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The Weather (By the L'. 8. Weather Bnrean) Moderate to Iresh easterly winds, mostly broken clouds and local afternoon showers today and THE TAMPA. DAILY TIME Sunday. FOKIAL Today's Trmvfratnrri 75 74 74 75 79 82 82 85 87 87 88 89 FIFTY-FIFTH YEAR No.

194 TAMPA, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1947 PRICE FIVE CENTS KPgQfl? Called Many Names But Never Dull uoaiird Minn! La Guardia Dies In Sleep Omaha Forced To Sign Apology Omaha, Sept. 20 (JF). Norman D. Graves of Kearney, put the City of Omaha on the spot. On the back of a check remitted for a $1.50 traffic fine, Graves wrote a 103-word apology for "the great mental anguish suffered by a business visitor." By endorsing the check, the city would have to sign the apology.

The city clerk decided to subordinate the city's pride and endorse the check, apology included. (Gulf Bidault Says Rift In U. N. Is Hopeless Stands Mainly With U. Pessimistic Over World Unity New York, Sept.

20 (JP). French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault declared today that the growiffg conflict between the United States and. Russia has reached such a John Dulles Hears Name Calling 'iwxrzemm) 'i'1" ini-ynr-ji Truman-Marshall Talk Due Monday President Meets Staff on Arrival Washington, Sept. 20 (JP). The White Housw said today that President Truman probably will con fer Monday here with Secretary of State Marshall who is pressing the American program in the United Nations Assembly.

A secretary said an appointment has not been made definitely but the President probably will see him Monday as well as other in dividual cabinet members who have urgent business accumulating during the President's 20-day absence in Brazil. Marshall is com ing to Washington tomorrow. Mr. Truman met 45 minutes with his staff which he called into meeting only five hours after he stepped off the Presidential yacht Williamsburg at the Washington Naval yard after cruising up the Potomac River. He, with Mrs.

Truman and daughter Margaret, disembarked yesterday at Norfolk, from the battleship Missouri. Topping his problems are the rising cost of living, Europe's emergency needs, international differences and special session talk. The group went over the accumulation of work. Subjects discussed were not disclosed. A secretary said afterward that Mr.

Truman will spend the rest of the day and tomorrow reading reports and documents. He cancelled an appearance today at the President's regatta in the Potomac River because of the press of business. The White House had no comment on a statement last night by Henry A. Wallace urging the President to explain an order from tne Daitiesnip Missouri tnat James XT 1 1 IT 3 3 Forrestal be sworn in Wednesday ahead of schedule as Secretary of Defense because of what Mr. Truman termed the international situation.

The President appeared in ex- U. S. delegate to U. John Foster Dulles grimly hears Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky name him one of group of "violent warmongers" in speech before U. N.

General Assembly. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, right, listens with apparent concern. Acme Telephoto. Lobs it Sfliimwlte Kfezya FIORELLO LA GUARD IA Packed into the five-feet-two-inch figure of Fiorello Henrico La Guardia was enough personality and charm to make him one of the most colorful figures ever to walk on America's political scene.

Born of immigrant parents on New York's lower East Side in 1882, the man who became New York's beloved "Little Flower" was never one of the crowd. He learned to talk Yiddish and Italian, and later made political speeches in these tongces. He learned to fly, and during World War I was a major in the Air Corps. He attended law school at night, working as an interpreter in the day. He served in Congress for 10 years, attracting attention with his trade-mark horn-rimmed eye glasses pushed up on his forehead and his fighting, earthy speeches.

He had the gall to run against the debonair Jimmy Walker, and lost a good fight. He swept Tammany Hall into still-existent obscurity when he became mayor in 1934. He was the first mayor of New York ever to serve three consecutive terms. He endeared himself to the rank-and-file New Yorker by his showmanship chasing fire engines, kissing beauty queens, posing with anything and anybody by his honesty, by his campaigns against "tinhorn gamblers" and burlesque shows, by his accomplishments tunnels, schools, playgrounds, and the airfield which bears his name. The people called him the "Little Flower," they called him "The Hat," and his enemies called him other things, but no-v body ever called Fiorello La Guardia dull.

