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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1943)
THE BEND BULLETIN CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER Temperafure (All DsU Mm Tkaa 14 n 0M Maximum yesterday, Ki degree Minimum last night, 'il dcgreca UXIU0S1MLS WAR BONOS STAMPS Volumo L THE BEND BULLETIN. BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JAN. 21, 1943 NO. 39 awn f r Bend Digging Out of Snow After Storm Sidowfllk Clearing in Full Swing; Schools Closed Until Monday llend u.is today attempting In 'lii' liM-lf ,iil o( the d-epcsl snow m ikiis, i,t only a semblnnii of rti iii.il ii.iffle wna nillile tin .nili iin- f-rvut while harriers ih. it ".Led KiriTiM mill walks, h..k-.l mm, k lending lo outlying dl-nlcu iinil Irft runt stranded ' liln i In I'liniK'' or drills. As ,i ivsi.it r i hi aiiow. most of wlii. li li Tuesday night unci was liipi- Into ilrlflH liy winds that n-.ii hi 'l a 40 mill velocity lit titm-i . lunil'a Industrial , civic .mil vik hi f, remained priicllcal ly il.iitii.ini. Both local mills re m.tiin-. riusiMl nnd work hi Cump Ai.imt ; nt n standstill. School ofliclnls announced llial rl:ivM s would not Ik resumed un III Monday. Schools were llosiil jisii'id.iv morning. Id-nil Area, lilt Iti'imriH from Ihi north Indicate that l In- Tuesday nlghl slnrm hit , Ihi- lu-n.l nrc.-i liiirdrr limn oilier pints nf i hi county. Every rural, mid li-.iclini! out of llend n rc- portiil Mucked, lull wen being 1 onil ua fiiHl as county road i-n-wi iiiuld get to them. I Work of clearing llend streets i.irii d in earnest I hi morning. I St.iti i-.iilpincnt wna usitl on highway routes Ihrotifih town, In cluding Wall atn-et. Franklin. linimnKHl. Soulh Third, lUver side and Galveston. tn down town sirccls Hip anow was liclng uunhnl lo a huge ridge In Ihi ccn ter. City trucks and crews wen busy eliminating the ridge lit In-: tcrn-i-llons and cross walks. Nearly .every hoy who could lo cale a shovel wna busy earning himself scndlng money by shov-, rllng snow from sidewalks. ' Snow (iarli Worn llend resident lUsi-nidi-d con vcntionnl garb and wort any le of iloihea aullahli for wading in snow. Ski outfits were numerous; footwear consists of Ikioim, over-ahm-a ami waders normally usid duitng the angling season. All ty-a of delivery services mall, milk and groceries-- were hailed liy the alorm. Some deliv ery of mall la being ntteniiled In n-Mdentlal districts today and milk distributor promised deliv eries lis sixin as their t rin ks were .il.li' lo negotiate Ihi snow-ridden streets. At Camp Wickiup, where more than 125 consclcnllous oh)ectors ale tatlonel, the storm was simi lar In the one hen. Camp cqul-mi-nt ' suiciii1imI yesterday in i.-:llni! the road lo The Dalles California highway. Ilolh llend sawmills were shut down twlav, with only the planer and iox factory nt Hrisiks-Scan-Inn In operation. Men In charge then said that oerntiona of I lie sawmill could possibly In resum-i-d this afternoon. At the Shevlln llixon plant It was stated that then would Ik no O'lcrntions to night or tomorrow. Washington, D. C, IVc. 21 They are a sober lookln) Int. those men on the house ways ami means committee. Thev lire won derlnR where on earth they can raise lfi billion dollars In taxes ns proKsed by the president. Itouuh ly. It means $12.1 per capita for each of the l.').(XK).(X)0 residents nf the United States, (if course the tax cannot be spread on a per capita basis becnuse of the varied Incomes of the people anil, any way, most Americans would bo tickled pink If -they could escape by pnylnK no more than $123. Washlni'lon'a share on a per cnplta basis will be S21.TS5 1,413; OrcRon's will be $13-1.031,132. Next March the new Income taxes will he due. These are levies on thn 1!M2 Income. The Rcncrnl public Is becomliiR tax conscious and will be much alive and sen sitive to the subject on anil after March, 1913. Sometime In the coming 12 months' conRross will have evolved n new tax bill lo raise the 1(1 billion dollars on the Income of this year, and collec tions will bcRln In March, 1!M1. Those taxes will be terrific. About four months after the people bcRln paying taxes next (Continued on Page Six) i i , .ifVr '-ni''mtii I 'll IftfM . tB4 ItaJio-Trlrphalo) nirlii Join the men folki In irrnplng up shntlrrrd cln.u outside a London department store, which felt the ef-l.