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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-14
CAPTAIN MORRIS
IS MADE MAJOR

WASHINGTON. April 13- lR -
The War Department announced
today a list of promotions of Of
ficers including these from North
Carolina:
Captain to major: John Lewis
Morris, AUS, Wilmington.
First Lieutenant to captain: Will
son Larry Benton, AC, Belmont;
Joe Nathan Drum, AC, Conover;;
Lex Goodman Barley, ONO, Ri.
/. Statesville.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-14
STOCKS co DOWN.;
AVERAGE IS OFF
NEW YORK

STOCKS - Lower; leaders
continue drift.
BONDS-Lower; rails sup
ply.
COTTON-Quiet; Hedge sell
ing.
CHICAGO
WHEAT-Weak; Favorable
crop growing weather.
RYE-Lower with wheat.
HOGS-Slow, weights 100000
pounds down 10 to IA cents.
Others off 1925 cents. Top
$3.50.
enthusiastically steady.
Top $1,000 paid for long fed
yearlings.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-14
NEW YORK COTTON

NEW YORK, April 13.-(P)--Cotoo
ton futures closed from Is to Al
cents a bale lower today.
The volume of business was not
sufficient to hold the market firm
AGAINST small but persistent com
r5:ssion house liquidation and hedge
Spain was reported to be seek,
mo additional American cotton and
he trade expects the business Will
strengthen the near months If con-
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-14
NEW ORLEANS COTTON
NEW ORLEANS SPOT

NEW ORLEANS, April 13-'R-
Spot cotton closed steady Is cents
a bale lower today. Sales 1,O59.
Low middling 1875, Middling FL
900, Good middling 21.40, Receipts
75S, Stocks 243.253.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-14

Half Hour for Dancing Music NIB
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11:00-News for Is Minutes nbc-basic
The Fred Waring repeat nbc-wes;
News, Variety Dance 2 h.-cbs &, blu
Comment, Dance Orch. e h. mbs
1115-Late Variety with News nbc
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-14
RADIO
WMFD Wilmington
: 1900 KC

FRIDAY, APRIL II
7:30-Family Altar
7:45-Muscal Clock.
S:O0-Daily War Journal.
8:15-Musical Clock.
8:30-Blue News Correspondents.
845-Toby and Suzy.
900-The Breakfast Club.
1O00-Sweet River.
10:15-Singo.
lO:3O-U. P. News.
lO:35-Let's Dance.
:00-Breakfast at Sardi's
11:30-Gil Martyr, News.
11:45-Living Should Be Fun.
0-Meditation Period.
12:15-Bible Messages.
12:30-National Farm and Home Hour.
l:0OLBaukhage.
1:15-Musical Interlude.
1;s-News - Wilmington Star-News.
1:3O-Between the Bookends.
1:45-Phil Brito.
2OO-Rodriguez and Switzerland.
2:15-The Mystery Chef.
2:30-Ladies Be Seated.
3:0O-Songs by Morton Downey.
3:15-My True Story.
3:45-The Gospel Lighthouse Hour.
4:00-Blue Frolics.
4:30-Time, Views the News.
4:45-The Sea Hound.
5:00-Hop Harrigan.
5:15-U. P. News.
5:30-Lone Ranger.
6:o0-Terry and the Pirates.
6:151Sports.
6:25-News Wilmington Star-News.
6:30-Ten, Two, Four Ranch Party.
645-Henry J. Taylor and the News.
7:00-Nero Wolfe.
Extraordinarily Yours.
7:45-Sundown Serenade.
8:00-Watch the World Go By.
8:15tThe Parker Family.
8:30-Meet Your Navy.
9:00-Red Cross Program.
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s:3o-Victory Parade of Spotlight Bands.
9:55-Coronet Story Teller.
l0:00-Leland Stowe - Commentator.
l0:151Top of the Evening.
10: Standardization Club.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-14
BUTTER AND EGGS

