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RED STEAMROLLER BLOTS
VOL OKONO VKA FROM MAP/
OF GERMANY’S CONQUER
ARMAVIR TAKEN
Russians Now Only 80
Miles West Of Impor
tant Railway
AT VOROSHILOVGRAD
Latest Move May Be At
tempt To Completely
Encircle Rostov
LONDON, Jan. 23.—(/P)—
Red army troops sweeping
westward to break the Nazi
communication backbone in
southern Russia has captur
ed Yolokonovka, only 50
miles from the big German
base of Belgorod on the
Kursk-Kharkov railway, and
taken 12,000 prisoners for a
total of 64,000 in nine days,
a special Moscow communique
recorded here by the Soviet
monitor said tonight.
Armavir, rail gateway to
[ the Caucasian oil fields of
! Maikop, and 160 miles below
Rostov, also fell to the ad
vancing Russians, the com
munioue said.
80 Miles From Railway
The Red army, hurling back the
Axis forces over terrain where the
Nazis themselves swept eastward
last summer, now is 80 miles west
of the Moscow-Voronezh-Rostov
railway. It has severed the Yellets
Valuiki-Kupyansk line, the first im
portant north-south network en
countered in this flow across +he
frozen face of Russia, and appar
ently is aiming for Belgorod, which
is about mid-way between ICurk
and Kharkov on the main trunk
line.
Volokonovka is about 22 miles
above captured Valukiki and 78
miles northeast of Kharkov.
To the south other Russian units
were encircling Voroshilovgrad,
Donets industrial capital, in an ap
parent attempt to plant their ban
ners on the Sea of Azov below to
completely encircle Rostov, feeder
point for all Nazi forces in the
Caucasus.
The Russians now are well on
their way toward wiping out all
the German gains scored last year
in Russia. The communique said
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NEGROES ARRESTED
FOR LIQUOR SALES
Four Held After Youths
Purchase Wine And
Beer Here
Four Negroes were arrested Fri
day night on charges of selling
intoxicating beverages to minors
in what ABC officers described as
the beginning of a drive on the
wide-spread violation of the statute
here.
Elizabeth Bird, Negro employe
of the Blue Bird cafe in Brooklyn,
"as lined $25 and the costs of
‘ourt by Recorder H. Winfield
Smith in county court Saturday
morning for selling a pint of wine
*rd a bottle of beer to Frank
Richards, 15-year-old shipyard
worker.
Clayton C. Holmes, attorney for
me Negress, contended that the
'■'-year-old white youth was wear
mg his shipyard clothes when he
Imade the purchase and, to all ap
a n'Jrances’ Was above the legal
r(l,She ,ouSht to have her glasses
•' nsed then because anyone can
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Attractive Bride Slam
In Pullman Train Berth
EUGENE, Ore., Jan. 23—JI®—
Murder in lower berth No. 13
! "fld a speeding train. With an
Vj'.8ns attraetive bride as the
s. u“’ motivated a widespread
in.' ' I l'-'n‘til»t for a dark husky
/’ described as tlie slayer,
i ‘ ls' Martha Virginia Brinson
p' Ml" -I, wife of Ensign Richard
■ ■ "iTits. was slain aboard the
, " ''‘in Pacific’s San Francisco
tficl-'i V/est Coast limited, early
J!CI Emoal was cut. Her body
P i out °f the berth and into the
man aisle. She was dead
5 <\
when a passenger, Marine Pvt.
Harold R. Wilson of San Diego,
occupant of upper 13, reached her.
Among her possessions was $112
cash, indicating that robbery was
not the motive.
Pj-ivate Wilson told police he
heard a scream about 4 a. m.,
looked out and saw a husky man
in a brown suit leap from lower
13 and head toward the rear of
the sleeping car. A moment later
the woman’s body clad in a night
dress, slipped out.
Wilson said he thought the man
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Edward Flynn Discla.
