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VOL LXXIX., NO. 11,990 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14. 1951 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS
Fishing
Pad Signed,
3 Nations
TOKYO, Dec. 14—(#1—Japan, Can
ada and the United States today
signed a ten year fishing pact that
provisionally splits the North Pa
cific for salmon, halibut and her
r'/ng fishing.
The line is provisional. It is sub
ject to review by a three power
commission set up by the treaty.
The provisional demarcation
line runs generally along the line
of meridian 175 degrees, west lon
gitude. This runs almost midway
between the Hawaiian and Wake
> islands.
Salmon fishing, one of the main
stumbling blocks of the conference,
was referred to the commission for
further study to determine if there
are areas where salmon originat
ing in North American waters
mingle with salmon originating in
Asian streams.
In such a case, the commission
Is charged with adjusting the
^provisional demarcation line. A
unanimous vote of the commission
would be necessary.
’ In the event of a deadlock the
treaty provides the matter will be
referred to a group of scientists
.from nations not involved in the
treaty. „ ..
The pact covers all the North
Pacific with the exception of ter
ritorial waters of the nations con
cerned.
► The demarcation line is subjec.
to change by the commission in
areas where there has been historic
intermingling of fishing boats oi
where one nation has been “sub
stantially exploiting’’ a specific area
for years.
The demarcation line also does
not apply to areas where the
dominant fishing power is not
one of the three treaty nations.
The treaty will run for ten years.
It will be extended indefinitely un
less one of the powers serves no
tice that it is withdrawing.
. The treaty was the first conclu -
ed under the provisions of the re"
cent Japanese peace treaty which
will again grant Japan sovereign
powers when it becomes effective.
The fisheries treaty must be rat- ■
ified by the three nations.
King Is
56 Today
LONDON, Dec. 14 — W — Kin2
George VI was 56 years old today.
The monarch, now well advanced
in his recovery from a serious lung
operation in September, spent the
morning reading messages of con
gratulation from many parts of the
world.
Members of the royal family at
tended a birthday luncheon at
Buckingham Palace.
I
TheWashington
Merry-Go-Round
(Copyright, 1951, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
By DREW PEARSON
T^ASHINGTON — Speaker Sam
Rayburn has grimly warned Presi
dent Truman to take the initiative
in cleaning up the administration,
or have his legislative program
wrecked. The speaker recommends
that a crusading Attorney General
be named to start prosecutions.
The shrewd Texan, a veteran of
many political storms, is described
by friends as "extremely concerned"
by the scandals. He told the Presi
dent that, if he did not act quickly,
mink coats would be thrown at the
administration on every bill sent
to Congress from 1600 Pennsylvania
Avenue. Under these circumstances,
Rayburn warned. Democratic lead
ers would have no hope of control
ling even a majority of their party
members.
In private the speaker has gone
much further. “Harry Truman is a
dead duck politically right now,”
Rayburn has told friends, “and the
party will be just as dead unless
we can prove to the people we’re
cleaning out our own black sheep.
If the administration won't move,
it’s up to Democrats in Congress
to do it. After all, every one of us
is donee'rned. The tax scandals
are hurting us badly.”
Rayburn has also intimated it
might be necessary for party leaders
on Capitol Hill to repudiate the
Truman administration—unless the
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Movie Producer
Uses Gun on Joan
Bennett's Agent
BEVERLY HILLS. Calif.. Dec. 14
_{/pi—Before the horrified eyes of
his wife, Joan Bennett, Producer
Walter Wanger shot down her agent
in a parking lot last night "because
he broke up my home."
The greying moviemaker ap
proached the pair as they were
chatting and without saying a word
fired two shots fom a .38 caliber
pistol at point blank range.
The agent, Jennings Lang, 39.
was seriously wounded in the
groin and leg and underwent sur
gery lasting an hour and a half.
Miss Rennelt said she and Lang
had been together on business
during the afternoon. She denied
any romantic interest in him.
Wanger was booked on suspicion
of assault with intent to commit
murder. He spent the night in jail
and was to be arraigned later today
on a similar formal charge or one
of assault with a deadly wepon.
