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THE BEND BULLETIN Bend Forecast Bend and vicinity Clear ing today, fair tonight and Sunday. High today 50-55; low tonight 28-32. . LEASED WIRE WORLD NEWS COVERAGE CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER 47th Year BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1950 No. 270 Bears Held to 1343 Tie in Lane County Mud (Korean War Nearing Close; More Red Troobs Surrender - r n tX W Lumber Price Drop Claimed Not Serious (CO ' -. SiiL jir- JSSJ " ' ; JT ViC -lW.-t, , Smeared with mud Irom slioes to helmet, Bui Whaley, Bear fullback, is pictured at top in an at tempt to break away from pursuing Millers, in last night's game on the rain-soaked Springfield field. An unidentified, mud-smeared Miller is pictured closing in from left. Below, Jim Wade, also mud smeared, is shown trapped by a Springfield player. The game was Bend's first on a wet field this season. Deer Hunters Set for Last Trip of Season Oregon deer hunters were mov ing into rain-dampened forests of central Oregon in a finaliquest for venison today, as the disappoint ing 1950 season neared its close. Under the five-day extension granted hunters when the doe "reason was cancelled, the season on bucks will end Sunday at sun set. It was expected that the final week end of hunting would at tract another army of red-hatted gunners into the mid-Oregon woods, but up until noon today comparatively few hunters were moving through Bend. So far. the luck of hunters In the Deschutes Communists Planning Moves In Europe to Offset Korea Humiliation, Now Indicated By R. H. Shwckford (United Prrss Staff Correspondent) London, Oct. 21 se The comiform conference convened in Prague by Soviet deputy premier V. M. Molotov was be lieved today to be preparing a major cold war offensive in Germany to offset the loss of Korea. Molotov,. second only to premier Josef Stalin in Russia, and the foreign ministers of the boviet Union's seven bast em Eurorjean satellites began their conference yesterday. An official announcement issued simultaneously in Mos cow and Prague said the meeting was convened on Russia's inititative to discuss the question which nas arisen in con nection with the New York conference of the three ( western) powers on Sept. 19 on the remilitarization of Germany." The United States, Britain and ; France agreed in New York last Delegates From 9 Toastmistress Clubs Meet Here Representatives of nine Toast mistress clubs of the northwest region gathered today in Bend for a meeting of council No. a. as re gistration' got under way this morning, members' of the hostess club estimated that about 40 women would be in attendance. Registration at the Pilot Butte inn followed a breakfast meeting of the executive ' board, at the Pine Tavern. Miss Amanda An derson, Salem, daughter of Mrs.' Anna Anderson of Bend, is coun cil chairman, and Mrs. W. C.1 Coyner, Bend, , is vice-chairman. Other officers are Mrs. Alice Fredricksen, Albany, and Mrs. Betty Stockman, Eugene. A luncheon was to1 be held to day at noon, with Miss Anderson presiding. A discussion and program per iod was scheduled for 2 p.m.. with Mrs. Coyner as presiding officer. Sessions were to be held on eval uation, preparation and presenta tion of a speech, and organiza tion of a semester's program. Represented at the meeting are two Salem clubs, and the clubs in Albany, Eugene, Roseburg, Cor vallls, Bend, Redmond and Prine vllle. A delegation from Coquille sent word that it would be unable to attend. ! Portland, Oct. 21 Interna tional Woodworkers of America, CIO, : accused the West Coast Lumbermen's association of cry ing "Wolf" today in expressing alarm at the rapid decline In the price of Douglas fir lumber. Industry spokesmen said the plunge in the price of the prin cipal northwest product was the greatest ever and threatened to force closure of many marginal mills. Four mills in Linn and Marion counties shut down yesterday and other "marginal" operators were expected to follow suit. Some oth ei'Sj mainly in the upper Willam ette valley and inland valleys oi southwestern Oregon, curtailed production by cutting down shifts. cut the iwa claimed ,tnat tne average realization on west coast lumber shipments in September was an all-time record and Virgil Burtz, IWA research director, said tne operators nave taken advan- month to increase West Ger many's police forces by 30,000 men and to study the question of incorporating