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Univ. of Oregon Library EU'GSKS, OREOOir TIE BULLETIN State Forecast: Oregon Clear to partly cloudy today and Wednes day. Few showers afternoons over mountains. Continued warm. High 78 to 88. Low 45 to 55. LEASED WIRE WORLD NEWS COVERAGE . CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER 33rd Year TWO SECTIONS BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1949 No. 132 Hurt Plamie Crash BEND 1 Pa43 Sim dell Lake Cities League Topics Cover Wide Range Delegations from points as dls. tant as Burns were here last night for a regional meeting of the League of Oregon cities, with 65 I persons present at a dinner held In the Pilot Butte Inn's Blue room. T. D. Sexton, mayor of Bend, pre sided, with Mayor George W. Peavy of Corvallis, league presi dent, conducting the meeting for tne visitors. Subjects discussed at a three hour session ranged from assess ment equalization to daylight sav ing. Most of the meeting was devoted to questions and answers. Representing the League of Ore gon cities in providing answers to questioris were Dr. Peavy, Mayor Hollis S. Smith, Dallas, league vice-president; Deane Seeger, league consultant, from Eugene, and Arnold M. Westling, planning and public works consultant for the bureau of municipal research and service of the University of Oregon. Flrsf in Series The Bend meeting was the first regional conference in a series. The league officials moved south today, for a meeting in Klamath Falls. "It is vital that our fundamen tal liberties be restored," Dr. Peavy declared in his opening remarks. He touched on the re cent long session of the state legis lature, and said he saw no reason why the legislature should be called on to set county court sal aries, in counties as distant from Salem as Harney, "The legisla ture," he declared, "is piddling withmatters on city and county levels, when It should be con cerned with problems on the state level." Session Reviewed i. oeeger, in nis capacity as league consultant, reviewed the a7-day session of the state legislature and submitted a report bearing on bills of county and city interest at that long session. (Continued on Page 8) Plane Wreckage, Body Discovered Chehalis, Wash., May 10 (IB The state patrol today reported finding the wreckage of a crashed navy plane only 200 feet from the wreckage of another navy plane discovered in the area last week. Both planes, Grumann Wildcats, crashed on Jan. 23, 1944, on a flight from Sand Point naval air station to California. State patrol sergeant Marvin Paulsen said the body of navy Lt. John R. Crowe was identified in the wreckage found today. The first plane, piloted by Lt. Joseph Schieche of Spokane, was discovered late Wednesday 500 feet off a logging road in the Camp MacDonald area, 18 miles west of here. Navy officers at Sand Point definitely identified the body as that of Lt. Schieche. Today's wreckage was sighted by A. Z. Larsen, safety director of the Weyerhaeuser Timber com pany at Camp MacDonald and Kobert E, Manning, camp engi neer, who located the first plane. " Identification of Crowe's body was made by means of a wrist watch and navy dog tag. Indians Declared Favorable to Dam Madras, May 10 T. Leland Brown, here for a session of cir cuit court, reports that a wrong interpretation was placed on his statement before the state hydro electric commission recently. Brown said the Portland news papers Indicated in their hand ling of his statement that the Indians are opposed to the dam at Pelton site on the Deschutes river. The Warm Springs Indians, as was evidenced In testimony of their representatives at a hear ing held In Salem on February 10, declared their support of the (lam with an emphasis, it was ciled by Brown. Brown has indicated that a for mal statement aimed at offset ting the erroneous reports will "e issued by the Indians. ACCIDENT FATAL Valsetz, May 10 HP John L. Crossman, 48-year-old logger from Falls City was killed here yesterday when he was caught between a rolling log and a nag, Huge Wheat Crop Again In Prospect Washington, May 10 HP) The agriculture department today es timated this year's winter wheat production at 1,021,476,000 bush els. That would be the second larg est winter crop in history and would virtually assure that the total supply of wheat in the coun try would hit a new record high after the summer harvest. That, in turn, would require the government to proclaim pro duction controls on the 1950 wheat crop in a move to hold down burdensome surpluses. Today's forecast, based on May 1 growing conditions, was only 1,790,000 bushels greater than last month's forecast. It was 46, 