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VOLUME THIRTY-ONE FABMVXU* PITT COUHTY, NORTH CAROUNA. FBIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1W? / NUMBER TWENTYMONE 1 " ' . -- ? i i ; ' 7. ? '. .' ?1 ,? ? 1 1 . .. , _ "? \ ' * " ' ? ' : Higher Prices The FarmiMe Market ?? ' .III. ?!?>?? ??? ? ????? Sales For This Week of 1,685,376 Pounds Sold For $373,708.26; Aver age $22.17; Markets to Have Holiday Wednes day, October 16 Offerings of tobacco have continu ed good on the Farmville market all this week with some of the better grades showing up, and prices are far more pleasing than at any time . during the season. Growers are expressing satisfac tion and indicated that every effort is being made to market the better grades of leaf as quickly as possible. Sales this week up through Thurs day, were 1,685,376 pounds that sold for $373,708.26,? an average of $22.17. Monday's sales were the highest of the week when 749,986 pounds sold for $175,514.41, an average of $23.40 a hundred. MARKET HOLIDAY All. tobacco auction warehouses in the country will be closed all day next Wednesday, Registration Day, it was announced today by B. B. Sugg, president of the Eastern Caro lina Warehousemen's Association. Mr. Sugg yesterday received a telegram from H. R. Pettus, chair man of the Sales committee of the Tobacco Association of the United States, advising of the action. The message said that ''from a patriotic standpoint and in order to render every cooperation possible, the Sales committee has decided to suspend sales in all districts on Reg istration Day, Wednesday, October 16." The telegram further stated that the cooperation of the Warehouse-1 men's Association president in ad vising growers would be appreciated. President Sugg immediately wired Mr. Pettus that "we are lending full support following your announcement suspending sales." WINS ESSAY PRIZE Helen Louise Rouse, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Rouse, was winner of the prize of $10 offered by Mrs. C. C. Wallace, of Morehead City, for an essay written on the subject of '"My Favorite North Carolina Gen eral." Miss Rouse chose as her sub ject, General Braxton Bragg. The prize was awarded at the recent con vention of the N. C. division of the U. D. C. in Golds bo ro. Miss Rouse was also winner of the i prize of $5.00, offered by Mrs. G. M. Holden of the local U. D. C. Chapter, in memory of her sister, the late Mrs. G. A. Rouse, a chapter member of the organization. Religion is supposed to make peo ple better but some folks seem bo get that much madder with those who disagree with them. Popularity Contest Has Successful End John D. Dixon, Jr., Is Crowned Kin? At Indoor Baby Parade Of Many Contestants The Baby Popularity contest, spon sored by the Junior Woman's Club during the past two weeks, came to a successful close Friday afternoon in Perkins Hall, when John D. Dixon, Jr. attractive little son of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Dixon was crowned Popu larity King, and awarded a lovely silver cup by the Club. Alice Harper Parker, his sponsor, also receiver a gift "Big Boy" .Tripp ran a close cewnd. . . _ I After the coronauor^cerenBHB? the baby contestants and "their spoa I son paraded on the stage with Mrs. John D. Holmes" playing the piano. I lbs. Holmes, also entertained the life* I tie folks with children's songs, in which the children joined. I The three judges, Misses Batts and I Worthitogton and Mrs. Bollock, of I Fountain, delegated $o the task a girl from the stage, chose Anne Mor gan, lovely little daughter of Mr. mi I Iftt Irvin Morgan, Jr., and Master ? Dyke Holmes, attractive Son of Mb. taet chairman, Mrs. B. T: Williams! iQteii of these jbfe Draft Registration To Be Held Here Wednesday, Oct 16 Registration Will Be Held In The- Davis Building, Next ? Door to Rollins' Cleaners and Dyers; Volunteer Assistants Needed Registration of persons in Farm ville township* coming within the draft ages, will take place in Farm ville, Wednesday, October 16th", and will be in charge of M. W. RoHins, regular registrar for this township. Mr.