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Stafe Forecast.
Oregon Fair this afternoon,
tonight Saturday, Slightly
warmer today. High both
days S to IS north to 15 to
25 south. Low tonight S be
low to IS below.
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NEWS COVERAGE
CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
THE BEND
34th Year
St. Charles
Ceremonies
Tomorrow
A controlled blast in a rocky
ledge early tomorrow .afternoon
will mark the start of construc
tion on the $900,000 St. Charles
memorial hospital.
The blast will be discharged
near the conclusion of ground
breaking ceremonies on the hos
pital site. The program will be
, under sponsorship of the Hospital
Founders' organization, headed by
Dr. J. M. McCarthy as president.
It was this organization, formed
in 1948, that headed the campaign
for public subscriptions for the
construction of the big .hospital.
Preceding the one-hour pro
gram at the hospital site, there
will be a civic parade, unless
heavy snow falls before 1 p.m.,
Saturday, time set for the start
of the ground-breaking ceremony.
Should the parade be cancelled,
the information will be broadcast
over KBND at 9 a.m Saturday, it
was announced by the committee
in charge.
Start Work Monday
But regardless of weather con
ditions, the ground-breaking will
be held, inasmuch as the contrac
tor, J. W. Wise and Son, of Boise,
Ida., will start heavy construction
Monday morning. Equipment is
now on the ground and snow and
topsoil are being removed from
the site, to clear the way for
drilling.
Holes for the controlled blast
to be discharged tomorrow have
open drilled under the supervision
of A. Wilson Benold, a member of
the committee. A stand for
speakers has also been erected,
and early tomorrow a public ad
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Immigration Ban
Again Suggested
Washington, Feb. 3 UB Sen.
Pat McCarran, D., Nev., has ask
ed the senate to refuse to allow
displaced persons to enter the
Unite States when jobs ' and
housing are scarce.
McCarran, chairman of the
senate judiciary committee, in
troduced late yesterday proposals
which would call a halt i.n the
program for re-settlement of war
refugees here whenever:
1. More than 4,000,000 U. S.
citizens are out of work, and,
2. More than 2,000,000 married
couples are forced to share a
home with another family.
McCarran termed his restric
tions a "minimum safeguard" for
protecting Americans. He urged
the provisions be written into a
new displaced persons bill which
would raise the current 205,000
two-year entry quota to 320,000
in three years.
It appeared that McCarran's
proposal would effect an imme
diate cut-off in the DP program.
As of December, 1949, the sen
ator told the senate that 2,040,
000 couples shared homes. In
that month unemployment fig
ures showed a "temporary de
cline" to 3,500,000, he said.
SNOW SETS RECORD
Corvallis, Feb. 3 IIP) A Janu
ary snowfall of 51-57 inches set a
new monthly record for Corvallis
ana exceeded the1 previous high
mark for any year by more than
22 inches.
Bend Chamber
v Committees Named for 1950
Selection of committeemen to
serve this year with the Bend
chamber of commerce today was
the major item of business con
ducted by the organization's
board of directors at a luncheon
meeting in the Pine Tavern.
Also discussed was the matter
of a proposed air force survey of
central Oregon for the purpose
of determining a possible site for
an air force academy.
Committee appointments ap
proved at the meeting include:
Agriculture
George Ritchie Jr., chairman;
Ben Fanning, contact director;
Ralph S. Hamilton. E. E. Varco.
George Salicis, W. A. Hunnell.
Laura Wonser. Dr. W. D. Ward,
George Short, Lee Erickson,
L. H. Helphrev, Dave Lay, Boise
Aune; E. V. Ward.
Aviation
Ward Coble, chairman; Mau
rice Hitchcock, contact director:
Harold Clapp, Ren Pomeroy, Ger-
'ti Mccann.AI Eriksen. Dei Haie,
Tom Brooks. Dr. W. G. Manning,
Jesse Smith.
Central Oregon Chamber of
Commerce
B. A. "Dutch" Stover, presi
dent; Ben Fanning, voting dele-
Kate, joe Mack, alternate; ClarK
Tice. Stanley Scott. Bill Baer.
