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CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER .
Volume Llll
THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, DESCHUTES COpNTY, OREGON, MONDAY, JAN. 22, 1945
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Ardennes C
Tarlac Captured
Dive Bombers
Lash at Nazis
On West Lines
Americans Make Gains
In Final Phases of Big
Battle of West Bulge
Paris, Jan. 22 IP Two densely
packed German columns of about
3,000 tanks, trucks, and other ve
hicles streamed eastward out of
the pancaked Ardennes salient to
day In a major withdrawal ham
.mered by swarms of Thunderbolt
dive bombers.
The American. First and Third
armies scored sharp advances in
the last phase of the battle of the
bulge, indicating that Marshal
Karl von Rundstedt was jettison
' ing the last of his costly gains in
his winter counter-offensive and
pulling his men back to the safety
of the Siegfried line.
Front dispatches and supreme
: headquarters reports suggested
' that the entire crescent of the
. one-time German salient had col
; lapsed, and the nazl pullback had
, ! become a race with the doughboys
hanging onto their heels. iv,
: : 7 Dive lumbers' Busy"'
American dive bombers dipping
' through low-scudding clouds
wrought wholesale destruction
upon two long columns of about
; 1,500 German vehicles each. One
1 was caught near Prum, 14 miles
east of St. Vith. It was headed up
the road toward Bonn and Co.
logne. The second column was attack
ed eight miles north of Dlekrich,
on the road winding northeast
toward the Bitburg and Cologne
area. ,
The outbound German move
ment from both the northern and
southern parts of the flattened
bulge indicated that Rundstedt
was writing off his drive west of
the German border and taking up
the positions held before his of
fensive began on Dec. 16.
Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's
Third army forces crossed the
Bastogne-St. Vith road near the
center of the salient and plunged
' east. Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodg
es' First army units captured
Born in a stiff battle and advanc
ed on St. Vith, the last Belgian
base in German hands.
Guns Disabled
Hodges' troops counted eight
disabled self-propelled guns, four
tanks, 120 dead Germans, and 165
prisoners at the close of business
in Born last night. At dawn they
pushed on more than half a mile,
reaching a point three miles from
St. Vith. To the west, the 7th divi
sion gained more than half a mile
toward St. Vith against light oppo
sition. The Third army's sixth armored
division cleared Hoffelt and Lul
lange, 10 and 12 miles northeast
of Bastogne, in a mile and a half
advance reaching Stockem.
Milk Inspection
To Be Discussed
Members of the Women's Civic
league will Join the League of
Women Voters at an open meet
ing tomorrow night at 8 o'clock
in the Blue room of the Pilot
Butte inn to hear a talk on milk
and meat inspection by Dr.
Wayne S. Ramsey, director of the
Deschutes department of public
health.
All persons interesed in the
present state-wide discussion of
the pure milk problem are being
Invited by the League of Women
Voters, organization sponsoring
the meeting, to hear Dr. Ramsey.
Tomorrow night's meeting of
the league has been postponed
from the regular date, to make
it possible for the health officer
to be present.
Yugoslav Cabinet
And Subasic Quit
' - London, Jan. 22 lUV-The Yugo
slav cabinet, headed by Premier
Ivan Subasic, resigned today.
King Peter asked Dr. Milan
Groll, Serbian democrat leader, to
form a new government
resceht Faces
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Qermans Fortify Berlin
As Soviets Draw Near
(Bv United Prwa)
Swedish dispatches said today that Germany, threatened
with disaster by the Russian breakthrough in the east, has de
clared a state of emergency in jittery upper Silesia and
ordered women and boys to help build fortifications outside
Berlin.
. The Berlin newspaper Deutsche Allegemeine Zeitung told
its readers that Germany was "in her greatest hour of peril."
Reserves were being brought up to new defense lines, the
newspaper said, "but this naturally will take some time."
Swedish newspaper accounts reported to the office of war
Dies in Action
..(Li 1
Alvin M. Bright, 33, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Lon Bright, of Brothers,
was killed In action aboard tne
Abner Read, a ship that partici
pated in the Philippines invasion,
his parents have been notified.
Deschutes Man
Lost in
Alvin Martin Bright, 33, seaman
first class, reported missing in ac
tion on Nov. 4, has since been
listed as killed in action,, his par
ents, Mr. p.nd Mrs. Lon Bright of
Brothers have been informed by
the personnel section of the navy.
The notification was accompanl-Mrs.
ed by a letter from Arthur M.
