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Newspaper Page TextTHE BULLE V7 Weafker Forecast OBEGOK Partly cloudy, few scattered showers today, tonight. Increasing cloudi ness Tuesday, rain fn west portion spreading slowly eastward. 1 CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER Volume LVI THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1946 No, m Call Before 7 Tho Bulletin circulation of fice 1 opon until 7 p.m. each ovonlng to letvo lubscrlbon. Call 56 before 7 p.m. If you fail to rocoivo your paper. BENB A j Anti-Reds Win In Berlin Vote By Big Margin Social Domocratt Take Hugo Load Over Russian Sponsored Unity Group Hy ( Imrlrn I'. Arnul ftltmil hM Huff Cw,i.ltnt lli'illn, Oct. 21 mii Tho ami commuulNl social demuciitlte par ly won tin overwhelming victory In llerlln'a firm postwar election, polling almost half of llu nearly li.nno.ixx) villi' cnxl In the lour liiirly cunlcKi, complete ullli'lu) returns showed today. The mivli-t npiittHiinil xudiitlut unity party, n fusion of ih cum mimlm party and li-lt-wlng w--in il i h, ran n Mir third, more ihim WXJ.ihh) yules behind thf w Hill democrat. Tin. Christian tlemiH-riilli' union wns st-ciinti. Vntlnic ill'l, Heavy Votlnn In nil four zones of thf rniiltiil Sunday was quiet itmt heuvy. The vult-ni chime l'M city eoumH members uml Illli-il N05 iteats In tho 'JO buruugh eimm-ils. The mii-liillm unity party tSK.lX, whlrh hitil been xi-cii-l to finish niKfinil, even fulled to lead In Iho soviet zone. H wax xiH-oml In nil right ovli-t Iwir ought nml lust In six Amt-rlcnn nml llrltlxh iMirouuhx. Suite tint! dlHtrh-t rlrcllon fllxo were hi-lil yesterday tn tho soviet occupation lone outside lierlln. 'llu. sixiatlst unity party had o plurality there In early it-lurn. More Decontro Orders Coming Washington, Oct. 21 til OPA wound up for a new flurry of decontrol onlerx toilny while the linking Iniluxtry awaited n ih-ci Ion on lt iH-tltlon for removal of price ecillnK from bakery lioodx one ot the Inxt major food groups mill under controls. The agriculture department wax scheduled to art on the ha ker'x petition today. Some ol servers lielleved It would tie de nied, nt lenxt temporarily, while the deirtmenl deeldin whether controls nlxo should he removed from wheat, flour, fnrlna and semolina. Fartnn Is used In mahlntj hreakfiist foods. Semolina is used for macaroni and spaghetti. OMi-ikl Work Hard OPA officials worked overtime to carry out President Truman s orders for accelerated decontrol. Ceilings were removed today from clothing made ly disabled veterans as handcraft projects, and work cloves made from Im ported oil -tanned sheepskins. Other orders were In the works. Despite CPA's oft repeated statement that no rent Increases , are planned, the National nssocln. Hon of real estate hoards an nounced that It would continue Its campaign for an Immediate 15 per cent boost In rents and early removal of ceilings, it said retention of controls would nild to the housing shortage by cre ating n "powerful new obstacle" to residential construction. Loss At Gilchrist Placed At $10,000 The estimate of money lost In the Friday night burglary of the grocery store and the drug store nt Gilchrist was tentatively plac ed nt around $10,000 today as state police continued their Inves tigation of the case. It was nt first estimated that the loss would aggregate about $14,000. In addition to "cracking" the safes In the Gilchrist business Iiourcs, the burglars took 15 cases of whiskey from the drug store, It wns learned when the Investigation got under way. There wns some evidence that the robbers performed their Job leisurely, discarding some checks which they apparently believed would lie "hot" to hnndle. The first report that tho bur glars had used nitroglycerine In breaking Into tho Gilchrist safes wns found to he In error. The prowlers used drills In opening the safes, It wns reported. Stnto police were still on the Job nt Gilchrist today, Gilchrist Is In northern Klnmnth county. REQUEST KRPUHEO Wnshlngton, Oct. 21 tin The Russian head of the allied control commission for Bulgaria has re- fnowl n h A t nnll .i.tiLu mi miiiTi nun