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Volume Llll
Three Molliomi Heds
U, S. TROOPERS STAB ACROSS
"Agno Crossing
Shatters Vital
Nippon Barrier
Invasion Forces Now
80 Miles From Manila;
Foe Mortar Fire Met
By William B. Dickinson
(Unitttl Prtiaa War Correspondent)
General MacArthur's Headquar
ters, Luzon, Jan. 15 m' Ameri
can invasion troops, stabbing 30
miles inland from the Lingayen
ulf, poured across (he Agno riv
r and advanced to within 80 miles
or less of Manila today.
The forcing of the Agno in
strength shattered at one stroke
probably the strongest natural de
fense line north of Manila and
optimism grew at Gen. Douglas
MacArtnurs neaoquaners mat
the Philippines capital would be
n American hands within a few
weeks, rather months as first be
lieved.
While the main American col-
ums speared more than a quarter
of the distance from Lingayen to
Manila in a frontal advance, other
forces widened the six day - old
beachhead along the gulf itself to
to miles.
Jap Tire Encquntered
A front dispatch disclosed that
American troops striking' east
from Damortis at the northeast
ern tip of the bridgehead had been
halted temporarily by mortar and
sniper fire west of the Apangat
river, three miles from the enemy
air base at Rosario. "Fierce fight
ing" flared, the dispatch said.
(A Japanese communique said
today that American forces were
"gradually closing in" on Japa
nese positions on both sides of the
Pangasinan province plain. Japa
nese units were said to have coun
terattacked American troops who
landed near Damortis on the
northeast side of the beachhead
and to have killed or wounded
1.000 of them in fighting last
Thursday and Friday.)
Tokyo Makes Iteport
(Tokyo radio said three to four
American divisions have landed in
the Lingayen gulf. A Japanese
military commentator said the in
vasion offered the Japanese a
"golden opportunity for annihilat
ing the enemy," but conceded that
flexible American strategy made
the "opportunity for a defensive
campaign hard."
(Saburo Kurusu, Japan's special
envoy to the United States at the
time of the sneak attack on Pearl
Harbor, said in another Tokyo
broadcast that the war had be
come a campaign "for the preser
vation of the Japanese nation.")
(Radio Berlin quoted Japanese
war dispatches from Luzon that
the "entire United States fleet and
a number of British naval units"
were concentrated in the Philip
pines area. The broadcast, heard
by CBS, said Japanese military
circles believed the naval concen
tration would lead to decisive ope
rations "of vital Importance to
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Planes Sweep Over Jap Isle
To Kindle Mid-Winter Fires
By Russell Annabel
(United Press War Correspondent)
Headouartprs 11th AAF. Alas
ka. Jan. 11 (Delayed) UP -Shivering
cliff dwellers of the fantastic
snowbound Japanese garrison of
Toroshima Retto, a bleak rock
off the northern Kuriles, warmed
themselves tonight by what were
certainly the hottest fires they've
"ad since leaving Japan fires of
hpir burning installations.
Two echelons of heavily-gunned
Mitchells which I accompanied
f-tde a surprise attack on the
tiny cliff-girt island which pre
sumably served as an air warning
Pst and shipyard, dropping 84
heavy incendiary bombs among
'be huddle of wooden huts. The
garrison was the target of one
of the most concentrated hails of
rnachine gun fire any Jap post
has received in this theater.
The Mitchells went in through
snow squalls, clearing the island
"l a scant 50 feet. At the con
tusion of thp attack, a number
buildinp-s wen hnrnine. with
olack SmnlfO rmtirlntr nilt nf holes
'n the bombtorn roofs.
Although, the isolated island
w'as situated to provide warnings
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General view of the Western
property, where resins are being
built at a cost of S80.0O0. To the
ing laboratory; the tower in the
the purpose of lowering lumber
USO Community Control Plan
For Bend Approved By Board
Johnson Resigns and Robert E. Burleigh Is
Named to Head Council; Officers Are Elected
Community controlled operation of the Bend USO was ap
proved by the organization's council at a special meeting here
Sunday afternoon, with Robert E". Burleigh elected council
chairman, succeeding Carl A. Johnson, head of the unit since
its organization on May 1, 1942. Action naming new ollicers
followed Johnson's resignation.
