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FARMVILLE, PlTT COUNTY, NOETfi CAROLINA FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1928
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Womans Clob Holds
lis Replar Meeting
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Interesting Report Made By The
Welfare Department; Much
Work Being Done
The Women's Gob met on Friday
?n afternoon in the High School audi
torium With Mrs. J. M. Hobgood pre
shfeg. The report of Mrs. W. M- Wfl
lis, chairman of the Public Welfare
department, which evoked favorable
comment was 83 follows: 1 can homi
ny, 1 can pork and beans, 1 sack of
floor, 6 Urn lard, sausage, cracklings,
5 gallons oil given a needy woman; S
gallons oil and 8 loads wood to a needy
person; 1 sack flour, 1' sack sugar to
needy man; fruit and other articles
to j|Sirk woman; clothes and blankets j
font baby; to a pellagra patient, ateek j
anrf frait; to a sick colored man fruit
and sagar; suit of clothes and a shirt I
to % needy boy; dolls and toys at
Christmas to children and a bathrobe j
given to ex-service man in Ashville.
Secured nurse for a sick woman, this I
bill to be paid by the local Red Cross; I
HJ69 community money spent. The
Literary and Art Department also]
nwd? a creditable., showing.
Ths need of a drinking fountain on
the school grounds as seen by teacher I
of tka.'-primary grades was given by]
Miss Annie Perkins and a committee
composed of Mesdames Annie Lang,
J~ H. Darden and F. M. Davis were ap- J
pointed to investigate the cost of a
fountain. A get-together dinner was]
discussed and the following arrange
ment committee appointed: MesdameB
J. G. Spencer,_G. A. Jones and H. W.
Turnage. Plans for paying the debt on
tiie piano were considered and a com
munity dinner to be held in March was
agreed open. Mrs. J. W. HarreU waa
appointed Bulletin reporter. Her
dnties will be the bringing of a digest
of the Bulletin to the meetings and so
porting activities of this organisation.
An enthusiastic talk on a Garden Club
by Mies Tabitha De Visconti resulted
in the immediate organisation at tills
department with a number of mem
ben enroQed and Miss De Vhmonti
elected chairman. ?
After adjournment delightful re
freshmentsware served in tkaJfetaiHg
tic Science roonm by lifasdames F. M.
Davis, J.H. Darden, J. W. Hkrreft and
Kiss Da Visconti.
I THE PRESIDENT ON THE PRESS.
President Coolidge, in a recent ad
dress at the dedication of the National
? Press Club's new aMgnificent Wash
ing-ton home^-gave it as his opinion
that the American press baa become
I invaluable to business, but-fha rt?t
I much of its power in molding public
? opinion.
? The press "appears to have a lost
public thought," deslaitid Ac. ftaafc
I rdent, and shwe- he the dedara
I ^hS'd^nfSo
I social and aafM BrrfrTfia to^n
I The Fer.fr of The Prase ee a form
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jfaal
, measure* fdr- firMn, President
Coolidae con/plated I ftoroein
tion of the Federal IimlUm
Bureau.
be namedJ?ararLoaiiCttRUBisrios* ..
er and will ha aattveted wft?de- -
Yeioping the AiadnMtiM fans
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Billy Sunday To
Be ta GreeovMe
Noted Evangelist Will* Conduct
Series of Meetings In Our
Neighboring Town
Rev. William A. Sunday, more popu
larly known throughout the country
as "Billy" Sunday, will open an evan
gelistic campaign in Greenville Sun
day, April 22, according to informa
tion recently given out by Rev. W. S.
Harden, pastor of the Greenville Pres
byterian ehurch, who has charge of
tenative arrangements for the eoming
the last Sunday in May so there wffl
be no. conflict with commencement ex
ercises of the city schools and the
East Carolina Teachers College^ which'
take place during the early part of
June. ^.
Am-n gemote for the coming of
"Mr. Sunday continue to assume more
definite and concrete form wkh each
succeeding day,' Mr. Harden said/end
it is expected every little detail of the
campaign wilt be Worked out by the
time of the opening <&ervioe.
