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Progress Reported In Deadlocked
UMW Chief Cuts
Some Issues Of
Contract Dispute
Fact-Finder Tells
Of Real Progress
Wackingtnn ITaVi 17 fll PI
A government peacemaker re
ported "real progress" in the
deadlocked soft coal negot
linns tnriav at the close of
thrp.hnnr hareainins meeting
between John L. Lewis and the
coal operators.
That optimistic report came
President Truman's fact-finding
board, he ana reaerai lvieaiauun
Director Cyrus S. Ching had
been standing by throughout the
union-managemeni mcewng u
take a hand if needed.
Proposals "Soft-Pedaled
Cole said some of the propos
als Lewis made yesterday for s
nnnr nnntrart wore- "snft-Dedal
ed" today. He said the united
mina mnrlrllPG fh'mf hue narmV-
ed the issues on which he wants
to bargain, particularly with re
gard to pay raises.
Cole said the operators, who
previously had offered the min
ers nothing better than their
old contract, have "improved
4Vta mnnou ffftr " HnWPVfT.
Cole would not say specifically
wnat contract terms were ucuie
discussed.
Both sides were scheduled to
resume negotiations at J p.m.
Ching left with the mine opera
tors. He would not comment.
Might Ask Seisure
Cole hinted to newsmen that
if iha nocTntiatinnc chnillri break
down unexpectedly, President
Truman might ask congress for
power to seize tne sirme-Dounu
coal mines.
Tha WhifA TJnuca announced
earlier in the day that Cole and
Chine would renort there at
10:00 a.m., EST., tomorrow.
Pnlt. caiH lip had nn idea what
course Mr. Truman would take
after getting the report.
Burglars Caught As
t Attempting Getaway
Portland, Ore., Feb. 17 (U.R)
Police today captured two burg
lars as they attempted to flee
from a meat market.
Officers said Harold Clyde
Rambo, 45, was shot in the leg
when he dashed from the mar
ket, and Samuel Wells Lewis.
36, was taken as he pushed
headlong into a clump of black
berry bushes at the side of the
building.
The police radio received three
calls to the Fulton Provision
company and the Fulton delica
tessen before the two men were
found in a refrigeration room.
They ran when they spotted the
officers.
"We cut through the wrong
wall," Lewis told officers. "The
refrigerator motor made so much
noise we didn't hear the cops."
Rambo and Lewis, already un
der indictment by the grand Jury
on burglary charges last month,
were jailed for $5,000 bail each.
Officers said both had records
for burglary and safe-cracking.
Child KiiledhTtry
To Save Baby Sister
New York, Feb. 17 (U.R)
William Meade, 7, burned to
death last night trying in vain
to save his baby sister from the
fire that swept the Bronx tene
4 iVient in which they lived,
v Heavy smoke filled the cold
water flat when William's father.
Charles, was awakened by the
crackling flames. The father
grabbed two of his four children
and told William to get his sister
Lynn Carol, two months, and
follow him. ,
But the boy lost sight of his
father in the smoke and flamer.
Firemen found William's body,
his dead sister clutched in his
arms.
ATTENDS CONFERENCE
Mail Tribune City Editor Eric
W. Allen Jr. and Mrs. Al
len left here today for Eugene
where they will attend the 31st
annual Oregon Press conference
and the Eric W. Allen memorial
lecture on the University of Ore
son campus. Speaker at the lec
ture will be Columnist Marquis
Childs.
Eleven Rescued Airmen Resting
McChord Air Force Base,
Wash., Feb. 17 (U.R) Eleven
men on clean, white beds talked
quietly among themselves in a
hosital ward today about a sput
tering, ice-sheathed superbomber
and how they left it in inky dark
ness over a rain-swept island.
They were 17' when they hit
the silk, and today the 11 in
.bed are wondering how the
Anther six were making out.
(1st Lieut. Charles G. Pooler.
Beloit, Kans., has since been res
cucd
Following the jump, the sur
Medford
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Search Teams Push
Onto Lonely Isle
To Hunt 5 Airmen
Paratroopers Landed
In 70-Mile Winds
Seattle, Wash., Feb. 17 (U.R)
Seven search teams hit the gale-
lashed beaches of a lonely island
again today where a man's cry
for help and gun shots kept
hopes high that the remaining
five members of a 17-man B-36
crew will be found.
