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with a few showers today.
Sunday partly cloudy to
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Low tonight 45 to 55.
BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1949
No. 142
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I Tiny Wildcats Found In Manger
When Bill Barrett, Hampton butte rancher, found four tiny wildcats in the manger of his barn re
cently, he wasn't in the least surprised, for the mother cat last year established her maternal den
in his haystack. Barrett is pictured here, at right, witli the four baby wildcats. At left, a neighbor,
George Lowe, is holding one of the little creatures.
Tiny Bobcaf
Kittens Found
In Manger
' A mother bobcat of the Hamp
ton butte region recently moved
into the barn on the Bill Barrett
ranch and set up housekeeping
in a manger, the rancher reported
when In Bend this week. In proof
of his report, he displayed four
tiny kittens, which the wildcat
had mothered in the manger.
Last ' year, . the mother cat
established her maternal , den in
: the Barrett haystack, adjacent to
i ihe barn. This year there was no
slack there, due to the hard win
ter and heavy feeding, so the
mamma cat moved into the man
ger. Barrett and Lowe discovered
the kittens recently, when the
mother cat was out foraging.
They made plans to catch the
mother cat. A.nd while planning,
Lowe picked up one of the kit
tens. When they returned to the
barn next morning, they found
that the mother cat had discov
ered the human scent on her
young, and had started moving
out her brood. One kitten had
been moved. The other four were
still in the manger.
The future of the kittens was
still uncertain when Barrett and
Lowe visited Bend. In Bend, they
sold one kitten. '
Newbry, Pearson
Recall Talked
Portland, May 21 IP State
Senator Frank H. Hilton, Multno
mah county republican, said to
day he thought it would be a
good idea" to recall Secretary
of Stale Earl T. Newbry and State
Treasurer Walter J. Pearson..
Hilton's statement followed one
from Hector McPherson, Corval
lis, former state legislator, sug
gesting such a recall move. Mc
Pherson was quoted in the Ore
gon Statesman.
Newbry and Pearson engi
neered the ouster of Tax Com
missioners Wallacp S. Wharton
and Earl Fisher and the anpolnt
rnent of Ray Smith, president of
the Oregon Republican club, and
Robert MaClean, Waldport.
Earlier Hilton appealed to Gov.
Douglas McKay to take legal
steps to halt changes In the tax
commission. Advised of MacPher
son's proposal. Hilton said:
"I will give my moral suoport
to a recall of Newbry and Pear
son." He said hp had been tempted
during thp legislative session to
speak on thp senate floor about
the close relations between New
pry and Pearson, "but I refrained
n the hope that maybe I might
be wrong and some good would
comp from them."
"Now I am assured this can
not be. They plaved togpthpr
during their days In the senate,
and they'll play together cn the
board of control."
PILOT IDENTIFIED
San Francisco, Mav 21 U"i The
air force today identified the
Pilot killed In a let fighter crash
yesterday near Maupin. Ore., as
Capt. Ray H. Llttge, 25. of Ham
ilton field. He leaves a wife, Hel
en, and a one-year-old son. Lit
'Res mother Is Mrs. Martha
Lichtncgger, Altenburg, Mo.
Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt, Jr.
Obtains Divorce in Nevada
Minden, Nev., May 21 U.E)
Jr., today divorced her congressman-elect husband de
scribed by her attorney as a "future president of the United
States on grounds of mental cruelty.
Mrs. Roosevelt, the former Ethel DuPont of the munitions'
millionaire family, drove with
meyer, from Reno to this small town, 50 miles to the south, in
a vain attempt to escape reporters.
Call Bids for
Guard Home Here
Bids for the construction in
Bend of a-home for Co. I of the
Oregon National guard will be
opened in Salem this coming
week, In the May 23-25 period,
Major-General Thomas E. Rilea,
adjutant general of Oregon, re
ported when in Bend today.
