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T tut I THE BEND BULLETIN CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER Temperature (All Data Man Ttaa M Baan 0U Maximum yenlerday, M degree. Minimum yesterday, SO degree. C'J Brcraalllr at Mm tola War nnnii rayrvu pavuifa m lb bat Nwana af dalng yeur beat In hrlplnf jraur aaaa aud frlrniU a Ilia flfhlluf fiaula. Flj aia aul yauratUf, Volume L THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND. DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON. MONDAY, JUNE 21, 1943 NO. 13 Nine Persons Killed as Race Riots Flare in Michigan City And Whites and Negroes Fight Dotroit Call Out 3.500 Officer, in Effort To Ouoll Disturbance Stat Police Given Orders to Sand By; White Doctor Badly Hurt Detroit. Juno 21 IM? Nine imtmiiim were di-inl today a :..rl( police were called out to quell riolinir hot ween Negroes mill white people ami 2.500 home guard troopn, auxiliary police mid Male police were ordered to "stand ly" for pos mIiU' emergency duty. All of the dead were Negroes, hut nn unidentified while doctor wan near death and two police office were in HeriouH condition at receiving hoHpital. Police Syt. Floyd C. Noot victim of xix revolver shoU, itrt-ruft h to restore "nio.st" of T;'4 At AtHE' Washington. D.C.. June 21 Ac ' , . , cording lo the comprehensive plan for the development of the Colum-1 bin river the next dnm should be built at Umatilla raplda, and this him been the plan of the army en Uliieers. Such a dam would In inaw the power of Bonneville hydro eleelrle dam In the mid I'olumhl section. Ilnwevrri there la a aeheme on fiMit to aldetrark t-oiutrui-tlng a dam at t'motlllo and build up the water reserve on the upMT Columbia to enhance the power ut Wrand Couli-e and also provide water for the recla mation feature of the Columbia tln protect. At a lime when the llonnevllla power administrator Is nervous about whnt will hapcn In the government plan In Columbia river after the war. with the pos- (Continued on Page 4) War Game Aid Asked by Snell Salem. Ore.. June 21 'Hi The office of (;v. Karl Snell. comply ing with Instruction left by the governor before he left for the na tional governors' conference In Ohio, today apHalcd to clllens and landowners of Central Ore gon to coox'iate In the U. S. army maneuvers planned for July-Oct. 31. Army officers Saturday an nounced 7S.(HX) men would partici pate In the maneuvers which will cover a 10,0110 square mile area In parts of Lake. Harney. Deschutes, (rant, Crook, Jefferson and Klam ath counties. Gov. Snell said the army had given assurance that equitable ad justments would be mnde for damages which might result from the maneuvers, and thai normal farming, stock raising and lum bering was Intended to continue os usual. 7 Men Killed in Airp! Sane Crash Kapid City. S. P.. June 21 tali- Army authorities at the Rapid City air base announced today that seven men were killed and four Injured when one of their planes crashed near the Great Tails, Mont., airport Saturday. Among those killed was 2nd Lt. lianlel 11. Kline, Seattle. Italy Orders Two Million More Women and Men Into War Work; Move Called "Radical" By l. Edward Murray (Untut 1'rvM.Hurr CorrmMnilnt) London, June 21 HH- Italy drew heavily upon her remaining hu man resources today to meet the Invasion threat, ordering 2,000,000 women between 18 and 24 and sev eral hundred thousnnd men be tween 18 and 3fi Into war work. Axis dispatches described the order a "the most radical mea sure of this kind In Italy." A Transocean (German) dis i patch from Rome, broadcast by f llerlin, said the call up would put i between 8.000,000 and !),000,000 of J Italy's 43,300,000 population Into war production or military serv ice. The number of men Involved was not definite. Transocean said t Italy had 6,800,000 between the the $:i!j.()00.000 slashed from OI'A's original hud(et of "unidentified white man" report ill killed In rioting later was found to be' the doctor r.jw In rrltli-ul condition at the hospital. Noot ii nil Patrolman Krni-st J. Ilurtwirk. Jr., were wounded while attempting hull a race riot at Henry anil licitublcn In the hart of the Negro dliitrlct. Nine other policemen were among more than 200 crxon repoiied Injured. 