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Eliminate Price-Fixing
In AAA Amendments
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Alteration la Designed
To Make Legislation
Infallible in Coart, j
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Washington, August 6.?Senator
Smith, of South Caroling, chairman
of the committee ou agriculture,
having been on hand yesterday aft
er a visit to his home, the conferees
of the house and senate yesterday
afternoon concluded their labors on
the much revised AAA smendmentw
which, it is devoutly hoped in offi
cial circles, will henceforth be found
to accord reasonably well with the
constitution. The last revision of
the celebrated amendments was
made neeessary by the derision o?
the Supreme court in the NBA case
As agreed upon yesterday price
fixing is eliminated, with a view
to strengthening the amendments
on the legal side, save with respect
to milk and its products; suits
against the government are permit
ted to processing taxpayers, through
the George amendment, after, the
facts shall have been determined
by the bureau of internal revenue,
but the Warren potato bill, which
has encountered considerable opposi
tion even in official circles, goes
back to the house for a separate
vote.
Chester Davis, AAA administra
tor, recently said that administra
tion of the details of the potato rill
would present more difficulty than
would be experienced in administer
ing both the Bankhead cotton con
trol bill, and the Kerr-Smith tobacco
rill, which were retained in the bill
by the conferees.
The export bounty provision, sup
ported by Chairman Marvin Jones,
of the house committee,- and by Sen
ator Bailey, was reinstated after it
had been dropped out by the senate
committee, preumably in agree
ment with AAA officials. Secretary
Wallace has been disposed to look
coldly upon this bounty proposition,
and there has always been some
question whether it would be possi
ble for the government to promote
the exportation of cotton goods and
farm products without running in
to the anti-dumping laws of a num
ber of nations. Many have favored
the bounty feature, however, be
cause of the doubts they entertain
about the validity of the AAA, or
the processing tax system upon
which the farm organisation rests.
Senator Smith, who, as chairman
of the senate agriculture committee,
headed the conferees, had unmanu
factured cotton eHmhiated from this
export rebentuxe provision, but the
secretary pf agriculture has full
power to make payments on manu
factured cotton goods shipped
abroad and thereby stimulate con
sumption of cotton. The cotton tex
tile institute strongly urged enact
ment of this provision. *9l
It is estimated that the appropria
tion will amount to IIOS^KMWO
the first year. Those sponsoring the
debenture provision are satisfied It
will prove of much benefit to the
cotton farmer, the manufheturer
and textile labor.
The house conferees accepted the
riders to the senate hOl extending
the Ufa of the Bankhead one
year, for tobacco three years. The
Bankhead provision was amended
to provide exemption for small
growers who do not produce more
than two bales. To get tip two bale
exemption, however, they must have
a two bale base production. This
provision is already in operation by
fixaidflit fliiosMBit'r order, but it
is now made mandatory.
Another change provides payment
of 25 cents a bale to gimmes for
their added work as a result of
keeping records under the ' Bank
head act
? dutng^ an Mom atatari, vat
I made is the WD regarding right*
of proceaaors to Ma fit recovery in
I earn the prm laatug tax it declared
meat to the senate bill giving the
I pneeaaore this right vas adopted,
oat tne eonzeraea provwea zariaer
that prior to the soft the pwTi.tr
I moat go before the luHectorlit to
proceaaiiur tax vaa nob nosed on
I the eonaiunei. ner vaa it taken eat
of the price paid the producer.
A i^vishm ^ h^haag vritten
. vfcrioii wav.yat in ftir a refund on
floocp stocks
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State Commander
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Mrs. JL Sam MbCleL
land Elected President
of Legion Auxiliary;
Mr Daniels Eteet*} by
Acclamation
Fayetteville, Aug. 6. ? Joseph us
Daniels, Jr., of Rafeigfe today was
ele^ed. commander of the North
Carolina Department of Dm. Ameri
can Legion by acclamation jat its
17th annual convention here.
