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Miners Renew
Defiance of
29 Death Toll
In Train Wreck
Vogeler Enters
THE WEATHER HERE
CLOUDY WITH RAIN tonight
becoming partly cloudy with
showers Sunday. Little change
in temperature. Low tonight, 42;
high Sunday, 55.
Mailmam yeiterdEjr, 58: mlnlmim U
day, 36. Total 24-hour precipitation? !
for month; 4.07; normal, 1 19. Seaion pre
cipitation, 30.76; normal, 86.91. Hirer
heisbt, 18.6 feet. (Report by U.S. Weather
But-tan.)
aiDital m
Search for Lost
5 Crewmen of
B-36 Fruitless
Aircraft Grounded
By Gales All Clues
Prove False
Vancouver, B.C., Feb. 18
(CP) Possible clues to the fate
of five American airmen, who
parachuted In darkness from a
Plea of Guilty
To Spy Charges
Court and Lewis On
Long Island
New Plea for Return
To Coal Pits Refused
As Peace Efforts Fail
Washington, Feb. 18 VP)
Striking coal miners renewed
their defiance of a court order
and a new plea from John L.
Lewis today in the face of strong
expressions of official hbpe that
they will dig Monday.
Peace negotiations, meanwhile,
were called off for the weekend
with no signs of any new prog
ress toward a contract.
The White House declared
President Truman will make no
weekend moves such as con
tempt action over violation of a
federal stop-strike injunction.
Almost simultaneously with
the recess in the bargaining here,
the United Mine Workers' big
gest local, the 1500-member Ro
bena unit at Masontown, Pa.,
voted a defiant "no" to the latest
back-to-work plea from Lewis.
Vote to Continue Strike
With some 800 members pres
ent, the Lewis message directing
the men to return to the pits
"forthwith" was read.
"The men that want to go back
to work stand up," they were
told.
Only two stood.
At least two other locals al
ready had shown similar defi
ance. Heretofore the union rank and
file has followed Lewis's slight
est whim without question.
His back-to-work instructions
of last Saturday were regarded
generally as a mere formal com
pliance with a court order.
Yesterday's instructions to end
the strike "forthwith" was em
phatic. Peace Negotiations Off
Contract negotiations were
called of until Monday at 2 p.m.
(EST) on the suggestion of Da
.iyjd L. Cole, chairman of the
1 VinarH President Truman assign-
l cd to look into the dispute that
has spread coal strangulation
over the nation's economy. ,
"They were not making the
progress we hoped for this morn
ing," Cole told reporters. "We
thought a recess would be help
ful. They needed a breather.
The most hopeful thing Cole
and Cyrus S. Ching, U. S. me
diation chief, could report was
that both parties "are making a
real effort at collective bargain
ing." (Concluded on Page 5, Column 8)
Musgrave Files
For Mayor's Job
Walter Musgrave, 1230 Huge,
became a formal candidate for
mayor of Salem Saturday when
he filed his petition with the of
fice of city recorder as an inde
pendent candidate. ,
Musgrave, who earlier an
nounced his intentions, will be
opposed by Al Loucks and Har
rv V. Collins, who filed this week"
before leaving on a vacation trip
to California. Loucks nas not
yet filed.
The petition with its state
ment says that the candidate is
pledged to "exercise independ
ence of thought, independence of
4nrt1nn and independence of con-
t trol," and that if elected will "ex
ercise proven efficiency and ec
onomy consistent with (his) pro
gram." In addition he will "pro
vide experienced, able, aggres
sive and. clean leadership as a
matter of record, not as a matter
of promise."
Mn.srave sets forth his slogan
which will aDDear on the ballot
after his name. "You know"1
nrhern I stand."
Musgrave, as mayor of West
Salem, was active in the matter
of annexation to Salem and
since then is serving as the first
member of the city council irom
the district across the river
Poultry Products
At Bargain Prices
Corvallis, Feb. 18 VP) Poultry
products are bargain counter
items these days, an Oregon
State college specialist reported
today.