-U of the feiblc r -priral air ruid of Jan. 17, which the Nau ent Bnalnst the nritlih capiul after Berlin win heavily bombed by the RAK. Photo radioed London-New York. Transport Plane Crashes; 35 Die W.i.shiiiRlon, Jan. 21 HIi Twen ty-six iissi-iii;ers and nine mem j Ik-is of the crew wen killi-d In thei cra.sh of u foui -ciu-lnc transport I plane, Jan. 15, In I Hitch (iaiianu, I it was announced today. Ttie plane was tu-lng oNrated In l he service of the army's air transport command. There wen no survivors of the crash. The victims Included MaJ. Krlc M. KulKht, author of "Tills Above All"; I. K. Kilward Koxworlh, KHI official of New York; Charles II. Krown, of the California Arab Ian Oil company; William Hod aim, stafe department official; O. K. Ilenryson, stale ik-partimlit, and 11. 1. llals-rfehl. Kill. . The plane was southlNjuncI, en rouie overaas. It left the United Stales ulsiut a wii'k aco. It was a civilian plane operal Iiik umli-r contract with the army, and was piloted by Captain U. II. I tally, well known civilian Air. transsirt pilot, acconlinR to the annoimii-ment by Major Ccncral I H.irold 1.. (ii-oiKc, head of the! lninsort command. Carrier Yorktown Ahead of Speaker Newport News. Vn.. Jan. 21 illi As IhoiiRh Impatient for battle,! the V. S. S. Yorktown- second air-i craft carrier to bear that lum inous name Jumped the gun. five minutes nt her lnunchinRj here today. I In so dolnR, the mammoth "flat top" Interrupted one saech In her honor and effi-ctively canci-1-leil the ceremony's main address by Ai tenuis U liates, assistant si-cretary of the navy for air. The only explanation navy offi cials Rave for the premature launching was that "somelhinR went haywire." 500,000 Germans Reported Killed Moscow, Jan. ?1 ill' Alexander Scherbakov, president of the Moscow Soviet, said tonight that more than 500.000 Ccrmnns have been killed and 200.000 captured In the past two months of the Russian winter offensive. Scherbakov addressed a meet ing commemorating the birthday of Nikolai Ijnin. Federal Agency Will Assist In Arranging USO Building A round table discussion on rec reation problems was held last evening by members of the exe cutive board of the Deschutes county civilian defense recreation committee at the Pine Tavern. Present nt the session was Roger J. Folgate, recreation rep resentative of the office of de fense health and welfare services, Portland. He told the group that the former Safeway store build ing on Wall street, on which an option was taken this week for use as a USO center, would be re modeled and furnished wilh funds obtained principally from the fed eral works administration In Seattle. No dale for the reno vating has been set as yet. lie also explained to the group that when the USO center is es tablished here It will be main tained by two trained workers from the National Catholic re ligious association, who are em ployed by the USO. It was fur British Clean Up Following Nazi Raid Nazi Daylight Aerial Raiders Return to Attack on England Pupils and Teachers Killed in School That Served as Target for Bombers From Germany Bv Hubert Musel it'nitMl i'rt-M Staff Crrwtnilrntl London, Jan. 21 (L'.PI German daylight aerial raiders re turned to the attack on southeast Knuland today while rescue siiadH worked in relays still serkinK additional survivors of upwards of 100 small children and their teachers buried in the ruins of an elementary school flattened yesterday by a divc-lioniliiiiK plane. British fighter planes were tlu second day of daylight fighter plans was shot down Wedged Trucks Block Highway Most of the highways leading Into Central pregon were 0en today hut travel was difficult, ac cording to a report from Salem. Traffic was restricted on the Waplnltia highway, but buses and cars were getting through. One way traffic was Ineffect on much of The Ialles-Call(oinia highway both north and south of Uend. Two huge freight trucks, wedg ed side by hide with their drivers missing, blocked all traffic over the Willamette highway. R. H. Italdock, Salem, chief engineer for the highway department, told United Press the Willamette would be opened as soon as trac tors could bo brought up to dis lodge the vehicles. The Willam ette highway had