The Bulletin from Bend, Oregon • Page 1

of Oregon Librar7 mm, osemh THE BEND: BULLETIN Watch Parking Give the other fellow a chance. Do not take up his space by parking over the white lines. State Forecast OREGON Occasional light snow in eastern portion tonight and Saturday. Not so cold in eastern portion CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER BEND. DESCHUTES COUNTY.

OREGON. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 12. 1947 Little Planes Make Round-World Trip European Food Relief Drive Slated For Deschutes County Christmas Ship Will Bear Gifts From Area For Stricken People; May Heads Committee for Bond and Deschutes county participation in the Christmas Ship" food relief drive for Europe were made last night at a meeting of thp local cnmmittpn at tVio iiv hull. Wl'rua ciecision to 'auneh the campaign here on Saturday.

The Christmas ship is scheduled to sail shortly after New i ears and will bear the contributions of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and Alaska to hunger-striken Europe. The federal government has approved the plans and has autho Volume LVIII Rites To Honor Jere Gillis At Bowl Sunday Memorial Delication Program Announced; Ski Tourney Is Set Dedication of the Jere Gillis memorial and a junior ski meet sponsored by the Bend Skyliners will officially open the 1947-48 ski season at Hoodoo bowl Sunday. The Gillis memorial, which is being hand-carved at Eugene by Art Clough, will be unveiled at Fjpodoo bowl by members of the fsSfis family. The ceremony is set noon and will include short talks by Roy Elliott, supervisor of the Willamette national forest ana by Harry Miller, of Lebanon, past president of the Central Cascade Recreation council. Tribute to Jere Gillis The memorial is a tribute to the work of Jere Gillis, who was killed in a bus accident on the San-tiam highway several years ago.

Mr. Gillis was one of the pioneers in the development of skiing in the Central Cascade area and in the instruction of young skiers. One son, Gene, is a member of the Olympic ski team now en route to Switzerland, and another, Phil, is tt Iff Jc (NEA Ttltphato) from their round-the-world flight, George Truman (left) and Cliff Evans Jr point to detail on 'one of their small planes while standing In front of the other with their wives, who greeted them at Teterboro, N. J. The pair completed In 122 days, 33 hours and four minutes their globe circling flight in the smallest planes ever to attempt the trip.

Note flags on fuselage of plane behind them. Plan For Weak Germany Cast Overboard At London Session Poorhouse In Middle Of Europe Now Called Undesirable; Steel Production Is Increased London, Dec. 12 United States, Britain, Rusain and France prepared today to bury whatever ghost still remained of the old "Morgenthau plan" for Germany. Two-and-a-half years ago, the Big Four vowed to keep Germany a fifth rate power industrially, in fact make it an agricultural nnd semi-light industrial state. The idea generally was attributed to former Secretary of the treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr.

I one of Oregon best known jun- lor skiers. Many other young I Bend skiers also reached high 5 places in northwest ski circles in recent years as the result of his 3 work. The memorial will be a 36 by 78 inch plaque with the-carved fig- ure of a skier and a short com- 1 memoration inscription. I Meet Plans Made The junior meet including sla-lorn and downhill races for boys under 18 years of age. will be held Workers Defy Strike Orders In Italian City Jeeps Again Charge Into Roman Mobs; Rome, Dec.

12 (U Flying squads of police In jeeps sent would-be demonstrators scurrying for cover today as thousands of white collar and government workers openly defied communist general strike orders and went to'j work. Officials feared that the communists would turn to their last' resort major violence in an effort to keep their two-day-old strike from collapsing. They had openly threatened violence, simul-' taneously disclaiming responsibility if it shoutd occur. Slob Dispenses Mobs of strikers tiled to get into action early. One mob of about 200 milled in front of the labor office adjacent to the United States embassy on Via Concom-pagni.

Before agitators could get them started, police came with jeeps, swinging clubs, and the mob dispersed. 1 Other police squads in groups of six to eight jeeps dashed into gathering crowds all over the city and put them to flight before they could do anything. The minister of interior said police were clearing away roadblocks on Rome's outskirts "every hour." Roadblocks Used Strikers who threw up the roadblocks, the minister of interior said, were joining more than 300 agitators who went to jail yesterday. Although the only public transportation was army trucks, the streets were black with workers going to their jobs. Government offices appeared to be working at full capacity.

Schools reopened, despite a communist claim that high school teachei-s were on strike. Industry in' the city and province, of, Rome however, appeared to he generally closed. Crash Training Given In North Washington, Dec. 12 tll'i American airmen in Alaska are being required to spend four days under crash conditions on the Bering ice pack and in the wild interior to learn how to survive aerial mishaps, the air force said today. Before the final test on the Arctic ice, the crews undergo special training in a school at Nome.

