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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 27, 1949)
OrtcVa lllitorlcal SosUty Nubile Auditorium P03TLAN0 1, oaEQO.'J nn BEND BULLETIN State Forecast OREGON Cloudy with rain except snow In mountains over entire section tonight and Wednesday. High 38 to 48 both days. Low tonight 28 to 38. LEASED WIRE WORLD NEWS COVERAGE CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER 34th Yoer TWO SECTIONS BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY.'DECEMBER 27, 1949 No. 18 eodl Florist sire O' HE FiVe Take Holiday Death Toll Reaches 611, Over U.S. Chicago, Deo. 27 Hit- Christmas weekend accidents killed (111 per Nona In it i'iirinij which I hi- Na tliiiuil Sufety society Hulil today should horrify tin nt I ion iin much UK till' Tl'XIIH City lllSIIHlcr I WO years ago. Tin- council warned lliul the toll would In- repealed during liii' New Year's week end unless "the people have sickened of making horror days mil of llielr hnlldayH." Truffle nccldenlH killed 420 per sons, li'l dlitt in fires, four were killed In plane crashes and 121 tiled In miscellaneous accidents, u United press Hurvey Hhowed. The highway toll fell Khort of (he safety council's predlcllon, the highest for Christmas In council history. Hull '1.15 persons woulil lie killed on the highways. However. deiilliK fniin Injuries suffered In highway nccldenlH were ipcctetl to booKI the actual loll ulxive 435. From C p.m. Friday until mill night Inst night, eiht persons died every hour, or better than otie person every iieven minutes. The dead Included 7H children. Compared to Buttle Ned II. Dearborn, safety coun cil president, said that "once again the nation finds Itself countlni! Its dead -not alter a bat tle against an enemy but lifter nn American holiday dedicated to peace on earth and Rood will to ward men." "The ucclilenl death toll for our three day celebration was eiial to the Texan City- disaster of two ycora ago, which horrified the na Hon. 1 wonder how muny of us feel the same shock anil alarm to day? . ,.,v ...... "Our holiday huve lHcomo u scries of Texas Cities." About SOU HM'suns were killed In the Texas City, Tex., disaster when nn exploslvo liiden ship blew up lit a dock. The exact toll has not lieen determined. The Christmas week-end toll wnx double Hint of the "non holi day" week-end of Nov. 4-5-6 this year, when .til) persons tiled viol ently In accidents across the na tion. During that week-end, 223 persons tiled on the highways. three In plane crashes and HT from other causes. Bad Weather Factor During Hie post week-end, Dela ware, Vermont and Montana were the only stales which did not re port any accident fatalities. Dud weather. Including cold waves, sleet and snow, Increased the death count by making high ways hazardous and causing many householders to over-stoke their furnaces, thus setting off fires. The state of Texas led the na tion in the number of accidental deaths. Seventy-four persons were killed, Including .'Mi in traf fic, 12 in fires, two In a plane crash and 2-1 in miscellaneous mishaps. New York had a total of 31 deaths, 23 In traffic, and Illinois had 29, of which 25 were on high ways. The mixture of wintry weather that struck the nation over the ' (Continued on Page 5) Americans Used by Japanese In Experiments, London, Dec. 27 U Moscow rhtllo claimed today that the trial of 12 Japanese In Siberia on germ warfare charges has disclosed that experiments were made on American war prisoners lo deter mine their Immunity to bacterio logical weapons, The Japanese are belnR tried in Khabarovsk, nVar the Manchu ria n frontier, on charges they used living prisoners as guinea pigs while developing germ war are In Manchuria during the Inst war. Western circles believe the trial Is nn nt tomtit to cloud Iho Issue of 37(1,000 Japanese war prison ers whose return has been de manded by Cien. Douglas Mac Arthur in Tokyo. A Moscow broudcast, quoting a Thsh agency dispatch from Khabarovsk, said tho confession concerning Americans wos made by Tomlo Karasawa, a major In tho Japanese medlcnl corps, Kurnsnwa was Identified ns n section chief In unit 731, which Moscow claimed was established by a secret order of Emperor HI rohlto In 1940 to study bacterio logical warfare Date Set ns 1018 "To ascertain the degree of vul nerability of the American army to different combnt Infections, members of unit 731 studied on More Than 1200 Christmas Trees Sold by BendVFW, Members of Boy Scout Troops Moro