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WEDNESDAY; MAY 5, | PAGE FIVE No Communist Candidates But Agitators Are Active Ere South Korea Election By ROY ROBERTS Seoul, Korea, May 5 -- (AP)-- Communism and western democ- racy are locked in a bitter behind- the-scenes conflict in next Mon- day's scheduled election in United States-occupied South Korea. The election is intended to create an independent Korean govern. ment. The issue in plain sight is the contest between two major rightist groups for control .of the govern- ment-to-be and authority to say how it shall be patterned. The Communists and pro-Com. munists of South Korea are boy- cotting the election. They have entered no candidates for the 200 national assembly seats. They de- nounce the program in their papers and at party meetings. Their pet phrase for it is "an American imperialist scheme to gain control of Korea." Almost daily, roving gangs swoop into villages throughout Southern Korea, attacking police boxes, elec- tion offices and the homes of po- licemen and rightists. At least 350 Koreans have died in these assaults. Lt.-Gen. John Hodge, U.S. occu- pation commander, calls the at- tackers "Communist stooges" and "mouthpieces of Soviet masters." He says their obvious aim is to prevent the election by terrorizing voters and officials. During the 10- day registration period that began March 30, Communist attacks and threats ran high, yet 7,884,095 of the 8,216,851 eligible South Koreans registered. That was 959 per cent. The Russians, who occupy the northern half of Xorea, opposed the election and proposed instead that both occupation forces with. draw, leaving the Koreans to estab- lish a unified government alone. The U.S. rejected that idea as sure to lead to strife. Spokesmen say that if American troops left under such circumstances, the So- viet-equipped North Korean army of 200,000 would swarm over the south and would turn all Korea into a Soviet satellite. Instead, the United Nations General Assembly approved the American proposal for a general eleection, with US. troops to leave 90 days after forma. tion of a government. A U.N. commission to supervise such a program arrived in January. It knocked on the door of North Korea and got an instant, frigid "No." The commission then decided to go ahead with its work in the only accessible area--the south. The election in the area is to be conducted by the Koreans them- selves, with the a%vice of American officials. The U.N. commission will merely observe. New Canadian Appointments " HARRY A. SCOTT WILLIAM G. STARK Mr. Harry A. Scott, whose appointment as consul general of Canada at San Francisco has been announced by the department of external affairs, Ottawa. Mr. Scott was formerly commercial counsellor at the Canadian | ¥ embassy in Washington. The Canadian consulate general in San Fran- cisco is expected to open on July 2. Mr. William G. Stark, who has been commercial secretary at the Canadian embassy in Li , Peru, since 1944, has been appointed first secretary of the Canadian embassy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and will be proceeding there shortly, and Soviet- | were searching for people fleeing Uneasy Refugees | Women Communist Chief Arrested In Swedish Camps | Seek Safer Haven | Stockholm -- (Reuters) -- The latest Russian moves in Finland and Czechoslovakia have caused | considerable uneasiness among Swe- den's 60,000 stateless refugees, 40,- 000 of whom have come from the | Baltic countries and thus, tech- nically, are former Russian citi- zens. Through their representatives, they have expressed their fears to the Swedish authorities, and they are continually making inquiries about the possibility of leaving the country and emigrating to, pri- marily, North and South America. The refugees fear the Com- munists and regard them as a threat not only to themselves but to Sweden too. They believe that what have happened to Czechosio- vakia or Finland might easily hap- pen also to Sweden. Nor have the assurances of the Swedish authori- ties that they have an entirely mistaken idea of Sweden's internal and external situation been wholly successful in calming these fears. At the same time, the influx of refugees seeking safety from Com- munism in Sweden, is increasing. The inhabitants of the little nor- thern Swedish town of Haparanda on the Finnish frontier have re- cently had occasion to recall the hectic days towards the end of the Second World War when people fearing a German reign of terror in face of defeat poured across the frontier from Finland. A new wave of refugees began a few months ago following the Fin- nish government's acceptance of the Russian demand that a number of former Estonian citizens be handed over, Refugees arriving in Sweden have | reported that this Finnish decision | gave rise to rumors that another 2,000 Estonians and Karelians--all of whom were Russian citizens be- | fore the war--were to be handed | over to Russia. { I$any of them