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CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
Volume Llll
THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEB. 17, 1945
NO. 63
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Yanks Troopers
On Island 750 Miles From Foe
Capital as Planes Bomb Tokyo
Sky Raiders Continue Blows at Burning City
On Mainland-as American Task Force Defies
Hirohito's Navy; Air Bases Would Be Vital
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By William F. Tyree
(United Proa War Corrapondcnt) - .
Admiral Nimitz's Headquarters, Guam, Feb. 17 (TIP)
American troops stormed ashore early today on Iwo island,
only 750 miles south of Tokyo, enemy broadcasts reported,
while carrier planes hit the burning Japanese capital itself
for the second straight day of diversionary assault.
Invasion forces swarmed over the southwest and southeast
beaches of Iwo in twin landings only 10 minutes apart, a
Tokyo Domei broadcast said. It added the customary claim
that the troops had been "repulsed" after fierce fighting.
The report of the invasion came on the second day of an
Yanks on Move
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Tokyo broadcasts today report
ed that American troops had
stormed ashore on Iwo island,
only 750 miles south of Tokyo.
Snow Blankets
Central States
(By United Freai)
Missouri, southwestern Ohio,
and southern Indiana were cov
ered today with a blanket of snow
from one to 10 inches thick. '
The snowfall hit the southern
fringe of the central states last
night. It continued today along
the Ohio river and in Missouri.
Columbia, Mo., had 12 inches of
snow. St. Louis had six inches and
southern Indiana, four.
The U. S. Weather bureau at
Chicago reported thunderstorms
and rainfall from Kentucky south
west into Texas.
Temperatures in the Missouri
river valley, the upper Mississippi
region, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Tex
as dropped 30 degrees overnight.
It was unusually warm weather,
however, in most southern cities.
New Orleans, La., and Jackson
ville, Fla., registered tempera
tures of 81 and Tallahassee and
Tampa, Fla., recorded 82.
Chicago Hit
The fringe of a cold wave
sweeping from Canada into the
United States hit Chicago, where
the mercury dropped to five above
"to. tsemiaji, Minn., was the cold
est spot in the country. It was 31
below.
Minneapolis reported a temp
erature of nine below and Mil
waukee four below zero.
The weatherman forecast that
cold would spread into the east by
tomorrow morning. Temperatures
along tne northeastern coast were j
in the 3Cs, today. Heavy clouds in-
wated snow or rain would hit the
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eartn-snaking bombardment
of Iwo by more than 30 Ameri
can warships ranging from
battleships- to destroyers
and scores of carrier and land
based bombers. Most shore
batteries were knocked out
yesterday. .
' Big- Jump Made
A landing on Iwo represents an
amphibious jump of 750 miles
nan way to Tokyo from the Mar
ianas for the Americans and
would give them at least three
strategic air bases within Flying
Fortress, Liberator and fighter
plane range of the enemy capital.
Wave alter wave of American
carrier planes sent hundreds' of
tons of bombs crashing down on
smoking Tokyo today. A Japanese
communique said the second day
tth'ijnpr3cederited assaulfg'ot
unaer way at 7 a.m. (3 p.m. tm
day PWT) and the raid still was
continuing eight and a half hours
later.
The enemy communique ad
mitted that 61 Japanese planes
had been lost in yesterday's nine
to 10-hour attack, but claimed 147
American planes were shot down
and more than 50 damaged. Japa
nese planes counter-attacking the
American task force "heavily
damaged and set afire" a large
warship, believed an aircraft car
rier, the communique said.
Called Diversionary
Tokyo broadcasts freely Inter
preted the assault as a diver
sionary attack to cover an inva
sion of Iwo and one said an Ameri
can landing on Japan itself may be
near. Another warned witnout
elaboration that American forces
may "attempt to come near the
homeland at two points, one of
them the Boso peninsula," western
arm of Tokyo bay and site of tne
Yokosuka naval base.
Domei said American forces be
gan landing operations on Futat-
sune beach in southwest Iwo
(Continued on Page 3)
Allies Called Big
Bullies by Nazis
London, Feb. 17 U German
Prooaeanda Minister Paul Jo
seph Goebbels now is picturing the
allies as big bullies ganging up on
Germany.
