2 Youths Held
In Bend Admit
Part in Crimes
Vigilance of two Bend nollpp
men today was credited with the
prevention of a crime wave plan
ned to extend from Bend into Cal
ifornia, the arrest of an ex-convict
and his arlmittnt nnrinnHin
'he solution of a burglary and the
.vu.cij, ui a sioien auiomoDile.
Held in the county jail are
Bruce Allen Pnmmin ia r t,.i
ville, who was released from the
ureBon state penitentiary on Dec.
11 where he was serving a five
year sentence for forgery; and
Raymond Orville Petrie, 18, of
Shevlin. Both have admitted the
commission of several crimes, and
their plans to leave for California
on a "crime jaunt." This was
thwarted, however, by their arrest
in a local hotel room yesterday
morning where they were asleep.
Cur Spotted
Unravelling of the asserted
crime record of the pair began at
5 a. m. yesterday when Bend Po
licemen Chester Nordstrom and
Walter Griessinger were on a rou
tine patrol of the city. Entering
the alley at the rear of the Co
lumbia Mercantile company, at
Galveston avenue and Columbia
street, the officers came upon a
coach with the motor running. At
first they believed the owner was
merely warming the car up pre
paratory to going to work. But
when they passed the alley again
the car was still there. Their sus
picions now aroused, Officers
Griessinger and Nordstrom stop
ped and investigated, first check
ing the store to determine wheth
er any burg.'ars were inside. An
inspection of the car uncovered
several gallo.i jugs containing
gasoline, a siphon hose, some
hunting knives and automobile ac
cessories. Finding that the car was wired
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past the ignition switch, and that
it bore two sets of license plates,
the of ficers drove the car to police
headquarters and notified Sgt. L.
L. Hirtzel of the state police.
Car Is Checked
Aided by Chief of Police Ken. C.
Gulick and Officer Fred Painter
and State Officers Earl Huff and
Floyd Chestnut, the local officers
soon found that the machine was
reported by Leonard Wheeler of
Portland to have been stolen on
the night of Dec. 12. The car was
taken from the Pilot Butte inn
where Wheeler was a guest.
Inspection of the. knives and
automobile accessories in the car
brought to light that it was part
of the loot taken in the burglary
of the Redmond Motor company
the night of Dec. 19. In this burg
lary a sum of money, also was
taken. A telltale clue also found
in the car led officers to the hotel
where the pair was arrested, as
one of them tried to conceal an
other knife under the mattress.
Car Repainted
Following their arrest, both
Pummill and Petrie remained
silent, but eventually began to
"talk", revealing the following:
That Pummill had stolen the
Wheeler automobile as soon as he
reached Bend, drove it out into a
juniper grove east of the city,
and repainted it another color. He
then stole license plates off an
other car parked in Bend, placing
them on the stolen machine.
Pummill then, according to Sgt.
Hirtzel and Chief Gulick, "pulled"
the Redmond burglary, claiming
he was alone on the "job."
Petrie then "teamed up" with
Pummill, according to' their con
fession, and they both figured in
the theft of a quantity of gasoline
from a number of cars. They ad
mitted that they had just taken
15 gallons of gasoline from Harry
Beach's truck as it was parked
near the Columbia Mercantile
company, and were looking over
the store with the intention of
burglarizing it when they were
frightened away by Officers Nord
strom and Griessinger. They fled
from the scene on foot and went
into hiding in the hotel, where
they were arrested.
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Sought in Desert
Phoenix, Ariz., Dec. 27 IP
Law officers today tracked over
150 miles of desolate southwest
desert land in their search for 19
.German naval officers who made
a spectacular Christmas escape
from the Papago park prisoner of
war camp and were believed at
tempting to reach haven in Mex
ico in small groups.
The Germans, with six others
recaptured a short time later,
made their way from the camp
through a 250-foot tunnel, labori
ously dug in secret over a long
period of time, army authorities
said.
