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Newspaper Page TextCall Before 7 Th miMtm circuUrion offtc i. hmmm span unf d 1 a'dock Mch ning to smv (ufatcriban. CaB M bfort 7 p. m. if you fail to ncalva your pPr. Volumt IV Bedridden Yet Discovers Talent m i i - " - (rVEVI TefephofoJ ; Sam Francis, 23, Palo Alio, Calif., found Inspiration that hai kept him busy and happy, though bedridden and forced to spend 18 hours daily on bis stomach, strung up on a frame as result of AAF training plane crash and following tuberculosis of the spine. At Fort Mlley Veterans' Hospital, San Francisco, he does paintings which astonish the critics, although the tint time he handled a brush was a year ago when a Gray Lady con ducted a "drawing contest" In a hospital ward and Francis won first prize. Be had completed a pre-med course at U. C. before the war but plans to . give up medicine for an art career. Gen. Mac Rules That Homma Perpetrator Of Must Die Before Firing Squad Tokyo, March 21 (EE) Gen. Douglas MacArthur today ordered an allied firing- squad in the Philippines to execute Lt. Gen. Matsamaru Homma, cause oi nis responsibility tor omer .wartime atrocities. . -.-,.. MacArthur confirmed the. death sentence passed on the 61 sear-old Homma by a military has rift flirrrior nrinonl '-..-.' "If this defendant does not Canine Question Jormant As City Anders Pageant The seething question of what No with Bend's stray dogs which pas created a heated controversy ill over the city the past two jeeks, failed to explode at' last isms city commission meeting, 'though the room was crammed ith numerous doe owners stand- PS or sitting with determined lata. While everybody waited ESW.iSL."? lanine problem came up and ad Uino ' 1 s " , journment seemed to come with furprising suddenness. any of the vis tors at the com mission room in the citv hall were fuzzled by the outcome, and many rented questions were hurled as Jie disappointed throng filed out Put officials nointpd out two pasons why the matter did not1. - A iiai i tic; vioiiuia laucu f lake advantage of the "people's Impositions," and second, the ex isted amended city tie-up ordin al laneo to materialize. Procedure Explained r To the uninitiated layman, the lawir hniH. V ui vman',ln ei PW holds before him a card on men is listed the order of official fsiness. The first is "DeoDle's E "Positions." Another is "ordin 's for the first time," and an- "rr is -ordinances for the second me- The amendment would come up under the latter PPtion. After other Med Impositions," Mayor A. T. Nieber f ll repeated: ' eople's propositions." 4 JJly silence followed. f'oned the mayor. we snence. People's propositions," the aw said again, jjo word was uttered. TJn With ko 1 I i ' fred the mayor. u-, iui nvuay "nen npW nrrilnnnwi were for, City recorder Georee f rvill5 and City attorney Ross Mrs. Verne Shultz, Mrs. A. A. Innam echoed that there were Symons and Mrs. Dan Sullivan. ne. it Was explain ,nat Aiva Members of the publicity com t wodrich. who had hopn aptinff mittpp are Mrs. T. S. Anelin. fc,J,,?rney. had not yet com- FdmentdraU of tne proposed 'Wore, tho .i Ann. "1M othpr hi.cln... .., ....l 5 under the title "peoples Ssgt Frank Hirt, recently ac j I;ons'" however.' I quitted of espionage conspiracy t-Kerron, spokesman for the ch.irges. re-enlisted today in the '-ununuea on Page 5) TWO SECTIONS Death March, conqueror of Corregidor, be the Bataan death inarch and , ... ) court: The Japanese general ' . 5t..:..... deserve his judicial fate, none in jurisdictional history ever did," MacArthur said in his decision MacArthur directed Lt. Gen. W. D. Styer, U.S. commander in' the Philippines, to execute the sentence against Homma with a firing squad. The an nouncement did not indicate where or when the execution would occur,- hommp's fate, aceordlns to Japanese belief, is a more heroic man neain uy Hanging, Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita, the "tiger of Malaya," was hanged in a cane field near Manila Feb. 23. homma stood up when his. sen tence was announced, declaring dramatically that he was "glad to die before a firing squad. It is an 1 "VC, Brides permitting the death march MacArthur's review held that Homma, was responsible for the bombing of Manila after it was declared an open city and for the torture and murder of Ameri cans and Filipinos. x, , , Crime Defined "There can be no greater, nor more heinous, nor more danger ous crime than mass destruction n;. thority or military necessity, of helpless men incapable of further contribution to the war effort," MacArthur said. "The failure of the law pro cess to punish such acts of crim- Ina! enormity would threaten the fohrt fh ,-,,, chp,v Human