12 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, TuesdB.y, July 5, 1949
Growing Population No, 1
Problem in Crowded Italy
Rome P) Italy is like a fond mother with a huge family she
cannot support but dreads to see leave home. Population is
Italy's bipgest problem.
Italy's population is increasing a half million yearly. She has
two million unemployed. A quarter million new workers are
seeking iob? each year. That
means 3,000,000 job hunters by
the 1951-53 deadline for recov
erv under the European Recov
ery Program fERP). The Eco
nomic Cooperation Administra
tion (ECA) hopes to open up
1,150,000 new Jobs.
Without emigration, Italy
would remain still crippled by
almost two million workups
These, with their familic?, have
to be fed, clothed and housed
at the expense of the national
economy. Italy can never be
economically, o r politically.
healthy under such conditions
So large a population of the aim
less idle is a standing invitation
to political unrest.
Only the communists and
their allies in Italy maintain
that emigration is not the key
to Italy's economic future. They
say that in a thoroughly social
ized state industry and agricul
ture could be enlivened enough
to employ all Italians. ECA
and non-communist Italian eco
nomists say this argument is
killed by Italy's experience un
der Fascism.
Modern Hay has never known
a period without mass unem
ployment except during the days
of mass emigration before
World War I.
Italian diplomats abroad have
standing instructions to Investi
gate every possibility of emi
gration in every country of the
world. ECA is building 260,000
tons of shipping to help over
come the shipping bottleneck
that keeps would-be emigrants
home. ECA also is financing a
vocational training program in
Italy to get around the obstacle
that almost all countries taking
emigrants want skilled laborers
Talks with legislators and of
ficials who have to do with emi
gration undercover a soft spot
which is holding Italy back in
her efforts to overcome her pop
ulation problem. ,
Few Italian officials are will
ing to see their people go to
live In a wilderness, make their
home In a sod hut, face a fu
ture of unrelieved hardship.
Emigrants who find themselves
In these conditions write home,
complaining bitterly.
Complaints have come parti
cularly from Argentina, which
Is currently the largest taker of
Italian smlgrants.
Senator Luigl Carmagnola, an
anti-communist socialist, who
had helped negotiate the emi
gration treaty, said "Italians
work under extreme difficulty
In Argentina."
Senator Clno Macrelll, of the
anti-communist republican par
ty, said he had letters complain
ing of "brutal treatment."
Italian emigration office offi
cials confirm there are many
complaints. Their figures how
ever, did not bear out reports
from Italian shipping quarters
that "many" emigrants were re
turning from Argentina. Ac
cording to there records, 78,710
Italians went to Argentina as
emigrants In 1848. During the
year, 4,329 Italians returned
from Argentina as third class
(emigrant) passengers, of whom
all but 222 paid their own pass
age. In the same year, the
world figures were 215,882 emi
grants and 26,022 returnees.
ECA hopes that 1,400,000 emi
grants can be moved abroad be
tween 194B and 1952. France
took 80,710 emigrants in 194tf,
Belgium 48,864 and Switzerland
Tree Topping
Record Broken
Albany, July 5 Harold John
son, Castle Rock, Wash., set
new record for tree topping in
the northwest when he climbed
a 100-foot pole and sawed off its
15-inch top in three minutes and
12', 4 seconds, slightly beatine the
previous record set last year by
nearly a minute, in closing events
at the fifth annual Timber Car
nival here. Al Firchaue, Leba
non, was second.
Carnival officials estimated
that more than 25,000 people at
tended the three-day event which
closed Monday night with a fire
works display on Waverly lake.
A feature of the final show was
the water skiing of Willa Worth-
ington, Portland, national water
skiing champion.
Winners of the other events
were M. S. Harper, Springfield,
speed climbing; with Firchau sec
ond. George Moen, East Stan
wood, Wash., was first, and Ben
Lentz,' Newberg, second, in log
bucking; R. W. Dimick, Jeffer
son, first and Mike Slyn, Dallas,
second in log chopping with H.
L. Busley, Eugene, and Dick Say
lor first and second in speed boat
raclnk, James Herron, Kelso,
Wash, was first in the birling
contests followed by Russell El
lison, Aberdeen, and Harold
Hooper, also of Kelso. Ellison
was northwest champion last
year. Jim Herron, in a field of
tent contestants, won the joust
ing contest.
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WIFE OF AIR FORCE COLONEL ASKS:
Is 'Wild Man' Eating Corn
Her Missing Husband?
