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CENTRAL .OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
Volume LIU
THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEB. 24, 1945
NO. 69
Death, Debris Line Bloody Road to Jap Pillbox on Iwo Jima
Allies Press Toward Cologne
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American Marines proved this Jap pillbox on Iwo Jima wasn't impregnable but they paid heavily with their, lives to irrove It. Tholt- 'dcdlef
iprawl in the volcanic sand amidst live Marines who have dug In lor shelter against heavy Jap artillery, mortar and rocket ftre. Pacts, cloth ... .
Ing, gas masks and toilet articles, many of them ripped by shrapnel, are scattered across the sand. Rifles a blown In hall. Even letter!
are strewn among th debris as though the war Insisted on prying Into a man's personal life.
Yanks, Striking by Air, Sea, Land,
Free 2,146 From Jap Prison Camp
Nippon Guards
Quickly Killed
In Dawn Blow
MacArthur Reports Low
Loss of Life in Raid
On Los Banos Quarters '
By H. D. Qulgg
(United Press War Correspondent)
Gen. MacArthur's Headquar
ters, Manila Area, Feb. 24 (IB
American land, sea and air units
in a daring coordinated strike
have freed 2,146 American and
other allied prisoners from the
Los Banos internment camp, 25
miles behind the Japanese lines,
Gen. Douglas MacArthur an
nounced today.
U. S. Airborne troops and Fili
pino guerillas struck Friday
morning at the Internment camp
in the hills above the southern
shores of land-locked Laguna bay
south of Manila. The 243-man
Japanese garrison was taken com
pletely by surprise at morning
setting up exercises. All were kill
ed, including the camp command-
left burning.
1 p 'Chutists Land
W A ntrknrl amiln nf II S nara-
troopers landed directly on the
prison camp. They were support
ed in a coordinated attack by
other troops from amphibious
tractors who began mowing down
the Japanese guards with ma
chine gun fire.
A cordon of troops immediately
surrounded the prisoners to pro
tect them from harm.
A total of 1,589 Americans, in
cluding 12 army nurses, priests,
nuns and Manila businessmen
were liberated. Also among the
prioners were 329 British citizens.
33 Australians, 56 Canadians, 89
Netherlanders, 22 Poles, 10 Nor
wegians, 15 Italians and one Nica
raguan. "Nothing could be more satis
fying to a soldier's heart than this
rescue," MacArthur said in a spe
cial communique.
Mac Thankful
I am deeply grateful. God was
Mainly with us today."
MacArthur reDorted that cas
ualties anions the raiders , were
only two killed and two wounded.
Two of the internees suffered
slight injuries during the dra
matic rescue, he added.
The carefully coordinated raid
was carried out by the 11th Air
borne division of the 14th corps
and the Luzon guerillas under the
overall command of Col. Robert
H. Soulo.
The main liberation force em
barked in amphibious tractors
from Canlubang in the predawn
darkness and proceeded down La
Kuna bay to Los Banos which is
a' the southern end of the bay 40
'"ues from Manila. ,
Precisely at 7 a. m. guerilla
'"rces and other elements of the
J"h Airborne division who had '
urroumled the camp under covr
"I .darkness, attacked with rifles,
V"nes and grenades.
Troops Bail Out
-"iiiuuttneousiy a reinioiicu
Paratroop company of the 511th
?Siment bailed out directly over
'be camp, as amphibious tractors
h the shore.
(Continued on Page 3)
Big Bombers Hit Singapore
In Heavy Raid on Japanese
Incendiary and Demolition Explosives Rain
Down on Nippon Dock Facilities in City
Washington, Feb. 24 (EE) The biggest fleet of Super-
iortresses ever to take off from India today bombed Singa
pore, crossroads of war traffic between Japan and her stolen
southern empire.
Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of demolition and incendi
ary bombs were rained on Singapore's extensive and well
eatabfishsd dock and harbor facilities fri the fourth B-2& day-
ngnt attack or tne war on the naval stronghold.