German units in the proposed over-au western ae- woods has been uoor. and this in formation appears to have spread through the state. Dampened by light rai" tMs f U'PPlf nnrl thn antral OronfrtM At-Ilbt; Woorls nro' rpnnrtprl In Irtpnl rnn. No Army Planned ditlon for the final hunt. Also, the storm in the high country yesterday, with snow reported at some points, may result in a mi gration of bucks Into the lower woods, hunters hope. Armistice Day Closure Studied The Bend chamber of com merce began taking a vote among local merchants to determine whether stores should be kept open or closed on Armistice day this year. In postcards mailed to approx imately 80 local merchants, the question' of opening or closing was presented and merchants , But they emphasized that they had no plan to re-create a Ger man army. Russia nevertheless charged yesterday that the West German police force was in fact a military unit and accused the Western Big Three of reviving the German army. Russia apparently called the Prague conference in an attempt to scare Western European pow ers into opposing rearmament of Potato Harvest Slowed by Rain, But Nearing End Autumn rains, general over cen tral Oregon yesterday afternoon, further slowed the tricounty po tato harvest, but predictions of clearing weather gave growers hope that the bulk of their bump er crop would be in storage by the first of the week. Regular harvest forces were augmented today by hundreds of school chil dren, many of them from Bend. The harvest will continue over Sunday in many fields, weather conditions permitting. Yesterday's rains were light In Atomic "Tick" of Radioactive Carbon May Provide Evidence On Age of Submerged Forest , Utj 'Ail F. Urogan The "atomic tick" of radioactive carbon may provide a clew to the age of Oregon's submerged "ghost forest," in Clear lake, and the Lava Cast forest of the Newberry crater country. There is also a possibility that supersensitive G e i g e r counters, used in the study of radioactive substances, will reveal the age of an outstanding landmark of the Deschutes country, Lava butte, a volcano believed to have erupted in comparatively recent times. Already, scientists report, an atomic calendar is taking phape in the Oregon country, as a result ot studies by two University of Chicago nuclear specialists, Drs.-J. R. Arnold 1 and W. F. Libby. At the autumn meeting of the National Acad- Forty Chamber Managers Slated To Convene Here About 40 chamber of commerce managers and presidents are ex pected to attend the annual fall mpptino- nf thp Orprmn Phnmhpr tage of the (freight) car short- Gf Executives association, which age, the bulldfcig Doom and tne begins in Bend tomorrow, accord Korean war to gouge the public on lumber prices ... - Many Oypnos I The union said most marginal operators were "small gyppo log gers and 'small sawmills that never run except during periods Of exceptional high prices . . ." Burtz termed talk about bank ruptcy "Just so much hogwash," saying "the people go in and out of business over night as their Investment is very small and they have little to lose. Operators said the worst hit Idmber was green dimension; which comprised two-thirds ot, Oregon shipments and includes studs, Joists and rafters used for framing houses. They blamed the price drop on government controls on home financing imposed last month. Backing up the IWA contention were Medford area lumbermen Who said the price drop was mere ly a "shakeout" of an overlnflat ed price which would "scare out" marginal operators and specula tors "who have no business in the industry anyway." They believed the drop was a (Continued on Page 7) western bpimanv mi iu imuw . - ? :V5?Liion L Soviet m-1 'arming areas of central Oregon ament of Eastern Germany. Molotov also was expected to use the New York conference as a lever to persuade his Eastern European satellites to accept Pjiotpm Germany as a full-fledg ed, fully-armed member of the were asked to vote their prefer- mlVorm family. obviously decided pno it i i i Thp Soviets uwra 11 una i, cnamuer man- . " . p., , ...in tn fnrus attention again on Jbu nounce the results of the poll rope to of? 