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|]oyd May Take City
Needs Tq CAB Today
long-extended efforts of
Sfinston and New Hanover
® t0 have a Caribbean
' American air route flown
giuethenthal airport wiU
a climax today or to
•ff. when Lieut. Col. Henry
fjord traffic manager of the
Jyjgton P°rt Traffic associa
. Jakes the stand in the re
46 ■, 0f the controversial
fl/ean case before the Civil
Lautics borad in Washington,
v. nationally-known, airlines
Lnial and Eastern—are re
fed to be the chief contenders
f* fight to get the nod of ajv
>al from the CAB for the pro
jfd route designed to weld
fashington, Atlantic City, Nor
tf Elizabeth City, New Bern,
(Jmington, Myrtle Beach, George
town , Charleston, Savannah,
Brunswick, Jacksonville, Orlando
and Miami into an Eastern Sea
board air chain to be flung over
seas to Balboa, Panama; Baran
quilla, Columbia; Nassau, Baha
mas; Havana, Camaguay, and San
tiago, Cuba; and Cienfugos, King
ston, and Montego Bay, Jamaica.
To Present Heads
Colonel Boyd, however, will not
champion either contender for the
route. Rather, he will set forth
Wilmington’s need for inclusion on
the proposed route and demand
that the CAB grant it to the com
peting company which, in the
CAB’s opinion, can best provide
the desired overseas service.
According to advance reports
See BOYD On Page Two
(ff SCHEDULES
HOUSING REPORT
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Commander Snead Opto
mistic Over Plan For
Purchase
He Wilmington post Of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars will
aeet. at 8 p. m. Wednesday to
i"ear the report of a special post
committee appointed to investigate
njmors that managers of the Lake
Forest housing project have ig
sored veterans preference rules in
selecting tenants for their build
jjjs, E. C. Snead, post com
uander, said last night.
David LeRoy, chairman of the
investigating committee, will de
liver the report, an anticipated
highlight in a special meeting
called to discuss the local hous
es situation for ex-servicemen.
The post will also hear a new
summary of progress of its efforts
to acquire permanent possession
of Lake Foret’s 584 masonry build.
Eg as a veterans housing coopera
tive.
Snead last night was frankly
jubiMant over week-end develop
ments which, he said, indicated
that the local VFW would soon
enter into direct negotiations with
Federal Public Housing adminis
tration officials in Atlanta to pur
chase the Lake Forest project.
In order to buy the buildings on
a cooperative basis, the vets group
must present certificates of con
sent from 25 per cent of Lake For
ests present residents and a list
of prospective cooperative mem
bers to occupy an additional 35
per cent of the project’s buildings.
The VFW leader said last night
that s:gnatures of 25 per cent of
the project’s current tenant roster
are "already in the bag”, al
though the full quota has not yet
been secured.
Snead hopes, later this week, to
call a meeting of all ex-service
men, whether eligible for VFW
membership or not, who might be
interested in entering the coopera.
tive, he said last night.
WALLACE MAY ISSUE
STATEMENT TODAY IN
DEFENSE OF SPEECH
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15. — (U.R)—
Secretary of Commerce Henry A.
"aliace whose New York ease-up
w-Russia speech shocked adminis
tration democrats and caused an
1,1 ^national uproar, may issue a
statement Monday touching on
resident Truman’s repudiation of
!ls rernarks, it was reported Sun
day night.
Intimates of the former vice
President, who is still in New York,
he might have something to
>5’ about Mr. Truman renouncing
:;ls sPeech, after having approved
' ln advance, but that there was
pnt prospect of a Truman-Wallace
reak or that Wallace might quit
“e cabinet.
UNBONE S MEDITATIONS
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DISPUTES BREAK OUT
OVER PROPERTY RIGHT
AT GOLD RUSH SCENE
CRESCENT CITY, Calif., Sept.
15. —(U.R)— Disputes over property
rights broke out between landown
ers and prospectors at the site of
California's newest gold rush.
One landowner guarded his sec
tion line with a .30 caliber rifle
and threatened gold seekers he
would shoot if they didn’t keep off.
