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FOTTR MEDFORD (OREGOX) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, April 18. 1958 Many Immigrants, Mostly Britons, Starting Life Anew in Australia By ROBERT C. MILLER United Press Correspondent Sydney (U.R; The blonde five-year-old girl peeked be tween the railings of the great white ship and waved cheerful ly. Alongside her a group of adults silently appraised the ap proaching Sydney skyline, the harbor bridge and the new land where they were to live. The ship is the P. & O. liner Strathaird inbound from Lon don with 494 passengers, all im migrants. Despair has driven them from England; hope has brought them to Australia. Those lining the rail speak in low, measured tones, and the men puff contentedly on their pipes, but it's all bluff. Practic ally to a man they are frighten ed; their pulses race and their stomachs churn. Awaiting them is a strange land and an unknown destiny thousands of miles from home. They're scared of the future; frightened of the past. The only honest laughter comes from the children who race excitedly along the deck, oblivious to the solemnity of the occasion. At Government Expense More than a .million such im migrants have been brought to Australia from the western world in the past nine years. Most of them have come at the expense of the Australian gov ernment which arranges their passage, guarantees them work and a start toward a new and better life. Last year 95.000 came to Aus tralia, the largest number since 1952. Nearly half of them came from Britain and about 12 per cent from Italy, Holland and Poland. Aboard one airplane from Europe recently there were 48 migrants from 13 countries, and 31 of them spoke not a word of English. Even the United States is con tributing migrants to Australia. Thirty-six arrived last week, hoping to do better in Australia than they did in America. The government has ita own ship, the New Australia, and charters others such as the Stra thaird to handle the thousands of Europeans still patiently wait ing their turn to come here. There is no Ellis Island for these people. The Australian government watches over them scoutmaster style from the time they leave their old homes until they are settled in their new ones. Goal Of 50.000.000 Special immigration, customs, transportation and baggage of ficers join the ships in the outer harbor and complete all the necessary landing details before the ship docks. Attendants mak ing the voyage are trained to handle every eventuality and do. The big moment comes as the tugs inch the big liners to the docks. Hundreds of friends and relatives are down to welcome the new Australians, some of them brand new Australians themselves. There are frantic wavings of hands and handker chiefs, cupped-hand shouts across the narrowing'strip of water and a mad hullabaloo of whistles and cheers from ship and shore. A Scottish piper band, iartans swaying and led by a mountain ous Scot, serenade the new ar rivals. The controlled emotions explode as the pipes play the old songs of the homeland. There - CALL - LININGER'S WHEN YOU NEED ready-mix - CONCRETE M. C. LININGER & SONS Phone .2-5336 or 2-5897 Ashland 8121 is a sudden epidemic of nose blowing, snorting and eye dab bing while many just let the tears roll down their cheeks. From Sydney the new arrivals fan out through Queensland and New South Wales just as those who got off at Melbourne .and Perth moved into the states of Victoria and West Australia. It's all a chain reaction affair, with friends joining friends and relatives regrouping with rela tives. As the families and clans grow, so grows Australia's popu lation which has gone from 7, 000,000 in 1939 to nearly 9, 250,000 today. The goal is 50,-000,000. Icardi's Defense Seeks To Have Case Taken Off Docket Washington U.R) Defense counsel sought to have the Aldo L. Icardi perjury case thrown out of court today on grounds that it is based on invalid con gressional hearings. Defense Attorney Edward Bennett Williams claimed that a House Armed Services subcom mittee before which Icardi tes tified in 1953 was interested only in building up a perjury case against him. Some courts have held that congressional hearings must have a legislative purpose in or der to be valid. Asked To Explain The subcommittee asked Icar di, now a Pittsburgh real estate broker, to- explain the strange World War II death of Maj. Wil liam V. Holohan while on a se cret mission to aid Italian un derground fighters in 1944. Holohan was Icardi's superior officer. His weighted body -was found at the bottom of Lake Orta in 1950 with two bullet holes in his skull. - - The government claims that Icardi was an accomplice in Holohan's murder. The prosecu tion contends Icardi lied when he denied the charge. The defense claims the mur der was committed by Italian Communists whose postwar plans did not include Holohan. ASSIGNMENT MISTAKE Cincinnati (U.R) Patrol man Earl Steirs felt relieved when his first assignment on his transfer to a new district turned out to be a mistake. He had been ordered to serve a traffic warrant made out to his wife. Progress Claimed Made in People's Right To Know Washington (U.R) An edi tors' group said today that a House subcommittee investigat i n g government information practices "has already made great gains for the people's right to know." The editors said the work of the subcommitte.e headed by Rep. John E. Moss Jr. (D.