THE WEATHER HERE
PARTLY CLOUDY THIS EVE
NING, becoming mostly cloudy
with occasional showers late
tonight and Wednesday. Little
change in temperature. Low to
night, 38; high Wednesday, 54.
Maximum yesterday, SO! minimum ts
dey, 40. Total 34-haar precipitation! trace!
for monthi 4.10: narmal, S.M. Seaeaa pre
cipitation, 30.M; aormal, Sfl.30. River
fcelibl, feel. . (Boport 7 V.I. Weather
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Youths Testify
No Secrecy
In School Fraf
Members of American
Boys Club Claim
Legality Probed
The high school fraternity
ease, attracting overflow crowds
to the Marion county circuit
court room, was in its second
day of proceedings Tuesday
with little hope of being com
pleted until sometime Wednes
day or Thursday. Judge Dal M.
King of Coos Bay is hearing the
case
, The suit was brought about
jj(Vhen 18 boys who were expelled
from high school for allegedly
belonging to a secret society
took court action against' mem
bers of the school board and Sa
lem high Principal E. A. Carle
ton and assistant principal Gur
nee Flesher.
Monday afternoon and Tues
day morning's court proceedings
consisted entirely of hearing
witnesses for the American Boys
Club, plaintiffs in the case.
Overlapping Queries
, Up until noon Tuesday, seven
boys who were members of the
American Boys Club appeared
as witnesses in their own behalf.
One boy's mother and another
boy's aunt appeared as wit
nesses. Most of the questioning is
overlapping in nature, and re
sulting in a long, drawn out
court trial.
Members of the American
Boys Club were expelled from
high school on October 14, 1949.
A letter from the school board
to the parents of the boys an
nounced the expulsion, terming
the ABC as a secret society.
Say Nothing Secret
Testimony given by the seven
boys Monday and Tuesday was
to the effect that there was never
anything secret about the club.
They stated that . the member
ship rolls were not secret, and
that the boys freely discussed
the operation! of ' the" "club with
their friends and teachers.'
The boys further said from the
witness stand that it was the in
tention of the club to align fac
ulty advisors from high school,
and to follow suggestions from
the school board.
No advisor was ever appointed
or the school board ever con
tacted, explained the boys, be
cause they felt the club was not
yet well enough organized. It
was still in the process of or
ganization, they testified, when
the boys were notified that they
were expelled from school.
Parents at Meetings
Every boy who took, the stand
stated that all meetings of the
ABC were held at the homes of
the boys, and that in every case
at least one parent sat in on the
meeting.
Testimony further stated that
the boys had made a study of the
legality of such clubs, and be
lieved that the ABC was' legal in
that it operated practically the
same as the Hi-Y clubs, which
have been acceptable to school
authorities for years.
(Concluded on Patre 5, Column S)
Frigid Blast Hits
Fuel Short Area
New York, Feb. 21 m Fri
gid weather, accompanied by
biting gales, gripped the coal
short northeastern states today
for the second consecutive day.
Sub-zero temperatures were
the rule in the northern section'
of the area. Many places report
ed the lowest levels in two years.
A weather bureau employe
voiced the opinion of the man
in the street when he remarked
"I guess we had it coming" af
ter weeks of unusually mild
weather.
Massachusetts joined New
York state in rationing coal, but
limited its order to soft coal.
New York started rationing all
solid fuels Monday.
New York state's lowest read
ing 36 below came from Ben
son mines, in the northern part
of the state. Nearby Canton and
Watertown reported 30 and 22
below respectively.
All six New New England
states reported sub-zero read
ings. The lowest was 35 below
atop isolated Mount Washington
in New Hampshire's White
mountains. All of Maine experi
. enced below-zero readings, and
record lows for the date were
set in many sections.
New Jersey reported 10 be
low at Stokes state forest. In
Sussex county.
