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BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1949
No. 146
Harry Bridges
Again Indicted
'As Communist
t Truman Administration
,! Accused of Spitework
' For Latest Court Move
- J San Francisco. May 26 HP) -
Angry west coast CIO longshore
men today blasted , the govern-.-j
inent's Indictment of Harry
Bridees and two other union or
' fleers as a "monumental case of
; political spite." -. - -
"i'A The : powerful International
longshoremen's and Warehouse-
fjlen's union, representing ju,uuu
is piembers, charged that the Tru-.
' pan administration was trying
to silence "critics of its failure
";o meet campaign promises."
Jr The indictment, returned yes
teiday by a federal grand jury
' fter eight super-secret sessians,
tharged that Bridget lied in
denying he was a communist
- when he applied for citizenship
- to 1945.
I It accused Bridges ol conspir-
Jng wilh the two union officials
to obtain his citizenship by fraud.
':. It also cited the other two 'for
'pei jury." Bail was set at $5,000
for each. ','". -f
At the same time the indict
ment was, returned, the govern-
' pient filed a civil suit in federal
eourt seeking" to deport the Australian-born
labor leader.
: jt Could Itlean Prison
. Conviction on the indictment
could result in maximum fines of
$15,000 and seven years in pris
on ; i One of the men named in the
Indictment was Henry Schmidt,
U-.WU leader currently directing
1
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; Auxiliary Poppy
Sale Scheduled
1 Corps of American Legion aux-
ary members and juniors will
on the streets in downtown
nd Friday and Saturday, May
and 28, selling traditional
memorial poppies . which .were
made by- hospitalized veterans in
government hospitals.
S Working from headquarters in
front of . Wetle's store, the girls
Will circulate throughout the
hopping section with the red
crepe paper flowers that are sym
mohc of remembrance, helpful
ness and service. Money collected
in the sale is used for the or
ganization's local rehabilitation
and child welfare work, with the
veterans who made the popies to
receive two cents for each flow
er made.
Other Memorial day activities
for the auxiliary will include
participation in the Memorial day
parade Monday, and a radio pro
gram Friday at 7:15 p.m. over
radio station KBND, when. Kess
ler, Cannon will interview Mrs.
Walter Basim.
The committee making wreaths
and corsages is still taking or
ders, it was reported by Mrs.
Stella Pearl Runge, general
chairman for poppy day activities.
Hangman's Noose Again Is
Wade Ready for Jake Bird
Ban Francisco. M.iv 95 (III-
The ninth U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals today granted Jake Bird,
: 4t-year- old Negro who confess
ed, 29 murders, a 30-day stay of
mn. HirH hnH hfinn Qnhnri
1 d to die at 12:01
a.m. (PST)
rl Walla Walla Was
Wash.
' tVaiia Win.. on MP,
; . -"The hangman looped a noose
; again today for his most elusive
- . But from his cell in the row
i for condemned convicts Bird was
playing out his trumps for the
third time In an attempt to dotige
; the same hex of death he placed
on his prosecutors.
V Rlr. a hnlrl d7.vnn,.lrl tinfrrn
Washington stale penitentiary at
12:01 a.m. Frlrt.iv fm- fho nxe
: imirner oi mrs. Bertha Kindt dur
; Jng a burglary in her Taeoma
home on Oct. 30, 1947.
.nr iu nutT me nuain nuuse
j this afternoon unless he receives
niimner stay ot execution.
to the noose again, but he's hqd
Bond lurk c fu,." Dqu u.'a,.,ian
Tom Smith.
? Besides belnc
Kludt murder, Bird confessed
v participating in 29 other slaylngs
KthrOUPhnilt Ihn nalinn InnloHlnn
."several In Illinois and Indiana.
! ij-f his confessions are true,
Vd is a mass murderer with
equals in the hlstnrv of
fnerican crime.
Since January. 1948. he has
tide two trips in and out of the
am nouse.
The first time he was saved by
Soviets Booed,
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Striking western Berlin railway workers jeer a soviet army officer at Templehof railroad station
after 15,000. workers went out on strike. The Russians were perplexed by two days of violence, which
' they said, would not have happened in Russia because no one ever strikes in that country.
Guard Building
Bid Submitted
By Bend Firm
A. Wilson Bsnold, Bend contrac
tor, was the only bidder on the
Oregon national guard building
addition here, When proposals
were received in Salem yesterday.
