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. MEYER LIBRARY “WILL BE S0LD Proceeds to Be Used to Establish Memorial to Shakespeare. The library of the late Herman Henry Bernard Meyer, former chief bibliographer for the Library of Con- gress, has been turned over to the National Home Library Foundation for a future private sale, proceeds of which will go toward the establish- ment of a Herman Henry Bernard Meyer Shakespeare memorial, . his ‘widow, Mrs. Helen Harris Meyer, an- nounced yesterday from her home at 3701 Massachusetts avenue. Sald by experts to be one of the finest collections in the country, the Meyer library consists of more than 10,000 volumes and contains a num- ber of rare items in Americana, Amer- ican English first editions and many of the finest specimens of printing from Bruce Rogers, Mosher, Rudge, Nash and other presses. At the foundation, where the col- lection is being catalogued, R. S. ‘Thurman, director, said a local uni- versity had expressed a desire for the library but that plans for the actual sale were indefinite. He also said the space used by the foundation in the Dupont Circle Apartment building is too small to permit public exhibition of the col- lection. A Shakespearean enthusiast, Meyer collected many different prints of the bard’s works during the 50 years in which he assembled the library, “It was his lifelong purpose to encourage a broader understanding through a wider distribution of the works of the world’s greatest poet. and playwright,” Mrs. Meyer re- marked. Meyer died on January 16 last, hav- dng retired in 1935 as head of the legislative reference service, Library of Congress. D. C. GIRLS HONORED Four Elected by Organizations at William and Mary. Four Washington girls have been elected to executive positions in or- ganizations at the college of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., it was announced yesterday. Miss Shirley Daiger, 3900 Cathedral avenue, was chosen senior program chairman of the Y. W. C. A; Miss Beal Sale, 6134 Utah avenue, has been Installed as junior member of the ‘Judicial Committee of the Women Btudent'’s Co-operative Government Association; Miss Peggy Prickett, 3171 Porter street, elected junior mem- ber of the Honor Committee of the association, ‘and Miss Marcia Gal- liher, 3930 McKinley street, elected representative-at-large of the Execu- tive Committee of the association. New Highway Link. Ttaly’s pew link between two high- .ways in North Africa provides a road *1,130 miles long connecting Tunis and the Egyptian frontier. FOUND. young, male: light brindle, bull, long tail. Wisconsin 5588, am. DOG. Targe. {ace like @ efore 11 LOST. BOSTON BRINDLE BULL—Small_male, half white face; around 22nd st. and N. H. Reward, Address Box 476-T. Star office. 18% BREAST PIN. white cameo, between Cathe- dral Mansions and Westmoreland; reward. 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PURPOSE—To substitute for present tax on intangible property, AFFECTS—AIl locally derived corporation income and personal incomes of $1,000 or over for single persons; of $2,500 or over for Would exempt Congressmen and other Federal officials elected or appointed for stated terms who are not resi- This is the third of a series of Jour articles on the income tax. Friday's article discussed some of the curious inequities and dis- criminations arising under the pro- visions of the bill exempting Con- gressmen and certain Federal of- fcials from that taz, while leaving other Federal officials subject to the taz. Today's article discusses some additional complications in col- lection of a local income taz, re- sulting from conditions peculiar to the District of Columbia. A individuals and “foreign” cor- porations, located in other States, the new D. C. income tax bill now before Congress, promises to run into a veritable morass of difficulties in administration. Thousands of persons working in the National Capital, but living in Maryland and Virginia, will be taxed because their income is derived from sources here in the District of Co- lumbia. The problem of collecting this tax from -non-residents is complicated, from an administrative point of view, by reciprocal credit provisions incor- porated in both the D. C. bill and the Virginia law. Maryland has no in- come tax act, so Marylanders earning their living here simply will have to pay the entire income tax to the Dis- trict, plus what they pay in other forms of taxation to Maryland. Tax on Foreign Corporations. Even more difficult to enforce, how- ever, according to experts, will bc the complex provisions of the bill which attempt to extract a tax from all “for- eign” businesses and corporations which own property here or which transact any kind of profitable busi- ness in the District, although their principal headquarters and operations are elsewhere. Efforts of many other States to do this have resulted in confusion and difficulty, leading to reversals in the Supreme Court of the United States, forced amendment of State laws, disputes among tax col- lectors of the various States and, of course, double and triple taxation. Designed to operate to the