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CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
Volume UN
THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEB. 3, 1945
NO. 51
SOVIETS REACH ODER ALONQ 75 MILE FRONT
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TWO U. S, DIVISIONS RACE TOWARD MANILA
BEND
Capital's Fall
Believed Near;
Nips Helpless
Foe Is Reported Well
Pinned Down in Hills
As Yank Forces Gain
General MacArthur's Head
quartern, Luzon, Feb. 3 tut
Gen. Douglas MscArthur, in a
visit to his front line troops
battling toward Manila, Raid to
day he believed that American
forces would reach the Philip
pines capital tomorrow, a front
dispatch reported.
By William B. Dickinson '
(United Preu War Correspondent)
General MacArthur Headquart
ers, Luzon, Feb. 3 (IP) Vanguards
of two, American divisions sped
down parallel highways less than
20 miles north of Manila today
and liberation of the Philippines
capital appeared imminent.
Japan's three-year reign of ter
ror and starvation in Manila was
entering its last hours just 26
days after the landing of Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's liberating
army on the shores of Lingayen
gulf, 110 miles to the north.
Caught off balance by the mul
tiple' American attacks and with
their main forces pinned down
lmpotently In the northern hills
arouna uaguio, me Japanese ap
parently had little or nothing with
which to oppose the armed col
umns sweeping down on the capi
tal. - - - uqni'MmKiim jn.i --
Motorized outriders of the U. S.
37th infantry and first cavalry
divisions were meeting only scat
tered resistance in their paral
lel advance through the northern
approaches to Manila, and their
was every prospect that their
battle flags would be raised over'
the city before the close of the
week-end.
Official, headquarters reports,
admittedly lagging more than 36
hours behind the event, said the
37th had finally worked out of
the swampy bottleneck at Cal
umpit area, 17 '4 miles north of
Manila, by Thursday night.
A few miles to the east, veteran
troopers of the first cavalry were
pushing down highway five be
low Sabang, 23 miles north of
Manila, after a breakneck 57-mile
advance in 24 hours.
Cavalry Strikes East
The first cavalry, entering the
battle of Luzon for the first time
Wednesday night, struck east
ward along the Manila north road
from Guimban and then south
into highway five.
Cabanatuan, Santa Rosa and
Gapan all fell in swift succession,
completely severing communica
tions between the Japanese forces
in north and south Luzon. Strong
armored patrols raced 24 miles
past Gapan to reach Sabang by
nightfall Thursday.
The stiffest Japanese resistance
was met at the Pampanga river
crossings just above Cabanatuan,
ported by light tankettes put up
where some 300 enemy troops sup
a short, sharp battle that ended In
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Drive for Fnnrk
'IV Wl Ml IV
i iqii way i uiiii
More than half of the $10,000
industrial fund being raised by
the chamber of commerce has
been collected, It was reported to
day, following a meeting yester
day of the chamber directors. A
report submitted by the commit
tee showed that $5,200 already has
been donated to the fund.
The drive for voluntary contri
butions closes on Feb. 12. At that
time an organiaztion of donors
will be set up to administer the
jund and study possible postwar
industrial development for Bend.
In commenting on the progress
to date, Carl A. Johnson, presi
dent of the chamber and chair
man of the special committee,
said that he .was gratified with
the voluntary response. He said
that the committee believed that
next week would bring in volun
,'ary contributions to swell the in
dustrial fund to the total that
must be raised.
The directors received written
reports from the fish and game,
Industrial and aviation commit
tees, and approved all committee
appointments for 1945.
Yanks Penetrate Siegfried Line
The OSS North Carolina digs her
"feathers" of water ahead of her as
rler, with a portion of
Nippons Destroy Installations
As U. S. Forces Near Manila
Columns of Smoke Seen Billowing Up From
Capital as Yank Armies Rapidly Converge,
' 1?y H. D. Quigg ' '
fc'''WrT;nrie7th,"l)Wjsr6n'' Approaching Manila, Feb." 3-
11 a.m. (UP) The Japanese have begun the destruction of
some of their installations in Manila and from this forward
position I can see two colums of grey-white smoke rising and
spreading like a cloud over the city.