been closed by heavy snow yesterday, but was reopened after plows cut through ten-foot snow drifts. It was emphasized that chains were needed on all hlRhways. Cross-state travel from Burns was ossihle, but difficult, it was reported by travellers arriving from that direction. t NEWS IMtOMISKD SCKIBES Algiers, Jan. 20 tDelayedl HI' - Marcel Peyrouton, assuming his duties as new governor gen eral of Algeria, said today that the people of the United States nnd Britain were entitled to know the political situation in North Africa. "I used to be a newspaperman myself, so I am going to try to. help you all I can," he told cor respondents. ther explained that other relig ious and public organizations have trained workers with the USO. Kolgate inquired about use of the Rend high school Rymnaslum by defense workers and service men, and was told by Howard W. George, city school superintend ent, that it might be available one or two nights a week. The visitor stressed the Import ance of the civilian defense re creation committee acting as an overall committee In directing all local recreation activities. Carl A. Johnson, chairman of the chamber of commerce recrea tion committee, under the military affairs committee and chairman of the USO building committee, presided at the session. Others present were George, Don Peo ples, B. A. Shellhart. Captain H. O. Brown, Mrs. Chris Kostol, chairman of the civilian defense recreation committee, and Mrs. Pierce Beach, secretary. waiting for the Germans as raids started, and one German nuitkly off the southeast coast. known dead and 50 wounded in hospital, in addition to those who suffered minor wounds in the school bombing. During the night, six more children, their bodies crushed, were taken out of the ruins of the school but all died on the way to hospital or soon after they ar rived. 1 ive Teachers Killed Among the known dead were five of the eight teachers In the school's junior sction which was hit. About 15 bodies were believed to remain in the ruins today. Four air raid alarms were sounded as the workers dug through the night. Each time flares and shaded lamps were put cu but the squads con tinued digging and hauling out debris by the light of the moon. Berlin said (iorman bombing planes attacked targets on the south coast during the night and also "penetrated the London area and dropped high explosives and Incendiaries." Solomons Army Has New General Washington, Jan. 21 UP" The navy announced today that MaJ. Gcn. Alexander M. Patch of the U. S. armv has taken over com mand of the American forces on Guadalcanal island. Patch relieved Maj.-Gcn. Alex ander A. Vandergrift, who com manded the marines who landed in the Solomons on Aug. 7. The navy said that the marines have been operating Jointly with army troops In the Solomons area for several months, but now most of the marines have been replaced by army personnel. Some marine flyers, and a few other marines on Tulagl, still re main In the area. The communique also told of several attacks by U. S. bombers on enemy positions on Munda and on Bougainville island. On Jan. 19, U. S. planes bombed Munda but results were not re ported. On Jan. 20 U. S. planes scored one bomb hit on a Jap destroyer near Cape Friendship at the east ernmost tip of Bougainville is land. WOl I.Il RAISE SALARIES Slem, Jan. 21 wi Sen. W. H. Steiwer and Rep. Henry E: Peter son, both of Gilliam, Sherman and Wheeler counties, proposed a bill In the house of representatives yesterday asking that the salary of Wheeler county Judge be raised from Jboo a year to 5000, and that of the sheriff be raised from $1,600 to $1,800 annually. City Approves Curfew Hour Change Here One Part of Grand Jury Report Receives Study; ! Meadow Name Altered i The city commission last night took final action in changing Bend's curfew hour from 9 p. m. to 10 p. m. In the school months, and from 10 to 11 p. m. in the summer months. An ordinance changing the hours was read for - M'lll the iiss. I Tr. second time last night and ssi-d by the commission. the curfew ordinance prodives that for the first violation offi cers are to take a child home and notify parents. On the second violation, the child is to be taken home and the parents ordered to appear In court. Maximum fine is $50. Jury Id-commendations Studied