- Mr. Sunday is in Saint Louis at the
present and report* emonatirig from
'that dty are to the effect that the
campaign is meeting with more than
general interest
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MAIN STREET
I these may be tiaTSe
I noted ballyhooer Steelair Lewis, who
I some years *g* ftsde himaelf famous
by punefafnglf ain Street in the jaw,
I so to apeak. isTumself a product of
?.I tWt every "Mafo Street" for which
? he expressed such contempt This ia
I f fftseif1tould ?ot Be signrRcant But one
could string a list of nameracrosa the
I sSsf ?^V MaS
I: ^ fttafe Streetsare^aet drty fuming
" Ou^^tc^'SeOy tin
[ out many men who are shaping the
J destinies of America today. ,
J CoTone1 Iindbergh, our aviator e*
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Ef?Mfcttnef IHhte*, is
another of many examples ef Mail
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sentenced^ Hang
tfw Face Trial For Another
I Murder; Appeal Expected In - I
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Los Angeles, Feb. 14.?A criminal
career, starting with petty robberies
after graduation from high school,
brought William Sdward Hickman in-i
to the shadow of the gallows today
for the kidnapping and slaying of
Marian Parker, Los Angeles school
girl,
Hickman was sentenced in Superior
Court by Judge J. J. Trabucco to be
hanged Friday, April 27, for the
heinous offense that culminated his
search for "easy money."
Tomorrow the youth who gradu
ated from Central High School hi
Kansas City in 1926" with a brilliant
scholastic record, Is scheduled to go
to trial for another murder, the slay'
ing of C. Ivy Thomas, druggist, in the
State's effort" to make doubly sure he
will not escape the noose.
An appeal which counsel for Hick
man have announced will be filed is
expected to delay carrying out of the
death sentence pronounced today. At
torneys said it might be six months
before a decision is handed down by
the States Supreme Court. The case
may reach the United States Supreme
Court y^lv-V.
Meanwhile, the State will ask the
death penalty in the tilal for the
Thomas killing, and District Attorney
Asa Keyea said there was a possibil
ity Hickman would be.executed for
that offense before the final decision
is rendered in the Parker slaying.'
Welby Hunt, 19, formerly of Kan
sas (Sty, will be called to trial to
morrow with Hickman, but his attor
ney announced a plea of guilty would
be entered with a request for mercy.
Under the law Hunt is too young to
be hanged.
Both Hickman and Hunt have con
fessed to participation in an attempt
ed robbery of Thomas' store at Rose
HQ! Christmas eve, 1929, during which
the druggist was shot to death. The
two youths wen armed but disagree
as to which doe fired the fatal shot
Hickman came into court today an
JtlcipatiBg th^e^ be meted
r^at IS*in^whkSrthe killer^vu
foendLsane by a jury.
The'slayer nonchalantly stood erect
as sentence was passed.
"You shall suffer the penalty of
death. .... in the manner provided
bythe laws of thA State of California,
had God have mercy on your
souf,^*dge Trabucco intoned.
I Judge Trabucco ordered that die de
fendant be delivered to the warden of:
-San Qucntkr State Prison "to be by
him executed and put to death on Fri
day, Aetft 2VW28."
On the charge of kidnapping die
Parker girt, Hickman was sentenced
to be confined at San Quentin for a
term to be fixed by the Board of Pris
on Directors.
The voice of Judge Trabucco quav
ered us he'f&rished with "and may
God Save inercy on your soul," but
the coflfiemned youth only dropped
heavily into his seat As he put out
^is hands to tt^guard who snapped on
the handcuffs,' Hickman remarked:
"Your hands are shaking, but mine are
not"
The slayer was in his usual jaboty
appearance and he smiled while pos
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| Alfred Hickman, brother of the
convicted; |gp|J| wea among'tie
courtroom spectators. His face Was
downcast 'and be. refused to talk to
interviewers. The gray-haired mother,
Mrs. Eva ffiekman, had steeled her
self to the announcement of the ex
pected punishment which she received
from Alfred at her hotel room. Sh?
eabnly aid it was what she ej.p&ted,
but that, with the aid of her son's "at
torneys, she would "fight for my boy
until every means have been exhaust
? J ; WAR OVER LOST CAT /J
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?f According to a recent writer fni
' I war between the French and the Drys<
I ? tribesmen of Syria in-1925 waa cans
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Tobacco Crop Is j
Av??ge Price tot The Season
About 23 Ceats, Two Cents
Lower TtenLast Year
Raleigh, FA. l5.-?fee Bales of
bright leaf tobacco in North Carolih*
to February let, 1928, aggregating
456,080,000 pounds Withibout 16^d0r
000 pduhds yet unaccounted for, give
this State a close appisiacBto the larg
est production of tebjfwscc^that any
I state has ever made. The nearest ap
IpSoach was to that olf Kentucky in
1919 when she. vuM' 512,000.000
spounda. The average grice of the to
?baeco for the current j^ason will be
l& the neighborhood of 23c, while the
January average was 19.07c per
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There, is quite a remarkable 'jump
from last year's 364,909,000 pounds
? to this year's 458,03sM08 pounds sold
to February 1st Whffijlast year's to
tal cropA|M^|feckoned! at 886,000.000
pounds, th? year's will^probsWy totaf
more than 475,000,000 produced by the
farmers. At 28c average,'this will give
about $110,000,000 value for the crop.
