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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 19, 1949)
Oregon Historical Soeltty Publlo Auditor lua THE BEND BULLETIN Stafe Forecast Oregon Generally (air to day, tonight and Saturday. High temperature! both dayi 85 to 92. Low tempera tures tonight SO to 60. LEASED WIRE WORLD NEWS COVERAGE CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER 33rd Yoor TWO SECTIONS BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY. OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 19. 1949 No. 217 mk Filed H e ire to Test Bin.dl Oirdiiniaiinice Committee Qets Tip on Vaughan From High Place By Warren Duffer (l'l,il,l I'tr. Naif ( 'ii.,riMlnlr,il ) Washington, Aug. 19 Sources "very close" to the White House nru feeding inforiiuitinii to hciiiiIc investigators n I jo ut tint activities of Muj. (Jon. Hurry II. Viiuglinii, Sen. .Joseph K. McCarthy, It., WIh., snid toiluy. McCarthy, one of the investigators looking into tlic capi tal's "inthieiiie industry," Miiiil tilt' senate investigating stlb committee In getting "lends hikI information" about I'rt'Hidi'iit Tninmn'H military nidi' from "sources very clnse? to the president unci Vaughni! in tin Bodies Sought In Wreckage On Mt. Hood TlmlH'i lIni' l-wlge, Aug. I!) HI"--. SeaivhciK Irfl here toiluy lo look (or three bodies in tin' wreckage of a n '.'(! two-engined IhiiiiIm-i' Unit criiNhi'il tin II, 250 foul Mt. Hood April 21 on n flight from I Ittitill Inn l-'ii'lil. Calif., lo I'lirllunil. Chin l'H Culclll. n TlnilH-rllni' lodge rmployi', Htumlili'il nil the i wreckage Wednesday. Yesterday, he and Heercatlon ranker Jim 1 1 it 1 1 ih trekked to the crash scene near Mississippi head. Itaiph ilcf Inllely Idenllfled Ihe Immhcr iik Ihe missing plane, Inn no bodies Were found. An eight-man rescue Kquadron from McChonl Field, Wash., Ik expceti'd to survey the wreckage today for Imilli'N when nuilioi Iji Him In received from Ihe Clack amas roimly coroner. Forest service men. however, doilht If liny bodies will lie found iM't-ause of the I'll lined terrain coaled with Mn Ice iinu know Mississippi heart Is located 7000 feet up the tnounluln and la 800 fi-et liliih and .'too (eel wide. I'llot of the missing B-2G was Col. Archibald Y. Smith. 49. of San Francisco. Others In Ihe Plane were Col. Waller W, Hodge. San Francisco, and MSgt. II. E. Shiga, Sun Jove, Cul. Annual AFL Picnic Sunday Tlie annual AFL picnic, son sored by Ihe Bend Central Labor council will be held Sunday al 11 n. in. In Fremont ineadow of Shevlln park, union of fktul an nounced today. A program of gemes, talks, mid Visiting has been planned. J. T. Marr, executive secretary of Ihe Uri'Kon Stale Federation of Labor, I'orlland, will make the principal talk at Ihe picnic, Sen. Wnyne Morse, earlier thin year, had signified bin Inlenllon of attending the affair, but his dutli'N nl WashlhKlon, D. C, make Ihe trip Impossible, nccnrdlnK lo Clarence K. Hrlggs, secretary of Ihe AFL Cent nil Oregon district council. Bilges gall, however, thai Sen. Morse plans lo come to llend soon after the adjournment of conKi'cafl (or a speaking engage- ment a I a dinner-meeting or local union members and officials. The council secretary said thai between (our and five hundred liersong are exectcd al Ihe pic nic. Sofl th inks, and Ice cream will he provided by Ihe labor coun cil for tin- picnic. Casey Released, After Hearing John It. Casey, 33, former em ployee at Ihe Skyline Drive In, located on Fast Third, was or dered released today from the county jail by Duncan McKay, Justice of the peace. Cas"y was extradited from Hawthorne, Nov., July 2(5, and brought to Hrnd to face charges of stealing a sum of money from the Drive In. He appeared before McKay this morning for a preliminary hear ing and the case was dismissed on the grounds -of Insufficient rvldence against Casey. George H. Urewsler, Redmond attorney, represented Casey at the hour Ing. Casey gave his home address os Holbrook, Ariz, I lute House. Although In' diil not I'lulior- iili', lii hiihI that nil informa tion is being cheeked rnri'ful ly liy tin; senate i n vi'Ml iKili'n The In vkI lit it loiH. meanwhile, lire trying In Mini out why John Maragou, u Vaughan pal ami one Hint' While House hanger on, wiih not prosecuted In a 111 15 customs i;iihi'. Maragun paiil customs penally (or bringing In rare essence oils illHiilKel as champagne i.'ilis fur Ihe While House. Al the time, Maragon was employeil hy Ah lierl Verley Co.. of Chicago, the perfume manufacturers who gave seven deep freezers lo Vnughan I-ill'S IlfUflfl! Commit lee counsel William P. lingers said Ihe commit lee has asked Ihe Justli-c deparlmenl for Ihe files on Ihe case, Inn "we still don't have them." However, com mlllee chairman Clyde It. Iloey. I)., N.C.. sali I he had been In formed the person who handled the Maragon rase Is on vacation and the justice deparlmenl would Inform Hoey when he return. 