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i THE NORTH ADAMS TRANSCRIPT. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 12, 1942. Harry A. Garfield, 79, Ninth Williams Head Dies Noted Educator Succumbs at Williams Inn Apartment at 3 o'Clock This Morning--Served as Fuel.

Administrator in First World War -Son of 20th President of United States--Founded Institute of Politics -at Williams -Funeral Services Tomorrow Afternoon at 2.30. Dr. Harry Garfield, former president of Williams college, United States fuel administrator during the first World war, and President of the United James A. Garfield, died today in hb: apartment at the Williams Inn in Willlamslown. He was 79 year; old.

A native of Hiram, Ohio, Dr. Garfield was gradunted from Williams college in 1885 and became its ninth! president in 1908, holding that po-: for 26 years during which the institulion saw, one of its greatest of growth and advancement. He retired from the presidency at the close of the college year In 1934. Died at 3 O'clock He had been in failing health since last summer and death came at 3 o'clock this morning. His wife, and a brother, James, were at his bedalde.

Dr. Garneld lenves his wife, the farmer Belle Hartford Mason of Cleveland. Ohio; three sons, James Garfield of Cambridge, Mason Garfield of concord, and Stanton Garfield of Concord: one daughter, Mrs. John Preston Comer of South strect, Williamstown; three, Interior brothers, James former R. Secretary Garfield of of Cleveland, Irving MacDowell Gar-: field of Boston.

Abram Gar-' field of Cleveland; and one sister, Mrs. Mary Garneld Stanley'-Brown of New York city. Williams college administration and faculty will turn out in a body: for the Gnul rites as well as many: of the students. Funeral Tomorrow Funeral services will be conduct-: ed at the Thompson Memorialied chapel tomorrow afternoon 2.30 o'clock by Rev. Raymond B.

ney of the Williamstown Congregational church, assisted by Rev. J. Franklin Carter, rector -emeritus of St. Jctn's Episcopal church of Williamstown. All members of the Garfield family will attend, relatives here belleved today.

Honorary bearers at the services. will be the board of trustees, in ses-: sion today at the campus. Active bearers will be brother members of his college fraternity, Alpha Delta Phi. Interment will be in the college cemetery, where several other presidents of the college have been laid to rest. Dr.

Garfield had Intended to return to home in Washington. D. but his illness had prevented! his yearly customary return to the: winter home. Headed War Fuel Program The educator and founder of the Institute of Politics at williams college, which brought national figures to the campus cach summer for 10 years and did much to make the college into a prom-: inent place in national educationa) institutions, achieved success in many fields, but his most important, work service in affecting the the first country World was his WAI AS fuel administrator under President Woodrow Wilson. Virtually dictator of the nation's: fuel resources, he was appointed by President Wilson in 1917 to obtain An adequate supply and equitable distribution of fuel.

He built up new governmental agency which became one of the five most imthe national emergency. At the portant wAr organizations A during height of Its activities, his administration employed 1.000 persons in Washington and 18,000 throughout' the United States. Production Upped Under his charge, coal production during the first year of fuel administration increased 50,000,000 tons bituminous and 12,000,000 tons anthracite over the previous year. Hi accomplished this through for heatless days and Sundays, some of which were popular, but all of which met with general voluntary compliance. First called into government war service by Herbert Hoover, chairman of the U.

food commit-: tee, he was named chairman of the price-fixing committee of the U. food administration. The committee' delermined a fair basis price for thei CELEBRATE NEW YEAR'S EVE al the PALACE ALFANY Giant 8:30 1:30 Res IN 150 3 Beatrice Stooges Kay CHRO RIMAC And His South American Band PAT KENNING Other Star Acts ECREEN BIG IST RUN HIT Dies 7 Dr. Harry A. Garfield, former President Williams college and son of former President of the United States James A.

Garfield, who died today at the age of 79. MARTIN T. MULLEN DIES AT AGE OF 44 Heart Attack Fatal to Local Trucker Martin Thomas Mullen, 44. truck-: ling business proprietor, died suddenly this morning about at his home, 100 Porter! home street. for Ile had been confined but to his the past two rays, Illness was not considered serious.

