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Show The Weathei Call The Herald If you don't receive your Herald before 6:30. call 495 before 8 o'clock and a copy will be sent to you. Provo . and . vicinity Scattered,' thunderstorms this afternoon; and, evening. little change In term peratu'e tonight. . ' Temperatures High Low , FIFTY-EIGHTH YEAR, NO. 51 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEGRAPH NEWS SRVtC PROVO. UTAH COUNTY. UTAH. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 18. 1943 UTAH'S ONLf DAILY SOUTH OF HALT LAKE PRICE FIVE CENTS ; MOO NAZIS KILLED BY RED ARMY Crucial Struggle Ends In Great Victory For Russians liv HENRY SHAPIRO MOSCOW, Aug. 18 Russian troops have won a bitter I attic southeast of Kharkov, breaking German defenses, and materially bolstering bol-stering the left flank of the Red army hammering the Ukranian stronghold, the Soviet So-viet military journal Red Star reported today. A crucial struggle that had raged for several days in the forested area below Kharkov ended in a clearcut Russian triumph tri-umph which may prove a vital factor in the greater battle of the northeastern Ukraine. Hammer At Kharkov Red army units continued hammering ham-mering at the northern, northeastern north-eastern and eastern, gates of Kharkov, where the German defenses de-fenses were found to be stronger than anticipated. In the general Karkov area the Russians beat off a widespread and persistent counterattack which was beginning to assume the proportions of a counter offensive. The German blows failed to oent the Soviet lines, front e-ports e-ports said, whfie the unslackened Soviet offensive thrusts improved the Red army positions in several rectors. Military sources said th reinforced rein-forced German army fighting on the Kharkov front was struggling to break the solid semicircle enveloping en-veloping its positions as far as 45 miles west of the city. Recoiling afte' bein driven back into the outskirts of Kharkov and to the outer defenses of Poltava, Pol-tava, 90 miles to the southwest, theKJermans were counter attacking attack-ing with tens of thousands of infantrymen in-fantrymen and hundreds rf tanks in a desperate effort to stem the Russian onslaught. A Soviet victory not only would liberate Kharkov for the second time this year, but probably roll back the Germans to the west bank of the Dnieper 'iver and probably prob-ably doom Axis forces in the Crimea and on a narrow strip of te northwest Caucasus. Front dispatches indicated ' that the Russian strategy was to absorb ab-sorb the German counterattacks until the Germans havo either wore themselves out or been bled white, then resume the march westward and southward on a g aud scale. The Germans hurled 100 tanks and huge infantry for.Vs against i single sector of the Sov'iet line west of Kharkov yestciduy, only to be thrown tvek with i loss of nearly half thH.- armored strength 16 tanks and 1 000 irea. Provo Man With American Troops Entering Messina First Lieutenant Robert Spring-meyer, Spring-meyer, son of Mrs. Christina S. Chase of Provo, a combat engineer engi-neer with the U. S. forces in Sicily, was with the first American Ameri-can troops who drove into Messina Mes-sina in thr wake of the Axis evacuation evac-uation Tuesday. Lieutenant Springmeyer's experience ex-perience in viewing the ruins of Messina were reported in dispatches dis-patches over the news wires to-flay. to-flay. The lieutenant is husband of the former Venice Whiting who is staying with her parents at Springville. He has a son, Robert Lawrence Jr., born July 1, 1942, whom he has not seen. He was graduated from Stanford Stan-ford university in June, 1942. as an engineer and at the same time received his commission as second sec-ond lieutenant in the ordnance division after four years of ROTC training there. He was transferred immediately immedi-ately from the ordnance division to; the engineers corps and alt,er periods at various U. S. training camps, he was sent overseas, landing at Casablanca November S, 1942. Goering's Wife Sent to Zurich ZURICH, Aug. 18 (UE Reich-marshal Reich-marshal Hermann Goering's wife arrived at the Basle central station sta-tion today and was taken by automobile auto-mobile to the German consulate. BADOGLIO TO BROADCAST LONDON, Aug. 18 (UP) Premier Pre-mier Marshal Pietro Badoglio will broadcast to the Sicilian ' people at 8:15 p. m. tonight, Radio Rome said today. Lnizyuu) ij lyj ) l& lbIM iyj ill : "1 - Grim General :S - More bad news for the Japs may be causing tense, thoughtful thought-ful