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VOLUME XXXII. NO. 31.
PRISONER ACCUSES PAIR
WITH THREATENING IJFE
OF VICTIM OF'SWEAT BOX’
TELLS IN DETAIL
HANDLED
Two Former Prison (iuards
on Trial of Murder For
of Arthur Maillefeirt
cently
TORTURE OF YOUTH
STARTLES
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Horrors of Manner of
inent of Youngster in
~ I Camp are Told Before
■ sonville Jury.
Jacksonville, Fla., Oct. 6.
timony that two former prison
on trial for the sweat box death
Arthur Maillefret had
threatened the youth with death
was given "r at the trial <fr, today by
liam Roberts, a convict.
Roberts, serving 45 years for rob¬
bery, said he saw Maillefret placed
in the sweat box, first with a barrel
about his body and next with a chain
around his neck and stocks on his
feet.
Solomon Higginbotham, one of the
accused guards, Roberts said, was
heal'd to say he “would rather kill
Maillefret than eat.”
George Gourson, the other
ant, was quoted by Roberts -as say¬
ing he intended to keep Maillefret
the sweat box “until
lie ain’t dead.”
Some time after Maillefert had
been put in the box with the chain
and stocks, Roberts said he heard a
trusty c-all Courson and say
tain—it’s done.”
—
Jacksonville, Fla., Oct. 6. (/P)—Wil
liam Roberts, convict, who served in
Sunbeam prison camp at the time Ar
thur 'Maillefert, New Jersey
died in a sweat box, took the witness
stand at the trial of two former
guards today and described Maille
fert's death.
In prison garb, Roberts held the
spectators tensely as he related how
Maillefert had been placed in a sweat
box, his arms confined by a heavy
barrel which was placed over his
body and fastened from the shoulders
by boards and straps.
Roberts said Maillefert was placed
naked in the barrel on June 2.
The bottom of the barrel had been
knocked out, Roberts said, and the
convict's neck was fastened in the
other eiid “with two boards
Ipi'l ros* Maillefert and two heavy allowed leather to straps.” walk
was
about the prison yard all that day but
that night “he was placed in the
swcat box barrel and all.”
“The next day,” continued
rt was raining. The box w'as opened
and the barrel was rolled out. Mail
lefert rolled over but was allowed to
right himself.”
That day Maillefert gnawed his way
out of the barrel, Roberts said, and
jumped the fence.
He said he did not see the
that resulted in the youth’s capture,
The barrel, a chain which the state
charges was around the
neck when he died, and heavy stocks
which had been placed on Maillefert’s
feet were produced in the courtroom.
Roberts identified the exhibits as
-
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Hound-Dogs, Horses at Mansion
Mrs. Eugene Talmadge Will Have Both Around Home
When She Becomes “First Lady”
Macon, Ga., Oct. 6. UP )—There
be hound dogs and horses about the
governor’s mansion in Atlanta when
Mrs. Eugene Talmadge becomes First I
Lady of Georgia, she said here.
Mrs. Talmadge, here with her hus-j
Aiand, c-Jared who yesterday of the was Democrats formally de- for| j
nominee
the governorship, said some hound,
dogs would be necessary in order to,
make the mansion perfectly homelike
for them. “And of course there will
be a horse, or horses, because a daily'
ride is as essential to my happiness 1
as anything else, and the governor
wil! need exercise, too. To my mind,
here is no better way of taking it
than iidmg a spnited horse.
She said the servant problem would,
be no bother. |
* lave w el!-trained negro servants
JwV- the farm and I plan to take these
Atlanta with me. ft will require
less of ray time.to supervise them, be
cause they know how I want things j
, .JJ a 0 ’ \l!L, e 7-. an De tS mo . re . e ^°“ be
S -
“T T will be K 0 happy . to u be w'lth my
family again, for during past
THE BRUNSWICK NEWS
Human Shield
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i Watchman Kidnaped Early This
Morning and Explosions
Wreck New $25,000 Building
j at Burlington.
