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CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
Volume Llll
THE BEND BULLETIN. BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, FEB. 27, 1945
NO. 71
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POLAND TO GET
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Churchill Says
Upper Silesia
Also Assigned
Premier Reveals All Is
In Readiness for Nazi
Collapse or Surrender
London, Feb. 27 IP Prime
Minister Churchill said today that
Poland will be given upper Silesia,
Danzig, the greater part of East
Prussia, and a "long Baltic sea
front."
To compensate for territory
yielded to Russia in the east, Pol
land also will receive such addi
tional German trritory east of
the Oder river as may be decided
at the peace conference, Churchill
told a packed commons.
He said Poland would be grant
ed the "greater part of East Prus
sia to the west of Koenigsberg,"
indicating that Russia may retain
the capital of the junkers prov
ince. Frontier Defined
In the important German in
dustrial province of upper or
southern Silesia which Churchill
said would go to Poland lies such
manufacturing centers as Oppeln,
Hindenburg, Gleiwitz, and Beut li
en. Poland's eastern frontier, he re
affirmed, would be the Curzon
line as drawn by an Allied com
mission in 1919 and "including, of
course, the exclusion of Lwow
from Poland'- .
w,p!f
perfect assurances" from both
President Roosevelt and U. S. sec
retary of state Edward R. Stet
tinius that the United States had
no objection or complaint to steps
Britain has taken in Italy.
"I am not prepared to accept
suggestions from any quarter
that Great Britain has fallen be
hind other victorious powers in
taking a generous view toward
Italy or that we nourish any de
sign of power politics," he said.
U. S. Aid Pledged
Churchill said the United States
has "entered deeply and construc
tively into the life and salvation
of Europe." '
"We have, all three, set our
hands to far-reaching engage
ments at once practical and
solemn,", he said in concluding
his summary of the Crimean con
ference.
"United, we have the unchal
lengeable power to lead the world
to prosperity and freedom. The
great powers must seek to serve."
He spoke for an hour and 50
minutes, broken by an hour for
lunch.
Everything is ready for the sur
render or collapse of Germany,
he said, but he gave no hint of
when either might be expected.
Churchill defended the Curzon
line fixed by the Crimean con
ference for the Polish Russian
boundary as "just and right." He
denied that "force of fear" played
a part in American and British
concurrence in the Soviet propos
al for the boundry. '
He broke his speech at 1:15
p.m. for lunch and was scheduled
to resume an hour later.
Calling for a strong vote of con
fidence in his government's com
mitments at the Crimean con-
ierence, tnurcniu aisu miu. ,
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(Continued on rage a)
Objectionable
Be Stopped, Says Committee
Washington, Feb. 27 (IB The
house appropriations committee
today accused executive depart
ments of objectionable spending
practices and asserted bluntly
that they "must be stopped."
The committee voiced the criti
cism In recommending deficiency
appropriations and new con
tractual authority totaling $2,453,
177,125 for the current fiscal year.
It said it had discovered instances
"which indicated eitheu a lack of
knowledge or an utter disregard
of the so-called anti-deficiency
law." '
That law requires executive
Kencies to apportion expendi
tures over a fiscal year to cover
Wl except unforeseen emergency
demands. The committee saia
Rencies were reDOrtine "over-
obligations during the first half
Of thp rnrront fispal VPar tO an
extent which maces the congress
in thp nneitinn olthpr of granting
Money (Jap)
(NBA Telephotoj
Commander S. P. Wilson, USNR, one of Manila' leading businessmen
who fled to mountains and joined Filipino guerrillas, returns to ills
business building and finds bis office floor covered with bales of Japanese
"invasion money." Hie Nips had used his building as their treasury.
Photo by Tom Shafer, NEA-Acme photographer for War Picture Pool.
Deschutes County Red Cross
Drive Start Set for March 1
Junior Chamber of Commerce to Supervise
Bend Campaign; County Quota Is $22,300
With March 1 set as the
lorganiWjQn4oday had. .been .completed. Jfor. the: 1945 Red
dr-ive, according to Bruno Rath, Deschutes
county cnairman or the American Red Cross. The campaign
will be launched in this county at the same time the nationwide
drive starts to raise funds for the use. of the "mercy workers"
on the farflung battlefields.
