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YOU AND I
CAN GET MORE PLEASURE \
OU T OF LIFE IF WE TASTE
; the joy of giving ;
TONIGHT, neighbor, you’ll crank
up the bus and take the wife and
children out for a cooling-off spin
along the country roads.
The chances are, you won’t think
|,bout the tired-faced little neighbor
| woman whose husband is not fortun
ate enough to own an automobile,
and who sits on her front porch close
to your home, njght after night, rock
ing her baby and trying to keep it
cool. '
Have vou any idea how much she
would appreciate a trip into the cool
country with her baby on one of
these blistering nights?
Ju t drop over there tonight, and
ask her to ride along with you. Get
a t:i te of the joy of giving.
REAL MENACE
The war which has been going on
for months between the Kemalist
Turk and the Greeks is an affair
of niv.-h greater magnitude than the
people of this country realize. If
there were not so many other great
events occurring throughout the
world, this TurKo-Greek war would
be considered news of the first im
portance.
the great European powers are
becoming alarmed lest the Turks
under Kemal follow up the advan
tage they have already gained by
making Constantinople and the Dar
danelles untenable for Allied troops
ami ships anti thus upset the whole
settlement of the near-East question.
There seems little doubt that the
situation has developed into one of
great seriousness.
One of the incidents of the war
which i:; rather amazing to us Ameri
cans i that 700,000 Greeks are al
rc.-.'iy numbered among the victims.
It is estimated that the total loss
of life directly due to the war was
at least a million up to July 1. And
the end is not in sight.
KITTY’S RIGHT
A cat's right to look at a king was
long ago recognized. Now, a cat’s
right to use her claws in a cat and
dog fight is established by the Su
preme court, of Massachusetts.
Mrs. Fannie F. Goodwin sued a
grocery because she. was scratched
while trying to protect her pet dog
from the grocery cat.
The court held that it was up to
the dog to look out for himself, and
that his owner could collect no dam
ages because she “voluntarily ex
posed herself." 1
LOWER RATES
k That President Harding is keenly |
Hkirous of having railroad freight I
Bd pa enger rates pd justed down
ward and that he is bringing all the!
of his great office to bear.
on the Interstate Commerce Com-
Imssion to get results as soon as pos-!
V ible, is the good news that comes j
from Washington.
The president recently conferred !
with President Clark of the Inter
state Commerce Commission for the)
purpose of making the views of the i
administeration known.
The president’s position is that I
lower rates are necessary to stimu-1
late the movement of certain com- j
modifies.
In this he is in agreement with the ;
judgment of the leading economic
experts of the country. In fact the
railroad owners and managers seem
to be the only people who want the }
prohibitive rates continued.
“FORGETTING”
[here is a growing disposition in I
tins country to criticise France be-1
cause of the intolerance of her at- I
titude toward Germany on all ques
tion relating to the enforcement of
the peace treaty. “France should for
give and at least try to forget,” sums
tip the attitude of many Americans.
Il"- may bi good advice, but the I
trench have suffered too greatly to |
be able to take this charitable atti
tude so soon after the tragic events
■meh caused the suitering. For in
• anci, it has just been disclosed that
up to dale there have been filed with
i' 1 ‘■iK'h government ,400,000 ap-
P'cation:; for widows’ and orphans’
pern ions.
AVIATORS
U'' arniifc e day 251 American
7'77''' killed in flight.
+ •hem there was not the 'glory
7'7, cro ™. ns warrior who dies
I' ■ ' , 1( '- v went ahead, did each
dangerous round of duty and
, J died doing the day’s work.
, r ii our °Pi n ' on > the sacrifice
u the follow who thus gave his life
doing his job as best he knows,
uo locs to be honored than the
j.i, - him who laid down his
■ m the zt .al, inspiration and glam
or f, t battle.
T ? ’ arc hhe Heroes of the Daily
MEANEST MAN
Pi j' 1 ’- 0 ’umsts. the meanest man !
lii n' u ' W ‘ t hin her corporate)
<>i. latest candidate for this I
♦u ' has just been sentenced to !
for 5 years by Fed
ed P 7|’ Landis after Ge had plead
nirti! 7m* 10 cllar ® e robbing the
t ,7 disabled service men’s com-
P'usatmn checks.
s.nd - I7. ss * sentence Judge Landis i
7 7 . 1 hakes a man without any
'' rob a disabled war hero.”