Plans call for a main concrete
building 52 by 128 feet. An in
door rifle range will parallel one
side of the building a.nd will be
15 feet wide and 128 feet long.
Government money will be used
for this construction.
Supplementing the main build
ing, the state proposes to con
struct an office, supply room,
arms storage vault, heating plant,
and a day room for the men. Gen
eral Rilea said. This will also par
allel the main structure, and will
be 40 feet wide.
Will Be Expedited '
"As soon as bids are opened,
we propose to send a representa
tive from the adjutant general's
office to Washington, D. C, to
avoid delay and expedite con
struction," General Rilea said.
He said ground should be
broken before the end of June
and the structure ready for dedi
cation by the middle of October,
if plans proceed as scheduled.
"The Bend unit, which estab
lished such an excellent record
in world war 2, is scheduled to
leav here June 10 for Fort Lewis,
to participate In 15 days' field
training,". General Rilea added.
This will be the first lime that
the 41st division will be assem
bled as a division since its reor
ganization following the war.
The adjutant general was ac
companied here by his aide, Har
vey L. Latham, formerly vete
rans' contact representative in
Bend. .
Take Runaway Boy
In Custody Here
A 15-year-old runaway boy from
Susanville, Calif., was taken into
custody by city police yesterday
and lodged in the county jail,
Harry S. Johnson, deputy sheriff,
reported,
The boy, who has been missing
from his home for the past two
weeks, was found setting pins in
a loral bowling alley. Police are
holding him pending the arrival
here Monday of his mother.
One of two boys apprehended
earlier this week for illegal pos
session of a motorcycle was or
dered committed to Woodburn
school for boys and then paroled
yesterday by C. L. Allen, juvenile
judge. The other boy wag turned
over to Ernest Meyers, parole of
ficer for the school, for violation
of parole. He had served five
months In the school approxi
mately two years ago.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt
her attorney, George Spring-
Hearing of the case took 10
minutes.
District judge Harry Wat
son granted Mrs- Roosevelt
the 'divorce from toe1 son ft
the late president on grounds of
simple lncompaiiDiuiy, or as it is
referred to In Nevada "extreme
cruelty, entirely mental in na
ture."
Agreement Approved
A sealed agreement was ap
proved by the court, covering a
property settlement and provid
lng for custody of the couple's
two children, Franklin III, 10,
and Christopher, 7. ,
The same document also made
provisions for establishment of a
substantial trust fund for the chil
dren, who remained in an eastern
school while their socialite mother
established her 42-day Nevada
residence.
The reporters were waiting at
the courthouse when spring'
myer arrived with Mrs. Roose-
velt after a fox and hounds chase
from Reno, which included a flat
tire and a stop by deputy sheriffs
who wanted to know what the
newsrnen had in mind.
Sprlngmyer appeared horrified
when reporters greeted him as he
walked into the courtroom. Fix-
teen minutes after the hearing
ended, Mrs. Roosevelt remained
secluded behind the courtroom
doors while the attorney argued
vainly trying to persuade report
ers to leave.
The 34-year-old Roosevelt mar
ried Ethel DuPont at her family
mansion at Greenville, Del., in
June. 1937, at a time when his
president-father was being criti
cized as a "soak the rich" advo
cate.
Refuses to Comment
Maintaining the tight-lipped si
lence she has displayed with but
one exception since her arrival six
weeks ago, Mrs. Roosevelt had no
comment to make about her ul
vorce. In fact, she had nothing to
say about anything,
Finally, while reporters and
Sprlngmeyer still were arguing
in front of the courtroom. Mrs.
Roosevelt and a socialite friend
slipped out a back door, ran to a
waiting car and drove away,
The attorney, however, stayed
behind and remonstrated vigor
ously with newsmen, pleading
with them not to write the story.
Friends of Mrs. Roosevelt said
she intended to return to the east
immediately, probably going to
her family home.
