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Orjzon III ;'.-rlcal Soilsty Public AuJltorlun rc:uL.::D i, cao: THE BEND BULLETIN Siate Forecast Eastern Oregon Fair today, tonight and Friday. Slightly warmer with high 75 to 85 to day and 78 to 88 Friday. Low tonight 40 to 50. LEASED WIRE WORLD NEWS COVERAGE CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER 33rd Year TWO SECTIONS BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON. THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1949 No. 192 Srannan Fairm IPIan Beaten. in House Vte Gangster Put Under Guard At Hospital l.os Angeles. July 21 li.. Addi tional guards were placed mound till' hospital loom li Wounded gangster Mickey Cohen Ic it In V. fol lowing telephoned warning thai mobsters planned ii lieu attempt In kill him. 'I'lir winning came as law en forcement agencies JiiIiiihI forces Id tlml tin gunmen whii shot Co lii'li anil I III companions. In In I x-N n preventing mi on I In i'al il lat:' scale gang warfare lien'. Tin' (lapxr X yi'ur nlil mobster Mini lilt; friends wen' wounded liy shotgun fire on the' swank Sunset strip early yesterday Just lit: a grand jury Investigation Into tlw tangled I h Angi-lcs under world ( ni'ari'il tin1 "Indictment Hlaci'." Tin' iiilillilnnal guards were placed iiiiiiind Cohen's room ut yuwn id Angels hospital after an anonymous telephone call last lillilit win ncil the switchboard tipet'ator: "lie tm your guard. We're go Int! to coiue down and get Mickey tonight." Nut Identified Ix'nh tliait Iwo hours later a sedan Kcreeched to a Hlop In from of (Me hospital, and four men and II woman ran past guards at (lie entrance. Ignoi lug, commands Id halt, they ran down a basement hall, emerged from a slile door. Hot hack In the car and sped away. Newsmen believed one of them wiik Johnny Stompoiiuio, a Cohen associate, iiut could not Identify the others. Sherlft'K deputies und police patrolled the wing where Cnheii, Ills henchman EYlward (Neddie) llerherf, mid (dale attorney gen end's agent Hurry 'Cooper were (Continued on Page 5) Impressions of Central Orogon Visitors If Katherlne I.. Maker, Massa chusetts 1 1 1 k ' school home econ omics supervisor, and Hrendu Moore, physical education super visor from the same state, are samples of eastern teachers--hrlnu 'em west ! Hlueeycd, sliver haired, Miss linker smiled her friendliness from the moment a reporter slli onto a cafe slool Im-sIiIc her unit asked: "Similiter here?'' Headlly she told horn the two, accompanied hy her falher, W. M. Maker, retired lime lock ex iert. have traveled from Medford, Mass., tu Medforil, Ore., In a lei surely vacation trip lasting months - the sort of nip which compensates for the hliirklioard and hllzzard months. "Wherever we went, we asked ourselves, 'Now how would we change tills, how would he Im prove that?'" she told, It was wllh reluctance thai she told any of the shortcomings of Oregon, hut with rate Insight she talked freely about the flaws in the elongated slate to the south. - '"I wouldn't slay at Crescent Clly, Calif., ever," she said, "We were treated uncivilly hy a post office employe at Crescent City, where we asked for our mail. We'd never stay at Sequoia park HKiiln, either. There were no curb markers real traffic hazard and everyone's cars hulled over. It's Just poorly' t un." At Grants Pass - nil, there's a postmasler who's every Inch a gentleman. "Surely there's mall for you -ii lot of it. You're from a long way off, aren't you? . . . Michigan's my state ..." Thai's the way he talked, and so, he made friends of her party. "Wo loved (Slants I'ass, hecause of him," slip declared. She termed SecUoln park the Coney Island of the west crowd ed, tense, unlovely. A Boston university graduate wllh n master's decree, she said she wished her acquaintance Marjnrie Mills, society editor of the Boston Herald-Traveler were olotiK. "Now Iheres' n girl!" she said. "A million-dollar radio pro gram, she's developed . . . Women groeal at her feet ... If she loltl them to servo their next dinner party guests martinis made of permanent-wave solution and can apes spread with shoo polish In stead of caviar, they'd try It and write her aflerwnrtl how Ingeni ous she Is!" . Ncnrly every summer, she and Brendn and her father make a long trip. Horn Bend, they go to night to Porllnnd, thence to Lake Louise. Couch Road Made Ready For Oiling County toad crews today cone pleled a Joli of preparing for oil lilK a two-mile Hccllou of the I 'ouch road weal of Hie licnd Sisters highway. George McAIIUter, county road master, reported Hint equipment would now Im moved to the Podds road for preparing for oiling u three mile section of the road east of the Central Oregon highway. Komi crews are also engaged In iladlii; county rouds In the Red mond area. Sonic minor bridge re pair Is also underway. Since Ihe first of Ihe year 3.9 miles of county toads have Isen oiled, accordion lo McAllister. Jobs completed Include the fol lowing: l)encer .7; Clovenlale 2.5; Three Creeks .1, and Redmond all pol l ,:i. McAllllster said that he hopes In complete the olIInK of six miles more of county roads