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CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
Volume Llll
THE BEND BULLETIN. BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON. FRIDAY, MARCH 2. 1945
NO. 74
THE BEND JBUJLJLMW
Palawan Island
Landing Severs
Jap Life Lines
Stolen Empire Is Now
Virtually Cut in Two;
New Move Not Opposed
By H. D. Quigg
(United Prcsa War Correspondent)
Manila, March 2 IIP) American
troops, landing unopposed on Pa
lawan island in the Philippines,
virtually cut Japan's stolen em
pire in two today.
Elements of the veteran 41st
division seized control of the 275
mile long island, fifth largest and
westernmost of the Philippines,
with the capture of Puerto Prince
sa and three nearby airfields on
the east coast.
The successful Invasion was the
17th by American forces in the
Philippines. It enabled the Ameri
cans to throw an air and naval
blockade across Japan's shipping
lnnes to the south and opened the
way for a two-way aerial assault
on the Malaya peninsula. Allied
heavy bombers, including B-zas,
already have been attacking the
peninsula from Burma ana India
in tne west.
Hits Foe Hard
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's com
munique noted significantly that
progressive seizure of Philippines
bases "tends to cut the enemy in
two and condemn all his con
quests to the south to recapture."
The troops, commanded by Brig
Gen. Harold J. Haney, Brazil, Ind.,
landed Wednesday on the beaches
east of Puerto Princesa after a
heavy bombardment by cruisers
and destroyers laid waste the is
land's capital and largest citv.
Amphibious tractors carried the
initial waves ashore, but later
heavier landing craft moved into
the abandoned Puerto Princesa
harbor and unloaded at a freight
pier.
The Japanese had installed pill
boxes and emplacements in the
town and around the airfields, but
abandoned them. Filipinos, warn
cd by guerillas, had completely
evacuated the area.
Capital Hammered
American bombers hammered
the capital city and the surround
ing area for two days before the
landing and the airstrips were
lound severely scarred.
The two airstrips, each with
s.uuu-loot runways, north 01 Puer
to Princesa and an emergency
landing field west of the harbor,
formed an air base within easy
bomber distance from the Japa
nese bases on Borneo and the en
tire Manila peninsula south to
Singapore.
The invasion of Palawan was
the westernmost penetration of
American forces across the Pa
cific and in effect cut off large
bodies of Japanese troops in the
Dutch East Indies from their
homeland.
British Marshal
Visits Russians
Rome, March 2 UP) Marshal Sir
Harold R. L. G. Alexander, su
preme allied commander in the
Mediterranean, has visited the
headquarters of Marshal Feodor
I. Tolbukhin, commander of Rus
sia's Third Ukrainian army, it was
announced today.
Aloxanrlnr rnmninoH in Tnllmlr.
kj hin's army group headquarters
5Vfor lunch and then returned to
personal airplane.
Staff officers of the two mar
shals held conferences at the same
time.
Maurice Western, correspondent
for the Winnipeg, Can., Free
Press, said the meeting was
shrouded in extreme secrecy. The
Russians were tight-lipped, al
though obviously well pleased.
Marshal Quoted
Western quoted Alexander as
'Piling him:
"We are fighting the same en
emy for the same cause. We are
neighbors. Tolbukhin is near my
front and sooner or later we were
bound to join hands.
"We made friends and we made
excellent staff contacts.
, "Henceforth, we shan't be deal
ing with ciphers but with people
"nose hospitality we shared and
w horn we liked."
YANKS SEIZE KREFELD
With 21st Army Group, West
ern Front, March 2 IP The U. S.
102nd division has captured Kre
feid, German city of 165,000.
Victory Nears
Vice Admiral Richmond Kelly
Turner, above, commanded the
amphibious forces which invaded
strategic little Iwo Jima isle, 750
miles from Japan. Today, the U. S.
marines battling on the isle were
within sight of victory.
Sgt. Compton
Killed on Luzon
Sergeant William Alfred Comp
ton, 37, was killed in action on
February 8 on Luzon, his sister,
Mrs. Harry Monical, 371 Columbia,
was Informed yesterday by the
war department.
Sgt. Compton, member of a
pioneer Central Oregon family,
was bqrn at Grizzly on April 6,
1908. He attended Redmond high
school (and "later raised -sheep.
He left Bend in the fall of 1940
with company I of the 41st divis
ion and, some 14 months later,
received an honorable discharge
at Fort Lewis. He returned to
Bend in December, 1941, and the
following April was recalled to
active duty and attached to an
infantry unit. Soon after he was
sent overseas and participated in
the Guadalcanal, New Britain and
Philippines engagements.
