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CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
Volume LI 1 1
TWO SECTIONS
THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND. DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON. THURSDAY. JAN. 18. 1945
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JAPS BELIEVED REMOVINQ MANILA
fokyo Reports
Lingayen Gulf
Army Flanked
Landings From Ocean
Reported By Foe News
Agency; Gains Achieved
General MacArthur's Headquar
ters, Luzon, Jan. 18 U Field re
ports indicated today that the Jap
anese have begun evacuating key
personnel by air from Manna to
northern Luzon and possibly even
Formosa in anticipation of the
parly fall of the Philippine capi
tal. , (A Japanese Domei dispatch
'lworded by the FCC claimed that
; a Japanese unit had landed "from
me sea ana iu ine rear 01 Amer
ican positions in the Lingayen
culf Tuesday night and "heavily
blasted and set ablaze enemy mu
nitions stored in native houses
and trucks assembled along the
coastal highway.")
News ot .furtive northward
flights by enemy transport planes
leached headquarters as Amer
ican forces massed strength a
few miles above Tarlac, 65 miles
north of Manila, for a new south
ward lunge that was expected to
carry all the way to the great
Clark air center, 25 miles away.
Beachhead
Other forces widened the Amer
can beachhead on the Lingayen
trulf north of Tarlac to 65 miles
I'ith a 17-milo advance which
foaled off the Pangasinan penin
sula and secured the . wester
'uank-against the possibility o'f a
iT,vfHnese counier-auacK.
Ininos, the western column
S ushed through clear to the
fiorthern tip of the peninsula at
:sounao in the lace of only neg
igible resistance from scattered
lapanese stragglers. At last re
torts, the Americans were ad-
rancing down the west coast of
lie peninsula toward Dasol bay,
'.5 miles southwest of Alaminos.
oixth army troops also made!
urther progress on the eastern I
lianK despite sham resistance
om well-entrenched Jaoanese
Jroops. One force drove to within
nalt mile Of Rosarlo. five miles
Jiland from Damortis and 14
Biiles southwest nf the sum
Aipital of Baguio.
Routes Listed
Another cut the main central
lains north-south highway at Bo
unan. eleht mil nh nf nn.
Vno, and a third rammed into
Wzorrubio, enemy strong point
r Minn milnc nnc e o nu!
unce the Japanese attack
!mtcs on the eastern flank have
4 'iu men ajjcaim
Kely within a matter of hours-
tie Americans above Tarlac were
xpected to resume their south
ed march toward Manila.
Tarlac, a nrovlneinl mnliai
ad hub and town of 17,000,
'iiould prove an easv nut in nrar-u-
jnd reconnaissance reports indi-
me Americans would meet
" ioi midable resistance north of
He Clark field air ronton if in.
lied above Manila itself.
aris Hears 120
Killed in Wrerlr
Paris, Jan. 18 (III The French
ess agency said todav that 190
1
'"rsons were killoH nnrt onn in.
Yed at Rouen yesterday when a
tidsnea through a back
'ird at the St. Valery En Caux
1 a 1 1 O n. Dluncpri nut Into iha
nrppt nii,i .. r.,
i i'"4 up anu overturnca:
I. :
laps Complain
'he Japanese todav snhmittnrt a
i n w,"i'is against Amen
fn strategy in Luzon. Tokvo ra-
I recorded by United Press. San
"The
enemy are very difficult
' hnd at niuht hv our rtcnic
They have numerous military
!'lK,?tlned about.
The enemy never utters voices.
, 1 haisnn is done bv whistle or
'3'iic lights.
The sentries remain hiHilon In
nihoo groves doing nothing but
uting a chance to shoot with
pnmatic weapons.
The roads are Just littered with
"cious logs having innumer
e larse sharp nails projecting."
American Amtrac Knocked Out
American doughboys Inspect wreckage of this armored Amtrac, knocked out by Jap artillery fire
after it had plunged through brick wall while covering infantrymen taking Luzon town of San Ja
cinto. Photo by Stanley Troutman, NEA-Acme photographer for War Picture Pool.