nuva, w .., a special commission meeting to see that tho coming Bulgarian election is fairly conducted, the state department announced today. There'll Be Some .... .. .' '1 "Arter tills I II give Iho orders," viinm Kurd, Knst Cleveland, s)ltlo, tells son, William, Jr., as he serves breakfast In bed for the last time. When Kip was an army private he took orders from Jr.. who was a sergeant. They entered the army within n month of each other and served together In the South Pacific. Beef Roasts On Hoof Roll Info Big Livestock Marts Cattlo Receipts Nearly Double Those of One Week Ago; Sioux City Puts Embargo on Cows Chiriigo, Oct. 21 UP) Cuttle beef rousts on the hoof- rolled into 12 major livestock market today at nearly double tho rate of it week aio, and early prices ruled about Hteady. lioir receipts likewise were far above those of n week aeo. Whereim only 5,56-t hogs were last Monday, the last day under price control. 62,500 were reported today. Good and choice hog's of 180 pounds: and over were $1 to 2 higher than Friday's average at Chicago, with an early top of 'M. As tho livestock rush kept up m the corn belt, an em bargo wns clamped on rattle and calf, shipments . to the yards at Sioux City, la., to remain in effect indefinitely. More than 31,000 cattle and calves lammed the yards nt 1 Sioux City. I WKh the potato harvest tn Receipt at 12 major yard ; Central Oregon only atait half ,,, irut'tiin ..r.-.i n.itu ! finished, growers are confronted uJon . com,!,re(I Wltnlwith n critical shortage of pick- 88,5110 a week ago. Top Price Offered At Indlanntiolls good and choice; butcher hogs went for $23 at nit weights. At St. IjuIs hogs, brought $:'S to $25.50 at weights ot 1W-XM) pounds, SO cents 10 $1 higher than Friday's average. As trading continued, the aver- thP fjems. Although some stu age price of hogs on the Chicago dents were stilt absent with their market was $22.57 per hundred-1 parents' permission, most of the weight, a drop of $3.23 from pre-, gehool-age workers were back tn vlous day's trading. Kvery available stock car was being used to move livestock to market, aources here said. Sheep arrivals at principal mid western markets also showed a grent Incrense. At the 12 mnjor markets they were 118,600 today, compared with 82,926 last week. Polls Reveal Big Registration Gain Washington, Oct. 2t mi Reg Istrnttons for. the Nov. 5 con gressional elections have reached a total nearly l,2.r0,000 higher thnn In the last off-year election In 1912, according to a United Press survey of 2U representative cities. The poll showed that actual and estimated registrations in the cities now total 12,211,767 as com pared with 10,975,598 four years ago. In the past, big city turnouts have usually benefited the demo crats, and democratic, lenders are nailing this year's registration as proof they are stronger than ever. Republicans contend it is a sign of growing resentment ngnlnst the Truman administra tion. Cities Included In the poll were Omaha, Indianapolis, lies Moines, Philadelphia, Portland, Ore., Salt Lake City, Albany, Syracuse, Buf falo St. Louis, Kansas City, Bos- jton, Providence, Fort Wayne, tieveinnu, iiichko, 3"ii rim:i co, Los Angeles, Oakland-Berke-ley, Cnllf., Detroit, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Phoenix, Ariz., St. Paul and New York. Storm Warnings Up Alonq Coast Portland, Ore., Oct. 21 Mi Storm warnings will be hoisted nt 2 p. m. today, along the Oregon and Wnshlngton consts, including the Inland wntors of Wnshlngton, straits of Junn Dc Juca and mouth of the Columbia river, for strong to gnlc southeasterly winds, the U. S. weather bureau. here announced. Changes Made .'X'j- .'5 l , v. 'W, rejxjrted from the 12 markets 'Potato Harvest 'Lags In Region era. it was reiiorted today from farm Inuor headquarters In the ,-ourthousc shortage became acute as' regular elasses were resumed to- day in Redmond schools, after a ,,.k' im n enable erowers rwrut juvenile workers for school today. Although the harvest has been completed on some ot the smaller acreages, many large-scale grow ers were without help to finish the work. Several were seeking workers today nt the courthouse. but there were none available. Farm lnlr authorities said that growers wilt have to depend ujion local help to finish the har vest. Little outside labor, except for scattered transients, is anticipated.