The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963, June 21, 1941, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextT Watch 'Em Topple Fouf totmi art l preient lied for th. Orgon SUt. Bbll losrjuo lesdenhlp. Sevrtr.il of thm will toppl. Sunday. Two o( th taami. Band and Silver Ion, play here. THE BEND BULLETIN Weather OREGON Cloudy tonight and Sunday. Scaitarad thowart eatt of the Caicadai Sunday. Maiimum Yesterday.. .71 Degree Minimum Latt Night . . 39 Dagreet CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER VOL. XLVII. THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND. DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON. SATURDAY, JUNE 21. 1941 NO. 14 : AT :-AtHE. Washington, l. C. Junc21 Wllliin n brief time I hi- war de partment will be In thr limtket fur LNio.hio.uio feet of lunilM-r. lo be used In I In- coiiHlruclltin of canton imi'iiIn. 'nil Ik one reason why nirii'lalK have been niiHlnim in Imvi! nil go wi'll In the (iircst ami KiiwnulU of the Pacific northwint, fur n large perecnliiKc iif the luni lr will be DoiicIuk fir ami I 'on ilciosa pine. Ilclorc the lumber Ik n-iiilnil, however, conKrvNH mum mitliuile Inrrt'UM- of the iirrny lo about K.ooo.tmo nu n and olllerrs and appropriate I hi- money fur construction nf fhi' raninrinirnlii. Thcue mutter will come In due Mini', bin the communities havlnif "Indian Information" thai Ihey have own M-leclcd a site can mnm-ly wait, ('oiiicnipliticd rnnlnnnu'iiu In On-ltiir. an-nil located In neighbor- , hoods KUrroiimled hy Umber ami sawmills, hill tin- way things aii run by thr army the lumber muni may come from htindiiiW of miles away. Dm- of the Important olfl rent In charge of pan of Dip con struction program soy It la fool ish anil not bintliu-iuillki'. It Is llkr j tin- hnuar-that-Jat-k built, hi says. , Flint a cantonment In n-jiilri-l for 3.t.0H0 troop. To hulltl It dwell ings mum In- built for many car-(M-nti'iK, gratters ami what have ou to do thr work. Hut lo pro vide shelter for the rni -ntrr and others who arc to build I ho canton ment thoiutamlii of men mum he employed, and o on and no forth. ""Screwy," la the way this higher of fli lnl describes the arrangement. When and If the cantonments are built, they will be on competi tive bill and not on the cast-plus fixed fee basis, the war detri ment think; hut congress I op imsed lo coniMlltlve bids, regards I he cost-plus fixed-fee a a qulck- (Contlnued on Pag Four) , Impressions Of Our Guests For year now, the Sullivan have wanted to come bark to Cen tral Oregon, ami at lat their dream Ik coining true. Jack A. Sullivan, who used to work here a a blacksmith "when Bend wu Juki a wide spot In the road", and hi on, M. A. Sullivan, both of 1'rescnlt, Ariz., drove through the other day and iwore that they would never leave again. "You can't ee them (or the clouds, hut you know those moun tain ure here," said the father. And he ald he wn very thunkful to return lo the land where peo ple were friendly a they are here. "1 don't even feel a though I'd been away," he mild. "Id-mi tin grown up, hut appar ently hasn't suffered too many growing pain," he remarked, not in" the fine atrccta and building In the city. Klamath Golfers Play Here Sunday Repaying a visit of Deschutes golfers earlier In the season, a large group nf golfer from Klam lit li Kail will arrive here tonight and early tomorrow for mntrhe with member of the local golf club. Play Is to start mound 0 a. m. Many of the southern golfer will he accompanied by their wives. Member of the Ilend wom en'! golf unit will net n hostesses to the visitor. A luncheon will be nerved ut the club house. Member of the men' club ore being asked to report on the link ok early ns possible, so mutch piny statl. British Air Units Heavy Attacks London. June' 21 HB The air ministry reported tonight that at least 24 German fighting planes were shot down in extensive of fensive sweeps over northern Krone by the royal nir force to day. The ministry reported that the RAK made two big sweeps of northern france. bombing air dromes at St. Omer and near Boulogne. The RAF lost only four planes In the operations. (Coastnl observers reported that the British attack on the French Invasion const appeared to be one of the henvlest of the wnr.) The daylight nltnck followed a big night nltnck on Kiel, the north coast German shipyards center nnd nnvnl base. The attack on Kiel was the high point of the 10th successive nights of tho RAK' sustained offensive Defense Plans For Oregon Sprague Topic Governor Shares Bend Program With Chief of Foreign War Veterans . Oregon, a slate with more than 19.000 men already In military service. Is rapidly compleling n far reaching program of civilian defense. Coventor Charles A. 