Any Dishonorable Action
Recommendations
By Treasury Seen
On Ruml Tax Plan
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—OP)
Belief that the Treasury De
partment would have their rec
ommendations on the pay-as
you-go income tax collection
proposal ready for presenta
tion to the House Ways and
Means committee “early next
week” was expressed today by
Chairman Doughton (D-NC.)
In a letter to Rep. Treadway
(R-Mass.) the committee’s
ranking minority member,
Doughton said that he “indi
vidually” believed that consid
eration of the pay-as-you-go
plan would have first consid
eration in the order of the
committee’s business.
His letter was in reply to
one from the committee’s Re
publican members demanding
immediate public hearings on
prospective tax legislation in
cluding the “question of adop
ting some form of pay-as-you
go collection of the personal in
come tax.”
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CG LIEUTENANTS
PRAISED BY ARMY
Frink And Huckins Of Lo
cal Office Commended
For Rescue Work
Lieut, (jg> S. Bunn Frink and
Lieut. Pembroke Huckins of the
staff of captain of the port’s office
here have been commended by the
commanding general of the Third
Army Air Force for their part in
the rescue of 21 Army airmen
who parachuted to safety in the
vicinity of Wilmington when they
were forced to abandon their plane
the night of December 2, Lieut.
Commander R. W. Thresher, cap
tain of the port, revealed Saturday.
The commendation was in the
form of a letter from Major Gen
eral St. Clair Street, commanding
officer of the Third Air Force, to
each of the Coast Guard officers
here.
“I desire to express to you my
sincere appreciation of the inval
uable service which you have ren
dered to this command an to the
Army Air Forces,” General
Streett’s letter said in part.
“Your personal actions and
your cooperation with other res
cuers in locating and aiding in
the successful recovery of all
twenty-one members of the 32nd
Bombardment Group, who. on De
cember 2. 1912, were forced to
abandon their airplanes and para
chute into a swampy, uninhabit
ed and thickly-wooded area in
the vicinity of Wilmington, North
Carolina, cannot be too highly
commended.
“This service, far beyond the
call of normal duty, reflects cre
dit on yourselves and on the Coast
Guard service.”
The bombers, apparently on a
routine mission, were abandoned
by their crews after the fuel had
been exhausted during a high wind
storm here. All 21 airmen es
caped relatively uninjured but sev
eral were hospitalized briefly for
treatment of minor sprains and
bruises.
Lieut. Frink, executive officer
of the captain of the port’s office,
is a well known Southport lawyer
and was a candidate for district
solicitor last spring when he with
drew to enter the Coast Guard. He
is a veteran of the last world war.
Lieut. Huckins, port security
officer, is from Jacksonville, Fla.
HEARINGS NOW CLOSED
Committee >To Vote Wed
nesday On Fitness
For The Post
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23— (fl>) —
Edward J. Flynn told tte Senate
Foreign Relations committee today
that he would never have let Presi:
dent Roosevelt, a “family friend”
for 25 years, nominate him to be
minister to Australia had there been
anything dishonorable in his life.
With this simple declaration from
the 50-year-old former Democratic
National chairman, the hearings pn
his fitness for the diplomatic as
signment were brought to a close.
Chairman Connally (D-Tex) an
nounced the committee would meet
Wednesday and vote whether to
recommend that the Senate con
firm or reject the nomination. By
delaying the vote until next week,
he observed, the committe will
have time to study a printed rec
ord of the hearings.
In three days of hearings the
committee listened to 12 witnesses,
winding up today with Flynn, his
law partner, Monroe Goldwater,
Mayor F. H. LaGuardia of New
York, and Robert L. Moran, former
Bronx commissioner of public
works.
At the end, Flynn, dapper in a
dark suit with a carnation in his
lapel, appeared confident and smiled
broadly after his earnest statement.
The audience applauded.
LaGuardia was oh the stand only
briefly. With a wave of his hand,
he declined to express an opinion
on the minister-designate's fitness
to represent this country in Aus
tralia.
There was such long - standing
political bitterness between him and
Flynn, LaGuardia said, that he did
not feel himself unprejudiced.
