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Volume Llll
Soviets Storm
River Line on
100-MileFront
Germans Say Russians
Try for Crossinq in
Bid to Reach Berlin
London, Feb. S (IB German
broadcasts reported tonight that
Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's
army had broken across the Oder
river northwest of Kustrin, less
than 38 miles from Berlin, and
established s bridgehead on the
west bank of the last natural bars,
rier before the capital.
London, Feb. 5 (UWThe red
army stormed the Oder river line
along a 100-mile front before Ber
lin today and German reports
said Russian flanking columns
were hnttlinff for ft river ernQalnir
only 32 miles northeast of the capi
tal. Striking for a Quick break
through into the Brandenburg
plain that would lay Berlin open
to attack from all sides, soviet
armored formations were ranging
up and down the east bank of the
Oder, chopping away the enemy's
communications and slaughtering
thousands of. hastily mobilized
nazi reserves.
The soviet early morning com
munique reported that about 10,
000 Germans were killed or cap
tured all along the eastern front,
yesterday most of" them' in' a j
series nf nwflvlno hnttlpa hpfnrp'
the twin Oder strongholds of
Frankfurt and Kustrin, 33 miles.
east and 38 miles east-northeast of
Berlin.
Nazis Admit Action
German spokesmen admitted
the Soviets had broken into Kus
trin three times, but claimed the
attackers had been hurled back
with heavy losses.- Moscow dis
patches indicated that nazi resis
tance was stiffening at both Kus
trin and Frankfurt, 16 miles to the
south.
The German high command said
powerful Russian forces had lash
ed out westward from a spring
board in the Breig area of Oder's
west bank midway between Bres
lau and Oppelin, and violent fight
ing was going on in the heart of
Silesia.
The nazis also acknowledged of
ficially that Marshal Gregory K.
Zhukov's army had clamped
strong assault arcs against Frank
furt and Kustrin, twin bastions of
the Oder defenses east of Berlin.
SO Miles Distant
Moscow broadcasts and dis
patches said the soviet vanguard
was "about 30 miles" from Ber
lin, that Frankfurt and Kustrin
were "closely invested," and that
heavy fighting was going on in
the eastern suburbs of Frankfurt.
"The red armv now has crashed
into Germany along a front of
Jbu miles, although steadily
mounting resistance and a thaw
which has turned the fields into
bogs has slowed the soviet ad
vance," one Moscow broadcast
said.
Konev's Forces Strike
With a 100-mile stretch of the
Oder line under assault and soviet
forces reported battling for a riv
er crossing 32 miles northeast of
the capital, Konev's forces were
said by the nazi command to have
ripped Into the Sllesian defenses
Deyona the Oder in strong lorce.
"On both sides of Brieg." a Ger
man communiaue said, "the en
emy from his bridgehead on the
Oder launched attacks supported
by strong forces. Heavy fighting
is In progress here."
Elderly Woman
Beaten by Youth
Seattle, Feb. 5 U Mrs. E. A.
Hanvey, 62-year-old Boeing Air
craft company swing shift work
er, was recovering today from a
beating she said was administered
by a youth who boarded her car,
dumned her unconscious into a
building excavation and sped
away.
She told police that the young
man climbed into her automobile
at an intersection Saturday night
and drove to North Seattle where
he beat her and dropped her into
the dilch. .
She was found several hours
later after she had regained con
sciousness and crawled to the
roadside. Police had not yet ap
prehended her assailant
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Huge Fires Rage in Kobe
Following Sky Fort Raid
By Frank Tremaine -
(United 1tms War Corretpondent) .
21st Bomber Command, Guam, Feb. 5 (UJR) Superfor
tresses kindled at least 34 fires in Kobe, Japan's greatest
seaport, in their first raid on that key target Sunday, recon
naissance photographs revealed today.
Tokyo reported that single Superfortresses flew over Kobe
soon after midnight and again abou4:30 a.m., today, Japa
nese time. A broadcast said one plane dropped bombs and
indicated the second did also when it said that there was
"absolutely no damage in both cases."
Many of the conflagrations appeared to be spreading
Enters Manila
(NEA Telephoto)
Brig. Gen. William C. Chase, com
mander of the dismounted caval
rymen, was one of the first offi
cers to enter Manila and it was
his "flying wedge" that reached
the Santa Tomas prison camp.
The condition of the internees was
"most pitiful", he said.
