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NEWS COVERAGE
CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
34th Year
TWO SECTIONS
BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 4, 1950
No. 24
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Bend's Mirror pond was spanned bjf ice in several places this morning, as a result of frigid weather of
ducks are shown in some open water near the McKay lawn. The.bottom picture shows a "bridge" of ice
Drake park footbridge. -
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Mystery Witness
Called to Stand
In Bridges Trial
San Francisco, Jan. 4 IIP) The
government called i t s newest
"mystery witness" a soft-voiced,
Memphis, Tenn., newspaperman
to the stand today in the Harry
Bridges perjury-conspiracy trial.
He was Lawrence S. Ross, an
admitted ex-communist, who now
edits a trade paper in Memphis.
He refused to give his home ad
dress "because of the unfortunate
things that have happened to ex
commies." Ross, 46, ; is expected to place
Bridges in the communist party
in recent years. Earlier in the
trial nine other prosecution wit
nesses have testified Bridges was
a party member throughout most
of the 1930s.
Bridges, leader of 75,000 west
coast longshoremen and ware
housemen. Is on trial because the
government alleges he lied at his
naturalization hearing when he
denied he was or had been a com
munist. Ross said hp
the communist party from 1932
until 1937 when he left it "of my
own free will because I became
convinced it was an instrument
of a foreign power."
Testified Before
The short, small-featured news-
paperman. once editor of the
fkniif WfiMilMi iibi rmnif -nil
Western Worker, communist j partment nbout its decisions on
newspaper In the 1930s, previous-1 China, he said, nor has he assum
J.V had testified before the grand ied any responsibility for them.
Jury that Indicted Bridges and! Vandenberg's position prompt
Jfr two other officers in his union 'ed some republican leaders to de
on perjury charges. iclare.that th? COP now has a
Meanwhile, In another federal 1 clear-cut foreign policy Issue
district court in the same build-' which did not open them to charg
ing where Bridges is on trial.
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Weather Chokes
Administration's Foreign
Policy Will Face Assault
By John L. Steele
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Washington, Jan. 4 IIP) Sen.
Arthur H. Vandenberg, R., Mich.,
has given his fellow republicans
a go-ahead for a full-scale assault
on the administration's policy on
China, it was disclosed today.
Sen. Robert A. Taft, R., ' O.,'
chairman of the senate GOP pol
icy committee, predicted that his
colleagues will lose no time in
airing new charges that admin
istration ' "vacillation" in China
and Formosa may lead to commu
nist control over most of Asia.
The issue came to a head yes
terday when a group of republi
can senators showed Vandenberg
a copy of a United Press Tokyo
dispatch which disclosed that a
state department document has
virtually written off China and
nationalist-held Formosa to the
communists.
These senators asked Vanden
berg if all-out republican criti
cism would embarrass him in his
role of a bi-partisan foreign pol
icy leader.
Called "Amazing"
Vandenberg termed the docu
ment "amazing" and told his col
leagues in no uncertain terms that
I he would not seek to shield the
administration from any attacks
on its China actions.
He reminded them that he has
insisted repeatedly that China
never has been included in the, pilings of the Union r'acitlc roal-bi-partisan,
non-political field of. road bridge a few miles south of
foreign policy. He seldom has j the mouth of the Snake. It broke
been consult?d by the state ae-
' es of "isolationism.
As Taft put it: '
I'm more 'In-
Mirror Pond With
."V"1!"'
if
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ternationalist' on this, than the
state department."
Sen. William F. Knowland, R.,
Cal., has sought unsuccessfully
to obtain a complete-copy of the
China-Formosa document. But
he said Undersecretary of state
James E. Webb maintains that it
must remain in a "restricted" cat
egory despite its publication by
the United Press.
The document, circulated
among diplomatic officials, said
the loss of Formosa to the com
munists is to be expected. It ad
vised U. S. diplomats to help
erase the "false impression" that
the island is of great military
value.
