f J of Or Ihnwr THE B BULLK Weather Forecast Society Notices ; The deadline for society newt on . deys of publication, Tuesday, Thuru J day and Saturday, Is 10 a. m. ;'- v- Mostly cloudy today and tonight with snow flurries. . Wednesday, ciuudy with snow flurries In lllOlllltAlnM, fin elth :led 'r ':: H. ' to ' on . tpa- t to CENTRAL ORE GON S DA I L Y NEWSPAPER Volume LIU THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, DESCHUTES CQUNUTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1945 NO. 77 C Fortress Far Behind Battle Lines Is Taken Stalin Men Forqe Arc Around City of Stettin In New Blows at Nazis London, March 6 UP Soviet assault forces today captured the ' great Polish citadel of Grudzladz on the Vistula river after a siege of two weeks in which 5,000 Ger man prisoners and rich stores of - booty were taken. The Grudziadz victory far be hind the battlellnes was scored as other Russian forces speared o the network of Baltic lagoons at the mouth of the Oder, by Ber lin account, and laid down a shat tering bombardment on Stettin. Marshal Konstantin K. Rokos sovsky's Second White Russian army captured Grudziadz, on the east bank of the Vistula 59 south of Danzig and near the southwest ern tip of East Prussia. The tide of battle had swept on far north and west of Grudziadz while the die-hard German garri son fought on without hope of relief. Wing Swings West The nazis said Marshal Greg ory K. Zhukov's right wing had swung westward to the area of .Cammin, on the waters of the Stettiner Haff into which the Oder debounches. Cammin is 36 miles north of Stettin and four .miles south, of the Baltic prpper,. The reported soviet advance forged a big assault arc against the lower Oder before - Stettin. Soviet forces now had reached the Oder and the water at its mouth on both sides of Stettin, and were closing against a broad stretch of the river in between. Berlin said Zhukov had thrown two tank armies into the drive on Stettin and was pounding the big port with artillery. Berlin said Zhukov also had concentrated five infantry armies and two tank armies in the Oder valley 30-odd miles east of Berlin. The Germans predicted that the frontal push against the capital would begin as soon as Zhukov's flanks are secured. Right Flank Cleared A blazing battle in the Baltic coastal area fapldly was clearing the right flank of Zhukov's First White Russian army. The Ger man defenders pinned against the Baltic in shrinking pockets were being reduced and the drive on Stettin was overrunning the lower Oder valley. The German high command cast a veil of loose generalities over the battle of Pomeranla northeast of Berlin. It conceded that the Russians were attacking on a broad front and had scored "minor penetrations." Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov swung the entire northern half of his First White Russian army north and west toward Stettin and the Oder estuary. Soviet van guards were believed within 10 miles southeast of Stettin, a Mos cow dispatch said. Nazi broadcasts conceded that the outskirts of Settin already were under fire of soviet guns, softening the city's defenses for ultimate assault. Stettin, 72 miles northeast of Berlin, is Germany's biggest port on the Baltic and the main source of Imports for Berlin. I Churchill Visits Tosses Ashes on Juelich, Germany, March 3 (Delayed) Ui Prime Minister Churchill paid his first wartime visit to Germany today. He wanted to board a tank and ride right up to the Rhine at Duesseldorf, but his military es cort persuaded him not to do it. (London announced Churchill's visit to the western front today after his return. He conferred with Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and other allied commanders. Lon don dispatches said he was be lieved to have discussed plans for the allied drive across the Rhine and into the heart of Germany.) Churchill Inspected the Sieg fried fortifications near Aachen and theJuelich citadel. He sprinkl " ed the dragon's teeth of the west wall liberally with the ashes of his cigar. Accompanying the prime minis ter were Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, chief of the imperial general New Luzon Mite I , . Sanchez.. A ...u neom pt. ttJisfsv j a South ' 'mUrtaf China SinaBi'liStl Sea lS'F.' jjjfNN