Henry L. Shapiro, well-to-do lily
bulb grower, walked sentry duty,
carrying his rifle along the line of
his 160 acres bordering Meyer’s
Flat above Myrtle Creek, where
the reported gold find was made by
veteran prospector Tom Cronin.
Cronin, a one-time sheep rancher
who went broke during the depres
sion, discovered a pyrite outcrop
ping September 4 in the area 15
miles northeast of here. Assayer
Ernest Hay reported the rock bore
gold worth between $55 and $75 a
ton. When the news seeped out,
some 500 persons bore down on the
area.
TOBACCO MARKETS
TO REDUCE HOURS
Three Hour Sales Period
Effective Today; Middle
Belt Opens
RALEIGH, Sept. 15— (IP) —With
farmers looking forward to record
high prices, tobacco sales will be
gin Monday on the nine markets
of North Carolina’s Middle Belt.
The Middle Belt markets are at
Aberdeen, Carthage, Durham, Fu
quay-Varina, Henderson, Louis
burg, Oxford, Sanford, and Warren
ton.
Higher prices are expected on
belts that have already opened,
the Eastern North Carolina Belt,
the North and South Carolina Bord
er Belt, and the Georgia-Flonda
Belt.
The annual opening of flue-cured
tobacco markets will be completed
on Monday, September 23 when
sales begin on markets, of the old
belt. ,
Meanwhile, markets of the East
ern Belt and the North and South
Carolina Border Belt will reduce
the daily sales periods from five
hours to three hours beginning
Monday. Middle Belt markets wi-1
have five-hour sales days Monday
See TOBACCO on Page Two
Attack Station
JERUSALEM, Palestine, Mon
day, Sept. 16. —CU.P.)— Heavily arm
ed Jewish desperadoes made a
surprise attack on the Sarafand El
Harb police station near the Sara
fand military base 28 miles south
east of Jaffa, it was reported early
Reports said the police station
was attacked shortly before mid
night and that the desperadoes,
after a sharp exchange of fire, fled
into an orange grove and escaped.
There was no casualties, it was
said. , .
The gang, numbering about ten,
fled. when police illuminated the
area with star shells.
The siege came as troops of the
British sixth airborne division pa
trolled the Jaffa-Tel Aviv bound
ary — 30 miles away — to forestall
possible renewed violence like
Friday’s bank robberies and shoot
ings. ___
Possibility Of Third War
Remote, Spot-Check Shows
Thousands of Americans are
asking: “Is a Third World War
in prospect?” Harry W. Frantz,
veteran United Press corre
spondent and foreign expert,
gives the answer in the follow
ing dispatch based on a care
ful survey of reliable govern
ment and diplomatic quarters.
Bv HARRY W. FRANTZ.
WASHINGTON, Sept 15—
The possibility of a Third World
War is remote, but a long Pen
of complicated and frequent y
nerve-wracking diplomacy is m
prospect, according to a consensus
of diplomatic opinion here.
The recent trend of international
events has been toward a global
balance-of-power, superseding the
19th century thesis of a European
balance-of-power, but powerful
economic and social forces are at
work to keep international rival
ries upon a diplomatic rather than
combat plane.
These conclusions of the United
Press correspondent were derived
from informal conversations with
10 experts in the government and
diplomatic corps whose daily work
requires their routine attention to
relations with Soviet Russia.
See POSSIBILITY On Page Two
Ready For Drive
W. D. McCAIG
Vice-president of the Atlantic
Coast Line who announced yes
terday a meeting of railroad
YMCA leaders and Coast Line
officials here today and tomor
row for the purpose of formu
lating plans for the annual
YMCA membership drive.
ACL MEN TO PLAN
1946 YMCA DRIVE
Two-Day Meeting Here
Will Be Climaxed By
Luncheon
Railroad YMCA leaders and At
lantic Coast Line officials will
gather in Wilmington today to for.
mulate plans for the line’s annual
YMCA membership campaign,
Vice-President W. D. McCaig, sys
tem chairman, announced yester
day.
The two-day organizational con
ference will be climaxed by a
luncheon meeting held at St. Paul’s
Lutheran Parish house Tuesday at
1 p. m.
(The Coast Line operates YMCA
facilities at Rocky Mount. N. C.,
Florence, S. C., and Waycross,
Ga., with a membership of 6,947).
