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Volume LIX
No. 96
TWO SECTIONS
BEND. DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1948
Armed
Russian
Gross
Sector
nto
roops
Union Head
Admits Being
.Communist
Washington, Sept. 16 AB Ben
Gold, president of the CIO Inter
national Fur workers union, said
today he is a member of the com
munist party.
Gold testified before a house la
bor subcommittee investigating
alleged communism in his union.
At first, he vigorously protest
ed a question asking him whether
he was a communist. Then he
waved his arms and said:
"In spite of my objections I
don't mind telling you I am a
member of the communist party
and have been for over a quarter
of a century."
But, Gold said, the communist
party does not dominate the fur
workers union. " .
Others Refuse
Previously two fur workers
vice presidents, Sam Mencher and
Sam Burt, refused to say whether
they were communists on
; grounds that the question violat-
ed their constitutional rights.
Rep. Wingate H. Lucas, D.,
Tex., asked Gold the question
about his communist party mem
bership. Gold replied:
"In every civilized country the
communist is a legal party. There
fore I think it is an infringement
, of democratic rights to inquire
: into my politcal beliefs.
"My political affiliations are a
matter -of public record. Every
one knows about it. I only pro
test the asking of the question."
Then he answered the question
.anyhow.
would' verena America
" Aslted-if he would bear' arms'
in defense of the United States,
Gold said he would "fight to the
death for the defense of Ameri-
; ca."
; "Would you do it against Rus
sia?" demanded Lucas.
"Why go to war," said Gold.
"We want peace. War is death to
our country. I object to bringing
Russia into a war discussion."
"Would you go to war against
Russia?" Lucas persisted.
: "I'd go to war against no na
. tion," Gold replied. "I hate war."
t Then Lucas asked what he
would do in the event war should
i be declared against France.
', "I'll bear no arms against any
s nation that war makers decide to
; attack," Gold answered. "When
' this country is attacked, I'll give
my life."
" "Would you bear arms in a war
against Great Britain?"
"If you attack any nation, I'll
resent It and fight against it,"
Gold replied.
; "But suppose the Russians
should attack us?"
I "Impossible!" exclaimed Gold.
x "Why should they attack. You
; Texans don't like Russia and you
forget the Russians- saved thous
ands of lives of American boys
during the war."
Miss Oregon
reaches Portland
Portland, Sept. 16 U Joyce
Davis of Redmond, Oregon's can
didate in the Atlantic City Miss
America contest, arrived home by
airliner today. She disappointed a
crowd of admirers last night
when she failed to arrive on sched
ule. She was a finalist In the east
ern event.
She and her party planned to
leave Immediately lor Keamona,
where Central Oreeontans are
planning a welcome for her this
afternoon.
OV Man Wins Bet as Three
Eskimo Women Reach Texas
Fort Worth, Tex., Sept. 16 Uli
Three young Eskimo women,
brought here on a bet made by a
Texas oil man, embarked today
on a tour of the Lone Star state
that will pay them at least $100
a day.
The Misses Two Big Front
Teeth, Ungachi and Nootekce
noun were travelling under their
American names, Lona B. Welch.
22, Molly Blatchford, 20, and Alice
Walker, 26.
They stepped from a plane last
night to be met by L. L. Home,
Dallas oilman. Home had bet
several cronies that he could pro
duce three' Eskimos In his home
state. The deadline was today.
Horne said he had won "in the
neighborhood of S20.000 on the
deal," but said he wouldn't have
exact figures until he gets It
counted.
Lew Leach, Jr., Home's private
pilot, located the women in Seat
V.FW.
i 9 If' it y
"Hollywood Glamor Gals" who are among members of the large east to take part in the V.F.W. home
talent show, "Fun for You," were photographed at the dress rehearsal last night. The show will be
preesnted tonight and Friday, at 8 p.m. in the high school gymnasium. From left to right In the pic
ture are Frank Filey, as Gypsy Rose Lee; Dick Morris, Gravel Gertie; Lew Wavelet, Marlene Deltrich;
Frank Gates, Mae West; Dick Rosley, Lana Turner, and J. Scott, Betty Grable.
