The Most Widely Read Newspaper in Centre County, A Visitor in Seven Thousand Homes Each Week. Odd and Curious News SECOND SECTION dhe Cenire NEWS, FEATURES VOLUME 69 EELLEFONTE, PA., THUR J Warns Lovers “Beware of the jealous lover,” | Psychologist Willlamm MM. Lepiey | warns the romantically-inclined | young folks of today. The assistant professor of psychology at Pennsyl- vania State College explained that | Jealousy is a mixture of anger and fear and both “have an inhibitory effect on the emotions of love and affection.” “It is clear.” he added, “that a lover cannot feel both jeal- | ousy and devotion at same | time.” - - Midnight Lunch The wayfarer who seeks a daily handout at the Clarence Hinden home in Lancaster, chooses a bad time for his call. He's an owl, who recently holed up in a nearby ap- ple tree and who perches on the | Hinden window sill every night about 11 p. m search of food Reeser’s Contra the Mrs, Katherine W ing certificate was found to be valid a State Supreme Court ruling vealed on Monday in al | tice James Drew on February 1 On Thin Ice It was a lot of fun, driving about on the Susquehanna River, until their automobile struck a thin spot of ice. Then Paul Durgin, 22, and Mariet Laucks, 21, both of York, climbed out and watched the mach- ine slowly settle into the water. A truck hauled the car to the shore Started Something Eleven-year-old Robert Bender, of Lititz, started something when he touched a match to gas fumes es- caping from an underground pipe | line near his home. Flames shot 20 feet in the air, burning his face, wrists and legs was in statutory “continue at the tract which and was to after year" school. Mrs. Reeser 1939 when Osceola was dismissed tificate Tenrd under contract not required to possess a teach- her was Fatally Injured } Timber Contractor Hospital After Being Struck By Tree A tragic accident Tuesday just after noon at the El- lery Ellenberger farm. near War- rior's Mark, when Gleason Roy Gil- | lespie, of Nesalmont, near Tyrone well known lumber contractor, was | fatally injured when a large fell on him. He was rushed to the Philipsburg hospital, but died fore reaching that institution Gillespie was supervising work of some lumber culling on the Ellen- berger tract when a tree fell on him. His chest, head and back were crushed. His battered body was picked up by workmen and loaded Dies Cold Feet It was s0 cold in Ashville, N. C., that one of Bill Langmaid's hens stood in a wet spot one cold night, and its feet froge to the ground Langmaid had to chop the ice away to free the hen the next morning i — STATEWIDE GROUPS To MEET AT PENN STATE occurred last - be- Invitations have been sent out from the Pennsylvania State Col- lege for two statewide conventions to be held on the campus during March. The first will be a gather- ing of Pennsylvania college student government delegates on March 1, 2 and 3. and the other will be the iin a car bound for the Philipsburg fifth annual Pennsylvania State | gocoital but he expired on the way. Debaters’ Convention, scheduled for | He was a native of West Virginia ch 15 ana 16 {and about 58 years of age. He is The gathering of debaters, spon- | sored each year by the division apy SuIvived by a wits and family of speech at Penn State, is expected! to draw at least 100 delegates from | id or more colleges and universities | Mi ill Hall Robbers Confess In Court Brothers Appeal Case in Pennsylvania. Last year's atten- debate three national topies, and ton Mi to curb the “un-American” activ-' Two of the three Scranton of its domestic record. should be ;... Monday. The district attorney informed the Howard, found guilty before Justice wgainst the third defendant, James Protector Robert Farwell om a '0 admitiing tnat they planned to the court at 9:30 a. m., Friday, Feb- | A Like W. Forest DeHaas, of Beech Creek, | women, deliberately frozen through dance was 964. According to Joseph F. O'Brien, associate professor of public speak- ing, the convention this year will Two Scranton Men Plead formulate definite policies. The top- Guilty to Conspiracy at ics will be: America’s foreign policy ve ) in relation to the Ewropean war; Scranton what steps, if any, should be taken ———— ities of such groups as the Ameri- grregieq last December on charges can Communist Party and the Ger-| or conspiracy to rob a state bank at man-American Bund; and whether | nn); mai Clinton county. pleaded or not the New Deal