"Instead of plaving at being
superior our enemies should be
ashamed of themselves for' at
tacking us at odds of 10 to 1 in
his war." the Berlin home radio
quoted him today from an article
in Das Reich.
"What would happen to the Brit
ish, Americans, or Soviets if we
could deal with them one by one?
We would chase them to the ends
of the world . . ."
Storm Ashore
Nazi Troops Driven Out of Rhineland Forts
By Tremendous
Paris. Feb. 17 IF The Canad-1
Ian first army drive on the Ruhr!
rolled forward today against stun-
ned German troops shaken out of j
their Rhineland torts ano pin -
boxes by a tremendous Allied aer -
iial bambardment.
Stalled for almost 48 hours by
flaming wall of German guns
thrown across the 17-mile cor- of Goch at a point near Asperden. I Canadian, English and Scots in
Iridor between the Maas (Meuse) More than 3,500 American and , fantrymen moved out of thpir
and Rhine rivers, Gen. H. D. G. .
crerar's troops were on the move
agaln all along the front. ;
Hammering uui imns u, a nnc-
lor morPi the British drove armor-:
je(j spearheads to within about two
! miles of the fortress town of Goch
and Calcar, barely miles norm-,
Iwest of the Ruhr valley.
trioid tlisnatches said nazl re-
'sistance was softening under the I
tele-'shattering ground and air assault
and the battle of the Rhineland i
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Scores Feared Lost in Tdcoma
Fire; Bodies of Three Located
Blaze Called Most Disastrous in History
Of Washington City; Ten Believed Trapped ;
Tacoma, Wash., Feb. 17
still unaccounted for, the official death toll rose to three in the
fire that razed the 40-room Maefair apartment in downtown
Tacoma today. ' .
SCORES FEARED LOST
Tacoma, Wash., Feb. 17 UP Estimates of the missing In the
Tacoma, apartment house fire ranged from 35 to 85 this afternoon,
as firemen waited for ruins to cool. Only three bodies have been
removed.
Fire department, police and hospital telephone lines were
jammed with calls from frantic persons seeking to locate
missinir friends and relatives.
As firemen sought to battle their way into the still-
smouldering ruins the body of one victim drooped gro
tesquely from a fourth story window where he was trapped
in a futile effort to escape.'
Firemen said another body
had been spotted in the gutted
apartment, but falling debris
barred the search party. A
woman died at a local hospital
after plunging from the third
story of the building. None of the
dead has been identified.
. Onlv the -walls of the buildine
remain, threatening to fad at any
moment.
Officials were unable, to. deter
mine how many persons were in
Jhe apartment at the time of the
fire.
Names Not Available
Attempts to compile a list of
the missing were complicated by
the fact that Joseph Arras, mana
ger of the apartment, was criti
cally burned and is unable to
furnish investigators with infor
mation. "The fire is the most disastrous
In Tacoma's history," Fire Chief
Eisenbacher said. "It's safe to say
that at least 10 persons were
trapped in the building, and that's
a conservative estimate.
Red Cross and civilian defense
officials have set up utility sta
tions to accommodate the scores
of homeless persons.
Soldier Trapped
In Wrecked Car
Lancaster, Pa., Feb. 17 IP An
east bou mi Pennsylvania railroad
passenger train from St. Louis to
New York crashed into derailed
cars of a 28-car express and mail
train at Leamon place, 12 miles
east of here today.
State police reported that five
persons were injured and removed
to the Lancaster general hosiptal.
Police said all the Injured were
from the passenger train "Amer
ican." Pennsylvania railroad officials
revealed that a soldier was
trapped in a compartment. They
said he was uninjured and that
efforts were being made to re
lease him.
BICYCLE STOLEN
Theft of a bicycle from the
yard of their home today was re
ported to Bend police by Mrs. Wil
liam Baer, 974 Riverside drive.
Allied Aerial
appeared to be merging swiftly i
into the battle of the Ruhr.
