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CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
47th Year
TWO SECTIONS
BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY. APRIL 21. 1950
No. 116
Ryssoa Rejects UoSo -Note, Denies Chair
es
125 AAUW Delegates Register Here
As State Convention Sessions Open
' . :
Dr. Phoebe Morrison Speaker
On Program Today ; Traces
International Developments
The annual state conference of American Association of
University Women got under way today in Bend, highlighted
by opening exercises in the library auditorium and at a
luncheon session at the Pilot Butte inn, with Dr. Phoebe Mor
rison, AAUW international relations associate, as speaker.
Registration exceeded -expectations,, with about 125 women
taking part. .
Dr. Morrison, who has had extensive training and experi
ence in international law and foreign affairs, and has served
in such capacities as chiet ol
the civil affairs unit, office of
strategic services in Wash
ington, D.C., and executive
secretary and director of research
for the Foundation of Foreign af
fairs in the national capital, gave
a word-picture of present-day
world affairs under the topic,
'The Citizen Looks at Foreign
Policy."
Optimism Voiced
No one in America, either aver
age citizen or official, wants war,
Dr. Morrison declared, voicing op
timism and crediting the United
Nations organization with "amaz
ing progress," in the face of ob
stacles which had to be overcome.
"If America had wanted war the
recent plane-shooting incident in
Russia would have been sufficient
to bring a declaration," Dr. Mor
rison said. She added that Ihe fact
that such problems can be dis
cussed peacefully is a sound step
toward international peace.
Commenting on the work of
United Nations, the international
relations associate said that in
considering the disparity of cul
tures, religions and politics in
every UN committee, it is remark
able that the organization has
been able to do the constructive
work which it has accomplished.
No "Glamor" In UN
Because Americans "like spicy
journalism," there is a tendency
to lose sight of the quiet, orderly
work that is accomplished by UN,
but buried in the news because it
has no glamor, Dr. Morrison
charged, added that "we in Ameri
ca have not learned to make peace
sound as dramatic and exciting as
war."
She cited UN work in the recent
cholera epidemic in Egypt as an
example of important news that
was not given proper play be
cause It "was not dramatl c."
Through agencies working with
the UN health organization, ser
um to combat the epidemic was
flown from all parts of the world,
she said.
Criticism Unjustified
Suggesting that criticism of UN
is often unjustified, Dr. Morrison
said that it is up to the world
powers, not the UN organization,
to write the peace treaties. Amer
ica has no treaties with Germany,
Japan or Austria, she pointed out,
and added that technically, the
peace has not been established.
In her luncheon address Dr.
Morrison traced developments in
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Pioneer Bend
Major Remodeling Operation
One nf RenH'e fnur Ihrpp.stnrv
buildings, the Minnesota hotel,
diagonally across from the fire
hall on Minnesota avenue, will
emerge on the Bend scene Mon
"ay as a two-story building, to
feet requirements of a new Ore
Son fire law effective July 5.
The entire top story of the
building is being removed, and a
new roof is being constructed on
top of the remaining two floors.
Tne work Is in progress under the
l roof and, externally, the build
lnB still appears unchanged.
On Monday, if plans are on
Miedule, the old roof will be re
moved, revealing the changed
structure. Smith & Hicks are con
tractors In charge of the job.
July 5 Deadline
The new fire law applies to
buildings of three stories or more
i height and occupied for sleep
ln8 quarters. It provides that all
Unprotected openings shall be ef
fectively closed to prevent the
spread of fire, smoke, heat or gas
to corridors leading to fire
Scapes. July 5 was set as the
wtr.pltance date of the new law,
Passed at the 1947 session of the
state legislature.
fn older to meet requirements
Contractors Put
Crews on Bend
Hospital Work
All three contracting firms rep
resented in the construction of
the $900,000 St. Charles memorial
hospital in Bend now have crews
on the job, with approximately 45
men on duty this morning. J. H..
