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Univ. of Oragon Library eussas, orsqon THE BEND BULLET Stafe Forecast OREGON Portly cloudy to. night and clear to partly cloudy Wednesday with few snow flurries persisting over mountainous portions. Cold er; zero to 10 above tonieht. LEASED WIRE WORLD NEWS COVERAGE CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER m 33rd Year Hot Campaign Set by GOP; Slogan Picked Party Aim Is to Inform Public of Republican Activities in Congress i Washington, Feb. 1 dl'i -House republicans arc planning their own "give 'em hell" campaign aimed at selling the GOP record In congress to the voters, it was learned today. They said It will bo the biggest nubile relations and vote-inviting 'rive in the history of congress. House GOP leader Joseph W. Martin, Jr., denied that the idea stems directly from President Truman's "give 'em hell" election campaign in which he ripped Into the record of the republican 80th congress. But Martin admitted the president's campaign tactics did give impetus to the plan. Plan to Inform He said the campaign is design ed to let the people know what the republican congressmen are doing. To do that job, he said, he'll appoint a committee and hire a well-paid staff. In the opinion of Martin and some other leading republicans on capitol hill, Mr. Truman's sharp criticism of the 80th con gress was never adequately an swered in the last campaign." Mar tin emphasized that he was not criticizing Gov. Thomas E. Dew ey, the GOP presidential nominee, or anyone else. But he said he doesn't intend to let the same thing happen again in 1950. I'lun Okayed Martin got an okay from a con ference of all house republicans last week for the public relations project. He is to choose a public ity committee, of which he will be an exoflioio member, to car ry the republican message to the people. Other congressional develop ments: No ballyhoo The house un Imerican activities committee, Iftich has made a lot of head- 'ies, promises it won't go in for (hat in 19-19. More business and less ballyhoo will be the theme, committee members indicated. They'll bar Klieg lights, flash bulbs and radio broadcasts at their hearings. Only newspaper reporters will be allowed. Patronage Rep. Howard H. Rees, R., Kans., charged that gov ernment officials have developed a patronage scheme which ig nores civil service and discrim inates against veterans. Controls The senate has voted a seven-month extension of the voluntary system of allocating scarce materials, notably steel. Labor A dispute within the administration over what should be done with the federal concilia tion service was to get a public ailing in congress. Club Entertains 'Go West' Cast Members of the cast of "Go West," home talent show pi-o-sonted here last week under au spices of the Lions club, were guests of the clubmen today at a luncheon in the Pine tavern. Lions and guests filled the dining room to overflowing. , The meeting was given over to introductions, and a report on the show. It was announced that the hflrcoeds were, sufficient to meet club's nledL'C of S500 to the Memorial hospital, with some left over for charity work in the com munity. C. J. Morgan, who was in ''barge for the Lions in presenting die play, expressed the club's thanks to the local talent that participated on the two nights. A. C. Goodrich, club president, pre sided at the meeting and intro duce! the Lions. Don Pence led tile i :ioup in singing. Marion Cady announced that 'be Lions' Sweetheart party, an annual affair, has been tentative ly set for February 1(5. Homes Damaged In Mine Cave-In Carbondale, Pa.. Fob. 1 dl A mine cave-in caused a surface sub sidence in Carbondale today anc '1st reports said that about 1? homes were damaged. . Police said the cave-in occurred in a Hudson Coal company mint below the surface of Kane street Three persons were said tc nave been injured. Police said the subsidence eov eii'd a whole citv block. Some V "ts of the affected area dropped "'! than 20 feet, they said. '"Urteon homes were reported r,aj-ed when the area collapsed ? to a mine cave-in under Jund. Public Airing For Labor Bill Now Promised Washington, Feb. 1 Ul'i-Con-gress was promised a public air ing today of a dispute within the