THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON. SATURDAY, JAN. 6, 1945
PAGE THREE
Warsaw City of
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(Bilitor's note: Henry Shftiiiro, chief
. nf the United Press bureau in Moscow,
has just returned to l.ublin from War
law, apparently the first American cor
respondent to visit the city in at least
three years. In the following- dispatch,
he tells of the frightful devastation
wrought upon that prewar capital In
flye years of war and nf the approach
ing Red army offensive which will com
plete its liberation.)
By Henry Shapiro
(United Press War Correspondent)
Lublin, Poland, Jan. 5 ilH War
saw is a city of desolate ruins,
stretching mile upon mile in every
direction, but in its eastern dis
tricts are poised several mighty
Soviet and Polish armies ready
to strike across the frozen Vistula
in what may be the decisive
winter offensive of the eastern
front.
I have just returned from War
saw, where I saw those armies
and the rubble of what once was
one of the greatest capitals in
Europe. Soldiers under the Sov
iet and Polish banners were mas
sed in Praga.on the east bank of
the Vistula and as much an in
tegral part of Warsaw as Brook
lyn is of New York city.
Wreckage Viewed
From the east side of the Vis
tula, just below one of Warsaw's
four bridges and only 300 yards
from the German lines, I looked
across the wreckage left by Ger
mans, then Soviet bombs ' and
shells since that fateful Sept. 1,
1939.
The naked frame of a 15-story
building dominated the skyline
like a macabne skeleton. For
miles behind the long lines of
German trenches, pillboxes and
artillery emplacements, there was
no sign of any living thing. Even
powerful binoculars failed to re
veal signs of life.
But invisible Germans, were en
trenched underground and behind
the vestiges of tenements broke
the monotony of the winter day
with bullets and. artillery shells,
which screamed overhead.
There was a little cemetery at
almost every corner. Victims of
the war were buried immediately
almost where they fell.
Benefit Claims
In State Low
Salem, Jan. 6 During 1944 un
employment compensation in Ore
gon operated on the smallest
scale since benefits first became
payable. Of the 5,088 persons
who filed initial claims, only 2,
131 actually drew benefits and
most of them for only brief peri
ods between jobs. Payments to
talled $157,843, a reduction of 50
per cent from 1943 and 97 per cent
Irom 1938.
Average weekly benefits were
about $13.60 the commission "point
averaged only about 8 payments,
who drew their maximum amount
ed out and even the 399 workers
Others averaged about five weeks
of unemployment during the year.
Most of the unemployed were
women and many were past the
retirement age.
More than half of the payments
were made in
four employment
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Selective Service Delinquents
Turnup With Unique Excuses
By Norman Montlller
- (United Press Staff Correspondent)
San Francisco, Jan. 6 UPi Sab
otage and major crimes are meat
for the agents of the federal bu
reau of investigation but some of
their dessert comes with freak
cases of selective service delin
quency which add to the worry of
hard-working. G-men but also en
liven some dull moments.
Nat Pieper, special agent in
charge of the FBI in San Fran
cisco, today reviewed some of the
more classic "excuses" presented
by draft delinquents who hope to
talk their way out of the FBI nets
but mostly in vain.
One of the "old reliables" offer
ed frequently by delinquents is
that they thought "somebody else
would keep the board informed of
their whereabouts," Pieper said.
One of them, however Deamie
Lee Chadwiek went on better.
He claimed he was a human send
ing set and had a direct cqptact
with God; that God always knew
where he was and would notify
the draft .board. Deamie is now
using his powers in the navy.
Illiteracy or ignorance is an
other excuse defendants often of
fer. One Gee, a Chinese, was found
to have never registered and
claimed through an interpreter
that he did not speak English
and did not know he had to regis
ter. offices areas Astoria, Portland,
Salem and Coos Bay. Seasonal
unemployment in the fish packing
industry was largely responsible
for the $37,785 paid out in Astoria.