Wise & Son, Boise, Ida., has the
general contract. The other main
contractors are the Ace Electric
Co,, , Portland, and A.. G. Rush
light Co.', Portland. The Ace
company has the electric contract
and the Rushlight firm has the
plumbing and heating contract.
Major work now under way in
cludes the pouring of concrete for
the ground floor walls. Early this
morning, work of pouring some
50 or 60 cubic yards of concrete
was started on the ground floor
walls.
Tests Satisfactory
Laboratory tests of concrete be
ing used in the construction of
the new hospital have proved
very satisfactory, with some tests
going as high as 4900 pounds, far
above the minimum requirement,
it was learned today, as the base
ment structure took definite
form.
Work of placing electric cable
and wire conduits is nearlng com
pletion. Bob Harris is foreman for the
J. H. Wise & Son. firm on the
Bend job and Earl Cullough rep
resents the Rushlight company.
Orval Davis is foreman for the
Ace. Electric Co.
The-augmented crew now at
work on the hospital includes
three steelmen.
REDS FORCED BACK
Hong Kong, April 21' ir Na
tionalist troops have smashed all
but one of the three toeholds
communist forces established on
the northwest coast of Hainan
island, nationalist reports from
the Hainan capital of Holhow
said today.
Building Gets
of the law, the Minnesota hotel
management would have had to
install a new and costly heating
svstem and block off the present
stairways. Rather than under
take such a costly move, Mrs.
Emma Grimes, owner, decided to
eliminate the top story with its
eight rooms.
There will be 14 rooms In the
two remaining floors.
Built Abut 190r
The Minnesota hotel was con
structed when Bend was a range
land village with a population of
a few hundred people. It was
constructed about 1905 by Arnt
Aune, Bend pioneer, and was la-
ter the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Theodore Aune. Forty years ago
the third story, now being razed,
was finished, to provide additional
room space.
Mrs. Grimes purchased ' the
building 13 years ago, and exien-
elvKlv renovated the structure.
Contractors report that the tim
ber in the third story is in per
fect condition, despite its 40-year-old
history.
Contractors found In the top
storv of the building two copies
of The Bend Bulletin, bearing 1909
dates.
AAUW Dignitaries Here for
Members of the American Association of University Women opened, their 1950 state conference
this morning in Bend. In the picture above, left to right, are: Mrs. R. E. Cormack, Corvallls, state
g resident; Mrs. Eric Allen Johnston, Spokane, north Pacific regional vice-president; Miss'Eleanor
tephens, state librarian and state AAUW historian, and .Dr. Phoebe Morrison, AAUW internation
al relations associate. The state president Is a Xoi'.meiramdent of Bend. Her husband whs Bend
.. .. , , . i city-schcKrt sufrhiteiHlepfa humbei.of years ago.). ' t
School Carnival
Opens Tonight;
Many Features
. A gala scene will greet carnival
goers at the .--nd high school
this evening'When the doors open
at 8 p. m. on the two night school
carnival.
Seventeen gaily decorated
booths will offer full carnival
fare. In addition to the booths,
boxing and wrestling will be fea
tured in the small gymnasium
and movies will be shown.
A program has been planned
for each evening, and will in
clude the Gleemen, a girls trio,
a tumbling team, and music num
bers. The program is under the
arrangement of Dick Daoust.
A feature of tonight's program
will be the coronation of the car
nival king and queen, who will
represent the class selling the
most carnival scripts. Coronation
ceremonies will be held at 9:30
p. ms with Tom Niebergall, pres
ident of the student body, crown
ing the monarchs. Miss Nadine
Peppen arranged the coronation.
Of interest to children and ad
ults will be a puppet show, "The
Lad and the Ogre." Mrs. Kenneth
Ruth, stage manager, has pre
pared a miniature stage In the
property room off the north bal
cony of the gym.
The double cast of the show in
cludes Donna Rhoads, George
Silkworth, Gerald Wood, Norma
Kay, Esther Hawes, Maxlne An
derson, Eileen Snelson, Stanley
Crawford and Mel Strlcklett. Jan
is Jappert and Paula Smith have
charge of staging. Miss Grace
Linn is club adviser.
