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Volume LIU
THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY. OREGON, SATURDAY, JAN. 6, 1945
NO. 27
atidrial .Service Law Asked by Roosevelt-
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U. S. Forces, in New Invasion,
Establish Base Close to Luzon
Following Leapfrog Advance
Tokyo Speculates Ameritans Making Ready
To Strike Into Manila Area; Full Control
Of Sea Achieved; Clark Field Is Attacked
By William C. Wilson
(United Press War Correspondent)
Allied Headauarters, Philinoines. Jan. 6 (U.E) American
invasion forces threatened southern Lu?on today from Marin
duque, strategic island only a dozen miles away, after an un
opposed leapfrog landing from Mindoro. 25 miles to the west.
Sixth army troops landed at Buenavista. on the southwest
cosat of Marinduoue, Wednesday with air and naval support,
ouickly overran the remainder of the island and set up de
fenses against any enemv counterthrusts from Luzon.
. "Through seizure of this island east of Mindoro, we gained
Big Allied Convoy
Reported Sighted
(By United Press)
An American convoy, escorted
by battleships, aircraft carriers
and other warships, appeared off
the west coast of invasion-threatened
Luzon last night, a Japanese
communique reported today.
The report, which followed in
creased Japanese speculation that
an Amarican landing on Luzon
was imminent, indicated that a
powerful American armada had
penetrated the enemy-dominated
South China sea for the first time
since the early days of the war.
. Japanese planes attacked the
ships in what was described mere
ly as the "water west of Luzon
island" and sank two aircraft car
riers and a battleship, the com
munique said. It was recorded
by the United Press in San Fran
cisco. Used by Japs
Manila bay, the Bataan penin
sula and Lingayen gulf all are on
the west coast of Luzon. It was
at Lingayen gulf, a .little more
than 100 miles north of Manila,
that the Japanese began their in
vasion of the Philippines in De
cember 1941.
The Japanese communique said
Japanese planes also attacked an
American convoy "which was pre
paring for landing onerations" at
American held San Jose on Min
doro island, lust southwest of Lu
zon, Thursday night. One trans
port was said to have been sunk
and another transport and a large
tanker set afire and damaged.
The communique failed to say
whether the task force attacked
west of Luzon was the same as
that from which earlier Japanese
reports had claimed an aircraft
carrier and two battleships or
cruisers were sunk south of Min
doro by Japanese planes Thurs
day. James K. Risen
Killed in Action
Pvt. James Koch Risen, 20, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Risen,
757 Portland avenue, has been:
Killed in action in the European
theater of war, his parents were
officially notified last night by the
war department. Only recently
Pvt. Risen had been reported mis
sing in action.
Pvt. Risen, a graduate of the
Bend high school, volunteered for
enlistment on Apr. 16, 1943 while
attending Oregon State college at
Corvallis. After entering the army
he was assigned to the army engi
neering program of training
young men who passed competi
tive examinations with high
grades and sent to college to study
engineering. When this training
program was discontinued by the
army. Pvt. Risen was assigned to
an infantry unit.
Born in Pekin, III., on Feb. 28.
1924, Pvt. Risen, an only child
came to Bend with his parents.
His father is identified with the
state highway department.
James became a member of Boy
Scout troop No. 23, and was ac
tive in scout work as well as high
school activities, where he ranked
among the upper 25 per cent of j
-ixs grades, mo was graduated
with the class of 1942.
GROUP TO MEET
Farmers Telenhone association I
which includes users of lines 1 2 !
10 and 29 will be held at the R I i
Hamby farm home on Friday at j
8 p.m., with officers to be elected. '
"control of the Sibuyan sea and
established direct contact with
the southern coast of Luzon.
Gen. Douslas Mar.Arthur an
nounced in his daily communi
que. Assuming other Sixth army
troops to be in full control of
Mindoro, American forces now
were flanking southern Luzon
along a front of nearly 100 miles
and Japanese broadcasts specu
lated that an invasion of Luzon
itself was in the making.
Yanks Go Ashore
Doughboys went ashore on the
east and west coasts of Mindoro
Tuesday and Wednesday, and it
was presumed that by this time
they had filtered through to the
northern shore opposite Luzon.
Northeast Mindoro lies about nine
miles from Luzon's Batangas
peninsula, while Marinduoue is
12 miles from Luzon's Bondoc
peninsula.
Japanese planes attacked Amer
ican installations on Mindoro un
der cover of darkness and, though
few bombs were dropped, they
caused some damage. Night fight
ers and anti-aircraft gunners shot
down four of the raiders.
