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Others at the bedside included Alder- man Edward F. Kelly, South Park com- missioner at Chicago, who made the first announcement of the mayor’s death; Dr. Frederick Tice, Dr. R. C. Woodward, superintendent of the hos- pital; Mrs. Walter Wright of Chicago, Mrs. Clara Beesley, secretary to the mayor; Joe Cermak, a brother; Mrs. John Kallal, sister, and Dr. Frank Jirka, Mayor Cermak had rallied previously after three crises in his condition. Colitis, threatened heart failure and pneumonia beset him in quick succes- sion just as his physicians had begun to believe he would recover from the bullet wound. Physicians still were optimistic Satur- day, but that night gangrene appeared in the right lung, the one grazed by Zangara's bullet, and he grew steadily weaker. A third blood transfusion was performed yesterday in an attempt to save his life and an attempt to check the gangrene was made, but the mayor did not respond. He lapsed into a coma last night and shortly after mid- night physicians said death was a mat- ter of hours. ‘The mayor died peacefully. He never recovered from his coma. Father Sid- ney Morrison of St. Bartholomew's Catholic Church, Chicago, had been praying at Cermak’s bed for a time be- fore he died. Meanwhile, another victim of Zan- gara’s bullets lay critically ill in the same hospital—Mrs. Joe H. Gill, Miami society woman, whose abdominal wound has become infected. The Cermak cortege will leave a fu- neral home here at 5:15 p.m., today, attended by uniformed units of the Mahi Shrine Temple and the American Legion Drum and Bugle Corps. George E. Hussey, representing Mayor R. B. Gautler in arranging for the spe- cial train, sald more than 75 Chi- cagoans would accompany the body home. Mayor Gautier, members of Miami City Commission, City Manager L. L. Lee and heads of the city’s fra- ternal orders and clubs will be orary pallbearers. Flags at Half Mast. Gov. Dave Sholtz, in a_telegraphic order, designated Hussey as his personal representative to extend the State’s condolences to the bereaved family. Cermak was an honorary member of the Miami American Legion Post Drum and Bugle Corps. lags were at half mast on city build- ings after the news of Cermak’s death spread through the city. Colitis appeared first to complicate Cermak’s condition, and as this began to clear up the mayor's heart showed signs of failure. Then pulmonary troubles developed and hope for his re- covery waned Glucose injections, sed- atives, stimulants, blood transfusions and an oxygen tent all were used in the desperate attempt to save his life. The mayor, growing steadily weaker, weathered the early crises almost by sheer power of a will to get well and a stout heart. Mayor Cermak was shot the night of February 15 by Giuseppe Zangara, a naturalized Italian bricklayer, who tried ito take the life of President-elect Roosevelt at a public reception in Bay Front Park. Each of the five bullets he fired into the crowd around the Roose- velt car found a mark, but none touched the President-elect, as spectators de- flected the assassin's aim by seizing his arm. The Chicago-mayor was struck in the right side above the abdomen and the bullet, of .32 caliber, punctured the lower part of the tight lung and came to rest against the spine. Given Speedy Trial, Even as physiclans worked over Mayor Cermak he smiled gamely and told Mr. Roosevelt “I'm glad it was me and not you.” Zangara was given a speedy trial, pleaded guilty defiantly and_received sentences totaling 80 years. The initial cases brought against him involved as- sault with attempt to kill Russell Cald- well of Coconut Grove, Fla.; Miss Mar- garet Kruis of Newark, N. and Wil- liam Sinnott, New York policeman, the three least seriously wounded victims, and President-elect Roosevelt. Charges in the shooting of Mayor Cermak and Mrs. Gill were held up pending the outcome of their condi- ! tions, and authorities made it known they intended to charge Zangara with murder if either died. The three less seriously wounded vir- tually are recovered. Zangara's hearing was a bizarre occa- sion. He refused to plead insanity and declined to have lawyers, though three finally were appointed by the court to represent him. From tne witness stand he told how he had determined to kill President-elect Roosevelt—with an $8 pistol—because his stomach hurt him | constantly and because he hated capi- talists. As he was led from the court room after his sentence, which meant a life- time in jail, he shouted, “Don’t be stingy, judge! Give me a hundred years!” He said he did not mean to shoot Cermak and the others, but expressed no remorse. He had one gruesome