The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963, February 21, 1940, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextTHE WEATIIKK (lowly tonight mitt T),i,rvluv mln priiliahlr in umlh iiurliun Ihura uuy afternoon; lililly Hainirr In Miulh iiiiiilim linililil. BEND BULLETIN TEMPERATURE Maximum yeilerday. 47 drfreea. Minimum lt night, 22 degrees. VOI.U.MK XI.V. TI1K IM'.ND HUU.KTIN, HKNO. OltKGON. WKDNKSUAY AFTKKNOON. FF.I5RUAKY 21. 11)10 NO. GO t: LONG REGIME GOES OUT IN NEW ORLEANS Primary Won by Sam Houston Jones LEAD SUBSTANTIAL Defeat Is Attributed to Rural Votes Against Machine New OilruitH. La, F.b 21 'U- Pri mary rturnt shnwrd Uluy that I nut inn had choeu Sum Houston Jmirs, a Miltllrul tirwi omrr, fur gov ernor mid had driven I nun iwr (lit rcuiiunl-riiltlrii nuuhtiit? fmimU-d 12, fran ago by the luuttMnufrd Hury I ng With a drluKC of Voir fioin thr I rural parlthr that rlmied Hury I.ong ; M'Vnrnir tn 'JM mid let him cunvrrt the Ktutv Into tigMly-ctMilrollcd di tatrhip on his proimir to 'khurv-mir-wculth." Jiiim dolrjtiHl (.ovrr fvir Fail K. Limn, thr "KingfldiY yntuwr hrniher mid political heir, in li iurwfl pt unary rjimalrnl la Hrrtiun Thry tifiin-trd fur the demucrtilir gulw imiloruil nomination, equivalent In ftrttinn tn LmiUtana. UiioIIiimI report frum 1.101 of I 703 prnit.ru uavr Jonea XA.T.tii Hit victory fur June, who had rnmUed lu "dilv the rttM-nl out ul illtif." was credited lu rrariitliirttt. tlHijillv nmuttir iminti y eiple. again! thr MmiilaluuR condition rx HiH'd 1 V federal invrMigiitori hi thr ktatr. Ot itir four rmikiuK poliliial Irmlrrt who wirrd (Miwrr aflrr L-tng'h druth. tuiyinii 1 1 try would prrpoluulc hu "wrttlth'luiriiiK " program, three have bru mdu ted mid two convicted ot violating frdrrnl law Incidental lo trmuU in tittle funds and properties. I.rd lirre,M Jimr' Irad nlowly inrreaM-d aftrr !ui hiiKht i thr country returns came in. Kvrn thr stronghold uf thr Lsmif. nuu hlnr, Including St Ilrrnuid parlJi hrlow Nrw Orleans, district of rambling colonic mid muskrat tran 'tug neitlcmcnu, failed to mi . ply thr long fart urn with lltrtr cunlomaty ivr-i whelming clr-iuu-day tribute. Jonra carried the north luutana country, wlvcrr Hury and Karl ILing were raiard. and wit being heralded In thr rural areas as a nrw polittrat mruiah Jut as Hury Ung had dono In his rat ly. virtoi itius campaigns, Jones hut thr metropolitan Nrw Or Irons vote but Wits mliim up an apparently ciuntnanditiK Irad in tin country. Hr had proiuiord to "rid thr state of po litical crooks ftoin lop to UMIum"; Sl automobile luene. $30 monthly old-ur irniitiis: free hot lunches, hbruiv txoks and sthool tupplim (or KchiMil children: hoi nr tend exrnip tioiiv fire of political favoritism, and unhampered Iik-oI Kovernfitrnts. In some ti'cct his appeal had hern to (lie sitine claHHtif "jmhm country fnlkt" that put Hury Loiik into oflicr over thr opposition of the Nrw Orleans rmtf pllticiatui of (he lute litO's and kept him in Mwer while hr made Iniixiana n dictutorship. Much of Jours' support riimr from cotton futmerf of thr rrd hills; shrimp flh n men of thr 1 errr bonne and thr h leurh-sprakinx Arcadians of south Lou i ana. Smith Elected Boy Scout Vice Chairman Surcrrdinft Holirii L. Brock ley. wlm is movinff to Portland, Kussrll M. Smith, slate highway depsitnirnt offhv rnKineer in Bend, was elected vice chninnan of the Fremont dis trict. Boy Scouts of America, at a district meeting in the Pine Tavern today niHn. As vice chairman. Smith will le in direct charge of scout ac tivities in Itend Thr district U head ed by D. H. McKenrie of Hclmond. Aside from the w lection of Smith n liend chuiimiin of scout activities, Ihe only other bttsinraa considered by the commiltre tndny were plans (or the Ncotit-o-rimui to ke pivwult'd liy seven different Central Oregon Buy Scout trtMipa in Bond on Aiiil 111 This scout show, composed of 14 nets, will be presented bv troo ftnm Bend, hVdmoiid, Prinrville, Madias. SiiHteit, L;ipinc and Shevlin. Present for the luncheon meetinn from hi hriuhjiiaiters in Klamath Falls. Scout Fxeculive Dwitfht K. (iil christ minotiticed that the annual council meeting will be held in Klnm- nth Fulls on March 3, with the lunch eon sens ion to start at 1 p. m. From liend, Cilchrist