His father, the late S. W. Comp
ton, a widely known sawmill
operator,-came to Crook county
in 1873 and later operated the
Mill creek sawmill near Prineville,
the Compton mill in Jefferson
county and the Trout creek mill.
Mr. Compton died two years ago
at the age of 87.
In addition to Mrs. Monical,
Sgt. Compton is survived by two
sisters, Mrs. Guy Houk, Redmond,
and Mrs. J. Wendell Grey, Port
land; a half-sister, Mrs. Edith
Hughes, Portland; two half-brothers,
Earl Crain, Greely, Calif.,
and Carroll Compton, also resid
ing in California..
Fifth Army "Raids
Bologna Sector
Rome, March 2 (IP) Fifth army
units successfully raided German
positions in the sector southeast
of Bologna, headquarters said to
day, while action on the remain
der of the Italian front was con
fined to normal patrolling.
In one large scale attack, 500
yards southwest of Monte Rumici,
the Americans silenced several
machine gun emplacements after
a two hour battle. Several other
sharp fights were reported in the
area.
wo Battle Rapidly Moves Into
As Marines Press Toward Isle's
By Frank Tremainc
(United Press War Correspondent)
Guam, March 2 iU?iU. S. ma
rines broke through the enemy's
main defense belt in Iwo In a hotly-contested
advance to within
1,200 yards of the north coast to
day. "The Iwo campaign Is moving
into its last phases," United Press
war correspondent Mac R. John
son reported from the invasion
uagsnlp off Japans tiny front
doorstep island.
The end of the campaign may
come within three to four days if
tne marine tempo of 400 to 600
yard daily average advance is
maintained," he said..
The Third marine division at
the center of the front breached
the enemy's main defense line in
an 800-yard advance that carried
across the western end of Iwo's
third and last airfield.
The breakthrough at the center
threatened to split the surviving
garrison of probably fewer "than
Russians Cut
Escape Line of
200,000Nazis
Foe Trapped in Baltic
Now Facing Open Sea;
Soviets Near Koselin
London, March 2 ip The Ger
man high command said today
that the red army had plunged a
spearhead through Pomerania to
the Danzig-Stettin coastal railroad,
the last land line of escape for an
estimated 200,000 German troops
A nazl communique reported
that Marshal Konstantln K. Ro
kossovsky's red army cut the road
between Koselin and Schlawe
That 28-mile stretch of the trunk
line runs along the Baltic seven
to 12 miles from the coast.
The drive cut off all the Ger
man troops in northeastern Pom
erania, the.northern end of the old
Polish corridor, and the Danzig
Free state. Their onlv exit from
these and Baltic pockets was a
Dunkirk retreat by sea.
Road Reached
The German command said
soviet tank spearheads, striking
on a narrow front, advanced to
the northwest in Pomerania and
reached the Koselin-Schlawe road.
Earlier reports said the Rus
sians were in sight of Koselin, a
junction on the railroad. Rokos
sovsky's forces appeared to be
moving against it in force and on
the verge of throwing a strong
barrier across Pomerania t the
sea. ,
. The nazl communique also ac
knowledged a penetration of "our
main -defense system" north - of
Arnswalde in the sector some1 40
miles southeast of Stettin. The
wedges were driven in from
bridgeheads the Russians seized
the day ,before across the Ihna
river, the Germans said.
Nazi Lines Reached
It was in this same sector that
a Berlin broadcast said a soviet
drive aimed at Stettin had pene
trated more than three miles into
the German positions north of
Reetz, some 10 miles northeast of
Arnswalde.
Nazi broadcasts said Marshal
Ivan S. Konev's army opened a
major attack in the area of
Schweidnitz, Sllesian rail and road
hub 31 miles southwest of be
leaguered Breslau. 1
Moscow dispatches said great
columns of Russian guns, tractors,
tank-borne infantry, and ieens
were streaming westward across
German soil for the "next phase
of the offensive" probably the
frontal assault on Berlin.
Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's
flanks were shielded by the cam
paigns in Silesia and Pomerania.
His First White Russian army
massed along the Oder before Ber
lin appeared ready for action.
Boy Is Missing
Following Fire
Toledo, Ore., March 2 (IPiMy's
tery today surrounded the disap
pearance of 15-year-old Lee Roy
Bridges, Toledo high school stu
dent. He has not been seen since
his farm home was destroyed by
fire Feb. 20.
State police and Sheriff George
Robinson with a party of volun
teers have searched the timbered
hills adjacent to the burned home,
and a search has been made of the
ashes of the home.
10,000 Japanese in two for niece.
meal annihilation.
