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CENTRAL OREGON -5 DAILY NEWSPAPJER
Volume LIU
. THE BEND BULLETIN- BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 27, 1944
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Bombs Capita!
Plunge of Warplane
To Earth Cheered By
Nips, Asserts Radio
By Fred Scherff
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Washington, Dec. 27 (lP B-29
Superfortresses,. 50 .to 70 strong
by axis accounts, resumed their
aerial bombardment ol Tokyo in
daylight today, presumably again
hitting the big Musashino aircraft
works In the western suburbs of
the capital.
The attack, the fifth .in streagth
on Tokyo, inaugurated the second
month of the mounting B-29 of
fensive against Japan from Sai
pan bases. Some 1,500 tons of
"bombs were unloaded on the Japa
nese homeland during the month
ended Dec. 24, an average of 50
tons a day;
A Japanese communique said
50 of the huge raiders participated
in the raid, of which 14, including
five probables, were shot down,
and 27 damaged. A German Trans
ocean dispatch from Tokyo, how
ever, estimated the number of
bombers at 70. .'. ,.'"
, Given Kespite . -i
MOKyo naa naa a respite irom
large-scale raids since Dec. 3,
though lone B-29s have dropped
bombs on the city during weather
and reconnaissance flights in the
interim.
A brief war department an
nouncement said only that the Su
perfortresses bombed "industrial
targets in the Tokyo area," but
two of the previous four raids
were directed against the Musa
shino works, among the most im
portant in Japan, and other tar
gets were chosen only when visi
bility was poor.
Brig. Gen. Heywood Hansell, Jr.,
chief of the 21st bomber command
at Saipan, acknowledged in a
press statement yesterday that
results so far at the Musashino
plant had been "inconclusive."
"In other words," he said, "we
destroyed a few buildings in the
factory area and possibly inter
rupted production inside the I
plant, but we did not knock it j
out."
Jans Make Report
The Japanese Domei agency
said that B-29s dropped explosive
and fire bombs at scattered points
in the Tokyo area shortly after
noon (Tokyo time) today, but
claimed "no effective damage"
had been done.
"Details of the war results in
flicted against the raiders by our
air and ground resistance are now
being investigated," Domei said.
Another Tokyo broadcast said
downtown Tokyo cheered and ap
plauded when a B-29 broke out of
formation amid a cluster of anti
aircraft bursts and "hurtled" to
ward the ground.
Hansen's statement disclosed
that the 21st command had drop
ped an average of 100,000 pounds
50 tons of bombs a day on the
Japanese homeland during the
first month of operations from
Saipan, Nov. 24 to Dec. 24.
New FBI Agent
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Portland. Ore.. Dec. 27 U
Joseph E. Thornton today took up
his new duties as special agent
in charge of the Portland office
of the federal bureau of investi
gation. Thornton succeeds Clinton W.
Stein in a swap of Jobs, with
Stein going to the Honolulu of
fice which Thornton has headed
since 1942.
Thornton also had been as
signed to wartime FBI work in
Honolulu and North Africa, and
previously was special agent in
charge of offices at Pittsburgh
and Springfield, 111., and also
worked in the Washington head
quarters. He has been an FBI
agent since 1934.
TWINS ARE BORN .
Rnlom Oro . Dec. 27 W1 TwinS,
a boy and a girl, were born here
yesterday to Mr. ana mrs. mw
rence Shaw, at the Salem General
hospital. Three minutes later,
twins, both girls, were born to
Mr. and Mrs. Irwin E. Burk, at
the same hospital.
Osaka
Factory chimneys rise skyward in contrast to the two-story "skyline" of the hundreds of paper-and-wood
buildings that maka up most of Osaka, Japan. With about the population of Chicago, Osaka
covers some 70 square miles on a mud flat on Osaka Bay, is traversed by hundreds of canals. With
Kobe, Amagasaki and other contiguous cities, it forms the most important Industrial and com
mercial unit in Japan, .
