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Univ. of Oregon Ubrary EUGENE 0RB00M 1 BEND BULLET State Forecast Oregon Clear to partly cloudy today and Friday. Little change in temperature. High 80 to 90 both days. Low tonight 45 to 55. LEASED WIRE WORLD j NEWS COVERAGE CENTRAL OREGON'S DAlLY NEWSPAPER 33rd Year TWO SECTIONS BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY. OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1949 No. 134 TIE Single Department To Conserve U. S. Devastating Waste Washington, May 12 (UB An emergency conference of the national resources committee met today and was asked'to per suade congress to establish a single department with over-all responsibility for the nation's resources. Former Attorney general Francis Biddle who Ls chairman of the committee said in a statement that the Russians have offered a not uninteresting italism is incapable" of devel- oping and conserving re sources. ("A very large portion of hat paradise of earth which once was America has gone x forever under the fire, the axe, the plow and other free com petitive methods of the pioneer," Biddle said. The national resources commit tee is a private organization in cluding as members leaders in in dustry, labor, agriculture, educa tion, and government. New Agency Sought Morris L. Cooke, first head of the rural electrification adminis tration, told the conference he hoped it would come up with a suggestion for "setting up an en- Washington, May 12 (IB Secretary of agriculture Charles F. Brannan told a natural re sources conference today that the nation will be permanently short of timber unless the government steps in soon to regulate timber cutting. - . Brannan said "we are using our timber much faster than we are growing It." tirely new resources agency." Cooke called the reclamation bureau-army engineers adminis tration of the Missouri river val ley project as "a new low in prof ligate waste of public funds" and their planning "inadequate to the point of being childish." He also critcized the "hit or miss" quality of congressional ap propriations for resource proj ects. . - . - i C. Herman Pritchett of the Uni versity of Chicago cited the "im portant indictments" by the Hoo ver commission of the reclamation-engineers work in the Mis souri basin under the Pick-Sloan plan. Called "Shotgun Wedding" ' Pritchett called the plan the "shotgun wedding" of the two agencies which was held, he said, when the campaign for a Missouri valley authority was "showing signs of success." Ellery Foster of the Interna tional Wood Workers of America (CIO) said in a statement that "as long as the lumber lobby's advice is followed, no forest will be safe, and a large proportion of the log ging operations will continue to be destructive." He said that selective cutting, instead of replanting, is the prop er way to save America's forests. This requires that forests be di vided into small units, he said. "That is Why," he said, "the lib eral forces in the west are on solid technical ground in their opposi tion to the so-called sustained yield agreements proposed by the interior department." Under this type of forestry, huge areas of public and private land would be cut at a uniform rate. Steel Workers AStage Walkout Pittsburg, Calif., May 12 IP CIO steelworkers struck the Co lumbia steel plant today, idling 4.300 employes in what the com pany charged was a violation of the contract. Some 200 men in the open hearth department of the plant, which Is a subsidiary of U. S. ou.-ei, waiKen our 10 enioice humi protest against the company's ac tion in reassigning certain em ployes to new shifts in the open hearth department. O. A. Pringle, company vice president, said the reassignment of shifts was "entirely In accord with the labor contract" "The contract expressly pro vides that any alleged grievance shall be handled according to a grievance procedure without work stoppage," he said. "This arbitrary action is a. clear violation of contract." The walkout began shortly after noon. It Involves steelworkers local 1440. A company spokesman said "It looks like they're all go ing out." Joe Lockner, general aeer.t of the local, said the strike was "spontaneous" among the men and that there were no Immediate plans for a picket line. He said the walkout was not ordered by local union officials. challenge by stating that "cap Wheat Farmers Offered Bonus To Retain Grain Washington, May 12 ilPi The Agriculture Department today of fered to pay farmers 