This Is the comparison made
by Noel Bennion, poultry spe
cialist: Eggs are 24 cents a doz
en cheaper than they were a year
ago; turkeys are down 20 cents a
pounds; chickens are 13 cents
cheaper.
An over-supply, he said, Is the
reason.
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100 Injured When
Commuter Crashes
Into Passenger
Rockville Centre, N.Y., Feb.
18 ypj A crowded Long Island
railroad commuter train sped
through a stop signal last night
and ripped headon into another
passenger train, killing 29 per
sons and injuring 100. Many of
the injured were in critical con
dition. .
It was metropolitan New.
York's worst railroad disaster,
and the worst in the nation in
four years.
The accident occurredona
makeshift siding where a tem
porary "gauntlet" track was laid
pending completion of a grade
crossing project. The gauntlet
consists of double tracks placed
so close together only one train
at a time can pass over the road
bed.
Motorman Arrested
Jacob Kiefer, 55, of Baldwin,
N.Y., motorman of the east
bound train, .was arrested and
charged with second degree
manslaughter.
'He ran past the signal,"
Nassau County District Attorney
Frank Gulotta said.
Motorman T. W. Markin of
the westbound train was too
dazed to be questioned. He was
sent home suffering from shock.
The head cars of both electric
trains were torn apart by the
collision, which occurred at
10:35 p.m. (EST). The forward
car of the eastbound train, load
ed with early home-going the
ater crowds from Manhattan,
was sheared down the middle.
It toppled over, spewing man
gled bodies and wreckage along
the siding.
(Concluded on Pago 5, Column 1)
Russia's Plants
Invulnerable'
Marrakech, French Morocco,
Feb. 18 (ff) A recent attempt
was made to photograph Russia's
main atomic industrial site, but
the Soviets shot the plane down
with a new form of anti-aircraft
fire, Kenneth De Courcy said to
day. .. .
The British editor of the ma
gazine Intelligence Digest add
ed in a typed statement to the
Associated Press correspondent
here that Russia's atomic indus
try "is practically invulnerable."
De Courcy said he was not
at liberty" to disclose the identi
ty of the nation that tried to
photograph Russia's main ato
mic center by high altitude fly
ing. Two weeks ago De Courcy said
the Soviet union Jiad exploded
the first hydrogen bomb The
report lacked any authoritative
confirmation, as iar as could be
determined by the Associated
Press. In London British govern
ment officials regarded his re
ports with "cautious skepti
cism." De Courcy correctly pre
dicted that the Soviet union
would set off an atomic blast in
1949.
Flood Menace Grows;
Blizzard Hits Midwest
(By the Associated Pre!
mnnri riancprs anneared Browing more serious in the South and
a blizzard whipped across some
of the country had fair weather,
temperatures.
Rising floodwaters in three states threatened further evacuation
of families to join the 35,ouu
persons already made homeless
in the flood areas.
East central Louisiana, south
western Mississippi and Arkan
sas are the hardest hit by the
floodwaters which have spilled
out over millions of acres of
land.
An estimated 23,000 are home
less in Arkansas. Other hun
dreds along the lower St. Fran
cis river are in danger of the
overflows.
The backwaters of a half doz
en streams, tributaries of the
Mississippi, have forced some
8000 to flee their1 homes in 12
parishes (counties in Louisi
ana and five counties in Missis
sippi. The Red Cross estimated
that from 6000 to 8000 more
may be driven .from the low
lands by March 1.
- The 2000 residents of Marks-
ville, La., were warned that
they may be isolated completely
in a few days. Floodwaters also
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Mo's Captain
Admits Blame
Nnrfnllr Va Feh. 18 (IP)
The commanding officer of the
battleship Missouri testified to
day -he had a "distrust" of the
ship's navigator.
Capt. William D. Brown made
the statement as he opened his
defense before a naval court of
irmuirv whirh is seeking to fix
responsibility for the grounding
of the Big Mo Jan. n.
Asked by his counsel wnat nis
1 f eelines" were about
hie ravi0atnv and his ODGrationS
officer the morning the ship ran
aground, Brown sam:
"Thorp had been built UD in
me a 'distrust' of the navigator,
Lt. Cmdr. Frank G. Morris, be
cause of Morris' performance as
navigator on a trial run the Mis
souri made Dec. a-a.
