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THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEB. 2, 1945
i Story of Release of 510 Men
IFrom Foe Camp Graphically
i Described in News From Luzon
. By Ralph Teatsorth
fUnltad PrM War Correspondent)
; General MncArthur's Headauni'ters, Lu?on. Feb. 2 (U.E)
j At 7:45 P.M. Tuesday, a shot echoed through the Cnbanatuan
prison eamn on Luzon nnd the battle for thp liberation of the
J imprisoned survivors of Bataan and Correcidor was on.
It lasted onlv 15 minutes. In that quarter hour, all 510
Amcrimn and allied prisoners wove moved out of the camp
and all 73 Japanese guards were killed kniM. bayonetted or
shot by American rangers and Filipino guerillas.
The heavilv-armed, bewhiskered rangers, mostly farm
bovs who confped thev were
'"crazv about f ierhtinsr." start-
ed out on their rescue mis-Jsion-Sunday.
Scorn'nir hel
jmets. they wore fatigue caps
at jaunty angles.
Hike 29 Miles
Working stenthllv through the
Jcncmv lines, thov reached a nolnt
lust north of the prison stockade
late Tuesday afternoon after hik
Mng ?9 miles through overgrown
"rice fields nnd plnmris of woods.
Cant. Robert W. Prinro of (226
'Maiden lane) Seattle. Wash., com
Umanded the actual attack. He de-
ploved 73 guerillas to guard the
tmain road east of the stockade
nnd 85 more to guard the road
'west.
s ' The rangers split Into two
'forces.
J One group under 1st Lt. John
F. Murphv of Snringfield. Mass.,
ltook two hours to crawl Into DO'
"sltlons behind the stockade. Mur-
,phy, who once ran for the Massa.
rhusetts state senate, was a star
'nuarterhnck at Notre Dame under
,thp late Coach Knute Rockne.
The second group under 1st Lt
William J. Connell of Boston,
"crawled for an hour and a half
to get into Dosition for a frontal
'assault on the main gate. .
J Forces Deployed
At 7:30 p.m., all forces were de
ployed and ready to strike. Then
followed 15 minutes of tense walt
zing, expecting momentarily to be
"discovered.
The signal for the assault, by
agreement, was fired by Murphy's
men, who had taken positions be
neath the rear guard tower. The
initial shot killed the guard, and
soon bedlam broke loosa.
Ranger Theodore Richardson
(address unknown), in the van
guard of Connell's detachment,
advanced to blast the lock from
the prison gate, but at the crucial
moment the ammunition clip fell
from his gun.
Richardson reached for his pis
tol, but the Japanese sentry, re
covering from his amazement at
the ranger's appearance, knocked
it from his hand. Richardson re
covered the pistol, however, killed
the sentry and blew off the gate
lock.
Connell's men poured into the
stockade throueh the main gate,
while Murphy's forces burst
through the rear gate. A Japanese
barrack containing four tanks was
smashed with bazookas. Grenades
knockPd out a pillbox containing
eight Japanese.
Prisoners Ketire
The prisoners had Just retired
for the nignt, DUt tnoy quicmy
were roused by the rangers with
cries of, "We're Yanks!" 1st Lt.
John Dove of Hollywood, Calif.,
and a detail under 1st Lt. Melville
H. Schmidt of (2406 Joseph street)
New Orleans, La., directed them
out of the stockade.
The first of the ragged, weary
prisoners emerged through the
gates only seven minutes after
the start of the attack and eight
minutes later all 513 had stumbled
out Into the darkness and free
dom. '
When all were, safely In the
fields on the homeward trek, 800
Japanese came rushing down the
main road from Cabu, shouting
and flrln" as they ran.
The guerillas guarding the
flank held their fire until the Jap
anese got within range, then
opened up with a withering bar
rage that stopped the enemy cold.
Bodies Piled High
Japanese bodies piled high as
Browning automatics cracked in
the hands of the sturdy Filipinos,
who wore jaunty straw hats and
carried cartridge belts over their
shoulders and grenades on their
belts.