limn 1200 ChriHtrnnii trees, were Bold during the paHt two weeks to Hi'iilcniilciiti tit lots operated by tlm local Vet cnm.H of Foreign Wars, post and Boy Scout troops 21 und 27, it wan announced today by .spokesmen of the groups. Tli majority of the trees, about U00, was sold at the VFW lot on l'.oml street, Wayne Kiirikin, post committeeman on ' -tho salt.' reported. Export Subsidies Used in Dumping Farm Products WushhiRlon, Dec. 27 nil The agriculture department Is using export subsidies to dump abroad surplus tipples, ieuis, fresh oran ges, canned oiungc juice, raisins and prunes at prices lower than thost paid by II. S, consumers. At the same time, the slate department hoies lo win congres sional approval for the new Inter national trade organization char ter which, umonR other things, would ban general use of export subsidies. This Is another example of the basic conflict between the stale und agriculture departments state working for removul of re strictions and Impediments to free worltl trade and agriculture work ing to hold up prices to U. S. fanners. The conflict In the export sub sidy field Is comparable to that In tuiiffs. In tariffs, for example, the slute denimenl through the reciprocal u ntie program has low ered the butter tariff so that New enlund mid Denmark can earn, more dollars by selling us butter. Hut the agriculture department, with over 100 million pounds of domestic butler on Its hands, won't let foreign butter come in. It can control imports of fats and oils. Surpluses Problem Agriculture department offi cials admit that use of export subsidies Is inconsistent with the principles of the international trade organization charter which has President Truman's approv al. "Hut we've got all this surplus, and the only way to get a lot of It moved abroad is through ex port subsidies," said one depart ment official. lie pointed out that the ITO charter had enough loopholes to permit continuance of most of the export subsidies, with the excep tion of apples. The charter Buys a country may use export subsidies when it restricts marketing of a product. Through marketing agreements, programs arc In effect now whereby orange growers, for ex ample, can get together and with government approval hold back certain amounts of oranges from the market to keep domestic prices up. But marketing agreements can't be used on apples because Senator Harry Byrd (D., Va.), an apple grower himself, saw to it that the law would not permit such' regulation of the apple growing Industry. Reds Charge Amerlcon war prisoners the de gree of their receptivity lo differ ent Infections." Moscow quoted Kurasnwa as telling, the Russian war crimes court, Karasawa was quoted that the experiments on Amoilcuns were held In Mukden In 1043. Moscow ditl not Immediately furnish de tails on the exact nature of the alleged experiments. . "Was tho prospect of using bac teriological weapons against the United Slates envisaged?" Mos cow quoted the proaecutor as ask ing Karasawa. "This Is precisely so. It was en visaged," Karasawa was quoted as answering. Karasawa also was quoted that bacteriological bombs were set off near human guinea pigs tied to posts, but he did not specify that any of these were Ameri cans. Another defendant. Gen. Otozo Yamadn, former commander of tho Japanese Kwanlung army In Manchuria, was quoted that the germ .warfare was to bs used "first and foremost" against Rus sia and China. "Only the swift offensive of soviet troops (in Manchuria) pre vented the Kwantung army from using bacteriological weapons, Yamada was quoted, ' . I m. remain,, ti of ftlionf :UI(l trees were disposed of by members or the two scout troops lrom their lot on Franklin avenue. Supervising, thin Hale were the troops scoutmasters, Corwln Ilein and Claude Sell. Still on the hands of VKW members today were upproxl- Klort'- mately 100 "cull" trees, ranging Head was accompanied by Sam In heights of from three to seven I H. White, 31, of Portland. The ae fect, which ore to be disposed of jcitient occurred Dec. 25, at 5:55 ut the city dump. 'a.m., state officers, who Investl- Bought on Contract ) gated, reported. , , . ., . ,. . White was arrested on an In- rioiinni niuicu witu wie iin-.