vubuapn tSg CAPE " SbPwpe encanto . Myr :( u 2 N lba vlL . " 'kflffivtK Dingatan Bay Six Japanese divisions, possibly 100,000 men, have already been destroyed on Luzon, and American forces, surrounding the remaining trapped groups, are closing in for nounced today, rne largest enemy iorce is concentrated in me northeastern part of Luzon. . i Second Bomber Crashes Near eg on, , B-24 Navigator Killed in Attempt to Land On Unlighted Field; Denio Wreckage Seen Winnemucca, Nev., March 6 (U.E) A B-24 Liberator bomber from Mountain Home, Ida., army airbase made a crash landing about one mile south of the Battle Mountain, Nev., emergency airfield last night, killing the navigator and placing four crewmen in the Battle Mountain hospital. The plane was circling over Winnemucca about 9:30 last night and the crash occurred at 10 p.m. The huge airfield at Winnemucca has no lighting facilities for a night landing and it is believed that factor contributed to the ultimate crash Names of the iniiirerl Trier," and the dead crewman were not available pending notifica tion of next of kin. This was the second crash of a Mountain Home plane in the last few days. Another Liberator crash landed near Denio, Ore., on the Ne vada-Oregon border some time over the week-end. It was report ed missing Friday. Snowstorms hampered search ers and grounded planes, although It was said one civilian automo bile had reached the scene of the wreck. No report has been made on the condition of the nine crew men but planes which discovered the wreckage last night said it ap peared the big bomber had burned. Airfield officials from Mountain Home are en route to Winnemuc ca, it was saidv to investigate the two crashes. Robes for Judges, Ruled Out By Action of Senate Salem, Ore., March 6 U The senate today approved killing of a senate Joint resolution recom mending that all judges in Oregon wear judicial robes in the court room. The resolutions committee ma jority voted "do not pass." in Germany, West Wall staff; Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, commander of the 21st army group; and Lt. Gen. William H. Simpson, chief of the U. S. Ninth army. These generals were responsible for Churchill's safety. They de clined his suggestion to make a rank understatement of it that he carry op to the Rhine before Duesseldorf, where the Ninth army only now is consolidating Its positions in the Neuss area. After a long ride on a clear, cold day, Churchill and his mili tary escort examined the Sieg fried dragon's teeth and expressed their opinion of the line that didn't hold. ,- . Churchill was uniformed as a full colonel of the Fifth battalion, Sussex regiment. Montgomery wore a mottled jacket of para trooper cut. Churchill's car rolled unherald ed through Aachen. Battlefield the kill, General MacArthur an aa uun Germans Firing New Type Bomb London, March 6 iui Air Secre tary Sir Archibald Sinclair told commons today that the Germans are firing a new and longer range type of flying bomb at Britain. Sinclair also disclosed that a British bomb sight of "extraordi nary complexity, ingenuity, and accuracy" now is in use. Lancaster bombers used it to sink the Ger man battleship Tirpitz in Norwe gian waters. In a review of Royal Air force activity, Sinclair disclosed for the first time that a Dakota transport plane landed in occupied Poland last spring and brought out rank ing Polish underground officers. Polish guerillas fought a 48-hour battle against the Germans to keep the landing field open. RAF At Peak Sinclair said the RAF has reached its peak of expansion and several thousand of its men will be transferred soon to the army and navy. Allied air power as a whole Will increase until Germany has been defeated, he said. While the RAF will not Increase in numbers, it will Improve in prowess and equip ment, he said. Sinclair asserted that RAF raids on storage sites and communica tions lines had reduced the scale of German's V-2 rocket attacks against Britain "far below" nazi hopes. Go vernor toiven Advertising Bill Salem, Ore., March 6 IIP) The senate today gave . final passage and sent to the governor a bill IHB178) to Increase from $3500 to $5000 per year the amount a county may expend in advertising its resources, and permitting a raise In the tax levy from