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Newspaper Page TextUniv. of Orison Library THE BEND BULLETIN Bend Forecast Bend and vicinity Fair today and Sunday; bigb both days 85-90; low tonight 45 50. LEASED WIRE WORLD ; NEWS COVERAGE CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER 48th Year BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, JULY 14. 1951 No. 186 Cmmmni(uiiniosfe Bowfto (idgway's U l4iinniatyinni 5 00,000 Persons Made Homeless Flood; By . New Breaks In Levees By Sam J. Smith (United Frew Btaff Correajjondent) Kansas City, Mo., July 14 (IP) Water boiled under a new strip of Missouri river levee today and spread through a third section of Kansas City as damage from Mis souri's and Kansas' worst flood In 50 years steadily increased.- "Maj. Gen. Lewis A. Pick, chief of army engineers, reported to President Truman from Kansas City- that 500,000 persons have been displaced by the Kansas flood and property damage will "easily exceed half a billion dol lars" in "much the worst flood in the history of the area." The flood victims were persons chased at various times .from their homes .in more than 100 cities and towns and in lowlands along the course of the Kansas river and its countless tributar ies. ' , ' - Fire Breaks Out As the crest reached .here to heap new damage onto the stag gering' city, a roaring gasoline fire raged in the Kansas City, Mo west side. Two more gaso line tanks, the 15th and 16th to go since the fire started at 1 p. m TjVIHat, rnnkpH tho nron Hlir. fag the morning. v ine lire, sending up a piuiut? nf omnlrn nnrl flumn vlclhlp mnn than 20 miles outside Kansas City, flashed through an alcohol plant during the dark hours to day after destroying a lumber yard and six other business hous es earlier. It menaced a volatile chemical plant for a time, but firemen working from boats on the outskirts of burning gasoline in the water believed they won their fight to stop it, although they admitted they could not ex tinguish it. The new section Into which the yellow flood poured was the rich industrial Fairfax area on the Kansas side of the river. It In about seven square miles and water already covered about 25 per cent of it from six inches to six feet deep. A 40-foot section of the dike, just below the junction of the Missouri and Kansas (Kaw) riv ers threatened to break momen tarily. Water already poured into the Fairfax sector through a big tube that lets Jersey creek under the levee into the river. (Continued on Page 6) Funds Requested For Flood Relief Washington, July 14 tP Pres- PJay for $15,000,000 for relief in the flooded Kansas-Missouri area and a house appropriations sub committee promptly approved the request. A senate appropriations sub committee also met in emergency session to consider the presiden tial request. Mr. Truman urged aulck ac tion after conferring during the mgnt with speaker Sam Kayourn snd chairman Clarence Cannon, IX. Mo., of the house appropria tions committee. Cannon said the full house com mittee will approve the funds Monday and that the house will vote on it the same day. Final congressional action is not ex pected before Tuesday . because the senate is in recess until then. Cannon said the funds will be used only for relief and rehabil itationto feed and shelter the homeless, replace houses on their foundations, restore communica tion and transportation and to establish a clean water supply, and other sanitary measures. Funds to rehuild levees presum ably will be acted on later. The house sub-coinmlttee acted after congressmen from the stricken area areas testified that 'tie flood is. "assuming propor tions of n natinnnl disaster." Maj. Gen. Lewis A. Pick, chief of armv engineers, telephoned Mr. Triiman from Kansas City "lhat 500,000 persons have been displaced by the floods and that property damage will "easiy ex ceed half a billion dollars.". Threatened New UN Occupation Force Slated For Long Service in Korea, Even if Peace Comes, Belief By Frank H. Bartholomew ; ' (I 'fiilt'd lfrsB SIhFI ('artcioi.J-fil) Seoul, Korea, July L4 (UP) Three-basic conclusions may be drawn' on United Nations thingihg and intentions by talking with key figures in the cease-fire impasse. : . : They are: 1 The UN has no intention of giving up territory held north of the 38th parallel, nor of withdrawing its front lines at any point. .' , 2 Any hope of removing