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Italy Soldiers Medals From Rome U.PJ Italian soldiers, sailors ' and airmen still "sport proudly the medals and cam paign ribbons earned in World War.n battles against the Amer icans, English and French. The three , highest . awards carry yearly cash premiums, at present such a pittance that the Italian parliament decided to boost them. Many of the medals are .worn side-by-side with dec- Houbregs Slips In Percentage Los Angeles (U.R) Lanky Bob ; Houbregs of Washington maintained his commanding lead in Northern division basketball scoring - but slipped to second place behind Oregon's Ken Weg ner in. shooting percentage, Pa cific Coast conference statistics revealed Thursday. :. i Wegrier has scored 21 of 45 floor shots for a 46.7 per cent average, compared to Houbregs' 80 field .goals in 175 attempts, or 45.7 per cent average. Houbregs has tallied 59 free throws for a total of 219 points in 11 games, or 19.9. points. ' -.1 ' Aims al Record ' : ; f ' Behind Houbregs are team mate Frank Guisness, 14.3 points; Ken "'Hunt, Oregon, 13.1; Danny Johnson, Oregon State, 12.4, and hartley Kruger, Idaho, 11.9. Washington meets Washington State in a two-game series-this week-end and Houbregs will be, shooting for the Northern di vision scoring' record of - 265 points set by the Huskies' Jack Nichols in 1948. Baseball Briefs Boyes Hot Springs, Calif. U.R)-i Oakland s Acorns oi tne Pacific Coast league played the first - intersquad game . of their Epring training schedule Thursday.?-- .--i :' - :.: ' ?:.:'; Manager Mel Ott said that his new infielder, Hank Schenz, bougjjt from the New York Gi ant during the winter, will "settle our second base problem." HEW BAT ' ' : Sacramento, Calif. (U.R) . Sacramento s Solons hoped Thursday that a new type, bat will" settle their hitting prob lems. " The bat, introduced by George Schulz, of 1 Dorado, Calif ., has a rubber : handle which is wrapped in leather. He said the new; club will proper the ball farther than the ordinary hick ory handle. - FIRST BATTING ' Ftfilert&W Calif --. The Los Angeles- Angels held their first batting practice of the new season Thursday with six pitch ers testing their arms. Manager Stan Hack put Dewey Adkins, Herm Besse, Joe Meyers, Bill Moisan, Eddie Chandler and Dom Contreras on the mound for the drilL v . .. . .-v BATTERY ADDED Anaheim, Calif. U.R) The Hollywood Stars added a new battery to their PCL machine Thursday. Catcher Dick Lopeman ; and pitcher Dick Mordido joined the squad Wednesday. Lopeman played for Modesto of the Cali fornia. League last year, and Mordido, a righthander, is from Vallejo. POUNDS MELTED Riverside, Calif. (U.R) Pitchers Marino Pieretti and Red Adams were still among the missing Thursday as the Portland Beavers melted off excess pounds under a warm sun. Manager Clay Hopper drilled his batterymen for three hours Wednesday, and pitcher Adolph Satalich slammed a ball over the left field wall. Bill Cleveland, up from Tucson,' aso stood out in batting practice. TALK THINGS OVER ; Ontario, Calif. XU.R) Hold puts Lou Klein and Jack Salve son arrive here Thursday to talk things over with San Diego Padre President Bill Starr. Klein, a second baseman, and Salveson, one of the PCL's top hurlers, are Padres major un signed players, along with pitch er Guy Fletcher. . '.. . SETS NEW MARK , . Eugene (U.R) Gordon Ed wards, University of Oregon swim star, established a new Northern division 440-yard free-, style record here Wednesday night as. his Oregon swimming mates downed Oregon State, 61 23. Edwards' new standard of 4:44.6 clipped a full four seconds off the old record set by Wash ington's Jack Medica in 1934. Still Sport World War II orations awarded by the Ameri cans, English and French, after Italy changed sides and joined the allies. :', They also have company med als earned in Russia, Albania, Egypt, Ethiopia, Greece, France and Spain. . ; - .,- Iron Crosses and other decor ations, given by the German Nazis however, are out. No Russian Medals No medals were given by the Russians. - Some 10,000 , Italian soldiers still . wear Mussolini's bronze medal for heroism in World War II while Italy was fighting the allies. The medal brings a yearly stipend of 300 lire. In 1940, that was worth $15. Today.it is worth 50 cents. . More than 1,000 soldiers wear the silver medal, worth 750 lire per year $39 in 1940 but $1.24 today. :.. . r ; The coveted gold medal,. with 600 holders, once brought : the equivalent of $78 but the 1,500 lire a year it still carries is now only worth :$2 50.;. ..... ' . . Sixteen thousand war crosses have no monetary value. At the same time, more than 1,500 '--Italian: partisans who fought against the Get mans and sometimes their own Italian troops are receiving . . similar amounts for bronze, silver and gold medals awarded by the Italian government; - 5 In these