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Untv.iof Oregoir Library eugess, oascaa THE BEND ' BULLETIN State Forecast Oregon Cloudy Saturday and Sunday with occasional snow, except rain in valleys. High both days 35-45. Low 20-30. LEASED WIRE WORLD NEWS COVERAGE CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER 34th Year BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON. SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1950 No. 27 Fire Flashes Through Hospital; Killing 31 4 Block Area To Be Sought . For Capitol Salem, Jan. 7 iUnThe Salem planning and zoning commission today moved to set the stage for state purchase of four more city blocks north of the expanding capitol group.' The commission, meeting here Friday night, recommended to the city council that straight resi dential zoning be made for the , f four blocks lying between Capi tol, Union, Winter and Center streets. " . The restrictive zoning would prohibit apartment and business developments in the area, which would make the property more expensive for future purchase by the state. The commission will ask new property owners who have an nounced plans for a seven-story apartment house in the heart of the affected four-block area to withdraw the project and con sider a site outside the capitol area. At Bend, Robert W. Sawyer, publisher, and chairman of the state capitol planning commis sion, said a telephone poll of other members of the commis sion showed they favor purchase of the four -block area by the state to provide for eventual con struction of more state office buildings here. Sawyer said: "Meanwhile, this property should be used for off street parking, which is needed in the statehouse area." Sawyer said that a definite state policy for immediate acqui- isition of the property in question would back up . the. commission's long-range plan for capitol group development and "not keep prop erty owners on the hook." Building Near Completion A state public service building is nearing completion just north of the statehouse and east across a quadrangle from the state li brary. And construction has just started on a new highway de partment building north ol tne new public service building. Sawyer said new recommenda tions will be officially drafted at a commission meeting in Salem Monday, for submission to the state board of control and eventu ally to the state legislature. Unless the board of control should ask the emergency board for funds to buy the property, the matter would have to go before the 1951 legislature. Sawyer said: "It is doubtful that the emer gency board would have funds enough to go into the project tins year." The capitol planning commis sion was authorized by the 1949 legislature and its members ap pointed by Gov. Douglas McKay. Seal Sale Total Reaches Mrs. Ralph Fredericksen, exec utive secretary of the Deschutes County Tuberculosis and Health association, announced today that receipts from the 1949 Christmas seal sale totals approximately $3300 so far. Contributions may still be made, Mrs. Fredericksen said, urging those who have not sent their donations to do so with out delav. Officers of the association were to meet this afternoon in the as sociation's office with Dr. Eliza beth Bishop, medical director of tne tn-countv health department to make preliminary plans for the annual chest X-ray survey, to be held in the spring. The survey Is held each year under joint spon sorship of the tuberculosis asso ciation, the state medical society and the state board of health, as a means of locating hidden cases of tuberculosis. Mrs. Willard Higgins, president of the county association, was to conduct the meeting. 2 Air Force Men Listed Missing Eglin Air Force Base. Fla.. Jan. 7 itPiThe search for two missing crewmen of an air force B-50 Bomber was resumed today, but n ne others were safe after the Plane plunged Into a Gulf of Mexico bay. The survivors reported that the plane developed engine trouble Just after taking off from the Eglin base, and had to "ditch" into Choctawatchee bav. The plane sank almost Immediately, into 25 feet of water. China Airlift . 1 "--'-' '- '---r Hani. J H. L. "Howie" Buller, ex-Stanford trackman, is getting his feet back on the good old earth In central. Oregon these days, following service flying the airlift for the Chinese natidnalists, in their at- j tempt to halt the communists. At left, Captain Buller is pictured in his pilot uniform, 'whil& in China. At right he is shown at his Deschutes ranch, north of Bend. Pilot Who Flew China Airlift Now Central Oregon Rancher Situation in Orient of Great Interest to Aviator With Over 10,000 Hours to Credit Watching the rapidly-changing Chinese picture and the sweep of communist armies Formosa with more than casual interest is a central Oregon rancher H. L.