U. of 0. Library Eugena, Ore, C0fP Mi a m. n WWW A GETS THE WORD G.n. C.org. C. M.rth.ll, new president of th. Red Cren, listens attentively at eight-year-old Charles La Brozii, Philadelphia youth, talis how ho has baan using Rad Cross plasma tinea ha was two to combat a rara anamia from which ha it suffering. General Marshall it attending a Rad Cross ses sion at Philadelphia. (AR wiraphotol. Presidential Fact-Finders Say Coal Strike Settlement This Weekend Is 'Doubtful' WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.-0P) President Truman's fact-finder! told him today that aetlement of the toft coal strike this weekend is "very doubtful." The three-man board reported that "wuite a gap" separate! John L. Lewi! and the operator!. But Chairman David L. Cole told reporter! ha had assured Mr. Truman they believe "a good many miners sre going back to work In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS IN the vast National Guard arm ory in Washington, somewhat mora than i.000 Democrats from all over the United States and its territories sit down to a Jefferson Jackson day dinner that cost ONE tTTTWnnirn rinllara nF nl t ..w, - 1 They listened to th. President of the United States outline his plant to keep his party in power for an other two years. . IT ought to be explained that It isn't a Lucullan feast. They ate broiled filet mignon steak. It isn't 1 for the broiled ateak that they have coma from every state and terri tory that flies the American flag. At any drive-in in their home towns, these leaden of the Democratic party could get a better filet mig non than they got in Washington and they would pay not to exceed three bucks for it. It would be belter, because it would be individually cooked and served sizzling hot., Thota thous-. andt of steaks in Washington .must have been badly cooled off by the (Continued on Page Four) Truman May Act In Train Strike WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 .V President Truman is expected to create an emergency board next week to avert a threatened nation wide 'Strike of railroad trainmen and conductors. The national (railway) mediation board advised the White House vesterdav that the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and the Order of Railway Conductors have called 1 'rom the robbed branch of Hamil a strike for Feb. 27. Hon National bank, located ne-ir Under the railway labor act.the President can appoint a fact-find ing board to investigate and re port back within 30 days. The act also forbids a strike for another 30 days after the board reports. White House sides indicated the President would set this emergency machinery in motion. The trainmen and conductors are at odds with the railroads over de mands for a 40-hour week without pay reductions for some 85.000 yardmen. They also are asking con tract improvements for road men and dining car stewards Forest Funds Highest PORTLAND, Feb. 18. (JPi Ore gon and Washington countise are getting S3.1S2.176 65 an all-time high from the U. S. Forest aerV ive for the last fiscal year. The money representa a quarter of Forest service revenue, which is distributed to the counties in which the national ' forests are located. Oregon counties receive S2.044 -693.81, and Washington counties 81,107,482.84 SWEETLAND DECLINES PORTLAND. Feb. 18. (P Monroe Sweetland, Democratic na tional committeeman, declined to diy his party's proposal that he run for the senatorial teat held by Sen. Wayn. L. Morse. on Monday." "We are all encouraged to believe that," said Cole, speaking for him self, Federal Mediation Director Cyrus Ching, and presidential as sistant John R. Steelman. The group spent IS mmutei with Mr. Truman, then held a brief hud dle among themselves before fac ing newsmen. Last night a grim "no progress" report from the board had height ened prospects of court sction by the White House. Cole volunteered this: We hope that enough miners ;.. I 1. .it... ,u. t otVco.i Lawit Orders Return This prediction, he said, was bas ed on an urgent back-to-work or der wired to the coal fields last night by Lewis. The UMW chief issued the ttop strika call, his second since a fed- eral court here issued an injune- lion against continuing the stop page, in apparent fear that White House movet might include a re quest for a contempt citation. While the fact-findert were mak ing