With the membership drive
scheduled to get under way by the
first of November, Monday’s plan,
ning session will bring together
P. M. Montgomery, railroad secre
tary of the YMCA National Coun
cil in Richmond, Va.: J. A. Har
per, Rooky Mount YMCA general
secretary; L. H. Johnson, Florence
general secretary; John R. Glenn,
Waycross general secretary.
Others expected to attend include
system and division officers, rail
road YMCA presidents—Supt. R.
G. Murchison, Rocky Mount, Supt.
R. B. Hare, Florence, Supt. Motive
Power James Grant, Waycross—
and city and railroad chairman
from three points.
The railroad YMCA buildings
were authorized by the Coast Line
board of directors in 1910 and con
struction was completed in 1911
All operating facilities are owned
by the company and leased to the
International Committee of the
YMCA.
Last Jump
BOWLING GREEN, 0„ Sept. 15—
(/P)—Gordon Lahman, 18-year-old
ex-paratrooper of Eagle Rock,
Calif., was killed today in a 3,000
foot drop at an air circus show
after his parachute failed to open.
Some 1,000 persons watched the
plunge—a volunteer performance
opening a show billed as the “Fly
ing Tiger Circus”—and saw his
tiny pilot chute open at tree-top
level.
Ruling the death accidental,
Wood County Coroner H. W. Mann
hardt said the main chute never
opened.
The only item in the boy’s pocket
was a verse “The Paratrooper’s
Prayer,” reading:
“Gory, gory, what a helluva way
to die,
“Gory, gory, what a helluva way
to die,
“Gory, gory, what a helluva way
to die:
“This is my last jump.”
thirty-seven injured
MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 15. —(U.R)
— Thirty-seven persons were injur
ed, four seriously, when a six-car
troop train collided with a freight
train at Lupfer, Mont., a Great
Northern railroad official announc
ed today.__
1K .isport Plane Tumbles
To Ground, Burns In
. Canadian West
TWENTY^ONE KILLED
Operators Had Made De
livery Of Lend-Lease
Equipment To U. S.
ESTEVAN, Sask, Sept. 15.
— (U.P.)— Twenty-one per
sons were reported killed Sun
day when a Royal Canadian
air force transport plane
carrying a group of ferry pi
lots crashed and burned at
Estevan airport.
Estevan police said the
plane, an RCAF Dakota,
crashed shortly before noon.
They gave no details.
United States aeronautics of
ficials at Minot N. D., southeast
of here, said the plane left Minot
at 9:30 a. m. carrying a group of
pilots which had delivered a con
signment of airplanes to Hector
airport at Fargo, N. D.
The consignment flight was said
to have been part of an operation
in which the Canadian government
it returning lend-lease. planes to
the United States for resale by the
War Assets administration. Fargo
officials said 200 planes had been
delivered there in recent days by
Canadian pilots for a sale schedul
ed to start Monday.
No Logs Required
Minot officials said CAA rules
do not require RCAF pilots to file
flight logs. Therefore they did not
See FERRY On Page Two
(MANS PLAN
YOUTH Gl DANCE
Local Civic Club To Aid
Juvenile Court With
Counsel Service
Organization of a Youth Guid
ance council, which will cooperate
with the local juvenile court in
offering the advice and counsel of
successful young business men to
individual “problem” boys, was
announced by the Wilmington Civi
tan club yesterday through its
president, Lloyd Jackson.
The new council, which current
ly consists of six Civitan club
members, has already gone to
work on the first of a series of
cases which will be directed to its
attention by Mrs. Sarah A. Layton,
juvenile court clerk here, Jackson
said.
Members of the group will deal
with each case on the basis of
influence and guidance, and will
in no sense sit as a jury on the
boys who are sent to them, the
Civitan leader declared.
In a majority of cases a mem
ber of the guidance council will
be assisted to act as a big brother
to a boy whose difficulties it has
taken under consideration.
Dr. Elbert C. Anderson, chair
man of the Civitan projects com
mittee, conceived the plan and
will serve as chairman'of the coun
cil, Jackson said.
Membership in the group will be
rotated among local Civitans with
two councilmen to be replaced
every two months. Present per
sonnel of the council consists of
John K. Ward, W. A. Raney,
Louie E. Woodbury, Jr., Ben G.