-"Howie" Buller, new owner of the former Kay and Faye property near ago, he was flying the Chinese against communism. This past summer, he was Gets Deep Snow Spokane, Wash., Jan. 7 UP) i Most of the Inland empire today was buried under the heaviest snowfall of the winter and snow continued to fall despite a rise in temperature. . Reports received here showed that most roads were open in east ern Washington and northern Ida ho. However, the main north-south highway in Idaho was still sealed by drifting snow in the Grange ville area, the highway depart ment reported. The Washington state patrol re ported the Colfax-Palouse high way was blocked by snow but was expected to be opened soon. The weather bureau here re ported the city's snowfall of 14.3 inches since 4 a.m. yesterday was a new record for any previous single storm. City Under Snow Snow was piled three to four feet high in the middle of down town streets here after snow plows had cleared lanes for traf fic during the nieht. Most Spokane county schools were closed yesterday by drift ing snow. Schools where students didn't depend on buses were open. County superintendent Clifton Hussey reported. The weather bureau here pre dicted rising temperatures as hlgh,as 35 today. But it expected the snow to continue falling. Skyliner Drive Leaders Named Dick Rasmussen and Henry Herbring were named co-chairmen for the Bend Skyllncrs' membership drive, at a meeting of the group Wednesday evening, when plans were also made for the final field day at the play ground area west of Bend. Sunday, Jan. 8, winter sports enthusiasts are being asked to meet at the playground to assist In putting the ski tow into oper ation. Only a small amount of work remains to be done, officers said, and the tow will be usable when another pole Is set, a gov- ernor is installed on the motor, and pulleys and a rope ?re In - stalled. Officers are seeking a tobog - ean. to use to transport tow equipment up the hill. Anyone who has one that could be bor rowed was asked to get in touch with an officer of the group. COLD WEATHER FORECAST Portland, Jan. 7HW The weather bureau said today that freezing weather will pay a re turn visit to the- Pacific north west overnight. Aviator Now Midstate Rancher toward southeastern China and Deschutes. Until a few months air lift, in a dramatic fight forced to bring his wife and two daughters, Jane and Carol, back to the United States. American authorities said Mrs. Buller and the two little girls." should be -returned " to America and safety. A Bulletin reporter interviewed the airman this week under snow- laden junipers on the Deschutes ranch. Buller was more willing to talk about his plans for the de velopment of the pioneer ranch than his experiences in China, but he was willing to answer ques tions, yes, lie agreed, the situa tion in China looks bad. Formosa, island nation developed 4nto a showland by the Japs, should be tne spot ior tne last stand ol democracy in the Chinese orient, but even that island may go to the communists without a fight. Yanks Called "Upstarts" Why are the Chinese driving Americans from the mainland? The Chinese, Captain Buller said, look on the United States as an upstart nation, and they point to their own heritage of thousands of years of civilization. But now chaos reigns in China, the ex airman added. "Six dollars, Amer ican money, seventy-two million Chinese dollars," he said, adding: "The situation over there defies understanding." Fifty young Americans kept the Chinese airlift in operation this past year or more. One of them was Captain Buller, who served with the Chinese National Aviation corporation. The airlift carried supplies to the nationalist forces. But not even this daring aid could bring sufficient strength to the nationalists in their effort to check the onward rush of the communists. Captain Buller has many mem ories of his service in north China, and in his memory book he has a letter of commendation from John Koval, U.S. diplomatic courier, which indicates that air lift pilots had their troubles. That letter ol commenuation told oi tne manner Captain Buller brought a disabled plane to a safe landing at Cheng-tu. Koval wrote the let ter with full understanding. He was a passenger aboard the dis abled plane. But for Captain Buller, ex (Continued on Page 5) Hydrogen By 'loseph L, Mylcr (United 1'reM Suff Correspondent) Washington, Jan. 7 Mi In formed but unofficial sources be- I lieved today that this country 1 already has launched efforts to create a super bomb out of the ' same stuff that fires the sun and stars. Up to a few weeks ago, pri vate scientists here figured that the so-called hydrogen bomb was purely a paper concept. They now believe that the U. S. atomic energy commission has set up a project to go Into the practical aspects, These sources also believe that enough progress has been made in the Iheoretical phase of hydro - Iced Highway Stalls Traffic The Mt. Hood highway west of Government Camp was reported virtually impassable early this af ternoon, result of a silver thaw: Telephone calls received here from Portland revealed that mo torists attempting to cross the divide to central Oregon were turning back, because of the icy conditions. Heavy snow was falling in the Mt." Hood area earlier In the day. -whpn hiphwnv prpwa mafl,i thoir report That - report said -condU tions were getting worse. Motor ists were told that chains were required. From the Warm Springs area came reports of heavy snow. Light snow was reported from the hantiam divide this morning, with four inches of new snow measured. Motorists were advised to carry chains. Light snow fell in Bend this morning, following