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Newspaper Page TextOraon Historical Socltty publle Auiltoriua PORTLAND 1 OREO03 THE BEND BULLETIN State Forecast Oregon Fair today, tonight and Friday with high both days 80-90. Low tonight 15-55. LEASED WIRE WORLD NEWS COVERAGE CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER 33rd Year TWO SECTIONS BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1949 No. 198 esoo Appeals for Annus Aid Approval M Ach Jury Indicts Former Police Chief, Others l.os Angeles. July UK I!.P Retired police chief ('. It. Ilor rnll unci four of Imm suhm'di. nates were indicted liy the county grand Jury on criminal clmi'Ki'M today ut the climax of Its Hi'iiHiitionul investigation of iolici'-irolected vice. Only ii few hour earlier, Kdwnrd (Neddie) Herbert, top aide to mobster Mickey Cohen whose d I h c I o s u r c s touched off the ki'iiihI jury investigation, died of shotgun wounds suffered in a pre dawn attempt to rub out the dapper little k ml I i ii k kiliK n week ago. Tin Jury charged one count of perjury against bald domed I lor lull, who retired lor his health June 'JH while under fire In the exhaustive threcmonth Inquiry. Others Indicted: Ami. miIIcp chief Joseph K. Heed, one count of erjiiry. t'lipt. Ci-cll Whiilom. fiiriner head of the iiollce w-t iuuim-1 tie piirlinenl, one count of perjury. l.t. Hmly WellHilt, former head of (lie administrative vice squad, one count eiich of perjury and ac cepting a bills-. Ski. I-:. V. Jackson: Wcilpott's chief ulcle on the squad, one count each of perjury iiml accepting a lulls'. Defended Ity Mayor Mayor Fletcher Howron Inline (llnlely went lo the defense of Ihe Indicted men. reaffirming III "complete confidence" In llorrall sri:! Heed. "1 would bo perfectly willing to testify nil a character witness for llorrall and or Heed." Uowron said. He said return of the criminal Indictment! nttulnnt the. men does nut ncoeKiiarUy mean they will be suspended from Ihe force, I lor mil la In retirement on full pen sion. Hie muyor recalled that lliu lull was Indicted for wire tap ping several yearn ago when the Krand Jury returned an accusa tion calling for Howron' reniovnl from office at that time. Neither llurnill nor other offi cers Indicted with him were hum icndcd then, and the Indictments were dismissed. llowron sharply criticized the Krand Jury for failure to keep It proceeding mi-ret, an required by law. and mi kl "somebody commit ted n misdemeanor" In revealhig the Indictment)! lefore arrests wei-e made. Interim Police chief William A. Wort on Hald he would not sus pend the men Immediately. "They are entitled to a fair hearing," he said. Only a nurse was at Herbert's licdslde when he died, and his wife, Sally, failed to reach Ihe hospital In lime. Dr. Carol I)olan officially pronounced him dead nl 7:50 a.m. Afler an examination, (Continued on Pane 3) . Impressions of Central Oregon Visitors Joseph Miles of McCall, Ida., will bring Ihe girl he married In Oregon, hack for a permanent home, if he can obtain work in Hend. He's here today, hoping "to better himself," although he's now employed as foreman of a wood crew back home. lieatrlce, his wife, was clerk and dispatcher for the U, S, for est service, before marriage. She also took work back In Wash ington, 1-1. C, in the department of labor. Uut now, she's Ironing pina fores for Cordelia, 2!i. and siev ing vegetables for Madeline, 3 months. Miles isn't coming for the fish ing and hunting. "Can't beat what I have at home on that score," he said. "I can go n quar . ter of a mile from home and catch steelhead and Chinook. And half a mile from camp I get my deer every year. And elk well, there's to be an open season on them this fall." Neither are higher wages the Incentive, he said, for wages In the two slates are nhout the same, But the way Oregon does things, In lawmaking, in city gov ernment, and the lay or the coun try, make him believe he wants to rear his little girls ncre. He married Beatrice during the war at Klamath Falls in Janu ary, 11142. They were apart more than together lor some lime aft erward. State JC President Visits 7T tohrkj rift I. r I l' . 