benefit of the taxpayer, both the District of Columbia bill and Virginia law have credit provisions which uld prevent both jurisdictions collecting their total income tax. Should a taxpayer be forced to pay a District tax, a Vir- ginia tax and a Federal income tax a perfect example would be established of triplicate taxation, against which tax experts throughout the country are now protesting. But even with the reciprocal credit between the Dis- trict of Columbia and Virginia the tax- payer still is faced with duplicate tax- ation on his income by both Federal and local tax collection agencies. The District bill allows no credit for pay- ment of Federal income taxes, allowed by some States. Try Reading It Aloud. The system of credit is complicated. To obtain an idea of the apparent complexity try reading and under- standing this: “Whenever a non-resident taxpayer of the District of Columbia has be- come liable to income tax to the State where he resides upon his net income for the taxable year, derived from sources within the District of Colum- bia and subject to taxation under this act, the assessor shall credit the amount of income tax payable by him | under this act, with such proportion of the tax so payable by him, to the State where he resides, as his income subject to taxation under this act bears to his entire income upon which the tax so payable to such other State was imposed, provided that such credit shall be allowed only if the laws of said State (1) grant a substantially similiar credit to residents of the Dis- trict subject to income tax under such laws, or (2) impose a tax upon the personal income of its residents derived from sources within the District and exempt from taxation the personal in- comes of residents of the District. No credit shall be allowed against the amount of the tax on any income tax- able under this act which is exempt from taxation under the laws of such other State.” Virginia has two kinds of reciproc- ity. First, it provides that residents of Virginia liable to income tax in other States shall be credited with amounts paid to such other States on their Virginia returns. Secondly, Virginia provides that non- Tesidents subject to taxation in their State of residence on income earned in Virginia shall receive proportional credit for taxes paid, provided the State of residence grants similar cred- its to residents of Virginia or exempts {from taxation the income of residents of Virginia. Reoiprocity Provisions Confusing. These reciprocity provisions present the taxpayer who earns something in the National Capital and lives in Vir- ginia with a whole flock of questions as complicated as the ones involving a Federal income tax return. One thing is cleared up for the Vir- ginian working in Washington. He TTEMPTING to collect an in- come tax from non-resident must make his return to the Federal E | Government in March. He must make his return to the District of Columbia before the last day of April, and he must file his Virginia return by June 1—a month later. Thus if he has a simple case, and earned al' his dn- come here in Washington, he can credit the tax he paid here in April on the Virginia return flled a month later. At any rate, he must devote & quarter of the year to flling income tax returns. 4 If the Virginian earned part of his income in Washington, part of it in Virginia and perhaps some of it in still another State, his return becomes sub- Jject to the complexities of the pro- portional credit principle. Taxpayers may be expected to take full advantage of this provision, but admittedly it will be difficult to apply. For the Marylander the matter will A be more simple. He will merely pay all his income tax to the Federal Gov- ernment and the District and then pay his regular taxes in Maryland, with no credit whatever for his District tax. Problems presented by attempts to tax “foreign” corporations, the prin- cipal offices of which are outside the District, are expected to puzzle the wisest officials and perhaps provide loopholes through which big corpora- tions doing substantial business here might escape. The broad scope of the bill's at- tempt to collect such a tax is shown by its definition of a “taxpayer” to be “any person, corporation, partner- ship, trust or estate” subject to the act. The term ‘“corporation” is de- fined to include ‘“corporations, joint stock companies, associations and all enterprises operated by trustees, the Interest in which is evidenced by shares of stock, whether with or with- out par, face or nominal value.” In the case of corporations whose entire business is transacted within the District, the tax of 5 per cent will be levied on the entire net income. If, however, the business of a cor- poration is transacted both within and without the District, the tax imposed enters a field over which there has been complex State legislation, long litigation and many reversals in higher tribunals. The District bill will attempt to col- lect a tax from corporations operating both inside and outside the Dis- trict, “upon the portion of such en= tire net income for each taxable year as is derived from sales, wher- ever