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IRONwooD DAILY to BE VOLUME 32, NUMBER 144. ASSOCIATED PRESS LKAUtO WIBZ NEWS SKRVICK IRONWpOO, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 8, 1951. 14 PAGES SINGLE COPY 5 UN Aim To Win War Explained Allied Troops Pushing North With Caution Patrols Hunt for Vanishing Enemy CLEMENTS troops today pushed cautiously north at both ends of the 100 mile Korean front for the second successive day. Patrols hunted in the vacuum between these points for vanishing red troops. Far north of the theoretical battle line, pilots reported new Communist build-ups in red Korea.

Withdrawing and recorganizing Chinese and North Korean reds were reported angry because they didn't get Russian tanks and planes to sinew their spring offensive. South Koreans making a western advance reached points. 17 miles northwest of Seoul on the cast bank of the Han river. For the second successive day on armored column rumbled unopposed into the hub city of Chunchon, 45 miles northeast of Seoul. Patrols jabbed north into red defenses but elsewhere found no Communists.

Lt. Gen. James A. Van Fleet, Eighth army commander, visited the western front to award the U.S. presidential unit citation to the heroic British Gloucestershire regiment.

Limited attacks by South Korean forces gained three miles northwest of Seoul Monday on the western anchor. In the east, South Koreans pushed a mile and a half forward driving toward Inje north of Parallel 38. FROM OFFICERS Reports of red discontent came from allied officers on the western front. The infantry -carried the full burden of the attack, launched April 22. More than 80,000 reds have been killed or wounded, by UN estimates.

Monday 2,940 wejre reported killed or wounded. Allied officers were quoted as saying that red offensive preparations indicated they had expected both armed support and air cover. Roads were widened. Air fields were put into condition. But the support didn't develop and the red infantry was unable to exploit its gains.

Even bad weather Monday failed to halt "the day-by-day destruction of the enemy's war potential" the Far Eastern air forces reported. More than 900 sorties (single flights) were flown. Many strikes blasted highways on which 2,000 trucks were spotted. Of these, 315 were claimed knocked out. Sea-base planes supported the South Korean limited offensives.

On the extreme west, Republic of Korea (ROK) infantrymen pushed forward for gains of about three miles. THEIR OBJECTIVE Their objective was to clean out or drive back nearly two divisions of a battered North Korean army corps. These reds were threatening to cross the Han river for possible flank attacks on Seoul. Other small groups of reds were across the Han in this area. The South Korean push Monday carried 12 miles northwest of Seoul.

About the same distance due north of Seoul, allied tank patrols struck at seven enemy pockets in the mountains north of Uijongbu. UN forces have regained about half the ground lost in the red offensive. But some hills changed hands drily without a fight. Allies occupy them by day; reds at night. UN patrols found virtually no reds in the central sector where allied tanks rolled back unopposed into the highway junction of Chunchon.

Chunchon is 45 miles northeast of Seoul and 27 miles southwest of Inje. Mrs. Johnson, Ramsay, Dies Ramsay--Mrs! Carl J. Johnson, 68, died at 7:30 p. m.

yesterday at Grand View hospital of a heart attack. She had been admitted a few hours prior to her death. She was born February 24, 1883, in Vasa. Finland, and came to Ramsay in 1905. She was the former Miss Bertha Louise Nystrom.

She has made her home her since 1905. She was married 'to Mr. Johnson March 26, 1906. Mrs. Johnson is survived by her husband; two daughters, Mrs.

George Ethicr of Ramsay and Mrs. Eskil Shogrcn of Bessemer; two sons, Oscar of Ramsay and Gunnard of Bessemer; eight grandchildren, two great Brand- children, and a brother, William Nystrom, Ramsay. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p. m. Thursday at the Sharon Lutheran church in Bessemer.

The Rev F. E. Kastman will officiate. The remains will be taken from the J. Frick funeral home to the family home in Ramsay Wednesday morning and to the church at 11 a.

m. Thursday to lie in state until the hour of services. Burial will be in Hillcrest iHtrvela studio) ALBERT JACOBSON Jacobson Named Bessemer Mayor Elected to Succeed W. Brown, Resigned Bessemer Albert Jacobson, veteran alderman, who has served as mayor pro-tern of the Bessemer city council, was elected city mayor, last night, after the council accepted the resignation of William E. Brown, who was elected to the office in the general spring election.

