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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-04

Light, thin tires of synthetic rub Der, strengthened by woven glass cord, are being studied for use on high speed cars.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-04
All Out" Effort
 Naugatuck Theme
 In Garment Work
Workers to Sew Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday Afternoons Sought By Mrs. Dorothy COssette- Cut
 Out Garments Being Sent to Church Groups

Correspondent, wm. ; Baz'er-Fhons S.usasuoA ssas
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-04

Only 43 per cent of the railway routes in Germany are doubletrack.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-04

MT. and alhA Hiidins wicAHirOm
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-04

and family of Lewis street were vls. it0rs at Hamonasset beach over the week end.
 Mrs. Mary Pichulo of 22 South Main street has announced the en- gagement of her daughter, Cath erine Theresa. to waiter P. Mulin- ski. son of Mrs. Marcella Mullnskl of Church street. Beacon Falls. The wedding is scheduled for the fall.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-04

Nearly 5,O00,O0O acres in Russia were planted to cotton this year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-04

Rev. Harold Lucas, pastor of the Immanuel church, will be on vaca- ton next Sunday, 90 Rev. Arthur Baum of Brooklyn, N. Y., will con- duct the service at 70 a. m. Tie mcms' club of that church will meet at 6 D. m. Wednesday In the church hall.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-04
DON'T

ve at a reasonable, safe speed and save.
  Don't make 'jack-rabbit'' starts.J Driving in first and second gear mul-I tiplieS the consumption of gasoline.f Watch your starts at traffic liehtst avoid sudden bursts of speed. s S Don't let your car idle at the curb don't race your motor when start ing. This is hard on the motor and wastes gasoline.
 Don't use your car unless you have to. Plan your driving. Group your errandS.
 Don't forget others. Share the transportation your car provides double up with friends going the came way.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-04

Mrs. Mary Battel of Hillside ave. nue is vacationing at Cape Cod Mass.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
Job
Will Employ
300 Workers
Length of Time Needed to
Lay Six Miles Of Tracks
Depends on Grading
RAILS SHIPPED HERE
Atlantic Coast Line is Con-
structing Turmoil from
Its Belt Line

The job of laying six miles of
railroad tracks at the North Caro-
lima Shipbuilding company's yards
at Sunset Park at a cost Of ap-
proximately $3.50, 900 is expected to
be started in about three weeks,
J. E. Dennis, representative of the
shipyard contracting firms, said
last night.
From 200 to 300 workmen will
be employed on the project, the
length of which will be dependent
on the completion of grading oper-
atoms at the shipyards, Dennis
said.
Building Turn-Off
The Atlantic Coast Line railroad
company is now building a turn
off from its belt line into the ship
yards between Central and South
ern boulevards at Sunset Park.
The turmoil track into the ship
yards will branch out into five
tracks wide and then into a leader
track, seven tracks wide.
Filling in operations for the turn
off track will be begun by the
dredge Cherokee during the week.
end, possibly Sunday morning,
Dennis said.
Rails r being shipped here
from Ohio, special switches, turn
offs, and crossings from Cincin-
natl, and switch and cross ties
are being furnished by the Gulf
State Creosote company.
Tracks will be laid as. each Sec
ton of the grading work is COM
pleted for the project, which will
cost about $3.50, 600, not counting
the cost of filling in operations
of the dredge, Dennis said.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
Proposal is Prompted by
Shadows of New Crisis in
Europe and Asia
THRUST IS FEARED
Australia Says it VIII Face
Any Crisis With DELHI
crate Purpose
BY J. C. STARK

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.-RH
Deepening shadows of a possible
new crisis in Europe and Asia led
to a proposal in the senate today
for an extraordinary ICED session
to hear confidential diplomatic re-
ports on world conditions.
Taking note of the possibility
that Japan might be preparing to
strike against British and other
interests in the Far East in con-
junction with new Axis moves in
Europe, Senator Wiley (R.-Wis.)
called for the executive session
Of the full senate next week to
hear Secretary of State Hull and
other officials.
Lacks Support
The move, however, lacked ad-
m~inistration support and demo-
cratic leaders said there was little
chance .aaat such a session would
be held. They said it was doubt
full that the motion would reach
a vote in the senate but if it should,
they expressed confidence it would
be defeated.
Wiley said the senate should
have a full report on world condi-
tons from high officials, with spe-
cial reference to the Near and
Far East, in connection with its
consideration of the lease-1end bill.
Are Adolf Hitler and his as
sociates, Japan and Mussolini, at
tempting another war of nerves."
the republican senator asked, "or
is there a synchronized, coordi-
mated movement in process where
by when Hitler opens his spring
offensive in the Balkans, Japan
will attempt some move against
British interests and perhaps our
own interests?"
In raising these questions Wiley
a view widely held in
diplomatic quarters that Hitler was
seeking Japanese cooperation in
a coordinated plan of action in
both Europe and Asia this spring.
Opinion differed, however, on
whether Japan would risk a pos
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
LEGISLATURE GETS BILLS TO TIGHTEN
WAGE-HOUR LAW, REDISTRICT SENATE