Democrats were non-committal
on receiving word of its con
tent. Tugs to Salvage
Pontoon Bridge
Pasco. Wash., Jan. 4 UP' Two
tugs from Umatilla, Ore., were to
anchor a 900-foot army pontoon
bridge today after Ice floes snap
ped moorings of the emergency
span and swept it down the Snake
river into the Columbia.
The bridge is Jammed against
loose at 11 a.m. yesterday about
an hour and a half after it was
closed to traffic.
The bridge replaced the orig
inal span u'llch was destroyed by
fire last fall, it connected ijasco
with state highway 410 to Walla
Walla.
Traffic, meanwhile, was being
! re-routed from Pa3co over t!ie
i Patterson ferry.
Ice
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the 'past week. In top picture,
spanning the river, below the
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March of Dimes
Campaign Plans
Nearly Complete
.Deschutes county organizations
have established the groundwork
lor tne 19tu March of Dimes cam.
paign, scheduled for Jan. 16-31,
arfr advance preparations Indicate
that the drive will be completed
speedily, according to Mrs. J. F.
Arnold, county director for the
National foundation for Infantile
Paralysis.
- Ed Eastman, chairman of the
Bend Eagles committee to raise
money for the polio, fund, will
show moving pictures tonlcht at
8 o'clock at the Redmond grange
hall, he has announced. The film
shows the working of the Na
tional foundation, and depicts ac
tual treatment of polio cases,
showing techniques for different
stages of the disease, and trac
ing progress of patients to the
road of recovery.
A delegation of Bend Eagles
will go to Redmond for the show
ing, Eastman said, adding that
all Redmond residents, and others
Interested, will be welcome to at
tend. DEKIt NOT MOVING
Prlnevllle. Jan. 4 Although
the temperature at Ochoco rang
er station 27 miles east of Prlne
vllle dropp?d -to-11 below zero
Monday night, foresters report
that expected migration of deer
from tbo higher elevations has
not, so far, been observed. If was
also retjort?d that large numbers
of quail in the district are faring
well, but that if low temperatures
and snowfall continue, the state
game commission and sportmen's
organizations will scatter feed for
the birds.
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Northwest Hit
By Snow, Cold;
No Relief Due
ENTIRE STATE HIT
Portland, Jan. 4 IP Meach
am in eastern Oregon today
had the most snow of any
point reporting to the weather
bureau here. A fresh three
Inches of snow last night
brought tile total at Meacham
to 24 inches.
The weather bureau listed
snow depths at other Oregon
points as:
Portland, three inches; Sa
lem, one; Eugene, one; Med
ford, one; The Dalles, six; Red
mond, two; Klamath Falls,
ten; Pendleton, 13; La Grande,
one; Baker, five, and Ontario,
three.
Portland, Jan. 4 UP) The north
west dug out of its stiffest now
storm of the season today, but the
weatherman predicted thai more
snow and cold would move into
the western, portions of Oregon
and Washington late today.
Today's forecast for western
Oregon and Washington calls for
warmer temperatures during the
day, near, the freezing mark, fol
lowed Dy mucn comer weamer to-
nieht. Tonight's lows In the west
ern portions of both states will
range between v& ano degrees.
A snow storm of blizzard pro
portions swept northwestern Ore
gon and soutnwestern wasning
ton for several hours last night.
Winds ranging from 20 to 35
miles an hour, with gusts up to
50 miles an hour, raked the lower
Columbia river basin and piled up
font.hiffh drifts, of snow.r
All air lines cancelleulscheduted
flights for an indeiinife period,
and interstate bus traVel lagged
as much as two hours behind
schedule.
Motorists Cautious
In Portland, police reported the
storm caused fewer serious auto
mobile accidents than usually oc
cur on clear nights. They credited
the lack of numerous accidents to
"people taking It easy and watch
ing out for the other fellow as
well as tnemseives.
Chehalis, Wash., 100 miles
nnrth of here, was without elec
trie power' during the height of
the storm,
State police in the area kept up
with developments by telephone
after the high winds and Ice
short-circuited power lines for
three hours.
