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Oolv. of Oregon Library riqsie, oasws . - Forecast Fair through- Saturday; cold again tonight; strong north winds today, decrea sing tonight; high both days 28-33; low tonight ze ro to 5 above. High and Low THE BENB' BULLETIN Max. yesterday. 34 degrees. Min. last night, tero. Sunv set today. 5:38. Sunrise to morrow.. 6:59. CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER 52nd Year One Section Bend. Deschutes County. Oregon, Friday. February 18. 1955 Eight Pages No. 63 Field Denies He Ever Spied For Anyone LONDON (UP) American arch itect Hermann Field told a press conference today he never was a Communist or a Western spy. - He said Red Poland hes paid liim $50,000 indemnity lor the more than live years he spent in a War saw suburban jail. - Field, whose home is in Cleve land, wept as he told, lor the first time the full story of his Iron Curtain imprisonment. He broke down when he told of seeing the American ambassador in Warsaw for the first time after his release and again when he spoke of his reunion with his wife and his two young sons. Still obviously nervous from his ordeal, but appearing to be in good health, Field said he never was physically mistreated by Polish authorities. "However, I was subjected to extreme psychological tensions," he said. "There was a general effort at exhaustion. I had very little sleep during the periods of questioning which went on some times seven hours at a stretch." . Field said that during his entire imprisonment, from mid-September 19-19 until his release Oct. 25. 1954, he never was permitted out of doors. " He said he discovered, during his interrogation, that the princi pal thing the Poles held against him was the work he had done in Cracow In 1939 on behalf of Czech oslovak refugees from Hitler. "This apparently was miseon slrucd as part of a British-Ameri can plan to subvert the postwar Czech regime," he said: 'As Po land has by now discovered, this was not the case and I have never been an agent for anybody." Storm Warnings Up in Midwest By UNITED PRESS Blizzard warnings were hoisted In Nebraska and Kansas today as a new wintry storm roared out of the Northwest. The storm, which raced east ward on two fronts, was also ex pected to bring near-blizzard con ditions to southeast Wyoming and eastern Colorado. . Summery temperatures in the lower Midwest and Southwest were due to vanish when the storm, followed by a blast of cold air, hit the areas. The storm came whistling out of Canada Thursday, dropping the temperature at Cutbank, Mont., 4-1 degrees to 19. Eight inches of snow hit Sheridan, Wyo., and five inches full on Eagle, Colo. In the Texas Panhandle and western Kansas 50-mile-per-hour winds kicked up towering clouds of dust. Two to three inches' of snow was expected at Denver, Colo., by dawn ending a midwinter "heat wave" which sent the temperature up to 5" Thursday. Warning Issued To Irrigationists PRINEVILLE Irrigationists of the Crooked river valley have been warned in a preli minary forecast that water sup plies may be short in the coming season, as a result of the light snow pack in the Ochocos. Ochoco reservoir storage will be available, but not in the overflow quantities of the' past few years. Ochoco lake, with a usable capac ity of 46,000 acre feet, now. holds 21,700 acre feet against 33.800 acre feet this time last year. Snow surveys taken about Feb. 1 in the Crooked river area show a snow depth at Derr meadows of 21 inches, with a moisture content of 7.4 inches. Last year's water content for that area on Feb. 1 was 9.7 inches. Ochoco meadow? show an even poorer outlook, with 4 4 inches of water ns against the 25-year average of 7.4. The Marks creek snow- cover holds 2.8 inches of moisture as against the 17 year average of 3.9 Water content In snow in that nrea fast year was 6 inches on Feb. 1. The annual water forecast meet ing will be held in the early soring, and at that time it is ex pected that all districts, other than those watered by the Desehute reservoir, will receive a warning of a season of short storage. However. It Is conceded that a damn sprint, during the growlnp season, could change the some what gloomy present picture. I r i . iRTIFICIAl KSP1MTI8M JT-i J ' mk nun'-Arm lift Mwhod . s " 3 W 'jfl-W- "(kv RED CROSS CLASSES READIED Cross chapter first aid chairman, left is Bob Ensworth, co-chairman classes. (Bend Bulletin Photo) Area