Both the eastern and western
flanks of the enemy line also were
under attack, but the Fourth and
Fifth marine divisions in these
sectors still have as much as 2,000
"avl; as mu as w
&1,0 80 ,0 re3Ch the n0rthern '
In the west, however, Maj. Gen.
Keller E. Rocke'y's Fifth division
seized hill 362, one of the highest
observation posts in the northern
area.
Maj. Greaves B. Erskine, com-
niaiiuer 01 me inira division, re
ported the central breakthrough
to Lt. Holland M. Smith, Invasion
commander, aboard Vice Admiral
Richmond K. Turner's flagship.
Erskine said his veterans of the
Guam and Saipan campaigns had
battled through a belt of block
houses and pillboxes on high
ground from which the Japanese
swept the advancing marines with
murderous crossfire.
A marine spokesman aboard i
f. 4m w?v -
v (NBA TtUphott)
fn traditional Marine Corps style,' these members of Fourth Marine Division have secured their position
on embattled Iwo Jima and now proceed to bombard firmly entrenched Japs with their tleldplece. Coast
.; Guard photo, .
Gen. Mac Arthur! riumphantly
Enters Corregicior; Raises Flag
Colors Hoisted on Same Tall Pole Japanese
Ripped Them From Almost Three Years Ago
By Dean Bchedler
(Distributed byitJnltcd Press)
.. With General MacArthur oft Corregidor, March 2 (U.E)
Surrounded by 11 members of his Btaff who left by P-T boat
irom tnis lortress almost three years ago, General Douglas
MacArthur today raised the American flag over Corregidor.
While a color guard of the 503rd parachute infantry regi
ment stood at attention with their commanding officer, Col.
George Jones of Memphis, Tenn., MacArthur said: "Have
your troops hoist the colors to its peak and let no enemy ever
haul them down."
It was the same flagpole on the topside parade grounds
Tunnel Concrete
Is Being Poured
With the floor of the huge tun
nel already completed, workmen
today began pouring concrete for
the "saddle", or sides and top of
tunnel No. 2, of the North Unit
irrigation project, it was reported
at the offices of the bureau of
reclamation here. The tunnel, like
tunnel No. 1, is located In the
Smith rocks, east of Terrebonne.
Wixson and Crowe, Redding,
Calif., contractors, estimated it
would require approximately 40
days to complete tunnel No. X
when they will begin pouring con
crete In tunnel No. 1. ,
Meantime the McLoughlin Con
struction company of Livingston,
Mont., has completed nearly half
of the big 520-foot siphon across
Sherwood canyon, which will con
nect the two tunnels. It was esti
mated that the contractors would
have the siphon completed by the
middle of April.
BODY IS FOUND
Astoria, Ore.. March 2 ui The
body of Albert Erickson, drowned
in the Feb. 6 storm off the Pacific
coast, was recovered late Thurs
day. Final Phase
North Coast
Turner's flagship said the fight
ing for the defense line was at the
closest range of the entire 11-day
campaign.
"When our men got Into the enemy-held
ground, they found the
Japs were there." he said "Thev
,had 10 M it ou't and kilted therS
in what could nearlv ho r-niinri
'hand-to-hand' fighting."
It was believed the remaining
enemy defenses guarding the
north coast were not so strong as
those which the American have
Just pierced.
Behind their lines, third division
forces cleared encircled Motoyama
village, administrative center and
largest town on Iwo. No trace of
civilians was found in the town,
!cn.1'es ,n the center of the cen-!
rm"
ine northern airf niH nn Twn
Motoyama airfield No. 3 now!
partly occupied by the third divi
sion never was completed by the
Japanese. Their other two air-
fields were In American hands!
Marine Artillery Blasts Iwo Jima Japs
is. dSWV'J
where the Japanese tore down
the bears and Stripes and
ripped the colors to shreds.
Here MacArthur reaffirmed
America's control of this is
land in a simple ceremony.
Order Issued
MacArthur awarded Jones the
DSC at the flag ceremony and
said:
"In my order of the day I have
cited all units involved In this ac
tion. In this action by your cour
age, invincible determination and
professional skill you have over
come all obstacles."
Mallnta hill, in whose tunnels
MacArthur worked during the
early stages of fighting on Ba
taan and Corregidor, were almost
unrecognizable.
The general walked from his
jeep and peered Into the entrance
while soldiers with machine guns
kept their weapons trained against
possible enemy sniper fire.
The tunnel entrance was par
tly closed by debris from the
terrific poundings of American
guns and warships, and the ter
rific stench of dead Japanese was
heavy at the tunnel entrance.
MacArthur looking over the
burned corpse of a dead enemy
soldier said:
Worse For Them
"It was bad enough for us when
we were here but It has been
worse for them."
