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CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
Volume Llll
TWO SECTIONS THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY. OREGON, THURSDAY, FEB. 1, 1945
NO. 49
UUHM
U. S. Prisoners
I Vim iS' aW
vuihi
Yanks
510 Men Win
Freedom as
Forces Attack
Foe Garrison Wiped Out
As Americans Strike at
' Compound in Nighttime
By Frank Hewlett
(United Press War Correspondent)
Allied Headquarters, Luzon.
Feb. 1 llPi A picket force of
American commandos has slipped
behind the Japanese lines and
brought back to safety 510 allied
war prisoners, many of them men
of Bataan and Corregidor, Gen.
Douglas MacArthur revealed to
day. '
The men were brought back to
.freedom by a daring foray last
night in which 121 members of
the sixth ranger battalion and 286
trained guerillas penetrated 25
miles inside the Jap lines to storm
the prisoner of war camp at Ca
banatuan, 70 miles north of Ma
nila In Nueva Ecipa province.
("No Inddenrof the campaign
has given me such personal satis
faction." said MacArthur.
Only 27 Lost
The rescue attack was accom
plished with such precision that
only 27 Americans were lost and
3 wounded while the Jap garri
son was anlhilated. In the fight
at the camp and in a running es
cape battle with Japanese columns
supported by tanks, the Ameri
cans killed 523 Japs and knocked
out 12 tanks.
(A CBS broadcast from Luzon
reported the American command
os killed 73 Japs guarding the
camp and 150 Jap soldiers In a
fierce five-minute attack. A spe
cial squad broke the main gate,
hacked away the barbed wire and
shouted: "You're free, Yanks,
head for the main gate where the
guides will pick you up."
One prisoner died of a heart at
tack in the excitement .as he
reached the gate. Within 27 min
Jutes the expedition was heading
back, the weak and sick being
carried to oxcarts three miles
away). .
Mostly Americans
Almost all the rescued prisoners
were Americans but there was a
sprinkling of British, Dutch, and
others.
"The condition of the rescued
jwn is fair," MacArthur said.
'They are receiving every care
and attention, and their rehabili
tation will be rapid."
The prisoners brought with
them the first eyewitness accounts
w the last days on Corregidor
before the fortress finally sur
rendered at 10 a.m. May 6, 1942.
They revealed that Gen. Jona
than N. Wainwrlght forced the
Japanese to pay a frightful price
""ure going down before trie
Japanese tide. The Japanese lost
almost 5,000 men in their landing
on the rock walls of the island
fortress.
(Continued on Page 3)
Germans May
Section of Siegfried Barrier
Washington, Feb. 1 IIP) Lack
of German resistance on the 40
JJ'le U. S. First army front in the
Monschau area was interpreted
oy a highly authoritative military
observer today as a "suggestion"
'hat the nazi high command has
oecided to abandon a large section
oi the Siegfried line.
The observer suggested that the
"azis may have decided to with
draw to the east bank of the Rhine
avoid being trapped on the
west shorn nt tha
ijhe Rhine bridges already have
Jn cut from behind the enerry
wees in this sector, he pointed
rU anrl linHo- tkaca iY-iimctnnr- !
P a successful allied offensive on
western front would trap the
ny with his back against the
' th this In mind, the observer
"w. U was highly significant that
i text ui iyui uig -Lvutu-iy
and Filipino QtienHas
MacArthur Releases Electrifying
News of Commando Raid on Camp
Allied Headquarters, Philip
pines, Feb. 1 (IP) Text of Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's special
press release announcing the res
cue of 510 allied prisoners of war
from the Japanese prison camp
near Cabu:
"Recent intelligence reports in
dicated the Japanese were main
taining a prisoner of war camp
near Cabu in Nueva Ejica prov
ince in eastern Luzon.
' "A Commando raid was imme
diately organized for the purpose
of rescuing the prisoners. One
hundred and twenty-one picked
men of the Sixth ranger battalion
and 286 guerillas were intrusted
with the mission which was com
manded by Lt. Col. Henry A.