'Hie Incident of the bogus cham pagne was disclosed when ihe pirnui senate committee Investigating PIT centers", releasi-d secret tesilmony under prodding by President Truman. Republicans on the senate coVn- mlllee said the nature of the re leased testimony showed that President Truman's news confer ence remarks had backfired. Reporters asked White Mouse Press secretary Charles CI. Koss whether Ihe published testimony was Ihe secret" tesilmony Pres ident Truman had In mind when he accused the committee of with holding data favorable to Vaughan. Koss replied he did not know what the president had In miiiil. The republicans thought the newly-released testimony, taken behind closed doors in the sub committee's investiKiitlon of the capital's "Influence Industry," pictured Vaughan in a worse light than before. Even administration supporters were slow lo point out how the hitherto-secret testimony did any thltiK much to improve the pre vious picture o( Mr. Truman's military aide and long-time friend. Hemurks Recalled Mr. Truman, at his news con ference, asked reporters and edi tors to "suspend judgment" on Vaughan until nil the evidence was In. He said Ihe subcommit tee, which has linked Vaughan's name lo several alleged "Influ ence" deals, was withholding see ret testimony that was "favor oble" to his military aide. The sub-committee promptly (Continued on Page 5) Bend Resident Released When Charge Dropped James Ray Bertram, 19, a Hend resident who was arrested Tues day on a charge of malicious killing of a dog, was released from Ihe county jail today on an order by Duncan McKay, Justice of the peace. Bertram's preliminary heating was held today and the complain Ining witness, John Thomas, also or llend. refused to appear against the youth nt the hear ing. Thomas, owner of the dog thai was killed, accused Bertram, earlier this week, of having shot the dog Willi a .45 caliber pistol. A slug shot from the gun was foinul lodged in the wall of Thomas' house just below the front door. 1 Sheriff Claude McCauley ob tained a .45 caliber pistol from Bertram and made a test shot with the gun. He reported that It was Ihe same gun that fired the slug, which was believed to have killed the dog and then to have lodged l.n Thomas' house. A, J, Moore, district attorney, said today that Thomas has been notified ot the hearing but re fused to appear against Bertram. 'Asfhma' Baby I 1 f " I i Picture shows Mr. uml Mrs. Jim Cox and their 27-monlhs-old son, Hobby U-e, now at home In IJend nt 77 flllchrisl, ufter the family was assisted in moving here by Ihe Portland and Bend teamsters union locals. The plight of the Cox family recently received wide nttenlion in I'orlland newspaM-r.s, as Ihe ex-Scahec bus virtually exhausted his financial resources seeking lo cure Ihe boy of asthma so severe that he could hardly breathe most of the time. Hugh Cole, secretary of the Bend teamsters local No. 321 super vised an angeinenis for moving the family here, after doctors had advised that Id-nil's "high and dry" climate was ideal for the treat ment of asthmu. Hobby I-e has been here two nights now, and has slept well Ixith nights, his asthmatic condition scmingly much Improved, Cole reported today. 'Pie local union has found employ ment for the father with the JJend branch of Ihe Ceneral Grocery Co. Public Power Appropriation May Face Drastic Reduction By Uoscmarle Mullany (t 'nil.-l I',.