A bullet ripped through the
left front fender of Miss Bennett’s
green Cadillac convertible. She
was sitting in the ear when the
gun roared, about 5:30 p.m., in a
parking lot across the street from
the Beverly Hills police station.
Lang was standing by the car.
talking to her. He doubled over,
clutching at his abdomen.
Chief Anderson quoted Miss Ben
nett as saying she told Wanger:
“Get away and leave us alone.”
She told the police chief that her
relations with her agent were purely
business.
“If Walter thinks there is any
romance between us,” she was
quoted by th’ chief, “he is wrong.”
WANGER RELEASED
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Dec. 14
—(/Pi—Movie producer Walter Wan
ger was freed from jail today after
an overnight stay for shooting the
agent of his movie star wife, Joan
Bennett.
"I shot him because he broke up
ray home,” Wanger was quoted by
Police Chief Clinton Anderson af
ter his arrest.
Wanger declined to talk about
! the case today, but acknowledged
that he slept “very well.” He was
freshly shaved and natty in a gray
suit.
District Attorney S. Ernest Roll
agreed to W'anger’s release on bail,
and said he expected to file charges
after an investigation. Roll said
Lang is still under opiates after a
delicate operation necessitated by
a wound in the groin.
Oliphant Links
Grunewaldin
Big Tax Case
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 — (iD —
diaries Oliphant linked the name
of “mystery man" Henry (the
Dutchman) Grunewald with an
other big tax case today and quoted
Grunewald as saying he was “help
ing” Senator Bridges (R-NH) on it.
Oliphant, resigned chief counsel
of the Internal Revenue Bureau,
told House tax investigators that
Bridges hipiself made an inquiry
about the case — involving a jeop
ardy assessment against Human H.
Klein of Baltimore.
The amount of the assessment
was not brought out but reporters
W'ere told it was “at least six fig
ures.” Many other angles also were
left hanging temporarily amid hints
the investigators were building up
to new sensations.
For the second day, Oliphant
was in the witness chair before the
House Ways and Means committee
investigating tax irregularities.
Testimony Highlights
In highlights: .
1. Oliphant acknowledged that
he let a tax deficiency prosecution
against a Washington meat firm
drop because Rep. James Morrison
(D-La) had interested himself in
the case. He said he let it drop
despite instructions from George
Schoeneman, then commissioner of
Internal Revenue, that it be prose
cuted.
2. Oliphant admitted he tipped
T. Lama. Caudle, assistant attorney
general who was fired last month,
that Senator Williams (R-Dela) was
looking into Caudle's income tax
returns.
3. Oliphant and Rep. Kean (R
NJ) disputed whether it was a
“fair” inference that Grunewald
once intimated to Oliphant he had
influence expanding into the White
House itself. Kean said it looked
that way to him. Oliphant denied
it.
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Reds Refuse to Lift
\
Curtain on Prison (amps;
Truce Talks Again Fouled
Harrowing
Experience.
By Pilot
BATTLE CREEK, Dec. 14—Wt—
Frost-bitten Lloyd Bowen classi
fied the 10 minutes he spent on
the tail of a spinning small plane
yesterday as his most harrowing
experience— and he was a gunner
on a B-20 superfort in World
War XI.
Here’s what happened:
Bowen, 39, landed his two-place
single engined Cessna at Kellogg
Airport and started taxiing toward
a hangar. The engine conked out
in the seven above zero cold. Bo
wen alighted to spin the propeller
by hand and get the engine start
ed again.
It started with a roar and al
most chopped Bowen down. He ■
wrapped his arms around the rud- j
der as it passed and held on, but!
the plane didn’t stop. He forced the I
rudder to the side, making the j
plane run in a circle.
Finally, after ten freezing, dizzy- j
ing minutes, the spinning plane was
spotted by the airport tower.
A crash truck speeded up. Two
attendants jumped off and grabbed
the tail with Bowen, who then
let loose and ran to the cockpit,
forcing in the* throttle he'd left too
far out in the first place.
Caked with snow and ice w'hen
he got off, Bowen got first aid for
his frostbitten face and ears. He
also got a bruised leg.
i % Airport authorities said the engine
: was running around 2,000 revolu
| tions per minute during its wild
but Bowen-controlled spree. At that
speed, they said, the plane, without
a man’s weight on its tail, likely
would have taken off and possibly
crashed into hangars or nearby
homes.
