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RAF Releases
11 -Ton Bombs
On Rail Spans
British and American
Fliers Team Up for
Heavy Blow at Nazis
London, March 19 IP Strong
forces of American and British
bombers dropped heavy loads pf
bombs some the new 11-ton
super bombs on widely scattered
parts of Germany today, v.
The bombardment hit Germany
a day after the heaviest raid of
the war on any single German
city had wrecked and burned
large sections of the concentrated
war industries In and around Ber
lin.
More than 1,200 U. S. heavy
bombers ana upward of BOO light
ers hit several targets today. They
Included a Jet plane plant at
Baumenheim, 20 miles north of
Augsburg, air fields Hear Neu
berg and north of Muenchen and
Leipheim near uim, industrial tar-
fets at Plauen west of Chemnitz
in Saxony, and war factories at
f Jena, west oi Leipzig.
Viaducts Blasted
Lancasters of the RAF carted
11-ton and six-ton bombs to hit
railway viaducts at Arnsberg
southeast of Hamm and in the
area of Bielefeld in the Ruhr area.
The record attack on Berlin by
upwards of 2,000 American
planes yesterday cost the Eighth
air force 25 bombers and five
fighters.
A communique reviewing the
Berlin raid revealed that the U. S.
planes scattered 3,000 tons of
bombs through most of the capi
tal's industries and left them
ablaze or littered with wreckage.
Bombs blanketed the entire
plant of the sprawling Rhein
metall Borsig plant In the TegeJ
suburb of Berlin. It produces a
wide variety or war materials, In
eluding tanks, guns, bombs, and
torpedoes. . j ., t
,uw Plant .Damaged'
Today's communique said the
plant was "severely damaged and
set afire." It covers about 25
city blocks, and employs an esti
mated za.uuu persons.
"Large machine and assembly
snops, smelting furnaces and
forges were heavily hit by bombs
wmcn oianketed the entire plant;
the communique said. "There
were large explosions, and when
me DomDers turned for home,
buildings ..were burning through
out me target area."
The Borsig armored vehicle fac
tory at Hennlngsdorf, another
Berlin suburb, also suffered
"Heavy damages" to half the plant
area.
In the heart of Berlin, heavy
concentrations of bombs crashed
in the area of the Schlesischer
railway station, and hits were
scored on the North station
ireight yards.
Pope Makes Plea
For Just Peace
Vatican City, March 19 (IB The
three great leaders of the world
had before them today an appeal
by Pope Pius to show forbear
ance and understanding in form
ing a peace generous to all peo
ple in the light of their tragic war
ouiienngs.
Never hefnro h
togs of the peoples given them a
greater right to benevolent con
sideration, the pontiff said in a
speech yesterday from the central
"icony or St. Peter's basilica.
An estimator! WIWl
including thousands' of American
soldiers who jammed the square,
-one iraomon repeatedly to in-
terrupt the pope and shout ac
tlaim When hp rpfprrprl tn thp
coming peace.
Pontiff Annlnnriprl
The applause was long when he
Implored all the people of the
world to pray to the "almighty,
;no pardons all, so that he may
"u sunering humanity and put
aJ end to this horrible catastro
phe and bring about a just and
lasting peace."
.In his message, which was di
vided equally between political
nd moral considerations, the
rope also assailed war profiteers,
particularly black market opera
tors whose hands are "stained
with the blood of widows and or
phans." STORM WARNINGS VP
Portland, Ore., March 19 OP
The weather bureau announced
today that southeast storm warn
ings on the Oregon and Wash
ington coasts and in the inland
waters of Washington would be
changed at 1:30 p. m. to south
west warnings. The bureau said
we warnings would be for 24
hours.