-i put up fur sale by the post this year were purchased under con tract from a private firm. He said that heretofore the post had cut Its own treus. Tho trees were ob tuinetl from Brooks-Scanlon Inc. timber trocts near the Three Creeks butte area west of Bend, he added. The scout troops, which cut their own trees, had only about 15 trees left over when sules closet! this past week end. Troop leatlers reported that these few remaining trees would be trim med antl the poles usetl for scout projects. Their cut was made on Swede ridge neur Skyllners play ground. The troops grossed about $200 In their sale, and .funds derived from this source will be used to help finance the organizations members at summer camp this next summer, It was explained. I Entrikln stated that the post grossed about $700 on its sale, and would use the money for vnri ous relief projects conducted by tne organization. Transit Strike Ended by Court Cleveland, O., Dec. 27 (til Five thousand striking transit workers totlay agreed to obey a court or der ending their six-day walkout. The workers, members of the AFL Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway und Mo tor Coach Employes, voted at a mass meeting to return to work Immediately. Bus and streetcar service was to be resumed as quickly as the men could reach their car barns from the union meeting. Union President Thomas Mea ney toltl 3.000 union men at the meeting that if you have confi dence in your union you will take our advice and return to work to day." The members then voted to end the crippling six-day walkout. Transit system officials said limited service would be resumed at once but that full schedules will not be arranged for totlay to minimize the traffic congestion expected during the evening rush hour. CTS general manager Donald Hyde saitl he was "pleased" with the workers decision and added that he hoped "the people of Cleveland will bear no strong grudge against our employes be cause the strike vote represented only a small minority." Rain Welcome In New York New York, Dec. 27 till Rainfall during the past 24 hours added some lour days supply of wa ter to the city's reserve, officials estimated today and Commission er Stephen J. Carney said there would be no more water holidays until after the new year. Carney cautioned New York ers, however, to continue to save water and suggested they add that to their list of New Year's resolutions. Rainfall for the 24-hour period ending at 8. a.m. today added an cstlmutcd runoff of 3,910,000,000 gallons to the supply on hand, Carney said. Storage In reservoirs stood at 34.8 per cent of capacity, or about 98,056,000,000 gallons. . A, year ago the supply In re serve was 121,535,000,000 gallons, or 48 per cent of capacity, City and state officials sched uled a meeting at 2 p.m. today to discuss the feasibility of tapping the Hudson river and other sourc es of emergency supply. Crook County Crash Claims Life of Man Central Oregon added one truf fle fatality to the nation's holiday toll of automobile fatalities when Simon Head, about 30, a resident of I.lnnton, neur Portland wus In stantly killed on the Ochoco high- tuitu t-lii-li:( mnu m,i,-nlni7 'I'hn fa. tallty occurred when a cur report edly operated by the I.lnnton man crashed Into the bridge across the Dry river gorge, a short dls tunee west of the Powell Uutte toxicatlun charge and lodged in the Crook county jail. White said Head was driving the car. The dead man was a Minnesota Indiun, as is White, officers re ported. They had been working in central Oregon. White was not seriously injured In the crash. The car was demolished. The Christmas morning crash was the only major accident re ported In central Oregon over the holidays. However, there were a number of minor accidents, due to slick streets and roads. OUKCiON TOl.I. 10 Illy Unllnl Prnm) Oregon's Christmas holiday ac cident death toll stood at 10 toduy with the possibility that three more might be added. A private plune disappeared Saturday en route to Ontario, Oie., from Spokane, Wash., with Sgt. Frank Eaton of Spokane, his wife and his son aboard. SU persons died In Oregon traf fic accidents during the three-day holiday, three of burns, and one woman died in her home after falling down a flight of stairs. Mrs. Frances E. Brown. 