- Vatican Denies Attack on Pope Vntlcnn City, Oct. 21 Hit The highest police authorities in Vati can City and Rome denied today thnt nny attempt was made Sun day on the life of Pope Plus Ail. Col. Arcangelo de Manda to, commander of the pontifical gendarmerie, said, "The entire; story of yestordny's attempt was i invented. We learned it out of i newspapers." Tho rumored at- tack on the Pope was supposed to have occurred while the pontiff was returning to the Vatican from his summer Castel Gandolfo. residence at Yugoslav Foreign Off ice. Says Slave Labor Charges Unfounded; Admit Belgrade, Oct. 21 nil U. S. ambassador Rlchnrd C. Patter son and a Yugoslav foreign office spokesman were In complete dis ngreement today ns to the exist ence of slnve labor tn Yugo slavia. Tlie Yugoslnv spokesman con demned ns "untrue, invented and mnllelous falsehood" the state de partment charges thnt American citizens are being used as slave laborers In Yugoslavia. "I wnnt to point out that slave labor never existed in Yugo slavia, which Is not the case in the United States," he told a press conference last night. Patterson told correspondents, "I consider that slave labor has existed In Yugoslavia and exists today in its vilest form." The Yugoslav foreign office said those persons for whom the Air Flights Cancelled As Pilots Strike r & -cr A ft iz ft ft ft ' .ft ft ft ft Marines Held Following Chinese Incident Troopers Fire WgftEL AS YankS ClaSh " California New York, Oct. 21 UP San 111 1 1 II Francisco offered the United Na- lAI 1th M Tltf tims 'bree 10-mile sijuarc sites In V W 1 1 1 1 llnllVr. the Golden Gate area for the pro T f 1 1 1 I I tU 1 1 f V posj world capi,0j (Kjay. The sites proposed were the Pelnlni;. Oct. 21 U' U.. S. Crystal spring lake area sur- marine headquarters announced nmdtn(f the city's reservoir, the; today that two murines were be- skyline site overlooking the Pa-' tm? held prisoners by Chinese,' cifle ocean, and the Maraga val-j presumed to be communists, fol- ley territory In the Oakland hills, j lowing two Incidents near Tang- The areas are either municipally ku In which two Chinese were or privately owned, ruling out So-' killed and five wounded. jcai opposition such as the UN The announcement said the two met In Westchester county, N. Y. Incidents occurred yesterday andt Attorney Gen. Robert W. Ken- that United State sailors and ma- ny, of California, heading the San rlnes were involved, but none' Francisco delegation In New was injured. ( York, said that two o the sites One Incident took place near might be Joined to provide a Sar the village of Hsinho only 2500 ger location If necessary.' yards from the spot where com-' "San Francisco was the UN munist soldiers recently attacked birthplace, and we loved It. We a marine ammunition dump, the wilt match dollar for dollar any official announcement said. free land offer that Is made," Sailor Held Up Kenny said. Three sailors from TangkuJ riding In a Jeep, were held up by seven armed Chinese wh at-; templed to seize the sailors weapons. When the Americans refused to surrender their arms, the Chinese opened fir. 'Die Americans fired back, in flicting casualties on all seven. Including two killed, it was reli ably reorted. Immediately after, some 50 Chi nese ambushed at the roadside joined the fight and forced the Americans to flee to Tangku. The other tncldent also oc curred near Tangku when three separate Chinese patrols earlier in Ihe day captured a hunting party of nine marines and several civilian guides. The captives were brought to the Chinese headquarters where all except two marines managed to negotiate for their release. Marine headquarters said in vestigation of the incidents was under way and negotiations were being conducted with a view to obtaining the release of the kid naped marines. Plane Aid Hinted In Jewel Theft London, Oct. 21 l!i Scotland killing two persons.' was register yard detectives