Henderson Daily News (Henderson, Tex.),, Vol. 1, No. 131, Ed. 1 Monday, August 17, 1931 Page: 1 of 4
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AT REGULAR PAY
Worth Bargain Store and Kolb’s
Cafe and Shoe Shop Badly
Hit by Fire, Water
Unemployment and Prohibitory
Law Given Credit for Exer-
cising Bad Influence
CRIME CAUSES
HARD TO FIND
Daily and Rusk County
News Telephones—
Big Companies Assure Governor
They Will Keep Men on Pay-
roll at Regular Schedule
PROCLAMATION
SHUTTING DOWN
WELLS ISSUED
Rebellion of Operators Against
Railroad Commission Orders
Given as One Reason
LINDBERGHS RESTING
IN NORTHERN SIBERIA
BILLIONS CUBIC FEET
GAS IS WASTED DAILY
EAST TEXAS MARTIAL
LAW TEXAS’ BIGGEST
Rocked By Quakes
after their
and Alaska
looked
riches.
No Trouble Feared Bui Several
Thousand Men to Be Thrown
Out of Employment
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GUARDS GO ON DUTY IN
CAW SITES AS NAME!
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RANGERS AGAIN RECALLED
FROM ARANSAS PASS
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Sterling Reviews Some Reasons
Why Necessary to Shut in
Field at Present
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HENDERSON MEN TO BE
ON SPECIAL PROGRAM
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BROTHER HELD AFTER
BALL PLAYER KILLED
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HEAVY LOSS IN
BLAZE SUNDAY
which had come
peotedly and then
the price of oil dr
to 14 cents a ban
Here and there
were heard from X
to the st
fleers in
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• COMPLETE WIRE REPORTS OF UNITED PRESS, THE GREATEST V
MILITIA WILL1
BE IN CO
OF PROI
Two Local Men Arrested Sunday
for Kirbyville Bank Robbery and
More Than All Money Lost Taken
Earth Movement Severe in Western Part of the
State and Also Carlsbad Cavern
GEN. WOLTERS VETERAN
MILITARY LAW COMMANDER
All Etex Oil Wells Shut Do
vent. Of course the military
forces will have ample author-
ity to act in any emergency.
When General Wolters ar-
rived in Kilgore thin morning
to take command of the forcea,
already mobilized, he immedi-
ately called newspaper men to
The cbm
court calen
hearing is 1
DALLAS, Aug. 17 (UP)—Earth
tremors which shook Texas early
yesterday caused no loss of life
and did little damages, a survey
showed today. Three distinct
shocks were reported at 5:45 a. m.
Sunday from El Paso to Dallas
and from Amarillo to Eagle Pass,
San Antonio and Houston.
It was the first quake in the
history of many central and south
Texas points. The most violent
shocks were experienced at Fort
Stockton, Valentine, Lobo and
Pecos, all west Texas points.
Chimneys were shaken down at
Valentine and Carlsbad, N. M.
Windows were broken at Lobo.
Electric lights swung like pendu-
lums. O. W. Frteudstein said chan-
deliers swayed a foot in his cafe.
Gravel rained from the room of
a wavering three-story building.
WalJ paper was cracked in a num-
ber of homes.
Hundreds of
Hearty Co-Operatioo Off
For Move Calculated to I
crease Price of Oil
By ED JONES
KILGORE, Tex., Auj
(UP)—The greatest oil 1
Mi in the world today submi
eiandin, Minister of Fl- peacefully to shutdown
dared today. j r jn han of J
, in an Interview, said * “7..““”. ,n,
ms «uch as the united Texas National Guards
under command of Brig. <
Jacob F. Wolters. Jt
A few operators opened
valves on their wells in a
minute effort to secure
possible oil but obeyed n
Dallas Man Drowns.
