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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 22, 1948)
State Forecast Oregon Cloudy ' with snow tonight and Thursday, not so cold. Low tonight 12 to 22 degrees. . ,:..' LEASED WIRE WORLD . NEWS COVERAGE CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER 33rd Year TWO SECTIONS BEND. DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1948 Tojo and Other War Leaders Die on BEMB BUELETO . . : .. . . v- .. No. 15 .. Sutjamo Gallows Hazardous Flight Ended ByTwoB-17's Sunnyvale, Calif., Dec. 22 dl'i Two navy B-17 patrol bombers nursed "dangerously low" fuel supplies for 1,000 miles over the ocean today to make safe emer gency landings at the Moffitt field naval air station. Both planes landed'with only a few minutes gasoline left in their tanks, after it had been feared that they might be forced to "ditch" at sea. Each plane had five men aboard. Three rescue planes hovered be side the two navy bombers for the last 450 miles of their long overwater flight from Honolulu, prepared to drop life boats and rafts if they were unable to reach the California coast. Kadlot's Base The pilot of one of the flying fortresses had radioed the navy that he might crash-land in Half Moon bay, 25 miles south of San Francisco, but he managed to stretch his dwindling gasoline to reach Moffitt. Both planes had been bound for Alameda, Calif., 50 miles farther north. The.four-engined bombers were on a "routine training flight" from Honolulu. Their gasoline consumption was Increased by head winds. The navy at first reported only one plane in trouble. The pilot sent a weak distress signal which said he might be forced to "ditch." When two coast guard planes and an air force rescue plane reached their rendezvous off the coast at 10:49 a.m. PDT. however, it was discovered that two Dlanes were running low on gas. odmans Buv - Marley Hotel Purchase by Mr. and Mrs. Earl Rodman, Bend, of the Marley ho tel on Greenwood avenue, just east of Bond street, from Rixe Brothers of this, city was an nounced today, with the transac tion to be effective as of April 2, 1949. The Rixe Brothers realty firm purchased the building from C. W. Marley on Nov. 1, 1947. First-floor space in the hotel building provides quarters for the Cascade Auto Parts, operated by Robert Carlton and George Clapp, partners, and Freida's Flowers, operated by Ivan and Freida Pick ett. Mr. and Mrs. Rodman owned and operated a hotel in Walla Walla, Wash., and after selling the hotel operated the Summer ville ranch for three years, before .moving to Culver, where they op erated a 2300 acre wheat ranch for a number of years. Later, Rod man operated a truck line be tween Bend and Portland for eight years. Since that time, he has worked for the Brooks-Sean-Ion, Inc., in Bend. For the past two years, Rodman has served as chairman of the Deschutes county central republican committee. SHOPPING DAYS LEFT Police Hunting From Home of Grandparents in Harrisburg, Pa., Dec. 22 IJi State police across the nation were alerted today to be on the lookout for a young Tacoma, Wash., mother accused of kidnap ing her three-year-old daughter from the home of the child's Ei andparents here. District attorney Carl B. Shel by identified the woman wanted as Mrs. John M. Braget, 21. Shel ley said warrants were Issued last night for both Mrs. Braget anrl flute to Tacoma in a new con- lou tiblp. . Shelley said the missing child s Vickie Snyder, Mrs. Braget's Prineville Dedicates Memorial Hospital Site My1-'- ";rx : jO The site for Prineville Pioneer Memorial hospital was dedicated this tract where the hosDital is to be is Asa W, Battles, Crook county Judge. Pictured receiving the deed Pioneer Memorial hospital. Behind the public address system, with R. P. McRae, of Prineville. Bend Post Off iceWorkers Enter Final Stage of Big Christmas Rush; Peak Passed Bend post office workers entered the cleanup stage today as the volume of outgoing mail dropped to a trickle and in coming mail passed its peak. Two truckloads of Christmas mail were received this morning, compared with a peak of three and a half, loads earlier in the week. A further drop in incoming mail is expected tomorrow, : . - - - --" JFfirley-EUidtt, acting postmaster, reported today that the volume of Christmas mail received and dispatched through the Bend oltice may reach a new peacetime high. How ever, he added, the holiday mail was handled by the post office without any great diffi culty, primarily because pat rons apparently started mail ing packages, letters and cards earlier this year than usual. This early mailing eliminated office congestion that characterized for mer years. Members of the postoffice staff also noted that mail this year was wrapped and tied much better than in former years. Postal workers here were called on to re- wrap a minimum of packages re ceived from outside points in poor condition. A delivery of yule packages and perishables is planned for Christ mas day, Elliott announced. School Provides Rotary Program Rotarians were entertained at their regular weekly meeting at the Pilot Butte inn today by a sample of Bend's high school mu sical talent, consisting in two solo numbers and one by a boys quar tette. Oscar Hanson was in charge of the program, and Don - P. Pence, high school musical