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CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
Volume LIU
THE BEND BULLETIN. BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, MONDAY. JAN. 29, 1945
NO. 46
U, S. Sea Gianfs In Linqayen Gulf
Russians Probe Toward
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Steaming in lor tne attacK, these giant U. S. Navy bat tie wagons move
as they opened up their heaviest guns on Japanese defenses on shores
accuracy accounted In large part tor the success ot the Luzon
Western Front
In Uneasy Lull;
k i r f i
Nazis reariui
Super Offensive Due,
Berlin Says; Yankees
Baffle in Deep Snow
Paris, Jan. 29 ip American
First army forces storming the
last tew German positions in a
ftlny pocket of easternmost- -Bet-I
f gium today captured tne Bullange
road hub 10 miles east of Mai
medy and reached the German
frontier northeast of St. Vith.
Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges'
headquarters announced the seiz
ure of Bullange and several other
villages in steady gains through
knee-deep snow by doughboys
shouldering in through the last
German-held territory west of the
Siegfried line in that sector.
Town Seized
Other units seized Herresbach,
six miles south of Bullange and
the same distance northeast of St.
Vith, and struck on beyond, over
running the villages of Menden
dorf on the border and Holzhein,
a little less than two miles east
and northeast of Herresbach.
At Bullange the doughboys cap
tured 100 Germans and counted
100 dead in the streets. More than
200 were captured at Herresbach.
An uneasy lull gripped the rest
I of the snow-bound western front.
British Second army forces to the
north cleared out scattered nests
of resistance in the Sittard corner
on the Dutch-German frontier and
deployed along the west bank of
the Roer river in considerable
strength. To the south in Alsace,
the U. S. Seventh army lines re
mained virtually unchanged,
while the French First armv's lim
ited offensive against the Coimar
pocket carved out further small
gains in spite of bad weather and
stiffening enemy opposition.
Exodus Halted
Allied reconnaissance revealed
that the great German exodus
"om the Siegfried works to the
fast had been halted abruptly, ap
parently by thundering allied air
attacks and nazi nervousness over
the prospect of an imminent
Rrand-scale western offensive co
ordinated with the red army drive.
(German propaganda broad
casts said the allies are preparing
"super-offensive" in the west.
nd suggested the British Sec
ond and American Ninth army
fronts on the Roer, opposite the
Cologne plain, as probable focal
Points of the coming attack.)
Japs Report West Coast Raid
And Say Three
(Br United Press)
A Tokyo broadcast said today
that Japanese submarines have
Penetrated to the west coast of
"ie United States and sunk three
transport ships and an oil tanker.
American censorship permitted
disclosure a fortnight ago that an
American Liberty ship had been
Ullk and lie emrvK-nrs mnrhlne.
tinned by a Japanese submarine j
wiween Haw.lil anH the west
jfoast, but there have been no oth-
" recent reports of enemy sub
rine activity in the area.
iHk Tcy broadcast, which at
Jnbuted its information to a Japa
Dome! dispatch from "a cer
an base on the central Pacific
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First Convoy Rolls Over Road
Info Burma; Supplies Moved
. Route Is Named By Chianq Kai-shek to Pay
Honor to Stilwell; Army Officials Present
Chungking, Jan. 29 (TIE) -r-The first convoy carrying
United States supplies was in China today after a 620-milp
trip over the newly opened Ledo-Burma route, officially
christened the 'Stilwell road" by Generalissimo Chiang Kai
Shek. The convoy, including vehicles, heavy artillery, ambu
lances, and truckloads of supplies, entered China at Wantunir
Sunday. It was announced at ceremonies for renaming the
road that the last Japanese pocket within firine distance of
the road has been crushed.?
two miles north of the Monsryu
junction. -
United States ambassador
to China Gen. Patrick .T. Hur-
lev and Mai. Gen. Albert C.
Wedemever. chief nf staff in the
China theater, joined with the
generalissimo in the ceremonv
namim? the road for Gen. Joseoh
W. Stillwell who planned the
route and almost sfw incompleted
before he was recalled.
Breaks Siege
Chiang said the opening of the
rood broke the siege of China.