Vi to mill. Rep. William Niskanen of Bend introduced the measure. The senate vote was unanimous. : : ,. ... ... ,1 lYank y Him I I UllllWiuiwi'W, CAPE ENCAN0 : A ' i A: : TmnNiDDons In Luzon Possibh 100,000 Men j Already Dead as U. S,l Forces Sweep Island By If. D. Quit , VI? (United From War Correspondent) . Manila, March 6 U Six Japa nese divisions possibly 100,000 mon have heen destroyed on Lu zon and American forces ringing the remaining trapped groups were slowly closing in today fCr the kill. . Only four of Lt. Gen. Tomoyukl Yamashita's original garrison of 10 divisions were left on Luzin and they were split up into thrfe firmly encircled pockets. ' 1 Gen. Douglas MacArthurs American troops and Filipino guerillas were reducing the Japa nese points of resistance on- the ground, while land and air forces maintained a strong blockade Of possible enemy escape routes from the island. ; . , laps Fare Disaster ' Tile Japanese, facing almost cep tain disaster, we're holed out in the Zambales mountains In south western Luzon; the southeastern section of the island below Ma nila and in the . northeastern corner.,. ' . "J , With many of the islands below Luzon already occupied by Ameri can .forces. MacArthur's regular -.troops were steadily crusning tne .two southern pockets and probing inio ino nonn wr.ue r uipinu (juer HUbs were adding' to the squeeze trom recently clearect.iucos Norte the TiffrtfftftfBTorn curv nor of the Island. MacArthur personally described the position of the Japanese forces on Luzon as "critical." Six Divisions Destroyed "The equivalent of six divisions with supporting elements," he said, "have been destroyed togeth er with the main supply depots, holding great quantities of ord. nance, munitions, trucks, food; clothing and miscellaneous items, "The remaining enemy forces are split up into a number of divergent groups which are bot tied up In the mountains where supply is difficult, movement re stricted and control and commu nications present insuperable ob stacles. "These forces are being sub jected to continuous attack by our air lorces, wnue tne pressure of our ground forces compresses them into a smaller and smaller maneuver space and our guerilla forces constantly harass their lines of supply." The largest enemy force was concentrated in the northeastern section of Luzon, where two American divisions were steadily cutting into the Japanese posi tions. Man Who Made Synthetic Tires Is Refused Rubber St. Louis, Mo., March G IP The man credited with making America's first synthetic rubber tire was non-essential today as far as the OPA was concerned. He can have no new tires for his automobile. The A card-holding scientist is Dr. Lucas P. Kyrides. The OPA ruled late yesterday that he must get along with his worn prewar tires and minimum of gasoline even if he is the father of Ameri can synthetic rubber. Fight U. S. Marines on Iwo Prepare For Mass Attack on Nippons Guam, March 6 lUt U. S. ma rines were massine strength to day for an all-out assault to split and annihilate the last thousands of Japanese in northern Iwo. How many Japanese remained to oppose the American push was not known definitely. A total of 12,864 enemy dead had been count ed by 6 p. m. Saturday, but field dispatches estimated that at least three quarters of the original gar rison of 20.000 had been wiped out. American dead for the first 13 days through Saturday of the bloodiest campaign of the Pacific war totaled 2,050. (A Japanese communique broadcast by Tokyo radio claimed "about" 20,000 ma rines had been killed or wounded and 250 American tanks "either stranded or set afire" in the battle of Iwo.) Imnroved wind and weather conditions speeded preparations for the attack. Mountains of sup Jap Homeland Wide Open to Attack By Air, Reports Admiral Mitscher ' By E. G. Valens (United Preal Staff Corrmpomlent) Aboard Adm. Mltscher's Carrier Task Force Flagship, March 6 Ul'i (Via Navy Radio) Vice Adm. Marc A. Mitscher, commanding task force 58 whose carrier planes have devastated Japanese air, sea and industrial power, said today mat in theory American carrier planes could successfully bomb the Japanese homeland for days and w.eoks at a time. As a recapitulation of the activi ties of task force 58 showed a total of 728 enemy planes destroy ed and more than 152 ships sunk or damaged in 21 day period, two major questions remained unan swered: Where is the Japanese air force and where is what is left of the Japanese fleet? 