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Univ. of Oregon Library EUGENE, 0REO0H LEASED WIRE kWORLD NEWS COVERAGE Volume LIX Remington, High Commerce Official, Subject of FBI And Grand Jury Loyalty Check In Charge of "Highly Secret" Job of Passing On Export Licenses to Russia, Investigation Reveals; Acting Secsetary Called to Testify Washington, July 80 MJ.E) Senate investigators revealed today that a government employe now under FBI and grand jury loyalty investigations was appointed to a "highly secret" job passing on export licenses to Russia. The employe is William Remington. He has been on "vaca tion" from the commerce department since June 28, but is still 'on the payroll. Thomas u. . cJaisaen, jr., acting secretary of commerce, said he recommended Remington for appointment in Febru- '. ai'.V as chairman of an inter- CIO May Endorse President Truman Say Top Officials (Bjr United Prea) GIO officials said today there is a "good chance" the labor or ganization soon will endorse President Truman for reelection. Truman, they said, asked CIO president Philip Murray during a recent White House conference If he would try to swing the CIO's doorbell-ringing political action committee behind his candidacy. Murray promised that he would talk it over with his colleagues, it was said. Since that time, two CIO bigwigs have come out for the president. CIOPAC chairman Jack Kroll said after Truman's nomination acceptance speech that the presi dent "has a new look and the new look becomes him." CIO vice president Emil Rieve, an anti Truman man before the conven tion, said labor can build a strong democratic party "and we can do it even with Harry Truman." To Meet Aug:. 19 CIO insiders,, said - the Jabar. roup may go on record tor rru- an shortly after Aug. 19. Mur- nee presidents to meet with him in Washington on that date and the conference is virtually certain to concern politics. The AFL's educational and po litical league, which hopes to "in fluence" as many as 25,000,000 votes, has not endorced any pres idential candidate. AFL presi dent William Green has indicated that (he league may confine its politicking to the congressional races. John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers Journal took a pot-shot today at Truman's record on prices. The Journal said in an editorial that the "responsibility for present-day inflation leads right up to the White House." There has been talk that John L. may endorse the Dewey-Warren ticket. Canneries Take Japanese Tuna Los Angeles, July 30 UP) Southern California canneries to lay processed 500 tons of Japa nese albacore, the first imported Irom Japan since before the war. The shipment, which arrived yesterday aboard the freighter President Grant, Is the first of several en route. Spokesmen for harbor fisher men and cannery unions, which pittorly opposed such "cut-rate" IITlDOrtjlftnn hofrr tha ti,a onM thev wnnM w 1 ntn international executive board meetings next month. JAMIMES OVERSPEND Washington, July 30 (U'iPres Went Truman's council of eco nomic advisers told congress to lay that at the end of 1947, one put of every four American fam ies was spending more money nan it earned. Pioneers From At Prineville Sunday for Annual Meeting Prlnm,ltl T..1.. n ,r jmy ou lopec'iail (W8 from ,hrep counties, rook, Jefferson and Deschutes, "ill be In Prineville Sunday for " annual meeting of the Crook oum' Pioneers' association and " general reunion of old timers 01 the midstate country. ine program for the reunion "s announced today by , Dolly ... Rfs Messier, president of the Crowning of Queen Jane De ?ffls, 31, has been set for 12:15 ?Way, at Pioneer park. Crown frer will be Ann Demaris, oum granddaughter of tne Mil 1' Tlle coronation prayer be by Rev. A. D. Vaughn. -.. 1M lunow a violin soio oy t"0hcr member of the pioneer THE TWO SECTIONS departmental committee on exports. He said he knew "now" that Remington has been under an FBI investiga tion and the subject of a grand jury hearing in New York. But he said he had known nothing of this when the appoint ment was made. Before recommending Reming ton for the committee job, Blais dell said he had questioned Rem ington about any connections with "communist front" organizations. He said he had asked Remington if there had been "anything like his old association with the peace mobilizers before the war." Blaisdell was called by Chair man Homer Ferguson, R., Mich., of the senate's super investigating committee. Ferguson wanted to know how the person, then