3 Allied
Planes
Shot Down
Reds Anti-Aircraft Guns
in Action,- Two Jet
Fights Are Reported
SEOUL, Dec .14—(if)—Red anti
aircraft guns shot down three Al
lied planes today while MIG-killing
American Sabre jets destroyed one
Communist jet and damaged three.
The U. S. Fifth Air Force said all
the Sabres returned safely from
their two jet fights over northwest
Korea. |
So did two reconnaissance F-80.
Shooting Stars that were jumped j
by six Red MIG-15s near the North |
Korean capital, Pyongyang. The F- I
80s asutmaneuvered and outflew the
Red pilots in the much faster ,
MIGs.
In unrelated actions Red flak i
brought down a Shooting Star, an |
F-84 Thunderjet and an F-51 |
Mustang. All three fell in Com
munist territory.
Fifth Air Force planes flew 663
sorties up to 6 p.m., chopping up
Communist transport lines.
Friday's two jet battles came
less than 24 hours after the Ameri
can Sabre pilots scored their great
est all jet victory—13 Red jets
downed, two probably! destroyed
and one damaged.
In a 25-minute battle Friday
morning between 48 Sabres and
moie than 100 MIGs, one Red jet
was shot down and two damaged.
Another Red was damaged in an
afternooh scrap.
The Friday morning flash of ac
tion emphasized the current lead
ing role of the air in the Korean
war.
Warships and carrier planes ham
mered at the edges of North Korea.
But the ground troops stuck closclr
to their defense lines.
For the third day the U. S.
Eighth Army sent out a raiding
party to hit Communist positions,
but this did not change the basic
defensive characteristic of the
fronts.
HOOXAII MAYOR HERE
Harry Douglas, Mayor of Hoonah
is stopping at the Gastineau Hotel.
:< MUNSAN, Korea, Dec. 14—MV
The Reds refused today to lift
the curtain of secrecy surrounding
their prison camps, but said they
would okeh the rotation of 5,000
troops a month if the Allies accept
other Communist terms for enforc
ing a Korean truce.
The limited rotation plan was
part of a new six-point Commun
ist proposal which made little im
pression on Allied negotiators. An
official UN communique made no
mention of rotation and said the
proposal showed ‘little significant
departure from the unacceptable
proposal of Dec. 3.”
Negotiators have not agreed
on how an armistice would be
enforced. The Allies have indicat
ed they might accept a Commun
ist proposal to use representatives
of neutral nations for behlnd-thc
llnes inspections.
Red delegates said international
Red Cross inspection of Communist I
prison camps was “out of the ques- j
tion.”
They again refused to turn over I
lists of Allied prisoners unless the 1
UN command first accepts the j
Communist idea of exchanging all,
prisoners. Rear Adm. R. E. Libby
wanted to know why. He asked:
“Is it because your list contains
just a handful of names and you
are ashamed to give it to us?”
Later a UN spokesman said the
Allies would be “more receptive” to
the Reds’ all-for-all exchange pro
posal if the Communists first turn
ed over a list of prisoners the UN
command considers accurate.
The Reds complained the great
majority of prisoners held by the
| UN would not be returned if an ex
1 change were made on a man-for
man basis as the Allies want.
A UN spokesman called the Com- j
munist's remark a slip.
A UN command broadcast from
Tokyo to Korea again charged i
that the Red secrecy concerning
prisoners was “blackmail" to win
their armistice demands.
The two subcommittees working
on the problem of supervising a
truce and exchanging prisoners—
agenda items three and four—sched
uled new sessions for 11 a.m. Sat
urday (6 p.m. PST Friday) in Pan
munjom.
Wage Increase
For Anchorage
Workers Planned
SEATTLE, Dec. 14—MB—'The reg
ional wage stabilization board re
ports that its action on four peti
tions covering about 600 employees
in retail and service trades in An
chorage, Alaska, has been sent to
the national board for review.