Midwest Routes
Covered By Ice
(By United Press)'
A freezing rain and snow that
turned highways .into sheets of
ice moved into the midwest today
in the wake of the season's worst
cbid wave which invaded the east
and northeast.
vTh-rAnv which 'swept across
the central states from northern
Texas through Arkansas, Mis
souri, Kentucky and Tennessee,
turned into snow in the north
central states where a fall of two
or three inches was anticipated.
A fall of one inch was reported
at Mason City, la.
The federal weather forecaster
at Chicago said the storm would
extend into northern Illinois,
Michigan, Indiana and parts of
Ohio today. .
Pennsylvania Cold
No zero weather was reported
in the midwest-today but in the
east, several weather stations re
ported sub-zero temperatures with
Black Moshannon, Pa., reporting
a low of 15 degrees below zero.
However, the weatherman said,
the cold wave was decreasing in
intensity as it moved eastward.
Sub-zero temperatures were re
ported in some parts of Illinois
during the night bt the mercury
had climed to 10 or 15 degrees
above by this morning.
Greeks Exhorted
To End Civil War
Athens, Dec. 27 (IP The second
session of a Greek peace confer
ence broke up late today with rep
resentatives of Premier George
Papandreou's government pro
fessing indignation at settlement
terms proposed by the leftist
E.L.A.S. delegates.
The conference called by Prime
Minister Winston Churchill was
resumed today under a partial
truce similar to that of vesterdav.
uihinh PI. A S armpH fnrpA I
broke by firing on warships and
naval installations at Piraeus.
Exhorted by Churchill to cease
their civil war and establish a
coalition government, the Greek
delegates met for the second ses
sion of the conference after an
order to cease fire for 45 minutes
along certain streets permitted j
E.L.A.S. representatives to enter
central Athens.
Greeks Warned
Churchill warned that if the
rebels fail to come to terms, Brit
ain will feel bound to aid Premier
George Papandreou's government
in "rescuing Athens from anarchy
and the miserable conditions now
prevailing."
Authorities announced that 10
the semi-truce incident to the con-
ference yesterday, E.L.A.S. guns I
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hurled two 75-millimeter shells
Into Piraeus. One landed near the
navy house and the second in the
harbor between the house and a
warship.
MADRAS MAN WOUNDED
Madras, Dec. 27 Carl A. Kemp,
T'4, son of Mrs. Eliza E. Kemp,
Madras, has been wounded In ac
tion in the European war theater,
the war department announced today.
Blast Tokyo;
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Fliers'
City of Flimsy Buildings
Detroit Store Scene of Riot
After Pickets Start Parade
Merchandise Trampled Following Outbreak;
Police Arrest and Identify Two Ring Leaders
Detroit, Dec. 27 (VP.) A crowd of alleged Store Workers'
union members smashed show cases, overturned counters and
trampled merchandise displays at Montgomery Ward and
company's Dearborn store today in an outbreak of violence
which a labor leader charged was instigated by "imported
r strike breakers."--v'- --
Two persons who, Dearborn police said, led an estimated
75 union members into the store and during a 15-minute ram
page through its first floor aisles wre arrested on charges
of malicious destruction of property.
Police identified the arrested ring-leaders as Stanley Bu-
New Snow Loader
Used on Streets
Using the city's new $7,000
snow loader, street - department
employes today continued the re
moval of snow from Bend's
streets, with some prospect that a
thaw might complete the task of
restoring traffic arteries to a nor
mal condition.
A sudden rise in temperature
this morning led some observers
to believe that a thaw would oc
cur, although snow or rain were
forecast for tonight east of the
Cascades, with showers following
tomorrow. "Not so cold", was add
ed to the forecast.
A sudden warm wave from the
south was believed responsible for
the brisk climb by the mercury
around 7:30 a. m., when it jumped
from 22 degrees to 31 degrees
above zero in 10 minutes.
Snow Removed
The new snow loader, which
made its debut on Wall street yes
terday afternoon, was pronounced
a success by City Manager C. G.
