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as as as as as as as as as THE WEATHER cast and cloudy west portion rain southwest portion tonight; Sunday cloudy, rain west portion, snow in high Cascades. THE BEND VOLUME XLVII. THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1941 NO. 31 Double Trouble for Italian Armies DURAZZO A TIRANA Miles Struga 20 Ochrida Monastir Pogradec Florina ALBANIA RAF Moscopole GREECE by Berat Koritso Kastoria Klisura Tepelini Premedi: Greek Penetration Into Albania Greek Attacks Palermo Delvino Extent of Italian Advance in Greece Adriatic Sea Porto Edda Italian Bases Mediterranean Sea A Mediterranean Sea British by RAF shelling Apollonia Bombed support EI coastal Toira, Maraua BENGAZI El Mechili TOBRUKE Ghemines Bir Hacheim1 El Gubbi LIBYA British Advance Italion Advance Libyan Desert in Egypt beaten back by British El Giagbub Greek attacks nearing Valona and Elbasan in Albania, mechanized advances ringing Tobruk in Libya gave Italian chance to strengthen fortifications at those key points in stem the twin tides of advancing Allied forces, Maps show and Libyan towns that are targets of Greek and British areas where 'Mussolini's troops meet new defeats Weather Spoils Tumalo Ski Snow Week- End Activities to Be at Hoodoo Gibraltar Because snow covering the upper Tumalo creek country compacted to about 15 inches under yesterday's 54 degree ture, Skyliner activities, including ski patrol ski school, will be shifted to the Santiam summit tomorrow. Ralph E.

Grimes, Skyliner president, announced today. A field day has been arranged for the Skyliner playground, but all plans for snow frolic on upper! creek have had to be changed because of the unseasonably mild weather. The ski school will be held at the Big lake turnoff on the Santiam highway, about a mile Instructions east of will the start at 11 a. and all wishing to take the preliminary work have been asked to be present at that hour. Registration cards can be secured at The Bulletin office.

In addition to this school, Skyliners are to join in contests in the Hoodoo bowl Sunday afternoon. starting at 1:30 o'clock. These will be the contests originally planned for the Skyliner grounds. The road into the Santiam summit is reported in good shape. Although not enough snow covers the ski hills near the Tumalo creek lodge, trails leading back into the woods are well covered, Skyliners reports.

One of these trails leads up to Tumalo falls. Another heads back into the Tumalo lake area. Higher levels are well covered with snow. Lunches will not be served at the Skyliner lodge Sunday. Chamber of Commerce Meeting January 16 The annual meeting of the Bend chamber of commerce has been set for January 16, at 7 in the Pine Tavern, it was announcmorning from the chamber office.

Dinner reservations are to made through the chamber of commerce office. Guest speaker for the meeting will be either R. H. Redinger, regional manager of the civil aeronautics authority, or a member of his staff, from the Seattle office of the CAA. Detailed information relative to plans for the development of airports in Central Oregon is expected to be presented by the visiting speaker.

All interested in the speaker's subject or in chamber activities have been invited to attend the meeting. BULLETIN On the Lookout for Goering's Sea Hawks To guard England's inland waterways against possible seaplane landings during an attempted German invasion, and at the same time to train young sailors for the Royal Navy, Great Britain maintains a fleet of small, fast and easily maneuverable launches. These are constantly on patrol, in co-operation with units of the navy and naval air arm. Photo above shows two launches on duty, with machine guns trained on the sky where the enemy might appear. New Type of Fire Bomb Gets Trial Many Blazes Started in London Raid London, Jan.

11 (LF German air raiders swarmed over London tonight, attacking the metropolis with a new type of explosive incendiary bomb, which started a number of fires despite, alert action by fire and roofspotters. The Germans dropped hundreds of incendiaries despite an early and heavy barrage by London's anti-aircraft batteries. The new type of bomb appeared to be designed to blast the firestarting bomb content into roofs. land walls. Many Londoners detected a sharp detonation as the fire bombs hit instead of the customary mild thump, crackle and fizz.

Watchers saw some of the fire bombs disintegrate on contact, starting four or five fires within a small area. British night fighting planes took the air. The crackle of their machine gun attack on the raiders could be heard at intervals in the terrific anti-aircraft barrage. The drone of enemy raiders was almost constant overhead. After the initial shower of cendiary bombs, raiders droned overhead dumping high explosives on the metropolis.