The senate redistricting bill, in
troduced in both houses, changes
the set-up in II of the 80 sena-
torial districts in. the state. The
west would gain one senator.
Mecklenburg and Guilford would
elect a senator apiece.
The senate also got a bill to
eliminate exemptions from the
present maximum hour law, in
accordance with the majority
recommendations of a wage-h0ur
commission. Employees, working
overtime, would be paid at time
and One-half their regular pay
under the legislation. Governor
BroughtOn has endorsed the bill.
In the house Representative
McEachern of Hoke sent up a
similar measure.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
ENGLISH CHUTE
TROOPS CAPTURED
Reported to Have Landed
In Italy With Plan to
Blast Waterworks

ROME, Feb. 14-tR-The capture
Of a group of heavily-armed British
parachutists said to have floated
down through the moonlight on
southern Italy with the intention of
dynamiting the regional water
works and communications system
was claimed today by the Italian
high command.
They landed Monday night and
early Tuesday morning, the high
command reported, in the pro-
vinces of Calabria and Lucania-
where the Apulian aqueduct, the
biggest in the world, runs to supply
2,677, 600 Italians with drinking
water-but all were captured be
fore they could aus the serious
damage which they intended"
How many were taken into custo-
dy was not announced-the COM
munique merely describing them
as nuclei of parachutists armed
with machine guns, hand grenades
and explosives''-but it was stated
that in a clash during the capture
an Italian civilian police deputy
anG a citizen were killed.
(The Rome radio, however, gave
a more circumstantial account,
saying specifically that 10 para
chutists had been seized along
with another group of unstated
size.
The wireless account said the
British, carrying maps of the dis
trict, had taken over some farms
in the area, preventing the peasants
from giving an immediate alarm
in their attempt to blow up and
damage chinfly the hydraulic
works built by the fascist regime"
Zone parachutist broke his leg
in descending, it was stated, and
was almost Immediately captured
by Italian police, having been
abandoned by the others" -.
("Soon," the account went on,
the alarm was given and the
(other) parachutists, who had
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
NATION is SCHEDULED
TO GO INTO. H7ZER'S
NEW EUROPEAN ORDER
Threats Of World Wide
CONFEDERATION Increase

LONDON, Feb. IL up -
Fear of worldwide conflagra-
ton involving a German in
vasion of Britain timed with
thrusts at Suez and Gibraltar
and a Japanese grab for Sin
gapore increased among diplo-
matte and military authorities
tonight.
Invasion of this island re-
NAMED the No. 1 consideration
in discussions of a possible
plan of grandiose proportions
to seize at one swoop three of
the worlds most strategic posi-
tions - Gibraltar, Suez and
Singapore-while the German
army and air force try to
break England.
Despite continuous and grow
ilg alarms in the Balkans and
tension in the Far East, Brit
ons remember well that all
surface signs pointed to a Tazi
thrust toward southeastern
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
DRIVEN INTO CORNER
Turkey Serves Notice By
Press That it Stands
Ready to Fight
NAZI TROOPS ACTIVE
Large British Diplomatic
Mission Leaves Bucharest
By Special Train