In Bend, the campaign will be sponsored by the Junior
chamber of commerce, with Harold Gentry heading the com
mittee handling downtown solicitations. The Jaycees also
Halbrook Buys
Houk Motor Co.
In one of the largest financial
transactions in Bend in recent
years, sale of the Houk Motor
company on Bond street to Jack
Halbrook of Portland, was an
nounced today. The deal, which
involves approximately $40,000,
becomes effective on March 1.
Under the terms of the transac
tion, Halbrook obtains a five year
lease on the property, and be
comes sole owner of the stock,
Darts and agencies for the Ford,
Lincoln and Mercury automobiles.
In making a joint announce
ment of the sale, Halbrook and
W. L. Van Allen and J. O. Houk,
co-partners in the firm, disclosed
that Houk plans to enter semi
retirement after 26 years in the
motor business In Central, Ore
gon. He still retains an interest
In the firm's automobile busi
nesses In Redmond and Prine
ville, but plans to take a less
active interest in their operation.
To Retain Interest
Houk still retains his interest
in the Houk Van Allen store at
the corner of Wall street and
Minnesota avenue, but Van Allen
will have active charge, it was
(Continued on Page 5'
Spending Must
additional funds or forcing the
curtailment of operations which
in some cases would be unwise
and harmful."
"That sort of practice cannot
be continued, particularly when
the congress is in continuous ses
sion," the report said. "It must
be stopped."
The committee aiso scuim-u mc
administrative departments for a
tnn-llhpral attitude on reclassify
ing federal employes under the
civil service system and thus per
mining them to qualify for high
er salaries.
In its recommendations, the
committee cut budget bureau re
auests bv S293,298,336 in addition
tn S22.S00.WX) siasnea irom me
$136,800,000 request for new naval been sunk; 162 probably sunk and
contractual authority. 1631 damaged.
The navy will receive most of Japanese shipping was attacked
the money recommended by the j by the 5th air force across a 5,000
commlttee. It was provided j mile front, extending from Ra
$1 875 047,488, besides $114,300,000 1 baul. New Britain, to Formosa and
in' new contractual authority. lthe East China coast
By ihe Bale
'date for the eamnaiffn liiekof f .
figure in the county wide cam
paign, with Bruce Gilbert,
president of the organization,
acting a s Deschutes county
chairman, assisted by Carroll
Meeks, while Vernon W. Lar
son has been named to steer
the publicity.
This year, the county's quota is
$22,300. it was reported bv Rath.
This is $200 less than the quota
for last year, and Rath said that
he was confident that Deschutes
residents would hasten to put the
county over the top.
Leaders Named
Solicitation In the Bend resi
dential district will be under the
guidance of Mrs. A. E. Stevens
Ben Hamilton will handle the
campaign among workers.for The
bhevlin-Hixon Company, and Ma
rie Seargeant will have charge at
the Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Com
pany Inc. In Redmond, the cam
paign will again be sponsored by
tne Klwanis club, while in Sisters
the drive will be in charge of Mrs.
J. B. Patterson and Maida Rossiter
Bailey. Chairman for La pine has
not yet oeen cnosen, it was said,
but Mrs. McKinley Stoffel, chair
man of the Pomona Grange home
economics clubs, will head rural
solicitation.
Headquarters for the Red Cross
War Fund drive in Bend will be
opened in the chamber of com
merce offices on March 5, with
members of the Junior chamber
of commerce auxiliary In charge,
headed by Mrs. Don Higgins as
chairman.
Indicating a ready response to
the call for Red Cross funds,
Chairman Rath announced today
that contributions have already
been made. First donors were the
F. W. Woolworth company which
donated $65, and the P.E.O. Sister
hood, which donated $50.