- Rollins has asked for volun teers to assist in the registering of the several hundred that are required to register in Farmville. The registration will take place in the Davis building on Wilson street, next door to Rollins' Cleaners and Dyers, beginning at 7:00 A. M. Johovah's Wit nesses Get Order To Quit Greenville Members of Sect Jailed Several Hours with No Charges Brought Greenville, Oct 9.?Several mem bers of Jehovah's Witnesses, a' re ligious organization which professes to recognize only God's authority, were jailed here several hours on Saturday, without being booked and with no charges brought against them, and released with orders to stay out of Greenville, Police Chief G. A. Clark said today. A man who interceded in their behalf, identified as a member of the sect, also was held several hours under the same circumstances, the officer asserted. All but one of the group, Chief Clark said, were released three or four hours later after telling of ficers that they would "stay out of town until we make the proper arrangements." One man was fin gerprinted aad held overnight, al though no charge was brought and he was not booked. Taken on Streets.' The group?10 men, women, and children?were taken into custody about 3 o'clock in the afternoon while on the streets selling liter ature dealing with their beliefs, the officer said. Theyjver^brought in because of recent complaints from Greenville residents that mem bers of Jehovah's Witnesses were coming into their homes trying to sell pamphlets, Clark declared. When they were brought to the police station, he said, a Vanceboro man known to the police chief only as "Mr. White" asked to be allowed; to furnish bond for them. After a discussion during which White'"ar gued about Constitutional rights," he also was taken into custody, Chief Clark declared, with no charge being brought Names of those held were not en tered on the police blotter, Clark said, and today he did not have a list of their names. The man held overnight was identified by the officer as T. J. Andrews, Greek resi dent of Wilson and leader of the sect in Bast Carolina. Andrews was re leased Sunday when "someone from Wilson" came for him. LUNCH ROOM MENU OCTOBER 14-18 Monday?Irish stew, oote daw, baked Irish potatoes, biscuit, 10c; Lemon pie 5c. ? "*V/ ' Tuesday?Salad greens with ba con, stewed corn, candied yams, corn bread 10c; Mincemeat pie Be. Wednesday ? Salmon croquettes, string beans, scalloped tomatoes, bis cuit 10c; banana pudding 5c. * > Thursday ? Hamburger, butter beans, bora, potato fluff, biscuit 10c; chocolate pie 5c. Friday?Banana salad ?o lettuce, deviled eggs, ? ham- aapdw|dW> pickles, crackers 10c; cocoanut pie 6c. |V- ^ 1:1 N*ToS?n^SwS>y - ? 5?? "'- jS?$ v According to from M. W. Rollins, registrar for FSarmville ; *iyj jjj^ majn jirusn of fW riMW Jxf P/\llfrt49 IIliWLIl OpOH ftv UuU Ull^Lv vx XW? ?-Ui?> IJ ~ ' W^Vs 2-V^T* -A?I'MPSW', *Jt5' *? y tTviTXT^J^* I /ti-i'njl- TluilTll "lllWallgk ejyi.., > jber election, be suA^jrour name is oa Greenville to Have 15th District Meet Mrs. John B. Joyner will Preside; Mrs. A* QJ Roebuck Is Secretary of District The annual meeting- of the 15 th I District of the North Carolina Fed-1 eration of Women's Clubs will be] held in the Memorial Baptist Church I in Greenville, on Tuesday, October! 15, with Mrs. John B. Joyner preaid- | ing and bringing the president's an-1 nual message to the chib women. I1 Mrs. A. Q. Roebuck, also of Fans-}' ville, is secretary of the district. The 11 other district officer is Mrs. C. C. I1 Hilton, of Greenville. |i Mrs. J. H. B. Moore, of the hostess I dub'will extend greetings and the r Rev. W. A. Ryan will have charge of n the devotionals. Reports of the year's activities and plans for the new dub year 'will be brought by J * representatives of the dubs in the n district. v tl Highlights of the meeting will bel. addresses by Mrs. John D. Bobinson,}; of Wallace, President Director of the I j State organization; Mrs. Creasy Q. < Proctor of Oxford, second Vice Presi- < dent and Director of Districts, and L by Mrs. $ C. Boyce, of Greensboro, < State President of the Junior l| Women. L Another gesture of the meeting h will be an instruction period, oon- L ducted by W. W. Sheffield relating to Highway Safety. A large attend ance is expected as the program , promises to be one of the best pre- , sented to the district dn some time, h Farm ville dub women are planning , to attend in large numbers as especial r interest will pre vial in this section, due to the fact .that two of the three |J district officers are local women. Luncheon will be served the Senior j Club women at the Woman's Club f building, and the Junior Club women | will be served at the Recreation build- ( ing of the Memorial Baptist Church, j Local Officials To Attend League Meet ] Charlotte, Oct 13-16 , ? " i Among- the officials of Farmville j who expect to attend the annual con- 1 vention of the North Carolina League j of Municipalities to be held in Char- 1 lotte, Oct. 13-16, are Mayor and Mrs. ' George W. Davis, R. A. Joyner, city 1 clerk and treasurer, and J. W. Joyner, 1 member of the board of City Com- 1 missioners. 