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THE BMB BULLETIN Bend Forecast Bend and vicinity Clear today through Thursday; high 'today 93-95; low to night 48-50; high Thursday 95-97. LEASED WIRE WORLD NEWS COVERAGE ' 1 CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER 48th Year TWO SECTIONS BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 19S1 No. 189 Lower River Settlements Combat Flood West Alton, Mo., July 18 UP) A mn army o'f men, women and i hiirtipn ienored orders to flee to- I Jay and worked against long odds I . "o hold the lone dike keeping the Missouri river s worst iiooq in history from their homes. ? As the bloated Missouri crashed into mtghty crest eastward to ward a junction with the Hooding Mlsslssipi river, President Tru man promised flood-battered Kan sas and Missouri that the federal government would go all out for quick and effective relief in the disaster, which has caused an esti mated $750,000,000 to $2,000,000 000 damage and cost at least 36 lives. ' ; Mr. Truman made a first-hand inspection tour of the flood area yesterday which Maj. Gen. Lewis A. Pick, chief d army' engineers, told him was the worst flood dis aster ever inflicted upon the ha: At West Alton, near the conflu ence of the Missouri and the Mis sissippi above St. Louis, some 400 residents doggedly kept to their job of sandbagging a secondary levee at a point where army and coast guard volunteers had, given up. , Levee Topped The river had already topped two primary levees at West Alton, and the 90 military personnel who had been helping, withdrew, abandoning hope of holding the secondary dike. ' But Red Bradshaw, a commu nity leader, said "we will not give up.1' Most of i the community's residents joined the back-breaking effort to raise the levee by at least one-foot along a 4,000-Joot etrptoh. ' --. ir- . ' ' : '- ' '- The ' troops' "moved' 6n .',down-. Titream to join others at' work sandbagging ana reiniorcmg me threatened' levee at Chouteau islandIll.- Farther downstream; the first families 28 or more were' driv en from their homes at St. Louis. Damage to riverfront Industries at St. Charles and St. Louis climb ed to an estimated $6,000,000 with the flood peak still to come. The Mississippi level was1 38.4 feet at St Louis late last night, and city officials went into con ference with police and Red Cross authorities to draw up emergency plans in anticipation of a 40-foot crest Saturday. Plan Kept Secret The Dlan was keot secret, how-, . ever; and city counselor James W. urowe said the citizens oi tne east Missouri metropolis would be in formed well in advance should It become necessary to invoke the emergency. At Jefferson City, Missouri's capital, the Missouri river reached a new all-time high at 1 a.m. to- day, 33.6 feet; That was one-tenth foot over its peak in the flood of 1903. A crest of 35 feet was ex pected later today. At least 20 blocks of the capitol city's ex . treme southwest section were partly evacuated as backwater from Weir's creek, a tributary of the Missouri, spilled over its marks. (Continued on Page 5) j Communists fail to Appear New York, July 18 IIP" Six bailed out U. S. communist lead ers failed to appear in federal court today for a hearing to set a trial date, and the hearing was postponed until 3:15 p. m. by Federal judge John F. X. Mc Gohey. Eleven others of the American communist party's second-string leadership arrived on time' from the federal house of detention where they were sent yesterday after the district ajid appeals court denied validltvof their civil rights congress bail. Ail 17 are charged with conspiring to ad vocate the forcible overthrow of the government. Frederick Vanderbllt Field, mil lionaire left-wing "angel" and trustee of the CRC fund, couldn't even buy his own way out of jail where he is serving a contempt sentence. . The 46-year-old financial back er of left-wing causes surrender ed to a U. S. marshal with a wan smile last night after fed eral courts judge Thomas W. Swan ordered him held without bail. , Field was sentenced to 90 days Jjr refusing to tell Federal judge Wlvester J. Ryan's court where Jne CRC got $80,000 bond lor lour missing convicted reds. - Fore Talks SI Emergency Flood Relief Bill Signed by Truman; Additional Expenditures are Anticipated ' By John L. Cutter (Unllotl Pregu Slnff Correspondent) . I - . .