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MOVIE ACTOR IMPALED ON IRON STANDARD IN THIGH
Here’s a scene that chills your blood.
Movie Actor Edmund MacDonald lies on
a table in Hollywood with an iron stand
ard piercing through his thigh. Fire Cap
tain Henrv Sawyer tries to comfort. Mac-
Sander Jurors Asked To Decide
Among Four Possible Verdicts
Russell Saye
To Run For
Commission
Russell L. Saye, of the Clyde L.
Saye Sheet Metal Works, today
qualified with' the Clarke County
Democratic Exeeutive Committee
as a candidate for the Board of
County Commissioners in the
county democratic primary to be
held on March 29.
In qualifying, Mr. Saye said he
will announce his platform within
the next several days.
Mr. Saye is the son of Mr. and
Mrs, Clyde L. Saye and 1} asso~
ciated In business with his father,
being in charge of the stoker de
partment. _
Mr. Saye was born in Oglethorpe
county and has been here since
1919. He attended local schools and
resides at present on the Tal-
Jassee Road. §
A member of the Baptist church,
Mr. Saye served for two-and-a
half years during World War Two
in the United States Merchant Ma-
TinG.
On April 8 Mr. Saye will marry
Vliss Emily Ann Bates Bridges,
laugnter of W. E, Bridges and the
ate Mrs. Bridges, of Lexington.
(-46 Maikes Safe
Landing In Rain
NEWARK, N. J, March' 9—
(AP)—A twin-engine C-46 trans
port plane with 54 persons aboard
slid 300 feet in a safe belly land
ing last night in rain and darkness
at Newark airport.
Airport authorities said the
landing gear of the ship, bound
from Miami, Fla., to Newark, col
lapsed as the plane touched the
runway. Most of the 50 passengers
trought it was merely a rough
landing.
Streams of gasoline from punc
tured tanks spewed onto the rain
swept runway as the passengers
and crew climbed down a ladder
to safety. No one was injured, but
a pregnant woman was taken to
. hospital for a routine checkup.
Pilot William Averman of Miami
told police there had been no in
dication that anything was wrong
until the wheels touched the
ground.
Then a warning horn in the
cockpit began blaring, he said,
and the gear slowly collapsed.
CHOKED ON A CARROT
Two-Year-Old Survives Two
Ambulance Crashes, Surgery
SEATTLE, March 9.—(AP)—A
little boy who choked on a raw
carrot experienced a wild 150-
mile ride, two ambulance crashes
and surgery—but doctors said to
day he will recover,
The child is two-year-old Mal
colm Edwards of Raymond,
Wash. While he was eating a car
rot yesterday, a snrall piece lodg
ed in his windpipe, = -
His parents, Mr. and Mrs. How
ard P. Edward, rushed him to
the Raymond Hospital, where it
was ascertained a bronchoscope
would be needed to remove the
liece. The nearest one was_at
Seatile 150 miles away.
The child was gasping.
An ambulance, escorted by a
Police ear, started the trip to
Seattle. At the Olympia City lim
its a dog ran acress the highway.
The police car slammed to a stop.
The ambulance smashed into it.
A quick check showed the am
bulance not too bedly damaged. It
continued on its way.
With siren screaming it headed
through a red traffic light in
Tacoma. 1t eollided with = eoupe.
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Associated Press Service
Donald stumbled over a railing at the Hol
lywood Athletic Club Wednesday and
fell on top of the spear-like ornament.
He was taken to the hospital with the
iron rod still in his leg.— (AP Wirephoto.)
Case Expected To Reach Jury
Sometime Late This Afternoon
MANCHESTER, N. H.,, March 9. — (AP) — Defense
counsel in the Dr. Hermann N. Sander murder case told the
jurors today they will be asked to decide among four pos
sible verdicts.
“After you have completed your deliberations you will
return here and you will orally state your findings on first
degree murder with capital punishment; first degree mur
der; second degree murder, or not guilty,” said Louis E.
Wyman in his summation.
He prefaced this statement with
the remark that ‘“the court will
tell you there are four possible
verdicts.” 0
“The state will not ask for ¢api
tal punishment, I'm sure,” Wyman
said. "‘This is not that kind of a
case.’
