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Japanese Rescue
Workers Seek Men
Trapped in Mine
Yubari. JaDan -(UPD-Rescue
workers braving fire and the
threat of gas explosions today
brought one of 43 miners
trapped in a caved-in mine to
the surface alive. They found
28 bodies.
The bodies were entombed
more than two miles from the
mine entrance, leaving 14 of
the trapped miners unac
counted for.
Mine officials said the bo
dies were found 13,120 feet
inside the mine. Some ap
peared to have been killed
outright by the early morning
explosion which triggered the
cave-in while others appeared
to have burned to death or
s.5 'located.
Efforts Hampered
The survivor was found
"much closer to the entrance
of the mine," the officials
said.
Rescue work was hampered
by a raging fire which broke
out underground soon after
the explosion. Foul air also
threatened the lives oi ine
trsrinpr! men. and air was
pumped into the shaft in
hopes of saving lives.
The explosion knocked out
all lights and telephones in
the mine, and no word from
the trapped miners reached
the surface.
"We are seeking ways of
getting food and water to the
men. but it is impossible to do
so at present," an official of
the mine said. "We don't even
know what success the men
are having now in fighting
the fire."
Press reports said there was
'"no hope' for the rescue of
the miners, but this report
was not confirmed immediate
ly officials of the Hokkaido
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the mine.
The pit ripped by the blast
is the biggest coal mine on
Japans northern island of
Hokkaido, and one of the
largest in the country.
22 Work War to Safely
Reports from the scene said
65 miners originally were
trapped by the explosion, but
22 had managed to work their
way to safety.
HTK officials said seven
rescue teams were at work in
the mine, trying to break
through to miners 'who were
still underground.
Officials said it was
"lucky" the accident occurred
at a time when a reduced Sunday-night
shift was at work.
"If such an accident oc
curred on a week day, more
than 1.C00 miners probably
would have been in the mine
and the tragedy would have
been much worse," one offi
cial said.
In 1938, 160 miners were
killed in a similar accident at
Yubari, Japan.
Herblock Receives
Award for Work
New York Herbert L.
Block, syndicated editorial
cartoonist who signs his works
as "Herblock", has been nam
ed recipient of the 1960 Fior
ina Lasker Civil Liberties
award. The award was made
by the New York Civil Lib
erties Union, an affiliate of
the American Civil Liberties
Union, whis administers the
award.
Block, two-time Pulitzer
prize winner and recipient of
awards from journalistic and
other groups, was selected be
cause of his vigorous defense
of the Bill of Rights, both in
hi5 cartoons and his writings.
Herblock's cartoons appear
daily in the Medford Mail
Tribune.
Mikoyan Due in
Havana Thursday
Havana-fUPD-Soviet Deputy
Premier Anastas Mikoyan is
scheduled to arrive here
Thursday, starting what is ex
pected to be a parade of im
portant foreign visitors to
Cuba this year.
Premier Fidel Casto's rev
olutionary government is be
lieved to be planning an en
thusiastic welcome for Mik
oyan, but few details of the
program plaroied for him
have been made public.
The Kremlin official is com
ing here specifically to open
the Soviet exhibition which
has been touring the Western
Hemisphere. The exhibition
open Friday.
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No 'Deterrent
Gapr in Strength,
Gates Declares
Washington IIPD Defense
Secretary Thomas S. Gates to
day disputed the idea that
Russia has outdistanced or
even overtaken the United
States in military power.
Gates, testifying for the
first time as defense secretary
before the Senate military ap
propriations subcomm i 1 1 e e,
said emphatically there - was
no "deterrent gap" in Ameri
can military strength.
He conceded that the Rus
sians "may enjoy at times
a moderate numerical superi
ority" of intercontinental bal
listic and sea-launched mis
siles during the next three
years. '
But he said the "versatility
and strength" of U. S. over-all
retaliatory capability was
much greater. As support of
this claim, he cited powerful
U. S. long - range bomber
forces, a "clearly superior"
navy and better air defense.
U. S. Has Bombers
Gates, testifying on the ad
ministration's $39,335,000,000
defense budget request, warn
ed that it was "dangerous to
our national security and our
position in the world to allow
a false impression to gain
is second to the Soviet Union."
ground that the United States
Gates said manned bombers
"are still, for both ourselves
and the U.S.S.R., the primary
means of delivery of heavy
nuclear weapons in the vol
ume and with the accuracy
needed to strike a decisive
blow."
"In this category," he said,
"the United States far excels
the U.S.S.R."
Gates said the Russians
would be inviting their "own
destruction" if they attacked.
Chairman Dennis Chavez
(D-N.M.) said in opening the
hearings that the country's
defense was of "far greater"
importance than a balanced
budget. '
New Soviet Estimates
Gates, who was called to
testify today along with Gene
Nathan F. Twining, chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
faced questioning on reports
that intelligence experts have
modified estimates on which
he based his appraisal of U.S.
military needs.