Toll of Jap Ships
In 1944 Is 1,569
Headquarters, Fifth Air Force,
Philippines, Feb. 27 Ui Planes
'of the Fifth air force and other
aircraft under the command
of
Maj. Gen. Ennis C.
Whitehead
sunk, probably sunk or damaged
1,569 Japanese ships aggregating
1,324,965 tons during 1944, it was
announced today.
A headquarters dispatch said
that 776 enemy ships, totaling vir
tually a nan million tons, hadi
LONG
End of Island
Struggle Near,
Victory on Iwo Jima ..
In Sight, Commander
Tells News Writers
By Mac R. Johnson
' (United PreM War Carrol pendent)
Aboard Adm. Turner's Flagship
Off Iwo Jima, Feb. 27- (IB Lt.
Gen. Holland M. (Howling Mad)
Smith, commanding general of
fleet marine forces in the Pacific,
flatly declared today that the
leathernecks 'intend to take Iwo
Jima in a few more days." -:'
Smith was in high spirits after
making a long tour of the Amer
ican held portion of Iwo Jima.
"There are no shortages on the
island not even of courage," he
said. " . :
He did not repeat 'hor elaborate
on his statement that Iwo would
be captured In a few days.
May Hide in Caves
He said, however, that due to
the numerous caves on the island,
"we will have difficulty in run
ning down Japanese guerillas for
some time after the seizure of the
island
Summing up impressions gain
ed during a visit to the Fifth Am
phibious corps division and rent
mental command posts, Smith
'said he considered the progress of
'the cnmpalPn ''satisfactory." - "
"It is my belief that the enemy
is suffering from a shortage of
water and is having difficulty in
carine for his wounded." he said.
"Advance marines are finding
caves with many enemy dead. The
JaDs are making every effort to
hide their casualties and there is
some evidence of suicides."
He said one cave was found
near a Quarry on the southeast
coast which held over 200 dead.
They Included Japs killed in bat
tle, some suicides and some cre
mated bodies. The Jnps apparent
ly are pulling their dead and
wounded back Into their own
lines, Smith said, adding that it
was not improbable that enemy
dead mav be sealed in caves.
General Impressed
The general said he was im
pressed bv the morale of marine
officers and men and their desire
to get the capture of Iwo over
with as quickly as possible.
Smith said that as U. S. forces
advance northward on Iwo, the
going will be Increasingly diffi
cult. However, all higher echelon
commanders have Informed him
that the men are becoming more
battlewise and that casualties, as
a result, are becoming relatively
smaller each day.
He said the marines now hold
about 1023 of the island and have
denied the Japs their observation
posts by occupying high ground
in the center.
General Says
Great Ota Aircraft Plant Near
Tokyo Hit By American Fliers
Guam, Feb. 27 IIP American i fnrp unit thnv nitnraA ni, .iini..
carrier aircraft struck a heavy
, uupauL-w aircran
production Sunday and Monday,
ULoMUJ,,e ui uuuiHKinK t&s air-
craft and 31 vessels and small
craft in attacks on the Tokyo area,
Adm. Chester Nimltz reported to
day. He reported, that the great Ota
aircraft plant 40 miles northwest
of Tokyo now has been about 75
per cent destroyed as the result
of this second raid in a second
series of carrier-based attacks
against the factory. It also has
been raided by Superfortresses.
In addition to the Ota raid the
Koizuni airplane and assembly
plant was heavily damaged.
ine communique did not report
damage done by the more than 200 ;
Superforts which hit Tokyo In
conjunction with the carrier utrtWp
Sunday, but It wa holloa th, !
their bombs which were dumped! the Tokyo area and radar natal
on the industrial heart of Tokyo ilatlons and hXm atearbvtr"
wrought heavy additional damage, j fie ds """W at nearbv alr'
mmL uT ,, 1 t.nPW ,arKPt 11,0 Japanese offered surprls
' npn hnv hl he Island 1 Ingly little resistance to this sec
ofHachljo an Important warning ond scries of carrier attacks on
station and airbase
J iv miles I
south of Tokyo.
I !
