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IN SHORT IIMEITOWH Blacksmith Is Found
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Shop
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ESpecal Board Will Hear
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Hill 70, aiGerman Strong-t
. .hold, thh Dominated the
Eversley and Central Ave:
Deputy Coroner StevensoniPresident McMullen Says , .
‘ ' ones to Have Adequatega
Examines Witnesses Com;
State Attorney Homer 8. Cummings
2))1\'(‘, Au 1. 1r._.Tp..o death of
R] I l l ' ‘6 a nd the local courts of Fair-field coun-
J This Sum IS Necessary on one well-known resident of Bedding
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Automobile Escaped Con-g
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The death of Charles Finnegan. an}
"totnobile salesman, who was killed int
Park avenue extension near Suburban;
avenue, Bridgeport, last. Monday morn;
:ing will be pronounced accidental by;
Deputy Coroner H. G. Stevenson. for,
lowing a hearing in which details of;
"the occurrence and the method of sum—I
moning aid were told by eye witnesses}
Mr. Finnegan, who lived in Park.
nvr-nUc extension in the town of Fair-t
field was driving a large roadster;
towards his home at about 2:20 Sun’
day morning, accompanied by his“
. friend, Walter V. Stapieton of 150;
Arch Sil‘l‘t‘l, Bridgeport, 'l'ne two had,
been bathing at the Seaside park butlt‘
house until after midnight. Staplcton‘
had consented to spend the night at
{Finnegan‘s home. . ‘ 3.
Stapleton, who is the only sttrvlvort
'of the catastrophe, was sufficiently rc.
covered form the shock to tell the den
,ut‘y mrottcr details yesterday.
’ lie said tltat they had left Seaside
park sometime after midnight and
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, have to be met in the future.
Ircportcd that excellent progness is be-
:iu: made in the emotion of the new
Account of the New Build-
ing and Property May Be
Mortgaged '
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Pledges Still Being Made,
and Another Effort Will
ance
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Althottuh a quorum was not pres-
cm, the Board of Directors of" the
Norwnlk Hospital Association, held a
short informal session in the parlors
of the Norwalk Club, last evening,
and transacted such business as was
necessary to be tlispOsed of and dis-
cussed at that time. During the
course of the meeting it was brought
out by President John Mthtllen, that
the sum of $50,000 will have to be
raised by the hospital this fall, In
order to have sufficient money to pay
for the erection and equipment of
the new building. If this money is
not raised, it will be necessary for;
1131' us‘mclution to mortgage its prob-
ctty in order to secure the required
amount of cash. This matter was
not discussed at any great length, but
was put up to the directors who w-Pre
present. by the president, fairly tutti
squarely, as a propoiition which will
it was
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, lbuilding, and it was also decided to
"BADLOCK FOLLO‘VS :give the building committee the nec-
BRIDGEPORT STRIKES;
, ,BRll'KiEtPORT, Ana. *15.»—-—A dead-t
is the result of the strike con—I
dctences- over the Remington Arms,
Company poliilters and the. machin-
ists of the Lake Torpedo (‘Otfipilll)',‘
cssary power to go ahead at this time,
and make preliminary arrangements
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60 KILLED lN RAILWAY
«who are on strike here. The strikers,
,will not-donnything further until a'
WRECK IN RUSSIA
federal canciliator comes here toI PIETROGRAI). Aug. 15,—Sixty DP!"
Work on the matter. All‘etnployccs' sons were killed and 150 injured itt
_ the Remington __ Arms Company a wreck yesterday on the railroad be-
haye heoncalled'to a mass meeting tween l‘ett-ograd and Moscow. Four
10‘ be. held Friday nizht to see if a coaches \vero crushed to pieces when '
sympathetic strike will be ordered info passenger train ran into a freight
Mint factory. . ' I train.
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The} following 175 young men have been notified to appear for physi-
out examination before the doctors in the (‘Ity Hall on August 20th. 1917.
file notices being mailed today by the Norwalk Exemption Board: ‘
dbl—— 66! Dunlop, Herbert J. 3 Hillside
"(62— 93 Austin, Addison E. 11 Woodward Ave.
453—3320 Darrlggo, Frank Noroton Heights Darien
461—4448 Marshall, John ' 32 Plattsville Ave.
455—1722 Ouellétte, Alfred J. - Ferndale. Norwalk
456—— 957 Hall. Arthur 29 Monroe St. ‘
457—155? Morgan, William A. 23 Betts Place
458—2833 Schmidt, Oskar H. 29 South 'Ave., New Canaan
459—1744 Palmieri, Dominico 4 Laura St.