4( - V . v - C uXl Bruce Kelly, of Portland, president of Ihe Oregon state Junior chamber ol commerce, left, outlined expansion plant of the organi zation at Ihe Kent! Jaycees' n-gular luncheon meeting yesterday at Ihe Pine Tavern. He was photographed with Norman Partridge, right, president of the local club. Governor McKay Removes Rent Control at Medford Snleiii.'July 28 ttJ.Hl Gov. Douglas McKay today approved the resolution of the Medford city council to remove rent con trol in the southern Oregon city. McKay came back to his office toduy, interrupting his beach vaiiction, to study testimony taken during the Medford city administration a public hearing on rent ceilings, July 8 A majority of the witnesses " : ' "' " ' " ' Maurice Hill,M Former Befid Resident, Dies Maurice B. Hill, 58. former Bend resident and husband of Margaret Thompson Hill, Oregon aulhor and daughter of Mrs. E. M. Thompson, Bend, died sudden ly last night In Pendleton, Where he had been called because of the serious Illness of his half slsler, Mrs. Otis Whlteman. Mr. Hill, a resident of Portland, made the trip lo the eastern Oregon city by plane when notified of Mrs. Whlteman's Illness. The Portland man Is believed to have lieen the victim of a heart attack. Death occurred at alwut 10 p.m. Also called to Pendleton by Mrs. Whlteman's Illness was her brother, Will Rider, of Medford, Mr. Hill's half-brother. With Mrs. Itider, he passed through Bend Tuesday night and was accom panied to Pundleton by Mrs. Hill, who had been visiting here with her mother, Mrs. Thompson. Native of Oregon Surviving Mr. Hill are his wife, Margaret, and two children, Stan ley Hill, IK, who is in training with the navy air corps in San Diego, Calif., and Mrs. Russell Cii lbskov, the former Peggy Hill, of Junction City, and one grand daughter, Maren K. titibsKov. Also surviving is his father, Hen ry II. Hill, formerly of Athena and now of Portland ,and another half-sister, Mrs. Eva Richards of Athena. Mr, Hill was a native of Ore gon, having been born at Elgin, and was graduated from high school there. He met Margaret Hill of Bend while they were students at the University of Ore gon. They were married In Bend on November 5, 1923. Following their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Hill lived In Prescott, Wash., where he was manager of the First National bank. Later, Mr. Hill was manager of the Surety Fi nance Co., of Walla Walla. He was In business In Bend from 11134 to 11)37. operating the Pub lie market. The family moved to Portland In 1U37. Mr. 1II1I was assistant manager of the Portland office of the Re construction Finance corporation and carried the heavy load of that office during the recent Ill ness of William Kennedy, RFC manager. , Mr. Hill, who was graduated from the University of Oregon in 1915 and admitted to the bar In Montana that . same year, served as a lieutenant in world war I. Funeral services will be held from the McMartln and Chamber lain parlors In Walla Walla on Saturday. ;1 , l LZ iT favored decontrol, and the Med- fnrrt ritv eoimril nleH unani mously for remotai '-of rent ceiling's. However, represen tatives of the Medford veter uns and central labor councils said their organizations advo cated at least temporary re tention of the curbs. l;p to People Gov. McKay pointed out that his action on the Medford resolu tion was In keeping with the pol icy he announced soma 10 days ago. He said he believed in keep ing government close to the peo ple and that he thought he would lie out of place in setting aside the decisions of city administra tions which were In a position to determine local housing condi tions at first-hand. The governor formerly had ap proved the lifting of rent controls in Ashland and Eugene, upon recommendations of the city councils of those cities. McKay has not yet acted on the resolution of the Salem city coun cil to remove controls In the cap ital city. Irl McSherry , Dies Suddenly Salem, July 28 (lit Irl S. Mc Sherry, director of the Oregon Community Chest since 1943, was found dead at his home here to day. He had suffered a heart atrack. McSherry, who was 52, was a newspaperman for several yeai-s and had served as a public offi cial. He was well known In polit ical circles. McSljerry was born In Warrens burg, Mo., Sept. 5, 1896, but came to Oregon at an early age. He graduated from Mllton-Freewa-ter high school and from Llnfield college. He Obtained his master's degree at Columbia university In 1926. McSherry was editor of the weekly McMinnvllle Telephone- Register from 1921 to 1925. He was city editor of the Oregon Statesman, Salem dally newspa per, In 1926, then served as vice president and secretary of the Statesman for two years. He be came president of the Capital City bindery In 1929 and continued in that capacity for 10 years.1 Meanwhile, he was secretary to Gov. A. W. Norblad In 1930. He was deputy state parole director from 1939 to 1943, when he re signed lo become director of the Oregon Community Chest. He was assistant director of state civilian defense In 1941. McSherry served In the navy In world war I, from 1918 to 1921. He was active In American Lesion affairs, and served as commander of the Salem legion post In 1932. Survivors Include his widow and a son, s, barton McSherry. Hawaii Plans Drastic Move To End Strike By Wlllard l. K.berhaii lllfiitnl l'rrp SUf CvrrM,,iHU,ttl Honolulu. T.I I.. July 28 "Ii Hawaiian lawmakers n e a r e d agreement today on a compro mise formula which would create a special