davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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per hour for the next three or four
years.
The survey shows the type, horse
power and approximate speed of the
worlds 13 leading pursuit and in
terceptor airplanes. All speeds are
given for critical" altitude, or the
altitude at which the individual air.
plane attains its maximum perform
ance. These attitudes, for the 13
airplanes under study, range from
$4,000 to $4,000 feet.
The Five German Leaders.
For the five German leaders, the
figures are as follows:
MesserSchmitt 1O9: Horsepower,
1,150; speed, 800 miles per hour
This is single engine fighter which
was the backbone of the Luftwaffe's
fighter strength during the early
stages of the war.
MeSserschmitt 10: Horsepower,
1890; speed. 370 miles per hour. This
is the striking two-engined Nazi
fighter which has figured promi-
nently in the battle of Britain as a
light bomber. After the heavy Ger
man losses of last September, when
the British knocked down 180 Ger
man airplanes in one day, the Nazis,
(See PLANES, Page A.12)
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Hopkins and Churchill
CIscuss Matters Of
Mutual Urgency
U. S. Output to Hit Peak
In Year, Roosevelt Envoy
Says After PorIey
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. l0-Harry L. Hop
kins, President Roosevelt's personal
envoy. had an overtime luncheon
talk with Prime Minister Churchill
today and in later interview pre-
dicted United States production of
war materials would reach its peak
late in 1941 or early in 1912.
In a serious mood after the
luncheon-Which lasted an hour
past the usual time-Mr. Hopkins
declared he was here to discuss
matters of mutual urgency to our
two countries"
At first he said mutual interest"
but later was asked if mutual
urgency couldn't be substituted and
he agreed.
Impressed by Raids.
Sitting in chair and putting a
cigarette, he answered mo COM
ment" TO most questions.
To one he said. Nothing is less
important than my impressions of
air RAIDS.
Asked about labor's attitude to-
ward the production program, he
said: There will be united effort,
and it will be very successful"
Before his luncheon engagement
Mr.. Hopkins saw Foreign Secretary
Anthony Eden and Lord Halifax.
Ambassador or-designate to the United
States.
He said he expected to stay two
to four Weeks-"until I have fin
ished the job I came to do"
First Visit Since 1884.
This is Mr.. Hopkins first visit
to London since 1884. He had "only
met" Mr.. Churchill before.
When Mr. Hopkins arrived in Lon
don last night the first air raid
alarm since Sunday had just sound
ed, and guns were rumbling before
he retired, but he ignored the shell
ter at his hotel and slept in his bed
room.
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Prosecutor Probes
Claim 6 Names Were
Forged on Peace Wire
New York Official
Investigates No Foreign
War Groups Telegram
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 10.-District
Attorney Charles P. Sullivan Of
Queens County today announced he
had started an investigation after
six persons complained to him that
their unauthorized signatures had
been attached to a No Foreign War
Committee telegram to President
Roosevelt.
Two'of the six-Charles F. Hughes
and David Roger Keefe. both OF
Queens conferred with Mr.. Sulli-
van early in the day.
Mr.. Sullivan said Both men re-
pudiate any association with any
organization which is critical of
President Roosevelt and his foreign
policy. The men said they are
anxious to have the Congressional
Record Strengthened out so their
names will not appear as perma-
nent record OF criticism of the Pres
ident's foreign policy"
Threatens Prosecution.
The prosecutor added that 'if it
can be proved that some unauthor-
lied person signed names of other
persons to the petition, it would be
third-degree forgery"
IF it is established that a crime
has been committed" he added, i
will prosecute"
Both Mr. Hughes and Mr.. Keefe
are Democratic party workers in
Queens.
Verne Marshall, chairman of the
committee. declared that naturally
the committee could not investigate
the circumstances under which at
least $4,000 names were submitted to
it by telegram, telephone and mail.
"Sinister Opposition"
"We were thoroughly aware of
the probability that certain names
might be given us without the proper
authority" he said. These individ-
uals whose names may have been
used without authority are
not nearly as anxious to fix the
responsibility for such trickery al
is our committee.
"The sooner the Government,
either of New York State or the
United States. gets busy and digs
out the truth behind this situation,
the sooner the people of America
will have their first inkling of the
sources from which comes the sin
lister opposition to those real Ameri-
cans who stand before the world as
real Americans"
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Fire Kills 5 in Family
On Eve Of Wife's Funeral

B. the Associated Press.
KEYSER, w. Va, Jan. 10-A fa-
ther and his four children were
burned to death early today when
their home at Antiock, about II
miles from here, was destroyed by
fire
The tragedy was not discovered
until neighbor of the family ar
rived at the site of the home to
take the family to Keyser to attend
the funeral rites of the wife and
mother, who died Wednesday. He
found the home in ashes.
The dead are Henry Schell, IA;
Ida. 26; Lavada, 13; Laura, 10, and
Temple, 6.
The tragedy was discovered by
Vance Doll, who lives about miles
from the Schells.
The wife and mother of the vic
Tins, Mrs. Esther Lyon Schell, 46,
died Wednesday, and the body was
removed to a Keyser undertaking
establishment.
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By JOSEPH S. EDGERTON.

