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B^ITh‘| * QL± behembeb k unttmj s>iar _WILMINGTON, N. C., TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1942 PIN AT. RniTTON " ESTABLISHED 1867. I ' --r--*-- " ----. — . —- -» ilayan Front Stabilized Australians , (^Attack By Ja >po^B'a“" Of! By Aussies voy RELINQUISHED 'brf«nd«s Con ! A is They Ride tjT.^Battle r ASSOCIATED PRESS r WE i7„n 19 -.n-Brit [JIGAPORE. aW,; across a con batttelines d lan rubber ■' ,nd Vice paddies veS' i i vai'd today to meet !5'ed b A ' intlitrations but ' Australians thrown into the hing Australia hrce days %TZ b.d stabilized Irontane®' sported they he A“ f attack after attack “footthVsouth of the Mauri J the infiltration tactics j, which they have reached m Jwrous west Malayan coast ts and bypaths. As a result, the lich lines were readjusted south rd to meet the menace to the I flank. ISegamat r roni ad, along the central Mala ilwav, where the Australians -lashed with thte Japanese 'riday, the communique lor rst time mentioned the Se amat is 15 miles south of s on the border of Negri [tan and Johore states wheie irst clash took place, was thus along a front not1 , more than 90 to 95 mile from ipore island that the Austrail claimed to have arrested the nese advance, at least for j ntinued on Page Two; Col. 2) mmtL MD TO BOARD President Transmits bo 1 Reunion Plan To His Executives r YORK. Jan. 19.—C5>)—With itly skeptical allusion to tne negotiations which ended at Harbor, CIO President Philip ' today passed on to the CIO ve board the proposal of ■■ Lewis for a resumption of ’L peace conferences, peace conference should en durray told newsmen, “there be no Pearl Harbor in the in the labor movement.” n" il: clear that he and not "ho is president of the Unit e Yorkers of America, was f the CIO. Murray declared tatement that any negotia P’»ing toward an end of labor 'ould “necessarily liave to be j through the Office of the it Cf the Congress of lndus ■ganizations.” f"'is Proposal for a reunion s famly was directed to both and AVilliam Green. AFL it, til letters made public last 5. Green already has said ! AIL peace committee stood "ith a similar com h fr the CI° at a"y *»e. at he hit •LC"iS' Murray sak: ine latter s peace plan would oZT at a of the n.24 .“,v® board in New York ard' ^ expressed belief the Ws attend a„e, P eased to have int. d and Present his view U. S. Airmen, Entering Battle For Singapore, Bag Nine Jap Planes ——- 1 Successful Assault Carried Out Saturday In Neth erlands Indies TWO BOMBERS LOST MacArthur Says Fighting In Philippines Slackens To Patrol Work WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.— m — A fierce aerial battle in which American fliers shot down nine Japanese interceptor planes at a cost of two American bombers was reported toninght by the war department which - also disclosed that United States army air forces had entered directly into the fight to save Singapore. The air battle took place Satur day, near Menado in the Nether lands Indies island of Celebes. Be sides the two U. S. bombers lost, another was damaged and four of its crew members were injured. The first reported appearance of American airforces in the stjuggle for Singapore was a smashing raid two days earlier in central Malaya on the Japanese-held Sungei Pa pani airdrome near Penang, and some 300 miles northwest of Singa pore. Successful Attack Describing the attack as suc cessful, the war department said three large fires were started among Japanese aircraft on the ground and in a hanger in the area, and all American planes re turned safely to their bases. The announcement of the bomb ers’ blows overshadowed earlier reports that the General Douglas MacArthur’s intrepid little Ameri can-Filipino army was digging in for further stubborn defense Batan peninsula after parrying tthe latest Japanese attack in the Philippines. The bases from which the bomb ers operated were not disclosed but they presumably were out of the range of enemy raiders or well hidden. Testifying to the vast ariel front on which the U. S. forces are operating, Manado is some 1, 800 air miles from the raided ma layan airdrome. The ariel battle between Jap in terceptors and American bombers occurred aftter five of the latter had raided a flying field at Mena do in northeast Celebes, a strate gic point dominating the Molucca passage for shipping between Aus tralia and Japan. The communique, describing this episode, said: “On January 17, five American bombers attacked an enemy flying field at Menado in northeast Ce lebes. After several bombs had been dropped on the field with undetermined result, our planes encountered a formation