Arrangements
Made for Loading
Of Army Cargoes
San Francisco, Sept. 16 tP
Striking CIO longshoremen came
up today with a new proposal for
loading army ships which they
said would permit immediate sail
ing of supply vessels for Pacific
bases and prevent the use of
troops to move army cargo.
The dock workers "respectfully
suggest" to Army secretary Ken
neth C. Royall that an independ
ent stevedoring company, Grif
fiths and Sprague, be given a con
tract to handle army cargoes dur
ing the five-union Pacific coast
maritime strike.
Union officials said they would
work for Griffiths and Sprague
at pre-strike pay "and we can as
sure you that work will commence
immediately and continue without
Interruption during the entire
strike period."
The new peace proposal came
less than 24 hours after Royall in
formed them the army "must and
will" move Its strike-bound essen
tial cargo overseas and will use
troops if necessary.
Longshoremen earlier had an
nounced the signing of a contract
with Griffiths and Sprague pro
viding for a 15 cent hourly wage
increase and continuation of the
much-disputed union hiring hall.
The stevedoring company prompt
ly offered officially to perform all
cargo operations on the coast for
the army, a job it also had during
the war. v
The union said It would not ask
the wage Increase on army work.
Army transport officers would
not comment.
CONVENTION OPENS
Astoria, Sept. 16 (IP Main bus
iness of the 30th annual state
American Legion convention
started today and delegates Were
to hear an address by National
commander James O'Neil.
tle. Details were lacking on how
ihev were transported tncre from
Alaska.
When the women steppea oui
, ,h nhnn Ihpv wore whisked
to a hotel in a refrigerated truck.
A chaperone tor inc women, mis.
Inrena Gray of Alaska, said the
warm Texas air was Just a little
too much i or ner. ,
it, raiftr ambition rieht
now is to get into a hotel and into
a tub 01 COICt WHIL-I, una. uia
said as she left the plane.
Home treated his guests to a
Mend chicken dinner last night.
His waHs left their hotel room
oniy once, to pose for publicity
photographs.
Then the millionaire and the
thr'-e won.cn bartnined over their
fnc for touring the state. They
settled for $100 a day, but Home
said he probably would pay them
more. Mrs. Gray was to get
5200 a day.
Members in"Glamour' Roles
UN Security Council Called
In Effort fo Halt India s
Invasion of Hyderabad State
, .Paris, Sept; 16 KU.B The TJtiited Nations security cotrncil
was summoned into emergency session in efforts to halt the
Indian invasion of Hyderabad before bloodshed spreads
tnrougnout the vast subcontinent.
The Hyderabad invasion is the fifth war the security coun
cil has been called upon to halt
second m India. Others were
and the northern Indian state
of Kashmir.
The major powers remained
silent on just how they hoped
to restore peace to Hyderabad,
but they appeared determined
to give the dispute a public airing
In an effort to head off even more
serious developments.
Predict More Hostilities
Dispatches from India have pre
dicted that Hindu-Moslem hostili
ties in Kashmir and Hyderabad
may flare into a state of open war
between the two dominions of
Moslem Pakistan and Hindu In
dia. Latest reports from Karachi,
capital of Pakistan, said the Pai
stan cabinet discussed the Hydera
bad invasion at a lengthy cabinet
meeting and that an important an
nouncement was expected within
two or three days.
Advance reports said the Indian
delegation to the United Nations
will attempt to prevent the secur
ity council from even taking the
Hyderabad Invasion under consid
eration. Informed quarters said that In
dia will argue that Hyderabad is
not a sovereign state and has no
legal right to appeal to the United
Nations.
India stressed In announcing
the invasion that It was merely a
"police action" to restore order
within the princely state of the
fabulously wealthy Nizam of Hy
derabad. Ochoco Highway
Portland, Sept. 16 (III The pub
lic roads administration said to
day that bids will be opened here
September 30 on an 8.8 mile sec
tion of the Ochoco highway east
of Prineville.
