Call Before 7 The Bulletin circulation office mains open until 7 o'clock each eve. ning to serve subscribers. Call 56 before p. m. if you fail to receive your paper. i the mm. but Volume Soviets, Inflamed By Murder Of Emissaries, Mass Cannon For Destruction of Budapest Death to Last Man,' Is War Cry of Reds; Half of City Already in Russian Hands as Malms Men Continue to Slaughter Nazis- By M. S. Handler (United Presa War rn.-.i Moscow, Jan. 2 (U.P) Thousands of Russian cannon and rocket guns began levelling Budapest block by block today as the red army, inflamed by the murder of two of its emis- nancs, piociuimea no quarter" tor the cornered nazi Elite guards fighting on In the heart of the city. "Death to the last man" was the spread through the ranks that the nazis had rejected' a sur- ic-uud uii.iii.uuiu oy siaying tne two Russian officers who Half the city was in Russian hands at the start of the second week of street fighting this morning, and soviet field dispatches said the narrowing CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWRpadc-d . - - . a Km A V THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, DESCHUTES, COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, JAN. 2. 1945 Bowl Queen I jr' J&A A hi7i Mary Rutte, winsome 16-year-old daughter of Colonel and Mrs. Louis B. Rutte of Tasadena. Calif. was chosen queen of the tourna ment of roses and presided at the JNew Year's day Rose Bowl battle yesterday between the University of California and Tennessee. Woman Is Killed BySpof lighter Albany, Ore., Jan. 2 IP Spot lighting for deer out of season ended in tragedy last night when Mrs. Charles Duncan, 38, shot in ' the chest, was killed in her trailer parked in a forest about 30 miles east of here. Four men today were held here one to be charged with man slaughter, the others with aiding and abetting an illegal act said District Attorney Harlow Wein rick. They are Lee G. Matthews, who admitted firing the fatal shot; Arthur Andrews, Fabian Cottmair and John Maline, his hunting companions. The four re ported to the attorney voluntarily. They had been hunting after aarK ior out or season deer by mrans 01 spouigming (snooting at the reflected light in the deer's eyes) when Matthews, annarentlv mistaking a reflection from the window for his quarry, shot four iiniL-5 imo tne trailer, where Mrs. Duncan was washing dishes. With her in the trailer were her hus f(band, two small children and Merle Janess, a neighbor. At the repeated shots Duncan rushed out crying, "Stop! You've killed someone." Matthews said he fired four shots at about 300 yards. pockets held by the axis rip. fenders on both sides of the Danube were being pulverized by a continuous rocket and artillery bombardment Nazis Blamed Throwing responsibility for the destruction of the capital square ly on the enemy, the red army high command ordered the Ger man positions destroyed by shell fire at whatever cost to the city and its remaining civilian inhabi tants. For the tough nazi Elite guards who comprised the core of the Budapest garrison, the soviet com manders decreed instant death, and it was announced that the responsible German officers in volved in the murder of the en voys would be hanged. More than 3,000 enemy troops were killed in Buda and the east bank section of Pest vesterriav and another 429 apparently Hun garianswere captured, running the axis losses in less than two days to an estimated 6,300 men. Half Of City Taken After d week of street flehtlhs surpassing in savagery even the Dauie ior Stalingrad, the Russians held about 40 of Budapest's 80 square miles, including most of the west bank section of Buda and about eight square miles of Pest, a total of about 500 city blocks. Soviet troops made their deep est penetration of Pest Monday with a 114 mile advance from the! east that overran the Rakos rail way station five miles from the! Danube. Red army troops cantured 232 blocks of houses in the eastern part of Budapest today and 63 blacks In the western half of the Hungarian capital. Weather Forecast Partly cloudy today, tonight and Wednesday. Little