The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963, August 20, 1955, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextUolw.' of Oregon Library EUGENE t OREGON r WEATHER- i FORECAST BEND BULLETIN High yesterday, 83 Ji'kiwk. l.ow IukI nighl, 40 deKru-s. Sun wt today, 7:04. Sunrlwi tomor row, 6:15. Fitlr through Suutluy; high today no-US; low tonight 4015; nigh Suuduy H3-88. CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER ' 52nd Year One Section Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon, The Bend Bulletin, Saturday, August 20, 1955 Eight Pages No. 218 R f A O to F Trio o ussoans mencans IE Path of Death, Destruction Left By Rampaging Waters in NE Area By JERKY BKAZDA United Press Stuff Correspondent ".NEW YORK (UP) Flooding rivers, creeks and reservoirs left a broad ribbon of havoc across six northeastern states today with a deatn toll rising to the 100 mark and dumage estimated in the hundred1" ol millions. Details of what may turn out to be the worst tragedy of the hurri cane rains were hidden by the swirling mud of what once was a road into a camp in the Pocono Moun ams of Pennsylvania, near Stroudsburg. Authorities struggled Margaret Becomes 25 On Sunday By BASIL GINGKI.L 1'iUted Press Staff Correspondent , BALMORAL CASTLE, Scotland (UP) -Princess Margaret tinned salesgirl for a day today at nearby Abergcldie Castle, worrying more about price tags than romance on the eve of her 25th birthday, the .most important of her life. The pert princess becomes old enough Sunday to marry without consent of her sister, the Queen, but Group Capt. Peter Townsend appeared forgotten as she concen trated on the local church bazaar and the China, handbags, wicker baskets and grouse on sale there. While Margaret fussed with merchandise displays and gossiped with local residents who consider her their very own princess be cause she was born in Scotland, he handsome RAF war. hero men tioned most in her romantic life took his ease in Belgium. The 41-year-old Townsend was joined pear Ostend by the two sons of his broken marriage, 13- year-old Charles and 10-year-old Hugan, critical spectators while Townsend worked out the mare he will race later today in an interna tional gentleman riders handicap. The church sale was being held at Abeigeldie Castle, a former royal residence only Vh miles from Balmoral, and Margaret was to be joined later by her sister, Queen Elizabeth H, and their mother, Queen Mother Elizabeth. ; Ancient Abergeldie was used by King George V, Margaret's grand father, when he was Prince of Wales. When the prince became king he turned Abergeldie Into a shooting lodge. Balmoral has been the Scottish holiday residence of the Royal Family since the days of Queen Victoria. Her husband, Prince Al bert, bought It from the trustees of a Sir Robert Gordon about 100 years ago. It is here in a picture book set ting that th pretty princess chose to spend with her family the last hours before the birthday that could change the course of British history. If she decides to marry Townsend she would have to give up her right to succession to the throne. She Is third now behind Prince- Charles and Princess Anne. For Britons, fed by reams of speculation on the princess' inten tions, it was the greatest romantic sensation since the Duke of Wind sor gavr up his throne nearly 20 years ego. The reported romance fed Britain's sensation-loving news papers with their biggest banner lines for months. Blaze in Burns Area Subsiding "BURN'S. Ore. (UP1 A furious range Hnd timber fire doubled in sire after jumping tbe fireline late yntei' !uy, but the U. S. Forest Service reported the blaze was nearly tinder control late this mornir,,? The fire had burned over about 3000 sores when it jumped the line yester iny, and by today had cov ered approximately 6000 acres, for est service dispatcher Harold Her rin .wld. More than 200 men from forest service and Bureau of Land Man agement fire crews, augmented by pick-up labor were working the blaie, located 15 miles northeast of Burrs. Herrin said the line was re established around the fire this morning, but there were so many "hot spots" it could not be con sidered under control. to reach the site of Camp David, believed to have housed 29 to 40 person: to check reports that the site was inundated by an over flowing creek and all its buildings swept away. At least 95 persons were known dead 'and the Connecticut gover nor's office said 13 missing per sons are also presumed to have died for a probable death toll of at least 108. Another 23 persons are still reported missing in the five-state area. Towns Isolated Dozens of towns were still cut Troops Repulse Attack bv ROKs SEOUL, Korea (UP) American Military Police used tear gas to day to smash an attack by about 300 Korean demons ti-atoi-s who stoned fellow- countrymen who work for the U. S. Air Force at the Fifth Air Force Base at Kun san. Demonstrators demanding the Communist members of the