"This is 'payoff day'," one
search officer said.
A Canadian destroyer, four
U.S. coast guard cutters, high
speed launches and a dozen U.S.
and RCAF planes circled the
island in an all-out effort to find
the missing men.
Paratroopers Landed
Paratroopers who were to be
dropped to brush-tangled Prin
cess Royal island off the British
Columbia coast, were landed in
stead. It was feared winds gust
ing to 70 miles an hour would
blow them out to sea.
A group of civilian mountain
eers from Vancouver's Alpine
club were standing by on the
Canadian navy's destroyer Ca
yuga. Twelve crewmen of the lost
six-engine superbomber have
been evacuated and are under
treaent for injuries and ex
posure. Eleven of those were at
McChord field air force base.
Wash., and were to be flown to
their home base at Fort Worth,
Tex., today.
Six Inches of Slush
The last survivor to be res
cued was on the Cayuga await
ing a flight to McChord field.
Driving rain turned soggy
snow into six-inch deep slush, as
the seven rescue teams com
posed of a minimum of eight
men each fanned out across the
large craggy island.
Search officers felt that if the
men are not found today a fifth
night of exposure and hunger
would almost certainly be fatal.
Folsom Penitentiary
Inmate Knife Victim
Sacramento, Feb. 17 (U.R)
Two Folsom prison inmates
faced automatic death sentences
today for the slaying of a fellow
convict with an eight-inch prison-made
knife.
Convicted of killing Convict
Willard Borton were Louis F.
Smith and John Allen. A su
perior court Jury found the pair
guilty on two counts assault by
a life term convict and first de
gree murder. Both counts carry
an automatic death sentence.
Earl Fitzgerald, a third de
fendant accused of the fatal
stabbing, was acquitted and will
be returned to Folsom prison to
serve out his life term, author
ities said.
Superior Judge Grover Bedeau
A'ill pronounce sentence Febru
ary 24.
RECEIVES AWARD
New York, Feb. 17 (U.R)
The National Institute and
American Academy of Arts and
Letters awarded H. L. Mencken
its gold medal for essays and
criticism today for his "distin
guished achievement" in the
writing field.
Ski Conditions
If the present weather holds,
skiing should be good at Cra
ter Lake over the week-end.
According to reports received
by radio this morning, the pres
ent depth of 128 inches of
snow has a crusty surface that
Is covered with six inches of
powder snow. Weather there
this morning was excellent.
Roads are clear and dry
from Medford to Union Creek
but chains are required from
park headquarteri to the rim
of the lake. Maximum temper
ature yesterday was 35 de
grees and the minimum this
morning was 13.
vivors experienced 40 hours of
wet, cold and hunger during
which their hopes alternately
were buoyed up and then dashed
to pieces. Once a search plane
approached their position, circled
and disappeared into the fog.
Before they bailed out, the
radar operator. Lieut. Paul Ger
hart of Germantown, Pa., re
members receiving an order from
the aircraft commander, Capt.
Harold Barry of Hillsboro, 111.
to "find land and fast!''
"We flew over cne island,"
said Gcrhart, "but it was too
MEDFORD, OREGON,
(Acmt Telephoto)
EIGHT DEAD IN B-29 CRASH Rescuers probe the wreckage of the B-29 which carried eight
men to their death when it crashed moments after takeoff from Great Falls air base, Mont. The B-20
was the command plane of a group of 12 B-29's which took off from the air base to join the search
for the B-36 which crashed off the coast of British Columbia. All 17 men aboard the B-36 were found
safe after directing rescue units to their British Columbia island by sending up a towering column
of smoke. Seven men aboard the B-29 search plane walked away from the crash.
GOP Called Selfish Political
Hypocrites At Jackson Dinner
Washington, Feb. 17 U.R)-
The democrats came up today
with their battle theme for
1950. The republicans are sel
fish political hypocrites who
think more of their pocketbooks
than, of the' natlorl. '". ! .
It was their answer to GOP
charges of "socialism a tag
the democrats hope to shake off
before entering the crucial
stages of this year's congres
sional elections.
