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Univ. of Ordgon Library E'J3S:i2, ORSUOU THE BEND ! BULLETIN Bend Forecast Bend and vicinity Fair to day, tonight and early Tues day; cloudy Tuesday after noon; high today 50-55; low tonight 25-30; high Tuesday 55-60. LEASED WIRE WORLD NEWS COVERAGE CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER 47th Year BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY. OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 3. 1950 No. 100 yucode Bridges Jury Still Studies Trial Evidence By Robert Blsckmon (Unitftl Prpus Staff Corretiiiontlcnt) San Francisco, April 3 IB A jury pondering the Harry Bridges perjury-conspiracy case made its second request to hear additional government evidence today as it continued its fourth day of de liberation. The jury of eight men and four women returned to Judge George B. Harris' courtroom and heard once again the testimony of George Wilson, Los Angeles newspaperman and admitted ex communist, who testified he was present at party meetings in San Francisco in the early 1940's which Bridges also attended. Wilson once was a close friend of Bridges, president of the CIO Longshoreman's and Warehouse ment's union. He was the only government witness not cross-examined by the defense during the Gl-day trial. No Hint of Verdict There was no indication that the jury was approaching a ver dict although it was evident the eight men and four women were studying the case with painstak ing care. They have reviewed the testimony of the government's key witness and the defense re buttal and inspected all of the 170 exhibits introduced at the trial. Since the jury got the ease Fri day, it has spent the time trying to decide whther Bridges swore falsely that he was not a commu nist at his citizenship hearing five years ago. Also at Issue was whether he conspired with two union lieuten ants, J. R. Robertson and Henry Schmidt, to defraud the govern ment, and whether Robertson and "-Schmidt aided and abetted Bridg es to commit a felony. Excured for Night If found guilty, they will each face maximum prison sentences of seven years and $15,000 in fines. Regardless of the jury's decision, the government will prosecute a separate civil suit to revoke Bridges' citizenship and deport him to Australia. The jury deliberated only three hours yesterday. It was excused for the night after one of its members, Yick Kuen Wong, an in surance agent and naturalized cit izen of Chinese descent, complain ed of an intestional disorder. Wong's illness was not believed to be" serious. However, Federal judge George B. Harris decided to give him a rest when he com plained' of feeling "weak." Earlier yesterday morning, the jurors went on a three-hour sight seeing tour in a chartered bus to Fishermen's wharf, Twin peaks. Golden Gate park, and the beach. Exhibits Asked After lunch, they began their deliberations. Within an hour, they sent several notes to the judge, one of which asked for all 170 exhibits in the long trial. A bailiff staggered into the jury room carrying a heavy stack of papers. Previously, the jurors had ask ed to re-hear portions of the (Continued on Page' 5i Central Oregon Gets Snow, Dust Snow and dust intermingled in central Oregon Sunday as winter battled with the advance forces of spring In the eastern Cascades. It was a blustery day in Bend, but none of the Cascade snow fell here. In the mountains to the west heavy snow fell through the day, and cars coming over mountain passes were covered with snow. It was estimated that as much as six inches of snow fell In the mid-state Cascades yesterday. Chilling squalls whipped over central Oregon through the day. and in some areas great clouds of dust moved into the northeast be fore the prevailing southwest wind. Dried by the arid weather of February and March, newly reclaimed lands of the Madras country that are'not yet anchored by clover or other crops were miniature dust bowls. Deschutes water is now flowing through the North unit canal, but had not yet reached the Madras lands. Great clouds of dust also drift ed over the high desert country to the east, at a time when heavy snow was falling along the Cas cades. Forecasts indicate that milder weather Is In the offing, following a minimum temperature of 16 above in Bend last night. N Jaycees Sponsor Kite Flying Contest in Bend rr.r:..