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CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
TWO SECTIONS THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND. DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1945
NO. 73
Volume LIU
Yanks Cheer First Flag Raised Over I wo Jima
Yaim Iks IRace Toward.
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Fighting Marines cheer the first
Burlbachi to hoist the flag In face
Iwo's Capture Appears Near
Marines Press
Nips to North
Coast of Isle
i!4&ifial Town Seized;
j Tokyo Tells of Heavy
Bombardment By Navy
By Frank Tremalne
(United Press War Correspondent)
Guam, March 1 (IP Marines of
Ihe Third division shoved desperately-resisting
Japanese back into
rocky northern Iwo today in a
fighting advance to within a mile
and a quarter of the north coast.
(The, German Transocean
agency' reported from Tokyo that
the marines had launched an all
out attack on Iwo and that shells
from U. S. warships offshore
were hitting the island at the
rate of 500 an hour.)
They already had encircled and
perhaps captured the village of
Motoyama, Iwo's administrative
center and largest town, and
were within a few yards of an
uncompleted third airfield on the
tiny island only 750 miles south
' of Tokyo.
f Tokyo Reports Attack
(Radio Tokyo, in a broadcast
recorded by the FCC, said Japa
nese planes had made "violent at
tacks" today on a concentration
of American warships in the vi
cinity of Iwo and the Bonin is
lands, immediately north of Iwo.)
The Third division gained 700
to 800 yards the biggest day's
advance since the start of the in
vasion 10 days ago at the center
of the American line yesterday in
the initial phases of a general
assault.
There seemed little doubt that
t Lt. Gen. Holland M. Smith, com
mander of the expeditionary
force, was bent on cleaning up
Iwo as rapidly as possible for use
as a base for fighters escorting
Superfortresses to Tokyo.
Planned as Base
Iwo also will be used as a stag
ing base at which the giant B-29s
Kill re.IUP nnri lalra rr aririiMnno
bombs for lnaHc cpvnr.nl limas
avier than it nnw is nnssihle to
haul fmm iha MixInMi. in iha
enemy capital.
While the Third division was
wedging deeply Into the center of
'he enemy line, the tank-led Fifth
division on the western flank
orove ahead several hundred
yards against stiff opposition.
The Fourth division, on the
pastern flank, also went over to
),L attack- but made only 'Tim
M gains" against Japanese f irm-
entrenched in sharp ridges ris
"ig from the east coast.
Roosevelt Tells
Of Crimea Ruins
Washington, March 1 (IP) It
" a grim Roosevelt who told
""press today what the nazis left
wninrl them In the Crimea,
j T -J read about Warsaw and
and Rotterdam and Cov
",";' he said, "but I saw Sevas
opol and Yalta.
r, 1 know tnere Is not enough
m on earth for both German
cenc'"Sm and Christian de-
American Flag to fly over Iwo Jima after
of Jap artillery and sniper fire. Note the
Ryukyu Isles, South of Japan,
Under Attack By 600 Planes
Task Force No. 58 Believed in Action Close
To Nip Homeland; Tokyo Gives News of Raid
San Francisco. March 1 (HE) Tokvo announced today
that approximately 600 American carrier planes raided the
Ryuku islands south of Japan for at least six hours today .'
The Dlanes Dresumablv came from task force 58 Which
T.qkyp said was off the southern JRyukus early todayHBJSlHn-&? Nati?nS;fonftlS!ft,
force 58 has carried oufthree devastating raids on Tokyo inH" h J?!.1 J. i
the past two weeks and made
support of the invasion of Iwo
The broadcast, recorded by
said that several waves of
planes attacked the naval base
island of Okinawa, 335 miles
southwest of Japan and 925
miles southwest of Tokyo. In
addition, other islands in the
group, which stretch from the
southern tip of Japan to Formosa,
were attacked, Tokyo added.
Fifty-four American planes
were shot down or damaged in the
course of the raid. A communique
said the attack lasted from 7:30
a.m. (Tokyo time) until 1:30 p.m.
