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Univ. of Oregon Library EUGENE, 08SQQ.H ( THE BEND BULLETIN Bend Forecast Bend and vicinity Mostly cloudy today and Friday; oc casional light rain; little tim perture change; high today 52 to 57; low tonight 30 to 35; high Friday 50 to 55. 4 LEASED WIRE WORLD NEWS COVERAGE CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER 34th Year TWO SECTIONS BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1950. No. 73 Cowt AcqyfeMoifneirs m Contempt Ac4oim : ' : : ' 9- V Truman Still Adamant Over Moscow Trip By John I... Steele and Edward V. Roberts (United Prnui Staff CurreniMimlcnt) Washington, March 2 W Pres ident Truman said today he fa vors any move that would con tribute to world peace, but fiat .he will never go to Moscow while jl.'e is president. Mr. Truman added as he has said many times in the past that the door is always open here for discussions on any subject. He declined at his news con ference to comment specifically on a prosposal advanced yester day by Sen. Brien McMahon, D Conn., that the Atlantic council lay out a program for atomic peace and that the UN assembly then meet in Moscow to consid er it. Mr. Truman did 'Say, however, that he would cooperate whole heartedly with anything that would contribute to world peace. The president was- questioned amid -speculation that the admin istration may yield to congres sional demands for new action to assure the world of this govern ment's peaceful aims in world af fairs. i Asked if he would be willing to go to Moscow to talk with the Russians, the president said he would not go to Moscow at all. But he added as he has said many times that the door is a ways open here at any time for discussions on any subject. A reporter- then asked if his determination never to go to Mos cow applied only to the current period of touchy issues between this country and the soviet union. Mr, Truman said firmly he would never go ' to Moscow while Jie is president. ' He said he was put ting it as plainly as possible. He added, however, that when he quits being president he would like to go to the Russian capital and see the place. ALREADY CONSIDERED Lake Success, N.Y., March 2 U'i Sen. Brien McMahon's proposal for a special session of the United Nations general assembly to be held in Moscow already has been considered by top officials of the world organization. There was no indication of any decision, but there also was no indication that they have rejected the idea. Secretary-general Trygve Lie has been holding conferences with individual members of the secur ity council, including Russia, ever since soviet delegate Jacob A. Malik walked out of the 11-nation body on Jan. 13. Malik's stroll, protesting the continued pres ence of the Chinese nationalists, began the boycott by Russia and her cominform partners that has all but paralyzed the UN. Lie is seeking a way out of the UN's two impasses: Two Impasses 1. The east-west deadlock on atomic energy, concerning which McMahon yesterday proposed the Moscow assembly session. 2. Russia's demand that Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese nationalists be supplanted in the UN by-Mao Tze- (Continued on Page 5) . Prosecution Rests Today In Dr. Sander Murder Trial By H. D. Quigg (United l'reM Staff Correspondent) Manchester, N.H., March 2 W The prosecution rested at 2:01 p.m. (EST) today at Dr. Her mann N. Sander's mercy murder trial, and the defense moved im mediately for a directed verdict of acquittal. The all-male jury 12 men and an alternate--was taken from the courtroom at 2:03 p.m. and Su perior judge Harold F. Wescott began hearing arguments on the defense motion. The defense had brought two large cases of law books into the courtroom to back up its motion for a directed verdict. The motion was based largely on two points: 1 Failure of the state to es tablish a corpus delecti, meaning specifically that the death was of a felonious nature. 2. Failure of the state to show that the air and not cancer killed Mrs. Borroto. When court reconvened after the luncheon recess. County so licitor William H. Craig rose and said: "The state rests, your honor." "tate had attempted to prove: 1 That Dr. Sander infected 40 cubic centimeters of air into the veins of cancer-doomed Mrs. Ab- Officers Have Howard B. Patterson of the federal bureau of investigation, Port land, assisted here yesterday with the region-wide police training program held In the city commission room. The Wednesday after noon meeting, one of a series, initiated a 15 hour project involving the handling of a practical problem in burglary from the initial investigation through final court action. Law enforcement officers were here from the three central Oregon counties. Sgt. L. L. Hirtzel assisted Patterson in handling the class. Fremont Seoul Leaders Meet In Bend, Set Date for Circus Scout committeemen from three ' counties of the Fremont district Tneeting in Bend last night-set Saturday, May 20, as the date for .the 1950 Boy-Scout circus, to be held on Bruin field In Bend. Following a report from W. M. Romine, PWne ville, scout circus chairman, and Lowell L. Hirtzel, chairman for the Bend Kiwanians, sponsoring organization, the com mittee voted to change the date from May 13 to May 20, Leo B. Herbring, district chair District 41 School Board Will Condemn Condemnation proceedings have been launched by