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Southern California Interests. Editorials-Neivs-Business-Society-The Drama. (Will VOL. XLL MONDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 18, 1922. -FAKT II: 12 PAGES.

POPULATION iBr "y-it- i i A I A )P --V HM-fcM MtTzi l.i NEW HEAT SCREEN STARS Centenarian Is Amiable Host at Reunion BRUSH FIRE FIND YOUNG GIRL DOPED MURDERS 'WIFE, KILLS HIMSELF Torrance Mechanic Had Gone Insane, Belief Mother Saves Son at Cost of Own Life I i i I Ex-Senator Cornelius Cole and daughter, Mrs. THREATENS PROPERTY Edison Plant and Country Club Are Menaced by Stubborn Blaze By a "Times" Staff Correspondent DISPATCH, i PASADENA, Sept 17. A brush fire, which has been raging all day near Linda Vista last night threatened the Eagle Rock plant of the Southern California Edison Company and a part of the Annandale Country Club property. The fire has been fought by more than 800 men during the course of the day. When the fire first died down this afternoon fire-fighters thought that they had the blazo under control.

Later tonight a strong northeast wind caused the fire to take a new course In the direction of the country club and the power plant A new crew of fire-fighters was Immediately rushed to the scene and began back-firing. At a late hour last night the fire was within two miles of the plant and a shorter distance from the country club property. Already, it Is said, some of the trees near thirteenth hole on the golf course have beeh damaged. ins tire is of a spectacular nature and Colorado Boulevard, i though two miles distant from the blaze, ls lined with cars tonight During the afternoon city firemen protected a number of chicken ranches near Linda Vista, and also stood by to save a number of dairy buildings. It was thought that the fire will be extinguished before morning and that the damage will be confined to the brush, which has been burned.

MEXICANS VENT JOY AT FEAST Los Angeles Colony at Selig Zoo Celebrates Independence Day If the animals at the Sellg Zoo yesterday didn't know that Mexico has been Independent for some twelve years more than a century, it wasn't because several thousand ollve-sklnned senorltaa and several thousand more dusky and bemus-tached gentlemen from below the border didn't do their best to make It plain. Starting In the morning and continuing well Into the evening, Los Angeles' Mexican colony celebratd Ita Independence day with a vigor that defied the day' heat. The green and white and red of Mexico's flag was everywhere In evidence and few coat lapels didn't flaunt the colors. The language of bid Spain was supreme, the spirit of M-jxlco and her independence was ditto, and even Mister Hidalgo himself might have been satisfied with the demonstration. What did they do? well, everything that could be done to make the day enjoyable.

Music? several bands vied with one another. Fun? games of all kinds, athletics, dancing, animal exhibitions following In endless succession. Food? well, rather! Exotic dishes that are dear to the heart of the Mexican, served in a grand barbecue at noon. Thousands of persons were served. Prof.

M. J. Rodriguea was master of oeremonles. The mln celebration was within the walls of the Selir compound, but the overflow took its enjoyment In Lincoln Park. VENERABLE SENATOR HAPPY Greets Hundreds of Old Friends at Celebration of Hundredth Birthday Anniversary 8urrounded by hundreds of friends, ranging; In age from 5 months to 97 years, former Inlted States Senator Cornelius Colo yesterday celebrated hia hundredth birthday at his beautiful homo, 6121 Lex.

ington avenue. i Emma Cole Brown. WOMAN WHO TOOK LEAP IDENTIFIED Doctor Asserts Dead An geleno Was Stella Pierce, Melancholia Patient The woman who, Saturday afternoon, in sight of scores of people, leaped to her death from the fourth story of a department store on Broadway, was Identified yesterday as Mrs. Stella Webb Pierce, aged E9 years. The Identification was made at the Draper and Engleman undertaking eHtablishment by Dr.

George u. joie, ner rormer pnysician, ao-oording to a report at the Coroner's office. Mrs. Pierce, it was stated, made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Ralph J.

Leavltt. at 4078 Ingraham street Mrs. Pierce, it was explained at the Leavltt home last week, had been suffering from a severe case of melancholia for the past five years. At various intervals during the last three years she had been a patient in a sanatorium near here, It was said. Mrs.