made, of goods, wares and merchandise, manufactured or which originated in this District and from other business done or property located within this District, which may be de- termined by an allocation and separate accounting when the books of the cor- poration show income derived from business done and property located within this District.” “Otherwise,” the bill further pro- vides, if data in this first method is insufficient, the tax imposed shall be on “such proportion of the entire net income of such corporation as the fair market value of the real estate and other physical assets in this District on the date of the close of the taxable year and the amount of the gross re- ceipts in this District during that year of such corporation bears to the total fair market value of all the real estate and other physical assets within and without this District on the date of the close of the taxable year and the amount of the total gross receipts within and without the District during that year of such corporation.” This could be applied to big outside corpo- rations doing business here. One of the admitted worst features of State taxation, according to tax experts, is this attempted “allocation” of the amount of income derived with- in a State. Preliminary study of the District of Columbia bill points to a suspicion that this provision may at- tempt to attribute too much income to this city from goods, wares and mer- chandise, manufactured or which orig- inated, here. Reference to North Carolina Case. The bill might fall under the scope of a line of Supreme Court rulings which held that a State is not al- lowed to attribute too much income either to manufacture or sale. In the | case, for instance, of Hans Rees 3ons Co. of New York State against the State of North Carolina, the Supreme Court held the North Carolina income tax law unconstitutional on such a point. It was unconstitutional, the high tribunal said, because ‘the stat- utory method of apportionment “as applied to the appellant’s business for the years in question operated unrea- sonably and arbitrarily in attributing to North Carolina a percentage of in- come out of all appropriate proportion to the business transacted b; the ap- pellant in that State.” No State has been "able to work a perfectly satisfactory rule on the dis- puted problem of “apportionment,” according to the history of State in- come tax legislation. In many cases specific rules which have been devel- oped have been found by the Supreme Court to be unconstitutional. Big cor- porations would be wary of such a District income tax and keen to pro- test and fight any tax which they think can be successfully defeated. PHYSICIANS TO BE TOLD OF MEDICAL ADVANCES Latest Progress in Medicine to Be Presented at Annual Session of American College. By the Associated Press. ST. 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American Bldr. S (“Bevills DRAPERY SHOP! pi32n-|1317 F ! CHIEFSTODISCUSS LABOR' POLICIES Miss Perkins’ Parley and A. F. L. Session Sched- uled for Week. Industry and labor will watch the Nation's Capital closely during the coming week as developments of im- portance to both shape themselves here. Possibly the first in importance will be the one-day round table conference called by Secretary of Labor Perkins for the purpose of fashioning general rules and principles of procedure in furthering the application of collec~ tive bargaining. Approximately a score of leaders of industry, labor and government have defnitely indicated their intention of meeting with the Secretary Tuesday, with fully as many more expected to attend in response to invitations. Such varied interests as the American Federation of Labor, the Committee for Industrial Organization, the Na- tional Association of Manufacturers, the United States Chamber of Com- merce, the National Labor Relations Board, and the oil, steel and railroad industries have been invited to send representation. All are expected. With no fixed agenda, it is the broad purpose of the conference to develop & meeting of minds on the matter of bringing employers and employes of the Nation together in the stages of conciliation or mediation which may precede the necessity for calling on the Labor Board. It is believed there are numerous employers and employes who are not sufficiently familiar with the instrumentality of collective bar- gaining to assure full effectiveness of & 1ight now granted by law and ap- proved by the courts. Might Prevent Work Stoppage. In brief, many stoppages of work might be prevented by intelligent reasoning on both sides of a con= troversy and without recourse to the outside authority of the Labor Board. If such can be accomplished, it is the reasoning of Secretary Perkins that industry, labor and the Govern- ment are the beneficiaries. Second scheduled event of interest and importance is the special meet- ing of the Executive Ccuncil of the American Federation of Labor, sum- moned for tomorrow and likely to last several days. Two major issues stand on the council’s docket, first being the ini- tiation of an intensive membership drive under the favorable auspices of