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HITLER'S ARMIES AGAIN LASH WEST
Gains Scored
Against Yanks
At Haguenau
Blow Boliovod Intondod
To Upjot Alliod Plans
For Attack to Aid Rods
Paris. Jim. 25 mi... German
lotion attacking on a 20 mile Al
sallon front, possibly In an effort
to 0M-( a full male allleil often,
(tlve that apiH'arcil to he shaping
tip, have bypassed the big trans.
Mirt huh of lliiguonau on lioth
sides, Hiipreine headquarters an.
nounccd loilay.
Striking in the single Hector of
!he western front where they held
tin- Initiative, the Germans ml
vanrcd nearly two miles In north
ern Alsace, reaching the village
ot Si hlllersilorf, at the .edge of
the Hindi finest within n mile of
the llagucnau Sane Union trunk
highway.
NuIm Are TrnM'd
I.t. Cen. Alexander M. Patch's
Seventh army forces sealed off
the penetration, and woie lattllug
lllxiut 300 nalN who lint! KlalilM'd
u foothold 111 Schlllersdorf.
Amidst sign of a browing al
lied offensive, I.t. Cen. Ilrehon
Somervell kiiIiI at supreme head
quarters that Cen. Dwlght I).
Elsenhower's forces had enough
supplies on hum I to mount a
major drive while the Russians
are raving In the eastern defenses
of Germany.
While stocks are on hand lor a
big 0H-rallon, Somervell warned
at u press conference that the
production of ummunlllon, trucks,
and other war goods woulil have
to ! Increased tremendously to
prevent critical shortages on the
western front.
Salient Mntteiieil
I he new German attack on the
Seventh army front hot ween
II a He n an and Helpcrlswlllcr
opened as oilier allied armies to
the north flattened the Ardennes
salient to a thin hump and ground
down the nazis' pocket across the
Hmt In the appendix area
southern Holland.
The Hermans drove across the
iiand'scored .aTa.nrl,olly """" " P!
nloiii: the 20 mile offensive front.
SIIKAK said the na.ls had
eluht divisions between Itltehe
and the Khlne In northeastern
l'rance, where Patch's front was
weakened In the recrouplni; of
allied forci-s to deal with the tier
man offensive In the Ardennes.
Farther south, the French Klr.st
army continued Its advance north
east of Colmar, where forward
elements had K'llned six miles
Irom their Jumpoff positions In
the Voskcs foothills between Col
mar and Selestat.
WOtU.I) CUT OI K SUIM'MKS
WashlnRton, Jan. 25 Mil - The
dliile department announced to
day that I.iuuiilln Curie, adinlnls
trallve assistant to the president,
will ko to Switzerland soon to try
to cut off shipment of war su
plles from that country to Ccr
many. KKDS CAITUKK OKI.S
London, Jan. 25 mi Marshal
Slalln tinnounced tonight that the
Kusslans had captured Gels, east
of lireslau.
Gen. Joseph Stilwell Named
Leader of U. S. Ground Forces
Washington, Jan. 25 (111 Secre
tary of Wnr Henry L. Stlmson
4 today announced the appointment
'of Cien. Joseph W. stilwell, lor
mer commander of American
forces In the Chlnn-nurma-Indln
I heater, as commander of U. S.
army, Rround forces.
Stilwell succeeds I.t. Cen. R'n
I,ear, recently named deputy com
mander of American forces In the
European theater of. operations.
I,ear Is serving there in nn ad
.minlstratlvo capnclty.
; "VlneRar Joo" Stilwell was re
(collnd from the Orient nt the rc
kpiest of Generalissimo ChlnnR
Kai-shek as n result of differences
, between the two men over how
i best to make use of what wnr
'materials they had. He had been
IwrvlnR as chief nf .staff to ChlnnR
I,, a iirnll na Mminn nli ip nf Amm.
ilcnn forces.
