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cept 10 above in the higher
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CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWS PA PER
BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 17," 1949
33rd Yoar
No. 267
ers Join Strike Movement
Woirk
Amoy Taken
By Communist
Forces Today
Ilium Kong, l. 17 ill-i The
iiiiIIoiiiiIIhIh alianiloiicd their big
port mill tiavnl luisc of Amoy to
tin I'liiiiinunlHlM today, hoi cliunp-
111 II Ht'll hlockudc III) Surrendered
Clinton,
Mi'iinllmi', some 2.300 eominu-
11 InI troop look positions
iilotilt Ilii' northern IkiiiIit of
Hong Kong niter chasing nation
nllhl remnants from I ho terrain
between IIiIh I'titlnh crown col
ony (iml ('union. h'aiiy resump
lion of trade Ix'lwecn I long Kong
unil Clinton wiih seen.
Tlir full of Amoy after a month'
long communist siege was Mil
nouiiccd ly a iwillonnilM tnllltiiry
spokesman on Kiuiiiomi. the mi
tlonallstH' central news agency n'
pel led.
Tin' tiniloitiilWts, In nil iijiiiri'nt
gesture of defiance, blockaded the
l'eiirl I H it rnuiiry below Canton
In mi inii'inpl to prevent tin' city
from traillnit by sell with Hong
Kong.
Illni kmli- Imposed
They threw ii line of six nun-
coats iii'iohji the 'jo mlle-i.
ury ii few hour iiflrr n
wide estu-:
ssnssi
of Canton.
troops reached tin iionii honk'
liiiul Imnlrr southeast of Canton.
The communists took up positions
ok up positions) i . . T II
.eiAgain in Trouble
ut .Nrhutnc nun arn
mill luirrli-uilrjl .'HI
from llrlish Holillrri
.May Ki'Hiirc Trtulc I
An authoritative source In!
Hong Kong Mild nil signs Mlntcdi
In c.uiy resumption of trade and
other Intel ami ne between thin
British crown colony ami Canton.
Id' Kali I tin' communist regime In
Canton iiIko iipeiircd willing t
ri'oH'ii rullwuy unil ti'li'plioni'
llntn.
'Oil' fit mi contingent of 300
communist (roups rciuheil Shum
clinn on tlii' Hong Kong lionlcr
tit 1 p.m. Three hour Inter, nn
nlhi'r 2.000 regular unilrr Gen.
Mu Tlng-tang arrived.
'Hw communist had been
scheduled to niurch up to the bur
lier liver the week end but they
ileliiveil their arrival until Mime
20.000 mitloniillM troops left the
border aim by ship and Junk
from Nanlou. small coastal port
20 miles northwest of IIoiik Koiik.
Three hundred nationalist sol
dier still In Shumrliun surrend
ered and went over to the com
munist. British Alerl
Some '10,000 British troops In
Hie IIoiik Koiik men, preparing
to guard the western world's only
boundary with communist China,
strung barbed wire iiIoiik the en
tire length of the border over the
week end and erected biirrlcndes
at bridge crossing polut.s.
Klsewhere In China the nation
nllst government established Its
new co-capital In Chungking
while iiiillonallsl troops evacuat
eil Swntow and fmiKlit fiercely
to hold Amoy against a commu
nist amphibious assault.
Informants arrived from Swn
tow said the nationalists were
leaving that port by ship and go
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The 1!M0 fire season Is not yet over, Gall C. Bilker, Deschutes nntlonnl forest protective assistant
who has been gunrdlng Hie arid woods, decided this morning. When the fire siren sounded about
10:30 n.m. today, Baker learned that the call wns front his home, at 1503 West First, The blaze nppnr
out ly started from nn overheated chimney, caused by a flue bln.e. The fire depnrtmnt brought out
two rigs, shown In the picture. Mro dnmnge wns not extensive..