Otto Lamb, Jack Kerron, Al Niel
sen. Wilfred Jossv.
Chic Affair
vance Pnvnpr rhnii-mnn: C L.
McAllister, contact director; A. H.
Marshall, .tohn rrniv nr P. W.
Chernenkoff, F. H. Addington.'
"fie C. May, Hugh Cole, James
Fast Freight
Service Via
Bend in Effect
Fast freight train service, pre
dicted to save a full day on de
livery time between the Pacific
northwest and California, via
Bend, was revealed today by three
railroad lines, according to infor
mation from Seattle. The new
service is now in operation, with
four freights moving through
Bend daily on a close, fast sched
ule. The service, it was learned, does
not mean that four additional
trains are operating over the
Deschutes track between north
west points and Seattle. Rather,
trains that have been oueratine
over the interior line for some
time have been speeded as the
result of a new schedule worked
out between the Great Northern,
the Western Pacific and Santa Fe.
Operate Jointly
The speeded freight service was
placed in operation shortly after
the visit to Oregon on January 10
of presidents of the three lines.
Freights of the three systems
operate jointly over Great North
ern and S. P. & S. tracks in the
northwest and south to Bieber and
over the Western Pacific south
from Bieber. From Stockton,
Calif., to southern California
points, the freights are operated
by the Santa Fe.
Under-the new schedule, four
freights run through Bend daiiv.
Trains arrive from the north at
10 a.m. and 10 p.m., and from the
south at 11 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. All
trains are drawn by diesel en
gines.
In Bend. Great Northern crews
take over the southbound trains
and S. P. & S. crews operate the
trains north from Bend. Each
train has a crew of six men.
The fast trains provide service
for central Oregon points, picking
up freight at various towns along
the route and making freight de
liveries. Speeding up of freight service
from California to the Pacific
northwest and east vit the Des
chutes gorge was largely made
possible by extensive track im
provements and installation of
automatic signal systems in the
past lew years., borne work is still
under waf onthe gorge route; ;,
Bend Receives
More Snowfa
Snow started falling in Bend
again this afternoon at 1:10, fol
lowing a brief lull in the storm
that dropped central Oregon tem
peratures far below the zero
mark. The new storm broke over
the Cascades shortly before noon
today, then drifted out over the
Deschutes country.
The storm that reached here
this afternoon had been forecast
by district weathermen yesterday,
when the sun was shining from a
cloudless sky. Last night, the
moon took up where the Febru
ary sun left off and flooded the
snowy plateau with subdued
light through the wintry night.
Last nlEht the temperature in
Bend dropped to 15 below. Low
temperatures were reported irom
all oarts of the interior country.
When snow started falling early
this afternoon, the temperature
rested at 18 above zero.
Up until the start of the new
storm today, mountain roads were
reported in good mid-winter
shape.
of Commerce
Mayne, Duncan McKay, Gene
Bucknum, Glenn Gregg, J. F.
Burpee, Charles Corkett.
Conventions
Jack Halbrook. chairman; Alva
Goodrich, contact director; H.
Hansen; Clayton Saxon; Nelson
Leland; J. H. Anderson; Ls
Schwab; J. S. Davis, Ted Holli
day, Dr. J. M. McCarthy, Jack
Corbett, Maren Gribskov, Joe
Mack, Anne Forbes, W. B. An
derson. Deschutes County Advertising
Frank Loggan, chairman; Kess
Ier Cannon, contact director; Don
Peoples, Wilfred Jossy, Al Niel
sen, Myron Symons.
Ilsh and Game
Ed Hamm. chairman; Richard
Brandis, contact director; John
We tie, sub-chairman on fish;
George Blalock. sub-chairman on
big game; Jim Gilfillan, sub
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Chamber to Give
Water to Farmers
The Bend chamber of commerce
board of directors, meeting today,
decided to provide "free city wa
ter" to all Deschutes county farm
ers who require it during the whi
ter months.
Tho cftv ha horn chareine 50
cents for" each thousand gallons
of water nauiea io ruiat
Hencefouth the city merely will
keep a record of the water ob
tained, and the chamber will "pay
the bill," directors decided.
