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CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
Volume LIU
THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 14, 1945
NO. 60
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Trapped Japs
In Manila Kill
Many Filipinos
End of Battle ?n Sight,
MacArthur Says After
Fall of Cavite, Nichols .
By William B. Dickerson '
(United Preu War Correapondents)
Manila, Feb. 14 IIBNichols
Field and the United States navy's
wrecked anchorgae at Cavite were
back in American hands today
and Gen. Douglas MacArthur pro
claimed triumphantly that the
end of the battle for Manila is
in sight. i v
With Manila's two main mili
tary prizes reconquered, Mac
Arthur's . tank and infantrymen
swarmed in from all sides to
finish off the remaining Japanese
trapped along the flaming water
front and around Fort McKinley,
on the city's southeastern out
skirts. The doomed Japanese were
writing off their three-year stay
in Manila in a last orgy of fire
and blood. Thousands of terror
stricken Filipinos escaped into
the American lines with word
that the Nipponese were massacr-
ng men, women and children in
discriminately in the teeming resi
dential districts still under their
control.
Streets Barricaded -
Inside the old walled city, where
the bulk of the enemy garrison
was digging in for a last stand,
the Japanese barricaded ' tne
streets and ordered all civilians
into their homes. Then they fired
the buildings and machine-gunned
the occupants as they tried to
flee.
The civilian death toll already
was reported nearing the 1,000
mark, and it was feared that
many more would be killed be
fore the last Japanese were wiped
out.
- Units of the 11th airborne divis
ion advancing on Manila from the
south captured the Nichols air
field vesterdav after more than
' "Se-'week of "Savage fighting; and
tmen pusnea on aiong ine snores
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naval base. .:.':
Guns Captured
At Cavite, which was burned
once by the Americans before they
abandoned it in December, 1941,
and now again by the Japanese,
MacArthur's troops captured 10
enemy seaplanes and a battery of
three-inch guns intact.
Armored spearheads of the U.
S. First cavalry division,, mean
while, broke through to Manila
bay north of the 11th airborne,
clearing the Pasay district, and
wheeled north toward the walled
city. They also mopped up a
small Japanese pocket around
Nielson airfield, near Fort Mc
Kinley. The 37th infantry division also
was moving in on the walled city
from the east and southeast, in
n conjunction with the first cavalry.
IS , Japs Lose 63,000
' iwacArmur announced inai ine
uaijcuitrst: su lor nave auncixru
more than 68,000 casualties in the
five-week Luzon campa i g n,
against 9,683 American losses
2,102 killed, 192 missing and 7,389
wounded.
Eighty-five miles northeast of I
Manila, troops of the sixth armor-J
ea Division cut clear across L.uzon
to win their second hold on the
island's east coast at Baler.
JOHNSON RESIGNS
Canberra, Feb. 14 (IB Nelson T.
Johnson, American minister to
Australia and dean of the diplo
matic corps at Canberra, con
firmed today that he has resigned
and said he hoped to return to the
United States in April.
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Bv Ralnh Teatsorth
(United PreM War Correspondent)
Manila, Feb. 14 tP A veiled
betrayer, working for the enemy,
put the finger on scores of pur
ported Filipino guerillas who
forthwith were bayoneted, burned
alive or machine-gunned, it was
disclosed today.
This was only one in a series
of senseless Japanese atrocities
confirmed during the 11-day bat
tle of Manila. The story was told
by Alejandro Dagami, a Filipino,
ho has lived here 14 years.
On Feb. 5 the leader of the
neighborhood association called at
his home in the Intermuros dis
trict. He said the Japanese mili
tary authorities had ordered Fili
pinos to report either to Sana
gustln church or the cathedral.
Dagami, his wife, and three
inall children reported to Sana
Austin. There they found 3,000
others. Two nights later, they
were segregated by sexes. The
men were marched to Fort Santi
ago. There about 500 were crowd
Big Air Fleet
Hits Formosa,
Tokyo Reports
(By United Prcu)
Nearly 100. American nlanes
raided -southern Formosa in day-1
ngni xwonaay ana mesday, a Jap
anese Dome! brodcast recorded
by the FCC said today.
Sixty Liberators and Mitchell
bombers, presumably from the
Philippines, bombed "and strafed
military installations, communica
tions and villages in the Tokyo
and Tainan sectors yesterday,
Dome! said. Damage was said to
be "extremely slight."
Thirty-five fighters, flying In
two waves, hit the same areas and
the east coast Monday, Domei
sam.
