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The Washington times., 1934-07-03
JULY 4 FETE
TO DRAW
$4,000
c. H. Brough to Be Speaker at
Monument Lot; Fireworks
to Feature Celebration

ClimaXing day Of celebration,
the largest display of fireworks
ever to be presented in the District
will be set off on the Monument
Grounds $50 o'clock tomorrow
night.
Through the day various COM
munity centers will hold cclebra-
tons, including patriotic plays,
sports events and picnic feasts.
BrOugh, Chief Speaker
Ceremonies at the Monument
Grounds will begin at 7:15 p. M,
with crowd estimated at $4,000
in attendance.
James G. Yaden, president Of
the Federation of Citizens ASsoci-
ations, will preside. The princi-
pal speaker will be Charles Hill
man Brough, former governor Of
Arkansas, and now chairman Of
the District of Columbia Virginia
Boundary Commission. Col. Ed
win S. Halsey, secretary of the
Senate, will read the Declaration
Of Independence.
Music, speeches and other for
NAL ceremonies will continue at
the Monument until $3.50 O'Clock,
when the fireworks will be pre-
Sented.
As q prelude to the pyrotech-
MICS more than 500 flags led by
10 flags representing the original
States, will be carried in the
masSing Of colors. The process
sion Of flags will be lighted by
huge floodlights, and torches held
by Boy and Girl Scouts. Drum
and bugle corps and1 the Army
Band will play.
$500 Chairs Ready
Among the outstanding mill
tary and patriotic organizations
taking part in the massing Of
the colors will be attachments
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Clue Spurs
DiMnger
Hunt

KEOKUK, Ia, July 3 Q.N.S0.
Discovery of bloody bandages
along a beach road on the Illinois
side of the Mississippi River near
here led officers of this territory
to make an exhaustive search to-
day for possible clues to the
whereabouts of John Dillinger,
the nations chief desperate.
Authorities attached Signif-
icance to the bandages because of
the belief that Dillinger may have
been wounded when he led an
Indiana bank robbery last Satur-
day.
CHICAGO, July 3 GN.S).
With the trail cold, search for
John Dillinger became a heller
skelter affair again today.
AS the slippery man-killer lay
in hiding following his foray into
South Bend last Saturday, when
a policeman was killed and the
Merchants National Bank robbed
of $4,000, officers once again
were forced to resort to watching
Dillinger hauntS.
What trail was left seemed to
lead into Chicago, after it was
learned that the Nations public
enemy No. l had stolen the car
used in the bank holdup from a
South. Side garage last May 81.
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$4,000 REWARD
FOR SLAYER

STEUBENVILLE, Ohio, July 3
G.N.S0.-A $4,000 reward was
posted by the Wheeling Steel Cor
poration today for the capture
dead or alive Of the phantom killer
who has raided its mills three
times, leaving in his wake three
dead and one wounded.
jefferson county commissioners,
outraged by the bold attacks on
the mill yards, also posted a 81, 900
reward.
Spurred on by the rewards,
posses of private detectives and
peace officers of the city and
county desperately pushed the
hunt for the demented killer. The
Steel corporation, leaving no stone
unturned to protect its workers
and bring the maniac to justice,
also hired a staff Of undercover
agents in an attempt to trace the
killer, believed to be a diSgruntled,
discharged employe.
Police said that Ray Kochen-
dorfer and william Messmer, the
latest workmen to fall before the
bullets of the mailman, had been
slain by a .38-caliber revolver.
Fred MelSheimer and James
Barnett were wounded in previous
attacks by the same type of
weapon, fired from ambush by the
killer. MelSheimer died.
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and taken to q hotel, where she
was i'll three days.
Physicians decided today that
she needed hospital care and or
dered her removal at once. Mr..
Nice illicuddy declined to make
any statement as to her condition.
One Of the most popular stu
dents at the university, Miss Shep-
pard was selected May queen at
the annual festival last spring,
and last year she was selected as
beauty queen of the campus.
Her husband, son of the famous
Philadelphia baseball manager,
was q noted athlete while in col
lege. Both graduated last month.
Their marriage was the second
in the Sheppard family last
month, Janet Sheppard having
been married to Richard Arnold
on June 9.
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Stricken with an attack Of acute
appendicitis, Mrs. Susan Shep-
pard McGillicuddy. who married
Connie Mack jr." here two weeks
ago, was rushed to a hospital in
Ogdensburg, N. w. today.
Mrs. McGillicuddy is the daugh-
ter Of. Senator and. Mrs. Morris
Sheppard of Texas. Her parents
are now motoring to their home
and have not learned of their
daughters illness.
Mrs. McGillicIddy and her hus'
band met when they were both
students aEDuke University. They
were married on June 40 at the
Sheppard home in nineteenth st.,
N. W. and started on their honey
moon.
While in the Thousand Islands
Mrs. McGiIlicuddy was stricken
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Shakespeare Flight
Slated This Week

