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Mussolini as a Lech Bill Proposed By United Press Jy ROME, Apr. 22 — The love . For Korea Veterans life of the late Dictator Benito By DAN KIDNEY Mussolini came up in court toTimes Staff Writer day when attorneys battled over WASHINGTON, Apr. 22 A! whether his numerous torrid congressional amendment was| romances were “carried out in ‘ promised today to “correct the in-| the service of the state” Justice” of cases like the Korean; The specific question was ar veteran: from Indianapolis) whether a dairy and 300 “Dear who can't collect job layoff pay.i Ben” leters writen to Mussolini The pledge came from Rep. E.| py his shapely brunet mistress, Ross Adair (R, Ft. Wayne) after! claretta Petacel, should be conferring with Rep. Charles B.| given to her relatives or are * Brownson (R, Indianapolis). “state property.”
letters as “young and pleasing, an interesting woman,” spoke ct her “powers of innate seduction . . . my flowery and delicious love.” She castigated. Mussolini for his callousness, affairs with other women and “your incura-~ ble lechery.” “I am made of different stuff from that of which all your other mistresses were made,” she wrote. “You humiliate me . «+ you betray me . ., , you have betrayed me always.”
Ther Attention was enlled io ne Miss Petacel was executed | However, she always. proyesterday y {" with Mussolini by partisans. in | fessed her “undying, flaming Rep. Adair, member of the 1945. Her family now lives in | love” for Mussolini. ir, , i
“1 ask myself if I am mad or | if I am going mad , , , I am jealous of the air you breathe. It is not modern to suffer as I suffer. It is not esthetic, You don’t know the meaning of this spasm that kills you. Mis Petaccl always wrote to “You ean do everything. I Mussolini as “Caro Ben (Dear | can do nothing. I am like an Ben)" | automaton, a machine, a doll. I She described herself in the ok you . ., you are Caesar.”
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Lawyers for her relatives said in opening arguments that “it is absurd, as argued by the state, that the loves of dicta tors are carried out in the serv. ice of the state.”
House Veterans Affairs Commit. tee, sald he will seek to amend proposed legislation covering! rights of men who served in Ko-! "““rea. He sald details have not! * "been worked out, mnt the amend-| ment would fix such “injustices” as happened to Charles E, Thomp-| son, 40.
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“ Mr. Thompson was one of 900 workers laid off from New York Central Railroad's Beech Grove
Darnaby Named
shops Apr. 11. A veteran of ope ahr iL A veteran of To Parking Authority Will Light Scenery Korea. William Darnaby has been ap] CHICA GO, Apr. 22 (UP)~
Mr, Thompson was denied unemployment compensation be cause he was not employed long enough since his discharge. Existing laws do not include servfoe In the armed forces as “covered employment.” Sonn Adar pa the amended on wou be as liberal as the much-criticized “52-20! you am and Nw at. 717 club” law for World War II! veterans
“But it will provide veterans'London Likes Sophie
with unemployment compensation during the intertm not now, LONDON, Apr. 22 (UP) |and towns.
Sard Rom Adair promised. Sophie Tucker, 87-year-old “last| ave sup of all of the red-hot mommas," opened Republicans, and probably the with top billing at London's fa- Slow Driver Fined Democrats, on the committee, mous Palladium Music Hall last] MUNCIE, Apr. 22 (UP)
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Mr. Darnaby, & Republican, trains from, now on. was appointed by City Council, The railroad announced yester-
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Expect to Clip Steel Seizure
Senate to Vote On Fund Ban
: By United Press | WASHINGTON, Apr. 22—The Senate may vote today on an amendment to a supplemental appropriations bill which would!
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Red-Tortured Priest Bound for Indiana
By EMMA RIVERS MILNER Times Chureh Editor
A Hoosier priest is raveling
homeward from China alive and well after - being condemned to death by Communists. The Rev. Fr. Robert W. Greene, native of Jasper and classmate of three Indianapolis priests, thought one day his head would
{brought Father Greene to frial, They questioned him without, ceasing day and night. They | bound his arms with cruel tight-| ness and finally staged a draimatic scene for Easter Sunday before. 5000 spectators in a big (hall in Kwangsi Province, | Without being irreverent, fit might be said that the trial was
prohibit the government from be cut off. But the next, he found reminiscent of that of Jesus
using any public funds to operate
the steel industry. Approval of the rider, sponsored by Sen. William F. Knowland (R. Cal), would be a stiffer blow to the government than another Republican-sponsored amendment barring the executive, branch from using any funds in the pending bill to run the steel mills. : The Senate approved the latter rider yesterday, 44 to 31. The! effect was mainly a condemnation of President Truman's seizure of the industry because the $960 million-plus bill contains; no funds earmarked for steel operations, and only minor| amounts for the office of Becretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer, nominal “boss” of the mills. ) Money provided by. the measure would run about 20 federal agencies until the end of fiscal 1952 on June 30. Mr. Knowland conceded the steel wage-price dispute might be settled before his amendment could be accepted by the House and become law, However, a twothirds vote would be required to suspend the rules and consider it —more than yesterday's margin,
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himself on the way back to Amerfca. He has been released for
deportation by the Chinese after,
questioning and physical violence following a long imprisonment. ’ One of mates, the Rev, Fr. Richard Kavanagh, archdiocesan director of
day when told his friend is safe in Hong Kong. “The last I heard of him was a letter which came about a year ago,” Father Kavanagh recalled. “He then was a prisoner of the Communists in his own house. He asked all his classmates to pray for him in his letters but he never seemed to lose courage.”
