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Volume LIX
U.S. Blazes
Into Lead in
'48 Olympics
Records Broken as
American Stars Score
Victories at London
London, July 31 IPThe Unit
ed States blazed Into the lead in
the race for unofficial team hon
ors in the Olympic games today,
winning all of the first four
cvonts completed.
The Yanks set two new Olynv
pic records and equalled a third
as they amassed 56 points.
Roy Cochran of Los Angeles
charged to victory in the 400-meter
low hurdles, setting a new rec
ord of 51.- seconds. Wally Ris of
Iowa university set a new mark
of 57.3 seconds in the 100-meter
free-style swim as he won that
championship.
Equals Record
Harrison Dillard of Baldwin
Wallace won the 100-meter dash
in a photo finish, equalling1 the
record of 10.3 seconds, and Bruce
Harlan of Ohio State won the
springboard diving title.
Nell van Vliet of Holland also
set a new record today when she
was timed at 2 minutes 57 seconds
in the women's 200-meter breast
stroke swim.
Dillard's victory was the most
thrilling. The Negro who failed
to qualified in the hurdles, his spe
cialty, finished so close to team
mate Barney Ewell of Lancaster,
Pa., that a photograph was neces
saryto determine the winner.
Given First Place
Before the official result was
announced, Ewell apparently
thought he won, for he leaped
about the track jubilantly. But
Dillard was given first place, and
Ewell second. Mel Patton of
southern California, who was fav
ored in the event, finished fifth.
Ewell had to finish with a tre
mendous burst of speed the last
40 yards. He was running fifth
when he opened up. Dillard broke
his stride once, and that was to
lunge at the tape as Ewell made
his supreme effort.
The 10.3 seconds time equalled
the record set by Ed Tolan at Los
Angeles in 1936. Jesse Owens did
10.2 in 1936 but it was not allowed
because of the wind.
Season Set for
Ducks and Geese
Washington, July 31 tP) The
interior department today an
nounced migratory waterfowl
hunting regulations for 1948 with
increased bag limits on ducks for
the Pacific and central states.
The regulations, signed by
President Truman, allow a bag
limit of five ducks a day and a
possession limit of 10 ducks a day
in the Pacific-central area.
The department offered Pacific
flyway states a choice of a con
tinuous season of 40 days or a
split season of two periods of 17
days each.
The department strengthened
its rules on the use of guns. A
hunter-must use a shotgun that
has to be disassembled in order
tO rPmilUo aanh nn.l ontn.
, ..u..,, pug, n,,u twivj-
Hiatie-loading or repeating shot
puns must w unl
D .oi uui jiuiu iiiuit? man
three shells.
Oregon: Ducks, geese, brant,
toot, Oct. 29-Nov. 14- and Dec. 23
Jan. 8; no rails and gallinules;
mourning or turtle doves Sept. 1
island band-tailed pigeons Sept.
"Bat Bombs" Disappointing
When Tried on
Honolulu, July 31 iui The
"avy's newest weapons, radar
Kuidcd bat bombs, proved "a dls
aPpolntment" when tried out on
the veteran battleship Nevada,
navy officers said today.
The bat bombs missed the 30,
OOOlon Nevada, survivor of two
World wars and two atom bomb
tests. The staunch old battleship
?lso survived fodr and one half
hours of shelling. She finally was
sunk by five torpedoes.
Mm. Dewltt C. Ramsay, Pacif
"Ned commander, said the hat
oombs failed to produce results
th V- y wpre rocketed against
, --nun iium lliivy pdiiui
wrs. The closest one missed
o.v BOO vrrls. he said. .
Hie NVvRffa a'n ntnod i" m-
NlHlqiln f . . I
J"' evniriVPS oondnrted for fnur
ci i onhu island. When she
fLZ" dnvvn waa a'ter a tre
pflou Jipmrnerinc bv U war
i"w "" 60 vvarPlnnes of tasV
r7?" ,asl tow was made up e-
ijjnich'was too radioactive from
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a new unit of The Dalles-California highway between Diamond lake junction and the upper Klamath
lake area will be opened to travel tomorrow. The section, 39 miles in length, will eliminate the present
Sun mountain route, provide a crossing of the divide 600 feet lower than the present pass and reduce
the distance between Bend and Klamath Falls six miles. The Spring creek hill unit of the new high-
way, 5.5 miles north of Chiloquin, is pictured here.