000,000 short of the record set by the winter crop two years ago. Harvest Starts Soon Harvesting of the winter crop Is expected to begin late this month. The department next month will make its first fore cast of spring-sown wheat pro duction. Coupled with an average post war outturn of about 300,000,000 bushels of spring wheat, the fore casted winter crop would bring total 2949 wheat production to 1,321,000,000 bushels. ' That compares with total pro duction of 1,288,000,000 bushels last year, the all-time record of 1,367,000,000 bushels in 1947 and the 10-year average (1938-47) pro duction of 943,000,000. The report estimated winter wheat would yield 18.4 bushels per acre compared with 18.7 bushels last year. The depart ment estimated that 90.7 per cent of this year's record high acre age would be harvested for grain. That compares with 90.9 per cent last year. Wallace Meet Sees Fireworks Portland, May 10 tPi Some verbal fireworks broke out in Portland last night between Henry A. Wallace, progressive party chief, and Dr. A. L. Strand, pres ident of Oregon State college. Only about 50 persons near the speakers' platform heard the clash, just as a four-hour meet ing of Wallace and his party broke up at the Civic auditorium. Wallace during his speech ear lier had made several references to Dr. Strand's recent dismissal of two Oregon State college pro fessors. Wallace said the firing of Dr. Ralph Spitzer and L. R. Levalle for alleged communist leanings was "discriminatory." Dr. Strand appeared on the plat form with Wallace after the meet ing and took exception to the re marks of the former progressive party presidential candidate. strand said he was glad ne at tended the Wallace meeting be cause "if there is any doubt as to what the progressive party stands for, it has been made plain here." Wallace answered that Dr. Strand did not want peace. Catfish Anglers ' ' , " , 1 -1 J : : I-' , - Lured by news that catlUh are biting, scores of youngsters have been trying their luck In the Brooks Scanlon pond for the past several days and report fair catches. However, these youngsters Monday afternoon were catching more whiteflsh than catfish. Sportsmen report that several years ago a for mer Bend resident brought a sackful of catfish here from Houston lake. These were planted In the warm water of. the pond, constructed as a fire emergency reservoir. Recently, the catfish found their way out Into the river and into the Mirror pond. , Here Saturday, ( i , i . (Photo by Giles, Redmond) Dan Collins and John Connolly,' Bend, are shown here boarding a United Mainliner at Roberts field, Redmond, Saturday, on the start of a trip from this city to Shannon, Ireland. They left here Saturday at 2 p.m. and were soheduled to arrive in Ireland early today, following a stop-over in New York. The flight from New York to Ireland was made via Pan-American World airways. The party was made 100 per cent Irish Saturday in Redmond when Stewardess Flanagan joined Collins and Connolly for the picture. Wafer Right Sales Halted By Central Oregon District Sale of Central Oregon Irrigation district water rights has been suspended at least temporarily pending determination of the status of these rights, C.O.I, audit report for the past calendar year. I he report was prepared by Bernard C. Davis, of the Bowers, Davis and Hoffman firm of certified accountants, Salem. "The exact status and values of the excess water rights is not available due to certain the adjudication proceedings now in process, the audit states. "Should it be determin ed that the district can retain the water rights it now holds on some 2,766 acres of unim proved land, these water rights at current prices would be worth at least $130,000." - Big Sums Involved In the period 1946 to 1948, the district sold the water rights on 1.657 acres for which it received $84,270. . As a result of the suspension of the sale of water rights, cash Try Luck in Brooks Am 1- X i' " f Now in Ireland according to information in the legal problems arising through reserves have been substantially reduced, "so that it now appears that a larger portion of the dis trict's expenditure must be pro vided by assessments," the audit s'ntes. Of the expenditures of $4.16 per acre for 1948, approxi mately $2.94 was provided by assessments, 18 cents by sale of water rights and land, 40 cents from miscellaneous revenues and the remainder or 64 cents from cash accumulated in prior years. The total expenditures for op erations in 1948 amounted to . ' (Continued on Page 7) - Scanlon Pond "AT Vandenberg Clarifies Aid For Europe By John L. Steele (United Press Stmff Corrcttpondnt) Washington, May 10 