- Jt. i Some future 'flying saucers" may have originated on Bend's Harmon playfield Sunday afternoon, when the Jaycees sponsored a kite flying contest. Some of the kites, whipped by a high wind, broke away and drifted into the northeast. Top, start of one of the contests. Below, some of the win ners. A few of the kites were badly battered by the high wind. Largest kite is pictured at left, in bot tom picture. It was entered by Tom Carter. Ralph Baker, Jaycee, is leaning over the kite. Prineville Host To School Music Festival Groups Prineville, April 3 Prineville was host to more than 900 school musicians, for the second half of the central Oregon music festival Saturday. Bend schools sent the largest delegation, with approxi mately 300 representing the Des chutes county seat. Individuals and groups who re ceived ratings of "1" in the Sat urday contests, and those held Friday in Bend, will be eligible for participation in a state-wide music festival to be held in Eu gene, later this spring. . Prineville groups winning "1" rating included the Crook county high school triple trio and Anne Stearns, soprano sololist. The triple trio is composed of Ardys Houston, Patsy Loveland, Anne Stearns, Vivian Prease, Marilyn Page, Adrienne McRae, Betty Dorn, Marijo Stump and Joan Chalfant. Bethel Hoskinson was their accompanist. Ratings of "2" were won by the Crook county grade school band and chorus groups of the high school and grade schools. A boys' glee club of the Crooked River grade school received a "3" rat ing. Bend Units Nnircl The Bend high school band and the Bend high school a cappella choir received "1" ratings. Bend groups receiving "2" ratings were the Bend junior high band, the Bend high school orchestra, the Bend junior high choir, the junior high girls' glee and the junior high boys' glee. The Bend senior high choir received a "3", The Redmond high school band, Redmond grade school band and Redmond grade school girls' glee received "1" ratings. Norman K. Whitney, supervisor of music in Prineville schools and host music master at the Satur day festival, declared the event "most successful." He expressed high praise of the quality of training reflected in numbers presented by the guest groups. Climaxing the day's activities was a festival concert Saturday evening at the Ochoco grade school auditorium, with outstand ing groups from both days' audi tions taking part. Bend participants In the festi val concert included the high school a cappella choir, a high school quartet composed of Ron ald Benson, Richard Daoust, Ed Kribs and Walter Rhoton, and Bill Niskanen, baritone soloist, who sang "Three for Jack." MOKE DIMES RECEIVED Deschutes county's 1950 March of Dimes campaign, although of ficially closed, has received con tributions In recent days which brought the total to $6,760.51. only S-10 short of the $7,000 quota, Mrs. : Robert Bednasek, 24, be found i size In approximately eight ficials feed the trout late In the J. F. Arnold, county director, said! guilty of first degree murder for. months. At present, he said, the; afternoon. Arrangements for the today. The most recent contrlhu- the death of his campus sweet-1 fish consume an average of 800 open house were made by Mor tlon was a donation of an addi- heart, but made no plea for t:iei pounds of fish food dally. Hon and Clarence Smith, of Cemp tional $26.45 from Redmond. I death penalty. I Eggs for the fingerlings were I Sherman. oke Addis to? Submarine Mystery Kife Flying Contest Staged On Harmon Field, Despite Handicap of Strong Wind Braving a blustery April wind, Jaycees of Bend sponsored a kite-flying contest ori Harmon playfield Sunday after noon and today the. sponsors awaifed the receipt of "flying saucer" news front the northeastern part of the state. These reports, Jaycees believe, can be traced to kites lost by con- teat entries. . Erratic winds, which at times reached an estimated velo New Grand Jury Picked by Clerk; Court in Session Seven persons were selected this morning to serve on the Des chutes county grand jury as the opening session of the spring term of the circuit court began at the court house in Bend. Capsules drawn by County clerk Helen M. Dacey contained the names of James L. Grindle, Bernice Hoogner, George R. Brick, Josephine Scott, James DeRocher, Vida H. Ray, and Frank J. Eikstead. Brick was named by Circuit judge Ralph S. Hamilton to serve as foreman of the jury. In his Instructions to the grand jury members Judge Hamilton explained that the jury's primary duty is to hear testimony and decide if evidence in certain crim inal cases is sufficient to war rant a trial by jury. Judgment Asked Following selection of the grand jury, the first case on the cir cuit court docket was brought before the court as attorneys be gan questioning talismen in the case of Dewey Shobert, plaintiff, versus Tim O'Keefe, defendant. According to the complaint filed In circuit court by Shobert, the plaintiff Is asking a udg ment of SG456 against O'Keefe for Injury which he allegedly suffered when struck in the face by the defendant in May, 1949. Shobert charges that the