-.. Null ( iitir.iM.uilmt I Wnsliinutoii, Auk. 1! Crucial vote afTectintr. administra tion public power policies was imminent today in the aonate. it will come on a senate appropriations committee propos al to cut fiscal 15)01) funds for the southwestern power admin istration from $-1,q0().000 voted by the house to $1,616,115. The funds are included in the interior appropriation bill, a $590,685,011 part of the congressional log jam on govern ment spending measures. Sen. John Sparkman, D., Ala., snid he believed- the SPA for all other committee pro posals to cut administration requested public power mon ey. Such recommendations were made on funds affecting pow,-r facilities in California, Idaho, Montana and Colorado. Cordon I'avors Cut After a two-day foray into other legislative mailers, the senate returned late yesterday to consideration of the interior bill. Members heard Sen. Guy Cordon, K., Ore., announce that he will vole lo sustain the committee cut In SPA funds. That cul was made on the grounds that Ihe interior depart ment should shed Its plans to build government transmission lines In favor of negotiating con tracts (or private utility com pany transmission of the (oderal power. One such contract with the Texas Power & Light Co. has been made. Cordon said he believed other similar contracts could and should be sought In the SPA area be fore congress put up funds to build federal transmission lines. He said SPA power, generated at flood control dams, was not mar ketable without a steam-backed system because it was unavail able In u steady (low. Other senators said the federal power could be marketed without recourse to private utility com panies. Sen. Lister Hill, D., Ala., menl limed cooperatives that has steam plants. Cordon said he believed rural electric cooperatives were op posed to the utility contracts be cause they wauled to guarantee their right to the power. Bend Chamber To Hear Gregory L. II. Gregory, sports editor of Ihe Morning Oregonlan, will be the principal speaker at Hie Bend chamber of commerce forum luncheon Friday, October 2G, chamber officials announced to day, Gregory will discuss items cov ered In his widely-read column and review the forthcoming foot ball season In the Pacific north west. In addition to chamber mem bers, an Invitation is being ex tended to others who would like to hear the dean of northwest sports writers. The luncheon will be held nt the Pine tavern. Better in Bend Bend Eagles Plan Welcome For President Eagles o( Oregon are to join In a meeting In Bend Sunday to welcome their new president, W. M. Loy of this city, back from the national F.O.E. convention In Detroit, Mich., and initiate a large class honoring the Bend man, local Eagle leaders an nounced today. The stale wide meeting, program and class initia tion have been arranged as a surprise for Loy. who will know nothing about the affair until he arrives In town. A fellow official will arrange Loy's schedule so he will arrive In Bend at the proper time. Every area in the state is to participate In the surprise pro gram, Shirl Harmon, president of the local aerie, has announced. The special program arranged by the Eagles (or Sunday will get under way at 10 a.m. with a soapbox derby, on West Fifth street. Sherman Dearth will be In charge of this event, and he has requested all entrants to be present at 9, lor car inspection Cars will be inspected by a safe ty judging committee. The K.O.E. aerie in Bend is sponsoring the derby. A civic parade will be held at noon, with the Bend municipal band and various marching units to participate. The business meeting, at which the large class of candidates will be Initiated, will be at 2 o'clock. The meeting will be held in the high school gymnasium, Bends largest hall. At the same hour, there will be entertainment (or local and visiting women at the tagles' holl on Wall street. Harmon has requested all can didates who have not been initi aled to report at the gymnasium Sunday, . Egbert the Whale Finally Interred '.St. Helens, Ore., Aug. 19 Uli- A 1500-pound whale today Joined the legend ot Moby Dick and Jonah. Eighteen years ago the curious mammal swam 100 miles up the Columbia river only to be har pooned, displayed to the public, embalmed, and then be the cen ter o( an eight-year litigation. Thursday Ethelbert, alias Moby Mary, was removed from her gal vanized Iron mausoleum follow ing complolnts from neorby St. Helens residents that something smelled fishy. Ethelbert was bu rled (or good underground. Finland Moves , MODS, KeSU t ' I Of Red Action By Matli llakkaralnen M!rtlt.i Frriu, Suit