RAPID CITY, S. D., July 3
UN.SO-Informed today by Gov
eminent meteorologistS that good
flying weather is in the offing,
Major William E. Kepner and
Capt. A. w. Stevens said they
probably would make their ascen-
sion into the shakespeare the end
of this week.
Major Kepner and Captain
Stevens plan, before the flight,
to seal themselves in the mag
nesium gondola for IL hours
the period they expect to remain
in the air in their flight-to test
the air-tightneSS Of the ball.
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Communists Halted
In Enab0SSv Protest

For the second time in four
days a small group Of Communists
we're evicted from the grounds Of
the German embassy today, where
they had gone to protest against
the imprisonment of Communist
leader in Berlin.
Led by Mildred Egan. the group,
comprising two colored women, a
white woman and two colored
men, demanded to see DR.. Hans
Luther, German ambassador, to
present him with the petition. Po-
lice led them from the grounds
after embassy officials said they
would not receive the visitors.
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SORRY THIEF
SURRENDERS
WITH LOOT
Two Others Later Arrested
in Gas Station. Robbery;
Manager Gets Back $35

Policeman ]. A. Godbold Of the
Second precinct CHANGED to see
three men in a parked automo-
bile in an alley near Eleventh
Street and Rhode Island Avenue
Northwest at 3 a. m. today. He
approached them and was told:
ooh, we are all married and
are just out for . nights good
time"
The policeman took their names
and addresses.
Five minutes later, in an ad-
joining gasoline filling station,
he found the night manager,
Howard Davis, locked in q wash
room. The cash register had
been "taken" for $35 by an
armed white man.
Policeman Godbold swore in
chagrin as the manager described
the holdup man. He answered to
a 1T" the description Of one Of
the three in the car.
A description had been broad
cast by radio and other police
men and detectives were in the
station when in walked Mr..
Holdupman himself. Mr.. Jones
shouted:
THAT'S the guy who did It,"
The reply was: ...ss%e
"Sure I did and I'm sorry.
Here's your $35."
The man, who gave the name
Milton Ketchum, IS, of the 400
block Fourth st. s. E., wouldn't
tell Detective Sergts. NJ ~. DoWd
and j. E. Collins the names Of
his two companions.
Policeman Godbold broke in:
you don't have to. I've got
their Names"
1t developed that all three men
had given correct names, police
say. A gun was found at
Ketchum's home corresponding in
description to the one used in
the holdup.
The other two men arrested
at home gave the names Stephen
RiSler, %, of the 200 block Eighth
st. N. E., and Walter L. Hodkin-
son, 26, Of the 800 block of Elev.
enth st. N. E.
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DOCTORS WIFE.
ROBBED Of S15

Mrs. ]. Rogers Young, wife of
DR.. Young of the Casualty Hos
pital staff, today is mourning the
money she had intended spending
on shopping expedition yester-
day.
En- route down town she stop
ped in her husbands office in
the 14O0 block M st. N. w., and
laid the purse down while she
was making a telephone call.
A sneak thief entered the office,
picked up the purse and fled.
The purse was later found under
a tree at Thomas Circle, but the
contents. about SIS, had been
taken.
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proportion as during the last half
Of 1888, the all-time record of
casualties from automobile acct.
dents in a single year will ex-
coed $4,000, the figures indicate.
Fewer persons in the age
groups Of 0 to 4 and IS and over
have been killed the first six
months of this year than in the
corresponding period Of last year,
but there have been increases in
all age groups between 5 and "a,
with the greatest gain in the
group of 5 to IA years.
Records this year show that
out of the total number Of pedeS-
TRANS involved in automobile &C.
cidents, 2.36 per cent were de-
clared intoxicated, as against 1855
in 1888. Pedestrian records show
4.84 declared intoxicated as
against 8 per cent in 1888. The
drivers show an increase Of AZ
per cent, while pedestrian cases
Of intoxication in reference to
auto accidents show an increase
of 60 per cent,
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MAJOR KENT
{. SILENT ON
Staying
Early Solution of Mrs. Hast
ing's Death Promised As
Police Run Down Clues