No other action was taken in regard to Juvenile problems. The possibility of defining the type of beer-selling establishment Into which minors might not enter was mentioned by City Manager C. G. Reiter. It was stated the grand Jury recommendation that minors not be allowed in any es tablishment selling beer would work a hardshiD on restaurants and other places where beer was only a small part of the business. Roller suggested that the defini tion of a beer parlor might be a place whose principal business is selling beer. However, no action was taken on the matter. No other parts of the grand Jury report came up for discus sion and no action was taken last nlghf on any of the recommenda tions made by the investigating body. An ordinance requiring the use of a city license sticker on the windshield of for-hEre vehicles was read for the second time and passed. Proposal Approved The commission approved a proposal made by Phil F. Brogan that the upper meadow in Shevlln park be named Fremont meadow. Brogan, a member of the state geographic board, said this was the centennial year of Fremont's trip through Central Oregon and ithat the new name would elimi nate the confusion in the names I upper and lower meadows now in use. Brogan's letter proposing the I change asked that L. A. McAr thur, of the Oregon Geographic : board, be notified if the change was approved. The commission approved a dis- (Continued on Page Five) Strike on Wane In Coal Mines. I Wilkes-Barre, Pa.. Jan. 21 IP l The strike of anthracite miners wanea loaay as eigni more strucK cotleries reopened before the deadline of President Roosevelt's back to work order and a United Mine worker's threat to expel all strikers fom the union. The Glen Alden Co., world's 'largest anthracite producer, re- ported all of its colleries oper iatlng. leaving only three other i mines, with a force of 3,150, still , idle. Edward Griffith, vice president 1 and general manager of the Glen Alden Co., reported the strike was over as far as his company was concerned. He reported 10.000 of i the company's employes were at work today with about 2.000 more 'expected to report on the night shift. Other miners are expected i to join the working force tomor- row, Griffith said. Zero Weather Grips North Tier of States From East Washington Through New England (Br United Pran) The worst cold wave of the winter moderated todav In Cen tral portions of the country, leav ing death and crop destruction in its path but sub-zero tempera lures continued in the northern tier of states from eastern Wash ington through New England. A United Press survey showed 53 deaths attributed either direct ly or Indirectly to the storm. They were: Illinois, 14: Wisconsin, 4: Iowa, 2; Michigan, 2: Texas, 5: New York, 1; Massachusetts, 2; Oklahoma, 4: Missouri, 3: Ten nessee, 1: Indiana, 7: Nebraska, '1; Pennsylvania, 1; Washington 3, and Colorado, 2. I Below freezing temperatures wiped out winter vegetable crops In the Rio Grande vally, Arizona and southern California. Citrus i fruit crops were saved in those I areas for the most part by the use lot burning smudge pots and bales OP A Finds 37 "C" Cars at Night Clubs Portland, Jan. 21 HI' Richard Montgomery, state director of the office of price administration, dis closed today that a spot check by OPA Investigators revealed 37 cars bearing "C" stickers parked In front of Portland night clubs, theaters and other places of amusement. License numbers were taken and investigators are now check ing with local rationing boards to determine the purpose for which the higher gasoline allotments were granted, Montgomery said. "We recognize, of course, Montgomery said, "that all of the 37 cars may be within their rights and operating within the 90 miles a month allowed for non-essential driving. However, the rations will certainly be revoked if they are not being used in accordance with the representations made to the rationing boards." Red Spearheads Menace Kharkov Russians Now Only 79 Miles Away From Big City; 5 Towns Taken By Henry Shapiro (United Pnm Suff Comspottdcnt) Moscow, Jan. 21 'If Red ar mies closed in on five key nazj held cities between the Ukraine and the north Caucasus today. Their spearheads were within 79 miles of Kharkov, 50 miles of Rostov, 30 miles of Voroshilov grad, Donets