Philadelphia had the lowest
j reading in two years, 10 above,
P, with lour above in the suburbs,
U.S. Breaks Off
Relations with
Red Bulgaria
Envoys Ordered Home
To Climax Attacks on
Legation Members
Washington. Feb. 21 (JPi The
United States broke diplomatic
relations today with Communist
Bulgaria. American Minister
Donald R. Heath and other U.
S. representatives In Sofia were
ordered home.
Bulgaria was directed to with
draw its small diplomatic mis
sion in Washington.
Its legation here is headed by
Dr. Peter Voutov, charge d'af
faires.
First Break Since War
It is the first time the United
States has broken diplomatic re
lations with any nation since
the war.
The U. S. decision was com
municated to the Bulgarian gov
ernment at Sofia yesterday.
Voutov was summoned to the
state department today and in
formed of the action.
He was directed to make ar
rangements to leave the United
States with other members of
the legation and their families.
After talking with Llewellyn
Thompson, deputy assistant sec
retary for European affairs,
Voutov told reporters, "I think
the break is complete." He said
there are 12 members of the le
gation staff, including depen
dants, and that all probably
would leave early in March.
In announcing the break, the
state department published for
the first time detailed charges
that Bulgarian militia "threaten
ed, arrested and tortured and
eventually killed, three Bulgar
ian employes of the U. S. le
gation." 'Concluded on rare 5. Column 7)
Searchers Hunt
For Survivors
Vancouver, B.C., Feb. 21 (CP)
Four parties of .150 searchers
were put ashore on Princess
Royal island in a pounding gale
today as the hunt for five miss
ing United States airmen enter
ed its seventh day.
Winds, increas i n g steadily
from 30 miles an hour this mor
ning, whipped the rescue parties
as they fanned out over the
rugged island, 400 miles north
west of here..
RCAF officials said the hunt
will concentrate on the north
west corner of the 50-mile long
island, where crew mates of the
missing men believe they must
have landed.
The search parties are com
posed of sailors from the Ca
nadian destroyer Cayuga, search
control ship, and coast guards
men from the U.S. coast guard
cutters Winona, Citrus and Ca
hoone. Twelve of the 17-man crew
who "ditched" their blazing B
36 bomber early last Tuesday
have been rescuedThree of the
rescued airmen arrived here
Sunday to aid in the search.
Pilot Killed in Crash
McGregor, Tex.. Feb. 21 (U.R)
Cadet Howard W. Klein, 24, of
Portland was fatally injured yes
terday when his training plane
crashed during the practice land
ing on an auxiliary field near
here. -
Showing ofStromboli
Condemned by Ministers
By FRED E. ZIMMERMAN
"We call upon the people of Christian conscience and charac
ter to use discrimination in the
and their families see," sets
adopted Tuesday morning by the
"We deplore the low standards
ploit adultery to publicize a mo
tion picture," the resolution con
tinues. "It is our hope that pub
lic protest and disapproval of
such conduct, expressed through
lack of patronage at the theater
will help in raising the moral
standards of an industry which
has a major responsibility in
American life."
While the ministers engaged
in considerable discussion over a
period of more than an hour
concerning two previous resolu
tions, there was no lack of unan
imity among those present in
condemning the showing of the
motion picture "Stromboli"
which was not named in the res
olution -that was adopted. The
method of expressing disapprov
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Juror Let Out
Sander's Trial
Manchester, N.H., Feb. 21 (P)
A British-born juror the old
est of nine seated so far in the
Sander "mercy killing" trial
was dismissed today after the
prosecution raised a belated
challenge.
Counsel for Dr. Hermann. ,8?
bander offered no objections to
removing 72-year-old Albefi?
Baines, a retired Manchester
Gas company employe
Baines a Presbyterian we&fWmnties across the Willamette
one of three Protestants among
the first nine jurors chosen yes
terday to try Sander on a charge
of murder for pumping air into
a hopeless cancer patient to end
her suffering.