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j Burlington, Wis., Oct ti. (/P)—Five
men early today invaded the new
t $25,000 milk receiving plant, of the
) j Burlington ciation, kidnaped Cooperative watchman Milk Asso- and
a
, destroyed the building bv exploding
two bombs. The watchman was un
hurt,
The blast occurred about 1 a. m.
and shattered windows within a radius
of ten blocks of the plant.
About an hour later. John Eisenbart,
55, the watchman, appeared at the
police station. He said five men ac¬
costed him with revolvers in the
building.
The men set two bombs, he said,
i and then rushed him to their auto
j mobile outside. with They hound his feet
and hands rope and sped away
' with him.
Before the car reached the city
i limits, Eisenbart said, the explosions
| occurred. mile outside The the men took him dumped about him a
j city and
out. Eisenbart worked his bonds
' loose and returned to the scene of
j the wrecked building to find firemen
j seeking his body amid the debris,
! The new plant was opened Septem
jber 22 by dairy farmers supplying
to the Chicago Pure Milk Asso¬
! ciation. The farmers previously had
been collecting their milk at priVate
j ly owned plants here but started their
> cooperatively owned venture in ef
! forts to cut out middlemen’s protits
jto enable them to make more on their
j product. The Chicago association loaned
'he
ilocal farmers cost of the money nec
jessary for installation of machinery intended
the nlant and the farmers
repaying the money through savings
i effected in the cooperative venture,
I Eisenbart said be was unable to
j give a good description either of the
'car or of the five men. He had seen
none of them before, he said.
years I have found it necessary
to spe end a good deal of time at the
farm.”
The Talmadges have a farm in Tel
f a i r CO untv, in which Mrs. Talmadge
an d her husband are keenly interest
e< j while Mr. Talmadge’s duties as I
cornmis ................... . s ioner of of agriculture agriculture have
kept hint in Atlanta, Mrs. Talmadge
ha.- found opportunity for frequent
trips there. talked, there grouped
As she were
around Mrs. Talmadge the members
0 f the Talmadge family; Mrs. Charles
Smiley, of Eastman, a daughter; Her- I
man Talmadge a sophomore at the
UniveHty of Georgia; Margaret, a;
junior in an Atlanta high school; and
Mrs. Talmadge’s oldest child, John
Peterson, a ,-on^by a f ormer marriage.
If a proposed constitutional amend-j
ment, ending the terms of state officers
in January, is adopted, Mr. Talmadge !
is to become governor then. Other .
wise, h predecessor, Governor Rich-,
ai *d ^ Russell, Jr., will serve until
next, June. Governor Russell has been j
elevat'd to the 1 nited States senator-;
BRUNSWICK, GA., THURSDAY-, OCT. 6, 1932.
REINS OF PARTY;
State Convention Charters
Course After Principles Set
Forth in Governor * Elect
Campaign
COUNTY UNIT SYSTEM
OF VOTING APPROVED
M. L. Ledford is Declared Party
Nominee For State Treasurer
Over Contest of George B.
Hamilton.
By GLENN RAMSEY
Macon, Ga., Oct. (». l/P)—Georgia’s
new Democratic leadership under the
standard of Eugene Talmadge, its
course chartered by a definite con¬
vention program, today was in con¬
trol of party affairs for at least two
years.
The state convention, held here
yesterday, wrote the campaign pint
form of Talmadge, the farmers' .,oin
inee for governor, into concise prin¬
ciples to be iollowed during the ad¬
ministration of the new chief execu¬
tive when he assumes office in 1933.
The convention also placed its
stamp of approval on the county unit
system of election, peculiar to this
state, by acclaiming M. L. Ledford,
incumbent, as the party nominee for
state treasurer over the contest of
George B. Hamilton.
Hamilton was contesting Ledford’s
nomination, shown by official returns
to be by the narrow margin of four
county unit votes. He claimed there
had been erasures on certain of tile
official tabulations of counties, where
Hamilton had been the actual victor
but Ledford declared the winner.
The various county committees de¬
clined to hear Hamilton’s contests.
The retiring executive committee
passed the matter on to the conven¬
tion. A contest committee of the con¬
vention also decided against Hamilton
and the convention itself upheld both
the county committees and its own
contest committee.
