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ARMIES MASS FOR BATTLE
U.S. Artillery
Sweeps Salient
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4 3rd Group Derives New
. Wedge Into Nazi Lines
Northeast of j Bastogne
Paris, Jan. 3 (IB Vho American
Third army drove af spearhead to
the Michamps area five miles
northeast of Bastogne -today and
swept the Ardnne salient with
heavy artillery ffre as front dis
patches hinted M an imminent,
full scale offensive against the
a German bulge.
Lt. Gen.-Ged'rge S. Patton's
forces threw tho Germans out of
four or more towlQS in the general
area of Bastogne where the south
flank of Marshal KYr vn Rund
stedt's salient was Aashed deeply.
Violently fighting raged in the
zone east of Bastc'gne, and west
of the transportation center the
German hign command reported
that about eight lAmerican divi
sions, half armorcfd and half in
fantry, were massfcd for action.
U. S. Force Retreat
Supreme headquarters revealed
belatedly that the Germans had
driven American forces out of
Germany in thfe Sarreguimines
area 01 tne saariand, advancing
up to three miles and eliminating
a doughboy bridgehead five miles
wide and three miles deep in the
reich. .
Up to 48 hours ago, SHAEF
disclosed, the Germans had
., smashed at the Biles river line in
'. the Sarreguemlnes a--ea six times,
and had forced a crossing at Blies
bruck, three miles west of Sarre
guemines. German attacks were flaring
with unspecified intensity-and ef
fect along a 35-mile front from
Sarrequemines to the Rhine, but
the latest reports said nothing of
any recurring nazi thrusts in the
Saarbrueken area of the Saar.
Must Decide
The tenseness reported preva
alent in the Belgium-Luxembourg
theater recalled recent assertions
by supreme headquarters sources
that the time was at hand for
Rundstedt to decide whether to
get out of his salient or renew his
attack.
Latest indications were that the
nazis were prepared to contest
any American thrusts from the
north but were content to pull
back slowly before the trip ham
mer blows raining on the south
flank.
Already Patton's advanced
spearhead northeast of Bastogne
was gouging past the village of
Michamp to the area of Bourcy
and Bois Du Maister about a mile
beyond. Armored outriders were
a minimum of five and a half
miles beyond Bastogne and strong
units were not far behind.
RED TROOPS GAIN
London, Jan. 3 Uli Red army
roops captured 130 more blocks
of houses in eastern Budapest to
day and 30 blocks in the western
part of the caiptal, a Moscow com
munique said tonight.
5-Star Nimiti
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Fleet Admifal Chester W. Mmitz (left), photographed for the; buildings. Until a year ago, he
first time wearing his new five-star insignia, confers with Admiral! was an inspector for the Port
William Halsey aboard Halsey's Third fleet flagship. land air base.
'Forts' Hit. 3
Philippines-Based Bombers Lash at Nippon
Shipping Near
By William Wilson
(United Press War Correspondent)
Allied Headquarters, Philip
pines, Jan. 3 tlP) Philippines
based bombers, reaching another
500 miles toward Japan from the
southwest, have set five coastal
vessels afire and shot down four
planes east of Formosa, the en
emy's strongest bastion south of
his homeland, it was announced
today.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur re
ported that navy Liberators on
Sunday made the first land-based
raid against the Formosa area
since the Superfortress attacks
from China last October.
The Liberators flew some 500
miles beyond Luzon's Lingayen
gulf, previously the deepest pene
tration of enemy territory by Mac
Arthur's bombers. The attack car
ried some 700 miles north of the
nearest American base on Min-
Plastiras Called
In Greek Crisis
Athens, Jan. 3 (IP) Gen. Nich
olas Plastiras, 62-year-old former
"strong man" of Greece, was at
tempting today to form a new
coalition government that would
bring peace to revolt-torn Greece.
He was given a mandate to
form the government yesterday
by Kegent Archbishop jjamasm
nos, who had spent two days con
ferring with Greek political lead
ers. It was assumed, though not
officially stated, that Plastiras
yould be the new premier.
Plastiras. regarded as a con
servative on most questions
though he opposes the monarchy,
returned to Athens last month
after 11 years in exile, at the re
quest of then Premier George
Papandreou.
Served in 1922
Plastiras became prime minis
ter of Greece in 1922 alter- lore
ine the abdication of King Con-
stantine. He ruled as virtually
dictator of Greece until 1933,
when the republican party was
defeated at the polls. He attempt
ed a second coup against the
throne, but it failed and he fled
Into exile.