His offer was $37,823, a basic bid.
Earlier In the week Benold was
also the lone bidder on construc
tion of the main building. His
basic offer was $45,715. This
structure will be erected with fed
eral funds. The state proposes to
construct the addition. The bids
will be submitted to Maj. Gen.
Thomas E. Rilear head of the Ore
gon national guard, and if they
meet with his approval they will
he forwarded to Washington, D.C.
'Plans call for a main concrete
building, 52 by 128 feet. The addi
tion will parallel the main struc
ture and will be 40 feet wide.
The new buildfng and addition
will serve as a home for Bend Co.
I of the Oregon national guard.
General Rilea hopes that con
struction can be started by the
end of June, with completion set
for the fall.
The guard home will be in the
area of the unit's present quonset
hut, just south of the Safeway
store on Wall street.
KANCII INCORPORATED
Salem, May 26 (Hi The Mile-
Away ranch of Redmond filed
articles of incorporation here to
day. It will engage in "farming,
ranching and any and all types
of agriculture." Signing the ar
ticles were J. r. short, Ruth
Short and Esther Bales.
POLICE FIND BODY
Milton-Freewater, May 26 U)
Police- said today they found the
body of Mrs. Ellen Nelson, Bur-
ley, Ida., in a ciump ot Black
berry bushes. She fell Into the
Walla Walla river Monday and
drowned.
the former governor of Washing
ton, Mon C. Wallgren, at the re
quest of the former governor of
Illinois, Dwight Green, pending
an investigation of his confes
sion to slayings in that state.
The second lime his execution
was stayed by U.S. Justice Wil
liam O. Douglas, to give Bird
time to file a petition for a writ
of certiorari.
Yesterday, Bird again appealed
to Douglas by telegram. He also
sent an airmail letter to Gov.
Arthur Langlie of Washington,
contending that his confession to
the Kludt murder was oblalned
by "coercion and physical abuse."
Appeals lo Court
He also asked the U.S. ninth
circuit court of appeals at San
Francisco for a "certificate of
probable cause." permitting him
to appeal a decision of tli" fed
eral court here denying f!7m a
writ of habeas corpus.
The background of Bird's
"hex" against the prosecutors
and officers who handled his case
is vague. But it is known that
he told Tacoma Detective Lt.
Sherman Lyons that "all you
guys will be slttin' and waltin'
at the pearly gates before I show
up."
Lyons was one of the five ap
parently healthy men who died
soon after that.
The others were Superior judge
E. D. Hodge, who sentenced Bird
to be hanged; Deputy clerk Ray
Scott, who filed transcripts of
the Bird case; Undersheriff Joe
Karpach. who escorted Bird to
Walla Walla prison, and J. W.
Sclden, one of Bird's lawyers.
Jeered in Berlin Railway Strike
JET
Rotary Plows
Still Below
Road Summit
Rotaries moved into the McKen
zie Cascades a week ago in an at
tempt to open the McKenzie pass
by June 1 but have not yet
reached the summit drifts, ac
cording to information from state
highway department officials. Ro
taries operating on a two-shift
basis yesterday evening were still
about 2 Mi miles east of the sum
mit, in the operation being carried
out from the Sisters side. West of
the divide, the rotary crew from
the Eugene division was still
working in drifts on Deadhoise
hill, west of Frog camp.
The two rotary crews working
in double shifts up the east slope
advanced about half a mile yester
day. Curves and steep "supers"
have slowed progress. Yesterday,
the east-side crews operated in
snow that ranged in depth from
5 to 7 feet.'
Biff Cut Problem '
Crews expect to face their ma
jor work in the big cut, reported
to be completely filled with drift
ed snow. The pack is reported un
usually heavy this year and well
laden with water. In past years,
dynamite has been used to shat
ter drifts ahead of the rotaries.
The crews assigned the job of
opening the Mt. Hood loop also
are reported experiencing consid
erable difficulty.
Earlier this week the lower
Clear lake cutoff, connective link
between the KcKenzie and San
siam highways, was opened to
travel. However, it was reported
that mountain road conditions
prevail.
Tourist Host
School Plans
Made for Bend
Plans for a tourist host school,
scheduled for early June,1 were
discussed last night at a meeting
of the tourist promotion com
mittee of the Bend chamber of
commerce. The committee voted
to hold the school this year on
one evening, with an effort to be
made to have present all persons
who came directly in touch with
tolirists.
