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Forget Yuletide Mine Disaster
By TOM MADDOX
WEST FRANKFORT. 111. UFl
Cecil Sanders is trying to forget
it.
But this Christmas season is' re
Be ing to all involved stark mem
ories of the New Orient Coal Mine
disaster a year ago. It took 120
lives.
Another 130 men escaped, some
only after terrifying hours. ' San
ders was entombed 60 hours with
nine men. Their bodies were still
warm when Sanders was found
the only entombed survivor of the
worst mine disaster in a quarter
century.
Today Sanders still suffers from
the carbon dioxide his blood ab
sorbed and other after effects. The
45-year-old religious man has re
treated from -the shadow of the di
saster site to a modest home by
a park in another Southern Illi
nois community.
He wants only peace and seclu
sion in his wife's care. Their daugh
ter, and son, both married, are
among the few visitors.
His physician said, "I'm trying
U.S. to Avoid
Binding Human
Rights Treaties
By CHARLES F. BARRETT
WASHINGTON JFi The incom
ing Republican-controlled Congress
ii building up steam behind a move
to prevent the United States from
entering into any binding treaties
dealing with humpn freedoms, or
social or economic rights.
Sen. Bricker (R-Ohio) told a re
porter he sees an imminent danger
that American freedoms will be
chipped away in treaties now pend
ing before the United Nations.
And incoming congressmen, re
sponding to an Associated Press
survey, lined up 172 to 20 in favor
of a constitutional amendment
long the lines sponsored by Brick
er. '
Bricker asserted that social and
economic rights are internal mat
ters to be governed only by U. S.
law and he wants to write in the
Constitution a clear-cut statement
that such rights cannot be regu
lated, limited or defined in any
way by international agreements.
Opponents of his amendment say
it is unnecessary and would ham
per international teamwork.
In the survey, senators and rep
resentatives throughout the country
were asked. "Do you believe the
constitution should be amended
long the lines of the Bricker reso
lution to specify that treaties may
never take precedence over rights
rid guarantees in the Constitu
tion?" Ninety - seven House members
nd 28 senators replied with an all
out yes, many including comments
such as "absolutely. . . 100 per
ent. . . highly essential."
An additional 41 House members
and six senators said they are in
clined to agree but want to see the
language of the Bricker proposal.
Two Democratic senators and
five representatives four Demo
crats and one Republican gave a
Cat no.
S Ten other House members six
Democrats and four Republicans
! and three Democratic senators
Indicated they are inclined toward
opposition. Not a single Republican
senator voiced opposition.
Replies from 52 representatives
nd 17 senators did not show senti
ment either way, and the remain-
reached or did not respond.
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to help Cecil Sanders forget the
whole thing. Any interview might
set him back months."
Meanwhile survivors in IS com
munities are recalling anew the
tragedy that chilled hetrts which
had been aglow with Christmas
spirit. It occurred on the last shift
before the men were expecting to
be off for the holidays.
For the first anniversary minis
ters of Benton and West Frank
lies, plan prayerful memorial
pauses in their Sunday services. It
will be their Christmas program.
A mass memorial observance in
West Frankfort High School Au
ditorium at 2 p.m. Sunday is
planned by United Mine Workers
o America, Local 6265.
Cecil Sanders probably will not
attend, bis wife said.
The ordeal that Sanders seeks
to forget started at 7:35 p.m., on
Friday, Dec. 21. 1951. He and other
miners were 600 feet underground,
five miles from the main shaft.
There was a spark or Came,
possibly from an electric motor
or a cigarette. It exploded meth
ane gas. The force snapped 12 x 12
timbers like matchsticks. Big rails
were twisted like curling spaghet
ti. Some men di.d violently and in
stantly. Others by-passed by the
explosion died from carbon diox
ide poisoning or bums.
It was 1:30 p.m., Wednesday be
fore the last body that of an
assistant night mine manager,
James O. Cantrell was recov
ered. Helpful in finding Sanders were
signs a fellow miner, Joe Revak,
had left as they retreated from
gas. One said, "Men here;" others
were arrows.
