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