Now we are going forward again and our entry into the
city cannot be long delayed. (
Filipino refugees are streaming from the city as our
troops advance. Our advance forces are encountering only
slight resistance but the en
Goes Into Hopper
Salem, Ore., Feb. 3 ttPi A bill
to provide a system of retirement,
disability and death benefits for
officers of the state, and its sub
divisions, enteVed the house today.
It is a companion bill to one in
troduced yesterday which calls for
the establishment of a civil serv
ice system it: the sate.
The bill, which appropriates
$50,000 to start the program, calls
for retirement pay amounting to
about half of the average salary
of the officer. It is payable after
a person reaches 60 or 65 years,
according to certain circumstanc
es. Two other bills introduced to
the house today amend the 1943
law which provided for Income
and excise tax refunds contingent
upon the passing of a sales tax
law. Such a law was defeated at
the general election in Novem
ber. Several veterans bills were in
troduced today. Among their pro
visions are:
Preference for veterans in coun
ty, city, town, municipal corpora
tion and other public jobs; auto
matic extension of military leaves
of absence to state officers in mili
tary service; credit to veterans in
civil service examinations and the
broadening of the limitations upon
the construction of community
center for members of the armed
services.
Tokyo Surmises
U. S. Lacks Fliers
(Bjr United PreM)
Radio Tokyo Saturday diverted
minds of its'listeners away from
the impending fall of Manila with
a whopper about the body of a
"woman crew member" allegedly
found in the wreckage of a Libera
tor bomber Jan. 31, near Clark
field.
The enemy broadcast, recorded
bv United Press in San Francisco,
said the asserted discovery re
vealed the "dire shortage of U. S.
fighting service personnel, parti
cularly in the air force."
"It is recallable in this connec
tion," the broadcast said, "that
our forces on this front recently
discovered crew members of en
emy fighter planes shot down on
this front to be mostly middle
aged men over 40."
Heavy Seas in South Pacific
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(NBA Tetephotol
bow Into a heavy sea somewhere In the South Pacific, throwing huge
she bucks ahead, Photo was taken from an accompanying aircraft car-;
the flight deck showing, in the foreground. 0. S. Navy photo.' ,
gineers are struggling des
perately to r e p la c e the de
stroyed bridges over the
numerous streams and keep
our columns moving.
Refugees Seen
Along the railroad track run
ning out from Manila there are
straggling lines of refugees, many
of them carrying their possessions
on their shoulders. Many of them
are near starvation and our ad
vance troops are giving them ra
tions from their packs.
The Filipinos tell us that the
people of Manila are starving.
They are walking around the
streets like skeletons. Most of the
refugees have come out to seek
food. They reported that only a
few Japs are still in the city and
that they are now ordering ci
vilians to leave.
I am sending this exclusive dis
patch back to General MacAr
thur's headquarters by Maj. Phil
North, Ft. Worth, Tex., of the
public relations office who just
landed in an L-5 observation plane
on a strip of concrete highway
near our forward positions.
We can see two columns of
smoke over Manila. One appears
to be rising from the railroad
yards and the other from some
where in the dock area.
Traffic Resumed
Over Gorge Line
Traffic was resumed over the
Oregon Trunk line between Bend
and Wishram today, after work
men had "broken a hole through
the wreckage of two freight trains
In the gorge at Oakbrook, where
two trainmen were fatally in
jured and others were Injured in
a head-on collision of the trains
Thursday.
R. P. Jeffrey, local agent for the
line, reported that the main line
had been cleared at 9:45 a. m., and
that he expected normal traffic to
prevail. Blocking of the tracks by
the wreckage caused late delivery
of mail to Bend, as it was neces
sary to truck it (mm Wishram to
a train at Maupin.