Purdy, commanding oiucer oi tne
Abner Read, to which Alvin was
attached. The action in which
Alvin was lost resulted in the
sinking of the Abner Read.
Excerpts from uommanaer
Purdy's letter follow: "As you
may know, the Abner Read had
participated in the Philippine in
vasion from the beginning. On
Nov. 1, while patrollling Leyte
Gulf, we were attacked by Jap
anese dive bombers. In the fire
and explosions that followed,
Alvin. at his station on the stern
20mm machine gun, was exposed
to the dangerous hail of shrapnel
and flying debris. He gallantly
(Continued on .rage o
Henry 7. Wallace Nominated as Secretary
Of Commerce; Jesse Jones Facing Ouster
n.. T i-Ia IVi I unn
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(United PreM Staff CorrMpondent)
wnohinutnn. Jan. 22 U Presi
dent Roosevelt today formally
nominated ex-Vice President
Henry A. Wallace to be secretary
of commerce, and the battle was
Southern democrats took the
lead in assailing the political-payoff
substitution of Wallace for
Jesse t- Jones, who had told
Roosevelt he did not regard
Wallace as suited for the Job of
... . ntUilllnn Hnllol1
handling tne muiuuiiuui"
romnotructlon finance corp. and
its related agencies.
Soon after the nomination was
received by the senate. Sen.
Walter F. George, D., Ga , intro
duced a bill to divorce the RFC
and all other lenuinK 8""
. ,.rM ripnartment
and set them up in an independ
ent status-a status they held un
til Roosevelt put them under
commerce wnen 11c
Jones into the cabinet In i 1942.
Passage of such a bill would
substantially reduce the scope of
the commerce job.
ft
by XJ.S, Column
information said a state of
emergency had been declared
in upper Silesia following un
rest in Beuthen, Gleiwitz and
Ratibor and several other
towns in the path of the red
army advance.
Sabotage at Beuthen caused
"large fires," the Stockholm news
paper Aftontidningen said. Nu
merous arrests were made, "espe
cially among the foreign work
ers," the newspaper said.
At Gleiwitz, Aftontidningen
added, three gestapo men were
killed, but the "center of the na
tional German peace movement"
there was detected and "wiped
out."
Another Stockholm newspaper.
Expressen, said Berliners .had
been "entrusted" with the con
struction of a 62-mile stretch of
fortifications from Frankf urton
the. Oder ; fc Odnrbergf. east and
southeast of Berlin. ' vt v
The work will be performed
"first" by the Volkssturm (home
guard), foreign workers, women
and members of the Hitler youth
organization "as it is desired to
maintain armament production as
long as possible," Expressen said.
German propagandists broad
casting over Berlin radio varied
between assurances that defenses
were being organized to halt the
Russian advance and "scare news!.'
apparently designed to stiffen
morale through fear of conse
quences. Pfc.A. J. Smit
Hurt in Action
Pfc. Arel J. Smit, 24, was
slightly injured In action in Bel
gium on Dec. 28, the war depart
ment notified his parents. Mr. and
John Smit, 408 Georgia
street, this morning.
Pfc. Smit enlisted in August,
1942 and after eight months train
ing was sent to Africa as a radio
man with a tank company. At the
close of African hostilities he was
sent to England where he re
mained until "D" flay when he
participated in the invasion of
France.
At the time of his injury, he
was attached to an armored di
vision of the Ninth army.
STREETS BARRICADED
(By United Prraa)
Manila streets have been bar
ricaded in preparation for an
American onslaught, radio Tokyo
announced today.
Several members of the senate
already had announced their In
tention of fighting Wallace's con
firmation regardless.
There was some speculation,
however, that ultimately part of
the republican-conservative south
ern democrat coalition might try
to work out a deal whereby they
would grant Mr. Roosevelt his
wish to have Wallace in his cabi
net but only with the lending
agencies taken away from the
post.
There was no Immediate sen
ate floor discussion of the cabinet
shift but several members of the
house which actually has, noth
ing to do with confirming the
nomination took the floor to an
nounce their opposition to It.
Rep. John E. Rankin, Mississip
pi democrat, forecast "battles over
appropriations for the commerce
department and the RFC from
now on." He said he expressed
the views of 90 per cent of the
members of congress In saying he
wished the president would
change his mind and retain Jones.
I Republican Reps. John Jenn
Collap
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On long Front
Manila Only 60 Miles J
Distant; Clark Airfield .