look of Gen. Douglas Mac-Arthur, Mac-Arthur, as he watches boys of the 32nd American division engage en-gage in firing practice some- ' where in the South Pacific. Berlin Broadcast Openly Suggests Negotiated Peace BY UNITED PRESS A Berlin radio commentator openly suggested , a negotiated peace last night and said the German people would "gladly" dispose of some Nazi leader once the war is ended. The broadcast, directed ' to North American listeners, was recorded by the CBS and NBC short wave listening stations here. The commentator, who called himself "Bill," said, "It is quite possible that the suffering, sacrifices sac-rifices and reverses of recent months have chastened German extremists and made theptr0ple generally better disposed, to accept ac-cept a practical, workable and just peace," but this doesn't mean unconditional surrender. "Signs are increasing that the war may have reached a crucial, a most dangerous turning point, a point beyond which the hope of checking the conflagration before it menaces western if not world civilization itself will steadily diminish. "If the statesmen and the people peo-ple of the world are able to bring a proper end to this war by a reasonable, just and generous peace ... no great political transformation would be called for and in view of technological progress recovery would be reasonably rea-sonably rapid." The commentator said "It was the reaction to defeat and the injustice of the Versailles treaty that gave rise to totalitarianism, some of the leaders of which the Germans would glady shake off once they were themselves free of outside menaces." LONDON, Aug. 18 L.P A , suggestion by the Berlin radio i that it mie'.r now -3 possible for Germans and the Allies to work out a "practical, workable, just peace" was regarded in British circles today as the latest lat-est step in a desperate Nazi propaganda pro-paganda offensive designed to split the Allies and Russia. One significant aspect of the Berlin broadcast was that it was beamed to America rattier Uia... for honve consumption or foi Great Britain. It also was noted that the Nazis simultaneously were planting in neutral capitals suggestion that Germany might matje peace with Russia, possibly Japan. -g American Troops Find Every Building In Messina Wrecked; Civilians Cheer BY C. It. CUNNINGHAM United Press Staff Correspondent MESSINA, Sicily, Aug. 17 (Delayed) (U.R) American and British troops completed the conquest con-quest of Sicily today by taking over this bomb-ruined city to the cheers of frenzied civilians who came crawling out of the ruins to greet them. Tremendous quantities of Axis war materials and large number of Italian soldiers were waiting to be captured. There was hardly a German. Abandoning their -allies, the Nazis had escaped across the two-mile Messina straits to the Italian mainland. American units were first to enter Messina, about siX-Jxours oftor k- lot,' n fh. ciT-moT, had ingloriously departed. They were no sooner inside when Axis artillery began lobbing shells across the straits. The first shell killed two civilians cheering the Americans. Very soon ' the Americans Ameri-cans had their "Long Tom" field pieces set up; replying to the Axis, shell for shell. Not one building in the entire r ALLIES BLAST I JAP FLEET OF 225 PLANES At Least 120 Planes Destroyed In Raid In New Guinea By BRFDON TAVES United Press Staff Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, HEADQUAR-TERS, SOUTHWEST PACIFY, PA-CIFY, Aug. 18 (ue A massive mas-sive Allied air blow that wrecked a Japanese fleet of 225 planes and canceled enemy ene-my plans for a counter-offensive in New Guinea was revealed re-vealed today. "It was a crippling blow at an onportune moment," Gen Douglas Mac Arthur reported in his daily communique. At least 120 planes were destroyed. de-stroyed. Fifty more were damaged. dam-aged. In addition, J.500 Japanese fliers and ground force men, who never had a chance to get the planes in the air, died under the Allied bombs and bullets rained onto four airdromes in the We-wak We-wak area of -New Guinea's northeast north-east coast. . " Biggest Assault Yet It was the biggest Allied air assault in this . area to date. Fleets of Liberators, Flying Fortresses For-tresses and A-20 attack planes about equal to the enemys grounded forces rained down 10,-000 10,-000 bombs and countless thousands thous-ands of bullets into the planes parked wing-to-wing, many of them warming up for flight. Only six planes got'.roff the ground , and . .three, -were hot down." The Allied force lost three planes in exacting the enormous toll' that boosted enemy air losses in the southern Pacific area in the last week to at least 225, and probably many more. Reconnaissance had revealed the fleet parked at Rorum, but, Dagua and Wewak airdromes, all in the Wewak area 340 miles northwest of Salamaua. A communique com-munique said they appeared to be assembled for a "decisive air stroke in support of his fthc enemy's) ground forces disposed in the New Guinea areas.