Industrial Fund
Still Under Goal
The portion of the Band
dustrial fund to be raised
Bend business and property own
ers ,is still approximately $2,500
short of the $10,000 required to
match a like amount to be provid
ed from the city,-of Bend, it was
announced today.
Although the two-week period
for voluntary contributions has
expired, the committee in charge,
headed by Carl A. Johnson, has
announced that merchants and
property owners who had not con
tributed would be reached by tele
phone and by personal soliclta'
tion. .
"It is imperative", Johnson said,
that the $2,500 be secured as
quickly as possible so that the
permanent organization can be set
up and start to function.
Proposals Need Study
Several possibilities for post
war industrial development are
already under consideration, and
these should be transferred to
a city-wide organization for furth
er study and action, Johnson said.
To keep solicitation at a mini
mum, Johnson urged contributors
to mail their checks or leave them
at the chamber of commerce of
fice. ,- ...
Wilbur A. McLeod
Aboard Lost Ship
Wilbur; Arnold McLeod, radio
man 1c, was reported by -Bend
friends today to have been aboard
the carrier ommaney Bay, re
ported to have been sunk recent
ly in an engagement with the
enemy in the south Pacific area.
Wilbur, a son of Mrs. Robert
McLeod of Montgomery, La., is
well known in Bend as, prior to
entering the navy, he was em
ployed by the George Chllds
Hardware company here and re
sided with his uncle, Clyde M.
Evans, at 1452 East Second street.
He spent a leave here last Feb
ruary.
Writer Predicts
Nazi Revolution
New York, Feb. 14 IP Henry
T. Gorrc-11, United Press war cor
respondent recently returned
from the western front, said last
night that he believed the war in
Europe would end with a revolu
tion inside Germany in which the
old-time German army and the
people's army would unite to
overthrow the storm troopers and
the gestapo.
JAP RECORDS SEIZED
Newell, Cal., Feb. 14 iip Secur
ity officers of the war relocation
authority have raided headquar
ters of two illegally operated
Japanese political clubs at the
Tule Lake segregation center and
have seized "subservice" records,
Project Director Ray Best an
nounced today.
Puts Fina&r
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ed into three rooms, 30 meters
square.
The Japanese guards brought
small amounts of rice,' Insuffi
cient for the crowd of prisoners.
Dagami escaped Feb. 10 by
climbing through a hole in the
ceiling. He hid in tall grass along
the Pasig river, where he met sev
eral men who had reported to the
cathedral.
The cathedral crowd had march
ed to Santiago. There the men
had been scrutinized by a mestizo,
whose face was veiled to prevent
identification. The mestizo point
ed out alleged guerillas in the
crowd.
About 100 designated as gueril
las were led Into a room and bay
oneted by the Japanese.
The remainder were locked In a
building, and the building set
afire. Men who tried to escape the
flames were shot down, but never
theless approximately 20 got
away alive although seriously
burned. . . .
Canadian Push
Probing Close
To Strongholds
Offensive Now Only 28
Milej From Ruhr Valley;
Patton Widens Corridor
Paris, Feb. 14 iui Shock troops
oi ine Canadian Mrst army bat
tied through fierce German oddo-
sition less than three miles from
the Rhlneland strongholds of Goch
and Calcar today. The m u 1 1 1
Drbnged offensive carried within
28 miles of the Ruhr valley.
The advance was going ahead
slowly in the face of a raking
German artillery bombardment
that was more than matched by
the massed fire of hundreds of al
lied field guns moving up in the
wake of Gen. H. D. G. Crerars
Canadian, English, Scottish and
Welsh riflemen.
Both sides were throwing in
creasingly heavy armored and in
fantry forces into the sodden
Rhineland plain, and field dis
patches said elements of the seven
nazl divisions already had been
loentuied in the battle.
Corridor Widened
Far to the south, Lt. Gen,
George S. Patton's American
Third army widened and deepened
Its corridor through the Siegfried
line Deyona Pruem and added a
few hundred bitterly contested
yards to Its bridgeheads on Ger
man soil across the Sure and Our
rivers.
On a front of almost 100 miles
between the attacking Canadian
and American forces, three other
allied armies still were poised
along the west bank of the Roer
river waiting to Join the assault
on uermany s west wall.
Berlin spokesmen, after predict
ing for a week that the Roer of
fensive was about to explode at
any hour, began boasting that
their partial destruction of the
Roer dams had completely dis
rupted tne allied time-table.
