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CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
NO. 82
Volume Llll
THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, MONDAY, MARCH 12, 1 945
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danao, secona largest lsiana or tne Philippines, and are neanng the
west of Zamboanga were quickly seized.
Big Fires
Japs' Largest
Aircraft City
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Flames Reported Out of
Control 16 Hours After
American Skymen Visit
Guam, March 12 IP Fires vis
ible nearly 100 miles at sea raced
uncontrolled today through Na
goya, Japan's greatest aircraft
manufacturing center, after 300
Superfortresses sowed 2,000 tons
of incendiary bombs through the
center of the city.
Swinging 165 miles west from
still-burning Tokyo, the giant ar
mada unloaded death and destruc
tion on five square miles of war
plants, business blocks, govern
ment buildings and flimsy dwel
lings in the tinder-box center of
Nagoya for two hours under
cover of darkness early today.
Returning pilots said the rain of
bombs, more concentrated even
than the 2,300 tons which burned
out 15 square miles of Tokyo Sat
urday, kindled "hellish fires" that
threatened to spread far beyond
the original target area.
Fires Uncontrolled
A Japanese communique Indi
cated that a number of fires still
were out of control at 4:30 p. m.
(Tokyo time), more than 16 hours
after the start of the raid.
It said a fire had been started
in the "precincts" of the Atsuta
shrine, one of 10 large shinto or
religious shrines in Japan, but
added that the "main and detach
ed shrines were safe."
Maj. Gen. Curtis Le May, com
mander of the 21st bomber com
mand in the Marianas, reserved
judgment until all reports were
in, hut said "so far the attack ap
pears very successful."
rrom Washington ramp word
hat B29s of the 20th bomber
command in India also wpre In
"-tiuu louay. a meaium lorce
probably 50 strong bombed In
dustrial targets in the Singapore
area for the sixth time. The 20th
command attacked Kuala Lum
pur. 200 miles north of Singapore,
Saturday.
Dome! Gives Version
A Tokyo Domei agency dis
patch said 40 B-29s participated in
he attack on Singapore and caus
ed only "extremely slight" dam
aW. Two Superfortresses were
shot down and a third damaged,
Tokyo said.
Superfortresses which struck at
Nagoya, Japan's third largest city
f'th 1.400.000 inhabitants, caught
the defenders offguard by bomb
'"8 from 5.000 instead of the cus
tomary 20,000 feet. Le May said
'he Japanese lacked automatic
weapons for use against low-alti-"ini
raiders.
k -No fighter opposition was re
ported. Anti-aircraft fire was
eak at first, but increased as
the raid wore on. Losses were not
announced immediatelv. Tokyo
claimed 22 of the big planes had
own shot down and 60 damaged.
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Situation on Iwo Very Grim,
Jap Commander Wires Home
Garrison 'Pledged to Crush Enemy,' Asserts
Foe; Yanks Say Conquest of Island Is Near
,' By Frank Tkemaine- 1 '" .
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Guam, March 12 (EE)
peared at hand today. Weary
Japanese defenders into the
north coast.
(A Japanese broadcast reported by the FCC said Japa
nese troops on Iwo had lost most of their heavy arms and
were fighting with small arms, hand grenades, swords, and
bayonets. It said the Iwo battle was "growing in ferocity
daily." .
Pacific fleet headquarters
collapse or organized resist-
ance momentarily as the blood
iest campaign of the Pacific
war entered its fourth week on
Japan's front doorstep.
A communique this morning
said the fifth division had whit
tled down the enemy's last size
able pocket to half a square mile
along the north coast by 6 p'.m.
yesterday in heavy fighting. The
marines were making slow but
steady progress with support of
heavy artillery and the big guns
of warships offshore.
Yanks Reach Coast
The third and fourth divisions
crashed through the last Japanese
lines in eastern Iwo over the week
end and captured most of the rock
ledged east coast, the communi
que said. One small enemy pocket
was by-passed for later annihila
tion. '
The advance along the north
coast was a slow and tedious busi
ness. The last few thousand Japa
nese survivors of a -garrison orgi
nally totaling 20,000 crack troops
were fighting to the death from
pillboxes, blockhouses and caves.
(The Tokyo Domei agency said
the Japanese commander on Iwo
had telegraphed the Japanese
house of representatives that the
situation on the island was "be
coming more and more grim and
sanguinary," but added the garri
son was "pledged to crush the
enemy."
Senate Approves
District No. 25
Salem, Ore., March 12 UPtBy
a vote of 18 to 12, the senate Sat
urday approved senate bill 331 to
give a new member of the senate
if approved by the voters, to the
counties of Deschutes, Crook,
Jefferson and Lake.