10 to 1H4 cents a bushel to hold wheat on their farms for another year in stead of delivering it to the gov ernment. This would apply to wheat on which farmers have ob tained loans on purchase agree ments. The department offered similar programs for barley and oats in a move to encourage farm stor age of grains before coming crop floods into the big terminal. Under the proposed program, farmers would have the option of extending for. another year their price support loans which expired May 1. Likewise, far mers who have wheat under pur chase agreement could store It for another year. Depends on Area To farmers who keep their wheat, the department offered a storage payment ranging from 10 to 1 ',4s cents a buushel, depend ing on the area. In Kansas, the biggest wheat state, the payment will amount to 10 cents. The department offered storage payments of eight cants a bush el for pats and 10- cents for barley.. ..ut ..-. : -- ' Only 60,000,000 bushels of the estimated 250,000,000 bushels of 1948 loan wheat was said to be on farms. The government Wants it left there. Another 113,000,000 bushels of wheat was said to be under pur- i chase agreement, but no figures were available as to how much of this still is on farms. Officials said, however, they believe less than 10,000,000 bu shels of wheat will be affected by the program. Only in scat tered area where the new crop is expected to be relatively small will farmers take advantage of the oner, officials said. Eisler Stowaway Aboard Liner New York, May 12 (IPi A ra dio message from the trans- Atlantic liner Batory indicated today that a stowaway aboard the ship is Gerhart Eisler, who has been called the No. 1 U.S. communist. A message from the shin; in answer to an immigration service query, said the stowaway said he was born Feb. 20, 1897, at Leipzig, Germany. Records In the office of Els ler's attorney show the same birthdate and other records in dicate that Eisler was born in Leipzig of Austrian parents. Eisler has been free on $24,500 bail pending his appeals to the supreme court on two federal convictions, for passport fraud and contempt on congress. De portation proceedings also have been pending against him. Justice department officials said Eisler would be jailed im mediately if he is returned here. The message from the Batory gave no further details on the man who was reported to have bought a ticket to Cydnla, Po land, after his discovery on the ship. Boy Pronounced Dead, Eats Meal Pasadena. Cal., May 12 rtPi Four -year -old Lawrence Page, pronounced dead Saturday night. todav ate his first meal in more than four days. His mother, Mrs. Francis M. Page. Mojave, Cal., brought a breakfast tray and fed him or ange Juice, cereal and milk in his room at Huntington hospital. She said she would bring his brothers, Eddie. 8. and Ronnie, 5, to visit him later todav. The boy said his first word since being pronounced dead when his father showed him a toy last night and asked: "Whose is this?" "Larry's." was his feeble answer. is Sought Resources; Charged Forest Service ivestigating Odell Lake Crash Investigation of the -Odell lake crash Monday afternoon that re sulted in the death of David Lepe- scu, San Francisco, calif., pilot, and the injury of Ralph W. Craw ford, Richard P. Bottcher and Newell Cory, forest service offi cials, was nearlng completion to day, following removal of the plane from the lake. Of the three men injured only one, Crawford, remains in the hospital. Bottcher, who was only slightly injured, did not enter the hos pital. Cory was released yester day, and returned to his home at Crescent, where he is stationed as district ranger. The at tending physician said Crawford, Deschutes national forest super visor, would be in the hospital for several days. However, his con dition was reported good. Taking part in the investigation of the crash is John S. Bowen, United States forest service re gional safety officer, who is here today conferring with the crash survivors. Wreckage Removed When the plane wreckage was removed from the deep water at Odell lake, just off Trapper creek, the body of the pilot was found still strapped to the seat. Only a small piece of broken metal held the seat in the plane. Had that bit of metal broken, the pilot might have made his way to safety. He was carried to his death when the fuselage turned over, after breaking away from the wings, to .which the engines were attached. , 'The, body p.:h,e,pilot who had made application to