board of school district No. 41, Jefferson county and the district boundary board to obtain legal right to land on which it is proposed to erect the new Black Butte school, in the Metolius river area, it was learn ed here today. The proceedings are against Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Haglund, C. K. Morgret and others, owners of the site sought for school purposes. The present Black Butte school has been occupied for some 31 years, on forest service land. Last fall, voters of the district auth orized an $18,000 bond issue for a new school. The district recently was advised that this building must be erected on land owned by the district, not by the forest service. Thus it was necessary for the district to launch a move to obtain a site. M. A. Sharp,- chairman o2 the (Continued on Page 7) bie C. Borroto. The physician's written record of the injection plus his alleged admissions to hospital officials and investiga tors were allowed as evidence. 2. That the air embolism not cancer was the cause of death. Two medical experts were used to support this. 3. That Mrs. Borroto was alive when the injections were made. The state used the testimony of bedside nurse Elizabeth Rose to the effect she heard a "louder gasp" just before or at the time the needle was injected. 4. That the motive for the murder was mercy. This evidence was Introduced through admis sions allegedly made to Investi gators by Dr. Sander. . White-haired chief defense counsel Louis E. Wyman, 71, be gan his argument for the directed verdict by saving the state had failed to "establish beyond a rea sonable doubt that there Is a cor pus delecti in this case." The state had sought to prove that the air not cancer had caused Mrs. Borroto's death. Among those called In the state's case was Dr. Milton Helern, New York city deputy chief medical examiner, who said it was his be lief that air caused the death. Dr. Helpern was the 16th and final witness called by the state, FBI Instructor man, announced. July 9 to August 21 have been set as the dates for the summer camping season at Boy Scout camp Makualla on Crescent lake, Charles Over bay, district camping chairman of Bend, announced. Overbay urged the 18 representatives from insti tutions sponsoring Boy Scout troops to begin laying plans for the summer camp at once, inas much as a capacity camp is ex pected this season due to the re cent age adjustments in the scouting program. Shearer Present Harold J. Shearer, Klamath Falls, scout executive of the Mo doc area council, was present at what was the best attended meet ing of the district scout commit tee held in several years. Shearer announced a change in train itin erary for the 55 Boy Scouts from the area who will attend the na tional jamboree in Valley Forge Park, Pennsylvania next June. The scdut executive said that the (Continued on Page 5) Mercury Holds On Average Here Despite three nights of sub zero temperature, with the mer cury dipping to 19 below zero on one occasion, the average Feb ruary temperature was withtn one-tenth of a degree of the 48 year normal, 34.2 degrees, ob servers in charge of the Bend weather station reported today. Comparatively high day temper atures and a week of mild nighls brought the February tempera ture up to the long-time mean after the month got off to a chil ly start, with lows of -13, -19 and -17 recorded on the first three nights. February was an abnormally dry month, following January with Its record snow and heavy precipitation. Total precipitation this past month was only .29 of an Inch, compared with 1.34 Inch es for the longtime mean. Bend experienced a tempera ture spread of 79 degrees In Feb ruary, data for the 28 days re veal. High for the month was 60 degrees, recorded on two differ ent days, and the low was minus 19. A trace or more of precipita tion, mostly In the form of snow, fell on 17 different days. Records dating back 48 years show that the warmest Febru ary temperature ever recorded In Bend was 76 degrees, in 1924. The lowest was minus 26 degrees, in 1933. British Labor OriS&citii Plan By It. II. Sharkford (United I'reiu Staff CurrtHjndent London, March 2 (Hi Prime minister Clement R, Attlee told his new socialist cabinet today that he has decided to call a halt for the time being in the nation alization of British Industry. Attlee made his decision in the face of opposition from the left wing of his labor purty and the later danger of a substantial re volt. He was believed to have inter preted labor's narrow margin of victory in the general election last week as a sign that the country had had enough nationalization for the present. Labor won a ma jority of only seven seats over the combined opposition in the new parliament. The labor party had campaign ed for the general election on a platform promising nationaliza tion of the cement and sugar in dustries, meat distribution and water supply. , Attlee's decision means that the new government will make no at tempt to carry out that program. Decision Endorsed The new cabinet, meeting today for the first time, was understood to have endorsed Attlee's decision to proceed with a policy of less rather than more socialism. High on the agenda for today's meeting was preparation of the speech with which King George VI will open parliament formally next Monday. The king's speech traditionally is written by the government in power and