the validated labor relations act and second being the question of expelling outright the insurgent unions of the Committee for Industrial Organiza- tion. Authority for the council to take the latter action was voted by the federation convention in Tampa last November, 10 C. I. O. unions at that time being under suspension. Since that date, the break between the two principal factions of the labor move- ment was widened, with the C. I. O. followers of John L. Lewis adding to their strength in unions and in in- dividuals. It is expected in quarters close to the council that expulsion action may take place during the coming week, although the net result of such action would no more than place a stamp of finality on a situation that has existed in fact since last Summer. Continuing its summary of the effects of the recent Wagner act de- cisions, the United States Chamber of Commerce yesterday advised em- ployers generally to {estify when the National Labor Relations Board insti- tutes proceedings involving them, but set forth a large number of rights in dealing with employes which it believes employers retain in spite of the Supreme Court decisions. Rights of Employers. The chamber emphasizes that the decisions on the Wagner act and on the railway labor act as amended in 1934 confirm certain rights of em- ployers. It cites three in particular: The right to maintain an open shop. The right to discharge an employe for non-performance of his contract or inefficiency due to any reason, “in- cluding failure by reason of activities in connection with an employe’s organization,” and excepting only membership in a labor union. It emphasizes that “without the em- ployer's consent there can be no activities of an employe during work- ing hours in connection with an organization.” ‘The right to discontinue an opera- tion and have the work done by some one else under contract, in that way removing various activities from the scope of Federal regulation. It points out that the Supreme Court in its March 29 decision upholding the railway labor act said that the “back- shop” employes of the Virginian Rail- way were in interstate commerce and 50 subject to Federal regulation, but pointed out that the.management had the right to have this work done by an independent contractor. Other rights' not mentioned in the recent cases “undoubtedly continue,” the chamber reports, citing as an ex- ample “the right to limit access to premises to employes.” The decisions on the Wagner act, the chamber states, left open for future determination what it calls “rights of employes” to bargamn through minority groups despite the principle of “majority rule” embodied in the Wagner act and upheld in the Virginian Raflway case. The recent decisions, it says, also leave open to determination later “the right of an employer in production to maintain the privacy of his busi- ness against internal investigation by the Labor Relations Board, when the employer believes in good faith that his business does not come within the decisions of April 12, at least until there has been a determination om —— e Active Real Estate Salesman We have an exceptional op- portunity for an ressive, experienced salesman. ‘e are building this yea in a new high-class development and have also exclusive sale of about 100 homes of builders. with selling new homes, lots, and houses to be built to order. Our office will lend every co-operation, furnishing live prospects, etc. f you are @ men with such nnvhm!“ou will findifliiu L] money- opportunity. Phone fer appointment. Moss Real e o mis! oo ———— . C. APRIL 18, 1937—PART ONE. Editors’ New President A. H. Kirchhofer (left) of the Buffalo, N. Y., Evening News, yesterday was elected president of the American Societ of Newspaper Editors, succeeding Marvin H. Creager (right) of the Milwaukee, Wis., Journal. —A. P. Photo. the facts that the business does come within those decisions.” It warns, however, “that findings of the board as to the facts will have an important effect upon decisions in the courts, and that it consequently may prove unwise for an employer to fail to offer testimony before the board in the event it starts any proceeding.” Harlan County Charges. Meanwhile, of importance to both industry and labor, both practically and psychologically, are the continued hearings of the La Follette committee on the repression of civil liberties in “bloody Harlan” County, Ky. Long recognized as the toughest stronghold of anti-labor industry, the rich soft coal district is being sub- jected to a barrage of organizers of the United Mine Workers, while the Senate committee is throwing the spot= light of publicity or the practices of operators and employer associations of resisting unionization by strong-arm methods of intimidation. With dozens of witnesses under subpoena, and scheduled to remain in that status as protection against reprisals by those against whom they have testified, the commitee plans to reopen hearings Tuesday morning. Chairman La Follette and Senator Thomas of Utah are considering with Counsel John J. Abt the possibility of taking action against Ted Creech, mine superintendent, who