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.v. or Cragoa Library il 5 . ...: IMM fflE 'State Forecast j ' . ! i cACcn wipe wnpi n h 1 1 " : r NEWS COVERAGE 1 i ' Eastern Oregon Clear and warm today and Saturday. High both days 75-85. Low i ' ; tonight 44-54. : CENTRAL 1 OREGON'S 'DAILY NEWSPAPER 33rd Year BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 1. 1949 No. 176 BEND BULLET 1 Stage Sefc fer V Judith Coplon Given Long Prison Term Washington, July 1 UB Ju dlth Conlon wax freed in $20,000 ball today pending appeal from ' her espionage conviction. mJ h e 28-year-old ex-govern-rhent girl was held in a dis trict courthouse cell block for three hours and 10 minutes be fore she succeeded in making bond. ' Washington, July 1 uw Judith Coplon, still protesting her inno cence but asking no mercy, today was sentenced to 40 months to 10 years in prison for stealing gov ernment secrets for Russia. Federal Judge Albert L. Reeves Tould have given the former gov ernment girl a maximum penalty of 13 years in prison and a $12,000 fine. Just before the judge pronounc ed sentence, Miss Coplon stood . and read a statement reaffirming her innocence. But she said she would not plead for mercy be cause that would be interpreted ; as a sign of guilt. V But the judge told her he could i not imagine "a greater offense '.under the espionage act.-' '. "I couldn't imagine a more ex treme case, except that she's a woman," Judge Reeves said. ; The judge imposed the maxi mum sentence under the first count the espionage count and .a sentence of from one to three "years under the second count of taking secret government papers. '; Run Concurrently :The white-haired jurist ordered, however, that, the two sentences should run concurrently. This s&ved her from a still longer ac:, .Mai- Sentence that would have been possible. . Miss Coplon must serve the minimum of 40 months Imposed by the judge. Whether she .leaves prison before the maximum of 10 years will depend on her good be havior. Judge Reeves fixed her bond at $20,000. That is double the bond under which she has been held in this case. She is under an addi tional $20,000 bond for espionage charges In New York. If she can raise the additional bond, the dark-haired former de partment of justice analyst will remain free until she Is tried' in New York with her alleged Rus sian accomplice, Valentin A. Gu bitchev, on charge of conspiracy to commit espionage. The trial is set for July 11. After the judge fixed bond, the (Continued on Page 5) Impressions of Central Oregon Visitors , J. D. Lee was in Bend Thurs day, a fugitive from university teaching job In Emery university, a college of 3,500 students in At lanta, Ga. Not that he dislikes Emery uni versity, It is teaching which has him frustrated. "And here's why," he says. "In teaching, you have to make your reputation, each year afresh . . . and with every student. Gets tiresome." So, now, he's keeping a prom ise he made to himself 13 years ago; to get a Job in the west and come here for his home. His new Job is 'that of canon at Grace Episcopal Cathedral, in San Fran cisco. Plans to Be Pastor Unmarried, he's always been headed for the career of pastor. In Duke university he took his first two degrees, obtaining his doctorate at the University of Boston. At Emery university, he taught church history in the school of theology. And he loves to preach. Singing yes. Working with youth yes. Prayer yes. But preaching Is the phase of the work he likes best. Asked how he chose this ca reer, he saldi. "I'll go Presbyter ian for a moment and say I was predestined for it. Nobody influ enced me. I Just chose it. Very young, too." ' During the war, he ,was for three years a chaplain, stationed at San Francisco, and later at Astoria, where he took part in ceremonies held In connection with the airplane carriers, built In Vancouver; Wash., by Henry Kaiser's shipyard. Lee is descended, of .the great leader, of tluV.CJviL "war forces, Robert L.' Leo.' - - .- Lee likes .fast, caw. His was lit Bend Thursday' atXp.m... having left Boise in the iornlng. Crater lake was lo be, his next atop..