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CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
47th Year
TWO SECTIONS BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1950
No. 104
Geologists Find Evidence of Buried Forest
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Political Refuge in Czechoslovakia
Requested by Family of Americans
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Evidence that the Gateway region of Jefferson county long ages ago was the scene of a major flood
that uprooted trees has been found by Deschutes Geology club members. Inspecting the mold left
by an-ancient tree is John Stewart, member of the Bend club. Rhinoceroses remains and fossil fish
have been found in these same beds. Ralph W. Chaney, Carnegie institution paleobotanist, has an
nounced that a white oak forest grew in the area.
Deschufes Grand Jury Hits
At Condition of Courthouse
In its report to Circuit judge Ralph S. Hamilton, the grand
jury for the spring term of court stated that "in some re
spects" it had found the courthouse building in a "deplorable
condition."
The jury members found some of the walls in the building
"disgracefully dirty" and recommended a program of clean
ing and painting to be started at once, according to the re
port. Also recommended wasT
the . replacement with chairs
of "the old back-breaking
benches" in the assembly
room.
Besides the courthouse, ' the
grand jury also inspected the city
jails in Bend and Redmond, and
the county jail atop the court
house. It found all three to be in
excellent shape, except that it was
felt by members that mattresses
should be provided for inmates of
the county jail.
The jury also reported that it
was "greatly impressed" with the
Deschutes county Sunset home
and its management. '
Following is the complete text
of the grand jury's report:
"We, the grand jury drawn for
the spring term of court com
mencing April 3rd, 1950, desire to
report that we have finished the
investigation of all criminal cases
brought to our attention by the
district attorney and no other
criminal cases have come to our
attention.'
We further report that we
have Inspected the county jail in
the court house and the city jails
in Bend and Redmond: also other
county property and now make
the following statements and rec
ommendations in regard thereto:
"We found that the county jail
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Truman Proposal for Boost
In Compensation Unpopular
Bv Rex Chanev
(United Press Staff Corresiwndent)
Washington, April 7 IF Con
gress today appeared likely to
consign President Truman's pro
posal for expanding the unem
ployment compensation program
to its fileand-forget basket.
Although many of Mr. Tru
man's supporters in congress
voiced sympathy for his plan,
they said that time and the pres
sure of other business probably
would prevent action at this ses
sion. But members who expressed
these views believed a sudden
slackening in business and em
ployment, with a consequent in
crease in unemployment, would
bring much greater pressure for
boosting unemployment benefits.
Such conditions, they said, could
result In quick action.
In a special message to con
gress yesterday, the president
asked that unemployment com
pensation coverage be extended to
another 6,000.000 workers; that
benefits be Increased, and that
workers In all states be author
ing to draw unemployment bene
fits for at least 26 weeks. '
Floor KmrirfMitpd
Mr. Truman did not ask con
gress to disturb the present fed
eral. state relationship under
which states are primarily re.
sponsible for their own programs.
He recommended onlv that con
gress establish a floor below
which the states could not go in
distributing benefits.
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In Gang Killing
At Kansas City
Kansas City, Mo April 7 (IP
Local and state police raced
against time today to find the ex
pert assassins who killed demo
cratic boss Charles Binaggio and
his hoodlum henchman Charles
Gargotta.
City, state and county officials
cooperated in an all-out drive to
learn the killers' identities.
They feared that otherwise
Kansas city might experience a
wave of such gang type slayings
as the men behind the killers fol
lowed up on the BinaggioGar
gotta slayings or as the victims'
friends sought revenge.
A deputy coroner, Joe Connors,
said bluntly that he expected "to
view many more bodies in the
next few weeks."
Investigators believed that Bi
naggio and Gargotta were killed
by two men whom they appar
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The present federal unemploy
ment compensation program is
rjart of the social security law. Re
vision of that act is under study
by the senate finance committee.
Chairman Robert L. Doughton,
D.. N. C, doubted if his house
ways and means committee could
get around to considering any
kind of unemployment compen
sation changes until late in the
session unless the senate does
something first.
