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CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
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THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, MONDAY, JAN. 1, 1945
NO. 22
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THE BE
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Nazi Garrison
In Budapest
To face Death
Angry Soviets Plan to
Exterminate Germans;
No Quarter Policy Due
Moscow, Jan. 1 ilPi Russian
shock troops fought through the
last smoking, rubbled streets of
the western half of Budapest to-
day In a "no quarter" battle, de
termined to slay the encircled
enemy garrison to the last man to
avenge the murder of two red
army surrender emissaries.
Significantly, the. Soviet high
command no longer mentioned In
Its communiques the taking of
K any prisoners inside Budapest,
though an additional 300 blocks
were cleared yesterday in Buda,
bringing two thirds or more of
that part of the city west of the
Danube under Soviet control.
Many Nazis Killed
More than 2,700 German and
Hungarian troops were killed in
the capital in the past 24 hours,
the latest communique said.
There was no doubt that the
German generals and their staff
officers! held responsible for the
killing of the two red army, offi
cers who carried surrender terms
to the Germans under a flag of
truce Saturday would be hanged
as war criminals it taKen alive.
The red army's "no Quarter'
policy In Budapest was expected
to spread quickly to other fronts,
including Poland, where the bulk
of the Soviet armed forces ap
'J'peared ready to launch the big
' gesf otTehslve yet toward Ger
:Vmany. New Orders Due
There was every likelihood that
the troops in Poland will be sent
forward under orders to show the
enemy no mercy. It always has
been a problem to the Russian
command to get its men, inflamed
by German atrocities in their
homeland, to take nazi troops
alive in close-quarter fighting, but
now the last barriers may be
down.
Front dispatches indicated the
fighting in Budapest would take
on a complexion that would make
any previous battles pale by com
parison. Jap Freighters
, Bagged By Fliers
Chungking, Jan. 1 (IP) Fliers j dooVs. state offices, with the ex
from the 14th airforce sank three j ception of state police, were also
Japanese freighters and left an
other burning in New Year's eve
raids over the Yangtze river and
Hainan island, strategic enemy
base off the south coast of China,
it was announced today.
A communique said two freight
ers were destroyed in the river
during an attack on Hankow. Two
enemy bombers we're downed over
the targets and two others were
destroyed on the ground.
One freighter was left sinking
and another burning off Hainan.
Fighters from the 14th struck rail
yards in the Tunting lake area
and destroyed three locomotives
on the Peiping-Hankow railway.
In central Burma the versatile
pilots stampeded a herd of 30 ele
phants being used by the enemy
for military transporation. B-25's
I bombed bridges and rail lines at
Mongping and Tongtai and
strafed rail lines between Lashio
and Mandalay. On the Burma
Yunnan border they supported
Chinese ground force operations. (
Lloyd GeorgeGets
British Earldom
London, Jan. 1 UP David
Lloyd George, Britain's elder
statesman and World War I
prime minister, received an earl
dom on the king's list of New
Year's ho.'ors.
He will be known as Earl
Lloyd George of Dwyfor, the lat
ter the name of a mountain
stream passing his farm in Wales.
George announced last week that
he was retiring from parliament.
lie is si.
The king also made Marshal of I
i u rorce iora t'onai. cniei
'' -JOf the air staff a virvitint nnH
named Admiral of the Flent sir
V Andrew Cunninham Knight This
tle, lining a vacancy caused by
"e ea'h of the queen's father,
the Earl of Strathmore.
Nip Emperor
Offers Prayer
As Year Begins
(By United Praia)
The Japanese empire observed
the arrival of 1945 with a series
of uncheerful speeches by the na
tion's leaders on their hopes for
tne new year.
Tokyo radio Monday reported
that "his gracious imperial ma
jesty," who is enjoying "the best
of health in his 45th year," offered
prayer for the empire and "for
its continued existence along with
his 100,000,000 children.
Japanese broadcasts, recorded
by united Press at San Francisco.
included the following:
Speaker of the House Sanzo
Okada "Our first aim is to com
plete the peace in East Asia. Then
extend it to the rest of the world
under Japanese guidance. This is
the immutable policy of the gov-
ernment of our nation."
BEND OBSERVES
ARRIVAL OF 1945
IN QUIET WAY
The year 1915 was ushered into
Bend without riotous fanfare, and
the din which usually breaks one
minute after midnight was wholly
lacking in the city.
Numerous watch parties were
held in private homes and in
churches but these also were
marked by quiet welcoming of
the New Year.
