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Newspaper Page TextrrWEATHER-r- High ; yesterday, 95 degrees. Low last night, 60 degrees. Sunstri today, 1:46. Sunrise to morrow, 4:36. S2nd Year Two Sections Congressmen Receive Rap By Brownell By UNITED PRESS . Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell Jr. accused Congress today of trying lo "usurp power" belonging President Eisenhower. Congress committed the alleged constitutional break, , Brownell said, in a provision attached to the $31,882,815,726' defense appropria tion bill signed by Mr. Eisenhower 'yesterday. The President himself charged in signing the measure that Con gress' had "no right" to do what . it did. He indicated he will not be bound by what he considers invalid , provisions. - Today the White House released a legal opinion in which Brownell accused Congress of trying "to usurp power confided to the exec utive branch." The provision to which he ob jected would give either the Sen ate or House Appropriations Com mittee veto power over closing military-operated plants which compete with private industry. . Rep. Robert L. F. Sikes (D Fla) had accused President Ei senhower of attempting veto by paragraph. "It is unbelievable that he places himself above the law," Sikes said. "This is not a military govern ment. We are not under martial law." Other congressional news: . Red Unit: Ira Henry Freeman, veteran New York Times reporter, told the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee that a Communist unit existed in the newspaper be fore World War II. Freeman testi fied he was a Communist for about a year starting in 1938. He said he joined the party, because he thought it might help the CIO American Newspaper Guild to or ganize Times employes. He said he left after about a year because the party seemed "inept and fu tile" and hampered instead of helped the Guild. Housing: Housing Administrator Albert M. Cole told-a House sub committee he believes the govern ment should "do everything we can to prevent discrimination in public housing. He said "I don't think the federal tax dollar has any color in it." Reserves? The Senate Armed Services Committee conceded its military reserve bill is "a limited version of the more comprehen sive plan" proposed by. President Eisenhower. It added, however, that its bill provides in "substantial measure additional authority need ed for the strengthening" of the reserve. The Defense Department, it was learned, has strong objections to several features of the committee plan. Sen. Richard B. Russell (D-Ga) predicted quick Senate approval of the sharply modified version. Release Sought For Prisoner From Deschutes SALEM (UP) A petition seek ing release from Oregon State pen itentiary of Harry L. Patterson, sentenced from Deschutes county in 1951, was filed in Marion County Circuit Court yesterday. Patterson was sentenced in Bend by Circuit Judge Ralph S. Hamr ton for a term up to seven years after he was convicted of forgery involving about $74 in checks. The petition seeking a writ of habeas corpus charges that Patter son is illegally imprisoned because he did not waive grand jury in vestigation and never was indicted by a grand jury. Testimony Asked Of MacArthur WASHINGTON (UP)-Gen Douglas MacArthur. who last ap peared before a cheering Congress in 1951 as a military hero, has been Invited to appear again, but this time under less spectacular circum stances.' MacArthur, now board chairman of Sperry Rand Corp., has been invited to testify as a businessman at public hearings next October on the "social and economic implica tions of automation." Bulletin ' PORTLAND (LP) The Bu reau of Public Roads said the F. C. Hall Co., Portland, was low bidder today at $134,043 for work on the Cascade Lake high way npr Bend. The project raits for 4.8 nit)M of grading, lt.4 mile of urfacin and JO. 8 mllm of bituminous surface treatment. TBHfeSEND ffiiyTf-MMfjXttwilmiiw ro Miiiiiii i im JfiTSlww4iitlj BEND MILLS VISITED Iowa Stale College forestry students In summer camp on Jack creek west of the Metolius yesterday visited the Brooks-Scanlon, Inc., and Leonard Lundgren Lumber Co. mills in Bend and were taken on tours through the plants. They are pictured here with their instructors following their arrival in two army-type trucks. Mill personnel, and Western Pine Associa tion men served