,Univ, of Oragon Library 1 EUQENE, OREGON BEND BULLETIN mi State Forecast OREGO N Considerable cloudiness, scattered show ers; little change in temper i ature today, tonight and Wednesday. LEASED WIRE WORLD NEWS COVERAGE CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER Volume LIX BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY. OREGON. TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1948 No. 2 lUFH? Truman Heads For Montana; Trouble Faced President Spends Night At Plushy Sun Valley; Idaho Backs Candidate Aboard Presidential - Special, June 8 UP) -I- President Truman headed for Montana and possible trouble this afternoon after tour ing southeastern Idaho and re laxing from his western vote hunt overnight at plushy Sun Valley. When the president arrives in Butte, Mont., this evening he is likely to find it hot depending on whether Democrats of the rough, tough Treasure state feel the same way about the presi dent's tour as does their state chairman, Lester Loble. - Loble, in both telegrams and statements, has expressed any thing but joy over the way the presidential tour through . the west has been handled. Not a Delegate He is not a Democratic dele . gate to the national convention. Main point of Loble's depar ture from the tood-will hoped for in this western tour is his com plaint that Democratic party leaders won't be allowed to ride, the presidential train through Montana. But, meanwhile, President Tru man has been enjoying himself. With the knowledge that Idaho Democrats are "100 per cent" for him, he spent the night last night at famed Sun Valley lodge, the lodge where movie stars, busi ness magnates and anyone else who can afford the price, go for skiing in the winter and outdoor sports of all kinds in the sum mer. He did some skeet-shooting. . visit mountains After leaving Sun Valley and its remote, mile-high mountain peaks this morning, the presiden tial party traveled by motorcade through the eastern Idaho moun tains to the farm and merchan dising center of Idaho Falls. Thm, were met in the street by crowds of people eager to see the presi dent and his party. The motor cade travelled through the main streets in parade form. The presidential train was wait, ing for the party at Idaho Falls. It had been left at Ketchum, Ida., railhead of the Union Pacific near Sun Valley, and returned during the night to Pocatello, and then from Pocatello up to Idaho Falls. Locksmith Held On Entry Charge Paul R. Henderson, 1367 East Second street, a locksmith in Bend for many years, was arrest ed by city police early this morn ing on a charge of breaking into the Eagles lodge building on Wall street. Two men getting into their car m the parking lot at the rear of the lodge hall saw a man leave a rear second story window of the lodge building and called the of ficers. As the officers drove into the alley from Minnesota avenue, Henderson dropped from the roof of the Top Notch cafe and was placed under arrest. Cache Found - Officers went on the roof In the rear of the Eagles buildine and found a punch, brace and bit, screwdriver and axe and a flash light hidden there. Henderson ad mitted to . officers the articles were his. . He told officers he had lost H0 In slot machines at the tagles club yesterday. Henderson operated a lock smith s shop at 112 Minnesota av enue until last year when the hphier building was sold. Since hat time he had done locksmith's work at 1367 East Second. . He is being held In the county jail on a charge of attempted bur Rlary, the sheriff's office said. Swalley Directors Hold Conference A regular monthly meeting of 'ne board of directors of the Des cnutes Reclamation Irrigation mpany was held last night In tie Bend Dairy office. It was voted to send letters to stockholders of the company fcnu0' ,neir opinions on the possi bility of changing from a com pany to an Irrigation district. vvater use on the district has light for the past several weeks due to continued rain, it s reported. Present at the meeting were J;iarence Boyd, president; George J-Mielt and George Cllne, direc ;ors; Leonard Ttiipav Hitphriitpr: ". vmn wonser, secretary, and JJitrtct,11' F,Cy' a,,orney Xor tn0 Mm. . - ' Water Pageant Preparations Launched; Candidates Named Six Girls Vie for Role of Queen; Material Being Assembled for Construction of Arch Preparations for the 1948 Bend water pageant moved into high gear today with the