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1 mAwm fo) 0) la Ml mm f VOGELER GIVEN 15-YEAR TERM Budapest, Hungary, Feb. 21 (UP) Robert A. Vogeler, 39, American business man who pleaded guilty to sabotage and spying against Hungary for the United States, was sentenced to 15 years in prison today. The prosecution appealed at once, as is its pri vilege in Hungarian courts, on grounds that the court had been "too lenient." A British associate, Edward Sanders, was sen tenced to 13 years imprisonment. Two Hungarian co defendants were given death sentences. Three other Hungarians were sentenced to prison terms of five to 10 years. The court ordered the confiscation of all of Vo geler's and Sanders' assets in Hungary. It ordered them expelled forever from Hungary after their sen . tences are served. The political rights of the Hun garian defendants were suspended and their property coniiscatea Misstatements Counted In Vogeler Testimony (In Vienna Morris L. Ernst, New York attorney who was re fused permission to represent Vogeler, said he counted 85 mis statements of fact in the testi mony Vogeler read, and "tor ture or drugs apparently were used.") (In London, a foreign office spokesman said it was fair to speculate that "threats, induce ments and pressure" had been applied to cause Sanders to in criminate himself.) Judge Vilmos OHhy of the Budapest people's court pro nounced sentences after a trial that lasted only three days. All seven defendants pleaded guilty to operating and taking part in a spy ring which functioned for eight years. Designed At Cover Vogeler, assistant vice presi dent and eastern European man ager of the International Tele phone and Telegraph company, said in court that his business connections in Hungary were designed merely as a cover for his spying on behalf of the U. S. army intelligence. The sentence of the Hunga rians, handed down in, the red brick' criminal court building where Joseph Cardinal Minds zenty was convicted and sen tenced to life imprisonment, fol low: , Imre Geiger. manager of the Standard Electric company. Hun garian subsidiary of the I.T.&T., death. Soltan Rado, former section chief in a government ministry, death; Istvan Justh, a Catholic priest, 10 years; Keleman Domokos, factory di rector. 10 years; Edina Doery, a baroness turn ed barmaid, five years. Faced Death Five of the defendants, Includ ing Vogeler and SandeTs, who is a cousin of Actor George San ders, had faced possible death sentences under the law. Vogeler was white of face but firmly in control of himself when he and his six co-defendants marched from their jail cells with police escort just before 1 p.m. (7 a.m., EST). TO ADDRESS GRADS Grants Pass, Ore., Feb. 21 U.P.) Dean Paul M. Dunn of the Oregon State college forestry school and Athletic Director Roy S. (Spec) Keene will address a meeting of Oregon State alumni here tonight. Majority Rights Suffering At Hands of Minorities, Louisiana Judge This nation has reached the point where we constantly pro tect the minority to the detri ment of the majority, according to Judge George W. Hardy Jr., Shreveport. La., who addressed a meeting of the Rogue River Valley Knife and Fork club last night. Judge Hardy is judge of the second circuit court of ap peals of Louisiana and former mayor of Shreveport. "We have forgotten that the needs of the individual must be subordinated to the needs of the majority," the judge said in developing his topic, "God, the Suprpme Court and Us," and de clared that "welfare and freedom are assured only by protection of the majority." Nation Is 'Partnership' The speaker opened his talk by saying that this nation is fun damentally a partnership be tween God, used in the sense of God the Creator, and the people of America, but that in recent years we had tended to confuse denominationalism and sectari anism with true devotion to God. As a background for his con tention that individual and min ority desires are being placed ahead of the good of the major ity, he reviewed the case of the Illinois woman who brought suit against the board of education of Champagne county in that state and forced through a decision to the supreme court to cease pro viding "released time" for re ligious education. 'No Obligation' , He pointed out that this was ..-ie even though the son of the woman who sued was under no obligation to attend the religious classes. The judge declared this (Acme Tdcphoto) ROBERT A. VOGELER Given 15-Year Sentence Closed Hearing Set In Railroad Disaster Rockville Centre, N. Y., Feb. 21 (U.R) The public service commission will hold a closed hearing today to determine whether the bankrupt Long Is land railroad should be forced to install safety devices which could have prevented the train wreck which killed 29 persons and injured 115. The emergency hearing was called last night after Jacob Kicfer, 55-year-old Long Island motorman, was arraigned on a second degree manslaughter charge growing out of the col lision ol two trains last Satur day. Kicfer was released in $10,- 000 bond supplied by two rail road police officers. Kiefer seemed shocked and confused as he heard himself