as guides for the students on their visit to the Bend plants. (Photo for The Bulletin by Paul Hosmar) Times Reporter Admits Serving As Communist WASHINGTON (UP) Ira Hen ry Freeman, a reporter for the New York Times, told Senate in vestigators today he was a mem ber of the Communist party for "approximately one year" begin ning In 1938. Freeman told the Senate Intern al Security Subcommittee he had been a Times reporter since 1928 except for two years war service. Meanwhile, a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune charged tfiat Times reporter Charles Grutz ner broke an agreement and filed a story from Korea which an Air Force general called "the greatest security breach of the war." ' New Fighting Plane Ansel E. Talbert, military and aviation editor of the Herald Trib une, said Gutzner filed a dispatch about the -first combat use of F86 fighters In Korea, after Lt. Gen. George E. Stratemeyer, Far East Air Force commander, asked newsmen to withhold the story in order to surprise the enemy. Talbert also said Grutzner filed the dispatch in plain English by wireless, despite repeated warn ings that the enemy almost cer tain was monitoring the broad casts. 'Sending the story by commer cial (radio) was equivalent to broadcasting over Seoul wireless," Talbert said. He told the subcommittee he was completely astonished by Grutzner's action, "as much as if he said he was going to assassin ate (Korean) President Rhee." Former Communist Grutzner, a veteran Times news man, testified on June 29 that he was a Communist from 1937 to 1940, but quit the party then and could not be "infected" again. Grutzner said he filed the story with a note to his office to get approval from the Pentagon before publishing it. The Times said it did this. The Air Force recommended lift ing Grutzner's credentials as.a! result of the story and expelling him from Korea, but the Defense Department did not concur. NEW YORK (UP) The News paper Guild .of New York said last night It will "do its utmost to have the Melvin Barnet discharge or der cancelled and have him rein stated in his job" at the New York Times. Barnet was discharged by Times Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger yesterday after he invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to tell a Senate Internal Security Subcommittee whether he had been a Communist prior to the spring of 1942. Barnet testified that he had not been a Communist since that time. Cause of Blaze At Medford Told MEDFORD (UP) Melvin Glenn Wier, Phoenix, a driver for the Medford furniture store, told Med ford police yesterday that "the J100.000 fire at the firm last Fri day was caused accidentally. He said he and Gene Wallace Lauderdale, a temporary employe of the store, were looking for a specific color of mattress In a dimly-lighted storage room. They used matches to furnish light. Wier said he accidentally dropped one which started the fire. He said he has been "worried sick about It" ever since the fire and was "glad It's over," accord ing to Police Chief Charles Cahm-plin. Jb"T""" t Hatch Boy Wins Scholarship In 'Name the Cow' Contest Bill Hatch, graduate from the Bend high school with the class of 1955 and son of Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam R. Hatch of this city, was a winner of a one - year college scholarship on Medo-land s recent "name the cow" contest. M. M Sh'umway, Medo - Land Creamery Co. manager here, announced to day. Bill said he. will enter Oregon State college next fall on the scholarship, and plans to major in mechanical engineering. The Bend youth Is one of Oregon's top jun-: ior golfers. I His suggestion for a name fori Allen to Make Convention Trip A new proposal for a dam .oui- the Deschutes river at Benham Falls may be taken up with thi Interior Department in Washing ton D. C. Next week by Deschutes County Judge C. L. Allen. Judge Allen is scheduled to fly to Richmond Saturday for the na tional association of county offi cials convention which will start on July 17 and end July 20. En route home he will spend a day in the capital, where he hopes he will have enough time to call on the appropriate officials regarding this issue. The proposed dam would pro vide additional storage for Central Oregon irrigation projects. Judge Allen said this morning that Cen tral Oregon has had several wet years but