“Do you believe anybody crooked
and corrupt should be employed as
an ambassador to any country” In
quired Senator Bridges (R-NH).
“I think your question answers
itself,” LaGuardia replied.
“Then you say no?”
"Certainly.”
As for work done at Flynn’s
country estate in 1941 by New York
city employes, an incident which
largely dominated the hearings, La
Guardia said he knew nothing about
it except that William B. Herlands,
New York commissioner of investi
gations, had reported.
Herlands told the committee yes
terday it was his personal convic
tion that Flynn knew while the
work was being done that the
laborers were city employes using
city-owned materials. But Herlands,
said, there was no direct evidence
that Flynn knew this and he doubt
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Red Cross Executive
To Come Here To Aid
In Planning Campaign
National Bed Cross headquar
ters will send E. C. Kershaw
here the first week of Febru
ary to assist Walker Taylor,
who has just been named
chairman of the Red Cross War
Fund camjpaigm, in planning
the 1943 drive, J. Henry Ger
des, chairman of local chapter,
announced Saturday.
The War Fund drive, com
bined with the annual Roll Call,
is expected to get underway
here in March.
Red Cross activities greatly
increased last year, Mr. Ger
des said, and' an added in
crease is expected this year.
Mr. Taylor will appoint eight
or ten sub-committees shortly
to assist this year’s campaign.
WEATHER
FORECAST
NORTH CAROLIN: Continued mild
today, colder in afternoon.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23—(#)—Weather
bureau report of temperature and rain
fall for the 24 hours ending 8 p. m. in
the principal cotton growing areas and
elsewhere: _ „
Station High Low R’fall
Atlanta --— JO 50 0.00
Birmingham-78 o9 0.00
Buffalo- 36 07 0.00
Charlotte - 57 45 0.00
Cincinnati --— 03 31 0.00
Denver - 59 41 0.00
Duluth - 02 14 °’00
El Paso_ 69 47 0.00.
Fort Worth - 88 53 0.00
Kansas City - 32 26 0.00
Little Rock- 80 54 0.00
Meridan - 80 63 0.00
Miami ---;- 78 59 0.00
Mobile_ 76 52 0.00
New York - 34 09 0.00
Pittsburgh - 52 33 0.00
Richmond- 63 29 0.00
San Antonio - 86 48 0.00
Savannah- 69 51 0.00
Vicksburgh - 81 64 0.00
Washington- 54 27 0.00
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Mareth Line
Mareth, seacoast anchor of Tu
nisia’s “Little Maginot Line,” may
be the objective of German General
Rommel’s fleeing Axis army. The
Nazis, may attempt a stand behind
this line against British forces that
chased them out of Tripoli.
BILLS BULGING
SENATE HOPPER
Many Measures Of Prime
Importance Before State
Lawmakers
RALEIGH, Jan. 23.—W - The
Senate hopper bulged today with
new legislation received during a
busy week, many of the bills of
prime importance.
Chief among the new measures
was the nine-months school bill, a
substitute for legislation which
had been previously introduced in
both houses. A companion bill to
the substitute measure also ap
peared in the House.
Other major bills included: A
proposed revision of the absentee
ballot laws, suggestions for chan
ges in the law enforcement offi
cers benefit and retirement fund,
an anticipated measure to set up
21 solicitor: al districts, a propos
al "described as an effort to re
move the board of trustees of the
Greater University of North Caro
lina from politics,” and a bill to
allow terms of superior court to
be held in cities other than coun
ty seats.
In addition, the Senate also re
ceived-legislation which if passed,
would fix a ceiling on the fees
charged corporations at the time
of incorporation, would revise the
State Board of Health and would
make 30 changes in the unemploy
ment compensation laws.
The Senate passed during the
week bills authorizing the gover
nor and Council of State to invest
surplus funds and setting up a
$20,000,000 reserve fund to be
held for use after the war period.
It .also approved a joint resolu
tion introduced by Sen. Blythe of
Mecklenburg to provide for an in
vestigation of Caswell Training
school by a legislative committee
appointed by the Governor, with
a specific view of recommending
expansion of facilities for caring
for feeble-minded children, pos
sibly in more than one school.