Merritt; Tom Lawther, and Dr.
Anderson.
Along The Cape Fear
CAPE FEAR MENU — In Satur
day’s paper we offered you folks
some food for thought over the
weekend in the form of a tasty
but tough tidbit labeled “Blue
Mountain Joe” on our Cape Fear
menu.
Well, apparently nobody has di
gested the tidbit yet, so while we’re
waiting for that to happen we’re
going to give you some more food
for thought which should really
set you to pondering so hard that
you’ll plumb wear out your think
ing caps. Also, it should make your
mouth water like Niagara Falls in
the rainy season.
Further, it should make you an
grier than you have been before
in these OPA days of no sugar, no
butter, and no meat.
CHRISTMAS DAY, 18?? — This
food for thought has the advantage
over “Blue Mountain Joe” of be
ing tasty but not tough and of be
ing, actually, food — the wonder
ful, delectable, sumptuous food
which grandfather used to eat but
which, alas, seems destined never
to get within molar distance of
[grandfather’s children.
I
We shall now serve you this food j
exactly as it appeared on the Pur
cell House’s dinner menu for
Christmas Day back in 1877. (The
Purcell House, should it have slip
ped your mind, was Wilmington’s
first really fine hotel. It stood
where the Bailey theater stands
now).
But we see you grow impatient
in anticipation of the coming
feast. So, without further delay,
we shall now summon garcon to
our table.
REAL MOCK TURTLE — For
soup, garcon, we’ll have the mock
turtle—the real mock turtle, not
the mock turtle of 1946. For fish,
we think we’ll take the boiled sal
mon with the (get this) drawn
butter.
Now, for the boiled delicacies,
we shall have to decide between
Baltimore ham, mutton with caper
sauce, corned meef, tongue, and
■turkey with oyster sauce. Yes, and
we’ll have some of these side
dishes, too — bouchees of chicken,
a la Pompadour; veal cutlets,
See CAPE FEAR on Page Two
19 LOSE LIVES WHEN TANKER
CRACKS OFF ELIZABETH CITY;
STRIKE NEGOTIATIONS FUTILE
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Shipowners
Refuse Terms
Set By Union
N.M.U. Couples Demands
With Those Of Two West
Coast Organizations
PARLEY IS DENIED
Watches Withdrawn From
All Vessels At Piers In
Major Eastern Cities
By The Associated Press
Efforts to end the strike of
the CIO National Maritime
union failed yesterday when
east coast ship operators
termed negotiations “futile”
so long as the NMU coupled
its demands with those of two
west coast unions and refused
to continue discussions until
security watches withdrawn
by the NMU were restored.
The NMU has announced that it
will not return to work until the
west coast Marine Cooks and
Stewards union (CIO) and the in
dependent Marine Firemen’s
union obtain wage increases equal
ling those made possible for the
AFL Seamen’s unions under Stab
ilization Director John R. Steel
man’s ruling last week.
West soast ship owners have
refused to negotiate with these
two unions.
The east operators also broke off
negotiations, besause their spokes
men, Frank J. Taylor said, the
NMU withdrew security watches
from ships against which they are
striking, leaving them unguarded
from "fire and other potential
perils.”
To Stay Out
NMU President Joseph M. Cur
ran said, "we are going to stay
on strike until every seamen gets
the same wage deal as was given
to AFL men. We call on the gov
ernment to come in and show its
impartiality by insisting that
every get the same wages.”
NEW YORK, Sept. 15 - (JP) —
Operator-union negotiations in
New York City’s two week strike
of 15,000 truckers today brought
the dispute no closer to settle
ment and an operator skopesman
said "there seems to be little hope
for a negotiated settlement.”
Mayor WilliamO ‘Dwyer said
that his six-man advisory commit
tee was unable to bring about suc
cessful conclusion of its alks with
unionmanagement representa
tives.
Joseph M. Adellizi, operator
spokesman, said employers stood
by their proposal to refer the
wage dispute to arbitration, and
added in a statement:
“We will take the man back to
work, paying them retroactively
in conformity with arbitration, or
they may stay on the streets if
they choose.