administration over President Truman's labor Mil I 1 he conflict involves the status I of the U. S. conciliation service: Whether it should remain inde pendent as provided In the Taft Hartley law, or be returned to the labor department as the ad ministration bill proposes. Conciliation director Cyrus S. Ching, invited n testify before the senate labor committee today, wants the service to remain in dependent. Secretary of labor Maurice J. Tobin, who appeared yesterday, wants it in the labor department. Chairman Paul M. Herzog of the national labor relations board also was scheduled to testify to day. , According to his associates, Chine hnti thi-pnfnniwl tn rntiim if the agency goes back to the labor department. The committee turned to the conciliation dispute while the ad ministration's plan for dealing with national emergency strikes remained unclarified. Government attorneys and members of congress disagreed over whether the president had seizure powers or injunction au thority to enforce the emergency provision set forth in the admin istration bill. On Fish Lake Ice Medford, Ore., Feb. 1 dl'i An Antloch, Calif., man who miracu lously survived a plane crash and several days in the bitter cold was being assisted to safety today by six rescuers, two of whom drop ped by parachute to give him medical aid. John L. Krause, Jr., who had been missing since Thursday on a flight from Redding, Calif., to Eu gene, Ore., was spotted alive be side his wrecked light plane on the frozen surface of Fish lake, some 40 miles north and east of here. Krause was apparently un injured and in fair condition al though the lake is at a high alti tude and the temperature in the area has been around and below zero for several days. A search plane from Hamilton field, Calif., spotted the Calif or nlan and a short while afterward an air rescue- service PBY am phibious plane parachuted Capt. Frederick Harcourt, medical offi cer, and Corp. John Robbins, vet eran parachute jumper from Mc Chord field, Wash., to aid the flier. The two parachutists were seen to land near the lake, but the ra dio in the PBY went out and the plane could not communicate with the pair, who had only a walkie-talkie along. Lt. T. C. White of the McChord field air rescue service, command ing officer of the searching unit working out of Medford, said a tent, food, clothing and medical supplies were parachuted into the area by the PBY. ll'DGE HEPI.ACEI) IN CASE Judge R. S. Hamilton has been disqualified in the case of Robert A. Kohlield vs. Willus E. Shaver, et al. by order of Chief Justice Lu.sk of the Oregon state su preme court. Judge I.usk has ap pointed Circuit judge D. N. Mac-, kay of Condon to preside over the case. Disqualification of Judge Ham ilton was made upon the motion of the attorney for the plaintiff. The ca.-e is a civil action in volving sale of real estate proper ty. Prlneville Honors 4.- W7 Si 1 i Secretarv ot state l-.ai I 1. .c whrv. at iett. preseme-i Larro;! V. VcCord "with the citation of firet citizenship of his community Saturday niht The award was made at the annual first citizenship banquet' of the Prineville Junior chamber of comrr.rrce, in Pnne-villc. Interior Head Notes Growth Of Northwest Speedup of Dam Building Said Needed for Power, Protect Area From Flood Washington, Feb. 1 dl'i Assist ant secretary of Interior C. Gir ard Davidson said today that pop ulation jumps in the Pacific Northwest increase the need for fast development of the area's water and mineral resources, i He told the senate interior com mittee that while Pacific North I west population is increasing at ! three times the national rate its unemployment rate is twice the national figure. He said a popu lation increase of another million ! is likely by 1960. Stepup Required "Merely to feed and provide I jobs and the necessities of life I for these people will require a stepup in the tempo of making useable the basic resources of the region." he said. That, Davidson said, means a faster rate of dam building to re lease water power, to protect the area from floods, to Increase irri gation opportunities and to pre vent erosion. He said such devel opment will spur new industries which, in the Pacific Northwest, depend on hydroelectric power. Northwest Described Davidson, described the north west as potentially one of the richest U.S. areas. He said it had one-quarter of the nation's irri gable lands, and 40 per cent of its hydroelectric power potential, but nine per cent of U.S. land area and population. Though rich In known minerals, Davidson said, the area's "real potential" lies in lesser-known deposits "that are now critical or strategic." Davidson quoted "experts now studying rainfall and snowmelt" as saying that another big flood "could happen in 194!)