Henderson Daily News (Henderson, Tex.),, Vol. 1, No. 22, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 14, 1931 Page: 1 of 4
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News Telephones—
Miss Montgomery
Accepts a Position
With First National
Daily Completions Are
Higher Than at Any
Previous Time
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New Angles Presented In Tangle
_ On Proration injunction Proceedings
Nicholas Longworth Funeral
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FOUR-LEGGED CHICKEN
HATCHED
DAN MOODY WLL
NOT BE PRESENT
AT CONVENTION
Jfcniicrson Onilii News
CHICAGO, Ill., April 14 (UP)
—Fifteen men were still alive to-
day, brought from a flaming tun-
nel in a Sanitary District on the
southwest side where eleven others
died last night from a poisonous
smoke.
A policeman was killed by an
ambulance as it was rushing frdm
the scene with men who had been
taken from the tunnel.
This brought the death toll to
12 for the night.
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DUKE OF GLOUCESTER
, BACK IN ARMY AGAIN
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HENDERSON TO
BE ON THE AIR
FRIDAY NIGHT'
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ARIZONA HEN LAYS RECORD
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Second Story Will Be Equipped for Mot
Office Rooms to Meet Increasing
Demands of Growing City
FACILITIES for
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Africa, the natives worship si
Colonel Charles Wellington
long told the GaogMBMoal Society
of Philadelphia. When a youth of
any of the tribes wishes to wed,
he must first Introduce hit in-
tended bride to his tutelary snake.
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Dempsey Faces a.
Counter Suit in
Suit for Divorce
ranging from >400 to >1,000 on
every race. More than 400 horses
will be stabled at the track during
the meeting. 4
If people demand any one thing
more than something else it ‘is
service.
ah., April 14
k! chicken was
chick, still liv-
Another Fight Looms
In Effort to Curb
Etex Production
are modem' one It
bricks and frame <
Duplex apartment
must be the
business sue-
MADISON, Wis., A]
Louis Hlratg,-a hard
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Carries on For
Knute Rockne
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High Tension Wires
’Follow Closely on
Timber Clearing
LONDON, April 14 (UP)—The
Duke of Gloucester, third son of
King George, is in the army again.
He has taken up* his appoint-
ment as Staff Captain and joined
fellow officers at Tidsworth, where
he leads the life of an ordianry
officer.
He served as an active officer in
the Tenth Hussars until August 3,
1929, When he was placed on the
retired list.
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Heartier (Hunk) Anderson, star ,
lineman under Rockne, ftas been ]
named senior coach of Notre
Dame’s football team.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas,
April 14.—Miss Courtenay Bess
Cook, Abilene, senior student at
the College of Industrial Arts,
Denton, will reign as queen of the
annual Ross Volunteer festivities
at the A. & M. College of Texas
April 16-17-18, Miss Cook was
selected as queen by James A. Cot-
ton, Abilene, king of the festivi-
ties. Sponsored by the Ross Vol-
unteers, honorary military and so-
cial organization at A. & J^., the
festivities are held eve/y yeardur-
ing the Spring recess.
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Whitaker Murder
. Case Is Underway
The Halliburton Oil Well Ce-
menting Co. reports that it has
set, surface casing in the follow-
ing wells L v ,
Gulf Coast Oil Co. No. 1 C. £.
Giles, 10-inch casing at 260 feet.
Turman OU^Co. No. 2 Calvin
Young, 12 Vi inch casing at 240
feet. •—
Westexas Royalty Co. No. '2
Talley, 10-inch casing at 206 feet.
Tulsa Oil Co. No. 1 M. Kanger-
ga &.Bro., 12% inch casing at 200
feet.
Owens Oil Well cementing Co.
reports the following:
Star No. 1 Phillips, 10 inch cas-
ing at 184 feet.
Foster-Jeffries No. 3 Mayfield-
Alford, 10 inch casing at 155 feet.
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CONDITION IMPROVED
The News is informed that the
condition of Mr. J. L. Cameron
who has been quite ill is very,
much improved and that he is
rapjdly recovering from his recent
illness.
KANGERG A BUILDING TORN DOW!
CONSTRUCTION WORK ON TW
STORY STRUCTURE IS UNDER,
• CARTHAGE, Texas, April 14
(UP)—The trial of Calvin Whit-
aker, age sixty, charged with the
fatal shooting of Bobby Pierce,
age thirty, here last September,
got’under way yesterday and at
noon recess today eight jurors had
been selected.
