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BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15. 1949
No. 9
FOUND ALDV
LOST
KELSO
GIRL
New Atom Bomb
Leaks Charged
By Ex-Navy Man
Hy W. It. HlHCINHOTIIAM
(i'liilnl I'm. M.fl rurrrijiiilrnl
Washington, Due, 15 (U.l!l The house un-American activi
ties committee today postponed further hearings into alleged
leaks of atomic Ijnnib secrets to Kunsin until sometime after
congress reconvenes Jan. .'J.
Thi! delay is expected to give investigators time to chuck
(lie latest reports thai thu Russians got blueprints of thu
atomic process throiiKh the wartime lend-lease pipeline.
Koyall E. Norton, 2!)-year-
Prineville
Posf Office
Building. Set
Prlnevllle, rapidly-growing con
trol Or-'gon ch jr. has been np
pi lived at l)u ItH'tilloii for n gov
ernment building In house the
pout office mill vnriiiim federal
ngrncli-g In thi' Crook county
scut, according to Informalliin re
li'nni'il loilnv from the of f lc- of
Iti'p, Iowvll Stockman, of the
second Oregon district,
"This iwinn thnt steps can now
be tiikcn toward acquisition of a
nil,' nnd tin' preparation of plans
for a punt offlcp building." states
I In' announcement from IU'.
Stockman's office In Washington,
D.C. Selection of I'rliicvllli' hh the
locution for a federal building ill'
volvcti advertising for sites, Ui
ter, n pout office department or
public building administration
representative with authority to
Investigate the available local lonH
will vmlt the Crook coimiy town.
Information from Washington,
DC. states that the l'rlncvllle
fedoral building In not to coat
more than $200,000.
I'olley I-'olloml
"Congressman Stockman I
aware that there am several
townii In the second district
where new federal buildings lire
greatly needed, nnd I know he
would like to obtain one prompt
ly In every Instance." states a let
ter from Grace SlmH, hid secro-
tary. "However, the punt pro
cedure has been to select but one
from each district at any given
time, nnd that policy wns follow
ed by the government at this
time."
Rep. Stockman Is in Europe.
on an lnsoctlon trip, nt present.
and will return to (lie stales just
nrlor to Christmas,
Choice of a city for a feder.il
building Is made from eligible
projects, by the postmuster gen
eral and the general services act
nlnlstrator. Federal building
nrolects were nrevlouslv nut hop
feed, but deferred during the war
years until now. A new list, In
eluding l'rlncvllle, hns bc-m com
piled and was to be released In
Washington, u.c, today,
Denfield Plans
To Leave Navy
Washington, Dec. 15 Uli Adm.
Louis K. DcnfoUl, ousted chief of
naval operations, has Indicated he
win resign from the navy rather
than step down to a lower com
mand, It was learned today.
' Friends qouted the former No
1 naval officer as saying he would
not accept the post of commander
of U. S. nnval forces In European
waters which wus offered .at the
time of his removal.
It Is unlikely, they added, that
ho would ask for another post.
He reportedly has been offered
nt least 10 high-salaried jobs In
civilian life, Including one with
the Sun Shipbuilding and Dry
dock Co., Chester, Pa.
Dcnfelcl wus ousted hy Navy
secretary Francis P. Matthews bo
cause of his criticism of unifica
tion during congressional hear
ings Into Intcr-servlcc bickering.
Q SHOPP'NgAVS Ltrt
Buy Christmas SeALSf
old college student and former
navy enlisted man, mado the
hiirgc in n radio 1'roadcust
last night.
Committee chairman John
S. Wood said the hearings
which hud been scheduled for
next Monday and I ucsday were
postponed at the request of sev-
ra' members.
The committee has heard charg
es that the Russians obtained
through the lend-lease pipeline
uranium und heavy water, both
useful In atomic exerlmcnts.
Will Check Ktory
Meanwhile, house Investigators
unlit they will check Norton's
story.