ROANOKE, Va, July Sim,
portant developments were ex'
pected by authorities today in the
mysterious murder of Mrs. Mary
Hastings, wealthy resort owner
whose bullet-riddled body was
found last week in Pennsylvania.
Major Robert c. Kent, member
Of q prominent Virginia family
who is held in Jail here on a
charge of kidnapping Mrs. Hast
ings, refuses to talk.
Solution Claimed Near
Department Of Justice agents
and county authorities are run
ming down important clues. and
believe they are near a solution of
the case.
Major Kent yesterday charged
that he had been beaten and
abused by authorities in an effort
to- make him confess. This was
denied by the district attorney,
who said Major Kent had suffered
q black eye when he tainted and
fell to the floor Of his cell.
He was arrested three days ago
at the resort hotel he formerly
operated and which was taken
over by Mrs. Hastings, wealthy
widow, when he could not keep up
the payments.
He has admitted driving Mrs.
Hastings to washington last week,
but claims he left her on PennSyl-
vania. Avenue near the Willard
Hotel.
Motive Is Suggested
Seeking to establish q motive
for the killing, authorities stated
that Mrs. Hastings had threatened
to have the major arrested unless
he paid a large board bill and
made good several worthless
checks.
He admitted owing her money,
they say, but claims he paid her in
Washington.
Detectives today will go over
the route he claims to have
driven in the hope of finding wit
nesSeS who saw the couple to-
gether.
They will also check on two
kilograms sent from washington
and signed by Mrs. Hastings.
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By TOM WILHELM

BERLIN, July 3 G.N.S0.
Chancellor Adolf Hitler closed the
books today on the rebellion"
which he crushed Saturday and
Sunday.
The chancellor ordered cessa-
ton Of all further reprisalS
against those who opposed his
rule in an outbreak Of violence
and death that held Germany in
terror for 48 hours.
The chancellor said:
faction against the rebellion
closed on July l."
He warned his followers:
'WhOever takes further &C.
ton on his own account, even
with best intentions, will be
handed over to the courts for
trial"
This was interpreted to mean
that there would be no more eX-
ecutions. How many there already
have been was still not definitely
known.
Won Papen Seen Freed
It was also taken to mean that
Vice Chancellor Franz Won Papen
would not be further molested nor
. .rished for his reputed oppoSi
ton to Nazi policies.
It W: interpreted by some as
an olive branch of mercy held
out by the chancellor after his
ruthless punishment Of the men
of his own ranks, the storm troop
ers, including his one-time closest
friend, Capt. Ernst Roehm, who
plotted to overthrow his regime.
The intervention Of President
Won Hindenburg was regarded as
having saved Won Papen from
custer from the Cabinet, if not
more drastic punishment. Won
Papen, a former chancellor, long
has been an intimate friend Of
the president.
Crown Prince in Doom
Although denied in government
circles. it was automatically re-
ported that President Won linden.
burg yesterday had demanded that
Won Papen be protected and had
made the ReichsWehr, government
troops, responsible for his safety.
(cOntinusd on Page 2. Col. s.
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W|LHELMINA PRINCE DIES
Consort Of Hollands
Queen Victim of
Heart Attack

THE HAGUE, July 3 QN.S0.
Prince Henry, consort Of
Queen Wilhelmina, died here at
$3.50 this afternoon Of heart
disease.
Princess Juliana, who is in
London, is hurrying home.
The prince consort suffered a
fainting spell last Thursday while
working in his office at Red
Cross headquarters. He was
taken to the Royal Palace, where
doctors were summoned and he
was ordered to take a rest.
Queen Wilhelmina was in
Switzerland when the prince con-
sort suffered the attack.
The prince consort was Duke
Henry Of Mecklenburg Schwerin.
He married Queen Wilhelmina,
who had assembled the throne in
1898, February Z, 1901.
Their only offspring is the
Princess Juliana Louise Emma
Marie Wilhelmina, who was born
April 80, 1909.
The prince consort was of q
modest, retiring disposition, and
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100 To Be Killed in July 4
Auto Crashes Beware!