--n C. L Simpson, Early Bend Resident , Dies Clarence L. Simpson, 85, a resi dent of Bend since 1916 and long active In Masonic circles, died this morning at 4:55 at the home of his daughter, Mrs. J. F. Burpee, 323 Congress. Infirmities of ad vanced age were, the cause- of death. Mi. Simpson had been ail ing for some time. He was pre ceded in death by his wife, Effie, in February. , Mr, Simpson, a native of Coles burg. Ia.. where he was born March 21, 1864, was a past mas ter of .bend lodge No. laa, A. a . Clarence L, Simpson & A. M., and served as secretary of the lodge for 16 years, retir ing a number of years ago. In his. long residence here he took an active part in work of the Methodist church and was a lead- er -In-Masonic work, having been a member or tne lodge just snort of half a century. Worked for Mill Before coming, to Bend Mr. Simpson was a resident of Eckert, Colo. His first work here was with the Bend flour mill. In later years he worked for The Shevlin Hixon Company. Surviving Mr. Simpson are five sons and daughters, Mrs. Myrtle .McMurray, of San Francisco; Dale W. Simpson and Mayne E. Simpson, McCloud, Calif.; Terroll Simpson, San Francisco, and Jan iece Burpee, Bend. Funeral services will be held Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at the First Mehtodist church. Rev. Ross Knotts will be in charge, with the Masonic lodge handling the grave side service,, Berlin Railway Tieup Concluded Berlin, July 1 (in Berlin's strike-born railway tieup ended today, food trucks rolled into the city unhampered and a complete lifting of the Berlin blockade seemed in sight. The first elevated train to run in Berlin In 42 days left Anhalter station in the American sector at 3:50 a.m. (9:50 p.m., Thursday, EDT) with 10 sleepy Germans as passengers. Trains then began moving throughout the city on a normal 20-minute schedule. By 8 a.m., the cars were jammed with commut ers who had been forced to ride buses or bicycles or even walk during the west Berlin railway strike. Two trains loaded with coal and m.iil from western Germany, stalled in the soviet zone by the strike, rolled into Wannsee sta tion on the outskirts of Berlin early today. The soviet-bossed railway man agement promised that trains would be moving between Berlin and western Germany on pro strike schedules within t three days. Trucks from western Germany cleared soviet check points on the soviet zone border without diffi culty and unloaded their cargoes nt western sector markets. The Soviets said the hailing of all western Berlin-bound food trucks yesterday was "all a mistake." By and largo, It seemed Berlin finally was to be connected with western Germany by rail and highway without restrictions of any kind for the first time since the Russians Imposed their block ade a vear ago., 1 ,-...- OAS PRICE BOOST VOR'' -. Portland, July J HF . .Oregon motorists will pay a rent more (or gas beginning Sunday, the state tax commission reminded drivers t6dnyf ' " " , ;. ,.:.. v - 1 New Manage r For Bend Pool Bend's municipal pool, opened Sunday, today was under the management of David E. Howard, director of recreation, following the discharge of Leo Longbardo, tank manager for less than a week, by W. O. Cuthbcrtson, city manager. Longbardo was dis charged, the city manager said, because of insubordination. ' Cuthbertson acted after he had been advised by the city commis sion "to get the pool problem under control," it was learned. The discharge of Longbardo, it is known, .followed two flareups at the tank in which the pool man ager and the city manager were the principals. Longbardo report edly questioned Cuthbertsons knowledge of oool operation. Mayor Comments Mayor T. D. Sexton said today that one of Cuthbertson's qualifi cations when employed as Bend city manager was his knowledge of the operation of swimming pools. In Kansas, the mayor pointed out, Cuthbertson con structed two pools, at Newton and Abilene, and supervised their op eration. Filtration plants were operated in connection with both pools. The Abilene pool was a 75 by 225 foot natatorium, a tank larger than the one in Bend. City officials indicated today that the flareups between the pool manager and the city mana ger stemmed from a request by Cuthbertson that members of the pool staff assist in cleaning the- tanK. L,ongtardo reporteaiy questioned the city manager's ability and qualifications' to giyc advice inMhe' :operaitm-oif.