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JANUARY 14-31
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THE BEND BULLETIN. BEND. DESCHUTES COUNTY. OREGON, FRIDAY, JAN. 26. 1945
NO. 44
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U. S. Troops Blunt Foe Drive
In Alsace, Then Launch New
Assault in Region of Bulge
Yanks Hit at Hitler's Lines Along Front "
Some 30 Miles Long; Fighters Cross River,
And No 'Opposition Met; British in AVtion
By Boyd Eewis
(United Press War Correspondent)
Paris, Jan. 26 (EE) American armies blunted the nazi
offensive in northern Alsace today, seized another five square
miles of Germany west of Cologne and, according to a Berlin
report, struck out from the former Ardennes bulge in a new
assault along a 30 to 35-mile front.
The 102nd infantry division of the Ninth army added an
other five square miles to the American line along the west
bank of the Roer river 27-miles due west of Cologne, with an
unopposed advance .across the Wurm river just north of
Linn ich before dawn. . '
The advance resulted in the capture of Brachelen, two
" , , , , .miles northwest of . Linnich
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Votes Against
Henry Wallace
Washington, Jan. 26 (IP) The
senate commerce committee to
day voted against the nomination
of Henry A. Wallace to be secre
tary of commerce.
The committee also voted, 15
to 4, to recommend senate pass
age of a bill to strip the com
merce department of its super
vision over the multi-billion dol
lar federal lending agencies.
A motion to armrove the Wal.
j.Ace nomination wag rejected, hy
f ivuie oi ii xo o.
' ' Session Closed
The votes were taken in a two
hour closed session which wound
up with friends of Wallace even
losing a motion to put the nomi
nation before the senate without
any recommendation. That mo
tion lost by a vote of 11 to 6.
Committee chairman Josiah W.
Bailey, D., N. C, said he would
report the committee's action on
both matters to the senate next
session on Monday.
Hoyt Protests
U.S. Policies
Ssan Francisco, Jan. 26 IP
Palmer Hovt. ouhlisher of thp
i Portland Oregonian and former
ffiomestlc chief of the office of
- war information vpstnrHav
warned that the United States is
losing the war diplomatically
while winning it on the military
front.
It's time, Hoyt said, "that we
win this war on every front, dip-,
iomatic as well as military.
"The events in Greece, the mess
In Italy and Belgium, the confu
sion that darkens the future of
France ... the complete break
down of Chiang's Chinese legend,
all indicate how tragically we
nave failed to make the proper
deals when we held the blue
chips.
"Are we so enthralled with the
British empire policy," Hoyt
asked, "that we cannot force by
immediate sanctions the actual
lilting of news censorship there
so that we may know what is
going on?"
U. S. Protests "ta fviripnrpR nt
'mpire policy seem tardy, weak
nd ineffective," Hoyt declared.
HO SnnkP flt a mwllnn nf (ki
Commonwealth club here.
Boston Animals
May Face Death .
. Boston, Jan. 26 (tpi The Boston
c"y council was split today over
proposal to shoot the animals
at the Franklin Park zoo includ
lne a sacred cow and utilize
money for their feed for play
ground purposes.
The proposal was made at yes
terday's meeting by City Counci
lor William J. Keenan who said
the animate a nnn.matit nt i
S23.5O0 per year could be trans-1 "Oregon has the greatest out
ferred to the park commission, door playground in the world
Thp ri. . -u ' Panchorn sa d. "vet Oregon Is
bo .T""'T,V,-... .1 ."..
'or munition
MAC4RTHITR hon'OHFD
c..,?1",HL!t ,1"U"E' . I
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fai-ed their voice in song twiay "Our sister states are already j post war matters."
-"Happy Birthdav to You " active in further promoting and, Pangborn is managing director
The Occasion was the birthday preparfng for post war tourist of KGW, the Oregonian radio sta
' Gen. Douglas MacArthur. travel. The average American lsltion In Portland.
and 10 miles inside Germany,
Patrols reported the Germans
had pulled out of the area
under cover of darkness last
night.
