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: CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
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THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, bESjcHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 21, 1945
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SOVIETS SHATTER LOWER BOBER
Konev's Men
Plunge Across
Final Barrier
Reds Bolster Southern
Flank for Smash Over
Oder, on Road to Berli
London, Feb. 21 IIP) Red
rmy tanks and infantry battled
(through the suburbs of Guben.
Ane .of the main strongholds
guarding the southern approaches
to Berlin, today after shattering
(Mia last 20 miles of the enemy's
lower Bober river line,
war to the northeast, Marshal
Kotistantin K. Ro'kossovsky's Sec
onal wnite Kussian army pusned
to I within 40 miles of the great
Baltic port of Danzig in advances
of up to seven miles along a 30
onile front in the Polish corridor.
I Marshal Ivan S. Konev's First
Ukrainian army plunged across
tfhe last enemy-held stretch of the
lower Bober river yesterday just
below its confluence with the
Oder and pressed on through 80
towns and villages toward Guben.
Reach Suburbs (
Vanguards drove into the sub
urbs of Guben, a 12-way commu
nications hub 51 miles southeast
of Berlin, after capturing Scheg
eln, eight miles to the east at the
center of the breakthrough front.
lTa9irt ttfrUHrx, nlDi ....... I..
In forests east" of Guben, which
already was under artillery fire.
Guben guards the 23-mile gap be
tween the Spree and the Oder
rivers on the southern approaches
to Berlin.
The advance carried six miles
or more beyond the Ober river to
within 13 miles of a junction with
the first of the bridgeheads which
the nazis said the First White
Russian army has thrown across
he Oder east of Berlin.
Tanks Knocked Out
Thirty-two enemy tanks were
Knocked out in the Guben area
atid more than 1,000 Germans
kflled.
Konev's campaign gradually
wts strengthening the southern
flark of the Berlin front for a
fr6j,tal smash across the Oder
to ird the capital. Berlin reports
Mji Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov
ceaselessly was bringing up rein
foftempnto. nnrl snnnlips fnt trip
tjlmactic offensive by his First
White Russian army.
Farther south, Konev's forces
Extended their positions beyond
the middle reaches of the Bober
with the capture of Gurkau, 30
miles southeast of the stronghold
of Cottbus. and Burau, 23 miles
north of Goerlitz and 60 miles
northeast of the Saxon capital of
Dresden.
Tightens Noose
Konev also tightened his encir
clement of Breslau, capital of Si
lesia. Berlin said the nazi garrison
had rejected a Soviet ultimatum
'or its surrender.
The Second White Russian army
"lade its closest approach to the
free city of Danzig with the cap
ture of Munsterwalde, 40 miles to
the south. Szlachta, 43 miles
southwest of Danzig, and a num
ber of other towns in the Polish
corridor also were captured.
Nippon Carrier
Goes to Bottom
Washington, Feb. 21 (Ut Ameri
can submarines have sent a Japa
nese escort carrier, a large con
verted cruiser, a destroyer, and 22
merchant vessels to the bottom in
new operations, the navy an
nounced today.
The cruiser was believed to be
an 18,000-ton converted merchant
ship.
This latest submarine haul In
cluded two transports, three cafgo
transports, and 17 cargo vessels,
the communique said.
Total sinkings by American sub
marines since the beginning of
p war now total 1,025 vessels,
mwo Include 100 warships.
Since Jan. 1, the navy has an
nounced sinking by U. S. subma
n"es of 121 vessels an average of
fore than two a day in the last
lo months.
All the sinkings announced to
ay took place in far eastern
latvfrs- close to the enemy's home
"nd and stolen southern empire.
Hitler's Isolated Fortress
Bombed by U. S. Airmen
Rome, Feb. 21 (TIE) American fliers raked Adolf Hitler's
fortress town of Berchtesgaden with a barrage of bombs and
rocket shells for the first time yesterday and they may have
blasted the fuehrers secret mountain retreat, a communique
revealed today.
