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Auction For Italian Votes Western Powers Believed To Have Outbid Soviet Russia: Police Stand By National Elections Begin

New York, April 17.

An auction for Italian votes ended today and the Western Pow:

ers, led by the United States, appeared to have made a high bid. Given a three-day election vacation, the Italians are to vote on Sunday and Monday on the issue of Democracy vs. Communism, Western Powers vs. Russia and Russia Marxist Socialism vs. Capitalism.

There is little doubt that the Soviet Union had lost.

vote.

The best estimates were that the Communist front would poll less than 35 per cent of the That probably would keep them out of the coalition government which presumably would be headed by Premier Alcide De Gas- peri's strongly Catholic Christian Democrats. The United States had offered would not hesitate to take the most radical memeures, oven the Italy $2,500,000 economic old under the European recovery suspension of the efactions."

The Government's preparations programme, accompanied by a

Impressed the that a

Communist apparently had warning

leader Communist

Palmiro Government in Italy could ex-Togliatti, whose. lleutenants have pect no help at all. The Western boasted of tens of thousands of Powers had proposed jointly partisan trained youtha" ready to the return of Trieste to Italy act at their call. and had forced Russia into 1 Told of Scelba's warning. this de-Togliatti, said, "There ought not position of refusing

to be any trouble, and there will mand.

because

we have all

The Russians offered nothing not be but some glittering promises of undertaken to respect the elec better life under Communism and toral liberty of the Italian peo- some charges that the tallans ple."

Nevertheless the ceaseless who voted against would be completing the sellout search for hidden arms went on.] of their nation to American Im--Associated Press. perialism. It WOR not enough.

Communiam1 -

good

The Communist front leader, Palmiro Togliatti, admitted much as he closed his campaign with a speech to 100,000 persons in Rome in which he demanded that the Communists be included In the coalition government re- gardless, of the election

result.

That was not the talk of the man who hoped for victory,

"Civil

Rights"

Mobile, Ata, Apr. 17. A 20-year-old white ma- chanle, who, according to the police, signed a statement that he best a negro with his fiets and kicked him in a dispute over President Truman's "oivil rights" programma, wa fread

of # today

charge of murder.

The Mobile County Grand Jury had falled to return an Indictment against him and the Stats Bolicitor, said today the means he was now at Ilberty. President Truman's *alvil rights" programme calls for anti-lynching: legle- lation and an end to racial segregation-Reuter.

Reds Accused Of

Brazil Plot

Rio de Janeiro, Apr. 16.

Rain threatened and it appear-Brazilian Federal police announced today that 26

ed likely to favour the Com- munists. Their well-disciplined forces would vote anyway, The more conservative voters, includ- Ing women and old people, might | not brave the bad weather .to to polls.

go

Was

Communists have been arrested and directly implicated in the explosion yesterday of the Army's Doodora arsenal. The arsenal wrecked by five blasts, and 23 persons were known to have been killed. Firemen still are Italy's tough Interior Minister.

seeking 12 girl employees who were trapped Mario Scelba, ordered four po-? licemen to each of the nation's and possibly killed in a nearby textile mill, 41,848 polling places. There was Httle violence as

Estimates of the number of well-planned labour stoppages, in tho campaign closed and no major outbreaks injured range from 100 to 200, Chile, Venezuela and the British are expected during the voting. Walls crumbled within a mile Caribbean colony of Jamaica. But the Government is ready with radius of the scene. an alerted force of 389,000 troops and police-United Press.

tiny

As One

Joe Το Another?

New York, Apr. 17. The House Speaker, Mr. Joseph Martin, told the Re- publican Club meeting today: "If I could talk with Stalin I could end the mad rush to- ward war and prevent a con- flagration which would des- troy civilization."

He made this statement in ro- ference to his action towards end- He charged ing the coal strike. that in the Truman Administration "sometimes the people get so they do not talk to each other and somebody has to

step in." "There come a time,"

said. e," he "when to procure understanding and peace a sincere effort to bring about peace must be made.” He left no doubt that, his at- titude towards Soviet Russia is conciliatory,

Martin said that despite the lack of co-operation in the Ad- has been ministration, progress made toward purging Communists from the United States Govern- ment and "this fight will never

until we stop

drive the last the Govern- Communist out of ment."

Regarding peoples under Com- munist-dominated countries, Mar- tin said "They have no rights. They have no dignity.... under the Masters of the Kremlin, the men and women are chained to the soll in slavery and serfdom."

-United Press.

N.W.A. Chief In China

to

OX-

China.-

Shanghai, Apr. 10. Don Klang, Vice-President of the Orient Region of North-west Airlines, arrived today to make a survey on the

__of possibility establishing the company Far Eastern headquarters in Shanghai. He declined to commit himself to definitely but said he plan remain hers indefinitely, to deter extent

airline ot the mine

business oppor facilities and tunities in conjunction with the company's planned Oriental "There are well-established pansion. The police said the explosion

Communist parties operating Kiang also indicated he wanted was intended as the beginning of openly or under different names to make sure his company could Forces Mobilised a Communist plot for a second in every territory and colony in share in the

expected tourist Rome, Apr. 17. Bogola" here on May 1 The the Western Hemisphere, includ-trade increase from America in

attributed to a The Italian Government gave plot

bigg

the the event the State Department ing the United States, with new orders to its mobilised forces leader of the Communist Party, exception of Honduras and the as rumoured shortly lifts tourist

ગૂર which -330,000 troops and police of all

outlawed 411

restrictions Dominican Repubile," said Gen- travel his kinds to protect the vote in the Police withheld name, but oral Pleado.-United Press.