A Singapore broadcast recored by the FCC said the giant
bombers caused "some damage" to harbor facilities and the
city itself during an hour and
a half-long raid beginning at
10 :30 a.m. Singapore time.
The bombers attacked in a
dozen waves, Singapore said.
At least nine planes were dam
aged, the broadcast said.
Raid Is Large
The 20th air force, in announc
ing the raid, for the first time de
scribed a Superfortress raiding
armada from India as "large," an
indication that it totaled well over
100 bombers. A Tokyo broadcast
heard by the FCC said 130 B-29's
participated.
Results will be announced after
operation reports have been re
ceived from Rl-lor Hon Rnooi:
Ramsey's 20th bomber command, : pressed lear tnat tneir continued
8,900 Workers
Continue Strike
Detroit, Feb. 24 (IB Production
ol a-3 parts, rockets, guns,
tanks, and trucks was paralyzed
today at the Chrysler corpora
tion's Dodge main plant as 8,900
ol 9.4UU lirst-sniit worKers con
tinued a strike started yesterday.
A company spokesman 'said
that 82 of the Chrysler corpora
tion's 100 interplant truck drivers
had joined the walkout and ex-
the 20th air force said.
Drydock Destroyed
In the last previous raid on
Singapore Feb. 1, B-29's sank a
naval drydock, largest of its type
in the world, and damaged other
harbor installations.
The Superfortresses may have
caught part of the elusive Japa
nese fleet at Singapore, largest na
val base south of Japan 'Itself.
One of the Japanese naval forces
whieh participated in the sea bat
tle In the Philippines last October
came from Singapore.
Liquor Also Hit
In Curfew Ban
Washington, Feb. 24 IT The
war manpower commission, In an
order defining the entertainment
idleness would affect production
at other Chrysler plants, which
depend on the drivers fo"r parts
supplies.
United Auto Workers (CIO)
pickets ringed the plant this
morning, the company said, dis
couraging employes who wished
to enter the factory. The walkout
started yesterday in the B-29 en
gine parts division as a protest
against discharge of seven men
whom the company accused of
loafing and insubordination.
Management said the strike was
"well-planned" by the UAW-CIO.
International union officers ig
nored this charge and ordered
officers of local 3 to get their
members back on the Job or face
action by the international execu
tive board. On both shifts yester
day, 11,200 of the 13,000 employes
were on strike. v
Circled Poznari
Deschutes Bills
curfew, today Danneu tne serving q J L lI
In all establishments ra55ea DV nOUSG
narh nltrht. The! . ' . .
of liauor
after midnight each night. The
ban becomes effective at midnight
Monday.
The WMC also ordered the ban
to be applied to gambling and the
playing of juke boxes.
Restaurants customarily open
after midnight may continue serv
ing food after the curfew hour,
but may not sell beer or other al
coholic beverages.
Midnight Is Deadline
The curfew hour in each place
will be midnight, official local
time.
Sole exception will be enter
tainment supplied for military
personnel by authorized agencies
such as the USO.
The curfew was ordered last
Monday by War Mobilizer James
F. Byrnes to save coal, transporta
tion and manpower. The WMC
was Riven the Job of enforcing It.
Local police and ,ne 300 VVMC
area directors will enforce the
curfew request.
EGYPT DECLARES WAR
Cairo, Feb. 24 IP Egypt de
claivd war on Germany and Japan
today.
Salem. Ore.. Feb. 24 W A bill
(HB 224, Irrigation committee)
which prohibits the pollution of
irrigation canals and ditches car
rying the waters of the Deschutes
river, passed the house today
without opposition.
Red Hot Stove Stolen
From Railroad Station
Chicago, Feb. 24 U Thieves
stole a red hot stove from the For
est Glen station of the Milwaukee,
St. Paul and Pacific railroad, po
lice reported today. Police said
the thieves left some of the hot
coals on the floor as they carried
the stove from the building.