UN troops from Korea in the foreseeable, future is without substance. The individual iden- titv of American forces will 5 Juveniles Admit Bend Robberies Juvenile officers and Police unier H. a. uasiaay reporieu iu- day that five local robberies, some of them dating to the first of the year, and a car theft had been cleared as the result of confes- sions oy live juveniles, imec thpm Prinpvllle boVS. TaKing part in most oi uie iw berles, according to information obtained by officers, was a 15- obtained Dy ouicers, was a, year-old Bend girl who has been in trnuhlp f rpnilpntlv . Over a Oe- ln trouoie irequemiy - uvc . rlod of years and for a time was a ward of a Juvenile home in T3Ttlor,rt Portland, Sent to Woodburn .Th p. three PrlnevUle.iuvenlles, aged around xd years, iiavci sent to.the boys' training school seed around 15 years, have, been at Woodburn. The fourth boy as sisted officers in omaimng lnim- Hn,,t tho lnr-nl robberies limuuu awMi. .- and was not taken into custody. The girl has been paroiea to a relative and taken from the state, officers report. - , K0 liberies laearcu . 11 thp arrest of the juveniles was the Riverside gro-..nhKAY-v of Vphruarv 13 in tCl J 1 u..J- J which a cash register was stolen. Four oi tne juveniles uuu f" in that robbery. Also cleared were tho mnrp refent entries of the Westminister Presbyterian and Catholic cnurcnes. inouuus obtained from the Westminister . - tho lno from the cnurcu, au v,, . - -- -Catholic church was estimated at about 4. lwo oi ine youiiBi"- took part in tnai rouueij, walking into the open church when services were not being h6Also cleared through the ar rests were the Medo-Land and railroad freight warehouse rob beries of early JUiy, in wmt.i number of cases of beer were taThe" juveniles appeared in local luvenile court, before Judge C. 4 ... mi... Iflnaiv' aTlTll-P. L. Alien. uy uiii. hended the youngsters. Optimism Noted Over Prospects For Pelton Dam Madras. July 14 Residents of Jefferson county were ois Diaying an optimism the past week ove prospects for obtaining construction of the proposed Pel- ton dam on tne w'""' T. Leland Brown, The Dalles attorney and counsel rer Warm Springs Indian reserva tion triba council, repuncu had been informed by General Thomas M. Robins, assoc.a. with the Fortiana utun., trie Co In pushing for the pro- . jmia nnmpnt. that It FsOSnowP iWndica'7hat a' permit for the Pelton aam win u coming within a few weeks, from the federal 'power commission. A hearing on the PGE applica on for bunding a dam at the Pelton ... etnerpd in Port- SUe was icwiu; land by the federal power com- mission. . ei Residents oi war ...b- Kesiciems ui " 1 -: vl - . ... t HJn.in.tm tnUit) Of the Indian reservation, yesterday re agency M., ,ucfalvlnv rP- ported that Chester See, mer chant, had been advised by of. flclals in a supposed authorita five capacity against ina"'e ther improvements at a home he . i- hA rioenhiitps porce. naa uuiu in D . whprp Inundation will fouow tne .. . r .1 DAltnn rlnlTI construction 01 SAILS FOB SWEDKN New York, July 11 ni I Indstrom, 12-vear-old daughter ,, 1 Oneeollinl of xngria kis""" , sailed for Sweden today for a re union with her movie actress mother. -change, however, under the present rotation system. 3 .Thp hnnprl for trnpA at. Kaesong will be an uneasy one at best, for the commu- nlct anamt, hot. moiulii K I ed to change his tactics without altering nis ODjective. Briefings Held This correspondent has listened this correspondent has listened to confidential briefings given to the entire press corps by Ameri- can and British officers. He has had an opportunity to hear cer- tain individual expressions on a nprRnnAl hnsls The thinking of the military personnel concerned is generally uniform with allowances for in- unliorm witn allowances lor in dividual opinions on matters cor nllorv tt tho main laollpa Wn nf onary to ine main issues, ino oi- ficer may be quoted but all of the foregoing points were stated af t trmatlvpl v hv at lpnat nnp rp. auitiunu.uij J L sponsime person ana not aeniea by any. other. .... v: : , , i jo a iTOwimuic .coMmm.., that these views and intentions It is a reasonable presumption are known to Washington. rosiuon Basic Thp haal. nncitlnn nf thp II.M. in the first day's session at Kae song as announceo Dy vice flam. C. Turner Joy was that his nego tiating rlplptrntlnn wmllrl not con sider