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Newspaper Page TextOregon Hlitorlotl Soeltty Publlo Auditorial xsnnrt nr. . .. TKE BEND BULL CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER Sfafe Forecasf Oregon Partly cloudy to day and Wednesday; Few scattered showers today. High 74 to 84 both days and low tonight 44 to 54. LEASED WIRE WORLD NEWS COVERAGE 33rd Year BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 26, 1949 No. 196 Cor Leaves Highway, Crashes Into Bend Building Bend Water System Subject Of Report, Commission ETIW 7 k.- - 7! I Study toe. 13' O TS : I'lm driver of UiIh car. Rents T. dc MalclsMyc, Laplnc, escaped kitIouh Injury Idle yesterday when llu- mmliliic crushed lulu the Wilson Refrigerator repair tilanl on the south highway. The entire south wiill nf l In luimli-ehliick structure was damaged. Jlclow in an Interior view of the plant, wmi p.u i iii it I'Miiniiev Impressions of Control Oregon Visitors An loun eyvHui'tieon. (leoik'e II. DiilmiiKc, mild today thnt "everythliiK" happened to I1I.4 yminnHiM'.s, a.H he mid his wife, Kldona, atli'iiiplvd to enjoy n touriiiK vaeall'in In Idaho, Slon tana and Drecon. 'Ann - she's six hroke h e r wiisl our first nllit out. She was routth housliiK' In a luiirlst camp, mill she fell," the doctor said. Then he told of colds and sore throats and threiltenlnK eyes and headaches, while John, 9. and Ei ward, .'I. Joined Ann -now recov ered In 1 1 Isk I n K aliout the sldiv walk ami Inwp of Uend'9 post office. Hlonds, all. I hey net their color Inn from their Scandinavian mother, Kldona. Dr. Polinnuo said. She was n school teacher In his home (own, whom ho met Just after unidmitltin from Uni versity of Iowa ineihcul school. Asked If he had ever per formed the cornea transplant operation, he replied In the nega tive. "That operation Is vory rare, hut It Rets a lot of publicity." he observed. He liked cenlral OrcRon hotter than the 1'orlland area, where, he said airxrlevedly, tourists are helnn drowned this week. How ever, he hinted that Iowa's soli has the ed;;e on soil here; even hinting he felt corn "would hard ly thrive" in the lavn hods he hud seen. ' Prowler Shot By Farmer, Dies Illllshoro, July 21! illiKmnk lip. KiiRenr- Miller, Forest (irove, whs killed last nliiht by n Hliol:iin blast when he nllcRod ly was caught prowllni; a farm house, state police said today. Miller was dead from 27 pel lets from n 10 entice hot!im af ter belnK taken to a Forest tJrove hosnltal hv his wife al 10 p. m. Henry Cirlfrintt, 77, Hlllahoro, told officers he fired the fatal shot when he was awakened In n .Horace shack where he hud de cided to Bleep to halt a series of thefts, lie said the intruder dash ed back to a ear driven by n wo man, who Wild she would take him to n doctor, Mrs. Miller told authorities that, she and her husband had Rone to the (arm to purchase a blunkcl. nun 11 Kii'iion or me wan renting on , i Cor Crashes Into Building At South Entrance to Bend A cur driven by Regis T. do Maleissye of the Wagon Trail ranch, near I.npine, late yesterday afternoon left highway U7 at the south city limits of Bend, crashed through a new fence, Aideswiped n pine tree, went over an embankment and tilowed into Wilson refrigerator service building on the south highway, just across from the Maluissye suffered a shoulder wagon owned by A. C. Good- rich, Hend attorney,- was ex tensively damaged The entire south wall of the refrigerator service plant, owned by Stanley Bowden, was caved in or badly cracked as the big car crashed Into the building, coming to rest with about a third of the machine In side, under a mass of pumice blocks. The Wagon Trail ranch opera tor said the steering mechanism of the car locked as he was mak ing the slight curve on the "high way In front of the Pine Forest grange hall. 'As the machine left the highway and shattered the fence, it narrowly missed R. B. Woodcock, who was painting the new fence, uround the yard of Mr. antl Mi-s. tleorge Dubuls. Mrs. Du buls, frozen by fright, was look ing out of a window of hef- home ns the car . plowed past, went through the north section of the new fence, Jumped the embank ment and struck the nearby build ing. ''if the car had hit. our house, I would not have been able to move," Mrs. Dubois said, as she told liow the machine first ap peared to be heading directly for the window from which she was looking. De Malelssye had borrowed the Goodrich car for the afternoon nnd was bringing It back to Bend from his I opine ranch when the crash occurred. The Lupine man was alone when the accident oc ctirred. City nnd stale police aided In handling traffic following the crash and In making Investiga tions. Spectators told officers the car was moving at n high rate of speed as It neared the Bend city limits from the south. NEW EVIDENCE POUND -Washington, July 2G ll' Son. Karl