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Volume Ull
Churchill Among Dragon's Teeth of
MM V- 1
Prime Minister Winston Churchill (foreground) walks among the dragon's teeth Germany sowed along her
Siegfried line near Aachen. At left Is Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, second is General Sir Alan
Brooke, and at right is Lieut. Gen. William Simpson, USA. British Official Photo via Signal Corps radic-
telephoto.
Japs Hint
Tokyofleports
f i , . .
mow Naval
Bombardment
Manila, March 9 (IP Tokyo re
ported today that a 77-shIp Ameri
can invasion armada was man
euvering for a landing at Zam
boanga on the southwest tipkof
Mindanao,' second largest of the
Philippine islands, after a 24-hour
naval bombardment.
) Tokyo - radio.1': Uf an ItaliaV
language broadcast to Europe,
said a landing attempt had been
made but had "failed." The broad
cast was recorded by FCC.)
Minesweepers began clearing a
channel off the coast Thursday
morning, Tokyo radio said, and
the task force is "showing signs
of a landing attempt."
The broadcast said the Ameri
can fleet comprised three battle
ships, four cruisers, 20 landing
craft and 50 other warships and
assorted craft. It began shelling
Zamboanga early yesterday, To
kyo added.
Mac Is Silent
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's
headquarters were silent on the
enemy reports. Today's com
munique disclosed, however, that
Liberators, Mitchell mediums and
Lightnings wrecked buildings and
started many fires in Zamboanga
with a 129-ton raid Tuesday.
.amnoanga, on Basilan strait
535 miles south of Manila, is one
of the principal ports of Mindan
ao, southermost of the Philippines
and defended by the last sizeable
enemy force remaining in the
archipelago.
Tokyo said the invasion fleet
composed two task forces which
reached the Zamboanga area
from the east and west. The first
force consisted of 30 unclassified
warships, while the second com
prised three battleships, four
cruisers, 20 landing craft and 20
small other craft, Tokyo said.
Port Shelled
While minesweepers were clear-
ing a channel, the broadcast said :
inai inree cruisers, under cover of :
a 'substantial" airforce, shelled
the port.
Tokyo claimed that no landings
were made up to last night, but
did not extend its comment be
yond that time.
Zamhrtanaa tc cnn-ifolnrl ffnm
he northeast tip of Borneo 180-
....... mug aii-ppuig-siuiit? isiaiiu
chain, formed by Basilan island
and the Sulu archipelago.
Across the Sulu sea, 225 miles
to the west, is the Palawan port
of Puerta Princesa and three air
fields, which were seized by Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's troops last
week.
The Japanese before the Philip
Pines campaign were believed to
have concentrated strong forces
on Mindanao as MacArthur ap
proached from the south.
Teletype Reveals
Death of Sister
Los Angeles, March 9 'II1
jwen Pveatt. sheriff office
Jerk, tore an accident report from j She started to cry.
'he police teletype last night. I "I'm so thrilled," she said, sob
k She glanced at it. Then she bing. "But I'm even happier to
panted. jknow that Emmet is well."
Tlie report told of the death of She said her husband had been
ner sister, Mrs. Carlyn Holcomb, ,
in the collision of a milk truck ,
wth a sedan. l
Mindanao Action
f ; 9?'01 sy? I1"
In Reich Almost Unbearable
People Not Yet Told Americans Have Crossed
Historic Rhine; Country Gets 'Gas Jitters'
London, March 9 (TIE) Col.
staff of the German army, was quoted by the nazi radio today
as admitting in a message to German troops that the strain
now has become "well nigh intolerable."
Foreign transmissions of
American crossing of the Rhine
diate indication that the German people had been told that
their biggest defense barrier In
Nazi propagandists, -in an apparent effort to offset word of
the Russian drive on Berlin, said Adolf Hitter had visited the
Oder front within the last f ew
days, ii itler.vaa SJrtd to have
"convinced himself of the
fighting spirit of the German
soldiers.
The question of German
spirit and determination or
lack of it, was thrust' to the
tore also by Guderian.
Losing Nerve
"We are not losing our nerve."
he said in the message to German
troops in which he conceded the
almost "intolerable" strain of the
allied pressure on Germany.