Mltscher In Action
Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher's
task force 58, now operating with
the Fifth fleet, last was reported
officially in action lasf Sunday
and Monday against Tokyo and
the island of Hachijo, 180 miles
south.
In those attacks, the carrier
planes destroyed or damaged 233
enemy planes, 31 ships and two
aircraft plants. Tokyo also was
attacked by the task force Feb. 16
and 17.
Palawan Invaded,
Nippons Report
Washington, March 1 IP A
broadcast from Manila said today
that troops of the American 41st
division have landed on Palawan,
the westernmost island of the
Philippines.
Washington, March 1 (IP) Ap-.
proximately 3,000 American
troops were reported by Tokyo
today to have landed on 275-mile
long Palawan island, westernmost
of the Philippines.
Palawan, if the enemy report is
true, would be the 17th island in
the Philippines invaded by Amer
ican amphibious forces.
A Tokyo broadcast, recorded by
FCC, said the Americans landed
a "regiment" of troops Wednes
day morning (Japanese time) on
Palawan, connecting link be
tween Mindoro in the Philippines
and Borneo In the Dutch East
Indies.
The broadcast admitted the
Japanese had only a small garri
son on the 4,027 square-mile is
land, but claimed it was offering
"violent" resistance.
There was no indication where
the reported landing occurred on
Palawan, although the principal
port of Puerto Princesa on the
east coast or big Honda bay, Just
to the north, seemed likely Inva
sion points.
MINERS ASK ROYALTIES
Washington. March 1 UP The
United Mine Workers today de
manded royalties of 10 cents a ton
on all bituminous coal mined in
the United States.
Telepholo)
they scaled sheer sides of Mount
landing craft on beach far below.
other diversionary attacks in
Jima island.
United Press in San Francisco,
U. S. Ammunition
Ship Torpedoed
Washington, March 1 (IP) The
ammunition - laden naval cargo
ship Serpens has been sunk by
the Japanese in the south Pacific
area with the loss of all 200 men
aboard, the navy announced to
day.' The navy also announced loss
of two other vessels. One of them,
the small salvage ship Extractor,
was mistakenly sunk by an Amer
ican submarine.
The other vessel was the large
landing craft LCI 600, which went
down after hitting a Japanese
mine in the harbor of a central
Pacific base.
Coast Guard Aboard
The 14,250-ton Serpens was
manned by a coast guard crew. A
few of the Serpen's crew hap
pened to be left ashore when the
ship sailed and thus escaped. The
nature of the enemy action was
not disclosed.
The sinking of the Extractor
was, the first reported instance
In which any of our ships have
been sunk by our own submarines
in this war. Six men of the Ex
tractor's crew of about 60 are re
ported missing.
The navy explained that the
sinking was a result of "incorrect
identification" by the submarine
and occurred in the early morn
ing Just before sunrise. The sub
marine discovered its error and
rescued most of the crew.
First Prisoner
Of War 1 Dead
Long Beach, Calif., March 1
(IB Funeral services were ar
ranged today for Edgar M. Haly
burton, 55, first American to be
captured by the Germans in the
first world war.
Halyburton died Monday at
Taft, Calif., while visiting friends,
his widow said.
A sergeant in the 16th U. S.
infantry, Halyburton was cap
tured at an outpost in France
In Nov., 1917, and was a prisoner
until Dec, 1918.
He served 11 years in the army
and held the distinguished service
medal.
COLNTY JAILER RESIGNS
George Brooks, Deschutes coun
ty jailer for the past two years,
tendered his resignation, effective
as of April 1, to Judge C. L. Al
len last night. Brooks stated today
that he had resigned because of
his health and planned to rest for
a month or two.
