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Fund Sources
Stir Clash at
Budget Hearing
Bigger U. S. Outlay
And Payroll Taxes
Are Proposed
By HECTOR McLEAN
and HARRIET GRIFFITHS
District taxpayers clashed
sharply today at a revenue hear
ing before the Commissioners
over who should carry the bur
den of a $lO million tax increase
Congress will be asked to Impose
next January.
Cause for economy to ease the
impact of spiraling budgets
BoiMing and Loan Conference Told of
D. C Civic Problems. Pago A-37
Witnesses Ask Repeal of Sales Tax if
District Raises Income Levy. Page l-l
echoed repeatedly through the
District Building board room as
more than 50 witnesses lined up
to testify.
The demand was sounded first
for the Washington Board of
Trade by Bruce Baird, chairman
of its committee on municipal
finance. He warned that further
taxes may "price the District out
of the market” and drive more
business to the suburbs.
The most constant plea was
for new and heavy increases in
the Federal payment to the Dis
trict. A second was for imposition
of a payroll tax on earnings In
the District, to be paid by resi
dents and non-residents working
here. Both are considered politi
cally difficult to achieve.
Lower Exemptions Favored
Reluctant support developed,
however, for a proposal to lower
personal exemption under the in
come tax law from $4,000 to
SI,OOO or $2,000 and add higher
rates for top brackets.
Another proposal gaining re
luctant support even from the
Board of Trade and Real
Estate Board was for a 5-cent
increase in the city’s real estate
tax rate, boosting it from $2.30
for each SIOO of assessed valua
tion to $2.25. The Commis
sioners have been considering a
10-cent increase.
Generally, however, the wit?
nesses spoke up to explain why
their taxes should not be in
creased through special levies
and suggested that somebody
else pay the bill.
School representatives, though,
volunteered to support new taxes
if they would benefit the schools.
Call for Payroll Tax
Mr. Baird was echoed in his
remarks against new tax in
creases by witnesses who de
manded an increase in the
federal payment toward the
costs of operating the Nation’s
capital, and plumped for Imposi
tion of a payroll tax to hit subur
ban Marylanders and Virginians
who work in Washington.
Both these ideas have been
regarded as politically difficult,
if not impossible, but C. Sumner
Brown, speaking for the Federa
tion of Civic Associations, de
clared that “I believe we can
overcome’’ congressional opposi
tion.
He also called for abandoning
of the District's pay-as-you-go
policy and suggested that needed
improvements be financed
through bond issues rather than
taxes,
William J. Smith, chairman of
the fiscal relations and taxation
committee, of the Federation of
Citizens Associations, urged a
Continued on Page A-14, CoL 1
Railroad Engineers
Win 7 Pet. Raise
CHICAGO, Oct. 28 (A 3).—Rep
resentatives of the Nation’s class
one railroads and the Brother
hood of Railroad Engineers to
day reached agreement on the
union’s demands for wage in
creases for road and yard en
gineers.
A Joint carrier-brotherhood
announcement said the agree
ment calls for a general wage
increase of 5 per cent in the
average basic daily rates of lo
comotive engineers. An addi
tional 2 per cent is to be added
"as adjustment of differential
inequities between locomotive
engineers and employes in other
classes of railroad service, ’ the
announcement said.
About 48,000 engineers are af
fected by the agreement, which
is retroactive to October 1, this
year.
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RACES FALLING WALL AND WINS
PHILADELPHIA.—When an explosion tore out the walls
of the SUco Lamp Products Co. daring « firs yesterday a
PhiladelnMaf’ir* Department photographer snapped this
remarkable sj|toto of an unidentified fire-fighter racing out
from tinder the avalanche of death. One fireman, Arthur
Mumbaper, was klUed and 10 others were injured.—AP
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Police Holding Suspect
In Oxon Hill Slaying
Prince George* police today,
were questioning a suspect in;
the slaying last night of a 22-
year-old Air Force veteran who
was found-shot to death on the
lonely street of an unfinished
real estate development in Oxon
Hill, Md.
The suspect was reported to
be a young man, but other
details of his description were
withheld. Police took him to an
undisclosed location for ques
tioning.