Delayed payments to 241 Mont
gomery Ward workers thrown
out of jobs during the close
down in 1944 helped put Portland
in second place with $19,099, while
Salem had $12,667 and Coos Bay
$12,506.
War Briefs - -
(By United Press)
Pacific Planes of third fleet
destroy or damage 95 Japanese
ships and 331 aircraft in a 48 hour
assault against Formosa and
Okinawa.
Western Front Tanks and In
fantry battles rage around Ar
dennes salient before counterof
fensive in north and lash back at
American third army on south
flank.
Eastern Front Russian tanks
and infantry attack flank of Ger
man relief army maching on
Budapest, roll up armored spear
heads and seal doom of axis garrison-trapped
in capital.
Air War More than 1,000
British bombers strike twice at
Berlin and Hannover and RAF
task force follows with pre-dawn
attack on nazi troops in Ardennes.
Italy Canadian troops clear
southern shore of Valli Di Com
machio and occupy San Alberto.
ELM GETS A BOOST
Cambridge, Mass. W The tall
est tree in Harvard university's
north quadrangle is 50 feet from
thj ground, but only 30 inches
tall. Since 1928, the elm tree has
been growing out of a chimney
top on the Cruft laboratory.
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In federal district court, Gee
still could not speak English. But
when the judge remarked: "Well,
you'll make a good cook for the
army, anyway," Gee immediately
protested in good English: "I'm
not a cook, I am a laundryman."
(The Judge was right about the
army.)
Another delinquent wanted 90
days in which to locate and "teat
up" an acquaintance. He was
given a year in prison.
Still another slipped away from
the induction station "because his
feet hurt." He became an infan
tryman. But Mike John Thravellow
turned in the most literary effort
when he answered the draft
board's demonstrations about fail
ing to report.
"In reply to your threatening
postal card," he said, "I am in
forming you just as I wrote in
the papers I filed that I was not
an American citizen and further
that your Uncle Sam does not own
me. When my old man brought
me to this country in 1910 he
came here for the sole purpose of
becoming wealthy through hpnest
labor. He did not have any inten
tion of becoming an American,
neither did I.
"So you were quite wrong when
you started sending me threaten
ing letters of imprisonment."
Mike' was given two years in
jail to think it over.
Pine Forest
Pine Forest, Jan. 6 (Special)
The Pine Forest grange met in
regular session Tuesday. A spe
cial feature of the meeting was
the installation of the 1945 juve
nile officers by Mrs.. P. R. Reidel,
assisted by Frances Wilcox, Kath
leen and Betty Ives, and two char
ter members of the first juvenile
grange 17 years ago, George Mur
phy and Alice Klassen.
The juvenile matron was also
installed. Worthy Master Van
Vleet made a report on the farm
bond sale for Pine Forest com
munity, which is $51,550, 97.50 per
cent paid up, just a little short of
the goal. A number of subordinate
officers were also installed by
Mrs. Reidel.
The juvenile grange met Sat
urday afternoon. The grange de
cided to have a paper drive to
gather up all the Christmas pa
per, and planned for a carnival to
be held later. The next meeting
will be Jan. 13.
The home extension unit met
Friday at the home of Mrs. Gladys
Halligan. Twelve ladies attended
the meeting which was "Keeping
Fit With Vitamin C." Miss Boeckli
was the leader. -
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Tves and
daughters, Betty and Kathleen,
were New Year's dinner guests
at the Stanley Bowden home.
Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Kramer at
tended the New Year's reception
at the home of Rev. and Mrs. Rob
ert Prentice Monday.
Earl Underwood, son of Mr. and
Mrs. W. M. Underwood, returned
to Portland Tuesday after spend
ing his Christmas vacation with
his parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Pack, Mrs.
Elmer Pack, Mr. and Mrs. Ben
Issaak, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Loy
were Christmas dinner guests ot
Mr. and Mrs. Webb Loy.
