federal Public
Works board in Delaware passes
upon the merits and necessity of
such projects as are recommended
to it, and the boards recommenda-
tions are ratified by the Federal
government"
The calling Of a special session of
the Legislature would necessitate
the holding of three special elections
in New Castle county. Representa-
tives Walter G. Tatnall, Jr., Republ-
can, of the Third Representative
District, and Leroy F. Hawke, DEM
ocrat, of the Fifth Representative
District, resigned from their respec-
tive legislative posts to accept ap-
pointments as members of the De-
partment of Elections. Representa-
tive Frank w. Schroeder, of the
Twelfth Representative District, is
now State detective.
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-08
R. D. LINGO, MAYOR
OF DAGSBORO, DEAD
Was President OF First National
Bank Since 1907

After an illness of four months,
Rufus d. Lingo, president of the
First National Bank of Dagsboro,
died at his home in Dagsboro early
last Thursday morning. He was rs
years old His wife and two daugh-
ters were at his bedside when he
died. For the last two weeks his
condition had been SO critical that
he required almost constant atten-
tion.
Banker, business man and poll
tician, and for more than 20 years
mayor of the town, Mr.. Lingo, al
though not a native son of Days
boro, was its best known citizen. He
was one of the pioneer bankers of
Dagsboro and was president of the
First National Bank since its organ
ization in 1907.
He also was a member of the
board of directors of the Selbyville
National Bank and of the Philadel-
phia Hardwood Lumber Company.
He was born in Indian River Hun
dred, near Millsboro, on October IL,
1858, receiving his education in the
local public schools and in the Dow
er Academy. His parents were Dan
iel and Catharine Barker Lingo, his
father being a farmer on large
scale.
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Milford chronicle., 1933-09-08
LEGION CONVENTION
PLANS COMPLETE
Drum And Bugle Corps VIII Com
pete For Cup Donated By Governor

Final arrangements for the annual
convention of the American Legion,
Department of Delaware, at Reho-
both, today and Saturday, have been
completed by the committee in
charge of the program.
A bugle and drum corps competi-
tion has been arranged, the first
prize being loving cup donated by
Governor c. D. Buck; second prize,
cup donated by U. s. Senator John
G. Townsend, Jr., and third, a Hol-
ton horn, donated by the Holton
Company
According to Department Adjutant
George D. Hill, Dover, many distin-
guished guests have accepted the in
vitation to attend the banquet at the
Hotel Henlopen, on Friday night, at
Z o'clock, among them Frank E.
Samuel, national adjutant, who will
be the speaker of the evening.
Immediately following the ban
quet there will be Legion and Aux
iliary dance and other features at
the Rehoboth Country Club.
Delegates and alternates to the
convention of the Auxiliary, to be
held concurrently with the conven-
tion Of the Legion, have been an
nounced along with other plans for
the convention.
Colonel Thomas W. Miller, COM
mander of the Department of Della
ware, will be speaker at the joint
banquet to be held Friday evening.
Business sessions of the two bodies
will be held all day Saturday.
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-08
UNEMPLOYED TO
BE REGISTERED
Unemployment Office to Help Find
Jobs in Sussex

Under the authority of the Federal
Department of Labor and by direc-
tion of the State Re-employment Di-
rector and the Sussex County Re-
employment Committee, the National
Re-employment Office for Sussex
County has established permanent
headquarters ON the second floor of
the Democrat Building, Georgetown,
Delaware.
The purpose of this Office is the
registration of all the unemployed in
Sussex county, with the intention of
rendering a complete employment
service to them. No charges are
made to any one for this service; it
is a government agency, an effort of
the national and state agencies of
government to simplify the problem
of getting employer and worker
economically and swiftly together.
No job for any person is promised
and no mandate on the employer to
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Milford chronicle., 1933-09-08
JOHNSON APPEALS
FOR NATIONWIDE
BUYING CAMPAIGN
Warns Increase In Com
modify Prices Bound To
Come Soon.
WANTS ACTION NOW
Hints Roosevelt May Re-
sort To Extraordinary
Powers On PrOfiteering.
WANTS ACTION NOW