neu tral nations truce teams withdraw from Southern Korea also attach ed other Koreans at Kangsun, an east coast port. The new outburst of violence 'ol lowed a warning from President Syngman Rhee td" the demonstra tors not to injure American sol diers in their riots against th; presence Of Czech and Polish truce inspectors housed in Ameri can, camps. At the Kunsan Air Force Base about 300 Koreans rushed a line of Air Force trucks taking Korean employes from the base. Air Fores M.P.'s broke up the assault wtth tear gas. In Kangnung about 100 South Koreans hurled rocks at fellow countrymen . employed by , the Americans. Rhee announced today that Re public of Korea police are inves tigating "evidence that subversive elements" caused the bloody riots of the past several , days in which about 60 American soldiers were injured. Former Lakeview Man Takes Duties With SCS Here H. L. Leithead, formerly sta tioned at Lakeview, has established his home in the Bend community and assumed his duties as range conservationist for the Soil Conser vation service. Leithead has taken over the work formery handled by William Cur rier, who resigned from the Soil Conservation service earlier in the year to enter the business field. A graduate from the University of Monona at Missoula with the class of 1939, Leithead has been with the SCS for the past 12 years, with ten years of the time spent in Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Leithead have ob tained f.n acreage just east of Bend. They have five children, Glenn, i4; Kathryn, 11; Sonia, 9: Anne, 4, and Barry, 2. SCS RANGE MAN H. L Leithead, who has moved to Bend from Laktview, has taken over the duties as Soil Conservation ist service range conservationist in the big area that has Bend as its headquarters. Leithead takes over the work of BUI Currier. (Bend Bulletin Photo) off from the world and the death ' toll was expected to rise as rescue workers reach them by boat, heli copter ir emergency bridges. Th? western sections of Massa chusetts and Connecticut and wide section of the three-state New York, Pennsylvania, New Jei-sey border were declared disaster areas. Rhode Island also was hit. Flood waters undermined a cem etery in Woonsocket, R.I., and long-buried coffins bobbed like ma cabre rowboats through the flooded center of town. , Army Secretary Wilbur Brucker was to tour Connecticut flood areas by helicopter today with Amiy commander Lt. Gen, Gov. Abraham Ribicoff and First Thomas W. Herren. Worst In History The floods, worst in the area's history, were caused by torrential rains carried by a dying huiricane and increased by the high humid' ily already present in the air. The ground, already soaked by hurri cane Connie, was unable to absorb the downpour, and the runoff was swift and devastating. Army, Air Force and Coast Guard forces mobilized with Civil Defense and local officials to pick stranded residents from attics and tree-tops. Army engineers, with $500,000 emergency fund in Massa chusetts, highway and utility crews were at work at dawn flood waters receded to .restore communications to the battered areas. All train service in and out of Boston was halted yesterday by track washouts. Limited service was being restored today. The Red Cross, announced that 100 volunteer nurses and 150 doc tors were manning 87 flood shel ters in the affected area and had already aided thousands of per sons. A group of top Red Cross officii n left Washington in a De fense Department plane to suivey (he area. Power Hearings Due Next Month WASHINGTON (UP) Two Sen ate subcommittees yesterday announced "coordinate hearings" next month on public and private power programs. Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D- Wyo.) said the investigations will cover four major subjects: 1. The Hells Canyon controversy, Including the proposed federal construction of a high dam on the Snake river. The Federal Power Commission has issued licenses for construction by private utilities of three lew dams on the same river. 2. Proposed merger of Puget Sound Light and Power Co. with the Washington Water Power Co. Both are private utilities in Wash ington state. 3. Past, present, and planned In- terior Department policies on the power preference clause at federal hydroeiectric plants. The clause gives public agencies, coopera tives, Bra other non-prolit organi zations priority in buying elec tricity. 