SMITHVILLE,. Tex., Aug. 17
(UP)—Funeral services for Har-
ry Davis, 52, railroad man who
was drowned in the Colorado river
here yesterday, will be held at
Dallas today. Davis and two oth-
er men swam across the river and
were malting a return trip, when
a few feet from the bank, Davis
sank and did not come up.
Kcnberson Utailp ZVcws
THREE HOURS LATER NEWS THAN ANY OTHER AFTERNOON PAPER SERVING HENDERSON.
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_____________________HENDERSON, RUSK COUNTY, TRY AS, MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1931 A
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 (UP)
—Two hurricane warnings were
posted today by the weather bu-
reau.
The first reported progress of
a storm which has been on the
bureau’s list for some days as it
moved Slowly north —. 2_ 2—
Carribean. It said:
“Tropical disturbance which
moved inland over Yucatan Pen-
insula Sunday is apparently cen-
tral in southwestern gulf some dis-
tance north of Krontera moving
northward, intensity probably
moderate.” ,
The second read:
“Tropical disturbance central
between Porto Rico and St. Croix
moving northwestward. Small di-
ameter, probably moderate inten-
sity.”
PALESTINE, Tex., Aug. 17
(UP)—Special guards have been
posted by the Humble Oil Com-
pany at its refineries and pump-
ing stations because of reports of
communist activities, the Palestine
Press said in an extra edition to-
day.
The Press said that 14 or more
of the guards, many of them with
special Ranger commissions, were
sent to East Texas Saturday night
and three were posted near here.
-Caster in his
Ice Officer
a< 2:15
by ©eputj’
Watson in
his room in Kilgore, to which city
he had moved recently for tem-
porary work.
Wood is said by officers to have
had >8,360 In his suit case.
Sunday afternoon Castor car-
ried Deputy Gary to a plum thick-
et just across the Gregg county
line where he had buried $8,840.
Castor had $215 in his pockets
whHHHMHPuB
What Will Martial Law Shutdown Mean Here?
a conference at the City Hall
there and distributed copies of
the governor’s proclamation,
together with printed handbills
of Guard order No. 4 which or
ders “all persons, owners and
.operators of producing oil or
natural* gas wells to immedlte-
ly shut down all such wells and
not produce further with|n a
military district consisting Of
Upshlr, Rusk, Gregg and Smith
Counties until further orders.”
The area of the zone is more
than 600 square miles. The
word persons was defined as
meaning “managers, officials
and executives of all compan-
ies, corporations, associations
or firms operating oil or tu
wells.”
AUSTIN, Aug. 17.—(UP)—Gov.
Ross Sterling seated at a desk cov-
ered with belated petitions for mar-
tial law In East Texas and congrat-
ulatory messages on his shutdown
of the oil field there, expressed sat-
isfaction today with progress of his
efforts to control the huge field.
“I haven’t the least douty, that
purchasing companies themselves
will say that the price of oil will be
Increased,” he said, when asked If
■he thought an increase In the price
of crude oil would follow the shut-
down.
Closed Down By Night
Gov. Sterling said he was advised
by ILeut. Chas. Perllts, aide to Brig.
Gen. Jacob F. Wolters, In command
in East Texas, that the entire field
would be shut down by tonight.
Ueut. Perllts reported, the gover-
nor said, that many operators shut
down their wells at 6 a. m. today
without waiting for orders. He said
that when troops reached East Tex-
as they found that several inde-
pendent operators, anticipating the
order, shut down Sunday.
Oil companies began advis-
ing the governor at noon that,
they will continue their em-
ployees on payrolls until cessa-
tion of the shutdown.
“X commend them for that,” Gov.
Sterling said. “Oil field workers
are not Interested in the price of oil
but do want something to live on.
He refused to say how long he
PETROPAVLOSK, Siberia, Aug.
17 (UP)—Hospitality of this lit-
tle fishing settlement of Kamchat-
ka Peninsula and the need of rest
held Col. and Mrs. Charles A.
Lindbergh here today
flight from Karaginsk
en route to Tokio.