The contest was expected to bring
forth a battle on the flooy, but
through resolution the debate was
limited to ten minutes for each side
and before the last speaker had con¬
sumed more than half of his time, the
convention demanded a vote. The
speaker yielded and Ledford was the
victor without a roll call.
Likewise A. J. Merritt was held by
the convention to be elected solicitor
general of the Dublin circuit, uphold¬
ing the county and convention com¬
mittees which considered the matter.
Hugh Howell of Atlanta, personal
of Talmadge and one of his
managers, is the chairman
the new Democratic executive com¬
and as such chief of party af¬
in Georgia. The delegates from
in the ten congressional dis¬
held caucuses during the con¬
and selected 70 members of
executive committee to be aug¬
by 50 more from the state at
large to be named by Howell.
The chairman said the remainder
the committee would be appointed
the next ten days and the full
called to meet in Atlanta for or¬
The convention adopted numerous
two of which endorsed
amendments to be vot¬
on next month in the general elec¬
These were amendments to re¬
counties money spent in highway
and requiring the pay¬
of poll tax alone as qualified to
in Georgia.
Another resolution, aimed at inde¬
and Republican candidates
oppose Democrats in the general
for local, ■state or national
set forth that the Democrats
Georgia were pledged to support
nominees for all offices.
Other resolutions pledged the par
adherents in the state to support
Roosevelt and Speaker Gai¬
the national ticket; commended
activity in the interest of democ¬
of Senator John S’. Cohen and
Mrs. Edgar Alexander, the national
and committeewoman;
the Roosevelt highway be¬
Columbus and Atlanta and ex¬
the ('. convention’s IT. Brand for hope his to early Con¬
gressman
Among the administration’s plat¬
of action for the next two years,
adopte ,j b the convention, were:
Shifting a part ^ of the ^intangibles! burden from
axes froni al
reduction of utility 5 ates. slicing of
governmental costs, approved ........ collet'
tive bargaining by labor and urged
the strengthening of the workmen's
compensation laws.
Tn further reference to labor, the
platform necessary' recommended public proseetd ion of
works- as „„ an unem
p j ovmen t relief measure with prefer
once to be given Georgia workmen
and _______________________ Georgia materials and _____ a _ division ..........
families f ,p available possible. work among as many
as
WAGES INCREASED
Rockwnod. 'mills'"'manufacturer* Tenn.. Oct. 6. (/Pi 'of
Rockwood
hosiery, posted notice today that
wage increase of between 10 and 12
p er cent fdr its 600 employes will
come effective October 10.
!i
Republican Nominee
j
Col. William.!. Donovan, of Buffalo,
was nominated for governor of New
York by acclamation at the Repuh
lican state convention.
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Seventy Year Old j ■
j Cotton Bale Holds j
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_ OSlLlOn •. . Of _ . Honm*
I UWM
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Laurens, S. ( ., Oct. fi. I/lb foi 70 j
years the Fleming family of Laurens j
county has had a bale of cotton to
tall back on should farm reverses i
oiako it necessary, and throughout
that period the same hale has served j
as the figurative aec in the hole. I
Having outlined two generations, I
tile cotton is now the property of ti.
Hall Fleming, of Ora, but it rests in j
a place of honor in the Laurens bond- j
ed warehouse.
The staple, classed as middling and
well preserved, was grown in lx<!2
on a plantation owned by Mr. Flem¬
ing’s grandfather in Gross Hill town¬
ship. It came into Mr. Fleming’s pos¬
session through inheritance of his
father's estate.
Fancy prices have been offered for
the historic bale during the last 70
years when the market price has
ranged from 4'h cents to 12 cents a
pound. whjfh
The crop from the hale was
preserved was picked and ginned by
slave labor. The old process of
ning and baling with horse-power and
a mammoth screw pit, with a capac¬
ity of three bales a day, was used in
turning it out. A thin fabric wrap¬
ping arid crude cotton ropes were
used in packing the hale.
Since then, however, the old wrap
pings have been removed and the |
staple re-baled with modern jute flag¬
ging and steel ties.
TWO ARE BURNED
TO DEATH AFTER
HIGHWAY CRASH
Saiidersville, Ga., Oct. (i. r IP )—Two
unidentified men were binned to death
last night when their truck overturn¬
ed and caught fire after striking the
concrete approach to the Buffalo
creek bridge six miles west of here.