A House bill to exempt members
of the armed forces and Merchant
Marine from payment of the poll
tax was passed by the Senate, and
the Joint Finance committee took
action to relieve fighting Tar
Heels further by exempting them
from payment of a state income
tax on the compensation they re
ceive from the federal govern
ment.
The Finance committee virtual
ly completed action during the
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Prominent Navy Officers
Missing With Big Plane
■ - ' +__
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23— (ff) —
The Navy announced today that
Rear Admiral Robert H. English,
commander of the Pacific Fleet
submarine force, was aboard the
Naval air transport plane which
is reported missing on a flight
from Pearl Harbor to San Fran
cisco.
A widespread search for the sea
plane is continuing, the Navy said,
but so far no trace has been found
of the craft.
Names of ten Naval officers, in
cluding Rear Admiral English, and
r'ne crew members who were not
Naval personnel, who were aboard
were announced by the Navy.
The officers:
Admirel English, whose usual re
sidence is Warrenton, Ga. His wife,
Mts. Eloise Walker English, pre
sently lives at 4445 Lowell street,
N. W., Washington.
Captain Robert Holmes Smith,
commanding officer of a Naval
\essel, whose usual address is 307
Hammond street, Rocky Mount,
N. C.. His wife, Mrs. Francis B.
Smith, lives at 120 Memorial drive,
Cambridge, Mass.
Capt. Robert E. Thomas, of the
Naval civil engineer corps, direc
tor of the Pacific division of the
Bureau of Yards an Docks. His
usual address is 614 Whitman
street, Rockford, 111. His wife. Mrs.
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61ST FREIGHTER
TO BE LAUNCHED
Ephraim Brevard Will Be
Christened Here This
Afternoon
The North Carolina Shipbuilding
company will launch its 61st Lib
erty Freighter, the S. S. Ephraim
Brevard, from the ways here at
1:15 p. m. Sunday .
The Brevard will be christened
by Mrs. R. L. Harris, wife of
Lieutenant - Governor Harris of
Roxboro.
Her attendants will be Mrs. Ben
jamin T. Brown and Miss Betsy
Reade Harris, both of Roxboro.
The ship is named for Ephraim
Brevard, Revolutionary patriot and
author of the famous Mecklenberg
declaration of 1775.
Born in 1750, Brevard was grad
uated at Princeton in 1768, stud
ied medicine, and settled at Char
lotte to practice. He sympathized
with the movement for indepen
dence, and was secretary of the
famous Mecklenberg convention
of May 31, 1775.
He was one of the committee
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MUSSOLINI’S EMPIRE DREAM
SHA TTERED BY BRITISH 8TH
ARMY AS TRIPOLI OCCUPIED
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ALEXANDER PICKED
Middle East Commander
Jhought Choice For
Allied Chief
ABLE ARMY LEADER
Desert Campaign Basically
His Show; Montgom
ery Followed
LONDON, Jan. 23.—(IP)—
Lifted to the forefront of
popular acclaim by the fall of
Tripoli and the successful
conclusion of his desert cam
paign, Gen. Sir HaroM Alex
ander, commander in chief of
Allied forces in the Middle
East, is regarded by many
here as the logical man to
command the next full-blown
offensive of the Allied na
tions, wherever it may fall.
The quiet, pleasant general,
whose appointment to su
preme command in the Mid
dle East last August received
a cool reception from British
press and public, now has won
firm recognition as one of
Britain’s most capable strat
egists.
Has Excellent Record
Throughout the recent desert cam
paign military authorities stressed
the fact that it basically was Alex
ander’s show, even though Gen. Sir
Bernard L. Montgomery was more
in the limelight as battlefront ex
ecutor of his chief’s,grand strategy.
Now the public is remembering
again that the 51-year-old Alexan
der won fame in the last war and
was the “last man off the beach
at Dunkerque” in the present con
flict.
