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fcLiNTON, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21,1935
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NUMBER 8
MANY ISSUES
BEFORE HOUSE
Lower Bibdy Stiffens Fine On
Drunken^ Auto Drivers. Kills
- Bill To Divert Fertilizer Tax
To School Books.
Colun^a, Feb. 20.—Penalties, to be
CLINTON FOLKS
YOU KNOW
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imposed Off* drunken, drivers of’ auto
mobiles, salaries of judges, free text*
books for school children to be bought
with the tax now imposj^_pnj(ertili-
xer and going to demson college ai^ |
various, other niatters engaged the at
tention of the house of representatives
‘before lunch yesterday as the mem
bers returned to Columbia to begin
the seventh week of the ^ssion.
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The * so-called “dranken drivers'
bill" introduced by J. D. Witherspoon,
Laurens, proposed an amendment to
the present law so as to increase the
mittitnum fine of $15 for the first of
fense to $50. The measure provoked
considerable debate, some faring to
make the penalty too high lest con
victions should be difficult to secure.
T. P. Taylor, Ri<^land, offered an
amendment to the effect that on con-
vi^ion for the second or subsequent
time the j\idge be authorised to re
voke the driver’s license •dor a period
from one year to five years. On mo
tion of Solomon Blait, Barnwell, this
amendment was tabled by a vote of
*^^41 to 40, and then M. H. Mellette,
Clarendon, offered another amend
ment to change the $50 to $25 and
this amendment was^adoptecL Then
the amended measure wjts advanced
to third reading. So that the' effect
is to change the minimum fine for
th# first offense from $15 to $25.
The bill relating to judges’ sala
ries attracted but little debate. It pro
vided that judges hereafter to be
elected receive $5,000 as salary but an
amendment by the ways'^ and means
comnuttee raising the figure to $6,000
was adopted. M. F. Bush, Aiken,
speaking for the bill, said in his opin
ion there was nothing more humiliat
ing to the people of the atgte than the
question of judges’ salaries. Solicitors,
he said, were much undepaid as com
pared with the $7,500 the judges re
ceive; he held the income of the av
erage white* citixen of the state was
far ander $1,000.per year. "It is
folly," he declared, "to elect a man
at one salary and then ask him to
refund a -jpart of it." The house pws-
ed the measure, as amended, fixing
the Judicial salary at $6,000. The bill
waa in line so far as salary was con
cerned with the measure previously
passed by the house and sent to the
senate. The bill was' introduced by
F. F. Bush, J. W. Duncan, A. J. Hat
field, J. B. Britton, C. L. Wheeler and
H. P. Beam.
The bill introduced by R. Honker
McAdams, Abbeville, providing that
the funds arising from the inspection
tax on commercial fertiHxer be used
to supply free textbooks t<^the gram
mar grade school pupils of the state
went to a quick death.
Mr. McAdams, speaking for the blil,
said the tnx amounted to about $175,-
000 annually, and that Clemson col
lege no longer needed it, as it has
fees and other sources of income on
which to operate. D. A. G. Ousts, of
Greenwood, also spoke for the bill.
J. M. Moorer, Colleton, wanted to
know if it was fair to tax farmers and
RHADa WRIGHT WADE
R. W. Wade, well known locil at
torney, is a South Carolinian by birth,
a Clintonian by adoption^ He was bom
in Chester county, a son>of William
E. T. and Rhoda Wright Wade, and is
the oldest of a family of nine children.
His childhood days were spent in a
one-teacher school in the Broad river
section of the coqpty, after which he
entered the Che.ster^igh school from
which he graduated in 1910. In the
fall of that year he entered the Uni
versity of ^uth Carolina where he
received his A. B. degree in 1914, and
LL.B. in 1916.
In tJhe fall of 1916 Mr. Wade ac
cepted work iruthe law office of the
late S. E. McFadden of Chester*. Upon
the declaration of war in 1917, h^ol-
unteered for .service and was called to
duty during the summer. He was soon
commissioned as second lieutenant,
fjeld artillery. Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.,
and served with the 81st division at
Camp Jackson until the summer of
1918. He attended an artillery school
in France and .then was assigned to
'the 107th field artillery'*,'^ 28th divis
ion. In May, 1919 he was discharged
at Camp Dix, N. Y.