Sprlngmeyer. at a press confer
ence yesterday, pleaded with
newsmen to handle the case "de
corously." FINES IMPOSED
Six Bend residents have been
cited on charges of permitting
their dogs to run, at large, city
records show. Cited were C. E.
Spring, $5 fine suspended; Linus
Anderson, $5 fine forfeited; C. A.
Osborn, $5 fine forfeited; C. E.
Archer, $5 fine forfeited; J. B.
O'Keefe, entered plea of .not guil
ty, trial set for May 24; Bill Ed
wards, bond set at $5.
Powell Butte:
Road Project
Gets Approval
$90,000 Allocation Mad
By Highway Department I
For Surfacing, Oiling ?.
An allocation of $90,000 for
grading, surfacing and oiling &
five mile section of the Powell
Butte road In Deschutes county
was made Wednesday by the.
state highway commission, ass
part of a $23,000,000 major con
struction program for 1950-51. AK
so provided for in the program,;
which includes 57 projects
throughout the state, is a $150,000
project of grading, surfacing and
oiling a five mile section of the'
O'Neil road in Crook county, east,
of Terrebone. .- c
The Powell Butte road extends
seven and one half miles north-.'
east from the east end of the
Butler market road to the Crook
county line. The remaining four
and one-half miles of the road
extend northeast from the Crook
county line to the Ochoco highn
way. The northernmost three
miles of road in Crook county
are already paved. ;
' 4 Miles To Remain
The project calls for improve.
ment of the five miles of road
extending northeast 'from the
Bend airport. After this work Is
completed sometime within the,
next two years there still will
be an approximate four mile sec
tion of the road in the vicinity of
the county line which will be un
improved. At present, the road is of
earth and cinder construction. It
was built and has been main
tained by the state highway de
partment. The roadbed which is
now 20 feet wide will have to be
increased to a required 26 feet.
OiUng Completed
The state highway department
has just completed oiling two
miles of the Bend-Prineville high
way between the Butler road and
Central Oregon highway, and .7
of a mile of the Dencer road
north of the Central Oregon high-1
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Four miles of the O'Neil high
way in Deschutes county has al
ready been oiled. The five mile
improvement project on the sec
tion of the road In Crook coun
ty will extend east from the
county line. ,
Deschutes county road crews
now are preparing the north two
and one half miles of the Clover
dale market road for oiling.
Work completed so far this spring
by county crews includes the con
struction of new bridges at Peter
sen's Rock gardens,, and on the
Chris Harry road. County road
crews also did the preliminary
work in preparing the Dencer
road and the Bend-Powell Butte
highway for oiling.
Group to Attend
Klamath Meeting
Central Oregon communities
will be represented at the annual
meeting of the Modoc area Boy
Scout council in Klamath Falls
tomorrow by a large delegation, it
was indicated today as plans for
the trip south were completed.
The meeting will start Sunday nt
1:30 p.m., in the Klamath Falls
armory. The session will open
with a potluck dinner, to be fol
lowed by the annual business
meeting and program. Adjourn
ment has been set for 4 p.m.
Kenneth Pierson. field executive
for the council, has announced
that persons from the Fremont.
Lake and Pit river districts are
to bring their own eating uten
sils, plates and cups, but no food.
The Klamath district will provide
food for the potluck lunch.
Making the trip to Klamath
Falls from Redmond tomorrow
will bo Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Houk
and Robert Maxwell. Prinevllle
will be represented by Mr. and
Mrs. H. C. Hulett and party.
- Bend persons planning on mak
ing the trip are Dr. John Dorsch.
Fremont district chairman, end
his family; Mr. and Mrs. Leo
Herbring and son, Henry; Dick
Rasmussen, Robert Johnson and
Mr. and Mrs. M, F. Bevans.
Arrangements for hte annual
meeting were made hy Jack Bi
shop, Klamath Falls, chairman of
the program and arrangements
committee.
TURNABOUT!