Taft Promises Effort Next
Week to Crack Filibuster
On Anti-Poll Tax Measure
Washington, July 31 'TCP) Sen. Robert A. Taft, R., O.,
promised today that an attempt would be made next week
to crack the southern democratic filibuster against the anti
poll tax bill.
The success of the proposed move depended on a reversal
of previous senate rulings. Southerners were confident that
there would be no reversal and that they would win their
fight to kill the bill.
Taft-wanted to dispose of the measure b mid-week to
clear the way for floor action'
on whatever anti-inflation bill
is approved by the senate
banking committee. He also
made it clear that the. anti-poll
tax Din win oe shelved if the fili
buster cannot be broken by the
time the anti-inflation bill as
ready.
Taft said yesterday that he hop
ed the extra session of congress
would be able to adjourn on Aug.
7 just one week from today.
Republican congressional lead
ers have rejected President Tru
man's demands for price, wage
and rationing control powers.
They have promised only legisla
tion to provide credit curbs, which
would curtail the volume of bank
loans and perhaps installment
buying.
In discussing his anti-filibuster
strategy, Taft told reporters that
a cloture petition to limit senate
debate would be filed sometime
next week. Under previous rul
ings of senate presiding officers,
a cloture or "gag rule" can apply
only to a "measure" and not to a
motion merely to take up the
measure in question.
Utilities Valued
At 41 2 Million
Salem, July 31 (Hi Full cash
value of public utility property
has been placed at $412,352,854,
"Last year the full cash value
was $379,571,270.
Full cash and assessed values
of utilities in the Central Oregon
ceunties are:
Crook. $592,732. $296,366; Des
chutes, $6,116,294, $2,446,517; Jef
ferson, $3,081,427, $2,157,006.
Battleship
the Bikini tests to be reduced to
scrap.
The Nevada's graveyard was in
13 800 feet of water at a point 66
miles southwest of Oahu. The
runs of a cargo ship opened up on
her at 4:04 P. M. EDT.
Destroyer escorts joined the
barrage with five-Inch guns. Air
force Thunderbolts raked her
with rockets, setting fires in the
superstructure.
The battleship Iowa onened up
from 12 miles away with 16-Inch
rifles, closing to six miles along
with rrulsers whose guns lolned
in One salvo from the Iowa's
rifles hit the Nevada broadside
brt she still floated.
Two bat bombs were fired dur
ing the earlv nart of the barraee.
One struck 600 vards off her bow
"rt te other 1 000 vards astern
The 'Inlshlnc blow was delivered
bv five perls' torpedoes.
I nev
orfnp'i her ''" and she sinK
,torn fit within a minute after
the last one hit.
Thn Iowa's 800 rMdsMorfen
stnnH 0' a'e"tlon a ma'-'ne rifle
"mad fired a "p Hrwal!m
Power petals were dropped ami
finally taps were sounded.
BEND,
J Highway 97 Ready for Use
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Old Timers to
Meet at Prineville
Joining in the Crook county
pioneers' reunion and picnic to
morrow in Prineville will be
scores of old time residents of
Central Oregon, including a con
siderable number from Bend and
vicinity, according to informa
tion from Dolly Hodges Fessler,
president of the Prineville group.
She has extended an invitation to
members of the Deschutes Pion
eers' association to attend the
meeting, which will be held in
Prinevllle's Pioneer park, with
the coronation of the queen, Jane
Demaris, set for 12:15 p.m.
Guest speaker at the afternoon
exercises will be Ormond R.
Bean, Portland. His topic will be
"The Oregon Centennial." Bean
will speak from the coronation
stand, in the Prineville park.