"Even in peace time the build
ing of a road from India to China
would be an extraordinary
achievement," Gen. Chiang said.
"The achievement is all the great
er when it is remember that this
road of 620 miles was built over
the most difficult terrain and un
der treacherous weather condi
tions while fighting against the
enemy had to be carried out at the
same time.
"Now the road becorrfes the
main artery of bases for the
United Nations from which short
lv blows against Japan will be de
livered .
Rocket Carrying
Planes Hit Japs
An Aleutian Base. Jan. 25 IP
Using rockets for the first time In
the north Pacific theater, Aleutian-based
fleet air wing Venturas
with new rocket launching appara
tus today attacked and probably
destroyed a radio station and
lighthouse on Kokutan, northern
most Japanese Kurne installation
on Shlmushu island.
Visibility was perfect and as
navv planes went into fire rock
ets they also exploded 3,000 rounds
of strafing ammunition in tne
target area. 1
Direct hits were scored witn nu
merous explosions ionowing.
Three Venturas were damaged by
ground fire, one plane suffering
damage to both engines, but all
planes returned safely.
Vessels Sunk
front," did not say when the al
ledged sinkings occurred. It was
recorded by the l CC.
"Our submarines penetrated to
the western coast of the homeland
of the United States and is gal
lantly carrying on operations to
disturb the enemy supply line,"
the broadcast said.
"While they have been active in
tne easiern i-acmc uit-.n.. ""; j
transport ships and one tanner oi
the enemv, who is in desperate
need of material reinforcement,
were sunk recently."
Japanese forces still hold Isolat
ed bases on Wake Island and In
the MarshalLs archipelago, both
more than 4,000 miles from the
west coast.
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in this dramatic, Impressive formation
ot Llngayen Quit. Their timing and
tendings. U. S. Navy photo.
For Col. Roosevelt
Los Angeles, Jan. 29 (IBIf the
streamliner City of Los Angeles
doesn t arrive here on time today,
it won't be the fault of Col. James
Roosevelt; the hour and seven
minutes lost waiting for the pres
ident's eldest son to arrive in Chi
cago Saturday night were made
up by the time the train reached
Cheyenne, Wyo., railroad officials
said.
Col. Roosevelt and his wife, who
were returning to the west coast
from the Inauguration, were trav
eling on a Pennsylvania train
which was more than six hours
late.
Someone telegraphed Union Pa
cific officials, who ordered the
train with its 300 passengers held
so the Roosevelt party could make
connections.
No One Knows
However, no one seemed to
know who ordered the streamlin
er's delay. Chicago and North
Western officials, who handle the
train out of Chicago, said depot
officials ordered it held but they
didn t know who gave the order.
Trains were held occasionally,
they said, for persons traveling on
tight schedules where a delay
would enforce a hardship, but
never before had the train been
held that long.
Roosevelt denied he had asked
tha the train be held and Penn
sylvania officials said the con
ductor of their train had made no
such request.
2,000 Idle Men
Get New Jobs
Portland, Ore., Jan. 29 (IP)
Two thousand Swan Island ship
yard employes forced out of jobs
for lack of materials and changes
in production scneauies were in
new Jobs today through efforts
of the U. S. employment service.
L. C. Stoll, Oregon war man
power director, helped unions and
other yards work out a program
of signing up the discharged
workers for new positions where
shortages existed.
Biq Stevens Hotel
Menaced by Fire
Chicago, Jan. 29 U Twenty-
five persons fled from their rooms
and scores of guests were roused
early today when fire broke out
he 24th floor of the Stevens
. ,, r,,m!, ,im!trt a.
S1.000.
Firemen chopped down a lock
ed door to rescue Y. De Dood, 69,
Ozone park, N. Y who had at
tempted to keep out smoke by
placing his mattress against the
door. The fire apparently started
from a clgaret,
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Nippons Split
As Yanks Drivi
Across Luzon
Natives Indicate Japs .