Dr. M. A. Gangemi. who was called.

pronounced death due to A heart; attack. Born in North Adams, the son of the late Patrick and Katherine Mullen, Mr. Mullen had spent practically all his life in this city. He was proprietor of the Mullen Bros. trucking firm.

which he took over on the death of his father several: years ago. Under his active tion the firm became one of the 1cading interstate trucking bustnesses in this part of the state. He: was a World war veteran, a member of the North Adams lodge Elks and the Berkshire Traffic association. He was a graduate o1 St. Joseph's high school, Mr.

Mullen Is survived by his wife. the former Gertrude Ryan: a son, M. John Mullen; a brother. James P. Mullen: and a sister, Mrs.

Katherine O'Brien. The body 15 at his home. 100 Porter street, where it will remain until the funeral Monday morning at 9 o'clock at St. Francis church. FUNERAL FUNERAL Foster P.

Lewis Funeral service- for Foster PowLewis of 36 Richview who died on Wednesday, were held: yesterday afternoon at 2.30 o'clock at his home and were attended by many relatives and friends. Rev. Ivanhoe McCollum, pastor of the First Baptist. church. officinted.

Burial WAS in Southview cometery with Rev, Mr. McCollum officlating. Bearers were Sterling E. Smith, Harry A. Powell.

Harold Cooper and Anthony C. Cermenaro. MILLION SURPLUS TIRES SUBMITTED Boston. Dec. 12 (A'-Approximate1y 1.000.000 surplus tires have been turned in by New England automobile owners under the idle tire purchase plan, John J.

flagerty, re-! gional director of the Defense Supi piles corporation, estimated today. The dendline turning in extra tires, as well as for registering the five tires being retained, including one spare, is midnight tonight. After midnight, it will be illegal for a motorist to drive his car anless he has turned in his extra tires and registered the remainder, said Eldon C. Shoup, regional rationing executive. The School Kids Hit The Scrap Jackpot Washingion Two public school children in St.

Louis unearthed a long-unusued slot machine in a neighbor's attic and persuaded him to donate it to the scrap drive. When the machine! was deposited in the school scrap pile it yielded a jackpot of $5.80. according to salvage drive officials. BLACKOUT PERIOD STARTS TOMORROW State- Wide Test Some-. time After Sunday Midnight DURING WEEK Local Officials Feel City is Better PreparedInstruction Cards Distributed.

More than 5.000 cards bearing Instructions on nir raid alarm signals will be distributed to homes in North Adams before midnight tomorrow night by district and post; wardens of the civilian defense organizalion here in preparation for the surprise blackout for the entire. state of Massachusetts which will come sometime between tomorrow night ond midnight 0110 week from tonight. Final instructions on the coming lest were given to the wardens last nicht by Chief Air Raid Warden AlI phonsus Merrigan at a special meet. ting. The instruction cards were placed in the hands of the warden: at the meeting.

Local civilian defense officials are hopeful that the coming blackout wil! go off more smoothly in North Adamns than was the rasp last. work when a general misunderstanding the various signals caused no end of confusion. BLOODY STRUGGLE LOOMS IN TUNISIA (Continued from Page One) has hampered movement on beth sides. but helps the Allies tO: some extent by giving them chance to build up strength," the said. The Morocco radio broadcast a communique trom French general headquarters in North Africa ing the Germans heavy losses in infantry in the Medjez El fighting.

About half of the 13 tanks employed by the Germans were damaged. the communique said. Another French communique reported that offensive west of Kairouan "progressed as planned." Kairouan is about 28 miles west of the main rose between Souse and Sfax and 35 miles from the Mediterranean coast. Blackout Instructions (The North Atiams Committee on Public Balely has issued the. following Instructions for the guidance of citizens and civilian defense workers during the state-wide test blackout scheduled for some night next FIRST ALARM: Mobilization signal.

Unnecessary to darken home. Disregard street lights. SECOND ALARM: Bleckout home. Entire city blacked out. THIRD ALARM: All clear signal.

Return to normal. GASLESS SUNDAY VOLUNTARY HERE Police Chief Does Not Plan to Enforce Saltonstall Request State' Guard Urged to Walk. The governor's gasless Sunday tomorrow will probably be purely volantary here because Police Chief M. W. Conlon said loday that he had erecived 110 instructions from the governor enci does not plan to enforce the restriction unless he receives definite instructions co do so.

