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Univ. of Oregon library Forecast Mostly cloudy today; par tial clearing late tonight and Saturday; chance few snow flurries today; hig! both days 35-40; low to night 20-25. THE BEND' BULLETIN High and Low Max. yesterday. 39 degrees. Min. last night. 26 degrees. Sunset today, 5:00. Sunrise tomorrow, 7:32. CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER 52nd Year One Section Bend. Deschutes County. Oregon, Friday. January 21. 1955 Eight Pages No. 39 P ami Dies J mi voted! to China J) rst n im v ram El U5yU UvCU S F Ike Expected To Request Formosa Aid By I'NITKI) PRESS Indications grew today that President Eisenhower will soon send Congress a message on the Far East crisis. They supported authoritative re ports that Mr. Eisenhower will ask the House and Senate to give formal approval to use of Amer ican air and sea power to defend Formosa and, if necessary, to evacuate Chinese Nationalist forces under attack in the Tachen Islands by the Chinese Reds. Senate Republican Leader Will iam F. Knowland indicated he ex peels a presidential message, per haps Ihe first of next week. Other congressional news: Shortage: The Senate Agriculture Committee switched its attention from serious wheat surpluses to a "critical"- wheat shortage. The wheat of which there isn't enough is the variety called Durum. It is Ihe only kind which makes good flour for spaghetti, macaroni, and noodles. To ease the shortage, the committee approved a bill to ex pand Durum production. Trade: Representatives of farm commerce, and educational groups urged extension of President Ei senhower's tariff-cutting reciprocal trade program. Charles B. Shu man, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, said the federation favored the bill and said it should be for a four-year per iod instead of three as proposed. Others approving the bill were rep resentatives of the American Cot ton Shippers Association' and the American Association of University Women. (lis: The House Veterans Com mittee scheduled hearings starting Monday on a bill to preserve GI educational benefits for men who get into service on or before Jan. 31. Committee members forecast quick approval of the bill before the deadline. Far Kust: Key congressional Democrats said Mr. Eisenhower as commander in chief has all the power he needs to defend Formosa and its outposts without consulting Congress. Pride Confident U. S. 7th Fleet Could Stop Reds HONG KONG (UP) Vice Adm Alfred M. Pride said this week he is confident his U.S. 7th Fleet could defend against any attack and that he did not believe the Chinese Communists could capture For mosa. "We can take them" if the Chi nese throw in Soviet-built MIG-15 jets against U.S. Navy planes, he said in an interview. mere is always a flow of new aircraft into the fleet." The U.S. 7th Fleet has been charged with the defense of For mosa and the nearby Pescadore Islands from Communist invasion. The Pescadores lie about 40 miles west of Formosa toward the main land. The Tachen Islands now un der Red attack lie just off the mainland some 200 miles from For- Asked if he thought the Tachen fighting would mount into a tun scale war he replied: "Only the Communists know that." "But every expansion of the Communist perimeter is serious," he said. However, he said it did not seem sensible to draw a line against f'nmmonist exnansion in the direc- t on of Formosa because "If you fix a line the enemy win come up t') that limit. Asked if submarines had been ,l..ion,.,l in the Formosa Straits Pride said. "There is no sense tell ing the other fellow what we know about him." WIVTKR NOW ST. BONIFACE. Man. IUP1- Police were certain today the worst of the winter is upon them. Pete Niko'uk has started his annual jail term for vagrancy. Nikiluk has spent the past 21 winders In jail on vagrancy chirks. Police said he always manners to get arrested just be, f.ire the coldest part of the winter sets in. I Priority Set In Allocation Of Road Sum Because only $1,5.14,788 has been allocated so far, federal funds for highway work in Oregon are to be applied on a priority basis, it was learned here Friday, One of the projects calls for the surfacing of the newly graded Cascade Lakes highway, from Bachelor Butte to Elk lake, with $150,000 set aside. The allocation, however, is low on Ihe priority program. Even lower in the priority list is an item of $500,000 for the Laurel hill-Government Camp section of the Ml. Hood route, just west of the divide. Originally, congress authorized $22,500,000 for forest road work, of which Oregon was to get $3,725, 000. Only atai I a thud of this has been appropriated so far. Three other projects head the Mt. Hood, Cascade Lakes and Mc Kenzie routes. Quiet Prevailing In Guatemala GUATEMALA CITY (UP) Quiet prevailed in Guatemala City and the interior today, and it was believed the government had won out over a Communist-inspired at tack on army and air bases. The government however, con tinued its "state of siege" and it was expected to censor outgoing news cables. The censorship was expected to be light. . Official communiques said 'Pres ident Carlos Castillo Armas' gov ernment was in "complete con trol" of the situation, with the rebel force crushed except for scattered remnants now being rounded up here and in the nearby mountains. Private reports reaching New York said the situation was "quite serious" in the provinces, with the army mobilized and pro-Communist uprisings in progress at sev eral points. Official sources said 8 to 10 per sons were killed, "several" wound ed and about 100 taken prisoner in clashes at the Aurora Military Base and Cipresales Airfield. U.S.