They planned to take off early
Tuesday for Nemuro, last stop be-
fore reaching Tokio, where they
are due Wednesday.
After inspecting their plane
with the typical Lindbergh atten-
tion to details and accepting the
welcomes of Soviet officials, the
flyers rested and wandered about
.the little settlement, showing in-
terest in the fishing craft which
carry the men of the village into
the northern ice-cluttered waters.
HE HINTS AT BRIDE TO
KEEP HIM FROM SENATE
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CHICAGO, Aug. 17 (UP)—
Frank L. Smith charged today in
an open letter that Julius Rosen-
wald, the philanthropist, offered
him the equivalent of $555,000 in
1926 to withdraw from the Sen-
atorial race in Illinois.
The letter was addressed to Car-
roll Woody, University of Chicago
professor who recently published
a book condemning Smith’s suc-
cessful 1926 campaign which re-
sulted in the Senate later refusing
him his seat. Smith suggested the
letter be incorporated as an addi-
tional chapter of the book.
BILLIE RAY BRISTER, 3,
OF JOINERVILLE IS DEAD
ARANSAS PASS, Tex., Aug. 16
(UP)—Threats of violence as •*
result of the investigation of the
slaying of Dorothy Symons, 18,
choir singer found on the beach
choked to death, had failed to ma-
terialize today.
Rangers sent here as the result
of the rough handling of Justice
Carl Utterback, 70, when he ord-
ered an aut
girl’s body.
DENVER, Colo., Aug. 17 (UP)
—An earthquake of third-degree
intensity damaged houses and
caused hundreds to flee their
homes in terror in West Texas and
Eastern New Mexico.
Considerable damage but no in-
juries resulted.
The quake, the first in more
than a quarter of a century was
described as being just short of
“highly destructive.” The shocks
were recurrent. The main quake
lasted 38 minutes and was felt
over an area extending from Dal-
las, Tex., to Tucumcari, N. M.
The quake was apparently cen-
tered at Fort Stockton, Tex., a
number of houses were wrecked
in Valentine, Tex. The brick
school building there was badly
damaged.
AUSTIN, Aug. 17 (UP)—One
man was held and another sought
for questioning today by Travis
and Blanco county officers inves-
tigating the “ride” murder of T.
L. Gray, 45. of Phoenix, Aris.
Gray’s body was found on the
road between Austin end Johnson
City Saturday. He hed been shot
and apparently had been dumped
from a moving automobile.
Gray was on his way to visit his
mother when he was Killed. Fun-
eral services for him wer« held
here today.
cers recovering considerably more
money than was taken from the
bank, which first reported $6,000
missing.
The Newton cotpity sheriff left
here Monday morning about 5
o’clock with the men, who had
spent Sunday and Sunday night
in the Rusk county jail.
It was said here hat a day or
two before the robbery Wood had
introduced himself aft the Kirby-
ville bank and said he was a bar-
ber in Henderson. He was rec-
ognized by a bank employe during
the hold up. Soon after the hold
up he was found to have left Kil-
gore recently with Castor, so ar-
rests of the two were made an
easy matter.
Wood came to Henderson about
■even months ago from Hobbs,
New Mexico. -Castor wae also a
newcomer, being an experienced
officer and ‘ -----
moved
DALLAS, Aug. 17 (UP)—Al-
fred Nash was in jail here today
and his brother, Howard Nash, 87,
was dead as the result of a shoot-
ing at a baseball game at Irving,
near here yesterday.
Howard Nash, second baseman
for the Scyene team which was
playing Irving, tas shot as h* sat
on the playeFs bench. Several
shots were fired and he died in
an ambulance on the way here.
Family trouble was blamed.
Approximately 100 leading cit-
izens of East Texas will meet
in Jefferson Wednesday morning
to go by motorboat down Cypress
Bayou and Caddo Lake to Moor-
ingsport after a discussion of a
program to make Caddo Lake a
State or National park.
