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Chicago (U.R) A strike by
engineers, firemen and conduct
ors virtually paralyzed the New
York Central railroad and three
subsidiaries Monday, but the
Army promised prompt action
to. get the trains rolling again,
The New York Centra was
operating only as far west as
Buffalo. N.Y. Traffic on the
Michigan Central, Ohio Central
and Big Four was halted.
Injunction Expected
The Army, in technical
charge of the railroads since
1950, was expected to seek anti-
strike injunctions in federal
court before nightfall.
The strike, which began Sun
day, stemmed from a three-year
disnute over wages, hours ana
work rules.
In addition to the New York
Central and its subsidiaries, the
walkout affected other roads
using New York Central facili
ties. The New York Central said it
already had laid off about 20,
000 workers because of the sur
prise walkout, and that the
total would mount to 50,000 "if
the strike continues two or three
days." The road employs a total
of about 110,000.
Troop Train To Move
A railroad spokesman said
that "hardly a wheel is turning"
in the strikebound area west of
Buffalo. A single troop train was
scheduled for movement in the
Chicago area Monday afternoon,
and presumably would go
through oh time.
Taff, Ike Backers
Predict Victory
' Concord, N. H. (U.R) Sup
porters of Gen. Dwight D. Eisen
hower and Sen. Robert A. Taft
made conflicting forecasts of vic
tory Monday as New Hampshire
voters preparec" to mark ballots
in Tuesday's curtain-raising pres
idential primary.
The stinging "grass roots"
campaign, which left little room
for compromise among opposing
Republican factions, is expected
to attract more than one-third
of the state's 300,000 eligible
voters.
While the Eisenhower-Taft
contest holds the national spot
light, President Truman's popu
larity among rank and file
Democrats gets its first major
test since the 1948 elections.
Sen. Estes Kefauver, the
president's opponent in the
Granite state primary, all but
concedes victory. Kefauver said
with another week of "cracker
barrel" campaigning, he could
beat Mr. Truman, but, with time
having run out, he will be satis
fied "with a good phowing."
Wind, Rain, Snow
Dominate Weather
Br UNITED PRESS
Gusty March winds, rain and
mountain snow dominated the
weather picture in the Pacific
Northwest Monday.
Small craft warnings for
southwest to west winds up to
35 miles an hour were renewed
for 24 hours at 10 a.m. Monday
from Westport to Cape Blanco,
Ore., and in Washington's south
ern inland waters.
Showers and snow flurries
were on the menu for both Ore
gon and Washington through
Tuesday with the snow confined
to eastern areas and the moun
tains. Seattle (U.R) Work on a $2,
500,000 unit of the University
of Washington's teaching and re
search hospital is expected to be
gin early this summer.
Youngster Probably Feels
Everything Has Happened
Portland (U.R) Two-and-one-
half-year-old Mark Galbraith
could smile Monday, but it's
been a long, hard struggle.
The trouble started when the
Pasco, Wash., tot was 17-months-old.
He pulled pot of boiling
coffee upon himself, and scalded
his chest down to his waist. He
carries scars from that episode.
Fell From Auto
His parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Galbraith, were driving
from Pendleton to. their home
in Pasco last December when
Mark fell out of the car.
Mark suffered a broken shoul
der, a pair of scraped and bruis
ed legs. But he recovered quick
ly from this mishap.
MEDFORD, OREGON,
The walkout Sunday left thou
sands of travelers stranded. The
La Salle street station in Chica
go, used by the New York Cen
tral, was virtually deserted.
But at the Union station, the
Pennsylvania Railroad reported
an upsurge in passenger reserva
tions to New York. The Pennsyl
vania, unaffected by the walk
out, said that" its Manhattan,
leaving Chicago at noon for New
York, was "sold out."
Airlines, too, reported a mark
ed increase in business.
Freight Embargo Impoiad.
The New York Central im
posed a freight embargo over
the strike-bound section,"' and
hundreds of freight cars were
tied up in terminals, and yards.
At Indianpolis, Ihd., 30 car
loads of perishable food were
tied up.
