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Uoiv. of OragoQ Library EUOSHS, ORSQQtl .; LEASED WIRE WORLD NEWS COVERAGE 'i Volume LIX To jo Expected To Be Executed Fnr War Part I VI I Ul I Vli I Decisions in Case Due In Next Few Days; Tale Of Infamy Is Presented Tokyo, Nov. 10 itl'i A web of proved war criminality tightened arounu ai icasi some 01 Japan ese warlords today when an 11 nation tribunal convicted Japan of conspiracy to wage war and labeled Pearl Harbor an unpro voked act of aggression. The international court struck the most telling blow of the five days of reading the 1,200-pago verdict in the trial of Hideki Tojo and his colleagues wnen It ruled that the prosecution had proved its charge or conspiracy. Divisions Expected The decisions in the .pases -of the" indivtauaueiemiants were ex nected this week or earlv next Sir William Webb, the chief Jus tice nau read more than boo pag es of the document which ended with the late of the wartime lead ers of Japan. Observers who had listened to the five -days of reading were wagering that Tojo would be sen tenced to death on the gallows, along with some other ardent mil itarists among the defendants. They figured the Japanese .tliplo mates would get off lighter. Trained for Blow The Japanese navy began train ing for Pearl Harbor in May, 1941, the tribunal decided. In the last days of the troubled peace in the Pacific, the Japanese gov ernment carried on peace talks in Washington as a cover for mili tary preparations generally and the blow at Pearl Harbor in par ticular. While the American and Jap anese diplomats could not agree, the court held, Japan wanted to avoid a tipoff on the impending attack and carried on under the Washington, headed by Saburo IKurusu. Fleet Sots Out Then on Nov. 26 the Japanese fleet set out for the Hawaiian is lands. At a conference Nov. 30. the Japanese leaders decided that the delivery of their final note to the United States should not be allowed to destroy the surprise element in the attack. And the next day, while the Washington negotiations went on, the military clique ruling Japan decided to open hostilities against the United States, Great Britain anil the Netherlands. Thus it was that Japan was guilty of ag ression against those countries, as well as France, the court held. Day Is Set The "day of infamy" that was Pearl Harbor Dec. 7 was set five days earlier by Japanese im perial headquarters, the tribunal reported. it found the United States and other allied powers "entirely jus tified" in imposing an embargo against Japan just before the out break of war. It rejected a de fense contention that Japan was forced to go to war by the imposi tion of the embargo. Bend to Be Quiet Day Nearly all business Dlaces and offices in the city will be closed ur Armistice day, according to the chamber of commerce office. Most merchants and othei-s were in general agreement on Lhe dosing, but a few may remain open, it was announced. Stale, county, federal and city offices will be closed for the day, along with banks. The post office WH be among the federal offices lo be closed for the day. The De schutes county library has also announced a closure for the holi day. Utile Activity Scheduled Little activity is scheduled for the (lay in Bend. The Veterans of f oreign Wars will hold their an nual veterans dinner and dance m the evening at the V. F. W. "all on Bond street. Several buses and a number of private vehicles will take football fans to Klam ath Falls for the annual grid classic between the Lava Bear and Pelican teams. A large number of sportsmen take advantage of the day otf by scheduling duck and goose "jnting excursions to Summer lake. Crane prairie, the uimer De scnutes and other hunting bounds. Continued fair weather as forecast for the day. NO PAPER TOMORROW Tomorrow, Armistice day, will "" observed by members of The Bulletin staff ns a hoijfiay and r'0 paper will be published. TO Forces of Israeli Launch New Blov Against Arabs at Border Egypt Formally Complains to Security Unit Against Jewish Attacks; May Lose Stronghold Tel Aviv, Nov. 10 !U.R) Israeli forces on the southern front opened a new assault today und overran Arab Rtrongholds all the way to the approaches to Egyptian-held Faluja, 32 miles south of Tel Aviv. Israeli