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LEASED WIRE WORLD NEWS COVERAGE 34th Year Mr. and Mrs. Miklos Leovey and their little girls, Elizabeth and Johanna, arrived this week in Redmond under the DP program, and are being welcomed by neighbors and other well-wishers. They were met in Portland by Rev. Wesley Baker, of the Redmond Community Presbyterian church, who was photographed with them at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Lawson. Displaced Family Reaches Redmond By I la Grant The right hand of fellowship is being extended to Deschutes counly's first family of displaced, persons from Europe, who ar rived this week to make their home on a farm near Redmond. They are Mr. and' Mrs. Miklos Leovey and their children, Eliza beth, 26 months, and Johanna, 10 months. (In the family name, there should be an umlaut, two small dots over the "o," Miklos pointed out carefully. English language linotypes are not equip ped with matrices for this mark.) Mr. and Mrs. Leovey, both 28, are natives of Hungary. The chil dren were born in Austria. Mik los, who was forced into slave American Naval Attache Slain Vienna, Austria, Feb. 24 IP The mutilated body of Capt. Eu gene F. Karpe, American naval attache in Romania, was found in in railroad tunnel near Salzburg yesterday and reliable U. S. army sources said today he appeared to have been slain. Karpe, 50, of Washington, D. C, was a close friend of Robert A. Vogeler, the American busi nessman who was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment by a Buda pest court last Tuesday on spy charges. Austrian police announced dis covery of the body this morning. They said it had been "smashed beyond recognition" but that it was identified by papers found in the pockets even though Karpe's diplomatic passport was missing. "Planned Job" U. S. army authorities later confirmed the identification and said that Karpe's death "looked like a planned lob." Austrian police also said they suspected murder and were inves tigating on the theory that "a crime has been committed." They saw they had "no definite clues. Karpe was on his way home to Washington for reassignment aft er spending more than three years in Bucharest. He arrived in Vienna from Bucharest early this month and spent 15 days here be fore leaving for Paris yesterday morning. His mutilated body was found by trackwalkers on the Arlberg Orient Express line in a tunnel near Salzberg later in the day. After identification it was taken to the ninth U. S. army station hospital in Salzburg. Karpe visited Vogeler's home many times during Vogeler's quick four-day trial in Budapest. Mrs. Vogeler, who lives here with her two sons and her sister, said Karpe and her husband had been I close friends since they attended I the U. S. naval academy at An ! napolis together. Last Wednesday ijy night Karpe escorted Mrs. Voge yX lei's sister, Pia Eykens. to the op era ann returned to his quarters at the Bristol hotel about mid night to pack for his Journey to Paris. He left early yesterday. Univ. of THE BEND TWO SECTIONS Newcomers 'From Europe labor by the nazis, is'the son of a minister in the Hungarian Re formed church. His wife, Maria, was , bonv in the - Ukraine and Avas educated in a church school at Debrecan, a center of the Cal vinist faith. Sad Years Behind The Leoveys are trying to put behind them the memories of the sad years during world war II. The years since then have been none too pleasant, either, al though thdy fared well enough in the DP camp in Austria. News from their homeland was depress ing. Miklos' aunt dared to write them, and told of the unhappi ness of people in Budapest, under communist rule. Miklos' uncle, who was 75, was murdered by soviet invaders, she said. In an interview yesterday, Mik los talked in fluent German, with Rev. Wesley Baker, of Redmond, as interpreter. Sometimes Miklos joined in the conversation with experimental English phrases. He hopes to speak the tongue of his adopted country soon. It will be easy, because he has studied Greek, Latin and French in addi tion to German and the language of Hungary. Sometimes he an swered the reporters questions without the aid of the interpreter, explaining that he could some how tell what .was being said even though the words we're strange to him. Impressed by Liberty Both he and Maria agreed that they are impressed most of all by the liberty of speech and action in America. In Europe there is no liberty, they said sadly, and one must always obey the state. In Germany, the people always had to shoot somebody, Miklos