outlines its legislative program for the coming year. As now envisioned, the speech will not mention nationalization. . The conservative opposition well may raise a delicate point in the subsequent debate by moving an amendment deploring the fail ure oj tne government to ask re peal of the act to nationalize the iron and steel industry, ellectlve next-Jan. l. Reliable sources said that,, as a matter of fact, the government is looking for a graceful way out of the steel act. Air Line Hard Hit by Walkout New York, March 2 dl'i Ameri can Air Lines, largest domestic passenger carrier, operated only 40 of its normal 201 originating flights today and an official of a striking union of maintenance workers predicted that all lis planes would be grounded by to night. The company said only that it was doing the best it could to operate despite the walk-out of the 4,600 workers who maintain and service its planes. It said It would refuse to nego tiate with the union, the Trans port Workers (CIOl while the strike is in effect. Bid: it said the strike was a success "from the union point of view." William Grogan, international vice-president of the union, said the company could not maintain even its curtailed schedules with out "jeopardizing safety." "The airplanes can't go long without getting service," he said. The line appealed by mail to its striking employes to return to work. It said it had "made gains" in New York and Chicago, but had "lost ground" in St. Louis and Nashville. Almost all picket lines were being crossed, however, a check of major cities showed. REA Gets Line Right-of-Way The Deschutes county court yesterday granted right-of-way tn rv,,i.-,.i intin t ;. . Inc., to construct a 23,000. v o I t i busi "f ,ril' ,he c""Rt u"rt re 1.'?!"" .111.1 J.S i The dead were identified as i""p mj rAii-iiuuiK ?!1.?.'l?Jl. Z Z '.IT; ,Z ZZLZZZ" highway. ' It also was disclosed at the court meeting that the county road department expended a to tal of $12,486 in anow clearing operations this winter. Among other business, the court authorized payment of cur rent county bills. Present for the session were C. L. Allen, judge; A. E. Stevens and E. E. Varco, commissioners, and George McAllister, roadmas- i ter. Bend Group Offers Views At Air Hearing An exhibit containing the views of Bend and Redmond on West Coast airline's application to pro vide service to central Oregon, yesterday was presented at a civ il aeronautics board hearing in Salem, by a six-man delegation. Making up the delegation were Howard W. Moffat and G. W. Mc Cann of Bend, and C. E. Thomp son, W. H. Stauffacher, J. C. Brown and Harold Clapp, of Redmond.- In its application West Coast has asked that it be allowed to replace United Airline service to the mid-state area. Harold Clapp, who made an oral statement supplementary to the Bend-Redmond exhibit, said that the central Oregon area primarily is Interested in improve cir serv ice, regardless of which carrier provides the service. OPINIONS VARY Salem, March 2 'IB Represen tatives from several Oregon and Washington cities appeared be fore a hearing by the U.b. civil aeronautics board here Wednes day on whether West Coast air lines should replace United Air lines in Salem and several other cities of the two states. Some favored retention of UAL. Others expressed dissatisfaction with present UAL service, bull others said they were neutral as long as their communities get adequate air service. The one-day preliminary hear ing in Salem was conducted by J. Earl Cox, CAB examiner. United Air lines representatives challenged CAB authority to per mit West Coast airlinefe to es tablish flights at Salerh, Bend a.nd Klamath Falls In Oregon and Bellingham in Washington. UAL now services those Cities, and UAL attorney Floyd Rett contended that the CAB could not suspend a permanent opera tions certificate. , Officials Present Officials of the West Coast and United Air lines attended the hearing but did not testify. They will go on record with formal testimony later before the fed eral board in Washington, D.C. Largest representations at the hearing here were from Salem, which favored United Air lines, and Klamath Falls, which ex pressed dissatisfaction with the present UAL service. The issue at stake was whether West Coast should be permitted to serve Portland, Salem, Corval lis, Eugene, North Bend, Coos Bay, Med ford, Klamath Falls, Bend and Redmond In Oregon. Salem city manager J. L. Fran zen said the capital city Is op posed to eliminating UAL from Salem but is not against West Coast operating here, if it does not conflict with United. Other witnesses from Astoria a.nd Eugene in Oregon and Ever ett in Washington favored con tinuation of West Coast service In their areas. Representatives from Medford and Klamath Falls urged airline service connecting their two communities. . After the hearing, Cox said the Washington, D.C, hearing orig inally set for March 13, had been postponed. The hearing probably will be held March 27. James Cellars of Astoria said West Coast has served that city adeauately for several years. He said Astoria favors extension of West Coast service to Salem and Klamath Falls. Harold C. Clapp, representing Bend and Redmond, said they wanted improved air service to Portland, other Oregon communi ties, Seattle and San Francisco. He said existing UAL service In Bend was not sufficient. 