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Wealthy Italian Searches
For Gold Every Sunday
Turin, Italy (U.R) Early modern machinery and a lone
every Sunday morning, 71-year I prospector couldn't compete,
old Giovanni Mattioti packs a Every year my fortune dwindled
rucksack with salami, bread and j as the price of gold dropped, so
In the Day's News
By FPANK JENKINS
Today's dash of politics:
An Oregon voter (a Southern
Oregon voter at that told
friend of mine the other day:
"I certainly like this Adlai
Stevenson. I voted for him four
years ago, and I've never had
it so good. I'm going to vote
for him again this year."
T'HE bureau of statistics of the
U. S. labor department re
ported the other day that living
costs rose .3 of one per cent in
September to a RECORD level
The bureau's index reached 117.1
per cent of the 1947-1949 base
period.
The bureau said the Septem-
ber living cost level was nearly
two per cent higher than a year
ago and 2.8 per cent higher than
in January 1953 at the start of
President Eisenhower s administration.
TT SOUNDS bad, doesn't it?
1 Reading just that and going
no farther, you might howl like
a wounded wolf. You might even
smack your right fist into the
palm of your left hand and
snort: "I'm going to VOTE DEM
OCRATIC, so help me Hannah!
I just can't take this constant
rise in the prices of everything
I have to buy. It s killing us com
mon people."
w
AIT a minute.
Let's read a little farther.
wine.
He puts on an old shirt and
dungarees, pulls a battered
black Stetson over his crop of
white hair and carrying his shov
el and gold pan under his arm
trudges into the Turin hills to
search for gold.
Giovanni Mattioti usually
stops at the first stream he comes
to. He puts the rucksack in a
cool place and hurriedly makes
for the water"s edge. Quickly he
shovels sand into the pan and
then gently shakes it.
Operation Repeated
Hour after hour he repeats
this operation, deeply absorbed
and oblivious to his surrounding.
Perhaps by noon he has found
one or two specks of the shiny,
precious metal. But this tanned
and wrinkled old man of Turin
does not care how much gold he
finds for he is wealthy.
Mattioti made his fortune 50
years ago in Alaska and the
memory and gold fever of that
time has never left him.
"When I am out by a stream
with my shovel and pan," said
Giovanni. "I'm back in Alaska.
I remember' the people I knew
then; the trees and the wolves,
the big brown bears that could
crush a man in two or three sec
onds. I remember the rough
towns and the rowdy saloons. I
can feel again that strange ex
citement. Best of all, now I've
forgotten the terrible hardships
and danger."
InvMted Money
Mattioti left Italy when he
was 22 years old. He arrived at
Fairbanks, Alaska, broke and
hungry, but ha found a job an
hour after he landed at $5 a day
with food and lodgings. The
work was digging wells and he
did this for four years and then
struck out on his own.
"By 1913 I had $48,000 in the
bank," said Giovanni. "I had
made my fortune you couldn't
help it. But about then the big
companies moved in with their
I decided in 1930 to come back
to Italy."
Mattioti invested his money in
oil and bought a service station
in Turin. But he could not for
get the' time he had spent in
Alaska.
"The itch to get back there
nearly drove me crazy," he said.
"A couple of years I tried
panning gold in the streams
here. I got such a kick out of
it that I decided to do it every
Sunday. It's the same thing, I
suppose, as hunting, or fishing
for other men. I make money
too not much I.will admit. By
evening, if it's been a good day,
I might get a couple of grams
in my little bottle that's worth
about $2."
Rome Policemen,
Students Clash
Rome vU.Ri Riot policemen
swinging clubs clashed with
screaming anti-Communist stu
dents today in Rome's worst
riot since the 1953 Trieste dem
onstration. An estimated 20,000 students,
waving Italian flags and anti-
Soviet banners, clashed with
police near Piazza Venezia in
Central Rome as they tried to
march on the headquarters of
Unita, the' Communist news
paper. Using wooden clubs ripped
from park benches and the poles
of their flags and banners, .the
students attacked the solid line
of carabinieri and riot police
who blocked their path with
police trucks.
One group of students braved
the raining blows of. police
batons, grabbed a small police
car and overturned it, injuring
its occupants.
Another group spotted several
Communist newsmen walking to
their offices and swarmed over
them, seriously injuring one.
TN SEPTEMBER, the labor de-
A partment's "index" reached
117.1 per cent of the 1947-1949
base period. In the jargon of
the statisticians that means that
in September of this year living
costs were 17.1 per cent higher
the average for the period be
ginning in 1947 and ending in
1949. That, the bureau said in its
report the other day, is 2.8 per
cent higher than in January
1953, at the start of President
Eisenhower's administration.
If you will subtract 2.8 per
cent from 17.1 per, you will
14.8 per cent left.
THAT is to say:
Of the 17.1 per cent in
crease in the cost of living that
has taken place in the years
since 1947-1949 "base" period,
14.3 per cent occurred in the
years when the Democrats were
in power and only 2.8 per cent
in the Eisenhower administra
tion. That sounds quite different.
