Univ. Qt UtdOU Lllrii-j pjastiE, oaeaoa WEATHER High yesterday, U degrees. Low last night, 38 degrees. ' Sunset today, 7:48. Sunrise tomorrow, 4:33. THE BEND BULLETIN TORBCm Fair tonight and Tuesday;' high today 70-15; low tonight SS-40; high Tuesday 7S-7H. CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER 52nd Year Two Sections Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon Monday, July 11, 1955 Ten Pages No. 183 2 Damaged Churches Seized U. S. Jail Better Turncoats Sail for Home By WeddeU Merick tnlted Press Staff Correspondent HONG KONG (UP) Three American turncoats, disillusioned with Communism after 18 months in Red China, sailed for the Unit ed States this afternoon convinced that even an American prison is preferable to life under Commu jjist rule. The three, who refused repatria tion from North Korean prison camps in August, 1953, and chose instead to live in Red China, were hustled aboard the American liner President Cleveland 10 minutes be fore its sailing time. The trio, who came out of Red China yesterday with the comment that "even death is better than Communism" had one-way travel documents good only for a direct trip to the United States and an uncertain fate. Refuse Interviews They were escorted aboard the liner by American consular officer S. M. Backe, a member of the political section of the consulate here, and by Robert Aylward. The three, William Cowart, 22, Dalton, Ga.; Lewis W. Griggs, 22, Jacksonville, Tex., and Otho G, Bell. 24, Hillsboro, Miss., were sul len when they were shewn into the big, barracks-like third-class dormitory in which they will make Spanish War Veterans Plan Bend Session United Spanish War Veterans, department of Oregon, will hold their 47th annual encampment in Bend starting next Monday, with the group's national commander, Lloyd Thurston of Osceola, Iowa, to be present. Meeting Jointly with the Spanish American war veterans will be the USWV auxiliary, which will be holding its 39th annual Oregon pnmvpntion. The Spanish-American war vet erans will be here for a four-day encampment, from July 17 to July 20. Also meeting in Bend will be members of the Grand Swamp. Military Order of Lizard, and the Grand Lair, Military Order of the Serpent, fun orders of the de partment. Department headquarters will be at the Pilot Butte Inn. with meet ings to be held in the Blue Room and the convention room. Snakes and Lizard headquarters will be at the nearby Colonial Inn. The combined groups will be welcomed Monday morning. July 18. at a meeting in Thomas school auditorium, at 10 a.m., with Mayor Hans Slagsvold delivering the wel coming address. Allied Harriman. Portland, past department commander, will made the response. Orland F. Gullickson, Portland, pleads the USWV, and Mrs. Frank Pendcrmass. Portland, is auxiliary department president. Infant Pulled From Slough, Condition Fair LEBANON. Ore. (UP) A 3-1-2 year-old baby girl submerged for five minutes in a muddy slough yesterday was in "fair" condition at a hospital here today after be ing rescued and revived by ber father. The girl was Deborah Egan,, daughter of James Egan. She wa.s playing on the bank of the slough on the farm of her grandparents Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Egan, when she lost her balance and toppled down the four-foot bank. A s.ven -year-old cousin. Merlin .Egan Jr., sent his younger brother for help, and tried to extricate the child with a stick. The father, who rushed to the scene, dove Into the 51-2-feet of water and. after fivi1 mi'.utcs of groping around, slum bled over the child on the creek bottom. FAST1DIOV8 THIEF CHICAGO (UP) A fastidious thief broke into the hotel room of Al Rosen and Ralph Kiner, Cleve land rookies, while thoy were busy playing the White Sox Sunday in a doubleheader. In addition to tak- . ing some valuables, the ttiief alto rhaved and showered, Kiner mm. Than Communism ihe Pacific crossing. They refused to cooperate with news photographers and movie cameramen who wanted to take pictures of their departure All were former soldiers dishon orably discharged from the U.S. Army when they embraced Com munism and refused repatriation at Panmunjom after having been taken prisoner by the Reds in the Korean War. They had worked for a time on a state farm and then In an agri cultural implements factory in Red China before changing their minds about Communism and asking to be returned lo their own country. When they crossed the border in to Hong Kong Sunday they seemed happy and cheerful. They