U. S. Subs Bag
24 Nippon Ships
Washington. Jan. 18 (IP) U. S.
auhmarlnea have sunk 24 more
-Japanese- ships? including four
combat vessels, the navy an
nounced today.
The four warships were a de
stroyer and three escort vessels.
The others included three trans
ports, five tanks, and 12 cargo
vessels.
These sinkings raised to 958
the total of Japanese ships sent
to the bottom by American sub
marines. The maintenance of the high
rate of sinkings evidenced the
advantages derived from Amer-
ican seizure of bases closer to the
enemy's homeland and its lines
of supply to its purloined empire.
The loss of cargo vessels is a
severe blow to the Japanese be
cause it impairs their efforts to
transport supplies to troops and
to haul raw materials for their
war industries. Destruction of
tankers hit them in an even more
vulnerable spot. The consistent
loss of tankers seriously affects
naval and air operations, which
are great oil and gas consumers.
So far in this war, U. S. subs
alone have accounted for 94 Jap
anese tankers.
New Jansen Villa
In Bend Is Sold
The 40-unit Jansen Villa apart
ments at 407 Portland avenue,
completed in February, 1944, at
a cost of S200.000, were sold yes
terday to Paul B. Ford and John
McMahon, both of Sacramento,
Calif., by James Jansen, Ashland.
The sale price was not announced.
Gilbert's Insurance and Real
Estate company, which handled
the transaction, has been appoint
ed local representatives of Ford ,
ana jvicmanon anu win manage
the apartments. The change in
ownership became effective yes
terday. Ford and McMahon left yester
day for Sacramento while Jensen
returned to Ashland last night.
GASOLINE AT $60!
Paris, Jan. 18 (U-i Five Amer
ican soldiers who stole "huge
quantities" of gasoline from the
army, sold it on the Paris black
market for as much as S60 a gal
lon and lived in luxury on the
niinfitn hum WnATI contonrvirt tfl
,ioath the armv announced todav. I
WOMAN FIRE VICTIM
Seward, Alaska, Jan. 18 ui
One woman was dead and an
other woman and her 16-months-old
daughter were in critical con
dition today after a S".000 fire
swept their duplex apartment
here Tuesday night.
BEND OFFICER PRO.MOTED
Washington, Jan. 18 'in Dun-:ber
can L. McKay, of the army engine-
ers, has been promoted from
captain to major. He lives at 993l
Riverside, Bend, Ore.
Nearly $8,000,000 Is Sought
For Rural School Districts
Sum Would Be Raised By Annual Tax Outside
6 Per Cent Limitation; Milk Bill Also Introduced
K -': Salem, Ore.fi&n. 18" (UE) Nearly "$8,000,000 is sought
for county school units and rural school districts in a bill sub
mitted to the Oregon house of
bill providing for the control
for introduction later today.
The school bill, exceeding previously estimated requests by
nearly $3,000,000, was brought in by the tax and revenues
committee, and Giles French, Moro, committee chairman, said
that 27 cents per pupil per day provision of the measure
figures out at S7,977,269.10
yearly, on the present basis of wi I f
29,545,44! pupil tendance
I he amount would be raised
by an annual tax outside of
the six per cent limitation, to be
offset by income taxes where
they are sufficient.
The milk control bill, entitled
the "Oregon raw milk act," is a
compromise measure between the
strict pasteurization provisions
previously proposed, and the ob
jections of smaller dairymen.
It would provide for compul
sory testing of all cows at least
twice a year for tuberculosis and
Bang's disease, and for the inocu
lation of all cows within eight
months of their birth. Persons
suffering from undulant fever,
believed to stem from Bang's dis
ease, would also give information,
under the new bill, leading to the
location of possibly diseased
herds.
Nine Miners Die
In Shaft Blast
McAlester, Okla., Jan. 18 nil
The charred remains of nine
miners were recovered today
from their tomb 2,600 feet under
ground by rescue squads who had
worked for eight hours to clear
deadly black damp from
blast - torn southeastern Okjahoma
coal mine.