direc tor, introduced the performers. Kitty Moore, soprano, sang "Oh Holy Night", accompanied by Gary Jerome on the piano. The boys' quartette, consisting of Gene Kiel, George Freeman, Lar ry Standifer and Roland Benson, sang "God Rest Ye Merry Gen tlemen", following which Gene Kiel, accompanied by Diane New land on the pfcno, sang "I'll Be Home for ChrUlmas." Two club members. Hans Slags void and Hcd Richards, read let tors they had received from Ro tarians in Switzerland. for Child Kidnaped by Mother daughter by an earlier marriage, 'ihe little girl was legally adopt- e! by her paternal grandparents, the Harry W. Snyders, two years ago. The Snyders tearfully told Shelley yesterday that Mrs. Bra get wrote them recently from Ta coma for permission to see her daughter. They said Mrs. Braget and her husband appeared at the Snyder home Monday and asked to take the child for a ride in their new convertible coupe to visit relatives in the area. They never returned. A check at their relatives' homes nearby revealed they had packed their erected was Dresented to hosnital Babler's Bid Low For Highway Job Low bid for the reconstruction of the Rosedale section of The Dalles-California highway a short distance south of Crescent, in northern Klamath county, was submitted by Babler Bros, when proposals were received by the state highway commission in Portland yesterday. The bid was for $54,287. . , The reconstruction job will con sist of grading and surfacing an .87 mile section of the highway over a ridge, to eliminate several sharp curves that have been the scene of a number of accidents in the past year. On the new survey, the highway will cross the pumice-blanketed ridge in a deep cut, with material' from this cut to be spread out as an apron to the south. Locally, tne : kinK" in the high way is known as "Deadman curve," as the result of a traffic fatality a number of years ago. The curves, on the summit and southern slope of the ridge, are tne sharpest on the entire road between Bend and Klamath Falls. Location work was supervised by the Bend office of the state highway department, headed by W. E. Chandler as district en gineer. Jap Sentenced On Perjury Count Yokosuka, Japan, Dec. 22 tFi An American naval court today sentenced a member of the cen tral committee of the Japan com munist party to three months' imprisonment and fined him 40, 000 yen (about $100) for perjury to American authorities. Pennsylvania bags and left shortly before pick ing up Vickie. The Snyders waited in vain for the Bragets to bring Vickie home Monday evening in time for a Christmas party in her honor. They spent 24 sleepless hours be fore they asked police help. "This waiting Is almost worse than knowing she was dead," Mrs. Snyder said. "We don't know what's happening to her. How could this have happened during Christmas?" Mrs. Snyder said Vickie's fath er also has rrmarried and lives in California. week when a deed for a 12-acre officials Rehlnri tho mirrnnhnnB is J. F. Daggett, president of the only his head showing, is Mayor Dutch Forces Continue Advance Batavia, Dec. 22 IP The Dutch army reported tonight that Its tr.opps wer advancing unopposed In the Indonesian republic. The high command said Its forces had not established any contact with republican units which were continuing to with draw before the Dutch arrived. A communique reported that in central Java Dutch troops occu pied the rich Delanggu sugar area between Jogjakarta and Soera karta. Other sources said the re publicans blew up the main instal lations at Soerakarta before they withdrew. The communique said the Dutch occupied the air field at the Indonesian republic's Sumatra capital at Buklttinggl. The cap ture of the town Itself was report ed earlier today. ' The previous report also said a Dutch armored column had driv en into Jogjakarta to link up with paratroopers who captured the city Sunday. 5845,492 Tax Turnover Made A tax turnover totaling $845, 492.80 of the 1948-49 levy was made today by chief deputy tax collector. Mrs. Edna Ishum. Bulk of this turnover went to the coun ty school districts, which receiv ed, in all, $013,994.67. The city of Bend's portion was $122,205.70, Redmond's $21,709.97 and Sisters' $1,130.04. Apportionments among the vorl ous school districts was as fol lows: rural high school districts, $2(i,148.08; rural elementary dis tricts, $57,306.79; Redmond high school district, $70,099.80; Bend city schools, $387,966.61 : Redmond elementary schools, $72,470.39. The remaining $8G,4!2.!2 was apportioned among fire districts, water districts, building funds and other miscellaneous recipients of tax money. Mrs. Isham said that the tax collecting office issued 74!J re ceipts this year, 277 more than last year. She attributed this in crease to the fact that there are more items on the roll this year. as a result of new additions and more property divisions. Warming Fire Cause of Alarm A fire started to warm concrete on East 8th street last night, as the temperature dipped toward zero, was the cause of a general alarm sounded at 10:42. The alarm was turned in to the fire department when the blaze led residents of the neighborhood to believe that a house was on fire The run was listPd by the fire de partment as a false alarm. U. S. Asks UN For Cease Fire In Indonesia Paris, Dec. 22 HPi