Fall Is Expected Soon
By WllUam B. Dickinson v,
(United PrM War Correspondent) i
General MacArthur's Headquar
ters, Luzon, Jan. 22 UP Sixth
army forces rolled south across
the central Luzon plains in a 10
mile front today less than 60
miles from Manila and 20 miles
from the great Clark field system
of airdromes.
Luzon's second lai-fctst city,
Tarlac, and La Paz, 10 miles to
the east southeast, were overrun
Saturday in the first hours of the
resumed march on the Philippines
capital and the advance was con
tinuing against negligible resist
ance. ,
The Americans were 70 milei
inland approximately half-way
to Manila bay from the Lin
gayen gulf Invasion beaches at
La Paz. It seems likely they
would reach and perhaps capture
Clark field without further pause
iot re grouping, . ,
" Japs Claim Many Killed ,"
(A Japanese communique re
corded by the FCC said more
than 6,000 Americans had been
killed, wounded or were missing
on Luzon since the invasion two
weeks ago.)
Tarlac's two airfields were cap
tured in good condition, but the
speed of the' southward advance
indicated the American command
would not waste time moving up
supplies and repairing the air
strips when the vastly superior
Clark field soon may be within
its grasp.
The Americans resumed their
advance on Manila Saturday after
other units further consolidated
their east flank with a new cross
ing of the Agno river at Santa
Maria, 20 miles east of the orig
inal crossing at Bayambang, and
the capture of Rosales, Balungao
and San Leon, along a six-mile
front five miles below Santa
Maria.
City In Ruing
Secure from a counter-attack
from the east, the Americans
-moved cautiously into Tarlac soon
alter 8 a. m., yesterday against
only sniper fire. They found the
city, a provincial capital and most
important highway hub north of
Manila, in smoldering ruins from
Japanese demolitions.
Frank Hewlett, United Press
war correspondent with forward
elements, said the bulk of the
Japanese had pulled out of Tarlac
only Friday after virtually wip
ing out the city's business dis
tricts. All public buildings, Including
the four-year-old, $250,000 provin
cial capitol, schools and hospitals.
were blasted to rubble.
ings, Jr., Tenn., and Walter E.
Brehem, O., Joined In assailing
the shift House republican lead
er Joseph W. Martin Jr., Mass.,
said it "will destroy the confi
dence of many people and will
cause great fears as to what will
be our economic life in the post
war days." -
la general, the battle shaped up
as a clash between conservatives
and liberals. Supporting Wallace
were new dealers and a few re
publicans such as Sen. William
Langer of North Dakota, who
hailed the selection of Wallace as
"a real- break" for farmers and
small businessmen.
Only an hour before his nomi
nation went to the senate, Wallace
issued a statement in which he
said his conception of his new
Job was that It would be "to pro
mote a maximum of national em
ployment by private business."
"Government must accept the
duty of seeing. that all men in
health have Jobs," he said.
"The common man," he added,
"need not tolerate less prosperity
in time of peace than he had in
time of war."
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zon's second largest city, and La
gulf to Manila bay.
Senator Attacks
Washington, Jan. 22 IIP) Sen.
James M. Mead, D., N. Y., told the
senate today that at the Norfolk
navy yard said to be short 4,000
essential workers a war invest!
gating committee last week
found "excessive manpower, wast
ed labor, hoarded labor, and en
forced loafing."
Mead, chairman of the commit
tee, said it was his "painful duty
to reveal to the senate an alarm
ing condition." '
Although the armed services
paint a "gloomy picture of their
labor needs" and put the ship re
pair program on their "must list,"
Mead said, "what we learned In
Norfolk is deeply disturbing and
significant."
38,000 Employed
Norfolk navy yard both builds
and repairs ships and employs
more than 38,000 persons, he said.
Mead told the senate that com
mittee members checked several
large shops and went through sev
eral ships "and there Is what we
found":
"Each of the members of our
subcommittee personally saw Idle
ness and loafing on a big scale.
"Men stood and sat around in
groups smoking and talking right
on the decks of vital fighting
ships. Their bosses were not to be
seen."
Too Many On Job
The men themselves "think
there are too many of them on the
ob."
"They say they are unable to
do an honest day's work."
The war Investigating chair
man angrily told senators that so
many men are assigned to some
jobs "that thoy cannot even all
squeeze Into the place. Most of
them stand around outside while
a few work."
Mead said workmen spend "val
uable time and materials" making
personal trinkets for superiors.