ac cused of "recklessness and gross negligence for running nis train through a red stop signal shortly before it crashed head on into another train on a gant let track. Judge Cyril J. Brown of the Nassau district court ordered a hearing on the charges March 6. Kiefer faces a penalty of 15 years and a fine of $1,0UU it found guilty. was a clear case of where the wishes of the minority, in this case an individual who declared she was an atheist, were forced upon the majority in a nation where devotion to God is the de sire of the majority. The speaker said this trend could continue to the point where references to God could be barred from public buildings and public gatherings and asked, "Do we want to delete all men tion of God from public educa tion?" Minorities Work "Who is it that works in the legislatures and in the congress for passage of bills? The minor ity interests." he emphasized, and added that "no one repre sents the majority, which is real ly America. Everyone is in the minority on some point or be- lief." he stressed. "Our failure j lies in our devotion to the selfish interests of the minority rather than in the greater interests of the majority." This trend of deferring to the wishes of minorities and pres sure groups has resulted in the growing belief that we are all equal and that we are all en titled to security at the hands of the government, the speaker said. Judge Hardy declared that even if the constitution of the United States says all men are created equal" we should be ! wise enough to realize that they do not remain so under the pat terns of nature. "Do we want to be equal: do we want to be all alike?" he asked, and added that the achievement of equality could be disappointing. 'Easy Road' Progressing to the subject of Medford 44th Year 14 Pages Congress Asked For Third Year Of European Help Acheson Issues Warning On Russia Washington. Feb. 21 (U.R) Warning that Russia is driving for world domination with "in creasing boldness," Secretary of State Dean Acheson and ECA Administrator Paul G. Hoffman asked congress today for a third year. $3,100,000,000 renewal of the Marshall plan. They told a joint session of the senate foreign relations and house foreign affairs committee that the European recovery pro gram will require $2,950,000,000 of new money for the 12 months beginning next July 1, plus $150,000,000 cash left over from this year's appropriations. Basic Element Acheson said the aid program is a "basic element" of a national policy that calls for increasingly close cooperation with "our Eu ropean friends." "It is in the carrying out of such a policy, in our determina tion and our will to do it how ever long it takes and whatever it requires of us, that the frus tration of the Kremlin's design for world dominion lies," he said. Progress Made In solemn tones. Acheson told the Joint committee that great progress has been made toward rebuilding western Europe's war torn economy. But, he said: "The Kremlin can and is pur suing its course with efficiency and with signs of increasing bold ness, using whatever meansseem appropriate to it in a given sit uation ... in the context of the present world crisis the task is doubly acute, doubly urgent." Sewer Hearings Set By Council Tonight Hearings on five sewer instal lation projects are scheduled at the regular meeting of the Med ford city council at 7:30 p.m. to day at the city hall. The eight-inch sewers are pro posed in an alley of block 3, Rose Park addition between Plum and Hamilton streets; on Eastwood drive between Keene Way drive and Wilson Place; on Wilson Place between Keene Way and Eastwood drives: in an alley of block 4, Walnut Park addition between Ninth and the city limits, and on South New town between Belmont and Stewart avenues and north side of Stewart between Newtown and Peach street. Among matters being consid ered by the council are an ord inance banning street sales from vehicles, a garbage rules and regulations ordinance and a peti tion for meat inspection. Both proposed ordinances have passed first readings. Believes collectivism, Judge Hardy said the road to socialism is an easy one; that we first accept, then expect, and then enjoy the bene fits offered by paternalistic government with supposedly in exhaustible coffers. "Are we children," he asked, "that we actually believe the coffers are inexhaustible? We pay the prom ises to the minorities from exac tions made on the majority." The judge closed his speech by saying that he was tired of the spirit of hopelessness among those who actually believe this nation is "on the road to the pit which we fear," but refuse to take any action. He declared he was "tired of sectionalism which votes party rather than princi ples," and said "America must forget creed, class, section and party and exert ourselves to in- jure the perpetuation of those truths in which we believe. This is not a land of equality of bene fits, but it is a land where men of good will, courage, vision and faith can find one equality that of opportunity." In the question period which followed Judge Hardy was asked to give his opinion of the Ten nessee valley