Manila Meld Target
Unescorted Liberators and Mit
chells stepped up their daily raids
on Manila's Clark field some 100
miles northwest of Marinduque
and destroyed 30 enemy aircraft
on the ground. Other enemy
planes were damaged and smoke
rose to 5,000 feet from fires and
explosions among airfield instal
lations. Only one Japanese fighter op
posed the attack, the first time
since Monday that an enemy
plane has taken to the air against
American raiders over the field.
INVESTIGATE STATUS
Federal bureau of investigation
agents today were called upon by
Bend police to investigate the
draft status of Paul Hudson, 40,
a laborer of Oildale, Calif., who
was arrested here last night on a
charge of vagrancy. According
to officers who arrested Hudson
at the railway station, his selec-
tive service papers did not appear
to be in order. 1
Bend Sergeant Member of Superfort Crew
Serving aboard a Superfort"
fox, Jr., son of Postmaster R. H. Fox, of this city. bgt. Fox Is pictured here at the right of the first
row. Serving with the Bend sergeant are airmen representing more than half a dozen different states.
With the release of this picture from the 20th Bomber command headquarters, it was announced that
Sgt. Fox has been awarded the oak leaf cluster to the air medal. See story on page 3.
Third Fleet Strikes Powerful
Blow at Japs' South Bastions
Foe Preparations for Move to Aid Armies
On Battered Philippines Believed Shattered
By Mac R. Johnson
(United Press War Correspondent)
Pearl Harbor, Jan. 6 (U.E) Planes of the Third fleet
were revealed today to have destroyed or damaged 95 Japa
nese ships and' 331 aircraft in a shattering 48-hour assault
against Formosa and Okinawa that may have smashed enemy
preparations for a counteroffensive in the Philippines.
The powerful blow at Japan's two strongest bastions
south of her homeland Tuesday and Wednesday, Pearl Harbor
time, wrecked and scattered major councentrations of enemy
ships and planes at a time when Gen. Douglas MacArthur's
invasion forces rapidly were
extending their footholds in
the Philippines.
(A Japanese communique
said an American convoy, es
corted by battleships, aircraft
carriers and other warships,
anpeared off the west coast of
the capital island of Luzon
last night.)
27 Ships Bagged
Pacific fleet headquarters an
nounced in a communique that
Admiral John McCain's carrier
pilots sank 27 enemy ships, dam
aged 68 others, shot down 111
planes, and damaged 220. Though
thr: communique failed to speci
fy the type and tonnage of the
ships wrecked, a dispatch from
McCain's flagship said they in
cluded three destroyers and five
destroyer escorts.
The communique also con
firmed Japanese reports that
other fleet units Friday bom
barded bleak Chichi and Haha in
the.Bonin islands, 1,200 miles to
the east and 750 miles south of
Tokyo, starting fires and sink
ing an enemy cargo ship. Enemy
shore batteries inflicted "minor
damage" on American fleet units.
Deschutes Goes
Over Its'E' Goal
Deschutes county topped its E
bond quota in the last week of
December, A. L. O. Schueler,
chairman of the county war fin
ance committee, was informed by
the state finance committee this
morning. Total E bond sales for
the county stood at $447,915 on
Jan. 1. The quota was $430,000.
Official figures for the recently
concluded sixth war loan drive,
as furnished by the state finance
committee, show that Deschutes
county topped its quota of $1,120,
000 by 54 per cent. Total bond
sales amounted to $1,717,917.
Sales, other than E's, were: F's,
813,802; G's, $42,400; C's, $203,300;
's, $503,000; IVi's, $42,000; 2's,
$392,000; 2Vs, $12,500.
Angling Burglar
Removes Purses
Portland, Ore., Jan. 6 (Ui Dis
covered, a burglar who can break
into a house and remove valua-l which slight damage resulted to
bies without actually entering it. I the machines, today had been re
When John D. Williams told po-' ported to Bend police. A car
lice that two women's purses were driven by Mrs. Theodore Angst,
missing from his home, they 341 Florida avenue, was said to
found that the burglar had used have struck another driven by
a fish pole to reach in through a
bedroom window and remove the
purses. I
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In the Asiatic water or war is a
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Captain to Face
Federal Charge
Portland, Ore., Jan. 6 (IB Capt.
Edward Crabtree. arrested by fed
eral Bureau of Investigation
agents at Lomita. Calif., will be
returned to Portland for arraign
ment and trial on charges of em
bezzling federal funds, the FBI
announced today.
The 42-year-old master of a
tanker now docked in the Port
land harbor was taken into cus
tody at his home in Lomita after
an investigation that began 'when
a fire in his quarters aboard the
tanker destroyed all of the ship's
papers on Dec. .27.
