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
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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.
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Ten Hunters Seek Giant Grizzly in Wilds of Alaska
Anchorage, Alaska (U.R)
Ten heavily armed hunters
picked their way through a wil
derness area northeast of here
today on the trail of a giant
grizzly bear that clawed two
men to death.
The victims were Everett
Amos Kendall, 53, Spenard,
Alaska, a barber, and Lloyd C.
Pennington, 56, a registered
guide from Snowshoe Lake.
Their bodies were found yester
day about 156 miles northeast
of here near the spot of their
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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
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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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