On the other hand, he said, he
"leaned heavily" on his opera
tions officer, Cmdr. John R.
Millett; because of his "obvious
ly more level head and greater
experience."
Brown said he had not com
manded a ship from the time he
was detached as skipper of the
A4r.ra'lMinhnlnl in-1043 until
he assumed command of the
Missouri last December.
Aon poonit nf nnt havini? com
manded a ship during the six
years between 1943 ana i
felt extremely rusty when I took
the Missouri out" on the Decem
ber trial run and on January 17
when tne vessel saueu
Norfolk for a training cruise to
fJnantanamo. Cuba. Brown said,
"My seaman's eye was playing
tricks."
Fad Finders for .
Trainmen's Strike
Washington, Feb. 18 VP)
President Truman is expecieu iu
create an emergency board next
week to avert a threatened na
tionwide strike of railroad train
men and conductors.
The national (railway) media
tion board advised the White
House yesterday that the broth
a.hrui nf railroad trainmen and
the order of railway conductors
have called a strike tor r eDruary
27.
midwest states today. The rest
with many areas reporting mild
crept toward the outskirts of
nearby Ferriday, which has
population of 3500.
Rising waters of streams in
Missouri have made 3000 home
less and about 80 have been
evacuated in Kentucky. Flood
conditions in these two states
have eased.
A blast of icy air from Cana
da was pushing southward into
the north central part of the
country. It spread over eastern
Montana, the Dakotas and Mon
tana last night and was moving
into Nebraska, Iowa and Wis
consin today.
Blizzard conditions were re
ported in some parts of northern
South Dakota and in North Da
kota. Temperatures were near
zero and hgh winds swirled
snow into drifts, blocking many
roads. Minot, N.D., reported five
below zero today. Snow also fell
in Minnesota and there was
light snow in the northern Ap
palachians.
Smoky Inferno Huge clouds of smoke, visable for miles
around, billow from burning warehouse of the Airline Oil
and Grease Co., at Lubbock, Tex. The $40,000 blaze destroyed
50,000 gallons of oil products and was still burning some 24
hours after the fire started. Note burning power pole (cen
ter). (Acme Telephoto)
Train Victim Identified
Through Laundry Mark
By DOUGLAS THOMAS
Funeral arrangements were
year-old Salem housewife and mother who was killed when struck
by the Southern Pacific s southbound streamlined Shasta Day
light. .
Only a slender thread of evidence enabled the coroner to es
Phone Strike Set
For Next Friday
Washington, Feb. 18 (IP) CIO
telephone workers said they will
strike as scheduled next Friday
unless their new 15-cent-an-hour
wage demand prompts company
negotiators to get aown wi Bu
siness." Company officials lookeu ov
er the new proposal and said:
We don't see how they justuy
it."
Joseph E. Beirne, president of
the Communications Workers of
America, said last night that or
ders to lay the contract demand
before telephone management
had been sent to all 25 of the
union's negotiating divisions.
'The next move is up to the
company," Beiernes statement
said, adding: "If the company
negotiators will get down to bu
siness, we may yet be able to
reach mutually satisfactory
agreement and avert the strike
. . . if they don't there'll be a
strike for sure."
Bell system managers thus
far have refused to agree to
CWA's demands for more pay,
shorter hours and other conces
sions.
Beirne said the 15 cent wage
proposal was presented on a
"package basis" for settlement
of the money items. He did not
go into other union demands.
In New York a spokesman lor
the American Telephone & Tele
graph company termed the pro
posal hit and run bargaining
and said:
'This is a strange way to do
business. On Wednesday the un
ion walked out on bargaining
sessions and left town without
ever having disclosed the
amount of its demands."
President Cruises
On Potomac River
Washington. Feb. 18 VP)
President Truman took advan
tage of sunny skies and board
ed the yacht Williamsburg to
day for an overnight cruise on
the Potomac river, He will re
turn about 4 p.m. tomorrow
J. Vivian Truman of Grand-
view, Mo., his brother, and, Fred
Canfill, U. S. marshal at Kansas
City, joined him for lunch
aboard the yacht at the naval
gun factory ancnorage. iney
came here for the Jefferson
Jackson day dinner Thursday
night and are starting back to
Missouri later today.