Salem, May 21 mi The faculty
of the J. L. Parish junior high
school turned up In class yester
day, dressed like the pupils and
puffing bubble gum.
The schoolmarms wore bobby
Box and short dresses, while the
male teachers hung out their
shlrttalls.
Principal Carl Aschenbrenner,
clad in overalls, explained:
"We wanted to show the stu
dents how they looked."
Berlin
Battle C
West United
For Big Four
Meet Monday
By H. H. Shackford
(Unital Pi-mm Suff CorrnMionilent)
Paris. May 21 UHi-The Ameri
can, British and French foreign
ministers met at the foreign of
fice today to confirm that thev
will present a common front to
Russia at the big four conference
on Germany opening Monday.
. The ministers got together soon
after 4 p.m. (11 a.m. EDT) for a
survey of the problems before
tnem. Itiey were Secretary of
state Dean Acheson. who arrived
by plane from Washington this
morning; Foreign secretary Er-
inest tsevin, wno came from Lon
don by boat and train, and For
eign minister Robert Schuman,
the host.
' Foreign minister Andrei Vishin
sky of Russia left Moscow by
plane today for the conference.
None knew what he would pull
out ot nis Dag wnen he reaches
Paris.
Dulles In Attendance
'. Acheson, accompanied by his
wife, his republican adviser, John
Foster Dulles, and Mrs. Dullesi
arrived at Oily airfield shortly
after 9 a.m. in President Tru
man's personal plane, the Inde
pendence.
it was Acheson's first visit to
France in 11 years. He confined
his arrival remarks to expressing
his pleasure and delight at being
back again.
Regarding the Big Four council
of foreign ministers meeting, he
said only: "I have nothing to sav.
LI have-already expressed myself
statement in Washington earlier
this week when he promised not
to bargain away western success
es just for the sake of agreement
with the Russians.
He also warned Americans
against "undue pessimism or pre
mature optimism."
Dressed in a natty pin-striped
suit:- Acheson drove immediately
to the American embassy. There
he conferred with his counselor,
Charles E. Bohlen, and his alter
nate delegate, Philip C. Jessup.
Both men have been meeting with
British and French representa
tives for a week preparing a com
mon western policy on Germany.
HEADS GARDEN CLUB
Madras, May 21 Mrs. John
Brooks has been elected presi
dent of the Madras garden club.
Other new officers of the club are
Mrs. Harold J. Eidemiller, vice
president; and Mrs. Everett Van
Wert, secretary-treasurer.
Deschutes Yields Big Trout
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Here is some further proof that there arc still fine fish in the Des
chutes a 25-inch Brown caught yesterday by Clifford Smith, who
Is pictured holding the big trout. He caught the Brown in the Des
chutes at the former Camp Abbot area, and landed It after an
hour's battle. Inside the Brown was found a 10-Inch white fish.
The Brown was caught on a fly.
Railroad Strikers
ommunist
Work Started
On Clearing
Of McKenzie
Crews operating plows were
boring into Cascade snow on both
the east and west slopes of the
Cascades today, in an effort to
open the McKenzle highway by
June 1. If this objective is at
tained, it . will be the earliest
opening of the mountain road in
seven years.
It was announced from the lo
cal highway office today that ro
taries were ordered into the Cas
cade snow May 19. The opera
tions from the Sisters side are
under the supervision of Emory
Johnson, Bend, district main
tenance supervisor.
To the north, work of opening
the snow-choked Mt. Hood loop
has- also been started.
Snow Still Deep
Information from Sisters indi
cated that the east side rotary
this morning had reached the
Windy point area, where the Mc-
Kenzie highway overlooks the
Belknap crater lava fields. Ahead
of the crew ih the deepest snow
faced in the McKenzie pass open
ing work in the past decade.