Program for Warm Springs
Highway Dedication Decided
Sunday af Timberline Lodge
Governor McKay
Will Address
Chamber Forum
Gov. Douglas McKay will speak
to iiii'inlHTH of the Hi nd rhnmlicr
of commerce lit a forum meeting
to Im- held December Hi. according
i to Infm million In n letter received
! by rhainlM'r officials from Torn
i Ijiwsiiii MK.'all, the governor's
i secretary.
This past week It wan reported
, that McKay's speaking engage.
men! here had Ix-en tentatively
set for )ecetnlH'-'Jl.
j The cIiiiiiiIht also has slated a
forum meeting for Ortnbei 2H.
1'ilurlpnl speaker at the affair
will be Halph Hreshcars. of Se
I little, winner of a Junior chamber
of commerce national award for
his talk, "I Speak for Deulorra
j -y."
T tt 1 I
Traffic Violator
Ctuirle.i HolK-rl Allen, 19, Ilend.
who on Aug. .'10 was anvsled In
lieml on a chin gc of violating the
basic rule In iliivlng. was cited
on a similar charge Sunday, ac
cording to Information on file In
the local police station. When
Allen upX'aic( In municipal
court In August, hi oxriitoi H li
cense was su.M-ndcd for three
month, except when he required
his car In driving to and from
work. A a condition of the sen
tence, Judge Alva C. Goodrich
ngrrctl that If Allen would visit
four hoHpltiill.cd victims of auto
mobile accident he could get his
license back.
It also was provided that the
young motorist 'should visit the
hospital In company with n rep
resentative of the X)llre depart
ment. Some visits, but not the
rcquli-cd four, have been made,
It was learned today.
Other motorist cited over the
week end were Kobert J. Hender
son. Houte 3, licnd: Arnold O.
Ilergoust, Koute 1, Ilend; Carl J.
llli'tcher, Koute 3. Hend: Harvey
S. Scott, Warm Springs; Kusscll
L. Ciilahan, Koute 3, Bend. All
were cited on violating the basic
rule In operating cars.
Charles Comstock, Bend, was
arrested on n charge of oix-rat-Ing
a car without a driver's xr
mil. HI.ANK FALLS IN SEA
Provlneetown, Mass., Oct. 17 UP)
A chartered plane plunged Into
the sea seven miles off the tip of
Cape Cod today and four persons.
Including two children, were re
ported missing.
Forest Fire Chief Suffers Home Blaze
vm..n i
A program centering around
the ileillcatloii of the new Mill
cieek bridge mid opening of tin"
Warm Spilng highway to traf
flc will be held nl 11:30 a.m. on I
Sunday, Nov. 13, lit the Mill
creek gorge This wuk the deci
sion cached ut nn Inlcr-eommu-nlty
conference Sundav lit Tim
Ix'iilne lodge, on Ml. Hood, with
33 persons prci.cul from points as
distant as Oregon City and John
Day.
The Central Oregon and Jghn
Day vallev delegation drove to
Dim Mt. Hood country over the
Warm Spring reservation and
stoi "d for an Inspection of the
lofty steel span across Mill creek.
Work on Die span rapidly is near-
Ing completion and It I i now ccr
train the lirl''.'r
use on Nov. 13.
will l rendv forMiary unification, said the army
Ie eni're cutoff
from Madras to the Waolnllla
highway lust west of Ueiir
snrlngs! ii dlstiinee of 47 mile.
h"'i b"en comoleled mid surfni-ed
with the exception of the never
mile u"l In the forest at the west
end. Thl.i unit will not be nihil
In the present season, but will be
surfaced with crushed rock.
Much Work 'iCenmliw
lllghwav officials stress that
the new hlchwnv will not be avail-
nble for traffic until Nov A.
j Work remalnlii': to In romnleleii
I Includes the east nperoach to the
Nllll creek bridge. However, the
I caravan going lo Timlx'rllne yes
terday wns permitted to use the
I spun and made the rror dng by
' driving over a plank apnronch.
1 The hlghwy also barricad
ed In the Heaver creek area,
where a crusher I operating. A
crane reaches across the new
hluhwnv. which also Is barricad
ed In that area bv massive log'
Arrnngement for the Nov. 13
.dedication of the bridge will be
completed bv a committee 01
ven headed bv E. Thompson.