General chairman of the carni
val committee is Miss Peggy Ter
willigar, activity chairman of the
student council.
Barker for the carnival will be
Clarence Neuman.
Bend Golf Club
Plans Work Day
Members of the Bend golf club
will hold a "work day" at the
'golf course Sunday to get the
regular greens in shape lor play
I next week. It is announced by
i the club's greens committer,
The work will conrist of clar-
, Ing brush from the land. Mem-
tiers turning out to worn are eau
tloned by the committee to bring
gloves. Tools will be on hand at
the course.
A free breakfast will be served
to workers from 8 to 9:30 a. m.
and refreshments will bo served
later in the day.
A two ball foursome Is sched
uled for 2:30 p. m. Sunday,
m
Soviet Union Steps Up Cold
Waf in Eastern Europe; New
Charges Made About Trieste
By Edward V. Roberts
(t'nilrfl Press Staff Corrrsponilrnt )
Washington, "April 21 The soviet union stepped up its
cold war offensive in eastern Europe today by accusing the
western powers of turning the free territory of Trieste into
a military base.
Officials believe the Russian maneuver is designed to upset
the west's effort to settle the Trieste question peaceably.
In an effort to offset the new Russian drive, the state de
partment sought ways of increasing the effectiveness of U.S.
Telephone Co.
Equipment Men
Stage Walkout
Portland, April 21 un Dan
Harris, president of ioeaj 75 of
Western Electric Installers (CIO)
said today 230 telephone equip
ment installers In Oregon, Wash
ington and Idaho walked off their
jobs today in protest against
what he termed a "lockout and
firing" of 100 telephone employes
In South Bend, Ind.
The Western Electric Installers
union is a division of the Com
munication Workers of America.
Harris said the union will post
pickets at telephone exchanges
Monday if the telephone company
does not rehire the "locked out"
employes before then.
Harris said that so far as he
knows the union's action in the
northwest was not part of a na
tional union movement.
He said the decision to walk off
the job was made by the union
members in the three northwest
states after he sent them a tele-'
gram telling them of the South
Bend situation.
SHORT ADDRESSES KKOl.T
Redmond, April 21 Redmond
Elementary Classroom Teachers
association held Its regular meet
ing Tuesday at the John Turk
school. Guest speaker was Stale
representative James F. Short,
who talked to the group on the
tax struclure of the state of Ore
pon nnd rlisriissnd twirllciihirlv
hnnen Kill 101 ii-hl.-U ..!!.,... '
a state surplus fund to be used
it, i i-iuimi"n puii;rs. urrn-ll (cave.
Sharp, president of the Redmond i Following the service Sundnv,
high school teachers' group, was:a potluck dinner will be held in
a guest at the meeting. nhe church basement. Those who
A dinner and canasta party will plan to attend are being asked
be. held on Friday night at the no bring their own lunch. All
Jessie Hill school for teachers and i members of the Trinity Lutheran
their wives or husbands. Mrs. j church in Bend. Redmond, and
Blanche McFadden Is In charge of i Madras have been Invited to at
arrangements and she is being tend the service and dinner,
psslsted by Mrs. Ruby Scott and The church is located at 11th
Mrs, Vclma Brown, and Galveston,
Conference
propaganda abroad.
There were indications that
congress may be asked to
boost and possibly double
the appropriation for the Voice of
America. Its chief, Foy Kohler,
said the U.S. broadcasts amount
to about half the output of Radio
Moscow at a time when the voice
is the most effective means for
presenting the American story to
the peoples of eastern Europe.
Russia reopened the Trieste dis
pute last night in notes delivered
in Washington, London and Paris.
Its accusations were Interpreted
as part of a series of kremlin pow
er plays along the eastern Euro
pean front of the cold war.