Pierce had been living at the Leavltt home for the past three months and had never evidenced any suloldal tendencies before, Mr. Leavltt said. Funeral arrangements are being held up pending word from two other daughters in Et Louis, Mrs. E. V.

Thompson and Mrs. 8. Fraser, CLUB MEETS TOMORROW Bird students of Los Angeles were yesterday Invited to attend a meeting- of the Bird Study Club of the Southwest Museum to be held tomorrow at 8 a.m. in Eagle Rock Park. Officials of the club stated that the meeting ls open to ail interested in the study of binds and wild Ufa.

RECORD IS HUNG UP Mercury Jumps Suddenly to Hundred and Two and Beats Last Years Mark The thermometer came near popping yesterday when the weather took a sudden turn for the worse and ran up to 102 deg. in mldafternoon. This is one degree higher than the temperature of September 2 ft last, which set that year's record. Yesterday's mark was the highest for September since 1918, when 108 was reached. Col.

H. S. Hersey, local meteorologist for the Weather Bureau, says that the hottest day on record was 109 deg. That occurred in July, 1891. Yesterday the humidity was down to 17 per cent.

In Pasadena the thermometer reglste-ed lug according to M. S. Jones, special observer. The previous high mark for the season was 108 which was reslstered Saturday. CAR DRIVER EXPIRES IN WIFE'S LAP Overexertion and IJeat Believed Cause of Man's Sudden Death Heart failure, superinduced by heat prostration, caused George E.

Overton? 71 East Thirty-first street, to fall dead at the wheel of his swiftly moving automobile late yesterday, according to Re ceiving Hospital physician. Overton collapsed into the arms of his wife, thus preventing her from grasping the steering wheel before the i automobile crashed Into a palm tree at West Twentieth street and Hobart Boulevard. Mrs. Overton was not seriously Injured. She declared that before he collapsed, her husband had been forced to make an adjustment on the car, which required considerable exertion, the police reported.

ELECTRIC CLUB WILL HEAR TIMELY THEME Capt Richmond P. Hobson will speak on "A New Scientific Education" before the Electric Club at noon today In the ballroom of the Alexandria Hotel. Another speaker will be Huron R. FItts, assistant district attorney, who will present the California State Bond Issue for Disabled Veterans. This will be the opening meeting of the fall and winter season of the Electric f'lub and the program will be in charge of K.

E. Van Kuran, president of the organization. Court Jetton- -w? YEGGS BREAK SAFE, OVERLOOK CURRENCY SPEND HOVRS OPENING DOORS AND THEN GO AWAY EMPTY-HANDED After spending hours' In breaking open the doors of two safes In C. W. Rlsden's used-car establishment at 111S South Olive street early yesterday morning, yeggs left empty-handed, overlooking 500 in bills rolled between two bank books la one of the strong boxes.

Shortly after the discovery of the burglary Detectives Dryden and Wilde examined the safos for fingerprints. YAIjE CIAJBUKRS TO LUNCH Members of the Yale Cluh of Southern California will hold a luncheon at p.m. today. i i NAMED IN SUIT Film Luminaries Figure in Young Divorce Case Director Accuses His Wife of Misconduct Tom Moore, Jack Pickford Are Mentioned The bombshell that baa been In the making between James Young, well-known motion picture director, and his attorneys since his wife, pretty Clara Whipple Young, of Hollywood, had been granted an Interlocutory divorce decree some time ago. Is ready for the casting.

It consists of a cross-complaint by Young, charging' his wife with misconduct with other men, and asking her divorce be set aside and that he be granted a decree instead. This' action, according to Herman L. Roth and Frank O. Tyrell. his attorneys, Is to be filed this week.

What will be revealed when the esse comes to trial Is problematical, but it is known that In the preliminary movies for the preparation of the director's case, the names of such prominent film luminaries as Jack Pickford, Tom Moore, Mrs. Gertrude Nellan, Doris Pawn and Texas Guinan figure in depositions. DEPOSITIONS TAKEN These depositions were taken In the case now pending in the Superior Court, brought by Young to set aside a property settlement and demanding that his wife return several thousands of dollars in money and the deed to certain lots which she obtained by fraud, ac cording to the Young complaint. The case is set for hearing on the 2ith but before that date Young's further action for the an nulment of his wife's decree will be hied, according to Att Roth. While Young bays that he Is bringing the action now because of only recently discovered, evidence of which he was ignorant at the time hi wife obtained her Judgment, her attorneys characterize the action aa "an attempt to back out of a mutual agreement." "Mrs.