4. The administration s "partner ship" power program, including its origin and aims. yp" Ky : Meeting On Peaceful Use Of Atom Ends GENEVA (UP) The first utoms-fr-peace conference ended today with a Soviet announcement it wa:; giving Communist China and the Soviet satellites fuels and reactors for atomic and hydrogen researrj. A iow hours earlier the United States sold to Switzerland ut a "cut-fate" $180,000 price .its huge "swimming pool" atomic reactor whose eerie, bluish light showing radioactivity at work was the hit of th-2 American-suggested confer ence. The final session of the 12-day United Nations conference, spired by President Eisenhower two j ears ago, wound up with a farewell address by the conference president Dr. Homi J. Bhaba of India. Tritium Included The Soviet announcement said the Communist nuclear aid pro gram will include tritium, one of (he H-bomb 'xplosives. Western scientists reported this appeared to indicate a high level for Rus sia's H-bomb potential. Red China will get the biggest of the reactors to be furnished the Communist countries, the an nouncement said, one capable of producing up to 10,000 kilowatts. Full extent of the Soviet nuclear giveaway" program was outlined In a report delivered in the final hours of the conference by Dr. A N. Lflvrishchev, number 3 man in the oft-strong Moscow delegation. The; report also disclosed for the first lime the exact location ol SovieR atomic plants, cyclotrons, accelerators and other installa Hons Invaluable for nuclear re- starch. Locations were given as Leniw.rrid, Kiev, Kharkov and Moscow Aid will be extended1 to China, Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Ger many. Romania, Bulgaria ana Hungary, the announcement said. Only tiny Albania among the satel lites wns excluded. V. S. Sells Reactor The announcement said all will receive "natural uranium, mori um, uranium-235, uranium-233, Plutonium, tritium and heavy water." Shorl' v before Russia unveiled its atD.nic aid program for the Communist nations, the United Statos took a major step In ful filling the 'peaceful nuclear aid program which Mr. Eisenhower first put before the world in 1953. Broken Leg Suffered By Bend Angler A Bend angler fishing in the Wal do lal'.e area of the high Cascades suffered a broken leg early this morning, and rndio information from Oakridge identified him as R. L. Martin, 330 East Marshall, Bend. The Injured man was being brought out over the Blair lake trail in the late morning hours, with a stretcher and pain killer to be drooped from a parachute at Taylor- burn. I Ranger E. J. Parker was to! mak- a fight from the Bend air-j nort. to drop a first .aid outfit in i the hi-jh country. Fr im Oakridge, Runner Cumm- ws renortd by rndii th;l Martini had suffered a leg fracture, just 'ilmve tre ankle. Two trail workers' were sr-nt out by the forest ser-; vir to assist. ' Marti" is a member of the Bond oost office staff. Postmaster Far lev J. Elliott said this wn Mar tin's SaturdMV off. under rol'itive svsnm. and It is believed he drove to thr Taylor burn area last night. Th accident orcurred on n mountjvn trail this morning, and an u:iiffrn(ified companion notified, the Oakridge ranger station. j PMltTI.ANMKR KM.I.Wt PORTLAND f UP Moses tfrk. ((2-vear-old Portlands, was killpd ip1antlv last ni:hf when he was n'liick by a car on southwest j Harbor drive. Driver of the car, William B.j Hudson oi Portland. loin nonce ne rl dn't ee Black until he hid struck him. The impact buckled the hood of his snorts car hack against the windshield. 1. "Vsr vfM. "VVva r SHADES OF FREIGHTERS! Old time freighter who spent hours driving up Cow canyon with their loads of wool from the interior country never dreamed that a 70-mile an hour road would be constructed up the gorge. This is a view south over the Cow Canyon section of U. S. 97, completed at a cost of more than $600,000. (Bend Bulletin Photo Russians Ready To Wind Up Tour Of United States LOS ANGELES (UP) A group of Russian farm experts was scheduled to wind up a month long tour of the United States to day wifoi a visit to the Roger Jes sup dany in nearby Glendale. The 11 Soviet agriculturists leave here by plane tomorrow morning for a two-day stopover in Washington before going home. They arrived here last night after touring Southern Cumorma s cit rus proves, agricultural experi mental 'stations and citrus; pack ing houses-. . Vladimir V. Matskevitch, Soviet acting minister of agriculture and leader of the delegation, told reporters he was' grateful to U. S. farmers who had misted the visiling group, saying, "The friendly meetings, warm hospital ity we have enjoyed, will not be ernsed from our hearts." He said he wafi "favorably impressed" by all he had seen in the United States. The Soviet farm chiefs indicated they were most impressed with American steaks, milking mach inery and Marilyn Monroe, whom they hope to meet. Matskevich shrugged his should ers when asked if he was looking forwaid to meeting Miss Monroe in Washington at a reception. But another delegation member, who shall lomain unnamed, broke In to ask, "Has Miss Monroe accept ed the invitation?" Petr Konstantinovich Babmind- ra, director of the Soviet collective farm in the province of Rostoviski, recalled wilh half-closed eyes and. a smile the steaks he had eat en on the tour. In jesting com plaint, he said they almost had too much steak, but added, "the steaks were unforgettable, especial ly in Omaha and Ft. Worth." Babmmdra said some methods of whoat production were not as advanced as those in Russia where, Iip said, the machinery was bigger, stronger and heavier on state-owned farms. The Russians said they remem bered oest the modern methods employed on small U. S. farms with their shining, efficient milk ing mt'hines, advanced methods of feetVng animals and poultry raising. 