CHICAGO, April 13-'R-Buttar
firm; Receipts 65l, 1o4; Market un-
changed.
Eggs, Receipts 29,626: Unsettled
u. S. specials "a IL to Sc. U. 5.
extra 80 IL to 35; Other market
unchanged.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-02
LOSSES ARE LIGHT
also Drops $4,000 Tons
OF Bombs On German
Occupied Europe
BY GLADWIN HILL

LONDON, Sunday, Jan. PIP
The Britain-based U. S., Eighth
Air Force destroyed 400 Ger
man fighter planes during 1943
and dropped $1,000 tons of bombs
ON Nazi-occupied Europe at an
overall loss of less than four per
cent, 1t. Gen. Ira C. Eaker. COM
mander of the group, reported to-
day before taking up his new post
as Allied aerial commander in
the Mediterranean.
Stressing the rapid increase in
the operations of the unit the
Eighth Air Force revealed that
new secret method of bombing
through the clouds, thus over-com-
ing bad weather. had enabled the
Americans to drop record load
of $4,000 tons of bombs in 10
raids during December. This was
more than double the weight drop
ped in November and roughly 30
per cent more than the total ton
1913.
Use 1,500 Planes
Gen. Eaker, in his report which
was broadcast to the United States
by the Blue network, said that in
the last two raids by the Eighth
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-02
CAMERON PRAISES
RATL0NINC BOARD

Following the lead of Governor
j. Melville Broughton, who issued
a proclamation on December %
calling to the attention of the pub
lie the faithful service of the
states 1900 rationing board en-
ployes, Mayor Bruce B. Cameron
had high commentator Saturday
for the work of the New Hanover
unit which he said had functioned
'tirelessly and fairly
'Our local board has rendered
fine SERVICE" Cameron declared.
while people in general do not
like everything about the rationing
program, it is nevertheless an es-
sential part of the war effort.
''The New Hanover administra-
ton has been marked by a COM
plete lack of politics. 1t has tried
to give everyone a square DEAL
and it has worked courteously, !"
he added.
The three board members, who
serve without compensaAsn, are
o. H. Shoemaker, c. Van Leuven,
and Louis Orrell.
January : will mark the second
anniversary of the Inauguration of
the first rat.oning program under
the auspices of the Office of Price
Administration.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-02
Marines Expanding Hold
Beyond Gloucester Field
Four Prisoners Escape
From Iowa Reformatory

ANAMOSA, Ia, Jan. 1.-@
-Four long-term convicts In
the state reformatory here to-
day stabbed a prison guard,
seized two hostages, drove with
them through the prison gate
in plain view of at least three
other guards and escaped to-
ward the Illinois state line af-
ter terr0rizing a farm family
and releasing the hostages.
The break, made simpler by
the New Years holiday rules
which gave prisoners the free.
dom of the reformat0ry yard,
followed a fight in the office
of Depbsy Warden L. j. Wom-
aChka, in which Guard Grant
Eilers was stabbed by one Of
the crudely fashioned knives
the convicts carried.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-02
Air Force Downs
400 Planes During 1913
Another Pork Bonus
Announced By OPA

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1-(P-
The Office of Price Admins
tration announced another pork
bonus today, validating spare
stamps number Two in ration
book four sfor the purchase of
five points worth of fresh pork
and all sausage from Sunday,
January 2, through Saturday,
January Is.
The new special stamp will
not be good for buying smok-
ed or cured pork, such as
smoked ham and bacon.
Spare stamp number One,
which has been good for five
points for the retail purchase
of both fresh and cured pork
since December 21, expires at
1901 am. this Sunday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-02
Capital Talks.
J avs To Make.
I ! likes Crime
ezBOR ROWS RAPED
High Figure Declares They
May Have Delayed Vic
tory Over Germany

