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THE BATTLB CHEEK ENQUIRER and NEWS MEMBER OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Full Leattd Win Ecporl of THE UNITED PRESS The Weather Frost Tonight; Warmer Tomorrow VOLUME LN 0.284 BATTLE CREEK. MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1945 CITY EDITION PRICE "Sf 5 0 URCDDIILL Ml rvnrn WW tm UI0 peace A ME Allied Assault Troops Invading Borneo, Tokyo Says GERMAN UNITS REPORTED MOVING OUT OF DENMARK YANKEES DRIVE II Report Landing Is Near Tarakan Berlin Capture Expected Today CHINA iBURMtf Shanghai? If i (2 Lj BotoanCX PHILIPPINE 14 U- si UJtngopor. v. OF Premier Indicates to Commons End of War Might Come Before Saturday; Swedish Count Makes Visit to Copenhagen. 3rd Army Moves Against Alpine Redoubt As 7th Pushes Toward Brenner Pass; Eisenhower Hails Capture of Munich.

LONDON (JP) Prime Minister Churchill hinted today that announcement of peace in Europe might come before Saturday, but told a packed house of commons that he had no statement at this time. He answered questions in the house as Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte conferred in Stockholm with Erik Bohe-man, undersecetary of state in the Swedish foreign office, after a quick flight from Copenhagen. Bernadotte refused to tell newsmen whether he had brought a new message from Heinrich llimmler. There Sviroi.o tin ci'rrni l-i V. PARIS uV) The 3rd Army crashed southward to within 58 miles of Berchtesgaden today as Alexander M.

Patch sent his 7th Army from captured Munch against Innsbruck and the Brenner pass. The 3rd Army entered Griesbach in its closest approach to Hitler's roost in the Alpine redoubt. The town near the Austrian border is 16 miles from Hitler's birthplace at Braunau and 47 from Salzburg, eastern rampart of the final Nazi hideaway. Patton's 11th Armored Division crossed the Austrian border in force at Oberkappel, 27 miles northwest of Linz ish Red Cross official had made a contact with Allied representatives in Stockholm, but such contact most likely would be established through the Swedish foreign There were reports the Germans were withdrawing from Denmark. Replying to a member's question, Churchill declared, "I have no special statement to make on the war position in Europe except that it is definitely more satisfactory than it was at this time five years ago." Hints News Later in Week Then he added he might make a brief announcement later this week, but "only If information of exceptional importance reaches us." He continued: "Should information of importance reach his majesty's government during the four days of our sittings this week as it might do I will ask Mr.

Speaker's permission to ask the indulgence of the house to interrupt business and make a brief announcement." The implication that peace might come before the house recesses for the week on Friday evening was the nearest to a prediction that Church-Ill ever permitted himself. "Of course," he said. "I shall make no statement here that is not in accord with the statement which will be made by our Allies," explaining such announcements would be made only after consulting military commanders in different theaters. The prime minister said he did not consider that the information in "a major message" reaching the government should be withheld "until the exact occupation of all the particular zones was achieved. The movement of troops and the surrender of enemy troops may both take an appreciable period of time." Won't Delay 'Good News' "Good news will not be delayed," he said in answer to Lady Astor's TLER HIDEOUT a city which the Germans said was being approached by the Russians from west of Vienna.

A meeting would hem in Czechoslovakia and trap all the Germans in Bohemia and Moravia. Reports persisted Ht supreme headquarters that the Germans might be expected at any moment to accept the United Nations' demand for unconditional surrender. British Nearing Hamburg The British in the north captured Schwarzcnbck and reached Sahms, 17 miles due east of Hamburg and 24 miles south of Luebeck at the eastern base of the Danish peninsula. Snhms is 56 miles below Kiel and 72 from Rostock, which Russian armies northwest of Berlin are ap proaching. The U.

S. 82nd Airborne Division had a three-mile-deep bridgehead over the Elbe Just up-river from the British. General Eisenhower hailed the capture of Munich, largest German city yet to fall, In a terse order of the day: "To every member of the Allied Expeditions Force: The whole AEF congratulates the 7th Army on the seizure of Munich, the cradle of the Nazi His appellation of "beast" possibly arose from fresh disclosures of horror at the nearby Dachau prison camp, freed Just before Munich fell. General Patch, the hero of Guadalcanal, was the conqueror of funieh. third city of Germany with 823,323 i Please Turn to Page 7, Column 5 Nurse Draft Measure Now Appears Shelved WASHINGTON iPi The nurses draft bill is fading quietly from the administration's legislative program.