Sen. George Doubtful
Senate finance committee chair
man Walter F. George. D., Ga.,
was doubtful whether the senate
would do anything about Jobless
benefits during its consideration
of social security. He pointed out
that his committee concluded
hearings without going into the
problem.
Despite these. Indications that
Mr. Truman's proposal will be
pigeonholed, house democratic
leader John W. McCormack drop
ped a bill into the hopper to carry
out the recommendations. He said
the bill "is one of the most Impor
tant pieces of legislation to com
bat the effects of unemployment
presented to the congress this
year."
Three ways and means commit
tee democrats Reps. Alme J.
Forand. R. I.. Cecil R. King,
Calif., and Herman P. Eberharter,
Pa. congratulated Mr. Truman
for his recommendation and ex
pressed hope that congress would
act speedily.
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Cities League
Meeting Slated
In Bend April 14
City budgeting, local improve
ment planning and financing,
proposed state - legislation, and
many other items of current in
terest to city officials and civic
leaders of this area will be on
the agenda of a regional League
of Oregon Cities dinner meeting
which has been scheduled for
April 14, 7 p.m., at the Pilot Butte
inn, in Bend.
Mayor T. D. Sexton nas issued
invitations to the mayors, council
men, and other city officials of
the area, and delegations are ex
pected from Culver, Madras,
Prineville, Redmond and Sisters.
The Bend meeting is the 16th of a
series of 22 such regional meet
ings being conducted throughout
the state this spring, which arc
expected to draw a total attend
ance of more than 1,000 town and
city officials.
To Discuss Budgets
In announcing the Bend dinner
meeting, League president Hollis
S. Smith, mayor of Dallas, said
the 1950 meetings have been
timed to coincide with the plan
ning of city budgets for the new
fiscal year and that he felt that a
great deal of value could be de
rived by the city officials through
an' opportunity of exchanging
ideas, experiences, and comments
on the many mutual financing
problems presently faced by these
officip's. He stressed the fact that
the meeting will be devoted large
ly to Informal round-table dis
cussions with full opportunity
for the several city delegations
to present their particular prob
lems. In addition to city officials of
Deschutes county, the meeting
will be attended by League presi
dent Smith; Deane Seeger, league
consultant, and Arnold M. West
ling, planning and public works
consultant, bureau of municipal
research and service, University
of Oregon.
Disasters Take
Toll of 225 Lives
(Br Unitt Prtu)
A toll of 225 persons dead or
missing was counted today in
Holy, week train, flood, bus and
ferryboat disasters in Europe and
South America. '
The worst disaster was In Bra
zil, where a passenger train
packed with Easter holiday vaca
tioners plunged from a flood
weakened bridge Into the Indicu
river. Forty-seven persons were
known dead and 40 were listed as
missing.
At least 60 persons were be
lieved drowned in Portugal when
a ferryboat capsized. Another 50
persons were reported dead or
missing in a flood in southern
Ecuador.
In Spain, 19 persons died when
a train broke In two while round
lng a curve and three cars plung
ed Into a 20-foot gorge.
The Brazilian wreck occurred
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Trailways Plan
New Division
Setup in June
Effective in "J u n e, Pacific
Trailways will make a major
change in east-west operations of
its bus service,trat will shut the
present division point on the Portland-Boise
run from Bend to
Hampton, officials of the line an
nounced today. The change is ne
cessary to equalize the division,
which was thrown off balance
from a mileage standpoint,
through construction of the
Warm Springs cutoff into Port
land. When the new route into Port
land was opened in 1949, Trail
ways officials said such a change
probably would be necessary, but
that Bend would remain the di
vision jJoint until a thorough
study had been completed.
Offsetting the eastward shift of
the divisloij to Hampton, various
changes in Trailways operations
are being made that are bringing
drivers to Bend for stops between
daily runs, William Niskanen,
Trailways official, reports.
Continue to Hampton
Under the east-west division
change that will be inaugurated
in June, drivers operating out of
Portland will continue through
Bend to Hampton, end of tha di
vision. From that point new driv
ers will take over the buses for
the runs eastward to Boise, on
the Interstate line that reaches
from Portland to Salt Lake City.