Election of officers was the. final,
business of the convention which
previously had gone on record for
immediate payment of the adjusted
service certificstea and. he?rd Frank.
L. Belgrano, Jr., National Comman
der, promise the legion would con
tinue to press for legislation by the
present congress for payment of the.
certificates.
Other officers elected were: Jun
ius Rose, _ Greenville, Burgin Pen-!
nell, Ashevilk, and C* C. Dowd,
Sanford, vice commanders; Rev. Eu
gene Alexander, Manchester. Chap
lain; A. R. Newsome, Chapel Hilj
Historian; Lewis L. Rochelle, Oteen,
Judge advocate
Mrs. R. Sam McClelland, Wilming
ton, was. elected president of the
Legion Auxiliary, Vive presidents
elected were Mrs. Marvin S. Revell,
Wilson; Mrs. Herbert W. Whiter
Fayetteville; Mrs. W. Clay Hundley,
Reidsville; Mrs. C. P." Andrews,
Charlotte and Mrs. C. M. Taylor,
Oteen,
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I Daniels, business manager ox mo >
Raleigh News and Observer, and
son of Josephus Daniels, war time
secretary of the navy and now am
bassador to Mexico, succeeds Hob*
ert Olive, of Lexington.
Mr. Daniels, who is 41 years of
age enlisted in the Marine Corps as
a private upon the entry of the
{United States into the World War
and rose to the rank of captain. Hie
served a year overseas with the ISLh
Marines and was aide to General
Smedley Butler.
! Active in the American Legion
from its formation period, Mr. Dan
iiels is a past Commander of Ral
eigh Post No. 1 sad for several j
[yean was chairman of the Legion's
luncheon chib in the State Capital.
He is past Grande Chef de Gare of
the Gnad Voiture of North Caro
lina at the 40 and 8, and also is
past Chef de Gare of dm Raleigh
Voituze of 40 and 8. He has fttenSr
ed several national conventions as J
a delegate from this State. Mk,
OkdMe haa also ben a delegate
TOMrthe Raleigh Post to several
State cmlventions.
Mrs. Sftillman
Speaks To Club
Tells Club of Moyen^ent j
Looking to the Filial
Opening of Tar Rfrerl
To Navigation
Greenville, August 6.?The benefit*.]
which this community would derive
from the movement looking to open
ing Tar river to navigation were out-1
lined in an interesting way last night I
by Mrs. J. B. Spilman, speaking at j
die regular twke-a-month meeting
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VI Utc JUWHIB WtOl/.
Jtin. SjrihnOT wu among a dele
gation of Greenville and Pitt coun
ty widen ts who went to Wadting
ton, D. C-, several week* sgy to ask
xot anotner survey at toe stream
with a view to deepeningthechan
nel and to make It possible for sea
going vessels to ply to and fronr
Greenville with their tstpXc'^
Introduced by I. Fleklen Arthur,
Mrs.
mQiuty sava tiaoapidt
er At project.
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Relief Projects
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Roper and Tugwell Take
I Steps to Give Employ
ment to Thaasands of
i Workers of Nation
Washington, Aug. 6.?Two pro
to supply work
werp announced simultaneously to
day by Secretary Roper's census
bureau and.by Undersecretary Tug
well'a rural resettlement administra
tion.
Roper said 72,000 white collar
workers will be employed from relief
rolls to list the aged eligible for
pensions, to make a census of busi
ness and to study retail distribution.
Tugirril's organisation announc
ed 30^285 families on impoverish
ed lands would be give? financial
help in relocating themselves on
fertile farms. The lands they now
live on will be used in building up
forest reserves and in fighting
erosion.
Presidential approval, the com
merce department said, has been
given for the expenditure of $9,881,
948 of relief money for use in tak
ing the new censua
Most of this will be spent in and
about Philadelphia, which will be
headquarters for the business and
retail, studies. In St Louis, where
$1,804,948 will be splint, an alpha
betical index of the 1910 census will
be made. The census gives the birth
date of every person in the United
States as of that year. From the
schedules will be listed those eligible
for pensions under state systems as
well as the pending social security
program.
sb - a ?*ii v.
enumerators win oe nquuvu ivi ?
the business studies, which will be-1
gin on January 2, 1936, and which I
will cover all business activities ex
cept manufacturing and agriculture.
