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The EveuM WEATHER For Delaware: Fair to light and Saturday. Circuhtion ffl )sfcr(fir iW GUARANTEED TWENTY.SEVENTH YEAR-NO. 23 WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1914 16 PAGES ONE CENT Did Mrs. Angle, Pretty Divorcee, Kill Waldo R. Ballou? His Violent Death a Sensational Mystery GEtLH LE ADS REBELS OH IEIM CAPITAL FORTY USES AT HIGH SCHOOL III III! PU BUS 1 IMS TO IE OF APPLES DEATH USTATSEVEN; LOSS AT $10,000,000 BEFORE SALEM FIRE IS CONTROLLED 4 i Wafer Famine Adds to Suffering Residents Made Homeless by Greatest Conflagration in History of State Persons Homeless and' Nearly the Whole Manufacturing Section Laid Waste TROOPS KEEP MARTIAL LAW TO PREVENT LOOTING OF RUltlS Judge Gray in Assemblage! Successful at Zacetecas, He Sees Assurance Toward Safeguarding Hopes to Take Mexico City Within Month believe mm OF I 1 rV i 1 I tk.i,i-t.'U-M 6JLP Entertained at Reception and Luncheon of Delaware Apple Cc.

at Bridgeville 55,000 TREES! ORCHARD; ONE OF WOJIDJ GREATEST Many men of prominence in this and other States attended the anuual reception and Dutch luncheon of the IS summoned from a radius of 25 mllea proved unavailing. Dynamite was resorted to and whole blouk blown toi debris, but the concussions seemed only I to increase the fury of the conflagration, i A capricious sixteen-mile wind drovn the flames helter-skelter, setting three separate fire, which ate their way out- By The I'nited Pre. SALEM, Mass, June SBr-Newly half of the historic cily of Salem, rich in buildings and tradition, Is In utter ruin today as the result of a conflagration which has already cost By The United Press. WASHINGTON, June 20. Direct word received here today from Mexican Constitutionalist sources is that a general forward movement against Mexioo Citv is already In progress.

General wara tut tney nuaify merged in on tre mendous swath two miles long and DR. MITCHELL. DELAWARE COLLEGE HEAD. ALSO SPEAKS With forty consecutive classes representedevery class that has been graduated from the Wilmington High School from i875 down to date the High School Alumni Association held its most memorable reunion and reception last night. More than 250 alumni of the school and their guests gathered at the Hotel DuPont for the annual banquet that practically is unprecedented because of so many classes in an unbroken line being represented and also three-quarters of a mile wide.

From the places where the witches were, hinged two and a quarter centuries ago, tha flames raced upwards to the edgo of the old colonial residences, leaving in Villa has decided to take the capital if possible in less than a month. Ho has already started his men south from Zac-atecas. lie will lead the movement in person according to reports received here and has already ordered south his reserve suply of arms and ammunition from Torreon, Saltillo and Tampico. In ruins in its wake, the birthplace of Na Delaware Apple Company, on its 030-acre farm near Bridgeville, Sussex county, yesterday. The visitors viewed with pleasure the large expanse covered wit li 83,000 apple trees or many varieties and in many stages of growth, former, Judge David T.

Marvel, of this city, president of the company; 11. Ridgely Harrington, of Dover, the general manager, and William James, the superintendent. were congratulated heartily by the company's stockholders and guests upon the nourishing condition of what is concedcdly one of the largest thaniel Hawthorne and other bistortd pots. The Are has already surpassed the Chelsea tire horror of April 1008, when 8,000 were rendered homeless, 1.50ft seren lives, destroyed nearly the whole manufacturing sera ton, hundreds of houses and several Colonial structures and rendered 15,000 of the 15,000 population homeless. The losses will total $10,000,000, according to revised estimates given out this morning by the assessor' dflice.

This Is somewhat ahovt the estimate of tire Insurance men and considerably below the first estimate made by city officials. The dead to date arei Miss Mary Flske, nurse, dead of excitement when on the way to Beverly In an ambulance, suffering from heart trouble. buiKluigs destroyed, 1.000 families prao- because of the prominence of the peakers for the evening, who included former Judge George Gray and Dr. Samuel Chiles Mitchell, the new president of Delaware College, while former tically ruined, 300 injured and property loss of $0,000,000 suffered. addition it is stated here that ilia captured a score of Krupp rapid-firers with an enormous quantity of ammunition at Zacatecas and that this will be used by him against Huerta's troops.