Other Classmates
The other two priests who attended 8t. Meinrad's with Father Greene are, the Rev. Fr. John Betz, pastor of 8t. James Church, and the Rev. Fr. Leo Shafer, St. Mark's Church. The Communists first placed Father Greene and two fellow workers under house arrest in 1850 but later ordered the two non-Hooslers out of the country. Finally, Apr. 3, not quite three weeks ago, the Communists
Christ before the Crucifixion. An official relayed Father Greene's crimes to the mob which screamed, “American devil.” After each crime, the announcer asked:
: “What shall we do with him?” centered along the Wabash Riveriof the two-place Father Greene's class- The answer came back: “Cut off And authorities noticed a nose and|
{his head.” | | For five hours, the priest was
seized the Catholic Yduth Organization, required to stand motionless on| ‘heaved a great sigh of relief to- the platform while his guards
{brought in his accusers one at al time,
Sentenced to Death
He was found guilty of aiding guerillas, of being a link in an American spy ring, of murder and organizing Legion of Mary chapters as a counter-revolutionary unit, He was sentenced to be beheaded. - Then next day, Father Greene was told he would be deported. The Communists took him to Kweilin by bus, parading him through every village on the way. Sunday they put him aboard a train for Hong Kong. Father Greene spent eight years at St. Meinrad's, was an athlete playing basketball, baseball and various other sports. He completed his education as a missionary at Maryknoll Seminary, Ossining, N, Y.
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Confucius Say: Man Who Flee Jail All Wet
G ee lal TERRE HAUTE, Apr. 22 (UP) ~Vigo County authorities said to-
day anyone who thinks he can! make good an escape from the jail had better think twice. As a case in point, they cited Robert Woodall, 26, Terre Haute, who slugged a jailer and escaped the county lockup late yesterday. He was recaptured an hour later in the Wabash River. Woodall slugged - Jailer Art Criss, 56, when he opened his cell to ‘collect trash. Woodall fled out a back door.
Search for the escaped prisoner
mouth sticking above water under a bridge. They reached down and pulled the protesting Woodall from the muddy, flood-swollen river.
Juliana Begins 6-Day Unofficial Canada Tour
OTTAWA, Apr. 22 (UP)— Queen Juliana of the Netherlands began a six day unofficial visit here today but the royal schedule was al t as crowded as that of her official tour of the United States which “ended last night. The Queen, to whom Ottawa was a second home during World War II, landed at Rockliffe airport yesterday after a two-hour flight from Detroit. The Queen’s visit here was not an official one —as had been planned some time
of the mourning in the dominion following the death
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Crashes, Burns
James Scheerer, : wealthy Ft. Dodge farmer, -and Lawrence J. Cuthbert, 23, of the Cuthbert Construction Co., Storm Lake. Witnesses said the plane was apparently doing “wingovers” when a wing caught in the top of a tree and the plane crashed into a street near the country club, No one in the area was injured. The fuselage of the plane landed in the street, but one wing Piper Cub remainéd caught in the top of the tree, about 100 feet away. The plane was rented from the Iowa Flight Service at the Ft, Dodge Airport and a spokesman said Mr. Scheerer was at the controls taking Mr. Cuthbert for a flight over the housing project his company was building here.
American Missionary Killed by Bandits
BANGKOK, Thailand, Apr. 22 (UP)—An American missionary, Mrs. Priscilla Johnson, was killed and her husband wounded. seri ously Friday when 19 bandits ate tacked them during a religious service. Mrs. Johnson was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Bryan, Northfield, Minn. Her husband, Paul, is from Lyle, Minn, Both were members of the Christian Missionary Alliance and had been stationed in Udorn Province, northeast Thailand, for three an one-half years. 3
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