Roosevelt Reports on Yalta
RoadtoWorldlPfeMigfits
Peace Mapped
Says President
Unanimous Accord oh :
; Every Point Is Reached,
: Two Houses Are Notified
By Lyle C. Wilson
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Washington. March 1 HPi Pres
ident Roosevelt reported to con
press todav that the Crimea con
ference achieved "a good start on
the road to a world of peace."
The time has come, he empha
sized, when the United States can
no longer avoid resDonsibility for
political conditions In other parts
of the world.
' A little more than 24 hours after
his return from thf "Big Three"
meeting at Yalta, 'the president
went before a joint session of the
house and senate and gave a
lengthy explanation of the meet
ing. It was his first personal ar
perance before congress in more
than two years.
He stressed that Great Britain,
Russia and this country were
agreed unanimously to press the
war , against Germany In full
force . "until unconditional sur
render." He advised the German people
and soldiers to realize that the
sooner they surrender "the sooner
their present agony win be over."
Looking forward to the April u
ave- a
definite charter of organization
under which the peace of the
world will be preserved." In this
connection, again, he stressed the
importance of this country con
cerning itself with the political
problems of the rest of the world.
"We shall have to take the re
sponsibility for world collabora
tion, or we shall have to bear the
responsibility for another world
conflict," he said.
He reported "unanimous agree
ment" on "every point" of mili
tary and "vital political" problems
which were put before the "Big
Three" at Yalta.
Problems Listed
He listed the four major politi
cal problems in this manner:
1. The occupation and control
of Germany after victory, the
complete destruction of her mili
tary power, and assurance that
nazism and Prussian militarism
will be ended for all time.
2. The settlement of "the few
differences which remained
among us" regarding the interna
tional security organization. .
3. General political and eco
nomic problemstcommon to all of
the areas liberated from the nazis.
4. Special problems created by
Poland and Yugoslavia.
Speaking from the well of the
house chamber, the president said
that in previous conferences
particularly the .Tehran meeting
late in 1943 no political agree
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U. S. Casualties
Put at 813,032
Washington, March 1 (IP)
American combat casualties an
nounced here today reached a to
tal of 813,032, an increase of 11,
870 during the past week.
Secretary of War Henry L.
Stimson also revealed that casual
ties in Italy have crossed the 100,
000 mark. From the time of the
first landings there on Sept. 9,
1943, he said, there were 19,889
killed, 70,402 wounded, and 10.499
missing, for a total of 100,790.
These figures include casualties
announced here through Feb. 25.
Army casualties In all theaters
as compiled here through Feb. 21
totaled 722,695. These figures,
Stimson added, reflected actual
fighting through the latter part of
January.
110,366 Killed
This total included 140,366
killed, 430,757 wounded, 60,535
prisoners and 91,037 missing.
A navy list released today
showed a total of 90,337 casual-
I , m(:,iiWi3 OI lnP navy.
uam Kuoiu ana marines. The list
did not include any casualties suf
fered by marine forces on Iwo
Jima, it was understood. A break
down showed 34,283 dead, 40,904
wounded, 10,764 missing and 4,
476 prisoners.
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Washington. March 1 ur High
lights of President Roosevelt's
message to congress on the Cri
mean conference:
German
,f "The German people . . . must
realize that the sooner they give
up and surrender, by groups or
as individuals, the sooner their
bresent agony will be over."
"Only with complete surrender
Can they begin to re-establish
themselves as people whom the
world might accept as decent
neighbors."
"There is not enough room on
earth for both German militarism
and Christian decency."
Unconditional surrender of Ger
many does not mean the destruc
tion or enslavement of the Ger
man people. It means temporary
control by the allies.
"That objective . . . will re
move a cancer from the German
body which for generations has
produced only misery and pain for
the whole world.
Senate Confirms
Henry A. Wallace
j Washington, March 1 Pi The
senate confirmed President Roose
velt's controversy-provoking nom
ination of former Vice President
Henry A. Wallace to be secretary
of commerce. The vote was 56 to
32.
