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CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
Volume Llll
THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, JAN. 23, 1945
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Troops Take
Capan, Head
For Capital
Fall of Bamban Expected
As Macmen Drive Across
Plains; Flanks Bolstered
,B.v William B. Dickinson
(United Press War Correspondent)
General MacArthur's Head
quarters, Luzon, Jan. 23 IP) Van
guards of the , American 14th
corps drove to within sight of
Bamban and the first of the
Clark field airstrips only 53 miles
north of Manila today. .
CaDas, four miles northeast of
Bamban and 56 miles north of
Manila, fell yesterday in the
swift American advance down the
main highway to the PhiliDpines
capital and it appeared likely that
Bamban also would be captured
by dusk today.
Resistance continued negligible.
Through earlier reports indicated
the Japanese might make a stand
at Bamban, headquarters now an
ticipated no more than a delaying
action. Optimism rose that all 11
of Clark field's valuable airstriDS
soon may be in American hands.
Flanks Strengthened
The Americans also further
rtrengthened-.-th.eln--eastern - and
western flanks against the pos
sibility of a Japanese counter-attack
as the invasion of Luzon
went Into its third week.
One column thrusting down the
west coast of Luzon beyond the
Zambalos mountains reached In
fanta, 74 miles north of Bataan
peninsula, after clearing the en
tire Dasol bay area. "
The eastern wing captured Cuy
apo, 30 miles northeast of Capas,
and Anao, five miles southwest of
Cuyapo, sent patrols onto nearby
Mt. Balungao and beat off a Jap
anese banzai charge near Damor
tis at the northeastern tip of the
invasion area.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur dis
closed that five divisions and a
special regimental combat team
a total of 75.000 to 100,000 troops
were fighting on Luzon, divided
into two corps.
Two Towns Seized
Spearheadine the advance on
Manila, MaJ. Gen. Oscar W. Gris
wold's 14th corns cantured both
Capas, 11 miles south of Tarlac,
and Santa Monica, eight and a
half miles east of Canas. vester-
uay.
A dozen smaller villages were
overrun in the advance and a
front dispatch said patrols were
prob'ng the Bamban river valley
within sight of both of Bamban
and the Bamban airstrip, norther
most of the Clark field constella
tion. The 14th corps sent one column
branching out to the west toward
Camp O'Donnell, eight and a half
miles from Capas, where a large
number of American war prison
ers formerly were confined.
Lt. Warren Brandon of Forest
Hills, N. Y., who flew over the
camp in an observation plane, said
the Japanese had set fire to na
tive villages in the area. He saw
, sKirmlsh .under way, apparently
otween Japanese and Philipplno
u?rmas.
Strong Stand Probable
The Japanese may make their
first strong stand north of Ma
nila in the Fort Stotsenberg area,
10 miles southwest of Bamban.
They were known to have strong
forces at the fort, where Mac
Arthur's father, Lt. Gen. Arthur
MacArthur, once was command
ant. The 14th corps comprises Maj.
Gen. Robert F. Beightler's 37th
and Maj. Gen. Rapp Brush's 40th
divisions, all veterans of jungle
fiRhting in the Solomons.
The first corps under Maj. Gen.
Insis p. (Bull) Swift, holding
down the eastern flank, steadily
as driving the Japanese deeper
into the hills flanking the Luzon
Plains.
. FLUE FIRE CHECKED
n City firemen shortly before mid
nSht last night were called to
'he home of A. C. Yoachum, 1314
ngton avenue, to extinguish
Hue fire. They reported there
" no damage.
Only
Miles North of
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This American mortar team sets up
troops as the; advanced past Luzon
Senate to Study
Washington, Jan. 23 IP The
senate military affairs committee
whole priority practice" and par
voted today to investigate "the
ticularly the "A" priority that
kept Col. Elliott Roosevelt's dog
on an army airplane while three
servicemen were "bumped off."
This was the -first official con
gressional committee action taken
in connection with the transcon
tinental trip of the dog, Blaze, who
was sent from Washington to
Hollywood.
