."Wll. Ill L. . , f..M-Mi.u.-- i -.-.f ;.,.-.:.w,..1.1,i,.i.-l?i'to.-J,v,.aaif.,.-'i... - . - Unlr of On UbiMX M" ' Save Your Fats Our boys get sulfa drugs and ammunition when you save used kitchen fats. . BTOLETIN Volume Llll tie- CENTRAL C AGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER Weaiher Forecast Partly cloudy. Increasing cloudi ness tonight, with rain west por tion Wednesday, Little, tempera ture change. Siegfried Line YieldstoYanks In Nazi Forest 1st Army Men Battle For Roer River Dams On Northern Frontier Paris, Feb. 6 UPi American Third army troops broke through the Siegfried line at a number of points in Germany's Schnee Eifel forest today and closed in on the west wall bastion of Prum along an eight-mile front. Twenty-five miles to the north infantrymen of the U. S. First army were locked In a hard fight for the Roer river dams and the last belt of Siegfried pillboxes covering the approaches to the Cologne plain. At the southern end of the front, American and French troops splintered the German Docket around Colmar into iso lated groups and laid a curtain of shellfire across the enemy's Rhine river escape bridges. Nazis In Flight Thousands of nazi troops were reported in full flight across the Rhine from Alsace under heavy artillery fire, leaving 1,500 to 2,000 of their number hopelessly trapped behind the allied lines in the Vosges mountains. Field dispatches said the Ameri can First and Third armies were grinding steadily forward through the eastern fringes of the Sieg-' fried line, bursting through that barrier at some, points in a me thodical advance that was begin ning to threaten the entire Ger man position west of the Rhine. German resistance was stilten ing, however, particularly on the Third army front where Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's infantry divi sions ran into increasingly-heavy counterattacks. Patton's Men Gain Patton's troops hammered out gains- of aTntle-and-Kre- on an eight -mile front before Prum, capturing Habscheid, seven miles west-southwest of that communi cations center, and Schlausenbach, six miles to the northwest. Three miles below Schlausen bach, the doughboys pushed to within 3M miles of Prum after a two mile advance from Buchet while still farther south they cap tured Brandscheid, only to run into a sharp counterattack that carried the Germans back into the town. At last reports, heavy fight ing was continuing inside Brand scheid, five miles due west of Prum. The Siegfried break-through ap parently was made in the Brand scheid area and east of Buchet, where the enemy's fixed defenses were believed to be thinnest be cause of the rugged terrain. Newly-constructed pillboxes and tank traps were expected to hamper the American advance behind the west wall, however. ;THE BEND BULLETIN, BErv,? uCHUTESCOUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY. FEB. 6, 145 S - ' . i ' . . . I . Leaves Bend v J. Dr. J. F. Hosch, for 35 years a resident of Central Oregon and a former mayor of Redmond and of Bend, left yesterday, accompanied by Mrs. Hosch, for his Scio ranch, after closing his office in Bend. Dr. Hosch is also a former repre sentative in the state legislature from Deschutes county. PICTURE EXHIBITED Salem, Ore., Feb. 6 UPi A por trait of the late Charles L. Mc Nary, longtime U. S. senator from Oregon and minority leader, which was painted by Mrs. Rose Twing, postmaster of Dorena, will be exhibited in the house of rep resentatives during the remainder of the session. The picture, presented to the house by Mrs. Twing, was given its place of honor Monday by a house resolution. PRO-NAZI SHOT Pans, Feb.. S U,Korert Brasil lach, pro-nazi editor who wrote under the pen name of "Robert The Devil," died before a firing squad at Fort Mont Rouge in Paris today. Brasillach, chief editor of the pro-German Paris weekly Je Suis Partout, was convicted last month of intelligence with the enemy. Priority of Dog To Receive Study Washington, Feb. 6 (IP) Sen. Harlan J. Bushfield, R., S. D., de manded today that the senate be given an explanation of how Col. Eliott Roosevelt's dog Blaze got an "A" priority on an army cargo plane before a vote is taken on promotion of the president's son to Dngaaier general. , - Bushfield late yesterday forcad postponement of a senate vote on the promotion for one week. He told