"I am compelled to take this action due to the recent as
signment of work in the Bend chamber of commerce," John
son's letter of resignation stated, adding that his duties as
Road Maintenance
Work Under Way
Melting frost left several Des
chutes county roads so muddy as
to bo almost Jmpassable, George
McAllister, road master, said to
day. As a result the road crew
hauled a lot more cinders to
those roads than they planned to
do. The Lambert road softened
up too much for blading last week,
he said, and It was necessary to
cinder most of it. That work will
be finished today.
The shovel will be moved up to
Tetherow hutte today, McAllister
said. The road crew will be em
ployed this week in cindering a
mile-long section of the northwest
Market road and the old Red-mond-Terrebonne
highway, both
of which are in very bad condition
because of mud, he stated.
of the approach of American air
planes heading for the larger
Kurile islands, the Toroshima
by surprise. Its antiaircraft
I guns were unmanned and only
ja few shots were fired as the
Retto garrison itself was taken
planes left.
i Toroshima Retto is a barren,
isheersided top of a peak thrusting
i above the ocean like a broken
i tooth. One of the mysteries of
this campaign is why Japan
picked it as a site for building
motor sampans, 22 of which lay
'partially completed among wind
blown drifts.
j That the island was short of
ifuel was evidenced by unmelted
I snow on the roofs of the flimsy
huts. But Toroshima Japs were
warm tonight heated by fires
I obligingly started by the Mitchell
Jockeys.
i In the plane In wheh I was
' riding were Lt. Jon Datighrey,
pilot, Dadeville. Mo., Lt. George
S. Wampler, Long Beach, Cal.,
Cpl. Orville Judd, Arlington, Va.,
I Cpl. Albert Prosuk, South Orange,
N J-. Cpl. Barnard Curlcy, Tea
neck, N. J., and Lt. George Olah,
iRed Banks, N. J.
BEHB
CENTRAL OREGON'S
THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, MONDAY,
Pine Experiment Plant in Operation
Pine association experiment station on The Shevlin-Hixon Company
extracted from lumber in a new, quick drying process. The plant was
left is a buildine housing a myriad
center is the distillation section, and
into a huge steel vat containing solvent.
president of the local chamber
will make it impossible for
him to devote the necessary at
tention to the office of chair-
man of the Bend USO council.
While serving with the local USO,
in the period of Camp Abbot oc
cupancy and Fourth corps army
maneuvers, Johnson won recog
nition as the outstanding NCCS
USO chairman in the entire Unit
ed States.
The entire council, 22 of whom
were present for Sunday's reor
ganization meeting, were re-elected
to membership on the new
council. Serving with Burleigh
are two vice-chairmen, Marion
Cady and Bruno Rath. Mrs. Wal
ter E. Emard is to continue as
secretary and R. E. Jewell as
treasurer. Mrs. Craig Coyner,
acting director over the Christ
mas holidays, was named director.
Under the loonl set up, the USO
will retain quarters in the base
ment of the Trinity Episcopal
church parish hall, but operation
will be limited to week ends, with
Saturday hours to be from 4 to
11:45 p.m. and Sunday hours from
1 to 11 p.m. It was reported that
approximately 500 servicemen vis
ited the quarters over the holi
days. Johnson explained that under
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Oreoon o Face
v7eneral Uimout
Salem, Ore., Jan. 15 'Hi The
war production board has issued
orders curtailing the use of elec
tricity, effective Feb. 1, public
utilities Commissioner George
Klagg was informed today.
The new order prohibits the use
jof electricity for outdoor adver
tising or promotion lighting, out
i door display, outdoor decorative
' or ornamental lighting, show win-
dows except where necessary,
marquee lighting over 60 watts,
white street lighting In excess of
! the amount determined necessary
for safety, and outdoor sign light
! ing, with certain public safety ex
j ceptlons.