re- gret, his attorneys said—that he failed to kill Mr. Roosevelt. Overthrew “Thonspsonism.” Mayor Cermak capped a long and cumulatively successful political career by attaining the Chicago may- oralty with the 1931 overthrow of “Thompsonism.” . The story of the man who became Chicago’s Democratic 1933 “world’s fair mayor” concurrently with the city's repudiation of William Hale Thompson, is a repetition of the traditional Amer- ican saga of an immigrant boy fighting his way to business and political emi- nence. Cermak’s rise to political power was by no means meteoric, but it was steady, duplicating his growth in social stat- ure from a humble birth in Bohemia to a position of power in America’s second largest city. Milestones of his youth and young manhood indicate the drive and force which carried Cermak to success. He was earning his own living at the age of 11; fired from a job for I»!:l(.ln{.l for more pay when 16; in business for him- self at 19; married and a home-owner EPAIR | at 21. | Born the son of a miner May 9, 1873, at Kladno, a small town about 50 miles from Prague in what was then Bo- hemia, now Czechlslovakia, Cermak was brought to the United States when he was less than a year old. The family settled in the coal mining community of Braidwood, Ill, and as a boy Cermak drave mine mules or swung doors on the various levels. Summers he worked on Illinois farms. At 17 he trudged off to Chicago, finding employment as tow-boy for the street car company and saving enough to embark in a modest business for himself—hauling away waste wood of the International Harvester Co. and selling it to poor families. Attended Night School He supplemented his country-town schooling with night school work during this period, continuing on through night business college. 3 ‘Within five years he had run his wood-hauling project into g coal and teaming busi employing 40 men, and had begur§faccumulating a few corner lots which in another the | hon- | THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, l | | © MAYOR ANTON J. CERMAK. County has ever had, was supported | by Cermak at the recent election. Expressions of sympathy and trib- i | utes poured into the City Hall and to | ; 4 | the family at Miami. 3 ( 3 | The tragedy which had its climax in | the death at Miami had « sombre counterpart four decades ago in the assassination of Mayor Carter H. Har- y | rison, sr. | 1 4 A | Like Mayor Cermak, Mayor Harrison : ~ 73 | was a national figure when he was slain VB 4 v Za October 28, 1893, by Patrick Prender- | 5 4 | gast, & disappointed office seeker. B X . @ sHuTDO BN - WN MAY BRING i g + ¢ 4| CRUDE OIL PRICE BOOST ; :|New and More Stringent Proration R Law Will Be Reported Woui Today. By the Associated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY,, March 6—With | the Oklahoma City flush ofl field of | GUISSEPPI ZANGARA. a thousand wells silent under martial I e - law for the second time in its brief history, operators heard a promise of & crude oll price advance April 1 in re- turn for legislative enactment of ef- fective proration laws applying equita- bly to both Texas and Oklahoma. National Guardsmen patrolled the fleld in rain and snow yesterday under a shut-down order of Gov. Willlam H. | Murray, who said overproduction by | severai "operators caused him to act.! ly wells producing salt water with through the usual minor elective offices | ON eiihe hecas president of the Board :,he oil and in d';%" of ruin it shut of Commissioners of Cook County, |dOWn were exempted decade led to establishment of a real estate business that demanded all his time except that which he was giving, now in steadily increasing measure, to politics. From real estate he eventually stepped into banking, establishing two “home loan association” banks. Gaining political recognition first as a leader of young people of his own nationality in the Chicago stockyards district, Cermak worked his way |the ‘public buildings here today. about two-thirds of whose people are | residents of Chicago. | The board had a Republican major- | ity, and faced a deficit of $2.000,000.| Cermack persuaded the majority to| | adopt his program. wiped out the defi- i cit, and in his tenure of eight years, | built up a system of forest preserves and public parks fringing the city on | the west from north to south. He was also credited with making the county, hospital, the tuberculosis hospital and children’s hospital. among the most complete of their kind in the world. As mayor he was called upon to act as official host to the two national po- litical conventions of 1932 and to try to bring order out of chaos in the city’s | finances. His efforts along these lines | forced to take a mg to his native Czechoslovakia, but re- ceived so much attention there that he had, perforce, to go to Austria for the rest which he sought. Cermak’s wife, who was Mary Horejs of Chicago, died three years before he attained the mayoralty. They had three daughters. CHICAGO PLANS TRIBUTE. and Meet Train. CHICAGO, March 6 (#).