liberties, the fundamental dignities of man and his basic freedoms whereon depends the very future of civilization all would stand In peril and hazard." L. ' " ho. .ho t ,mHam.ntl National Cancer Month Set Aside Pointing up Interest In nation al cancer month, April 1 to 30 in clusive, a group of posters is displayed this week In the window of Donnor"s flower shop. Mrs. Grace Donnor, chairman of the drive, which is sponsored by the Bend Soroptimist club, said today, that Deschutes county's quota is $1,222. Mrs. Phil Buckingham is chair man of the solicitation commit- tee. which also includes Mrs. Al- meda Hoist. Mrs. Cliff Goodwin, Mrs. D. Ray Miller and Mrs. R. J. Hafstad. ' t niDT ur.imvs army Con Vmnnltr Mnrrh 21 IIP) trmy. IE BEND CENTRAL OREGON'S . THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND. DESCHUTES COUNTY. OREGON, THURSDAY, ecyiro Ea Inquest Called Woman, Man Perish as Stove Explodes; Small . House Is Tragedy Scene Twq persons were burned to death and two others miraculous ly escaped with their lives when a fire early oday nearly razed a two-room dwelling at 24 Nor ton avenue. Cause .of the fire had not yet been determined, al though ..police and firemen be lieved it might, have started from a faulty oil circulating heater in one of the rooms. Police .tentatively identified the victims as Jean Muriel Petrie, 36, said to be the wife of George Petrie, proprietor of a store at Mlllican, and James Fitzgerald, said to be between 45 and 50 years old and a resident of Prineville. Fitzgerald was burned, beyond recognition. Dan Murphy Owner The home belonged to Dan Murphy, proprietor of the Pas time on Bond street, and who es ,caped through a mass of flames with Martin Holmes, 76. . . Details of what led up to the tragedy were vague as Murphy was under the care of a physician in the Downing hotel, and unable to be questioned, and Holmes, found several hours later at his home at 4Z7H Kivertrom was jn an inherent Bothmen"however,. were e X-1 pected to be able to testify be fore a coroner's inquest scheduled for 9 o'clock tomorrow morning. Holmes told Sheriff Claude L. McCauley and Sgt. L. L. Hlrtzel of the state police, that the oil (Continued on Page 8) Kerron To Head Stampede Board New-elected directors of the Bend Stampede and River Pag eant association meeting last night in The Bulletin office named H. C. ("Jack") Kerron as presi dent for the coming year and out lined plans for the acquisition of rodeo grounds to replace O'Don nell field, sought by the city for commercial sites. Phil F. Brogan was named vice-president, Delbert C. Hale was re-elected secretary and Harold Hagen was named to serve as treasurer. Other members of the new board are B. A. Stover, Lome Car ter, Dr. M. B. McKenney, W. J. Baer, A. J. Glassow, N. R. Gilbert, Norb Goodrich and W. A. Lack aff. No Pageant Planned J it was indicated Dy me uouru that no nlans are beine considered for a Daeeant this vear. Drimarily due to loss of properties in the , rlyM for Friday; Details Sought grandstand fire of several years 1 Dutch and Indonesian representa ago. However, there is a posslbil- itives In Batavia were under post Ity that a stampede will be spon- j ponement today, it was reported sored late in the season, provid- by radio Australia, ing grounds can be developed in i Dr. Huberrus Van Mook, lieu time, (tenant governor-general of the Following the election meeting : Netherlands East Indies, was re last night, the (Committeemen at-: ported holding up further talks tended the city commission meet-1 pending advice from his govern ing, at which plans for grounds ment on recently-discussed ques were discussed. 1 Hons. U.S. War Cabinet1 s Plans To Fight Japan Revealed In Diary Submitted By Simpson By John L. Cutter I gering the United States. testimony before the joint house- (United Pru staff Corref pendent) I The cabinet ruled out both a j senate committee. m ,v,in,Titn m.iv.1, 91 iipi do-nothing attitude or an attack! He said Short, despite some er ThPlafn PreSden Roosevelt and wlthout warninK on the BOUm-1 rors by his superiors in Washing IT . ,5 S JSn ".i ward advancing - Japanese. This, ton, should have been on full More Pear HarboV that ?hl eoun dld not knw " "-la'ert - the possibility of niuS .hnnM fiah Mf u f other Japanese force was then , hostile Japanese action even with- UniSfn imh?t Afi i. JL. J darting for Pearl Harbor. out a warning from Washington, pan 'd.!i!?"th?aSt Asia' " Stlmion said MaJ. Gen. Walter which he got irvrmni iwoj. The decision was reached at a White' House meeting Nov. 28, 1941. It was described in a state ment filed by -former Secretary pf war Henry L. Stimson with congress' Pearl Harbor investi gating committee. On Nov. 25 the war cabinet de- cided t'nat responsibility for con- fllct if It came should be Japan'. Stimson said it was a matter of how Japan could be I maneuvered Into firing the first shot without too greatly endan-1 orning Gen. Ike Advocates Extension Of Draft; Would Release Dads L. . 