Industry already had begun tp
feel the effects. At . Cleveland,
O., Midland Steel Products com
2 Medford Women
Hurt in Bus Crash
Eugene (U.R) Twenty-three
persons were injured, seven ser
iously, when two Trailways
busses collided head-on in a nar
row underpass three miles south
of here early Monday.
State police said a 'southbound
bus driven by Kenneth B. Sat
ron, Salem, Ore., hit a concrete
abutment at the approach to the
underpass on Highway 99 and
the impact hurled the vehicle di
rectly into the path of a north
bound bus.
The busses were heavily dam
aged but neither Satron nor Roy
Vermillion, Milwaukee, Ore.,
driver of the northbound bus,
was seriously injured.
Three ambulances sped ' the
injured to hospitals here short
ly after the mishap at 3:30 a. m.
Listed as seriously injured but
not critical were Robert Duff,
Grants Pass, broken ankle; Mrs.
Ethel Behrman, Grants Pass;
Mrs. Florence Vance, route 2,
box 296, Medford; the Rev. Paul
Water District Vote
Scheduled April 15
A special election to deter
mine whether or not a new wa
ter district northwest of Med
ford shall be incorporated, has
been set for . April 15 by the
county court.
Petitions asking the election
were filed with the court Fri
day and the signatures were
checked by the county clerk's
office. At the election, officers
for the proposed district will
also be up for vote.
If the vote is favorable, the
new district will be able to ne
gotiate with the city of Med
ford for the purchase of domes
tic water supplies, now avail
able through the city's new Big
Butte Spring pipeline.
Lumber Firm, Junior
Red Cross Burglarized '
The Junior Red Cross head
quarters and the Crater Lake
Lumber company offices were
burglarized early Sunday, ac
cording to a report from city
police. :
Missing from the Junior Red
Cross headquarters were eight
pounds of round steak, $2 or $3
in stamps and a pound of butter,
the police said. Lumber company
employees reported the loss of
$14 or $15 worth of three cent
stamps, a 50-cent roll of pennies
a half dollar and a dollar bill.
Early last week, Mark crawl
ed underneath his parents' car
to chase a ball. His brother,
Scotty, was playing in the ve
hicle and decided that the proper
moment had come to test the
starter.
Jaw Fractured
The car rolled against Mark's
head, fracturing his jaw.
The Galbraiths rushed Mark to
the hospital. A Portland doctor
undertook the delicate task of
setting and wiring the young
ster's jaw.
So, Mark can smile again, but
bis jaw will have to be wired
up for at least 30 days. After
that, his lower jaw should be
good as new. - i
MONDAY, MARCH 10,
frtHDS(Q
pany ordered a shutdown at
noon, idling 2,000 employees.
The walkout, aimed primarily
at the New York Central, affect
ed other lines, too. The Wabash
Railroad canceled trains into St
Louis, where the St. Louis term
inal line was strikebound.
C & O Trains Canceltd -
The Chesapeake & Ohio can
celed trains out of Chicago,
where it uses New York Central
tracks and between Grand Rap
ids, Mich., and Oetroit.
. Officials of three striking
brotherhoods representing about
5,500 striking engineers, firemen
and conductors, said the strike
was a "token" affair.
They said there was no par
ticular reason for choosing the
New York Central or for limit
ing the strike to the area west
of Buffalo.
The unions had adopted simi
lar tactics, however, in previous
walkouts.
W. McBeth, Elizabethtown, Pa.,
and Mrs. Billie McClure, 915
Broad street, Medford.
Others injured besides the two
drivers included Mrs. Celesta
Baker, Eugene; Mrs. Shirley
Snider, Klamath, Calif., and her
two children, Sylvia and David;
Reed McKay, Central Point
Miss Emma Taylor, Roseburg;
Pat Ford, Sederstrom Hall, Uni
versity of Oregon; Mrs. Lichty
(no first name or address avail
able); Mrs. Sally Cassidy, Ver-
onia; Ima Holbrook, Kelso
Wash.; Clifford Sowell, Gamma
Hall, University of Oregon; Mrs.
Dorothy Galloway, Beaverton,
and her daughter, name unavail
able, and John B. Haybon, Rose
burg. . . ' ......