BULLETIN
TakenByReds;
Breslau Target
. Paris Reports Assert .j
Koenigsberg. Abandoned
By Beaten Nazi Army
London, Feb. 24 IR The Paris
radio broadcast an unconfirmed
report of doubtful authenticity to.
day that the German army had
evacuated Koenigsberg, capital of
East Prussia.
A Paris broadcast saM the gar
rison of beleaguered Koenigsberg
had pulled out, "leaving the popu
Iation to their fate." Two days ago
Moscow said the Germans had
opened a corridor through the
Soviet siege lines to the Baltic
port of Pillau.
The fall of Koenigsberg would
mean the near completion of the
red army campaign in East Prus
sia, where it trapped an estimated
200,000 German troops.
foznan Captured
The fall of encircled Poznan.
last enemy-held city in Poland,
was expected to speed a Soviet
smash across the Oder river on a
broad front toward the doomed
nazi capital, 30-odd miles to the
west.
The reduction of Poznan not
onlv released troops under 24 gen
erals for the drive on Berlin, but
cleared the Moscow-Warsaw-Ber
lin trunk railway and highway as
far as the Oder for the movement
of reinforcements and supplies.
The last organized German re
sistance in Poznan, Poland's
fourth largest citv with a pre-war
population of 272.000 was smash
ed yesterday after a month-long
siege during which Marshal Greg
ory K. Zhukov's First White Rus
sian army raced on 110 miles
farther west toward Berlin.
ZB OOO Killed
Some 25.000 Germans were kill
ed and 23.000 captured during the
prolonged and bitter battle for
Poznan. Adolf Hitler ordered the
city held at all cost, but Malor
General Mattern, the nazi com
mander, was among the prisoners
taken.
Zhukov's forces also cleared an
other encircled German city yes
terday. Arnswalde, 39 miles south
east of the Baltic port of Stettin
and junction of the Danzig-Berlin
and Poznan Stettin railways.
Marshal Ivan S. Konev's First
Ukrainian army, meantime, broke
into the streets of a third encircled
German city, the Sllesian capital
us miics southeast of
Marines Reach
Island Plateau
In Grim Fight
Nippons Reported Using
Half-Ton Rocket Shells
In Battle Against Yanks
I Guam, Feb. 24 IIP) Tank-led U.
marines renewed the assault
Qh Iwo's central air field from a
springboard on its lower edge
today and at noon were hammer
ing out slow gains against viol
ent resistance.
I Admiral Chester W. Nlmitz an
nounced that the marines charged
Japanese positions on the Iwo
airfield from a line on the south
western rim of the base and south
of Its center.
With tank support the marines
struck this morning after Ameri
can planes, artillery, and war
ships had plastered the field with
a great weight of explosives. . .
V "By noon, our forces were re-
j JAPS USE ROCKETS
I Aboard Admiral Turners' flag
ship off Iwo Jima, Feb. 24 (IP)
The Japanese on Iwo are using
half-ton rocket-mortar shells
for the first time in the Paclflo
war. Marines believed they
were launched by rocket-mortar
propulsion from platforms on
northern Iwo.
ported to be gaining eroiind slow-
ri" Nirnltz said In a convmunio.ua.
-enemy resistance is heavy."
Patrols Reach Crater
On the southern tip of Iwo,
patrols entered the crater of the
extinct Surlbachi volcano, atop
which the stars and stripes flew,
and were mopping up remnants
of the Japanese forces defending
the natural fortress.
" "Conditions on the beaches are
generally Improved, and the un
loading of general cargo is pro
ceeding," the communique reported.
(A BBC broadcast reported by
CBS quoted radio Tokyo as say
ing that the Americans have es
tablished two new beachheads on
the southeast coast of Iwo.)
Casualties mounted steadily on
both sides In the bloodiest fight
ing of the Pacific war. While
American losses have not been
announced beyond 5,372 casualties
for the first 58 hours of the six-
day battle, the finding of another
717 Japanese bodies jumped the
number of enemy dead to at least
1,939.