their report to Mr. Truman, negotiatont between the mine union and operators resumed at a down town hotel. Lewis was not present at the start. Different Language Cole, explaining his hope that the men will resume digging, said Lew is' new call for resumed work wis (Continued on page Two) Polict Ponder Daring Daylight Bank Robbery WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -UPh-With an abandoned car and an empty money bag their main clues, police and FBI officials today sought three men who fled from a daring bank hoWup with $27,851 in cash, i Three suspects in the daylight robbery yesterday were released last night after questoning. The Federal Bureau of Investigation broadcast an interstate lookout and local police checked highway traf fic. The abandoned car and the mon ey bag were found onlv five blocks Maryland-District of Columbia line. Winston Churchlil Repeats Plea For A-Control Talks LONDON. Feb. 18 OF) Winston Churchill, defying censure by his Laborite opponents in Britain's election campaign, repeated his plea last night for high level talks between the West and Russia on atomic bomb control. Labor Prime Minister Clement Attlee promised to comment on the proposal in political broad cast tonight. Reiterates Call Far Talks The 75-year-old Torv leader reit erated his rail for East-West atom control talks outside the United Iationt in s final broaacast to 1 the nation allotted to hit party over ! the British Broadcasting corpora lion. Attlee. having finished a lxV mile tnur nf rh ronntrv in hi ) dnve for re-election, is to make ms Labor party's final broadcast tonight from the prim, minister s country home at Chequers court, 35 1 miles nonnwesi m Lonoon merited that "the United Nationt Attacked by Laborite Foreign ; c,not function while it it rent Minister Ernest Bevm for stepping ..under by the conflicting forcet into the international ring in "t I Edinburgh, Scotland, speech last The Weatfcer Fair today becoenioa, cloudy with rale tonight. Shower Sun doy. Sunset today: S:4t p. m. Sunrise tomorrow! 7:05 a. m. Established 1873 American Pleads Guilty To Of Spying For U.S. Against Businessman Tells Court Of Espionage Activities BUDAPEST, Hungary, Feb. 18. CP) American businessman Robert A. Vogeller pleaded guilty to tpy charge! today and said that as an American agent he had been instructed to help atom physicists escape from Hungary. i Calmly confessing to all the charges in the indictment againit him, the 38-year-old telephone company executive asked i Hungarian peoples court for "a mild sentence." American Legion Plans New Home On Cass Street William E. Mills, commander of Umpqua post of the American Le gion, today announced tentative plant for the new Legion home to be built in Roseburg toon. Announcement followed a meet ing of the building committee which said the new strcture will be called the Legion Memorial building. ' It is to be built on the present Legion-owned lot east of the Safeway store on Cass street. On.Srory Structure Plans specify a one-story building 55 feet wide by 98 feet long and will be of re-enforced concrete or pumice block construction. It will be built with the thought of even tually adding an additional floor. At planned, the structure will contain lounges for both men and women, an auditorium and dining room measuring 55x70 feet, a kit chen and furnace room. Te Sell Present Heme Mills taid the present Legion home on Kane street will be sold and the money from this sale, cash on hand and additional funds to be raised by subscription will finance construction. If present plans proceed as an ticipated, Mills said construction should be underway by April 1. When completed. Mills taid the building will be available for all Legion-sponsored activities of the post and the Legion auxiliary as well at civic functioni. Ellsworth Sees Representation Change In State WASHINGTON. Feb. 18 -tm Pep. Ellsworth (R-Ore) taid today that if current population estimates are borne out by thit year't census Pacific coast representation in the House will increase by ten mem bers. Of the ten, he continued, Cali fornia will get eight, giving it 3! members, Oregon one, giving it five members, and Washington one, giving it seven members. "During the first week of the next Congress (January 1951) the allocation of House members to the states will be formalized and