Plans For First Aid Classes Set J. D. Donovan, chairman of first aid work from the Deschutes coun ty chapter of the American Red Cross and safety director for Brooks-Scanlon, Inc., has made ar rangements for three Red Cross instructors to teach first aid in Bend and Sisters the next few weeks. Robert Ensworth, first aid co- chairman and chairman of water safety, will instruct classes in the circuit court room in Bend Thurs day evenings. Wilford Fordham, (ieldman for the state industrial accident commission, will instruct on Tuesday evenings. Dave Chamberlain of the U.S. Forest Service will instruct a class In Sisters one night each week. All Bend classes will be held in the Deschutes county circuit court room, made available through the courteby--or-4udge.R. S. -Hamilton, Donovan reported. "- All supervisors and foremen are taking refresher courses, and Brooks-Scanlon is making it pos sible for all employes to obtain first aid training. First aid certificates will be Is sued by the American Red Cross to all who qualify. City Groups Sfudy Filter m Center Site Members of the city commission and the school board yesterday afternoon surveyed the site of the projected filter center between the school superintendent's office and the library but took no action on clearing an alley to the lot. Armv engineers have specified that extra access be provided to the lot by an alley to run from Kansas street south to the prop erty. The school dlstirct owns a ma jority of the lots bordering tne course of the alley and is reluc tant to initiate improvement be cause of resulting costs. Dr. J. M. McCarthy Is owner of the lot intended for the filter cen ter. Chairman of the school board Glenn H. Gregg said at an ad journed meeting of the city com mission that followed the msoec- tion tour that he would call a school board meeting for next Tuesday to consider the matter. The city commission deferred action pending a report on the school board meeting and ad lourned the meeting to next Wed nesday. Cost of the alley project has Nen estimated variously from S1600 to $2100. Big factor In de terminine the cost is a tall rock oile in the platted course of the illey rhat wou'd have to be ex avated. Greig sa'd he and the board 'naturally don't want to hold un inv oneress on the center." but iridrd that he first heard of the illev nrijecf that dnv. School Suier'ntendent R. E Tewel echoed Cre'e's statemer. ibout not wnntin" to retard work n the eentnr. He nointed on' Sowever. that the exnense for al- 'ov Imornvement ww'd h harH 'r the hrtnrd to inetifv since the "hnn district voiiM derive llttl" 'lenef't from the alley improve nent. HENnVETTA. Okla (UP)--T. R "'nllarl v he kiwj who tele-i,-rH hl brother In California m RittUrd was dead. Bii'loH suv the practical loker "hit faired he'd get a ride buck i Cull'ornln when mv brother came her (or my funeral." Under the general supervision of J. D. Donovan, right, Red a series of first aid classes will be taught in Bend and Sisters, At of the first aid work, who will assist in the instruction of Bend Rayburn Warns Hell Need Help From Ike on Foreign Trade Bill 1 By VINCENT J, Bl'RKE United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON (UP) Speaker Sam Rayburn, credited with saving President Eisenhower's foreign trade bill yesterday, warned l.e could not do it again today without more administration help. By implication he put the tariff- cutting bill's fate in the House squarely up to the President and his Republican backers. The Tex as Democrat told reporters: "If they (the, Republicans) don't produce more than the 65 votes they produced for the bill yester day it probably will be recommit ted." Rayburn spoke out as the House headed toward a showdown vote on a recommittal motion by which high tariff protectionists hoped to revamp the measure before final passage. " Compromise Sought ' . The protectionists were confident of Victory, as a result of their strong showing yesterday. President Eisenhower s GOP lieutenants sought with no ap parent success to work out a com promise with Rep. Daniel A. Reed (R-NY) who had full charge of the final assault to weaken the bill. Reed's recommittal motion would strip the President of some of his discretionary power to over rule Tariff Commission recom mendations for restrictions against imports competing with American industry. Rayburn's dramatic plea to the House yesterday was credited with the one-vote