New Fight Starts Over Control of Hospital By HOWARD KAHN Times Staff Writer A new fight over County Home and Hospital loomed today after members of a Citizens' Investigating Committee complained that County Commissioners had already sabotaged the new Hospital Control Board by retaining authority over County Welfare Department. New Storm Possible In Ocean Squall South Mississippi Stricken, Stunned; New Orleans Flooded New Orleans, Sept. 20 (JP). Na tional Guardsmen were moved in force today to the hurricane- stricken coast of Mississippi and Alabama, in the wake of a disaster unparalleled in a generation. Gov.

Fielding Wright of Missis sippi and his adjutant general sped to the Biloxi-Gulfport-Pass Christian area where at least eight were dead and where survivors stared in stunned inertia at the remains of homes, business and public works. Another 10 deaths were reported unofficially, but had not been ver ified, and it likely would be days before an accurate count would be available. Will Shoot to Kill The threat of wholesale looting was acme, ana along tne Missis sippi coast iiauonal Guard units and Army troops from nearby Keesler Field were "under orders to shoot to kill. At Bay Minette, Sheriff Taylor Wilkins reported a National Guard detachment was sent to Alabama Beach after looting oc curred. Meanwhile, as the great storm spent its final violence in diminishing intensity southwest of Shreveport, the Miami Weather Bureau reported a new hurricane in the making.

This disturbance appeared boiling up out of th3 Caribbean, west of Jamaica, and hurricane-hunter planes took off to probe it. A third storm, now a week old. was centered 3000 miles southwest of Miami, and also was being kept under survillance. Devastation on Bayous Below New Orleans, Red Cross officials investigated a report thzt four persons drowned in St. Bernard Parish.

Terrific devastation was inflicted on the bayou country, with whole villages carried away by wind and tides. Lake Borgne backed into Bayou Bienvenue, broke through a railroad embankment and flooded a sizeable section of eastern New Orleans. Police said 2000 had been evacuated from an area 25 blocks long and 16 blocks wide now under water. There were no estimates of its depth. There were no reported casualties in that area but police said they had received calls for ambulances.

The storm, as it hit Shreveport and moved northwest into Texas and Oklahoma, was nothing like the terrific, 100-mile terror that struck the coast early yesterday. Winds had slackened to about 40 and 50 miles an hour. No damage was reported in the Shreveport area. The entire coastal area was isolated. Communications still were difficult this morning.

Refugees Keep on Coming Refugees continued to pour in to shelters. Familiar landmarks all along the Gulf Coast were swept away. New Orleans and the Gulf Coast began to count its cost. Untold damage was done to sugar cane between here and Baton Rouge and north of the state capital. Thousands of acres were flattened.

F. Evans Farreli, New Orleans cane grower, pointed out that "it takes a 120-mile wind to snap cane off at the ground." Gulf Resorts Grim Only bare information was ob tainable, but the picture in that Gulf resort area' was grim. Battered houses, splintered boats and first aid workers driving themselves through the night to administer first aid by flashlight to some 400 injured collected in the Naval Reserve Armory at Gulf-port. From Biloxi westward to New Orleans information poured in by every conceivable means which indicated that region was a mass (See HURRICANE Page 3) trees cracked and uprooted. Some trees two feet in diameter were twisted off as easily as match sticks.

A suDstantlal frame church building tilted crazily backwards. cellent physical condition after his.ately follow in spite of all kinds SMOKERS LEAD 3-2 AT END OF FOURTH The Tampa Smokers were leading the Miami Beach Flamingos 3-2 at the end of the fourth inning in the playoff series game at Plant Park this afternoon. FEDERAL BUREAUS PROMISE AID TO FLORIDA Jacksonville, Sept. 20 (AP). Representatives of South Florida's hurricane-swept municipalities were assured here today that Federal agencies operating under President Truman's emergency proclamation will do "everything possible" to provide war-surplus equipment and materials for work in the stricken area.

In a meeting convened on order of Governor Caldwell, representatives of the War Assets Administration and the Federal AVorks Agency promised to "cut red tape'' in expediting service. EXPLOSION RAZES OHIO PLANT Warren, Sept. 20 (AP). Explosions and fire razed the Air Reduction Sales Co. plant in South Warren shortly after noon today, causing damage estimated at 5230,000, but none of the 15 employes who were at work when the fire was discovered was injured.