One of his sharpest critics,
Sen. Stuart Symington (D
Mo.), was expected to join in
the questioning.
The reports of revised in
telligence estimates began to
criculate last Friday after
Central Intelligence Director
Allen W. Dulles briefed the
combined Senate Space Com
mittee and Preparedness sub
committee. Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D
Wash.) said that the briefing
disclosed a "substantial"
change in the estimates which
Gates had been using to paint
a "rosy" picture of U.S. de
fenses. Accuracy- Upgraded
From other sources it was
learned that the modified esti
mates, in part at least, up
graded the accuracy of Rus
sian missiles. The revisions
were said, to have been based
on new information.
In a filmed TV interview
with Sen. Prescott Bush (R
Conn.) made public Sunday,
Gates said Russia's advantage
in missiles would be greatest
about 1962 "after which the
numbers will close."
LEADER GIVES UP Pierre Lagillarde, 29, left, commander
of the eight-day insurrection, evacuated his stronghold at
Algiers in a bloodless end to the anti-Gaullist uprising.
Lagillarde, followed by 500 of his armed men, passed through
Army lines ringing the entrenched camp and boarded a 20
truck column for an unknown destination. (UPI Telephoto)
Two Rescued from
Clackamas Island
Oregon City-(UPD-Two Port
land men, Kenneth N. Mills,
28, and Wayne Wilbur Rudy,
26, were rescued from a small
island in the Clackamas river
Sunday about 13 miles east of
here.
The men had crossed over
to the island Sunday morning
during low water to fish. In
the late afternoon when they
attempted to get back to shore
the river was too high.
Another fisherman, Doyle
Barnes, Portland, saw the
men and notified authorities.
County authorities along
with state police managed to
get a rubber life raft to the
men on the end of 100 feet of
rope to allow them to get
back to safety.
LUMBER USE
Spokane-Lumber comprises
80 per cent of the construction
material in the U.S.
January Losers Top
Stock List Advance
New York -(UPD- Stocks met
support today, starting off a
month traders hope will be
just the opposite of January.
The list last month made
the sharpest decline for any
January on record.
Motors, electronics, steels
and chemicals, Hhe biggest
losers last month, led the ad
vance today.
A good January production
report helped lift Chrysler
more than a point. Ford and
Studebaker-P a c k a r d rose
around 1 each.
Youngstown rose about 2
and Republic more than 1 in
a firm steel section.
Union Carbide paced chemi
cals with a rise of more than
3. DuPont tacked on about a
point.
DOW-JONES AVERAGES
New York - TPD - Dow
Jones final stock averages:
30 industrials 626.20, up
3.58; 30 railroads 151.27. off
. 0.33; 15 uliliiies 85.99. up
0.43, and 65 stocks 207.23,
up . 0.81. Sales today . were
about 2,820,000 shares com
pared with 3,060,000 shares
Friday.
Today's prices on selected stocks:
Allied Chemical 51
Alum Co. Am. 92,i
American Can 41i
American Motors 78 3
AT&T
Anaconda Copper
Armco Steel (xd)
Bendix Aviation
Bethlehem Steel
Boeing Air
Caterpillar Corp
Chrysler Corp.
Continental Can
801
60 5i
66 5i
68 1 j
504
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305,
633
42
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26 i
92 3
Crown Zellerbach
Curtiss Wright
Dow Chemical
Du Pont .237
Eastman Kodak 95 '4
Firestone 124 ,
General Electric 87 5
General Motors 48
Georgia Pacific 45 is
Japanese Accused
Of Reckless Fishing
Tokyo-flJPD - Radio Moscow
accused the Japanese Sunday
night of reckless ' fishing
which threatens salmon, trout,
crab and herring resources in
the North Pacific.
The Russian radio made the
attack in a broadcast beamed
to Japanese listeners on the
eve of the opening in Moscow
of talks intended to .set Jap
anese salmon, crab and her
ring quotas for 1960 in waters
of Soviet Kamchatka.
Graham Paige 2'B
Greyhound 20 58
Gulf Oil 32 ;B
Homestake Mining . 41
Idaho Power .. 47
I. B. M. .419
Int. Paper 116
Johns Manville .'. ... 46 1
92 n
27 V4
22'8
45 '
54
28'4
62
Kennecott Conner
Lockheed Aircraft
Montana Power Co. .