The prosecutors already have
said they would not seek the su
preme penalty, which would be
death by hanging. ;
It appeared certain that before
the day was out the 13-man jury
would start deliberating the fate
of Dr. Sander, charged with the
“mercy murder” of a dying cancer
patient. He is accused of making
fatal air injections in her arm.
Wyman’s summation of the de
fense case was to be followed by
the closing arguments of Attorney
General William L. Phinney.
~ Wyman, a veteran of nearly a
half-century before the bar, is try
ing his first murder case — one
that has attracted world-wide at
tention. He told the jury “the
burden of proof of the essential
elements is upon the state.”
“There is a presumption that a
man charged with the commission
of a crime is innocent until the
state has proved beyond any rea
sonable doubt that the man is
guilty,” he said.
“It is not the same as in a civil
case. The proof here must go be
yond the reasonable.
“It is not for us of the defense
to prove to you that Mrs. Borroto
(Mrs. Abbie C. Borroto, 59) was
dead at the time when Dr. San
der did whatever he is charged
with doing.
“It is for the state to prove be
yond a reasonable doubt that the
woman was fiving, and that what
‘ever he (Dr. Sander) was doing
caused the death of a living per
son and that it was done with
'malice aforethought.”
Wyman told the jury that the
evidence was “overwelming” that
Dr. Sander is innocent.
The indictment charges the
country doctor Injected 40 cubis
centimeters of air into Mrs. Borro
to's vein last Dec. 4 as she lay
dying. The defense has contended
sh was dead before he made the
injections.
Wyman told the jury “there was
no malice and at least there is
reasonable doubt.”
Little Malcolm and the nurse ac
companying him were catapulted
15 feet onto the pavement. The
boy’s parents were shaken up.
Breken Ribs :
The father raced to his son and
brought him back to the ambu
lance. Mrs. Barbara Schilling, the
nurse, her face covered with
blood, refused to go to a hospital.
The ambulance driver, his ribsg
broken, sat helpless behind the
wheel. N
~ Another ambulance was sums=
moned, W e o
Nurse Schilling, holding a tow
el to her face with one hand, used
the other to give oxygen to the
cut, bleeding and gasping boy the
rest of the way to Seattle, as the
ambulance screamed at a 70 mile
per hour clip.
At the Seattle hospital doctors
removed the carrot tip and treat=
ed the boy’s wounds.
They wheeled the heroic nurse
on a stretcher outside the sur
gery. Edwards bent over, said
simply:
«] can’t thank you enough. for
what vou've done for our boy.”
Heart Assoc.
Contest To
End Tomorrow
. Athiens Heart Association’s
“Win-A-Plymouth” contest ends
tomorrow so Athenians must
hurry to contribuate their dol
lar to the asseciation and make a
guess of the number of pennies
that will be deposited in the
parking meters March 1-28.
The contest applies solely to
the pennies —the copper coins
—placed in the meters. Nickels
don’t count as five pennies.
The penntes will be counted
by employes of the Citizens and
Southern Bank, and no employe
of that institution is eligible to
take part in the contest.
Methodist Student
Organizafion Here
Elects New Officers
Miss Helen Hitchcock, Athens,
has been elected president of the
Wesley Foundation, of the First
Methodist Church, and will be in
stalled on April 30.
Chosen at the annual election to
serve with Miss Hitchcock as offi
cers of the Wesley Foundation,
which is the Methodist student
organization at the University of
Georgia, are:
Vice President, Mary Anne Ja
cobs, Buckhead; Secretary, Har
riett Caldwell, Unatilla, Florida,
vice-president; Treasurer, Cathe
rine Timm, Athens.
Chorister, John Haislet, Gar
rettsville, Ohio; Chorister, Charlie
Carter, Savannah; Pianist, Marge
Haislett, Garrettsville, Ohio; Fian
ist, Jean Boyd, Athens,
Worship and Evangelism: Bev
erly Almond, chairman, Athens,
Pope Cheney, Madison, Florida;
Sue Terry, Athens.
Recreation: Beulah Metcalf,
chairman, Columbus; Wyatt John
son, Richmond Hill; Gwendolyn
Taylor, Rochelle.
