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Univ. of Oregon Library E BEND BULLETIN State Forecast Oregon Generally fair to day and Thursday ' but few scattered afternoon showers Thursday. High 80 to 90 both days. Low tonight 46 to 56. LEASED WIRE WORLD NEWS COVERAGE CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER TO 33rd Year Russia Ends Blockade of Festive Note Develops as Barrier Is Broken; Berlin Citizens, Celebrating By John B. McDermott (United J'resa Staff Correupondent) Berlin, May 12 Thursday hp The Russian blockade of Berlin ended today in a burst of east west amity and festive celebration the like of which Germany had not seen for years. At 12:01 a.m., the Soviets lift- ed the iron curtain which had isolated Berlin for 328 days, save or the western airlift which hur dled it and thus thwarted Rus sia's main bid to oust the Ameri cans, British and French from the old capital. The flashing of the green light at the appointed hour loosed a massive tide of traffic dammed up at the zonal border for the rush to Berlin that rivaled the stampede set off by the opening of the Cherokee strip. The formal lifting of the block ade stemmed from an agreement between Russia and the western powers, to be followed by a big four meeting to reopen the whole German question and seek an overall settlement. Tension Relaxed M Tlio aaranm&rt't cnnrlnrl a Inner t missing cordiality between the east and the west. It relaxed much of the tension generated by the blockade and other disagree ments. The new found spirit of coop eration already had leveled a number of barriers, and the prep arations for the blockade removal had torn a great hole in the iron curtain. The preparations for carrying out the agreement were so thor ough that the actual moment of the blockade removal was only a token signal for the start of traf fic across the zonal bbrder. . The first frontier crossing ac tually was made 15 hours before the deadline. A train carrying German railroad officials crossed from the soviet zone to western Germany at Helmstedt. . J The dnKcar combination pas-' Ssenger coach and dlesel locomo tive arrived in Helmstedt as al lied trains, trucks, automobiles and carts lined up at the barrier for the eastward sweep. , Vehicles Walt Meanwhile a like group of ve hicles waited in Berlin for the westward push. Berliners were calling this their V-E day. They were ready for a giant celebra tion. Schools were closed. Bars were wide open. It was the end of the war all over again. The final, visible seal was put on the east-west agreement yes terday when the Russians tore down the barricades they had thrown up along the border be tween east and west Berlin to tighten the squeeze on the tiny island of western influence deep in the Russian zone. The first western train was waiting at Helmstedt, on the British-Russian zonal border, for the run to Berlin. The American section of it left Frankfurt yes terday morning. Vehicles Massed Hundreds of vehicles automo biles, trucks, bicycles, horsecarts, wheelbarrows massed along the highways and surged toward the zonal border. Berlin itself pre pared for a historic celebration to mark Its liberation from the 11 months of soviet traffic shackles. The Russians blasted GO traffic barriers along the soviet sector border inside Berlin iron and concrete monuments to the all out effort short of war to oust the western powers from the k former capital. Soviet sector police said Rus (Continued on Page 5) Heat Wave Still Grips Northwest Portland. May 11 M The weather bureau forecast today would be the climax of a spring heat wave in the Pacific north West Hot weather was expected to heighten the rise of the tipper Columbia and Snake rivers and to produce a 15-foot flood crest of the Columbia at Vancouver, Wash., Sunday. Portland recorded 81 degrees yesterday and relief was expect ed Thursday with clouds. High water In the mountain tributaries of the Columbia re portedlv closed a bridge on the Twlsp fiver and threatened a dike tinder repair in Kootenai valley. Mood forecasters said the hot weather early this month would help move part of a heavy moun tain snow burden safely to the sea without serious flooding, and les sen the danger of a damaging flood this spring. Reich Capital Daylight Election Board Has $sk u (lev M ' M Members of the board serving In yesterday's advisory "daylight election" are pictured here as they counted 1182 ballots after voting ended at 8 p.m. From the left, around the table, they are Mrs. C. D. Monahan, Mrs. E. R. Ryan and Mrs. Dora Gale. George Simerville, city reeorder who supervise'd the ' : election is looking on. The votes were counted in the city commission room. Crawford Relates Details Of Odell Lake Plane Crash Ralph W. Crawford, Deschutes national forest supervisor, from his bed in St. Charles hospital Tuesday evening reviewed details of the plane craslv at Odell lake that killed David Lepescu, San Francisco-pilot, and left three in jured and half conscious men on the wrecked, sinking craft. Across the hospital hallway