1 The convention this year is expect- - ed to be the largest assemblage of I municipal officials ever held in the 32 years of the League's existence, ( with good representation from each P and every city in the state. 1 One of the principal speakers at a 1 special session devoted to the national I' defense program will be Daniel W. ' Hoan, for 23 years mayor of Milwau- ' kee, who was recently appointed by P President Roosevelt to be Associate I1 Director of National Defense. 'J1 The annual banquet will be held r Tuesday evening with Governor Hoey J1 and gubernatorial nominee, J. M. I' B rough ton as speakers. I DISTRICT MEETING TO I. BE HELD IN WILSON I The semi-annual meeting of the I, Seventeenth District, Junior Order I, United American - Mechanics, com-1; posed of councils in Greene, Lenoir J Pitt, Wayne and Wilson Counties, 1' will be held with Wilson Council No. J 40, Wilson at 4 p; m., on Monday,] October 14th. |; I John -Hill Paylor, pf Farmville, I District Councilor, witf preside. W. J P. Moore of Snow Hill ia District] Secretary. During the business session officers] for the coming term will be elected.! Among the prominent members of the order who ate expected to be [present w J. L. White of Oxford,] State Councilor, Forrest G. Shearin, of Scotland Neck, State Secretary, Clyde L, Standi, of Smitixfield, Vice State Councilor, W. M. Shuford, <d Lexington, Children's Home, and others. Immediately following, the business aesgioo, 630 * at, rap per will be served. A large attend ance is expected at this'meeting. - * . i* tgf nakcy Pierce, 57, wile of J. B. Fiem, died Saturday evening at 7 o'clock. Mrs. Pierce had been an invalid for sev Funeral servicee were heldjHon d?y at 3 oVdaafc mfe^Rev.^ H. tt> a grand 1' ?? -- yxXr": ?? ? ? . - By HUGO & SIMS (Washington Correspondent) DEFENSE CONTRACTS. RRELIMINAEY SURVEY. WAR AND PEACE ISSUE. warning to the u. a NO CHANGE IN POLICY. DEFENSE PROGRAM. TIME NEEDED TO RE-ARM. There is considerable interest throughout the nation in the distri bution of national defense orders. While we have seen several attempts to break down the distribution of funds spent for national defense, there are difficulties m connection with any attempt -tie definitely allot to any state any certain sum. The National Industrial Confer ence Board has attempted to make ui allocation of the first $2,243,991, 900 expended by the Army and Navy, from June 13 to August 91. The Board urges caution in the use of its figures as some of the allo cations are based on the residence of \ contractors rather than the location of the work to be undertaken. More over, more than two-thirds of the total distributed represents expendi tures of the Navy concentrated in states where shipbuilding facilities exist. i The distribution of $1,680,980, )00, expanded by the Navy during: the time referred to, shows that the bulk of contracts went to five states, with Massachusetts receiving $266, 129,000; Virginia, $268,076,000; New largey, $189,426,000; New York, f161,538,000; and Pennsylvania, $116, 126,000. This represents nearly two thirds of the Navy total and is under jtandable by the fact that the ship building yards, available for naval instruction, are located in the states listed. 1 1 In connection with the Army's ex penditures, which amounted to $663, )10,000 in the time covered by the aurvey, Michigan received $106,178, )00; New York, $103,838,000; Cali fornia, $74,164,000; Washington, $71, 516,000; and Indiana, the fifth state in the list, $47,057,000. Washington md California broke into the picture by virtue of orders for airplanes and parts which account for practically ill of their total. A little addition will show that these five states re ceived more than sixty per cent! <jf Array expenditures. We include the distribution in this column this week for what these figures are worth. Obviously, one must wait until more complete fig ires are available before coming to my definite conclusion. Moreover, me must learn whether contracts for supplies, which