Mucci.
"Moving from our lines with
Name Directors:
Directors and committee mem
bers for district No. 4- of the
Western Pine association, who
were selected at a meeting Mon
day in the Pilot Butte inn, were
made known here today.
August J. Stange, La Grande,
and A. J. Glassow of Bend, were
named to the main board of direc
tors of the association, with G.
H. Ballantyne and S. G. Moon as
alternates. The district board of
directors Is composed of : -Strange,
chairman; L. J. Roedel,
secretary; U. R. Armstrong, G.
H. Ballantyne, J. F. Coleman, J.
F. Daggett, E. C. Kerns. S. G.
Moon and E. T. F. Wohlenberg.
Committee Named
The forest practice committee is
(Oregon district), J. F. Daggett,
chairman, Gilbert G. Ballantyne,
L. K. Kinzel, J. H. Meister and E.
T. F. Wohlenberg; (district "5
members). Hugh Campbell, J. C.
Clark, H. R. Crane, Frank Gil
christ, I. E. Kesterson and B. L.
Nutting; (Idaho committee), U.
R. Armstrong and S. G. Moon.
The association standing com
mittees are as follows:
Executive, August J. Stange;
forest conservation. L. K. Kinzel;
grading, L. J. Roedel; promotion,
A. J. Glassow; research, F. E.
Lanzer; statistical, Loyde S. Blak
ley, and traffic, A. C. LIghthall.
Alternates are Glassow, Wohlen
berg, Armstrong, Ballantyne, E.
M. Garrett, Stanley Jenkins and
F. W. Hewitt.
Warships Sighted
Off Corregidor
(By United frets)
Tnkvn rarlin said todav Ameri
can warships have been sighted
off Corregidor, fortress island at
the entrance of Manila bay.
An enemy' broadcast recorded
by the FCC said:
"From Corregidor island, cruis
Inu nf pnpmv shiDniner In the ad
jacent waters Is reported."
Be Abandoning
Ur.m Uiil hnon nrartlrall V no
enemy artillery fire from the Sieg
fried line to ward off the First
army advance.
Ma notnH that the American
forces yesterday took their larg- j
est bag of prisoners in three .
weeks. The morale of these pris-
nnnyo if.oc ovtromnlv lnw. a situa
tion which nearly always exists!
among rear guara troops, me uu
server said.
The enemy Is known to have
built extensive fortifications on
the high east bank of the Rhine,
th:.- x bserver pointer out. He indl
mrcj that thMP fortifications.
plus the height of the river's cast
bank, might mane tne area a
tough spot for the American
forces to crack and that the Ger
mans might be planning to fall
back to this line with only delay
ing resistance.
Held in Lwtori
air coverage they penetrated 25
miles into enemy-held territory
and struck under cover of dark
ness, i
"The mission was brilliantly
successful. The Japanese guards
were completely surprised and
were annihilated.
"As the rescue column with the
liberated prisoners withdrew it
was continuously attacked by Jap
anese columns supported by
tanks. In the bitter fight which
resulted a total. of 523 enemy
were killed and 12 tanks de
stroyed. "Our own losses were 27 killed
and three wounded.
"The entire group of prisoners
numbering approximately 510
were rescued with practically no
harm.
"The great majority are Amer
Former Cabanatuan Prisoner
Hears News of Raid on Camp
Col. Chenoweth, Bend, Spent Four Months
In Stockade; Familiar Names Are Noticed
Stories of the daring rescue oi 510 allied war prisoners,
some of them veterans of Bataan and Corregidor, from Camp
Cabanatuan on Luzon were read with avid interest by one
Bend visitor today, as he watched the news accounts of the
commando raid come in over
He was Lt. Col. William
man tour months at (Jabanatuan.