One of the greatest Labor Day
throngs in Chicago's history on Mon
day heard General Hugh S. Johnson,
national recovery administrator ap-
peal for nationwide consumers
buying campaign.
Addressing a throng of a quarter
of a million persons throughout a
system of loud speakers that carried
his message to every corner of the
Worlds Fair grounds, General John
son reassured his listeners that a
Federally directed national cam
paign would start about September
20 to influence citizens to buy freely.
I'VE shall begin campaign" he
said, "to try to convince the people
of the need to buy freely-not as a
patriotic duty, but as a prudent use
of money"
With labor working shorter hours
receiving more money, commodities
advancing in price and industrial
costs mounting, the general said
there was bound to be an increase in
the price to the consumer soon.
But the President who sponsored
this recovery program is not going
to see it run away with profiteer-
ing" Johnson said. He indicated
that the government might resort to
extraordinary powers, if necessary
to enforce fair prices.
The speaker failed to mention by
name any of the large manufactur-
ers who so far have failed to join
the NRA forces.
He emphasized strongly, however,
that the law has talons and that the
codes will be enforced.
I'VE welcome opinions of persons
who do not wish to comply with the
law the general said, "but it must
be remembered that ultimate de-
cision rests with the President of
the United States"
"For violators, we can take away
The Blue Eagle and if that's not
enough there are plenty of penal.
ties" Johnson said. 1.-THE public
cannot tolerate noncompliance"
Johnson refused in his address to
make specific claims as to the sue
cess of the recovery campaign so
far.
mo one" he said, "can say that
it will fail. There are faults and
errors but the fact remains
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Milford chronicle., 1933-09-08
WILLARDDEPUTY
SUCCEEDS HANDY
AS COLLECTOR
Internal Revenue Chief
Names w. T. BOyce AS
His Deputy.
HANDY rs PRAISED
Mr.. Deputy Says His Life
Long Friend Made A
Good Official.

s., Willard F. Deputy, of Laurel, was
inducted as Collector of Internal
Revenue for the District of Delaware
in the office of the collector in the
Federal Building at Wilmington,
Friday morning. Immediately fol-
lowing the taking of the oath by Mr..
Deputy and the receipt of his COM
mission, the deputies named by Mr..
Deputy were sworn in by Federal
Internal Revenue Bureau men.
The new deputies are: w. Trux-
ton Boyce, of Stanton, assistant col
lector.
Edward L. Hobbs, Wilmington,
chief of the income tax department.
Everett H. Richards, of Frank
ford, assistant head of the income
tax division.
]. Fenimore Wilson, Dover, book
keeper.
Miss M. Blanche Mills, Whining
ton, stenographer.
Miss M. Elizabeth Houston, Clay
ton, stenographer.
William Lyons, Jr., Wilmington,
miscellaneous tax division.
Richard L. Ellison, Wilmington,
cashier.
Vincent ]. Kowalewski, Whining
ton, field deputy.
James E. Corrigan, Wilmington,
field deputy.
Willard D. Boyce, Dover, field dep
uty.
Harry W. Albers, Elsmere, field
deputy. .-..t.
Julius H. Cooper, Laurel, field
deputy for the flour, wheat and cot
ton processing taxes.
G. E. Donoho, Seaford, same as
Mr.. Cooper.
Mr.. Boyce is a former member of
the House of Representatives, was
candidate for lieutenant governor of
the State in 1928 and is the former
federal prohibition director for Del
aware. He is a graduate of the Uni
versity of Virginia. Mr.. Richards
is a teacher and former principal
and well-known athletic coach. Mr..
Lyons and Mr.. Ellison are holdover
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Milford chronicle., 1933-09-08
HOLIDAY AUTO
TRAFFIC NOT SO
HIGH This YEAR
Thousand Fewer Cars On
DUPONT Boulevard, Glas-
gov Road.
BUT FEW ACCIDENTS