on the basis guilty before President Judge Will er after 1940. Re el pr Ariat | conven-| Acting at the request of Disp: ob . | Attorney Michael J. Eagean, Judge Hom » heiug sposisored by the sti Leach deferred sentence until Sat- dent governing body of Penn State. rd The case of the commonwealth vs. | SOW that ie RD a who Heated guilty, Frank A tewart, he Hugh Butler, and similarly against Lewis Thomas, 39. would testify for Dan Butler, brothers, residing athe commonwealth when the case of the Peace George F. Hess last h 1a on trial month of the charge of resisting in- McAndrew, 2. is placed on spection by Private J. E. Summerson | 4 of the State Motor Police, Came Stewart and Thomas, in addition mountain road | rob the Mill Hall bank, also pleaded deer season in December fast. wih | Guilty to a charge of burglary in , connection with the theft of two come before the court of Clinton county upon appeal at a session of revolvers from a Scranton hume, ruary 8. Much interest has been| ©.n Humans Hibernate manifested in this case. i Animals? sn mn A — > — H | An absorbing article disclosing a Beech Creek Man is 84 | weird tale about aging men and celebrated his 84th birthday last! the winter and thawed out in the week when Mr. and Mrs. Jacob C. | spring in time to work on early Bechdel gave a party for him at! planting. Dont miss this amazing their home, including an elegant| feature in the February 18th issue dinner, with these also present: Miss! of The American Weekly the big | Maybe! DeHaas, his niece, and Will- | magazine distributed every Sun- is DeHaas, his brother, the latter's’ day with the Baltimore American. son and wife and daughter, of Ridg-| On sale at all newsstands, way. Mr. DeHaas continues to enjoy | good health and a clear mind. TR —, FAMED DETECTIVE DIES IN PRISON ON EVE OF PARDON Ellis H. Parker. Sr., whose fame er Parker, in an effort to enhance 8s a detective spread from a sleepy his reputation as a super-detective, New Jersey town to the farthest plotied to seize Wendel and torture points in the globe, died Sunday at Lim into falsely confessing the the Lewisburg Penitentiary, where Lindbergh baby kidnaping. he was serving a six-year prison, Parker produced Wendel's “cone sentence on a conspiracy charge in fession — subsequently napping. almost on the eve of nw execution Parker died while his widow, Cora, of Bruno Richard Hauptman in and several of their children were Trenton. An investigation of after they had been notified of Par- trocution. ker's condition. They did not learn It was not until 1930-—after two of his death until their arrival at! years of appeals—that the two Park- the prison. Mrs. Parker collapsed. | ers began serving terms in the Fed- Parker had been confined to the eral prison at . NO re- OSCEOLA TEACHER IS REINSTATED BY RULING OF COURT Supreme Court Justice Says Mrs. Katherine Reeser, North Philipsburg, was ordered reinstated in her position at the Osceola Mills borough schools because her teach- re- | sist The decision upholding the Super- ior Court was handed down by Jus- He asserted Mrs. Reeser received a con- form in force year Mills July, the Osceola school board held her provisional college certifi- cate had expired and that she did not possess a teacher librarian cer- the appellee On Lumber Job in tree! men | The Centre Democrat $1.5 » year | repudiated | a sequel to the Lindbergh baby Kid- and discredited by state officials — it enroute to Lewisburg by automobile caused a three-day delay in the elee~ | prison hospital for some time, suf- fering from an organic cerebral condition. By a strange turn of fate, Parker died the day before action was to be taken on granting him a complete pardon. Parker and his son, Ellis, Jr., were convicted in 1937 of conspiracy to kidnap Paul H. Wendel, former Trenton, N. J., lawyer. The son was Lewisburg course had been left to them when the Supreme Court refused to in- tervene. Parker lost his fifteen-room house was ousted from his post as chief of county detectives and suffered from declining health. That he was still held in high esteem in Burling- ton county, however, was attested senteneed to three years. The Government charged the eld- to a petition bearing 8000 signatures (Continued on Page 6) in Mt. Holly, N. J.. by foreclosure, | SDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1940, Democrat | NUMEER 6 Random Items Lincolniana ct With Board To Continue ‘Year After Year’ ter libragian certificate.” tice Drow In refusing to apply certificate her the the appellee no warning her holding it She had never occupied of librarian. Her college tificate fully qualified her to her duties her coms and efficiency a teacher » never questioned. The board ga a permanent contract and she is now fully entitled to protec- tion of the Tenure Act quoted Jus. for such a board t would In for gave on the posi tion cere Der form and ency fi ve her a MP —— Two Go te Penitentiary. Eugene Duffield and George Baier, two young men from Jersey Shore, who were convicted at the January term of Clinton County C { the larceny of scrap metal, were taken to the Western Peni tentiary ai Allegheny by Sheriff D Edward Orencble and Depuly Har- gi , WAS ry Q. Calderwood, of Clinton coun- | jce-cutting last Tuesday ty. Sheriff and Mrs, Grenoble, also Cleo Hazel and Elmer Irvin cu k Mrs. Frank Young to a hole Bald Eagle State Industrial Home for Women Creek, approximately at Muncy. She was given an In- f storage in Ha- determinate gentence by the court house on the Cluston farm after pleading guilty to violating ' between Mill Hall and Flemington the narcotics act. They were assisted In hauling —————— Eddie and Fred McKague, Lock Ha- Liquor Revenue ven Emergency taxes from The ice at that point in sales last year are credited with 15 turning $1.180006 (nto the Stale Treasury for general expenditures ther up the creek near George Bny- of the state government i where considerable skat- Ut O ’ tox the 9 by 18 feet In Ou 1 ce frr ir t ! ice fc zel's lox of the creek fo n AFORE liquor is inches to a depth fa rim Ae] ARI, WASNT (T Lin ow] SAD THAT GOVERNMENT OF THe PEOPLE, BY WE PEOAE FOR TE ROPE all NOT PERSH PROM ROM THE EARTH 7 FIFTEEN INCH ICE IS CUT FROM BALD EAGLE CREEK RB is In Pix re Haze) rly tex ice of Bald Eagle from i Fishing tons of tion anc june Creek fifty some bank prior which weighed it seemed In- many could have from what appeared 0 a8 A compara- space. Bul and Irvin are with the abil- orm the ied on Looking at blocks pi the Ww ondiy swoaain ¥ ome of to 150 pounds that 4 La redible 50 been taken the casual observer mall Hazel the apparently “er Mess WOR ~CUL~ school mu old fs eve ni a mit LE obtained the ice BROTHER OF RESIDENT HURT AT Raymond P. Logan, 39, HOWARD FATALLY ALTOONA Dies From Injuries Sus- tained When Struck by Greyhound Bus While Crossing Highway of Paul Logan 30 Altoona, was [atally in- jaturday evening about 7:30 when was struck by a westbound bus t Lakemont park intersection on route 220. The itm was a brother of Eimer Lo- an of Howard Charles Watson Raymond Lakemont , jureaq § o'clock he a the KR itsburgh police Of iver of ne bus told the across the of his machine A hitting 1} 4 THLVLALE : y | gan ran road di- in In wn effort man Watson sald he swerved the bus 0 the extrame left side of the road it believed the signal lights the car struck Logan's head hurling him (0 the pavement D. R Kennedy Hollidaysburg rect front 0 avol e ou of uf os Scores High Intelligence Test 3 ; Tressler, orphar ve of is one of the few nau on 1 young » Jib the nation who have ever ent the intelll- by applicants who wish (0 enlist in the United States Army. Tressler was gcoepted for futy in the Alr Corps In the Pana- ma Canal Zone. Before joining the Army the youth graduated from the Lock Haven High School and com- pleted a commercial course at Har- risburg. He was employed for two years (n clerical work for the U. 8 Government before Jjoinin the i 100 per oe test Laken 4 no spn — o> p———— set of ies, ever adopted bLy 1, CAL COVET every case that nts complex humanity Cot ~ The manner in which Josiah Dale met his death near Centre Hall on the night of November 12, 1906, was related these columns several weeks ago It will be remembered how horse and buggy of the victim came over Nittany Mountain in hie even- (ing, with the lifeless body of the | driver crouched forward in his seat, jaad a gunshot wound in his back The circumstances pointed to Mr { Dale having been shot In the back in a most cowardly and cold-blood- ied manner, IL was evident that he no intimation of the presence he assassin who siruck him down. Powder marks on the back of the buggy showed that the person who fired the death shot had crept stealthily to the rear of the vehicle in order to make sure that the cas- itardly deed did not fall For many weeks following the tragedy speculation ran high as to | the