wen held temporarily by the British as "prohibitive immigrants" until El had been determined by the U.S. consulate that they had not given up their American citizenship. Tblrd Class Passage The American consulate paid for their passage and hotel room here, but the three turncoats signed promissory notes to repay the money when they could Their ac commodations aboard ship were third class. During a press conference Sun day night the three gave what they claimed were their reasons Crescent Man Critically Hurt In Car Crash A Crescent resident was crit ically Injured in one-car acci dent on the Sliver Lake cut-off .17 miles east of Chemtilt, yester day evening. He is Identified as Darrell HIteshew, an employe of the forest service at Davis Flat. Hiteshew was found uncon scious 30 feet from his car (Which had rolled over near a curb on the dirt road. He was taken to St. Charles Memorial hospital shortly after 0 p.m. yesterday. The hospital -reported this morn ing that Hiteshew Is still 1n a critical condition. He suffered skull fractures and internal bleeding In the skull. Hiteshew Is a member of the Fremont National forest staff. Annual Pioneer Picnic Planned The annual summer picnic and reunion of members of the Des chutes Pioneers' association wil be held in Pioneer park in Bend Sunday. July 17, starting at 1 p.m. C. G. Springer, association presr dent, has announced. Registration of association man aeers will be supervised by Mrs. Emil Nordeen. Mrs. Maurice Hoo ver will be in charge of the table preparation and the serving of ice cream. Ample parking space has again been provided by Deschutes coun ty at the area just south of Pio neer park and adjacent to the county shops. James McNecley will handle the parking of cars. Pioneers are being requested to exhibit pictures of old familiar scenes and events in and around Bend and the county. A set of or iginal paintings of old scenes and places reproduced from ohoto Kraphs by Mrs. Helen Stoddard of Paradise. Calif., will be exhibited These paintings have been do nated to the association lor dis. play In the proposed pioneer mu seum. Pictures of early day Redmonfl will receive sneclal attention, in- ismudi as Redmond this year is observing the golden anniver sary 01 US founding oy rranit Redmond, who set up his tent in the sagebrush where Kedmonn now stands. Highway, Parks Groups Set Stop On an inspection trip of high ways and state parks In Oregon east of the Cascades, members of the state highway commission the legislative interim group and the state parks advisory commit tee will be in Bend Thursday and will stop here over the noon hour en route from Lakeview to Port land. h it expected that some 30 per sons will be In the party that will Include U.S. Bureau of Public rods h ofwesvntatfvea. for refusing repatriation. A;l claimed they were disappointed at what they found in Red China. Cowart said it would "take sev eral volumes" to tell what hap pened in Communist China. When asked why he had decided to stay in Red China, he replied: "A child decided not to come home; a man decided to go home." ' He said he had "never accepted Communism" and added tlvat all had experiences which proved that the free world was better than Communism. "We would welcome Hitler back rather than have Communism," he said. . He said he stayed with the Reds because of his fear of "politicnl persecution. " ( Commenting on his experiences under the Peiping regime. Cowart said that "the places in China which the world does not see can only be described as hell." "Just A Poor Fool' Oriel's said he was "jst a poor. fool" for having refused repatria tion in the first place. He said he now was "facing reality" and was "proud to be an American I am going back to my country." Bell, whose wife is in Olympia, Wash., said the people of Chink "hate Communism," but they also "hate Chiang Kai-shek. Air Force Set To Dedicate its Academy, July 11 DENVER (UP) Top Air Force officials turn their fondest dream into reality today when they dedi cate the United States Air Force Academy at 7 p.m. EDT. Gen. Nathan Twining, Air Force chief of staff, and Air Secretary Harold Talbott will dedicate the new academy at its interim site on Lowry Air Force Base here. Then, the first class of 306-hand-picked cadets will be sworn In by Col. Robert Stillwell. commandant of cadets, while planes of the Strategic Air Command and thi. crack Air Force "Thunderbirds" perform an aerial salute. Twining, who arrived here Sun day with his wife and Gen. Carl Spaatz, ret., emphasized