It certainly has all the ear
marks of something we would
wnnt to look Into," said one mem
ber of the house un-American ac
tivities committee.
The new account of alleged
wartime Russian espionage was
given last night by Koyall E. Nor
ton, zii-ycur-old senior at Clemson
college near Greenville, S. C. In
an Interview with radio commen
tator ulton Lewis Jr.
Norton said the Russians hid
the. atomic "blueprints" in three
parachute packs anil slipped them
through the American Icnd lense
base at Kodlnk, Alaska. He said
he was stationed there at the time
to check on U. S. planes being
nown to kussui.
Also Obtained Charts
The Russians, he said, also
used enough "Influence" to get
IS sets of astronomical charts
giving delnlled information about
the strategic Alaskan and Aleu
tian Island chain. Ho said they
were given to the Russians over
his vigorous protests.
Norton said he did not realize
the Importance of the episode un
til he heard the story of George
Haeey Jordan, former air force
major, who told Lewis and the
committee that uranium and top-
secret documents were handed
the Russians In 1943 and 1911.
The former G.I. said he sought
the advice of former Secretary
of state James F. Byrnes and that
Byrnes suggested he make "a full
report" to the house committee.
"The first thing I knew," he
told Lewis, "you showed up this
afternoon at the college and ask
ed me the facts and I told you
tnem.
A veteran of the North African
campaign, Norton enlisted In the
navy In 1941. When discharged at
war's end, he was a chief petty
officer with four letters of recom
mendutlon for a commission.
Norton said he stumbled across
the "blueprints" aboard a Cata
Una flying bout when he spotted
the three parachute packs that
"obviously were not filled with
parachutes.
Ignoring frenzied Russian pro
tests that the bags were personal
prope!", he said, he opened one
and discovered an 18 by 12 Inch
box with a "solid stack" of blue
prints inside.
Missing Seattle
Bride Sought
Seattle, Dec. 15 till Blood
hounds were put on the rain-soak
cd trail of a "very attractive". 16-year-old
bride today who disap
peared during a brief twilight
stroll through a brush-tangled
wooded section of the Lake Bur
Ion district here.
Sheriff deputies and detectives
enlled out the bloodhounds when
a preliminary search failed to un
cover any trace of the girl. Sev
eral residents' of the neighbor
hood were aiding In the search of
the southern outskirts of Seattle.
Mrs. Alvln Meull, a bride of one
year, vanished last night during a
short walk from her sister's home
to the home of her sister-in-law.
The missing girl's mother, Mrs.
J. W, Randall,, told the King coun
ty sheriffs office she was afraid
the girl was "the victim of an ac
cident or foul play."
Migration
Dr. J. C. Vandevert, pictured here feeding hungry Mirror pond ducks, declared today that tnere is
danger that the birds will migrate upstream unless feed is provided. Tha season on ducks and
geese will again open on Dec. 19. and birds outside the Bend refuge will be legal game.
Mirror Pond Waferfowl Need
Feed,' Declared
The city should take immediate steps to provide feed for
Mirror pond wildlife if a heavy migration of birds is to be
prevented, Dr. J, C. Vandevert, former member of the state
Kftme commission, declared today. Unless feed is provided the
birds will move upstream, where some natural food is avail
able, nnd will suffer a heavy
season is again opened next
School Christmas
Vacation to Start
Here December 23
Christmas vacation In the Bend
schools will begin Decemtcr 23
and end on Jan. 2. according to nn
announcement from the office of
James W. Bushong, city superin
tendent of schools. Schools will
reopen following the Christmas
holiday on Tuesday, Jan. 3. Jan.
9 to 13 will be the final week of
the first semester, with examina
tions scheduled. The second se
mester will start on Monday,
Jan. 1G.'
Highlighting pre-Chrlstmas
week at the Bend high school will
be a music assembly on the after
noon of Thursday, Dec. 22 final
day of school in 1949. That night
Bend high school musicians will
present their annual concert.