temperature change. , NO. 23 Draft of 4-F's for Essential Work Is Requested By Byrnes Chief Says Nation's Manpower Resources , Still Far From Being Totally Mobilized Washington, Jan. 2 (U.E) An administration request for new laws to tiirhten government controls nn mannower. in- ciuuing a arait or 4-r's tor essential war work, faced the am congress today on the eve of tts opening session. Ihe request, together with other recommendations to bolster the war effort on the home front, was made by War Mobilization and Reconversion Director James F. Byrnes in a 20,000-word report to the new congress which begins its two-year existence at noon tomorrow. iecmrnig uun me nation s industrial and manpower " rp.QOllreQ nro still fn. frrtm totally mobilized, Byrnes told congress that the following legislation was needed to en able the war program to "ride on a horse instead of a mule' k Legislation Sought 1. Authority to assign 4,000,000 4-Fs to war jobs as well as mili tary service unless they already are engaged in essential activity 2. Authority for the war man power commission to enforce Its regulations limiting the number of workers employers may re tain. 3. Authority for the war labor board to enforce Its decisions in courts without resorting to prop erty seizure, thus permitting the government to treat "the Petri! los and Averys alike." 4. Increased unemployment ben- efits for war workers who may bo temporarily out of Jobs when the war ends and adequate financial assistance in re-establishment of small businesses discontinued as a result of the war. Revision Asked Byrnes also suggested revision of draft deferment standards for men in agriculture in anticipa tion of increased calls by selective service. The Byrnes report provided the first glimpse of the legislative program which the Roosevelt ad ministration will propose to the new congress as Its part in speed ing victory and laying the ground work lor enduring peace with eco nomic prosperity. Bend Officials All Reappointed All of Bend's present city offi cials were retained in office for 1945, when the city commission this afternoon held its annual elective session in the city hall. A. T. Niebergall was retained as mayor on the first ballot, as was Municipal Judge H. C. Ellis who won unanimous endorse ment. The commission then selected C. G. Reiter as citv manager, who in turn announced he would main tain in office City Attorney Ross rarnnam, street superintendent Percy Drost and Police Chief Ken C. Gulick. The meeting was attended by jNieDergan, Keiter, commission ers Melvin W. Munkres and Loyde S. Blakley and City Recorder George Simerville. The commission is scheduled to hold its first regular meeting of int.- yeur lumorrow nignt. Elderly Motorist Killed in Crash Castle Rock, Wash., Jan. 2 IPi The death of Albert Hooper, 74, a resident of Castle Rock for many years, who died in an auto crash near here last Saturday, has been attributed to heart fail ure, according to a coroner's re port. The car left the road, plunged over a bank and Hooper was thrown out, but it is believed that the injuries he received were not the cause of his death. D. Rufus Cheney, Lodqeman, Dead Portland, Ore., Jan. 2 HP) Funeral services for D. Rufus Cheney, prominent Oregon Ma son, will be held Thursday after noon at the Masonic temple 4n Portland. Cheney died in a Portland hos- Dr. J. F.Condon Dead in New York New York, Jan. 2 UiDr. J. F. Condon, 84, intermediary in the Lindbergh kidnaping case, died today ten years to the day after Bruno Richard Hauptmann went on trial for the murder of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr. Ward Executives Challenge Army Portland, Ore., Jan. 2 tPTwo top Montgomery Ward & Co. ex- ecutives, discharged by the "army of occupation," today challenged the army to remove them bodily from office, ' . - . . . Discharged by Maj. Melvin Klinefelter, in charee of armv forces that took over manage ment of the store, E. L. Barth. manager of the retail store, and u. w. Huddleston, manager of me man order department, rie. L-iareo: I "We shall remain here to per form