Mother and Girl
Killed in Crash
Hlllsboro, Ore., Jan. 22 'ID
Mrs. Gertrude May Hora, 34, of
Hillsboro, and her daughter, Max
ine Gray, 12, were killed In a col
lision between their automobile
and a truck here today.
Two other daughters, June
Gray, 14, and Jean Gray, 1(5, were
taken to a hospital here for treat
ment and Goldler Beyer, 28, also
a passenger in the automobile,
was taken to a hospital at Port
land. JAPS DRAFT WORKERS
Washington, Jan. 22 Ui Japan
announced today that all workers
In non-essential Industries, along
with students, retired workers
and the Jobless, would be required
to register for war work as "the
first step toward total mobilization."
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Paris, Jan. 22 itP Dive bomb
ers of the U. S. 19th tactical air
command destroyed 978 German
vehicles and damaged 439 today
in a shattering assault on about
3,000 of them desperately under
taking a full scale withdrawal
from the flattened Ardennes
bulge.
The Germans broke and rah
from the battered base of the
abandoned salient, and swarms of
Thunderbolts and Lightnings
pounded two long columns of
about 1,500 vehicles each for sev
eral hours In a field day rivaling
the destruction of vehicles in the
Falaise gap last August.
Halsey's Fleet
Again in Action
Pearl Harbor, Jan. 22 (Ui Ad
miral William F. Halsey's Third
fleet resumed its offensive against
Japan's China sea strongholds
yesterday,' hurling 450 carrier
planes against Formosa and Oki
nawa in a nine-hour assault.
Tokyo broadcasts reported today.
Fhlllpplne-baseU bombers also
have Joined tho offensive. Gen.
Douglas MacArthur revealed that
his long-range air patrols, txtonrt
lng their attacks to the China
coast for the fist time, scored a
direct hit on a large vessel In a
convoy off Amoy, 600 miles north
of the nearest American air base
on Luzon.
Pacific fleet headquarters re
mained silent on Tokyo claims
that the Third fleet had gone into
action against Formosa and Oki
nawa again, but reported that Its
planes had shot down 16 Japanese
planes attempting to fly from For
mosa to Luzon last Saturday.
The announcement at least
placed the Third fleet in waters
off Formosa within 24 hours of
the reported raid on that island
and on Okinawa, the latter In the
Ryukyu group 3f0 miles north
of Formosa and 325 miles south
west of Japan proper.
Week-End Yields
Chilling Weather
Bend over the week-end experi
enced some of its chilliest weather
of the season, with a minimum
temperature of 7 above recorded
Saturday night and eight above
last night. The low mark of the
season, five above, was registered
In December.
Bend's maximum temperature
yesterday was only 33 degrees,
one above freezing, and at noon
today the mercury was resting
at 26 degrees, well under freezing.
No reports on skating were
available this afternoon.
Rages
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Award for highest volunteer ef
fort In Boy Scout work in the
Modoc area, embracing seven
counties In Oregon and California,
goes this year to Joe Slate of
Bend, scout master of troop no.
25, Bob La Mott of Klamath Falls,
executive for the area, told the
Bend Kiwanls club at the Pine
tavern this noon. La Mott,
luncheon speaker on a program
presented, by George W. Ager,
stressed the need for adult aid in
connection with scouting. He
showed color films taken at the
Boy Scout camp at Crescent lake
last summer.
Cecil Goodfellow, master of
troop no. 23, reported to the club
that members of his troop com
pleted their block oi dimes Satur
day, taking In $3T4.20 for the in
fantile paralysis fund. Slate, urg
ing more Interest by parents and
committee members in troop ac
tivities, declured that the Boy
Scout movement is one of the
best answers to the Juvenile de
linquency problem.
Two overseas veterans were
guests of the club Lt. Col. Wil
liam C. Chenowcth and SSgt.
Vern Hartford.
WOULD EXEMPT GROUP
Washington. Jan. 22 Mil The
house military affairs committee
voted today to exempt workers as
signed to war Jobs under proposed
work or else legislation irom
closed shop provisions of union
contracts.
Redmond, Bend Young People
Collect $629 for Polio Drive
Camp Fire girls and Boy Scouts,
fostering a "march of dimes" pro
gram in Redmond and Bend on
Saturday, collected a total of
$629.20, lt was announced here
today by Mrs. J. F. Arnold, Des
chutes county chairman for the
Foundation for Infantile Paraly
sis fund raising campaign.
The Scouts and Camp Fire girls
sponsored a contest In Redmond,
the girls working on one side of
the street and the boys on the
other, collecting a total of $315.