Alexander organized the present
realistic battle school training me
thods in Britain and directed the
British army’s retreat out of Bur
ma, where the soldiers in the face
of terrific odds were said to have
come out “with their tails up.’
An avowed apostle of the of
fensive, Alexander has told his
junior officers:
“We must not be conteA to sit
behind concrete fortifications. We
should take every opportunity to
hit back — especially where the
enemy is not expecting us.”
He is a prime exponent of air
support for ground troops, and his
expertness in the use of the aerial
army was seen all through the de
sert campaign.
Many tales are told of Alexan
der’s coolness and courage under
fire. Just before the Dunkerque
evacuation he and two staff offi
cers and a chauffeur sergeant,
J. A. Wells, were trapped by a
road block 10 miles from the chan
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Where MacArthur’s Men Hit Japs
From Buna to Rabaul United Nations forces commanded by Gen.
Douglas MacArthur are striking against the Japs and their bases.
American and Australian troops have wiped out the enemy in the Buna
Sanananda area' and have opened a new offensive near Salamaua.
Allied bombers make daily raids on ships and supply dumps at Jap
bases like Lae and Rabaul.
2 More Japanese Vessels
Hit By Allies At Rabaul
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Sunday,
Jan. 24.—(/P)—Two more ships have been hit by bombs
at Rabaul, New Guinea, where earlier this week Allied
planes sent four vessels, totalling 24,000 tons, to the bot
tom, the Allied high command reported today.
At the same time, the noon communique announced
that all fighting in the Papuan peninsular, of New Guinea,
has ceased with 117 Japs taken*
prisoner.
Five Jap Zero planes were
downed in dog-fighting which oc
curred during the latest Rabaul
raid.
“Our heavy bombers attacked
the harbor before dawn,” General
Douglas MacArthur’s communi
que stated, “striking at shipping
and airdromes. A fuel dump at
Vunakanau was hit and left burn
ing furiously with numerous ex
plosions visible for 75 miles; other
bombs fell in the dispersal areas
and blast bays. Vessels at an
chor and a convoy approaching
the harbor were bombed but
searchlight glare was such that
results could not be observed.
“During the day, one of our
heavy bombers on armed recon
naissance over the area seriously
damaged a 12,000 ton transport in
the harbor with a direct hit and
five near misses and scored two
near hits on an 8,000 ton ship north
of Rabaul which came to a stand
still. Twelve enemy fighters in
tercepted the bomber in a running
fight lasting one hour and five
minutes five enemies were de
stroyed and two damaged. Our
bomber returned safely.’
(Mention of a convoy in Rabaul’s
vicinity could be regarded as in
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Colonel Potts Named
Commanding Officer
Of Camp Davis Post
Colonel Adam E. Potts, re
cently Director of Supply at
Camp Davis, has been ap
pointed commanding officer of
the camp Saturday, it was an-^
nounced by the War Depart-*
ment.
However, Major General
Frederic H. Smith will continue
as commanding general of the
Antiaircraft Training Center at
Camp Davis. Colonel Potts
will be camp commander for
the purpose of administration.
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SOLDIERS MEDAL
GIVEN DAVIS MAN
Signal Corps Linesman Is
Honored For Saving
Comrade’s Life
CAMP DAVIS, Jan. 23—For
calmly facing electrocution from
a high voltage wire while he res
cued an unconscious comrade from
death atop a power line pole, Pri
vate Herbert W. Anderson, 36, of
Street, Md. (Harford county, near
Baltimore) today received the Sol
dier’s Medal from Maj. Gen. Fred
eric H. Smith, commanding gen
eral of Camp Davis.
Signal Corps linesmen Anderson
and George Kincade were repair
ing telephone lines disabled De
cember 2, 1942 by a high gale
lashing the nearby, sea coast at
Sears Landing, artillery firing
point for this training center. The
strong wind snapped a huge tree
near the pole on which Kincade
was working. Kincade was en
meshed in the wire, shocked to
unconsciousness and badly burned.
