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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-19
HurlS NO-Hit
Game Again

Don Christ. shorts toe X Y
pitcher for Lincoln Park IL the
1nter-County League, pitched
his second straight no-hlt game
in banking Inkster yester-
day. 20.
Last Sunday he allowed only
one runner TO reach base, ves-
terday two made first on a walk
and error. He famed ID.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-19
LIONS SCORE LATE

Detroits only touchdown came
with two and one-half minutes TO
play. Sinkwich passed into the
clear 10 Art Van Tone and the
play pass and run. was good for
43 yards.
The Lions were penalized a to-
tai Of 135 yards and had four
passes intercepted.
Picked as the team of the year
in the East, not excepting Sammy
BauGh and the Washington Red
skins. the Eagles found the Lion
exhibition costly. Vic Sears. 225-
pound tackle. broke a leg and AL
Wistert. former Michigan tackle,
suffered a shoulder injury
The Lions came out of the fray
with only injured pride.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-19
No. s Masked Mailman

No. 6 Of the masked mailman
tribe will be introduced 10 local
wrestling fans tomorrow night at
Fairview Gardens when match
maker Harry light trotS ut an
unknown wrestler 10 meet Tiger
Jack Moore. The bout is one of
three matches which make up the
card for the Bert Ruby-Kid Chap
man Junior heavy title bout.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-19
v. M. Has a Boy

Rifenburg is big, fast and
speedy. He is the kind of end thar
you can lead with the football. II
II is anywhere near him. he looks
like the type who will nail II, .
la Hutson. and be on his way.
Like most other teams this Sea-
son. Michigan will be weak AT sew
eral positions. But IL looks like
the kind of team that will be
interesting TO watch, win. lose or
draw.
Any football team is interesting
that has threat 10 hurl at the
enemy Rifenburg definitely Ats
this bill
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-19

Gentry has now won 10 games
and lost IL. Overmire, only
Tiger pitcher other than Trout
and NewhouSer To he even or
better, now has chalked up IL
wins against IL defeats for the
year.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-19
Averages 195
For 100 Games

How 10 Become Tired f. m
Bowling might be the title of a
book Richard Healy, Is, Of 2445
Longfellow could write today if
he were so inclinded and lis la
status not a holdback.
Healy spent IL hours and seven
minutes at Dexter Retreats n,
where he is a cashier. rolling 100
games and averaging 1920 a
possible worlds record for such
exertion Fifteen minutes were
taken out TO eat two sandwiches
and change socks.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-19
Detroiters Win ;
Cupboard Crowns

Chuck Thompson NJ Detroit
won leading honorS IN he final
cupboard regatta a. Belle Isle
yesterday finishing first IN Class
A competition
Two other Dctroiters. Howard
Barrett and Chuck Wcymc.r.
topped the field In Gas, p and
service runabout. respectweiy.
Lew Cooper Pontiac, wou The
Class { title and Ton Farper,
Miami, led the racing runabout
cla6A
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-19
Lions Woefu|

Nv BOB MURPHY.

Without fear Of contradiction,
II can be reported that this years
Detroit Lions football team is
hound 70 improve over the per-
Torrance turned in against the
Philadelphia Eagles yesterday
afternoon AZ L. Of D. Stadium
before a crowd OF 1902
Playing without the services Of
Bullet Bob Westfall, former Uni
versity Of Michigan All-America.
the Lions made more mistakes
than Hitler's retreating hordes as
the powerful Eagles won, u 10 Z.
Westfall was not allowed 10
play because Of a l04 tempera-
ture. But il is doubtful if Bullet
Boh's temperature was half as
high as Coach Dorais AT the end
of the session.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-19

achieved the
feat and the
historians 10 60
back 81 years
10 make that
q isc oN er V.
George Mullin.
in 1872 pitched
A not-hit game
az nst the
Browns T h .
& a m . " a 6
pitch ed the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-19
.aI|y Smith Takes
Hin(rest Open Title

A five-under-part IS and a u
for a 1877 total gave Wally Smith.
Sylvan Glen golfer. the Hillcrest
Open championship yesterday
Art Pony. State Publinx cham
pion. was second with 142, while
Jay Law and Robert Melville tied
for third with LIS.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-19

>
Even IL the
Yankees do not
win the PEN
nant, they def
nitely are in a
position TO de-
eide this years
winner.
They take on
the Tigers three
z a m es h ere
starting tonor-
row. There is
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-19

BOudreau likes the Tiger
chances because OF the schedule.
Finishing with Philadelphia
and Washington while the
Browns battle the Yankees and
Red Sox. should help the
Tigers" the Cleveland pilot
suggested
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-19
Connie WisneUski:

OF Detroit. pitched a 10 0,
victory for Mil waukee over
KenoSha. TO enable the Chicks to
win the All-American girls pro
baseball championship. The vic
tory was Comics third in the
SeVcn-game series.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-19
WILD AT TIMES

Though pitching hitless ball for
eight of the nine heats. Gentry,
because OF wildness, on occasions
found himself in trouble He
walked six. but his mates played
sterling ball behind him. Jimmy
Outlaw and Dick Wakefield gave
the young finger special help.
the former making a half-dozen
nice catches and Wakefield once
making leaping one-handed
catch with his back 10 the left
field stands. a near home run by
Seery.
Incidentally. Wakefield paced
the Tiger batters with three hits.
one of them a two-bagger which
in the second inning scored Rudy
York with one of the Detroit
clubs trio OF markers
Doc Cramer bagged two singles
TO run 10 Is the string of games
in which he has hit safely
The wildneSs Of Ed Kleman.
who pitched seven innings against
DCliOlt III Ailt SttOllu kdilltt
accounted for two Of the Tigers
markers. Klieman walked three
men and hit another with a
pitched ball. forcing home one Of
the two TALES. The other came
on an infield out Joe Heving
pitched the last two heats.
For seven innings IN the FIRST
encounter. Overmire held the
Indians 10 two scratch hits. one
by Rocco and the other by RoSar.
Then came a triple by Myril Hoag
in the eighth, but the Cleve-
landerS still had no runs
They scored their two counters
off Stubby in the ninth, punching
three hits, two of them two
baggers.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-19

YESTERDAYS RESULTS
Chicago IA. 81 Louis III.
Boston Ia. Brooklyn OF
Philadelphia rs, New Yort o.
PittsbBrEh I'll. Cincinnati al tseeon6
game, 10 inninrsl.
TODAT's GAME
Brookivn At BOSTON.
Only tame scheduled.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-19
Overmire, Gentry Deliver, Tigers in First
Tribe Whipped, H. 30;
Rufus Misses No-Hitter
BY LEO MACDONELL

Atop the American League and headed for what they
believe will be another pennant for Detroit the triumphant
Tigers home today from Cleveland singing the praises
of Frank Stubby Overmire and Rufus Gentry the
sters who pitched them to the heights
The Tigers roared into first place yesterday in Ceve-
lands giant Municipal Stadium when behind the superb
pitching of Oveme and Gentry they swept both ends of
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-19
Top Of the Heap
FIRST GAME

Detroit lOl oil 2of-7
Cleveland 600 600 O02-2
Runs-Crsmer Higgins 2 York Wakefield.
Richards Boudrcau. kctner ErrorS-Hoover
Mack Runs batted ln-York 3 Wakeneld
Richards Overmire Keltner Mack Two
base hits-Cramcr York Higgins. keltner,
Mack Threc-basc hitS-YOrk Hoag. stolen
haSes-Richards Double plays-Boudreau TO
Rocco Ovefmire 90 Mayo 20 York Left on
nasc-Detroit q Cleveland Z. Base on balls
orr Ovcrmirc l. on Smith on Post
Hrs-OH smith 10 m Is Ia innings off
Posf In J p innings OF Hcvng in
inning WIZ Ditch-Overmire Losing pitcher
-SHetti.-ttr-rrtrrS= tones Hubbard and Berry
Time of game So Attendance--20. 600.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-19
Bob Tales
Like Old Times
With Yonks in Town
BY BOB MURPHY
Sports Editor

It's like old times around the
village today.
The Tigers are riding the toy
of the American League heaR
And their arch rivals OF other
years are due to move in tonight.
Yes. the Yankees are coming
and you can be sure, as always.
they'll have every gun ready for
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-19

Substitutes rhiladslphia-EndS r Miller
Durko Hober Yovicsin, tackles Kiroy Fried
man guards Bsnducci. Msndsrino. Maronic.
centerS. LindskoR Eden ToSi backs. JArvt,
MacioUc1Y. Mako sherman
Detroit-Ends Clark Blessing Uvenni,
tackles Summe Kennedy. Opalewskl guards.
y. Miller Lilies. Sirochman. center, RoStek.
backs Lowther. keene. Trebotion.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-19

no neeu 10 Sug- sTUBBY ovERhIRE
gest the Importance Of this series.
And then, in the very final series
of the year, the Yanks will be In
St. Louis battling the Browns.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-19
NeWhOuSer to Get
LIST Crack at YankS

