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CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
Volume Llll
THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY. FEB. 13, 1945
NO. 59
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BUDAPEST
Canadian First Army Breaks
Around North End of German
Line, Presses to Rhineland
, Conquest of Reichwald Completed; Battalion
Reported as "Lost" Is Rescued; Artillery
.Fire, Stiffening Resistance, Slowing Allies
Paris, Feb. 13 (U.E) The Canadian First army completed
the conquest of the Reichwald at the north end of the Siegfried
line today and pressed on into the Rhineland through heavy
Germany artillery fire.
Front dispatches said the clearing of the forest relieved a
"lost battalion" which had been encircled at the east edge of
the Reichwald without food, ammunition or supplies for 24
hours.
Other elements of Gen. H. D. G. Crerar's forces closed up
to the Kleve-Goch line, and threw a bridgehead across the
Niers river which winds through Goch.
"The battle for the Reichswald definitely is over after five
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Moisture Gains
In Higher Areas
Mountain snow cover on or'
around Feb. 1, 1945 was consider
ably below average on all snow
courses but three in Oregon, ac
cording to data included in the
federal - state cooperative snow
surveys and irrigation water fore
casts for the state. "Above normal
snow additions are needed during
February and March, if normal
stream flow is to be produced,"
the report, copies of which have
been received here, add.
Since the Feb. 1 snow and mois
ture content surveys were made,
abundant moisture has fallen in
most parts ot the states, and
heavy snow has blanketed the
Cascades, and, irrigatiohtsts re
port, the water outlook has im
proved greatly in the past two
weeks. . .
Data Given
When the Feb. 1 survey was
made, only 27.0 inches of snow,
with a moisture content of 8.7
inches, covered Cascade summit,
in the Odell lake area. At Cres
cent lake, there was 6.0 inches of
snow, noiamg i. moisture, ine
average water depth at this sta
tion a year ago was 3.2 inches,
and in 1943 it was 19.0 inches.
At Hogg pass on Feb. 1 there
was 32 inches of snow with a mois
ture content of 9.0 inches, com
pared with 12.4 Inches of water a
year ago and 48 inches in the wet
February of 1943.
On Feb. 1 this year there was
only 7.3 inches of snow at Three
creeks meadows, and the water
content of this light pack was 1.6
inches, compared with 4.1 inches a
year ago.
Losses of Navy
At Record High
Washington, Feb. 13 IP The
navy has lost in action during
world war II more than five times
the number of navy men killed
in all previous wars of the United
States.
The navy department reported
today that 22,481 men, excluding
the marine corps and coast guard,
have been killed since Pearl Har
bor, compared with 4.232 in all
conflicts from the American revo
lution through world war I.
In the last war, 422 navy of
ficers and men died in action.
Crimean Parley Results
(greeted in Washington
Washington, Feb. 13 IP The
Roosevelt-Stalin-Churchill confer
ence report got an enthusiastic
cheer from congress today on its
Proposal that the United States,
Russia and Great Britain be
bound In post-war unity as a "sac
red obligation" to the peoples of
the world.
President Roosevelt, Marshal
Josef V. Stalm and Prime Minis
ter Winston Churchill made that
postwar compact the foundation
of their "report and statement"
on the Crimean conversations.
To achieve it they announced
they had summoned the United
Nations to conference In San
Francisco on April 25 to draft a
orld security treaty. It w ill be In
ne Dumbarton Oaks pattern, ine
Black sea conferees announced
they had reached final agreement
on treaty frame-work, including
voting methods.
Announcement yesterday of
completion of the Roosevelt-Stal-in
Churchill conversations and of
and a half days of bitter fight
mg, United Press corre
spondent Ronald Clark report
ed from the front. "The units
which were lining the eastern
edge of the forest now are be
ginning to break out to the
east."