SEC Considers
Rival P. P. &L
Stock Bids
Bv T. W. Kienlen
(Unitnl Prrsa Knmtuial Writer)
Washington, Feb. 3 ilW The
Securities & Exehanee commis
sion today took under advisement
and probably will act soon ton
two bids for 500,000 shares, of
common stock of the Pacific Pow
er & Light company.
Chairman Harry r. McDonald
and Commissioners Paul R. Row
en and Edward T. McCormiek
heard oral testimony from attor
neys for both bidders and such in
terested third parties as Pacific
Power & Light itself, the state of
Washington, and two groups of
preferred stockholders.
The commission was informed
by counsel for American Power
& Light company which seeks to
sell the stock, that American con
siders the best bid to be that sub
mitted by A. C. Ailyn & Co., and
Bear, Stearns & Co., and th,cir
associates.
Would Sell Stock
It also was entered on the rec
ords that the second group, head
ed by Allen & Co., "intends to
make an immediate public offer
ing of the stock" should its bid
be accepted.
At last night s hearing before
an SEC trial examiner, Herbert
Allen of the firm Allen & Co.,
said that he thought it possible
that a profit of $4,500,000 could
be made on the purchase and re
sale of the common stock.
Allen testified in a virtual
round-the-clock session yesterday,
that he believed the stock of Pa
cific Power & Light could be sold
to Investors for at least $45 a
share, or $21,000,000.
The Allen firm, and its associ
ated underwriters, have offered
American Power & Light Co.
owner of the stock and therefore
in control of the west coast utd
ity the sum of $16,325,000 for
the shares.
Allen expressed his opinion on
the market value of the slock in
response to a question by' SEC
counsel George L, Rodgers afe-the
commission beeah a Jiew.:he8r:
ing into a "proposed sale of the
faeillc rawer stock. ,
Last Friday the SEC tossed
out the first two bids for the
stock on the grounds that Amer
ican Power & Light had not main
tained "competitive conditions"
as required by the holding com
pany act In the sale of utility
properties.
Big Sums Offered
The bids came from the Ailen
group, which first offered $15,
525,000 cash, plus contingent pay
ments, and from a group headed
by the firms of A. C. Ailyn &
Co., and Bear, Stearns & Co. This
last group offered cash of $16,
125,000 and the Allen Co. bid was
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3 Persons Die
In Klamath Fire
Klamath Falls. Feb. 3 1P
Three persons were killed and 12
others injured eariy today when
fire destroyed a two-story frame
rooming house and damaged three
other downtown Klamath Falls
business establishments.
There were 17 occupants of the
building, firemen said.
Burned to death in their rooms
were Mike Shepherd and George
Redmond, both believed in their
70's, and F. R. Reuter, a transient
who had rented a room for the
night.
Twelve other roomers suffered
burns and other injuries in escap
ing through smoke and fire filled
hallways or jumping from sec-
onu-story windows. I hey were all
taken to a hospital. One man,
James Spears, 35, was reported in
critical condition. Doctors said
he suffered burns over 85 per
cent of his body.
The fire broke out in the room
of Dean Thomas about 1:30 a.m.
Thomas roused the managers, Mr.
and Mrs. Lloyd Nobles, who rout
ed the other roomers. They
escaped Into seven-degrees below
zero weather clad only in their
nightclothes. ,
All available fire-fighting equip
ment rbught the blaze for three
hours before bringing it under
control. Also damaged by the fire
were Arbuckles shoe store. Bert
rams jewelry store and the Ea
gles tavern.
Firemen estimated loss at $250,
000. 12 MADE HOMELESS
Detroit, Ore., Feb. 3 UP Fire
destroyed a two-story rooming
house here Thursday night, leav
ing 12 persons homeless. No one
was in the place when thp blaze,
of undetermined origin, broke out.
Fire spread to the nearby home
of Earl Layman and damaged a
third of it before fire departments
from Idanha and Mongold put out
the blaze.
The rooming house was oper
ated by Mr. and Mrs. V'ern Franse,
who estimated the loss at $7,000.
BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3,
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Preliminary to (he start of heavy work Monday, com factors have assembled equipment on the St. Charles memorial hospital site and
are at present removing snow and topsoil from the hospital hilt. Work accomplished up to late Thursday afternoon is pictured here.
This area will he the scene of forma! ground breaking ceremonies early tomorrow afternoon.
Snow Expected
In Northwest;
Will Ease Cold
ttiy United Prena
The country's worst cold wave
in the Pacific northwest showed
signs of breaking today as two
snow-bearing storms converged
on Oregon, Washington and Brit
ish Columbia.
A developing cloud cover will
boost minimum temperatures
from sub-zero to sub-freezing Fri
day night and Saturday, with gen
eral snowfall in Oregon and
Washington, forecasters said.
Along with the snow, there was
a possibility of sleet and freezing
ratn, the u, S. weather bureau
predicted.
Relief from the intense cold
that has gripped the northwest
will be comparatively slight, how
ever. Strong winds centering
along the Columbia river gorge
blew chill air into scores of com
munities and drifted powder snow
into dunes. tOQtftjQO In revenue. But he asked
There was a continuation of i that this loss he made up by the
sub-zero cold Friday morning in;!iew television tax and plugging
eastern Washington and Oregon loopholes in tax laws,
and the northern Willamette vai-i Mr. Truman, In his earlier tax
'py message to congress said many
W ill Continue Cold persons were escaping their fair
The Friday morning forecast : are of the tax burden- to the
predicted low temperatures of 18 tun of hundreds of millions of
to 28 in western Oregon and 5 to
15 in eastern Oregon; 18 to 28 in
western Washington and zero to
15 in eastern Washington.
Low temperatures Friday
morning Included Bend, 15 below. ;
The Dalles 22 below, Pendleton IT;
below, Ontario 15 below, Lake-i
view 8 below. Burns 16 below.)
Spokane 8 below, Salem zero, Eu
gene 2 below, Ephrata 15 b-iow.
Liiensburg 24 below. Walla Walla
14 below, Yakima 18 below. La
Grande 13 above,
Mctitora 11'
above. North Bend 31. Kelso 8
above, Olympia and Bellingham 9
and Seattle 13,
Today's minimum at the Port -
land airport was 8 degrees, com-
pared with Thursday's record -
breaking 3 below. Troutdale. Ore.,
had gusts of winds 45 miics per
hour in 5 degree iemtierature.
muitnoman county (Portland!
lost ground fn its fight to keep
roads open. Paul Northrop, assist-
ant roadmaster, said roads were
uiituHK sun as jam as iney were;
cleared, with wind blowing "worse
ail the time." jhis top officials and then ficw
"We are gaining nothing," he north with Sherman, eighth army
said, "and it is taking e'erythfng commander Lt. Gen. Walton
we own to keep half a dozen roads i Walker and first corps command
open." er Ma j. Gen. John Coulter.
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'Contractors Assemble Equipment on Hospital
Blueprint for Excise Tax
Cuts Given Congress; Other
Lines Slated for Increases
Washington, Feb. 3 (U.B) President Truman askefi eon
jO'ess today to cut excise taxes 655,000,000 a year, but to
bowt business, estate and gift taxes to give the government
an netuitl net increase of $1,000,000,000 in new revenue.
Mr. Truman's tax ftroposais were spelled out to the house
ways and means committee by Secretary of treasury John W.
Snyder. '
The administration actually proposed excise tax cuts of
685,000,000, but asked for a
new 10 per cent levy on the
manufacturers' Kale price of
television seta to yield $10,
000.000 a year.
The excise tax reductions,
Mr. Truman proposed:
Freight - from three per cent to
nothing.
Rait, plane and bus tickets
from 15 per cent to 10 per cent.
Long distance telephone and
telegraph charges 25 per cent to
15 per cent.
Retail levies on furs, luggage,
jeweliy and toilet preparations
20 per cent to 10 per cent.