-- Washington, July 18 (UP)- President Truman signed the $25,0.00,000 emergency flood relief bill today less than 10 hours after returning from an aerial inspection of the strick en Kansas-Missouri area. . ' , Mr. Truman signed the measure without issuing a state ment. But he said on his return from the one-day inspection flight that the $25,000,000 would not be enough to relieve and U. S. Studies Defense Pact With Spain Washington, July 18 (U Secre- tary of state- Dean Acheson said today the United states and Spain are exploring ways to strengthen "common defense against possible aggression" despite British and French opposition. , Acheson said any understand ing which ultimately may be reached . will supplement , "our basic policy of building the de fensive strength of the west." ' "It has beert and is our . firm intention to see to It that if west ern Europe is attacked it wll be detendeu and not liberated, Acheson said in a news confer ence statement. He took note of Adm. Forrest P. Sherman s interview with Gen. Francisco Franco in Madrid Mon day and the resulting speculation that defense arrangements were being discussed. No Details .;." Acheson did not disclose any details .of Sherman's talk with Franco.; Nor did 'he indicate whether the. United States favors a separate American-Spanish de fense agreemetn or Spain's admis sion to the North Atlantic treaty organization of 12 nations. !'Mllitary authorities are in gen era!' agreement that';Spain is. of strategic importance lo ine gen eral defense of western Europe,' Acneson said. . "As a natural corollary to this generally- accepted conclusion, tentative and exploratory conver sations have been undertaken with the Spanish government with the sole purpose of ascer taining what Spain might be will ing and able to do which would (Continued on Page o) : Red Resistance Eighth Army Headquarters, Korea, July 18 ciPi Stiffened red resistance all along the Korean war front ended "death's holiday',1 for American fighting men to day. '. For a 24-hour period through 5 p.m. yesterday (3 a.m. Tuesday EDT), not a single American sol dier fell in death on the battle field for the first time since the U. S. entered the war and only a "very few" were wounded. But the 8th army said that new cas ualties came today as U. S. troops and their United Nations allies slammed into red defenses while cease-fire talks dragged on. , , Planes Again Active B-29 Superforts were back over Korea todav. hitting red marsh alling yards at Sinanju and Sari won for the third straight day. They were striking against ene my supply trains wnicn nave Deen moving up to the front ever since the start of cease-fire talks brought a lull in the fighting. Allied patrols jaooea more man 2M miles into enemv territory on the central front Tuesday be fore hitting resistance, uut as the day ended, small enemy groups were Deing encountered everywhere along the line. A U.N. patrol crossing the Im jin river northeast of the neutral cease-nre comerence uiy ul rutz song ran into two enemy plat oons and.pulled back after a short but sharp exchange of fire. Some enemy units struck at U.N. outnosts in the Kumhwa- Chorwon-Pyongyang iron trian gle zone wrested irom tne com munists but were beaten back. Other U.N. patrols In the same area fought three hours with red units before withdrawing. On the'east coast, allied patrols drove ahead nearly four miles be hind communist positions before running into a red platoon which they dispersed before returning to U.N. lines. The reds even managed to throw back an answering punch at U.N. naval units bombarding the east coast port of Wonsan for the 152nd consecutive day. Dug in on seaside cliffs, enemy guns poured heavy fire at the U.N. ships for more than three hours. They scored some near misses but no hits. rehabilitate the tlood-devas- lated areas. 1 The president had request ed $15,000,000 in an urgent appeal to congress Saturday. The house lipped it to $25, 000,000 Monday. The senate followed suit yesterday, j Mr. Truman signed the measure soon after he arrived at his White house desk. He had returned from his flying inspection trip at 1:11 a.m. EDT. -. -.; , Only Beginning ' On his return, he told reporters that the $25,000,000 was "only a, preliminary proposition to meet the immediate situation." ,: ' "I am having a complete survey and report made to see how much it will take to completely restore normal conditions, he said. i He added with a chuckle to re porters: ' . "Don't Use the word 'normal cy'." -."' t The $25,000,000 relief bill was expected to reach Mr. Truman's desk late today and he said he would sigh it "as soon as it gets to mf',"' ;. Mr. Truman already ' has set ' v ; (Continued on Page 2) Wilson Brothers Sentenced to Die "' Vancouver, Wash.."