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'Operator'Misconduct'
In Pension Battle
Charged by Lewis
John L. Lewis today accused coal
mine operators of “misconduct” and
“pernicious actions” In their fight to
block payment of $100 monthly pen
sions to his United Mine Workers.
The charges were hurled at Ezra
Van Horn, the operators’ trustee of
the UMW welfare and retirement
fund. In new papers filed In District
Court by Walter M. Bastian and
A. K. Shipe. attorneys for Mr. Lewis.
Specifically, the action taken to
day by Mr. Bastian and Mr. Shipe
was aimed at dismissal of the Van
Horn suit to invalidate the Bridges
plan for payment of pensions to
miners, and the subsequent Van
Horn petition for summary judg
ment. Justice T. Alan Ooldsborough
will hear the whole controversy
June 19.
Reveals Full Record.
Mr. Lewis revealed for the first
time the full record of meetings of
the three-man welfare fund trustee
board, during which repeated ef
forts to begin the pension payments
were made. Minutes of 13 trustee
meetings were filed with the court.
Mr. Lewis is the UMW trustee, Mr.
< Van Horn the operators and Sena
tor Bridges, Republican, of New
Hampshire, is the neutral.
“I am making these minutes
available for inspection by the
court,” Mr. Lewis said in his affi
davit, “so that the obstructive, de
laying and frustrating acts and
conduct of the plaintiff (Mr. Van
Horn) may be fully, completely and
Anally disclosed and revealed to the
end that the court may see and ob
serve the naked truth of plaintiff 's
pernicious actions.”
Failure of the trustees to agree
on a pension plan as provided by
the coal industry contract led to a
long mine strike this spring. The
walkout ended after Senator Bridges
and Mr. Lewis voted a plan over
Mr. Van Horn’s protest, to pay $100
monthly pensions to miners 62 and
older, with 20 years’ service. Later
Mr. Van Horn brought suit to knock
out the Bridges plan, charging it
would bankrupt the fund and was
unlawful under the Taft-Hartley
Act.
Van Horn Votes Cited.
In support of charges that Mr.
Van Horn "obstructed” efforts to
activate the wellare' fund —now
nearly $40,000,000—attorneys for the
UMW showed that he had voted!
against some seven resolutions de
signed to start payments since he
opposed the Bridges plan.
The Lewis affidavit accused Mr.
Van Horn of “deliberately” trying to •
“mislead and deceive” the court by |
using excerpts from the trustee,
meetings.
"His vain and inglorious effort to i
defend his misconduct as trustee
vanishes before the fatal truth as
disclosed in the complete minutes
ef the meetings * * • " Mr. Lewis
continued. "His efforts to defend
himself by taking excerpts from the
context of the said meetings are
futile and puerile.
Charges Shameful Conduct.
“ * * * The entire record shows,
that his fMr. Van Horn’*) conduct!
is shameful and in utter disregard
of his duties as trustee.”
Another paper filed by Mr. Shipe
and Mr. Bastian struck at the argu
ments for invalidation of the Bridges
plan, including the Van Horn con-,
tention that decisions of the trus
tees must be unanimous.' The attor-'
neys argued the UMW fund is “a
charitable trust”—a “vast public
concern”—rather than a private
trust, and therefore actions could
be decided by majority trustee vote.
They said it is recognized in the
coal contract, providing for payment
of pensions and other welfare bene
fits, that there would not always
be unanimity among the trustees,
and provision was made for a neu
tral trustee to settle such deadlocks.'
The attorneys said the Bridges
plan does not violate the Taft
Hartley Act and provision is made
for adjustment of pension payments
if the $100 per month proves to be
more than the fund will bear.
Coal
'Continued From First Page.>
yesterday that it is a "condition
precedent to a new contract” that1
certain welfare fund guarantees be
given.
Immediately, some Government
as well as industry lawyers ex
pressed the opinion privately that
Mr. Lewis might not be bargaining
in good faith.
Justice T. Alan Goldsborough
issued an injunction last Friday j
directing Mr. Lewis to bargain in
good faith with the Southern Coal
Producers’ Association. Up to then
Mr. Lewis had refused to seat
Joseph E. Moody, president of that
association, in industry-wide nego
tiations. So Mr. Lewis quickly
moved to comply and arranged the
current talks, with Mr. Moody sit
ting in.