margin by which the House barred other amendments. But he told a reporter he was not taking any personal credit. Pick 29 Trade 3rd Pgh Despite Showdown Vote Due Despite White House opposition, Reed seemed determined to at tempt to write Into the Reciprocal Trade Law the strongest tariff protectionist language in its, 21 year history. Democratic and Republican lead ers were buttonholing aououui members on both sides of the aisle for the final showdown vote. GOP Leader Joseph W. Martin Jr. de clined to say whether there was any chance of a compromise he could support. President Eisenhower was re ported to have written a letter to Martin urging the House to sup oort his program. Martin said he was expecting a letter from the President and if it arrived he would read it to the House. Reed hoped to revamp the bill on a motion to recommit it to the Ways and Means Committee the only weapon left to protectionists. Reversing itself in a dramatic sec-saw battle, the House Thurs day beat down efforts to open the bill to a stack of restrictive amend- -nents. The final victory came on '.he third roll call by a one-vote Silverton Area Resident Killed From Ambush SILVERTON (UP) A Silverton area resident was shot to death 'rom ambush last night, state po lice reported. The victim was identified as Er win Oren Kaser, 49. Neighbors told state officers that Kaser had just driven his car into his driveway at 10: 4d p.m. when 'our shots were heard. Four shots entered the vehicle, three hitting a door post and one going trough a window. Deputy sheriffs estimated the killer was about 7 ysrds away. Kaser lived two miles south of Silverton near the Evergreen school. Authorities said no arrests had yet been made. margin after Rayburn ' made a changed their votes. Three-Year Extension The "gag" rule against amend ments was finally adopted 193 to 192. It was supported by 128 Dem ocrats and 65 Republicans and op posed by 88 Democrats and 104 Republicans. The House had at first refused to consider a gag-rule on a 207 to 178 rollcall but then under pressure from its leaders re versed itself. The bill would iiberalize and ex tend for another three years the President's power to negotiate re ciprocal tariff-cutting agreements with othe nations. The recommital motion, drafted by Reed, would rewrite a vital portion of the bill. It would force the President to restrict foreign Imports when a majority of the Tariff Commission finds they .are threatening injury to American producers unless the President determined that "national secur ity" required no action. Wayne Bolts It's Now PORTLAND (UP) Sen. Wayne L. Morse, who bolted the Republi can party in 1952, announced last night that he has joined the Demo- craic party and will seek re election next year us a Democrat. He said in a speech at a cheer ing Multnomah county Democratic rally here that he was joining the Democrats officially because he beieves that is the best way to advance the cause of liberalism in American politics. Morse had registered as a Demo crat in the afternoon at the Lane county courthouse at Eugene. Count Now 49-47 His official switch to the Demo cratic party leaves the Senate with 49 Democrats and 47 Republicans. It is because I have become convinced that I can make my best contribution to a legislative program that will best serve the people of Oregon, and the nation, under the banner of the Demo cratic party that I now announce my intention to run for reelection to the Senate in 1956 as a Demo crat," he said. Morse campaigned for Adai E. Stevenson, 1952 Democratic presi dential nominee, after he broke with the Republican party. He also voted with Democrats this year for control of the Senate and sits on the Democratic side of the aisle. First Official Word But last night's announcement was the. first official word that he would seek reelection in 1956 as a Democrat. His announcement end ed his two-year tenure as the Sen ate's lone Independent. Outlining his reasons for switch ing party alignment, Morse told the Democratic rally It "is a great fallacy" to consider "party regu- Hospital Board Names Officers Special to The Bulletin PRINEVILLE James Howard was elected president of the Pio neer Memorial hospital board of directors at a board meeting this week. Also named were the fol lowing: Vice-president, James F. Bodie; secretary. Edwin Van Win- kle; treasurer. Harold Gray as- w"re , nrrnwingly disappoint log. slstant treasurer, Curtis Saunders. h SBid- ' Mornlngskle Heights Robert Lakin was elected chair- agreement with Sen. (Robert A.) man of the executive bosrd. with!' (R-O.), in which Taft s pro Ralph Brown. C. C. McGlcnn and "ram embraced, made It W. B. Morse as members. jt-leai that the Republican candl- R. H. McAtee will continue asnte slogan was 'anything to chairman of the hospital land- win.' " cane committee. 