Writing in the Voelkischer Beo
bachter, Guderian said that by
far the greatest part of Germany's
armed forces was assigned to the
eastern front last fall to block the
Russian threat. As a result, he
said, the Americans in the west
are able to achieve today what
they failed to do earlier.
Other enemy broadcasts said
the allied offensive in the west
was attaining "decisive" import
ance. An Exchange Telegraph dis
patch from Zurich said Germany
is getting the "gas Jitters," accord
ing to reports there from respon
sible sources in Munich.
Man Loses Purse
And $400; Finder
Now Eating Cake
It's cake day for the courthouse
employees who are being treated
by Miss Elizabeth H. Boeckli,
hnmp demonstration spent, to a
three-laver delicacv courtesv of
Koy L,. Thompson.
Thompson, whose address is
Rt. 2, box 281, arrived at the
courthouse Wednesday afternoon
to make out his income tax re
turn. Some time later, he remem
bered that as he stood in the long
aueue of tax payers, he had
placed his billfold containing $400
on the bannister. Rushing back,
Thompson found Miss Boeckli
waiting for him with the purse,
the money and the refusal to ac
cent a reward.
When she was presented with
the three-layer cake as a token
of appreciation, Miss Boeckli ex
claimed: "That's the nicest thing
that ever happened to me."
Rhine Crossing
Thrill for Wife
New York, March 9 IPMrs.
Doris Borrows, 24, was having
I her morning cup of coffee today
I when she was told that her hus
i band Lt. Emmett J. Burrows,
(commanded the first company
of Yanks across the Rhine.
overseas nine months. He was
formerly a shipping clerk in New
York.
CENTRAL OREGON'S
THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND. DESCHUTES
Siegfried Line
CK Radio-TtleDholo)
Gen. Heinz Guderian, chief of
the nazi radio acknowledged an
river, but there was no imme
the west was broken
BULLETINS
(By United Prctt)
A new United States 15th
army has gone into action on
the western front, an NBC
broadcast from the front said
today. "
London, March 8 1P A To
kyo broadcast said today Amer
ican troops from a 77-ship inva
sion armada have landed at
Zamboanga on the southwest tip
of Mindanao, southernmost and
second largest of the Philippine
Islands.
With V. S. Third Army in Ger
many, March 9 UP A German
division general, his entire staff
and 3,200 officers and men sur
rendered to the American Third
army today.
Paris, March 9 IP The allies
have captured 1,009,063 prison
ers since D-day, supreme head
quarters officially announced
today. The bag included one
colonel general, 37 other gen
erals, five. colonels commanding
divisions, and five admirals.
With American Third In Ger
many, March 9 UP The Ger
mans today blew up the Rhine
railway bridge at Engers, mid
way between Colblenz and An
dernach, to prevent a crossing
by the American Third army.
The only other bridge standing
in this sector Is the Hermann
Goering bridge in Coblenz.
Moro Solon's Son
Killed in Action
Salem, Ore., March 9 IP Pfc.
Wyman J. French, son of Rep.
and Mrs. Giles French of Moro,
was killed in action in Holland on
Feb. 27, his parents were informed
today by the war department.
I he youth was with an armored
division of the 9th army, after go
ing to England late last year. Be
fore entering military service, he
attended the University of Oregon
for three years as a pre-lcgal stu
dent. He was unmarried and was
born in Grass Valley, Ore.
He is survived by his parents
and two sisters, Mrs. Jane Frees
of Hood River and Pat French of
Moro,
2 Torpedo Boats
Lost in Accident
Washington, March 9 IP.
-The
navy announced today that two
American torpedo boats wero nr.
cidcntally sunk by a U. S. ship in
uiu I'fimpfiines.
Casualties aboard the two ves
sels, the PT-77 and the PT-79. worn
ugnt, tne navy said. Such craft
carry a normal complement of 11
to 15 men. The skippers of both
vessels were saved.
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Dime
Soviets
Stalin Screens
Movements on
Eastern Front
Nazis Say Hitler Pays :;
Visit to Oder Defenses .'
As Reds Launch Blow '
London, March 9 ilB Moscow
dispatches reported today that the
battle of Berlin has been resumed
in full fury along a 175-mile
stretch of the Oder and Neisse
rivers.