unidentified, could be placed in an Important government position requiring secrecy while at the same time be ing investigated by a loyalty board and by a special grand jury in New York on "questions of es pionage." Ready to follow Blaisdell to the stand was Miss Elizabeth Bentley, alleged former communist "es pionage agent" who broke with the communists in 1945. Hearing Unexpected In opening the unexpected pub lie hearing, Ferguson said that the purpose was to get into the record facts uncovered during a study of "our export policies with Russia and her satellites as well as other countries." He' said the question Involved the "conduct of the government in hiring employes for important po sitions where secrecy is necessary and the work very important." He said that the person Involved had not only been hired, but in volved in an inter-departmental transfer while the federal govern ment knew that he was being in vestigated for loyalty. His activi ties were being inquired into by the special grand jury in New York, Ferguson said. The matter "goes into the question of whether there is'or is not efficiency in government," he added. Office Planning Benham Survey Salem, July 30 (IB A survey of the proposed dam site at Ben ham falls on the Deschutes river will begin within a month, Lee McAllister, chief of the Salem office of the U. S. bureau of rec lamation, said today. The dam is proposed as a water storage reservoir. Who would use the water has not been deter mined, he said. McAllister said a diamond drill will be moved into the area in a few days. Exploration will be handled by the Salem office, which will make the final recom mendation on whether the plan is feasible. The Salem office chief said $22,000 has been appropriated for the survey during the current fiscal year, but that amount will not be enough to complete the work which is expected to take two or three years. Three Counties queens tamny, Jess utniaii. The singing of America will be led by Shirley Stearns and Mary Louise Powell, with Suzanne Michel as accompanist. The coronation will be followed by the annual picnic dinner, with visitors eating their lunches un der the shade of park trees. The afternoon program, to be highlighted by an address by Or mond R. Bean of Portland, will start at 2 p.m., following the In troduction of former pioneer queens The welcome will be by Mrs Fessler. Bean will have as his topic, "The Oregon Centen nial." He Is a member of a pio neer Oregon family. Memorial silence and a prayer by Rev. M. H. Skidmore will hon- BENB CENTRAL OREGON'S BEND, Adjournment Due in Week Taft Believes Washington, July 30 (IP) Sen. Robert A. Taft, R., O., said to day the special session of con gress may adjourn a week from tomorrow. Before it does, he indicated, the republicans may pass President Truman's request for curbs on bank and consumer credit. They won't act on price controls, ra tioning or any other parts of his anti-inflation program. Taft told the senate he saw no reason why it should not dispose by Wednesday of the southern democratic filibuster now going on against anti-poll tax legisla tion. He meant the bill could be withdrawn from further consid eration. Thereafter, Taft said, congress could do "anything we're going to do" on the president's anti high price program and quit on Saturday, Aug. 7. Taft told the senate he was "perfectly willing" to grant the administration stronger credit controls. He suggested that repub licans would approve restrictions on installment buying and bank credit. Farben Chief Gets Prison Term for Wartime Activity Nuernberg, July 30 (IP Carl Krauch, chairman who directed the giant I. G. Farben Chemical company's wartime activities, was sentenced to six years in prison today and 12 of his top ex ecutives were given sentences ranging from 18 months to eight years. Krauch was one of five Farben executives found guilty of slavery and mass-murder by a three-man American war crimes tribunal to day. Nine were pronounced guilty yesterday of plundering factories in nazi-conquered nations. Time spent in jail was deducted from all sentences. : Two defen dants, were ordered released be cause their sentences were less than time spent in jail. Ten Acquitted Ten others of the 28 who stood trial were acquitted on all charges and also ordered releas ed. The tribunal, which has spent nearly a year hearing the case, then adjourned. Krauch was granted credit for time spent In prison since his ar rest on September 9, 1946. Herman Schmitz, number two man in the Farben dynasty, was