It may disappear entirely with the full collapse of Germany. Urged by President Roosevelt in his state of the Union message January 6, tlie legislation passed the house nearly months ago and won approval of the senate military committee March 29. It has been languishing on the senate calendar ever since. Administration leaders have been wary about pressing it the senate bucked over the traces and wrote into the selective service extension bill a ban on sending 18-year-olds into combat without six months' training. Acting Majority Leader Lister Hill (Ala.) checked the situation with Republicans and found considerable opposition to the measure.

The absence of Major Leader Barkley iKy.i and Military Committee Chairman Thomas Utahi on an inspection of German prison camp atrocities offered a convenient peg for additional delay. The official word now Ls that the bill will not be taken up before they come back, probably next week. Unofficially, it is conceded the whole matter may be dropped. Moscow Looks for Stalin to Announce Fall of Capital As May Day Climax. RED FLAG OVER REICHSTAG LONDON (U.R) A Moscow broadcast said today the Russians expected the Red army to announce tonight the capture of Berlin, where the hammer and sickle already flew triumphant over the Reichstag and a dozen other administrative buildings.

Russian and German reports indicated an imminent decision amidst the blood-soaked rubble of Berlin, where the Red army was hewing out its greatest symbolic victory of the war. All Moscow broadcasts and dispatches reflected confident expectation that Marshal Stalin would cap Moscow's first glittering May Day celebration of the war with an announcement that Berlin had fallen. Reports lagging behind the battle of Berlin said the Russians had battled onto Unter Den Linden agairst faltering resistance. The Russian flag had been hoisted over the reichstag, the main postoffice and the interior ministry. The battle raged within a stone's throw of Adolf Hitler's one-time ornate reichschancellery, and in the Tiergarten, where the Nazis were reported to have established a fort for a last-ditch stand.

REDS PARADE MOSCOW (U.R) Tlie Red army celebrated May Day today with the most impressive display of Soviet power in history, marching 100,000 strong before an imposing array of dignitaries, including Japanese Ambassador Naotaka Saito, who stood grim and alone in a corner of the diplomatic box. Moscow's first May Day military parade of the war brought again i Please Turn to Page 7, Column 3) Yanks Capture Horthy, 2 Nazi Field Marshals With the U. S. 7th Army (P) Admiral Nicholas Horthy, former regent of Hungary, and his family were taken into protective custody today by 36th division doughboys who found them in a castle at Weilheim, south of the Amer see. The 77-year-old ex-ruler was reported to be in good health.

He was at Waldbichl castle. Two German field marshals Wilhelm List and Wilhelm Ritter Von Leeb were also captured by 7th Army troops. List was in civilian clothes. He was taken by troops of tne 10th Armored Division in his home at Partenkirchen. He said he was relieved in 1942 for refusal to make an attack at Stalingrad.

He said the attack would have been suicidal. Von Leeb was found at Garde-sing, near Fussen, by 44th Division infantrymen. Both marshals took major parts in the Polish, French and Russian campaigns. List was Hitler's regimental commander in the First World war. PLANS FOR STATE OFFICE BUILDING WILL PROCEED LANSING iPH-The legislature's failure to provide an appropriation for a new state office building will not delay progress on the plans.

Vernon J. Brown, member of the building commission, said today. Brown said it was planned to employ an architect, obtain preliminary studies and possibly drawings for the first unit in the proposed program, the state supreme court building. The legislature gave the commission $200,000 for plans and has provided approximately $900,000 for the purchase of land in Lansing adjoining the present Capitol. TOT BURNS TO DEATH MT.

PLEASANT Mrs. Richard Lewis was overjoyed when the war department notified her that lver husband. Pfc. Lewis, had returned to his outfit after being reported missing in action. A short time later, her two-year-old son, Ronnie, was burned to deatli when his pa-Jamas ignited as he was playing near an open-flame heater, police said.