"This is one of the big moments of my life," stated Mr. Jacobson, taking the chair. Asking the co-operation of the council, he pledged himself to do everything in his power to cooperation of the council, he pledged himself to do everything in his power to cooperate in the administration of a sound, efficient, and economical government of the city. Mr. Jacobson has served as alderman of the fifth ward, for a period of 12 years, from-19331937; and consequently i 1943.

He has the finance committee for a number of years and has served on all major committees of the council. Mr. Jacobson resigned from the office of fifth ward alderman. Appointment of a successor and the election of mayor pro-tern was tabled until the next meeting. TO PAY CLAIMS The council approved payment of claims against the city for the month of April, in the amount of $2,679.40, when money is available.

Included is the labor payroll for the last half of the month in the amount of $556; the claim of the light utility, S995.85; the claim of the water utility, and $194.22 to the Hansen Lumber claims against the light utility in the amount of $684.96 and against the water utility $1,064.64, for the month of April, wert approved as recommended by the board public works. 'Louis Dirnperio, chairman of the safety committee reported on progress made in the project of stopping speeding on through highways, which is being investigated jointly with the safety committee of the Bessemer Woman's club. The council approved the recommendation that the speed limit regulations be strictly enforced and that the aid of the state police and sheriff's department be petitioned. Mr. Dirnperio also pointed out the hazard caused by the practice of parking trucks loaded with high explosives on US-2 in the east city limits, and the practice of transferring the loads from one truck to another.

Numerous other traf fie hazards were discussed. ACTION TAKEN Action was taken by the council, on the advice of the city attorney, to authorize the revision of the traffic ordinances to bring them up to date. The safety committee was instructed to work with Mr. Baird on the project, of drawing up a comprehensive traffic ordinance which coincides with the state laws. The council approved the appointment of Ernest Shaw, chief of the fire department; and the appointment of Bernard Johnson to succeed Louis Vomastek on the volunteer fire department, as recommended by the fire department.

Approved the transfer of the class liquor license from Walter Berg tj Edgar J. Kay; Instructed the building and grounds committee to compile an inventory of the city hall; instructed the cemetery trustees to prepare an inventory of cemetery supplies; Instructed the' city clerk to reply to a communication from the civil service commission relative to vacations and sick leave for civil service employes, informing that the regulations are the same as for other city em- ployes. Dewey Pays Courtesy Calf on MacArthur New York-- Ufi --Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Gov. Thomas E.

Dewey talked together for two and a half hours late yesterday in the general's hotel suite. A spokesman for Dewey said the visit was a courtesy call, but added that the situation was discussed. 6th Anniversary of V-E Day Is Recalled in Many Nations By The Associated Press Western nations--Their eyes on defense preparations against another world war--paid scant attention today to celebrations marking victory over Germany six years ago. Eastern Europeans dutifully trumpeted the day as a great victory anniversary-of the red army. Gen.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, western Allies' supreme commander in World War II inspected Belgian military airfields in a chilling rain. The man who received Germany's unconditional surrender in Reims France, May 8, 1945 went quietly about his business of shoring up EuropeUi defenses against the towering military giant, Russia, a former Ally. In east Germany, Soviet zone Communists gathered for a ceremony at the red army's Memorial park in Treptow. Speakers eulogized the army as the saviour of Europe.

American attention was centered on a high policy debate on how to defeat Communist forces in Korea and meet red aggression anywhere it showed. Defense Secretary George Marshall, chief of staff during World War II, defended before a senate committee President Truman's firing of Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Marshall contended MacArthur's policies if followed, might set off World War III. For President Truman, it was a double anniversary, marking his own 67th birthday as well as the sixth anniversary of his victory proclamation.

One of the great diplomatic architects of the victory, Cordell Hull who was President Roosevelt's secretary of state during the war years, lay critically ill at the Navv Medical center, Bethesda, Md. The 79-year-old statesman has been in poor health for several years. The state department needed Moscow for ignoring western Allies in Soviet victory claims. A Voice of America broadcast recalled that Minister Stalin gave full credit to the western Allies at the time the Nazis surrendered but later changed his tune. Thomas Robins Hot Candidate Thomas Robins, former president and long time member of the Ironwood board of education, said this afternoon that he will not be a candidate for re-election.