Springboard Enlarged
The British Second army also
enlarged the allied springboard
for the next phase of the ad
vance into the German Rhlneland
with a 2,000-yard advance that
engulfed six more nazi villages
six to 12 miles northwest of Lin
nich. '
The British forces reached the
Wurm along a two-mile stretch
and erased all of the German
bridgehead west of the Roer with
the exception of .a strip less than
a mile deep. Grebben, Huloven,
Dremmen, Horst, Norm, and Ho
ven were captured and a front dis
patch said the German lines were
."sagging at a Quickening tempo."
a uerman uinb aispaicn orona-
cast by Berlin said tank-supported
American columns attacked yes
terday morning on a wide front
stretching from a point southeast
of Malmedy in eastern Belgium to
the junction of the Sure and Our
river in central Luxembourg, but
did not make clear .immediately
the scale of the assault.
No Mention Made
Latest American dispatches
from the Ardennes front made no
mention of a new asault, but told
of advances of up to a mile and a
half within sight of the river
border of Germany in the con
tinuing process of whittling down
the former nazi bulge to a harm
less bump.
'In French Alsace, Lt. Gen. Alex
ander Patch's Seventh army halt
ed the 24-hour-old German offen
sive above Strasbourg and won
back a good proportion of the
terrain yielded along a 20-mile
front between the Rhine and the
Hardt mountains.
Patch's men threw the Germans
back across the Moder river and
restored their defense line east of
Haguenau, 15 miles north of Stras
bourg, and re-took part of the Uh
willer and Ohlungen forests west
of Haguenau, but the Germans
still were clinging desperatelv to a
bridgehead across the Moder in
the latter area.
PENDERGAST ILL
Kansas City, Mo.. Jan. 26 (in
T. J. Pendergast, 72, former po
litical boss who was convicted of
income tax evasion, is seriously
ill and associates fear he might
not live until his federal court Stalin announced tonight that the
probation expires in May, lt was Russians had captured Hlnden
reported today. burg, nazi stronghold.
Peacetime Tourist Travel
To Be Promoted in Oregon
Portland, Ore., Jan. 26 P la tourist at heart, and his natural
Thn ArtvprtlslniT Fedpratlon of ! desire to travel, inhibited by war,
Portland is enlareing to statewide wi" be freely indulSed after the
portiana isenuu-gingiosiaiewiuewar We cannQt oup ghare of
scope under the name of Oregon these freeIy spent dolars lf we j
Advertising club, to assume ando not begin at once to plan fori
active part in Oregon's post-war! the post-war years. j
problems, particularly promotion
of post-war tourist travel, Presi
dent Arden X. Pang born an
nounced today.
The board of governors ap
proved a change In the constitu
tion to provide for establishment
of "community committees in at
least 15 of the state's
leading
cities.
thr. toast known of all Pacific 1
Icoast states. The tourist, in thej
naot has snent monev in Oregon.
but too often only when he is enlbroad coverage of community
- r-aiifornia in Wash, committees, can serve Oregon in
on"
Jones Protests Appointment
Retiring Secy, of Commerce Jesse H. Jones (left) testifying In favor of legislation to curb powers of his
designated successor, Henry A. Wallace, tells Senate commerce committee that the Government's loan adminis
trator should be a man of proven and sound business experience. At his sfde is Senator Walter George D
Oa.) author of the proposal to divorce from the commerce department all the functions of the Federal
Loan Agency.
Supplies Moving
Oyer China Road
By Albert Ravenholt
(United Press War Correspondent)
With First Allied Convoy on
Ledo-Burma Road, Jan. 26 (IP)
This first convoy of more than
100 supply-laden military vehicles
moving toward Kunming over
Asia's high mountains and great
rivers is the pay-off on American
effort in the Orient.
And lt Is a pay-off in more ways
than keeping our promise to China
to revitalize her with a stream of
war material over a land route.
These, trucks rolling eastward
mark the finish .of a phase of the
history of the war in the Far East
a phase strung with the names
of striking personalities and hot
ly contested Burmese and Chinese
villages:
Stilwell, Wingate, Sultan, Mer-
m s maurauders, Cochrane s com
mandos: Shinbwiyang, Teng-
chung, Jumbubum, Maingkwan,
Lungling.
It has been a war punctuated
not only with battle casualties,
but with those caused by malaria,
monsoons, typhus and blazing
neat.
