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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.
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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.