Late reports from the front said
the Canadian first army gains j
1 were exienoeo to as mucn as iour ous bombardment.
1 miles early today as the nazi lines Other bombers ranged 20 miles
(began to buckle under the attack.least and 12 miles north of Goch
; vanguards of tne attacking force
'were reported within l'A miles
British warplanes set the of fen-j
sive rolling yesterday afternoon,
laying a terrible pattern of bombs j
f a mm kuhhi . i .. "- iinnfi'imiiii: ;
bottleneck. Elements of eight
'nazi divisions were caught In the
path of the aerial scythe and i
nunea in ine wreckage oi
iorti:iea villages ana neia wrtin-
cations.
Every German strongpolnt and i
battery in a five mile arc around
Goch and Calcar was blasted with I
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Murray Opposes i
Ickes Basin Plans
.Washington. Feb. 17 U t- Sen.
James E. Murray,! D., Mons, sai4wts greatest campaigns of the war
tbday he has a Vvery high' re
gard" for Secretary of the Interior
Harold Ickes. But, he added, he
does not like the way Ickes wanls
to develop the nation's river ba
sins.
Murray said In an interview that
he believes Ickes wants to "exert
control" from Washington over
regional river programs. But he
Murray believes they should
be worked out "by the people in
the area, who have a right to de
termine their own development."
He is author of a bill to create
a Missouri Valley authority. He
says his measure is based on the
"grass-roots theory" as already ap
plied on the Tennessee Valley au
thority. It provides complete re
gional autonomy, he said.
Draft Presented
Ickes has proposed to a group of
western senators a rough draft of
legislation to create both a Mis
souri Valley authority and a Co
lumbia Valley authority. His meas
ure also would set up a co-ordinat
ing river basin development board
charged with long-range, national
planning. One of the board's mem
bers would be Ickes. .
Regional river basin authority
plans would be screened for con
gress by the river basin develop
ment board.
Ex-Jap Official
Dies, Says Tokyo
(Br United Pre)
Lt. Gen. Harushigc Ninomlya,
who was relieved of his post as
minister of education in the Japa
nese cabinet a week ago, died to
day at the age of 67, Tokyo radio
radio reported in a broadcast
heard by United Press in San
Francisco.
Ninomlya was succeeded by
Count Hideo Kodama in the Kolso
cabinet shakeup. He had been re
cuperating from a gall stone Ill
ness, Tokyo said.
Bombardment
rockets, bombs and cannon-fire,
land the nearby villages of Weeze,
iHassum and Asperden rocked for
hours under an almost continu-
to pound the Rhine crossing at
iWesel and Rpes.
muddy foxholes while the bombs
-were still falling up ahead and
began rooting dazed nazl troopers ;
uui ui imr wiin.-Kngc oi nouses ana
earthworks all along the attack
front.
On their left flank, Crerar"s
tneir-troops captured Huisberden, four
miles northwest of Calcar, while
other un ts nushlncr rinwn th,
main road from Kleve were re-
ported barely two miles north
of Calcar.
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Berlin Admits
Loss of Sagan,
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10,000 Sorties Daily
Flown "by Russians in
Blasting Hitler Troops
London, Feb. 17 (IPl The Ger
man high command said today
that a Russian siege army had
broken into Breslau, encircled cap
ital of Selisia.
A Berlin communique acknowl
edged Soviet penetrations in at
tacks on the fortress of Breslau.
Other reports indicated that the
industrial city or more tnan bou,'
000 on the Oder was doomed.
The nazl command admitted the
loss of Sagan, key city on the Ber-lin-Brcslau
railway and on the
Bobcr river, to the First Ukrain
ian army driving west toward
Dresden and northwest toward
Berlin.
Moscow dispatches said the red
air lorce was carrying out one oi
over the Oder, Neisse, and Spree
valleys.
Air Fields Blasted
Fighting off German planes
shifted from the western front,
Soviet reports said, the Russian
airmen blasted German air fields,
spread havoc through their com
munications, and scattered troop
concentrations along and behind
the front.
