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PAGE FOUR THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1945 THE BEND BULLETIN . I and CENTRAL OKEGON PRESS -.. .T1! P""1 Bulletin (Weekly) 1UUS . 1U31 The Hand Bulletin (Dellvi bL mill ' i5 uv.?rS.A f""",n wt Sunday and Certain Holidays by Th Bei.d Bulletin To - 73h Wall Street Oreon owono Clan Matter, January 6. 1917, at tht Fostofflce at Uend, Oregon, Under Act of March 8. :71l nuilM.UI w. SAWYER Editor-Manager HENRY N. FOWLER Aa.ocU.te Editor FRANK H. LOGQAN Advertialng Manager. ... Am Independent. Newspaper Bunding for the Square Deal, Clean Biulneu, Clean Politic , ana tae sen interests OI Bend and Ventral Oregon MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OK CIRCULATIONS SUBSCRIPTION RATES . Bl Mall Be Carrier One Year I8.J0 One Year 17.60 Big Months 3.28 But Months 1. 14.00 Three Months 11. BO One Month 70 All Subscriptions are DUE and PAYABLE IN ADVANCE new notify us of any ohange of address or failure to receive the paper regularly l ;as it seems in Washington (The following account of the return of President Roosevelt's body to the White House and the comment on President Trumnn was written l,y the editor of the Bulletin now in Washington on business. In an nceompiinyitiK note ho Says that though the writing was, as indicated, began ImmedisU-ly after witnesM . ing the procession from the station various interruptions forced a delay in the completion until some hours later, (It is now 1:16 a.m.) and account for the v broken nature of the piece.! Washington, D. C, April 14, 1945. I have Just come in after watching the procession of military and naval units escorting the body of Franklin Roosevelt from the Union Station to the White House. The funeral Is to be this afternoon at 4 o'clock. Tonight the late president will leave the White House for the last time and the body will be taken to Hyde Park where the burial service will be held. According to the local papers President Truman and other of ficials will accompany the body to Hyde Park. Returning to Wash ington the new president will move from his present second floor seven room apartment on Connecticut Avenue to Blair House re maining there until the Roosevelt family have completed moving from the residence they have occupied since March 4, 1933.. Blair House is an old time residence not lar irom ine wnne i-iouse and taken over by the government several years ago to provide a place where visiting dignitaries might stay when In Washington. President Truman Is to address the Congress on Monday noon and his speech will be broadcast. He Is to broadcast to the armed forces all over the world on Tuesday. Then he will settle down to the job so suddenly thrust on him a job that he did not want and one that hp undertakes with crtat humility. A detailed description of the procession Is not necessary. Though 1 nave neard no radio lor aays except lor snort snaicni-s in caus as I went from one office to another I understand that there has been almost nothing on the air since Thursday night but programs devoted to Mr. Roosevelt. And so It undoubtedly was this morning with observers announcers commentators stationed along the route of the parade and telling in detail of each unit as It appeared and passed the given point. You heard the story as the procession passed ' Along the parade route soldiers were spaced at about 30 foot in- tervals. The sidewalks were lined six and seven deep with spectators. Though business was suspended for the morning in all departments of the government the public buildings along the way had been opened to employees and they were clustered In groups on roofs and porticos and window sills. Other vantage points were crowded. It was only when the casket, flag covered and hound to Its carry ing caisson by two heavy leather straps, had passed that the military aspect of the procession changed to the civilian. There had been two bands and company after company of blue Jackets, marines, infantry (one colored), Wacs and Waves, military vehicles. Then came the horse drawn caisson followed by color bearers with the only flags in the procession, and then began the long line of black limousines. President Truman was in the first car behind the flag, or at least so I heard nearby onlookers say. I did not recognize him though I had seen him, trim, spruce, trig, high colored and smiling, as he presided in the Senate for the last time Thursday afternoon.. , No emotion was displayed In the crowd where I stood. There was perfect quiet on the part of every person In my vicinity, with the ' silence broken only by the dirges and hymns played by the two bands, the shuffle of marching feet, the- low geared motors of the vehicles and the roar of the two squadrons of planes that passed overhead three times as the parade went up 15th street by the Treasury building. , , , , It is natural enough that President Roosevelt's death, shocking as it was to the whole nation, should be most keenly felt here in Washington. Here