His term expires this year. Mr. Robins has been a member of the board for 20 years and served as president for 16 years. He also is a former president of the Gog-ebic County School Board Members and Superintendents association and served two years as head of the Upper Peninsula association. CRITICALLY ILL Cordell Hull, secretary of state in the Franklin D.

Roosevelt administrations, is critically ill, according to an Associated Press dispatch. He has been in poor health for several years and has been a patient since Saturday at Navy Medical center at nearby Bethesda, where his condition was described early today as precarious. Hull was 79 last Oct. 2. 3 Crewmen Dead in Crash Houston, pilot of a big jet bomber was freakishly blasted clear last night when the B-45 exploded.

Three crewmen were killed. Hundreds saw the bright flash of the exploding plane. The burning wreckage as it fell to earth spurred reports of a two-plane collision. Lt. Bob Hampton was not seriously injured when blasted clear.

He parachuted to safety. Only charred, twisted wreckage scattered over a muddy pasture a few miles southeast of Houston was left of the Barksdale air force base (Shreveport, La.) bomber. The plane was on a routine flight from Barksdale to Ellington air force base here and return when it exploded near Ellington, 15 miles southeast of here. Ellington air force base refused comment on the crash. No cause was advanced.

The three dead were natives of the western portion of the U. S. Warner Baxter Dies Monday Beverly Hills, Calif. has stopped the horrible pain which handsome Warner Baxter, the movie original Cisco Kid, suffered for years. The suave, virile matinee idol died last night at his home.

He was 62. For years he had suffered from arthritis, the pain of which, was so great that he was unable to eat. Ii also creafed a'vitamin deficiency an dthe combination brought on slow starvation. Three weeks ago, a lobotomy (brain operation) was performed to lessen the pain. Bronchial pneumonia set in to hasten the end.

Baxter was the second actor ever to win the top academy award Oscar. In 1928, Raoul Walsh, the famed director, was both directing and playing the top role the Cisco Kid in the first outdoor all- talking picture "In Old Arizona," when he was injured in an accident. Baxter replaced him in the role. Both the picture and Baxter won 1929 Oscars. Baxter's first movie role was in 1916 with Ethel Clayton in "Her Own Money." Before he had been an office boy, an insurance salesman, a dancer and a juvenile lead in stock companies.

Among his better known pictures were "Daddy Long Legs," "The Cisco Kid," "42nd Street," "Broadway Bill," "The Great Gatsby," "Under the Pampas Moon." He was married in 1911 to Viola Caldwell of Philadelphia but the marriage -sftasted only a short time, in Januaif 1951 he and his second wife, former Actress Winifred Bryson, observed their 33rd wedding anniversary. She was with him when death came. He also leaves his mother, Mrs. Jane Baxter. Two Reported Dead In Crash of Bomber Miamisburg, twin-engine light attack bomber (B-26), apparently searching for a landing spot, exploded and crashed near here The Ohio highway patrol reported two men were killed.

Miamisburg is 10 miles south west of Dayton, site of the Wright-Patterson air force base. WrighttPatterson sent a crew in a helicopter to take charge of the wreckage. Desolation, Ruin and Death In El Salvador Quake Area San Salvador, El --Desolation, ruin and death blanketed areas of eastern El Salvador today' in the wake of the little Central American nation's worst earthquake disaster in history. In one city alone some 1,000 persons perished in the first shock Sunday. As Red Cross agents and other relief workers rushed to stricken areas, new tremors were reported yesterday in Santiago de Maria--already battered by the first in the city of Berlin.

The're were, no casualties reported immediately from the latest Worst hit by the initial shock was Jucuapa, a city of some 12,000 90 miles- east of San Salvador. The government said about 1,000 persons were killed there. Severe damage was also reported in the city of Chinameca, population 17,000, about two miles east of Jucuapa, and the nearby towns of Nueva Guadalupe Santiago de Maria and Caserios. Hundreds of persons were injur- ed in the area--200 in Chinameca alone. The government decreed three days of national The president of the republic, Lt.