United Press. national elections beginning on said his arrest was expected soon. Sunday.

According to the official ac- "Tomorrow you decide the dès-count, the Communists Intended iny of Italy, the destiny of to kill the Brazilian War Minis- Europe. Vote!" was the advertise-ter, General Carobert Pereira de ment appearing in all of today's Costa. An unexplained delay in Anti-Communist newspapers. This the explosion saved his life and plea summed up sharply the vast be left the scene just 50 minutes Josuçs facing the 20,146,000 earlier. Italians eligible to vote in the The explosion scattered

election. day

The warning was printed on a map of Europe plicating the task of fighting the showing Russia and her Eastern Gre.-Associated Press.

Warning European satellites in deep lock, the rest of Europe in white.

Mexico City, Apr. 18. Premier de Gasperi, summaris Communist parties which Ing the issues in a newspaper in- operating in every country in the terview after his final speech at Western Hemisphere (with

two Naples Friday night, said the exceptions) plan new uprisings in campaign had

boiled down to the at least three other Latin-Ameri- "Iron alternatives" between a re- can countries in the near future, to the other, reports reach the gime of liberty

or Bolshevik General Rene Picado, Costa Rican capital of dwindling food sup- totalitarianism.

Minister of Public Security, said piles and rocketing prices. Strong closing stock market today.

In the capital, soldiers quotations were interpreted da re- Ho predicted there would be standing guard as thousands of flecting confidence in a Commun- Communist-sponsored uprisings, thin-faced Colombians queue up ist defeat.

The tough prepara-either as armed revolts or as for meagre rations. A few publis tions of Interior Minister Mario

markets have re-opened. Scelba to guarantee the right of

they have little to sell. the people to choose without in- timidation reflected the breadth of Italy's decision.

two

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Security Orders

The mobilised

were told to-

security forces

1-Deal forcefully with anyong nitempting to intimidate voters.

2-Keep crowds moving-voters allowed to collect or

must und polling places after

grenades over a wide area, com-

U.S. Raid On Tokyo Recalled

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Rioters Are Now Just Hungry People

are

Bogota, Apr. 17.

[The rioters who put Colombia to the torch last week now just hungry people roaming the wreckage of their own making. Today the only loot they seek is—food.

..

From one end of the country

are

But

Soviet Officials Withdrawn

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And the people haven't enough money to keep pace with prices

Washington, Apr. 17. Leaplag in spite of Government

The Soviet Union is steadily threats to punish speculators. At- ready food costs are up 50 to reducing the number of Russians United 200 per cent more than before officially assigned to the

Status. the first shots were fired,

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Pur- |· NEW NURSES HOME & TRAINING SCHOOL offices were looted and fired in Soviet diplomatic, consular, Forty survivors of the first the frenzy that gripped the coun-chasing and miscellaneous person. loiter

American bombing raid on Tokyo

nel, including dependants, have voting.

com been trimmed below 350 compared

TO BE HELD AT 3-Look out for "obstruction- gathered today in Minneapolis, try, from April 10. But ism"-intentional delays in voting the city where they were asked herce in Bogota, the for instance calculated to maksta volunteer for à "mission of heart, has been ruined and off with 768 a year ago.

cial sources cannot predict how wailing, voters ́› give up and go

Sovjet personnel in the United great hazard."

Three days of dinners, cocktail long it will take to restore it. States in 1940 totalled 1,488, while home.

Prevent electioneering at parties and informal talks were

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scheduled, with but one busi are estimated to have died. The 1946. Scelbe, in a closing speech Sunday, will be the sixth an- They include 120 students of the

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injured are said to be innumerable.

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The officials said that the de Friday night, sald; The Gov-niversary of the raids on five National University. An eye wit- krease was probably due in a ernment will be on the watch. Japanese cities. Of the 80. men ness said he saw 206 bodies laid Soviet purchas

the fact that the If the liberty of the votes who volunteered, 61 are living out in the city's Central Cemetery is having trouble buying American Soviet purchasing agency, Amtorg, should; "be compromised - 13] W

today and 23 of them still are

"I became ill and could not gó members of the U.S.. Army Air

foods. Forces. I: It / was in- Minneapolis on counting" he added, that plans were made for the raid, and planes used by the filers wore grepaired, and modified, here for the Eight.

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Official records show, that only 164 Americans, including 20 de pendents, are living in Moscow. The only other American in the Soviet Union is the United States Consul at Vladivostok.

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Oficials said the American colony is not being allowed to come in contact with Beviel citizens: "Except. (arol:"important | official business. The number of iction-it Soviet cilicets formerly, employnd by the American Embalayas translatora aid Clerks has: grade" {tially" drifted' away ·without "erieč

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