Colonel Chenoweth, who was raised in Bend, was a pris
oner of the Japanese on the Philippines for two and a half
years, until he was rescued. following the torpedoing of . a
Japanese prison ship. With his ;
wife and their children, he is
visiting here with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Chenoweth,
Colonel Chenoweth was in
the Cabanatuan prison camp
trom June 5, 1942, until Octo
ber 26, of that same year.
The young officer read the
United Press accounts of the lib
eration of 510 men from Cabana
tuan with much interest, and fre
quently exclaimed as he came
across names of men he knew.
One of these was Lt. Colonel Al
fred Oliver, of Washington, D. C,
a chaplain.
Men Possibly Moved
Colonel Chenoweth was unable
to say whether any Bend soldiers
were at Cabanatuan when Mac
Arthur's raiders broke into the
camp yesterday, but when he was
there in 1942, Lt. Lloyd Magill was
in camp, as was Major Dwight
Card. It is believed that both of
these men were later moved.
"Conditions were tough," Colo
nel Chenoweth remarked, in
touching on the days he spent in
the camp. He was captured by the
Japanese following the surrender
of U. S. forces at Bataan, then
was moved to O'Donnell field.
From O'Donnell, Colonel Cheno
weth went to Cabanatuan, and
then to Davao. Hundreds of Amer
icans died from disease at Cabana
tuan. Nearby, just beyond the
compound, was a graveyard. Stor
ies coming from Luzon today re
vealed that Americans were bur
led en masse.
Cabanatuan, a former training
camp for Filipino recruits, is on a
plain, hot in summer, muddy in
the rainy season.
Russian Patrols
Stab at Berlin
London. Feb. 1 IP An Ex
change Telegraph dispatch from
Stockholm lacking immediate con
firmation in any other source to
day quoted travelers arriving by
air from Berlin as saying that
Russian patrols reached the
"outer suburbs" of the German
capital early this morning and
withdrew without being engaged
by the defenders.
JAPS QUIT BERLIN
New York, Fob. 1 njiAn NBC
report from Switzerland today
said that the Japanese ambassador
to Germany and the staff of the
Japanese embassy have left Berlin.
ican officers with a sprinkling of
British, Du)ch and other nation
alities. The condition of the res
cued men was fair. They are re
ceiving every care and attention
and their -rehabilitation will be
rapid.
"A complete list of names and
addresses Is appended hereto and
1 hope the press will give it lull
publicity so that the families of
these survivors may be thus im
mediately Informed.
"I have awarded the command
ing officer of the rescue mission
the distinguished service cross
and all other officers the silver
star and all enlisted men the
bronze star for this heroic enter
prise.
"No incident of the campaign
has given me such personal sat
isfaction." The Bulletin s teletype.
C. Chenoweth, who spent more
Pasteurization
Bill Gets Study
Salem, Ore.. Feb. 1 nil Two
important bills, over which con
troversy is expected to develop,
are under the consideration of the
house today.
One was a new milk control
bill calling for pasteurization of
all milk except that from herds
free from disease, and all milk
products except cheese. It calls
for the inspection of all herds
which have been exposed to
disease .
It Is the second milk control
bill introduced so far, and is un
derstood to be the one prepared
by the department of agriculture.
The "three-way" compensation
bill also appeared late yesterday.
The largest bill in point of size
to be introduced so far, it runs to
90 pages, and goes into the details
of Workmen's compensation
thoroughly.
Plan Explained
Main provision of the measure
is that allowing employers to pro
tect themselves and their employ
es by three types of insurance, by
public carrier, by the state fund
or by self-insurance.
Other bills entering the house
in the afternoon Included one
which would provide for a bank
board of five members, instead of
having the governor, secretary
of state and state treasurer act in
that capacity; one to class justices
of the peace with the rest of the
judiciary, including non-partLoan
election provisions, and another
which would extend unemploy
ment benefits to certain seasonal
workers.
County Divorces !