announcement of the six candidates for pageant queen and plans for the start of construction work on Mirror pond where the huge arch will form the cen ter of the Fourth of July fete. The six queen candidates are Georgia Blinn, Peggy Bush ong, June Clark, Joan Dugan, Beverly Ernst and Bonny Hachtel. Under the direction of Ernest Traxler," queen com- Vanport Clothing Needs Satisfied, Center Reports Emergency clothing needs of victims of the Columbia river flood are well taken care of, ac cording to Mrs. Ted Mark, presi dent of the local Legion auxil iary post, who visited the George White veterans center in Port land the past week end. Bend's contribution to the big supply of clothing was 4,506 ar ticles collected last weeK in a drive sponsored by the Legion auxiliary, - The clothing was collected in the lobby of the Pacific Power and Light company on ' Wall street. Legion and auxiliary members packed the articles for shipment and the boxes were trucked to Portland by the Bend- Portland Truck service. . ' Aides Listed Assisting with the collection and packing were Mr. and Mrs. Ed Green. Mr. and Mrs. William C. Fickas, Mr. and Mrs. Ted Mark, Mrs. Owen Ballew, Mrs. Adam Repnock, Mrs. Lynn Kribs, Mrs. Frank May, William AtLee, J. A. Walker, W. C. Coyner, Hans Rovelstad, Mrs. Stella Pearl Runge and BUI Mark. Additional calls . for clothing will be made if more is necessary, Mrs. Mark learned at Portland. Relief activities of all veterans organizations in the state centetf at the George White .building in Truck Loaded With Powder In Explosion Spokane, Wash., June 8 UF -A truck loaded with dynamite dis integrated in a terrific explosion today near Marshal, 10 miles southwest of here, blasting the driver to bits. Victim of the explosion, which rocked Spokane and the sur rounding countryside, was be lieved to be Leon Orlard of Mar shall, who was hauling the dyna mite to or from nis powder mag azine near town. State patrolmen said they could find no remains of the body "larger than a postage stamp." Largest part of the truck found was half the engine. . Force of the explosion caused birds flying overhead to drop like flies, patrolmen said. Cause of the explosion was not known. OPERATORS SEEK TIME Washington, June 8 IU Soft coal operators today asked more time to answer John L. Lewis' new welfare and pension de mands. TO ENLIST ALIENS Washington, June 8 ilPi The senate voted today to let the arm ed services enlist 25,000 aliens. Bend Aids Flood Sufferers - itiflS "lr-i J if'" ? Clothing valued at more ihan $6,700 was received at the George White veterans center at Portland yesterday as a contribution from the oeople of Bend to flood sufferers In the Columbia river area. Above are the members of th local Legion auxiliary labeling the cartons before shipment to Portland. Applying labels are Mrs. Owen Ballew auxiliary rehabilitation chairman, and Mrs. Ed Green, child welfare chairman. Mrs. Ted Mark, auxiliary president, is at the right) 'mittee chairman, they are starting their work today of selling 1948 water pageant buttons. In the weeks between now and the celebration the girls will handle sales of the but tons, which are to provide ad mission to the water carnival on Saturday afternoon, July 3, and tickets for the water pageant, air show and celebration dances. Points will be given for sales and at a coronation ball preceding the celebration the queen of the 1948 water pageant will be announced. Material Assembled Assembling of material at Pag eant park and at Harmon play field near the west end of the Drake park footbridge is now un der way in preparation for con struction activities to start this week end. On Saturday, water In Mirror pond will be lowered several feet while work is done on the two piers that will support the pag eant arch. Several hundred 12 by 12 inch timbers are being hauled to Harmon lied "Tor use in the new boom which will guide floats down the pond from the arch. Old sections of the boom, in use for many years, will be taken down stream and used to anchor floats between the two nights of the show, July 3 and 4. Walter G. Peak, chairman of the pageant committee, said con struction of the arch will prob ably get under way next week, with a completion deadline set for June 25. W., J. Coleman will assist in work on the piers and J. R. Ross will handle arch construc tion. Baer Heads Show 7- Assembling the new boom will be supervised