continued on to Port hind today, for n regional con ference. Kennedy Announces Plan for Retirement Boston. Feb. 21 I Id Joseph P. Kennedy ud liifft night that he would bring his political career to a close upon completion of his duties as U S. ninhujuarinr to Uicm in nam "When I leave London I'll bo ull finished ns far as politlm la concern ed,' he wild on ortvnl here for n physical clicck-up at thr Liihcy clinic. He declined to say when he plan ned to end hi duties as ambassador k He expects to return lo New York " by plane today and anil for London by wny of Genoa on the S. S. Man hattan Saturday. People in the News H Ui.llr.l I'rmi Vmi. II. Mjles ltiidKev It , N H. M'i kei uf the republican presidential noinliuilioii, i hai gi d at Ogdin. Utah, that Ifoo-evt-lt third leim Mipixirlert. weir uttrinptihg lu futrge IHh rson i.iii ib uiucints f i JMi Ihe national vn vt ntion they ici-t. he Miid. "the tlat-Ky in iiuike ibern hunurnrv dt h-uales Willi no vole, or luvuki a unit in If by which their voles will be lu-.t if they aie In a mlnojify in .tate d )!(. itii.ns "... I'ieidenl ItooM-velt fi'.hed Parific wtilciit off Costu Hicu today and con tinued his suivey of the Panama Canal Zone's, outer defeiiMis (ruin the t rime i Tuscaloosa . . , H p. Jo.rph W. Martin, ft.. Mass.. house minority leader, denounced Ihe new dial farm prow nun in an od ilit i at Chuagn and piedu ted Ci. O P. victories next November which vould "save the couiilry lium finun KUil bankruptcy, chuns and drsimlr." He raid election of I0 additional re l.utilicam would Kive the party con l:ol of ronvti M. . . Jamrs Km(er It, motion picture producer son id ihe president, -lenied bt L'is Angeles that he bad hern inrntally cruel to the wife hr mar ried right yrurs ago or that lie had dt-srrtcd b-r. His answer to her ciovt-compluint asked that the bill khr had entered Ijt dumis.-ed It was a luutine preliminary to their im pending divorce suit. It believed poofrrveli would withdraw hi suit and allow hi wife, ihe former lietsey Cushing, to obtain the divorce. . . (en. (irurge C. Marshall, army chief of ktuff. hoies In fly to Hawaii in March to inspect thr army's larg et outlying gurriMin. He expect to i prnd only a few days in Hawaii wliere about 40,i00 army Iiimiju and ifciiic of planes are bajcd. . . Cascade Park Issue Talked Residents Express Opposition Poi I land. Feb. 21 U" A national paik In the Cascade peaks of Orrgnn and Washington is far from a reality, the Washington bureau of the Oregon Journal said today. Senator Charles L. McNary has been advisrd by Director Cumniervr of the national park service that many people m sections if the pro puted park have written in that they are opuusrd tn it. McNary had asked Cammerer par ticularly about an mquity sent him a hurl time ago by hecrrtaiy lieorgc E. Hichards id the chamber of com merce of Enterprise. Ore., that re ports hud lrvn received and an ex ecutive ordT was to be issued soon creating the park. Lammrirr said he expects an early report on the establishment of the proposed Snake Itiver park, for which surveys were made nunc time ago The Cascade summit area appar ently is not of the character which can be made into a national monu ment by executive order, but could be made n national park only by spe cific act of congress. Morse in Hospital; Hearings Postponed Eugene, Ore., Feb. 21 Uli post ponement of hearings In the San Francisco ship clerks dispute ap peared likely today, with federal waterfront Arbiter Wayne L. Morse ill at the Eugene hospital with influ enza. Morse, who Is dean of the Uni versity of Oregon law school, was taken to the hospital yesterday. At tendants said his condition was not serious. Ihe Long Beach. Cat, hiring hall dispute, set for this week, definitely was postponed, as was a California case involving Meam schooners. The ship clerks hearing had been .scheduled for next week, but Morse's office said it would be held up unless the arbiter recovered more rapidly than was expected. County Equipment Is Used on Courthouse One cnt find dozer, a compressor and jnckhfimmpr, and three trucks, lire the county equipment now bcinK iped in the excavation and clearing project on the site of the new court house, it whs reported today by CJeorite McAllister, county