." ' Dams Held Imperative "It is imperative that dams to hold back these flood waters be completed at the earliest possible moment," he said. He told the committee which is hearing the interior depart ment's overall program and prob lems that the biggest need of the area was for more power. With out it, he said, new industry is curtailed, the department s pres ent program for power develop ment will not bring in anv sub stantial new bloc of power until 1954, he said. He also said programs were needed to cut down loss of timber through fire, disease and bad cut ting practices. Medford Gas Fuel Shortage Eased Medford, Feb. 1 dl'i Shipments of gas fuel the last three days have eased the shortage here somewhat, officials of the California-Pacific Utilities company said today. However, conservation is still necessary to make the fuel "go around." Some commercial users were advised to use sufficient gas to warm up their places of business this morning before shutting it off. They will be asked to use no more, however, because of the lack of reserve supplies. A snowfall of 2.3 inches in downtown Medford last night made the lack of gas for heating doublv hard on commercial users. KKCOKI) SNOWFALL NOTED Anchorage. Alaska, Feb. 1 dl'i Thirty-six inches of snow fell here during the past month to es tablish a new record for January. Junior Cifizen '1 If' 4, U JL i U BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1 Office Engineer, "5 r.iiim '.mi i.t t V-j? 'V 11 If-.'-r 'YA 'Vtrf I-? ! " 1- V " . f 1 Kent S. Ehrman. Deschutes project office engineer for the United States bureau of reclamation and a resident ol Hend since 19.19. with time out for navy duly, is being transferred to'Kphrala, Wash. At Ephrata, he will be in charge of canal and lateral location and designing in the Columbia river district, irrigation division. Dixieland Suffering Freeze; West Trying to Save Sfock Cold Strikes Citrus Crop in Texas; Georgia And Louisiana Hit; Stock Starves in Range Area (By United Press) Dixieland suffered its second hard freeze today as the west ern ranse stales launched a coordinated effort io smash away the big snowdrifts and carry feed to the west's 5,500,000 starving; livestock. The freezing cold struck again til the citrus and vegetable gardens of southern Texas, the Louisiana strawberry beds, and the Georgia peach orchards. Highways were dangerous from yesterday's blanket of Engineer Given New Assignment Kent S. Ehrman, Deschutes project office engineer and a member of the bureau of recla mation staff in Bend since 1939, with the exception of 3 Vis years in the navy, is being transferred to Ephrata, Wash., it was an nounced from the local office of the bureau today. At Ephrata, Ehrman will be in charge of canal and lateral location and designing in the Columbia river district, irri gation division. This is a part of the Grand Coulee project. Mr. and Mrs. Ehrman and ther children, Kent and Pat, will leave for Ephrata in the next few days. Ehrman came to Bend in 19.'19 from the Denver office of the bu reau of reclamation. The bureau of reclamation en gineer entered navy service in August. 1942, and was discharged three and a half years later, with the rank of lieutenant command er. While attached to the local of fice, Ehrman ing the canal of the North assisted in design- j and lateral system , Unit project, now 1 Hearing completion. January Was Cold Month for Bend January, 1919, was one of "the coldest months in the 45-year his tory of the Bend weather station, but the chill failed to set any frigid records, it was announced from the local weather slat '.'in office today. The mean tempera ture was a frigid lK..'i degrees, compared with Ihe long lime Jan uary mean of 30.9 degrees. The we;it he obseivers in Bend said that at least three Lines in earlier years lower meen lem pcraturrs weie recorded. The a'l-time low for January u.