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CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
Volume LIU
THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND. DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEB. 10. 1945
NO. 57
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JAPS PREPARE FOR DEATH STAND IN MANILA
CANADIAN
ARMY
BREAKS
Cornered Foe
Fights Behind
Ancient Walls
NIppons Suddenly Turn
On Pursuers With Big
Guns; Smoke Pall Dense
By Francis McCarthy
(United Frew War Correspondents)
Manila, Feb. 10 IP Japanese
resistance in southern Manila
flared with renewed violence to
day as the cornered enemy fell
back slowly toward the waterfront
for a death stand inside the old
walled city.
Fighting through a choking pall
K OI smuKe iiiul cuvcicu virtually
a all south Manila) elements of two
American divisions hit the Japa
nese front and rear in the Panada
can and Paco districts below the
Pasig river.
The converging attack was
squeezing several thousand Japa
nese slowly westward toward the
burned-out port area, where they
were expected to make their last
stand behind the massive walls of
the old Spanish city the Intra
muros. Japs Lash Back
After yielding the Pasig river
crossing opposite the Malacanang
palace to the U. S. 37th division air
most without a struggle, the Japa
nese lashed back suddenly at their
pursuers with artillery, mortars
and rifle fire.
At last reports, the. 37th and
vanguards of the American 11th
air borne division advancing from
. the south were rooting the Japa
nese tram tnelr. street bameades
and ruined houses in hand-to-hand
battle that outdid in sheer ferocity
anything Gen. Douglas MacAr
thur's troops have experienced
since they entered Manila a week
ago.
"The fighting is of the fiercest
sort," MacArthur's communique
reported tersely.
Tokyo Reports Trap -(Tokyo,
after announcing that
all but a skeleton force had been
evacuated from Manila, began
boasting that the Americans had
fallen into a trap in the capital.
That verson appeared purely as
propaganda invention, however, as
front dispatches said McArthur
was moving overwhelming forces
Into the city and that its complete
liberation could not be long de
layed.) More than 30 miles south of Ma
nila, equally heavy fighting broke
out around Tagatay, where a pock
eted .Tananp.cA fnrra Iniinrhpd turn
counterattacks against units of
M the 11th air borne division. Both
thrusts were beaten off with seri
ous losses to the enemy.
(Continued on Page 2)
9 Year Old Boy
Is Killed by Car
Tacoma, Wash., Feb. 10 IP
Nine-year-old Dale Atkins, one of
a group of three children struck
down by a car las,! night, died in a
local hospital today.
The youngsters were crossing a
street when the car hurtled into
them, narrowly missing Mrs.
Oeorge Weller, mother of one of
the children. Joan Weller, 6, and
lean Atkins, 3, sister of the dead
boy, were treated for lacerations
at a local hospital.
Police are holding Fred A. Wa
Kin, 27, driver of the car, for ac
tion w thn r.Mo..;nn nttn-nn.r
Jqds Renort Cabinet Shakeuo:
No Reasons for
(Br United Press)
Premier Geniral Kunlaki Koiso
shook up his war cabinet Satur
day, installing Welfare Minister
Hisatada Hirose to the duaL post
of chief secretary of the cabinet
ina state minister of portfolio
md ousting Takeo Tanaka, for
mer cabinet secretary. Radio
Tokyo said today.
In broadcasts recorded bv
1'nited Prps In Ran Francisco
fl'okyo called the reorganization
partial shakeup ' and said tne
tnew annnlntpfve wprp installed ;
Saturday nieht at the imperial
Ipalace.
I Hirose also replaced Count jtial personnel shift in tne cao
Jllideo Kodama, former military , met'
dvisor to the Japanese forces in
iMithern Asia, as state minister .
Ithout rjortfnlio. Kodama was
appointed minister of education,
Succeeding LL Gen. Harushige
.hi nn, n 1 1 1 iun;u oaiu "
relieved of his portfolio at his
J-"ii request due to ill neaun.
Japs Battle
MANILA.
