Sherman County journal., April 21, 1944, Image 1

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Fifty-Sixth Year
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Trio Downs Sixty Jap Flanes
Power Users Get Seeks Information
A column o f newt
Rate Dividend
About Government,
Next Month *
Politics and People
Pacific Power & Light Co.
Dividend To Be About _
with especial emphasis
Ä
Half Mouths Light Bill
on the Northwest
Plans (for the d »position of ex-
er st- food stock® after the war are
clearly outlined in a bill which
Ea« been introduced in ifie hou*e
end will be taken up for conaider-
rtion in a few days. The (purpose
of the measure, a« stated by Re­
presentative Wickereham of Ok­
lahoma, who ntroduced it, is to
ensure an orderly disposal of such
goods without disruption of mar­
kets or loss to producers and pro­
cessors. Unless a definite program
is adopted soon, it was explained,
production of foodstuffs might be
discouraged by the prospect of
large stocks being left on hand J
when war demand no longer ex
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ef this trio
i«U, leaving producer, and pro-
« W '* » « » ■ ? .* » ” » . « «.wn nnd« th eb l.,tn »
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. . TKl_ «f roartar ,orps *MMs la the Sooth Paclhc. They are
hers of the
(xseorn
troverninant
Cersalp*» B ff g»ri»e squadron with total of 115H planes shot
is to be averted by governme
n ^Unea de.tr.yed on the ground. Left to right, Lieut. Bobert
action through a food adnunietaa- Baaaaa
Newtoavilke. Mas«.. «5 planes; Capt Donald M. Aldrich, Chk
, 99 planes; and Cpgf Harold L. Spears, Ironton, Ohio, IS planes.
t«m which would direct and super
\ise postwar sales of all foodstuff»
stockp led or contracted for by
m y government agency.
Such surplus foodstuff« would be
offered for sale first to the orig­
inal owner or vendor in such a-
mounts as may be advisable after
Virtually
A «mall cut under
eye
.MMiujF popp red . by
z bursting
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,
. his .. right
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lend-lease and domestic pplief re- f raimfc > i .
a *i-ah\ aft fire, resulted from the* «battering of
tjuirementos have been met. -gge
j^e
Staff Sergeant John hi« goggle glaaaee.
rale to other than est«oli.be>d jgb w V»n e, q . a -. <« saved re-
Lieutenant Chriatianeon ackmin-
, h , « , ( I n ., would be
« n tly by tfc. h « y d y «rmored i.ierod firrt .id a , Sargeant V an «
,r order to k «p '
(la* euit he wa. wearing, and th« b ,
the Boor. He Mopped the
Bob Christianson Has Exciting
Time Bombing Raba u I
en terin g the field, but -a les mign< tU e l hfclmet th , t he had carried
be
made
fr o «
wi(h bin, at laat .nipwte thought.
agency to
war. it wa«
V***
lator, bought
governmwt ag ency
low price» and »old them to MOW-
er government agency at exhowiir
tAnt profit- Thi« would ba mad«
impossible by the terms of tb*
Wickersham bill. War food SO-
nnnirtrator would be aided by
l^KHborv^oannitteea oompoaed of
«dv«ory «ommdtM.
va , rid
producers,
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processor»
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and distri-
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u
B— U «g
,« M io n
hleeding and
h
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^
vx
^
x
bill
, books
who are __
on the company«
cn May 1 will «hare n the di vid
end.
Regular seasonal customer» will
abc
„roportion^ | y , Coro,
uinwl Their checks will Le
patched the wound. C(wmMjted
their
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o f bad feW W f hy tWoWrot,. MOOT a í í i w S uro, ad’Trr gation pump-
ndin« ‘a he was forced
to change
places
«praying installations
and
other
¿ .¿ J
seasonal activities.
The most recent system-wide
rate reduct, on made by the T P.
f L. company was a slash of
J4S7.000 :n 1941. Other rate cuts
in late years include a $212,000
reduction m 19Q9. $110.000 i n
1937 and *305.000 in 193«
Not including
the present
“rate
t« ;.,
- -
were too big to fit into the nose t«ons mnde by the company
x
x
.
since 1936 have resulted in eatim-
turret
of their plane.
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aied annual saving» to customers
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of $1,114,000.
