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Show ' - - . ',V '-"-v.. - : vVtrii. in V V 3 ... - Ca 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. The Weather Forecast for Pro vo and vicinity: Slightly warmer today ' and tonight. to-night. iv . TEMPERATURES ; . High .....71 Low ...Vl84 PTFTV .QFVFTvTTU vr a td KTk OOO COUPLETS TKLKQRAPH SSPmJS- PROVO, UTAH COUNTY. UTAH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL .14, 1943 UTAH'S ONL.T DAILYV. ' SOUTH Or SALT LAKE) PRICE FIVE. CENTS y I i i UvJ la rr? D far? 1! I . Allied Fliers Hit Spezia Naval Base In Shattering Raid British-based Bombers Dump Cargoes of Block-busters On Italian Naval Base While Yanks Raid Southern Italy She Loads 'Em . n .-Km' V V DE c HAT BY THE EDITOB By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, April 14 (U.R British four-engined bombers joined the crescendoing aerial offensive against Italy last night with a shattering raid on jthe Spezia naval base as the Axis reportedly massed 2,000 planes in southern Italy to , combat any invasion. (U. S. Attorney General Francis Fran-cis Biddle told 3,000 cheering Italian-Americans in New York City last night that the time may not be long before an army frees Italy.) Striking more than 700 miles across the English channel and Axis Europe, the British-based bombers dumped their cargoes of block busters and incendiary bombs, on Spezia at a time when Anglo-American bombers from Africa were raiding southern Italy, Sicily and Sardinia on an around-the-clock basis. Attack Italian Cities Simultaneously, a Royal Air Force communique issued at Cairo disclosed that British middle mid-dle - eastern bombers attacked Palermo and Messina, Sicily, Monday night. Although the Spezia raid involved in-volved one of the longest flights undertaken by British - based bombers, only three planes were lost in the heavy assault and in a subsidiary raid at dawn today on northwest Germany. The clamping of an Allied aerial pincers on Italy was interpreted in some circles as signaling, thgj start of an offensive to soften up j Premier Benito Mussolini's domain for the predicted Allied invasion of the "soft underbellly of Europe." Eu-rope." The Axis acknowledged the growing threat of the invasion by shifting Field Marshal Huge Sperrle, commander of the German Ger-man air force in western Europe, to southern Italy, with 2,000 first-line first-line planes, reports from Stockholm Stock-holm said. The nation's children should be willing, if not eager, to sacrifice sac-rifice for the war effort this year by passing up waste of eggs, baby chicks and ducklings duck-lings for Easter. The meat shortage has made poultry and eggs very important. import-ant. Millions of chicks and ducklings bought for Easter die soon for lack of proper care. If raised to maturity, they would produce eggs and also help to make up impending poultry shortages. This might be a good time for the youngsters to return to the old country custom of blowing out the contents of egg shells through small botes-in the ends, and painting the tmpty shells instead of wasting ivholc eggs needed for tooa. -oOo- Atlantic City's press agent is undaunted by global war. Come ratidning, come U-boats, U-boats, come death on the African Afri-can desert, on Palm Sunday, "as usual, style experts, escorted es-corted by a squadron of the city's most photogenic policemen, police-men, will single out the 50 best dressed women on the Walk ana award them wim corsages." A concession to the war is planned. Men in uniform, if accompanying best-dressed contest con-test winners, are to receive cartons of cigarets. ' -oOo- Transportation is a key to Victory, but week-end crowds indicate that Palm and lister Sunday crowds will equal if not surpass those ot peacetime years." oOo- Ho, hum. That was a terrible dream we were having about a second world war. Time to wake up. The mother of some soldier stationed at Krarns is going to get a iree trip to the camp-regardless camp-regardless of where she is living liv-ing in celebration ot Mother's jDay. Names of the mothers of all men permanently assigned at the camp are to De placed in a hat and one name win be drawn. The lucky moijier will arrive on Friday, May 7, according to plans, tind will be accompanied xrom the railway" station to the post by her son and a military escort in regal style. During her stay, she will