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NEWS,
FEATURES
[tems
THE MIRROR reports that Geo.
Washington postponed his Farewell
Address for four years. That's just
what the Republican have bee!
complaining about F. D. R
INCIDENTALLY, the split in the
Democratic Party is the best new
the Republicans bhave had since
Roosevelt had the fh Fen an ele
paant can't put up a good front
when his trunk has been delivered
to another address
NEW YORK race tracks pald $19, -
306.142 to the State in 1943 taxes
I merely say this for the record so
you fellow $2.00 contributors would
net feel so lonesome
SCIENCE has just come to the
conclusion that 23 vears has begh
added to the life of the average man
in the last 50 vears. I thought it
just felt that way!
YOU KNOW what
ns? It is a man v
©
average
he
ai
ho thinks
GERMAN authorities in Paris an-
nounced that pro-Nazi Frenchmen
will be permitted to carry guns
Which will have DeGaul's whole-
hearted cooperation, He'll do every-
thing in his power to see that the
traitors use the pistols-—on them-
selves.
DUE to the shortage of sugar,
there'll be no peppermint sticks
adorning Christinas trees this Yale.
tide, This a"
suckers anywa;.
WITH the ice
even difficult for a columnist to get
scoops!
QNE of the q
}
uestions the world is
asking ils when will the Japs start
an offensive against Russia. All I
can predict is that the longer the
Japs are around, the more offensive
they get!
A WHITE Sulphur Springs wom-
an had some tools stolen and ad-
verlised for
the balance—that he couldn't do a
gocd job without them. Like the guy
who lost one diamond cuff bygiton
and advertised: “Will you buy or
sell the other!”
THE GERMANS prohibited any
display of flags in Holland when
Italy capitulated. But the Holland-
ers, to show their joy. displayed
flagless poles from windows, roof-
tops, etc. Ang if there's anything a
Nazi hates worse than a flag, it is a
Pole!
A SALT LAKE CITY man sued
for divorce because his wife left him
to go with a circus, She probably got
tired of living with him and just
working for peanuts.
ODD AND
CURIOUS
Package Tor Tojo
Ousewiie ur
i Christmas
New Haver
1
*
aa
ought a gaily-be-
package to a gro-
Conn. Attached
3g card, which
¢ sons of Nippon.
their ancestors with
The peckage con-
alvage
“Am
a
rr gre
Arg :
5 a
said: “"Here'
May
t
th
tained a three-pound can of
kitchen fat. It igned,
can Housewils.
v meet
Pa
i: cn
boots cd
i=
was
Beneficial
Krause, manage: 8
the Lions Club &
1 “shoes a
J. WwW hoe
factory. spoke to
Boonville, Mo i
benefits of wall
meeting afoot;
his car while Le talke«
va
IN
id td
t the
stolen
n
i
SOmect
Good-Deed Dept.
Mrs. Louis Schor, of Los Angeles,
expectant moiher, sprained her an-
kle. A bystander, Mrs. Laura Swartz,
offered to drive her to a doctor, and
she was lifted into the car. En route,
the driver sald, “your car has good
brokes.” “Heavens,” cried the pas-
senger, “this isn't my car, I thought
it wag yours."
DIES AS CAR OVERTURNS
Robert Sebastian, 17.
Gap, near Shamokin, was instantly
killed when his automobile went out
of control. ran up an embankment
and overturned. He was catapulted
from the car, and died of a depress-
ed fractured of the skull and inter-
nal Injuries. His left arm was torn
from the shoulder socket,
a popular year for}
vi
thief to return for|
{10 year members at
VOLUME 62.
BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1943.
NUMBER 50.