Young is ready for trial and is able to meet every charge that Young may bring, said Milton Cohen, her attorney, in discussing the case. Mrs. Young's original action was brought on the ground of cruelty, and on Oct. It, 1921, Judge Sum-merfleld Issued an Interlocutory de cree. At the same time.

Young settled some money and real estate on his wife. At the time the Judrment was entered by default, but in the counter action. Young will assert that this was done "through mistake. Ignorance, Inadvertence, surprise and excusable neglect" according to his attorney DIVORCE QUESTIONED That the director's counsel will -rake a move to base part of his (Continued on Fifth Pago) Involves Acton Figures in Case Mrs. Clara Whipple Young, above, and James Youus.

jy, Saj IT: -A. I rJ i 1 1 I lit, Jm Pit piif A I Father Sends Bullets After Fleeing Children Tragedy stalked through the lit-tie town of Torrance last night when a man murdered his wife, and, after falling in an attempt to shoot his two youns step-children, shot himself through the heart. Harry Treen, a mechanic, aged 55, and his wife aged 44, are those dead. The man, believed insane from financial and domestic troubles, fired four bullets through the body of his wife. The shooting took place in the Treen home on Two Hundred and Twentieth street, near Harvard, in Torrance.

A 14-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy, children of Mrs. Treen by a former marriage, witnessed the shooting of their mother and barely escaped with their own jives, when their step-father fired at them. The story of the murder and suicide as sobbed out to Torrance officials and deputy sheriffs by the chllden shortly after the shooting at o'clock last night APPEARS SUDDENLY Treen, who, following an altercation with his wife two weeks ago, had disappeared from his home, suddenly reappeared. The stepdaughter 'fearfully watched him enter. Ha passed through the house, searching for Mrs.

Treen, evidently, who was in the back yard. "Don't shoot daddy! Dont shoot!" The Imploring voice of her brother reached the girl in the front room. It also reached the ears of the mother. She ran to the aid of the little boy just In time to save his life. Turning on her.

Treen fired four shots from an automatic, all of which took effect FIRES ON CHILDREN As the boy and girl fled, he drew another automatio and fired five shots after them, whioh went wild. Tben, bursting from the house, he ran two blocks up the street, and turned an automatic on hi self. He died almost instantly' the bullet pierced his heart Mrs. Treen wa still alive neighbors reached her side. was taken to the home of i Lancaster, 1329 Sartori av Torrance, where she died in minutes.

Her body was taken to the reason undertaking parlors in denia, while the remains ier husband are at the Cape Mol In Redondo Beach. Officers who investigated th say that two weeks sgo. ass eeti It I is ci4 assaulted his wife during a1 rel and brok one of her rit was understood that he had financially and worry ovei losses Is believed to have af his mind. ACTOR TO ANSTO Wife George Seigmann Sa Leaned Toward Rooghne George Selgmann, cinema will appear In Judge Summerfleld's court today on an order to show, cause, growing out of the divorce" suit of Marguerite Selgmann charging him with cruelty. The wife declares that he was inclined to the ca-eman stuff.

Ha says this is mistake; that he loves his wife, and was happily married. The coupla have been married four years. Consul at Calexlco. Mr. Pallais reports that the price ot coffee ls increasing, fluctuating between $10 and $1J, gold, a hundred librae.

The drop In the price of coffee and of sugar more than a year ago struck a blow st Cen tral American business from whhh It is Just recoverlusr. The Paciflo ports of Central America send coffee and lumber to this port, most of the sugar going to San Francisco because of tno refineries there. Mr. Pallais reports that the Pacltlo Mail steam ships are crowded with passengers and freight, the passenger bualnes between Pacific and Atlantic ports being so great that many are waiting to be carried from one Latin-American port to another. RAIL PLAN DEFEATED Mr.