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by Ae forcp of the purtheT Ke$triCted
the W ickersham
Customers of POc fic Power £
Light Company will receive a
$-SOO,000 “‘rate dividend” early in
May under a wartime-earnings-
sharingplan approved by the Ore-
£0(1 rUurtC V ulnT»
V/CQUm 1 S9K)T1 CT
and announced at Salem Wednes­
day. -
Amount of the dividend w.U be
approximately one-half of each
customer's average monthly elec-
trie bill, according to G- L.Corey,
district manager for the company.
F a d to each participant by
check instead of by credits on
bilk, the "rate fihndend” will re­
turn approximately 118,000 to
electric users in this district, he
stated.
‘‘Das. gned to meet the abnormal
conditions created b y wartime
Bads and revenue«, this ‘rate div-
idend’ is juat one more consistent
. u.k*n hr P P * L
to <rwe
step t“
taken by.F.F.fiL.
by.M.F.HL. to
to give
give
customers the benefit of greater
\olume of business” said Oorey.
“Its effect will be to reduce st, 11
further the low average price of
electricity on our eywtem.”
All active customer« who were
billed for electric service between
Hal.
bm riflf the pelleta of aaeel again-
«t
kabaM. S e r g « a t V an « fc<JnAer and other ships were hit as
« ¡d . -It bounded like Cene Kro- W<R„
n„ OM lHS,1<leR Se^
nt
pa <om< into one
,h;s hot well, but no one besides Sergeant
Vance suffered injury.
w
Prior to hi» arrival in -the South
jnatlstrom of enemy flak
Pacific,
Sergeant Vance spent
reacjiej
four-engined 13th
five
months
in Alaska. Trained
during k ’e bomb
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_
.
,
as
a
nose
gunner
he was shifted
.
FU? .?***
™
rom^ to the waist gunners position. The
, ollth of
Mrongled b.«t.on of
in hw
^ „ ^ ¡„ „ ly
nl rommercial channel».'
.
-
...
~
c l commercial cnann«».
gunner when he was hit. The
T I V he
w> inuenc
infpnt of
to retain ? ,
A . he
oi congress
wnx-
wearing sub -
control over the entire program i»
a papphig tear right over
inade apparent by a pwwt»hm W-
heart
quiring the food administrator Ao
padding were badly dent-
report to congress eac / l ua r ed The helmet was dented in
upon hie operations. In thia res-
pcct
Grazny Program
does
not differ materially from otter
pveasures which have been intro-
duced for the purpose of selling
other war materials after the
war. In all cases the primary aim
seems to be to keep surplus goods
ou* of the hand, at »peeilMor«
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tpd favor established cumhiiwclal
clmnnela m p r e f e r « « to the By-
by-iwght organisation» which en-
tcred the field after the first
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world war.
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Belatedly, and after « du*" " ,
ing shortage of livestock feed had
resulted from use at w h e t in
making industrial alcohol, war
food administration ha, suddenly
dn*covered that there » a eurpMM
of potatoes and the tuber», m Me-
v J
.mav provide »1-
bvdrated form, (may proyiue
V
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cohol m sufficient sMMntitv
quantity to
to re-
lieve the pressure on dun,nuiblng
wheat supplies. AAA and com
n'odity credit corporation have
been brought into the picture and
purchase« of surplus potato akock»
pre now being made in » w r r il
states for the manufacture of al-
eoliol. The process is quite launple
end the potatoes are said to yield
r ore than one gallon of •loohol
per bushel- It w reported that
there are between 20.000,000 and
30,000,000 bushels of » » t year s
crop on hand at the present time
and, with the new crop coming
en. these represent outright waste
unless they aye used wit n a com
paratively brief time.
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Officrials of the poatoffice depart-
ment are watch ng with some un-
er.piness the quicknese with which
banks have seized upon the op-
portunity to increase their earn-
ings as a result of the higher
“^’“ Continued on Pag» Two
O fficial County Paper
Moro, Oregon frriday, April 21, 1944~
inn«r.phone, the pilot,
Increaaing military needs fn-
Liautenant Jameg j Hak> lumber are forcing tighter con­
trok 'on
lumber for
f?r civilian
civilian uses,
usea.
