Univ. of Oregon Library MOSNEi OREGON 9 mm THE ; BEND BUM State Forecast OREGON Partly cloudy and continued quite warm today, tonight and Thurs day, with scattered after noon thunderstorms. LEASED WIRE WORLD NEWS COVERAGE CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER Volume LIX TWO SECTIONS BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1948 No. 3 Flood Waters In Third Crest On Columbia Dikes Giving Way as Surging River Races West Toward Pacific Portland. Ore.. June 9 IP blood waters poured over most tif Puget Island today through a ireak in tne mam awe guarding he big land mass in the Colum bia river. . State police reported that the iland's inhabitants, consisting of Eieveral families, had been evacu ated. But they feared that 700 ead of cattle would be killed by the rushing water. The flood SDilled over 2.670 cres of the upper island. A cross like temporarily held the flood iom spreading to the 650 acres lit the lower end. Breaks Dike The Columbia, rising toward Its hird flood crest, broke through a Hike near Clatskanle, Ore., yes- rday and flooded 900 acres of Hch farmland. Four or five fami lies who had refused to evacuate kere isolated except by boat but h ere reported in no danger. I U. S. army engineers said the Columbia was endangering other Dikes In the Portland area and up ind downstream from this city. Condition of the Blue lake dike t the northeast edge of Portland pas reported critical. If it should lieak, some 2,000 homes, the 'ortland airport and the Reynolds luminum plant near Troutdale iould be flooded. The area has been evacuated. More Bodies Found Two more bodies were recoH?r- W from the waters covering Van- Sort City. They brought the total if known dead in tne vanport Mty flood disaster to five. The odies were identified as those of ilrs. Florence Beadle and Miss orena Smith. Lt. Gen. Mark Clark, comman der of the sixth army, flew here Irom San Francisco to inspect the Portland-Vancouver flood area, vhere 2,500 of his troops were lidlhg national guardsmen -and ivllians.ln the. battle to- hold re naining dikes. ' ' , Clark flew over the area and iter toured the Vanport City lood aboard an army boat. Meets Governor fHe was accompanied by Paul I II. Smith, editor of the San Fran lsco Chronicle; Maj. Gen. Thorn- s K. Kilea, Oregon national uard commander, and Col. The- tan D. Weaver, north Pacific di- rision engineer for the army !orps of engineers. He conferred briefly with Gov. lohn H. Hall of Oregon and May it Earl Riley of Portland before Hying back to San Francisco -late esterday. Elmer Fisher, river forecaster or the U. S. weather bureau here. kredicted that the Columbia will ise to 30.1 feet Saturday at Van- :ouver. Wash., north of Portland. Tiat would be about an inch be- pw the flood crest that devastat ed Vanport City. Six Power London ct is Accepted Washington. June 9 U) Secre- pry of state Georee C. Marshall Iwiay announced formal United ftates acceptance of the recent ix-power London agreement on esiern uermany. The agreement recommended , jBitniion oi a constituent assem I fly which would draft a constitu- linn f n ... T. would set up machinery for venpower administration of the luhr industrial area, with Ger many having a voice in this. me united States believes the 'commendations represent a fiajni- step toward a comprehen- solution of Germany's prob- 'inference. Miii-shall repeated this eovern- prnt's previous stand that the niiea btates favors a united ennanv. Rut h indctnH that Ills government wnulri rinmanri 'fonnmir nnitv .f tun Aarnatari f'lch ahead of political unitv. , inese motors, he said, f Individual liberties." fconomlc Unity Goal Marshall snlH mnml. nnHv ,"r Germany must embrace the hout 8,1 of ,he country. He i u in us! aiso include the free fnovempnt of trade, common "ex- ! '"-import program and the ces ; "on b" the Soviets of repara uction'OValS from current Pro' "Tho th . ftk .'"" western powers 7n ,nl,ed Sta,M. Britaln and raneM ti .....i. '... u. i "i wiirioui success o "'"in SOVlet flrmhtanM. nf tUaea nl?CJf,lcs-wnich are falr and Just ahi ir ,he only mpans tor tne Vhaii,Srt.ermnn Un',y' BULLETINS (H United 1'iwl UN Saeretjry-Ger.?ral Trygvo I.lo u-imiunccd formally at 4 p. in. lilir that the Arab and Is raeli governments have agreed tiiicoiiilllliiiiallv to a cessnlion of husiilitius for 28 !avs uegiutiuie at 2 a. n. KDT Friday. Aiiiinr.n,' .June 9 (IP The Truns-Jordun government