Veteran of 17 years experience
as a linesman, Anderson instantly
and calmly got into action. He
knew that a “breaker” somewhere
along the power line probably had
cut off the voltage temporarily.
But at any minute it might come
alive, he knew.
Kmcade weakly answered que
ries as to his condition. Anderson
took a rope, nimbly clambered up
the pole. Working skillfully against
time, he extricated his comrade.
Utilizing his training, he tied up
the now unconscious linesman and
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MOVE ON TUNISIA
Allied Troops Trying To
Stop Rommel’s Last
Escape Route
AXIS FORCES BOMBED
German Army Pounded In
cessantly By Allied
Aircraft
(By the Associated Press)
ALLIED HEADQUAR
TERS IN NORTH AFRICA,
Jan. 23.—Britain’s Eighth
Army captured Tripoli to fin
ally topple Mussolini’s Afri
can empire early today and
raced on westward toward
Tunisia where Allied troops
were mopping up Nazi para
chutists trying to widen the
50-mile “bomb alley” of es
cape left to Marshal Rom
mel’s Axis forces fleeing into
Tunisia.
General Montgomery’s des
ert troops at 5 a. m. swept
into Tripoli whose dock de
pots and installations had
been blasted both by Allied
bombers and Nazi demolition
squads. Capture of this city
was the ultimate triumph of
a three-month push equiva
lent to the distance from
New York city to th« plains
of Nebraska.
Push On WeslwM#
The British then were reported
to have pushed on westward toward
the Tunislp.n border, 100 mlleB of
Tripoli, while Allied planes pound
ed Rommel’s shattered troops on
the coastal highway and Inflicted
“great damage” on boatloads of Axis
officials fleeing the port pt Zuara,
60 miles from Tripoli.
(The Admiralty In London also
announced that light forces of the
Royal Navy bombarded Zuara early
Saturday. “Good results were
achieved, large fires and explosions
CAIRO, Jan. 23 —</P>—When
the British Eighth Army laun
ched Its final offensive to
clean Egypt and Libya, Allied
war correspondents were told
that Tripoli would be In Allied
hands on January 22.
The Army was only five
hours late after advancing 1,
300 miles.
being observed,” the communique
said. No casualties nor damage
was suffered by the British fleet.)
Less than 300 miles separates
General Montgomery's troops and
the Allied Tunisian forces in the
Gafsa area of Tunisia, but the Axis
apparently is firmly entrenched all
along the eastern Tunisian coast
where Rommel is withdrawing to
join the Axis troops under Gen,
Jurgen von Arnim.
It also is believed that Genera.
Montgomery's main forces would
have to pause for re - and ni
zation after the I ng, exhausting
haul'across Libya.
In central Tunisia British and
French troops were reported to
have rolled back f> German l ink
column at least four miles in the
Kebir valley after a counterattack
launched from Robaa toward Pont
du Fahs.
Southeast of Robaa heavy and
“very mixed” fighting was raging
in the Ousseitia valley, a spokes
man said. The German tank
troops which yesterday were re
ported threatening the town of
Ousseitia had made no further
progress, it was said.
In these two valleys, roughly 50
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Flying Fortresses Blast
Nazi Sub Pens At Lorient
LONDON, Jan. 23— (/P) — Ameri
can Flying Fortresses blasted at
submarine pens at Lorient and
Frest today and American-made
RAF Mustangs struck at Nazi in
land transportation in double day
light blows at German-occupied
Europe.
Five Fortresses were lost in
the smash at the submarine bases
in the Americans’ third raid of
this month. It was the third attack
on Lorient and the second on Brest
since the U. S. Air Forces came
to Britain.
■ Visibility over the targets was
good and excellent results was
observed, a joint communique by
U. S. headquarters and the Air
Ministry said.
The Fortresses encountered ene
my fighters over the submarine
bases on the Bay of Biscay, and
shot down an undisclosed number
of them, the communique added.
The RAF meanwhile hammered
at troops, trains, barges and tugs
farther inland, and more RAF
planes swarmed over Dover strait
just after dusk tonight. Explosions
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