Kedmond. with Kloyd West. Dend
a sccrctiirv Other memlx"- of
the committee mv H. I,. Pn"e,
Kandv: Oliver Enrl. Madras: J. L.
Dlddork. Warm Killings: Frank
Carpenter. John Hay, nnd J. S.
Cn-enwood. Wemme. This com
mittee will name n master of
ceremonies nnd a sneaker for the
short program. There also will
be n ribbon-cutting ceremony.
Boise to Purtliipafc
Cities as distant as Boise. Ida.,
will participate In the program.
It was nnnounced at the Timber
line conference. Also recognized
will be the bureau of public
road, the state highway commis
sion, the U. S. forest service and
the I'. S. Indian service.
A feature of the program will
be the exchange of souvenirs by
weit and east sld" delegations.
The Central Oregon chamber
of commerce took the leadership
In arrangements for the cere
mony, nnd Otto Ilnppcs, Prine-
vllle, president of the mldstnte
e-oun, presided at the Timber
line conference Sunday.
Committee members set the
time for the start of the program
at 11:30 because In the emiv aft
ernoon a stiff winds whips
through the deep gorge. If weath
er conditions should prove In
clement on. Nov. 13. the program
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Marine Corps
Threatened
By Unification
By Charles onldry
(UP Aviation Wilier)
Wuch'-igton, Oct. 17 Uli-Cen,
Clifton Ii, Culi-H, "narlne corps
loimnanilant, uceUH d the urray
general stuff today of damaging
national security by liylng (o
crljple the murine corps.
Call's told the house armed
servleen committee Ihut the army
brass "stands within measurable
dlstuncc" of destroying the ma
rines us a fighting force.
Cates, testifying during the
committee' Investigation of mil-
general stuff ha made three de
mands on the marine corps that
violate the national security net.
lie said the army demanded
thai marine corps units be lim
ited to regimental size and re
duced in overall number to 50,
000 or CO.000 officer and men.
It wu.s 100.000 at the end of the
war.
Its second demand would make
amphibious warfare a function of
the urm. although such opera
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IIIUIIIIL- IUI . Ill; MIU.
No Expansion
The army's third demand would
provide that the marine corps
"not lie appreciably expanded in
time of war," the leatherneck
said.
Cates said the corps Is helpless
to defend Itself because It has no
voice, vote or information on
what Is going on at top Pentagon
levels.
The marines have been exclud
ed from the joint chiefs of staff,
he said.
Defense secretary Louis John
son. In setting up "powerful"
committees to administer the de
fense act, has given little or no
representation to the marines, he
said.
Fundamental questions relating
to marines' weapons are not de
cided by the corps, but by a com
mittee composed of five officers
each from the army, air force
and navy, lie added.
Cates and Gen. A .A. Vander
grift. former marine command
ant, were the two officers chosen
to end the navy's case against
present unification policies.
5 Killed When
Bomber Crashes
Chlno, Cal., Oct. 17 iui The
crash of a B-26 bomber, based at
Sheppard field near Wichita Falls,
lex., killed five persons when the
plane hit a hill during a routine
training flight, air force officials
said today.
A fifth body wns found this
morning by an air rescue crew
from March air base. Four serv
icemen nnd a civilian died In the
crash.
Names of the victims were to be
relensed by Sheppard field offi
cials. The plane, based at Sheppard
field near Wichita Falls. Tex., was
on n flight from Williams air base
at Phoenix, Ariz., to Long Beach,
Cal., when it crashed into San
Juan hill south of the Chino coun
try club last night.
Experiment Tract
Logging Started
Logging of n 160-acre trnct of
the Pringle Falls experiment for
est Is now under way, in the Look
out mountain area of the upper
Deschutes country. The stump
age, immature pine and lodgenole,
was purchased last week bv R. N.
Endlcott, only bidder. The timber
will be milled at Brooks-Scanlon.
Inc., plant In Bend. Endlcott paid
the nnnr.ilsivl ni-tee IVS
The Immniiire trees, 110 years
old, were sold to permit thinning
work In the experiment forest.