The victims, the entire day
shift in the Bond Valley Coal Co.
"slope" mine, were identified as
Roy and T. S. Tucker, brothers,
Riley and Ernest Smith, broth
ers; Earl Cizzi, H. B. Batson,
Stanley Kubiski, Mack Williams
and John Boluski.
State mine inspectors reported
that all the men were severely
burned, indicating they were
killed instantly by the terrific ex
plosion yesterday which sealed
them into a tunnel and hurled
timbers 100 feet or more from
f 'h" mine, about 20
i miles south of here.
WAR IS EXPENSIVE
Washington, Jan. 18 tui Dally
war expenditures reached a rec-!
ord high in December with an 1
average of S313.400.000 (M ),;
bringing 1914 war spending to '
S91,l"4,O0O,OO0 IB), a 7.1 per cent j
increase over 1913, treasury fig-'
ures showed today. Total Decern-
spending was 57,833,000,000
(B), an increase of $740,000,000 :
over November. The daily 1944 j
spending rate averaged $292,000,-1
030 (M).
By Jap Fire
representatives today, while a
of milk-carried diseases is due
VYOOIITien IPen
Business Meet
Prineville, Ore., Jan. 18 tin -President
Mac Hoke of Pendle
ton, heading the Oregon Wool
Growers association convention,
today opened the 49th annual
convention by inviting cattlemen
to sit in for discussion of mutual
problems.
Three major committees ar
ranged meetings under Iioke's di
rection. Ira Staggs was named
chairman of the committee on
wildlife and predatory animals,
with C. D. Conrad as secretary;
J. G. Barrett was named chair
man of the general resolutions
committee, with Arnold Ebert as
secretary, and Ed Sherlock was
named chairman of the committee
on marketing and legislation, with
V. W. Johnson as secretary.
Garrett Barrett of Heppner will
be toastmater of the annual ban
quet tonight, and a ball will fol
low. Mrs. A. S. Boyd of Baker will
head women's auxiliary meetings
today and tomorrow.
150 Present
About 150 delegates were in at
tendance at the sessions.
The gathering will end Friday
with the reading of resolutions
and election of officers.
Discussions are expected to
take place regarding means of
preventing a further liquidation
of Oregon sheep flocks and ways
to make sure that the OPA will
remove ration points from lamb
when producers attempt to mar
ket their annual crop of lambs
this coming spring, President Mac
Hoke, Pendleton, explained.
Meat Loss Blame
Placed on Points
Portland, Ore., Jan. 18 tin
Portland meat dealers today
blamed a "ration point blockade"
for slowing down sales of the
cuts to the point where extensive
spoilage is being reported,
A survey of the Portland trade
showed that movement of hind
quarter beef cuts is so slow that
meat Is spoiling in the coolers or
being ground for hamburger. The
consensus was that there was too
much meat In Portland for the
points under the new higher rat-
ing.
YanksLashOut
At Nazi Bulge
And Span River
U. S. First and Third
Armies Bring German
Crescent Under Attack
Paris, Jan. 18 tin American
Third army forces crashed Into
the southeastern shoulder on the
deflated Ardennes bulge today In
a new attack across the Sure river
In the area of Diekirch, 15 miles
north of Luxembourg City.
- Lt. Cen. George S. Patton's at
tack In northeastern Luxembourg
some five miles from the German
border brought virtually all of the
thin na.i crescent in the Ardennes
under the fire of the American
First and Third armies.
;To the northwest,- the British
Second army broke into Germany
at a new point. Lt. Gen. Sir Miles
C. Dempsey's troops, stepping up
the pressure on the German
pocket of the Roer, gained up to
two and a half miles and seized
Susteren and Echt above Sittard.
They stabbed across the border
directly east of Susteren.
" River Forced
Elements of Maj. Gen. Ray
mond O. Barton's Fourth division
and Maj. Gen. Stafford L. Irwin's
"Red Diamond" Fifth division
jumped off at 4 a. m. today In the
Hew Luxembourg attack.