government agency to operale ihe Island's strikebound docks. The government aifencv would function only while the CIO Inter national longshore men's and Warehousemen's union strike, now in its With day, continues. it would cease functioning when an agreement willing the strike was reached. legislation creating the gov- ernment-ojerated stev e d o r I n g agency would remain In effect even after the strike was settled, however, and could be reactivated at any time during a future strike. Ihe compromise settlement es tablishing a government agency was agreed upon informally by lawmakers meeting in a special Joint session of the Hawaiian le gislature.' The Secial session was called to consider measures to end the strike. No OppoNltion House speaker Hiram Fong said there was "virtually no op position to the compromise formula among the lawmakers. Senate president Wilfred Tsukl yama said that Attorney general Walter Ackerman may be asked to draft a bill creatlng'the agency as soon as the Joint session ends this afternoon. The proposal to create a sxvial government agency to operate the docks would substitute for a con troversial bill empowering the government to seize the strike- Both union and manasement have opposed the proposal to seize the docks. The seizure bill also contained numerous strike obstacles such as injunction pow era. fact-finding procedures and cooling off periods similar to the Taft llojtley act. me new bill as envisioned bv lawmakers would provide that profits from gqvernment opera tion of the docks would go to the territory. The territorial govern ment also would be empowered to condemn private sieved o r I n g equipment if necessary to start operations. OPTIMISM VOICKD Washlnptnn. Jnlv 9S UP). om. tary of commerce Charles Sawyer hellf.vnc Ihnrn Is llttlo riitnopr nf n depression at this time unless ousinessmen and tne puDiic gel Jittery. In an Interview Sawyer said present falling prices and rising unemployment seem to be noth ing more than a leveling off process. Six Reasons Why Bend Pool Swimming Is Popular t r k - ,v .... -C.A Bond's five-person safety corps owes much of its efficiency to the training given by Ed Haffey, Red Cross field representative, since July 1. Haffey instructed pool personnel dally in plain and fancy methods of teaching swimming, and llfesavlng. Yesterday, satisfied his job Is done, he left for other assignments. "The program's off to a flying start," he commented. Shown at far right is the pool manager, Darrell Hawes. Flanking the pulchritude on the opposite end is Denny Sullivan, lifeguard. Between them, reading from left to right, are: Jean Raddatz, Frances Brooks, Anthea Snyder, and Patt Blakely. Higher education as well os high water skills are represented. Sullivan will return In September for Ins Junior year at University of Oregon at Eugenfe; Miss Raddatz has finished Oregon State col lege ana will teach; Frances Brooks will enter her second year at University of Oregon ; Anthea Sny der will enter Reed college In Portland; Patt Blakely will enter Lewis' and Clark college In Portland, and Darrell Howes, after staying out a year to work, expects to return to University of Oregon for his third term In 1950. Miss Snyder, a copy-girl for The Oregonlan.ls a visiting swim expert. She volunteered her services because of record-breaking registration of youngsters for swim Instruction which began Monday. Deschutes County Assessed Valuations Show Increase; No Utilities Figures Available Assessed valuation of property in Deschutes county, exclu sive of public utilities, hua been pluced ut $11,589,290 for the 1949 tax year, an increase over last year's assessment, also exclusive of public utilities, of 7.4 per cent, according to a report submitted to the state tax commission by Ed Risen, county assessor. Of the totul $7,692,040 represents the real property assess- Mrs. Roosevelt Gets Defense From Lutherans New York. July 28 MPi A high official of the Lutheran church came lo the defense today of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt in her contro versy with Roman Catholic arch bishop Francis Cardinal Spellman oyer federal aid lo education. Dr. John W. Behnken, president of the Lutheran church-Missouri synod, declared in a statement: "Lutherans, supporting the largest system of parochial schools In American Protestan tism, regret the attack made by Cardinal Spellman on Mrs. Roose velt. Particularly do Lutherans deplore the cardinal's implied at tack on the principle of separa tion of church and state, a cher ished ideal of all American Luth erans since they first arrived on American soil just 300 years ago. "If Mrs. Roosevelt's discussion of federal aid to education were really unit-Catholic, as the car dinal charges, it would be anti Lutheran, too. Lutherans have as much enthusiasm for protect ing the best