our responsibilities until such time as the army, by force or threat of force, escorts us from the building." The executives had received let ters directing them to "leave the premises immediately." The property here was offi cially taken over by the army last Wednesday because this and other company stores allegedly had re fused to comply with a govern ment directive that they carry out terms of a war labor board order. Bend's First 1945 Baby Is Tiny Girl A five-pound, 14-ounce girl holds the Bend New Year baby title for 1945 although she was a little late. arriving at 4:47 a. m. on January 2. The child, as yet un-named, was uuni ro mr. ana Mrs. Li. A. Ruther ford of route 2 at the Mavne mire. ing home. Little Miss Rutherford is a sec ond child. Her brother, Dwight t-ugfiiL-, win De two in February. TAKEN TO PORTLAND William George Taekett. 2n eaM to have deserted four times from me navy, the last time July 15, today was taken to Portland by Spec. Recruiter 1c Ed Fitzgerald of the Bend navy recruiting sta tion. Tackett was taken into cus tody here several nights ago at the home of his wife. Hit, Run Driver - Accused of Death Seattle, Jan. 2 UP Maurice M. Mason, 24-year-old welder, was held without charge today after ponce sam ne admitted driving the hit-run automobile that killed Mrs. Grace Franks and critically injured her daughter, Grace, 14, ounuay nigni. v Mason made the confession after he .visited police headquar- uis ana reponea mat nis car had been stolen. He and his three companions abandoned the ve hicle after it stalled because of damage to the radiator caused by me impacc. Mrs. Grace and her daughter were nuriea more than 100 feet by the automobile which struck them after they had alighted from a city bus. The girl suffered a fractured leg and other injuries. Portland Negroes To Name Citizen Portland, Ore., Jan. 2 IIP Portland negroes will select their negro first citizen of the year at the fifth annual banquet of the progressive democratic club to be held here in February, officials announcea loaay. so iar, two servicemen and inree civilians have been nnmin. ated for the honor. Nazis Quit West Then Start N ulqe. ew Attack Jap Ships Near Manila Blasted By U.S. Fliers Haven for Vesrels Target Of Ai rmen; Locomotives Also Hit By Air Fleets By William Wilson (United Prfl War CurrvaiHinilcnt) Allied Headquarters, Philip- puiea, uan. & iw-i American land based planes, extendlne thpir nf. tensive against Luzon nearly 150 nines norm oi Manna lor the first time, have wrecked two destroy ers ana six other ships in the Llngayen gulf, Gen. Douglas Mac- .arinur announced today. Ihree freighter-transports nf s.uuo tons each, two smaller cargo ships, and a destroyer-escort, in addition to the two destroyers, were sunk or probably sunk hv Mitchell and A-20 attack bombers Saturday in a smashing attack against one of the havens to wnicn the Japanese had shifted their Philippines shipping from battered Manila harbor. Manila Area Visited Liberators hit Nielson aird ramp at Manna, while 50 or more ma rine Corsairs blew ud an ammunl. tion train and seriously damaged three others In dive-bomblne and siraung attacks south of Manila, In addition, the Corsairs do stroyed at least 20 locomntlvps along a 150-mile stretch of track. One locomotive exploded and ap peared to leap at least 20 feet In tne air, a pilot reported. ' Reconnaissance p 1 k n e s shot down five Japanese aircraft over Luzon. Over Mlndoro, Just southwest of Manila, American night fight ers ana anti-aircraft gunners shot down three out of 15 enemy plahes attempting to attack Amer ican airfields. No damage was caused to American installations, a spokesman said. Dead Counted Another 935 enemy dead were counteu on Loyte Saturday, bring ing the toll for the campaign to 118,983. Mopping up continued. Medium bombers and fighters attacked enemy airfields on Pa nay, Negros and Cehu, all west of Leyte, while other aircraft sank or damaged six barges off Min danao and hit fuel storage facili ties at Sassa airfield on the is. land. Germany's Great Gamble V, V 9'totMt AiH.d uippiy -vv- imariB 1 ,&i .