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Univ. of Oregon Library eusstis, oasqoa T BEND BULLETIN Bend Forecast Bend and vicinity Fair today and Saturday; high today 85-90; low tonight 45 50; high Saturday 83-87. LEASED WIRE WORLD NEWS COVERAGE CENTRAL ; OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER 48th Year TWO SECTIONS BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1951 No. 185 9 Jvansas citv A Water; Loss Tremendous Veteran Reporter From Korea Now Writes of Flood ' Jack Jamea, former XJ.P. manaKflr for Seoul, Korea, who Beared li world beat of more than two hours on tho Invaxlon or South Korea by the communista, re. turned to Ills Kansas home a few, weeks ago on vacation only to be caught In the uinti'R worst floods In history. Here ho tells of some of the human, traitedy he saw on a two-hour boat trip hIuhk the flooding Kansas river. . .. By .lack James (United Press Staff Correspondent) , Topeka, Kan., July 13 (IBDon R. Swallow, Mrs. Swallow, and their three -dogs and two cats stayed in their flooded home until it was almost too late today. . They were among the hundreds of stubborn householders caught in a five mile, wide floodstream and brought to safety by volun teer boat crews who made trip after trip through the debris la den current of tie silently rising Kaw river. Even after Mayor Kenneth Wilke's warning to evacuate was broadcast for more than 24 hours, the Swallows remained in their home, trying frantically to move their belongings to the upper floor. Before they were finished, the dike had broken, then they were stranded until two boat crews pulled them to safety from second story windows. "And then we had to leave our stove and refrigerator on the ground floor," Swallow said as he stepped from the rescue boat to the makeshift dock near the north end of the Topeka boule vard bridge. One dog and one cat jumped from the boat and were It ha calH hut rhp rest uivvrncui i"- sim.w, i. W were sate. .. , - i-- i :-..,.. ;. Wi' Many Narrow Escapes--,''. i No one at the rescue heaquar; ters of the Topeka Boulevard bridge knew how many people were saved yesterday and today. Some almost didn't make it. A few hundred yards short of the bridge, a motor boat with seven refugees aboard turned sharply right and its crew hastily snub bed the bow to a lamp post, to avoid an accident. A house floated . (Continued on Page 5 Cooler Weather Due in Northwest (By United Press) ' Weather bureau forecasters in the northwest predicted cooler temperatures in much of the area Friday as two major forest fires continued to burn uncontrolled through timberlands. The worst fire in the northwest was near Randle, Wash., where 10,000 acres of green timber had been burned over despite efforts of more than 400 firefighters, in cluding 200 .Fort Lewis, Wash., soldiers, to control the blaze. iv The fire Is believed to have started by spontaneous combus tion. It has consumed a house, barn and small sawmill. Thursday night, the fire was threatening the small towns of ,Kosmos and Glenoma, Wash. . Oregon Has Blaze r Fire which broke out In the J and J Logging company opera tions five miles west of Glendale, Ore., in southern Douglas coun ty, Wednesday afternoon, roared out of control and covered an es timated 500 acres of green tim ber and cutover land Thursday. The fire started when a power saw blew up and spread rap idly to the south. About SO men were reported fighting the blaze. All other minor forest fires in Ore gon and Washington were re ported under control late Thurs day. Weather forecasters warned that the extreme fire danger would continue in western Ore gon and Washington because of the low humidities. Some relief was -expected Friday with rain scheduled for some parts of west ern Oregon and Washington. i or ests in the western parts of both states, with the exception of a small strip on the Oregon coast, were closed to all logging opera tions Friday. The hottest spot In the north west Thursday was The Dalles. Ore., where the mercury climbed to a sizzling 102 deerrees. Eu gene, Ore., which suffered in a hot 102 degree heat Wednesday, enjoyed a comfortable 73 Thurs day. Pasco-Kennewlck, Wash., paced that state's heat parade Vwlth 100 degrees. It was 92 de agrees in Spokane: 97 at Pendleton,- Ore., 81 in Portland and 94 at Seattle. reas . " By Sam Smith . t ' ' (United IVs Slt.II 6'orimuoiiuVid) . Kansas City, Mo., July 13 iV) The worst flood in 50 years struck greater Kansas City today, drowned at least three more persons, inundated a large part of the industrial area .and cut off two-thirds of this city's pure water supply. Two major areas of Kansas City, Kan.; were inundated first.. Then the rampaging Kansas river smashed through a sandbag plug in the flood-works protecting the central indus trial district on the east uankf of the river. ... ' An hour later, Melvin Hatcher, director of the Kan sas City, Mo., water depart ment, said that the Turkey creek pumping station, on the Kansas river, had been forc ed to shut down. : Water Supply Cut Turkey creek pumps two-thirds of the water, for the Kansas City, Mo., Independence, Raytown and numerous other small suburban Loss Tremendous Washington, July 13 IIP) Muj. Gen, Lewis A. Pick, chief of army engineers, expressed fear totluji that the Kansas City area may suffer half a billion to a billion dollars of flood damage. Pick flew to Kansas City to take charge of a fight to save Industrial properties hit by rag ing waters of the Kansas and Missouri rivers which come to gether at the twin Kansas cit ies. .! HI estimate was given to a closed senate ..appropriations sub-committee hearing urgent pleas from' about 100 Kansas officials for quick flood control appropriations. areas in Jackson county, Mo. Hatcherysald that the city's other .plant In' the east bottoms, appear ed to be out of danger. . 1 Surface water and basement flooding forced Turkey creek off the line. It was impossible to sandbag it and pumps could not keep ahead of the inflow into, the basement. ' "We hope to maintain some pressure in the lines," he said. "We already had cut industrial users off and are urging every one to conserve supplies." Four railroad locomotives were swept Into the current of the Kan sas river at lopeKa today wnen two spans of the Santa Fe rail road bridge across the river snapped and washed downstream. Nine locomotives naa Deen on the bridge for hours as ballast In the hope of saving it. The trestle was about 300 feet downstream from the ..Melan bridge, the link between the two main streets of Topeka and North Topeka. The current, steadily growing swifter, threatened the Rock Is land bridge some 450 feet up-., stream. If it went out the Melan bridge was almost sure to be crushed by the swirling debris. A short time before Hatcher announced that the pumping plant was out of service, L. P. Cooklngham, city manager, and Reed McKinley, director of public works, announced the break in the flood works protecting the huge central industrial district, in which is located the nation's sec ond largest stockyards. Evacuation Advised The army engineers advised immediate evacuation of the dis trice and Cooklngham so ordered. There had been almost no steps taken in the central industrial district for protection of property. (Continued on Page 2) TO ATTEND MEETING Marlon Cady, manager of the local chamber of commerce, left today for Burns, where he will attend a meeting of the High way association. He is expected to return late tonight. ' Cause for Amazement (Editorial) The people of Bend must have been amazed when they learned yesterday that City manager Cuthbertson had brought about a special meeting of the city commission to propose a water bond election. They must have been amazed when they learned that five members of the commission had voted to call an election to vote bonds to carry out the identical program so soundly re jected by the voters last November. That was a program put together without an intelligent examination of the Tumalo creek water shed. It proposed a lnwprinir of the oualitv of one of Bend's superlative assets. There had been no study and on possible alternates. There had been-no final report on the costs of the proposed program. For these and other reasons the program was rejected. The adverse vote was almost is a waste of money to present '' rejection. Under Acheson Reveals M ore Depart men t Employes Ousted Washington, July 13 itl") Sec retary of state Dean. Acheson dis closed today that additional state department employes have been suspended pending Investigation of security charges against them. Acheson made the disclosure at a news conference. He- did not state how many suspensions there have been but said there have been "more" than those previous ly announced. ; - The department disclosed yes terday that diplomats Pohn Paton Davles Jr., and O. Edmund Clubb had been suspended pending hear ings on security charges brought against them. It called the suspen sions "automatic' under the law. Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R., Wis., had demanded in a letter to Hiram Bingham, chairman of the civil service loyalty review board, to know why other accused state department officials have not been suspended. He mentioned ca. reer diplomat John Carter Vin cent and , Ambassador-at-large Philip C. Jessup. McCarthy has accused them of being pro-com munist. No Comment Bingham: was lot avaiiaDle -tor Comment on- the letter,., but his office said' he had no authority to suspend department employes. Those suspended are among the 500 state department employes whose loyalty or security stand ing is being investigated under re cently tightened laws. Acheson said that the state de partment as a matter of policy is not announcing detailed proced ural actions in specific cases until a final decision to fire or retain the employe is made. Under this policy, Acheson would not fell how many em-, ployes have' been suspended or who they are. ..'' Correction Made ' It was Indicated, however, that no other employes of the standing of Clubb or Davies are under sus pension. Asked whether there were any additional suspensions, Acheson replied at first that there were none. An aide, however, in formed him that there had been and Acheson corrected himself. McCarthy said earlier that sus pension of Davies, a member of the department's top policy plan ning staff, and Clubb was evi dence that the department is "rea dy "to start cleaning house." Dav ies is a son-in-law of U. S. am bassador to Iran Henry F. Grady. Clubb was director of the depart ment's office of Chinese, affairs. Volunteers Asked To Aid Rescuers Chicago, July 13 tP The civil aeronautics authority today sent out appeals to 400 cities through out the country for Volunteer res cue workers with helicopters and seaplanes to help evacuate per sons trapped by floods in Kansas City. The volunteers are needed to remove persons from housetops, tree tops and other elevated loca tions in Kansas City, the appeal stated. The appeal was relayed on the CAA teletype wires at 10:18 a.m., CST at the request of the air defense command in Kansas City, a CAA. spokesman here said. presentation of the facts bearing two-thirds of the total cast. It this same program for another Fish for Central Oreqon's Mountain Lakes A1 S " Trout flngerllngs are poured into plane planting tanks preparatory to takeoff. Game commission biologists Reino Koski, left, and John Dimick pour them In as Don Hood, employe of the Fall river hatchery, looks on. These trout were planted In the Sumlt lake area yesterday morning.- The Fall ; river air strip Is located about 30 miles south of Bend, Pistol butte is In the background. . Explosions, Fires Claim 15 Lives in Various Sections Of U. S. Today; Losses Heavy ' :1 ' (Bv UnllpJ Prc) ' . ' ' A series of disastrous explosions and fires killed 15 persons and caused at least $5,000,000 damage across North America during a 24-hour period.. -A - . .. . Explosions blew nbiiilding near Seneca, III., sky-high, Killing lour persons, set tire to 480,000 barrels of oil and gasoline at Wilmington, Calif., and destroyed a closely-guarded building at an Indianapolis jet aircraft plant. i Fire swept the waterfronts Island sound and rage d through thousands of acres of rich timberland in Washing ton and British Columbia. Officials counted seven ex plosions. 