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1. Up
Stiffened laws to make wartime
strikes crime were talked at the
capitol today in swift aftermath
to an assertion from a figure high
in councils of the United States
and the United Nations that re-
cent disputes may have delayed
victory over Germany.
Some legislators suggested,
however, that it is up to President
Roosevelt to take the leadership
if the administration thinks new
statutes are needed, and others
were critical Of White House hand
ling of labor disputes.
Union men were indigant in
private conversations but for the
time being we're standing on the
public reports already made by
rail and steel labor leaders.
Delayed Revolt
The high figure singled out par
ticularly the rail and steel strike
threats, saying the Nazis had seiz-
ed upon them broadcast through
out Europe that the United States
is in a condition of chaos. He said
the result had been to strengthen
spirits of Axis satellites and prob
ably delay revolts in subjugated
countries.
1t all added up, he said to a
"great tragedy and would cost
American lives.
Three railroad men D. B.
Robertson of the firemen, H. w.
Fraser of the conductors, and 7.
c. Cashen of the switchmen - re-
piled that the unions were not to
blame.
Had the administration permit
ted this case to have taken its
orderly course they said in a
statement. * x x in all prob
ability a satisfactory settlement
could have been worked out. If
this situation has had any, effect
upon the war or offers any psy-
Geological comfort to Hitler the
labor unions are not responsible. -
propaganda Story''
An official of the United Steel
Workers, declining use of his
name, called the whole thing "a
filthy propa ganda story designed
to arouse the American people
against labor unions despite their
amazing production records
Rep. Smith (R-Va), co-author of
the Connally-Smith anti-strike
law, and Rep. Manasco DALAI
were among those who said the
president should initiate any new
labor legislation.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-02
City Expected
To Get Supply.
OF Coal Soon
RELIEF is PROMISED
Officials Unable To Pre-
dict Change In Critical
Fuel Oil Shortage

Some relief from the acute coal
shortage is expected here in about
q week by Wilmington dealers but
no one was able to predict any
change in the critical fuel oil sit
uation yesterday.
With mo coal in the city, re-
ported. officials of the North-Smith
Coal company disclosed that Way
ne P. Ellis, of Cincinnati, Solid
Fuels Administration general di-
rector for this territory, has as
sured that approximately $500
tons will be shipped to Wilmington
for distribution through all retail
merchants. The coal supply is ex-
pected to arrive in about seven
days.
The North-Slnith official said
Ellis had issued an order to coal
operators to ship all prepaid coal
mined Monday, Tuesday and We'd
nesday of this week into eight
south and southeastern states.
Asks 80 Cars Daily
In telephone conversation with
the STA executive, the local deal
err said he requested for Whining
ton proper a supply of SO rail-
road cars daily during the three
days. This will total ia cars, each
of which will contain approx
mately so tons. Assurance was
given by Ellis that this amount
would be sent here, he said.
This supply, he added, is expect
to be chiefly high volatile coal,
the type principally used by Will
mjn9tonians.
A Springer Coal executive said
the fuel oil situation is equally
as bad as the coal problem.
AS yet no January fuel oil quota
has been received for Wilmington,
but it is expected Monday. The
Springer official said lit is my in
formation that the quota will be
entirely inadequate to meet the
demand"
Appeals To Potts
The demand for coal became
SO great Saturday that the Sprin-
ger executive appealed to Col
Adam E. Potts, commander of
Camp Davis, for the release of
Coal by the Army to serve Will
minatonians. No positive reply
from Colonel Potts had been re-
ceived late Saturday afternoon, it
was said.
As local coal and fuel dealers
applied pressure to every source,
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-02
S0LONS SEE FALL
OF NAILS IN 1914

WASHINGTON, Jan. /. - (P -
Members of Congress generally
expect the war in Europe to end
in a smashing victory for the Uni
ted Nations in 1914 but fear the
fight against Japan will last into
1915 and possibly until 1947.
4 check of a representative cross
section of senators disclosed to-
Gay that majority believes Ger
many will collapse before many
months if an Allied invasion of the
continent is added soon to the
weighty blows now being delivered
against the Nazi armies by the
Russians.
Predicting the wars end in Eu-
rope this year, Senator OMahoney
CD-Wyo) expressed belief that be-
fore the end of the new year the
nation's big problem will be to
find "jobs and markets.
THE Germans cannot continue
to take the beating that is being
inflicted upon them" he declared.
According to my information, .
OMahoney said, "the most conser.
vative Swedish observers do not
believe that Germany can endure
beyond next June"
However, Senator Thomas 3D.
utah), acting chairman of the
military committee in the absence
iCnntinued M De- Txun. Col AZ
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-02
NEW BALKAN MOVE
APPEARS IMMINENT