Due to a misinterpretation of
the program, The Bulletin was in
error yesterday in saying that
Mrs. Effa Calbreath, Prineville,
a member of the association, had
died this past year. It was her
husband Clarence Calbreath,
who died. Mrs. Calbreath will be
In charge of the group's memo
rial rites tomorrow, with Rev.
M. H. Skidmore to deliver the
prayer.
Two World Title
Bouts Promised
New York, July 31 HP The
boxing public was offered a
chance today to see two world
title bouts for the price of one
Sept. 23 at Brooklyn in a bold bid
by the Tournament of Cham
pions to wrest the fistic monop
oly away from 20th Century
Sporting club.
The bouts, slalod for Ebbets
field, home of the Brooklyn Dodg.
ers, called for uus Lesnevich ol
Cllffside, N. J., to meet Freddie
Mills of England, the current
light heavyweight king, while
middleweight champion Tony
Zale of Gary, Ind., defends his
title against Marcel Cerdan of
France.
Promoter Andy Nlederreiter
said it was expected the twin-bill
would draw about $1,000,000. He
based his prediction on a $50 top
which could be cut somewhat if
a capacity crowd of 55,000 could
be assumed.
20th Century, fightiang to re
main the top promoational outfit
in the country, has announced
i will stage a fight one nlghi
I previous at Yankee stadium. But
; fust who the principals would be
i was anybody's guess.
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CENTRAL OREGON'S
DESCHUTES COUNTY. OREGON. SATURDAY. JULY
Krupp Sentenced
To 12 Years for I
War
Nuernberg, July 31 tlPi Alfred
Krupp, head of the giant Krupp
munitions combine, was sentenc
ed to 12 years' imprisonment
and confiscation of all his prop
erty, after he was found guilty
today of plundering French and
Dutch war factories in the wake
of conquering nazi armies.
Five other Krupp executives
were -also found guilty on the
charges.
Four of the 12 Krupp execu
tives on trial were acquitted. Two
were not charged with plunder
ing. , All 12 face another judg
ment later today on charges of
using slave labor in Krupp
plants.
The 12 defendants were found
innocent last April 5 of plotting
to wage aggressive war. The
court found they had no advance
knowledge of nayi Invasion
plans.
Krupp, 41, had been sole own
er of the $175,000,000,000 muni
tions combine since 1931.
Others Convicted '
Others convicted of plundering
were:
Ewald Oskar Loesor, finance
and administrative head of the
Krupp works until 1943.
Erich Muller, designer of the
"Utstav gun" the biggest cannon
of world war II, which was used
in the siege of Stalingrad.
Friedrich Wilhelm Janssen, a
Krupp director.
Karl Ferdinand Eherhardt,
head of Krupp's war material and
machine sales department.
The tribunal, headed bv Judee
J. C. Anderson, Jackson, Tenn., '
lound Krupp and his five execu
tives guilty of setting entire
plants, even down to washroom
fixtures, in conquered Holland
and France. The plants were re
moved to Germany, the court
found.
"Many acts of plunder were
committed in the most manifest
direct way, through physical re
moval of machines and material,"
the court said.
FIRE EXTINGUISHED
A flue fire at the home of Ru-
dolph Brader, 412 East Kearney,
was extinguished bv the citv fire
department shortly after 7 p.m.
last nignt. No damage was re
ported. Impressions
of
Central Oregon Visitors
"Lovely country and lovely peo
ple" was the way Robert L. Shaw
of Denver, Colo., described his im
pression of Central Oregon.
Mr. and Mrs. Shaw were pass
In" through Bend for the first
time yesterday on a combined
business and pleasure trip. Shaw
travels for the Hilb Manufactur
ing company, in Denver.
"This country is very beautiful,
but I still wouldn't take anythinc
for Colorado," Mrs. Shaw said. "I
suppose It just depends where
your home is."
Shaw commented that Colora
do and Oregon were very similar.
"The mountains are alike, only we
have more of them," he said.
Mrs. Shaw remarked that Colo
rado had many little towns "about
the size of Bend and, In that re
spect, Oregon looks familiar."