Pallais brings baok the newar that the project to build a railroad, to the Atlantic seaboard has been defeated in the Nicarajcuan Con-gresa Nicaragua, Honduras and Salvador have no ports in the Af lantlo. but have rallroatla running to Pacific porta The reverse is the case with Costa Rica and Guatemala. This, It Is pointed out, should give Paclflo ports in th United States, and particularly Los Angeles, an advantage in dnvoion. lng the fruit, sugar and coffee trade. Officers on Hot Trail of Reported Kidnapers Rescue Dorothy Cox Dazed and Terrified School Student Declared to be Gang Victim Rescued from kidnapers, at hoe hands she had been subjected to terrific mistreatment, Dorothy Cox, 14-year-old school-Crlrt of San Fernando, late last night was returned to her home, almost unconscious from the effect of narcotics, which had been administered her during two days and she had been absent from home.

The rescue was made late In the day by operatives of the Burns Selective Agency working in cooperation with the Sheriff's office. The girl had been missing inca Friday afternoon when she disappeared. She was found so dazed from her experiences and from the effects of the narcotics that she was noable to give to the officers a coherent account of what happened. Word by word, however, they finally managed to obtain enough for them to be able to understand what had happened. The little schoolgirl sobbed Incoherently that she had been offered a ride In an automobile while she was waiting for a bus to take her to her home where she lives with her parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Charles Cox, the former being a rancher residing a mile from Ban Fernando. bought not soda He had gone to town to buy a pair of tennis slippers. While awaiting for the bus a man drove to her and asked whether the would ride home with him. After she climbed Jnt the machine three other men Jumped Into the car.

During this time the automobile was headed toward the Cox ranch- At a eross street, however, the man with whom she was riding asked her to have a soda with him end it was then that she was doped, according to the belief of Dr. J. B. Wheat, physician who conducted an examination of her when she returned home. From the time she drunk the soda she declares she remembers nothing more until the following morning when he awakened in a room.

Her rlothlng had been taken from her and the door was locked. Shortly after ah regained her consciousness, four men ntered the room. She swooned again. BOY GIVES CLEW The discovery of her whereabouts was made by Detective W. O.

Wlgglnton of the Burns agency, assisted by Deputy Sheriff Collins, Jle made the identification of the girl and learned whre eshe wa through the medium of a small boy who recognized her photograph which the officers were showing throughout the city In an attempt to gain a clew. The boy told him he had seen the girl with two men. He led them to where he had seen her in Brand Park. According to the information obtained by the officers, two of the gang of supposed kidnapers had taken her from the room and 'she was still dazed by the narcotics that had been administered. The suspects escaped when they saw the men approaching.

From Information obtained, however, the officers late last night sat off en a trail which they believe will lead them to the men. The parents of the girl were distracted with the news of what had befallen her'. GUU IN STtTOB For several hours it was Impossible to arouse the girl from the effects of the drug sufficiently to obtain her story. After she had been found and while Dr. Wheat worked over her.

Deputy Sheriffs War, Stensland, Harrington, Johnson and Conlln rushed to the scene from the Sheriffs office here where several deputies under the direction of Sheriff Traeger had been working on the case. After they heard the girl's story the force of officers left on what they believe were excellent olews to the identity of the men. Dorothy Is in the ninth grade at the Ban Fernando School, and according to her parents, has had no boy. friends. Her disappearance was immediately believed by them to have been the result of foul play and the father notified the Sheriff's office late Saturday that he would pay $500 reward for Information leading to her where abouts.

During the day, before she was found, hundreds of men and boys assisted in the search for her. Descriptions and photographs of her wowoui to an neigh luring siun in aa errort to her. find Terrific Blaze Sweeping From oquet Canyon A. terrific fire, believed to have been started by a careless camper in Boquet Canyon yesterday morning, was reported last night to be sweeping' across the heavily Umbered country between Boquet and Mint canyons and, although few details could be ascertained. It la believed that the blase has already destroyed thousands of dollars worth of property, The path of the flames, according to reports gathered by County Forester Flintham, is fourteen miles In width, north and south, and by 10 o'clock last night the blaze had eaten its way a distance of fifteen miles east and west.

Mr. Flintham drove into Los Angeles last night from the fire-swept territory and secured nearly 100 men to accompany hliu back to fight the flame, DIES WHEN SHE JUMPS FROM AUTO Makes Good Her Threat When Husband Fails to Halt Car When her husband thought she was Joking as she threatened to Jump from their moving automobile unless he stopped, Mrs. George Frazler, wife of the manager of the soap plant at Burbank, made good her threat and sustained Injuries that resulted her death yesterday, according to her husband's story. Whether Mrs. Frazier'e act was intentional is in doubt She had been heard to remark that she was "tired of living and might end it all some day." She was a nervous woman and given to fits of de spondency.