Little information is available
as to the depth of the snow
along the mile-high summit, but
reports indicate that the big cut,
at the east approach to the lava
beds, is completely filled by
drifted snow. Rotary crews are
expected to encounter their heav
iest work in the cut, through
which the highway winds In its
approach to the high divide and
the Craig memorial viewpoint.
The crew operating from the Mc
Kenzie slope Is expected to en
counter deep snow near the top
of Deadhorse hill and across the
flat to Pole bridge. No informa
tion was available here today as
to thp progress being made on the
west. side work.: r-1, ;
Crews expect to encounter deep
drifts along the divide. Aviators
report that the lava fields at the
summit are still white, with drifts
in evidence. Recent snow surveys
in the Cascades have revealed
that the May snow pack holds a
heavy moisture content.
The McKenzie highway, short
cut between Central Oregon and
Eugene, was opened to travel on
June 23 in 1948 and was closed by
an early winter blizzard on No
vember 17.
Earliest opening of the pass
route on record was in 1930, when
the road was freed of snow on
April 14. Latest opening was in
1943, when the high route was
choked by snow until July 16.
DENIAL MADE
Richland, Wash., May 21 tlPi
A report that uranium was re
moved from a restricted area of
the Hanford atomic works here
was denied here today.
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Traffic Snarled,
As Workers From Western
Zone Struggle With Soviets
Berlin, May 21 (UP) At least 500 persons were hurt today
in pitched battles between striking west German railway
workers and communist strike-breakers in Berlin. ,
Non-communist strikers attacked with iron bars, clubs
and fists at stations throughout the former German capital.
At one point pickets set vicious police dogs on men trying to
keep the stations open.
Every elevated railway train in western Berlin was halted.
Virtually all rail traffic in and out of Berlin also ceased de-
spite desperate soviet at
tempts to keep it rolling.
15,000 Men Involved
Altogether 15,000 railway
workers from the three west
ern sectors were on strike.
They demanded that the soviet ad
ministration, which controls the
railways, pay them In western
marks instead of eastern marks,
which are worth only a quarter as
much.
The soviet administration called
on 12,000 railway workers from
the eastern sector to keep the
trains running, but the loyal
workers appeared to be fighting
a losing battle. Strike headquar
tersclaimed a complete victory.
Scores of slugging matches
broke out, Sometimes several
were raging at a single station.
Passengers found tnemselves m
the middle and many were In
jured. German police struggled in vain
to restore order. As soon as they
would quell one disturbance, two
or tnree would oreaK our else
where. With sirens, shrieking, riot
squads rushed from station to sta
tion. . , .), .
' Russians Guarded
A special German police guard
was given several Russian -offi
cers when they visited the scene
of a severe street fight near Tern
plehof airfield in the American
sector.
Strikers and sympathizers
cursed and spit at the soviet of
ficers, who included Maj. Gen.
P. A. Kvashnin, the soviet trans
port chief. At one time, more
than 400 fighting men were mill
ing about the spot.
American military police finally
dispersed the rioters.
British authorities and German
police broke up another big fight
at the Charlottenburg elevated
station in the British sector.
Brig. Gen. Frank L. Howley,
American commandant In Berlin,
indicated a hands-off attitude to
ward the strike itself, but he
hinted at sympathy for the strik
ers' objective.
Thousands or Berllners were
late to work and many were with
out any transportation at all.
Street cars and subways, still
running, were jammed.
Trucks arriving with cargoes
from the west dumped their
freight and were pressed into ser
vice as buses, loaded with passen
gers. They rolled back and forth
between residential and shopping
districts,
Shevlin Church
Dedication Set
The new church at Shevlin,
made In Bend and moved to Ore
gon's famous portable town on
flatcars, will be dedicated tomor
row, with the service to start at
3 p.m. Rev. K. A. Tobias, Bend,
field director for the Conservative
Baptist association for Oregon,
will be In charge, assisted by Itev.
Harold U'Rcnn, Crescent.