460—1112 Jennings. Clifford H. Crockett St. ,
461—2462 Wells, Charles 11 Hat-11am] St.
462—3171 Merola, Stefano Noroton Heights, Darien
463—2516 Wolfe, Harry 9 Hanford Place
464— 345 Burns, William P. 16 Prospect Ave.
465—3091 8113811013, Guiseppe Daricn. Conn.
466—1595 McAfee, Paul A. 2'; 1-2 Wilton Ave.
467—2134 Splan, Edward J. 10 Hartford Place
468—1855 Lombordo. Iznozio 2 Smith St.
469— 103 Bolas, Martin Taylor Ave.
470—2196 Staudter, L90 a moment St.
471—2752 Dascinzo, Antonio I-‘orcst St” New Canaan
472—1585 Murphy, Joseph P. 30 Franklin Ave. .
473—1912 Ready, John D. 12 Cove Ave. ‘
HAL—1221 Kniffin, Otis A. 55 Bttyvietv Ave.
475—1102 Jackson, Grover Clev. Strawberry Hill Ave.
476—1625 McMahon_ John F. 55 West Ave.
417— 556 Szako, Steve 24 Hoyt St.
578—1565 Moscariello. Thomas 17 Wood St.
479—2109 Shea, Daniel Cedar St.
480— 154 Bates, Ralph. Newtown Ave.
481—1281 Lambert, Frank J. 11 Stuart Ave. '- -
482— 51 Anderson, Abraham 348 Ely Ave. " ' '
483— 71.7. FagodLHaI-ry S.- 41 Van Zant St.
, 486—1057 Horwath. John W. 17 Kossuth St.
486—1256 Knob, Edward J. 12 Franklin St.
, 486—1073 Hulse. Harold 3 Elizabeth St.
- 487—— .30 "Allen, Robert F‘. Silvermlne Ave.
9188—3046 Finnegan, James J . Ponus St., New Canaan
489*— '199
Benjamin. Alexander 0.
«0-- 38s
3 Cauflcld. Samuel D.
12 ,South St.
365 Main St.
-7 with an accident yesterday afternoon
, ' thought possiblethat he was attacked
and thetuysterious and unaccounta~
ble disappearance of summer promi-
nent business man of the town has
.upset the equanimity of the com-
lmunity today.
Monday night Frank Burgas, aged
63, who conducts a blacksmith and
wheel wright shop was found dead
sitting upright in his place of bust-
'ncsr. en the premises of Deputy Sher-
iff George Banks.
Today the community was startled
by the intelligence that official steps
'havc been taken to ascertain the‘
3whercabouts of another prominenu
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Mrs. Shilep's—ky‘Was Prevent- 5
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Constable, Who Feared‘
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able excitement was: causcd at the!
recent. fire at the home, of Nathan]
Shilcpsky in Sangrituck, when Mrs.
Sltilepalty tried to get upto the sec-
ond story after it had burst Ittto a]
sheet of flames. When the fire was,
discovered 'she ran out of the houscf
and it was not until sotn-z- time later
flint she thought of some money
which had been left in a trunk in the?
attic. She then started for the attic
and Constable llavid Silverman had
considerable trouble stopping her.
The whole second floor was a sheet,
of flame but sltc was determined that?
she would go after the money. ‘
understood that: there was in the|
neighborhood of $500 In it trunk in!
the attic which was destroyed during
the fire. The house was a total loss
which Was fully covered by insurance.
The firemen wore able to do little to
save. the place when they arrived.
it isl
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Another group of Bridgeporters en-
ioycd the facilities of the Norwalk
Cctmtt'y clttb, last evening, when the
Iofficcrs anti trustees of the City Star-I
Iings Bank of that city, through the
icourtesy of John E Rusling, Jr., sat
down to one of Steward Millard’s best
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shore dinners. The Visitors came to
the point in autos and in addition to
the enjoyable feast sociability reigned
,supreme. Before the guests departed
'for home Mr. Millard was invited tol
the dining room and he was given
three rousing cheers for the important
lpart he.took in the affair.
The party included the following'
Benjamin Fletcher, Samuel W. Hub-
‘bell, Edward W. Button, Richard W.
Cogswell, George M. Baldwin, Frank D.
Bell, Charles B. Buckingham Charles
P. Coc. Benjamin Fletcher, Theodore
B. Ford, William T. Hincks,’“‘illiam H.
iKelsey, Henry M Luscomb.