Returning home, Mr.. Wade was
employed «a alumni seeratary of the
Unitenrity of South Caiolina and re
mained in this position for two years.
In November, 1921, Mr. Wade lo
cated in Clinton for the practice of
law. His affiliations and coiuiections,
his personality and ability have made
him become more and more popular in
his civil practice. He has lived up to
the finest traditions of the bar and in
his dealings in all matters he shows'
that strict integrity which marks the
sterling man no matter what his pro
fession or occupation may be. Until
September past, for a period of 12
years he served Clinton as city attor
ney, during^i^ich period he success
fully handled several complicated liti
gations and mtdered valuable service
in all cases he was called upon to set
tle in the city’s interests.
As sn adopted Clintonian, Mr. Wade
has entered into the, spirit of the com
munity and has always manifested an
interest in various activities and or
ganizations of the city not connected
with his own profession. He served
the Chamber erf Commerce for sev
eral years as secretary, and then as
president. His, church tsffiliation is
with Broad Street Methodist church
then use* the money to buy books for
all children with the money from the j and he has served in the capacity of
tax, fLS farmers pay the inspection|its Sunday-school superintendent ahd
tax. He thought a rental system of j is now teacher of the Men’s Bible
textbooks best at present. The motion I class of this church. In various ways
made by M. D. Kellar, Calhoun, tftat'he has rendered helpful, distinguished
Hauptmann Made
*Jiist A Prisoner’^
“Dramatics” Removed By Jer
sey Jail Officials.^Publicity Is
Opposed. — r
Trenton, N. J., Feb. 17.—Bruno
Richard Hauptmann, in the limelight
forlfive months, sat in his cell in the
death house of the New Jersey state
prison'today—"just another prisoner
acting in a normal way."
State officials, including Governorl
Harold G. Hoffman and William J.
Ellis, convmi^sio«er*of institution-s and
Non-Partisiw
Set Up As Go^
President 'Delays Makihg Rec
ommendations -To Congress
‘ For Day or Twq. r~
Washington, Feb. 1.—Through Don-
aid Richborg’^'the administration to
day appar^ently let it be known that it
favors an NRA controlled by non
partisans rather than through joint
employer - labor repr©.sentation on
code and’ Similar authorities.
Richberg is hea<t of the administra-
Last Rites Paid
lAwrence Blakely
Esteemed Farmer of Long;
; Branch Section Succumbs. In
terment At Leesville Church.
agencies, sought to remove "all dra- committee set up to frame NRA
matics’’ from the incai-ceration of the
mfin convicted of killing the lind- organization, although
bergh baby. been ^active in the latter
What Hauptmann—convict 17,400—
did ai^d what he said in his first
twenty-four hours in cell 9 within six
paces of the death chamber was
know only to himself and his guards.
"He’s like every man who comes in
here,” Colonel George L. Selby, acting
principal keeper, said. "And he’ll be
treated like any one else. The board
of manei^ra is opposed to publicity
about the prison and about Haupt
mann.” f '
The German carpenter, who was
transferred to the death house yes
terday from the Hunterdon county jail
at Flemington, had no visitors during
the day and will hf^ve. none, with the
possible exceptipn of counsel, before
Tuesday
Selby explained that prisoners us
ually are quarantined for fourteen
days, but that rule does not alway?
apply to persons condemned to death.
The pri.son board of managers, at its
monthly meeting tomorrow night, will
decide, Selby .said, whether Haupt-
mamn’s wife may see him before the
fourteen-day period.
Although prison rules provide a
man’s relatives may visit him only
once a month, Selby said it was pos
sible the board of managers might
permit Mrs. Hauptmann to see her
husband twice a month because he
has no other relatives nearby.
Although Hauptmann Jias been sen
tenced to die the week of March 18,
capa6ity lately. >i .
Mr. Roosevelt’s recommendations
for a new NRA were scheduled to be
sent to congress today but his message
was withheld. At the White House it
was said that transmission probably
would be^ deferred for a day dr IWo.