Funeral services for Charles
Wilson. 6-1, Bend resident and one
of the two men killed in the
train crashes in the Deschutes
gorge, have not yet been complet-1
ed. Services are being held in
abeyance pending the arrival of
a brother. Mrs. Wilson was in The
Dalles today.
10 Bids Received 1
v
For Canal Work 5
Ten bids were opened in the
Bend offices of the Bureau of
Reclamation today, for contracts
,to instruct approximately lght
uuies oir iHiuutJS xor me rvurui
unit irrigation project. Lowest
bidder was the United Construc
tion company, Seattle, at $101,395.
Other bids were:
R. O. Heinz, Portland, $120,450;
E. C. Hall, Portland, $120,945; Tol
ley Construction company, Zillah,
Wash., $123,780; Babler and Con
ley, Portland; $138,290; North
western Engineering company,
Rapid City, N. D $143,785; C. J.
Eldon, Portland, $159,067.50; C.
J. Montag and sons, Portland,
$177,440; E. B. Bishop, Orland,
Cal., $184,963, and McNutt Broth
ers, Eugene, $187,438.
Culver Lateral Planned
The contract is for the construc
tion of a lateral from the main
canal, extending from a point near
Juniper butte northward to the
vicinity of Culver. The project In
volves the excavation ol approxi
mately 120,000 cubic yards of
earth and rock, and the laying of
hundreds of feet of different sized
concrete pipe.
At the siune time it was an
nounced at the bureau offices that
the contract for the building of
approximately 10 miles of the
main canal In Jefferson county,
has been awarded to E. B. Bishop
of Orland, Cal. Bishop bid $333,
803. Lowest bidder on this project
was Strong and McDonald, Ta
coma, but their bid was rejected
because they asked longer than
the alloted 100 days to complete
the work.
Truck, Road Bills
Due for Hearing
Salem, Ore., Feb. 3 nil Three
controversial truck and highway
bills are due for a hearing next
week In an attempt to Iron out
differences of various Interested
parties.
One bill would enact penalties
for overweight logging trucks on
a sliding scale; another would Salem, Feb. 3 iui Representa-
eliminate the dumping of logs tlves William Niskanen of Des
from overloaded trucks and lot; chutes county and Burt Snyder of
them proceed to their destination the Lake-Deschutes district yes-
at 10 miles per hour under a flag, torday Introduced a bill to in-
and a third would give the coun- creese the salary of the justice of
ties 20 per cent of highway com- the peace in Deschutes county
mission funds Instead of the cur- district No. 1, Bond, from $1200 to
rent 15.7 per cent. $1500
1,000 U. S.
London, Feb. 3 HP) American
b,bers, more than 1,000 j American heavy bombers
'SlXorS 2' and
The Eighth air force attack was ,ons of hi8h explosives and In
in direct support of the Red army 'cendiaries on Berlin In one of the
coulmns hammering at the Oder heaviest daylight assaults ever
river line only 31 miles to the delivered against the Kelch capl
east a distance readily visible tal.
from the height at which the The huge fleet of American
American strategic bombers drop bombers was screened by swarms
their deadly cargo. lof Mustangs and Thunderbolt
The Berlin assault was the ma i- fiehters in anticipation that the
or effort of the U. S. strategic air
j force, but more than 400 other
j Liberators struck at the Barbagl
synthetic oil plant In Rothensee, :
la suburb of Magdeburg, and at i
Entire Western
FrontonMove;
Barrier Yields
- U. S. Troopers Penetrate
' First Two Tiers of Line;
f Panzer Divisions Targets
Paris, Feb. 3'itPi American
doughboys broke out of the Mons
chau forest within four miles of
the German highway center
Schlciden today in a sudden burst
of power that carried half-way
through the Siegfried line at Its
strongest point.-
, The break-through on the north
ern wing of the American offen
sive front sparked a general ad
vance all along the U. S. First and
Third army lines into and over
the fringes of Germany's vaunted
west wall.