reporters he was "hopeful" that a senate military affairs sub committee investigating alleged air priority abuses could mean while turn up evidence on the Blaze incident. The priorities subcommittee was appointed after it was dis closed that Blaze, a bull mastiff, held an "A" priority on a flight from Washington to California and "bumped" three service men on leave en route. Delay Sought . Sen. Tom Stewart, D., Tenn., subcommittee chairman, was dubi ous about Bushfleld's getting the information within a week but an other member, Sen. Styles Bridg es, R., N. H., said he would press to meet the deadline. Bushfield said it was the dog in cident which prompted him to de mand a week's delay on the Roosevelt promotion. Because senate democratic leader Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky refused to single out the Roosevelt pro motion for delay, action was held up on the entire list of 78 nomina tions to brigadier general. Nippons Report Landings on Poro (By United Prai) The Japanese Domel agency re ported today that 3,000 American troops had landed Jan. 18 on Is land of Poro, in the Camotes sea between Leyte and Cebu in the Philippines. The dispatch, recorded by FCC, followed a report yesterday that another force of 3,000 Americans landed the same day on Jolo, main island on the Sulu group 400 miles south of Poro. Neither reported landing has been confirmed by any Allied source. MARCEL DORET DEAD Abbeville, France, Feb. 6 UP) Marcel Doret, 48, famous French World War I ace and later world's automobile and air racing record holder, died yesterday. BILL IS SIGNED Salem. Ore.. Feb. 6 UPi The bill which allows a testator to deposit his will with a county clerk for safekeeping, was signed Into law by Gov. Earl Snell Monday. a? I Minister King Suffers Blow InCanadaVote McNaughton Loses Seat; John Bracken Emerges As Party's Strong Man Ottawa. Feb. 6 Ui Political ob servers said today that the defeat of Defense Minister A. G. L. Mc Naughton In his by-election bid to keep his seat in parliament was a serious blow to the leadership of Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie Kin?. Endorsed by King, McNauehton was soundly beaten in Grev North, Ont, Riding bv Proeressive Con servative Garfield Case, whose op position party stands for all-out conscription of Canadian youth for combat service overseas. Case defeated McNaughton bv a plurality of more than 1.000 votes in a three-candidate field. Forecasts Made The decision of the Riding's 17, 115 voters promised far-reaching political reaction in Canada. Poli tical analysts today foresaw these consenuences: 1. King's chances of surviving the forthcoming general election were not better than 50-50. 2. Progressive Conservative Par ty leader John Bracken has emerged as a strong contender for the Drime ministry. 3. A showdown battle lor do minion leadership will develop Im mediately and culminate in a gen eral election that may come earlier than King anticipated, possibly in mid-April. 4. King probably will not call another session of parliament be fore general elections, thus depriv ing his party of whatever oppor tunities such a session would pro vide for entrenching itself." ' Is Cabinet Member An immediate result of Me- Naughton's defeat was that the defense minister will be unable to present his department's budge tary needs or any other matters of his ministry to commons. He is a cabinet member without standing in commons, although commons could grant him special permis sion to appear before that body. King blamed the PC and the cooperative commonwealth fed eration opposition for "creating and fostering the very circum stances which may make a gen eral election Inevitable ... at the most critical of all stages of the war." McNaughton polled 6,037 votes, 35.3 per cent, to Case's 7.342, 43.7 per cent, and CCF's Earl Godfrey's 3,736, or 22 per cent. NO. 53 Free Calls Home Due Prisoners . if San Francisco. Feb. 6 eip. liberated Yanks from the Japa nese prison camp at Cabanatuan return to the- United States through San Francisco, they'll be able to telephone home free from the Golden Gate city. The board of supervisors yester day passed a resolution to sponsor a celebration for the returning prisoners and another setting up a fund to provide the telephone service. Soviet Tanks C ... ' l.