British forces thrusting north
and east of Ominoias square
cleared 45 more blocks of left-
wing E.L.A.S. troops yesteraay
against what was described as
"fairly strong" resistance. The at
tack overran the the street
through which E.L.A.S. negotia
tors had passed earlier this week
for abortive armistice confer
ences with the British.
Seventy E.L.A.S. prisoners were
taken.
BULLETIN
Pacific Fleet Headquarters,
Pearl Harbor, Jan. 8 IF
Steaming boldly across the
Philippines sea, the U. S. Pa
cific fleet yesterday hurled Its
carrier based aircraft against
Formosa and Okinawa .lima in
a strike against enemy instal
lations guarding the China
coast. Fleet Admiral Chester W.
Nimitz announced today.
Meets Halsey
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THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 3, 1945
Formosa; 5 Ships Sef Afire
doro to within 885 miles of Ja
pan proper and 1,450 miles of To
kyo. The four enemy planes shot
down Included two float aircraft
and a dive-bomber.
Swarms of other American
planes wrought new destruction
on and around Luzon, softening it
up for an eventual invasion.
(Japanese Lt. Gen. Masaharu
Homma, former commander in
the Philippines, predicted in an
interview broadcast by the Tokyo
radio that the Americans "will
stubbornly attempt to carry out
landing operations on Luzon." So
long as Japan holds Luzon, he
said, "the enemy's attempts to
recapture the Philippines will not
be realized.")
Medium bombers struck 250
miles north of Manila and touched
off fires and explosions at the
Nippons Brawl
In Stockholm;
Drinks Cut Off
(By United Press)
The Japanese In Stockholm got
down to a real hammer-and-tongs
brawl on New Year's eve at the
fashionable Grand hotel over the
axis" military situation and as a
result have had their drinks cut
off, a CBS correspondent report
ed from the Swedish capital to
day. The brawl was between mem
bers of the Japanese legation in
Stockholm and Japanese from the
Berlin legation spending the holi
days in Sweden.
Because of the episode, the
broadcast said the Japanese min
ister today ordered that members
of the legation will not be allowed
in restaurants where alcohol is
served, they cannot appear in
public with Swedish women, and
young members of the legation
will be deprived of their liquor
ration.
Raiding Parties
Probe Foe Lines
Rome, Jan. 3 IP American,
raiding parties and patrols probed
deeply into enemy positions at
various .points along the Fifth
army front while at least two
strong German thrusts were re
pulsed, headquarters announced
today.
In the central sector below
Bologna, Fifth army units
counterattacked and recaptured
an outpost which a German pa
trol had overrun north of Liver-
gnano Monday night.
A strong enemy patrol, support
ed by mortars and artillery, was
repulsed near Monte Cavalloro.
Fifth troops contacted the
enemy at several points in a
thrust toward Massa in the west
coastal sector and encountered a
number of booby traps, a com
munique reported.
Canadians Active
On the Eighth army front, Can
adian infantry and armor con
tinued clearing enemy positions
between the Lamone river and the
Fosso Vechio waterway east of
Alfonsine. Further south an en
emy pocket east of the Senio was
being cleared slowly.
Aircraft of the tactical air force
were out in strength yesterday
and concentrated attacks on en
emy communications in the north
west area of the Po valley and on
a variety of targets near the
fighting front.
Ex-State Warden
Dies in Portland
Portland, Ore., Jan. 3 'Ui
Funeral services will be held to
morrow in Portland for Charles
i A Murphv former warder lofthe rouP hld agricultural defer-
' A;P Jif niCntiVr ulhn:ments- By way of contrast, a
? h JI P,r w.' rZ'winnH White "ouse spokesman said that
'died Tuesday at his Portland -, u,, .,' ivm ,i mnm
died Tuesday at his Portland
nome aiier a year s mness. i men in the same age nracket are
o?lurply was 2, ! S,alem, deferred tn industry and medicine,
,1868 and was superintendent fori An undetermined number of other
the eastern Oregon state hospital ; deferments cover men In the mer-
! from 1911 to 1916, then state iCh;mt marine.
warden from 1917 to 1919 He,
helped build numerous schools in ,
the Portland area as a building
speetor for reinforced concrete
CENTRAL OREGON'S
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west coast port of Laoag Mon-
day, while other aircraft sank a;
200-ton merchant ship and a gun
boat off the west coast. !
(A Domel news agency dis
patch, recorded by FCC, said that
more than 20 American Liberator
bombers raided the Clark field
area near Manila yesterday.)
Marine Corsairs again peppered
southern Luzon, shooting up rail
way transportation and hitting
enemy troop concentrations and
bivouac areas. MacArthur's com
munique also reported "wide
spread damage" to warehouses,
power plants and wharves.