In a .daring attack on one of the most heavily-defended
targets in all Europe, a group of eight American Thunderbolt
pilots soared in over Hitler's rock fortress, almost at eye
level, to bomb and strafe the entire area.
First official reports on the incident said the Yanks were
Co. Veteran
Photo ArU Studio
Lt. Chester C. Myers, who went
overseas as a sergeant with Co. I
of Bend, is In Bend from the
south Pacific visiting with his
wife- and - their three "Children.
Now attached to the 27th divi
sion, Lt.-Myers is home for . the
first time In more than three
years.
Curfew Orders
May Be Relaxed
(By United Pros)
War manpower commission of
ficials wrestled today with the
problem of how to enforce the en
tertainment curfew which goes
into effect Monday. Authoritative
Washington sources hinted that
the restrictions might be relaxed
in some areas where war workers
would be deniedrecreation.
Strong opposition to the mid
night curfew on night life ordered
by War Mobilization Director
James F. Byrnes materialized on
the west coast and in New York
and Chicago. '
The spark of the west coast's
hopes were kindled by the Wash
ington predictions that some ex
emptions might be made. The
Washington sources said, how
ever, that any exemptions likely
would be only for movie houses
and possibly bowling alleys and
would be granted for the benefit
of swing shift workers.
MWC officials had not decided
on a means of enforcing the or
der. "All we know," said one offi
cial, "is that the curfew bell rings
next Monday night, but nobody
seems to know for whom the bell
tolls."
Uruguay Makes War
Against Axis Powers
Montevideo, Feb. 21 IP The
Uruguayan house today approved,
62-19, a declaration of war against
the axis.
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Powerful Union Decides fo Abandon Ifs No
Sfrike Pledge; New Wage Increases Gran fed
Washington, Feb. 21 lP-Labor's
long-simmering revolt against
government reluctance to grant
wage increases broke out Into the
open today with the decision of
the powerful Textile Workers
union (CIO) to abandon Its no
strike pledge.
The decision came Just a few
hours before the war labor board
aDDroved wage Increases for 54,
000 textile and 140.000 packing
house workers.
WLB ruled, however, that its
wage awards could not take effect
until it had Ironed out a dispute
with Economic Stabilizer Fred M. i
Vinson over the question of price
relief.
Emil Rieve. president of the tex
tile union, charged in new iorn
that the order "merely confirms
the union position that the board
is no longer a iree ageni
make its own decisions."
able to !
shooting for the Berchtesgad
en railway yards. But there
was a strong possibility that
the fuehrer's towering palace
overlooking the town aWb
came under attack.
Area Well Protected
The raiders reported meeting a
terrific storm of gunfire from
the palace itself and the surround
ing -areas, suggesting they had
turned their fire on that nazi
citadel. .
Hundreds of anti-aircraft bat
teries opened up on the Yank fli
ers as they dived in for the at
tack and nazi Death's' Head elite
guards blazed away with rifles
and machineguns in a futile ef
fort to turn the bombers away
from Hitler's palace.
There was no immediate claim
that the fortress itself had been
hit, although a London Exchange
Telegraph dispatch said the bomb
ers had scored some hits.
' BRANDENBURG TARGET
London. Feb. 21 (IB American
Flying Fortresses coritinued their
dally attacks on German today. A
nazi broadcast said at least one
formation was over Brandenburg,
Berlin's home province.
RAF Mosauitoes dronned two.
ton block busters on Berlin in two
raids during the night, but the
bulk of 1,200 British raiders con
centrated on Dortmund, Ruhr
railway bottleneck for the west
ern front.
Fires visible for 100 miles were
set at Dortmund, the air ministry
announced.
Other RAF night targets includ
ed the Relsholz and Monheim oil
refineries south of Duesseldorf.
Strategic Peak
Taken By Yanks
Rome, Feb. 21 iu American
troops of the Fifth army, storming
up precipitous terrain against
strong German resistance, recap
tured 5,000-feet Mount Belvedere
dominating the entrance to the
Pararo river valley, headquarters
announced today.
