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A Shopping Days The Weather Forecast: Clouds forming late Monday night, but considerable sunshine Christmas day. Temperatures: High Sunday, 40; low Monday morning, 27; expected low Monday night, 27; expected high Tuesday, 43. Until Christmas IANE CQUNT HOME NEWSPAPER. 14 PAGES EUGENE, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1951 CITY EDITION Phone 5-1551 Sewage Control More Donors Needed to Fill Ransom Demand Puzzles U.S. Led in Basin Eugene Quota Health Board 119 Lives Lost in Mine Disaster Rescue Crews Local Areas High On 'Safety' List WASHINGTON (AP) -jrogram totaling more than million dollars to control Mion in Oregon's Wil- -ette River nas een recorr-Gilded to cities and indus-s in the stream's basin.

Tne oroposal was made in a re- 1 UV K. 4hA TT ai least 100 more donors will be needed if this week's military blood collection is to attain its quota, the American Red Cross announced Monday. The mobile collection unit will be in Eugene Wednesday and Thursday in an effort to get 250 pints of whole blood each day. The team will be at the Evangelical United Brethren Church, Eighth and Monroe, from 2 to 8 p.m. Wednesday and from 11 a.m.

to 4 p.m. Thursday. The need for donors is especially critical between noon and 4 p.m. Thursday. Local petroleum companies are handling this two-day collection, anri will provide most of the donors, the said.

Others wishing to donate may telephone the Red Cross at 4-5244, or may appear at the church between noon and 4 p.m. Thursday. 4 U.S. Airmen Found Guilty By Red Court Each Fined $30,000 For Border Violation By ASSOCIATED PRESS United States officials, from the President down, appeared shocked and puzzled Monday by the ransom demand of Communist Hungary for four fliers forced down in their unarmed cargo plane and con Find Survivor After 56 H6urs WEST FRANKFORT, 111. (AP) One miner was rescued from a 56-hour entombment Monday after the nation's olic Heaun oerviue una me ejon State Sanitary Authority.

iteis of the Oregon area.be- north of the Smith River 1 were set at $4, 269,000. worst mine tragedy in 23 years Some 01 tne suggesieo. may have been undertaken compilation of the report, qirvey pointed out. 3ie Willamette basin was cited Eugene Boy me of the Pacific Northwest's victed in a swift trial. They were accused of violating the Hungarian border.

tit areas for "severe bacterial The situation seems to be un ption." Lin Developments paralleled in history. U. S. offi irtrr 4 of adequate controls with full development of the cials both in Washington and in Budapest moved cautiously, aware claimed 11a lives. Taken from the shaft 550 feet below the surface was Cecil Sanders, 44, of Benton, 111.

He was taken to the United Mine Workers hospital in serious condition. Shortly after Sanders was brought to the surface, Mine Superintendent John R. Foster said: "There are five men down there no more alive. We believe that is all." Rescue Try Futile The discovery of the last of the 119 bodies on the day before Christmas added a poignant chapter to the desperate rescue efforts va's fishery, destroys areas and cuts waterfront values the report said, isste treatment plants at that the Hungarian move was on calculated to humiliate the United States before the world, and remembering that premature specu Needs Blood For Christmas A two-year-old boy suffering from chronic anemia needs a blood transfusion to insure his health and happiness through the holidays. The little tot has had a number of transfusions in his brief lifetime.

Now, his mother says, the family funds have been so industries known to require lation in the jailing of American businessman Robert Vogcler by Hungary delayed his release from 3 will run another $8,120,000 to the report. It added 1 prison. 7. needs of 28 other industries ct not been determined. the coastal basin, pollution that have been in progress day L-jge is confined principally to bays and beach areas and to depleted by medical expenses that she cannot pay for another.

His daddy is working, but his income has been stretched to the limit. bll creeks below the larger in- i communities. Mrs. Nola Johnson, 120 Senator ana nignt since tne violent explosion shattered the Orient No. 2 mine Friday night.

Morgue attendants reported one of the six bodies found early Monday still was warm. Found on the body of B. R. Williams about 40, of West Frankfort, was this final In a number of beach towns -4 the coast," the report said GRIEF-STRICKEN Unidentified woman wcps MUerly as she waits word of relatives trapped by a mine explosion hundreds of feet underground in West Frankfort, 111. Only one miner survived the blast.