- ' , ; , it ft ft - ft ft ft ' ft n i 17 I rele ross Oder River v an fits Stage Held Set nci Japs ft DO For New B ow Nazis Say Reds Cross Oder River f o TV tUMaTn ttM . :llpiliililjlT' j ' " -jBfilli I i,v7. i.7 .s.lV athrft. Vfl. 'mwmwmn fsT I Against Enemy 'On to Tokyo Is Cry j Of Mackmen; Trapped Foe Puts Up Battle 7 By Francis McCarthy .-" (United Prats War Correspondent) Manila, Feb. 6 (IH Three American divisions encircled fana tically resisting Japanese rem nants in Manila today, virtually completing the liberation of the Philippines and setting the stage; lor the next phase of the march on Tokyo. ! Gen. Douglas MacArthur of ficially proclaimed the fall of Manila, capital of the Philippines and largest city yet liberated In the Pacific war, and said the motto of his command now was: "On to Tokyo!" He said the "complete destruc tion" of the doomed enemy garrl-1 son of Manila was imminent and; revealed that another 1,350 American and Allied war prison-, ers and civilian internees had- been freed yesterday with the capture of ancient Bilibid prison. Bataan Sealed Other American forces aveng ing the bitter defeats of 1942 sealed off Bataan peninsula and were believed preparing for an early assault on Fort Corregldor in Manila bay. "The fall of Manila marks the end of one great phase of the Pacific struggle and sets the stage for another, MacArthur said in a statement accompanying his daily communique. "With Australia safe, the Philip pines liberated, and the ultimate redemption of the East Indies and Malaya thereby made a certainty, our motto becomes, on to Tok yo! Japs "Gleeful" (Writing off the eventual loss of Manila, Japanese propagandi sts heard by the FCC said that the coming of the Americans to Manila was "exactly what our side waited for, and our bleeding tac tics will now enter the positive stage.") (A Japanese communique ac knowledged that American forces i i I, . i ... u t X?" iSl ,l" Ba"' .'?. 1S42 and transfer- ... " , i- 'u " ..' red to Bilibid last Dec. 28. iiuupn wcic imnuu ill iii-av Sledge hammer blows from east and west pound Germany with 1000-pUuis fleets of American heavy bombers dropping their enormous bomb loads on military objectives in the heart of Jittery Berlin. The Russians are storming twin defense points of Kustrln and Frankfurt, 30-odd miles east of Berlin, as Stettin was reported evacuated by the Germans. On the west front the First and Third Armies were on the move with a drive at Schlelden carrying them half-way through the Siegfried Line, Ten Catholic Nuns Held By Nippons Manila, Feb. 6 (in Ten Cath olic nuns Interned at Bilibid said the Japanese had notv-lhterfered with church services but would not permit them to continue work ing with the Filipinos. Four of the nuns were from the Sisters of Saint Mary at Peek skill, N. V. They were living at Sagada, a mountain province, when the Japanese arrived In Feb ruary, 1942. Sister Columbia said a few Japanese appeared on Feb. 2 and questioned them. Four days later trucks drove up and enemy sol diers with bayonets broke into the nuns' house. "One sister had a candle extin guisher in her hand and waved It at one of the Japanese. He backed out. The long wings of our caps got In their eyes when thoy came close and the bayonets pricked us, she said. Sisters Transferred The sisters were taken to Berlin's Final Line of Defense Buckles Badly Soviet Legions Only Hour's Ride Out of Capital of Germany London, Feb. 6 (IP! Marshal Stalin announced tonight that the red army had smashed through the Oder river defense) line In Silesia on a 50-mlie front. British Jold Big Three in Session London, Feb. 6 (IP) Sir Walter Critrine told the opening meeting oi tne world trade union confer ence today that the allied big three "at this very moment" were In session. Citrine, secretary of the British trades union congress and presi dent of the international federa tion of trade unions, made the disclosure In explaining why Prime Minister Churchill was un able to address the conference. Wife, Husband, Separated Three Years By Only Four Blocks, Are Reunited in Manila Bilibid Prison, Manila, Feb. 6 'I'"1 I was reunited with my wife last night after a three year sep aration by four blocks in the heart of Manila when our only com munication was an official card eyery three months and occasion al messages delivered by the underground. Due to my