Moving to Bataan for. ;
Final Stand on Island
' By William B. Dickinson
faulted Press War Correspondent) ;
General MacArthur's Headquar
ters, Luzon, Jan. 29 UP Tank-leiJ
American Infantrymen virtually
split the Japanese" defenses on
Luzon today with a two-pronged
drive to the outskirts of San Fer
nando, 33 airline miles from Ma
nila. . ' i
Raked by Increasingly - heavy
American air blows and harried
by guerrilla uprisings in their
rear, the Japanese here reported
abandoning San Fernando and its
important road network linking
the Manila garrison with the ene
my concentrations in northern Lu
zon. :
Jubilant natives swarming out
to meet the Manila-bound dough
boys reported that the Japanese
were pulling out hurriedly to the
west, apparently retreating to
ward the base of Bataan penin
sula, where the outnumbered
American and Filipino forces
made their last major stand for
the Philippines three years ago.
Last Barrier Reached
Headquarters observers believ
ed the last formidable defenses
barring the way to Manila had
been breached and that the libera
tion of Jhe.caplta! was now only,
matter of a lew weeks at most.
It was expected, however, 'that
Gen. Douglas MacArthur might
hold up the drive on Manila brief
ly to consolidate his positions and
mop up enemy resistance on the
flanks before moving up for the
knockout.
Tokyo radio continued to hint
at new American offensive ma
neuvers elsewhere in the Philip
pines, asserting that Japanese
torpedo boats attacked a convoy
in the Mindanao sea north of Min
danao Island last Wednesday.
Tokyo claimed the sinking of
three transports, battleship and
unidentified warship.)
New Divisions Land
(A later enemy broadcast re
corded by FCC monitors in New
York said two additional Amer
ican divisions have been landed in
Luzon, raising MacArthur's at
tack force to seven divisions.)
United Press War Correspond
ent Frank Hewlett reported that
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Wife of Writer
GetsG-uess Pool
With Third Army, Jan. 29 dPi
Twenty -one war correspondents
made up a pool of 510 each In
Normandy last Aug. 2 on how
long the European war would last.
The $210 pool prize was for
warded today to Mrs. Elizabeth
Stimson Treanor, wife of Tom
Treanor, 35, NBC and Los Angeles
Times correspondent who was
killed when his jeep and a tank
collided in France Aug. 18.
Treanor was the only one who
had guessed the war would extend
into 1945.
Capital Facing Lull in Storm
Over Nomination of Wallace
Washington, Jan. 27 (IP)
Skirmishing continued today In
the battle over President Roose-l
...... I
velt's designation of former vice- !(iScUssed the Wallace nomlna'l Duffy said ,nat Kremer had at
president Henry A. Wallace to be1 tion and the "divorce" bill but! ched himself to a work detail
secretary of commerce, but took no formal action. Confer-; ?"la"Tp ,,"d, fL ?0 T.T
formal senate consideration was ence chairman Arthur H. Vanden- ?,P? ,'"
put off until at least midweek. ,berg, Mich., said there was ..a "ndsupplies for himself and
(-nairman Josian Bailey. D.. N.
C, of the senate commerce com-i
mittee postponed filing of an un-
tavored report on Wallace's,
nomination and a favorable re-i are expected to vote against Wal
port on a bill to make the Job lace, however.
less attractive by divorcing from;
the department the vast powers
of the reconstruction finance cor-;
poration and its subsidiary agen-;
cis. I
Bailey said he was still writing
the reports and that they would notation of committee action,
not be completed in time for suh-ither favorable or unfavorable,
mission Inasmuch as the senate but without other comment,
session was cut short. It ad- Asked about his unusual prd
lourned out of respect to Col. Icedure. Rallev said!
Edwin Av Halsey, its secretary,)
who died this morning.
II tsaney med the reports to-
morrow
u wouia re possmie to
consider the bill or the nomlna-1
Forces
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Administration
On Federal Judge's Ruling in
Washington. Jan. 29 (tPi The
administration today planned an
immediate appeal to the courts
and ultimately to congress for a
reversal of the judgment that
President Roosevelt exceeded his
legal or constitutional powers In
seizing Montgomery-Ward plants.