! July 18 HP) Clark county superior judge-Eugene G. Cushing today sentenced Utah and Turma.n -Wilson to be hanged August 20" at Washing ton state (prison for the kidnap- slaying of 18-year-old Jo Ann Dewev. The sallow-faced brothers, Utah, 21, and Turman, 24, remained Im passive during the short court session at 10:40 a. nv today. The brothers, convicted of ab ducting Miss Dewey on a Van couver street, killing her a.nd tossing her nude body in the Wind river, will be removed to the prison at Walla Walla to await hanging. . .'.''' Dry-eyed relatives of the con victed brothers in the courtroom Included the father, M.'R. (Mose) Wilson of Sllverton, Ore.; their mother, Eunice; their brother, Grant, and his wife and a neph ew, Lester Wilson, 9. Increased Troop Rotation Planned Washington, July 18 tP The army annonced today that effec tive this month it hopes to in crease rotation of troops from Korea to 30,000 a month for the next thr'eemonths. Previously, the army has been shooting for a goal of 20,000 a month. The army said that as of July 10 a total of 32,000 officers and enlisted men had embarked from the far east .for the United States. This includes those who already have arrived in the United States since the program was started In April and those still on ships at sea. Although the army said it hopes to maintain a rotation pro gram of 30,000' a month, the ac tual rate will depend on arrival of replacements in Korea and the necessity to maintain combat ef fectiveness of units. Preference for rotation normal ly is given those who have served the longest time on the Korean front. - The other services also are ro tating men on duty in Korea. Harriman Holds Iran Conference Tehran, Iran, July 18 IP U. S. roving ambassador W. Averell Harriman conferred with Iran's parliamentary leaders today in the third day of his efforts to solve the British-Iranian oil dis pute. Observers saw no immediate chance for success of the mis slon assigned to him last week by President Truman. Harriman said yesterday he sought only to "create an atmosphere for set tlement" but even that stage has not arrived as yet. Riots Behind Iron Curtain Now Revealed By James E. ttoper - , ( United Prwit Stuff (Sorretinoriilent) - Washington, July 18 UrWA ser ious riot of workers has occurred in. soviet-occupied Vilna, Lithua nia,. state department officials re ported today. ; They said reports smuggled through the iron curtain Indicat ed that 40 Lithuanians were killed or injured, and a number of soviet police were wounded. 1 The state department also re ceived reports that the commu nists were having troubles in the other two Baltic states Estonia and Latvia but. violence has not developed.--'- v-'v.--'-; This is the story of the V"na riot, as the , state department heard it.: ' .--' . "The pitched battle between 200 1 workers of a military equipment factory and members of the MDV (Russian secret police) was pre cipitated, it -was said, by orders I to the . workers to work longer hours.- They Were to produce more soviet army sh'ies bUt at no increase In pay. Fighting Breaks Out "When the workers protested, 10 of their number were denounc ed by communists activists with in the factory. Fighting between the workmen and soviet police followed. Militia finally quelled the uprising. .- "During the fighting, workers, also managed to burn down the factory's leather - storehouse and to damage a number-of valuable machines." State department officials said this apparently was "the most serious workers' disturbances slncef the . soviet occupation of LIth&anla." "Total casualties, it is indicated from reports smuggled out, to taled 40 native workers dead or injured and a number of soviet police wounded," one official said. Other Trouble Zones Communist tr,eubles also were reported in Estonia, where "an out-crop of nationalism" Is said to have occurred. Officials here said the communists could not find "reliable" Estonians to fill public jobs.