THE BEND
90 Inches of Snow Blankets
Sanfiam; Highway Is Closed
Willamette Routa U AL
Of Fierce Storrrl; Plows
rino? eorh, and south Santiam highways remained
ciosea to traffic today as a result of heavy snow drifts, and
w.L u a,y maintenance crews were having difficulty in
,? Ji e, , Willamette highway open, according to reports
to the local headquarters. This morning snow was reported
operation0 n Willamette atery, and plows were in
Efforts were being made to open the Santiam routes, with
the prospects that the northern route might be opened by
. .' 1 eVPnitlff. In tllB mnrnintr it M-no
City Takes Stock
Bend today took stock of its
damage caused bv Sntmviav'Q
gale, the worst in 15 vears. nnrll
--i auuui io repair damage, clear
thoroughfares, remove f a 1 1 p n
trees and right toppled telephone
ajiu iwer poies.
While the monetary loss was
not great, linemen were kept busy
trying to maintain both electric
and telephone service, and house
holders were engaged in repair
ing roofs shattered by falling
trees or riDoed bv the eustv
winds.
William A. Lackaff. manager nf
the Pacific Power & Light com
pany, reported that six power
poies naa Deen blown over by the
wind, and that two transformers
were ruined by the blow. One of
these was on East First street
and another on Scott street. A
number of breaks occurred in the
power transmission lines as a re
sult of falling trees and limbs.
. service Disrupted
The west side of the citv suf
fered more from power disrup
tion, the service being out from
two to four hours. Service on the
Butler road also was out for two
hours. ,
Pacific Telephone & Telegraph
company officials reported that
there was considerable local dam
age, but that linemen were rapid
ly restoring conditions to normal.
Falling trees were blamed for
most of the damage to telephone
lines, and terrtporarw disruption
.lawulra. prinotpHllh.1n: Bend. ...
A survey of the city showed
that the strong wind struck more
heavily in the east side of the
city, particularly east and along
the railroad right-of-way. Here
more trees were blown down than
in any other section of Bend.
Garage Hit
Two trees which fell at the rear
of the Niswonger and Winslow
funeral home narrowly missed
the mortuary and demolished a
garage In which Dr. G. W. Wins
low was housing a boat.
In the yards of the local mills,
considerable lumber was tossed
around by the gale.
Grosbeaks Here
On Annua! Visit
Birds that "blew Into town'
on
the big wind of the past week-end
included great flocks ' of gros
beaks, widely observed in Drake
park and in other parts of Bend
today greedily feasting on juniper
berries. These birds, members of
the finch family, annually arrive
In Bend about this time of the
year, and by some are considered
harbingers of spring.
Mrs. Horace Brookings, 138 St.
Helens place, this afternoon re
ported a flock of strange birds in
her yard. Immediate identification
of these birds was not possible,
Mrs. Brookings indicated, v
' TRAIN IS DELAYED
A derailed freight car on the
North bank line of the S. P. & S.
railroad, today delayed the arri
val of mail lor more than six
hours, according to railroad offi
cials here. The derailment caused
a failure to make connections with
the Oregon Trunk lines at Wish- i
ram, Wash., It was reported.
Formosa Under
Of Wind Damag
MacArthur Notes Continued
Manila, March 19 IP Ameri
can Liberators bombed Formosa
for the fifth consecutive day Fri
day, unloading a record 300 tons
of high explosives on the Island
fortress without Interception, it
was announced today.
More than 70 of the heavy
bombers, flying from new Philip
pines bases, carried out the latest
phase of the campaign to neutral
ize Formosa, only 700 miles
southwest of Japan's home is
lands.
In the five days of raids. Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's bombers
have dumped a total of 825 tons
of bombs on air bases and vital
ar plants on the island, lying
strategically between the north
west corner of the Philippines
nd the China coast.
The Japanese failed to put up a
ingle Interceptor against the last
attack, which started large fires
at the Heito and Okayama air
bases and the supply and repair
CENTRAL
THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, MONDAY,
R
Work in High Areas
reported raining in this re
gion, with slushy conditions
reported prevailing.
A total depth of 90 inches
of snow was reported on the
Santiam summit, and 52 inches
were recorded at the unction of
the highways. On the Willamette
highway 68 Inches of snow was
reported. Snow was reported fall
ing to the south along The Dalles
California highway, with a total
depth of 65 inches of snow meas
ured at the summit of Sun moun
tain. Road conditions were re
ported slick.
