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^ $2.00 Per Year in Adavance. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1922. Established in 1891. ||
January Term of
Criminal Court Ends
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The January term of the court of
.general sessions for Bamberg county
ended here last Friday with the com
"rap- -' ?
pletion of the case of the state
against R. O. Williamson charged
with murder.
% The doings of the first few days of
the court were related in last week's
v issue of The Herald. And last Wednesday
as The Herald went to press
the case of the state against Warren
Oharlton, negro, charged with the
murder of Ruby Watkins, also
? a negro, at a hot supper in
the lower part of the county,
was in progress. The jury re&
turned to its room on this case short
' 1& before the dinner recess hour; in a
& few hours, one of the jurors, Thomas
Beard, received word from his wife
oAvoral miloc in Hia nmintrv that aha
k had been suddenly and very critically
c > stricken ill and if possible to come ajt
once with a doctor. The judge asked
foreman of the jury if he thought
? they could agree in the next few minutes,
and the reply was in the negaX
tive; the jury had already had the
case under consideration about four
hours. So Judge De Vore said he felt
\ it his duty under the circumstances
n onH allnw \fr I
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U Beard to hurry to his ill wife. This
'*V was done, and thus the case will be
' held over until another term of
court. Charlton's case has been hangEl
Jng for quite a while and he was at
: ; once granted bail by Judge DeVore.
At the conclusion of this case another
old murder case was tak a up
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^ f and quickly completed. That was
against a young negro named Pat
* Tick Loadholt from the lower part of
the county. He was indicted for killing
another negro by the name of
Jesse Folk at one of these free for
all frolicks in his section a few years
* -arfcirrh n?iiaHv rftsnlt in one or
? two funerals. The one in question
? was the occasion for two because at
f; ihe same time Loadholt killed Folk
another negro, Jesse Padgett, was
also shot and killed by Folk. How*
ever, it seemed to be a case of self
i * defease for Loadholt who offered no
testimony whatever, and the court
directed a verdict of acquittal on the
state's case alone. He was found
fe guilty of carrying concealed weapons
though and fined $50 or sentenced
to serve 30 days on the gang.
The Williamson case was the next
|Mv.? . and last one tried. The facts of this
case have been reviewed before
in The Herald, . and are pretty
^ "well known to Bamberg county people.
It will be remfemjberedi that
Williamson and his wife hailed W.
? Ham Brabham, a prominent Ehrhardt
man, on the street in front of
V V ' Williamson's home in Ebrhardt, a
short argument ensued and Williamson
shot Brabham to death. The
tragedy occurred Blaster Sunday
A nm'1 Ofl+K 1Q1Q Tha mia
mvi U1U5, Ayill ttWA&y XV X UV VWV
" > - ;WM once before tried, the defendant
; being convicted of manslaughter with
recommendation to'mercy, and Speeial
Judge Charles Carroll Simms,
of Barnwell, imposed a sentence of
ten years at (hard labor upon him,
probably a record sentence for such a
verdict. Upon appeal the supreme
court sent the case hack for anomer
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trial on another point involved. And
IW? M after remaining out about four hours
the jury this time returned identically
the same verdict as the other jury,
? and the court cut the sentence half
in two. Williamson getting five vears.
It is understood that no appeal will
be taken and that the prisoner has
already entered upon his sentence on
? ' the Bamberg county chain gang. Thus
ends this celebrated case. Solicitor
Gunter is still sick in Aiken, and B.
W. Miley, of the local bar, conducted
the prosecutions for the state during
the entire week of court.
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Watches Him Cut It.
She was a very sweet young bride,
who: had already found what looks
like a nice piece of meat in the shop
often seems to have gone through a
private transformation scene when it
arrives home.
"How is it?" she inquired eagerly,
T17V1 an nld marriail f rion rl
n uvu uu v/xu mux a iwu ai av/Aau v??v\a
^ upon her, "that you always manage
to have such delicious beef."