Keer Bill Struggle
Next Week In Senate |
othV^f 11 *GT°N, July 16.—A11-1
(| 'li lted struggle is promised in |
effm-t e i a T Xt w f ek , as c resul t of!
Willhfr!? la he, vesterday to take the
.-Campbell anti-beer bill up for,
i, ut''i e ’f t ’ t u n fo . l *? win P the re-com- '
The pt soldier bonus measure.!
-Mondavi-?!? JO x rr J ed y. ester day until I
upon thp 'ithoirt debating or acting •
Were b - r 1)1,1 m °tion, ’but there !
- Pi onuses of opposition Monday; I
THE TIMES-RECORDER
IN THE HEART OF
FORTY-THIRD YEAR.—NO. 164
CONFESSION BY HUDSON NOW AWAITED
ASSEMBLY TRUE
TO FORM-LITTLE
CARE OF SAVING
House Refuses Economy
Opportunity—Test
Next Week
Times-Recorder Bureau,
Kimball House.
ATI ANTA, July 16.—(Special.)
—With approximately $1,000,000 in
volved in special appropriation meas
ures now before the general assem
bly and nothing accomplished toward
placing in effect Gov. Thomas W.
Hardwick’s retrenchment program,
Georgia lawmakers will enter their
session next week with an opportuni
ty either to accept or reject the chief
executive’s income tax bill.
Almost every member elected to
the legislature this summer ran on
a platform of rigid economy. Yet
when Zach Arnold's resolution to re
move appropriations from the vari
ous committees that roam over the
state every summer investigating dif
ferent departments came up, the
house gave it an adverse report.
Here was an opportunity for the state
to be saved approximately $20,000,
but the “knock on the door” brought
no favorable response.
And consider the vast sum de
manded in special appropriations.
Then think of the fight which will
be made on Governor Hardwick’s
taxation system. Allow the thought
of many hours of debate and explana
tions of votes to occupy your mind
for a few moments.
Senator John H. Jones has others
who agree with him when he srated
this morning that “it is time for more
work and less oratory. Unless the
senate and house get to work the
session will end with nothing accomp
lished.”
Representative George Carswell, of)
Wilkinson, has succeeded in securing!
a favorable report from the house'
appropriations committee on the !
graduated income tax bills, and it
will come up for passage the early
part of next week, unless a delay.,
is sought in order that he may build
up a machine in an attempt to make
sure of its adoption.
Realizing the seriousness of the
sithation, the house after this week
will hold session Saturdays, and in
both branches committee meetings are
being held more frequently. The vari
ous chairmen are urging all members
to attend and seek to hasten the
transaction of business. There has,
of course, been some reports of an,
extraordinary session, but little cred
ence is given to them by the leaders
of both branches.
How well the chairmen have suc
ceeded in concentrating their forces*
will be shown next week. If the sev
en days pass as those of this week,
Georgia will witness another extrava
gant session, the result being a worse
financial condition than the present.
Ellis To Defense
Os District Schools
Times-Recorder Bureau,
Kimball House.
ATLANTA, July 16.—Representa
tive R. C. Ellis, of the Forty-seventh
district, is opposed to any effort tot
abolish or combine the district agri-!
cultural and industrial schools of the;
state, according to a statement he!
issued this morning in reply to the'
recent assertions that one of the best )
places the retrenchment program,
could be practiced is in these vari-)
ous institutions.
“The agricultural class composes I
the largest part of the state’s popu-'
lation,” said Senator Ellis. “Their)
business is greater than any other. !
The state depends upon them, and ;
I say it would not be fair or just
to consolidate these schools or con
centrate agricultural education in
the state college at Athens.
“We cannot lose on this invest
ment. The training of our children
of the rural districts, the work that
these schools accomplish is very valu
able, and I will do all in my power to
prevent any disadvantageous j
change.” I
WEATHER.
Forecast for Georgia Thunder
showers this afternoon or tonight;
Sunday partly cloudy, thundershow
ers on the coast.