They forced the Sure river de-
srfense line from the south some-
x where, near Diekirch abd beat
iuvwani In the teeth of a sjtorm of
German-mortar, machine gun and
small arms fire.
On the opposite shoulder of the
salient, other American troops put
a squeeze on St. Vith in the con
certed effort by the First and
Third armies to jolt the Germans
back to the starting line of their
winter offensive.
Closing in on the town which Is
the anchor point of the German
penetration into Belgium, Amer
ican columns had St. Vith two-
thirds encircled from the north,
west and southwest at distances
ranging from five to eight miles.
Resistance stlrrcns
The Germans were fighting
stubbornly against the persistent
American effort to drive tnem
back into their Siegfried line po
sitions.
At the same time, British Sec
ond army forces in Holland step
ped up their attack against the
German salient west of the Roer
river, advancing about two to 2'4
miles on a mile-wide front to the
Susteren and Echt, five and seven
miles north of Sittard.
Big Turnover of
Taxes Reported
A tax turn-over totalling $13,
562.70 was made yesterday by
R. I. Hamby, deputy sheriff of
Deschutes county In charge of tax
collections, to R. A. Ferguson,
county treasurer. This amount
was collected since Dec. 15, when
tax receipts were last given to
Ferguson.
The amount is made up of Sll,
750.16 collection of 1944-45 tax as
sessments and $1,812.50 collected
on the 1943-44 assessments.
Bulge Battle
London, Jan. 18 mi Prime
Minister Churchill declared today
that the Ardennes battle had been
turned into "an ever-famous
American victory" which he be
lieved "Is more likely to shorten
this war than lengthen It."
Speaking before the house of
commons, Churchill called upon
Germany and Japan to abandon
the war unconditionally, reiterat
ing the unconditional surrender
formula, and said "nothing"
would induce the allies to enter
into negotiations with the enemy
before that surrender occurs.
"Both in the west and in the
east," he said, "overwhelming
forces are ranged at our side. Mili
tary victory may yet be distant.
Tt certainly Is costly but It Is no
lonper In doubt.
Appealing for allied duty In the;
war's final phase, he asked: (than to lengthen it.
"Can we achieve that complete "This Is the greatest American
unity and that new Impulse In! battle of the war and will be re
time to achieve decisive military I garded, I think, as an ever fa
victory with the least possible i mous American victory."
prolongation of war's misery or! Churchill promised that unre
must we fall Into jabber, babel I mining pressure would be main
New Crisis Threatens Greece;
Gonatas Rumored Governor
British Expected to Oppose Move; Action
Takes Place as All Region Observes Truce
Athens, Jan. 18 (U.E) A new crisis threatened troubled
Greece today as E.L.A.S.-hating Gen. Stylianos Gonatas an
nounced he soon would be named governor-general of Mace
donia and Thrace, E.L.A.S. strongholds.
Such an appointment would be one of the sharpest blows
yet delivered against the rebellious left-wing E.L.A.S. by
Premier Gen. Nicholas Plastiras, with whom Gonatas was as
sociated in a 1922 revolution.
Greek government circles for three hours yesterday de
nied categorically that Gona- "
tas would get the post, but
later Plastiras said "no deci
sion has been made," indicat
ing that Gonatas at least was
being considered for the job.
(A London broadcast said Plas
tiras had announced the appoint
ment of Gonatas as governor
general of Macedonia.)
British Not Advised
It was understood that Gonatas
made his announcement without
prior knowledge of the British
embassy, which may yet exert
sufficient pressure to block the
appointment on grounds that it
might provoke further incidents.
The development came as
fc..L.A.b. and government dele
gates prepared to begin peace
negotiations under a truce In the
Greek civil war arranged by Lt.
uen. Konaia scoble, British com
mander in Athens.
Harold Macmlllan, British min
ister for the Mediterranean area,
and Marshal Sir Harold R. L. G
Alexander, allied commander for
the area, visited Regent Archbish
op-Damasklnos last night and
a Greek source said the Britons
pressed! for .Jmrnedlate-jconvoca-
tlon of ie peace conference.