Big Toll Claimed
(A Japanese broadcast claimed
that American losses on Iwo were
"well over 17,000" up to Friday
night. Eight more American war
ships, including two battleships,
have been sunk or damaged off
the island, Tokyo said.)
Elements of the third marine
division fought onto the 300-foot-southern
tip of the southwest
northeast runway of Motoyama
airfield No. 2 by dusk.
The fourth and fifth marine
division still were attempting to
clamber up the slopes of the pla
teau from the east and west under
almost polntblank artillery, ma
chine-gun and rocket fire from an
Intricate system of pillboxes,
blockhouses and fortified caves.
Eisenhower Says Rhine Goal
Of Allies in All-Oul Drive
General Hopes to Destroy All German Power
West of River; Russian Leaders Are Lauded
. By Jack Fleischer
(United PrM War Oonssinmdtnt)
Paris, F.eb. 24 (UJR) Gen. Dwiarht D. Eisenhower said to
day that the aim of his new Rhineland offensive is to destroy
German power west of the Rhine in that sector, strike east as
last as weather and terrain permit, and meet the red army in
central Germany.
"There is sroinsr to be no cessation of atrirressive action on
this front," Eisenhower said. He said that we are going to
fight as violently and aggressively as we are able from now on.
Thus the allied supreme commander gave his tacit con
firmation of the impression
that this is ltr-the grand scale
offensive looking to the show
down battle of Germany. ,
"Given conditions I can see
now.". Elsenhower said, "a
reasonable weather break I
don't ask for a July In Kansas
the attack just started should
mark the destruction of the Ger
man forces west of the Rhine."
In all history, he observed, a
river line never has been defend
ed successfully.
Rhine Is Goal
Elsenhower, at a press confer
ence of more than 90 minutes.
said the battle which began yester
day promised to bring the allies to
the Rhine. Given the breaks in
weather .and terrain, he said, the
German force In the northern bat
tle area can be eliminated without
unreasonable losses in American
troops.
He paid glowing tribute to the
Russians. They have given him all
the information he wanted, cheer
fully and willingly, he said, and
"I am completely satisfied."
"Our liaison with Russia al-ways-
naa been as -close and Inti
mate as necessary to meet any
situation at any particular mo
ment," Elsenhower declared.
Brazil May Bid
For Council Seat
Mexico City, Feb. 24 HP) It ap
peared probable today that Brazil
might establish diplomatic rela
tions with Russia and receive a
permanent seat on the world se
curity council.
Unofficial discussions at the
Inter American conference here
were highlighted by speculation
about Brazil's moves to enter the
good graces of all the big powers,
and emerge as the leading South
American nation. Brazil has long
been a strong rival of Argentina
for such recognition.
Brazil's delegates have stated
strongly that the world council
"cannot dispense with the con
stant cooperation of Latin Amer
ica," and that Brazil "considers it
indispensible that a ' pcrmament
place be assigned to them."
Seven Oregon Counties
Are Free of Fatalities
Salem, Ore., Feb. 24 Ml Only
seven of Oregon's 36 counties had
no traffic fatalities during 1944,
secretary of state Robert S. Fsr
rell, Jr., reported today.
Only Sherman county has had
no fatalities for two consecutive
years.
The seven counties with clear
records are Baker, Gilliam, Harn
ey, Morrow, Sherman, Wallowa,
Dairy Committee
Endorses Bills
Milk legislation now pending in
the Btate legislature, and which
has won the approval of the Des
chutes county Dairy Industry
committee, today also had the en
dorsement of the board of direc
tors ol the Bend Chamber of com
merce. The directors voted to en
dorse the legislation as listed by
the committee, and advised Rep.
William Niskanen of their stand.
