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The Gazette and Daily, York, Pa.t Monday Morning, September 29, 1947 Civilian Employes AfraidOf Purge Ri Military Cuwi'i 16 Albanians Get Death Sentence For Revolt Plot MB JHr khH IbIPP Mm uj iiiiiui wt i "Personal history" questionnaires cause fear all liberals to be dismissed as able worker gets axe although cleared of "Communist-front" charges. Berlin. Sept. 28 (ONA) A so-called "personal history" questionnaire, which all civilian employes of the United States military government here are today required to fill out, is causing considerable perturbation among AMG personnel in Germany. Many of these civilian employes have expressed fears that the "Frageboden," as the questionnaire has been unofficially dubbed in sarcastic comparison to the forms required of Germans undergoing de-Nazification, is the forerunner of a real purge of all persons with even slightly leftist leanings.

The latest victim of the apparent housecleaning is George S. Wheeler, manpower allocation r-hiaf in the AMP. a vptpran ftf CARS STREWN IN WEST COAST WRECK Seven cars of the Southern Pacific's West Coast Limited lie strewn along the tracks near Salem, after they were derailed when the locomotive passed1 over an open switch. No one was critically hurt. (AP Wirephoto) UN Told Bacteriological War Greater Threat Than A-Bomb 4 Austricms Get Stiff Jail Terms As Anti-Semites Vienna, Sept.

26 (JP) An American military court yesterday sentenced four persons to prison terms ranging from one to 15 years for inciting an anti-Semitic disturbance at a Jewish displaced persons center in Bad-Ischl. Today several Austrian newspapers demanded that the four persons be released. Editorials called the sentences "worse than Nuernberg" and "an onslaught against the fundamental democratic rights of freedom." The Communist newspaper Volkstimme carried a front page editorial under the banner headline "A Revolting Sentence." The disturbance began as a protest against suspension of a milk ration for children. The court, which tried the leaders of the demonstration, found that as the disturbance developed rocks were thrown at the Hotel Golden Cross, where Jewish displaced persons are billeted. Persons in the crowd shook their fists and shouted: "Hang the Jews," "Down With the Jews" and "Out With the Dirty Jews." Italy Labor Strikes To Back Peasants Workers go out in support of peasants who seized unused land about Rome.

General strikes threatened in other Jties unless peasants released. Rome, Sept. 28 UP) -General strikes tied up two cities in Lati-um-Rome province today as peasants continued occupying unfilled land in the Rome area. Strike leaders said the walkouts in Civita Vecchia and Monte Ro-tondc were called to exhibit "solidarity" with peasants who were arrested last as squatters. Some municipal work was suspended in Tivt)li and Colleferro and Chambers of labor in those towns threatened general strikes unless the peasants were released.

Many squatters began tilling fields they appropriated last week. Commenting on this the Communist newspaper L'unita declared: "For the first time the Baronial Fiefs have felt the plow." L'unita predicted that a general strike might be called in Rome itself if the situation of the arrested peasants "is not clarified soon." Other Rome newspapers said the interior ministry had given no indication it intended to release the squatters now being held. The land dispute in the Rome area followed a series of strikes throughout Italy which leaders of the Christian Democrat (Catholic) party have attributed to a coordinated Leftist drive to topple Premier Alcide de Gasperi's government. There was no indication that a settlement was in sight in the strike of approximately 40,000 technicians and administrative workers in Northern Italy's textile industry. This walkout, which has the support of the Communist-dominated general confederation of labor, beean Wednesday.

The technicians and administrative workers complained thafrhey were improperly claissified. Gettysburg Cemetery Has Space For 600 World War II Dead York County Congressman Chester H. Gross announced yesterday that there is room for at least 600 graves for American dead of World War II in Gettysburg National cemetery. According to the Associated Press, Gross said he was informed by Newton B. Drury, head of the National Park service in Washington, that the War department has received that many requests for space there from kin of World War II victims.

Gross quoted Drury as saying that the War department duty bound" to honor these requests. Gettysburg cemetery authorities said that the new graves will be in three sections of the cemetery, which adjoins the battlefield. The new burials are expected to start late in October. A number of World War II dead already are buried on tne grounds. of psitacosis virus (the cause of parrot fever) would be sufficient to infest half a billion people, while a gram of botolinus toxin, a germ sometimes found in canned food, is capable of killing seven millions.