Althoueh it was thp
In eight days that Vice Adm. Mare
A. Mitscher sent his
ing in over Tokyo in low altitude
auacKS, me
challenge his great carrier task!
jananpsp fatipfi tmin
FRONT ON
Verde Island, Off Luzon Tip,
Seized By MacArfhur Forces
Landing Accomplished With Practically no
Loss; 3,056 Nippons Killed on Corregidor
Manila, Feb. 27 (UJ!) American forces secured control
today, of the western end of the central Philippines water
route with the virtually complete occupation of Verde island
off the southern tip of Luzon.
Verde, lying midway between the Batangas area of Luzon
and Mindoro, was the 16th Philippines island invaded by U. S.
amphibious forces.
Units of the 24th division, veterans of the bitter Leyte
campaign, landed on Verde Sunday and took the Japanese by
complete surprise. Within three hours, the Americans reduced
resistance to a pocket around 1
ban Agapito, on the southeast
ern coast, and last were re
ported mopping up the small
Japanese force. , .
Seizure of Verde came within
five days after other American
troops captured Caput and Birl
islands in the San Bernardino
fetrait at the eastern end of the
water passageway, between Luzon
ana bamar.
I On Main Route
! The water way is the main navi
gation route through the central
Philippines for shipping from Ma
nila bay to the United States.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur said
tne landing on Verde was accom
plished with "practically no loss."
. His communique also disclosed
that paratroopers on Corregidor
had cleaned out all but about one
mile of the eastern tip of the is
land. The mopping up of the Japa
nese stragglers had carried to the
western end of Klndley airstrip,
Deiween uavairy fomt ana Mon
key Point, one mile east of Ma
llnta Hill. (
. The ceunt -of Japanese dead on
corregidor reached 3,056, al
though the communique said
that "countless" others were killed
inside the island's tunnels or while
attempting to swim to safety.
There were no further reports of
suicide explosions in the tunnels.
Snell Endorses
Red Cross Drive
Salem, Ore., Feb. 27 IP Gov.
Earl Snell today endorsed the
March Red Cross Volunteer Con
tribution drive, saying that only
through contributions can the
organization continue its great
work.
The governor praised the activi
ties oi tne organization, particu
larly the job of assisting con
tacts between men and women In
service and their families.
Victor Morris
Chamber Speaker
Dr. Victor P. Morris of the Uni
versity of Oregon, chairman of
the state committee on postwar
industrial development, Is to be
the guest speaker at the annual
dinner meeting of the Bend cham
ber of commerce tonight at 7
o'clock In the Pine Tavern.
A capacity attendance is ex
pected. resistance over the target areas.
iwo oi our light units were
damaged during retirement, Nim-
uz-communique stressed, nresum-
ably by air attack. We lost nine
fighter planes In combat and four
pilots.
Against this loss, American
planes wrapped up a ratio of bet
ter than 17 to one in the destruc
tion of enemy aircraft. Our pilots
destroyed 111 Japanese planes on
the ground and shot down 47 In
aerial combat, a total of 158. In ad
dition, about 75 Jap planes were
damaged on the ground.
Our planes sank five small en
emy vessels, including one picket
craft, probably sunk five coastal
vessels and seven small craft and
damaged nine coastal vessels and
five small craft,
Mitcv, ii,. . j i i.
, " . ..r"i ,
their canllal. It was renorted that
B - 29 Dilots returninc from thplr
attack on Sunday reported vir
tually no opposition.
The communlaue stressed that
about 100 aircraft were observed
them were unaggressive."
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Bend Teachers
Given Increase
In Annual Pay
Seventy-four school teachers
will receive pay Increases of $90
each for the school year 1945
1946, it was decided last night at
the school district budget com
mittee meeting held in the board
room of the high school building.
Question of teacher salaries was
the only matter considered and
an hour and a half was taken in
deciding it.
Three hundred dollars a year in
crease had been recommended by
city superintendent Howard W.