-built F-47 and F-51 fighters of the Guatemalan air force pa trolled the skies over Guatemala City through the night. The President said the stage of siege, effective at 10 p.m. Thurs day, will continue "as long as necessary." Searchers Find Crash Remains SEASIDE (UP) Skeletons of 'our persons who died in a light nlane crash near here four years ago were recovered by a search party yesterday afternoon. The victims were Archie Hopper, 52, formerly of Portland who pilot ed the plane: his son, Lyle, 32: i friend, Olive Howard, Warren 'on, and a niece, Mrs. Josephine Hayes, San Rafael, Calif. ; Wreckage of the plane was found late Wednesday by two tim ber cruisers for the Crown Zeller 'iach Corporation. A serial number "ound on the wreckage identified ;t as the Hopper plane. The bodies were identified by personal effects. The plane, a four-place Fairchild monoplane, took off from Astoria veb. 11. 1951 en route to California, t apparently crashed into the leavily wooded hillside a few min ites later in heavy fog. Sum for Possibility that funds budgeted i higher than expected, she said, for the Deschutes county welfare t ignt 0f this increased spend department for the current quarter jng jt js doubtful, according to the -night fall short of the amount 'welfare officer, whether the de needed was indicated by welfare partment can complete fiscal 1954 tirector Miss Olive Jameson fol-1 -55 within the limits of the present 'owing Wednesday's meeting of the' budget. ounty welfare commission. she noted it would be particular- She reported that the budget (or ly difficult to meet the county's he quarter, which runs January welfare demands if further cuts In 'hrousrh March, has been cut de-,the budget are imposed ipite an expected increase in relief! A major factor accounting for ayments during the period. increased spending this year. Miss Miss Jameson advised that at Jameson said, is the Jump in the he request of the financially-., number of dependent children be inehed State Welfare commission ing cared for with funds from the I -mo was Ulnililtru JIUIil lilt: jinai inlret for the three-month period. 10 ootster ine ailing aiu-io-cnu-Exnenditures by her department dren fund. $1000 has been trans through the first six months offerred to It from the general as.sis the current fiscal year have been welfare demand if further cuts on Power Issue Is Taken Up At Legislature SALEM (UP) A new skirmish in the Northwest power battle hit the House State and Federal Af fairs Committee today, on the issue of partnership construction of the Green Peter and Cougar dam projects in the Willamette river basin. The committee, headed by Rep. William Bradeen of Burns, sched uled a hearing after adjournment of the House this morning on a Lane county memorial to Congress requesting federal funds to begin planning and construction of Ihe two projects. The memorial, introduced by the Lane county delegation in both houses, says construction of the Green Peter project on the middle fork of the Santiam river and Cougar project on the McKenzie river are badly needed to balance operation of already existing facil ities in the Willamette basin. They also fit in as important units of the entire Columbia Basin power development affecting all of the Pacific Northwest. Together, the two projects would produce 120,000 kilowatts of elec trical energy the memorial says, and would serve to alleviate re curring flood damages. The partnership aspect of the memorial is frankly stated in the section pointing out that Lane county electric utilities, one mu nicipal and one private, have of fered to build and finance the power generation portions of the flood control projects. Committee action ,on two other power memorials has been held up pending today's hearing. They are concerned with John Day dam on the Columbia river. One memorial would invite partnership construc tion aifd the other would ask full federal financing. The House adjourned for the weekend after its morning meeting today. Bills introduced in the House yesterday included one to create a state historical board for super vision and co-ordination of state agencies concerned with state his tory and science. The House also heard a resolu ti6n from the legislative assembly of Puerto Rico, previously read in the Oregon Senate, condemning aggression" against democracy in the Republic of Costa Rico. Count Dismissed Against