Montgomery Ward
Natl Biscuit
New York Central
Pac Gas & Elec
Penney. J. C. 120
Penn RR 1534
Radio Corporation . 60 Va
Richfield Oil 79 'i
Safeway 36V
Sears 45 "4
Shell Oil 38 'B
Soconv Mobil Oil 39 g
bouinern uo 40
Southern Pacific
Standard California
Standard Indiana
Standard NJ
Sun Mines
Texas Co
Texas Gulf Sulfur
Tex Pac Land Trust
Transamerica
Trans World Air
Tri-Continental
Union Carbide
Union Pacific
United Aircraft
United Air Lines : I
U. S. Rubber
U. S. Steel
Youngstown S & T
22 'i
. 47?i
- 41 ',4
47
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- 75 38
, 17i,2
- 153,
- 26
- 15
.- 36i,
293,
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- 311,
- 555,
.. 90'i
-121 1,4
Creation off Missile 'Czar' Likely
Washington - .(UPD - A new
move for creation of a mis
sile "czar" appeared likely
today in the wake of state
ments by two military lead
ers . on the short and long
term dangers to the United
States.
The short-term danger, ac
cording to Air Force Gen.
Thomas S. Power, is that in
two years Russia may have
enough intercontinental mis
siles to launch a massive nu
clear attack on this country.
The long-term hazard, re
tiring Army Mai. Gen. John
B. Medaris said, is that at
the present rates of progress
Russia may completely domi
nate space within 10 years.
Brooks Disagrees
Medaris, whose retirement
from the Army became effec
tive Sunday, said in a fare
well statement that all missile
and space activities should be
placed under a joint military
commana.
Chairman Overton Brooks
(D-La.) of the House Space
Committee disagreed with Me
daris, but said: "We''-e got
to have more one-man con
trol. I don't want dictatorship
-but something's got to be
done about this bickering and
back-biting that is still going
on."
Rep. Chet Holifield CD
Calif.), chairman of the con
gressional subcommittee on
radiation, said figures devel
oped by his group last year
take on a new significance in
the present situation.
Views Striking Power
Holifield said that if Rus
sia launched 260 missiles with
H-bomb warheads at 224
American targets, 50 million
Americans would be killed
and 20 million injured.
Democrats Proclaim
State Convention
'Very Successful'
The 260 missiles is approxi
mately the number that Pow
er, chief of the Strategic Air
Command, believes the Rus
sians could have sometime in
1962.
By coincidence, 260, is also
the number of intercontinen
tal ballistic missiles that
America has "programmed"
so far. But there is no chance
that they could all be era
placed before late 1963 or
1964.
Salem - (UPD - Democratic
party officials proclaimed the
two-day state convention here
which ended Saturday har
monious and very successful.
More than 500 attended.
It was the first full - scale
Oregon Democratic 'conven
tion in state history. One was
attempted 66 years ago.
The 297 official delegates
from 29 counties adopted a
resolution calling for another
state-wide conclave in 1962,
the date and site to be chosen
later.
"It was a tremendous suc
cess," according to Chairman
Robert Straub, Springfield.
"It's going to give depth to
politics in 1960."
National Democratic Chair
man Paul Butler addressed
the ' convention twice, once
briefly Saturday afternoon
and at the Saturday night ban
quet.
He termed it a "wonderful
demonstration of Democracy
at work in the grassroots."
Keynoter Sen. Wayne Morse
hailed it as healthy.
Oregon Democratic Nation
al Committeeman C. Girard
Davidson challenged the state
GOP to have a convention of
its own, "to see if the Republi
cans will debate the issues
publicly as the Democrats
have done."
Hot Debate on Some
The convention adopted a
liberal and broad platform
built on planks of taxes, la
bor, power, agriculture, gov
ernmental reorgani z a t i o n,
civil rights, education, natur
al resources, economic de
velopment, health and wel
fare and veterans affairs.
Receiving hot debate be
fore passage were abolishment
of the Board of Control and
death penalty, and trade with
Red China - except for stra
tegic goods.
Recommendations which
failed, after hot debate in
cluded electing Oreeon house
members on the basis of popu
lation rather than the Dresent
district system, and a thorough
rewrite of the state constitu
tion. Repeal of the Taft-Hartley
law was called for, along with
repeal of "any anti-labor pro
visions passed by the 1959
Congress."
Traditionally, a sales tax
was opposed.
Among resolutions, one was
passed unanimously on the
Portland newspaper strike.
Abhor Strikebreakers
It said "the Democratic
party of Oregon strongly
recommends that a fact-find
ing committee be accepted by
both labor and management
. . . in order to settle the
strike in an honorable and
equitable manner, fair to both
the publishers and the union
involved."
It said the party "abhors
professional strikebreakers to
work in plants that are under
strike conditions . . . we also
strongly disapprove the re
fusal of the publishers of the
Oregonian and the Oregon
Journal to submit to an im
partial public body the issues
in this unfortunate situation."
Convention officials at the
outset thought all of Oregon's
36 counties were represented.
The final tally showed that
counties without delegations
were Crook, Gilliam, Grant,
Harney, Lake, Wallowa and
Wheeler. The largest delega
tion, 77, came from Multno
mah county.
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