7 Saved After Boat Capsizes SAI.rM (UPl Three children and four udults clung lo their cap sized boat for warily three hours last night before they were rescued by mnri from the Detroit Ranger Station. All wj-rc rescued after their cries for help finally were brant at the ranger station more than half a mile away. Dislrict Ranger Al Sorselh, who headed the rescue team, said the arms nf the children were so numbed I hey "could hardly move them" when they were lifted from the water. Sorseth credited vest type li'p Jackets with saving the lives ot the children. Sorreih said Bonnie Ferraer had drifted nearly 100 yards from the bosot but was located quickly by the rescue team. The others were hanging on to the overturned boat. Woman Injured In Fall Friday On ML Hood TIMBERLINE LODGE, Ore. ! (UP) A young San Francisco I woman was injured yesterday aft ernoon when she slipped near the top of 11,225-foot Ml. Hood, tum bled down a steep snow slope and : dropped 30 feet into a crevasse. Ruth Pulschkowski, 25, was de scending the mountain with a party of 30 California Sierra club chmbe.-s when the accident oc curred. She suffered a possible rib fracture, shock, contusions and lacerations. The tall was witnessed through binoculars by Frank Gearhart ot Manzanitai Ore. He notified lodge authorities who dispatched a Msno cat'' to make the rescue. The climbers were on a side trip from Ait. Rainier, wash., whore 120 Sierra club climbers had estab lished a base camp. None of them was roped together and the San Francisco girl was believed to have fallen when she lost one ot her crampons. Groups Rally To Support Of Dr. Lee GARDEN GROVE," Calif., (UP) Local businessmen and politicians rallied to the support lodny of two time U.S. Olympic diving cham pion Dr. Sammy Lee who twice was denied a chance to buy a home here because of his Korean ancestry. Orange County physicians, real- estate men and politicians imme diately came to Lee's support when they heard of the rebuffs. Lee re ceived more thun one invitation to return to Southern California and buy a home. Joe Furr, president of the West Orange County Real Estate Board, wired Lee, who now is a major in the Army Medical Corps at Camp Carson, Colo,, offering to help the diving champion find a home of his choice In this area. "The major can have a home In Garden Grove or elsewhere, as he may desire," Furr said. i The Long Bench, Calif., Press-; Telegram offered to pay his ex- penses to California and help him. find a new home. aic, showing no bitterness, said, his "belief in the American people. is substantiated." The diving champion Is an ear. nose and throat specialist. Recent- ly he had lunch with President, Eisenhower and toured Asia a( 111 j behest of the State Department toi lell the Orient of the benefits of the American way of life. He also won the Sullivan Spoils Award in t!i53 for contributing the most to nwrtsmanshtp in the United Stales. Fall from Auto Fatal to Woman PENDLETON, Ore. (UP)-State oolice here reported today thai Mrs. Mnrgaret Rtjlh Weitlund. 33, of Ukinb. Ore., died in a Pendleton hospital Thursday of head injuries arparorfly suffered when she fell from her husband's car. O I f i e e r s said they had not learned how the woman fell from the car driven by her husband, Olaf. The ''eath was lifted as Uma tilla cointy's l.rth traffic fatality of th? year. ,Arti Chiang Charges Military Leader With Red Spying TAIPEI, Formosa (UP) Presi dent Chiang Kai-shek announced today the resignation of Gen. Sun Li-jen, one of his top military leaders, and said he had ordered an investigation of Sun's connec tion with a Chinese Communist spy ring. A presidential order said Sun tendered his resignation as an ad mission ot negligence and request ed a full investigation of the case and his own responsibility'. "Sun, 55, the American trained general who .helped . rebuild the shattered Nationalist armies after their defeat on the mainland, was not arrested. But he admitted "fg ligence in connection wilh the ac- I tKFitics of a Communist agent, MaJ. Kuo staff. Ting-liang, on Sun's A VMI Graduate Sun, a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, won his initial fame on the battlefield when his new 1st Army drove the Japanese from northern Burma. He was made commander of the National ist armed forces ,in 1919 and re cently became the personal chief of staff to Cniang. Reliable sources said ' several high ranking Nationalist officers had been arrested in recent months for their part in a Commu nist plot rumored aimed at the as sassination of Chiang during a vis it here of Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, then commander of