officers expect Faluja, one of the last two big Arab bases in southern Palestine to capitulate within a few hours. Jewish forces ulready have cut off Faluja from all hope of Jaycee President Paul D. Bagwell, national presi dent of the junior chamber of commerce, will pay . an official visit to the Bend Jaycees tonight. Bagwell will be guest, of honor at a dinner-dance this evening at Elkhorn lodge at Camp Abbot. The national officer, who is a pro fessor at Michigan State college at Lansing, Mich., will speak to Jaycees on the "positive" ap proach to Americanism. Ouster Confronts Church Delegates Portland, Ore., Nov. 10 (IPl The Oregon Baptist annual state con vention today voted 212 to 173 against seating: a "conservative" group ousted at yesterday's open ing session. Portland, Ore., Nov. 10 ill') Delegates to the Oregon Baptist state convention were scheduled to take a second vote today on what to do with a so-called "con servative" element ousted from yesterday's opening session here. It was estimated tne conserva tives totaled 60 per cent of Ore gon's 91 Baptist congregations. . The fight arose when some 220 "conservative" delegates, previ ously disqualified by the state board of control of the Oregon Baptist convention, showed up to register along with 373 "quali fied" delegates. At the end of a bitter 3 '.4 -hour battle a two-thirds majority vote of qualified delegates could not be obtained so the conservatives were not alloted scats in the con vention. Group Dissatisfied The dispute originally came up when the conservative element in the church became dissatisfied with what it called "modernistic" and "liberal" activities of the par ent organization, the northern Baptist convention. Four years ago a group formed the conserva tive Baptist foreign mission so ciety and began sending out its own missionaries. The state Baptist convention's board of control some time ago passed a resolution that only those churches cooperating with the tenets of the northern Baptist convention would be admitted to the state convenion. Included in churches unseated by the action taken in Portland yesterday were the Bend and Prineville Baptist churches. Bend delegates attending the meeting include ' Dr. and Mrs. George Winshw, Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Rai nev Mr. and Mrs. Walter Nelson, Miss Dorothy Robertson and Rev. and Mrs. K. A. Tobias. Bushonq Speaker Before Rotarians Bend superintendent of schools innnc w Bushone told a lunch- eon meeting of the Rotary club today that there is "no better teaching stall to oc ioumu nv where, than we have in the Bend schools." "We feel that our feet are on the ground and that we know where we're going." he add ed. Bushong was introduced iu Rotarians and their gnosis Howard Nicholson. Bend high school hlstorv teacher. The meet ing was held in the coffee shop of the Pilot Butte inn. rinh ni-esident Carl Hoogner told members that the directors of the club had met and had not accepted the resignation oi Slaesvold as a director. Slapsvold ..inmH hie resignation at rie regular Rotary meeting last week. 1 nH 1 E BEND BEND, 'reinforcements by land.' The Egyptians arc fighting back with artillery fire. Should Faluja fall, the Egyptians would be left With Gaza, on the coast 19 miles southwest of Faluja, as their only remaining major base in the Negev area 'of southern Palestine. The new Israeli attack was launched as President Chaim Weizmann appealed to President Truman to back Irsael's plea that the United Nations order direct Arab-Jewish peace negotiations rather than merely an armistice. Complaint Voiced (Egypt formally complained to the security council against the Jewish attack on Iraq-Suweidan.) Welzmann's cabled request for reaffirmation of U. S. presidential policy "and its forthright asser tion" at the United Nations meet ing in Paris came as UN debate on Palestine neared the decisive stage. Big Tax Bill Paid By Telephone Firm Real and personal property tax es totaling more than $1,786,000, with the discount for prompt pay ment, are being paid by the Pa cific Telephone and Telegraph company this week in the 31 counties in Oregon in which the company operates. This total is $990,000 or 12 more than the company's total tax payment of $796,000 on its op erating property in Oregon in the pre-war year oi In Deschufes-cduiitv.