IS
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Santa's Recla
mation Center
‘Clinton County Man Has Miraculous Escape
From Serious Inju
ry In Crossing Ac-
cident at Lock Haven
Fallure
train from
the tracks
LO s8¢
the
the approach of a
east as he drove onto
of the Teachers’ College
railroad crossing in Lock Haven on
| Friday evening, George W. Englert
60, Sugar Run, Clinten county farm-
escaped serious injury when hi
struck demolished
he escaped without being
considered miraculous,
} was almost literally wrap-
ped around one of the light signal
| posts at the crossing. Persons on the
scene just after the impact found
pr
was and
| CAr
} How
| killed is
nis
for
car
{him seated behind the wheel of the north
{ demolished vehicle, with brush burn:
Soldier Admits
He Killed Child
|
cream so acute, it is| Sunbury Mess Sergeant Quot- face and left shoulder, a cut behind
ed as Admitting Rape
and Slaying
| Staff Sgt. Frank Martz, of Sun-
bury, stationed at Fort Logan, Colo,
is reported by police to have broken
down after prolonged questioning
and confessed to th
{four-year-old Kathleen Ann Geist
| Martz is quoted to have said that
a fantastic pulp-wood story about
vampires had “confused his mind”
and led him to lure the child to hi:
apartment where he ravished and
(killed her.
{| In his signed statement
said: “Since I have had time
think over events, I can now
positively that I remember taking
the girl into my room and closing
the door . 1 remember striking
her, choking her and beating her,
and tearing off her clothes.”
The child's body was found
fed beneath a sink in Martz's apa
ment.
| SRRR———
‘Credit Association
Plans Two Meetings
|
|
to
T3154
Svla~
te
.
t a regular meeting held Decem~
tion selected dates for the annual
meeting of the association, to be
held In two sections for the cone
ivenience of members attending from
tthe 6-00
!
unty area served by the or-
ganization. The first section of the
meeting will be held at the Mor-
rison Cove High School near Mar-
tinsbu Blair county, on Tuesday,
Jan v 11, 1044 at 10 2a. m._ A
ond section will be held at the lo-
gan Grange Hall at Pleasant Gap,
on Thursday, January 13, 1044
p. m.
! The annual meeting t
be in the nature of a 10th anniver-
{ vy celebration recognition of
_—
Sal)
vor
La
"Re
his year will
in
al
the completion of 10 years of short]
term credit service to farmers by
the local Production Credit Associa-
tion. Organized as a Farmers' Co-
operative on January 4. 1834, the as-
sociation has progressed year
and now has over 500 farmer-mem-
bers, Thirty-nine member; who be-
came affiliated with the organization
in 1934 will be especially honored as
the anniversary
each
imeetling In January.
FIRE DESTROYS MEAT
A butcher Louse belonging to
Samuel] Kline at Selinsgrove, pr
destroved by fire. the loss of $2.000
including the building, meat, lard,
tools and equipment. The building
i
'
of Locust also contained 1.000 feet of lumber, | radio sets.
stored there by the owner
WILL REPAIR BRIDGE
The lower bridge over Fishing
Creek at Mill Hall will be closed to
all traffic starting this week, until a
new floor has been laid, the County
{ Commissioners report.
rem——
HISTORY OF SCOTIA
By Harry M. Williams
Practical jokes and accidents had
their innings in the early days of took them by surprise by showing | trance about 9 o'clock in the morn- |
Scotia, and some of them are re-
{house and when they arrived he
ithem a revolver. One of the men
e rape death of |
|
Martz
state)
jof Tecate In San Diego county,
/ ‘fornia.
tber 8th, the directors of the Holli-|
idaysburg Production Credit Associa. members of the grey of tix
8
. [tomato patch of the Brouse fann at
women's corsets of
{lose part of that old corset?” and
| Mrs. Byrd, Brouse decided the piece
viewed this week in the latest in- started to run but was told that it
stallment of Harry M. Williams’ his- | wasn't loaded, he needn't be afraid.
tory of that now-abandoned com-|Baxion warned the would-be trouble
munity. Mr. Williams is one of the makers not to come back and try
few residents of the Scotia area at
this time, having returned to that
area several years ago after a long
residence in Beilefonte,
His history continues:
What seemed to be the most im-
portant thing of all in washing ore
was water, and this wag saved
wherever possible. A pump was in-
stalled at the breast of the mud
dam just east of the railroad sta-
tion, a sump hole was dug to col-
lect the water that ran over the!
dam and a ten-inch cat iron pipe
wis placed from the water tanks to
this pump and the water was pump-
ed back into the tanks with a large
steam pump.