state legislatures notified," he toM a reporter. "Then it will be the duty of the Oregon Legislature to remake the present Congressional district boundaries so as to provide five districts instead of four." He said it is possible for a house member to be elected from a state at large but added the practice is generally frowned upon. The house membership it tet at 435. where it wat pegged after trie 1910 census. After the last census, redistri bution of seats was made by the House with tome ttates losing members while others gained. WILLKIE MEMORIAL SET NEW YORK, Feb. 18 m A Wendell Willkie memorial fund for research in heart disease has been formed at Lenox Hill hospital where Willkie died five years ago. Tuesday, self. Churchill defended him- "Only By Agreement" "It it only by the agreement of the greatest powers." Churchill de clared, "that tecurity can be given to ordinary folk against the anni hilating war with atomic or hydro gen bombs or bacteriological hor rors." He angrily rejected Bevin'sac- cuisiion that his suggestion wat a political stunt. "By this." Oiurchill growles, "He (Bevin) only shoed how far i.vel ofvMia bis mind dwells below Bevin like United States officials has taken the line that the place to negotiate atomic control is in tn lifted Nations, or through nor m,i Diplomatic cnanneia. Cites U.N. Problem i r(.py to this, Churchill com v Continued on page Two) ROSEBURG, He said he used his position as assistant vice-president of die In ternatinonai Telephone and Tale graph company aa a "cover for my espionage work." Vogeler'i unemotional nlea of guilty opened the seoncd day of the trial in which he and six others a Britain and five Hungarians- are accused of espionage and sa- ootage. Vogeler. who hai been I. T. & T. representative in Europe lince 1942. A! an electrical and mechani Army intelligence officer line. 1942 A s aa electrical and mechani cal engineer, he said, "espionage in tne technical field is my specia lty." Tells Alleged Tasks He testified that he had been instructed by U. S. Army intelli gence officers in Vienna to dig up special information about radar production, rockets, uranium and oil deposits in Hungary and to get vogeier a leniency plea under con help them escape. He was on the stand for two hours during the morning when he answered questions readily and with no signs of weariness nor emotion. Recalled to the stand in the afternoon, he declared: "I am sorry for the detrimental deeds I committed assin.it this country and I ask for a mild sen tence." The court said it would take (Continued on page Two) Democrats Hit Truman Claim About Budget WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 UPI Some Democrats disagreed today wnn rresiaent ruman s claim mat it is impossible to cut federal spending enough to balance the budget. Chairman George (D-Ga) of the Senate Finance committee told a reporter he thinks that if Consreia wantea w naiance income and out go it could get the )ob done. "The most distressing part of the present federal economic situation is the unwillingness to face facts and bring about a reduction in fed eral expenditures," George said 1 not only think we couid balance the budget but that we must bal ance it." Mr. Truman said in his Jeffer son Jackson speech Thursday night mat it is out of the question ' to make revenues meet expenses merely by slicing the S42.439.000. 000 outlays he recommended for the year beginning July 1. The President added that any talk about general tax cuts is just "rank political hypocrisy." Senator Byrd (D-Va), a long time economy advocate, sided with George in declaring that the bud get could be balanced if Congress wat willing to take off ita coat and do the job. Every year a number of lawmakers make known their intention of doing that, but trAr promise teldom bears fruit when the voting starts on annual money bills. 