Authorities said all markers of
identification were burned away. The
bodies were found in the creek l,c
neath the bridge. The truck, loaded
with canned pineapple, was apparent¬
ly eu route from Savannah to Atlan¬
ta.
Packing cases were strewn for
more than 100 feet along the road.
The truck was demonished. Bodies
of the men were brought to an under¬
taking establishment, here while po¬
lice tried to establish identity of the
INSULL REFUSES
TO LEAVE CANADA
Orillia, Ont., Oct. (!. UP)- John
Hampton, assistant slates attorney
of Cook county, Illinois, said early to¬
day that Martin Instill, indicted pub¬
licity magnate, had refused to waive
extraditions and return voluntarily to j
Cook county.
Hampton , said . , he , would , , go to . _ Bar
ne, 22 miles from here, to start legal
procedure for extradition.
f, ' Wm
a visit mm to Toronto.
mg, “I (lid he said, not know ‘and 'anyone I have was com- tate-i j
no
men) to make on this matter j
Be ore* no* It'll foronto Hampton j
said he would try to persuade Insull j
to return voluntarily to the ITnifcert j
) the State* Canadian but if ho authorities, refused he to w-rest would him a*k |
i xod place him under bond while j
an
warrant wa. procured,
I TO CALI. ELECTION
Atlanta, 7. Oct. ~....... )—Governor 1
(>. t/P
'Richard B. Russell, .Jr., announced to- !
that, he ....
, would (-all a special elec
tion in the third congressional dis- I
itiict coincident with the general elec* !
tion November X, to fill out the un- i
expired ........■* term 4 of •' Congressman Charles ’
{R- Crisp. Representative Crisp ha
announced his resignation, effective
Oetiber 7, to accept an appointment
as a member of the federal tariff
commission.
BELATED
Democratic Presidential Nom¬
inee Says Effort Being Made
to Have Farmers Forget Un¬
friendly Attitude
HAPPY PRESIDENT
AGREES WITH HIM
Speaks to Group of Business
anil Professional Clubs Ad¬
vocating His Election to
Presidency.
Albany, N. Y., Oct. (1. i/F) Governor
Franklin l>. Roosevelt renewed
attack upon the Republican
istration today in a radio .speech to
group of Roosevelt business and pro
fessional clubs and charged that bc
lated promises had been addressed to
a specific group in the hope that farm
ers might forget the “consistently
unfriendly attitude” of the udmin
ist ration.
The Democratic presidential nomi
said that ever since the day he
was nominated he hajl been preaching
the doctrine of restored
alike to all of the varied interests 0 f
the country.
"I am luippv that the president in
his speech of Tuesday finally has
to agree with me on this point
when he says, ‘Every thinking citi
knows that the farmer, the work
or and the businessman are in the
same boat and must all come to shore
together,’ ” he said,
"I am glad also that he thereby
admits that the farmer, the worker
and the businessman are now all of
them very much at sea.’
Roosevelt said the type of cam¬
paigning which he characterized as
making belated promises to farmers
in the hope that their minds might lie
turned away from what he called a
consistently unfriendly attitude oil the
part of Ihe administration “might he
''"It! In' 1 said a jHi'k ft whs 'wxi.cl his canurnmn.” fQrrvictfon
the Democratic candidate would .l )(i
with Ihe administration
government at the coming election
Mr. Roosevelt said there was a need
for a greater assurance of security
0 workers o.f all industries.
Old age, sickness and unemploy¬
ment. insurance are requirements in
these days,” lie said.
He added (here also was a need
for measures to regularize and plan
for a balance among industries and
for “envisaging production as a nn
activity.’ . .
AGED MATRON SLAIN;
WOMAN IS FATAL
LY BEATEN WITH CROWBAR
IN ATLANTA HOME
Atlanta, Oct. 0. UP) Her head
by a blow from a crowbar,
Mrs. Etta McAfee, (15-year-old Bir¬
matron was slain here yes¬
in the home of Mrs. W. H.
vn( , r ' acquaintce of Mrs. Mc¬
.