Sanders told his story from his
hospital bed:
After a series of retreats down
tunnels from gas, he said, "Boys,
now you're at the end of the road.
The only thing that can save us
now is the almighty hand of God."
They sang hymns and some-
prayed as they gradually lost con
sciousness. Sanders said. "I know,
when I lost consciousness I was
singing "The Amazing Grace"
his favorite church song. Part of
it goes, "I was; lost but now am
found." 1
Sanders said they shared stub
pencil to leave notes to loved ones
"and I wrote this note to my wife
and children on the back of an
old cough drop box, which was all
the paper I had:
" 'May the good Lord bless and
keep you. dear wife and kids. Meet
me in heaven. Your husband and
dad, Cecil.'" 1
Sanders regained consciousness
and saw lights of rescue workers,
to whom he called, "Help me,
boys, help me." He said someone
said, " 'My God! There's man
alive.'
"They didn't seem to think it
was true."
At the hospital on. physician
called his survival " miracle."
Storm Warning?
Hoisted on Coast
SEATTLE Un Th Weather
Bureau ordered Southeast storm
warnings hoisted Saturday night
from Tatoosh to Cape Blanco. It
predicted south to southeast winds
increasing to 30 to 40 miles an
hour Sunday, shifting to the south
west and diminishing Sunday after
non.
Small craft warnings were or
dered for the Strait of Juan de
Fuca at the same time for east
to southeast winds of 25 to 30
miles an hour early Surday.
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of household Items, food, clothing and toys shown above, in addi
tion t. cash for distribution to some needy family during the holiday
season. Th employes planned the collection in lieu of their annual
New Simplified
Pregnancy Test
Demonstrated
CHICAGO Iff A new test for
pregnancy so' simple that th.
family doctor could perform it in
his office in a few minutes was
demonstrated last week tot the
American Academy of Obstetrics
and Gynecology.
The only equipment needed for
the Roland test is a syringe-type
instrument and a low-power mi
croscope. A sample of cervical
mucus is smeared on a glass plate,
permitted to dry and crystallize,
and is then observed.
The different patterns in the cry
stallization process tell the story.
An Academy spokesman said the
test has verified pregnancy when
the menstrual period is only a
day or two late, compared with the
10 days to two weeks waiting per
iod required for other known
pregnancy tests.
In an earlier report on the tech
nique. Dr. Maxwell Roland of the
New York PosVGraduat. Medical
School, New York University-Bell e
vue Medical Center, said it has
been accurate in 99 per cent of
300 cases tested.
The test also has been used to
determine whether woman is
fertile in any particular month.
The Academy spokesman said it
undoubtedly would be given wide
spread trials in the months ahead
to determine if it lives up to its
early record for accuracy.
In devising the test, research
ers studied 20 mothers with known
normal ovulatory menstrual cy
cles. Cervical smears were taken
every day from the end of one
period to the onset of the next.
The samples obtained from all
women in the group assumed a
"fernlike" crystalline structure on
the glass slides from the fifth or
seventh day of the cycle to the
20th or 22nd day.
This was replaced from this
point to the onset of menstruation
by a cellular type of pattern. The
cellular structure also was ob
served th. first five days of the
cycle.
The next study group consist
ed of 30 infertile female patients
who failed to ovulate. The smears
in these cases, taken every two
days, showed persistent fernlike
structure throughout the period.
Thus, if menstruation was late
one or more days and no fern
like structure was shown on the
slide, the test would indicate the
woman was pregnant.
If a fernlike structure was found
on the slide of a woman two or
more days late, the test would in
dicate she was not pregnant and
that she had failed to ovulate that
month.
In the test to determine fertility
in women, a fernlike structure
found one or two days before the
expected menstrual period would
indicate failure to ovulate, while
a cellular structure would indicate
that ovulation occurred.
The spokesman said present
tests for infertility are mostly cost
ly and tim consuming.
Doctors believe the activity of
two hormones, estrogen and pro
gesterone, influence the structure
of the crystals.
Serious problems of life are often put off
until tomorrow.
Putting off until tomorrow simply means
neglect.