After the mysterious fire, Crab
tree was ordered to appear Dec.
28 before a United States coast
guard hearing board. When he
failed to do so, it was discovered
that he had disappeared, along
with $1650 in war shipping ad
ministration funds.
Further investigation revealed
that the captain was short $39,426
in his accounts with the Deacon-
hill - Shipping- company of . San
Francisco. The federal funds
were included in this shortage.
Crabtree, who has been going
to sea for the past 25 years, also
left a suicide note in his cabin
after the fire. It was addressed
to his wife.
British Forces
Hold All Athens
(With United Press)
London. Jan. 6 U' Athens dis
patches said today that British
forces have completed occupation
of the entire Greek capital, pre
sumably paving the way for the
resumption of peace conferences.
A BBC broadcast from tho capi
tal said -E.L.A.S. guerillas had
withdrawn in force from both
Athens and its port, Piraeus, hut
added that their supporters still
may remain within tho city.
CARS IN COLLISION
Collision between two cars on
Oregon avenue late yesterday, in
Howard Mayfield of Redmond,
when she backed away from the
curb.
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Mobilization
Of Manpower
Goal of FDR
Troubled Domestic and
Foreign Affairs Are
Also Given Attention
By Lyle C. Wilson
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Washington, Jan. 6 ill'i Presi
dent Roosevelt today asked con
gress for a national service law
totally mobilizing our manpower
and womanpower to help lick the
Germans this year and to speed
destruction of Japan's "malignant
power."
The request was made in his
13th annual message to congress
on the state of the union, em
bracing the whole fields of trou
bled domestic and foreign affairs.
The president implied that a
United Nations treaty marking
the "beginning of the organiza
tion of world peace" would be sub
mitted to the senate in 1945.
' In addition to a general nation
al service law, he asked for
amendment of the selective serv
ice act to permit immediate induc
'tlon of nurses into the armed
forces and for legislation making
4,000,000 4-F's available "in what
ever capacity is best for the war
effort."
, Can Be Great
j Devoting much of his message
rto an urgent plea for unity and
mutual understanding among the
allies, he said:
. "Tills new year of 1945 can be
he greatest year of achievement
n human history."
The R.OOO worn messneo was
Itead to a joint session of house
tnd senate by clerks immediately
after congress had canvassed the
votes and officially declared
Roosevelt elected for a fourth
term.
Disillusionment after world war
I led us to prefer "international
anarchy to international co-opera
tion with nations which did not
see and think exactly as he did,"
Roosevelt told the congress. He
warned that if it happens again
we shall be on tho "road to a
third world war."
Cannot Shrink
"We cannot and will not shrink,'
he continued, "from the political
responsibilities which follow in
(Continued on Page 3)
Deschutes Drops
In Paper Salvage
Goaded by a report from state
salvage headquarters that Des
chutes county had dropped down
to seventh place in the state lor
production of waste paper for the
war effort, members of the Bend
Junior chamber of commerce to
day issued an appeal for more dill
gent collection of paper by the
residents.
Bruce Gilbert, president of the
chamber, said that the Jaycees
had received a request from the
state headquarters to redouble
their efforts, and accordingly
plans were made for an emergen
cy shipment as soon as possible.
George Thompson and Don Ilig
glns, co-chairmen in charge of the
paper salvage here, said that an
other city wide pickup nf paper
would be made on Sunday, Jan.
14, weather permitting. Because
of the rush call for the much
needed paper, the salvage chair
men said that they planned to
send the load direct to Portland
without rchandling the paper at
the salvage depot. This will make
it necessary, they said, for the
residents to more carefully bun
dle the paper or pack it in paper
cartons so that its shipment might
be expedited. They praised the
manner In which persons have
previously tied the paper, but
strassed since it will be handled
I but once a better bundling should
be done. plows into action on the Santiam
Plan Worked Out highway shortly before noon lo-
The Jaycees said that because jday when showers turned to gen
of the urgency of the call, they : eral snowfall between the summit
would attempt to work out an ar-! and Sisters. Slushy conditions
rangement with business houses ' were reported on the Willamette
for intermediate collection of pa-1
per. They believed that many
firms would have old inventory
files to throw away, and said that
if the firms would telephone 438
arrangements would be marie to
gather the paper nt once, without
waiting for the scheduled Sunday
pickup.
The state report shows that
Deschutes county contributed
only nine tons of paper in Decern
ber, as against 25
ons in October
and 11 In November. This
amounts to only 35 pounds per
person.