by George P. Gove with -a crew working under, the direction of Merle Sleeper. W. J. Baer, president of the Bend Water Pageant and Rodeo association, is head of the 1948 show. Farms May Get Flood Evacuees A number of evacuees from flooded Vanport will be available as agricultural workers in Cen tral Oregon if housing can be arranged, it was announced to day from the Bend office of the state employment service. The office has been requested to make. an immediate survey in the mid state area to determine the num ber of people' who could be ac. commodated, and number and type of housing units. The infor-. mation should be reported to the employment office in the court house building not later than Fri day, June 9, it was announced. Persons reporting housing are asked to give information as fol lows: 1) Number of housing units; 2) on-farm housing or camp housing; 3) type of unit, such as apartment, cabin, tent, .etc.; 4) size of family that can be housed per unit; 5) facilities furnished per unit, such as beds, mattresses, stoves, dishes, cooking utensils, lights, water, etc. Arabs Prepare Quick Answer! To Peace 7 Egyptian Plane Strikes Tel Aviv as Leaders i , Ponder Palestine Truce ;i Tel Aviv, 'June 8 ilPi Egyptian planes bombed Tel Aviv yester day in several hit-run raids in which at least a score of persons were killed or wounded.' . ; Cairo, June 8 (IPi Arab lead ers discussed Count Folke Berna dotte's plan for a truce in Pales-' tine for two hours today and pre pared to draft their answer, to night. After the meeting of the dele gates, of all. seven Arab league states, they forwarded an up-to-the-minute report to their gov ernments, i Abdul Rahman Azzam ' Pasha, secretary general of the Arab league, said the league's politi cal committee would meet tonight to draft the answer to Bernadotte, United Nations mediator. He said the drafting might be completed at the single meeting. . , ; Party Is Neutral ; A ranking member ofrBerna dotte's mediation party, - com; menting on Russia's desire to send military observers to Pales tine, said the party was neutral, "steering clear of all United Na tions cross currents." He said 'any measures adopted by Bernadotte would be based on actual requirements of the situa, tion and none other. Only the nucleus of the observ er setup has been formed. so far, the informant said. If a truce is effected, more observers would be required. In that case, he said, Bernadotte would pick the numbers and countries from which they would be drawn, mak ing the selections on a basis of strict neutrality. . ( Will Deliver Answer ' ; Egyptian Premier Mahmoud Fammy Nokrashy Pasha said' that the. Arab answer will be di Ipj liver? tomorrow-morniftgt .' it was presumed the Jewish answer would be delivered to Bernadotte at the same time. . Bernadotte has not made his proposals public, but it was un derstood he had demanded a straightforward yes or no answer to a compromise he had worked out on the major issues of Jewish immigration and supplying the iuu.uuu jews in Jerusalem. Jewish Immigrants will he sn. pervised by a truce commission to make sure they do not enter the Israeli army, it was under stood, ana tne Red Cross will pro-, vide 28 days rations for the Jew- isn community of Jerusalem. Early Day History Of Region Traced "Early Central Oreeon Histnrv" was the topic of Don H. Peoples, speaker at today's luncheon meet ing oi tne Bend Lions club in the Pine tavern. Tom Bolton was program chairman. Peoples told the clubmen that Interest in the midstate country started in the 1860's, when cat tie were drivpn thrmmh k from western Oregon to markets in ioano. in 1870, he added, Tom Geer settled on the first hnmo. stead, followed by John Y. Todd, wnu iook over the Geer claim The history of Bend's postof fice; Peoples added, reaches back to 1886, with several changes in location later. In 1900, A. M Drake arrived here wagon, seeking health, and later founded Bend, the speaker said. Later development in the region, including the coming of railroads iu dl-iiu in laii, was discussed A committee consisting of Rev. Len Flshhnnlr I m.i. . i uian ley and John Wetle, was appoint ed to investigate the possibility of the Lions club entering a float in me juiy Mirror pond geant. ' pa. Truman's Train To Stop in Salem Salem, June 8 UIi Prpslilnnt Harry Truman's special train will stop here about five minutes Fri day afternoon and four state