830 ArreMctl IjiIibI ri'iMirtM ajilil more than .110 persons were urn-xti'd In fighting which began last night J' ''- '',he city and raged tixlay along a two- ml,r ,,., N.Bro bunos, am, residential property pant of Wood. ward avenue, the cltly's main thoroughfare. Mobilization of state troops and auxiliary police was ordered by Gov. Harry F. Kelly and ("apt. Ionalil C. I-iimard. state civilian defense director. Kelly was to ar rive by KHM-al plane here from Columbus, O.. today to confer with military and civilian authori ties on the situation. Police said the riot were touched off last night during a fight between a white man and a Negro at lielle Isle ark. Other persons Joined In the fighting and the rioting spread slowly early today to Negro sections of the city. ".aoU" Nut Involved Police reKrted that wearing of root suits by Negroes was not Involved In the fighting. Ill feel. Ing between "zoot suiters" and servicemen recently has precipi tated rioting in several large cities, Including Iietrolt. With regard to the Ik-lle Isle fighting, It was reported Sunday' holiday throngs were composed approximately 9r per cent of Negroes. Police said the percent age was out of proportion to the normal ratio. As the rioting spread, Otis Sanders and the Kev. Horace While, prominent Negro leaders, ordered distribution of SO.000 1 pamphlets urging Negroes to halt the disturbances Immediately. Ad dressed to the "Negro people of IVtrolt," l!ie paper s!d: "Can't Win This Way" "We cannot win this way. Riot ing In this fashion will under- mine all we have done. We have to do It In the democratic way." At the same time, police sound trucks toured the Negro districts, warning Negroes either to "go about your business peacefully or stay Indoors." Mayor Edward J. Jeffries. Jr.. and Police Commissioner John Wllherspoon were reported to have asked the state liquor com mission to "dry up" the entire city close all state-owned or con trolled liquor stores. Establish ments In the Negro sections al ready had been closed. NAVY C.KTS RKSOKT Ketchum. Ida.. June 21 Uli The famed Sun Valley resort will lw converted Into a convalescent hospital for navy wounded within a short time, Capl. J. T. O'Connell, commanding officer, said today. affected ages but that "several million" were In the armed forces and many others already working In industry. The women would do farm work and the men would be par celed out to fill desperate needs of war production, the reports In dicated. The order will become ef fective July 1. British radio reports told of un rest among the fascists as allied air power continued pounding Italy from the south. Radio Al giers said Premier Benito Musso lini and fascist party Secretary Carlo Scorza, apparent boss of the hnme front moves, had to re place some local leaders at Pa lermo. The Dally Telegraph reported from Stockholm that Italy's trans Goes to Avenge " . "" , m'"',fV TT'virWjr''"'!?'! r . t I ill i -t-rii r 'i 1 (SEA Ttltphoto) A oaw U. 8. crubrr Houston soon will be battling to avenge the nerolo vtaarl of Die unit name, which was lost but year In the Java ttea battle Malnat the Japa. The new one. fundi for which were raUed by resident itt Uuualuu, lex, la aliown aUdlng down tiia wayi al Newport fiewa. Va. 4 Men Questioned Following Discovery of Butchered Calf Officers Say Youg Beef Wa Shot; Sheriffs And State Police Investigate in 3 Counties Office and ntiite police in three counties today continued their investigation into the shooting- and butchering of a calf in the Davis lake area Saturday evening:, with three men held in the Deschutes county jail for questioning and a fourth to join them tonight. Sheriff ( L. McCauley and Strt. 1.. I,. Hirtzel of the state police have gone to Kugune to jfet Bill Doe of Cascade Summit, who unsertcdly broke jtway when the. j?roup was first apprehended by state police late Saturday night at the ; Oakridue bridge. The other Deschutes Health Of ficer Speaker Disease prevention .Is the pri mary objective of the Deschutes county health unit. Its chief. Dr. Vnwl.tri.-k I Poi?nr n mn lor In the United States public health service, told the Bend Kiwanls club at the Pine tavern this noon. Health problems will be aggra vated by Increased population and will require closer attention than ordinary In view of civilian re- MfwinulhMltl.. tn the mllitnrv ler- SHnni, n(1 stressed, adding that the activity of his own staff will not be sufficient. "We must have public help as well," he said. Syphilis and gonorrhea are a Seclal problem, Dr. Rogers noted. Mosquito control t o prevent spread of malaria when cases from the tropics come to this area Is another. Disease Expected "There was one case of menin gitis this year,", he mentioned. "Put It down that there will be more cases this fall. Such dis ease as measles may be serious as adult cases." The public health service. Dr. Rogers stated. Is working In the closest cooperation with the mili tary service. The speaker was Introduced by Dr. Fred A. Llcuullen. COMMITTEE TO MEET Ben Hamilton, chairman, an- I ...!.... !, til. 1 tha lli.UUii-o luunj ...a. ii .a -J , utmost Importance" that every I member of the county camp and hospital committee attend the meeting tonight at 8 o'clock In the Ked Cross rooms. portation system was being sabo taged by its workers who were leaving for the country to seek safety from air raids. The dis patch said that 40 locomotives and 350 cars were destroyed In recent