identity of the slayer. The coun- i ty authorities worked diligently in | an effort to apprehend the murder jer and bring him to justice. Every | possible clue, toward which suspic. ° ion lay, was followed out. Andrew fo in 44) Lhe had of ¢ JOSIAH DALE « » Whose Murder in 1906 Has Never Been Solved. foreman a as Dollbag coldd be leartwd in the way of developments. The pub dur for a surprise. Bowser mad Cane wien i Enown thal ob Millard was & Deleclive Thu bring thei Rite QF From and hi Centre Hall delectives decided 0 { some dee resiing Jacob who resided near 0 The elder man was sald io hmve had some bitter controver- Mr. Dale, which was the which were held CATH a by 80 ¢ SUCCESS al eR wilh ¥ basis thoy pon inder suspicion From strongly protested the innocence of himself and son, and after he had been placed in ail is- for this newspaper Lee aval wd a statement WHO KILLED JOSIAH DALE? ¢ most of his fe owned property He was alway a sober and industrious man and was nol known as vicious or ree | vengetul. He and Mr. Dele had some trouble over the cutting of timber on the mountain hat was followed litigation, which probably led the belief wos an enemy of Dale re Hall a Here to that he ¥ Al abens suftic the 1 followed whic! fens Ne rier eT phERe ERM was produced by the o both Mr. Fro for the grand jury. District At William G. Runkle, Hon. John Love and N. B. Spangler conducted the prosecution, while J. C, Meyer and J. M. Keichline defended the prisonurs to hold m ard Nis wa BOG NS When the May term of court con- vened the grand jury refused to in- (Continued on Page ©) Cold Weather Aid To Coal Business | 2569 Cars Shipped From Os- ceola Yard During Past Month SPORTSMEN APPROVE MINE SEALING PROJECT A mine sealing project which would involve seven nearby counties as well as the sealing of 53 mines in Centre county and 225 in Clearfield county was given approval by the State-Centre Game, Fish and For- estry Association at its meeting held here last night at the Parish House A solid month of cold weather for ,r te Episcopal church, at Philips enslern United States brought a big pyr increase in coal shipments from | The cost to Centre county for this the Philipsburg and Clearfield area, ..,ct will be $2400 while $26,000 according to the Pennsylvania Rall- ooh of work will be done in the road reports released at Osceola | ounty, it was stated. The purpose Mills by J. M. Perks. of the sealing is to prevent pollution January's shipment of 2569 cars ,¢ spandoned mines, and only for exceeded last year's best month, De- | rp, protection but also to preserve | cember, by 186 cars and was 627 cars | 1. water for human consumption. greater than January of last year. | The annual banquet of the asso- The Snow Shoe coal region Show- | .i.010 was held with 87 members ed a decrease over last year for Jane and guests In attendance ——— ————— while last January's shipments were | two cars higher. Many Meadville residents won- tt Ws i | dered why the city's streets were "ENTRE UNTY TRUCKERS® | still festooned with strings of oh Hou TO MEET HERE Christmas lights, Simple enough. | officials said. It's been so cold the The Centre County Council of bulbs are “frozen” in their sockets the Pennsylvania Trick As- | and can’t be budged. sociation, will el officers at A | meeting to be held at 8 o'clock to- | night at the Court House, Robert Koch, Pine Orove Mills, council chairman, has announced. Highway safety and the Pennsyl- vania association's program for A, continued reduction in fruck aecci-| dents during 1940 will be discussed | by E N. Sumson field representa- ! | | Take From Pay. Aiming at collection of $310,000 in delinquent and current per capl-| {ta taxes, officials of Uniontown i took steps to attach the salaries of 13,000 taxpayers. About $10,000 already has been collected by that INEAns, May Apply For Crop, Feed Loans State Supervisor to Meet Farmers in Bellefonte Next Week Colonel Louis E. Schucker, Siate Supervisor {or the Emergency Crop and Feed Loan, will be in Bellefonte, at the County Agent's office, Post Office building, on Tuesday. Pebru- ary 15, at 9 a. m., for the purpose of accepting applications for these loans The loans will be made, as in the past, only to farmers whose cash re- quirements are small and who can- not obtain a loan from any other source, including production credit o] association, banks, or other private | coneerns or individuals, As in former years, the