GERMANY. AUSTRIA SIGN TRADE PAST -Berlin, Sept. 20 (AP). A trade agreement between Hungary and the combined Anglo-American zones of Germany was announced today. De GAULLE FEARS RUSSIAN DOMINATION Lyon, France, Sept.

20 (INS). Former Provisional President de Gaulle accused French Communists today of attempting to "make our country one of the obedient members of Soviet imperialism." CRUELTY TO ROMANIAN CHILDREN DENIED Vienna, Sept. 20 (INS). The Vienna city government flatly denied today charges that unauthorized medical experiments were made on 20 Romanian Jewish children in a Vienna hospital. 100 IN NEW YORK STREET BRAWL New York, Sept.

20 (AP). A mixed group of about 100 white and Negro people engaged in a free-swinging street brawl outside Manhattan Center, an early today and at least six were injured, police said. BIG BUILDING PROGRAM FOR JAX Jacksonville, Sept. 20 (AP). Construction on nearly At His Home Was Congressman, Mayor, UNRRA Chief In Colorful Career New York, Sept.

20 (JP). Fiorello H. La Guardia, 64, three times Mayor of New York and former Director General of UNRRA, died today. The fiery political leader had been in a coma since Tuesday night when he collapsed at his home. His health had been failing since last June when he under went an operation which disclosed an incurable pancreas condition.

The announcement of his death brought an immediate tribute from his successor as chief executive of New York, Mayor O'Dwyer. Eulory of O'Dwyer "In his death the people of the city, the state and nation have lost a great, patriotic citizen," O'Dwyer said. He added: "I fully believe that his unselfish devotion to the people and his untiring and energetic efforts to promote public welfare contributed to a great extent to the failing health which culminated in death today." The police teletype system, which so often relayed La Guar-dia's commands to the various precincts, quickly carried an order to custodians of all city buildings to lower flags to half staff. La Guardia died in his sleep, Dr. George Baehr, attending physician, said.

Dr. Baehr had been at the La Guardia home since 7:30 last night. Dr. Meyer Karsh, another physician, also was there. When La Guardia died at 7:22 A.

his wife, their two children, Erik, 15, and Jean, 18, and Mrs. La Guardia's sister, Miss Elsie Fisher, were at the bedside. Of "Get Tough" School The diminutive La Guardia he was five feet, three inches was a rough and ready exponent of the "get tough" school of politics. His caustic tongue was noted for its whiplash agility in exchanges with political enemies as well as for its fluency in foreign languages. In 1933, La Guardia, as a successful Fusion candidate, took office to find that the city had been denied further financing by banks.

Determinedly, he went to work on the problem and before long was obtaining money from (See LA GUARDIA Page 3) All This Water Confuses Miss T. Miss Tampature trundled a nondescript collection of gadgets into Drew Field weather station and plumped them down. Weatherman Talbott sized up the lot: one slide-rule, a pair of calipers, a funnel, two wash tubs, 50 feet of garden hose and two jugs. "What comes off here?" he sharply asked. "Just gonna measure up the rainfall," she said.

"You said only four inches of rain fell during the hurricane. Where did all that water I see standing, around come from?" All that water, the meteorolo gist explained, just had no place to go when the hurricane showers left it here. The water table was already high, and total rain for the month to date is 9.51 inches "The ground was already he said, "and that accounts for complaints about too much water." Otherwise, weather here is nor mal, will be through Sunday, with moderate to fresh winds from easterly directions, bringing brok en clouds likely to unload still further showers. Teamster Local Ordered to Work New York, Sept. 20 (JP).

Five thousand striking AFL teamsters whose sudden walkout has idled all the Railway Express Agency's 1200 trucks here and caused an embargo on nearly all agency shipments in and out of New York, were under orders today by their international president to return to work. The strike began Thursday night by Local 808 of the Team sters Union. Company spokesmen said the embargo, imposed yesterday, would affect about 25 percent of the firm's national business. The embargo included all New York rail and air shipments except full carloads. A company spokesman said full carloads con stituted only a small part of the traffic here, which averages 000 shipments a day.