air attacks. The dispatch said that Naples. Callgarl, Reggio Calabria and Messina had been devastated by air bombings and that the explo sion of an ammunition ship at Naples caused heavy damage In the harbor. Most comment on Italy's Inter nal situation centered on Scorza, described as a one-time Mussolini bodyguard and thug. Axis reports Indicated he was wielding the bulk of authority and trying to ready the nation for fighting on Its own shores. First Houston throe, Karto Byra Hay. h'red Oilman HaniKan, and Eugene Joseph Lavoy, also of Cascade Summit, Were brought back to IVnd early Sunday morning by the sheriff and state police. The four men, all employed by the Morrison-Knudsen Construc tion company, were accosted by J. S. Shaw of the forest service Saturday evening following the noPt'm and hroat cutting of the ?al'- Thp' d' .hls charges and fled in a Plymouth sedan, later to be stopped on the Willamette highway after Shaw had notified officers. The calf, which belonged to the Stearns Cattle company, was shot with a 35-20 rifle, which has not yet been found. Officers said the three men held In the Bend Jail have ad mitted the charges. Yankee Fliers Get Jap Sub In Aleutians Washington, J u n e 2 Uli The navy department today announc ed the decoration of two fliers who damaged a Japanese sub marine and led to Its sinking by a United States destroyer In the Aleutian islands area last August. A distinguished flying cross was awarded Lt. Carl H. Amme of Charleston. S. C. and a gold star to Lt. (J.G.) Samuel E. Cole- iman, of 618 South Fifth street, iTacoma, Wash. Amme and Coleman were flying patrol planes when they sighted the submarine. Both attacked with depth charges and when the damaged craft submerged they marked Its position with smoke bombs. The destroyer then brought the sub to the surface with depth charges and sank it. WAH ENCYCLOPEDIA CORPS INSIGNIA PABACHUTE COUPS (SILVER ) WOtJN ON IE FT BBrAST. THE PARACHUTE CORPS (SKYTROOPE&S) IS THE SPEAR HEAD OF- THE U S. ARMED SERVICES. 3rd Coal Strike In 3 Months Leaves 530,000 Workers Idle ( .. , fv Allied Raiders Blast Europe; Big Center Hit Southwestern Germany ' Feels Might of RAF; Sicily Under Air Fire (Br I'nIUd PrMl Allied bombers capped a series of heavy week-end blows at Europe, witi a thrust into new territory today to blast targets in southwestern Germany. Although the royal air force delayed an accounting of Its night operations, Swiss and nazi sources reported attacks on the southwestern corner o! the reich. The Swiss dispatches said billow ing fires were seen and huge ex plosions heard in Switzerland in what appeared to be a concen trated bombardment of Friedrich shafen, a key nazi war produc tion center. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters In North Africa an nounced that medium bombers had smashed again at axis air dromes on the battered Italian outpost of Sicily, shooting down 16 planes and losing only five for a Sunday score of better than 3 to 1. Sicily Again Hit Medium bombers, escorted by fighters, attacked the Castelve trano, Borizzo, and Milo air dromes in western Sicily, carry ing on the offensive which has hit the big telsnd off the tip of Italy regularly for more than a week The raiders scored bomb hits cn barracks, administration build ings and grounded planes at Cas telvetrano In southwestern Sicily, while at Borizzo and Milo near Trapani, dispersal areas were blasted. The day assault followed a block-buster raid on Messina Sat urday night by British Welling tons. The big bombs were seen bursting in the area of the ferry terminus and industrial and dock installations of the key base at the northeastern tip of Sicily. Terminals Are Target" American bombers of the Middle East command dropped 175 tons of bombs Saturday on Reggio Calabria and San Gio vanni, terminals of ferry routes from Sicily. The pace of the American aerial campaign across the Medi terranean was matched by home based bombers of the RAF, which resumed the interrupted offen sive against western Europe with a devastating attack on the Schnieder arms plant at Le Creusot In central France. Nazi controlled broadcasts acknowl edged "extremely large fires" at Le Creusot and said at least 101 persons were killed and 250 in jured. Bern Makes Report Bern reports of the early Mon day bombing of southwestern Germany said huge fires were set and explosions were clearly audible across the frontier. Berlin I broadcasts said only that British I bombers hit "places" in south western Germany and carried out nuisance thrusts over the north ern part of the relch. On the eve of the second anni versary of Adolf Hitler's attack on Russia, signs were accumu lating that the two big armies massed along the eastern front were getting ready for major operations. Race Riot Ends In Negro's Death El Paso. Tex., June 21 lPi Army