-" The Allied air force, completely surprising the garrisons, started the attack shortly after midnight yesterday. Nine formations battered bat-tered the fields for three hours. Nine formations followed up through the morning. The communique com-munique said "vast havoc" resulted. re-sulted. The Wewak peninsular area was covered by flames visible visi-ble 150 miles. . ' The ' success preserved Allied New Guinea ground troops fight Mf Onln mnaii a r4 A 11) H in "7" ' atrintr npmv air actacKs On the Solomons end of the of fensive front, American ground troons broke Japanese resistance at Zeita village on New Georgia island and pushed on toward Bai-roko Bai-roko harbor, four and a half miles away. KILLED BY TRAIN POCATELLO, Ida., Aug. 18 (U.R) A man identified bv personal person-al papers as (Ralph W. Mills, Big Piney, Wyo., was killed instantly today in the passenger yards of the Union Pacific railroad station here when apparently struck by a tender of a switch engine. city was intact and the doeks were a mass of twisted steel and broken stone mute testimonial to the fury of the Allied aerial attacks. The harbor area had been flattened. flat-tened. Debris was piled high in most streets. (Allied headquarters in Iforth Africa disclosed that 1100 planes were used in attacks on Messina during June and 1700 in July, since mid-July, more than 1250 torts of bombs were dropped on the city by American, British and Canadian heavy bombers.) The first reconnaissance units entered the city at 5:30 a. ' m., and by 9:30 the main body lofj Americans began - pouring- in ooon cnuM advance g u&rua am tanks were moving in from the south. ' " ". Italian soldiers surrendered in wholesale lots. A general .gave, himself up to Major drover -Wilson, PiUIqfian,' Wash . who." soon had more prisoners than he could count. ' : " i Utah Power Ordered Jt: To Wnti Than $27,000,000 Federal Power Commission Orders 'Company To Write Off Huge Amount Resulting Result-ing From "Improper Charges" WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 Utah Power & Light company of Salt Lake City ras been ordered by the federal power commission to write ff more than $27,000,000 now carried on its books, and to ssubmit original cost studies of an additional $56,500,000. ! The FPC ordered the utility to charge $26,434,849 to earned surplus and provided that all or part of that amount can be eliminated by a charge to capital surplus through a Threshing Mishap' Proves Fatal to Daniel H Peay Daniel R. Peay, 74, lifelong resident of Wrst Drive in Provo, was fatally , injured in a fair from a load ,of grain while threshing at the Marion Hinckley farm Tuesday. He died at his home of a skull fracture a few hours after the accident, which occurred when a horse lunged as its tail got caught in the threshing machine pulley, tipping the wagon over and throwing Mr. Peay to the ground. He was born January 10, 1869 in Provo, son of George T. and Johanna Paasch Peay. He received receiv-ed his education in Provo and was a farmer and musician. Mr. Peay was a faithful Latter-da Latter-da v Saint, and at the time of his death held the office of -HigaU, -ggng c-Q-rpbratibn) AM priest In 1917 and 1918 he served a mission for the LDS church in the southern states. He was married October 19, 1898 to Jean Vincent in the Salt Lake temple. Surviving are his, wife, one daughter, Mrs. Fred D. Mecham of ProvoAwo sons Leslie R. Peay and A. Earl Peay, bath of Provo ; 13 grandchildren, two sisters, Mrs. Agnes Atherley of Eureka and Mrs. John Rawlings of Lake View; one brother, Parley Peay of Provo, one half-brother, William Wil-liam Peay of Provo; six half-sisters, half-sisters, Mrs. Bertha Ross, Mrs. Ruth P. 'Farrer, Mrs. Arthur J. Durrant, -Mrs. Louisa McDaniel, Mrs. William Jacobson, and Mrs. Amassey Jacobson, all of Provo. Funeral services will be Sunday Sun-day at 12:30 in the Second ward chapel under direction ot Bishop J. Earl Lewis. Friends may call at the Berg mortuary Saturday evening and Sunday at the home of his son, A. Earl Peay, West Drive. Burial will be in the Provo city cemetery. 