The veteran, William Stephen
Birkett of 44 Forrester street
S.W., left home in his car at
6:30 p.m. yesterday to keep a
7 o'clock date with a girl In
Forrestville, Md. His body was
found by prospective home
buyers an hour later In the Kirby
Hill subdivision.
Search for Weapon
A force of 25 Prince Georges
County police today were search
ing the subdivision, off Indian
Head highway, for the murder
weapon, believed to be either a
.32 caliber or a .38 caliber re
volver.
Construction work on the proj
ect was stopped as workmen
joined police in scouring the
area for clues. Police roped off
the wooded tract to keep out
sightseers.
Wootson E. Lacey, of 271 Val
ley avenue S.E., night watchman
for the subdivision who sum
moned a rescue squad when the
Court Acquits Keneipp
In Reckless Driving Case
By JAMES F. MOSER
Star Sue Correspondent
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va„ Oct
28—District Traffic Director
George E. Keneipp today was
acquitted of a charge of reckless
driving in Albemarle County
Circuit Court by Judge Lyttelton
Waddell.
Judge Waddell, after listening
to nearly an hour of testimony,
said he didn’t think that it was
a “very close” Case.
“1 have very great difficulty,”
he said, "of seeing what the
recklessness consists of. I don't
find any evidence of reckless
ness here.”
The charge grew out of an ac
cident on route 250 about 8
miles west of Charlottesville on
August 6 in which Mr. Kenelpp’s
car skidded on wet pavement
and one of three automobiles he
wm attempting to pass left the
road and overturned.
[body was found last night, said
Mr. Birkett was badly scratched
on the arms.
This led to speculation that
the body may have been dragged
through a barbed wire fence at
the edge of the project, or that
the victim engaged in a struggle
before bis death.
Blood Stains Found
Blood stains were found in a
trail leading to nearby woods
along Winslow road, a new
street In the subdivision.
During the night, detectives
questioned the girl, whom po
’ lice refused to identify. She could
' offer no clues to the murder, ac
cording to Sergt. Emmet Gray.
! A lookout was broadcast for
! the dead man’s car. a 1949 ma
roon Ford sedan with Missouri
tags. Two windows were broken
on the driver's side.
Sergt. Gray said Mr. Birkett.
; who was employed by a con
struction firm In Hyattsville, was
shot twice in the right side. Dr.
James I. Boyd, deputy medical
examiner for Prince Georges
County, said he had been dead
a short time when found.
Because the body was found
several miles from the route
Mr. Birkett would have taken
to reach the girl’s home in
Forestvllle, police theorized that
he may have been shot in his
car and his body dumped In
the development. Also, only a
very small amount of blood was
Continued on Page A-29, CoL 1
Mr. Keneipp was convicted of
the charge on August 26 in Albe
marle County Trial Justice Court
by Substitute Trial Justice Allen
N. Spitzer. He was fined sls
and later appealed the case.
After testimony by Broadus E.
Garver, 23, of Staunton, Va.,
whose car overturned as Mr.
Keneipp’s car skidded, defense
attorney John S. Battle, jr.,
moved that the evidence be
struck as the Commonwealth had
“utterly failed to prove reckless
driving.” He was overruled by,
Judge Waddell who said he was
not satisfied with the explana
tion of why Mr. Garver's car left
the road.
Mr. Keneipp was then called
to the stand by Mr. Battle and
gave his version.
He said he had been following
the three automobiles for two ra
three miles and estimated their
Bee KENEIPP, Page A-14
Haynes Jurors
Lunch After
Sanity Query
Appear Deadlocked
In Second Day
Os Deliberations
By RICHARD RODGERS
A Jury hearing the murder
trial of Mrs. Katherine Ann
Haynes requested further in
struction on what constitutes
insanity and then went out for
lunclj^
The Jury’s question on in
sanity was the first indication
of what kept them undecided
before they were sent to bed at
10 o’clock last night. They
asked for the reading shortly
after they returned to court
today.
They resumed deliberating at
about 11 am. and were sent to
lunch at 13:30 pm., still dead
locked.