Health problems as serious as Rectal,
Stomach and Colon conditions should
have immediate attention for Better
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are held by nurses in a Rock Island, m.. hospital one day after tneir
birth on Sept. 16, 1951. A team of specialists operated for 12 hours
and 49 minutes In Chicago to part th. 15-month-old boys and gtv
them a chance to lead separate lives. The twins are the sons of Mr.
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NEW YORK President-elect Dwlsht Elsenhower and Gen. Douglas
MacArthur pause outside the home of Ike's secretary of state, John
Foster DuUes, in New York City, after their long-awaited confer
ence. The two five-star generals met at luncheon in the Dulles resi
dence to discuss MacArthur's promised plan to settle the Korean
war. (AP Wlrephot. to The Statesman.)
It is believed that the planet
Pluto has about half the diameter
of the earth and about one-tenth
the mass.
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(from the front), Beth Morey, 3215 Center St; Mrs. Ray Knmm. 1S5
N. 23rd St.; and Betl Larwood. 2610 Skopil Ave. At right, (from
front), Caroline Torresdal, ML Angel; Mrs. Ray Latourell, 654 Tyron
Ave.; and Mrs. Henry Volk, 1616 N. 5th Si,
twins, who are waging a grim battle
an historic marathon of surgery.
After Confab
Disabled U.S.
Ship in Port
SOUTHAMPTON. Eng. (J! The
7,210-ton American liberty ship
Columbia Trader arrived here
Saturday night after being towed
866 miles by a French tug.
The vessel, bound from New
York to Bremerhaven with a cargo
of military stores, lost her propel
lor Dec. 9 after travelling 2,227
miles in nine days across the
North Atlantic.
. For the next four days she
drifted helplessly. Then, in answer
to a radio message, she was taken
in tow. She will go into drydock
Sunday to have a spare, propellor
installed.
Master of the ship, which Is on
charter to the U. S. government
from the West Coast Transoceanic
Steamship Line, is Captain Bernard
Jacobson, of Portland. Ore.
KENYA FINE IMPOSED
NAIROBI. Kenya The Kenya
government Saturday imposed a
communal livestock fine on African
farm workers in the Nyeri area
for failing to help during inquiries
into the Mau Mau murders of two
African soldiers. So far 1,200 sheep
and goats have been seized.
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U.S. Envoy to
Return to Iran
For New Talks
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON UFi Ambassa
dor Loy W. Henderson is return
ing to Tehran this weekend for a
new try at breaking the British
Iranian deadlock' over payment
for . Britain's nationalized oil prop
erties. Henderson conferred Friday with
Secretary of State Acheson, a few
hours after Acheson returned from
conferences in Paris with British
Foreign Secretary Eden.
Diplomatic officials told a re
porter Saturday they thought some
progress was made by Eden and
Acheson, toward a solution of the
acute Iranian problem. V
The United States had been try
ing to get both Britain and Iran
to compromise their positions on
the compensation issue so oil can
begin flowing from the rich Iran
ian fields again.
At the same tim. the State De
partment has discussed with Amer
ican companies the idea of joining
with Britain's Anglo - Iranian Oil
Co. to transport and sell Iranian
oil. Officials said arrangements
along that line are being worked
out and that the British are agree
able. .
Meanwhile, it was understood
that:
1. American and British authori
ties discount the possibility of any
quick Anglo - Iranian settlement
and expect the problem will go
over to the Eisenhower adminis
tration, despite a determined
drive to try to settle it in the
remaining weeks of President Tru
man s regime.
2. Defense Department authori
ties rate the need for a settlement
as of even greater urgency than
th. State Department, which has
long been fearful of a Communist
seizure of power in Iran should
th. oil dispuU drag on and the
Iranian government starve for lack
of oil revenues.
Iran has had no oil income for
more than year and the govern
ment is short of funds. The Brit
ish do not seem to fear the Com
munist danger so much as Ameri
can officials do.