Theme Unvoiled
President Truman, Vice Pres
ident Alben W. Barkley and
Speaker Sam Rayburn unveiled
the theme last night in using
ridicule, sarcasm and invective
against the republicans at a
gigantic Jefferson-Jackson day
dinner here.
More than 5,300 democrats
contributed $100 each to the
party to eat filet mignon and
drink American burgundy with
the president, the cabinet and
just about every big name in
the administration.
The mammoth party was
held at the national guard arm
ory, with the food and drink
Gollum Loses Wife;
Detained In Jail
Tampa, Fla., Feb. 17 ,'U.R)
George Gollum, acquitted with
Beulah Louise Uvcrell in the
California yacht-explosion death
of her parents, can't seem to stay
out of the headlines.
In jail today, he was out of a
wife.
Shirley Irene Dcpauw, a mo
torcycle "death rider" in the
Royal All-American Shows, won
annulment of her marriage to
Gollum as he awaited sentence
in Savannah, Ga., for taking a
stolen car across state lines.
Miss Depauw said "the mar
riage never ripened, never hav
ing been consummated" after
she married him "in a moment of
weakness" in Jackson, Miss.
Unidentified Woman
Killed By Espee Train
Salem. Ore.. Feb. 17 (U.R)
A woman not yet identified by
police was killed today when she
was struck by the southbound
Shasta Daylight. Southern Pa
cific passenger train. The acci-
dcr.t occurred Just north of Sa
lem. Marion County Coroner
Lesion Howell said he had not
been able to establish identity of
the woman. He said she was
about 20 years old.
small. We headed south, buck
ing a 50-mile-an-hour headwind
A big chunk of land appeared on
the scope, but I waited until we
were three miles inland before
I told the captain. I didn't want
that wind to blow anybody back
into the sea."
Captain Barry remembers the
ship was "losing altitude fast"
in the finaj moments before he
ordered his crew to bail out.
"Flames broke out in No. one
engine. Then number five engine
fired. Number three stopped
with a plugged gas line."
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17,
trucked by long distance from
two downtown hotels.
Mr. Truman was naturally the
main attraction. He called the re
publicans everything from ink-
squirting "scuttlcfish'' to "advo
cates of false economy" and
merchants of "scare words."
Arguments Rejected
The president scornfully re
jetted republican arguments as
"the same old moth-eaten scare
crow of 'socialism' ... an in-
Truman Action Said
Tinge Of Communism
Washington, Feb. 17 (U.R)
Sen. Robert A. Taft (R., O.) be
lieves that President Truman's
bid to "purge" him from the sen
ate has a deep red tinge of com
munism. Mr. Truman told a news con
ference yesterday that he will
swing across country this fall
seeking re-election of a demo
cratic congress. Other political
leaders have quoted the president
as saying that Ohio will be a key
target.
Taft, co-author of the Taft
Hartley law, faces a tough battle
with the CIO's political action
committee and left-wing groups
against him, but is confident of
victory.
He told reporters he would
"welcome" an invasion of Ohio
by the president because it
would be "of material assistance
in my campaign."
U. 5. Blockade Of
China Ports Urged
Des Moines, la., Feb. 17 (U.R)
An American naval blockade of
communist China ports has been
suggested by Sen. William F.
Knowland, (R., Cal.), as a means
of freeing "illegally held" Am
ericans. At a Lincoln day dinner last
night, Knowland said the United
States should "make it clear that
this government will not sit
back for more than a year and
do nothing but send a series of
notes when people representing
this government are illegally
held by the communist regime
in China."
He said that at least two car
riers should be added to the U. S.
navy's far eastern force. He said
they "would do much to restore
confidence in that part of the
world."
On Clean,
TSgt. Martin Stephens of
Houston, Tex., remembers the
grim ceremony at the escape
hatch. The man ahead of him,
Sgt. Dick Thrasher of Chilton,
Tex., got stuck.
"I rammed him through with
my shoulder and then took out
after him."
Lieut. Charles Cox, first engi
neer, recalls that he didn't have
his 'chute fastened when the
order came to Jump. Second En
gineer Charles Pooler of Beloit,
Kans. (rescued yesterday) help
ed him fasten the (tiff buckles.