Although the Mexico City reports assert that Iluerta is planning a series of desperate struggles to drive Villa back, officials hero who are familiar with the apple orchards in the, world. The guests were met at Bridgeville Congressman Hilliam H. lleulu was tonstniaster. i It was a carefree gathering of men of affairs in the community, who treas RED CROSS SENDS AID TO SUFFERERS situation say they think the backbone of the Eederad defense has been broken. In the last two months of fighting all of Iluerta veteran troops, with the exception of the single division retained for his and Blanquet's personal bodyguard, have been crushed bv Villa.

The Mrs. Edward McGlone, doad of heart trouble when her honse caught tire. dictator has left only raw levies of tin-trained troops, most of them young boys who are in utter terror of Villa's train station by Mr. Harrington and a staff ot aides in charge of many fiag-dceo-rated automobiles and wagons. In those vehicles the visitors were taken out to the farm and driven over a long inspection course that was marked out by hundreds of American Hags.

After lie inspection the entire party repaired to the old Messick homestead, where alimentary refreshment was served on the lawn and in the house. Robinson's orchestra, of Wilmington, discoursed popular airs on the upper veranda. Early in the afternoon the luncheon was served. It was enjoyed thoroughly by everyone. That was followed by speech-making.

Frank M. Soper, the "Apple King" of Kent county, presided. He spoke in glowing terms of the condition of the orchard and of the im mense revenue that would be derived from it within a few years. No fear Tterd be entertained, he said, that there unnlil not be orofitiihlc market for the Py The United Pi ess. WASHINGTON, June 26.

Ernest p. Bieknell, national director of the Red (Toss, today wired offers of assistance to the authorities at, Salem, and also Governor Walsh, of Massachusetts. He also instructed Gardner M. Lane, national vice-president of the Red Cross at Boston, to make such further offers of assistance as he deemed necessary. He suggested that the Boston Associated John Lee, proprietor of a Chinese ure the sheepskins ihey were awarded when they finished their High School course.

There were physicians, lawyers, hankers and other men who have achieved success in professional, industrial and mercantile pursuits men who play an important part in affairs of the city and State. Some of the alumni came from Xew York and Philadelphia to assure their class being represented at the reunion, so strong has school pride developed. In fact, Judge Gray, in his speech, nfter an ovation that brought tears to his eyes, asserted his surprise to find the alumni association to be such a comprehensive organization, which gave him renewed assurance that the Constitution of our forefathers mat tiie Lonsmuimr, o. our ui in. ed battalions.

Because of this, It is be laundry, body found In ruins. rnldentlfled child, body found in lieved that there will be only one Teal fight, by Iluerta and that this will take place in the neighborhood of Mexico City. Officials very frankly assert, that if the Huertista and Carrunzistas en ruins of house on May street. Cluster of bones found In ruins of voys do not get together very soon on In restaurants and riding In her father's automobile together, but with all this there was never a word ot scandal in Stamford about cither of STAMFORD, Jum, 26-Did Mrs. Helen M.

Angle, the pretty and well-to-do divorcee, kill Waldo R. Ballou. councilman and one of the most active Republican workers in Charities, a Red Cross auxiliary, send experienced men to Saloni to determine how the stricken city could be helped best. At the request of Representative, Gardner, of Massachusetts, Secretary of War Garrison today wifed Colonel H. L.

Hawthorne, cnmmsndgnt ot Fort Warren, at Boston, to' make a full report on conditions at Salem. The War question of selecting a provisional would be upheld its guarantee of life, vernor they will not need liberty-and the pursuit of happiness aR villa will be' in the capital house at Xo. 181 Lafayette street, believed to be Mrs. Sarah Abbott, tin, who Is the missing. Two other unidentified bodies found In ruins cooled sufficiently to allow nf thniisunris of baskets of Gray made a powerful speech in them.