'Mercy Killing' Doctor Awaits Monday Trial MANCHESTER, N. H., Feb. 18 (. Dr. Hermann N. Sander charged with murder in the to called "mercy slaying" of a cancer-stricken patient waited in strict seclusion today for opening of his trial Monday. At international attention focu s.sed on him, the 41year-old coun try doctor taid he would tee no one over the weekend with the ex ception of hit lawyers. He has made few appearances outside of his Candia home aince his arraignment on the murder indictment. The indictment charges the for mer Dartmouth ski captain caused the death of Mrs. Abbie C. Borroto, 59, by injecting a lethal quantity of air into her veins. Tasker L Oddie, Former Governor, Senator, Dies SAV FRANCISCO, Feb. 18 I1P Tasker L. Oddie, former gover nor and United States senator from Nevada whose political career in that state spanned the first third of the century, died at his home here last night. He was 79. Oddie suffered a heart attack four weeks ago. For many years, he and his wi'e : had made San Francisco their horn, in winter, spending the sum I mer at their Nevada bom. OREGON SATURDAY, Ml. OSC Forestry Dean Featured At Alumni Meet Dean Paul M. Dunn, pictured above, will be the featured speak er at the Monday night banquet of Douglas county chapter of Ore gon Mate college alumni, to be held at Hotel Umpqua beginning at 6:30. Dean Dunn, who heads-the Ore gon Forest Product! laboratory in addition to the school dof Fores try, hat been particularly active in advancing chenvrgy, with spe cial atrest on t eloping industrial uses for forest wastes. He has a varied background, with experience ranging from newspa per work on the Illinois Farmer to forestry work in Montana, New Mexico, Utah and Missouri. Also slated to speak Monday night it Roy "Spec" Keene, direc tor of athletirt for OSC. Bop Knoll, Oregon State college alumni manager, will also be in the party. Local arrangements are being han dled by Gordon Walker, president of the local chapter.' Tickets for the affair may be purchased at the hotel. Dean Dunn will also appear as guest speaker on the chamber of commerce noon forum luncheon Monday. The OSC alumni banquet it open to students, former students and graduates, parents and friends of th. college. Chines Nationalists Hold British Ship Under Arrest TAIPEI, Formosa, Feb. 18 (.V) Chinese Nationalist naval author ities today held th. British freight er Caduceut under arrest.- Reason for the ship's detention wat not disclosed. A possible rea son is that the has traded with Chinese Communists portt in the past but thit could not be confirm ed here. The Caduceus la being' held at Kaohsiung on the southwestern coast of Formosa. It it better known at Takao, one. a Japanese naval base. CASE CONTROLLED PORTLAND, Feb. 18 OP) The first case of Psittacosis (par rot fever) in the Portland area since 1945, was reported under con trol today after use of aureomy cin, one of the new mold-derived drugs. Hospital (Good Samaritan) at tendants taid Roy R. Law, Trout- dale, was well on the road to re covery. He became ill Feb. 10, after receiving a shipment of par akeets from Texas. I : -; V V avr"Cv jrtzK -jd RESCUED t-Jt AIRMEN Showing th. strain of their three days an Princest Royal island off th. coast of British Columbia, after they bailed out of a diiabled B-36 bomber. These three crew members are pictured et McChorj Field, Wash., where they end nine other turvivort war. tek.n by rescuers. Left to right: First Lieut. E, O. Cox, Capt, H. Sergt. Dick Thrasher. (NEA t.lephe.). II. 19S0 Charge Hungary 125 Jaycees Put Meeting In Full Swing With approximately 12S Junior Chamber of Commerce members from some 30 organisations in the state now in town, many with their wives, and other deleft tet expected before the day ia over, tne Jayree atate board meeting was in full swing today. Nearly 100 had registered by this morning-Roll call thit morning thowed the following towns and number of official delegates represented: Albany 2, Ashland 2, Baker 4, Beaverton 4, Bend 4, Burnt I, Cor vallit 2, Eugene 5, Hillsboro 2, John Day 2, Klamath county 2, Lebanon 2, Medford 1, Ontario 3, Oregon City 1, Parkrote 1, Pendleton 1, Portland 9, Prinville 2, Redmond 1, Salem 6, Sweet Home 1, St. Helens 2, Tillamook 2, Wallowa county 3, and Roseburg with most of lit membership in attendance at some of the sessions. Hillsboro is the newest club, and was officially accepted into the state organisation this morning. Th. session opened last night with a preliminary executive board meeting and general businett ses sion, with National Director-Duane Duke of Oregon City and State Pre. sident Bruce Kelly of Portland al ternating in presiding at the act' tiont. Two national vice-presidents, rtaipn Konweder ot Chicago, and Frank Merrill of Albany are in at tendance. Dates and placea of the visita- tion