Mr. Lewis addressed the operators
yesterday as “the most .corpulent
of native fat cats” and served notice
that wage and welfare improvements j
were the price of peace after July 1.1
But he left the amount open. He
asked the owners to All that in.
Operators Assail Lewis.
The operators said the "answer
lies with Lewis” whether there will
be another strike. Noting the UMW
leader’s assertion that he was at
tending the contract conferences
only because he was forced to, the
owners last night issued this state
ment:
“He complains of being shackled
by law. The difficulty with the1
present law is that it is inadequate ;
to protect the public from people
who would deprive them of the i
necessities of life. * * *
“Lewis by his very actions, by his i
contempt of the Government and1
the people, is doing more at this
time to force upon labor more
stringent regulations than would'
perhaps otherwise be thought
of. • • *
“It comes with ill grace for Mr.
Lewis to talk about increasing the
price of coal, when no man in
America has done more to place
upon the consumers of coal in this
country higher and higher costs.”
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5 Baby Opossums Given Haven
In Zoo; Fed by Medicine Dropper
Mrs. Lillian Bricker, 3000 McComas avenue, Kensington,
gives warm milk to the five baby opossums she rescued yes
terday after their mother had been killed by a car.
—Star Staff Photo.
Five squirming, Inquisitive baby
opossums today are getting the
Zoo's milk-in-a-medicine-dropper
routine—used when animal mothers
die or are otherwise unable to nurse
their young.
The very young opossums were
sent to the Zoo yesterday by Mrs.
Lillian Bricker, 3000 McComas ave
nue, Kensington, Md. They were
seen by her husband, George, clus
tered about the body of their mother,
which had been struck by a car near
the Bricker home. When Mr. Bricker
got to work, he called his wife, Mrs.
Bricker, whose pets include three
dogs, several *cats and kittens, a
quantity of fish and a flock of young
turkeys, who rescued the cold brood.
She fed them warm milk with a
medicine dropper, much in the way
she cared for three baby squirrels
she found abandoned last year. She
considered letting a cat play mother
to the infants, but she was afraid
the cat's carniverous instinct might
overcome her maternal one.
Mrs. Bricker had one other can
didate for the role of mother—her
police dog, Lady. But this, too, she
reasoned might be dangerous, al
though Lady is addicted to gather
ing up small animals of all kinds
and mothering them.
The Zoo, she thought, might be
short on opossums. Upon investi
gation, she found it was. Dr. Wil
liam M. Mann, the director, said
he'd be delighted to receive them.
After a last medicine-dropper
meal, supervised by a jealous Lady,
which constantly sought to steal
one of the babies and carry it to
her "maternity ward" in a hall
closet, the infants were sent off.
They made the trip to the Zoo in
care of a reporter and photographer
for The Star.
Turned over to assistant Head
keeper Malcolm Davis, the young
opossums were taken off to the
small mammal house. There they
huddled into a single black mass,
after being fed their fourth meal
of the day by medicine dropper.
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Bomb
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bomb wa$ the work pi some; one who
"knew whit he was doing.” "It
wasn’t the work of an amateur,” he
said. The bomb expert said the ex
plosive was definitely wired to the
ignition of the car and that it was
more than “mere gunpowder.” He
would not say exactly what it was.
Mr. Denekas, who died the day
after his 11th wedding anniversary,
had been in the partnership of the
Old Dominion Sign Co., 3434 North
Washington boulevard, with Mc
Daniel until several months ago.
The partnership was dissolved
and the firm went out of business in
April. The owner of the building
they occupied, Earl T. Mason, 4518
Wilson boulevard, said they had
been in disagreement and still owed
two months rent when the firm was
dissolved.
Sentenced on Check Charge.
McDaniel said he had not seen
Mr. Denekas for about six weeks.
He said that when the Arm broke
up they were in disagreement over
what he termed his partner’s ’’poor’’
handling of the business.