roadmas trr. Friday a shovel will be moved up to Uie Bond street cutoff and work will be started with it. Four county employes man the equipment being used for clearing. Ihe remainder of the county mad crew is working north of Redmond, building tho McCuffcry bridge and doing general maintenance work. The former job is taking three men, the lutler five, and work will be completed in that section by the end of the week, said McAllister. lltA MOVE STARTS ' Dublin. Feb. 21 Ull A group of 104 former officers or the old Irish re publican army today announced plans for a new 1KA movement un derstood to aim at a corporate or fascist system. The officers, formerly supporters of the government of Prime Minister Eammon DeValera, met last night and announced that a mass meeting would be beld In March. SOVIET BOMBS DROPPED OVER SWEDISH TOWN Church and Homes Set Afire by Raid WILL FILE PROTEST I'ajalu Is IxHatcd Only Kivc .Miles From Hordcr Pajulu, Sweden, Feb. 21 HJi (By olanes lodav droooed 30 exulosive ' bomb and "hundreds of incendiary j bombs" on the Swedish church town of Pajala, Mayor George Tuube re- j t of ted. lite church at Pajala was damaged by a bomb and three houses were de- . t roved. Taulie said. Others were set afire and were burning long after the raid. Windows in other houses were ' shattered by the explosions. The mayor said the Kussians bom lied Pwiala from an altitude of nearly 10000 fret. May Have Lost Way (Stockholm dispatches reported that the sheriff at Luleaa said he be lieved the (fustians were in sevrn planes and had lost their way. He expressed belief thut the Husians thought they were bombing a town on the Finnish side of the frontier (torn Patala which is five miles from the border At the time, the L'jleaa her ill said, visibility was excellent following a snow storm yesterday.) ratal a, a town of about 2.000 peo ple, is about five mites inside Swed ish territory from the Finnixh-Swed-uh frontier. It is a Swedish church town, about 93 miles north of Ha paianda. Protest Due Following receipt of official con firmation of the red army's aerial bombardment, political quarters ex pected that the Swedish government would protest sharply to Moscow. Some weeks ago, the Itussians in advertently bombed Norwegian ter ritory during operations along the frontier in the far north of Finland. Norway Lmtrsted to Moscow and the soviet government apo'ogized. stating that the bombing was due to an error. WOOL MEN FIGHT RAISE IN RATES Steamship Companies to Increase Cost Steamship companies transporting wool from Pacific coaM ports to Bos ton and other ports along Uie At lantic seaboard have notified western wool growers' associations that on March 15 they plan to increase the rate for shipping wool from $1.10 to $1.43 per cwt, it hits been learned here. Asserting that this increase, '4c per pound on every pound of wool to be shipped east this year from the Pacific coast states, will not be borne by the wrvl trade nor the wool manufacturer," growers' association are preparing to lodge protests. It is asserted that the assessment will be against Pacific wool growers and that sheepmen in the western states will pay $172,000 yearly. Association officials add that "this is the second disproprionate raise in three years.' Steamship companies. In rebuttal, are expected to point to their ever mounting cost of operation as the reason for the contemplated increase in water rates. In advance, wool growers ay that a study of the teamshlp lines' financial reports in dicates thut "dire necessity" does not dictate such an increase. Baker Elk Ravaging Farmers9 Hay Stacks Baker, Ore., Feb. 21 til Farmers of the Muddv creek district in Pow der valley are having their hay stacks raided occasionally by a herd of elk, which started out several years ago with only one bull but which has now grown to 45. The farmers, however, most of them are members of the Haines Sportsmen's club, don't object and were the first to protest the cow elk hunting season last fall. Farmers report the herd is be coming larger each year and that the animals arc in good condition. They come down for the easy feed on foot hill farms rather than scratch for scarce ftod in the mountains. McMinnville Voters Okeh Power Contract M.MInnville, Ore., Feb. 