- according to H.' C. Kerron, manager here, tne companys 1948-49 real and personal property tax is $37,094. with the discount for prompt pay ment, which compares with $11,. 161 in 1941. Pilot Butte Inn Sale Plan Changed Seattle. Nov. 10 Bill Corbett. of Seattle, said today that his plans to sell the Pilot Butte Inn, in Bend, Ore., had been changed and that the big hotel is not for sale at present. (Corbett had advertised the ho tel for sale in a Portland news paper the past week end and, on a visit to Bend Monday, said he was offering the business for sale and had several parties interested in it.) The hotel was purchased by Corbett last April from A. W. Gentner, of Portland. TO BROADCAST GAME The Klamath Falls-Bend foot ball game, to be played tomorrow afternoon on the Klamath Falls field, will be broadcast over sta tion KBND, it was announced to day. The play-by-play account, with Kessler Cannon announcing, will begin at 1:45 p. m.- FIRE NEARLY CHECKED Orange, Cal., Nov. 10 HP Southern California's worst for est fire of -the year was virtually under control today for the sec ond time since it broke out in the Santa Ana mountains six days ago. - , :- ' ' , ' ' To Play Final Grid Game in Lava Twelve plavers and two managers, all seniors, will see their final service In the blue and gold Lava Bear football uniform tomorrow afternoon at Klamath Falls. In the picture are; Back row Allen Waterman, manager, Roen Griffith, Bruce Longballa, Phil Gillis, Doug Hogland, Bob Lubke, John Odom and Eldon Bushnell, manager: front row Mack Malone, Ralph Sutton, Jack Symons, Don Denning, J. W. Rho ades and Doug Day. CENTRAL' OREGON'S DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1948 rarhi Bureau ion, Hears Address President Steen Speaker At Bend Convention ai ! Meetings Get Started p Disaster faces American "farnv ers if price supports fail to help them meet rising costs, Lowell Steen, president of the Oregbo Farm Bureau federation, warned today in an address before the opening session of the group's 17th annual convention. . .. , The convention got into full swing at the Pilot Butte inn this morning with nearly 300 delegates and members present from all parts of the slate. Following the opening gathering, the convention divided into commodity gitmp meetings which will take up most of today. Income Skids "The farmer's real income has skidded back to its 1942 level," Steen said, "while profits and wages have continued to rise." He rapped those metropolitan news papers which have said "parity prices are the villains of Infla tion." Steen cautioned the farmers gathered for their annual conven tion that "we face a greater bat tle to retain our program than we did first to secure it." "We have nothing to fear," he continued, "if the public is cor rectly informed, but the gains of farm people throughout the last 20 years may all be eliminated if we do not correct false propagan da and present the true picture to the American public. "Real Culprit" Spotted It is purchasing power, ex panded in relation to the supply of consumable goods, not price supports, that is "the real culpritt causing inflation," Steen declar ed, pointing out that prices of, many farm products are far abovei current support levels. . 'Inflation cannot be alleviated by (lowering .price supports,'!- ht said, "but can be remedied by greater production. But farmers will not and cannot be expected to continue record production un less they have some guarantee that future marketing disasters will be averted." The destruction of the farm support program would result in less production, Steen declared, and that in turn would mean high er food prices for the American public. Share Held Low "The farmer's share of the food dollar today is near the lowest in five years, while marketing prices are near their record high," he declared. Instead of talking about drop ping farm price supports. Steen suggested that a more construc tive approach would be to ronsid (Continued on page 5) ' Geologists Cancel Monthly Session Because this month's meeting falls on Armistice day, Deschutes (ieology club members are to skip their November session, it was an nounced today by C. G. Springer, president of the club. The next