-is in VX'.'l, when the mean was 1".0 de giees. In 19.T7. the mean was in.l degrees and in llil"), the aveiage for the month was 11.2 degi es. Only .35 of an inch of moisture fell this past month, b'U even this arid figure failed to provide for January. In 1920. the Janu ary precipitation was a mete .21 of a:i 'nch, moasuiod in one sto'Tn. The weaiherman did not. howeer, say that the ..ITi of in inch of moisture measured 1 his month was the second lowest tig uie ever recorded at, the Lend station. OMVHt U.U Ki t) Prineville, Ore., Feb, 1 !!.. Chambers of commerce and citi zens of Prineville. Madias ami ot!i"r f'-nti'il Oregon or.mmuni pes were ccpoi'e.'l toii.iy to be Vi"kir,g Hei-rTv.n Oliver. John l)a valley rancher, for appointment to the state highway commission to succeed Arthur W. Srhaupp of Klamath Falls, whose term will expire March 31. Being Transferred 1 sleet and snow throughout up per AIississippi and Louisi ana, northern Alabama and Georgia, Tennessee and North Carolina. Four hundred men worked emergency shifts to restore electrical power to outlying sections of Atlanta which suffer ed a complete blackout for a time yesterday. Gainesville and Ath ens, Gil., also were cut off from power and one newspaper pub lished a mimeographed "icebound edition." New York City was spared the "heavy accumulations" of snow that was forecast but parts of New England, including lloston, were hit hard. C hildren Stranded Am army doctor, Capt. George W. Miifiladry, Jr., volunteered to parachute today to the aid of 00 Navajo Indian children stranded in their snowbound Arizona school for more than a week. Some of the children were report ed sutfi ring from pneumonia. The captain was outfitted at Camp Sloneman, Cal., last night ;.n,l tl, n fL.tv I Plwtnniv I,. Iu 1(,a(y ,() m.lk( H. haJ11(()Ui ,.ilp wih , , kj of m,,(ji(.., supplii's. ! I'lun s Drop Itnlions I A glassliopper licet" of civil air patrol planes dropped 1,200 pounds of emergency rations to the children last night. Dr. Philip Scholia. Ft. Defiance, Ariz., doc tor, anil ii nurse also were sched uled to be llown then." by heli copter. Two C-47 air force ph ios drop. pod food to the HO.OOO Navajus on the reservation and then dispatch ed two C-51 ships lo aid them. Navy Sends Plum's Th" navy also ordered six KYIs to Phoenix to join the -.outliwest halill which yesiei day dropped a new recoul of 'JU'.K 2HH pounds ol hay to Mre.r.ded hen's i:i the Nevada area. I-ioin I. is headuartc;s at Oma ha. Maj. Gen. Lewis A. Pick open eda coordinated aitaik 0:1 Ihe snows covering the northern plains. He sent forth hundreds of cater pillars, bulldozers, scrapers, grad ,'is, rotary plows and weasels. 1 ontroliing lh"m over a special radio iiclwoik and an ol.ionialo aerial re onnaisiriee system. Kh'ITKit KXI'KlTT.n IN ( (l()S Coos liay, i eii. 1 dli C. G. Hi 1 'cr, Bend uty manager for just -hort of 20 years, w;.'.i expected o i'liivc heie litter todiiy lo lake ver his duties as city manager of Coos Bay, a place to which hi' was named last week. Roller. Alio served as city manager in ILilsl-oro befoie moving to B'lld. was name. I to fill the vacancy -'.reared by the resignation ot Kvan Peterson, Coos Bay city manager, on December 31. Keller's appointment war, effec tive a.s of todnv. , 1949 ! Chinese Reds Take Peiping, Capital City Communists Triumphant, Nationalists Move Out; Li to Send 5-Man Mission By Mli lmel K 'on Itlnitisl l'nH Stuff Curptfteoiuti'nl) Pciping, Feb. 1 dl'i The com munists took over P e I p i n g. Mima's ancient capital ami seconn largest city, triumphantly. Joylul- Jy and peiicetully today. Hie conmiunists inoveo 111. 