"It's very simple," replied the elder
woman. "I first select a good, honest
butcher, and then I stand by him."
"Oh, I see! You give him all your
orders, you mean?" said the innocent
young bride.
"No" answered her companion,
grimly: "I stand by him while he is
cutting the meat."
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HOUSE PASSES DYER MEASURE.
A nti-Lynching Bill Sent to the Senate, j
Fight by Democrats.
Washington, Jan. 26.?The house
today declared itself in favor of the
federal government exerting its au1
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inoruy 111 aii euon to uui,
lynching, passing by a vote of 230
to 119 the Dyer anti-lynching bill.
Seventeen Republicans joined 102
Democrats in voting in the opposition,
while eight Democrats and one
Socialist, London of New York, voted
with 231 Republicans in favor of the
measure.
The bill provides life imprisonment
or lesser penalties for persons
who participate in lynchings and for
state, county and municipal officials,
who fail through negligence to pre
vent them. Tne measure aisu stipulates
that the county in which mobs
form or kill anyone shall forfeit
$10,000 to the family of the victim.
Democratic opponents of the bill,
defeated in attempts to recommit it
to the judiciary committee and to
strike out the enacting clauses, made
no concerted effort to have amendment
a/tantari Thev declared "the
vicious principle of the bill" could
not be changed by amendments but
expressed confidence that the measure
never would receive senate approval.
Except for a few perfecting amendments
fffered: by Chairman Volstead
of the judiciary committee, amendments
proposed by individuals were
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French, Republican, of Idabo, would
have eliminated the provision requiring
counties to forfeit $10,000 to famt
ilies of mob victims.
One committee amendment not approved
removed from the bill the requirement
that couties through
which a mob passed should pay a
$10,000 penalty. Another one ac
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cepieil aeuueu <x muu aa
more persons acting together Io take
human life illegally. The bill originally
defined a mob as five or more
persons acting together.
During debate, which continued
intermitttently for a month, opponents
of the measure declared it
would be an unconstitutional invasion
of state rights and would have
a tendency to increase rather than
decrease lynctfings. They also
charged that Republicans were supporting
the proposal for political
reasons.
Proponents, however, contended
that states, especially in the south,
had failed to handle the situation
and that to afford all races protection
guaranteed them under the federal
constitution it was necessary for
the federal government to take a
hand.
lts.O0O.000 FOR SODA POP.
South Carolina Also Spends Millions
For Candy.
Columbia, Jan. 21.?The most remarkable
increase in business in
South Carolina in the past ten years
is represented in the mineral and
soda water bottling establishments,
says Commissioner B. Harris in his
annual report made public today.
"Ten years ago," says Mr. Harris,
"the output of these establishments
was valued at $702,000. In
1920 this has increased to approximately
$5,000,000. In the subnormal
year of 1921 the total output of the
bottling works of the state was $3,118,484.
"Also, ten years ago the value
of the output of confectionery making
plants in the state was $21,600.
Tr. 1 Q 0 n ffoia >1,0/1 lTJ/TPfl fiprt to ST.
276,569. In 1921 it was but $843,177.
Yet, even in this subnormal
year the total of these two luxuries,
taffy candy and soda pop was approximately
$4,000,000, or twothirds
the amount of our state debt.
And these figures do not include soda
water sold at fountains or 'French'
candy shipped into the state in boxes.
These facts might suggest something
to those looking around for new ways
of raising revenue."
DITPRE HEARS DEATH SENTENCE.
Youthful Atlanta Bandit Convicted of
Murder Will Be Hanged.
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iviiaiiid, via., odii. i.o.?filter ue
jury had returned a verdict of guilty
in the case of Frank B. DuPre, youthful
bandit charged with the murder of
Detective Irby Walker following a
jewelry store robbery here last December,
Judge Matthews today sent1
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lencea uurre tu uaug .viaiuu iu. it
was later announced that a motion
would be heard for a new trial February
18 at Macon. DuPre was calm
when the verdict was returned.