reside re-side at the post service clut. An eaoorate entertainment program pro-gram is being scheduled for her. Hhe will join Colonol Lewis in reviewing the troops Saturday, May 8. That is the highest honor this post can accord. Five Killed m Runway Crash BOISE, Idaho. April 14 U.E Five army airmen, were killed and eight injured in a runaway accident acci-dent that demolished two Flying Fortresses and a carpentry shop at Gowen field yesterday, the public pub-lic relations office reported today. The dead: " First Lieuf Richard H. Pease, Madison, Wise, pilot. , Second Lieut. William D. Workman, Work-man, Clinton, S. C. Second , Lieut. Elbert J. Williams, Wil-liams, Perrysburg, O. Staff Sgt. Clifford Jv Hawthorne; Haw-thorne; Passiac, ; N. J. - Sgt. Thomas E. Lovelace, Ben-nings, Ben-nings, Md.' . '. ' i - i. II and They Fire 'Em, t j 'Af5 - ; if'-'- 'S1'A . I -- 7t"T ' is71 ' I :f I JAP BOMBERS STRIKE AT MILNE BAY Here's a WOW (Woman Ordnance Worker) at work checking the recoil of a 5-inch gun at Dahlgren, Va., naval proving ground prior to its loading for test firing. Nearby.';! 16-inch gun is put through ita paces, th towers supporting rings that test the velocity -of the projectiles. : Rommel In Italy Davis Promises Food Situation Report Tomorrow WASHINGTON, April 14 U.P War information chief Elmer Davis, answering charges that his ofifce sugar-coats news, said today to-day that its. purpose it to do "its damredest" to present the American Amer-ican public with acourate information. informa-tion. The office of war information Davis told a press conference, is "neither tought nor soft" in handling hand-ling news.-' .rf;-nv!f '; v He distributed copies of an OWl report on the food situatipn, but denied that it had been forced into the open by the criticism of certain members of the agency's writing staff. The report tor publication in Friday morning newspapers may not be "tough," Davis said, but it is an "accurate document." ; He said the chief reason for withholding . the food forecast which originally was prepared more than t'hree months ago was the fact that two bureau's within Sperrle organized and directed the department of agriculture dis- the aerial umbrella that escorted the German battleships Scharn-horst Scharn-horst and Gneisenau through the English channel from Brest ' to northwest Germany last year. A report from, Vichy by way of Madrid said that German Marshal Erwin Rommel, who purportedly has been entrusted with supreme it is accurate.' command of the defense of Italy, flew to Italy or Sicily yesterday for an urgent conference with, Italo-German military and naval chieftains. agreed over certain facts "It is not our purpose either' to smooth things over to- kid the public or to slug them just to be tnugh," Davis said. "The food document is as near correct as we could get it. I don't know whether It is a , tough report or not, but Besides Rommel, those attending attend-ing were identified by Vichy sources close to German military quarters as Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, commander-in-chief of the German navy;' Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, representing the German army; Gen. Vittoria Am-brosio, Am-brosio, chief of the Italian army general staff, and Admiral Artu-xo Artu-xo Riccardi, chief of the Italian naval general staff. New Meat Ceiling Date Postponed WASHINGTON, April 14 (UHX The office of price administration today postponed for one month the efective date of the new dol-lars-and-cents uniform retail ceil-; ing prices on beef, veal, lamb, and mutton. . . The prices, which had been scheduled to go into effect to-, mcrrow, will be re-examined in War Ration Book Census Reported BLIMP CRASHES 1 INTO MOUNTAIN HOLLISTER, Calif., April 14 (U.RV A naval patrol blimp fromj Moffett field, Calif., crashed into; a mountainside nine miles west" of here last night or early today, the sheriff's office said. The crash first was reported in San Francisco by the 12th naval district. Neither the navy nor the sheriffs office had been able to obtain details of the acci Two Killed, Two Recaptured in . Alcatraz Break Two survivors walked to the highway from the scene of the crashi but were unable to direct searchers to the fallen blimp, the non-rigid type of aircraft used by the navy in patrol work. Searchers started a fire in the area in the hopes other survivors would be attracted. The navy said it had understood under-stood nobody was killed but that one of the nine, crew members was seriously injured and three others were less gravely hurt. By ROGER JOHNSON ' SAN FRANCISCO, . April 14 (U.R Two desperadoes were accounted ac-counted for as dead today and two others were back1 in prison after the most sensational escape attempt 'in the history of Alcatraz, Alca-traz, the grim and foreboding ''rock" from which tradition says dent. Nine men were reportedJjf"L no pe but death,, SYuaft4'-"' --r-h-''t.... ; - -ff.Waeden James- - A.