OCST 2 CORRESPONDENTS PARIS UP) Supreme headquarters announced today that two war correspondents accredited to it had been suspended, but refused to permit other correspondents to disclose their identity or tell the reasons for its action. The remainder of this dispatch was deleted by censor. It was learned, however, that no Associated Press correspondent was Unconfirmed Enemy Broadcast Indicates Anglo-American Force in Action. SMALL ISLANDS SHELLED CANBERRA (U.R Treasury Minister J. B.

Chifley announced today that Australian troops had taken part in an invasion of Borneo. By th Associated Pre." Borneo is being iryvaded by Allied assault troops bent on reclaiming the oil producing islands of the Pacific. Tokyo radio reported today as Nipponese troops were beaten back on every fighting front. Japanese broadcasts, first to announce every recent invasion, said assault waves engaged Japanese troops near the Dutch Borneo port of Tarakan in fierce fighting last night after making one unsuccessful landing attempt during daylight. Such an assault, perhaps by a combined American and British force under command of Gen.

Douglas MacArthur, would represent a 200-mile jump from the southern Philippines into the northernmost oil islands in the Dutch Indies. Advance in Burma Due west of the reported invasion British naval task forces reportedly shelled Nicobar and Andaman Islands in the Indian oceans while armored columns pouring out of Burma's central oil field continued advancing toward Rangoon against light opposition. In the southern Philippines, the U. S. 24th Division brushed aside surprisingly light opposition as it advanced to within 17 miles of supposedly strong-held Davao.

Guerillas captured Talikud island guarding the approaches of Davao. Tank supported Infantrymen on southern Okinawa, 325 miles from Japan, captured Machinate airdrome on the west coast, began flanking Yonabaru airdrome on the east, and pushed to within half a mile of Shuri. strategically important town in Uie center of the line. Bat 59 Planes Fifty-nine Japanese planes were shot down In their continuing attack around Okinawa. Free-running American aircraft wrecked 56 Nipponese vessels in strikes reaching from Japan itself down the length of the Asiatic coast.

Admiral Soemu Toyoda, command er-in-chief of what is left of Japan's combined Met, was named overall commander of the Nipponese navy in a shakeup which may be a forerunner of another naval battle. Japanese broadcasts reported no Nipponese naval attempts to halt the reported Borneo invasion nor to check the British bombardments in the Indian ocean. The Domei news agency said carrier aircraft raided Nicobar Island yesterday while a bombardment force of 12 warships shelled ground installations. British and other Allied units may have been in the bombardment force which supported the assault on Tarakan. Court Plea Failure, Dog Killer of Baby Executed LOS ANGELES Woof, a Staffordshire bull terrier, has paid with his life for killing a 21-month-old baby.

Asphyxiation of the dog late yesterday came as a swift and dramatic climax after efforts for several weeks by a dog enthusiast. Grady Terry, to prevent by court order destruction of the pet which choked little Marguerite Derdenger to death February 13. The child was the daughter of army Staff Sergt. Charles and Mrs. Derdenger.

Terry petitioned the court to save the dog's life although the Derden-gers turned Woof over to the city animal shelter and asked that ihe dog be destroyed. Superior Judge Charles McKay granted several reprieves. But yesterday Superior Judge Emmet H. Wilson voided a restraining order preventing destruction of the dog, holding that the order was without legal basis. MANVFACTCRES C-74S LONG BEACH.

Calif. (U.R1 Douglas Aircraft Co. disclosed today that us Long Bcacn plant is manu-facuring a large, secret-design army transport, the C-74. HOW SMART ARE YOU? 'Let ch tntmber of tht family writ iovrn oia or her on answer, or if at cbooi. let aeh tupil write down tfle an er 1o each question.

Of the 10 questions four correct answer Is a fair averse for aflults, thr for children under 12 The correct answers wlU found on tht tern- notes pafc. 1 Which la the oldest of South American nations? 2 What Is the detonator of a bonih? 3 What was the capital of the Confederate Htatea of Amt-rica? 4 What tyn of irnn Is nefarious? i What and where is A Ilia rubra? ft What Is meant by mutahh? 7 What finish the title of the sons "The RHls of A To what lamil.v of bird dors the ren hrlnnc? When- are lh Plains of Aoraham? 10 Haw much lead is thre in the ordinary kail pencil? V4" NEW GUIN NEW INVASION? Tokyo reported today that Allied assault forces had landed near Tarakan, on the island of Borneo. There was no confirmation from Allied sources. Seizure of Hard Coal Mines Near Ickes Prepares to Move As 72,000 Quit Work. WASHINGTON (U.R) Secretary of the Interior Harold L.