The tfttnl snle Is estimated at 610,
000 board feet, and will be logged
In four different blocks, with vari
ous degrees of thinning planned.
CHILD KILLED BY SHOT
Baker, Oct. 17 till Sandra
King, 7, daughter of Mr. and
M13. Otis King of Ontario. Ore.,
w:s fatally wounded yesterday
afternoon when a .410 gnu re shot,
qun pointed at, her by her five-year-old
brother, Danny, went off
accidentally.
The children were playing at
the ranch of their grandparents.
Mr. and Mrs. Clark Kins of Unity,
when the mishap occurred.
King told Baker county cor
oner Thnd Beatty that the gun
had been left In the bnrn. The
children were spending the week
end ut Unity,
Mill Creek Span Dedication Committee Named
Here are members of the committee that will complete arrangements for a program on Sundav, Nov.
13, in connection with the dedication of the new Mill creek bridge and the opening of the Warm
Springs highway. Front row, from left: J. S. Greenwood, Wemme; Don L. Page, Sandy; Oliver Earl,
Madras., and J. L. Diddock, Warm Springs. Back row: C. E. Thompson. Redmond; Frank Carpenter,
John Day, and Floyd West, Bend. Thompson was named chairman of the program committee and
' West secretary-
French Premier 1
Resigns; Unable
To Get Cabinet
Paris, Oct. 17 Wi Premier
Julej Moch. strong man nemesis
of the communists, despaired to
'nlght of bringing France's' squab
bling political leaders together In
a coalition cabinet and resigned.
Disgusted over the inter-party
disputes and strife within the
ranks of his own socialist party,
Moch temlei-ed his resignation to
President Vincent Auriol, who ac
cepted it
He was convinced the bickering
made it impossible for him to set
up a cabinet which would com
mand a majority in the assembly,
and he went to Auriol and turned
in his commission.
The president accepted the res
ignation, and prepared to confer
with other party leaders in search
of a successor to Moch.-
Twice todav when he seemed
on the threshhold of success, the
56-year-old strong man of the
socialist party had been thwarted
by party wrangling.
His decision to give up was pre-
cinltated specifically by refusal of
Daniel Mayer, left wing socialist,
to accept any other post tnan
the .ministry of labor, wmcn ne
held in the old cabinet.
Crazed Landlord
Kills Woman, Self
Birmingham, Ala., Oct. 17 tu
All he did. ex-paratrooper Floyd
Greer said today, was ask his
landlord to turn on the heat be
cause his baby was sick.
But the simple request started
an argument which so enraged
the landlord that he shot and
wounded Greer and the baby,
killed Mrs. Greer and then com
muted suicide.
Authorities were puzzled today
over Just what caused landlord
Francis E. Cheney, 53. to go wild
with a pistol. They were inclined
to believe that he went berserk
when the Greers mentioned their
child's Illness, because he himself
had been sick.
The grief-stricken 25-year-old
Greer, suffering from wounds In
the neck and shoulder, choked
out his storv to detective J. R.
1 Norrcll.
He snid that he and his wife
noticed that their year-old son
David, appeared to be ill yester
day morning, so he went to Che
ney and asked him to turn on
the heat.
Argument Started
Cheney, a postal money order
clerk, at first ngreed to do it
nnd even offered to call a doctor,
Norrell quoted Greer.
But Mrs. Cheney began argu
ing about It, Norrell said, and
Cheney suddenly flew Into a rage.
"Ho Just went mad over the Idea
of sickness, the detective sain,
"I suppose it was because he had
been sick himself. He didn't seem
to be mad at Greer or the child."
Cheney grabbed a .32 caliber
revolver and fired nt Greer, who
was holding the baby In his arms.
Giver wns wounded twice, only
slightly, and one of the Slugs
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Increased Remanufacturing
In Bend Slated for Study
At AFL District Meet Here
Establishment in the Mid-State area of remanufacturing
plants to take up the anticipated economic slack when produc
tion in the lumber industry falls off in future years, will be
one of the major topics up for
Central Oregon district council,
penters, meets in Bend next Saturday and Sunday.