Sen. Elbert D. Thomas, D.,
Utah, chairman of the committee,
was expected to name a three-man
Investigating committee later to
dav. Sen. Styles Bridges, R., N. H.,
brought up the matter of Blaze
and "other strange facts and in
cidents" at an executive commit
tee meeting today, and moved for
the inquiry.
He told the committee that "this
disgraceful incident of three
servicemen being put off an air
plane while an English bull mas
tiff, consigned by the President's
son. Col. Elliott Roosevelt, to his
actress wife Faye Emerson, at
Hollywood, was allowed to out
rank them in travel priority, has
shocked every right-thinking citi
zen." Bonneville Gets
Clarence Hurd
Portland, Ore., Jan. 23 (IB The
services of Clarence J. Hurd, a
nationally-known agricultural en
gineer and a native Oregonian,
will be available to the Bonneville
power administration through a
loan arrangement with the Ten
nessee valley authority, Paul J.
Raver, Bonneville administrator,
announced today.
Hurd is a graduate of Oregon
State college and has served four
vears on the agricultural engi
neering staff for the Oregon ag
ricultural experiment station.
Following this position, he was
engaged in commercial engineer
ing work in the Willamette valley
and southern Oregon.
Germans Remove
Hindenburg's Body
London, Jan. 23 IP Retreating
German troops removed the bod
Ips of Field Marshal Paul Von
Hlndcnburg and his wife from
their tomb at Tannenberg and
blew up the great memorial shrine
before abandoning the town to the
red army Sundav. the nazi DNB
news agency said todav.
DNB said the battle flags of the
Prussian regiments that fought at
Tanenburg in world war I also
were carried away In the retreat.
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In business In a Filipino rice field, fires at Jap positions harassing our
town of San Jacinto. Photo by Stanley Ttoutman, NBA-Acme photos
rapher for Wax. Picture Pool.
U.S. Soldiers
Sentenced on
Theft Counts
Paris, Jan. 23 IP Six more
American soldiers today were
sentenced to hard labor for par
ticipating in the theft and black
market sale of army supplies.
the six, wno were also given
dishonorable discharges, and their
sentences were Corp. Harold J.
Ainsworth of Milwaukee. 20
years; Corp. Dwlght J. Curtis of
pocatello, Idaho, 35 years; Pvt.
Robert Charles Forsyth (address
not given), 25 years; Corp. Ru
dolph J. Migl of Fort Sam Hous
ton, Tex., 20 years; Pvt. Sam Fer
ro, Jr., of Houston, Tex., 15 years,
and Pvt. Charles Isham of Syra
cuse, N. Y., 25 years.
Among them they were accus
ed of stealing 1,000 packs of clg
arets, 24 cans o milk, and 10 cans
of bacon. The verdict brings to 43
the number of G.I.'s so far con
victed in the mass trials being con
ducted by the U. S. army court
martial. Price Rollback
Due in Clothing
Washington, Jan. 23 IP) Price
Administrator Chester Bowles and
Production Chief J. A. Krug today
announced a synchronized, far
reaching program which they said
was designed to keep American
civilians "decently" clothed In the
face of rising prices and dwin
dling supplies of cotton, wool, and
rayon.
The drastic new program is
planned to reduce prices of medi
um and low-priced essential gar
ments by six or seven per cent
in the next few months. This roll
back, plus elimination of an an
ticipated price increase of a simi
lar amount if left uncontrolled,
will save the consumer an esti
mated $500,000,000 yearly they
said.
The program should get quality,
quantity and prices of essential
anparel back to the level of the
first six months of 1913, when the
hold-the-line order began to take
effect.
Bowles and Krug unveiled their
plan at a Joint press conference
after informing about 100 invited
trade representatives of its de
tails. The officials said that the
program will be considered
"tough" by many business'Inter
ests but they told the industry it
will continue to make profits
"well alwve" their peacetime earn
ings. '
NOW IT IS ILLEGAL
Santa Rosa, Cal., Jan. 23 IIP)
Nudism will become illegal In
Sonoma county effective Feb. 21
under an ordinance passed unani
mously yesterday by the board
of supervisors.
rk Field;
Manila
Rice Field
Carlile Named
Appointment of Harold P. Car
lile, a member of the Bend high
school faculty, to the chairman
ship of the local war price and
rationing board, was announced
today. Carlile succeeds Jackson T.