The dairy committee approved
the following:
HB 369, requiring compulsory
testings of dairy cattle for Bang's
disease and tuberculosis; HB 370.
eliminating the state Grade A
law; HB 371, which sets up a
standard milk ordinance; HB 372,
licensing establishments handling
live virus aru) safeguards vaccina
tion; HB 234, requiring pasteuriza
tion of all milk for human con
sumption except that from dis
ease-free herds; SB 128, providing
enforcement of regulatory legis
lation applying to sanitation of
establishments where food or
drink are consumed, and SB 177,
which implements the manner in
which the state board of health
may regulate eating establish
menrs.
The dairy committee report was
signed by the following producers
and creamery operators:
H. P. Eby, D. M. Lay, H. H. Kil
gore, Marvin Davidson, Earl Hal
lock, M. E. Taylor, J. L. Jones, Del-
mer Davis, Ole Olausen, Dick Min
son, Carl Livesley, Peter Hohn-
stein and John Bradetich.
and Wheeler, Farrell said.
County Treasurer
Gets Tax Turnover
A tax turn-over totaling $1.
225.31 was made this morning by
R. I. Hamby, Deschutes county
deputy sheriff m charge of tax
collections,- to R. A. Ferguson,
county treasurer. The sum Is from
taxes collected for the year 1942
43. A much larger turn-over, ex
pected to total about $15,000, will
be made by Hamby this afternoon
or on Monday morning, it was reported.
Today's turn -over total com
prised $1,103.66 In tax collections
plus $121.65. In interest collected.
The money was apportioned ns
follows: school district fund, $376.-
76; county general fund, $304.34;
courthouse building, $8.14; fire pa
I trol, $13.32: county library, $10.07;
' city of Bend, $87.61; city of Red
mond, $32.89; Terrebonne water
distrclt, $.89; Deschutes county
I municipal Irrigation district, $240.
of Breslau
Berlin.
Battle for Manila in Final Phase;
Big Guns Blast City's Aged Walls
Manila, Feb. 24 mi The battle, Inside the walled city, was ex-1 than 3,000 American civilian In-
for Manila virtually ended today Ipected quickly to end organized
as American troops captured all Japanese resistance In Manila,
but three of the enemy-held -although It may be several days
buildings In the devastated an-1 before the last fanatical enemy
cieni wan city, alter anacKing tne is mopped up.
Cairo, Feb. 24 'IP) Premier
Ahmed Maher Pasha was aH
sasslnated tonight during par
liamentary debate preceding an
Egyptian declaration of war
against Germany and Japan.
liist Japanese positions in a
church and small section on the
west and south sides of the In
tramuros area.
The final assault on the Jap
anese in Manila followed a com
bined land and amphibious at
tack by the 37th division which
Shotqun Blasts
Kill 'Big Boss'
Cleveland, Fob. 24 'IP Nathan
v, eisennerg, "big boss" of Cleve
land's slot machine racket, was
found shot to death in his parked
car early today.
Police said Welsenberg ap-
k.--..i wa Kiuea Dy two blasts; the medieval wall from the east
irom a snotgun as he sat in the and across the wide Pasig river
driver s seat of his coupe not far 'on the north.
from his Cleveland heights home. The double attack, which Joined
"The destruction of the final
remnants of the enemy's trapped
garrison in south Manila Is in
its final phases," Gen. Douglas
MacArthur said in his communi
que. He also announced that other
American, forces had seized Blrl
breached the ancient wall around Island at the eastern end of San
Intramuros. 1 Bernardino strait to complete U.
Following In the wake of aS. domination of the water pas
thunderous artillery bar ra g e, isagewav at the southeastern end
which virtually -flattened the old
Intramuros section, the American
troops stormed through and over
of Luzon. The Americans first
opened the strait with the occupa
tion of Capul island at the west
ern end of the waterway.
Reports of Japanese brutality
In Manila reached a new mark
ternees at Santo Tomas were sub
jected to several days of heavy
artillery fire.