The escape was made late
Christmas eve or early Christmas
morning under the leadership of
Naval Capt. Juergens Watten
berg, at one time identified as an
executive of the nazi pocket bat
tleship Graf Spee that was scut
tled off Montevideo early in the
war.
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The six men recaptured were
enlisted men, and authorities said
they believed they had been sac
rificed as decoys to confuse
searchers. Authorities said they
believed the Germans would break
up into small groups, in their es
cape through the barren waste
lands leading to Mexico, their
probable destination.
Cmdr. W a 1 1 h e r- Prien, com
mander of the U-boat that sank
the British battleship Royal Oak
in an audacious attack at Scapa
Flow was ont among the escapees,
Col. William A. Holden, command
er of the internment camp said.
Furthermore, Prien has never
been held at Papago park, Holden
said.
Shovels Used
The 250-foot escape tunnel was
dug with shovels used to fuel the
coal burning barracks stoves,
Holden said. Limestone rock
found by the diggers was care
fully pulverized and distributed
over the compound, he said.
The entrance of the tunnel was
near Wattenberg's barracks and
was shielded by shrubbery. The
exist, outside the high barbed wire
fence, was near an irrigation ca
nal. UP War Writer
Killed By Bomb
A Belgian Village, Dec. 23 (De
layed) iui Jack Frankish, United
Press war correspondent, was
killed Instantly today by. a 'Ger
man bomb. .
The bomb exploded about 18
feet from where Frankish was
standing outside a small hotel.
Three Belgian soldiers were killed
by the same bomb and about 20
first army officers and men and
half a dozen war correspondents
were slightly injured.
The hotel was virtually demol
ishd. Frankish was felled by the con
cussion of the exploding bomb
and struck in the back by frag
ments. Death was instantaneous.
He was 30 years old.
(This dispatch was held up
until the widow, Mrs. Barbara
Frankish, was notified yesterday
in California, where she is living
with her two children, Gail and
Brian.)
The bomb was one of a string
dropped by a flight of four Ger
man planes.
Capt. Shoenfeld
Killed in Crash
Corvallis, Ore., Dec. 27 u-)
Dean and Rrs. W. A. Schoenfeld
of Oregon State college today
awaited details of the plane ac
cident near Mount Orab, Ohio,
which claimed the life Sunday of
their son, Capt. B. F. Schoenfeld
of Corvallis.
In addition to his parents, the
airman is survived by his wife
and baby son in Corvallis.
Schoenfeld was a bomber pilot
in the Aleutians for two years and
had been assigned for duty in the
southeastern United States as
trainer for pilots in advanced
bomber flying. H went east only
recently.
Two other army men were
killed in the same crash.
86 Carolers Join
In City Program
Eighty-six youngsters joined in
the singing of carols In Bend on
Christmas eve, it was reported to
day as compliments for the group
were still being received Irom
various parts of town. Taking
part in the carols were the
youngsters who earlier joined in
the city-wide "singspiration" held
earlier in the month.
The carolers on Christmas eve
first presented a broadcast over
KBND, then visited the St.
Charles hospital. After the visit
to the hospital, the large group
was divided Into four different
units and visited homes of shut-
ins in various parts of town. Rev.
Robert Mcllvenna, Rev. Kenneth
Tobias and Rev. R. H. Prentice
accompanied the singers.
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Capitol Starts Tonight
fit- v
Eddie Bracken, the miracle mux of
again, and funnier than ever
Ofhman Visits
Capital, Comes
Bv Frederick C. Othnuin
(United Prw Staff Corrwtiiomli'nt) .
Washington, Dec. 27 Pi Boo.
All .right, YOU descend those
limestone steps to the catacombs
beneath the capitol. Tread the cor
ridors of damp stone, stumble
across those rusty chains, and
eventually wind up at an empty
tomb, shrouded in black.
I tell you (that's Othman
screamingV the place has ghosts.
The light is dim. It flickers. Feel
those clammy fingers across your
lips? Or is it a blast of cold air
from the place where George
Washington was supposed to be
buried, but never was?