Statute Mile
The bitter resistance of the Japanese in southern Manila flared
with renewed violence today as the cornered foe fell back toward the
waterfront for a death stand in theld walled city. It was expected
xnai me japs would make meir
Early Study of Ben ham Falls
Reservoir Is Plan of Bureau l
Larger Tracts May Be Arrangedfor Farmers'
Settling on Jefferson County Xind projectw-V"'
Early investigation of the
determine its feasibility as a location for a big reservoir, was
assured here today following a two-day visit, by bureau of
reclamation officials from regional headquarters at Boise, Ida.
Before departing today for Boise, R. J. Jewell, assistant
regional director ot tne bureau,
ficials that as soon as weather permits a reconnaissance sur
vey would be made of the territory. Meantime, it was re
ported, bureau officials would determine the land status at
the site, and whether it would be available should congress
Detroit Strike
Involves 12,500
Detroit, Feb. 10 (IPi A strike
over pay rates for 15 men today
resulted in layoffs for approxi
mately 12,500 Briggs Manufactur
ing Co. employes and another
wage dispute halted production
of about 1,100 workers who struck
yesterday at the Square D Co,
plant here.
Briggs strikers have voted to
return to their jobs Monday, de-
flying a war labor board order
issued Thursday which called for
"immediate" resumption of work
at the Mack avenue plant where
5,800 employes walked off the job,
Employes at other plants were
laid off yesterday because materi
als for bombers and tanks made
at the Mack plant were lacking,
the company said.
The strikers are members of
local 212, United Automobile
Workers (CIO) union.
The Square D strikers are mem
bers of local 937, United Electri
cal Workers (CIO) union. The
company manufactures electrical
equipment.
Change Given
Tanaka also was relieved "at
his own request," Tokyo said, and
was nominated to the Japanese
house of peers.
The Japanese broadcasts quoted
a Japanese board of information
announcement, which was made
at 8:30 p. m. Saturday (Tokyo
time), a half hour after the new
members were installed at
the '
imperial palace.
Tokyo broadcasts gave news of
the shift without attempting to
explain the reasons for the shake-
UD.
One broadcast said Kolso slm-
ply had "decided to effect a par-
The Koiso government nao.
been under increasing pressure
since opening of Gen. Douglas
MacArthur's Luzon campaign ;
both bv members of the Japanese!
diet and by industrial groups who
want a larger share in direction I
of war production.
in Manila
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V? - INtiA TeknhofoJ
last stand m tne intramuros.
Benham Palis reservoir site, tn
assured local reclamation of
authorize the construction of
another dam and reservoir on
the upper Deschutes.
Newell, J. S. Moore, direc-
tor of operations and mainte
nance for the bureau, Howard
K. btinson, regional counsel
and P. G. Tyree, assistant re
gional counsel, left Bend this
morning to return to Boise.
New Contract Due
While here the officials con
ferred with members of the board
of the Jefferson Water Conserv
ancy district in Madras, assuring
tnis group tnat a repayment con
tract authorizing individual -land
parcels of 160 acres rather than
the present maximum of 80, would
be drawn if acceptable to all par
ties concerned. A meeting was
held in Madras yesterday with
the district officials.
Meantime steps were taken to
speed the digging of another 10
miles of the main canal in Jef
ferson county, when E. B. Bishop,
Orland, Calif., contractor, began to
move equipment on the scene. Al
ready the contractor has moved
some heavy machinery to a loca
tion on the Crooked river near
the North Unit "big cut" above
the Smith rocks.
Oregon May Get
More Road Funds
Salem, Ore., Feb. 10 IP Con
gressman James W. Mott, repre
sentative from the 1st Oregon dis
trict, said yesterday that even
more generous highway construc
tion appropriations for Oregon
and other states than at present,
will be made If a bill not yet intro
duced in congress is passed.
Mott, here briefly on a tour -of
inspection of naval installations
on the west coast, said tnat the
bill passed recently was not ade
quate, but that it did pave the way
for future allocations.
ine Din win prooaoiy oe en
tered In congress only when men
and materials are available for
construction, he said.
MAY JOIN BIO THREK
London, Feb. 10 MPThe Paris
radio said tonight that Gpn.