I Stlmson announced tho nppolnt-i
J ment to n news conference to
.which ho also read a cablegram
from Lt. Cen. Dan I. Sultan, now
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Vapor trnlU pnlnt wrlrd urruka In biittlcfront ky at Allied planes engage eD.my fighters In jurfoua dog
llghu. All ulrrt Mmm uiill-nlrcrult battery Is llhouelUd as they train their sluhts ou an Incoming enemy
slrulrr somewhere In Qcnnany. Blgnol Corpa photo.
BEND SELECTED FOR PLANT
TO MAKE PUMICE BLOCKS
Rend is to have a new industry.
for the purport? of producintr liuildiiiir materials from
concrete, pumice, and cinders. The Bend Concrete Products
company will soon erect a $1.1, 000 plant on Greenwood avenue,
il wua announced today by K.
bitch, partners in the venture.
blocks, will be ,V2 x !H feet, with offices and a display room
in front. Kventually the company will employe about 15 men,
it was reported.
Resides building blocks, the firm will manufacture cement
bricks, pumice bricks for in-
Industrial Fund
v;Drive Launched
letters were being mailed out
owners, asking for their contii
tuitions to the Hend industrial
fund, to meet needs ns they occur
and to make it possible to start
n st inly of post-war possibilities,
It wan announced by the commit
tee In charge. All contributions
are to be In by Feb. 12.
Immediately following the
I drive, an organization meeting
will be held and n committee
elected to administer the funds.
Carl A. Johnson, Bend chamber
of commerce president nnd chair
man of the special committee del
egated to raise the fund said to
day: ( halrmaii IMensed
"I am gratified with the Inter
est shown In the committee's ac
tivities. Over 20 firms and indi
viduals have voluntarily made
their contributions In advance of
the genera! request, and I am
confident the required amount
will be raised by Feb. 12. Then
the city-wide organization can
begin to function."
The following letter, nddressed
to Bend business and property
owners, and signed by the Bend
I Continued on Page 2)
commander of American forces
In Burma and India, expressing
regret that Stilwell was not pres
ent to see tho opening of tho new
I.edo road over which supplies
nre to be carried from India to
China.
Sultan's message said the road
had been cleared of Japanese
forces except for small pockets
of resistance, and Hint It should
be safe for convoy traffic begin
nlnR today.
In bis new post, Stilwell will
he In command of one of the three
components of the. amry. The
other two nro the army nlr forces,
headed by Gen. Henry IT. Arnold,
nnd the army service forces, bend
ed by I.t. Cen. Brehon B. Somer
vell. The three lenders make their
headquarters here nnd their Jobs
nro administrative, rather than
comhnt.
St 11 well's friends were con
vinced ho would lmvo preferred
a combat commnnd but the army
high command apparently deemed '
otherwise.
THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JAN. 25, 1945
Over Oder R
Trails Paint Batflefront Sky
P. Syverson nnd U N. Eisen
The building, made of concrete
I sulation, decorative and vari
! colored tile and bricks, sewer
and drainage pipes and culvert
pipes, the owners said. The
partners also plan, as equip
ment is installed, to produce
different novelties, such as
Water meter boxes, sceptic
tanks and waterproof burial
vaults.
Syverson nnd Elsenbach said
that their bulldhiR blocks will be
In three sizes and are to be made
from pumlep, concrete nnd red or
black cinders. The block sizes are
G x li x 12 Inches; G x 8 x 12 inches,
and 12 X 6 x 8 Inches.
In HIr Demand
According to the owners, pum
ice blocks nre In great demand for
the building of smaller homes,
while the concrete nnd cinder
blocks may be used for the con
struction of larger buildings.
The Bend Concrete Products
company Is now producing in n
small way, nnd two new block
making machines are now under
'construction. Additional mn-
jchlnery will be utilized ns soon as
government priorities are grant
ed, Syverson said.
Both Syverson nnd Elsenbach
hnve resided In Bend about six
years, Syverson hi Blakley heights
and Elsenbach . at 1304 Fresno
street. Syverson announced that
Elsenbach will be superintendent
of the plant. Syverson planned to
continue In his present contract
ing business. Elsenbach is a brick
and rock mason, nnd Syverson
formerly was wllh the Longvicw
Concrete Pipe company.