- Jtmnst' War ration books JMo. 2 issued in Utah coutnty totaled 63,579, according ac-cording to H. Grant Ivins, OPA state director. Weber county issued is-sued 75,922 boqoks and Salt Lake county, 239,632! Other counties "were as follows: Cache 27,883; Davis .22,967; Carbon Car-bon 20,385; Box Elder 18,579; Sanpete San-pete 13,350, Tooele 12,713; Sevier 9,701; Washington 8,908; Millard, 8,476; Iron 7,749; Uintah . 7,6fl; Summit 7,448; Duchesne 6,841; Juab' 5,610; Emery 5,529; Wasatch 5,491; ' Beaver 4,659; Garfield 3,557; San Juan 3,215; Kane, 2,265; Morgan, 2,654; Wayne 1,776! Grand 1,914; Piute 1,704; Rich 1,613; Daggett 346. RIME." KAI-SHEK RETIRES TO REST SOMEWHEPF. - ON - THE HUDSON, N. T., April 14 (ILE) - Mme. .Chiang Kai Shek completed her non-stop transcontinental trip from Los Angeles today and re tired to a Hideaway on the f Hud son River tor. a few weeks of rest the light of the president's recent j from the strain of her seven-weeks anti-inflation order. - tbur ofJthe United States. . ..: -. g faxicab Driver Slugged, -.Kidnaped In Salt Lake; Abandoned Hear Hephi "SALT LAKE CITY, April 14 (UE) A Salt Lake ' City taxi cab driver was recovering today 'from a slugging at the hands of two men dressed . in 1 army uniforms who kidnapped him, stole his cab and drove south until the machine ran out of gasoline, it was re-; ported here by Salt Lake police. The cab driver, S. J. Hairston, Sal't Lake, told Nephi Town Marshall Mar-shall Ernest . Brough. Uite assault and kidnappings occurred - early this morning in Salt Lake City. According r to details . received here - the two men called the cab at r or 1:30 . this morning - and told the driver to take them td the Kearns air force training center." cen-ter." v - : . After proceeding, a short distance, dis-tance, the men requested the driver to stop. One of s the men got--- out of , the machine and ' the other in the back, seat slugged Hairston on the head. The two men ; then drove' until the car ran out ofj gas between Nephi and Levaif. , Before leaving they, took from the driver.,.. When the men departed Hair ston made his jwiy to Nephi where he-, .reportedl'they incident 'l to Brouh, r - ' . ".(Continued on Page Three) Owner Sues to Regain Property A suit to regain possession of a rented home and premises has been filed by Ida Gardner of Provo against Mr. and Mrs. Scott Thompson in Fourth district court. The complaint sets forth that Mrs. Gardner purchased the premises prem-ises from the Thompsons May 12, 1941, then rented it to them at $26.50 permonth. On January 2, 1943, she sold the place to Clive W. Williams for immediate occupancy occu-pancy by himself. On February 19 the Thompsons were asked to vacate the premises by March 12 but thus far they have failed to do so, the complaint com-plaint 'asserts. Mrs. Gardner asks possession of the premises and $26.50 damages dam-ages beginning March 12. Sulfa Drugs Cut Down Casualties WASHINGTON, April 14 CU.R) Sulfa drugs, blood plasma, and facilities for rapid ' transport of wounded are major factors in reducing re-ducing the percentage of fatalities among the casualties of . this war. This was ; the consensus among army medical 'men at the army medical center and Walter Reed general hospital under command of Brig, Gen. Shelley U. Marietta, when they "showed reporters 'some of the new equipment and technique tech-nique 'used in caring for war wounded. Reports - on " the visit were released .today. .VSulfa '.drugs' are greatly reducing reduc-ing infection, and plasma is saving sav-ing many who , would - otherwise die from shock,-burns, and loss of blood. . . f . on said Floyd G. Hamilton, 36. -former member of a midwest gang, and James A. Boarman, 24, bank robber from Indianapolis, Ind., were shot while swimming in the treacherous waters around the