Nazi accounts said the red army
has broken into the heart of and
apparently encircled Kuestriri,
main anchor.of the last-ditch Oder
line before the capital. '
Adolf Hitler has just returned
from a visit to the Oder front
some 30 miles from Berlin, nazi
broadcasts said as the decisive
battle for the eastern approaches
to the capital began.
Blackout Imposed
Moscow reported that the Sov
iet high command" continued to
screen developments along the
Oder-Neisse front with a security
blackout, but added significantly:
"Unofficial advices indicate that
the whole Oder-Neisse line is
aflame, with the second phase of
the decisive winter offensive In
full swing."
Kuestrin lies 38 miles east of
Berlin, but the Germans conceded
that the red army was only 29
miles away from the capital at the
Dena oi tne uaer nortnwest or
Kufstrin and 33 mijesjway sphgiijyiMunction wth .the city
Stettin Under Fire
Moscow also reported that the
Soviets were storming and shell
ing the outskirts of both Danzig
and Stettin, biggest German-held
ports on the Baltic sea, after
crumpling their outer defenses
"like a house of cards." The red
army was within sight of both
ports.
Berlin broadcasts said Marshal
Gregory K. Zhukov's First White
Russian army had swung across
the Oder river behind Kuestrin,
38 miles east of Berlin, and was
storming the burning fortress
city from "all sides" an indica
tion that Kuestrin has been en
circled. The forces which attacked from
the rear broke into the west-bank
portion of Kuestrin, Berlin said,
but the main assault came from
the northwest on the opposite side
of the big bend of the Odor.
Valley Authority
Move Is Opposed
Salem. Ore.. March ft iipi Th
house Thursday unanimously ap-j
H'vcu me senate measure (SB
M8) which memnrlali
in opposition to the establishment
of a Columbia valley authority.
Rep. E. Riddell Lage, Hood
River, said that the bill was in
troduced at the request of the
UrCOn KPClnmntinn nnnmwi-
a--- ..v.. wiiAiiM, j
ThJ L bills In congress proposing j
a C.V.A. WOUld dODriVe Oregon
and Washington citizens of water
rights, Lage said.
I he powers granted to the ad
ministration would bo all Inelu.
sive, ana include wide powers.
in addition, LagO said, it would
only add to the bureaucratic agon-ling
cies now existing.
Rhine Crossing May Change Entire Course of War
By c. It. Cunninirham .
" wr torreapondont) Courtney H. Hodges Is doing It , came, Maj. Murray Deevers, Hag
Last of the Rhine. Gnrmnnv tn ihn hilt nic Ari, nrnrn,i tun m.,n
March 8 (Delayed) (IP) Victory
js in the air on this side of the j
Rhine, where American troops hit ;
the paydlrt Of GermanV.
And now With the Ynnks nerncn '
Germany's greaf river barrier, it
OeglnS tO lOOk aS thOUI!h thP en.
tire, course of the war In the west j
is oeing cnanged.
11 Can l De tOln Vet hnw tho ;
. , " ..... ,
Amer cans crossed the Rhine, but j
it took only 10 to 15 minutes to ,
get at least one company of In-'
ian ry over to the eastern side
yesteraay attemoon. :
weha l t Safe t0 say tnat mans are throwing their heavy , the Germans never expected it, I The only opposition to the
onno n P !u i infantry an(l ' artillery shells at us, they surely ; because there were no prepared crossing was from snipers and a
nro L,irT Sn I r anu ,hey 1 must know bv now whore and defenses. few 20-mm. guns. But near the
evervihif; I0,110w UP rapidly by how we got over at 3:50 p. m. I On the east side of the river, end of the crossing, heavy ma
everyining in the First army's j yesterday. j the terrain goes up steadily into 1 chine guns opened up. The only
rrZ' ,,. . , This outfit had orders to seize . rich green woods. The high hill, I casualties now are from the ar-
ine tactical move Is to exploit I any opportunity it could find to I quickly reached by the first! tlllcry. , .