-, so are bringing In specialists from Russia proper, Unrest also was reported in Latvia. The communists were said to be. "deporting large numbers of Latvian agricultural specialists to the region of Barnaul in west ern Siberia." "These skilled workers will par ticipate- in the formation of new agricultural centers In that area," an American report said. "The centers will be enlarged succes sively by the importation of slave labor from the various satellite countries." Sportsmen Plan To Sponsor Two At Summer Camp The Deschutes County Sports men's association will sponsor two young people of the county at summer recreation camps, it was decided at a regular . meet ing of the group Monday eve ning. - A contribution of $30 was vot ed to send a 4-H club boy to the Hart mountain conservation camp Aug. ti ll. A campship to cost $17.50 also was authorized for Camp Fire girl, to attend the summer camp at Crescent lake Aug. 12-18. ... The group voted o transfei to the camp funds $20, which was authorized earlier for a. 4-H summer school scholarship, but was not received in time to be used. - Harhnan Reports Hugh Harbnan, president of the Deschutes sRiver council, re ported on the game commission meeting held July 13 in Portland. He stated his belief that the com mission did not follow the sports men's recommendations, citing the number of antlerless deer des ignated for removal from the Sil ver lake area. He also said that boundaries of the area did not conform with those previously agreed to by the sportsmen. Ln Mathlsen and Paul Bonn. of the game department person nel, explained the commission's reasoning in -setting the number to be removed and the area boun daries. Mathlsen said that past experience showed that only about one-half the number of permits issued would actually re sult In removal of deer from the area. John Smith, president of th organization, presided. Gall Bak er was appointed acting secretary. yd by New Dispute " : ... : ! .; : 4 - ' . v. :. , Attend Cease Fire Parley Ufvf ft J J ; Gen. Nam II, cfiief of the communist cease-fire delegation In Kae song, strides through a courtyard to the truce conference room .followed by qther members of the North Korean team. The talk' ended in an atmosphere of cordiality and without a single armed red guard In sight. (NEA-Acme Radio-Telephoto by Staff photog- rapher Bert Ashworth.) - . , : Administration Victorious In Fight to Keep Controls; Republican Support Helps , By Vincent J. Burke .- (United Prcm Stnff Corrr'Apondc-nl) . , i : Washington, July 18 (U.E)--Re)ublicaTi house leaders and price chiet Michael V. DiSalle both beamed with pleasure to day over defeat of a Ifatrti bloc drive to: kill last montH's. roll back on cattle prices.' ' -i . In a series of unusual votinir alisrnments. the house vster- day adopted an amendment wouia let tnat 1U per cent cattle price rollback stand, and re. Donaugh Reports Few Violations Carl C. Donaugh, district direc tor of the office of price stabili zation, reported in Bend today that ; violations of OPS regula tions In his district, comprised of Oregon and , southwest Washing ton, have been few. . Donaugh and, Dr. Paul A. Volpe, district price executive, completed a three-day tour of central Ore gon with an appearance this noon before members of the Bend Ro tary club at the Pilot Butte Inn. Most businessmen, he reported, have in general an understanding of the need tor OPS regulations and are meeting the requirements of the program. r ine director statea tnat nis oi flee has a corps of 20 specialists in ithe different commodity, and Industrial fields which is avail able at all times to assist burt nessmen in complying with Ihe various regulations. On Monday evening, Donaugh and Volpe appeared before a meeting of central Oregon auto mobile dealers at Madras. Yester day they attended chamber of commerce meetings in iteamonu and Prlneville. Death Penalty Paid by Slayer Florence. Ariz.. July 18 Ui Harold T. Lantz, 28, was executed in the state prison gas chamber today for the brutal strangulation murder of an. elderly Iowa spin ster in her train berth last Au gust. The husky ex-carpenter s help er and railroad worker dieu at 5:04 a.m., less than a minute after he was led Into the chamber by prison guards. The execution was the 53rd since Arizona became a state. Lantz was executed for the at tack murder of Miss Ada Park, 68, Grlnnell, la., in her Pullman berth aboard a Southern Pacific train speeding between Blsbee and Douglas last Aug. 10. The temp erance worker and former teach er was returning to her home after visiting friends in Phoenix when she was killed. OAS WASHED DOWN An overflow of gasoline from a parked pickup truck at 138 Min nesota was washed down by city firemen shortly before noon to day. Owner of the truck was not learned. ft - ? to its price control bill ..which store authority tor more roll backs on everything but beef ana possibly cotton. v; "I'm very, hapcy about it." DiSalle said. He told a report er lie would have liked to go through with his two future beef rollbacks, as well, and there by cut beef ceilings 8 to 10 cents a pound. But he confessed that he had-earlier given up tnuch hope that