Valley Flooded
Enemy broadcasts asserted
that the Roer floods had not yet
subsided Mid that- the swampy
terrain would noid up the expected
offensive for days or even weeks
atter the waters receded.
Mud and floods already were
hampering the Canadian First ar
my drive in the north, turning
the attack into a semi-amphibious
operation. At many points, the Ca-
naaian and uritisn troops were
moving forward in amphibious
tanks and assault boats while ar
tillerymen dragged their guns
through waist-deep water to keep
pace witn tne advance.
Clearing skies yesterday and
early today brought allied war-
pianes out in great strength to
support the attack with a series of
smashing blows against German
troop concentrations and commu
nications lines all the way back to
the middle reaches of the Rhine.
Soldier Sentence
Cut to 5 Years
Washington, Feb. 14 (IPiThe
sentence of Pvt. Henry Weber,
Vancouver, Wash., soldier at
Camp Roberts, Calif., has been re
duced from death to five years'
imprisonment for disobeying ord
ers of an officer.
Maj. Gen. Myron C. Cramer,
judge advocate general, revealed
this today In a letter to chairman
Elbert D. Thomas, D., Utah, of the
senate military affairs committee.
Cramer said he personally had
recommended to the review
authority at Camp Roberts a re
duction of the sentence to five
years' confinement "to equalize
the sentence in accordance with
war department policy."
The death sentence had prevl
ously been reduced to life lm
prisonment at hard labor. Subse-
quently it was reduced to 20
years imprisonment by the review
ing authority.
Burns Woman Dies
Under Heavy Train
Burns, Ore., Feb. 14 Ut-Funeral
services were being planned today
for Mrs. Julia Jennings, 80, of
Burns, who was struck and killed
by a logging train about a half
mile from Burns late yesterday,
according to state police.
Mrs. Jennings apparently was
paralyzed with fear, for she hesi
tated on the crossing where the
accident occurred too long and
was knocked down by the heavily
loaded train. The engineer was
unable to bring the logging train
to a stop before hitting her.
FOREST 'LAB' APPROVED
Salem, Ore., Feb. 14 '1P Legis
lation setting up a forest products
laboratory at Oregon State col
lege under the state board of for
estry was passed by the senate to
day and sent to the house.
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A general view of the conference table the first day of the conference, showing Marshal Stalin on
left and President on the right. Prime Minister Churchill has his back to the camera. With the presi
dent are Admiral Leahy and Gen. Marshall. Taken at the palace at Yalta in Crimea, Russia. Signal
corps photo from Acme.
Foe Expected to Scrap Rules
Of War; May Use Poison Gas
Crimean Declarations'Anger German Leaders;
Thefts of Arms Also VVorry Hitler Henchmen
London, Feb. 14 (U.E) European dispatches said today
that Germany has proclainiedjier intention of scrapping the
rules of war for a "no-holds-barred" fight to the death as a
result of the "Big Three" Crimean declaration. '
The new policy was said to: have been set forth yesterday
by Paul Schmidt, official spokesman for the German foreign
office, in an angry outburst at the Wilhelmstrasse over the
joint statement of President Roosevelt, Prime Minister
Churchill and Premier Stalin.
Stockholm sources speculated that Schmidt's statement
Anglers Opposing
Members of the Deschutes
County Sportsmen's association,
meeting (ast night In the Chamber
of commerce offices, unanimously
opposed p measure now pending
In the state legislature which
would restrict South Twin and
Sparks lakes to fly fishing only.
Don. H. Peoples, secretary of the
association, was directed to send
the following telegram todav to
Sen. Ernest R. Fatland, chairman
of the senate game committee,
and Sen. Marshall Cornett, repre
senting this district:
PA general, meeting of the Des
chutes County Sportsmen's as
sociation held tonight was unani
mously In opposition to HB 113.
believing that no more water in
this area should be restricted to
fly fishing only."
An existing law now perm ts
only fly fishing In Todd and Davis
lakes, the Deschutes river above
the Deschutes bridge, and the Me-
tollus river between the head of
Allingham canyon and Bridge 99.
BUI protested
In protesting the bill, the sports
men expressed the opinion that
me aaaition oi sparks and South
Twin lakes would be discrlmlna-j
tory against bait anglers.
ine sportsmen at the same time 1
endorsed two bills. One is HB
92 which would amend the
county road bill to authorize
county courts to open roads
across private lands to summer
homes and recreation centers.