In Salem, Ore., planes skidded
on runways when landing gear
brakes were applied. Landing
lights at the Seattle-Tacoma air
port were all but covered by
drifting snow.
Elsewhere in the northwest, the
cold front moved into eastern
Oregon and Washington and into
Idaho, pushing temperatures be
low zero in cities at higher eleva
tions. At Chehalis, four persons were
in the hospital today. They were
among the seven' injured yester
day In a head-on collision on an
icy highway 19 miles south of
Chehalis.
Portland police said they had to
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Railroads Cut
Service; Shortage
Of Coal Blamed
Washington, Jan. 4 mi The
government today ordered rail
roads that have less than 26 days'
supply of coal to curtail coal burn
ing passenger service by one
third. 4
The order issued by "The inter
state commerce commission be
comes effective at 11:59 p.m. local
time next Sunday, Jan. 8. It will
remain In effect for two months
unless revoked.
The ICC ordered all railroads
to make the 33V4 per cent cut
passenger service on their coal
burning trains when their sup
plies of coal dwindle to 25 days or
less.
The ICC said that soft coal pro
duction, as a result of the three-
day work week ordered by John
L. Lewis, is "insufficient to re
lieve" emergency conditions In
railroad supplies of coal.
'An emergency exists requiring
Immediate action in all sections of
the country,' the ICC said.
Passenger traffic on the affect
ed roads is to be cut to one-third
less than it was on Dec. 1.
The order was more drastic
than a similar one Issued by the
ICC In October, during the coal
strike, which required a 25 per
cent cut.
That order wag rescinded Nov.
20 when the miners returned to a
three-day week.
7wo Sfudenis
Killed When
Toboggan Hit
Corvallls, Jan. 4 ilP Two stu
dents, one the Oregon State col
lege football captain-elect, today
were dead as result of an early
morning accident when the tobog
gan on which they were riding
swerved under the wheels of an
oncoming automobile.
Stan McGuire, 22, captain-elect
of the Oregon State 1950 football
team and outstanding end, died at
7:11 a.m. today at the Corvallls
hospital. Dr. Waldo Ball, Oregon
State football team- physician,
said McGuire suffered a fractur
ed skull and other injuries.
Bill Corvallls, 20, a junior at
Oregon State, died earlier at the
hospital of a fractured skull.
Two other students, Lloyd An
derson, 25, of Oakland, Ore., and
Bud Coons, 25, of Salem, Ore.,
escaped with bruises.
Towed by Car
The men were being towed on
a Corvallis street by an automo
bile when the toboggan swerved
into the path of a car driven by
Vernon Heckert of Corvallis.
The tow car was driven by Bill
Austin, 21, of Woodburn, Ore., a
defensive tackle with the New
York Giants professional football
team this season. The athletes had
been taking turns driving the car
and riding on the toboggan.
State police listed the mishap as
an unavoidable accident. They
said all five of the Oregon State
students were trying out the
freshly fallen snow.
Corvallis and McGuire are from
Portland, Ore. Corvallls was sign
ed by the Brooklyn Dodgers last
spring and sent to tne Santa car
bara, Calif., club as a pitcher.
Anderson and Coons were ac
tive in high school sports before
entering Oregon btate college,
Austin had just returned to
school following the end of pro
fessional football play for- the'
year. "
Rayburn Reveals
Size of Budget
Washington, Jan. 4 UPi Speak
er Sam Rayburn revealed today
that President Truman's budget
for fiscal 1951 will call for gov
ernment expenditures of "a little
above $42,000,000,000."
Ravburn told a news confer
ence that Mr. Truman has cut
the budget so that it is about
$1,800,000,000 below the spending
figure for current fiscal year.
Rayburn, revealing lor tne first
time details of Mr. Truman's
budget recommendations, said the
president and his staff have
shaved $3,000,000,000 off the cur
rent years spending for defense
and foreign aid.