The early stages of the raid were at full blitzkrieg intensity although up to midevening the attack had not been so severe as that which set fire to the city of London December 29. Hosch to Leave for Legislative Session Dr. J. F. Hosch, representative in the state legislature from the' Deschutes county district, plans to leave for Salem tomorrow, to be present for the opening session of the legislature Monday.

Dr. Hosch plans to "commute" from Bend during session, returning here over the week-ends. Dr. Hosch, who will be serving his fourth term in the state legislature from Deschutes county, anticipates a busy and full session. Re-apportionment representatives is expected to provide one of the battles of the coming session, Dr.

Hosch said. Bonneville to Be Negotiator For Central Oregon District One of the duties of the ville administration in connection with its authorized survey of existing power facilities in the district proposed to be served by the Central Oregon PUD will be "to negotiate with the reconstruction finance corporation and other suitable governmental or private agencies possibility in of order to ascertain with the obtaining funds which to effectuate a purchase of the facilities," should such action be finally approved. This authorization is contained in the resolution approved in Bend by directors of the midstate district following a two-day conference with Bonneville administration engineers, V. M. Murray and Warren H.

Markel. No Legal Obligations It was agreed by the directors, headed by J. D. Donovan as chairman, and the engineers "that this district will not incur any legal or financial obligation by authorizing at this time the Bonneville TEMPERATURE Maximum yesterday, 54 degrees. Minimum last night, 27 degrees.

NAZIS OBJECT TO SHIP REPAIR AT U. S. PORTS Claim Violations of Hague Convention COMMENT ON BILL International Law Being Juggled by America Says Russia Berlin, Jan. 11 49- President Roosevelt's full powers bill proposal for the repair of foreign warships in United States ports would be "a direct violation of the 13th Hague convention of 1907. which the United States the newspaper Deutsche Allge.

meine Zeltung said today. The comment was the first made by a newspaper here on the full powers bill, although nazis said that the proposals came too late to help America's fellow de. mocracles. Deutsche Allgemelne Zeitung restricted its comment to the clause on the repair of foreign armaments in the United States. The newspaper said that under the Hague convention, belligerent warships may remain in neutral harbors only 24 hours and that a time extension could 1 be granted only to give them opportunity to become seaworthy.

It said that der the time extension ships could not engage in repairs to increase their military strength and that they could not repair damage to weapons suffered in battle. Allgemeine Zeltung said that the Hague convention forbids the use of neutral harbors for the replenishment of military stores, weapons or foodstuffs. Food stores, it said, may be replenished only to a normal peacetime level. Crews, it said, could not be replaced. No official or authorized comment on the full powers bill has yet been made here.

LAW "JUGGLED" Moscow, Jan. 11. 145- Izvestia, the government newspaper organ, charged today that "some leading statesmen" 'In Great Britain and the United States were Juggling with international law by defendIng America's right to aid Britain while holding that Russia could not sell even cereals to Germany without violating the policy of peace. "There are in Britain and the United States some leading the states, men who believe that States in full conformity with international law and a position of neutrality may sell to Britain everything including even warships, whereas the soviet union can not sell to Germany even cereals without violating the polley of peace," said Izvestia. "The strange contentions provide a curious example of juggling with international law.

However, such extra free handlIng of the principles of international law and neutrality can only have the meaning of a political maneuver." Mrs. J. N. Hunter Dies At Portland Hospital Mrs. J.

N. Hunter, 77, a resident of Bend since the turn of the century, died last night in Portland, a victim of infirmities aggravated by an attack of influenza. Mrs. Hunter had not been in the best of health for several years and had been in Portland since about the middle of November, receiving treatment at the Portland sanitarium. Funeral service plans are being held in abeyance, following the return to Bend of Mr.

Hunter, who was with his wife when death occurred. Allecia Hunter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A.C. Auderway, pioneers of Oregon, was a native of Salem.

She was married to Joseph N. Hunter in western Oregon. It was in the early days of the present century that Mr. and Mrs. Hunter came to Bend, from the Albany country.

There was not even a village here when Mr. and Mrs. Hunter established their home near the Deschutes. Neighbors were Mr. and Mrs.

W. H. Staats and the John Sisemore family, and later the Drake family, founders of Bend. Mrs. Hunter is survived by her husband and two children, Carl S.

Hunter and Mrs. Clair Fuller, both of Bend. Margaret, Barbara and David Fuller are the only grandchildren. Mrs. N.

D. Keefhaver, of Albany, is a sister. Mrs. Hunter was a lifelong member of the Baptist church. Funeral arrangements have not yet been completed.