Buses On Schedule
Highway department headquar
ters here received no reports from
the Wapinitia highway, but Pa
cific Trailways buses and trucks
were reported operating on sched
ule. ...
A number of motorists were re
ported marooned late Saturday on
the Santiam highway, 40 skiers
from the Willamette valley being
compelled to spend the night at
the highway department mainte
nance headquarters. . A . number
of Bend Ski patrol members who
planned to join the Willamette
valley group at Santiam lodge for
training, were stopped at Suttle
lake by the storm conditions.
Cars Stalled
Several out-of-state cars were
reported stalled in the mountains,
being unable to retrace their
routes because of the gasoline
shortage.
The forecast was for cloudy
weather with occasional rain or
snow east of the Cascades and
over the mountains, with similar
weather in store for tomorrow,
Vessel Fouriders
On Oregon Coast
Coos Bay, Ore., March 19 IIP)
The coast guard today was ques
tioning the 31 crew members res
cued from a navy operated
freighter that foundered off the
Oregon coast in a 95-mile-an-hour
gale.
Part of the ship's cargo of lum
ber was saved by the crew, who
nearly drowned Saturday before
coast guardsmen could pull them
Into shore.
After coast guardsmen made
several futile attempts to throw
a life line to the beached ship in
freezing rain in the howling gale,
13 of the crew made their way to
shore by clinging to a life laft.
The others boarded a life boat and
were pulled in by the coast guard
after their boat capsized near
shore.
The freighter had put out Fri
day from North Bend, Ore.
U. S. Navy Blimp
Descends in Bay
Tillamook, Ore., March 19 IP
Coast guard officials today were
investigating the cause of de
scent of a navy blimp into Tilla
mook bay during patrol duty Sun
day. All crewmen of the blimp, from
the Tillamook naval air station.
were rescued by Garibaldi coast
guardsmen.
.Rain and poor visibility were
thought to have been contribut
ing factors to the accident. The
blimp came down near Bayoccan,
Ore.
Heavy Attack
shops near Taihoku. The raids
followed an assault the previous
day by Thunderbolt fighter-bombers
on the electric plant at Toko,
on Formosa's southern tip.
(CBfc recorded an Australian
broadcast which said the Tokyo
radio today noted a "sharp In
crease In the number of planes
raiding Formosa" from American
bases in the Philippines. Tokyo
said the task of bombing Formosa
apparently had been switched
from the 14th air force in China
to MacArthur's forces.)
Another contingent of Libera
tors at the same time spread 337
tons through the Japanese de
fenses at Bagulo, former Philip
pines summer capital In northern
Luzon where American troops east of Antipolo and was rapidly
were steadily compressing the i enveloping the enemy's entire
enemy forces. southern flank In the Maraklna
MacArthur's communique re-, hills. Units of the 43d division,
ported continued gains by his probing near Tanay on the north
troops throughout the Luzon cam-' east shore of Lapuna bay, en-PaJS11-
countered the first Japanese cav-
In another shore-to-shore am-1 airy seen on Luzon.
OREGON'S
IN
EOS: Dim
im PLANES RMD JAP CITIES
Nagoya Afire
As Sky Forts
Hit 2nd Time
Column of Smoke Rises
6000 Fee'oOver Factory
Center; Carriers Used
By Frank Tremaine
(united Pre Staff Correspondent) - -.
Guam, March 19 (IP) Tokyo
said wave after wave of U. S.
navy planes attacked the factory
packed Osaka-Kobe area for at
least nine hours today, sending a
powerful carrier-based assault on
Japan through its second straight
day. ... ; '
Only 85 miles to the east, Na
goya, Japan's biggest aircraft
manufacturing center and third
largest city, still was ablaze from
a pre-dawn attack early yesterday
by 325 to 350 Superfortresses,
greatest B-29 armada of the war.