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65 Bales on 6i
San Antonio, Texas, January 24.?
Lee F. Freeman is a 'general former
at Mercedes, in the southern Texas
Relt where holl weevils were as num
erous in 1921 as at any spot in the
entire cotton area; ana to Mr. Freeman's
thinking a little more so.
In one field of 65 acres he made
65 bales of standard weight cotton,
the staple running from one and
five-sixteenths to one and threeeights.
In another field of 32
acres of approximately the same gross
yield in the first crop he made an additional
top crop of 12 bales. This
is a greater yield than the same land
| produced under normal farming conj
ditions prior to the advent of the weefviI*
And this one practical "dirt farmer"
example illustrates what is being
done in commercial cotton raising
throughout Texas by those
! planters who farm as a business and
j not as a play-thing, or as a means
; merely of keeping body and soul together
while waiting for Gabriel to
blow his trumpet.
5 Climatic Differences Not a Potent
Factor.
Snme nnp mav sav. "O. well that's
in the warm gulf coast country where
the cotton is planted in March and
picked in August?"
So much the worse in dealing with
I the weevil, or in raising cotton under
boll weevil conditions.
My investigations have demonstrat
ed that the weevil is much more easily
controlled in the northern Texas
belt than in the southern, or hot belt.
The same will be found true in
Georgia.
Warm winters naturally carry more
weevils through the period of hibernation
than cold winters. That is com
mon sense.
The weevil does not keep account
of calendar months. He emerges from
hibernation earlier in the hot zones
than in the cold zones, as his habits
are affected by climatic conditions.
That's common sense.
Put the two facts together, there-L
fore, and what is the conclusion? I
That which long years of experience
in Texas has proven beyond a
question? the weevil becomes a
menace in the hot belt earlier than
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weevil control, per se, 'the farmer
in the warmer cotton zone has no
advantage over his brother to the
north.
Indeed the northern brother hasj
the advantage of conditions more
conducive to higher weevil mortality
in hibernation.
I hope that point is clear, and will
settle any controversy as to normal
climatic conditions.
This does not relate, of course, to
abnormal climatic conditions such as
nndnlv wet and humid spfing and|
summer conductive to weevil propagation:
or to dry, cold winter conductive
to weevil mortality.
At any rate, it is just a question of
any good, intelligent, industrious
farmer shaping his operations to his
usual local climatic conditions, and
them to the climatic conditions that
may develop, if unusual. That is plain
How a Texas Farmer Mastered the
Weevil.
Now let's have Mr. Freeman tell
his own story:
"Growing cotton successfully under
boll weevil conditions is not to be
whipped before beginning; not to be
discouraged by any unforseen condition;
not to stop cultivating when the
July picnics begin; not to go to sleep
on the job; not to trust worthless, nocount
tenants or help, who have nothing
but three meals a day at stake, to
do the work, without overseeing; not
to experiment with untried devices
and remedies, not to depart from the
old-time honored rules for growing
cotton; not to believe that cotton
will grow successfully on land too
poor for anything else; not to half
do anything?but on the contrary,
to bend every effort to make more
cotton on the same land than the
year before; to push it to boling just
as fast as is physically practicable;
and to work it, and then work it; and
not to 'lay-it-by' until the staple is
ready to pick. ]
"The bulk of our cotton is gathered;
in August," said Mr. Freeman. "Wej
begin preparing the soil just as early
as the season will permit after the
holidays. We take especial care in
the preparation of our seed beds?
care, with well tried system.
"We make, as nearly ds practicable,
every condition good for the cotton
growing and for getting a good
stand at the first planting so that no
energy may be lost in doing the work
> Acres in 1921
over.