meeting will be on December 9, Thursday. If arrangements can be made, an outside speaker will be obtain ed for the December meeting. ROAD CONDITIONS NORMAL Salem, Ore., Nov. 10 Ul'iRoad conditions throughout Oregon were normal today except for a few spots of packed snow over Cascade passes, the highway commission reported. upensiess BU DAILY NEWSPAPER Head Farm Bureau Sessions . y v.v mwm Top officers of the Oregon Farm Bureau federation, now holding Its 17th annual convention In Bend, are Mrs. Lester Van Blokland, president of the Associated Women, and W. Lowell Steen, president of the state bureau. Mrs. Van Blokland, of Island City, and Steen, of Milton, held a brief conference yesterday afternoon to go over final details of the convention. Speech Contests To Be Held Here Toast masters from a district covering parts of two states will hold a district speech contest in Bend on April 9, with probably as many as 400 clubmen present, it was announced at last night's meeting of the local club at the Trailways coffee shop. A district conference of the clubmen will be held In connection with the Speech contest. Taking part In the dis trict finals will be eight speakers. Clarence Bush, , deputy district governor, will be in charge of lo cal arrangements fo the contest and conference. Drew In Charge Harry Drew, Jr., was toastmast- er at last night's meeting. Prin cipal speakers and their subjects were Dr. Bradford N. Pease, "Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius"; Bill Mark, "Printing Equipment"; Vance Coy iter, "A Deer Hunter's Yarn"; Don H. Peoples, "Signs of the J Imes , and Fred Paine, vo cal Variety." Critics were Dr. J M. McCarthy, Max Mlllsap, Claude cooK;-'amri - Harmon "ana 4ck Kerron. Ralph vv. Crawford serv ed as general speech evaluator and George Simervllle, timer. Guest speaker was Rev. George V. Bolster, pastor of Trinity Epis copal church. Bruno Rath was table topics chairman. Two Men Held In County Jail Andrew J. Remcsnik, 25, who was captured at Millican yester day morning by W. E. Melin, pro prietor of the Millican store, was recovering at the Deschutes coun ty Jail loday from the effects of cold and exposure in his four-day flight on the high desert from Hampton to Millican. An attending physician yester day found Remesnik's condition not serious and said it would not be necessary to keep him at the hospital. Also In the county jail Is Ben son Kuns, who was captured last Thursduy nij'ht near Hampton. Remcsnik escaped at that lime and was the object of a four-day manhunt. Hie men were in pos session oi a stolen car bearing a New Jersey license. Both are being questioned In connection with the robbery of, an Albany grocery last Tuesday. OFFICES TO CLOSE Salem, Ore., Nov. 10 HI'' State offices will be closed here tomor row because Armistice day is a state holiday. Bear Uniform Chest Group In Final Phase Of Campaign Bend volunteer solicitors work ing in behalf of the Community chest campaign have passed the halfway mark, it was reported at a meeting held last night at Trin ity Episcopal hall, with William M. Ball, head of the county chest group, presiding. This week end, the campaign will enter its final phases, With women to assist in soliciting con tributions in residential areas. The women have asked all home owners who have donated to the chest to place the red feather in their windows. Ball reported that throughout the county organizations are pre paring for the final phase of the campaign. Jack Halbrook is chest cam paign chairman. Pomona Grange Meeting Dated Members of Deschutes county's seven subordinate granges will meet Saturday for an all-day ses sion of Pomona grange, at the Pine Forest grange. The business meeting will start at 10 a. m., with new officers to be elected for two-year terms. Mrs. B. C. Allen, of Tutnalo, will preside as master. Potluek dinner will be served at noon, with members of visit ing granges to bring pies. The lecturer's program, to which the public Is Invited, will Riedel in charge! A film, provided by the American Cancer society, will be shown. Afterward there will be a question and answer period, with grangers taking part, using authentic cancer informa tion supplied by the national so ciety. Recognition exercises will be held for seven juvenile