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Newspaper Page TextA- Univ. of Oregon Library . EUGENE i oasao:i . I : THE BEND: MJLLE CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER Partly cloudy and warmer with scattered showers to day. Partly cloudy and not quite so cold tcnight and Sunday. LEASED WIRE WORLD NEWS COVERAGE Volume LVIII BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY. OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1948 No. 65 TIN Portland Club Votes To Yield Payoff Names Mayor Riley Calls Off Air Trip to Mexico to Answer City Criticisms Portland. Ore., Feb. 21 mi M .vnr Enrl Rllcv todav announc ed he had cancelled plans to par ticipate in an air tour to Mexico tin order to be here to answer crit icisms of the administration by Sthe City club, concerning vice con I'tilitlnns. . i The Citv club last night direct- i jrd its committee on law enforce- ft ent to identify by name the city .trninli' 1 QivmcaD nF nwitirino payoff" from crime and gam- .liner tntPrPSts. CThe action was taken by the in luential club's membership at a kneeling in which the committee's a-cport was adopted. The report (Charges that organized crime has flourished over a period of years Jinder protection of police and city officials who have received pay Jbffs as high as $GO,000 monthly. A Minister Makes Mention . I The motion to name names was Jiiade by the Rev. Richard M. fetelner,' Unitarian minister. He jaid failure to identify officials Recused anonymously by the tlub's law enforcement commit tee of criminal practices was grave and timed. In seconding ttie motion, fc.a ard F. Averill, insurance man and member of the club's board if governors, said: "I think the time for being tem perate is past. The committee has feiven its time and its members rave risked .their lives to get fhose names and addresses with out which their report would not be factual. -i i IIT i "The mayor and the chief of po lice have pointed to the report's jronerallties and I believe we Jhould answer them with the tacts." fa J The motion for publication of iiames was passed by a slight mar Jfein. It also ordered exposure of "ill property owners whose build- frigs are being used for gambling ; ir other illegal purposes. Earlier, Mayor Riley charged hat the investigation was a put tip Job designed to discredit his . administration on the eve of elec tion. He said that the chief instiga- for of the investigation had ap- Broached him four months ago with a proposition .to suppress the report then being compiled. I ; . Truman Beqins f Caribbean Tour f ? San Juan, PJR., Feb. 21 (in ; resiaent Truman began his tour oi ine cannnean toaay witn a piea to the world to follow the example ; of the United States and Puerto Eico in "the democratic way of eollaboration between friendly peoples." i He spoke briefly upon arriving t the Isle Grande airport outside Sim Juan where he was greeted by Gov. Jesus T. Plnero and a brge group of Perto Rican offi- . als and commanders of Ameri can armed force units in this area. ; The president flew here from Key West, Fla., and planned to : Spend the day. Ho will visit St. J (Thomas in the Virgin islands to- jnorrow, ana sail ivioniiay iu uic carby. island of St. Croix for a lief stop before turning back rnard Cuba and the U.S. naval ase at Guantanamo bay. eneral Frowns On Mainland Trip Tokvo. Feb. 21 (Ui Gen. Doug s MacArthur indicated today he ics not wish to return to the .'nited States to testify before the oiisc foreign affairs committee. He said he appreciated the "con- idcnce" reflected in the sugges tion of Ren. Lawrence H. Smith IK., wis.) that ne De summonea li Washington to testify on the Chinese oroErram. but he hoped the committee "will not further the idea." Moslem Group arqet Of Blast Cairo, Fob. 21 iUA least 10 irsnn unro .nluroti last nifTnt yhon attackers who mav have en Zionists blasted a Moslem Tnthorhnnrt rplphratlon markine k'narturtt nf V vntuntwr Arab lihtPre fnr Polncttnf Arah annrrPQ Immediately fnarged the attack was a plot gainst the life of Sheik Hassan inna rHof rtf fhn Moslem brothnrhnnH whn was scheduled ni-jjit-tti til iiitr u;ieuia(HJii u. Arrived five minutes after the :ast Chinese Anti-Reds Given Military Aid Washington, Feb. 21 '.TIE) The state department lias ad vised congress that new U.S. mjlitary aid is on its way to the anti-communist forces in China, it was learned today. The department