Bevan Showdown
Strategy Planned
London U.R) Rival factions
of the Labor party held separ
ate sessions Monday to plot
strategy for a showdown Tues
day which may lead to the ex
pulsion of leftist rebel Aneurin
Bevan and his followers.
It was expected that 31 to 40
of Bevan s leftist followers in
Commons would stick by him
even if he is ousted from the
Labor party. They might form a
new Independent Labor party
in the House.
While the Bevanites discussed
their next move, a special com
mittee of the parliamentary
labor members of Commons
held a special meeting to decide
what line to take at a full party
caucus Tuesday.
The caucus of all 295 Labor
members of Commons was call
ed to decide what action, if any,
to take against Bevan and 56
other leftwingers for bolting the
party leadership to vote against
Britain's $4,094,160,000 rearma
ment program in the House last
Wednesday night -
CANDIDATE One of the last
candidates to file here before the
deadline last Friday was John
Henry Tizekker, above, who is
seeking the Republican nomina
tion ' for county assessor in the
primary election. Tizekker was
a candidate for the same post
in 1948. .
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No. 305
Batista Forces
Seize Control of
Cuba Government
Pre-Dawn Coup
Brings Surrender .
Br FRANCIS L. MCCARTHY
Havana, Cuba (U.R) : Gen
Fulgencio Batista, Cuba s "presi
dent maker," seized control of
the army in a pre-dawn coup
Monday and the presidential
palace surrendered to his troops
at 6 a.m. PST.
Two members of the presiden
tial palace guard were reported
killed and seven wounded in an
outburst of firing several hours
before the surrender. Apparent
ly the shooting was done by Ba
tista supporters before the main
body 'of troops arrived.
On Way to Fortress
Batista sources said President
Carlos Prio Socarras, against
whom Batista rebelled, and
members of his cabinet were on
the way to the grim Cabana
fortress across the harbor from
the city.
The fortress, whose guns dom
inated the capital, was reported
under command of Gen. Francis
co Tabernilla, an old Batista
man, and it was indicated that
Prio had gone there to negotiate
a surrender or, if possible, an
agreement short of surrender
Batista's troops and national
police are in control in central
Havana and at Camp Columbia.
the army general headquarters
outside the city.
Batista, who has helped over
throw three presidents since the
early 193 0's and has made two,
is a candidate in the June 1
presidential election against the
party of President Prio.
Striking at 3 a.m. when he
went to Camp Columbia and
seized command of the army
there, Batista told the United
Press, he revolted because, the
government had become a col
lection of "political ward heel
ers. He charged that Prio was
getting ready to install his own
presidential candidate, former
president Carlos Hevia, by
means of a coup if Hevia failed
to show - strength that : would
make his election certain. ;
Drama Watched From Roof:
This correspondent watched
from the roof of the Hotel Se-
villa, dominating the nearby
presidential palace and its great
square in the heart .of downtown
Havana, when the drama reach
ed ' its climax. Armored cars
with truckloads of infantrymen
behind them closed in on the
palace from all four main
streets leading to it.
as tne armored cars ap-
roached, white sheets appeared
from windows and from the roof
of the palace, hanging down its
walls.
As the infantrymen followed
the armored cars, more white
flags appeared.
Not a shot was fired.
Prio Followers Searched
The soldiers and police who
had been guarding the palace,
with machine guns set up be
hind its grilled metal entrance
gates, filed out into the street.
Others of the Prio regime fol
lowed them to the street.
All were lined up and search
ed, then herded back into the
building.
The army took over the inter
national airport at Rancho
Boyeros, presumably to keep
members of the Frio govern
ment from fleeing by plane.
George Withdraws
Snyder Statement
Washington (U.R) Sen. Wal
ter F. George Monday took back
some angry words he spoke
about Secretary of the Treasury
Snyder, but not his blast against
President Truman.
The Georgia Democrat said he
was "wholly in error" last Fri
day when he said Snyder was
responsible for the appointments
of Denis W. Delaney and James
Fmnegan as internal reveue
collectors. :
Delaney was convicted at
Boston of taking a bribe. Finne-
vn is on trial now in St. Louis
on bribery charges.