was accused Friday of threatening one of the com- mittee’s witnesses. The accusation was made by R. C. Tackett, former Harlan County deputy sheriff, who said Creech ap- proached him outside the hearing room and told him he would see that Tackett got a long jail sentence back in Kentucky for his testimony against the operators. Although Creech de- nied the accusation, it was substanti- ated by United States Deputy Marshal Robert Bonham, in whose custody Tackett was being held. Creech, son of one of the Harlan County operators, previously was ac- cused of threatening the lives of union members. On other capital fronts, progress is possible during the coming week on development of wage and hour, child labor and anti-sit-down legislation. Editors (Continued From First Page.) known 5-to-4 majority. By this thin majority the authority of the board has been upheld. The Wagner act decisions, Sibley said, affirmed the right of the em- ployer “to refrain from reaching an agreement through collective bargain=- ing, as well as continuing his right to make individual contracts of em- ployment. The right of an employer to maintain an open shop is sus- tained.” The final speaker before the editors | was Joseph P. Kennedy, chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission and formerly head of the Securities and Exchange Commission., He dis- cussed his new duties and emphasized the necessity for elevating standards of government service by attracting brains to government positions. Trend Has Become Tide. “The trend toward centralization in government has become a tide,” Kennedy said, “the explanation of Which is interwoven with the analy- sis of the kind of society we have developed. “If there were any doubt, the developments of the last few years, particularly the political develop- ments, the vote of the people, the vote of Congress and more recently the decision of the Jones & Laugh- lin Steel Co. case—are a convincing demonstration of this phase of our national life. The commerce clause has had to be expanded to permit the assumption by the Federal Gov- ernment of powers heretofore un- dreamed of. Kennedy believed “the first and primary task of the commission is to tell the American people what it will cost to construct or to have con- structed a merchant marine of a given capacity, what it will cost for this kind of a vessel, what it will cost for that kind of & vessel—not only what it will cost to place them on the sea, but what 1t -will cost per year per ship to main- tain them as part of our system of transportation and defense.” Grove Patterson, editor of the Toledo (Ohio) Blade, presided over the final session, held with a luncheon at the Willard Hotel The convention opened Wednesday and all sessions but the last were held at the National Press Club. New officers elected by the editors were: President, A. H. Kirchofer, Buffalo (N. Y.) Evening News, suc- ceeding Marvin H. Creager, the Mil- waukee Journal, who becomes an ex- officio member of the board of di- rectors; first vice president, D. J. Sterling, Portland (Ore.) Journal; sec- ond vice president, Tom Wallace, Louisville (Ky.) Times; treasurer, Dwight Marvin, Troy (N. Y.) Record, re-elected; secretary, M. V. Atwood, Gannett newspapers, Rochester, N. Y., re-elected. New directors named were W. 8 Gilmore, Detroit News, and John 8. Knight, Akron Beacon-Journal. At- wood and Wallace were re-elected to the board which in turn names the officers. The only director to retire this year was Paul Bellamy, Cleveland Plain Dealer. The society passed several resolu- tions affecting the press. One de- clared the group “sees no impropriety in organization of newspaper workers in editorial departments, but feels that it is not suitable for journalists to affiliate with trade unionists. We be- lieve they (editorial employes) are pro- fessional people, not artisans.” News Source Laws Indorsed. Other resolutions deplored “hound- ing and persecution by newspapers of persons mentioned in connection with crimes but not formally accused of crimes,” indorsed State laws to guar- antee newspapers the right to hold their news sources in confidence, and deprecated efforts in Congress “to pre- vent newspapers from owning radio stations.” A graphic story of the civil war in Spain was presented the editors by Webb Miller, famous war correspond- ent, European news manager of the United Press, at the yesterday fore- noon session. “The Sunday Newspaper” was dis- cussed by Count Raoul de Roussy de Sales, New York correspondent for the Paris-Soir, one of France's great- est newspapers, and W. G. Vorpe, Sunday and feature editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. e 11 NEW SCHOLARSHIPS ANNOUNCED BY G. W. U. 20 Now Are Open to Graduates of High Schools in D. C. and Vicinity. Eleven new four-year scholarships, making a total of 20 open to graduates of the high schools of Washington and Vicinity, were announced by George Washington University yesterday fol- lowing their recent approval by the Board of Education. Under the new arrangement, two scholarships to a boy and girl are awarded to each of the seven high schools in divisions 1 to 9, as well as to the Bethesda-Chevy Chase, Wash- ington and Lee and George Washing- ton High Schools. Awards will be made on the basis of scholastic achievement. The university also announced five trustee tuition scholarships providing for two years of free tuition to gradu- ates of accredited high schools. 