On the basis of actual maximum
speeds, at least three new United
States pursuit. airplanes are equal
or superior to anything the Germans
or the British have in the air in
Europe today. At least one OF them
can outf1y the best British inter-
ceptor by more than Is miles per
hour and the fastest German fighter
yet seen by more than 80.
The Bell P-39 Airacobra, the Lock-
heed P-38 and the sensational
Vought Sikorsky XF4U-1 Navy
fighter. called by Rear Admiral John
H. Towers, chief of the Navy Bureau
of Aeronautics, "the fastest airplane
in America today" all can outfly
Europe's fastest fighters, with the
single exception of the new British
Spitfire II. One of the Americans
is rated as fast as the new Spitf1re
and two faster.
Although comparative speeds Of
the German, British and American
warplanes never have been an
nounced officially, 1t has been pos
sible to obtain fairly accurate
estimates in the cases of all Of them,
some on the basis of information
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Path Now Is Open
To VoIono, Major
AIbonion Seaport
b. the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Britain's empire armies SlaShed
against Italian East Africa today
and maSSed for an apparently
imminent assault on 10000 Fas-
cist soldiers trapped at Tobruk,
North Africa, while her little
ally, Greece, reported another
triumph against Premier Musso-
lini's hard-driven legions in Al
bania.
Church bells pealed throughout
the ancient Aegean kingdom as
Greece'S Premier John Strong Nam
Metaxas announced the capture OF
Klisura in Central Albania-gate-
way to the Adriatic seaport of Va
Iona.
Valona, 33 miles north of Klisura,
Is Italy's last big port in South
ern Albania.
British general headquarters in
Cairo reported concentration of
British troops around Tobruk and
said operations were continuing far
ther west on the Libyan Desert.
Hundreds of miles southeast of
Libya other British fighting men
were reported helping to carry out
Prime Minister Winston Churchill's
pledge to tear Italy's African en-
pire to tatters and Shreds."
The Cairo command said British
forces had entered Buna, Kenya
colony, 100 miles south of the Ethio-
plan border. which the italians have
held for months. and that the Ital-
ians had fed from El Wax, on the
Kenya-Italian Somaliland frontier.
The British also reported the cap
ture of Serobatib. on the Sudan
Ethiopian border, 40 miles north Of
Kossala
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British Concentrate
Around Tobruk and
Press Farther West
Action Also Is Reported
Against Eost Africa;
Forces Enter Bunu
By the Associated Press.


CAIRO. Egypt. Jan. 10.-British
general headquarters announced to-
day concentration of British forces
around Tobruk, Italian naval sta
ton and garrison town on the Lib
yam coast, while operations farther
west continued.
At the same time. flaring action
was reported against italian East
Africa, hundreds of miles southeast
of the Libyan front.
The British announced that their
forces had entered Buna, Kenya
colony crossroads junction some 100
miles south of the Ethiopian border,
and that El Wax, in the Kenya-
Italian Somaliland border zone, had
been abandoned by the Italians.
Buna is in the Moyale sector.
which the Italians have held for
months. The British said there was
no sign of opposition from Italians
there.
The British also reported the cap
ture of Serobatib, on the Sudan
Ethiopian frontier. about 40 miles
north of KaSsala.
Drive Gains Momentum.
the British drive against Italy's
African empire, a drive which al
ready has eaten up 5000 square
miles of territory in q month. was
reported today to be gaining mo-
mentum on a widening front ex-
tending from Libya to Ethiopia.
While the advance guard of the
Army of the Nile pressed on across
the Libyan desert west of besieged
Tobruk, British general headquar-
ters said extensive R. A. F. raids on
Italian bases in Ethiopia were en-
couraging an incipient native upris-
ing in that Fascist colony.
There were hints that Ethiopia,
where fighting between British and
Italian forces thus far has been linn
tied largely to frontier skirmishes,
might soon become a real battle
ground.
Fascists Forced to Flee.
British military men said native
tribesmen had followed up many re-
cent r. A. F. raids on Ethiopia by
attacking the bombed Italian gar
risons, forcing Fascist troops in some
instances to flee.
Ethiopian guerrillas also have been
harrassing italian lines of communi-
cation, it was said. disrupting the
movement of supplies to frontier
posts.
(Haile Selassie, refugee En-
peror of Ethiopia, whom the Brit
lsh have recognized as lawful
ruler of the Italian-conquered
nation, is known to have been in
Africa since September, presum-
ably in the Anglo-Egyptian Su-
dan, for the purpose of rallying
his people to revolt against the
ItaliansD
British mechanical troops, who
were reported yesterday to have
driven 40 miles beyond Tobruk to
seize an italian airdrome at Gazala,
were believed by observers here to
be aiming for the coastal road be-
low Bengasi. Bengasi is about 300
miles from the Egyptian border.
1t appeared here that the British
were trying to drive a wedge straight
(See LIBYA, Page A-30
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u. S. Navy 322 Times
More Powerful Than
Jopon's, Chinese Says