The announcement said the pet
itions were approved by an 8 to 4
ivote (with industry members dis
1 senting), but that the decision
I was then held up on motion of
I two of the public members,
j The referral to the national WED
| is under a directive for regional
I boards to refer to the national
I board all unusual situations in
which the application of regulations
might be difficult.
The announcement did not dis
close what the board majority had
held in its original 8-to-4 finding.
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Ship Movements
Denali scheduled southbound
sometime Sunday.
Baranof scheduled to sail fiorr,
Seattle today.
Freighter Casslar due to arrive
southbound sometime Saturday
morning.
WEATHER REPORT §
(U. S. WEATHER BUREAU)
Temperatures for 24-Hour Period
Ending at 4:30 A M. Today
At Airport: Maximum, 31;
Minimum, 22.
FORECAST
(Juneau and Vicinity)
Cloudy and windy with snov.
tonight and Saturday. Low
temperature tonight around 23
degrees. High temperature to
morrow near 25 degrees. Gusty
easterly to southeasterly winds
15 to 25 mph throughout.
PRECIPITATION
(Past 24 hours endlnn 1:30 a m toda
At Airport — Trace;
since July 1—19.78 Inches.
Two Candidates
For Delegate
From Alaska
By Associated Press
An incumbent and a widely known
bush pilot both announce that they
will be candidates for the post
of Alaska Delegate in next year’s
election.
E. L. (Bob' Bartlett, a Democrat,
said he would seek his fifth term
in the office. He has held the post
since Anthony Diinond left it to
become a federal judge in Alaska
Bob Reeve, veteran bush pilot ana
owner of Reeve Aleutian Airways,
said he would be a candidate on
the Republican ticket.
WAGE INCREASE FOR es-wLtat
Third Division
Democrats Meet
In Convention
| ANCHORAGE, Dec. 14—(#)—The
Democrats of the Third Division
have scheduled their divisional con
vention here tomorrow.
The call by .chairman William
Egan of Valdez said the convention
is to adopt a divisional platform,
elect -delegates to the territorial con
vention and “consider matters for
the good of the party.”
The Third Division is the Terri
tory’s Democratic party stronghold.
! ATA Files Suit
To Prevent
License Revoke
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14—<*)—Air
| Transport Inc., an irregular car
i Her operating between Seattle and
J Alaska, asked the U. S. District
• Court yesterday to prevent the Civil
| Aeronautics Board (CABi from re
i yoking its permit.
! The carrier has been ordered by
CAB to go out of business by Dec. ]
20 because it allegedly flew too j
frequent flights.
| The petition asked that the board ;
be enjoined from enforcing its |
order until a hearing is held on the ,
company’s application for a permit j
to operate as a scheduled carrier. j
The company asked the court last1
Saturday to order the CAB to hold
a hearing on the application.
Drive Carefully
Police Warn
Bernard E. Hulk, Juneau Chief
| of Police, today issued a warn
ig to all motorists to drive care
fully. "Extra caution in driving is
needed because of icy streets and
poor visibility due to the blow
ing snow,” he said.
■Motorists should be especially
careful around the schools and
churches where classes are being
held and at points where school
busses are loading and unloading,"
he pointed out. “Just an extra pre
■ caution may be the means of sav
ing some youngster’s life."
Bethel Hospital
Problem Taken Up
SEATTLE, Dec. 14 — UR — The
Bethel hospital was among Alaska
problems which Rex Lee, associate
commissioner of Indian affairs,
discussed here today with Hugh
Wade, area director in charge of
Alaska. Lee has been here the past
two days and leaves this afternoon
to return to Washington.
MEDO-MILK MEN HERE
T. A. Mardon of San Mateo, Calif.,
and Adolph Rugg of Everett. Wash.,
representing the Medo-Milk Co., arc
stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
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FROM ANCHORAGE
Jeanne D. Hermann of Anchor
age is registered at the Baranof
Hotel.
Stock Quotations
NEW YORK, Dec. 14—Ofl—Clos
ing quotation of American Car.
stock today is 109 u, American Tel.
and Tel. 156*4, Anaconda 50:,i, Doug
las Aircraft GO, General Electric
57'i, General Motors 51N, Good
year 44, Kennecott 8G-., Libby Mc
Neill and Libby 8*4, Northern Pa
cific 67, Standard Oil of California
50, Twentieth Century Fox 1914,
US. Steel 39'-, Pound $2.80'4, Ca
nadian Exchange 97.62'.-.