LONDON, Jan. l -LP- King
Peter, youthful exiled monarch OF
Yugoslavia who has been disavoW-
ed by the partisan, Marshal Josip
Broz (Tito), was reported to have
left Cairo for a "secret destina-
ton today and reports arose i'm
mediately that some Balkan de-
velopment was imminent.
It was recalled that a spokes-
man for Peters government said
recently that the Yugoslav reg
ular" guerrilla army under Gen.
Draja Mihailovic probably would
not be thrown into the current
battle against the invading Ger
mans until an Allied army invadeS
the Balkans.
The possibility was not over
looked, also, that King Peters trip
might foreshadow an effort to set
tie the tangled affairs Of his
kingdom.
Although there was no definite
hint as to the purpose Of his mys-
FERROUS trip, it was recalled also
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-02
MANY JAPS KILLED
u. S. Gains Additional
Room To Meet Any Nip
ponese Counter-Attacks

ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, New Guinea, Sunday,
Jan. 2. -Pl- Marines. p sh5ag a
mile and half beyeond the air.
drome in expanding their hold on
Cape Gloucester, New Britain,
have counte / more than 1000 Jap.
anese dead and General MacArth.
ur's headquarters said 1.-The total
(enemy) casualties are estimated
at many times this figure"
The estimates included FOUNDED
removed to areas still held by the
Japanese and to slain troops bur
led the day the invasion opened
a week ago today.
Defensive Move
The enlargement of the Amer
lean hold on that northwestern New
Britain base was largely a de
fensive move, intended to provide
additional room in which to meet
any Japanese counterattscks.
Extensively, the Fifth Air Force
struck a 253-ton bombing blow at
the Japanese northeastern New
Guinea base of Madang; the Solo
mons airforce, which already has
bagged more than 100 enemy
planes at Rabaul since Dec. %,
added 20 more during a 39-ton bonn.
bing of that northeastern New Bril-
tain fortress; and IL enemy raid
ers were shot down during at
taos on Arawe, the southwest New
Britain sector which the Allies
invaded Dec. 10.
In the western sector of Cape
Gloucester position, japanese coun-
terattacks were repulsed at Tauah.
A single plane Thursday night at
tempted one of the few enemy air
raids made since the invasion.
Sixty miles to the southeast at
Arawe, PATS tangled with Jap
anese dive bombers and fighters
in numerous single actions, down.
ing eight bombers and four fight
ers for certain and probably two
other fighters. No Allied losses
were listed.
Nineteen Liberators of the Solo
mons airforce, escorted by fight
ers. were opposed by heavy anti
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-02
REDS PLUNGE TO WITHIN ~
MILES OF OLD POLISH LINE;
H. s. TAKES ITALIAN HEIGHTS
[mminence OfBig Allied
Offensives Is Stressed

stand on the threshold of a IT,
tanic and decisive struggle"
near the moment when strength
Gin tremendous force" will be
loosed both IN Europe and in
the far Pacific.
The secretary described the
fighting to date as Of a per-
imeter nature with the main
masses of enemy troops yet to
be contacted TLen he added:
I'VE must accept the casu-
allies which are bound to come
and forge steel from our grief.
We must learn 70 expect SET
backs which may seem more
serious than anything we have
thus far known. and still not
falter on the ROAD to eventual
victory.
Looking into the peace-after-
victory era, the President said:
''The United Nations are CIV
ing attention also to the diff
Continued on Page Five; Col.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-02