Pierce was shot in front of the
local postoffice.
It is thought that the death pen-
alty will be asked by the prosecu-
tion.
NATIVES WORSHIP SNAKES
PHILADELPHIA. Apr. 14 (UP)
—In little known Massllafid, East found in”
Africa, the natives worship snakes,
CHEHALIS, Wi
(I P)—A four legg
The work of tearing away the
Kangerga building on the soutl
side of"the old Public Square ii
about completed; material is be
ing placed on the ground for thi
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WHOLE FOOTBALL TEAM
JAILED
COBtlRG, -Germany, April 14
(UP)—A local court has tried
and sentenced all eleven members
of the Hassenberg football team to
jail, terms ranging from 4% to
six months on charges of perjury.
Slightly intoxicated after cele-
brating a gridiron triumph, mem-
bers_of the team fell tb quarreling
with" a bicyclist, whom they beat
mercilessly. Testifying under oath,
all gave false evidence.
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BARBERS SAY BOB TO STAY
BERLIN, April 14 (UP)—An
international congress of barbers,
meeting here in March, rendered
its verdict: Bobbed hair will con-
tinue in fashion in 1931, but will
be worn somewhat longer than
previously on the sides, only to be
trimmed shorter at the back of the
head. The longer side-hairs are
to enable barbers to arrange a
special evening hairdress.
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BORN AND DIED TOGETHER.
WALLACEBURG, I Ont., April
14, (UP)—Bom on the same day,
Reuben Martin and William Mur-
dock, friends for 75 years, died
within a few hours of each other.
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Visits Frieads In Dallas. . ’
Mrs. A. C. Wheat of this eity
was the guest of friends in Dallas
Jl&JKMkwk
proposition upon which it is based
has a false bottom.”
“L't the law of supply and de-
mand prevail and when it does,
both the field and Ju market will
prorate themselves. And we will
have a healthy condition in the
oil industry within 60 days,” he
stated.
lie conferred with several mem-
bers of the board of directors of
the East Texas Lease, Royalty and
Producer’s association 1 ere for a
meeting with Carl Estes, secre-
tary of the . ;ociation who filed
an injunction suit last week to
restrain the Railroad Commission
from enforcing proration in the
JI filHll
LINCOLN, Neb., April 14 (UP)
—Divorces were fewer and mar-
riages greater in 1930 than 1929 in
Nebraska, the complete report of
the state registrar shows.
In 1929, there'were 1728 divor-
ces and this past year 1635, or a
difference of 98. There were 49
more marriages in 1930 than in
1929—the statistics being 10,248
and 10,802. -
Six counties granted not a sin-
gle divorce during the year.
SPRING RACES IN* KANSAS
KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 14
(UP)—The Riverside Jockey Club
will hold annual spring races at its
track here beginning May 9. There
will be approximately 25 racing
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a
beginning of construction. of
new one to take its place.
The new building will be a
story structure and the up
floor of the new building will
connected with the second si
of the Kangerga comer built
now occupied by the Packi
Dry Goods store* and all the s<
ond floor will be devoted to <
flees.
This new unit in Hendertoi
expansion program will be anoth
long step toward taking pare
the unusual demands for off!
facilities here and the additior
space that will be provided
both the new unit and the larg
building on the comer to the ei
being connected as they will 1
will furnish office homes for
considerable number of those w
are now not adequately t*
with - offices.
The lower floor will be
up for a modem store built
The News is Informed thi
Kangerga building will be r
as fast as possible to comp
as a large construction crew i
at work on the new project,:
not be long until this builJ‘“
be ready for occupancy.
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AUSTIN, Texas, April 14 (UP)
—Technical hairs are being split
on the proration order issued re-
cently by the State Railway Com-
mission on the East Texas Oil
field production today when Assist-
ant Attorney Gen. Upchurch gave
out the statement that under the
terms of the injunction granted to
Carl Estes restraining the Com-
mission from enforming its order
that only Estes and the property
that he is interested in could be
affected by the injunction.
This new angle met no counter
froi. the anti-prorationists up to
noon today. There appeared to be
three courses open for them,
namely, they can file a yiotion to
have Commission declared in con-
tempt of restraining order, a new
injunction motion can be filed to
cover all others of the affected
area of the waiting policy Can be
taken pending the outcome of the
Estes hearing when Jhe order will
either be set aside or made per-
manent. 5' .•
Speaking for a group of Texans
li. his district Representative Las-
seter stated that probably nothing
would be done until later in the
week When the attorneys would re-
turn to AlistW. "
'rhe Railroad Commission will
be attacked on a brand newf-front
in the proration war, Claude L.