Soring vacation for the Bend
public schools will start on April
3 and last until April 7, both dates
Inclusive.
Baccalaureate services will be
held late In May, with May 29
June 2 set as the final week of
work for Bend high school stu
dents.
Throughout Deschutes county,
schools will recess at the end of
the coming week for the Christ
mas nnd New Year holidays.
Slash in Excise
Taxes Studied
Key West, Fla., .Dec. 15 HP
President Truman sain today that
the administration has reached
no decision on repeal of excise
taxes, although the matter is un
der study now by federal experts.
The president held nn impromp
tu news conference with reporters
here at the winter White House.
He had no new major an
nouncements, .and stuck primarily
to previously stated positions.
The chief executive, questioned
closely about new tax recom
mendat Ions, admonlshed.the
newsmen to wait for his budget
message which will go to con
gress In January.
The easing of excise taxes wns
recently recommended by Secre
tary of commerce Charles Saw
yer. The president said today It
was a matter-under consideration
of treasury tax experts nnd the
house ways und means commit
tee. No conclusions have been reach
ed, he added, nnd the answer will
have to await the budget mes
sage. 'Asked whether he hoped for a
balanced budget, he said such a
balance had always been his aim,
but the republican-controlled 80th
congress unbalanced the budget.
And, he added, there is no one
else to blame. ,
of Mirror Pond Birds Feared
by Observers
slaughter when the waterfowl
week, Dr. .Vanvedert said.
The ex-game commissioner
said the birds are in need of
feed', and are receiving sorof
from persons living near the
Mirror pond. However, he be
lieves this is not adequate to
prevent a migration of birds
to areas where the competition
for feed is not so keen.
Arid conditions of the present
fall left Drake park unusually
dry and the birds are obtaining
little green feed there, Dr. vande
vert mentioned. Aquatic feed has
largely slumped Into mudbanks in
the Mirror pond, he added.
Reports Indicate that the up
stream migration of ducks hns al
ready started. The "second seas
on' on ducks and geese will open
Dec. 19 and remain open to Jan.
(', both dates Inclusive.
Mistrial Denied
In Bridges Case
San Francisco, Dec. 15 Ut Dis
trict Judge George B. Harris to
day denied a defense motion for
a mistrial in the Harry Bridges
perjury-conspiracy case after the
longshore union leader's attorney
claimed he had been "assailed" by
the witnesses, the prosecution and
the judge.
Attorney Vincent Halllnan, who
early in the trial was cited for
contempt and given a suspended
sentence of six months in jail, I
told the court "It Is no longer pos
sible to secure a fair and impar
tial decision in this case."
"Prosecution witnesses have
been protected and shielded so as
to deprive the defense of the use
of necessary weapons," Halllnan
said. "The prosecution has assail
ed the defense and when we have
appealed to the bench we have
been assailed.
"The jury hns been Influenced
by the nttitude and demeanor of
the court and it no longer is pos
sible to secure n fair and impar
tial decision In this case, ho con
cluded. F. Joseph Donohue, govern
ment prosecutor, argued agnlnst
the motion, saying Halllnnn's mo
tion came as "no surprise."
"We have produced seven wit
nesses who testified Bridges is a
communist," Donahue said, "and
now they know what to expect."
Bridges. Australian-born chief
of 75,000 west const longshoremen
and warehousemen, Is accused of
lying when he denied he was a
communist at his naturalization
healing four years ago. Two offi
cers In his ILWU are accused of
conspiracy by affirming his state
ment. MARY BEARD DIES
Newtown, Conn., Dec. 15 tin
Funeral services will be held Fri
day for Mrs. Mary E. Beard, 73,
nationally-known educator and
lecturer.