Wilmington's quiet but concert
ed attempts to reduce juvenile de-
linquency are bearing fruit, it
was disclosed Saturday with the
release of figures showing that
the number of cases cleared
through the juvenile court in the
past year. and a half represent
a substantial decline.
A survey of the local juvenile
situation, made by the city for
the United States Conference OF
Mayors, Washington, merited COM
ment from City Manager A. c.
Nichols and Juvenile Judge Ed
gar L. Vow that although the mu-
nicipality may be on the right
track, there must be no relaxation
of effort in the program.
The totals show 1853 cases clear
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-02
Reds Say Japanese Have
Lost Strategic Initiative

MOSCOW, Jan. 1-lR-The So
Wet trade journal WAR and the
Working Class" asserted today
that Japan had lost the stra-
tegic initiative" in the Pacific and
her Temporary advantage is a
thing of the past"
The article. reviewing Japanese
German relations, said Japan
must now recall the Oriental pro
verb: "He who mounts a tiger
cannot easily dismount."
'In any case" the article con-
tinued. Japan cannot count now
on effective assistance from Ger
many"
The comment was the most out
spoken yet made here on the Pa
eific. war in which the Soviet
Union is neutral.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-02
Attempts To Cut Youth
Delinquency Succeeding

ed in the past six months, fewer
by 81 than half the number han
died in the twelve months period
ending June 80, 1943. In addition,
the study points out that there
were 513 juveniles requiring at
tention in the year ending June
80, 1912; 488, in 1943-indicating
that the downward trend has been
in progress for approximately 10
months.
The decrease in cases is in the
face of an increase iii population,
it was pointed out.
In requesting preparation of the
data, the Conference of Mayors
revealed it was acting to assist
the Subcommittee on Wartime
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-02
HOLIDAY DEATHS
TOTAL 68 IN U. S.
(By The Associated Press


The nations New Years week
end celebration reached the half
way mark marred by at least 68
violent deaths.
Of the fatalities reported since
6 pm. Friday, an Associated
Press survey showed that 50 we're
the result of traffic mishaps and
10 from other causes, including
fire, gunshot, .suffocation and
drowning.
The normal toll for the three
day holiday period would range
between 225 nd 275 lives lost in
traffic accidents, the National
Safety Council estimated.
California. with IL traffic deaths,
led the nation in the number OF
highway fatalities.
Listed by states, death struck
as follows:
California, II traffic, 2 miscel.
laneous; Colorado, 2 traffic, !
misc; Florida, l traffic; Geor.
gia, / traffic; Illinois, traffic.
2 misc; Iowa. l traffic; louisa.
ma, l traffic, l misc; Maryland,
traffic; Massachusetts,, 2 traffic.
l misc; Michigan, traffic, E
misc; Minnesota, traffic.
Missouri, 4 traffic, 1 misc.
New Jersey, 2 traffic, l misc.
New Mexico, l traffic; New York.
traffic, 6 misc; Pennsylvania,
2 traffic, l misc: Ttxas, l traf-
fic; Utah. l traffic; Virginia,
traffic; Washington, 4 traffic;
Wisconsin,, l traffic.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-02

The magazine said the capitu.
lation of Italy was "a smashing
blow to the Axis and "that is
why the Germans are advertising
now with greater fervency the
unchangeability of Japanese-Ger.
man relations and shouting that
Germany and Japan will be to.
gether to the end"
The article recalled that ga.
pan never has been a vassal Of
Hitlerite Germany" but her "as-
gressive plans pushed Japan into.
rapproachment with Hitherto inn
perialisrn.' &
After the fall Of France, the
article continued, Japan made
the mistake In deciding that the
Continued on Page Two, Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-02