BULL
DAILY NEWSPAPER
COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY,
Spain) S
tCt tSt ft - ft
Resume Battle for
10 SQUARE MILES
OF TOKYO AFIRE
AFTER BIG RAID
(By Unlti-d Preiu)
A ten-square-mile area of Tokyo
is afire after the .SOO-plune raid by
Superfortresses, Norniun Paige,
Blue network, correspondent re
ported from Guam today.
The raid, starting early Satur
day nmrniug, was descrllted as an
"all out Incendiary attack" on the
Japanese capital.
"There Is a conflagration In
Tokyo now," Paige said.
"The very heart- of the city of
Tokyo is aflumo at this moment
as well over SIM) Superfortresses
wing their way back from the
largest and most powerful raid
ever carried out.
"The raid was for the express
purpose of setting fire to this area
roughly as large as all of South
Manhattan island and Brooklyn
'combined.
"This amazing attack Is the
first all incendiary raid on Japan,
and the first largo night bombing
of Tokyo.
"The area was left a great blaz
ing caludron, flames were shoot
ing far into the sky."
Industrial Fund
Accounting Made
- :. Contributors met in the Pilot
Butte inn last night and took preliminary-
steps to perfect a per
manent organization to administer
the city's postwar industrial de
velopment fund. Decision was
reached to hold a direct primary
election among tne donors to se-
l ion a normmi,.! nt
commission in handling the com
Dined s.'O.ulK) fund.
The city originally set aside
$10,000 in its budget for the pur
pose of attracting additional pay
rolls in liend, with the understand
ing that the, sum be matched by
popular subscription. Last night it
was revealed that instead of rais
ing the $10,000, Bend businessmen
and firms had amassed a total of
$13,005.
Keports Presented
Carl A. Johnson, chairman of
the special committee of which
Frank H. Loggan and Sumner
Deltrick were also members, furn
isher! eneh enntrlhntnr with n re.
port on the canvass and the names
or eacn donor, inis committee
had spent the past three months
in raising the fund, and it was
given a vote of thanks by the
assembled contributors. Although
the three asked that they be not
considered for positions on the
permanent board, Johnson was re
tained as temporary chairman.
Don H. Peoples was named tem
porary secretary.
The group instructed Johnson
to appoint five to act as a nomi
nating committee, with this quin
tet having the responsibility of
naming 10 candidates, of which
five are to be elected as a per
manent administering board. They
(Continued on Page 6)
U. S. Vessel Lost
In Leyte Action
Washington, March 9 n
-The
n,n ..Ut ...l t
vrui BIII,JIIIK ail 1 1 II 1 1 19 1 1 (1 UUI 1 IU-
day announced the loss through
enemv nrlinn nf the llhnrtv uhln
William S. Ladd. The ship was de
stroyed by a Japanese airplane in
the Leyte gulf a few weeks ago.
The WSO said that no lives
were lost, but that six merchant
seamen were Inlmnrl The !itt!i,-U.
Japanese plane was shot
down.
the I
The bridgehead, at one of the
most picturesque spots south of
Cologne, is expanding rapidly to
the past north unH oniith Tt Innlia
nlmict lit... thn A n-,ln
i except that here there Is not even
!a thre.-it nfiiir irntltno nnl
The crossing was a case of snot-
ting an opportunity and grabbing
t A a nn frtn. ..- tt. Hit
uiiu vinut-i jui. 11. it. jruu
have something given you, the
best thing is to take it." .
Security reasons prevent dis-
closure of the rrossinc site, hut
iudpinc from the wav the Ger.
KEN
MARCH 9, 1945
enzeol
Iwo Marines
Drive to Cliff
On Isle Coast
Carrier Planes and Big
Guns Off Shore Aid Men
In Battle With Nippons
By Frank Tremalne
(United Pi-an War Correspondent)
Guam, March 9 iUiU. S. ma
rines virtually split In two the
last desperately-resisting Japa
nese on Iwo today with a drive to
a 100-foot cliff overlooking the
northeast coast.
"It won't be long before this
thing is over," Vice Admiral Rich
mond Kelley Turner, commander
of the Pacific amphibious forces,
said after a tour of the tiny Island
on Japan's front doorstep.