1 . O-mmi Pr BwOnwia Anti-Wiretap Move Backed By Churches By WIMJAM WABKEN United Press Staff Correspondent SALEM WP) The churches spoke out against wire tapping as an invasion of the privacy of the individual late yesterday at a hearing before the Senate Judici ary Committee headed by Sen. Warren Gill (R-Lebanon). Their representatives spoke In favor of what was referred to as a "bi-partisan bill" to outlaw wire tapping In Oregon and making violation a felony. Rev. Alfred Stenner of Spring field, chairman of the legislative committee of -the Oregon Council of Churches, said "it is as import ant to protect the innocent as it is to' catch the guilty." He made this slatement in an swer to questions as to whether her thought wire tapping should lie allowed in the case of such serious police Work as catching a kidnaper or apprehending a subversive. Discussion had indicated that the bill is aimed at wire lapping by private agencies to obtain evidence in i dvorce cases; by a business man to damage a competitor, and by blackmailers. Rev. Stenner drew a laugh from the committee when, in answer to a question as to whether he thought federal agents were justi fied in tapping wires to catch boot leggers in the prohibition era, he said: ,",No, senator. In the first place, I am not in favor of prohibition." Rep. G. D Gleason (D-Port-land),' who has been in telephone Mmmunications work for 30 years, said he was against wire tapping a mans home or office because it Is about the same as search and seizure without warrant. Sen. Gill asked him If he thought there should be exceptions, as in the case of catching Communists or kidnaDers. Hod. Gloason said he.thought no(,..but qualified if UjH saying' "if your child Was kid naped 1 1 would violate the law to help you." , Independent Party Sen, Morse, SEN. WAYNE MORSE He'll run as Demo in '56 larity . . . synonomous with party responsibility." The highest order of party re sponsibility is to be found in the exercise of intellectual honesty by an elected official," he said. 'One of the greatest evils in American politics today is the growing prac tice on the part of too many politi cians to let party officials and economic pressure groups tell them how to vote." He said he broke from GOP ranks in 1952 because the Repub lican "convention platform was a grave disappointment to me and thousands of other liberal Repub licans. "Steamroller" Charged "It was disheartening to see the victorious Eisenhower forces em brace steamroller tactics to push through the nomination" of Son. Richard M. Nixon (R-Calif.) as vice president, he said. Dorse disclosed that he had been working with others to ad vance the vice presidential nomi nation or Sen. LevorcM Saltonstall (R-Muss.l. But he said "we were told Gen, Elsenhower wanted no nominee in competition with Nixon." "During the 1952 campaign. Gen. Eisenhower's campaign tactics ; i Si "SI Nationalists, Reds In Furious Air-Sea Formosa By WILLIAM MILLER United Press Start Correspondent TAIPEI, Formosa (UP) The Nationalist Chinese Navy and Air Force announced today, In an of ficial communique, that 21 ves sels of a Red Chinese fleet have been sunk in a furious air-sea bat tle off Talshan Island, 120 miles northwest of Formosa. The communique said National 1st planes also attacked the Com munist Taishan Island base itself, destroying eight barracks and a tented billeting area, and Inflicting "heavy casualties among Com munist troops. It said 1800 Red troops, intended as reinforcements for the Commu nist Taishan Island garrison went down with their transport vessels In the attack on the Communist fleet. . Listed As Sunk Listed as sunk by the Nation alist combined ulr-sea arm were: Five Communist gunboats. Eight armed junks. In addition, the communique said, a number of other Red ves sels were damaged. The Nationalists pounded the Communist reinforcement fleet for eight hours, the military announce ment said. It was reported that two Nation alist destroyers took part in the attack Col. Lu Ta, Nationalist military