of National President Clifford D. Cooper were set, for Pendleton and LaGrande Aonl 17. Portland April 18, Albany at noon April 19 (Continued on page) Two) Stockman Urges 'Budworm Funds WASHINGTON. Feb. 18 Rep. Stockman (R-Ore) urged a House committee Friday to ap prove $800,000 to pay the govern ment'! share of fighting the spruce budworm on 1,000.000 acres of in fested land in Oregon. Stockman urged that the money be made available at once in a aupplementai appropriations bill The State of Oregon will pay for treating state lands, the federal government for treating federal lands and private ownert for treat-' ing their lands. Stockman taid. He added that many towns in cistern Oregon are dependent upon millt and failure to atop th. in festation would injur, them. Proposed Cloverdole Park Annexation Meet Planned A public meeting it scheduled for Tuesday at 7:30 p m. at the city hall for all persons interested in the proposd annexation of Clo verdale Park addition and the area lying between that and the north city limits. hid Fredrickson. who has been active in circulating petitions in sdded that interest of the residents tions about ready to be filed, and Cloverdale, taid he had th. peti wat very encouraging. He advised everyone in the area to become registered at once, so that if sn election is called for an annexation vote, everyone liv ing in the areas concerned may express an opinion. 41-50 East Roseburg Annexation Plan Defeated At Polls Residents ef last . Reteburg expressed themselves at net favorable te annexation at this time. In an election held Friday. Th. final veto shewed 100 nega tive votes te 7$ yet votes. Several portent were turned away from the pells because they had net reglttered te vote, r had registered tee late te hav. their names appear en the voter lists. It wat reported. The annexation election had been set by the city council, fat lowing the filing et a petition signed by residents et the Eatt Reteburg area, which hat a popu lation estimated et 1,100 persons. Thit wat the first rime the tub ect s4 annexation had com. up In this section, although timi ler prepetala have been kicked about cenaiderably In ether areas adjacent te the city. West Rose burg and areas te the south et the city finally came through with favorable annexation votes. Forces Of Two Nations Join In Air Search McCHORD AIR FORCE BASE. TACOMA, Wash., Feb. 18 (P Land and tea forcet of two na tion! watched the weatherman to day for a chance to launch all out efforts to find five airmen who Etrachuted from a blazing B-36 amber Monday midnight. Gales up to 70 miles sn hour yesterday kept planes grounded and wnipped tne waters about rug ged Princest Royal island to a creamy froth. Continued southeast storm warnings were forecatt to day . Princest Royal island is tome 500 miles northwest of her. off the northern British Columbia coast. Eleven survivors of the 17 men who hit the silk over the island have been returned to the United States. A 12th. with a broken an kle, may be flown south today if weatner permits. The remaining (iv crew mem ben have not been located. Ap prehension for their safety grew as the hours went past, they have been without warmth and very likely without food since their hur ried leap from the fiery, ice-encrusted big bomber. Clues that some of them at least are on the island included a blood splattered patch in the snow, tree snapped parachutes, and a report of a pistol shot heard Thursday which could have come from one of the crewmen who was armed. A para-rescue squadron includ ing Lt. Wallace Boyd, a para doctor, was to leave here early to day in an air forcea flying boat. It hopes to settle alongside the Canadian destroyer Cayuga, nerve center of the search, and ttand by for any emergency call to leap onto the Island. 