The partners anticipate n great
demand for their cinder nnd con
crete pipe after waters of the
North Unit Irrigation project
reach Jefferson county farm
lands.
Bankers to Hold
Redmond Session
Portland, Ore., Jan. 25 (ll'i Sec
tional meetings In Redmond nnd
Mcdford were scheduled today by
the Oregon Bankers association
to outline procedures on ranking
"G.I." loans nnd other topics.
The Redmond session Is tonight
nnd the Medford meeting Jnn. 30.
Speakers will Include Mitchell Til
lotson of Klnmnth Falls, presi
dent of the association, nnd Wil
liam P. Chonte, Portland banker.
LIMB KILLS MAN
Oregon City, Ore., Jan. 25 (Hi
Clacknmns county logging opera
tions bad their first fatality of
the yenr last night when Enii
Stilling, 41. of Molnlla died after
a large limb struck him on the
head and fractured his skull.
BEND
CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
Oumansky Killed
In Plane Crash
Mexico City, Jan. 25 UH Am-
bassador and Mrs. Constantine
OnmnnKkv wnrn Ulllnri In thn
crash of n Mexican rmv tmna.
port shortly after it took off from
the Mexico City airport today, the
Russian embassy announced.
Oumansky was en route to San
Jose, Costa Rica, to present his
credentials to the Costa Rican
government.
Eleven of 13 passengers died in-
the crash. Mexican military au
thorities refused to permit news,
men near the scene of the acci
dent
Survivors were taken to hosoi -
tins, too badly burned in the lire
that followed the crash to be ques
tioned. The aircraft, a dual-motored
army transport, burst into flames
and fell about a mile and a half
north of the airport.
Friend of Stalin
Oumansky was born In 1902
In Nlkolaev in the Ukraine and
attended school in Moscow where
his studies were interrupted by
the revolutionary events of 1917.
He later worked on various Rus-
""i newspapers and news agen-
Civ , becoming director general of
Tass In 1941
He first came to the United
' unnea
took ac-
States In 1933, when he
tlve part in Washington negotia-
Hons resulting in resumption of
normal diplomatic relations be -
tween United States nnd Russia.
A fluent linguist, he became
ambassador to Washington in
1936 and ambassador to Mexico
In May, 1941.
He was a close confident of
Premier Josef Stalin and was said
to have overall charge of Russian
ambassadorial affairs in the west
ern hemisphere.
Japanese Report
Two More Raids
Pearl Harbor, Jan. 25 tlPv-Tokyo
reported two more B-29 nuisance
raids on the Japanese industrial
center of Osakn. a naval bombard
ment of Iwo in the Volcanoes and
a 120-plane carrier-based raid on
.Palembang in the Dutch East In
dies In the quickening Pacific war
today.
A Japanese domestic broadcast
said lone Superfortresses bombed
the Osaka area 250 miles west ot
Tokyo at 8 o'clock Inst night and
again nt 1 a. m., today (Tokyo
time), but caused no damage.
American surfnee ships, includ
ing four cruisers nnd eight de
stroyers, bombarded Iwo, Japa
nese stepping stone island 750
miles south of Tokyo Wednesday j
and Inflicted "negligible" damage,
another Tokyo broadcast said.
Superfortresses from the Mnii
nnas blasted Iwo In strength with
"good results" Wednesday, ac
cording to a war department com
munique, and It wns possible that
tho naval bombardment tied In
wllh the air attack. Twice before
B-29s have hit Iwp In conjunction
with surface vessels.
BE
Troops Surge
To Clark Field
In Island Gains
At Least One Airstrip
Already in Possession
Of Men Nearing Manila
By William B. Dickinson
(Unite I'row War Corrnpondcnt)
General Mat-Arthur's Hcadquar -
ti.'rs, Luzon, Jan. 23 '111 The
American 14th corps surged
across the great Clark field clus
ter of airdromes within 48 miles
northwest of Manila today and all
11 airstrips, along with adjacent
Fort Statsenburg, appeared about
to fall without a major battle.