'e dasteroua ef next week. No vote was taken i's, " C0",mu"'SL f xfjfi.f last year, he said, and some and the temperature was mild. However, some snow fell on Cas cade peaks yesterday evening. Motorists crossing the McKenzie last night reported light snow on the summit. Bend's precipitation for the storm was .11 of an inch. Bandits Murder Tulelake Woman STORM LOSES PINCH Tampa, Fla., Oct. 21 A storm with it hurricane nunrh eone North Korea's fall to the United i hit the Floida west coast near stores remained open and some closed. Nations forces. (Continued on Page 8) Keys today with winds as high as 50 miles an hour. Train Hits Gas Tanker; 3 Killed San Marcos, Tex., Oct. 21 IW Three trainmen were killed to day when a speeding Missouri-Kansas-Texas (Katy) freight traLn rammed a loaded gasoline tank truck at a grade crossing and exploded In flame. The dead were Tuck Reader, G5, engineer; Gilbert Johnson, 37, fireman, and G. H. Erllc Jr., brakeman. All lived at Smithvllle, Tex. Bodies of Reader and Johnson were recovered within two hours after the fiery collision. Erlic's body was recovered shortly be fore noon. Leaping flames from the dis integrated tanker truck raced through 10 cars of the derailed train, but the truck driver, T. D. Koch of Kennedy, Tex., survived the crash, along with two mem bers of the train crew who were riding the caboose. Koch was badly burned. After emergency treatment at San Mar cos hospital, he was rushed to San Antonio's Baptist hospital. His condition was critical. Koch was employed by the Phoenix Oil Refining company, owner of the truck. Capt. E. K. Browning of the Texas state highway patrol said the engine and 10 cars of the Smlthville-San Marcos branch line freight were derailed. Browning said flames envelop ed "the whole train." A crew of 15 fire fighters, a 500-gallon pumper and a crash truck were dispatched from Berg strom air force base, near Aus tin, to aid in fighting the flames. Tulelake Calif., Oct. 21 UP) A middle-aged woman was shot and killed last night by two hold-up men who fled without obtaining any money. The woman, Mrs. Belsle Alns worth, 50, was In a small sldcroad grocery store two miles from the Oregon-California line when two Negroes entered and attempted to hold up the place, police report ed. A scuffle ensued and she was shot twice, once in the arm and once through the heart. Chief O. E. Bederfen of the Tulelake police immediately put out an all-points bulletin for the two men. He said roadblocks were thrown up at all main points and that policemen, sheriff's of ficers and highway patrolmen were checking all cars. The assailants were described by the chief as armed and dan gerous." He said they had gone into the lava bed country and he was-sure they were still in the Immediate vicinity. Scuffle Occurs According to Bederfen. the for mer owner of the store, C. E. Ainsworth stepped Into the build lng and saw a man holding a gun on Ray Merrill. He Jumped for the ounuit. While he was struggling for the gun, it went off and Merrill was shot in the leg. Ainsworth heard two more shots and let co of the bandit His wife staggered from behind the cash register and cried she'd been shot. Ainsworth caught her as she fell. When Ainsworth let go of the bandit, he and his companion fled. The chief said no one could give a description of the car because it was parked in a dark place. He said the car was described only as a "large, late model." Mrs. Ainsworth was killed by a bullet from a .22 revolver. Oregon state police at Klamath Falls said they believed they had traced the fleeing enr through Bonanza, Ore., about 20 miles east of Klamath Falls. Officers were dispatched to that area and fur ther east to Bly, Ore. ing to Howard Moffat, chamber manager. The three-day meeting will op en with a low-medal golf tourna ment at the Bend Golf club Sun day afternoon, followed by a buf fet supper at the Copper room at 5:30 o'clock. , Mayor T. D. Sexton will Issue an official welcome to the exe cutives at a special breakfast Monday at tne fiiotuutte inn. Presiding at the breakfast pro gram ,wUV be Ben W;?Fannlng, president of Jthe Bend chamber of comraecce. Business sessions will begin at the Pilot Butte inn at 9 a.m. and will continue throughout Monday and Tuesday. Speakers Listed Principal speakers at the meet ing will include William Ham mond, San Francisco, manager of the western division of the U. S. chamber, and John A. Hayes, assistant director of Oregon civil defense. i . Among sumects which will be discussed at roundtable sessions are civil defense, membership, fi nance, committee functions and office operations. The state-wide meetings of the association are held semi-annual ly. Lew Garbutt. manager of the Springfield chamber, is in charge