Probably the most spectacular
event to feature the occasion was
the discharge by someone of a
roman candle over Mirror pond.
Fired from the east side of the
river, the caadle made an attrac
tive scene as the lights flared
above the smooth surface of the
pond.
State and city police rcoorted
that the weekend was unusually
quiet with (ew arrests being
made, and only one of them for
intoxication.
Many soldiers from the Red
mond army air field spend the
weekend in Bend, and were guests
in private homes as well as the
USO servicemen's club. More than
a score of the flying officers were
registered at the Pilot Butte inn.
Mills Observe Holiday
Employes of the Brooks-Scan-
Lumber Company Inc. and j
The Shevlin-Hixon Company had
extended holidays as the big
plants were closed both yesterday
and today.
The courthouse, city hall anc
postoffice were closed today, as
were most of the downtown busi
ness houses. In most stores inven
tories were being made by em
ployes working behind closed
closed. But federal activitity at
the bureau of reclamation. U. S.
employment service and the for
est service carried on as usual.
Scores of Bend folk availed
themselves of the opportunity to
visit their favorite skiing places,
with dozens oi devotees of the I
sport going to the Hoodoo bowl
near the Santiam summit.
Hitler Breaks Silence of Nearly 6 Months;
Order of Day Calls for Life or Death Fiahf
London, Jan. 1 IIP) Adolf Hit
ler broke a silence of nearly six
months today with a defiant warn
ing that Germany was determined
to fight on to "victory," through
1946 or longer if necessary, to
prevent her "dismemberment and
enslavement" by the allies.
Germany never will capitulate,
though her cities may be laid in
ruins and her armies thrown
back in new reverses, Hitler said
in a New Year's broadcast, his
first speech since he took to the
radio last July to assure nis coun
trymen that the plot against his
life had failed.
Propaganda Minister Paul
Joseph Goebbels, who preceded
Hitler to the microphone, hinted
broadly, however, that Germany
might listen to peace terms "or ,
which Germany need not be
ashamed." He. too, rejected all ;
thought of unconditional surren-.
der. i
Hitler also issued an order of
the day to his armed forces call-;
ing for a "life or death" fight
against the "Jewish international i
world conspiracy" and predicted of
that Germany in the end would:
break the enemy by counter-at-l
,acks- . u , l
Neither in the order of the day I
neTKer
U.S. Airmen
Again Cruise
In Tokyo Sky
Nippons Report Some
Fires Are Started By
Planes Based in China
(By United Pros)
Single Marianas-based B-29 Su
perfortresses cruised over Tokyo
three times between 10 p. m. and
5 a. m. (Japanese time), dropping
"some" incendiary bombs and
starting "some" fires, Japanese
broadcasts reported today.
A Tokyo broadcast recorded by
the FCC said that two Superfor
tresses also appeared over the
southern Japanese home island of
Kyushu "shortly after 9 o'clock
this morning." The Japanese said
these planes had come from the
"China area" on reconnaissance
and dropped no bombs.
Regarding the Tokyo raids, the
broadcast said:
Flanes 'Flee'
"Each plane fled eastward after
dropping some incendiaries. Some
fires were started but were put
out in a short time."
Four Superfortresses also were
said to have made incursions
over central Honshu between
dusk Saturday night and dawn
Sunday, two over Tokyo, one over
Nagoya and the fourth over "cen
tral Japan." Fires were started in
Nagoya, a Tokyo broadcast said.
There was no confirmation of
the reports from American
sources, but a Pearl Harbor com
munique said Liberator bombers
raided airstrips on other installa
tions on -the tiny Japanese island
of Iwo in the Volcano group, half
way between Tokyo and Saipan,
Thursday and Friday tor the 22nd
and 23rd consecutive days.
To Move Closer
A delayed dispatch from the
Pacific said Admiral Chester W.
Nimitz, in a Christmas day inter
view aboard Admiral William F.
Halsey's flagship, promised that
the United States in the coming
months will move closer and
closer to Japan "with all the
weapons we have."
The Pacific war will reach its
"toughest phase," he said, onlv
after American forces have
struck all the way across the Pa
cific to the Asiatic mainland. !
hough the Japanese navy is no!f them tossed from the 10-foot
lo,.,er ,,,e tremendous threat it i
once vt. s. enemy surface and sub
marine forces still must be
watched, he said.
Milan Rail Yard
Hit by Airmen
Rome, Jan. 1 tU'i Havoc night
raiders attacked the largest rail
yard in Italy at Milan in the first :
American air blow at the enemy
in 1945. ,
The first plane, piloted by 1st
Lt. Robert Ritchie of Hanford,
Calif., dropped its bombs precisely
at 12 midnight.