-.the' pop!,""Ahd theaUthorlty ;;6f -the city manager to discharge him. Showdown Today The showdown reportedly oc curred this morning, when Cuth bertson called both Howard and Longbardo into his office, for a conference. Longbardo maintains he has a three-month contract with the city, but there is no such contract in writing, the city man ager reported. Longbardo was hired by Howard as pool mana ger. Longbardo attended college in Idaho. - Cuthbertson reported today that a new pool manager will be employed, and he has expressed a hope that a qualified Bend man can be found. Full operation of the pool will be turned over to the tank manager when that Individ ual proves himself qualified to supervise a plant in which more than $100,000 of the taxpayers' money is invested, Cuthbertson said. In Normal Operation The pool this afternoon was in normal operation, and a record crowd is expected over the week end. No changes In the staff, other than the removal of Long bardo as manager, have been made, it was announced. Cuthbertson and Howard have announced that the new wading pool will be opened tomorrow and that an attendant will be there at (Continues on rage 5) Young Father Admits Murder San Francisco, July 1 tui A young father confessed today that ho killed his 19-year-old wife because she was "ashamed" of him for being drunk. Donald Papattoni, 22, said he beat his wife, Elaine, to death in a drunken ' rage Monday night, then buried her trussed up body atop a lofty mountain. He re ported her "missing" the follow ing day. The Panattonl's were parents of a seven months old baby, Don ald. Hp told police he an is'ed home Monday nfter having "several drinks" and asked his wife to "go out and do the town." "You're drunk and you'll em barrass me," he quoted her. ' He flew Into a rage and struck her repeatedly until he discovered she was dead. Then he tied her body with a rope, loaded It Into a car, and drove to lonely Mount Tamalpais north of Golden Gate bridge which he had to cross with the body... He dug n'grave and burled her on tho -mountain. 5 . . ' Yesterday, he. looked ori" son ily as police flisfiitenerl.'the body nt what Captain" of ' Inspectors James English described as "a beautiful, ettinff ' for a 'sordid deed."-.- ' '-" ' ' ' ; . Named Today Jumper ; 1 'J "' " 1 1 1 ' " 1 i (WwW4v ill First step in shaping of central Oregon juniper Into finished stock, is shown here as Floyd Condrey, owner-operator of a new Bend miJ, prepares to run a length of rough juniper cordwood through the head-rig he built himself. Condrey sends Jack Carter, Bend trucker, 40 miles out to Horse ridge for choice Juniper. Juniper virginianu$ is Tennessee red cedar; which, When grown under local conditions is claimed superior for fancy finishing and furniture uses. .wf A ff r ' ' ' ' x ' . J Final step in finishing is completed on the end-matcher, shown on Condrey's right. Here, he's fitting together lacquered samples of the glistening, satiny "Century Cedar" which architects, furniture makers, and a college professor are finding especially suitable for expressing the central Oregon theme in western Homes. Secretary Also Sleuth; Forgery Arrest Follows Mrs. Harold M. Parsons, secre tary to the Deschutes county sheriff and district attorney, is a crime Investigator in her own right. Yesterday three checks, with the forged signature "Bob Wil son," were received at the sher iff's office for investigation. Mrs. Parsons glanced at the checks, then went about her routine bus iness of typing letters and filing reports. A short time later in the day she was checking through the file containing complaints. She came across a check bearing the signa ture "Roy Wcaser." The check was on file from an investigation which took place about a year ago. Mrs. Parsons noticed a similar ity between the handwriting In the 1R18 check and that on the forged checks received yesterday In the office. She compared the handwriting and It appeared to be Identical. With a little Investigation Sher iff Claude McCauley learned that a man named Weaser lived at Shevlln. ' Result Roy II. Wcaser, 30, of Shevlln, is In the county Jail to day Charged v with obtaining money under false pretences, and forgery. ' , , .Drpiny sheriff, Harry Johnson, WHo' un cMed Weaser yesterday, said that the accused man admit ted that he had passed the checks. All. the. checks had been cashed at local business establishments. i Processing Starts Juniper Stock Developed In Bend; Has Many Uses A new product juniper stock, for wall-paneling, furni ture, chests, fireplace hearth borders, coffee table tops, and similar uses is to be manufactured here by Floyd Condrey, old-time Central Oregon resident. The wood has been viewed by architects, who have ex-, pressed great liking for its striking beauty. Its color varies from what in a woman's hair would be termed platinum blonde, to a rich titian. Were not another wood already called zebra-wood, that name would well fit Condrey's juniper I stroking a lever on the head when it has been smoothed Irlg, where the raw cordwood is and finished with clear lac-'cut, Condrey said, "Men with a vnn ffii1 hnlthv.chnn nniiiiimfint I Has Free Grain Hero is a trade secret: this Jun Iperus