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Univ. of Oregon Library - 6UQSHE, THE BEMO BULLETIN CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER Use Classifieds Do not underestimate the value of The Bulletin's classi fied ads. They're inexpensive but bring big results. State Forecast OREGON Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday; cloudy in northern portion Thursday. Few showers northwest portion and snow flurries northeast Volume LVII BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1947 No. 140 i Price, Ration Request Put In Pigeonhole Less Controversial Issues Get Priority As Congress Opens Washington, Nov. 19 HP Con gress today pigeonholed Presi dent Truman's request' for emer- gency anti-inflation price and ra V tioning controls until at least the regular session which starts in January. But the senate foreign relations committee unanimously approved Ahc administration's emergency -measure for $597,000,000 in stop gap aid to France, Italy and Aus tria. Chairman Arthur H. Van- denberg, R., Mich., said the senate would start debate Monday on the relief bill. The decision to postpone con-, sjderation of the controversial price control and rationing au thority request was made by the joint house-senate economic com mittee headed by Robert A. Taft, R., O. Will Study Contents Taft said the committee decided to give priority to less contro versial phases of the president's 10-polnt program for curbing price rises. These include con trols over consumer credit, ex ports and speculation on com modity exchanges, and possibly allocation and inventory controls over .scarce materials like steel. Other committees will take up the president's request for extended rent controls. In approving the emergency re lief bill, the foreign relations committee adopted amendments to authorize the state department to spend up to 25 per cent of the total in foreign markets. This, it was felt, would relieve pres sure on U. S. supplies. Cash Still Needed The $597,000,000 measure Is merely an authorization bill. The house and senate appropriations committee later will have to recommend the hard cash for car rying out the relief program. Other congressional develop ments: General Myers Senate investi gators heard testimony that re tired air force Maj. Gen. Bennett E.' Meyers gave a bus driver who was to become his father-in-law a $l,000-a-month job in a firm he allegedly set up in order to cash in on wartime plane pro curement. Tariff Chairman Harold Knutson of the house ways and means committee said the new U. S. tariff cuts were negotiated by "do-gooders" who put American workers' welfare in jeopardy for "very dubious" tariff concessions from other countries which may never pan out. Recreation Plan For Bend Outlined Development of a recreation program for Bond was outlined by Mayor Hans Slagsvold in a talk before the Bend Rotary club at the Pilot Butte Inn this noon. Slagsvold' said Bend was in need of an expanded program and that citizens should be willing to support it. One of the things need ed here is a full-time recreation director for the city, he said. Slagsvold outlined conferences on recreation at the recent League of Oregon Cities meeting at La Grande. The program was concluded with a showing of "Playtown, U. S. A.," a motion picture on recrea tion. Wilfred Burgess was chair man for today's program. William Ball, county Commu nity Chest chairman, reported that the campaign fund had reached S10.000, and that contin ued efforts by all workers would be needed to bring the total to the campaign goal of $15,635. Hiqhway Report Salem, Nov. 19 UiThe state highway department today Issu ed the following road report com piled at 9 a. m.: Waplnitia Pass 22 degrees; 6 inches snow; spots of ice on road from Government camp to Clear creek, all sanded. Santiam Pass 24 degrees; no snow on road; road icy, mostly sanded and salted. MoKenzie Pass Some packed snow; sanded. Willamette Pass 20 degrees; one inch new snow; being sand ed. . Sun Mt. Pass 18 degrees; Vrosty. Klamath Falls 26 degrees; roads sanded. Relative Angle Enters Plane Output Case Washington, Nov. 19 itw A senate witness testified today that Maj. Gen. Eennett E. Meyers gave his future father-in-law, a bus drivel, a Sl.OOOa-month job as production vice-president of Avi ation Electric Corp. B. H. Lamarre, who said he "fronted" lor Meyers as presi dent of the hlehly profitable sub contracting firm, gave the test! mony before a senate war investi gating committee. ' Meyers, a wartime air force buying officer, has teen charged by witnesses with being the secret owner of the company. Was Bus Driver Lamarre said that Meyers rep resented R. A. Cornutt, his future father-in-law, as being a business man with wide experience in rail roading. He said the Cornutt, a few months after he went on the company payroll for $1,000 a month, confessed to him that he previously had been a bus driver for a line operated by a railroad. Cornutt went to work for Avia tion Electric la;e in 1942. A few weeks later Meyers married his daughter, blonde actress Ila-Rae Cornutt. Non-High School Audit Received A report of the audit for the Deschutes county non-high school district for the 1946-47 fiscal year was received this week by the non-high school board from the division of audits of the secretary of state's office. The audit was made by Ray mond W. Field, member of the state audit division. Records of the district were found to be in order. The auditor found that cost of sending pupils to the Bend and Redmond high schools has In creased sharply in the past year. The cost for each pupil sent to the Bend high school was $198.49 for. the year 194647, while the cost at RjSdmond was $241.86 per pupil."