Charles De Gaulle will take part !
in the big three conference. I
If the Paris report is borne out, I
u win represent a suuacn rever-1
sal of all reports so tar that
France was excluded from repre-
sentation at the meeting of Presl-j
dent Roosevelt, Prime Minister
Churchill and Premier Stalin, 1
Soviets Battle!
For Outposts i
Of Nazi Capital
Elbing, Transport Hub, ,
. Captured; Konev Drives
Wedge Close to Berlin
London, Feb. 10 UPi Marshal
Konstantin K. Rokossovsky's ar
my today stormed and captured
the East Prussian transport hub
of Elbing, foreshadowing the end
of a mop-up campaign against the
remnants of 200,000 trapped Ger
man troops. 1
. The first order of the day by
Marshal Stalin in several days an
nounced the fall of Elbing, in the
Baltic coastal area 32 miles south
east of Danzig, which had been
surrounded a day earlier.
. The East Prussian victory came
as Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's
troops speared within 25 miles or
less of Stettin. They battled for
the Berlin outposts of Frankfurt!
ana Kuestrin while Marshal Ivan
S. Konev's forces ripped through
the Oder valley in Silesia.
Wedtre Entered
Konev's armor drove a wedge
between Berlin and the Silesian
capital of Breslau, striking deep
into the main German defenses
more than 22 miles beyond the
uaer, tne nazls reported.
"Troops of the second White
Russian front, having broken the
resistance of the surrounded en
emy group, today captured by
storm the town of Elbing, large
center of communications and
powercut stronghold of the Gen-
man aexenses covering the ap-
Fiuai-ura io me Day or uanzlg,
Stalin's order said. i.
The fall of Elbing, on the East
Prussian railway to Berlin, col
lapsed whatever thin hopes the
nazis might have held of bursting
through the barrier the Russians
had erected across th
side of the province.
Keds Near Stettin
North of Berlin nih.. r i
forces pushed tn within o u
thVSnVS '.he Baltic Prt of Sta
tin in a drive to seal off tens ofi
thousands nf " .'1
northeast Germany, the Polish
corridor and Danzig.
The soviet high command threw
a cloak of seerecv nvv th n
.lin front itself, but f I p l h m.
Batches told of fierce fighting in
Kuestrin and the suburbs of
Frankfurt and Fuerstenberg.
main anchors of the Oder river
line 33 to 42 miles from the bomb
wrecked capital.
Ernst Von Hammer, military
commentator for the official Ger
man DNB agency, disclosed that
Russian armored spearheads 120
miles southeast of Berlin had
"penetrated deep into the main
German defenses" on both sides of
Kotzenau, which lies 25 miles west
of the Oder.
Blizzard Claims
24 Lives In East
Boston, Feb. 10 (IB New Eng
land's worst blizzard In almost 30
years left 24 persons dead today
and the weather bureau said that
light snow would continue to fall
on thousands of persons tolling to
clear streets and highways of
mountainous drifts.
Most major highways were
open but thousands of automo
biles still were stalled In deep
drifts and secondary roads were
clogged by snow.
The weather bureau predicts
light or intermittent snow over
most of the six-state area today
and tonight but said that snow
removal work would be some
what aided by mild temperatures, i
Boston under snow I
Not since A three-dav blizzard i
that began March 7, 1916. had
Boston seen so much snow as dur-
Ing Thursday's storm when two
official weather stations in the
city recorded minimum falls of
14 and 17 inches.
Hundreds of homes in south-
eastern Massachusetts, Rhode
xniunu mm itrcuuna oi v-onnccucui
crews labored to restore power
lines.
Most deaths were due to heart
wmnjui uk'iib s emergency
attacks incurred either by per-
sons who fought their way home 1
on foot through the storm or whol
collapsed while seeking to clear I
away the tons of snow on drive-
ways or walks. - ' . -
Bombs and Earthquake Hit Japan;
Tokyo Target o American Fliers
Washington, Feb. 10 UPi An
earthejuake and hundreds of tons
of . American bombs rocked the
Tokyo-Yokohama area of central
Japan in quick succession today.
1 ' The earthquake shook northern
as well as central Japan at 1:50
P. M-.- Tokyo time, a Japanese
Domei dispatch recorded by the
FCC said.. Neither the intensity
of the shock nor the extent of
damage was Indicated. .".
