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I flU amaui SdimA: Orqcti; TuJlit. Italians Slain, Hurt in Milan Pre-Vote Riots ROME. March t Two oocnmuHwU were killed and a comnMuust and a rightist were re ported Injured today In pre-election dtaateders in the Milan area. There were predictions that the incidenle would touch off political trouble m Milan. The commun-Ut-!ed chamber of labor already ha seheduled a demonstration by the unemployed for tomorrow in the heert of that strongly leftist city Milan -police headquarters said the rommumit casualties occurred In shooting at the village of Samogha. 23 miles southwest of Milan -Newspaper accounts said the theoting began when a group o( commuruts 'en route from one village to another got into an ar gument along the way. The rightist, a speaker for the national bloc, waa said to have bn beaten in the industrial town of Legnano, 12 miles north of Milan Heretofore the campaigning for the April 18 parliamentary elec tion ban been generally orderly. Premier Alcide de Gaperi de fid threaits by Italy's communists to ue force if tl ey are denied po sitions -in the government after the elation Speaking In Froainone. the Ch Mian democrat premier said: "If it la a question of force, the force is In the hands of the gov ernment" He eiied that the government lUflf had no intention of initiating strong-arm measures There are no communists In de Gasperi s Cabinet. WASHINGTON VKT DIES OLVWPIA. Wash. March 29 -(,1- Jaetib Cheedle. one of the state's 'last two surviving mem her 41 the Grand Army of the Republic, died at hi home tonixht 2 days after celetocwunx his 100th bir'hday His death leaves Hiram C. MM. Seattle. 4 the onlv GAR representative In Washing ton. gilBISS 1X9 N. 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No guns are visible in the works, but at least one contains a bipod large enough for an 81 -millimeter mortar. American authorities aay they do not know why the Russians are pushing the diggings, which were first observed early In March. (A due may be that on March 1 the Americans called an elec tion for May 9 to decide on a gov ernment in south Korea.) American officers believe the earthworks may be intended by the Russians to justify their statements to north Koreans that Americans and south Koreans are planning an attack. There is no comparable activ ity in the American zone, where the only defense work has been the sandbagging of some Korean police stations near the border. The sandbagging followed threats of attack from north Korea which never seriously materialized. U. S. Declares Korea Action Propaganda9 WASHINGTON. March Z9-(JP)-American diplomatic officials said today propaganda was the Rus sians' most likely purpose in dig ging foxholes and trenches along the northern boundary of the American occupation zone in Korea. The soviet-controlled radio has been telling the Koreans that American forces and south Korean rightist were building up a mili tary threat to the soviet zone. The Russian and soviet-backed forces in the northern zone ac tuslly are substantially stronger by American official estimates. Marshall told a congressional com mittee this month that United States occupation forces under Lt. Gen. John R. Hodge has been re duced to fewer than 20.000 men. The Russian occupation forces are estimated at between 40 000 to 55.000. Supporting them is a pro communist Korean force estimat ed as high as 150.000. In the American zone, an con stabulary of some 25.000 Koreans has been trained and an additional 25.000 are due to be trained this summer to keep order when American troops ultimately are pulled out. FARE EXTENSION ASKED PORTLAND. March 29 - (JP) -Portland Traction company asked tday for a temporary extension of present fares, while the city council considers an application for still higher fares. An increase i granted last fall was to expire I April I unless the company had j contracted to buy more buses. and cocktail lounge and also the diagonal-seaiing diner featuring rariety of appetizing meals. laWWi Gamp Diireclors Plan Counselor Training Days The Oregon section of the Amer ican Camping association met at the Salem YMCA Monday night to appoint committee and make plans for the Oregon camp coun selors training program at Silver Creek camp May 14, 15 and 16. Gerald Burns, Chicago, national executive director of the American Camping association, was present to aid with program planning, and made a short speech: Mrs. Edna Bagnall, local Camp fire Girls director, was selected chairman of the committee in charge of the three-day session. Other officials who will direct the program are Mrs. Esther Little, Salem YWCA executive director, registrar; Nan Morrow, Portland, programs; and John Gardner, boys' work director at the Salem YM and director of Camp Silver