'Sprague, guest MM-uker nt the en campment tMiniiiet of the Veter ans of Foreign Wain, told more than .TOO people who parked the Pilot llutle Inn dining room to capacity last night, Governor! -Sprague shared the program with j Joseph C. Menende., national com- maniler In chief of the ovcrscu vet ' era n. I 'Pie governor wa preccdi-d on , the program by Menende, who spoke briefly on actlvllle of the IV. F. W. unit refu ted that he has j already vlslli-d 42 otil of the 4H I stale departments In the United 'Slates, lie flew hen- yesterday 'from Portland lo meet wllh I lie I Oregon veterans. M. Itay CiMH-r, Junior vice com ' mamler of the host post of the j V. F. W., prcsldi-d at the baniUet 'and Introduced distinguished guests. Introduction of MeneniW I wa by Ira 1. C'anficld, Oregon ilepai Unent commamler. Consuelo Peart lie C'oe, past national presi dent, represented the auxiliary on the 'Speaker' program. m-fense Program Reviewed Governor Sprague reviewed for the vc lc run Oregon's military de fense program, and emphasized the lmM)it.inee of such a program because this slate faces the Pa cific. "I believe that too much our eye are focused on Kurope," the governor (ki'lared, touching on some of the development Just across the western ocean and re minding the capacity audience that point In Japan and China are closer to the Oivgon roust than am some of the countries of South Aaicrlca. Civilian defense I vital under modern warfare, the executive said, outlining the civilian protec tion program on It applies to Ore gon. "I have authority to create a state guard, hut that nuthorlty will not Is? exercised unless neces sity nrlses," Governor Sprague de clared. His statement wa greeted hy applause. If such a guard is or ganized, it will Is- a mule defense organization, of one or two regi ments, the governor said. Reserve Being Organized Governor Sprague said that there is now being organized In Oregon civilian reserve. This work Is being supervised hy the newly created county council of defense. In the near future, the official reported, there will be an enrollment of aircraft observers, as part of the civilian defense scheme. This will he first under taken In western Oregon. "We must tie prepared," Gover nor Sprague said, agnln remind ing hi audience that Oregon Is n coastal state, fronting on the broad Pacific, lie warned that people must be ready not only to bear Increased tax burdens and to sacrifice certain conveniences, but must also tie preinred for "sterner shocks." The solemnity of the governor' address was once broke.n when he said: "You lire too old to fight." Immediately there was a murmur of protest from the veterans, most of them men who served In 1917 1918. The governor, when the pro tests died away, reminded the vet eran that selective service offi cials have set 35 yenrs ns the pre nt, upper age for effective military service, and that this age Is be ing further reduced. Governor Sprague also Included himself In the "old" group, nnd the protests of the veterans gave nwny to a round of laughs. (Continued on Page 3, Column 8! Continuing on Nazi Lands against Germany and the German held Invasion coast of France. Today's sweep of the channel coust and northern France was carried out by a big force of fight ers and bombers which was seen bv coastal ovscrvers to fly over the English channel at great alti tude. (Berlin said thnt the official DNB news agency had reported that Lieut. Col. Adolf Galland, a nazl air ace, shot down two Spit fires this morning, apparently In the course of the hlg RAF sweep. Galland claimed his 63rd and 61th victories In the action.) Constnl commnnd plnncs henvl ly nttnrked the French Invnslon const, concentrating on docks In the Boulogne nnd Dunkirk areas. It was asserted that bombing planes yesterday destroyed a Ger man pntrol vessel off the Ilelder naval base, Holland, Russia Reported Moving Children Into Open Areas j New York, June 21 dii C'oliirn ' bla I Iroadcasl lug system tinlay heard a ri'iioii by the Moscow ra dio that l,.Vm,0ii Kussian school children are leaving soviet cltli-s lo "participate In various scientific exM'dlllons." i (Keort from Stockholm have said that the soviet In evacuating children from Kussian rllies be cause of the possibility of hostili ties wllh Germany.) The Moscow radio, ('IIS rcMirl ed, said that Moscow school chil dren would go on an urehaeologlc