A man was stationed there to
take care of the pump, Willlam G.
Saxion tells us that he had been
their trickz any more.
Many other tricks were played
around the works especially when
imen were working at night, Such
{tricks as fastening the door of a
{shanty and smoking the occupant
lout by lighting a plece of old greasy
waste, were popular when g E
{was sleeping, Other tricks were to
ite or strap a man to a bench and!
{then holler to try to scare him and
see him try to get up. These tricks,
of course, all went with the day's
work,
We may tell you here thet ail-
though the town was called Scotia,
the postoffice was Benore, This name
meant “mountain or ore” and we
guess it was there,
Ore washing was a continuous
thing there for approximately thirty
years. The operations started in the
summer or fall of 1881 and contin-
wed through 1811. There were some
brief shut-downs such as when a
(Continues on page Sis)
Person | were lost throughout
on his face
An ©
canned ¢
injury
Iuding
mmciuding
red near the
rder
wne
proaching
pact
against
damaged to
the
standing
l aw
reported by people
hat a traln wa
¢e crossing when
ind looked to the r
to look to the lef
de the moving tra
on
i
{eed
4 4
t on
was
falied
{
"
in
i
i
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t
oming, « then went to cross the
track:
i Mr. Engl
bulance
was treated
Driver Overcome
By Gas Fumes
Car of Howard R. D. 1 Man
Strikes Another Vehicle
on Street
was removed by am-
hospital, where he
brush burns of the|
the
for
v
it
ithe left ear and a possible fractu
the left shoulder
It was reported that
charge Mr. Englert with
stop at a railroad stop sig:
lof
i
Charics Weaver, 71. of Howard. It
1. was partially overcome by
fumes Wednesday of last week
Mystery of Fall as a result his car struck the
owned by Mr
Lock Haven, which was parked
Church street and Fallon alley
Weaver was taken to the
Haven Hospital but refused to go
to bed and was taken to police
headquarters while a patrolman n
tified his family.
Police say Mr. Weaver was par-
tially overcome by the gag fumes 2
he drove east on Church street, an
when he pulled to the curb prepar
atory to parking, hic car hit the
Kenaman automobile.
This was the second accident
Kensman car in two days
previous Monday afternoon the
car, parked in the same spot, was
{struck by vehicle operated
by Mrs E. Peddigree of
Swinsvale
{D
¥
cas
Wife of Dead Pilot Stated
Husband Making Repairs
to Radio
{From the Selinsgrove Times)
First detailed information
the manner of the death
class pilot and Coast Guard radio-
man Carrol Rex Byrd was received
this week by Mr, and Mrs. Arthur
F. Brouse, owners of the Kratzer-
ville section farm to which the sol-
lier fell to his death from an alr-
plane the afternoon of Seplember
1
to
of
fipst
nr
¥
a
for
On
the
the
bd
. another
Doroth
i
i
The revelation was contained in a
leller the Brouses received from the
idead flier's widow, Mrs, Cona Byrd, |
Cal-| .. a
Missi
Mrs. Byrd's missive advised that]
wont}
bound plane stated her husband had
crawled from the interior of the ship
to repair a radio antenna, The men |
inside the ship reported they did
not ascertain thal Byrd was miss.