On Leyte, American forces
counted 778 additional enemy
dead and captured one prisoner
to bring total enemy casualties on
the island to 119,762. Light naval
units sank four enemy barges off
the west coast,
4 Spotlighters ;
Fined and Freed
Albany, Ore., Jan. 3 iui A mer
cy plea from the widowed hus
band of a woman accldentaly shot
by deer hunters today gave the
four nlmrods their freedom after
paying a fine of $100.
The four men were charged
with manslaughter after Lee
Mathews admitted it was his high
powered deer rifle which fired the
shot killing Mrs. Charles Duncan,
30, as she washed dishes Monday
night in her trailer house. He said
the light in the window from a
distance resembled the reflection
of a spotlight in a deer's eyes.
Admit Shooting
Mathews and his companions,
Arthur Andrews, Sabian Cottnalr,
and Clarence Moline, admitted to
hunting deer out of season and to
"spotlighting", illegal at any time.
They waived their preliminary
hearing and were sentenced to
pay the fine and serve up to five
years in prison. Dramatically,
Duncan rose in the courtroom and
said he concurred in their motion
for parole, feeling his wife would
not have desired them sent to
prison.
Mrs. Duncan died seconds after
being struck in the chest. Other
slugs ripped into the trailer house
hut did not strike their two chil
dren, sleeping in cribs, or Dun
can and a neighbor, playing check
ers. Liquor Permit
Price Unchanged
Portland, Ore., Jan. 3 (IP) -Still
got your No. 4 war food ration
book?
You'll need to dig it up to buy
that 1945 consumer's liquor li
cense permit.
The Oregon liquor control com
mission has announced that pro
cedure for obtaining the new per
mit is the same as last year: pro
duce the No. 4 book and have the
license validated.
Oh, yes. The price of the license
is the same $1.
JUSTICE BELT TAKES OVEK
Salem, Ore., Jan. 3 Ui Harry
Belt presided over the state su- BURMA TOW CAPTURED
preme court for the first time to-1 Chungking, Jan. 4 (Thursday)
day, after taking the oath of of-; (tPi Chinese troops captured the
fice In the secretary of state's of-1 Burma road town of Wanting,
fice as chief justice on New Year's ; clearing the Japanese entirely
day. i from Yunnan province in south-
He succeeds J. O. Bailey as : ern China, front dispatches re
chief of the high Oregon bench. i ported oday.
Byrnes Calls for Induction
Of Younger Men From Farms
Washington, Jan. 3 nil War, calling for reclassification of Iho
Mobilization Director James F. js.20 y,.ar-olds holding agricul
Byrnes today called for nduct on . , . , . , .r . . ,
of able men between the ages of ,ural '"'"nentS and the.r Indue
18 and 26 who now have agricul- ,lon t"ey ""''' service stand
tural deferments. iards.
About 364,000 men in that age
u,,0 ' iw m..,!,,..,... i..,...i,', u.,..
Byrnes acted, according to the
White House, as a result of urg-
in-lent requests by the army and
navy lor more men.
Byrnes revealed his order in a
letter to MaJ. Gen. Lewis B. Her-1
shey, selective service director,
DAILY NEWSPAPER
Jap War Centers
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Nazis Attempt
To Reach Men
Caught in Trap
Costly Try Made to
Rescue Forces Held
. In Doomed Budapest
London, Jan. 3 MP) Counter
attacking German armored and
infantry division's lashed out
against the red army lines north
west of Budapest today in a new
and costly attempt to rescue an
estimated 80,000 nazis cornered in
the shell-torn city.
Goaded by a red army procla
mation that the nazi SS guards
in Budapest would be slain to a
man and their commanders hang
ed for the murder of two Soviet
emissaries,- the Germans flung
two tank divisions and thousands
of riflemen into the attack, strik
ing down from Komarno on the
Danube, 45 miles above the cap
ital. Panzer Units Used
The main weight of the German
blow fell Tuesday mornirig on a
narrow sector of the front, appar
ently In the Tovaros area 11 miles
southeast of Komarno. In the first
onrush, some panzer spearheads
burst through the Soviet lines at
a number of points, but a Moscow
communique said they were wiped
out by Russian artillery in short
order.
Heavy fighting was still under
wav earlv todav. with the Rus
sians holding firm all along the J
line and piling up heavy losses In-
enemy men and material,
Inside Budapest, meanwhile.the
trapped German and Hungarian
garrison carried its suicidal de
fense into the eighth straight day
with no sign that it was ready to
capitulate.
