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Il Duce shot 32 years ago By HENRY J. TAYLOR On April 27, 32 years Mussolini, 62, was executed It was a shot heard around the world. Italian Partisan chief Walter Audisio, alias Colonel Valdero, who went on to serve as a Communist deputy in Parliament, killed Mussolini with a weapon that has gone down in Communist history. It was a long-barrel French machine-pistol, serial No. F20830, bearing a tricolor ribbon.

Audisio fired two bursts, nine against all U.S.-British Army Command orders. The Italian partisans captured Mussolini attempting to flee to Switzerland. He was found outside the Lake Como village of Dongo, near the Swiss frontier. They discovered him prone on the floor of a German truck disguised in a waffe gray coat and helmet. Audision executed Mussolini in the nearby villa Belmonte.

Then the partisans transported the body to Milan and hanged it by the heels on the portico of a filling station in the Piazzale Lorento. They hung Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Pwetacci, upside down. Mussolini was born at Predappio, Northern Italy, into the family of an impoverished blacksmith. He was editor of the Socialist newspaper and then founded the Beginning at 17, his political career covered 25 years, 10 as Duce. Covering the event for American newspapers, I made the famous March on Rome with Mussolini.

It a march at all. Mussolini made it in a sleeping car. He was 60th premier and at first seemed to have been absorbed into the constitutional system. But Mussolini was a man of promise who soon broke the promise. The only good think I ever heard him say, and this was early, was: me the bad news, the good news can Later I found Mussolini as jittery about bad news as a spinster in the Casbah, or he just showered me with the icy disdain of an untipped head waiter.

Mussolini was only 42 when he introduced (Dec. 29, 1925) his dictator laws and achieved his dream of becoming absolute ruler. This was eight years before chancellorship in Germany. Mussolini had it made if he had just stayed out of the European war. Son-in-law Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano urged him to.

But Mussolini misread his successful Ethiopian conquest, regarding it a harbinger of what he might accomplish in North Africa and Europe. First he stabbed prostrate France in the back. Then he shipped his favorite white horse by plane to North Africa, preparing for his conquering entry into Alexandria. Mussolini never entered Alexandria, lost North Africa and barely managed to get the horse back alive. I interviewed Reichmarshal Hermann Goering immediately on our U.S.

7th capture of him. The No. 2 told me Mussolini mistakenly visualized himself and Hitler carving up Europe between them. said Goering, privately saw both Mussolini and Italy as a German Goering told me that as early as El Alamein (Oct. 23, 1942), Mussolini decided he had chosen the wrong side.

Goering said dictator discussed with him idea that the Axis make peace with Russia and turn its strength against the Anglo-Americans heading for Goering added: finally proposed this to Hitler at a Klesheim conference, but Hitler refused. Thereafter, policy was to make Italy a German-occupied When King Victor Emanuel III finally dismissed Mussolini the new king was quite hysterical, displayed a list for a new government, shouted that Mussolini must rest, etc. The King accompanied Mussolini to the door, shook his and had him arrested on the spot. The Italian Army confined him in the converted Hotel del Sasso mountain stronghold. And Mussolini was amazed when Capt.

Otto German commando paratroopers rescued the has sent me to set you Mussolini headquartered in his new Social Republic at the Villa delle Orsoline in Gargnano. German Ambassador Rabb and Northern Italy SS. Gen. Karl Wolff stationed guards at office door, screened visitors, mail and calls. Ciano served Mussolini seven years as foreign minister.

He was confined three months in Scalzi Prison and at 9:20 a.m. Jan. 11, 1944 a firing squad executed him there. To the end, however, Hitler was more loyal to Mussolini than Mussolini was to him. Minimum wage hurts poor BELMONT, Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall has formally proposed that Congress boost the minimum wage to $2.50 per hour.

Organized labor wants a larger boost, to $3 per hour, from the current $2.30. So the debate in Congress will be over how much the increase shall be. What Congress ought to help the poor, to stimulate business, and to cut abolish minimum wage laws. How many more workers will be thrown onto welfare rolls, and how many more businesses will close, before Congress has the guts to admit that its minimum wage laws are a failure? The debate in Congress should not be whether or not to increase them, but whether they should exist at all. The thing to do with minimum wage laws is to abolish them.

Local officials, federal funds NOTE: The following editorial was written as an advertisement by the Warner Swasey Company, Cleveland, Ohio.) Citizens, mayors, governors, U.S. congressmen clamber to get on the federal funds bandwagon that is wrecking the character and the future of America. There is not such thing as federal dollar is local taxation collected by Washington and then some (but only some) is doled out (after bureaucrats take theirs) to local governments in exchange for local freedom. When is some local official or unit going to have the courage, the common sense, the honesty to say to the lure of funds, and to say with pride, pay our own way, and if we afford it, wait until we Then, pray heaven, there will be enough honest Americans left to follow that leader, back to solvency and honesty and self-respect again. MX0N PBIM TELEGRAPH Founded in 1851 Ben T.