Sen. Marshall Cornett of Klam
ath Falls said his bill would
iwnpHv an unfair eiritatinn In hlo
i
district, which comprises about who rPPrted that only slight
one-fourth of the state. The bill ' damage resulted from the blazes,
would split up the 17th district La' Saturday firemen were
with Klamath county retaining!11 t0 'he McNutt ranch, near
that number and the other four,,,,e city golf course, where fire
counties being designated as damaged the roof. Later that
N'o. 25. evening they were summoned to
Until a new senator was elected, '. the intersection of Wall street and
the present senator would repre-; Colorado avenue to extinguish a
sent both districts. The new mem-; trash fire. On Sunday they ex
ber would be elected at the first . tinguished a roof fire at the home
biennial election following effec- of A. J. Schwartz, 627 Georgia
tive date of the act. 1 avenue.
Cape San Agustln
sPt. Dual
l.9SARANGANt I.
Guinea warfare, had invaded Min
heart of Zamboanga. Two airstrips
Nagoya
Complete conquest of Iwo ap
marines were driving the last
sea in a final battle along the
was expected to announce the
Waters of Ohio
Rapidly Recede
(By United Proas)
Flood waters of the Ohio river
receded rapidly today and the
river was expected to return to
its banks within the next four
days, ending Its worst rampage
in eight years.
Showers fell throughout some
sections of the Ohio valley dur
ing last night, but flood officials
said the rain was not sufficient
to halt the recession of the waters
which impeded war production
during the past week and caused
an estimated $4,750,000 damage.
Damage amounting to $2,000,
000 was reported at Louisville,
New Albany and Jeffersonville,
Ind., and $1,000,000 at Cincinnati.
Covington, Ky., across the river
from Cincinnati, suffered damage
estimated at $1,750,000, but down
stream damage was comparative
ly light.
Big Damage Results
Untold damage was caused to
war production along the river
valley where mines and factories
were forced to close by the rising
waters. The magazine "Steel" es
timated that steel production last
week was cut 30 'A per cent at
Wheeling and 15 per cent at Cin
cinnati as a result of the flood.
Crest of the flood was at Evans
ville, Ind., where the river reached
a 43.8-foot level during the night.
Eighy blocks of the city's residen
tial and business sections were
inundated and a total of 2,500
families were forced to flee their
homes.
Firemen Answer
3 Local Alarms
Three fires over the weekend
brought action by city firemen.
41 Division Lands on
Veterans Near,
Province Heart
In Dash Inland
Only Light Opposition
Encountered in Battle; l
Isle Troopers Seasoned I
Manila Mareh 12 IIPI U. S. in
vasion forces neared the heart ofj
Zamboanga on the southwestern
tip of Mindanao today after quick-t
ly seizing lour villages unu iv
airfields on the island, secono.
largest of the Philippines. i
Battle-seasoned units of Mat;
Gen. Jens A. Doe's 41st division
of the Eighth army landed on
Mindanao's coral-studded beaches
Saturday morning against light
opposition.
A cluster of four villages and
two airstrips, west of Zambo
anga's administrative center, were
rapidly overrun and Gen. Douglas
MacArthur announced that Ameri
ican reconnaissance planes al
ready were operating from the
island.
New Landing; Reported
(A Tokyo broadcast, recorded
by FCC. said American forces also
had landed Thursday on Basilar!
island, across the 10-mile liasuan
strait from Zamboanga. Tokyo
claimed that the troops which
stormed Mindanao were accompa
nled by tanks.)
The landing oh Mindanao, 21st
Philippine island invaded by
American amphibious forces, seal-
edthe entire western side of the.
800-mile - long Philippines archi
pelago. It also brought MacAr-
thur's forces within 180 miles of
oil-rich Borneo.
A heavy air and naval bombard
ment from heavy and light cruis
ers preceded the landing from
Basilaq strait, which had been
swept for mines since Wednes
day. ,
Skies Are Cleared
Planes from both the Fifth and
13th air forces covered the land
ing so completely that no Japa
nese planes were , sighted. The
13th air force had softened up the
invasion points with more than
1,000 tons of bombs during the
past weeks.
Doe's forces went ashore In am
phibious vehicles at 9 a. m. Sat
urday, hitting the beaches at San
Mateo, three miles west of Zambo
anga's administrative center.
The Japanese were caught off
guard by the landing. While rear
guards put some scattered machine-gun
fire, the bulk of the
enemy garrison fled across the
two mile-wide plain into the hill
region.