21 ill1 McMinnville voters today had ap- proved by a margin of more than 50 to 1 a contract signed recently by city officials to purchase Bonneville power. The election, held yesterday to verify the decision to tie the Mc Minnville municipal system into the Bonneville network, brought the fol lowing vote: Yes, 851; no, 15. Proponents of the purchase were amazed at the margin. They had predicted a victory, but the longest odds quoted had been 10 to 1. Oregon Briefs liy t'liilysl l'ril Ealern. Feb 21 State Itepre- seutalive Hannah Martin was out for Ihe Job of Halein city recorder today alter two weeks of "shopping arojnd" to see what o.Jkc she might pick. Mrs. M.ii tin repn-aented Marion county in the legislature tfurmg ihe Uthl lour sfsiioiis. The recorder's job pays $2400 a year. Silverum, Feb. 24 Ut petitions asking that the city manager form of government propoud he placed on the ballot in the May primary will be filed with the city recorder here to day. Dr. I'. A. Loar, president of the planning council, said the petitions require only Ml signatures but 180 names had been secured. Salem, Feb. 21 UP" Th Salem chamlxT of cornmerte will urge the stale fish commission to lake imme diate action on approval or disap proval of the North cantiam river flood control plan. The chamber warn told that the U. b. engineers and the ' i hhcti wrvice were noiuing up relo cation of thr highway until the com mission had given its consent to con struction of tlie dam. Gold Beach. Feb. 21 UP Jean Mayo Pettijohn. 25. was dead today, victim of a rifle bullet allenedly fired by hit 20-year-old brother, tiro, who mil took him for a deer while both were hunting out .f season. The accident took place yesterday at Hayes prairie, about five mUes southeast of Gold Beach. Animals Burned At Circus Fire Blaze Sweeps Winter Quarters Rochester. Ind . Feb 21 'n'tPress ed against the still red hot bars of their cages, the tortured bodies of six lions, two tigers, two black leop ards, two zebras, 100 monkeys, 15 an telope, two llamas, and a sacred cow, were found by circus men today. Ihey had died horrible deaths in the fire which swept the winter quarters of Cole Brothers and Kob- bins circus hist night. 1 hree hundred horses. 12 camels, 11 elephants, and 20 mules, monkeys. and ponies, liberated by their keep ers, stampeded through this town, and scattered over the north Indiana countryside. Early today towns and farmers as sisted circus men in rounding up the grazmg animals which, because of their peaceable natures had been permitted to escape the inferno that engulfed the meat eating and savage animals. They found camels grazing along the paved highways, amid billboards. silos, and farm houses. Here and there, they discovered an elephant, his placidity restored, trudging dis- tntefully along through the snow The circus emploves were badlv shit ken by the horrible deaths of the big, ferocious jungle beasts. Their screams and howls filled the night. ringing shrill and tortured above the roar of the flames and the shrieking ! of fire truck sirens. Also roasted alive were two mouf- lons and two aoudads, the wild sheep uf Aardinia and North Africa re spectively. tmploves heard the great back leopards throwing their magnificent, rippling bodies against the steel bars of their cages. They heard the fierce (Continued on Page 3 Column 5) Badly Aimed Shell Hits British Plant Edinburg. Feb. 21 UA 100 pound shell crashed through the roof of a factory in Leith today and wrecked part of an adjoining house. Military authorities explained that the fhell was fired from a fortified island in the Firth of Forth in the direction of a ship which was nu pioaching a mine. The shot was fired in warning but, officials said, un fortunately the angle of fire was too hiuh and the shell fell in Leith. Two people in the damaged house were injured slightly. County Commissioners Lease 120,673 Acres A lease for 120.673.52 acres of county lands was signed with the Central Oregon Grazing association at today's regular meeting of the Deschutes county court in the circuit courtroom. The lease will bring an estimated annual revenue to the county of $1,300. The court nl.o ordered the appro priation of 50 per cent of the $1,538.70 in 1!XW Taylor grazing act funds re