continued his sensational hitting.
He has now hit safely in Is
straight games. in which he col
lected SO hits in 50 official times
at bat, for an average Of nearly
500.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-19

won four games 10 every one they
lost hut big majority OF the
touchdowns were scored on the
ground. In those seven years
Michigan has been without an
outstanding passer.
GOOD PITCHING
The two touchdowns the VOL
verines scored TO beat the Iowa
Seahawks Saturday were on the
6ulfigan 70 Rifenburg wave
length. Both were excellent
throws. and when Dick Rifenburg
gathered in the ball he was away
like a streak. leaving the defend
ers far behind
The Saginaw boy has height,
speed and a grand pair Of hands
On top of that. in the first game
he showed he is competitor
who does his best in games.
Michigan's line shaped up bet
ter than expected. On defense
they held their own against what
is likely 10 be the biggest and
toughest forward line they'll face
all year
All in all il was a most salts
factory opener for Michigan.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-19
Culligan-fO-Rifenburg
Ms Newest Threat
By EDGAR HAYES

ANN ARBOR Sept 18-Cullgan Rifenhurg Michigan
passing with well organized
game of Coach Fritz Crser
In the Crser has been directing the football Of
They
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-19

With Gentry pitching hitless
and scoreless ball II looked funny
TO see Trout and Newhouser
working out in the bullpen APP
parently O'Neill was taking no
chances.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-19
STCoND GAME

T0faTF 10 = p T0f8TF II II I 3
y tB4f'ed fnr Mack ln fourth
Battef foI Kueman In seventh
DETROIT l0i0 600 7oo--2
Cleveland VOC 600 5000
Ruus-Y1.F outlaw swift Runs bstied
iu-Mayo Wakefield Gentry Two-base hits
wakefield swift KcItncr Sacrifice hits
OUTLAW SECRECY swift Mayo Double ptays-
Boudreau 90 Mack 20 Rocco Boudreau 70
Peters 20 Rocco. Hoover % Mayo 10 York
Left on hascs-Detr6it 10 Cleveland
Bases on baIis-On Gentry 6, of Klieman
4 OF He,Ing > STRUCK Out-By Gentry
HtsZOff Kiie~sn S IN innings of Heving
tn innings Hit ~ nitcher--By klisman
Hoover Losing pitcher Klisman Umpires
Hubbard Jones tnd Berry. Tine Of Eame-
a. Attondsuce-20 2r5.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-19
A-4 FairviieWS
Win Times
Softba|| Meet

-FsiFvie~>- eitr1axed per-
feet season yesterday winning
the Detroit Times Carrier Soft
ball League city championship,
and ending the season indicated.
The Fairviews defeated J-2
Terrors in two straight games 10
capture the Detroit championship
and win the right to oppose
Chicagos champions here next
weekend in the first of series
10 determine The winner of the
William Randolph Hearst Middle
western States softbail award
The Fairviews defeated the
Terrors Saturday, Az, in the
first of the games for the city
title. Yesterday at Northwestern
Field. before a crowd of several
hundred fans, they again played
championship ball TO defeat the
west side champions, 1912.
WON 'EM ALL
The victory yesterday kept the
Fairviews in the indicated col
umn. They won all district
league games, won the A district
championship. the Eastside cham
pionship, and finally the City
championship.
Little Harry DAM, Fairview
hurler, had the advantage of fine
team play behind him as he
lobbed in his offerings in the
payoff game. Ronald SilSbec. the
losing pitcher, was much better
than the l0-2 score indicated. but
his team blew up in the third and
never quite recuperated.
Chicagos champions will arrive
here next Thursday night to meet
the Fairviews in Mack Park Fri
day The Detroit Times has
arranged an elaborate entertain
ment program for the visitors,
who will be kept busy during
their three-day stay here
The Detroit Times All.Stars
Will oppose the Chicago All-Stars
in the opening game in Mack
Park next Friday al Z p. m. to
open the intercity series. The
Detroit champs and Chicago's
champs will play at 9 p. m
The public is invited TO attend
all the Detroit games in Mack
Park as guests Of The Detroit
Times. There will be no admis-
sion charge.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-19

With nine hits in the four games
in Cleveland, the veteran Cramer
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-19
Lions-EaeIes
Statistics


