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I Oman Itlultrlcal Soelity Publle Auiiltorlua roaruno i, orecom LEASED WIRE WORLD NEWS COVERAGE THE BEND BULLETIN State Forecast Oregon Fair today, tonight i and Saturday. Littl chaogt in temperatures. High both days 53 to 62. Low tonight 25 to 35 except near !5 to 20 in colder valleys. CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER 33rd Year BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1949 No. 264 ft ommmyimDste Foun o c d Guilty oospDracy House Votes Military Aid Appropriation By V. It. lllKKliitiutlmni (United 1'rwa Hull f ur,ati"hilrtit I Washington, Oil. M 'II.--The house today pimxcd liy voice voir and wnt In I (it senate I lii ml iiilnlHtiatlon'H l,:tl4.0IO,000 fur. clgn military it hi hill. Tin- house uetlon came with out u I rem (I vine after a stale department winning of tin Sov iet Union' lonK record of "brok en ihoiiiIhi'H. threatened aggrffi hlon uiitl subversive fifth column activities." The senate may net n the measure tomorrow. The house, In It adjournment drive, plowed the hill only two hour after It appropriation committer recommended giving Mi. Truman the full amount he united for inlllliuy assistance to foreign couutrle. Big Sum Involved The aid hill provide $1,000.000. 000 to rearm the Atlantic pari nation. The ret would no for arm lo llnw. Turkey. Iran. Korea and the Philippics, plus A S7WMX).000 rondllloual grant lo nationalist C.'hlnu which Presi dent Truman could spend If he uw fit. Attached to the arm bill wa a $221.0(10,000 rider providing fund for vnrlou government agencies and for "uriienl" mili tary coiiHtrurtlon In Alaxka and Okinawa. The hill, contained a proKal authorizing the housing and home finance agency lo advance $50,000 to the Aluxka houlng aulhorlly. K. L. Uartletl. delegate from Alaska, explained that the money will enable the houlng authority In get It projected housing pro gram tinder way. The money I to he reutld. lluuo action on the arm aid program left the house with only one major appropriation hill to dispone ofcash for the military services for thl fluent year. Czechs Again Hit Catholic Church Prague, Czechoslovakia, Oct. 14 illi The communist-dominated national assembly passed unan imously today two new bills to clamp rigid state controls on the Itoman Catholic church. The church control bills become effective Nov. 1. Informed ob server said their passage meant the crisis had come in the long and bitter struggle between the church and the state. The new laws were keystones In the government campaign to stamp out church resistance to communism. They had the ef fect of: 1. Reducing the clery to the status of civil service employes. 2. Putting all church affairs under the control of a govern ment official. Details of Soviet Atomic Explosion Given by Russia (lllplomalie CrrMHintt-nt Purls I'rtMl (Cui.yrltilit IU4W by UntUd rrvM tn4 Yvm llellMr) Yvm nlbtri, tlliilomtulc rorrmpomlrnt of th iklly 1'arla jrv, ml the wrrkly Sam!! Hi.lr. wm th author of a ilia l.fttth In th July SO uutu of Hmll Holr RUtlnii that HiiMla had arqulrrtt tha atom ic bnb. lla has now obtained from tha aourcMt of that information an liilarvlew about atomic ili-veloiimcnl In the aovlrt union anil what lh aourcva nay about th dttall. of th cxnloalon In Kuula. Th aourre la Major llorla Sllov, formerly a aovl.t offlcr In tirmany. Hllov ami twu companion caitl anil a Dvlbara report, left recently by hlo from Antwerp en rout to a.ylum wltn relative In South America. The Unlteil Pre preaenta th bulk of Pvlbara' Interview bluw, Paris, Oct. 74 tin The first atomic explosion in Russia occur red In the Ust-Urt desert July 10, 1949, with Generalissimo Josef Stalin an eyewitness, and Russia tloes not yet have a stockpile of atomic bombs. Major Boris Sllov, a former officer In the soviet army, told me this before sailing for South America. Before Silov and two Russian companions sailed from Antwerp they answered a series of ques tions for me about atomic bombs In the USSR. It was Sllov who told me last July that Russia did have the atomic bomb a dis patch which wob published In the July 30 issue of Samndl Soir. Sllov and his companions said they left eastern Germany and went to Moscow early In July. They returned to east Germany July 20 and left soon after to Join Sllov's relatives In South Amorlcn. "Wo were Just tired of the con tinual nervous tension and great fatigue caused by the constant feeling of Insecurity that results CAP Officers n ' 4" V. r Four Civil Air patrol officer from Portland attended a meeting of the Bend CAP unit last night at headiuarters In the Cohle building, to assist In planning for local partlclaptlon in the expanded CAP program. The CAP radio network, of which Hcnd will soon be a part, Includes approximately 2.500 Mtation in the United States, Alaska and Hawaii, it was