OPINION.
BLACK, Judge:
The first issue in these proceedings for our decision is whether certain "royalty" payments made by petitioner to Bertha E. Thomas are allowable deductions from petitioner's gross income under section 23 (a) (1) (A) of the Internal Revenue Code.
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