virginiana is our old friend Tennessee red cedar. It Is not to be confused with Western -red cedar, however and it Is super ior to the Tennessee cedar lo calise of the rigorous condition under which it grows. Condrey made these points clear, and demonstrated the wood '8 "free grain" t vertical splitting quality), and Its ability ,A i,,? A,,... !ra ,n .rininnt' shape. "Indians used this wood to housing Is modes -a sort of two line their bows." he said. He ' enrage. "When business drew attention to the wood's ex- grows, I II build a good shop, he tremely close grain, and narrow: growth-rings. Condrev Isn't primarily a wood man,- He's a machinist. He has worked at that trade In Eugene, Lakeview and Burns. Ills shop, at ! 3-1 Terminal place, is proof of his i bout. It houses a head rig, edger, j trimmer, matcher, and end I matcher of sufficient capacity to ! turn out 50 square feet of finished I lumber a day all made by Con idrey. " in Bend vearn for this bnbv. Thev hep me to sell if. I built the carriage with a hacksaw, electric drill, and grinder. The gear Is freewheeling gear out of an old Chrysler trans mission, and I built It up. It's driven by a five horse power triple-phase motor. And It eats this tough juniper like Ice cream!" The sldeedger has a type of stops and guides on it which Condrey Invented. The planer is built on a four-Inch Delta joiner. Condrey has been working since October on his equipment. Its "v- mai'iimny $4500. The juniper or Century Cedar, as he has named his product is a quality material. It's the same wood that is used for expensive drawing nencils, and insofar as Condrey knows, his is the only mill ottering the stock In Blze lor cabinet and carpontry uses. . Comparing his juniper-with Philippine mahogany, he remind (Continued on Page 7) Prospects for Qood Weather May Result In Record Turnout The stage was set today for Bend's 1949 Mirror pond pag eant, with the weatherman issuing a week-end forecast, "fair and warmer," that brought joy to the scores of fete workers. First showing of the pageant, an event that has attracted attention throughout the west, will be tomorrow night when July darkness wnes to the upper Deschutes country of Ore gon. A "dusk-time observation" last night indicated that, bar-- ring unexpected clouds, the rw. Jl..; From Pond Area; Tragedy Feared Bend's Mirror pond swans are feared to have suffered a tragedy, on the eve of the opening of the 1949 pageant. Six cygnets are re ported missing. The lost cygnets are the mem bers of the brood recently hatch ed adjacent to the power dam forebay, at the rear of the Pilot Butte inn. They were the only cvenets hatched on the main Mirror pond, below the mills and above the power dam, tms season, For the past week parent swans and the six cygnets were much in evidence, especially on the Drake park waterfront. Early this week two swans, believed to be the parents of the missing cygnets, appeared. But tnere were no cyg nets. The parent swans obviously were restless. . There is a possibility, it was pointed out today, that the tiny cygnets might have been swept over the power dam. However, ho reports of stray cygnets have been received from down river. Mirror pond residents' today ex pressed regret that the cygnets ha ue d Isappeared, Jor it was ex pected that they would play a role in the 1949 pageant. Frequently in past years parent swans and cyg nets have patrolled the Mirror pond while the pageant, led by a large make-believe swan and cygnets, was under way. Hawaii Strike Will Continue Honolulu. July 1 mi CIO long shoremen and employers settled down today for a grim test ot strength to see which one could outlast the other in Hawaii's pro longed maritime strike. On the basis of incomplete re sults, the strikers were rejecting a peace plan which would have given them a 14-cent hourly wage increase. The vote on Oahu island. where the majority of the union members live, was Sib to bu. Stevedores on other islands vote today, but the results seemed a foregone conclusion. I've told the men they can look for rough times from now on," said longshore leader Henry Schmidt. W. Russell Star, a spokesman for the seven truck stevedore firms, said, "we're not going to bargain upward Irom 14 cents. "That s a cinch, he added. Called Unfortunate Philip Maxwell, another em ployer spokesman, said the union rejection was "unfortuna'e and regrettable." "I don't know where we're go ing from here," he said. The 14-cent offer was part of a "package" recommended by a five-man fact-finding commission appointed by Gov. Ingram Stain 'back, who went to