The advance was aided by artil
lery fire and strong air support.
The sector is about 30 miles south
west of Bologna.
The peak had been in German
hands since November when a
German counterattack pushed
back the doughboys four days aft
er they occupied it.
The troops encountered heavy
mine fields as they pressed for
ward, capturing the mountain vil
lages of Polla and Valpiana and
other commanding features in ad
dition to Mount Belvedere.
On the right flank, artillery and
mortars effectively engaged en
emy personnel and installations
near Mount Calderaro.
"In effect," he said, "the board
says that it recognized the fact
that cotton-rayon textile workers
receive substandard wages but
that It cannot give them what
equity and justice demand be
cause Vinson has tied the board's
hands."
The union's repudiation of the
"no-strike" pledge was based on
the specific charge that cotton
textile manufacturers had used
political pressure to prevent wage
increases for cotton workers.
Among maior labor complaints
arp the eovernment s Inilurp to
adlust the "little steel" formula to
higher living costs and Vinson's
recent order to the WLB to vi'h-1
noiu urtisiuii mug? y.nwe in-1
creases until It was establishPd
that no price adjustments would
be required.
The WLB Itself has objected to
the Vinson order as "unworkable."
By announcing its wage decisions
Jap Casualties
On Luzon Puf
At 1 00,000 :
Trapped Nips in Manila
Fight Back Stubbornly
From Shrinking Pockets
By William B. Dickinson v
(United Press War Correepondent) 1 .
Manila, Feb. 21 (IB Japanese
forces, with their casualties -In
the Luzon campaign nearing the
100,000 mark, fought back sav
agely from a shrinking pocket in
southern Manila today against
American flame throwers and
heavy artillery.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur said
the "bitterest fighting" had de-,
veloped as the American infantry
men slowly compressed the enemy
lines and big guns maintained a
steady bombardmet of the ancient
wall around the Intramuros sec
tor. The last -stand death battles
waged by the Japanese was taking
a heavy toll of the enemy forces.
A communique reported that the
Japanese casualties in the first six
weeks or tne Luzon campaign ex
ceeded 92,000. In that same period,
the American casualties totaled
2,676 dead, 10,008 wounded and
245 missing a ratio of seven-to-one
over the enemy.
Jans Face Death
As the.trapped Japanese-faced
almost certain death in their hold
out positions below the ' Pasig
river, they let loose an orgy of
sadism and destruction on Filipino
civilians and property.
The communique officially dis
closed that the JaDanese were
acting with the greatest savagery
in the treatment of non-combat-
ant.s n.?lvit5..Pr?p.Lr'r-
t suivuy suuweu mill iuiuai
all private possessions of Filipinos
were thoroughly looted durinp- the
enemy occupation and apparently
taken to Japan. - i ;
in the battle nrouna intramuros,'
the Japanese reported increasing!
automatic and heavy weapon fire
in a desDerate attempt to halt the
Americans who lopped off another
block from the southern side of
the pocket.
Nest Cleared
Pushing behind flame-throwers,
the Americans knocked out spv-
eral machine-gun positions at the
University Medical School and 1
routed the Japanese from two
other buildings on the campus. 1 slnce Guadalcanal, our strong
The Americans also pushed ho'ds have fallen Into the hands
through the Army-Navy club and," the enemy one after another,
the ruins of the high commission- 'nd the enemy has finally ad
er"s house on the bay front, butjvanced to Saipun and Luzon is
ran into a steady fire from pill- j lands."
boxes and bunkers around the lat- The legislator, a representative
ter building. The Japanese also'Hamada, was quoted by a Tokyo
were raking the American posi-j broadcast recorded by the FCC.
tions with mortars and small arms Only last week Gen. Tomoyukl
fire in the Manila hotel. Yamashita, commander in chief
Despite the advantage of good! of Japanese forces in the Philip
defenses behind strong fortifica- pines, said he had "chaRfd" Gen.
tions, the Japanese were losing Douglas MacArthur all over the
heavily. One report showed that i South Pacific and now had the
the 11th airborne units alone since! Americans where he wanted
the Batangas landing had seized
or destroyed 1227 enemy pillboxes
or bunker defenses and counted
4,053 enemy dead In their sector.