sentenced to four years in prison with credit for time served since April 7, 1945. He was convicted of plundering private property in Poland, Norway and France. Fritz Termeer, technical advis er to Farben and only defendant found guilty on both counts of plundering and slave labor, was sentenced to seven years with credit for time served since June 7, 1945. MacArthur to Join Army Active List Washington, July 30 (Ui The army announced today the resto ration of Gen. Douglas MacAr thur to the active list of the army in the rank of general of the army effective July 9. MacArthur has been on the re tired list since Dec. 31, 1937, even though he was called to active duty on July 26, 1941. He became a five-star general on Dec. 18, 1944 and that rank was made permanent on March 23, 1946. The last congress passed an act permitting five-star generals to return to the active list at the discretion of the president. RETURN MATCH SIGNED New York, July 30 Hi'iLight heavyweight champion Freddie Mills of England will defend his title In a return bout against ex-champ Gus Lesnevlch, prob ably on Sept. 23 at Ebbets field in Brooklyn, promotor Andy Nlederretier announced today. to Convene or a Crook county pioneer. Effa Calbreath, who died this past year. Concluding numbers will in clude a song by Linda Rose and Janet Faye Gregson and a trombone solo by Warren Glaze, with Everett Hopkins as accom panist. The annual business meeting will follow. Deschutes county pioneers, headed by Carl A. Johnson as president, will join In the annual meeting, and a large delegation from Jefferson Is also expected. On Saturday night, at the fair grounds, a fiddlers' contest will be held, as a feature of the pio neers' dance. Appearing as guesta will be the Bend barber shop quartet. DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 30. Australian Is Winner in Olympic Event Yanks Lose in First Three Events; Sprinters On Top in Trial Heats 1 TnU, an IIDI Thn TTnit. ed States suffered Its first major disappointment In the Olympic games today when J. L. Wltner nf A..-,-..:- uuk ui. nuDlldim wuii mii i"K" jump ing championships, but the Yanks were shutting out the other na tions in the sprints. The first three championships today went to teams other than Ilia VanV m-au, iirhliV, In fwnvaA to walk off with the overall track title. In addition to Winter's victory in the hish 1umn. M f). M Dster. myer of France won the women's discus and Emil Zatopek of izecnosiovaKia took tne li),W) meter rim Thnco u,v,a iho nnl events in which finals were held toaay as YU.uuu screaming fans sat under a blistering sun at Wembley stadium. But in the sprints, the boys wearing the red, white and blue emblem were fast moving to wards glory. Finish First Harrison Dlllard of Baldwln- California, and Barney Ewell of "uitasici, ra., me xnree rank entries in the 100-meter dash, all finished firsr In thni,. ,,..iui ary heats, and again in the sec- uiiu iuuiiu. iney win run in the ai-iiuiinuis Tomorrow. Dillal'd Wnn hie nrnllmtnnm, and his second round hnth in 10.4 seconds, Patton ran his pre lim in 10.6 and his second round in 10.4, and Ewell. was timed at 10.5 in both tries. Three Olympic records were broken today, and a Yank figured In one of the new marks. Rune Larsson of Sweden set a new mark of 51.9 seconds in the semi-final round of the 400-meter w hurdles and in the next heat Bob Cochran of Los Angeles equalled it. The pld mark was 52 seconds flat, set by Slats Hard in at Los Angeles in 1932. Zatopek set a new mark of 29 minutes 59.6 seconds in winning the 10,000 meters, Former Assessor Dies at Eugene J. A. Fountain, former Des chutes county assessor and a resi dent of Bend for 20 years, died at 11:30 a.m. todav in Eu pene. wlinrn he and Mrs. Fountain had made meir nome since leaving Central Oregon three years ago. He was serving his second consecutive term as assessor, when r a 1 1 1 n f health forced hii retirement in Oc tober,1945. Deatl followed a lin gerlng Illness. Hi was 65. Mr. and Mrs Fountain came to Bend In 192f from Lane coun ty, where he had spent five years in the county clerk's ofice in Eugene, followed by five years as a school teacher In the western part of the county. For nine years after coming to Bend, Mr. Fountain was employed in the shipping office at Brooks Scanlon, Inc. He served four years as a deputy In the county clerk's office previous to his election as assessor. He took office In Jan uary 1, 1939, when the county of fices were in temporary quarters in the Bank of Bend building. Mr. Fountain