that the. academy would not improve the caliber of Air Force officer mate rial. "It's already good," he said, 'But the academy will give them more specialized training. He said the recent Soviet dis play of a i r p o w e r over Moscow "didn't frighten the United States, but it showed Russian plane pro duction was farther ahead than : we realized." POPE RECEIVES NEHRU In Rome, Popa Pius XII, center, receives India's Premier Nehru in private audience. At right is Dr. Mohan Sinha Mehta, Indian Minister to the Holy See. At press conference following his visit to the Vatican, Premier Neh ru told newsmen that Russia was "not weak internally." (NEA Photo) Youngster, 2, Taken from Crib in Iowa SIOUX CITY, Iowa (UP) All available, police and 20 national guardsmen were called out today to search for two-year-old Donna Sue Davis who apparently was kid naped from her crib last night as her parents watched television in an adjoining room. Police Chief James O'Keefe said FBI agents were conferring with police today, but have given no in dication whether thc-y will, enter the case. He said the police and national guardsmen were making a house by house check of the area where the girl lived with her parents in half a one-story duplex. Sheds, garages, culverts and sewers were being given special scrutiny by tlu searchers. The girl's father, James Davis, called police at 10:06 p.m. to re port his daughter missing. A short, time earlier, Lais Fjedos, a neigh-1 bor living across the alley behind; the Davis', called police to report i he had seen a man running down the alley with what he thought was a bundle of stolen merchandise un der his arm. Fjedos said he cornered the man. : but the man got away. The neighbor described the man as about 29 years old, and wearing a white T-shirt and khaki trousers. Police said a man answering that description was later reported seen at Elk Point, S,D., but they have been unable lo check the re port. Davis and his wife were given sedatives -and put to bed early to day. They have two other children. Mary, 11, and Timothy, 7, who were sleeping in another bedroom. Donna was put in her crib in her parents' room about 9:30 p.m. Davis said when he went into the bedroom, he noticed the girl was missing and a screen on a window was open. Postmaster Back From Trip East Forty thousand Lions from many parts of the world were present for the 1955 convention of the Lions Club Internationa! this past week, in Atlantic City, N. J., Far ley J. Elliott, who represented the eastern Oregon district, reported on his return to his home here today. Elliott, Bend postmaster r.ad past president of the local club, will report on the convention at tomorrow's luncheon meeting of the Bend group, at the Pine tav ern. Mr. and Mrs. Elliott made the trip by plane, bus, train and car They left on June 20. PHONES FOR FILTER CENTER It took technicians from Portland, Eugene, and Salem to install the statewide telephone system in the new Ground Observers Corps filter center on Wall street. Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. handled the installation. Picture shows left to right: Al Russell of Portland, Jim Durnell of Eugene, Bill Clark of Portland (standing), Les Muss man of Salem, and R. H. Heitkemper of Salem, Top Military, Civilian Defense Chiefs Plead Compulsory Measure By UNITED VRm The Defense Department s top military and civilian chiefs plead ed with senators today not to pull the compulsory service provision out of President Eisenhower's mil itary reserve bill. Adm. Arthur W. Radford, chair man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Defense Secretary Charles K. Wil son, Uen. Maxwell D. Taylor, Army chief of staff, and other leaders directed their pleas to the Senate Armed Services Com mitte. There Is strong sentiment In the committee in favor of a plan by its chairman, Sen. Richard B. Russell (D-Ga.), to scrap compul sory features of the administra tion's reserve program in favor of a voluntary system under which veterans would be offered a $'100 bonus as an incentive- to sign up in the ready reserves, Radford told the committee that there ' is no evidence from past experience that any voluntary sys tem can bring enough skilled men for the reserves. If the com pulsory features nre dropped, he warned, "there will have to be a complete review and reorientation of our defense plans." Wilkin, in a statement, said the compulsory authority "must be granted" to insure an effective reserve force. Taylor, while supporting the bid for compulsory authority over re servisls, challenged the adminis tration's argument that a well or ganized reserve will make possi ble cuts In regular Army man power. The new chief of staff said thai the Army will need more, not few er, men under the reserve pro gram because il will have to train the reservists. Other, congressional news Saltfllli-H. Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland cf About 75 Attend Right of Way Meeting in Bend Regional menders of the Amer ican Right oi Way association. headed by Ross Towery of Port land as president, were in Rend iver the weekend for a meeting iltended by 75 persons. This was the second consecutive .car the group came to Bend for nectings arranged by Rodney Co zed, only member of the associa te in this cily. Coad is with the ;tate highway department. On Saturday night, the ARWA members and their wives Joinpd in a dinner and program at the Pilot Butte Inn, then on Sunday morning attended a buckaroo breakfast at the Him Rock Riders' grounds just north of Bend. Ideal weather prevailed for the break fast session. Members of the association plan to make the Bend meeting an an imal affair. California introduced an admini stration backed resolution pro claiming "hope" that the peoples of Communist satellite countries will regain Independence. Senate Democratic leaders joined him in sponsoring the resolution, which was offered as Sen. Joseph P.. McCarthy (R-Wis) prepared for another try at putting the Senate on record in favor of liberation of the Communist satellites. Highways: The trucking industry strongly opposed a House Public Works Subcommittee's plan to fi nance a big highway building pro gram with new taxes on gasoline, truck fuel and tires, and trucks, busses and trailers. Reserves: Russell's plan for a bonus Incentive to Induce volun tary sfgn-ups In the reserves was gaining supiwrt in the Senate Armed Services Committee despite the Defense Department's opposi tion. Coo Front Snaps East's Heat Wave By tINITKD PKKSH The coot front which has been pushing eastward across the na lion finally reached the scorched Atlantic Coast today, snapping an 11 -(lay heat wave. Temperatures along the Imme diate Atlantic Coast, however, were stilt high. The cooler air dropped readings between the Great Lakes and New Kngland about 10 degrees from K'sterday, going as low as M) some areas. Most of the nation reported sunny skies and tem,Krafures be tween 70 and 80. In New Kngland, hr Iwt weather was bioki-n yeslerday but violent electrical storms centered In the Boston area. Alxwt 2.1 1 Inchon of riin fell in Boston In -15 minutes late In the day for u total of 2.;i9 nrwx. The Coast Guard towed 17 boats to safety during the ';torm, Four tf en-iigcis were snatched from an 18-foot motorbofit by a tugboat minutes before the small craft capsied in ftf-mile an hour winds. The storm threw a fright into 24 persons on an open lobster ttoat tn Boston Harbor. The party had Ik en on a picnic who the storm broke. No one was Injured, how ever, as a freighter came to the rescue and unloaded them. An estimated 200 homos In the Boston area were hit by lightning, which caused minor damage. At the other end of the nation, Los Angeles authorities reported that 22 persons were rescued from the surf on various beaches a crowds turned out despite chilly tempera turaa. by Peron Filter Center Nearly Ready For Operation Installation of equipment In Bend's air defense filter center, only one of Its kind in the United States, was nearing completion to- J day In preparation for Its formal dedication on Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. General R, W. Puryear, com mander of the 25th Air Division (defense) will represent the Air Defense command at the official opening and dedication, and will be speaker at a Bend Chamber of Commerce sponsored luncheon : Thursday noon at the Pilot Butte! Inn. I On Thursday night, General Pur year will be speaker before the Central Oregon Forum, at the Al len school auditorium, at 8 o'clock. Civilian defense and Air Force personnel In Bend reported this morning that plans for the dedi cation are taking final shape, with Invitations sent to radar sta tions, GOC posts and cities tn all parts of the huge nrea the Bend filter center is to serve. Following the dedication of the new center, there will be an open house, and visitors will receive demonstrations of the manner the big vertical plotting Imard is han dled. Telephone crews are now install ing equipment that wlh place oper ators