By the Associated Press.
CHUNGKING, China, Jan.
10.-The newspaper Takung-
pao did some figuring today
and decided that "the United
States Navy is 322 times more
powerful than the japanese
Navy"
The editorial writer figured
that the present United States
naval budget is 800 times the
japanese naval budget, based
on the rate of unofficial deal
ings in the yen.
The fate of the Japanese
Empire lies in President Roose-
velts hands," the writer elsbo-
rated. THE Japanese Navy can
be wiped out when he decides"
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Glass Bill to Kill Bank
Holding Companies Due
M the Aeeociotad Draes

BY the Associated Press.
Senator Glass, Democrat, of Vir-
ginia soon may introduce far-reach-
ing legislation designed to wipe out
bank holding companies by June 80,
1914.
Senator Glass proposed 1egisla-
ton to restrict bank holding COM
panies some time ago, but it never
has been approved. Recently, it was
learned, he has been working with
Treasury officials on a new bill.
1t was reported authoritatively
that the new legislation would in
clude death sentence" for bank
holding companies by providing that
no banking institution Cor corpora
tom could hold more than 10 per
cent of the stock in any other bank
after June 80, 1914.
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Greek Troops Capture KIisuro;
British Moving On East Africa;
R. A. F. Blasts French Targets
Soviet-Germon Pact
Reported Signed on
Trade and Borders
BY the Associated Press.

BERLIN. Jan. 10.-An agree
ment between Germany and
Soviet Russia regulating certain
aspects of trade, border and re-
settlement problems was re-
ported officially to have been
signed this afternoon. at Mos
COW.
A spokesman said details of
the pact Ia furtherance of the
rapprochment between the Two
countries which antedates the
European War; would be dis
closed tomorrow.
In a general way, he said,
existing trade agreements are
extended and the trade deals
which Germany had with Rus
sian-absorbed Lithuania. Latvia
and EStonia now are recognized
by Russia.
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Hopson Enters Prison
To Stort 5-Yeur Term
px the Associated Press,

By the Associated fress.
LEWISBURG, Pa, Jan. 10
Howard C. Hopson, who created a
vast utilities empire that finally
collapsed of its own weight, began
a five-year prison sentence today in
the Northeastern Federal Peni-
tentiary.
Warden William H. Hyatt said he
was admitted during the night after
being brought here from New York
by two deputy United States
marshals.
Hopson was sentenced in New
York yesterday to five years on each
of II mail fraud counts on which
he was convicted December 81. The
tarmS will run concurrently.
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Planes Over Switzerland
Were Lost Nuzi Bombers
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERN, Switzerland. Jan. 10-Two
foreign planes whish flew over
Switzerland today causing alarms
in Bern, Zurich and Lucerne were
identified in a general staff COM
munique tonight as two German
bombers which apparently lost
their way in the fog"
The communique said the bombers
crossed over the Swiss Jura Noun
tains, near Neuchatel, from France.
One flew near Lucerne, while the
other went over Zurish. Both dis
appeared over Lake Constance and
headed toward Germany.
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Three Prisoners Escape
From Delaware Jail
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DOVER, Del, Jan. 1O.-State
police are searching today for three
prisoners who sawed their way out
of Kent County Jail here about
midnight last night. The men are
John R. Hammond, "a, formerly of
Baltimore: Layton P. Conoway, %,
of Laurel. Del, and Hansel Marvel,
"a, of Houston, Del.
They escaped through a ground
floor dormitory window, after saw
ing the bars. Ten other prisoners
in the dormitory were ordered to
bed by the three while the saving
was in progress. After the three
had escaped the others notified
night Turnkey John Holiday, who
had visited the dormitory about
10 pm.
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La Guurdiu Job Report
Denied by Roosevelt
By the Associated Press.