Mr. and Mrs. Hoy Van Vleet
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actress Toni Seven for the flash
that she's the favorite pin-up of
G. I. editors. His recent survey
of service publications indicated
that her photo, usually the one
above, appeared three limes as
often as pictures of other top
pin-ups, including such barrack
wall flowers as Lana Turnar,
Bettv Grable and Carole Landia
spent Christmas at the home of
their daughter, Mrs. S. J. Frakes
and family near Tumalo.
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Gilbert and
children, Mr. and Mrs. A. A.
Pierce; Mrs. N. H. Gilbert and
Kathryn Her were Christmas din
ner guests at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Vick Her in Blakley
Heights.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Walker and
children spent the holidays in
Prineville at the William Krog
home.
Mr. and Mrs. II. E.'Guglo of
Shevlin were New Year's guests
at the L. C. Kramer home Mon
day. Mr. and Mrs. Gene Calhoon and
children, Neil and Lee, spent the
holidays at the home of Mrs. Cal
boon's mother, Mrs. Felix Spring
stubc, in Bend.
Mr. and Mrs. Marion Taylor and
Mr. and Mrs. George Murphy and
children were dinner guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Louis Gloss Christinas
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Everett Donahue
and sons spent the holidays at the
home of Mrs. Donahue's parents
in Ashland.
Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Fox were
New Year's dinner guests at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Claude
Wanichek.
The Thursday Book club mot
Dec. 27 at the home of Mrs. Mave
Her in Blakley Heights. The club
held a Christmas party with a gift
exchange, the singing of carols
and each guest told a Christmas
story.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Gloss and
children were the dinner guests
iof Mr. and Mrs. Marion Taylor in
I Redmond on New Year's.
! The Home Economics club of
the Pine Forest grange met Jan.
2 at the home of Mrs. Stella Nel
son, wilh Mrs. Grace Kramer as-
jsisting. Fifteen ladies were pres
ent and the afternoon was spent
in settling all the work of the old
year, so the new Officers could
take over. The meeting date has
been changed from the first Wed
nesday of the month to the third
: Wednesday. The next meeting will
be Feb. 21 at the home of Mrs.
Lucille Smead. Luncheon was
served.
, Mrs. Eva Durkee, Mr. and Mrs.
Wilfred- Holman and daughter,
Donna Jean, spent the holidays at
'the home of Mrs. H. Tilden in
; Washington.
Members Added
To Grange Group
Tumalo, Jan. fi Appointment
of members to two additional
committees for the Tumalo
grange were announced today hy
James Chamberlin, master. .Selec
tion of the committee members
was made at a meeting of the
grange last night.. The members
are:
Agriculture committee: Fred
Shepard, chairman; Gordon Wil
cox and Lee Allen. Legislative
committee. Mrs. James Chamber
lin, chairman; Joe Henry and Ed
ward Wright.
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Jan. 15 Deadline
For Tax Filings
J. W. Moloney, collector of in
ternal revenue, has reminded
taxpayers in this district- that
January 15 is the deadline for
filing original or amended 1944
declarations of estimated tax and
for paying installments on previously-filed
declarations for 1944.
Nearly all farmers are required
to file original 1944 declarations
by January 15. Most other tax
payers who were required to file
1944 declarations did so last April.
but those who underestimated i
their tax by more than 20 per
cent should file amended declara
tions to avoid the penalty for
substantial underestimates. Jan
uary 15, likewise, is the last day
for paying all installments due
on 19-14 declarations..
Maloney also called attention to
the new provision of law which
permits a taxpayer to file his an
nual income tax return for 1944
and pay the tax due on the return
by January 15, instead of filing
or paying "estimated tax" other
wise due at that time. Taxpayers
availing themselves of this spe
cial provision will be saved the
double duty of filing and paying
"estimated tax" on January 15
and filing and paying on the an
nual return March 15. March 15
remains the regular deadline for
tiling 1944 annual returns and
1945 declarations of estimated tax.
For detailed information and
forms, Maloney invited taxpayers
to call at the office of the nearest
deputy collector. .
Mobilization
(Continued from Page One)
the wake of battle wo must not
this time lose the hope of estab
lishing an international order
which will be more perfect justice
between nations.