Front reports indicated that a
third marine division spearhead at
the center of the line had gained
the cliff commanding the steep
northeastern beach af ter ramming
through the mst defenses In the
area. ,J:. ,
Forces Severed
The push all but severed enemy
forces on the north coast from
those along the northeast shore.
(A Tokyo broadcast said 29,670
marines had been kilted or wound
ed through Wednesday. The broad
cast was recorded by the FCC.) .
The fifth division advanced
alone, the northern tip of Iwo In
a frontal drive aga.inst.tho, en;
'emy's'fiortherh pocket. . '
The fourth division still was en
countering difficulty In rugged
terrain .along tne east coast, but
the third's breakthrough to the
north threatened the rear of the
enemy's northeastern pocket.
Carrier planes and the big guns
of warships offshore supported
the marine offensive, now In its
fourth day.
Isles Defended
A Pacific fleet communique
said the surviving Japanese, be
lieved fewer than 4,000, were de
fending every prepared position
desperately with heavy and light
machine guns and intense small
arms 'ire-
Turner told United Press war
correspondent Mac R. Johnson on
returning to his flagship from
Iwo that the marine officers were
"cheerful over the prospects" of
early conquest of the eight-square-mile
Island.
The admiral said he was im
pressed favorably with Iwo's po
tentialities for use as an air base
against Tokyo, only 750 miles to
the north.
Town Fighting
Faces Marines
Washington, March 9 (U" The
marines are "getting set for town
fighting in the Pacific," the of
ficial marine magazine Leather
neck said today.
"The art of house-to-house fight
fighting becomes a 'must' for
marines as the war moves out of
the jungles and coral atolls and
Into populated communities," the
magazine said in an article titled
"Street Fighting."
The article listed six principles
of house to house fighting evolved
from "fighting techniques of the
European war" and the experien
ces of marines on Guam and Sai
pan. When that opportunity
j across.
I Without hesitation, the entire
! company swept on into the "pay-
Hlrt" nf rWmnnv In a rlrlvo nlmml
directly at the heart of Hitlers
Reich.
These men, who caught the Ger
mans napping and crossed the
great Rhine, were some of those
1 t,,Un 4nL. It n 4Un nt.lv. ln
nnu iuua jl uii 1.11111 111 111c
Belgian bulge. Now the company
has Its head up and ready for
more work.
I War had not touched the coun-
! trvsirle In this sector. Annarentlv
ft
Mend Air Veteran
Photo Arm Studio
SSgt. Leland W. Blind, ball tur
ret gunner on the B-17 "Cock o'
the Sky," holds the air medal and
four oak leaf clusters. His group
received a presidential citation
for an England-Africa shuttle
bombing on Regensburg, Ger
many, factories. His parents are
Mr. ana Mrs. wiuiam Blind, 846
South Third street.
Bend Elks Back
Red Cross Drive
Quota Received to date Balance
$22,300 $8,710.45 $14,089.55
Bend's Elks will hold their an
nual stag party tomorrow. .
-But they made hure'that they
woyjdjjint Jiave heir fun , until
they had "taken care of the boys
over mere.
And today they stood as the
largest single donnor to the
American Red Cross Fourth War
Fund in Deschutes county, hav
ing turned over to headquarters
a check for $500. Grateful for the
check, Bruce Gilbert, county chair
man .of the drive, asked Paul
Sevy, secretary of the Elks lodge,
what had inspired such a large
contribution. Sevy explained:
MSgt. ,lames W. Mayer, in a
letter to his wife, Mrs. Mar
guerite Mayer of the First Na
tional bank, wrote- from the
Philippines: "So far the Ited
Cross is the only organization
down here that seems to be
doing anything for the men.
They organize all-day fishing
trlw, furnishing every thing,
all Norts of recreation activi
ties, and ull the recreation
centers are 0eraled by lied
Cross, so we're for the Ked
Cross 100. They're doing
a swell job In the south Pa
cific." "A lot of our boys are out there
Riving a lot more than money.
1'hls is our way of showing them
they mean a lot. to us, and that
Elkdom means something to
them. We are all anxious to get
this mess over with, but that
Isn't enough. If we can do some
thing in the meantime we are
only doing what Elks set out to
do when the lodge was organized.
We are turning this money over
to the Red Cross because that's
where we feel it will do the most
good."