Democratic leaders are scheduled to go aboard for a discussion. President Truman's plans do not call for a rear platform ap pearance here. The nresidcntlnt special will pull in about 4:20 p. m. and former Gov. Walter Pierce, Roy Hewitt, Salem attor ney and convention delegate; Ronald Jones, Oregon Farmers' union president. .Bnrf Mnnmo Sweetland, Newport publisher and state committeeman-elect, are scheduled to go aboard. earner tne president will ar rive at Salem almort from Mr. Chord field en route to Portland, Pan Cygnets Appear EST VJ- Hatched in a nest in the tules just below the Tumalo avenue bridge, first Mirror pond cygnets of the 1948 season are on parade this week. Four emerged from the tule nest, and they are pictured here with their proud mother. $500,000 Explosion Wrecks Club House, Kills 1 Occupant ' Golf Quarters In Los Angeles Area Is Scene Of Terrific Biast and Fire; Seven Are Hurt L.os Angeles, June 8 ',U.E A $500,000 explosion, followed by a three-alarm fire, blew the roof off the Hillcrest country clubhouse today and demolished half the building. One body was pulled from the debris. Firemen said it was so badly burned identification was impossible. The body was found two and a half hours after the blast, when the embers had cooled sufficiently for a search to begin. Six employes and one club member were hurt, one seriously. a score of club employes Detective Story Writer Killed . Philadelphia, June 8 tut A 43-year-old woman mystery story writer today was the victim of a murder as gory as any of her magazine detective thrillers. The brutally battered, nude body of Mrs, Katherlne Mellor, mother of an 18-year-qld son now in the navv. was found last - nieht Uprawled, across her- plood-spat- lereu rien. Her husband, Charles, 47, a former newspaper feature writ er, told police he discovered the body on returning to their fourth iloor apartment irom work at a dairy plant. Police immediately took him into custody lor ques tioning. Mrs. Mellor wore only a pair of. silk stockings, rolled down near her ankles, police said, around her neck was a gold chain ana locKet. Badly Battered ' Investigators said both eyes were blackened and severe bruis es marked her entire body. One police spokesman said her assail ant apparently battered her sav agely with his fists and some heavy instrument. Mellor was employed as a clerk since tne suspension of the Phila delphia Record in February, - Calling to his wife as he en tered the apartment, he received no answer. Mellor said he walk ed into the bedroom and found the body. Skunk, Rooster Ride Bale of Hay Down Columbia Rainier, June 8 (ll'i A skunk and a rooster were sighted float ing clown the flooded Columbia river today aboard a bale of hay. Witnesses from the shore said the two passengers seemed to be' getting along together fairly well out that they looked hungry. Grangers Hear Talk by Odegard Astoria, Ore., June 8 HP A summons to grangers to continue their long and historic fight for the survival of the rights of the individual was delivered here by Dr. Peter Odegard, president of Reed college, addressing the 75th annual convention of Oregon grangers meeting here today. "It Is the farmers who have In more instances than any other group put into actual nractlce the democratic principles In which they believe," Dr. Odegard told over 1000 grange delegates and a like number of Astorlans last night. Grangers today were nominat ing officers and holding business sessions. The nominations were expected to be completed by this afternoon. UOAns, TRAILS STUDIKD Vern Church and Wilton Rob erts, of the forest service regional office at Portland, are spending several days on the Deschutes na tional forest studying road and trail worki on Mirror Pond were on duty when the early morning blast sent lockers and debris flying 300 feet through the air and jolting golfers on the course. Golf professional Olin Du tra said the blast knocked him down and sent him rolling 15 feet. He was headed for the main building to open his golf shop when the clubhouse "blew up In my face." Place Blows Apart ' "For the life of me, I don't know what happened," he said. "The whole place just blew apart in my face." ; , . .Club.. manager John Steinberg estimated damage at $500,000. . It was the second fire at Hill crest. The wrecked building was put up after a $140,000 lire on May 8, 1944, sent 350 movie notables and businesmen scurrying from the dinner table and ruined the old clubhouse. The blast destroyed the east section and blew windows out of the caddy house 100 feet away. A piece of roof lay beside a clump of trees. Two lockers were blown out to the 10th tee. and clothing was scattered throughout the club house court. Central Oregon Business Brisk Bend is one of the business leaders in Oregon at present, ac cording to comparative figures printed In the May issue of the Oregon Business Review, pub lished by the school of business administration at the University of Oregon. In the percentage of Increase In bank debts In Marcn, lais, com nared with March. 