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Jacob'Grant, a former highly reis-
pected resident of Rowayton', met
on his farm in Roxbury, which re-
sulted in‘ his death. Mr. Grant was
engaged getting in hay and it is
with a stroke of: appoplexy, causing
him to fall from the wagon. Death
was almost instantaneous. Mr. Grant
resided in Rowaytontfor many years
and is known to the older residents
of Norwalk. He gave the land occu
pied for Rowayton depot purposesto
Sewer Systems, and East}
Be Paved I
MAY IIII AWAY ' ,
WITH A IIIIIIIIIE?
I position would be made of their cases:
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Dr. Bradley Succeeds Dr.
West on the Health Board,
-—Daniel Keogh Resigns}
as Registrar
Sewer and street matters ltept the
l‘ity of Norwalk councilman engaged
until a late hour/lust nizit. Evers-'
toy and Central avenue property own-I
crs wanted extension of the sewers:
and it was voted to have this model
A committee was appointed to con-‘
sider the abandonment of a bridge.
in Silvermine. It was T’oted to pave
East and Seavicw avenues as quickly
as possible. "’
Those present at the. council meet-
ing were Councilmen Russell, SIPV»
ens, Smith, Robertson, Nutttng, Lou~
tien and Ganung. which latter was
congratulated by Mayor Hurstrom on:
his return to health and.‘__pctlvitles.'
This is the first meeting In about six
months that Councilman Gamma has
attended. ;
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IN IIIIIIIEI IRISH
AI'MEIIWIN’S PIIINT
Conductor Caught Between
tty will be draft c
fore exemption boards of the country
and accepted for service.
That six men in jail have been ac- . . '
I cepted by their local boards wa's tnadefMFChael ROSS]; Army Man,
iknown today by Sheriff Pease in re-,'
.sponse to an inquiry as to the out-;
come of the cases of men in jail who
were called. Sheriff Pease stated that
he could not release the men for ser-
vice' and would not know what dis-
until they had been referred to the
state's attorney in the cases where
men are held for the superior court
cases of those tit-9n serving time for
minor offenses.
One of the six is an alien who
doesn‘t want to serve in the army.
Sheriff I’ease would not say whether
”It~A man “WIS serving ll sentence (if
being held for the higher court.
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Coroner Starts Investiga-
tion Into North Branford
Trolley Fatality
NEW HAVEN, Aug. 15.-Tbe investi-
gation of Deputy (‘oroner Kenneth
Wynne of the trolley collision at
North Bradford Monday night, which
caused nineteen deaths, was rcsutned
today with the expectation that it
would be concluded before night.
Pending the conclusion of the inquiry,
Motorman Wesley Negus anti Conduc-
tor Wllliame. Tryon. of the west-
bound extra electric which collided
with the east—bound car are held at
the county jail by order of the deputy
corpner.
The hearing is behind closed doors
but according to the deputy coroner,
Negus has admitted be tampered for
xemption boards to
act‘on the claims of six men at the
and Seaview Avenues tot county jail who have been called be-
mourns/Ital
to Be Brought Here Bv
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, Sergeant Thomas Hunt
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Detectivefiergeant Thomas HuntE
‘left this afternoon for Albany, with:
extradition papers: for Michael Ross-Li
tWhO is a member of the regular army]
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'or to mg court for committal in that stationed at. the Syracuse barracks.
‘Rossi is wanted by the local police1
,‘on charges of assault with attempt
‘to kill, and highway robbery. lie
with two other men met J. H. llip-.
Son on the evening of February 2~ltltj
last on East avenue. and there struck‘
'bim over the head with a heavy club,
and rifled his pockets. The other two,
assailants have not been captured, buti
it is believed that Rossi can give a;
,clue to their whereabouts.
t Detective-Sergeant Hunt went to:
confer with States Attotncy Galen A.¢
Carter of his office in Stamford this;
morning and after til-J conference the:
fcxtradition papers were made out.
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f NEW YORK, Attg. 15.~-~The policci
today were instructed to pursue aI
,mone vigomus policy in dealing with,
,the street corner speakers who maltei
attacks, either ttpon tho ilnitedl
States or her allies. and to make ar-i
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City, Has Been Stormed»
by the Canadians
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Intramural
Height West of the Roman-
ian Town of Ocna Occu-'
pied By the Teutonic
Forces '
'l‘Itc iritish and French 1'er
turned to the attack in Northern
France and Belgium last night,
and preliminary reports indicate
that they have won considerable
successes. The principal blow was
struck by the British on a front
of about 4.000 yards from the
northwestern outskirts: of Lens to
the Bois lingo, northeast of. Loos.