reported. Pictured conferring with the visit or are Don Van Lunduyt, warrant officer, left, and I.l. Call Slgmund. local commander, right. Others In the picture, from left to right, are Cant. Hill Wise, USAF lalson officer: Major Hugh Angle. CAP wing air Inspector; J.t. I-eo H. Hyan, CAP wing executive officer, and Lt. J. Cllne, CAP public infor mation officer. Eighteen local CAP members attended the meeting. A plan was outlined whereby the local CAP unit may obtain a plane, of the Piper cub type, for the cost of licensing end insuring. The army has available for CAP units some 150 new planes that were crated for shipment overseas In world war II, and are now In Texas. The local group discussed plans for raising about $300 to cover cost of sending a mechanic pilot to Texas to assemble a plane and bring it to Bend, and to pay for licensing and Insurance. Bend May Have First Polio Case What may be Bend's first case of Mllomyelltl thl year wa re ported today by Or. Elizabeth Bishop, tri-county medical officer. Hie child wa to be taken today to Portland for treatment. " The ramtly's physician said that the Illness has been tentatively diagnosed as polio. Hie child has a fever, the doctor reported, but no paralysis had developed to day. Although It aprars to be polio, tlte disease Is at a very early stage, he said. The patient Is Phyllis Slgmund, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Everett E. Slgmund. 1302 Lexington. There Is another child In the fam ily, a two-year-old girl. Tlte fatlv er Is an employe of The Shevlln Hlxon Company. If further tests verify the pre liminary diagnosis, the case will be Deschutes county's second In cidence of polio this year. There have been throe cases In Crook county. Mr. J. F. Arnold, Deschutes county (Hrector of the National Foundation for Infantile Paraly sis, assisted with arrangements to transport the youngster to Portland. I1KCONTKOL APPROVED Salem, Oct. 1-1 ill'- fiov. Doug Ins McKay today approved the abolition of rent controls In Ore gon City. from the severity of penalties which constantly menace those who hold high positions," Sllov said. Answer Given Here are my questions and Sl lov's answers: 1. What were the conditions of the first atomic explosion In the USSR? Answer -The first explosion took place July 10, 19-19. It was a matter In any event of verifying and bringing to a head the first "normal" prototype of the atomic bomb. Tills prototype, to which was given the name Mulnlu lllghtnlng), gave satisfying re sults. During the week which fol lowed this explosion experiments were made with two other pro totypes, furnished with what can bo called "dlsposatlvc delay de tonator." This was declared effi cient for a period of from three to five days. These explosions took ploce In the southeastern extremity of the Ust-Urt desert east of the Caspian sea in the soviet republics of Kazakh and Uzbek, where there exists a "za povlednlk" (forbidden reserva tion), a hexagon of 60,000 square kilometers (23,166 square miles). 2. Was Stalin present at the explosion of the first bomb? Answer Yes. He insisted on It In spite of the long trip by rallrood. He never takes a plane anymore. 3, Who directed the experi ment? Answer The vice-president of the atomic research commission, (Continued on Pago 5) Visit Meeting of Reorganization of Bend's National Guard Unit Slated To Get Under Way Saturday Reorganization of the central Oregon unit of the Oregon national guard will gefc-umierway-Saturday when four teams oi guardsmen irom Co. I, 162nd Infantry, 41st division, begin a concerted drive to enlist recruits from the mid-state area. Lt. Byron F. Evans, of Sisters, newly appointed company commander, announced today. Evans, who replaces Capt. Arthur Miller as commander, is T railways Plan to Use New Highway Pacific Trallways has applied to the Oregon public utilities com mission for permission to oper ate buses between interior points and Portland via the new Warm Springs cutoff, and if permission is received, will route its carriers over the short cut sturtlng on Nov. 14 or la, lt was learned here today. Four schedules will be operated dally over the new route, which will cut the distance from Bend to Portland 33.7 miles. Trallways officials said that a general change In arrival and de parture times would be necessary, and that these will be announced later. It Is planned to route one bus out of Bend In the early morning, with arrival In Portland to be around 11 a.m. After trans acting business in Portland, It will be possible for bus patrons to leave there that same night at 6:30, to return to mldstate points. Will Cut Time Buses will make the runs be tween Bend and Portland under five hours, compared with a pres ent running time of about six hours. Hearing on the applica tion will ba held In Portland on October 20. Tlte service over the new route would