K. Miindl. H., S.D., said to day senate Investigators have un covered evidence "far more Im portant" to the "five per center" inquiry than the diary of James V. Hunt. S3 isfea lop 01 ine cur noon. Pine Forest grange hall. De injury. The car, a station 1 ' Slot Machines Seized in Raid At Sutile Lake State police In a raid yesterday afternoon arrested Lyle Franklin Baker of the Suttle lake resort on a charge of possessing gambling devices and took possession of four slot machines. Milking the arrest were Sgt. L. L, Hlrtzcl and Officer R. L. Hufstad of the state police, with headquarters in Bend. Suttle lake Is in Jefferson county, and Baker was taken to Madras, where he entered a plea of guilty. The machines were re moved to Madras, where they were turned over to Sheriff Bern Card. Disposition of the case and the machines is still pending, of licers said. Word of the raid apparently spread quickly through los chuter. county yesterday evening and machines previously report ed In semi-public places anil prl vatc clubs were rcorted to have gone "under cover". Complaints had been made in the past month that most of the machines that had been out of sight since the new Oregon administration took over, were uppoarliiK again 'Green Harvests' Viewed by Lions Pend Lion club members at their weekly luncheon meeting today noon In the Pine tavern viewed "Green Harvests", a col ored moving picture that stressed importance of handling timber as a crop, Produced by the Weyer hausev company, the- 'Picture is being distributed by the Keep Oregon Green association, W. E. Naylor was In charge of the program, with Thomas P. Brooks In charge of showing the picture. Loydo S. Blakley, club mem ber, was Introduced as a new member of the state game com mission, James W. Bushong was In general charge of the meeting. ' W In I 1 & ItT. lit Crescent Lake Dam Project Up for Study Salem, July 20 dliA study of the Crescent lake dam Bite, to de termine the feasibility of repair ing the impounding structure. Is, plunncd for the present fiscul, year, Lee McAllister, planning en gineer for the United States bu reau of reclamation, hus announc ed. The dam would replace the present structure, reported n a state of disrepair. water lor the Tumulo district is Impounded behind the low dam, at Crescent lake. Storage released Into Crescent creek and the Pes-J chutes is diverted from the Des chutes channel by the district at the north city limits of Bend. I McAllister stressed that II the Crescent lake dam Is reconstruct ed it will be no higher than the present dam. He said a structure of Hie same height would not dis turb the set up. fishing In the area Is a great attraction and, the engineer said, the proposed dam reconstruction would not disturb the sport. Also, Crescent lake Is being de vcloed into a considerable rec reation area, with camps and docks on its shores. 'Die Modoc council. Boy Scouts of America, camp is on Crescent luke. Falls Site Studied McAllister also pointed out that the bureau of reclamation has also launched a study of the Ben ham falls site on the Deschutes river south of Bend to determine whether the site would be feasible wnciner me sue wuuiu oe leuaiuie for an fSS additional storage for existing projects. Benham falls has long been considered as the location for a dam, and was first proposed for North unit storage. Some 12 years aso. the Wickiup site was selected for Jefferson county wa ter storage. McAllister said the chief pur pose of the Benham falls study is to determine if the basin will hold water. If the area Is found suit able and a dam is constructed, it is proposed that it be built to a height sufficient to store from 70.000 to 130.000 acre-feet of wa ter. Again the height of the dam. and storage capacity, will be based on feasibility. The new study of the Benham falls area was started this seas on. Work has geen halted temp orarily, but will be resumed in the fall. Pilot Power Diyes to Death Stockton, Cal., July 26 mi A 23-year-old pilot, despondent over his wife's death, terror'ied resi dents by buzzing their homes and then power-dived to his death In the graveyurd where she was buried. Russell (Bud) Higby Jr.. son of a promlnont Stockton and Bakers field produce merchant, roared over the northeast section of the city at "hear-ralsing" low levels before making his suicidal plunge. "For awhile, we thought we might even have to shoot him down." Sheriff Carolos Souza said. "Some of his dives came as low as 40-feet." As frightened householders flooded switchboards with calls for officers, deputies roced to the airport to arrest Higby when he landed. Instead, Higby leveled off his small private plane at about 2.000 feet over the Stockton rural cemetery and then "nosed over Into a 60-degree power dive." The craft disintegrated on im pact. Parts scattered ovei a 1, 500 foot area but