More than 400 Japanese had
been killed by the time eight en
emy tanks appeared on the scene
and pinnpd down the guerillas.
Just then, however, the signal to
withdraw was given and the force
crawled to safety. Twenty -one
guerillas and one ranf,rr had been
killed and two rangers wounded.
The rangers carried ailing pris
oners almost two miles to 20 wait
ing carabao carts. The Japanese
pursued for an hour, but stopped
at the Pampanga river.
By the time the mile-and-a-half
long procession reached the Amer
ican lines, it had grown to 51
carabao carts.
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List of Luzon
Prisoners Given
Allied Headquarters, Luzon,
Feb. 2 (IPi The list of American
Drisoners from the northwest re
leased In Tuesday night's attack
on Cabanatuan Included:
Addington, Ermond R., MSgt.,
Harrison, Ida.
Albee, Dean W., civilian, Eure
ka. Mont.
Braunberger, John, Pvt., Port
land, Ore.
Bronk, Stanley E., Sgt., 3930
11th W. St., Seattle, Wash.
Englin, Milton A., Sgt., 2536
Queen Ave., Seattle, Wash.
Floyd, Lloyd I. Capt., Enter
prise, Ore.
McEwen, Charles C, Sgt.. 7608
NE Rodney Ave., Portland, Ore.
Moen, Norman E., Pvt., 1205 4th
Ave., (Calispell, Mont.
Slyn, Robert E., Capt. 1275 Fer
ry St., Eugene, Ore.
Batcheler, John F SSgt., care
Mrs. D. F. Wray, 90 5th St., Ash
land, Ore.
Medford Man Listed
Davis, William E., Cpl. 909 Sun
set St., Medford, Ore.
Henry, Joseph R., Pfc, 815
Coweeman St., Kelso, Wash.
Hickey, Charles J.. Pvt., 312 N.
Sacramento St., Portland, Ore.
Klrkpatrick, William H.. Pvt.,
1497 ',4 Franklin Blvd., Eugene,
Ore.
Connacher, Peter, Pvt., 832 SW
Evans, Portland, Ore.
Morltz, Melvin C, Fireman 2c
USN, Sedro Woolley, Wash.
Reed, Careth, J., Cpl., 1009 Bon
nie Bare St., Walla Walla. Wash.
Cox. Lome B.. Pfc. 10th St..
Monroe Wis., or 515 W. Jackson
St., Medford, Ore.
Hagstrom, Glen, Cnl., 1020 Sum
mit Blvd., Spokane, Wash.
Vincent, Willis C, Pvt., box 393,
Klamath Falls, Ore.
Icing Conditions
Force Plane Down
Madras, Feb. 2 (Special) A
woman member of the marines
and five army fliers In a Lock
heed B-34 are marooned In Madras
after having to make a forced
landing at the local air field late
Monday afternoon. Icy weather
and poor visibility made it nec
essary for them to remain here
until weather conditions get bet
ter, iwo oi tne party are due at
incir camps irom turioughs. They
were en route to Augusta, Ga.,
from Portland.
The crew includes: Capt. Wal
lace Oppenheim, pilot, New York;
Capt. Frank Macholic, co-pilot,
Scranton, Pa.; SSgt. M. B. Jones,
flight engineer, Nashville, Tcnn.
The passengers are: SSgt. Doris
Hallas, M.C.W.R., Portland, SSgt.
Luke Johnson, Dallas, Texas, and
Pvt. John Steely, Tacoma, Wash.
The party started out In good
time but Ice conditions forced
them to land most unexpectedly
on the Madras field.
Othman Visit Senate, Finds
MattersiRather Complicated
(United Praea Staff Correspondent)
Washington, Feb. 2 IP With a
black patch slung over his left
eye, Senate Majority Leader Al
ben W. Barkley looked like a
benign pirate In a double-breasted
suit.
His Job was to keep the brethren
from tossing out Henry A. Wal
lace as secretary of commerce,
with or without the reconstruc
tion finance corporation. Sen. Jo
slah W. Bailey of North Carolina,
one of the anti-Wallace leaders,
eyed him suspiciously.