ceived by the treasurer last week, for the improvement of grazing lands in the county. City Manager C. G. Reiter and G. U McReynolds, city treasurer, ap peared before the court to discuss the purchase of 12 lots now owned by the county, on which both city and county have liens. No decision was made at this morning's session, but this afternoon the county court, ac companied by McReynolds, visited the lots to estimute their worth. A resolution was adopted by the court to establish one-quarter of a mile of road at the south city limits of Bend as the Baer county road. Present at th meeting were Coun ty Judge C. L. Allen, and County Commissioners William J. Baer and E. E. Vnrco. Berlin Fumes as - laa ss In n TUT7ir-ir 1 J -A Hi 'l J, 1 A diplomatic storm rages over the British seizure of 300 British prisoners aboard the German prison ship Alt Mark, above, in neutral Norway waters, with Germany seething with indignation over alleged violation of neutrality laws and Great Britain demanding Norway intern the "hell ship." Lower. British seamen rescued I rum the AHmark by the daring raid. On the British destroyer Cossack arriving at Leiih. Scotland. (NEA Radio Photos.) Allied Vessels Patrol Norway Nazi Movements Are Watched By Kal.h K. Ileiiuen l t'mlrtl !'rr Stall rrriuntlrnt I Paris. Feb. 21 tP Allied naval control around Scandinavian neutral nations was tightened today, with closer surveillance of German mer chant and naval shipping through the waters oil the .Norwegian coast. Allied fleets, it was reported bv re liable quarters were watching not only German maritime movements up and down the Norwegian coast but they were ote rating around the northern tin of Norway and in Arctic watcis as fa. as Petsamo. Finland's lar northern port. Powell Butte Youths Unhurt in Accident Redmond, Feb. 21 Six Powell Butte young people escaped serious injury in an automobile accident which occurred on the Ochoco high way east of Redmond last night as they were driving to Redmond to attend the high school boxing matches. The car, driven by Harvey White and belonging to A. M. White if Powell Butte, left the rond when a tiif blew out. careened over a pile of rocks, partly turned over, and right ed itMlf. The machine was badly wrecked, but passengers in the car escaped with minor cuts and bruises. Besides the driver. Bob and Lois White, Raymond Re if. and Leon and Eddie White were in the car. Commission Reports Favor Lincoln PUD Salem, Ore.. Feb. 21 til" The state hydroelectric commission today re ported that a proposed Lincoln coun ty people's utility district could be ZrZ ted at a profit, provided the commission s estimates on cost are correct. The district, which would cover 175 square miles in the western half of the county, would include Newport, Waldport. and the small communities along the coast line. The district at the present time is served by the Mountain States and West Coast power companies and the Mahoney Electricity system, which serves 90 customers at Siletz. Indian Service Head Gets 3-Year Sentence Portland, Feb. 21 Ui Victor H. Johnston, former federal superin-tcndent-at-large for Indians of Ore gon and Idaho, was sentenced to three vears In a federal penitentiary and fined $.'1,000 by federal Judge James A. Fee today. Jnhn&ton was found guilty last week on four of eight counts charg ing issuance of false pay vouchers and forging indorsements on govern ment checks. Johnston was sen tenced to three years on each of the tour counts, the sentences to run concurrently. Britain Raids a Nazr Prison Ship SeJe PROJECT ENGINEER TO COME MARCH 1 Fisher to Leave Bend in - Near Future Now on his way west from Wash ington, D. C, Deane S. Stuver, re cently named Deschutes project con struction engineer, is expected to reach Bend about March 1, it was learned here today. Accompanied by his family, Stuver is driving west. over the southern route. His house hold goods have been shipped by boat, through the Panama canal. C. C. Fisher, who will be succeeded by Stuver as United States bureau of reclamation engineer in charge of the construction of the Deschutes project, is still in Bend, but expects to receive orders in the near future to proceed to Denver, Colo., to com plete his report on the Grande Ronde project of eastern