At 2:30 p. m. a Japanese su
preme headquarters communique
said 90 Superfortresses began an
hour-long raid on the Tokyo-Yokohama
area. "Some damage" was
caused to ground installations, the
communique said. "
' (A dispatch from United Press
(iwar correspondent Lloyd Tupling
tat 21st bomber command head
quarters Guam, said the Super
forts comprised one of the largest
forces ever to hit Japan.
Clothing Drive
To Be Extended
; In order to salvager maximum
of discarded clothing for the use
of Russian civilians, the Junior
chamber of commerce committee
In charge of the drive in Bend to
day announced that the salvage
depot at 826 Wall street will r&
main open all next week. The
original plan called for the cam
paign to end here tonight.
As an accomomdatlon to don
ors,, the depot also will remain
otien until 8:30 -o'ciocn ; lontgm
and also tomorrow, as well as dur
ing the days next week, Virgil Ly
ons, drive chairman, stated.
Activities of school children last
night and today in aiding the cam
paign was evidenced at the depot
where nearly three tons of cloth
ing had been stacked up to noon
today. '
Aid Requested
1 George Slmerville, coordinator
for the Deschutes county civilian
defense council, today asked that
all block leaders help In the drive,
assisting donors to get their bun
dles to the depot.
vwmg iu ine uuijiuiijr in lay
ering rural districts, It was ex
pected that the campaign would
also be extended through next
week in the Redmond, Sisters and
Prinevllle communities. Attention
was called to the fact that depots
have also been established in each
of these towns.
In order to correct an Impres
sion held by many donors that
they must first launder their con
tributions, Frank Prince, Jr., co
chairman of the Jaycee drive com
mittee, said that this is not nec
essary. He stated that old but
usable clothing is sought in any
form, and that It will be cleaned
at the major depot In Portland.
50 Army Patrols
Jab at Germans
Rome, Feb. 10 (in Fifty army
patrols engaged in a number of
sharp clashes as Increased enemy
opposition was encountered In
Jabs along the entire front, head
quarters said today.
Artillery pounded enemy posi
tions south and southeast of Bo
logna while troops engaged In
mortar duels in the area of Mount
Castellaro.
Several German counterattacks
were repulsed In the Scrchio val-1
le- In the west coastal sector. One
attack In battalion strength was
broken up in the vicinity of Lama.
Plane Wreckage
Seen Near Denio
Boise, Ida., Feb., 10 (IPi The
wreckage of an unidentified plane
has been sighted near Denlo,
Harney county, ure., on tne jNev-
ada-Oreeon border, the Gowen
.field public relations office re-
j ported today.
Neither Gowen field nor the
! mountain home army air field was
.able to asertain whether the plane
i was from their bases, or if It was
another bomber on a cross coun-
try flight or even a military
plane.
JAPS MAKE CLAIM .
(Br United I'resn)
Tokvo radio claimed Saturday
that two American submarines
were sunk by the Japanese air
force In the southwest Pacific
wrea. The broadcast was heard by
United Press at San Francisco.
The B-29s hit targets In the
Tokyo area with "good to excel
lent results", a spokesman said.
The earthquake a little more
than a half hour earlier was felt
from Hokkoldo, northermost of
the Japanese home islands, down
through Honshu, Domei said. -
The epicenter was said to be In
Aomorl prefecture of . northern
Honshu, with Hachlnore, a few
miles Inland from the east coast,
feeling the main weight, of the
earthquake.
All eastern and central Honshu,
including the , Tokyo-Yokohama
area, were shaken, Domei said,
quoting an announcement of the
central meteorological observatory.
No other details were given In
tne brief uomel dispatch.
21st bomber command head
quarters, Guam, Feb. 10 IIP) One
Honored By China
Pvt. Donald L. Burleigh, who
was recently awarded the grand
stai of the Republic of China for
outstanding and distinguished
services rendered to the Chinese
ground forces, graduated from
Bend high school In 1942 and en
tered the army soon after. He is
a son of Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Bur
leigh, route 1, Bend, who have
five sons in the service.