'V'OW let's hear Ike's story.
In a public statement the
other day. President Eisenhower
pointed out that while consumer
prices have risen 2.8 per cent
during his administration REAL
WAGES of factory workers
("real wages" are what you can
buy with your money) have risen
8.6 per cent.
That means this;
At the end of these three and
a half years, the factory worker
is nearly three times better off
(in terms of increase in his buy
ing power) than he was before
Ike came into the picture.
TS THAT a sound reason for
any working man to vote
against Ike?
It looks to me like a pretty
good reason to vote FOR him.
TN ELECTION years, this is a
big question among editors:
Shall we or shall we not offer
advice on how to vote on every
ballot item come Election Day?
That is, shall we tell the people
how to vote on EVERYTHNG
ballot measures and CANDID
ATES alike?
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GETTING personal, don't do it.
Whv not'
Well, there is a fine town on
the Pacific Coast that has al
ways had an outstanding news
paper, run by able and compet
ent people. It regularly tells
people how they should vote on
EVERYTHING. "Taking a stand"
its editors call it.
When I go there, everybody
I talk to on the subject speaks
somewhat slightingly of the
town's newspaper. I ask WHY
adding that I think their news
paper is an exceptionally good
one. I get this answer:
"Oh, the essobees WANT TO
RUN THE TOWN."
Little Woman's Slap
Sends Robber Fleeing
Portland 4U.R) A plucky 65-year-old
woman, who stands five
feet tall, sent a would-be robber
fleeing last night by slapping
his face.
Mrs. Ora I. Lansing said she
was in the rear of the grocery
she and her husband operate
when a man in his early 20s en
tered and began helping himself
to cigarettes. Mrs. Lansing said
that when she asked the man
what he wanted he pushed her.
She said she instinctively swung
end landed a slap against his
face.
She said the youth ran from
behind the counter, paused at
the door and left. Mrs. Lansing
said he carried a gun.
South Haven, Mich. (U.R) "I
owe you some money," a man
told Barbara Lamb, clerk in
the Bureau of Public Works
here as he handed over S21. He
told Miss Lamb he left town
broke in 1935. owing that
amount to the BPW, and never
had been able to get it out of
DONNING "I LIKE IKE" spectacles to make point, ex
President Harry S. Truman tells Democrats at $100. a
plate dinner in Washington Republicans are looking at
world through rose colored glasses. (International)
Air Force Testing Supersonic Bomber
Washington (U.R) The Air
Force has begun testing the na
tion's first supersonic bomber
while the Navy announced plans
for a giant nuclear-powered super-carrier.
The bomber reportedly de
signed to attain speeds of about
1,000 miles an hour is expected
to make its first flight in 10
days. It began ground taxi tests
Monday.
Construction of the nuclear
powered supercarrier a giant
43 per cent heavier than the For
restal is expected to begin next
year.
The Air Force said Monday
the new bomber the P58 "Hus
tler" made its first taxi run at
the Fort Worth, Tex., plant of
the General Dynamics corpora
tion Cpnvair division.
Tutidiy. October SO. 1951
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ELETEH
Sheppard Murder
Case Reopened
Cleveland U.R Assistant
County Prosecutor Saul Dana
ceau said today a "telephone
tip" from an unidentified city
prompted him to reopen the in
vestigation . of the Sheppard
murder case.
Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard, 32,
osteopath of suburban Bay Vil
lage, is serving a life sentence !
in Ohio Penitentiary for the ;
July 4, 1954, bludgeon slaying
of his 31-year-old wife, Marily
Reese Sheppard, in their lake
shore home.
Danaceau said he remained
convinced that Sheppard is guil
ty, but said the tip led to "new
facts" in the murder mystery.
Sheppard was convicted after
a sensational trial here, Dec. 21,
1954, on second degree murder .
charges. His conviction was up
held by the Court of Appeals
and Ohio Supreme Court. It now
is pending- before the U.S. Su
preme Court.
Danaceau said he received "a
long distance telephone tip," and :
had visited the city from where
the call came.
He refused to name the city, ,
but said he decided on his return .
here to launch the new investi
gation. Danaceau said he had asked :
the Cleveland police department
to help with the new investiga-;
tion, but had received no reply ,
to his request. j
Ontario Woman Flees Burning Buildings
Ontario U.R) Mrs. Edna
Wood of Ontario escaped with
her life and only a handful of
clothing here early today when
her two-story Airport Cafe and
service station burned to the
ground. She estimated loss to
building and equipment at
S10.000.
Mrs. Wood told authoritiei
she was alone in the building
when she heard the first of two
explosions. She ran outside and
within minutes the structure,
near Ontario airport, was en
gulfed in flames. Cause of the
blaze was not determined
immediately.
Dead line Sunday era wined ta at
noon Saturday: 10 a.m Monday lot
Uonday: otner davi 5:20 orevioua day
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