Sales today were 1,360,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
industrials 265.71, rails 82.25, util
ities 46.78.
Sees Her First Santa
Princess Pearl Ittlgiah, 6-year-old Cskimo child, sees her first.
Santa Claus during visit to Mary’s department store In New York
City. She and her mother plan to see President Truman with
appeal signed by over 2,500 Alaskans asking that government orders
to cancel ncn-schrduled flights to their Territory he rescinded. Pearl
was chosen by natives of her village to dramatize their need for
larger air shipments of disease-combating fresh vegetables, fruits
and milk. l/P) Wirephoto.
Service
Fired from
State Dept.
i
WASHINGTON, Dee. J4 — ./f) —
' John Stewart Service, long a con
troversial figure In American'diplo
macy and a tnrget of pro-Com
munism charges, was fired by the
State Department last night. The
department acted after the govern
ment’s highest loyalty review board
ruled there was a "reasonable
doubt” as to his loyalty.
The ruling, dating back to the
famous “Amerasia” case of 1945,
was based on the board's finding
that Service gave secret documents
at that time to a magazine editor
the board said Service suspected of
Communist leanings or connections.
In reaching its decision, the re
view board reversed a finding of
a State Department's own loyalty
security board which had been
favorable to Service on the basis
of the same evidence.
A State Department announce
ment of the dismissal, which be
comes effective at the close of busi
ness today, expressed no agreement
with the review board’s conclusion.
It made clear that the department
had no choice in the matter in
view of that conclusion.
Service himself labeled the ac- |
tion as “a shock, a surprise, an '
injustice” and said that on the
basis of his record there could
be no doubt of his loyalty. He
and his attorney, Charles E.
Rhetts, were understood to be
considering whether the case,
which has now run the full course
of government procedures, might
be taken into court. |
The Amerasia case developed
more than six years ago. The mag
azine '“Amerasia” was edited by
Philip C. Jaffe of New York who
became acquainted with Service
after the diplomat returned homo
from one of his tours of duty in
China.
Conspiracy Charges
Subsequently a number of classi
fied government documents, chiefly
from the State and Navy Depart
ments, were found in the Amerasia
offices. Jaf.’e, Service and four
other persons were arrested on
charges of conspiracy to commit
espionage.
Jaffe and two others were indicted !
on a lesser charge — conspiracy to
remove government documents il
legally. The editor pleaded guilty!
and was fined $2,500.
But the other three persons, in-1
eluding Service, appeared before the
grand Jury and it refused to indict
them. The diplomat then was re
instated in the foreign service from
which he had been suspended.
CAA MAN HERE
Mr. and Mrs. James Costello of
Gustavus are at the Gastineau Ho
tel. He is with the CAA there.
AT THE BARANOF
H. E. Barber of Vancouver, Wash.,
is at the Baranof Hotel,
Wage Boost
For 12,000
In Alaska
SEATTLE, Doc. 14—Mft—,An agree
ment for n 25-rent hourly wage In
crease for about 12,000 Alaska con
struction workers for 1952 was an
nounced here today by contractors
and eight AFL unions.
They also agreed to join In de
manding improved living conditions
for workers on government pro
jects.
The new agreement was announc
ed jointly by officials of the unions
involved and the Alaska chapter of
the Associated General Contractors.
Negotiations began in Alaska and
i were shifted here last Monday.
The officials said an agreement
had been delayed by the issue of
living conditions In the construc
tion workers’ camps. They said
the unions had laid down what
amounted to an ultimatum on the
living conditions in the camps,
[ where workers pay $5:75 a day
i for lodging and food.
I The contractors and union will
petition jointly to the construction
! stabilization commission of the
| National Stabilization Board for
I approval of the 25-cent wage ln
I crease. It would be effective Jan. 1.
I The unions participating in the
agreement are the hod carriers,
building and common laborers, the
teamsters, operating engineers, plas
terers, bricklayers, iron workers,
cement finishers and pile drivers.