Local officials of the council look upon the expected decline
in the lumber industry as a
11 Above Low
Mark in Bend
Sunday Morning
The temperature in Bend short
ly before sunrise Sunday morn
ing dropped to 11 above zero, just
one degree higher than the all
time minimum for the Bend sta
tion, 10 degrees. Weather records
show that an absolute low of 10
has been registered in October
on four different vears in 1913,
1917. 1935 and 1946.
Following the Saturday night
low of 11, the mercury Sunday
climbed to 53 degrees, with the
central Oregon country bathed In
sunshine through the day.
ear was held that the 11-
above-zero temperature might
have caused some frost damage
to potatoes that are still in the
ground.
1949 Worst Polio
Year in History
Atlanta. Oct. 17 UA Surgeon-
general Leonard A. Scheele pre
dicted today that 1949 w ill be the
worst polio year in United States
history, with the total number of
cases reaching 40,000 to 45.000.
In a speech prepared for de
livery at a U. S. public health
service conference here, Dr.
Scheele said that this year will
see a 50 per cent rise over , the
27.6S0 cases of polio reported in
1948.
And the incidence of polio may
go even higher next year and in
years 10 come, me su.Bcon - gen-
oral Cfiirl
"The end is not in sight." he
said. "This is a case where knowl -
edge is urgently needed so that
steps can be taken to control
poliomyelitis."
In the 10 years before 1943
there was onlv a "moderate in-
cidence" of polio. Dr. Scheele
said, but since then there has
been "a. marked upward trend."
Bell Aircraft
Strike Settled
Buffalo, N.Y., Oct. 17 tinEd
mund Day, chairman of the fact
finding board appointed by New
York state to Investigate the 19-week-old
Bell Aircraft corpora
tion strike, announced today that
the bitter dispute had been set
tled, subject to ratification by
union members.
Day, chancellor of Cornell uni
versity, said an agreement had
been reached between the man
agement and officials of Local
501, United Auto Workers (CIO).
Earlier, a comDanv attorney
had said that all strikers, with
the exception of about 20 who
were termed "undesirables,"
could return to work immediate
ly If they so desired.
1 r-
consideration when the AFL
united Brotherhood of Car
"serious threat to payrolls,
particularly in Bend."
The matter of the future of
logging in the area was re
cently brought to the frontj
, when Ralph W. Crawford, su
pervisor 01 the Deschutes nation
al forest, told members of the city
water advisory' committee that
barring additional sources of tim
ber outside the Deschutes plateauJ
area, ttmoer in the next live to
seven years will be cut on a sus
tained yield basis and will afford
sufficient timber for the opera
tion of but one mill, cutting only
about one-third of what the two
mills in Bend now produce.
Three Branches
Sessions of three branches of
the district council are to be held
at the conference, according to
Clarence E. Briggs, council secre
tary and treasurer.
The construction carpenters are
to hold meetings in the Labor
temple on Hill street; lumber and
sawmill workers are to conduct
meetings in the union office at 83
Oregon avenue, and the ladies
auxiliary is to meet at the Pilot
Butte inn. The conference is to
1 close Sunday with a joint session
01 the three groups.
Among matters to be taken up
by the carpenters' section are the
furnishing of craftsmen to be
used in the construction of the
new St. Charles hospital; agree
ments covering labor in the build
ing of the McNary and Detroit
dams; statewide agreement and
wage scales for 1950, and a report
on the proposed construction of
some Ub homes in the central
Oregon area under the federal
; housing bill.
, , , g k
1 r
I Principal speaker before the
1 carpenters group will be Ivor
! '"eIs' executive secretary of the
i A.F.L. s ate council of carpenters,
"uraiHlm"'
Lumber and sawmill workers
will consider a retirement plan
which, union officials say, is
I about to be signed with a local
firm; a new working agreement
with the Gilchrist Timber com
pany; a study of proposals which
will govern the workers' demands
on contract changes and amend
ments for 1950, and the political
program to be adopted for the
1950 election.