' Position Not Realized
The "lost battalion" had fought
its way forward after two others
accompanying it had stopped on
orders which failed to reach the
leading positions. The battalion
was surrounded and under con
stant mortar and shell fire. The
Germans apparently failed to re
alize the situation, since they nev
er made a concentrated attack.
Other front dispatches reported
that the stiffening resistance was
reflected la an upsurge of artll-
lery f ire from enemy positions and
report that seven uerman divi
sions had moved Into the battle
zone. .
Nevertheless Crerar . reported
steady progress all along the line
today. Maximum gains of 11 miles
had been scored in the offensive.
The bridgehead across the Niers
was established a little over a
mile east of Gennep. Armored cars
got across the river, ana patrols
thrust into the little town of Hom
mersum, west of Goch.
New Holes Punched
To the south, Lt. Gen. George S.
Patton's troops punched two new
holes in the Siegfried pillbox belt
north of Echternach.
The 80th and fifth divisions of
Patton's U. S. Third army shoul
dered past the concrete forts of
the Siegfried belt at points north
west of Echternach. Farther to
the north Patton had' a break
through the westwall in the Pru
em area.
The fourth division rooted out
the last sniper in Pruem and re
pulsed two severe counterattacks
across the Pruem river northeast
of the town.
To the south other Third army
troops erased one of the last frag
ments of the Ardennes bulge when
they captured Vianden, lower an
chor of the old St. Vith-Vianden
line across the base of the salient.
TO RELEASE MEN
Reno, Feb. 13 In the first
such move of its kind in the coun
try, the Las Vegas Bartenders
union management agreed today
to release men of draft age for
more essential work, William
Royle, director of the Nevada war
manpower commission, announc
ed. the April conference call opens
the administration campaign to
present the security treaty to the
senate before hot weather begins
to swelter this capital. Final sen
ate action is sought by mid-summer.
Conferees held their eight-day
meeting in Yalta, a Crimean re
sort. They said they had agreed on
war and postwar plans for Ger
many. They passed on her a grim
cleansing sentence, but assured
the German people that they
would survive and be fit to live
within the "comity of nations."
They announced agreement on
objectives and methods of dealing
with most of Europe's political
and economic problems bounda
ries, forms of government and
such. They promised aid to dis
tressed populations and revealed
they would intervene Jointly al
most anywhere to aid or prod
liberated peoples toward desired
objectives.
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Dense smoke billows up from large fires started by Jap demolitions in heart of Manila.' This photo
graph was made from roof of Santo Tomas concentration camp, Jiljerated by American troops as they
drove into the city. i
43 Dead Counted in 2 S fates
After Tornadoes Hit Region
Toll Is Expected to Increase After Rescue
Workers Dig Into Debris; State Guard Out
Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 13
counted today, from two tornadoes that.hit,weStem 4c.4nTaeBS4
The first storm struck late
Meridian,- Miss., and swept eastward into Alabama. It left a
negro farmer dead near Meridian, two persons dead at New
Hope, one at Causeville and one
across the state line. Six persons were reported dead at Yor,
Board Backs Plan
For Bible Study
The Bend school board last
night approved a ministerial pro
posal for Bible study in the
grades, talked with one of the
architects being considered to rep
resent the local districts in con
nection with post-war construc
tion, appointed an advisory budg
et board and voted to join the
state association of school boards
at a cost ot $10. Then the board
adjourned shortly before 10
o'clock, after one of its longest
sessions in months. The meeting
was held In the board rooms of
the high school building with all
members present.
Rev. Kenneth Tobias of the
First Baptist church and Rev. G.
R. V. Bolster of the Episcopal
church presented an outline of
public school Bible Instruction, as
it is given in certain other com
munities. They emphasized that
the instruction is non-sectarian,
that lt is given only on request of
the parents, and that it is fi
nanced by the churches. Superin
tendent Howard W. George said
that the only operation problem
would be that of space, providing
that there should be an appre
ciable number taking the work.
All members of the board voted
to assure the churches of their
desire to cooperate in putting on
the program.