SOI.ONS GET APPLES
Salem, Ore.. Jan. 15 'W The
legislature was greeted with ap
ples today shiny, polished ap
ples, four for each member.
Representative t. KlOdeu Lage,
of Hood River, was the donor. I
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of Intricate instruments and test.
the crane-way to the right is lor
Midstate Anglers
The general trout fishing sea
son east of the Cascades will be
opened'oh May 12, it was reported
here today by Don H. Peoples, sec
retary of the chamber of com
merce, who last Saturday attend
ed a meeting of the Oregon state
game commission -in Portland.
The season is tentatively set to
close at dawn on Oct. 31.
April 28 has tentatively been set
by the commission for fishing to
start on the Deschutes river and
its tributaries from Bend north.
The Deschutes river, between
Cow Camp bridge and the Des
chutes bridge, will be open to
fishing in August. The commis
sion also opened South Twin lake
to fishing, after it had been ban
ned there for four years.
Peoples said that the chamber
of commerce and local sportsmen
probably would protest the May
2 opening date as being too late
in the year. He pointed out that
the season last year had opened
on April 14.
Limits Are Same
Creel limits will remain virtual
ly the same as last year, 15 fish
in one day or 15 pounds of trout
plus one fish.
Possession of 30 fish or 30
pounds of trout plus two fish will
be legal, allowing weekend fish
ermen to carry their two-day
"take" with them.
Ardennes Losses
Put at 40:
Washington, Jan. 15 un
American losses in the zone of
the German break-through in the
Ardennes totaled nearly 40,000,
Secretary of War Henry L. Stim
son announced today.
Of the total, 18,000 are listed as
missing and the majority of these
presumably were captured.
In the same period In that sec
tor approximately 40,000 Germans
were captured and the German
killed and wounded were estimat
ed at 50,000 making a total of
90.000 enemy casualties.
Stimson's announcement stress
ed that the figures were based on
preliminary reports, and that it
would be some time before an
accurate accounting could be
made.
American casualties for the
period on the entire western
front, embracing the First, Third,
Seventh and Ninth armies, total
ed 52,594.
These Include 4.083 killed; 27,
654 wounded; and 20,866 missing.
MOTOR IS STOLEN
Theft of a washing machine
motor from the Wall street serv
ice station, today was being in
vestigated by Bend police.
UJUDIUI
DAILY
NEWSPAPER
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Drive Opened
By Allied Units
German Resistance Is
Reported Cracking as
Columns Make Gains
Paris, Jan. 15 UP) Allied tank
columns broke open the center of
the Ardennes salient in a multi
pronged advance that all but en
circled the nazi pivot at Houffu-
lize today, while American troops
on the northeast drove to within
seven miles of St. Vith, the last
German strong-point on Belgian
soil.
German resistance was crack
ing all around Houffalize under
the relentless allied pounding, but
field dispatches said the nazis still
were fighting fanatically to pre
vent an American break through
at St. Vith that would envelop
most, if not all, of their covering
forces to the west.
Roads lainmed
Marshal Karl von Rundstedt ap
peared to have written off the
thousands of nazi infantrymen
and scores of tanks still fighting a
stuborn rear guard action around
Houffalize in an effort to extri
cate his hand-picked SS panzer
divisions from the collapsing sali
ent. The few secondary roads lead
ing eastward from Houffalize that
had not been cut by the allies
were reported jammed with Ger
man armor and motorized col
i omiiB racing back toward tne
Siegfried line to escape destruc
tion at tne nanus or tne converg
ing American and British armies.
(Front and SH.Af reports nia
not make clear the situation west
of Houffalize or whether the new
junctions of the armies had cut
off any German troops. The best
Information indicated, however,
that the pressure on the side of
the salient had squeezed the Ger
mans eastward and most if not nil
of them had withdrawn to or be
yond the lateral line through
Houffalize.)