be for Intermedi ate points, If any, for passengers, mall anil express, newspapers and baggage. Plans for the continuance of service from Mnupin to the Warm Springs highway Junction, wester ly, have not yet been completed. A. F, Harvey, superintendent of transportation (motors) for the PUC. said there Is no application for discontinuing service between the two points. Buses Into The Dalles and mid Columbia area and Intermediate points will not be affected bv the new schedules across the Warm Springs route. The now highway, formal open ing of which has been tentatively set for Nov. 13, will by-pass two bad grades on the present route Into Portland. These are the Cow canyon and Maupin grades. Pa cific Trallways has been operat ing buses het'ween Bend and Port land via Maupin and Wnplnltla cutoff for the past ?0 years, since Merle P. Hoover, Pacific Tt ail ways president, started his Mt. Hood bus system In 1929, RELEASED FROM HOSPITAL Harvey Duckworth, 535 Lava road, was released today from Lumberman's hospital. Local Unit r superintendent of schools at Sisters. He served two years with the army during world war II. Miller has been advanced to the executive of ficer's post in the 2nd battal ion of the regiment. ' ' Evans stated that the recruit ment drive also will mark the be ginning of a program designed to revitalize the guard organization. He explained that under the program members who have fail ed to take an active Interest in the unit will be dropped from the I rolls and an organization, prlmar- lly of new personnel, will be built around a nucleus of the active members. 85 Now In Company At present there are 55 mem bers in the company. With the completion of the new armory in Bend, the unit will be authorized to corry a compliment of 163 men, according to Evans. tvans said that new members coming Into the unit will enjoy many advantages over past guard units in the area. He explained that equipment will be of the latest type, comparable to that In use at present by the army, and the new armory will provide the organization with Die finest facil ities for instruction and drills. (Continued on Page 7) Bridges Desires To Remain in CIO Portland, Oct. 14 mi The CIO International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's union will get out of the notional CIO only If It Is "thrown out," longshore chief Harry Bridges declared Inst night. The ILWU leader indicated that any trouble nt the coming CIO convention will be started by the national leaders and not by his union. CIO leaders have been critical of the longshore union for its refusal to support national policies. Bridges said he could under stand the resentment formed by residents of The Dalles, Ore., over the barge "Honolulu" and Its $S00,0O0 cargo of "hot" olneapnle. The fruit was sent to The Dalles two weeks ago, he said, because the Hawaiian Pineapple company believed It wnt the only port at which they could unload It. Bridges said he believed the union did "nrettv well" In the recent Hawaii dock settlement. "They got 21 cents and extend ed the contract so lt expires at the same time as the coast contract," he added. North Unit Irrigation Canal Closed The supply of Irrigation water to the North unil of the Deschutes project was cut off yesterday with the. closing of the gates of the unit' main canal a short distance north of Bend, J. W. Taylor, Des chutes project engineer, announc ed today. Karm.vrs in the 50,000 acre unit which Is serviced by water stored In Wickiup reservoir, will close the 1949 Irrigation season to morrow when the last of the wa ter In the canal reaches their lands. ; .IXrr.loor .raining Action to be held acre feet of water in the Wickiup reservoir, and storage for next year's Irrigation season already is under way. otorage in the reservoir reach ed an all-time high this past spring when It peaked at 187.000; utie jt--ri ut water, i ne previous year only 50.000 acre feet could be stored because of huge faults which developed In the reservoir floor. Sealing operations costing approximately $90,000 were re- qulivd to ready the reservoir for tne l4 season. More Faulto Located This year some faults were de tected and bureau of reclamation personnel have been working for tne past two months in sealing up the leaks. The work has been conducted as the water storage receded during the course of the irrigation season. Storage drop ped to a low of 13.880 acre feet September 29 of this year. Cost of sealing operations this year Is exected to run about $50,000. Earlier in the season Taylor said that he expects this year to be Jhe -last when major sealing operations must be conducted on . . - .r.l Chamber Forum Speakers Named; ' The board of directors of the Bend chamber of commerce to day discussed plans for two forthcoming forum-meetings, one of which will feature Gov. Doug las McKay as speaker, and the