The low level bombing attack
was described as the "boldest ma-
neuver" attempted by American
lair units during recent months.
Adolf Hitler
belief that it already had
Hi or for some other rnasnn.
failnrt fir fnr enmo nlhnr
Listeners familiar with Hiiler's
voice were certain that he made
the speech broadcast by the Ber-
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A Superfortress soaring off Saipan, into the rising sun, symbolizes what will be America's great task
of 1945 carrying the Pacific war in ever more punishing intensity to Japan itself.
48 PERSONS DIE
IN TRAIN CRASH
CLOSE TO OGDEN
Ogden, Utah, Jan. 1 (IPi-Scream-ing
winch cables and the pounding
of air hammers were substituted
this morning for the screams of
injured and dying passengers a
crews sought to clear Southern
Pacific railroad tracks near Og
dtfh of the shambles which mark
ed the scene of the nation's worst
rail tragedy of 1944.
Unofficial and still incomplete
casualty rolls listed at least 48
dead and "more than 80 injured"
after the mail and express sec
tion of the crack Pacific Limited
of the Southern Pacific before
dawn Sunday hurtled out of the
darkness and plowed into the rear
of the passenger section 22 miles
west of Ogden. Eleven cars of the
two trains were telescoped, three
high road-bed fill into the marshy-
salt-crusted landscape less than
two miles from the east shore of
Great Salt lake near the famed
Lucin cutoff trestle.
Track Torn Up
Working through the night,
wrecker crews ushered in the new
year in the fitful glare of cutting
torches and lights provided by a
portable generator.
More than half a mile of track
was torn
up by the powerful
steam locomotive of the fast mail
and pxnress train as it arnnnH
deep into the rear car a Pullman
sleeper of the passenger section.
Amonc the dead was Ja mns Mr-.
Donald, 64, grav haired veteran of
37 vears as a lnrnmntivn firnmnn
and engineer for the Southern
Pacific, who rode his engine to a
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avoided the pyrotechnics which
characterized most of his past
i speeches, the broadcast set at rest i
! for once and all speculation that .
ne was aeaa, maa or severely ill. ments as an inctucement to have
Highlights of the speech in-1 property owners petition for the
eluded: work. Arthur M. Erickson buys
1. The German government and the clothing stock of the J. E.
people are "unshakable in their Stewart & Co., in Prineville. Wil
will and imperturable in their fa- liam Niskanen is named president
natical resolve to fight the war: of the Bend chamber of corn
through successfully at any cost, merce. Dr. Rudolph Ft. Lang, Des
even taking into their stride all chutes county health officer, is
reverses inflicted on us by thej (Continued on Page bi
malevolence of fate."
2. An allied victory would
' bring about not only the entire
dismemberment of Germany, the
deportation of 15,000,000 to 20,
000,000 Germans abroad, the en
slavement of the remainder of
our people and the deprivation of i
German youth, but above all the
starvation of many millions in ,
our nation."
3. Germany
win the war.
4. 1944 was
"must and will"
year '
oi severest ,
tnals-
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I believe that in theso days it is I
mv ,i.it, o, i i
inwi aA,i 3, i 1
to nciSaw tl
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Highlights of Bend News
For Past Year Reviewed
1 Military activities in Central Oregon decreased in the
year, but 1944 saw people of the midstate nevertheless "car
rying on" in the war effort, a review of the past 12 months
shows.
The period was not featured by any spectacular building
ur uuNineKH uuuiii, uui vne iiiuiuns snow a record oi aiding
e..Pi'osecution of the war through, purchase of war bonds,
"generous support to 'returning war veterans "and constant
support of paper and various salvage campaigns.
The year saw the discontinuance of army activities in
the district and the end to'
training at Camp Abbot. But
Central Oregon was in the
limelight as a military center
as the training of fliers was
resumed at the Redmond and
Madras army air fields.
Progress Noted
Steady progress in development
of the North Unit irrigation proj
ect was noted throughout the
year, as the bureau of reclama
tion pressed its purpose to de
liver water to arid lands in Jef
ferson county by mid-1945.
Central Oregon continued to
send its share of men and women
to the armed forces, and volun
tary enlistments in both the army
and navy soared during 1944.
A review of the year, month by
month, as taken from the files of
"uiiuuii, luiiuws.