said. "First the Jews, then the Rus sians, then each other." Miklos was a student at the University of Budapest. When war came he was nearly ready to Truman Creates Emergency, Board In Rail Dispute Washington, Feb. 24 (ID Presi dent Truman today created an emergency board to stave off a strike threatened Monday by the Brotherhoods of Railway Conduc tors and Railroad Trainmen on the nation's major railroads. The president's action will have the effect of delaying the strike for at least 60 days. The board was ordered to re port back to the president on the dispute within 30 days. Mr. Tru man's executive order specified that management and lebor must continue to operate under current rules and contracts. The president has this power under the railway labor act. He acted on recommendation of the national mecuauon ooaru wnicn said the dispute threatened to de - prive the country of essential transportation service. The vvmte House pronaoiy win announce the names of the three board members late today or ear ly tomorrow. The unions are seeking a 40. hour work-week and other chang- es in their work ruics. Orejon Library Happy to Be in America receive his diploma, with degree in engineering. First the nazis forced him to drop his course and enroll for different subjects. Then he was sent to. Germany to work in a factory. He became ill, from working long hours and getting insufficient food, but still he was forced to work. Sent to Hospital When the Americans came, he was sent to a hospital. When he was well enough to leave, he vol unteered to go to an American work camp in Austria. He was surprised to find that there he was not forced to work, and was recognized as an individual. The American Red Cross had sent his t h r e e sisters to the sarne D P camp, and it was through the as sistance of that organization that the family was brought together. (In 1946, one of .his sisters was repatriated to Hungary. One since has been sent to Romania, and one to Canada.) Miklos went to the DP camp in August, 1945, and it was there that he met Maria, who had been there since May of that same year. They were married in 1946, In Austria. Now that the communists are in control of Hungary, conditions are no better than when the nazis ruled, Miklos said. People just (Continued on Page 5) Angry Senators Seeking Records Washington, Feb. 24 Ul'i Angry senate republicans today sought to force Secretary of state Dean Acheson to give up his depart ment's lovaltv files. The GOP legislators said if Acheson refused to produce the secret records under subpoena, he should be cited for contempt of congress and haled into court The senate foreign relations committee has" been ordered to investigate charges by Sen. Jo seph R. McCarthy, R., Wis., that the state department Is a nesting place for communists. The republicans want the loy alty -files to back up the charges, but the chances are they never win see tnem. President Truman told his news conference yesterday that he is standing on his orders to govern ment agencies not to turn over confidential records to congress without his consent. He added that he would cooperate gladly with the committee to disprove McCarthy's charges. Then, Mr. Truman chuckled and said it would be rather difficult to serve a subpoena on the president. McCarthy termed the presi- dent's remarks "boyish thumbing i oi nis nose and said he did not ! think the senate will allow the president to get away with it " I Republican leader Kenneth S. wherry. Neb., said the senate I should force a showdown on the issue. Acheson and his records should be subpoenaed and the attorney general should take the secretary into court if he balked, i wnerry added. CENTRAL OREGON'S . BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 24, Unusual Frost Damage Provides Butte Spectacle A brown band, golden in the light of the setting sun, has been painted by nature on the south west slope of Black butte, tim bered volcanic cone that over looks the Metolius basin and the Sisters country. The golden band, foresters re port, is about three-fourths of a mile wide and some three miles long. As viewed from the San tiam. highway, which skirts the southwestern base of the pine clad cone, the strip, light brown in a background of green, is spec tacular, according to Information from the Sisters countrv. Origin of the band, which only recently appeared on the tall butte. has not yet been fully solv ed, but is believed due to an air pocket condition in arctic weatn er that killed pine needles. It is these brown-tipped needles