Hercls a box score on the Rus
sian offensive so far:
1. The United States was charg
ed with "deliberate International
provocation" in sending a bomb
er over soviet-occupied Latvia,
which opened fire on soviet fight
er planes. (The U.S. position Is
that the Russians shot down an
unarmed American plane over the
open Baltic sea.)
2. A campaign to wipe out
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Installation Set
For New Pastor
Rev. William Albach, new pas
tor of the Trinity Lutheran church
In Bend, will be installed at a ser
vice at 11 a.m. Sunday. Rev. II. .7.
Gleseke, Corvallls, will Ik- In
charge of the installation.
The new pastor has come here
from Shelton, YVash., where he
had served since 1916. Ho replac
es Rev. Vincent Larson, who has
hwn gjV(,n a onp year sabbatical
Flood Threat
Seen, Result
Of Snow Pack
Portland, April 21 Ul'i i'The
water content of one of the heav
iest snowfalls on record presents
a flood potential to the Pacific
northwest this spring greater
than the disastrous 1948 flood.
Thls was the consensus of rep
resentatives of various agenclos
attending the 13th annual meet
ing of the Columbia river basin
water forecast committee today.
Survey reports from 15 repre
sentative snow courses in the Co
lumbia basin area show that the
1949 snowfall was heaviest on rec
ord during the past 13 years.
un the basis or the surveys, the
committee agreed that the 1950
spring flood potential in the Co-
lumwa Basin was extremely se
vere," and held threat of a worst
flood than that of 1948.
Tlie Dalle Threatened
Anthony J. Polos of the U. S.
weather bureau in Portland pre
dicted that the Columbia river
runoff passing The Dalles, Ore.,
during the period from April
through September will be 113,-
uoo.uoo acre feet. Polos said a
peak flow of 650,000 cubic feet
per second was expected. This
would bring the peak stage at
Vancouver, Wash., to between 23
and 24' feet. Flood stage is 15
feet.
The soil conservation service,
which does not predict weather
conditions, forecast that 112,000,
000 acre feet would pass The
Dalles during the six-months per
iod. The flow forecast was 127 pet
cent of the 10-year average. Last
year the flow peak was 93,000,
000 acre feet. In 1948, the disas
trous flood year, the flow reach
ed ii!7l&90,000 acre feet.
"-B..;'A Work of Med ford. Ore.
project supervisor of the conser
vation services western snow
surveys, said the snowfall
throughout the area was the
highest on record.
Clarence Pederson of the corps
of engineers predicted a peak
high at Vancouver of 24.5 feot
with the Willamette river at Port
land reaching 24.1 feet. Flood
stage at Portland Is 18 feet.
Pederson believes that, depend
ing on weather conditions, this
may be the second highest flood
year in 17 years.
Walter Johnson, hydraulogy en
gineer for the Washington water
power company at Spokane, said
that nine snow. courses in his
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Lightning Hits
Plane in Flight,
Landed Safely
Washington, April 21 mi-
-Pas-
sengers aboard an air force C-54
owed their lives today to the skill
oi a pilot wno landed their crip
pled plane after it was struck by
lightning in flight.
He was Lt. Billy Payne, 27, of
Johnson City, Tenn., who was fly
ing the transport from Kelly air
force base, Tex., to nearby Boil
ing Field. Aboard were 16 mili
tary patients, five passengers and
seven others of the crew, r
Over Gordonsville. Va. some
100 miles south of Washington
the big transport was hit by light
ning at 6:30 p.m. (EST) yester
day. Capt. William O'Connel, 31, of
Lone Pine, Calif., said "it was like
a 75 mm cannon going off in our
cockpit."
Payne said there was "a sudden
blast and a lot of fire came from
one of our left engines. We imme
diately cut It off.".
With Payne at the controls, the
plane managed to limp Ihe re
maining 100 miles of its flight and
land safely at Boiling, lt was dis
covered there that the lightning
had torn a l'.ts-foot hole In the big
ship's tall.