au-iin-.iiicc I tcniglH that all Trans iliirdun cuiiiiiihiuIs anil field farces hi've been ordered to ceuse fire at 8 a. in. local time (2 a. ni. EOT) Friday. Praifiie, June 9 IP The cn tral eoninilttee of the Czech communist party toduy recum me:idt.'d (he election of Premier Kleinent Gottwald as president of Czechoslovakia. Pittsburgh, July 9 HPi An explosion ripped through a su burban Squirrel Hill, garage shortly after, noon today. At least six persons were Injured and pullce feared other persons may be buried In the debris. De Gaulle in Bid For French Rule Paris, June 9 p Gen. Charles De Caulle called upon, the people of France tonight to throw out the coalition government and an nounced his own readiness to as sume leadership of the country. De Gaulle seized upon the tur moil over the six-power agree ment on western Germany to spring back into the political arena. The forfner Teslstance ' leader said the agreement contains "the gravest risks for France, for Eu rope, and for peace." . His attack on the government of Premier Robert Schuman heightened the threat to it. The national assembly will ,debate the agreement on' Germany Friday, and some quorters forecast a vote which might unseat Schu man. Rumors Heard Ttumors persisted, even In the face of denial by a government spokesman, that several cabinet members had offered their resig nations or, had handed Schuman undated letters of resignation "for use if he found himself obliged to quit. - De Gaulle's attack followed a report by Foreign minister Georg es Bidault that France would try at once to get the London agree ment on Germany revised. Geologists Plan Crystal Display Exhibits of crystals will high light the June meeting of the Deschutes Geology club tomor row night in the chamber of commerce office, starting at 8 o'clock, officers of the group have announced. Novelty crys tals will also be displayed. Members of the club and others interested have been asked to bring their crystal collections. Howard H. Jcnne is program chairman. In the absence of C. G. Spring er, club president who is attend ing the 1948 convention of the Na tional Federation of Mineralogi cal societies in Denver, Colo., Cecil Moore, vice president, will be in charge. Snow Melting From Lake Road Back from a trip to his resort at Elk lake, Myron H. Symons reported today that the Century drive through the upper Des chutes country will be opened to the south end of the lake by Sat urday. The lodge will be open and all boats will be assembled at the south end of the lake, Symons said. Ice disappeared fpm the lake on June 2. This was the latest opening of the lake In many years. Texan, Waiting for Trip to Electric Chair, Informed Another Man Confesses to Crime Huntsville, Tex., June 9 U" Joseph Lee Saulter, 34, sat dazed ly in his death row cell today, try ing to accustom himself to the fact that he has an excellent chance to live out a normal life instead of dying in the electric chair. Saulter was sentenced to rile early today for the fatal stabbing of Mrs. Thelma Leslie In a Galves ton saloon on Feb. 24, 1947. He was saved when Cecil E. Barker, 33, confessed that he com mitted the murder. , Barker is serving a life term In the Retrieve state prison farm. He was sentenced last January for robbery by assault and as an habitual criminal. Gov. Beauford H. Jester grant ed Saulter a 30-day stay of execu tion so that Barter's statement, GOP Ouster Truman Plea In Northwest President Makes Vote - Appeal, Says Conqress Bad; Visits Officials ' Bv Merrlman Smith (United Prou Staff Wliite Home Reporter) Spokane, Wash., June 9 U President Truman, campaigning Into the Pacific northwest, today heaped new criticism on the re' publican congress, saying it was the "worst" in American history. At virtually every turn, the chief executive, from the moment he left his train here until he started a motor trip to Grand Coulee dam, hurled new barbs at the house and senate. He invited a labor union to throw out the republicans next fall. And later, he spoke in mid- town Spokane, reiterating his ad' vocacy of a major flood control program on the Columbia river. Republicans Blamed The president said republican "chairmen of key committees" in the house and senate were block ing his efforts to put across a program to benefit the west. - : "If you don't do something about it, you don't deserve to get anything' he said. Continuing his battle for a