Boise drivers, in turn, will take
buses west to Hampton, rest
there, then return to Boise.
Families of drivers on the Portland-Hampton
run will live in
Portland. Some 10 drivers will be
affected by the June clrange,lt
was indicated. There is a possi
bility that some of the Boise driv
ers may bid on the Hampton
Portland division jobs, on a sen
iority basis.
Apartments are being con
structed at Hampton to accommo
date drivers who end their divi
sions at that noint.
Distance Main Factor
Under the present arrange
ment, drivers on the Portland
Bend division complete their 8-
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Brooks Memorial
Service
Monday
Memorial services for Harry
K. Brooks, Bend lumberman who
died suddenly in Sacramento,
Wednesday evening, victim of a
heart attack, will be held at Trin
ity Episcopal church in Bend
Monday at 10 a. m., it was an
nounced here today. On that same
afternoon funeral services for
Mr. Brooks will be held in Wi
nona, Minn., with Interment to
be made in the Brooks family
mausoleum.
Rev. Fred A. Wissenbach, rec
tor of Trinity Episcopal church,
will be In charge of the local
services. Friends of the family
are being invited to attend the
rites, arranged by Rev. Wissen
bach at the request of the fam
ily. The family has also requested
that friends wishing to pay trib
ute to Mr. Brooks do so by mak
ing contribution to the St. Charles
memorial hospital fund, rather
than by sending flowers either
to the local rites or to Minneso
ta. Memorial funds, in lieu of
flowers, will be handled locally
by Carl A. Johnson.
Thomas F. Brooks, son of the
Bend lumber official, and his
wife, Neva, left yesterday after
noon for Sacramento, to complete
arrangements for the removal of
the body to Winona. They will
accompany the body east, and
will be Joined by Mrs. Brooks'
daughter, Mrs. Howard Staples,
of Seattle.
Mr. Brooks was stricken In
Sacramento when returning from
Palm Springs, where with Louis
Weber, he had spent the winter.
STORMY EASTER DUE
Portland, April 7 MI'i The
weatherman said today that pros
pects for fair Easter weather In
Oregon were dim.
A new storm front moving to
ward the Pacific Northwest from
Alaska and a deep cold air mass
off the Oregon coast will provide
unstable conditions for the week
end, the weather bureau said. er, Jav Kalin, Seattle, Wash., and this summer. At a council meet
The storm front is expected to Mrs. Ward. j lng Wednesday night. Grants
reach Portland by Saturday Funeral services will be In Port- Pa.ss city fathers passed an ordl
night. Western Oregon is to have; land, from the Pearson parlors, nance placing this southern Ore-
occasional showers and scat-1
tcred showers arc forecast east!
of the Cascades.
Employment
Shows Gain
During March
Unemployment in central Ore
gon continued a downward trend
during the month of March,
Clark A. Price, manager of Bend
office of the state employment
service, announced loday.
According to Price, the num
ber of unemployed persons drop-
pea to izuu py tne-enu of the
month, compared to a figure of
1500 aj the end of February.
He attributed the increase in
employment to these three fac
tors:
1. Weather conditions during
the month favorable to logging,
construction, and agriculture.
z. "caii Dacks of workers en
gaged in these industries.
S. The opening up of many
new work opportunities In other
lines of business and Industry.
Claims Decline . ,
Price also announced that con
tinued .claims at his office had
dropped to 4144 at the end of
March, as compared to 4962 a
month ago. He attributed this, in
part, to the referral by his office
of 280 applicants, including 120
claimants, to employment oppor
tunities. He said that he considered the
unemployment, figure of 1200
small for this time of year, point
lng out that his office serves an
area which embraces a popula
tion of approximately 45,000.
The office received 177 iob
openings in Maoch, compared to
82 in February and 92 a year
ago. These openings, he said,
represented a variety of 82 oc
cupations. Among those filling
the openings were persons re
cently given aptitude and pro-
ficency tests by the employment
service.
Although the tourist season is
still a month or so away, openings
for workers In restaurants and
hotels are coming Into liis office
rapidly. Price reported
SITUATION BRIGHTER
Salem, April 7 (U'i Nearly 20.