authorities reported today that a negro soldier was killed and a white soldier critically wounded in a disturbance at Ft. Bliss re sulting from rumors of a race riot that did not exist. Actually, the army said, no whites, either civilians or soldiers, were Involved In the disturbance. Instead, a negro soldier was shot by a negro civilian, and another negro soldier was knifed by an other negro civilian. BULLETIN Washington, June 21 UP Amer ican airmen were revealed today to havtt carried out double-barreled attack on Japanese strong hold In the Gilbert Inland group last Friday night, hitting Tarawa at the same time that another bomber formation struck at Nauru. OP A and OWI Offices to Run Senate Gauntlet This Week Little Hope Seen of Salvaging Elmer Davis' Department, But Price Men May Get Money By John L. Cutter (Uniud PrM buff Cormpooarat) Washington, June 21 (UP) The office of price adminis tration and the office of war gauntlet this week for what is their very lives. The house pushed both agencies to the wall late last week by amending their appropriations for fiscal 1944 so that OPA could not continue its roll-back-subsidy program and so that OWI would have to discontinue all domestic opera tions July 1. Administration senate leaders were confident of enough Invasion Expert Appointment of Brig.-Gen. Dan iel Noce, landing operations specialist, to the XT. S. Army general staff in th European theater adds to indications that invasion is near. Percy A. Cupper Dies Suddenly Salem, June 21 'IP Percy A. Cupper, Salem attorney and for mer state engineer, died aboard a train east of Laramie, Wyo.. Sun day, his family reported today. supper was oi. Cupper had been In Washing ton, D. C, for three weeks con ferring with federal officials on eastern Oregon irrigation mat ters. Cupper was born In Monument. Ore., and served several years as uregon state engineer. Funeral services will be held from the Rigdon mortuary Thurs- day afternoon at 1:30 o'clock with concluding rites at the Mt. Crest mausoleum crematorium. As state engfneer and in more recent years counsel for the the Jefferson Water Conservancy dis trict, Mr. Cupper was well known in Central Oregon. Robber's Threat Brings Out Cash Portland, June 21 'IPi A robber who threatened a bank teller with a small black box "that might blow everybody up," today ob tained about $2000 from the Stark street branch of the First Nation al bank here today. The robber, about 25 years old, handed a note to special teller Stanley Childs. "This Is a holdup. Act quickly, hand over the money," the note read. When Childs hesitated, the rob ber opened a box and exhibited what appeared to be small rolls of dynamite. ' Theat Made "If you don't hand over the money I'll pull the switch and blow everybody In the bank up," the robber threatened. "Hand me 20s first, then 10s." Childs complied. "You can do anything you like," the robber said as he fled with the loot. "If police pick me up I'll still pull the switch on my boy and blow everybody up." WAR GAME MAP A map of the Central Oregon ares In which army maneuvers will be held this year la printed on PKe rj -J law lis ( ni information must run a senate their administrators countend as reported to have died but police later retracted the statement. They also said an $165,000,000 and of rescuing the subsidy-rollback program. Uttle Hope Held But they were less honeful about Elmer Davis' OWI. The senate vote may determine whe ther OWI continues to operate at all. Davis has threatened to re sign if the senate upholds the house vote to abolish OWI's do mestic branch on the ground that then "there will be no OWI and my job will be ended." OPA showed no sign of back ing down on Its controversial subsidy-rollback program. It went ahead with its previous plan to apply it to beef, vea! and lamb, the retail price of which house wives found from thre to six cents a pound cheaper today. Butter al ready has been rolled back, and coffee and pork are scheduled to be next before July 1 when ap propriation measures must have received final congressional ac tion for the beginning of the new fiscal year. Court Upholds Jap Conviction Washington, June 21 API The Supreme court today upheld the convictions of Gordon K. Hira bayashi and Minora Yasui, Ameri can citizens of Japanese descent, for violating evacuation and cur few orders of the U. S. army. The decision was delivered by Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone on behalf of an unanimous court. It appeared to uphold fully the emergency power of the U. S. mili tary commanders to evacuate, or otherwise restrict the activities of persons whose presence In de fense zones they consider detri mental to the war effort. Stone warned, however, that the court must guard carefully against misuse of such power, and that "when the danger is past the restrictions