- A I Q" Einnhow.r'i forctl MCTMFDI AMrc ' h ' 1' ' T -IXbelgium JMM I X ,,v . mrfei Germany BRUSSELS! V " 5 MW" i'lllllllllll 1 v -..ivi--lM(Mtrlch ' . 1 -, ',.:: ; 1 Ourn . Northward 1 ' f Actitn ., . driv would .1 TTTTcTl . ' . , 'pli,A.l",d I ni i J::;i55!- jyffiS... north sea frrrnSnk T .J7 : jc-: ' in 2J FRANCE. NnEDIX ' Kffnx .U.. 1 1 . .... ""v: snows prooaoie oDjectlve of Gen. von Rundstedfs great counter-offensive Antwerp, great Allied supply port, and ( Liege, transportation and supply center for most of the Allied D,r,,IS ??le 40-mlle 'rnt- Breakthrough to Antwerp wouldl divide Allied armies, force those from Aachen north to fall back orface encirclement. Conversely, drive to the south could roll up entire southern end of Allied line. Nhzi Agents Landed Fr6m Sub Arrested, FBI Official Says Action Flares On West Front In Roer Area Patton's Forces Chop Into South Flank and Capture Moircy City Paris, Jan. 2 IP-German forces were reported fleeing the western most bulge of the Belgian salient today but to the southeast they were building up an attack of con siderable strength on a front of about 50 miles between the Saar land and the upper Rhine. The new German push was cen tered In the Bitche area of north- ! eastern France. Supreme head quarters announced that around 1 Bitche the nazis gained a mile and ! a half, cut the Roer running five miles southeast to Bannestln, probably captured the latter town, and still were pressing on. The Germans now are active throughout the border area from Bitche to the Rhine, official sourc es reported. A field broadcast said the nazi aggressiveness was spreading westward into the Saar valley, where a heavy attack was launchead in the area of Wulfer dingen, 13 miles southeast of Saarbrucken. Chop at Flank Lt. Gen. Geoirge S. Patton's Third army units chopping into the south flank of the Ardennes salient gained another couple of miles in a number of sectors up to. yesterday morning, SHEAF re ported. ! They recaptured Moircy, 11 miles west of Bastogne and south western anchor post of the nazi salient, which had changed hands repeatedly in the previous fight ing. Closer toBastogne, the dough boys seized Hubermont, six miles east of the Belgian road center; Hoover Warns Foe Has Intensified Plans Of Sending Agents Into Western Hemisphere INGW lOrk. Jan. 2 (U.P) J. EdimP Tfonvnr flil-ncinr nf I T-rnrlnncm civ mlloc cnltthnnct nnrl the federal bureau of investigation, wnrned todav of n new I Neffe, two miles east. intensified" effort by Germany to send saboteurs to this . Patton's gains had ironed out country as he revealed the arrest of two agents landed n ( ,'a"iI':Sln.?h?.i5l2 month niro by submarine on the coast of Mni.w. ' ' "'", "1.?"'.,' mi , , I iiiit--at iu un: iuaut.-i, wiuitr ilia Ine. men. arrested 111 New York. Wove Willilitn Tni-liu'linUa nnhnH nil In Ho nnrth tn. Colepaugii, 26, a native of Connecticut with a discharge frorn!war(l Houffalize, 10 miles above uiu u. o. navy, anil r.nricn limine . 3fi. a ( ermnn r i ypn n. uk"-- - niKMway, terned for a time in this country but sent home as an exchange prisoner oniy to return as a spy. 1 hey landed Nov. 29 in Arctic Weather Chills Midwest Sailor in Tablecloth Shows Up in Court New York, Jan. 2 (U New lorn police on the New Year's day Broadway at 5 a. m. found Sailor Martin Flaherty, 21, walk ing in Times Square naked as the dawn. He was arraigned wearing a tablecloth. Last of Dead Removed From Wrecked Train; Limited Said to Have Gone Past Siqnals (Ry United Treaa) A cold wave, coming out of the northwest, extended over the entire midwest and eastern half of the nation today, with little Immediate let up in sight. j The northern plain states, Mi ssissippi and Ohio valleys and Great lakes areas were hardest ! and of the two Japanese balloons hit by the cold blast, the federal j in the northwest and other mat weather forecaster at Chicago re- ters I cannot disclose at the mo ported, with a national low of 22 1 ment for reasons of security indi- degrees below zero registered at, cate that the German government Frenchman bay The two