—Plans for | the funeral of Mayor Anton Cermak will be made at a special session of| the City Council Tuesday. i Burial will be in the Bohemian Na-| | of Chicago, the burial place of Mrs. | Cermak. It is understood that ar- rangements already have been made for | a Catholic priest, a Protestant minister and a rabbi to participate in the serv- ices. The entire City Council is to meet the special train bearing the body of the mayor when it arrives Wednesday | morning. Flags stood at half-staff over the Loop buildings in mourning for a pub- lic official for the second time this year |—a month of mourning was observed | after the passing of Calvin Coolidge— |and drapes of black and purple hung over the portals of the city hall. Action Delayed. Action toward selection of a mayor ! pro tem will be deferred until after | Mayor Cermak’s burial, city officials . ration Counsel Sexton said special City Council meeting would be held to consider the question of a successor after the funeral, which is | expected to be Priday. s A haggard, .ndf-;yed group of men— { close personal friends and political | associates of Anton J. Cermak—ended their incessant vigil at the mayor's i office in the city hall today when news of Cermak’s death came. It was indicated that a special meet- ing of the City Council would be called | later in the day to make arrangements for Cermak’s funeral. ‘The Nation's second city went into mourning for its first foreign-born mayor. ! Aldermen and others high in city affairs looked at one another, mumbled a few words and gradually filed out of the mayor's office. A few tears were manifest. Kept Long Vigil. Almost constantly since Cermak was struck down by a bullet from the pistol of the assassin, they have maintained | their watch. They kept in close contact | with the Miami hospital by telephone. “And he died after such a game | fight,” seemed to be the universal com- ! ment. Citizens took the death calmly, quietly, ' expressing sympathy for the | family of the man they elected to head Chicago's government. Alderman Henry Sonnenschein sat in the mayor’s own chair when the death message came. In the office with him were Corporation Counsel William H. ! Sexton, Thomas J. Bowler, president of the Sanitary District Board; Paul V. Colianni, sanitary district trustee; Ben jamin Lindheimer, chairman of the State Commerce Commission; Aldermen Joseph Ross, John Toman and others. 1 Messages Pouring In. | Earlier last night State’s Attorney Thomas J. Courtnéy and State Repre- sentative Frank Ryan were in the mayor’s office anxiously awaiting word. Courtney, youngest prosecutor Cook | yesterday killed two employes, almost exhausted him and he was| abroad. He went | Council to Arrange Funeral TomofTow tional Cemetery, on the northwest side | Today & new and more stringent| proration law, backed by both the| larger oil interests and the adminis- tration, was to be reported favorably nz the Oklahoma House of Representa- ves. . Gas Blast Kills Two. PAMPA, Tex., March 6 (#).—A gaso- | line blast at the Danciger Oil Refinery Jap Bonner, 20, and C. F. Cook, 26. Fire- men sald a still in & new “cracking” unit exploded. King Carol Has Cold. BUCHAREST, Rumania, March 6 | P).—King Carol is suffering from a se- | vere cold accompanied by a cough. His | physicians said the cold was not dan- gerous, but advised the King to remain | In bed the next few days. i INUTE YSTERY Can You. Solve it 7 Dr. Fordney is professor of criminology at a famous university. His advice is often sought by the police of many cities when gonfronted with particularly bafing cases. This problem has been taken from- his case- book covering hundreds of criminal investi- gations. Try your wits on it! It takes but ONE MINUTE TO READ! Every fact and clue necessary to its solution in story itself—and there is only one answer. How good a detective you? . The Clues to Judd's Murder. BY H. A. RIPLEY. This was a break for Officer Buck, former student of Prof. Fordney. chance at a murder! What a sap that butler ‘t’houghl him. Suicide! Well, he'd play lumb. Now that the routine was fin! and the body of Smythe Judd removed, he sat down in the A must have cupled by the dead man. Judd was ingon's Ieder he on a had brought home from his office. On Buck picked up fountain pen Judd had been us- ing and found it dry. Well, hed take everything that might have any significance. ‘Where that shifty-eyed butler made his mistake, if investigations proved he was alone in the house with Judd, was in overlooking the fact that an auto- matic always ejects the shell up and to the right! And look where he'd found it * * * ! To the left! Well, the professor had told him nothing was in- significant in crime detection. As he closed the ledger Buck noted another interesting fact. The blood- spotted cover of the ledger was new, whereas the pages were old! I wonder now why he had this rebound, he thought as he picked it up with the shell, gun and pen to take to head- quarters. He opened his notebook again. 