dem ocratic victory this fall, the presi dent made his most fervent ap peal ior votes tnat he has put to the public on this trip. Repeatedly, he asked the people to. -ao sometning about tne re publicans this fall.. Makes Statement The president made, his obser vation about . this being the "worst" congress in talking to a local reporter. "This is the worst congress we have had since the first one met," he said. The president then drove with Wallgren and Sen. Warren Mag nuson. D.. Wash., to the center of the city where in a broad plaza the chief executive spoke again oneiiy. . . - .' The president, at this sUecrea. tion of Wallgren, made a brief surprise, appearance before the national convention of the Com munication Workers of America (Ind.), now in session here. . Addresses Deles-ates "I understand that you are not very happy over the labor acts of ne told delegates. "Your only remedy is Novem ber, 1948, and if you continue that law in effect that is your fault and not mine because I didn't want it. President Truman added: "I know you are going to fix it so I can talk back to Washington." Trout Hatchery Placed in Use The new Wizard Falls trout hatchery on the Metolius river is nowt In operation, with 140,000 rainbow trout eggs from East lake in the hatchery troughs. The first eggs arrived at the hatchery late last week and have been placed in the hatchery build ing under the direction of K. E. Morton, superintendent of the new installation. Additional ship ments of eggs are being trans ported from East lake each two days as they are taken by crews at work there. All major construction at the hatchery is completed. Twenty circular ponds, each 25 feet in di ameter, are ready to receive the tiny fish as soon as they leave the hatchery. capacity of the new trout hatchery is rated at two million eggs, with the annual production of fish from the installation vary ing with the size to which they are raised. made in the form of an affidavit, can be Investigated. If It checKs out, Saulter prob ably will receive a complete par don. If not, he will die July 9. Authorities appeared to believe, however, that Barker was telling the truth. "I was resigned to dying and I figured my number was up be cause the time was getting closer and closer," Saulter said. "From now on I'm living on borrowed time. "I'm grateful for life. I don't know Barker. I was dead drunk at the time of the stabbing. I didn't see anything and I don't know what happened." Prison officials said It was ac tually Saulter'g mother, Mrs. Ern est Wheat, Huntsville, who saved him from death. Dike Stops An emergency dike thrown across a fault on the south shore of Wickiup reservoir is continuing to halt the escape of water from the big storage area, according to the bureau of reclamation office. Above is shown part of the wide crevice cut In the reservoir Bank by the outpouring water, with a bureau of reclamation bulldozer putting the final touches on the 300-foot dike. Round mountain is seen across the reservoir, directly above the machine. In the foreground on a temporary bridge spanning the fissure, is G. W. Montgomery, Tumalo project superintendent, one of many local irri gation men who have visited the big Wickiup fault. Bend Man Found Dead in His Car Rolla C. Ince, 47, representative of the Beneficial Standard Life Insurance company in the Bend area, was found dead in his car about one mile west of 'Govern ment Camp on highway 50 Sat urday morning, state police here learned today. Ray Rilance, ' of Oregon City, Clackamas county coroner, said the death was suicide. A .22 cali bre rifle, with an empty shell in the chamber, was found in the car.- Ince was killed by a .22 long rule bullet which entered in the left side of his chest. Employes at the local office of the Beneficial Standard Life, lo cated in room 14 of the U. S. National bank building, said Ince had left here Friday and that he had told them he was going to Lakeview on business. He had been a resident of Bend for about eight months, his address at the time of his death .being the Down ing hotel. Son In High School His family had not been with him in Bend. He has a son, James Ince, who will be graduated this week from Washington high school In Portland, and two daughters. ' Ince was an early day resident of Central Oregon, having been raised in the Antelope region. The body was taken to Oregon City. Funeral arrangements have not been learned here. Triple Slaying Report Received Vancouver. B. C. June 9 tin Provincial police today reported they had received word of a triple slaying at a farm house near Penticton. 