Reiter and Percy Drost, superin
tendent of streets. The device
moved steadily down the streets,
loading truck after truck, which
dumped the snow Into the Des
chutes river behind the Pacific
Power & Light company plant.
The state highway department
headquarters here announced that
major highways leading from
and through Central Oregon were
in "normal condition." Some ice
was reported on The Dalles-California
highway south of Bend,
but sanding operations were be-
)n carrjed on. Aside from some
shady sections, dry conditions
were reported oT the Santiam
highway.
Applications for
Car Tags Increase
Applications for 1945 motor
vehicle licenses are coming in
earlier this year than last, R. I.
Hamby, Deschutes county deputy
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sheriff in charge of tax collec
tions, said today. Last year, up
to 5 p. m. on Dec. 26, 260 appli
cations had been filed. In the
same period this year 337 persons
applied.
Hamby stated today that, as the
office closes at noon on Saturday,
persons should apply for licenses
as soon as possible. After Jan. 1
persons driving a motor vehicle
without a 1945 license will be
liable to arrest, it is explained.
Target
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kowsky. 45, Detroit, and Wil-
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nam J. omun, nz, ueuruurn.
Police said that neither had
been a Ward employe, but that
they were members of either
the striking union or the
United Automobile Workers
union (CIO), which has been
actively supporting the Ward
walkout.
Estimate Is Lacking
The store management said that
no estimate of damage would be
available until an inventory is
taken.
Roy Scoggins, Michigan direc
tor for the striking United Retail,
Warehouse and Department Store
Employes (CIO) union, declared
that the disturbance began when
company .imported strikebreak
ers attempted to interfere with
our members who went Into the
store for a peaceful domonstra
tion."
Scoggins said pickets had
planned to "parade" through the
store in a repetition of tactics
which had been used previously to
force the company to close the
building early during pre-Chrlst-mas
shopping days.
"But today," Scoggins said,
"strike breakers imported by the
company tried to stop the pickets
and a scuffle resulted."
U.S.S. Cooper
Lost in Action
Washington, Dec. 27 tun The
navy today Identified as the 2,200
ton Cooper a destroyer recently
announced as lost off Ormoc, Ley
to, and also announced the loss of
a landing craft, the LSM-20, in the
same waters. -
Both skippers, Cmdr. Mell A.
Peterson of the Cooper, and Lt.
John R. Bradley of the LSM-20
survived, but Bradley was wound
ed, the navy said.
Casualties were not announced.
Normal complement of the Coop
er Is about 275 men and of the
landing craft, 52.
Nippons Threaten
To Destroy Gity
Chungking, Dec. 27 Ui The
Japanese have threatened to des
troy Shanghai if and when they
are forced to vacate, a Chinese
military spokesman said today.
He said the threat was voiced
by the Japanese garrison com
mander recently to a mixed Chin
ese and Japanese audience at
Shanghai.
Japanese forces In China ar
preparing to strengthen defenses
on the China coast as a precau-
tlon against Allied landings, the
spokesman said.
Russian Forces
Of Fiery Buda
Split Encircled
Great Columns of Smoke Billow Over City
As Reds Press Conquest; Hungary Capital's
Fall Believed Near; Germans Are in Trap
. " By Henry Shapiro
(United Prsu Staff Correspondent)
Moscow, Dec. 27 (UJ?
stabbed into the heart of flaming Buda, western half of
Budapest, today in an attempt to reach the Danube and split
tne encircled enemy garrison.
A front dispatch to the government newspaper Izvestia
Raid the. Germans were blowing up ammunition dumps and
dynamiting and settinsr fire to
and private dwellings as they
powertui soviet assault.
' Great columns of smoke
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Germans Attack
On South Front
Rome, Dec. 27 IP The Ger
mans have launched a surprise
attack in the western sector pf the
fifth army front, striking in
strength in the Serchlo valley
area, 15 miles Inland from the
Ligurian coast, headquarters an
nounced today.