was a native Ore gonian. He was a member of the Christian church and the Odd Fel lows lodge. Besides his wife, Carrie, he is survived by five children, 10 grandchildren, two brothers and one sister. Sons and daughters are Mrs. Percy urost, Mrs. James Ie Rocher and Hugh Fountain, Bend; Mrs. John Jeans, Eugene, and Mrs. Leigh Irvine, Wlshram. His brothers and sister are John Fountain, Notl; Mrs. Joe White, Portland, and Frank Fountain, Salt Lake City. Mrs. Drost was at her father's bedside when death occurred. Other members of the family wero leaving today to be with their mother. Funeral arrangements had not been made today. COMMUNIST GIVES t I' Chicago, July 30 WiGil Green, one of 12 communist party lead ers Indicted by a federal grand Jury in New York July 20, on charges of conspiring to over throw the U. S. government, sur rendered to a U. S. marshal here today. I IT J yfx BULLET DAILY NEWSPAPER To Rule Crooked River Show Betty Gage, 17, of Prineville, princess; Bevely Klssler, 17, of Powell Butte, queen; Joyce Nedra, 18, of Prineville, princess, form the royal court for the Crooked River roundup to be held at Prineville August 21 and 22. Political Crisis As President Quits Post; Minister to Egypt Arrested Budapest, July 30 '.UP) President Zoltan Tildv. 57. who said after the bloodless communist coup in Hungary a year ago that he was a mere ligurehead, resigned today. The resignation of Tildy, leader of the Hungarian small holders party which came under communist sway after par liamentary elections last fall, was announced officially amid a crisis of high political rank. Parliament was called into successor. Tildy's sori-in-law, Viktor Arguments Heard In Damage Case Final arguments to the jury were being given by the attor neys for the plaintiff and defend ant today and the civil suit of "Edward Watson vs. Pearl and Helen Welgand was expected to go to the jury sometime this aft ernoon. The defense rested lis case yesterday afternoon after calling seven witnesses to the stand. De fense witnesses were Dr. John F. Dorsch, Pridny Holmes, Carl Bar clay, Terry Isaacson, Nina Kings bury, Larry Kingsbury, and Pearl Welgand, testifying In his own defense. The plaintiff is asking $35,000 damages for injuries received when he was thrown from a horse while he was Weigand's employe. The plaintiff Is bring ing his'case into court under the employers' liability act, which makes the employer liable for in juries received by his employes. The defense maintains that the case should be considered under common law negligence, In which contributory negligence on the part of the employe absolves the employer of all blame for acci dents. Attorney for the defense is George H. Brewster and for the plaintiff Robert H. Foley and H. H. DeArmond. Impressions of Central Oregon Visitors "I like Oregon" very, very much," Mrs. Albert L. Lentz, from Pennsylvania, said yester day, "but to he very frank, I would never live, what you people call, 'east of the mountains.' " Mrs. Lentz, her son, Bruce, a student at Cornell university, and her mother, Mrs. L. P. Mattlson, are visiting relatives In Detroit and were In Bend for the day. The group from Pennsylvania Is not trying to see the United States all at once. "We're seeing one part of the country at a time." Mrs. Lentz exnlalncd, "and we'i really seeing It. We've taken sev eral short trios around Oregon and we intend to take several more before we go home nt the end of August." Mrs. Lentz said she "had been thrilled by every bit of Oreuon. And I was raised In New Eng land, too so I'm used to beautiful scenerv." She, however, expressed n preferenre for the country "west of the mountains. It was cool there todav." she exnlained. Mrs. Ient7. wa nartirulnrlv lm nreswl bv the "larpenci" of ev erything In the wpst. "You hnve larger mountains, larger flowers, larger trees, breer fish. Fverv thin" Is larger here than In the east." 1948 Hits Hungary session Monday to elect Tikly's Csornoky, who for a year had been Hungarian minister to Egypt, was arrested a little earlier on charges of treason and 'espionage. The interior ministry,- in announcing his arrest, did not muke public the details. Charered With Treason "It Is officially anounced by the press section of the ministry of in terior this morning that. Viktor Csornoky, Hungarian minister to Cairo, is under arret by political police, charged with treason and espionage," an official statement said. The announcement touched off a wave of rumors and speculation. Crowds assembled on the side