Japs Uprooted
On Corregidor, bombers and
fighters Joined with infantrymen
ana paratroopers in cleaning out!that sotaro Ishlwala had been re-
the Japanese from the a anH's n i
. rocky recesses.
In the textile and packing house
cases, it dumned the entire issue
squarelv In Vinson's lap.
The United Packing House
Workers (CIO) helned bring the
entire Issue to a climax bv threat
ening to Issue a strike call If the
wage decision were not made pub
lic bv last night.
The awards nrovlde: ,
A S5-cent hourly minimum for
textile workers to rorreet sub-, is a pre-pearl Harbor soldier, was ; service headquarters will remain
standard living conditions In the ; in the Initial landings on Luzon, open.
Industry and a five-cent-an-hour (attached to the Z5th division. News j Downtown streets were expect
general increase which would reports reveal that division was ed to be flag-bedecked, as well as
maintain tho existing wage dlf- In action on noil hern Luzon. j many Rpnd residences, honoring
southern mills.
......Mwni iK-iwirn nunnern anu
For the packing house workers
pay ior aoprpclahle" t mp snent
cnanelne clothe, the cost of tools
and clothes now paid for bv the
workers and thp cost of repairing
thptools, plus $2 a week raises for
AFL sausage makers In two San I
Francisco packing plants. I
I
American
(NEA Rodio-Telepholo)
American warships (arrows) stand of f Iwo Jlma as lines of speeding barges speed towards shores of Jap-held
1 oSonTy ?60 mUe. south of Tokyo, as Marines of Fourth and Fifth DtvWon. began their Invasion Land
- mass in background la Suribachl Yama, extinct volcano at narrow southwestern end of the Hye-mU e-long
" island. Ms picture was made from a Navy plane, transmitted by raolotelephoto to San Francisco from
Ouam, .
American Ships of War Hutl
Shells Info Iwo Jima Island
Fleet Pokes Within Easy Range of Shore Guns ..
To Aid Marines; Flashes of Mortar Fire Seen i
'--By- Prank
v' ' (United IYsm
U. S. Pacific Fleet Headquarters, Guam, Feb. 21 (ID?)
American warships poked withm easy range of Japanese
shore guns on Iwo Jima Tuesday to support marines slugging
forward trom the southern end of the lRland, navy Lt. Levins
S. Willis of Philadelphia said today.
Willis, a former United Prpss rpnnrtpr nnpnt nlmn.ut throo
nours over tne j8lund jn a photographic plane.
"Our battleships and cruisers were not more than n mile
, , ,, ..,.,. . , ,,m.
! on shore, Willis said. "The
Enemy Worried
By U. S. Advance
(Br United Preu)
Japan's war lords must have
been embarassed today by a ques
tion posed in the imperial diet.
A legislator, who once served
ln lne iwo garrison, asKed wny
them
Fear Expressed
Hafnada told the imperial diet
that if Iwo was lost "our home
land will lie covered by enemy
fighter planes."
Domcl news agency disclosed
jister In the Japanese cabinet and
I named minister of stale without
'portfolio. Juichi Tsushima, vice
! president of the bank of Japan,!
! was appointed finance minister,
Sat. Chambers
Injured on Luzon
TCf T) .1 lf rli.rnhnni
son of Mr. and Mrs. Cary W.
Chambers, Bend, and a graduate
from the Bend high school, was Owing to the fact that for the
seriously wounded In action on , duration of the war, most federal
Luzon, on Jan. 25, his parents departments have but one holl
wcre notified today by the war day Christmas the U. S. em
department. Sgt. Chambers, wholploymenl service and the forest
unamners is nnp oi louri
ciiijurrn oi iwr. ano jvirs. Lnam
bers now in the service. Jack, a
prisoner of war since the fall of1
Bataan, is In a Tokyo prison camp. I
Jim, seaman first class, Is be-
lieved to be In the New Guinea '
area, and Mary Is a cadet nurse !
at St. Joseph's hospital, Tacoma,;
Wash. '
Invasion Armada Hits Iwo Jima
- TitEMArNB ."