in a memorandum to the house foreign affairs committee, revealed that several contracts have been approved to sell Chiang Kai-Shek's government surplus 'U.S. war goods at sharply reduced prices. Goods include planes and ammunition. Disclosure of the contracts appeared to be the state de partment's answer to congres- sional critics who have de- nounced the new $570,000,000 Chinese aid program as in adequate" because it does not provide for' military supplies. Diplomatic sources said a Chi nese mission also received assur ances recently that the U.S. army will scour the Pacific for addition al planes which might be made available to the nationalist govern ment. Bargain Prices Given China will get the war materials at a small fraction of their origin al cost. One contract, the house commit tee was informed, turns over to China goods originally valued at several million dollars. The Chi nese will pay only 12V4 per cent of that. Another contract signed last month provides for the transfer of ammunition now located in the Marianas in the Pacific. For this, China will pay but one cent on the dollar. 80 Planes Assigned It was learned that 80 fighter planes have been earmarked for the far east under the surplus property program. Red Cross Quota Placed At The campaign committee for the 1948 Deschutes county Red Cross roll call will meet Tuesday morning at 7:45 at the Pine Tav ern for a kick-off breakfast meet- ine-to complete plans lor the drive to start on March 1-. : -Deschutes county will be called unon to raise a Quota of $9,000, 60 per cent of which is for the county chapter activities and the other 40 per cent for national Red Cross activities. Headine the campaign this year will be William J. Baer, of Bend, assisted by Gordon Randall. In charge throughout the county are E. C. Parker, for Redmond; Mrs. Eugene Ackley, rural areas; Mrs. James Chamberlin and Mrs. C. L. Allen, Tumalo; David Adrian, La pine; Carl Russell, Sisters; Otis Lammers, Brooks - Scanlon, Inc.; Ben Hamilton, The Shevlin-Hixon Company; Mrs. Meredith Bailey, Hitchcock mill. Committees Listed Other committee, members are: Mrs. Ward H. Coble, display; Sumner Dletrick, advanced gifts; Bruno Rath, business and indus trial firms; Wilfred Burgess, spe cial groups; Bill Barton, radio publicity; James E. Brinton, pub licity; Mrs. Elmer Ryan, Bend residential areas, and Ernest Traxler, reports. Robert Wiseman, of Tongue Point, a Red Cross field director, will be In Central Oregon several days next week to assist In plan ning the county campaigns. Western Pinemen Re-elect Officers San Francisco, Feb. 21 (IP) The Western Pine association to day re-elected all officers. Returning lor the coming year to their posts were Homer B. Jamison, Fresno, president; A. J. Glassow, Bend, Ore., vice presi dent;'?. V. Burke, second vice president, Sacramento; and A. C. Lighthall, treasurer. Baker, Ore. FORT ORI MAN HELD Redmond, Feb. 21 (Special) William R. Owens is in custody at the Redmond Jail. He is reported ly AWOL from tort urn, (jam. and is held for military author! ties. Mexican Airman Drifts Nine Watches Vicious Sharks Eat Brownsville. Tex.. Feb. 21 IP A coast guard patrol plane flew medical supplies today to a Mexi can airman who was rescued by a banana ship after he drifted nine davs in a life raft and watched sharks eat his comrade. Esteban De Leon was rescued bv the Panamanian banana boat Roatan Thursday, two days after officials called off a search for him and Neil Womack, Browns ville. The Roatan was expected to dock about noon today. Womack was the pilot of a C-47 airplane owned by the Gulf Trans portation company, He and De Leon left here February 10 to pick up a cargo of shrimps at Carmen, Mexico. They crashed 40 miles snort oi Czech Seeks Iron Curtain Prague, Czechoslovakia, Feb. 21 (IP) Communist Premier Klement Gottwald charged today that spies from the west were undermining the Czechoslovakian government and supporting anti-communist demands that they be given full control of the government and be permitted to create an Iron cur tain police state to prosecute "foreign spies and saboteurs." He spoke before a commun ist rallv of 80.000 persons In the old town square of Prague.' He charged the cabinet crisis, which resulted from yesterday s resig nations, was precipitated by non- communist ministers who were trying to "destroy the police and armed forces" because they were