ing until 20 minute after he had
started on his hazardous way outside
the airplane
t lack of
$s t af
stant ol
-m
v
onary Candidate
to Speak in Churches
¥
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Tha
tHe
12035
nowiedge of 1
occurrence woul
sirange
on its course
to Ceath
at
account
ance of the
Byrd's body
’
(SHA
OT
wii eyes
t conlinu- |
111 |
ship |
fell in the
iia
Elizabeth H., Sheelz
iss Elimabeth; H. Sheets, daugh-
ter of the Rev. and Mrs. L. ¥. Sheetz
of Milesburg, who recently graduat-
ed from the missionary course of ths
Moody Bible Institute of
will speak in a number of churches
during December and January, The
first meeting will be in the House:-
ville United Brethren church on
{Bunday evening December 180 at
7:30, Other meetings will be as fol-
lows: in the Monument Church of
Christ on Tuesday evening, Dec, 28
Brouse’s school house,
Kratzerville and
way to the south
While Brouse was working in that
field the other day he found a plece
thin metal abot a half-inch
iwide and a yard long. The article
resembled the whalebone, though
longer than that important part of
yesteryears, He
{called jokingly to his wife, “did youl
adjoining the
New Berlin high-
M
’
Of
{threw the piece aside
When the letter was received from
{of metal might be a part of an alr-|
iplane’s radio equipment. He recov.|
ered the strip of thin, pliable metal
iand exhibited it to persons with a
knowledge of that kind of scientific
iapparatus. They identified the part
ias one of a kind used in airplane
Christ on Wednesday evening, Dec
20 at 7:30; in the Romola Church
of Christ December 30 at 8 Pp. m.;
in the Bellefonte Evangelical church
on January 9 at 9:30 a. m., and in
{the Bellefonte United Brethren
| Mrs. Byrd stated that her husband [church on the same day ot a p
|had always been daring to the de-|M. At these meetings Miss Sheet:
gree of disregarding both rules and Will tell of the needs of the mission
his personal safety. Thus the] Continued on Page Seven)
|
and Pp
Bertha Kensman, in in a
Chicago,
at 7:30; in the Orviston Church of |
Philipsburg Man
Hurt in Accident
Benson Coble Caught in Fall
of Rock at His Coal
Mine
3, of Philipsburg, is
Phllipsburg hos-
10 the
hips and
Tuesday
midway
Lock p
GRY IMCITing was
in
working
not
discovered the
altemoon
1:30
had been
alone
Cobis
out of ti
ceeded
toward th
22s unable
was dis
0 hauls
id already worked his way
fallen rock and had suc-
crawling some 300 yard
o mouth when he
10 creep any more. Hel
by a truck driver
coal for him
we
Syd #
ariit
overed
wo
He was taken Philipsburg |
hospital in the Hope Fire Company
ambulance
1
Two Confess To
Robbing Clubs
Charged With Breaking Into
Lock Haven and Williams-
port Places
t Leon Quick, Lock Haven
» and John J. Bower, of Jer
y Shore, have confessed to police
authorities to the robbery of $200
from the Ex-Bervicemen: Club of
g Williamsport, November 23.
and the $800 robbery of the Lock
Haven Moose Club on Oct. 31
The men are about 25 3
and are in jail
flies
i you
iF 4
LFS
i
fest by
SFL
ears of age
at Clearfield, where
are charged with stealing £20
from a stare in DuBois. Bower, ac-
cording police, time at
Rockview Jy an auto-
mobile
It was
authorities
served
¢
Hs of
arceny
expected the Clearfield
would release the young
men to Lycoming county police, to]
‘have them assist in locating the re-
{volver used in the South Willlams-
port robbery and also the box which |
contained the money. Both are re- |
ported to have been thrown into the
brush near Sulphur Springs. |
The Lock Haven Moose Club rob- |
ibery wag performed about 4 a. m. |
Oct. 31. The men told police they
istole an automobile in Lock Haven |
! before entering the club and used it |
to make their getaway. At that club |
they took a cash box containing |
2400 and two machines containing |
another $400. The smashed machines |
were abandoned on the Castanea |
road as the men fled to DuBois,
i
Brouses believe that they have found
the replacement which Byrd had in-
tended to install in the airplane's
radio equipment and that the metal
was released from his grip as he fell
the several hundred feet to his
death,
History
HURT IN MINE ACCIDENT
J. Thomas Mitchell Writes
Of Bar
Evald Allberg, about 23. of Lanse,
was injured last Wednesday in an;
accident at the Pennsylvania Coal|
and Coke mine at Winburne. The
accident is said to have happened |
{about four miles from the mine en- |
In considering this period of our
history, we must continually bear
in mind that our forefathers plan
ned our government to be conduct-
ed by those who owned property, or
those who had something of a good
ing when he got his right foot education. Also, that as late as the
caught and crushed between two year of the establishment of our
cars, He was placed on a mine res- common school system. 1835, a sur-
cue stretcher and brought out bY vey had shown that scarcely five per
riding on top of a ming sar. He Was | cent of our population were educat-
{left right on the same stretcher and od. even at that time. Hence, espec-
taken to the Phi Btate hos- ally deep in the mountain regions
pital in the Hope ambu of central Pennsylvania, it is easy
-— to see why the lawyer, with a classi
WAR CASUALTIES {eal education, was Jagged upon as a
is war has already cost the lives |s0Tt of a “superman” by aver-
of a many Penn State graduates ge Hum in the early days of the last
the first
18181826; Term of Judge
officials of the Penn Charis Din
Charles Huston received his ap-
pointment in 1818, and the first Jaw-
yer admitted during his term was
Gratz Etting, formerly of the Phila-
delphia Bar. Etting was a member
of the great land owning families
of Gratz and Etting, who were also
deeply interested in the tron busi-
ness, and his appearance here was
thiefly in the interest of his fath-
World War,
active service is
SERIOUSLY BURNED
Daniel Jones, formerly of B
burg, received serious face burns re
orial meeting of the Bar, and ap-
pointed Etting as secretary of the
meeting, which seems to be the last
Sune his name appears on our recs
ords.