2 BOYS DROWN IN RESERVOIR LAYTON, Utah, Aug. 18 UE Two youthful swimmers drowned in the Holmes creek reservoir, four miles east of here, last night. They were Jack Dean Coonradt, 12, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arvll Dean Coonradt, and Marvin William Wil-liam Grantham, 9, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Howard Grantham. Three younger brothers of the Coonradt boy reported the two swimmers . grabbed each other as they sank. CITY MANAGER MEETING SET All angles of the city manager form of government will be discussed dis-cussed at a public meeting Thursday Thurs-day at 8 p. m., in the city courtroom, court-room, city and county building. " The meeting has .been called by a group of public-spirited Provo citizens who have . instigated a move to put the city manager plan before, the voters at the fall election-. Present will be George E. Bean, former Provoan now city manager man-ager at Escanaba, Mich., who will take part in. an open -forum f discussion and answer questions. OTeryBoay is invited. CHILD KILLED NAMPAk Ida., Aug. li UJ Richard P. Howell, . 3, son of George- Howell; Route X Meridian,' Meri-dian,' died at a Nampa hospital last night - from injuries 'received earlier Mn an ; automobile accident ori the Amity road east &t 'Nampa; Off More i write-down of its common stock. Jjn giving the company six months to comply with the order, the FPC stated that the trans- actions responsible for the ' inflation infla-tion recorded in the company's books "arise out of transfers of properties o Utah Power & Light company by its affiliates." "The transactions primarily re sponsible for the inflation record-ed record-ed in the light company's books f&hitt arise oui or xx transfers or properties prop-erties to Utah Power & Light company .by its affiliates, Electric Bond & Share company, Utah Power company, Utah Securities corporation and Electric Power & Light corporation." According to the opinion, these transactions include: "(1) Transfer by Utah Securities Securi-ties corporation in 1912 of the assets of the Telluride Power com-pny, com-pny, which light company recorded re-corded on its books at $21,168,-673. $21,168,-673. The cash cost of these securities securi-ties to Bond & Share (which had acquired the bulk of Telluride's securities and transferred them to to Securities corporation, was S6,- Sb8,503.iy, the opinion says. The write-ups in this case was more than 514,900,000. Other Transfers " (2) In 1913, Utah Securities corporation transferred to light company, among, other, things, the electric properties of Utah-Idaho Sugar company .and three other corporations. Light company re corded these properties at $7,549, 452, although they had been pre viously acquired by Bond & Share and Securities corporation at a cash cost of $2,128,477, resulting in a write-up of more than $5,- 400,000, V (3) Light company in 1913 surrendered its investments in Utah Power company, a wholly owned subsidiary company, in re turn for the net assets of Utah Power company. The latter prop erties had been transferred to Utah Power company . by Securities Securi-ties corporation and Bond & Share, which in turn had acquired ,them at an actual cost of $3,251,- 328.95. "The $8,937,004.46 at which these properties were recorded on the books of light company, was thus, th Opinion points out, $5, 644,288.73 in excess of .their bona fide cost Other transfers of - property from 1913 to 1926 to bring the excess of cost recorded on the books of the light company over the bonafide cost to the affiliated transferors to a total of $26,476, 921' the opinion states, and adds that certain properties of the light company were transferred to its subsidiary, Western Colorado 'Power company, in exchange for securities. At this time $2,685, 544 of the excess was removed from the plant account of light company and lodged in . the ac count covering investment in se curities of the Western Colorado Power company. I : : - Italy Doe for Quick Knockout Punch IVith Fall of Sicily Say Observers BY JOSEPH W. GRIGG United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Aug. 18 UPV While Axis commentators talked about Allied fleets concentrating in the western Mediterranean for a new, invasion, informed London military mili-tary observers believed today that bombed and strife-ridden Italy would be the target of a quick knockout punch. Capt. Ludwig Sertorius of the German transbcean news agency, paid in a :Berlin broadcast that the fleets piling , up In North Africa and newly-conquered Sicilian porta included some units from the eastern end of. the Mediterranean Medi-terranean : v - '. In guesses- betraying Nazi nervousness : over the next -Allied move, Sertorius said., a thrust along: the western shore of -Italy's VI Im Where Roosevelt, -4 1 "V VfikW:... . v 5,13 f ''.V S O w (7 S VM. j Historic Quebec will be the scene 1 -.