interests of their church, their schools, and their children as the Roman Catholics have. Careful reading of Mrs. Roosevelt's statements in her dis cussion of federal aid to schools, convinces us that they were not hostile to religion or lo any indi vidual church." J Or. Behnken .poiiitM out- that the synod operates 1.204 full-time elementary schools in the United States and Canada, but that he would consider it "very unwise to accept any aid from the gov ernment." Canada Restricts Travel on Highway Seattle. July 28 iui The Can adian government took steps in Seattle today to prevent latter day pioneers bound for Alaska on the Alcan highway, from be coming stranded in Canada. The Canadian department of national revenue has posted no tice that, hereafter, drivers of cars more than nine years old must post a bond of $342 before entering the Canadian part of the highway. Under the new travel rules, the larger trailers must be hauled by a one ton truck or a Jeep equipped with four-wheel drive. The trailers must also be bonded. ment, and personal property accounts for the balance. Assessments for 1949 based upon 40 per cent of the ap praised value of items on the tax roll are as follows: - I.lst Itemized Tillable land. $1,289,250. an in crease of $69,175 over the 1948 figure; non-tillable land, $347,430. a decrease of $7,450; timberland. $250,750. a decrease of $1,885; platted land, $1,083,210. an in crease of $9,895; improvement on unplatted land. $882,665, an in crease of $126,765; affixed ma chinery to unplatted land, $74,705, a decrease of $26,735 improve ment on land of the U. S., $25. 210, an increase of $3,215; mer chandise. $1,603,780. an increase of $6,750; machinery. $1,084,520, ant- increase of $78,420; furniture and equipment. $511,500, an in crease of $115,135; boats, $1,680, a decrease of $175; farm Imple ments. $307,255. an increase of $40,240, and livestock, $420,620, an increase of $40,240. Robbery Charge Faced by Youths Salem, July 28 lPi Sheriff Denver Young said today that James B. Rich, 20, of Bakersfield. Cal. and Norman Betts, .21, of Newcastle, CaL. would be ar raigned in Marion county district court today on charges of armed robbery. The two were arrested near Red Bluff, Cal., Sunday and returned to Salem Wednesday by Sheriff Young and Deputy' William De Voll. They were lodged In Marion county jail with bail set at $3,500 each. Sheriff Young said Rich and Betts were accused of robbing a Rickreall, Ore., man last Friday, then leaving him bound and gag ged north of Albany, Ore. Two girls from Bend, Ore., who told California authorities that they had been kidnaped, provided the tip that led to the arrest of Rich and Betts. CON'CERT TONIGHT The Bend municipal band will present a concert at 7:30 tonight in Drake park. The program is the seventh in the summer season of outdoor concerts. Joseph T. Haugen will direct. No Provision Made to Send American Troops to Europe, Secretary of State Asserts By Frank Eleazer ( United Press Staff Correspondent ) Washington, July 28 (U.P) Secretary of state Dean Ache son assured congress today that President Truman's $1,450, 000,000 arms aid program makes no provision for sending American troops to Europe. Acheson told the house foreign affairs committee the only exception would be providing technical aid to the countries whose armed forces Mr. Truman wants to bolster. Opening the administration's fight for fast action on the Tom Clark Offered High Court Post Washington, July 28 ilP) Presi dent Truman disclosed today that he has offered the supreme court vacancy to Attorney general Tom Clark and has asked Sen. J. How ard McCrath. D, R.I., to succeed Clark at the justice department. Mr. Truman told a news con ference that the post made va cant by the death of Associate justice Frank Murphy was of fered to Clark this morning. The president called Clark and McGrath. also national demo cratic chairman, to the White House this morning to offer them the jobs. The chief executive said they were both so surprised that they could not answer right away and asked a few days in which to give the president their replies. Mr. Truman said his best guess was that they both would accent the offer. - j ..,- Mr. Truman's choice came as somewhat of a surprise since it had been expected that he would follow tradition and name a Ro man Catholic to the high bench. Murphy was the only Catholic member of the court. Oregon's Polio j Rate Increasing Portland. July 28 upi Oregon's polio rate for 1949 is 100 per cent higher than that of 1948, Dr. Sam uel Osgood said today, and this year's incidence is following a pattern which he described as "strikingly unusual." The Portland doctor is a state epidemiologist. Dr. Osgood described the pat tern of cases this year as unusual in that "there is no real concen tration of cases. Not one county," he