are usually listed ac cording to awards, should be exclu sive)^ assigned to the state of the successful bidder. Very often, we are told, selling agents at one address represent manufacturing concerns scattered throughout the country. I The presidential campaign- con tinues to go along, with candidate I tVillkie and Wallace doing most of Idle speech-making. Mr. Willkie id making an intensive tour of many states, carrying his message to thousands of voters in person. Just how effective his campaigning will grove to be, no can tell now. While the Republican nominee does not leaitste to approve much of the New Deal, he continues to hammer away it the defeatist philosophy and to iroclaim the virtues of his Mcruaade." Secretary ...Wallace, carrying the halt tear the New Deal in the pres ent campaign, reminds the voters that the defeat of President Roose velt will be hailed with joy in totali tarian nations. Carefully pointing mt that he does not accuse Mr. Wifl Ide of being an "appeaser," Mr. Wal lace continues to stress his charge that the appeaaers, as a class, are supporting the Republican candidate. 'i ii ? ?? As the campaign swings into its litter stages, we apparently dis cern a trend to make the issue of peace and i^ar more prominent With both candidates for the presidency eatertfag their determination to pre vent war, there appears a tendency on the part of Republican speakers to answer the Wallace "appeasement" charge bythe counter-allegation that If President Roosevelt is elected, the involved in war. These conflicting , -WiP UIUMW. .' ' r * 'r*j" jjffiSv; /JjTvVV' "? '"..Ci '*.**? ?-V:ii*-''Vr' ? "???' ',''-,'4 oMty . K V * . r. V ** T. 1 ? *?' * ^ ** ? ^ /i Far East Claims > Close Attention I " ' . ? But Lade of Belligerent Japanese Reaction | Causes Some Easing of Tension ? Washington, Oct. 9.?The Navy to day continued to prepare for a possi ble emergency in the Pacific, but a slackening of diplomatic activity ap peared to reflect diminished tension generally in- administration quarters over the Far' Eastern situation. Secretary Knox announced after talks with high naval strategists dur ing the week -that the personnel of the fleet now in the Pacific would fee reinforced immediately to raise it to full strength. He said 4,200 men would join the fleet at once and sail back to Hawaii with the warships now on the west coast undergoing repairs. At the press conference at which he announced the fleet reinforce ment, Knox answered a number of questions concerning the Far East situation. ? ? ?? ? ? < ??*? *_? ? lie said He Old not concur in a published statement that the admin istration feared war with Japan in 16 'days. "I don't think . anybody knows," he added. A number of officials showed less ened preoccupation with the Orient as a potential danger spot Japan's Reaction. Responsible for this in some meas ure was Japan's reaction to the Brit ish notice that the Burma road would be reopened for supplies to China, and hi so Japanese reaction to the State Department's advice to Ameri cans in the Far East to consider coming home. ' There was no apparent tendency in Japan to magnify the Burma road decision as an incident likely to lead to immediate drastic reprisals. At the same time, the Tokyo for eign office spokesman; Yakichiro Suma, expressed surprise at the American move to get nationals out of the Far East. He said "we can't understand the necessity of it," and added< that Japan had no intention of advising Japanese in the United States to return home. Secretary Hull was asked at his press conference whether special transportation arrangements were being made to expedite the removal of Americans from the Far East. He replied that the first step was to find out how many wanted to return and that the shipping question would be considered next Hull's schedule of the day was free of important diplomatic appoint ments and less activity was nitic able among pther Sate Department officials concerned with Far East ern affairs. ? . .1 FARMVILLE "BED DEVILS" DEFEATS COLUMBIA 12-0 A fighting team of Farm villa "Red Devils" took an early lead on an out passed, outrushed, and outplayed Columbia team, t? march to a 12-0 victory in their first game of the season. ' The only time the visitors serious ly threatened was when Holloway of Columbia intercepted a forward pass on his own 35 yard line and ran to Farmville's 30 yard line where he was brought down from behind by Homer