-""" " Deficit Noted It was noted in the audit that the district had a deficit of 56, 876.67 after payment of 1946-47 tuition and transportation costs. The tuition charges were provided for in the 1947-48 budget. In other words the district is approximate ly one year behind in providing revenues to coven tuition costs, the auditor stated. Total expenditures of $11,831.29 were made in the fiscal year, $2, 389.15 less than $14,220.44 that had been budgeted for the year. Toll Of Dead In Store Fire Placed At 40 Wellington, N. Z., Nov. 19 Ui Forty bodies had been recover ed today from the ruins of the Ballantyno department store in Christchurch, N. Z., which was swept by fire yesterday. Police said all the bodies were burned beyond identification. Six persons still were missing. Dam age was estimated at more than $2,000,000. A mass funeral for the fire victims was planned for Sunday. Athletic Club Bills Meeting A regular meeting of the Ath letic Booster club will ba held to morrow morning at 7 o'clock at the Pine tavern. Major business to be discussed will be the ban quet to bo held for Lava Bear football players on December lfi. A report on basketball prospects for the 1947-48 season will be pre sented bv Russ Acheson, varsity basketball coach. British Princess Elizabeth, Sleepy After Big Party, Looks Over Her Wedding Dress London, Nov. 19 HI'' Princess Elizabeth, as oxciied as any girl on the eve of her marriage, drag god herself out of bed today after another Into party and a few hours' sloop to see her completed wedding dross. There wore 1.200 guests at last night's party given by the king and queen In hojior of Elizabeth and Lt. Philip Mountbatten. The radiantly hnppv couple was con gratulated by Winston Churchill, Prime minister Clement Atlpe and scores of royalty and dignitaries A friend who spoke to hor early this morning as the last distin guished guests were leaving Buck ingham Palace, quoted her as say ing she was "very tired" and could not possibly keep any engage ments today. But while she slept, a small Europe Relief Plans Backed By Senators . Committee Approves Bill To Authorize 597 Millions As Aid Washington, Nov. 19 U The senate foreign relations commit tee today unanimously approved the- administration's emergency bill to authorize $597,000,000 of emergency relief for France, Italy and Austria. Senate debate will begin next Monday for the relief bill. Chairman Arthur H. Vanden berg announced that the commit tee approved the bill by a vote of 13 to 0 after adopting a scries of minor amendments. Changes Made The principal amendment would authorize the state department to spend up to 25 per cent of the $597,000,000 to buy supplies from foreign markets. . Petroleum and petroleum prod ucts, to the "maximum extent practicable," also could be pur chased in other than U. S. mar kets. Petroleum would not be af fected by the 25 per cent ceiling. The committee-approved bill would provide: 1. Immediate shipment of food, fuel and other commodities to prevent "intolerable hunger and cold" and economic upheaval in the three countries. ' Promises Requested 2. Require promises by France, Italy and Austria to make the best use of all supplies and full publi city about the source and purpose of the relief. 3. "Prompt termination by the president of assistance to any country which does not keep those promises. Labeling of all commodities showing such aid has been fur- msned by the United States. Vandenberg said the committee ignored proposals that administra tion of the program be placed under a new agency. The pre grams would be handled" by field administrators now in charge of aid given under the post-UNRRA relief provided last spring. New Paint Store To Open In Bend . Official opening of the Thomp son and Wilson paint store, in the new Hartmann building, is set for tomorrow, with the public invited to inspect the attractive room fac ing on Franklin avenue near Broadway, where opening stocks were being arranged today. In Bend to assist with the open ing is W. F. Kerlinger, Portland, branch manager of the Du Pont company, whose complete lines of paints and wallpapers will be fea tured in the shop. M. J. Thomp son and Leo L. Wilson, co-owners of the business, offer a complete painting ana interior decorating service. Wallpaper displayed Featured will be a new line of textured wallpapers, with over 600 patterns to be available when the complete line arrives. The store will offer a complete service pro gram, in connection with paint and wallpapering problems. The store is attractively finish ed, with