The unions agreed to withdraw
demands for higher compensation
to cover living expenses outside
the camps if the contractors will
! agree to join in demanding better
i ramps. The food and living con
1 dltions are provided through the
J government and private catering
| contracts.
i Projects at Whittier, Fort Rich
! ardson, Ladd and Eielson Air Force
1 bases were cited as the main sourc
es of complaints.
The negotiators said workmen's
complaints have been aimed at
! food, shower and toilet facilities,
! inadequate housing and lack of pro
per policing of accommodation;;
I They said workmen have had to
I live in tents in some areas in the
I spring and late fall freezing weath
j er.
Larry Moore of the contractor's
' association and Lew Berman of the
I operating engineers’ union made
'the announcement.
8 SHOPPING DAYS
TO CHRISTMAS
Democrat
Convention
In Split
Harmony Cracks Into
Pieces Over Lists of
Committees, Delegates
SITKA, Alaska, Dec. 14— UH —
Harmony which had prevailed dur
ing the first part of the divisional
Democratic convention here crack
ed Into small pieces In this morn
ing's session.
The nominating committee head
ed by Peter Wood, of Juneau,
brought in the first real sour note
when reporting Its lists of commit
tees and delegates.
James Nolan, retiring divisional
chairman: Threatened to walk ont
if the lists were approved as they
stood.
“You Wnow what Al Smith did,
and I'll just take a walk If this
thing goes through like It ta,"
Nolan said.
Wood prefaced his report with
a plea for unity, but the conven
tion split wide . open ..over the
Woods list.
Part of the objections came over
the fact that there were no dele
gates named from Wrangell and
Petersburg to represent those cities
at the coming territorial convention.
After an involved battle on the floor
and a recess while the nominating
report was revised, a roll call vote
on a motion to accept the report
was defeated.
It was pointed out by James
Pinkerton, of Ketchikan, that the
Petersburg proxies were being vot
ed "yes"—which In effect was a
vote by Petersburg against repre
sentation at the territorial conven
tion. ‘
Committees
The nominating committee and
the platform and resolutions com
mittee were named in Thursday's
I afternoon session.
The nominating committee is.*
| Peter Wood, chairman; Mike Haas,
Earl Forsythe, Robert Ellis and
1 Howard Bradshaw.
I The platform committee Is: Ken
Bowman, chairman; Ben Mullen,
Mike Puslch, W. C. Stump, Dan
Doyle, Cleda Mae Cammock and
Mrs. Jeanette Edwards.
The defeat of the motion to ac
cept the nominating r-omlhittee’s
report threw nominations open on
the floor.
Frank Peratrovich, convention
chairman, accepted a motion for a
noon recess ,and the threatening
storm was temporarily delayed. The
.split over the nominations was ex
pected to cause the convention to
drag out longer than was expected.
Centralia Firm Is
Low Bidder on BPR
Highway Projects
Pacific Sand and Gravel Co., of
Centralia, Wash., were low bidders
on the Bureau of Public Roads
project for surfacing and paving
of 1.86 miles of road between the
Gastlneau Channel Bridge and
Douglas and 3.33 miles of Glacier
Highway between Duck Creek and
Auke Bay with a bid of $295,876.
Lytle and Green of Des Moines,
Iowa, was the only other bidder
with $313, 048.
Work is to begin as soon as
weather permits and is to be com
pleted next fall.
The same two contracting firms
bid on the Juneau city streets pav
ing and resurfacing. Lytle and
Green was low with $83,745 and Pa
cific Sand and Gravel bid $87,015.
The specifications required that the
low BPR bidder also take the city
Job.
Mayor Walno Hendrickson said
that the bids were approximately
half of the estimated cost. This
insures the basic street improve
ment program.
TAKEN TO KETCHIKAN
Willard Wall, 59, was taken from
Meyers Chuck to Ketchikan yester
day afternoon for emergency medi
cal treatment and hospitalization,
! according to U. S. Coast Guard
I hedaquarters here. A Coast Guard
aircraft from Annette made the
flight.
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• Low tide 8:54 a.m., 4.8 ft. •
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