May Reform Line
Headquarters observers indi
cated the wily Rundstedt was
hoping to reform on a line extend
ing along the German border
from the St. Vith area to Vianden,
25 miles to the south.
The German withdrawal was
aided early today by a heavy
ground fog that shackled the al
lied air forces and prevented a
repetition of yesterday's heavy
aerial assault that littered the Ar
dennes with the wreckage of hun
dreds of nazi tanks and troop car
riers. The main weight of the Amer
ican attack again fell upon the
northeastern corner of ,the salient,
where U. S. First army tanks and
infantrymen battled slowly down
from the Malmedy-Stavelot line
toward St. Vith.
Fighting through four-foot
snowdrifts that frequently bog
ged down their armored support,
doughboys of the .JUtn tnianiry ui
visions drove into the streets of
Thirimont, seven miles north of
St. Vith, fell back under a heavy
counter-attack, and went In again
to capture half of the town late
last night.
After three days of slow, cost
ly attack, the Americans had
chopped about 5,000 yards off the
corner of the salient and front
reports said German resistance
was stiffening.
RAF Fliers Strike at Germany's Shrinking
Oil Supply; Berlin Also Visited By Raiders
I-ondon, Jan. 15 Hit More than
1,100 RAF bombers took over the
offensive against Germany's
shrinking oil supplies last night
and early today, bombing a syn
thetic oil plant, a fuel depot and
, Berlin in a sequel to yesterday's
raids in which 243 enemy planes
I were destroyed.
Soon after dawn, American
j heavy bombers with an escort of
; ngnters soared nacK over ucr
I many for a new round of attacks.
I RAF four-englned Lancaster
j bombers attacked the Luena syn
thetic oil plant nt Merscburg, 17
'miles west of Leipzig. Returning
! crewmen reported tremendous ex
i plosions split the night sky as
tneir bombs found vital targets.
Hundreds of direct hits also
were reported in the attack on
Dulmen, whose fuel depot 17
miles southwest of Munster, was
one of those from which the Ger
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200 American Planes Strike
At Formosa, Jap Isle Bastion
Foe Admits 'Small Damage' to Airfield;
Nips Assert Five U. S. Raiders Shot Down
Pearl Harbor, Jan. 15 (U.E) Enemy broadcasts said 200
American carrier planes presumably from Admiral Wil
liam F. Halsey's rampaging Third fleet raked airfields and
communications on the Japanese island bastion of Formosa
today.
The broadcasts indicated that the Third fleet, under radio
silence since it wrecked 38 enemy ships in attacks along a
250-mile stretch of the French Indo-China coast last Friday,
had swung north from the South China sea for its third as
sault on Formosa in two weeks.
A communique issued by Japanese army headquarters
said the carrier planes bombed4
airfields and communications;
facilities and also strafed and
blasted Taichu, Shoka, Takao,
and several other villages for
four and a half hours.
The communique acknowledged
"some damage" to airfields and
said "small fires" were started at
Takao, where 30 civilians were re
ported to have been killed or
wounded. The raids lasted from
8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. (Tokyo time),
the communique said.
Five shot Down
Five of the raiders were shot
down and one damaged, the com
munique said. It was broadcast by
the Domei agency, transmitted by
Tokyo radio, and recorded by FCC
monitors.
Polio Campaign
Leaders Chosen
The eighth annual campaign
for funds to support the Founda
tion for Infantile Paralysis got
under way here today, with the
organization for the drive com
pleted, it was announced by Mrs.
J. F. Arnold, Deschutes county
chairman. Committee chairman
for Bend and Redmond were se
lected, as well as for the different
granges in the county.
The drive for funds in Bend
will be conducted by the Women's
Junior league, headed by Mrs.
Norman Gilbert. Local sponsors
for the campaign are Mayor and
Mrs. A. T. Niebergall, County
Judge C. L. Allen and Circuit
Judge R. S. Hamilton.
Camp Fire girls of Redmond
and Bend also will participate in
the drive for $"1,000 relief dollars,
It was announced, with Mrs.