the" forest' service for amphibian plane moor age at Odell lake, was taken to San Francisco for services. Although the fuselage of the plane was taken ashore, the wings and the engines, which apparent ly were torn from the body of the plane by the crash, remain in the lake. Ford, Strikers Still Negotiate Detroit, May 12 (tB-.Negotia- tors continued efforts today to settle the Ford Motor company strike that with other "speed up" disputes in the auto industry has idled 150,000 workers and cut car and truck production by 20,000 units this week. Peace talks between the strik ing CIO United Auto Workers' union and Ford officials resumed despite the absence of UAW pres ident Walter P. Keuther, who was in Pittsburgh for a conference with CIO president Philip Murray. About 100,000 workers are job less from the strike against Ford's big River Rouge and Lincoln-Mer cury plants here. Another 33,000 have been laid off by the Chrys ler corporation because of a parts shortage brought on by a supplier company strike. Other disputes over alleged work speed ups boosted the total Idle to 150,000. Potato Sales Show Decline Washington, May 12 HP The agriculture department said today that the government's heavy loss es on the 1948 potato support pro gram were due In part to an "un precedented drop" In potato con sumption. In a review of the potato situa tion, the department said prelim inary estimates indicate that Americans apparently reduced their potato eating last year by 15 pounds per capita, or about 12 per cent. That alone would account for 36,000,000 bushels of the "sur plus" 144,000.000 bushels which the government had to buy up in supporting the 446.000.000 bushel crop. The support operation, man datory under farm law, cost more than $200,000,000. "Another surplus is In prospect for 1949. though much smaller than in 1948," the report said, "un less farmers reduce acreage this year below the seven per cent re duction indicated by their March Intentions to plant, or unless yields should be surprisingly poor." Plane Carries Flier fo Death in Forest Service Photo. Pictured here is the wreckage of the plane which Monday afternoon carried David Lepescu, San Francisco pilot.to his death in Odell lake and injured three of .his passengers', Ralph W. Crawford and Richard P. Bottcher, Bend, and Newell Cory, Crescent, all Deschutes national forest officials. This picture was taken after the submerged plane was hauled ashore. Its wings were sheared off in khe crash. Higher Taxation Still Demanded By Pres. Truman Washington, May 12 HP) President Truman insisted today that $4,000,000,000 (B) in new tax es will be necessary this year to avoid a federal deficit. This was the request of Mr. Truman made of congress In Jan uary. The $4,000,000,000 would be In general revenue. In addition, the administration wants sinie $2,000,000,000 in additional so cial security taxes. Chairman Robert L. Doughton of the tax-writing house ways and means committee expressed hope yesterday that government spending could be cut sufficient ly to avoid new taxes this year. Doughton even expressed doubt that a bill calling for new tax' es would be considered at tills session of congress. Holds Position Today at a news conference Mr. Truman stuck firmly to his January position. The president told reporters 'he is in complete agreement with Doughton on the necessity for rigid economy in the government. But under succeeding ques tioning the president said he does not believe it would be possible to avoid a deficit without new taxes. Mr. Truman said federal rev enue should be sufficient to re tire between $2,000,000,000 and $5,000,000,000 of the national debt every year. The president was unable to estimate the deficit probable at the end of this fiscal year June 30. He said he would have to wait until he had more up-to-date figures. Latest budget bu reau estimate was $000,000,000. The president spoke with feel ing in his opposition to deficit financing, saying there should be no deficit In a country with a national income of abqut $217, 000,000,000. SEARCH ABANDONED Portland, May 12 'in Capt. Jospph Smith, commander of the McChord field, Wash., air force base rescue detachment, todav said an organized search for a missing B-26 attack bomber that vanished in the northwest three weeks ago had been abandoned. The plane disappeared on a flight from Hamilton field, Cal., to Portland with three California service men aboard: Col, Archi bald Y. Smith, 49, pilot; Col. Wal ter