Resistance Stiffens
Nazi resistance appeared to
have stiffened following the "no
quarters" proclamation, and Mos
cow admitted the fighting had be
come "deadlier and costlier" than
ever. German tanks and infantry
counter-attacked repeatedly in a
vain effort to throw the Russians
out of the city, but the communi
que said another 63 streets in
Buda and 232 in the east bank
section of Pest were cleared by
the Soviets yesterday. Moscow in
dicated that the industrial suburb
of UJpest was in Russian hands.
Berlin said the heaviest fighting
centered in the Var district of
Buda, the principal shopping sec
tion of the capital, and that the
Soviets were storming the Hun
garian royal palace overlooking
the Danube.
Japs Solve Problem
Of Winning Conflict
Tokyo, Jan. 3 HI") The Japanese
newspaper Yomuni Hochi today
advanced a simple solution for
the. Nipponese military problem,
Tokyo radio announced as heard
by United Press In San Francisco:
"All we must do Is to wait pa
tiently until the enemy spends
himself and then close for the
easy kill."
The new call came as dispatches
from Europe Indira.,
S. First army had si
casualties In the re
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from Europe indicated that the U.
suilered neavy
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no official allied announcement of
casualties since German Field
Marshal von Rundstedt started
his drive Dee. 16, hut the enemy
hn rtaimnri iho ..,,, tuvr. nf .in rViO
Americans without estimating
American dead and wounded.
Observers here did not doubt
that the First army s defeat h;id
greatly Increased the number of
replacements which Gen. Dwlght
D. Elsenhower must have.
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ON WEST FRONT
Plea for Wartime Unity Made
At Opening of 79th Congress
Rayburn's Speech Reflects Somber Mood as
Solons Take Up Work; Years Ahead Critical
By Lyle C. Wilson
(United Press Stuff Correspondent)
Washington, Jan. 3 (U.E) Speaker Sam Rayburn voiced
a plea for wartime unity as the 79th congress convened today.
He called on this country to join with other, peace-loving
democracies in using "all the force necessary to bring about
an ordered world."
The Texas democrat addressed the house shortly after
being elected to his third full term as speaker.
Calling for American participation in a peace backed by
force, Rayburn asserted that civilization could not survive in
definitely the shock of war
every 25 years,
Rayburn's speech reflected
the somber mood in which the
new congress came into be
ing. In the two years of its
existence It will have to carry a
tremendous burden of legislation
dealing not only with war but
with the future Droblems of nence. I
Rnth hnilunc mat nt nnnn ciunm
In new members, and prepared to
receive President Roosevelt's
state of the union address on
Saturday.
Gets Big Vote
Rayburn was elected speaker
by a roll call vote of 224 to 1G8
over Republican Leader Joseph
W. Martin, Jr., Mass., who told
the house that democrats and re
publicans alike were working "for
a better America and a better
world."
The house listened solemnly
and silently as Rayburn, intro
duced by Martin, spoke o the
critical years ahead.
. "Today, 'we are being tested,"
ne-saia, "as to whether free gov
ernment will continue to live and
civilization will continue."
Rayburn warned of "dangerous
men and women In this country
who preach disunity." He said
that "disorder and disunity" pre
ceded the collapse of other na
tions now being liberated by the
allies.
Saying that there will be "a lot
of hard fighting in the east and
in the west before we come to
victory," Rayburn put the ques
tion: "After the war, what then?"
After the last war, he said, "wo
walked out on the rest of the
world and came home and stuck
our head In the sands and said,
'let the rest of the world go by.' "
Bends Postal
Although military activities les
sened In the Bend area during the
last half of the year, postal re
ceipts at the local postofflce
showed a sizeable gain in 1944
over normal years, it was dis
closed today by Assistant Post
master Farley Elliott. For the
last half of the year, after ma
jor activities had ceased at Camp
Abbot, receipts showed a consis-i
tent gain of approximately $6,000
over the last half of 1942 a nor
mal year-
Tills gain was believed to have
been due to the increased volume
of overseas mall.
Receipts for 1944 dropped about
$21,000 below those of 1943 when
an all-time high was reached here
because of military activities In
the communlly.
In 19-12, the total receipts for
the year were $62,584.98; in 1911,
$125,222.53, and in 1914 they were
$103,784.61.
Dala (.1 ven !
The substantial increase in 1914
Is reflected by a comparison of
the quarterly figures with 1942
as follows:
1942 1st Quarter $13,920.15
19-14 1st Quarter 28,657.28 ;
19-12 2nd Quarter 14,268.50
1941 2nd Quarter 30,360.23
1912 3rd Quarter 13.981.29
1944 3rd Quarter 18,47871
1912 4th Quarter 20,408.74
1944 4th Quarter 26,288.36
Postoffice box rentals also in
creased in 1944, but this was due,
according to Farley, to an In
creased rate. Receipts for last year
were $2,219.55 as against $1,341 .00
In 1942. In 1943 they were $1,
929.83. TINY GIi:i. BORN
Marysville. Calif.,-Jan. 3 'U
A girl weighing one pound, six
ounces, was born early today at
Yuba county hospital to Mr. and
Mrs. Floyd Stockton, Marysville.