mist green walls, light ceilings and knotty pine wood work, shelving and display tables. "We decorated our shop with .the natural beauty of the Central Ore gon country In mind," the own ers said. Gifts will be distributed to visitors on opening day. READY FOR FLIGHT Watson Lake, B. C, Nov. 19 Ul'i George Truman and Clifford Evans planned to resume their leisurely round-the-world flight in a pair of Plpor Cubs today. green van, guarded by the staff of Designer Norman Hartncll, ar rived at the palace with her wed ding dress. She got up earlier lhan sho had planned to see how It looked. The night before, because of a hig party, Elizabeth got only four hours' sloop. That was about as much as she got last night or rather early today after the most sumptuous ball since before the war. Four kings and four queens wore among the guests. It was a state ball in everything but name and drew the most lavish display of new fashions seen here In eight years. Some rooms of Bucking ham Palace that had been closed since the first days of the war wore opened and flros burned brightly in the grates. Kremlin Given New Strikes Spread Mobs, Police In Grim Fight; Grenades Used Paris, Nov. 19 UP) Premier Paul Kamadier resigned tonight, Rome. Nov. 19 U'i An esti mated 200,000 peasants started a general strike In "bloody Puglia, province" today, following up last night's machine gun and hand grenade battle In Corato between a communist-led mob of 5,000 and police. The peasants said they struck against the "fascism of the agrarians." Their strike covered the whole province of Puglia, in the south of Italy. Dispatches to. day told of new violence in at least 20 cities and. towns. , The nine-hour battle of Corato was the worst since the "war of the public squares" started 15 days ago and officials feared it might mark a new and more vi cious phase in the communist -offensive. ,s UNREST SPREADS (By United Prow) ; Communist pressure headed to ward a general strike throughout France today, was reported semi officially to have unseated the government of Premier Paul Ramadier, and started a general strike of 200,000 peasants in the Puglia province of Italy. ' . The secretary-general of the French socialist party reported ! that aged and ailing Leon BUjik...,Mrs. Patrice A. Coffin, who was had accepted an offer to form-a moderate government to face 'the threat of the nations industrial collapse. More than 350,000 French work ers were on strike in vital indus tries throughout the country. The communists began agitation to close the breaches in the strike ranks and stop the wheels of all the nation's industry. Bloodshed Spreads Bloodshed spread to new re gions of Italy, torn by more than two weeks of communist-led dis orders. The Puglia strike came in the wake of a battle between 5,000 rioters and police in Corato. The latest reports told of new outbursts of violence in a score of Italian cities and towns. Although less bloody at the mo ment, the French situation was no less acute than that of Italy. Communist leaders of the general confederation of labor were re ported to have Issued instruc tions to local units for a nation wide general strike. Already some 150,000 coal min ers were out in the Holds of north France. Production was cut to a trickle, and the fuel back logs of most industries wore suf ficient for only a few days at most. Post To Discuss Basketball Plans Plans for an American Legion basketball team In the coming sea son will be discussed at the regu lar meeting of the Stevens-Chine post of the Legion Thursday night, R. K. Inncs, commander, has announced. The mooting will be at 8 p. m., in the assembly room of the courthouse. Innos has askod that nil vet- orans interested in basketball at tend this meeting. Regular post 1 business will also be discussed. The wedding ceremony will be gin at 11:30 a. m. (6:30 a. m. EST I tomorrow. Mountbatten will ar rive at the Poet's Corner door of Wesmlnster Abbey at 11:15 a. m. One minute later the king, quoon and Elizabeth will leave Buckingham Palace by coach. Thev will reach the Abbey fit 11:28 a. m. At 11:30 a. m., the princess, on the arm of the king and with her pages and bridesmaids In attend ance, will proceed up the Abbey To Insure that the dress will be In perfect condition for the wed ding tomorrow, Designer Hartne'l this afternoon for a final fitting. After that, Princess Elizabeth i revolver and, as her husband j njs omco uescnoeii as a rounne specialist from Oregon Stale col will go two blocks to St. Jamps i begged hor to come out and : Physical examination. lege, was in charge, with "Clean Palace, where she will personally I frenetically pounded on the win-1 "This checkup Is expected to j As You Go" as the subject. Mrs. show her wcridlng presents to Ihojdow, fired one shot through her be completed In a period of two j Dora Cooper, coun'y homo visiting foreign royalty. 