The purpose of the trip, leaders
say, will be a wonderfully pleas-
ant social trip on one of the great-
est and most beautiful inland wat-
erways of the south—an oppor-
tunity fof first hand information
<m what has been characterized as
the gerat potential park of Texas.
ONE MAN BEING HELD
FOR A RIDE MURDER
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Martial law in the East Tex- f
as oil belt shduld not interfere
In any way with legitimate
business . . . for under the
proclamation of Governor Ster-
ling production of oil will not
be legitimate and that is all
the action la Intended to pre-
Billie Ray Brister, 8-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Brister
of Joinerville, died Sunday after
an illness of about two weeks. The
body was shipped Sunday after-
noon by the Crim Undertaking
Parlors, to Alexander, La., where
funeral services were to be held
today.
AUSTIN, Aug. 17.—(UP)—
Martial law has been invoked
■even times before In Texas,
records show, but never before
for an area as large as the East
Texas oil field. The places,
times and causes of previous
martial law invocations were:
Galveston, September, 1900.
aftermath of storm: Corpus
Christi, September - October,
1919, aftermath of storm; Gal-
veston, June-October 1910,
waterfront strike disorders;
Mexia, January-March, 1922,
oil field lawlessness; Denison.
July-October, 1612, railroad
■trike disc’•ders; Borger, Sep-
tember-October, 1922, murder
of a district attorney; Sher-
man, May, 1920, riot and court
house burning.
FRANCE NOT TO GIVE
UP REPARATIONS CLAIM
MEXIA Aug. 17. (UP)— .
Brig. Gen. Jacob F. Wqltera
has enforced martial law In
Texas oil fields before, al-
though he has never directed
another shutdown of wells
The veteran military adminis-
trator was in command of the
troops at Mexia in 1922 when
martial law was invoked to re-
store order here.
The story goes that early In
the occupation, Gen. Wolters
In full uniform and carrying a
quirt, strode into a cafe, stood
in the middle of the floor and
looked around without a word.
I The proprietor didn't know
Gen. Wolters or his rank.
"Well, what the----do you
want?” he demanded.
Gen. Wolters continued his
survey. Presently he began
pointing with the quirt.
“I don’t like ypur place,” he
observed. "I believe you have
whiskey in those bottles up
there, and there and there.”
"Well, what do* you think
you’re going to do about It sol-
dier boy?”
Brig. Oen. Wolters brought
his quirt down across a table
with a whish and a slap.
"I’m going to close the
damned place!” he roared.
He closed It. „
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SPECIAL GUARDS WATCH
ALL HUMBLE REFINERIES
KILOORE, Aug. 17. (UP)—A re-
mark shouted by a high school boy
to a grocer’s daughter as he rode in
uniform on a National Guard truck
rumbling away to the oil fields
echoed today from camp to camp as
a slogan of the troops mobilised to
enforce Gov. Sterling’s order to
close in all wells in ths flush Bast
Texas region.
"We’re here to fight the business
depression,” called out the beard-
less soldier as ho went, laughing
may necessitate and then only and singing to ths "battlefield."
— ..— ------ ---- The remark was caught up by
other soldiers. It was shouted from
truck to truck and the Texans who
gathered along the way to V
their youths go awsg to the
All lu all. it was a happy i
that was given
CITIZENS ADVISED ENFORCEMENT "F MARTIAL LAW IN EAST TEXAS
NOT MILITANT MOVE; RELATES ONLY TO CLOSING OIL PRODUCTION
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General Wolters said that
Col. Walter B. Ppron arrived at
El aPso today from California
and would fly here to act as
the general's aide.
General Wolters posed
agreeably for a horde ot cam-
era men but begged them not
to shoot until he removed his
shell rimmed spectacles. Hs
announced that he will hold
regular press conferences dally
with oorrespondenta and said
no one else would be authoriz-
ed to talk for publication.