The church, with a capacity of
60, was made by The Shcvlin-I lix
on Company maintenance crew, at
the company's Bend plant. The
structure was moved to the lum
ber camp and set up earlier this
month, as soon as the deep snows
were gone.
The portable church Is 40 feet
wide. Euch of the 12 pews can
seat five persons. Thp Interior of
the church, and the pews and al
tar, are knotty pine. The exterior
is painted white.
The Shevlin camp Is about 80
miles southeast of Bend.
The public will bp welcome, to
ottend the dedication service, It
was announced.
BANKRUPTCY CLAIMED
Los Angeles, May 21 UPi Mov
le villain Peter Lorre Is bank
rupt, his attorney said today.
The lawyer filed a bankruptcy
petition In federal court yesterday.
Units
Trains Idle
Passenger Dies,
9 Hurt When Car
Carriage Lost a
Emory, Utah, May 21 tm a
'thundering jolt and what "seemed i
like hours of terror" swept the
last car of the speeding Union
Pacific's Los Angeles limited
when it lost its rear wheels and
bumped at top speed down a
desolate canyon, passengers said ,
today. , ;
One woman was killed and .
nine people injured when the
car "American Parks" of the all-
Pullman luxury train jumped off .
its rear truck in rugged fc-ctio
canyon late yesterday. -
The car stayed upright ; but -'
bumped along for more than a ;
quarter of a mile before a brake-'
mair-stopped the'rraln. ' ',-,'--?
The" Chicago ; to -Los Angeles
train was delayed two hours.
Passengers told Summit coun-
ly sheriff's deputies that they
felt a thundering jolt then lived
what "seemed hours of terror"
while the car crashed along the
steep canyon grade at the end
of the speeding train.
Shock Fatal
Mrs. George Jensen, 61, Min
neapolis, died from shock and
back Injuries. Her husband,
George Jensen, 61, suffered a
broken leg, Jensen suid they were .
an their way to visit a daughter,
Mrs. J. (... Williams in Haw
thorne, Calif.
Others injured were: Mrs. V. K.
McCawley, 36, Sioux City, la.,
hospitalized at Ogden, Utah, with
a fractured right wrist.
C. Osborne, 66, Struble, la.,
treated for bruises.
Ida A. Osborne, 65, his wife, -also
treated for bruises.
Miss Elizabeth Martin, 65,
Enelewood, Calif., treated for
bruises.
Mrs. Don Bosslngham, Los An
geles, treated for bruises.
Mrs. Edna Waddell, Summit,
la., treated for shock.
Mrs. Lester Steinhausen, Chey
enne, Wyo., treated for shock.
Mrs. Amelia Deutch. Eau Claire,
Wis., treated for shock.
Trainmen Call Help
Trainmen, who ran from the
halted train to telephones to ob
tain help, called for all available
doctors and ambulances in the
sparsely settled area.
But Dr. E. W. Oldham, Coal
ville. Utah, was the only doctor
in 13 miles. He sped to the scene
and treated the injured.
All of the injured were taken
aboard the train to Ogden. There,
all but Mrs. Waddell, Mrs. Stein
hausen, and Mrs. Deutch were
taken off and transferred to hos
pitals by waiting ambulances.
Union Pacific engineers who
were seeking the cause of the
accident said one safety feature
of Ihe train had actually impeded
efforts to stop the train.
The brakes would have been
applied automatically, they said,
had the car juni)ed the tracks
entirely and snapped the air hose
running the length of the train.
But the fact that the front truck
held the rails kept the safety
feature from working.
' MILK CONTROL HIT
Portland, May 21 UliThe Port
land City Club milk control com
mit Ipp has recommended the
abolishments of state control of
milk prices.
. The committee, in a majority
report, suggested the transfer of
controls to the U. S. department
of agriculture under a price form
ula system.
It declared that the present
method of fixing prices by the
state director of agriculture on
the basis of farm costs and other
facts was "unrealistic."
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