Military authorities have been
pressing inside the U. S. govern
ment for a settlement because (a)
they don't like the idea of drain
ing aviation gasoline from the Uni
ted States to European Allies which
formerly got it from Iran's great
Aba dan Refinery, and (b) They
would like to see the situation
ironed out so Iran may be offered
a place in the proposed Middle
East defense organization.
Impudence
Caused pyPet
RICHMOND, Vaf. UFl Out of
the darkness of a neighborhood
shopping district street early Sat
urday sounded several loud roman
tic phrases:
"Hello, pretty boy." "Hello,
sweetheart." "Give me a little kiss,
good-looking."
A number of complaints were
phoned into police as the sweet
talk phrases repeated over and
over again.
Patrolmen W. W. Cos ten and S.
L. Chandler traced the voices to a
pet shop. The owner kept a record
playing these words in his shop all
through the night to teach his para
keets to talk.
The sound, usually toned down,
had been accidentally ' turned up
loud when a small, bear-like ani
mal, a kinkajou, had gotten loose
and brushed against the record
player volume switch.
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Truman Upholds Secrecy for
Names of Screening Board
WASHINGTON UB Secretary
of State Acheson has advised Sen
ate investigators that President
Truman has upheld' the depart -ment's
refusal to disclose the
names of officials who handle se
curity screening of I American em
ployes of the United Nations.
Sen. O'Conor (D-Md), a member
of the Senate Internal Security Sub
committee, made public a letter
from Acheson relating to the
group's attempt to obtain this in
formation. Utah Wilson
Shows Despair
As Death Nears
WALLA WALLA (-Christmas
is near but there is no cheer in
the heart of Utah Wilson, 23, who,
with his brother Turman, is sched
uled to die on the gallows of the
state penitentiary early January 3.
Utah, it was reported Friday, is
beginning to show signs of despair
and strain. Unofficial sources in
side the prison say the younger
brother is becoming increasingly
moody and somewhat difficult.
Much of his time, they say, is
spent just sitting and "looking at
nothing In particular." He has de
veloped a rash which an assistant
psychiatrist said might be caused
by mental disorders, nervous ex
haustion or tension.
Which might be understandable
in a youth who has lived in the
shadow of death since he and his
brother were convicted in mid
1950 of the kidnap slaying of Jo
Ann Dewey of Vancouver.
Four times the pair has escaped
the officially set date with the
gallows, often by a matter of
hours, as the never-ending legal
maneuvering has continued in an
attempt to save their lives.
Now, their fate rests again in the
hands of Governor Langlie, who
stayed their execution at almost
the last moment three months ago.
The governor appointed a commit
tee to study the case and its report
is on his desk.
He won't act, h. has said, until
the report is thoroughly reviewed
and he has had a chance to con
sider all the angles in the case.
That may not be until after the
new year again a few short
hours before the official deadline.
Utah usually sleeps late, pris
on officer said. Rarely does he
talk, to anyone other than Turman,
who is 26. His temper, never the
best, is becoming shorter.
Turman, always the calmer one
of the pair, is quiet and calm act
ing apparently unconcerned.
Both, however, have expressed
an interest in religion and have
asked to see the new chapel re
cently completed at the prison.
Congress Tax
Scandal Probe
To End Soon
By B. L. LIVINGSTONE
WASHINGTON JV House tax
scandal Investigators wind up near
ly two years of fireworks next
week with a final report aimed
generally at basic changes in the
tax laws and the already re
vamped Internal Revenue Bureau.
Coincidentally Republican mem
bers made it known they Intend
to check on the effectiveness of
the bureau reorganization. This
placed collectors under civil serv
ice and, administration officials
said, eliminated political patron
age in connection with many bu
reau jobs.
Rep. Kean (R-NJ), slated to suc
ceed Rep. King (D-Calif) as chair
man of the ways and means tax
investigating subcommittee, s-id
he proposed to determine whether
the bureau reorganization created
"a lot of cushy jobs for politi
cians." The subcommittee's report, to be
made public next Friday, is ex
pected to be more moderate in
it findings and recommendations
Uan its sensation - studded hear
ings might have ' indicated.