Tourist schools, now being held
In many parts of the west, origin
ated in Bend in pre-war days with
Don H. Peoples, then secretary of
the chamber of commerce, in
charge.
Also discussed at last night's
committee meeting was a plan
for unified promotion of highway
97. The plan for unification was
adopted. Yakima, Wcnatchee, The
Dalles, Madras, Redmond, Bend
and Klamath Falls are expected
to cooperate as communities. Lit
erature and other tupes of pro
motion will be used to make
north-south tourists more con
scious of the fast, direct 97 route,
committeemen said.
Fred Paine, chairman of the
tourist promotion committee, pre
sided at the conference.
12 Forest Camps
On Charge Basis
Only 12 of the more than 1,100
national forest campgrounds iirl
Oregon and Washington will be
placed on a charge basis this sum
mer, according to information
from H. J. Andrews, U. S. forest
service regional supervisor, Port
land. No Deschutes forest camps
have been designated as pay
camps, forest officials said.
Two of the 12 campgrounds, In
southern Oregon, will go on the
charge basis over the Memorial
day week end. The others will
start late In June or early in July.
On the Willamette national for
est, Clear lake has been designat
ed as a pay camp.
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Bad Check Toll
Mounts In Bend;
One Man Jailed
The total of checks assertedly
forged by Oris Homer Wilson, 36,
of Wells, Nev., in Bend this past
week end reached $133 today, it
was announced from the office of
H. A. Caslday, Bend chief of po
lice. Wilson is being held in the
city jail on an intoxication charge,
pending a check of his record
with the federal bureau o inves
tigation. Wilson, who was arrested in
Sisters, told officers he had serv
ed time in the Idaho state peniten
tiary and had been transferred
to an institution at Blackfoot
from the penitentiary. Officers
said, .this information appears to
be correct, -
.. . 6 Checks Passed , '
The Nevada man is accused of
passing six different checks in
Bend. Officers said the name of
Ernest Traxler.'local resident, had
been forged to some of the checks.
One check was endorsed by "Capt.
H. O. Wilson", the investigating
officers ascertained.
Wilson's papers indicate he "is a.
native of Kentucky.
Checks Wilson is accused of
passing were cashed at the fol
lowing places: Smoke .shop, $20;
City Drug Co., $20; Bend Drug
Co., $23; Bond Street Food Mar
ket, $20; Copper Room, $25, and
Frieda's Flowers, $25.
In addition to these checks, two
others showed up yesterday, but
they have not yet been charged to
the Nevada man. These two
checks were for the same amount,
$34.50. One was cashed at the
Sherwin-Williams paint store and
the other at the Marketeria.
Rich Oil Field
Struck in Canada
Pittsburgh. May 26 U Gulf
oil corporation has tapped an oil
basin in Canada which may sur
pass any such area In the western
hemisphere and be more import
ant than Iran's vast oil resou ic
on. News of the firm's share In a
strong producing well near Ed
monton, Canada, was disclosed at
the annual stockholders' meeting.
The new well opens up an entire
ly new field in the nearly virgin
and vast Alberta province basin.
The Ellis well was a wildcat
venture and is some distance from
three other fields opened during
the last two years in the area.
Pav sand was struck in the Ellis
well a few days ago but deepen
ing of the hole to more than
5.000 feet resulted in a flow of 73
barrels the first hour.
Big Area leased
Gulf leased two million acres
In the Alberta basin which Is
more than 2.000 miles long and
800 miles wide. The basin is be
lieved to be rich in potential oil
area.
The tremendous possibilities of
the huge basin which stretches
northward from the Montana line
were discovered in 1947.
Three other fields In the Ed
monton area have been opened by
the Imperial oil company, a
Canadian firm of the Standard
oil company of New Jersey. These
are the Leduc, Redwater and
Golden Spike fields.
Imperial already ha9 200 pro
ducing wells in the Alberta basin
with only a small part of the area
tapped.
President A. S. Swensrud of
Gulf described the Alberta pro
ject as the "greatest current de
velopment In the oil Industry.
House Votes
Foreign Aid
Appropriation
Most of Cash Requested
By President Truman in
Bill as Finally Passed
j - . .
Washington, May 26 UW The
house today passed a $5,617,470.-
000 IB) foreign aid bill after go
ing' most ol the way to meet
President Truman's last-minute
appeal for more money.