Court records show that both
were given 90-dav suspended sen
tences last spring for passing a
check without sufficient funds. The
check was for $37.51 and was issued
January 24 by the Old Dominion
company. The complainants were
listed as Boyd F. Sims, a former
employe of the company; Lawrence
W. Hyre and Leon Stein, trading as
the Arlington Bootery.
Several suits to collect money
allegedly owed by the company are
on Ale in Arlington County Court.
The sheriff's office attached the
company property March 12 for
debts.
Last month, while under attach
ment, the place was broken into
and a valuable machine used in
manufacture of neon signs was
stolen.
Was in Town Last Week.
McDaniel, according to a Vir
ginia official, has been working in
the sign business in Northern Vir
ginia since shortly after the Arm
was dissolved in Arlington. Mr.
Mason, owner of the Arlington
building, said McDaniel was in town
last week, but added that the "boys
did not get together."
Mr. Mason said he was ‘‘im
pressed" with Mr. Denekas’ appar
ent determination to pay his debts
after the firm closed. He said Mr.
Denekas had told him McDaniel
sold his car and left for Richmond
in their jointly owned airplane. The
; plane was wrecked and to In Rich
mond, Mr. Mason said Mr. Denekas
told him.
Mr. Denekas had lived at the
home of Mrs. Strader since last
fall. His wife, Helen Denekas. lives
at 1415 South Glebe road, and
is an employe of the Dardenelles
Restaurant in Falls Church. Their
two children, William Anthony
Denekas. 9, and Robert N. Denekas,
7, live with their grandmother, Mrs.
N. A. Staples, 1022 North Fillmore
street.
Mr. Mason said attempts at re
conciliation between Mr. Denekas
and his wife had been made.
Mrs. Strader Also Estranged.
Mrs. Strader also is estranged
from her husband, Frank Strader,
a fourth precinct policeman in
Washington.
Funeral arrangements for Mr.
Denekas had not been completed,
but an uncle, Percy May, 3812 North
Washington boulevard, Arlington,
said the body would be taken to the
Ives funeral home in Arlington. Mr.
May was scheduled to make formal
identification of the body today.
Mr. Denekas, a native of Wash
ington, was a former Arlington
Post Office employe and an auxil
iary policeman. In January, 1944,
after he had lived in Arlington five
years, he started driving a taxi.
Mrs. Denekas said they had been
separated about a year, but had
remained on friendly terms.
Their children were told of his
death by their mother late yester
day.
In Harrisonburg, Austin Taylor of
the Liberty Sign Shop said Mc
Daniel told him late yesterday that
authorities in Arlington wanted to
talk with him and that he was try
ing to get in touch with them. Mr.
Taylor said he knew McDaniel be
fore the war and in the last few
days had been told that “I’m trying
to get back on my feet.”
Mr. Taylor said he had offered
McDaniel a job bending neon sign
tubing and that he was to start
work within the next few days.
Jewish Appeol Dinner Set
Stefan Heym, German-born nov
elist, will speak on Jewish displaced
persons in Europe at a United Jew
ish Appeal dinner meeting at the
Statler Hotel at 7 o'clock tonight.
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Charge of Influencing
Court Decision Denied
By Justice Jackson
ty th* Associated Press
Justice Jackson of the Supreme
Court yesterday issued *a formal
denial of a litigant’s assertion that,
because of one-time association with
an attorney, he had influenced the
Supreme Court in a recent 4-to-4
decision.
Justice Jackson, in a printed
statement handed down from the
bench, made the denial to a state
ment by Harrison Parker of Chicago.
The Supreme Court, in a 4-to-4
decision last month, upheld Mr.
Parker’s conviction on a contempt
charge based on a letter sent by
Mr. Parker to a Cook County grand
jury. (A tied Supreme Court vote
leaves the lower court decision in
effect.)
Mr. Parker Hied a petition for
rehearing of his case in which he
made the complaint against Justice
Jackson. At the time the decision
was announced Justice Jackson said
he felt the court should never have
taken the Parker case in the first
place.
Parker Statement Cited.
In his formal statement yesterday,
Justice Jackson said Mr. Parker in
asking for a rehearing stated:
"Prior to his elevation to the
Supreme Court, Justice Jackson was
the general counsel for Terry Drug
gan. Weymouth Kirkland was the
associate counsel with Justice Jack
son in the large money affairs of
Mr. Druggan.”