10:50 butler heard shot. Pound Judd slum| over desk. Shot through right temple. Butler called but phone. ‘Well, that butler made more than one mistake! He'd swing for it, too! What other mistake did the butler | make? He was convicted of murder. (For Solution Se¥ Page A—10) a CI ished H D. C., MONDAY. ROOSEVELT PAYS CERMAK TRIBUTE Hoover and Others Join; Gov. Horner Decides to Quit Parley. By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt in a statement today expressed the regret of himself and the Nation at the death of Mayor Cermak of Chicago. “It is needless to say that the news of the death of Mayor Cermak affects me very deeply and very personally.” sald the President. “Aside from the tragic chain of events of which his death is the result, a very warm friend- ship and a very high respect for Mgyor Cermak’s ability, friendship and loyalty to his friends would have made his loss & heavy one to me under any circum- stances. The brave fight he made shows clearly the wonderful courage of the man. The country at large and the great cty of Chicago in particularly ;l‘!lnmlu & strong and resolute charac- Hoover Saddened. At New York former President Her- bert Hoover was saddened today by the news. “He deplores it very much” Law- rence Richey, Hoover's :ecretary said. “It is a very bad thing. He knows ’e'vsrybody will be deeply grieved about Gov. Henry Horner of Illinois today called the death of Mayor A. J. Cermak in Miami an “irreparable loss to the C“iy of Chicago and the State of Illi- nois.” He added that he would return to Chicago this afternoon. Horner to Rush Home. Gov. Morner arrived in Washington early to attend the conference of Gov- ernors at the White Mouse. “It will be nece:sary to forego the conference,” he said. “I will return to Chicago on the 3:35 p.m. train this afternoon to assure my peing there for Mr. Cermak’s funeral, scheduled -for ‘Wednesday. ‘The Governor characterized the death of the mayor as a personal and political loss. “The city and the State can ill afford to lose a man of Mr. Cermak’s ability,” he continued. “I can only feel that his | spirit will carry us on during these try- ing times.” Senator-elect Willlam H. Dieterich of Illinois said when informed of the death of Mayor Cermak that “there is but one other man whose death would be a greater loss.” “Next to President-elect Roosevelt. Mayor Cermak was the most important man in the United States,” Mr. Die- terich said. “Certainly. he was the most impor- tant figure in recent history of Illinois. His effective work as mayor of Chicago in distressed times was an object lesson for the entire Nation.” PRAGUE IN MOURNING. Black S!r!llntrl Beneath National Flag in Cermak Tribute. PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, March 6 (#)—Black streamers of mourning were hoisted beneath the national colors on for word of the death of Mayor Anton Cermak caused widespread grief here in the country of his birth. 'The city council forwarded a resolu- tion of sorrow to his family, another to President Roosevelt and a third to the City of Chicago. HOME TOWN GRIEVED. Kiadno, Czechoslovakia, Mayor Sends Sympathy to Family. KLADNO, Czechoslovakia, March € (P).—Mayor Cermak’s home town was griefstricken when it learned today that he had died, the victim of an assassin. ;X'heur’myor cabled his sympathy to the amily. MOURNED BY ASSOCIATES. Chicage Leaders Praise Qualities of Mayor Cermak. CHICAGO, March 6 (#).