UM Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg, R Mich., said today the United States must make it clear that its arms-for-Europe plan does not pledge this country to defend western Eu rope's frontiers with "a Maginot line of some sort." The republican foreign policy leader said that failure to do so would be "to deceive our friends abroad the last possible crime we should commit. Vandenberg's statement caihe after James P. Warburg, New York author and former banker, told the senate foreign relations committee that the North Atlantic treaty and the arms plan might cost the U. S. more than $10,000, 000,000 and require a million troops in western Europe. Understanding: Sought Vandenberg said that the pro posed $1,130,000,000 arms plan, by its limited nature, could contem plate no such project, but he said this country's "task is to make it perfectly sure that the facts are they exist are perfectly under stood." He joined with Sens. Claude Pepper, D., Fla., and Brien Mc Mahon, D., Conn., in saying he had no commitments wtiatso ever" to support the arms plan. Committee Chairman Tom Con- nally, D., Tex., clashed with War burg when the author demanded clarifcation of the pact and the arms program. Connally told Warburg, "I think you need clari fying instead of the treaty be cause your views are so nebulous that I can't understand them.' ... Warburg told the senate Ibr- (Continued on Page 7) Truman, Byrd Square Off For Conflict By Lyle C. Wilson (United Prom Staff Correspondent) Washington, May 10 Another political feud hit the headlines today to remain awhile as Presi dent Truman and Sen. Harry F. Byrd, D., Va., squared off in bat tle for control of the democratic party in the senate. Both are professional politic ians, graduated cum laude from rough and tumble political ma chines. Mr. Truman got his di ploma under the teachings of the late Tom Pendergast, who was boss of Missouri democrats until he went to jail on income tax .charges. Bitterness Revealed The senator's degree comes from his own Byrd machine which controls the democratic party In Virginia. The bitterness which has developed between the two men was revealed yesterday in the somewhat loose talk of Gilbert Harrison, a White House visitor, who confided that Mr. Truman had said there were "too many Byrds in the senate." It is not considered cricket to re peat presidential conversations. Byrd thought over the com ment for a bit yesterday after noon and replied: "If the president means he will attempt to purge me from the senate because I will not accept his dictatorship in matters of legislation, then I will be on hand wheji the purging stalls. I owe my allegiance 10 my constitut- ency of Virginia. So long as I remain in the senate I will vote as my conscience dictates and to represent the wishes of my con-stltutonts." Pension Bill Signed, Expect Referendum Vote This Fall Salem, May 10 UP(;ov. Doug las McKay announced today that he has signed the old age pension bill passed by the recent legisla ture, ond a companion measure which requires children who are financially able to contribute to the support of needy parents. Immediately there were reper cussions. Old-age pension advo cates indicated that they would launch a movement to refer the old-age pension law to the people. At the general election last No vember, the voters favored a mea sure for a mandatory minimum pension of $50 a month. The bill signed Into law late Monday by McKay provides for a $50 pension if and when there is money in the state general fund to pay it, Soviets Give Electricity To Berliners Berlin, May 10 UP) Forty hours before the Berlin blockade is due to be lifted the Russians today gave the western sectors of the city a present of several hours of unrationed electricity. It was the first time housewives In the western sectors had en- Joyed unrationed electricity in the middle of the morning since pow er rationing was imposed on the city by the blockade that started July 9. The direct cause of the electric service which the western sectors received was a two-hour test of the long-distance power cables which bring current into Berlin from generating plants deep in the Russlain zone in Saxony-An-halt. German authorities at the Bewag power control station in western Berlin said they were en gaged in tests with the Bewag plant in the soviet zone. Restoration Gradual Radios played and electric stoves glowed as the power flow ed into American sector lines from the soviet sector. All of Ber lin's major power generating sta tions are in the soviet sector. German electric power authori ties said the restoration of electri city to the western sectors would