Justice Jackson said Mr. Parker
added that he (Parker) was in
formed that for these reasons Jus
tice Jackson "had succeeded in di
viding the United States Supreme
Court against this defenseless pe
titioner.”
Justice Jackson's statement said
that the facts were that “I never
have been general counsel or counsel
of any character for any person
named Terry Druggan. Never to my
knowledge saw or met such a per
son, do not know who he might be,
where he resides or what his affairs
consists of. Neither in this nor in
any other manner was I ever asso
ciated professionally with Mr. Wey
mouth Kirkland, nor has he at any
time communicated directly or indi
rectly with me concerning th<s case
or any other matter pending in this
or any other court.’
Douglas Also Mentioned.
Justice Jackson’s statement com
mented that Mr. Parker had raised j
his objections "apparently in good
faith.”
Mr. Parker’s request for hearing
brought up the name of another jus
tice. He asked the Supreme Court
to request a congressional inquiry
“to ascertain if Justice Douglas
traded the liberty of this petitioner
(Parker) for the support of the
Kelly-Nash machine of Chicago for
his nomination for President of the
United States.”
The. Supreme Court, in announc
ing denial of the petition for rehear
ing, made no reference to this state
ment about Justice Douglas. The
court’s announcement noted, how
ever, that Justices Douglas, Black,
Murphy and Rutledge, having voted
last month to reverse Mr. Parker’s
conviction, voted yesterday to grant
the petition for rehearing. The de
cision yesterday not to rehear was
apparently on a 5-to-4 vote.
Defense
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the Army to conduct the enlistment
experiment for two years. For
eigners accepted by the Army would
serve for five years and thereafter
could become American citizens.
Could Be Trained in V. S.
Senator Lodge explained that the
Army would use them in Alaska,
the Caribbean and the Far East.
He agreed to a suggested change!
whereby some of the aliens could be1
trained, if necessary, in the United!
States for short periods.
Senator Tydings, Democrat, of
Maryland supported the proposal
and declared that the United States
would benefit by getting high-type
citizens "who would have served
for five long years in the Army
and shown that they know the re
sponsibility of citizenship.”
But another Democrat, Senator
Lucas of Illinois, urged Senator
Lodge to withdraw the amendment
so that it could be given “more
serious consideration" by the Armed
Services Committee. He agreed
with Senator Gurney that the plan, j
as brought before the Senate today,!
“still leaves too many questions un-1
answered."
At least one of the seven or more j
amendments to be offered today:
might touch off a debate that could
delay final action on the measure i
until tomorrow. That is the proposal J
of Senator Russell, Democrat, of j
Georgia, to allow men to serve in
units of their own race if they so
request.
Senator Russell and other South
ern members put up a fight against
adoption of the amendment to out
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law the poll tax as a condition to
voting in Federal elections by mem
bers of the armed forces on active
duty.
The amendment, one of seven
urged by Senator Langer, Republi
can, of North Dakota, was written
in by a 37-to-35 vote. Senator Taft,
Republican, of Ohio entered the
draft bill debate for the first time
to support this proposal. He said
it would be “impractical" to collect
a poll tax from men serving over
seas.
Other Senators noted that a simi
lar anti-poll tax provision was in
effect during the war and that
seven Southern poll tax States still
retain the wartime suspension of
the tax so far as servicemen are
concerned.
The amendment brought on' sev
eral hours of oratory last night and
led Senator Lucas to accuse Re
publicans of violating an “under
standing” that all seven of the
Langer proposals would be shelved.
Senator Taft retorted that he knew
of no such agreement.
Before quitting for the night, how
ever, the Senate almost took out the
anti-poll tax amendment. Repub
lican leaders made a technical move
to reconsider the amendment and
then table the motion so that the
amendment would be clinched. But
they lost, 35 to 35, although the
present status of the amendment re
mains unchanged.
Besides the Russell amendment
to prevent enforced racial mixing
of troops, others to be brought up
today include:
The proposal of Senator Cape
hart, Republican, of Indiana that
the start of actual drafting be left
up to the President and that in
any event it could not begin for 90
days after enactment. A similar
provision has been inserted in the
House the draft bill now before
the House Rules Committee.