The attack, made in one of the
few Italian front areas not blank
eted by snow, was aimed at the
town of Gallicano, a half mile
from the Serchlo river. A com
munique said Americans were
forced to withdraw from outposts
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-jLto prepared positions. J
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artillery fire In the central sector
and planes dropped antipersonnel
bombs behind fifth army lines
below Bologna.
Air Arm Active
Eighth army troops, supported
by artillery, continued to mop up
German rear guards eaijt of the
Naviglio canal between liagna
cavallo and Faenza.
With weather turning fair and
slightly warmer Allied air opera
tions increased. More than 1,000
fighters and fighter bombers flew
in close support of ground troops
and attacked communications,
supply dumps, and rail and road
bridges in Italy.
OPA Gives List
Of Voided Stamps
Washington, Dec. 27 (Hi The
office of price administration to
day warned that use of the in
validated food ration stamps by
consumers or merchants would
constitute a violation of rationing
regulations. It urged housewives
to destroy all stamps no longer
good.
The agency also said that the
Invalidation of certain food
stamps had no effect on red tok
ens, which will continue to be
honored. Blue tokens, which have
not been used since Oct. 1, will be
returned to use.
Ration stamps no longer good
are:
Red stamps A8 through Z8 and
A5 through P5.
Blue stamps A tnrougn zs ana
A5 through W5.
Sugar stamps 30, 31, 32, 33 and
40, with all home canning cou
pons. U. S. Air Force
Half of Nazi Armor in Western Front Action
By Walter Cronklte
(United Press Wsr Correspondent)
Ninth Air Force Advanced
Headquarters, Dec. 27 mi In four
straight days of perfect flying
weather, fighter bombers of the
ninth U. S. air force were be
lieved to have knocked out half
of the German armor and trans
port that Field Marshal Karl von i sive Von Rundstedt had put down
Rundstedt used to sweep back a tall stack of blue chips on the
into Belgium 11 days ago. i weather. His weather forecast
-The cumulative score of de- was excellent. It called for nearly
struction since the weather broke two weeks of overcast skies that
Saturday and unleashed the allied i would keep off the dreaded Amer
fury stood today at 231 tanks and i lean Thunderbolts, Lightnings and
armored vehicles destroyed and j Mustangs.
218 damaged: 2.026 motor trans- In that time ho apparently be-
port vehicles destroyed and 503 :
damaged.
'An SHAEF dispatch listed
totals for 8,923 sorties flown by
the ninth air force in four days
as 3527 German transport
stroyed or damaged and 571 ar
mored vehicles, including tanns,
destroyer or damaged. The
SHAEF dispatch did not estimate
that more than half of the vc-
Stab to Heart
in Attempt to
Foe Garrison
Russian tanks and infantry
railway yards. Dublic buildincs
slowly gave ground under the
were rising over the apparently
rlnnmp-rl T-Tlincrn-iin rrinirol T-7
vestia said. Red army forces
were said to have captured a
trainload of German officials
attempting to flee to the reich
The bloody battle Inside Buda.
that part of the capital lying on
tne west Dank or tne Danube, ap
peared to be developing on the
Stalingrad pattern. All govern
ment buildings arc in Buda.
May Bo Difficult
German regiments believed to
be among the best -in the wrhr
macht were entrenching them
selves In the ruins of the city's
stone houses and the process of
cleaning up Buda may be difficult
and protracted unless a sudden
collapse comes.
A soviet breakthrough to the
Danube, however, would split the
garrison and conceivably hasten
its annihilation.
Field reports said the Russians
: were, stepping -up-tlw- intensity
and weight of their attacks in
Buda almost hourly. Siege guns
were being brought up in a solid
ring around the city, ready to
pound lt to pieces unless the en
emy surrenders.
Skies Dominated
Red air force planes maintained
a constant air umbrella over Bud
apest and pilots reported the
squares appeared deserted except)
ior occasional ucrmans scurrying
from building to building. Ger
man gun batteries were said to
have been mounted in the city's
parks.