There was no conciliatory
words f or . Mr. Truman in
George's unusual speech. His
original charges were made in
retort to Mr. Truman's request
for Senate approval of an inter-
nal revenue reorganization plan
to put collectors under civil
service as a demonstration that
senators were, really interested
in cleaning up corruption.
Richland (U.R) The - Wage
Stabilization board has approved
2.5 per cent retroactive cost of
living wage hike for General
Electric employees at Hanford,
company officials said Monday.
MILK LINE FCR KOREA'S HUNGRY As they do every day at Kumchang, Korea, in every kind of
weather, Korea's hungry line up for their handout of milk and rice. The line is composed of the
young, the old, and the sick. Only children under 15 and adults over 60 can draw rations uni-ss
they are ilL The powdered milk is received from t e United Nations Civil Assistance Organization
and is distributed by the 1st ROK Division's civil assistance section.
Struck Mill Again
Operating; Pickets
Back at Singleton
The Southern Oregon Planing
mill at Central Point resumed
operations this morning after
being strike-bound since Febru
ary 18. A full crew passed the
picket line this morning, ac
cording to company spokesmen.
Pickets from Local . 3030,
Lumber and Sawmill Workers
Union, AFL. also were on hand
at the Jackson Creek Lumber
company, near Jacksonville, in
a jurisdictional strike. This
plant, too, is operating after re
suming work last week.
Pickets Reappear
At a third mill involved in
the strike situation, pickets re
appeared this morning at the
Singleton Milling company. Cen
tral Point, after a circuit judge
ruled Saturday that the court
here has no jurisdiction, and
lifted a temporary injunction
against picketing which has
been placedagainst the union.
The strike at the Southern
Oregon Planing mill was the
first, and involved a dispute be
tween the company and the
union over the status of a former
foreman.
The Singleton mill was in
volved later when pickets ap
peared there, claiming the mill
was using equipment taken
from the other mill's property.
Over Recognition
At the Jackson Creek firm,
which has overlapping owner
ship and management with the
Southern Oregon Planing mill,
the union says the strike is
purely over recognition of the
union, which claims a majority
of the workers are union men.
The company says it will not
recognize any union without a
National Labor Relations Board
supervised election. It has ask
ed the NLRB to conduct such an
election.
A company spokesman at
Southern Oregon Planing mill
said today that "quite a few" of
those who started work there
today were employees of the
mill before the strike started.
Saboteurs Derail
Train, 85 Killed
Saigon, French Indo-China
(U.R) Communist saboteurs de
railed a train 170 miles northeast
of here three days ago, killing
85 persons and injuring 23, it
was reported Monday.
The disaster occurred near the
village of Kompong Lat, 30 miles
northwest of the Cambodian
capital of Pnom Penh.
Hitting a section of track torn
up by saboteurs, the train ex
ploded several mines and
plunged over a bridge into a
ravine.
All 15 coaches of the train
toppled into the ravine. Eighty-
five bodies were lecovered from
the piled-up. wreckage. All the
victims were . Cambodian or
Viet Nam natives.
Spokane Radio Men
Settle Labor Dispute
bpokane (U.R) Some 35
striking technicians and union
engineer-annoucers returned to
work Monday at five Spokane
radio stations after settling a
four-day-old wage dispute, ..
Weather
FORECAST: Partly cloudy to
night and Tuesday with wide
ly scattered showers. Low to
nlfht 33. Hlfh Tuesday 55
' Temp.
Hifhest Yesterday 55
Lowest this Moraine 35
Free, to 4M a-nu Today , ti
Police Press Search
For Slayer of Man
Who Fingered Sutton
New York (U.R) Police
searched Monday for a scarfaced
escaped convict as the slayer of
the hero in bank robber Willie
Sutton's capture but they did not
rule out a theory that a self-appointed
avenger shot the young
pants salesman. v
More than 150 plainclothes
men and uniformed patrolmen
combed the city for Frederick J.
(the Angel) Tenuto, convicted
killer who climbed over a Phila
delphia prison wall with Sutton
in 1947.