.Today's action was antl-cllmac-tic,
however. It had been fore
shadowed by enactment of a bill
, robbing the commerce post of any
tfontrol over the multi-billion dol
far government lending agencies.
Wallace s predecessor, Jesse H.
Jones, held the dual role of com
merce secretary and federal loan
administrator. Wallace will have
no lending authority.
Wallace drew both praise and
condemnation in the debate which
preceded the vote. Democratic
whip Lister Hill of Alabama and
Sen. George W. Aiken, R., Vt.,
favored confirmation. Sen. Alex
ander Wiley. R., Wis., opposed it.
The last major, hurdle to Wal
lace's confirmation was cleared
yesterday when President Roose
velt signed the George bill. The
measure stripped the commerce
department of its control over the
multi-billion dollar Reconstruction
Finance Corp., and its subsid
iaries. Iwo Jima Situation Is
Now Well in Hand FDR
Washington, March 1 (IP) U. S.
marines on Iwo Jima, as they in
variably do sooner or later, "have
the situation well in hand."
So said President Roosevelt to
day hi his speech to congress.
"The Japs know," he added,
"what it means to hear that 'the
United States marines have land
ed.' And we can add, having Iwo
Jima in mind: 'the situation is well
in hand.' "
TWO REAPPOINTED
Salem, Ore., March 1 tut Dr. E
J. Corcoran, Portland, and Dr. B
R. Elliott, Medford, have been re
appointed to the state board of
dpntal examiners, Gov. Earl Snell
announced today.
They will serve for three-year
terms.
Meat Shortage
In Announcing
By Eulalie McDowell
(United Preu Huff Corronrlent)
Washington, March 1 ill'i The
office of price administration to
day gave housewives both good
news and bad but mostly bad
in announcing March ration val
ues for meat.
Point values for quality beef
steaks and roasts were lowered.
But values of pork and many pres
ently low -point items were
stepped up. And several point
free cuts were put back on the ra
tion list. The changes go into ef
fect Sunday.
Price Chief Chester Bowles took
occasion to warn that the long-predicted
meat shortage was becom
ing a "reality" and that there was
no prospect for improvement be
fore July.
"It is clear," Bowles said, "that
rationing of red-point foods for
March will be the stiffest since
rationing began."
Here is the major rationing
news for March:
1. No change in point values for
lamb. Mutton stays point free.
of President's Message
twi iu rt Kaiufaiiun i
World Organization
The compromise voting proce
dure agreed upon and to be an
nounced shortly is "a fair solu
tion of this complicated and diffi
cult problem . . . founded in Jus
tice and will go far to assure . . .
the maintenance of peace."
"Whatever is adopted at San
Francisco will doubtless have to
be amended time and again over
the years . . . (but) it can be a
peace . . . based on the sound and
just principles of the Atlantic
charter on the conception of the
dignity ol the human being
Liberated Peoples
"The political and economic
problems of any area liberated
from nazi conquest . . . are a
joint responsibility of all three
governments.
"Under the agreements reached
at Yalta, there will be a more
stable political Europe than ever
before.
Poland
"The decision . . . was a com
Great Bay of Manila Opened
For Movement
Neutralization of Corregidor Frees Harbor
And First Vessel Moves in; Docks Destroyed
Manila, March 1 (U.P)
Lorreeidor opened Manila s
ping and a steady stream of
Luzon.
(A Tokyo broadcast, recorded by FCC, said that approxi
mately 3,000 American troops landed on Palawan island,
westernmost of the Philippines, Wednesday morning,-Japa-
nese time.) .
(The enemy report did not
made - on Palawan, w h l c h
stretches from Mindoro in the
Philippines to Borneo in the
Dutch East Indies. The 275
mile long island is 750 miles
due east of French Indo
China.) U. S. paratroopers and Infantry
men annihilated practically the
entire enemy garrison on Corregi
dor, killing Japanese at a rate of
more than 30-to-l.