Odds Discounted
But beneath the personalities
and color there's a more signi
ficant pay off: the allies have
proven that the Japanese aren't
the only Asiatics who can fight
modern war with the odds against
them and emerge with a major
strategic victory.
The enemy's steady retreat on
all Burma fronts dally confirms
the long-held contention of Amer
ican strategists that if the Japa
nese no longer were able to block
the road and pipe-line to China,
the remainder of Burma would be
of little value to them, not worth
the price of holding it.
COLD CAUSES BLAST
New York, Jan. 26 (IPi Custom
ers said it looked like the fourth
of July today in Mrs. Francis
Piecari's candy shop in Brooklyn.
Lime, cherry, strawberry pop, and
root beer froze and exploded in
her shop window.
VITAL CITY TAKEN
London, Jan. 26 IP Marshal
ine lounsr innusiry snouia oe
spread from boundary to boun-
dary of Oregon. It is a state-wide
problem, with need for statewide I
coordination. Conversations and
correspondence with advertising
leaders throughout Oregon con
vinced our board that as a state
wide organization the Oregon Ad
vertising club can be of real serv
ive in working with and assisting
those groups and agencies who
are concerned with the problem
In their own areas.
"It is our hope that the new
Oregon Advertising club, with a
ithls, as well as in many other
NIPPON AND U. S. FORCES
REPORTED IN BIG BATTLE
CLOSE TO CHINA COAST
By Frank Tremaine
(United Press War Correspondent) '
Pearl Harbor, Jan. 26 , (IIP) Unconfirmed Chinese re
ports said today that 50 American and Japanese ships battled
for nine hours in the East
Shanghai Tuesday in the biggest naval engagement since last
October.
Japanese forces broke off
toward their homeland. Bdme
the Chinese army newspaper
said.
The newspaper said tne engagement began at 3 a.m.
' . w-.1-" '.a-v ..,;v.,-i'JjBhina : time) o f f-iYunskia
Blood Purge Due,
Germans Assert
London, Jan. 26 UP Nazi propa
gandists, struggling to rally their
own people and to sow dissension
among the allies, reaped a new
peak of hysteria today with a
series of shrill warnings of a
"blood purge" that, they said
would sweep all Europe if the red
army overruns Germany.
The official press and radio
line set by Propaganda Minister
Joseph Goebbels painted a gloomy
picture of Germany, deserted by
her allies at the critical hour of
the war, fighting alone to "save
civilization" from Bolshevism.
Goebbels Speaks
Goebbels led off the outburst in
Vila wonlrlv affinla In rtaa Potph
asserting that the wehrmacht was
lighting in the east to save Europe
and all humanity.
The red army, he said, has
thrown 200 divisions Into its win
ter offensive In an all-out bid for
a victory that would "transform
Europe into a sea of blood." '
Goebbels railed at Britain and
the United States for continuing
the war in the west while Ger
many was "defending the life of
the entire civilized world" in the
east.
Dee Haines Wins
Rank of Major
Word has been reoeived here of
the promotion of Captain Dee
Haines, Bend man now serving
with the American forces In the
European theater of war, to the
rank of major. He is serving with
Quartermaster unit of the
Seventh army.
Major Haines has been in the
service three years, and has been
Overseas for 21 months. He enter-
ed Europe the "hard way", via
Afrjca Sc, I(al and southern
France.
Mrs. Haines and two children
Suzanne, 5 and Judy, 3, are mak-
mg their home in Bend. Major
Haines is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Haines, Bend,
Clarence Sager
Listed Missing
Pfc. Clarence Paper, son of Mrs.
J. F. Duryee, 1363 Harmon boule
vard, has been mlr,sing In action
In Luxembourg since Jan. 5, ac
cording to Information received
from the war department. The
young man, who has been over- j
seas about eight months, spent a
junougn nere last spring.
He was born Ir. Pasco, Wash., on
August 19, 1923 and attended
Pasco high school for one year,
transferring to Bend high school
in 1938. He graduated here in 1941.
df Wallace
China sea within 300 miles of
the battle at noon and fled
650 miles to the northeast.