38 forest fires and two other. blazes up to ihid nhjht last night. Damage was expected to far exceed $a,uuu,uuu. No Sabotage Sen I No evidence of sabotage was found In any of the disasters. The blast at tne sprawling ii. i. DuPont de Nemours dynamite plant near Seneca rattled win dows at the Morris, 111., hospital 18 miles away and completely lev eled a one-story building. Three of the victims were pack ing dynamite when 2,000 pounds of the explosive blew up anoVa fourth man was killed as he was walking away from the building. Plant manager F. D, Thedlck said damage amounted to about $40,000. The cause of the blast was not known, but there was no evidence of sabotage. - At Dunvllle, Ont., a light plane carrying three Pennsylvania sportsmen on a fishing expedition exploded in flight. ueatn xou mounts The death toll mounted to eight In the gas explosion In an experi mental building at the Allison Jet aircraft engine plant near Indian apolis. Offiicals said damage ex ceded $2,000,000., f Pnnt IniioH nn Panf H UN Troops Make Limited Drive 8th Army Headquarters, Ko rea, July 13 (IP) United Nations troops drove a mile forward on the central Korean front today in the second day of a limited offensive to throw beefed-up com munist forces off balance for a feared red "double-cross" attack. Allied units Jumped off on their drive southeast of Kumsong yesterday and slammed ahead from two to three miles to grab high ground overlooking the val leys leading north. This morning, the attacking troops picked up another mile and eight hours later still were pounding at dug in reds who poured heavy ma chine gun fire against them. Other UN patrols gained up to 16 miles on the eastern front but made no headway against the steel defenses , around the red buildup area in the west. "Prob ing attacks In the zone where more than 400.000 communist troops are massed drew sharp enemy counter-blows and neither side pressed the action. , 'sA, r"4 li , ' -1 -? W . " tu , -o -r -V V Htl T - . . . ' - .-'si ' V ' IV , t "I at the DuPont dynaivita plant ' at Charleston, S. C, and Long ; T; 1 kjt...l Rancher Gives Aid With Airplane Burn, Kan., July 13 miBill Brant, a local rancher, was the only connection today between the Outside world and 345 pas sengers on the crack Santa Fe streamliner train El Cupltan. . : The streamliner was marooned two days ago In a sea of water and gooey mud. "I guess I've made four or five air trips In there," Brant drawled. In those five trips he has brought out three babies, all less than four months old, their mo thers, a 13-year-old child, and three sick women. "I don't know who they were. I ain't much for rememberin' names," Brant said. Food Brought In Besides the evacuees he had flown from the stranded train to Emporia and Newton, Brant had brought In enough meat, bread, butter, water and other supplies to feed the remaining passen gers. There wasn't enough water for the passengers to wash. The muddy flood waters had been used for the boiler. 'They don't have any lights or fans either," Brant said. "The air conditioning system went off as soon as they got stuck there." Brant flew in candles and two lanterns. He also brought a pump to feed the engine's boilers. The Santa Fe railroad has been trying to get a convoy of six buses to the stranded train since yesterday morning. Landing Tricky Brant has made all his land ings to get to the train on a narrow strip of pavement thai was once U. S. highway 50, one of the state's major trafficways. Most of it is now tinder wuler. "It is kind of tricky to land." Brant said. "But those people needed help, so I did It." He said another plane landed at the point once, but added "ii didn't come back any more." Another plune attempting the landing, decided It couldn't be done and flew away. Brant's ship is a four-place Cessna. OFFICE ESTABLISHED .TSgt. Roy W. Leppert, local marine recruiter, reported today that he now maintains an office In room 11 of the Penney build ing In Bend. The office was for merly located In the Coble build ing. Sgt. Leppert said the new office will be kept open each day between the hours of 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Of Trout Under Way in Cascades . It'm raining -fish arpund. many or central uregons mountain lakes this week, as slate game commission fish liberators con duct their aerial planting proj ect. , Ten years ago the more iso lated lakes were reached by truck and pack string, the planting job being completed in about three months. By dropping the fish from a plane, liberators now can complete the job In about 10 days. Work In this area , takes In lakes from the vicinity of Odell lake to smaller ones in the Three Sisters area. Wherever the lakes are difficult to reach, Sam Whit new and his shiny, red Piper Cub plane get there. Has Special Tank Whitney's plane Is equipped with a special tank unit, capable of carrying about 60,000 finger