Sof joal Talks
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suit to the Intelligence of the
American people."
Barkley said the GOP hadn't
come up with a new idea in
nearly 80 years. .
Rayburn said business, labor,
and agriculture never had it ao
good as under the democrats.
The democratic diners whoop
ed and banged their water glass
es in aproval.
The president ridiculed the
GOP's new platform and its
charges that the democratic pro
gram is "socialistic."
Sams Old Story
"It's the same old story the
same old words and the same
old music the same empty and
futile attempt to scare the Am
erican people in complete con
tradiction of the plain facts that
are visible to every citizen in
his daily life to sec," he boomed.
"And we're not going to let
them get away with it don't
worry about that."
Swollen Mississippi
Threatens Big Levee
Chicago, Fez. 17 (U.R) The
swollen Mississippi river loday
threatened to burst a big levee
in southeast Missouri and army
engineers said the flood situa
tion was getting worse in Louisi
ana. Flood waters receded In the
upper Ohio valley and a forecast
of fair weather in the flood zone
during the next 48 hours offered
relief to some flood-weary areas.
But in other sections partic
ularly along the lower Missis
sippi the worst was yet to come.
Army engineers said the Mis
sissippi river floods in the far
south would reach their peak
about March 1 and would inun
date 1,140.000 acres in Missis
sippi and Louisiana alone.
With an estimated 10,000 cat
tle, hogs and horses flooded out,
the Louisiana agricultural com
missioner said the "entire live
stock industry of the state is
threatened."
Ben Day Files For
Election To Senate
Salem, Ore., Feb. 17 (U.R)
Ben Day, Gold Hill farmer who
served in the house of represen
tatives in the 1949 legislature,
will try for the senate next
time. lie filed his candidacy
here Thursday for state senator
from Jackson county.
His ballot slogan will be:
"Capable, experienced; pledged
to sensible government and con
tinued development of Oregon."
White Hospital Beds Ponder Fate
At daybreak Tuesday, Cox,
who freed himself from a tree,
and Lieut. Roy Darrah of Mar
tin's Ferry, O., found each other
and headed for shore. They had
had one of Darrah's cough drops
for breakfast and another at
noon. From the beach, they saw
seven fishing boats during the
afternoon. They managed to
start a fire, shot some smoke
grenades, but no one saw them.
Then, the tide moved in and
doused their signal fire.
Early Tuesday morning. Sgt.
Martin Stephens and Lieut. Col.
Daniel McDonald, Los Angeles,
WEATHER
FORECAST: Filr tonlfht
Cloudy with occasional rain
Saturday, Warmer tonight.
Temp.
Htihtit Yesterday m U
Lowest (hit Mornlnr 30
Pree. to 4:30 A.M. Today 03
Judith Coplon
Fires Attorney;
Three Appointed
Statement Withheld
On Discharge Cause
New York, Feb. 17 (U.R)
Judith Coplon fired her attor
ney, Archibald Palmer, today
and the court assigned her three
new lawyers.
Federal Judge Sylvester J.
Ryan designated Sidney Bernian,
Samuel Neuberger and Leonard
Boudin to take up her defense
in her current espionage con
spiracy trial with Valentin
Gubitchev.
The three will be made her
attorneys of record at a formal
hearing at 3 p.m.
Announced at Parley
Palmer's dismissal and his
successors were announced at the
end-of a one-hour and 15 min
ute conference of Miss Coplon,
her family, Palmer and Judge
Ryan.
Palmer said he had no com
ment. Miss Coplon also refused to
make a statement.
BuV Palmer said before the
conference that he would wish
any new attorney "Godspeed
and - would help him all he
could. He would expect new at
torneys to also handle Miss Cop
lon's appeal of her conviction in
Washington, he added.
It will be determined this aft
ernoon whether the new lawyers
will need an adjournment of the
tnial to study the record so far
before taking over her defense.
Railroad Strike
Jef February 27
Cleveland, O., Feb. 17 (U.R)
Two brotherhoods representing
250.000 railroad workers set
February 27 today as the date
for a nation-wide strike.
The date was announced in
the Trainmen News, organ of the
Brotherhood of Railroad Train
men. President Truman now is
expected to appoint an emer
gency board to Investigate the
dispute, which would postpone
the strike for at least 30 days.