, Japs Killed
The 12-day campaign to retake
the rocky fortress, which unlocked
Manila's 1,000 square mile bay,
was one of the most heroic and
skilful operations of the Pacific
war.
The American force of 3,038
paratroopers and Infantrymen
overcame an enemy garrison twice
its size and killed most of the
Japanese defenders.
A communique said 4,215 Japa
nese bodies already had been
counted and many hundreds of
others were killed or buried alive
in Corregidor's tunnels or died at
tempting to escape from the Is
land. The American casualties
were 136 killed, 531 wounded, and
eight missing. -
While wrecked docks and shore
facilities will prevent full-scale
use of Manila's port, the commu
nique said one allied cargo ship,
loaded with supplies already had
entered the harbor.
Churchill Wins Vote
Of Confidence, 413-0
London, March 1 (IP) Commons
gave Prime Minister Churchill's
government a 413 to 0 vote of con
fidence today.
Becomes Reality, Says Bowles
New Point Values for March
2. Porterhouse and Tbone
steaks go down from 12 to nine
points a pound. Other choice
steaks and roasts go down by
from two to three points.
3. Hamburger and bacon go up
from four to six points a pound.
4. Chuck roasts (bone in) go up
from three to six points and
chuck roasts (boneless) go up
from four to seven points.
5. End pork chops go up from
five to six points. Boneless ham.
I whole or half, is raised from sev
en to eight points. Boneless ham
slices remain at 10 points. 'Spare
ribs go from three to four.
6. Veal round steak (cutlet or
roast) reduced from 13 to 10
points. All other veal points re
main unchanged.
7. Such presently point free
products as variety meats and
beef, veal, pork and lamb hearts,
sweetbreads and tongues, lamb
liver and some canned and ready-to-cat
meats have new ration val
uels ranging up to two points.
promise , . . the most hopeful
agreement possible for a free,
Independent and prosperous Po
lish state. To secure European se
curity and world peace, a strong
and Independent Poland is neces
sary." France
France was not invited to Yalta
because she Is not a major mili
tary power sharing chief responsi
bility of the war. "No one should
detract from the recognition there
accorded her role In the future of
Europe." France has been Invited
to share In the control of Ger
many, to join in sponsoring the
San Francisco conference, to be a
permanent member of the five
power security council - and to
share responsibility over the lib
erated areas of Europe.
Pacific
"Japanese militarism must be
wiped out as thoroughly as Ger
man militarism."
of War Goods
Virtually complete conquest of
creat bay today for allied ship
supplies to American troops on
v .
indicate where the invasion was
Deschutes Opens
Red Cross Drive
With a slogan of "keep your Red
Cross at his side," campaign work
ers today launched the fourth Red
Cross War Fund drive in Des
chutes county, in the hope that
the $22,300 quota will be speedily
achieved. - .
Hope for a speedy conclusion of
the drive was expresed by both
Bruno Rath, county war fund
chairman, and Bruce Gilbert,
chairman of the county-wide Red
Cross fund campaign.
As the campaign to raise "mer
cy dollars" got under way through
out the nation, enthusiastic work
ers were not found wanting in the
Deschutes community. In Bend,
the Junior Chamber of commerce
assumed the fund-raising task,
with Harold Gentry acting as
chairman. The Kiwanis club Is
sponsoring the drive in Redmond,
naming Roy Carpenter head of the
campaign. William Foss is in
charge In Lapine; rural solicita
tions are being handled by Mrs.
McKlnley Stoffel, and In Sisters,
Maida Rosslter Bailey and Mrs.
J. B. Patterson head the campaign
drive.
Cards Distributed
Employers have already been
furnished with donation cards,
and were urged by Chairman Gen
try to hurry their solicitation of
employes. Booths will be estab
lished Monday In the Chamber of
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8. Pork sausage, frankfurters
and some dry sausages such as
salami go up on the average of
about two points a pound.
For the four-week March ra
tioning neriod, five red stamps
worth 10 points each a total of
50 points will be made pood for
buying meats, fats and dairy
products.