54, was fatally injured Sunday when she fell tlown her basement stairs. I. R. Pickett, 70, died from burns following an explosion in his Bend, Ore., home. Beverly and Richard Ogden, 6 and 2 years old. died In a Christmas eve fire in Portland when flames enveloped their home. 6 Traffic Fatalities Two women and four men died in traffic accidents in Oregon. Mrs. Berniee Hansen of Port land died Saturday night after a two-car collision near Gales creek. John P. Huff of Bonneville, Ore was killed the same night in a truck-car smashup on the Colum bia river highway near Dodson. Mrs. Nancy Werner of Oswego, Ore., was fatally Injured In a two car wreck In Portland. Daniel Aaron Lake of Portland died when his auto hit a freight train on the Willamette river front. John Roger Smith of Greshami Ore., was killed when his car struck a parked bus near Gresh am. Simon Head, 44, Linnton. Ore., was killed when the car in which he was riding swerved off the Ochoco highway and struck a bridge seven and one-half miles west of Redmond. Death Penalty Given Murderer Fresno, Calif., Dec. 27 HP) Paul Gutierrez, 25-year-old farm labor er whose partial confession con victcd him of the fiendish rape- slaying of 17-months-old Jose phine Yanez. today was sentenced to die in the state gas chamber as payment for his crime. "As punishment for tile crime of murder the court sentences you to the extreme penalty at a time prescribed by law, superior court Judge Arthur C. Shepard told Gutierrez who stood with bowed head, hands clasped tight ly behind him. Pronouncement of Gutierrez's fate brought shrieks of hysterical sobbing and entreaties from his 72-ycar-old mother who, with her three daughters, fell to their knees and in Spanish implored the court for mercy. Throughout a two day trial last week, the chunky cotton picker clung desperately to his story of a "whisky and marijuana black out," but Judge Shepard found him guilty of murder in the first degree and ruled that he was sane at the time of the slaying. The Infant was abducted from her. parents cr, PmWiu uem a dance hall at Huron, 40 miles southwest of here Nov. 19 and carried across a soggy field where she was criminally attack ed and left to die. Bend Man ra.i4i !. ?r i mi I, It I n i ' ' i-O I i 1 . , ilk. A Bend resident, I. R. Pickett, lost at tio4 Penn. Charred walls of the State Contract For Bonneville Power Uncertain Salem. Dec. 27 miThe state of' Oregon would have tto make an estimated investment xf $200, 000 for power lines before it could enter into a contract to buy elec tricity directly from the Bonne ville power administration, the state board of control was ad vised today. Charles Dunn. Portland district manager of the BPA, told the board at its regular meeting to day that no such contract could be entered into until congress made an appropriation for the necessary lines. Dunn stressed that his office had not had time to make a com plete study, so his figures were not accurate. He recommended that if the board is interested in getting Bonneville power di rect, the state should engage a consulting engineer to make a cost estimate. Dunn estimated it would take two or three years to build the Bonneville lines and sub-station needed in Salem. He added that until McNary and Hungry Horse dams are completed, the state could be given only an interrupt ion contract, the same type which the state now carries with Portland General Electric Co. and which has 18 months more to go, Cooperative Interested J. A. Frisbie of the Salem Gen eral Electric co-op told the board that the cooperative desired to enter bids to furnish the state with power when the present con tract with PGE expires. BPA representatives estimated the state could save some $2,000 a year net after allowing for amortization of the capital out lay. The board took no action In the matter at today's meeting. The board granted a request by bamuei L. Miller, land assist ant of the state board of forestry, lor approval ol appraisals on some 3,000 acres of land the board .wants to buy from private owners for reforestation pur poses. Of the total, 2,160 acres are in Clatsop county and the re mainder is made up of scattered small tracts. The board approved a request of Dr. Donald Wair. superintend ent of Eastern Oregon State hos pital, that plans be prepared at once for another addition to the nurses' home at the Pendleton Institution, to accommodate 24 employes. It was estimated that the addition would cost about $115,000. BODY FOUND IN BAY Miami, Fla Dec. 27 tU'i A laundry mark, a blouse label and fingerprints were the only clues police had today in the death of the blonde In Biscayne bay. Her body, clad in expensive yachting garb, was found float lug In the bay yesterday. She had apparently been slain by a blow on the head. Her age was esti mated at 45 or 50. rier eyes were blacked, and an autopsy showed she died of a brain hemorrhage. There was no water in her lungs, as there would have been If she had drowned. Loses Life in Christmas