Attorney General Francis Bid
die and his legal aides were at
his home here yesterday planning
the counterattack on the ruling
given Saturday by Federal Judge
Philip L. Sullivan in Chicago. Sul
liven found that Montgomery
Ward's mall- order distribution
business was not covered by the
labor disputes act of 1942 and
further that there was no con
stitutional authority for the seiz
ure order.
The war labor board,, whose or
ders to non-war industries appear
to be jeopardized by the ruling,
looks to congress for further leg
islation, lt would be sought in
form to give the president author -
Season on Trout
To Open April 14
Pleas by Central Oregon sports-
men and Rep. William Nlskanen
last Saturday before the Oregon
State game commission in Port
land, today had resulted in the
commission altering its plans to
set the opening date for trout fish
ing east of the Cascades from
May 12 to April 14. Bend fisher
men and Rep. Nlskanen had pro
tested the May 12 date, and urged
the commission to set the date of
tains.
Besides winning the revamped
opening date, the delegation also
induced the commission to retnin
the closure on the Deschutes river
from the Deschutes bridge to the
Sheep bridge, and to close the
Deschutes to fishing for a quarter
mile below the Wickiup .dam.
Group Listed
Besides Rep. Niskanen, pthers
attending the protest meeting
from this locality were M. L. My-
rick, president of the Deschutes
Sportsmen s association; Loyue s.
Blakley, representing the city of
Bend: Farlc" J. Elliott, Wlllrcd
Jossy, Norman Venable, Ovid Ev
ans and Kenneth Moody.
The commission ruled that the
opening date for fishing in South
Twin, North Twin and Davis
lakes would be May 30,
The Bend delegation had held
that the plan of the commission
to establish the opening date as of
May 12, would be dlscriminatorv
and unfair to sportsmen east of
the Cascades.
Boy, 4, Saves His
Infant Brother
Seattle, Jan. 29 (Hi A 4-year-old
boy saved his 20-month-old
brother from drowning by hold
ing his head above the water ot
an ice-coated fish pond here yes
terday. The boys, Richard, 4, and Gary,
20 months, were "just making
holes in the Ice so fish could
breathe" when the lee broke with
them, Richard told his mother,
Mrs. Leo Williams.
ition on Wednesday but
there
mlRht be further delays.
Snnola mnt i hi nn nc mtn
Knnnto ponnhlirans mnnllntr In
.T.: ,L," "
general discuss on" hut no effort!
made to hind renublicans to anv
particular position on either Issue.
Al but about three republicans
Bailey said he was preparing a
written reDort on the Wallace
nomination, an unusual proced-
ure. Nominations reoulre senate
confirmation usuallv are merely
nresonted tn the senate with a
"It's an unusual nomination."
The twin reports from Bailey's
committee will present to
the ,
senate the first top-flight political i
enigma of 1945,
Miles
Outlines Plans
ity to enforce peaceful settlement
ot labor disputes. In the mean
time, board members expressed
the hope that labor will "keep Its
feet on the ground." Similarly,
they hoped that managements of
business not specifically covered
by the labor disputes act but
which are operating under WLB
orders would not hasten to take
advantage of the Chicago deci
sion. If there were a general man
agement challenge there probably
would be a general labor rising
in defense of agreements already
in effect at least that is what
j some officials fear,
Board Chairman William H.
Davis was represented as feeling
that congress now must make cer
tain the president's wartime au
thority to take over any property
regardless of Its war connec
tion to stave off possible serious
repercussions.. Me also wants con-
1 gress to define the board's powers
h
V. c,
Pfc. Ellsworth C. Freillnger, 22,
former employe of The Slievlin
Hixon Company here and son of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Freillnger,
now of Renton, Washington, has
oeen missing in action In Her
many since Nov. 14. His brother,
Clifford, 19, was seriously woijnd
ed in Belgium.
FBI Recaptures
Graf Spee Chief
Phoenix, Ariz., Jan. 29 (IP)
Agents of the FBI today ques
tioned naval Captain Jurgen Wat
tenberg, former officer of the
scuttled German pocket battleship
Graf Spee, In an effort to trace
his actions from the time he led
a mass escape of German war
prisoners from the Papago park
Internment camp Christmas eve
until his capture yesterday.