should a dry year come, the dam would be of immense help. The Deschutes county judge will represent the Oregon association of officials at the national conven tion. He has served with the 15 member board of directors of the national association since 1949. He plans to return here on about July 22 by plane. Judge Allen will be one of three Oregon county officials at the na tional convention. The last conven tion was held in Omaha, Nebraska. Problems concerning county tax es, highways, and welfare will be discussed at the convention. Eastern Areas Heat Up Again By UNITED TRESS A warming trend moved in on the eastern half of the nation to day and the weatherman warned that it might mean a heat wave similar to the one that scorched the East for 10 days until last Sunday. Temperatures were generally five to 10 degrees higher and going up. Hot, but drier, weather was also the outlook for the West. Meanwhile, showers and thunder storms brought some relief In the South, Southwest and Mississippi Valley. The heaviest rainfall du ring the night was 1.57 inches at Guyman, Okla. At Rocky Mount, N.C.. the rain got out of hand yesterday and averaged four Inches In the Tar River watershed, The rain swollen river was ex pected to crest at 2 1-2 feet above the flood stage today and five feet above at Tarboro, N.C. Yesterday the river flooded low ciup land. Overseas, trie death toll In Eu- rope's heat wave has climbed to i nearly 200. Fierce storms accom- panled the climb In temperatures, and damaged rich grape crops In France and Italy. CENTRAL OREGON'S Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon Thursday, July 14, 1955 4 ; Medo-Land's far - famed cow was "Hy-Tess." In the state wide contest that attracted thousands of entries, one four-year scholarship and four one- year scholarships were offered. The prize-winning name, "Blen-da-Best," was submitted by Mar gery McMichael, of Springfield. Miss McMichael receives the four year scholarship. Other one - year scholarship. winners were Mary Magers, Eu- gene, Joan McMorris, Corvallis, and Mrs. Buford Kaylor, Klamath Falls. Two-Day Pool Record Broken The ciiy recreation depart ment said this morning that at tendance at the municipal pool yesterday reached another new hlfh of 917. OA Tuesday, the pool had Its record high of &10 attendant. The eount of 917 was recorded at 7 p.m. but many swimmers entered the pool between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m., the department said. The temperature at the pool yesterday afternoon was 94 de grees. Death Probed At Hood River By UNITED PRESS THE -DALLES (UP) One of five transients under investigation in the mysterious death of Robert Easley, 48, yesterday signed a statement admitting he kicked Eastey in the side for calling him a vile name. Matchen confessed the kicking after 2 1-2 days of ques tioning by Hood River sheriff's officers and state police. Easley died in a local hospital Sunday from the effects of broken ribs and a punctured lung, accord ing to Sheriff Rupert GHlmouthe. Saturday night he appealed for help at the Hood River railroad station, telling police he had been kicked in the side by a friend dur ing a fight In a box car. Police took him to a Hood River hospital where attendants said his condition did not appear serious. He was not admitted for treat ment. Later he was found by a passing motorist walking on Highway 30 east of Hood River. He was taken to the hospital at The Dalles where he died Sunday. Hood River County District At torney Kenneth Abraham said the grand jury will meet Monday morning to study evidence in the case gathered by the sheriff's of fice. Defense The Air Defense Command's newest defense center was placed In operation here last night at 12:01 and within seconds the path of planes, some of them over Bend, were being charted on the vertical board. At 2:15 a.m., a simulated red alert called into action filter cen ter staff supervisors and Air Force personnel. But despite this intense opening action, the filter center moved into full and efficient operation with only minor hitches, First Lt Donald E. Rose, who heads the Ground Observer command In this area, and Mrs. Charles B. Hinds, civilian administrator, reported. This morning, as the center was BFLLE DAILY NEWSPAPER Peress Case Concludes With Shot at Army . WASHINGTON (UP)-The Sen ate Investigating