Yellow fever and the hoof-and-mouth disease are other epidemics easily spread worldwide, the scientists warn the Assembly members, adding that international control of preparations for bacteriological warfare and mass destruction is virtually impossible. That being so, the association states, the only certain guarantee against germ warfare is the elimination of war itself. But it appeals to the General Assembly to direct the United Nations Atomic commission to devote part of its attention of that weapon of race suicide. Up to now, that commission has not discussed bacteriological warfare. The American Association of Scientific Workers has a membership of 15.000 with headquarters in New York.

Flushing Meadow, N. Sept. 28 (ONA) The atomic bomb is a much lesser danger to the survival of mankind than is bacteriological warfare, the 55-member nations of the United Nations General Assembly have been warned in a statement sent to delegation heads this week by the American Association of Scientific Workers. The statement, which is signed by the association president, Prof. Maurice Visscher.

head of the department of psychology of the University of Minnesota, points out to the Assembly delegates that the A-bomb requires enormously costly machinery, vast plants and a high level of industrial potential. On the other hand, ordinary laboratory facilities, available in any country, are sufficient for the production of the weapons of bacteriological warfare, and the mass slaughter could be immeasurably greater than that wreaked even by the latest atomic bombs. The statement grimly reminds the delegates that one fluid ounce Defendants testify U. S.British mission gave money, arms to group planning overthrow of government. State Department calls accusations false.

Four persons receive prison sentences. Belgrade Yugoslavia, Sept. 28 IJP) Dispatches said today the Albanian Supreme Court had sentenced to death 16 persons accused of planning-to overthrow the Communist government of Premier Enver Hoxha with British and American aid. Three were sentenced to be hanged and 13 to be shot. Four defendants were sentenced to life ijr' -nd four others received 15 to 20 year sentences for ci terroristic activities against the people and state." The trial of the 24 began Sept.

5. Some of the defendants testified their organization "received monetary and arms aid" from a British-American mission in Tirana, the Albanian capital. Witnesses also linked members of the mission with the defendants in alleged acts of sabotage and an armed uprising in Scutari in Northwestern Albania. According to the indictment and the testimony of one witness the Scutari incident took place Sept. 9, 1946 at the "request of the Americans who promised" that "American troops would land in Albania" three days after the capture of the city.

The State Department said the accusations involving Americans were "entirely untrue." It called the Tirana trials "an attempt of the Albanian regime to perpetuate itself by means of oppression and the terrorization of Albanian liberal, patriotic opposition elements." Schwellenbach To Address AFL Washington. (FP) Labor Secretary Lewis Schwellenbach will be among the distinguished speakers from the U. S. and abroad who will address the 66th annual AFL convention in San Francisco, it was announced Sept. 26.

President Truman, invited to speak but unable to appear, will send a personal message to the convention, the AFL said. Sen. Wayne Morse and Democratic Mayor Hubert H. Humphrey of Minneapolis have accepted invitations to speak at the AFL conclave, with the military renresented by Gen. Mark W.

Clark, wartime commander of the American Fifth Army in Italy and now commanding general of the Sixth (domestic) Army. James F. Neil, newly elected national commander of the American Legion, is scheduled to appear, along with J. R. Klawans, legislative committee chairman for the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

James S. Killon, chief of the labor division of Gen. Douglas Mac-Arthur's occupation forces in Japan, and Director Edward J. Phelan of the International Labor Organization will speak, presumably on labor problems abroad. Further international flavor will be given the convention by Kurt Schumacher, head of the German Social Democratic party in the American and British occupation zones.

Also invited but not yet confirmed as convention speakers are Leon Blum, prewar premier of France, and Karl Arnold, minister-president of Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (British zone). York Life Guard, Aides Credited With Saving 91 From Possible Drowning Chief Life Guard Ray Bailey, of York, and his four assistants re credited with saving 91 persons from possible drowning during the summer at Atlantic Beach, N. C. No lives were lost for the first season in several years. Bailey, son of Mr.

and Mrs. S. Ray Bailey, 35 South Hartman street, took the life guard position immediately after his discharge from the U. S. Marine corps early in the summer.