Oregon. Fisher is to complete the Grande Ronde report in the Denver, Colo rado, office of the bureau of recla mation, then will return west to study irrigation possibilities in west ern Oregon, under the 565.000.JOO Willamette valley flood control proj ect being constructed by army en gineers. Fisher will be stationed in Portland. Stuver was formerly stationed in Nevade and for a number of years was in charge of the Fallon project. In Washington. D. C. he was one of the officials considered an authority on CCC matters. B. P. O.E. Officers To Visit Lakeview Officers from local lodge No. 1371 of the B. P. O. E. will visit Lakeview tonight to put on an initiation of members there. An Americanization rrogram will also be presented. H. H. DeArmond of the Bend lodge will be the guest speaker at this evening's meeting, and a banouet will be given for the visitors at the Lakeview hotel. Officers attending from here will be Harvey Armes. William Stollmack, Virgil Lorn ax. Hugh Simpson. Len Davis, iilmer Smith, and Elmer Lehn are Harrv Skonson. Harrv LeedvJ Uoyd Rohideau. and Bill Tyson. Ski Patrol to Give Buttons for Donors Bend Ski natrol members, headed by W. E. Naylor as president and George F. Keyes as secretary, this week are distributing donor buttons, hopeful of securing funds for the en largment of patrol work in the Cas cade snowfields. Seventy per cent of the proceeds are retained by the club and 30 per cent goes to the national organization. The campaign is in connection with the observance of National Ski patrol weke. Members of the local patrol, affil iated with the national organization, are required to take Reo) Cross first aid work, and also a supplemetary course dealing with skiing problems. Several members of the Bend Ski patrol, including Joe Lamme, W. . Naylor, Lester McPherson and Chris Kostol, have been awarded National Ski patrol badges. There are com paratively few of these badges in the entire United States. jf Officer Found Guilty by Jury - i . . Marion Treasurer's Trial Ends Salem. Ore., Feb. 21 'IP David G. Drager. Marion county treasurer, was last night found guilty of larceny of $268638 of county funds. The jury returned the verdict at 9:10 last evening after deliverations of seven hours. Drager faces a sen tence next Tuesday of not less than cne year nor more than 15 years im prisonment and a fine of not more than twice the amount found to have been taken. The original indictment charged the theft of JJJ,5J0.41 over the whole pe riod of Draper's incumbency dating back to 1915. The jury found that $2686.38 was taken between May 15. 1936. and October 31. 1938. The question of an appeal had not yet been decided on today. Drager has 10 days in which to petition for an appeal to the state supreme court. Trial of Drager's. former deputy. W. Y. Richardson, on similar charges will probabtv be held during the first part of March. Elephant Tusk Found In Jefferson County State highway department engi neers today reported the discovery near Madras of a tusk of an ele phant, near the summit of a knoll in the Willow creek area. Only prelim inary excavation work was done, to make it possible for scientists to ex amine the tusk in place. The discovery was made by Paul Howell, member of the highway staff in Madras, according to word re ceived here. He left the tusk in place and notified members of the Oregon State college geology staff. It is believed that excavation may bring to light other parts of the huge creature that lived in Central Oregon in distant davs. This was at least the third discov- W of eIeohant remains in Jefferson I county. Several years ago. massive a short distance north of the Smith rock formation. About 10 years ago. tapering tusks of a member of the elephant family were found on a trib utary of Cherry creek, not far from the John Day river. Geologists say that in pleistocene times members of the elephant fam ily obviously ranged over this part of the state in great numbers. Two different species of elephant were represented in the Fossil lake fauna of Lake county. Mammoths, mastodons and ele phants lived in Oregon up until com paratively "recent" times, scientists say. One of the species represented was Imperator, one of the largest of all extinct mammals. Terraces of