take place gradually. Full service, such as existed be fore the Russians cut off the pow- (continued on rage 7) Columbia River Rise Continues Portland, May 10 IP The weather bureau predicted today that the Columbia river azain will reach flood stage at 15 feet at Vancouver, wash.. Friday.... Forecasters said the main stem of the Columbia at Grand Coulee dam and the Snake river were rising steadily and thus would send a new spring freshet crest down on the lower Colum bia during the week end. At Lewiston, Ida., the Snake went up 1.6 feet in 24 hours, the bureau said, and at Trinidad, the main Columbia went up 1.3 feet overnight. Runoff Substantial Boise, Ida., May 10 UP) The U.S. geological survey reported today that the accumulated run off in the Columbia river basin has reached a volume that "Indi cates the flood potential is being dissipated at a reassuring rate." The survey reported that the likelihood of destructive flooding in Oregon streams Is limited io some of those draining the Blue mountains, including the Powder, Grande Ronde, John Day, and Crooked rivers. But, the survey added, lt now seems unlikely that floods on any of those streams will equal those of 1948. Madras Marshal Fined for Assault Madras, May 10 Arley MIZar, Madras city marshal, who pleaded guilty to a charge of assault and battery brought by Louis Le Claire, Warm Springs Indian rancher, has paid a fine of $25, plus court costs, L. A. Bean, Mad ras justice of the peace, said to day. The case reportedly crew out of a dispute between MiZar and LeClair, following the capture by the marshal of a horse which had escaped at the local railway sta tion when Lecialre was loading a stock car with animals from the reservation. In the course of the dispute it was charged that MiZiir struck the Indian. MiZar was not acting In offi cial capacity when the incident oc curred, Bean said. Leaders of the old age pension movement had vigorously urged its veto. But Gov. McKay said, aft er he signed the measure, he was "convinced the welfare of the state and of the aged citizens who are In need will be advunced if this bill becomes law." Said the governor: "I would be derelict In meeting my obligations If I disapproved It." The governor, as he signed the old age pension bill, told the press: "There has been a great deal of misunderstanding as to its provi sions and I urge that Interested parties consider these facts: "There is no 'Hen' provision In the law. No one will be asked tin (Continued on Page 8) Survivors Are Treated in Bend Hospital; Body of Pilot Taken From 30 Feet of Water Today Three Deschutes national forest officials, survivors of an amphibian plane crash at Odell lake yesterday afternoon that killed a California pilot, were brought to Bend early this morning and two were placed in St. Charles hospital. Brought to this city from Odell Summit lodge, where they were taken following the crash that killed David Lepescu, San Francisco, Calif., were Ralph W. Crawford, Deschutes na tional forest supervisor ; Newell . Cory, Crescent district Dalles Attorney Murders Wife, Takes Own Life The Dalles, May 10 tui Author ities said today Frank G. Dick, 64, one of Oregon's most promi nent attorneys, killed his wife and then committed suicide 12 hours later. Between the slaying and the sui cide, police said Dick drove 20 miles from The Dalles to Dufur, where he wa Arrested for reck less driving wtiile his car was "weaving over the highway." Authorities, piecing together evidence of the tragedy, said Dick apparently shot his wife, Beulah, 48, with a .38 caliber revolver in their home early yesterday. Dick was charged with reckless driving and with driving without an operator s license. He paid a $25 fine on the first charge and sy.5t) on the second. Dick tried to telephone Police chief M. E. Cloe here but the chief was. out of hfs office rid an assistant took the call. Found by Son Eventually, word reached Dick's son, William, a law associate, tnat his father had tried to contact the police department. William became alarmed and rushed to the Dick home. He found his father dying of a bullet wound in the head. In the bed room he found the body of his step-mother. She had been dead at least 12 hours. The Wasco county coroner s of fice and state criminal investiga tion agents were trying to determ ine the exact hour of death of Dick s wife. In addition to his outstanding legal career, Dick was prominent as the owner of a large livestock ranch. He married Mrs. Dick, his second wife, last December. She formerly was the wife of a man who worked on the Dick ranch. Dick's first wife died three years ago. Lions Offices Are Contested Contests for