lings, which is usually enough for throe lakes. This means that Whitney can take off from the air strip near Fall River hatch ery, plant two or three lakes, and be back In 20 minutes to an hour. His time varies according to the number of fish scheduled for certain lakes, and distance. Fish for the central Oregon project are taken from the Fall River hatchery, about 30 miles south of Bend. Rainbow and Eastern brook trout flngerllngs are planted by plane. Although trout up to four Inches In length may be planted by this method, very young flngerllngs about an Inch In length arc being taken from the hatchery at Fall river. null Experimenting John Dimick and Reino Koskl. Portland, and Bob Borovlcka, Bend, are game commission bio logists working on the local proj ect. Considerable experimenta tion Is still being carried on with the aerial Diamine: method, cc- cording to Koskl. .While Whitney Is In the air on a run, the three biologists scoop fingerlings from the Fall river hatchery tanks for the next run. (continued on Page 5) Mercury Climbs To 92.5 in Bend Bend's holiest duv of ihe year yesterday sent the mercury climbing to 92.5 degrees, accord ing to the local weather observer. The continuing hot spell brought renewed demands that persons using forest areas in cen Iral Oregon exercise extreme cau tion with cignrettes, matches and other burning materials. CROP DUSTER KILED Lusk, Wyo., July 13 ili'iA 42-year-old crop duster from Salem. Ore., today was listed as the first fatality In Wyoming's 1951 war against grasshoppers. Pilot M. F. Baker was killed yesterday when his plane crashed Into a power line pole, 20 miles north of Luck In southeastern Wyoming. Stalemate Of Red Refusal to Admit UN Press Service Representatives By Earnest Hoberecht ; ; ' (Unllcil Kcm SluH (.'orn-trwndvnl) ; ' T . UN Advance Base Below Kaesong, Korea, Saturday, July 14 (U.P) The communists rejected Friday a United Nations ultimatum which broke off Korean cease fire negotiations until correspondents for the world free press are admitted to Kaesong. ' ' . . The reds offered to resume the negotiations on. their own terms. They said there must be a special agreement on ad mission of newsmen. " ' V ; ; Gen.- Matthew B. Ridgway, supreme UN commander, ri,nfn.iri - hu mnVinir n llfV and' stiff demand that Kae song be declared a neutral zone, free of armed troops and red obstruction, or alterna tively that the conference be. switched to some other plat'e. Ridgway addressed his demand direct to Kll II Sung, North Ko rean premier and commander in chief, and Gen. Peng Teh-huai, the Chinese red commander. Prospects Dim The allied command now awaits a vprl reulv to Rldewav. Prospects seemed dim for a resumption of talks today. The first direct official state ment by the reds since tile talks were interrupted came from North Korean Gen. Nam I, chief communist negotiator. It was ad dressed to Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy, chief UN negotiator, In reply si to Jov's declaration mat mere V.,rt.,l,T Ua. nrt mnm t n life .lint 11 al lied correspondents were admitted to Kaesong. ' The red reply was handed to a UN llasion officer at 10:55 a.m. Friday (8:55 p.m. Thursday EDT) and delivered to Joy and Ridg ,way.,Nara.Il said-.l ' v '""lj'Naturally" thff allied corre spondents were stopped on the way to Kaesong because there had been no prior agreement on their admittance, but this was no reason for breaking off cease fire talks. , 2 -Neither side should admit correspondents to Kaesong until there has been agreement on both sides. ' - 3 The communists proposed that the talks be resumed at 9 a. m. Friday if p.m. xnursnay. EDT). Tho red reply was not delivered until after the suggested time for resumption of the talks. Chinese delegates told the UN courier who received It that the meeting should be held at 1 p.m. Friday (11 p.m. Thursday EDT). Ridgway Adamant But Ridgway instead sent his own new demand. It was broad cast over the Seoul radio nt 2:15 p.m. Friday (12:15 a'.m. EDT Fri day) and .delivered by helicopter courier to tne communist ouiposc on the road between this base and Kaesong. - ' ' Extension of the present re cess and the delay in resuming the Conference ... is solely due to those unreasonable and unneces sary restrictions against which my representatives have repeated