Chief Conion said the only thing he knew abnut tomorrow being A gasless Sunday was what he read in the morning's papers. One of the first effects of the I proposal was the request made by. Capt. Samuel Levenson of Co. K.

Massachusetts Guard to members of the company, urging them to attend the weekly drill at the armory cither by fcol or pubilic conveyance instead of using their own cars. Capt. Levenson also revealed that of the governor's request, a because mecting of battalion officers schedmied for lomorrow in North Adams has been postponed. Two Sign for Army, One for Navy Service TWO local men and one former resident North Adams have chlisted in The armed forces. according to word received today by, the local draft board.

They are Charle: Stein, of :220 North street and John Gattuso of 455 Walnut street. both of whom enlisted in the army. and Lawrence J. Daignault of Worcester, formerly of this city. who has enlisted in the navy.

Stock Market-Financial Trend of the Market New York. Dec. 12 stock market maintained its fairly well in today's early procced-: ings, Up fractions at A quiet: opening: were Chrysler, Boring. Southern Pacific, Northern Pacific, Montgomcry Ward and United Aircraft. U.

S. Steel and Radio Corp. dipped shade. Stock Quotations Furnished by Goodbody pany, members of the New York Stock and Curb Exchanges with branch offices in the Berkshire Life insurance building, 7 North street Pittsfield. Quotations al 11 American 72.4 American Smelt.

Ref 36.2 American Tel Tel 120.7 American Tobacco 41.5 Anaconda Copper 24.5 Alch Top Santa Fe 44.2 Bendix Aviation 32.4 Bethlehem Steel 53.6 Chesapeake Ohio 33.6 Chrysler Corporation 66.1 Consolidated Edison 14.6 Products 54.4 Curtiss-Wright 6.5 du Pont de Nemours 129.6 First Not. Stores 32 General Electric 29 General Foods Corp 34.2 General Motors 42 Goodrich (BF) 24.5 Goodyear Tire Rubber 22.7 Great Northern pid 20 Greyhound Corp. 14.1 Inspiration Copper 9.7 International Nickel Con 19.4 Kennecott Copper 27.2 Kresge (S.S.) Co. 19.4 Kroger Grocery 25.2 Liggelt Myers (B) 60 Loew's Incorporated 46.1 Lone Stur Cement 37.7 Montgomery Ward Nash-Kelvinator National Biscuit New York: Central North Amer Aviation Otis Elevator Paramount Pictures Pennsylvania Railroad Phillips Pullman Incorporated Radio Corporation Republic Strel Sears Roebuck Sournern Pacific Sperry Corporation 1 Standard Oil of- Standard Brands Studebaker Corp Texas Corporation Union Carbide Union Pacific: United Aircraft United Fruit United States Rubber United States Steel Westinghouse El Mig Woolworth Co Yellow Truck Coach Curb Quotations Amer Cyanamid Cities Service FL Bond Share Niagara Hud Power Lorillard (P) Mack Trucks Treasury Balance Washington. Dec.

12 position of the Treasury 10: Receipts $55.388.065.81: expenditures net balance! $5 308.150.099.78; working balance' included customs receipts for month receipts fiscal year (July 1) 661.738.41: expenditures fiscal year $30,704,721.439.71: excess of expenditures total debt increase over previous day gold Axis Wrecks--Sans Tires- -On African Desert AFTER SUMMON CAB DRIVER HITTING Accident Said to Have Occurred Thursday Night Francis Harrington, 31. a tax! driver of 20 Bank street has been summoned to appear 121 District Court 011 FL charge of operating negligently as the result of an cident at 6:20 Thursday night in! which an automobile driven Cirone. by him allegedly struck Joseph 63.1 of 224 Witt street. According to the police report of: the accident, Mr. Harrington sald.

that Cirone walked out in the road: in front of his CAr while he WAS, driving on Walnut street. and he W11.5 unable la avoid hitting the Cirone was knocked to the pavement and Harrington said took him to the office of Dr. Arthur O. Rosenthal who treated him for cuts and bruises on his hands. Dr.

Rosenthal said today that the man's condition was not serious. DECISIVE BATTLE OF WAR IS SEEN (Continued from Page One) aid. mainly by air. and so are the Axis forces in Tunisia. Hitler undoubtedly will manage to send help to both these theaters, especially in air power, but the dangers beset him on the continent both by land and air are compelling him to keep strong forces there.