000 workers returned to their jobs
in Oregon during March, the state
employment service reported to
day. But a new influx of job-seekers
held the actual monthly gain
to 16.0011. .
Local offices of the service said
58,665 persons still were looking
for work. 10.5 per cent fewer than
a year ago and about 40,000 under
the winter peak early in Febru
ary. Klamath Falls reported 2.400
without jobs, an increase of 375
during March. Reports about new
industries opening up brought
hundreds across the California
border, officials said.
The only other Oregon commu
nity with more unemployment
April 1 than a month before was
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Oregon Pioneer,
Mrs. Kalin, Dies
Mrs. Belle Kalln, 90, who as a
small girl crossed the plains In a
covered wagon with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Archibald Harris,
Oregon pioneers, and passed
through the village af Prineville
when the lone business establish
ment was the composite store and
blacksmith operated by Barney
Prine. died here last night. Death
occurred at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. E. V. Warrl. Mrs.
Kalin was a resident of Portland,
and was here to spend Easier
week with her daughter.
Mrs. Kalin had been in falling
health for several months, but de
spite her weakened condition In
sisted on coming to Bend for her
annual Easter visit with her
daughter.
Came Wi sl In 1879
A native of Chattanooga. Tenn.,
Mrs. Kalin, then 11 years old. was
In a wagon train that came to
Oregon about 1879. an eroute to
the upper Willamette valley. The
train passed through the urooked
river valley, a part of Wasco coun
ty In pioneer days. Mrs. Kalln re
called that there were only a few
scattered houses on the present
site of Prineville at the time. Only
a few years before, the first set
tlers had moved Into the Crooked
river basin, from Linn and Lane
counties.
The Kalln family apparently
crossed the Cascades over the
Santiam, and settled at Browns
ville. Later the family moved to
Portland, some 60 years ago.
Surviving children are Mrs. C
C. McCoy. Portland, who was here
i when her mother died
one broth
According to tentative plans, theigon city on fast time effective
rites will be held Monday after 2 am. April 30, to continue until
noon. 2 a.m. Sept. 24.
Easter Sunrise
Service at 5:30
Sunday Morning
The community Easter sunrise
service sponsored by the young
people of the churches represent
ed in the Bend Ministerial associ
ation will be held ugain this year
on Pilot butte at 5:30 a.m. Speak
er for the occasion will be Hev
J. A. Parliman, missionary from
Gambia, Africa.
Music will be provided by a
brass quintet composed of Shir
ley Brown, Sally Siate, Jim Over
bay, John Overbay itnd Leonard
Andis. Young people of the va
rious churches will be in com
plete charge of the service. Eula
Chavls Is chairman of the com.
mittee on arrangements.
The committee stressed that
everyone will be welcome at the
service, although the young peO'
pie's groups are plunning the
program. Following the sunrise
service Easter breakfasts will be
held In several of the churches
In the event that the weather
Is stormy the sunrise service will
be held at the First Presbyterian
church.
Four Northwest
Residents Die
In Accidents
(By United Pre)
At least four persons were dead
and three others were m north
west hospitals today as a result
of traffic and industrial accidents,
A train-truck smash killed
Amos Franklin Wyatt and his
wife. Osiii. at .a grade crossing
south of Medford, Ore., last night.
Their 6-year-old son, Frankie, es
caped serious Injury when the
northbound Southern Pacific
passenger train plowed into the
Prospect, Ore., family's vehicle.
Gordon Honeyman, 60, Ladner,
B.C., was killed instantly when
the car he was driving collided
with a truck eight miles south of
Bellingham, Wash. His widow
was in the hospital with serious
internal injuries and broken legs.
The Honeymans were on their
way to Sedro Woolley, Wash., at
the time of the mishap on the
Samish highway, the state patrol
reported.
Fall Costs IJfe
J. Bucai, 49, Tacoma, Wash.,
electrician, died in the hospital
after falling 40 feet from a lad
der while working near Baker
dock.