The retail census calls for the enum
eration of about 280,000 establish
ments in 17 large cities and 268
small cities. ?
Tugwell's division said it was con-1
sidering the purchase of 20,664,8881
acres of impoverished farm lands In
scattered parts of the nation. It is
estimated that some 20,000 families
living on these properties will be
able to settle themselves on new
lands without government financial I
help.
Officials said 268 projects involv-1
ing the possible acquisition of 920,- J
664,838 acrea at an estimated cost!
I of $104,381,117 were underway.
City Police Court
I WuUPrweediigs
Police Court here picked up over
the week end last week, possibly due
| to some trying out the new legalized
liquor, whidi.went on sale here last!
Saturday a week ago. The past Sat- I
urday and Sunday saw: a more sober I
number.
I The fqlleurihg capes were disposed
of in the court here the past two I
weeks: L - ^ ?
I* T. Bartley, driving drunk, $60
and cost, license revoked for B
John Flare, driving drunk, $50 and
cost, license revoked for 6 months.
Chap. Sansberry, driving drunk,
$50 and cost, license revoked for 21
Jesse Fulford, driving drunk, dis-1
missed.
Claude Brown, driving drunk, dis-j
missed. |
Jimmy Newell, drunk and reckless J
! driving, $76 and cost, lecense revok-1
ed for 2 years. |
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joan i/ix&Uf uruu& wu oviwvwj w
days-in, jaiL *: ,T".
Jinwoie Askew, drunk, paid cost
|;>c^Bbw#. Shirley, drunk, paid cosf.
CLande Mown, larceny of autonp>
bOt botad ovar to Superior court
W. <5 Braswell, disorderly con
duct no and cost
I i Charlie Laughinghouae, disorderly
conduct $10 and ccfativ r|
a B. Ruwlette, disorderly conduct
no
^all#' Tiro g^
farmer Is Hehl.
For Tin Slaying
His Sea-ln-taw
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E. J. Peaden Faces Sani
ty Hearing After Slay
ing Beitnie Smith Sim
day Night
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Greenville, August 7.?E. J. Pead
en, 63-year-old Falkland township
farmer, was held in the county jail
'without bond today, charged with
the slaying of his son-in-law, Bennie
Smith, 88, in an altercation at a to
bacco barn Sunday tight
Peaden was taken into custody by
county officers shortly after he fired
a bullet into Smith's heart, produc
ing instant deatE. Two other bul
lets from a .38 calibre pistol missed
the mark.
Coroner A. A. Ellwaager stated an
inquest was conducted immediately
after the shooting and t$at the jury
ordered Peaden held without bond
pending an investigation of his men
ial condition by-h Superior Court
judge or some other person with such
authority.
Peaden, believed to have been
mortally deranged from a stroke of
paralysis suffered about two years
ago, was said to have been mad
with Smith because he did hot go
to the tobacco bam Sunday. When
Smith appeared tha? night about
11:80, Peaden allegedly cursed him
out and then opened fire with the
pistol
Coroner Ellwanger said the pris
oner had become violent on a num-,
ber of occasions since the stroke and
was reported to "have lost his head"
competely when angered.
Ellwanger said he would press for
a sanity hearing as soon as pos
sible?sometime this week.
Funeral services was held for
Smith at the home Tuesday after
noon at three o'clock with Rev. J.
C. Moye, Free Will Baptist minister
of Snow Hill, officiating. Burial
was in the family graveyard near
the home. 1
He is survived by his wife and
two small children; one brother.
Arthur, of the U. S. Army; three
sisters, Mrs. Hubert Gaylord of
Martin county; Mrs. Lonnie Ange
of Martin county, and Mrs. Mattie
Mercer of Craven county.