Japs Say Yanks
'Cut to Pieces'
Singapore, Feb. 5 IP-The Japanese-controlled
Singapore radio
claimed Monday that advanced
American patrols in Manila were
being "cut to pieces," but a later
broadcast asserted three U. S.
columns were converging on the
city.
The broadcast, recorded by the
United Press at San Francisco,
said "fierce fighting" still was go
ing on in the vicinity of Clark
field, 45 miles north of Manila.
RESUMES COMMAND
Paris, Feb. 5 LP Supreme
headquarters announced tonight
that Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley
had resumed command of the
United States First army, which
was under the temporary com
mand of Marshal Sir Bernard L.
Montgomery after the Ardennes
breakthrough.
"VH f'w J'i.!"'l'1
Newsman Finds Wife in Manila Prison Camp;
Internees Jubilantly Greet U. S. Soldiers
By Frank Hewlett
(United Preea War Correspondent)
Manila, Feb. 3 HP) Some 3,700
thin, hungry Allied civilians, 2,-
500 of them Americans, cried
hysterical welcome to liberating j
American trooDS at me aanto
Tomas University Internment
camp tonight. automatic weapons for fear of Chase, after a personal lnspec-
Among them was my wife Vir-! hitting the civilians. tlon of the concentration camp,
ginia, from whom I parted onj The civilians, nonetheless, described conditions as "most piti
New Year's eve of 1942 to go to : shouted encouragement and , f ul." Most ot the internees, he
Bataan with Gen. Douglas Mac-'adviee from the windows of theisald, were suffering from malu
Arthur she Insisted on staying ; besieged building. They Included .nutrition and were "practically
behind In Manila as a nurse In many women and children. skin and bones."
Santa Catalina hospital. fHewlett, in a later dispatch, "It would break your heart to
I found her there today, re-1 said a truce was arranged under j look at them," he said,
covering from a nervous break-1 which the 221 Internees were re- He urged that first priority
down. Doctors said she would (leased unharmed and the Japa-'should be given food and medical
have fully recovered now if she nose force of 65 men under colonel 'supplies for the Internees,
had had sufficient good food. Hayashi was permitted to leave! (A broadcast from Luzon said
Though never a big girl, her the university area unmolested.) 'great motor convoys with doctors,
weight has dropped to 80 pounds. The internees were so overioved Red Cross staff men and enough
but I found her in excellent spirits, troops that they insisted on lifting equipment to build a large hospit
The Jaoanese were routed at the arrival of the American al were waiting north of Manila to
quickly from most of the build -
ings In the camp area, but still
were holding out in the former
education building oi oamo
CENTRAL OREGON'S
THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, DESCHUTES
'toward the heart of Kobe,
sixth largest city of the Japa
nese homeland, 21st bomber
command officers said,
Twelve large fires were left
burning in the most congested
area of the city near the Oaska
bay waterfront, most of them
along the western edge of the
Mitsubishi heavy industries plant.
Primarily a shipbuilding plant,
the Mitsubishi works include 18
main buildings covering 12,200
sauare feet with a total roof area
of 2,250 square feet.
Fourteen other fires were rag
ing on the northwest edge of the
city, and the wind was blowing
them directly toward the center
of Kobe.
Six Fires Spotted
Six fires were burning around a
large Industrial plant in the cen
ter of Kobe, and two more fires
Were burning in another section
of the waterfront area.
The threatened industrial plant,
not identified immediately, cov
ered 1,820,000 square feet' with a
roof of 890,000 square feet.
Japan's most important railway
and main national highway run
through Kobe, and key industrial
I plants, such as steel, railway
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Ctjuiiiiciii, iiichiiiiici jf, iviuuci aiiu
ordnance were closely Integrated
with the city s transportation ac
tivities. The raid may have dislocated
Japan's shipbuilding and ship re
pair program, already severely
strained by increasing losses at
sea to American planes, subma
rines, and surface craft.
Ephrata Soldier
Fatally Injured
Ephrata Army Air Base, Wash.,
Feb. 5 UltSSgt. Burgess C. Har
poot, 30, of Arlington Heights,
Mass., died at the Ephrata army
air base station hospital last night
of injuries suffered when he was
hit by a civilian automobile.
The accident occurred on the
base last Thursday. Harpoot was
the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Har
poot of Arlington Heights, Mass.
Internees' Names
Not Yet Divulged
Washington, Feb. 5 (IF Names
of American internees rescued in
Manila will be transmitted to
Washington by the army and re
leased here by the war department
as rapidly as they can be compiled.