Labor Day traffic of 1888 at State
Road was less than 1000 below that
of Labor Day of 1882, as shown by
actual count of automobiles passing
the State Road Police Station from
noon Monday until midnight Monday
night. A count was made at the same
place on Labor Day of last year and
the year before. The traffic on Mon
day exceeded the Fourth of July
traffic at the same place by nearly
1000.
A total of 21,166 automobiles pass
ed the station from noon to mid
night Monday, compared with 22,125
passing the same point on the same
day from noon to midnight last year.
On Labor Day of 1881, however, dur
ing the same hours, only 18,400 au-
tomobiles passed this point during
the same hours, 2,766 less than this
year. The figure of last year exceed
ed the figure of this year by 959 au-
tomobiles.
A total of 11,432 automobiles pass
ed along the DUPONT Boulevard and
9,734 passed along the Glasgow Road
from noon to midnight Monday, Civ
ing a total of 21,166, only 959 under
the high Labor Day of 1881.
The traffic was heaviest between
the hours of Z and o'clock, when
1920 automobiles passed along the
two highways, 1856 on the DUPONT
Boulevard and 1,1S5 on the Glasgow
Road.
Traffic increased rapidly between
4 and in the afternoon and fell off
rapidly between and 10.
The hour by hour count on the
DUPONT Boulevard, starting at noon,
was: Noon, 442; 1 o'clock, 5s1; 2
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Isaaes No. 62-Charles H. Jeffer-
son, Georgetown, R., D.
Smiths No. 6515-Anna NJ. Smith,
Bridgeville, R. D.
Meals No. 69-Mrs. Leona S. AL
len, Seaford.
Lewes Cross Roads No. 80-Wal-
ter T. Short, Millsboro.
Greenwood No. 91-Florence E.
Carlisle. Mrs. Howard Taylor, Mrs.
Katie Houseman, Sadie E. Jones,
Elsie M. Wiley, Greenwood.
Wainwright's No. 109-John F.
Hughes, Seaford.
Tussocky Branch No. 137-Estella
F. Kitchens, Laurel, R. d.
o'Neal's No. 165-Mrs. Emma o.
Atkins, Laurel.
Blades No. 172-Mrs. Ermine Q.
Nye, Mrs. Catherine v. Allen, Mrs.
Sallie R. Dolby, Laurel, R. D.
Mitchell's No. 189-Pauline Jones,
Frankford.
Supervisory district of Professor
e. Paul Burkholder:
Lincoln City, No. 3-John A. Ruth,
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Milford chronicle., 1933-09-08
DELA. BAY SHORE LINE
NEEDS STRENGTHENING
Section From Cedar Beach To Fowl
eI'S Beach Has Been Weakened

The southeast storm which played
havoc with the Atlantic coast last
month proved concisefy that the
coast of the Delaware Bay between
Cedar Beach and Fowler's Beach is
in serious need of protection.
From Cedar Beach to Slaughter
Beach a distance of one mile and a
half the water came over the beach
and flooded the marsh and farm
lands behind the beach. The bank
which formerly protected the beach
at this particular point was cut
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Milford chronicle., 1933-09-08
WOULD BUILD SEA WALL
TO PROTECT REH0BOTH

Headed by Mayor Fred A.
Ross, Frank Chase, Joseph
Armstrong, Daniel Anderson
and F. L. Grier, a delegation
from Rehoboth went to Dover
to have a conference with the
Waterfront Commission and
ask for aid from the Federal
Emergency Commission for
Rehoboth in the way of having
a sea wall and jetties built to
check encroachments along
the ocean front.
With the delegation were
also Victor Gilneau, Coast En-
gineer of New Jersey and Va
lenti F. Spring, assistant en-
gineer of the U. S. Engineer
office at Philadelphia.
1t was decided to go to Re-
hoboth and after making in
spections to hold a meeting
and decide on what course to
pursue.
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-08

unemployed ON the rolls of the State
Relief Commission and lists pre-
pared by the labor departments em-
ployment service The minimum
wage to be paid will be S5 cents per
hour for unskilled labor and As
cents an hour for skilled labor in
New Castle county and 80 cents an
hour for unskilled labor and 40
cents an hour for skilled labor in
Kent and Sussex counties.
The proposals received were as
follows:
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Milford chronicle., 1933-09-08
OPEN BIDS FOR 4 HIGHWAYS
AND ONE BRIDGE IN STATE
SUSSEX Delegation Asks For Road In Marshy Hope
District; Another Group Desires Road Improved
From Milford To Lincoln.

Bids for five pieces of State road
and bridge work were opened by the
State Highway Commission last
Thursday afternoon but the award
ing of contracts was deferred. This
work is to be carried out under the
provisions of the National Industrial
Recovery Act. The work will be
financed with the. $1,S19,0S8 fund
which will come from the Federal
government as an outright gift to
Delaware.
Preference in selecting workers
on these projects will be given the
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-08
WEEKLY WEATHER
REPORT FOR MILFORD
From Wednesday, August 80, To
Tuesday, September 5, Inclusive

Charles ]. Holzmueller, the local
weather recorder, reports the fol-
lowing weather conditions for Mil
ford from Wednesday, August 80, to
Tuesday, September 5, inclusive:
v,e1.o fsrra o4 In
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Total Rainfall ....... II
Total Rainfall for August. 1858 in.
The following winds and condi-
tions prevailed during the same
period:
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Total enrolment in white
sohooIs 1050
COlOred School

Total enrolment in colored
school
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