1 ne n;ilionalists moved out. It was as simple as that. Along one side of the street moved a long column of red trucks with the snouts of Ameri can 40-millimotor guns protruding from the rear. The trucks and guns had been captured from the I nationalists. .Nationalists Armed Along the other side passed a heavily-armed column of nation alist troops on their way out of the city to be "reorganized." Each column ignored the other, but a few short weeks ago they had been locked in desperate battle. At Nanking Acting President Li Tsung jen has named a new five-man mis sion of Shanghai businessmen to study conditions In Peiping under communist rule, it was disclosed today. The new mission will leave for Peiping as soon as permission to enter is granted. The mission is headed by Dr. W. W. Yen. former ambassador to the United States. Separate Peace Denied A prominent member of the mission denied that the group has been authorized to conclude a sep arate peace with the communists for the Shanghai area. He said the group has "absolutely no powers to make a decision." Instructions to the group are to visit Peiping and report to acting President Li on the situation un der communist occupation. The new mission, which will supplement the official govern ment peace mission already in op eration1 In Peiping, was nai.ied yesterday after LI and the Chi nese cabinet conferred with busi nessmen on an unexpected trip to Shanghai. Rusk Nominated For Secretary Washington, Feb. 1 dl'i Dean Rusk, one of the top stale depart ment experts on the United Na tions, Monday was nominated by President I ruman to be an assis tant secretary of slate. Husk was named to fill a vacan cy caused by the resignation last summer of Norman Armour. Rusk Is now head of the office of United Nations affairs in the state department. During the war he served in tlie Chlna-Burma-lndia theater as deputy chief of staff, and later in operations planning here. In 19lli, he was made an assis tant to Ihe secretary of war and later joined the stale depai imenl staff. BILLS INTKOm C KI Salem, Feb. 1 mi - Bills to in crease Ihe salaries of Harney and Grant county officials were li'oduced In the house loday. In- Rink 'Architect' IX -sr., ' M. A. fcymons. who took the leadership In the creation of an ice link In Bend believed outstanding In the northwest, yesterday i veiling tvOtt a htil ovi-i the big Tiiik vwth his glrindsoii, ii-tMi-iml Mni- Symons. son of Mr and Mrs. Norman Symons. Mike ,is watching his (ct when the picture was taken, and his cap "hlar!-;od out" hi.- lace. Five Missing In Wisconsin Hotel Blaze ltiixin, Wis.. Feb. 1 UK.. The 75. ; year old Grand View hotel burned I to the ground early today and at leasi live persons were missing. I Fiii-men dug through tons of i smouldering debris in a search j for possible victims. Fire chief ! William Burroughs said he feared I the missing guests may have died I In the flames. I "But there's a lot or contusion," he said. "They may also have ink I en refuge in some house or build I Ing w e haven't checked." i Most of the hotel's -IS guests fl,.u , ,,. .,,,, in thl.n. Mjp, ,.ls .... ;ls ,1,., 1 ,hiee story hi kk building was en- 1 j.uif,,, in names ; ,.,,. . .' ,.. f;,.,, i.i. out in the maid's quarters on the top floor, apparently because of a defective fuse box. lt flashed through the entire hotel w ithin a nfatter of minutes. The building burned virtually to the ground despite the c -Holts of firemen fi-om Fond du Lac, Berlin, Princeton and Oshkosh who raced here to aid the local department. Many of (he guests were res cued by students from Ripon col lege who climbed ladders and groped through the smoke-and-flame filled corridors. Guests clung lo the window sills and begged for the firemen below to spread nets they could leap into. TVo persons were injured se riously enough to require hospi tal treatment. They were Warren Schleinzer. Klmhurst, 111., and Fireman Fred 1 lenimerling, Rip on, who was hurt by falling de bris. Oregon to Get Snow Fall Today Portland, Feb. 1 Ul'i More snow was in the offing for Oregon lo day. Snow began falling in parts of' northwestern Oregon Monday night, and the weather bureau here said It would fan out and fall general.' j' over Ihe stale to day. For the first Monday since early January a normal frequen cy of 00 cycles was maintained throughout the western division of the northwest power pool yes terday, the Bonneville power ad ministration reported. Monday normally has a heavier power load than other days because of businesses and schools starting up after week end shutdowns. BPA said the Columbia river flow at Bonneville reached 92,000 second feet Monday, highest since the big freeze started more than a month ago. Average genera tion was ,'19.5,000 