30 Itaised
Chairman Gilbert reported to
day that 39 per cent of the quota
had been raised, a total of $8,
710.45 having been received to
(Continued on Page 5)
, troops over, stands out like a Gi
braltar. It is a contrast to the
west side which is as flat as a
Kansas cornfield. In between
flows the placid Rhine.
" .. t . 1 . c .. i .. l 1
i.S.V, i.wlhl ,.,"u:
h'v" h"'T..,," ,Vh'rnt.
their white flag of surrender for
more than 24 hours and are get
ting nungry.
There were a number of casual
tiessome dead and some badly
wounoen in tne crossing, in con
trnst. one rionehhnv wnririinrt intn
the battle, tipsy from "liberated"
i enc-nae
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Weather Forecast
Rain west of Cascades, occasional
rain or snow east of Cascades to
day; snow flurries over moun
tains tonight and Saturday. Slight
ly colder today. '
NO. 80
American Tanks Drive
Deep Into Nazi Lands
After Crossing River
Paris, March 9 (U" American
First army tanks and troops swept
across the Ludendorf bridge at rle
magen and drove more than four
miles Into the German hinterland
today. To the north, hundreds of
U. S. Ninth army guns began
flattening the arsenal cities of the
Ruhr valley in a tremendous bom
bardment from the west bank of
the Rhine.
The security blackout that had
cloaked the progress of the First
army since it broke across the
Rhine 48 hours ago was lifted
dramatically today to reveal that
the Ludendorf bridge had been
captured intact, in probably the.
most amazing military coup of the
war. .
A mighty tide of Americans
guns, tanks and troops was racing
through the breach and fanning
out at top speed through the roll
ing hills east of the Rhine against .
a stunned and apparently demoral
ized enemy.
Despite frantic German broad
casts asserting that the Ameri
cans had been checked on the
Berlin
Big Ludendorf
') Bridge Falls to
1 U.S. Troopers
northern and. southern flanks of
the bridgehead, headquarters said
the attack was going well and
that the salient was being expand- -ed
steadily.. ,.'v .
t " Entire FrOnt Ablaze '
. The entire 110 -mile Rhineland
front from Coblenz north to the
Dutch border burst into flame in
the wake of the sensational First
army break-through.
Headquarters revealed that an
other American army, the 15th,
had arrived on the continent and
been placed under Lt. Gen. Omar
N. Bradley's 12th army group com
mand with the u. s. First ana
Third armies. With the 15th, Brad
ley's command embraced more
than 1,000,000 American soldiers,
giving him tactical control of
more combat troops than any oth
er leader in modern military his
tory. The arrival of the new army
came at what was obviously the
critical hour of the battle of west
ern Europe.
More than 250 giant field guns
of the U. S. Ninth army massed
before Dusseldorf and Duisburg
(Continued on Page 5
Kite Fliers Told
Of Wire Dangers
Pointing to the danger of chil
dren being electrocuted, William
A. Lackaf f , manager of the Pacific
Power & Light company in Bend,
today issued a warning against
the use of wire in flying kites. The
action was prompted, Lackaff
said, by the discovery last night
in Carroll Acres of about 100 feet
of fine, copper magnet wire
stretched across a 2300 volt power
line.
Attention of linemen was called
to the situation by a woman, who
at first believed that fireworks
was being discharged close to her
fence. Investigation revealed the
fine wire, and linemen removed lt
by using safety tools.
Lackaff said that a child could
easily have been electrocuted had
it been holding the loose end of
the wire.
Lt. Miller Wins
Navy Cross, Medal
Lt. (jg) William E. Miller, son
of Mr and Mrs. H. A. Miller of Bend
and a veteran of the early air
blows against the Philippine is-
lands, has been awarded the air
I "al for "meritorious achieve-
to information- released by the
13th naval district.
Lt. Miller has also been award
ed the distinguished flying cross.
Both awards were a result of
i achievement as section leader in
iignung squadron a during ac
tion against Japanese forces.
Lt. Miller, who recently visited
here, was reported missing after
his plane was forced down in a
blow at Luzon, but later was res
cued, prior to the landing of the
Americans in the Philippines. :