1947, the Cen tral Oregon area, including Bend, Redmond and Prlnevlile, led the entire state. The Increase was 46.5 per cent, from $9,790,446 In March, 1947, to $i4,34j,iy8 in March, 1948. In March. 1948, building per mits Bend led nearly all other cities of its size In the state with a total of $132,270. This amount of construction nut Bend ahead of Astoria, Baker, Corvallls, Coos Bay, La Grande and Oregon city. Druggist Victor In Iowa Vote Des Moines, la., June 8 nil State representative William Beardsley, a 47-year-old druggist, won the republican nomination for governor of lowa today, scor ing an upset victory over C.ov. Robert Blue, who was fighling for a third term. Blue conceded defeat before half the returns were reported. Latest returns from 2,100 of the slate's 2,469 precincts gave Beardsley 159,055 votes to 107,011 for Blue. Aquatic Burglars Fail in Theft Try Portland, Ore., June 8 (Hi Two robbers rowed across flood waters In a boat today In an unsuccessful attempt to crack a safe at the Pa cific Coast Heating & Appliance company, police reported. They were unable to force open an Inner strongbox. Police detectives had to com mandeer a rowboat to reach the scene oX the attempted burglary. More Bodies Found in Vanport City as Crews Battle to Save Dikes Along Flooded Columbia Situation Developing Into Sustained Crisis With No Immediate Relief in Sight for Tired Troops and Volunteers; Portland Area Warm :.;.' . .7 , 7' ' Portland, Ore., June 8 'U.E At least two more bodies were recovered from floorlwaters over the wrecked city of Vanport today as reinforced crews battled in hot weather to save weakening dikes along the brimming Columbia river. .. ; Sgt. F. H. Foote of the Oregon national guard recovered the bodies of a white woman, about 47 years old, dressed in slacks, and a negro woman, about 23 years old, wearing a navy peajacket. These brought to five the number of known dead in the Vanport Citiy flood disaster which wiped out the war housing community of 19,000 Sunday afternoon, May ; 30, and drove its inhabitants into a mass flight for their lives. The Columbia river flood situation was developing into a sustained crisis, with no im mediate relief in sight for thous ands of troops, national guards men, army engineers and civilian workers still working around-the-clock to plug seeping embank ments. New Crest Forecast A new mid-week flood crest was forecast, starting Wednesday night or Thursday morning, as soaring temperatures throughout the northwest sent melting snows cascading into the Columbia throughout its northern water shed. Workers struggled against the high waters along a 360-mile front from southeastern Wash ington the river's mouth at As toria. 1 ' . Weather forecaster Elmer Fish er predicted the flood would hold near Its crest for several weeks, but he said unseasonally hot weather might add millions more gallons of melted scow-water to the already-swollen streams. .The temperature at-x Portland recorded 93 yesterday. Army and navy men and civil ian volunteers,- meantime, were working feverishly to hold the sodden dikes along the Columbia against the crushing pressure which still threatened to break through Into riverfront towns and rich farmlands. The Red Cross announced a list of 715 persons and families that it had been unable to trace In the Vanport City disaster. It Issued an urgent appeal for unregister ed refugees to report at once to Portland disaster headquarters. The Red Cross said it did not consider the number of unlocated vanport City residents "alarm ing." . Time Schedules On Two Shifts At Courthouse Offices in the county court house had adjusted their time schedules today to accommodate visitors on both standard and day light saving time. The county court and the