blow broke glasses which he was wear ing and caused a serious injury to his left eye. Much Snow Found At Paulina Lake Using a "motorized toboggan" with an endless belt to which cleats were attached, two Bend men, Rny Miller and Kenneth Euston, yesterday made a trip over the Newberry crater snow- fields to Paulino lake. They found 5 '.4 feet of icy snow covering the) area and blanketing the cabins. Miller and Euston report no; sign or any Droan in tne tnick ice that covers Paulina lake. using ine equipmcni which ; thev devised and assembled, the" two men had little difficulty in crossing the 9 miles of snow and, returning. Their "tandem tobog. gan" is powered by a 22 horse power engine. DEATH NOT ASKF.I) Iowa City, la., April 3 'tr The i prosecution demanded today that, 4f jmt x city of 35 miles an hour, whip ped seyeral kites away from participants, and broke the anchor strings of others. Ent rants losing kites included Everett LeRoy, 8. His kite was sailing high and majes tically in the cloud-flecked sky when it broke away and drifted into the northeast. Many Torn Other kites were lorn to shreds by the stiff wind. The contests were held in vari ous age devlsion, with prizes awaiting practically all entrants. John Laylon was in general charge for the Jaycees, assisted by oilier members. Largest kite was entered by Tom Carter, who was aided in the launching by his father. It was a massive kite, made of cloth. Its already long tail was given additional ballast, to off set the stiff winds aloft. A kite entered by Dennis Mer- ritt reached the highest altitude, I what extent Lattimore is dietat and soared well above the Mirror 1 1'iR state department policy. pond pines. Spectators were sure it went even higher than Pilot butte. Everett LeRoy's lost kite was judged the highest and fast est it was headed into (he strat osphere and racing rapidly into I the .northeast when it disap- peared. Kalph 1 owner, 10, enter- ed the kite that scored highest in his age group, in the gil ls' di - (Continued on Page 7) Wizard Falls Hatchery Open House Draws Many Visitors The eyes of several hundred taken from East lake last No trout fishermen gleamed wlih an-ivember. After eyeing at the Fall ticlpation y e s t e r d a y , as they j river hatchery, the resulting watched thousands of shimmer- young fry were transferred to Ing rainbows swim before th?m ' oval ponds at Wizard Falls, where at the Wizard Falls trout hatch- they started feeding on February cry north of Sisters. The occasion was the first birthday celebration of the open ing oi tne natciiery in At tending the open house, soon sored by the Sisters chamber of commerce, were an estimated 500 persons. On display were approximately 150.000 legal size rainbow trout, many of which will soon be re leased into streams ami lakes of central Oregon for the opening of the trout fishlin? season next month. Another estimated 1.000.- 000 eastern brook fingerlings ni-! so were on view. ctnt over last year. When ni'W KggH From Eattt Luke i holding ponds are completed lat According to Gene Morton, su-'01- ,hls spring, he said, the num perintendent of the hatchery, the her of fish being produred will rainnow trout were nnteneu from eggs taken from East lake last spring and attained their present Heavy Voting lakes Place In Election ' Bend's advisory election on the daylight time and dog tie-up ques tions apparently was attracting an unusually large vote today. At 1 oclock this afternoon, votes were being slipped into a padlocked ballot box at the rate of about one a minute. However, the number jot votes cast at that hour was not known, inasmuch as the advisory ballots are not numbered. Both questions are on the same ballot. They are: "Do you favor daylight saving time?" "Do you favor continuing the doe tie-up ordinance?" These questions were reierreo; to tne people by the city commission ot its special meeting last week. Trend Not Known The trend in the advisory vote was not known, the voting place, in the city commission room on Wall street, will remain open un til 8 p.m. Polling started this morning at 10 o clock. Up until the noon hour one'bal' lot box was filled with votes. At 1 p.m., the second box was lust about filled, members of the elec tion board reported. On the board are Mrs. Sam Griffith, Mrs. J. F. Arnold and Mrs. H. R. Longley. All persons over 21 are prlv ileged to vote. Registration is not necessary. The election is being handled by a single board, and no returns will be announced until after polls close at 8 p.m. McCarthy flans Washington, April 3 U'i Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy disclosed to day that he knows the secret rec ommendations made by Owen Lattimore on far eastern policy, and intends to