Pour amendments by Senator
Morse, Republican, of Oregon, to
shorten the draft revival from five
to two years, reduce from five to
one year the period during which
drafteeswould serve, place osteo
paths on the same basis as doctors
and dentists in the armed forces,
and establish a civilian commission
of three members to handle the
problem of conscientious objectors.
O’Daniel Asks Profits Tax.
An amendment by Senator
O’Daniel, Democrat, of Texas, to
prevent the draft from becoming
effective until enactment of a law
putting a 100 per cent tax on war
profits.
The pending bill would allow
drafting of men 19 through 25 for
two years’ service. An amendment
adopted last Friday would permit
18-year-old youths to volunteer for
a year’s training.
The first vote on the Langer
amendments came yesterday after
noon when the Senate, by a 67-to-7
vote, tabled a rider that would have
banned racial and religious segrega
tion and discrimination in the
armed forces. The others, except
the anti-poll tax amendment, were
either tabled or defeated on voice
votes. They were designed to bar
discrimination against servicemen
while traveling or in restaurants,
theaters and similar places, or to
require fair employment practices
of firms supplying materials to the
armed forces.
Draft Has Right of Way.
Senator Gurney urged that the
| amendment be tabled because, he
said, civil rights legislation “should
stand on its own feet” Some of
the Senators who voted to table ex
plained they favored civil rights
measures but wanted to assure
early passage of the draft bill.
Sehator Gurney and four other
Republicans, Senators Hickenlooper
of Iowa, Moore of Oklahoma, Cain
of Washington and Robertson of
Wyoming, voted with 30 Democrats
against the anti-poll tax amend
ment.
Senators Pepper of Florida, John
son of Colorado and Murray of
Montana were the Democrats who
i voted with 17 Republicans for the
| rider.
Postman Delays
I Mail But Saves
Life of Boy, 3 I
By the Associated Press
NORMAN, Okla., June The
mail was a little late in Norman—
all because of a very special de
livery.
Postman Alvie Price, 26-year-old
Navy air veteran, was trudging his
usual round yesterday.
As he neared the Santa Pe tracks,
he saw 3-year-old Jerry Gene
Russell sitting between the rails,
i idly tossing gravel Bearing down
on him was the southbound stream
line Texas Chief.
Mr. Price hurled his mail sack
to the ground and raced a half block
through waist-high weeds.
He Just made it. He jerked the
child backward and they both fell
i beside the tracks.
The mailman found the child's j
home and returned him..
1 Then he delivered his other load.!
7 U. S. Navy Officers
Leave for Palestine
As U. N. Observers
8even American Navy officers are
leaving Washington by air for Pales
tine today to act as observers of the
truce ordered by the United Nations
Security Council in the Arab-Jewish
fighting, the State Department an
nounced.
The officers, who were not iden
tified, are part of a group of 21
American military observers re
quested by Count Folke Bernadotte,
who is attempting to work out
details of a four-week truce. Seven
Army and seven Air Force officers
are being assigned from the Eu
ropean theater to the mission.
Requested by Bernadotte.
The State Department said that
during the last few days • Count
Bemadotte had formally requested
France and Belgium as well as the
United States to send military ob
servers to Palestine to assist him In
observing the truce.
The department said the Security
Council resolution calling for a four
weeks’ truce in Palestine mads It
clear that Count Bemadotte, as
mediator, and the truce commis
sion had authority to request such
assistance as might be required in
observing the trues.
The United Stares, France and
Belgium are represented on the
truce commission.
No News on Soviet Request.
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister
Andrei A. Gromyko told the UN
Security Council at Lake Success
yesterday he had heard that the
United States, Belgium and France
were sending observers and served
notice that Russia is ready to send
observers also. A State Department
spokesman said that he had hard
nothing about a request for Russian
observers.
American official personnel In
Jerusalem were reported well today
after a night in which numerous
explosions were heard. The depart
ment said the latest report from the
American Consulate in Jerusalem
mentioned that a mortar shell ex
ploded last night In the courtyard
of the Rosary Convent next door to
the Consulate. Extent of any dam
age was not mentioned.