It was remarkable how every one here testified to Mrs. Angle's good reputation. Mrs. Anglo's father and Mr. Ballou were good friends.

snnles that the orchard would produce, defense of the old Constitution and for mndr to the irreftt, im- the unholdinz of the sanctity of th searchers to begin work. portance of handling and packing the court. Last night's speech was the first delivered bv Dr. Mitchell since he Added to-tho horror today, was a Department stands ready to furnish, anything necessary, Uaitlson smid'. 7 "Put a little of vour Sunday religion became president ot Delaware voiicec, into vour week-dav package," Mr.

and bis introduction won for him 1 he utter reports. from alem to the Rni groat scarcity of 'Water, altrloBt threatening famine, Many 'could get and will have pet up Constitutionalist government by right of might. A definite statement was looked for today from General Carranza, who 'is now at Monterey dealing with the "unofficial peace parleys," which it is proposed to hold. The Constitutionalist Junta here claimed to have no knowledge of its contents, but It was expected 1o authorise Jose Fernando Calderon and Rafael Zubaran to act in the matter as they think best. Cross hcadnnsrtVfs here, situation fo be so serious that National Director fiiekncl! decided to leave nt once for the flre'Stricken city, at the rt the State? Ballou's dead body was found on the sidewalk In front of'the building where Mrs.

Angle llvud in her two, room studio. Her story is' that he had called upon her in the evening and left about 10 p. being under the Influence of liquor. Sho heard a fall and found him on tb second landing in a pool of blood, she says, and thought him dead. In a- panic and fearing that If his body were found there It would compromise her good name, tihe claims she carried the body downstairs and left it on the sidewalk.

She then re turned to her room and went to bed, where she was found by the police after the body had been discovered ou the sidewalk. Mrs. Angle and Mr. Ballou had been close frfends for more than five years. Although he was twenty-nine years older than Soper said, and it will be all Tight." inenusmp ana regain -'yi Other speakers were former Judge alumni by his broad minded plea for Marvel the president, and George Car- support of the hest educational tor.

editor of Tllti EVENTXG JOUR- Hons and aspirations. VAL. It developed during those Clifford J. the new superin-spceehes that the company is in nego- tendent of Wilmington Schools, and tiation with the Delaware Railroad i Principal A. H.

Berlin, of the High Company to build ft line of railroad from School, who received a demonstra-ISridgeville out to the big apple orchard. tjon froin the Alumni.alHO were called Some persons believed that Mr. Ballou would marry Mrs. Angle, but others said that their friendship was purely platonic. Ballou was a jdoer.d- Mrf Attglfe--- widow, had been tlivorced six years.

Her former husband, Frank Angle, lives in Bridgeport She obtained the divorce on the ground of desertion. Angle said In Bridgeport that he was convinced that his former wife's reputation was unimpeachable. All of these things helped to baffle the police in their efforts to establish any reason why Mrs. Angle should have killed Mr. Ballou.

Those Inclined to believe that she knew mor than she told conjectured variously, rtvenge, Jealously, sudden anger and IN iVIillM'l tMHfni HIH II, rlinirmnn of the National Relief Board. MiM rtortrdmair is now at her summer home in Manchester, near Salem, and probabjv will-go to Salem also to. assist Bieknell. Gardner M. Lane, treasurer of the Massachusetts State Roard of the Red Cross, was authorized by wire to only a scantily-filled cupful, and springs on the outskirts of the city were In great-demand.

The Beverly water system has been called on aid. At 8 o'clock the fire waa c.ill raging, but was being held, in chtu to the two-mile swath already Unless the' wind suddenly shifts again If is merely a Question of waiting for the flames to burn themselves out. Martial law, with companies of militia, comprising 1100 men, has prevailed practically since 9 o'clock last night. Khaki-clad soldiers, bayonets draw on the Red Cross for $5000, as an Initial relief fund. Mrs.

Angle, they often went about to- other things being ascribed without gether. They were frequently seen evidence to support them. upon anu mane oner aim speeches. With the entertainment features to add to the enjoyment, the reunion and dinner last nieht set a standard that it will be difficult to equal, or excel, In' the future years. Dr.

J. Hnrmer Rile, of the class of 1875 proudly displayed a program of the commencement exercises of that vear. William C. of the class of 1878, showed to his classmates and other friends the poem, referring to each member, that was read during their commencement exercises. Seven members of the Kurtz family, all graduates of the High School, were present, they including John D.