—The news of Mayor Anton J. Cermak's death at Miami, Fla., was followed immediately by an outpouring of comment attesting the high regard his associates held for him and the grief they felt at his Ppassing. Those who sat through the night- long vigil in Mayor Cermak’s office as their chief’s life slowly ebbed away in Miami from the revages caused by the bullet fired by Giuseppe Zangara were the first to speak. Corporation Counsel William H. Sex- ton, who paced the floor of the Mayor's private office and the reception room during the night as Alderman Henry Sonnenschein sat in “Tony’s” chair and received telephone bulletins every few minutes from the bedside, broke the silence that enveloped the room when it was announced the end had come. “His g is not only tragic, but a disaster to our city,” he said. ‘For a little less than two years he worked as mayor constantly and faithfully to cope with the financial difficulties which have beset the mu- nicipality.” A moment or 50 after being assisted from the mayor's office by friends, Sonnenschein, who had been Cermal secretary for 23 years, issued a type- written statement in which he said the ravages of 18 months of strain, worry, aggravation and long hours of work as mayor had left him too weak to withstand the complications re- sulting from the assassin's bullet. Other comment was: George W. Rossetter, president of the ‘hicago Association of Commerce: “Al- most single-handed he not only dia service. We particularly be entirely familiar with hotel AT THE FIRST SNEEZE service. An excellent restaurant v 6, ACTRESS FACES KNIFE Anita Stewart Is in Hospital With . Serious Ailment. LOS ANGELES, March 6 (#).—Anita Stewart, actress of the silent film days, is to undergo a major abdominal op- eration today in a Los Angeles hospital. Miss Stewart has been under ob- servation ‘s week at the hospital and her physicians decided today to op- erate. In attendance with her has been her husband, George Peabody Con- verse, son of E. C. Converse, former United States Steel Corporation ex- ecutive, . SCENE OF MIAMI SHOOTING RECALLED Roosevelt Had Just Ended Short Speech When Assassin Fired. By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla, March 6.—Mayor Cer- mak of Chicago~who died edrly today, and four others were wounded the night of February 15. - Pranklin D. Roosevelt, then Presi- dent-elect, just returned from a fishing cruise, had made a brief address to a crowd gathered in Bay Front Park at Miami. Mayor Cermak and others | pressed around the Roosevelt car. » Suddenly there were five shots. Pive | persons were wounded, some doubled up in pain. The crowd was thrown into confusion, Giuseppe Zangara, who said later, “I shoot all Presidents,” had stood on a bench and fired five times before he was pounced upon. Mr. Roosevelt waved his arm. “Tell them I'm all right,” he shouted to those near him, and his car started. Told Driver to Stop. “I looked around,” he related after- ward, “and saw Mayor Cermak doubled up. I told the chauffeur to stop. He | did, about 15 feet from where we start- ed. The secret service men shouted to him to ‘get out of the crowd’ The chauffeur started agein and I stopped him again, this time at the corner of the band stand. | “Looking back I saw Cermak being | carried along and we put him in our car. He was alive, but I was afraid he wouldn't last. I got my hand on his pulse and found none. He was on the | seat with me and I had my left arm {around him. He slumped forward. A detective from Miami, standing on the running board on that side of the car, was leaning over him. He said after we had gone a couple of blocks he was afraid Cermak would not last. “I, too, was fearful. Just then Cer- mak straightened up and I got his | pulse. That was surprising. For three | blocks I actually believe his heart had | stopped | “TI held him all the way to the hos- | pital, and his pulse constantly improved. It seemed like 25 miles Lo the hospital. | I talked to him all the way. I remem- ber I said: ‘Tony. don't move—keep | quiet—it won't hurt you if you keep quiet and remain perfectly still.’ * Woman Spoiled Aim. The heroine of the shooting was Mrs. W. F. Cross of Miami. She gave the following account: “When the President-elect stood up to make his speech so many stood up in | front of me that I couldn't see, so I stood up on the benches. This man (Zangara) stood up with me and the {bench almost folded up I looked around. Then I saw he had a pistol and he began shooting toward the Pres- ident-elect. I grabbed his hand which | held the pistol and pushed it up in the air and called for help TomsArmour | also grabbed his hand and we held it up in the air so he couldn't shoot any ! more. By that time some men were | choking him.” ! | | Zangara, who sald his orly regret was | that he failed to “ill Roosevelt, ac- | counted later for his bad aim by saying | “that woman™” held his arm and the bench shook under him. i i | GIRL HELD AS FUGITIVE Pleads Not Guilty on Charge of | Embezzlement. | NEW YORK, March 6 (#).