New flume Now
Near Completion
For Arnold Ditch
Construction workers today put
final touches to the job of hook
ing up the new metal section of
Ihe ArncJd flume souCitof Bend,
and water for domestic purposes
was turned into the canal for de
livery to Arnold Irrigation district
land owners, it was announced
today by R. P. Syverson, contrac
tor In charge of the flume project.
The water will be the first de
livered to the district land own
ers since the projsct of replacing
a 732-foot section of rotted wood
runway with metal flume was be
gun this past October 1, under
U. S. bureau of reclamation su
pervision. Syverson stated that another
week would be required entirely
to complete the job of replacing
the wood runway.
Syversn's contract also called
for the construction of new head
gates, of concrete, for the canal.
Total costfcf the project is 524,047.
To Flow Several Days
The metal section of flume com
pleted today was hooked up with
a longer section constructed this
past year. The 1948 contract also
was handled by Syverson.
Syverson stated that water will
be allowed to flow into the canal
for the next three or four days,
so that land owners of the district
will have sufficient time to fill
their cisterns.
It has been the practice of the
district. to open the hendgates of
the canal about every 30 days dur
ing winter months, to supply do
mestic water to the land owners.
Defense Lecture
Slated Friday
Defense of the- United States
against attack employing atomic
bombs and guided missiles will be
the topic of a lecture to be deliv
ered here tomorrow night in con
nection with the visit of an army
augmentation team. The meeting
will be at 8 p.m., in the Deschutes
county courthouse, with Lt.-Col.
Dnvid J. McFadden, 2nd battalion,
23 Infantry region, 2nd infantry
division, Fort Lewis, Wash., and
Sgt. Wallace D. Bosley, headquar
ters, 4th infantry division, Fort
Ord, Calif., in charge.
Material of the lecture, will be
restricted In nature, but the army
has given permission for any
service reservist on active or in
active status to attend. Bend na
tional guardsmen and civic lead
ers also are being invited.
' Colonel McFadden, who recent
ly returned from 35 months serv
ice In China and served with the
Marshall peace mission, recently
completed a special course In de
fense against atomic bombs and
guided missiles. The colonel's
home is In San Francisco.
Sgt. Bosley served four years
In the U. S. navy In world war II,
and later joined the army. His
home is in Denver. .
Blast Debris
Still Combed
For Bodies
By William A. Drake
(United PrM Huff CofT.pondnt)
Sioux City, la., Dec. 15 HH
Workers digging Into the wreck
age at the Swift & Co. plant
found two Dodier today, raising
the death toll in yesterday's ex
plosion to 18.
one Doy was tentatively menu
fied as that of Donald Johnson,
one of three Swift employes re
ported missing earlier today.
The second body also was be
lieved to be that of a man.
The bodies, both badly battered
were found under a huge pile
of debris at the southeast corner
of the plant where the explosion
was greatest.
Johnson s family at first had
believed he was one of the volun
teer rescuers.
Caused By Gas
The search for oodles centered
in the ruins of the basement
from which the explosion mush
roomed upward yesterday. Sioux
City Fire chief Charles B. Kuhl
said it was established definitely
that the blast was caused by
escaping natural gas. But he
said no one knew where the leak
occurred.
Mayor Dan Conely called an
emergency meeting of city and
county officials this morning for
a "full discussion of the disaster
and an effort to find its definite
cause."
Kuhl estimated the damage to
the big meat plant and office
building at between $700,000 and
$1,000,000, but company officials
were contemplating razing the
building, which would boost the
total greatly.
Swift officials today began vis
iting (he families of the dead to
determine thelr need for financial
help and to aid them in claim
ing benefits.
The other two men reported
missing were Tom Parker and
Dan Rager. A fourth employe be
lieved missing, Victor Hllden, was
found at home uninjured.
City firemen who had worked
throughout the night called off
their search of the wreckage this
morning, convinced that no one
was trapped alive in the tons of
debris.
The company promptly called
on uninjured survivors, to con
tinue the grim search.