prosecuting foreign spies. : Leader of Bloo Gottwald Is leader of the nine member communist bloc in the 26 man Czechoslovak coalition cab inet which has been ruling the country under an uneasy political truce lor 30 months. The non-communist ministers who resigned, he said, represent reactionaries trying to block the government program of socialist reforms and cancel "the accom plishments of the revolution." Gottwald demanded creation of a new government of "progressive elements of all parties and organi zations and the holding or elec tions within the officially appoint ed periodthe first Sunday, be fore May 26. Springfield Mill To Cost 10 Million Portland, Feb. 21 (IP) Laird T. Bell, chairman of the board of the Weyerhaeuser Timber company, today said the company was plan ning large scale expansion of its operations In Oregon. Bell, whose home Is in Chicago, is here on an inspection trip. He said that construction of a new plant at Springfield, near Eu gene, would eventually cost the company $10,000,000 and will em ploy between 400 and 500 men when it begins operations in the spring of 1949. The executive of one of the na tion's largest timber concerns said Weyerhaeuser owns large holdings in Coos county. He said the company is now building roads and making surveys preparatory to further expansion in that area. Bell said the new Springfield plant would be capable of produc ing 100,000,000 board feet of tim ber annually and would incorpor ate modern methods of complete wood utilization. Armed Bandit In Salem Holdup Salem, Ore., Feb. 21 (IP) A masked bandit armed with a small pistol held up a Salem grocer last night and escaped with more than $200, police reported today. The victim, William Grabelman owner of the Mission Street mar ket, told police that the bandit walked into the store through the front door while he was working in a back storeroom. The bandit described as a young man, clean ed out the cash register as he held a gun on the grocer, police said. Carmen. The plane sank quick ly under the weight of 5,000 pounds of Ice they were carrying to preserve the shrimps. Air and sea rescue parties searched their route for a week. Hope of finding them was aban doned Tuesday and the search called off. The Roatan spotted De Leon's liferaft yesterday about 47 miles off Frontera, Mexico, and took him aboard. Capt. Emsley Gough radioed the coast guard which dispatched the medical supplies for De Leon who was suffering severely from exposure, cxhau tion and starvation. De Leon spoke by radio to his brother Tomas, as Matamoros, Mexico, last night He said that Twins, Pondering the food problem, Mrs. Joseph A. Lopez, 26, of Onset, Mass., holds the fourth set of twins born to her within five years. Other twins are (left to right) Joanne and Dlanne, 3H; Joseph (bottom) and Marlene (top). 3, and (at right), Juanita, 5, whose twin, Anita, has died. The new twins are Donald an Donna. Two other children In the family are Jcanette, 10, and Phyllis, 8. The mother la a cranberry worker. Ashida Named Japan Premier J; Tokyo, Feb. 21 IP Hitoshl, Ashida, veteran conservative dip lomat and president of the demo-, cratlc party, today was elected! Japan's fifth premier since the war at a plenary session of the diet. Ashida Immediately announc ed he would attempt to form a middle-of-the-road coalition cab inet next Monday. The 60-vear-old former foreign minister in the last cabinet was1 expected to be fully acceptable to Gen. Douglas MacArthur, su preme allied commander. Ashida received 216 votes out of a total of 421 cast In the house ot representatives. The eleventh hour backine of the powerful so- dajdemocrallcpanyssuredhi election Ashida Gets Aid Social democrats threw their support to Ashida after the out going premier, Tetsu Katayama, announced he would not be a can didate for re-election. Former Premier Shigeru Yosh! da of the rival conservative party received 180 votes. Eight diet members voted for Katayama and three for communist Kyulchl To kuda. Fourteen votes were spoil ed. Cattle Rustlers On Prowl Again Portland, Feb. 21 (ll'i It appear ed today as If a new type of cattle rustler was on the loose in west ern Oregon. Paul Martin, who operates a ranch near Troutdale, told Mult nomah county Sheriff Martin Pratt that 62 of his cattle have been killed in the last 18 months and that many of the carcasses were stolen. Other ranchers have reported