Far to the south, the French
First army all but eliminated the
stubborn German pocket west of
the Rhine around Colmar and won
more than half of the city Itself in
a bloody, close-in street fight.
There was no immediate word
on .allied aerial operations this
morning, but reports still were
coming in on the wholesale de
struction heaped on Germany's
battered western railway, system
esteraay ana last nignt. --
Kui I road Care Blasted
In 18 hours of blistering attack,
American and British fliers de
stroyed more than 1,600 nazl rail
way cars, at least 26 locomotives
and several hundred motor ve
hicles Immediately behind the
western front.
Reconnaissance reports Indicat
ed that the German panzer divi
sions rushed out of the Ardennes
bulge two weeks ago to help stem
the red army drive on Berlin still
were floundering about on the
broken railway lines west Of the
capital, practically immobilized by
the Anglo-American bombing of
fensive. Infantrymen of the U. S. Second
division were out in front of the
First army assault on the Sieg
fried forts with a three-mile ad
vance from Wahlerscheld to the
eastern edge of the Monschau for
est. Road Forks Reached
Moving along the main high
way from Monschau to Schlelden,
Euskirchen and the Rhine, the
Americans late yesterday reached
a point about four miles west of
Schleiden where a secondary road
forks up six miles northeastward
to Gemund, 11 miles due east of
Monschau.
The drive carried all the way
through the first of two tiers of
Siegfried line fortifications laced
through the Monschau forest. The
Germans had built a double wall
at that point to cover the southern
flank of the Cologne plain, and
apparently were planning to make
their main stand in the second
line believed to run back to
Schlelden,
Swinging abreast of the Second
division, elements of the Ninth
Infantry farther north burst
through the center of the Mons
chau forest to overrun another
big belt of the west wall.
SALARY BILL PRKSENTKD
Bombers Blast
the Marlnhurir freicht varrls.
Luftwaffe would rise In challenge
to the attack,
Nearly 2,500 planes of the
Eighth air force were operating
today In excellent flying weather.
'Big 3' Believed
Armistice Terms for Germans
Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt Reported
Meeting in Russia; Tokyo Also Has Version
London, Feb. 3 (U.E) President Roosevelt. Prime Min
ister Churchill and Premier
armistice terms for Germany
ference.
There were a number of signs that the long-awaited meet
ing finally had begun, with the approval of terms for a
defeated reich the most urgent item of the agenda.
Though official secrecy cloaked the site of the meeting,
unconfirmed reports placed it somewhere in southern Russia.
A. Tokyo broadcast, however,
said the three allied leaders
were reportedly" in session
in Cairo.
The Japanese - controlled
Singapore radio guessed the
meeting was being held at a
"Romanian Black sea port."
Terms Drawn Up
The European advisory com
mission waa understood to have
drafted armistice terms- for Ger
many for final approval of Roose
velt, Churchill, and Stalin. Wash
ington sources said the terms
were put In textual form and Ini
tialed by the commission some
weeks ago.
Nature of the terms was not
known. As In the case of Italy,
they probably will not be pub
lished immediately, if at all.
While there was no indication
of Impending German collapse, it
was believed the "big three"
wished to be prepared in the event
that the Germans decide to capit
ulate when the red army reaches
Berlin.
The lightning-like soviet drive
into eastern Germany gave the
armistice question precedence ov
er pressing political problems at-
fectlrtg Poland, Greece, and..Yugo-
Mttvm.
Five Bills Backed
By Both Houses
Salem,' Ore., Feb. 3 (IP) Bills
passing the two houses of the
legislature today included:
(In the house)
Provision for the restoring of
the voting privilege to persons
at one time convicted of a felony.
Creation of a board of examin
ers In watchmaking and setting up
regulations and standards.
(In the senate)
Requirement that voters must
re-rcglster If they have not voted
in last two preceding elections.
Limitation of the amount of
land a county may lease for min
eral rights.
The senate also passed and sent
to the governor a house memorial
which asks that the national
guard be Included In postwar mili
tary plans.