QkUhoma ,heard s<^ w trob
on lumber
COuldn’t including farm construction, R. B.
who" it waa
Taylor, chairman of the state A-
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t
AA committee, reports. With ne^r
n U - « ' !v h*lf
• » lum4>er P«*1'“*'1
aut .Robert K. ChnM ,.n^n !,•_
of rceueo iur v ib u h r h » ui *» i ,« viu > «*<
and
iu
Moro, Oregon.
e
, upplies , hipped u
,
4,.
civilian construction w limited by
s^e11
H
WPB regulations to the most es-
plane.
He
tried
to
open
the
door
. ,
on^
rential w
nroieot», with use of lum-
n
1
4
t I** substitute« wherever possible,
But then the nose gunner. Staff
Sergeant William B Monoghan o f . Agriculture’« «hare of the »mall
Iowa opened up and amount, of lumber remaining a<-
t,
v
are mrt wi„
job wa» 'fin- permit only „ceded maintenance
^ ^ o th- end repair of farm buddm-a. and
u find o u twhowas
found Sergeant Vance
n w i - u e Iouna derK«*'>^ vance
Ivina on the floor He sustained
*y,n* on<j W(yund
mwvnuicu
the
flewhy
A
throat indicated where
fragment barely grazed him.
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jj
G e O r ffC G o c h llO I ir
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D #>_ n r | p, J
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a limited amount of pnw construe-
tion directly • essential to 194 4
farm production, the AAA chair-
k
man «aid.
If farmer» are unable
obuin lum,wr for pwn tha.„
essential uses, they may apnly
to |heir county AAA committee
a
for an emergenev preference rat­
ing. Oregon has been given a
nuota of one million board feet
fcr issuance on emergency ratings
during April, May and June.
IV C p O n C fl 1 /c f t U
Sherman county friends of Geo.
_______ _ have received word
R. GoChnour
hU
at Sunnyside W n,
g. He wa» calling the reg- fZv»AVP< O p R ir A f l
„»rket day sale there when
•
offered an heart attack, said
The Oregon Boy Scout« com­
aJK, died
Geo mittee has a program thie year
was W€u known throu- of marking the grave« of pio-
ghout all. Sherman county as neers. The state committee does
liorae salesman of years ago, and not know of any graves of pio-
aoct>oneer of many farm sales in neers in Sherman county. Will
days when farm power meant those who are acquainted with
hod^efl^h. He was starter for thj graves of pioneers or those who
Sherman county fair and judge came across the Old Oregon Trail
horses there on occasion«, please give that information to
waA at Sunnyside, Wn., Mr Boy Scouts or it may be sent In
Gochnouria home.
to the Sherman County Journal-
Location of Pioneer’s
Entry Closes May l f
Oregon range
open»-
• liveetock
K
f f
tor» are reminded bv the state
^AA committee bv May 1 is ro-
quired for participation in the
Pr« in«f Tnana^ement practice of
the 1944 AAA program.
Th» ^ r o c t i «
assists operators
more
than 640 ------
acres
unit» of m < ------------
tn carry out a conservation pro-
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Dewey Burrell Murder
Solved By Confession
Of Long Time Suspect
Dan Morgan Sentenced To Life In Prison
On Plea of Guilty to Second Degree
Murder Made After Confession
U. S- Senator. Guy Cordon, can­
didate for Republican nomination
ft r United States Senator to suc­
ceed himself in the Oregon pri­
mary election May 19, has re­
turned to Washington D C. to
tike up h » duties (there a« suc­
cessor to the late Senator Charles
L. McNary.
before leaving for Washington
Senator Cordon said: ‘ Om my
brief visit home since taking office
I have tried to make the best use
of my time in gathering facts in
the various sections of the state
which have .problems of national
interest. I have found that facts
are the all-essential, and welcom­
ed every bit of data I could get
that will be an aid to Oregon’s
future development.”
When Dan Morgan last Satur­
day morning stood in the Sher­
man county court room before
Judge George Updegraff and pled
guilty to a charge of murder in
the second degree, one of the most
baffling murder mysteries in Ore­
gon state police history was end-
*ed.
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Morgan wa« given I'fe impri­
sonment, a mandatory sentence un­
der Oregon law. And (it was what
he wanted—to be serving nis
tmte and ' relieved from recur­
rent questioning by police officers
who always seemed to know more
rbout the crime each encounter.
The body o f Dewey B u r-
rell, 40, itinerant beet worker, was
found in B. ggs canyon early in the
afternoon of November 21, 1938
by Joe Brady, state highway
worker. It wa« lying off the road
59 or 60 feet, partially hidden by
sagebrush.