Two hours after Stedman Hall
Carr, prominent Wallace merchant
and civic leader, died at 9:35 o.
clock yesterday morning in James
Walker Memorial hospital from a
buckshot wound received Friday
afternoon, Richard Setter, 2O-year
old Willard youth, had confessed
TO investigating officers at Wal
lace that he helped plan the rob
berry and Staying of Carr, Sheriff
j. 7. Brown, Of Fender county,
said
Setter signed written COMES
sion, after be was confronted with
testimony made in his presence by
Raymond Piner, his 11-year-old
brother-in-law, implcating him as
one Of the slayers. the sheriff
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-02
INCREASE IN JAP
PRODUCTION SEEN
By STERLING F. GREEN

WASHINGTON, Jan. l. Up -
The judgment that 1.-THE German
economy cannot possibly be ex-
banded to meet the increasing
strength and pressure of the Unit
ed Nations in 1914" was made
public today by the Foreign Econ
omic Administration.
Japan, on the other hand, I'm
doubtedly will be able to boost
her production of nearly all kinds
of arms in 1914, even though a
poverty of shipping handicaps her
exploitation of captured territory,
the FEA report said.
If left in possession Of her con-
quests for 20 or 80 years, it was
stated, Japan Knight easily reach
the first rank of industrial ma
tons" A collapse of Germany
would not affect directly the Jap
anese economy, it was held, since
Japan already is almost wholly
sef-sufficient.
The findings were prepared by
William T. Stone, director of
FEA's special areas branch, which
handles economic warfare analys-
is.
AS summarized by FEA, Stone S
conclusions were:
Germany - ''German-dominated
Europe is now producing war ma
terials adequate to prolonged
war of defense against Allied Of
fensives of the present magnitude.
While economic strains will doubt
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-02

WASHINGTON. Jan. 1.-R
President Roosevelt and Sec
rotary Of Wal Stimson empha-
sized the iInjninence of great
United Nations offensives in
New Year statements today.
The chief executive also said
the Allies are giving atten-
ton now 10 post war allevia-
ton Of unemployment and
other forms of economic and
social distress.
Still cUnfin, d to his bed with
a slight attaLk Of grippe, al
though reported as making
satisfactory progress, the
president declared in a state
ment:
"Our armed forces are gath
ering for new and greater as
saults which will bring about
the downfall of the Axis ag-
gressors."
From his war department Of
flee, Secretary Sttmson releas-
ed a prOnOuncemert that 1--WE
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-02
CANADIANS ADVANCE
Raiders Demolish Impor.
tant Rail, Road Bridge
Behind Nazi Lines

ALLIED HEADQUAR-
TIERS, Algiers, Jan. 1-F-
American Fifth Army troops,
fighting in driving icy rains
for control of the Casino
road to Rome in the jagged
hills east of San Vittorio,
have seized three more
heights, it was announced to-
day, and the Canadian spear
head on the Adriatic coast
has driven another mile to-
ward Pescara.
Headquarters also announc-
ed that British raiders who
penetrated behind the Ger
man lines at the mouth of
the Garigliano river Wednes-
day night had demolished an
important railway and high
way bridge which would have
served the enemy for a retreat
to the Appian Way a few hundred
yards north of the river.
The commando tactics of the
British inflicted a number of cas-
ualties on the Germans and re-
suited in the capture of prisoners
who were brought back to the
Fifth Army.
Few Details
The communique called it a
daring raid" The headquarters
of Gen. Sir Harold Alexander, Al
lied commander in Italy, gave no
] further details.
/ The p1odding advances by the
Americans and Canadians were
made despite defiant German res
istance and almost intolerable
physical conditions. Miserable
weather begged the drive on the
ground and kept most Allied
planes out of the air.
The positions taken by the
Americans placed them about two
miles southwest of Viticuso and ap-
proXimately half a dozen miles
from Casino, the important road
junction 70 miles from Rome.
The status of ruined San Vito
rio. whose underground wine cell
lars have been used by the Ger
mans to turn the village into a
veritable hedgehog. remained in
doubt and Allied headquarters had
no confirmation of the capture of
heavily fortified position at the
base of Mt. Samucro although
the Bari radio, controlled by the
government of Marshal Badoglio,
announced yesterday it had been
taken by the Americans.
Artillery fire demolished virtual
ly every building in the German
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