Mrs. Joyner's husband, an unem¬
ployed butcher, was arrested. Police
his daughter, Louise Joyner,
saying she heard Mrs. McAfee
ami found her father stand¬
over the woman’s body wit h a
in his band.
Joyner declined to make any state¬
after his arrest.
Relatives of Mrs. McAfee in ]{j r - !
said Mrs. McAfee had spent
time in Atlanta since the
of her husband IX years ago and
she recently returned to Atlanta
spend Ihe winter.
Mrs. Joyner was away from home
the time of the slaying. Later she
she knew of rio quarrel or other
reason for the act. «
Neighbors who answer! 1 the daugh¬
ter’s call for help fold police they
Joyner after gaining ad
mittance to the room through a win
T) s#j(| j a ,
,|„. m w!U) ihl .
Joyner collapsed in his cell and
<ould not talk plainly af'Lei he was
booked pfimm^d^murdcr on a technical charge of “sus
”
Mt , s . survivt ,,| |, v a
brother, Jesse D. Wadsworth, pr'omi
ner ,t GadsrJcm, Ala., banker and four
sisters, Mrs. Hal Copeland, Mrs. Geo.
Xrwin, and Mrs. Belle Rogers,
m i n gham, and Mrs. N. Gerald,
Thomason, Ga.
Coroner Paul Donehoo will hold an
inquest.
—
PRISONER LASSOED
Miami, Fla., Oct. (!. (/Pi R. F.
truck driver, is a firm br¬
____-.............„ liever in making the _____ best _________ job _ possible _________
with the took at hand. So when a
negro left his automobile at a street
intersection to argue about the right
of way, Trantham, who used to be
a cowboy, lassoed him, hoisted turn on
the rear of the truck with a mechan¬
ical crane, used for lifting heavy ma¬
terials and drove, to police headquar
ters. The negro was charged with
disorderly conduct.
MAY0RAIJTY ELECTION IN
NEW YORK THIS FALL MUST
BE HELD DECLARES
’"'‘I''*....... HI, was convicted of
I | ■"anslaiighter in I lie l al a I st ithliing of
Mrs. Margaret Vilen. HI, at Birming
I ham, Ala.
Within Few Minutes After Gov¬
ernor Refused to Sign Legal¬
ized Beer Bill Lower Branch
Takes Action.
. ..... Ala.,Oct. ti. UP)
.. lew minutes alter the veto
a
message of Governor B. M. M’dlcr on
Edgar bill Li legalism flic sale of
near beer ill Alabama hud been L .............. read,
the house today by a vide of HI to 3(1
voted to pass it over the chief execu¬
tive and sent the measure to the sen¬
ate. j
Governor Miller in ret inning the j
hill said . its approval would have
a
strong tendency to encourage viola-!
tion of the prohibition statutes and
render llieir enforcement practically;
impossible as to beer
The hill originally passed the house
by a vote ot (17 to and the
by 24 to X. ■
I hr governor in his message said:
■" I’oi’L
“M.v prohibition views were known 1
fo the Democrats of Alabama and they
have elected me with that knowledge
and on that platform- Ibis Dill drives
a wedge into our nrohibit ion statutes
with destructive force, which in my;
opinion, Hence this should not lie house permitted., bill 71.”
my veto of
LEO MULLIS HURT
IN AUTO MISHAP
Macon, Ga., Oct. (!. UP) George
(Tester, 2(129 Edgewood Road, Tam¬
pa, Fla., and Leo Mullis, Waycross,
Ga., were critically injured and two
other men sulf’ercd minor injuries
when two automobiles collided near
here las! night.
John Doniiney, 25, Miami, flu.,
and a man who police . aid (hey be
lievod was J. A. Ferguson, sull'cicd
minor injuries.
(Tester, a film representative, was
en route to Tampa, with Doniiney
when their car crashed with that of
Mullis.
Hope For Reunion Is Vanishing
There’ll Be No Confederate Get Together Because Of
Depression And Chill Winds
By JAMES II. STREET
Atlanta Oct. 0. UP I Georgia's
Confederate veterans- they once wad¬
ed barefooted through snow prooaulv
won’t “jine up” in Atlanta for n ie
uiiion Ibis year because it,’s getting
a mite chilly up here in the hills.