military matters outside Korea nor political matters of any nature. nut thp nnelHup rtolnts tn he demanded within the framework of the admiral's general outline have not yet been revealed. By f'l.tlnn tho mncoii- tnf7Pthpr nn this side of the line and compar ing it with the communists' an nouncements of the agenda, it is possible to see tne points oi coi (Continued on Page 7) Northwest Fire Situation Better (By UnlUd Vrtu) Weary firefighters battling two major fires in the Pacific north west Saturday looked to the wea therman for relief and got some indication of help from the ele ments. Weather bureau forecasters ricinir humirlitlps and cooler weather here expected to lessen the fire danger somewnai in ior est areas. An easing of the extreme fire danger In Oregon Friday brought a lifting of the ban against pow er logging in most forest areas west of the Cascade summit. Logging Ban Lifted Acting Oregon state forester. Dwight Phipps lifted the ban at 9 a.m. Friday. He said the 1000 acre fire five miles west of Glen dale, Ore., in Douglas county had largely been controlled Saturday. In Washington, a strong wind late Friday renewed the forest fire menace in a 4,000 acre tim ber region near Randle, Wash., and some 500 weary firefighters continued to battle the spreading .flames. More than 200 Fort Lewis, Wash., soldiers were among the flraflrrhtara anH nnnthpr 250 HT'.S were standing by Saturday for " any emergency. ly emergency. tirnctarn Uaah In otnn Ufa Q atlll closed to all logging operations u"1, l" Coturrlau -n. hnttaot ennt ln thp nnrth. west Friday was Ontario in east ern Oregon, where the mercury climbed to a sizznne iw degrees. The entire northeastern section ine entire norineasiern sei-iiuu 0f Oregon posted the high tern- noraturoa Tt was OQ nt Rnlfpr. . ' 94 at La Grande and Pendleton .ihu.,mh. rtMrtnn fi.nnn nna Tn woctorn rirpffnn Tllftpno nost. ed 85 degree heat. Med ford 90, Sa'em 84 and Portland ,81. wasnmgton s temperatures saw relatively cool 80 degrees at To- !.J. 1 tUn nHi.l.n. nni4Un ledo, In the western portion of tne state ana a top 01 b ae grees was recorded at Walla Wal la in eastern Washington. Areas Menaced When UN Convoy Was Halted t CONVOY HALTED United Nations truck and Jeeps carrying Alled newsmen and service and Communications personnel to the peace-talks at Kaesorig are halted. at a red roadblock nine miles., below that city. The communists' -action' broke off, temporarily, the cease-fire negotiations. Charcoal Logs Found Under Six Feet of Pumice During Newberry Crater Road Work Forest service road work now under way in Newberry crater, location of East and Paulina lakes, has resulted in the discovery of charcoal logs which geologists believe will make it possible to determine the date when the last vol canic action occurred in the mountains that form Bend's southern skyline. ' 'The charcoal trees are covered by six feet of pumice, ap parently deposited in the area as a flaming avalanche of rock froth from a nearby crater. Corwin E. Hein, Deschutes national forest foreman, in charge of the work of grading a new roaa across ine hoot 01-7 the crater, said the charcoal trees had been exposed in a cut more than 50 feet in length. Some of the trees, species of which has not been determined were 10 inches in diameter. Covered by Bumace The carbonized trees were part ly covered by pumice of the welded type which, geologists say, spilled over crater rims as flaming, gas-filled streams and flowed with the rapidity of water. It is believed that the molten pumic in Newberry crater flow ed through an old crater forest, burned the trees, then burled the charcoal remnants. Similar carbonized logs have been found in Crater lake pumice, which boiled over the shattered rim of prehistoric Mt. Mazama and raced down valleys east and west of the Cascade divide. Geologists are primarily inter ested in the charcoal logs being removed from Newberry crater because it will be possible to de termine the approximate year when they grew, through use of the new carbon 14 radio-active method, This carbon dating meth od, in which a Gciger counter is used as a time clock of the ages, was employed in dating partly burned sandals in the near by Mankenmaier cave, at Fort Rock. It was determined that the sandals were approximately 9,300 years old, and that the Oregon cave had been occupied around 7, 000 B.C. Not Too Old