status as a- war correspondent, the Japanese con swred me a war prisoner and confined me to Bilibid prison In stead of Santo Tomas where other unmans and their wives were Japanese the news of their loved .Gen. Douglas MacArthur's island ones at Bilibid, Formosa, Japan to island progress back to Luzon, and Manchuria which I had care- our hope often ebbing and then fully compiled during 2'4 years surging up at the good news. At at Bilibid. those times, a SDark snrane hack Bilibid was a focal point for i into the eyes of the men and they 'easing more than 800 war prison isoners movement and I talked determined again to hang on. ""s and about 550 additional civil- fighting with Invaders.") The 11th airborne division com pleted the stranglehold on the bat tered. Japanese garrison in Man ila by smashing into the city from the south yesterday after an over night dash of 35 miles. Divisions Linked . The 37th infantry division, pouring Into the capital from the north, and the first cavalry divis ion, from the east, linked up in the heart of Manila and cleared all of the city north of the Pasig river with the exception of scat tered groups of snipers. The Japanese blew up the Que zon and Ayala bridges across the broad Pasig fes they fell back into the southern half of Manila for a last stand. Two other bridges remained intact, however, and may have been captured by the Americans. Japanese demolition squads con tinued their destructive work in southern Manila, working fever ishly against their own imminent destruction. Numerous firos cast a heavy pall of smoke over the city and explosions shook the ground at frequent intervals. With the 11th airborne divis ion's thrust into southern Manila, however, the enemy garrison could be considered "hopelessly trapped," MacArthur said. The 37th Infantry division cap tured Bilibid prison in the north ern half of Manila yesterday, re "They treated us pretty decent ly but the food situation had been bad since last year. They wouldn't allow us to buy our own food. The meanest thing they did was to stop the Filipinos from bring ing us food," Sister Columbia said. With her from New York were Sisters Juliana, Mary, and Olivia. The other five nuns were former ly stationed at Hankow, China, and held at Bagulo. They were Mother Ursula, Sister Augusta, and Sister Anita of Arlington Heights, Boston, Mass.; Sister Unlce, Chicago, III.; Sister Isa belle, England, and Sister Helena, China. prisoners movement ; to men passing through in the daytime and wrote my record secretly at night, hiding the pap ers in barracks, rafters and any place which seemed to be safe from the guards bi-weekly in spection The most difficult time of all was during the last few weeks when we knew MacArthur was on Luzon but had only wild rum ors on his progress down the plain. The food shortage, meanwhile, During the long montns oenina was growing more and more bars. I felt still in harness as a 1 acute. Many did not know . If confined. When the 37th infantry j newspaperman, gathering infor-hey could hang on, good news or rescued us two days ago, I made mation and passing it around. The no news, but strength came back jny way to Santo Tomas where l!news became a tremendous factor;to us all the same day we heard found my wife. I in the latter days of our im- gunfire and when we knew that In the darkened university halls I prisonment as our subnormal diet -the Americans had now reached "St nieht nnri ao-ain toHav i par. i rfpferinratpd and the survival of lour prison. ried out the glorious mission of the men depended alomst entirely Our rescue by the 37th Infantry I bld would be released as soon as "dung wives, friends and rela- on morale. was UKe a reprieve from a death ,ney "ave taDUiated, probao .ves of nrisoners held bv the ' We literally fed on tne news oi sentence. iya maiier oi several days. ian internees, including women and children. That brought to more than 5, 500 thenumber of Allied prisoners rescued in the past week, Includ ing those at the Santo Tomas uni versity . concentration camp In Manila and the Cabanatuan prison crmp in central Luzon. Most were Americans, but the number also Included a scattering of British, Australians, Dutch and other Allied nationals. Mac Arthur said the names of hose rescued at Santo Tomas and Bill Committee Gives Support to Bill Washington, Feb. 