Charge Reviewed
Part of Judge Matthew F. Mc-
Guire’s charge as to the sanity
element, read to the Jury this
morning by the court stenotyp
-Ist. waa as follows:
",.. Therefore, if you find be
yond a reasonable doubt that the
accused was not suffering from
a disease or a defective mental
condition at the time the crimi
nal act was committed; If you
find that the Government, be
yond a reasonable doubt, has
established all the essential ele
ments of the crimes, as I have
delineated them to you. you may
find her guilty.”
The judge continued:
"Unless you believe beyond a
reasonable doubt either that she
was not suffering from a disease
of defective mental condition or
that the act was not the product
of such abnormality, you are
then instructed, as a matter of
law, you must find her not
guilty.”
Delayed an Hoot
Court was scheduled to open at
10 am., but the Jury question
delayed it almost one hour.
As soon as the Jurors returned
they asked further explanation
of the alternative verdict of net
guilty by reason of insanity.
The deliberations are in the
hands of six men and six women
considering the murder of Mrs.
Haynes’ husband’s sweetheart.
Judge McGuire gave them the
case yesterday noon. Before
ordering than to bed about 10
o’clock last night, he told them
there was a point that may have
been overlooked in his charge.
It concerned the weight they
should give to the fact that the
28-year-old mother of four chil
dren did not testify. It should;
not be counted against her. he
cautioned.
Mrs. Haynes, a tiny woman,
who seems to havs lost weight
since Monday—and she weighed
but 93 pounds then—admittedly
killed Nancy Penton, 19, the girl
friend of Willis M. Haynes last
July 19 in the apartment Haynes
had rented for the girl at 232
Eleventh street N.E.
Jut at Odds
Jury Foreman Charles H.
Mayer, 5930 Fourteenth street
N.W., a department store sales
man. made it emphatically
clear late last night the jury
was at odds on what to do about
punishing the accused woman.
Judge McGuire asked him if a
See HAYNES, Page A-20
Expert Lists
Red A-Blasts
BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Oct. 28
(A I ).—An atomic scientist said
today that there have been more
than 12 atomic detonations in
Russia within the last 13 months,
and that the United States Gov
ernment refuses to tell the peo
ple about It.
"We can assume that the So
viets know of their own proj
ects, but for some reason the
American Government has de
clined to let our own people
know about it,” said Dr. Ralph
E. Lapp.
Dr. Lapp, director of the Nu
! clear Science Service which he
established in Washington to act
as a consultant to industry on
atomic energy, addressed 1.000
school teachers at the Connecti
cut Education Association an
nual convention.
Dr. Lapp also asserted; "The
facts of the past 13 months show
clearly that the Russians are
drawing abreast of us in the
art of making atomic bombs."
Dr. Lapp was division director
of the Manhattan Project dur
ing World War 11, and more
recently assistant director of the
Argonne National Laboratory
and scientific adviser to the
Army Department General Staff.
French Morocco Begins
Feast of Mohammed
i RABAT, French Morocco, Oct.
28 (JPL—The Moslem feast day
commemorating the birth of the
Prophet Mohammed began In
troubled French Morocco today
amid pleas for calm. No violence
was reported.
The Istlqlal, Morocco’s strong
est Nationalist party, Issued a
statement urging that today’s
celebration be narked with "dig
nity.”
West Offers Russians
Radar Buffer Zone
Israelis Attack
Egyptian Post;
Claim 10 Slain
20 Are Captured.
In Storming, Called
Retaliation Move
, JERUSALEM, Oct. 28 (A 3 ).—An
Israeli military informant said
| 10 Egyptian soldiers were slain
and 20 captured early today by
an Israeli force which stormed
and captured an Egyptian fron
tier post. Israel said the raid;
was in retaliation for an earlier;
Egyptian assault on an Israeli:
; police post.
An Emrptian spokesman in
Cairo sola four Egyptians and
four Israelis were killed in to
, (toy’s attack, which took place at
Kuntila, about three miles in
side Egyptian-held territory. The
! spokesman said the Israeli force
, was driven off. Egypt filed a
, strong protest with the U. N.
, Mixed Armistice Commission.
Dulles and Macmillan Confer
As this latest clash fanned!
mounting tension in the Middle
East, United States Secretary of
State John Prater Dulles and
British Foreign Secretary Harold
Macmillan conferred for an hour
in Geneva on Palestine problems.