r.rr-p4nife-ntl Helsinki. Finland, Aug. 19 'Hi Fifty thousand more Finns walk ed off their Jobs today In resjionse to a communist call (or a general strike. They Increased the total or strikers lo ISO.om Premier Karl A. Fagerholm held an urgent conference with President Juho K. Puaslkivl. re portedly lo ask him lo summon parliament Into extraordinary ses sion to cope with the growing strikes. The government con tends that the communists called the strikes in an attempt to seize power. The government rushed troops into the northern timbeiiands in an attempt to discourage any fur ther rioting such as look one life and brought injuries to at least Hi persons yesterday. Communist party leaders called a huge meeting for this afternoon in Helsinki to protest Ihe death of the striker at the northern lum ber town of Kemi. at the head of the Gulf of Bothnia. Troops Alert A battalion of crack troops un der command of Lt. Gen. Aarne Blick took over Kemi after the clash between police and 2,000 strikers who sought to march on loyal lumberjacks trying to break a log jam. Police reported Kemi quiet to day. The town is under virtual I military law. All public meetings were bunned and all arms, includ ing shotguns and hunting rifles, confiscated. The communist press said An tero Heikkinen, communist chair, man of the Kemi city council, and several other communists were arrested... . ' The Union of Lumbermen' and Floaters (log rollersl, which claims a membership, of 13.600, struck today in support of the Kemi strikers and .asked some 40,000 non-union lumbermen to join them. Ten thousand food industry workers struck last night. Walk outs also were reported in water pipes works and other industries. Previously harbor, building, brew ery and bakery workers quit work. Work was nt a complete stand still in 15 of Finland's 17 harbors. Housing and other building proj ects also were idle. The strikers are demanding pay increases of up to 30 per cent. LEE STOLL DIES Oregon City. Aug. 19 tun Lee C. Stoll, 53, chairman of the Port land labor-management commit tee, died Thursday in the Oregon City hospital. J ne former director of the Ore gon state employment service had been ill nearly two months, re portedly from a digestive disor der. During the war he served as state director (or the federal war manpower commission while with the employment service. btoll has been credited with Portland's strife-free labor record during the war. Bend's "Hard Luck" Taxi Driver Taxi driver Frank Johnson, Leblein hotel, would Just as soon sit at the curb llke'thls, and take it easy for a while. Jumbled events Tuesday made him the unwilling chau((eur of two gunmen on a trip out to Klamath Falls and the unwitting killer of a deer which damaged his Owl taxi on the trip back. While he sorts out events, police are questioning Glen Ray Neel, identided as a San Quentin prison camp escapee. Johnson got police help in Klamath Falls when the two were about to walk away without paying him. 0(ficers took Neel while his companion, thought to be armed, escaped. Johnson said the two kept him "pinned down" the entire distance. He snld the men seemed in a hurry to get out of Bend, from the moment he picked them up In front of the Copper Room. ;j KUhrd Two BrUhh Plane Crashes; Heavy hog Warned in Transport Wreck Manche Manchester, Eng., Aug. 19 ways airliner and a civilian plane crashed in dense clouds 18 miles apart in Yorkshire today, first reports said 27 per sons were killed in the two accidents. Twenty-three of the 29 passengers and three crewmen were reported killed when the BEA twin-engined, American built 0-47 crashed and burned in swirling fog in the York shire moorlands, j'ust across the border from Oldham, Lan- cashire. Fall Opening, Farmers Day, Planned Here The Bend chamber of commerc agriculture and retail merchants committees yesterday named Walter H. Schuab general chair man of the Fall Opening, Septem ber 9, and Elmer Ward chairman of the Farmers' day program, September 10. The selections by the two groups were made at a luncheon-meeting in the Pine tavern. Details of the two-day program have yet to be worked out. Ten tative plans call for the serving of coffee, lemonade and ice cream at Drake park, in observance of Farmers' day. The chamber com mittees also hope to provide speakers and music (or the