A five-gallon can of stove oil
exploded and seriously burned
Carl Gitchell, 43, Aberdeen,
Wash., yesterday as he attempted
to pour the oil on a fire In a wood
stove.
Ray Perkins, 55, Spokane,
Wash., fell two stories down an
elevator shaft but suffered only
shoulder injuries and head bruis
es. A cement worker, Perkins was
working Inside the shaft when
he lost his grip and fell.
Two navy men escapetl injury
when their plane became caught
In a downdraft and forced them
to crash-land on a mountain mea
dow high in Washington's Cas
cade mountains.
Pilot Chief petty officer George
Llppencott of Wenatchee and pas
senger Machinist's mate 1c Ken
neth Baker hiked four miles
through waist-deep snow to reach
Stevens pass highway after Llp
pencott flew the light Aeronca
plane vertically between two
towering pine trees to reach the
clearing.
Santiam Summit
Snow 142 Inches
Depth of snow ut the Santiam
summit yesterday was. 142 indies,
with the top three Inches dry and
powdery. Hill Lauderback, mana
ger of the Santiam lodge and re
sort grounds, reported when in
Bend yesterday afternoon. Skiing
conditions for the week end are
excellent, he reported. Sunny
weather prevailed along the di
vide yesterday.
At the Hoodoo howl tows are
operating through the week. Ear
lier this week, spring snow fell
along the Cascades and spilled
over Into central Oregon.
fill ANTS PASS JOINS
Grants Pass, April 7 dli An
other Oregon city has Joined the
growing list of communities
switching to daylight saving time
State of Washington Man
Blames Truman Government;
May Give Up Citizenship
Prague, Czechoslovakia, April 7 (U.E) George S. Wheeler,
42, of Rolling Bay, Wash., asked the communist government
today to ullow him and his family to remain in Czechoslo
vakia as political refugees.
Wheeler did not make clear whether he intended to re
nounce his American citizenship, but he said he would not
return to the U. S. as long as the Truman administration
remained in power.
lie told a press conference!
that he and his wife, a former
New York journalist, decided
to ask for refuge here because
the United States is fostering
the revival of "gestapo and
nazi methods in Germany."
Asked whether he intended to
Sv? "P his citizenship, Wheeler
said:
"Of course I could return to the
United States and someday I ex
pect to, but at the moment Tru
man's administration would not
receive me very favorably.
Not Eternal
'But I don't think the Truman
administration will be any more
eternal than the Hoover adminis
tration was. In the meantime, I
welcome Czechoslovak hospital
ity." im
Wheeler, a student and profes
sor of economics at Prague's
Charles university, said he was
an economist in the U. S. war de
partment during the war.
Later, he said, he was head of
the denazification branch and pol
icy chief for the labor office In the
American zone of Germany.
While in Germany, he said, he
met constant interference from
military government authorities
who '"never aimed! at uprooting
the remnants of gestapo and nazi
methods In Germany."
"On the contrary," he said. "I
met with opposition from those
officials who were sent into the
administration with other pur
poses than to carry out the policy
agreed upon by the three powers
at Potsdam."
Conference Arranged
The press conference was ar
ranged by the Czech ministry of
information. Wheeler, short and
brown-haired, said he had passed
three loyalty tests in Germany
and yet was fired by the military
government without cause.
He then referred to the recent
flight from Czechoslovakia of
three planes carrying 85 persons,
of whom 58 returned here.
"First of all," he said, "I want
to protest against the brutal and
unlawful treatment by the Amer
ican occupation authorities in
western Germany of the 58
Czechoslovak citizens who had
been kidnaped in a carefully plan
ned and typically gangster plot
and flown over the borders of
their country."
Alaskan-born Mrs. Wheeler, 43,
who sat next to her husband dur
ing the conference, said she had
worked for the "Religious News
Service" in New York.
Said "Disillusioned"
But, she said, she became disil
lusioned when the agency refused
to publish "objective" news from
Czechoslovakia and preferred
"the most unimportant and un
true pieces of information gained
from other sources' 'about oppres
sion of priests.