reveal them if the state department won't do so. The Wisconsin republican is sued a formal statement through his secretary at the naval hospital at Bethesda, Md., where he is un dergoing a minor sinus operation. At a recent press conference Secretary of state Dean Acheson said that Lattimer and 27 other persons had filed recommenda tions on far eastern policy with the state department. Lattimore, a Johns Hopkins professor, has been accused by McCarthy of be ing a soviet spy. "I note with Interest the state department's statement that this Lattimore report was so impor tant and of such a confidential na ture that, the American people were not entitled to know its con tent," McCarthy said. "On this I heartily differ, because I feel the American people should know to No Conference "I feel, therefore, that if the serretai v nf state tines not Imme. diately make the Lattimore roc- ommendatlons known to the! American people it will be my duty as a United States senator to do so. McCarthy had been scheduled 'to hold a news conference in his 'room at the hospital. j IS. At present they are a little over six weeks old, and ar.? fed 'primarily on a diet of ground liv er. Production Higher I Also on display was n special ; pond In which fall spawning rain I how trout are being raised as an i experiment. They were trans ! ferred from the Oak Springs ; "'chtM"y n(,"r MnlI)ln ln Dpec'm- ber. I Morton reported that the pro- duction of legal size trout at the na,chery has Increased 50 per uc mi-u-ns hkchii. visitors yesterday had an op- portunltv to watch hatcherv of' Boy Scout Executive Board Members Hold Meeting Here, Outline Rendezvous Program Boy Scout executive board members from the seven tnun- ties of the Modoc council met conference of its kind in this city in many years, and set the date for the annual Modoc rendezvous. This rendezvous, featuring a display of scout camping by the 48 troops in the two-state council, will be held on June 3 and 4, at Spring creek, in Klanuith cniintv Bend Choir ! Will Appear In Portland The 65-voice Bend high school a cappella choir, rated "I" in the central Oregon competitive music festival this past week end, will sing Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. in the Civic auditorium in Portland, at the annual meeting of the Oregon Education association. The high school music students will leave Tuesday at 5 a.m., ac companied by Don P. Pence, school music supervisor, and Mrs. Pence. The trip will be made In two special chartered Trailways ouses. Tne group will start back to Bend Tuesday evening, arriv ing at about 1 a.m. Wednesday. The choir members, in their blue and gold robes, will sing sev eral numbers, including their fes tival selections: "Charlottown," arranged by Charles F. Bryon; "Soon Ah Will Be Done," arrang ed by William L. Dawson, and "Wake, Awake," by F. Melius Christiansen. Also on the pro gram will be the Simeone ar rangement of "Dark Eyes," Pence said. As final preparations for the trip were being made today, an in vitation for trie choir to sing to morrow at 11 a.m. at an assembly at Lewis and Clark college was received by Pence. The Invitation was extended by E. Stanley Glar um, choral director at the college, who wis one of the judges at the centrarOregon competitive music festival hriday in Bend. Portland Wants Smog Control . Portland, April 3 Ui Prelimin ary draft of a proposed ordinance for control of "smog" in Portland was drawn by today by a special committee appointed by Mayor Dorothy McCullough Lee. Chairman J. Donald Kroeker said the presence of "fumes, mal odorous gases and noxious acid vapors" in Portland's atmosphere had been confirmed by "a real istic layman's appraisal." During favorable atmospheric temperatures and air movements, he said, most contaminating ma terial is carried to the upper at mosphere and Is no problem. "However, much of our weath er does not contain these favor able conditions, with the result that the contaminations are not removed to a sufficient height to be eliminated." He said "smog ' control in Port land could be effective only If "narallnl nmpi-nms of controlling i emissions In neighboring areas ore pursued." Birthday Party Held at Wizard Shown Inspecting the Wizard Falls trout hatchery north of Sisters are a few of the estlmnted 500 persons who visited the hatchery yesterday. The occasion was an open house, sponsored by the Sisters chamber of commerce, in honor of the first anniversary of the opening of the liatrhei v.'ln the fore ground Is one of 19 circular nursery ponds, each oi which presently contain approximately 55.000 eastern brook trout fingerlings. in Bend Sunday, for the first There were 14 board mem bers here Sunday for the meeting, held in the city