Israeli sources in Geneva said
the United States has promised
i to consider a list of arms wanted
by Israel to counter Egypt's
growing arsenal, bought from
Communist Czechoslovakia.
The Israeli informant gave
this account of today's raid:
In retaliation tor an Egyptian
attack Tuesday on an Israeli
police post at Beeroyatlm, in the
i demilitarised El Auja-Nizana
i zone, the Israeli force—which
i Cairo said was of battalion
strength—attacked Just before
13 am.
The Egyptians, housed in three
, police buildings at the camp—A
' remote frontier post normally ae*
. cesslble only to camel-riding
; patrols—offered resistance. Shots
j were exchanged for 25 minutes
land some Egyptians fled. Finally
, the remaining Egyptians sur
rendered and the Israeli raiders
returned to their own base at 3
'am Seven of the 20 captured
1 Egyptians were wounded,
j The Egyptian camp—on the
Sinai Peninsula—was held by two
platoons equipped with heavy
auxiliary weapons, while Israeli
troops In the operation were not
supported by aiiy heavy arma
ment, the Israeli source went on.
Israel Explain.
An Israeli foreign ministry
spokesman said the "purpose of
the Israeli counteraction last
night was to emphasize what
should have been clear to Egypt
—that their attack on Israel
would be met by counterattack.”
He added:
“If they leave ut alone, we will
leave them alone. If they want
us to leave them alone, let them
. leave us alone. The Israeli ac
tion last night was directed
against an Egyptian military post
. which carried out attacks against
Israeli territory. By contrast
with Egypt, whose soldiers are
still in Israeli territory, the
Israeli forces have returned to
Israel
"We want nothing from Egypt.
Let them keep out of Israel and
i we shall keep out of Egypt.”
! Rain-Making Slated
| CHICOUTIMI, Quebec. Oc
tober 28 (A 3 ). —The Aluminum
! Company of Canada has decided
, to try airplane cloud-seeding to
produce rain for Its low reser
voirs in the St. John district
!of Northeastern Quebec. Water
, shortage after a dry summer has
' forced a close-down of some
, plants.
Geneva Seems Like Old Routine,
With Familiar Feeling of Futility
By CROSBY S. NOYES
European Correapondrat of Tbo Star
GENEVA. Oct. 28.—The Big
Four conference has opened in
what might best be described as
a here-we-go-again atmosphere.
From the point of view of cor
respondents it is natural enough.
For most of them the pilgrimage
to Geneva has become a kind of
semiannual ceremony—routine
grown familiar In the course of
the last two years. 0
Today returning reporters are
greeted with open arms by old
friends In the hotel business. In
the general reunion atmosphere
the most common question is
“what have you been up to since
I saw you here last July?”
The mechanics of high level
diplomacy have settled Into a
well-worn groove. Like homing
pigeons, reporters from all over
Europe follow the familiar path
to press headquarters. Accredi
tation is easy for veterans of pre
vious Geneva conferences.
By and large the returning
Clark Griffith, 85, Dies;
Funeral Set for Monday
Clark Calvin Griffith, president
of the Washington Baseball Club
and a valiant warrior to the end,
died at 8:40 o’clock last night at
Georgetown University Hospital.
He was 85.
The end came peacefully not
long after Mr. Griffith went to
lurton Hawkins' Calwain and . Rotated
Stories. C*l
sleep. At 8 p. m/relatives were
notified he had suddenly weak
ened and was rapidly sinking.
Funeral services will be held
at 11 am. Monday from Hamline
j Methodist Church, Sixteenth
and Allison streets N.W. Burial
will be in the family mausoleum
at Fort Lincoln Cemetery with
the Masonic Order in charge.
The body is at S. H. Hines fu
neral home, 2901 Fourteenth
street N.W.
The body will lie In state at
the funeral home from 7 to 10
pm. today, and from 8 am. to
10 pm. tomorrow and Sunday.
Last week end Mr. Griffith, who
entered the hospital October 19
for treatment of suf
fered hemorrhages of tht stom
ach and there was scant hope for
survival. But he battled cou
Faure Winner Again,
May Clear Way for Debate
PARIS, Oct. 28 (A 3 ).—Premier
Edgar Faure today won a vote
of confidence from the French
National Assembly, clearing tbe
way for a quick debate on mov
ing up national elections to the
month of December.