basin industrial center, 18 miles of Salsk railroad Junction and 48 miles of Armavir, where the Baku-Rostov oil rail road joins with that to the Maikop oil fields and Taupse, oil port on the Black sea. Win Three-day Battle Today's noon communique re vealed that in a ferocious three- day battle for Prloetarskaya, 20 miles east-northeast of Salsk on the Stalingrad-Tokhoretsk rail road, the Russians smashed the famous German "S" troop com bat regiment "Germany" and remnants of other regiments con centrated there, before the Manych, with big artillery, mortar and tank forces. Russian storm troops led by the guards broke into the town and the railroad station yester day. They routed the Germans in street fighting,-the communique said, and threw the remnants be yond the Manych. Battery Captured In another sector the guards at once drove ahead, occupied two inhabited places, captured an ar tillery battery and nine machine guns, and took prisoners. In overnight fighting the Rus sians took nearly 1,700 prisoners by specific claim, including a bat talion of 1,000 Hungarians who. with their officers, downed arms and surrendered. In addition to manv taken In local fiirhtincr Rural Roads in Bend Area Closed Despite the work of three snow plows, a six-man crew and three trucks, all county roads around Bend were closed to traffic today, George McAllister, Deschutes county roadmaster, said. McAllister said that on various roads the snow is piled six and seven feet deep and that in some locations a bulldozer would be necessary for clearing. He said it would probably be some time be fore county roads are entirely cleared. County roads in the north end of the county near Redmond and Terrebonne are all open, the road master stated. of straw In the orchards. Rising temperatures prevailed, particularly In the Ohio valley, southern great plains, Mississippi valley and the Rocky mountain region. Some freezing temperatures oc curred In the deep southern states last night but they rose above freezing this morning. The cold wave was broken on the Pacific coast. The mercury still hovered around the 30 beloww zero mark nl the Dakotas, Minnesota and Montana. Federal weather bureau experts in Chicago said the storm was a major cold wave of the type that hits the country every other January, but was not record breaking. During the cold wave temperatures dropped to below freezing in every part of the coun try except the Florida peninsula. Representative temperature British Surge Toward Tripoli As Axis Armies Flee in Wild Confusion Under Air Attacks Exploding, Flaming Vehicles Block Routes As Germans and Italians Rush Westward To Avoid Approach of Triumphant Eight Army Bv William B. Dickinson llin U-l I'rcM Suff Crmttondont) London, Jan. 21 (UP) The eiifhth armv streamed tin the approaches to Tripoli today, Korps retreated at top speed toward Tunisia, under an un ending hail of bombs and machine eun bullets from Rritiuh and American planes. Powerful British tank and infantry units probably were in sight of Tripoli, the axis' one remaining: base in Tripoli tania, and once a pirates' nest which United States and ships cleaned out. Today s .Middle Eastern command communique said 7. Horns, 62 miles from Tripoli, OnqUeST NearS ln the coast road, and Tar- .''o yj rvjt".--. - Mediterranean Sear. emit The British 8th army streamed toward Tripoli, today, as the shat tered Afrika Korps of General Rommel continued its flight to ward Tunisia. Tripoli, mapped above, was once a pirates nest, cleaned out by American forces. Hungary Swept By Panic Wave London, Jan. 21 1IP1 Turkish dispatches said today a wave of panic had swept Hungary as the result of official revelations of frigfuful Hungarian losses on the Russian front and the cancella tion of army leaves which was apparently taken as warning that more thousands were to be sacri ficed. Reports had reached London yesterday that six of nine Hun garian divisions had been badly smashed. Today, according to the Turkish advices, three of the divi sions were named the third from Budapest, the sixth from Komar om and the seventh from Sopron. Turkey received reports that Hungarian soldiers were surren dering wholesale "in face of su- penor Russian forces from Si beria with excellent equipment." The Rumanian army, largest of the