of Japa nese interceptor planes. In the ensuing fight, nine enemy planes were shot down. Two of our bomb ers are missing, and a third was damaged with four members of the crew wounded.” A Heavy Blow The loss of the bombers was a heavy blow, despite the numerical victory, inasmuch as they presum ably were long-range heavy four engine craft such as have been em ployed most successfully in the vast far eastern theater. The war department’s morning communique said that following the repulse of the third major enemy, assault in the Philippines in two weeks. General Douglas MacAr thur had reported that ground op erations had dwindled to fighting of a desultory nature, chiefly be tween patrols. rdson Drafts 4-Point I Plan To Speed Outpout 5*GT«rJ>n, hours j ^lson' working 12 to ent as war ^ ?lnce his aPP°int Ported toniIhtd’f1Ctl'°n Ch‘ef’ was ls iour-Sht to nave drafted ceding P°* g®eral plan for 1 . 6 arms output: 'zar’’Pfo°rn^ent4 of a one‘m a n supervise th autcrr-obile industry % Rs entire „C“nve.rsion °* vir >Ms, and ?U-put to military ,mi>anies into all]tS, competitive ICtive oapaeiu ngle poo,of Pro e“ts be„tdnt0Clda war require !e ueeds of thr a termme exactly “»e “-nmilsLn Navy’ mar‘ decide how a !nd others and 'aU be divided tlCal materiais 1 Revision of th"10"8 them. ganization b! v present OPM [anches and AiJ''minatir.g some ^ers, and „„ lslons> combining * ^shnat^^'iy simplifying rooohmery to re duce red tape and duplication of effort. 4. Placing civilian procurement experts — responsible to Nelson— in Army and Navy procurement offices to guide and advise on the purchasing of weapons, munitions and supplies for the armed forces These proposals were described by officials as “tentative but prob able.” Definite details of the im minent shakeup may be fn a d e known Wednesday, when Nelson has sceduled his first press confer ence since President Roosevelt named him war production direc tor last week. The appointment of an overlord for the automobile industry was expected to be one of the earliest moves. Who might get the job was a matter of wide-open speculation. OPM’s present automotive chief is Ernest C. Kanzler, president of universal credit corporation. 3 Government Asks Oil Firms To Use Rail Tank Cars WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—</B —The government tonight called on oil companies to increase use of railroad tank cars lor move ment of petroleum products from producing fields to both coasts. The reauest was made by Ralph K. Davies, deputy petrol eum coordinator, almost simul taneously with announcement by the Navy that another tanker, the S. S. Malay, had been at tacked by a submarine off the Atlantic coast. The Malay sur vived the attack, but three other tankers have been snnk since last Wednesday. Davies, in announcing- his re quest, commented: “Tankers have been sunk on botli coasts. Others have had to be assigned to military service. Ocean hauls are now complicat ed by obvious hazards. “This means that overland movement has become more im portant than ever-” sovietTsmash INTO K0NBR0V0 Reds Also Cracking At For ward Anchor Of Seige Line At Leningrad *» LONDON, Jan. 19.—(A>)—'The Rus sian army of the north was smash ing tonight at the forward anchor of the German siege line before Leningrad in attacks of rising pow er synchronized with the Soviet central offensive driving on the ap parently crumbling Nazi positions of Mozhaisk and Orel on the Mos cow front. The regular post-midnight com munique issued in Moscow Tues day (Russian time) told of the re capture of Konbrovo "in the Smol ensk district’’ far west of the cap ital, and confirmed the retaking of Vereya, 13 3miles southeast of Mos haisk. Konbrovo, not listed on availaoie maps, apparently was somewhere west of Kirov in the direction of Yelnya, and the Soviets said the Red drive steadily was gaining ground with the Nazis suffering heavy losses. This new far northern action, which was reported in advices to Soviet sources here, was launched across the ice of southern Lake Ladoga against Schluesselburg, the German-held lake fortress 25 miles east of Leningrad, by sledge and ski troops. One of a series of their running attacks was said already to have broken through between Schluesselburg itself and the main Leningrad-Moscow railway. Fighting was rising in intensity, it was said, and it thus appeared that a major offensve to turn the German line at Schluesselburg was being developed against the Ger man Field Marshal Ritter von Leeb, one cf Hitler’s best known experts in defensive warfare. Premier Joseph Stalin was de scribed here as strongly interested personally in the operation, believ ing that to smash the