W. Hodge, 45, Presidio. San Francisco, and MSgt. Ii. E. Slu ga, San Jose. 2 ALARMS ANSWERED A motor in a refrigeration unit at the Marketeria on North First street burned out this morning, fillirtg the grocery store with smoke. Firemen who answered a general alarm at 7:41 a.m. said that damage was confined to the motor. In answer to a still alarm, the fire department made a run nt 9:20 a.m. to McKinley avenue and South Fourth street, where they extinguished a trash fire that was unattended. There was no dam age. SAFETY RKCOK1) GOOD Portland, May 12 UP Portland continued Its perfect string of traffic safety days today, entering its 54th day without a fatullty. It Is the longest period of its kind for the city of roses. General Clay Warns Berlin Populace Fight Not Yet Won By John B. McDermott (United l'rM Staff Cormiiondcnt) Berlin, May 12 .(U.E) Jubilant Berliners celebrating the lifting of the soviet blockade heard a sober warning by Gen. Lucius D. Clay today that they still had to fight for the free dom they earned with the help of the airlift. The retiring U. S. military governor made his farewell ap' pearance before the west Berlin city assembly as trains. Truman Predicts Wayward Solons Will face Puttie . Washington, May 12 U' -Presi-dent Truman told reporters today he won't have to purge democrats who oppose the administration program because the people will take care of that. '. He was questioned about a re mark attributed to him earlier this week that there are "too many Byrds" in congress. He was quoted to that effect by a delegation representing the American veterans committee. The remark referred to Sen. Har ry F. Byrd, D Va., who has fre quently opposed administration policy. Byrd, after publication of the remark, said he was ready to com bat any "purge" efforts by Mr. Truman in the 1952 election. Todav the chief executive was asked whether he had been cor rectly quoted about Byrd. The president replied that he saw no reason to comment on a confi dential conversation. . ' Then he was asked whether he was "thinking in terms of a purge." lie replied that lie was not interested In a purge and that the people would take care of that. Buried Money Found in Garage j Seattle, May 12 (Hi Two friends of a once-wealthy real estate oper ator who (lied a recluse in appar ent poverty revealed today how they dug up $27,400 in cash from beneath the dirt floor of his ga rage. George R. Comptnn, who came here from New York 50 years ago and made a fortune in real estate ionly lo lose it In the depression of the earlv 30's, died April 24. j Hi? was 81." j Shortly after his funeral, At torney Reeve Aylmore discovered j $2.1,000 In hunk deposits In Comp. ton's name had been untouched (Since lf).'7. He asked two of iCompton's friends lo search ; Cnmntnn'H nun reni.'tininp niece ; ui .i .y, ins num.-. ' Fieri Osborne. Spokane, and! Charles I). Cumrnlngs, temporary administrator of the estate, round which tax cither was not poid or the cache of money In three glass Was paid at a reduced rule be Jars burled beneath two feet of cause the fuel was used for cov dirt in (.nmptons garage. Osborne said that he, Cum- mlngs and Comptnn had come west together from New York state half a centurv ago. They "mucked for gold In Alaska and punched rattle from Montana to; tie M. Cutshall, 53, Portland, siif. ! Arizona," he said. ifocated when a bed caucht fire Osborne recalled that Compton, i in her home, the fire marshal's whose real estate holdings were of flee reported today, appraised during the 20's at more ! Her husband, Charles Cutshall, than $300,000, had once said, "irhnd been away on a trip. He anybody wants mv monev, they'll ! found the fire when he returned, have to dig for It." 'She was an Invalid. Odell Lake trucks, and cars flooded into the city for the first time since the Russians imposed the blockade 328 days ago. - I. In Carnival Mood ,Thb incoming trafic,-hu't'k- ing Russia s biggest setback in the cold war, found Herlin in a carnival mood. Flags flutter ed In a hot spring sun. Schools were out for a- holiday. For the first time in a year Russians smiled at Americans, Britons, French and Germans along the zonal boundaries. After the first mad rush of traf fic between Berlin and west Ger many, the occupation powers and the Germans got down to brass tacks. They started pouring sup plies, especially fresh vegetables, and equipment into the city to re pair the ravages of nearly a yeur of skimping under the soviet shackles. The first