January
Fred S. Simpson is regained as
mayor, C. G. Reiter as city man
ager, and H. C. Ellis as municipal
judge when the city commission
holds its first meeting of the
year. The Deschutes Federal Sav-
ings and Loan association buys
the building at the corner of Wall
street and Oregon avenue from
the Sather estate. Bids are sought
for the construction of two huge
tunnels through the Smith rocks
for the North Unit irrigation
project. Wilbur J. Kelsay becomes
an engineer in the fire depart
ment. Farewell party is given
Harry T. O'Grady, retiring direc
tor of the USO.
U. S. Selective service takes
over Wickiup camp. Deschutes
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commission votes to defray part
of the cost of street improve-
Nation's Holiday
Death Toll Listed
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The nation's holiday death toll
reached 158 todav. with a colli-
sion between two sections of the
Southern Pacific's crack west
bound limited near Ogden, Utah,
claiming 48 lives. Including the
dead from the railroad wreck
land 69 lives were lost from other
'
The traffic toll reportnd up to
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Pennsylvania Zd ?he list of
Mystery Balloon
Found in Oregon
Portland, Ore., Jan. 1 (iri A
large balloon probably of Jap
anese origin found In rugged,
wooded country some 38 miles
southeast of Portland was the oh-
ject of an Intensive investigation ner, the new thrust further con
today by tight-lipped FBI agents i stricted the German salient which
and army officers. j may yet be turned into a death
Discovery of the curious sphere
Sunday afternoon by unidentified
residents of the area lent added
significance to the finding of two
other mysterious balloons recent-
!y in the northwest.
Aimut three weeks aco a Dai
loon identified as Japanese was
found near Kalispell, Mont. The
balloon presumably similar to
the one found yesterday was re
ported large enough to transport
4 or 5 men, and was further re
ported to carry incendiary devices.
It apparently was made of proc
essed paper. Only last week a
second mysterious balloon was
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found near Tacoma, Wash., but
ItwJan'or
Japanese. The area in which it
was discovered was near Eslaca
da, site of a large power plant,
and some miles away lies an im
portant part of Portland's water
system the Bull Run headworks.
Officers Dangle
From High Ledge
In Chilly Dawn
London, Jan. 1 miThree U. S.
army officers dangled precarious
ly on a narrow window ledge 80
feet above Grosvenor square in
the cold dawn today before they
were rescued by firemen who ar
rived to extinguish a fire in their
flat.
The officers were Col. John
William Kaston of New York City,
Lt. Col. Redlngton Frlske of New
Canaan, Conn., and Maj. Edwin
Chapin of Seattle, Wash.
The i)a jama-clad officers climb
ed out when the fire started and
shouted to a passerby who turned med night clubs, bars and theaters 1 open to intimate friends of F'resl
in the alarm, but fniled to tell with open pocketbooks. I dent Roosevelt and his family, the
firemen about the stranded trio. I
Some time later the officers were
discovered by the firemen who
threw them a rope by which they
lowered themselves over a slop
ing roof.
FOOTBALL FINALS
Tiil'-a 2(1, Georgia Terh, 12.
Oklahoma Aggies 84, Texas
Christian 0.
Vicious Air Battles Reported
Over Western Front as Patton
Cuts Deeper Into Enemy Bulge
U. S. Forces Slash Into Southern Flank as
Allies Send Air Fleets Into Action Again
Under Clear Skies; Germans Make Attacks N
Paris, Jan. 1 (U.E) Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's armored
forces expanded their offensive front to 10 miles and punched
two miles deeper into the southern flank of the German
Ardennes bulge, supreme headquarters announced today.
As Patton's tanks and infantry continued the heavy at
tack, great forces of allied and, enemy planes roared over the
front in the best weather since the allied counteroffensive was
launched..
Vicious aerial battles were reported over the fighting
area and at least 53 German planes were shot down in the
early engagements.
Supreme headquarters also disclosed that the Germans
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counterattacks against the
Seventh army forces in the
Hardt mountain area of south
western Germany last night
and early this morning.
Strong Attacks Made
The enemy assaults were con
centrated In the Bitcho area. The
last two counterattacks were
made at dawn this morning about
two miles west of Dambach and
five miles north of Niederbronn.
One of the assaults was made in
battalion strength.
A front dispatch revealed that
German patrol activity Increased
on other sections of the Seventh
, army front, particularly around
Bundenthal on the western flank
of the American foothold in the
Siegfried line,
The supreme headquarters an
nouncement of Pattons gains In
the German Ardennes bulge cov
ered progress of the offensive up
to Sunday morning.