the wreck did not burn. Illgby's body was thrown nearly 85 feet from the wreckage. Hlgby's parents said he had been despondent over the death of his wife, Beverly, during the birth of their second child four months ago. He and his wife were survived by their two daughters, D'enlsc, 2, and Kelly Susan, four months. CAR HITS MOTOKCYCLE William F. Luck, Route 1, Box 21-A, yesterday filed an accident report describing how a New Jer sey car had backed Into his mo torcycle, parked In front of the post office. Luck said the front fork of his cycle was bent. He ob-1 tained the car's license. Fantastic Numbers Racket Broken Up by 11 Arrests; Respected Banker Involved , New York, July 26 (U.R A fantastic $50,000,000 a year numbers racket that didn't give a sucker even the normal 1,000 to 1 chance fell apart today as police held 11 persons on lottery charges. Among those under arrest were a respected Cincinnati, 0., banker who took part in tho racket by helping to rig the pay off numbers for two years; an east coast gang leader, and a Truman Arms For Europe Bill Readied By John I.. Steele ltfnltd 1'rtwa Huff Corrwiwndenll Washington. July 26 UlvChair man Tom Connolly of the senate foreign relations committee an nounced today he will introduce President Truman's Sl.450.000.000 arms aid plan in the senate, but said It is "wide open" for revi sions. The Texas democrat already has Informed Secretary of state Dean Acheson that he faces "a hel of a fight" trying to get the administration program through congress. Connally's announcement that he wil introduce the president's planprobably late today was taken to mean that the adminis tration is determined to push its plan .despite strong opposition , m rnnnhllrHn fnrelim nnll,-v pSu. & crnts. The opposition prefers a stop gap proeram. Connally revealed that he' did not expect any republicans to join him in presenting the bill to the senate. He said democratic Sens. Elbert Thomas, Utah, Claude Pepper, Fla., and Theo dore Francis Green. R. I., would join him in sponsoring the bill. Connally still declined comment on the president's plan. Hearings Start Thursday Hearings on the Truman plan will begin Thursday before the house foreign affairs committee, with Acheson as first witness. Mr. Truman sent his arms-for-Europe program to congress yes terday with a plea for prompt ac tion to stop Russia's "massed military might." The arms plan is designed to put muscle in the newly-ratified Atlantic defense pact. However. Sen. Arthur H. Van- denberg, Mich., and other repub lican leaders assailed the plan as another lend-lease affair, too cost ly and premature. Their split with the administration . repre sented the first major break In the bipartisan foreign policy front in recent years. Even some influential demo crats were skeptical about the president's proposal. Democratic leader Scott W. Lu cas, 111., withheld his blessings. Connally said his committee will consider demands from Van denberg. Sen. John Foster Dulles, R., N. Y., and others that the pro gram be scaled down to an "in terim" effort costing perhaps $300,000,000. Favored by Acheson Despite the open hostility to the arms project in many con gressional quarters, state depart ment sources said Acheson re gards the program as "rock bot tom." They said the administra tion is ready to fight for the full arms plan if it takes the rest of the year. Vandcnherg and Dulles said the plan would give Mr. Truman too much power in determining what military equipment should be sent abroad. Sen. Robert A. Taft, R.. O., maintained that if congress should approve the project as out lined, it would be "abdicating" Its foreign policy functions. Republi can floor leader Kenneth S. Wher ry, Neb., accused the state depart ment of making "secret" agree ments on arms. ACCIDENT ItEPOUTED An accident which occurred at Franklin and Harrlman last night at 8:30 o,'clock, was due to his having been blinded by a third car, Dale Raymond Evans, 1519 East Einhth. told police. Driver of the other cap was Betty Jane Dyne, 1219 Fresno. Damage to Miss Dyne's car was estimated at S50, and to h-vans car at $10. The vehicles came to gether In the intersection. former small-time racketeer who once acted as a go-be- tween in the Lindbergh kid naping. The banker, Dennison Du- ble, dignified, distinguished looking secretary of the Cin cinati Clearing House association, was arrested in Cincinnati and admitted "fixing" the associa tion's daily figures after getting instructions by telephone from the racket headquarters in New ark, N. J. The gang leader was Anthony Strollo, alias Tony Bender, de scribed as a "leading underworld figure in the east," who was ar rested last night in Cliffside Park. N. J. "Biggest In Existence" Three members of the numbers ring, described by New York dis trict attorney Frank S. Hogan as the "biggest in