Snow, Sunshine
Vie in Midstate
Light snow fell generally over
the Cascades today, as flurries
and sunshine vied for supremacy
in Bend and other sections Of Cen
tral Oregon.
The greatest depth of snow. In
cluding the present fall, was re
ported on the Willamette high
way, where 19 Inches was record
ed. Plows were in operation there,
as was the case on the Santiam
highway. Conditions on the Wapi-
nitia nignway were not reported
here, but a light fall with packed
snow was reported on The Dalles
California highway to the south.
Snow flurries tonight and to
morrow, with colder tempera
tures tonight, was the weather
man's prediction.
Train Blockade
Halts 80 Buses
Portland, Ore., Jan. 18 (IP) A
lot of folks were late to work to
day In Portland.
Right In the busy morning peri
od for bus traffic, a Southern Pa
cific freight train broke down at
a major crossing on the east shore
of the Willamette river. When
traffic was resumed 44 minutes
later, 80 buses on six lines were
piled up behind the crossing.
Called Victory
and discord while victory Is still
delayed?"
Churchill told the house of com
mons that American losses In re
nelling Field Marshal Karl Von
Rundstedt's counteroffensive had
been 60 to 80 times those of the
British and that the engagement
was "the greatest American baltle
of the war."
Revealing that Britain has 67
divisions at the front between
670.000 and 700,000 troops he
declared that the United States
has put twice as many troops into
the field against the Germans,
presumably between 1,300,000 and
1,400.000 men.
"I do not hesitatp todav to give
mv own opinion," Churchill snld,
"that the decisive breaking of the
German offensive In the west Is
more likely to shorten this war
to the state highway department!"10 company offers about 17,000
PERSONNEL
Klamath and Lake
Stand on Protest
Against Exchange
Klamath Fulls, Jan. 18 (Special)
The county courts of Klamath
and Lake counties today stood
firmly on their protest against a
proposed land exchange between
The Shevlln-Hlxon Company of
Bend and the national forest serv
ice in the northern parts of the
two counties. At a meeting yes
terday the courts rejected, at least
temporarily, a suggestion from
Huntington Taylor of WPB that
the protest be withdrawn in order
to assure continued maximum
war production of lumber by
Shevlln-Hixon. Taylor warned that
the company s production pro
gram is leoDardlzed bv the Dro-
tests which make its logging plans
uncertain: He- 'eroDoscdl thar, thf
protests be withdrawn on this par
ticular transaction even though
the counties wish to continue
threshing out the issues involved.
It was announced that County
Judge U. E. Reeder of Klamath
county will go Friday to a meet
ing of the state board of forestry
and there will ascertain If there
are state funds to purchase Shev-lin-Hixon
lands offered in this ex
change. This was in line with a
suggestion made at the meeting
that the state might buy the
Shevlln-Hixon lands and the for
est service instead of exchanging
timber for the property could sell
timber to the company on a cash
basis. I his would give the coun
ties their share of 25 per cent of
the sale price.
17,000 Acres Involved
Under the proposed transaction
acres, partially cut, to the forest
service in exchange for forest tim
ber of equal value. The courts
protested to the federal land of
fice mainly on the grounds that
the counties would not receive a
percentage of the national forest
stumpage value, inasmuch as this
Is not a cash transaction.
Frank Folsom of the regional
forest office yesterday gave esti
mates of the amounts which
Klamath and Lake counties may
reasonably expect to receive In
the next ten years from national
forest timber sales, grazing foes
and other revenues. Ills estimate
was $678,900 for Klamath county
as compared with $244,447 in the
last ten years. For Lake county
he forecast county revenues at
$672,931 for the next decade corn-
pared with $190,838 in the last ten
years,
for Americans
tained against the Germans "on
the whole eastern and western
fronts and on the long front In
Italy," but emphasized that "mili
tary victory mny yet be distant."
He paid tribute to the red army
attack In Poland and East Prus
sia, saying:
"Marshal Stalin is very punc
tual. He would rather be before
time than late In combinations of
the allies."