similar cattle losses. Martin posted a reward of $500 for information leading to arrest and conviction of the cattle killers. He said the thefts might have been the work of black market meat operators. Losses to the ranchers were placed at $10,000. Pratt said evi dence Indicated some cattle were killed by rifle bullets, others by shotgun pellets. FUNEKAI, KITES SET Funeral services will be held Monday at 2 p.m. from the Nis wonger and Winslow chapel for Oscar O. Sprlnggate, 78, who died Friday morning at his home east of Bend. Rev. Ross Knotts, of First Methodist church, will offi ciate at the rites, and burial will follow in Greenwood cemetery. Days On Raff, His Companion Womack was injured when they set their plane down In the Gulf of Mexico "I dragged him onto the raft and tried to care for him," De Leon said. "A few days later I don't re member Just when he went o" of his head. He fell off the raft. "The last thing I saw of him was when the sharks gathered about hlm. He was flailing his arms and legs. Then he dicap neared as the sharks closed In on him." De Leon said he had been short of food and water all the while he was on the raft. He had b"?n burned severely by the tropica' publican convention from the sun. He said the water had been j state at large, pledging to sup rough and the raft was buffeted port Oregon's preferential choice about. for president Twins, Twins and Dry Ice May Be Used On Thunderheads Wena tehee, Wash., Feb. 21 IP Spot fires . caused by lightning may be a thing of the past in the nation's forests if plans now un der consideration by the forest service prove feasible, Represen tative Walt Horan said here today. Horan said that a plan is under consideration to measure the amount of electricity in storm clouds. ' Quoting Earl Lovorage of the Washington, D.C., forest service office, Horan said that if the meas urements .determine that the clouds are charged with enough electricity to cause a lightning siorm, airplanes win urup ury ice through the clouds. Horan said that In many cases energy in the storm clouds. Market Shows Sharp Drop By T. VV. Klenlcn (Unlloil PrcM Financial Writer) New York, Feb. 21 Ui The stock market was Irregular today as trading fell off to the slowest Saturday pace In more than 4Mi years with volume for the Initial hour of only 90,000 shares. The slowness of trading reflect ed the customary Saturday slack plus the approaching long week end. On Monday all major U.S. commodity and security markets will remain closed for the Wash ington's birthday holiday but deal ings will be resumed In the nor mal way on Tuesday. Weakness in grains and Irregu larity in cotton were also factors in the show of indifference to the stock market In Wall street. Bend Merchandise Car On Schedule Oregon Trunk railroad offi cials announced today that the Bend merchandise car, which was missing connections through a re routing of trains, is now back on schedule and will arrive here each day at 7 a. m., as a part of the" mall train. Under the new arrangement, the merchandise car will be routed out of Portland on passen ger train No. 4, SP&S, and will connect with Bend-bound 102 at Wishram. The merchandise car will serve Bend six days a week, railroad of. ficlals said. Report On Roads Salem, Ore., Feb. 21 1P The state highway commission today Issued the following road report compiled at 9 a. m.: Waplntla pass 34 degrees; five Inches new snow; raining; Mlush nn road. i Santiam nass 32 degrees: snowing hard; packed with some slush; chains required; snow wet; 19 inches new snow last night. Willamette pass 35 degrees; 12 Inches wet snow during night; packed and slushy from Salt creek tunnel east; plows operat ing, Sun pass 34 degrees; 13 inches new snow; some packed snow north of Diamond junction LAMA It TOO.K FILES Salem. Ore., Feb. 21 HI'' La mar Too7c. 3814 N. W. Thurman street, Portland, filed candidacy i for delegate to the National Ke- Again! (NBA Tdephoto) Softball Season Plans Charted Plans for the 1948 Softball sea son were started last night at an organization meeting of the Bend Softball association in the city commission room. Members stressed an Interest In getting younger players to parti' cioate in the leagues. It is be lieved that additional teams will be needed to get a maximum amount of use from the municipal field. A city-wide recreation direc tor would be of assistance in a program for younger players, It