Pomeroy The charge of being drunk on a public highway against Rensler Lyman Pomeroy, docketed for hearing in local circuit court to day, was dismissed late yesterday on motion of District Attorney George F. Rakestraw. The district attorney said he asked Circuit Judge Ralph S. Hamilton for the dismissal on grounds of insufficient evidence. The dismissal in effect over rules the justice court verdict find ing Pomeroy guilty of the drunk charge. The case was docketed in circuit court on an appeal by Pomeroy of his conviction in justice court. He was found guilty by Justice of the Peace O. W. Grubb in a hear ing held July 21. Pomeroy was arrested and charged with being drunk by state police following a collision involv ing his car and a local taxi in which the taxi driver, Frank Pom dexter, was killed. Welfare muiny w-noic wnnr. 4 FOR POLIO BENEFIT Pieces of this "treasure" cake, with prizes baked in, will be sold at the March of Dimes dance, tonight at Moose hall. In the picture are Carl J. Lindh, left, junior past governor of the Bend Moose lodge, and James Wood, secretary, who is chairman for the or ganization's fund-raising project for infantile paralysis. (Bend Bulletin Photo.) Grievances List Handed Officials By 4 Prisoners BOSTON (UP) Four desperate convicts holding 11 hostages in Massachusetts State Prison today handed Warden John J. O'Brien a list of. grievances and demanded they be delivered personally to Gov. Christian A. Herter. . , The convicts made their de mands in a two hour and 10 min ute meeting with the warden and three other officials in the section where they are barricaded with five guards and six inmate hos tages. O'Brien denied reports that a guard had been killed, but he re fused to comment on any other phase of the faceyto-face meeting with the convicts. The convicts, led by bankrobber Theodore (Teddy) Green, 39, have demanded their freedom in return for release of the hostages they seized after an attempt escape failed early Tuesday morning. O'Brien has refused to grant the convicts' demands. He said only yesterday that he was deter mined to avoid making any deals or compromises. No violence has yet occurred although the convicts are known to be armed with at least three guns and a liberal quantity oi ammunition. Outside their bastion, 200 state troopers, police and prison guards have kept a constant patrol withi bazookas, rifles and sidearms. I Besides Green, the rebels in- ist, Fritz O. Swenson, a cop-killer, and robber Walter Baleen. The captive guards were War ren L. Harrington, 29. Martin F. Mtilkern r.uM-ni i. "' I Thomas D. Ryan, 25, and Gerard Kndtick. 28. With O'Brien were State Public Safety Commissioner Otis M. Whitney, Correction Commissioner K. Lawrence Snurr and State Police Capt. John Mitchell. ISOLATKI)? MIAMI BEACH OH There isn't an airport today at Miami Beach, the site of the first Florida flying field. The tourist city also has no railroad facilities. May Fall Short Mi!,s Jameson reported. The welfare director said that winter usually brings an increase in the case load, particularly in unemployment assistance as sea sonal work falls off. Total budgeted for the three winter months is $70,292. Spent during December from the various funds administered by the department was a total of $21 856.65. This holds about even with the monthly expenditures of the department over the five prior months of the current fiscal year. Expenditures in November to taled $21,742 October. $22,451: Sep-' temher. $21 851. August $22,213; :tH .Inlv I?n 8W Last month's total breaks down into tae following sums spent from "UV. Costa Rica's 'Air Force Again Active SAN JOSE (IPI Costa Rica's fledgling "air force" hurled new attacks against undefended rebel targets near the northwestern border. Thursday after a rebel mortar-and-bazooka barrage halt ed;. 4he, government ground ad vance. The pilots of the country's two operational F-51 fighters said they left the village Of La Cruz "smok ing and shattered" after the sec ond raid in as many days, and that they shot up three "lightly armored vehicles" on the Pan American Highway. The rebel radio said Thursday night the "inhuman aggression" at La Cruz caused no insurgent casu alties, but that there were "many civilian victims." On the ground, the "gradual rebel withdrawal" reported in recent government communiques halted abruptly Thursday when loyal forces ran into heavy mortar and bazooka fire about a mile north of the town of Santa Rosa.) The government vanguard halted without making direct contact with rebel units. Meanwhile, both Costa Rican President Jose Flgueres and Niea- raguan President Anastasio Somo- za had approved the idea of a six- mile neutral zone on the border north of the battle area, and inter national air patrols were already operating over the "buffer belt. 1 r OI..U J - rv. rVIUU IUI ICQ I j , rOrmer lYlOUnTy Bend Knife and Fork club mem bers at their January dinner meet ing Saturday will have as their guest speaker Sydney R. Mon- solder, of fortune, adventurer and philosopher. The