200 miles east of here. Police said thev believed tho three victims were shot to death. Tentatively identified as dead were Mrs. Robert Douglas Mutch and her two sons Robert, 18, and Grant, 14. A 20-year-old daughter, Yvonne, was reported to be in n hospital. The reported slaying allcccdlv occurred near Kalden, nine miles west of Pentlclon. Robert Douclas Mutch. Ims. band of the dead woman, was be ing sought for questioning. She wrote Warden I. K. Kelley at the prison farm that Barker knew something about tho mur der. She asked Kelley to question Barker. Barker at first denied any knowledge of the murder. Then he broke down and confessed. "She (Mrs. Leslie) knew too much about my life," Barker said. "1 was In Galveston drinking with Thelma and Saulter. She said she was going to tell off on me. I didn't say anything, but I left and came back In about five or 10 minutes. "I Just slipped behind her while iie was standing at the bar with Saulter. I cut her throat with mv pocket knife. "I didn't even know Saulter was Involved In It. I don't want to see an Innocent man die. He didn't have anything to do with it." Biq Leak at Wickiup Reservoir :ol ?v S55- Truman Gets Platform Call In Pajamas . Missoula, Mont., June 9 IP) One a.m. Is not too late for a back platform appearance by Presi dent Truman. When the presidential special paused here at 1 a.m. (MST) to day for servicing, a crowd of about 1,000 persons was at the station. The president, however, was sound asleep. Secretary Charles G. Ross woke him and a few min utes later the crowd saw a sleepy eyed man in blue pajamfes and a light blue bathrobe step out' on the platform. The president explained he had been up since five in the morning and had gone to bed early. "But I thought I'd let you look at me even if I don't have my clothes on, he said. Congress Faces June 19 Deadline Wasington, June 9 Uli The house GOP leadership today put it up to the sena'te to wind up this session's work in time for adjournment June 19. Republican leader Charles A. Hallcck said the house can finish next week "tho consideration -of all measures we ought to do and can afford to do." Chairman Robert A. Taft of the senate republican policy commit tee previously had expressed doubt that the session's work could be completed in time to meet the June 19 adjournment goal. Halleck said the house should pass the last big appropriation bill, displaced persons legislation, the farm price support program, and the social security measure jthis week. Next week: The draft bill, housing legislation, and gen eral tax revision. Teen Age Draft Passage Looms In U.S. Senate Washington, June 9 HIi-Re-publican leaders predicted today the senate will pass the heavily debated 19-through-2S peacetime draft hill iH'fore recessing to night. Chairman Chan Gurney, R., S. D., of tho senate armed services committee, said he was confident of a vote before the senate quits, but admitted it may be late be cause several controversial amendments still await action. Acting republican leader Ken neth S. Wherry, also said he thought the measure would reach a final vote before the senate re cesses. Wherry warned his col leagues late lust night that the senate-would remain la session until "after 10:30 p.m. If neces sary" to get final action. Before quilting work last night, the senate voted 47 to 33 to limit the life of the draft program to two years, rather than the five years proposed by Gurney's com mittee. Rf)LT roSITONKIl Newark, N. J., June 9 mi The Rocky GrazlanoTony Zale mid dleweight championship fight, scheduled for tonight at Ruppert stadium, was postponed late today until tomorrow night, Perry Truman Aides Anger Wallace Portland, June 9 IIP) Lew Wallace, Democratic nominee for governor of Oregon and national Democratic committeeman, said today he was "sick and tired" of the way President Truman's as sistants were handling the presi dent's arrangements for visiting Oregon this week. Wallace said he was a "100 per cent Truman man" but he vigor ously disapproved the 'Way the president's trip was being ar ranged lin Oregon. . - - ; . j ' -President Truman was due to arrive here Friday to tour flood ed areas and confer with flood relief officials. Wallace said: "I have received at