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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.
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MEDFORD, OREGON.
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SMOKY INFERNO HuSf clouds
the Airline Oil and Orease Co. at
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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
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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.
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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.