money loaned will be limited to the appli- cant’s necessary cash needs in pre- paring and cultivating his 1940 crops or in purchasing or producing feed for his livestock Borrowers who obtain loans for the production of cash crops are re t mation, or write to Colonel Louis E Schucker, P. O. Box 864, Harrisburg, Pa Mr. Schucker wil aiso be in Phil- ipsburg, Tuesday, February 13, al the Post Office buliding at 1 p pm SCHOOL CHILDREN ON ROAD CAUSE ACCIDENT Forced to #lam on his brakes when school children from the Troy school near Hawk Run ran out in front of his truck, a truck operaded by Guy W. Walk, of Port Matilda, skidded into a car driven by Steph en Bllanich, of Philipsburg, R. D,, Friday afternoon, | No one was injured in the col- ! lision. Damages to the car were estimated at $50, while truck dam- | ages were said to be approximately $20. Bilanich was traveling towards | Philipsburg and Walk in the oppo- site direction ai the time of the accident, -. STATE'S MILLS BUSIER IN 193% Industrial activity in Pennsylvan- | ia was 194 per cent better in 1939 than in 1938. the Business Survey R.D,and J W mont, picked up the injured man and took him to the hospital where he died sometime later Richard im J HRS B) Fagan of Lake- Logan brother of the A patient in Altoona Hos- was admitted follow 1 the Pennsylvania when a vil where he NE AL acciaent s January 10 fire box fell on h leg and He was expected to undergo werk and was not brother's alroad Wp right foot peration this immediately old death Raymond Edward an and was born in 1900. Memb clude his wife eT a ’ four brot of his the son of Logan toona, June 4 the family in- Gladys (Weav- a step-son Logan d Mary was (Pret >U ler) of Mrs dau hers re ghier 7 LOgan 2: and i Be a Tyrone Pastor And Editor Dies Former Instructor at Hunt- ingdon Industrial School Expires at Home Harry the Grace Baptist church of Tyrone, and former editor of “The Record” at the Pennsylvania Ind Huntingdon, ded sud. home EF irae Rey pastor of Harrison McIlroy x y 18+ la y ovens ’ 1 en » of Jacksrn ang wa mtingaon 1866. Hr CIA G wilh InQustrial School privting and also the school school from his 1 the reliring fort EA or WOE Sven Years BgO Mr. Mcliroy had been a licensed minister of the Baplst chureh for more than 30 years, serving church- ef in Stone Creek Mill Creek, Port Matilda, Bald Eagle Shirleysburg going ne two the res- VERT ¥ Tyrone upon John P. Harris who Jennerstown and to YEArs ago on of Rev anal iF now at PF Was iw was ion. To ice married. His Annie Warfel of Hunt- this union there survives Mrs. J. W. Bickhart, J. K. Miller, Don- Mrs Brown, Bellevue; Donald Hartman, Catskill N Mrs. H H Negley, Alexandria; McIlroy, 8t. Petersburg, Fla: Herbert Mcllroy, Pittsburgh. He was married Kathryn Hartsock, of Tyrone in 1824. She survives with a Matiand Mcliroy, at home. He is also survived by one sister Mrs W. W. Strickland, of Huntingdon Juniata Man Hero In Rescue Risks Life to Save Boy From Injury by Speeding Car ora Mrs H lair Blair to r on, Samue! Steel. of Juniata slightly injured last week at Eighth avenue and Twenty-ninth street, New York, when he dashed into the street to save Donald Houser 9, from being run down by a speeding car Steel suffered brush burns and a laceration which required four stitches when the car brushed by him as he pulled the boy to safety. Steel was unable to obtain the num- ber of the machine which almost ran over the lad and the identity ‘of the driver was unknown. Pl Port Matilda Student Named Thirty-two students at the Pean- sylvania State College have been named by David Pergrin. senior class Centre Union, | first | was | | G— THE WEATHER Monday and Tuesday of this week were Lhe warmest ones we've had for O long a time that It almost seems This department never Groundhog as 8 the It he it weather Friday, when and oto another of Le thermometer has moderated. We're not, doing away with the It gives news ROOG CODY every including the Groundhog, has a good time, and for Peaple m Craw Ys of EVErVOne mt reason we hope some still continue to believe in hi WHAT WOULD WE DO What wo + } ng we Go " ine ar out Groundhog Lster and &Xinte falling nieriainment? YES, THEY'RE SCARCE Tf ha Banta Clau never you've got down s far us column you've no doubt come wo the conciusion that this department, us ually full of pright and scintillating paragraphs, has praclcally nothing 0 say. The evil genie of every per. son ever written for a