grangers who are being "gradualcd" into subordinate granges. A closed meeting will convene at 8 p. m., with the fifth degree to bo conferred. This will follow an intermission when BUpper will be served to those who remain for the entire day. Applicants Seek Managers Post Several informal applications have been made for the Bend city managership, Mayor T. D. Sexton said today, but so far none has been received in written form. Sexton said last week the man ager would be chosen from all available applicants after a thor ough study by the entire city commission. Until a permanent manager is chosen, Percy Drost will continue to act In that ca pacity. Nothing can be announced at this time on the naming of a new chief of police, Sexton said. At last Friday night's organiza tion meeting of the commission, it was announced that a chief had been selected, but that his name could not be announced. There has been no change in this situation, Sexton said today. In the meanwhile, tmil Moen is scrvln;: as chief. ICuniurs Spiked The mayor spiked rumors to the effect that one or more mem bers of the new commission had tendered their resignations. He said he did not know how these rumors had started and added there was absolutely no founda tion for them. There have been no changes In the city staff since the resigna ion of Chief Gulick and City manager Reiter, Sexton said. Nationalist and Red Troopers Reported Locked in Struggle For Hsuchow; Riots Spreading Red Forces Tighten Cordon Around City; but J ; .'.. Chinese Report Men Have Thrown Back Arfiiy; . ' Shops Are, Raided as Rice Price Skyrockets j 1 " Nanking, Nov. 10 'SUP.) Chinese army headquarters said today that a nightly curfew would be ordered in Nanking be-? ginning tonight because of widespread food riots and reports from the north said nationalist and communist troops were locked in a vital struggle for Hsuchow. i ' , - t ; It was reported reliably that a curfew also would be. in voked in Shanghai, where similar riots have occurred. 1 The struggle for Hsuchow, the strategic railway town guarding the approaches to Nanking, was underway 200 miles north of here. Government reports said three communist columns were tightening a cordon around the town : from the north while another column was driving south of the city. The government claimed its troops had thrown back commu nist assaults against Hsuchow from the west and east, inflicting 10,000 casualties. .. Food Shops Raided South of the battle areas, hun gry Chinese, In the face of an actue rice shortage and sky-rocketing prices, raided food shops to obtain staples. Police reported that at least 30 shops were picked clean by mobs consisting of rickshaw boys, pedl cab drivers and ordinary workers. The looting crowds, many ' of whom said they had not tasted rice for several days, averaged about 500 outside each shop. The rice shortage occurred be cause merchants refuse to sell ex cept at fabulous black market prices. ' Rlols Expected Police were taking precautions against further anticipated riots despite the return of 12,000 strik ing Shanghai, Nanking and Hang chow rail workers. The return of the workers -eaed the serious Mod shortage nV-Snanghai-Tnat led to widespread rioting there. The government railway admin istration granted the workers de mands for more rice and a 100 gold yuan wage increase. But tram and bus drivers have started a slowdown to press do mands they receive a guarantee of rice lor continuing to work Shanghai s Mayor K. C. . Wu, said an emergency food program had been worked out with the aid of economic cooperation admin istration director Roger D. Lap- ham. Chamber Adds 8 New Members The names of eight new mem bers of the Bend chamber of com merce were announced this morn ing as the Ten o'clock coffee club met at the Skyline Steak house and moved Its membership con test Into high gear. Winner of the contest will re ceive an expense-paid trip for two persons to the Rose bowl foot ball game at Pasadena on, Janu ary 1. Tlie now members announced this morning are: Sam Parrish, of Barbs fountain lunch, on Greenwood avenue; Harry Crampton, of the Lake and Divi sion Trading post; H. S. Bowden, of Bowden's Sclf-Service laundry; Julia Lelblein, manager of the Lelbleln hotel; John C. Layton, I'noenlx Mutual Life