Investigating theje,, t0 Melville s. Hanna (Box 18) Windsor jewel theft were in-1 oays Creek, Ore. formed today that a farmer ini ' France had reported seeing "glit tering objects" on the ground) nfter a metal cylinder was drop-j ped by parachute from a private plane. The farmer, identified as M. Goasguen, of Argol, said ihe piane circled over a Brittany road several times before dropping the mollli fnnljlllWr llt Kniti thivi cylinder burst open when it struck -bilateral negotiations on the Dar the ground and that "gtitering danelles today and proposed in objects" were scattered over the! stead an international straits con- area. "I ran towards the spot," he said, "but two men who had been hiding In the hedge were ahead of me. They picked up the cylinder and the parachute and ran off. "Later I heard a powerful car uluiik uiiven away, i imormen the gendarmeirie and I was told they were wondering If the affair had any connection with the theft of the Windsor jewels." The story of the parachute cylinder was first reported by the Brest correspondent of the i Paris newspaper France Soir. French police have declined to 'comment on the report. American embassy was claiming Americnn citizenship were being held as volksdeutehe or for hav ing given allegiance to Germany during the war. "The Yugoslav government is prepared to hand over to the em bassy nny such volksdeutehe whom the, American embassy recognizes ns American citizens and whom the American embassy undertakes to send out of Yugo slavia Immediately," the spokes man said. He conceded that naturalized Americans in the volksdeutehe group were being held in concen tration camps preliminary to ex patriation or removal from Yu goslavia. They are working as farm laborers during detention, he added. "The Americans are being used in an appropriate way for farm UN. Offered Fnr Hnmp Two Lose Lives In' Flaming Car Salome, Ariz., Oct. 2i fs Arizona highway patrolmen were attempting to identify a man and woman who were killed in a flaming automobile accident ear ly today four miles west of here. The couple, driving a 1941 Nash coupe bearing Oregon li - T?"?'235?' were kiit!ed truck on a blind curve and crash- ed head on with a second truck, According to Waller E. Sher-j wood, 28, Phoenix, driver of the truck Involved in me acctoem. the car burst into flames imme-if","" V ""T "' diately following the impact andhe,.!o"K frame structure wasj burned in the middle of the high way. Efforts of Sherwood and Andy Nunn, Compton, Calif., drivers of thei-other trucks, to extract the burning couple were halted by the raging fine. ' Portland, Ore., Oct. 21 tf"s The Oregon state auto license di vision, secretary of state's office, here today said the car which Turkey Rejects Soviet Proposal Ankara. Oct. 21 UTurkev re- mrtn nflwlo nnmliM, ferenee of Montreux convention signatories, except Japan, plus the United States. A Turkish note to Russia, re plying to recent soviet proposals, turned down the plan for joint soviet-Turkish defense of the Dardanelles. It said Turkey con sidered her exchange of views with Russia, as envisaged at Pots dam, was complete. The Turkish government said it felt soviet fears of aggression against Russia through the straits should be allayed by the fact that united Nations forces would aid" the national armies to defeat aggression from any quar ter. Prisoners Held work, and there Is no comparison in that to what they did with our people during the war, the spokesman said. "We consider it more humane for assignment of appropriate work during deten tion thnn leaving them sitting in prison. He said the Yugoslav govern ment could not allow the persons in question to leave the .camps while American authorities were investigating their citizenship csaims. He promised to allow those detained to fill out Ameri can forms in camp. - 1 Basil MacGowan of the embas sy staff said the embassy had been denied the right to question the Americnn citizenship claim ants held tn camps. He said the Yugoslav government had not an swered numerous questions on Individual cases. l)fSSj'iq When Milton Hammer, War Assets Administration executive, was flooded with