newspaper--the make-up man-—is standing the doorway between the front and rear offices bellowing: Hey you going 0 have lhat column this week?” He | doesn't inderstand how these things are Of course we're going to have a column. Of course, too, he's just about ready to go to press and is waiting for what we have 0 say pon the state of the nation, May the type lice bite him ag he sets the type for t paragraph into the forms: CAN'T GET IT OUT It isn't important nut somehow aor other th Christmas pipe at one comer zone on the Diamond hold certain fascination for many ple. Why don't they remove it pie ask. The answer | can't get the dammed 1 ammed and {rozen Bhopse r Christmas 1 have 1 b TECRSE brought anc ‘} nn th emt who Nas wT ir are ust Tus tree sticks vy e Cyru ) wal 4 up at Gears new Personally, hink i be chiseled out, for the wood is probably swol- leu with water and would withstand Il enough pulling to Bit up the entire tsaletly 2OnLe | NOT SO BAD { A few moments ago when we be. gan this column, we hadn't a single thought, and here we are hall way through. It's remarkable how many unnecessary things are writlen DON'T COMPLAIN Those of you who are with these ideas on the tal waste of the printed word, should be slow to criticize, however, for | is probably true that for every per- son who wastes written words, there are a hunéred who wasle the spo- ken word. Sit down some evening and figure out how much talk you could have done without during the day. COURT HOUSE GOSSIP Court House gossip these days | interesting, but there is nothing you ican gel your teeth into. When you begin chasing down a spicy tale of what has gone on in the Temple of Justice and try to run it down to its source, you aiways find the tale was based mostly on air, or else has been 50 badly twisted in its rounds that the original facts, innocent enough in themselves, have been warped to the extent that they appear bad enough for a Grand Jury investiga- Lion. RAIN TO SNOW And now, we see, the rain bas turned to snow, and it seems entire- ly fitting that this column should (turn to something. For lack of space in the wastepaper basket we'll get it to the linotypes so that you Cus tomers will not be faced with a blank white space in this corner this week. gnt the DOroughi s i thaw IL out have «© ola in accord monumen- + » | i i New Clinton County Oficials. Two new Clinton Count¥ employes started work Thursday, one as sealer {of weights and measures, the other i are | sealer, and John Furlong, Renovo, | registrar, | —————— quired to give as security a first lien of the Pennsylvania State College on the crop financed or, in the case has reported. Recovery started in of loans { yr the purchase of feed, or | April and reached a peak in Novem- the production of feed for livestock, ber. a first lien on the livestock 10 be! The report for December showed fed a one point drop in industrial oper Farmers interested in making ap- | ations compared with November but plication for a loan may contact a 253 per cent gain over the pre- their county agent for further infor- | ceding December, | president of Clairton, to serve on | committees amanging for the state- | Death Follows Operation. | wide convention of college govern- | Ten-year-oid Charlotte Weidel, of ment leaders to be held at Penn Smith Mills, Clearfield county, died State March 1, 2. and 3. Among in a Philadelphia Hospital, of a | those named and his course of study | throat infection which developed fol- is Joseph C. Myers, of Port Matilda, | lowing the removal from her esoph- iwho is in the school of physical sgus of a i education tive of P. M. T. A. The association won the 1039 safety trophy award- | ed by the American Trucking Asso- | ciations, | Koch said that In the last ten years, accidents invelving motor | trucks have declined 20 per cent, | while those in which automobiles | figured increased 21 per cent, ol Woman Escapes Serious Injury Miss Emma Condo, of Lock Ha- ven, escaped with contusions of the head Saturday evening when struck by a car as ashe was crossing North Fairview street at the intersection with Bellefonte avenue, Taken to the Lock Haven Hospital by the dri- ver of the car, Harry M. Sperring, of Mill Hall, she was kept there un- til Monday, when she was able to be discharged. —~Want ads bring results, ‘KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES’ — Well —of All
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