prison. . Johnston said both were wounded and drowned in the bay. Hamilton, a brother of the late Raymond Hamilton of the Clude Barrow-Bonnie Parker gang, was described as "probably" shot to death or drowned. Boarman was "certainly" dead, Johnston said. , The two prisoners recaptured were Fred Hunter, 43, of Cleveland, Cleve-land, O., friend of Alvin (Old Creepy) Karpis, and Harold M. Brest, Pennsylvania kidnaper and bank robber. Hunter, the last man to be accounted ac-counted for, was found late yes terday, hiding in a cave in the rocky side of the small prison island. is-land. He injured his back and chest and cut his hands getting down the side Of the rock. Warden Johnston described the attempted break as the "most sensational" in the history of Alcatraz, Al-catraz, which, was once a military mili-tary prison, In announcing Hunter's capture last night, Johnston said: ,'Hunter "was the only one ' officially of-ficially listed as missing, and I believe this accounts for all four men." DeWitt Testifies Enemy Launches Attack In Strong Force Against Base By DON CASWELL United Fresn Staff Correspondent GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia April 15 (Thursday) (U.R) Japanese bombers smashed 'at the important Allied base of Milne Bay on the southeastern south-eastern tip of New Guinea by daylight today, soon after Gen.' Douglas MacArthUr and Prime Minister John Curtain had warned of powerful enemy operations opera-tions against the Australian zone. Japan's control of the sea lanes of the western Pacific and the recent massing ' of enemy 'air, land and sea strength in the northern zone means reinforcel thrusts "aimed, directly at- Aus tralia" which can be-halted only by increased Allied air power, the two leaders said. Increasing Offensive ; The enemy attack, in ,;strong force against Milne Bay .was part of a recently increasing Japanese aerial offensive against key Allied positions. Results of the Milne Bay attack . were not immediately known, it was stated officially. Only air power can stop the Japanese, MacArthur and Curtin said. "The first line of Australian defense is our bomber line," Mac-Arthur's Mac-Arthur's statement - mddedIf we lost the air, naval forces cannot can-not save us." " Curtin said in Melbourne that the enemy threat "is clear," and that recently frustrated ' air attacks at-tacks were only the prelude to a general Japanese offensive action ac-tion aimed at Australia. . . Recent reverses have, only convinced con-vinced Japan that "her attacks against our positions must .be carried car-ried out on a heavier scale to be successful," Curtin said. The statements from MacArthur MacAr-thur and Curtin followed authoritative authori-tative estimates that Japan has doubled her fighter and bomber strength in the occupied island arc above Australia and has concentrated concen-trated 200,000 men in the area. The range of the air force over the "no man's" area of sea and land from allied bases "is the measure of. our safety," MacArthur MacAr-thur said, adding: "If the enemy wins control of (Continued on Page Three) ; - 7 O r - V. 5;i;::i;:;:i:;:::$:; Sf S 'si?"''. Lieut. Gen. John L. DeWitt, above, commanding general of the Fourth Army and Western Defense Command, Com-mand, is shown as he told House naval affairs subcommittee that he opposes attempts to allow excluded Japanese-Americans to . return to Pacific Coast military areas. The House group is investigating San Francisco wartime problems. Plan 'Tabled' for Jap Importation At Geneva Plant A proposal to bring American born Japanese to the Geneva Works to help alleviate a labor shortage has been tabled for the present, W. L. Mildenhall, manager man-ager of thr U. S. employment service here, said today. However, a number of Japanese will be brought to the county for farm work, as planned. The announcement served to quiet the indignation of many ,w.orke rs, at Geneva who . bad expressed ex-pressed deep resentment at the idea of Japanese working on the project. The proposal considered by the employment service was to try out 50 Japanese as track workers at . the plant, bringing in more later if the plan worked out successfully. suc-cessfully. However, "the plan never got beyond the discussion stage and has been dropped for the present, pres-ent, at least," said Mr. Mildenhall. Milden-hall. Workers at the plant reportedly reported-ly have