George, but after a short discus
sion, 7Hana Slag's void;" advisory
board' member, moved that ' the
present salary schedule be left un
changed. Vance T. Coyner, also
of the advisory board, seconded.
As the discussion went on it be
came apparent that the school
board members A. O. Schilling,
Dr. G. W. Wlnslow, Mrs. P. N.
Armstrong, Al Eriksen and Glenn
H. Gregg were for increases and
that the advisory board members
Carl A. Johnson, Carl J. Llndn,
Carl Erickson, Slagsvold and Coy
(Continued on Tage 5)
Henry M. Parks,
Geologist, Dead
Henry M. Parks, 73, dean of the
Oregon State college school of
mines from 1912 to 1917 and direc
tor of the Oregon bureau of mines
and geology from 1912 to 1923,
died at his home in the Fort Rock
valley, south of Bend, last night
following a lingering Illness. Fu
neral arrangements are pending,
with the Nlswonger & Wlnslow
chapel In charge of local arrange
menu. A consulting geologist and min
ing engineer since ending his long
service with the state in 1923, Mr.
Parks also operated one of the
largest ranches of the Fort Rock
valley, the Poplars, for more than
20 years, and It was largely under
his leadership that seml-arteslan
water In the northern Lake coun
ty basin was developed for irri
gation uses. Mr. Parks made a de
tailed geological Investigation of
the Fort Rock valley, once part of
a great lake that washed the
southern base of the Paulina
mountains, and learned that the
valley was like a vast saucer, with
water stored only a short distance
under the surface.
Born In Illinois
Born In Peoria, 111., on Nov. 29,
1872, Mr. Parks received degrees
from Iowa State college In 1902
and 1908, and later studied at the
Colorado School of Mines. He mar
ried Alice Merrltt of Grundy Cen
ter, Iowa, on Dec. 31, 1903. Mr.
Parks Is survived by his wile and
two children, Merrltt Parks and
Ruth G. Parks, at home. Also sur
viving are three brothers, H. D.
Parks, Greenleaf, Ida., Charles S.
Parks, Creston, Iowa, and A. W.
Parks, Caldwell, Idaho, and one
sister, Mrs. A. J. Syron, of Port
land. Before coming to Oregon, Mr.
Parks was an Instructor at Iowa
State college, and later was a
mining consultant in Butte, Mont.,
Cripple Crwk, Colo., and Tono
pah, Nov. He was a member of the
Northwestern university staff
when he accepted a position at
Oregon State college, becoming
dean of the school of mines in
1912.
Mr. Parks was a member of the
American Institute of Mining En
gineers and of the American Min
ing congress. ,
BALTIC SEA
Tanks Storm
As Allied Armies Sweep East;
Cologne Reported Under Fire
Belief Held Foe Abandoning Entire Barrier
West of Rhine in Effort to Escape Swift
, Moving Units of Simpson; Scene Is Chaotic :
Paris, Feb. 27 (U.E) American tanks and troops stormed
the Erft river line eight miles
dispatches indicated the Germans were fleeing m disorder
across the Rhine.
The entire German battle screen on the Rhineland plain
was dissolving into a confused, chaotic mass before the scythe
like sweep of the American First and Ninth armies.
Armored and infantry forces of both armies were on the
Erft and perhaps across it on a broad assault arc west and
northwest of Cologne, and?
other Ninth arhiy elements to
the north swept forward ten
miles in as many hours to the
rim of the Ruhr valley.
Blackout Imposed
Indicating that German com
munications on the battlefield had
broken down completely. Lt. Gen.
William H. Simpson's Ninth army
headquarters announced that a
strict security blackout had been
imposed on the army's forward
units until further notice.
High-ranking officers with the
First army on the Erft expressed
the belief that the Germans were
abandoning their entire line west
of the Rhine in a race to escape
the horde of American men and
armor closing in on their rear.
- Many .officer, predlotedv- how
ever, mai me nazis wouia leave a
doomed rear guard in Cologne to
fight a suicidal delaying action in
tne rums of what once was Ger
many's fourth city.