other to feature Ralph Bre shears, of Seattle, winner of a Jaycee national award for his talk, "I Speak for Democracy." Breshears is scheduled to meet with chamber members at a forum-meeting October 28, and Gov. McKay has tentatively been slat ed to appear here December 21. Among other matters discussed by board members today was the recruitment campaign of the na tional guard. A request from the U.S. chamber that the Bend or ganization support the recruit ment program was approved by the board. Also up for discussion was a plan for the chamber to sponsor an annual award for the out standing senior citizen of Bend, In conjunction with the Jaycee practice of presenting an award to the outstanding member of Its organization. A delegation of Bend chamber members plans to meet with other central Oregon representa (Continued on Page 5) Redmond Plans Tax to Finance New Hospital Redmond has abandoned its plans to finance construction of a new hospital there by means of community subscriptions and in stead will seek to defray building costs by means of special taxes. The Redmond Spokesman, re porting this development in to day's issue, explains that large utilities and corporations had ob jected to lump sum contributions for the hospital fund, but were not adverse to higher taxes, spread over a number of years, for this purpose. This would be possible as a re sult of a new law, passed by the 1949 legislature, which permits cities to form hospital districts, comparable to irrigation districts, fire districts or school districts, the Spokesman explains. The entire hospital campaign organization, headed by J. R. Rob erts, will swing into action Mon day circulating petitions for a spe cial election, to be held within the next 30 to 50 days,1 the Spokes man adds. It Is estimated that fi nancing of the proposed $400,000 hospital by the district tax metlv bd would entail a levy ol between 5 and 10 mills a year. George Fulfon Scout Commissioner; Plans Made for Training Course Geortfe Fulton, who has served as a neighborhood scout commissioner for the past two years, was elected to the posi tion of district scout commissioner at the October meeting of the tri-county district committee, held last nitfht at Redmond, Iah Herbring-, chairman of the district announced today. Fulton was at one time a Boy Scout in Bend, and recently re ceived his five year scouter veteran award. In his new capa city he will be in charge of- commissioner service to units in Deschutes, Crook and Jef ferson counties. At last night's meeting, plans were made to hold a training course for scoutmas ters, committeemen and interest ed laymen beginning October 26, to be held on each Wednesday evening until November 16. The course will close with the out-ol the first week end In December. Eugene Stranahan of Bend, local chairman of the training commit tee will be in charge of this pro gram. He will be assisted by Joe neld , Redmond at the John slate of Bend. These sessions will Tuck grade school. Circus In Bend Fremont's scout circus will be held in Bend this year, it was de- elded at last evening's session. W. M. "Rusty" Romine of Prineville has been appointed circus com mittee chairman, and the month of May has been set by this com mittee for the circus, with the ex act date to be anounced later. Harry Waldron of Bend, who is chairman of the development committee, announced that plans were under way to obtain a staff of counselors in the field of merit badges, which covers more than 100 vocational subjects from which scouts may choose in order to achieve the 21 required for the fcagle scout rank. One of the highlights of last night's meeting was the an nouncement by. neighborhood scout- commissioner Robert - E. Cargo of Warm Springs who said a new Explorer Scout post had recently been chartered In Warm Springs with a membership of 12 Explorer Scouts under the spon sorship of A. F. of L. local 2941, and the formation of a new Cub Scout pack- under the same spon sor. He also said that a commit tee had been appointed to form a new Boy Scout troop in the Warm Springs agency. This will give Warm Springs the most complete scouting coverage for any com munity in the seven county Mo doc area council. '. Discussion Held In addition to the district meet ing, roundtable meetings were held for leaders of Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts and Explorer Scouts. Fulton was in charge of the scout leaders' roundtable, Ken Pearson, field executive, led the discussion for the Cub Scout leaders, and James K. Bocktus, Explorer Scout field commissioner, was leader of the roundtable for that group. In attendance at last night's meeting were: Bend: Harry Waldron, L. Rees Brooks, Eugene Stranahan, James R. Warren, G. C. Dalkenberg, A (Continued on Page 8) Band Rehearses Drill for Colorado-Oregon Game I ji4 1 Ifffe ; , ' ;: Z : ft