2,000 More Men Join in Strikes -Detroit, March 6 'tut A new strike by about 2,000 war workers halted production by Gar Wood In dustries, inc., today. Meanwhile, efforts to settle a labor dispute which has shut down armament output at seven Briggs Mfg. Co. plants since Thursday were unsuccessful. The latest dispute in this arsen al area was a protest by members of local 250, United Auto Workers (CIO), union, against a change in shift hours. It followed company announcement that a 10-hour five day week would be put Into effect Instead of an eight-hour six-day week. - Five plants were affected. .-Briggs strike leaders. said .they, expected aid from UAW interna tional executive board members now meeting in New York In settling their dispute. 15,000 Men Affected Approximately 15,000 United Auto Workers (CIO) union mem bers were affected by the walk out, which began at the Mack avenue plant in .protest against dismissal of workers accused of Instigating previous strikes. Addi tional discharges of men who al 1 e g e d 1 y organized the present walkout have brought the num ber dismissed to 15. The plants produce parts for B-29 Superfortresses, other air craft and tanks, and ambulance bodies. The UAW CIO local 212 execu tive board decided yesterday to re main on strike until the company reinstates the discharged workers. The company replied that under war labor board procedure no dis pute can be negotiated during a strike. - The regional war labor board had no comment. Restaurants to Give Up Points Washington, March 6 tlt The office of price administration, which started a controversy not long ago by cancelling unused ra tion points held by housewives, today took similar action against restaurants, hotels, and other In stitution users of ration foods. OPA said it had recalled sur plus inventories of all such places that have unused ration buying power and food stocks. The action was described as an attempt "to put people who eat at home and those who eat out on the same basis insofar as their ability to get their fair share of scarce foods is concerned." plies were being unloaded on both the eastern and western beaches. The fighting front has remain ed virtually unchanged for more than 48 hours while the Third, Fourth and Fifth marine divisions brought up munitions and sup plies for the attack. The Third, in the center, has only a quarter mile to go to the northeast coast to split the decimated enemy gar rison. The Japanese tried time and again to infiltrate the American lines Sunday night and early Mon day, only to be broken up and thrown back. Hundreds of the enemy were killed, but the infil tration parties did bring the ma rines under "substantial" artillery and small arms fire. . Army a ir force Liberators bombed Chichi, in the Bonin is lands Just north of Iwo, Sunday, Admiral Chester W Nimltz an nounced in a communique. I Naval officers still are : trying I to figure out why our task force met so little air and surface oppo sition during two major assaults on the Tokyo area and one each at Iwo Jlma and the Ryukyus. Some officers suggested that the enemy might be saving everything for one final punch. 1 . Mitscher committed himself only to the extent of saying that whatever the Japanese strategy, carrier attacks on Tokyo, Yoko hama and-Nagoya could be put on a successful milkrun basis at least In theory. He said round the clock air attacks could be made for days or weeks at a time. Final scores on the results of Mitscher's daring but meagerly opposed cruise showed that at a cost of only 75 combat aircraft, Back From Isles en S7Sit. Delbert H. "Cochrane," Bend' boy who served in three major Pacific Engagements with Bend's Co. I, is back in the states on a furlough and recently visited in Bend. His mother, Mrs. Vura Cochrane, former local teacher, is now in Portland. Sgt. Cochrane won a citation for gallantry in action. Vinson Expected To Get Approval Washington, March 6 Ut The senate banking committee today approved the nomination of Eco nomic Stabilization Director Fred M. Vinson to be federal loan ad ministrator. Chairman Robert