15 Hurt In Train Crash GULF PORT, Mist., Feb. t-iJPt Twelve cars of the fsst west bound Pan American left the trV'k today, injuring 15 persons. Th. Louisville and Nashville train waa en rout, from Birming ham, Ala., to New Orleans when it derailed six miles west of here. Seven ambulancea were dispatch ed from Gulfport to bring the injured to Memorial hospital here. Aly Khan Breaks Leg GSTAAD, Switzerland, Feb. 18. JPi Prince Aiy Khan, husband of movie actress Rita Hayworth, broke his leg in three placet today in a skiing accident The accident occurred late this afternoon. Rita wat visiting friends at the time in Lausanne, 50 miles away. Informed . immediately of the accident, the rushed to the prince's bedside at a hospital. L. Barry, plan, pilot, and Staff 100 Injured In Head-On Rail Crash New York Motorman Arrested On Charge Of Manslaughter ROCKVILLE CENTRE. N. Y.. Feb. 18. (P A crowded Long Island Railroad commuter train sped through a stop signsl last night and ripped headon into an other passenger train, killing 29 persons and injuring 100. Many of the injured were in critical condi tion. It wat metropolitan New York's worst railroad disaster, and th worst in the nation in four years. in. accident occurred on a make shift tiding where a temporary gauntlet" track wat laid pending completion of a grade crossing project. The gauntlet consists of double tracks placed so clot, to gether only one train at a urn. caa past over the roadbed. Motorman Arretted Jacob Kiefer. 55. of Baldwin. N. Y., motorman of the eastbound train, wat arrested and charged with second degree manslaughter. "He ran past the signal," Nassau county District Attorney Frank Gulotta said. Motorman T. W. Markin of th. westbound train was too dazed to be questioned. He was sent bom suffering from shock. The hesd cais of both electrie Iraint were torn apart by the col lision, which occurred at 10:15 p. (EST). The forward car of th. eastbound train, loaded with early home-going theater crowds from Manhattan, was sheared down th. middle. It toppled over, spewing mangled bodies and wreckage. along the tiding. Dead Piled Five Deep The dead, dying and injured were piled five deep atop one another. They tprawled grotesquely amid the twisted steel of the care, th. shattered glass and crushed seats. Police said that the eastbound train ran through a red stop signal at it entered the tiding. Th. first car had almott cleared th. tingl. (Continues on page Two) Telephone Strike Friday i Still Appears Imminent WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -4.V) CIO telephone workers taid they will strike as scheduled next Fri day unlet! their new 15-cent-an hour wage demand prompts com pany negotiators to "get down to business.'1 t Company officials looked over the new proposal and said: "W. don't see how they justify it." Joseph E. Beirne, president of the Communications Workers of America, taid last night that or ders to lay the contract demand before telephone management had been tent to all 25 of th. union t negotiating divisions. PORTLAND, Feb. 18 UP) Counting of the CIO telephone work ers' strike vote in Oregon is ex pected to start today. C. H. Wright, president of th. union, taid tallying had been held up to far because votes hsd not been received from all 14 locals in the atate. Lookinggloss Woman Filet For Committee Position Hazel S. Marsh, Lookingglast, filed for Republican nomination to the office of precinct committee woman Friday in the county clerk $ office. Voters have until April 19, to register at the clerk's offic. in th. Douglas county courthouse, in order to be eligible to vote in th. primary elections slated for May 19. Six months residence in Oregon, U.S. citizenship and minimum ag. limit of 21 years are requirements. Also, any person who has mov ed to a different precinct is re quired to re-register. Lost Valentine Finally Reveals Itself Ugh! BURBANK, Calif., Feb. 18-'D) Mn. Joan Slater finally got wind of her valentine. Her heart's desire a pound oi Roquefort cheese was found hang ing from a tree a half block from her home yesterday. That's whera it lsnded when her husband, Jeff, flew over and parachute-dropped it from 700 feet on the 14th. She'd probably have got it sood er if it had been limburger. POPE IMPROVES VATICAN CITY. Feb. 18 (.TV Pope Pius continued today to show improvement. Vatican sources said he will descend to Saint Peter'i basilica tomorrow to venerate th. Spanish nun, Maria Lopez Vis cuna, who it to be beatified. The pontiff wat confined to his bed for several days thit week because of an attack of influenza. L evity fact J ant By L. T. Reizenttel The oral crusad. against crime that was launched In Washington, D. C this wtak teemt to hav. been wasted braarh. Bandits Friday staged a $30,000 holdup et branch of the Hamilton National bank In suburb ot the national capital Ittolf. Just another cote of oeno-thumbina, at the NaareJ