ex-Mounty will be presented here as a speaker W'ho believes "that the youth of today has new worlds. to conquer and that vast unsuspected resources are waiting to be discovered," Knife and rork chrb leader said. The dinner, to be served by the Trailways Coffee Shop staff, will be in the Thompson school audi torium, and will start at 7 a m Reservntinns are to be made l)V ' this evening. the various funds: General assistance, $2,488.55: old age assistance, $12,777.50; aid to dependent children. $1,090.60; aid to disabled, $2,428: and aid to the blind. $59 The bulk of expenditures from the general assistance fund Is spent either for hospitalization and medication or on foster children case. Of the total in the general assistance fund, $1,065.95 was spent for medication and hospital! zation, and $1065.95 for foster chil dren care Miss Jameson advised that med lica! care for persons under all the welfarp nnwrsma i financed through the general assistancelnf Mexico and the Pacific Coast 'fund. 'ing. , Knowland Urges U.S. to Resist Red Nibbling' CHICAGO (UP) Sen. William F. Knowland has called on the UnHed States to resist such "op eration nibbles" as the Communist assault on the Tadhen' Islands or "see Asia go down the drain." Knowland charged In a news conference and a speech last night that the Communists arc icstlng the United States to see if It is a "paper trigger" and might continue their "operation nibble" all Ihe way to Formosa. He also accused the Chinese Reds of still holding about 800 Americans who were captured dur ing the Korean War. ' ' The Republican Senate leader thus joined Gen. Mark W. Clark, former Far Eastern commander, who has estimated that there are 931 Americans in Chinese prison camps. The Defense Department, how ever, has said that only 24 Ameri cans are probable Red prisoners. including 11 airmen and two civil ians who were recently convicted on trumped up spy charges. Knowland said he reached his estimate of 800 "on the basis of the number of men we knew were Chinese prisoners" and the num ber who were repatriated follow ing the Korean armistice. "As long as I am in the Senate, I do not intend to remain silent while a single GI is in a Commu nist prisoner of war camp," he said in an off the cuff speech before the suburban Cicero Man ufacturers Club. There are doubts whether the Communists could take Formo sa, he said, but if ttiey did it would certainly not be in our national interest" and would "drive a wedge" in our Far East ern defenses. He repeated his demand for a blockade of Red China in order to free the 11 imprisoned airmen and warned "If we aren't prepared to take risks, we must prepare to see the Philippines and olhers go doAn the Communist drain." "We must draw a line in Asia and back it up," Knowland said, Storms Batter Mid-U. S. Area Ity tA'ITKI) I'KKSS A band of snow, rain and freez ing rain stretched today from Minnesota to Eastern Texas Texas was pounded by ruin while Missouri, Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois got a vicious com bination of snow and free.init 'nln. Snow fell on Minnesota and Wisconsin. Elsewhere in the nation winter slackened the stormy nace it set "artier this week, although two inches of snow hit Salt Ijike City. It was chilly In most of the country and only the far South 1 wect nnH Ktnto hnrrlnrino th f.nlf Hopes Raised That Reds Will Eventually Free 17 Americans By BRl'( F. W. MUNN I'nlted Press Staff Correspondent UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UP)- Ked China has agreed to let the families of 17 Jailed Americans1 visit them in Chinese prisons, the United Nations announced today. Eleven of the prisoners - are American airmen jailed as "spies" two others are civilians also held as spies and Ihe four others are airmen shot down in separate en gatements during (he Korean War. The announcement was the first of any positive nature to emerge from the talks in Peiping earlier this month between U.N. Secretary general Dag Hammarskjold and Red China's Premier Chou En-lal. A simultaneous announcement was broadcast by the Communist Pei- plne Radio. Raises New Hope It raised new hope that the Reds intended eventually to release the prisoners. It said facilities for the visit would be provided by the Red Chinese government and arrange ments would be made by the Com munist Red Cross. The United Nations Issued the following "note to correspondend- ents": "as is being announced this morning from Peking (Peiping), Premier Chou En-lai during his tulks with Secretary-general Dag Hammarskjold Indicated that the government of People's Republic of China would provide facilities for relatives to 'visit those U.S. personnel who had been convict ed and those whose cases were under Investigation If they should wish to dc ao, and that the Red Cross Society of China would make all the arrangements nec essary. Ill Good Health The United Nations understood that the Red Chinese invitation applied to the 11 American airmen and two civilians convicted with U.S. Personnel Leaving