German arc before Leningrad would have not only its obvious military effect but a strong efect as well upon a Ger man public already worried by the failure of Hitler’s campaign at the center. For the Russians it was a fa miliar maneuver, for it was over Ladoga’s ice that they had stormed and flanked vital Finnish positions in the war of 1939-40. Along the Moscow front, the day brought reports that Russian forces had entered both Mozhaisk and Orel, the former 57 miles west of the capital and the only German salient surviving from the second Nazi offensive, and the latter 200 miles below Moscow. -V WEATHER FORECAST: NORTH CAROLINA — Colder east and central portions Tuesday SOUTH CAROLINA — Colder Tuesday. (Meteorological data for the 2_ hours ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday): (By U. S. IV* ‘her Burean) Temp*-, oture: 1:30 a. m. 63; 7:30 a. m. 60; 1:30 p. m. 69; 7:30 p. m. 60; maximum 70; min imum 56; mean 63; normal 46. Humidity: 1:30 a. m. 81; 7:30 a. m. 94; 1:30 p. m. 77; 7:30 p. m. 85. Precipitation: Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m„ 0.03 inches: total since the first of the month, 1.26 inches. Tides For Today: (From Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey): High Low Wilmington --42:07a. 12 :38p. 7:40p. Masonboro Inlet -10:25a. 4:00a. 10:43p. 4:33p. Sunrise 7:16a; sunset 5:30p; moonrise 9:45a; moonset 9:45p. Cape Fear river stage at-Fayette ville at 8 a. m., <lan. 1#, Io.Oo feet. (Continued on Pare Three: Col. 4) Down Staggering Total Reached As Roosevelt Asks 28 Billions More WILL GO FOR ARMS Planes, Ships, Tanks And Other Vital Equipment Provided For WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 — (S’) — The United States war program jumped to the astronomical total ot $114,000,000,000 today when President Roosevelt recommended new expen ditures of $28,500,000,000 for planes, ships, tanks and other vital military and naval equipment. The $114,000,000,000 includes all appropriations, authorizations and requests made since June 30, 1940. Officials indicated that the war spending figure of $56,000,000,000 for the next fiscal year, as men tioned in Mr. Roosevelt’s recent bud get message, was not changed by the new recommendation. Part of the requested funds will be spent prior to that fiscal twelve-month, part will be spent after it, and the rest was taken into account in mak mg up the $50,000,000,000 total. Mr. Roosevelt proposed to Con gress today that $15,962,645,021 In cash and contract authorizations be made available to the Navy depart ment for use In the next 18 months and that $12,525,872,474 in cash be given to the War department for the next six months. The Breakdown The President gave few details on how the money actually would be spent, but included in his recommen dations these major categories: War department: Air Corps, $9,041,373,090. Ordnance service and supplies, *1.547,948,529. For, expediting production and supplfes, *933,000,000. Signal service, $680,242,180. Chemical warfare service, $323, 308,675. Navy department: Construction of 150,000 tons of combat ships and 800,000 tons of auxiliaries, $1,402,500,000. General construction and machin ery, $1,665,000,000. fillip ordnance and stores, $1,161, 274,000. Scores of other categories for the Navy would provide funds or au thorizations for the Marine Corps, research, training stations, payrolls medicine and related work. Under the President’s recommen dations for the Army, $4,000,000,000 of the total could be used for lend lease purposes authorized under the original lend-lease bill That meas ure put a $1,300,000,000 top on the value of materials already appro priated for which the President could dispose of under the basic law Mr. Roosevelt also asked $7,000, 000 for an inter-American highway and $5,950,000 to finance recently expanded work of the Federal Bu reau of Investigation. -V U. S. Forces Occupy Dutch Atlantic Isles BALBOA, Canal Zone, Jan. 19.— OP)—Army headquarters announced tonight that the United States, in cooperation with The Netherlands government, has sent air forces to the islands of Aruba and Curacao “to assist in protection of those vi tally important oil centers.” The islands are off the coast of Venezuela. With Dutch Guiana, where the United States sent a pro tective force in November, they con stitute the principal Netherlands pos sessions in the Western Hemisphere. NAZI SUBMARINES BLAST AT SHIPS OFF N. C. COAST; ONE SUNK, SECOND STRUCK --■ - X’. — - ■— ■ ■ - ■ - - W _ DidNotlgnore Duty,Accused Officer States Charged With Criticizing U. S. For Sending Planes To Allies SAID PUBLIC ‘GOATS’ First Army Officer To Face Court Martial Since Declaration Of War COLUMBUS, 0„ Jan. 19.