AMERICUS TEMPERATURES
(Furnished by Rexall Pharmacy )
4 pm 83 4 am 76
6 pm .•.83 6 am 77
8 pm 80 8 am 84 i
10 pm 78 10 am 90 |
Midnight —77 Noon 93 !
2 am 76 1 pm 93 |
MARKETS
NEW YORK FUTURES
Oct. Dec. Jan. !
Prev. Close 1.12.90 13.32 13.35 I
Open 12.95 13.38 13.39
10:30 am 12.92 13.34 13.38
10.45 12.90 13.32 13.35
11:00 12.88 13.32 13.33
11:15 13.01 13.44 13.44
,11:30 .12.93 13.33 13.42
11:45 .'13.00 13.40 13.38
Close 13.03 13.45 13.46
AMERICUS SPOT COTTON
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THE OLD SWIMMIN’ HOLE.
TWO STILL RAIDS
HARD ON THIRSTY
Source Os Grog Inter
fered With By
Officers
Two sources of some of the best
grade of moonshine liquor that has
been coming into Americus for many
months coming in fine class cop
per stills, were destroyed, at least
for the present, Friday by two raids
cunducted jointly by Sheriff Harvey,
of Sumter county, and Sheriff Chris
tian, of Webbster county, assisted
by Deupty Sheriff Summers and City
Marshal Pouncey, of Americus, Mar
shal J. C. Arrington, of Plains. One
of the stills was taken in Webster
county not far across the Sumter
line, and the other near Americus.
Both were brought here, but the
Webster contrivance was taken to
Preston later by Sheriff Christian to
be held as evidence for the grand
jury and courts.
The Sumter officers met Sheriff
Christian Friday morning at Parker’s
mill, near the Webster line. They
started westward, drove into Webster
past one of the old Reid places, turn
ed to the left and followed a blind
trail that led through a large wood.
Following this road, they finally
came upon wagon tracks which were
followed to a swamp. There the st,'ll
location was found, with four barrels
of beer. A search of the vicinity
revealed a long copper worm and
condenser hidden in the weeds, evi
dently against theft, but the boiler
was not found. Nobody was seen
and no arrests made.
“We have all necessary informa
tion, however, as to the owner of the
still,” said Sheriff Harvey Saturday,
“and it is the intention to wait un
til the Webster grand jury meets,
when all the facts will be laid before
it. The. case also will be reported to
the federal authorities.”
The second raid was made at the
home of Wade Frazier, well known
offender of times gone by, who now
lives on the farm of A. R. Chunn 3
miles out on the Friendship road.
A quarter of a mile from the Frazier
home in a pasture, and fenced in to
protect it from the cattle, was localed
a fine copper still of large capacity.
It was located on a creek, and could
be seen a distance of 150 yards. It
was not in operation and no one was
found near it. The outfit was con
fiscated and brought to the city Fri
day afternoon along with the Web
ster still, and later Frazier was ar
rested on Forsyth street in Ameri
cus. Afterward he made bond of
S9OO.
Frazier, who not long ago served
a jail term under a federal sentence,
for making liquor, moved his family
the first of this year from Webstar
county not far across the line to the
present home 1 . Sheriff Harvey states
he was notified about three months
ago that Frazier was then moving
a still from his former home to his
new location, but he waited until it
was reassembled and had been put j
into operation again before raiding
it.
Both stills, it is said, have been
furnishing plentiful quantities of
liquor in Americus. The Webster
still is said to have been a source of
supply of a young man who was
caught in making deliveries from a
salesman’s auto in Americus a few
weeks ago, several quarts of liquor
being in the car when captured.
4 YRS. FOR FIRING
ON LIFE BOATS
LIEPSIC, July 16—(By Asso
ciated Press.) —Lieufs. Dittmar and
Boldt. Gefman naval officers charged
with murder in the first degree for
firing on lifeboats after the, Canad
ian hospital ship. Landoverv Castle
had been torpedoed in. the summer of
1918’. each were sentenced today to
four yeats imprisonment.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 16, 1921
AGRICULTURAL
PROBE IS PUT
UP TO GOVERNOR
Senator Brown Insists
l axpavers Be Given
Facts
Times-Recorder Bureau,
fjimball House.