Described as pretty much of a
compromise of ; differing lews
among members, the report deals
freely rith the "evils" uncovered
over two years of inquiry but
makes few dire t recommenda
tions.
Among other things, the report
is expected to recommend con
sideration, if adviseable." of di
vorcing the Internal Revenue Bu
reau from the Trea 'ry Depart
ment.
T p. Curtis (R-Neb), a subcom
mittee member, introduced a bill
to this effect ast year for the an
nounced purpose of removing the
bi u f-ora the "politic. influ
ence of the treasury.
Curti plans to reintroduce his
bill in the new 83rd Congress, but
key House epublicans thus far
appear to have shown no great
enthusiasm for so drastic a change.
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In an accompanying statement.
O'Conor said Acheson s letter did
not help the 'subcommittee in its
efforts "to ferret out Communist
infiltration in the United Nations.'
On the contrary, he said, "this
represents another roadblock ob
structing the L attempt to uncover
Instances of 'subversive activities
in this country."
O'Conor's statement added:
"Failure's save occurrec as the
result of which a great number of
American Communists succeeded
in infiltrating into the international
organization. Yet we can not blame
the U. N. if they did not receive
adequate and accurate information
from the State Department.
"And we can not determine the
adequacy and accuracy of the in
formation supplied if we are denied
the opportunity of questioning the
men in the State Department who
evaluate the evidence on which fi
nal opinions were b?sed.
"Yet such information is now
refused us tjy Secretary Acheson'
and his position is approved by the
President of the United States.
More than la score of U. N. em
ployes who refused to answer ques
tions about alleged Communist af
filiations have been fired s the
Senate subcommittee and a New
York grand jury pushed inquiries
into Red influences in the interna
tional organization.
The grand Jury said In a report
earlier this knonth that the State
Department I had given "disloyal
officials a clean bill of health" in
some of "the most flagrant and
obvious cases of disloyalty."
Representatives Chelf (D-Ky)
and Keating iR-NY ), members of a
House Judiciary Subcommittee that
heard some of the grand - jurors
behind closed doors Thursday, said
a new grand jury investigation
should be started immediately.
Keating told reporters it "made
my blood boil" to hear the jurors
describe their experiences in ques
tioning U. NJ employes about Com
munist affiliations.
2nd Man May
Be Held for
Brink Holdup
' BOSTON L - A second man
has been tabbed as a participant
in the huge $1,219,000 Brink's hold
up and is reportedly in the cus
tody of the I FBI, it was reported
Friday night.
U. S. Atty. George F. Garrity
had no comment.
These latest reports were that
affidavits named a second man as
having been one of the hooded
gunmen who tied up five employes
in the armored car firm's vaults
on Jan. 17, 1950 and made off
with the largest cash haul in
America. I
The manj unidentified, was de
scribed as 37 years old with a bad
record. He was said to be in th.
hands of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation but not necessarily in
a penal institution.
The inference was drawn that
this man might "talk."
This information, learned by
Federal Building reporters,, was
said to be based on FBI affidavits
no longer available. The affidavits
purportedly said the man at on.
time had in! his possession approx
imately $60,000 of Brink's money.
Since sworn affidavits became 1
available Thursday night naming
Joseph "Specs" O'Keefe, 44, ol
Boston, as I participant in the
robbery, all papers having any
connection with the robbery have
been removed fror : the files and
hidden. ,
It also was reported In the Fed
eral Building, where a grand jury
is investigating the stickup, that
FBI agents may have C-acked an
alibi of "Specs" O'Keefe, who has
been, cited by the Jury, for con
tempt in refusing to answer ques
tions. . . ,
Th. night of th. robbery,
O'Keefe has told police, he was
drinking with woman companion
in an uptown hotel between 7 and
7:30 p.m. The robbery occurred
about 7:10.1
These reports about O'Keefe'f
alibi were shrugged off without
comment by federal officials
Two more reluctant witnesses
were cited. Friday on contempt
charges by the grand jury.
The jury submitted two new
names to U. S. Judge William T,
McCarthy, bringing to 11 the total
of close-mouthed witnesses so far
charged. I
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