—UB— A veteran air corps officer in a public speech blamed the Pearl Harbor disaster on the American public’s sanctioning of a policy of sendirg aircraft to Axis foes, wit nesses testified at his general court martal today. Col. H. C. Kress Muhlenberg, first high ranking officer summon ed before a court martial since the U. S. declared war on the Axis, denied he disobeyed orders by dis cussing the foreign policy of the United States. Under the lend-lease act the United States was authorized to ship fighting planes to England, China and Russia. In charging that Colonel Muhlen berg violated the 95th and 96th articles of war, the Army quoted him as saying on Dec. 17.—ten days after the Pearl Harbor at tack by the Japanese—in a speech before the Curtiss flying club here: Public the Goats “The. American people are going to be hunting for ‘goats’ to blame, but they are the ‘goats’ because they wouldn’t let the air corps have the planes.” Kenreth Turner, president of the flying club, testified he recalled Muhlenberg saying “you can’t send (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) offerIadefor SCHOTT PROPERTY County Tenders $11,000 For Land Needed To Complete Airport County commissioners at their regular meeting Monday afternoon voted to offer the owners of the Schutt property, needed to com plete the north runaway o the Wil mington airport, $11,000 for the ten acres involved. Situated on the property are a two-story frame residence and two five-room frame dwellings. The property had been valued at $15, 650 by an appraisal committee of the Wilmington Real Estate board, but this report was rejected as be ing entirely too high at the meet ing of the commissioners on Jan uary 12. Before setting the $11,000 figure the commissioners read a new val uation of the property made by thrrt experienced building contrac (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) City, County To Collect $250,000 In Back Taxes City government of Wilmington and New Hanover County agreed yesterday to set up immediately a joint back tax department to col lect an estimated quarter of a million dollars in delinquent city and county taxes. The agreement was formally rati fied by the county commissioners with a unanimous vote accepting a tentative agreement made by City Manager James G. Wallace ar.d Commission Chairman Addison Hewlett last Tuesday at a meeting in which John A. Orrell, auditor and treasurer, and W. C. Nichols, tax auditor participated. The agreement in writing sets out six items of procedure already agreed upon, but reserved deci sions on four other matters. ' The matters definitely agreed on were (1) for the immediate es tablishment of the back tax office, (2) that office space for the de partment be provided at City Hall by railing off part of the collector’s office, (3) that a back tax collec tor and stenographer be employed. (4) a check be made immediately of all back taxes, block by block 1-; in the city and alphabetically in the country townships, 15) that the back taxes found be collected, suit brought, or property sold without unnecessary delay, and (6) that a bookkeeping machine be purchased for the department at a cost of $865. Matters on which no immediate decisions were made related to the employment of the personnel of the department, the salaries to be paid, who would handle the leg al end of the collections, and the lections would be started with tax es prior to that time being written off. It was stated that the creation of the new department would be the first serious effort by city or county to collect unpaid and delinquent taxes in a number of years. Chair man Hewlett said any estimate made of the amount of back taxes which may be recovered was pure ly a guess, but he placed the sum at between $150,000 and $200,000. Other estimated as high as $250. 000 dependent upon how far back an effort would be made to collect. 1 Flame-Covered Waters Claim 22 U. S. Seamen Off Carolina Coast NORFOLK, Va., Jan. 19.