To Prepare Budget
The same advisory board which
functioned last year will be asked
to serve again in preparation of
the budget, the board decided.
Carl A. Johnson, Carl Erlckson,
C. J. Llndh, Vance T. Coyner and
Hans Slagsvold were named, with
Hal Waterman and Marion E.
Cady alternates. First meeting
will be held on February 2G, when
teacher salaries will be consid
ered.' F. Marion Stokes, of the Port
land firm of architects of Stokes
& Allyn, who had spent the after
noon in discussion with the super
intendent as to post-war construc
tion needs, put in another hour
with the board, showing designs
and sketches of school work
which he had supervised else
where. He was meeting again this
morning with board members.
The association of school
ooaras, wnicn 11 was vuiea 10 1 papers in ms pocket. The navy
Join, should be the organization I said a list of the plane's passen
to follow through In legislative I gers and crew members had been
matters, instead of "leaving It to ; forwarded to Washington and that
the teachers," Superintendent the dead would not be Identified
George observed. . I until next of kin are notified.
Huge Fires Burn in Heart of
(UP.) Forty-three dead werej
yesterday five miles south of
at Burnsviile before it moved
'Ala., and
two negro women
at Livingston, Ala.
Two trainmen, Needham N.
Brown, a conductor, and J. E.
Roberts, a flagman, were
killed when the twister de
railed an Alubama Great
Southern freight train near
Livingston.
Second Storm Hits
The second storm struck a few
minutes later on the outskirts of
Montgomery. The Red Cross re
ported 26 bodies recovered here,
15 of them negroes.
The number of dead was expect
ed to increase as rescue workers
cleared the debris from the two
storms. More than 500 persons
were injured.
The Red Cross reported 1,500
persons homeless in Montgomery.
More than 150 were in hospitals
here.
Gov. Chauncy Sparks mobilized
the Alabama state guard to assist
in the emergency. Churches se!
up emergency first aid stations to
care for many of the wounded
and the American legion installed
300 cots In the Montgomery city
auditorium. Communication linea
were crippled throughout the
storm area. Rail traffic between
Miami, Fla., and Chicago was held
up until crewmen cleared the
tracks of debris In this area.
24 Persons Die
In Plane Crash
Alameda, Cal., Feb. 13 np
Twenty-four persons were killed
today when a New York-bound
navy C-47 transport plane crashed
into San Francisco bay a few
minutes after taking off from
Oakland airport.
Only four bodies had been re
covered almost five hours after
the crash, which occurred at 7:10
a. m.
The plane apparently developed
mechanical trouble after leaving
Oakland at 6:52 a. m. and dived
into the water about three-quarters
of a mile off Chestnut street
in Alameda.
No Explosion
Eye witnesses said there was
no mid-air explosion. The plane
broke up when it hit the water and
crash boats were able to find only
the tall and part of one wing.
The first body found was that
of a sailor who had 40-day leave
Manila
Stettinius Pays
Visit to Moscow
Moscow, Feb. 13 IIT) Secretary
of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr.,
paid a flying visit to Moscow to-
hailed by the sovlet press with
superlatives never before em
ployed.
Unprecendented mass meetings
were called in cities and towns all
over Russia at which the "Big
Three" decisions were announced,
cheered, and discussed.
That procedure drove homo to
every Russian citizen the history-
making nature of the Crimean
conference.
Two-thirds of the space in lhe
soviet press was devoted to the
iconference, including two photo
graphs displayed eight - columns
wide, showing the conferees.
Izvestla, soviet government or
gan, called the Crimean confer
ence "the greatest modern poli
tical event.
The editorial asserted that the
Crimean meeting "will be known
as the historic gathering where
the days of nazl Germany were
numbered; where victory was
planned; and where the greatest
opportunity in history was opened
up for the establishment of a
firm and lasting peace."