6 UPi The houso banking committee, re sponding to pressure from demo cratic leaders, today approved the George bill after rejecting three republican amendments to impose further restrictions on the de partment of commerce. Supporters of Honry A. Wallace are seeking to push the bill to enactment in its present form whereby it would divorce the fed eral loan agency from the com merce department. They believe its approval would lead to prompt confirmation of the former vice president as secretary of com merce. Bill Is Passed The senate passed the bill Inst week. It then deferred action of Wallace's nomination until March 1. nenriiner Hrvnlnnmpntc in thr,1"' George bill lioid Hill, today was under rirst- The house committee considered id'Erw' murder charges as after the measure for an hour. Then it i math of a flcht with Harold voted unanimously to recommend i James, also of Gold Hill, in which Spies Landed From Nazi Sub Go on Trial and Plead Innocent Military Commission, Sitting Behind Closed .: uoors, Hears tvidence; First Motion Denied New York, Feb.,6 OLE) .William C.ColepauRh and Eric Gi'mpel, alleged nazi spies, pleaded Innocent today as they went on trial nerore a military commission, sittinsr behind closed doors at Governor's island in the shadow of the statue of liberty. ; The two men were arrested last November after a German suomanne landed two spies on the coast of Maine. Gimpel's voice was barely audible as he replied "not jruilty," but Colepaugh spoke loudly. Before the prisoners sat the seven man military commission, flanked bv three Ameri can i lags. The first witness, Lt. Comdr. Frank Gordon, USNR, was ysworn in two hours after the trial opened. Gordon, an op erations officer, identified "certain maps and charts" and was on the stand when the trial recessed at noon. Trial Is Secret All information was given out at public relations offices of the army's second service command, under whose jurisdiction the ac cused were being tried In star chamber procedure at Governor's island. The two men were brought In from the island's Jail shortly after the commission convened. The German born Glmpel entered first, in a blue suit and colored shirt. His face was expressionless: Colepaugh, a Connecticut Yank ee who deserted the U. S. mer chant marine and went to a sabo teurs' school In Germany, followed Glmpel. He was cleanly shaven, and a lock of his hair fell, Hitler fashion over one eye. Motions Denied Counsel for the defense moved that the two men be tried sepa rately on the grounds that each made damaging statements about the other to the federal bureau of Investigation following their ar rest last November. The defense also moved that a charge of con spiracy be stricken out on the grounds that no overt act was al leged, only intent. Both motions were denied by the court following a brief recess. Cascades Snow Reported Deep The recent storm which depos ited iour teet or snow along the summit of the Cascades, bringing the depth to near normal, was hailed today by stockmen and farmers In Central Oregon who envisioned Improved irrigation conditions this year. While state highway mainte nance crews reported clear weath er on the Santlam highway this morning, they noted a depth of 48 Inches of snow. Packed snow was on the highway, and plows were operating in a temperature of 24 degrees. On the Willamette highway an Increasing depth of snow was re ported, there being 40 inches of old snow, and eight Inches of new snow In the last storm. The tem perature this morning was 20 de grees, and snow plows were In operation along this route, and the traffic lanes were sanded. being 2 Boys Confess Try at Burglary Two boys, aged eight and 10 years, today had confessed to Bend police that they broke out a window In the Signal Service station opposite Pioneer park, and tried to rifle the cash register, officers reported. The boys were turned over to their parents pend ing action nv tne juvenile court. Officer William Burton said that he caught the boyg crawling through the broken window, and that thev admitted they Intended to loot the cash register. They also had In their possession some ice cream powder which they said thev had stolen from the nearby Park grocery. Gold Hill Man Stabbed, Killed Med ford. Ore., James Alexander Feb. 6 P Wolf, 44. of Its passage bv the house. Rep. Jesse