satellite forces, had been broken and recent Russian com muniques had told of Italians sur rendering, with their officers, in groups of up to 5,000. Schools Recess Until Monday CI, 1 ini. nllA -.u no more classes until next Mon day. ,,, by Howard W.George, city school! L K U llMH CIBYA 0A9K.ii. S - J - superintendent iviarsn. The Bend h'ign school basket-' uA"Pr beln Inducted Jan. 15, ball games scheduled Friday and he mcn werf released from ac Saturday evenings with The du,v a.ndDalLow?l to retur,n Dalles in the local gymnasium i J ne county. Robert Douglass is have also been cancelled, George said. readings today included: Mt Washington, N. H., 37 below zero; International Falls, Minn., 23 be low; Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., 13 below; Park Falls, Wis., 16 below; Golva, N. D., 29 below; Lemmon, S. D., 22 below; Great Falls, Mont., 29 below: Rockford, III., 2 below; South Bend, Ind., 6 be low zero. Florida basked In 80 above tem peratures. Highway crews cleared 'roads in Minnsota, Wisconsin, II 'linois, and Indiana, and for the most part life returned to normal with children back In school and workers once more able to reach work. A heavy storm at San Fran cisco disrupted transportation, caused power failures and swamp ed a trailer camp of shipyard workers at Richmond, Calif. More snow fell in Wisconsin and the inter mountain region of the Pa cific northwest. and the shreds of the Afrika iiuim, iiiuen iu trie sou in- east were captured sometime yes terday. Targuna Is in the midst of the Nefoussa hills, the last natural position before Tripoli in which the Germans and Italians could make a stand. It seemed apparent that Tripoli would fall to the eighth army with little or no fight. Planes Blast Axis The .triumphant British force was In close contact with the re treating enemy, the communique said, and allied planes, roaring out ahead, continued their blast ing of Tripoli and he retreating columns or axis transport be yond. Dispatches from Trirjolitania had described frightful confusion among axis transport west of Tripoli, with exploding and flam ing vehicles blocking the road and causing confusion among the uermans ana Italians. Allied heavy bombers gave Castel Benito airport, south of Tripoli, and targets in Tripoli It-, self another heavy pounding on Tuesday night. Ship Blows Up -Two enemy ships were attacked off the Tunisian coast by torpedo planes. One blew up before the attackers and the other was badly . damaged. Another British plane damaged a third ship in the same area, and a fourth ship was tor pedoed yesterday in the Agean sea. That made 18 ships that allied sea and air forces, evacuation from Tripoli, had sunk or dam aged In the Mediterranean battle area in the last few days. Fifteen were sunk. Three allied planes were miss ing from all operations under the Middle Eastern command. Inducted Men to Report Jan 22 The following men inducted Into the army from Deschutes county on Jan. 15, have been or dered to report to the railroad depot at 7:30 p. m- Friday, Jan. 22, to proceed o the reception center by train: Virgil L. Conley. Charlie H. Perry, Harold W. Newhouse, Beryl D. Roberts, Douglas G. Florence, George C. Sanderson, Kendall Franklin, Gordon Haggln, Derald A. Simonis, Adlwin A. Ellis, Arthur Christman, John M. Anderson, Emmett C. DeLaney, "-U -1 u : . Tk T" -""" - i--i":, iwurn r. Cork, Wayne H. Ernst, David V. I Gilmore, Robert S. Anderson, Ffnd.C Crawlev and Ivan G- i " iviu.i..iiS Pockets of Japs Are "Dissolving" Gen. MacArthurs Headquart ers, Australia, Jan. 21 U Jap anese pockets of resistance in thn Sanananda area of Papuan New Guinea are rapidly dissolving be neath savage blows of American and Australian troops, pressing ahead too fast to count the bodies of the fallen foe, Gen. Douglas MacArthur said in his communi que today. "The Japanese pocket north west of the seaward end of the Sanawnda village, and Tarakena village is the seeen of heavy fight ing. Many Japanese were killed trying to crash free on Tuesday night." NAME CIIANGE ASKEI Salem, Ore., Jan. 21 HP The house committee on highways and highway revenues voted a oo pass recommendation on a resolu tion to extend U. S. highway No. 20 from Albany to Newport at a special meeting, Rep. Burt Sny der, Deschutes, said today, v.,