ATLANTA, July 16. Governor
Thomas W. Hardwick is expected this
afternoon to announce his decision
on a written request from Senator
L. C. Brown that the state depart
ment of agriculture be investigated
since serious charges have been
brought against Commissioner J. J.
Brown. The chief executive held a
conference relative to the matter
with Attorney General George M. Na
pier this morning.
Senator-Brown’s letter, which was
made public at noon, is as follows:
“Due' to the fact that serious
charges have been made against J.
J. Brown, commissioner of agricul
ture, and departments under his su
pervision, the taxpayers of this state
are demanding, and according to my
candid opinion arc entitled to. a fair
showing as to the money derived
from taxation.
“1 want to call your attention to
the act of 1918, page 155 to page
158 inclusive, which provides tor an
examining commission of state gov
ernment departments supported by
appropriations. 1 especially call your
attention to section 5 of said act,
which is as follows:
“ ‘Be it further enacted, that in
the discharge of its duties the said
commission ‘shall be authorized to
employ necessary clerical help, but
the said expenses for clerical help
shall not exceed in any year the sum
of $12,000. In addition to the said
clerical help, the said commission is
authorized to employ an expert ac
countant whenever it shall deem the
same hecessary for the purpose of
making the examination above pro
vided for, and for the establishing
of such uniform system of account
ing.’
“I hope that you will be kind
enough to call a meeting of the com
mission (the budget commission.)”
MRS. CLAY GETS
FIRST OPEN BOLL
Honor Goes Fo Sumter s
Champion Woman
Farmer
To Sumter county’s champion wo
man farmer—and contender for first
honors in the free-for-all class—goes
the honor of the first open cotton
boll of the season locall. A fully
matured and open boll was brought
to the city Saturday morning by Mis
Mary B. Clay from her large planta
tion southeast of Americus.
Mrs. Clay is a highly successful
farmer and business woman. She
employs 150 workers and two over
seers on her plantation. She goes
to the farm every day in person
from her city home and directs the
operations. Her corn this year is
in splendid condition, and every year
she fares as well as the next one.
Besides field crops, Mrs. Clay pro*
duces an abundance of milk and but
ter, hogs, chickens, vegetables and
fruit.
TO FIX COTTON
LOANS POLICY
Reserve Governors Call
ed I o Discuss Coming
Crop Plans
WASHINGTON, July 16.—Gov
ernor Harding of the Federal Re
serve board announced today that
he had called a conference here Tues
day of the governors of the five re
serve banks in the great cotton pro
ducing sections to adopt a uniform
policy on cotton loans during the
coming marketing season.
Many requests have been received
from cotton interests, the governor
said, asking the board to make known
its Dolicy on cotton loans.
20 Millions Recovered
In Income Tax Frauds
WASHINGTON, July -6.—Approx
imately $20,000,000 was added to
government revenues during the fis
cal year just ended through recover
ies from false and fraudulent income
tax returns. Commissioner Blair an
nounced today,
Indictments have been returned
during the year in every section of
the. country,.he said, and many jail
sentences have been imposed, in ad
dition to fines and penalties which
also were assessed.- 7
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Is She a Lady ‘Bluebeard’ or
Innocent Typhoid Carrier?
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Mrs. Lydia Southard and her fifth and present husband, Paul Vincent
Southard.
Much-Married Mrs. Southard’s Trial For Hus
band’s Murder I o Decide
TWIN FALLS, Ida., July 16.
Lyda Southard, deliberate modern
Bluebeard, or
Lyda Southard, afflicted typhoid
carrier?
The question will be answered
here in the fall term of court when
Mrs. Southard goes on trial fur mur
der. Prosecution and defense are
marshaling their evidence. The trial
promises to be the most bitter that
the west has seen for years. All
Idaho is aroused over it.
Mrs. Southard was arrested re
cently in Honolulu, charged with the
murder of her fourth husband, Ed-
LIFE SENTENCE
FORMRS.KABER
Husband Slaver Found
Guiltv With Recom
mendation
CLEVELAND, July 16.—Mrs Eva
Catherine Kaber today was found
guilty of first degree murder, with a
recommendation of mercy by the
jury which tried her on the charge
of plotting to kill her husband, Dan
iel F. Kaber.