2 DIE IN PLANE CRASH Seattle. March 2 miA small private plane plunged into Puget sound off Bainbridge Island to day fatally injuring two broth ers who were en route from Seat tle to Port Angeles. Wash., on a ; r.pnn ami F-irl V Siithrrlnnrl i Trh,Xrf were b(.lvehd lot 'ho only occupants aboard the ill- fu,cd aJ5fifl I MOFFAT TO SPEAK Howard W. Moffat, Bend cham ber of commerce manager, will be guest speaker tomorrow evening at a meeting of the Tumalo grange, Vern Hartford, grange ecturer. announced. The meeting is scheduled for 8 oclock. Motion pictures on the atom bomb test at Bikini also will be shown, Hartford said. Gas Delivery Vo Clippers To Be Stucjied Indicating that Bend again will consider regulation of clipper, de livery oi gasoline to local sei-vice stations, Mayor T. D. Sexton Wednesday evening appointed a committee to investigate the sit uation and draw up an ordinance that would bar such deliveries. The action was taken at the first March meeting of the city com mission. Heading the committee will be W. O. Cuthbertson, city manager. Other members will be Ross Farnham, city attorney; Henry Casiday, chief of police, and Le Roy Fox, city fire chief. Commissioner W. J. Baer ob jected, when the matter first was raised, demanding to know whether or not members of the commission were to be consulted. Mayor Sexton assured him that only the appointment of a com mittee was involved in the. pre liminary move, and that the com mission would have ample oppor tunity for debate when the ordin ance is presented. Goodrich Opens Discussion The subject was opened by Al va Goodrich, local attorney, who mentioned that Redmond and Prineville have ordinances ban ning clipper gasoline deliveries. Representatives of several oil companies were In attendance, but took no part in the discus sion. Goodrich also elicited consider able discussion when he suggest ed that the rifle club building, lo cated on city property on" W. 14th street, be sold and the proceeds divided between the city and the ciuo. i ne city at a previous meet ing ordered the club to move Its building, after complaints had been voiced by adjoining proper ty owners tnat it constituted a nuisance. Baertagain objected, reminding Goodriih that the commission on severM previous occasions had of fered fhe club new building sites, and even had offered to lend cltv equipment for moving the club house. Sale Plan Presented The building now is located on a city-owned lot. Goodrich said that if it could be sold, subject to the building code insofar as alterations are concerned, and the proceeds divided on the ratio of four to one the club getting the larger share the funds would be available for construction of a new club house, probably outside the city limits. The commission finally voted unanimously to ac cept this proposal. An application by Clifford F. Dietz for a 100x400 section in the city industrial tract, for use in connection with a custom built furniture industry, was tabled un til the next meeting, ijendine a check with the chamber of com merce industrial committee. Di etz said he would erect a build ing on the land, if he obtains it, and start furniture manufactur ing. He would employ at least two men at the start, he said. Frank E. Moore sent a letter of protest to the commission complaining about double-parking in iront ot the post office build ing. Chief Casiday suggested that installation of parking meters, which would eliminate protract ed parking In the "free area," would remedy the situation. No action was taken by the commis sion. A petition signed by 26 resi (Continued on Page 5) Building Permits Amount to 34,87S During February Estimated value of buildings for which permits were Issued in bebruary is $.14,875, compared with $17,450 in the frigid Febru ary of 1949, data compiled by City recorder Leona Carrier today show. Thirteen building permits, several for construction of resi dences, were issued in February. The permits also Included one for renovation of the front of the Bend Hardware Co. building, at the corner of Bond and Minne sota. Work on that building In cludes replacement of a broken plate glass window, removal of a marquee. Installation of a ceramic tiling and painting of the front. A. Wilson Benold has the con tract. Permits Issued In February also cover a number of garages and building repair jobs. Persons to whom permits for construction of dwellings were issued here In February and the estimated cost of the work follow: Mllo O. Wood. $6,000, East Sec ond and Kearney; Frank Laursen, $7,000, Hawthorne and East 4th; $G.0OO, Walter and Robert E. Mar ken, Revere, in Wiestorla addi tion; $5,000, Charles Vlcrgas. Laf ayette and East 9th. President Truman Expected To Ask Congress for Power To Seize Mines, End Crisis By Robert E. Lee (I'nited Press Staff Correstonilent) Washington, March 2 U.E John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers union was acquitted today of civil and criminal con tempt charges growing out of the miners' refusal to call off their strike. Federal judge Richmond B. Keech's "not guilty" ruling left the next move in the coal crisis squarely up to the executive branch of the government. Barring an unexpected contract agreement, President Tru- Pioneer Dies John F. Stelwer John F. Stejwer Oregon Pioneer, Dies at Age oi 94 Portland, March 2 John F. Steiwer, 94, son of Oregon pio neers and father of the late Sen ator Frederick