two food trucks, bring ing 28 tons of fresh cucumbers and leeks, arrived at 11:27 and 11:34 a.m. The first freight train of 43 cars loaded with coke ar rived at the Lichterficld station in the American sector at noon, Driver Rewarded The driver of the first truck to arrive with fresh vegetables was given 10 bottles of schnapps, The first interzonal buses left Berlin for Helmstadt, the check point at the Anglo-soviet border, at 7 a.m. It was jammed to capa city with no standing room left. The Berlin airlift roared on, even though it had defeated the main Russian tactic in the cold war. Western officials said the pa rade of transports between west Germany and Berlin would con tinue until a stockpile of 200,000 tons of foodstuffs had been built up here, "The future only can determine the exact date when the airlift will end," l.t. Gen. John K. Can non, commander of U. S. air forces In Europe, said. Auto Drivers Use Much Gasoline Washington, May 12 Hli Auto mobile drivers burned 30,616,486, OIK) gallons of gasoline In 1948 and paid taxes of $1,082,705,690 for the privilege. Stales collected $1,342,973,000 In gasoline taxes; the federal gov ernment $459,702,690. The gasoline consumption was eight per cent above the amount used in 1947, the federal works accnev mnnrtpd. The 1918 eallonaee does not In elude 4,598,301,000 gallons on ernmcnt er non-highway pur- poses. WOMAN SUFFOCATED Portland. Mav 12 'Hi Mrs. Mvr- Lightning Hits in Deschutes Forests, as Result of Thunder' Storm; Heat Wave Continues New thundorheads were building up in the southeast again today following an electric storm that sent bolts into the Des chutes national forest Tuesday, resulting in the first light ning fire of the season. This was in the Bessie butte area, south of Bend. It was a small blaze, and was quickly con trolled, Protective forces were alerted this morning as the first thunderheads were spotted far to the south, with the temp Snow Blanket Still Heavy In Cascades Deep snow holding an abnor mally heavy water content still blankets the mid-Oregon Cus cades, according to information from the office of W. T. Frost, hy draulic engineer in charge of snow surveys in Oregon for fed eral and state cooperating agen cies. "Snow surveys at key sta tions in the Cascades indicate the present snow contains up' to 168 per cent ot the average water con tent at the highest elevations," the May 1 report, copies of which have just been received here, state. The mountain snow cover al ready has released much water because of the abnormally warm and dry April weather, but this cover still holds water averaging 28 per cent above normal through the state. Only in the Malheur, Owyhee and Great Basin drain ages ls the water content below normal. Storage Greater Total water stored in all impor tant Oregon reservoirs Is 12 per cent greater than at this date last year. Of Oregon's more important reservoirs, 91 per cent are half full or better. The Deschutes res ervoir and the Ochoco are .near or at caDacitv. . t Frost Witf that revised stretinwr flow forecasts for the state indi cate the need for some reductions from the April 1 forecasts throughout the area because of the lack of precipitation in April. In that month, only .06 of an Inch was measured at the Bend station. New record stream flows for the April-September period are still likely to be established in some areas, including tile Des chutes, Frost reports. , Crew Abandons Burning Tanker New York, May 12 HPi A fire aboard the large Swedish tanker Atlanta early today forced the entire crew lo abandon ship 330 miles northeast of Barbados island in the Atlantic, the coast guard reported. Coast guard officers estimated about 40 men would have been In the 9,683-ton tanker's crew. The U.S. coast guard cutter Pandora was dispatched Imme diately to the scene from San Juan, Puerto Rico, 500 miles away. Other ships In the area were asked to proceed to the res cue and one vessel, the Italian steamship Foscolo, reportedly was on the way. The last fragmentary report from the vessel was received by radio at Barbados island at 2:50 a.m. (KDT). at that time the cap tain and radio operator were still aboard. Bui when no further word was heard from the vessel four hours later, I he coast guard said it either apparently had sunk or hud been abandoned com pletely. The ocean weather division of the weather bureau here re ported that the weather was good In the area of the disaster, with a partly cloudy sky and light winds, giving