Under the verdict, Mrs. Kaber must
serve the remainder of her life in
prison.
Though the jury had not reported
I officially to the court. Judge Bernon
! announced the decision to Attorney
I Francis Poulson, the woman’s per
sonal counsel, so he might inform her
in the hope she would revive suffic
iently from her stupor to appear in
court and hear the official announce
ment. ■*’#
Mrs. Kaber was carried into court
at 10:30. The jury was brought in
a few minutes later and made its of
ficial report. Mrs. Kaber, who was
lying limp in the arms of a deputy
sheriff, when asked if she had any
thing to say, shook her head nega
tively. Judge Bernon then pronounc
ed sentence, and she was taken back
to her cell.
Under the Ohio law there is no
hone for nardon under such a ver
dict. William Corrigan, her counsel,
said he was well satisfied with the
verdict. The same expression was
made bv County Prosecutor Stanton.
Attorney Poulson said he would
not appeal Mrs. Kaber’s case.
Marian McArdle, who was with
her mother when told of the verdict,
said she was well pleased with the
decision, according to Poulson.
League Disarmament
Work To Continue
PARIS, July 16. (By Associated
Press.)—The temporary mixed com
mission for reduction of armaments,
appointed by the League of Nations,
decided today that the conference
on this question to be called by Presi
dent Harding would not conflict in
any way with the league’s disarma
ment move. Instead of adjourning'
therefore, the commission will con-,
tinue its sessions, expecting its work,
to be. useful in a preparatory way
fqr the Washington deliberations. '
*-• • .
Two trains start at the same time, one from A to B,
the other from B to A. If they arrive at their destina
tion one hour and fours respectively after passing each
other, how much faster is one than the other?
Answer to yesterday’*: Sunday.
ward F. Meyer, a ranchman who lived
near Twin Falls.
Three other of her former hus
bands had died as well as a daughter
by the first husband and a brother of
the first husband who lived with the
couple. Good sized insurance poli
cies were carried by all four of the
husbands who died.
Married Fifth Time.
At the time of her arrest, Mrs.
Southard was living with her fifth
husband, Paul Vincent Southard, a
naval officer. They were married
in Los Angeles, and Mrs. Southard
Continued on Page Two.)
FRIENDS SEEK TO
AID DR. BAGLEY
Delegation Mav Make
Appeal To Judge
Evans
A movement for intercession with
Judge Evans, of the South Georgia
federal court, in behalf of Dr. H. A.
C. Bagley, of Sumter county, sen
i tenced this week to serve nine months
in the federal penitentiary on a
plea of guilty of violating the anti- I
narcotic act, has been started here,'
and it is said to be likely that a dele-1
gation of his neighbors in the Twen- ;
ty-eighth district may go to Macon ’
to present to Judge Evans a plea .
for modification of the sentence im
posed.
One of the chief reasons for the )
contemplated action is that Dr. Bag
ley is 70 years of age, and many of !
them feel that the humiliation of
serving a prison term in the twilight
of his life, after many years of use
fulness. would crush him and proba
bly result in him never leaving prison
alive. Another is that they feel he
' was the victim of a trap set for him
i by the federal investigator making
the case, falling unwittingly into it.
They also feel that he acted unwise
ly in not employing an able attorney
to represent him in the case, and
that the result might have been much
different had he been ably advised and
had his own advocate appearing for
him, instead of merely employing a
Macon attorney to enter his plea of
guilty, formally and making a brief
statement to the court to save him
the personal embarrassment of doing
it. The sentence of anything more
than a fine came as a distinct surprise
to him and his friends.
Dr. Bagley is the son of a New
England man who immigrated to Sum
ter countv many years ago. He was
horn and reared on the scene of his
present home and his practiced medi
cine as a country physician since a
young man in his native locality. He
is held in high esteem by all who
know him and, as one of his friends
put, “has done good all of his life,
instead of harm.” He has many
family connections who are among
the most prominent people of the
community.
• Dr. Bagley’s friends' feel that a
personal appeal by them .to Judge
Evans may result in a suspension or
modification of the sentence that will
prevent him having to. serve the sen‘-
tence iipposed.