At least one and probably more
of the airstrips already were firm
ly in American hands. Bamban
field, northernmost of the Clark
constellation, was overrun Tues
day and mechanized patrols were
operatinR yesterday in the vicin
ity of Clark field itself, six miles
to the south, and Fort Statsen
burg. Kiver Crossed
The advance carried across
Bamban river, where the Jaoai-
nese had been expected to make a
stronR stand, and overran Mabala -
cat, four miles south of Bamban
fcnd 50 miles northwest of Manila,
without encountering major re
sistance. '
enemy motorizea pairois
! ana Harassing snipers were ois-
I perSeo.
I" Lashine out ahead of the
ground troops. Liberator bombers
began the aerial reduction of Fort
Corregldor, scene of the bloody
last American stand . Manila
bay in 1942. Forty-five tons of
bombs were dropped in the Initial
raid Tuesday, touching off huge
fires,ancj explosions among enemy
installations.
Japs Lose Most
Gen. Douglas MacArthur jubi
lantly revealed that his ground
! forces had killed 10 Japanese for
'"" ?
two weeks of the invasion of Lu
zon.
Japanese casualties, he said,
totaled about 14,000, comprising
6.449 known dead, 423 prisoners
and an estimated 7,200 wounded.
American casualties were listed
as 657 dead. 187 missing and 2,301
wounded, a total of 3.145.
"Every possible strategical and
tactical ingenuity is being success
fully employed to hold our losses
in men to an absolute minimum,"
macrinui
i munique.
reported in his com-
k. n ,
NiDDons Keoort
. . rr . . . ...
Now N S Lflnainn
,eW , , "
(B" "nlUHl PreM)
American troops have landed on
the northeastern coast of Mindoro
island in the Philippines and are
fighting toward Calapan, the capi-
tal city, situated about 75 miles
directly south of Manila, Tokyo
radio reported today in a broad
cast recorded by United Press,
San Francisco.
Tokyo, quoting a Manila dis
patch, said an estimated 1,000
troops participated In the landing.
The enemy report, unconfirmed
by allied sources, said heavy
fighting was in progress.
Wallace Appears Before Senate Committee
And Opposes Divorce of Lending Functions
Washington. Jan. 25 (IPv For
mer Vice President Henrv A. Wal
lace said todav that the real issue
before the senate In connection
with his nomination as secretary
of commerce is not his alleged
lack of experience but "the experi
ence I have had."
Opening his testimony before
the senate commerce committee
on the George bill to divorce lend
ing functions from the commerce
denartment. Wallace franklv ad
mitted he was "deeply concerned"
with anv nronosal "to strip from
the commerce department the
lending functions It now hns.'
Wallace was testifying In rebut
tal to arguments advanced before
the committee yesterday by retir
ing Secretary of Commerce Jesse
H. Jones. Jones, who now heads
the Reconstruction Finance Corp.,
said he felt Wallace would be a
dnnirernus man to entrust with
theRFC's multi-bllllon-dollar business.
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171
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over, Foe Reports
Nazi Capital in Panic
As Reds Race Into West
London, Jan. 25 (U.E) Tens of thousands of German
refugees from the east were reported jamming the roads to
Berlin today and Stockholm dispatches said signs of panic
were appearing in the nazi capital for the first time since the
start of the red army invasion.
The great exodus from the east was accompanied by a
sudden revival of peace rumors, all completely unconfirmed
and perhaps inspired by the nazis themselves for devious
propaganda purposes.
One rumor, broadcast by the clandestine radio Atlantic,
said Gestapo Chief Heinrich
Himmier had tried without
1 success to put out peace feel-
ers to the free German com
mittee in Moscow, suggesting
that he replace Adolph Hitler
at the head of the reich and
make a separate peace with
Russia.
Peace Talk Heard
Another, relayed by the Ankara
radio and equally unsubstantiated, i
had Baron Franz Von Papen in
Madrid to learn the allied peace
terms.
There was littje question, how
ever, that the Russian sweep to
and across Germany's eastern
frontiers had touched off a wave
of hysteria spreading back to the
capital of the relch.