Fire his life Christmas evening when fire swept through his residence building are pictured here. Neighbors said the residence burst into flames following an explosion. Winter Sports To Many Here, Winter sports, ranging; from in the high Cascades, attracted hundreds of persons over Christmas week end, despite ice-meltine weather in the lower ped over the Cascade divide Monday, but despite blowing snow and low visibility, scores joined in skiing at Hoodoo bowl and in winter sports at the Deifth of roadside snow in the Santim divide-country this morning was 72 inches, deepest reported from any of the Cascade passes. At Gov ernment Camp, on the Alt. Hood route; the snow was 50 inches deep at roadside this morning. Roads Sanded Mountain highways were snow packed this morning, but were re ported well sanded. Spots of ice were repored from some midstate roads early in the day. Bend's skating rink, known lo cally as Symons rink, remained in general use over the holidays and attracted skaters from all parts of central Oregon. With schools in recess for the holidays. skaters were again on the rink early today. Wayne Hamilton, Bend director of recreation, reported that the surface of the rink is holding up much better than expected, de spite daytime temperatures that have been reaching above the 40 degree mark. The fine ice surface Bend skat ers enjoyed over the holidays was largely due to the efforts of John Lucas, Bill McCoy and Roy Johnson, Myron H. Symons, who is assisting in the maintenance of the rink in an advisory ca pacity reported today. Lucas and McCoy have been reporting at the rink each night at 10:30 and have assisted with sprinkling work until 6 a. m. Johnson han dles the city sweeper used in preparing the surface. Yugoslavia Gets World Bank Loan Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Dec. 27 dpi Yugoslavia announced today that the world bank has agreed in principle to lend the country another so.uuo.uoo. This would be in addition to the $2,700,000 already granted Yugoslavia by the bank, to de velop the Yugoslav timber indus try. Vice premier and foreign minister tduard Karneli mention cd the agreement for the new loan while reviewing for parlia ment financial aid received by Yugoslavia during the last year. The new loan would be used for further capital construction, he said. CHRISTMAS BIRTHS Mr. Stork shared honors with Santa Claus Sunday, according to attendants at St. Charles hos pital, who reported two Christ mas day births. . A girl, not yet named, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Koop man, Redmond. The baby weighed 7 pounds 1 ounce. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Bryson, Route 1, Prlnevllle, are parents of a 6 pound boy, born Christ mas day. The baby has been named Danny Harold. Attractive Over Holiday ice skating in Bend to skunz a storm in the mountains and areas. A near-blizzard whip Santiam lodge. Christmas Eve Robbery of Bend Home Investigated The home of Calvin Charmon, 2557 East 2nd, Christmas night was robbed of a qantity of food stuffs, watches and a ring, it was reported today to Claude L. MeCauley, Deschutes county sheriff. Charmon stated that someone had broken into his home early Sunday evening and had taken a ham, a beefsteak, a jar of may onnaise, five ducks which he had shot the previous day; two wrist watches and a topaz ring. Me estimated the value of the ring and watches at S20 apiece. Charmon added that the thief or thieves had overlooked a dia mond ring. STILL ON DISPLAY Jim Lanzarotta announced to day that the Christmas village scene at the Bend Venetian Blind Co. plant, 538 Glenwood drive, would remain in place for the next two weeks. The yule scene. annually set up by Lanzarotta for his children, has ' attracted wide attention. Prof. Einstein Theory; May Explain Life By Paul F. Ellis (United Presa Science Editor) New York, Dec. 27 u?) Prof. Albert Einstein today offered scientists the world over a new cosmic theory, that, once it is solved and understood, may set tnem on the solution of the mys tery of life. The new "generalized theory of gravitation" was evolved bv the 70-year-old Einstein during 30 years of study. He has put to gether a theory several times in recent years, but in each case discarded it himself, having found it to be in error. The newest theory, made pub lic at a press conference during the annual meeting of the Ameri can Association for the Advance ment of Science, attempts in one series of equations to set forth the