But, Rayburn said, about $1,
200,000,000 of this will be made
up in new domestic spending pro
posals. Spending for the current fiscal
year has been estimated at $43,
500,000,000. Tills does not quite
jibe with the figures given by
Rayburn for the cut. But he did
not attempt to explain the dis
crepancy, if any. One possible ex
planation is that the spending
figure for the present fiscal year
will run about $43,800,000,000 in
stead of $43,500,000,000.
Asked about Mr. Truman's esti
mate of revenue, Rayburn said
that would be cleared up In an
other message.
Rayburn said that, contrary to
the widely acceptable belief of
other members, It has not been
deflrtltely decided yet that the
1951 appropriations bills will be
considered in one package. Ray
burn said that may have to be
determined by a caucus of house
democrats.
The senate appropriations com-
tmlttee voted formally today to
wrap up all federal spending
measures Into one bill. It named
a subcommittee to discuss the
procedure with members of the
house appropriations comrrl'.tee.
Hagen Presides
At Jaycee Session
Bert Hagen, new president of
the Bend junior chamber of com
merce, presided at the Jaycees'
first meeting of the new year,
today noon In the Pine tavern
dining room.
Announcement was made that
a business meeting will be held
Thursday at 7:30 p.m. In the
chamber of commerce offices.
Helmer Wallan reported on the
Jaycees basketball team, to play
tonight in the city league jam
boree. After the luncheon, the club
men went to the Tower theater,
where a March of Time news
feature was shown.
Taken by Death
George Palmer Putnam is pic
tured here as he appeared
when a resident of Bend. He
died this mvmlng at Trona,
Calif., at the age of 63. Put
nam was a former Bend mayor,
and publisher of The Bulletin
in early days. . i
George P. Putnam,
Former Publisher,
Bend Mayor, Dies
tjeorge Palmer Putnam, Hi, re
tired publisher and author, form
er mayor of Bend and owner of
The Bend Bulletin in early days,
died today at the Trona, Calif.,
nospitai. -
Hospital attaches said death
came at 6:05 a.m., the United
Press reported. Putnam had been
under treatment for internal hem
orrhages and uremic poisoning.
Putnam was the former hus
band of Aviatrix Amelia Earhart.
who disappeared on a f lisht across
the Pacific ocean in the summer
of 1937., .MiSs Ealharkwas Put
nam's second ' wifp, He married
Dorothy BInney in 1911, when he
was a resident ai Bend, ineir
oldest son, David BInney Putnam,
was born here In May, 1913. A
second son, George Palmer Jr..
was born after the family left
Bend. It was after leaving this
city that Putnam was divorced
from his first wife.
Two years after Miss Earhart
was lost In the Pacific, he married
Mrs. Jean-Marie Cosigny James,
Beverly Hills socialite, Thfly were
divorced In 1944. In 1945, Put
nam married Miss Margaret I.
De Haviland, 36 . He was then
56. She was at his bedside when
he died.
Former Explorer
Putnam's home was at Lor.r
Pine, in the Dentil Valley region
of California. The ex-Bend pub
lisher won recognition as an ex
plorer. One of his last trips, in
the spring of 1949, was into an
isolated area of Utnh with Ran
dall Henderson, publisher of the
Desert magazine.
It was in 1910 that Putnam
came to Bend from New York,
where he had" been engaged In
newspaper and publicity work.
In 1910, the Hill and Harriman
systems were engaged in their
pochal struggle for rights of
way in the rugged Deschutes
gorge. In their $25,000,000 race to
Bend. Putnam found plenty of
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Bend Experiences
Light Snowfall
Winter continued its grip on
Interior Oregon today, but re
ports from the mltlstate counties
reveal that this part of the state
escaped the heavy snow that
blanketed mountain passes, parts
of western Oregon and the mid
Columbia river region. Bend's
snowfall this morning was meas
ured at one Inch, with a very
light moisture content.
The storm that broke over the
Cascades late yesterday brought
slightly warmer weather to the
Deschutes country last night,
witn a minimum of 12 recorded.
On the previous night the mer
cury slumped to -7 degrees.