The other union Involved Is
the Order of Railroad Conduct
ors. The unions are seeking rule
changes, including a 40-hour
week without a reduction in pay
for yardmen now working 48
hours.
The BRT has about 210.000
members and the ORC has 40,-
000.
BRT President W. P. Kennedy
hinted that the nation-wide
strike might not be called Feb
ruary 27 but that the railroads
may be struck separately.
That could forestall blocking
of a strike by the appointment
of an emergency board.
Three Men Hold Up
Bank In Washington
Washington, Feb. 17 (U.R)
Three men held up the Shepherd
Park branch of the Hamilton Na
tional bank toriav and escaped
with about $40,000.
Police broadcast a plckun for
three wite men. armed, headed
in black automobile toward near
by Maryland.
Police said two of the men
entered the bank while the third
remained in the automobile, de
scribed as a black or dark-colored
sedan, probably a Ford.
One of the men put money In
to a light tan suitcase while the
other held persons In the bank
at bay.
Police said the bandits took
$25,000 in $1 bills, $5,000 in $5
bills, $6,000 in $100 bills, $800
in dimes and the rest in other de
nominations or change.
An FBI spokesman said that
special agents were dispatched
to- the bank immediately after
word was received of the hold
up. met, shared the colonel's candy
bar and struck out for what they
thought was the coast.
"Wo saw a fire," said Stephens,
"found Sgt. Jim Ford (Holdcn
ville, Okla.). and Lieut. Gcrhart
sitting around it. Then Sgt.
Thrasher came stumbling
through the brush from the other
end of the hike and joined us.
We were all just about whipped."
The next morning (Wednes
day) they made it to the coast
and met Captain Barrv and
Lieut. Ray Whitfield Jr., of San
Antonio. Tex.
The pair had been busy the
ANGLO-AMERICAN
AIDES IMPLICATED
IN HUNGARY TRIAL
Budapest, Hungary, Feb. 17 (U.R) A British business man
pleaded guilty to spy charges when he went on trial with an Amer
ican associate, Robert E. Vogeler of New York, and five Hungarianj
today.
Edgar Sanders, Budapest manager for the International Tele
phone and Telegraph company, implicated several members of the
Anglo-American legations here in his plea on the first day of the
trial of seven persons accused of spying for the United States and
Great Britain.
Vogeler, American vice president and eastern European man
ager for the I.T. & T. was accused of spying in Hungary for eight
years. He and his six co-defendants were alleged to have organ
ized a spy ring with the help of an American army colonel, George
Kovacs.
The first day of the trial In the red brick criminal court build
ing in the heart of Budapest ended without Vogeler being sum
moned to make his plea.
Three Plead Guilty
Sanders and two Hungarians
who preceded him before the
court pleaded guilty to charges
of spying for the United States
and Great Britain. The Hungari
ans were Imre Geiger, manager
of the I. T. & T.'s Hungarian
subsidiary, and Zoltan Rndo, a
section chief in a government
ministry.
The 44-year-old Sanders, a
relative of Film Star George
Sanders, answered "I do" in a
firm, clear voice when Judge
Vilmos Olthy asked him "Do
you feel guilty?"
He told the court he had ob
tained military and economic in
formation about Hungary for the
British intelligence service.
Considered Hostile
Sanders said the American
and British missions considered
Hungary "a hostile country" af
ter the communists took over,
and tried "to undermine its pres
ent regime
He mumbled several names
which were not clearly audible.
Among those he mentioned were
the assistant British military ati
tache, a Colonel Capero, and
Colonel Raft and Lieutenant
Colonel Hoync, both Americans,
and an American commercial at
tache named Smith.
The British legation was "the
center of those activities," San
ders said. He admitted every
count against him In the Indict
ment. Taught Spying -
Sanders said the British In
1940 taught him spying and
counter-espionage. He said he
came to Hungary as a British
army captain.
"I was told to obtain informa
tion about Soviet and Hungarian
troops. I also had to obtain in
formation about economic con
ditions. I had to make propa
ganda for the Anglo-Saxon
world," he said.