All accounts indicated the nazis
were combine out the last drees
j of their, manpower to man their
, eastern ramparts and, at the same
; time, trying to clear the refueee-
choked roads for the movement of
reserves to the front.
Berlin said all women and chil
dren were being removed from
Breslau as that Silesian industrial
center came under the guns of the
red army, and similar mass evac
uations were in progress through
out eastern Germany and the
areas of western Poland not al
ready overrun by the Russians.
Vessel Carrying
2,200 Men Lost
Washington, Jan. 25 (IP) A ship
carrying 2,200 American soldiers
was sunk recently in European
waters by enemy action, with 248
killed and 517 missing, Secretary
of War Henry L. Stimson an
nounced today. Over 1,400 were
saved.
Stimson announced the loss to
a press conference in these words:
"It may now be disclosed that
a ship carrying more than 2,200
American soldiers was sunk re
cently in European waters due to
enemy action. The ship sank
swiftly, and 248 men were killed
and 517 are missing. The rest,
over 1,400, were saved.
"This announcement is made in '
accordance with our established!
Dolicv of statine all losses in reeu-
lar course, even though some of
the details may not yet be made
available."
MAN IS MISSING
Vancouver, Wash., Jan. 25 (IP
Ashes of the Blue Lake chateau
near Vancouver were searched to
day for trace of V. L. Muncy, 47,
said by his friends to be missing
after a fire destroyed the chateau
early Monday. It was believed
Muncy was included In a dancing
party when the fire broke out.
1 Committee Chairman Josiah W.
Rnilev. D., N. C. opened the hear
ing with a warning that no dem
onstrations "one wav or the
other" would be tolerated.
Bailev told Wallace the commit
tee wanted to hear his views on
the bill introduced by Sen. Walter
F. George. D., Ga., to divorce the
present lending functions, Includ
ing administration of the RFC
and Its subsidiaries, from the de
partment of commerce.
"Obviously," Wallace said, "I
am deeply concerned with any
proposal which has for its pup
pose the stripping from the de
partment of commerce of the
lendine functions It now has."
"I'd be less than frank," he con
tinued, "if I indicated I was dis
interested in the carving out of
Important functions that depart
ment now has.
"Candidly, It Is not a question of
mv alleged lack of experience to
administer those functions, but
r HI! VT
Work, Fight Bill
Passage Is Urged
Washington, Jan. 25 ilf The
house military affairs committee
today urged immediate passage
if its work-or-fight bill to "marsh-
all our full strength and resources
to keep the battle lines moving
forward."
The committee, which complet
ed work late yesterday on the
bill to force 18-45 year old men
into essential work, said in a re
port to House Speaker Sam Ray
bum that the measure must be
enacted at once to make up man
power deficiencies in the plants
turning out war material.
Warning that serious shortages
now exist in many types of arma
ment, the committee said:
"They are bottlenecks that must
be broken. The forward sweep
of the war Into enemy territory
cannot await the outcome of de
bate as to past action or omission,
to act, but must press constantly
and increasingly on."
The reports said that this
country was now committed to,
great offensives in Europe and
the Philippines and that there was
no alternative but to' take every
step to assure the supplies to
keep them going.
Margarine Points
Due for Increase
Washington, Jan. 25 (IPv The
ration value of margarine will go
up from two to three red points a
pound in February but creamery
butter will remain unchanged at
24 points a pound, the office of
price administration announced
today.
The only other February ration
changes, OPA said, will be to re
turn hitherto point-free bacon
stems and fat pork cuts to the
ration list at one point a pound.
Other meats and all processed
foods, cheeses, shortening and
cooking oils will retain their pres
ent point values.
.
Senate ApPI"0V6S
.
Election Pay Bill
Salem, Ore., Jan. 25 IP!The
senate has passed a revised bill to
raise the pay of election officials
from S3 to $4.
The bill, batted from committee
to senate and back again more
than any other measure, failed to
pass yesterday when it provided
for $5 pay. After change by the
elections and privileges commit
tee, it was passed in the form in
which it was originally presented
last week.
rather a Question of the expert
ences I have had.