Bombers Renew
Blows at Nazis
London, Feb. 10 (IB American
heavy bombers renewed the as
sault on Germany today, hitting
vital nazi army fuel supplies at
Duelmen near the Dutch border in
the wake of an allied night assault
on railways and truck convoys In
Holland and western Germany.
More than 150 Eighth air force
Flying Fortresses and about 130
Mustang fighters raided the fuel
depot at Duelmen, southwest of
Mucnstcr, and lashed at the nazi
submarine pens on the Dutch
coast at IJmuiden.
Both the day and night raids
were designed to hamper the Ger
man forces facing the offensive
of Marshal Sir Bernard L. Mont
gomery's 21st army group.
The American bombers encoun
tered bad weather, which forced
them to bomb the Duelmen depot
by Instruments, although the IJ-
piula"pn. submarine pens were
oomoed py signt.
Churchill Said
Alliance With
London, Feb. 10 IP Diplo
matic sources said today that
Churchill sharply spurned over
tures by Gen. Francisco Franco
obliquely proposing a close alli
ance between their two countries.
Churchill bluntly told Franco
that Spain was not likely to have
a part In the peace conference, and
still less likely to be Invited into
the proposed league of post-war
security, Informants reported.
A recent exchange of corre
spondence between Churchill and
T.'rnnrn Rtlll wnft tinted nfficlnllv
'as In the "Hcret" category, but a
diplomatic Informant said Church
ill's end of it constituted a "shock"
to the Franco regime.
Churchill was said to have re
sponded to Franco's oblique sug
gestion for a close Anglo-Spanish
alliance with a recapitulation of
the Franco government's anti-allied
and pro-axis activity. I
of the largest forces of Super-
forts ever to hit Japan today
bombed industrial targets in the
Tokyo area with "good to excel
lent results," the 2lst bomber com
mand reported unofficially today.
Preliminary reports indicated
the attack was one of the most
successful ever made on the Japa
nese empire.
Massed superiorts striking tor
the second time within a week
found Ideal bombing conditions
over the target.
Crew members . of the first
seven elements of a mighty arm
ada said the weather was clear
and only light Japanese tighter
opposition was encountered.
The force was as large as any
group of Superforts to hit the
Tokyo area and probably the
largest, spokesmen said, although
the exact numerical strength of
the raiders was not revealed evi
dently for security reasons.
Logging Industry
k
Portland, Feb. 10 (tPi-Stating
that there will be no slack In pro
duction or employment In the
lumber industries of the north
west after the war, Fred H,
Brundace. WPB western log and
lumber administrator, today paid
high tribute to the employes and
management or tne logging in
dustry's 1944 production record.
"The lumber Industry will not
I slacked its production pace with
the end of the European war. nor
.oven whin the warfwlth Japan is
over," Brundage declared tn prom
Ising full employment on a steady
year-after-year basis In the major
industry or the northwest.
Record Cited
The administrator pointed with
pride to the 1944 log production
record which exceeded 1943 pro
duction by 76 million board feet,
but stated that all branches of
the log-using Industries used less
logs in 1944 except the pulp mills.
Increased production, largely
hemlock logs going to pulp mills,
amounted to 177 million feet.
'The production in the western
pine region, Including five states,
Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Mon
tana and California was estimated
at 5,960,000 or .6 of 1 per cent less
than in 1943 while in the redwood
region, production, estimated at
655,000,000, was 4.7 per cent over
1943," Brunuage stated.
Chickens, Sheep
In Same Class
Salem, Ore., Feb. 10 tui Chick
ens are now livestock, and dogs
even those with priorities, had
better watch out In Oregon.
The house today concurred In
senate amendments, and sent to
the governor the bill (HB61) pro
tecting owners of chickens from
the depredations of dogs, the same
way in which cattle, sheep and
other livestock owners are pro
tected.
P. S. to dog haters (If any)
it's still illegal to shoot a dog on
a public road or In a city even if
he is chasing a chicken.