Moore who recently resigned to
accept a position as district board
supervisor lor the OPA.
At the same time it was an
announced that Mrs. A. T. Herr
ling had been selected as vice
chairman of the board.
In making the announcement
of the appointments, Judge C. L.
Alien, chairman, and George Si
merville, coordinator of the Des
chutes county defense council,
paid high tribute to "the civic
and patriotic spirit" of Carlile for
accepting the non-salaried and try
ing position. They were equallv as
enthusiastic in their praise of Mrs.
Herrling, who will head the board
In Carlile's absence. '
On School Staff
Carlile, who has been commer
cial instructor at the high school
since 1938, has served as chair
man of the miscellaneous panel
on the ration board, and at times
has assisted In the mileage panel.
He Is a graduate of the Oregon
State college, had two years ex
perience as an accountant with
the. state highway department, is
an income tax authority and at
one time operated a store, service
station and auto court. He also at
one time was engaged in the in
surance business. The new chair
man resides at C31 Columbia ave
nue. In accepting the appointment,
Carlile said that he felt "it is
my patriotic duty to serve where
ever I am most needed during this
war period." He said that he knew
that he had the full support of
other board members, but added
that the growing rationing tasks
require additional volunteers on
the various panels.
Roberts Praised
By State Senate
Salem, Ore., Jan. 23 KB The
senate today received a resolution
praising the late Thomas Roberts.
who left the bulk of his estate
for educational purposes in the
state.
Roberts, a native of Wales.
opened a clothing stpre In Port
land in 1892. When he died recent
ly, he willed a large portion of his
wealth to 35 of the state's 36
counties. The county left out of
the bequest, Lake county, had a
similar bequest from another
source.
PRISONERS CAPTURED
Medford, Ore.. Jan. 23 (IP) Two
German prisoners of war who es
caped from a work detail at Camp
wnne aunaay mgnt were cap
tured at 2:10 a. m. todav about
two miles south of Medford.
Nazis Wilting
urn
Before Allies
In Big Bulge
Americans Drive Into
St. Vith as Germans
Retreat i-rom Kegi
Paris, Jan. 23 (Ui American
forces droye into St. Vith;,today on
the- heels of nazl forces which
markedly Increased the pace of
their withdrawal all along the line
of the remnants of the Ardennes
bulge. ' '
Both the American First and
American Third armies reported
the nazis were wilting under re
mitting ground pressure and the
effects of the tefrlfic air smash
which yesterday knocked out 4,100
German vehicles trying to get
back inside the protection of the
siegirted tine.
The Third army punched out a
gam or rour and a hair miles rrom
a point six miles northeast of
Houffalize and all along the line
shoved forward distances of a
mile or more.
Fliers Active -
The American tactical air force
was out in some strength again
today out it was hardly hoped
that it could repeat yesterday's
record bag.
Up to noon the Ninth air force
had flown 198 sorties, destroying
302. motor transports and damag
ing another 119.
Eight armored vehicles of vari
ous types were destroyed for a
two day total of 73.
The tactical air forces ranged
behind the German lines, attack
ing railroads and freight yards as
well as highway convoys, and re
ported the destruction of 72 cars
and damage to another72. ,
u - Advance Mad "
The Seventh armored division s
two-and-a-half mile advance into
the northeastern perimeter of St.
Vith threatened momentarily io
collapse the northern half of the
shrunken bulge.
The fall of St. Vith would knock
out the last practical escape high
way from Ardennes north of the
Luxembourg border and also cut
the main north-south road run
ning the length of the narrow
nazl salient.
Marshal Karl Von Rundstedt's
decimated legions fleeing east
across the German border for the
comparative safety of the Sieg
fried line faced another day of
merciless pounding from thou
sands of American planes and
massed artillery.
Snow was falling on portions of
the battlefield at dawn, but the
weather generally was no worse
than It was yesterday, when tac
tical air forces flew more than
3,000 sorties for a day of unparal
leled destruction.