Spotted Spies
(NBA Telepholo)
Harvard Merrill Hodgklns, n-year-old
Boy Scout and high school stu
dent of Hancock Point, Me., whose
observation of two men during snow
storm aided FBI agents In their ap'
prehension of spies put ashore for
sabotage from a Qerman submarine,
Klamath Studies
Timber Exchange
Klamath Falls, Jan. 6 (Special)
Klamath and Lake county
courts had under advisement to
day a suggestion they withdraw
their protests against a land ex
change transaction between na
tional forest service and the Shev-
lln-Hlxon Company, of Bend. Af
ter hearing the war production
board, forest and company offi
cials late yesterday, the courts
set Jan. 17 as a date for further
discussion and probably decision
on a proposal from Huntington
Taylor, representing WPB, that
the protests be withdrawn to as
sure Shevlln - Hixon continuance
of current operations.
Taylor and W. II. Meyers, Shcv-lin-Hixon
manager, said that fail
ure of the land exchange transac
tion would disrupt the company's
loeeine nlans to the point where
its war material production pro -
grain wuum uu u..u u. ''"
were especially concerned about i
a forthcoming exchange, Involv
ing an even larger acreage.
Him Kxpluincd
In the exchange under protest,
forest officials, headed by Re
gional Forester Horace Andrew,
admitted the counties will not get
25 per cent of the stumpage value
in this deal, inasmuch as it is not
a cash transaction, but pointed
out that the counties will benefit
from later sale of residual tim
ber which tho company will trans
fer to the government in exchange
for national forest timber. The
forest Inventory will remain un
changed, they pointed out, Inso
far as the Klamath acreage is
concerned, but they revealed that j
the Lake county acre.iRe involved;
is all cut-over land.
Company and forestry officials
also stated that The Shevlin-Hlxon
Company in this transaction, will
pay taxes on tinnier retained ny
the company until It is cut and
removed even though on govern-;
ment land, answering one of the
protesting points of the courts.
Court members said they felt
the counties should get a 25 per
cent of the stumpage? value In- j
VOIVCO, OUI inoiCHieu mey um iilm
want to stand In way of war pro
duction. They asked for further
statistical information from for-
i est service.
Cnriw RlanL-Ainn
Jnow UldMKeimy
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State highway department
' maintenance crews pressed snow
highway, with alternate rain and
snow falling.
The 'snowfall appeared to be
mnm,l l hinhnr nln. aa
officials reported it to be snow
ing south townrd Klamath Falls
ind In other rnldstntc sections. ,
BOMBKR IN ( HASH
Seattle, Jan. G 'IP) -A medium
navy bomber crashed at the naval
!alr station on Whldby island last
night, killing one crew member,
13th naval district headquarters.
I announced today.
Enemy's Resistance Softens
On Northern Side of Salient as
U.S. Forces Slash Out Gains
One Unit Advances More than Mile Through
Snow Without Making Contact With Foe; Nazis
Suffer Heavy Casualties in Bulge Fight
Paris, Jan. 6 (U.E) German resistance softened on the
north side of the Ardennes salient today and Lt. Gen. Court
ney H. Hodges' First army forces advanced southward from
half a mile to more than a mile on a broad front.
Belgian front dispatches filed late in the day reported
the first ease-off in the heretofore desperate German opposi
tion to the four-dny-old offensive of the American First army
driving for a junction with Lt.. Gen. George S. Patton's Third
army forces on the south side of the bulge.
A field report said one unidentified unit advanced z.uuu
yards more than a mile in
the snow-swept Ardennes hills
without making contact with
the nazis.
Supreme headquarters re
ported that the Germans had
suffered a total of 100,000
casualties so far in the battle
of the bulge which began
Dec. 16.
British Thrown Back
Lt. Gen. Sir Miles C. Dempscy's
British Second army forces bat
tering the nose of the salient in
the Marche Rochefort sector ran
into suddenly stiffened opposition.
It cost them the initiative in at
least one sector, where they were
thrown back several hundred
yards.
A possibility was seen that the
relaxation of the Germans on the
north side of the bulge represent
ed a combination of the drain of
four days of hammer blows
against their flank plus a shatter
ing bombardment before dawn to
day of the Houffallze transport
turntable at the center of thcnazl
positions.
1100 Planes Used
Almost 1400 U. S.. Eighth air
force bombers and fighters fol
lowed through on the British
night attack with a widespread
daylight bombardment of Rhine-
land rail and road bridges and
communications centers..
SHAEF sources said Marshal
Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's
armies wore concentrating on con
1 soj(.ltjnf! their gains rather than
I moving ahead today, hut field re
ports showed considerable ad
vances in several sectors.