Insurance representative; Otto Lamb, Bend Furniture company; Tom Kuy kendahl, manager of Doug's serv ice station; and A. W. Nelson, Reid school principal. Latest Election Vote Tabulated ( ly llni(Hl I'mhb l The latest presidential popular vole as tabulated by the United Press, based on scattered and still incomplete returns from the na tion's thousands of precincts: Dewey 21.422.205 Truman 23.522,9(17 Wallace 1,120,(102 Thurmond 912,035 Thomas 2-1.854 Watson 1-1,558 Swan Killers Get Big Fine in Court Taft, Ore., Nov. 10 'Ui Port land hunters who s'i"t two of sev en giant swans n Silelz bay last week end wore fined $118 by Jus tic of the peace S. P. Steger. Slate policeman George S. Ut ley arrested Henry Edelen, Jr., Carl Munslnger, Isaak Pritchett and Homer Pritchett of Portland and said they killed the swans at close range with shotgun blasts. All four entered guilty pleas and paid individual fines of S100 and costs. State Forecast Oregon Partly cloudy to day and Thursday, except cloudy with scattered snow flurries in extreme east por tion today. Little change in temperature. No. 133 Old Age Pension Salem, Ore., Nov. 10 (U" .Attor ney General George Neuner said today that an official ruling by his office on the constitutionality of Oregon's new old age pension measure may be delayed until Fri day. "This is a pretty' ticklish sub ject, and we want to be very care ful," Neuner said. "Lots of eyes will be reading it." Neuner already has Issued an informal ruling declaring -.the measure, passed by the voters ui the' general election, declarmg-.it is "Incoipplete, inoperative! and not self-executing." Yesterday the board of control voted unanimously to ask Neuner to rule definitely! whether or not the new act is constitutional. AFL Conference Booked for Bend .-. Delegates from . the - several American Federation of Labor lumber district councils from the Oregon pine belt will be in Bend November 13 and 14 for meetings. Advance reservations indicate that there will be over 150 dele gates in attendance, according to Clarence E. Briggs, Central Ore gon District Council secretary. Three large pine councils will hold separate sessions on Novem ber 13, Briggs said. Central Ore gon, with headquarters in Bend, will meet in the A. F. of L. office; the Blue Mountain' council from Baker, will convene In the A. F. of L. hiring hall on Hill street, and the Klamath basin council, from Klamath Falls, will be in session in the Blue room at the Pi lot Butte Inn. Banquet Planned Saturday evening there will be a special banquet at the Pilot Butle Inn for all delegates and union members, with a floor show to be staged under the direction of Larry Carroll, International rep resentative of the local council. A joint session will be helil Sunday In the Blue room of the Inn. Guest speaker for this meeting will be Mrs. Dean Smith of the A mod- can Federation of Labor in Boise. General policies of of the Am erican Federation of Labor lum ber unions and councils for the Pine area will be discussed and adopted at these sessions. Expect ed to attend are representatives from northern California, Mon tana, Washington and Idaho. Local arrangements are being made by Briggs. 'Date With Judy' One Week Away With less than a week of re- hearal time left, the cast of "A Date With Judy" is devoting all its attention to smoothing up In dividual characterizations, and to speeding up the tempo of the play. Miss Grace Mary Linn, di rector, said today. Presentation of the play will be November 17 and IS. as student matinees, and November 19 at 8 p.m. to the adult audience. As usual, there will be an almost en tire double cast. Students participating In the olay are: Joan Tilden. Diane New land. Barbara Blakley, Nadine Pepin, Dolores Dyer, Rose Jack son, Paula Smith, Muriel Brooks, George Silkworth, Stanley Craw ford, Bill Nlskanen. Betty Anne Simervllle, Dorothy Corkett, Paul Rhoads. Keith Tucker, Jackie Ny strom, Nancy Forrest, Larry Sul livan. Clarence Newman. Mary Meagher and Roberta Freden hagen. Kenneth Ruth is stage manager. Barbara Mlze has charge of ticket sales, and Charleen Dahlin is pub licity manager. The Bend high school string orchestra, under the direction of Mrs. Howard Nichol son, will play from 7:50 to 8 p.m. 1 and between acts. Ruling Delayed