awiwi w lafl tmniin i inn muni f urir ur 11171 " r- 1 H m. : The Bend high school band and the drum and bugle corps are "on tour" this week end. The student musicians, 100 strong, left at 1 o'clock today on buses for the Willamette valley. Tonight they will parade at half-time at the Bend-Albany high school football game. Saturday morning they will go to Eugene, where In the afternoon, they will give a half-time performance at the University of Colorado University of Oregon game. The group will present different drills at each appearance. Pictured above is the band, rehearsing a formation to be used at the college game. The students were accom panied on the trip by Don P, Pence, band director and school music supervisor; Joseph T. Haugen, drum and bugle corps director; Grant Mathews, of the high school music department, and Miss Zola McDougall, Miss Doris Jeanne DeLurme and Miss Marianne Blenkinsop, who will assist as chaper ons. Miss McDougall is high school dean of girls, and Miss DeLurme and Miss Blenkinsop are physical education Instructors. ' . New District yommissioner v - im&jtn e f i . i V4' V .k'lWWiaa. George Fulton, Bend, was nam ed Boy Scout district commis sioner at a tri-county meeting in Redmond last night. He suc ceeds Kenneth Davis, Redmond, who has sold his business and is leaving the district. Dr. Bishop Plans To Make Home In Redmond Dr. Elizabeth E. Bishop, tri- county health . olficer, . has ac quired property hi th Rim Rock acres division of Redmond, where she plans to build an $8000 live room house. She will make her home there. Dr. Bishop said today that she chose the Redmond site because it is centrally located for her work in Deschutes, Crook and Jefferson counties. The tri-county department has headquarters in the county courthouse in Bend, and there are to be no changes in her local office hours, she stressed. In her work, she fre quently visits communities throughout the central Oregon area. At present Dr. Bishop lives at 613 Roosevelt avenue, in a home she bought in August, 1946, when she came here from Baker. Work on preparing the ground for the new home got under way this week, under the direction of Frank Bednarek, Redmond build er. The property is at the west end of Oak street. SENTENCE CONFIRMED Budapest, Hungary, Oct. 14 tux The Hungarian court of appeals today confirmed the death sen tence imposed on Laszlo Rajk. if Attorneys Also Facing Prison Terms By II. E. Qlllgg (Unitc.l Praia Staff Cnrreaunlnt) New York. Oct. 14 mi-A fed- eral court Jury today found the 11 top leaders of the American communist party guilty of con spiring to teach and advocate the overthrow of the government by violence. Immediately afterward six of their attorneys were sentenced to prison for criminal contempt of court. In effect, the verdict outlawed the American communist party. The jury deliberated only seven hours and two minutes in all, In finding the members of the U, S. communist polltburo guilty as charged in the Indictment which alleged that they plotted armed insurrection to bring about a "dictatorship of the proletariat" Judge Medina Acts Judge Harold R. Medina, who had presided over the nine-month-old trial with a firm calm despite ( the efforts of defense attorneys to force a mistrial, then proceed ed with dispatch. , He first dismissed the Jury with thanks and a warning not to dis cuss the case with anyone. , He then summoned the six at torneys, including Eugene Dennis, No. 2 communist who acted as his own lawyer, to the bar and found them euiltv of criminal contempt. Their sentences ranged downward from six months to 30 days. ! Finally he remanded all 11 com munists to federal prison until 10:30 a.m. next Friday, when he will sentence them. He refused bail. The attorneys sent to Jail along with the defendants were those who had led the baiting of the judge and the deliberate disre garding of his rulings that had been almost continuous during the whole trial. Dennis and Harry Sacher, fiery labor attorney, and Richard H. Gladstein. a west coast labor at torney, all received six month sen tences. George W. Crockett Jr.. Negro attorney of Detroit, and A. J. Isserman of New York were sentenced to three months. Louis McCabe, of Philadelphia, received the lightest sentence 30 days. Refuse to Comment The jurors left the courtroom before the attorneys were cited and sentenced with rapid-fire speed. To the questions of report ers they had only one answer: "No comment," in obedience to the judge's instructions. Immediately after the verdict was announced in the tensely quiet courtroom, Federal Judge Harold R. Medina directed the court clerk to poll the Jurors. The clerk read the names of the Jurors and then the names of all 11 defendants. . Each juror then confirmed the verdict as regards each of the defendants. The communists did not move (Continued on page 8) s32