sold all their be- | longings for a pittance and set out on the road to safety--the Swedish frontier. i +The flow of refugees reached a | peak during the 10 days following Marshal Stalin's offer to Finland | of a pact of friendghip and mutual defense. During these 10 days came most of the 607 refugees officially reported to have arrived during the last three weeks of February and the first week of March, The Swedish authorities and the | press are very secretive about the refugees reaching the country. | Their names and photographs are never published, the aim apparent- ly being to keep the Russians in the dark about their identity and thus avoid any demands for their extradition. The same policy was applied dur- ing the war when the Germans | | frem Nazi oppression. After a short time in the tran- sition camps in and around Hapa- randa, where their ' identity Js checked and where they undergo | medical examination, they are sent This photograph shows the capture 'of Clotilde Prestes, sister of the Brazilian Communist chief, Luiz Carlos Prestes, and other South American Reds during police raid on clandestine Communist press in Rio de Jan- | | eiro, Brazil. Still shouting defiance at police, she (centre) and a cousin, | | Justino de Menezes (beside her), are hurried away to jail. The manicur- | | ist who tipped off poMce seems pleased with her self (at left). Clotilde | mn | Prestes is described as the most important woman Communist leader of | Latin America. Brazilian police reported that she had recently returned | from Russia, and had been the object of a widespread hunt. ° south to work on farms or in the forests. There are plenty of helping hands on the Finnish side, too, the refugees say. But all of them are not clean. Many criminal elements feather their nest at the expense of the refugees, buying their be- longings on the black market for example, against faked Swedish money. Others, for political reasons, lend refugees right into the hands of the Finnish Communist Home Min- ister Yrjo Leino's state police -- known as "Stapo'--while pretend- ing to conduct them to safety, FACE NEGLECT CHARGES Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., May 5 -- (CP)--Mr. and Mrs. Gino Rizzuto Tuesday were committed for trail on a charge of gross neglect which allegedly resulted in the death of their eight-month-old daughter. Doctors and police testified that the child was badly emaciated, had a fractured skull and bruises on her head and body. They said the child's stomach was empty and she weighed six pounds instead of the 16 she should have 'weighed. CHOICE OF SIZES There are 23 species of the opos- sum in North and South America, ranging in size from a rat to a cat. Ration Butter To Aid Britain Halifax--(CP) -- Altheugh New Zealand is the largest butter ex- porter in the world, the previous stuff is rationed there to ensure a regular supply to Britain, James Thorne, high commission- er to Canada from the Pacific dom- inion, told a Maritime Labor Insti- | tute convention here that this pol- icy was typical of New Zealand's "spirit of co-operation" in internal and world affairs. Mr." Thorne also outlined New | Zealands health services to which everyone in the country is entitled. He said these and other services were supported by taxes, "not high- er than those of Canada," derived from revenue from state-owned en- terprises such as railways, tele- phones, telegraphs and fire insur- ance. They were further supported by a high productivity of the main industries. CABBIE RETURNS Toronto, May 5 -- (CP)--Edward Maeton, a 27-year-old suburban York Township taxi driver return- ed home Tuesday night after being listed as missing since 1.30 p.m. Monday. Police had been asked to search for him. FIA \ Great builds great tires! FL \ \ \ A \ \ \ WN WN WM : \ { \ nk = J i hi Over 30 percent of Gutta Percha's master tire builders have had more than a quarter century of tire building ex- perience. 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He did a 10-year hitch with the United States Navy. His pride is a huge tatoo on his back entitled "Sinbad in the Valley of Jewels." It required three quarts of ink and two years to finish. It was done in Shanghai between voyages. On the lobe of each ear Joe has a small, five-pointed star. "I never have to worry about losing these ear-rings," he chuckles. He's a ta- too artist himself, has completed more than 100,000 tattoos in his lifetime. "The craziest skin job I ever took on was when a character walked into my shop and asked me to put the Dionne Quintuplets on his chest -- thought they'd bring him luck. He was a wrestler," said Another of his clients is an Eng- sh peer who several years ago had Joz etceh a regimental crest on his arm. Joe has toured with Ringling Brothers' circus, appeared at both Chicago and New York World's Fairs. Last winter he tattooed 400 race-horses on their lower lips for identification purposes. 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