before cold weather stops Ihe operation. At present there lire 5H miles of oiled county roads. Negro, Officer Die in Baffle Scuttle, July 21 'Hi A 50year old Negro gunman and a detec tive were killed and two others seriously wounded In a terrific I pre dawn nun battle Involving u score of police on Capitol hill to day. Jame? Jackson was killed after he fatally shot Detective Harry W. VosM-r. about 3!i. The wounded nre Johnny Tay lor, 33. a Negro, and Donald M. Keed. 27, a tow truck driver. Heed's condition was listed as cri tical by King county hospital at tendant. Taylor was in satisfac tory condition. The gun bnllle climaxed an eve nlngluiig argument between Jackson and Taylor, police said. After wounding Taylor with three shots from a .'IS-automatlc pistol, Jackson fled back to his home, armed himself with two rifles and a large supply of am munition and ban leaded himself In the basement. House Surrounded Vosicr was sent to the scene lo investigate the Taylor shoot ing and Heed was sent to im pound Jackson's car. As Keed started to connect the tow chain to the car, the killer opened fire. Keed fell to the street seriously wounded. A score of police surrounded Ihe two-stoy house after VoBpor re quested additional help. A tear gas bomb was tosseil Into the basement In an effort to dislodge the cornered gunman. Vosper was killed as he entered the basement. Groping his way through the acrid fumes, Vosper met Jackson at the door. The gunman killed the detective with one shot. As Vosper fell police fired across his bodv at Jackson. The killer was felled with three bul lets In his head. . Before Jackson died, several volleys of gunfire shattered the early morning quiet of the resi dential district located about a mile from downtown Seattle. Taylor was wounded shortly he fore midnight. Jackson, whose wife was suing him for divorce, police said, went to the Taylor home where Mrs, Jackson and Mr. and Mrs. Taylor were sitting on the porch. 15 Winners Named In 4-H Contest Redmond, July 22 Fifteen Des csules county -I II club members have been named as winners In the Scars-Roebuck garden con lesl, it was nnnounced today by Don Uenscoler, county 4-H club agent. Each will be reimbursed for seeds planted, up to $-1.50, mid will be eligible lo compete for cash prizes of $(, $4 and $2. The following were named: Kathleen Kiesow, Davkl Krihs, Mary Ann Kiesow, Larry Krlbs and Betty Koth, all C'.len Vista: Hugh Cole Jr., Alice Samples and Boh Mulllns, all Bend; Donna Williams, Agnes Thornhurgh and Vernle Maglll, all Terrebonne; Violet Klohas, Hulcy Prlchard ond John Prlchard, Richardson district, and Joanne Johnson, Young school district. Winners of Ihe cash awards will be named later. Judging will be on a basis of 50 per cent on garden tours to' be conducted later, 25 per cent on exhibits of five varieties of produce dis played at the county fair, and 25 per cent on record books. J H- if r Janet Hedner, 16 and Crook county high school junior who has been riding horses since she was 6 has been named quen of the 19-111 Crooked Klver roundup, scheduled for Prlneville August 12, 13 and 14. She Train Hits Oil Truck Bad Fires -Injure 3 Persons Montehello, Cal., July 21 dpi The- Union Pacific streamliner City of Ixjs Angeles collided with a truck driving out of a Standard Oil refinery today and set off fires that burned the truck driver, train engineer and fireman. No passengers of the luxury train were Injured. H. E. Byers. of Las Vegas, Nev., and H. G. Hcaton, Bell, Cal.. the truck driver, were the most seri ously Injured, Both suffered se vere burns. The fireman of the train, whose name the railroad knew only as "Dennis." was burned less seri ously. Dennis also lives in Las Vegas. Ho told Investigators who ques tloned him at Angelus emergency hospital that an automatic wig wag signal was working at the crossing but that Heaton appar ently failed to see It and drove directly into the path of the train, inbound from Chicago to Los An geles. leaving lleftnery The truck and trailer were driv ing out of the refinery after hav ing .taken on n load of petroleum products. Impact of the crash set off an explosion and a spectacular fire, but damage was limited to the Immediate area and to the front end of the railroad engine. Ambulances and county fire equipment were rushed lo the scene when it was feared Ihe crash might develop Into a major disaster, but the fire was quickly brought under control. Heaton was treated at Beverly emergency hospital for burns. Byers and Dentils both were tak en to Angelus emergency hos pital. Churchill Lays Blame on FDR London, July 2t illi Winston Churchill placed on the late Presi dent Roosevelt today the full re sponsibility for the "uncondition al surrender" policy regarding Ciermany, and admitted that the British cabinet would have reject ed such a policy. Mr. Roosevelt made the '"un conditional surrender" statement at Casablanca without consulting him, the wartime prime minister told the house of commons. Churchill conceded that he had "not the slightest doubt" that the British government would have turned down the policy If the cabinet had been consulted in the matter. The secrets of the Casablanca conference came out In commons debate on foreign policy, marked oy on ongry exchange between Churchill and Foreign secretary Ernest Bcvtn,. Named Crooked River Roundup Queen is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley T. Redner. General Marshall Declares Atlantic Pact Peace Factor By John U Steele (lnltrd Vrtm Blmtl CorreioDJf llO ICopyrluM. 