^The pre.sident generally is expected
to ask for a one year extension of
the Blue Eagle organization‘with som
changed, and with authority to extend
the life of the NRA for another year
if considered necessary.
Administration officials have said
also that the piesident probably
would ask for retention of section
7-a, which sets forth labor’s right to
collective bargaining, without change.
Labor has insisted that this clause
is strengthened. Other recommenda
tions imlicated are retention of mini
mum wage and maximum hours pro
visions; a restateipent of provisions
aimetl at monopoly- and clauses de
signed for a simpler and more copi-
pact organization.
Richberg told the house labor com
mittee which had before it a bill call
ing for labor representation on cod^
authorities ami other NRA, boards
that: "If the NRA which we are set
ting up for the future is to be suc
cessful it must be run by public offi
cials with" no partisan interests.’’
/ 'Richberg . insisted that industrial-
tabor warfare must stop in the public
interest. He said that arbitrary re-
that sentence is expected to be stayed quirements for equal represenUtion of
by appeals. If the conviction is up
held and new date is set for the elec
trocution, Mrs. Hauptimnn will be al
lowed to see her hu^nd once a week.
Hauptmann will be permitted to sec
his son, Mannifried. only once, some
time during the week before he dies..
Selby ridiculed reports that be ex
pected to obtain a confession from
Hauptmann.
_ ‘That’s all nonsense," he said. “I’m
not possessed of such powers. No one
ever got a confession in the history
of the death house."
Selby didn’t go near the deajth house
today because "there was no reason
for doing so.”
"Hauptmann’s - all right, though,"
Selby, a stem disciplinarian, said. "I
suppose'he’s been doing what the
others Ido—reading and smoking.
There’s no change in his status. He’s
a man who doesn’t show his expres
sion outright.”
labor and emploj^er on NRA boards
would only tend to intensify the con
flict.
The representation bill wa.s intro
duced by Chairman Connery (Demo
crat) of Massachussetts of the
com
mittee. It has the support of the
American ‘Federation of Labor, avow
ed foe of Richberg. »
Fujjftjj^ services for Lawrence D.
BlakelyTnighly regarded citizen of
the Long Branch section. Were held
Tuc.sday afternpon at 3:30 at the
Leesville Methodist church, and were
conducteil by his pastor. Rev. Ray
Anderson, assisted by Rev. B. S. Dreh-
nan and Rev. 0. E. Taylor. Mr. Blake
ly passed away at his home early Sun
day* morning after'being in declining
health for the past year. The funeral
srevice as first arranged, was post
poned until Tuesday afternoon await
ing the arrival of a son, Rush D.
Blakely of New York, who had not
been back on a visit to his home since
he left here twenty-three years ago.
The interment was in the family
buriaT ground at the Leesville ceme
tery. The funeral was attended by a
large company of'people, with many
beautiful fforal offerings placed upon
the newly-made grave. Pallbearers
were" nephews of the deceased: Lee
Weeks, Larry Weeks, Charlie Weeks,
Jeremiah Holland,/'Bluford Holland
and. Bl^an Holland.
Mfe.'Blakely was born in 1864 in the
Long Branch comm_unity where be
lived his entire life. He was a, son of
the late H. Pinkney Blakely and El
liott M'ilam Blakely. He niarried Miss
Lilie Holland on Dec. 26/ 1888^(\^
MrT'Blakciy was a member of the
Holiness church of his Community and
was a devout Christian. He loved his
church, his home, family and friends
and waa generally beloved by those
who knew him because of his gentle
manners and many admirable traits
of character.
■^The deceased is survived by his
widow; two daughters, Miss Mae
Blakely and Mrs. J. T. To<ld, of Clin
ton; by two sons. Rush D. Blakely
of New York, and Erskine Blakely of
Washington, I). C. Also by one siste?,'
Mrs. Alice B. Weeks of Greenville,
and several grandchildren.
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CASE UPHELD
Success Crowns High Court
Test,By Divided Vote of Five
To Four. Federal Bondholders
Suffer No Damage. »
Fast Work Witfr
LauTMit Court
Number of Cases Disposed Of
Under “Peculiar” Circumstan
ces.” Clerk of Court Sick.