Geologists believe that volcanic explosions occurred with New berry crater in recent centuries, probably not more than 500 years ago. Earth-scientists say that In the ice age, Newberry crater was a giant shield mountain. Eventually, its top collapsed, through con centric faulting, and a huge cra ter, as large as that of Crater lake of the present, came Into existence. Later volcanic action partly filled the caldera of ancient mount Newberry and formed a (Continued on Page 7) 2' ' i '4 Body of Kidnaped Girl Discovered Newhall, Calif., July 14 IIP) Children playing in a rain gorg ed gully late yesterday stumbled on a body postively identified to day by sheriff's officers as Betty Jean Hansen, kidnaped July 5 by her "love-crazed" stepfather. An immediate coast-to-coasl alarm was sounded for the middle-aged painter, Frank W. Kris ty, who abducted the shapely honey-blonde secretary at gun point. The badly decomposed body was found partly buried beneath underbrush by the picnicking children of the R. L. Hill family, Bellflower, Calif. The girl's head was bashed in and sheriff's dep uties were not able to determine if she had been shot or bludgeon ed. "It will take laboratory tests to determine how she died," Dep uty sheriff Robert Hughes said. Daytime temperatures in the semi-desert area have zoomed above 100 degrees the past 10 days. The body apparently was drop ped in the gully within hours after Krlsty stalked Into his home and abducted the girl, under threat of her life. Found by Accident "It was only by accident the body was found," Hughes said. Although only 75 feet from U. S. highway 6 which leads to Las Vegas, Nev., the body was hid den from sight. It wasn't visible, Hughes said, even when standing on the Up of the gorge. Nearby were buildings of the Newhall refinery. One small cab in was located less than 50 feet from where the body must have been dumped. Deputies identified the body from a gold wrist watch, with tne name uetty Jean Hansen (Continued on Page 7) Britain, Iran Show Softer Attitudes By Edgar E. Clark (Unltal t'retw Staff Comwpunilent) Tehran. Iran. July 14 ilM U.S. Ambassador Henry F. Grady said today both Britain and Iran were about ready to soften their adamant stands in the costly oil dispute between the two nations. Grady predicted the break may come after, the scheduled arrival here at 10 a.m. tomorrow of Pres idential Envoy W. Averell Hard man. "The situation is getting ripe for a break," Grady said at a lengthy press conference, "but a break on both sides. So far, both the Iranians and the British have said they are 100 per cent right." Harrlman told newsmen dur ing a stopover in Paris that he was confident of the success of his mission. He said he brought no new proposals but would see what he could do on the spot , Oil Flow Reduced The flow of oil from Iran's wealthy fields has been reduced to a trickle because 01 tne im passe created by Iran's nationali zation of the British-owned Anglo Iranian Oil Compay. The Iranian senate met in closed session to day to debate the mounting econ omic crisis caused by the loss of oil revenues. Grady said there were no limi tations" on Harriman's mission. The roving ambassador has been charged by President Truman to discuss the oil crisis with Pre mier Mohammed Mossadegh be cause of the vital Importance of Iranian oil to, the free- world's defense. s . .- ., Grady called the press confer ence Chiefly td deny reports that his 'departure from Iran was im- inent and that he had been cntl cized for his efforts to mediate the oil dispute. He said the White House state merit that he had requested his resignation was perfectly correct but be did not expect to leave for several months and maybe longer. . Action in Korea Now Limited 8th Army Headquarters, Korea, Sunday, July 15 iiw Allied troops halted their drive on the commu nists' central Korean buildup zone Saturday and. limited operations to patrolling all across the rain swept front. Heavy rain and ground-hugging clouds held the allied air offens ive to only 197 effective sorties up to 6 p.m. and limited night bombing of communist supply traffic. Allied patrols striking out from temporarily stalled U.N. lines be low Kumsong ran into heavy ma chine gun fire from dug-in red troops blocking the approaches to the new communist assembly ar ea, 20 to 25 miles north of the 38th parallel. The 8th army said there were now from 200,000 to 250,000 com munist troops opposed to UN forces on the west-central front. Earlier front reports said that at least 400,000 reds were massed In a build-up area behind the communist front line troons and front commanders warned of a communist "doublecross" if cease fire negotiations went wrong. 