Witherspoon, president of the
Witherspoon Oil Company of San
Antonio, for thirty years a.veter-
an of the oil industry in Texas,
stated today.
Mr. Witherspoon, who has a
3500 barrel producer in the low-
er Joiner pool in the Henderson
area and more than 100 in other
areas, declared today that no um-
pire or any member of the Rail-
road Commission’s so-called ad-
vftfory committee would be per-
mitted “to guage this well or any
other well which I control with
a view of prorating oil runs there-
from.
“This is America, not Russia,
and as an American citizen, a na-
tive Texan, I expect to exercise my
constitutional privileges guaran-
teeing me the right of producing
and selling my oil wherever I may
find a market and at any price
satisfactory to me,”.Mr. Wither-
spoon stated. r
Continujfljf^re said, “I, for one,
will never submit to this thing they
call proration, which is nothing
in the world but an attempt on
the part of certain major oil com-
panies to control the crude oil
market without any outlay of cap-
ital and fc- the further purpose
of annulling the anti-trust laws
of this country.”
Mr. Witherspoon instructed his
attorneys ' ’uesday to be prepared
to defend him to the Supreme
Ccurt of Texas if necessary, in
any penalty suit which the rail-
road commission might see fit to
institute against him in Rusk or
any other county in Texas in an
effort to enforce the proration
order againsf him.
feet and the total depth is 3725
feet. Casing was set at 3602 feet.
night. The top of the sand was ,
encountered at 3621 feet and the
total depth is 3693 feet Casing
w .s set at 3584 feet. Gilcrease
No. 2 Daisy Mr. Bradford was
connecting the Christmaa-troe pre-
paratory to being bailed in. The
producing horizon was found at •
3643 feet and the casing was ce-
mented at 3580'feet. The well
is being completed at a total depth
of 3699 feet.
Gilcrease No., 3 Daisy M. Brad-
ford drilled the plug Monday night
and will be brought in tomorrow.
The sand was topped at 3648 feet
and casing was s?t at 8606 feet.
The three Gilcrease wells are lo-
cated 0.1 a 40-acre lease out of
the Bradford west 75 acres and are
west offsets to the Sinclair-Brad-
ford wells that are each now flow-
ing about 3,000 barrels daily.
Ernest R. Tennant, receiver, No.
2 Harvey Brooks was swabbed In
Monday night at a'total depth of
3693 feet. The top of the sand
was reached at .3659 fee( and
6 5-r inch casing was cemented
at 3644 feet.
Tennant No. 3 Brooks is drilling
at 2900 fee in chalk. The Pecan
Gap was topped at 2605 feet.
Johrison Bios. No. 1 Rar Pool
was being swabbed in. Monday
night at a total depth of 3745 feet.
Casing was set at 3644 feet, and
the top of the producing horizon
was logged at 3697 feet.
Deep Rock Oil Co. No. 1 W.
W. Holland wu drilling Monday
at a depth of 8690 feet in sand,
the i 'p of which was found at
3629 feet. Casing was set at
3*20 feet.
Deep Rock No. 3 Mayfield-Al-
ford topped the Austin chalk at
8470 feet, and set casing at 8620
feet*Monday.
’ *. Deep Rock. No..4 Ashby topped
the Pecan Gas at 2680 feet and
is drilling at « depth of 2800 feet.
EATS 2 POUNDS SPAGHETTI *
BERESCiA, April 14 (UP)—At
a spaghetti-eating competition or-
ganized at San Fouatino ten com-
petitors lined up at the table cov-
ered with ten platee spaghetti.
Competitors were obliged to keep
their hands in their pockets. The
winner ate four-fifths of a kilo-
gram of spaghetti—nearly two
pounds—in the record time of nine
minutes. He offered to oat an-
other half pound of anyone would
buy him a quart of wine.
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PERFECT ROTARY ATTEND-
ANCE
Program Arranged by
Local Chamber- of ~-
Commerce
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Chas. L. Brachfield and Major
O. L. Bodenhamer have been se-
lected by the Publicity Committee
of the chamber of commerce as the
principal speakers for the Hen-
derson program to be brbadcast-
ed from Station KTBS Shreveport
Friday night, according to E. F.
Crim, chairman of the committee.