Huge Fires Started
(A communique issued by the
20th air force In Washington said
none of the giant bombers was
lost "due to enemy action." Re
turning crewmen reported "huge'
fires in the Industrial heart of the
citv with dense smoke rising to
j 6,000 feet." Fighter opposition was
meager and Ineffective, it said,
but antiaircraft fire was more in-
when Nagoya first was raided byT Analyzlijig legislation of local In.
a. ovu-pius lurce ui . i - .
A Japanese communique Issued
shortly after 3 p. m. (Tokyo time)
said carrier planes had been at
tacking the Manchln district
Japanese name for the Osaka
Kobe area and Shikoku island, to
the southwest, since this morning.
Japs Report Raids
Another Tokyo propaganda
broadcast said the raids began at
5:30 a. m. and reported that Kyu
shu, southernmost of the Japa
nese home islands, also was under
attack. Kyushu was the main tar
get of a force estimated by Tokyo
at 1,400 carrier pianos yesterday.
The communique claimed that
counter-attacking Japanese planes
had sunk an aircraft carrier, a sec
ond aircraft carrier or battleship,
one battleship or cruiser, and two
destroyers in attacks on the Amer
ican task force southeast of Kyu
shu yesterday.
Another aircraft carrier was
damaged heavily, the communi
que said, and 46 planes shot down.
Damage to ground Installations in
yesterday's eight-hour carrier
raids on Kyushu, Shikoku and
southeast Honshu was said to be
"slight."
Nip Cities Targets
Both Osaka and Kobe, Identified
by Tokyo as among today's-, tar
gets, were blasted heavily last
week by 300-plane armadas of!
Superfortresses. Osaka is Japan's
second largest city and biggest
war production center, while Kobe
Is her main port.
Huge fires were kindled In Na
goya, 165 miles west of Tokyo, by
2,500 tons or more of incendiaries
dropped by the record fleet of
Superfortresses yesterday. One
Tokyo broadcast said the fires
finally were brought under con
trol after five and a half hours,
but another indicated they still
may not have been controlled.
By U. S. Fliers;
Gains on Luzon
phibious operation, the 158th regi
mental combat team swept around
the Calumpan peninsula in south
western Luzon, landed unopposed
at Talaga and Joined urj with
other U. S. troops at Mabinl.
The Japanese attempted several
counter-attacks on the new Ameri
can positions at Mambini, near the
west coast of Balanyan bay, but
all were reoulsed.
The Sixth and 43rd divisions
maintained steadv pressure In the
drive east of Manila and pushed
wedges into the secondary de
fenses of the Japanese Shlmbu
line In the upper Bosoboso river j at Parfs dlscled that the' bridge, i The vk.4 ms u e one arge tan
"advance carried five miies ! 22? bnhlstred S r AV
DAILY NEWSPAPER
.ft
ft
Starved Nip
,, ,
Hardly able to move, a Jap soldier
The Nip bad holed up In a cave for
upper right covering
LBy Legislator
yerest, -i.WIillam Nlskarjen, Des.
chutes county representative at
the Oregon state legislature, said
today a bill providing for the cre
ation of an additional senator
from a new district comprised of
Deschutes, Jefferson, Crook and
Lake counties pending unanimous
vote of the people as outstanding
pn the roster of Central Oregon
measures.
If the bill passes the general
vote, Niskanen revealed, steps will
automatically be taken to Install
the ,31sth senator In the legisla
ture at the next session.
In a statement on the longevity
of the 43rd legislative assembly,
Niskanen commented: "Criticism
on the length of the session is not
warranted when people realize
that the economy of the state has
become more complex with the
growth of defense industries and
the readjustments necessitatea by
war conditions. The majority of
the members were conscientious
in their efforts to support good
legislation and very rarely did the
session become argumentative."
Armory Approved
Second on the postwar planning
memoranda will be the erection
at Bend of an armory building,
Niskanen said. The city of Baker
rated first consideration by virtue
of Its partly-constructed building.