Division engineer W. H. Lynch
said the work would be continu
ation of a new route started be
fore the war across the Ochoco
mountains. More than 200,000 cu
bic yards of earth will be moved
under the contract, he said.
LAND ON HIGHWAY
Helena, Mont., Sept. 16 Uli
Two fliers escaped Injury early
today when they crash landed
their four-place Stinson on the
winding Helena Missoula moun
tain highway, near six-thousand-foot
McDonald pass. Pilot Andy
Johnston and passenger Jack
Marlow, both of Helena, said the
plane's motor conked out 20 min
utes after they took off for Kails
pell, Mont., about 4 a.m. (PMT)
this morning.
in its brief existence, and the
in Greece, Indonesia, Palestine
V.F.W. Show
Opens Tonight
Members of the audience, as
well as a large cast of local peo
ple, will particiapte in the V.F.W.
show, "Fun for You," to be pre
sented tonight and tomorrow
night on the stage of the high
school gymnasium. "We want all
the ladies to wear their craziest
hats," Gladys Lasslter, director,
said tdHay. Tom Mark, as Tom
Brenneman, of radio note, will
award prizes for the most fantas
tic chapeaux, and will honor the
oldest guest in the audience.
The show is an impersonation
of radio, stage and screen person
alities, who' put on a continuous
broadcast. "Dr. IQ" and "Grand
Old Opry" are among radio pro
grams included.
Ochoco Blazes
Under Control
Grass fires that blackened some
7,000 acres and menaced pine
lands in the Snow mountain area
of the Ochoco national forest
were reported undor control to
day as weather conditions gen
erally Improved, following a pe
riod of low humidity and erratic
winds. According to Information
from the Ochoco nationnl forest
office in Prineville today, crews
were being withdrawn from fire
lines in two areas.
In the Silver creek valley of
the Snow mountain district, a
grass fire raced over 5,000 acres.
This fire was reported under con
trol this morning, with little 1 Un
der damaged. Sixty men were on
this fire. In the Association cor
ral area, also southeast of the
main body of Ochoco timber, 2,000
acres of grasslands were burned
over. Twenty-eight men were on
this fire. Causes of the blazes
have not been determined.
As the fires neared the Ochoco
timber, crewmen In charge of the
three-forest fire cache In Bend
were alerted and equipment was
In readiness for the run to Silver
crpek, If needed. However, the
change In the weather made It
unnecessary to call on the cache
for equipment.
At its start, the Silver creek
fire advanced on a mile front, be
fore a Btiff wind. Ochoco nation
al forest protective crews were
alerted as the blaze swept toward
the timber.
Vote Planned
On Police
Civil Service
. A city charier amendment to
permit an ordinance establishing
a civil service system for the po
lite department will be voted up
on by the people of Bend at the
November 2 general election, it
was decided at the commission
meeting last night. '
The commission gave unani
mous approval to a resolution
providing for a vote on amend
ing the charter by adding a sec
tion providing that the commis
sion "may by ordinance provide
for extension of the civil service
system to apply to the police de
partment." Earlier in the meeting, upon a
motion by George F. Freeman,
the commission voted tq rescind
its July resolution that no further
discharges be made from the po
lice force without notification to
the commission. Freeman said he
was asking that the July motion
be rescinded because it conflicted
with charter provisions that give
the city manager employment
powers in tne police department.
" Roll Call Vote
A roll call vote was taken on
Freeman's motion with Mayor
Hans Slagsvold, Carl B. Hoogner,
Hugh Simpson, Clyde Hauck and
Freeman voting to rescind. W. J.
Baer and T. D. Sexton voted
against rescinding.
After the vote was taken Baer
charged that Freeman had some
motive in asking for the rescind
ing action and. said thalt discharge
oi more orrieers was oemg plan-
nea. .
The city manager was asked to
investigate the possibility of plac
ing pai-King meters on the city
owned parking lot on Bond street
Detween Minnesota and Oregon
avenues. Use of two-hour meters
was suggested.