Thursday. Workshop Brings Oregon
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Pictured above arc a few of the 40 librarians and library workers who met here yesterday to dis
cuss the role of the library In the community and problems of library administration. Reading from
the left are Miss Lillian Nlshet, Malheur county; Miss Eleanor Davis, Albany: Miss Mary Goodrich,
Hood River county librarian and chairman of the Oregon Library association; Miss Eleanor Stephens,
Oregon stale librarian, who led yesterday's discussion sessions; -Miss Elolse Ebert, administrative
assistant of the Oregon state library, one of the session's main speakers and Miss Eleanor Brown,
Deschutes county.
Registration
Under 1948
Figure Here
Despite a last minute rush on
Monday and Tuesday, registra
tion In Deschutes county for the
primary election on May 19 failed
by 557 persons to reach the rec
ord number registered for the
presidential election In 19-18.
According to figures released
today by County clerk Helen M.
Dacey, the county now has a to
tal ot 11,172 registered voters
Registration rolls were closed on
Tuesday nighf and will not be
opened again until the day af
ter the May election.
Mrs. Dacey reported that of the
total registration, 4738 were re
publicans and 6291 were demo
crats. 75 llldeM'iiclon!H
Also registered were 75 Inde
pendents, 5 socialists, 3 prohibi
tionists, and 60 miscellaneous vot
ers, including progressives, non
partisans, and persons refusing
to state party affiliations. At the
time of the presidential election
in November, 1948, Mrs. Dacey
said, there were 11,729 registered
voters in the county.
Of the 1948 total, 4,659 persons
were registered as republicans
and 6.903 as democrats. Also in
cluded in the total were 89 In
dependents, 8 socialists, 3 prohi
bitionists, and 67 miscellaneous
voters.
In announcing the registration
figures, the clerk pointed out
that her office had taken 2,000
voters from the rolls since 1948
because of failure to vote.
Breakdown (liven
Following is n breakdown of
the total registration by precincts:
Precinct 1, Bend: 165 rep., 300
dem., 2 Ind., 1 soc, 2 proh., 2
misc.
Precinct 2, Bend,: 178 rep., 241
dem., 2 ind., 1 misc.
Proctnct 3, Bend: 147 rep., 292
dem., 4 ind., 2 misc.
Precinct 4, Bend: 240 rep., 224
dem., 6 ind., 3 mlsc:.
Precinct 5, Bend? 194 rep., 303
dem., 3 Ind.
Precinct 6, Bend: 97 rep., 332
dem.
Precinct 7, Bend: 176 rep., 287
dem., 2 Ind., 3 misc.
Precinct 8, Bend: 259 rep., 213
dem., 7 ind.
Precinct 9. Bend: 238 rop., 313
dem., 4 ind., 1 soc, 4 misc.
Precinct 10, Bend: 174 rep., 177
dem., 4 ind., 1 soc, 2 misc.
Precinct 11, Bend: 219 rep., 287
nem., d mu., 4 misc.
Precinct 12, Eastern Star: 124
rep., 136 dem., 1 ind., 1 misc.
Precinct 13, Tumalo: 138 rep.,
158 dem., 3 ind., 1 pro.
Precinct 14, Plainview: 54 rop.,
51 dem.
HroolfsScaiilon
Precinct 15, Brooks-Scanlon: 48
rep., 113 dem., 1 misc.
Precinct 16, Redmond: 162 rep.,
165 dem., 4 Ind.
Precinct 17, Redmond: 230 rep.,
245 dem., 3 Ind., 3 misc.
Precinct 18, Terrebonne: 188
rep., 192 dem., 2 ind., 1 misc.
Precinct 19, Redmond Grange:
358 rep., 360 dem., 6 ind., 1 soc,
4 misc.
Precinct 20, Bonne Home: 44
rep., 94 dem., 1 misc.
Precinct 21, Pine Forest: 169
rep., 202 dem., 7 misc.
Precinct 22, Alfalfa: 27 rep.. 37
dem., 4 ind 2 misc.