Getting Ready For A Cat-Nap
Things are pretty quiet around Harry Peter’s meat store in
New York, so he’s settled himself in a comfortable chair with his
pet cat and is going to take things easy for a while. That sign
in his display case tells the story. The meat industry blamed the
shortage on the recently restored* OP A ceilings and the city’s
trucking strike. (International).
Chest Drive Budget
Wins Full Approval
As the Wilmington Community
chest oiled machinery for the Oct.
15 starting dale of its campaign to
raise $106,204 towards 1947 opera
tions of its 12 Red Feather serv
ices and the USO, prospective «*n
tributors had the assurance of E.
L. White, president of the local
Chamber of Commerce, that the
budget under which the chest will
operate had passed the minute
scrutiny of a 12-man committee
that included four bankers, four
businessmen, three leaders of lo
cal social agencies, and himself.
In releasing details of the $113,257
budget which a special chest com
mittee under his chairmanship
spent three days in perfecting,
White cited Saturday’s statement
by Ranald Stewart chest president,
that, despite recent living cost
rises, this year’s agency budgets
averaged only four per cent in
crease over 1946.
Rise Necessary
‘‘That rise was deemed vitally
necessary to permit Red Feather
agencies to maintain their present
level of service,” a spokesman for
the chest said yesterday. "Our
studies indicate that rent costs
alone are already up 13.1 per cent,
food up 27.59 per cent and increas
ed salaries to retain present per
sonnel are up 10.6 per cent.”
In releasing the individual bud
gets of the Red Feather agencies
and the USO, White’s committee
appended explanations of each
See CHEST On Page Two
PASTOR RESIGNS
AT ST. MATTHEW’S
Rev. Carl H. Fisher Will
Accept Mount Holly
Pastorate Nov. 1
The Rev. Carl H. Fisher, for
seven years minister of St. Mat
thews Luthern church at 17th and
Ann streets, here, yesterday ten
dered his resignation to assume
the pastorate of the Luthern
church of the Good Shepard, in
Mount Holly, effective Nov. 1.
In announcing his regrets at the
Rev. Mr. Fisher’s impending de
parture, Albert G. Seitter, lay
president of the St. Matthew’s con
gregation, reported that efforts to
secure a successor were already
underway.
The Rev. Mr. Fisher offered his
resignation at a special meeting
of the congregation shortly after
yesterday’s morning service in an
address which expressed his "sor
row at leaving St. Matthew’s”
but the belief that “the first duty
of a minister is to go where he is
needed most.”
Carolina Graduate
A graduate of the University of
North Carolina and the Southern
Luthern Seminary, the Rev. Mr.
Fisher has been at St. Matthew’s
since March 1, 1939. He is a native
See PASTOR On Page Two
The Weather
FORECAST
i South Carolina — Considerable cloudi*
! ness, occasional light rain over south
and west portions, little change in tem- j
perature Monday, scattered showers ex
North Carolina — Little change in tem
ptrature Monday, scattered showers ex
treme west portion.
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the 24 hours
ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday.
emperatures
1:30 a. m. 63; 7:30 a. m. 60; 1:30 p. m.
75; 7:30 p. m. 70. Maximum 77; Min
imum 59; Mean 65. Normal 73.
Humidity
1:30 a. m. 84; 7:30 a. m. 87; 1:30 p. m.
53; 7:30 p. m. 79.
Precipitatiin
Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m.
.0 inches.
Total since the first of the month,
2.75 inches.
ides For Today
High Low
Wilming on -1:05 a.m. 8:06 a.m.
1:40 p.m. 9:05 p.m.
Masonboro Inlet ..11:26 a.m. 5:02 a.m.
11:48 p.m. 5:45 p.m.
Sunrise 5:56; Sunset 6:18; Moonrise
9:58 p. m.; Moonset 11:28 a. m.
River stage at Fayetteville. N. C., at
8 a. m. (missing) ieet.
UNITY PARTY LEADS
BERLIN, Monday, Sept. 16. —(IP)
— Early returns Sunday gave the
Soviet-backed, communist-dominat
ed Socialist Unity Party (SED- a
two-to-one plurality over its two
major opponents in Saturday’s
concluding elections in the Rus
sian occupation zone of Germany,
held in. the predominantly agricult
ural province of Brandenburg and
the state of Mecklenburg.