Steiwer, died here last night at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Clarence W. Walls. He had been seriously ill for the past several months. Mr. Steiwer, son of Frederick Steiwer and Susan Looney Stei wer, was born on the Frederick Steiwer donation claim tn Marion county, March 20, 1856, He attend ed Willamette university, and in May 1881, was married to Ada K. May, daughter of pioneers, at Sa lem. Mrs. Steiwer died in 1909. Children born to the Oregon pioneers were Mrs. Elmer T. Con- nell, Portland; the late Senator (Continued on Page 5) Potato Ring Rot Found, Controlled A case of ring rot In a central Oregon potato crop recently was detected in a very small lot in the mid-state area, according to a report from W. R. Stanard, district supervisor for the federal-state inspection service. Stanard staled that quarantine regulations and inspections for its clean up have been followed and completed. Since ring rot regulations have been In effect in this area, con stant observation has been made to make sure that this disease is kept under control, he added. Confusion of Ideas Over Bend Blood Unit Explained Some confusion and conflicting Ideas regarding the blood pro gram planned for Bend have been noted in the community as the 1950 Red Cross roll call gels un der way, Jack Halhrook, publici ty chairman for the campaign, reported today. He issued the fol lowing statement: "First of all, the present Red Cross campaign has nothing to do with the blood donor program. The campaign now in progress Is the regular campaign for funds. The announcement that Bend has been selected as a blood sub center was made lo call attention of residents of Deschutes county to one of the activities they are supporting when they make their contributions. "The blood donor program is a campaign unto Itself and will be handled by B. A. "Dutch" Stover. As soon as refrigerator facilities are available, which will be In the .next month or two and long before the new hospital Is completed, arrangements will be started to sign up blood donors. "When 500 people have been signed, the bloodmobile will come here from Portland with a trained man is likely to ask congress for power to seize the struck mines and thus end a crisis which the president himself today described as a very seri-. ous national emergency. Keech's ruling apparently up held the union's claim that the union's officers had done their best to comply with his no-strike order issued Feb. 11. Union attorneys contended that 370,000 miners have remained away from their jobs individual ly" by their own independent ac tion. Appeal Probable Assistant attorney general H. Graham Morlson said the govern ment "undoubtedly" will appeal the acquittal on the civil charge. It cannot appeal the criminal charge.- But an appeal would take time, and time is running out in the coal crisis. Keech's decision cleared the way for President Truman to take drastic action to get the miners back to work. Barring an early contract settlement which seems unlikely Mr. Truman is expected to ask congress Jpr pow er to seize the mines. . " Many miners have said they would resume digging under a "bona fide" government seizure with the miners working for the government and the profits going into the federal treasury instead of to the mine owners. Up to now, Mr. Truman has said he could take no further ac tion while the case was In the courts. But Keech's action remov ed that obstacle. Only this morning, Mr. Truman told his news conference that the coal crisis now Is a very serious national emergency. Rep. Eugene E. Cox, D., Ga., told the house today that the coal strike "has developed into an in surrection against the govern ment." "I would put it down if it calls for the use of every soldier In the country," Cox declared. ". . . . The ' president has -done the best he could in an amiable way . . . if he needs more power, I'm sure con gress will give it to him for the asking." Court Comments Judge Keech summed up his finding this way: "It may be that the mass strike of union members has been or dered .encouraged, recommended, instructed, induced, or in some wise permitted by means not ap pearing in the record," Keech said. "But this court may not con vict on conjecture, being bound to act only on the evidence before it, which is insufficient to support a finding of either criminal or civil contempt." UMW attorney Welly K. Hop-. (Continued on Page 5) staff to collect the blood which will be taken to Portland for typing and classification. The blood will then be sent to Bend for storage and use as needed. "Portland is one of 28 regional centers in the United Slates, and has all the laboratory equipment necessary for testing and separa tion. Under the national blood program, Bend becomes a small er center, or sub-eenler, where blood will be stored to make it more readily available." If further questions should arise, information may be ob tained by calling the local Red Cross headquarters, telephone 467, Halhrook said. The 1950 Red Cross roll call was formally launched In Des chutes county yesterday, with Harold Aspinwall, Bend, as roll call chairman. In Bend, volun teers are signing members in downtown Bend. Women will as sist in the residential districts, with Ben Hamilton to be in charge of Industrial plants. Rev. Robert Nicholas is chair man of the Deschutes county chapter of the American Red Cross.