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Feb. IA.
(R-A source close to Premier ORA.
gisa Cvetkovic said tonight that Yu.
g~oslavia would accede to Adolf Hit.
ler's wishes after the return tomor-
of her statesmen from a confer
ence with the Fuehrer.
This country is expected to accept
what were described as compare
lively favorable terms in order to
keep out of active warfare. These
terms, while not yet known, are ex-
pected to call for active participation
by Yugoslavia in Hitler's new or
der" for Europe.
Driven Into Corner
Thoroughly informed sources in
terpreted the Yugoslavs' journey to
Germany as meaning that the gov
eminent of Yugoslavia had been driv.
into a corner as a result Of Bull
garia's bowling to German wishes and
Russia's non-intervention policy in
the Balkans.
An informant said that the re.
gency council in a few days would
discuss the terms brought back from
Germany and then formulate Yugo.
slavia's answer.
Turkey served notice through her
press that she stands
ready to fight in the Balkan crisis
hecause she cannot be disinterested
toward any German invasion of Bull
A British military mission COM
pleted an inspection Of Turkeys de-
lenses on the Bulgarian frontier and
Adolf Hitler stepped up the prepara-
tons of his Balkan army Of 600 900
men in Rumania.
Obviously inspired, the press decla-
from Istanbul were inter.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
BRITISH TAKE TWO
TOWNS IN AFRICA
Have Advanced 100
Miles Into Italian Soma
liland from Kenya

CAIRO, Egypt, Feb. 14.-R-
British imperial troops have ad-
vanced 100 miles into Italian So
maitland from Kenya, military
sources indicated today in announc-
ing the fall VI the Fascist towns
of Afmadu and Bulo Erillo.
Five armored cars were taken
at Afmadu, where a heavy raid
by the South African airforce had
put most of the garrison to flight
before British ground forces ar
a communique stated, and
four cars were seized at Bulo Eril-
10.
At Bulo Erillo, it was said, Ital-
ian resistance was strong.
(The loss of Afmadu already had
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
To Block Transfer
Of Warships Is Drafted
Sir Vessels Believed
Sunk by Nazi Raider

FUNCHAL, Madeira, Feb. IA.
Up = More than 100 survivors
landed here today reported that
six ships were believed sunk
when a German raider. probably
a pocket battleship, attacked a
British convoy steaming north
ward between Madeira and The
Azores.
(The Germans have announced
that six ships were wrecked last
Sunday in a convoy off the Por-
tuguese coast. An attack on IN
other convoy, in mid-Atlantic,
was reported by the German
high command yesterday in
which Ia ships were destroyed.
A line between Madeira and The
Azores is about 700 miles south.
west of Portugal.)
The survivors, four of whom
were taken to hospitals, said the
raider hurled salvoes Of shells
into the convoy for half an hour
and then sped over the horizon.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
CONFERENCE IS HELD
Score Of Senators Prepare
To Stage Battle Against
Lease-Lend Plan
By RICHARD L. TURNER

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.-RHA
strategy meeting of senate critics
of the lease-lend bill revealed to-
day that an amendment prohibit
ing the transfer of any part of
the navy to England would prob
ably be offered by none other than
Senator Walsh of Massachusetts,
democratic chairman of the Naval
committee.
Nearly a score of senators gath
cred late in the day in the tiny,
s~ubterranean office of S e n a t o r
johnson (R-Calif.) in the oldest
part of the capitol, discuss pro-
cedure, delegated Senator Clark,
(D-Mo.) to make the first speech
in opposition to the l%ease-lend bill
in the senate next week, and talk
ed about amendments which the
group would support.
Surprise
The fact that Walsh attended
the meeting came as more than a
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15

Rejecting pleas to postpone
consideration, the senate ap-
proved on second reading a bill
to levy a 5O-cent crash tax" on
automobiles to pay for hospitaliza.
ton up to II days of highway
accident victims. The vote was 30
to 10. Several senators said they
favored passing the measure out
OF regard to the late DIR. Long,
of Halifax, who introduced it.
The LeGrand bill to make SUBJ
versive OF fifth column activities
misdemeanors on first offenses
and felonies on second convic-
tions was passed by the senate
without debate and ordered rati-
fled into law. Similar approval
was given a measure to set up a
statewide marketing system as
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15

recommended by Governor
BrOughtOn.
Another Broughton sponsored
bill, creating a new department
of motor vehicles, also won floor
approval in the senate.
The lower house passed and
sent to the senate a much-buf-
feted measure by the Mecklen.
burg delegation to give rights Of
eminent domain to bus cOmpa-
MES seeking to acquire sites for
union terminals in cities of more
than $4,000 population. Such
sites would have to be approved
blythe utilities commissioner.
Senator Mcbride of Hoke set
the stage for enactment of The
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15

Europe just before Adolf Hit
Ter launched his overpowering
drive into Norway and through
the lowlands and France last
April and May.
The gradual tightening of
British censorship is viewed
by foreign observers as one
sign that The British are not
allowing the present clamor in
the Balkans to divert their at
tention from the perils of an
invasion of England.
Not since Nazi bombers
hammered Coventry and SUBJ
marines ranged the North At
lantic in packs last fall has it
been so difficult to assessor
publicatiOn-the British en-
pire's position.
Other indications that Britain
expects to deal with plenty of
trouble are the army's re-
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
BY JOHN PEELE