occa sion. The chamber plans to ask mem bers o( other service clubs in town to handle the serving o( the re(reshments at the Farm ers' day program. Owners of Dog Question Attack The owners of the dog alleged to havec attacked, a BendMvoman- Wednesday afternoon, tearing her clothing, yesterday were no tided by police it would be advisa ble to keep the animal tied or In the house, Mrs. J. G. Moore, 1527 Division, said today. Mrs. Moore said that she and her husband feel it Is not estab lished that their dog was the guil ty animal. Ross Farnham, city attorney, said the woman who had been at tacked Leoria Stevenson, 1470 East First, not Leoria Davidson, 1470 Hill, as reported on police records had visited him yester day. She said her niece. Donna Strom. 13, also with a complaint against the dog, was with her. To day Miss Strom said the dog had lunged at her leg as she rode her bicycle, leaving teeth marks in one of her leather oxfords. In addition, Mrs. Augusta Seiss, 73, today told of the dog having jumped on her twice, in a recent incident, as she neared her drive way at 1550 Division. She said a third neighbor, a man, also had an encounter with the animal, de scribed as large and black. EUGENE YOUTH DROWNS Eugene,, Aug. 19 HP) Herbert M. Eckle, 19, Eugene, was drown ed yesterday when he fell from a sea sled on Fernridge lake. A companion. Robert H. Bower, al so of Eugene, was rescued. (U.E) A British European air The nine survivors were re- ported injured seriously. Eighteen miles to the north, all four occupants of a light Proctor plane were killed when it crashed in a cornfield on a test flight from Yeadon airfield. One of the plane's wings was shorn of( soon after the takeoff. The aircraft plunged to earth and burst into flames. In Remote Areas Both crashes occurred in re mote areas, hampering rescue op erations and delaying official' ac counts. Most of the passengers aboard the airliner were said to be Brit ish and Irish. The line was hold ing up release of the passenger list until next of kin have been notified. The plane was bound (rom Belfast, northern Ireland, to Manchester. The passengers included six children, three o( them under two years of age, and 16 women. Sur vivors were brought on stretchers over treacherous marsh land cloaked in fog to Oldham Rescue workers at the crash scene said the wreckage was scat tered over three acres ot a lone ly boulder-strewn hillside. One said it presented "a pitiful sight with the bodies of babies and young children strewn about." Workers from a paper mill three quarters of a mile away formed a human chain to carry the injured (rom the hillside to the lowlands. It was Britain's worst air dis- I aster -since July, 1948. when 'aa. HAr transport command' York aircraft collided with a Swedish plane over London's Northolt air port with a loss of 39 lives. First Punchboard Arrest Is Made Portland, Aug. 19 UP Police said today they had made the first arrest for possession of il legal punchboards in Mayor Dorothy McCullough Lee's vice drive. Officers seized Bessie C. Pugh. 47, owner of a tavern (at 1005 Northeast Union avenue), and confiscated six punchboards and three spindles of punches as evi dence. None of the boards bore the new city stamp, police said. Authorities said they believed a municipal court hearing for the defendant would become a test case of the city ordinance cover ing legal question-and-answer boards. Rent Decontrol Plans Altered Washington, Aug. 19 lPi Hous ing expediter Tighe fc.. Woods said today , he has abandoned his economy plan to decontrol 4,- 500,000 homes and apartments, and will ask local authorities to maintain rent controls in areas his agency cannot afford to po lice. Woods had announced two days aeo that because of a congression al cut in the housing of face's bud get it would be necessary to drop rent controls in about one-third ot the 1,000 counties still covered by federal rent ceilings. But he disclosed that his law yers subsequently advised him he has no authority to decontrol those areas because the demand (or rental housing has not been met there. As an alternative to his origin al plan, he said, he is going to (ire 2,462 of his 5.462 workers and ask volunteer advisory boards to police tight rental areas. Woods said the firings-will en able him to close enough rent control offices to keep within his trimmed budget. The Job of watching landlords and their rents then will be passed onto local rent advisory boards which already are in operation. These boards are composed ot local vol unteers who serve without pav. Woods said a few of the 1.000 areas still covered bv rent ceil ings will be decontrolled. But he said no decision has been made as to which areas will be affected. He is meeting with his seven reg ional housing chiefs from Bos ton, New York, Cleveland, Atlan ta, Chicago, Dallas, and San Fran cisco to make the decision. 