Passage was by standing vote
of 193 to , 27. The measure now
goes to the senate.
Mr. Truman, in a letter read
just before the final vote on the
compromise measure, particular
ly Urged the house to restore the
$150,000,000 cut by the appropria
tions committee from his request
ed $1,000,000,000 for relief in oc
cupied areas.
, The house met him half way
on that request by voting, 120
to 39, to restore $75,000,000 of
the cut, bringing to $925,000,000
the total for occupied areas in
fiscal 1950.
Final passage came after the
house defeated by voice vote a
motion by Rep. Robert F. Rich.,
R. Pa., to send the bill back to
committee. He had charged earl
ier that the foreign spending pro
gram was an invitation to nation
al bankruptcy.
Part for Marshall Plan
Besides the $925,000,000 for oc
Cupied areas, the bill carries $3,
568,470,000 for Marshall plan
spending. Under the compromise,
this amount can be spent during
the first 10 Mi months of fiscal
1950 instead of being spread over
12 months. , The administration
will be able to come back for
more money for the final month
and a half of fiscal 1950. This
would nearly equal the spending
rate proposed by Mr. Truman for
the second year of the Marshall
plan.
The bill also carries $1,074,000,-
000 for Marshall plan spending in
the last three months of the cur
rent fiscal year and $50,000,000 in
iireeK-Turkisn aw lor nscai isou,
The overall total of foreign aid
spending is $704,730,000 less than
requested.
Russians Yield,
Move 4 Trains
Berlin, May 26 IP The Rus
sians yielded to urgent allied rep
resentations today '' and hauled
four American and British pas
senger and mail trains into Berlin
after they had been.stalled In the
soviet zone for 4d nours.
The Russians at first had re
fused to give any aid to the 140
American .and British passengers,
or to remove them by bus. Thirty
five passengers on one train, in
eluding Hollywood director Geo,
B. Seaton, his wife and two child
ren, had run out of drinking wat
er and were low on food.
The soviet authorities relented
and ordered soviet locomotives to
haul the trains into Berlin after
the allies appealed urgently to
Russian military headquarters at
Karlshorst.
4 Trains Stranded
The four trains from western
Germany had become stranded
just outside Berlin when east
German workers walked off the
switch terminals in the American
sector controlling the line.
The cast German workers aP'
parently had- been pulled out in
retaliation for the strike ol lb,
000 west sector German railway
workers who walked off their
Jons last Friday midnight In a
demand for pay In western marks,
which are worth four times the
eastern marks.
Confronted by the abandoned
switches, soviet engineers refused
to take their trains Into Berlin.
American officials manned the
switches when the trains slowly
moved Into Berlin today.
Other American officials board
ed the locomotives as they Inched
across the American border east
of Potsdam and guided Ihem Into
Wannsee station. In addition, mnj.
H. A. Zlcgler. Denver. Colo., walk
ed in front of the first 12-car
train as It moved into the station,
The presence of American of
ficers In the first locomotive,
coupled with Russia's previous re
fusal to permit the trains to move,
led to the belief at first that
American authorities had sent
their own locomotive Into the
soviet zone to "rescue" the train,
Seaton said he would Incorpor
ate his experience In a new film
now In production about the Ber
lin crisis.
86 HERE WEDNESDAY
The temperature In Bend yes
terday afternoon soared to 86 de
grees, highest recorded ncre tnis
year. The noon temiorature to
day was considerably lower than
that for the same hour yester
day, with a 78 degree reading
reported.
Mobile X-Ray
Unit Due Here
Early in June
The annual free chest X-ray
survey will be held in Bend June
8, 9, 10 and 11, it has been an
nounced from the office of Mrs.
A. E. Stevens, executive secretary
of the Deschutes County Tubercu
losis and Health association. Hie
survey, sponsored by public
health agencies with the coopera
tion of the state board of health
and the stale medical association,
has as its goal the discovery of
hidden cases of tuberculosis.
A mobile X-ray unit will be in
use on the area Just east of the
city hall, the four days of the local
survey. The unit wil not visit
Bends two large sawmills this
year, as It did in past years, and
employes of the mills are being
asneu to maxe tneir appointments
for X-rays at the downtown loca
tion. A corps of volunteers is can
vassing the city taking registra
tions, and all adults are being
urged to avail themselves of the
free service.