Icy Pavement
Accident Cause
Icy roads resulted in a number
of car accidents in the Bend area
last night but, state police said,
no injuries were reported.
Four cars skidded from high
way 97 in the Lava butte area and
went into wayside ditches, in the
earlv evening hours. The highway
curve was sanded in the after
noon, about 4:30 o'clock and sand
ing crews were again called out
later in the night.
Slick roads followed freezing
conditions that followed a light
fall of damp snow in the late aft
ernoon.
All mountain roads remained
open today, with early winter
conditions prevailing. Chains
should be carried, motorists were
advised, but were required on few
of the passes this morning.
The McKenzie highway remain
ed in general use today and mo
torists were not using chains.
Packed snow over the summit
was well sanded. Icy spots were
reported from the Santlam. Pack
ed snow was reported from the
Warm Springs route, and plows
were operating near the west end
this morning. Motorists using
that shortcut were told to carry
chains.
Light snow was falling In the
Cascades west of Bend this after
noon,
Bend Boys, Girl
Contest Winners
Washington, Dec. 15 t!B The
National Junior Vegetable Grow
ers association today named two
Oregon boys and a girl as state
winners in the group's ninth an
nual production and marketing
contest. Those named were Don
ald K. Sorenson, Violet Klobas
and Haley Prlchard, all of Bend,
Ore.
Donald's guardians are Mr. and
Mrs. Harold Harbour. Violet is
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Pete Klobas, and Haley Is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Prichard.
All are residents of the Eastern
Star grange community.
Governor to Speak
Gov. Douglas McKay
Final arrangements for Gov.
Douglas McKay's appearance in
Bend tomorrow as principal
speaker on the Bend chamber of
commerce forum-luncheon pro
gram wpre being made today by
chamber officials.
Gov. McKay, in his first visit
to Bend since his election to of
fice, will address chamber mem
bers, their wives and guests at a
program to be held tomorrow
noon in the Pilot Butte inn.
Also to be present fonthe occa
sion is a delegation of Redmond
chamber members headed by the
organization's president C. E.
Thompson.
Floyd West, the Bend chamber
manager, today stated that a ca
pacity crowd is expected for the
forum-luncheon and asked that
persons planning to attend notify
the chamber office in advance.
The office telephone number is
297.
Gov. McKay plans to arrive
here tomorrow morning after at
tending a meeting in Roseburg
Thursday evening. He will be ac
companied on the trip by Mrs.
McKay.
Busy, Beavers
Face Eviction
Some very busy beavers en
gaged In engineering and con
struction work along the North
canal dam, at the north city lim-
ltes of Bend, lace deportation.
They are making nightly raids on
ornamental and irult trees on
lawns facing the big river pond,
and state police have received a
request from home owners that
they be trapped and removed.
The beavers, headed bv an old
fellow described as being "as
large as a dog," one night this
week visited the grounds of Oscar
W. Nelson, 2443 North First
street, and extensively gnawed a
number of valued tress. Some of
the smaller trees were cut down
and moved toward the water, im
pounded behind the North canal.
Last night, the creatures returned
and gdt the limbs, apparently
needed for beaver house-building
purposes.
Nelson has placed guards
around his most prized trees, and
has also covered the base of the
trees that have been gnawed.
. Beaver tracks In the snow re
vealed that the big rodents tramp
ed around the Nelson house last
night, in search of edible trees.
Trapped beavers are removed
to lorest creeks, where their dam
building activity is an asset along
watersheds.
Piiot Killed
In Plane Crash
San Diego. Cal.. Dec. 15 itB
MSgt. Aubrey Russell Jones, 35,
of Santa Ana, Cal., was killed
when his marine plane crashed
and exploded a 500-pound bomb
during dive bombing practice 25
miles west of El Centro, Cal., yes
terday, the marine corps revealed
today.
The 500-pound bomb did not ex
plode until six minutes after the
crash, and authorities believed
Jones was killed the instant his
plane struck the ground.