district attorney re mained on standard time, but per sonnel in the tax collection de partment and the county clerk's office will be on hand from 8:'10 a.m. to 6 p.m., daylight time. District attorney A. J. Moore said today that he had requested second opinion from Attorney general George Neuner, and that he had been advised that standard time mast be observed to the ex tent that taxpayers or persons requesting filing service could be accommodated up to the legal closing time schedules, so that at least one person win oe on nanu the extra hour each day. I 33,000 Men Battle to Hold Dikes Along Rampant River ltv Tom McQualtl (United I'rmi SUff CorrMimmlrnO Vancouver. B. C, June 8 'in Man's struggle to curb the ever pressing strength of the mighty rascr river in uritisn uoiumma seems utterly futile when viewed from the air. From an airplane flying over the 60 miles of fertile fruit-growing valley the estimated 3.1,000 men buttling to hold the dikes looked ilkc a pitiful army of ants Irving to hold back the ocean tide. The rampaging Fraser river was everywhere. It had seeped into the hoiis of 9,000 persons nd blanketed 50,000 acres or land. The destruction In the once- lush valley, vhlrh contained some of Canada's finest fruit and dairy land, was almost Incredible. Debris floated everywhere, ware houses were toppled and thou sands of berry boxes floated down the river, Work on Grade School to Start In Near Future With the ' site : rapidly being cleared and the architect's survey completed, the new grade school planned to serve the Reid school area may be started in early July, the directors of Bend district No. 1 hoped after looking over the situation last night. The building, to be erected Just to the rear of Trinity Episcopal church, will be of stucco finish on cement block. Six rooms of Its 12 room total size are to be done this year, Because it is not expected tha the rooms will be ready for occi pancy at the opening of schoi the board, at its meeting at tf high school, authorized Suuerin tendent James W. Bushong to ar range for suitable temporary quarters. Most of these, Bush ong suggested, can probably be' obtained in the vicinity of Reid school. Davis Named Auditor The school district chanced from state auditing, but chose for its next audttoar-B. G: Davis, who for years had conducted audits for the state in this area. Davis, now heading a private account ing firm located in Albany, agreed to do the district's work at not to exceed $400. Contracts with three new in. structors were authorized. The three are Ruth Buhler of Dallas. Oregon; Betty Chesterfield of Orofino, Idaho, and Marjorle, Bier of Monmouth, Oregon. All will teach In the elementarv grades. Delegate Ready For Trip East Mr. and Mrs. Clyde M. McKay will leave tomorrow morning for a month's trip that will include attending the republican national ' convention at Philadelphia and visits to their old home towns in Wisconsin and Michigan. The McKays will drive to the midwest, where he will visit his old home at ChiDDewa Falls. Wis.. and she will see friends and rela tives it Walker, Minn. They will leave their car at Chlcaeo about June 18th and board a special convention train for Philadelphia to be on hand for the opening of the convention on June 21. They expect to return to Bend abou'. July 1. McKay Is one of the convention , delegates elected from the second congressional district. His alternate is M. A. Lynch, Redmond republican, who will also attend the convention. Lynch Is to leave Portland by train on Juno 16. The onco-picturcsque towns In the valley were ghost towns. The normal half mile channel of the Fraser was bulged three to six miles southward In a series of great tun-colored lakes, red and green roofs, tiled silos and bums were flooded to the eaves. Devastation was most spectac ular at Mntqiil Prairie, a rich farming area 60 mllis from here. It virtually blanked out the town of more than 1,000 persons. Despite excellent large scale government topographical maps it was almost impossible to find . a down islands and headlands. In the Aggasslz area where the flood first broke. Nicomen Island, halfway down the river and seven miles long, could be recognized only by a broken skeleton of a dyke which), gave in to the surging waters. The river still was lashing at the island, almost visibly tearing oil topsoll. , '.r.Jj( II. 1! ! i ?! . i is ;2 is 7 3 1 .- 4 i- - ' V- J