"Of course, if weather conditions
drown us out, or dissipate our first
efforts, we go ungrouchingly about
the task of rebuilding what is torn
down. I am talking, though of rais
ing cotton successiuny in spite 01 tne
boll weevil under fairly normal conditions.
We must assume they will be
otherwise. We cannot invite disaster
and hope to win.
Matter of Fertilizing Up To Soil Conditions.
"We get the cotton in in March. So
far as the boll weevils are concerned
those who plant in April to the north
are just as well off, or better, because
the weevil's destruction begins when
the cotton is about the same age, deonif
a
apuc ^HlXlCLLH; CUUU1LIUUH.
"We use a plenty of fertilizer, but
do not try to over-do it. We must
practice economy. It does no good
to grow cotton at a loss. Better not
grow it at all. So we use 200 pounds
of nitrate of soda and over 300
pounds of acid phosphate to the acre;
or say we use meal. Fertilizing must
be determined upon by the individual
farmer in keeping with his soil con
ditions. Soil should be built up or
kept up by crop rotating, and by alternating
or crop following with velvet
beans, or something equally as profitable
in depositing the nitrates that
growing cotton consumes.
"All right, assuming that every
good, intelligent farmer knows his
own fertilizing problem I shall proceed
with my own method?
Push Growing Plant By Intensive
Cultivation.
"We push the cotton after the
stand just as fast as possible by intensive
cultivation. We chop it just
as we always did without any new
fangled ideas as to thin spacing, etc.,
in order to cope with the weevil.
We simply endeavor to make cotton
?and just as much as is physically
possible to make by intensive cultivation?just
as though there wasn't
a boll weevil in a thousand miles of
us.
"But we know the weevil is here
and we prepare in advance for dusting
to control him at the proper
time, if it becomes necessary.
"We know that the cotton, if it is
coming along satisfactorily will
form 50 to 60 per cent, more squares
4 k AM AAA k A ?Vt WT r\ AT* AA1fAT?
lliaii cau uc maiuicu. i?c cuucavui
to push maturing bolls to a poim
wfcere the weevil will liave plenty of
young surplus squares to feed upon
at the season when we may expect
infestation to become a menace.
Along in early June we begin to
watch for infestation. If it gets at
any time around 100 per cent., or
more, we then go at the dusting process
in the plat where that infestation
has developed methodically, just
as a part of the growing game?just
as the tobacco -growers know that it
is just as much a part of the pro
gramme to fight insects as it is to
plant and cultivate.
"We use calcium arsenate, as
agreed upon by the United States
department of agriculture using a
light draught machine, and apply it
about 6 pounds to the acre, three
times, perhaps it may require four
applications, about four or five days
apart, weather permitting; and we
find the infestation is always then
sufficiently reduced to admit to a
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complete waiuiiLy ui <x tun vunuu
crop, other conditions, of course, being
equal.
Cultivation Always Kept Firmly in
Mind.
"Bear in mind we do not forget
that dusting, if infestation starts in
early, will not make cotton of itself.
We just make dusting at the proper
time a part of the regular programme
for successful cotton growIno"
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from the boll weevil and beat him
to it, so much the better. If we do
have to dust it is not permitted to
interfere with our intensive cultural
methods.
"We co-ordinate the cultural and
the dusting features into a systematized
programme to grow cotton, and
more cotton and less acreage each
year, and to grow' it without getting
eypitpd or worried: or without any
undue expense, as the dusting part
of the game, when understood, is
only a negligible expense, and overcome
many fold by the excess in
production created by intensive cultural
methods that we know in
reason must be parcticed in order to
beat the weevil.
"In 1921 we made a twelve-bale
top crop on 32 acres, all after the
initial crop was off, by keeping the
weevil > further controlled by three
WOMAN BURN'S TO DEATH.
Clotning Becomes Ignited From Can
of Kerosene.