Seen in Brooklyn
Tenuto became the quarry in
the city's greatest manhunt after
he was reported seen in Brook
lyn a few hours before Arnold
Schuster, 24, was shot four times
near his home Saturday night
Sabrejets Boost
Bag of MIGs; Russ
Weapons Said Used
Seoul, Korea (U.R) Amer
ican Sabrejet pilots shot down
seven Communist MIG-15s and
damaged three others in wild air
battles over North Korea Mon
day, inflicting the greatest losses
on the Red air force in more
than a month.
A fleet of 80 Russian-built jets
crossed the Yalu river for the
first time in four days. They
were attempting to drive off
100 Allied fighter-bombers at
tacking a vital 15-mile stretch
of railway east of Sunchon.
It was the, worst day for the
Communist air force since Jan
uary 25, when American Sabre
jets destroyed 10 MIGS, prob
ably destroyed 1 and damaged 3.
Russian Weapons Used
Meanwhile, Gen. Matthew B.
Ridgway's headquarters in Tok
yo announced that Russia and
her satellites are providing most
of the weapons used by the Com
munist forces in Korea.
Soviet artillery, tanks, ve
hicles and smaller weapons are
being used by the Communist
forces in Korea, an announce
ment said. All the weapons are
effective," even though some
date back to 1902.
South Africa Riots
Claim Lives off 1 1
Johannesburg, South Africa
(U.R) Eleven persons have been
killed and nearly 200 injured in
two days of rioting which has
terrorized the native- township
of Newclare in the Johannesburg
area, police said Monday.
Gangs of thugs roamed the
township all day Sunday. Native
vigilantes fought them.
Sunday night thousands of na
tive families barricaded them
selves, terrorized, in their dark
ened shacks praying that the
thugs would pass them by.
It was believed the outbreak
was a sequel to riots which start
ed Christmas day and caused the
death of 37 persons and injuries
to 600. . . .
Ex-Governor Pierce.-.
Will Leave Hospital
Salem (U.R) Amazingly rug
ged Walter M. Pierce, former
governor and congressman of
Oregon, was to go home, from
the hospital Monday. .
Pierce, who will be 91 years
old in May, was so ill a couple
of weeks ago that his family
gathered at his hospital bedside
here. ........ : .. .
The killer, who had lurked in
an alley on his death watch, fired
a .dH-caiiber bullet into young
Schuster's abdomen. Then he
shot the youth in the head three
times as he tumbled to the side
walk.
The word that Schuster had
been murdered in cold blood
spread so fast that his family re
ceived the news - when it was
flashed on their television screen.
Chances Seen Ruined
When Sutton was told the
youth who had been responsible
for his capture had been killed
in gangland fashion, the bank
robber said "this sinks me."
Police interpreted Sutton's
statement to mean that Schus
ter's assassination would ruin his
chances when he faces trial for
the $69,000 robbery of a Long
island Dank two years ago.
"He feels, that this shooting
ruins any chances he had of get
ting a break," they said.
Sutton promised Sunday night
he would aid police.
Cooperation Promised
"I will do everything I can to
cooperate with the police to help
bring the killer of Arnold Schus
ter to justice," Sutton said.
Sutton, who previously had
expressed no feeling of ill will
toward Schuster for fingering
mm to police, said he would
write a letter On condolence to
Schuster's family.
However, Thomas J. (Scud)
Kling, who was captured two
days following Sutton's arrest
and linked With Willie in the
bank-robbery, refused to com
ment on the slaying.
Russian Officials
Under Restrictions
Washington (U.R) The
United States slapped strict re
strictions Monday on the travel
of all Russian officials and fam
ilies in this country.
The State Department deliv
ered the tough order to the So
viet embassy. It announced that
it was restricting travel of such
Russians in retaliation against
similar restrictions imposed on
Americans in the Soviet Union.
The United States action was
accompanied by similar moves
in France and the Netherlands.
Most of the North Atlantic
treaty nations were expected
to follow suit.
Under the American order,
Russian officials and their de
pendents in this country must
give formal notification to the
State or Defense Departments
before leaving the city in which
they are residing.
Cuts in Foreign Aid Bill
May Bring Repercussions
Washington (U.R) High
administration officials fear that
any sharp cuts in President Tru
man's $7,900,000,000 foreign aid
program may have serious po
litical repercussions in Western
Europe.