New Postmaster
Assumes Office
B. R. Fuller Succeeds Ralph R.
Blakely At Local Qfllce By
MeSwain Appointment.
Change Made In
- College Faculty
Dr. E. M. Berry Relieves Prof.
Martin for Remainder of
Term In Math Department.
the bill be killed prevailed.
Another measure, introduced
Calhoun Thomas, Beaufort; L.
by
service to his city.
Mr. Wade, in 1918^ married Miss
Rivers, J. W. D. Zerbst and J. A, Lof
ton, Charleston, and C. Lester Thomas,
Hampton, was also killed quickly. It
M. Frances Marian Spratt, daughter of
Barnet M. and Frtince.s K. Spratt, of
Chester. They have one spn,- William]
Barnet, a popular, member of the
provided that refunds be made of cer-^ tenth grade of the C?linton4iigh school,
tain portions of motor-vehicle license!
fe^ to persons engaged in the mili
tary OT'naval service .of the Uniied
States upon the transfer of such p^-
soM to points without the Ithte. Bw.
Zerbst, speaking for the bill, said men
in the service were often transferred
to other states after they had bought
automobile plates and that the meas
ure provided for a refund in such in
stances. The point made Against the
bill was that pther peTSons also left
the state after buying license tags
measure died
The bill introduced by J. S. Wolfe,
.Orah^peburg, amending a section of
code by ex^rwiing the ,tax exemp
tion now provi
for American Le-
l^n property to lirqperty of Veterans
of f’ore^n Warsiviund to property of
-Spanisfa 4rmr veterans met with favor
and was advanced to third reading.
Mr. Wolfe said, in Orangebpiv* three
veterans’ organizations owned jointly
a di^^use and grounrfi used for rec-
reaCkmal purposes and that American
Legion property was lexnnpt fibm
tautloli under existing tews 'but
property other two was not.
The purpose of his bill was to extend
that exemption to other veteraM er-
ganiaations’ property also. C. B. Ken-
dri^ S^rtanbuiir, amended the
(CoBtiniied on page eigfat)
Seed Loan Bill --
Tq^Aid Farmers
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W'ashing^on, Feb. 16.»—When Pi^i-
dent Rooi^elt attaches his signature
to the seed loan bill $60,000,000 will
be made available to small farmers
to finance this year’s crops.
A conference report on the bill has
been approved by both the senate
and were given no refunds and soothe .and house and it is ^pected to become
law soon.
The bill was pushed through the
senate by Chaiman Smith of the Ag-^)
riculture committee." Representative
Fdmer was a factor in passage of
the measiu^by the house.
Dr. Eugene M, Berry has arrived
in the city to assume thb teaching du
ties of Prof, A". V. MaYtin,.st Presby
terian college. Prof. Martin has been
granted a leave of ab.sence until next
.September in the hope of regaining
his health which has been impaired
fof^ several'nronths. ^ ^
Dr. Berry who is originally from
Maine, completed his undergraduate
work at Colgate, in Hamilton, N. Y.
He received his advanced, degree# at
the Univesity of Iowa, his Ph. D. be
ing in the department of mathematics.
For six years he taughf at Purdue,' an
engineering‘School. ^ For the past
eight years he has been in charge of
the department of mathematics’,, and
physics at Lynchburg college, a church
institution similar to Presbyterian
college.
' Dr. Berry has already entered upon
his duties snd has been given a cor
ial welcome to the college campus.
B. R. Fuller, recently appointed
Clinton postmaster by Cong. J. J. Mc-
Swsin, assumed office last Friday suc
ceeding R. R. Blakely who had held
the position for the past four and a
half years. Until Mr. Fuller’s ap
pointment has been confirmeil by the
senate, he will be active pOstpiaster
in-full charge of the office, j'
Mr. Fuller secured the appointment
through Gong. MeSwain over fifteen
other aspii^nts who filed applications
for the post' when the civil service ex
amination was called last August. For
the past two years he has served Hun
ter townsihip ait Clinton, as magis
trate, and in the recent primary was
nominated for a second two year term
beginning neSet May. His resignation
wsa ..tendered to Governor Johnston
effective Feb. 15th, and accepte<l.