Sao Tang Pao at Chungking
(Wenchow) and Fingyang, on
the China coast some 250 miles
south of Shanghai and 200
miles north of Formosa. Gun
fire was audible at Pingyang,
it added.
Pacific fleet headquarters made
no. comment on the report, but
units of Admiral William F. Hal.
sey's Third fleet launched carrier
planes against Okinawa, 475 miles
east of Yungkla, Monday some 12
hours before the supposed on
gagement.
Third Fleet Silent
There have been no official re
ports on the whereabouts of the
Third flopt since the Okinawa
raid. During Third fleet attacks
on the Formosa area bunday, a
major American warship pos
sibly a battleship or an aircraft
carrier was damaged.
It was the first time since the
early days of the Pacific war that
American warships have been re
ported In the East China sea,
which is bounded on the north by
Korea and Japan, on the west by
China, on the south by Formosa
and on the east by the Ryukyu
islands.
American warships have not
tangled with Japanese naval units
in strength since the second bat
tle of the Philippines last Octo
ber, when the Third and Seventh
fleets smashed three Japanese
task forces off Leyte.
Flow of Dimes
Suddenly Halted
Portland, Jan. 26 Ui Smoke
hungry cigarette customers were
delighted to buy a package of
cigarettes for 14 cents and drop
the change from a quarter In the
March of Dimes milkbottle in a
Portland drugstore.
Some customers would buy a
carton at the ceiling price of
S1.28 and contribute the change
from a $5 bill.
Then the OPA arrived and cited
the proprietor to appear for an
illegal tying-in price.
OPA officials explained that
any cause as worthy as the March
of Dimes shouldn't require the
purchase of a scarce commodity
as a prize and that there was no
way to separate worthy from
racketeering operations.
Syndicate Buys
New York Yanks
Now York, Jan. 20 Wi The
New York Yankees were sold to
day to a three man syndicate
headed by Col. Leland S. '(Larry)
MacPhail. who will become presl
dent and general manager of the
club.
The purchase price for what is
considered the most valuable
franchise in baseball was between
$2500,000 and $3,000,000.
Yank Fighters
Rapidly Close
In on Manila
;. Clark Field Captured as
V Americans Surge Across
Isle; Stotsenburg Taken
i By William B. Dickinson
' (United Press War Correspondent)
General MacArthur'g Headquar
ters, Luzon, Jan. 26 (U The 40th
(California) division, with Clark
field's dozen airstrips and adja
cent Fort Stotsenburg firmly In
its hands,- rushed on to the south
today within 40 miles or less of
Manila and 20 miles of Manila bay.
(A Tokyo broadcast recorded
by the FCC said today that the
American command appeared to
be planning "new developments in
the, Luzon war situation with the
massing of fresh troops." The
broadcast called attention to in
creased number of ships In the
waters south of Luzon and an in
tensification of air attacks on the
Manila area, Including Corregidor
Islai a in Manna bay.),
River Lies Ahead
The division was expected to
make rapid progress without a
major battle at least as far as Cal
umpit on the Pampanga river, 24
miles southeast of Clark field and
26 miles northwest of Manila.
The San Fernando river, half
way between Clark field and Cal
umolt, offers a possible enemy de
fense line, but there were no indi
cations of any large Japanese
forces there and the fixed de
fenses were not too strong. De
struction of bridges across the
San Fernando may slow the ad
vance, however.
It appeared more likely that the
Japanese would make their stand
it at all, at Calumplt, within easy
striking distance of Manila. Amen
lean planes destroyed a Japanese
concentration of troops and ve
hicles at Camulplt soon after the
invasion or L.uzon Jan. y.
MacArthur 65
Gen. Douglas MacArthur cele
brated his 65th birthday today by
announcing the capture of'Clark
field, greatest air base in the west
ern Pacific and where his original
air force was wiped out by Japa
nese dive bombers only a few days
after jhe sneak attack on Pearl
Harbor Dec. 8. 1941.
Though cratered by American
bombs and littered with the
wreckage of Japanege aircraft,
Clark field probably quickly can
be restored to operational condi
tion. Its dozen airstrips and thou
sands of acres of dispersal a read
make Clark field big enough to
handle the entire present strength
of MacArthur's Fifth and 13th air
forces thousands of planes
though it was obvious that all
would not be concentrated there.