Forty-five veterans of the Arctic train them in all the tricks of survival In intense cold. The air force said that eventually It hoped to send all Its Alaskan air command members through the school. The first class bean Dec. 1. I-t'ft on Icepack The students come from air installations all over Alaska.

After intensive schooling for a few days, they are left on the icepack, equipped only with what they might retain from an air crash. This equipment includes parachutes, flying clothes, matches, oil and gasoline, flares, emergency rations and firearms. They stay for two days on the Icepack and then are transferred to a point in the wild Interior of Alaska for another two day test. Mystery Ticket No. 6 Flaming Crash Of Army Plane Kills 20 Men Memphis Is Scene Of Air Tragedy; Ship Hits Tree Grove In Landing Memphis, Dec.

12 IP Army investigators searched today through the blackened wreckage of a C-47 transport plane that crashed with a blinding flash near the Memphis airport last night, killing at least 20 and possibly 21 army officers and men. The plane was coming In for a landing when it tore through grove of trees and exploded In an open field three miles short of the landing strip. Everyone aboard was killed instantly. Twenty "bodies were recovered, but Capt. Charles Carmlchael, public relations officer for the 468th air force base unit here, said other body parts had been found and there may have been a 21st passenger aboard.

Some Papers Found The total of 20 balanced with the plane's manifest, but Base surgeon Capt. R. J. Goodall also said the bodies i were "so badly battered that there may be one' other." Some furlough papers were found near the plane, indicating that some of the passengers were on their way home for Christmas leaves. The possible 21st victim might have been a "hitchhiker." The plane was en route here from Biggs field, El Paso, Texas, on an administrative flight.

Its home base was Aberdeen, Md. Four Majors Aboard It was disclosed that the victims were four army majors, two captains, one first lieutenant, and the remainder enlisted men. Several were described as convalescents from the Letterman General hospital in San Francisco. Carmlchael said 17 bodies had been identified positively by name and that the "other three or four" were still unidentified. He said two of the victims were Negroes.

Name Withheld Army authorities at Biggs field withheld the names on the pas senger list pending notification of next ot Kin. Cause of the crash was not known, but Captain Carmlcha said "weather was apparently not a factor." 3 To Appraise Hogan Estate Mrs. Waller Hansen has been named special administratrix of the estate of Mrs. Rowcna M. Hogan, who died Dec.

9, according to letters ot administration filed yesterday with tho county clerk. Appointment of the administratrix was necessary in order to authorize opening of a safe In which Mrs. Hogan's will and other papers were stored. According to the petition of Mis. Bertie R.

Maxey, first cousin and only local relative of Mrs. Hogan, the eslate consists of personal and real property of an unknown value, Including the O'Kane building, one of Bend's largest rental properties, which nets annual profits not exceeding $10,000. The personal property Includes bonds, Insurance and rash, according to the petition. Walter Hansen, Charlotte Heln-Ick and Dcrtlc R. Maxey were named as appraisers.

Members of Hie firm of DcArmond, Goodrich and Foley, who are handling the estate, Indicated today that the will is to be filed early next week, funeral Is Meld Funeral services for Mrs. Ho-trim were held this morning from St. Francis Catholic church, with Rev William Coughlln officiating, liurlal followed in Pilot Unite cemetery, beside the grave of Mis. Hogan's husband, the late James J. Ilogan.

Pallbearers were Lowell Jensen, Llovd Magill, Ray Allen, Walter Hansen, J. J. De-Rushla and Herbert Wilcox. Music for the requiem high mass was unaccompanied singing by the Catholic church choir. Sunday.

The downhill race will be held at 11 a.m. and the slalom event will follow the noontime dedication of the memorial. Excellent skiing conditions were forecast for Sunday for the San-tlam area. Snow depth there is 30 inches 'and occasional snow was predicted between now and Sunday. A temperature of be tween 25 and 34 degrees was included in the Sunday forecast.

Heavy attendance at the dedication ceremony and meet is forecast, with two chartered buses scheduled to bring persons from Eugene. Other cities in the Willa mette valley plan to send large delegations. Almost tne entire membership of the Bend Skyliners will be present Sunday. Arrangements for a chartered bus to leave Bend Sunday morning are being made by Dr. Lowell Alpin.