At Huston's first term of court
James Monks was tried for murder. |
He had shot and killeq another
white man, Gratz Etting was the
(deputy Attorney-General and Joho
Blanchard assisted him in the pros-
ecution, while for the defense ap-
peared William Norris, Thomas
Burnside and William W. Potter,
Monks was convicted and hung at a
spot near the present
ante refer to the street as “Monk's
Alley ™
The next admittance, in 1821, was
Bond Valentine, a Quaker, formerly
on Fogland
cir
|
i
1 approximately 80 miles
(I don’l have a picture righ
Increasing Reports of
Mysterious German Plan
of Attac
{WE VOTE AY}
Maybe it
nus
the Diamon 1
on England: -
door | ‘
i of
Reports Persist That Nazis Are Planning a he
Terrific Rocket Bombardment of Lon-
don Around Christmas Time
Increa
man plans
of alleged Ger-
attack
Hplomatic
ing reporu
fi mysteriou
rea
in England
One of the most persi
that the Germany
rocket bombardment
i Caristmas me
the reports
are hing «
le
tent reports
4)
are ning
terrible of
Lond C
of
wrouna
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rot
arom ak
chine
at
ale
”. 1s
Es Ea
with
doubled
within
are in-
reserve
diplomatic
treat them
’
cilned
Howe
4
Jot
it
ver that
thel:
y
ig 1
f Wayl have
i YAZIE have
power to do sc, they will resort to!
form of drastic retaliation
t Great Britain for the recent
destruction of Berlin and
leading German cities
The reports hint that the retalia-|}
England will come in
the form of a tremendous artillery
barrage highly explosive
shells from long-range rocket
mussed concrete emplacements
along the French side of the Eng-
Channel
rcles claim that these rock.
weigh up to 20
have a range of 200 kilon
about 125 miles. The distar
tween London and Southampton is
gs the crow
Channel at its
paint, is 20 miles wide
shell capable of
could be fired on London
some
agai
aerial
other
tion against
of heavy
guns
in
}
a
La
Nazi cl
shells
th
wi
tons and
‘
The
narrowest
Thus a
125 mi
ies
ha
English
miles
Overseas Letter
From Pfc. Stover
Bellefonte Boy
Writes Feel-
ingly of Home and
Mother
eman- 14
Nuzi propaganda ma-| fire
traveling |
{was horrif
the French
claimed 1}
with
from
1
It is
filled
CO
Ww New ro
a hit}
the | SATISFACTION
» considerabl
military suppl
being oo
England in
vasion of western
are
Lad Rescued By
Snatches Boy From Track as "'"
Fast Train Ap-
proaches
DEAR!
Jimmie ran ava
and hiked up
{ down on a main iin
going Ww
trains go by and
reserved
Qa
a
Wal
seat
J oh
man In
tracks,
about tl
JK Ix
to see if
wg 10 8
Ung on one o
{the fast expres:
+ following letter wa
John ¥, Stover,
; on foreign soil
Scinewhere Overseas
To The Editor, Cenire Democrat:
This one of the boys from Belle
ile, and I would like to put an
announcement in the paper that 1
Teceived
who &
i
i
i
{
Ww
{am overseas and as well and happy.