Would Plug Leaki
Snyder said these reductions
wntitrt mst thf government St')5.-
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Pacific Defense
Priority Sought
ifjKjo, j,tp,sn, rf'- ' "
liable sources said today that
American commanders in Alaska
and Japan have asked the Joint
; U.
. enters oi Stan JO gr.mt tnem
to priority to men ami equipment
At the same tlrae tne clitei oi
U. S. naval oneralions. Admiral
Forrest P. Sherman, said the V.
is, far east fleet would tie
(strengthened with the addition of
six more destroyers,
! Sherman ami the other Joint
whlefs Gen. Omar Bradley, Gen.
,F. Lawton Collins and Gen. lioyt
iVanderberg now have ended
their high-level conferences with issved his
lien. Douglas MacArthur and,,iown.
have flown to Kyoto, northern
Japan.
tsraoiey ana toftms neia a nnsi
(conference with MacArthur and
1950
of Aiding Russians
OFF
Final Approval
Of Prineville
Building Given
Prineville, Feb. 3 Prineville
has been formally approved as
the location for a federal building
to cost approximately $180,000, ac
cording to information received
here from Rep. Lowell Stockman.
The building wiii house the post
office and various federal agen
cies. Rep. Stockman said the desig
nation of Prlnevllkr as the site of
a federal building was made by
the general services administra
tor and the postmaster general.
Choice of a city for a federal
building is made from eligible
projects. Federal building proj
ects were previously announced,
hut deferred during the way, A
new list. Including Prineville, was
complied.
The announcement that Prine
ville was in line for a new federal
building was first made last De
cember 15. At that time. Rep.
Stockman wrote;
This means that steps can now
he taken toward acfmisitlim of
new site and the rjrenaratmn of
f The first move wilt bc (a adver-;
(isp f()r fr(Xii),,rtivp sites. Later.;
? a pof He department or public
t but!(tm B(jmjnis!r!ilfan rtwesen-
, ,..,! .iIh allihf itv i. im-psii.
pate the available sites will visit
; (,t.trtvfli
Firs! information was that fhe
Prineville hulbtimT is no! (o cost
"more than $200,000."
CHfKF'S HOfKK SAVKfJ
Warrenftm, Ore., Feb, 3 'to
Fire chief fjirrv Lenhatd today
had onlv the highest prat
for
his volunteer firefighters. They
house from burning
A torch a workman was uslnr
Ho thaw frozen pipes at Chief
Lwmard s home Ignited oil esrap-
tng from a broken fuel line The i CVA Held Important
fire spread to the foundation of The letter said the president
the house. , j "strongly endorses" the view that
But firemen Jttmswd t-j the task S authorization of the coordinated
Bnd saved their chief's house from plan would make It "more impor
ail but a little smoke damage, t Continued on Page 3
Site
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Truman Approval
Of Columbia Plan
Joined With CVA
Washington, Feb. 3 KW Presi
dent Truman's approval of the
$2,500,000,OtM Columbia river de
velopment program was coupled
with a strong plug for the Colum
bia valley administration and a
few "huts."
The Interior department an
nounced late yesterday that the
president's budget bureau has
ukcyed the 20-year plan to make
the Columbia river the world's
greatest source of hydre-eleetrfc
power. The president recom
mends that congress adopt the
program, but he:
1. Wants reclamation- bureau
authorisations held "at this time"
to $200,000,000 ttbotit half the to
tal required for approved proj
ects. 2. Objects to present approval
of al! hut five features of the
Mountain Home project fn Idaho,
pending the report of his new wa
ter policy board on how much
time should be allowed for proj
ect repayments, subsidies justifi
ed, etc.
3. Vetoes certain proposed cost
allocations to pollution statement.
saEMtfty control, recreation and
sediment control. Through such
allocations the amount that must
fie repaid by water and power
users can be cut (town,
repayment Factor
4 Orders the reclamation bu
reau not to use for project repay
ment the interest on its power
investments except as presently
authorized by reclamation law.