14. -by lh United I'na AwMlationl Washington. July 21- General George C. Marshall, former sec retary of state, said today he feels certain that "the Atlantic pact will contribute to world peace." The wartime army chief of staff told the United Press exclu sively that he also believes the mutual defense treaty will "Im measurably" strengthen the se- Two Accidents Occur in Bend ' Although the car in which he was riding came to rest on Its side after an accident at Third and Revere last night at 8:05 o'clock, Allen Leroy Hurrington. Route 1, Box 354, was not hurt and today was at work. The car he was driving, owned by Huettl Brothers Repair shop, Butler Market toad, was said to lie badly damaged. Driver of the other car, Norman W. Enluw, Route 1, Box 194, Red mond, was going north on Third and turning west into Revere, po lice records showed today. The Harrington car was goliig west on Revere, crossing Third. Taxi In Accident Police officers described the ac cident by saying apparently Har rington's car struck Enlow's left front fender with Its right fender. This spun Harrington's car to the left and over onto its left side. Damage to Enlow's car was said to be minor. A second mishap occurred an hour later at Bond and, Green wood, when an Owl taxi, driven by Rolin Henry Thompson, 1219 Baltimore, and a car driven bv Creed Marshall Trlplett, 480 E. Virginia, San Jose, Calif., came together. Officers reported that Trlplett was apparently backing out of a parking place at the time of im pact. Meteor Viewed By Bend Residents A blue-green meteor flashed down the western sky last night about 9:30, exploded with a bril liant flash, then trailed Into in visibility. Observers said the meteor, dropping Into the west at a sharp angle, was first noticed when It exploded with a flare of light. Following the explosion, the me teor, probably only a fragment of the larger fireball that explod ed, continued down the sky, leav ing a distinct trail. The meteor was observed by people In farm communities ad jacent to Bend. curltr of the United States and Its 11 partners in the Atlantic area. Marshall discussed the pact and its implications at length in an swering a series of questions sub mitted to him by this reporter. It wis one of his most extensive discussions of world affairs since he left the state department last January. Now in Retirement He Is now living in retirement at his Leesburg, Va., home. Here are some of the questions put to Marshall, and the general's answers: Q. Do you regard the pact's pledge to consider an attack on one signatory as an attack on all, with the consequent commitment that each nation will take such Steps as it deems necessary, as an "automatic" commitment for United States participation in any European war? A. No. The United States can wage war only if congress de clares war. The language of the treaty makes it clear that In the event of an armed attack each nation must decide for Itself the meas ures it should take to restore and maintain the security of the I tNortn Atlantic arqa, and then it must take those measures, i Benefits Seen Q. In what manner do you be j lieve the pact will be beneficial to j the security and national defense j of the United Slates and of the other co signatories? (Continued on Page 5) Benham Falls Investigation Discontinued Geologic investigation of the proposed reservoir site at Ben- l ham falls, a study which was j started early this summer, has been temporarily discontinued. accwrtling to a report today from the U. S. bureau of reclamation office In Bend. The project study Is being con ducted by personnel of the bureau planning office in Salem, headed by Lee McAllister, planning en gineer. B. K. Thomas, project geologist rom Salem conducted tests at the site prior to the dis continuance of the investigation. J. W. Taylor, Deschutes project engineer, said that he had receiv ed word from McAllister indicat ing that the study would be re sumed about October 1. In a report this spring on the proposed project, Robert J. New ell, regional director, now retired, stated that preliminary study re ports showed that the project would be comparable In cost to the Wickiup reservoir. He also said that the maximum develop ment at Benham falls would con sist of a dam and reservoir with an estimated 70,000 acre foot capacity. Engineer Will Make Report Monday Evening on Proposed Bend Water Improvements A report on the practicability of obtaining additiomil moun tain water for Bend, and potential cost involved, will be made to the city commission at a special meeting Monday evening, by the Portland engineering firm of John Cunning ham and AxHociateH. Cunningham's firm was retained by the city to explore the