'right temple. or three days," the army said. ' demonstration agent, assisted. Congress III I o Unila luicpuuto) As special session of congress opens, Rev. James Shera Montgomery, house chaplain, offers a prayer. On rostrum Is Speaker of the house Joseph Martin, Jr. (R., Mass.). Woman Is Robbed Of Jewel Wealth Dartmouth, Mass., Nov. 19 (IP) Three masked gunmen eluded police roadblocks today and escaped after ambushing the former wife of the late column ist Damon Runyon and robbing her of $200,000 in jewelry. divorced In om Runyon lrilSMfi, and her present husband, Rich ard Coffin, a wealthy New Bed ford printer, were ambushed In the driveway of their lavish Mis haum Point home as they were returning from a motor trip to Boston last night. The Coffins told police that three men wearing white cloth masks jumped from bushes be side the house as they stepped out of their sleek, black 1947 convertible sedan. Two Shots Fired Two shots were fired into the air, Mrs. Coffin said, and the men struck her husband on the head with a gun barrel. Then they or dered her into the house and up stairs to a bedroom where they made hor open a wall safe from whlrh they took lewelry, worth "at least" $200,000, she said. After tying her In the bedroom, the men ran downstairs where they forced Coffin to hand over the car keys and show them how to start the new convertible. Thoy then tied Coffin in the garage and escaped In the car, the cou ple reported. Officers Notified It was nearly 20 minutes be fore the Coffins wore able to free themselves and notify po lice. State and local nollre Im mediately sot up roadblocks on all highways lending from the inaccessible southeastern corner"! of Massachusetts where Dart-1 mouth Is located. Coffin was taken to a Now Bedford hospital for treatment of scalp wounds he suffered when he was slugged, biu the Injuries wore not serious and ho was per mitted to return home. Wife Of Officer Takes Own Life San Pablo, Calif., Nov. 1!) 'Hi Mrs. Pearl Rene Miller, 27, wife of a Contra Costa count v deputy sheriff, shot and killed herself yesterday In Ihe family car out side her home while her husband vainly tried to smash the shatter proof glass with his fists. Deputy sheriff Robert M. Mil ler told authorities that his wife, the mother of twin hoys 16-months-old and a 4 year-old son, had boon nervous and upset for several months. During a fam ily quarrel she threatened sui cide, then rushed outside to the automobile and locked herself In after tolling him to "take care of the kids." Miller said he opened the hood and ripped the Ignition wires ! away. Then she took his service Opens Emergency o i. Russia's Use Of Big Power Veto Is Again Under Attack One-Year Study Of Ways To Modify Ruling Gets Backing; Slav States Only Dissenters Lake Success, N. Y., Nov. 19 W.E The United Nations po litical committee struck at Russia's use of the great power veto today by calling on the "little UN assembly" and the security council to conduct a joint, One-year study of ways and means to modify the veto. w ;, .. r-.The program was ' approved as"propbscd by' the' United States in the face of Russia's warning that nttempts to tam per, with the Big Five voting privilege would lead only to trouble for the UN. Soviet deputy foreign minister Andrei tiromyko left little doubt that Russia would not participate in the study. The American resolution was approved 36 to 6 with 11 nations abstaining. The Slav states were the only dissent ers. In single votes which led up to the overall ballot, key parts of tho proposal wore ac cepted 30 to 7 with 11 abstentions. Chile was tho seventh 'no' voter. Arabs Unveil Finn Tho action came ns the Arab states unveiled their minority plan for an independent Arab-controlled Palestine together with a warn ing that Ihe United Nations will have to back up its decision with "rule by force If It partitions the Holy Land." Tho veto negotiations will be the first assignment of tho 57 nation "little assembly" which will meet between this and the next session of the full general assembly to debate political and security questions. The Soviet bloc intends to bovcott the new agency. Swedish Airliner Hits Peak; 20 Die Naples, Nov. 19 Ul'i - A Swedish airliner crashed south of Naples today and Swedish officials said 20 persons wore killed. The plane, a two-engined Bristol-type aircraft, was believed to have smashed into a mountain peak during a heavy overcast while enroulo from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to Stockholm. All those killed In the crash wore iilenlilied as Swedes. Four Swedish ciew memlHrs were among iu injured in ine aecmeni. Six Injured passengers slill had nut been Identified. Ine plane was owned by a private company. Swedish diplomatic officials confirmed that the plane had crashed but said they had no de tails. II was Ihe second Swedish alr disasler In Ihrecand-a-half weeks, A Swedish AHA airlines plane crashed near Athens on Oct. 2i, killing Vi persons. Gen. Eisenhower To Enter Hospital Washington, Nov. 19 IIP Gen. Dwlght fa. Eisenhower, army chief of Rtaff, will enter Walter teed hospiiai tomorrow lor wnat hint Warning fr ft & ft ft Through Europe Session Foresters Study '47 Fire Season A review of 19-17 fire control activities today will conclude the Deschutes national forest's fall rangers' meeting which has boon In session the first three days of this week. Attending the final sessions nre