Wallace then listed the posi
tions he has held in the govern
ment, and gave a detailed descrip
tion of their functions. He dwelled
upon his administration of the
agriculture department and the
loans made by the Commodity
Wallace recalled that while he
denartment made 11.500.000 com-1
modity credit loans and 1,208
rural rehabilitation loans.
But in anv event, Wallace con
tinued, he did not believe that anv
lack of experience on his pnrt was
the real motive behind the effort
to strip tho commerce department
of its vast lending authority.
"The real issue." he said, "is
whether these powers should be
used to help big business or to
help little business in our efforts
to attain the president's goal of
60,000,000 jobs."
Weafher Forecast
Considerable cloudiness today, ti
night and Friday. Not much tem
perature change. , -
NO. 43
FRONT
East Prussia
Trap Closed,
Berlin Hears
Soviets Storm Glelwitt,
Fortified Factory Town
Forming Vital Anchorage
London, Jan. 25 (U?) Russian
armies captured the big Silesian
industrial center of Glelwitz and
speared within "some 134 miles"
of Berlin today, and the nazis said
soviet forces had broken across
the Oder river at several points
and had sealed off East Prussia.
Marshal Ivan S. Konev's army
successfully stormed Glelwitz, for
tified factory town anchoring the
defenses of the southeastern nose
of Silesia, and at the same time
overran Chrzanow, 34 miles to the
southeast in the Dabrova coal
mining basin of Poland.
Marshal Stalin, in Moscow, in
the first victory announcement of
the day, hailed Konev's First
Ukrainian army for the capture of
the key bases on the southern
wing of the red army's vast of
fensive front.
Crossing Held .
Down the Oder valley, Konev's
forces were, by German account,
across the strategic river at sev
eral places and held the crossings
at captured Oppelin, while Bres
lau was reported under frontal
assault as the Russian campaign
in Silesia developed rapidly.
The red army organ, Red Star,
declared that "only some 200 odd
kilometers (124 miles)" separate
en.rfA T1 1 : U . . .
did not specif v the ooints of creat-
est Russian advances. However,
nazi accounts admitted that the
troops of Marshal Ivan S. Konev's
First Ukrainian army had driven
several bridgeheads across the
frozen Oder on a 100-mile front on
both sides of Breslau.
One bridgehead was at Steinau,
136 miles southeast of Berlin, and
34 miles northwest of Breslau.
Breslau Under Attack
The German accounts said that
the soviet forces were busily build
ing up their bridgeheads across
the last strategic river barrier pro
tecting Berlin but Insisted that
counterattacks were "narrowing
them down."
Breslau itself was under direct
assault and it was evident that the
German hopes if any cf hold
ing off the red army along the
line of the Oder and of saving
industrially rich Silesia were In
imminent peril.
To the northeast the Germans
frankly admitted that their citadel
province of East Prussia had been
severed from the homeland by the
advance of Marshal Konstantin K.
Rokossovsky's columns to the
Baltic lagoon of Firsches Haff.
Arctic Weather
Grips Northeast
(By United Press)
The shivering northeastern sea
board faced another day and night
of sub-zero temperatures today
as the winter's bitterest cold wave,
accompanied by cutting winds,
disrupted transportation and war
work in many sections.
In New York City the mercury
remained at zero to make the day
the coldest Jan. 25 on record and
the coldest day since Feb. 15, 1943.
Pedestrians skltted on ice and
frozen snow, and subway travel
e were delayed by frozen switch
es. Suburban and New Jersey areas
recorded three below during the
early morning and outdoor work
ers at the Federal Shipbuilding
K and Port New'arki
and Drydock company yards In
N. J.
were sent home at 9 a. m., because
of the cold.
23 Below Reported
In unstate New York, with a
low of 22 below recorded at Dun
kirk, drifting snows marooned
motorists, delayed train and bus
schedules up to three hours and
almost halted freight service near
Syracuse.
Boston reported three below
last night. Pittsfield, Mass., minus
17,
nnd Hnrtford, conn., a tour
below, with outstate Connecticut
temperatures reaching minus 12,
.In what was regarded as the worst
'winter since 1917-18.