—W —Flame-covered waters were believed today to have claimed the lives of 22 crewmen of a United States tanker sunk in a torpedo attack off the Atlan tic coast while others of the crew of 35 brought ashore ac counts of a grim fight with "the strength born of the knowledge of certain death if we failed.” The tanker, the 6,635-ton Al lan Jackson, of the Standard Oil company, survivors said "seemed to be parting in the middle and there was fire ev erywhere” a few moments aft er a torpedo struck amidships as the vessel was enroute to New York yesterday off the North Carolina coast. The sinking of the tanker was announced by naval auth orities late last night, but de tails were withheld until today. Seven of the 13 men known to have survived the sinking told of battling desperately to keep from being sucked into the propellor of the ship which continued to churn as the ves sel sank. They were brought here on an unnamed vessel aft er spending six hours in an open boat. The rescue ship also brought in hospital cases and four bodies. It was a defiant seven men, in spite of their harrowing ex periences, who spoke of the “lousy” ' attackers who “stab in the dark.” One of the sur vivors, O. M. May, an able seaman from Panama City, Fla., said he was going to join the Navy ,and "get a crack” at the enemy. 3 (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) War Off Carolina Coast Nothing New -- 1 Guns Of Opposing Nations Have Been Blasting Away Since 1740 RALEIGH, Jan. 19.—UP—Rav ages of war are nothing new to the North Carolina coast off which the Tanker Allan Jackson was de stroyed yesterday with a probable loss of 22 lives. ■ > As far back as the 1740’s the guns of Spanish pirates boomed along the outer banks, those wav ering thin strips of land standing guard between the turbulent At lantic and the Carolina mainland. In 1812 British men-of-war for aged off the coast in force, and in 1918 a German submarine ranged within sight of watchers on the shore before darting out a few miles for murderous attacks upon a lightship and a tanker.' So today, when they learned of the Allan Jackson’s destruction by a U-boat, old-timers on the coast commented tersely: "It’s happened before.” Many of them, including men who became heros that day, re called the deadly foray of the Ger man U-140 off stormy Cape Hat teras Aug. 5, 1918. Banks residents watched helplessly, while the sub marine lurked cff-shore, as the 3,024-ton American steamship Mer ak hove intg sight about four miles out, loaded with coal for Chile. The submarine swung out and opened fire, throwing over 30 shells at the hapless merchantman be fore the Merak, dodging tortuous ly, ran fast aground upon a shoal Her crew took to lifeboats and put into shore. Meanwhile, the Diamond Shoals lightship 14 miles off shore wire lessed an SOS for the doomed Merak. The incensed sub com mander turned upon the unarmed lightship. Still riding the surface, the U-boat heaved to at 150 yards and blasted the vessel with five fcur-inch shells. While the lightship’s crew of 12 rowed toward shore, the German sub returned to the grounded Mer ak and blew her to bits with time bombs. Just 10 days later the 6,978 Brit ish tanker Mirlo struck a mine a half-mile off Wimble shoal and lit erally was blown out of the water. Flaming gasoline covered the sea, and nine sailors lest their lives in the inferno. A dramatic rescue ox me 41 sur vivors was effected by Capt. John Allen Midgett and a crew from the nearby Chicamacomico Coast Guard station. Their feat, accom plished in heavy seas with a surf boat, has become a saga of the sea. Capt. Midgett and his five men were cited for the congressional medal of honor and received Brit ish recognition. During the war of 1812 a for midable British fleet engaged in a running gun battle with three small American ships of Ocracoke, and hundreds of the invading Britons landed there and at Portsmouth. Legend has it that Spanish pi rates raided Ocracoke in the 1740’s, and in 1861 the federals sent a naval' brigade to Beacon Island, 20 miles south of Hatteras, to de stroy a fort built to protect the inlet. So today the banks residents re called their previous experience with warfare borne across the waves to their normally peaceful shores 2 FDR TO CONTROL COMMUNICATIONS No Plan For Government Operation Of Systems , Under Consideration WASHINGTON, Jan. 19. _ ««| _ Legislation granting President Roosevelt war-time power to take over wire communication facilities won final congressional approval today. Assurance that no plan for gov ernment operation of the telephone and telegraph systems as a whole was under consideration had been given by Chairman Wheeler (D Mont) of the senate interstate com merce committee in response to questions by Senators Taft (R Ohio), Vandenberg (R-Mich) and others. Gontendm gtnat power to take over wire communications was needed for any possible emergency, Wheeler told his colleagues that “as one who opposed our entry in to war until we were attacked, I am prepared to say that we’ve got to give the President the power to carry on the war successfully.” Powers granted by the bill are essentially the same as those which the President now has over radio facilities, permitting him to regu late, shut them down or take them over for government use. Th'- chamber rejected an amend ment by Taft which would have prohibited the government from taking over property valued at more than $10,000,000, except in case of invasion or the movement of troops, without first obtaining funds from congress. Wheeler and Senator Reed (R Kans) said that such a limitation would kill the effect of the bill as an emergency measure. -V ON PRIORITY WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.