2 Die in Crash Of Big Bomber Bowling' Green, Va July 14'IPi A flaming B-26 bomber crashed at nearby A. P. Hill Military res ervation late last night, killing the two air force pilots aboard. The bomber, attached to the 47th bombardment wing at Lang ley field, Va., had been on the air-ground support training mis sion with the 43rd division. An Instructor and student pilot were the only two members aboard. Identity of the victims was with held pending notification of next of kin. Capt. James B. Story, airdrome officer at Langlcy, said there was "no evidence" to support reports that the bomber had collided in the air with a light liaison plane. ALARM ANSWERED City firemen responded to a general alarm at 11:12 a.m. today when grease In a French fryer caught lire at tne l'arK cate, 50 Penn. The blaze was extin guished by the firemen befori' damage could result. The Park cafe was the scene of a costly gasoline fire on Oct. 16 last year. Highway 20 Improvement Work Starts Oregon's million dollar Im provement of highway 20, a route that leads across the center of the state, has been started In two different sections with early fall set as the completion date. Contractors are now on. the job In the Hampton and Burns areas, with double shift operations plan ned on at least one of the jobs. Work on . the Hampton-Gap ranch section has been started by Babler Bros., a contracting firm that was awarded the west ern unit of the improvement on its bid of $591,811. The contract calls for a three and one-half inch surfacing of the Hampton-Gap ranch section. It was this unit of the Bend-Bums route that bad ly deteriorated following the spring thaw this year. . Contract Awarded The Warren Northwest oitrv pany was awarded the contract to resurface the Burns-Buchanan section of the trans-state route. With R.-E. Batie as construction superintendent, the firm has set up a paving plant at a state gravel pit some eight miles east of Bums. The firm expects to start paving by August 1- Announcement of plans for the million dollar lob were made earlier in the year by R. H. Bal dock, state highway department engineer. Jailed Commies Fail to Raise Bail New York, July 14 ti" At tempts to ball mystery writer Dashlell HammeUi and. .Dr.,. W. Althaeus Hunton, jailed trustees 01 tne leit wing civil rights con gress ban fund, failed today and they must spend another week end in cells. , U. S. Commissioner Edward McDonald adjourned their ball hearing until Monday When the government questioned the source oi tne $u,uuu in cash offered to cover their bail of $10,000 each. Hammett and Hunton have been sentenced to six months in prison for contempt during fed eral court proceedings to learn the names of persons who sup plied bail money for communist party leaders. Neither In Court Neither defendant appeared In court, but both were represented oy tneir attorney, Mr. Mary Kaufman, who tried to post the bail. She first tried to post $10,000 in cash for Hammett, saying the money was supplied by his sec retary, Muriel Alexander. Miss Alexander said she had $10,000 on her person, but when assistant U. S. Attorney Roy Co hen asKed where she got it, Mrs. Kaufman withdrew the offer. She objected to Cohen's questioning as to the qualification of Miss Alexander as surety for the bond. The attorney next offered 510.- 000 for Hunton, saying the cash was his persona property. But when Cohen announced he want ed to question Htmton . about where he obtained the money, McDonald adjourned tho hearing until Monday. The commissioner said he felt himself "bound to bow" to the ruling of Federal judge Sylvester J. Ryan, who sentenced themen and has insisted on detailed qual ifications of bail sureties in the communist and CRC bail fund cases; Mrs. Kaufman said Hammett and Hunton did not appear per sonally at today's hearing because she had an understanding with the U. S. attorneys office their presence would not be necessary. She said that she would continue to object to government question ing other than the ownership of the ball money ottered. Hines Man Named Business