nl I'XlM'ditlon and Unit others would go lo Horodlno, 7! miles southwest of Moscow, scene of a . famous bailie in NaHlcon'K Kits- hI. in campaign. l.e itiugrail chii dren, the radio said, will go 10 Novgorod, I'M) mile southeast of I U'ningrad and other points. War Chiefs Want Guard to Stay Stato Units May Be Kept in Service for An Additional Year Washington, June 21 'in The war department announced today It ha recommended to the presi dent that steps be taken to obtain nuthorlty to continue the national guard and reserve officers on ac tive duty for more than one year. The war department explained that legislation by congress will be necessary to retain the national guard In active service beyond the x-rlod of nno year for which Its units were Inducted. "The final decision I a matter of the public policy which must rest with the pn-sidenl nnd con gress," the war department said. It explained that it was making the announcement because It has been "flooded with queries" from the field ns to whether or not the national guard would be allowed to return home after 12 months of service. These queries are to be expect ed because whatever the decision, there are many adjustments which the citizen soldier must make In his affairs," the statement said. At the present time there are 2S0.R00 national guardsmen, in cluding 21.800 officers, on active duty In the federal army. Heserve officers on active duty total 51,500. Portland Group Coming Tuesday A group of 35 Portland busi ness men, representing the cham ber of commerce, will be In Bend next Tuesday, jon one of their reg ular good-will tours, which they make from time to time to differ ent cities of the state. The group will be led by E. Don Ross, presi dent of the Portland chamticr. The group will arrive on the early train, and will have break fast in Bend, after which they will go to Burns where they will have lunch, and will return to Bend in the evening where they will have dinner with the Bend chamber of commerce. Wednesday morning they will go to Prinevllle for lunch, and will dine In Redmond, from where they will board the train for Port land. The trip has been organized by Edward N. Wcintmum, manager of the trade and commerce depart ment of the Portland chamber of commerce. Those who will make the trip have been announced us: K. Don Ross, president of tho Portland group; Joseph K. Ctirson, Jr., ex mayor of Portland; George J. Greenwood, chairman of the trade nnd commerce committee of the Portland chnmhor; R. B. Ambrose, Ben P. Bniley, Leo Baruh, H. E. Brown, Holmes K. Ehrsam, Harry W. Ely, Elwood Enke, A. U Green wait, Don Henderson, David M. Jack, C. J. Johnson, Warren Kaley, Bruce Kllmnre, George Lawrence, Koss B. Lewis, C. J. Livingston, H. E. Lounshury, J. C. Moore, S. C. Rnsmussen, O. C. Snyles, Pnul T. Shaw, L. J. Ralne, Al Sherrlll, C. L. Shorno, Ed. F. Sinclair. Donald R. Smith, Robert C. Smith, John L. Tulhot, Eric P. Van, Harry Zell, Edward N. Wcln baum, and William Selleck. Bend Man Accepts Call From Turlock The Rev. Holly Jarvls, pastor of the Klrst Christian church here since November, 1939, has accept ed a call from the First Christian Church in Turlock, Calif., and will take over his new pastorate on August 1. He will be accompanied to Turlock hy Mrs. Jarvls and their son, Holly I.elgh Jarvls. The Rev. Jnrvls came to Bend from Phillips university, after re ceiving his degree in 1937. A successor here has not yet lieen announced. Italy Ordered To Remove All Consul Offices Personnel Must Be Oaf Of United States Not Later Than July 1 5th Washington, June 21 'lli-The United Slates today replied to the ! Italian action closing American consular offices In Italy by di recting that Italy remove all Its ! consular personnel from the Unit e.l States hy July 15. The order also applies to olU other Italian official personnel In this country, except for those con nected directly with the Italian embassy. At the same time Undersecre tary of Stute Sumner Welles an nounced he had given German Charge d'Affaire Hans Thomsen a brief note accompanied by President Hoosevelt's message to congress on the sinking ol the Robin Moor --"for the Informa tion" of the German government. Ilie Dalian dosing order, mode I public by Wclli- at a press con 1 ferencc. said that "continutd func ; Honing of Italian consular estab lishments In territory of the Unit 'ed State would serve no desirable purpose." I Nationals Included I In a note to Italy Welles said he had been directed by President . Roosevelt to request "the closing of all agencies in this country