every office, with the possible exception of that of the secretary, will be faced by the Lions when they hold their an nual club election next Tuesday. This was made certain at today's luncheon meeting when new nominations were submitted. Three, James W. Bushong, Loyde Blaklcy and C. J. Morgan, have been nominated for president. So far, Farley Elliott is the only nominee for secretary. R. E. Jewell, Bend high school principal, was speaker at today's luncheon meeting, at the Pine Tavern. Introduced by Doug Ward, Jewell touched on high lights of the address delivered by Dr. Robert M. Hutchlns, Univer sity of Chicago chancellor, at the recent conference of educators in Spokane, Wash. t.eorge (iove announced plans for the annual challenge golf tourney between Klwiinlnns mid Lions, to be played Thursday af ternoon. Special Election Vote Heavy Today Bend's advisory election on the daylight saving question this af ternoon was attracting more In terest than the $226,561 school levy election of last week, with 340 ballots cast up until 1:45 p.m. Only one voting place is In use for the advisory election, with all ballots being cast in the city hall. As each voter accepts a ballot, he is asked to sign his name on a prepared slip, with address added. Votes will be accepted until 8 p.m. ranger, and Richard P. Bott- cher, Deschutes forest engi neer in charge of recreation. Crawford and Cory are in the local hospital. Bottcher was able to be around town today. Crawford suffered head in juries, bruises and shock, Cory's injuries were believed prin cipally abdominal, probably caus ed by the safety belt. Bottcher Plane Wrecked The crash that resulted in the death of the California pilot and tne injury 01 the three lorest offi cials occurred when the twin-en gined amphibian plane plunged lnt1 fVio tnt lalrn fnllntiflncy an at.'. tempted take off. The pilot appar ently failed io gain altitude, and in an attempt to dodge trees near the lake margin, he dipped sharp ly to tne leit. one wing struck the water and the crash followed. witli. the big plane sweeping around in a cart-wheel motion. So terrific was the crash that the plane split in two. Dazed, the occupants looked up at blue sky as tne plane started to go under, sinking on its -left side. All men were wearing safety belts. Bott cher, dazed, succeeded in unfast ening hie own belt and that of Crawford, who was. -pnjy partly. conscious1. ..' uory was seated witn tne pilot In front when the crash occurred, and Crawford and Bottcher were in a rear seat 01 ine nve-piace plane. Cory also was temporarily dazed by the crash. When he re vived, he was free from his belt. The pilot was still In his seat, his face covered with blood. Strapped in Seat Cory attempted to get the pilot out of the cockpit, then discovered tnat Iepescu was still strapped to his seat. The ranger, only half conscious himself, vainly attempt ed to reach the pilot's safety belt, but the shattered plane was sink ing too rapidly. Bottcher, after assisting Craw ford and freeing him from the dis lodged seat, assisted Cory to a place of safety on the fuselage. The plane was sinking forward, and the three survivors were clinging to the tail assembly, pre paring, in tnelr dazed condition, to attempt to swim to shore, not far distant. The crash occurred just around a promontory from the Odell Summit lodge, and was heard by persons at tne lodge. Mr. and Mrs. K. Badley and F. E. Davis of the lodge staff quickly started a motor boat and raced to the res cue. Given First Aid The men were taken from the sinking plan and given first aid at a summer home, not far from the Willamette highway. Later they were removed to the lodge, where they remained until an ambulance arrived from Klamath Falls and Dr. W. O. Courier, accompanied by W. E. Naylnr of the forest staff, arrived from Bend. Craw ford and Cory were brought to Bend by ambulance and Bottcher made the trip back with Naylor and Dr. Coul ter. When rescue parties reached the scene of the crash, repeated attempts were made to reach the pilot, who drowned in the cockpit. State police Joined In the attempt (Continued on Puge 7) Ford, Unions Meeting Today Detroit, May 10 (tl'iFord Motor company and CIO United Auto Workers' union officials resumed negotiations today to attempt set tlement of a strike against two key Ford plants that will leave 85,000 workers Idle tonight. Peace talks in the six-day-old walkout were renewed as Ford scheduled Immediate shutdowns of 11 of Its assembly lines. The remaining eight will close by next Monday. Henry Ford II, youthful com pany president who accepted a union offer to reopen negotiations, did not attend the meeting.