Boy-oh-boy-oh-boy. There are
passages that go no place. Secret
chambers. Brlcked-up stairways.
(Bodies, I bet, maybe.) Locked
doors. Hinges that creak. The
tap-tap-tap of feet that never ma
terialize. Water dripping.
You can ask Herman about
those ghosts, but you'll never find
him down there. Not Herman. Not
ever again. Never. No-suh. It hap
pened one midnight. James IS.
Preston, the capitol export on
things ancient, was deep in the
archives, studying the manuscript
of a speech in the handwritings of
"Morgan's Creek," does the impossible
in "Hail The Conquering Hero,"
Catacombs in
Up With 'Boo'
Henry Clay. .Herman, functioning
as clerk and getter-downer of
dusty volumes, was sitting there
looking into the gloom. Looking
and listening. Kor-plop-ker-plop-ker-plop:
"I heard it, too," Preston says.
"Footsteps coming from a place
where there could have been no
footsteps. They got louder and I
saw Herman's eyes bulge. His
face' changed from mahogany
brown to the color of coffee and
cream. I turned around."
Preston claims he saw two men,
dressed as electricians, walking
down a passage which had no en
trance. (Yeow!) Herman knows
what he saw. Ghosts.
These ghosts (Herman says and
I agree) make their headquarters
In the empty tomb. After mid
night they filter up. They scream
and cause the chairs to squeak
and swipe the senatorial snuff.
They even ride the senators' pri
vate trolley cars. These cars whiz
back and forth, and forth and
back the live-long day in a tunnel
connecting the senate office build
ing and the'capitol. That's so sen
ators can save their strength for
law-making. Every night the mo
tormen park both cars at the of
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The Army and Navy needs Registered Nurses to help in the great task of maintaining the health
and spirits of American men. As President Roosevelt recently said, "One of the most necessary things to
keep up die morale of our fighting men is the knowledge that competent nursing care is
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Or you may volunteer as a nurses aide. The success of this project to train women to become
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27, 1944
fice building end of the line. You
know what happened the other
two a. m.?
The ghosts climbed aboard one
of those cars, turned on the juice,
ana took a wnu, clanking ride to
the end of the track. You think
they stopped there? Not those
ghosts. They kept on going.
Next morning mortal men '
found the senatorial trolley car.
with motor smoking, smashed
into a bulk-head that led r.o-telling
where. The ghosts were gone from
there. This Isn't the first time.
Vice-President Charles Curtis
years ago phoned Harold R. Beck
ley, superintendent of the press
gallery, demanded that he stop
the typing going on directly over
his head. Beckley looked into the
gallery. He saw no typist.
"And then," he reported, "I
heard it, myself. Click. Click.
Cllckety-cllck."
Beckley eventually oiled the
hinges of the swinging doors.
Curtis never complained again.
That doesn't satisfy Herman. He
knows. Those ghosts are back
there every night, typing bulletins
that never see the light of day.
Boo.
Ensign Henderson
Visitor in Bend
Spending his first Christmas
here since he was 16 years old,
Ensign Paul Henderson, with a
record of nearly 15 years in the
U. S. Navy, today was. in Bend
as a guest at the home of his
sister, Mrs. Kenneth Moye in Car
roll Acres. Ensign Henderson is
enroutc from a Pacific assign
ment to a new cruiser on the At
lantic, where he is due to report
soon.
A family reunion appeared in
the offing for the former Tumalo
boy who enlisted at the age of 16,
as relatives In different parts. of
the northwest have been notified
of his presence here. Likely to
come here for a visit with the
ensign are his sisters, Mrs. Martha
Scott, Portland and Mrs. Dallas
Monlcal, Spokane. Another sister,
Mrs. Robert Kulstad, resides in
Bend.
Ensign Henderson, who partici
pated in most of the major en
gagements in ' the south Pacific,
has two brothers in the navy,
John Henderson, now In the south
Pacific, and Robert, who recently J
enlisted and Is now at Farragut.
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