It It were possible for him to a large proportion of his luft-. waffe for use in Africa chances of keeping a tochold on his, dark continent would be improved vastly, but he dares not strip Europe of alr power. British And American bombers: are pouring destruction on Germany and the Hitlerian dependencies. The Russians ATP tearing At Nazi lines and a potential Allied inEvasion of the continent menaces him from divers directions. He' would be mad to denude Europe of defenses.

Therefore we see the Nazt all-; highest staging a holding operation in Africa to give him time: In get net for action in Europe, He must consolidate his position in an Ilaly which, so to spcak. sits under the big guns of the Allics and would! desert him if it had the physical strength to throw him out of the country, He must hall that Russian oftensive if he is In prevent 11 crashing through his eastern defenses. He must avert An Invasion through southern and western France and other points, And he must maintain large forces in the occupied uprising. countries to prevent Despite all this I believe we must expect hard Aghling In the African campaign. Rommel Isn't a and the stubborn resistance of the Axis forces in Tunisia indicates a last determination lo hang on 10 the and nt.

least fulfill the mission of standing off the Allies while Hitler consolidates his defenses at home. Heavy resistance is fully expected by the British, but so confident: are the troops they're anxious to get ahead with the Job. As I've already reported to you, General Montgamers, the commander-in-chief chief of the British Eighth Army. has assured me the Axis will be ousted from. Africa, and there's nol.

the slightest doubt that he believes this. General Montgomery said ton in one of his messages to the troops that this will be the decisive battle war. However that may be. It certainly Is true that the ousting of the Axis from Africa and the quent breaking of its purchase on; the Mediterranean will go far to-: wards preparing Hitler for the coupling de grace. Finds Bright Coin, Just 119 Years Old Helena, Mont.

(P)-George Leach says the fellow who owned the 50 cent piece that he found recently on a street was no spendthrift. The coin was dated 1823--119 a years old -and ret it showed hardly any wear from circulation. How it. enme to be on A sidewalk Leach was able to guess. Ultraviolet and Infra-red rays are' known as "Invisible light." PREDICT MEATLESS DAYS NEXT WEEK Dealers Describe Situation as "Fam.

ine" MANY SOLD OUT Expect Next Shipment Into City 011 Thursday -Butchers Near Blows for Hamburg Stock. 1917 wheat crop, He also served on the price-fixing committee of the war industries which passed on prices for all basic materials ex-: cept food and fuel. The Institute of Polltics originaled in the desire of Dr. Garfeld to make Williams college a more Instrument of education. The 10-year annual Institute grew out of A memorandum to the trustees! which he wrote in 1913.

Institute plans look shape in 1919, after interruption by the war, and the first session convened in 1921, to cOntinue annually until 1932. During its career, the Institute RAVe the college an international reputation through the scholars and statesmen of international importance who gathered in Williamstown. attracting audiences from many states. First institution of its kind, many much conventions have been patterned from il. In the his administration quarter-century of occupy: -Ing building Hopkins hall in Williamstown, he served longer as president than any predecessor, except Mark Hopkins.

His record contains many effective, some brilliant, reforms. 'The honors work system in which exceptional students are freed from technical: requirements and given the academie freedom of European univer'sities began while he was Williams' president. In his notable- administration. his efforts resulted in increasing the endowment fund from $1,500,000. to the $7,700,000.

The college plant improved vastly during the GarMeld administration, also. About 1930 the president personally heada $2,000,000 fund drive which wiped out deficits, increased saland enlarged Lasell Ayannaslum, and added to the physical plant. After teaching at St. Paul's school for a year alter graduating from Williams in 1885, he studied law al Columbia university for two years and then read law at All Soul's college. Oxford.

England, without matriculation. and at Inn's Court, London. He returned to Ohio and entered the bar in 1888. to begin practice In Cleveland with his brother. James.

He met President Wilson lat Princeton university, where he taught politics for Ave sears, Before that he was prof.sor of contracts at. Western Reserve university for Ave years. RED ARMY HALTS ATTACKS ON DON. (Continued from Page One) of a hill has repulsed Ave and six enemy assaults daily, Red Star said. The newspaper reported that So-! riel Stormovik bombers and low-! flying attack planes had destroyed several dozen Junkers 52 air transports in raids 011 airdromes.