The thirty minute program will
start at 10:15 P. M. The Hender-
son program is the third of a series
of East Texas programs to be
broadcasted from Shreveport sta-
tion. The Longview prograTn was
given last night and last week
Mayor Malcomb Crim, of Kilgore,
was on the air.
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DIVORCES SHOW DECREASE
IN STATE OF NEBRASKA
THE WEATHER
East—Cloudy. Scattered- show-
ers in east portion tonight Wed-
nesday, partly cloudy, colder In
northwest portion. T
West—Partly cloudy. Colder In
extreme western portion tonight.
PreSS of Business Will at the bank Jhts morning.
.....Keej»iTffift"Away'- --------— '
For First Time
And every business-has
learned more or less of the import-
ance that service
watchword if the
ceeds.
In this respect
TYLER, Texas, April 14.—
James G. Cloud, of ^ulsa, pres-
ident of the Independent Petro-
leum Association of Oklahoma, de-
el; red in a statement here today,
that “proration l as ruined Ok-
lahoma as an oil producing state,”
and most of the operators there
adi t that they would have been
better off if they had never sub-
r.itted to it.
“I have been through proration
for two years, and to begin with
was heartily in favor of it, but
the further this scheme has gone
the more thoroughly I have be-
come convinced that it is a rank
failure and means ruination to in-
dependent oil operators, lease roy-
alty owners alike,” he said.
Mr Cloud further stated that
in his estimation proration will
never bring stabilization in the oil
industry because ”thf entire
Business and Circulation. .No. 1
Advertising and News ....No. 610
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In this respect the attention
paid to service by the Southwest-
ern Gas & Electric Company is
indeed worthy of mention.
The net work of lines that have
been laid throughout the entire,
stretches of the oil fields has cer-
tainly called forth a tremendous
amount of work on the part of the
power Company and while they
expect to make a financial return
on the enormous extensions made
due to the oil fields yet the
promptness with which the emer-
gency was met is a mark of ser-
vice that is of the highest type.
Almost the minute a new area
is proven workmen are on the job
clearing timber, setting poles, and
within the span of hours the high
voltage current is at the disposal
of the operators in the new ter-
ritory.
It is one thing to keep abreast
of normal growth and conditions,
it is quite another to be thrown
into an emergency that calls for
the doubling and redoubling of
capacity to jerVe but such has been
the case with the power Company
in this section since tre advent of
oil here, and so far as can be
noted by the outside observer this
emergency has been met to the
fullest measure of satisfaction to
those by the Southwestern Gas &
Electric Company.
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Rusk County Men
Attend Vegetable
School in Houston
Ross Brison, county agricultur-
al agent, and Curtis Brooks, of
Minden, left this morning for
Houston to attend the Vegetable
Grading School to' be held there
Thursday rfhd Friday of this week.
This two day school is sponsored
by the Texas A. & M. Extension
Service. Several hundred agricul-
tural leaders and county agents
will be in attendance at the meet-
ing.
In line with the bull
gram that is just now t
out In Henderson one can
activity in the home b
the Crim Crest Additic
highway West from th.
Four beautiful homes
days. Ths club will offer purses marked ^e'berinn^
struction of six
there are quite a
ers the plans for 1
drawn and details
out for tt
HOLLYWQQD, Cal., April 14
(UP)—Jack flempeey has known
for six years just how good a
fighter Estelle Taylor Is because
she has been right by his side
helping him figfbt his battles and,
keeping him from any entangling'
alliances.
Now Jack will find out just how
it feels to be on the other side of
the rope. Jack has filed suit for
divorce and to go him one Estelle
states that she will cohtest his
suit and at the same time beat
him to it by counter filing against
him.
AREA is?*
Dan Moody, former governor,
will be forced by press of per-
sonal business this, year to miss,,
for the first time, an East Texas
chamber of commerce convention.
He will be in Washington during
the convention sessions in Mar-
lin April 19, 20 and 21.
„ Mr. Moody, in a letter to the
Marlin Chamber of Commerce to-
day, said: “I doubt very much if
I will be able to return in time
to attend the convention, which
1 feel sure will be the finest the
East Texas Chamber of Commerce
has ever had.”
The former governor, again
practicing law, is representing the
anti-proration forces in the cur-
rent fight over oil production.
Surface Casing Set
In Seven Wells
J. A. Wise,-fbriher vice ;
dent of the First State Bui
this city, who sold hi« stoc
the consumation of the conn
tion of the First State and
National Banka has formed 9
nection with the Citlzeni Nil
Bank at Henderson, Texas,
will be the active head and
president of this bank. The
resources of the bank acco
to their last statement was
one million dollars.