Greenwood, Jan. 28.?Her clothing
becoming ignited while attempting to
thaw frozen water pipes under her
house with a burning kereosene soak
ed sack, Mrs. R. E. Tollison was burntd
to death before assistance could
reach her late yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. Tollison is the wife of R. E. Tollison,
bookkeeper for the Greenwood
Grocery company.
Mrs. Tollison was alone at <her
home. She had driven home from
down town in her car and was still
muffled in her wraps when her cloth/,?>
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were extinguished almost all her
clothing had burned off.
In response to screams for help, J.
L. Webb, a next door neighbor, went
to the burning woman's assistance. By
the time he reached her she was unconscious.
A half filled five gallon
kerosene can and a handful of matches
were found on a box in the yard
near her body.
3 MEN HELD OX AIKEX CHARGE.
Magistrate Fives Bonds for Men A!-*
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Aiken, Jan 21.?The hearing before
Magistrate Raborn of the trio of men
and one woman arrested in Augusta
last Sunday morning, charged with
duping three Aiken banks through
the passage of forged checks, was concluded
this morning. Mrs. Sam Padgett,
who has been held with her husband
and Milton Lyles, and W. C.
Westbur?, was given her freedom.
Padgett and Westbury, however,
were held under bond for appearance
before the grand jury on charges of
A/\nnm'wnmf
i/uuo^/ii a^j .
Yesterday Lyles was ordered held
under heavy bond, Magistrate Raborn
fihis morning fixed bond for Lyles at
$^,000, this being $1,000 in each of
the cases of alleged forgery, or "uttering
a forged instrument." Padgett's
bond has been fixed at $1,500
| and Westbury's at $1,000. Newberry
county officials also fixed the bond of
! Westbnry at $4,000 for appearance
before the grand jury of that county
on two charges of forgery.
T*Vi? Jioorinp1 W9Q Pflfl
I iuc uvu* " v?w weluded
this morning with the testimony
of Mrs. Walter Duncan, who
I was the only witness to appear. Mrs.
Duncan testified that one day last
week, a day or two before the banks
were fleeced, she saw Padgett in
Aiken together with two other men.
The two had stopped in front of the
Aiken Standard office and their conduct
attracted her attention. When
Mrs. Duncan left tlie stand, Magistrate
Raborn announced that he had
heard sufficient testimony and direct|
d the attorneys to proceed with argu
ments as to tihe amount of bonds to
be assessed.
Alive and Kicking.
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Uncle Mose had an affection for his
wife that neither age nor the wear
and tear of her disposition had destroyed.
He seemed to glory in
what others described as Aunt Sally's
cantankerousness.
"How's Aunt Sally getting along,
Ano Af < ViQ na{c*fihrvrs askfid
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upon encountering the old man after
lively sounds had been heard from
the alley.
"I'se been fearin' dis winter's rheumatiz
would carry her off," said the
veteran, "but she sho' is improvin'
dis last spell o' warm weather. Dis
mawnin' she stood up, restin' herself
on one crutch, and made passes at
me wid de oder an' she done made ,
out to fetch a right smart piece o'
skin offen mah shin-bone. Yassah,
Ise feelin' pow'ful encouraged."
One Was Alive.
A doctor making his rounds at the
county hospital came to a new patient,
who spoke but broken English.
"Any of your family alive?" asked
the doctor after an ineffectual attempt
to elicit a clear history of the
case. "Yes," muttered the man. "I
am."
additional dustings with calcium
arsenate?all of this, mind you, after
the first crop was off."
I promised in this article to give
an interview with Dr. Tamquary and
Dr. Rinehard, of the Texas cotton
station, but will get to that later. I
feel the people of Georgia want to
>1 f\nr fhp dirt, farmers t.hem
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selves?independent of science or
"buggology"?are handling this
weevil proposition in the southwest,
and I shall from time to time, cover
various sections with their stories.?
Jas. A. Halliman, staff correspondent
Atlanta Constitution.