Telegraph Strike rized over 10,000 tons of ship- ping space. The ship will be made up in Tacoma and will stop at Seattle and Portland. All contributions of foodstuffs should be left at the fire hall, or arrangements may be made by calling the Red Cross 467, to have them picked up by truck. Foods Listed Food products to be sent are designated by the Northwest Christmas ship headquarters in order to avoid spoilage and to fill the vital needs and conserve shipping space. Included in the list are: Wheat and flour (in 50 or 1001 pound sacks or barrels) dried or dehydrated fruits or vegetables (including beans, peas or lentils, 50 or 100 pound sacks), sugar, spaghetti, macaroni, noodles (only original packing cases, no cellophane wrappings), heavy cereals, canned milk, canned meats, canned fish, canned poultry, canned baked beans, canned chili, canned fats and shortening.

A local committee is headed by Earle C. May, who was appointed by Mayor Hans Slagsvold. May and LeRoy Fox planned to go to Redmond this afternoon to confer with Mayor Jack Elliott on Redmond participation in the campaign. Other members of the committee are Mrs. Lillian Millsap, secretary, Rev.

Allan Philp, Hugh Cole, James E. Brinton, Wilfred Burgess and Roland Mark. Jaycees To Erect Large Yule Tree The big Junior chamber of commerce Christmas tree, which will be the center of "Hello, San ta" activities next week end, will be erected on Oregon avenue west of Wall street this afternoon and will be decorated Sunday. The big tree was cut for the Jaycees by A. W.

Guddat, an independent logging contractor, who hauled it into Bend Wednesday afternoon. The tree was selected by Ed Parker, ranger for the Bend district of the Deschutes national forest. Pacific Power and Light company pole equipment has been called to hoist the tree into place. Frank Reis is in charge of trimming the tree Sunday and has called for a large turn out of Jay-cee members at 1 p.m. that day.

Poison Blamed For Mans Death Joe Snyder, 54, a resident of Central Oregon for about 30 years, died at 2 p. m. today at the St. Charles hospital. Doctors said that poisoning was the cause ot death, and an autopsy will be performed to determine the cause.

He had eaten lunch at noon, at home and became violently ill at about 12:45. He was taken immediately to the St. Charles hospital, where he died a short time afterward. State, county and city officers are co-operating in the investigation. Mr.

Snyder had been employed for a number of years by the BrooksScanlon In iogglng operations, and was living at his ranch east of Bend. Eight Western Shun Political Portland, Dec. 12 Ui Eight western governors shunned 1948 political talk today as they prepared to wind up their second annual conference by concentrat- ngoi. The state chief executives gave little evidence of succumbing to political temptations. California's Earl Warren, a fa- vorlte son candidate for republi- can presidential nomination.

seemed to set the conference's He added, however, that he i would not discourage any support offd Washington's democratic; wallirren came un with a confirmation of earlier re- Boggs To Serve In Prison Roy Lawrence Boggs, whose serving of a life sentence in the state penitentiary was interrupted lor several months while habitual criminal proceedings were under way in Deschutes county, will be returned to prison in.Sa- icm wnnin several uays, anerin C. L. McCauley said today. Boggs appeared this morning before Circuit judge R. S.

Hamilton and was sentenced to life imprisonment under the habitual criminal statute, cancelling his eligibility for parole. A jury of six men and six women found Boggs guilty on six counts, Wednesday in circuit court. Boggs was convicted last July of the fatal stabbing of Boyd Drake, young world war II veteran. Flaming Bomber In Crash Landing Medical Lake, Dec. 12 itPi Air force officials today investigated the crash-landing of a burning B-29 here last night.

All 10 crew members escaped serious injury. The fuselage of the Spokane-based Superfortress was broken into three nieces as the huge four- engined plane hit In one field and skidded 300 feet across the road Into a. pasture. The plane was rorcea to iana wnen rwo oi us en gines caught fire. Only two crew members were hosDltalized and their Injuries were described as minor.

They" were Staff Sgts. A. C. Green and Fidel Deluna. Crew members were aided by farmers in putting out the engine fires before the flames had a chance to spread.

The crash-landing was made only a quarter-mile north of the main farm building at tne tasi ern State mental hospital here. Mumps Fight Suffers Jolt South Bend, Dec. 12 HP' The campaign against an epidemic of mumps in two southern Washington counties has suffered a fearful Jolt. Mrs. John Arthur, Pacific county public health nurse, was addressing a joint meeting of Lewis and Pacific county health boards on the gravity of the situation.

A few hours after her speech she was diagnosed as a victim of the epidemic. Every member of tne public health departments of both counties has been warned. Office To Extend Saturday Hours Special Saturday afternoon hours for mailing Christmas parcels and letters will be maintained at the Bend post office tomorrow and next Saturday, it was announced today. me parcel posi ano siamp win dow at tne post onice win remain open until 5 p.m. instead of closing at noon as is normally done on Saturdays.