walk and In coffee houses discuss ing the developments and their implications. Observers expected the arrest of Csornoky, former first secre tary to the Hungarian legation in Washington, to be accompanied by major changes in the Hungar ian regime. ill lour Experiment Plots Tours being arranged for the present season will make It pos sible for growers to observe work noui being carried on as part of the Deschutes experimen tal project, In Crook, Jefferson and Deschutes counties, accord ing tq Information from the of fice of Gene Lear, Deschutes county agent. Malcolm Johnson Is in charge of the experiments, set up as field projects In lieu of an experiment station, first re quested for the area. A tour has been arranged for the afternoon of Wednesday, August 4, with the following vis its and schedule announced: Lee Allen, Tumalo, grain nurs ery, 1:30 p. m. King Brothers, Cloverdale, a slke clover seed fertilizer trials, 2:15 p. m. Wlllard Cyrus, Cloverdale, al falfa fertilizer trials, 2:45 p. m. Alfred Stranfleld, (Simmons place), Cloverdale, potato fertili zer trials, 3 p. m. E. E. Burgess, Northwest Red mond, red clover seed fertilizer trials, 3:45. H. L. Fleck, Northwest Red mond, potato fertilizer trials, 4 p. m. Persons making the tour are being asked to be at the I.ee Allen farm not later than 1:30 p.m. HO AD STII.I. CLOSED The road from Todd lake to Three Creek lake Is the only rec reation route In the Deschutes national forest still closed by snow, Ralph W. Crawford, forest supervisor, said today. The block ed area is between the Soda creek ditch and the north fork of Tum alo creek. Wlndlgo pass, the road from Crescent lake to Diamond lake, was opened this week. -v 1TTTV Truman Warns "Around the Corner" Unless Inflation Can Be Stopped Views Set Forth in Economic Report Given Congress; Limited Endorsement to Credit Controls Made; Rift With Eccles Is Revealed Washington. July 80 ';U.E President Truman and his econ omic advisers warned congress that a depression may be just around the corner unless something is done to curb inflation. Prices, wages, production and profits are at all-time nigns. But the m-esident said this could be the lull before the storm unless the government takes "vigorous measures" to bridge the uncertainty between a postwar boom and a stable econ omy. Truman's views were set forth in his midyear economic report to congress. The congress. The re port, incorporating an analys is by the council of economic advisers, is required by the full employment act of 1946. Cites Hardship 'The facts," said the president, "add up to a clear and disconcert ing conclusion. In spite of some favorable factors, we are in the very midst of gathering Inflation ary forces, which day by day are imposing additional hardships up on countless families, and day by day are undermining the founda tions of the remarkably high level of postwar prosperity that wc have thus far maintained." Truman said "it would be reck less to assume that the bust will not happen if we neglect action to control the boom." The presidents' three-man econ omic council, headed by Dr. Ed win G. Nourse, said "unworkable relationships In the price struc ture" might cause a break In the economy which could lead to "a general recession of serious pro portions." - Snyder Testifies Treasury Secretary John W. Snyder gave a limited endorse ment to Truman's request for a crackdown on "Inflationary" bank credit and for hew power over consumer crcdltVor Installment buying. Snyder made the endorse ment before the (senate banking committee. His position represented a sharp reversal from that of last November. At that time he ad vised President Truman against curtailing bank credit as a means of controlling soaring Inflation. That stand led to the ouster of Marriner Eccles as federal re serve board chairman because Ec cles favored that policy. Today Snyder told the commit tee that extension of bank credit had not been a "major contrib uting force" to high prices, except in the fields of consumer credit and real estate financing. He said that the price problem must be attacked "on all fronts." So he asked the committee to ap prove tne president's new anti-in-flation program, which contained the recommendations for curbs on Installment buying and bank loans. . Alabama Mine Blast Takes Life Birmingham, Ala., July 30 Hit At least one coal miner was kill ed, a dozen were Injured and be tween 12 and 14 others were trap ped today when a terrific gas ex plosion rocked a section of a large coal mine near