After a conference of an hour
and a quarter with defense coun
sel and prosecutors. Judge Har
old E.i.Wescqtt: returned to thci
courtroom to announce
"The state has requested' the
right to challenge the last juror
seated yesterday. The defense
offered no objections. The re
quest is granted." ,
The reason lor the state s re
quest was not explained.
Earlier, Attorney General Wil
liam L. Phinney revealed that
he was investigating the possi
bility that names of the prospec
tive' jurors had "leaked" out be
fore they were made known by
the court.
As the examination of venire
men resumed, the first two ex
amined were excused.
With Baines' removal,- eight
jurors remained seated and five
more were to be chosen. Of the
eight picked, six are Roman Ca
tholics. Turner Annexes
Small District
Turner, Feb. 21 Annexation
of a small area immediately out
side the city and lying along the
highway was approved by an ap
proximate vote of two to one
here Monday night. Ttye ballot
ing was very light and only 43
votes were tallied.
The vote inside the city limits
was 21 to 10 for the annexation
and those outside were 12 unani
mously for the plan. The area,
which contains 30 families, ex
tends to what is known as the
old Smith place now owned by
Wallace Riches.
choice of every film that they
forth a resolution unanimously
Salem Ministerial association
of an industry which will ex
al was the center of debate.
It was pointed out by one or
two speakers that the releasing
of the film "Stromboli" empha
sized the need for constructive
religious education.
Representatives of the Amer
ican Legion stated that local
posts would get behind a move
to get more children into Sun
day school. The project receiv
ed the approval of the minis
ters.
Plans for Holy Week, Good
Friday and Easter sunrise serv
ices were outlined. The sunrise
service will be held on the cap!
tol steps with Rev. Brooks Moore
of the First Methodist church as
the speaker.
'Mercy Doctor' Smiles Before Trial Dr. Hermann N. San
der, 41, smiles as he escorts his wife, Alice, to the Manches-
L ter, N. H., court where the physician goes on trial on a charge
of murder in the death of a cancer patient. In left background
is Louis E. Wyman, chief defense counsel. (AP Wirephoto)
Steel Girders Ready
For Independence Bridge
.Ai, By JAMES
'Erection of steel girders on
bridge will begin about March
Mate highway engineer Tuesday.
Ching Working
On Phone Strike
. Washington,' Feb.. 21 VPlx-ey-
:tfsriCBiflg, feaerat'TriedlatSoif di
rector,, gave the, White: House a
report today on the threatened
nation-wide telephone strike on
Friday'.
Ching, did not tell reporters
just what he had advised, the
White House, but from all out
ward signs thereis now a tight
deadlock in negotiations be
tween the Bell Telephone sys
tem and the ClO-Communica-tions.
Workers of America.
Ching presumably talked with
John Steelman, presidential as
sistant who specializes in labor
relations matters.
The mediation chief went to
the White House after separate
conferences with representatives
of the Western Electric company,
a Bell subsidiary -and leaders of
the CWA division employed by
Western Electric.
This segment of the Bell sys
tem has workers stationed at
most Bell company offices and
exchanges throughout the coun
try and any walkout by them
might bring sympathy stay
aways by phone operators and
other industry employes.
Officials of the CIO's com
munications Workers of Amer
ica (CWA) have said they expect
other phone workers will ob
serve picket lines to be estab
lished by 100,000 workers due
to strike Friday at 6 a.m., local
time.
CWA has said the original
100,000 strikers will be joined
by an additional 150,000 after
March 1 when another set of
contracts expire.
Reds Invading
Hainan Island
Hanoi, Indochina, Feb. 21 VP)
Chinese communist troops
were reported today by crew
men of an airliner from Hong
Kong to have invaded the Na
tionalist-held island of Hainan
The crewmen said they had
seen violent fighting on the is
land as they flew past on a reg
ular flight from Hong Kong.
Hainan lies off the direct route
from Hong Kong to Haiphong.
Hainan and Formosa are the
last two major island holdings of
the Nationalist forces of Gener
alissimo Chiang Kai-Shek.