Wallenberg was the last of 25
prisoners to be recaptured after
their sensational break from the
camp through a 200-foot tunnel,
secretly dug through solid rock.
Early questioning of Watten
berg was almost fruitless, accord
ing to local FBI Chief H. R. Duf
fy, who said the naval officer was
"very uncommunicative."
Information Sought
"However, we still hope to dis
cover where he lived and what ho
has been doing since Christmas
eve," Duffy said.
City detectives, who thought
he didn't look right," apprehend
p Wallenberg early yesterday,
four days after the capture of
Jonan Kromf-r One OI tne CSCa
pees, at the Panago park camn,
34,000 Men Lost
From Big Plants
Seattle, Jan. 29 (IP) War plants
In the Puget sound area suffered
an aggregate loss of 34,000 war
workers during 1944, the stale
manpower commission reported
today.
Plants were forced to Import al
most 25,000 workers while jobs
vacated by an additional 9,000
never were filled.
A. F. Hardy, commission direc
tor, said "premature talk of re-
conversion and victory in Europe"
caused war workers to pour out
of plants and head for home.
Missng
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for Attack
Ward Case
by statute, determining precisely
whether it shall settle all disputes
or only those in war plants.
The United Press was Informed
that Biddle probably would seek
a writ of certiorari in the seventh
circuit court of appeals In Chi
cago in a move to take the case
directly to the supreme court. If
there is a day or so delay In jus
tice department action, it prob
ably should be attributed to Bid
die's . desire to check procedure
with Mr. Roosevelt.
Biddle reasonably can expect a
friendly hearing when he gets the
case to the supreme court. Seven
of the nine justices are Mr. Roose
velt's own appointees. That does
not assure their votes, of course,
but it doesn't hurt the adminis
tration's case any, either.. It Is a
fact, however, that Sullivan Is n
Roosevelt judge and his repudia
tion of the act of the president
who put him on the bench pulled
I no punches whatever.
Snow Blockade
End Seems Near
(Br United Press)
Milder temperatures and an in
creased number of freight trains
rolling out of 'snow clogged rail
yards today promised a slacken
ing of the coal and food shortage
resulting from an embargo on all
but military shipments for a three-
day period which ends at one
minute past midnight tonight
The New Yorkt Central's Buf
falo, N. .' trainmaster reported
that 20 lone strings of freight
cleared the yards there yesterday,
compared to 12 last Saturday, and
said that some 3,000 cars in the
area were ready to move. Soldiers
worked beside rail employes dig
ging out snowbound freight care.
Would Clear Yards
Full clearance of the Buffalo
yards, rail gate from the midwest
to the east, would give the green
light to trainloads of coal, fuel
oil, meat and other foods Into the
eastern scabourd, and restart the
flow of civilian commodities from
east to west.
Another cold wave hit the mid
west last night, with temperatures
dropping to 15 degrees below zero
at Bemidji, Minn., and Glasgow,
Mont.
The Chicago weather bureau
forecast colder weather for to
night and tomorrow in the mid
west and north central states and
said the cold spell will move into
the east tomorrow, bringing sub
zero temperatures to Pennsyl
vania, New York, and New Eng
land.
Pacific Newsmen
Go With Nimitz
U. S. Pacific Fleet Advance
Headquarters, Forward Area,
Jan. 29 Kli With establishment
of Admiral Chester V. Nimllz's
advance headquarters on this is
land, the United Press today
opened a new bureau here whose
personnel are prepared to follow
the admiral and his forces into
Tokyo.
A veteran staff, headed by Wil
liam F. Tyree and Frank Tre
malne who have been on the job in
the Pacific since Pearl Harbor,
will cover the war in this area.
The staff includes Mac R. John
son, who scored a 24-hour beat
with his eyewitness account of the
first Superior! bombing of iokyo,
Richard W. Johnston, veteran of
many amphibious landings, and
Lisle Shoemaker, Lloyd Tupling, I
E. G. Valens, and Edward Thomas. I
Tokyo Announces Homeland
Raids By American Fliers
Advanced Pacific Headquarters,
Jan. 29 (!P Superfortresses
bombed the Japanese stepping
stone Island of Iwo today and en
emy broadcasts said lone B-29's
made two more nuisance raids on
Tokyo, starting at least one fire.