Spell. Two passes, Rouse to Brock, set up the first touchdown. Two plays later, Turnage of Farmville went over from the 5 yard line. Turnage's at tempt at conversion failed. . # , The . second touchdown resulted when Paul Parker recovered a fumble on Columbia's 20 yard line. Rouse then threw a pass to Turnage which was good for 16 yards. Turnage then took the ball over on line buck for the second score in the game. Rouse failed in his. attempt to run the ball over for the point after touchdown. This ended the scoring for the game. In the last quarter Farmville marched to Ctyumhia's 1 yard line hut lost the ball an downs. David Jones of Fermvflle was "the star in defense far the Farmville team and played a good all round game along with Rouse, Parker, Braxton, Spell, Brock and Turnage The starting lineups. were: For Farmville; LE, Lilly; LT, Gregory; LG, Allen; C, Bhutton; RG, D. Jones; RT; Spell; BE, Parker; <JB, Rouse; LH, Brock; RH," Ras berry; FB, Turnage. For -Columbia; LE, R. Rhodes; LT, Spruill; LG, Brielshouse; C, S. Rhodes; RG, Fswkugh; R$y$atf. man; RB; Houghton; QB, Ward; LH, Holloway; RH, Pledge; FB, Sykes. October 11, Farmville will play Ayden at the, JSigh School; Athletic Field. Rick off M^Wm ,'si in? oftiTUkPu, ior jpn& ptvuuw^ .jwrj *? ' ? ,.'v-*-'~l ?, ? .K / <* ?. -1 WAR RESERVE e. ' 1 '? London, Oct. 9.?Britain is con sidering the establishment of a "strategic reserve" of oolonial prod ucts in the United States, ready for trona-shipmesxt to points where they mby be needed) it was reported relia bly tonight. Colonial foodstuffs and raw mater ials for which no market now exists would be stored safely in American warehouses. From there they could [ be shipped quickly to blockaded coun [ tries on the European continent whenever they succeeded in throwing off German domination. Such re ! serves also naturally would be avail j able to the United States if America's ! other sources were cut off. Apart from this project, it was understood the United States is con tinuing negotiations for 150,000 tons of rubber for war stocks in addition to 85,000 tons already secured through a barter agreement with Britain. ? ?. m Large Ms Altering Series : At Christian Church i i 1 Announcement has been made of the great growth in interest and ( attendance at the series of meetings , being held at the Christian Church, j Dr. Drash is bringing great and 3 inspiring messages each evening and the song service, under the direction , of ,J. W. Jomp, of Wilson, is beauti- , ful and moving. Mrs. C. N. Bostic , is the soloist. , ? .The services are to be continued through Suriday evening and the en tire community id invited to attend \ every one of the remaining services, j The pastor, Rev. C. K. Mashburn will ( speak on the subject of "The Good Shepard", at the eleven o'clock ser vice hour Sunday, and the Rev. Mr. j Drash will speak in the evening. WHO KNOWS? ; 1. Who are meant by "Defenders ^ of the Faithful"? 2. To what extent is Japan de- , pendent upon the U. S. for scrap iron ] and steel? j 3. When was George V crowned in London? < 4. How many members has the ( American Legion?, ( 6. What America^'City made the ] fastest growth, 1930-1940?/ ] 6. How large are American in- j vestments in Japan ? , 7. Has Great Britain guaranteed ( Greece against attack? - . 8. What is copra? j 9. What is to equinox ? -- i 10. What If-a "flaming onkm"? t (See "lie Answers" on Page 4) \ _ . J AAA Auto Races ; To Bi Saturday I , ' ? a ? I' Raleigh, Oct. 10.?North Carolina's I great State Fair will come to a close 3 I with a bombardment of speed on , I Saturday, October 12, when the an-1 nual AAA sanctioned aifto races will I be held on the fast half-mile oval as I I a score of speed demons from the I speedway and dirt tracks of America ( I compete in a six-event program. < I Time trials to determine starting J I positions will begin'at 12:30 p. m. I with the first competitive event ( I scheduled at 2:30 o'elock. I, Inclined in the list of stellar en- n tries are Buddy Roach, the Texas II I riding demon, who won the feature I, race in 1939 after bumping into TedI,I I Horn, Indianapolis speedway star; M ? Bob Sail, 1986 eastern AAA andll southern AAA champion, who is all great favorite in North Carolina; [Joie Chitwood, famous Indian driver II who Jus hung up ten victories so far 1 this season, moat recently at Shelby I I and Winston-Salem; Walt Brown,J1 [Bert Bom, the racing Tadlock broth-11 era from Notfopc; Babe and Frank! ?Moore, another set of brothers; Al Fleming, Fred Reid, Jimmy Gibbons,} Eank.Weatfl, Speed Monelock, Lew Wallace* Bob Baker and Fred Bailes. Horn, fourth place winner at ^11 dianapolis ana Hankinsbn circuit I ? . '?