The vote was 271 to 250.
The victory was the third for
Mr. Faure this month in tbe
balky Assembly. Each time he
had been put in a difficult posi
tion and had seemed to be on
the point of defeat.
On October 9, after four Gaul
list ministers resigned from his
cabinet. Mr. Faure unexpectedly
got help from Socialists and Com
munists to win, 477 to 140, on his
policies for Morocco. On October
18 Some Gaulllsta came to his
rescue and he won a 308-254
confidence vote on a program for
Algeria.
Today he was solidly opposed
by Socialists and got practically
no help from'the Gaullists, but
by pulling the Centrist parties
tightly together, he managed to
survive his toughest test.
One of the notable switches of
votes was that of the Peasant
Party. On Wednesday 16 of their
Knowland Hits Proposal
For Pact With Russia
By GOULD LINCOLN
Senator William F. Knowland
of California, Republican leader
of the Senate, today opposed a
mutual defense pact with Soviet
Russia until Soviet forces have
been withdrawn from the satel
lite states of Eastern Europe,
followed by free elections held
under United Nations supervi
sion.
The California Senator warned
that the chief Soviet objective
"is to build a neutral wall Ini
Eastern Europe extending from!
Austria through Germany to the 1
Scandinavian countries in the
north.” I
“The British proposal of 1953," i
said Senator Knowland, in a !
speech delivered before the Na-I
tional Conference of Business 1
Paper Editors at the Statler;
Hotel, “now being pressed again;
ifor a mutual defense pact with;
the Soviet Union and the satel-i
correspondents find nothing
changed since they were last
here. The same notices seem to
be on bulletin boards, the same
people are paged Incessantly on
loudspeakers, the same inter
minable watt for the day's ra
tion of news. And when the
moment finally arrives, one has
an eerie Impression of the same
reporters'asking questions of the
same official spokesman and get
ting the same answers.
All this makes for a sort of
ho-humish mood, deplorable
enough as it applies to the press
corps, but far more serious as it
seems to infect the principals of
this latest four-power confer
ence.
For these men too and their
chief advisors, the “Geneva Con
ference” has become an ac
customed routine. And what
ever may have been added or
subtracted by the effect of the
Geneva Spirit, basic positions re
main as familiar as last year’s
hat.
Up to this point, at least, there
has been nothing to indicate any
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CLARK GRIFFITH
rageously, even after a lung
congestion set in, and dally bul
letins reported progressive im
provement.
Hundreds of letters from all
over the world poured in to en
courage the former stout
hearted pitcher and manager
who has been linked with Wash-
Continued on Page A-6, Col. 1
18 available voters abstained on
a decisive question of procedure
and the government was de
feated by a three-vote margin.
Yesterday the finance commis
sion, urged on by government
spokesmen, voted postponement
of action on a bill which would
prevent farmers distilling their
: own private liquor supplies. On
i today’s vote, 15 Peasants voted
' fra the government, helping to
i form its majority.
Hie switch brought wry grins
■ from observers. The government
i had made no promises that the
' liquor bill finally would be killed
• In the Assembly. But the Peas
i ant members seemed to feel they
' now codld support the govem
i ment.
I Today's vote was on the gov
■ ernment’s general policies. The
resolution adopted merely “takes
I note” of statements by Mr. Faure
and Finance Minister Pierre
; Pflimlin on financial and eco
i nomic policies which have guided
i the government and the results
obtained. Rejected were Social
' ist and Communist motions ex
> pressing no confidence in the
government.
lite states, will cause the cap
tive people of Eastern Europe
to fed that they have been twice
betrayed.”
One of the main subjects of
discussion at the four-power
Geneva conference of foreign;
ministers which opened today, is
German unification. Senator
Knowland said In his address:
“We, of course, want a freej
and united Germany, but not at
the price of a permanently en
slaved Hungary, Poland, Czecho
slovakia, Rumania, Bulgaria. Al
bania, Latvia. Estonia and Uth
juania.”
; The Senator insisted that basic
.causes of tension existing prior:
to the Geneva “summit” meeting:
!still exist and confront Secre
; tary Dulles and the foreign min
{isters during the current Geneva
meetings.