Section seven of general or-
der No. 2 warned that all per-
sons undertaink “to sell, bar-
ter exchange or give Intoxicate
in gllquors, especially Jamaica
ginger, to any members of the
military forces occupying the
area” will be arrested promptly
and tried by, military court
martial.
Another clause of the order
said that all rights of property
will bo held inviolate and will
not be disturbed exoopt as ex-
igencies of the public welfare
may necessitate and then only
by direct command of the com-
manding officer.
The first troops to reach
their camp site were the M
members of the 112th Cavalry
Band from Mineral Wells. They
■at about on the wot ground a
mile and a half southwest of
A reforestation meeting under
the auspices of the East Texas
Chamber of Commerce will
be held Tuesday, August 18, in
the district court room in Nacog-
doches. Interested persons are es-
pecially invited form the counties
of Rusk, Panola, Shelby, San Au-
gustine, Polk, Angelina, Chero-
kee and Nacogdoches counties.
C. C. Teller, chairman of the
Etex C. of C., agriculture commit-
tee, will preside at the morning
session. Merle Gruver, secretary
of the local Chamber of Com-
merce will respond to the address
of welcome by Hon. Guy Blount.
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FWO HURRICANE WARNINGS
POSTED BY WEATHER MAN
Wayne Castor, former city po-
liceman here, and Claud Wood, a
barber operating a shop on South
Main street until two or three
weeks ago, were turned over to
the sheriff of Newton county here
Monday morning in connection
with the daylight robbery of the
Kirbyville State ban* early Sat-
urday morning.
Both men were arrested early
Sunday (horning—Uastai
room here by Night Polio
C. R. Flannagan
o’clock and Wood
Sheriffs Gary and
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Cost Not Yet Bstlmated
AUSTIN, Aug. 17 (UP)—Gov-
ernor Rosa Sterling declined today
to estimate the cost of sending
national guardsmen Into East Tex-
as to shut down oil wells there.
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Guards in East T
to Fight Depres
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Militia Finds Slogan in Words of Yo
Kilgore Grocer’s Daughtei
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east and in extra:
tonight and Tueed
Wart Texas —.
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Man Found Fatally Hurt,
FORT WORTH, Tex., Aug. 17
(UP)—A man believed to be W.
D. Beck, found under a viaduct
here with his eyes blackened and
his body bruised, died here yes-
terday without revealing the man-
ner of his injuries.
What will be the effect of mar-
tial law en business How many
men will be put of work? How
long will it last?
These and scores of similar
questions'meaning about the same
thing were being asked by every-
body here this morning regarding
the laying of martial law over the
East Texas oil fields—and nearly
all answers were a conjecture.
But first indications are it won’t
be so bad.
The East Texas Refining
company and the Dixie Ser-
vice company advised the
Daily News this morning that
they would not lay off a man
during the shutdown.
A statement by Governor Ster-
ling this morning said the large
companies would take care of
their men during the period, this
promising material aid to the men.
To make a complete survey to
see the general policies ol all pro-
ducers and operators will require
several days, but many leaders de-
clare the lay-offs will not be bad.
Holiday Spirit prevails.
A holiday spirit prevails out in
the oil field where martial law
went into effect this morning at
7:15 o’clock.
At that time the Humble Oil &
Refining Co., together with sev-
eral other companies, shut in their
wells and the men have little to
do other than report for work and
then mark time. As yet no men
have been laid' off, and there
seems to be a general feeling of
jollity as though it were the fourth
of July, or some other occasion
for celebrating.
Walls Shut Ih.
Earl Calloway, independent op-
erator reported to Major S. J.
Houghton, Jr., Commander of the
First Squadron of the 112th Cav-
alry upon his arrival at Overton
that he had already shut-in his
producing wells. Other operators
Business aag OircalaStost. .No. 1
Advertialng and News ....No.