laws governing two funda mental forces of the universe gravitation and electro magnet ism. Those two forces, scientists agree, produce virtually all the phenomena of nature, but there has been no single formula that explains their relationship and wnat is Denind their functions. Forces Differ For instance, any school child knows that when something is dropped the object falls to the ground or lowest level because of gravity. And knows, also, that a magnet attracts metal. Scien tists point out that these are two different forces of nature and that for years an overall formula Gasoline May Have Caused Heavy Blast A blast presumably caused by the explosion of gasoline fumes or an oil furnace Christmas eve ning at 7:40 fatally injured Ivan R.. Pickett, 72, and destroyed the Pickett home, at 644 Penn avenue, in Bend. Pickett, a florist in this city, ran from the flaming house following the window-shattering blast, and fell near the edge of the lawn. Death followed in a few minutes, neighbors indicated. The florist was horribly burned by the blast and his clothing was in flames. Members of the family said Mrs. Pickett had left the house a short time before the blast, In tending to drive over town to her flower shop, Freida's Flowers. Shocked by the tragedy, Mrs. Pickett this morning was able to give only an incoherent story of the blast. Details of the tragedy that are still lacking are expected to be brought out at a coroner's inquiry. Container Found A 5-gallon gasoline container, of the type used by the army, is believed to have played some part in the explosion. It was ascertain ed that a short time before the fire Pickett had filled the con tainer with gasoline at an east side service station, and had - taken it home in his car. Following the fire, the charred container was found in the living room of the fire-blackened house. However, it- had not been torn by an explosion, of force sufficient to break out windows as the fire started. There is a possibility that the gasoline container . might ,haie.;, been inadvertently knocked over and spilled through vents to the oil furnace in the basement. It was explained. The furnace, like the gasoline can, had apparently not been torn by a blast Seen by Neighbors Mr. and Mrs. Lester Stewart, who live just across Penn avenue from the Pickett property, said the neighborhood was shaken by the blast. When they looked from their window they saw Pickett run from the flaming building, then fall to the lawn. Stewart said he ran across the street with a blanker. . Within seconds following the blast, the frame building was a mass of flames. An icy cold wind whipped the . flames toward the nearby Paul F. Bonn residence, but that building was not damaged. Through a con fusion in receiving the fire call, . members of the fire department house crew first drove the pump er to 644 East 10th. The depart ment truck went directly to the fire, and was soon joined by the pumper. Water was pumped on the flames for nearly an hour. In Bend today, it was evidently believed by many that the fire was at the Pickett Gardens, on nearby Quimby street. The Pick ett Gardens on Quimby was pur (Continued on Page 5) Offers New was needed to explain just what the forces are and the part they play in the physical world. , It was just such a simple for mula that Einstein offered in 1905 that eventually led to the atomic bomb. In that year he first pub- usnea nis special theory of rela tivity that showed that the amount of energy in a mass could be determined by multiplying the amount of tne mass by the veloc ity of light squared. lhe newest Einstein theory, offering a "unified formula" for gravitation and electro - magnet ism, contains 29 symbols which must be written in long hand. No Comment Scientists attending the AAAS meeting, which runs through this week, had no comment on the new Einstein theory for two rea sons: (1) It has not yet been pub lished in full; and (2) they will need to study It thoroughly be fore they can understand it. Off-record comments indicated that If Einstein has a correct formula then science In time will unlock many hidden secrets of the forces of nature. Scientists already know that the atom is composed of particles known as neutrons, protons and electrons, but the two fundamental forces gravitation and electro-magnetismare still in unexplored re gions. Once Einstein's new theory Is understood and can be put to work, the scientists believe the mystery of the universe and of U1K AlIVIA IliajT W 0Vr-w.