RALEIGH, Feb. A.-R-The
legislature today pressed toward
final adjournment, speeding ma
jor legislation to enactment and
receiving Broughton-backed bills
to redistrict the senate and to
tighten the maximum hour law.
Introduction of the senate's re-
appOrtionment measure rounds
out the redistricting program.
The legislature has already
carved a 18th congressional dis
trict in western North Carolina.
A bill to reapportion the lower
house has passed that body and
now awaits senate action. A pro-
p0sal to streamline judicial dis
tricts has been sheIved.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
PASSES IN HOSPITAL
Police Say Wounds Were
Inflicted by James Rich,
Y, On October l

Coroner Asa W. Allen last night
announced plans to conduct an in
Guest into the death of Richard
Skipper, 80, a painter, of 912 South
Second street, who died at 6:05
o'clock last night in James Walker
Memorial hospital after a four
months illness.
Police headquarters quoted the
attending physician as saying that
Shippers death was attributed to
severe stab wounds in the stomach
allegedly inflicted by James Rich,
q, a plumbers helper, of 913 South
Fifth street.
Serving Sentence
Rich is now serving a IL months
read sentence on charges of as
sault with a deadly weapon with
the intent to kill with serious in
juries resulting, police re cords dis
closed, in connection with the case.
hch allegedly STABBED Skipper
during an argument on the night
Of October l, 1910, at the corner
OF Fourth and Dawson streets, po-
lice reports revealed last night.
Found guilty Of charges of as
sault with a deadly weapon with
the intent to kill with serious in
Jurles resulting, early in December
IN recorders court, Rich was sent
on December 20 to the Columbus
county prison camp at Whiteville
70 begin serving a year on the
roads, according to police records.
officer j. C. Long swore out
me warrant against Rich on in
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
10 ARE ARRESTED
IN TRAFFIC DRIVE
Police Charge Many Motor.
lists With Parking at An
gle on Third Street

Police headquarters last night
reported the arrest of 10 persons
on charges of viola ng the traffic
laws in the downtown section.
The following were arrested on
charges of parking at an angle on
North Third street, between Chest
nut and Grace, where parallel
lines are marked prohibiting angle
parking:
James Mears, of 3OS North Sixth
street; Roland Perry, of 106 North
18th street; Mrs. T. R. Jones, of
Forest Hills; M. L. Meyland, of
1906 Ann street; L. A. Pichon, Of
GA Orange street; Mrs. H. M.
Neil, of Winter Park; Mrs. W. j.
Henry, of All South 10th street;
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
ITALIAN DEFENSES
BROKEN BY GREEKS
Heavy Artillery Bombard-
ment Ushers in Major Of
fensive in Albania

ATHENS, Feb. 14.-iR-The
Greeks were reported officially to-
night to have broken through 1tal-
ian defenses at many points in an
offensive along the entire Albanian
front which was ushered in by 10
hours of almost continuous artli-
lery bombardment.
The British air force also pre-
pared the way with large-scale
bombings which the Raj called
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15

maneuvers, for which post officials
are working to obtain trespass rights
on 100000 acres, in Richland, Ker-
shaw and Fairfield counties. A huge
mapping project of the area between
Bragg and Jackson has also been
made at a cost of approximately $780,
900.
A high-ranking officer at Jackson
said 1t was almost assured that the
first army maneuvers will be held
between Columbia and Fort Bragg.
There are only three corps in the
first army, two of them in the north,
which leaves only the first corps as
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
MANAGER ELECTION
bill IS ENROLLED
Chairman Of Elections Body
Scheduled to Receive
Copy Tuesday

RALEIGH, Feb. IA Chairman
H. G. Carney, of the New Hanover
county board of elections, is ex-
pected to receive early Tuesday
morning a duly certified copy OF
the law authorizing Wilmington to
vote on the city manager issue.
The bill was formally enrolled
and ratified this morning.
Representative John r. Morris,
of New Hanover, Immediately re-
quested Secretary of State Thad
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
BRIDGES ARRESTED
ON u. S. WARRANT
West Coast Labor Leader
Accused of Having Been
Member of Red Party