of the meeting here. Wives of men attending the meeting will be entertained by a group composed of wives of local chamber of commerce members. Arab Proposal Gets UN Approval Lake Success, Oct. 21 HP) The United Nations main political committee approved today an Ar ab call for the Big Five to hold talks "collective or otherwise" on threats to international peace or obstacles to the UN's activities. Despite soviet Insistence that communist China should be speci fied as one of the Big Five pow ers which the general assembly would call upon to meet, the 60 nation committee voted unani mously to approve a resolution submitted by Iraq and Syria. Russian Foreign Minister An drei Y. Vishinsky was one of the first to thrust his hand Into the air as votes in favor of the resolu tion were cast. There were no ne gative votes and no abstention.). The resolution, which will go to the general assembly next week for approval, recommends to the permanent members of the secur ity council Britain, r ranee, Rus sia, the U. S. and China- that: 1. "They meet and discuss, col lectively or otherwise, and, if ne cessary, with other state concern ed, all problems which are likely to threaten international pence and hamper the activities of the UN, with a veiw to resolving the fundamental differences and reaching agreement in accord ance with the spirit and letter of the charter." 2. "They advise the general as sembly and, when it Is not in ses sion, the members of the UN, as soon as appropriate, of the results of their consultations." In the special political commit tee, meanwhile, the United States and Britain split over the prob lem of admitting the Chinese imunist government to the UN. emy of Sciences in Schenectady, in. i ., the nuclear scientists said a study of radioactive carbon in dicated that Mt. Mazama, ances tor to Crater lake, "blew its top" 6,500 years ago. Also, the scien tists said, the new atomic calen dar dates the occupancy of the Fort rock cave, in northern Lake county, at 9,035 years ago. Based On Study These estimates, the scientists said, are based on a study of ra dioactive carbon formed in the upper atmosphere by cosmic rays, which have what savants call a half-year life pf 5,568 years. The radioactive method of dating car bon 14 can be used for periods up to 25,000 years, when only a minute amount of radioactivity can be detected. ' In Bend, it was believed that Geiger counters can be used in determining landmarks of con siderable interest, and Dr. L. S. Cressman of the University of Oregon and Dr. Ira A. Allison, head of the department of geol ogy at Oregon State col cge. have been asked to assist" W" obtaining a study ot the age iot Clear lake and oi the Lava cast forest.-- It is believed that the age of tne Mottman iava flow, in which are found numerous tree casts, can De estimated through a study of chunks of carbon found in the moulds. Geologists say that the lava cast forest came in to existence when liquid rock spilled from a fissure of the north slope of Newberry crater and spread through a pine forest. As the lava chilled around tree trunks, moulds were formed. Pieces Available Pieces of carbon are now avail able In Bend, and can be forward ed to Drs. Arnold and Libby, if they nre prepared to make the study. The Hoffman flow In con sidered one of the most recent lava tongues in the region, but its age Is a mystery. Some geolo gists have estimated the age of the flow as not more than J00 years. Others say the flow can not be younger than 2,000 years. Of primary interest to Oregon geologists Is the age of Clear lake. In the western Santlam Cascades, at the head of the McKenzie river. In this lake is a submerged forest. with trees standing upright in the cold water. Clear lake was formed when lava spilled down the north west slope of Belknap crater, which overlooks the McKenzie pass country, and dammed the McKenzie. Behind this dam Clear lake was formed in a valley cov ered by firs. Boats of anglers now move a bo (I this submerged for est of the Cascades. (Continued on Page 7) U.N. Flying Columns Now Move at Will By Earnest Hoberecht (llnittil Press Staff Correspondent) Tokyo, Oct. 21 Ut United Na tions flying columns swarmed through North Korea at will to dt.y in a Jigtime mop-up that reached wltnin ,oo mues or tne Manchurian border on two fronts. American paratroopers and the U. S. 1st cavalry snapped the trap on the 27,000 communist troops who fled Pyongyang. An official