-1-- l i'.'.7i'i A' iff J' r y f P-xtete ' i, js 9 a s 1 Roosevelt and7 Prime Minister Churchill since the start of World War II. At top is an RCAP photo CI the riverfront of the Canadian metropolis where the conferences may take place. The large building in the center, overlooking the St. Lawrence River,' is the Chateau Frontenac, shown in a closeup below. King Oeorse and Queen Elizabeth visited there in 1939. Qevlttt IGtflecl j5v" British Bombers By WALTER CRONKITE United Eress Staff Correspondent LONDON, Aug-, ILE British bombers raided Berlin and a big research station near the Baltic coast last night, and other Allied planes sent the now-continuous aerial offensive offen-sive against Adolf Hitler's European fortress into its second " day with new attacks in daylight Roosevelt Orders Induction of Striking Workers WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 UP President Roosevelt has authorized induction of war industry strikers strik-ers and imposition of strong sanctions sanc-tions against unions or employers failing to comply with war labor board orders, it was revealed today. to-day. The White House announced is1 suance of an executive order empowering em-powering economic stabilization director Fred M. Vinson to direct cancellation of draft deferments of workers failing to obey WLB orders, withholding of checked-off dues from recalcitrant unions or Cancellation of government contracts con-tracts and priorities of non-complying employers. The order measurably strengthened strength-ened WLEPs hand in the still-un-settled coal -mine dispute. There was" immediate speculation on the possibility . that WLB would act to .withhold miners' dues from the United Mine, workers if the UWM persists in its refusal to sign a new- contract with the mine operators. , . , mainland was possible or a "more modest" stroke at the toe of the Italian boot or at Sardinia from Sicily. ' , Rome radio said a large invasion in-vasion fleet had been sighted off Catania, on the Sicilian east coast, but a dispatch from the island indicated that the report arose from the use of landing craft to ferry troops and equipment up the coast around Axis land mines. There, was little doubt ; that t the Allies would take quick advantage advan-tage of. peace sentiment spreading spread-ing among the Italians, Xtie panic approaching revolution following aerial blows on their cities, and the deep gloom engendered by the fall of Sicily. ' Even ' .while the Sicilian campaign cam-paign was still inv progress,. Allied (Continued on ."Page Three; u Churchill Will Meet .. VA,.v.vv.Xf.v.VlV.v..v.:,.v.v..o.Ao.v.W!.A,, . J 4T5. t of the sixth, meeting of President today. While twin-engined Mosquitos struck at the German-apital. hundreds of four-enginedltAF bombers dumped a great weight of explosive and fire bombs on a research and development station, desciribed as the largest of its kind in Germany, at Peenem-ende, Peenem-ende, 60 miles northwest of Stettin. Stet-tin. The twin night raids, -th which 41 bombers were lost, rounded out 24 hours of unparalleled Anglo-American Anglo-American a i r blows against Europe, with Germany bearing the brunt of the assault. British fighters inaugurated the second day of the offensive "with sweeps over northern France and favorable weather foreshadowed Increasingly heavy raids during the day. British-based American Flying Fortresses set the pace- for yesterday's yes-terday's daylight attacks, bombing bomb-ing two key war factories in central cen-tral Germany in their heaviest and deepest penetration of the reich to date, while other big formations of Fortresses, from North Africa raided two Axis airdromes air-dromes in southern France for the first time. Other aircraft during the day and night ranged far and wide over Europe from t bases in Britain Brit-ain and Africa. Airfields and communications targets all the way from France to southern Italy rocked under the impact of Allied, bombs. The mounting pitch of the offensive of-fensive was reported by radio Algiers to have precipitated rtrikes in war factories in Berlin and Stuttgart, but this was not confirmed. The raid on Peenemuende last night, representing a round trip of at least 1,200 miles, was