Judge Fines Self
After Dove Check
Mobile, Ala., Jan. 23 lU'i When
the game warden came along,
Judge John McDuffie and his
hunting companions, Horace S.
Turner and Thomas M. Stevens,
prominent Mobile businessmen,
found themselves afoul of the
law.
But the judge fixed things
in court yesterday. He fined him
self $25 for having too many
doves in his hunting bag, and his
friends $10 apiece for violation of
federal game laws.
Industrial Jap Homeland Bombed By 'Forts',
Tokyo Says; Nagoya Designated One Target
By Frank Tremalne
(United PrM SUff Correnpondmt)
Pearl Harbor, Jan. 23 !P The
Tokyo radio said about 70 Super
fortresses from the Marianas
raided the Japanese homeland air
craft center of Nagoya for two
hour today.
The war department, announc
ing the raid, said the B-29's "again
struck at the center of industrial
Japan." A communique gave no
details of the attack by the Super
fortresses operating under a new
commander, Maj. Gen. Curtis Le
May. The Japanese claimed "fierce in
terception" Interfered with the
several formations of big bomb
ers so that they were able to do
only "slight" damage. They said
nothing however, of any Ameri
can planes shot down or dam
aged. Destruction of 140 Japanese
aircraft and damaging of 100
more by planes of the Third fleet
in destructive attacks Sunday (To
kyo time) on Formosa and the
adjacent Saklshlma and Pesca
dore island were disclosed in a'
GESTAPO CHIEF HIMMLER
SENT TO EASTERN FRONT
AS HYSTERIA GRIPS NAZIS
By Robert Dawson
. (United Prwes Staff Correspondent) '' "
London, Jan. 23 (TIE) Berlin reported today that Adolf
Hitler had rushed Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler and other
of his best commanders to the eastern front and given them
"complete power" to rally German strength against the Rus
sians in any way they saw fit.
"The fuehrer has sent his best army commanders and
men of iron determination like Reich Lender Heinrich Himm
ler to the focal points of the battle," a nazi broadcast said.
"They have been given complete power and will make
radical decisions and guaran-y
tee tne command.
The broadcast signalized
B e r 1 i n' s acknowledgement
that the battle of Germany
had begun in the east, since
Himmler is command-in-chief
of the German home army and
commander of the gestapo, which
allied armies have credited with
keeping Germany In the war.
Unconfirmed reports from
Stockholm said nazi leaders were
fleeing Berlin, and the rest of the
capital's Inhabitants would be
evacuated as soon as the party
bigwigs were safely away.
Hysteria Sweeps Reich
A wave of hysteria was said to
be sweeping the relch In the path
of the Russian invasion and radio
Berlin repeatedly blared out urg
ent appeals to the wehrmacht and
the people's home army for a
"now or never" stand of the east
ern frontier. .
Word of the reported flight
from Berlin came in a Swiss dis
patch to the Stockholm newspa
per Aftonbladet. A neutral diplo
mat arriving in Bern from the
German capital was quoted as say
ing that the nazi party chieftains
were leaving for an undisclosed
spot, removing the government
archives with them.
The diplomat's account, which
was not confirmed from any other
source, said Berllners were losing
their nerve as reports from the
front told of the steady march of
the red army within 150 miles of
their capital.
Deschutes Men
Get Service Call
Bound to Portland to take pre-
Induction physical examinations
at the Induction center, a group
of men left Bend early today by
special bus from the Deschutes
county selective service board. In
cluded In the party were:
Hugh Carroll, Joseph S. Fales,
George L. Robins, Douglas Pres
ton Gibson, William G. Forrester,
James Lewis Hamlin, Harlan
Francis Williams, William Holmes
Hammer, Lawrence J. Hart, Her
man Henry Kramer, Harold M.
Gross, George E. Fulton, Hugh
Delmar Copoland, William W.
Payton, Ray Heiney, James Adri
an Wimp, James Albert Farmer,
Donald F. Lewis and Robert Lee
Tye.