Col. Oscar Osorio, and other government leaders made a tour of the devastated land. The newspaper La Prensa Graf- ica said Jucuapa was a scene of "desolation ruin and death" and that other towns in the neighborhood had been "destroyed." In Jucuapa, the report said, cannot express the anxiety and destruction, with-the streets filled with debris and the moaning of the injured heard. El in a volcanic region and subject to periodic earth shocks, but the country has never before experienced such a destructive quake. The national meteorological observatory said the catastrophe might be attributable to a volcanic peak called El Limbao Some three miles south of The observatory placed the epicenter of the quake about 60 miles southeast, of the capital.

Truman Defends Foreign Policy In Monday Talk Mac's Plans Might Provoke War, He Says Washington-- Ul President Truman defended his foreign policy last night and said that Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Korean war proposals-might provoke another world war and "death blow" atomic attacks on America's great cities. Mr. Truman observes his 67th birthday today and the sixth anniversary of his proclamation of victory over Nazi Germany, The president took a personal hand in the administration drive to rally public support for his course with a-, foreign policy speech to some 800 civilian defense workers last night. He declared that to expand the Korean war as the general he ousted proposes, would bring the "real possibility" of i a launching "death blow" atomic attacks on New York, Cleveland, Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles and Washington and other cities.

MARCH STOPPED? He said the free nations have stopped the march of communism in Asia and "dealt a heavy blow to the Kremlin conspiracy" all over the world by their fight in Korea. "Remember this," Mr. Truman said, "if we do have a world war, it will be an atomic war. We could expect many atomic bombs to be dropped on American cities. "And a single one of them could cause many times more casualties than we have suffered in all the fighting in Korea.

"I do not want to be responsible for bringing that about." Mr. Truman did not refer by name to MacArthur, who has ad- VOCAted air action against Manchuria, a naval blockade and use of Chinese Nationalist troops on Formosa against the Chinese reds. Supporters of MacArthur--mostly Republicans--plainly were the targets of this assertion: "We are the midst of a big debate on foreign policy. A lot of people are looking at this debate as if it were just a political fight. But the stakes are a lot more important than the outcome of an election.

The thing that is at stake in this debate may be atomic war. NOT POLITICAL "Our foreign policy is not a political issue. It is a matter of lite and death. It is a matter of the future of mankind." He declared that "the best collective military advice in this country" backs his policy of limiting the war to Korea, and that "our policy is designed to win." MacArthur has said it will end in "bloody stalemate." Mr. Truman left open the possibility that some of MacArthur's demands for harder blows against the reds might bo carried out, however.

He said that "if the aggressor takes further action which threatens the security of the United Nations in Korea, we will counter that action." FACE GRAND JURY--Mrs. Jean in kidnap mystery at Miami, and husband, Louis, were booked on charge of compounding a felony for failing to tell police, of alleged kidnap- ing of Mrs. Rosenfeld. Detective Chief H. G.

Howard said she was released four days after abduction when $30,000 ransom was paid. The coupl-e denied the kidnaping and went into seclusion until arrested. They were scheduled to go before a grand jury today. IAP Wirephoto) Senate Committee Says Big Business Shown Favoritism Washington --M-- Senate banking committee members renewed charges today that big business is being shown favoritism in the government's defense tax-benefit program. The program is designed to speed up expansion of defense industry by permitting a five-year amortization for tax purposes of the cost of constructing new Treaty Proposal RejectedtfU.

S. Suggestion Offered the Russians By plants. A bigger chunk of the cost thus can taken from profits. The committee, opening the second day of hearings on extension of and revision of the defense production act which expires June 30, questioned Manly Fleischmann, administrator of the national production authority. Sen.

Douglas (D-I11) charged that application- of steel companies and other large corporations were granted with "supersonic speed" while small firms "rode on a bicycle." Chairman Maytank'D-SC) gave notice today that if the administration wants tougher controls over "big money" lending, it hac better hustle its proposals up to his seriate banking committee. The federal reserve board has been weighing plans to boost the requirements for bank reserves, to freeze larger sums so they will States today rejected Russia's proposal to turn over the drafting of a Japanese peace treaty to four Pacific powers including Communist China. Russia's purpose in advancing the proposal yesterday was to obtain a "double veto" over a Japanese peace settlement, the state department said. The United States intends, a department spokesman a plain, to go ahead with the present preparations for a settlement for Japan with or without Russian participation. The U.S.

has been consulting 15 other nations in. working out treaty terms and it is hoped to have a draft ready for signing within a few weeks. Russia, in a note handed to American Ambassador Alan G. Kirk at Moscow yesterday, proposed calling a council of the loans. "Unless the recommendations come along now," Maybank told reporters, "there won't be anything done on credit at this session, in my judgment." The banking committee opened hearings yesterday on extension and revision of the defense production act which expires June 30.