Barkley. said all he wanted was
to speak a tribute to the senate's
late secretary Edwin Halsey. Bail-,
ey relaxed. So did the senate, the
standees In the galleries ,the vice
president, and Othman. ' .
This was a mistake. Boy! .
I guss those senators knew
what they were doing, all right. I
hope, maybe, but all was confu-y
siun to me. carKiey sal aown,
Bailey .mumbled something I
couldn't hear, and then everybody
was yelling.
It turned out (according to a
smart U.P. senate reporter sitting
next to me In the press gallery)
that Bailey moved the senate be
now declared in executive session.-
That didn t seem like anything
epochal, but theeporter said that
if the motion carried, it meant the
senate would have to vote on Wal
lace as combined secretary and
Kf u cmei. He said that would
mean the end of Wallace.
The boys voted, but the ayes
seemed as loud as the nays to
Vice-President Harry Turman and
he had 'em sound off on a roll
call. Some of 'em muttered and
some of 'em yelped and Bailey lost
on a tie.
Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio
moved that the vote be recon
sidered: now came some parlia
mentary abacadabra which I defy
anybody to explain to my satisfac
tion: Barkley propounded an in
quiry and then he moved that the
senate consider what he called the
George bill.
Things were getting complicat
ed, all right ,and Barkfey's good
eye was sparkling. But before we
get any further into this I'd better
explain that the George bill Is the
measure that takes the RFC away
irom ine commerce department.
The vote on whether to vote
on the George bill was 83 to 2.
Sen. Walter F. George of Georgia'
explained his bill. He said he
wasn't even thinking about Wal
lace when he wrote lt. The sena
tors adopted the measure in a
hurry.
Barkley, adlusted his eye patch
(it'll be coming off next week,
the doc says) and read a letter
from President Roosevelt, which
said that he'd sign the George bill,
all right, If congress ever adopted
it.
Sen. Taft stood up and opened
his mouth, but Barkley beat him
to lt by moving that the vote on
Wallace be postponed for a month.
Then Taft got his sav. He said
he wouldn't like Wallace any
better a month hence than he does
now.
The galleryites booed him. They
hissed. A couple of catcalls echoed
around the dimly-lit chamber.
Truman banged his gavel and
banged it again and I got out of
there while I was able. I am a
sensitive fellow, and delicate, and
prone to dizzy spells.
War Briefs
- (Bv United Praia)
Eastern Front Russians drive"
toward Oder river defense bar
rier 30 to 39 miles from Berlin.
Western Front First and
Third armies advance on 40-mile
front against light opposition:
Germans reported abandoning
Siegfried line fortresses one to
five miles inside Reich.'
Pacific American forces con
verge on Manila from two sides
after new landing southwest of
city. .
Italy Activity limited to patrolling.
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STATEMENT ON MILK
The Bend Dairy wants its customers to know that it has given
them and always will give them the best milk that it is possible for
it to produce. The quality of our milk exceeds the standard required
for Grade A by the state and we are continually trying to better our
"' records. We shall welcome the appointment of a city sanitary in
spector. With an inspector on the job the people of Bend would have
the opportunity of knowing under what conditions milk is being pro
duced and distributed in the city. Working under a city inspector the
dairies would know exactly what the regulations are and would no
longer be subject to inspections made by outsiders and based on
rules and regulations never made known to the dairies. For years the
dairies have workedyunder state supervision. On the whole this has
been satisfactory and has raised the standard of our milk products.
However, in the business of inspection from cow to consumer two
departments have overlapped and the situation has given rise to, dis
putes. The work of both the Department of Agriculture and the Ore
gon BoarcTof Health is worthwhile, and we'll all agree that both are
needed. The two'should be workinq together to promote a better
standard of living. The fact is that they are doing jqst the opposite.
At the present they are fighting for political power at the expense
of the dairy industry.- ' - .- ,
Under present law the Oregon State Board of Health has little
power to enforce its rulings except through the power of public opin
ion. Public opinion can be strong and if it can be developed all over
the, state legislation will probably give the State Board of Health the
power that is now exercised by the Department of Agriculture.