Scoring. Touchdowns-Bleeker 2 Banta
sherman fSub for Zimmerman Van Tone
Points after observation-disclosures g. Sink
vich all ny placement.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-19

uOuDle-nedueT from the III
dams, 7 to 2 and 3 to 0, as
the Browns split with the
White Sox and the Yankees
absorbed a double licking at the
hands of the lowly Athletics.
FIRST TIME ON TOP
II is the first time the Tigers
have been in the top spot this
season, and marks great drive
which started in the middle
of August. during which Steve
O'Neilfs inspired athletes bagged
II of their last 2S games.
A crowd OF 20,275, including
several hundred noisy fans from
Detroit. saw the Tigers crush the
Indians in the final games Of the
season between the two clubs.
In the season series between them,
the Tigers won II, the Indians 10
With their twin triumph. the
Tigers bagged three out OF four
games in the important set.
SPOILED IN NINTH
After Overmire had turned in
a fine six-hit performance while
the squat left-hander's teammates
blasted AL Smith. also southpaw
TO start the afternoon ausplciously
for the Tigers. the right handed
Gentry in the nightcap came close
10 pitching a no-hitter with a
mastery two-hit job.
Turning back bewildered In
dams with blazing fast ball and
a battling curve. Gentry for eight
innings pitched hitless ball, But
with only three otis 70 20. the
boy from WinSton-Salem faltered
Just enough 10 yield his pair OF
hits, one OF them a feeble feat
Lou Boudreau. the boy man
ager of the Indians, got the first
OF the brace of hits when he
punched a grounder through the
pitchers box. Joe Hoover made
nice stop near second but missed
the runner at first by hair
breadth After Pat Secrecy hit
into double play. Ken Keltner
came through with the second
hit, a two-bagger 10 right center
The game ended when Buddy
Rosar grounded TO Hoover.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-01-07
.26 Cadets
Killed in
Accident

KINGMAN, Ariz.. Jan. 7-lP,
- TWenty-seven soldiers were
killed and eight critically in
jured in the collision of King
man army air base bus and a
Santa Fee freight train at the en-
trance TO the gunnery school
about 9 o'clock last night.
The air base public relations
officers said all OF the dead but
one were aviation cadets who
had been on night gunnery
mission at range across the
railroad tracks from the base.
Army officials said c. l..
Hickey. Needles. Calf. engineer
Of the freight, said that his train
was going at the usual speed Of
about As miles an hour when
he saw the flagman at the cross
ing wave down the bus.
Hickey was quoted by the
public relations office as saying
the bus appeared to stop and
then went out of control.
Bodies and wreckage OF the
bus were scattered for about 100
feet along the railroad right-of-
way. The bus was carrying So
passengers
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-01-07
Postwar
Program
Studied

With cities villages and town
ships throughout Nj a { o m b
County setting their sights on
pos,-war developments, the dor
mant Macomb County Planning
Commission. created in Dec. 1871,
held its first meeting III nearly
two years Thursday. and cleared
the decks for considerable action
in the near future.
The group, under chairman p.
X. McWethy, former county en-
ginecr. is composed of supervis-
ors and municipal officials APP
pointed by the Board of Super
visors.
OF itself, the county planning
board will not plan or submit
projects for postwar develop
inent, but viii help coordinate
the county program. and pro-
vide assistance TO various Units
This line OF action was dictated
by the State Planning Commits
sion when il conceived the
county board sct-up two years
ago The state group has indi-
Sec POST-WAk-Page 2
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See Overnight
Development Of
New Community

A colossal development plan
which might result in the over
night establishment of a city
of $4,000 to $4,000 persons, liv-
ing in 10000 homes southwest
of Mount Clemens, is the latest
post war suggestion to come
from Detroits planning special
lists.
The establishment OF five such
communities, near Mount Glenn
ems, Birmingham. Plymouth,
Inkster and Belleville is the
adopted program of the War
Policy Committee of the UAW-
CLIO, and has been submitted to
the Detroit Common Council
and the City Planning Commits
sion.
The progressive plan would
require special legislation for its
development. and Mayor Ed
ward j. Jeffries instructed the
See EXPANSION-Page 2
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Burned-Out,
emily Of Is,
Finds Home

Rendered homeless. and with
out vestige of clothing or fur
niture when fire completed
RACED their home yesterday, two
Warren Township parents, their
widowed daughter and Is. chill
dren living at home, at noon to-
day smiled hopefully after "a
hours of despair, when sizea-
bl federal project home was
found for them in Detroit.
Separated from many OF her
Is children at home (the 14th
is with the Army Air Forces),
Mrs. Ruth Miller, Al, this after
noon told a Monitor-Leader re-
porter the comparatively joyful
news she had just received by
telephone from her husband,
William, A.:
THE Good Neighbors have
found us Federal project
home, and we move in Jan. IL,
my husband just told me. Thank
God for this help-because how
were we going TO ask any land
lord for a house and tell him
See FIRE-Page 2
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YugosIayia
Invaded, Press
Despatch Says
Uneonfirmed Story
Of Landings Cites
Allied Move