Postmasters who have served Clin
ton during the past forty years are:
J. P, Little, VV. M, .McMillan, A. J.
Milling and R. R. Blakley. Mr. IJttle
died several year.s ago in Phoenix,'
Arizona, where He move<l im 1913 to
make his home. “
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Himting Forlndden
In This County
In a notice issued last week by Chief
Game Warden A. A Richardson, and
published ih Ihe Laurens Advertiser,
a closed season was ordered on id)
hunting in Laurens eonnty beginning
last Wewnesdsy. The order was is-
SttsL oh the rocosnoModatlMi of jthe
Laurens county ddegati<m, wHh no
other cgpteaarion givao of ike aetkm.
Special Services
At llie CoHbge
I.aurpns, Feb. 18.—Short shift was
made Monday of the February term
of general sessions court, held under
"peculiar circumstances’’ as it ^ was
termed by the presiding judge, P. H.
Stoll of Kingstree.
Because of the fact that the jury
commission did not draw a grand jury
for the year and a petit venire for
the February term at the advertised
date for such drawing, owing to the
illness’of the clerk of court at the
time, it was decided to recall last
year’s grand jury for extra service,
with the understanding ,that only
those cases in which the defendants
would enter pleas of guilty would in
dictments be passed on, as prepared
by the solicitor.
.\ccordingly, bills of indictment,
each charging housebreaking and lar
ceny, were banded to the grand jury
with instructions from the court to
rep^t^on them in the regular proce
dure, ^As a result ten defendants, five
white men and five negroes pleaded
guilty without the assistance of cotin-
sel. Sentences ranged from one year
to sixteen month.s.
The .sheriff said that only two pri-v
oners had been left in the jail. It
was announced that all cases no’t disr
posed of Monday had been continued
until another term of the criminal
court.
Wa.shington, Feb. IH.—Dividing five
to four the sujireme court in effect
swept away any government or pri-
vate obligation.s to jiay gold bo'nd.s in
gold. While invalidating the law say
ing the government obligations need
not be paid in -gold, the court simul
taneously denied holders of federal
bonds th^'ight to sue for redress in
the court of claims.‘This right is also
denie<r holders bf qld gold bond cer-. .
tificates w'ho had sought to get $1.69
for each of their dollar certificate.s ;
The government won all along the lino
regarding private bonds and state
and municipal contracts. ~
Washington, Feb. 18.—The supremo
court today upheld the governhient’r—
right to cancel "gPId clauses” in pri
vate-bonds but ruleil that the govern-
fnent’s 'gold^bligation.s can not be
paid off in a/.^dollar for dollar” basis.
Chterf Ju.stice Hughes, in a summari
zation' of the decision, disclosjed the
court’s ruling that governmorit gold
clause bonds must be paid off in gold
or Its equivalent of the devaluated
curi'ency."”
This in effect means, that for eyei y
$1,000 gold bond, the govemij/ient
mu.st jVay $1,690.
What the administration’s attitude
would bo remained to Ik* seen. It had
alrt‘a(ly_l>een declared by Attorney
General Cummings to lie "ready for
any emergency.” .
The government won riie solitaiy
case invalidating gold emifi'eates. The
decision was that the court of claims
did not have jupiJHliction to entertain
a suit againf^^he federal govornjiieut
because ()v Erold Iwnds and certifi
cates. -
F./E, Nortz, of New York, owner
of^$106,300 of gold certificates, had
sued to recover $04,334 whicli he said
wa.s the difference between what he
received and the value of gold to
which he contended he was entitled.
The Joint resolution suspending gold
payment, which the court declared
valid as applied to private contracts,''
was enacted June 5, 1933. Its purpose
was to assure uniform value to cojins
and currency of the United .States,
He then reviewed the history of
previous’regulations concerning mon
ey and decisions of the court on the
subject. *
Hughes stateil the court wa? not^—j
concerned with the wisdom of the law
in question but that the question was
"one of power and not of po<itic8.” .
President Roosevelt was closetbd
I with his secretaries, Marvin McIntyre
'and Stephen Pearly as the decision was
handed down.