ly protested," Ridgway said. Ridgway demanded the estab lishment of a circular neutral (Continued ori Page 3) Allied Powers Lining Up Mutual Aid Pact Ilv .lames E. Rouer (Uniltnl Prcttit Stuff CorrcdiKindentl Washington, July 13 HPi Allied powers in the Pacific are lining ut troops and treaties to halt any communist attempt to break out of Asia. The United Stales, in an his toric move, has Initialed a mu tual security treaty with two members of the British commonwealth-New Zealand and Au stralia. If any of the three pow ers is attacked, the others prom ise to "act to meet the common danger." This Is similar to the philos ophy expressed in the Atlantic pact. State department ana de fense department officials hope to get security arrangements In the Pacific as sirong as in the Atlantic. Action Outlined To do this, the United States Is 1. Sponsoring a Japanese pcacelcial put it: ''We did not pour our treaty that lets the Nipponese rearm. 2. Planning a separate treaty to allow U. S. forces to stay In Janan Indefinitely. 3. using tne u. s. fin neet to protect Generalissimo Chiang Kai- shek's Formosa from red Inva sion. 4. Keeping American forces In the Philippines a commitment to fight it the reds should at- tack. Continues, Result Portlander New Head of Oregon Underwriters Gordon E. Wilson, Portland, was elected president of the Ore gon State Life Underwriters as sociation yesterday afternoon at a business session of the associa tion's annual meeting held in Bend yesterday and today. Wilson succeeds Gordon D. Op put, also of Portland. Other new officers of the association for 1951-52 are: Malcolm Williams, Portland, secretary-treasurer; John Howe, The Dalles, national committeeman, and Vern C. 'Gil bert, Portland,' president of the Oregon Leaders roundtabie. uotn the old and new presiuems of the association are former res idents of Bend. Orput lived here In 1928-29, while Wilson was a resident of the city In 1933-34 Approximately ; 25 ; delegates from seven subordinate life underwriters- associations in the state attended the annual meeting here. Sessions were held al the Pilot Butte Inn. Ends Today The two-day meeting was end ed this morning following a dis cussion of new business. Other features of today's agenda includ ed discussions of the following subjects: The importance of pub lic education and public relations; monthly meeting programs how to arrange to meet needs and merit Interest of local associa tion membership, and the role of the state association. Speakers this morning includ ed: Jack Insley, Klamath Falls; Ed Williams, Portland: J. Ralph Brown, Bend, and Ver'n Gilbert, Portland. ' The program for the first ses-: (Continued on Page 3) Odell Summit Lodge Purchased Ralph W, Crawford, supervisor -. of the Deschutes national for est, announced today that the Odell Summit lodge has been purchased by Charles C. North, formerly of California, North and his family began operation of the lodge earlier this weqk. It was purchased from the Badley Investment company of Portland, and had not been In operation since last summer, : The lodge is located at the wes( end of Odell lake and may bu reached from the Willamette pass highway. in Pacific 5. Building up a great base on Okinawa, the island off the south China coast. 6. Planning to take over under a United Nations trusteeship virtual annexation many of the Pacific Islands that Japan occu pied and fought over In World war II. 7. Giving arms and economic aid to all of southeast Asia, a communist target. All of this puts the United Stalf-s squarely In an area which the British or the Japanese dom inated before the war. As the United States tightens Its Influ ence around the fringe of com munist Asia, the major western allies are going along sometimes willingly sometimes reluctantly but they are going along. When an ally balks, the United States apparently does some arm- twisting. As one American offl- uiooo and treasure into tne pa cific during the war only to have our Influence disappear in peace." T.ndeoendent, nntionallstlc India and Pakistan are. adjacent to communist China, and they have tailed to hon into the American led camp. The United States is being patient until the time that communist actions prove tne red j danger to these peoples and American omctais are sure that I time will come.