The Wheelers came to Prague
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Gen. Baker Warns That War
With Russia Very Probable
Ran Francisco, April 7 mi
General Ira C. Eaker, one of
America's lop airmen during the
last war. laid it on Ihe line today
in onelwolhree order.
Willi military precision, Eaker
Slimmed up Ihe threat of Russia
and what the United Stales can
and must do to oppose It.
"Russia has declared war," he
said In a speech prepared for de
livery at a Commonwealth club
luncheon. "The diplomatic phase,
the 'cold war.' Is now in full
swing.
"What can Russia do?" the for
mer deputy commander of the
army air forces asked.
"A, She can move westward,
country by country, as Germany
dld.B, She can lake over Asia.
C, Launch an attack on the USA."
3 Possible .Moves
Eaker said the Russians could
mount an attack on the United
States in three different wayv
by organizing a successful fifth
column; by military assault, prob
ably bombardment by guided mis
siles and atom bombers followed
by airbourne invasion, or by
! drawing the U.S. Into reacting to
I her moves In Europe and Asia,
Allentown
Mercy Killer
Convicted
Allentown, Pa., April 7 nil
Harold A. Mohr, 36-year-old tan
nery worker, was convicted of
voluntary manslaughter today In
the mercy-killing of his blind,
cancer-ridden brother.
The jury of eight men and four
women recommended mercy.
The verdict carries a possible
six to 12 year term.
By Its verdict, the jury heeded
the demand of the prosecution to
halt "mercy killings." An acquit
tal, the state said, would set a
"pattern for mercy murders"
throughout the nation.
The jury returned its verdict
after deliberating a total of four
hours and 55 minutes. The de
fense Immediately filed an oral
motion for a new trial. Sentenp
lng was deferred automatically.
Mohr showed no emotion as
jurj' foreman Walter Andrews
announced the verdict In Lehigh
county court. ,
The jury, locked up for the
night after falling to reach a de
cision last night, handed down
its verdict at 9:55 a.m., 25 mln
uts after court opened.
The jury rejected the tall, lean
Mohr's plea that he was legally
insane at the moment he fired
a rifle bullet into the back of his
brother, Walter, 55, last March 8.
Death NV,t Demanded
The case went to the Jury at
5:27 pm. yesterday. After four
and one-half hours of delibera
tion without a verdict, the panel
was locked up overnight in quar
ters at the courthouse.
Defense attorney Harry P.
Creveling contended during the
four-day trial that Mohr "crack
ed" under the strain of watching
cancer eat away Walter's face.
District attorney Kenneth H.
Koch, while not demanding the
death penalty, urged that Mohr
be convicted so that "mercy kill
ings can be brought to a halt."
The trial judge concurred with
Koch's statements that the death
penalty would not be Justified.
In a 46-minute charge Judge
Hennlgner told Ihe jury they
could bring in any of four ver
dicts acquittal, manslaughter,
second degree murder, or murder
in the first degree with the pen
alty set by them.
Koch termed the slaying a
"planned" murder and demanded
a conviction because Mohr was
"fooling around with the Al
mighty." An acquittal would set
a "pattern for mercy murders" '
throughout the nation, he said.
Mohr, 36, an unemployed tan
nery worker, was accused of
shooting his brother to death.
as Hitler led England to declare
war against Germany.
"We need accurately to esti
mate our foe." Eaker said. "Rus
sian leadership is able, well
trained. It is ruthless. It is not
communist, It is a dictatorship."
Then he answered the question
"What should we do?"
First we must realize our dan
ger, Eaker said. We must oppose
Russian expansion by the Mar
shall plan: implement an ade
quate defense; have a sound play;
have the best weapons first and
concentrate on scientific research
and development; stockpile atom
ic bombs and the power to de
liver them.
The general said the U.S. must
"convince the Russians we mean
to fight." He advocated universal
military training as an essential
part of our defense plan and said
we should "solve our labor prob
lems and eliminate strikes."
"Fight the war our way, not
theirs," Eaker advised. "Fight It
In Russia with bombs, not In Tur
key or Iran on the ground."
He said we should destroy Rus
sia's industrial capacity but not
occupy the country."