Another pre-Christmas service by the post office will be Sunday delivery of pnrcels and letters in the residential districts. This will be done the coming Sunday and also the Sunday immediately before Christmas. The local post office reports excellent cooperation from the public in early mailing. More than A'Z. nf refill ii-nco rlicnulrhnil from the office the past three dav.s.

It was reported. ri ll bkV Wanderer naSj jifi. 'I I MllllOn Mile I ail -w 19 mi Dr probably to 20,000,000 miles long. Jackson said the new comet is it at least eoual 5un and that It Is at 1 Appears Certain I Atlanta. Dec.

12 West Football Banquet Plans Prepared Plans are being made for an attendance of 150 persons at the football banquet at the Pilot Butte inn on Tuesday evening to honor members of the 1947 Lava Bear football team. It was announced at last night's meeting of the Athletic Booster club, which is sponsoring the affair. The banquet program will Include talks by Lon Stiner, Ore-gan State college football coach, and other members of the Oregon Stale athletic staff and the showing, of football motion pictures. Doctor Is Honored IJr. R.

W. Hendershott, who honored at the Armistice day fooruah ga rrte" tat Fin Vm'g Complet ed 25 years of service as Lava Bear team physician, was presented with a letlermen's sweater at the meeting of the club last night Dr. Hendershott had received a sweater at a ceremony on the field Armistice day, but it was admitted last night that it was a borrowed" sweater used only for presenlation purposes. The doe-tor's sweater, manufactured on special order, arrived In Bond this week and the presentation was made by Coach Hank Nilscn for the Booster club and the high school Lettermen's club. The sweater carries the school letter with "25 years" inscribed on it and has a caduceug symlml of physicians on the shoulder.

Coach Russ Acheson reported the basketball team had shown considerable Improvement this week. He said the performance at the hoop jamboree at Redmond last week was about what he ex-peeled and predicted the squad would not reach top form until well inlo January. Acheson said a hard game was expected at Lakeview tonight. Youth Confesses Actress Threat Seattle, Dec. 12 'tl-i A 10-year- old yonth who sought to get an interview with Lucille Bull by threatening her life, was apprehended, scolded and released here yesterday.

The youth telephoned Miss Ball, who is currently appearing in "Dream Girl," at a local theater. rlan studied fico would not be as great as critics of the plan have attempted to make out. the nation, saying tney iavor reclamation and power devolop-; ment, "but when the chips are, down they vote 'no Other governors attending tne ronierence were liernen niaw, Utah: John H. Hall, Ore-; gon; Vail Piltman, Nevada; A. Robins.

Idaho; ham Kord, Montana, and Ernest Gruening, Alaska. I I ern Union employes today set up machinery for a strike by some 50,000 telegraphic workers that would almost certainly paralyze commercial telegraphic communication across the nation. Members of three AFL telegraphic unions established a national strike committee and said the walkout would be called "in all probability before Christmas." Increase Sought Hal R. Swann. general presi- bince then, the Big Four has concluded that such a plan would create a "poor-house" in the' middle of Europe.

They are now ready. with France's final acqulescense. to ao pverytnins possible to.re-vive Cermany's Industry, with security safeguards, so it can play a major part In European recovery. I'rodurtioii Increased They decided yesterday it was the first major agreement of this session of the Big Four foreign ministers to raise the limit of German steel production from tons a year to 11,500,000 tons, ine new liguie is annul half of German steel production during the pre-war rearmament peak. This agreement was reached as the western powers waited patiently for Russia's Viacheslav M.

Molotov to make a statement on reparations which was expected to determine whether there is any use In continuing the The soviet delegation's press officer said Molotov might have statement today or tomorrow. Complicated Dials Get Crash Blame Washington, Dec. 12 '111 -An air force psychologist said today that the confusing conglomeration of dials, Instruments, levees and switches In the modern airplane Is the cause of most crashes blamed on pilot error. Between 50 and 75 per cent of all air crashes are blamed on mistakes by the pilot. But Dr.

I'aul Kills, chief of the psychology branch, air medical laboratory, said I he complicated plane and not the man Is at fault. What must be done, he said, Iv-to tailor the plane to fit the So far, the effort has been lo fil the man Into the complications ol tils plane planes. He said Instruments should be so simple that at least I' can couio leai nn expert pilot, Kitsap Sheriff, Ex-Bend Man, Dies P.cx L. Haines, 45, a former P.end resident who was recently elected sheriff of k'llsap county In Washington, died at his home in Bremerton last night, victim of a blood clot on the brain, his hrolher. Charles Haines of this wa notificr.