On the battlegrounds near Rahev and Velikic Luki, Red Star said, one Nazi battalion brought up as reserves Wednesday was march8 ed directly Into battle and suffered serious losses. Generally, German: counterattacks in the ATC8 were proving futile, Red Star said. (The German radio broadcast al DNB report that Russian forces commanded by Gen, Gregory Zhukov had driven 10 Belyi. 60 southwest of Rzhev and in the rection of Smolensk, German headquarters point 75 miles south of The Russian front thus continued a series of slow-moving battles in which Red army legions clawed at German positions with slow headway and sought to stem the outcropping of a German offensive in the Don river bend. Peer's Lost Toe Recalled By Memorial Gravesend, England (P)-In ham park stands Britain's quaintest.

monument-recailing a peer's lost toe. On that spot 107 years ago the Earl of Darnley became dissatisfied with the way a wood-1 cutter was wielding an axe. The Earl took the axe and lunged at the tree, but the blade struck a glancing blow and. severed one of his toes. A few days later the Earl died of blood poisoning from the injury and the -a family mausoleum which has never been used -WAS erected on the spot in his memory, Christmas Shopping Timely Warning for Everyone To Heed Christmas Don't get so busy doing your shopping that you will neglect the cold which you are very likely to take among the crowds and hurrying from heated interiors to outdoors.

For 85 years, Father John's Medicine has been In use to relieve coughs due to colds by soothing the throat. It also builds resistance to colds when vitamin A is needed, because it is rich in vitamin -also vitamin D. Its reputation is built on merit-85 years of success, For COUGHS DUE TO COLDS Take FATHER MEDICINE 12-WAY BOMBING ATTACK ON ITALY (Continued from Page One) heavy Italian communique acknowledged damage at Naples and said casnalties were 57 dead and 138 Injured. On Doc. 4.

a great armada four-engined United States bombers. loosed tons of bombs on 'sinking one Italian cruiser. crippling: in battleship and scoring hits on another cruiser. The Ilalian high command said 10. American fliers.

the crew of bomber shot down, had been taken prisoner. Although neither the nor the Cairo communiques identi-' fled the raiders. the fliers' nationalthe size of the crew in-' dicated that Naples again had beeni hit. by the big R-24 Liberator bombers of the United States army air In all. the Italian said five of the Naples raiders were shat down, two of them by effectivel anti-aircraft fire.

No details were given in the brief: British communique Issued at Cairo' concerning the attack. but. it Was assumed that United Stales bombers, had a hand in yesterday's raid. The previous assault on Naples was made al. dusk.

The communique reported that, raid started fires along! the entire waterfront. Hits were scored on merchant vessels in thr' harbor: the communique said. Only a few hours after the attack I on Naples. big four RAF bombers roared away from their British bases and. flying over thei continent.

in a dangerous, four-mile. laver of clouds, blasted badly hotter-: -cri Turin with another load nf ex-: no ives. The clonds were so thick that. the results of the rald could not be dietermined. The Rome communique! said 'be damage was slight.

Drspite: the hazardous firing conditions. however, only three British reported last on the mission. Turin. home of the Fiat. and niher war industries hear-: D)r hombed Tuesday and Wednesday nichts.

Renorts from the English south roast saving that the orar of bound planes wa- audible for more! than an hour last evening made it clear that a large force had set out on the long jaunt acrose the AIn; but the raiders were said to have encountered almost unbelievably bad Weather immediately after. furossing the channel. Dense cloud banks more than four miles thick forced the planes In a hich altitude, where they en-! countered intense cold which conird: wines with A dangerously heavy lond of ice. Of the bombers which cot through to the target. a few were said to have found cans in the clouds through which they nosed down to loose their bombs, Naples is Blasted Cairo.

Dec. 12. planes of the middle east command raided Naples again ycaterday, starting fires along the entire waterfront and scoring hits on merchant vessels. the British announced today. It was the second Allied smash at the south Itallan port in a week.