20 Per vent Pay Increose r-or Armed Forces t . Asked by Officials'; Patterson Is Speaker , Washington," March 21 UP -Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, army chief of staff, said today that if the draft is extended the army will be able to release all fathers "by .August or early September." ' ' Eisenhower told the house military affairs committee that the draft should be extended indefinitely to help the United States meet its world obligations and to release men who have been in service for a great Jength of time. Eisenhower and Secretary- of war Robert P. Patterson ootn urged mat, in addition to extending the draft, con gress approve legislation giv ing the armed forceB a 20 per cent pay increase. ; . Patterson told the commit tee that if the pay increase helped the army obtain a suf ficient' Volunteer strength to match requirements "we would not have to induct any men at all." Purpones Cited " Patterson said extending the draft would serve two purposes "It will stimulate recruiting and ', it will furnish a means of meet ing . any ' deficiencies resulting from inability to recruit all the men. needed." Eisenhower said that if con gress is willing to extend the draft, the army would be willing to have certain conditions and restrictions included in the act. He said he would be willing not to induct any more fathers and to set about releasing fathers now in- service. He said It would be per fectly feasible to say that no man Shall I serve longer ' than . la toontWv.-- ' Mil-, raT-tntrilv rniflH rne&l 'thjit 'We certainly could meet thtit instruction and carry it out by August or early September with the assurance that selective ser vice is on the books and Is going to stay on the books until the Job Is done." . , 12 Servicemen Win Discharges Different separation centers to day reported the honorable dis charge of 12 more Central Ore gonians, as follows: Bend SSgt. Frank E. Huston, 630 East Quimby avenue; Sgt. Max L. Weaver, 1715 West First street; Pvt. Armond F. Muller, 1017 Lexington avenue; Wallace R. Edwards, SSM(l) 3c, 725V4 East Marshall street; Charles W. Griffen, Yeoman 2c, 435 Fedora street; Helmer C. Wallan, BM2C, 1037 East Fifth street and Marion C. Armstrong, Yeoman 2c, 429 State street. Powell Butte T4 Ora K. Fos ter. Prlneville Pfc. Roy B. Lanury; T5 Chris A. Ralph and Sgt. John M. McDougal. Redmond Albert L. Hassler, RM3C, Box 117. Dutch And Indonesian , u u n conferences field Up San Francisco, March 21 Ui. Political negotiations between p qunr whn una ilpmunt Da nr. my commander in Hawaii soon after the Jap attack, betrayed a! misconception of his real duty! which Is almost beyond belief." ; The committee" recently com-! pleted three months of public1 hearings aimed at placing the blame for the disaster to the U. S. fleet when Japan attacked it at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. The committee report is due June 1. Stimson. 78 and aillncr. filed his statement and excerpts from his private diary In lieu oi 1BULLETM DAILY NEWSPAPER my p To r ire Shevlin Plant Strike Looms For Monday A strike which threatens to tie up all the operations of The Shev- 4in-Hixon Company here and in the woods wat ordered today by olflcials of the International Woodworkers of America (CIO) unless the company meets re quests that the management dis charge several employes or have-, them join the union. Th,e union has set 6:15 a.m. next Monday as the time for the strike unless the company accedes to the demands in the meantime. I Company officials, maintaining that n nntlnnnl Mr lnhor hnaritlF. Lincoln, Jr.,' 50, Son Of S directive rttfinK . .th non-union men bacX Into the ahks of the a is nvHiiu, uueu a ment saying mat tne company is year.old gri wth a hammer and w lling to subm t the matter to ar- Jhot herur tlmL bitration, provided the union Hospital attendants said the would do likewise, and like the chlld as , crUca, condltlon with company abide by the decision. bullet wounds bruises and a pos- The employes in question were jsbie skulJ fracture said tp be those who quit the un- Lncoln gon of tho presdent Ion during an "escape period ' of the Lincoln Electric Co., and and the company holds that it will : Iather o( two smnll cmidreni was neither discharge them or order-arrested ate yesterday and con them Into the union. - , feSsed that he beat and shot Carol Statements Issued Williams when she refused his Union officials