"The spirit of unity and clearest
demonstration of solidarity on all
fundamental questions," Izvestla
said, "constituted the determining
feature of the conference unity
in organization of peace as well as
conduct of war."
Man Grabs for Cigaret
And Gets Rifle Bullet
New York, Feb. 13 Uli Russell
Powers, Brooklyn, was pulling his
rifle from a closet. A cigaret he
had in his mouth slipped to the
floor. Powers made a frantic grab
for it, dropping the rifle. x
He got the cigaret and a bullet
In the right shoulder.
Qermany to Be Subjected to More
Powerful Blows, Assert 'Big Three9
Washington, Feb. 13 iui The
major decisions reached by the
big three at Yalta:
Germany
Will be subjected to "new and
even more powerful blows ... to
bring her to "unconditional sur
render." TermR were agreed upon for
occupation and control of Ger
many. German militarism and nazism
will be destroyed; the German
general staff will be "broken up
for all time," all of Germany's
capacity for waelng war or pro
ducing materials will be elimin
ated or controlled.
War criminals will be punished.
A commission will be established
to studv renarations.
United Nations Conference
An agreement was reached on
voting procedure In the council of
the contemplated world security
organization, a question left un
settled at Dumbarton Oaks.
To prepare the charter for a
world security organization along
Japs Blasted
Back to Fiery
Manila Docks
Three Yank Divisions
Link for Death Fiqht
Against Cornered Foe
By Francis McCarthy
(United Pnu War Correavondnit)
Manila, Feb. 13 HP) Three
American divisions linked up In
side southern Manila today and
blasted the Japanese . garrison
back into the burning waterfront
in the deadliest, close-In fighting
oi tne entire racmc war.
The decisive Juncture, sealing
off the last avenue of escape for
the trapped Japanese in Manila,
came as Bataan and Corregldor
across Manila bay were rocking
under a tremendous bombardment
by hundreds of American planes,
More than 200 tons of high ex
plosives were showered down on
Corregldor Saturday and Sunday,
while a big fleet of army and ma
rine warpianes ripped up the
southern corner of Bataan with
another 500 tons.
Rock Hit Hard
It was the greatest naval aerial
blow ever, struck In the Pacific,
and apparently was intended to
clear the way lor an amphibious
assault on Corregldor. Gen. Doug
las MacArthur's communique re
ported that the giant guns on
"The Rock" appeared to have been
knocked out of action.
At the same time, a force of
American Thunderbolt fighters
caught 35 troop -laden Japanese
narges oil tne east coast ol Ba
taan in daylight Saturday and
blew them out of the water, kill
ing an estimated s2,500, enemy
troops,, -v - . . ... ...
There was no Indication wheth
er the barges were evacuating
troops from Bataan, Corregldor or
Manila. There was even a remote
possibility they may have been
trying to sneak reinforcements
into the capital to aid the Japa
nese garrison in Its finish fight,
.laps Cornered
Inside Manila, meanwhile, the
survivors of several thousand en.
emy troops compressed into a
narrow pocket south of the Pasig
river were lighting with redou
bled ferocity as the Americans
herded them slowly back to the
bay.
MacArthur revealed that vir
tually every street in the capital
had been sown with mines and
booby traps and that his troops
were moving slowly to hold down
casualties and spare the city from
destruction insofar as possible.
The communique said units of
the first cavalry division and the
37th infantry Joined forces near
the Paco railway station while
other cavalry spearheads linked
up with the 11th airborne division
on the southwestern end of the
capital near the Polo' club.
Deschutes Realty
Board Picks Heads
New officers for the Deschutes
county Realty board were elected
last night at a dinner meeting In
the Pine Tavern. Members also
voted to hold their next meeting,
March 12, in Redmond.
W. Daron was elected president;
Clyde M. McKay, vice-president,
Anne Forbes, secretary-treasurer,
and Jack Davis, Bend, and George
Shelley, Redmond, directors.
the lines of that contemplated at
Dumbarton Oaks, a full United
Nations conference will meet In
San Francisco on April 25.