here. , Twelve persons were admitted to the emergency room of Jeffer-son-Hlllman hospital hero. E. D. LeMay, public relations counsel for the mine operators, said a Negro was killed. His Iden tity was not known. Battered Battleship Nevada To Be Sunk by Task Force With Task Force Nineteen off Honolulu, July 30 ill' A power ful navy task force left Pearl Harbor today to sink the battered radioactive battleship USS Ne vada. Two world wars, two atomic bombs and four days of secret navy explosive tests couldn't put the Nevada away- but within 48 hours and maybe much sooner, the doughty old battleship, once the pride of the U. S. fleet, will be resting on the bottom of the ocean 2,000 fathoms down. This task force was formed especially to blast the Nevada. Fourteen ships, Including the super-battleship Iowa, til air planes and three submarines will toss practically every non-atomic weapon In the navy's arsenal at the old hulk. The Nevada already has taken a terrific pounding during secret explosive tests and navy conduct ed during the past four days 35 miles southwest of Oahu. A navy spokesman said the series of blasts caused "extensive damage" and the ship was taking water and beginning to list. State Forecast OREGON Fair today, to night and' Saturday with higher daytime tempera- tures. High temperatures 88 to 98. Low temperatures 48 to 58. No. 46 Depression Police Officer Named to Fill. Painter Vacancy John T. Trultt has been accept ed as a regular member of the city police force, according to joint announcement made today by City manager C. G. Relter and Police chief K. C. Gullck. Trultt fills a vacancy on the force which occurred two weeks ago when Fred Painter severed connections with the department after refus ing to submit a resignation. T,he new officer will go on the pay- .. roll August 2. Painter has turned In his equip ment, since his petition for rein statement was defeated by a three-to-two vote of the city com mission last Wednesday. He was dismissed from the force after, allegedly falling to prove accusa tions made again uuiick in a i point document signed by Dale Gibson, also a former member of the force, and himself. Vacation l'crlod Ends Appointment of a successor for Painter was not made earlier be cause Painter is technically on tie force until the end of the month, the police chief explained. He was entitled to a two-week vacation period, which ends this week end, he said. Trultt has resigned as heavy equipment operator for the bu reau of reclamation, and will as sume new duties Monday. For the past two years, he has been on call for special police duty on a part-time basis, in addition to nis regular job with the bureau of reclamation. He has assisted on a number of occasions with motor cycle work and patrol duty. Trultt's wife, the former Wan da Boardman, Is office secretary 1 In Ihe police department. Men Arraigned On Burglary Count Robert Harold Hodson, 31, Bell, flower, Calif., and Donald Frede rick Daniels, 27, Spokane, Wash., were arraigned In Justice court yesterday afternoon and charged wilh attempted burglary. They were given time to obtain legal counsel before entering their pleas. Ball was set at $1,000 each. The men are charged with attempting to burglarize a gas and oil house belonging to Elmer Prater, Camp Abbot. DANUBE MEET OPENS Belgrade July 30 IU1) The Dan ublan conference opened today, bringing the east and the west together at a major conference table for the first time since the council of foreign ministers broke up last December. But the Nevada was tougher than her sister ship, the USS New York, which quietly slipped to the bottom of the ocean earlier this month, after only eight hours of pounding by, light aerial bombs and gunfire. The Nevada stood up under the four days of tests, Just as she sur vived the Japanese bombing at Pearl Harbor and outlasted the two atomic bomb tests at Bikini. Hut she won't last long against Ihe power of this task force. Be sides the big 16-Inch guns on the Iowa, which will send salvo after salvo at the Nevada from a dis tance of up to 40,000 yards, the navy's air arm also has a supply of radar-guided "bat bombs" to hurl at the 32-year-old ship. Five patrol bombers, bat bombs cuddled under their wings, will at tack the Nevada. So will 36 U. S. air force P-47s, eight navy fight ers and 12 torpedo bombers. The three submarines have some new-type torpedoes to throw Into the hulk If she survives the air attack and the pounding from the Iowa and the cruisers Astoria, Springfield and Pasadena,