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Vice Consul
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Robert C, Arnold
Word lias been received here of
the appointment of Robert C.
Arnold, Bend high school gradu
ate and son of Mr. and Mrs. J.
F. Arnold of this city as United
States vice consul at Sydney, Aus
tralia, in residence at Canberra,
capital of the southern continent
Arnold is stationed in Canberra
as attache to Nelson' T, Johnson
American ambassador to Aus
tralia.
Arnold has been in Australia I
since, June, 19-10, and assisted in
opening the first American lega
tion there.
Cascade Ski Trip
Ends in Bend Jail
What started out to he a skiing
parly for three western Oregon
youlhs ended In the Bend city jail
today when the trio was held on
drunk charges. They were arrest
ed In a Bond street resort last
night, and their automobile and
skiing paraphernalia were im
pounded by police.
Held on urunk charges were
James I.ernv Ankrnm. 17: .Titmn
Howard Snook, 17, bolh of Sweet
lome, and John Thomas Coyno,
18, of Lebanon.
Two Bend men also were ar
rested on drunk charges last
night. Thomas Jefferson Wynn,
59, of 1555 East First street, was
irrcsted by Slate Officer Waller
Srnead at highway 97 and Norton
street for being drunk on a high
way. Theodore L. Negus, 41, of
S12 Delaware street, was arrested
at Bond street and Oregon avenue.
FBI Nabs
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Erich Gimpel, 35, a German citizen, and William C. Colepaugh, 26,
a discharged U. S. navy man, held by the FBI In New York as
German spies. They are accused of landing in this country from a
German submarine.
Weather Forecast
Partly cloudy today, tonight anil
Thursday. Light rain occasionally
northwest portion. Local valley
fogs. Little temperature change.
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Nippons Admit
Fire Damage;
Nagoya Target
Tokyo Reports Release
Of U. S. Bombs in Big
War Production Cities
Washington, Jan. 3 (IP) B-29
Superfortresses crashed hundreds
of tons of bombs on the Japanese
war production centers of Nagoya,
Osaka and Hamamatsu today in
the opening blow of the 1945 air
offensive against the enemy
Homeland.
. A Japanese communique Indi
rectly admitted some fire damage
to "vital facilities and factories"
in the Nagoya and Hamamatsu
areas.
A brief U. S. war department
announcement said only that Sa.i-pain-based
B-29's had attacked in-
rlnQti'iiil tnronto nn ,hn sa,itnl la. -
land of Honshu, but the enemy
communique Identified the three
war centers as the targets ot
about 90" Superfortresses.
Nagoya Blasted
The main force concentrated on
the big aircraft center of Nagoya,
the Japanese communique said,
while other units raided the Osa
ka area, 85 miles to the south
west, and the Hamamatsu area,
50 miles to the southeast. The
planes struck about 2 p.m. (To
kyo time). ,
"Although there was some dam
ages mulcted in tne tvagoya and
Hamamatsu areas by the enemy,
incendiary bombs," the commu
nique said, "there was almost no
damage inflicted upon vital facili
ties and factories."
The communique claimed that
17 B-29's had been shot down and
25 damaged by Japanese fighters.
Two Japanese planes "have not
yet reported back," it added.
Osaka Bomlieil
An earlier Tokyo transmission
heard by the United Press 1n
London had said Osaka, Japan's
second largest city 250 miles
southwest of Tokyo, was the main
target.
A "small number" of fire bombs
were dropped on the Osaka area
during an hour and a half raid
starting at 2 p.m. (Tokyo time),
but ground installations were not
damaged seriously, London quot
ed Tokyo as saying. The broad
cast claimed "several" Super
fortresses were shot down or dam
aged.
Osaka, Japan's biggest Indus
trial center, produces tanks,
planes, guns, explosives and ships
for the Japanese war effort and
had a 1940 population of 3,252,340.
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lies 250 miles southwest ot
l'okyo.
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FCC monitors said Tokyo re
ported that "several formations"
of B-29's hit Nagoya, Japan's
main aircraft production center,
165 miles west of Tokyo. Though
Osaka has not been raided be
fore, Nagoya's Mitsuilshi aircraft
plants were bombed three times
by B-29's in December, the last
time on Dec. 22.
Nazi Spies