Red Star, the Soviet military
Journal, said that for three suc
cessive days the Russians flew 70,
000 sorties a day.
A front dispatch to the com
munist party organ Pravda said
Russian mobile forces had broken
through to the Neisse river on a
broad front reaching within 12
miles of Cottbus, major base In
the southeastern defenses of Ber
lin. The 12-mile advance crumbled
German defense positions on the
lower reaches of the Luebst river
river, a tributary of the Neisse,
and put the Russians within easy
artillery range of Cottbus, a big
railway hub on the Spree river 47
miles southeast of Berlin.
Konev on Move
other
Northeast of Cottbus,
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Key Rail City
First Ukrainian army sweeping highway department hnadquar
along the west bank of the Oder ers here at 8 o clock th s morn-
river reached the outskirts or
Crossen, 63 miles southeast of
Berlin. This column was 17 miles
from the first of the Oder bridge
heads which the Germans said the
red army has established east of
the capital.
The southern wing of Konev's
army, meantime, began a battle of
annihilation against the encircled
German garrison of Breslau, cap
ital of Silesia. The encirclement
was completed yesterday with the
capture of Klettendorf, only a
mile southwest of Breslau.
More than 200 other Sllesian
towns and villages were captured
as the Soviets closed the ring
about Breslau, the Soviet high
command announced.
Northeast of Berlin, the Second
White Russian army drove for
ward on a 30-mile front to within
51 miles southwest of Danzig.
Library, Church
Windows Broken
Rock-throwing vandals have
again broken window panes fromi
the Trinity Episcopal church and The British admiralty only yes
the Deschutes county library, Rev terday said a convoy had made a
G. R. V. Bolster, 515 Congress . round-trip voyage from Britain to
avenue, rector of the church in- northern Russia without the loss
formed Bend police today. Rev. 0f a ship. The admiralty acknowl
Bolster said that one window edged that one British plane was
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pane was Dronen in xne cnurcn in
Mr)jTe
than a dozen window
panes were broken In both struc
tures about a month ago, police
reports revealed.
700 PLANES IN ACTION
London. Feb. 17 un Lt. Gen.
iam. k nnniitiin u.ni nhnni 7nn
planes of his United States Eighth'
air force against the rail network .
I at Frankfurt-on-thc-Main today,
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General MacArlhur today reported the reconquest of Balaan by
American troops, and from Tokyo camo word that Americans are
storming rock-ribbed Corregidor,
New Snow Falls "
;,0n High Divides
Snow fell to varied depths along
the Cascades and Central Oregon
during the night, and additional
snow flurries throughout the day
and night were forecast for the
area. Kcporis reacning me siaie
Ing, gave the following informa
tion on the storm:
Lapine inch and still snow
ing; Mllllcan 1 inch and still snow
ing; Snntlam highway, 5 Inches of
new snow with it snowing hard at
that time, and plows were operat
ing; The Dalles-California high
way In the vicinity of Sun moun
tain, snowing hard, with packed
snow along the mountain area;
Waplnitla 4 Inches of new snow
racking a total of 22 Inches, with
packed conditions prevailing and
snow plows operating, and on the
Willamette, snowing hard with 3
Inches of new snow (8 a.m.), with
a total depth of 30 Inches and
plows operating.
Germans Asserf
11 Vessels Sunk
London, Feb. 17 HP" A broad
cast German communique claimed
today that nazi torpedo-planes and
U-boats sank at least 11 allied
merchant vessels and seven war
ships from a convoy en route to
Murmansk recently.
i iost m the operation, but said
that four German
U-boats and
three planes were
stroyed.
probably de-
1H OFFICIALS FINED
Trenton, N. J., Feb. 17 U"'i
Eighteen steel companies and six
of their officers were fined a total
of $240,000 today after pleading
nolo contendere to a federal
charge of conspiracy to fix prices
on stainless steel products.
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Flash of Fire
On Two Fronts
Seen by Fliers
(Ily United Pro.)
Allied airmen flying over the
heart of Germany at night can
now sec the flash of gunfire along
tho eastern and western fronts at
the same time.