Crime Reconstructed
Honor To Be Given
Local officer» were called and
rtate police summoned. Immediate­
ly discovered were the following:
Deceased was Dewey Burrell, who
Service men who have lost the r had done nearly all kinds of farm
1’ves in the armed force« will be work over the northwest; sheared
beeha^ plabe4_up
honored by having «bear
placed on a memorial plaque at potatoes. he had three brothers in
Portland’« Victory Center, it was Idaho, who identfied hie body,
announced this week by Giles but could give no idea of what he
French., chairman of the Sherman had been doing lately; a liquor
county wtar finance committee, and license made out to Ed Burke of
E C. Sammons, state cba rman, Burns, whose description fitted
Burrell; a California driver’s ,li­
Oregon war bond staff.
Families of men eligible are cense for Dewey Burrell; a slip
requested to turn in names either of yellow paper showing directions
to Mr. French or the War Finance (later proved to be route from
Committee, American Bank Build­ Missoula, Montana to Lola For­
est Camp and * home of George
ing, Portland, Oregon.
The Victory Center at Portland Moore and Charlie Sandboat) and
is one of the outstand ng war a blank labor contract for the
Montana Beet Growers - of Mis­
se-vice structure« in the United
soula.
States, according to national war
The autopsy report said the
bond leaders. It is the focal point
of Oregon’s war bond sales effort body might have been lying there
which has established this state 48 hours or more- A two pound
among the leaders of the nation. ball-peen hammer was found a
“We think - t is particularly fit short distance from the body and
ting that Victory Center should the crime laboratory found hu­
be honored by converting it into man blood and some of Burrell s
a memorial for those who dedi­ hair on i't, proving it to have been
cate themseLves to make it pos­ used in the killing..
That was the start of the case.
sible,” Sammons said.
At Gridley, California, Captain
Warren of the state police found
that Dewey Burrell had left there
in the spring to shear sheep.
Deceased Soldiers
Sherman County
Buys $988,000
o-y-nm
w
ithin
th
e
lim
its
o
f
pach
From within
eacn
operator’s manpower and materi-
In War Bonds
* r<MU¥,ir/,Pa -rwiint.« mit Mnrl F
th e
■
lir p it s
' Mate ran(, c „eldmnn
A report by the War Bond
'
«.
Staff
in Portland gives the pur­
R .te at payment u, 2 « n t«
chases
of all kinds of war bonds
“ >« f<” carrying out an .„proved
con«erv.t,on
plan. pin. since the sale of the defense
bonds was started back in July
1941.
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n
In that year Sherman countians
For western Oregon operators,
h variation of the pr ace ice offers bought $69,234 in bonds. The first
loan drive was held in December
payment of
.
.
improrarosn 1942 after leaders in Washington
decided that sales by the regulai
.
method were too slow. For 1942
-
the county bought $216,100, June
PLANE HUNTED HERE
being the high month instead of
Two United State« Coast Guard December when the first drive
truck«, equipped with »ending and war held.
In 1,943 the county purchased
receiving sets, w»ere in the county
?474.880
in bonds wihen the sec­
Tuesday searching for a coast
ond
and
third
war loans were held
guard plane that wa» reported as
In
the
Anril
drive the county
lost. They »et up the equipment
on top of Gordon Butte, accord­ bought $72 692 and in Septembn
ing to Sheriff Wilson, and tried Mrive $253.634.
The compilation in the report
to locate the plane with no »uc-
ceta. Later they received a mes­ is brought un to February 29, 1944
and »hows that for the fourth war
sage that
“‘• v the
V“X| plane had been
loan campaign the county bought
0,1111 near___
€‘
$224,700 in bond«, being «lightly
more E bonds than in September
BURTON TOOMEY DEAD
but fewer of the other issues.
Word ha« been received at Was-
Total «ales of bonds for the en­
co of the*death of Burton Toomey tire duration (to March 10) ha«?
at Lakeview. Mr. Toomey was a been $984,914. Sales for March
lumberman formerly of Klickitat were $3751, amalleatof any rrvmth.
county and ihusband of Nell (Mrs which brings the total to $988,
L. J.) Lucas well known here.
665. «v
Trail Led To Montana
In July T, Lester Johnson.