The Americans quickly captur
ed Wolfe airdrome, three quarter
of a mile inland, and fanned east
ward along the coast, capturing
Calarian, San Roque and San Jose,
the latter only two miles from the
heart of Zamboanga.
Airstrips Used
Reconnaissance planes began
operating almost immediately
from Wolfe's airstrip, which be
fore the war had been a U. S.
army airfield.
The planes apparently were
spotting Japanese positions ahead
of the American forces who were
nearing the administrative head
quarters of Zamboanga, a huge
city covering almost the entire
southwest tip of Mindanao.
utner elements of Doe's 41st di
vision, veterans of the long New
Guinea campaign, invaded and
seized control two weeks ago of
Palawan, across the Sulu sea from
Mindanao.
"We now control the entire
length of the western shores of
me rnmppine islands from the
northwestern tip of Luzon to the
(Continued on Page 2)
More Snow Falls
On High Divides
Light rainfall visited Bend last
night but snow was reported all
along the crest of the Cascades,
according to reports to the of
fices of the state highway depart
ment here.
The light snow fall did not in
terfere with traffic on the San
tiam, Wapinltla and Willamette
highways, according to the re
ports. A total depth of 54 inches of
snow was reported on the Ran
tiam summit; 42 on the Willamet
te and 42 inches on the Wapinitia
highway route.
Rain fell generally between
Bend and Klamath Falls, it was
reported. :
BULLETINS
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,. London, March 12 IP Mar
glial Gregory K. Zhukov's First
White Russian army has cap
tured Kuestrln, strongest for
tress of the Oder river defense
line 88 miles east of Berlin, the
Soviets announced tonight.
(By United PrMa)
. Tokyo newspapers today
echoed official Japanese views
that war situation was "very
serious" and that an Invasion
of Japan's home islands could
be expected in the "very near
future."
Paris, March 12 UP) The
American First army launched
Its first concentrated attack
from the Remagen bridgehead
today and scored Initial gains
of more than a mile, boosting
the number of captured Ger
man towns across the Rhine
to 23.
London, March 12 IP Mar
shal Stalin announced tonight
that the red army had reached
the coast of Danzig bay and
captured Dirschau, N e u s t a dt
and Puzlg.
Field Work of
Red Cross Told
Services which the Red Cross
gives the American armed forces
in the foreign field were outlined
Wis noon to the Bend Kiwanis
club by Hugo Vlndal, Red Cross
overseas - field director. :, With
Vlndal at the weekly Wub lunch
eon meeting at the Pine tavern
were: .
Miss Ruth Wilson, regional
home service representative, Miss
Grace Jackson, general field rep
resentative and Mrs. Margaret
Hemingway, local secretary of
Bed Cross organization.
Work Described
Vindal told of marvels of plas
tic surgery, of the seeming mira
cles wrought by blood plasma, of
the work that is done in helping
maimed men from battle zones
to break down the barriers of
loneliness which their misfor
tunes have raised around them.
And before battle, he noted, the
Red Cross, in its overseas club
work, was just as busy. "It brings
a bit of America to foreign soil
and that means much to our men",
the speaker said.
Personnel will be Increased
shortly from 7,000 to 10,000, Vin
dal said.
Bruno Rath, head of the local
Red Cross chapter, was in charge
of the program.
Vindal Is also scheduled to ad
dress a public gathering in the
circuit court room in the court
house at 8 o'clock tonight.
Phoenix Oil Plant
Scene of Big Fire
Phoenix, Ariz., March 12 (IP)
Fire was raging today through
the Richfield Oil corporation's
gasoline storage plant here.
A company official said the fire
broke out when static electricity
caused a gasoline tank to explode.
Phoenix firemen were battling to
keep the flames from reaching
nearby tanks, two of which were
expected to explode momentarily.
Foe May Scrap
London, March 12 UP) Desper
ate new nazis measures to avert
Germany's defeat were expected
today in the wake of fight talks
by Adolf Hitler and Propaganda
Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels.
The speeches, broadcast by Ber
lin radio, pointed to a swift purge
of German defeatists and the fur
ther scrapping of the rules of war
at the front, possibly including the
use of poison gas.
Hitler himself hinted at the
new blood purge. In a proclama
tion to the German army com
memorating the 10th anniversary
of conscription In Germany, he
called upon all Germans to "do
with dogged determination every
thing we can ... to bring about
the turn of the tide."
"We must be no less fanatical
in annihilating all those who are
trying to oppose this command,"
he said. "We are already witness
ing today in large areas of the
east and in many parts of the west
what our whole people might have
to go through.
"It is quite clear to everybody
Moscow Hints
Of New Action
On Oder Front
U. S. Fliers Give Aid
To Soviet Armies in
Blows Against Enemy .