, f'fhis stiwtiation was suhiect
to
the bureau claims St may now
use power interest revenues for
rs!tyrnt'nU
5. LNjes not want anv funds
1 sotiehf for 11m CriKtltml riwr
' project until the dam she is fin-
, a,t!,t.tt.fi
6. Says approval of the Cnnhy
project, "in an area wish 42 inches
of rainfall, does not constitute a
prcrvdent for projects in other
humid or high rnlnfiii! areas.
The hurtgrt bureau letter to the
interior department set no ceiling
on army engineer authorizations
s St did on those for the reclama
tion bureau. It endorsed the pro
posal to establish a single, basin
i account
for at! projects so that
weaker ones may be helped by
i ftrotnctaitv stronger ones.
No, 50
fcHeld
Dr. Filths Also
In American
Undertaking
By LyteC. Wilson
llffetot Pmi Staff easrammtifctttt :
Washington, Feb, S Offi
cials said today that a British
scientist charged with espionage
m London knew this country s
"most vital" A-bomb secrets and
may have given them to Russia. .
It he did, they may have con
tributed to the surprising speed
with which Russia developed
atomic explosives. The scientist,
Dr. Karl Fuchs who worked ia
this country's wartime A-bomb
project, was arrested in London
on information supplied by the
FBI.
The Joint congresstonai atomic
committee put atomic energy
commissioners and off fetala in the
witness box at a closed hearing
shortly after learning st Faeh's
arrest. It then scheduled another
hearing for tomorrow at which
Lt. Gen. Leslie R. Groves, chief
of the A-bomb project during the
war, will testify about Fuchs,
Create Sensation
The charges against Fuchs cre
ated a sensation fn the highest
levels of this government, Presl-
lent Truman, who teamed oi
them shortly after making his
historic H-bomb announcement on
Tuesday, discussed the case with,
his cabinet.
' The AEG issued a statement re
vealtog that 'Fuchs knew A bomb
secrets which would have been of
tremendous value to Russia. By,
achieving an atomic explosion in
19.. as announced by President
Truman last Sept, 23, Russia cut
one to two years oft estimates by
U. S. military of f ictais.
Chairman Brien McMahon, D.,
Conn., of the atomic committee
said the Fuchs charges are "serf-
ous and that his group will make
a thorough Investigation. Chair
man John S. Wood. D., Ga.. of the
house un-American activities com
mittee also promised an inquiry.
t.ame Hereto HH5
Fuchs was a member of the
scientific mission sent by the Brit
ish to work m the atfiett A-bomb
Continued on Page ?
1 Killed, (A Hurt
In Train Wreck
SaukviSSe, Wis., Feb. 3 F One
man was kilted and 64 persons in
jured when the Milwaukee rail
roads T-hippewa Hiawatha
jumped the rails and plowed half
s mite down the right-of-way near
here,
Authorities said ti was "miracu
lous" that the death toll was not
higher.
AH six cars of the streamliner,
southbound front Green Bay,
Wis., to Milwaukee, were derailed
last night.
Only the steam locomotive re
mained on the track. Authorities
said the accident apparently was
caused by a broken rati.
Three coaches and the diner
rolled over. Sheriff Peter Keutt
mann said, but the partor car and
mail-express car remained up
right. Six ambulances carried 64 In
jured passengers to the St. At
phonse hospital at nearby Port
Washington. Forty-eight were re
leased after treatment for cuts
and braises.
Mangled Body Found
Attendants said that none of the
18 who remained was in critical
condition.
The lone fatality was E. J. Syn
mrtt, about 60. believed to be from
Rib Lake, Wis. His mangled body
was found wedged ts the wreck
age. Mrs. Sarah Garza of Los An-
geSes, Calif., who was holding her
two-year-old daughter Diane
when the accident occurred, said
the train "seemed to roll right oft
the track."
"Diane slfpperf from my arms
and her head was gashed on a
broken window pane," she said.
Mrs. Garzo said they were trap
pert In the Jumbled coach for an
hour before rescuers removed
them. Both were hospitalized, but
their Injuries were reported not
serious.
Railroad detectives searches
the scene for any indications of
sabotage, but Superintendent C.
E. Crippen, at Milwaukee, said a
preliminary check Indicated that
a broken rail was responsibie.