U. S. armored columns, one
from the northeast and the other
from the northwest, struck over
snow-covered fields to within 100
yards of the La Roche-St. Vlth
highway, a vital supply line to the
Germans in the west end of the
salient.
Sub-Zero Chills
Grip Mid-West
(njt United Press!
Tho cold wave moved Into the
east todav. centering In Michigan
where temperatures of 2G degrees
below zero were reported, while
in tho midwest tho weatherman
dished up a snowstorm that was
expected to continue for the next
24 or 30 hours with an accumu-
laieo iaii oi nearly nine incnes
anticipated at Chicago.
Warmer temperatures were re
ported In Minnesota and Wiscon
sin today with a low of four do-
grees below zero reported at Du-1 employ In the local plant before
luth, Minn. enlisting.
Japs Say Kyushu Is Attacked
By Airmen Flying Very High
By Fred Schorff least by Tokyo said 70 to 80 of
(Uniteii Press stnfr Corrcsponiirnt) the huge B-29s bombed western
Washington, Jan. 6 (Mi China-! Kyushu blindly through clouds
based Superfortresses, 70 to SO and Insisted that only "extremely
strong by enemy accounts, bomb-, slight" damage had been caused,
ed industrial targets In western "The results achieved In inter
Kyushu, southernmost of the Jap- ccption operations by our units
anese home islands, today and a 'are now being investigated," the
broadcast reported in London (communique said,
said Tokyo also was attacked. I Targets most frequently hit In
The Exchange Telegraph agency previous B-29 raids on western
in London said it heard Tokyo:
broadcast that 70 to 80 B-29s
bombed tho "western part" of the
"i,'1', 5aUsin? "I1?"' tlaKp-
ICldCUCe lO 1URVU WUS HOI
kyo was not i
heard by any other listening post,
however, and it appeared the an
nouncer actually was referring to,
the Kyushu attack.
The war deportment announced
that Mai. Gen. Curtis Le May's
20th bomber command in China
had attacked Kvushu bv daylight
. (Japanese time) and said detailsihlgh dense billowing smoke and
or the mission would be released
as soon as they, became available."
A Japanese communique broad-
Garrison s Doom
Believed Sealed
London, Jan. 6 ip Russian
tanks and infantrymen fell upon
the flank of the German relief
army marching on Budapest to
day and rolled up the enemy's
armored spearheads in a surprise
blow that appeared to have sealed
the doom of the Axis garrison
surrounded in the capital.
Wheeling down from the Vert-
es hills west of the city, the Rus
sian flanking columns struck at
a critical moment when German
tanks in considerable force had
punched through the main Red
army defenses at a number ot
points in an area 15 to ,30 miles
northwest of Budapest.
rectlv north from Mor, 35 miles
second struck eastward from Fel
sogalla, 25 miles to the west.
Ripping across the enemys
right flank, the Russians swiftly
rounded up and destroyed the
panzer units leading the German
drive and ground the entire relief
army to a halt.
A triumphant Red army com
munique said the nazis had been
stopped all along the line, al
though there was no claim that
of Axis troops cornered there,
the enemy was abandoning its at
tempt to lift the siege of Budapest
and rescue the tens of thousands
Berlin commentators, however,
acknowcleged that fighting had
"practically ceased" last night.
8000 Nazis Killed
Indicating the ferocity of the
battle, into which the Germans
had thrown at least 300 tanks and
swarms of planes, the communi
que said more tnan 3,uuu nazis
were killed and only 614 captured
yesterday. In addition, another
51 tanks and 29 planes were des
troyed.
Inside the Beleaguered capital.
meanwhile, the plight of the Ger
man and Hungarion garrison was
deteriorating hourly under the
massed fire of thousands of Rus
sian cannon and rocket guns.
IX'DWIG'S PICTURE USED
Among pictures of other em
ployes of the Pacific Telephone
and Tcleghaph company who are
in the service appears the photo
graph of Lt. Otto C. Ludwig of
Bend, in a copy ot Pacific Tele
phone magazine received here to
day. Lt. Luawlg had been an
and northern Kyushu have been
the great imperial Iron and steel
works at Yawata, aircraft and
chemical factories at Omura, the
naval base at Sasebo and war
plants at Nagasaki.
united Press war correspondent
Lisle Shoemaker, reporting from
! 21st homber command headquart-
ers at Guam, said photographs
showed eight square miles of
iNagoya, key war industry center
ion Honshu island, covered with
possibly burning fires after a
strike by Saipan-based B-29s Wednesday.