Subcommittee to day officially closed the case of former Maj. Irving Peress Willi withering criticism of the Arm) lor bungling It and hiding the facto. The subcommittee's report, filed in the Senate today, gave this answer to the question which Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wls) asked last year, "Who promoted Peress? : "Individual errors in Judgment, lack of proper coordination, inef fective administrative procedures, inconsistent application of existing regulations, and excessive delays." Sen. George H. Bender (R-Ohlo) objected In a separate Statement that the report failed to state that "not onelota of evidence was re vealed to Indicate any subversion, collusion or Communist conspir acy" Involved in the Army's hand ling of the case. "1 think it Is of paramount Im nortance that this subcommittee should assure the people of this country that no Communist influ ence was found In the Army," Bender said. The subcommittee report was unproved yesterday by the full Government Operations Commit tee and was filed In the full com mittee's name. The report said Army Secrelary Robert T. Stevens "or his super iors ... are to be criticized for the delay of almost one year" be fore releasing the. facts In the case of the onetime Army den tist. Such unnecessary delay served to unduly arouse and increase sus picions of the public as to possible Communist influences," the report said, "and therefore was a dis service not only to Army person nel involved In the Peress casf but also to the Army as a whole, to this subcommittee, to the Con gress and the the general pub lic." Boat Propellor Slashes Girl EUGENE (UP) A 13-year-old Eugene girl who was slashed by the propellor of a speedboat in an accident while water skiing at Fern Ridge Lake west of here was In "fair cohdltlon" at a local hos pital today. The girl was Marianne Thomas, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. K. A. Thomas of Eugene, She was struck by a boat driven by Gerald Rowe Tuesday at dusk. Rowe said he swerved his boat to avoid the girl, who was water skiing behind a boat driven by her father. But the oncoming cruft spun sideways, and Marianne re ceived severe slashes on her right leg and arm from the 25 horse power craft's propellor blades. Center Put in Operation prepared for its formal dedication this afternoon by Brig. -Gen. K. W. Puryear, the center was in com plete operation and In touch with more than 200 GOC posts in the eastern Oregon region and Klicki tat county of Washington. General Puryear was to dedicate the post at 2:30 p.m., with an open house to follow, at 3:30 p.m. He was speaker before a Bend Chamber of Commerce forum luncheon at the Pilot Butte Inn at noon. This evening at 8 p.m.. General Puryear will address the Central Orfgon Forum at th Allen grnrl" school auditorium. This meeting will be open to all Interested In activities of the Air Defense com Dulles in Europe To Do Spade work For Summit Parley By Wll.Bl R 0. IAN DREY United Press staff Correspondcn' PARIS (UP) Secretary o State John Foster Dulles arrivei here today to put the finishin; touches on Western unity and stra tegy before next week's bistort Big Four summit conference ii Geneva. - Dulles and Harold E. Stassen President Eisenhower's assistan on disarmament, landed at Orl; Airport to begin their round o meetings with French Forcigr Minister Antoine Pinay, Britis. Foreign Secretary Harold Mac MillHn and other NATO foreigi affairs experts. 'Great hopes are in the air, the Secretary of State said as he stepped from the U.S. Air Force Constellation in which he made the Atlantic crossing. In Good Spirits Dulles was in extremely good spirits and radiated optimism as he greeted American Ambassador G. Douglas Didon and scores of top American officials in Paris. "This is a day (Bastile Day. when the heart of the whole worl.l beats with that of France and when liberty, equality and frater nity take on a new meaning," Dul les said. 