"Most important of all," said
Roosevelt, summing up postwar
political hopes, "1945 can sand
must see the substantial begin
ning of the organization of world
peace" -an obvious hint that
some part of the proposed ma
chinery is to 1)0 submitted to the
senate this year in treaty form,
Roosevelt frankly admitted con
cern about the Greek and Polish
situations. He said there were
many troubling matters. But he
reminded that they are not dealt
with simply and that we do have
obligations, not npcessarlly legal,
to the exiled governments, to the
underground leaders and to "our
major allies who came much near
er the shadows than we did.
Mentions Charter
He pleaded that we do not ex
ploit nor exaggerate the differ
ences between ourselves and our
allies. The principles of the At
lantic charter have been written
into the declaration of the United
Nations, he recalled, and this
country will use its influence to
see that those principles are ful
filled "so far as is humanly pos
sible." The army and navy have 40,000
nurses. They need 20,000 more at
once and the situation is tragic,
the president said. There are 280,
000 registered nurses in the Unit
ed States. He said it was esti
mated that 27,000 could be made
available to the armed services
without "interfering too seri
ously" wilh civilian needs. The
president proposed that they be
drafted, and at once by amend
ment of the selective service art.
Asks Cooperation
He urged men and women in
war jobs to stay in them. He
summoned- those in unessential
occupations to get into the war
effort now.
"This is no time to quit or lo
change to less essential jobs," he
said. "There is an old and true
saying that the lord hates a quit
ter." Airplane production goals are
going up. The army needs artil
lery, ammunition, cotton duck,
bombs, tires, tanks, heavy trucks
and more airplanes, including the
B-29 model that is pasting Japan.
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Bend Sergeant
Of Himalaya in
A Twentieth Bomber Command
Base, Somewhere In India Tech
nical Sergeant Robert H. Fox, Jr.,
of Bend, Oregon, has been award
ed the oak leaf cluster to the air
medal, In lieu of a second air med
al, by Major General Curtis E. Le
May, commanding general of the
XX Bomber Command.
Sergeant Fox Is a member of a
combat crew on one of the air
force's newest weapons, the B-29
"Superfortress," which, since last
June 1944, has been striking pow
erful blows at the Japanese main
land and enemy held territories
irom the Nethcrland East Indies
in the south to the puppet state of
Manchuria far to the north.
The citation awurded Sergeant
Fox reads in part, "for outstand
ing and meritorious achievement
while participating in operation
and combat flights from bases In
India to bases in China and re
turn, and from bases in China on
missions over enemy territory
where enemy fire was probable
and expected. These flights were
made over extremly r u g g e d i
terrain where unfavorable wea-1
The navy Is hampered by ammu
nition shortages and the produc
tion of "huge rockets" lags. La
bor shortages have delayed cruis
er and carrier programs and pro
duction of some aircraft.
The president outlined all of
that and then presented to con
gress his request for all-out na
tional service legislation backed
by the demand of the army and
navy heads themselves that con
gress make good on the promise
it made in joint resolutions de
claring that a state of war existed
with Japan and Germany. The
promise was that "to bring the
conflict to a successful conclu
sion, all of the resources of the
country are hereby pledged by
the congress of the United States."
There were no conditions this
time to his national service re
quest as there were a year ago
when the president made it part
of a five-point program that he
wanted kept together.
Calls On Congress
Recalling that his 1944 recom
mendation was not adopted,
Roosevelt said:
"I now again call upon congress
to enact this measure for the total
mobilization of all our human re
sources for the prosecution of the
war. I urge this to be done at the
earliest possible moment. It is not
too late in the war.
"In fact, bitter experience has
shown that in this kind of me
chanized warfare where new
weapons are constantly being cre
ated by our enemies and by our
selves, the closer wo come to the
end of the war, the more pressing
becomes the need for sustained
war production with which to de
liver the final blow to the enemy."
WAR STRIKES COUNTY
Huntington, Ind. Ul'i Three
Huntington county soldiers who
went overseas together and were
in the same major engagement,
but not the same unit, were war
casualties on the same day.