One hundred nineteen were killed. took her problem to the Eu crate homes and tourist cot- gene police department Monday fas are so located that septic ti affluents drain onto the bea- message scrawled on the inside of 3. photo. Wiltshire engraving) A CIGARETTE DROPPED in an upholstered chair is believed responsible for $1500 damages done to the Fred Stump home, 1471 Pearl Saturday afternoon. Here firemen work to douse flames that extended through a living room wall to the attic of the house.

A prompt neighbor's alarm enabled the firefighters to quell the blaze before it reached fuel oil drums outside the living room and a Christmas tree in the living room. ana was advised to go on to Sacred Heart Hospital with her little boy. Then the police asked press and radio reporters to tell the public about him. The lad will get his transfusion. lit Sewage a cigarette package and addressed to his widow, Laura: "I love you all way.

I go to Several of the sewered com night with Christ. I love Him ities discharge raw sewage a the tidal waters adjacent to but the cost will need to be offset Christmas Party Ends in Tragedy A military court, acting with astonishing speed, convicted the four flier, in Budapest Sunday of violating the border with the intention of aiding spies and subversive elements. The four were fined the equivalent of $30,000 each and the plane, C-47, was ordered confiscated. Only a week before, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vlshlnsky referred to the four fliers in a speech as having violated "Soviet territory" and expressed the hope that they would be dealt with by "our" military and justice authorities.

The fliers are Capt. John J. Swift of Glen Falls, N. Capt. Dave H.

Henderson of Shawnee, TSgt. Jess A. Duff of Spokane, and Sgt. James A. Elan of Klngsland, Ark.

Their; plane, off its course on a flight from West Germany to Belgrade, Yugoslavia, strayed across the Hungarian' border Nov. 19 and wai forced down by Soviet fighters. The news that the sentence wai too." Worst Since 1928 by volunteer blood donations to replace that used for him. Sev kich and recreational areas. Bac-pl pollution by domestic and eral would-be donors have al All but five of the bodies have -jsmal wastes from cities has aoyed a number of shellfish been recovered from the debris- ready been refused because of colds, the police said.

Others who httred shafts. One miner died lcing areas in bays along the TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) Screams of dvinp children would like to help should contact at" and women left this city gripped Monday in the horror of the office at Sacred Heart. The area's known treatment re- a nnstmas party lire tnat took a toll officially estimated at Sunday night In a hospital of injuries received in the explosion. He was Ralph Kent of Marion, 111. It was the worst mine disaster in Eugene to Mark Christmas Eve The Christmas accent was due for a change Monday night.

After six weeks of department store and emphasis on nments include 24 new muni- plants, replacement of three modern facilities, and en- ti or more lives. Burned and broken remains were still being examined in an effort to complete an accurate count. There were unofficial estimates (by Chamber of Commerce President Illinois since 1909 and the worst Himent or additions to four Air Crash Kills Point 4 Director acipal and one industrial plant. basins, the needs of cities Jorge D. Solar, for one) rang- listed as: ing up to 90 or more.

UUMETTE Dist. Atty. Francisco Gastanon a fine or three months imprison TEHRAN, Iran Iran's Swer system and treatment who announced the official digging deep into the pocket, at 5 p.m. Monday there was to be a shift toward Christmas music and yule-tide rites as old as Christianity. When Santa Claus gets off work Monday he can drop in on the "community sing," which the Eugene a cappella choir is sponsoring at 5 p.m.

at Broadway and An at Multnomah, Oak Grove, ment if the fine was not paid relieved relatives of the fliers. They POW Problem Blocks Peace itfon, Canby, Carnelius, Oak-a, WiUamina. Mill nitv. Phu- had expected worse. American colony was in mourning Monday for Dr.

Henry G. Bennett, U. S. point four program director, and several other Americans who perished Saturday night in a plane estimate, said he believed It was the highest toll of deaths in a single fire In the history of Mexico. Fire Exit Boarded Up Eighty-eight who escaped from Pih, Sandy, Dayton, Dunthorpe, prJ, Yamhill and Woodburn mounted will provide music for the crasn which claimed 21 lives, sol.

wtment Plants Portland. singing which Jack Hendrick- Rams Mountain the burning, thrcc-story building The crash came when the big downstairs to a single doorway, MUNSAN, Korea (P) The Communist high command Monday rejected Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway's appeal to permit Red Cross inspection of North Korean prison camps. The Peining Radio said North four-engined plane, owned by were treated for burns at the Eugene, Corvallis, Albany, tield, Oregon City, Lebanon, -iaukie, Cottage Grove, Mobile, Oswego, West Linn, atone, Independence, Harris--T, Brownsville, Sheridan, Mo-J nd Monroe.