Base Is Vital
From Clark field, American
planes can fan out over Formosa,
475 miles to the north, French
Indo China, 775 miles to the west,
and Hong Kong, 650 miles north
west, as well as cover any project
ed landings on the China coast.
The 40th division met only scat
tered Japanese patrols and light
harassing sniper fire in its cap
ture of Clark field, 50 miles north
west of Manila, and Fort Stotsen
burg, three miles farther west.
Pressing on to the south, the
division overran Angeles, four
miles below Clark field, 45 miles
from Manila and 22 miles north of
Manila bay. Magalang, six miles
northeast of Clark field, also was
reached.
Anti-Closed Shop Provisidn
In Work-Piqht Bill Attacked
Washington, Jan. 26 uiiThe
house rules committee today pro
vided for house action next week
on proposed "work or else" Iclsla
tlon, but members made it clear
that a strong fight would be
waged to add antl-closcd shop
amendment
Acting rules committee Chair-
man Eugene K. Cox, D., Ga., and
Rep. Howard W. Smith, D., Va., a j
member, both expressed convlc-1
tion that persons "drafted" into
essential war Industry work un- j
der the bill should not be com-
pelled to join a union even though j
the plant to which they were as-
signed worked under a closed shop
union contract.
Rep. Paul Kllday, D., Tex., a -
member of the house military af
fairs committee which drafted the
bill, testified that such an amend
ment had been adopted by the
committee but subsequently was
eliminated as a "compromise" de
signed to remove all controversial
features from the bill.
Kllday said the same thing hap
pened to a fair employment prac-
BULLETIN
London, Jan. 26 (U.P.)
Marshal Stalin announc
ed triumphantly tonight
that the red army had bar
ricaded the back door of
East Prussia in a drive to
the Baltic - sea, i trapping
about 200,000 German de
fenders of the once proud
Junker province.
btalin s order of the day
putting the official seal on
nazi admissions that East
Prussia had been isolated,
said in part:
"Troops of the Second
White Russian front, con
tinuing their impetuous
offensive, today captured
the East Prussian towns of
Muhlhausen, Marienburg,
and Stuhm, important
strongholds of the German
defenses, thus cutting off
the East Prussian group of
the German army from the
central district of Ger
many."
Break in Cold
Wave Due East
(Br United Press)
Weather forecasters promised
a break today in the' cold wave
which has engulfed the eastern
seaboard from Maine to Virginia
and set low temperature records
In New York state.
Subzero temperatures still pre
vailed In several New England
areas and northern sections of
New York, but fcecastera said
the mercury would climb as-much
as 25 degrees later today and
snow would fall in most states
affected by the cold snap.
Marine forecasters hauled down
storm warnings which had alert-1
ed small craft from Block island
to Cape Hatteras and Chesapeake
bay as gale winds subsided gen
erally.
In northern New York, where
school systems and transporta
tion lines were virtually frozen
to a standstill, the promised re
lief would end record-breaking
weather. Albany, Buffalo, Roch
ester and Syracuse recorded ther
mometer lows that broke records
which had stood for three gener
ations. Six deaths resulted from
the freeze-up.
Junior Citizen
To Be Named at
Jaycee Dinner
Nearly ' 100 memoers of the
Junior chamber of commerce and
Its auxiliary are expected to nt
tend a banquet at 7:30 o'clock to
night in the Pine Tavern when an
award will be presented to the out
standing junior citizen of Bend.
Besides members of the organiza
tion, leaders of other service clubs
and civic groups of the city have
Deen invited to attend.
A feature of (he evening will be
an address by William M. Tug-
man, managing editor of the Eu
gene Register Guard. Tugman,
who has won national recognition
for his post-war development
ideas, and who was directly re
sponsible for Bend's peace time
planning, was expected to deliver
a highly Interesting talk.
tlcc amendment which would have
prohibited any employer from re
fusing to take on, because of
"race, creed or color" any prospec
tive worker assigned to him by
federal authorities.
Cox said the military committee
chilled the enthusiasm of the
public and congress for work or
fight legislation when it took out
"the anti-closed shop amendment."
