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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
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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,
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. 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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.