Mr. Wise was formed]- **
ed with the First Natiouxi
of this city several yeai
in all has been in the bai
ness in Electra for fift
Ho was a former preaid
chamber of commerce
served on the board of
He has been an active 1
the Lions club for sew
—Electra Star.
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BUILDING IN
CRIM ORE
QUITE Al
Many Other H<
Miss Belle Montgomery who has
been connected with the News
Publishing Company for some
months resigned her position to
accept a connection with the First
National Bank of this city. Miss
Montgomery began her new duties
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new position Is a responsible one
and one much more remunerative
than her former position and her
host of friends will congratulate
her on the deserved promotion.
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Poisonous Smoke
Snuffs Out Lives
Tunnel Workers
THE NEWS CARRIES COMPLETE UNITED PRESS NEWS SERVICE, THE LATEST PICTURE NEWS OF THE DAY FROM KING FEATURE SYNDICATE, LATE
LEASE OF MOST POPULAR SERIAL STORIES AND FULL COVERAGE OF LOCAL AND OIL FIELD NEWS
MESA, Artz., April 14 (UP)—
Some one forgot to tell Rhode la-
land ben belonging to Rosel Cool-
ey about curtailment during busi-
ness depression, so, ignoring gen-
eral human practice, she laid an
egg six and three-quarters inches
in circumference and nine and one-
half inches long.
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HOBOK8 TO HEAR RADIO
SERMON
TAVISTOCK, (Cornwall) Eng,
April 14 (UP)—Inmates of a
workhouHc here objected to the
presence of tramps at Sunday
church service, so the ministert
will broadcast their sermons and
arrangements have been made for
the hoboes to Usten-in. ;
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LADYBUGS LEAVE COLD
STORAGE
MERCED, Cal., April 14 (UP)—
The annual battle of the aphis vs.
the ladybugs started here when
8,000,900 of the latter worn taken
out of cold storage and set free
among the gardens and orchards.
Seven new wells are at the point
of completion in the Joiner Pool,
and six of these were being swab-
bed’in Monday night. At no oth-
er time since the discovery of oil
in Rusk County has the number of
daily completions been as high
as It is at the present time. For-
tunately, or unfortunately, the ma-
jority of these Wells have no out-
let, while oil from others is being
sacrificed in some cases at prices
as low as 19 and 20 cents.
East r as Refinery Co, No. 2
C. C. Giles was swabbed in Sun-
day, but flowed at the rate of
only 100 barrels per hour through
a 3-4 inch choke. The company,
not being satisfied with the result,
stopped th3 flow and washed the
rertiainder of the mud out of the
Lole, cleaned it the roughly, and
then started swabbing it again.
Swabbing was still being carried
on Monday night ar.d the well was
expected to come ir for a much
better flow than it did the first
time. The sand was topped at
3674 and the total depth is 3715
feet. Casing was cemented at
3670 feet
Gibson and Johnson’s No. 1
Claude D. Ashby, located in Block
6 of the’east 15 acres of the 45
acre tract, J. Ximines survey, was
being swabbed in Monday after-
noon when the casing collapsed.
The cause of the trouble was not
known. The completion of the
well is being delayed. The pro-
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Casket containing the body of Nicholas Longworth, speaker of the House of Representtaives, is being
carried into the Christ Episcopal Church at Cincinnati, Ohio.
LIGHT COMPANY
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HENDERSON, RUSK COUNTY, TEXAS, TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1931
Capacity Increased by
30 Cars as New
Racks Finished
I. iv-
The Inland Waterways Pipeline
Co. completed loading racks Mon-
day- at Friar’s Switch which will
double the loading space. This in-
creased the capacity of this load-
ing rack to a total of 30 cars. A
connection has also been made
by this company to the DeMon-
trand-Ray No. 1 Dr. J. A. Bird-
well, which came in March 23rd
and is believed to be a 25,000 bar-
rel wdl.
The Central Pipeline Company
of Fort Worth has completed a.
6-inch line from the Joiner field
to loading racks which are being
constructed on the main line of
ths Missouri Pacific at Overton.
These racks will be in use by the
latter part of this week.
The Texas Pipeline Company is
ed line through the Joiner field
near Turnertown which connects
Reed’s Switch in the Kilgore field
~ i m
Nacogdoches county. This line Is
costnlg approximately >1,000,000.
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Miss Bass Cook to
Reign as Queen of
Ross Volunteers
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