Slide Delays Holiday Travel Holiday travelers on the Southern Pacific's mainline were held Egypt's Misr Airlines, tried to Miguel Alcman Hospital. Offi grope through a blinding snow ciais sam tne only fire escape storm and hurtled into the base of Korean Premier Kim II Sung and was not only locked but boarded up. granite range north placement or Enlargement of Tehran. t-nincse ueneral Peng Teh-huai told the United Nations supreme commander that inspections were unnecessary because of the "hu- Thirty-three were still In the hospital, five or six on the verge No one survived the disaster, in the nation since 1928. The Cherry Mine blast in Illinois on Nov.

13, 1909 claimed 259 lives. An underground explosion at Mather, in 1928, killed 195 miners. In 1947, 111 miners were killed in a blast at Ccntralia, 111. Bodies Mutilated The blast ripped through the tunnels at 8:35 p. m.

Friday. It occured about two miles back from the shaft. And it shattered timbers for three miles in the sprawling mine which covers a 12 mile area. Most of the trapped miners never knew what hit them. Physicians said death in most cases was quick.

The bodies were horribly burned and mutilated. Limbs were ripped from some. Others were roasted. Heavy mine equipment as far as two miles from the blast's center was wrecked. Lewis Visits Scene Grave concern in the blast was shown in the flight here from Washington of Oscar Chapman, secretary of the interior, John L.

Lewis, United Mine Workers president, and John Forbes, director of the U.S. Bureau of Mines. The three men went below the surface with rescue workers Sunday for a brief personal inspection of the damaged sections. Chapman ordered a d07.cn federal mine inspectors to open an investigation into the tragedy. up for several hours Sunday after Mcoro, Gresham, Forest Grove, MJ, Woodburn, Monmouth, Mt.

fs. Carlton, Sherwood. Ver- worst in Iran's air history. 01 ncam, doctors said. Among the victims was Ben manitarianism" shown Allied pris Hills and Scio.

The U.S. legation in Budapest remained uncommunicative Monday on It. plan, to free the The only thing legation official, 'would was that Charge d' Affaire. George Abbott visited Deputy Foreign Minister Andor Berei at his office Monday. What they talked about remained secret In Washington.

I resident Truman indicated .1 U.S. government still was puzzled about how to proceed. At the airport, before leaving for Christmas at home in Missouri, the President was asked whether ho planned any move Monday. He said "no." "What can you do?" the President said, and added after a pause, "You're still trying to get Oatli out, aren't you?" He referred to Associated Press Correspondent William N. Oatis, jailed by Communist Czechoslovakia on spy charges which the U.S.

denounces as trumped up. The President did not elaborate on his remarks. Among the 33 were 19 children. Officials said this probably indicates the ratio of little ones among pKN COAST nett's wife, who had accompanied him to Hehran for an official five-day visit in connection with the point four program of technical aid to underdeveloped countries. son will direct.

By hurrying home, then, Santa Claus can tune in on an all-Eugene broadcast of Christmas music which Stations KERG, KORE and KUGN will broadcast simultaneously from 6:15 to 6:45 p.m. The broadcast will include selections by the Woman's Choral Club, the Eugene Gleemen, the Eugene High School band, and the string section of the University symphony orchestra. The "midnight Mass" custom will be widely observed again this year. Catholics have a choice of three ceremonies. There will be a Solemn High Mass at St.

Mary's Catholic Church, 11th and Char-nclton, with the St. Mary's Choir providing music. At the Same time the St. Francis High School choir will provide music for a High Mass at the school, 18th and System and Treatment me ocaci. Only 26 Identified noseourg Sanitary -Win, Ocean Lake, Nelscott "lake, Rockaway, Phoenix, Taft.

WaMnnrt i.d r.nlrf Only 26 of the bodies had been The Iranian government sent a oners in nod camps. The Communists broadcast the text of a letter to Ridgway delivered Monday to UN truce negotiators at Panmunjom. Allied authorities in Tokyo Monday night released the texts of both the original Allied proposal and the Communist reply. The broadcast was monitored by the Associated Press in Tokvo and snow, mud and rocks sent 60 feet of track rolling into a canyon in the high Cascades. The slide, at Wicopee Station, 63 miles southeast of Eugene, held up the crack Shasta and Cascade trains Sunday morning.