Chalmers Nooe heading the group
in Redmond, and Mrs. Joe Elder
in Bend.
Chulrmen Named
Grange chairmen are as fol
lows: Tumalo, Mrs. Fred Shep
herd; Sisters, Mrs. D. L. Far
leigh; Lapine, Sara Yager; Shcv
lln, Maurice Lyons; Eastern Star,
Mrs. Daisy Smith; Pine Forest,
Mazie Smead; Alfalfa, Mrs. C.
Livesley, and Terrebonne, Mrs.
Baty Allen. Heading the commit
mittee in Redmond Is Mrs. Jess
Tetherow.
Mrs. Gilbert announced that
booths would Ix; erected In the
Bend banks and in other public
places for the receiving of con
tributions. These booths will be
staffed by members of the Junior
league.
Mrs. Arnold said that for the
convenience of those unable to
visit the booths or contact the
different chairmen, funds would
he received by mail addressed to
Mrs. J. F. Arnold, 126 Minnesota
avenue, Bend.
man army drew supplies for the
break through in Ardennes.
Berlin was hit twice during the
night, first at 8:30 p. m. and again
about midnight. Other RAF night
raiders attacked railways behind
the western front.
A communique from supreme
headquarters in Paris said allied
planes shot down 235 enemy
planes in 12 hours of whirling
combats over Europe from Den
mark to the Swiss border yester
day. Eight more enemy aircraft
were destroyed on the ground.
The Eighth V. S. air force set
the pace for the day with a toll
of 183 GerVnan planes all but
three of them shot down In com
bat destroyed out of 400 which
challenged Its bombers and fight
ers In raids on synthetic oil plants,
oil storage depots and other key
I targets.
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BEND RESIDENTS
DONATE 35,000
POUNDS PAPER
"It exceeded our wildest expec
tations!" That's the way members of
Bend Junior chamber of com
merce characterized yesterday's
city wide salvage paper pickup,
when they estimated that resi
dents contributed approximately
18 tons of paper for the war et
fort. In fact there was so much paper
donated that the Jaycces were un
able to get it all in one box car,
and at least a truck load was left
over and will be shipped this
weekend, they reported.
The generous paper donation
was so great thatjt exceeded the
amount gathered in both of the
previous pickups, according to
Don Hlggins and George Thomp
son, co-chairmen of the salvage
paper drive.
At least 35,000 pounds of paper
were gathered by the 13 members
of the junior chamber who work
ed throughout the day, covering
the city with three trucks, and
loading the freight car.
In order to he able to devote the
entire day to the paper pickup in
the residential districts, the Jay-
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Ex-Bend Sailor
Listed Missing
Wendell Eggen, 33, former
Bend resident and husband of
Ruth Shearer Eggen, cx-Dcs-ehutes
county treasurer, has been
missing since the sinking of the
U.S.S. Monnghan, one of the three
American destroyers lost in a
Pacific typhoon that claimed the
lives of 500 American sailors, it
has been learned here.
Earlier news reports indicated
that only six members of the
Monaghan's crew were picked up
after the fierce storm subsided.
Mrs. Eggen, now In Grants Pass,
was notified by the navy depart
ment that her husband Is missing.
Son of Rev. and Mrs. Aimer N.
Eggen, former Bend residents
who are now in Eugene, Radar
man Eggen volunteered for en
listment at Grants Pass on Feb.
14, 1914. He was born on May 7,
1912, in St. Cloud, Minn.
Rev. Eggen, while living here
with his family, was pastor of
i the
I the First Lutheran church. Wen-
; dell was a graduate from the
I Kent, Wash., high school.
The 850 fighters which escorted
more than 900 Flying Fortresses
and Liberators on the raids ac
counted for 152 of the enemy
planes, their biggest bag of the
war, and the remainder fell to
gunners aboard the bombers.
"I think that with two or three
days like this we wouldn't have
anything to worry about, so far as
the luftwaffe is concerned," an
official American spokesman said.