Deputations: Brown Stephens,
chairman, Chattanooga, Tenn.; Nell
Callahan, Athens; Louise Mays,
Athens.
Weds and Grads: Bob Porter,
chairman, Atlanta; Betty Porter,
Atlanta; Doug Herndon, Berwin,
g. G’a.; Betty Herndon, Berwin,
Vi
Community Service: Angel Alli~
son, Chairman, New Orleans, La.;
Nan Lyon, Cave Springs; Pat
Patterson, Augusta.
World Friendship: Bill Jindra,
jr., chairman, Port Chester, New
York; Catherine Smalley, Elberton;
Bob Shepard, Fort Valley.
“The House”: Marjorie Fowler,
chairman, Athens; Horace Stahl,
Moultrie; Donald Lee, Brooks.
Publicity: Betty Harvey, chair
man, L:ons; Dan New, MecCor
mick, 8. C.; Hugh Park, West
Green. “ AT
Food: Margaret Setser, chair
man, Franklin, N. C.; Theron Rags=
dale, Homer; Melvin Edwards,
Athens. 5 bt
- Campus - Chureh Relations:
Helen Hjtchoock, Athens, George
gney, Rhine; Jackie Foster, Can
n.
Motive Magazine: Dalton Mc-
Glanry, Atlanta.
Board of Christian Education:
Hubert Anthony, Danlelsville,
Representative to U. G. R, A.:
Jane Boyd, Athens.
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
ATHENS; CA., THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1950.
14 Die As Fire Destroys
Semi - Secret Atom Base
Experts Say Cold Strike Caused Bad
Fright But No Lasting Damage Seen
WASHINGTON, March 9.—(AP)—The 1950 business
outlook, badly clouded by the coal strike, was reported
clearing nicely today to a forecast of sunny and generally
prosperous.
President Truman’s Council of Economic Advisers, while
not issuing any statements, reportedly felt that the mine
shutdown brought a bad fright but no lasting damage.
The council, informed officials
said, is again standing on its offi
cial January appraisal that for
1950 “the economic outlook is
good.”
Some federal economists feel the
pent-up production which now is
released may give an extra fillip
to business, sales and employment,
in the process of catching up on
deferred orders.
Others, who had feared a slump
after midyear. now believe a let
down may be postponed—possibly
even until next spring—when the
usual seasonal upturn might cancel
it entirely.
One top - ranking economist
noted the ambitious schedules set
for restoring output in the steel,
auto and metal-working industries.
He commented:
“I can't see anything except a
very favorable prospect in the
coming months.,”
Strike Balance
This could be upset by more big
strikes. The impressive gains won
by John L. Lewis’ miners—which
broke an almost solid front of em
ployer resistance to sizeable
“fourth round” wage boosts—is ex
pected to inspire other unions to
more aggressive demands.
Economists mostly find the out
look much as described in the an
nual economic report to Congress
60 days ago:
Income and consumer spending
at high levels; production high
(bat down perhaps 3 per cent for
February because of the coal
strike); building at near - record
levels; business investment slow
ing down—not seriously yet, but
enough to bear watching.
Vet Bonus
One of the widely-accepted as
sumptions of January is not pan
ning out: Veterans are not rushing
to spend their GI insurance re
funds.
One officials said the ex-serv
icemen are showing “a good deal
more prudence than in the case of
bonuses in the past. Some are hold
ing the checks; others are paying
off debts.”
Although unemployment rose
204,000 in February to a new post
war high, the Census Bureau finds
little change in the job situation.
The increase in joblessness was at
tributed to the seasonal expansion
of the labor force. Little or no
change in the number holding jobs
— 56,953,000 — was reported, and
the number of persons working
short hours has decreased.
Pierce Harris Is
Banquef Speaker
Tickets for the First Methodist
Church building fund banquet are
on sale at several places through
out the city.
The banquet will be held to
morrow night in the Georgian
Hotel at 6:30 o’clock and all prof
its will go into the building fund
for a new Sunday School build
ing.
Sponsoring the affair is the
adult division of the Sunday
School. Dr, Pierce Harris, of At
lanta, will be principal speaker.