Seven or eight other guests
were invited aboard later for
dinner and a cruise to Quantico,
Va where the boat probably
will anchor for the night. The
guest list was not made public
Lookout Dam Bids Asked
Portland, Feb. 18 W The
army engineers will invite bids
about March 1 on construction
of two concrete abutments for a
steel girder span to carry the
relocated Southern Pacific rail
road over Oregon state highway
58. It is part of the relocation
work at Lookout point dam site,
completed Saturday for the 27-
tablish facts which led to her
identity. The accident took
place shortly before 9 a.m. Fri
day, but the remains were un
claimed until Friday night.
Then, it was established that
the woman was Mrs. Gertrude
Elizabeth Rawson of 2114 Broad
way. Her husband, Foster O.
Rawson, made the identification
from bits of clothing and a ring
which was found on her finger.
Authorities advised the hus
band against viewing the body
for identification purposes, and
accepted the facts from the ring
and clothing. When the woman
failed to return home last night,
all doubt vanished.
In checking for clues which
might be added to the description
released after the accident Fri
day, a laundry mark G. Raw
son was found on her brassiere.
Coroner Leston W. Howell,
knowing that no local laundry
uses names for clothing identifi
cation while state institutions
follow such procedure, made a
check of those institutions in Sa
lem. .
From the state hospital, in
formation was secured to the
effect that a Mrs. Rawson had
been discharged in November,
1949.
Salem police were immediate
ly dispatched to find the hus
band. After that, the identifi
cation was completed.
An investigation dealing with
the accident is not complete. The
coroner disclosed Saturday that
he intended to secure statements
from the engineer, Oscar Bur-
goyne, 3406 N.E. 16th, Portland
and the fireman, Arthur W. Cas-
sie, 1338 S.E. Maiden, also of
Portland.
(Concluded on Pare S. Column 5)
Mormons to Quit
Czechoslovakia
Prague, Czechoslovakia, Feb.
18 (P) Eleven American Mor
mon missionaries will leave Cze
choslovakia next week to com
ply with a Czech government
ruling forbidding foreign - mis
sionaries to work here.
Wallace Toronto, head of the
Mormon church in Czechoslova
kia, announced plans for depart
ure of the Americans but said
the church would continue to
function in the country.
Toronto said the work of the
church will be carried out en
tirely by Czechs.
Toronto declared the policy of
sending American Mormon mis
sionaries out of the country will
continue until the work of the
church is entirely In the hands
of Czech converts.
The move, he added, had noth
ing to do with the recent arrest
of two young missionaries on
charges of "entering a prohibit
ed area."
These missionaries, Stanley E.
Abbott, of Lehi, Utah and C.
Aldon Johnson of Idaho Falls,
Idaho, were arrested January 28
as they traveled through Mora
via to visit church members liv
ing near the Polish border.
American Confesses
To All Charges Made
By Hungarian Reds
Budapest, Hungary, Feb. 18 VP)
American businessman Robert
A. Vogeler pleaded guilty to spy
charges today and said that as
an American agent he had been
instructed to help atom physicists
escape from Hungary.
Calmly confessing to all the
charges in the indictment against
him, the 38-year-old telephone
company executive asked a Hun
garian people's court for "a mild
sentence."
He said he used his position
as assistant vice president of the
International Telephone and Tel
egraph company as a "cover for
my espionage work."
Six Others on Trial
Vogeler's unemotional plea of
guilty opened the second day of
the trial in which he and six
others a Briton and five Hun
garians are accused of espion
age and sabotage.
Vogeler, who has been I.T. &
T. representative in Europe since
1945, declared he had been a
U.S. army intelligence officer
since 1942. As an electrical and
mechanical engineer, he said
"espionage in the technical field
is my specialty."
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, uran
ium and oil deposits in Hungary
and to get in touch with atom
physicists and help them escape.