Hours the unit will be in use are
being staggered to enable a larger
number of persons to get X-rayiJ,
Mrs, Stevens said. Hours will be
from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday,
June 8, Thursday, June 9, and
Saturday, June 11. On Friday,
June 10, hours will be from 12
noon to 8 p.m.
Appointments may be made be
ginning May 31 at Mrs. Stevens'
office in the O'Kane building, or
by calling 395. They may also be
made any time by mail.
Shanghai Now
In Red Control
, Shanghai, May 26 (IPi The last
nests of nationalist resistance in
communist-occupied Shanghai be
gan surrendering tonight.
After resisting 44 hours since
the communists moved in, a band
of nationalist diehards holding
the So.ochow creek line in the
middle of the city were giving up.
Other troops holding the post
office surrendered, and the com;
munlsts began moving over the
Szechuen road bridge to occupy
the building.
A handful of nationalists who
had fired machine guns at the
communists from the sixth floor
of the Broadway mansions apart
ment hotel were expected to sur
render at any time.
Reports from Yangtzepoo,
eight miles north of downtown
Shanghai, said communist troops
were moving Into that area In
strength and wiping out the last
nationalist stragglers with rifle
fire.
Nationalist stragglers in groups
of two and three were roaming
the streets , Wearing civilian
clothing for a' disguise, these re
ports said. .
Suspect Held
In Reuther Case
Detroit, May 26 HP Charles
Barabash, 47, of suburban Dear
born, a striking Ford Motor com
pany employe, was held for ques
tioning today about the attempted
assassination of Victor Reuther, a
CIO united auto workers official,
Barabash was arrested by po
lice after a tipster reported hear
ing him babbling drunkenly tn a
barroom about "Reuther being
shot" more than 24 hours before
twin shotgun blasts were fired al
the union official. Police said he
was too drunk to be questioned
immediately.
While police squads tried to lift
the drunken fog from Barabash's
past 48 hours, other Investigators
said they would look Into charges
of "international implications in
the shooting.
Other teams of the 40 detectives
assigned solely to the case worked
on possibilities that a "crackpot"
or a person having a personal
grudge against the Reuther fami
ly fired the near-fatal shots.
Reuther, educational director of
the union and brother of UAW
President Walter Reuther, was re
ported "resting comfortably" at
Henry Ford hospital.
Doctors removed his right eye
In a three-hour operation yester
day as a result of the blast which
felled him in the living room of
his home as he was reading a
newspaper near midnight Tues
day. Labor and civic leaders put the
blame squarely In the laps of com
munists, but the Michigan com
munist party denounced the
shooting as a "despicable and de
praved act" by "cowardly enemies
of organized labor."
The shooting was similar to the
one in which Walter Reuther was
almost killed a little more than a
year ago.
Vishinsky Rejects Proposal
For Merging Eastern German
Zone Into New Federal State
By R. If. Shackkord
. , 'U''"0'! Press Staff Correspondent)
Pans, May 26 U.E Soviet foreign minister Andrei Vishin
sky today rejected any suggestion that Russia let the eastern
zone of Germany join the new western federal state of Ger
many. At the same time Secretary of state Dean Acheson denounc
ed a soviet proposal to return to the Potsdam administration
of Germany as one which no "reasonably prudent" person
could accept.
The negative attitudes by both east and west were voiced at
', the fourth meeting of the
Forum Speaker
James F. Short. Redmond, rep
resentative in the state legislature
from the Deschutes-Lake district,
will be speaker at. the Bend cham
ber of commerce forum meeting
tomorrow noon at the Pilot Butte
inn.
Short Will Speak
Before Chamber.
At Noon Meeting
A general discussion of state
legislation will be made 'tomor-
row by Rep. James F. Short, Red
mond, before members of the
Bend chamber of commerce at a
luncheon-forum meeting in the
Pilot Butte inn.
Sen. Phillip S. Hitchcock will
not be present for the meeting as
reported earlier this week.
Short, representative cf Des
chutes and Lake counties, was
vice-chairman of the house taxa
tion committee at the recent leg
islative session. He also served on
the agriculture, education, and
state and federal affairs commit
tees. - -
Hermiston Blast
Results in Death
Pendleton, May 26 iUl Lloyd
Leslie Brookhouser, about 41,
Pendleton truck driver, was kill
ed and two other persons Injured
today when an explosion and fire
rocked the Craig welding shop at
Hermiston.