John Schrunk, Vcrrel W. Gray,
Prior V. Smith, John Haden Sta
cey, Ernest L. Abitz, Donald W.
Chambcrlin, Clyde Charles 13111a
deau, John Elmer Putnam, El
bert R. Smith, Wallace Ted Soren
son, Warren E. Holler, John G.
Stenkamp, Gordon Wesley
Georgo Edwin Jerilo Stringer, Jr.
Wayne F. Wills, Wes Elroy El
liott, Gerald Chrlstensen, Roland
Holmes McClure, Don Curry, Lud
dle Valpo McMahon, Cecil Hedger,
Wallace A. Davis.
Pacific fleet communique.
Tokyo said the carrier-based as
sault on the Formosa area had
gone Into a second day Monday,
with a total force of 1.000 nlanes
attacking Japanese Installations
in the two-day period. Eighty-five
of the raiders were shot down and
68 damaged, Tokyo said.
The Japanese radio also said
American Lightning fighter
planes had joined land based
bombers for the first time in at
tacking Formosa, apnarcntlv from
Phillnnlne bases, 80 Lightnings
and 20 Liberators raided southern
Formosa for three hours Sunday,
Tokvo said.
The report of the large -scnle
lnnd basol assnult was not con
firmed Immediately, but Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's communi
que reported that patrol planes
from the Philippines bombed the
harbor at Takao. Formosa, by
night and shot down an enemy
float plane in the Okinawa islands
by day.
Admiral Chester W. Nlmltz's
Pacific fleet communique dis
City Requests
Early Opening
Of Deschutes
The City of Bend,today was of
ficially on record as being opposed
to the plan of the Oregon State
Game commission to delav the
opening of the fishing season on
the Deschutes river south of
Bend until May 12.
Declaring that the proposed
opening date would "deprive the
children of Bend a month of their
favorite sport," thp city commis
sion, at its meeting In the city
hall last night, drafted a resolu
tion to be forwarded to the game
commission, asking that the date
be set os of April 14. This date
had been sought by local sports
men, who at a meeting last week,
also urged the commission to re
consider the plan to set the date
on May m.
v Youngsters Favored
The city's resolution pointed
out that it has neon the custom
of adult fishermen to give-young
sters the almost exclusive right to
fish the stream within the city
limits. It also pointed out that
with the gasoline shortage, it is
Impossible for the young Iznak
Waltons to get to more distant
"flshln' holes." The resolution was
to be forwarded to the state game
commission Jan. 27, when that
body is scheduled to make a final
decision oh the opening date.
While the commission by this
move demonstrated a kindly at
titude toward Bend's Juveniles, it
followed shortly thereafter by vir-
tually scolding them for keeping
late hours. It was pointed out that
u..u t,. j ,
teen age are on the streets until
as late as 4 o'clock In the morning.
It was argued that It is the par
ent's fault for not having their
offspring In earlier, and consider
able discussion centered around a
proposal that the fathers and
mothers be cited into court when
their children are found out at
Unreasonable hours.
Parking Allowed
Special parking privileges were
granted the city's physicians and
surgeons after It had been point
ed out that the health of their pa
tients Is Jeopardized because of
the delay in getting to their auto
mobiles. The commission author
ized one special parking place,
marked by an Insignia, adjacent
to the doctors' offices.
The commission also took under
advisement a request of C. R.
Samples of Redmond, to farm the
property ahbuting the runways of
the old municipal airport on the
old Bend-Redmond road.
A resolution was also adopted
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closed that carrier pianos from
Admiral William F. Halsey's
Third fleet also Inflicted heavy
damage on shipping and ground
Installations in the Formosa area
Sunday.
Incomplete reports said at least
two large ships, docks and the
Industrial area were set afire at
Takao, Japanese naval base on
the southwest coast of Formosa
and "considerable damage" was
Inflicted on shipping at Keelung,
Toshlcn and Nan Wan harbors on
Formosa, at Mako In the Pesca
dores and In the Saklshlma is
lands. Forty-three enemy planes were
shot down In aerial combat, 97
wore destroyed on the ground and
approximately 100 more were
damaged in attaeks on Formosan
airdromes at Helto, Choshu. Mat
suyama, Elko, Kaputsua, Giran,
Koshen and Talen.