Agent Mike Salo of Hines has been elected business agent for the Central Oregon district council of the Lumber and Sawmill Work ers (AFL) and will have his head quarters In Bend. He expects to move here with his family about August 1. Salo will succeed Hoyd Thomas. Klnzua, who has been serving a short term In the Bend office, and was Sato's opposition candidate for election to the post. The election was held by mall vote among members of 14 un ions. Salo will represent a total of 2500 union members In saw mill plans from Klickitat, Wash., to Gilchrist, and from Bend west to Hines and John Day T IN II IN - I loruiibacK iiuiiMxacHJiiy By Earnest Hoberecht (Unltnl Hr Staff Correspondent I UN Advnncp Base Below Ka?- song, Korea, Sunday, July 15 i.rt The communists agreed Saturd: y: night to establish a neutral zo.ie at Kaesong, where Korean w;u cease fire talks are peing ntiti,- and to withdraw tneir troops frnm thp pltv Thpv also aerced to admit correspondents of the world free press as Gen. Matthew ' B; Ridgway had demanded. : The communists eave in to the UN supreme commander in a message signed by the North Korean and Chinese red command-. ers In chief and broadcast by the Peiplng and Pyongyang red ra-, . dios. - ; v -j Details Undecided Details of the establishment of a neutral zone remained to be decided. . - But the UN commander in chief had won a sweeping victory In his ultimate demand for complete equality In cease-fire talks. j -Rldgway's reply to the reds was still to conie. But soon after. he was notified by the united tress 01 me communist message -a UN truck convoy was ordered to be ready to leave for Kaesong this morning In event that he found the terms acceptable.' - The convoy and 20 accompany ing representatives of the World free press were told to be ready to leave at 7 a.m. (5 p.m. Satur day EDT) and to remain on a one- hnur alprt. therp after. . Ridgway had gone over the heads of the.communist cease fire negotiators at Kaesong to make his own demands direct to the red commanders- In chief, Pre-mler-cOmmander lin chief Kim' 11 sung "or Norm Korea ana 'uen. feng Ten-Huai, tne umnese com munist commander in chief. . 0 .. . Peiplng. Replies :'. In their reply,, as broadcast by the Peiplng. radio, the commu nist chieftains said: . V "In order to eliminate misun- some slight question and to en able the rest of the peace negotia tions to proceed smoothly, we agree to your proposal of fixing the Kaesong area as a neutral zone during the period of the meeting and that both parties do not carry out hostile acts of any kind within this area and that all armeu personnel oe exciuaea irom the area of the meeting and from the route through which your delegation and ours travel to the area of the meeting place." 10 safeguard the meeting from being suspended for. a long time or breaking up (over) this trifle." the reds then said they had already given orders that 20 allied newsmen be admitted to Kaesong. Details Not Settled The communists proposed that the size of the area of a neutral zone and other related technical details be settled at the next cease-fire meeting. Pelping and Pyongyang ver sions of the red message dif fered. Pyongyang, the North Kor ean radio, said acceptance of .the neutral zone idea was "in prin ciple." But Peiping came right out and (Continued on Page 4) Salem Geology Group Visits Bend Salem Geology club members, headed by George Morehead. president, moved south from Bend in a caravan this morning with Newberry crater and its varied volcanic attractions their goal. Members of tile party, some of whom slopped In Bend last night, will spend the day In the crater, looking over features discussed hy Dr. Howel Williams of the University of California In his re cent: publication, "The Newberry Volcano of Oregon." Accompanying the Salem group is Prof. Herman Clark, authority on Oregon geology, who was to lecture to the group today at various stops on the trip over tho caldera, one feature of which is an obsidian flow said to be the most Impressive on the continent. The group will return to Bend this evening, and early tomorrow will head over the Ochoco to the Mitchell country and the Painted hills. John Carter plans to ac company the group, as guide and representative of the Deschutes Geology club. Two weeks ago, central Oregon was visited by members of the Geology Society of the Oregon Country.