is the scat of government. Here are gathered In one community more persons immediately concerned with public affairs than anywhere else In the country. Here are more persons than anywhere else whose fortunes are dependent in greater or loss degree, on the administration in power at the moment. And so the news of late Thursday afternoon was doubly shocking here. And so, too, I think It correct to say once the surprise and shock had begun to wear away everywhere there began the asking of ques tions, "What will happen now?" and "What Is Truman like?", "What will Truman do?", and so on. I have said that Truman has entered on the presidency with great humility. Hardly more than a week before President Roosevelt's death Truman, in a short talk before a Congressional group spoke of himself as an uneducated man. He said he had not wanted the vice presidency and had accepted the nomination only because he was "a good party man" and did what his parly wanted of him. lie did not know that he would make a good vice-president. Had he the choice to make, he said, he would be back on ihe senate floor with his one time colleagues. On Friday, with the first 24 hours of the new office yet to be finished he went to the Senate and, meeting the men whose company he had so recently left, he told them that he wanted their advice and wanted to feel free to ask it. That one idea of wanting advice seems to have run through most of the new president's public utterances since he was sworn in Thursday evening. I have said that I have heard no radio since I have been here. One friend who has been listening tells me that it seems to him thai an effort is being made to build up Truman in the public mind. Doubts of his capacity seem to he current and the propagandists have taken on the job of reassuring the country; so It is said. As I see it and weighing all that I have heard (and Washington, let me say, is a remarkable place to hear rumors, reports, gossip, guesses stories, news) Truman's qualities and his strength and his weakness are found In what he had said of himself that he is a good party man and that he wants advice, ' The big, and as yet unanswered, question is, "Where will he get his advice? Now to Get Them to Eat From the Same Dhh T "If you will hold yourself in readiness." . " "But, of course," "Anything I can do, Eric said. He looked Truman, one senator told me, aged 10 years In one night. His remark to a reporter yesterday is being often quoted. "Did you ever have a load of hay fall on you?" he asked. "Well, last night the stars and moon fell on me." (That, I hasten to note, is not a verified Quotation). Observlnc how Truman aned and sobei'ed In 24 hours (Ho was the picture of health and vitality In the Senate Thursday , back at me. "Nicholas, you must aflernoon) thoughts have naturally turned to the next In the line of take care of Yourself.". succession, secretary ot aiate siemnius, out an tne nopes are mat Truman will stay well and make good. Mostly I find agreement that these events have dashed any hope that Henry Wallace might have for. the, presidential nomination in 1948. Truman is expected to want the nomination. If he makes good he can have it without doubt and that, incidentally is another reason why he will want to make good and that leaves Wallace out. Wallace cannot play for the nomination while remaining in Tru man's cabinet and he cannot, in good grace, resign from the cabinet to make the play. So cross out Henry Wallace. One final note. Obviously, Admiral Mclntire had no intimation whatever that President Roosevelt was about to be struck down. I had a 15 minute Interview with the admiral In his office Thursday forenoon and I am sure one does not get an interview with the presi dent's physician if the physician has the president's health on his mind. ' R. W. S. Bend's Yesterdays FIFTEEN YEARS AGO .... (April 18, 1930) (From The Bulletin Files) Discovery that gasoline sells for eight cents more in Bend than it does in Portland causes the Bend chamber of commerce to draft a resolution to wholesalers com plaining about the difference in cost. ... A cleanup drive in Bend results in the shipment of two carloads of old cars for scrap metal, and tons of Junk are collected in the O'Don nell field where city firemen de posit their collections after mak ing trips with a truck donated by Walter G. Coombs of the Bend Garage company. Mrs. Maud Catlow arrives in Bend from a trip to Western Ore gon and reports that she came over the Wapinitia cutoff in five hours and 20 minutes, thus giving the information that the new road is open to travel. In contests at Redmond, Grace Gingrich of Bend and William Hall of Prineville, win in the dis trict finals, and will compete in the state-wide oratorical contests In Corvallis later this month. In a cooking school conducted at the Hippodrome theater, Mrs. Walifer G. Coombs wins first place in the cake-baking contest, and Mrs. J. H. Rosenberg takes second spot. Mrs. Lew Franks of Redmond, spends the day in Bend shopping. Mrs. H. C. Ellis returns from Portland where she visited her husband, who is a patient in the Emanuel hospital. HORNED OWL TOUGH Kennebunkport, Me. (iw Ken neth Roberts, the widely-known novelist, hunted several days for one of the traps he had set for horned owls which attacked his ducks. He found the trap on the leg of an owl which had been caught in another trap. La pine Laplne, April 18 (Special) Al Larson of Bend, the new man ager of Powells Highway center, came to Lapine Sunday evening and began work Monday morn ing. Mr. and Mrs. Burr Lester and Marsha, of Bend visited friends in Lapine Sunday. - The Lesters formerly uvea nere. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Coffman,! Joyce and Jackey Coffman of Shevlin spent Sunday in Lapine visiting friends. The high school gave a party in the school gymnasium Friday April 13. Guests were the seventh and eighth grades, Uldean Bellav ance, Jimmy Shelton, Gene ITr.onr.hiB Mplvin Dunn Of Gil- Christ, Milo Chamberlin and Jack ey Coffman of Shevlin, Fern Millsap, Virginia Rhoades, James Sullivan and Helen acnnuui ui Bend, Mrs. Garrison, Mrs. Howard and Mr. and Mrs. J. Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. Millsap and Fern of Bend spent the week end at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Melvln Summers. Dr. Kellems of Los Angeles was in town last week looking after his ranch and cattle. While in La pine he was a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Carey Stearns. Mrs. Minnie Candle and Wllma Sue spent the week end here visit ing their relatives, Dr. Candle and family and Don Candle and family. ". . ' ; Heart Balm Pay Put at $54.50 Vancouver, Wash., April 18 IP( Perhaps the jury members should have furnished a bill of particulars on how they arrived at the damages awarded Miss Ella Rathje in a "heart balm" SUMiss Rathje asked for $8,500 for being jilted by Clarence Bart man, an ex-soldier. She got $54.50, with no expla nation of the unusual sum. Pepri-Cola Company, tong UUnA Cily.N.Ys Franchised Bottler: Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of Bend. THE IVORY ELEPHANT XXVII i Desperately Xavier took out his gun. Ho pointed at my stomach. I had a clear view of the small black hole in the muzzle that seemed to touch my flesh. Then came a report so loua mat n filled the room like the blast of ' Xavier's body. Slmus called the policeman who had nvir.aged to commandeer a cruising cab and keep us in sight until he lost the trail on the ave nue by the docks. The gun-shot brought him back on the scent and not a half minute after Book er's departure, he found me. And Kl . nnrl Ki-nttHHll l-t-oU I, Mil H mj n S MI-SI Slil I (MllfMll WH!' that he would carry out the Roosevelt policies. With the passing of j 1 o'r..cnt r time, however, there will inevitably be changes. Truman has his own Lxnin this his own and as these influences begin to" be felt policies will be re vised and given the Truman slamp. Truman men win appi-ur m mr cabinet. , , , , , , , ... Truman's expressed desire to have the aid and advice of the somtors is taken to mean that he wants to get along with the whole Conb'-;as. In this is found the promise of an harmonious administra tion wi j an end to the white house pressures so much ill use in the past 12 years. There will be, It is hoped and believed, no more tin ning on "the heat". Even before this attitude of the now president had hemme known the minority conference of the Senate had adopted and sent to him a statement of its faith in him and of its desire to cooperate. The Democrats will certainly do so and thus the two sides of the chamber and the two ends of the Avenue seem off to a good S,dThis prospect of harmony and of President Truman's purpose to restore to the Congress Its standing as an independent branch of the government Is hopefully regarded. There is also hope in the fact that, though his advisers are as yet unnamed, the first man he called to his side was Mr. Byrnes, wise, trained In administration and of un questioned honesty. At the very beginning the fact of Truman's presentation of himself as "a good party man" raised fears lest, In his adherence to his party, he might bring into the picture such men as Kelly and Hague. One man has said to me that he feared another Harding regime. The summons to Byrnes, however, lessens the doubt If 1 nno not OOtirptV Pllf! it. Optimism over the future of the new administration grows, too, out of memory of Truman's conduct of the committee thai bore his name The committee under his chairmanship did its work well. It rJavorl no favorites in cither party. Its record is remembered and gives i h0PTl' i mmrmhrrKil inn. Hint the lawyer who served as the sec tary of the committee and was behind-the-scenes man and the com mittee's highly competent aide was chosen by Truman, i le is I high. A. T-..,. h ic nviux'txri tn have n orominent place in ine iriiman administration. Many believe that he will succeed Kiddle as attorney .... n. u...,r..i 11,1,,,.., n,i i. limp Klile nt