Tickets are $5 per plate and
may be purchased from the
church office, J. Smiley Wolfe, A,
P. Farrar, T. Ed Williams and J.
C. Sitles.
WEATHER
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Fair and continued rather
cold foday and tonight. Friday
increasing cloudiness and war
mer, followed by rain Friday
and Saturday. Low expected
tonight 32, High tomorrow 56.
Sun sets at 6:35. Sun rises to
morrow at 6:51,
GEORGIA—Fair and contin
ued rather cold this afternoon
and tonight with frost tonizht.
Low temperatures 26 so 30 in
north, 30 to 34 in south por
tion. Friday increasing cloudi
ness, warmer,
TEMPERATURE
Highenst ..o Ruva B oo iR
Sl s ash sald
MOAN . Ivs puoe ssns puns »01l
NOFDM o c smrd w 0
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. .. .00
Total since March 1 .. ... 1.62
Excess since March 1 .. .. .09
Average March rainfall .. 5.29
,mi gince January 1 .... 6.90
‘Deficit since January 1 .. 3.92
STERN TESI
FOR BRITISH
PARLIAMENT
French Draft Gas,
Power Workers To
Offset Strike Call
By The Associated Press
The powerful Ceonservative op
position in the British House of
Commons is forcing the Labor gov
ernment today to a life-or-death
test.
The Conservatives, under Wins
ton Churchill, have offered an
amendment to government policy
as contained in the speech from
the throne expressing regret the
speech does not clear up the thorny
subject of nationalization of the
steel industry.
The wobbly Labor government
will have to muster all its mem-
SeEe—————— DR 10, Bgubese
through with a
wo"d News Bare seven - vote
Roundup majority. The
e everentl has
put out an urgent call for all Lab
%&fiifio mgée'é% the opposition
threat,
The British Press Association
said the Third Party Liberals will
port the Conservatives in their
g;gtion against the government.
“ Tt through various reasons a few
Laborites are unable to be present
for the vote, the government might
be defeated on the Tory challenge,
and would then presumably, re
sign.
A special election is being held
in the Moss Side District of Man=
chester today which may also af
fect the government’s uneasy bal
ance. - The election was made ne
cessary by the death of the Con
servative candidate just before the
regular voting time, Feb. 23.
The French government is
plagued by a swelling tide of
strikes. Thousands of utilities
workers struck for more pay
throughout the nation. The gov
ernment drafted about 10 per cent
of the men to keep the lights and
gas burning. These kept power
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Elberfon Student
Named UGRA Head
flob Smalley, Elberton, has been
named president of the University
of Georgia Religious Association,
the third Elberton student to head
the organization. in as many years.
Smalley, a law student, was un
opposed for the position. He suc
ceeds Cornelius Davis. Last year’s
president was Bev Asbury, also of
Elberton.
Elected to serve with Smalley
are Betty Bollinger, Coral Gables,
Fla., vice president; Mary Thomp
son, Atlanta, secretary; and Jim
Hooten, Atlanta, treasurer.
New members of the UGRA cab
inet are Harry Hogan, Baltimore,
Md.; Leah Gitter, Augusta; Bar
bara Terrell, College Park; Wanda
Vogt, Lithonia; Jackie Foster, Can
ton; and Bob Balfour, Thomasville.
Sen. McCarthy Points Spy Hunters To New Targets
WASHINGTON, March 9.— (AP) —Senator
McCarthy (R.-Wis.) pointed the Senate’s wrang
ling Communist hunters toward fresh targets to=
day among State Department employes, after his
first charge was hotly denied by a woman for
mer judge, i
MecCarthy, who has said that Comrmunists are
now-—or have been—working for the Depart
ment, was ready at today’s hearing to enlarge
and document his charges that Miss Dorothy
Kenyon has been listed as a member of 28 sub
versive organizations.
The senator also brought into his testimony
the name of Dr, Philip C. Jessup, the State De
partment’s ambassador-at-large, who he said
vt\izas listed as a sponsor of a subversive organiza
on.