When the manufacturers get hold of it
they will;increase its sellihg value
several fold.
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Six markets of the Old Belt allowed
twice the farmers' sales that they did
fopl&e preceding year. While the av
erage price is about 2c,per pound less
than last year, the intense of about
90JOOO&QO pounds jg production makes
quite a sizable increasp in the aggre
gate value of the crop. The way the
price has held up is evidence that
there has been a terrific demand for
this type of tobaeto. According to the
Federal Department's; "Agricultural
Outlook," farmers sho^ Id think twice
before planning for further expansion
of this crop. It is inevitable that Qeor
Sixty-six warehouses operated in
the Old Belt and thirty in the New
Belt during January, with total; sales
from farmers amoun ting to 26,844,
667 pounds, aggregating $5,527,066.
The Old Belt average was $19.13,
I while that for the New Belt WW
|$18.75 per hundred pounds.
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Pat *L Wifiiams Also Begins
Budget Duties Without
Btfleigh, Feb. 15.?James Alexander
fidiifciettj, ofStatesville; yesterday "be
came^ Secretary of State of North
In the governor's office which was
crowded by State Department head*
and employees and friends of the for
mer Iredell County' Superior Court
Clerk and Anti-Sal ootv League leader
of North Carolina, Chief justice Stacy
administered the oath of office to Mr.
. 1 arlness. The ceremony was brief,
yet ,impressj^re. Governor McLean
.spoke briefly of the new official's fit
ness for the office to which he had
oeeitappointed on Monday. v
Mr.Afcutness went to work in the
late WflKam Nash Everett's office at
once, faced with a pile of commissions
to be issued and charters to be grant
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Secretary Hortness' first act, how
erer, was his re-appointment of Max
Dudley Abernathy, corporation clerk
under the late Mr. Everette, Mr. Aber
nathy, toe,, had beep a candidate for
the appointment which went to his
new employer. The Clerk and the
young women assistants who worked
under the late secretary, were all re
tained. " .:/4
' Mr. Hartness yesterday disposed of
the huge*stack of charters
of corporations which had acedmu-i
lated on account* ef^h$ death of Mr.
Everett and the subsequent suspension
of activity in his office. A largfl num
bers of commission? for notaries pnb-f
lie and justices of the peace, which are
issued by the Governor but requires
the signature of the Secretary of State
will be issued today, a soon as a rub
ber stamp with the new secretary's
signature can be obtained.
Senator Pat. H. Williams, aspirant]
for Secretary of State vivo was ap-.j
pointed insteajl to the position of!
assistants to the Director of the Bud- j
get, will assume his duties today with
out any formalities. The position was;
created by the General Assembly of
! 1926 but has not been filled before.
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FARMVILLE DEFEATS E. CITY
With the whole squad playing stella
basket ball the locals defeated Elisa
beth City 3Hgh School quintet-27-11
Friday night: The boys just had to
have rarvfenge for a previous defeat
by the Elizabeth City outfit
I T The locals took the game in hand
at the first and Were never headed
and the scene stood 18-6 in the locals
favor at half time.
The good passing, shooting and
floor work of the locals were outstand
ing, while Elizabeth Cityla center was
the outstanding star of the visitors.
Besides his good passing and floor
work, he contributed the sum of eleven
points for the first last and all of his
team's scoring. V
I -The game was clean and practically
free from fowls.