hall. Last year at the camping rendezvous, nearly 600 scouts and leaders joined in a three day display of scout camping techniques, over the Memorial day week end. However, this year's rendezvous will be a two day event, since Memorial clay comes on a Sunday. Kenneth Pearson, field scout executive, with headquarters in Bend, was named to direct the event, Cal Peyton, council camping chair man, has announced. Seek Mosquito Control In otHer action considered at the Bend conference Sunday, the board voted to enlist the aid of the bureau of entomology at Eu gene to launch a mosquito control project at the Crescent lake Boy Scout summer camp, to eliminate mosquitos in the high mountain camp, which will open on July 9. Ted Durment, Klamath Falls, announced that the total member- (Continued on Page 7) Building Permits Lower in March Thirty-three building permit covering construction estimated at $69,795 were issued from the office of the Bend city recorder m Marco, data .released toda; from the 'city office show:' Th March figure is well below that ror the same month last year, when the total was $163,510. Dwelling permits issued in March aggregated $40,500. Under miscellaneous construction were listed buildings with an aggre gate valuation of $21,500. Other items follow: Garages, 1,860; re pair of dwellings, $4,300; repair of non dwellings, $1,635. Included in dwelling construc tion for which permits were is sued in March were the follow ing: Clifford I-aursen, Sixth and Kearney, $5,000; W. E. Daum. East Kearney, $7,000; Lvle H. Smith, 532 Portland, $2,000; C. D. Ebner, South Third, $6,500. To Build Warehouse George Salicls received a per mit to erect a warehouse at an estimated cost of $6,000. Jerome R. Hooke, North First and Web ster, was granted a residence and business building construction permit. Value of the work was es timated at $7,000. R. C. Robin son received a permit to con struct a warehouse on East 1st, with $850O estimated as the cost of the building. Although the construction started here in March was com paratively light, inquiries being received at the city office point to heavy construction through the spring months. Vacant Boat Found at Sea, Oonay Missing Avalon, Calif., April 3 (IPi A suicide note was found in the hotel room of a convicted traitor who vanished shortly before a mysterious submarine was re ported off the coast of California, but sheriff's Capt. Garner Brown said today it is impossible to know whether it actually was written by Theodore Donay. Brown said In Los Angeles, thai constables at Catalina were mall'.ng him the original of the longhand note. Donay, 51-year-old Detroit im porter convicted in 1943 as a traitor for aiding Hans Peler Krug, an escaped nazl prisoner of war, rented a motorboat here yesterday and said he would be back in an hour. The boat was found adrift in the open sea 10 hours later. Five hours and 20 minutes aft er the motorboat was found, coast guardsmen at the Point. Arguello light station 150 miles north of here reported they sight ed a modern-type submarine eight miles offshore. Lookouts at the guard lifeboat station near by also saw the craft. Not American It "definitely was not one of ours," they said. (In Detroit, Donay's brother Felix, said it was "just plain silly" for anyone to connect Don ay's disappearance with the sighting of the submarine. He also said that "he didn't seem despondent and he wasn't the type to take his life.") ' The suicide note found in Don ay's hotel room here accused a 'Witness at his treason trial of perjury. Donay said "this is my last . and true statement" and complained that he lucked money lo appeal to the supreme court. "Good bye, my friends, and thank you so very much for all the good things you did to me," he concluded. The note was sign ed, "Theodore Donay." Avalon police said the man identified as Donay had purchas ed 10 feet of galvanized chain, 10 spools of soft soldering wire a.nd a pair of pliers before he left the harbor. Navy Silent Naval intelligence officers re fused to talk about the reported submarine and made no attempt publicly to link it with Donay's disappearance. Homicide officers listed Donay simply as a missing person and possible suicide. A navy airplane crisscrossed the area methodically in search for the unidentified craft yester day until fog forced it to return to its base. An officer said mere ly that results were "negative." Civilian authorities also launch ed a search for Donay's body. It was reported that naval in telligence officers were investi gating the possibility that, some. one could have landed on the mainland from the sub. The navy did not confirm this report' however. The Los Angeles FBI office (Continued on Page 71 Falls Hatchery x