The out.standing federal gold clause
securitie.s-exceed $14,565,000,000, some
seven billions havifig been Retired
[since (he enactment of the disputed
'law. The treasury had e.stimated re-
I demption of these in new deal d<*l-
Contra^ct Le| Oq,
Rokd In County
_ Special' aervices began at Presbyte
rian college Monday and ce^inued
through last night, services being held
morning and evening in the college
chapel.
TTie Rev.'^A. G. Harris, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church of Mil-
ledgc^llCf G*-, was the leader for the
services and delivered a series of h^p-
fttl, tespirationid messages that wero
well raotived by the atndent body
faculty. Mr. Harris was pastor ct the
Seasea Predbytsriaa d^nreh bsrforo go-
iof to MiltedfsvUte sir years ago.
S. S. Newell & Company, of Green
ville, were the low bidders when bids
were opened in Coli^bia last week
for bituminous surfa<wg of 4.78 miles
of Route 392 iii this county known as
the Cold Point road “lying between
Cold Point and the intersection of the
Mouirtville cut-off with the Cross Hill
highway. The successful bid on the
project was $40,596.
..TO SPEAK HERD SUNDAY
Rev. K. E. Strong, member of Ers
kine col^ge faculty, will preach at
the Thornwoll Memorial church on
Sunday, both morning and afternoon.
The pastor. Dr. L. R. Lynn, is out of
the city on a^two weeks’ trip in Flor
ida in the interest of the orphanage.
TO PRESENT,PLAY AT
, MOUNTVILLE SCHOOL I
A three-act play, "Caught Napping”!
will be presented in the auditorium of
the Mountville high school Friday eve-
ning> Feb. 22, at 7^30 o’cl^k.
'The cast is compWd largely of the
school faculty, and the proceeds Will
go to the Parent-Teacher assoctetW.
.Admiateon of 10 oenta fo(.adhool ehil-
'dnte and 20 cents for aduHs will be
ehargod* .
Mr. Merchant-
J- .
What are you doing to in
crease. your business, t'o bring
customers to yodr store? Busi
ness doesn’t just happen in
these days of keen competition.
There’s a big difference between
a live merchant and a mere
store-keeper.
Newspiper advertising is rec-
ognied . jM the cheapest, most
effective' :4nowii. Newspaper
readers- ai'e' boyers, their col
umns are producers.
Advertising is Today’s Great
est Business Ally.
The Chronicle
“The Family Newspaper That
Goea Into tko Homo and
vis Road"
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lars to be_lhe.equivalent of the bonds’
gold cont^t would increase their re-
demifitibh cost by over 15 billion.
Then 40 billion of state, county and
municipal indebtedness is affected,
payment of which in money of .old
content would have added 28 billion
to the ^‘bt.
"Fairly construe<l the gold clausifs
were intendinl to afford a definite*
standard of measure of value and thus
protect against depreciation of cur
rency by i>ayment of a lesser value
than that |H'<*scrilH‘<l,”’ Hughes saiil.
Treasury officials ' were running
hack and forth relaying the decision
over an ojK'n clicuil telephone system
to high government offinals down
town.
Senator Rohin.<on came out of the
hcotM't and said, "I’m satisfied.”
Informed-ef■ the decision, Summers,
of the house judiciary, said “that’*.s
all right. The big trouble was in the
private cases. We can take cafe of the
federal cases by legislation without
paying a cent.”-
"We are not concerned with the con
sequences in the sense that conse
quences, however serious, may excuse
an invasion of constitutional rights,"
.said the court.
Speaker Byrns said "a .satisfactory
verdict, -but^. the importance of the
opinion is to my mind exaggerated."
In his summary Hughes said “the
question at issue was the power of
congress to establish a monetary sys
tem and the power of congress to in
validate existing contracts which in
terfere with its constitutional author
ity and whether the gold clau-se did
constitute such an interference as to
bring them'within the rortge of con
gress oyer the monetary system.”-
i "Private parties, states, municipali
ties and their' snbdivisions," said
Hughes, "have no power to enter into
a gold clause contract providing they
interfered with the power of congress
to regulate the currency.”
ji. "We are concerned with tl^ ooasti-
tutkmal power of congress over the
monetai y systenr ef ■
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