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Advertisements and legal notices are accepted for publication with the understanding that the liability of the Dixon Evening Telegraph, for failure to publish the ad or notice or making an error in the content of the ad or no tice is limited to the amount paid for the advertisement or notice. Martha Angle Robert Walters Budget: up, up and away WASHINGTON In the eyes of Congress, it is more blessed to give than to take away. And therein lies the rub for President Carter, who is having precious little success so far in trimming the fat from the federal diet. When he assumed the presidency just three short months ago, Jimmy Carter vowed to give the government a lean and hungry look befitting this era of limited resources and lowered expectations. He would, he promised, combine competent management with compassionate purposes to give the taxpayers a maximum return on their involuntary investment in Uncle Sam, Inc.

A noble aspiration. But Carter failed to reckon with the obdurate profligacy of the Congress, which is always more willing to talk about fiscal restraint than to practice it. Although it is still early in the congressional budget process, certain patterns are emerging on Capitol Hill which hold ominous portents for hopes of eliminating ineffective or outmoded programs in order to free up funds for new initiatives like national health SHUCKS, Ttl UC. 0C. COUNTS TRAN' TkMAlfEA UVHsf insurance and welfare reform.

of our more significant proposals to reduce the budget has one top Office of Management and Budget executive admitted recently. the big ones, having trouble even getting someone to introduce them in At the rate things are going, this OMB official said. Congress could wind up boosting $459-billion proposed budget for fiscal 1978 by a whopping $25 billion. His assessment is no doubt excessively gloomy; Congress is about to impose its own spending targets for the fiscal year, and every indication is that it will set total outlays only $3 billion or so above the Carter recommendation. But both the House and Senate continue to throw money down a multitude of ratholes at a time when the government simply afford such waste.

Carter, like all presidents, has tried to look at the budget from a broad, national perspective. But Congress remains hopelessly parochial. Each and every member of the House and Senate has only one question when it comes to federal spending; in it for my district, my state, my pet projects and favorite agencies? No member of Congress who ever played even the smallest role in creating a specific federal program would think of admitting the whole thing was a flop and should be terminated. Instead, the inclination is always to throw a few million more dollars into the project in hopes that the original, often misguided, scheme wfll at last be vindicated. No member of Congress can bear to cut a program which brings federal dollars to his district, even if they are wasted by the recipients or might be used far more effectively elsewhere.

And no member of Congress likes to vote against a pork barrel project for fear that his own will suddenly become vulnerable. While the Republicans controlled the White House, dominant congressional Democrats could always argue that they were simply marching to the beat of a different drummer, doling put dollars for Judicial politics as usual WASHINGTON The mills at Justice may grind fine, but they are exceeding slow these days. More than three months into the Carter administration, the department has barely begun to fill dozens of federal judicial and prosecutorial vacancies around the country. And political considerations, which Carter vowed to remove from the selection process for judges and U.S. attorneys, continue to in some instances, from the White Houee itself.

For years, members of the U.S. Senate have virtually dictated the choice of district court judges and federal prosecutors within their states in a power grab that goes well beyond their constitutional power to confirm presidential nominations. have them doing the naming and the president reduced to advising and consenting is a reversal of the whole constitutional process. It would be nice to get it back where it said one top Justice Department official. So far, however, business as usual in the selection of U.S.

attorneys. Only four have been named by Carter to date. All were commended to the President by Democratic senators. And all have cal credentials at least as compelling as their legal qualifications. In Arizona, Carter chose Phoenix attorney Michael D.

Hawkins, chief counsel of the Democratic party and campaign director for newly elected Sen. Dennis De- Concini. In western Tennessee, the U.S. job went to Memphis City Councilman W. J.

Michael Cody, who was Sherlby County campaign director in both the primary and general elections last year. Nominated as the new U.S. attorney for Maine was George J. Mitchell, deputy director of Sen. Edmund 1972 presidential campaign and unsuccessful Democratic nomineee for governor in 1974.

And in South Carolina, the post went to Columbia municipal judge and prosecutor Thomas E. Lydon who has been active in the campaigns of both Carter and Sen. Ernest F. Hollings. Despite campaign promise that judicial and prosecutorial selections would be made strictly on the basis of merit, potential U.S.

attorney candidates must receive political clearance from Hamilton Jordan at the White House. There is, however, no similar political check on federal judges. The Justice Department and the White House are slowly setting up 11-member commissions in each federal judicial circuit to choose nominees for Court of Appeals vacancies. The first eight commissions (of 13) have now been although it will be another two months before they begin recommending judicial candidates to Carter. Reports are the White House initially sought to stack the membership of these commissions entirely with Carter backing off only after top Justice Department officials suggested such a move would hardly create confidence in the impartiality of the selection panels.