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 14.-tRl
Harry Bridges was arrested to-
day on a Justice department war
rant charging him with having
beer a member of an organization
advocating violent overthrow of the
United States government.
J. The west coast longshoremen's
leader, an Australian, was cited
to appear March 81 for his second
deportation hearing.
Bridges, cleared of communist
connections in a Labor department
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
War
Interpretive
Nv KIRKE L. SIMPSON

Whatever the intentions behind
current Axis maneuvers, military
and diplomatic, Britain appears de-
termined to force the issue In
Southeastern F pc.
British classification Of Rumania
as territory under enemy occu-
patton" has that look. It makes
Rumanian oil wells legitimate OBJ
iectives for British bombers. All
that is lacking is a rout for Raj
bombers without violati~~ some
neutrality.
Possible Air Route
That route may be provided
overnight, if Bulgaria Yugo-
yield to reported Nazi pres
sure to permit passage Of German
toward Albania. Turkish in
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
Army May Stage Summer
Games In Carolina Area

COLUMBIA, S. c.. Feb. 14-CR-
re announcement today by Lieut..
a0iiefal Hugh A. Drum that the first
atny would hold large-scale summer
@aeuvers Somewhere in the SOUTH
'aken here to indicate that they
poulo be staged in the area between
r0rt Bragg, N. c., and Fort Jack
Son, "
.nese are the only two southern
su Ds's under the Jurisdiction of Gen
Dfum, who commands the first
,y with headquarters at Cover
Nor,s Island. N. Y.
Drum has paid two recent visits to
n.sid and Fort Jackson and
preliminary plans for spring
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
SpOffOrd Announces Ten
Per Cent Wage Increase

As far as is known here, this is
the first cotton mill wage increase
in this section.
The mill is now operating con-
tinuously with three eight-hour,
five-day shifts. In recent years,
Spofford Mills has given Whining
ton one of it's best payrolls, Off
Gals said,
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
Investigation Of Skipper
Stab Death Slated Here
Local School Sets
Job Placement Mark

Here's a school which had 81
graduates - and "a job place.
ments.
H. M. Roland, superintendent
of schools, said yesterday a re-
recent Defense Training school
here enrolled liz men and boys,
graduated "a, and placed all of
them in jobs as ship carpenters,
welders, sheet metal workers,
craftsmen. form builders and
concrete pOurers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
SEVEN men KILLED
IN FACTORY BLAST
at Du Quoin, ILL.,,
Blows Debris Over Quar-
ter of Mile Area

DU QUOIN, ILL.,, Feb. 14.-RH
All seven men at a plant manu-
featuring liquid oxygen explosives
for coal mining were killed today
in a bast so terrific it blew debris
over an area OF a quarter Of a
mile and hurled one of the bodies
$50 feet.
The explosion, wrecking the
plant of the United Electric Coal
companies Fidelity mine and dam
aging several auxiliary buildings,
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
WEATHER
FORECAST

FORECAST
North Carolina and South Carolina j:
Generally fair, colder east anG central
portions Saturday; Sunday fair and
continued cool.
meteorological data for the "a hours
1880 p. m. yesterday
(By q. s. Weather Bureau)
Wilmington. N. c., Feb. IS, 1941.
Temperature
1870 a.. m. So; Z 80 a. m. IS; 1880 p. m.
So; 7:30 p. N. 81; maximum 81; mini
40; mean 81; normal 48.
Humidity
1:30 a. m. 100; 1880 a. M. 100; 1:3O
m. "a: 1870 y. m. 81.
Precipitation
Total for "A hours ending 7:30 p. m;
IS inches: since first Of month 2.52
inches.
Tides For Today
(From Tide Tables, published by U. 3.
Coast and Geodetic Survey.)
High Low
Wilmington ------------ l2.Ula !'.Od
1882 7:4Sp
Masonboro- inlet ------ 10:l0a 4:Oea
10 Asp 4.S0p
Sunrise 6:57a; sunset 5:56p; moonrise
10 :15p moonset 9:l3a.
Cape Fear river stage at Fayetteville
on Feb. IA, at 3 p. m, 1928 feet.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15
ARMY ORDERS

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.-R+
Army orders today:
Lieutenant Colonies
Clarence M. Reddig NC, Dem
yer, to Charleston, S. c.
Philander c. Riley, retired, Fay
etteville, to duty, Fort Bragg .
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-15

A ten per cent increase in wages
lor all employees OF Spofford Mills
was announced last night by j..
alolnes Davis, Jr., president of the
company.
II increase, effective Monday
IN an departments of the factory.
viii 60 to $50 employees,
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