in another room rested Newell Cory, Crescent district ranger, who was seated beside Pilot Lepescu when the California plane carrying four. men failed to gain altitude m an attempted takeoff at Odell lake and crashed into the water. Fourth man in the plane was Richard P. Bottcher, Deschutes national forest engineer, who was assigned, the hero role by Craw ford, "pick saved, my life,". Craw ford Said 'as" Her' peered' out from an ice pack over his bruised eyes. In Rear Compartment , Crawford was In the rear com partment of the five-place, two motored plane when the crash oc curred. "I heard a 'swish' as the wing of the plane cut through the water, and that is the last I re member," Crawford said. Stun ned, he was assisted from his safety belt by Bottcher as the plane started sinking, nose first. Crawford was pulled from the water by Bottcher and taken out on the tail of the plane, where he regained his senses, only to see that the plane was rapidly sinking In deep water off the Odell lake shore near Trapper creek. Ranger Cory, in the front seat with Lepescu, also was stunned, cut and bruised when the plane crashed, then swung in the water, describing a cart-wheel. Pilot Badly Hurt Cpry freed himself from his safety belt and heard Lepescu, ob viously seriously injured, calling: "Help me, someone help me." As the nose of the plane slipped into the bitterly-cold water of the mountain lake Cory attempted to reach the pilot's safety belt, but encountered floating debris. Cory, only half conscious, was then swept from the plane by the in rushing water, as the plane turn ed over. He made his way to the tail assembly, where he joined Crawford and Bottcher, but not until he had made another at tempt, in a dazed dive, to reach the trapped pilot. Crawford and Cory were cling ing to the tall of the sinking plane, wondering how to get Bott Rivalry by U. Service, Army Washington, May 11 Ui-Former Gov. Leslie A. Miller of Wyo ming believes the army engineers and the bureau of reclamation are squandering billions In "extrava gant and wholly senseless com petition" over which agency can build more dams. Miller headed the natural re sources "task force" of former President Herbert Hoover's gov ernment reorganization commis sion. That group recommended that the army engineers be strip ped of all river development du ties. Miller expressed his views In an article In the current Saturday Evening Post. In a brief introduc tion. Hoover said that opposition to the commission's recommenda tions "is already rampant." Duplication Cited "Onlv through verified knowl edge of the great hodge podge of duplication, overlapping and un believably extravagant planning will the people be in position to demand and get necessary reor ganization," Hoover said. BEND, cher, a non-swimmer, ashore when a rescue boat appeared. Aboard this motor boat were Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Badley and F. E. Davis of the Odell lodge. When the rescue party reached the plane, only the tip of the tail remained afloat. Although injur ed, Crawford and Cory believe they could have reached shore, ed, Crawford and Cory believed but fear Bottcher might have ex perienced trouble "if the rescue boat from the lodge had not quickly reached the crash scene. The three survivors received first aid in a summer home, then were taken across the lake In a boat to the lodge. Crawford and Cory were then brought to the Bend hospital. ' ' ... Yesterday the; .body;oi-fcepescu was removed from the plane, in about 30 feet of water. , (Continued on Page 7) Foundation Test Holes Drilled Under the supervision of Jack Phelps, registered engineer, foun dation tests on the site where the new St. Charles hospital is to be erected are under way, with the drilling of test holes started yes terday. The holes are being drill ed by Lloyd Mathers, local con tractor. Members of the Central Oregon Hospitals Foundation advisory committee report that four holes are to be drilled, in accordance with government specifications, inasmuch as federal aid funds will be used in the construction of the local hospital. These holes will reach below the basement level of the new structure, on vari ous parts of the site. Data ob tained through the test drilling will be available for guidance of contractors. Some test excavation in soil areas has already been done on the hospital hill. J. W. Maloney, Seattle, Wash., is architect for the hospital. Ex cavation blueprints now are being piPDared in the Seattle office. H. A. Miller is chairman of the hospital building committee, with Gil Moty and Hugh Cole as its other members. S. Reclamation Engineers, Hit Miller critclzed the engineers and the reclamation bureau with Impartial severity, ticking off four main charges against both: "The two agencies are so viol ently jealous of each other that an extravagant and wholly sense less competition has sprung up. They will encroach on each other's territory and stake out rival claims simply to beat out each other in the race to con struct expensive projects." At present, he