Chairman Tydings (D.-Md.) of a Senate For
eign Relations subcommittee hearing McCarthy’s
charges, sald any persons accused Ly the Wis
r:n-in senator will get a chance to festify later
their own behalf,
The Kenyon charge completed, McCarthy wag
expected to turn to a case friends said would
involve a present employe of the State Depart
ment whom the Wisconsin senator describes as &
bad security risk, :
DENIES CHARGE S
Miss Kenyon, former New Yov»..
Court judge who served a thr~
ing last December, =5
McCarthy «
X Presstimeßulletins ¥
NEW YORK, March 9.—(AP)—Judith Coplon was sentenced to
15 years in jail today for plotting to spy for Soviet Russia. Val
entin A, Gubitchev, her partner, received a 15-year suspended
sentence and was ordered deported to Russia within two weeks.
Miss Coplon was sentenced to five years on a charge of espion
age and 15 years on the count of attempted espionage, the sen
tences to run concurrently,
ROME, Ga., March 9.— (AP) —The goysrnment’s second case
against three North Georgia law officers and six private citizens,
accused of delivering seven negroes to the Ku Klux Klan for
flogging, went to the jury shortly after noon today.
U. S. District Judge Frank A, Hooper charged the jury that the
biggest question was did the officers willfully turn over the
negroes to the Klan,
He asked the jury not to be influenced by prejudice, and warned
that the Klan itself was not on trial, :
NEW YORK, March 9—(AP)—Five bank robbers forced em
ployes of the Sunnyside, Queens, branch of the Manufacturers
Trust Company into the basement today and escaped with
$63,933. ’
The robbery was one of the most thoroughly planned that
Queens police have encountered in years, £
NATIONAL AMERICAN LEGION
COMMANDER TO VISIT ATHENS
George N. Craig, national commander of the American
Legion, will pay a visit to Athens on March 14-15 under
sponsorship of the two Legion posts here, it was announced
today by George Hearn of Monroe, State Commander.
At all of his stops in Georgia, the 40-vear-old veteran of
World War Two will participate in celebrations of the
Legion’s 31st birthday. Bt
Commander Craig will visit
Athens, Macon, Columbus and St.
Simon’s Island and a banquet will
be held at 7:30 p. m. on Tuesday,
March 14; in the Georgian Hotel.
A membership rell call will be
held the following morning in the
University of Georgia Chapel at
10:30 o’clock to which the general
public is invited.
All Legion posts in the Fifth,
Ninth and Tenth Districts are be
ing asked to send representatives
to the banquet and the roll call
and members of the American Le
gion Auxiliary are i_nvitgd._ b
National Commander Craig will
speak at both the banquet and the
roll call. The program at the ban
quet will be recorded and broad=-
cast over Radio Station WRFC.
Plates at the banquet will be
$1.50 each and those expecting to
attend are requested to contact
Vane Hawkins at telephones 432 or
1891 for reservations.
1t is expected that a large repre
sentation from the three districts
will attend the banquet Tuesday
night at the Georgian Hotel and
that several hundred others will
attend the membership roll call in
the University: Chapel the next
morning,
Commander Craig is the first
World War Two veteran to be
elected national commander of the
three million member organization
of World War One and World War
Two veterans.
From Athens Commander Craig
will go to Macon, then to Colum
bus, St. Simon’s Island and Bruns
wick. In each of these places he
will be honored at various social
functions and membership roll
calls will be held at each stop.
STORK RUMORS
LONDON, March 9.—(AP)—
Many rumors have circulated here
that Princess Elizabeth is expect
ing her second child, but Buck
ingham Palace said today any
such report is “simply a guess,
speculation or rumor.”
The Palace spokesnran was com=
menting on a statement by the so
ciety editor of the New York
World-Telegram and Sun.
longed to Communist front groups.
She said she never heard of most of them, al
though she may have made speeches before
some of them. i
“Senator McCarthy is a liar. He is taking
cowardly refuge in his congressional immunity
to smear innocent people,” she declared.
At Lake Success, persons who had seen Miss
Kenyon in action as aU. N, delegate said she
was a vociferous critic of Soviet policy, some
tinves going beyond the official U. 8. position to
express personal anger with Russian claims.
McCarthy told reporters he can’t believe “that
28 Communist front organizations would misuse
her name,
NAME CALLING
“T'll be called a lot of names before I'm
through with this investigation,” he added.