the Dlcture Ail mese an? mi- in'i"1"1 1 , , , are Truman's many lacks lack of experience, lack of eduta ion (his own words but used here in a broad sense) lack ot train ng. ' lack of background, lack of virtually all that Franklin Honsevelt had n such abundance. In. his past there Is the record of his failure in business and of going through bankruptcy. Thnif however. H evi donee of the fact only that he was not a good business man. Hie bankruptcy mark is more than wiped out by his payment in he end Si every penny that lie owed. And, It U said, it took him years to do U. a coast-defense gun. Xavler s pistol was pointed at the floor. He tried to raise it. An amazed look crossed his face and the aun dropped from his fingers. Then I heard Booker's voice. "Xavier," ho said dully, "you led with your right." The little round man opened his mouth, put his hands to his side, and slumped gently to the floor. I saw a wisp of smoke curling cellingward from the muzzle of Booker's gun. Booker looked at me sorrow fully. Then he cocked an car. I heard remote sounds. Someone running over wood a dock or a pier. A distant shout. Booker ine orun oi nis nai. m leaving. You can better than I." He paused at the door. nut i atan t kill l'hlneas Hudson. Killing with out reason is stupid." And with this strange hit of moral philosophy he left me. , Booker had saved my life. But It was the dogged devotion to duty of Slmms that led to my dls- I was taken to headquarters. When Marks heard the story, he ordered the detail doubled at Louisburg square, and accom panied me back to the house. "You seem to be the focal point," he said. Eric Woolf was just coming down the steps when we arrived. He was all Homburg and pin stripe respectability. 1 "But, Nicholas." He was very facile. "I've Just been in to offer condolences. Miss Pat was too ill to see me." "She's too 111 to see anybody," I said shortly. "I understand." Eric looked at Marks. "This Is Inspector Marks," I said. "Mr. Woolf. He was one of the party at The Ledges. "How do you do, Inspector?" Eric looked at the scars on my face. He smiled. "What hap pened?" "Mr. Woolf," Marks said, "we've ! been looking for you." "For me?" Eric's eyebrows covery. The policeman had got his rose, coffee from Simms in the kitchen.! Marks nodded. Slmms hiul looked in on me to "wuestioning, no saio. c found the library empty, gone to the window and st-en Booker and Xavier putting the limp form that was Nicholas treni into a car. With that he loft. Marks looked after him narrowly. He said: "So that Is Mr. Woolf." "He hasn't by any chance a record?" I asked hopefully. I "Not a blemish," Marks replied. 1 "A man with so good a record and so bad a face needs watch-i ing." We were back in Louisburg square after the funeral. We had stood in the cold and rain at the little' burial ground in Sandy Point where the first Hudsons had ended their careers in the India trade. I was not three yards . from the tall granite monument that marked the grave of every Hudson who had died for the past 150 years. I remember looking at i it and marking us ostentatious-, ness. ' . , When it was all-over, we crept away with willing reluctance, got in the big black limousine, and : drove home. ! - Pat had gone to her room. I j at in the library with Elijah Hud- j son, who looked disconcertingly i like his dead brother. He had just, shaken his head and said, ; "Why on earth, should anybody i want to kill Phlneas?" when Patj reappeared. j "Nick," she said, "I'd forgotten something." She held up a little ivory ele- j phant. i "I don't know how It could have slipped my mind," she went on. "At the time I thought I'd never lorget it." j "Forget what?" I asked. "It was last Tuesday when I had that talk with father. I was not to think it odd or to be ; alarmed, he said, and It was very ; important." 1 "Yes?" I stared at the Ivory elephant. "He said if anything should happen to him. If " Pat shook ! her head and closed her eyes, "ho : should die, I was to place this ' in the family ' monument in thei little crypt beneath the pillars. "That doesn't sound like your; father," I said. j "Nothing that Phineas has said j for the past few weeks has sound-1 cd like him," said Elijah Hudson, j "I was to go there alone," Pat said, "and to say nothing alout it to anybody." I,reached out and took the fig ure from her. "You've already had more than you can stand. I can take it down and place it cx- u u immothlniT about Mr. Hud-'actly as your father wished it. son's death?" Eric asked. Were there any other directions?" "We call it murder," Marks re-1 "No." Pat shook her head. "Ho plied. "Where will you be at meerly said to be sure to say n0on'" nothing about it to anyone." Eric stared at him soberly. (To Be Continued) i i I, i -i i "At the Club," he said. Marks nodded. 'Buy National War Bonds Now! WALL0JEES HEADQUARTERS There's never any tlonlit altout whero we stanu on Pre scriptions. They are, and al ways have heen. our primary concern. 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