authority, and re plied that 'from the standpoint of the common welfare and im provement, the development of these authorities is justified in our political philosophies if they dd to the comfort and happi ncss of the majority." Asked con cerning federal subsidies. Judge Hardy said, "I think It is all wrong: man-made economics will not stand up." He was introduced by Rawles Moore. Medford attorney and member of the club. fill mm. MEDFORD, OREGON. UAL MULjTEI SMOKY INFERNO HuSf clouds the Airline Oil and Orease Co. at and was still burning some 24 Bridges Rambles During Testimony In Conspiracy Case San Francisco, Feb. 21 (U.R) Harry,. Bridges, sounding more like' he was making a speech in a union hall than testifying as his own witness in his perjury conspiracy trial, gave a federal court iurv his views today on Russian expansion, U.S. "mili tary brass. Attorney General Howard McGrath and quoted lib erally from Mark Twain's "Con necticut Yankee." On the stand for the ninth con secutive day. Bridges spoke un til he was hoarse, with only a little prompting from Prosecutor F. Joseph Donohue. Donohue is seeking to convict the CIO Long shore union president of commit ting perjury at his naturalization hearing when he denied he was or ever had been a communist. Bridges Rambles Donohue's courtroom tech nique has been to ask Bridges a brief question, then let the union leader ramble on in near speeches which have taken as long as 16 minutes. Donohue asked the Australian- born longshoreman if It were true that in May 1947 he wrote that "military brass" in theUnit- ed States is stirring a feeling to ward war. Bridges confirmed it. Then, in a rambling answer characteristic of his other testi mony, he went on to say: Anti-Labor Feeling "Too many people In the army have an anti-iabor feeling . . . they get labor union men in the army and tell them to 'take or ders or else." "... I don't want to join the reactionary clique that wants to 'attack.' We are against expan sion of any nation, including Rus sia, if it's going to lead to trans gression of rights of the people. We are against expansion if it leads to war. That goes for Eng land. Russia, and even this country. "Am I on trial for thinking this way?" he asked Donohue. Police Investigating Burglary, Watch Theft City police today said they were investigating the theft last night of $120 from Lecvcr Motor company, and of a 17-jewcl Ham ilton watch from Brophy's jew elers yesterday. The money reportedly was taken from a locked safe file at the motor firm. The burglary was discovered at 8 a.m. today by Everett D. Bennett. It was not learned how the building was entered. At Brophy's a man and a com panion came in and inspected the size 12 watch with yellow gold case. Police said he asked to sec a 21-jcwel model and was told to wait for another clerk, but the men immediately left taking the watch. Its value was said to be $66. BOND ISSUE APPROVED Salem, Ore.. Feb. 21 'U.R) Voters of the Dayton school dis trict approved a $249,000 bond icsue for a new grade school building at an election Monday. The new building will include 16 classrooms, a gymnasium and offices. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, (Acme Telrphoto) of smoke, visible for miles around, billow from burning warehouse of Lubbock. Tex The $40,000 blaze destroyed 50.000 gallons ol oil product hours after the fire started. Note burning power pole (center). Robert1 Root Seeks Representative Job Robert W. Root. 33, well known Rogue valley fruit grow er and packer, announced today that he will be a candidate for 'ft 4 ' i. ROBERT W. ROOT Seeks Legislative Seal Federal Seizure Of Mines Seen By United Press A high government official to day predicted federal seizure of the soft coal mines within a few days unless 372.000 striking min ers return to the pits or negotia tors speed up talks to end the walkout. John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers, who have stood firm on their declaration that they would return to work only when they have a contract, said government-seizure "might" end the strike. Rank-and-filcrs expressed in terest in the government offi cial's statement because they be lieved seizure would lead to the signing of a contract., New violence was reported in the coal fields today. One thou sand pickets raided a Pennsylva nia mine and set a tipple on (ire. and mines and miners were at tacked in West Virginia. Phoenix Residents To Aid Fire Department A meeting of Phoenix resi dents for the purpose of assisting the volunteer fire department, and taking steps toward lower ing the fire insurance rates oi the community, will be held at the Phoenix Grange hall at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, it was announced today. The meeting, under the spon sorshin of the fire department and the city council, will feature a talk by Eldon Winkley, deputy stale fire marshal, from Salem. and a motion picture dealing with the problems faced by small communities in fire protection. Motion picture equipment is being furnished by the L. C. Taylor company. s. :; , - . 