He is a graduate William Penn Senior High fchool, class of 1946. government service and a man acknowledged by his co-workers and superiors to be remarkably efficient and conscientious. In fact, from their experience they describe him as a "moderate New Dealer." Col. James Duke, chief of AMG personnel, said, however, that even although Wheeler had been cleared of Communist-front charges by the Military government, he would be removed from the payroll early next month. "If we had known when we hired him what we know about, his background, we never would have given him a job," the officer stated.

Col. Duke added that it was impossible to make public exactly "what we know now," but he denied emphatically that it was related to the recent complaint by Representative George Dondero that Wheeler ar.d nine others were Communists who were harbored by the Military government. Poland Wipes Out Ukrainian Bands Ukrainians raided, pillaged, burned villages near south border. At one time 140,000 Poles left homeless by raids. Polish army fighting bandits numbers 30,000.

Sanok, Poland, Sept. 27 Peace is near in the Polish government's relentless war against Ukrainian Nationalist bands here in the beautifurvalley of the San river. Polish troops and internal security corps units numbering probably 30,000 are rapidly liquidating the remnants of Ukranian bands wh'ch long have raided pillaged, and burned scores of villages throughout Southern Poland near the frontiers of Czechoslovakia and Soviet Russia. The drive against the Ukrani-ans, intensified after their bands Inflation Spiral 0 Farmer Better Off In 1946 Despite Farm Prices Rise cent price advantage. The farmer, though not to the extent of his city cousin, buys much of his food.

Likewise, he buys clothing, household supplies, automobiles, trucks, tractors, building materials for upkeep of his buildings, gasoline, tires, and many other items. All of these things have gone up. Further, many farmers buy a part or all of their livestock feed. This is particularly true of dairymen and poultrymen in deficit-feed producing areas of the east, south and west. Reflecting spectacular advances in prices of wheat and corn this summer, feed costs have risen sharply.

Prices of beef cattle, hogs, milk, eggs, and poultry have gone up during the past 12 months, but not as much as have grains which farmers must use to produce them. Feed grains increased 23 per cent compared with 12 per cent for livestock products. vice-minister of defense, last' March, has resulted in the wounding or capture of probably 2,000 persons. Aided by the collaboration of Czechoslovakia and Russia, the Polish government in recent weeks has forced over 50,000 Ukrnnians to leave southeastern Poland. They were transferred to former east Prussia for resettlement.

The government originality re-, patriated 484.000 Ukranians toj what is now Russian territory. The' Ukrainians, long agitating fori autonomy, took revenge by crossing wooded sections of the frontier at night time, burning villages)5 Washington, Sept. 28 UR The farmer is feeling inflation too. Agriculture department statistics show today that the farmer is not as well off as he was a year ago, even though he is getting more dollars for his products. The department reports Jhat the general level of farm prices has increased about 11 per cent during the past 12 months, while the level of prices paid by the farmer for things he buys has increased 16 per cent.

The department measures bolh the level of farm prices and the level of prices which the farmer pays by a statistical index. Its latest reports show that the index of prices received is 276 per cent of the 1909-14 average. This compares with the record of 280 per cent set last March. The index of prices paid by the farmer is 235 per cent of the 1910-14 average, the highest of record. Since the last war started prices received by the farmer have increased more than have prices he paid.

It is the theory of present farm laws that the two indices should be at identical levels to provide a proper balance between farm and non-farm commodities and services. As prices now stand, the farmer has what might be called a 17 per cent advantage over producers of non-farm products and services. In August. 1946, the farmer had a 25 per BISHOP HONORED Washington (FP) The Right Rev. John A.

Gregg of Kansas City was awarded the wartime Medal of Merit Sept. 25 for his work boosting the morale of Negro troops. He is a bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal church. Read it today, read it tomorrow and you'll aeree, it's a "Real Honest to Goodness newspaper" The Gazette and Daily. Adv.

one time more than 140,000 Poles' were left homeless. The troops have used mortars, and light automatic arms in wiping out the bands in pitched battles during the last)-six months. The Army's drive has some bands to cross the Czechoslo-J vak border. Scores of Ukrainians have fled into the American zonest of Austria..