a windy night. Torrential rains fell In parts of the northern Willamette valley country last night. A silver thaw was reported at The Dalles. Rains and strong winds lashed Astoria. Salem reported its 24 hour pre cipitation as 2.34 inches. Blackout Affects Central Oregon The Dalles, Jan. 7 (IP) A port able transformer at the Bonne ville substation burned last night, blacking out a large portion of north-central Oregon for 30 min utes. Service was cut to the Hood river Peoples Utility district. Wasco Electric co-op, north Was co PUD and the Klickitat PUD. Cause of the fire was not known, but a Bonneville spokes man said a defect in the $40,00(1 transformer may have started the fire. Power outage In thlsarea last night as a result of the Bonne ville plant trouble lasted only about 7 minutes. Prlnevllle, Red mond and the west side feeder in Bend were affected. The trou ble developed shortly after 5 p. m. BOGAUKT KITES HELD Funeral services were held this morning from St. Francis Catho lic church for Gus Boeaurt. 73. who died Tuesday following an illness. He came to Bend several : months ago from Burns. Rev. Vincent Kerwick officiated at the rites. Pallbearers were Jo seph F. Burlch, Marlon Cady, James Arbow and Joe O'Leary. Burial was in Pilot Butte cemetery. Bomb Believed Qoal of U. S. gen bomb research to Justify pushing into the technical phnse. When and whether the techni cians will succeed, no one knows If they do, they will have ample supplies of raw material with which to work. Uranium, raw -material of the A-bombs now being made, Is one of the scarcest of elements. But hydrogen Is the most plentiful material in the universe. Disclosures of recent weeks In - dlcate that atomic scientists have I ngured out a way of tapping hy- drogen's vast store of nuclear energy. But reports that a new multl million-dollar project was being 1 considered for tranlatlng this Chiang Digs In For Last Stand On Formosa Taipeh, Formosa, Jan. 7 uw China's nationalist government, which three years ago ruled some 3,500,000 square miles of Asia, is digging in for a last stand against the Chinese communists on the 14,000 square mile island of For mosa. Strictly speaking, Formosa isn't even a Chinese Island and hasn't been for 55. years. China ceded lt to Japan in 1895 as part of the settlement of the Sino-Japanese war. Its return to China will not be completed formally until a Jap anese peace treaty is signed. But Generalissimo Chiang Kai S h e k and his nationalist col leagues have chosen the island in the China sea for their final redoubt. Chiang has set up head quarters on the slopes of "Grass mountain" and the nationalist government has taken over Tai peh, the Formosan capital. Pawn of Powers Formosa long has been a pawn of the great powers. The Spanish were the first invaders. They landed in the 1600's and found it populated only by aboriginal tribes resembling the Chinese. The butch drove out the Span ish and in 1683 the Chinese in turn ousted the Dutch. Chinese rule lasted 212 years, and then the Japanese moved in. During their 50-year rule, the Japanese converted the Island into one of their empire's most covet redtpossessions. They built modern buildings, railways, Highways, communications, Irrigation proj ects and factories. Thev kept the native farmers and workers busy, if not happy. After the Chinese moved in with Japan's surrender in 1945, the island's agriculture and in dustry deteriorated. The inhabi tants of Formosa showed resent ment over the change, and an in dependence movement started on a small scale. Now Prisoner The first nationalist governor, Chen Yi, used firing squads to put down uprisings. He is now a political prisoner of Chiang. The next governor, Wei Tao Ming, restored order and won back some respect for the nation alists. Chen Cheng, his successor, continued Wei's policy. He ruled with a firm hand, brought about land reforms and rent reductions, and kept nationalist soldiers un der strict control. Formosans are basically Chi nese racially. They speak Fukle nese and Japanese. The national ists tried to suppress Japanese when they returned to the island In 1945, but it is still spoken In the home. Customs are mostly Japanese. So are the houses, with sliding windows and doors. When For mosans enter their homes, they remove their shoes at the door and don straw stlppers, Japanese style. Tompkins Second In Grange Voting Portland, Jan. 7 U Prelimi nary returns from the Oregon stale grange election today gave Incumbent Morton Tompkins and Elmer McClure, Milwaukie, a lead in the race for the office of grange master. The two top candidates will appear on the grange ballot In April for a run off election. Tomp kins was seeking his fifth two year term. McClure reportedly was lead ing both Tompkins and Victor Boehl, Grants Pass, In the total vote count from the primary. sclentflc theory Into technical fact drew a curt no comment from President Truman at his news conference Thursday. Chairman Brion McMahon, D., Conn., of the senate house atomic energy committee was similarly uncommunicative. Th3 atomic commission said "No comment." But a source who ought to know what Is going on automat ically discounted reports that the 1 United Stntn is nhnut in commit i