TO HEAD DAIRYMEN Grants Pass, Jan. 11 (P). Oscar Hagg, Reedville, was re-elected president of the Oregon State Dairymen's association today. SECURITY FOR WAR SUPPLIES MAY BE ASKED Amending of British Aid Bill Predicted COMMITTEES FIGHT Tin and Rubber Suggested As Backing for Loan Of Materials Washington, Jan. 11 4P Chair.

man Walter F. George of the senate 'foreign relations committee predicted today that the British aid bill would be amended in the senate to require Great Britain to put up "reasonable security" for war materials provided for her. George, in a press conference, for the first time announced his support of the "objectives" of the bill. The house military affairs committee meantime voted to demand that the bill be withdrawn from the foreign affairs committee in the and placed before it for consideration. No such dispute has arisen thus far in the senate.

"Some type of formal security for whatever passed to foreign nations should be in the bill," George declared, "and I believe will be in the bill when it passes the senate. It would have to be the best security that could given, but that does not necessarily mean money." Suggest Security He pointed out that Great Britain has extensive interests in tin and rubber production and has vast utility developments in var. lous parts of the world. "If we could have some interests in the tin and rubber tion of the British, it would be a good business investment for he added. The sweeping new bill constitutes a "modification" of many principles of the neutrality act but does not mean "general repeal," he said.

The first draft of the bill, he revealed, contained a provision which could be interpreted as permitting American convoy of shipments to England. This provision was deleted at his insistence, he said, although he was assured that the convoy principle had not been advocated by the framers of the measure. Sponsors to Appear He declared he himself would not sponsor the amendment to require security for goods shipped to England, and remarked that the main problem would be "discouraging sponsors." He said that he believed many senators would wish to introduce the amendment. The military committee's action. presaging a bitter jurisdictional squabble, came as substantial sentiment appeared to be developling in congress to impose limitations on the far reaching measure.

Chairman Andrew J. May was directed by the committee resolution to move Monday that the bill be withdrawn from the foreign affairs group and sent to his committee. He was also instructed to appeal from the decision of the chair if Speaker Sam Rayburn should overrule his motion. May said he would demand a roll call on the motion. He said the vote in his tee today- -taken after 45 minutes of debate -was not unanimous but "nearly solid." May had sought unsuccessfully at the time of the bill's introduetion yesterday to have it placed before his committee, on grounds that it pertained to military matters rather than questions of fore- ign policy.

He had suggested the possibility that certain phases probably should be studied by the naval affairs committee. BRITISH BOMBS STRIKE SHIP IN BREST HARBOR Le Havre Also Raided By R. A. F. NEW PLANES USED Added Strength Is Shown In First Daylight Attacks Sues Canal warships troops by Italian positions Sidi Barrani EGYPT Miles 200 and British troops little an effort to the Albanian drives in two daily.

People in the News (By United Press) Gypsy Rose Lee who earns "a bare living" as a strip-tease performer, took longer than usual to dress after her act in Chicago last night and so foiled a holdup attempt by five men in an automobile in which she was hought to haye been a passenger. Michael Todd, cafe owner and Miss Lee's employer, was pummeled and a woman companion's purse was seized, but it was Miss Lee they were after. Still in her dressing room, Miss Lee said "they would not have got anything from me if I had been in the car except my $3500 mink coat which is worth only $200." The holdup men caped. Bernard Baruch, who exercised broad powers as chairman of the U. S.

world war industries board, said at Washington that the super defense agency established by President Roosevelt to convert the nation swiftly into a great arsenal is a "long forward step." He said, however, that he preferred to have the final decisions left one man appointed by the president responsible to him alone, whose decisions would be revokable by the president. Four Men to Begin Deschutes county selective service registrants ordered to report for the January quota are to leave for Portland on the morning of January 24, at 7:30 o'clock, officials of the local board reported today. The four men named to fill the January quota are all teers. They are Edward C. Ture.

man and Dan C. Sullivan, Bend, and Thomas A. Fields and Robert H. Steele, Redmond. Jefferson county is to supply one man for the January quota.

will leave on January 22. Crook county will supply three. They will leave from Prineville on January 24. Service January 24 State polic were on the lookout for James Dyer, of Sisters, this afternoon, as the result of a ing fray at the Owl pool hall in Sisters last night, in which William Zitek, also of Sisters, was badly cut on both arms and on the right knee. Apparently Zitek and Dyer became involved in an argument last night about 11 o'clock, Dyer pulled a jack knife, and allegedly cut Zitek.