One-Third of Britons
Happy Without Sex
London, July 5 (U.R) Thirty-
one per cent of Britons, most
of them women, are doing with
out sex and are completely hap
py about it, a British "Little
Klnsey Report" Indicated today.
I he survey, conducted by the
research group knewn as mass
observation, also reported that
54 per cent of the population
found sexual relations unpleas
ant and 26 per cent think sex
is "wrong."
Firemen Fight Hotel Blaze Smoke billows from Lafayette
hotel at Aberdeen, Wash., as firemen (right) direct streams of
water on the blaze that caused seven deaths. Hotel rooms
were on second floor, with shops on street level. (AP Wire-photo)
21,524. Much of the emigra
tion to Switzerland and Belgium
is seasonal. Australia may take
20,000 this year. Canada is tak
ing 500-600 monthly.
Officer Who Nabbed Master
Love Swindler Suspended
Chicago, July 5 (U.R) The detective who arrested master love
swindler Sigmund Engel here June 24 was suspended indefinitely
today by Police Commissioner John Pendergast for his handling
of the case.
Detective Peter Harlib was suspended after an Investigation by
Pendergast into charges that En-'
gel was "coddled" after his ar
rest. Harlib once was prevented
from taking a mattress to Engel
to ease has hard bunk at the
police station.
Pendergast announced the sus
pension after a heated confer
ence attended by Capt, Matthew
Lyne, head of the Town Hall
station where Engel was taken
after his arrest, Capt. Ray Crane
of the uniformed police, Depart
ment Inspector Ed Daily, and
Harlib.
The suspension, the commis
sioner said, was based on sever
al charges.
Harlib, he said, had disobeyed
a departmental rule by hand
ling the Engle arrest without
another detective, although his
captain had told him to have
another man on the case.
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San Francisco (U.R) The wife
wonders if a red-bearded "wild
in farmer's yards in Humboldt a
her husband, Air Force Col. Arch
April 21 on a flight to Portland,
Mrs. Evelyn Smith feared a
plane crash injury might have
affected her husband's mind so
he believes he once again is a
German prisoner of war, dodg
ing his captors and existing on
cracked corn.
Col. Smith, when he returned
home from the German prison
camp, said his diet had consist
ed mainly of cracked corn He
expressed astonishment that a
man could keep alive so long on
it.
The air force colonel, with
Army Col. Walter W. Hodge and
of a missing air force colonel
man" seen eating chicken feed
nd Mendicino counties might be
ibald Y. Smith, who disappeared
Ore.
MSgt. H. E. Fluga, disappeared
on a B-26 flight from Hamilton
field, Calif., to Portland A
widespread search failed to find
the plane's wreckage.
Mrs. Smith said the "wild
man" who had been seen pick
ing up and eating chicken feed
in farmers' yards, might be her
husband, reliving his prisoner of
war days. She told Sheriff
Charles Raab of Humboldt
county that descriptions of the
elusive "wild man" tally with
the appearance of her husband.
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He also took Engle to an at
torney's office the day after his
arrest, without permission of his
superiors. It was at that meeting
that Engle gave Mrs. Reseda
Corrigan, 39, red-haired Chicago
widow, $5,000 of the $8,700
which she has charged he had
taken from her.
Pendergast said that Harlib
could not give a reasonable ex
planation of where Engel got
the $5,000 given Mrs. Corrigan.
Other police officials have said
that Engel did not have the
money with him when he was
searched at Town Hall station
the day of his arrest.
No Sign of Wild Man'
Eureka, Calif., July 5 (U.R) Sheriff's deputies said "today that
they had been unable to locate a "wild man" with an appetite
for chicken feed reportedly roaming the farmyards of Hum
boldt and Mendocino counties.
Mrs. Evelyn Smith of San Francisco said that she believed the
man may be her missing hus-'S
band, airforce Col. Archibald
Y. Smith, who disappeared two
months ago on a plane flight.
She said he may have suffer
ed an injury that caused him to
relive his past, taking him back
to the days he spent roaming the
German countryside after escap
ing from a nazi prisoner-of-war
camp. During that flight, she
said, he had lived practically on
nothing but cracked corn chick
en feed stolen from farms.
A Humboldt county farmer,
living in the general area over
which the plane would normal
ly have flown was the last to
report seeing the "wild man,"
sheriff's officers said.
The farmer said he saw the
khaki dungaree-clad man scrab
bling in his chickens' feed. The
farmer said that the man told
him "I like chicken meal," then
fled into the nearby woods.
Scout Sessions Call
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of Amity, attended all of the four
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