A Canadian . flight sergeant
broadcasting over tho London
radio early today reported that
on a recent night raid on Dresden
he was able to see both fronts
from his miles-high vantage point.
"The Russian front was a chain
of vast flashes, switching the
length of tho night horizon," he
said.
"I then thought I could see
small flashes reflected in the sky
over tne western nonzon . . .
The broadcast was recorded by
CPS monitors In New York.
Allied Invasion
Sr Oto Vj Manila J'
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May Come Soon, Fear Nips
(By Unltnl Proa)
Tlie Tokyo newspaper Malnichl
predicted "possible" allied Inva
sion of the Japanese homeland in
commenting today on the carrier
plane assault on the city, Tokyo
radio reported.
Both Mainichl and tho Asahl
Shlmbun agreed thnt the "latest
air attack on the homeland were
dlverslonal operations to cover
the enemy's Invasion of Iwo
Jlma," according to the broadcast
which was heard by the United
Press In San Francisco.
Olhor newspapers viewed ap
pearance of the mighty U. S. naval
task force as a "golden opportu
nity for the Japanese to finish off
the main strength of the Ameri
can fleet at one stroke," the broad
cast said.
The Homurl Hochl was quoted
as declaring Tve must
try and
and the
grasp this opportunity
Tokyo Shlmbun "welcomed the
res lay
Mackmen Get
New Foothold
On Isle Rock
Bataan Is Reconquered,
Yanks General Reports;
Fierce Battle Is Raging
(Br United Pm)
American troops poured onto
Corregidor Saturday from the air
and sea, once more gaining a foot
hold on the fortress Island where
other American' soldiers were!
forced to surrender nearly three
years ago, Japanese broadcasts re
ported.
Radio Tokyo in a broadcast re
corded by United Press in San
Francisco said allied troops, pre
ceded by a naval bombardment
swarmed onto Corregidor in
scores of landing craft alter para
troops dropped down from trans-
port pianes.- ' t
"A furious battle IsViow raging
between, our garrisons and the
enemy invaders," -Tokyo radio
said.
The landing on the fortress Is
land that guards the entrance to
Manila bay came "alter repeated
intensive shelling' by (American)
surface craft and bombing by air
forces," the broadcast said.
Would Open Bay .
If confirmed, the landing would
open the final phase of an often-1
sive to unlock Manila bay to
American shipping and to avenge
the bloody defeats of 1941 and
1942.
The reported combined opera
tion followed by only a few hours
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's an
nouncement of the re-conquest of
Bataan In an amphibious landing
Thursday on the tip of the penin
sula, five miles north of Corregi
dor.
No further details of the Cor
regidor fighting were given in the
broadcast, which was recorded by
the FCC.
Papers in Italy
Get Print Supply
liiy untud itch)
Three dally newspapers In Na
pies, stopped two days for lack of
newsprint, resumed publication
today with allied stocks rushed
from Rome, a dispatch to the of
fice of war information reported.
The new supply was sufficient
for one week and an additional
week's stock was expected from
allied warehouses in Rome. ,
When the newspapers ran out
of newsprint on Wednesday, Na-'
pies newspaper publishers Issued
a Joint statement charging that
"an orgy of new publications" in
Rome was monopolizing the
meager supplies of newsprint nec
essary for the whole of liberated
Italy.
of Homeland
enemy action as offering a chance
for Japan to deal the enemy a le
thal blow."
The broadcast continued with
the Asahl Shimbun's report of
"breathless scenes" witnessed at
the Japanese army and. naval
bases in the Kanto district.
The newspaper said U .S. planes
skimmed over one Japanese army
base and then contradicted itself
bv declaring "our air defenses did
not allow a single enemy raider
to approach our base."
In one "daring chase when one
enemy plane was shot down In a
single stroke, a chorus of hand
clapping was heard from the
many interested spectators," Asa
hl said.
"Naval air bases were also very
busy," the newspaper added.
"Over Hamamatsu many naval
planes gave a hot reception to 30
1 carrier bombers and in a half hour
combat shot down 16 and damaged
I another."