that paint the golden band that is so spectacular as the sun dips be hind Mt. Washington and other Cascade peaks to the west. Origin in January Ranger Harold Gustafson of the Sisters district attributes the zone of dead pine needles to a condi tion that occurred in the arctic weather of January, when a mass of warm air slowly moved In irom the south following a period ot polar temperatures. Forest work crs in the Sisters district told of "hot" air that crowded out the arctic chill. It is believed that a stratum of warm air was pocketed about half way up the side of Black butte, at a time when subzero temperatures still gripped the top and bottom of the butte. The warm air, foresters believe, burn ed the needles, which were dehy drated through their respiration pores at a time when they were receiving no moisture from the trees. It Is believed that thi extensive dehydration killed th tips of the needles. Young Grow(i) Hit The needle kill was extensive In yonng growth as well as in the mature trees. The golden band covers part of the northwestern, western and southwestern slopes of the butte. The band starts about 500 feel above the road and extends from the 3700 foot to the 4500 foot con tour. Foresters do not believe that the seasonal kill of the needles will result In any lasting damage to the irees, but, they point out there may.be secondary damage if pine beetles should attack th weakened pines. The brown band will be visible on .the butte through the entire season, foresters believe. FIRK DAMAGES CAR Fire of undetermined origin this morning damaged an auto mobile owned by James Lemke. In answer to a still alarm city firemen went to the 800 block on Delaware avenue, where the car was parked. ' BULLETIN DAILY NEWSPAPER ntish Majority, In Close Voting Miners Ruled In Contempt, To Face Trial By Kobcrt E. Lee (linked Frew Staff Cirrxndent) Washington, Feb. 24 UW Fed eral judge Richmond B. Keech ruled today that the United Mine Workers -union had failed to purge" itself of contempt charg es by not getting striking miners back to work, and ordered the union tried Monday on the con tempt charges. The government charges the union with both civil and criminal contempt for defying a court or-, der to end the strike of 372,000 soft coal miners. The judge turned down Assis tant attorney general H. Graham Morison's motion to hold the trial tomorrow because of the na tion's critical coal situation. Monson noted that there has been no increase in soft coal pro duction since Keech signed the original back-to-work order Feb ruary 11. Me said newspaper reports show that many states have ini tlated emergency measures and "virtually all major cities are con fronted with a critical problem." Union Objects He said the government wanted court action "immediately" (o get the miners back to work and ex tricate the nation from the trage dv that stalks it." , The union objected to the re quest to speed up the trial on the grounds that the justice depart ment had asked that the union be cited for both civil and criminal contempt. A civil contempt charge is brought to compel obedience of a court order. A criminal charge seeks punishment for disobedi ence of a court order. The union will be tried on both charges. On the criminal charges, the union may ask for a jury trial. There is no jury on the civil charges. ' Welly K. Hopkins, umw atlor- noy, said he would weigh full ispects of the case before decid ing whether to ask for jury trial of the criminal contempt charge. Before ordered by Keech to stand trial, the union told him that its 372,000 coal miners are striking "individually and of their own volition." It maintained that the miners individually had dis obeyed two orders by John L. Lewis and top UMW officials to return to work. Lewis, himself, was not named (Continued on Page 5) 'FUND GAINING Deschutes county's 1950 March of Dimes fund has passed the half-way mark, it was announced today by Mrs. J. F. Arnold, county director, who urged persons who have not made their contributions to do so without delay. The quota is $7,000. "More than that amount was spent for treatment of Des chutes county polio victims in the past two years," Mrs. Arnold said. A donation of $110 was receiv ed yesterday from Loyal Order of the Moose. Honor Students Announced i rf " i V 'Mn, sit fMk1 v ? . s . j . ' , '-tffl' y.