Cologne Under Fire
The First army's big guns al
ready were lobbing shells into
Cologne, and tank columns fan
ning out through the Rhineland
were sweeping up hundreds of
prisoners hourly. By late after
noon today's bag of captives on
the Ninth army front alone had
reached 1,500.
On the northern flank of the
offensive line, armored and in
fantry units of the U. S. Ninth
army outflanked and all but en
circled the industrial city of Muen-
chen - Gladbach, westernmost of
the Ruhr factory towns.
Ten miles southeast of Muen-chen-Cladbach,
the Ninth army
reached the Erft river line some
16 miles northwest of Cologne. It
captured Koenlgshovcn and the
river village of Morken and began
probing for a crossing, on the di
rect road to the Rhine.
Erft River Reached
Other First army forces farther
south already were on the Erft
on the military highway west of
Dueren where the river bends
back within about eight miles of
Cologne.
Powerful armored elements of
Lt. Gen. William H. Simpson's
Ninth army were storming
through Rhinedahien five miles
southwest of Muenchen-GIadbach,
while other columns stabbed 10
miles northwest of Erkelenz In a
wide end run that carried into
Waldnell, 6'A miles west of Muen
chen. Still other forces were sweep-
Ing in on the factory citv from
positions about two miles to the
MacArthur Returns Civil Rule
Of Islands to Filipino People
Manila, Feb. 27 UP) Gen. Doucr
las MacArthur restored civil ad
ministration of the Philippines to
the commonwealth government
today and solemnly proclaimed
my country has kept the faith."
He thus fulfilled a pledce given
to the Filipinos when he withdrew
his troops from Manila three years
ago.
Standing anions the ruins of
burned and sacked Manila, Mac
Arthur reviewed those three years
of "bitterness, struggle and sacri
fice," and vowed that "bv these
ashes" the enemy "has wantonly
fixed the pattern of his own
doom."
MacArthur's historic action.
broadcast throughout the world
over the Voice of Freedom radio,
was hailed by a cheering throng of
civil and military officials eath-
ered In the liberated capital.
resident berelo Osmena. in ac
cepting restoration of the civil
government, appealed to all dulv-
elected members of the congress
Erf t River Line
from Cologne today and field
Softened Isle
Lt. Gen. Holland M. Smith,
commanding general of fleet
marine forces in the Pacific, de
clared today that the leathernecks
intend to take Iowa Jima in a
few more days.
Sgt. E. L Wilson
Killed on Luzon
First Sergeant Edgar L. (Eddie)
Wilson, 23, son of Mrs. Ethel Wil
son, 237 Georgia avenue, and Lynn
Wilson, Sisters, was killed in ac
tion on February 4 on Luzon while
serving with company E, 511th
parachute Infantry of the 11th
airborne division.
Sgt. Wilson received paratroop
er training at Fort Benning, Ga.,
and was awarded his wings in
July, 1942. The following Decem
ber he was transferred to the
511th and went overseas last May.
He served on New Guinea, Leyte
and Luzon.
Sgt. Wilson attended high school
at Albany and served three years
with the 19th infantry at Sco-
field barracks, Hawaii, before Join
ing tne paratroopers.
Serf. Wilson was hnrn at Klstpra
on Sent. 1. 1921. In addition tn
his parents he is survived by a sis
ter, Mrs. Trudy Hulbert of Bend.
who "have remained steadfast to
their allegiance" to return to Ma
nila and reestablish the legislative
branch.
"I ask all my people to help re
establish law and order for a for
mal return so that In 1945 our
request for independence will be
granted," Osmena said.
The Philippines president
warmly praised the American gen
eral for fulfilling his vow "to re
turn" and drew a loud burst of
applause when he predicted that
"Gen Douglas MacArthur will go
down In history."
MacArthur had told the Fill,
plnos that the long struggle
through the three dark years of
Japanese occupation was "not In
vain."
"God has Indeed blessed our
arms," he said. "The great un
washed power of America, sup
ported by our allies, turned the
tide of battle In the Pacific.
"My country has kept the faith."