, As Hainan is separated from
China's mainland by a strait only
10 miles wide, it is more vulner
able than Formosa, which lies
100 miles or more off the coast
of Fukien province.
Communist invasion of Hainan
has been reported before but
has been denied. Today's report
was not immediately confirmed,
D. OLSON
the new $950,000 Independence
15, according to R. H. Baldock,
river, have been fabricated in
-California and are ready for
shipment as soon as the water is
low enough to permit work to
begin, Baldock said.
Reports that the present coal
strike might delay shipment of
steel for the . Independence
bridge are erroneous as the steel
for the bridge was purchased
months ago by , . Moore pryock
corporation, steel fabricators. .
The bridge contractors, Macco
Corporation of Los Angeles, ex
pect to have bridge crews on the
bridge site by March 10, to be
gin preliminary work prepara
tory to erection of the steel it
self.
Although there was a long de
lay in the beginning of work
on this bridge, due to the in
ability of the steel fabricators to
obtain steel, Baldock is of the
belief that the work on the
bridge will go forward speedily
after March 15,
Steel for the new Marion
street bridge between Salem and
West Salem will not be needed
for eight or nine months so the
present labor difficulties have no
effect on the Marion bridge
plans, Baldock said.
To Extend Aid
To Rural Roads
Washington, Feb. 21 W) The
bureau of public roads says it
is "possible under existing fed
eral legislation" to extend gov
ernment aid to some 100,000
miles of heavily-traveled rural
roads.
This, the bureau said in a
port to a senate public works
sub-committee, would permit fe
deral aid to "practically all of
the local roads" carrying 100 or
more vehicles daily, and raise to
about 700,00 the total mileage
which the government helps
maintain.
The committee had asked for
the report to guide it in a study
of bills proposing that federal
aid for secondary roads be made
a regular budget item.
The bureau said no recom
mendations along this line but
it suggested that local govern
ments might have more money
to spend on roads if they cor
rected "evident weaknesses" in
road administration and quit
logrolling.
The board estimated that
needed repairs to locally-kept
county, township and other ru
ral roads would cost approxi
mately $7,200,000,000 over a
period of years.
- It also found that 40 percent
of all local roads don't carry
any more than 10 vehicles a day
and that many of the roads are
wholly non-essential. It rec
ommended abandonment of 400,-
000 miles of such roads.
Ann Sothern Hospitalized
Hollywood, Feb. 21 VP) Act
ress Ann Sothern will enter Hol
lywood Presbyterian hospital to
day where tomorrow she will un
dcrgo surgery to remove a be
nign tumor from the thyroid
gland.
Acheson and
Hoffman Ask
Aid to Europe
Extension of ECA
Urged Because of
Russian Aggression
Washington, Feb. 21 (IP)
Secretary of State Acheson told
congress today it Is "doubly ur
gent" to continue the Marshall
plan because Russia is showing
signs of increasing boldness."
The secretary said that send
ing American economic aid to
western Europe is essential if
'the Kremlin's design for world
dominion" is to be frustrated.
Acheson was before a joint
meeting of the senate foreign
relations and house foreign af
fairs committees to back up the
administrations plea for funds
to keep the Marshall plan going
for a third year.
Paul H. Hoffman, head of the
economic cooperation adminis
tration had just told the com
mittee members that $3,100.-
000,000 is needed for recovery
in the 12 months starting July
l.
$3.1 Billion Asked
Hoffman asked for $2,950.-
000,000 in new cash and permis
sion to spend an additional
$150,000,000 which he said is
still left from this year's $3,
778,000,000 fund.
Like Acheson, the ECA chief
said the recovery program must
be kept going to block the threat
of Russian expansion.
His 5,000-word prepared
statement dwelt at length on
the role of the Marshall plan as
a weapon in the cold war.
(Concluded on Pa ire 5, Column t)
Stalin Parley
Issue in Britain
London, Feb. 21 VP) Conser
vative leader Winston Churchill
claims his call for high-level
talks with Russia on atomic con
trol has blossomed into the out
standing campaign issue in the
British elections Thursday.