S2.000.000.000 to $3,000,000,000 to super bomb development Instead, hydrogen bomb re search will be continued within the existing atomic project. The time Is not yet here, It was in ! dlcated, when vast expenditures Patrolman Tells of Rescue Of Patients From Hospital Elderly People Led Down Ladder in Bitterly Cold Weather; Window Anchor Bolts Chopped By Patrolman Richard Fee (As l.il.l lu Unlti-il Press) Davenport, la., Jan. 7 (U.R) I was one of the first to reach the hospital when we got the alarm. s Flames were shooting out of the windows on the second and third floors and I could see more fire on the roof of the building. As the firemen put a ladder climbed to the top of one of bolts holding the bars across Basic Work For Census Underway From her new headquarters in the old Reid school, Mrs. Gert rude M. Arnold, bureua of census supervisor for district 3 in the state, this week continued work preparatory to the taking of the 1950 decennial population and agriculture census April 1. This past week Mrs. Arnold moved from her office in the O'Kane building to the new loca tion on the third floor of the old Reld school building. The move to ths larger quarters in the school was made possible through the efforts of the Bend chamber of commerce, the local state em ployment service office, and the tsena pumic scnool district. Biggest job on hand this week was the screening of applicants ior tne 1J4 positions which are to be filled in the district. Scores of persons applied for the enumerator posts this week through the local state employ ment service which Is cooperating in the .screening of applicants. Mrs.i Arnold said that crew leaders and enumerators are to be hired from the respective counties in which they are to work. Other counties Included In the district are: Harney, Klamath, Lake, Malheur and Crook. Senate Leaders Ask Coal Action Washington, Jan. 7 Ui Presi dent Truman received without comment today his senate lead er's demand for Immediate ad ministration action in the coal situation. Presidential assistant John R. Steelman told Mr. Truman of the request by Sen. Scott W. Lucas, D., III., for action to get the coal miners back on a five-day week. A White House spokesman said Mr. Truman and Steelman met only briefly and there was no meeting scheduled for later In the day to give the matter further consideration. No Comment He said there Is no White House comment at this time, and the spokesman indicated that he anti cipated no further development during the day. Lucas, who mot yesterday with Steelman, Is one of our m 1 d western congressmen who have demanded White House action to relieve coal shortages. FUNERAL SERVICES HELD Funeral services for the Infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charl?s E. Hawkins were held this morn ing at 11 o'clock from the Nis-wonger-Winslow chapel, with Rev. D. W. Phillips officiating. Burial was in Greenwood ceme tery. The baby was born yester day and lived only a short time. LEAVES FOR STATES Manila, Philippines, Jan. 7 Ui Presldcnt Elpldio Quirlno left Manila for the United States to ony. are called for. There was a sug gestion that the new bomb may actually cost less to develop than the uranlum-plutonlum bombs. Creation of the hydrogen bomb would mean a reversal of the nu clear process now used in A bombs. Instead of splitting the heaviest atoms, man would com bine the lightest ones. He would use a different trig ger, too. The neutral sub-atomic particles called neutrons are what makes nuclear fission bombs pos sible. Heat would trigger the hydrogen reaction. But it would have to be a heat never heard of on earth until the uranium bomb came along heat In the millions of degrees. up, I grabbed an axe and them. I chopped at the anchor one of the windows. I thought those bars never would give way. Finally the bars dropped to the ground and I smashed the pane with the helve of the axe. I saw a sight I guess I never will forget. Silhouetted against the flames were a group of patients. They weren t screaming and uidn t seem excited much, lhey just looked bewildered. Sort of like animals who had something new happening to them and didn't know just what to do. Patients Docile The flames were all around them by then. But thank God, they were docile and followed my orders willingly. I climbed in and took several by the hands and led them to the window. Firemen and other officers helped them down the ladder while I went as far as possible Into the building to get more. Altogether, I guess I found about a half dozen patients and got them out that window. 