No names had been received up
to noon today, and the war de
partment doubted that any would
be received until tomorrow or
later, due to the time required
for making up the list in Manila.
with nearly 300 American, Dutch
and British internees a3 semi
hostages. Troops of Brig. Gen. William C.
Chase's mechanized flying column
surrounaeo. me ouuuing, out nesi-
tated to use machine-gun or other,
j them to their thin, emaciated
j shoulders and carrying the sold-;
.lers through the buildings.
KODert i,ranD, anomer memDeri
mm
Troopers Hit
2nd Barrier of
Nazi Withdrawal Noted
On 1st Army Front as ;
Americans Make Gains;'
Paris, Feb. 5 up American
First army troops cracked into
the second wall of the' Siegfried
line fortifications below Aachen
today. Enemy reports said power
ful allied forces to the north were
moving up for an imminent offen
sive coordinated with the red
army drive on Berlin.
German broadcasts, all uncon
firmed thus far by allied spokes
men or front dispatches, said the
U. S. Ninth and British Second
armies had opened a heavy bar
rage across the Roer river be
tween Jullch and Duren, 15 miles
northeast of Aachen.
The shelling, Berlin said, was
believed to be the "overture" to a
new offensive on that front.
New Attacks Due
The nazis also predicted new
allied attacks on the northern
wing of the British Second army
on the Maas (Meuse) river front
between Roermond and N1J
megen. . .--.
On the Alsace front the' Ger
man pocket around Colmar col
lapsed suddenly as American and
Siegfried Line
French forces effected a junetuseV
at Kouffach in the center of the
salient, splitting the nazi concen
tration and trapping an undisclos
ed number of enemy troops.
On the American First army
front, doughboys of the U. S.
Ninth and 78th divisions rolled up
gains of as much as five miles
against spotty German resistance
yesterday, pushing rapidly
through the relatively open area
area between the first and second
fortified belts .of the Siegfried
line.
Advances Scored
The 78th, holding the northern
wing of the First army offensivq
front, advanced about 2 Mi miles
from the KesternicH area north
east of Monschau to captured
Ruhrberg.
The Ninth division pulled out
ahead of the 78th with a five-mile
advance that carried uo to the
southern end of Lake Urft, two
miles southeast of Ruhrberg.
where the Americans captured
Einruhr and drew within 1.000
yards of a big dam controlling
the level of the Raer river to the
north. Wollselfen and Morsbach,
two miles below Einhuhr. also
were taken by the First division.
At many points on the First
army front, as well as on Lt. Gen.
George S. Patton's Third army
line to the south, there were signs
of a general German withdrawal
from at least the outer works of
the west wall.
SEVEN FLIERS KILLED
Vancouver, B. C, Feb. 5 nil
Seven members of the Royal Ca
nadian air force were killed yes
terday when their Liberator
bomber crashed In British Colum
bia, the western air command an
nounced. No names were released.
In Manila, his wife and two child
ren were among those set free.
(A special announcement from
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's head
quarters said the names o the
rescued internees would be re
leased to the press and radio "as
soon as they are tabulated,")
enter the city as soon as bridges i
were restored. They also were i
bringing 12,000 letters and other!
messages to the internees, the
DAILY NEWSPAPER
COUNTY, OREGON, MONDAY, FEB. 5. 1945
Americans
' f SAN .NANttO--
Burning, starving Manila was largely under American rule today
following entry into the historic city over the week-end by Mac
Arthur's men. Prisoner of war camps In the Luzon area, including
Santa Tomas, are located on the map. Americans yesterday found
over 3700 civilian prisoners in the Santa Tomas camp.
Heavy Snow Falls Along High
Cascade Divide West of Bend
'Plows Operafev$rt Lofty Passes as Febrirary " v ;
torms Whip Summit; Klamath rack Is Ueep
Snowfall of near-blizzard proportions swept the crest of
the Cascades today, as intermittent rains were promised for
the lowlands tonight and tomorrow.
Plows were operating on the Santiam and the Willamette
highways, and state highway department maintenance crews
battled drifts on The Dalles-California highway in the vicinity
of Sun mountain.
At Santiam junction this
snow was reported, and a
Dr.J.f.Hosch
Moves to Scio
Dr. J. F. Hosch, former repre
sentative of the Deschutes county
district in the state legislature.
former mayor of Redmond and of
Bend and president of several
local clubs and other organiza
tions, closed his office here on
Saturday after 35 years spent In
the practice of medicine In the
county, to retire to his 400-acre
ranch near Scio. Dr. Hosch said
his decision to retire was brought
about by his need for rest. He
plans to garden and continue to
participate in athletics. He and
Mrs. Hosch left today for Scio.