Tumalo to Hold
Polio Benefit
Under the sponsorship of the
grange with Mrs. Fred Shepard
in charge, a polio benefit dance is
to be held in the Tumalo hall
tonight, with proceeds to go Into
the relief fund. Boys from the
Redmond air field have been in
vited to . attend, as have Bend
residents. A birthday cake will
be cut.
A polio benefit dance will also
be held in Terrebonne tonight,
Mrs. J. F. Arnold, Bend, county
chairman, has announced. Mrs.
B. C. Allen is in charge.
Shevlin, where Maurice Lyons
is chairman, has contributed
$50.42 to the Infantile paralysis
proceeds, Mrs.' Arnold said.
ICE BOX MISSING
Seattle, Feb. 3 IP Mrs. Cecil
Taylor told the sheriff's office
she went next door to visit a
neighbor this morning and when
she came back her electric Icebox
was missing all seven cubic feet
of It.
Military Objectives in Berlin
The Berlin attack was carried
out by an all-Fortress task force.
There seemed little doubt that
the American bombers had struck
a savage blow at the beleasruered
nazl capital already jam-packed
with thousands of fleeing refugees
from enRtern Germany and fever
ishly engaged in building street
barricades and tank traps to halt
the onrushlng Russians.
The effect of the bombardment
upon the network of German rail
and highway 'transport rndlatlnj?
out of Berlin was also expected to
be deadly. The railroads and high
ways are already clogged with
refugees pouring back from the
Considering
Stalin were believed studying
today at their "big three" con
,
Shevlin Shooting
Details Learned
By Investigators
Asserted intimacies between the I
victim and the assailant's wife to -
day were revealed by state police
as the motive for the shot-gun
shooting in Shevlin of Claude Pow
ell, 1- year -old tree rauer em
ployed at the logging camp there.
John Hayter, also 27 and a taller,
and the victim s partner for more
than a year, was being held today
in the county jail at Klamath
Falls on his own asserted admis
sion that he had shot Powell.
At the Lumbermans hospital
here where Powell Is confined, at
tendants said that he is suffering
from 22 shots In his groin and
right arm and hand. His condition
was described as "favorable,"
Powell told State Officer Glenn
Ray. who investigated, that he
did not ar-4o-pcoeocu ta Hayter
II he recovered. .
Details Revealed
The shooting occurred yester-
day morning as Powell was about
to enter his home, which ad -
joins that of the Hayter family,
Hayter Is said by police to have
come from his home with a .410:
shotgun and fired at a distance of j
50 feet as he demanded:
"I thought I told you to leave!"
Powell screamed "Don t do,
that!" and held up his hands In
front of him, receiving most of the'
Shot in his right hand.
Hayter then Is reported to have
ne to the Shevlin store and'
ked Maurice Lyons, proprietor,
to get an ambulance as "there Is a
wounded man In my yard." Lyons
called an ambulance, then noti
fied state police. Hayter awaited
the arrival of Officer Ray, who
turned the prisoner over to Sher-
state police, from Klamath Falls.
Two Argued
Hayter told officers that he had
argued with Powell two days ago
about his alleged illicit association
with Mrs. Hayter, and that Powell
had agreed to leave, telling his
wife that he was going to Port
land and Join the merchant ma
rine. Powell is said to have left
and filled his car with gasoline,
and returned for his belongings
and a farewell to his wife and
four daughters, when the shoot
ing occurred.
Handbaq Ruined
In Bend Blaze '
Volunteer firemen raced from
all parts of Bend, and fire equip
ment made one of Its record dash
es to the Pilot Butte inn this morn
ing to find
One cloth woman's hand bag
destroyed by fire!
Firemen were frankly puzzled
to know what caused the handbag
to eaten fire as It lay on a table
In the helps' dining room on the
third floor. Smoke billowed
throughout the third floor of the
hotel but the hand bag had burned
out when firemen had reached the
scene after a breath-taking dash
up the stairs.
overrun areas and with hastily
gathered Volkssturm and other re
serves with which the nazl high
command is trying to stop the red
army.