congress would allow that. ' Republicans Also Happy . - ! Republican leaders in the House were happy, too. "Now DiSalle won't be able to raise - beef . price ceilings and blame republicans for it," chortled Rep. Jesse P. Wolcott, R., Mich., senior GOP spokesman on the controls measure. i "That was the administration's strategy to put us in a position where they could blame us for nigner meat, prices. New rollbacks have been ban ned since July 1 under the stop gap law which expires July 31. The senate has voted In an eight- month extension of controls to keep drastic curbs on rollbacks after that. Except for beef, on which both houses now agree, the senate and house will . have to work out compromise rollback legislation. As administration forces rack ed up their first important gain on price controls, since the con gressional controls fight began, they conceded they would have to credit republicans and southern democrats each with an assist. ' Southerners Help Southern democrats yesterday helped the administration defeat. 217 to 124, a republican move to put the senate rollback curb In the house bill. Then, a majority of the republicans joined with the administration to slap down the farm bloc's beef rollback repealer, 129 to 65. The farm bloc was com prised mostly of southern demo crats and midwest republicans. The senate-passed measure would forbid further farm price rollbacks, and permit them on non-farm prices only when pro duction costs dropped. The house amendment would permit rollbacks with one excep tion no farm price could be roll ed back more than 10 per cent be low the price prevailing May 19, 1951. Chairman Harold D. Cooley, D N. C, of the house agriculture committee said he thought that would prevent any rollback of the market price of cotton as well as beef. Cotton prices have declined recently well below the existing ceiling. About the only other ma jor farm commodities subject to possible rollbacks are veal calves, wool and lambs. They are among the few farm commodities selling above parity. Ceilings on farm products cannot be set below par ity. , I Agreement Over Key Point Fails InKaesong Meet Neuner Holds ChangeinLaw Not Intended Salem, July 18 (IP) Attorney general George Neuner said today that an act to provide for exten sion of unemployment compensa tion coverage to firms With "one or more employes" had never passed the legislature and there fore was void. ! , ' i When the enrolling and engross ing committee of the senate was preparing the bill during the 1951 legislative session,' an error was made which was overlooked by the presiding . officers of both houses and the bill was signed by them and Subsequently by Gov. Douglas McKay. : ' ' . only nrms witn "lour or more employes now are required to come under compensation cover age.. The i state unemployment compensation commission asked Neuner for an opinion on'the new provision, since it was an error and not the intent of the legisla ture. ' - ' , Vote Recalled Neuner said that on Feb. 26, 1951, the senate by a vote of 21 to u. deleted an amendment which would have required firms with "one or more ' employes to De cov ered. Then the house, with only a slight amendment In another re spect, passed the bill, and when the -senate conferees refused to concur In the house, amendment, it was withdrawn and the bill re passed by the house. 56 to 1. Neuner noted that the legisla ture journals show that the bill was passed by both houses, after the senate had deleted the "one or more provision. He said: ' i "However, the enrolled bill, bearing the signatures of the pre siding officer of the respective houses, and that of the governor, contains the deleted 'one or more' provision and thus differs to that extent from the bill that was pass ed." Neuner held that the bill "which was passed by both houses was never signed by their presiding officers, while the bill which was signed by them, in my opinion, was never passed by either house. "This being the case, it Is my opinion that no valid enactment could have resulted. Accordingly you (the unemployment compen sation commission) are advised-to administer the provisions of the law without regard to the purport ed law which bears the designa tion of chapter 347, Oregon laws, ia.il." . U.S. Casualties Show Decline Washington, July 18 (IP) The defense department said today that American battle casualties In Korea reported through last Friday totaled 79,139, an Increase of . 