0000“00“‘000““0“00‘ GUARANTEEp 1+ 34 * * ® * * * $ § EEPAm| RING b4 : Nationally Known Jewelry on E: Terms. No Interest or Carrying ch-n‘z‘-{: ERNEST BURK * #1105 G §t. 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More than 600 reservations already have been made for the annual lunch- eon of the Associated Press. The luncheon speaker will be Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper. The remainder of the day will be devoted to business sessions. One of the principal actions will be the elec- tion of three new directors to repre- sent papers in cities under 50,000 pop- ulation as provdied at last year’s an- nual meeting. In addition directors will be elected to fill five directorships which are expiring. The question of creating associate memberships in the Associated Press, which was scheduled for last year's meeting, but which did not reach the floor, is again on the program. Under this proposal newspapers, admitted as associate members, would receive the news report without protest or other rights. Other subjects scheduled for dis- cussion include the membership de- partment, which was created last year, and wirephotos and the photo depart- ment, which have expanded greatly in the last year. The first day of the A. N. P. A, meeting will be devoted to discussion of topics concerning newspapers in cities of less than 50,000 population. The general sessions will open Wednes- day, when the publishers will be ad- dressed by Senator Bennett Champ Clark of Missouri and John Stewart Bryan, president of William and Mary College and publisher of the Rich- mond (Va.) News-Leader. Subjects on the A. N. P. A. pro- | gram include discussions of labor | problems and the rising cost of news- print. Newspapers, according to Editor and Publisher, the trade publication, face a $30,000,000 increase in the cost of newsprint in 1938. J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the Fed- eral Bureau of Investigation, and Maj. Norman A. Imrie, editor of the Co- lumbus (Ohio) Dispatch, will speak at the A. N. P. A. Bureau of Adver- tising banquet Thursday night. Luther (Continued From First Page.) | experience, man who met all the definitions of the word “gentleman.” After the envoy’s remarks, Ashurst rose again and said: “Gentlemen, you have fust listened to an historic speech.” The Ambassador has made it & practice since his arrival in the United States to entertain newspaper men and a few Congressmen at an annuai party celebrating the arrival of Bock beer in the Spring. The invitations described the affair as a “Pockbiera- bend.” Numerous officials of the State De- partment, including Richard South- gate, chief of the Protocol Division, and Joseph Flack, in charge of Ger man affairs in the department’s West= ern European Division, were present. Other guests included representa~ tives of the general staff of the War Department. A Bavarian orchestra, attired in native costume, furnished the accom- paniment to numerous voluntary “quartet,” composed of various groups among the guests, which made the staid red brick Embassy resound with the notes of favorite drinking songs. Representative Knutson, Republican, of Minnesota made the closest ref- erence to Mayor La Guardia when he sald in a brief talk at the conclusion of Luther’s remarks that he had been gratified to learn that “the mayor of a big city had finally decided to per- mit the State Department to conduct this country’s relations.” He asserted that as the result of re- cent occurrences, German citizens felt free again to visit America’s largest city. Knutson, however, did not men- tion La Guardia's name. —_ Port Arthur Shipping Begins. PORT ARTHUR, Ontario, April 17 (#).—Navigation began from this Lake Superior port today. 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But such a peace must be con- structive peace if we are to achieve the friendly co-operation among na- tions which you seem so much to de- sire here.” Ambassador Luther’s remarks were interpreted by some listeners as a reference to Mayor La Guardia of New York, who recently precipitated a series of diplomatic incidents between Ger- many and the United States by anti- | Hitler statements. Luther, however, | did not mention the New York mayor by name. Shortly after the La Guardia incl-f dent, the Berlin Foreign Office an- | nounced that Luther would be re- | placed by Dr. Hans Dieckhoff, acting | undersecretary of foreign affairs. Dr. | Dieckhoff is expected to assume his new duties shortly. No new post has been announced for Dr. Luther. Before the Ambassador’s surprise speech, the gathering had stood and drunk a toast to him proposed by Senator Ashurst, Democrat, of Ari- zona. Ashurst referred to him as a Our Policy Good Work—Honest Information Satisfied Customers Free Inspection. 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