— UP) — The War department put airplane travel and cargo shipments on a priority basis today, directing that officials and others on government business be given precedence by the airlines over civilians. fanker Allan Jackson De stroyed And Malay Badly Damaged WAR AT SEA RAGES Navy Is Believed Tracking Down Daring Raiders All Along Seaboard WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.^. (fP) — An Axis submarine struck at another tanker off the Atlantic coast of the United States today, damag ing but failing to add the ves sel to the known toll of three ships sunk along the coast in the past six days. A Navy department an nouncement said the 8,206 ton tanker Malay, under char ter to the Gulf Oil company, was attacked early today but was nearing the safety of an Atlantic port tonight and her crew was believed safe. She normally carries a comple ment of 34 men. The Navy, which already had come to grips with Axis undersea raiders along the Pacific coast, long has been on the prowl in Atlantic waters. Calling attention to the sinking of other tankers on both coasts, Ralph K. Davies, deputy petroleum coordi nator, urged oil companies to in crease the use of railroad tank cars for movement of petroleum products from producing fields. The extent of the deadly game of hide-and-seek between the enemy undersea craft and American planes and vessels along the Atlantic sea board was hidden behind a veil of censorship required by the necessi ties of keeping information from the foe. But the spread of known subma rine activities, from off Long Island to North Carolina—led to general belief that the Axis had sent its skulking pigboats in considerable numbers to prowl American waters. Navy Answers Challenge And there , juld be no doubt that the Navy, though grimly si lent, had taken up the challenge, and (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) COLE BLEASE DIES AFTER OPERATION Former Governor, Senator Was Colorful Palmetto Political Figure COLUMBIA, S. C„ Jan. 19.—(£)— Cole L. Blease, former governor and U. S. Senator and long a politi cal figure in South Carolina, died in a hospital here tonight, after undergoing an operation yesterday. Blease was 73 years old. A perennial candidate for office since the 1890's, Blease was gover nor from 1911 to 1915, 'and was U. S. Senator from 1925 to 1931. Blease shot into the national limelight in his first administra tion as governor because of his is sue of nearly 3,000 pardons. He bitterly attacked America’s entry into the World War, and President Wilson’s policies. In 1917 President Wilson made a direct ap peal to South Carolina voters, ask ing the former governor’s defeat in his race for the Senate. While he was in the governor’s office Blease disbanded the entire State Nalional Guard, as .the re sult of a dispute with the War De (Continued on Paige Two; Co!. Si) Auto Dealers Study Suggestions For Aid CHICAGO, Jan. 19.— UR—'The na tion’s automobile dealers, with their stocks of new cars frozen by federal order and subject to ra tioning in the future, today con sidered suggestions for govern ment aid. Directors of the National Auto mobile Dealers association, repre senting 42,000 car dealers who are facing a struggle for survival be cause the motor industry is to be shifted to war production, agreed to present these proposals to the association’s convention: 1. The government should be asked to pay full retail prices for any automobiles purchased or re quisitioned from the frozen stocks of deatevs. 2. Belief may be necessary for dealers who have leased large showrooms, which will be unnec essary under the rationing pro gram. Legislation might be asked to provide a moratorium on the leases or methods of adjustment. 3. Provision should be made for the government to buy any new automobiles offered by any dealer after July 1, 1942. This would per mit liquidation by dealers who found themselves unable to con tinue business on the income from used car sales arrd service depart ments. “The automobile retailing busi ness has received a hard blow,” L. Clare Cargile, president of the association said. “We dealers are here, however, not to protest but to salvage what we mav from the wreckage’ j
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