War Correapondent)
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destroyers appeared to be only a
few hundred yards out and the
lleet completely encircled the
islnnd.
"Clouds covered most of the
island when we arrived about
11 a.m. Scores of dive-bombers
and fighters were circling and
looking for holes in the clouds
through which to bomb and
strafe enemy positions ahead
of the marines.
Mortar lire Seen
"We could see a skirmish line of
tanks moving toward the center
of the Island. The marines were
firing 25 to 30 mortar shells at
once against the base of Suribachi
Yama. You could see the flushes
and then thp smoko at the foot of
the mountain.
"Meanwhile, the battleships Just
sat there off the east shore throw
ing shells, mostly Into the central
part of the Island. You could see
the brilliant flashes from the ships
and seconds later the shells would
hit. The concussion was so great
it snook our plane. ,
Willis said thousands of marines
were ashore and that they had
established a line across the island
between the south and central air
fields.
The east shore was littered
with wrecked landing barges for
a distance or a quarter to a halt
mile," Willis said. "We had great
quantities of Btores ashore but
g0rne wcre burnlne
Bu w,,t uuiiiiiik
iBend to Honor
r-t , rj t ,
flfST "resident
In observance of Washington's
birthday, official business will be
at a standstill in Bend tomorrow,
with only certain federal offices
and the stores being open, It was
reported today.
Closed for the occasion will bp
thp posloffice, courthouse, city
hall, state highway department
offices and the hanks.
inp t rtmi.itp nr thp r mi t,-nai.
iaeni oi tne united States,
AID BILL FAVOUR!)
Salem, Ore., Feb. 21 li The
bill to provide state educational
aid for veterans of world war II
was reported out "do pass" by the
house military affairs committee
today. '
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RIVER LINE
1 vN
if, A? ' K
Reported Broken
"Bend' police today wore under
orders to redouble! their efforts.
ito. apprehend vanfala.whoy.ln ne-
ccnt weexs nave DroKen dozens
of window panes In the vicinity
port of damage came today from
Miss Eleanor F. Brown, county
librarian, who said that three
more panes were shattered in the
library building last night. This
is the fourth raid made by the
window smaohprs on thp llhrnrv
rlWm Xrf S" .,,lbrary',
window panes also have been
broken on two occasions ln the
Trinity Episcopal church, across
from the library, In the high
school gymnasium and the Bend
Troy lnundry.
The window pane breaking
seems to be confined in the same
area, and officers were Instructed
more constantly to patrol the dis
trict in an effort to capture the
vandals.
Owing to a shortage of officers,
Chief of Police Kim C. Gulllck
said that it would be Impossible
to assign officers constantly to
the district, and he urged prop
erty owners to assist In the
search for the rock throwers.
' T.T. PAKKKIt WOUNDED
Prlnevllle, Feb. 21 Second Lt.
Laurance T. Parker, formerly
with Company I and the 41st di
vision, was wounded In action on
Luzon Jan. 20, according to word
received here today by his broth
er, Wclborn Parker. Since gradu
ating from officers' school last
September, Lt. Parker had been
with the 43rd division.
BULLETIN
Washington, Feb. 21 The
snnate military affairs committee,
rnverslng Itself, today adopted a
stringent "work-or-Jull" amend
ment to (ho substitute "volun"
tary" manpower bill.
7,000 Nazi Troops Surrender
To U. S. Army on W esf Fronf
Paris, Feb. 21 tP Reports of I equivalent to more than the full
wholesale German surrenders !
noured In from Lt. Gen. George S
Patton's U. S. Third armv front
today as the Americans collansed
another big section of the Sieg
fried line and advanced as much
as 5'A miles on a broad front.