But Prime Minister Clement
Attlee continues to base his la
bor party's appeal for re-elec
tion on domestic policy. He is
standing on his record and ask
ing the people for a new term
to "get you along the rest of
the road" to recovery.
Attlee mentioned briefly, how
ever, his own party's internation
al policy as "trying to build up
not only in this country but in
the world the kind of conditions
that make for peace."
Scorning the views of his la
bor party opponents that the
subject of big power talks to end
the cold war should not be raised
at election time, the 75-year-old
Churchill said yesterday in Man
Chester that the working classes
should be called upon to vote
on this as well as domestic issues,
He said his original appeal last
week at Edinburgh for an at
tempt at reaching lasting east
west settlement had "not only
dominated the election in Great
Britain" but also had "rolled
around the world and may have
created a new situation which,
whatever happens, cannot make
things worse and may possibly
bring us nearer to our heart's
desire.
Jones Says Farm Unions
Co-op Mismanaged
Unless there is a gain in membership and subsequent increase
in budget contributions, the Oregon Farmers Union will face a
curtailed program this year, Ronald E. Jones, Brooks, stale presi
dent, warned delegates to the 40th annual convention in his an
nual message at the opening session at the Voterans of Foreign
Wars hall Tuesday.
While both a state secretary!
and junior leader have been in
the field most of the past year,
the activities of at least the jun
ior leader and possibly an
other field worker may be cur
tailed and the secretary left
with office rather than field
work for the organization, he
said.
"The story of the Oregon
Farmers Union Cooperative is
one of mismanagement and lack
of management as will be shown
in the report of the auditor and
and manager," he said. "These
culminated in 1949 after hav
ing slid from a period of infla
tion and sellers' markets to de
flation and buyers' market with
out change in direction of opera
tion.
Jones pointed out that many of
the losses charged to 1949 oper
clSi
(Acme Telephoto)
Robert A. Vogeler, Ameri
can business man, sentenced
to 15 years prison for espion
age at Budapest, Hungary.
Dad, 7 Kiddies
Burned to Death
Addison, Mich., Feb. 21 (P)-
A fire devoured a farm house
near here early today, killing
seven children and their father.
The only survivor of the mid-
dle-of-the-night blaze was the
mother, who was badly burned.
Evidently, firemen said, the
two-story frame building went
up like a puff. It was in ruins
when firement got there.
The victims:
Farmer Gerald Beagle, 44.
His children: Geraldine, 14
Barbara Jean, 12; Eloise, 10;
Norma Mae, 9; Paul, 6; William,
5, and Linda, 23-months-old ba
by. The mother, Mrs. Dorothy
Beagle, burned and cut in a
flight through a window, was in
serious condition at a hospital
here.
The blaze, believed caused by
a defective basement furnace,
broke out about 1:30 a.m. in
near-zero temperature. . .
It was starkest tragedy.
Mardi Gras in
New Orleans
New Orleans, Feb. 21 VP)
Cleopatra and Marie Antoinette
got on a crowded city bus early
today,- dropped in seven cents
each, and hung on a strap all
the way to Canal street.
They drew only scant admir
ing glances, for today is Mardi
Gras and almost everyone is
costumed.
The few slccpy-eycd early ris
ers met the many all-nighters
and the thunderous din of shout
ing, traffic, singing and shuffling
blended into, a giant cacophony.
The reveling throng was thick
est at the river end of Canal
street where at 9 a.m. (CST)
Kine Zulu arranged to disem
bark from his royal Mississippi
river barge to begin the organ
ized festivity. The dusky mon
arch and his Negro zulus pa
rade in mock grandeur as a
burlesque on the white Rex's
pomp and pageantry.