kilowatts com pared with 370,000 Kilowatts a week ago. The Oregon national guard to day responded t.o an appeal by the stale game commission lo begin haylill operations lo gel feed to starving deer and elk in Ihe Wallowa and Blue mountains of eastern Oregon. The national guard said a ('-17 would be flown from Portland to l.ii Grande today to launch the mercy errand, liay will be load ed in the big cargo plane and dropped at inaccessible spots oji the lower Minam river and Star. key area. Tries Out Ice No. 48 Ching Asserts Department Is Pro-Labor Mediation Director Not In Favor of Placing His Work Under New Office Washington, Feb. 1 till Fed oral mediation director Cyrus Ching said today that the labor department is too pro-labor to give management a fair deal. For that reason, he told the senate labor committee, he is dead-set against a proposal to put the mediation service under labor department control. The lowering 73-year-old Ching is understood lo be ready to quit his job if the mediation service is deprived of its independence. Ching Testifies Ching testified at a hearing on President Truman's new labor bill, lt would repeal the Taft- Hartley act and return media lion to the labor department. Ching said business and industry w juld not trust labor department to give them a fair shako in me diating lahormunagement dis putes. Ching said that he still feels the powers of presidential emer gency hoards should be broad ened to Include mediating and recommending, as well as "exact finding." He said the government "must exert pressure by throwing its weight on the side it believes right" in .attempting to settle emergency strikes. . Senator Questions Sen. Paul II. Douglas, D., III., asked if the mediation service could not be placed under the la- Dor department for housekeep ing" purposes and still retain-its independence. "A poor Housekeeper can make il awfully uncomfortable for you," Ching replied, "The house keeper who controls your budg et and personnel pretly nearly controls your service." ('lung's conciliation and medi ation service was made independ ent of tho labor department un cler the Taft-Hartley act. . Price of Meat Drops in, Bend Meat prices have dropped ap proximately 20 per cent at local markets In the past few weeks, a canvass of representative dealers revealed today. Although the drop has been gradual, there was a definile break as a result of a sudden market fall-off. 'I he price of beefsteak on the hoof hit a two-year low Monday in Portland, according to United Press. Good and choice fat steers sold at $22 per hundred pounds at Portland union stockyards. Prices were 50 cents to $1 below last week and the lowest paid for fed sleers since January, 1947. Local meat dealers said that it is still too soon for full effect of the drop in wholesale prices to be reflected in local retail prices. Skating Prospects In Bend Reviewed Belief that Bend can have plen ty of ice skating every winter, as long as vacant lots are available, was expressed here todiiy by My ron II. Symons. who played the major role in the move that has provided ideal skating here for the past three weeks. Symons took the leadership in gelling the former Troy laundry lots, on Bond street, flooded in January. For Ihe first week, the flooding and preparation of the rink was largely a one-man affair, local skaters admit. Later, Symons ob tained plenty of assistance and the full cooperation of the city. With the present organization, Symons believes that a similar rink can be prepared each win ter. "What we need is an organi zation prepared to go to work at a moment's notice," Symons said. He added thai the work must be continued through the night, if a good surface is to be provided. Of gie.it value in the task of provid ing a rink for children and grown ups of Bend is the city sweeper, service of which has been made available. This has proved of great value in removing light falls ot snow. Local Ice skaters believe that Bend at picscnt has one of the best outdoor ice rinks in the northwest. It is a block long and half a block wide. In parts of the rink, the ice now Is six Inches thick. This past Sunday, several thou sand persons, from all parts ol Central Oregon, used the big rink, locally known as "Symons lake." ill