Croce Rejects Senatorship
ROME, June 8 <JP).—Benedetto
Groce, noted 82-year-old philoso
pher, was reported today to have
refused a life senatorship.
Judge Acquits Four Youths
In Rape and Robbery Trial
Four youths were acquitted of
charges . of rape and robbery
through a judgment of acquittal by
Justice Richmond B. Keech In Dis
trict Court yesterday.
The acquittal was ordered after
the four had gone on trial before
a Jury. Defense counsel contended
there was a discrepancy In testimony
of the complaining witness, a 26
year-old colored woman, and moved
for acquital after the Government
had finished presenting its case.
The four youths who were acquit
ted, all colored, were Aaron F.
Rogers, 22, of the 200 block of W
street N.W.: Sylvester Vaughn, 20,
300 block of Lowrle place NX.: John
H. Sistare, 26. of the 1800 block of
Frederick place SX., and Leon R.
Newton, 20, of the 500 block of
Alexandria place NX.
Foreign Aid
(Continued Prom First Page.)
day to the demand for Senate ac
tion toward restoring the cuts.
Senator Morse said Congress
would give the Russians ammuni
tion for “their poisonous propa
ganda" if it slashed ERP funds
while voting billions for defense.
The Soviet Union then would tell
the world, he said in a floor speech,
that the United States “Is pre
paring for war while selling short
the peace-loving peoples of Europe
in their fight for freedom."
Senator Saltonstall said the House
cut would make ERP “Just another
foreign relief program" rather than
the means of helping Europe back
to a self-supporting basis.
Palestine
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Egyptian chief military advisor to
King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan,
joined the Arab meeting last night.
Abdullah heads the armies assault
ing the Jews in Palestine.
Five Swedish armistice control j
officers left Stockholm by air today
for Cairo, by way of Rome and
Athens. They are expected here
tomorrow, deadline for the truce
replies. The group said they were
asked by Count Bemadotte to hurry
to Cairo.
-A United Nations delegation is on
its way from New York to Palestine
by plane to help Count Bemadotte
in carrying out the truce.
The seven-man group Is headed
by William Stoneman, a special
adviser to U. N. Secretary General
Trygve Lie.
Irgun Rejects Terms
For Jerusalem Truce
•y th» Allotiotad Prut
TEL AVIV, Israel, June 7 (De
layed)—Irgun Zval Leumi, old Jew
ish underground group, warned over
its broadcasting station today that
it is not prepared to “surrender” to
the truce terms for Jerusalem as set
up by Count Folke Bemadotte,
United Nations mediator.
Count Bernadotte is seeking a
four-week truce in all Palestine. In
formed circles say he has proposed
to let the Jews bring a month's food
supply into Jerusalem but to forbid
free communication between Israel
and the Holy City. They interpret
this to mean that Jerusalem would
remain under siege.
Irgun and the Stem group have
undertaken to dissolve within Israel's
borders, but since Jerusalem is out
side they are continuing under
ground activities on their own re
sponsibility there.
Indications here were that no
truce would be possible so long as
Jerusalem remained besieged. In
formed quarters said that even
though a truce should be put into
effect, no guarantee could be given
that it would not be broken soon in
Jerusalem. They pointed to the
abnormal situation there—much of
the city in Jewish hands, all ap
proaches in Arab hands.
i Locals Also Musi Sign
Non-Red Oath, NLRB Holds
ly th« Associated Press
The National Labor Relations
Board decided yesterday that a Na
tional union cannot “front" for one
of its local unions which has not
signed non-Communlst affidavits.
The ruling was handed down in a
case involving the CIO Oil Workers
! and its Local 128, at the Lane Wells
Co.. Los Angeles.
! The board dismissed a petition
of the international union to be
named as the bargaining agent for
52 Lane Wells employes. The com
pany is engaged in surveying and
shooting oil wells.
The Taft-Hartley Act requires
that in order to use the machinery
of the NLRB, officers of a labor
union must submit affidavits dis
avowing communism.
The national officers of the oil
workers have complied, but the
leaders of Local 128, for reasons not
explained by the board, have not
signed the oaths.
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