"It is hard to leave," he said,
"for I've lived most of my life In
this county and I'm going to miss
my friends and former patients."
The Scio ranch house library
contains over 8,000 books, he said,
while his collection of thousands
of indigenous plants, shrubs and
trees from Central and Eastern
Oregon are thriving on grounds of
the estate. Mrs. Hosch has sev
eral horses on the ranch.
Born in Minnesota
Dr. Hosch, who comes from a
family of physicians, was born In
Wisconsin and came to Oregon
with his mother at the age of two,
following the death of his father,
Dr. Peter Hosch. His grandfather,
Dr. Jacob Ferdinand Hosch, a na
tive of Belpium, settled In Wis
consin In 1836 and practiced there
until his death. His mother, who
was born In Alsace-Lorraine In
1871, died In 1939.
Dr. Hosch, reared in the Wil
lamette valley, was graduated
from the University of Oregon
medical school, where ho took a
prominent part In athletics, in
1905. He practiced In Cascade
Locks, a saw mill district where
a construction project was near
Ing completion, for five years and
covered a large territory, Includ
ing the lumber camps at White
Salmon and Red River.
Moves to Itedimmd
In February, 19)0, he opened an
office In Redmond, where he re
mained until December, 1924,
when he moved to Bend. Dr.
Hosch left his Redmond practice
for six months prior to the arm!
Mice in 1918 to enter the army,
Commissioned a captain he served
at Fort Riley, Kansas, and at Jef-
ferson Barracks, Kan.
(Continued on Page 2)
Seize Manila
O Prisoner ot War Camps
Q Civilian Inttrmnent Cams)
morning nine inches of new
heavy fall was continuing. The
temperature mere was aa ae
grees.
On the Willamette highway
it was snowing east of the
Bummit, while rain fell to the
west. Packed snow conditions
prevailed, with a temperature
of 29 degrees.
Klamath Show Deep
Klamath Falls reported a maxi
mum depth of 15 Inches of snow,
and a temperature of 31 degrees.
Snow likewise was reported fall
ing In the Waplnitia district, and
state highway department head
quarters here advised the carry
ing of chains.
Low temperature In Bend last
night was 32 degrees.
Man Badly Hurt
In Traffic Crash
Paul Brecse, Union Oil company
official of Prineville, today was
In a critical condition in the Red-
mond Medical-Dental clinic as
result of a spectacular head-on
collision between an automobile
he was driving and a tank truck
and trailer early yesterday Just
north of the Crooked River bridge
on The Dalles-California highway.
Breese was reported suffering
from a fractured skull, five frac
tured ribs, a severe cut over one
eye and lacerations on his legs.
According to John Nelson, a
driver for the Consolidated
Krolghtways, he was driving
south on the highway around a
curve as the tank truck and trail
er, driven by Gerald Stndman of
The Dulles, was about to pass
going northward. The victim is
said to have tried to drive around
Nelson's truck, meeting the ap
proaching vehicle headon. Brees-
! e's car was badly crushed be
tween the northbound vehicle and
Nelson's trailer. The impact was
so great that the trailer on Nel
son's truck was broken loose and
overturned.
Nelson, driver for the Consoli
dated Frelghtways, resides In
Portland.
SUB TANG OVERDUE
Washington, Feb. 5 U The U.
S. submarine Tang, which saved
22 naval aviators in a daring res
cue off Japanese-held Truk Island
is overdue and presumed lost, the
navy announced today.
.(
Several Thousand Nip Marines
Remain in Capital, Spreading
Ruin Among Bay Installations
Presidential Palace Seized By U. S. Troops
In Swift Move; General MacArthur Reported
Waiting to Make Triumphal Entry to Bastion -
By Francis McCarthy
(United Preee Wu Correspondent)
Manila, Feb. 5 (UP) Avenging American troops seized
control of virtually all the northern half of burning, starving
Manila today after freeing 3,700 imprisoned American and
British civilians and capturing the presidential palace.
The first cavalry and 37th infantry divisions stabbed into
the heart of the Philippines capital from the east and north
and rapidly were mopping up the last enemy pockets north
of the Pasig river, which bisects the city.