connecti-d w 1th the Italian govern ment, together with the cessation lot their activities,- and further more, the removal of all Italian nationals in any way connected with organization of the Italian government in the United States, with the exception of its duly ac credited representation in Wash ington." The nctlon ngalnst Italy had been niillciMiled ever since Italy, following the lead of Ckrmany, ordered United States consular of ficials out of Italy by July 15 the date selected also by the United States for Its deadline. The United States previously had ordered Germany to close her consulates and certain propagan da agencies in this country by July 10. Welles explained that in addi tion to the consulates the order would cover all agencies of the Italian government which are reg istered with the state department. Bend Barracks To Be Erected Barracks, with kitchen, mess hall and toilet facilities, will be constructed in Bend to house about 40 CCC trainees in auto mechanics, it was revealed today Pomerene, district commanding officer of the CCC. This work will be In conjunc tion with the training classes which are already being held at the central repair shop in Bend. The classes now vary from 15 to 20 enrollees, who are stationed at Camp Redmond. They have to be transported back and forth every day. It is because of this and to take care of the expansion of the class that the buildings will be erected. Land has been leased next to the Bend central repair shop, and construction will be started soon. MAJOR LEAGUE RESULTS (IV United M American R. H. E. St. Louis 210 121 30013 16 1 Boston 000 103 500 9 12 1 Harris, Muncrlef (7) and Fer rcll; Grove, Wilson 12), Dickson nil and Peacock. Detroit 022 000 3007 12 0 New York 100 000 1002 8 1 Trout, Benton 17) and Tebbetts; Donald, Bonham (7), Branch (8) nnd Dickev. Clevel'd 000000 000 0000-0 5 2 Wash. .000 000000 00011 8 2 Mllnnr and Hemslcy; Chase and Evans. Chicago 110O02100r-..5 8 i Phllndelphla430013 00x 11 15 1 Hallctt. Ross (2), Appleton (7) and G. Dickey; Knott and Hayes. National Phllndelphla . 000 0000000 3 1 Pittsburgh .. .002 0OO00X 2 8 0 Grissom, Grouch (8) and War ren; J. Bowman and Baker. Brooklyn 0000000011 6 0 Cincinnati ..... 000 300 Olx 4 6 0 Hamlin, Kimball 17) and Franks; E. Riddle and Lombard). Boston 000 200 00114 9 1 Chicago 020100 000 0-3 10 0 Johnson, Salvo (10), Hutchins (10) and Berres, Masi; Lee and McCullough. New York 000 000000-0 2 1 St. Louis 102 001 20x 6 10 0 Lohrman and Dannlng; White and Padgett. NAVY FLIER KILLED Norfolk, V., June 21 itn En sign J. R. Law, a navy flier, was killed today when his scout plane crashed near the naval operating, base here. British Prepare .if -f - jzr I Destined as a little "surprise" for some German ship, a "tin fish" is loaded aboard a Beaufort torpedo bomber or the British coastal command preparatory to a sally against enemy shipping along the French or Dutch coasts. These planes have been taking an increasingly heavy toll of supplyiships used by the Germans. Vichy Troops Given Orders To Evacuate Ancient City Damascus Falls Into Hands of Allies After Hard Siege; Another Column Drives to Syria -. -Beirut, June 21 (UP) French troops have evacuated Da mascus, it wns announced officially tonight. The announcement said that Vichy troops were ordered to evacuate the ancient city because of heavy enemy pressure and in order to avoid fighting; in the narrow streets and bazaars of the oriental metropolis. The announcement said that French troops fell back to positions outside the city. An allied column has been fighting; just outside Damascus for several days and late yesterday opened fire on the city with artillery batteries, starting a number of fires. . ,. I - I (A Vichy , Deport said that thelVOrO70 Ulef British had renewed their attacks! . . ' on Damascus, virtually surround- fjf TrOT V eterOnS ing me city ana tnai ucn. tienn Dentz, Syrian high commissioner, had reported that the situation there was "dangerous.") nu, Damascus is believed to be the;?