'Green River' Provision Due For Decision A suit to test the legality of Bend's "Green River" ordinance N.S. 223, which prohibits door-to- door selling of merchandise in the city, was filed yesterduy In circuit court by Donald E. Phillips, a Portland vacuum cleaner distribu tor and salesman, Named defendants in Phillips' complaint are W. O. Cuthbertson, city manager; T. D. Sexton, may or; Ross Farnham, city attorney, and II. A. Caslday, chief of police. The ordinance Is desngned to prevent the practice o( persons, such as "solicitors, peddlers, hawkers, itinerant merchants, transient vendors of merchandise, and transient photograph solici tors" from making uninvited calls at residences in the Bend area for the purpose of selling their wares. The ordinance declares that such a practice is a nuisance and pro vides that violators of the ordi nance be penalized by a fine of not more than $200, or by impris onment in the city jail of not more than 100 days. The'Mprdl nance went into effect in Bend in, 1936. Held Unconstitutional It is stated in Phillips' com plaint that the ordinance violates the provisions of the first, fifth, and fourteenth amendments of the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the -state of Oregon, in that it denies him freedom of speech; deprives him of property without due process of law; It discriminates against him, and In favor of per sons engaged in the sale of simi lar merchandise, In that other persons not described in the ordi nance are permitted to engage in tne activities described m the oral Phillips further states in his complaint that the effect of the refusal of the defendants to per- (Lontinuea on fage 5) Radio Giveaway Programs Banned Washington, Aug. 19 HPi The federal communications commis sion today issued new rules which will knock radio giveaway pro grams off the air. The new policy becomes effective on October 1. The commission said no sta tion licenses will be renewed if the stations propose to continue broadcasting lotteries. The commission called atten tion. In issuing the new rules, to the communications act of 1934 which provides that no radio sta tion "shall knowingly permit the broadcasting of any advertise ment or information concerning any lottery, gift enterprise or similar scheme offering prizes de pendent in whole or in part upon lot or chance, or any list of the prizes drawn or awarded by means of any such lottery, gift, enterprise. or scheme. The commission has no author ity to supervise particular pro grams on the radio. It mentioned norte in announcing the new rules. It merely said the ques tion ui wueiner a particular pro gram falls within the provisions oi tne law win depend on the (acts in each case. No More Prizes In any event, however, the commission said, a program will be considered a lottery If a prize of value is awarded to any per sons whose selection Is dependent in whole or in part upon chance under the following conditions: 1. If the winner is required to furnish money or something else of value, or to have in his pos session a product manufactured or distributed by the sponsor of the program. 2. If the winner is required to be listening to or viewing the program on television. 3. II the winner is required to answer correctly a question, the answer to which is provided on a radio program. 4. If the winner is required to answer the telephone In a pre scribed manner, or to write a letter containing 2 particular phrase, if the required material has been broadcast over the sta tion. . Legal Action Planned New York, Aug. 19 dM The American Broadcasting company said today it would make no change In Its giveaway programs and would begin legal action im mediately in an attempt to prove that none of them are lotteries.