(Concluded on Pure 5, column
Wife Declares
Confession False
Vienna, Austria, Feb. 8 UP)-'
My nuspanp, is. merely -recreav-
inff from memory a lot of lies
that have been pounded into him
for the last three months," Mrs.
Robert A. Vogeler said today in
commenting on report that Voge
ler has calmly confessed to all
charges brought against him by
the Hungarian government.
She said:
"I have known and loved Bob
for nearly 11 years. It would
be impossible for him to say such
things without any show of emo
tion. He just isn't that kind of
man."
Mrs. Vogeler. who lives In Vi
enna, heard the news of her hus-
bond's testimony in Budapest
without showing any emotion ex
cept possibly that of. exaspera
tion.
Bob was too busy washing di
apers and doing war work in
Chicago in 194Z to get mixed up
with any FBI agents," she said.
She added: "It is obvious to
anyone who knew Bob at all that
he has been drugged or subject
ed to some kind of torture to
make him say all these things.
I don't know whether the torture
was mental or physical but
they have certainly done some
thing underhanded during the
last three months."
Russian Plot Against
Soviets Said Foiled
Berlin Fph 1P. (JPi A West
nearly 200 high Russian officials
the war to overthrow the Soviet
dliuu w no luvitu'ri'
The American-licensed Der
the conspiracy that caused Mos
cow to reimpose last month the
death penalty for espionage and
sabotage Attributing its lnior
mation to "sources close to the
Soviet control commission in
eastern Germany," the newspa
per added:
"After the plot collapsed, the
Soviets started a secret purge
action. Rumors of this have
caused considerable disquiet in
Karlshorst (Russian military
headquarters for Berlin). The
network of conspirators has not
yet been fully uncovered."
The aim of the plot, accord
ing to Der Abend, was the cre
ation of a great Russian repub
lic with its capital at Lenin
grad. "The conspirators feared that
the expansionist policy of the
Stalin-Malenkov clique could
lead the Soviet union danger
ously close to war," the news
paper said.
"They realized that promises
during the war of a higher liv
ing standard for the peoples of
On Trial Robert A. Vogel
er Jr., (above), American bus
inessman, went on trial be
fore a Hungarian people's
court in Budapest, or. charg
es of espionage and sabotage.
He was arraigned with a Brit
isher and five Hungarians as
co-defendants. (AP Wirepho
to) Churchill Asks
A-Bomb Meet
London, Feb. 18 VP) Winston
Churchill, defying censure by
his laborite opponents in Bri
tain's election campaign, re
peated his plea last night for
high level talks between the
west and Russia on atomic bomb
control.
Labor Prime Minister Cle
ment Attlee promised to com
ment on the proposal in a poli
tical broadcast tonight.
The 75-year-old Tory leader
reiterated his call for east-west
atom control talks outside the
United Nations in a final broad
cast to the nation allotted to his
party over the British broad
casting corporation.
Attlee. having finished a 1,-
200-mile tour of the country in
his drive for reelection, is to
make his labor , party's fmal
broadcast tonight (4:15 p. m
EST) from the prime minister'
pnuntrv home at Chequer
Court. 35 miles northwest of
London.
Attacked by Laborite Foreign
Minister Ernest Bevin for step
ping into the international ring
in his Edinburgh. Scotland,
speech last Tuesday, Churchill
defended himself.
It is only by agreement of
the greatest powers," Churchill
declared, "that security can oe
given to ordinary folk against
the annihilating war with ato
mic or hydrogen bombs or bac
teriological horrors."
Prince Aly Khan
Breaks Leg Skiing
Gstaad, Switzerland, Feb. 18
(P) Prince Aly Khan, husband
of Movie Actress Rita Hayworth,
broke his leg in three places to
day in a skiing accident.
The accident occurred lat,e
this afternoon. Rita was visit
ing friends at the time in Laus
anne, 50 miles away. Informed
immediately of the accident, she
rushed to the prince's bedside
at a hospital.
Berlin newspaper declared today
in Leningrad have piotted since
government. Official confirm-
.... , , .