Ickes said after a conference with President Truman today that he was prepared to take over strike-bound Pennsylvania haid coal mines. Ickes confeied with Mr. Truman about 25 minutes. He did not say when he expected to take over the mines, but Indicated he was ready to move instantly. The strike resulted from a failure of anthracite operators and the United Mine Workers to agree on a wage-hour contract to replace the one which expired last midnight.

Some 72,000 miners adhered to traditional UMW policy of "no contract, no work." Ickes took the hard coal Issue to the White House as union spokesmen in New York said UMW President John L. Lewis would not personally attend a meeting here today to which he was summoned by the War Labor Board. The WLB asked Lewis to show cause why the old contract should not be extended for 30 days. The board has demanded that the miners go back to work at once. Union proxies will represent Lewis at the WLB healing, it was said.

Ickes told White House reporters that Mr. Truman characterized his coal report as the worst news he had received this morning. Japs Told Nazis' Defeat None of Their Business SAN FRANCISCO iT-p The Domei Japanese news agency today-took cognizance of the imminent fall of Germany, but told the Japanese people to "attend to our own business." The Dumei dispatch, quoting the Tokyo newspaper Mainichi. was broadcast to the United States and recorded by the Federal Communications Commission "All of the Japanese nation. calmly following the course of de velopments In Europe, must by this time have been fully prepared to cope with any eventualities in the European situation," the broadcast said.

Loss cf Italy to the Axis, as well as Germany, docs not change Japan's stand on "this life and death struggle," Domei reported. FRONT NEW GOVERNMENT IN MOSCOW (Pi A Tass disDatch from Vienna today said the new Austrian provisional government headed by Dr. Karl Renner took office yesterdav. ters. now divided among the OPA.

the War Food Administration and 1 other agencies. Predicting a five to 10 percent slump this year In the nation's food production, the inter-agency committee headed by Foreign Economic Administrator Leo T. Crowley termed the cut in sucar rations "a real sacrifice" but said: The sacrifice will be small in comparison with the contribution it will make to the undernourished, if not actually starving, peoples of the liberated countries." Of the American outlook, this committee, which allocates food and other supplies for overseas needs, said: i "A decent American diet will be i maintained. Our food supply is ade-i quale to keep America healthy and 1 "Please Turn to Page 7, Column 4 Milot 3 lOOOj AUSTlbUJA SEEN TEACE MESSENGER Count Folke Bernadotte of Sweden flew back to Stockholm after a hurried visit to Copenhagen today and there reports that he might be carrying a new surrender offer from Gestapo Chief i i Himmlcr. or a German-Swedish agreement for peaceful surrendei of troops in Denmark and Norway.

Plan 'One-Front' Airplane Output AAF Production Schedule Wipes Off European War. WASHINGTON (Pt A "one-front" airplane production schedule which may cut monthly output by as many as 2.000 planes by the end of this year has been drafted by the Army Air Forces. About 7.000 craft are now being turned out each month. The revised schedule, it was learn, ed today, has been submitted to WPB's production reaajustment committee for approval. In effect, the new schedule writes off the European war so far as plane production Ls concerned.

It involves only estimated army needs in the Pacific. With the exception of the two giant bombers, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress and the Consolidated Vultee B-32, virtually all AAF combat planes are affected. Some of the cutbacks, however, are merely paper ones. This means that origi nally projected production peaks are being lowered, but that the effect will not be felt for many months. Even with the new schedule, some in the AAF believe further reductions will be required to balance supply with demand because thousands of planes will become available with the end of hostilities in Europe.