It Is said by friends. Mr. and Mrs. Frazier had been to a roadside fruit stand Just out side of Burbank. Returning, Mr.

Frazler was driving at about twen ty or twenty-live miles an hour, he says, when his wife nervously asked him to stop. "If you don stop, ni jump," she threatened. Not taking her seriously, Mr. Frazler Then before SERVICES TODAY FOR MINISTER Rev. Otto Wffltt to be Buried from Church He Founded Thirty Years Ago Funeral services for Rev.

Otto R. H. Wilke, D.D.. who, at the age of Tl years, died Saturday at hts resi dence, lit West Burlington avenue. will be oonducted at 2 p.m.

today at Fifth and Olive streets from the German Methodist Church, which was founded by Dr. Wllke nearly thirty years ago, and. of which he ls pastor for more than a quarter of a century. Tnterment will be at Roeedale Cemetery. Ceremonies at the church will be in charge of Rev.

R. Zurbuehen, who succeeded Dr. Wllke as pastor there following the latter's retirement from active ministerial life a year ago. When Dr. Wllke founded the church its headquarters were In a little chapel on East Fourth street, the present edifice having been built nearly twenty years ago on the large property owned by the rhurch and on part of which stands the Clara Barton Hospital Dr.

Wllke was born In Germany and earns to the United States with his parents whn he was only 2 years old. He had lived in California for more than thirty years, his first pastorate having been at San Jose. He was widely known throughout the State, especially in church circles, having been at various times presiding elder of the German Methodist Church Conference of California and district superintendent of the Caltforn'a branch of German Methodist churches. Several montha ago Dr. Wilke and his family moved to their ranch near Baldwin Park, hoping that the country life would restore Dr.

Wilko's htlth. They moved back to the present residence two month ago. Besides his widow, Dr. Wllke leaves one daughter. Miss Ruth Wllke.

a school teaoher In the public schools of Los Angeles, and three sons, Dr. Julian Wllke, John H. and Royal Wllke, also of Los Angeles. LORD SEES ALL: For the fiyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in behalf of those whose heart la perfect toward him. 2 Chron.

16.9. ISTHMUS TRADE PICKS UP Great Advantages to Los Angeles Port Seen tn Word of Central American Revival Conditions are Improving in Central America, which presents par. tkmlarly good trade advantages to the Port of Los Angelea, according to Arturo Pallais, who returned from Nicaragua last week on the Paclflo Mall steamship Colombia, ne is the eon of the Nioaragnan Conaut at this port. Dr. Artnro Pallnls, who formerly was Nicaraguan Happy as a boy of and almost as spry.

Senator Cole stood at the door with his oldest daughter, Mrs. Emma Cole Brown, receiving the guests as they began to arrive early In the afternoon, shaking hunds with "young men" and younger women whose acquaintance he had made In the forty-nines. "Well, God bless ma, if here Isn't, old Van! Van!" exclaimed the Senator as J. S. Van Doran, aged 87 years, stepped briskly Into the room.

"And William H. Knight and Dr. Guy Bovard Lord, they're all comln' to my party! Oh, yes, I'll pose for a picture," he broke off, as a newspaper photographer plucked him by the sleeve. "I'll do most any- thing today for anybody. Help yourselves to the punch, boys and girls.

I'll be back presently." Senator Cole led the photographer down the hallway and to the pretty little court In the rear of the house, where a dozen othei enthuslastlo photographers waited to "snap" the Senator. FAMILY GROrP Grouped near Senator Cole were his children, George, Seward and Schuyler Cole, Mrs. Howard Bcott Waring and Mrs. Brown. The only ones missing were Mrs Roginald Jones, who ls now In Europe, and Mrs.