Kurtz, William F. Kurtz, Frederick I Kurtz, Charles C. Kurtz, Edward R. Kurtz, and Frederick W. Kurtz and Howard C- Kurtz, the latter two beine sons of Charles C.

LOETSCHER TO 10R ON FEDERALS RETIRE FROM ZACATECAS 1 MSORDEU By Tim United Press. JUAREZ, June 26. With the cavalry of Villa's victorious army in close pursuit, General Luis Medina Barron and the remnants of his Federal army are fleeing southward from Zacatecas in wild disorder towards Auguas Calientes, burning bridges and destroying railroads, according to dispatches received here today. Cavalrymen have taken prisoner several score of exhausted stragglers in the rear of Barron's forces. Executions of Mexican Federal Irregulars and "Colorados" captured at Zacatecas began at sunrise today and the former followers of Pascual Orozco in the "red flag" revolution, faced the tiring line today.

Villa has ordered that the lives of officers and privates in the Federal regular army be spared, excepting a few Huertis-tas noted for cruelty to Constitutionalist captives. But he has instructed that no mercy be shown the bloodthirsty "Colorados," whose acts of rapine and murder shocked even Mexico a few years ago. ADDRESS YOUNG FOLK ARMY SURGEON DEAD H. Ridgely Harrington, general manager of the big apple farm and president of the Culture Company, which has the contract for caring for tbo thousands of trees up to the time they beciin to bear, delivered his third annual inspection address. He said, In part: "This farm a few years ago was considered in the wilderness, having eost Mr.

Messlck only about $7 an acre. We paid him $40 and $50 an acre, and I believe the majority of these present today will say It Is now worth $100 an acre; and if you will come back from year to year to attend our succeeding Inspections I will prove to you it will soon be worth an acre, and will pay enormous dividends on that valuation. "The Western apple boom will collapse in the next five years causing a total loss to thirty thousand orchard owners of the States of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Utah and Colorado, with over one-half million acres of orchard costing the investors over $250,000,000. The Pacific Northwest in 1912 picked and shipped fifteen thousand carloads of apples; Vita wr U. to estimated there will be IN OUTDOOR 1,111 ACTIVE LIFE LOSES ALL IX SALEM FIRE.

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL. DELAWARE CITY, June 26. Van II. Densmore, a son-tn-law of the Rev. J.

L. Rusbridge, pastor of the Presbyterian Church here telegraphed his father-lu-law this morning that his home had been destroyed in the Are that Is sweeping Salem, Mass. Mrs. Densmore and her children are visiting here. MOTHER WAISTS TOTS SCPrORTED.

Joseph H. Reed, in City Court this morning pleaded guilty to the charge of neglecting to support hia two minor children and after a brief hearing the cae went over until tomorrow, Mrs. Minnie A. Reed, the wife, testified that she married Reed ten years ago in Seaford and that they have two children, 8 and 3 years of age. She said she and her husband separated two years ago.

The children are being cared for at Seaford by their grandmother. Mrs. Reed Is employed as a nurse at the Delaware State Hospital for the Insane at Farnhurst. fixed and under orders to shoot, patrol the streets and prevent all looting by thugs from the underworld about Boston. Four companies of local militia were called out about 3.30 yesterday, when panic spread beyond the control of the.

local police, and Governor' Walsh, who dashed to the stricken city in a high-powered automobile, later ordered out the Eighth Regiment, a thousand tents and blankets and 10,000 rations are on their way. The wildest havoc prevailed today. Thousands of homeless, sleepless and rendered paupers in one blow, wandered the streets, held back from entering the doomed area, where their homes had been. Many frantic with fear for missing tramped back and forth searching fruitlessly. The fire broke out just before 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon with a chemical explosion in the Kerr.

Leather Company. In fifteen minutes the factory was" in ruins. Tinder-box houses and Dr. N. B.

Morrison, who has been confined to his residence, No. 009 Delaware avniue for the past six months, passed away at, an early hour tins morning. He was born at Kemblesville, Chester county. in 1834 and attend Kurtz. The classes were seated In numerical order, beginning with 1875.