days, Italian soldiers, sailors and airmen, are "discour aged", from wearing decorations won in. the fascist; era. There is no official order against it The individual commanding officer generally decides.' If he has a chestful of "fruit salad," or dec orations, he's usually lenient. Many discharged veterans wear them all fascist, German, Monarchist, ' American, British, French and what-have-you. Probably the strangest case in the medal mixup occurred " in 1945 when a British admiral personally decorated with an Italian medal, an Italian "frog man" who blew up the admiral's own ship in Alexandria harbor. The British vice admiral, Sir Charles Morgan, decorated the Italian navy lieutenant Luigi Dur and De La Penne with the Italian gold medal. De La Penne blew up the British battleship valiant, Morgan's ship, in Alex andria harbor in 1941. Later, when. Italy joined the allies, De La Penne went to work for Morgan, performing heroic work against German shipping at La Spezia. CONDITION SATISFACTORY The condition of Levi Laugh ary, 5, son of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore E. Loughary, 808 Ce dar street, who is hospitalized at Sacred Heart hospital because of injuries suffered when struck late Tuesday by a car, Is reported satisfactory by his attending phy sician; The boy's injuries include a broken arm and leg and cuts, the physician said. Coiirf Records POLICE COURT : Lowell E. Balrd. failure to stop at nop liR. DISTRICT COURT " Curt N. French, no motor vehicle license, 97.30. CIRCUIT COURT . Anna Mae- Arnold vY Lester Vin cent Arnom, mvprce decree. SURE! SOAK 'EM! SOUSE 'EM! They'll Dry Out SOFT! W f,f - - A ..a jfeiSr Extra Comfort and . Plenty of it... Extra Wear and Plenty of that, too ! ViOLUE PIGSKIN Work Gloves They're tanned that war. The ine Wolverine Secret TriDle-Tannin Proeess makes 'em backskin-aoft bat keeps 'em tough. Try on a pair at oar giove counter and in tne diner Only $1.95 Plan Now To Attend Tho K1 WAN IS KAPERS MARCH 56, 7 and 8 HUBBARD BROTHERS, Inc; MAIN AND RIVERSIDE Phone 2-6189 You'll Always Find o Reliability Uniformity Full Strength IN EVERY LOAD OF TRU-MIX CONCRETE FAST. PROMPT DELIVERY : . : Tru-Mix Concrete Co. McAndrev . Read V Phone 2-5271 KEY WITNESS against 15 Com munist party leaders on trial in Los Angeles is John Lautner, 90, former high Red functionary in New York. . (International) Girl, 9, Completes Unescorted Plane Trip Around World Kansas City, Mo.ftJ.R) The flight around the world by Eli zabeth Bean, 9, was all over but the telling Thursday. Like any girl, Elizabeth, one of the youngest unescorted world travelers, was eager to tell her friends and her teacher of the flight which was a Christ mas ; present from her father and her mother. Lot To Talk About' "I'll have a lot to talk about," Elizabeth said. "I'll be glad to get back to school." Elizabeth' will see her public school fifth grade classmates Monday for the first time since December 15, when the flight began. "I got lonesome for my teach er and the other kids,"' she ad mitted. ,. . . : She had a Joyous reunion with her parents and her pet collie, Dennie,. Wednesday. . Getting Home Beit Part "It was a fine trip, but this is the, best part, getting home to Mom and Dad and Dennie," the little girl said when she stepped from , an airliner and raced into her mother's arms.' "I think Elizabeth missed Den nie most of all," said the girl's father, L. H. Bean, an insurance man. : Elizabeth arrived in Los An geles early Wednesday - after a flight from Honolulu Then came the iast leg of the flight the longest Back home to Kansas City. Russian Bombers 'Standing Ready' In Siberian Arctic Denver (U.R) Soviet bomb era capable of attacking United States cities are "s t a n d in g ready" at air bases along the Si berianArctic, the nation's' air defense commander warns. ; Gen. .Benjamin W. Chidlaw, head of the Air; Defense com mand, said in an address here Wednesday that ."no power on earth except vigilance can thwart a determined marauder from over the Pole." Speaking to members of the Kiwanis International, Chidlaw said that "we are in a dangerous position." - "Here are the harsh realities we must face," he said. - k ."There are . . . at this instant . . . long-range bombers stand ing ready at Soviet air bases along the Siberian Arctic, which are capable of bombing our cities: When we realize the great number of American lives that these bombers could destroy, the urgency ..of the problem con fronts us with all its force.. "That the enemy possesses this capacity, we know. We also know that there are two concrete factors which stand in his way. One is the dread of American re taliation. The other is the Air Defense command." Potato Ceiling To Save Buyers $338,000 Portland (U.R) Carl C. Donaugh, Portland district OPS director, said Thursday potato price ceilings would save Ore gon consumers an estimated $338,000 this season. The IVi cent a pound rollback effective Jan. 28 would amount to that much on the estimated consumption, between then and June 1, the end of the current crop season. Donaugh also said the OPS was cutting down the grocer's paperwork by dropping a rule requiring reports of "current percentage markups higher than those for the base period." The OPS will get the informa tion from trades sources after the reports are discontinued March 3, he added. St. James's Palace, official seat of the British court, stands on the one-time site of a hospital for 14 "maidens' that were leprous," mentioned in British history of the year 1100. Musk oxen are equipped ad mirably for polar life. They have an outer coat of long, coarse dark brown to black hair and a warm undercoating of wool that is shed every spring. Great Virgil Loses Props in Australia Auckland, N. z.r.u.f.) Tne great Virgil, art American ma gician, needed a new hatful of birds todav to DUt on his show. When the magizian arrived here aboard the liner Aorangi, govern ment inspectors killed his four canaries, six ducks, 10 doves and one bantam hen under a law banning the importation of poulf try from the U. S. Canada Planning No Aid From U.S. In Battling Disease Washington (U.R) Canada does not plan to ask the United States for any aid in combatting its outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the cattle herds of Sas katchewan province, it wis learned Thursday. Officials at the Canadian em bassy here said their govern ment feels it is able to handle the outbreak effectively with out direct financial aid from the United States. They -pointed out that Canada is better equipped than this country's southern neighbor, Mexico, to wage war on the infectious virus. Animals Being Killed Canada already has begun killing infected animals. U. S. Agriculture department officials said the Canadian eradication program will be conducted along the same lines as the one carried on by a joint U. S.-Mex-ican commission. This country has been cooper ating with the Mexican govern ment in fighting hoof and mouth disease there for the past five years. During that time the Unit ed States has spent about $122 million and helped slaughter about 1 million animals. Embargo Indefinite There is no way of estimating how long the U. S. embargo against Canadian meat and cat tle will last, officials said. Law prohibits such imports from any country having the disease until it has been wiped out. The virus has been known to stay alive in hay and straw for as long as 345 days. Mystery Remedy Stops Hiccup Siege Hagerstowri, Md. 4U.R) Sam uel W. Sowers, 84-year-old real estate agent, was fully recovered Thursday from a four-day attack of hiccups, Out he wasn't quite sure what to do if the same trou ble started again. Sowers said he tried so many remedies that he couldn't remem ber which one stopped his hic cups. ; Thursday. February 28. 1952 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ELEVEH Mulino Veteran VFW Candidate To Receive Free Farm Portland (U.R) Robert O. Berger, 33, Mulino, is Oregon's candidate to receive an 80-acre, $60,000 irrigated farm in the Co lumbia Basin project near Moses Lake, Wash. ,-: -W. J. Ashworth, state com mander of the Veterans of For eign Wars,' announced Berger's selection. Oregon's entrant, along with those from other - states, will be considered by a national VFW committee which will pick the winner of the completely equipped farm. The award will be made May 29 during celebra tion of the . initial delivery of water to the 1,000,000-acre east ern Washington project. . Berger, a World War n veter an, is married and has one son. He majored in agriculture at Ore gon State ' college and was re leased from military service to take over the family farm when his father died in 1945 . Formosa Youth Killed For Harboring Reds Taipeh, Formosa- Chinese Nationalists Thursday executed a 15-year-old Formosan boy convicted of harboring arm- Ied Communist underground agents. . An official release said Chans (U.R) The , Hsin-Lo was found guilty bv a ieaerai court 01 Deiocging to a native Communist spy ring which was smashed months ago. Don't Miss This Buy! '48 DODGE 4-D00R I FULLY EQUIPPED $1195 "Happy, Scotchman' DEAN'S P0I1TIAC SALES & SERVICE ; 6th md Grape Phone 2-5241 I f,45QIMT wTl V $055 S V j MC3$sic 1 pV'H'SWES ...TO COMPLETE THE FIRST TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILR0AP first Spike 1863-Lart pilc$ I860 V 11 10 8RIN6 YOD THIS MATCHLKS WHISKY 5? firl tr- J A MATCH CONTINEN IESS tlENO OF STIAIOHT WHISKIES - g PIOOF NIAl OISTIUINO COIPOIATION PHILADELPHIA, PA. . . ; -frTi I iru mm fee nn liiii Can you imagine this A car with Buick's power, Buieks size, Buick's room and Buick's big car roadability at a price down where anyone with the price of a new car can reach it? 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