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EIGHT YANK PARATROOP DIES ON GIBBET LONDON, March 8.— (U.R) — Pfe. Karl Gustav Hulten, 23-year-old Paratrooper from Boston, Mass., was hanged today on the gallows of Pentonville prison as a crowd of some 250 persons staged • pro test demonstration outside the walls and made one futile attempt |o crash through the outer gate fei a truck. The boyish - looking soldier, showing no sign of fear, died with out knowing that authorities had commuted the death sentence of ' the blonde British strip-tease danc er who was with him when he murdered George Heath, London cab driver. Records of the Home Office showed that Hulten was the first American ever to be executed by British authorities in Britain. He was the first U. S. soldier to be tried by British courts for a capi tal crime in England in World War II. , . u „ Among the crowd which gather ed outside the prison gates early this morning was Mrs. Violet Van der Elst, wealthy crusader against capital punishment, who shouted: “He came here to be a para trooper, not to hang. They let the girl off but hang the man. It’s a damn shame.” Mrs. Van der Elst, dressed in black and wearing flashy jewels, demanded to be admitted to the prison. When police refused, she jump ed into a nearby truck and, with an ex-British serviceman as driv er. headed for the gate of the pris on. The police inspector quickly moved another truck into the drive before the gate and, after the two vehicles had collided, hur ried Mrs. Van der Elst and the truck driver off to jail, where they were charged with injuring one of the policemen. The death sentence against Hul ten, pronounced after a dramatic trial of the American and 18-year old Elizabeth Marina Jones in Old Bailey court, had caused a storm of protest from the British public. T7 FIFTH TIGHTENS APPPENINES HOLD ROME, March 8 — (U.R) —Fifth Army troops consolidated their newly-won gains in the Etruscan Apennines southeast of Bologna to day and mopped up small German bands, Allied fieadquarters an nounced today. Stiffening opposition, plus inter mittent heavy artillery and mortar fire directed at Castel d’Aiano, the most advanced point of Allied pen etration held the U. S. and Bra zilian forces to their positions atop commanding ridges in the sector west of the Pistoia-Bologna high way. Some prisoners fell to the American Tenth Mountain Division in mopping-up operations at Fam a':ccia and on the south slopes of Mount Della Castellana, which wr~re seized in the “limited ob jective’’ offensive launched last Sr'"rday. Fifth Army troops in the central sector south of Bologna occupied positions at Fornaci, Salvaro and i Serra, all mountain hamlets in the Monte Belmonte area. In the Adriatic coastal sector, Eighth Army units edged forward along the south shore of the Co macchio Lagoon, where a narrow strip of land separates the lake from the sea. They came under the fire of German batteries on the north bank of the Po di Pri maro river. Patrols were active east of Fosso Vetro, northeast of Fusignano and to the southeast BRITON FED UP BY RAF ATTACK LONDON, March 8.—(U.PJ—He Is never mentioned in the communi ques but so many RAF bombs have been aimed his way that farmer C. t F. Linnel is pleading for a "sporting chance.” The Air Ministry set up a prac tice target overlapping farmer I Linnel’s once peaceful acres. He stuck—and with his wife and hired girl continued to work his farm. But one day after a bomb miss ed him by six yards and he count-' ed more than 100 in the field where* he worked daily, he petitioned the. Air Ministry to move over. The official answer was to mark the route to the target for the bombers with electrically lighted' arrows. "Our position didn’t improve as, the bombers bombed the arrows Instead of the target,” said Lin-’ nel. “The bombs fell wider—near er me.” Linnel was forced to sell his nervous sheep and some of his. cattle. Much of his crops have, been destroyed or damaged by bombs or by RAF men tramping through the field checking the hits and misses. "Although we work in the fields regardless of whether bombing is going on or not, if I’d known what to expect I’d never have stuck It out,” he said. -V MRS. LUCE IN ITALY ROME, March 8.—(tfi—Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce, Connecticut Con gresswoman, arrived at Allied headquarters in Italy today. JL I1JJ |T lUlUXll V4 -A VA1 —.. Yanks Clear Blocked Street In Cologne For Tank American troops clear away road blocks as a U. Army tank enters a main street in Cologne, capi tal of the German Rhineland, which fell to U. S. First Army forces March 6. The invaders met surpris ingly light resistance. (AP Wirephoto from U. S. Signal Corps via Radio from Holland). Senate Strips Labor Bill Of Penalties On Employes WASHINGTON, March 8.— G>!— Tpe Senate sent a completely re modeled manpower control bill back to the house today, with all direct penalties aimed at balking employers rather than employes. Jammed in the Senate two full weeks, the substitute bill drawn by the Senate Military Commit tee was blasted loose late today by a 63 to 16 roll call vote. Thir ty-nine Democrats, 23 Republicans and a Progressive voted for the measure, seven democrats and nine Republicans against. The House is expected to refuse to take the Senate substitute, send ing the legislation to conference with instructions to hold out for the work-or-jail bill the represen tatives approved February 1. The outcome there is doubtful. Senate Majority Leader Barkley has said repeatedly that the con ference committee will write the final version of the bill. Shortly before the final vote, the Senate reversed a decision taken Tuesday and wrote back into the bill a penalty of a year in jail or $10,000 fine for employer:, convict ed of violating employment ceil ings which the War Manpower Commission Chairman would be authorized to establish for any and every place of business in the Na tion. The vote in favor of the pen alty today was 40 to 36. Tuesday, a similar clause was knocked out, 44 to 35. The Senate also adopted an amendment by Senator Morse (R. Ore), a former member of t h e War Labor Board, which would give the Director of War Mobiliza tion (James F. Byrnes) authority to set up tribunals for appeal of challenged regulations. The bill had provided that the WMC Chair man Paul V. McNutt) could set up the appeal boards. Morse argued that it would be unfair to let “the very man whose regulations may be challenged by a citizen have power to set up a tribunal to determine if the regu lation was unjust.” The theories of the Senate and House bill are almost squarely op posed. The House voted to empower lo cal draft boards to order men from 18 to 45 to take war jobs, or stay on their present jobs if necessary to the war effort. Men who refused to do so would be subject to draft dodging penalties—up to five years imprisonment or $10,000 fine. --V AMHERST WAR MEMORIAL AMHERST, Mass., March 8—(U.R) —A $1,000,000 war memorial hon oring the 60 Amherst College men killed in World War II will be constructed on the Amherst cam pus. _ _l vandenberg asks POLISH EQUALITY \ -———— WASHINGTON, March 8;—(U.Fft— Senator Vandenberg (R-Mich) de clared today that the American People will support the Moscow three-nation decisions on a Polish provisional government only if it P “a truly representative coali i0Tlie Republican delegate to the 3an Francisco world Security con ference voiced to the Senate com olete approval” of British Foreign Minister Anthony Even’s warning to the Soviet-backed Lublin regime not to molest supporters of the London Polish government. Declaring that the American government “should be equally frank about this situation, the Michigan senator told his col 16 “There is no escaping the fact that the* treatment accorded Po land—symbolizing generally the at titude of the United Nations to ward our smaller allies m this war for liberation—will have a large effect upon the success of our ultimate plans for collective security and organized peace. Eden told the House of Com mons that if the British were to have confidence in the Moscow negotiations by representatives of the United States, Great Britain and Russia to set up a provision al Polish government, the Lublin government must avoid persecu tions of Poles' loyal to the London regime. . Vandenberg said the “acid test of the Moscow government will come when it is revealed whether General Anders and the Poles who fought at Cassino, as well as Gen eral Bor and his followers in the Polish underground, are to have a home and country under tne new provisional government. 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