Nineteen bombers and 12 fight
ers were missing from the Eighth
air force assaults, which centered
on the Hemmlngstedt oil refinery,
near Helde on the Danish penin
sula; a synthetic oil plant at Mag
deburg; oil storage depots at Der
ben, northeast of Magdeburg, and
Ehmcn, northeast of Brunswick;
a benzol plant and steel mill at
Hallendorf, south of Brunswick,
and the last three surviving bridg
es across the Rhine at Cologne.
Weather Forecast
Showers at low elevations, other
wise snow today, tonight ' and
Tuesday. Colder today and tonight.
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Soviets Launch
Berlin March
On Huge Scale
Nine Engagements Are
Reported on Long Front
As Stalin Legions Strike
London, Jan. 15 tin One of the
greatest battles of the war raged
today along a virtually unbroken
front from Lithuania to Yugo
slavia, with possibly 3,250,000 Rus
sian and Germans locked in at
least nine closely synchronized
struggles.
Bitter fighting has flared up
on the entire front," the German
high command reported.
The Russians already were call
ing their great winter offensive .
the march to Berlin. Nazi military
spokesmen warned that the red
army "Intends to end the war."
Moscow silent
So far Moscow had confirmed
only Marshal Ivan K. Konev's
push .across the frozen plains or
south - central Poland, aimed
squarely at the great nazi defense
bastion of Krakow and the rich
industries of German Silesia.
But Berlin said the red army of
fensive had raced to both ends of
the front, with sledge'-hammer
blows so near each other that It
was difficult to determine where
one attack left off and another
began.
Nazi propagandists said the Sov
iets had flung 115 divisions, plus
more than 15 tanks corps, into
four fronts alone, while a United
Press dispatch from Moscow fig
ured German strength in Poland
at 100 divisions.
Dnuhle To Rally
On the single new front re
ported by Moscow, soviet dis
patches said the Germans had
been unable to rally, and the Rus
sians were rolling westward at a
clip which threatened to split the
nazi armies in Poland.
The German high command
said the main battle zones, from
south to north, were Budapest,
the Danube valley northwest of
the Hungarian capital, the Hun-garlan-Slovakian
border area, the
Krakow front, the Pulawy region
of the Vistula valley 66 miles
south of Warsaw, the Magnusze
area 33 miles below Warsaw, the
Vistula-Bug triangle north of the
Polish capital, soviet bridgeheads
across the Narew on either side
of Pulutsk north of Warsaw, and
a broad front in East Prussia.
Nazis MuKc Claim
The nazi command claimed that
175 Russian tanks had been de
stroyed "In the great winter bat
tle between the Carpathian moun
tains and the Niemen," 82 in the
Narew bridgehead and 51 in East
Prussia.
A Moscow dispatch said Ko
nev's offensive was expanding so
rapidly that it was Impossible to
tell whether the red marshal's ul
timate objective was Germany it
self, the capture of Krakow, the
seizure of the Katowice steel and
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2 Convicts Die
In Gas Chamber
By Ervln McNeill
(Unltrtl I'rpiui Stnft CorreHpomlent)
Salem, Ore., Jan. 15 ilf I lonry
William Merten, 32, and Walter
Lorno Wilson. 35, died today in
the first double lethal gas execu
tion conducted in Oregon. They
riled for the holdup slaving of
Ralph Dahlen, 27, Oak Grove,
early In the morning of July 22,
1913.
Merten was the first to die, en
tering the gas chamber nt 9 a. m.
The gas hit his face at 9:03Mr and
he was pronounced dead at 9:07
a. m. He hail no comment for
newsmen, walked 'unaided to the
death chair and died bravely.
Dies In Minute
After the gas was cleared from
the chamber, Wilson entered un
aided at 10 a. m. The gas hit his
face at 10:0(5 and he Inhaled deep
ly Intentionally. He was dead a
minute later.
Wilson was smiling as he sat
down in the chair and displayed
no emotion. He told newsmen In
his cell he had no belief in religion
but had no objection to It for
others.
Neither of the men asRed for a
chaplain.