Wounded were Pvt. Hugh Barber
and Pvt. Harold Becker, while
Pvt. Maurice Barnes was placed
on the missing-in-actlon list.
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ther made flying hazardous."
Throughout the difficult monsoon
season Sergeant Fox participated
In many flights over the famous
Himalayan "hump" routes to
bases in China,
The citation concludes with the
statement: "Undaunted by the
many hazards faced regularly and
continuously he performed his
duties in such a manner as to re
flect great credit to this com
mand to the army air forces."
Sergeant Fox is the son of Rob
ert H. Fox, Sr., of 155 Irving
street, Bend, Oregon. He is a grad
uate of Bend high school of the
class of 1933. He entered the serv
ice on February 10, 1942, at Fort
Lewis, Washington. Before enter
ing and coming to this theater he
served in the Caribbean area
where he won his first air medal
for participation in flights over
the sea approaches to the Panama
canal.
Prior to entering the armed
forces he was employed by the
United Staes postof fice as a Dostal
clerk, at Bend, Oregon.
Bend Men Apply
For Wer Work
The mere threat of action to
force 4-F's and other deferred
young men into war industries ap
parently has achieved at least part
of the objective sought, J. C.I
Branaman, manager of the Bend .
area office of the U. S. employ-1
ment service said today. I
A temporary rush of 4-F's, farm
workers and holders of non-essen
tial jobs started Tuesday, Brana- i
man said, after war mobilization'
Director James F. Byrnes stated:
he would ask congress for legis
lation to permit closer control of'
4-F's.. It had shown no signs of I
tapering off by noon today, ac-i
cording to Branaman.
The Merchant marine took the
spotlight locally, Branaman said,
with a heavy interest in informa
tion displayed. As the maritime
commission does not maintain a
local office all Information con
cerning the merchant marine is
given out locally by the U. S. em
ployment service, he added.
A national survey conducted by
United Press showed increases
ranging from five to 55 per cent
over the number of persons nor
mally seeking referral to war
jobs. The report showed that thou
sands already have been chan
neled Into plants making muni
tions, tires, guns and other war
essential Items. , .n
OLD WEST RETURNS
Topeka,- Kan. iU'i Cattle-rustl-in'
days have returned to the
plains of Kansas. R. E. Adams of
Maplehill, Kan., has offered a
$2,500 reward for information
leading to conviction of rustlers
who herded 81 head of cattle from
his Meady county ranch recently.
Of the cattle, 40 cows have been
recovered from a canyon where
they were hidden. The 41 missing
head are calves weighing about
475 pounds each.
Remember . . .
When "Windy" Maioo and other old-time drivers
furnished the principal means of transportation
through Central Oregon? When with frequent
changes of horses and plenty "cracking" of the
whip it took as many as 72 hours to reach The
Dalles? Those were the "good" old days!
When in the late '20s and early '30s you rounded this curve on
the Wapinitia and came out on the Criterion flats? Your means
of transportation was "super" and you weren't looking forward
to anything better.
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Farm Machinery
Being Repaired
Tumalo, Jan. 6 (Special) A
farm machinery repair school Is
being conducted in the Irrigation
company shop at Tumalo under
the guidance ot Borden F. Beck,
Instructor of vocational agricul
ture in the Redmond union high
school.
Claude Jackson is the mechanic
In charge of the school which is
being held five hours each day,
having commenced last Monday.
The school will continue for -36
hours but if the work justifies it,
more schools will be offered.
Farmers should check with
Jackson as to when to bring In
work so as to permit best use of,
available space and equipment.
Farmers wishing to build po
tato sackers, manure loaders, sack
elevators or something else, or
who wish to overhaul tractors,
trucks, or other farm equipment
should avail themselves of this
opportunity, those in charge say.
This is a continuation of the
program conducted last year to
aid in the war effort by helping
in construction and repair of farm
equipment.
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entrusted him with a gravestone
inscribed, "Matthew Reed, Died
Dec. 28, 1860."
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