served notice ( advances. He had picked the upon W. H. Myers, general man- cnnd up in his automobile on a ager of The Shevlln-IIixon Com- country road as she was walking pany, and he In turn replied with r. statement. That or the union follows: "Mr. W. H. Myers, General Manager, "The Shevlin-Hlxon Company, "Bend, Oregon. "Dear Sir: "This is to advise that the mem bership of both the plant and the woods have given considera tion to the-refusal on your part to comply with the directive order of thq national war labor board, dated Dec. 31, 1945, which re scinded the 'escape clause' and put back Into effect the original maintenance of membership clause ot the working agreement. "Your letter of "March 9 was given consideration, and what you choose to give as reasons for not complying are found to have no merit. You are aware of the poli cy of the national war labor board, and you know as well as we that It was your duty, after you were notified by the board, that it had granted the petition for review of the July 2, 1945, directive, to notify the men Involv ed, that the order was suspended pending the final decision of the board. "Therefore, it has been voted that unless you notify this of (Continued on Page 6) Khnrt hue t.ilH Ihn r-nmmlttnp he alerted his command only against sabotage- because that course was indicated In his ad- vices from Washington. The decision of Mr. Roosevelt and his war cabinet to fight Ja - pan If she Invaded southeast Asia was based, btimson said, on ' agreement that if a Japanese task IRAN SITUATION TENSE force then known to be headed I Tehran, March 21 HBA threat down the China coast got Into 'of a coup hung over Tehran to the Gulf of Siam It would en- day as the country celebrated the danger British, Dutch and Amerl- ' can interests In the PacKic. MARCH 21. 1946 Meet Oo Schod , it '. , if it it it it . it InBend Claims Two Lives Seek Aid For Philippine Widows f I. B " Brig. aen. Mararlo Peralta, Jr. (left) and MaJ. Oea. BasUlo J. Valdes, two of a Philippine Army mission sent to Washington, D. O, to acquaint proper officials there of pitiful plight of widows and orphans of some 60, 000 Filipino soldiers who were killed In line of duty during war, pause in San Francisco. Group will seek relief in form at insurance and pensions and inclusion of Philippine Army soldiers In OI Bill of Elgnu. Man Is Accused Jollet, 111., March 21 tlB-iJames wealthy, Cleveland, O, Industrial j f'st, safdoday11lS mlhd "must have snapped" when ho beat a nine- home from school, Lincoln said, Faces New lulz Chicago police asked Will coun ty authorities for Lincoln's finger prints and a sample of his hand writing prior to questioning him about the kidnap slaying last Jan uary of six-year-old Suzanne I)e gnan, whose dismembered body was found in sewers and catch basins near her home. Chief of detectives Walter Storms, however, said that "aside from obvious similarities" there was no reason to suspect Lincoln of the Degnan slaying. Persons arrested for molesting . children have been questioned routinely about the Degnan case. Spring Opening Planned For City Spring weather came to the Deschutes country today, less than 24 hours after the vernal equinox and with the season of blue sky and blooms came an announce ment that Bend is to hold a spring opening on April 5. John Wetle, Jr., chairman of the retail merchants' committee of the chamber of commerce, has made preliminary plans for the city's official welcome to spring. He said today that local merchants will cooperate by arranging spe cial window displays for the oc casion. In the evening, a program of special music will be presented In! downtown Bend, It has been an-; nouncod, and Central Orcgonlans pVeMclhe 'season newesf i","' "'"",B . "V'"""! ! before Easter, which falls on April 21, the ox-ning will give WOmpn shoppers, especially, to select their spring ample time to select their spring warurohes from the new stocks, The spring opening will be the j first to be held here since pre-war i years, when the annual event was j eagerly anticipated, . , Iranian new year In I mosphere. tense at- (NBA TebftftolaJ ft I ' I oaDy 7uraies, I 3 O..LLf.. Cf. .. DUDDieS fly i " All I c A a 1 1 , I ,n8 before the council. - fx II I) V Y "II Asked about the prospects for Los Angeles, Marcfi il 'iSZMJLS Eight-month-old Grge Roberi PSf" hfesTo8 ',,ir Me Mrs. May Logan said she .found head" to'fo'oT wim'soapTuds 'and 'i1Mlt,5 gurgling happily over the bubbles responsibility If it wanted to pre streaming from Nhls nose and , serf wrid1ll'!i?e- t,i mouth.. Her other son, William, e PsIdeitt hta , 2, proudly held an empty shampoo ' SL JSZ bottle. George, treated with a stomach pump, was all right today