In an attempt to subdue him, Robert Zitek was also cut slightly, and Dyer escaped. He has been charged with assault with a dangerous weapon. Man Sought Following Knife Fray at Sisters London, Jan. 11 (P) Two direct hits on the bow of a large vessel in the Brest dockyard which caused widespread fires in the dock area were reported by the air ministry today. A communique said also that shipping in Le Harve harbor had been attacked by British planes.

In some quarters there was belief that British planes also may have attacked northern Italy in view of a half hour's air raid alarm reported from Berne, Switzerland, early this morning. However, Zurich and Berne, both reported air raid alarms yesterday and it was said that they had been caused by two German bombers which had lost their way. British attacks on Brest and Le Havre last night followed smashing daylight raids yesterday on the Pas De Calais area by British Bill Brown, Once King of Central Oregon Range, Dies W. W. Brown, once, known as "the millionaire horse king" of western America and owner of some 10,000 horses on Central Oregon ranges during early years of the first world war, died early today in the Methodist old people's home, in Salem, aged 83.

The veteran rancher had been ill for some time, and recently suffered a heart attack. Brown moved from Central Oregon several years ago to Portland, after he lost the last of his vast holdings on the interior plateau, a region once referred to by writers as the "Bill Brown empire." The man who once ruled the midstate ranges and owned stock valued at more than $1,000,000, died penniless. Owned Land in 4 Counties At the height of his prosperity, Brown not only possessed some 10,000 horses, but owned 22,000 sheep. He was the owner of ITALIANS RETREAT NORTH OF KLISURA Flight Seen From British Air Force Planes Athens, Jan. 11 (PA royal air force communique reported today that Italian troops, motor convoys and tanks are "in full retreat" toward Berat as a result of Greek occupation of Klisura.

The royal air force said that British planes had carried out successful attacks upon the retreating Italian columns. The British report was based on action royal air force planes from Klisura north toward Berat. It followed Greek advices that the Italian resistance in southeast Albania is crumbling as a result of the fall of Klisura. "Enemy troops and motorized convoys including tanks are in full retreat from Klisura which was occupied by Greek troops yesterday," the RAF said, "were successfully attacked despite bad weather conditions by many royal air force bombers. "Northward from Klisura and on road to Berat our and pilots found convoys in retreat their bombs were observed to fall on or in the vicinity.

"All our aircraft returned safely." Berlin, Jan. 11 (P) Speaking to an audience of miners at Hausderflieger, Marshal Hermann Goering, No. 2 nazi, said today that not a single industrial plant in Germany or German controlled territory had been destroyed by enemy action. In contrast, he said, "at some points in England production has been decreased from 60 to 70 per cent by our attack and general from 40 to 50 per cent." British production has, been cut Goering said that "I grant that someone looking around Germany can find some burnt out attics." "But it is not attics which decide the war," he said. "Destroyed mines, factories and smelting plants decide the war." Damage to Germany Slight, Says Goering SHIP FIRMS MERGE Portland, Jan.

11 (P). The Willamette Iron and Steel corporation of Portland has merged with the Guy F. Atkinson of San Francisco to build ships for the United States navy, it was announced here yesterday. ranches in Lake, Harvey, Deschutes and Crook centuries. The home ranch of the Brown empire of horses and sheep was on Buck creek, northwest of the Gap ranch.

Operating from that ranch, Brown owned 30,000 acres of land and used 100,000 additional acres because of the control of important water holes. Out on the Central Oregon plateau, in the pioneer days when Prineville, Burns and Lakeview were the big towns of the range empire, Brown builded a great fortune, but watched it gradually 'melt away. It was in the early days of the depression that the last of that empire disappeared. While building his st stock empire, Brown became known as "one of the world's worst bookkeepers." Frequently he wrote checks on cigaret papers, or on labels removed from tin cans. "Tall and Guant "Tall and gaunt a windwhipped juniper tree," as he was described in an Oregonian Sunday feature article by M.

Leona ols in 1932, William Walter Browning was a well known figure on the Central Oregon plateau. "He is remote, and yet a part of that vast plateau land where he has lived, fought and struggled with the elements in his efforts to control that which is beyond the hand of the feature article added. Brown was not so well known in Bend, except by the old timers, but he was a familiar figure on the streets of Prineville in the days when that town was the capital of a rangeland empire, and he was well known in Burns and Lakeview. The veteran stockman came to Central Oregon as a yauth. He was only 27 years of age when he first decided to found his stock empire.