They are ready to warn Con
gress, at hearings beginning lat
er this week, that a slowdown
in U. S. aid might cause the fall
of several key European gov
ernments which are supporting
Atlantic pact rearmament plans.
No Immediate Danger
U. S. experts see no immediate
danger that pro-Communist gov
ernments may come,to power in
Britain, France, Italy and West
ern Germany. But they are
alarmed about the growing pow
er of non-Communist political
leaders who oppose the present
. Atlantic pact rearmament pro
Rear Adm. Libby
Tires of Insults
Hurled by Commies
Limit Apparently
Reached in Talks
Panmunjom U.R) An All'ed
truce delegate warned the Com
munists Monday that he will
walk out of Korean armistice
meetings if they continue to in
sult the United Nations.
But Rear Adm. Ruthven E.
Libby made it clear that he if
not threatening to break off ne
gotiations. "There is a limit beyond which
we are not going to go," Libby
told newsmen after a 57-minute
meeting on exchanging prison
ers. "I am not going to sit and
listen to that tripe. I'll just get
up and walk out."
Six-Minute Session
The limit aoparently already
has been reached in the other
negotiating tent. Staff officers
discussing armistice terms there
adjourned after only six min
utes four minutes longer than
Sunday's session. .
UN representatives again said
they had nothing new to offer
on their stand against Russia's
membership on a "neutral" in
spection commission or other
deadlocked issues.
Next Move Up to Reds
Libby told North Korean Maj.
Gen. Lee Sang Cho in the prison
er discussions that "you have
even gone so far as to attempt to
intimidate us by threats so that
we will acquiesce to your de
mands." Libby made it clear that the
next move is up to the Reds.
But he told Lee the Allies do-not
intend to "sit and listen" any
further to baseless Red charges
that the UN delegation is "tell
ing lies."
The Communists on Sunday
had accused the UN command
of "inhuman and barbarous"
acts against Red prisoners, in
cluding forced tattooing and
threatening them with "bayoneta
and hand grenades" to Join anti-.
Communist societies.
Statement Studied
"We have studied your pre
pared statement of yesterdav."
Libby said, "and after reading
it, we are more than ever unable
to understand what you hope
to accomplish at this late date
by reading into the record such
an outrageous agglomeration of
misstatements of facts, ground
less accusations and thinly-veil
ed threats." Libby disputed
Communist denials that they
hold in Korea more than the
11,500 prisoners whose names
they gave the UN and that they
never removed any captives to
China.
New Trial Planned
In Bribery Hearing
Olympia (U.R) Defense at
torneys were prepared Monday
to move for a new trial for
Samuel Emmanuel, convicted
Friday on one count of asking a
bribe while serving as land
board secretary.
If the motion is denied, the
attorneys said they would ap
peal the conviction to the State
Supreme Court.
Meanwhile, Attorneys Tracy
Gtiffin and Lee Olwell were
working out the defense to
another bribery count filed
against Emmanuel in Pacific
county. That trial starts Wednes
day in Raymond before Judge
John J. Langenback.
Thief Disappointed
In Bottle Contents
Salem (U.R) A prowler
who was no candidate for
Alcoholics Anonymous when
he broke into a Salem home
made off with a filled whisker
bottle.
Police said Monday he may
now be a prospect for Alco
holics Anonymous. The whis
key bottle was filled, all right
but not with bourbon.
II was filled with cold tea.
gram, and want to make big
cuts in their own nations con
tribution to it.
Administration witnesses are
expected to tell Congress that
the anti-rearmament, pro-"neu-trality"
political factions in Eu
rope will be greatly strength
ened by an evidence of waning
U. S. support for the mutual de
fense effort.
Shave Expected
Experts doubt, however, that
any warnings sounded by the
administration will - dissuade
Congress from shaving $1,000,
000,000 to $2,000,000,000 front
the foreign aid program. Power
ful congressional sentiment for
reducing the program has been
voiced in advance of bearings
which the Senate Foreign Rela
tions and House Foreign Affairs
committees are scheduled to
start Tuesday or Wednesday.
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