The frenzied enemy deliberately
shelled the face of the main build
ing at Santo Tomas and the front
entrance. Despite their weakened
and emaciated condition, the In
ternees were forced to spend
hours a day In the protected
parts of the institution during
the bombardment.
Although the number of dead
and wounded among the civilians
was not announced, the communi
que said the casualties "fortunate
ly were very light." The shelling
occurred several days after Santo
Tomas was occupied by the first
cavalry division.
The final drive to wipe out the
pocket of bitterly resisting Japa
nese In southern Manila was
with the disclosure that more 'launched yesterday morning,
Tanks, Troops
Break Through
Yielding Lines
Nazis Reel Back Before
One of Heaviest Blows
Of War on West Front
Paris, Feb. 24 nPi American
tanks and infantrymen drove two
to 3V4 miles beyond the shattered
Roer river line on a 22-mile front
today in a driving offensive that
rocked the Germans back within
19 miles of Cologne and the Rhine.,
Everywhere the Germans ,were
reeling back before one of the
mightiest assaults of the western
war. A dozen fortified towns on
the west end of the Cologne plain ,
and more than 1,200 stunned
prisoners fell into American
hands in the first 24 hours ot the
attack.
Six German divisions were over
whelmed in the first Yank surge
across the Roer, as Gen. Dwlght
D. Elsenhower hurled armored
and Infantry divisions of the U.
S., First and Ninth armies into
the narrow offensive front. .
Nazis Give Data
German spokesmen said the
Americans had 20 divisions, in
cluding six armored divisions,
totaling perhaps 300,000 men on
the attack front. .
Field dispatches said yank en
gineers were working feverishly
to throw additional bridges across
the still-swollen Roer. The bat
tle appeared to be developing Into,
a race to' get the Americans' full
armored power across the river
before the arrival of the Germans'
main reserves. ,
Official reports said enemy re
sistance, softened by a continu
ous drumfire of bombs and shells,
was relatively light and that
American casualties were small.
There was still no evidence
that the nazi retreat had become
disorganized, however, and it was
expected that the opposition
would stiffen within the next few
hours as the advance drilled into
their main defenses behind the
Roer.
Juellch Captured
Juellch, 22 miles west of Col
ogne and probably the toughest
German stronghold on the Roer,
fell to the Ninth army alter a
fierce street battle. Remnants of
the enemy garrison still were
holding out inside the town's
walled, moated citadel this morn
ing, but the tide of battle already
had swept out beyond them and
their elimination was only a mat
ter of time.
Lt. Gen. William H. Simpson's
Ninth army spearheads also cap
tured Glimbach, Gevenich, Ruhr
ich, Boslar, Slegerdorf, Hambach,
Korrenzig and Baal on the east
side of the Roer above and below
Juellch,
At Baal, the Yanks are 3V4 miles
northwest of Llnnlch and the
same distance southwest of the
nazi base at Erkelenz. At Ham-
bach, they were on the edge or
the Staats forest and barely 19
miles west of Cologne.
Iwo Fight Grim,
Marines Assert
Somewhere In the Marianas,
Feb. 24 (U' (Via Navy Radio)
A shipload of more than 600 bat
tle torn marines arrived here to
day for hospitalization. They were
the first battle casualties to be
evacuated from the hellfire of Iwo
Jima.
Unloading of the wounded,
about two-thirds of whom were
stretcher cases, was delayed sev
eral hours when a hospital ship
rammed an obstruction while
nearing a dock here.
Veterans of the Bougainville,
Guadalcanal and Saipan invasions
among the wounded described the
Iwo battlefield as "worse than the
worst of them."
Battle Is Grim
Wounded marines interviewed
aboard ship suld Japanese mines
took a heavy toll of tanks, half
tracks and other combat vehicles.
Wreckage of shattered landing
craft, vehicles and the broken
bodies of men clogged the beach
es and made subsequent landings
difficult -"You
could find any part of the
human body there on that beach,"
a 4th marine private said.