The United States asked the United Nations security council today to order a cease fire In Indonesia and a withdrawal of Dutch and Indone sian republican troops to the lines they held before the fighting started Sunday. Dr. Philip Jessup told the coun cil that the Dutch attack was un justified. He said the situation was dangerous, and might prove to be "a grave threat to interna tional peace." The council met In emergency session to consider the fighting in Indonesia. The Dutch defended their attack by pleading that they were ngnting a government se riously undermined by commun ism." Ask Withdrawal The United States, Colombia and Syria joined In presenting a resolution calling for the cease fire and the troop withdrawal to the old truce lines. "My government fails to find any Justification for the renewal of military operations in Indone sia," Jessup told' the council. "The council is obligated under the charter at this stage of its de liberations immediately to order a cessation of hostilities In Indo nesia and to require the armed forces of both parties immediate ly to withdraw to their own sides of the demilitarized zones which are delineated in detail in the truce agreement of Jan. 17, 1948." : The truce he mentioned was the Dutch-Indonesian agreement worked out aboard the U. S. war ship Renville under auspices 'of a UN commission of goad offices. He said tha Dutch government Informed the United States mem ber of the UN good offices mis sion that it intended to break the truce agreement only an hour be fore the attack began. Accident Fatal To Madras Man Redmond, Dec. 22 (Special) Arnold T. Larson, 40, of Madras, died here Monday evening as the result of injuries received in a railroad speeder accident between Gateway and South Junction on the Oregon Trunk line. Larson was found beside the tracks by other railroad workers. He had been thrown from the speeder when it hit a rock and had lain beside the tracks for an undetermined time before he was found and brought to the Medical Dental clinic here. Mr. Larson was born at Gate way September 12, 1908. He is survived by his wife, Audrey, and six children, Donald, James, Shirley, Jerry," Linda and Lynn. Also surviving are four brothers, Leonard, of Bend; Sidney, of Gateway; Enoch, of Fossil; Louis, of Kaskella, and three sisters, Mrs. Irene Duffy, Portland; Mrs. Bertha Henry, of Boise, and Mrs. Geda Shonwo, of Denver, and his mother, Mrs. Lars Larson, of Gateway. Funeral services are to be held Thursday at 10 a. m. from the Madras Baptist church with Rev. Frank Simmons officiating. Bur ial will be In the Odd Fellows cemetery at The Dalles. Zachcr mortuary, of Redmond, is in charge of arrangements. HIT BY CAB Injuries suffered by H. C. Bal lantyne, eaderly Bend resident, in a traffic accident here early this week are not considered serious, it was learned today. Ballantyne was walking across Bond street from the Trailways depot whe-i he was struck by a car driven by Charles Van Wilson, Bend. Ballan tyne was accidentally hit as Wil son turned the corner, driving south on Oregon from Green wood, police report. Report On Roads Salem, Dec. 22 UPC-TemiMira-tures dipped in the Cascades and eastern Oregon today causing haz ardous driving conditions. "The highway department snld below zero weather was recorded in many areas. Packed snow and ice covered all mountain highways. Seven inch es of snow was reported on the Sunset highway and eight inches on the Mist-Clatskanle road in the Coast range. Ice was reported on Willamette valley routes. Plane Fails On Alaskan Mercy Flight Anchorage,, Alaska, Dec. 22 (111 A 10th army' rescue squadron C-64 failed in an attempt to fly to the aid of an expectant moth er whose.plane was forced to land in high winds on a small frozen lake 100 miles east of here. Air force officials said the plane took off from Elmcndorf field but was forced to return be cause of heavy fog and strong winds as the temperature hover ed nearthe zero mark. No more rescue planes will be dispatched from Elmcndorf field until weather conditions improve, air force officials said. Santa Arrives For Two-Day Visit in Bend Santa Claus made his first offi cial appearance In downtown Bend shortly after 1 p.m. today, when he rode through the city In his 1948-model "sleigh," drawn by Mac, the Dean Hollinshead's golden palomino. Hollinshead was at the reins In the rubber-tired conveyance in which Santa rode. When the famous visitor reach ed the Jaycees' community Christmas tree on Oregon avenue off Wall street, he was greeted by scores ot youngsters already In line to confer with Santa about their special Christmas wants, and receive packages of candy which were prepared in Bend especially lor the occasion. ; . . - 'Answers Calls, tS;;".