- Rex, lord of misrule and em
peror of the carnival, has pro
claimed that the 600,000 Orlean
ians and their' 100,000 guests
frolic unrestrainedly until mid
night ushers in the solemnity
of the Lenten season.
ation properly should have been
charged against 1948 and prior
years with the policies of these
contributing much to the opera
tion last year and "our only re
gret is that the change of man
agement could not have been
sooner." If the membership will
get behind the new management
it will be possible to build a co
operative in which the Farmers
Union can be proud, he said.
Production problems cannot
be handled through cooperatives
alone, as has been proven, Jones
declared, with the only alter
native left to devise a govern
mental program that would in
crease opportunities in farm
ing. Monopoly must be met by
creating competition if the free
enterprise system is to endure,
he said, referring to the Bran-
nan agricultural plan.
(Concluded on Fan 5, Column 6)
Vogeler Draws
15-Year Prison
Term for Spying
Hungarian Court
Sentences 2 of 6 Co
Defendants to Death
Budapest, Hungary, Feb. 21 VP)
American Businessman Robert
A. Vogeler was sentenced to 15
years in prison today on spy
charges by a Hungarian court
which sentenced two of his six
co-defendants to death.
Death sentences were meted
out to Imre Geiger, manager of
the International Telephone and
Telegraph company's Budapest
branch, and Zoltan Rado, former
department chief in Hungary's
ministry of heavy industry.
Edgar Sanders, Vogelcr's Brit
ish aide in the I. T. and T.
branch, the Standard Electric
Works, was sentenced to 13 years
in prison.
Defense Appeals
The defense immediately an
nounced appeals to a higher
court, and the prosecution ham
mered back with a statement
that it, too, would appeal and
demand heavier penalties for the
five defendants who escaped the
death sentence.
The same prosecution an
nounced an appeal when Josef
Cardinal Mindszenty was sen
tenced to life imprisonment for
plotting against the state. The
cardinal also appealed, but the
original sentences in the case
were unchanged by the higher
court.
(Concluded on Page 5. Column 5)
Coal Shortage
Grows Acute
Pittsburgh, Feb. 21 VP) Chill
blasts of an overdue winter ac
cented the coal shortage in many
parts of a shivering nation to
day while rebelling soft coal
miners kept right on striking.
The 372,000 Idle United Mine
Worker members shrugged off ,
thenew government contempt
action as "just another order."
They insisted: "No contract, no
work."
Effects of- eight months of off-
and-on coal production that
erupted into a full scale walk
out five weeks ago struck new
blows at all branches of Amer
ican life:
Education St. Louis schools
will close today and won't re
open until next Monday because
they have only a three-day coal
supply on hand. Schools in other
communities also are closed.
Industry Jones and Laughlin
Steel corporation will begin to
close down plants in Pittsburgh
and Aliquippa, Pa., idling 23,
000 workers. Some 42,000 al
ready are idle in steel and rail
roading. Clvic-Rockford, 111. City
council declared a state of emer
gency because of the coal short
age. Rockford forest preserve
crews were ordered to chop down
trees for fuel.
Brazil, Ind. Water pumping
station may close Saturday for
lack of coal. Brownouts and
coal rationing arc in effect in
many cities and towns.
,The government yesterday
asked the federal court to have
the miners adjudged in contempt
for failing to obey a week-old
court back to work order.
Soviet Troops
Sent to Ukraine
Berlin, Feb. 21 VP) Der Ab
end, German newspaper in the
American sector of Berlin, said
today strong units of Soviet se
curity troops had been trans
ferred from Germany to the
Ukraine to combat renewed par
tisan uprising against Soviet
rule.
The newspaper did not give
the source of its report. Amer
ican intelligence officers declin
ed comment. Last week Der
Abend reported without con
firmation elsewhere that a wide
scale revolt against the Soviets
had been hatched in the Lenin
grad area.
In today's report Der Abend
said a number of Soviet offi
cers had switched allegiance to
the partisans because they want
ed to wage an active fight against
bolshevism rather than desert
to the west.
The newspaper added that the
Russians are sending soldiers to
the Ukraine to quiet unrest there
and also shipments of textiles
and other commodities.