Plundering
- BULLETIN
DAILY NEWSPAPER
More Officials Named as Top
Members in Soviet Spy Ring
Conferences
Held to Air
Berlin Crisis
Washington. July 31 tin The
state department said today that
representatives of the United
States, Britain and France have
called at the soviet foreign office
in Moscow regarding the Berlin
blockade.
Department press officer Mich
ael J. McDermott said the confer
ences were "a preliminary step"
on the next western strategy to
seek lifting of the soviet siege in
Berlin.
He would not disclose the na
ture of the diplomats' conversa
tions which were held last night.
He disclosed that American am
bassador Walter Bedell Smith
saw Valerian A. Zorin, deputy
soviet foreign minister, at 6 p.m.
French ambassador Yves Chataig
neau visited Zorin an hour later,
and two British representatives
called on him at 10. p.m.
Molotov on Vacation
The calls were made shortly
after the soviet foreign office had
informed the American embassy
that Soviet foreign minister V. M.
Molotov was "on vacation" and
not available for conferences with
the western representatives.
Molotov's absence and the con
ferences with Zorin may mean
that the western representatives
are seeking to discuss the Berlin
blockade directly with Soviet pre
mier Josef Stalin. ' "i --
Reliable informants' said such
an approach was being considered
by the three powers after the sov
iet foreign office reported that
Molotov "is on vacation.':
Watson Awarded
$5,315 Damages
After nearly five and one-half
hours of deliberation last night,
the jury found for the plaintiff,
Edward Watson, in his damage
suit against Pearl and Helen Wei-
gand. The jury awarded Watson
$5315.30 of the $35,000 damages
which he asked in the original
complaint.
In a special interrogatory, the
jury ruled that the work In which
Watson was engaged at the Wei
gand ranch was inherently dan
gerous. John L. Jones, foreman of the
jury, read the decision In circuit
court at about 10:30 last night.
The Jury went out at 5 p.m.
Members of the jury were Martha
Conklin, Mrs. I. L. Cram, Owen
Brown, Harry Hanklns, John
Massart, Mildred M. Kelley, J. A.
Dolphin, Mrs. Gale Blakely, A. D.
Lewis, Mrs. R. I. Hamby, Robert
J. Leader, and Jones.
Thrown from Home
The case, In which Watson ask
ed damages for injuries received
wnen he was thrown from a
horse while he was Weigand's
employe, was tried before Judge
uavm k. vandentwrg, of Klamath
Falls. Attorneys for the Dlaln-
tiff were Robrt H. Foley and H.
H. DeArmond, and for the de
fendant, George II. Brewster.
Veniremen, previously sum
moned, will return to court at 10
a.m. Monday. Circuit Judge R. S.
Hamilton will draw and Instruct
a new grand iurv at that time.
There will probably be no further
inai worn in this special session
of circuit court, according to
Judge Hamilton, and the Jurors
will be excused subject to call.
Other work on the circuit court
docket for Monday Includes the
entering of pleas by Ralph Lowell
Parker and Reginald Lionel Mor
gan. They were Indicted by th'
grand jury July 19 on a charge
of assault and roblxry while arm
ed with a dnnpcroiiH wennnn
They were arraigned earlier in
tne week and were given until
Monday to secure legal counsel.
American Jets
Fly Over Munich
Frankfurt. July 31 IP Sixteen
American Shooting Star let fight
ers flew over Munich at rooftop
level today In their first mission
since they reached Germany.
Thirty Thunderbolts flew with
the Jets over Munich and buzzed
the city.
31. 1948
Bend Chosen
As Site for
Timber Office
Portland, July 31 IPThe bu
reau of land management an
nounced today It will open forest
ry offices at Bend, Ore., and
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, for manage
ment, of Oregon, Washington and
Idaho public domain timber lands.
Northwest regional administra
tor W. H. Horning said the new
offices will .determine sustained
yield cutting practices on about
1,000,000 acres of public lands in
the three states.
Opening of the Bend office will
depend upon obtaining space for
five personnel, including a forest
er and two assistants. It probably
will be located In early August.
Kennetn BurKtioiuer, Portland,
will be in charge.