imposed on them should be promptly removed and their freedom of action fully re- stored." Hirabayashi, of Seattle, and Yasui, of Portland, were convict ed of violating orders issued by Lieut. Gen. John L. DeWitt, com mandant of the western defense command. Fireman School To Open Tonight One hundred per cent attend ance from local ftremen and auxil iary firemen is hoped for by the county civilian defense committee at the fire-fighting school to open tonight at 7 o'clock at the fire hall. Paul Jarrett, with the Port land fire department and on loan to the state OCD council, will in struct the classes which will be held every night this week. 71 Billion Dollar Army Bill Passed by House; Vote: 345-0 Washington, June 21 (IP The house today passed and sent to the senate liie largest appropria tion bill in congressional history giving the army $71,510,438,873 with which to wage an offensive war in the coming 12 months. Action on what the army termed Its "decisive" war budget was taken by a unanimous roll call vote 345 to 0. Not a single significant Item of the sum recommended by the house ap propriations committee was de leted by the chamber. Despite the huge total, there was less controversy on the army's appropriation than on any big measure this session. Lackadaisical debate on the measure was completed Saturday, and while several members ad mitted they were "staggered" at the enormity of the sum, criti Federal Plan to Work Plants Being Studied Iclces Said to Wait White House Signal; Announcement Is Due Washington, June 21 'IPi Coal Administrator Harold L. Ickes and other government officials are considering establishment ot a "permanent" federal organiza tion to operate the nation's coal -mines for the duration of the war, it was disclosed today. A spokesman for Ickes said a discussion of "a proper organiza tion for permanent operation of the mines" seized by the govern ment last May 1- was started "In event it should be needed." The discussion was started even be fore today's general strike of . 530,000 hard and soft coal opera tors the third coal strike in two months. No Decision Reached The spokesman indicated no de- cision has yet been reached. It had been hoped that a settlement could be reached which would per mit the government to turn the mines back to the operators. This ' now seems unlikely. The spokesman also Indicated that Ickes. in his role of govern ment manager of the mines, is awaiting a signal from the white house or the war labor board be fore he acts in the present crisis. In the past the WLB. which on Friday rejected United Mine '. Workers' demands for pay in creases, has referred stalemated labor disputes directly to Presi dent Roosevelt. The spokesman said there was nothing to Indicate the board would vary Its pro ceoure this time. - UMW President John L: Lewis : and the union's international poli cy committee said, in rejecting a WLB settlement of the months-old wage controversy between miners and operators, that the UMW membership would "work and continue the production ot coal for the government." Conference Held Ickes, . meanwhile, "onf erred, with his coal administration aides. Undersecretary of Interior Abe Fortas and Assistant Secretary Michael Strauss were closeted for some time with William Warne, public relations officials. It appeared probable that an announcement might be forthcom ing during the day probably from Ickes, possibly from the White House. Meanwhile, Deputy Coal Ad ministrator Harold A. Gray told the house ways and means com mittee that interruption of fuel production for even a few weeks would imperil operation of many railroads, public utilities, and war industries. Postmasters End 1943' Convention Portland, Ore., June 21 P George A. McCullougn of Reeds port was elected president of the Oregon State Association of Post masters at the annual convention here over the weekend. Sanford Adler of Baker was elected vice-president. Among resolutions passed was the indorsement of the "principle of complete and permanent re moval of all persons of Japanese birth or ancestry from the United States." cisms were mild and few. Passage of the bill brings the house's gigantic appropriating task for this year almost to an end. With the passage of the war department bill, the house has voted to appropriate about 1110, 000,000,000 since January to fin ance the war effort and normal government functions during the fiscal year 1944. Ot this total, approximately $95,000,000,000 Including the war department, navy, war agencies, and lend-lease appropriations, are directly for the war effort Only nine of the 18 measures passed by the house have been en acted into law. Of the remainder, four and before the senate, while five have passed that body but are at present in conference to iron out differences between senate and house versions. f