existence," were arrested in Newark and held in $100,000 bail each. They were Daniel Zwillman, 42, whose, lux urious home, police said, was headquarters for the racket, Wil liam Tiplitz, 48. and Nat Levin son. Among six men held in New York was Irving Bitz, 46, a for mer racketeer now a circulation inspector for the New York Journal-American. In 1932 Bitz and Salvalore Spitale helped police in checking whether hie Undbergh Kidnaping"" was- an underworld job. . The others arrested here were Abraham Goldberg, 46, assistant circulation manager of the Journal-American; Martin W. Martin sen, 36, a cook; Jack Feldman, 48. a cigar store operator; Ed ward Kane, operator of a pool room, and Emilio Strollo, 61, own er of a check cashing business and brother of Anthony. Got DaUy Calls According to Hogan, Kane re ceived daily phone calls from Zwillman in Newark, telling him the clearing house figure that would provide the lowest payoff to players. - . Kane then telephoned the sucker number to Duble In Cin cinnati, who then would "fix" the clearing house numbers to corre spond. Hogan said the gang operated eight policy banks in the metro politan area with a gross take of more than S30.000 a day. He said the elaborate information service served to cover the racket against the possibility of a big payoff but worked so smoothly that it was virtually impossible for play ers to win. At the arraignment in Newark of Zwillman, Tiplitz and Levin son, Judge W. Stanley Nauch- right said: "These three not only took the suckers lor their money, but they made it Impossible for the suck ers to win." Baruch Dislikes Foreignloans New York, July 26 ilP Ber nard Baruch said today on his re turn from a month in Europe that the United States should buy more of the world's products with its money instead of lending it to loreign governments. Baruch, commenting on Bri tain's financial difficulties, said "one thing that I noticed about them is that they are spending too much of their time on nation alization and not devoting their energies to production and devel oping their country." The elder statesman, declaring ho felf "fine" and appearing in the pink of health, spent an hour with reporters and photographers as tne yueen Mary docked. He said: 1. The world's monetary condi tion needs readjusting. 2. Secretary of treasury John Snyder "created a very favorable Impression everywhere he went on his recent European visit. Baruch said "Britain has got to get rid of the 3,500,000,000 frozen pounds sterling which her credit ors, like India, . Egypt and the British commonwealth, generally are using to buy goods in Eng land for which she doesn t get anything fresh. Work Starts On Wickiup Fault Sealing V. S. bureau of reclamation personnel yesterday began work of sealing up faults In the outer reaches of the Wickiup reser voir, J. W. Taylor, Deschutes project engineer, reported today. Water storage In the reservoir is now at the 89,620 acre foot mark, a point sufficiently low to allow workmen to detect and plug some of the faults which developed this irrigation season, adjacent to tnose detected this past fall near the Davis mountain and Wickiup butte areas. It will be recalled that only 150,000 acre feet of water was stored In the reservoir for the 1948 irrigation season because large fissures developed in the reservoir floor. This past fall the bureau sealed up the major faults at an approximate cost of $90,000 and this season the reservoir was filled to its capacity of 187.000 acre feet. Will Complete Project Taylor estimated the cost of work on the reservoir this year woutu run aoout one half of the total cost last year. He said, too, that he is confident that work this season will complete major sealing operations and In future years only minor fault plugging will be necessary. The engineer reported that bur eau personnel will remain at the reservoir site until around the middle of November, and conduct sealing operations as the water storage goes down and new faults are detected. . j. s, In addition to tne sealing work the bureau crew Wfll clean brush piles from, varioils jareas of the dservolr. ' ' ' . Census Reports Facing Delay Completion of the business cen sus in Deschutes county is be ing held up because approximate ly 75 business operators in the county have failed to complete and submit their schedules to the U.S. bureau of census office in Bend, Mrs. Gertrude M. Arnold, district supervisor. . reported to day. The office is located in room 5 of the O'Kane building. . Mrs. Arnold stated that no fig ures on the census can be re leased until every operator com pletes his report. The supervisor said, too, that the central census office in Washington, D. C, is now receiving reports from all parts of the country and the long er the reports are held up from this area the longer it will take for Deschutes county reports