Tachens TAIPEI, Formosa (IPI Amer ican advisory oltlcers were re ported today to have been re moved from bomb-battered Tach en Island, pawn in a vicious air sea war between the Chinese Na tionalists and the Reds. The report, regarded as relia ble here, came shortly after an other from a top American source that the Nationalists had indicated their willingness to withdraw from their imperiled island holdings some 200 mles north of Formosa. Nationalist warplanes were blasting Communist shipping along a 300-mile stretch of the East China coast again today in another maj or effort to at least forestall the forced evacuation of the islands. Generalissimo Chiang Kai- shek summoned his top lieutenants into emergency session to consider the situation. The withdrawal of the approxi mately 10 American officers and men on Tachen was said to have been carried out under consider able "difficulty." The Island has been subjected lo merciless aerial attack by the Reds, and the Americans were said to have left alter Red bombs knocked out their installations. The Americans were headed by an Army colonel. Their job was lo advise the is land commander. Gen. Liu Lien- chi, and to train Nationalist triH in the use of American weapons. Burglary Charge Faced by Youth George Clare Morris, 18, Sisters, was bound over to the grand jury when arraigned this morning in Justice court here on a charge of burglary. He will be held in the county Jail in lieu of $2,000 bail The youth was arrested by state police and Is suspected of burglar izing a summer home outside Sis ters, Among items reportedly sto len from the house were several bottles of champagne The break-In reportedly occurred Nrw Year's day. them as spies as well as to four other fliers the United States told the United Nations the Peiping regime was holding. 1 Hammarskjold gave 'his Infor mation to Ambassador Henry Cab ot Lodge, Jr., chief U. S. dele gate, upon his return from Pei ping Jan. 13 and also communi cated it to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles Wednesday. He also told Lodge and Dulles he had received assurances in Peiping that the imprisoned men were In good health. Sources here said the assurances were "more than mere words." However, it was known that neither Hammarskjold nor any ot his party actually saw the pris oners. Hope. For Freedom Observers here saw the an nouncement as the most optimis tic indication yet that the Chinese Reds eventually would free the fliers. They believed that the ex traordinary . invitation extended . by Chou during his talks with Hammarskjold early this month would not have been made if the fliers were to be jailed Indefinitely. U. N. sources said that it was agreed from the time of the face to face talks in Peiping that this -announcement would be made at some stage. The announcement was made simultaneously by the United Nations and the Commu nist Peiping Radio, apparently by arrangements completed this week by cablegram.. . . :. The 17 airmen involved include Capt. Elmer , K Llewellyn, Mis soula, Mont,, whose mother, Mrs. Henry Stlter, lives at Vista, Calif., and Airman Daniel C. Schmidt, Portlund, Ore. VISTA, Calif. (UP)-Mrs. Hen ry Stitcr, mother of Capt. Elmer Llewellyn, one of 11 U. S. air men held by the Chinese Commu nists, said .today the news that families would be allowed to visit the fliers 1 was "simply wonder ful." 'Oh, if I only had the money," Mrs. Stller said, "I certainly. would make the trip as soon as possible." Mrs. Stiter is a civilian employe at nearby Marine Camp Pendle ton. BOISE, Idaho IIP) Mrs. Una Schmidt, wife of Airman Daniel Schmidt who Is a prisoner of the Chinese Communists, said to day she Is extremely anxious to see her husband in Red China transportation could be ar ranged. She added that she couldn t af ford the trip herself and she ex pressed some doubt as to her safe ty should she make the visit. Schmidt was formerly stationed ;it Mountain Home Air Force Base, near here. r Mrs. Schmidt, who lives here alone, came to Boise last Decem ber and works at a local dime store. Nautilus Makes nitial Dives GftOTON, Conn. (UP) The nu- clearpowered submarine Nautilus, luch made its first dive yester day, repeated the history making performance today, this time for prevented by rough weather from filming the first event. The Nautilus went under yester day at 1:39 p.m., and remained submerged for one hour, according to a Navy announcement. Lt. Will ism H. Layman, San Diego, the diving officer, took it down. The submarine rescue vessel, Skylark, which has attended the Nautilus at all of Its trial opera tions, circled nearby. A Navy hel icopter hovered overhead. The sen trials began Monday. Death Claims Centenarian CORVAI.LIS (UPl - Arthur Marks, 101-year-old retired farm er, died Wednesday night after an illness of less than one day. Marks was born June 10, 1853 at Long River, Prince Edwards Is land, In Canada. Ho came to Ore gon In 1875 and homesteaded near Yachats. Marks was in charge of the light house at Nootka, B. C. between 1918 and 1920.