Exceed Marriages I
The first month of the new year'
found Deschutes county topheavy
with divorce cases, Mrs. Helen M. '
Dacey, county clerk, reported this :
morning. Moreover, she emph.i-,
sized, the armed services did not
contribute to the total. In mos; ;
cases the couples involved had
been married "for some time," al- i
though one suit action started less :
than a month after vows were ex
changed.
There were 11 weddings In Des
chutes county in January. Actions
for divorce numbered 15. '
U. S. Troopers
Only 20 Miles
From Manila
Yank Warships Steam
Into Subic Bay; Men
Of Kreuger Closing In
' By William B. Dickinson
(United Prow War Cotrapontlcnt)
General MacArthur's Headquar
ters, Luzon, Feb. 1 UP American
armored columns broke across the
Pampangas river and swept down
to within 20 miles or less of Ma
nila today In a weakly-opposed ad
vance that presaged the libera
tion of the Philippines capital in
a matter of days.
At the same time, Gen. Douglas
MacArthur revealed that U. S.
warships had re-entered Sublc
bay, barely 30 miles from the
mouth of Manila bay and the one
j time anchorage of the P-T boat
expenaaoie squaarons mat
fought off the Japanese fleet dur
ing the siege of Bataan three
years ago.
Big Bases Taken
The Olengapo naval base at the
head of Sublc bay and Grande is
land at its entrance were occupied
without opposition Tuesday by
units of the newly-landed Ameri
can Eighth army,' and MacAr
thur's communique said elements
of the U. S. Seventh fleet already
were operating from and rebuild
ing the base.
Meanwhile, Lt. Gen. Walter
Krueger's Sixth army veterans
were closing in swiftly over the
last miles before Manila after col
lapsing the last defensible Japa
nese line of the Pampanga riv
er at Calumpit, 23 airplane miles
north of the city. '
Tanks and infantrymen "of the
STth (Buckeye) dlvlsiqn were re
ported well past Calumpit today,
moving rapidly down highway
three in an apparent bid to enter
Manila within the next few days
and forestall any Japanese at
tempt to destroy the capital.
Highway Sealed
The 37th's advance was facili
tated by another American gain
far to the north, where doughboy
columns scaled off highway five,
the only other main road to the
calptal, with the capture of Munoz
and Talavera, 74 and 65 miles
above Manila.
Cabanatuan, seven miles below
Talavera and the control point for
the highways leading to the north
east coast of Luzon, also was be
lieved in American hands, barrinr
any possibility of a Japanese
flanking threat to the Manila
bound 37th.
Observers believed the columns
on highway five might swing
down from- Cabantuan to race the
37th into Manila.
All available reports Indicated
the Japanese do not have suffi
cient forces in Manila to make a
finish fight of it In the city's
streets. And lt was believed they
would evacuate after destroying
their ammunition and equipment
wherever possible.
SINGAPORE ATTACKKI)
Washington, Feb. 1 Ui'i "Good
to excellent" results were obtained
by a large force of India-based Su
perfortresses which attacked Jap
anese naval installations at Singa
pore in a daylight raid today, the
war department announced.
WOULD REPEAL BILL
Salem, Ore., Feb. 1 Ui'i The
Oregon 1933 racing act, which le
galized pari-mutuol betting, would
be repealed by a bill Introduced to
the Oregon house of representa
tives today by Rep. Joseph Har
vey, of Multnomah county.
Senate By 74 to 12 Vote Passes George Bill;
Action on Wallace Nomination Is Delayed
Washington, Feb. 1 dli With
administration forces largely co
operating, the senate today passed
by 74 to 12 the George bill to
remove the multi-billion federal
lending agencies from Jurisdiction
of the secretary of commerce.
President Roosevelt sent word
to the senate that he would sign
the bill after the house also passes
it.
The president's promise, and the
administration votes in going
along with the George bill, were
designed to assure ultimate con
firmation of former Vice Presi
dent Henry A. Wallace for the
commerce post although with
far less power than Jesse H.
Jones possessed.