Briggs stated that he expects
about 125 delegates to participate
in the conference.
MEDFOUD HAS SNOW
Medford. Ore., Oct. 17 HP The
earliest October snowfall record
ed by the Medford weather bu
reau since 1911 dusted the city's
streets this morning. The previ
ous record was set In 1935 when
a trace fell on October 22.
Weather burenu officinls said
It was not necessarily the har
binger of an early winter because
fair weather is forecast for tomorrow.
New Attempt
At Mediation
Due in Steel
Developments Listed
Developments on the labor
front:
1. Some 20,000 workers walk
ed off their jobs at nine plants
of the Aluminum Company of
America today, boosting the
nation's strike-idle to well over
1 500 000
"2. ' Officials of the AFL
spurned suggestions that they
pool the AFL's resources with
those of the CIO and the Unit
ed Mine workers to set up a
joint "strike fund."
0. A United Press survey
showed that the cost of the
steel and coal walkouts In In
dustrial and transportation
revenues has mounted to more
than $600,000,000. Railroads
have been forced to lay off
92.000 workers. In the automo
bile Industry, 8,500 are Idle.
Pittsburgh. Oct. 17 U'lU. S.
Steel Corp. today accepted a gov
ernment invitation to talk over
the 17-day steel strike as the
giant walkout spread to 20,000
Aluminum Corp. of America
workers.
"Big Steel," which produces a
third of the nation's steel, said
its representatives would meet
with U. S. mediation chief Cyrus
S. Ching in New York Wednes
day. The meeting may lay the
groundwork for a major move
by President Truman to end the
walkout, which in combination
with the coal strike has idled 1,
520.000 of the nation's 60,000,000
workers.
The ALCOA workers quit work
at nine plants to enforce the CIO
United Steelworkers demands for
company paid pensions and insur
ance. The strike cut off one
fourth of the nation's aluminum
supply.
The Ching-U. S. steel talks
were expected to climax the series
of exploratory" talks with the
steel companies which ope.ned
with Bethlehem Steel last. week.
Ching was meeting with repre
sentatives of Youngstown Sheet
& Tube Co. in Washington today.
ine international headquarters
of the steelworkers said It had
received no invitation to the
Ching conferences and had not
been contacted by any federal
mediators.
Another Plant Closed
In addition to the ALCOA walk
out, the steel union closed the
plant of the Patterson Foundry
and Machine Co., a fabricator em
ploying 200 workers at east Liver
pool. A 24-hour extension of the
union-company agreement expir
ed without settlement.
Government labor experts In
Washington, warned that the
strike problem will become "crit
ical" for the national economy
within a veek if no progress is
made toward settlements
The ALCOA workers quit their
Jobs at 12:01 a. m. EST when
last-minute intervention by fed
eral labor mediator William N.
Margolis failed. R. C. Turner,
ALCOA personnel director, said
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Sheriff Elliott
Makes Club Raid
Portland, Oct. 17 HPi Multno
mah county sheriff Marion
(Mike) L. Elliott opened uV week
of his recall election by leading
nis ueputies on a raid of the down
town Melody club, booking 30 per
sons. City vice operatives said they
had planned to raid the club for
gambling and liquor law viola
tions but were beaten to the raid
by the sheriff's men, who kicked
in the front door first.
The raid was the second In
three weeks on thp Mclmly club.
Cltv police hit It Sept. 25.
Of the arrested, four were book
ed on gambling nnd I'tegal sale
of liquor charges. Twenty-six
patrons were released on $100 ball
and charged with gambling.
Meanwhile, countv rerlstrnr
James W. Gleason sulci 212.000
voters would be eligible to cast
hnllots Friday In the recall elec
tion which he nredicted would see
a turnout of 45-50 per cent, based
on heavv nbsentee haPot reti'Tii.
Should the sheriff be reenlled,
a successor will be named bv the
conntv commissioner, who have
said they would" appoint a dem
ocrat. Backers of the recall-Klllott
movement charge the sheriff mis
represented his war and school
records In campaign speeches.