HARTFORD, Conn.,, July 8
GN.SO More than 100 persons
will be killed and 1000 injured
in automobile accident on July 4,
tomorrow according to estimates
Of the Travellers Insurance Com
pany.
This estimate is based on the
experience of previous years and
takes into consideration that au-
tomobile accident fatalities so far
this year have increased nearly 81
per cent over last year. FATAL
ties from automobile accidents
have averaged 81 and the num-
Der of injured more than 1900
every day during the first half
of this year.
More than $4,000 persons have
been killed and more than 349,-
600 have been injured in auto
mobile accidents the first half
OF this year, it is shown by
records received by Travellers
from State authorities. II fatal
ties during the second six months
Of this year increase in the same
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Farmer, Wife Fined
For BEATING Worker

WOODBINE, N. j., July 3
Q.N.S0.-Robert Magill, 80, a
farm hand, does not mind working
steadily in the fields from a. m.
until midnight, but he wants a
minute off once in a while to mop
his perspiring brow, he explained
today. Mr.. Magill charged a
farmer, Harry KazanS, AZ: his
wife, Mary, 40; and their daughter
with beating me up" when he
paused to "cool off" as he worked
on Kazan's farm. The farmer, his
wife and daughter were fined IS
and costs, each,
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Er-COnUict on Trial
POetesS' SLQying

NEVADA, Mo-, July 3 Q.N.SO.
A Jury of farmers and merchants
began hearing testimony today in
the trial of Virgil (Blackie) Wells,
38-year-old ex-convict, charged
with first degree murder in con-
nection with the mysterious death
of Mrs. E. Pearl Dancey, prom
inent poetesS and author.
Today's session Of the trial
opened in a Sweltering courtroom,
crowded by the curious attracted
by expectation that the Woman'S
diary, in which she recorded init
mate secrets Of her companion"
ship with Wells, would be read 70
the Jury.
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Presidents
Ship Mars
Caribbean

ABOARD U. S. s. GILMER, AT
SEA, July 3 O.NS0.-Entering
tropical waters, the United States
cruiser Houston, bearing PreSi-
dent Roosevelt on his 10,O00-mile
vacation cruise, was Steaming far
ahead of schedule today and will
reach the Caribbean Sea tonight.
The Houston, which left Hamp-
ton Roads yesterday, Is heading
for Haiti on the first leg of a
journey that will carry the PreSi-
dent through the Panama Canal
and thence to Hawaii.
The sea was smooth today after
extremely heavy going last night
which made members Of the crew
and passengers aboard the two de-
stroyers, the Gilmore carrying
newSpapermen, and the William
son with Secret Service men
aboard, seaSick.
The much larger Houston. how
ever, weathered comparatively
high seas without trouble.
Today the President lolled
about deck under a tropical sun,
reading radio reports of the
Pacific longshoremen'S strike and
the German crisis. He also had
a few reports from washington
to go over.
He may observe the Fourth Of
July by doing a little fishing
before stopping off at Cape
Haitien Thursday.
The Navy Department advised
today that the cruiser New
Orleans will accompany the
Houston from Panama to Hawaii
because the San Francisco has
damaged a propeller.
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TOlIri0n Staying
Interpreter Hit

NEW YORK, July 3 G.N.S0.
Assistant District Attorney Joseph
Cohen used o prejudiced inter
preted in taking statements about
the fatal Stabbing Of Archbishop
Leon Tourain, it was charged to-
day at the trial of nine accused
ArmenianS. Cir Apikian, an ex-
porter, alleged that he heard a
witness say mo" when asked Il
he had seen q knife in the hand
Of . defendant. and the inter
prefer gave the answer as "yes."
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Rogers
Says:

HOLLYWOOD, CAL, July 2.
Hitler must have got his infOr-
nation about Germany from
MussOlini. He didn't seem to
know much about what was
going on till he went down to
see the Daddy" Of all the die
tatOrs. Trouble with this kill
ing q guy to get rid Of him,
there never was o fellow killed
that didn't leave some friends.
We'll, they will have to get
their trouble in Germany over
with pretty soon, for it's just
breaking frances heart ~.
In fact, I expect they are feel
ing SO bad they are offering
ammunition and free burial to
both sides.
Copyright. 1884. Mcknight
Syndicate)
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Dead Bridge Jumper
Believed Boston Girl

PITTSBURGH, July 3 (INSO.
Despite a suspected anonymous
Identification and the scrutiny Of
hundreds of curious persons, the
body of the pretty young woman
reported to have leaped to her
death from the 200-foot high Will
mot Street bridge at Schenley
Park still lay unidentified in the
county morgue today. An an
onymouS telephone informant told
authorities the dead girl was
"Grace Clifford" of Boston, and
said her husband was James Cliff
ford. -
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Federal Court Ruling
Hits AAA Licensing

LOUISVILLE, KY, July 3
(IN.S0.-Lcensing power Of the
Agricultural Adjustment Admins
tration does not extend to strictly
interstate business. Federal Judge
Benson w. Hough, of Columbus.
Ohio, ruled here today.
Judge Hough granted a tempo
rary Injunction to Is diaries here
preventing Federal authorities
from acting against any who vio-
late license provisions of the AAA.
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Strike Ties Up Port
In Cuba: II Jailed