General llaig.r announces that his
troops. carried the German , first
lines at all points and are making
satisfactroy progress, Hill 70, a
(tel-man stronghold northwest of
Lem. which dominated the city,
has been stormed by the Cana-
(lions.
Since the beginning of the at-
tnck on tlic north cud of the
It‘ranco-Belgian line. which appar-
ently has been selected by the
British and French for their prin- 1 A
,Ircsts for utteranccs that are seditious. I911)?” “HM“ "1 ”‘0 Slimmer cam’
.This announcement w
as the result of]
the activities by patriotic organiza-i
,tions following the arrest recently of
,tCleveland .Mof’t‘ett, the autho‘r. Mr.
tMon‘ett was arms-ted when he insist-
}ed'on stopping a meeting at which a
soapbox orator was making remarks
'against America‘s allies.
paigu. the Canadians have been
making steady progress around
Lcns. (Itiviug: slowly into the out-
skirts of this important attd bit—
tcrly disputed mining center. The
new attack. on the front imme-
diately north of Lens, evidently is
his own convenience with a safety an}
The American Defense Society, of
'jured persons at the New Haven hos-
when, the railroad we
. ‘ed'SWld.32~Y%al‘s tutti
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theN. Y., n. n. a n, a. neompany . rm.
built. Because
Cars—Injured Taken to
Hospital
NEW HAVEN, Aug. 15.—_'1‘wo trol-I
ley cars of‘the Connecticut. Company
hitting head-on at Merwin's Point,
Woodmont, late last night. Nosed
serious injury to five persons and
lesser hurts to several others. The
most badly injured were taken to the
New Haven hospital where it was
said that no deaths were likely ex-
cept in the case of William Hess of
No. 838 Washington avenue. :1 con-
ductor on one of the cars. His con-
dition is serious. ‘
The Woodmont cttr, changing end
and returning to this city was ram-
med by 9. Bridgeport car, westbogd.
The Woodmont cifr had no passen-
gers ’aboard. Hess was caughtwbe
tween the one. The other four in-
pital are Max Silverman, 46 ye‘drs
old. No. 146 George, street. Bridge-
port: Merrill K. Allen of No. 297
York street. New Haven: Angelo
Ross of Bishop street. Waterbury
and Entity Pleatt, No. 1852 Park ave-
nue, Bridgeport. The otheh‘not so‘
seriously injured, over-e ,gb'hi first aid
ureatnfent at the summer home of
Sylvester Z, Poll, which is near the
scene of the accident.
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EAST HARTFORD, Aug. 15.—A six
tenement house into which a tobacco
shed had been changed, on, Willow
street, in the town’s' outskirts, was
burned today. It belonged to motion-
necticut Tobacco ‘Corpora:ion,‘and was
used by plantation ' hands,. negrms.
Lithuanians and‘Polanders. ' Most of
the twenty pet; ops lost their belong-
ings. One i‘ani had fim'fnsurance
on its furniture, but the policy had
been written for a‘two-fam'ily house,
and in moving into this house a change
of policy {OCODTOI'ID with conditions
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had ~ been overlooked; ,
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pliance on the controller of his car. "which Mr. Moffett is a member. today
designed to close around the city
He also claimed .he was in a drowsy
state for some time before the acci-
dent. testimony which is said to have
been contradicted by a passenger
leto claims that the ntotormun was
wide-awake when the collision occurr-
ed. “‘
CUILFORD, Aug. 15.—Mrs. ’llu
helmintt Pratorius. of Baltimore, Mdr.
who was injured in the ,North'Bran
ford trolley wreck of Monday night
was reported in a critical condition at
a local sanitarium today, and her re-
covery Is not expected. Her chief in-
jury is to her spine causing paralysis
from the chest down. Philip Pretor-
i'us. who was accompanying her to
North Madison, to spend the summer,
escaped with‘. lesser injuries and is
no wat North Madison, as is William
Kaiser, of' Baltimore, who also was
only slightly in'lured.
Mrs. David Meade, another victim,
was accompanied by her ten-yearold
granddaughter. While the grand-
mother was seriously hurt the child
escaped with minor injuries.
Sydney C‘Jiatt, son of Edwin Ovlatt,
of New Haven, another wreck victim.
was reported today to be resting com-
fortably at a Sanitarium here.