I would like (0 hear from all of you
t now but
whenever 1 get one I'll send it
I had beent In Camp Shelby, !
with the 190th and was with
he boys that were from Bellefonte. !
I don't know if my mother and!
{ather are getting the paper, but I
am getting it and would like to keep
on getting it until 1 get home. There
are a Jot of the boys’ pictures that
“eis
all
iT know in the paper, so keep tha
{in and
1 send a poem for you to put in for
. 44 8
I will try to keep writing
all the mothers, will you publish it
for me? 1 have one poein and 1 am |
sending it with this letter and would
like you to put it in your paper with
this Jetter, for I feel that it will
make the people all realize that]
there is one boy who would like 10] =
be there. 1 was emploved with the |
Whiterock Quarries for a long time]
and would like to be there working
{again now. If there are any boys who
think about these questions there
{are a Jot of them that should see it.)
(Continued on Pape Seven)
|
MILESBURG SCOUTS TO
SELL CHRISTMAS TREES
Members of Milesburg Boy Soout
troop will sell Christmas trees be-
ginning December 18. Proceeds will
be put in the troop treasury
The sale of the trees is primarily
for the vicinity of Milesburg and
Central City, and a piace near the
Scout room will be established where
the trees will be displayed. Anyone;
wishing to engage a tree may con-|
{tact any Scout, Scouter, Guy John- |
son, Scoutmaster, or Rev. Hewes
Phillips, assistant Scoutmaster,
OVERCOME BY FUMES
Two employes of the Renovo P.|
R. R. shops—Ammon Eckel, Jr, of |
North Bend, and E. D, Hall, of Beech
Creek, were overcome by fumes
while at work in a boiler last Tues-
day morning. They were taken by
ambulance to the Renovo Hospital
where they were revived by an oxy-
gen machine and later removed to
their homes.
FALL FATAL TO CHILD
Robert Clair Pedder, 4, son of Mr.
iand Mrs. Burton Pedder, of Blooms-
{burg, R. D., died in the Bloomsburg
{Hospital as the result of a blow on
the head received Saturday in a fall
down the cellar steps at his Lime
Ridge home. It is believed he suf-
fered a hemorrhage of the brain,
HUNTER HURT IN FALL
Joseph Gilanniani, of Norristown,
broke his right arm when he stum-
bled over a rock while hunting at
Pete's Run. on South Mountain near
i
1
:
due in a minute
Hoe headquarter:
the boy and asked
and
explalr
.
ibe sent
In the meantime ;
senger train was thundering down
the line toward the tower closer
closer. The towerman dashed dow
the steps, ran to the boy snd grab
bing him by the back of the coa
and seat of his pants, yanked him
off the tracks } a seconds
before the express train dashed bn
Jimmie, unhurt but scared, was
given a lecture and taken to his
home by the policeman who
been summoned
¥ N
Wie Wavy
ano
1840, aller sl
almost the entire d
by her ror
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TRAPS ARE STOLEN
Two Northumberland boys, who
¢ charged with the theft of
iuskrat traps western
shore of the Busquehanna River. run advertising valu
th of Winfield, have been releas-
ed on payment of $10 each for costs
of prosecution. Fourteen of the traps
were stolen, but no trace has been
found of the remaining 21, hich
the boys deny taking.
4
ous
N
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The time has arrived to plan that most useful of all gifts a
subscription to THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT . . . something that
will not only be appreciated every week of the year, but carry with
it a constant reminder of the giver.
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gifts for the price of one.
Here's all you do to arrange for a gift subscription:
Cut out the blank below, fill in the blank spaces by writing
plainly the name and address to whom the paper is 1 .
or bring it to this office with one dollar and a
a year's subscription. If the subscription is to
sure to include full military address. And if
sent overseas the rate is two dollars.
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THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA.
Enclosed find $1.50 (or $200 if overseas) for which enter a
Christmas subscription gift for one year to the following address:
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