Thy clustered about small tables, each having a stand with the number of the class displayed. Seated at the long guest table were J. Christy Conner, retiring president of the Alumni Association; former Judge George ed Delaware College, later graduating At the young people's meeting at Washington Heights on Sunday evening the speaker will be Professor W. Loetscher, Ph. D.

His subject will be "True Christian Endeavorers." Professor Loetscher was graduated from Princeton University lu the class of 1896, being the Latin saluta-torian of his class. During the year 1896-1897 he served as instructor at the Lawrenceville Preparatory School. During the years, 1897-1900 he took his theological course at Princeton Theological Seminary. In the middle year of this course he shipped twenty-three thousand, and in medicine from Jefferson College, in lie served as surgeon at Point and llarewood Hospital. Washington.

At the close of the Gray and Dr. Samuel C. Mitchell, new president of Delaware College, who were the formal speakers; former Congressman William H. Heald, toastmaster; Chancellor Charles M-Curtis, Clifford J. Scott, superintendent of Wilmington Public Schools; a seething mass of war he located at North East, Mary- shops nearby were flumes.

Water pressure failed and Bill Samuel H. Baynard, president of the Board of Education; George Rommel, Hiram Yerger and Frank R. Zebley, members of the Board of Education; Principal A. H. Berlin.

John F. Robinson, Henry M. Snyder, J. Frank Continued on Page Two. land, and practiced until 1876.

when he removed to Wilmington and giving up general practice, conducting a drug store at the southeast corner of Second and King streets for thirty-four years. lie was cily vaccine physician for several years. JA widow ami three children survive, W. Percy Morrison, Mrs. C.

Raymond Ireland of Philadelphia, and Mrs, Arthur L. Chambers of this Services will be held' nt 'his lute residence Monday morning at 11.30 o'clock, interment priate, Charlestown, Cecil county, Md, ora rrxirD rr mo sxasb, The United Tress. BINGIIAMTON, 'n; Jtjne' Here, as merchant, was killed and his wife and stepdaughter were er-lonely lcjured early today when Tierce's automobile ran wild, planned over a DO-foot embankment, somersaulted, aadMaadl right side up In a croek, won the Newberry Scholarship of the Eoard of Education, which yielded' at that time about' At the conclusion of his course In 'the seminary the degree of B. I), was conferred upon him by Princeton Seminary, and the same year the degree of A. M.

by Princeton University. During the year 1900-01- Prof. Loetscher was a graduate student in Princeton Seminary, devoting special time to the study of church history. During 1901-02 he was a student at Berlin, remaining for three full semesters. In 1902-03 he studied at Strassburg in Alsace, making a hy 1920 their output shouia reacn fifty thousand cars, if their orchards are hot deserted In the meantime.

"These figures may be disheartening to the subscribers of the stock of the Delaware Apple Company, for it looks as if the West could supply the demand, and when our orchards come Into bearing the apples would be hard to place; but if you will carefully follow my figures of the relative cost of growing, picking, packing, storing and selling, you will readily see how Eastern apple growers under efficient management will drive out the whole Western competition. "The. average haul from the far Western shipping points to centers of consumption is 2,500 miles, while that of the growers rarely exceeds 300 miles, with most of their best markets less than 200 miles. It costs the Western grower $300 to move a carload of apples to the point, ot consumption, while our average Continued on Page Five. SUN AND Sun rose 4.112 A.

M. Sun sets 7.32P.M. Mouth of Christiana. High water 1.22A.M. 1.41 P.M.

Low water 8.24 A.M. 8.21P.M. Reedy Island, high and low water one hour earlier. Bridgeville Growers Pay As Much As $22,000 a Day For Help SOME PICKERS MAKE FIVE DOLLARS A DAY Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL. BRIDGEVILLE, June 26.

A prominent fruit grower here is authority for the statement that in the peak of the strawberry season the growers within a radius of live miles of Bridgeville pay out as much as $22,000 a day to berry pickers. The ui'ice Daid to the nickers is from one BARGE GOES DOWNs A barge lndonging to the Charles Warner Company, which sprang a leak and went to the Hats IT the west end specialty of church history under of Reedy Island Wednesday' night, has Prof. Ticker, and devoting special been raised IIEAT miS 27 FEES0S5L By Tho United Press. NEW YORK, June 2t5 Twcnty-scvcn deaths and three score prostrations, have followed tho heat -wave of Use last three days which -was moving from the Middle Wett today, Tugs and workmen had little difficulty in raising the craft. At the time of Uv accident Captain Owen.