- Menendez. national 1 commander- oldest inhabited city in the world. Its principal thoroughfare "the street that is called straight" was lamous before the time of Christ and is mentioned in Biblical pas sages. The city also is a holy center for the Moslems. Along with the evacuation of Damascus, authorities announced that another British column is driving into Syria. This is a mo torized column, advancing on an cient Palmyra from the Iraq fron tier. Palmyra is about 100 miles from the nearest point of the Iraq fron tier and lies about 140 miles due east of Tripoli, terminus of the Syrian branch of the pipeline from the Mosul oil fields. The announcement did not indi cate exactly how far Inside Syria the British column has advanced. Dog Release Date To Be on July 1 Evidently forgetting that Bond s tie up ordinance last year was ex tended to July 1, scores of local dog owners this morning ti-rned their pets loose, resulting In a flood of telephone calls to the city police. A cruise around town by officers revealed dogs In practical ly every street. The city's special officer in charge of enforcement of the ordinance Immediately went to work, and it was anticipated that by this evening the city pound will hold a number of dogs. Police said the ordinance would be strictly enforced until July 1 and that persons permitting their dogs to run at large would face arrest. TIGERS GET WAKEFIELD New York, June 21 tut The De troit Tigers announced today that they had signed the sensational college outfielder Dick Wakefield of Michigan and paid him a bonus of $40,000. Wakefield, a sophomore, is ex pected to quit college and join the Tigers in New Work tomorrow. 'Tin Fish' as 'Gift' for Speaker in Bend "The price of defense is a cheap pi icv iu pay lur scvuniy, josepn in-chief of the V. F. W. told a meet ing of the veterans and a radio audience yesterday afternoon. Speaking from the convention hall, Menendez, who had arrived in town by plane only a few hours previously, told the gathering that the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States was solidly be hind the administration in what ever they do to safeguard the se curity of this "grand and glorious country." "The V. F. W. is committed to total defense of American secur oty," he said. We must do what ever is necessary to guarantee our way of life, Menendez said in ef fect. "We must deliver the goods for our own security." Speaking of the strikes in de fense Industries which are slow ing down production, Menendez stated, " it is not loyal Americans who are Impeding our progress." The president may be forced to take even more drastic steps, steps which will be of no long range benefit to either the laborer or the industrialist, he said. Egg Grading School To Be Held in Redmond Merchants, dealers and egg pro ducers of this region are invited to attend an egg grading school to be held in Redmond Monday, June 23, under the sponsorship of Clyde Hutchins, district represen tative of the U. S. department of agriculture. Two sessions will be held, at 2:30 p. m. and at 8:00 p. m. A. L. Bennlon, of Oregon State college, M. T. Mattson, from the state de partment of agriculture in Salem, and Hutchins will conduct the classes. The meetings will be in the Red mond high school, DISTRICTS CONSOLIDATED Consolidation of school district No. 8 (Cllne Falls) with school district No. 2 (Redmond) is now official and complete, County Su perintendent J. Alton Thompson announced today. The district board met yesterday and put its seal of approval on the measure which was voted In Monday' elections. Enemy Shipping Turkey, Germany Plan New Pact News From Ankara Also Reports Mobilization - Of Nazis on Frontier ' Ankara, Turkey, June 20 tU1 (Delayed) Authoritative inform ants said today that a new big scale Turkish-German commercial pact was being negotiated and that a German trade delegation was expected here soon. Informants said that the nego tiations supplementing the new German-Turkish friendship treaty. were proceeding here and at Ber lin. Well-informed Rumanian sources said that German military on the Russian frontier had reached the point where an attack would be possible at any moment. Axis officials at Bucharest have evacuated their families to the country, informants said. Diplomatic quarters here re ported that Germany had based its right of sending replacement troops through Finland to lar northern Norway to concentrate huge forces in Norway. Diplomats explained that Fin land, like Rumania, was cooperat ing with Germany by ordering mo bilization because of bitterness against Russia regardless of any concessions Russia might make. Diplomats said that German prep arations had now gone too far to be merely a means of exerting pressure and that Germany appar ently was using any demands on Russia merely as a pretext to ex plain an eventual attack. GIRLS' CORPS TO PRACTICE All members of the Bend high school drum and bugle corps have been asked to report for a special practice Monday night, at 7:30 o'clock, at the corps' customary meeting place. Coastal Zone of Devastation Created on Russian Frontier Helsinki, Finland. June 20. 