F. Wagner, D., N. Y., said the vote was "unan imous and, of course "enthusias tic." The committee's action was ex pected. In nominating Vinson, President Roosevelt had under taken to end his bitterest current misunderstanding with congress. Vinson is a democratic party stalwart. His background is the law and politfcs, mostly politics. He has been serving as director of the office of economic stabiliza tion. Wallace Approves When Vinson's nomination went to the senate yesterday Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace quickly expressed approval. For mer secretary Jesse H. Jones was equally prompt and even more enthusiastic. Jones and Wallace haven't agreed on much of any thing else in years. When Mr Roosevelt fired Jones as com merce secretary and loan agency head conservative congressmen enacted legislation to prevent Wallace getting the multi-billion dollar loan agency job along with the cabinet post to which the pres ident nominated him. Not only did both Jones and Wallace approve Vinson's nomina tion but Sen. Harry F. Byrd, D., Va said it was an exccellent choice. "I predict," said Byrd, "that Vinson will receive virtually the unanimous approval of the sen ate." $8,000 Mink Coat Given To Eleanor Roosevelt New York, March 6 HitMrs. Eleanor Roosevelt has a new $8,000 (wholesale price) mink coat. It is a gift. The Quebec Fur Breeder's Co operative association presented the coat to the first lady yester day afternoon. It was the first coat made from the first crop of crested-mink produced by the Ca nadian department of agriculture In Quebec for sale In the United States. Mrs. Roosevelt said she accepted it in the spirit in which it was given. American fliers shot down 399 Japanese planes, destroyed 329 on the ground and damaged another i.atu parKea crati. They made obb comDat sorties, including 293 over the Tokyo area. The task force definitely sank one Jap destroyer, damaged two more and probably sank a light carrier'. Also sunk were one mine sweeper, three picket boats, two 6,500 ton and three 1,500 ton cargo vessels, one ocean tug, six luggers and 52 coastal vessels. Aside from numerous airfields and other installations destroyed, we heavily damaged the Ota and Koizumi aircraft assembly plants, the huge Nakajlma and Musashi no engine plants and the Tachak awa engine plant. Dairy Meetings Set for County Four dairy meetings have been scheduled In Deschutes county for the discussion of disease control, undulant fever and milk sanita tion, It was announced here today by H. G. Smith, county agent. All dairymen were urged to attend the meetings nearest their farms, and hear H. P. Ewalt, extension dairyman of the Oregon State col lege, discuss the following sub jects; -j Disease control, Bang's-disease and tuberculosis; production of clean milk and recent dairy legis lation; feeding for milk produc tion, ana tne aairy outiooK tor ;.The meetings pay been set as roilows: Terrebonne grange hall, tonight at 8 p.m.; Alfalfa grange hall, tomorrow at 1;30 p.m.; East ern Star grange hall, tomorrow at 7 p.m., and at the Tumalo grange nail, Thursday at 7 p,m. - Suppers Planned The Eastern Star and Tumalo meetings will be preceded by a potluck supper, and refreshments will be served following the ses sion In Terrebonne. The grange home economics committees will have charge of the dinners and serving refreshments. According to Agent Smith, the meetings are being sponsored by the Deschutes Dairy Industry committee, and are open to all dairy men and members of their families. Ross Henderson Reported Missing Sl Ross Nelson Henderson, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Hen derson, 615 Ogden avenue, is miss ing in action in the south Pacific, according to a telegram received by his parents from the navy de partment. Additional details were promised In a letter to follow. Seaman Henderson, a 'graduate of the Bend high school with the class of 1942, served as a gunner atop an aircraft carrier. He enlist ed a year ago, received his boot training at the Farragut naval training station, and was station ed at the Bremerton navy yard before being assigned to active duty. Born In Concordia, Kans., in 1923, Ross came to Oregon In 1928 ,and after reaching Bend at tended Kenwood school. . Hood River Legion Post