The girls defeated the Scouts.they
having collected $180 as against
the Scouts' $135.
Scout Troop No. 23 s "block of j
dimes" between Oregon and Min-l
nesota avenues on Wall street In!
Bend, netted $314,20, It was reveal-;
ed. I
Mrs. Joe Elder, supervisor of )
the Camp Fire girls in Bend, said
that her girls who are working In
the schools, would try to .equal
or exceed the amount raised by
the Scouts in their "block of
dimes."
Mrs. Arnold, in announcing that
Soviet forces
Seize Citadel
In New Gains
t Konigsberg Captured as
Russian Legions Sweep
Info Nazi Defense Lines
'London, .Inn. 2!! IP) The van
guard of niatwive Russian forces
rapidly racing westward through
Pofohd captured the rail junction
of Gnlezno, 165 miles east of Ber
lin, today.
London, Jan. 22 IP Soviet
Forces today captured the East
Prussian fortress of Insterburg
in a storming advance which
threatened to shatter the entire
nazl defense system along the Bal
tic, while red army spearheads
probed deeper in German Silesia.
Troops of the Third Whlte-Kus-
sian army captured Insterburg,
only 57 miles from the key East
Prussian fortress of Koenlgsberg,
In a driving advance of 16 miles
beyond Gumbinnen.
At the same time Marshal Kon-
stantin K.' Rokossovsky's forces
were slashing toward the Baltic
at the southwestern corner of
East Prussia and threatening to
cut off an estimated 200.000 nazis
in the Junkers stronghold: , .
Nazi Lines Crumple
The simultaneous soviet blows
were crumpling the nazl t,ast
Prussian lines to an extent which
raised the possibility the Germans
would be unable to make a "To
bruk" stand there as they did in
the Baltic states.
Already the historic Tannen- ,
berg which was the scene of Rus
sia's most overwhelming world.
waiffctet'faU'bej!'oVe,?uii by
the red army. ' ' : . .-.
"The soviet offensive on Its 11th
day continued to gather momen
tum, with Koenlgsberg, Danzig,
Poznan, and Breslau as the im
mediate objectives," United Press
correspondent Henry Shapiro re
ported from Moscow.
Maps Change Fast
"The German defenses were
crumbling like a house of cards,
and soviet officers were changing
their operation maps several times
a day," Shapiro reported. "The
Russians now are deep in what
they call the 'beast's lair" and are
measuring th" distance to Ber
lin."
The nazl high command report
ed steadily mounting soviet pres
sure In southwestern East Prussia
which had carried to the area of
Deutsch Eylau, 45 miles below the
Baltic, and the big transport cen
ter of Allonsteln, 39 miles to the
northeast.
The trunk railway bisecting
East Prussia runs through
Deutsch Eylau and Allonsteln, and
presumably already was under
Russian fire, leaving the German
defenders of the Junker province f
only the coastal railway as a
primary exit.
Foe Frustrated
A German communique said
the red army also had extended
its onslaught against East Prussia
to the southeastern corner of the
beleaguered province, and from ;
Insterburg to F 1 1 i p o w "enemy
break-through attempts were frus
trated in hard fighting."
Russian armored forces oroke
Into the defenses between Inster
burg and the Kurlsches Haff sec
tion of the Baltic to the northwest,
the nazis acknowledged, and "grim
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the county's quota In the polio
campaign is $4,000, said that
several contributions have been
mailed to her at 126 Minnesota
avenue. She said that reports
from some of her chairmen in
the rural districts were encourag
ing and that she believed the
quota would be reached when the
president's ball Is held in the
Elks' hall on Jan. 27.
Members of Scout Troop No. 23
who staged the "block of dimes"
here Saturday are:
Don. J. Benson, Dennis Berrl
gan, Bob Bothnmn, Ken Burden,
Eldon Bushnell, Joe Dysart, Gard
Erickson, Fred Goodfellow, Bob
Fowler, Dick Gohrke, Dale Hill,
Robert Hawes, Eugene Halliday,
Ronald Hull, Richard Humphrey,
Dick Johnston, Sam Lackaff,
Jackie Maynard, Johnny Mihicich,
Robert Moody, Bill Moore, Alan
Morris, Ray Robbins, ack Robin
son, George Span!, Larry Stapdi
fer, Ralph Sutton, Jack Symons,
Wayne Tilse, Roy Triplett, Allen
Waterman, Ronald Wlnans and
Peter Wick.