water situation fully, and make recommendations and cost estimates for additional transmission mains and storage fa- cilities as a means of reliev Downey Hits Reclamation Bureau Acts Washington, July 21 IP Sen. Sheridan Downey, D., Cal., said today former reclamation com missioner Harry Bashore com plained to him that he could not endure- that job because of "politi cal maniuplation coming from Michael Straus." Straus Is now commissioner of reclamation. Downey reviewed his com plaints against the bureau and against Straus before the senate interior committee, which is try ing to decide whether to adopt a resolution by Downey calling for a "full scale" investigation of the bureau. Downey attacked Straus be cause of his recommendation of Richard L. Boke to be regional (Continued on Page 5) Relief Figures Show Increase A total of $16,308.20 was spent IrrPeschutes county in ihe month of June for relief, according to an announcement by Miss Olive Jameson, welfare administrator, at a meeting last night of the county welfare commission. Miss Jameson also reported to the commission that the number of persons seeking relief in Des chutes county is the greatest now since before the war. She said that many relief applicants are persons who have in past years followed the harvesting of crops. They have told Miss Jameson that harvest Jobs are extremely scarce tms year. The greatest part of the total. $9,319, was spent for 201 old age assistance cases. Other expendi tures included: 93 general assist ance cases, $3,499; two aid to blind cases, $101, and 25 aid to de pendent children cases, $2,855. . Medical Care Listed Medical care accounted for a part of the general assistance total of $3,956. Of that amount. $693.63 went to old age assistance recipients; 5207,43 was spent for medical aid to dependent children cases, and $794.74 was paid out as medical assistance to children in foster homes. In June of 1948 relief expendi tures In the county amounted to S12.603.2U On the relief rolls at that time were 192 old age assist ance cases, 102 general assistance cases. 22 aid to dependent child ren cases, and two aid to blind cases. In May of this year $15,774 was spent for relief. Recipients total led 323. . Commission members present last night were: Craig Coyner. chairman, Mrs. B. A. Stover, O. W. Grubb, and A. E. Stevens. Australia Uses Troops in Mines Sydney, Australia. July 21 ilP The Australian labor government called out 3,000 troops today to dig coal In the strike-bound mines of New South Wales. Five hundred policemen were ordered to prevent the possible reoccupation of the mines by the 23,008. communist-led miners who walked out 25 days ago. ihe decision came as the win ter's worst blizzard swept New South Wales and northern Victria. The government announced there was only enough coal still above ground to continue present limit ed service for three weeks, unless, the mines were put into operation immediately. The troops are expected to pro duce 55,000 tons of coal weekly to Dnng renei to smverlng Aus tralians. The bulk of the strikers voted at local meetings to remain out until their leaders have been re leased from Jail and their claims for pay Increases and 16ng-servlce vacations had been granted. ing the local water shortage, it was explained last night by W. O. Cuthbertson. citv mnn. ager, at the July commission meeting. The question of ad ditional water rights also may be involved, as the city's present source of supply may prove in adequate, it was pointed out. Bank Loans Authorized In another action last night the commission authorized the nego tiation of bank loans, to carry the city through the fall months until the first tax turnover is made in December. George Simerville, city treasurer, estimated that it might be necessary to borrow as much as $80,000, compared to last year's total of around $40,000. The increase Is due to the fact that airport and pool fund monies must be utilized ' immediately, and the city Is carrying consid erable street Improvement liabil ity, pending completion or assess ment payments by property own ers, simerville said. The commission decided to split the loans, to be made as the funds are needed, between both local banks. The interest rate will be 3 per cent, it was added. Interest payments, as has been done pre viously, will be taken from state tax street money, inasmuch as much of the debt will be .due to street improvement work, Simer ville said. ' I Pound DLcuse4 - Mrs. Alice Orewiler, represent ing the recently formed Des chutes county unit of the Oregon Humane society, again appeared before the commission, Inquiring as to the extent of assistance the unit could expect in devloping a new dog pound. She was assured that the city would cooperate tuny. Mrs. Orewiler also asked that any dogs left in the pound, at the conclusion of the tie-up season, be turned over to her group which either will find homes for the animals or dispose of them. The request was granted. Mel Erickson asked the com mission for an explaantion of the city licensing ordinance, and if any action looking to repeal were contemplated. Ross F a r n h