By the ASSOCIATED Press.
President Roosevelt told a press
conference today he knew nothing
about bringing Mayor La Guardia
of New York into the administra-
ton as co-ordinator of the defense
program.
Asked about a report that Mr..
La Guardia might be given sucs -
assignment, the Chief Executive re-
piled it was the first time he had
heard of it.
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He Hated PIones:
| Now He's in the
| Anti-Aircroft
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, Jan. 10.-Marvin Hicks
never approved the Hicks family S
annual aIrplane ride, involving pho
tographs of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Hicks
and all nine of the little Hickses
lined up beside huge transport.
But Pop Hicks had been scrappy
middleweight in his day, so Marvin
went along.
The other day Marvin, who is now
l8. joined the Army.
SWELL" Pop Hicks roared Il can
even tell you what branch you're
in You'll be a pilot"
mo, Pop" Marvin replied. I'll
be in anti-aircraft. I'll pop 'em
out of the air as fast as they build
EN-"
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DoyIight Assault
Follows 6-Hour
Roid at Brest

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 10.-British
bombers took up by daylight a
laundering assault on the cross
Channel French coast today
after R. A. F. raiders were de-
clared to have delivered a slash
ing, siX-hour overnight pounding
against the German submarine
base at Brest and other targets
in Germany's Ruhr Valley.
Only a few hours after the night
raiders set their planes down back
home, the daylight attackers
swarmed over the Channel to loose
bombs whose blasts shook the SOUTH
east coast on this side.
The Ministry of Information said
airdromes. military installations and
patrol vessels were bombed and ma
chine -gunned from low level
Storage Buildings Blasted.
Summing up the night attacks, the
Air Ministry news service said dock
and storage buildings at Brest, just
around the French coast from the
western entrance to the Channel,
were repeatedly straddled with
sticks of bombs.
The attack, the third on Brest
within a week, was carried out by
pilots of the coastal command. who
reported starting fires near the mill
tary port and direct hits on a large
ship in the harbor.
Other bombs were declared to
have burst on the mole and between
the docks. One pilot said his salvo
burst near a drydock, followed by an
immense explosion.
"A building literally diSintegrated
and a mushroom of black smoke
rose to a height of several hundred
feet" this pilot said.
The Air Ministry said the Brest
attack was made by a strong force
of planes aided by bright moonlight
in which the docks could be picked
out clearly.
Planes Reported Shot Down.
In today's daylight raids, the Brit
ish announced officially that three
German fighters were shot down and
that not single British plane was
lost. In addition to those downed,
a number Of Nazi craft on the
ground were reported damaged.
So great was todays attack that
repercussion of exploding bombs
shook the Southeast English coast,
20 to 80 miles on this side of the
Channel.
The r. A. F. began the attack
shortly after noon and little later
large formation of twin-motored
British bombers came roaring back
from the direction of the German
occupied port of Boulogne. A strong
force of fighters hovered protec-
lively around the homing bombers.
The Air Ministry announced that
explosions and fires were seen in a
Gelsenkirchen synthetic oil plant
after R. A. F. bombers pummeled it
and other objectives in the Ruhr.
Inland Ports Attacked.
Ground haze, the communique
said, made it difficult for R. A. F.
pilots to observe the full effects of
their bombs on the oil plant and
elsewhere.
The inland ports of Duisberg-
Ruhrort and Dusseldorf and fac
tories, blast furnaces and railways
in the Ruhr also were attacked.
An oil storage plant at Rotterdam
and docks at Flushing in the Meth
erlands and Dunkerque and Calais
on the French Channel coast were
other targets in the night raids.
Planes of the coastal command
were said to have severely damaged
a railway bridge near Egersund, on
the southwest coast of Norway. Loss
(See r. A. F., Page A-6D
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Neville Butler Named
British Minister Here
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. l0.-The govern
ment announced today the appoint
ment of Neville Butler, counsellor
of the British Embassy in Wash
ington, as Minister to the United
States.
The post was created to relieve
the newly appointed Ambassador,
Lord Halifax, of detail.
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TepeIeni Menoced