said, the two agencies together have more than $52,705,500,000 worth of projects planned or under construction.' "In their indecent zeal to extend their empires both are guilty of underestimating apparently de liberatelythe costs of the proj ects they propose to build. This has the effect of bamboozling congress into easy acquiescence." Deception Charged His third charge was that "both agencies stoop to deception in furtherance of their efforts to stake out claims on projects." (Continued on Page 5) DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, Busy Evening Fairway Fracas Set Thursday at Bend Golf Club Niblics and names will be flying Thursday afternoon at the Bend golf course. i The occasion will be a challenge golf tournament, in which Bend Kiwanians have impugned the prowess of golfers from the Ro tarians and Lions club. The field of "honor" will be the golf course, tomorrow afternoon f r o m ; 1 o'clock until dark. . According to A. Wilson Benold, general chairman for the event, "no holds will be barred" in the fairway fracas. Hecklers are espe cially invited to be on hand and do their best to discomfit the rival squads; Instead of "cheering'ae' nonyint're-win ne sneering sec tions," Benold declared, iv-f.' Team captains will be Bob Thomas, Kiwanis; George Gove, Lions, and Dr. Brad Pease, Roiar ians. The event will consist of nine holes of medal play, without alibis or handicaps. Refreshments will be available at strategic loca tions along the course, for those unable to withstand the rigors of ribald rivalry, Benold indicated. The carnage will be concluded with a steak dinner at 6:30 at the clubhouse, followed by a full eve ning of entertainment. This latter event will be open to members and guests of the golf club, as well as the competing teams, Be nold said. 83 HERE TODAY Bend this afternoon was ex periencing some of its warmest weather of the spring season, with the mercury resting at 83 degrees at 1:30 p.m. Thunderheads were gathering on the southern horizon, and foresters were alerted for a possible lightning storm this aft ernoon. Yesterday's maximum tempera ture was 82 degrees. Hospital Site Test Borings Start Test borings on the new St. Charles hospital situ were started yesterday afternoon by Lloyd Mathers, on the hospital hill. Four holes are to be drilled in the rocky formation. Bend Voters Reject Daylight Saving , Budget Total For Deschutes County Set Deschutes county's budget for 1949-50, tentatively: approved at the budget committee meeting at the courthouse last night, will run close to half a million dol lars and will require a support ing property tax levy of $195, 160.82. . The $499,960.82 of approved ex penditures includes: Road fund, $202,550; general fund, $159,281. 34; public assistance, $38,670; county school, $88,000; county library, $10,828, and school li brary, $631.48. Road expenses are expected to equal, road receipts. Cash on hand and receipts from other sources are estimated at $102,250. County expenses, excluding road costs, are estimated at $297. 410.82 compared with $308,879.01 in similar authorized expendi tures for 1948-49. , -Welfare Costs Higher The $40,000 cost included in the 1948-49 budget for constructing the old folks home is absent from the estimate for the coming fis cal year. However, an approxi mate $20,000 increase In costs for welfare, schools and county officers' salaries has been au thorized for 1949-50. Other ex penses tentatively authorized in clude $3,000 for old folks home improvements and approximate ly $1,700 in salary increases of non-elective county officers. , The estimated 1949-50 tax levy of $195,160.72 is $4,388.18 less ; (Continued on Page 5) T ! : ".'.' J WameMaiitM Bend Natatorium, Adjacent Park A name is needed for Bend's new municipal swimming tank and adjacent park area, it was an nounced by members of the local park board today. Suggestions should be submitted to Dave How ard, Bend director of recreation, at his office in the city hall. How ard will assemble the suggestions and turn them over to the park board. The park board, It was announc ed, will make a name selection and recommend the selection to the city commission for final action. A name is sought that will em brace both the pool and the park. Construction of the pool is now neaiing completion and beaut! ficatlon of the adjacent park area, in a juniper grove, will follow. URANIUM IN OREGON Portland, May 11 Ui A Port lander today claimed the possible discovery of uranium-rich ore de posits In the Steens mountain of southeast Oregon. 