P. Wolcott, R., Mich., ranking minority member, offered the three rejected amendments, James was fatally stabbed. Police said the fight started Sunday in the bar of a Gold Hill hotel and that the men went out- Votes on all three were almost! side, where James died of a sever- entirely party line divisions. ed groin artery. London. Feb. 6 IP Russian tank columns were reoorted across the Oder river within an hour's ride of Berlin today after breaching the nazi caoltars main line of defense at three points , l. A T-. a . iiui in ux naiiKiuri. The stand-or-die line on which the Germans were pinning their hopes for a successful defense of Berlin was buckling dangerously along a 70-mlle stretch of the Oder covering the direct eastern ap proaches to the capital. Enemy spokesmen indicated the battle was moving swiftly toward a cli max. Unconfirmed but apparently correct reports filtering through the tight German censorship said the Russians wheeled north of the Oder fortress of Kustrln late yes terday and won two bridgeheads on the west bank of the river op posite Klenltz and ZelUn, 32 miles east anA eastnortheast t Berlin, Columns Stab West ' ;- - Soviet flying columns stabbed out across the Brandenburg plain to the northwest and southwest to reach considerably closer to the beleaguered capital, but later were forced back to the bridgeheads, German accounts said. A third brldghead In the Titpltz area five miles north of Frank furt was wiped out by counter attacking German forces, accord ing to the Berlin version, while a fourth attempt to cross the river near Kustrin failed when the at tacking Russian tanks broke through the thin Ice and sank. Moscow remained silent on the German reports as well as on an other enemy announcement that red army forces had launched powerful supporting offensives against the upper and lower reach es of the Oder In a double-barreled attempt to roll up the flanks of the Berlin line. Pressure Maintained The soviet easly morning com munique reported only that Mar shal Gregory K. Zhukov's First White Russian army was main taining terrific pressure against the heart of the German defenses at Frankfurt and Kustrin, 34 miles southeast and 38 miles east of Berlin. Both fortress cities were under direct assault by Russian tank and Infantry divisions and Berlin admitted the Soviets had broken Into the German lines at Kustrin. More than 5.000 Germans were killed and- another 1.300 captured In the Frankfurt-Kustrin area yesterday in a .series of pitched battles that won 100 more nazi towns and villages for the advanc ing Russians. Kustrin, lying on the east bank of the Oder, was all but isolated by the capture of Zellln and Alt schaumburg, 14 and three miles to the northwest, and Goritz, six miles to the south. Five miles south of Goritz and the same dis tance north of Frankfurt, the Russians took Tirpltz, while an other assault column drove up to the Oder at Rcipzlg, four miles below Frankfurt. Warsaw, Razed By Germans, Called 'Monument' to Hitler By M. S. Handler j cats and dogs lurk in the ruins, (Uniuri Pr surf Corrcupoiuknt) feeding on undiscovered cadavers Warsaw (Via Moscow) Feb. 6 1 beneath piles of bricks and mas UPi Warsaw, the most Infamous j onry. monument to Adolf Hitler's new In the "Stare Miasto," the me order, unauestlonably is the most i dieval part of the city, all the ruined capital on earth. j churches, monasteries and muse- It Is a monument of dozens of urns simply vanished. The section sntiare miles of ruins, debris, I was where the insurrectionists blood-stained stone and thousands j held out the longest and it was of family graveyards. Never since ' the first to be blown up bv the the Mongol hordes swept across ! nazis. The rest followed, all me Europe has a European cltv been ; thodically and according to plan, subjected to such wanton destruc-; The last remaining building was tlon. It Is worse than Stalingrad. wrecked a few days before the Block by block, street by street, ; liberation. Warsaw was depopulated and German thoroughness failed In razed after suppression of the I only one Instance Lltovska August Insurrection. street, which was reserved for Last summer grass grew on the nazi officials. It remained, partly lavelled Ghetto compound behind because of the swiftness of the the gray brick walls. Now wild 1 soviet encirclement.