least three different sets of instructions about the manner in which the president will be received here. I am not criticizing the presi dent. But I am criticizing the clerks around him who are hand ling his trip and who are doing an awfully bad job. "They'd better get a few Ore gonlans to handle his trip for him. Then they might get a good job done." Instructions Differ Wallace said most of his var ious instructions had come from Oscar Chapman, undersecretary of the interior. Each set of in structions, he said, listed differ ent persons who were to be in vited aboard the president's train. Tne titular head of the Demo cratic party in Oregon said he had written to William Ritchie, na tional committeeman in Nebras ka, who withdrew his support from President Truman following the president's visit In Omaha. "But I. did not criticize the president himself," Wallace said. "I'm just as strong now for the president as I was when he was nominated for the vice-presidency at the last Democratic conven tion." Wounded Youth Fails in Escape Seattle, June 9 mi A 16-year- old boy was shot in the foot to day as he was running from a sheriff deputy who wanted to question him in connection with a stolen car and the burglary of a grocery market. Another youth was being held In Ihe King county Jail on an open charge pending an Investi gation. The wounded boy made good his escape but a dozen deputy sheriffs combed the marshy area for an hour and found him hid ing behind a house where he had slopped to ask for help. During the chase, the boy stop ped to wrap a tourniquet made from weed stems. A .38-caliher slug fired by Dep uty Klmo Hudgens pierced his foot. On his way to the hospital the boy thanked Hudgens for not shooting him in the head. Blast in Sewer Hurts 4 Persons Bellingham, Wash., June 9 lHi A gas explosion In a sewer here Injured four employes of the State Construction company of Seattle today, Photo by A. E. Arab States and Government Of Israel Accept Count's Plan For 4-Week Truce in Holy Land Peace Expected fo Come to Palestine Friday Morning; Dispatches Indicate Slackening of Hostilities; Jews Repulse Attack on Musrar Cairo, June 9 'iU.E) The Arab states today accepted Count . Folke Bernadotte's proposal for a four week truce in Pal estine, an Arab league spokesman announced, and reliable quarters believed Israel also agreed to it. (At Lake Success, a high United Nations official announc ed that the government of Israel had given unconditional acceptance to the truce proposal. The acceptance was said to have been sent to Bernadotte.) Bernadotte scheduled a press conference for late today to make public the Jewish and : Arab answers to his proposal. I ' f All signs were that as Unit ed Nations mediator he had been successful in his delicate negotiations to bring at least temporary peace to Palestine at 6 a.m. GMT (2 a.m. EDT) Friday. .The spokesman for the political committee of the Arab league told newsmen that the 'Arabs had ac cepted Bernadotte's . plan, based on his interpretation of the UN security council's resolution call ing for a month's truce. Arabs Take Stand Asked if foreign pressure had been put on the Arab states, the league spokesman said "no, but we do not want to be put in the position of aggressors." Bernadotte received the Jewish answer a little beyond the noon GMT (8 a.m. EDT) deadline, pos sibly because of delays in com munication. Dr. Chaim Welzmann, presi dent of Israel, said in Paris that his government was willing to agree to the plan for a truce be ginning at 6 a.m. GMT (2 a.m. EDT) Friday. Reliable quarters reported that Bernadotte cabled the Arab re sponse to the United Nations se curity council, and the Egyptian government informed Its delegate to tne UN, MahmudjBey Fawfy Z ." ' Both Sides Agr reeabJo-ri: Pending a formal announce ment of the response by the Jews and Arabs to the UN effort to halt the war, all signs were that both sides were accepting. The first word of the Jewish reaction to Bernadotte's ultima tum unconditional acceptance of his plan, or he would step out of the picture and turn the matter back to the UN security council came from Weizmann. The Israeli president was in Paris, on his way from New York to Tel Aviv. Hostilities Slacken Dispatches from Palestine re ported a general slackening of hostilities. Ifowever, Egyptian bombers attacked Tel Aviv from high altitude today, a dispatch from the Israeli capital