Shasta pasengers arrived in Oakland seven hours late after being re-routed over the Siskiyou Line through Ashland. By Monday morning, however, trains were "practically on time," with delays blamed more on the heavy holiday travel than on message of condolence to the identified early Monday. pi United States government. taent Plants -RMriio n. Jho annual party for needy children was in full swing when its Joy was turned to terror at Tribute Paid Point- Myrtle Creek, In Washington, President Tru 11:15 0 clock Saturday night.

man paid tribute to Bennett, as -7 ay Wortn Bend c- -f. Toledo, Reedsport, Flor- Empire. a I San Francisco. a great teacher of the simple slides or snow conditions. The Red commanders declared that early agreement on an armistice will permit all prisoners to A small slide Saturday had return quickly to their homes.

Jefferson. In Springfield, Catho auDcommmcos working on the Pe Urges lics mav attend midnight services Murray Calls been cleared away when, at 4:40 a.m. Sunday, the rest of it came down, derailing seven freight cars. The mainline was not opened again until 7:15 p.m. Sunday.

ideas of cooperation and brotherhood." Mr. Truman spoke of another of the victims, Benjamin H. Hardy, chief public affairs officer of the program, as one of the creators of the idea of helping underdeveloped Secretary of State Acheson also expressed grief over the tragedy. The American Embassy here, at St. Alice's Catholic Church, 1520 St.

problems of prisoner exchange and armistice supervision scheduled a regular session Tuesday Christmas Day. Nd Peace Episcopalians will also have Policy Meeting The southbound Shasta day more were different accounts of how the fire started. Tijuana Fire Chief Gill Chidcz declared that someone was criminally responsible. He did not elaborate. As panic took hold among the 300 or 400 people in the third floor hall of the old coliseum building, three blocks from Tijuana's gay mnln street, the lights went out.

"Then all was madness," said Luis Alnrld, 34, radio station announcer. "A lot of people were trampled to death before they were Many of the bodies were found in two rest rooms into which the victims apparently had been pushed by the crowds surging toward the exits. While the Reds balked at ner- services in both cities. The Eugene congregation will observe the tra PITTSBURGH (U.R) CIO Pres light left Portland at 7:45 a.m. Sunday, but to arrive at Oakland at 10:43 p.m.

After being rerout ditional Midnight Eucharist. Carol NEWSMAN CAPTURED PAMUNJOM, Korea (U.R International News Service Correspondent Philip Deane, captured by the Communists early in the Korean War, is in good health, a Communist newspaperman said Monday. ident Philip Murray Monday recalled the United Slcelworkers' which had prepared elaborate I singing will begin at 11:15 p.m., mitting inspection of their prison camps they did propose Monday that a postoffice be sot up in neutral Panmunjom so prisoners of both sides could send and receive mail. The UN quickly aurecd. ed via Ashland the Daylight arrived shortly before 6 a.m.

plans to entertain the Christmas followed by services which begin visitors, was plunged in gloom. I at 11:30 at St. Mary's Episcopal top policy makers to a meeting here Thursday apparently to con CAN CITY tfV-Pope It urged the wrld Monday toward the Babe of Beth- rner than to force of arms aeve true peace. Ws 13th Christmas mes-he became pope in all of them his appeal peace. heart-warming inti- Christ child' he said-Pi into "a world that is far It il like sider President Truman's plea for calling off a New Year's Day strike of 650,000 basic steel workers.

'It Was a Miracle Wife Declares Church, 13th and Pearl. Springfield services will be in the Me- Police Identify Body moriai Bidg, sth and a. Three Eugene Lutheran church- Founrl in Hotel Ruins es will offer evening services The meeting of the wage policy group, which authorized the strike, will be preceded by a conference of the union's executive board. United Lutheran Church, 22nd Survivor Prays While Wailing Rescue GARDINER (U.R) Police have and Washington, will have can tentatively identified the body of dlelight services at 10:15 and 11:30. Holiday Deaths bodies had been recovered earl Mr.