Brookhouser was having repair
work done on his cut back as
phalt truck when the explosion,
apparently from a welding torch,
killed him instantly and injured
Wilmer Craig, Hermiston, and
Ted Albers, Nampa, Ida.
The fire after the explosion de
molished the truck and did con
siderable damage to the front of
Craig's shop. The Hermiston
volunteer fire department exting
uished the flames without further
damuge.
Craig and Albers were taken to
St. Anthony's hospital In Pendle
ton. PICKERS WANTED
Portland, May 26 Uli The Ore
today said strawberry growers
wanted some 2.000, pickers.
Blaine Christian, farm place
ment officer, said the most urg
ent requests came from Washing
ton county and the Gresham
Sandy area. ,
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Deschutes County's Relief
Expenditures Show Increase
A total of $16,400.02 was spent
on relief in Deschutes county In
April compared to $15,157.96 for
March, Miss Olive Jameson, ad
ministrator, reported last night
to members of the county wel
fare commission.
Miss Jameson attributed the
$1,242.06 increase In the April
expenditures over the March fig
ure to Increased rates at Sunset
home. She explained that pay
ment of the higher rates at the
home were made retroactive to
cover the months of March and
February, and that the additional
expense was included in the April
expenditures.
Old age assistance in April
amounted to $9,855 for 200 cases,
compared to $8,542 in March for
201 cases.
General assistance decreased
to $3,746.02 for 103 cases In April
council of foreign ministers.
It ended in a deadlock.
Acheson's rejection of Uhe
proposal for a return to. the
old four-power military rule
of Germany followed a denial
by Vishinsky of the U. a Sea
gate's statement of progress In
western Germany.
. "Paradise" Pictured f
In reply Vishinsky gave a pic
ture of what one delegate called
"hell in western Germany and
paradise in eastern Germany.",
That produced an acrimonious ex
change between the Russian and
Ernest Bevin of Great Britain.
The meeting was described as
resembling closely some of the
more bitter earlier sessions ot the
council. - : - ' 1 i -
Vishinsky denounced the agree- ;
ment reached by America, Britain "
and France in Washington this
year to proceed with a separate
west German state. ;!:,
The whole series of questions
of three-power control elaborated
at Washington anticipates that
decisions should be taken by the
majority," visninsky said, "mis
comes to the same thing as saying
that the Americans are masters -of
Germany. . '
"It is for this reason that Rus
sia cannot adhere to such., a syB-,
tern.
Hope Blasted, ..;'.-, .
.-. That seemed tn blast any hopes
of an agreement here. The west
was planning eventually to pro
pose to Russia that agreement on
Germany could be had only if
Russia were willing to permit
eastern Germany to join the new
western German state.
Vishinsky was described by par
ticipants in the meeting as being
In his old form. So far at tnis
conference he had been mild in
his remarks.
The day was devoted to general
questions concerning Germany.
The west continued to try to pry
more information about eastern
Germany out of Vishinsky, espe
cially on reparations, but no prog- '
ress was made.
Hearing Opens
On Lilienthal
Washington. May 26 IP Chair
man David E. Lilienthal said to- '
day that the atomic energy com
mission overruled the decision of
its security officer in clearing Dr.
Edward U. Condon and Sen.
Frank P. Graham for access to
atomic data..
Hi's disclosure came as the
house-senate atomic energy com
mittee opened an exhaustive In
vestigation to find out whether
Lilienthal's ministry of the $3,
500,000,000 atomic project has
been good or bad.
Condon is chief of the national
bureau of standards. As one of
the country's top physicists he
helped in development of the
atomic bomb and other wartime
weapons. A house un-American
activities subcommittee once
called him the weakest link In
atomic security. His government
superiors gave him a clean bill
of health, however.
compared to $3,999.96 spent for
111 cases In March. Aid to de
pendent children increased in
April to $2,729 for 26 cases com
pared to $2,515 for 24 cases in
March. Aid to blind was the
same for both months with two
cases costing $101.
Expenditures for April, 1948,
follow: General assistance, $3e
996.07; old age assistance, $7.
227; aid to blind, $105, and aid
to dependent children, $2,291. To
tal for the month was $13,619.07.
Members of the commission re
viewed relief cases and conducted
other routine business at the
meeting last night.
Present were: W. C. Cqyner;
Mrs. B. A, Stover; O. W. Grub;
C. L. Allen, county judge, and
A. E. Stevens, county commla-sianer.