FLIERS IN INDIA Karachi, Pakistan, Sept. 20 (JP) Clifford B. Evans and George Truman landed here this morning in their two light planes after nine and one-half hour hor from Dhahrah, Saudi Arabia, in their leisurely flight around the world They took off at noon for Jodphur, in Rajputana Province, 350 miles away. Features Today Churches Comics Crossword Deaths Editorials Fleeson Markets McLemore 5 Moley .12 Radio 6 .10 Society 8 2 Sport-Rays 9 4 Sunday School 5 4 Weather Map. 10 ,.10 Where to Go.

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critical stage that further efforts to reconcile the two viewpoints seemed hopeless. In France's opening policy speech before the United Nations Assembly, Bidault frankly acknowledged that he saw no way out of the crisis sharpened by the speeches of Secretary of State Marshall and Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vishinsky. Futile to Conceal "The French delegate deems it futile and dangerous to conceal the magnitude and seriousness of the Bidault told the 55 national delegates as the Assembly continued its fourth day of general debate. In his pessimistic and straight forward speech, Bidault said France had devoted her efforts toward compromise and reconciliation between Russia and the United States since the beginning of the United Nations but such efforts now seemed futile. He then went on to outline trances position on specific issues lining up with the United States on almost every question.

Stand on Issues Bidault took this stand on the following major issues: Veto France will agree to consideration of all proposals to modify or eliminate this special big power voting privilege, but feels that amendments- to the charter "are not a solution, not the only one at any rate to the problem we have to France agrees that action of the Security Council has been "frozen" by frequent use of the veto which Russia has employed 20 times. "Little A 1 The French delegation has always voted for in favor of the full exercise by the Assembly of its powers." Balkans "We are convinced that this is precisely a case where the United Nations have the duty to act to propose a solution since we have to Dut an end to the war jas well as establish a really demo cratic regime in a pacified country." Marshall plan for economic aid to Europe "We have chosen this path and we shall not turn back on this path which we deliber- of difficulties Masaryk Backs Russia Dr. Jan Masaryk, foreign minister of Czechoslovakia, c'eplored the split between Russia and the western powers but made it clear that his country would stick firmly to Russia. Although Masaryk' speech avoided the sharp attacks which other eastern European countries had made on the United States, he followed Russia's lead on the major issues. Dulles Says Veto Paralyzes U.

N. New York, Sept. 20 (INS). John Foster Dulles, Republican adviser to the United Stetes delegation to the U. N.

Assembly, last night charged that Russia relies on its veto power to paralyze the Secur ity Council. Dulles' charge was the first American response to Soviet Dele gate Vishinsky's unprecedented attack on the United States. Dulles, himself singled out by Vishinsky for attack, spoke over the American Broadcasting Company's network. The Russian delegate charged Dulles with fathering the "get tough with Russia" policy of the United States. Dulles charged that the only powers opposed to proposals of Secretary of State Marshall to extend the work of the Assembly and to limit the veto power were those who wished to "paralyze" the council.

Wauchula Clears Storm's Debris Special to The Timet Wauchula, Sept. 20. Utilities hit by the tropical hurricane which struck this town Wednesday, were back in operation today. Damage is minor except for the areas where the entire Fall crop of peppers is reported ruined and it is expected that the huge cucumber acreage will have to be re planted. According to a report of the damage, communications between Wauchula and points north were disrupted.

No casualties were reported except one man went to the hospital during the height of the storm with an infected sunburned back. The Atlantic Coast Line tracks between Wauchula and Fort Meade were washed out, but cars and trucks were transferring passengers and baggage from Fort Meade to waiting trains here. The Peace River has overflowed its banks along the Avon Park-Wauchula highway. Wauchula streets were covered with debris, many house roofs were blown down and electric power in many sections of the city was out yesterday, but all rural electrification lines were back in operation last night. CONGRESSMEN IN VIENNA Vienna, Sept.

20 (JP). Twenty-nine United States Congressmen on European study tours have arrived in Vienna for conferences with officials of U. S. forces in Austria. The Rev Walter B.