offers of 5 to 40 cents apiece for 235,000 surplus "de railing" kits, he became suspicious. Checking, he discovered that the kits, which cost the taxpayers $20 apiece, contain five ounces of pure silver each, worth 90 cents aa ounce. He's shown as he displayed the kits, used by downed U. S. flyers to make salt sea water drinkable, to House Surplus Property Committee. Sisters Operating Hospital In Bend Lose Home In Fire Eight Members of Staff Make Way to Safety ' When Flames Damage Building m Morning Eight of the Sisters of St. Joseph, who operate St. Charles hospital, narrowly escaped injury early this morning: when ; their quarters in a building on the hospital grounds were the average pay for pilots of all . badly damaged by fire ( 'ypes of planes ts $753 a month. The sisters were sleeping in their quarters when the fire' ii? otiaUons were in pro made their way out of the building without injury. A dogj The government had not yet ibelonging to Sister Genevieve died in the fire. (entered the dispute although it The fire department was called by city police who nottced the flames while on a routine ti i uuuiagcu uctutc Hie liic; as extinguisnea, out one enas was undamaged and wii! usable after some repair the wall between it and the dikiiagei zection. Property Lost A considerable quantity of per- sonal articles and clothing be-: longing to the Sisters was burned o - orjfemaged by smoke arrfw ine lire can came at i.ju a.m. - :Z""fl'f"r te " "ZL went on schedule after that time and was answered by reguto Jure personal beiongtngs to firemen and volunteers with two '"L."3.? town. .'nfffetat strike nrter TTnbm at fire trucks The flames had at- The blaze vep.i tedly broke out J? strtRe orders. Union or ure tracKS. ine names naa at- p-trtnn tt.mntet tr ficsals had made it clear before ready made considerable progress' nen fcloon atiemptea to use j,, , th . in the center section of the build- i kerosene to start a fire in the aeaaiine, too, that precautions , m ine center section oi tne ouua-! , were being taken to avoid inclin ing and had broken through the .cootetove. me on expiooett, velecl nassenrers or the roof before the fire was noticed, 7" gt omggtl rn ggaX," out-of-thewaypomL equipment arrived from the fire hall which is only a block away. Road Completion Party Is Planned Members of the Alfalfa grange and the Bend chamber of com merce will hold a barbecue and party at the Alfalfa grange halt Friday night to celebrate comple tion of surfacing of the Aifaifa market road. Barbecued beef, potatoes and coffee are being furnished by the grangers and the chamber of com merce will furnish salad and des sert. The barbecue Is to begin at 7:3d p. m. and wilt be followed by! dancing and games. Members of the chamber com mittee in charge of arrangements in Bend are Cart E. Erickson, chairman, Glenn H. Gregg, W. E. Van Allen, C. L. Allen, Dave Lay, and K. M. Longballa. Chamber members and fami lies are invited to the party and are asked to call the chamber of commerce office early this week so that the number planning to attend can be determined. Walkout Idles Tire Production Akron, O., Oct 21 P Some 15,000 workers were idled and tire production stalled today at the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co, plants here as union workers ig nored a piea from their leaders to return to work in a dispute over suspension o two men. Union officials said the com pany had rejected an appeal that it lift the susoension of the two. United Rubber Workers CIO) leaders asked the men to return to work while the grievance was negotiated. . ft I I ?IA KftV I QCAC MtA f - nd I.. r Sin Harney Fire Word has been received here of J Harris, 15-year-old son of Mr, and Mrs. Kramc l riarns, ot Burns, , vho was fataiiy burned test Man- j3v ovonfnex in a fire which ft5- were unsuccessful. He dies at 11 p.nw at the Valley View hos pital in Burns. Funeral services were held last week in Burns, with members o Etdon's eighth grade class mates as pal! bearers. Besides his parents, he is sur vived by Ivm i-roihers. Gene, 17, and Jackie, 'i, and two sisters, Beulah, II and Joy, 5. His grand father is P. H. Reynolds