Ask Ball Park Protection
Increased police protection and
a full-time caretaker for the mu
nicipal baseball park was request
ed by N. D. Goodrich, appearing
on behalf of the Elks lodge. Good
rich and Clair Fuller, members of
.the Elks baseball committee, said
baseball equipment stored at the
field had been damaged by van
dals recently. The commission
asked that more frequent police
patrols be made and that an ef
fort be made to find some resi
dent in the area who would watch
over the park.
Downtown traffic problems
were discussed and City manager
Reiter was asked to schedule a
conference with stato highway de
partment traffic engineers. It was
suggested by Baer and Harry
Drew, Jr., that some of the high
way 97 through traffic be routed
on Bond street to lighten conges
tion of Wall street. Prohibiting
of left hand turns from Oregon
and Minnesota avenues onto Wall
street was also mentioned.
Deny Requests
The commission denied a re
quest that taxi firms be allowed
to use fire hydrant parking spac
es. Fire chief LeRoy Fox said he
had conferred with the Oregon
fire rating bureau on this matter
and was advised that use of fire
hydrant spaces for parking would
result in a fire insurance rate
penalty to Bend.
Proposals for engineering work
on the Awbrey butte and Pilot
butte water reservoirs were re
ceived from Stephen and Koon,
and Cunningham and associates.
Stephen and Koon offered to plan
the reservoirs for five per cent of
the cost estimate of $283,000 for
Awbrey butte and $50,000 for
Pilot butte, plus two per cent of
additional cost over the estimates.
Cunningham offered to do the
work for 4 per cent of the ac
tual construction cost of the res
ervoirs and three per cent of the
cost of the line to feed the Aw
brey reservoir.
The offers were referred to the
city manager and water sueiiii
tendent for further study.
All commissioners were pres
ent at the meeting.
Building Addition
Contract Given
Salem, Sept. 16 'III The state
highway commission announced
today that Archie R. Averlll, Port
Innd, has been awarded the con
tract for construction of an addi
tion to the division state highway
department building at Bend.
Avcrill's bid was $8,268. The
bid was one of a group opened
by the commission In Portland
September 12 and 13.
Reds Charge
Mac Arthur
With Violation
Washington. Sept. 16 HP) So
viet ambassador Alexander S.
Panyushkin today charged Gen.
Douglas Mac Arthur with "gross
violation" of International agree
ments in demanding, a ban
against strikes by Japanese gov
ernment workers.
In an unusual statement. Pan
yushkin said MacArthur's no
strike order violated the Potsdam
declaration as well as various
policy decisions reached here' by
the 11-nation far eastern commis
sion, -
The soviet envoy made the
charges In his capacity as soviet
representative on the far eastern
commission. .
Panyushkin said "the soviet
delegation considers that the far
eastern commission cannot by
pass sucn a gross violation by
the supreme commander" of the
Potsdam declaration and the com
mission's policy decisions.
Fall Opening
Event Is Slated
For Sept. 23
' Bend's 1948 fall opening and au-
tnmfthlla c Vl nil. haxta Kaan on.
Thursday, September 23, Pat
iaajuuau, i-uturinttn, announcea
today, as details of the evening's
luugiaui were uumpieiea.
. Windows will be judged at eve
ning at 5 o'clock, and the down
town program will start at 7 p.m.
In connection with the opening,
Bend high school students are to
iom-in a rally, on the eve. of their
home game with Corvallls. Tak
ing part in the rally and program
Will he the Rpnri htcrh enhn,1 haiA
On display In store windows
will be the newest in autumn mer
chandise with some stores plan
ning to use live models.
Tlflfpta anA nlatni-rlo umnn knlM
distributed today by Kenneth
Cruickshank and George Prince.
HpnrKniT nlnno fn-'thn' tlstu...-
town automobile show are Wil
liam Hand and Bob Thomas. Bob
Wetle will be In charge of enter
tainment, and Kenneth Longballa,
Bruno Rath and Norman Part
ridge will make arrangements for
judges and awards.' .