Big American bombers attacked the were port, sent from to which Africa supplies just a and week men fore, sinking a cruiser, crippling a I.battleship and scoring square hits on a second cruiser. No delails about yesterday's raid were given immediately. In addition to the attack on Naples, long-range Allied fighters, ranging over the Mediterranean, Intercepted A northbound convoy of Axis transport planes south of Lampedusa island and -shot down at least eight transport planes. one bemocr and four twin-engined fightets. Lampedusia Island is about midway between the British island of Malta and the Tunisian const.

The night previously bombers, presumably from Malta airfields. raided the Tunis docks again and started a fire at the entrance to the canal, the British communique said. On the El Agheila battleground where Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's forces are awalling a blow from the British Eighth army, Allicd planes raided concentrations of Axis tanks, trucks and other motorized cquipment, it was reported. The landing ground, about 90 miles west of El Agheila, WELS successfully attacked by Allied fighter-bombers, but. no indication was given as to the strength of the Axis air forces found there.

of the ground activity. the communique reported only that "developmenls in the El Agheila area are proccoding according to plan without interference from the enemy." Three enemy fighters were reported shot down and others damaged during the operations over El Agheila and the Nofilia landing field. Rome Reports Raids Rome (From Italian Broadcasts), Dec. 12 (R) -Heavy damage WAS caused in an Allied air raid on Napies late yesterday afternoon but night raid on Turin--the third of the week on the northern arsenal city- caused only slight damage, the high command said today. New Axis air raids were reported on Bone and Philippeville, Allied bases in Algeria.

The war bulletin said the Germans and Italians extended the holdings in Tunisia in an eruption 0f renewed local fighting. The communique said British destroyer had been torpedoed in the Mediterranean, but falied to say extent of the damage er whether It There way every indication this morning that North Adums would observe, whether they wanted to or not, a succession of meatless days next week. supplies here were 50 short this morning that dealers described the situation A3 rather than the customary "shortage." Coli cuts, hamburg and frankfurts will be gone before night." one retailer reported and meagre supplies for beef were told ouI early this morning in the smaller stores. A few 'stores had small supplies lamb land pork. Until this week-end there has been no shortage of prepared meats here.

Wholesale meat deliveries to North Adams usurlly are made on Thursday and. if the practice is continued, the city probably will be without meat on Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. Several re'tallers agreed that their stock would be wiped out when their stores clored tonight. A near fist fight over the chase of 50 pounds of hamburg steak developed this morning at one wholesale establishment.

Dealers, to keep their trade as well as protect their customers. almost came to blows over purchases. There is still a good supply of poultry on hand some native meat may come into the market Monday, it was said. Tripe and salt, fat pork is plentiful if buyers CAn work up an interest in it. BATTLE SCARRED CRUISER IS HOME (Continued from Page One) 011 Guadalcanal and other islands of the Solomons send their fragrance far to sea.) Liru.

W. Tucker of Chicago recalled some aspects of the battie in the moonlese tropical night were brautiful. but he said there wasn't much beauty in the sight of the bie 14-inch Jap shells coming right at the cruiser, from a battleship a mitr away. could see them coming." said Tucker. "They looked like a dat in the middle of a red ball.

"The noise didn't seem loud. It. sounded more like the pop-pop-pop roman candles during the fourth of July." The San Francisco crept. into the bay shortly before dawn almost unnoticed. After daylight came and the navy permitted an announcement of the hero ship's arrival from the Solomone, the waterfront was jammed with cheering people.

Mayor Angelo Rossi ordered flags nown throughout the city. He set 'next Wednesday as the dale for Riant welcome in Civic auditorium. The navy permitted a radio bronricast from the decks of the ship at which officers and members of the crew were interviewed. Vice Admira! John Willis Greenslade, commander the western SeA Irontier. added his tribute.

The cruiser. that licked a battleiship was home and the town went wild. The vessel was the flagship of 8 lusk force which sailed out to oppose a Japanese Armada attemplto land reinforcements on Guadaicanal. It led the American ships between two groups Japanose fighting vessels, both of which nutweighed the lask forre in numbers and fire Francisco power. The Sau alone destroyed a cruiser and a destroyer and so crippled A battleship that other American forces Inter sank: It.

Washington announced that 23 Japanese ships were sunk and seven damaged in the battle. The ships sunk the battleship. three heavy cruisers, two light cruisers. five destroyers, transports and four cargo ships. Announced American losses were two light cruisers and six destroyers sunk.

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