American aircraft losses were
relatively light, the communique
said, but It acknowledged that a
"majop'' American ship possi
bly a battleship or an aircraft
carrier had been damaged.
Poznan Seized
As Reds Race
Last Big Base Along
Road to Nazi Capital
Falls to Soviet Army
London, Jan. 23 IIP! Marshal
Ivan S. Konev's army today
reached the Oder river, Ger
many's primary defense line, on
a Simile front in the area of
Breslau. .
London, Jan. .23 (IPi Russian
armies today reached the area of
Poznan, 138 miles east of ticrlln,
captured Bydgoszcz, gateway of
the old Polish corridor to the Bal
tic sea and narrowed to 23 miles
the East Prussian escape gap of
200,000 German troops.
While Soviet- troops closed on
the last big Polish city between
them and Berlin and were report
ed unofficially to have reached the
Oder river line to the south,
1 Marshal Stalin announced the
capture of Bydgoszcz and a rush
through East Prussia that carried
within 28 miles of the Baltic.
Saalfleld Falls
Marshal Konstantin K. Rokos-
sovsky's army captured Saalfleld,
23 miles from the big rail punc-
tlon of Ebling, last exit from Last
Prussia on the coastal trunk rail
way. Ortelsburg, 25 miles south
east of Allenstein. Freystadt, 55
miles southeast of Danzig, Mo
hrungen, 28 miles southeast of
Elbing, and Wlllenberg, 30 miles
south of Allenstein, also fell.
Gen. Ivan D. Chernlakhovsky's
troops drove within 25 miles
northeast of Konigsberg, the pro
vincial capital of East Prussia. .
-.Soviet-columns pushing down
the two railroads Into Konigsberg
from the east and northeast
seized the Junctions of Wehlau,
midway between the capital and
Insterburg; and Labiau, on the
Baltic coastul line.
Klvers Forced
Both the Pregel and Delme
rivers, the main barriers of north-
central East Prussia, were forced
in the converging drives, Stalin
ported in his third order of the
day.
In the southeastern part of the
province, Chernlakhovsky's forces
,aptui-ed Trejiburg, a rail .and
! highway Junction 50 miles below
Insterburg: Darkenhmen, 18
" "r
and Behkhelm, 28 miles southeast
of Insterburg.
Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's
army, setting the pace In the
great Russian sweep against Ger
many, captured Bydgoszcz in a
frontal assault coordinated with
a flanking maneuver.
Defenses Unhinged
The fall of Bydgoszcz, hub from
which a score of railroads and
highways radiate, unhinged the
main German defenses of north
west Poland and freed powerful
Soviet forces to join in the big
push toward Berlin.
Both Moscow and Berlin report
ed that Zhukov's left wing was
charging over the approaches of
Poznun, last big Polish base on
the road to the German capital.
To the south. Marshal Ivan S.
Knnev's Invasion forces in Silesia
were reported to have reached the
Oder river southeast of Breslau,
and Berlin tactlly acknowledged
that the first Soviet wedge had
been driven to this primary de
fense line of the nazi homeland.
Senate Summons
Wallace, Jones
Washington, Jan. 23 (IPi The
senate commerce committee de
cided todav to call former Vice
President Henry A. Wallace and
Secretary of Commerce Jesse
Jones before it tomorrow.
The committee is considering
both President Roosevelt's nomi
nation of Wallace to succeed Jones
and a bill by Sen. Walter George,
D., Ga., to divorce the govern
ment's multl-milllon-dollar lend
ing agencies from the commerce
department.
The bill was prompted by Wal
lace's nomination. George, one of
the most influential members of
the senate, and many other con
gressmen have expressed the be
lief that Wallace lacks the neces
sary financial experience to han
dle successfully such agencies as
the Reconstruction Finance Corp.
Chairman Josiah W. Bailey. D.,
N. C, of the commerce committee
said Jones and Wallace, bitter ene
mies, will meet face to face in a
hearing open to the public.
Across Poland