Driving along the road around
Malinta hill, the general revisited
the devastated area where at one
time his house and those of the
late Philippines President Manuel
Quezon and High Commissioner
Francis Sayre. Walking up three
badly pocked steps Into ankle
deep rubble, MacArthur turned
and said grimly:
"Well I'm home again."
LIFE JUST ROUTINE
Portland, Ore., March 2 IT A
day In the life of patrolman E.
W. Thomson as shown in his re
port book:
"Called to 2103 SE Belmont
street where Mrs. Wlllett G. Hart
wished me to scare her 17-year-old
son who had been driving a par
with no operator's license."
Scared him.
SALARY INCREASE PASSED
Madras, March 2 The Oregon
authorizing increases of salaries
:tici nun luuiiiv iiiiiiaia, 11
ia w,-.. i tt um u
was sent to Gov. Earl Snell for his
signature to become law. The
measure was Introduced by Rep.
W. B. Morse, for Crook and Jef
ferson counties.
Six War Plants
Closed By Strikes
Detroit, March 2 IP) National
war labor board action to end
strikes Which have closed six De
troit armament plants was anti
cipated today after a United Auto
mobile Workers (CIO) union lead
er warned that this arsenal city
faced complete war production
shutdown.
A regional WLB spokesman said
the Detroit situation was now un
der consideration at Washington.
He said that union leaders and
management representatives prob
ably would be summoned to Wash
ington . tomorrow to work out
means of ending disputes over
disciplinary discharges.
Richard T. Frankensteen, UAW
International vice president, told
the WLB that the policy of firing
workers was cause for the strikes
at the Chrysler corporation and
urlggs Manufacturing company.
At least 30,000 workers were af
fected by the walkouts, resulting
from discharge of 19 employes.
Latest plant to close was the
Briggs Milwaukee avenue unit,
where 900 employes failed to re
port for work.
"Unless your policy In handling
disciplinary discharges is chang
ed," Frankensteen told the WLB
in a telegram, a general shut
down will occur in the Detroit pro
duction area."
U. S. Forces Land
On Lubang Island
Manila, March 2 (U'l American
troops, In their second amphibious
landing on the western Philip
pines In 24 hours, have seized
Lubang Island commanding the
southwestern passage to Manila
bay, it was disclosed today.
Shock troops of the 24th in
fantry division landed on Lubang,
40 miles southwest of Manilla bay,
Thursday and quickly mopped up
scattered Japanese resistance on
the Island.
The swift capture of the island
clinched the American hold on
the western exit of Verde passage,
the main navigation route for sup
plies and reinforcements coming
from the United States to Luzon.
Capture of Lubang came less
than a day after the veteran 41st
division had landed almost unop
posed on Palawan Island, wester
most of the Philippines.
Williams Opposed
By Senate Group
Washington, March 2 1IP1 The
senate agriculture committee to
day voted 12 to 8 against approv
ing the nomination of Aubrey Wil
liams to be head of the rural
electrification administration.
Committee Chairman Elmer
Thomas, D., Okla., said the nomi
nation will be submitted to the
senate next week with an "ad
verse report." That was the way
the senate commerce committee
submitted the nomination of Hen
ry A. Wallace to be secretary of
commerce in January ,
Ninth Army Crashes Eastward
In Lightning Sweep, Turns Big
Guns on Duesseldorf Defenses
Ancient City of Trier Also Falls to U. S.
Forces; Simpson's Men Set Fast Pace for
Push Into Key Stronghold in Ruhr Basin
Paris. March 2 U.R) 1 American Ninth army forces
crashed through to the Rhine today and opened a big-gun
duel across the river with the German defenders of Duessel
dorf, key Ruhr stronghold of more than 500,000 inhabitants.
The ancient city of Trier,
HISTORY BEING MADE
(By United Press)
A dispatch from the headquarters of Marshal Sir Bernard L.
Montgomery on the western front said events of the last 24
hours "are the most significant or the war In the west since
D-day." German resistance In the lower Khineland before the
American Ninth and Canadian First armies has collapsed, and
Duesseldorf was reported under heavy, fire.
man bulge against Luxembourg, fell to the American Third
army manning the right wing of Gen. Dwight D. Eisen
hower's grand offensive- aimed at destroying all German
forces west of the Rhine.
The allied left wing blazed into action with the capture of
the Dutch stronghold of Venlo.- :
Nazi broadcasts said Eisen-
hower had sent the British
Second army into the show
down battle of western Ger
many. Simpson Sets Pace
Lt. Gen. William H. Simpson's
U. S. Ninth army was setting the
pace for the big rush. It broke
through the last German defenses
west of the Rhine, surged onto the
bank of the river across from
Duesseldorf, and dashed forward
W ifllles under a -security black
out to the outskirts of Krefeld.