-'j h , f- 'A - PV- f .;. $ It ff" ! ' if : r v M.artiiil' i'i'Vi ii mi nam J 4&toifeXiiit, Tom Niebergall, left, and Garry Jerome have been named valedic torian and salutatorlan of the Bend high school class of 1950. Close behind these honor students was Dan Hostkottc. Seven out of the ten students on the class honor roll are boys. 1950 Laborites Achieve 13 Bids Received For Additions To Madras School A total of 13 bids, ranging from ! $193,600 to $229,723, have been re ceived on a proposed Madras high school addition and alteration project, according to an an nouncement today by Carl Rhoda, school superintendent. The project calls for an ll room addition to the existing high school structure, and alterations designed to increase the slz? of the school gymnasium. The low offer was made by Bickford Construction Co., of Portland. Midstate Construction Co. of The Dalles, submitted the high offer. Bids on the project were opened last night by school board mem bers, but contract award was not expected until late this afternoon. Rhoda said that the board was to make a thorough study of sub contract provisions of the con tract offers before making the award. He explained that if the subcontract provisions of a bid do not meet the approval of the board, the contractor will be given an opportunity to bring them up to requirements. Other contract offers included: Newman & Sons, of Portland, $197,860; Riverman & Sons, of Portland, $200,000; Louis Kowl- olowski, of Madras, $200,641; Pa cific Construction Co., of Vancou ver. $202,700; A. Wilson Bcnold, of Bend, $209,387; Juhr & Sons, of Portland, $209,400; H. G. Wirtz, of Grants Pass, $214,000; Wegman & Co,, of Portland, $217,107; Pinni ger & Watkins, of Klamath Falls, $217,490; Keiser & Hendrickson. of Madras, $222,832, and Huling & Son, of Portland, $229,610. Making up the school .hoard are: A. S. Ramsey, O.'C. Hedge peth, Mrs. Clarence Doling, Ray Ciyiningham and Ronald Vlhbert. Speeder Wreck Takes Four Lives Longvlew, Wash., Feb. 24 (lit Four men wore killed and six oth ers injured today when a speeder carrying them to the Weyerhaeu ser Lumber company's logging camp 9 plunged through a rain weakened trestle into the Toutle river. 1 , The accident occurred in the Weyerhaeuser woods operation area, about 13 miles north of here. Coroner Gordon Quarnstrom identified the dead as Don Slew- art. 45. Castle Rock. Weyerhaeu ser logging foreman; Al Berg of Oregon; Levi Orman and B. B. Grant. Four ambulances, accompanied by Dr. C. V. Allen, were sent to the scene. One returned shortly before noon with four of the In jtired. They were Chester Bow ers. Rainier. Ore.; Robert Hansen Longview; B. W. Moore, Long- view, and Donald lollefson, Castle Rock. Bowers said the speeder was taking the men to their work when it suddenly plunged through the trestle which had been weakened by heavy rains. Bowers could not estimate how high the span was, but ho said none of the men fell into the I river. Powerful Qains By Conservatives Feature of Vote By Lyle C. Wilson (Umtil 1'rcs Suff rorrtsuomlrnt ) London, Feb. 24 (IIP) The labor party tonight won a skim py majority of parliamentary seats in a general election that swung the British voting trend toward the right. With a few districts outstanding, labor had won 313 seats, a majority in the 625-seat house. Winston Churchill's conservatives pounded hard on the heels of the socialists, and the collapsing liberal party won only a handful ot the more than 400 seats for which it, fought. The standing of the par ties this evening when, just before 8:30 p.m. (3:30 p.m. EST) when the 1 a b o r i t e s achieved their technical ma jority, was: Labor SIS Conservatives 288 Liberals 7 Other parties (speaker) 1 Communists Honied The communists and fellow travelers were beaten badly all around. The only two communists in the old house lost their seats, and none was elected to take their places. Labor's thin margin could hard ly le boosted enough by the final returns to underwrite the further socialization of thfr United Klha clom. A reasonably safe labor working majority in commons say 50 or 60 seats would be re quired for that. Thi! laborites were flabbergast ed by the returns. Only a dozen hours before they eked out their narrow victory, they thought they had the election won hands down. At It was, it turned out to be close to a dead heat. The first re action among political sages was that this might mean another general election in the near fu ture. Coalition Possible Some quarters believed labor might try to go it alone or make a coalition deal with the liberals. But they would have to abandon some of the keystones of their na tionalization program if they took in the liberals. ' Still another possibility was a caretaker government with a rep