to be tabulated. Mrs. Arnold explained that the schedules must first be edited at the Bend office and then sub mitted to the Washington office for final editing and tabulation. Early reports on the census, according to the supervisor, will be very general in nature. Western Oregon Welcomes Rain (By United PrMsl A fourth day of rain, which has lifted the threat of fire in the Pacific northwest's tinder-dry forests, brought hope Tuesday of profitable harvests to farmers. The long dry spell, described as "unusually dry" by the weather bureau, parched pasture lands on which dairy herds grazed. Raspberries wee ripened too fast under hot, cloudless skies. A total of .69 Inches of rainfall was recorded from Friday night through Tuesday morning more than fell during the entire month of June. "It was badly needed," J. A. Johnston, King county extension agent, said. "There wasn't enough moisture In the ground to give crops like broccoli, set out at this time of year, a good start." The early varieties of beans were drying up and threatening the Income from one of western Washington's best money crops. "Farmers count on lots of rain In June and early July." John ston said. "This rain will do lots of good for all the crops." Reservoir,; Metering Get Consideration The city of Bend is faced with an increasingly serious water shortage, Involving both th source of supply and local stor age facilities. This was the report brought to the city commission, at a special meeting last night, by John W. Cunningham, Portland consulting engineer retained by Bend to make a survey of its water situa tion. .. , Needed In the very near future, Cunningham explained, are: 1 Another storage reservoir, preferably of 5.000,000-gallon ca pacity, to be located on Awbrey butte, and possibly a smaller res-, ervoir or basin of 600,000-gallon capacity on Pilot butte. i 2 Immediate Invpstlpatfonnfl tn tho availnhilitv nf Artrlltlnntil water sources, are the possibility of obtaining necessary water rights by purchase or negotiation. Bend soon will need at least six more second feet of water, if the city continues to grow at the present pace, it was explained. Second Line Neded -From the long-range standpoint Bend must prepare to build a sec- nnH tranomlcalnn lino oithfii- trnm . the headwaters of Tumalo creek, the present source, or any other supply that becomes available, ' the engineer declared. : 1 In this connection it was point-' ed out that the proposed Benham fals dam, if it Is constructed, ultimately may proviae 1 aena with a source of water that could be "traded".twth Irrigation dis tricts for water more suitable tor domestic purposes. All .re maining water rights In the Tum alo creek area have been taken, and Bend either must buy up some of these rights or "swap" in order to obtain more water, Cunningham explained. : He added that Charles Strick lin, sate engineer, had -advised him that the law bans purchase of irrigation district lands by mu nicipalities, in order to obtain the water rights involved, If there still is bonded Indebtedness out standing against these districts. Qther sources however have dis- puted Stncklm s ruling, Cunning ham added. Members of the commission, (Continued on Page 5) Shanghai Hard Hit by Tyhoon Shanghai, China, July 26 tP) Twenty persons were killed, 70 injured and 200,000 -made home less today when the typhoon Glo ria hit communist-held Shanghai after smashing two big American air bases on Okinawa. . Marked by 60 -mile -an -hour winds and torrential rains, the typhoon howled northward into the Yellow sea and last wa3 re ported heading for the big port of Tsingtao on the Shantung pen insula. While Gloria swung northward, another typhoon named Hester raged out of the Pacific, lashed Iwo Jlma with winds of 70 miles an hour and headed for the Japa nese home islands. American air force weather stations alerted Tokyo and the southern Japanese islands to meet the storm. It was expected to be 450 miles due south of Kobe at 9 a.m. tomorrow. Experts said it may or may not Increase in intensity on Its northward Jour ney. Shanghai was flooded with wa ter from one to six feet deep In the wake of the storm. Water stood knee deep in the main downtown streets and the city was paralyzed for 24 hours. The first part of the storm hit western Shanghai Sunday night,1 cutting a 10-mile swath of de struction. Winds and rain ripped down houses, trees and billboards. The communist radio said one third of the slum district In west ern and northern Shanghai was destroyed. More than 200,000 resi dents, made homeless when their rickety shanties collapsed, swarmed into downtown Shang hai seeking shelter and food. Press dispatches said at least 20 persons were killed and 70 In jured. Many of the casualties were caused by fallen wires. One ship in the Whangpoo lost Its fun nel and main mast in the gale.