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flfBS.. MURPHERY ENTERTAINS
Last Thursday evening at 8:30
o'clock group three of the Mission
ary Society of the Christian church
met with Mrs. F. M. Murphrey at
her home near town.
After the business meeting the
hostess invited the group out on the
lawn where electric lights and Japa
nese lanterns indeed made a pretty
setting.
Delicious watermelon, lemonade
and fancy cakes were served by Miss
Bernice Johnston and Master W. ?.
Murphrey from lovely arranged
tables in the Gardainer bushes.
Those attending the meeting were:'
Mesdames J. 0. Pollard, W. A. Bar
rett, Joel Moye, George Ballew, Liz
zie Flanagan, Blanche Paschall,
Acey Parker, Lizzie Caraway, Fred
Smith and Lula Joyner."
A total of 375,000 feet of board
base terraces have been built for
farmers in Iredell County at an aver- j
age cost of 31.20 an acre.
[Marketing Cards For
mafOrowers So8>
County Agent Arnold
Announces that. Pitt
Tobacco Growers May
Receive Their "Books"
Friday, August 16th or
Thereafter in Ample
I * County Agent E. F. Arnold an
Inounced today that marketing cards
I /or Pitt county tobacco growers will
I be ready by August 16th, ten days
j before the opening of the leaf mark
J There are more than 3,000 con
I tract signers in Pitt county which
I. calls for a total of between five
land six thousand marketing cards,
I Mr. Arnold stated. The cards call
I for slightly more than 36,000,000
I pounds of tobacco this year as
against about 30,000-000 last year.
Although a few growers were
required to destroy a portion of
their acreage to meet their allot
ments, Mr. Arnold said there were
no serious violations and that no
complaints followed orders to this
effect.
IM Offerings
I And Satisfactory
Prices Continue
One Man Sells 21,700
Pounds for Total of $6,
295 with Prices Rang
ing from 25 to 32 Cents
Valdosta, Ga., Aug. 6.?Report* of
good offerings and satisfactory
prices continued over the Georgia
bright leaf tobacco belt today. <
Warehousemen at Statesboro un
officially estimated total sales yes
terday ut 220,000- pounds with an
average of 23% cents. One farm
er sold 7,408 pounds for $2,340.78
they said adding that the Statesboro
market is "far ahead" of last year.
At Nashville one man sold 21,
700 pounds lor a total of $6,295,
with the prices ranging from 25
cents for his lower grades to 32
cents for his better grades. Buyers
said unofficially that the sale pro
bably was a record onet for the sec
tion. t
RETURN FROM TOUR
Mrs. L. P. Thomas, Miss Agnes
Moore and Miss Penelope Lewis have
returned from an eighteen day educa
tional tour ap members of a party of
102 arranged by the East Carolina
Teachers College, of Greenville, as
a "summer school by travel."
The tour included visits to Rich
mond, Washington, ^Philadelphia,
New York, Providence, Boston, Wat
erville, Quebec, Montreal, Toronto,
Niagra, Williamsport, Winchester
and Lynchburg, and college credits
in American History, Geography and
American Literature were given
those making the tour.
Starting' with six pairs of, Louisia
na Giant bull frogs, J. C. Adcock of
j Wake County expects to supply frog
I legs to all comers within the year.
Commissioners AppfM*
^gggnssu
Greenville, Aug. 7.?A building
program involving an expendiaure of
$275,000 was tentatively approved qy
the Pitt County Board of Commis
sioners in adjourned session jit the
court house here yesterday afternoon.
The program, which iB just in the.
embryonic stage, calls,-for a build
ing to house $e pubEc health and
farm departments, new school
buildings and additions and repairs
to several others in all sections of
the county! and colored
schools are involved in the progxiun,
which was outlined to the board
recently; by memhwrs^ of the Bpard
man ij^boa^d, stated today appli*
cation has already been filed with
the WPA administration for the
required sum. Forty-five percent of
the government fund would be a di
rect grant to the county and the
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both the health arid farm depart
ments. The farm department has
been located in the Edwards' build
ing back of the court house for sev
eral years.