Two soviet spearheads were
less than three miles from the
Hungarian royal palace on the
west bank of the Danube early
today and field dispatches said
long columns of men and armor
were streaming into the city from
the north, west and south to bring
the seven-week siege to a trium
phant close.
KBND Goes Back
On Mutual Line
Radio station KBND returned
to the Mutual network at 10:32
a. m. today when arrangements
were completed by the Pacific
Telephone & Telegraph Co. for
use of a line to the south. KBND,
which normally Is connected with
the Mutual system by the way of
Portland, lost Its network con
nection yesterday morning when
telephone lines to the north were
broken by accumulated ice and
frost, result of nearly two weeks
of foggy weather.
The break in the north lines
was In the high Criterion sum
mit country, south of Maupln.
Crews today were still attempting
to establish normal service over
the Bend-Portland wires.
Believed to Have Knocked Out
hides used in invading Belgium
were destroyed.)
Roads through the 1,500 square
miles that Von Rundstedt s offen
sive overran wore lined with the
burned out hulks of what he had
counted on as a mobile reserve
that would turn the tide of battle.
In his big gamble on the offen
lleved he could consolidate his
galnB and, with saved up
iit-vi'u ill? i-ijuiij iruimfiiimi(7 mn i
iwaffe strength, could maintain
; the offensive,
I But Saturday both Rundstedt
de-land allied meteorologists were
surprlscd by a sudden atmos
phere shirt that cleared tne SKies.
Now, in four days, Von Rund
stedt's ground forces have been
chewed to ribbons. Behind him
Jap Trapper
T'vC
(Signal Corps Photo from NEA)
MoJ.-Gen. Archibald V. Ar
nold, above, commands, the
tough U. S. 7th Division troops
on Leyte Island -in the Philip
pines. His division trapped and
reduced elements of the Japa
nese 26th Division- near Ormoc
and continued to sweep inland.
Victim of Sub
Washington, Dec. 27 (IP) A large
Japanese aircraft carrier and
26 other enemy vessels have been
sunk by U. S. submarines in their
mounting offensive against enemy
sea power, secretary of navy
James Forresta! announced today,
These latest sinkings Included
seven enemy combat ships in all
This latest haul lralsed to 1090
the total of Japanese ships sunk,
probably sunk, and damaged by
the V. S. underseas fleet.
Forrestal said that the total of
U. S. submarines successes in the
Pacific covers the sinkings of
more than 3,500,000 tons of Japan
ese shipping.
Currier Bagged
Besides the aircraft carrier, the
other enemy combat ships sent
to the bottom recently were a con
verted light cruiser, a destroyer,
two destroyer transports, and two
escort vessels.
The rest of the ships included
two large transports, 10 medium
cargo vessels, three small cargo
ships, a small transport, two
medium cargo transports and two
medium tankers.
Forrestal said that he could not
now reveal any details concern
ing the Jnp carrier that was sent
to the bottom by American tor
pedoes but he commented that
this was "hitting ut one of the
most painful spots on the Japan
ese body at the moment."
This was the first enemy air
craft earlier definitely known to
have 'been sunk by our ' sub-
mnrlnna Tn nrlfllllMfl tVJL'n Hln
listed as probably sunk and two
damaged by underseas craft.
Quake Recorded
In South Pacific
Pasadena, Cal., Dec. 27 (111 A
"large" earthquake, possibly In
the vicinity of New Britain, was
recorded at the Callhirnla Insti
tute of Technology at 8:38 a. m.
today.
The shock was centered about
6,400 miles west of Pasadena, sci
entists said, but they were unable
to determine the direction exar tly.
Marauders and heavy bombers
have taken out his bridges and
smashed frelKht yards and allied
fighters have whittled the luft-
waffe down to half Its size.
Today, despite a still serious
situation on the ground In south
east Belelum. there was a grow
ing spirit of optimism around
here and the enthusiasm of the
airmen was shared by the ground
troops.