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E. D. Bigham Loses j
Supreme Court Appeal 1
Columbia, Jan. 27.?The supreme |
court yesterday handed down an opin*
ion dismissing the appeal of Edmund
D Riirham anH offirminsr f v>? 1 nirtno
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court verdict. The court dismissed
all the objections raised by defense
counsel as to an unfair trial and unjust
charging by Judge Memminger.
Chief Justice Gary wrote the opinion
and Associate Justice Cothran
concurred. Justice Fraser wrote a
separate concurring opinion.
Bigham was convicted of killing his
brother, L. Smiley Bigham, the tragedy
occurring near Pamblico on January,
15, 1921. ; He was charged with
the murder of Smiley Bigham, his sister,
Mrs. Margery Black, and Mrs. J
Black's two adopted children, Leo
and John McCracken. He has never
been tried for the killing of any mem* . |
hers of the family except L. Smiley
Bigham.
First Degree Verdict. I
Bigham was convicted of murder in
the first degree and sentenced to die I
April S, 1921. He appealed to the j
supreme court and yesterday this
court dismissed his appeal. Bigham ?
,has.been in the death house at the ^
penitentiary since a few days following
his conviction.
oiguaui win ue carried to riorence imsi
county at the next term of general
sessions court for resentencing.
The crime was one of the most revolting
in the history of Florence
county and great interest has been
kept up in the case. The first theory 3
advanced was that Smiley Bigham
had killed the members of his fam- ]
ily and then committed suicide, but
an investigation resulted in the ar- .
rest of Edmund Bigham and later his .13
conviction. |
After his conviction Bigham went
before the supreme court on a habeas
corpus proceeding, claiming that he
had never been tried, in that the Florence
court was unlawful due to the
fact that Judge Memminger continued
the court longer than the term was s
supposed to have run. The supreme J
cuun uismi^eu tuis pica, auu joi&uaiu. j
then went before the court in regular j
appeal at the fall term of 1921.
In the opinion handed down by the ' >^9
cuort it is plearly stated that all
of the objections raised are without
grounds for reversing the circuit
court. The refusal to grant a change |
of venue was proper, the court says,
and adds that Bigham received the
benefit in Florence of the prejudice i
against Smiley Bigham, who had been
tried for a "revolting murder," but I
acquitted. v-yiaH
Regarding Charging.
Edmund Bigham claimed Smiley i
Bigham had killed the members of j
the family and then committed suicide,
and one objection raised was I
that Judge Memminger charged im- [
properly on this point as to suicide. j
A part of Judge Memminger's j
charge, "as to this case," was object- I
ed to, but the court says the charge ,J|
was absolutely just and was not prejudicial
to Bigham. i
Probably the most important obt j
jection was that Judge Memminger
did not charge the jury that Bigham ]
was clothed with a presumption of in- 1
nocence, but the court says Judge
Memminger did make this clear in. j
part of his charge. '-'lljB
As to the language used by the *^9
judge to Attorney King the court |
says Mr. King did not speak court j
language and that Judge Memminger
was correct in stopping Mr. King
When he did stop him, adding that a
judge may lose control of his court i
within half a minute if he does not
take immediate charge of an situa- 1
tion arising.
Hitting Henty.
They had had a little tiff?only
one of these storms that will burst j
upon domestic life when the matri- |j
monial sun suffers from sunspots. >
He sat with his pipe and his book, 1
while this wife turned a three-yearold
dress. The man laid down his
book to light his fourth pipeful of
tobacco. His wife laid down her
sewing, turned to him and said: j?
"Henry, when you proposed to me
you said that you were not worthy
to be the dust under my shoes."
"Well," snapped Henry, "you're
not sroing to throw that in my face
are you?"
"No," she answered, "I'm going to
give you credit for these words.
Whatever else you were, Henry, yon
spoke the truth."
More than 59,000 people visited the
Sequoia and General Grant National
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parks this year, the largest number
of visitors ever recorded.
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