spokesman, said the landing craft which were sunk ranged from 300 to 400 tons displacement. Plk 36 China 6th pgh The spokes man The spokesman said the Nation alists intercepted a fleet of 14 Com munist gunboats and landing craft carrying reinforcements from Pel kuanshan Islands to the Taishan Islands. The Taishans are 30 miles south of Nanchi and 63 miles north of Matsu Islands, -. The intercepting Nationalist force opened fire and quickly threw the Communist fleet into confusion, it was claimed. The Communists broke off contact after two hours Democrat Morse said the Democratic party has demonstrated that it "is the party of liberalism. Their program is in the best interests of the independent farmers, small busi nessmen, working people, white collar and civil service workers. ,' He said 'It is not true that the Democratic party is against busi ness. To the contrary, its record is in staunch defense of enlighten ed capitalism manifested in pri vate enterprise. SALEM (UP)-Sen. Mark Hat field (R-Salem) today answered Sen. Wayne Morse's switch to the Democrat party with an invitation to Democrats to register in the Republican party. Hatfield, who won both Demo crat and Republican nominations to the state legislature in Murlon county, said Morse's switch 1s the signal "for an exodus from the Democratic party of those who arc alert to the trojan horse which has been wheeled Into their midst by tneir stales chairman. Democrat Chairman Howard Morgan accompanied Morse to Eugene yesterday when the sena tor's registration was changed. Hatfield said "the Democrat pri mary for 19d6 was held in Port land Thursday night. Other pre- primary nomination announce ments from headquarters may be expected in the next few months. Union Approves Brooks-Scanlon's Offer of Increase Full union endorsement of the wage increase proposed by Brooks Scanlon. Inc., was given mill offi cials by union representatives at a meeting Wednesday afternoon Employes of the box factory, excluded under the Initial wage proposal, will be absorbed In other mill departments as quickly as possible and the factory closed, It was announced following the meet Inr. The seven-and-a-half cent hourly increase was made effective for the pay period that started on Feb. 1. General union acceptance of the offer was voted at a meeting at union hall Saturday afternoon. The neeentnnoe followed a proposal that the box factory be closed and Hi employes shifted to other jobs. Crisis Growing I of fighting but were overtaken by the Nationalist warships, Lu said, The Ministry of National Defense said the situation was still "con fused" early today. The ministry said a communique would be is sued tonight when further Informa tion is received. Communist attempts to reinforce the Taishan Islands raised immed iate speculation that Nanchi might be the Reds' next objective. The Water Skiers Protest Move ByOverhulse SALEM (UP) Oregon water skiers last night came to the de fense of their sport and of one of the best lakes for the snort in the Cascades when they appeared be fore the House Fish and Game Committee to oppose House bill lKt. , The bill, introduced by Rep. Boyd Overhulse (D-Madras) at the request of Suttle lake resort own ers, would add Suttle lake to the list of other Oregon lakes where a 10 mile per hour speed limit Is imposed on speed boats. . Paul and Oral Cummings, oper ators of . the Sutlle lake resort, cited instances of reckless boat handling on the lake and declared Suttle wus becoming too crowded with swimmers and fishermen to accommodate high speed craft towing skiers. Effect of the Over hulse bill would be to eliminate water skiing from Suttle. Leading a delegation of sports men 'and water enthusiasts was Robert Chandler, publisher of the Bend Bulletin who appeared as a representative of the Bend Izaak Walton League and the Deschutes County Sportsmen's Association. Chandler said the proposed leg islation was the wrong approach to the Suttle lake problem. Polic ing by responsible boatmen In high speed boats, he said, could easily control irresponsible and reckless operators without driving water skiers off one of the last suitable lakes of Its kind in central Oregon. Enforcement of present laws would solve the problem, he said. Representatives of Albany, Leb anon and Salem boating clubs also appeared to oppose the bill. Nixon Has Cold, But No Change Due in Schedule TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (UP) Vice