Creek, camp chairman. Camp leaders from all parts of Oregon for Boy Scouts. Camp Fire Girls, churches and YMCA's will attend the training session to dis cuss and practice the latest camp ing techniques. The leaders also disclosed that arrangements will be made to send camp directors on a tour of Oregon colleges and universities In the near future to procure students for counselors for summer camping parties. James Monroe, Portland camp director, made a report on the Na tional Camping association's con vention In Los Angeles last week. Mrs. Bagnall and Gardner repre sented the Salem area at the con clave. Monroe, Miss Morrow and Dorothy McMillan attended as del egates from Portland. Summit Skier Joined by 3 EUGENE. Ore., March 2fWP- Woodsman Jack Meissner's solo ski trip along the 300-mile spine of the Cascade range has grown j to a party of four on the last leg i of the ski trek. Bob Pfeiffer, Eugene pilot who has been dropping supplies to the I adventurer, has Joined Meissner and the two teen-aged boys for , the Odell lake to Crater lake hike i I Meissner and the boys. Don ! Temple, Oakridge. and GUbert Bissell, Eugene, turned back to I Odell from a weekend start. They ran into a blizzard. The adventur- I er had another companion from Mt Hood to Santiam pass; made j it alone to Odell the longest sec- l tion. ; The trip will be the first on foot by anyone in mid-winter. Blaze Evicts 50 Families PHILADELPHIA. March 30-;P) -Fire destroyed two buildings in the Germantown section of the city early today and forced 50 families to flee from nearby homes. Firemen, hampered by dense smoke, succeeded in confining the ! blaze to a four-story structure at ' 26-30 W. Rittenhouse st. and a three-story building at 32 W. Rit- j tenhouse st. within 40 minutes after it was discovered by a pas serby about 12:30 a. m. (EST). However, firemen continued to battle the blaze for nearly two j hours before it was declared un der control. QUISENBERRY'S New Location FERRY ST. PHONE 9123 (la Fnoae Directory) QUISENBERRY PHARMACY IIOU Oil DISPLAY IIEV7 1943 Kaisers and Frazoro bod fhos World's Muiniluctmstsj Truman Policies Resemble GOP's, Asserts Taylor HOLLYWOOD. March 29 -0P-The democratic party under Presi dent Truman is so much like the republican party in fundamental policy as to make any differences unimportant. Sen Glen H. Tay lor. (D-Ida) declared tonight.. In a speech prepared for de livery before a "rally for peace" in Gil more stadium, Taylor, vice presidential running mate"5f Hen ry Wallace on a third party ticket, said: "Add up Truman's foreign pol icy. You don't need to compare it with the republican deeds, be cause it is the republican policy. . . It is the policy of the imperialists who have always run the republi can party. Newsmen Get Fines Repaid NEWBURGH, N. Y., March 29 (JP)- Jail sentences and fines im posed on two newspapermen here for refusals to disclose sources of information have been ruled illegal In a final state supreme court order. The order, disclosed today, di rected that the fines of $100 each be remitted to Douglas V. Clarke, 33, news editor of the Newburgh News, and Charles L. Leonard, 27, reporter for the paper. Clarke and Leonard were sen tenced to 10 days in jail and fined February 27 on contempt of court charges. They had declined to tell an Orange county grand jury where they obtained lottery tick ets reproduced In the News. In his final order, the Justice said the procedure under which the newspapermen had been In dicted, tried and sentenced was defective. Klamath Tribe To Split Fund WASHINGTON, March 29 -(JP) A bill giving each member of the Klamath tribe (500 and war vet erans of the tribe $200 was signed today by President Truman. The money will be allocated from the tribe's capital reserve fund, credited to each tribes man's account, subject to limits on spending for specific purpos es. The veterans' payments will be in cash. Truman said in letter to Sec retary of the Interior J. A. Krug that he did not believe in distrib uting tribal capital funds, but that the limitations on the spend ing were exceptional factors. Strike Slows N.Y. Markets NEW YORK. March T9-JP)-A strike of union employes of the New York stock and curb ex changes today brought picket lines to Wall street, heart of world fi nance, but t markets maintained their operations. With members of the United Fi nancial Employes (AFL) out, the stock exchange volume was 760, 000 shares. It was the smallest full session since March 15. Most of the employes on strike were page boys, runners, clerks, telephone operators and pneumatic tube operators. Bankers and brokers were run ning slips to the Quotation room. answering telephones, operating pneumatic tubes. Dewey to 'Stump' Wisconsin Cities ALBANY, N. Y., March 29 -(JP) Governor Thomas I. Dewey will campaign in Wisconsin