held meetings at which their resentment to bringing in (Continued on Page Three) AIR FORCES BLAST AXIS POSITIONS Axis Prepares For Last Stand Near Tunis And Bizerte Japs Cite Allied Losses in India By UNITED ..PRESS ( UNDATED ) Japanese Imperial Imper-ial headquarters said today that 4200 Allied dead, of which 2000 were British, and large quantities M a t 1 J t "A Hunter apparently gave up try- w Z. fll ir -Hr an ,4rt tn fv,- the battlef itUs in the northern SEARCHERS FIND BODY OF FLIER base of the island, where he found a cave. He covered himself him-self with debris to avoid discovery. dis-covery. As - for punishment,, the warden said none is planned at the present, pres-ent, Brest was serving life and 50 years, so there could be no further . penalty.' . Johnston said Hunter '-probably would lose his prison credits. He was serving 25 years. , The four desperadoes overpowered over-powered two guards and leaped from a prison shop window. They apparently had prepared for, the escape for some time; . having 'procured empty, cans with which I they probaUly had hoped to re main afloat. TORNADOES HIT IN THREE .STATES ATLANTA, Ga.. April 14 01E- Communitioa in Alabama, Mississippi, Missis-sippi, Georgia and - Florida : today dug 'out of the debris of the season's sea-son's first tornadoes, aided by Red Cross workers who ministered to the needs of more than a thousand storm victims. r -. - f The itwistera V reaped a -toll ot four persons killed. over a hundred Injured,5 a.id : property, damage! than any executive "order, on the pitesfJeed for IGSIW Workers WASHINGTON. April 14 OXH) War shipping administrator-Emory S. Land told the house military mili-tary affairs committee today that 650,000 to 750,000 additional employes em-ployes must be recruited "this year for. essential work in the ' maritime-field. maritime-field. V !- - ' r 'He said he was "entirely In acconT. with' the Austin-Wads-worth national labor service bill to provide; compulsory assignment of civdUans to .ibbs. 4 The '"preventive medicine" of legislative actton vby congress would , be f ar anore easily carried out, or i far ' more, easily obeyed', SALT. LAKE CITY, April 14 U.P The body of Carl A. Nelson, 30, Salt Lake City CAP pilot who crashed Mvch 20 while enroute to Cedar -"Jity, Utah, was found yesterday tinder the wing of his plane about 12 miles northwest of Delta. The plane was sighted earlier ;by Clark Huff, a Fillmore govern ment trapper. A searching party, under Deputy Sheriff John Bennett Ben-nett of Delta, found the small wrecked plane with Nelson's body pinned under the wing. CAP Winer Commander Joe Ber- By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, HEADQUAR-TERS, NORTH AFRICA April 14 (U.R) Allied armies paced by shattering aerial onslaughts thrust ahead on three key sectors of northwest north-west Tunisia today, but advance ad-vance patrols reported increasing in-creasing Axis resistance in the outer fringe of the enemy's semi- circular mountain defenses guarding guard-ing 'the approach to Tunis and Bizerte. Although the British and American air forces shattered large concentrations of Axis giant transport and other planes for a 24-hour total of 145 destroyed de-stroyed or damaged, the enemy ground forces apparently were beginning be-ginning to make their long-expected stand in strong prepared positions beginning in the Enf-dai ville zone, 27 miles north Of Sousse. Local Engagements Fighting was confined to local engagements as the Allies moved into position for their final onslaughts on-slaughts against the Tunisian coffin cof-fin corner, but patrols reported that Nazi Marshal Erwin Rommel's Rom-mel's Afrika Korps--which had flel up the coast to Enfidaville -had apparently been joined by fresh troops from the north, and V 'that sharp ronhteralfacsliaa: ' been launched by the enemy in the Medjez El Bab and other scattered sectors. A dispatch from Edward W. Beattie, United Press correspondent correspond-ent with the British First army, said fighting flared up suddenly on ' Tuesday when the Germans made a heavy counterattack on the British advancing along the road from Beja to Mateur, north of the Medjez El Bab front. The Germans poured mortar, fire . . into the steadily advancing Brit- . ish forces just below Sidi Nsif, and then sent a wave of infantry . charging down from the hills against the British, left flank. The counterattack halted the British advance, but was not regarded re-garded as., a serious threat at " present. Counterattack Made A similar counterattack was made by the enemy in a valley to the east, where British infantry, which was just taking up a position, posi-tion, was driven back. The Brit- ish counterattacked and recap-'4' tured the position, inflicting casualties. There was considerable speculation specu-lation that the Germans, although obviously fighting a losing bat-, tic, would attempt a new break-" (Continued on Page Three . 