71 ' ' 1949 In Special Election Mac Arthur, Hirohito Await Peace Treaties Dependent On Europe, Reporter Learns By Frank II. Bartholomew (United Press Vice President for the Pacific Area) Tokyo, May 11 (U.E) I talked today with the two men who rule Japan's 80,000,000 people econstructintr the war-wrecked nation Hirohito, the emp eror, and Gen. Douglas MacArthur, the military ruler. Their views of each other were expressed frankly and free ly. Although I was pledged say that the emporor paid the Youth Jailed in Murder of Girl; Warrant Issued Roanoke, Va May 11 (IP) A husky, 16-year-old "high school wrestler who sang in his church choir today was charged with the parisn house murder oi nis pretty schoolmate, . blonde Dana .Marie Weaver. . ' ' The tall, handsome youth, Lee Goode Scott, gave detectives a statement last night after more than six hours of questioning. Po lice court judge Samuel R. Price immediately swore out the mur der warrant. , The youth was held without bond. Detectives said Information from an anonymous telephone caller led them to question young Scott, a senior at Jefferson high school here. Dana Marie, also 16, was beaten and choked to death in the parish house of Christ Episcopal church Sunday night. Scott has sung bass in the choir there for the last two years; ' '- - Devils fhiicl d" ' Police withheld all-details of the youth's statement, which they hesitated to call a "confession of ficially. The motive for the brutal slaying remained a mystery. One officer said young Scott's statement was "disconnected and incoherent" and indicated that more investigation will be neces sary regarding the motive, But two detectives said earlier that the youth had confessed kill ing the pretty Jefferson high school junior. Detective Frank Webb's official announcement said only that young Scott had given investi gators a statement and that for mal murder chargse had been placed against him. "There are many other things we just cannot disclose at this time, Webb said. Clothing Found Police found the clothing which Scott wore Sunday night after the youth told them It was In a closet at his home. Stains believed to be blood covered the brown corduroy coat, tan trousers and saddle ox fords. Scott's tanned face and hands were slashed with fresh scratches, which police believed Dana Marie might have inflicted while fight ing for her life. She was found Monday morn ing In the kitchen of the parish home, lying in a pool of blood. Referendum Due On Pension Law Portland, May 11 tut A refer endum movement against, the old- age pension bill signed Into law by Gov. Douglas McKay today appeared assured. Joe b. Dunne. Portlander who headed a committee which cham pioned a $r)0a month minimum old-age pension, declared: "Most certainly this bill will be referred. "Referring the measure will stop It for two years, when the people again will have the privi lege oi speiiKing on ll. "This action of the governor in signing the measure that pass ed the legislature Indicates he has joined the rest of the republicans and made this law an Issue be tween that party and the demo crats." The bill signed Into law by Mc Kay provides for a $50 pension If and when there Is money In the state general fund to pay It. At tne general election last Novem ber, the voters favored a measure for 'a mandatory minimum pen sion of $50 a month. Dunne said the 313,242 voters who voted for the measure "meant exactly what they said." and who are charged with directly to quote neither, I can highest and apparently unre served tribute to the conquer ing general as a man posses sed of the quality of grandeur, a great adminisrator and a true friend of the Japanese people in peacetime. MacArthur regards Hirohito as essentially a patriot, a man de voted semessiy to the betterment of his people. Physically there could hardly be a greater contrast, than be tween these two rulers, who lead their respective lives in buildings separated only by a lake and a park. - Hirohito is a small, well-built man with a slight forward stoop, sitting rigidly in a chair with the burdens and troubles of empire plainly showing in occasional small, nervous mannerisms. . Cannot Rest He would remind you of an ex pert surgeon or lawyer who is too tired, but with the full knowledge of so many hopes dependent upon him he cannot rest. I saw Hirohito in the morning and the tall MacArthur, relaxing his six feet two inches in an easy leather chair as he neared the end of his regular 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. workday. The general Intends to stay and work with and through Hirohito until Japan has a peace treaty. MacArthur feels that the Japan ese people generally have done their, part well arid have been ready for, ar, pe&i twgtyjgx .sojine time Dasf..' '.. . ..''!.,' V However, they now are a pawn of global forces, and the treaty when it comes will in effect be dic tated by the basic peace in Eu rope upon which it is dependent. Beyond Retirement Age Meantime, well beyond the nor mal retirement age, the smooth faced, vigorous, dramatic com mander works his 14 hours seven daVs ? lain? P'ide, he says, m the tact that the nation is looking to him and to its emp eror, Is industriously rebuilding itself, an oasis In a sea of civil wars and communistic chaos on nearby Asian mainlands, and (I will break the rule not to quote MacArthur directly) "on our side." Earlier, the emperor expressed admiration for the humanitarian aspects of Christianity, and said he hoped his son, Crown Prince Aklhlto, would be able to com plete his