this week for delegate support at the re publican presidential convention. A "major" speech Is slated at Milwaukee Thursday night. Both Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Harold I. Stassen have full slates entered for the 27 conven tion seats Wisconsin republicans will fill Ajril .' Dewey will make a brief speak ing tour of Nebraska sometime next week. Too Late to Classify EASY clac. wash. mach.. single bed. coil springs, and mittrtM. trash burner with colli, clean fruit Jars, Economy at Masons, rh 1-196 i. t-1967. lUi 2-TON DOtCk loislng truck. ISiS ftachaief trailer, with Browny end S steed. Rt. T. Boa IBS. Ffc. 1-S74S. ocas lor 70a Fourth of Atatcisnobfl CM&ng Denies Seats to Some Of Assembly NANKING, March 29.-(!P-Gn-eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek told a dissident group of his party today they must surrender their seats in the Chinese national assembly be cause I have made my decisions and as national leader they can not be changed. The Insurgents reported that only three of their number accept ed Chiang's offer of "high posi tions' equal to assemblyman, and that 31 voted to appeal to Chinese and American public opinion to support their election claims. Ten others who went. on a sit-down-hunger strike in the assem bly auditorium were removed by police and confined to a hotel. The assembly meanwhile open ed without a quorum, and was marking time in hope additional members would arrive. The only task at this, its first session, is to elect China's first constitutional president and vice president. Army Reserve Units Convene Salem's three army reserve un its met at reserve headquarters at 25th and Lee streets Monday night for classes and discussion of current events. Members of the 369th engineers boat and shore regiment and the 409th quartermasters met jointly to hear Maj. Harlan Judd discuss plans and orders of an engineers amphibious brigade. Capt. Rich ard Chase conducted the current events discussion and Capt. Rich ard Reynolds, Salem reserve training officer, showed two training movies. Lt. Col. George Spaur, S69th commander, told of a recent meet ing of Oregon reserve officers with the sixth army staff in Port land. The 415th Infantry battalion, commanded by Lt. Col. Eugene Laird, met separately lor its reg ular training session. All three units were entertained by the re serve auxiliary, which served re freshments. Press Leaders Talk Security WASHINGTON. March 29 -(JP) Leading press, radio and motion picture representatives offered to day to advise Secretary of De fense Forrestal on which kinds of military secrets should remain se cret. They proposed that a security advisory council be set up for this purpose, with members named by various publishing, broadcasting and movie organizations. But they told Forrestal they did not believe that "any type of cen sorship In peacetime is workable or desirable In the public Inter est . Forrestal, meeting with the group, said the declaration against censorship was in line with his own views. Jap Workers Limit Strikes TOKYO. Tuesday, March lO.-(Jf) -Japanese communications work ers have called off their Wednes day nationwide strike, banned yes terday by General MacArthur. But they will continue "regional strikes," Kyodo News agency said today. The news agency said 200,000 communications workers were idle today In 2 4 -hour regional strikes. Other labor unions which had struck, however, were reported preparing to return to work. Mu nicipal employes agreed this morning to resume work immedi ately, Kyodo said, and street car and bus operators were going back to their Jobs after three days' idleness. MacArthur had instructed the Japanese government to prevent the threatened national strike by 400,000 communications workers. They were the major unit involved In walkout planned by nearly a million government employes. STAHTS TOiionnou! t mm,,. "vcr Cj fiHr MariaMoiite?s CO-HIT! BEWITCHED AND QURSED ; . THEY DAIIED TO LOVE I U. S. Wants Peace,' Not a Slavery, Asserts President (Story also on page 1) WASHINGTON. March 29 -JP) Stressing that this country wants only peace for the world. Presi dent Truman said tonight that 'we are willing to talk, peace and in ternational intercourse with any country in the worlds but we will not stand idly by nd see the liberties of the world debauched. Speaking to a gathering of ap proximately 1.000 Greek-Americans, members of the Order of Ahepa, who were celebrating the 127th anniversary of Greek Inde pendence, the president said "there were certain things which are worse than war." He continued "one of them is slavery. That's what we were faced with in 1940, and 1941. We are faced with al most exactly the same situation today." Guard Sought For Diplomat WASHINGTON. March 29 -(JP) The house un American activities committee