Improved Air
Service Planned
Central Oregon is to receive Im
proved air service on September
26 as a result of United Air lines
schedule changes, J. C. Sedell, sta
tion manager In Bend, announced
today. United Air lines operations
are from the Redmond airport.
ine nonnoound flight win de
part from Redmond at 12:50 p.m.,
and will arrive in Portland at 2
p.m. and Seattle at 3:15 p.m., Se
dell said. The southbound flight
will depart at 6:25 p.m., and will
reach San Francisco at 10:45 p.m.
and Los Angeles at 1:45 a.m.
"For the first time. Bend will
have through service from Los
Angeles to Seattle on both flights
opertaing through here," Sedell
said. "Air mail, air express and
air freight will be expedited much
faster, and It will even be possible
for people with a short appoint
ment In Portland to fly there and
back the same day."
Bancroft Hotel Property Sold by Frank May
To Earl R. Ewing; Modern Structure Planned
Purchase of the Bancroft hotel,
on Bond near the Franklin street
corner, and plans for the construc
tion In the next few years of a
modern three story hotel on the
site were announced here today
by Earl R. Ewing. The property
was purchased from Mr. and Mrs.
Krank H. May and, twine report
ed, the sale was effective as of
September .1. News of the trans
action, one of the largest in down
town Bend this year, became pub
lic with the filing of an assumed
business name yesterday.
Ewing said that plans for the
development of the property In
clude the erection eventually of a
three-story building that win
reach 110 feet back to the alley
between Bond and Wall, with a
frontage of 54 feet on Tend. Thp
new owner of the Bancroft Is a
comparatively new arrival In
Bend, having come here, with his
family, from Topeka, Kansas, a
year ago last June. "We decided
to make Bend our home because
Raiders in
Driven
Try to
Back Into Red Zone;
Kidnap German Police
Berlin, Sept. 16 '(EE) More than a score of armed Russian
troops sallied across the border into the American sector of
Berlin at a number of points today, threatening U. S. military
police with light machine guns in some of the incidents.
The Russian bands stabbing into American territory ap
parently were out to kidnap German police of the force serv
ing the western sectors, authorities reported. .' t
The soviet raiders in jeeps and trucks were driven back over
the border bv American mili- .
tary police patrols.
Officials reported that one
invading Russian jammed a
sub-machine gun in the stom
ach of Pvt. David Ruffner,
21, Cleveland, Ohio. Others
threatened U. S. military po.
lice. i . . -.
The most serious of at least
three incidents which occurred
about the same time was in the
Schleslcherstrasse on the eastern
edge of the American sector.
Chase Car of Russians
Ruffner and Pvt. Richard C.
Alverson of Huntsville, Ala., were
chasing a car in which two Rus
sians were speeding through the
American sector. They encounter
ed a truck and three jeeps loaded
with Russians who were armed.
The truck, containing 10 fully
armed soviet soldiers, was halted
in front of a precinct police sta
tion,' and the two jeeps were
nearby. -
The speeding car Ruffner and
Alverson had been pursuing raced
on Into the soviet sector, . 1
' Ruffner said he lumped out and
asked the - Russians .what they
were "going in th ATneTleatrsec;
tor.
"One of the Russians jammed a
sub-machine gun in my gut,"
Ruffner said. "I got mad and shov
ed it away and turned my own
tommy-gun toward mm."
, Russians Drive Away
At this point other American
military police reached the scene,
and the Russians hurriedly drove
away into their own sector. ,
German police said "at least one
jeep load" of Russians entered the
American sector near the Anhal
ter station, which is near the sec
tor boundary just south of Pots
darner platz, scene of frequent
east-west friction.
. An American patrol was sent to
the area and the Russians re
treated. The third Ruslan stab across the
border occurred In the Llchten
raderstrasse on the far southern
edge of the American sector. Ger
man police said the Russians re
turned to their own sector when
an American military police pa
trol appeared.
Other reports of unrest In the
soviet area said German youths
stoned police in the Russian sec
tor of Berlin, and that anti-communist
German political leaders
were fleeing from eastern Ger
many to escape a purge. .
American sources reported that
at least 125 German political chief
tains from the soviet occupation
zone had asked sanctuary from a
Russian campaign to wipe out dis
sident elements in the east.