Truman's pica for continued production pending stabilization a man found in the charred ruins un me lawn is a iu-iuui iiauviiy ed repeatedly amid sobs, talked again and again of She 'the board review of Murray's demand Start to Climb of the Wigwam hotel here as scene. At Lxnirai mmeran, mm Benny Hartford. Potter, services will be at 1 The hotel was destroyed by fire and at Grace Lutheran, 11th Friday. It was owned by Long-; an f. Lr''; femmce wl" be Bell Lumber Co.

and was used; conducted at 7 30 p.m. as bachelor quarters for mill em- Central Presbyterian, 10 and ployes Pearl, will conduct an 11 p.m. freezing air," he world, the pope saidi more unitei into two 7'hlch han8s the threat ernized witl weapons cruelty." a said' disarmament always have desired" 'unstable guarantee1 for a ceiling-breaking 18V4-cent wage boost was directed to both the union and the basic steel companies, U.S. Steel the nation's number one producer, accepted almost immediately, Sharon Steel By ASSOCIATED PRESS Slaughter on the highways and in the streets, fires in homes and other buildings, and deaths by The lumber firm said Hartrora announced it had wired ac drownings and a variety of other was one of its employes. Firemen originally believed there had been no casualties in the blaze.

ceptance Monday to Wage Stabilization Chairman Nathan P. mi niums maao mis unristmas 1 tragic one for hundreds of Amer icon families. WEST FRANKFORT, III. W) "Give me some water," were the first words of a man who survived 56 hours of entombment in the blast-torn Orient No. 2 coal mine.

The request was made to rescue workers by Cecil Sanders, 44, of Benton, III. He was found at about 5:45 a.m. Monday. Exhausted but conscious and coherent, he was lying in a passageway known as 25 west-north. At least 119 perished in the disaster.

Sanders' lips were parched. After he was given water, he asked rescue workers what day it was. Told it was the day before Christmas, Sanders was quoted as saying: "This is a wonderful Christmas Eve." The tunnel in which Sanders was found reportedly is parallel and about one-fourth of a mile from a passageway in which 22 ier. Rescue workers said there was no sound from Sanders as they approached. He was in the workings when the blast occurred last Friday night.

Sanders' son, Paul who was 23 years old Sunday was waiting when the elevator brought his father to the surface. "This is Just too wonderful to believe," young Sanders said. "I Just don't know what to think about It." Mine officials talked briefly with Sanders in a room of the shaft building and the man then was taken to a west Frankfort hospital. There to greet him was his wife, haggard and tear-stained after long hours of waiting. "Oh, my God, we've prayed for this," Mrs.

Sanders mutter lDdlt' and o' over- miracle." Reporters were not allowed to talk to Sanders. But a cousin, Halscy Sanders, quoted the man as saying that when the explosion blasted the diggings, Sanders and others sealed off the tunnel. "Then I went to sleep," Cecil Sanders was quoted. "When I woke up I went to calling for my buddies but got no answer. After that I Just laid back and relaxed and prayed." Dr.

John E. Summers, who was attending Sanders, said the man was suffering from exhaustion, lack of water "and lots of gas" but that he was expected to live. At the hospital he was given water and fruit Juices in sips. Dr. Summers said he also "is catching up on his smoking." lor prestige.

Home for Christmas fee C-47 CmeU ovl at CamP Stoneman in Cal- Christmas dinners will be provided 316 needy families this year. The dinners, collected throuth schools, churches, the Junior Red Cross and other groups, will be distributed Tuesday by the Red Cross. The Salvation Army will distribute baskets of groceries. Needy children will benefit from toys which the Marine Corpi League collected. Station KASH at 3 p.m.

Tuesday will broadcast a transcription of Monday's community sing. -COa lifornia after returning irom no- The toll of lives by midday of the third of the four-day yuletide weekend has reached 413. Traffic accidents accounted for 290, fires for 69, and miscellaneous mishaps 34. The National Safety Council had predicted 600 would die in traffic mishaps In the 108 hours between 6 p.m. Friday and midnight Tuesday (local time).

That is the highest figure the council has ever (u.pj An Airrea are three local men wno were But It's So Cold According lo the Postal Bulletin, official organ of the U. Sr Postal Service, the postoffice at Eek, Alaska, did $12.69 worth of business last year. The postmaster's $326.40. Eekl .1 .1 a on tne "land scheduled to arrive ai meir noma 'tt Bahamaj Satur- for Christmas. They are CpL Ollie uling it crew h.f pn lr F.rwin Wav.

Eu- he commanding gene; Sgt. Doss Chamberlain, Air Forc Base, Lowell: and Sfc. Albert E. Prince, Monday. Iru 3, Eugene.

forecast for holiday period. A.