Following the passage of the
George bill, the senate by voice
vote adopted a motion to defer
consideraUon of Wallace's nomi
Churchill Pilot
iftl
SxSs .v"
(NBA Telrphoto)
Capt John Howard Ruggles, special pilot for Winston OhurchUl on history-making
trips to all parts of the world, has a new job as an Iceman
In San Rafael, Calif. The 38-year-dld pUot was discharged from the RAP
Ferry Command because of Injuries auitalned In Greenland plane crash
last year. Is a reserve lieutenant in the U. S. Army Air Corps.
Highway Plows Buck Drifting
Snow in Sanfiam Pass Region
. - , Major Routes Oyer Mountains Remain Qpon.L.
Main Street's m Bend Are'QuIckly Cleared v : '""
While Bend "dug out" from its heaviest snowfall of the
.season today, the storm continued without abatement over the
Cascades and throughout Central Oregon, with the forecast
calling tor continued snow tonight and tomorrow,
Highways continued to remain open to travel, but plowsi
were Ducking severe arms along the Santiam route, and the
depths of snow continued to grow all along the mountain
heights.
State highway department and city street department em
ployes worked throughout the night and today scraping a
;
Trains Collide
In River Gorge
Portland, Ore., Feb. 1 iui A
brakeman was killed and three
other employes of the Spokane,
Portland and Seattle railway com
pany were Injured before noon to
day when two S. P. & S. freight
trains collided near Oakbrook In
the Deschutes gorge, the com
pany's Portland office revealed.
The dead brakeman's name was
given as Dodd, and the injured
were: Cochrane, engineer, criti
cally injured; Frazer, fireman, and
Delaney, trainman, badly hurt.
Thirty cars were piled up In the
derailment resulting from the
head-on collision. One focomotlve
was destroyed and another was
reported to have turned on its
side.
PLANE MISSING
San Francisco, Feb. 1 un A
navy Catalina plane, en route
from San Francisco to Seattle
with eight naval personnel
aboard, has been missing since
noon yesterday, western sea fron
tier headquarters announced to
day.
nation until March 1.
This delay also was In line with
the administration strategy. They
believed lt would clinch ultimate
approval of Wallace for the cabi
net job, because it leaves ample
time for final congressional pas
sage of the George bill and Roose
velt's actual signature on It before
the nomination will come up.
The administration victories,
however, were won only after the
narrowest squeak at the outset of
the day s pioreertlngs.
The anti-Wallace forces wanted
to consider his nomination first
and they came within one vote of
winning adoption of a motion to;
do Just that. The count on this I
motion was a 42 to 42 tie, and un-;
der senate rules a motion Is de
feated on a tie.
When he saw that the motion I
was lost, Sen. Robert A. Taft, R., 1
Now Iceman
(Innth
of six inches of snow
off the city's streets and side
walks. The newly acquired
city's sidewalk plow kept most
of the important sidewalks
open to pedestrian traffic.
Early morning reports to the
state highway department offices
here gave the following condl
tions:
Rood Report Given
Santiam highway, heavy snow
fall and drifting, with plows work
ing 30 degrees; Willamette high
way, rain and snow, 30 inches of
snow with four Inches of new fall,
plows working 30 degrees;
Klamath Falls and on The Dalles-
California highway, light snow
fall with 10 inches of new snow,
packed on the highway 30 de
grees; Government camp, rain
ing, with packed snow throughout
the Waplnltia system, snow 22
inches deep 32 degrees; no snow
at Lapine or Crescent; light snow
at Silver Lake, and six Inches of
new snow on the Burns highway,
making a total of 10 inches, and
plows working.
Low temperature last night in
Bend was 20 degrees. The five
day period forecast called for
abatement of the storm this week
end.
O., for strictly parliamentary rea
sons switched his vote so that as
finally recorded It was 43 to 41
against consideration of the Wal
lace nomination.
The president's promise to sign
the George bill was contained in a
message to Democratic Leader Al
ben W. Barkley of Kentucky.