Liberated Europe
The three countries will Jointly
assist liberated European terri
tories and former nazi satellites
to establish Internal peace, carry
out emergency relief measures,
form Interim governments, and
hold free elections of permanent
governments "responsive to the
will of the people." , The three
countries will confer whenever
the necessity arises In connection
with these problems.
The principles of the Atlantic
charter, Including free determina
tion of governments, are reaffirm
ed. i Poland
Russia gets roughly the eastern
one-third of pre-war Poland, on
the basis of a Polish border rough
ly following the old Curzon line.
In return, Poland will get "sub
stantial" territory from Germany
In the west.
Beef for Joe?
Bay City Says
Rooms Lacking
San Francisco, Feb. 13 HPi San
Francisco, busy, with war, pre
pared for a world peace confer
ence today.
The city's officialdom, reacting
quickly to yesterday's surprise
announcement, set about tne task
of receiving the first full-dress
United Nations security organiza.
tlon here April 25.
People in the streets -appeared
astonished by the news that San
Francisco had been selected as
the first world peace headqunii
ters. They clustered about news
paper stands and made it tne
number one conversation piece.
After the first Impact of pleas
ant shock wore off, the most evt
dent reaction among housing
conscious San Fransclscoans was:
"Where are the delegates going
to sleep?"
All Younger Men
To Receive Calls
Portland. Ore,. Feb, 13 ui The
young men of Oregon today had
a warning from Col. Elmer V.
Wooton, state selective service di
rector, that within 90 days vir
tually every physically fit man
with the exception of those In
agriculture would be in uni
form. In meeting Oregon's draft
quota ot 3,000 to 3,500 men,
Wooton said that the new pro
gram would exhaust the supply
of men under 30.
Yviua icairev ivi nn.ii " . wui,
tlon Is being shown those -older
men engaged in essential acuvt
ties."
Will Not Be Spared
Those under 30 In essential In
dustry will not'be spared, he said,
uith roowf tn thnaa'anoaooA
in agriculture, we are adhering to
th TVrtinoa nmnnHmnnt whinh
provides that workers In an es -
senttal agricultural enterprise
shall not be inducted until a re
placement can be obtained."
He said men are not being taken !
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i-nwtinn fnr nhvainni HiunhiiiHna
Is not permanent In that any man
ran hp en irt hnck rnl- re.pxnmlnn.
tlon. March requirements In Ore
gon will be about 1,200 men and
April requirements have not been
determined.
Nippons Dismantle
Big Plane Plants
Washington, Feb. 13 till Japan
is partly dismantling some of her
aircraft factories in an effort to
scatter production facilities and
thereby get greater protection
against attacks by American Sup
erfortresses. Brig. Gen. Laurls Norstad,
chief of staff of the 20th air force,
said aerial photographs taken
during the past four days had re
vealed that the dismantling was
under way. He did not say where
the plants were being sent.
IWO AGAIN BOMBKD
Advanced Pacific Fleet Head
quarters, Feb. 13 iU'iB-29 Super
fortresses of the 21st momber
command achieved "good results"
In their attack on the Jap air base
of Iwo yesterday.
The so-called Lublin govern
ment, now recognized by Russia,
will be "reorganized on a broader
democratic basis with the inclu
sion of democratic leaders from
Poland Itself and from Poles
abroad." The broadened govern
ment will be recognized by Britain
and the United States.
Yugoslavia
The big three recommended ac
ceptance of the compromise call
ing for creation of a regency and
broadening of the Yugoslav cabi
net. Meetings of Foreign Secretaries
The big three foreign secre
taries will meet every three
months, with the first session In
London after the San Francisco
conference.
Franco
Was invited to participate in
control and occupation of Cer
many, and In settling problems of
liberated Europe, she will be given
a preview of the world security
organization voting plan agreed
upon at Yalta.