said. The bombs shattered windows in a residential street of Tel Aviv, but no casualties were reported. Tel Aviv also relayed word from Israeli headquarters In Je rusalem that the Jews repulsed a dawn attack by the Arab legion against the Musrar quarter of the new city of Jerusalem, near the Damascus gate. More Lightning Fires Reported Two more lightning caused fires showed up on the Deschutes national forest today, but both were under control, the forest office reported. Heavy lightning displays were seen over most parts of the for est last night and additional fires are expected to be spotted by lookouts. One of the fires today was In the Big springs area on the North Century route, while the other was near Fox butte on the Fort Rock district of the forest. I Millions Sought for Research Dealing With Atom Weapons Washington, June 9 nil Atom ic weapons are Improving faster than their cost of production can be budgeted, It was disclosed to day. Atomic energy commission spokesmen told the house appro priations committee in newly published testimony that the fu ture of nuclear weapons Is wide oHn. Before the next fiscal year Is out, they said, they may have to ask congress for extra millions with which to produce the new weapons being perfected. Some of this additional money, It was Indicated, would go to build a new secret weapons plant In New Mexico. As for the more distant future, Carroll L. Wilson, general mana ger of the $3,000,00,000 atomic en ergy project, told the committee that: neanng upens On Firms Claim A hearing on the. claim of the United Construction company, of Seattle, for additional payment from the bureau of reclamation for a contract involving the con struction of lateral and sub-laterals of the North Unit project in the Culver area in 1945-46 is being held today in the Deschutes, county courtroom. , The company, which is repre sented by Josef Diamond, attor ney, and Mortenson and Becker,' partners in the firm, claims it lost money on the contract which was In excess of $100,000, be- , cause of wartime labor and ma terial conditions beyond its con trol. Also attending the hearing, be ing held to receive additional facts for presentation to the sec retary of interior, are T, Brown and C. L. Taylor, of the chief engineer's office, Denver; Clyde H. Spencer, former construction engineer for the Deschutes proj ect and now in , charge of ' the' Hungry Horse project in Mon tana, and J. W. Taylor, present construction engineer for the De schutes project ' Anderson Wins In New Mexico Santa Fe. N. M.. Juno 9 HP Former- agriculture secretary Clinton P. Anderson today won the democratic nomination to the U. S. senate from New Mexico. Anderson will oppose soldier- diplomat Patrick J. Hurley in the race for senator in November. Former Gov. John J. Dempsey conceded the primary election to Anderson today after unofficial but complete returns from more than one-third of New Mexico's voting precincts gave the former cabinet member a 10,000-vote lead. The count of 363 of a total of 900 precincts gave Anderson 26,- 10B votes to Dempsey s 17,154. Iteslgns as Secretory Anderson resigned as secretary of agriculture May 10, and left Washington to campaign in his home state with the full endorse ment of President Truman. He also had support of powerful state administration forces. Hurley, who was defeated , by Sen. Dennis Chavez in the 1946 election race for U. S. senator, was not opposed in his bid for the republican nomination in the primary yesterday. Young Wife Loses Life in Stream Salem, Ore., June 9 HI Mrs.' Eleanor Kindred, 21, Mill City, drowned yesterday afternoon In the North Santlnm river two miles south of Stayton, state po lice reported today. "The possibility of designing weapons of a radically different typo from any now perfected and of applying nuclear power to the propulsion of ships and aircraft could hrlng changes in military concepts greater than any devel oped during the last war." For the Immediate future, the fiscal year starting July 1, In ad dition to millions In cash, the commission asked and was voted $100,000,000 in new contract au thorizations. Of this total. 165,000,000 will go for new production facilities alone. Hut that expenditure will be part of a long-range program for expanding production of bombs and atomic explosives which was laid out long before the scries of weapons trsts carried out this spring at Eniwetok atoll,