the lower Deschutes gorge have yielded considerable ele phant material during the past 20 years. ARCTIC VETERAN DIES London, Feb. 21 George Win doe, 81, oldest member of the Shackleton 1914 trans-Arctic expedi tion, died today. BATTLE LOOMS FOR FINLAND'S SECOND CITY Finnish Troops Stop Russian Attacks 17 PLANES DOWNED Blizzard Is Aid to Finns in Defending Weak Positions Helsinki, Feb. 21 HiDuring heavy fighting in the Summa and Taipale sectors of the Karelian Isthmus front, Finnish troops yesterday re pulsed all Russian attacks, an official communique said today. Fighting was heaviest at Taipale where two Russian divisions joined in attacking, the communique said. (Moscow dispatches reported today that the most important battle of the Finnish war was imminent in the vi cinity of Viipuri (Viborg), Finland's second largest city. The Russions reported they were mooping up after having cracked the right flank of the Finnish army.) The Finnish communique said it had been confirmed that in fighting yesterdav 17 Russian planes were shot down. Reports that two other red army planes had been downed awaited confirmation. 25 Planes Destroyed There also were reports that an ad ditional six Russian planes had crashed, making a possible total of 25 Russian air force losses yesterday. During widespread air raids the Russians bombed Hango (Hanko), Lahti and several other towns. The communique said that repeatedly the Russian aviators raided the towns, and machine - gunned a children's home and a passenger plane. In the Kuhmo sector north of Lake Ladoga, the Finns reported that they had repulsed a Russian attempt to send enforcements to a surrounded red army detachment. BHz2ard AU1? While the Finns reported that they still were holding their own a blind ing blizzard, Finland's "winter ally, swept the country last night and threatened to immobilize transport on all fronts, including the embattled Mannerheim line. Such a storm had been expected at the end of the recent wave of ex treme cold. Finns had hoped and prayed for it and last night it came. Reports from all over the country aid heavy snows, swept by terrific winds, were prevalent and promised to last for days if not weeks. - All air activity had been halted al ready, reports said. FIREWORKS BLAST KILLS ONE PERSON 14 Persons Are Injured by Maryland Explosion j Flkton. Md.. Feb. 21 U One per son was killed today and 14 injured, one critically, by an explosion at the fireworks plant of the Triumph Explosives, Inc., near here. The employe who was killed was not immediately identified. Charles Gatchell, 32, was critically burned and was not expected to live. Other victims, including two women work ers, were not seriously hurt. The explosion was believed to hava started in a small phosphorus build J ing. The blast and ensuing fire wrecked several of the small build ings in which the fireworks were manufactured. One Hundred Persons Now Working on WPA Ninety-nine men and a girl" are employed on WPA projects in Des chutes county this week, according to Cltff LaFountaine, county en gineer for the work projects admin istration. Of the total, 40 men and the girl are working on the excava tion and clearing project for the new courthouse, 49 men are employed on the Central Oregon Irrigation district, and 10 men are at work on com munity sanitation. Last week's figures showed 102 workers, the most since spring of 1939. As of today, at the beginning of a new payroll period, 20 men were transferred from the C. O. I. project to the courthouse. These men have 42 hours remaining of the 130 hours of labor a month allowed, so they will work out this allotment 10 at a time, making a total of 30 men em ployed on the clearing job until March 6, when 20 more men are to be transferred from the C. O. I., and double shifting will begin. Carson to Retire As Portland Mayor Portland. Feb. 21 HP" Joseph K. Carson, Jr., now ending hia second term as mayor of Portland, an nounced before the city council to day that he will not seek re-election. There had been no indication pre viously that the mayor would not seek a third term and his announce ment opened the lists to several who would not have run in opposition to Carson. He will retire, he told the council, when his second term ends January 1.