said, "has experienced the dis ease in epidemic proportions." He sai dthat the lack of concen tration would indicate that the polio virus "is not manifesting a tendency to spread. So far this year, 55 polio cases have been reported in the state, compared to last year's 25 at this same time. The state representative for the National Foundation for In fantile Paralysis estimated 470 cases of polio would occur in Ore gon if the same rate continues for the rest of the year. Last year's total was 225 cases. Red Cross Swim Specialist Praises Response in Bend The Red Cross swim-program specialist Ed Haffey, who for the past three weeks has been the high command in Bend's Learn-to-Swim project, left Wednesday for other assignments with the declaration that Deschutes coun ty's response to the program was nothing less than "terrific." "The way people of all ages have hurried to get into swim classes is dramatic proof that Bend needed and wanted its pool," he said. "In the pleasure and health it will give, that pool is going to pay for Itself over and over." He spent the last few moments of his visit giving Darrell Hawes, pool manager, suggestions for an "open house" to be held at the close of the final lesson period. An estimated 500 youngsters will have learned to swim, or will have had their swimming greatly Improved, by September. Haffey said his stay here had been the longest of any in his two and a half years of Red Cross field work. It was entirely Jus tified, he said, by reason of the full program, Acheson said it is only the beginning of a plan to build up western European forces against possible Rus sian aggression. Acheson said he believes Russia will not take the chance of war if congress ap proves the arms program. But. he said, Russia might take such a gambler's chance if arms aid is not provided to free nations in western Europe. Urges Speed He counted growing congres sional demands to put oft consid eration of the full program until January by saying we cannot be gin too soon." Acheson also told tha commit, tee that any effort to force west ern European nations into a joint military plan in advance might wreck the program. "There is no provision, or plan or contemplation of using Ameri can troops except in providing technical assistance" as provided under the North Atlantic treaty, Acheson said. He said military assistance to China "is not feasible" at the. present time. - --- " ' ,. Acheson also idisclosed that ha hopes "in a very short time" to give the committee a new state ment of policy on China. This will be done in, executive session. His remarks about China were In reply to questions by Rep. John M. Vorys, R., O., who said he considered that the greatest threat of aggression now Is not in Europe but in Asia where ag gression already is taking place. Only Beginning Acheson said the arms program is only a beginning. This country. he said, will have to continue for, some time, though possibly on a smaller scale, to help western Eu rope seek security - against pos sible Russian aggression. opening tne administration s fight for the full program, Ache son warned the house foreign af fairs committee that failure to provide military aid to friendly nations might invite attack by "the greatest peacetime combina tion of military forces the world has ever known." . "We know the pattern past ag gressors have taken," Acheson said. "The gangster mind likes to gamble only on sure things. Its victims are the weak and the un prepared and it does not relish the prosoect of fighting an arous ed society." He told the committee an inva sion of western Europe "would mean a total war" In which the aggressor would be pitting itc strength against the combined strength of the Atlantic pact na tions. No nation would make that chnlre unless it believed it could win, he said. "It is the aim of this program to insure that a successful, swift (Continued on Page 5) great enthusiasm Bend showed for the swim program. Registra tion outran the most generous estimates, and Indications are that the 1950 program will have to be yet larger. The man who has in two weeks made topnotch lifeguards of Bend's pool personnel will visit Prlneville, Madras, Moro, Enter prise, Baker, La Grande and oth er Oregon cities where learn-to-swim programs are under way. Response Exceptional Concerning the eagerness of Bend children to become profi cient in aquatic skills, Haffey said: "With such response from the youngsters goes gr Jat respon sibilities for the adults. Bend's pool will solve the problem of how to keep youngsters occupied, for a long time to come, If tax payers will rise to the challenge of expanding facilities as the need arises." He said recreation projects throughout the nation seem due for a tremendous upsweep of expansion. Haffey will look In on Bend again later In the season.