There are not many of them and
they have been “jining up” for a long
to whoop a few rebel yells and j
talk .about the nights they spent in
the mountains when winter winds
howled down the Tennessee Valley and
right through to the marrow < f
the hones.
But if’ a long ways from 19 to 90.
General William Harden, command
dec of of the Georgia division of Ihe
United _______ (onfcdcraif _______________ Veterans, says
chances for a reunion are slim no¬
less some south Georgia city invites
warriors to its hearth Atlanta
has issued no formal call and plans
for a meet in Macon went algy.
The Confederate home here invit¬
ed some 150 veterans to meet there,
but since it couldn’t take care of the
widows, authorities decided such a
reunion would not be practical.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Resignation of James Walker
Caused Vacancy in Office
»y
JOSEPH M'KEE WILL
NOT SERVE ALL YEAR
Six of Seven Judges Concurred
in Opinion and Ruling Based
on Precedent Set Six Years
Ago.
Alliany, N. Y„ Oct. (!. (IP) The
New Yolk (Hurt of appeals held to
day that a i mayoralty election must
be held in New Yoik City this fall.
The controversy learned the court
ul appeals on an appeal by David Mc¬
Adams, a friend of the acting mayor,
Joseph V. McKee, from an order of
the appellate division reversing the
act ion of Supreme Court Justice John
E. McGeehun who had granted a mo¬
tion lor a writ of mandamus to re¬
strain the New York City bhaI'd of
elections from holding a mayoralty
election on November X, next, the day
of the annual general election.
McAdams’ proceedings was a tax¬
payers action, and svas based on the
contention thal McKee had succeeded
lo the entire une.xpircd term to which
Mayor Walker was elected and that
the great New York charter forbade,
mayoralty elections in years in which
general slate election was held. The
city charter, it was contended, was
ia | |,.gis|ajl ion and superseded all
statute- that, might otherwise
apply.
I Ik* hoard of Hoot ions and tho
chairman of hoth the Democratic and
Socialist political organizations in the
counties comprising Ihe tfroatcr city,
through their defense* maintained the
mayor of New York was a constitu
officer, that the state constitu¬
j,,,, provides for elections to fill va
cancies on the election day next sue
(lie happenings of the vacancy
| Hud there was nothing in the
York City charter to forbid such
an ion.
Six of the seven judges concurrc*
in the opinion. Judge Lehman did not
vote,
The ruling of the high court was
h as ,.,| on a precedent set about six
ago .when a vacancy otlire'due occurred in
the Albany mayor’s to death
and the court held it must be filled
by election.
Declaring the question had reached
this stage: "Shall I permit myself
to he lynched to satisfy prejudice or
political ambition?” Mayor James J.
Walker resigned September 1, as the
hearing of Samuel Scabury’s charges
against him neared its close before
Governor Roosevelt in Albany. The
hearing based on testimony gathered
by the Ifofstadtev committee in a 14
months’ investigation, began on An¬
gus! II. Twice while it. was in pro
gre moves were made through the
courts to top it, but, the supreme
court ruled that tile governor was
nrling within his own jurisdiction.
In a 1,700-word formal statement
which accompanied his resignation.
Walker said he was submitting his
case to the people who made me
(Continued on Page 3,1
The reunions are expensive and a
host city’s responsibility is great.
then, too, chilly winds sweep over
Atlanta in October. They are even
(•hilly enough to make young folks
wear hats. It. might be to.) cold for
men who once fought in the Wilder¬
ness and had no warmth for th< iv
bodies except the excitement of bat
tic and the st imulation of youth,
There may be no reunion, bu* 'he
will “jine up” anyway around
their own firesides this winter and
talk about things heroes talk about.
They have always had their fire¬
side reunions and they talk and talk
as cronies do- like this:
“Remember the time up Chatta.
nooga way when it was so cold we
couldn’t aim our muskets? And the
river was chock full of Yankee gun¬
boats and there wasn’t a right smart
of us left to protect Cawja? It wasn't
the gunboats that bothered us—it was
the snow and rain that drenched OUF
fires. We didn’t have, any shoes,
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