education in America and Europe. Talks Resumed In Ford Strike Detroit, May 11 UB Peace talks to settle the CIO United Auto Workers' strike against the Ford Motor company were re newed today as UAW president Walter Reuther warned left wing elements In his union to quit med dling in the seven-day-old walk out. There was no sign of allegedly communist-inspired pickets who marred yesterday's crucial nego tiations by parading In front of the conference building. Farmers Seeking Additional Price Support Washington, May 11 iui Some beekeepers and rabbit growers want to get under I he govern ment's price support umbrella. So do a lot of farmers who have never had price supports on their particular commodities. Their congressmen and senators have Introduced hills which, If en acted, would fix it for them. A survey shows that if congress enacted nil the price support bills which have been tossed Into the hopper this year, the government would he forced to support prices of a minimum of 28 commodities, including seven which never have been supported under farm law, The seven are honey, Angora rabbit wool, black eyed beans, or anges, grapefruit, lemons, and raisins. . Others Proposed Other hills now In the hopper would make support prices mand atory next year for milk, barley and soybeans. The government now is supporting barley but Is not required to do so. Mandatory No. 133 1182 Ballots Cast in Test Of Sentiment Bend defeated the daylight saving proposal by a vote of 661 to 518 in yesterday's bal loting, believed to be the first test vote in Oregon this season on , the highly controversial "fast time" question., A total of 1182 votes, approximately three times as many as were cast in the city's recent school election, were counted. Three of the total votes were void. The 1182 voters who visited the one balloting place be tween the hours of 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. voted on the proposal: "Do you favor daylight saving? A yes" or "no" vote was required. Members of the election board were Mrs. E. R. Ryan, Mrs. C. J. . Monahan and Mrs. Dora Gales. George Slmervile, city recorder, supervised the advisory election, requested by the city commission to determine the wishes of the people of Bend.: May Set Pattern t It is believed that the Bend vote will set the pattern for all Cen tral Oregon. Redmond was pre pared to shift to daylight saving automatically if Bend made the: change, and now city , officials there plan to remain on solar time. Other Central Oregon towns also have been awaiting the result of the Bend advisory election. if tne dayngnt proposal nau been approved here, local clocks would have been moved ahead one hour on Sunday, May 15. Wishes of rural residents are believed to have been a strong Jactor, in the j local" vote. Howeverrpeople living outside the city had no voice in yesterday's election. Salem Joins Portland Further adding to the confusion of time In Oregon, the Salem city council has decided to join Port land and has adopted the fast time. As a result, a sort of chain reaction has been started in the upper Willamette valley, accord ing to a United Press wire report received today. An informal survey today indi cated that other Willamette valley cities would adopt the daylight time schedule, but reluctantly. City councils of Woodburn, Dal las, Albany, Mt. Angel and Silver ton have indicated they would fol low Salem's decision in turning clocks ahead one hour. East of the Cascades solar time still rules, with the "big four". Klamath Falls, Bend, The Dalles and Pendleton, timing their clocks with the sun. Under a new state law, not effective until mid-July, the governor will be empowered to designate the time to be used in all Oregon. However, this law now is threatened with a referen dum. : ' It was believed - locally that Bend's advisory vote of yesterday will serve as a sort of advisory vote for the entire state, in mak ing known the wishes of the peo ple on the daylight question. BONN NEW CAPITAL Bonn, Germany, May 11 UP' The ancient university city of Bonn was selected today as the provisional capital of the new West German state. The voting was secret. Protection supports for milk and soybeans are scheduled to expire next Dec. 31. Congressional observers, in cluding farm organizations and administration officials, as well ns farm bloc congressmen, figure that most of these bills have lit tle, if any, chance of passage. The bills to suport barley, hon ey, raisins, and blackeyed beans were introduced bv Rep. Cecil F. White, D., Cal. Rep. James H. Morrison, D., La., also has Intro duced a bill to prop honey prices. Sens. Claude Pepper, D,, Fla., and Spessard L. Holland, D., Fla., have Introduced bills to support citrus prices. Sen. Alexander Wiley, R., Wis., and Rep, Reld F. Murray, R., Wis., and a half dozen other represen tatives are sponsoring milk-support legislation. There Is slim chance of pas sage for a bill to support any single commodity unless is is tack ed onto an omnibus measure wrapping up farm support legislation. I I