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The man killed at the west bound
railroad station on Monday evening at
aout 6 o'clock was identified today as;
being James McKenna, aged 29, and
Irish, of Ridgefield, by his brother-in:
laW, Lawrence Leary also of Ridge~
field, who arrived here this morning
and viewed the body at Raymond's
morgue on washington street. Mt.
Leary said that his brother-tn-law had
gone on Monday to Springdalc, where
it is supposed that he visited the Stam-
ford Rolling Mills" Hot it was that he
became confused and went to the. \H"~_i
bound station instead of the east.-
bettnd station is not known. ,
- McKenzie, was, one oaths men in
tin!“ ‘ ed to toe draft.
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K tot-ganization. Adjutant ‘Perritt did
Iissued a. statement saving that irre- from the north. If stici*cs.tsli’tll,él;:s
i - . ‘ ' a. _,opcra ton may compc to 1 -
i $313332” “gilsmfimgingtmfgn inhale I mans to evacuate the town without
:speeches in the streets advocatingjn direct attack. on it, with the
t1’01“?”s dimmy Opposed ‘0 ”1“ safety heavy sacrifices such a move Dro-
.. Si we would we
igeneral was intolerable and foolhardy “'0 French. "itm‘k “as ,made
.with the country at war. and invitedflli‘al’ ”l9 9‘”le 1“ the vtcmlty Of
all persons who might have informa-illixmude. The official communi-
tion regarding such meetings ‘0 nmi‘Ict‘ttion front Paris reports good.
tfr the 0330? Of ”:9 30$? 5" thaliprogrcss west of the Dixmttde
jwmfbl" “”0“ "fig" 9 a 9“" Iroad. London also announces
formerly I
‘ igains by Etttente troops northwest;
gEXEMPTION 0F Iof Bixachoote, iii the sector north
I MEDICAL STUDENTS {of m...
I IS FAVOREDI Active operations continue on
t ——~-—— Ithe Aisne front. The French prisi-
AHOIPPY Class that are ”"0”“ f0r,tions between Httrtcbise and
135311-23; tdrgssiiihn?e:di(hatft igggnttngraomtc were bombarded ‘heavily
1d,“. from Washington. It is said thfltgdttrtng the night, but the Germans
,the Federal authorities are preparingfdid not renew the infantry actions
‘to act in the. matter of exempting med- Iwhich have cost them such heavy
”038 ““191";fggmlgfleaiiggaggih‘érifi-,losses in the last few weeks in'their .
lihngll’aéolflscfl of Defense and New,vam efforts to. expclwthe French
.York members in both Houses of Con-.fl‘0m commandlng positions.
‘gress are preparing to help the more} Former Emperor Nicholas of
lmenthby capcetl‘hted firettifnl ‘Xfitgroc-iliussia and his family are being
Vang an 0 e . 9 C“ "5 ry'rcmovcd from Tsarskoe-Selo to a
. cil for National De-; . . , , ,
I23%:sz“fistgi‘fcgoailsnauthority for the as- secret destination. The dectsron
lsnrance that Secretary of War page; to transfer them was reached by
ihad pledged all his influence for thelthe Council of Ministers last month
Irmehita‘ picfsgt;:s.wam the medica‘ gfor “military and political” rea-
, n . l .
IscllixboisEhSSe turned out 43500 fewer ions. For theyprcsent. further in-
.graduates than in the precedinglflvnx Ornlailon ls “ lthheld. y ,
years owing to the higher educationali Two more steamers of Norway 3 I
standards and there isralready a short- diminishing merchant fleet have
' , fbecn sunk. They’wcre the Falk-
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"—‘fl‘ Ca clla 877 tons. Ten men were
ADJUTANT PERRETT i105¥011’ti10 Falkland, which sun]: 5‘ :
GOES TO FRANCE .in the North Sea. T
Adjutant Edwin Perrlt, PETROGB AD Aug. 15.—-‘-A
v . ’ .
2221;301:123 ti): Sggigatibftrwgfiinfa {its height west. of the Romanian town
leave for France shortly with an am. of Ocna, in Southwestern Medias.
bulance unit which is to be raised. via, hasben occupied by Teutonic
equipped and supported by the Sal- forces, the War Office announces.
ration Army. ‘The party will consist: Premier Dato last. night con
of twentydive officers of that steer. ferred with King Alfonso who
was given details on the genet-
rit' tion " ‘ ‘ ‘
celient .wor
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