10:50 p. m. ill"! Russia is hastily creat ing a 60-mile "zone of devasta tion along the German-Lithuanian frontier, refugees reported to night as Finland's middle-aged men were called to army duty under a general mobilization or der. Travelers arriving here after having escaped across the Finnish gulf from Esthonia said that Rus sian authorities had evacuated en tile populations of several coastal districts in Esthonia, Latvia and Lithuania and had arrested many unaesiraDie. On the Lithuanian frontier, it was asserted, Russia was destroy ing bridges and railroads and burning of browing up houses and entire villages to create Its "de vastation zone." Anti-aircraft guns suddenly ap peared on the tops of higher build Missing Diver Finally Found In Deep Water Entire Crew Believed To Have Died; Attempts To Communicate Fail Portsmouth, N. H.. June 21 tUi The missing submarine 09 was located early today lying on the blue mud floor of the Atlantic, hi 440 feet of water, with Its crow of 33 either dead or beyond hope of rescue. Rear Admiral Richard Edwards, commanding the Atlantic subma rine fleet, radioed the following message to the Portsmouth navy yard from the naval rescue ship Falcon: "Believe submarine definitely located in 440 feet of water. Large quantities of cork, oil, air and decking sighted. Two grapnels at tached. Will attempt to send diver down about 7:30 a. m. tEDT) when the Chewink (another res-' cue vessel) arrives with equip-! ment. Have made continuous ef fort to communicate but have re ceived no indication of life in sub marine." Knox Visits Srrno Secretary of Navy Frank Knox visited the spot off the isies of shoals, accompanied by Admiral John D. Wainwright, commandant of Portsmouth navy yard. "Everything is being done that can be done," Knox said. He added that he was disheartened to learn of the extreme depth of the 0-9 a depth that balked both rescue and salvage operations. Knox found a huge flotilla of rescue and salvage craft standing by the scene, 15 miles off the New Hampshire coast. Plans to send down a diver to inspect the ill starred undersea craft, resting on the blue mud floor of the Atlantic, were deferred temporarily. The floating wreckage included bits of cork Insulation, indicating that at least one part of the anti quated submarine's hull had been crushed by the terrific pressure of the water, which at that depth, measured almost 200 pounds to the square inch. The Falcon's grappling hooks had located an object on the ocean floor shortly after midnight. The rescue ship had dropped three buoys to mark the spot, although it already was littered with float ing wreckage and an extensive oil slick. Navy divers were preparing to go down to explore the ocean floor, but divers can endure that depth for only seven to ten min utes, depending on weather con ditions and the strength of the man, and it is an eight-hour proc ess to send a diver down, bring him back and resuscitate him. The 0-9, built 23 years ago, once decommissioned, then recommis sioned during the present navy ex pansion program, was built to withstand only 200 feet of water and a navy officer here said the pressure at 400 feet could be ex pected to crush the submarine's hull like an egg shell. The divers, nevertheless, were assigned to work in relays In an apparently futile effort to save the two officers and 31 men below. The 0-9 had failed to come to the surface yesterday after a two hour test dive. July 1 Date Set For Registration The second registration of men for selective service will be on July 1, it was announced by the selective service board here today. The registration will be for men who have had their 21st birthday since October 17. The registration will be In room 202 of the postoffice, and will be for the entire county. The office will be open from 7 a. m. to 9 p. m. ings in Helsinki and many motor trucks and private automobiles were commandeered. A general mobilization order is sued last night sent all reservists up to the age of 44 years to the colors at once. The mobilization posters were displayed at all street corners, the glaring white of the paper attract ing bystanders. Well Informed sources said that relatively few men were affected because the high command had been calling up thousands of men for days past by individual notifi cation. It was necessary to Issue the general mobilization order now. In view of Finland's precarious posi tion in any Russo-Gcrman conflict, because there Is never any cover of darkness In which troops can be moved.