The need of new school buildings,
additions and repairs has been de
scribed as acute in recent years,
and while the entire $225,000 may
not be required to complete the pro
gestin, the board planned to take
care of the situation as far as pos
sible in all sections of the county.
discuss a system of disbursements.
A system similar ta that used by
the county watf decided upon, f The
board also heaid a report of activi
ties of the Hqtfer stores which were
ly plriased ^th first week's sales^"
Se ofL ^w
the tentative budget adopted sev
eral days ago. The budget is sched
uled to be finally adopted in the
near future as soon as a few
WPA May Build
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Coan Favors Recrea
tional Building Pro
gram; Jo Forward 202
More Projects
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Raleigh, Aug. 8.?Declaring hie
expectation of developing a recrea
tional center program in at least 40
or 60 of the 66 so-called rural type
counties in North Carolina, Admin
istrator George W. Coan, Jr., of the
State Works Progress Administra
j tion also announced yesterday that
20 project applications calling for a
[total expenditure of over $1,000,000
[would be forwarded to Washington
for approval Thursday night.
Mailing of the additional projects
this week will increase to over $8,
000,000 the value of projects pro
posed by the State WPA since July
18. None of the projects have yet
been given approval in Washington.
Projects have been forwarded to
Washington as follows: Two on July
18, calling for $424,000 in Federal
funds, $20,000 in local funds; ten
on July 25, calling for $1,921,000
Federal, $2,258,000 local; 27 in Au
gust 1, calling for $1,501,000 Federal
and $1,461,000 local. Projects to be
forwarded this week will call for
over $500,000 from local agen
cies.
The interest of the State WPA in
a recreational center program was
stated in a letter from Administra
tor Coan to Miss Sally Ringe, Pro
fessional Service Projects, Washing-,
ton. Mr. Co&n write: "We think a
State-wide recreational center pro
gram is as desirable as a State-wide
armory building program (under
which the WPA plans to build 47
? armories) and shall use our best ef
forts in that direction."
Recreational centers are needed in
various rural type counties as meet
ing places for American Legion
posts and auxiliaries, Boy Scout
troops, civic clubs and other organi
zations, stated Mr, Coan.
To cost from $5,000 to $15,000, the
centers could be constructed where
local agencies would be willing to
furnish land and a fair proportion
of material costs, said the State di?
rector. The WPA would be disposed
to furniuh labor for such projects
and money for materials up to 20
per cent of the total labor cost.
Facilities suggested for such cen
ters would include a clubhouse with
a large central assembly hall, con
ference rooms, indoor playroom,
shower baths and improvement to
the grounds including landscaping,
construction of lakes and play
grounds.
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Tobacco Program
Jo Be Continued
A f<?ur-year tobacco adjustment
contract, covering the years 1986-39
inclusive, will be offered "this sum
mer to flue-cured tobacco growers
in North Carolina.
The new contract, in effect, will be
a continuation of the present ad
justment program, said E. Y. Floyd,
of State College. A few minor
changes will be made, he added.
The new contract will be establish
ed on acreage and production bases
[already determined tor the^prescnt
contracts. Adjustment of acreage
?and production during any one year
will not be more than 35 per cent
of the base.
After the sale of the crop each
lyear, the adjustment payment will be
determined by the amount required
Etir make up the difference in the
actual farm price received and the
established parity price on the do
mestic portion of the crop .
"Where necessary, adjustments in
the base acreage and production fig
ures will be made in the contracts
to place all growers on as equitable
i. footing as possible, Floyd stated.