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LOCALSDEFEAT GOLDSBORO
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After being defeated formerly 28-8
the Goldsboro lads came over to Farm
ville Tuesday night and gave the local
boys a real battle. Goldsboro took the
lead and urns never, stopped until near
the end of the game. With the score
M -ftt half time and in favor &
the visitors at third quarter the Iocs!
boys realised that it ires "get busy or
else," - They got busy. With two
minutes to play the localiiwere lead
I ing 15-12. Then Goldsboro was given
twoifiree tosses from foul line, making
| one good for a count From then on
Farmville tried to keep the ball and
. Goldsboro protested furiously. They
were still protesting for possession of
ball when the game ended, giving
Farmville the third consecutive, win in
> Lookout New Bern, we are coming
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I'I jff SARATOGA GIRLS WIN
f I lesson |n b&sk^t bftll* Ths exhibition
Hie Boy As An Athlete
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Just as soon as a boy gets' into the
?Iptmrnmar grades he should begin his
Pruning in athletics. No matter what
form of athletics the boy likes he will
find that it Soon prepares him for any
athletics, A "boy who goes in training
will stay away from bad habits, he
?j|U not smoke, neither will he do
Gpber things to wreck his body. The
hoy athlete will always have a better
spirit than the- other boys, he will
learn to take defeat as well as victory.
He will Had this one advantage in life,
because at times he will lose, then at
such times he must have the courage
and spirit to fight again. The boy
who practices athletics will develope
his body in such a way his -life will
be prolonged.
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The Elizabeth City Yellow jackets
'paid Farmville a visit last Friday nite
The visitors defeated the Lions when
they played thera, but nothing like
'that happened Friday; ThO Lions took
revenge by defeating the Sea Coasters
27to n.' - y > v : ' 1
Tuesday night the Lions brought
Goldsboro into catfip for the second
time this season. The victorjTwas due
to the fast woric of the entire team.
The final score being 16 to 18.? W :'?i
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? The F, H. S. team is now playing
.600 again. During the second half the
High School boys have won IS every
game. We hope they, will keep the
good work bp. fl fl ...
Everything has its time. Basketball
ends with February. Then watch ui
strut in the annual Pitt Ccunty Tracl
I! Oh. Bojrl we c^bairdly wait, foi
? base ball to roll around. But> whei
I base ball has rolled on we can hanj
I the crepe on the school house door an
tion.y 6 ? ? {rammervaca
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Wants Sum Obtained From The
; French Bonds Used For
Highway Building
Washington, February 16.?A bill
providing a special highway fund of
$407,341,145 without increasing the
taxpayers' burden and to be divided
among the states in the same propor
tion as the Federal Aid funds author
ized each year, has been introduced in
the House by Representative Edward
E. Browne, of Wisconsin..
The measure providing for the uti
lization of this huge sum in highway
construction is in addition to the $166,
000,000 Federal Aid bill already intro
duced in both House and Senate. .
This special fund is to be obtained
by the repayment of French bonds is
sued after the war. The indebted
ness, it is pointed out, is totally diff
erent from tii? war loans; as- it was
incurred by France in a commercial
transaction, entered into for profit.
Under the Browne bill the states
would pay not to exqeed 20 per cent
of the cost of roads constructed from
the fund.
"We have placed too much of the
cost of road construction upon the
states and they in turn upon the coun
ty unit, the counties in many instances
having to poy one-third or more of the
cost of reads serving the entire nation
?and this tax burden has helped to
put the farther where he is," Repre
sentative Browne declares. v
,The bill will/have the undivided sup
port of the motorists of the Uhitetl
States, believes J. Borton Weeks,
president of the American Motorists'
Association^ which is sponsoring the
measure.
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OIL FAMINE REMOTE
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Last week the second report of the
Oil Conservation Board, composed of
the Secretaries of the Interior War,
Navy and Commerce, was made to
President Coolidge, and discussed the
problem of meeting* the ever increas
T>rjr^ha?(r farid other
petroleum products.
'Hie report stated that "an oil /am
ine is not imminent, < but prudence
must alwayi envisage the possibility
of an oil shortage." Looking forward
to the time when natural supplies of
crude oil will be depleted, it is state
that the production of liquid fuel from
shales, coat and even corn are among
j the possibilities, whenever the demand
is sufficient to warrant the expense of
converting these raw materials for
such use.
Commendation is given to the oil
industry, not only for its cooperation
with the board, but for its construc
tive efforts toward conservation, both
by the adoption of better methods of
production and. by improvements in
refining processes, whereby much
more gasoline and other useful pro
ducts are obtained from each barrel of
crude oil than formerly.
During the last week in June, 1927,
a daily production of 2,587,105 barrels
of crude oil in the United States broke
all records. Daily production at pres
ent is approximately' 2,400,00 barrels,
which is considerably above current
requirements.
This enormous production can hard
ly be maintained indefinitely however,
and it is well that government agen
des, as well as the oil industry, are
looking many years ahead with' a view
to developing new sources of gasoline
supply.