MANZANILLO, Cuba, July 5
Shipping at this port
was tied up today and a general
strike was threatened. Eleven per
sons had been arrested charged
with sabotage, and troops were
called out to break up a meeting
of Communists.
At Guantanamo, the United
States naval base, differences be-
tween the army and the customs
officials prevented the unloading
of two ships, which were forced
to proceed to Santiago.
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Teasing DriUes Girl
To ATTEMPT Suicide

PONTIAC, Mich, July 3 QN.SO
"A younger brothers teasing today
had placed 15-year-old Adlia Bilbey
in a hospital where she was given
q fighting chance to recover from
a suicide attempt. With a bullet
wound close to her heart, Adl1a
gasped out her story to Assistant
Prosecutor Patrick S. Lynch. She
said:
David had leased me all day.
I just couldn't stand it any
longer"
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Cruiser
To Escort President

NEW YORK, July 3 U.N.SO.
The 1O,OOO-ton cruiser New Or
leans, now at Tompkinsville,
Staten Island, will leave July S
to act as escort in the Pacific
Tor the U. S. S. Houston, carry
ing President Roosevelt on his
vacation cruise, it was announced
today at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
The 10-00O-ton cruiser San
Francisco was to have been the
naval escort, but damaged pro.
peller made it necessary to assign
another vessel.
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S Dead, More Feared
From Wood Alcohol

PITTSBURGH, July 3, GN.SO.
Six men were dead today, and
others are feared to have died as
the result Of drinking wood alco-
hol in a suburban Jungle" camp.
William Titmie, so, boss" at the
camp, was shackled with irons at
a hospital where he was taken
for treatment.
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ED|CT
TERMINATES
REPR|SALS
Reich Cabinet BaIks Move of
Vice Chancellor, Non
Nazi, to Resign
DEVELOPMENTS IN
GERMANY

Chancellor Hitler has
called a halt to all ex-
ecutiOns and all repris0ls,
threatening prosecution
of all uOho disObey.
Vice Chancellor Uon
Papen participated in
cabinet meeting and is
nOw expected to retain
his post, largely through
President U0n linden
burg's support.
Reports spread that
former CrOUn Prince.
Frederick Wilhelm and
his brother, Prince Au-
gust Wilhelm, haUe been
ordered to leGOe Ger
many.
Minor disturbances in
Ch e n, nitz, Brunswick,
Nuremberg and Berlin,
suppressed, and entire ma
ton appears quiet.
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u. s. Officials Body
Sent Home For Rites

LOUISVILLE, KY, July 3
QNS0.-The body of Charles o.
BorSt, 50, title examiner for the
Federal Land Bank here, was sent
today to his former home at
Auburn, Ind, for burial.
Mr.. Borst, who came here De-
cember 4, 1888, died last night
at a local hospital of a heart
attack. He was title examiner
for the Indiana district.
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Marry Right AWGy,'
AdUice of Professor

NEW YORK, July 8 d.N.sD.
Young people should marry
! fright away; it is better for
them, even if they are poor and
have, to, live apart.
So said DR.. Willism F. Snow
today at the conference on edu-
cation for marriage and family
social relations at Teachers Col
lege,, Columbia.
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PUTIS Government
Strong, Says StrQlIS

NEW YORK, July 3 U.N.S0.-
Jesse Isidor Straus, Ambassador to
France, returned today on the lie
de France for six weeks vacation
in New York, with the belief that
the present government in France
is strongly entrenched."
The ambassador was accom-
panied by Mrs. StrauS, Mr.. and
Mrs. Percy Straus, and George
Dixon, brother-in-law Of Mrs.
Jesse StrauS.
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u. S. to Probe Effect
Of Rail Labor Rules
INV International News SerNice

BY International News Service
An inquiry into working rules"
governing railroad employees, orig
inally agreed upon in joint con-
ference between management and
labor to prevent or correct unjust
working conditions, was begun to-
day by Joseph B. Eastman, Fed
eral coordinator of transportation.
Mr.. Eastman said:
ut is frequently claimed that
certain of these rules have be-
come obsolete and wastefuI or
unduly restrictive and are no
longer necessary to safeguard
the interest of the employees"
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WEATHER FORECAST
ThundershOwers tonight and possibly Wednes-
day; somewhat cooler Wednesday. Full weather
report on Page IL.
MEAN TENEERATTIRES
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