The house banking committee opens hearings today on the same subject. By cutting the list of prospective witnesses from 150 tc 60; Maybank hopes to finish the senate hearings by June 1. Committee members hammered at both Defense MobUizer Charles. E. Wilson and Secretary of Commerce Sawyer yesterday on the necessity to protect the supply of materials for small businesses.

Sawyer said an al- Rep. John Kee Passes Today Washington --UK-- Rep. John Kee, 77-year old chairman of the house foreign affairs committee, died today o' a heart attack. He collapsed during a routine session of the committee and was pronounced dead by Dr. George W.

Calver, capitol physician. Kee had been ill for some time and only recently returned from the nearby Bethesda Naval hospital. He had been a member of the house since 1933. Kee became chairman of the foreign affairs committee in March, 1949, following the death of the late Rep. Sol Bloom CD- NY).

Bloom, like Kee, collapsed at a committee meeting. He died several days later. Kee was born in Glenville, W. on August 22, 1874. He represented West Virginia's fifth congressional district and lived at Bluefield in the extreme southern part of the state.

He was a lawyer and served in the state senate from 1923 to 1927. Rep. Richards (D-SC) has been acting chairman of the foreign affairs committee during most of this session of congress. Under the committee seniority system as ranking Democratic member he will succeed to the chairmanship. Kee is the third member of the 82nd congress to die.

The others were Reps. John Sullivan (D-Mo) and Frank Kee's death leaves two cies in the house. Two Killed, 21 Hurt In Bombay Rioting Bombay, India-- W) --Two persons were killed and 21 injured in communal riots in the heart of Bombay last night: PoBce reported the situation under control today. state department press Michael J. McDermott officer which said there would be a formal reply later.

The statement itself amounted however to a definite turn Another 44 Added to Typhoon Victim List Manila--(ff)--Reports trickling in from outlying districts today added another 44 persons to the list of probable victims of the tropical typhoon which lashed the Phillippines Saturday. The known death toll is 24. At least 84 others are missing, the majority of the fishermen who were at sea. The weather bureau said the diminishing typhoon was headed northeast through the Bashi channel south of Formosa toward the Ryukyu islands. Maximum winds of 60 miles per hour were predicted.

1, will help considerably. It-will allocate steel, copper and aluminum to defense plants and defense-supporting industries. "We hope there will then be lots more material for the little fellow," Sawyer said. Sawyer supported the whole range of controls requested by Mr. Truman, including some subsidies and a revision of farm parity provisions for price control purposes.

Price Director Michael V. Di- a warm session yesterday -with the house agricultural committee, before which he defended his recent three-stage order to. roll beef prices back about ten per cent. DiSalle called the rollback necessary to preserve- "the entire mobilization program." He denie claims it would hurt livestock production and lead to meat black markets. Forecasts 85,000 Letters About MacArthur Dismissal Washington UPi The White House said today it had received 85,000 letters and telegrams since President Truman removed Gen.

MacArthur from his Far Eastern commands. A spolesman said a check, showed about 55 per cent supported MacArthur's posit ion. and 45 per cent the president's. Roger Employe of Roofing Firm Is Electrocuted Plymouth, Wis. Reschke, 19 of Fond du Lac, was electrocuted Monday while he worked atop a ladder for a Fond du Lac roofing firm.

Reschke grabbed for and caught a strip of aluminum as the w4nd picked it up. The other end of the strip touched a 2,300 volt power line, carrying the current into the youth's Jody. V'. terials plan" due on July foreien ministers of the Rus 1 read announced "controlled ma- foreign ministers 01 tne u.s., mist( rial1 rTumi An sia, Britain and red China to met in June or July to draft a treaty. The prompt American rejection was given in a statement by in north and west-central per Wednesday, turning coolei UPPER MICHIGAN: Considerable cloudiness and cooler tonight and Wednesday, few scattered light showers tonight.