'Our own liberty seems the more precious as we sacrifice to Girls Attempt Hillcrest Break SALEM (UP) Eleven glrla at Hillcrest school for glrla, appar ently Incensed at being crowded Into a room Intended onky tor 10, tore up. the Interior of the maxi mum security building at the in stitution and escaped from their cells last lUght, but were unable to escape from the school grounds. The rioting started after two other girls had fled from the school during the outside recreation peri od. The two girls were still miss ing today. The 11 girls who broke out of the maximum security building were brought under cantrol by state police, a Marion county dep uty sheriff and male employes of the school. They were Brought to the Marlon county jail in down town Salem for overnight housing. The U girls used their steel beds as battering rams to smash their way through the plaster- over- tile brick walls. They broke into other rooms, hurled storeroom supplies around, poked holes through door windows leading outside and de stroyed furniture. But none of them escaped from the building. Thermometer Hits 103 in Pendleton By UNITKD PRESS The coolest temperature In Pen dleton last night was higher than the warmest temperature in As toria or Newport yesterday. The mercury reached a scorch ing 103 degrees in the eastern Oregon roundup city yesterday afternoon and the coolest reading early today was 71 before lt start ed climbing again. Astoria had 68 and Newport 61 for high tempera-: tures yesterday. The coast was about the only spot to escape the heat. Pendle ton's 103 was tops for the state but it got up to 99 at The Dalles and Medford, 97 at Redmond, 95 at Bend, 94 at Roseburg, 93 at Baker, and 92 at Burns. Walla Walla also hod 103 degrees yesterday. More, warm temperatures were on the menu today. mand, Early arrivals today Included Capt. Walter G. Andes, Salem, state coordinator of the Ground Observer Corps. He visited the fil ter center tills morning and de clared that the plotting room, wllh its big vertical board, is a virtual replica of an Air Defense direc tion center setup. When the center was activated at 12:01 a.m. a crew of 11 vol unteers manned the plotting room. First GOC post report of a plane was received at 12:02, from the Redmond post, A plane, which at 12: 10 circled over Bend, was re ported. At 12:01, a flight of jets passed over Bend, and about the same TIN Fourteen Pages make it secure and see those who, having had liberty, have lost it ind now aspire to regain it." , The latter was an obvious refer nce to Russia's satellite states in 2ast Europe. Dulles and his party left th? lirport after a brief welcoming :eremony. Russlun Delegation They arrived as Moscow an lounced that both Soviet Commu list party cbief Nikita Khrushchev Oveross Case Goes to Jury SALEM (UP)-Jury deliberation in the murder trial of Casper Oveross resumed at 9:30 a.m. to day. The jurors failed to reach a ver dict as to wheUier Oveross killed his Silverton area neighbor, Ervin Kaser, although they deliberated last night from 5:56 p.m. until they were excused by Judge George Duncan at 11:20 p.m. Attorney Bruce Williams con cluded his argument for the de fense by saying that special prose cutor Howard Raymond was ask ing for "155 pounds of flesh." Oveross weighs 155 pounds. Wil liams said the state had failed to prove its case with its own wit nesses. Raymond, who closed for the prosecution, said "I did not come down here to gas 155 pounds of flesh. I came down here to aid the state In prosecution ol a first de gree murder indictment returned by the Marion county grand Jury." Judge George Duncan told Jurors they could bring in a Verdict of first degree murder without rec- ommenaauoi, wnicn wouia lorcei the rnu rt to nmnonnee Hip dpathi sentence; a verdict of first degree murder recommending lire impris onment: second degree murder: manslaughter, or they could find him innocent. There was standing room only for sweltering spectators as the jury retired. Mercury Up To 95 Here Wednesday The temperature In Bend soared to 95 degrees about 3 p.m. Wed nesday to give the area its warm est day since July 30, 1952, when Similar high was recorded. Yesterday's warm weather was followed by a mild night with a 60 degree minimum recorded. It was one of the highest night tem peratures ever known here. Highest temperature ever re corded at the Bend weather stution was 104 degrees, in 1928 and 1930. Only 13 times In the history of the Bend station, dating back more than half a century, has the mercury climbed above the 00 de gree mark. Readings higher than Bend's 95 were reported from vulley areas of Central Oregon, with estimated marks of 100 degrees noted In sev eral localities. Redmond reported 97. Bend's highest reading in the