"It should be put back in the
bill to show who's master of this
country, the government or labor
unions," he said,
Chairman Andrew J. May, D.,
Ky., of the military affairs corn-
mitHK denied that thn proposal;
waft an "anti-strike 1)111," as con-i
tended by Rep. Charles Halleck
It., ma.
"If a fellow goes out on strike
you could throw him In jail under
this hill," Halleck said.
"The committee had no Inten
tion of writing a bill to stop a
man from striking who has the
right to strike under law," May
replied.
OderDefensive
Line Breached
By Stalin Men
Moscow Reports Great
Air Battles Raging as
Fleets Go Into Action
By Robert Mtisel
(United Press Surf Correspondent).
London, Jan. 26 (IPi Russian
armored columns were reported
striking Into the Polish-German
border area little more than 90
miles east of Berlin today as other -red
army forces to the south
breached the nazis' main defen
sive line along the Oder river.
The German Transocean news
agency said two Russian flying
columns were Intercepted and "de
stroyed" after they had swung
past the Polish fortress city of
Poznan and driven almost to tho
border of Germany's Branden
province. .
At tho same time, Berlin said a
third armored spearhead plunged
55 miles north of Poznan to the
area of German Schneidemuhl, 95
miles southeast of the Baltic sea
port of Stettin.
Border Reached
The closest approach to Berlin
apparently was made by a flank
ing force that swept around the
northern side of Poznan to reach
the border near the German town
of Driesen, 94 miles from the nazi
capital, 53 miles northwest of Poz
nan. The second breakthrough came
near the Polish border town of
Zbaszyn, 42 miles east-southeast
of Poznan and 97 miles from Ber
lin. At Zbaszyn, the Soviets were
only 58 miles east of Frankfurt.
on-Oder, the last defensive outp'ost
before Berlin.
There was no Immediate confirmation-
of the fterman- reports'
from Moscow, but late soviet dis
patches said Russian troops were
storming into the eastern out
skirts of Poznan while strong ar
mored formations were looping
past the city on the north and
south.
Frankfurt Appears Goal
An Exchange telegraph dispatch
from Moscow said "large soviet
mobile columns" were skirting for
Frankfurt, leaving their support-
ing elements to clear out the nazi
garrison at Poznan.
The sudden breakthrough to
the nazi frontier at the center of
the long eastern front came as
red army divisions In Silesia
ripped through a half-dozen
breaches in the Oder river line on
the southeastern road to the nazi
capital.
Enemy reports disclosed that
the nazi hl"h command was
throwing probably its last re
serves of air power Into the battle
in an all-or-nothing gamble to
turn back the red army invaders.
Berlin revealed that perhaps
3,000 fighters and bombers which
the Luftwaffe had been hoarding
to meet the Anglo American air
forces' spring offensive in the
west were swarming out over the
eastern front to cover the reel
ing nazis armies and rake the ad
vancing Russians with bombs and
gunfire.
Warplnnes Attack
Moscow dispatches simultane
ously told of "huge" formations
of soviet warplanes on the attack.
and It appeared that the greatest
air battles of the eastern cam
paign were In progress over a
vast area extending from the Car
pathians to the Baltic scat-oast.
I he nuzl gamble In the air came
at the blackest hour of the war
for German arms, with East
Prussia all but lost, the strategic
Oder river barrier broken In Si
lesia, and the red army hammer
ing at Poznan on the direct road to
Berlin.
Late Moscow dispatches said
soviet troops had broken into the
eastern outskirts of Poznan, 136 ,
miles east of Berlin, and were try
ing to envelop the city before
launching an ull-out drive to take -it
by storm.
Arctic Weather
Claims Life of
Babe in Carriage
New York, Jan. 26 tP The
two-month-old son of Peter and
Marie Langua froze to death early
today In a carriage beside his
mother's bed.
The infant, Victor, was bundled
Into the carriage last night In the
bedroom of his parents' cold
Brooklyn flat.
Mrs. Langua awakened and
reached into the carriage to de
termine whether her child was
warm and blanketed. She scream
ed. Neighbors summoned an am
bulance and police, but the baby
could not be revived.