was stated. Wally Kremers and Clair Ful ler. of the Elks baseball commit tee. said their plans for the year called for an increased numtjer of games. The meeting made It ap parent mac cuuperaiiun win. -uv neeaea netween ine soiioau ana baseball groups in scheduling of games and use of the field. Hules Discussed Umpiring, ground rules and penalties for rule Infractions were discussed. A nominating committee to choose candidates for 1948 offi cers of the association Includes: Les Schwab, chairman; Bud Rus sell and W. E. Shaver. The com mittee will attempt to find candi dates who are not planning to play Softball. Plans are being made to have representatives at the state soft- ball meeting at Portland tomor row. Rampant River Menaces Lands (My United Prt) The rampant Yazoo river, six of whose tributaries surged over 400,000 acres of rich northern Mississippi cotton land, was ex pected to reach a crest today near the virtually isolated city of Greenwood. Greenwood residents went about their business calmly, to day, but kept careful watch over the wan of sanumigs mat was their only protection against the river which rose past the 40-foot mark last night. Weather forecasters, m e a n while, told residents of the north ern states that the weather would turn mild during the week end. They warned, however, that an other cold spell was on its way down from Canada. Truck, Car Crash; Woman Is Killed Ellensburg, Wash., Feb. 21 mi An Ellensburg woman was kill ed and her husband received min or Injuries yesterday when their automohllr. collided with a truck on the highway five miles east of here. Mrs. Ralph Charlton, 55, Ellens burg, was killed almost instantly when the truck plowed Into the side of their car. Howard H. Harris, 31, Klrkland. Wash., driver of the truck, escap ed Injury In the accident. Warren Refuses No. 2 Position Los Angeles, Feb. 21 III Cali fornia Gov. Earl Warren, candi date for the republican presiden tial nomination, refused today to take second-place on the ticket. He told a radio press conference that he considered his present job Just ss Important, If not more Important, than any position In the federal government except the presidency. Stassen, En Route To Bend For Address, Files In Salem ; To Enter Oregon Primary Ex-governor of Minnesota Personally Hands Statement to State Elections Chief; Active , Campaign Planned; Visitor Speaks in Eugene By Elcion Barrett (United Freu staff Correspomlelit) Salem, Feb. 21 (UJ?) Harold E. Stassen entered the Ore gon preferential primary election today, becoming' an oppon ent of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York for the republi can presidential choice in this first test of how western senti ment will run in 1948. Stassen filed by statement which he personally handed to state elections chief David O'Hara. He said : . ' "In response to the petitions signed by the republican voters of Oregon, 1 have decided toT file in the Oregon preferential primary. "We will carry on an active and constructive campaign on the major issues before the country." He filed at 10 a.m. Oregon's May 21 primary Is the earliest among the western states. Dewey's Name on File Gov. Dewey's name was filed Jan. 15 by his Oregon supporters and the following day the New York governor announced him self as an avowed candidate. Oregon's republican delegation consists of 12 members. They are pledged to the states choice lor president until It is certain he has lost the nomination. Stassen arrived here by airplane from Eugene where he addressed the Oregon press conference last night. He left Immediately after filing for the Salem airport where he embarked for Redmond. He was scheduled to speak in Bend this noon. Makes Statement In a prepared statement, he big 40-year-old presidential aspir ant declared that two members of the next republican cabinet should come from the 11 western states and one should bo the new secretary of .the Interior.;. He said that Robert Elliott of Portland will be in charge or his primary campaign in Oregon, fc.1 liott, a world war II veteran, is a member of the executive board of the Multnomah county republican central committee, national com mitteeman and northwest region al director of the Young Republi can organization, . Statement Quoted Stassen, in his statement, also declared: 1. "The development of the re sources of the Pacific Northwest through reclamation, hydro-electric power, flood control and re forestation should be carried for ward rapidly and efficiently." 