One name that McCaithy said he couldn’t call,
however, was that of 2 high State Department
official he had accused in the Senate of helping
keep an alleged disloyal employe on the Depart
ment’s rolls. F
Tyding’s made quite a point of trying to get
that name yesterday, Tydings told reporters he
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Poet Frost Here
.
ToSpeak Friday
Robert Frost, famous American
poet, will speak in the University
of Georgia Chapel at 11 a. m,
Friday. This will be his sixth an~
nual visit to the campus. -
A four-time Pulitzer-prize win
ner, Frost has given 14 volumes of
verse to contemporary American
literature. His “New Hampshire,”
“Collected Poems,” “A Witness
Tree,” and *“A Further Range”
took Pulitzer awards.
Last fall he ‘was- awarded the
fifth Gold Medal Award of the
Limited Editions Club for the pub
lication of his “Complete Poems.”
The award was made to the Amer
ican author who during the past
five years had published a book
considered most likely to attain
the stature of a classic.
Frost's lecture is sponsored by
the University Committee on Spe
cial Convocations.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., March
9 — (AP) — Oil-fed flames, leap~
ing lightning fast W
dia Base guardhouse, “out
the lives of 14 military priseners
last night.
Trapped with them in the tin
der dry wood structure, thes pris
on’s other two inmates were ine
jured ecritically, It was the first
major disaster in the histery of
the war-built installation —— new
a semi-secret assembly peint for
the atomic bomb,
Two guards, alerted by prison~
ers’ cries, vainly tried te rescue
them from behind bars and mesh=
ed wire windows. They were over=
come along with six others fight=
ing the blaze. Twenty adéitional
officers and men also were treat
ed for smoke effects,
Investigators said there was no
doubt the fire started from one of
two big oil stoves used to heat the
prison. They still sought to deter
mine how and why today.
It was all over 25 minutes after
the first alarm was sounded at
7:35 p. m. (MST). Thirteen of the
prisoners apparently died in the
first few seconds; the other sue=
cumbed two hours later at a hos
pital.
Most of the victims were be
lieved to have inhaled the 'fi
almost instantaneous hea#
suffocated, Sandia authorities said.
Guards reported there were few
outcries to indicate any suffered
long.
No Blast
Contrary to first reperts, Maj.
Kenneth Kolster, Sandia’s mtel
ligence officer, said there was no
evidence of an explosion.
Examination of the
dank smelling structure
bore him out. Damage
principally of badly scorched eeil
ings and walls, mostly in & 100=-
foot,, Li-shiaped corridor and three
cell blocks. It appeared the fire
flashed overhead in less time than
iahbeto el - - o
e prisoners had finished theip
eGMm& time before,
Some already were in bed, reads
ing or sleeping. Bodies of twe were
found in a shower room; three
others lay just outside the deor.
Personal effects littered their
quarters, some scarcely touched by
the blaze. Nearly a fourtls of the
two-tiered bunk beds were not
even scorched. Several contained
magazines, obviously dropped as
their owners leaped up #m alarm.
Helmets and freshly shined shoes
stood under some. Cloflflflr:i’hun.
in head-high racks, gn was
part burned.
Major Kolster described five of
the prison inmates as “bad eook
ies,” jailed after conviction en se
rious charges by a military dourt,
The others he labelled minor of=
fenders. He declined to detail
charges on which any were eourt~
martialled. :
Two Guards |
The two guards were the build
ing’s enly occupants besides the 16
prisoners. One, Cpl. Richard A.
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GOP Dismisses
Court Suit Plan
ATLANTA, March $—(AP)—
Secretary Barnaby Hilk es the
Georgia Republican party said to
day the GOP has" dismissed :
‘“very impractical” a
block Gov. Herman mfil
re-election by a court suit.
Hill said the idea has been
broched to Republicam leaders
but “our reaction was sliogether
against it.”
The plan called for & Republi~
can candidate for govermer im the
general election.
After the general electiom wass
over, a court St would be filed
attacking Talmadge’s eligibility to
serve again.
If this suit were successfial, un
der this plan the R:&\:hh ean-~
didate, although d ted im the
general election, would be imstall
ed as governor,
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