hope the men would be able to hold out In Ihelr lifeboats until help could arrive. Because radio Interference was bad In the urea, the coast guard was unable lo learn lhe extent of the the or Its cause. But the captain and lhe radio operator remained aboard In the most heroic tradition of the sea sending SOS messages to the last. The vessel, en route from Goth- island, was built in 1930 and was owned by Otto Gothenburg. Kihlstrom of PROBLEM SOLVED Seattle, May 12 (U M. C. Colt rell won't be bothered any more with caterpillars In the evergreen tree near his home. He took a torch and burned them out. The tree burned too. erature rapidly mounting. Yesterday s maximum was 84 degrees, highest mark record ed at the Bend station this year. Lookouts were on four Deschutes forest stations this morning. They are Mrs. Leona Jones, Lava butte; Mrs. Melissa Muves, East butte; Bob LeBlanc, Spring butte, and Ed Park, Black butte. ' v . Rainfall Light Little precipitation , accompa" nied yesterday's storm, and arid conditions still prevail in Central Oregon. Observers in charge of the local weather station say the firesent spring ls one of the driest n the 45 year history of the sta tion. Normally, May is one of the dampest months of the year. Only a trace of rain feu in Bend yesterday afternoon. The Cres cent district received widely scat tered showers. (By United Pram) ' Flood fighters were put on a 24-hour basis Thursday at Bon- ners rerry, Ida., where tne snow- fed Kootenai river reached to within two feet of spilling over dikes. A six-day Pacific northwest teat wave bringing the highest temperatures in the nation hast ened melting of the Cascades' rec ord snow-pack and swelled streams and rivers emptying into the Columbia to near-flood crests. The Seattle weather bureau pre dicted the Kootenai would rise 3.7 feet by 8 a.m. (PST) Friday. At 8 o'clock Thursday morning the . river had reached 24.8 feet and was rising at the rateuf .15 feet" an hour. : j;-,? Engineers Busy Army engineers worked around : the clock trying to complete dike ; constructions. At several points, where the dikes had been breach ed during the disastrous 1948 flood, the old barriers had been torn down. The half-completed new dikes represented the major danger, the river forecaster said. . Despite the flood peril at Bon- ners Ferry, forecasters still saw little chance that last year s wide spread Columbia river flood would be repeated. In the spring of 1948, the Koote nai went on a rampage smashing dikes from the Canadian border down to Bonners Ferry and inun dating thousands of valuable wheat acreage. As the Pacific northwest swel tered, continued moderate rises in the area's tributaries to the Co lumbia were forecast for the next three or four days. A truck and trailer were dis patched from Seattle Thursday carrying 50,000 empty sand bags to be used In reinforcing the dikes . at Bonners Ferry. A company of 100 men, 20 dump trucks, two power shovels, bulldozers, a liai son plane and other equipment were rushed to the threatened area from Fort Lewis, Wash. Maj. J. S. Grygicld, chief of op erations division of the Seattle district, was enroute to direct flood-fighting operations. Yakima Warmed The nation's hot spot Wednes day was Yakima, Wash., where residents baked in 98 degrees. : Oregon's highest , temperature was the 97 recorded at The Dalles. Seattle had its hottest day of the year as the mercury climbed to 82. The weatherman saw no Imme diate break in the heat wave. "Temperatures will be pretty much the same Thursday and Fri day," he said. ' A moderate rise continued in the Snake and' Columbia rivers and the Wenatchee, Methow and Entlut were approaching the 1948 flood level under the broiling sun. Drinking Water Muddy The Green river, Tacoma's main water supply, sent muddy water surging into the Green riv er reservoir threatening the city's water supply Wednesday. At Wenatchee, Wash., the tribu taries of the Columbia had cwol len to within a few feet of the 1948 flood crest. The Columbia it self at that point, however, was still 26 feet below the 40-year high " fElstered last year and 10 feet below what Is considered flood stage. However, the Columbia continued rising at the rate of one foot a day. The Kootenai river in northern Idaho had reached the 23 foot lev el Thursday. Other high temperatures In Washington Wednesday included: Spokane 90, Walla Walla 90, Wen. atchee, 93, Omak 42, Ephrata 94; In Oregon Medford 92, Portland 85, and Pendleton 91. r