The other is HB 157, which would
give the state game commission
the right of eminent domain, and
resultant authority to open rights-of-way
to more fishing areas.
ine game t:uiiiilll!,siuil now exur-1 ....... . . r,ni rm.A
cises such authority at Summer Washington. Feb. 14 (til-The
lake where the state operates a , skipper of the sunken escort car
waterfowl hunting area. rier Ommaney Bay told today
The sportsmen, in endorsing ' how severely wounded men were
this measure, made specific men-i strapp(,d fo colg riKKed wltn lfc
tion of two conditions said to preservers, lowered over the sides
exist on the lower Deschutes and ot ,ne huTninn shp, and floated
Umpqua rivers, where private, n .he SPa umn rescued,
clubs have excluded other fisher- j The skipper, Capt. Howard L.
men from long stretches of the,y0unt. revealed that there were
Streams.
isald the loss of life was remark-
Salem, Feb. 14 iui The house ; ably small In view of the bad hits i
today passed and sent to the, suffered bv the shin. All of Its I
senate HB 113, to add South
Twin and Sparks lake to Todd 1
lake as places where fishing Is
allowed by fly only.
WOULD DEPORT JAPS
Salem, Ore., Feb. 14 tlM Rep.
Vernon Bull, La Grande, today In-
irouucea
memorial to congress.
advocating the deportation of dls-.
loyal Japanese Immediately after
the War. Tile memorial (HJM7) :
asked that all alien Japanese, and ;
an Japanese oi united states clt-1
izensmp wno nave Indicated dual
citizenship or whose disloyalty
has been proven," be sent back to
JaPan-
Around the Crimean Parley
might foreshadow German use
of poison gas.
The death sentence outlined
for Germany in the Crimean
.tfecraration freed-the -reich of
'air moral obligations'' -to
abide by the rules of war, the
nazi-controlled Scandinavian tele
graph bureau quoted Schmidt as
saying at a press conference.
Grim War Ahead '
"The Germans henceforth will
conduct the war with all suitable
means, no mntter how grim their
effect," Schmidt said.
The STB dispatch, published in
Stockholm newspapers, said men
tion of the Crimean declaration
caused "by far the worst explo
sion" foreign correspondents ever
witnessed at a wilhelmstrasse
press conference.
Reliable reports reaching Stock
holm from Berlin said nazi au
thorities were concerned over ex
tensive thefts of arms from Volks-
sturm (home guard) barracks out
side Berlin.
The nazis were said to fear that
foreign workers, war prisoners
and native antl-nazis may try to
stab the German army in the back
as soon as military events force
the gestapo to loosen its grip on
the German home front.
NO GAS, NO PRISONER
New York. Feb. 14 lUl Bronx
detectives were not sure today
that rationing is a good thing.
They were holding a man on sus
picion of theft for Knoxville,
Tenn., police. Then came a tele
gram: "Chief refuses make application
for gas to bring prisoner back.
Please release him."
U.S.S. Ommaney Bay Lost in Enemy Action;
Skipper Reveals Casualties Are Under 100
fpwer lhan 100 casualties. He
planes went down with the ship.
Younir disclosed that the Om-
maney Bay had to be sunk byjvlvors manned guns on other
torpedoes from American snips
after it had been set afire by two
bomb hits from a Japanese plane
while en route to Luzon.
The bomb hits set fire to the
flight and hangar decks. Fires
severed all communication be-
tween the front and rear part of i
the ship and burned the life rafts, i
Snmmno Vnn7 HMn't rompm. 1
ber who ordered the badly
wounded to be strapped In the
cots. Four life preservers were
rigged to each cot Then the cots
were lowered into the water by
lines. In the water two or throe
Table
Guam Selected
As Nimitz Base
Guam, Feb. 14 tlPi Admiral
Chester W. Nimitz disclosed today
that his new advance headquart
ers for the Pacific fleet are at
Guam, In the southern Marlannas
only 1,500 miles south of Japan.
The announcement lifted the
secrecy which had screened loca
tion of the headquarters since
Nimitz announced their establish
ment Jan. 29.
American forces still are killing
and average of IS Japanese a day
on Guam. The remaining enemy
troops were holding out in caves
without hope of escape.
Guam,- a former- , American
'naval station, already has been,
pnnvnrtpl fnfn thn hiaoeat Ameri.
can base west of Pearl Harbor.
aiso suuaiea on tne isiana are
headquarters of the 21st (Super
fortress) bomber command.