NEW CENTER CAPTURED
London, Feb. 10 (ll'i Marshal
Stalin announced tonight that the
Russians had captured Prcus-
sisch Eylau, East Prussian trans-
pon cemer buu.m m wuu. b.
to Have Denied
Spain's Franco
Whether Franco proposed an
alliance with Britain against Rus
sia was not clear. The informant
said Franco wrote between the
lines hinting at an alliance "to
meet the dangers of bolshevlsm"
but shunned any forthright pro
posal. An Informed source disclaimed
a rumor that Franco offered to
mediate between the allies and the
axis. '
Franco was said to have used
Churchill's friendly reference to
Spnln In a speech last year as an
occasion for expressing his grati
tude and a hope for closer rela
tions in the future.
The Spanish ambassador, the
Duke of Elba, called on Churchill
In November to deliver a note
from Franco, the Informant said.
Franco urged clarification of rela
tions between their countries and
paid tribute to Churchill's "mas
terful and martial" qualities. 1
Planking Drive
Carries Troops
To Rhine River
Berlin Says Allies Are '
About to Open Another
Offensive Near Roer
' Paris, Feb. 10 (IP The Ger
mans were reported today to
have blown up the power sta
tion, gate house, and bridge of -the
main Roer dam as the Ca
nadian First army shoved for
ward to seize high ground over
looking strategic Kleve.
By Jack --Fleischer "
(United Pr Wr Cwtspondsnt)
Paris, Feb. 10 u The Canad
ian first army offensive ground
steadily forward on a front of
more than tert miles today, broke
clear through the Siegfried line
within two miles of Kleve and
reached the Rhine In a powerful
flanking Bweep north of that Ger
man stronghold.
Alarmed Berlin spokesmen said
British and American troops
massed along the Roer river to
the south were about to loose An
other big offensive Into the Co
logne plain, and the nazis appar
ently were trying to forestall the
drive by releasing the flood
waters backed up behind the Roer
dams below Aachen.
Nazis Call Reserves .
Front reports said the Germans' '
were rushing up reserves to dam
the-Catutdlan break-through that,,
threatened to ' turn the "Sof t"
northern corner of their west wall ," '
and lay the industrial Ruhr open ''
to invasion. ,
Resistance was stiffening slow
ly as the nazi reinforcements
swung into line, but headquarters
spokesmen and correspondents at
the front said Canadian and Brit
ish Infantrymen still were mak
ing good progress. -Moving
forward in a drizzling
rain that turned the battlefield
into a quagmire and practically
immobilized their tank support,
the allied ground troops carved
out gains running to three miles
and more in the past 24 hours
Big Ualns Made
In the first 48 hours of their
big push, Gen. H. D. G. Crerar's
Canadian first army forces had
driven as much as eight miles
through the bristling wall of con
crete pillboxes and tank traps pro
tecting Kleve and, beyond it, the
industrial heart of Germany.
Field dispatches said more than
2,500 prisoners had been taken
since the Canadians and Britons
went over to the attack Thursday
morning, indicating that virtually
all the 3,000 to 4,000 combat
troops of the German 84th divi
sion holding that front had been
knocked out of action.
Late advices said the allies were
moving on Kleve In force.
Six Allied Ships
Reported Sunk
Halifax, Feb. 10 tut Enemy
submarines have sunk six allied
ships, one man of war and five
mcrchantmcnt within a 22 -day
period, it was revealed today.
The warship was the Canadian
minesweeper Clayoquot, whose
sinking was announced by the
naval department last month. One
of the merchant ships was a Cana
dian freighter. The others were
not Identified.
The period covered by the 22
days was not announced, but the
Clayoquot was sunk In January.
In permitting disclosure of the
sinkings, censors said the sub
marines, evidently new long range
U - boats of which the Germans
have been boasting, operated some
times within the sight of Nova
Scotia.
Thirty-six men, eight of them
members of the Royal Canadian
navy, were lost. More than 200
survivors were landed at Atlantic
ports. Many of them required hos
pital treatment for wounds and
exposure.
ACCIDENT DELAYS TRAIN
Breaking of a flange on a
freight car, causing the derailing
of the car, today resulted in a lour
hour delay of the Oregon Trunk
train bringing mall to Bend. The
accident occured approximately
25 miles south of Wlshram. The
mall train was behind the freight.