I may say that some will be rougnsnoa over xne cracKing ae
taken?' he lidded, "but U of course , J"8 Mn 'mi"
depends on what they, are doing. 'H'uTf l?nIfSnnl
Men are now being drafted to 38 ?resni,,capltii of Saxony, an
m nf no hut nw rnnsldprn-'t toward the southeastern flank .ot
110,000 Nazis
Taken in City;
Victory nailed
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Russians Rapidly Fan -Out
Over Plains After
Ancient Capital Falls
London, Feb. 13 (tR The ruins
of Budapest, capital of Hungary
and one-time city of 7,500,000, fell
today to the red army after a
siege of six weeks, Marshal Stalin
announced in a special order of
the day.
Last ditch resistance by the.
doomed German and Hungarian
garrison of Budapest, encircled
since Dec. 26, flickered out in the
rubble of the ancient city astride
the Danube river, and the total ot
prisoners captured by the Rus
sians in the siege mounted to
110,000.
City Strangulated
Budapest fell under the com
bined assault of Marshal Rodlon
Y. Mallnovsky's Second Ukrainian
army and Marshal Fedor . Tol-
bukhln's Third Ukrainian army,
which had clamped a noose of
strangulation on the gateway.clty
to Austria and southeastern Ger
many. - North of Budapest 300 miles,
other Russian forces were report
ed by the German high command
to have fanned out through Silesia
to the Quels river, seven to 10
miles bevond the broken Bober
line In Silesia. 1
Marshal Ivan S. Konev's First
Ukrainian army was running
, i . - . . . ,
the Berlin fortification --
Victory Hailed ..
The fall of Budapest was fore
shadowed by the announcement
last night that all organized re
sistance in the city nad been
crushed. It became a certainty to-
dy wlJen he h'Bn com"
. mand for the first time in weeks
!'KnoI:ed Budapest, and other nazl
broadcasts admitted tacitly that
the city had been written off.
Stalin in a broadcast order of
the day to Malinovsky and Tol-
bukhin, hailed their armies lor tne
great vlctorv in the battle of Hun-
B?ry, and called Budapest a strate-
: kjvuhv iiiiuwmni aiiuiikiiuiu in
the German defenses "on the way
to Vienna.
London, Feb. 13 IIP The Ger
man high command reported to
day that a Russian drive funning
out through Silesia toward Dres
den and Berlin had carried to the
Quels river, seven to 10 miles be
yond the breached Bober line west
of the Odor.
Both Moscow and Berlin said
Marshal Ivan S. Konev's first
Ukrainian army was running
over a broad arc northwest of
Breslau. His vanguard was beat
ing Into the Saxony border area
some 70 miles from Dresden and
swinging northwestward on tho
road to Berlin.
"There Is every indication that
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Four-Car Wreck
Causes Arrest
Six automobiles were damaged,
and one driver was arrested as a
result of traffic accidents in Bend
last night, according to police re
ports today.
An automobile driven by Mar
vin W. Alt, Rt. 2, Box 25, had the
side caved in when it was in
volved in an accident with an au
tomobile driven by Mrs. Bill La
Forgey, 415 Federal street, at the
corner of Galveston avenue and
Federal. Alt was driving east on
Galveston avenue, and the ma
chine driven by Mrs. LaForgey
was moving south on Federal
street.
Jack Sawyer Vail, 37, a clerk
residing at 415 Wall street, was
arrested on a charge of being In
toxicated on a public highway,
following a four-car collision at
Wall street and Kansas avenue
shortly before midnight. Officers
Robert Houtchens and Walt
Grlessinger said they found Vail
in an Intoxicated condition when
they Investigated the crash.
Car Damaged
According to the officers, an
automobile being driven by Vail
south on Wall street, allegedly on
the wrong side of the street, side
swiped a car being driven north
by L. C. Beougher of Bend. This
collision caused these two vehicles
to swerve Into two other cars
parked at the curb. All machines
were damaged, police reported.