A Pacific fleet communique dis-
closed that army liberators Joined
B-29 Superfortresses in a raid,
Monday on the Jaoanese Island i
air base of Iwo, 750 miles south
of Tokyo. It was the 68th
straight day that the Liberators
had bombed Iwo.
31 More Jap Ships
Toll of U. S. Subs
Washington, Feb. 14 iui Ameri
can submarines have sunk 31
more Japanese ships to push their
total of enemy vessels destroyed
well above the thousand mark.
Three combat ships were in the
latest haul a converted light
cruiser, a converted gunboat and
an escort vessel. The rest of the
bag Included 21 cargo vessels, four
transports and three tankers.
U. S. submarines have account
ed for 96 vessels since the begin
ning of this year and now boast
the sinking of 1,020 enemy ships
during the war.
All the vessels covered In to
day's announcement and In the
last few navy communiques have
been tracked down In far eastern
waters. !
unlnlured men were detailed
watch each floating cot.
All the survivors, Including the
wounded, were picked up from
the water by other ships.
Except for the few ships de-
tailed to the rescue Job, the con
voy of which tho Ommaney Bay
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Jjingayen gun. ince none oi ine
ships could turn back, all of the
survivors Including the wounded
had to go through the entire
Llngayen battle and were under
fire many times. Some of the sur-
.shins, some were Killed in tne
fighting around the gulf,
I During the abandonment of the
I ship, explosions were going on
(all the time and men were en
I riangered by exploding nmmuni
tion In the guns of the planes
Young said,
Young was rescued by a de-
lmuir T-Tn l n naflv nf Ri-nnlf.
lyn but lists New Iberia, I., as
his home address. His wife lives
at Coronado Beach, Calif.
The 10,000-ton Ommaney Bay
was the 10th U. S. carrier sunk
In World War II. She went to her
Allied Sky fleets Aid Soviet
Armies, Light Dresden Fires
Visible to Approaching Reds
Great Conflagrations, Seen at Distance
Of 200 Miles, Serve as Beacons for Troops
Slashing at Queis Line East of Burning City
London, Feb, 14 (U.E) British and American bombers
blasted Dresden today in coordinated allied air support of the
red army converging on the Saxony capital, lighting fires
visible to soviet vanguards less than 70 miles distant.
Returning RAF crews said they set fires in Dresden, easily
visible 200 miles away. The big conflagrations set a beacon
for the red army forces slashing at the Queis river line, less
than 70 miles to the east. i . i '; -
Today allied air forces were over Germany in great
strength. The nazi radio ech-
oed with warnings of raiders
over Dresden and Zwickau, 60
miles to the southwest, while
German radio transmissions
in the north were suspended,
a usual indication of allied air
activity.
The Dresden assault struck the
net work of rail and highway ar
teries and depots upon which the
wehrmacht is dependent to sup
ply Its front line forces now rap
idly falling back upon the Saxony
capital.
Help Red Army
The RAF sent out a record
breaking total of 1,400 heavy
bombers over Germany with the
bulk of them concentrated In sup
port of the red army.
Marshal Ivan S. Konev's forces
were pressing against .the Quels
river, third of the six water bar
rlers before Dresden, on a nine-
mile front less than 70 miles from
their goal.
A few miles to the north, ac
cording to German advices, other
red army forces had bypassed
both the Quels and the Tschlrne
river barriers by reaching Sorau,
eight miles west of Sagan at the
conflux of the Queis, Tschlrne and
Bober.
. From Sorau the Russians were
in a position to strike' 72 miles
southwest to Dresden with only
two river barriers, the Ivelsse and
the Sprro, to hurdle,
I . Oflni rmsuwl
' On the Berlin front, First White
nussian army iorces nave tmao-
llshed a "major" bridgehead
across the Oder at Reltwein, 35
miles east of the capital and five
miles southwest of Kuestrln, nazl
Droancasis saia.
The Germans also said street
fighting was raging In Lebus, on
the west bank of the Oder 33 miles
east of Berlin and five miles north
of Frankfurt. These forces pre
sumably had cut the Kuestrln-
Frankfurt railway at Lebus and
were within a half mile of the west
bank railway between the two ci
ties. Northeast of Berlin, Russian
forces advanced to within five
miles of the Danzlg-Stettin-Berlln
railway.
The Second and Third Ukrain
ian armies, meantime, re-grouoed
In Hungary under 73 generals for
resumpuon of offensives aimed at
Vienna, Bratislavia and Bohemia
after completing the liberation of
encircled Budapest.