spokesman said almost all of them had been killed, eapiurea qr trapped. , The dismounted cavalrymen and the 4,000 paratroopers link ed up 28 miles , northeast of Pyongyang and 85 miles from Mtlnchuria, capping with victory the move to smash the last hard core of North Korean soldiery. A report reached Pyongyang that another 1,800 U. S. paratroop ers jumped into the Sukchon area near Pyongyang Saturday morn ing. The Pyongyang dispatch quoted an officer as saying they met only spasms of ineffective re sistance. The officer said It was little mbre than a practice jump. Nearing Border , To the northeast, the fast mov-. lng south Korean vanguard raced within 85 miles of Manchuria northeast of Hamhung, a 10th corps spokesman reported at . wonsan. The communists were reported fleeing in considerable confusion, so rapidly the South. Korean had reported no contact with the. enemy In the last two days. .':...'- . Across ' the narrow waist of North Korea, troops of .the 27th British commonwealth brigade ' moved along the Chongchon river some 40 miles north of Pyong yang. The brigade is attached to the U. S. 24th division, which Is sweeping up on the west coast. The communist radio at Siniu, ju, In extreme northeastern Ko rea just acrossi the Yalu river frontier from Antung, Manchuria, reported that the North Korean government had established its new capital there. Premier Kim II Sung and his ministers fled Pyongyang when communist resistance fell apart and it became evident that the al lies were going to march through North Korea as they pleased. Second Jump Reported United Press correspondent Robert Benny hoff reported from Pyongyang that 1,800 more U. S. paratroopers hit the silk Satur day over the area of Sukchon, where part of the original 4,000 Jumped Friday. Lt. Robert Rosado of Wood side, N.Y., said the second day's Jump was carried out at 10 a.m. Only a few pockets of commu nists fired at them, he reported. Rosado was evacuated bv a liaison plane. He suffered a back Injury when heavy equipment parachuted down on him. Men of the 187th airborne regiment made today's Jump, he reported. "We regarded lt as Just a big practice maneuver," he said. Another paratrooper who jump (Continued on Page 3) Henry L Stimson's Death Mourned by Nation s Leaders Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y., Oct 21 ill'i The nation's leaders to day mourned the death of 83-year-old Henry L. Stimson, the only man to serve In the cabinats of four presidents and In offices to which he was appointed by two other presidents. The elder statesman died at 4 p.m. yesterday at his Long Island estate following a heart attack while taking an automobile ride. He broke his leg In July and since had been confined largely to a wheel chair. Vice-president Alben W. Bark ley, Secretary of State Dean Ach eson and Defense Secretary George C. Marshall headed the list of prominent government leaders who joined in mourning Stimson's death as "the loss of one of our truly great citizens." The most historic role which Stimson played in 39 years of public life was when as Secretary of War during world war II he recommended to President Tru man that the atomic bomb be dropped on Japan. Saved American Lives Stimson said his recommenda tion to use the atom bomb was made "to end the war In victory with the least possible cost in the lives of our men In the armies which I had helped to raise." He said "no man" in his position "could have failed to use" the bomb and afterward look "his countrymen In the.face." Stimson was on the verge of re tirement from law practice in June, 1940, when the late Presi dent Franklin D. Roosevelt asked him to be secretary of war. He had been a life-long republican but his philosophy of "duty above party line" led him to accept the post in the new deal cabinet. As secretary of war, Stimson was able to put Into action his plans for preparedness that had been frustrated by public inertia during his terms as secretary of war under President William Howard Taft and Secretary of State under President Herbert Hoover. He worked 12 hours a day to build the 200.000-man army Into a victory force of 10,- uuv.uuu men. Barkley said Stimson "added dignity and character to Ameri can life," while Acheson said the nation would find his memory "an ever-present help in time of trouble." Gen. Marshall lauded him as "a great American and a model citizen." Born In New York . Stimson was born In New York (Continued on Page 7)