of Mt. Vernon. Mr. and Mrs. Harris are former residents of John Day Eand Mt. Vernon. Bend relatives of the boy are an aunt, Mrs. Miiburn Lester, 2419 N. First street, and Jesse Lindsey, 128 Greenwood avenue, a cousm of the Eldon's father. Three Persons Die In Highway Crash Pasco, Wash., Oct. 21 ftB Three persons were killed and four injured on the Yakima Pasco highway late yesterday when a pickup truck and an automobile collided. . Dead are Mrs. Emily V. How ard, 20, her son Larry Carl How-; ard, la months, of Prosser, wash.. and James T. Bowdoin, 25, war veteran and holder of five bronze star decorations. Arthur C. Milan 32, Pasco, and Carl F. Settnider, 48, were critical ly pijured. President Works OrtHisU.N.Talk Washington, Oct. 21 i Presi dent Truman held his list ot en gagements to a minimum today in order to concentrate on com position of the speech he will de liver before the United Nations general assembly in New York Wednesday. He scheduled only two appoint ments one with Postmaster gen eral Robert E. Hanrtegart, the other with Secretary of James F. Byrnes. ITWA Planes Are Grounded Over Dispute Washington, Oct. 2! Pt PHots of Transcontinental & Western ' Air, inc., struck for higher pay today and a few hours later the ' company cancelled ail flights on its domestic and international , system for a 24 hour period. The walkout was called for 4:39 am.NEST by the air Itos ' pilots association (AFL, wbiefs ; claims t,I0G TWA piiot and co- t piiot members. Less than five hours later TWA announced can- -ceBatfon of all flights because c the strike. It was the first major pilots ; strike in the history of commerci al aviation in this country. " Pay Schedule Rejected The union called the strike after refusing to accept a new wage scale proposed by President Tru man's fact-finding board. TWA officials said the company had accepted findings of the presi dential board and had placed the recommendations Into effect. The company received official notice of the strike Saturday and was given 30 hours to meet union demands for a wage scale that would give pilots of skymaster- type planes a salary top of $1,096 a month and Constellation pilots a month. The union said was notified by the company that TWA euld not accept mail for shipment because of the strike! TWA said all stranded passeng ers in the - United States were being offered transportation on other airlines and trains- Do mestic freight and matt were be ing transferred to "other means of transportation." ' Eighteen puts and co-pildts es tablished a picket line in front ?f buildings at Kansas City, Some Planes Leave AKiwugB me srrixe was canea for 4r5 a.m. tEST several Sights Nippon Progress Pleases General Tokyo, Oct. 21 1 If Gen. Doug las MaeArthur said today fn his occupation report for August that Japans success in "building a peaceful and democratic" na tion couid be attributed to the diet's healthy insistence on "ma jority rule." rrte supreme commander said evidence that the diet had "grown conscious of its role as the chief organ of the govern ment" was shown in the resigna tion of Senzo HigaL speaker of the house. Higai resigned under pressure from opposition parties aided by government supporters. MacArthur's report, released last sight, said diet attendance was "extraordinarily high" com pared with other countries. He said the average diet session was attended by 361 members, or TtA per cent ot the total membership. People Have Confidence Progress in achieving constitu tional reforms, the report said, has given, the people confidence that they can now face squarely the problem of building a peace ful and democratic Japan. MacArthur's report said the po iiticai progress bad coincided with a "new low" in the domestic food supply and a "new high" in allied food shipments, mostly from the United States. He said the Increased food shipments had prevented mass starvation. SHIP INTERCEPTED Jerusalem, Oct. 21 ttPi The royal navy intercepted a ship car rying some 600 uncertified Jew ish refugees toward Palestine to day, and unconfirmed reports cir culated that violence and pes- siafeisibly fatalities occurred abroad (the vessel.