moved today to protect U. S. Consul John Bankhead from further attempts on his life at his post in Canada. Bankhead was fired on twice last night as he drove to his home in Windsor, he reported. Ht said that he had earlier been sent poisoned liquor and poisoned candy. Rep. McDowell (R-Pa), In ask ing the Justice department for special protection for Bankhead. said Bankhead had recently given an unAmerican activities subcom mittee secret and valuable testi mony. The group has been investi gating illegal entry of communists and undesirable aliens from Can ada. Bankhead has become known for his tight border restriction pol icy. Little Effect Seen in Strike CHICAGO. March 29 (JPy-Tht nationwide CIO United Packing house Workers' strike ended its second week today. Efforts to ward reaching a settlement were at a standstill. Meat dealers estimated supplies at 73 per cent of normal, but there were no reports of marked shortages in retail butcher shops. A three-man presidential fact finding board, which concluded hearings into the walkout last Wednesday, will make a report of its findings to President Truman by April 1. The board is not em powered to make recommenda tions. Prices of pork have remained steady or even dropped slightly since the strike began, but beef prices have edged upward. The Issue In the strike is one of wages. Roads Accept Pay Increase CHICAGO, March 29-P)-The nation's railroads today accepted the recommendation of President Truman's fact-finding board that engineers, firemen and switchmen be given 154 cents an hour pay increase. The wsge boost is the same as that accepted by the conductors and trainmen In November. The same Increase had been awarded to 17 unions of non -operating workers on the nation's carriers by an arbitration board two months later. The unions representing the workers, however, withheld action on the recommendation with which they said they were "very disappointed." The unions' gen eral chairmen will meet next Mon day In Cleveland to decide their position. GHOST-HUNTER DIES LONDON, March 29 -(JP)- Har ry Price, 67, well known in Bri tain for his activity in hunting ghosts, died today at his home at Pulborough, Sussex, after a heart attack. He was secretary of the University of London council for. physical research. " Womeh Display Wide Variance On UMT Plan WASHINGTON, March 29 -4JP)-The senate armed services committee- got the "woman's view point" on universal military train ing; today a -belligerent jrt and a violent nor .'" . -Author Pearl' Buck vigorously opposed military training lor America's youth and was accused of telling a "lie" by Mrs. Leslie Wright of the General Federation of Women's Club. " This bit of feminine flurry en livened the committee's hearing af ter weighty tsetimony from Ber nard Baruch and Charles E. Wil son, former vice chairman of the war production board. Mrs. Buck read a statement say ing: "At 18 the boy needs the influ ence of good homes, good women, good girls, more than at any other time of his life. . . . Under per manent military constription . . . he will be exposed to the worst type of women, and he will too often see his officers, who are his teachers, consorting with these' women. . . . Mrs. Wright, of Washington, D. C, and Westport, Mass., told the senators she was a "registered lob byist" for the General Federation of Women's Clubs which have a membership of about three mil lion. Her face flushed as she said: "I had three boys in the army. I don't think my boys were cor rupted. They came back as fine as ! when they went into the army. "We want peace. We want lib erty. I think very GI should send a letter to Mrs. Buck and tell her what she said is a lie." Mrs. Buck sat quietly with no indication she had heard Mr. Wright. Farm Prices Rise Slightly WASHINGTON. March 29 -(A) Farm prices recovered slightly in March after one of the sharpest drops in history during February. Reporting this, the agriculture department said today farm prices in mid-March were about 1.4 per cent higher than in mid-February. They had dropped 12 per cent be tween mid-January and mid-February. The department said price changes were far from uniform. however. Feed grains advanced 10 per cent; food grains, cotton, the oil-bearing crops, fruits and meat animals made smaller increases, but averaged higher than a month ago. On the other hand, truck crops dropped rather sharply. Poultry and dairy products made a usual seasonal decline. Prices paid by farmers in cluding interest and taxes de clined 1.4 per cent between mid February and mid-March. Farm prices as a whole in mid March were 115 per cent of parity, compared with 112 per cent a month earlier. Parity is a legal standard for measuring actual market prices. LmrrnfTa Cent, from 1 p. m. 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