Bowing to senatorial blings, the administration will not attempt to set up merit commissions to nominate federal district court it is encouraging senators to do so voluntarily. Lawmakers have accepted the invitation in only eight of the 50 states, and only two new district judges (of more than 20 vacancies) have been nominated by Carter so far. Both are from Florida, where the two senators have a merit commission to screen nominees. The two judges and four U.S. attorneys are the only nominations sent to Capitol Hill thus far.

have 50 to 60 by this time, especially at the start of a new a Senate Judiciary Committee member said. Violence now against society With a friend like Ramsey Clark, the opponents of capital punishment need any enemies. The former U.S. attorney general and candidate for U.S. senator from New York last year was one of several prominent persons who spoke at a rally in Atlanta the other day, where about 3,000 protest marchers from around the country called for abolition of the death penalty.

For too long, said Clark, Americans have glorified power and violence. time we begin revering life as an end in itself and practiced the old Commandment, shalt not It happens, of course, that only one man has been executed in the United States in the past 10 years and the only glorification involved in that sad episode was the news elevation of him to celebrity status. It also happens that the greatest violence being practiced in America these days is not by society against its criminals but the other way around. There are plenty of good reasons for doing away with capital punishment, but the argument that it reflects some innate love of violence in American society is supported neither by statistics nor good sense. U.S.

budget $5,285 for each family If the 1977 federal budget outlays were allocated to every household in the U.S., they would come to $5,285 each. Many heads of households are surprised to learn which categories require most money and the order in which they appear. First is the outlay for health and income security at $2,299. That comes to 43.4 cents of every dollar of outlays. Second come national defense at $1,356 or 25.7 cents per dollar.

Third is interest on the federal debt, $554 or 10.5 cents. These three items soak up 80 cents of every dollar of outlays proposed in the fiscal year 1977 federal budget. Under the category of education, which includes training, employment of social services, $223 per household is allocated. National resource, the environment and energy are $185. Revenue sharing costs $99 and foreign affairs is $91.

The last two items come to less than two cents apiece per dollar df expenditure. more worthy purposes than the wicked old White House wanted to pursue. But Carter and the Congress now purport to share the same goals. The difference is that the president realizes their common objectives cannot be achieved merely by piling new programs on top of the existing ones; federal revenues just growing fast enough to permit such a luxury, and the deficit is already at an intolerable level. Carter has repeatedly pledged to balance the budget by the end of his first term.

There is no way he can keep that promise, let alone undertake any significant new policy initiatives, if Congress is going to insist that every cow is sacred just because presently alive and gulping greenbacks. The great water project war may seem silly from a distance, but it is central to the long-term challenge facing both the president and the Congress. There is more at stake than a test of wills. Dollars poured over needless dams will not be available for other projects that may well be far more deserving. I Voice of the People Impeach President Carter! President breaking a 1903 treaty 26 years early.

The Panama Canal Treaty run out until 2002 under the treaty. Dig a canal up the Rio Grande River across the borderline to the Pacific Ocean and stop illegal aliens from coming into the United States from Mexico. The Georgia hillbilly says he will pardon and grant instant citizenship to all illegal aliens. Carter, we need the 25 million illegal aliens as they take our jobs, protest our laws, and use up our welfare money to bring more stinking aliens into this country. Then the hillbilly at 1600 Pennsylvania Washington, D.C., said no quotas on shoes or textiles as it hurts international trade.

Bull, it kills off jobs for American born, American raised and American men and women. I voted for him, yes, but if I was a United States senator I would start proceeding to impeach him. Put Nixon, Kissinger, Ford and the Rockefellers in jail for 2,000 years with no parole. Richard L. Mulkins hings Dixon talked about 10 YEARS AGO Salary increases for police, firemen, other city personnel and new equipment, including a new' fire engine and garbage collection equipment account for a $74,200 increase in projected expenditures to maintain the departments this year if the new City Council Monday approves the budget.

The Zoning Board of Appeals Wednesday denied a petition for rezoning land on Palmyra Avenue the refiling of the petition which is to include a more definite plan for the Six protestors, who live in the area, were on hand objecting to the reclassification. 25 YEARS AGO With the opening shot in the Dixon City bowling tourney still a week away, two records already have been set. A new record of 107 teams are entered in this meet to be held at Lincoln Lanes. Gordon R. Bennett Dixon, has been elected president of the Student Council of Lake Forest College.

Bennett, a junior at the colleage, is a member of Kappa Sigma social fraternity and president of the junior class. 50 YEARS AGO A remodelled Dixon dwelling will this summer be held up to home owners in small cities throughout the entire country as an example of what can be done in the transformation of old houses into modern, convenient and handsome residence properties, as the result of a nationwide campaign. newly organized city council met in first regular session last evening at the city hall and immediately set into action the machinery which promises to improve the city this season. Among the highlights in last session were the following: Proposition for installation of a mile of cement paving on north side of river discussed and the city engineer instructed to make a survey, and a response to petitions of property owners on West Boyd Street for sewer..