Bidding to the Germans to ac
cept the allied unconditional sur
render demand, Churchill declared
the alternative was continuance
and Intensification of their suf
fering. "The Germans know perfectly
well how these matters stand gen
erally," he said. "Several coun
tries have already surrendered
unconditionally. Already there Is
a tolerable life appointed for their
people."
He said he would tell the en
emy: "If you surrender now
nothing you will have to endure
after the war will be comparable
to what you otherwise are going
to suffer during the year of 1945."
First Invasion
Of Reich Noted
AsKonevHits
Berlin Is Objective of
Soviets on Big Drive;
Moscow Is Triumphant
By Bruce Munn
(United PrH Surf Corrnpondent)
London, Jan. 18 HP) Moscow
reported today that Marshal Ivan
S. Konev probably had driven a
spearhead of his first Ukrainian
army across the German border
and established a bridgehead In
Silesia some 225 miles southeast
of Berlin.
A Moscow broadcast said Ko-
nev's vanguard was believed to
have hurdled the 14-mlle gap last
reported between his army and
the German soil of Industrial Si
lesia for the first Invasion ot the
reich on the direct road to Ber
lin. 'The liberation of Warsaw fore
shadows the early fall of Berlin,"
Ilya Ehrenbourg, authoritative
soviet writer, said in a ringing
article on the record red army,
offensive shredding the German
defenses of all Poland.
Berlin Is Goal
"No matter what city we take,
we think only of one. We think of
the capital whither we are tear
ing with all our souls, and com
ing soon, too. Dead Warsaw will
rise. Berlin is alive, but won't
Hive much longer." ... -
i numpnum proclamations jt-om
Moscow and a clamor of dark
disaster from Berlln indicated
that the red armies were swarm
ing unchecked across Poland and
at last preparing to open the
battle of Germany in the east.
The nazls acknowledged the loss
of Tomaszow Mazowlecki, major
transport Junction 29 miles south
east of Lodz, Poland's second larg
est city on which the Russians ap
parently were converging from
the east and south.
Berlin Admits Fall
Berlin also admitted the fall of
Czestochowa, Polish shrine city
14 miles from the German bor
der, the capture of which the red
army had announced yesterday.
Today's Moscow broadcast by a
British commentator there said
that when Konev captured Czes
tochowa he stood only 14 miles
from the border and by now he
might he across It.
"The Germans utterly failed to
stem the soviet offensive," the
broadcast said. "In 12 hours the
position along the front will be
quite different. From the German
point of view It will be much
worse."
Indicative of the fury of the
red army winter campaign, the
German DNB news agency said
today that In five days the Rus
sians lost 903 tanks.
Garrison Killed
United Press correspondent
Henry Shapiro said in a Moscow
dispatch:
he opinion prevails among
military and diplomatic observers
that this Is the decisive offen
sive, and wlllnot be halted at least
until the lftissians have pene
trated deep.- into reich territory.
Some observers question the en
emy's ability to make an Impres
sive stand before the Oder,
which at Its nearest point flows
30 miles from Berlin.
The dispatch said that War
saw's German garrison was killed
or captured when the capital fell
yesterday. At least two German
divisions were smashed In a brief ,
battle inside the city. Soviet and
Polish battalions made short
shrift of enemy units making a
hopeless stand In the ruins of the
city and pillboxes astride its street
crossings.
IIOYT NAMED SPEAKEK
San Francisco, Jan. 18 iU'i The
San Francisco chamber of com
merce announced today that
Palmer Iloyt, publisher of the
Portland Oregonian, will address
the chamber at a luncheon Jan. 25
in the Commercial club. His topic
will be "A Publisher Looks at
Tomorrow."
CARD COMES LATE
Canton, 111., Jan. 18 LP The
Christmas card which Leonard
Hudson received from a cousin at
Decatur yesterday wasn't too late
only for the 1944 holiday season
It was too late for 27 others. It
was postmarked Dec. 22, 1917.