2. "Our American economy should be kept free, and alert ac tion should be taken ny govern ment to avoid high price booms and depression busts, and a hu manitarian concern for the wel fare of the people should be fun damental In governmental policy. 3. So long as the rulers of Rus sia follow their present obstruc tionist tactics, shipments of ma chine tools and electrical machin ery and apparatus to Russia should be stopped. Dailies Announce Prices Increases Portland, Feb. 21 (ID Subscrib ers to Portland's two dally news papers will pay 25 cents a month more for their home-delivered conies, hcelnnlng March 1 The Oregon Journal and The Orogonian today announcca sun scrlntion Increases to $1.75 month ly for the dally and Sunday edi tions, $1.25 for daily only, and 60 cents for Sunday only. Price of street and newsstand editions will remain the same. The managements of the papers gave Increased newsprint, pro duction and labor costs as reasons for the rate hike. The Journal said price of news- print alone had advanced 57 per early publication time on batur cent since the former suhscrip- day made it Impossible to report tlon rates were established. I the Stassen talk today. 1 Housewives Continue 'Strike Despite Drop Chicago, Feb. 21 'U1) A special labor department survey showed today that food prices reduced 3'4 per cent in the last month, but grocers said housewives had clamped onto their pocketbooks tighter than ever. Food dealers said housewives apparently were cutting their pur chases until the prices drop even lower than since the big break in the commodity markets on Feb. 4. Ewan Clague, commissioner of the bureau of labor statistics, an nounced the results of a telegra phic survey of prices on 20 foods In 12 large cities. He said that between Jan. 13 and Feb. 17, food prices dropped 1 3'i per cent but "there has not yet Speaks In Bend ' ( ' 3 fct . 1-1 1 Presidential candidate Harold E. Slassen, former governor of Min nesota, crossed the storm-enveloped Cascades by airplane this morning from Eugene, for speak ing engagements in Bend and Red-; mono, stassen spoke m tugeno -. last night ; . , ' f. 1 ' ' v ' ' Big Group Hears GOP Candidate Harold E. Stassen, candidate for the republican presidential nomi nation, arrived In Bend at noon . today for his luncheon talk be fore an audience of 235 persons at the Pilot Butte Inn. The Stassen plane, a chartered Northwest Airlines DC-3. arrived at the Redmond airport at 11:45 p. m., coming here from Eugene. The plane left Eugene this morn ing and tooK btassen to aaiem, then came over the Cascade sum mit after returning to Eugene. The Stassen party Included Rob ert G. Elliott, of Portland, who la the. Mlnncsotan's campaign manager m Oregon. Several dozen Bend and Red mond people, including most mem bers of the republican central ' committee, were on hand to meet the plane at Redmond airport. A short caravan of cars left the field Immediately to get Stassen to Bend in time for his luncheon en gagement. Dills Radio AddreaB This afternoon Stassen planned to remain In the Pilot Butte Inn lobby until 1:45 p. m. to meet lo cal residents. At 1:45 he was scheduled to be heard over radio station KBND and following that talk ho was to return to Redmond where he will talk at 2:30 p. m. His departure from Roberts field was scheduled for 3 p. m. This evening he will talk to University of Oregon students and Eugene townspeople In Eugene. No advance copies of the talks Stassen planned for Bend and ' Redmond were available here this morning. However, local republi cans believed continue themes set forth In other talks of his current northwest tour. The Bulletin's In Food Prices been time for a clear trend of re- tall prices as a whole to emerge. Tho largest price slashes, he said, were nn pork chops, lard, ba con, eggs and lettuce. Prices of onions, potatoes, canned torria toes, coffee and milk were higher Inst Tuesday than on Jan. 13. He said the retail food drop', would reduce the overall cost of living Index m per cent but rises In other living costs, such as rent and clothing, might offset the re duction. ' "Whether these (price cuts) are maintained or extended depends largely on the extent to which the drop in primary market prices Is reflected In lower wholesale costs of foods In local markets," he said.