President Richard M. Nixon said today ha will not let a bad cold Interfere with his pro gram. . Nixon gave the first indication that he was. coming down with a cold and possibly Ou when his voice became hoarse while ad dressing the Inter-American Cul tural Institute here Thursday. . It was the first sign of the strain of the 11 busy days of the vice president's tour of Central America and the Caribbean. Nixon said that he would not permit the Indisposition to curtail his schedule. Mercury Hits Zero Mark During Night Bend experienced its lowest temperature of the winter season at dawn this morning when the mercury dipped to zero after storm clouds cleared from the Cascades. Coldest spot in the area report ing this morning was Brothers with five below recorded. At the Ochoco summit, the temperature this morning was four below. Shev lin recorded three below zero. Normally chilly Oregon spots. such as Seneca, were compara lively warm. The low at Seneca, in the Burns - John Day highlands was nine above. A light storm Thursday dropped snow on the high Cascades and whitened the interior country. However, roads over the Cascades nasses were in normnl winter con dition today, with chains not re quired. Roads were reported well sanded in the summit area. LaPlne renorted a low of zero for the night, with spots of Ice on the road. Chemult recorded two above, with the highway bare. Engage Fight More Grim Communists at Taishan are in a position to isolate Nanchi from Its main supply point to the south at Matsu. The presence of Communist land ing craft in the area heightened fears in Formosa the Peiping gov ernment was about ready to launch its long-heralded attack on the off shore Islands. The Reds bombard ed Quemoy Thursday In another prelude to assault. CHRISTIAN PINEAU Can he end French crisis? Pineau Seeks PARIS (UP)-The National As sembly gives Its answer today to Christian Pineau's efforts to form a left-of-center government the 21st since the war and France's first In 14 days of world crisis. Pineau, a pro-American Social ist, is given a bare 50-50 chance of becoming premier when the assem bly meets to vote on his four-party coalition. His .chances ot remain- -. ing in office any . length of time it invested are even smaller. A. change In fhe e&nstltutlort re quires that the Socialist Party leader receive only a bare majori ty to become premier. Pineau worked into the early morning hours on a speech pleading for approval. During the night Pineau also worked on completing the cabinet which required revising when two Gaulllsts backed out. " The four parties represented Ur the government are the Socialists, the Catholic Popular Republicans . (MRP), the Radical -Socialists of Mendes-France and the Democra tic and Socialist Resistance Union (UDSR). The set-up provided grave doubts of Pineau's chances of enduring because the MRP and the Social ists are at loggerheads over a ma jor French political issue state aid for Catholic schools. Pineau is boll Premier and For eign Minister in his new cabinet. . He would be the first Socialist leader since. Paul Ramadler in 1947. First 1955 Bomb Exploded Today By COLIN MCKINLAY 1 . United PrcHS Correspondent ANGELES PEAK, Nev. (UP( A "baby atomic bomb was deliver ed by the Air Force and exploded over the Nevada desert today to open the 1955 nuclear test series. The air burst 1000 feet above the proving grounds was one of years of testing atomic weapons, probably running In blast force less than the equivalent of 15,000 tons of TNT, perhaps as small as 5000 tons. It was the 32nd nuclear detona-. tion in Nevada and the 33rd in the United States. A relatively small fireball roll ed upwards from the bursting point. Vegas Sees Flash It lasted only two minutes, com oared to the boiling five-minute fireballs touched off by earlier big bombs. The Atomic Energy Commission confirmed that the bomb burst it noon PST. In I-as Vegas, 75 miles to the southwest, only a small lightning like flash was seen and a barely audible rumble marked the arrival there of the sound wave. PHVF.n FOOTBALL PROVIDENCE. R.I. (UP)-The Rhode Mand Workmen's Compen sation Commission Thursdny re voked the disnhlllty payments Al bert J. Capaall has been receiving since November of 1953 when he was injured on a construction job. CommlMlon Chairman George Roche said Cannalli blnyed varsity football last fall for Rhode Island University. rv V': - I I i I Jo