Simpson's headquarters an
nounced that his tanks and in
fantry rolled up substantial gains
today in the payoff sweep toward
the Rhine. Behind them, big guns
loosed a shattering barrage on vi
tal Industrial targets beyond the
Rhine.
About 1,000 British heavy bomb
ers poured some 5,000 tons of
bombs Into Cologne. They leveled
great patches of the Rhlneland in
dustrial capital as American First
army shock troops foUght to cap
ture the city.
Rhine Battlo Watched
United Press correspondent
Clinton B. Conger, accompanied
the 83rd division of the Ninth ar
my in the drive to the Rhine.
From a battalion command post
In (he bank of the river this after
noon he watched the developing
gun battle across the Rhine.
The Yanks boiled out on the
Rhine Just south of Neuss, di
rectly across the river from Dues
seldorf. There the vanguard of the
new American watch on the Rhine
the first in the Rhlneland since
the army of occupation was there
after the last war dug in and
opened fire on Duesseldorf.
Massed artillery of the 19th
corps everything from giant 240
millimeter field pieces down
were laying timed salvos on
southern Duesseldorf. The gas
works and neighboring freight
yard there lay under a curtain of
smoke.
Each salvo sounds "like the roll
of thunder stretching over an en
tire minute," Conger reported.
Bridges Intact
Already the Americans were in
position to put covering fire
across the foot of the -highway
bridge across the Rhine into Dues
seldorf. From Conger's command
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FDR Approves
Nazis to Repair
Washington, March 2 miPres
ident Roosevelt at his first news
conference following his return
from the Crimea agreed today
with the Idea that German ex-
soldlers should be used to repair
war damage In the Soviet Union.
The president also said there
would be a number of treaties to
be submitted to the senate for
ratification, in addition to the
world security charter which will
be drawn up at the April 25 San
Francisco conference.
The president said those other
treaties arising for decisions of!
the "Big Three" at Yalta would
deal mostly with what he de
scribed as small details.
In his report to congress yester
day, Roosevelt said that the Unit
ed States does not intend slavery
lor the German people. A ques
tioner today pointed out that the
Russian point of view Is that Ger
many should provide labor to re
citadel of the westernmost uer-
l PI 1 A J
AirneeTSAia
Allied Armies
London, March 2 (IP) Allied air
armadas . blasted Cologne and
eastern front targets today In
support of the American and red
armies. ' .'!....' '." "
Upwards - ot 500f four-englned
Lancasters and Hallfaxes roared "
out across the western front at
10 a. m. for a concentrated attack
on the Rhlneland industrial cen
ter of Cologne, just ahead of the
American Ninth army.
Enemy troops and armor in the
city were bombed, roads cratered
and communications disrupted.
Spitfires . and Mustangs escorted
the bombers.
A ' strong force of American
Flying Fortresses and Liberators
simultaneously winged deep Into
Germany. German radio stations
said the American planes were
over the Dresden area barely 60
miles from soviet troops probing
the Reich's Neisse river defenses
southeast of Berlin.
18th Straight Day
It was the 18th straight day
that the American Eight air force
has attacked Germany. .
Nazi broadcasts also said al- 4
lied bombers were approaching
southern Germany from Italy.
RAF Mosquitoes last night
dropped block busters on Berlin
for the ninth straight night. The
communications center of Erfurt
In central Germany also was
bombed. No planes were lost, in
the night raids.
Oregon's Solons
Become Restive
Salem, Ore., March 2 P The
house of representatives, In ses
sion now for the 54th day, is grow,
ing restive.
Rep. Warren Erwln, Portland,
made the fact known yesterday
when he said he was "anxious to
get back to my victory garden."
He didn't object to doing a little
extra work, Warren said, but it
looked as though the session
would last at least three weeks
more.
Idea of Using
War Damage
build war-torn parts of the Soviet
Union.
Roosevelt said that he did not
think it was a bad idea after
what he had seen of German de
struction in the Crimea to get
German ex-soldlers and use them
for rebuilding and repairs In the
Soviet Union.
The press conference discussion
did not go into the matter of
whether German labor should also
be used to repair war damage in
other countries.
The president would not say
whether the ceding of German ter
ritory to Poland would require a
treaty such as the Versailles
treaty of the last war, but said
that he supposed we would have
a German treaty some day.
As to when and what, the presi
dent said these were "If" ques
tions and that he was no crystal
gazer and preferred to win the
war first.