Tokyo also reported a "small
number of enemy planes" had
raided Hachljo in the Izu group,
200 miles south of the Japanese
capital and 500 miles north of
Iwo, for the first time at about
3:40 a.m. today (Tokyo time).
Single B-29's dropped Incendiary
bombs on Tokyo at 9:57 p.m. yes
terday and 1:03 a.m. today (Tokyo
time), Japanese broadcasts said.
"Practically no damage other than
Manila
Brandenburg
Rail Junction
Lost By Nazis
Soviets Sweep West
Toward German Capital
On Broadening Front
London, Jan. 29 (IP) The Berlin
radio said tonight that the Ger
man army had lost the Branden
burg rail junction of Kreuz on
the Berlin-Danzig trunk line to
one of four Soviet armored spear
heads probing into the province
of which Berlin is the capital.
Moscow reported that Marshal
Gregory K. Zhukov's army was
invading Brandenburg on a broad
front and said the Germans had
shown no signs of being able to
stop his forces east of the Oder
river, 40 miles from Berlin.
A nazi broadcast acknowledged
the "evacuation" of Kreuz, 103
miles northeast of Berlin, 50 miles
northwest of Poznan, and 359
miles southwest of Schneldemuhl,
another Brandenburg town which
the Germans said was encircled
by the Russians.
Russian Columns Advance
Russian columns slashed into
Germany from Poland on a broad
arc, the center of which was aimed
squarely at Berlin, and Zhukov's
flanks were firmly In the hands
of two other supporting red
armies hammering at the gates
of Breslau and Danzig.
"As a result of Zhukov's phe
nomenal advance across th-Bran.
denburg frontier, the 'march to
ward Berlin' has become more
than a patriotic slogan," a United
Press dispatch from Moscow said.
"Military observers believe this Is
the first of two stages in the final,
decisive battle of Germany."
Zhukov's right wing had en
circled Schneldemuehl, 50 miles
north of surrounded Poznan and
four miles Inside Germany, the
nazls admitted, while other forces
thrusting out of the westernmost
bulge of Poland were cracking
Into the Obra river defenses In
the frontier area.
Tanks Are Checked
For the first time Berlin com
mentators recognized Frankfurt
on the Oder, 40 miles from tho
canltal. as an Immediate oblectlve
of the Soviet Invasion forces. They
said that Zhukov's tanks had been
checked in the push toward
Frankfurt.
Moscow dispatches said that In
Silesia the Russians were smash
ing at the gates of Breslau, the
provincial capital, and expanding
bridgeheads across the Oder on
either side of It.
The German hleh command
said that along the Oder southeast
of Breslau, repeated Russian at
tacks were contained, and several
Soviet bridgeheads were "elimin
ated or narrowed down."
Both Moscow and Berlin report
ed violent street fighting in en
circled Poznan.
Lines Collapse
The last German resistance In
the arm of the lower Vistula
where It swings northward to
ward the Bay of Danzig appeared
to be collapsing. Berlin reported
the "evacuation" of a bridgehead
on the east bank of the river at
Chelmno, 22 miles northeast of
Bydgoszcz, and said Russian at
tacks on the Grudzladz bridge
head another 17 miles to the north
east were repulsed.
A German communique said a
German attack from the western
part of isolated East Prussia
against tho flank of the Soviet
barricade to the Baltic reached to
the area of Preusslch Holland, IS
miles southeast of Elblng.
a small fire started In a certain
section" resulted. Tokvo said.
Iwo, half wav between tho Marl
anas and Tokvo. was hit by a
strong force of Sunerfortresses.
The new raid from Marianas
bases came shortly after dlsclo
sure lhat Admiral Chester W.
Nltnltz. supreme commander In
the Pacific, had moved his head
nuarters thousands of miles west
from Pearl Harbor to direct the
next phases of the war against
Janan.
The Superfortresses attacked In
daylight, a war department com
munique Issued In Washington
said. Details will be announced
following the return of the raiders
to their bases.