48 Soviet Planes Downed by Nazis sector of AkyaD, Eastern India. The communique, broadcast by Radio Tokyo and recorded by TT-ti 1 T- . 1 CI T7. 1 I covered operations up to April 1.' the plane. Hgog?le. and gloves- " lemy aircraft had Deen ren ovea, inaicaung mat . a.. r' 7- - -r gin said Nelson apparently had, rrwmn It claimed 405 enemy been ... . . 1 4- 1.111. J i . n4-n nfll. snoi aown or aestroyea on, uienewM u- ..-t-... s t d aJraihst o ormn ios ground. I ; Officla s were to continue . we, cf two a,rcr ft in oom!UaZr-ZP The Japanese said one ship of mvesugauon toaay ine P the eastern front aeainst Russian , 1000 tons and four of 50O, tons cause of the accident reported was had been sunk, but these probably, bad weather. already had been claimed in earlier! Discovery of the plane and pilot communiques. Today's recapitu-' ended a tnree week search in lation said 14 vessels 6f 1000 tons which 30 planer? and more than and 15 of 500 tons were damaged, 300 men covered 30,00 miles. . ; : - Hitler Might Attempt Counter-Blow In editerranean in Desperate Gamble By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst The approaching climax of tjie war in NorUi Africa 'makes it evident evi-dent that Hitler must attempt a final counter-blow in the Mediterranean Mediter-ranean area or resign himself to a passive, role of defense. r r Expert ' Allied military 'opinion is divided oh ; which , course; Hitler -will pursue,, but leans to the view that he wiU choose defense, which is not always a losing proposition Defense . saved s .England :4rt her darkest hour and proved : a stone wall in -Russia which the full force - of -Hitler's armed V: : might could not crush. " ' '' ' . . Should 'Hitler decide to; strike but in- an Effort to stave off the invasion of 'Europe. his - obvious 1 line of attack - would be V either latter is considered . less likely. Turkey .would put full-scale resistance, re-sistance, anl it is doubtful that Hitler could divert sufficient strength from the Russian central cen-tral Mediterranean, and western European fronts to make a Steam roller attack certain of success. k; Spain meaning a: drive for GibralUuv-presents a more workable work-able possibility, from ; Hitler's Viewpoint. .The :" venture , would have , to be . undertaken soon, : before be-fore Rommel is 1 thrown out of Africa, v After that, it would - be futile.. :iVti v.--.:--. ; --vy.:.-Hitler cannot afford to let the Allies gain' mastery of the Medi terranean without a struesrle. If Hitler could get control of Glbral tar and block wah tee shrdlushr tar and block the eastern en- (Continued on Page Three) estimated at almost S500,000.. ; rrianyower problem,, he said.-.. - I through .SpainVor Turkey. ..The,, (Continued on front against Russian positions nad supply lines. Nazi planes were said to have sunk a 2C00-ton Soviet ship. War In Brief By UNITED PRESS AFRICA: Allied armies r reach prepared Axti positions west of Enfidaville About 50 miles south' of . Tunis, cien out heights northeast north-east of Kairouan and advance on northern flank as airmen destroy 145 Axis planes. . EUROPE; Blitish bombers resume re-sume offensive, against continent. - -bombing Spez'a Naval base in ' Italy and tigots" in northwest Germany . with a loss of three planes as : A'lied forces from Africa pound Sicilian bases. - .RUSSIA: ivod Army- repulses . German attacks ; below Leningrad and southeast ot . Kharkov; and strikes across river . oh' Smolensk front to -captured , fortified ppsii ' tions."..vi , -r: ' AUSTRALL4: G e n e r a l Mac-Arthur. Mac-Arthur. Warns that' Japanese control con-trol sea lane . in , western ; Pacific and Allied twrmen must carry burden bur-den of stopping - any "reinforced Japanese onslaught, freely - predicted pre-dicted in 'many quarters , - , .: . , ; ." . ., .., . ..? "' rt ' A - - - : .Si - A . |