HuuupcNt Falls
Budapest, ruined capital of Hun
gary, finally fell yesterday to the
two armies following a 50-day
siege In which 49,000 enemy troops
were killed and 110,000 captured.
Tho nazl commander, Col. Gen.
Pfeffer-Wlldenburch, and his staff
were captured In their headquar
ters In an underground sewer.
Budapest was tho eighth Euro
pean capital to be liberated by the
red army. How many of Its pre
war population of i.iib.uou re-
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grave after a short but violent
career.
The navy told her story last
night In announcing the loss of
both the Ommaney Bay and the
fast mine-sweeper Long. It did
not say exactly how they met
wit-it ciiu, uiiij uia i 11 was
through "enemy action."
Loss of the two ships brought
to 2G1 the total U. S. naval losses
In the war.
The Ommaney Bay was built
by the Henry J. Kaiser yard at
Vancouver, Wash., from a con
verted merchant ship design. She
carried a normal crew of about
500 men.
Her career began last Septem
ber when she supported the In
vasion of the Palau islands. Be
fore It was over the Ommaney
Bay and Its swarm of death-denl-Ing
planes had hung up the fol
lowing score:
Two Japanese ships sunk a
heavy cruiser and a troop trans-
port. Eight ships damaged four .
cruisers and four destroyers.
Three enemy battleships prob
ably damaged.
Sixteen Japanese planes shot
out of the air, many more de
stroyed on the ground.
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Back In Bullpen
Salem, Ore., Feb. 14 OBByron
Neil Dyson, 19, who made a spec
tacular escape from solitary con
finement at the state penitentiary
late last night, was back In the
"bullpen" at the prison today
after only a few hours of free
dom. Dyson, classed by prison offi
cials as a "bad" prisoner, and by
state Dollce as "extremely danger
ous," managed to escape from the
solitary confinement ceiis lasi
ntght while other prisoners were
at a moving picture show,
climbed the wall with the aid of
a rope, overpowered and tied up
tower guard T. G. Donnal, taking
his rifle and pistol. He then stole
a state police car which was near
by naving its radio repaired.
Within 20 minutes all roads
were blocked by state police, and
a few hours later they apprehend
ed him walking on the state high
way between Woodburn and Hub
bard. He did not put up a fight
when captured. -
Dyson, who was serving an ag
gregate of 17 years, was in prison
lor -the non-f tV shooting of, state
police of fleer Karl Murphy near
Dallas last year, and on a Lane
county armed assault charge.
After leaving the prison
grounds, Dyson drove to the north
section of Salem, assaulted Lee
Haskins, Salem insurance sales
man and stole his car, which
later ran out of gasoline. Haskins
is In a Salem hospital with in
juries which are reported not
serious.
The youth had spent much of
his 11 months in prison in soli
tary confinement, prison officials
say. He was put there most re
cently for an attack on another
prisoner with a "homemade"
knife.
Nazi Spies Held
Guilty; to Hang
New York, Feb. 14 U William
C. Colepaugh and Eric Glmpel
were found guilty today on three
counts of espionage and sabotage
and were sentenced to be hanged.
A seven-man military commis
sion at Governor's island handed
down the verdict.
Glmpel was the first to hear his
fate. As the president of the mili
tary commission told him that he
would be hanged, he showed no
emotion. "
Colepaugh took his sentence
without flinching.
The sentence was BUbJect to re
view by the commanding General
Thomas E. Terry of the second
service command, the war depart
ment and President Roosevelt.
Veteran of Leyte
Visitor in Bend
Fresh from the Leyte action,
during which gunners aboard his
transport vessel downed several
Jap planes, Robert M. Bluff, radar
man 2c, Is visiting in Bend after
18 months of active duty In the
Pacific. Robert, who has partici
pated in seven major engage
ments during that time, enlisted
on Nov. 11, 1942. while a student
at Bend high school. He is a son
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Bluff,
108 St. Helens place.
11 Fliers Perish
In Airplane Crash
Boise, Ida., Feb. 14 IIP) A
ground crew returned to Gowen
field today with the bodies of 11
airmen who tiled In the crash of
their Gowen-based Liberator
bomber In the almost Inaccessible
mountain badlands near Denlo.
Ore., on the Nevada Oregon bor-
der Friday night.
Lt. Col. William I. Marsalls,
Gowen field commandant, said the
plane crashed while on a routine
training flight.
All the dead were eastern men.