1 mm Tribvne 1950 NO. 281 the republican nomination for a seat in the Oregon house of icp- resentatives at the May 19 pri mary election. He was to tile his .statement of candidacy late today. ' Root, a native of Medford, has lived here all his life, and at tended Medford public schools. He attended Southern Oregon college, graduating from the lat ter. Ho and his wife, the former Betty Fowler, are parents of two daughters, one and a half and three years of age. The fam ily residence is at 229 Bradford way. Manages Company The candidate is the son of Myron Root, who has been prom inent in fruit growing and pack in? circles In the valley for many years. The younger man is gtneral manager of Crater Lake orchards, president of the Jack son County Fruitgrowers league, and vice-president of the Rogue Valley Irrigation association, which has been active in pro moting prelimihary work on trie proposed Rogue basin project. A four-year army veteran dur ing World War II, Root served in the Caribbean area for three years. Second Announcement Root's announcement of can- didacy is only the second in the county for a scat in the state house of representatives, t. H. Mann, Medford manufacturer, said recently he would also seek one of the two representative posts from this county. No demo crats have as yet said they would stand for election. Only announced candidate for the county's senate seat so far is Ben Day, Gold Hill rancher and incumbent representative. Accused Car Thief Who Escaped From Hospital Arrested At Roseburg An accused car thief, who startled police in June. 1948, by escaping from an unguarnea room in the Community hospital with a broken pelvis, has been arested by Douglas county auth orities and is being held in Rose burg to face grand larceny charges here. Paul Norman Smallwood was being treated in the Community hospital for a broken pelvis be fore he was brought into court In face the car theft charges. Sheriff Howard Gault said that Smallwood was not placed under guard because he was confined in a heavy plaster cast around his waist and one leg was con sidered well immobilized. An ac- complice apparently brought him a knife, according to Gault. and the injured suspect cut off the cast and left the hospital with out being detected. He had not been heard of until this mornlnir when Gault was notified that Smallwood had been arrested In Roseburg on a warrant Issued from here more than a year and a half ago. A deputy sheriff will return him to the Jackon county Jail. CONFERENCE OPENS La Grande, Ore., Feb. 21 (U.R) The ninth annual religion in life conference opens a three-day meeting at Eastern Oregon Col lege of Education here lomor row. CONSPIRACY CHARGE AGAINST U.S. ENVOY REASON FOR ACTION Washington, Feb. 21 (U.R) The state department annnitnceH today that it has broken diplomatic relations with Bulgaria. Slate Department Press SDokesman Michael J. McDermntt said the United States informed in a note aenvcren in sotia yesterday. The Bulgarian charge d affaires in Washington, Peter Voutov, was Informed today and was asked to make immediate prepara tions to withdraw the Bulgarian diplomatic mission from Washing ton. The United Stales broke off relations because Bulgaria had accused Donald R. Heath, the United States minister in Sofia, of conspiring against the Bulgarian government. Bulgaria declared mm persona non grata and asked his recall. The United States warned Bulgaria at the time that this coun try would break relations unless Bulgaria withdrew the charges. Bulgaria ignored the United States warning. amiles Nervously Voutov was at the state de partment for only five minutes. As he emerged from the office of Llewelyn Thompson, deputy assistant secretary of state, the diplomat smiled nervously at reporters. "It is just that the state de partment wants to break rela tions with Bulgaria," he said. ' Soon we are all going home maybe at the beginning of marcn. Voutov said there are 12 Bul garians attached to his staff. Only two of them Voutov and his attache, Constantin Grigorov have diplomatic status. First Since War The state department listed 38 official personnel attached to the U. S. legation at Sofia. This docs not include dependents. Of the 38, the department said. 23 are political officers and 15 are at tached to the military attache's office. The break was the first since the war for the United States. Voutov submitted to Thomp son detailed plans for getting the Bulgarian mission here out of the country. Thompson re plied mat ne expected the Bul garian government to facilitate the departure of the U. S. mis sion from Sofia. Voutov prom ised that his government will do that. Controversy Reviewed The U. S. note reviewed the controversy over the consoiracv charges against Heath, and the Bulcarian reouest for h s recal "This action on the part of the Bulgarian government, In nut ting forward wholly unfounded charges against the principal diplomatic representative of the united States as the basis of a demand for his recall, coulrl be taken by the United States gov ernment only as confirmatlon of the mounting evidence that the Bulgarian government was un willing, In its relations with the United Statc. to