1 uidn t have time to keep count. Those flames were hot. I could feel them searing my uniform and my skin as I ducked among them. I was a little afraid the floors might give way but didn't have much chanee (to think about it.:,. .. : . ' J:- ;v,-' . Weather Cold Most of the palients I saw were older people. We managed to throw blankets around some of them, but for most the weather was so cold that they were going from one hell to another as they got out of the building. .When they got outside, they just stood around and looked at each other, sort of unbelieving as though1 they just couldn't un derstand that anything like this could happen to them. There was very little scream ing In the part of the building where I was but I could hear ter rible yells from other parts of the building. Lava Bear 'Dope Book Compiled A new booklet titled. "Lava Bears Dope Sheet," and contain ing Information for press and ra dio about the Bruin hoop squad, toduy was released by Bend high school officials. Editors of the publication, which was compiled undor the di rection of Coach Roger Wiley and Dean W. Tate, school jour nalism instructor, are students Larry Piitchett and Larry Car roll. The publication, the first of Its type to be released from the school, giv?s biographical sketch es on Wiley, Cub conch John Ja cobs, and the Lava Bear varsity players. Also contained in the booklet Is a brief history on the Bend high school gymnasium. Will Distribute Hook Distribution of the booklet to all schools which compete with the Boars Is plann?d, according to Wiley. Hi' said today that he hopes the journalism classes at the school will make an annual proj ect of compiling press and radio dope books on all athletic activi ties of the institution. Scientists The nuclear process ued by the sun operates at 20,000,000 de grees. Man can get such temper atuies only by exploding uran ium or Plutonium. Presumably that is how he will try to trigger a nytnogen chain reaction. Sen. Edwin C. Johnson. D. Colo., and others have spoken of tne super bomb as being poten tially 1,000 times more powerful than uranlum-plutonlum bombs. A simple calculation says such a bomb would devastate about 100 times more territory than was blasted by the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs. That would be In the neighborhood of 300 square miles. Aged Building Tragedy Scene At Davenport By Robert Bonoml (United Press Staff Correspondent) Davenport, la., Jan. 7 Fire flashed through the women's mental building at Mercy hospi tal before dawn today and at least 31 women, many of them behind steel-barred windows, perished In the flames. Coroner C. H. Wildman said nine women still were missing and that the final death count probably would be 37. Firemen, nurses and attendants rescued 31. Ten hours after the fire had converted the three-story, 81-year-old structure into a raging death trap, firemen still searched the smouldering ruins for charred bodies, rv. Only One Identified Of the bodies recovered only four had been identified. Many were burned beyond recognition. The building Itself, a frame structure which had been rein forced with outer walls of brick. was a total loss. Firemen tore down three of its tottering walls as a precaution. Fire chief Lester Schick said the lack of a sprinkler system, recommended two years ago by the fire department, contributed to the blow-torch speed with which the flames raced through the building. The first alarm was turned In at 2:07 a.m., but firemen had to race two miles to reach the ven erable Catholic institution, situ ated on a hilltop outside the city limits. .. .. . , Ouid.-d io Safety '' Before they could arrive nurses and attendants, spurred by the agonized screams of trapped pa tients, rushed into the flaming building and guided many to safe ty. A nurse's aide, Mrs. Anna Neal, gave her life trying to save her patients. Patrolman Richard Fee climbed a ladder, wrested iron bars from a window and rescued a group of patients surrounded by flames and "huddled together like be wildered animals." James Stablein, 19, Moline, 111., committed to the hospital for ob servation, told of prying loose bars from his window with an axe passed up by a fireman. Screams Are Heard Lt. Albert Koranda, in charge of the first fire company to reach the scene, said the screams of pa tients above the sound of crack ling flames chilled even the blood of seasoned firemen in the pre dawn darkness. r Koranda said flames were bursting from first and second floor windows. Cause of the fire had not been determined, but Fire chief Schick said lt surged upward through the building through an open stairway and an elevator shaft. Koranda said rescue attempts were hampered by lack of water pressure, and were slowed by tne barred and locked windows. "It was just plain hell," he said. . "It burned like paper." Pine Mountain Stumpage Sold A minimum bid of $21.20 for pine on a 7,000-acre tract In the Pine mountain area of the Des chutes national forest, submitted by Brooks Scanlon, Inc., was the only proposal received when the stumpage was placed on sale at an auction here yesterday after noon. The auction was in the of fice of Ralph W. Crawford, Des chutes national forest supervisor. The Bend lumber firm was represented by A. J. Glassow, general manager, who submitted the $21.20 bid. All timber In the tract was sold at the minimum advertised prices. As provided un der rules governing the sale Brooks Scanlon, Inc., was requir ed to make a $25,000 deposit. Estimated stumpage in the area was estimated at 20,000,000 board feet. The pine will be hauled to Bend, from an access road reaching from Pine mountain to the Cen tral Oregon highway. GRAVESIDE RITES HELD Graveside services were held Thursday afternoon in Green wood cemetery for Susan Kay Lanier, Infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Irvln R. Lanier, Cot- i tage Grove. The baby was born Jan. 4. .