Larry K. Mays, regional fire chief, and his assistant, Los Col vlll, both of the Portland forest office. Rangers Here District rangers attending tho sessions this week with Super visor Ralph W. Crawford and members of his staff have been Harold Gustafson, Sisters district; Ed Parker, Bond district; Newell Cory. Crescent district, and Hen ry Tonseth, Fort Ruck district. Hans Milius. limber sales officer, has also attended tho meetings. District assistants and district clerks joined the meeting today to discuss fire problems. They are Archie Brown. Slslors district assistant, and Norman Minks, clerk; Hay Koskl, Crescent dis trict assistant, and Don Garvleli, clerk; Vein Everett, Fort Rock district assistant; Kenneth Clark, Bond district assistant, anil Nor man Ltiikcnblll, Bend and Fort Rock clerk. Jury Investigates Idaho Explosion Nampa. Ida., Nov. 1!) ill1' .... A Canyon county coroner's Jury l'i day decided thai the explosion that killed six persons and Injur ed f'O others In a Nanina cate and night club Saturday night was nn aii lilenl The jury found no ' 1 no "gross erlm-1 Inal nogiigonci' i not delei mine Ihe the explosion." II? Ah ad However, witnesses said the , liakersfii'ld, Calif , Nov. 19 IIP I blast resulted from escaping Im Sheriff John V.. Louslalot on ) lane gas and thai the lil.isl con-1 nimni't'd today l.l voar old Jose- 'ored In Ihe kiiehon area of the i "Korblddcn Palace" Chinese cafe j which, with Hie Alibi club, was demolished. I i Project Leaders Meet In Bend I Seventeen Deschutes county women at tended a meo'lng for ! project leaders of home extension i units, yesterday In the court- house assembly room. Miss Mary j . iirlh Mimen, home management Marshall Hints U.S. Prepared For Showdown By Lylo C, Wilson (United Prww 'Staff Correspondent) '. Washington, Nov. 19 ilPi Secre tary of state George C. Marshall's brutally frank Chicago speech was recognized today as warning to the Kremlin that the United States is ready for a showdown on Al lied policy toward Germany. It will come at the London for eign ministers conference which meets Nov. 25. Marshall leaves for London tomorrow. - If Marshall sticks to his hard fisted position the conference scarcely can be an utter failure although Russia may continue to prevent the making of a peace treaty with Germany. The con ference looks like the last Allied grasp at postwar unity and there isn't much chance of getting that. Objeotlvo Is Treaty The prime conference objec tive is a German peace treaty which will hasten the political and industrial unification and revival of that stricken country. Europe's recovery and, ultimately, the fu ture well-being of the United States hang on the results of their .efforts. Marshall bluntly said the United States would not be bluffed or dissuaded by Russian propaganda from tlie policies of European and world recovery upon which we al ready have spent huge sums. He accused ti e Russians of lying about tis for- propaganda pur loses. ... People PuMent "The people of (his country are God fearing people," Marshall said in an address last night be fore the Chicago council of for I eign relations and chamber of commerce. "They have been very patient in their attitude toward misrepresentation of their actions and motives. Today our people virtually have been driven Into a state of active resentment and, having been goaded to this point, they are accused of having light ed and stoked tills great fire of public resentment. "This last is propaganda, yes, of the most brazen and contempt uous character. It Is time to call a halt to such inflammatory prac tices. "We nre aware of the serious ness and extent of the campaign which is being directed against us as one of the bulwarks of western civilization. We are not blind to any of the forms which this at tack assumes. Makes "Straight Talk" "And we do not propose to sland by and watch the disinte gration of the international com munity to which wo belong." lliat was straight talk and aimed at the Kremlin. It was warning from Marshall backed by the United States government that the American jjeoplo arc In tho game to stay and willing to play with blur chips. The stake? could not he higher. When Marshall said commu nists and Soviet officials had ven omously and With calculated pur pose villifled and distorted Ameri can motives In foreign affairs, he was talking about Soviet foreign minister V. M. Mololov, among others, and tho two lop Russians accredited to tho United Nations, Andrei VLshinsky and Andrei tiro myko. Girl Admits She II I f Killed Companion phine Christine Nichols has con fessed she murdered 5-yoar-uld Miretta Jones Monday night. Josephine admitted during the Jones child to a children's cave a few blocks from her homo, forc ing to to lake off her clothes and then beating her to death with a rock. Sheriff's deputies, who had neighborhood reports describing Ihe Nichols girl as one scon with Miretta the night she was slain, picked Josephine up at Emerson school, where she Is In the 7th grade, and took her to the county court house for questioning. "I had a big desire to hit her," was tho only reason she gave for the brutal act. V