Washington to iconfere with President Truman about the strike. The longshoremen struck May 1 for a 32-cent hourly wage In crease, which would have brought them within 10 cents of the west coast longshore wage scale. Their present scale is $1.40 an hour. The employers had offered 12 cents an hour, but withdrew it after the strike began. When they anvnnA Wnlnnclau nil, hi In tho li.ronl fimit-p Ihnv nvnljilnerl they would have offered it across the bargaining table. The employers said they will let the 14-cent figure in the peace plan stand for a while. STRIKE AVERTED Portland, July 1 miFederal conciliator Guy V. Lltner today said a threatened strike of Trail ways bus line employes was averted Just before a midnight deadline Inst night. Terms of the agreement were not announced but Lltner stated thst points not covered In it would be arbitrated. Mirror pond arch can be ill u- minated around 9 p.m. ' Illumination of the arch will be a signal for the start of the 11th annual pageant, and under the rainbow span as lights are switched on will be the queen float, bearing Joan I and her princesses. , ' 1 2 Hour Show A full quota of floats will be entered, and the show will last about two hours. The floats will be judged Saturday night. The prize winners will be announced Sunday night, as each moves through the arch. First, second and third prizes will be awarded. Awards will be inscribed swan plaques, carved from age-old ju niper. Pageant judges will be Prof. Henry Hartman, of Oregon State college; Mrs. Frank Baxter, of Calgary, Canada, and Mrs. Ger hardt Molten, of Seattle. Names of judges were announced today by. W. J. Baer, pageant associa tion president. Capacity Crowd Due A capacity cr,owd is expected for both nights of the pageant, but. officials in charge of seating arrangements, headed by A. T. Niebergall as chairman, said It , was expected thuU seats, will he available for all. The . two-night . show has measurably ; relieved congestion of former years, it was pointed out. Several hundred re served seats were still available today for the late comers. Unre served seats, it was stressed, are as good as the reserved sections, but are not numbered. ! The Dapeant nropram will utnH- officially Saturday at 10 a.m. with the annual pet parade in which, it is expected, some 700 children will take part. Then will follow the water follies, in Drake, parlf, at 2 p.m. The program prelim inary to the pageant Saturday night will start at 7:30, with music by the Bend municipal band. . : , ' Glen Shelley to Play; : '. Organ music will be provided by Glen Shelley of KGW, Port land, and will be released over a public address system provided by the General Petroleum com pany. This address system will be available for all celebration events. , Fireworks will be provided bv the Shell Oil Co., with displays arranged for both nights, in con nection with the pageants. Tho entrance of each float Into the river from the arch will be an nounced by a bursting bomb. Art Kixe, chairman in charsc of floats, said entries and the or der of floats will not be announc ed until Saturday. The Portland Aquatic club's wa ter follies are being presented this year as a major phase of the pageant program and Fourth of July celebration. Norman Ander son, In charge locally, announced that 35 swimmers, including the far-famed Aquanettes, a group of 18 girls, will be presented in the varied water program. The show has been patterned after the Billy Rose Aquacade of world fair fame. Champions to Appear A specially designed diving tow. er will be anchored in the Des chutes river directly in front of seats ' In Drake park, with a springboard platform also In place. The water stars, most of them regional champions In their special events, will reach the tow. er and platform over a catwalk, extending out from Drake park. In the two-hour water show, a dozen different acts will be fea- tured, with the Portland girls to be presented In special numbers, ' including a water rose . Children taking part In the pet parade tomorrow are being asked -. to meet on Louisiana, adjacent to the high school tennis court. ; not later than 9:30 p.m. The pa rade Is scheduled to start prompt ly at 10 a.m. Don Shlngler is In -i charge for the Jaycees. The pa- racte win oe followed by games in Drake park. The color guard for the pet pa. rade will be provided by the Ore. gon national guard, Co. I, witr) the fire department leading the line of march. Also taking part In the parade will be Queen Joan'' I and her princesses followed by water follies girls, the Eagles' (Continued on Page 5 few