WISCONSIN: i able cloudiness, scattered light showers extreme north tonight and i tions Wednesday. Low tonight 40-46 extreme north, 46-53 south. High Wednesday 50-60 extreme north to VO-76 extreme south. EXTENDED FORECASTS--Upper Lakes: Temperatures will average 2 5 degrees below normal. Normal maximum 58 north to 64 south.

Normal minimum 37 north to 42 south. Turning cooler north portion Wednesday and entire area Thursday. Warmer Friday and cooler again Saturday. Rising temperatures Sunday. Precipitation will average 1-10-3-10 inches as showers Thursday and again Friday afternoon or night.

TEMPERATURE Maximum for 24 hours ending at 1:30, 75 degrees: minimum, Si degrees; temperature at 1:30, 73 degrees. Heavy Losses of Enemy lo Break Morale; Gen. Marshall Is On Stand Again Washington Mt Secretary Marshall said today the United Nations aim to win the Korean war by inflicting "terrific casualties" on the Chinese Commu; nists, breaking their morale and destroying their trained armies-. The defense secretary gave that answer to senators pressing him an to what "foreseeable the adminsitration's Korean war policies promise. He was at the capital for the second day defending those pelt cies against the bitter attack made by Gen, Douglas MacArthur, deposed Far Eastern commander who contends they offer nothing but a "bloody stalemate." Marshall told the senators, too, that he is "disturbed" about the possible effect on United Nations men in Kore i of statements from their commander (MacArthur) "which accentuate the casualties that they are suffering and in effect that it without justified purpose." FIND SOME WAY "We should find some way," Marshall said, "of proceeding with this investigation that does not destroy us in the field serious reaction in the way ot morale." Marshall said the administration's plan fo" Korea has been to "inflict the greatest number of casualties could in order to break down not oniy the morale, but the trained, fabric of Chinese armies." At this point the censored eleted 50 words from the public version of Marshall's testimony.

Then the secretary of defense continued: "That is, inflict terrific casualties on the Communist forces. "If we break the morale ot their armies, but more particularly, if we destroy tfeelr best trained armies as we have been in the process of doing, there, it seems to me, you develop the best probability of reaching a satisfactory negotiatory basis with those Chinese Communist forces, without getting ourselves into what we think would be a great hazard toward developing a much enlarged struggle with consequently larger casualties or a complete world war." MAC'S ORDERS Marshall had testified that United Nations troops in Korea are barred from ing within 15 miles of the Russian border. He said also that MacArttuir had been ordered to confine his operations tc Korea "and under no circumstances to carry O6t operations beyond the of Korea into (Chinese) Manchuria." There is every indication these orders have not been changed and still restrict the operations of Lt. Gen. Matthew B.

Ridgway. MacArthur's successor as Pacific commander. However, Marshall said there was a "modification" in the restrictions" in the event that our forces were attacked outside of Korea--to the effect that he (Mac 5 Arthur) was authorized to retaliate in bombing against such op. erations." Marshall, who like MacArthur is a five-star general, testified before the senate foreign and armed service committees. They are making a general ig- quiry into MacArthur's dismissal from his Far Eastern commands and the policy differences whicb led to it.

The caution against giving Russians any reason to raise questions about operations near their border was touched on earlier in the hearings. HE COMPLAINED MacArthur, in the witness Chair last week, complained he waf never allowed to bomb a North Korean supply center because of its proximity to the Russian border Marshall said MacArthur was "cautioned against having Units within, I think it was, about 15 miles of the border in northeast Korea where it touched the meter of Siberia, the Soviet sev- ernment." He added: "The restrictions did not apply to operations by the navy on the water along off the coast of ea, but those were restricted; other 'words, forbidden, in 'relation to the anchorian coast, thfe China coast, and most specifically the northeastern tip of Korea in proximity to the Soviet "There was an agreement that not these necessary in order "to avoid ai break with our Allies and a complete confusion in our relati the United Nations and si cally the Security Council 0 UN), but they also felt it would be necessary in regard to taliation that could be carried out by a heavy force if they developed on the Communist side." The committees are holdiociB their behind lEWSFA.PESr NE WSFAPEEl.