James G. MoLoughlln, now visiting friends In the East However, several grandchildren were present and three great grandchildren, the latter being Cornelius Cole Brown and John and Mar-Jorle Mather. "Wouldn't you Ilk to hold this baby in your arms while you're being Grandpa?" came a voice from the audlenna, "He ls 5 months old and his nam ls Fremont Llnooln Gents." "I want to hold anybody in my arms that is named after my two old friends, Fremont and Lincoln," laughed the Senator. "Come here, kiddie. What I Named after those men and can't walk yetl Well, bring him here, mother." And there stood the distinguished representative of the world's most magical century, holding in his arms the symbol of life's eternal springtime, "Want some cake, Fremont smiled the Senator.

"Here, we'll cut it now. Just for you," and he approached the big birthday cake, surrounded by great bouquets of flowers sent by admiring friends from various parts of California But here Mrs. Genu interfered. ASKS FOn DANCE "Why, Senator, he can't eat rake yetl he's too young." "Then take him in and give him some punoh," laughed the host banding the child back to its mother. "Listen to that Hawaiian muslo out there under the palms.

Come, Mrs. Vandergrlft let's go and have a dance," and he turned with a smile to Mrs. E. S. Vandergrlft aged 97 years.

Sitting near Mrs. Vandergrlft was Mrs. Elizabeth Pease, who was 96 years old last Saturday; Joseph Slegle, aged DS years, and J. W. B.

Cole of Long Beach, who la SO years old and who proudly Informed other guests that he and the Senator are probably "kin," since his father was burn in York, Senator Cole's native State. Among other guests present were F. S. Speegle, the only man present who was a forty-niner, the son of a forty-niner and the grandson of a forty-niner, 'Oh, yes, it's possible," he laughed, when asked for an explanation. "We all came across the plains In the same old desert schooner, I was quite young at the time, of course, but so help me John Brown, I'm tellln' you the truth." Among the other (meats present were Mrs.

E. G. Baldwin, Antonio Corsl, M. Mercer, Alfred G. Castles, J.

K. Krhl-itter, N. W. Dexter and M. BaxneU HARTS END VERBAL DUEL Bill and Wife Cease Exchange of Acrimonious Charges and Denials Temporary hoisting of the flag of trace over the camps of Bill nart and Attorney Milton Cohen following their onslaught of verbal missiles Saturday, in which the famous "two-run" man of the movies was quoted as threatening bodily Injury to his wife's attorney, the latter sounding defiance, and the subsiding of war clonda anrroundlnff the Santa Monica home of Mrs.

Winifred Weetover Hart, were the chief developments yesterday in the sensational separation case between Bill Hart and his estranged bride. TOO MUCH TALK Declaring the whole affair relating to the verbal escapade of Saturday to be regrstable, Mr. Cohen asserted at his home last night that the ease had now reached proportions manifestly unfair to both Mrs. Hart and her husband. "It is only right elnoe Mrs.

Hart Is still eonffned to her bed," Mr. Cohen explained, "that the whole Incident remain closed until the time arrives to bring It before the court. Then substantiation of any charges made will become publlo." "Enough has been said already," Hart declared at his home yesterday. "The entire case ls In the hands of my attorney, Mr. Scarborough, and I am not Interested In the leait over any developments resulting from Saturday." Regarding the filing of the divorce complaint by Mrs.

-Hart aoon. riuaoca ot ohargea of cruel ty and phyeioal violence whioh precipitated the outburst from Hart and the resultant defiance by Mrs. Hart's attorney, Mr. Cohen, declared that It was extremely problematical when the petition would be completed. DATE UNCERTAIN "Until Mrs.

Hart la able to arise from her bed and attend to her duties properly, without Jeopardising her health. I will give no thought t6 what It might contain," Mr. Cohen stated. "Aa to when or where It will be filed or to the minutest Idea of Its content I haven't the least idea." Mrs. Hart, at her mother's home In Washington street in Santa Monica, still refused to comment on her husband's affair with her attorney or anything relating to the probable charges which she would bring analnst her husband who gratuitously settled over MOO.OOa oa her ana hi so uuaiemala and Costa Rica have been developed by American fruit Interests but exclusively to the advantage of the AtUiuio side.

Th two Nienragua ports In the PartMo Corlnto and San Juan del Uwr are reported to hive agreed to a loan from the United States, and the prospects there are bright. Peace reigns throughout Central Amorlca, Air. 1'aliais reoorte. Th incipient revolution riently started oa "Uta fg).