pa3t decade was a sultry 97 de grees on Sept. 2, 1950. F AI.SK ALARM Bend firemen made a run to the 1G00 block on Cumberland lust night, but were unnble to discovo; signs of a fire. They have labeled the report, turned in at 8:03, a fnlse alarm. time some lnrge military planes were aloft over Central Oregon. Then, to cap opening activities, came thn simulated red alert from 2:15 to 4:30 a.m. The first report of a plane, from Redmond, was monitored here by Miss M. D. Brown, and was plot ted on the vertical board in fluorescent ctiolk by Peter Hinds Members of the first shift on duty at the center were George Fulton, Mr. and Mrs. George Thompson, Mhs Brown, Peter Hinds. Dr. Charles B. Hinds, Jr.; Mrs. Harold Milby, Mrs. Kenneth C. Cale, Mrs. Emll Nordeen, Mrs. Vivian Whitney and Mrs. Cyril Relgler. -FORECAST- Fair and warm through Fri day; high both days 93-W; Ion tonight 55-60. No. 186 Russia's most powerful man, and Defense Minister Georgy Zhukov, Mr. Eisenhower's old World War II friend, would go to Geneva with Premier Nikolai Bulganin, nomin al head of the Russian delegation. Informed sources said that Dul les and Pinay would assess tha makeup of the Soviet delegation in .heir first meeting today. France had a number of summit iroposals waiting for Dulles and tfacMillan who was due to arrive ator from London. The first was Premier' Edgar raure's suggestion that all the Big Four powers set the example by cutting their arms budgets and setting up a world fund for un derdeveloped countries with tho money thus saved. The second was the idea of a European security pact based on the rearmament controls of the new Western European Union. Such a system might limit a reuni fied Germany to the same 12 div "sions now authorized for the Fed eral German Republic at Bonn. The third French idea ' was for world conference on the dangers of atomic radiation from nuclear tests and the growing number of atomic piles and radiation.' ', western experts here already have hammered out unity on tht basic big three strategy at Geneve. Dulles, MacMUlan and Pinay will report to the NATO Council Sat urday morning and listen to the Ideas of the smaller allies before they move on to Geneva. The main Western objectives are reunification ot Germany, Euro pean security and disarmament. Bomber Crash Takes 4 Lives SHREVEPORT, Lo. (UP) All four crewmen were killed shortly after midnight toduy when a B41 Stratojet bomber crashed and burned on takeoff from Barksdnle Air Force Base. Sheriff's deputies from Bossier and Caddo parishes pulled tha mangled bodies from the wreck age. They had not yet been Identi fied. The giant bomber plunged into wooded area near tho edge -of the Red River in Caddo Parish, minutes after It took off. Wreck age was strewn over a 5000 foot wide area. The explosion startled esldenls over a wide area. Lt. Col. John Spalding, Second Air Force public information offi cer, said the four men aboard wore three officers and an enlisted mnn. Officers said the wrecked plane apparently never gained altitude. The six-engine bomber was tak ing part In night training maneuv ers and several other Barksdale based planes ulready were In the air. Meyers Tells Plant Plans A call for bids for the construc tion adjacent to U. S. Highway 97. just north of Bend of a Wcstway Oil Co. plant was issued today, and prospective contractors were looking ov'.'r the site. The location, cleared this week, is opposite the state highway shopi on the north highway, and will have a frontage of just short ot a quarter of a mile on the high-w-ay. The West way Oil Company, handling Kconomy Quality pro ducts, is a wholly owned subnK 'ry of the Union Oil Co. Fred H. Meyers will operate the new wholesale und retail plant, which is to handle a complete line of products for t nicks and cars. A service station will be operat il In connection wilh the plant. Five l.OOOgfillon tanks, of uV bove ground type Will be In it filled. Meyers siild the plant, serving 'he interior country, will be one of the largest in Central Oregon. September 1 Is the expected completion date. Adult Swimming Classes Planned Swimming classes for adult be ginners and senior life saving will be held at the municipal pool on Tuesdays from 6 to 7 p.m., the Red Cross nniiounced today. If Interested. Inquiries may b made at the Red Cross office. Bend. The phone number Is 467.