--This morning Santa was busy at the telephone in his temporary local oince, extending greetings to youngsters and assuring them that if they were good little girls and boys, he will remember them well, come Christmas eve. Requests for presents were va ried, and many of the children who called added a suggestion or two for presents "mom and pop" would like to find In their Christ mas stockings. As usual, girls voiced a preference for dolls and make-believe housekeeping equip ment, and boys, almost without exception, wanted guns or cowboy regalia. Many added that they could use a toy tractor or electric train in their operations, and sev eral girls, too, indicated that they nad a secret yearning to be loco motive engineers. Santa will be back at the tele phone again this evening from 5 to 8 p.m. Any youngster who wants to talk to him may do so simply by taking down Ihe re ceiver at home and asking for "Santa Claus." Thursday Santa will be available by telephone again from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. From 1 to 4 p.m. he will be at the tree.. Grangers E. E. Varco, Bend, who has served as secretary of the Deschutes county Pomona grange since its or ganization In 192.r). was honored at Monday night's meeting in Tumalo for his long service. He Is pictured here, center, receiving a p-tft from Fred S'hepard. 1 umalo. first master of the county Pomona. Watching is Herbert Keency, Culver, who organized the lirst giuni,e in Deschutes county in 1U24. Terse Announcement From MacArthur Headquarters Gives No Execution Details Tokyo, Dec. 23 (U.P) The path of Japanese conquest and destruction ended on the gallows of Sugamo prison today for former Premier Hideki Tojo and six other warlords. A terse 27-word announcement from Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur's headquarters revealed that the seven men were hanged" in the 25 minutes after midnight this (Thursday) morning. It gave no details of their deaths. "Between 0000 (midnight) and 0035 (12:115 a.m.) 23 De cember, 1948," the announcement said, "all seven of the war criminals that were condemn- ' ed by the international mili tary tribunal of the Far East were hanged." That was all. Twenty-seven words to record the final drama in a record of imperial ist conquest, rape, murder, torture and enslavement that dated back years before the Pearl Harbor attack whlth Tojo ordered on Dec. 7, 141. That attack plung ed the United States Into the sec ond world war, and led to Japan's final defeat. ' Priest Present The only details of the hang ings except for the official an nouncement came from a Budd hist priest, Nobukatsu Hanyama, who gave the last rites of their faith to the warlords. They went to their deaths at the hands of an unnamed Ameri can hangman "with minds as pure and cleansed of worldly cares as that of Buddha, the priest said. He added: . "They were utterly Indifferent toward religion while they were In power, but their attitudes re cently underwent 4 transforma tion.'' . ' ( Only a small growb of carefully selected military officials, all of whom were believed to have been sworn to absolute secrecy, wit nessed the execution within heavi ly guarded Sugamo prison. The executions toon place on four American-buijt gallows with in the prison walls. It was assum ed that tour men were hanged at once and another three later, in view of the shore time occupied by the hangings. It usually requires from 10 to 15 minutes for a condemned man to be declared dead after the trip is sprung, even though his neck is broken by the fall. netulls Withheld The army would not confirm the report, just as it refused any other details, but it was .believed that the executioner v;.i Lt. Charles Rexroad, of San Rafael, Cal. Rexroad left his Yokohama home early last evening, and told a guard he would not return un til 6 a.m. today. Rexroad has handled many Pa cific war crimes executions, in cluding the hanging of five Jap anese on Guam which were among the few executions news papermen have been permitted to witness in the Pacific. 1 Honor Pomona Secretary 1 V; ' f , r inmitririii-iiir.riftawuta Nationalists Begin Discussion Of Peace Plans Nanking, Dee. 22 (U'l The new nationalist cabinet of Premier Sun Fo will begin discussions al most Immediately on the question of whether to seek a negotiated peace with the Chinese commu nists. An affirmative decision is ex pected, high Chinese sources said, but the major question as to whether the communists now, in , view of their continuing military successes, would bo willing to ac cept anything less than virtual surrender complicates the Issue. Sun. Generalissimo Chiang Kai- shek, and other nationalist lead ers arc extremely anxious to make it appear to the communists that they cannot possibly hope to conquer all China militarily, it was said.- . srron.tr iirrorr. isxpacwa . It was expected, therefore, that an unusually strong nationalist fighting effort may be forthcom ing in the next few days on the approaches to Nanking. If com munist advances toward the north bank of the Yangtze could be halted, red leaders might be more willing to discuss what Sun calls "an honorable peace." This presumably would be a settle-, ment calling for a coalition gov ernment in which the communists would have no more than an equal share of power. : The Kuomlntang central polit ical council approved Sun's cab inet list today, and it was to be announced formally by President Chiang Kai-shek later. It will be Installed tomorrow, i . Chiang has agreed to let the cabinet decide the question of peace or war, and has indicated he will resign if it is decided, as is '. expected, to seek a peace by nego-', llation, an unimpeachable source said. . KK8UME WAGE TALKS San Francisco, Dec. 22 dWThe AFL Sailors Union of the Pacific and the Pacific American Ship- ; owners' association resumed wage negotiations today. J -A 1 & . ' ' ' M