Passiglia, chairman of the probe group, and nominated as a member of the Control Board, said he will refuse to serve on the latter body if Commissioners retain control of the welfare unit, which governs admissions to the institution. The Control Board was created at a joint session of Commissioners and County Budget Board to relieve Commissioners of authority in operating the Home and Hospital. To take over the reins on Oct. 1, the body was ostensibly patterned after the former County Welfare Board which operated the Welfare Department. But Commissioners yesterday took official action to prevent the Welfare Department, from falling under the authority of the Control Board.

Probe group members, other than Mr. Passiglia, lamented the Commissioners' move and said the action nullified any gains made by the investigation. The committee was unanimously opposed to Commissioners re taining control of the Welfare Department. At the time the Hospital Control Board was created, it was agreed by Commissioners and Budget Board members that the group would oDerate alone lines of the former County Welfare Board. To that end the Budget Board provided for transfer of Welfare Department headquarters within the Home and Hospital buildings As the new fight took shape speculation continued over what (See HOSPITAL Page 3) Citrus Exposition Plans Amphitheater Winter Haven, Sept.

20 (INS). The Florida Citrus Exposition and the City of Winter Haven today concluded negotiations for a 30 year lease on property for the construction of an amphitheater at the exposition site on Lake Silver. The show place for the citrus In dustry of Central Florida will be under construction by Oct. 1. Completion is expected by Jan 1 in plenty of time for the opening of the exposition on Feb.

16 Father Went Insane 500 dwelling units costing approximately 53,600,000 in and near Jacksonville is expected to begin shortly after insured loans covering the project are cleared by the Federal Housing Administration. RAINS COVER ARKANSAS Little Rock, Sept. 20 (AP). General rains splashed Arkansas today in the wake of a wandering tropical storm the fringes of which flicked the state overnight after spending its fury in the Louisiana-Mississippi coastal regions. OCCUPATION COST ESTIMATES RAISED Washington, Sept.

20 (AP). Senator Bridges (IL, N. said Army and State Department spokesmen estimated today that they may need from $265,000,000 to $500,000,000 more for occupation costs this fiscal year. Congress has appropriated $600,000,000 for such expenses in Germany, Japan and other areas during the period which ends next June 30. 16 days at sea and left his yacht I smiling and with a springy step.

Argentina Arrests Eleven in Bomb Plot Buenos Aires. Sent. 20 (JP). Eleven men who spoke loudly in Buenos Aires bars of the possibility of bombing Eva Duarte Peron, wile of the Pisident, are under arrest today. One of them is in a mental observation ward.

ine newspaper Mundo re ported that police searched the homes of the men and found no trace of explosives. La Nacion said the group made no' specific plans just agreed informally that a DomD snouia be planted somewhere, sometime, by somebody. The charge against the men is "illegal association," instead of more serious counts. All of them were rounded up Wednesday night. The press agreed the men belonged to the extreme right wing group, but police refused to identify them or their faction.

The papers said members of President Juan Peron's administration also were targets of the "plot." The alleged plans had been over heard in a number of downtown bars on a number of occasions. The participants talked of it rather loudly. La Nacion said one of them suddenly reajized how much the story had been circulated, became worried, and informed the police. Pet Dogs Led Life of Riley Los Angeles, Sept. 20 (JP).

A pair of Irish setters named Pat and Gunner, designated heirs to a $30,000 estate, and their benefactor, the late Carleton R. Bain-bridge, led a companionable life, the court was informed. Attorney Harold A. Fendler, representing Sherman Bainbridge. brother of Carleton, said yesterday tnat tne dogs went to the movies with their master, slept in the same bed and ate off the same plate with him.

"And he read them bedtime stories," declared Fendler, arguing that Bainbridge, onetime prominent attorney, suffered from illusions after a long illness. The brother is contesting the will on those grounds. Eight Are Killed In Bolivian Plane Lima, Peru, 20 (JP). A plane crashed two miles off San Juan yesterday, killing at least eight persons. Dispatches from the vicinity said the body of a United States Army sergeant, Harry Boerel, had been washed ashore, and that a woman believed to be his fiancee also had been found dead.

Others aboard the plane were identified as Bolivian officers enroute to the United States. The U. S. Embassy said the plane was Bolivian and not American, as reported last night. Woman Acquitted In Mercy Slaying Reading, Sept.