Patton's armored and Infantry
columns were swinging out In
front of the allied western offen
sive nt a oulckpning pace along a
50-mlle attack line extending down
from the Pruem sector to the Mo
sellp-Saar triangle.
Gprman rpslstancp was strange
ly spotty all across the Third nrmy
front. At some points the nazis i
iwuKin Miivufiy anil nKllllUHV ior
every yard of ground. At others,
sullen enemy frontiers were sur
rendering by thp hundrpds, quit
ting strong defense positions with
out a fight.
Field dispatches said the Third
army had rounded up almost 7,000
prisoners in the past four days,
'Marine Losses
Reported Big
In Grim Fight
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Americans Storm 2nd
Airfield on Volcanic -Island
Close to Japan
By William F. Tyre
(United PrvM War CorretpondenU)
Admiral Nlmitz' Headnuarters,
Guam, Feb. 21 ui American ma
rines stormed Iwo's second air
field today, by-passing the south
ern tip and driving toward Its.
heart from the south ln a general
advance averaging half a mile
along the blazing island front.
Meet Admiral Chester W. Nlm
itz announced on the third day of
tne invasion of the Island spring
board to Japan that the two ma
rine divisions had suffered 3,650
casualties killed, wounded, or
missing up to 8 a.m. Feb. 21. One
hundred and fifty of the casual
ties were officers. .
The marine losses already were
more than for the entire operation
at bloody Tarawa, or the Mar
shalls and Ttnlan invasions, and
were being Incurred at a rate con-
fiiriernhlv hlo-her thnn nt Kninnrt nr
Guam.
Battle Is Tough
A communique on the Iwo bat
tle, the toughest ln the long his
tory of the marine corps, said the
two divisions were slugging for
ward yard by yard against heavy
macnine gun, morwej mau arms,.
and rocket fire !. ' .'
MaJ. Gen. Keller E. Rockey's
west coast of Iwo beyond the low
er end of the runways of the last
air field remaining ln Japanese
hands. The first and main base
was firmly in American hands.
nl ",e .""'K "'a'-
Clifton B. Cates' fourth division
At the same time Mat. Gen.
launched a frontal assault against
the field from the south and by
noon was "pushing toward the
center of the field," Nlmitz' com
munique said. '
"The fifth amphibious corps.
having secured the southern Iwo
?lr field, made a general advance
toward the island's central air
drome today," the communique
said.
Gains Made
"Gains wcre made along the
whole line, and generally were
about 500 to 1,000 yards in ex
tent." At the south end of Iwo, where
part of the Japanese garrison was
cut off by the marine drive across
the island, American forces were
driving slowly up the slopes of
Mc. Suribachl, from which the en
emy was plastering the marines.
This morning the forces push
ing up Mt. Suribachl gained more
than 100 yards In the face of a
murderous fire sweeping the
slojies.
Nlmitz said that of the 3.G50
casualties by 8 a.m. today, 3,063
had been evacuated.
In the dry language of the com
munique, "tho numerous strong
points which confront our forces
In all areas thus far penetrated
are being reduced by individual
troop action."
Use Manie Throwers
That meant that the marines
were charging the Japanese
strong points with flame throwers,
small arms, and bayonets, ln
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combat strength of one of the
wehrmacht's thinned divisions.
The mass surrenders were made
more puzzling by the fact that
mud and slush were hindering
Patton's advance sufficiently to
permit most of the Germans to es
cape eastward if they wished.
Far to the north, tough German
paratroopers were putting up a
different kind of battle against
the Canadian First army in the
17-mile wide Maas-Rhlne corridor
leading to the Ruhr valley.
Bolstered by fresh reinforce
ments that put elements of nine
German divisions across the path
of the attacking Canadian army,
the nazis were throwing strong
tank and infantry forces- Into a
series of counterattacks that
slowed and af some points re
versed the allied advance.
Hardest fighting raged along
the left flank of the Canadian
drive in the Calcar area.