Brown was a school er, a graduate from the San Jose normal school with the class of 1878. Planned Marriage When Brown started building his empire out in the sagebrush lands of Central Oregon, he apparently had plans of marriage, (Continued on Page 3, Column 7) Date of the president's birthday ball for the aid of infantile paralysis victims, has been set at January 30, it was announced today by Don Hampson, president of the Bend 20-30 club, which has charge of the dance this year. The dance will start at 9:30 to the music of Tommy Thompson's orchestra, and will strictly semi-formal. Tickets for the event will be sold by members 20-30 club and of the Junior Women's club. The general chairman for the ball will be named by Hampson at Monday night's meeting of the club.

Mrs. J. F. Arnold is county chairman of the national committee for the celebration of the president's birthday, and will announce her committees next week. President's Birthday Ball to Be January FUNERAL TO BE MONDAY Funeral services for Esther Elizabeth Butcher, old time resident of the Prineville Junction community, will be held Monday morning at 10 o'clock from the Niswonger Winslow chapel, with burial to be in the Redmond cemetery.

Mrs. Butcher, 83, wife of the late Joseph Butcher of the Redmond community, died here on January 9. She had been ill for some time. The Rev. Alfred DanTielson will be in charge.

bombers escorted by fighters. Raids Significant Air circles attached great significance to Friday's daylight at, tacks on the invasion bases and airdromes between Calais and Boulogne, pointing out that they marked the first attacks by British bombers escorted by fighters since the capitulation of France. "The fact that we have gone over northern France with a big force of fighters and bombers is indication that the RAF now is believed strong enough to be matched against the German air force in the open over German-occupied territory," one source said. It was disclosed also that a new long range bomber, much faster and more heavily armed that those in service, has been added to the RAF, while the fleet air arm has been augmented by the most heavily armed two fighter in any navy. An air ministry communique said all British planes participatreturned.

New Bombers Used The new bombers were said to have been designed to meet a need for more long range, heavy raiders. The plane is a Short-Stirling, built by the makers of the Sunderlands of the Imperial Airways, which now are patrolling the Atlantic. The Stirling is said to be comparable only to Wellingtons, which can fly more than 3,000 miles without refueling. The new fleet air arm plane is a Hurricane fighter armed with eight guns in the wings. Full details of the new planes were kept secret but it was known that they had increased speed and strengthened heavy armament.

Montgomery Funeral To Be Held on Monday Funeral services for Orville Ernest Montgomery, 62, who died last night in St. Charles hospital, will be held Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Niswonger and Wislow chapel. The Rev. Holly Jarvis will officiate. Mr.

Montgomery was born at Brownsville in 1878, and moved to Central Oregon in 1901. Since that time he had made his home near Bend. Surviving relatives are a son, Robert C. Montgomery, of Bend; a daughter, Mrs. Lucille A.

Hale, of Sisters; a sister, Mrs. Glen Hunter, of Portland; and a brother, Robert Montgomery, of London, Jan. 11 (P) -German ships atempting to run the British blockade been captured during the last few days by the British navy, minister of economic warfare Hugh Dalton said today in a speech at Bishop-Auckland. Dalton did not say how many blockade runners had been ged nor did he indicate where the ships had been taken. Although predicting a long war, the minister said that Germany already was feeling the lack of many essential war materials, especially rubber, copper, nickel, other ferro-alloys, wool and cotton.

German Ships Caught By British Blockade power administration and Dr. Paul J. Raver to investigate in its behalf." The major part of the authorized investigation will consist of an exaluation of the Pacific Power Light Co. facilities. The survey to be made by the Bonneville administration will cover the entire region.

Several of the PUD districts in the northwest have given far reaching powers to the Bonneville administration in connection with the coming survey. However, the Central Oregon directors worded their resolution very cautionsly, making many amendments to the original. The district reserved the right to make independent studies. Conferences Valuable However, the directors did stress that their conferences with the two engineers "was most and expressed their appreciation of the cooperation given by the two men. Data relative to (Continued on Page 8, Column 3) SEATTLE TO TRY BLACKOUT Seattle, Jan.

11 (P)-Plans to give Seattle a taste of what real war is like, in the form of a blackout, were announced today. On an undetermined date in about six weeks all the city's lights will be doused for 20 minutes while army and navy planes patrol the skies..