the U.S. 8th Army in Korea. Some 100 sympa thizers were reported Jailed. Nationalist Information director Wu Nan-ju said the government unearthed the Communist spy ring and that Sun tendered his resig nation "as ai admission of negli gence . . . and has requested a full investigation." Allowed To "Escape" The Communist spy ring cen tered around Kuo, who was cap tured at Mukden in 19-17 In the early stages of the civil wor while fighting with Suns 1st Army in. the blizzard - swept northeastern! provinces. He was ( converted to I Communism und allowed to "es cape" to Formosa. wu said Kuo received secret or ders from the Communists to pro ceed to Formosa in 191H and "make use of his connection with General Sun to engage in infiltration and subversive activities." He was welcomed back by his old companion in arms and served' under Sun in re-training the Html-1 tered armies on Formosa. In he Nationalists said, Kuo re newed his activities and "con spired in the training command and formed organizations for Red activities." Temperatures By UNITKI) I'KK.SS Tempcniturrs dui inj tho 24-hour period ending 4:110 H.m. Ixl;iy: Ihllh Iiw ("hiraij.t Porllnnd 17 Otv. 79 Sciilt'o Spolom" WJ Antjeles K7 S;in Kri'.nelsro fitf 19 i Denver R6 M Knnns Cily !I7 77 New York M 7r Wiishin;7ton 00 71 Minmi M 72 Vnncouver, B. C. (J7 5't lllhert yesterdny, 104 al Kl Ontro, Clif. l)vesl this morning. M al Big Piney, Wyo. Action Comes After Request By Officials WASHINGTON (UP) Russia has informed the United States that three Americans held prison er for seven years or more will be released, the State Department announced today. The Americans are Pvt. Wilfred Cumish of Amesbury, Mass.; Pvt. Murray Fields of Bayside, N.Y. and Frederick Charles Hopkins, a man the' government did not know was being held by the Rus sians. The State Department said It had asked the Soviet Foreign Office in Moscow on July 16 to release Cum ish and Fields "whose presence in the Soviet Union had been re ported by returning prisoners of war. . ." Ditto of Itt 'tea so Unknown ' "The American embassy in Mos cow was informed on Aug. 19, 1955 by the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs that these two men would be released to American authori ties," the State Department said. "In addition, the embassy was advised that a third American, Frederick Charles Hopkins, would be released. The date and place of the re lease of the three Americans were not specified by the Soviet Foreign Office." The Slate Department said Hop kins' case "has never been taken up with the Soviet government" and "his background und the cir cumstances ot his case are un known to us." llaumelnt(ir Caae Probed Previous reports from war pris oners returning lrom Russia had mentioned a "Johnny Hopkins as hntnir hIH. the rlonnrtrvtpnt xnJH; q,. it niMnd thnt "intnnalw tfnrt ,ft trnrp. n nrsnn hv fh(s n;(m - produced negative results. " Department press officer John Meairher. who read the announce- mcnti ulSQ reported that the Stato Department was looking "urgent' ly" into the case of William G..' Baumeisler, an American pilot' whose fighter plane was shoti down over Burma in 1941. Austrian, prisoners returning home had said he may be In a Soviet slave labor camp. Meagher disclosed that Bau- meiater's father, William G. Bau meisler of St. Paul, Minn., had written to President Eisenhower concerning his son's case. Fight Planned By Una Schmidt RED BLUFF. Culif, (UP) Tho wife of Airman Daniel C. Schmidt indicated today that she would. fight a di voire complaint filed by Schmidt charging that she was an "unfit" mother for their 2H-year-old son. The 23-year-old Schmidt, who re turned from a Chinese Communist prison camp to find that his wife, Una, had married another man, filed the divorce complaint in tho Tehama County Court house Frl- lay. He charged "extreme cruelty" and said he would seek "perma nent control and custody" of Dan- Jr., on the t'tound that his 11 -year-old wife was an "unfit mother " But In Nevada City, Una's at- lorney, Harold Berliner, said that she would not consent to "giving up her son." He said any further comment would be withheld "until are formally and regularly served." Berliner said that Una had ngain me into seclusion, hut he empha sized thai she had nH returned lo Alford Kiiv.', the Vl-yeur-old logger she married while SchmUII was in prison. When Schmidt arrived at th.' Courthouse Friday he w?ir aernm- nled by his mother-in-law, Mrs. Walter Ferguson, who Ins puhliely turned against her own daughter ''i I to stipiiort him in the divorce ac WJftlun. After filing the papers, th two 57 drove lo the Fennison home in M "hitd's Meadows, .T? miles east .)f here. Sehmtdt pi inned to continue to Portland, Ore , to visit his mother. Mrs Nellt. Peters. At Schmidt's requ'-sl, th com olaint did rot contain any specifi cations nor mention such terms ns bigamy, adulteiy or desertion. The airman said he had no d. sire to drag Una's name "through the mud."