ohserve ac cented standards of International comity," the U. S. note said. Some Offices Open, Some Closed Tomorrow The observance of the 218th anniversary of George Wash ington's blrlhday will be ob served here tomorrow as a legal holiday by federal, stale, county, and most city offices. Schools and most business places will remain open; the post office will be closed. The United States Na tional bank will be closed but the First National bank will be open for business as usual. The city school superintendent's of fice will be open; the county school superintendent's office will be closed. Lumber Operators, IWA Start Negotiations Portland. Ore.. Feb. 21 (U.R) Lumber operators and the Inter national Woodworkers of Amer ica (CIO) have begun soring con tract negotiations here with the IWA expected to submit its plan for health and welfare benefits as the main contract change this year. A recent Weyerhaeuser Tim ber company pension offer to its employees alsp is expected to come under discussion. Hollywood, Feb. 21 (U.R) The wife of Film Actor Louis Hayward, 40, has sued him for divorce. 3 Salem Students Testify ABC Society Not Secret Salem, Ore., Feb. 21 (U.R) Three Salem high school students testified Monday that their or ganization variously known as Alpha Beta Chi and American Boys' club was not a secret so ciety. They were among 18 students expelled from high school last fall after the school board charged their ABC group was a secret society, banned by stale law. The 18 are seeking a per manent Injunction in circuit court here to prevent the school board from carrying out the ex pulsion. They have been attend ing school under a temporary in junction. Circuit Judge Dal M. King of Coos county, who is hearing the case, served notice Monday that he expects the attorneys to stick to Issues involved in the pro ceedings. Jim Kroeplin, Gene Lcbold and Eugene Wegncr, the students who were witnesses yesterday, said they had planned to seek school board approval ol the the Bulgarian office of the break Juror Dismissed From Mercy Death Trial Of Doctor Manchester. N. H.. Feb. 21 (U.R) Dr. Herman N. Sander's mercy murder trial adjourned for lunch today with one fewer jurors on the panel than there were at the end of yesterday's opening session. The second day of the 41-year- old general practitioner's first- degree murder trial opened with a one hour 15-minute conference in Superior Judge Harold E. Wescott's chambers. This re sulted in the removal of the ninth juror, who had been se lected just before court ad journed yesterday. The elimination was made on a motion of Attorney General William L. Phinney. During the luncheon recess, Phinney said: "The state received informa tion which caused it to believe that Juror Alfred Baines should not sit and the matter was tak en up with the court and he was challenged." When Phinney was pressed for the exact reason for seeking re moval of the 72-year-old retired Manchester Gas company work er, he said: "No, I don't feel I can give it cither off or on the record." Dr. Sander is charged with murdering Mrs. Abbie C. Bor roto, 59, a Manchester house wife, as she lay dying of cancer in a hospital last December 4, State Highway Funds Distributed Salem, Ore., Feb. 21 (U.R) Secretary of State Earl T. New bry today announced apportion ment of $1,607,787.80 to the cit ies of Oregon. The money, distributed on a basis of population out of the state highway fund, represents 10 per cent of the revenues to the state highway fund in the last half of 1949 from motor vehicle license fees, gasoline taxes, motor carrier fees and fines for violation of the motor vehicle and transportation laws. In addition, $125,000 is kept by the state highway commis sion which was set aside for re pair of streets within cities which arc not a part of the state high way system but receiving ex cessive wear from heavy indus trial traffic. Cities participating In today's apportionment Include: Ashland $13,402.47; Grants Pass $17,029.95; Jacksonville $2, 856.22; Klamath Falls S46, 606.35; Medford $31,870.41. WEATHER FORECAST: Fair tonlifht, few showers over mountalni Wed nesday. Slightly warmer. Temp. Highest yesterday - . S3 Lowest this morning 28 out-of-school organization. They said the parents of all members knew about the group, formed here last July as an offshoot of a Portland high school group. Kroeplin, president, said the ob ject of the ABC was fellowship and promotion of social activ ities. He said its rules included bans against drniking and pro fanity. Under cross-examination the students said they had planned to get a faculty adviser when better organized, but hadn't told school officials about the club when school opened because "we wercn's ready yet." They said their parents had planned to meet with school officials to seek approval for the group. Lawrence Osierman and Reg inald Williams, attorneys for the student plaintiffs, said they do not intend to question the con stitutionality of the Oregon law banning secret societies among high school students. They said the contention of the youths and their parents is that the ABC is , not a secret society.