As a result, studies now are being made to determine whether cutbacks should be made in some cargo types as well as combat craft. Despite the lessening of army needs for planes, navy requirements are expected to continue at present or even higher levels. Bulletins SAN FRANCISCO oPi Word that Foreign Commissar Molotov soon may leave the I'nited Nations conference because of war developments coincided today with new Big-Four efforts to draft management details of this world meeting. NEW YORK The Stockholm radio said the Swedish foreign office announced today that Count Folke Kernadotte "did not bring; any new message to be handed to the Allies through the The broadcast was recorded by the FCC. LONDON tf The German high command declared today that the Berlin garrison, "rallying around our fuehrer and compressed in a small space." fought on "against superior Soviet arms." LONDON (A) The Hamburg radio tonight said American airborne troops and gliders landed in the British sector in the north German plain.

LONDON U.R) The home office announced today that when news of the end of hostilities in Furope is made public, it will be clone by Prime Minister Churchill in a radio broadcast. AWAITS Ml'RDER SENTENCE DETROIT (U.R) Mrs. Nina Housden. 33-year-old former nurse, today was awaiting sentence for the murder of her husband, Charles. A jury of seven women and five men yesterday found her guilty of first degree murder.

Police said Mrs. Housden strangled her husband and dismembered his body after the two had argued about Hous-den's affairs with other women. Mm. Housden was arrested in Toledo. after gasoline station attendants discovered Housden body in the trunk of his wife's Calvin Sncll Dies Fighting 111 Germany Pfc.

Calvin D. Snell, 24, of Battle Creek, was killed in action in Germany April 4, the war department has notified his mother, Mrs. Hazel Lavoie of 1346 West Michigan ave nue. Private Snell was killed while fighting with an infantry unit of the 3rd Army. He transferred from the 8th Air Force in England to the Infantry early in March, and presumably had been in action only a very short time.

SNELL Private Snell had served with the air forces as a mechanic in England for one and one-half years before being placed in the 99th Replacement Battalion. Private Snell was born in Battle Greek, Aug. 18. 1920, and lived here all his life until going into the army in September, 1942. He attended Southeastern junior high school and was a Kellogg Co.

employe. He took basic training at San Bernadino. in Georgia, and technical training at the Buick plant in Flint He was at the Rome Army Air field. N. before going overseas.

Also surviving are his wife, Laura Belle Heavner Snell of 88 North Kendall: a brother, Pfc. Kenneth Snell, who is in a medical unit in France; a sister, Marjorie Snell, recently medically discharged from the SPARs. living in Miami. his paternal grandmother, Mrs. Edna Merrill of Battle Creek, and mater nal grandfather, Franklin Myers of Kalkaska.

His father, Donald Sncll, died in 1938. 400 Yank Bombers Drop Food to Starving Dutch LONDON UP) Aerial grocery men called over Holland again today with meals for a million starving Dutch civilians. This time the delivery was made in approximately 400 American Fly ing Fortresses converted from death-dealing bombers into ships of mercy. They flew in low to drop 800 tons of food supplies in the vi cinity of the Hague and Rotterdam. It was the first such mercy mis sion for the U.

S. airmen, but the third straight day that food parcels have been dropped by Allied planes to Hollanders behind the German lines, fulfilling General Eisenhower's promise of aid. NO REST FOR JAPS SAN FRANCISCO JPi The Tokyo radio announced today all Japanese government employes will work without any rest periods from this date on." The broadcast, recorded by the Federal Communications Commission, said workers have been taking holidays on the first and third Sundays of each month. Duce's Body in Of Military MILAN (UP) Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci. were buried secretly in unmarked graves in the potters' field of the Maggiore cemetery late yesterday, it was revealed today.

BY GEORGE BRIA MILAN UP) The beaten, mis shapen corpse of Benito Mussolini lay in a rude, wooden coffin in the Milan morgue today awaiting further disposition while conflicting reports spread over the fate of his military chieftain, Marshal Rodolfo Graziani. One report said the former chief of staff of the Italian army was at Allied headquarters, where he had been taken by an American officer just before Graziani was scheduled to go on trial before a partisan group. Other unofficial advices received at national liberation committee headquarter in Milan said Graziani Leadership Row Ruffles Parley Argentine-Polish Issue Splits Big Three Further. SAN FRANCISCO () The sting of a whiplash fight over Argentina and Poland drove the United Nations toward a new controversy today over who should control the critical commissions and committees of the world security conference. This organizational problem normally might hav gone through with unity and good feelings on all Hides.