The Coeur d'Alene office will
open Aug. 13, the date for closure
of the district land office there,
Horning said. Marlon Nance,
Portland, will be transferred to
the office.
New Hungarian
President Is Red
. Budapest, July 31. IP) Hunga
ry's new president will be Deputy
premier Arpad Szakasits, former
leftwing social democrat and now
chairman of the communist-socialist
united workers party, a gov
ernment official said today.
President Zoltan Tlldy. a leader
of the smallholder party ..resigned
yesterday after his son-in-law,
Viktor Czomoky; 'was arrested on
charges of treason and espionage.
The government official said a
full-dress meeting of all parties
would be held tomorrow to make
the final decision on Tlldy's suc
cessor. But, he added, all parties
already have Indicated they will
accept Szakasits.
Election of Szakasits is expect
ed to be one of two moves plan
ned by the Hungarian communist
party to seize additional power as
a result of Tlldy's resignation.
The second move Is expected to
be seizure of the government's
agriculture ministry, a stronghold
of the smallholder party. The
smallholders still are champions
of private property rights.
Superforts Land
At Ceylon Base
Colombo. Ceylon, July 31 HB
Two of the three American super
fortresses which set out from
Tucson, Ariz., to circle the world
landed at Negombo airport from
Aden today.
The flight was Interrupted last
Tuesday when one of the three
giant planes crashed into the
sea off Aden while taking off In
a sandstorm.
Seventeen of the 18 men aboard
the plane were believed killed.
There was only on survivor. Six
bodies were found.
Elizabeth Bentley Describes
Her to Being One of Top Communist Agents
By Dorothy William
(Unltal I'rcu Staff CorrMimnctont)
Washington, July 31 nil What
makes a privileged, well-educated
American girl become a commun
ist agent?
Elizabeth Terrell Bentley says
that her firsthand experience
with Italian fascism made her "an
easy prey for communists."
Then, she continues, she fell In
love with an American citizen of
Russian birth, under his direc
tion she gathered valuable war
time secrets which were piped
"straight through" to the soviet.
The communist party s trust In
her Increased In 1941, before she
realized It, she was betraying her
country.
For three years the tall, blue
eyed girl with the darkening
blonde hair served Russia. The
man she loved the key commun
ist agent riled, but she went on
gleaning Information on codes, on
air strength, on scientific formu
las for the soviet.
She outlined her evolution from
a school girl "pink" to a hardened
foreign agent In testimony yester
day before a senate investigating
subcommittee.
She said It was not until the
summer of 1944 that she began
feeling disgusted and ashamed
about her spy work. She feared
for her own safoty. And, she said,
she wanted to go back to church
Former FDR Assistant One
Of Persons Mentioned to
Committee by Miss Bentley
Washington, July 31 'HE) Elizabeth T. Bentley, confessed
communist spy, today named former Assistant secretary of
the treasury Harry D. White as a member of an espionage
group that fed secret information to her during the war.
She also named Laughlin Currie, former administrative
assistant to President Roosevelt, as another who provided
information which she transmitted to the Russians.
Miss Bentley brought White's name into a hearing before
the house unAmerican activi- : : "
ties committee. She said he
was part of a group of govern
ment employes headed by Na
than Gregory Silvermaster,
who was "probably an agent of
NKVD," the Russian secret po
lice. The Silvermaster group, she
said, collected Information for
her. She made trips from New
York to Washington every two
weeks or so to pick up what they
had to offer.
Member of Ring
White headed the monetary re
search division of the treasury,
and was a member of the Silver
master group, she said. But she
added:
"I don't know whether Mr.
White was a card-carrying com
munist." Miss Bentley explained that she
collected information from two
separate terouos of government
empioyes.rl he other group, she
said, was Jieacicd oy victor r erio.
The committee said he had been
employed In the war production
board during the war.
When she got to Currle's name
In her testimony she stressed that
this man was not a communist
but one "who gave me informa
tion." Informed Almut Codo
Yesterday, the New England-
born former soviet espionage
agent told the senate investiga
tors that In 1944 a man on the
white house staff had Informed
her that this government had
about broken the soviet code."