After going into a dive, Jones
partially pulled his Hellcat fight
er plane up, then crashed into
Carrlzo, Wash.
" A veteran of 14 years' service
with the marines, Jones was
awarded the distinguished flying
cross for his work against the
Jap3 in world war II.
His wife, Louise F. Jones, and
two daughters, Janice and Car
roll Sue, live in Santa Ana. His
parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. W.
Jonss, live at Lake Moses, Wash.
Jones was a member of marine
night fighter squadron 513 from
the El Toro marine air base
which was at the El Centro naval
air station for a week of dive
bombing practice.
i - 5- :
Refuge Found
In Mountain
Ranch Cabin
Kelso, Wash.. Dec. 16 (TIE)
Exhausted and hungry after a
five-day ordeal in the Cascade
mountains, pretty 15-year-old
Ruth Aberle was found alive
in a log cabin 10 miles south
east of Kelso today after one
of the greatest mass searches
in the history of the Pacific
northwest. .
"I wondered if anyone
would ever find me," she said.
Ruth was frightened, tired
and weak. She said she hadn't
eaten for four days. But she
had stayed in the 12 by 12
foot cabin four days while
seven hundred Longview and
Kelso townspeople, blood
hounds and national guards
men had been searching- the
bitterly-cold mountain slopes
for her.
Ruth, an attractive brunet Girt
Scout, had been lost in the snow
and rain-soaked mountains since
Sunday noon when she became
separated from three young com
panions during a Christmas tree
hunting expedition. ,
Found by Stockman
She was found today by Char
les F. Smith, a stockman, and his
son. The cabin in which Ruth had
sought shelter was on the Smith
property.
Sheriff Bud Reynolds, who re
ceived the first call from Smith at
1:18 p.m., said Ruth apparently
had walked aDout mues
most of it in a straight line"-
and had ended about seven or
eight miles from the spot where
she originally was reported miss
ing. ' "
Ruth had not eaten, but she
had plenty of water during the
four nights and five days.
When Smith first saw Ruth,
she was in a ravine near the
cabin getting water.
Ruth said she once saw a plane
circling overhead. Once she
thought she saw truck lights.
At the height of the search, a
coast guard helicopter and civil
patrol planes conducted an aerial
search over the Ostrander creek
territory, and bloodhounds and a
German shepherd dog tried to
pick up the scent on the ground.
Sheriff Reynolds dispatched an
ambulance to the Smith ranch
near the junction of Goble creek
and Coweeman creek to pick up
Ruth and return her to the Long-,
view hospital.
Able to Walk
"She was in fairly good condi
tion. In fact, she walked . the
last mile and one-half to the am
bulance," the sheriff said.
"Ruth was weak and weary,
but she had been resting in the
cabin. Smith found her while he
was out tending to his stock,"
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Railroad Strike
Still Possible
Chicago, Dec. 15 ilP Govern
ment mediation was expected to
day to follow the collapse of wage
and work -rule negotiations be
tween the nation's railroads and
two powerful unions.
Negotiations, in progress since
September 22, were broken off
yesterday between the railroads
and the Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen and Order of Railway
Conductors.
The dispute Is expected to fol
low the usual pattern under the
national railway labor act. The
first step would be an attempt
to mediate the dispute by the
national mediation board.
The unions, which decided to
press their demands jointly this
year, seek no general wage In
crease but changes in rules which
would mean more pay.
The trainmen seek time and a
half for overtime instead of the
present straight - time pay. They
also seek a 40-hour work week
for yardmen now working 48
hours.
Conductors and trainmen both
seek a reduction in the basic work
day from the present 150 miles
or 7 Mi hours to 100 miles or five
hours.
ALL ROUTES OPEN
Salem, Dec. 15 IP All Oregon
highways were reported open to
day and chains had to be used on
only a few of the higher routes,
the state highway department re
ported today.