Dr. is at home here, having
been given a stay of sentence.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
TWO BOYS SLAIN
BY STEP FATHER,
MOTHER ADMITS
Accused Man Now Held
In Macon Jail For
Safetv
ALBANY, July 16—Confession by
Glen Moore Hudson to the murder
this week of his two step-sons, Rob
ert and Isaiah Temple, aged 10 and
4 years respectively, following the
confession of their mother, who is
his wife, in jail here yesterday, that
he killed them, is hourly expected.
Hudson was taken to Macon yester
day for safekeeping following her
confession and before news of the
development became publicly known.
Hudson was reported from Macon
as having acted nervously and queer
when told of the confession, but per
sisted in denying his guilt. While
still held here Hudson spent Thurs
day afternoon reading from the Bible,
and was stiy very nervous and very
unwilling to discuss the case with the
officers. When an acquaintance
from Alabama visited him at the jail
Thursday and asked him what he
was charged with, it is said that he
was barely able to answer, his throat
filling up and almost choking him.
How to proceed with the prosecu
tion of Hudson unless he confesses
it; a problem for Dougherty county
officers, inasmuch as a wife is not
permitted to testify against her hus
band in a capital offense in Georgia,
and vice versa, and she is the only
witness connecting him with the
crime.
Feared to Confess.
Mrs. Hudson made her confession
to former Sheriff L. E. Black, of
Early county, who now makes his
home in Albany. Mr. Black knew
the women while they both lived at
Blakely, and has known her and her
family since she was a child. She told
Mr. Black, he says, that she would
have made a clean statement of the
whole tragic story as soon as the
■ murders occurred had she not beer#
• afraid of death at the hands of her
■ husband, and remained silent after
both had been placed in jail for fear
that he would succeed in carrying
out his threat to have some one else
kill her if he were placed where he
could not do it.
The confession Mrs. Hudson is al
leged to have made to Mr. Black fix
ed the time of the murder of the
■ two little children at about 5 o’clock
"Tuesday morning, which coincides
with the testimony of several wit
nesses in the neighborhood who said
i they heard pistol snots in the direc
| tion of the Hudson home about that
| hour.
Mrs. Hudson, according to the
! story, had left the house with her
I husband to drive to town, where she
had secured a position with a local
candy factory. It was to be her first
day of work in this new job. The
wagon stood outside, ihitched to a
mule ready to take them to town,
when Hudson, she says, told her that
he had to go back into the house for
something and for her to go across
the road to the stable lot and wait
for him there. She asked him why
it was necessary for her to go to the
•lot, and he replied, she says, by
) threatening to kill her if she did not
I shut her mouth and do as he told her.
When she reached the lot, the wo
! man’s story goes, she heard the little
i boys screaming, indicating to her
! mother’s intuition that they were be
i ing beaten. She ran in the direction
! of the house, and before she reached
! there she heard three shots and the
: screams ceased.
Threatened Her Life.
Her husband came out of the
house, she says, and she frantically
accused him of killing her little boys.
Tv her queries as to what had hap
pened to the boys she said he re
plied: “It’s all right about what hap
pened to them; if. you don’t keep
your d mouth shut I’ll kill you,
and if they put me where I can’t kill
you, I’ll have you killed.”
All the way on .the two-n.ile drive
to town, Mrs. Hudson says, her hus
band repeated his threats to kill her
u>r have some one else kill her of she
opened her mouth against him, and
after he was placed in jail she fear
ed that his brother would kill her if
she told what she knew, she is alleg
ed to have said. Mrs. Hudson said
she was so nervous when she went to
work she could not understand in
structions given her by her new em
polyeis, and actually forgot to count.
This statement of the woman was
corroborated by R. E. McCormack,
of the Mills-McCormack Candy com
pany, who says he thought her in
ability to count was due to illiteracy,
but that he did not observe any evi
dence of nervousness otherwise on
her part. •
Mrs. Hudson said that before she
and her husband left the house on
the tragic morning, both of them had
cautioned the little boys not to touch
either of the two watermelons that
were,in the house under the Led.
Those who hold to the .theory that,
the woman’s story is true, in sub
stance, and that Hudson killed' the
boys in .a fit of ange.r, believe h? took
a last Idok before leaving for own
and Found th.at the two.Uoys- had.dis
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