Currle's name was brought into
the house hearing as Miss Bentley
named person after person as be
ing a communist or supplying in
formation to the esplonnge group
while employed by the federal
government.
Here are some others whom
Miss Bentley named ns having
supplied information:
Others Named
Harold Glasser, who was born
In Chicago In 1905 of Russian
born parents, schooled at the Uni
versity of Chicago and Harvard,
and whose first federal Job was
with works progress administra
tion In 1935. He later worked for
the agriculture, and treasury de
partments, the government of
Ecuador on loan by this nation,
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the church she hadn't attended In
15 years.
And then she began to see U.S.
communist leaders as nothing
more than "little, cheap men."
But, because she was obsessed
with the Idea that all Washington
government offices were Infested
with communists, she chose an
out-of-the-way place to tell her
story.
She went to the New Haven
office of the federal bureau of In
vestigation. Thut was In lute Au
gust, 1945. Yesterday she repeated
her confession before senate In
vestigators. Elizabeth Terrell Bentley -she
admits also using the names
"Mary," "Helen" and ".loan"
was born about 40 years ago In
New Mllford, Conn. When she
was seven she moved to N e w
York, then to Pennsylvania.
In 1930, she was graduated
from swank Vassar college where
she majored In English, became
casually Interested In socialism
and was "a very feeble member of
the league for Industrial democ
racy." Upon graduation she taught for
two years at Foxcroft, a fashion
able finishing school for girls at
Middleboro, Va. Then she return
ed to college, this time to Colum
bia university to earn a master's
degree In Italian.
State Forecast
OREGON Generally fair
and continued warm today,
tonight and tomorrow. Scat
tered thunder showers.
No. 47
Japan Threatened
By Mass Strike
To Protest Order
Tokyo, July 31 HP) The Japan
ese cabinet today issued an order
prohibiting government employes
from striking despite a warning
from labor leaders that they
would call a nationwide strike by
5,000,000 private and public work-.
ers if such action was taken.
The new "no strike" order Is ef
fective immediately and will re
main in force until permanent
legislation is passed by the diet to
amend the present national public
service law. It was issued as a
temporary measure to carry out
the suggestion contained in Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's July 22 let
ter to Premier Hltoshl Ashida.
Opposition Voiced
Issuance of the controversial
cabinet order created a tense sit
uation. Top labor leaders had
loudly voiced their opposition and
had announced they would obey
the decree only If It were enacted
Into law by elected representa
tives of the people In the national
diet.
Only a narrow technicality sep
arated their stand from direct re
bellion i against MacArthur's rule.
Observers were sure that allied
headquarters would support the
cabinet's order, with Its provis
ions for dealing with any public
employes who failed to observe It.
As It stands now, any person
violating today's cabinet order re
stricting public service workers
will In effect be violating an or
der from the supreme comman
der.
I.EAVKS VOH SESSION
Portlund, July 31 Ui Rep.
Lowell Stockman left yesterday
by train for Washington to attend
the special session of congress.
Stockman's family is at Cannon
lieach vacationing In a trailer pur
chased In the east.
Path That Led
She continued her study of
Italian at the University of Flor
ence, Italy, and she watched the
operations of Benito Mussolini's
blackshirts nt close range. Return
ing to this country in 1934, she
became Interested In communism
because of her "revulsion" nt fas
cism. A girl she once knew In the
fourth grade contributed to her
decision to become a communist
party member.
At first she figured on the
party "fringes." Then she joined
"pink picket lines, In demonstra
tions, helped In strikes and read
ing literature."
Before long, ljer more import
ant assignments made her "a
member at large" of the party
and caused her "to go under
ground" to conceal her commun
ist ties. As an "underground'1 op
erative she was answerable to
one communist Jacob Golos,
Russian born head of a soviet
tourist agency in New York.
That marked the beginning of
her serious spy work against her
native land.
She told her story in a cultured,
controlled voice. She even laugh
ed a little when she said she lost
her latest Job because of her re
cent publicity. But her voice was
scarcely audible when committee
counsel William Rogers asked her
If she loved Golos.
"Yes," she replied. "I did."