PARIS, Aug. 17 (UP)—France
never will relinquish her claim to
reparations from Germany, Pierre-
Etienne Flandi
nance, decl
Flandin, In an Interview,
that nations such as the United
States were entitled to dispose of
their reparations as they wished,
but that Franco Intended to Insist
on Germany’s making the sched-
uled payments.
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MEETING TO DISCUSS
General Wolters said that the
force of 11 Texas Rangers
headed by Captain Tom Hick-
man now here will bo used to i
make arrests. The general
called special attention to sec-
tion of general order No. 2,
which says persons violating
any order of the governor con-
tained in the executive procla-
mation referring to enforcing
obedlenos ot the laws relating
to conservation and prohibition
of the waste or crude petro-
leum or natural gas will be
"arrested and detained as In-
surrectionists" until the lifting
of martial law.
“I hope the coming of the
troops will not be considered
by the citizen* as a ‘militant
move.” said General Wolters. -
"We are here only to
The Worth Bargain Store stock,
owned by Clay Huffman, was al-
most completely destroyed by fire
and water and the stock of Kolb s
Cafe and Shoe shop was badly
watersoaked at 2:30 o’clock be-
tween the J. C. Penney and the
Mays & Harris Stores.
Damage to the building was es-
timated at about $400, covered by
insurance, and the fine work of
the fire department was demon-
strated by the fact that only one
small hole was buriit rn the wood-
en partition separating the two
stores.
Huffman said his $13,000 stock
was completely destroyed. He is
said to have had insurance to the
amount of $8,000.
Kolb’s loss will run to several
hundred dollars through smoke
* and water damage. He did not
carry any insurance.
Origin of the fira, which start-
ed in the Bargain store, is unde-
termined.
Smoke •- emanating from the
building made the fire appear very
menacing, but the fire department
soon had five leads into the build-
ing and quickly brought the fire
under control. It never did break
through the roof.
Kindling up again this morning
at about 5 o’clock, Fireman Gib-
bons placed a hose on it and
drowned it out again.
During the fire Sunday after-
noon, another alarm was turned
jt from the Williams tire shop,
'his also was answered, but the
ire was extinguished through fire
xtinguishers by t^e time/ the
ruck arrived.
The fira Sunday attracted large
FUTURE CADDO LAKE
by General Wolters ta
with Governor Roas
martial law proclamati
General Wolter* an
10:80 a. m. that all V
Texas and Humble Ota
been shut down. Til
owns 10 per cent of the
wells In the field. Other con
les obeyed as readily.
Ths Sinclair OU and Gas <
pany with appi
wells in the field
der. Production
company at
shutting in
By PAUL R. MALLON
United Press Staff Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 (UY)
•—Unemployment and prohibitory
laws were cited repeatedly as
causes of crime in the latest Wick-
ersham report to President Hoo-
ver. ,
But the commission found in its
13th of its reports that its task
was too great. A majority _de-
cided the commission could no*
specifically determine the causes
of crime. Neither could the com-
missioners prescribe remedies so-
ciety might profitably administer
to cure its crime illness.
Two bulky volumes contain the
commission’s report—about 250,-
000 words. All but a few para-
graphs were written by six socio-
logical experts who investigated
for *he commission. Repeatedly,
these investigators referred to
“prohibitory laws” in their search
for crime causes. Prohibition of
alcoholic beverages was not men-
tioned except incidentally.
The investigators sifted unem-
ployment and business depression
for crime stimuli. In the para-
graphs contributed to the report
by the commission majority, there
was no reference to either pro-
hibitory laws or unemployment.
These paragraphs simply express-
ed the hopelessness of discovering
crime causes. Nine members
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JACK DEMPSEY FILES
A SUIT FOR DT "
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RENO, Aug. IT (UP
Dempsey filed suit for divi
day charging bls wife,
lor Dempsey, with ex
ty.
No specific allegatk
ty were numerated.
The action wax filed
of William Harrison
Robert E. Burns,
former heay
ter Burns ha
hour in ths
the oomplaii
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