believed be-lieved to have devastated the huge station specializing in research (Continued on Page Three) FLOUR MILL DESTROYED GREAT FALLS, Mont., Aug. 18 (U.R) Fire damage to a Montana flour mills company wheat storage pi art here today was estimated at $250,000. Completely destroying the warehouse, ware-house, flames burnt out some180,-000 some180,-000 bushels of wheat late yesterday yester-day and raged for hours before 85 Great Falls firemen, with their own apparatus and supplementary equipment from army installations at Great Falls, brought the fire under control. , ' 1 i; r . K: 1 W;: I ; ' t ) ALLIED GUNS BLAST AXIS ESCAPE ROUTE Battle Moves To Mcrirv-land Mcrirv-land of Italy as New Phase Opens By REYNOLDS PACKARD , United Press Staff Correspondent - ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, HEADQUAR-TERS, NORTH AFRICA Aug. 18 The Allied con quest of Sicily cost the Aju's . 167,000 men up' to the last week of the whirlwiifCMjii paign, it was aWn'Qunded ficially today, anck' the final -figure is expected to be , about 200,000. Against the staggering Axis toll, incomplete figures on Allied casualties in the battle for the bigrgest island in the Mediterran ean, totalled about 25,000 killed, wounded, captured or missing An official summation of the Sicilian battle, issued as Allied artillery and planes carried the-war the-war to Italy proper, revealed that 135,000 German and Italian troops were captured and 32,000 killed or wounded up to Aug. 10. Shows Svpremacy "The Sicilian campaign . is standing testimony to the supremacy sup-remacy -of Allied "navies in this area of '-the1 Mediterranean, to Allied air supremacy, and to the determination of the Allied land? forces to engage and defeat the enemy wherever they may encounter en-counter him," a statement said, f- Allied guns planted on : the last 4patchdS4cil to twtwrestedft'oift-T" ..Jie Axis were pounding the r toe -of the Italian boot while war-planes war-planes ranged all over south Italy, blasting at the Axis Retreating . routes. - . .' r.. ( A French report relayed by-Madrid by-Madrid said some German units, had completed demolition assignments assign-ments in southern Italy, regroup-1 3d, and left by train for Rome -possible sign of Axis intentiefhs to abandon the exposed part of. .e. peninsula.) Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower hailed the Sicilian conquest aS at' "real victoiy." He toxd correspondents corres-pondents at Allied headquarters that he was highly gratified with, the results but -disappointed over, the- escape of even Ma single German." . - The campaign came to an end on the beaches -of Messina "well . ahead of schedule," Eisenhower' said. The campaign was won, ha added, when the Allies placed their division on the isiand without with-out substantial losses. t . The statement of Axis losses up to Aug. 10 listed 260 tanks and; 502 ft ield guns destroyed or taken. Axis planes shot down or cap tyred oh the ground up, tq Aug 12 inclusive were 1,013" of j which 598 were German. Booty Left, Behind It Was : emphasized that the, statistics failed to take into account ac-count the last week of the fighting in which rich booty was left behind be-hind on the evacuation beaches by the withdrawing Axis forces. "Allied armies twice within the last few months inflicted severe defeats on the so-called "invincible' "invin-cible' German army, in each case.; at very small cost to themselves' the official statement said. "The enemy's poud boast that he would drive the Allied forces' into the sea wherever he met them in Europe seems to be as empty as the promise to the German people that not one bomb' would fall on their cities." Eisenhower' revealed that the Axis evacuated all or most of its effectives during the last days of fighting in Sicily. He pointed out that the Straits of Messina are narrow only two miles ' wide at (Continued on Page Three) War In Brief - EUROPE RAF bombs Berlin- and research stations in northern Germany; allied planes resume daylight air attacks on Europe? American heavy bombers raid1 southwestern Germany and southern south-ern France. SICILY Allied command 1 an nounces all Axis resistance in Sicily has ceased; Allied air forces,, begin battle ofXItaly with heavy" raids on transportation lines, '--i SOUTH PACIFICAir attacks-on attacks-on four New Guinea airdromes, knock out at least 120 Japanese'-planes. Japanese'-planes. - .'."',3 RUSSIA- Soviet army gains to- ward Bryansk and in Spas Dem-. ensk area as great battle develop near Kharkov. . '.. yfx f f -! u ? -4, : 4. |