It appeared likely, however, to intensify the struggle for leadership between the United Slates and Russia, which yesterday cast the Soviet Union a defeat on both Argentina and Poland. Delegates generally seemed to feel that Russia would not pull out of the conference for this or similar reasons despite constant speculation on her future course. The Rus. sinus, it was learned, are still discussing conference plans of the weeks ahead. But pessimism about the prospects for unity among the big powers was at a new low.

There was speculation by some delegates that several ol the foreign secretaries heading their delegations may go home around the 10th to 15th of this month when the real conference work should be well underway and may be left to le.sser officials. Molotov's name has figured in this speculation, but usually (Please Turn to Page 8, Column 6t As the War Looks Today Front Disappearing Much Pessimism Why No Gas' Too BY LOWS SINCLAIR It is no longer possible to provide a clear picture of the military situation in Europe because the welir-mucht practically has ceased to exist as a military force. Nowhere except Berlin is there any bitter fighting reported and the lighting there can be expected to end in possibly hours. The Yanks in the southern German area still are meeting some resistance but on 8 small scale and General Clark lias proclaimed victory in Italy. In the north the British also have some fighting on their hands but it is not full-fledged campaign.

Two American armies, the 9lh and the 1st. apparently have stopped all military operations. In view of these conditions on the battlefield it 'is no wonder that the world is watching reinirted surrender negotiations with a great expectancy. It is not denied that such negotiations are under way and if the reports today that the Germans re pulling out of Denmark are correct the announcement of a Nazi hurrender will not be long delayed. Evacuation of Denmark might be one of the preliminary conditions of the capitulation, the Allies wanting to see whether the Germans are flncere.

We also have a sliung indication from Prime Minister Churchill that an important announcement about the war will be made bv him before commons recesses on Friday night. The invasion of Borneo by Allied forces. rerted by Tokyo but so far unconfirmed by the Allies, would be a logical step in General jtfacArthur it plans for rubbing out Japan's stolen empire. Borneo. Just 300 miles from the southern Philippines, is one of the richest islands for natural resources in the world, jl also is stiateckally located in the Pacilie and lis occupation would Please Turn to Page 8, Column 7j question whether, if peace news came while the house was adjourned, he would hold it until commons sat, or would release it through the BBC.

Churchill said frankly that he expected two-day celebrations to begin immediately that a "cease fire" order is given, and that the reason instructions were being issued tonight was to insure that sufficient preparations were made for "minimum staffs" in every depart ment, including stores and government offices. The prime minister indicated a peace announcement not only might precede final surrenders, but that such surrenders might not be worth an additional announcement. "It is by no means certain at this time that complete surrender of all the enemy's forces will make the subject of a future announcement," he said. The fact that he made no men tion of Himmlcr first surrender offer to the United States and Britain, or of a second one which the gestapo chief is widely believed to have submitted, suggested the govern ment is planning now only to advise the house on the outcome of negotiations, and not upon the course of negotiations. The house was jammed with one tPlease Turn to Page 8, Column 5) Morgue; Fate Chief Uncertain had been sentenced to death and executed immediately.

Italian partisans, revering their own patriot dead, attended funeral services and held demonstrations throughout the city for their comrades who fell to Fascist and German bullets earlier in the week. From all appearances, leftist groups already had achieved efficient organization in Milan. Correspondents were escorted from the airport to the city by partisans in automobiles manned by machine-gun-toting patriot guards. Members of the Garibaldi all Communist brigades, their strength estimated at approximately 15,000, apppeared to be In full control. Placards proclaiming "Down with the Monarchy!" were prominently displayed.

The bodies of Mussolini, his young mistress. Claretta Petacci, and Fas- Sugar Ration Cut One-Fourth, But 'Decent Diet' Is Promised WASHINGTON oJ'i Americans were told today a "decent diet" will be maintained despite a 25 percent slash in sugar rations and the prospect of higher point values for other foodstuffs. Further civilian belt tightening was foreshadowed when: 1. Samuel I. Roscnman.

presidential food scout, recommended that the United States should supply a "substantial share" of civilian needs In northwest Europe. He acknowledged this probably would cut into home front food supplies. 2. The inter-agency committee on foreign shipments said "we shall have to make some adjustments in particular foods" and hinted at higher ration points for fats and Otis. At the same time mounting sentiment was evidenced in congress for one-man control of all food mat.

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