LONDON, Jan. 7 - fP1
Roundabout reports reached
Stockholm today that Allied
specialist troops had landed at
several strategic points on the
coast of Yugosiavia.
Meanwhile dispatches FIR m
Allied headquarters in Algiers
called completely erroneous" a
report that crack Allied divi-
Sions had landed in Yugoslavia.
This account was carried by
Reuters. quoting the Stock
holms- Tidningen. which in turn
was said to have credited it's
information TO reports from Ia
greb. capital of puppet Croatia.
qualified but unofficial source
i London said the report prob
ably was planted by the Ger
mans as feeler."
The story that Allied special
lists had reached Yugoslavia also
was roundabout, reaching Stock
holm from Zagreb by way Of
budapest. and likewise must be
considered with reservations.
These 'eports gave no mdica-
ton of the size of the forces or
whether they were American or
British, but American and Brit
ish officers and liaison missions
have been reported active with
YugoSlav guerrillas for several
weeks. Some of these apparent
~ are supply officers.
The Reuters dispatch from
Stockholm said the Americans
and British were engaged in
heavy fighting with Germans
a n d Ustachis (Croat puppet
troops.
Zurich c.spatches to London
yesterday said Zagreb residents
were suffering from invasion
nerves and mentioned report
circulating in the Croat capital
that strong ut.-ts Of the British
First and American Seventh ar.
ilies neither of viii h has
been engaged in active fighting
as a whole since the invasion Of
Italy were concentrating on
the Italian east coast at Bari for
Balkan invasion. II.
One highly placed British OBJ
server said. however, that there
undoubtedly was considerable
passage of Allied officers across
the Adriatic as part of the close
liaison with Marshal Josip Broz
(Tito) but discounted the idea
that there had been any troop
landings IN force.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-01-07
Allies Menace
Big Jap Base
al Madang
Fierce Jungle
Fighting Continues
on New Britoin
BY MORRIE LANDSBERG
Associated Press War Editor

Allied troops moved menac-
ingly toward the Japanese base
Of Madang on the north coast &C
New Guinea today as American
Marines across the Vitiaz Straits
counted 600 more enemy dead
in fierce jungle fighting at Cape
Gloucester, New Britain.
Striking at other Nipponese
positions in the Bismarck archi-
pelago they once dominated, the
third carrier-plane attack on
Kavieng, New Ireland, since Dec.
5 damaged two Japanese de-
stroyers and wiped out 10 planes.
An additional 10 enemy aircraft
were shot down in a continuation
Of almost daily fighter sweeps
over Rabaul, New Britain.
A possible hint that a mighty
air offensive may be unleashed
against Japan's capital was
thrown out in Los Angeles by
Adm. William F. Halsey, COM
mander of South Pacific forces,
who has returned TO the main
land for war conferences. When
American troops get to where
Tokyo now stands, he said, there
will be "a little celebration
where Tokyo was.
DUAL THRUSTS
American and Australian sol
diers, in separate drives toward
the same goal, scored ground
gains in the direction of the
Madang area, where Allied
bonn oers left a Acton load of ex-
plosives Wednesday afternoon in
one of the heaviest single raids
in the Southwest Pacific.
The Berlin radio broadcast a
See PACIFIC-Page 2
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BY WILLIAM +. LOWELL

WASHINGTON. Jan. 7-lP)
- In one japanese prisoner
camp where LIZA American SOL
diers are informed. There has
been no mail since May 1912.
But the International Red
Cross, reporting on the visits of
its representatives to this and
two other camps, describes con-
ditions as satisfactory"
The reports were made public
today by Senator Thomas Cd
Utah) chairman of special
Senate committee on war pris-
oner treatment. to whom they
were sent by Secretary. Of War
Stimson.
Undoubtedly" said the sec
rotary. 1.-The camps reported on
- are show camps. Never
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-01-07
Buqas Classified IA
for SeIetiive Service

DETROIT. Jan. 7-(P-John:
5. Bugas, agent in charge of the
Detroit office of the Federal Bur-
eau of Investigation, has been
classified IA by Draft Board 3D..
Board members said the Federal
government waived the right to
ask an occupational deferment.
Bugas, who is IS and has two
daughters, recently announced
he planned to accept a position
with the Ford Motor company.
but his resignation has not yet
taken effect.