20 "Thank you oh, thank you very much," a wan-faced middle aged spinster sobbed to a jury of seven men and five women in acquitting her of murder in the "mercy slaying of her invalid, 71-year-old mother. Friends and neighbors who had stood with Ella M. Haug in the courtroom as she waited through the two and a half hours the jury deliberated last night, rushed to congratulate the weeping woman, and several invited her to their homes to rest. "I'm so glad you could under stand," Miss Haug told the jurors. "That means more to me than freedom." The State charged that Miss Haug gave her mother, Mrs.

Katie Latshaw, an incurable invalid, 12 barbiturate tablets last July 20, and then took 15 herself in an unsuccessful suicide attempt. A signed statement in which Miss Haug admitted administering the tablets to her mother "to end her suffering" was introduced in evidence. The defense contended the barbiturate tablets did not cause the mother's death. Flooded Tokyo Counts Ten Dead Tokyo, Sept. 30 (JP).

Ten Japanese were reported dead, 50 injured "and 18 missing tonight as floods up to 15 feet deep swept 20 square miles in three wards of northeast Tokyo. Weary American soldiers fought the still rising waters to save thousands of Japanese trapped when a rlevee broke. Japanese police, fearing an explosion, escorted hundreds of refugees from a chemical factory where 200 kilograms of sodium and 5000 kilograms of lime were stored. Water lapped against the second story of the factory. in Rape Case The damage suit alleges Riddlesbarger committed carnal acts with a dauchter of the Kessels it asks $200,000 punitive damages and $320,000 actual damages for loss suffered by the Kessel family when the father was sent the State Hospital for the Insane after brooding over the case In Arizona, a charge of statu tory rape implies that no force was used in the alleged act.

Judges customarily take this into account when passing sentence upon conviction. The statute provides a minimum of five years and a maximum of life in the state prison upon conviction. Citizens Had Relaxed Tornado After Hurricane Wrecks N. Florida Town Business Executive Sued Grain Plunge Points To Break in HCL By The Amociated Prent Corn and wheat prices continued to plunge on the Chicago Board of Trade today for the third consecutive day, raising tre possibility of a break in the record high cost of living. The break in grain prices was accompanied by the first decline in four weeks in wholesale prices for a long list of such commodities as meat, butter, eggs and flour.

The grain market and commodi ties price declif, which hai continued since early in the week came as the labor department reported that living costs for city dwellers hit an all-time peak in July and probably have gone "a whole lot higher since then." In New York, heavy selling forced cotton futures down $2 a bale. Antacid Powder for Acid Indigestion, Pleasant, Effective. By CHRIS MacGILL Apalachicola, Sept. 20 UP). Lit tle Apalachicola was the target yesterday of a vicious hurricane-spawned tornado which left dam age estimated at several hundred thousand dollars.

The town, boarded up against the hurricane, had relaxed when the vicious storm veered away. Then from out of a near calm about midnight a tornado with unestimated velocity cut a path of destruction 50 feet wide which injured 40 persons, five critically, flattened houses and toppled trees. "It sounded like 40,000 freight uains," said George V. George, local businessman. Worst in 50 Tears Fred Fitzgerald, publisher of the Apalachicola Times, declared "It is the worst thing that has happened here in 0 years." The survey of the tornado area showed more than 30 houses swept to the ground and, huge Fo Damages Tucson, Sept.

20 (JP). Wealthy Rufus Riddlesbarger, retired president of the Lanteen Laboratories, Chicago, was a defendant today in a suit brought in Pima County superior court asking over half a million dollars damages. The multimillionaire was named co-defendant with his divorced wife Roberta in a suit asking $520,000 damages filed by Homer and Freida Kessel and their five children. He is due tc appear here next Jan. 16 to answer a charge of statutory rape, the damage suit being based on the rape charge.

Over 700 refugees took shelter in public buildings. Some were injured when glass windows of a high school gymnasium were blown in, but Rodman Porter Jr, 20-year-old Boy Scout leader and veteran of Naval combat, was credited with preventing panic though suffering himself from a severed artery in his arm. Aided 25 Others A Red Cross official said Porter put a hurried torniquet on his arm and then attended wounds of about 25 other persons before seeking further first aid for himself. Porter is a sophomore at the University of Florida. Weather Bureau officials reported that a hurricane attended by a local tornado was not unprecedented.

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