Sherman county attorney, went to
Miseoula to invest gate. He found
little for his trouble. No one he
found knew Burrell. Johnson gave
the story to the Daily Missoulian,
which had also printed the beet
contract found on Burrell’s body.
Shortly after hi» return home he
received a letter from Art Don-
Ian, beet grower at Frenchtown,
who said he had hired Burrell in
med October, 1938 and that he
bad left after a quarrel with one
Pilly Blue because Blue could not
maintain the pace set by Burrell
in topping beets.
Johnson and' Oaptain Vayne
Gurdane of the state poice went
again to Miseoula in late August
of 1939. They were able to trace
Burrell from Donlana to the beet
dump where he had met Dan
Morgan, whom he knew slightly,
r.r*d who took horn to town.
The next day one Weidman
wanted a beet topper and Morgan
said he would get him a good one.
He went to Missoula and brought
Burrell out. He stayed at Weid­
man’s until the job was ended
November 4. He had worked with
Chester Kozan and Antony Helit,
two Pol eh OOC boys who had
come west from Buffalo, New
York after finishing their enroll­
ment-
Kozan, Helit and Burrell came
to Missoula together and word
paid off in the Oxford Bar by
Weidman. They ware aut of a
job. Burrel, a steady worker., waa
anxious to find another. The fol­
lowing day they went to the
George Moore place but did not
like the looks of hie wood cutting
job. They stopped at the Lolo
forest camp and there Burrell
bought the pair of new army
shoe® he was wearing when killed.
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Burrell Traced
Burrell stayed at the Smith
rooms in Missoula, Bunday nigpt,
Nevemebr 6, and ca the morn­
ing told Mrs Zoe Smith that h»
blight remain all winter with her.
Later in the morning he returned
for -hie poesessions, saying ha
had made arrangement« to go to
the coast. That waa the laat trace
the officers could get of hkn be­
fore has body waa found Novem­
ber 21 in Biggs canyon
Gurdane and Johnson aiter-
viewed all the men who had had
recent contact with Burrell. Don-
Ion, Blue, Weidman all told when
and where they had seen him. Ko­
ran and Helit could net be found
although their ear had bean in
the boys had been picked up in
Burna on a minor traffle offense
November 28.
In (September of 1989 the offi­
cials drove out to Ovando near
Mnsoula
where Morgan * was
working for Bill Boyd who had a
stock ranch. Morgan was straigh­
tening nail« with which to fence
hay «tack« against marauding
elk. He d d not apeak until he was
accosted. He recognised the ham­
mer as being hb, admitted the
initials DM on the hammer had
been made with has dies and gave
the officer» the dies to prove it.
They were later found to fit.
Hammer Said Stolen
Morgan »aid, however, .that the
hammer had been stolen from him
in November 1986 at a oharevari
in Frenchtown.
Johnson and Gurdane came
Lome leaving the case in charge
of Norman Smith and Jalmar
Karkenan, deputies in the sheriff’s
office in Missoula.
From Art Donlan they obtained
pictures Morgan had given hem
showing the Crooked river bridge
and the Three Siatere. Morgan ad­
mitted having made a trip to Co­
quille, Oregon in September 1938.
Also «aid he had made a later
trip on first interview.
At the beet factory dump it
was learned that Morgan had been
paid off November 7, 1988 and
that a part of hb pay wa» owed
to store keepers nearby. He had
gone to work for Tieiwyer, a lum­
ber hauler, someth»» between Nov
ember 14 and 21. He had worked
there until January 4, 1939 ,
Job Ended Noveasahr 7
Further . investigation ahowqfl
that Morgan had actually loat
tools by theft at the chasavari In
1936. One Adam-Bell «vfcaittsd the
tiwft. He returned a tool k it,
said to be the one stolen, to the
police. The war took I tom Boll
and Adam Boll baa been drilled in
action.
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By February 1940 It was found
that the hammer wife whiah Bur­
rell waa killed . would nat -fit <the
tool kit because H was two inches
too long.
When aocoatad with th’a infor­
mation Morgan, who .was «till a t
the Boyd ranch, said tha Irito wore
different He stayed at Bayd’s
until January MM3 whan ha mar­
ried a woman in MtanaapnLa .and
wont to work in Kaiaarh Wish
mend, California atrip yard where
Conthioad “in