The new values for fats and
dairy products were previously an
nounced. Butter remains at 24
points a pound. Lard, shortening,
salad and cooking oils are up to
four points a pound. Margarine
Is up to five points. There have
been no changes for cheese and
canned milk.
Explaining the unexpected cut
for choice steaks and roasts,
Bowles said that In some locali
ties shoppers hpve preferred to
spend points on low-point meats.
The result has been that the bet
ter grades have gone begging for
purchasers. By reducing the better
grades and raising the lower
grades, a better distribution will
be obtained.
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Parley
Reached
By U.S. Troops
In Big Sweep
Coblenz Gateway Taken
By Patton's Men in
Powerful Flank Move
Paris, March 1 (IP) The Amer
can Ninth army today captured
Muenchen Gladbach, most im
portant German city yet to fall .
to the allies on the - western
front. In the greatest victory of
a week-long offensive now beat
ing at the defenses of Cologne
and the Rhine.
Paris, March 1 (IP) Lt. Gen.
George S. Patton's American
Third army troops broke into the
ancient German strongnoia oi
Trier today in a powerful flank-'
ing sweep down the Mosel valley
on the southwestern road to Cob
lenz and the Rhine.
Patton's breakthrough Into the
Mosel invasion valley came as
armored and infantry divisions
of the U. S. First army wedged
a mile or more Into tho Germans'
last-ditch defenses barely six
miles from the Rhine.
Field dispatches said tanks and
infantrymen of Patton's 10th
armored division charged into the
eastern outskirts of Trier today
under point-blank fire from Ger
man artillery and antiaircraft
batteries. .
Only a relatively small garrison
was believed left in Trier, which-;
already had been outflanked by
other Third army columns driv
ing in on the Mosel from the
northwest, and the fall of the
city appeared Imminent.
Trier, probably the oldest city ,
in Germany, is the biggest Ger
man communications center in
that area and the gateway to
the, Coblenz and the Rhine, 58
miles to the northeast.
Far to the north, the Ameri
can Ninth army continued its
power drive on the road to Dues
seldorf and the Ruhr basin againt
stiffening but still uncoordinated
German position.
Headquarters said the Ninth
army hammered out a general
advance all along its front in the
past 24 hours but the exact loca
tion of the Yank spearheads
which 60 hours ago had outflank
ed Muenchen-Gladbach and driven
within 11 miles southwest of
Duesseldorf was hidden by a rig
id security blackout.
Army' Not Halted
Spokesmen at Gen. Dwight D.
Elsenhower's headquarters said
the blackout was concealing only
"good news" and that the Ninth
army had not been halted any
where, despite the arrival of Ger
man armored reserves on the Im
periled front.
Vanguards of the U. S. First
army's 104th and eighth Infantry
divisions, along with an unidenti
fied armored force, were driving
In on Cologne on a six-mile front
after advanding as much as a
mile from their three bridgeheads
across the Erf t river.
Field dispatches and German
military broadcasts agreed that
the battle for the Rhineland rapid
ly was approaching a decision.
The nazis asserted that the Ameri
cans had thrown in all their First
and Ninth army reserves in a
surprise bid for a break-through
to the Rhine.
One nazi spokesman said that
the First army spearheads before
Cologne had been "thrown back"
on the Erft river, but he did not
make clear whether the Ameri
cans were supposed to have lost
their bridgeheads.
Portland Air Base
Status to Change
Portland, Ore., March 1 (tP
Portland army air base will not
provide pilot training on P-38
planes after April 1, Col. S. B.
Knowles, Jr., commanding officer,
announced today.
The P-38 program will be con
solidated with similar programs
in other areas after that date, Col.
Knowles said. Operation of .main
tenance hangers and other facili
ties will not be affected,, he ex-.
plained.
Portland army air base .will be
classified as a defense base and
maintenance depot under tho
changed setup, Col. Knowles stat-
ea.