Abend sam it was oiscovery i
the Soviet union were lies and
deception."
Der Abend identified the lead
er of the plot as a Marshal Gov
orov, commandant of the Lenin
grad military district until re
lieved in 1946.
(Marshal Leonid A. Govor-
ov was the leader of the defense
of Leningrad in World War II
and directed the Soviet offens
ives that hurled back the Ger
mans' northern flank and crush
ed Finnish resistance in 1944
He spoke for the Soviet army at
the . funeral in Moscow's Red
Square Sept. 2, 1948, for Andrei
A. Zhdanov, a secretary of the
communist party's central com
mittee who ranked high in the
Soviet leadership. Zhdanov was
once the communist boss of Len
ingrad.)
Der Abend said Govorov was
joined by nearly 200 members
of the political directorate of
the Soviet army, Leningrad ci
ty officials and even officers oi
the ministry of state security,
flaming B-36, burst like bubbles
today in the path of weary
searchers.
As ground parties again dis
embarked from the Canadian de
stroyer Cayuga and two Ameri
can coast guard cutters, search
officers established that shouts
and rifle shots heard Thursday
did not come from the men still
sought on Princess Royal Island,
400 miles northwest of here.
Seventeen airmen early Tues
day parachuted from the air
craft. Twelve have been res
cued and returned to the U.S.
Rifle Shots Traced
Rifle shots, an R.C.A.F.
spokesman said, came from one
of the ground parties combing
the thickets and forests of the
gulley-pocked island.
Shouts heard were those of
Lt. Charles G. Pooler of Beloit,
Kas., the 12th crash survivor
rescued. He was found on the
island Thursday.
A Royal Canadian navy
spokesman at Esquimau, B.C.,
described Friday's search ef
forts as "completely fruitless."
Whether footprints in 18-inch-
deep snow on the island and
parachutes sighted dangling
from trees are those of men al
ready rescued or the missing has
not yet been determined.
Aircraft Grounded
Aircraft were grounded for the
second straight day as high
winds again whistled over the
Island. A dispatch from the
Cayuga, headquarters of the
giant,Canadian-American search,
said ground parties reached the
island without mishap.
Searchers today will concen
trate on the mountain area
mountainous northwest corner
of the island and adjoining Ash-
down island.
(Concluded on rat; 5, Column T)
Renew Search
For Lost C-54
Whltehorse. Y.T., Feb. 18 (IP)
The Royal Canadian Mounted
police are striking into the brush
early today to follow up a new
lead on the C-54 transport plane
missing in the Yukon wilderness
since Jan. 26.
An Indian came in from the
snow-filled forests yesterday at
Burwash landing, about 176
miles northwest of here on the
Alaska highway. He told the
mounties that on Jan 26 he had
heard a loud crash on a moun
tain near where he was camping
on Gladstone creek, north of
Kluane lake.
Since then, the Indian said, he
has seen indications of landslides
on the mountain. And he has
seen large flocks of Whiskey
Jacks, a scavenger bird typical
of this area. The Indian did not
try to ascend the mountain.
The mounted police estimated
that the position pointed out is
about 16 miles west of Burwash
landing,
A constable of the mounties
will lead a party into the heav
ily forested area after daybreak.
He has notified American army
officers in the Burwash section,
and it is expected that they will
give assistance.
Dog sleds will be used, and,
possibly, weasels (the small
tracked vehicle which the Ame
rican army uses in overland
work in this region).
Mao Leaves Moscow
To Return to China
Moscow, Feb. 19 VP) Chinese
Communist Leader Mao Tze
Tung and Premier-Foreign Min
ister Chou En-Lai were neaaea
back to their homeland today af
ter a two-month visit in the So
viet capital.
Behind them was the signature
of the 30-year Soviet-Chinese
treaty of friendship which was
declared in Moscow to have al
lied the "two greatest countries
in the world."
Before departing from Mos
cow s Yaroslav railway station
last night, Mao said over a mi
crophone: "It is plain to all that
the solidarity between the great
Chinese and Soviet peoples,
sealed by the treaty is perma
nent, indestructible and firm."