resentation of all three major par ties. That could last only a few months, possibly only until a budget had been presented in April. Then It could be turned out by a vote of misconfidence, which the precarious working majority would make possible at any time. It was a nip and tuck contest down the first part of the stretch this afternoon. When the day's counting started after an over night recess, the laborites had a majority of 61 seats. Their big bulge dwindled away under a rush of votes from the rural districts. The conservatives crept up on their rivals, and at one point Winston Churchill, the conservative chieltain, said I think we'll make It." But a rush of laborite votes (Continued on Page b) Bend High Graduating Class For 1950 Has 137 Members The Bend high school gradu ating class of 1950 will number 1.17 students, according to a tenta tive announcement today from the office of R. E. Jewell, princi pal. This total is slightly under that for 194!i when 144 students received their diplomas. Bacca laureate services this year will be on Sunday, May 28, and com mencement will be on June 2. Class valedictorian this year will be Tom Niebergall, Lava Bear team captain last fall, honor student and president of the Bend high school student body. He earned the valedictorian post with a high four-year mark of 1.10. Garry Jerome will be salutator lan. His average is 1.13. Close be hind the class leaders is Gary Horstkotte, with an average of 1.19. Honor Students Listed Valedictorian and salutatorlan were announced this week on re lease of names of the 10 high point honor students of the class of 1950. For the first time In many years, hoys dominate the honor roll this year. Seven out of the 10 honor students are boys. Bend Forecast Bend and vicinity Mostly cloudy today and Saturday with partial clearing to night; high today 56; low tonight 35; high Saturday 51. No. 68 i , n i jer Bomber Crashes, Two Lives Taken Dayton, O., Feb. 24 UB Two persons including a British wing commander, died In a crash here today of an army B-45 jet bomber, the Wright field public relations office announced. The names of the dead were not disclosed. . One member of the crew, Capt. J. L. Armstrong of Wright field, parachuted from the burning four-jet bomber and suffered a broken arm In landing.- The plane was carrying only two crew members and the Brit .ish wing commander, on board to observe performance of (he plane. Normal strength of the B-45 crew is four men. Wright field officials said the plane caught fire before crash ing in a field eight miles north east of Dayton. It exploded and burned completely. Witnesses reported that the plane was flying "very low and last belore the crash, whlcn oc curred on the farm of Mrs. Mary Hartman. Beginners Dance Class Projected . Under supervision of the Bend recreation department, classes for beginners in square dancing are to be held at the Eastern Star hall, with the first set for Mon day evening at 7:30, Wayne Ham ilton, director of recreation, an nounced today. Claude Cook will be In charge. Interest in square dancing is so great that a capacity group is ex pected to take part in the begin ners' instruction. Because of the limited space in the hall, square dancers now affiliated with other groups are being asked not to at tend the new classes. Advanced groups are to dance on their regular nights at the Pine Forest grange hall. WARNING SOUNDED Washington, Feb. 24 H'i Sec retary of state Dean Acheson to day warned Russia's Balkan sa tellites that they must act like sovereign nations if they want continued recognition as part "of the international community." Last year, the girls placed eight out of 10, and In recent years girls have also more than the lion's share of valedlctorlan-salu-tatorian honors. The valedictorian and salutator lan of the class of 1950 plan to continue their studies in college. Garry has selected the University of Oregon as his school, but Tom has nol yet decided on his school. Tom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Niebergall. Garry is the son of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Je rome. Tom attended grade school at St. Francis and Garry attended Kenwood. The top ten scholars of the class of 1950 and their grade av erages for their four years' of . high school work follow: 1. Tom Niebergall, 1.10. 2. Garrv Jerome, 1.13. 3. Dan Horstkotte, 1.19. 4. Bill Niskanen, 1.26. 5. Diane Newland, 1.39. 6. Mary Ann Kiesow, 1.41. 7. Dick Carlson, 1.50. S. Dick Rasmussen, 1.59. 9. LeRov Sherman, 1.62. 10. Mary Fowler, 1.64. i