Barkley read lt to the senate Im
mediately after passage of the
bill.
It was forwarded to Barkley In
a letter from Judge Samuel I
Rosenman, Roosevelt's special
counsel.
The president's message stated
that the executive order of 1942,
by which Roosevelt transferred
the lending agencies to commerce,
had been designed to expire six
months after the war, "or sooner
If the president or congress so
directs.''
Soviet Armies
Just 40 Miles
From Capital
East Bank of Oder,
Last Defense Barrier,
Reached By Russians
London, Feb. 1 (lPk Red army
tanks and troops smashed to the
Oder river between 30 and 40
miles from Berlin today and pre
pared to storm that last natural
barrier blocking the way to the
panic-stricken German capital.
The German high cbmmand ad
mitted that Marshal Gregory K.
Zhukov's forces had swept to the
east bank of the Oder northwest
of Kustrln, 42 miles east of Ber
lin. From Kustrln the river angles
northwestward to its right-angle
elbow an even 30 miles from the
capital.
Both Moscow and Berlin broad
casts reported that the Soviet van
guard had crashed to the gates oi
Kustrln, at the confluence of the
Oder and Warthe rivers, where
the trunk line from Danzig cross
es the Oder and runs straight to
Berlin.
Oder Reached
Moscow dispatches also said the
Russians were believed to have
reached the east bank of the Oder
opposite Frankfurt, 39 miles east
and slightly south of Berlin.
A German communique report
ing that Zhukov's forces "have
advanced as far as the Oder
northwest of Kustrln" said fresh
German reserves had been thrown
into battle in that sector, indicat
ing the defenders of Berlin might
make their supreme effort at the
Oder, the city's last outlying de
fense line.
The angle of the river north
westward from Kustrln in rela
tion to the distance from Berlin
n,rln If nniAftnin flvantl,, hnut
near the Russians were to the
richest single prize of the war in
. "rope, put it appeared to be less
than 40 miles and possibly only a
little more than 30.
Fliers Defy Storms
The nazl command said re
serves also had been engaged
against Soviet tank spearheads
that had advanced as far as the
Sternberg-Zlelenzlg area 60 to 70
miles east-southeast of Berlin.
Moscow dispatches said scores
of Soviet air squadrons were de
fying snowstorms and generally
bad weather to hammer the ene
my day and night on the eastern
front.
Neutral sources said the rumble
of guns already could be heard in
Berlin and from an "unimpeach
able military authority" in Brus
sels came a report that the Ger
man government was leaving the
capital, "probably for Bcrchtes
gaden," Adolf Hitler's Bavarian
home.
Hitler In Berlin
The Brussels Informant said,
however, there was no indication
that Hitler himself was leaving
Berlin. Rather, he said, Hitler
probably will remain In the city
until the last possible moment.
Moscow dispatches also report
ed that red armies had completed
luontinuea on rage t
Nazis Believed :
Quitting Berlin
London, Feb. 1 (Hi Brussels re
ports attributed to "unimpeach
able military authorities" said to
day that the German government
Is leaving Berlin and that the
relch capital is rapidly being
organized for street-by-street and
house-by-houso defense.
The Brussels reports did not
indicate where the German gov
ernment might take refuge. How
ever, for months It has been
known that many government of
fices had been transferred out of
Berlin to escape the devastating
Allied air bombing.
The most likely site of the
government was believed to be
Munich because of its associations
as the birthplace of the nazl party.
Belief was growing in military
circles that even the loss of Ber
lin would not knock Germany out
of the war. Although Its capture
would leave thp Germans only a
.HXl-niile wide area of maneuver
the nazis were believed preparing
to attempt a Stalingrad-like stand,
using Berlin as the bastion of a
line on which they would attempt
to halt the Russians.
Travelers arriving In Stock
holm from Berlin reported that
the flash of guns In the eastern
front occasionally is visible in the
German capital.