of the board directly In touch with Ground Observer posts In ail parts of eastern Oregon. Opening of the Bend filter cen ter will come on the third anni versary of the founding of "Opera tion Skywateh," and the Bend event will be spotlighted on the Air Force map of the United Slates. Frank Webster McCaffery Dies at Redmond Today Kpcrlal to The Bulletin i RKDMOND One of Central: Oregon's oldest pioneers Frank Webster McCaffery, 83, died at 12:30 a.m. Monday nfl'-r being bed fast for 15 months. He entered Central Oregon District hospital on Saturday. Funeral services will le held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Redmond's Community church, with Rev. D. L. I'enhollow officiating. Burial will be in the Redmond cemetery. Mr. McCaffery and his wife, the former Minnie Truax were mar ried In Warsaw, N. Y., nearly 60 yoRin ago, and came west in lfX2, They went first to California, re turned briefly to Warsaw, then moved to Portland, and came t the new town of CVne Falls ti irsTS. They would have celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary this Novem!er. Mr. McCaffery was bom July 17 187L tn Warsaw. He Introduced Buenos Aires Tension Again s Mounting BUENOS AIRES (UP) The Ar gentine government today, over the protests of churphmen, .took possession o two Roman Cath-. olic churches damaged in the June 16 revolution nrd said they would be rebuilt and protected by the state as national shrines. The government move was the latest In a 48-hour resurgence of tension between tho government ' and church authorities. Government official? said today that leaders of yeste-'day's anti (,'overnment Catholic riot in Plaza De Mayo will be charted and tried for violation of state security. Some 60 persons wei-e arrested , in yesterday's outbreak which fol lowed 11 o'clock mass. Damaged By Fire Police used fire hoses, clubs and chemicals mixed with water and a brown dye to breuk up the demon strators who massed in front of government house shouting anti eovernment and antl-Peron slogans Churches seized today were San Francisco and Santo Domingo, Catholic sources predicted that two others, Our Lady of Mercy and St. Ignatius, also would be taken over by the government. All four were damaged by fires which President Juan D. Peron charged were set by ComrmmUls taking advantage of the situation , arising from the revolt. , Priests In charge ot San Fran cibco and Santo Domingo churches drew up formal protests against the seizure and said Catholic auth orities wish to rebuild the churches themselves with their own resour- ces flnd aIms contributed by the faithful. It was not known how many of the 60 persons seized In yester day's outbreak still were held. It was disclosed, however, that many young persons and some women had been released. Truce Is Broken - The riot yesterday and the nofsy demonstration by Catholics Satur day night before the Buenos Aires Naval Club heightened the ten sion between church and state In Argentina. There hi been a 'truce between Peron s govern volt and riots of last month. Bulletin WAHIIINUTON Oft President Kiscnhower today ordered im mediate steps to terminate Ute controversial Dixon Yates con tract. Mr. lOlsenhower Issued the or der after receiving personal as suranres from Mayor Frank Totiey of Memphis, Tenn., that Memphis will build a municipal power plant making the Dixon Yates contract unnecessary. Attorney (ieneral Herbert Brownell, Jr., announced tho president's decision nt a news conference at tho White Itotirw Immediately after Tnhey and Brownell hud conferred with the president and other federal offb rials. , "As a rtwtilt of the conferences hero today," Browne!! until, "the federal government will Inimedi ntety take steps to terminate the Dixon-Yates wm tract. the Netted Gem potato to this re- ion, and raised tho first mint and distilled It, Just p.lor to the war. He was a real estate broker for nany years, and pioneered much of the land development In Sisters, Moverdale, Powell Butte, Red mond and Dine Falls. McCaffrey nnd his wife and only child, a son Fred, lived first in Cline Falls, then moved to the new town of Redmond 50 years ago. Mr. McCaffery was a charter member of the Bend Klks lxlge. Survivors besides his wife are Mrs. Neva McCaffery, widow of son Fred, wtio died In 19-10, and a i!ster, Mrs. L. E. Smith, both of Redmond; a brother, Pen McCaf fery, Hollywood, Call.; three rand-and six great-grand-chll dren. Jack McCaffery, Powell Butte, me of Central Oregon's best mown young farmers, is a grand-