South of the 200 to 300-yard-wide river, several thousand
crack Japanese marines were
blasting and burning docks.
warehouses, bridges and other
vital installations preparatory
to what may develop into a
last-man stand in the southern
half of the capital
Gen. Douglas MacArthur at last
reports was waiting impatiently In
the northern suburbs for the
bridging ot one last river for a
triumphal entry Into the city he
was forced to abandon to its fate
three year, one month and three
flays ; agq. -'
BomuloAnd
' (A' CBS broadcast ffoffl TUTon
said President Sergio Osmena and
Resident Commissioner Gen. Car
los P. Romulo landed at a Luzon
airport from Washington Sunday
and headed south to join MacAr
thur in his return to Manila.)
(Royal Arch Gunnison of the
Mutual network Jubilantly report
ed that Manila had been "lib
erated," but all other sources em
phasized that the southern part of
the city ' still was in Japanese
hands.)
(Radio Tokyo conceded shortly
after 3 a.m., today that the Amer
icans had entered Manila from
the north and east In forces out
numbering the Japanese garri
son.) (A Japanese Domel broadcast
said American troops had landed
Jan. 18 on Kolo Island, largest of
the Sulu group In the southwest
Philippines midway between Min
danao and Borneo, with a force
of 3,000 troops and more than 10
tanks.)
Reach Santo Thomas
The 3.700 American and British
civilian Internees were rescued by
mechanized flying column of
the first cavalry division at the
Santo Tomas universltv concen
tration camp In the heart of Ma
nila Saturday night after a spec
tacular 100- mile advance In 3G
hours.
Virtually all of the buildings In
the camp area, including the In
famous, ancient Blllbid prison,
had been cleared of Japanese by
last night. The Americans fought
literally from room to room for
some of the buildings.
Brig. Gen. William C. Chase of
Baltimore, who commanded the
rescuing "flying wedge," said the
condition of the internees was
"most pitiful."
"They are practically skin and
bones," he said. "It would break
your heart to look at them."
ralace Seized
Other elements of the first cav
alry division pressed on to the
north bank of the Pasig river and
seized the Malacanan palace, for
mer residence of the American
governors general and later the
seat of the Quezon government.
The 37th Infantry division en
tered Manila from the north at
6:30 a.m. yesterday and by early
afternoon was within a few hun
dred yards of Junction with the
first cavalry units of Santo To
mas. The Infantrymen overran the
Grace Park airfield In the north
ern suburbs of Manila. Though
pitted by American bombs, It was
expected to be repaired quickly.
At least one artillery observation
plane already has landed there.
V. S. TANKER LOST
Washington, Feb. 5 (tli The
navy today nnnounced loss of the
U. S. tanker Fort Lee, which was
torpedoed and sunk In the Indian
ocean In November, 1944. The
navy announcement said surviv
ors have returned to the United
States.
Weather forecast
intermittent rain today, tonight
nd Tuesday, snow In mountains.
Little temperature change.
NO. 52
Returns
General Douglas MacArthur, ful
filling his pledge, "I will return",
today was reported patiently
awaiting on the outskirts of Ma
nila for a triumphal entry into
the city his troopers seized over
the weeK-end.
Clothing Drive
Starts in Bend
Bend's campaign to raise cloth
ing for the relief of Russian ci
vilians got under way here to
day "with a bang," and there was
every indication that the week
long drive will net several tons
of clothes, according to members
of the Junior chamber of com
merce In charge.
Approximately 270 civilian de
fense block leaders In the city
bepan a house-to-house visitation,
calling upon residents to bundle
their discarded clothing and either
turn It over to school children for
delivery or take it to the salvage
depot In the Burich building at
826 Wail street.
The salvage depot was opened
at 11 a.m., with Mrs. Velma Moss
and Mrs. Harold Gentry, of the
Junior chamher auxiliary, and
Mrs. C. P. Becker of the Wo
men's Civic league being in
charge. The depot will open at
this time dally and will remain
open until 5 p.m. throughout the
week, it was said. Members of the
American Legion auxiliary were
scheduled to staff the depot to
morrow. Will Be Cleaned
Virgil Lvons and Frank Prince,
Jr., co-chairmen of the Jaycee's
clothing drive, pointed out today
that donors do not have to clean
the garments, as they will be
shipped to Portland for cleaning
and baling.
Mrs. Ralph Adams, head of the
block leaders, and George Slmer
vllle, civilian defense council co
ordinator, urged all block leaders
to enter into the drive as a means
"of helping our war ally."
Slmerville pointed out that
there are 70,000.000 civilian Rus
sians without adequate garb, and
that all clothing production In that
country has gone to the armed
forces the past three years.