London, March 12 dPi A strong
force of American bombers at
tacked the Baltic coast today in
direct support of the red army,
and unofficial Moscow, reports
said a decisive break-through be
fore Berlin was expected soon.
About 650 u. s. heavy bombers
dumped a great weight of explo
sives on military and naval tar
gets on the Baltic coast. Nazi
broadcasts said the raiders were
over the Stettln-Swlnemuede area
at the mouth of the Oder, where
Soviet forces were trying to
crumple the north wing of Ber
lin s defenses. .
Great Battle Looms
If the Americans hit the Stettin-
Swendemuende sector, their
bombs fell in plain view of the
Russian troops storming the Oder
fortifications. The first official
announcement did not name the
Baltic objectives.
Soviet dispatches said Marshal
Gregory K. Zhukov's army was
storming the Oder estuary north
and south of Stettin, and a great
battle for river crossings was in
full swing.
The German high command said
three Russian armies were ham
mering the nazi bridgehead across
the Oder from Stettin. Counter
blows knocked out 28 Soviet
tanks, it added.
A nazi communique said Zhu
kov's First White Russian army
continued relentless attacks In the
Oder valley before Berlin, where
a soviet bridgehead earner reach
ed within 26 miles of the capital.
Action Expected
United Press Correspondent
Henry Shapiro reported from
Moscow that the Soviet news
blackout on the Berlin front con
tinued, "pending a decisive break
through which is expected in the
near future."
He defined the blacked-out
front as extending from the area
of Kuestrln, 38 miles east of Ber
lin, to Goerlitz, on the Neisse river
100 miles south of Kuestrln, 105
southeast of Berlin, and 54 east of
Dresden. This suggested that the
whole defense system east and
southeast of Berlin was about to
fall apart.
Planes Give Aid
The German broadcasts sug
gested that the American planes
were attacking Stettin and Swine
muende, 35 miles to the north at
the Baltic entrance to Stettin bay.
The raids came as Soviet front
dispatches were reporting that
the red army had driven within
sight of Stettin after breaking
through the city's last belt of
outer fortifications on the east.
"Stettin's position appeared
hopeless," a front dispatch pub
lished in the Moscow newspaper
Pravda said.
JAPS MAKE CLAIMS
Tokyo, March 12 ili") Radio
Tokyo claimed today that Japa
nese attack units "bagged four
carriers of an enemy task force
massed at Ullthi Island" Sunday
night.
Rules of War;
what we have to do namely, to
offer resistance and to hit our en
emies until In the end they grow
tired and break up . . . There will
be no repetition of 1918.
"Even if fate seems now to con
spire against us, there can be no
doubt that our fanaticism, stead
fastness and determination will
overcome all these setbacks as it
has so often done In the past."
The Stockholm newspaper Da
gens Nyheter reported that trav
elers from Berlin said Hitler had
set up headquarters near Berlin
and was working with a big staff
of engineers and industrial ex
perts on what were believed the
final preparations for the battle of
the capital.
From Basel, Switzerland, came
word of insistent rumors in Ger
man border districts that Hitler
had called a meeting of the
relchstag, possibly for some dra
matic announcement.
Goebbels' threat to scrap the
rules of war came In a speech
given at Goerlitz last Thursday In
the course of a visit to the Silesian
Mindanao Isle
Missing
Ross Nelson Henderson, Sl, is
missing in action in the South Pa
cific, his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
W. H. Henderson, Bend, have been
notified. Ross, graduate from
Bend high school with the class of
1942, was a gunner aboard an air
craft carrier.
Red Cross Drive
Behind Schedule
Quota Received to date Balance
$22,300 $13,463.68 $8,836.32
While campaign workers in
Bend had sought to conclude the
American Red Cross Fourth War
Fund drive by tomorrow, the goal
was far distant, jit was revealed
at headquarters n the clujtxjbej;
of commerce offices today. Only
$13,41)3.68 of the total quota of
$22,300 has been raised, and with
some of the largest donations al
ready having been received.
Harold Gentry, chairman of the
Junior Chamber of commerce
sponsored drive In the city, re
ported that a check made yester
day showed that only 40 per cent
Of the business houses and em
ployers have reported in. He
asked that these concerns report
promptly, and make It plain
whether the contributions repres
ent those of the firm only, or
whether employes are Included.
To Close Headquarters
Gentry said that it was apparent
also, that many of the employers
have not solicited their workers,!
and he urged that this be done at
once. He said that it was hoped
that they could close headquart
ers by Wednesday.
The campaign actually got un
der way in Redmond today, with
workers making a determined
city-wide canvass. Only small do
nations have been reported from
there to date, according to Bruce
Gilbert, county drive head.