Marston wa in charge of the barge. He escaped. and one-half to two cents a quart. I time to the reformation period. During the years 1903-07 he served' as Instructor in church history, assisting Dr.

DeWitt, in Princeton Seminary. The degree of doctor of philsopohy was conferred by Princeton in 1906. In 1907-10 he served as pastor of the Oxford Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia. COMMENCEMENT AT SMYRNA. Special tc THE EVENING JOURNAL.

SMYRNA, June 26 Commencement exercises of the Smyrna High School were held in the Opera House last evening. The program follows: Invocation, the Rev. Thomas Getz Hill; piano duet, Lillian Thornley and Mildred Wright: oration, "Tonight We Launch, When Shall We Anchor," Mary Walker; High School chorus, "Kentucky Babe;" oration, valedictory, Helen Jacobs; High School, "Minnehaha," Indian serenade, Paul Lourig: presentation of diplomas, William I'airee; piano solo, Mary Daly; address by Judge Henry C. Conrad; High School chorus, "The Tale of the Moon and Stars;" benediction, the Rev. C.

W. Preltyman. At the close of the exercises, Miss Helen Jacobs entertained the faculty and members of her class at her home. DEFER ARMORY CONTRACT. l.eon Wilde Crawford, the architect, who several days ago opened bids for the erection of the new armory building at Newark, stated this morning that the contract would 'not be awarded today, and likely would not be awarded until Monday.

1910 CLASS IN REUNION. The 1910 class of the Wilmington High School will hold a reunion at the home of Miss Helen Gregg, in Newport, tomorrow, from 2 in the afternoon to 10, 30 at night. Many pleasing features have been planned for the reunion. Most of the pickers are Italians. They come beer from Philadelphia and Baltimore.

Each gang is in charge of a padrone. The berry growers look to him to produce the results and pay him $2 a day for his work of superintendence. Many of the fast pickers make as much as $5 a day. The season lasts about three weeks. Bridgevill0 is one of the largest strawberry-growing and shipping KILLS SELF; WIFE WOODEDi By The Urlted Prtss.

SYRACUSE, Jue 26. Fred Garkmann, 30, lis wife three times as fche lay in bed early today and then Mew out his own brains. Jealously was tho motive. The la ju-riou- iy wouuded. In 1907 he was elected a member I of the Board of Education of the) Presbyterian Church, and, the same year was appointed on the executive committee of the Presbyterian His- torical Society, and since 1900 he has! served as.

the editor of the Journal I TODAY'S TEMPERATURE AT EVEMJi JOURNAL OFFICE CHURCH CARNIVAL AT NEWARK. Sncchil to THE EVES N(i JOURN'AL I noints in Delaware and the Industry lot this society NEWAKK. June 20. The annual held by the women of ISt. John's l.GO P.

M. 12.00 M. H. C. hiirch, opened hiM night on tin i 5 In nn MUToiiinling the church.

will continue all of this week. 88 8G 81 82 has been so profitable that the straw- Between the hours of three and berry acreage is being increased i five, the Christian Endeavor Floa constantly. may be seen Saturday afternoon, and In the past the chief difficulty has between seven and nine in the even-been the unreliability of local labor. ing. That has been solved, however by the; Thomas Drew Sou.

boat builders, importation of foreign labor under have offered the use of a boet for the the padrone pickers only 1 occasion, free of charge. Th" boa1 remain during Ibe berry wesson. Af-iwill be-pet on a bcau'irul bank of 10.00 A. M. By The United Press.

PENSACOLA, June 2C General Garland N. Whistler. U. S. retwc wbo lavctsted Fmotclcj'8 powder, died Iter 8x3 66.

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The Hi.rlnn and Hulliugswurth Corporation is uifiking extensive repairs to 8.00 A. M. i. KJll Kin-; at 2 'o'clock to- it closes they return to tueir green and Mowers, anil win ropreMut the tug Virginia of flic Soul hern Trans- i let itbe C. E.

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