The hard-boiled colonel of a
famous ground force which is
traditionally critical of other
nrancnes or tne service torn me
at his battered farmhouse hcad-i
quarters near the front:
Those air boys have reany
luft-ibeen knocking them dead. They
i num.' mi uifvs I air I'-nnr
are taking out tanks and guns
right in front of our noses. Broth
er, they can crumple their hats
any way they want to from now
on. I'm for them."
Fighter bombers continued to
plaster every vehicle and every
building housing Germans In the
spearhead.
Americans Jab
At South Flank
Of Foe Column
Germans Probe, Punch .
At Western Front But
Are Lacking 'Umbrella'
By J. Edward Murray
(United Press Wsx Correspondent)
Paris, Dec. 27 U American
forces today jabbed the nazis to a
halt four miles east of the Meuse,
recapturing the town of. Celles,
and front reports said the Amer
ican drive Into the southern flank
of the German salient was "mak
ing excellent headway."
No notable changes of position
were reported but the Germans
were still probing and punching
along the north flank of their
salient from Stavelot to Marchc,
apparently hunting a soft spot
where they could renew their
northwestward thrusts toward
Liege and Namur.
The weather was again bright
and clear, allowing the American
air power to turn out In force, and
take a deadly toll of German arm
or and transport.
Yanks Get Help
The first allied airborne army
announced that hundreds of tons
of supplies, mostly ammunition,
have been dropped to the power
ful American force; holding out at
Bastogne, a Belgian highway cen
ter, which has been under German
attacks for a week.
Paratroopers were landed first
in the area to mark out landing
zones, then the supplies were rain
ed down.
No specuihe- report was releas
or rtn ftia nmimiDa ff etpnna
American relief column which has
narrowed the gap that separates
them from Bastogne to less than
five miles. However, John McDer
mott, United Press war corre
spondent with the American first
army reported that "at least three
towns have been taken by the
Americans" in this vicinity. In the
northern first army area, he re
ports, at least one town was re
captured from the Germans.
Night Battles Fought
Two night armored engage
ments were fugght in the vicinity
of Gelles, which lies lour miles
east of the Meuse and due east of
Dinant.
In one of these battles the
Americans knocked out 12 Ger
man tanks and two self-propelled
guns and at another seven Mark
5's one Mark-4, three halftracks,
three armored cars, ten trucks
and two anti-tank guns.
Evidence of German supply dlf-
iii-uuius in inu veues area, tneir
point of deepest penetration about
ai) miles irom the Belgian fron
tier, was uncovered.
adoui n uozen tanns and seir
propelled guns were found aband
oned by the Germans because
they had run out of gasoline. Five
more, also out of gasoline, were
found elsewhere on the front, an
Indication that the- American air
assaults were
biting Into Field
Marshal Karl
supply lines.
von Rundstedts
Varied Weather
Noted in Oregon
(Ky United Tress)
All kinds of weather, mostly
bad, were experienced In the
northwest today.
The wind was shipping through
the Columbia gorge, to the dis
comfort of Portland citizens, and
the weather man said lt might
rain or snow in the area. Freez
ing rain up the Columbia was on
the schedule.
Temperatures in the 30's were
experienced In the valleys and
around Portland, with slightly
higher readings along tne coast
and sub-freezing marks registered
In eastern and central Oregon.
Most highways were posted by
the weather bureau yesterday
afternoon along the Washington
coast, and small craft warnings
from the mouth of the Columbia
, river south to Eureka, Cal.
Minimum temperatures report-
led included Baker 25, Bend 20,
Burns 14, Spokane 16, Seattle 38,
Eugene 30, Klamath Falls 24,
,Lakeview 15, and Crescent la.
Shortage of Cigarets
Finally Hits Alaska
.. . .
Ketchikan. Alaska, Dec. 27 tin
The clgaret shortage has hit ration-free
Alaska.
Stores here today announced
they would sell a maximum of
two packs a day to a customer.
Reason: Too many have been
buying too much to send to the
United States.