Prcinct 23, Millican: 12 rep.,
19 ('!'.
Precinct 24, Laplne: 95 rep., 75
oem., 1 misc.
Precinct 25, Bend: 118 rep., 276
dem., 1 ind., 1 soc, 2 misc.
Precinct 26, Bend: 184 rep., 332
dem., 5 Ind., 2 mlsc
Precinct 27. Mend: 135 rep., 316
dem., 4 ind., 7 mlsc ,
Precinct 28, Redmond: 213 rep.,
169 dem., 3 Ind., 3 misc.
Precinct 29, Redmond: 203 rep.,
168 dem., 1 Ind., 2 misc.
Precinct 30. Sisters: 119 rep.,
2)4 dem., 1 Ind., 1 misc.
1 IRE CALL ANSWERED
Firemen were called to the 1000
block on Wall street at 12:37 to
day to wash down gas spilled
from a ear owned by Lee Brown,
Klamath Falls.
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Lost Plane
Inside Soviet
Area, Claimed
By Robert Musel
(llnitt'il I'rvHN Stuff Correaeomtrnt)
London, April 21 tilt Russia
today categorically rejected an
American protest against a soviet
atlack on an American plane anal
warned that its fighters would
deal similarly with any other for
eign aircraft flying over soviet
territory.
Radio Moscow said the soviet
reply to an American note of last
Tuesday was handed by soviet
Foreign minister Andrei Vishin
sky to U. S. Ambassador Alan G.
Kirk at the Kremlin. Kirk said
he would forward the note to
Washington.
The American note had charg
ed that soviet fighters shot down
an unarmed U. S. navy Privateer
carrying a crew of 10 over the
open Bultic sea April 8 . No
wreckage or survivors have been
found.
Points Cited
The soviet reply:
1. Contended that the plane
which its fighters intercepted was
not an unarmed Privateer, but a
B-29 "Flying Fortress" engaged
in photographing soviet defense
installations.
2 Insisted that the American
plane opened fire first after so
viet fighters intercepted it A
miles Inside soviet territory south
of the big soviet naval base of
Liepaja in Latvia.
3. Said the United Slates must
bear sole responsibility for the
Incident.
4. Warned that Russia has no
intention of altering its standing
Instructions to soviet airmen to
fire upon any plane over soviet
territory which resists orders to
land.
5. Rejected American demands
that Russia pay indemnity for the
loss of the plane and the crew
and rebuke soviet airmen who
fired upon it.
The note saHd Russia did not
know whether the American
plane was lost.
Violation Charged
"But If the American aircraft
was Indeed, lost," the note said,
"then the responsibility for its
loss lies entirely with those gen
tlemen who obliged the American
aircraft to penetrate soviet terri
tory and photograph soviet de
fense installations, and so urged
It to violate international law and
the Inviolability of the soviet fron
tier "
The Soviets insisted that the
plane which its fighters Inter
cepted was "a B-29 Flying Fort
ress . . . carrying American Iden
tification marks."
Actually the B-29 Is a Super
fortress, somewhat larger than
the older B-17 Flying Fortress.
The Privateer also Is a single-
tailed, four-cngined plane and
American airmen said that It
might he mistaken at a distance
for either a B-29 or a B-17.
However, the United States has
Insisted throughout that the miss
ing navy Privateer was unarmed.
It left Wiesbaden at 10:31 a.m.
scribed as a routine flight to Co
GMT, April 8 on what was de
penhagen, Denmark, and back.
It lost radio contact after several
hours and never reached Copen
hagen. AGREEMENT SIGNED
Moscow, April 21 Uli Russia
and communist China have sign
ed a new 1950 trade agreement
whereby the soviet will supply
equipment and Ihe Chinese raw
materials, it was announced to
day. The announcement said the
agreement was signed by soviet
minister of foreign trade M. A.
Menshlkov and Chinese commu
nist minister of commerce Yen
Chi Chunng on April 19.
Librarians to Bend