Eight inches of snow fell on
the Santiam divide last night and
the roadside depth this morning
was listed as 104 inches. Heavy
snow was falling on the Ochoco
divide early today, with a nine
inch fall reported for the night.
Eight Inches of snow fell along
the higher stretches of the new
Warm Springs route. Government
camp, on the Mt. Hood route, re
ported a night fall of eight Inches
and a roadside depth of 87 Inches.
Motorists crossing mountain
passes were cautioned they must
carry chains.
Three Inches of snow fell at
Chemult last night, and Laplne
reported two Inches. To the east,
the storm blanketed the John Day
valley with six Inches of snow
in the night hours.
Big Spending
Program Set
Another Year
By Lyle C. Wilson
' (United Press Staff Correspondent)
Washington, Jan. 4 UP) Presi
dent Truman today asked con- :"
gress for more taxes to pay for a
big-spending foreign and domestic
program which practically dupli- :
cated the one he laid down last
year.
In his annual state of the union
message, the president said frank
ly that the next fiscal year will
be another period of heavy gov
ernment spending. But he prom-'
lsea to noid it to tne lowest level
consistent with our international
commitments and the national
welfare.
Mr. Truman gave no hint, how
ever, as to when the budget ac
tually would be balanced.
But in a long bright look into
the future, he forecast a half-century
of increasing national pros
perity and progress. He envisaged
a one trillion dollar national pro
duction by 2000 A.D., and a real
income of $12,000 a year or better
for the average American family.
Not Specific
Mr. Truman recommended a
moderate" increase in tax reve
nues through a nsvamping of the
present tax structure. He said he
would make specific proposals
soon in his budget message and
In a special tax message.
The best guess was that he
would recommend repeal of some
wartime excise taxes to stimulate
retail business sales and a boost
in corporate and high-income
taxes.
o-AnmMillyprl tny nrnnnanla
were thejiighllght.pf a 5,000-word
message in which the president
recommended " again Just about
the same left-of-center legislative
program he tried and for the most
part failed to get last year. -
The biggest omission from last
year's program was universal
military training. Mr. Truman
asked for extension of selective
service, but made no mention of
the controversial UMT, which he
proposed a year ago as essential
to the national security.
Appraised Optomixiic
In his optimistic appraisal of
the nation's future, the president
said the prosperity goals he set
could be realized by the year 2,000
if American productive power
continues to increase in the next
50 years at the rate achieved since
1900 and if "we follow the right
policies."
Except for this spectacular mid
century glimpse into the future,
there was little new in the presi
dent's message on the state of the
union for application to the pres
ent time.
Speaking In person before a
joint session in the house cham
ber, Mr. Truman scarcely budged
from his left-of-center program of
a year ago which he described as
a "fair dear and his opponents
have decried as socialism, "stat
Ism" and the "handout state."
Congress balked before at many
of its major provisions and Mr.
Truman's warmest supporters ad
mit privately that the legislators
will do so again at this election
year session which may be the
hottest in many a year.
He asked again for repeal of the
Taft-Hartley law, for continued
rent control, civil rights and for
an extension of selective service
authority. And he renewed re
quests for passage of the Brannan
farm program, or something life
it; expanded social security and
some form of national health in
surance. He proposed a "moderate" tax
increase, which he said he would
explain in detail later. It evidently
would be accompanied by reduc
tion in wartime sales taxes. The
proposed increases apparently
would be in taxes on corporation
end individuals In higher Income
brackets.
No Budget Balance
Mr. Truman conceded that his
program requires "large expendi
tures of funds" and was unable to
say when the budget actually
would be balanced.
But he was confident of the fu
ture: "We have mot and reversed the
first significant downturn in econ
omic activity since the war," he
said. "Government programs for
maintaining employment and pur
chasing power have been of tre
mendous benefit. As the result of
these programs, and the wisdom
and good judgment of our busi
nessmen and workers, major re
adjustments have been made
without widespread suffering."
Mr. Truman said our present
national production is at the rate
of $255,000,000,000 annually and
could bo Increased nearly four
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