CONTRIBUTIONS LISTED
Additional contributions follow:
$750.00
The Shevlln-Hlxon Company.
Brooks Scanlon Lumber Com
pany Inc.
$50(1.00
Elks club.
$80.00
Shell Oil company.
$.ri0.00
Consumers Gas company, Owl
Pharmacy, Bank of Bend, the Mil
ler Lumber company, Lumber
men's Insurance agency.
(Continued on Page 3)
Gas Use Hinted
front southeast of Berlin.
"Up to now," he said, "we were
prepared to conduct the war ac
cording to rules of extreme fair
ness. We never wished to conduct
It otherwise.
"But what wo have experienced
In our eastern provinces has
taught us otherwise. If today the
wehrmacht and German people
raise cries for revenge, then this
is the cry of a tortured nation
which demands an outlet.
"It's no mere chance that our
soldiers, when on this or that
sector of the eastern front go
over to the offensive, they no long
er know any mercy."
GopbbelR said Gorman divisions
In "the next weeks and months"
will launch a great offensive. He
quoted Hitler as saying: "I firmly
believe that when we throw in
our new offensive armies, wo
shall beat our enemies."
Close students of German prop
aganda long have believed that
Germany will attempt one last
grandiose reprisal before the final
I curtain falls on nazism.
Berlin Reports
New Crossings
Of Rhine River
Doolittle's Air Force ,
Blankets Railroad Hubs
With Carpet of Bombs
Paris, March 12 (IP) Tank led
and air supported American
troops drove steadily deeper into
Germany's inner fortress from the
Remagen bridgehead today, and
Berlin said the First army had
made two more crossings or the
Rhine nearby. '
Joint blows of the U. S. First
and Third armies wiped out a
German pocket northwest of Cob
lenz. Meager reports did not make
clear whether the destroyed pock
et was the big one formed by the
American junction on the Rhine,
in which some 23,000 Germans
were trapped.
Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle s
eighth air force laid a carpet of
bombs on six key rail hubs east
of the Rhine through which the
Germans could move against the
First army bridgehead opposite
Remagen.
Fighters Rake Lines -Fighter-bombers
of the- U. S.
Ninth air force raked the German
lines before the swelling bridge
head, and maintained a constant
patrol over the Ludendorf bridge.
Nazi broadcasts acknowledged
that the Americans were pouring
reinforcements Into the Rhine
foothold--They said shock troops
pushed across the Rhine north- of
the Remagen bridge in assault
boast for two new crossings. The
nazls estimated that upwards of
50,000 men were massed in the
bridgehead ready for a big push
against the southern flank of the
Ruhr.
Supreme headquarters said Lt.
Gen. Courtney H: Hodges' troops
firmly held the initiative in the
Remagen bridgehead. The Ger
mans still were shelling it, des
pite the acquisition of high ground
on which some enemy observation
posts were situated.
Reiwrls Vague
Because of the nature of the
operations and the precarious
plight of the enemy, SHAEF re
ports were purposely vague. For
security reasons a time lag was
imposed in many sectors.
A bald announcement at
SHAEF said the German pocket
around Laacher See, 13 miles
northwest of Coblenz, had been
cleared. The units fighting there
were not identified, and there was
no Indication of the size of the
prisoner bag. Laacher See is a
resort lake near Aldernach.
Headquarters sources reported
patrol activity and counterattacks
on the long dormant Seventh
army front in the French-German
border area west of the Rhine.
Limited operations on other fronts
taallied to some extent with
alarmed nazi radio forecasts of
further Allied efforts to cross the
Rhine.
Hirohio Tabbed
As War Criminal
London, March 12 (IP) Well-informed
sources said today that
Emperor Hirohito was expected
to bo named an axis war criminal
because of Japanese atrocities, in
cluding the execution of Amer
ican fliers after Lt. Gen. James
H. Doolittle's 1942 raid on Tokyo.
These informants predicted that
a war criminal charge against
the Japanese emperor would be
formally approved by the United
Nations war crimes commission
in the near future.
Tom Laliberte Is
Listed Wounded
Tom Laliberte. a graduate from
Bend high school, has been wound
ed in action in Germany, his par
ents Mr. and Mrs. O. Laliberte,
former residents of Bend and now
In Bollflower, Calif., have been
notified.
Tom was serving with the 104th
Timberwolf division of the U. S.
First army.
FIRE DAMAGES WALL
I Fire - of undetermined origin
shortly before noon today caused
slight damage to the wall behind
the electric dish sterilizer at the
'Pine Tavern, firemen reported.