men, trained in es pionage and sabotage in Ber lin, D.resden and The If ague, were equipped with $00,000 in United States currency, forged birth certificates copied after those of the Connecticut depart-j ment of health, forged discharges from the U. S. navy, secret Ink and other paraphernalia. Both were carrying .32 caliber pistols when arrested and had assembled parts for a short wave radio transmitter. llalloons Mentioned "The landing of these two men Robert E. Folkes To Die on Friday Salem, Ore., Jan. 2 mi Robert E. Lee Folkes, 22year;old negro train waiter, who was convicted of the celebrated "lower 13" Pull man car murder near Albany, Ore., in January, 1913. will die at 9 o'clock Friday morning fn the Oregon state lethal gas chamber, Penitentiary Warden George Alex ander said today. Folkes is to die for the knife slaying of pretty Martha Vir ginia James, bride of a naval of- Odgen, Utah, Jan. 2 (ID Traffic! cin . , , was resumed over the Southern " "- "-" e la Pacific railroad today as of ficials ! car Passc"Ker section, tentatively scheduled an investi-l The passenger train had been gation Thursday into the wreck ! delayed by a freight which had of the Pacific Limited in which 1 stnnrwi tn nmh w i t . 48 persons were killed and 79 others were injured early Sun day in a rear end collision 22 miles west of here. Meanwhile, salvage crews pre pared this morning to cut their way into final unexplored Pull man compartment in search of additional victims, although rail had just started to move again when the fast express hurtled out of the predawn darkness and ploughed Into it, telescoping the cars, ripping up a half mile of track and scattering pieces of wreckage and bodies for nearly 100 yards on both sides of the tracks. of several davs. He hart ih 11 ? i U,V.' u" .-J" Yer ,n.a rew RranH . " . Zi " , ?" Vs' " " "-""ru ; uui in mar Time in 11 .(.ii-irti v ui nit? ijn na iimiien nnvp nwn npm mind i in efforts to enter the final com- Ipartment yesterday. MNE BOMBERS MISSING I Eleven cars of the two trains pital Monday, following an illness road officials voiced confidence among passengers and crewmen ui me sleepers, diner and day coach at the rear of the passen ger train. nf Ihn HranH ' llnllnJ I,- ...J . I "-' lIII 1 since 1922 and had he d ! Workor we rT urZ;ZlWr S- "mass of twisted and broken steel, sprinkled with the arms, legs and torsos of nasseneeis ami other high masonic posts. St. Paul. Minn Temperatures along the eastern seaboard ranged in the low twen ties yesterday and last night, but could be expected to dip today as me wave continued Its eastward sweep, the weatherman said. Icy Blasts Kscuped Only the far southwest and the southernmost tip of Florida es caped the icy blasts, and tempera tures as low as 25 degrees were experienced at Atlanta, Ga., and in the gulf states. In the midwest, which shivered under temperatures of five below at Chicago, and nine below at Rockford, III., slight relief was predicted for tomorrow. On the wnoie, nowevor, the cold spi was expected to continue for remainder of the week. fifpr. Ifi nnlv hnnn fnf llf Id the western hemisphere." Honverl f "y l"L t"vc,no1- said. st rPC,'nt action to save his lent Boyd Lewis reported the Ger- The Fiil chief said he was con-i1 1 ,e, as Dy " Kroup of Portland ; man withdrawal which apparent- iiiuiini.-is unu lawyers, wno pre-1 y ended for the time being Field sented clemency arguments to i Marshal Karl vnn Runristertt'is A German communique said the Americans were trying to break through toward Houffalize, a pos sible hint that they were ap proaching the town. Salient Threatened The steady gains of the Third army threatened to lop off the western half of the German sali ent, and it was this mounting threat which apparently prompted the nazi withdrawal from the bulge west of the line through Bastogne. ' The German pullout apparently was reflected by a front report which said that in the area of Hot ton, along the northwest rim of the salient, patrol thrusts nearly two miles deep Into the enemy po sitions failed to elicit resistance. A field dispatch timed at