—Miss Renee Conklin, 22, of Seymour, Tex. | was arrested by police yesterday on a | warrant issued by Sheriff Arch Holmes of Baylor County, Texas., charging her | with being a fugutive from justice. ‘The warrant lodged a charge of em- bezzlement against her, to which Miss | | Conklin pleaded not guilty and was iheld without beil. She said a former sweetheart in Seymour brought the charges against her after she had used his automobile on a trip, abandoning | it in Kansas City to come to New York. —_— much to re-establish the credit of Chi- cago, but * * * had won for the city nationally and internationally a new and more genuine respect.” Federal District Attorney Dwight H. gree“: “Mayor Cermak dies & natlonal ero. 1 Presiding Judge Samuel Alschuler of the United States Circuit Court of Ap- peals: “The greatest tribute to his mem- ory is to be found in the fervent pub- lic wish that some one may be found :ho will carry on as he would have one.” Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of the In- terior in President Roosevelt's cabinet: “Loss of Mayor Cermak was equivalent :‘oe &he death of a great leader in bat- / A MESSAGE OF IMPORTANCE Addressed more especially to the recently elected MEMBERS OF THE CONGRESS And those ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICIALS suddenly called in the present acute financial situation to a most exacting include in this, those who may not ‘Washingten. importance of the work you are about o undertake will quote 1o Inspeet! rious properties in_the home while in W THE FAIRFAX ted at Twenty-first and ‘Massachusetts A . THE FAIRFAX is located af Twenty-frst and Mastachuseiis Avenue (on ested nd the to or Romhousekeeping. The ' prices 'are adjusicd to. the s maintained with meals at CHICAGO STUDIES GERMAK VACANCY Legal Precedent Is Sought:} Legislature May Act to Solve Problem. | By the Associated Press. | CHICAGO, March 6.—A city stunned | by the death of its chief executive to- | day thumbed legal precedent with small success, seeking a mode of selecting a new mayor to fill out the unexpired term of Anton Cermak. Apparently political leaders were in agreement that there were three modes of approach to providing the Nation’s * A-3 App by the bst sall ive tablet is iy harmiess rAiEn S s Vs B BELL-ANS second city with executive authority in |}, the emergency. They were: o fihoulln( of a mayor by special elec- lon. Naming bership of the City Council. e Permitting the “mayor’s cabinet” to | perform executive duties. ‘The law governing the present emer- gency, City Hall attaches said. states| that when a vacancy occurs when the | | unexpired term is one year or more the | i office shall be filled by a special elec- | tion. Cermak’s term would not have an acting mayor from mem- I expired until 1935. Such an election could not be held, without intervention !ur the Illinois Legislature, until mid- | June because of the required 40 da | between a primary and an election. Legislation Needed. However, in the event a special elec- tion is resorted to, it was expected the Legislature would be asked to approve 8 measure to hold the election within | at least 30 days. Because of the pre- | ponderance of the Democratic majority in the Legislature there was little ques. | tion in the minds of leaders that the | Legislature would agree to the request | to enable the city speedily to select a | new mayor. | The assassination of Mayor Carter N. Harrison, sr., in 1823 gave a precedent for the second proposed method of se- lecting Mayor Cermak’s successor. At that time a member of the City Coun- cil was elected by the council to fill out the term. Should this method be adopted now. council members said, it was likely that either John S. Clark, chairman of the Council’s Finance Committee, or Alderman James B. Bowler, chairman of the Transportation Committee, who was with the mayor when Giuseppi Zangara’s bullet struck him, would be- come mayor. Clark is a veteran in the council and long has been promi- nent in the city's affairs. Friends in “Cabinet.” If the mayor's “cabinet” were desig- nated by the Council to hold the ex- ecutive power, Corporation Counsel Wil- liam H. Sexton, City Controller M. 8. Szymczak, the commissioner of public works, and Alderman Henry Sonnen- schein, long a friend, confidant and secretary to Mayor Cermak, would form the body to direct Chicago's destiny. | Last Summer the four, under author- ity from the mayor, acted for him while he was vacationing in Europe. A new commissioner of public works, Os- car E. Hewitt, has gone into office since that time. The ordinance under which a mem- ber of the council was elected to fill out Mayor Harrison’s term no longer is in force. Council members, however, were jof the opinion a similar ordinance speedily’ could be re-enacted if party . leaders deemed such a method best. HomeFlowerMarket 1503 CONN.AVE. 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