The new contracts provide that
the number of tenants and share
croppers on the farm and the per
centage of the tobacco grown by ten
ants and share-croppers may not be
below the number and percentage in
: To encourage aril >;i|a^rovemept,
the contracts provide that an . h\
crease in the amount of landtoaofl
building crops may be made ontfre
tara^eqnal to the number at acres
1^80 period, |
Prepare To Drain Small
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Health JDepartment Re
queshfeNew Projects
Be Submitted by Au
gust26
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? Following the Health Depart
ment's efforts in the larger malarial
drainage projects such ar Swif?
Creek, Contentnea Creek,' Buzzard's
Pond, etc., the department
turned its-attention to the smaller
areas throughout the countyj^j
drained by ditches and cauahtfe. V
Since Pitt County is generaHBw
malaria-ridden county, it is
by Doctor Ennett, the heaKb offi
cer, that nothing will improve the
health conditions of ' Pitt Connfp
like adequate drainage.
The health department has learn
ed from Mr. Edwin J. Hill, Works
Progress Administration Director for
District No. 2, New Bern, N. C.,
that the drainage of these canals
and ditches will not call for large
organizations such as Swift Creek,
Contentnea Creek, etc., whe.e citi
zens bear a very large proportion of
the cost of such drainage, but that
it will be necessary for only a small
organization, for each organization
will cover only a smali area and
that the cost of such project to the
citizens will be very small. For in
stance, Instead of the citizens hav
ing to put up money for expensive
equipment, it is planned that per
haps -enough spades, 1 shovels, brad
ing slips, etc., can be secured In
each neighborhood for this work.
It appears to the health depart
ment that this is an opportunity
which may not again be available
to our people, for the Government
will furnish all actual labor for this
drainage without one cent of cott
to the citizens themselves. As in
dicated above, the plan is that the
interested citizens of each locality,
of small neighborhood which has a
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malarial drainage project, stroma
organize and send in a request to
the health department, asking that
such drainage project be included &
the county-wide malarial drainage
program. Of course each project will
be judged on a health basis.
And we would like to urge one
thing, and that is, that you not de
lay or put off action in tills mat
ter, desires that all projects be sub
mitted in the Pitt County Health
Department prior to the opening of
the local tobacco market, Wdi is
August the 26th. We
mean that the projects
on time will have first considera
tion, and that projects submitted '
after this date may not be approv
ed.
: It is requested that such citizens
as are interested in having this
work done in their communities get
in touch with one of the following
members of the joint committee
representing the "Pitt County Board
cf Health and the Pitt County
Board of Agriculture. The members -
of this committee will be glad fo
advise or confer with any interested
citizen at any time.
The members of the committee
and their addresses are as follows:^
Board of Health Committee? j
Dr. N. Thomas Ennett, Health oif- /
fteer, chairman. /
Dr. M. T. Frizzelle. j
Dr. Paul Fitzgerald. /
Board of Agriculture Committee: /
J. E. Winslow, Chairman, Green.,
ville, N. C.
J. T. Thome, Farmville, N. C.
. M. 0. Blount, Bethel, N. C.
J. P. Davenport, PactoluSy N. C.
A. L. Woolard, Stokes, N. C.
F. M. Kilpatrick, Ayden, N. C.
GOLF COURSE OBTA^^9|p^
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Mayor John B. Lewis and B. 0.
Taylor, members of a committee to
look into the possibly of securing a
Golf Coarse for "Farmville,- went to
New Bern one day this week investi
gating the matter. They report the
project met with favorable comment
by those of the WPA of this district,
and stated today that with a little
effort now by interested citizens, a
Pftyree can be had with bat little ex
pense, other than the cost of the
rapid. Local land owners with suitable
property are now being contacted By
the committee, and it is hoped tiHs
much needed recreational project can
be obtained at this time.
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Rental checks amounting to $16,
862.82 have been received and de
livered to cotton growers in Bertie s|
County who signed adjustment con
tracts last year. Checks for 1985.
signers tee expected within * few i'V ?
day%-- ttey*: County Agents Ife. & ??*>,
Cotton growers in eastern North
tations of boH weevils on low
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