^ 1 1 ?" I I point leader this year; Chitwood who finished in tiunkaey at the Hoosierl Classic, in addition to winning the} 1939|aato^Tripl|j? titte|nd the] ^ciinch the current year London Again Experiences Terrific Nazi Air Attacks '?1 " 1 & : Bombs Rain on Capital from One End to Oth er; Casualties Numer ous, Damage Heavy; British Claim Success ful Raids on Bremen and Other Targets V London, Oct. 10.?Forty areas of London were showered with high ex plosive and incendiary bombs drop ped by a steady procession of Nazi warplanes overnight, and among the objects struck .were a famous church, one of the city's oldest hotels and a promenade known the world over. There was a mounting list of cas ualties, including many killed. Simultaneous raids were carried out against Wales, Southwest and Northwest England. They all,were heavy, but nothing like the batter ing London was experiencing. Early this morning London had a brief respite, but the raiders were back again with a concerted effort to pierce the curtain of steel hurled skyward by anti-aircraft batteries. Great high-explosive bombs and incendiary "breadbaskets" upeet busses, struck at rail lines and spread fire and debris from one end of London to the other last night and aarly today as the unbroken proces sion of German warplanes assaulted the city by moonlight. From northern environs to south ernmost tip, the capital trembled with the shock of the exploding t>ombs and the shuddering crash of in incessant an{i-aircraf? (barrage. So intense was the dm that it was it times almost impossible to tell which noises were those of bombs ind which were those of the. defen iive guns.. Terrific Conflict. An an example of the severity of the conflict, however, a few hours after the early start of the raid eight iistricte of the city had been hit. One employe of The Associated Press reported seeing at least 14 fire bombs fall in a four-mile walk One big London bus was upeet by a bomb hit which injured a number )f passengers and broke the driver's leg. A passing doctor borrowed ^ xibby'a tin hat and set to work treating the victim. c It was one of the. worst overnight raids London has experienced since jig-scale bombing of the city be jan September 7. Meanwhile Britain's night bomb ers set ablaze the center of the jreat German Krupp works at Es sen, left the oil refineries in Ham jurg a ring of spreading fire and pounded the naval base of Wil lelmshaven with more than 15 tons >f bombs, the "Air Ministry dis posed. Sweeping in over the glowing, lewly bombed "invasion coast," vaves of Ro^al Air Force bombers struck deep into Germany Tuesday for a series of assaults that rivaled my previous foray. First of all, the bombers swqep in from the North Sea on Breman. Officials said the mid - began at 3:15 p. m., and "for the next hour md a half the whole area was sys .ematically bombed with high ex plosives and incendiaries." ' "The docks were repeatedly hit. fourteen fires were started in the pirst part of the attadkfthe official larrative said. SCOUT NEWS N 1 . At our last Scout rqeeting we elect ed new patrols and patrol leaders. Dur new patrol leaders are Milton Williamson and Cecil Lily. Our new bo&nd committee is Honorable Seorge W. Davis, Mr. P. K. Ewe 11 ind Mr. R. L. Rollins. We are sorry chat all of the Scouts that were in this troop last year have not reregis tered. We would like to stress the necessity of Scouting to all of our toys, and in order to obtain full bene fit it will be necessary to have regis tered Scouts. We would like to ask each parent to give Scouting some consideration and inoouragement to their boys, and see. if we cannot get all of the Did Scouts to come back and each one bring a new member. As we believe we have in our committee three men that have the interest of every boy inthis community at heart, and with the support pf our community and committee we afre hoping to have one of the best Scout Troops in Eastern Carolina. But to accomplish this we will have to have not only cooperation from our committee, hut cooperation from each sad every Scout, and the Scout's father and mothei We are hoping tturt we^oa depend ea the 0p6?8>tl0 n ? ^ ? Rpostv^t \)9X* 0