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.?--
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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
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nop liR.
DISTRICT COURT "
Curt N. French, no motor vehicle
license, 97.30.
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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.
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