BURY NAVAL TRAGEDY
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While discussions and investigations
continue relative to the latest Valval
? disaster, the'sinking of the S-4, plans
I are being made, according to a recent
?j dispatch, to bury the reminders of a
'former tragedy of the sen, in which
? American ships were the victims.
Since the night of September 8,1928 > I
when they crashed upon the Califor- - I
B ida reefj the wrecks of seven destroyer
era have lain with their decaying
hulks protruding above the surface, j
gTuesome reminders of one of the
worst navigational blunders of all ? . I
time. Each passing ship and thousands
'of spectators vn shore have since x I
r ?rn * f u i
, j us inonuiucnts to Tutt oiuiiocr.
^ I - AftA fiVVVWO 1"J Ay-f\ 1 >\ MM AA A/i 1 v% f*m n*'- '
[ sjjessd, which apparently was .not de-E^?-;
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r speed, resulting in the loss of 23 lives
1 and-about $13,900,000 worth of ships.
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JR.O. U. A. if. TO PRESENT
BIBLE AND FLAG TO LOCAL
GRADED SCHOOL TODAY
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The Farmville Council No. 141
Junior Order Uaited American
Mechanics will \ present a Bible '
and Flag to the local? Grided .
- School this afternoon (Friday) at
three o'clock, at the regular meet
ing of the Parent-Teacher's Aiwo- '
elation. ? '?
Dr. J. W. Harrell/pastor of the
Methodist church, will present the
Bible and W. R. Hooper will pre
sent the Flag.
The public is cordially invited
to attend these exercises.
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WALSTONBTJRG P. Y. A. MEETS.
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The Walstonburg Parent-Teachers
Association, on Thursday, evening,'
February 2,1928, presented a mbst in
teresting Educational program. The
meeting was opened with the singing
|of the state song "Ho, for Carolina,"
after which a piano duet was rendered
by two of the high school girls,
j Mr. J. E. Debnsm, Chairman of the
county school board, In tes very im
pressive talk, on 'What Progress
> North Carolina Has Made in Educa
tion," discoursed on her wonderful
I school system, comparing the condi
tions rfow with those which prevailed
about twenty-fivp years ago.
| Next, Supt.yH. G. Roberson Jscuss
red "What Greene County Has Dotie in
Education." He gave some very en
I lightening facts and statistics in trac
ing the progress of the county during
the last three yars, since his admin
istration and that of the present school
board began. Greene county has risen
from a county backward in education
to a county equal in educational ad?
vantages to any of the surrounding
counties, and her schools have, been
operated at a smaller cost than those
of any of the adjoining counties. Her
record is unequalled and unparalleled.
Mr. C. T. Hicks, president of the
R T. A. then outlined the rapidj?rog-.
ress of the. school of Walstonburg.
Through the cooperation and earnest
efforts of the people of the commun
ity, surrounding schools have been
consolidated with' it, a nice bricE
building has been built, and the school
has risen from a two-teacher ^chjol
of 1917, to a twelve-teacher Standard
Elementary and High School.
The roll of the parents was next
called and as usual the room having
the largest percentage of its parents
present, which happened to* "be the
eleventh grade, was. given .a prize of
two dollars.
Plans for beautifying the school
grounds were discussed and it was
decided that work toward that end
should begin right away.
A COTTON QUSBS
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For many years we have heard of
King Cotton, a soverign who has at
various times nearly ruined his sub
jects, who by raising enormous crops
have been forced to sell them at less
than the cost of production. The perf
iods or depression which have resulted
throughout the cotton belt on this ac
count have led to movements for less
cotton acreage and more production
per acre, the idea beiife to devote a
larger portion of the land to other
1 crops, so that the farmer would not be
dependent upon cotton alone.
$ In connection with: this movement
[ prizes have been offered from time
.) to time to encourage more intensive
and effective cultivation of the soil,
arid these competitions have been open
' to club boys and gilds as well as
i adults.
During 1927 the champion cotton
! raiser was Miss Ruby Lee Williams,.
17-year-ofi^ 'v daughter of a tenant
farmer of Nacogdoches, Texas,, who
I raised three bales of cotton on her
1 one-acre plot of groimd. In company
: with a number of state champions she
hrtlJL be given a trip? to Florida and
Cuba next month as the guest of a
r J fertilizer concern.
? Her accomplishment in cotton pro
> I duction has seldom if ever been equalt
^ I e*l and she is justly entitled to the
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LITERARY CLUB MEETS
il erary Club was held at. the honis oj
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