The RAF sent more than 1,200
heavv bombers Inst nb'ht against
the Ruhr and Rhlneland In sup
port of ground armies on the west
ern front.
The brunt of the night attack
apparently fpjl upon the Karls
ruhe and Wiesbaden railway
yards on the left flank of the
Rhine, both choke points on the
rail lines linking central Ger
many with the center and south
ern wing of the western front.
Nazis Assert
River Crossed
At One Point
Bad Weather and Snov
Slow Russians; German
Defense Also Stiffens
London, Feb. 3 (IP) The Ger
man high command tacitly adi
mltted today that the Red army
had won most of a 75-mile stretch
of the east bank of the Oder river
curving around Berlin at a dis
tance ranging between 30 and 68
miles.
As Marshal Gregory K. Zhu
kov's forces pushed within 33
miles of Berlin's city limits, the
United States Eighth air force
laid aerial siege to the capital with
more than 1,000 heavy bombers.
Moscow dispatches reported
1 that strong Russion forces were
storming Frankfurt and Kustrin,
twin anchors of the Oder river
defense line before Berlin.
Crossing Admitted
A nazl military commentator
lef t-handedly acknowledged a Rus
sian crossing of the river In the
Kustrin area, claiming that Sovl
et shock troops were "cleared
from the east bank of the Oder"
there.
The German high command's
daily communique, issued more
than an hour later usual without
explanation, said:
"On the Oder between Crossen
and the Oder bend, enemy attacks
against our bridgehead positions
were repelled, partly by counter-
a ttiiekS.1.1 " - - - - '.-:- ,.--
Thus the high command put
the official label of "bridgeheads"
on the remaining German post
Itlons east of the Oder in the long
stretch between the elbow 30
miles northeast of Berlin and
crossen. on its east bank 68 miles
southeast of Berlin and 33 miles
southeast of Frankfurt.
Data Lackln?
number and depth of the
"hririoohoaris" amidst the Soviet
iff.,, mnsslno nn the east bank
, ,h o,in f- a ,,,, t Rriin
Iu,aa nnt anerlfleH.
The nazl communque sald the
Germans were counterattacking
, ,u , C(olna nr,h,t,act
of BreslaUi and in the area of
Reppen, 12 miles east of Frank
furt, but their operatlon,s appear
ed to be mainly defensive in des
pcrate efforts to check the Soviet
drive against the last natural
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Navy to Search
For Nippon Fleet ;
Washington, Feb. 3 (Ui The
United States navy, secure in its
strength as the greatest sea force
the world has ever known, is just
about ready to search out the
remnants of the Japanese navy
wherever they may be hiding and
"sink them In their harbors."
This announcement, made by a
navy department spokesman, re
vealed that the Mikado's mighty
fleet which once dealt the U. S. a
crippling blow at Pearl Harbor Is
now no bigger than a single
American task force.
The announcement also dis
closed that the V. S. has sunk
or damaged the huge total of 3,-
108 Japanese warships ana
freighters since Dec. 7, 1941.
And from figures reported by
the navy department and Pacific
fleet communiques reporters
drew the conclusion that we are
now destroying or damaging more
than 50 enemy vessels every
week.
Units Not Large
The navy spokesman said that
all remaining Japanese naval
units still afloat could possibly
equal the size of a strong Ameri-.
can task force but "couldn't
touch" Adm. William F. Halsey's
pile-driver tusk group which Is
only one of several such units of
the U. S. Pacific fleet.
Hinting that aerial reconnais
sance planes may already have
spied out the main remaining
forces of the Mikado's sea arm the
spokesman said "the time is com
ing soon" when the enemy will
no longer be able to hide his
fleet units.
"The time Is coming," he de
clared, "when, if the Japanese
fleet does not come out to fight
we're going to search them out
and sink them in their harbors."