The 'attack, launched Saturday
but revealed only today under se
curity restrictions, ran into heavy
resistance from German 88-mlll
meter guns, other artillery and
small arms fire and tanks, but at
last reports still was making
progress.
May Prove Trap
Coming afler the recapture of
Rochcfor
at the western tip and
Libramont, In the southwest cor
i irap inr iens oi mousanus oi uer-
many's best troops.
A late dispatch from the front
said the Germans had been coun
terattacking with tanks and in
fantry all around the American
corridor into Bastogne for the
past 72 hours in a so far futile
attempt to cut the supply corri
dor from Arlon and again Isolate
the fortress city.
John MeDermott, United Press
war correspondent with the First
army, said the counterattacks
were "bouncing off like peas shot
at an elephant's back." New
Year's day up to mid-morning, he
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tacks north of Lutrobols, three
miles southeast of Bastogne and
only a mile from the Ilastogne
Arlon road, yesterday and 25
others were wrecked In the same
area Saturday.
Other counterattacks yesterday
were hurled back near Chenogne,
four miles southwest of Bastogne.
Spending SpreeMarks Advent
Of New Year in United States
(Hy United Pt the crowds which gathered to ecle-
Americans turned once more to , brate the arrival of 1945.
the grim business of producing ,,, ,!. , ,u ,,w,m
mninrkk fr. . Police estimated that 1,000,000
day after ushering in their fourth
wartime new year In the biggest
spending spree since the roaring
twenties.
Sunday laws prohibiting the I es were closed In observance of a
serving of liquor put a damper on j law prohibiting the sale of any
the gaiety in many states but in I thing stronger than beer and light
the majority of the larger cities i wine on Sundays,
the lid was off and crowds lam- i At the White House, which was
I he tariff ranged from a top of I
SS.j per person In New York's !
night spols, while on the west j
coast the top was $36.74 perl
couple at Mocamho's. Top price to !
celebrate In Chicago was $17.25
per person at the Drake hotel's
Camelia house.
A heavy fog shrouded New I
VnrW'a TlmM Snnnro frvnl nnlnt I
of the nation's New Year's cele-
bration, but it failed to keep awayJ
NIPPONS' LOSSES
IN PHILIPPINES
PUT AT 117,997
Allied headquarters, Philip
pines, Jan. 1 lU'i Japanese losses
in the Leyte campaign reached
117,997, Gen. Douglas MacArthur
announced today, with the count
ing of an additional 1,191 dead and
capture of 15 prisoners Friday.
Bombing of Japanese shipping
and Installations in the Luzon
area continued, the communique
said, while antiaircraft fire and
allied fighters off Mtndoro, just
southwest of Luzon, shot down 14
of 32 enemy planes attacking con
voys carrying supplies to the
American beachhead on Mindoro,
(Tokyo radio claimed 33 Ameri
can ships of a convoy of 30 trans
ports and 20 cruisers and destroy
ers reinforced the beachhead
were sunk or damaged. The
enemy claimed 18 transports, two
cruisers and one torpedo boat
sunk and said nine transports,
two cruisers and one destroyer
were damaged.)
Airdrome lilt
Medium bombers struck at
Guguegarao airdrome in north
eastern Iuzon, capital island of
the Philippines, and Legaspl on
the Bicol peninsula. Patrol planes
at night sank a 6,000-ton freighter
or transport In Llngayan gulf.
The communique listed air
raids against enemy positions
from the Philippines south
through Borneo to New Guinea
and Bougainville, with Allied
fliers dropping 208 tons of bombs
on airdromes, runways, bivouac
areas and ground defenses, and
sinking at least four small ships
and damaging others.
Jap Corps Fails
To Make Report
(Hy United Prwi)
Tokyo radio announced today
that Its vaunted special attack
corps struck at Allied ships in the
Sulu sea Dec. 29, but said results
were obscure because none of the
force returned.
"As our escort fighters were
kept busy by American Grumman
fighters and the special attack
planes did not come back either,
we do not really know what hap
pened," the broadcast, recorded
by United Press at San Francisco,
said.
persons were jammed in Chic
ago's T.oop at 12 o'clock.
At Washington, D. C, most of
the city s bars and cocktail loung-
president led In drinking his tra
dltional toast to the United States.
Egg nog was the medium,
Midnight church services and
family gatherings were the motif
In Washington, but thousands of
capltol dwellers were attracted to
nearby Maryland and New York
night spots.
Karlv mornlnl? CATOUntna Wa
out for government workern, how-
ever, au ma to "r," loaay-