eight o'clock this morning (midnight Monday, PWT) said all contact had been lost with the nazi arm ored divisions that had been hold ing the western tip of the salient and that the Americans were ad vancing eastward against light rear guard resistance. United Press War Correspond- fident that no others had been landed at the same lime as the two now In custody. The balloons ! referred to by Hoover were dis- I covered at Kaiispeil, Mont., and Estacada, Ore. A third balloon I was reported by two youths ! cited at Tacoma, Wash., but its origin was never announced Portland Notes Fatality Drop Portland, Ore., Jan. 2 'Hi Only seven occupants of the last car of the passenger section escaped alive. James McDonald, 64, Ogden, en gineer of the mail express died at the throttle as the steam loco motive crashed, but his fireman, "i. c naruman. also nf nm on escaped with minor Injuries and shock. llardman said he saw the flares mu snouted to the engineer that something is wrong." few sec onds later, he said the engine hit the torpedo warning signals and Immediately after that the crash occurred. London. Jan. 2 njTho IT s I were hmt n7i Xh .1": I :"u.. OI P-sengers and Three cars were tossed from .he strategic air force announced that 'the fast 20-car mail and express! Nearly all the dead manv of nner,?itKh roaJbp(i. in, he salt- u. - -.-"6 ,v . a.s,,, mi otu warnings ana , autv alter SDend mo rhrkim ,,. v.... ' ' ' on Germany today. 'flares and ploughed into the! furloughs with relatives, were! double 'track blorkVna? .0f. ?r !0,al of 44' ne s,rept car ' racK, Diocking all traffic." death increased the total to 45. British Admiral i Killed in Crash Paris, Jnn. 2 HPi Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsey, naval command er. In chief under Gen. Dwight D. Elsenhower, was killed today in an airplane accident while on his Gov. Snell recently. (Continued on Page 2) New Meeting of 'Big Three' Due, Congress Leaders Assert Washington, Jan. 2 lU'i -Con-jW. McCormack, D., Mass., quick grossional leaders said today that i ii,.i,.,ri irattic fatalities in Portland dur- way to a conference in Belgium. ijii wen? reuuceo w per cent over the previous year, HM3, Traffic Captain James W. Pur cell said today. In addition, the death toll dur ing December has been 54 per cent less than the same month In 3943, he said. In 11)44, 21 pedestri ans and 20 motorists were killed,! Imu , out p-L-,.t,.lt in... 11 cated" to them that he would "'I'kley echoed this. Then he meet "sometime soon" with Prime I nn(l McCormack stressed that Minister Winston Churchill and '. there was "nothing yet as to time Premier Josef Stalin. j or place." This information was developed Asked whether thev tlmnwht at the leaders' first conference of j plans for the "big three" meeting the year with the president, in ! would be fully developed by the preparation for the new congress I time of Mr. Roosevelt's fourth which convenes tomorrow. term inauguration on Jan. 20. It was decided that the ureal-: Barklev said that anvthlmr ho dent will send his annual message might say on that point would be to rnnirrose nn crnttirrloi, r.,.-l. r.nr...in.i..A In Vh, fh ;-t,i u, i, , 1 h0, lnmoy ion of el"',v mf,pt-1 Barkley said the president's an- m "if f,' , t 1 C m" lnK of ,,,p hR ,n,w" n,I,,,'l 1wHnunl message would be sent to manded lie famous destroyer ers was reported by Senate Ma- congress on Saturday, the day the Broke and since has commanded jority Leader Alben W. Barkley, electoral votes w II be counted o5 ,hnwL"Th.0,S,!,,'?sh,,, I D- K I,e ",m ers as Capitol hill. He Mid hSptcte3 r 3 W;n", lhult! S ( I mlt,ot nn afterthought: ! the president would send his new when K orean h "LRJ? h,? d i Th? l'lent indicated that 1 budget to the congress early next nf !,LJt If the cvacuat on sometime soon -- without Indicat-1 week, probably Tuesday. llJutS inB .th. umtL or p,ncp-ne wi" Roosevelt will not deliver the fnl in L MnnPilrcealllCdland mpot wl,h chU"-'hiH and Stalin." , messages in person. They will be ings in the Mediterranean. 1 House Democratic Leader John ! transmitted and read by clerks.