Today and Tomorrow
By WALTER LIPPMANN
Mr. Molotov does not disagree
with Mr. Byrnes that in principle
Germany should be administered
as an economic unit under a cen
tral German government which
can work out ‘‘a balanced
economy’ to provide the necessary
means to pay for approved im
ports.” A central, government
which is located in Berlin and is
sovereign over the whole of Ger
many is exactly what the Russian
policy calls for. It is the kind of
government which suits the cen
tralized Communist party, and the
German militarists and bureau
crats who will be no more squea
mish than were Hitler and Rib
bentrop in making a deal with Mr.
Molotov.
That is why Mr. Molotov is so
vehemently opposed to the feder
alization of Germany. It would
make it so much more difficult to
control Germany from Berlin.
He must be very much pleased
to find that Mr. Byrnes has now
in fact, though not in name, aban
doned the federal solution which
had such a promising start in the
American zone. For it was against
the federal solution that Mr. Molo
See LIPPMANN On Page Two
SS Pan Amoco
Saves 18 From
SeaDisaster
Marit II, 7,417-Ton Ship
Breaks In Two During
Storm On Friday
PLANES SPOT RAFTS
Two Halves Of Vessel Still
Afloat Yesterday, Coast
Guard Reports
NEW YORK, Sept. 15 —(U.R)
The Gulf tanker Gulf Hawk
reported Sunday nigM that it
had taken aboard six survivors
from a floating life raft and
phia, the Coast Guard report
was proceeding to Phlladel
ed here.
The Gulf Hawk messaged
the Coast Guard here that it
has the life raft alongside, and
at 8:50 reported to a PBY
plane from Elizabeth City
that the survivors were
aboard.
ELIZABETH CITY, Sept
15. —(U.P.)— The Marit II,
7,417-ton tanker out of Aren
day, Norway, broke in half
at noon Friday 145 miles east
southeast of here during a
tropical hurricane and 18 or
19 persons of a crew of 40
were lost, the U. S. Coast
Guard reported Sunday night.
Eighteen survivors had
been picked up by the S. S. Pan
Amoco, an American Oil tanker,
and one of nine searching planes
reported that it had spotted a life
raft 90 miles due east of Manteo,
N. C., and that three or four per
sons were aboard it. It was not re
ported whether they appeared to
be alive or dead. The Pan Amoco
was headed in the direction of the
life raft.
The survivors aboard the Pan
See AMOCO On Page Two
BLADEN WRECKS
CLAIM TWO LIVES
State Weekend Death Toll
Mounting; Plane
Crashes
(Special to The Star)
ELIZABETHTOWN, Sept. 15. —
Two fatal accidents late Saturday
night and early Sunday morning
brought Bladen county’s accident
death toll to four for the week.
Ransom Pope, 60, was killed in
stantly late Saturday night when
a car driven by Edward Sessoms,
32, struck Pope in the back as he
walked along the highway one mile
from Elizabethtown. Pope was
thrown approximately 48 feet by
the impact.
Sessoms is being held under $2,
000 bond pending a grand jury in
vestigation of the accident.
Early Sunday morning Mrs. L.
V. Jackson, 55, of Greensboro, was
fatally injured when the automob
ile in which she was riding collid
ed with a car within the city limits
of Elizabethtown. W. N. Martin,
’See BLADEN on Page Two.
And So To Bed
Frederic Wakeman’s sensa
tional new novel, “The Huck
sters,’’ is sensational in more
ways than one. It provides us
with one of the most sensational
And So To Beds it has ever
been our fortune to lie down
and laugh on.
During the course of Mr.
Wakeman’s saga a gentleman
named Victor Norman—the
hero of the year, no less—is
traveling to California by train.
Two youngsters and their moth
er are on the train too, and Mr.
Norman attracts the kids’ at
tention with wonderful stories
about this and that.
One of the stories centers on
the first plane flight by the
Wright brothers, and Mr. Nor
man (and, hence, Mr. Wake
man) makes the story very
wonderful indeed when he tells
the kids that “. . . these two
brothers finally moved to a
little town called Klttyhawk,
in South Carolina. . .”