-Calif.) was "the outstanding develop ment of the year," in the con tinuing struggle to keep infor m a t i o n flowing unhampered from federal agencies to the public. The editors' group is the Free dom of Information Committee of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. It is headed by J. R. AViggins, vice-president and executive editor of the Washington Post and Times Herald. Committee Credited In its annual report to the ASNE board of directors and ASNE President Kenneth Mac Donald, the committe credited the Moss group with "divulging for the first time in anadequate manner i and dangerous effects of secrecy upon national secu rity." In, general, the committee re ported, "there have been many gains as well as some losses in the -year." Among the gains were "more frequent depart mental press conferences than hitherto." In a year of trying, however, the committee was unable to get the Defense department to change information directives to which the editors objected. Oregon PTA Opens Sessions at Eugene Eugene (U.R) Between 1000 and 1200 delegates were on hand here yesterday as the 43rd an nual Oregon Congress of Par ents and Teachers opened, a three-day session. . The .-. delegates, representing some 20,000 PTA members in the state, heard welcoming ad dresses by Gov. Elmo Smith, Eu gene Mayor V. Edwin Johnson and Dr. B. Jacobson, dean of the University of Oregon School of Education. v Gov. Smith told the group "this could be the most import ant meeting of the year in the state because it is concerned with Oregon's most valuable re source it's children." : Portland (U.R) A tentative 1956-57 operating budget of $23, 716,706 has been laid before the Portland school board. VJHAY'8:-l 11. 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Their bodies were found yester day about 156 miles northeast of here near the spot of their LEAVES HOSPITAL Los Angeles (U.R) Movie Producer Walter Wanger, hus band of actress Joan Bennett, has been released from Cedars of Lebanon hospital where he was confined since suffering a mild heart attack March 26. He was brought home Tuesday and ordered to rest several weeks before resuming work. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday; 10 a.m. Monday for Monday; other days 5:30 previous day. fatal encounter with the enraged grizzly. Territorial police gave this re construction of the killings: Pennington spotted the bear about a week ago when it came out of hibernation and decided it was a suitable quarry for Ken dall who was on his fifth hunt with the guide. They left Tazlina Lodge Sunday morning by plane and landed near the den. Signs in the area showed the hunters, had poked in the den with, a, stick and the bear came out. Gun Emptied . Pennington apparently was killed by the charging grizzly before he could fire a shot. Ken dall's gun had been emptied and a trail of blood leading from the scene indicated the grizzly had been hit. The bodies of the men were found 200 feet from the mouth of the den. Both had been chewed and clawed about the head. A search started Monday when the men failed to reappear and the bodies were spotted by Whitey Fettsler, a bush pilot. Fettsler and Rick Houston, a guide, flew in and brought out the bodies. McKay Praises State Projects v Baker (U.R) Douglas Me- -Kay, continuing his campaign swing through eastern Oregon in his bid for the Republican senatorial nomination, last night praised individual and state projects in reclamation and re- forestation work that have been carried out without aid from the federal government. "A fine example of people helping themselves" he said, "is illustrated in the reforestation of the Tillamook burn, -where 340,000 acres of trees were re planted by the state with io help from anyone." "With this foresightedness, Oregon was able to keep full control of her own timber re sources," McKay said. He also pointed out that there are some 21,000,000 acres of land under reclamation projects in the United States. Only 7, 000,000 of those acres were re claimed with federal help, he told an audience here. McKay spoke earlier yesterday in Ontrio and cited eastern Ore gon's Owyhee project as one of the west's outstanding examples of irrigation and realamation benefits. Salem (U.R) Gov. Elmo Smith has accepted an invita tion to appear on the program at the annual meeting of the governor's conference in Atlan tic City June 24-27. 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