Witnesses Told Lies,
Bridges Declares
San Francisco, Feb. 17 (U.R)
Longshore Leader Harry Bridges
declared today that government
witnesses "lied like hell" when
they described him as a com
munist. They should be prose
cuted for perjury Instead of
him, he insisted.
During Bridges' seventh day
on the witness stand, Govern
ment Prosecutor F. Joseph Don
ohue continued his relentless
probe Into the longshore chief
tain's thoughts, feelings and be
liefs on a variety of subjects.
At one point, Donohue asked
Bridges if he thought anyone
was "putting the screws" on
him.
"You mean you?" Bridges ask
ed sardonically. "I'm bearing up
under it."
"Well, you're not being treat
ed unfairly, arc you?" Donohue
asked.
Bridges snorted:
"What do you mean? I'm up
here aren't I? That's unfair,
isn't it?"
City Police Remind
Motorists Of Parking
In Post Office Area
City police today reminded
motorists that parking on Sixth
street at the post office is re
stricted to 15 minutes at all
hours not just during those
hours that the office is open for
business.
There have been numei.uis
instances recently of persons
parking cars at the front of the
post office and leaving them
there while they attend the thea
ter, it was said. Police are now
conducting a drive against vio
lators of this restricted parking.
previous day trying to make Sgt.
Vitale lrippom (Brooklyn, w.
Y.), comfortable. He had been
hanging by an ankle in a tree
for hours before Barry and Whit
field cut him down and placed
him under a parachute. "We
were too tired to carry him to
the beach," said Barry.
Cpl. Richard Schuler. Miami,
Fla., spent the first night uncon
scious from a fall out of the tree
he landed in. In the morning he
found bear tracks around him
in the snow. He was only 75
yards from the shoreline and
built a shelter with hit parachute
Frank Van Dyke
Tells Slogan For
Red Cross Drive
The 1950 fund drive of the
Jackson county chapter of the
American Red Cross gets under-
IS
Frank Van Dyke
way March 1. and Frank Van
Dyke, drive chairman in tha
county, said today that the slo
gan, "All May Help," will fea
ture the month-long campaign.
Van Dyke and his assistants in
communities throughout the
county will attempt to raise $25,
000 locally for a score of char
itable services, including disas
ter relief, welfare, veterans hos
pital services, counselling, and
many others.
In discussing the slogan chos
en for the drive, Van Dyke said,
"All of us have an instinctive
impulse to help someone in need
and each year the millions who
need help and the millions who
want to help are brought to
gether through the Red Cross.
With their skills, with thier
time, and with their money, all
may help through this organiza
tion." Van Dyke Is a well-known lo
cal attorney who has practiced
law in Medford since 1946. He
has served four sessions in the
Oregon legislature and is now
speaker of the house of repre
sentatives. Would-Be Thief Damages
Safe At Rogue River
Rogue River, Feb. 17 A safe
at the Homestead cafe here was
considerably damaged between
midnight and 8 a.m. today by a
would-be thief, it was reported.
The safe was not opened. State
police this afternoon reported
the arrest of Donald Steele
Thompson, 22, Rogue River, on
a charge of burglary not in a
dwelling, in connection with the
case.
Radio Highlights
Radio Station KYJC (1230
kc) will broadcast tha Ike
Williams -Sonny Boy Wt
fight from Madison Square
Garden tonight, starting at
7 o'clock.
At 8 p. m. KWIN (1400 kc)
will broadcast the Medford
Ashland basketball game from
the Ashland junior high school
gymnasium.
Saturday at 8 p. m. KWIN
will air the Oregon-Idaho
game from McArthur court in
Eugene and at 9:30 p. m., by
delayed broadcast, will carry
the Kerby-Medford game from
the Medford high school gym
nasium. Of Others
on the beach.
Capt. Vance King of the fish
ing vessel "Cape Perry" plucked
Lieut. Cox and Lieut. Darrah
out of the surf, after Cox hurled
a smoke grenade into the air.
Down the coast, seven more
clambered into a life boat,
tipped it over and were pulled
out wet as they had been for
40 hours. They made It to the
"Cape Perry" on the second try.
Last to be picked up by the
fishing boat was Cpl. Schuler.
They found him sitting alone in
the parachute tent. Trippodi
was rescued Wednesday night.
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