Soviet controlled newspapers
admitted a new flareup of violence
In the Russian sector of blockad
ed Berlin. They played down the
incident, but its significance was
the more Impressive because It
came a few days after an anti
communist demonstration of 300,-
000 Berllners.
we liked the cool nights," Ewing
declared. Mr. and Mrs. Ewlng's
son, John E. Ewing, air corps vet'
cran of world war II who was sta
tloned on Luzon, is operator of the
Ewing Real Estate Co., with offices
In the Bancroft. The Ewlngs have
two other children, Mrs. George
snow, a member of the Ewing real
estate staff, and Donald, Bend
high school junior.
The Bancroft hotel has 19 rooms
and a three-room apartment. Mod
ernization work Is planned for the
Immediate future.
Mr. and Mrs. May, old-time resi
dents of Bend, have purchased an
acreage at Sycamore, about nine
miles from the center of Portland
and three miles from Lents. May
Is a pioneer of Bend, having ar
rived hereon March 27, 1904, from
Illinois, via Spokane, Wash, He
worked with the Deschutes Irriga
tion and Power Co. as an engineer
In the early days of Irrigation de
velopment In the upper Deschutes
valley. L. D. Wiest was In charge
Jeeps and Trucks ;
Crew Rescued
From Freighter ;
In Hurricane Area'
New York, Sept. 16 IP A Brit- r
Ish freighter was abandoned to-.-day
after it was battered by an "A
Atlantic hurricane,' and the coast
guard announced that 38 crew
members were rescued. t
Several crewmen apparently
were lost in the churning seas
whipped by winds of 70 miles an
hour.. : .','-, ' ;
The abandoned ship was the
S.S. Leicester, a 7,266-ton freight-'
er, which was caught In the storm
400 miles south of Newfoundland.
The coast guard headquarters
In New York reported that the
master of the S.S. Cecil Bean re
ported by radio that his vessel
picked up 20 survivors and the
Argentine steamer Troperq res-,--. -cued
18 more. - .;
The coast guard report would"'
Indicate that seven men perished
In the sea disaster as the English
operators of the Leicester had re
ported from London that the ship
had a crew of 45. The Roval
Canadian air force reported from
Halifax, N.S., however, that four
died In the storm.' , .: j ;
' Another ship, the Portuguese
freighter Caspar, also was . in
trouble in the same heavy seas.
and the crew was preparing to
abandon ship. A U. S. coast guard
cutter was standing by to take on
the Caspar's crew. ..,
Bids for the sealing of a 210O.
foot section of the main canal-of
tne North unit project, at the in
take near the north city limits of
Bend, were opened this morning
t the local office of the United
States bureau of reclamation, with
two firms submitting proposals.
The low bid was submitted bv
the American Gunlte Co., of Salt
Lake City, Utah, and was for $21,
012. The other bid, $22,990, was
submitted by the Penucrete Inc.,
of Boise, Ida. The bids will be sent
to the regional office of the bu
reau in Boise for action.
The work call for the pneumatic
application of mortar, In sealing
the intake section of the canal,
now lined with rocks. The mortar
will be "shot" Into the spaces be
tween the rocks.
According to plans, the sealing
work will get under way about
October 5, when Intake gates Will
be closed.
of that pioneer survey. Later, C.
M. Redfield took over. May recalls
that his first work with the DXP.
Co. consisted of a topographic sur
vey of lands proposed lor Irriga
tion. It was In 1910 that May erected
the building known here for years
as the May apartments. These
apartments are the present Ban
croft hotel. In 1922, May married
Leota Coyner. Mr. and Mrs. May
have three children, Mary Ellen
Washbume, Redmond; Elizabeth
Fries, Portland, and Martha May,
student nurse at the University of
Oregon medical school, Portland.
May purchased the lot on which
he later erected the structure that .
Is now the Bancroft hotel In 1904.
May Is a - former Deschutes
county roadmaster, holding that
position about 25 years ago, when
the county's extensive market
road program was launched. In
more recent years, May operated
a turkey ranch In the Tumalo
community.
Bids Received
For Sealing Canal