Mr. Mninos serv- iiesrhutes county deputy the Weston trail more than 25 years ago. He last visited here In 1932. Surviving Mr. Haines are hi? wife and three children by a for mer marriage, huneral arrange- mcnts have not yet been announc- ed.

I Indent of the telegraphic employes Jtt i 1 nnm A ticket of six "candidates" for nomination for chamber of commerce directorships made Its appearance late yesterday In the form of small slips of paper on which the names of the six men were typed. Authorship of the "ticket" was unknown, with all six of the men denying any part In tho formation of the slate. All of them said they had not been asked In re gain to having their names appear on the listed. Listed on the "ticket" were Loytle Ulakely. Don Conner, Earle C.

May, Art Hlxe, H. Allen Young and Jack Welle. lilakley said he "didn't know anything about It until I heard last night thai my name was on the ticket. I don't like It and I don't think tickets for any group of candidates have any business In chamber of commerce affairs. I had no knowledge that my name was lo he used and, had I been consulted, I would not have permitted It." Not Consult i-d Connor said he had not been consulted on having his name on the ballot.

lie said lie would consider running as an independent but not as the part of a ticket. May said that he had Indicated lo friends that he would accept a directorship If elected, hut that he had not been asked to lie nn a ticket. Rixe said he didn't know anything about the ticket. He said his chamber of commerce primary election ballot had been mailed yesterday "and certainly dlrl nut have voles marked for any ticket." Welle and Young both said no one bail approached them on the placing of their names on a ticket i candidates. Lewis, Miners Again Quit AFL Washington, Dec.

12 "Id The United Mine workers today pulled out of the American I'eileia-I Hon of Labor. John j. Lewis, president of the miners, wrote AKL President William Green a note scrawled on a half sheet of copy paper In blue era von. It said: "We disaffiliate." The "disaffili'itlnn" was the outgrowth of the bitter fight be tween Lewis and the AKL executive council before Hie AH, convention last October In San Kr.in-Cisco. This is the second limn I'wis hnR broken with AKL leadership The miners have been back in the AKL only since February, 1010.

BKM) MAN 'ITKD Charles Hlbdon, of Rend, was arrested by city police yesterday on charge of being drunk. His ball was set at $15. 1 mittee, said the workers had de-h sided to strike because of West-J Union's refusal to grant a iand told her he would kill her if ARKESTK1) SISTKItS she appeared at the theater. Arthur Ernest Hasbrook, 25, During subsequent calls the was arrested last night in Sisters i youth was trapped Into revealing and is held in the county Jail for his address and telephone until-Linn county authorities, as a pa- her. Detectives went to his house, role violator.

He lives on a farm got a confession and released the between Sisters and Redmond. youth. Governors Meeting In i and simplified Instruments fur all Talk; Marshall ports that he would accept a call i to run as vice presidential candi-' date with President Truman if 1 15-cent hourly wage increase. Swann said the exact date for the strike would probably be announced simultaneously early this week in Atlanta, Washington and Dallas, Tex. The three unions Involved are Swann's TEU, the commercial Telegraphers union and the Telegraphic Workers union.

Masked Bandits In Bank Robbery New Westminster, B. Dec. 11 mi Police blocked all roads todav In a scinch for two masked bandits who robbed the local bank of Nova Scot'a of $4,000 yesterday. The bandit's automobile was reported to have headed toward the rugged interior of British Columbia. BULLETINS London, Hoc.

12 IP Soviet foreign minister V. M. Molotov announced today that he was "not begging but demanding; In German reparations." Dec. 12 IP -Jewish-Arab violence spread to almost PTerv part of Palestine today, vdth' British authorities reporting a 21 hour death toll of 40 persons. one comes along.

So far, he said, Russell said percentages of none has. critical Items proposed to be alio- Those were the only references cited to Kuroie are less than unto the 1048 election. tldpat.ed U. S. production In- The governors were all business creases, as they sat down to sessions on Earlier, Wallgren asserted that reclamation and forestry proh- an over abundance of Kiliiics was lems today.

The conference was retarding the development of the scheduled to close tonight. Pacific coast, lie charged that Yesterday, the governors met congressmen were prone to tour 17 with tne Pacific coast board oi lntergovcrnment relations to hear how the Marshall plan for Euro- pean aid might effect western re-, gional economy. Krancls Kusscll, director ot tne office of public affairs In the state 1 department, said the aid plan wouin nave innauonary lennen cies which could become Hc added, however, the sacrl-' caw 1.