413 over the previous week's summary. This was the smallest weekly Increase since defense headquar ters began issuing the summaries last August 7. The total includes all those whose next of kin had been no tified through last Friday. It does not include all casualties because of a time lag of one to three weeks to notify next o'f kin. The breakdown by services: Army 64,701 total casualties: 10,979 dead, 42,418 wounded, 9.874 still missing, 156 captured, 1,274 previously missing but returned to duty. Navy 918 tota casua t es: 157 dead, 686 wounded, 71 missing, 4 previously listed as missing but returned to duty. - Marine corps 12.828 total cas- ualtlesi-1.896 dead. 10.651 wounrl. ed, 261 still missing, 20 previous ly iisiea as missing out returned to duty. Air force 692 total casua t es: 198 dead, 28 wounded. 428 still missing, 3 captured, 37 previous ly listed but returned to duty. ALARM ANSWERED City firemen responded to a still alarm at 10:30 a.m. today when grass In the vicinity of 424 Colum bia caught fire. The blaze was ex tinguished before damage could result. By Earnest Hoberecht (Unt4Ht Hrwfl Staff Currenpondnt) . UN Advance -Base Below Kae- song, Korea, Thursday, July s no A dispute pver a "major Is sue' slowed Korean cease-fire talks Wednesday in the sixth day of negotiations in Kaesong. . Agreement on tne sey point Is essential to the successful completion- of the first phase of the negotiations," a United Nations Official statement said. ' In this , first phase, , UN and communist teams are negotiating ' a program for actual cease-fire talks. ,.-S-:.'::vy,:-,.-,--';.:,.' xne vin siaiemem saia mat- agreement was reached on two points during tne aay ana mat i'some additional progress" was-, made "toward the formation ait mutually acceptable agenda on which to base the detailed dis cussion." '"'-.... -. - It was believed that the stick ing point yesterday was a com munist demand that a cease-fire take effect at once. . The" UN com mand is determined that there shall be no cease-fire until terms for a formal armistice have been . agreed upon and there is no chance lor a double cross. There was a suddenly alerted atmosphere in Kaesong. Attitude cnanged A United Press corresoonde.nt . : who visited the city Wednesday : said North Korean soldiers were sullen and civilians seemed afraid 4qf the UN visitors. .- a lew hours later a memoran-: dum issued at this advance base ordered correspondents who vis. : ited Kaesong to , remain within the half-mile neutral, zone around. the cease-fire conference house. And to travel "in groups by jeep" , even in mat restnetea area. , It was evident that the pro gress made In cease-fire talks was slow and tedious. The release said the meeting resulted In some additional Dro- gress being made" and the agree- ionunuea on rage o) Warm Weather Will Continue (By UnlUsl Prom) A flow of ocean air rellevnrl tho fire danger somewhat In wostorn . Oregon and Washington Wednes- aay DUt tne weatherman said warm temperatures would con tinue at least through Thursday. Morning clouds blanked out the sun over much of the two states and possible showers were fore cast for the extreme northwest portion of Washington late Thurs day.- - Temperatures were expected to range up to 75 degrees In the northwest sections of the statea, 90 degrees Iti southwestern Ore gon and 90-100 degrees in eastern Washington and Oregon. The weather bureau said tho fire danger would remain high in south-central Oregon with a min imum humidity of about 15 per cent expected Wednesday. Fire Near Control . The only major fire still burn ing in the northwest was expected to be under control by nightfall. Keith Young, district forester, ' said the Tioga burn blaze, 38 miles northeast of Coos Bay, would be trailed by Thursday night "barring an unexpected set back by the weather." -The fire had spread to 1500 acres. A small fire near Cascade Locks was quickly controlled Tuesday afternoon. Ontario's 102 degrees was the highest temperature reported in Oregon Tuesday. The weather ' bureau said the eastern Oregon city could expect a high of 103 degrees Thursday. It was 100 at Baker Tuesday. Redmond Hospital Permit Approved Washington', July 18 (IP) The federal public health service has Issued a construction permit for the central district hospital at Redmond, Ore., officials reported today. Officials of the ' district were advised to apply immediately for allocation of materials. The ap plication showed that a $352,157 Institution containing 30 beds Is planned. The permit' was issued on a finding that the proposed hospital conforms to a state hospital plan, and that there is a shortage of hospital beds In the area. Mi i i