Which one should have the power is not the concern of the dairies.
They want and will always have some type of supervision. The Bend
Dairy wants the best that is, supervision that gives us doctors and
scientists who can show dairies exactly what they are producing.
We want a type of person that the public as well as the dairies can
have confidence in.
Undulant fever has been talked about considerably in connec
tion with milk. We have never heard of an instance where the fever
could be traced to a state licensed dairy. Every herd of cows in
Oregon producing Grade A milk must be tested to prove that it can
not distribute the germ that causes this disease. Our laws in Oregon
are very strict on cow testing. In fact, the Oregon laws are more
strict than are the laws in some of our neighboring states. That is one
of the reasons why so many cows, have gone out of the state, thus
making our supply of milk here low at times.
We feel that the people of Bend may think that because of the
milk survey just concluded by the Oregon Board of Health the milk
distributed in Bend is unfit to use. That is not the case. It is true that
the survey disclosed minor details wrong with plans and equipment.
These are changes that each dairyman would like to make just as
you want to buy a new car, refinish the house or build a new one. We -all
know, however, that this is not possible at present. It is true that
if these desired changes were made we could bring the milk to you
faster, and more easily but it is not necessarily true that the milk
itself would be a better product. The Board of Health has told you
that the milk for Bend did not meet certain specifications. Immedi
ately those reading.the reports began to wonder if the milk was even
fit to drink. Those of us in the dairy business were just as disturbed
as you consumers ove.r the first reports. We wondered if actually we
as well as the Department of Agriculture had overlooked some pro
tection that had rendered our products unfit for you. However, when .
the reports were brought out for examination, we found that the rea
sons for the Board's low ratings were not, at ieast in the case of The'
Bend Dairy, due to anything wrong with the milk itself but rather due
to the age, type and placement of equipment and building. No two
people could ever agree on'the details of handling milk and'the con
struction of a barn or creamery. It is easy for one to find fault with
the effort of another. We of The Bend Dairy conscientiously feel that
milk should be graded on the standard of the milk itself and not on
the construction and placements of building and equipment. If the
milk in the bottle is tested regularly, which it is now by the State De
partment of Agriculture, and found to pass the standards set by the
government, we believe the dairies should be left alone and not ham
pered by scores of men telling us what, where, how and when we can
go about our work. In our instance we know from the reports that
had we been graded on the milk alone our rating would have been
high in the bracket rating of good, pure milk. We believe that every
drop of milk sold in Bend from licensed dairies such as the Medo-Lana
Creamery, Bradetich Bros., Pleasant Ridge and Bend Dairy is good
healthy milk, and that you are taking less chances drinking milk from
these dairies than you are by walking down the street and catching
a germ from out of the air or getting hit by a car. The people hired
to handle this milk for you realize the dangers of contamination far
more than you do and therefore every precaution is taken to keep
it safe. We also believe that the milk situation on the whole would
not have been brought before the public in the way that it was if it
had not been for some political reason or the desire on somebody's '
part to play safe.
We of The Bend Dairy stress again that we encourage strict
supervision. We welcome suggestions for bettering our plant opera
tions. We appreciate the time that the Board of Health and the
Department of Agriculture have taken in explaining the whys and
wherefores of producing good milk. Both departments hire men who
understand the story of germs and bacteria far better than the aver
age business man or club woman does. The dairies pay a great deal
of money every year to have these men available. A review of rec
ords for the past ten years will show that the standard of milk used '
in Bend has been raised considerably because of these skilled and
trained men. We want these two departments to work together so
that we can continue to raise the standards. However, we do not
want to betworking continually under the fear that at any time some
group is going to jump up and throw a bunch of new regulations at
us. We want some group or some person to test our milk regularly .
and if it meets the specifications, which ours does, to let the public
know about it. We do not appreciate the type of advertising that
milk has gotten during the past few weeks because we feel that it
does not tell a true story.
THE BEND DAIRY
BY D. WONSER
"The House of Beauty"
947 Wall Street
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