These, he said, include failure
to agree on an adequate system
See EUROPE, Page A-14
real shift of policy on either
side since the Berlin Conference
nearly two years ago. From the
opening round of statements It
can be deduced that the West
would still like to see a reunified
Germany become a member of
NATO. Foreign Minister Molo
tov has made it clearer than
ever that the Kremlin looks to
ward a general security pact
which would make NATO mean
ingless, followed by German re
unification on terms which
would effectively neutralize Ger
man power in Europe. And since
this conference will stand or
fall on the questions of Ger
man reunification and European
security, the prospects—at least
at the beginning—are far from
brilliant.
It Is true, of course, that In
their opening statements the
ministers gave away as little
as possible of their real inten
tions and devoted themselves
almost exclusively to the task of
setting a friendly tone for the
See NOYES, Fage A-20.
Plan Clashes
With That
Os Molotov
GENEVA, Oct. 28 (A 3).—Rus
sia and the Western powers
clashed in the Big Four foreign
ministers’ meeting today with
rival and apparently irrecon
ciliable plans for European se
curity.
The United States, Britain
and France got in first, pre
senting to Soviet Foreign Min
ister V. M. Molotov a nine-point
“treaty of assurance on the re
unification of Germany.” One
point would create a radar
equipped East-West buffer zone
along a reunited Germany’s bor
ders with Poland and Czechoslo
vakia. The pact would become
fully effective only if East and
West Germany were united and
the new Germany became a
member of the North Atlantic
Treaty Alliance.
Mr. Molotov responded with a
15-point proposal fra a European
security treaty, delaying German
unification indefinitely. Under
the Soviet program the North
Atlantic Alliance would be de
stroyed, Communist China would
become an “observer” in Europe
and all American troops would
eventually have to be withdrawn
“from the territories of European
countries.”
Insistent on Germany
By the time Mr. Molotov acted
the Western ministers had al
ready, in effect, rejected his pro
posal. They based their state
ment, in advance of its presenta
tion, on Russian proposals which
had been made at the Geneva
summit conference in July.
“France, the United Kingdom
and the United States of Amer
ica.” they told Mr. Molotov, “are
not prepared to enter into a sys
tem of European security which,
as in the Soviet proposals put
forward at Geneva (in July),
does not end the division of Ger
many.”
Together with the security
offer Secretary of State Dulles,
British Foreign Secretary Mac
millan and French Foreign Min
ister Pinay proposed to Mr. Molo
tov all over again a plan for uni
fying Germany through free elec
tions under Big Four supervision.
Virtually the same plan was pre
sented 20 months ago at the Ber
lin Big Four conference.
The action clause of the treaty
proposed today says: “An attack
in Europe by any party, which
is also a member of NATO
(specifically meaning united
Germany), or vice versa, would
endanger the peace and security
which is the object of this treaty,
and that all the parties would
then take appropriate action to
meet that common danger.”
The treaty proposed by the
West would have as its essential
signatories, officials said, the
United States, Britain, France,
Russia, Poland and Czechoslo
vakia and eventually a unified
Germany.
Western Proposals
Its provisions, in brief, are:
i “1. Renunciation of the use of
force.” Each member nation
j pledging to “refrain from the use
of force” in settling international
disputes except in accord with
jthe U. N. Charter.
I “2. Withholding support from
Continued on Page A-3, CoL 1
BULLETIN
Chest Unit Narrows Gap
Washington businessmen,
second-largest unit in the 1956
Community Chest campaign,
; today reported 76 per cent of
their goal, thus further nar
i rowing the gap between them
: and the pace-setting Govern
ment unit, which yesterday
brought in 84 per cent.
HOOSIER FARMERS
VOICE PESSIMISM
DOWNWARD SPIRAL—From Indi
ana, Star Staff Correspondent Joseph
Fox reports gloom from Hoosicr farms,
much of it based on increased prices
on equipment due to tha recent steel
auto wage increases. His report, ana
of a series, is on page A-4.
ARLINGTON PLUM PUDDING-A
political pudding is cooking in Arling
ton where ont of tha State’s juiciest
plums is at stake in the race for
covnty treasurer. Far background an
tha fight of Democrats to loosen tha
Republican's 16-year-old grip an tha
office, see Alex R. Preston's story on
page B-2. ,
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