Adds Names of Nippons to Roster Indianapolis, March G HP) The names of 15 Japanese-American servicemen have heen restored to the Hood River, Ore., American Legion post honor roll, It was announced today at nationallcg - ion headquarters here, One name was not restored he cause the man was dishonorably discharged from the service, ac cording to a telegram from J. B. Edlngton, commander of the Hood River post. The Oregon post provoked cen sure from the legion national com mander, Edward N. Schelberllng, when It struck the names on Dec 2, and announced that the action was taken because the Japanese Americans were of "dual allegi ance." The Hood Kiver post refused at first to restore the names, and acceded after It was announced yesterday that the matter was be ing referred to the state head- Old Cathedral P: v fantnrpd r . In Hodge's Men Reach to Banks of Rhine: New Spearheads Hit Nazis Paris, March 6 P American forces captured Cologne tonight and at the same time Lt Gen. , George S. Patton's Third army broke through the German lines and drove eastward 25 miles toward the Rhine. T Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' siege forces smashed clear through the heart of Cologne to the banks of the Rhine. Front dis patches reported that the rear guard defenders of the great Rhineland city had dwindled to a scattered handful. At nightfall the assault forces , which had struck through the center of Cologne were on the banks of the Rhine, and the city tottered toward complete collapse. River Reached Hodges' ' vanguard at Cologne had pushed past the ancient ca thedral in the heart of the city 300 yards from the Rhine and edged on to the river in a matter of minutes. Late in the day the Yanks com Dieted the encirclement of Co logne, with fresh spearheads strik ing to the Knine soutn oi me city. , First army headquarters an nounced that Hodges' troops now controlled all 18 miles of the Rhine west bank north of Co logne to Neuss, across from Dues seldorf , .except fQf the smajl, vil- , lage of Zons. .;."'"'-';-. - The Ford motor plant a mile north of Cologne was firmly in American hands. ; The Berlin radio admitted that American tanks had penetrated to the center of Cologne. The an nouncement cleared the way for breaking the news to the German people that their fourth largest city was lost. ' Set Fast Pace The Third army breakthrough In the Rhineland below Cologne was announced only after Pat ton's speeding forces had pushed from the Kyll river front east of Pruem to the area of Schonbach, 27 miles west of Coblenz at the confluence of the Rhine and Mo sel rivers. Maj. Gen. Hugh J. Gaffey's fa mous Fourth armored division set the pace for the. Patton dash toward the Rhine. In the first hours of the push the Third army captured an esti mated 1,500 prisoners, including a German corps commander, as well as at least a dozen German towns. Among the prisoners was a German officer Identified as Maj. Gen. Graf Rothkirsch. Germans Reel Back Brig. Gen. Holmes Daeger of Union City, N. J., led the attack ing forces. The fourth armored in Its slam-bang action rocked the Germans back on their heels. As the push developed, the Americans were reported run ning into mortar and artillery fire. Lt. Col. Crelghton Abrams of West Newton, Mass., who was with Daeger"s forces, reported that at Melsburg, 12 miles north east of Bitburg, his tanks knocked out three German Tiger tanks and four Panthers. He captured at least 200 German vehicles and three artillery batteries. quarters for possible action. Hood River, Ore., March 6 "It Restoration of the names of 15 Japanese-American servioemon to the Hood River post American legion honor roll was confirmed today by J. B. Edington, com mander of the post. Edlngton said he had sent a telegram last night to the legion's national headquarters in Indiana polis announcing the restoration. The telegram read as follows: 'Upon the directive ot national commander Edward N. Schelher Ing, of the American legion, Al bany, N. Y., Hood River post No 22 voted at a regular meeting on March 5 to restore the names of 15 men- of Japanese ancestry to the honor roll.- This action, how ever, does not change the senti ment of the post on the return of Japanese-Americans' to the Hood River valley.'' - . " Quick Blow are