except ior an occasional bubble. Deschutes Youths Called By Board A number of Deschutes coun ty youths and one transfer from Klamath county today were sum moned for pre-lnduction physical examinations, these to be given In Portland. Young men ordered to report follow: Walter Raynor, a transfer from Klumath Falls; Robert E. Allen, Jackie Skaggs, Jack H. Smith and George Berchtold, all of Bend, and Eldon Delnshmutt of Red mond. Berchtold has Joined the navy. It was also announced today that six Deschutes county high school boys subject to call have been granted a postponement be cause they are attending high -school or wljl be graduated this spring. The six boys follow: Donald Hood and Jefferson McDanlel, Redmond; Harold Dlckerson, Charles Chrlstoffer sen, George Rasmussen, Jr., and Don McCauley, Bend. Fire on Prisoner Vessel Controlled Liverpool. March 21 (IB Fire aboard the American ship Cape not write any more. Will see vou Douglas, anchored In the Mersey I and Peter some time In April, river with 1,000 German war Always all my love. Rem." prisoners from Sun Francisco, was I He telephoned Mrs. Scott's ; brought under control after, a; home, then sadly he called Red fight of several hours today. - ding back. At midday the vessel radioed "For Major Remington Scott, that' the (Ire was confined to the j Okinawa. Mrs. Scott pussed away area of origin In the engine room, ; this afternoon." and all danger to those aboard j Mrs. Scott, 47, had died only 10 had passed. minutes before. Peter Scott was I J. Clltherow, fire brigade com - 11 ?"Wl TlS irenerator. generator, had started the fire, i Oil flooded the engine room, burn- n, lng nut all electrical gear and di , lnr the con.ro N the controls, Jap Civilians To Get Seats at Trial Tokyo, March 21 UB Japanese civilians will be permitted to oc cupy more than 2,000 seats In the balconv of the International mili tary tribunal courtroom during the war criminal trials of leading Japanese statesmen and military leaders, It was announced today, Weather Forecast Orzon Increasing cloudlnma today with tight rain wwt of Cas cade) today and tonight. Cloudy with (tattered showers, wanner tonight but cooler Friday. No. 89 ylle it tV. Soviet Request For New Date Not Approved New Big 3 Conference , Improbable, Asserts Chief; Advice Given Washington. March 21 U President Truman emphasized to day that the UNO security coun cil will meet on Monday as , scheduled despite a Russian re quest for postponement. President Truman was ques tioned at his news conference about the sovle request for a 16-day postponement. The soviet government made the point that the Iranian com plaint to the security council against Russia was "unexpected" land consequently Russia needed' time to prepare to answer the charges. . President Truman was asked whether this government favored postponement. The president answered with a ' flat no, adding emphatically that the - security, counell meeting w- - Will Seek Action He further affirmed that the ' United States will press for ac- tlon on anv disagreement nend- IwlubTXa in "b5 , SimS I Mr. Truman added) that he ; leaders whenever they wanted 'o !see hlm- h"'!1,? Lsl7,fh' i?? Ing nor were there any plans for such a conference. Meeting Urged Several Important members o congress recently have urged that another big three meeting be held, with the Idea of speed ing up solution of major differ ences among the United States, . Britain and Russia. A reporter wanted to know what was likely to happen when the -council meeting begins In New York Monday If Russia ln- slsts on a postponement .and the' United States Insists that the meeting begin. . " Truman advised the questioner to attend tho meeting and tin 1 out. .. .. Truman dismissed reports of disagreement on the Anglo- American committee to lnvestl- gate conditions In Palestine. Death Message Reaches Major New York, March 21 u Harry Whiting, amateur radio operator, picked up the signal of Marsh Redding, Douglas, Ariz., amateur. "Will you deliver a message?" Asked Redding. . "Sure," said Whiting, who, like all "hams," likes to relay messag es. ... "For Mrs. Constant Kerr Scott, 48 Colonial court, West Brighton, Staten Island," said the message. ! "Sailing March 23 for home. Do ;tneir nine year oiu son. Work at Gilchrist Waits on Weather Portland, Ore., March 21 UB Workmen in the Gilchrist lum ber operations today were await t n g favorable weather before resuming operations, according to Doyle Pearson, executive secre tary of the Lumber and Sawmill Workers union (AFL). Pearson said the strike, which started last fall, was settled Feb. 11, and he emphasized weather conditions was the only thing which prevented resumption oi 'operations. ' , ,