a m, city attorney, explained that it would be necessary to publish the entire licensing section, if chang es in the ordinance were made. Mayor T. D. Sexton said that it was "quite possible" that the com mission might consider repeal of this provision, at some future date. Foreclosures to' Start Simerville told the commission that , he had delayed ttfe start of foreclosure proceedings against Bend residents who are delin quent in payment of street im provement assessments, but would proceed today. The delay (Continued on Page 5) Big Suit Filed In Court Here A $35,750 collection suit has been filed in the Deschutes coun ty circuit court by S. M. Seeley against O. N. Hanson and I. N. Wagner, operators of the Bond street market and the Bend Dairy store. Seeley also seeks $4,000 in attorney fees. In his complaint Seeley states that he lent the sum of money sought in the suit to the defend ants tinder an agreement that they purchase the Bond street market and an adjacent area where the Western Union office is now located, and clear title to the Bend Dairy store. The agree ment also called for the defend ants delivering to the plaintiff a first mortgage on the property to secure the loan, according to the complaint. After obtaining title to the property, Seeley states, the de fendants delivered a first mort gage on the property to the Equitable Savings and Loan as sociation to secure another loan. Seeley has had the property in question attached and now seeks collaction of the $35,750 promis sory note signed by the defend ants, court records show. The note, according to the complaint, was signed by the defendants June 24, 1948. W W Present Price Support Setup To Continue Washington. July 21 (111 A powerful house coalition today overwhelmingly defeated the ad ministration's proposed trial run farm bill and voted to continue through 1950 the present system of agriculture price supports. The administration poured all the strength it could muster into a final vain effort to save its own bill, which called for a t'-vo-year experiment on Secretary of agri culture Charles F.. Brannan's plan of producers' subsidies for three crops. Speaker Sam Ray. burn took the floor personally to plead for the administration bill. Action Decisive But in a final decisive action, a coalition bill continuing the present price support law and repealing the republican Aiken law was adopted, 239 to 170, on a roll call vote. Earlier, the house on a pre liminary vote had rejected the administration bill, 22 to 152. The first house test came on a proposal to repeal the Aiken law, which was due to go into effect next January 1. That was carried easily by voice vote. Then Raybum spoke out In a last-ditch effort to line up "my democratic friends" behind the Brannan experiment with pota toes, eggs ana snorn wool. The Brannan plan would aid consumers by allowing prices to fall when surpluses occur. If farmers got less than a pegged price for their crops, the govern ment would give them, a check to make tip "Ww-drfference. ' ' Girls Battered Body Discovered Ogden, Utah, July 21 (IP The nude body of a teen-age girl strangled with a brassiere and blouse was found In a clump of bushes at Riverdale, near Ogden, today. Weber county Sheriff Mac M. Wade said a "sex fiend" appar ently strangled the girl, Shirley Gretzlnger, 17, Ogden. Deputy county sheriff officers said the girl had on only her shoes. The finding of the girl's body came after Ogden and Weber county authorities had, been plagued by a series of rape at tacks within the last month, in cluding one on a seven-year-old girl. The sheriff said he did not know Immediately if the girl had been raped. Shirley's 18-year-old boy friend. George Middleton, told Wade that the girl had gone to downtown Ogden last evening to meet a man whose children she was go ing to tend so he could go to the rodeo." Middleton said he did not know who the man was. He said his girl friend had been called by the man after he had answered a newsDaoer advertisement for baby tending, put In by a woman friend of Shirley. Found In Field Wade said the girl apparently, had been killed about midnight. The body was found in a field near an old highway. The sheriff said bruises about the legs Indi cated she had been dragged from a car on the road into the field. The body was found by a man living in an old radio transmitter shack in the field. The girl was Identified by Middleton, who had been standing by alarmed at the police station since before dawn because Shirley had not re turned to her home. On her feet were black suede slippers. Her blonde head was on her skirt, which had been folded none too carefully and placed on the ground. On one of her wrists was n' charm bracelet with three silver hearts on it. One of the hearts was stained with blood from the injuries. WINDOWS STONED The manager ot General Gro cery, W. B. Ream. 1340 Wall, ask ed police help yesterday In ton trol of window breaking. On four occasions, he said, he has found back windows broken, apparently by rocks. Yesterday morning was the most recent instance. Re pairs have cost approximately $30, he said. i