ATHENS, Greece, Jan. 10 (P-The
etrategically important town of XIII
sura on the central Albanian battle
front has fallen to Greek troops
after a week of bitter fighting. an
Official announcement said today.
AS a result, the Italians probably
will be forced to give up Tepelenl,
Is miles to the west, the next imr
portant objective on the route of the
Greek march toward Valona, mill
tary circles said.
Valona is the last important port
in Southern Albania still in Italian
hands and the immediate objec-
tive of the Greek drive in this Sec
tor.
Klisura stands astride cross road,
one fork of which leads to Berat
and Durazzo, while the other leads
to Valona.
Two Drives at Valona.
The Greeks have been aiming two
drives at Valona, one on the central
front, toward Klisura and Tepeleni
and the other up the Adriatic coast
from Porto Edda and Chimara.
Greek troops were reported also
to have advanced few miles beyond
Klisura in the direction of Berati
with the Italians in disorderly re-
treat.
Premier Gen. John MetaXas an
nounced the taking of Klisura to the
cabinet this morning and sent a
telegram to the Greek forces.
The announcement was a signal
for widespread Greek rejoicing
Church bells pealed throughout the
country. Crowds gathered around
general headquarters while King
George and others appeared at
windows
The Greeks said they have not
had time to count their prisoners
nor the large quantity" of materials
of all kinds seized.
200 More Captured.
Two hundred more prisoners and
q score of 87-millimeter mortars
were captured by Greek forces dur
ing local actions, in which they
captured important positions at
bayonet point, the Greek high COM
mand reported last night.
A government spokesman said the
Italians had withdrawn to new posi-
tions protected by barbed wire. The
positions taken by the Greeks, he
said, were of considerable strategic
importance"
The high command reference TO
the capture of 20 more mortars
underlined a claim of the previous
day, when the Greeks announced
the capture of "a whole company
Of mortars. The spokesman said
this seizure included italian Off
GERS, men and materials"
The spearhead of the Greek
thrust in the Klisura sector is only
about 80 miles from Valona.
The Italians began falling oack
toward Klisura on December after
the fall of Premet, where they made
q dogged stand in an attempt to
halt the Greek offensive. Heavy
fighting marked their retreat to
prepared positions on the heights
around Klisura.
Greek sources at that time said
the Italians brought up strong rein
forcements to defend the pass al
Klisura, apparently attaching great
ISee GREEK Page A-3.)
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Summary of Todoy's Star

Six more materials put under export
control restrictions. Page Al
Little progress made in efforts to
avert Ranger strike. Page A-3
II baking companies indicted in food
price probe. Page A-3
Federal Reserve Board hints British
assets low. Page AS
Washington and Vicinity.
All armed services will be represent
ed in inaugural parade. Page B-1
Maryland legislators discuss plan to
cut their expenses. Page BIB
Editorial and Comment.
Answers to Questions. Page A-10
Letters to the Editor. Page A-10
This and That. Page A-10
David Lawrence. Page ALL
Frederic William Vile. Page ALL
Jay G. Hayden. Page ALL
Constantine Brown. Page ALL
Jay Franklin. Page ALL
Miscellaneous.
City News in Brief. Page AS
Vital Statistics. Page BIO
Service Orders. Page CA
Natures Children. Page CA
Bedtime Stories. Page C-8
Letter-Out. Page C-8
Winning Contract. Page CO
Cross Word Puzzle. Page CO
Uncle Rays Corner. Page CO
Evening star., 1941-01-10

foreign.
Greeks take Klisura and menace
Tepeleni. Page Al
British offensive in Italy possible,
London circles say. Page Al
British planes make large-scale at
tack in France. Page Al
British offensive gains momentum on
African fronts. Page Al
Finland asks Red Cross aid to pre-
vent famine. Page Az
Half billion damage done Dutch
property in blitzkrieg. Page AS
British battleship struck by bombs,
Italians claim. Page Al
De Gaulle-Weygand rift Is headache
for British. Page ALI
Martinique residents resent U. S. pa
troll, captain says. Page BIB
National.
Congress gets rease-lend" legisla-
ton today. Page Al
Evening star., 1941-01-10
Leose-Lend Bill Goes
To Congress; Opens
Shipyords to British
Leuse-Lend Bill
Measure Would Give
President Full Power

FolloWing is the tert OF the
"le1se- lend" bill to aid Great
Britain and other nations resist
ing aggression 1Uhich lOdS intro
duced in both branches Of Con-
greSS today:
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(See GREEK, Page A-30
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(See r. A. F., Page A-60
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(See PLANES, Page A-121
Evening star., 1941-01-10

Mostly cloudy, little change in tempera-
ture; colder tomorrow night; lowest to-
night about 80 degrees. Temperatures
today-Highest, 38, at 2 pm; lowest,
"a, at $50 am.
From the Omitted saates weather Bureau report.
Full Details on Page Az.
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(See LIBYA, Page A-3)
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(See CONGRESS, Page ABB