Stirring Interest was the me
chinery provided by the legisla
ture enabling counties to adopt
at will the manager form of gov
ernment. Applying to Central Ore
gon, the legislature carried a bill
transferring the cost and mainten
ance of screens in Irrigation ditch
es from individual districts to the
fish and game department. Also
passed were measures denoting
Sparks lake strictly a fly-fishing
area and opening Todd lake for all
types of fishing.
The prohibition of motor boats
on several smaller lakes In the
county was passed following an
appeal from the Deschutes Coun
ty Sportsmen's association and
the Bend chamber of commerce.
15 Yanks Killed
In Span Collapse
Remagen, Germany, March 18
(Delayed) iui A combination of
early German demolition charges,
MtC5 Jj 'iris
a few Indirect artillery nits ana Washington, March 19 (IP)
the strain of carrying a continu-1 Am(,rican submarines have sunk
ous stream of U. S. equipment '15 more Japanesc si,pS .including
was believed today to have caused five OTmb;lt vessels, the navy an
the collapse of the Ludendorff lnouncecj today
bridge, America's first span , combat praft nciuded three
across me runit.-.
(Allied supreme
headquarters
-lner)t0 bC ')0ratl0n
At least 15 American soldiers
were killed and many others In -
Jured when the bridge gave way
at 3 p. m. Saturday and crashed
Into the Rhine with a crunching
roar.
MARCH 19, 1945
Removed From I wo
li lifted onto stretcher with aid of rj,
10 days without tood or water before
cave's entrance as sourlty precaution.
Flight
ft . ft ft
Russian Forces Drive Wedge
Into Nazi Fortress on Oder
Zhukov Secures plank for Assault on Berlin;
I Kolberg Taken By Reds; Baltic Coast Cleared
London," March 19 (Cff)
a wedge almost a mi o into
fortress city on the east bank
uermans reported today.
The soviet assault on the
lower Oder at Altdamm entered its final phase. Russian vic
tory there will secure Marshall Gregory K. Zhukov's flank
tor the big push on Berlin.
Moscow dispatches reported
that after the capture of the
big port of Kolberir. 63 mi es
northeast of Stettin, the Bal
tic coast was clear from Stet
tin bay to the suburbs of be
sieged Gdynia.
Soviet dispatches said fighting
went on unabated along the cen
tral Oder front before Berlin and
In Silesia, although the red army
command still withheld confirma
tion of nazl reports that the Rus
sians were across the Oder In
force and gathering strength for a
frontal assault on the capital.
Fresh Troops Used
Ernst Von Hammer. Berlin ra
dio commentator, said Zhukov
had thrown fresh Infantry Into
the attack on the Altdamm bridge
head. The Russians attacked as
many as 15 times in separate sec
tors before the town. Von Ham
mer said, "without forcing a sub
stantial chungc In the tactical
situation.
The troops drilling In from the
southeast penetrated almost a
mile into the main German fight
ing zone, Von Hammer said, add
ing the customary propaganda
claim that they were sealed off.
in extreme southern Silesia,
Von Hammer reported, a two-
pronged battle between Breslau
and Katlbor reached a climax. The
Soviets kept on the pressure In at
tempts to link up armored rorces
advancing from the east and
north.
The German were credited with
violent attacks on the flanks of a
Russian salient west of the Oder
in the area of Oppclln, south of
Breslau.
15 Nippon Ships
Bagged By Subs
. - " ' "";
ToXi of enemy ships sunk
hy American submarines now Is
; 1.07a. including ill warsn ps.
American undersea craft have
reported destruction of 27 enemy
vessels already this month an
everage of more than one a day.
F
rofn
Jima Cave
'(NBA T'ltphotn) -
a Marines on rocky aide of Iwo Jima.
giving himself up. Note Marine at
Marine Corps photo.
Russian sle'fre forcds'have driven
the main defenses of Altdamm.
of the Oder before Stettin, the
last German toehold east of the
Nippons Admit
Iwo Island Lost
Guam, March 19 ip The Japa
nese wrote off IWo as lost today.
A Tokyo broadcast said the last
survivors of the Japanese garri
son opened their final attack Sat
urday midnight and acknowledged
that nothing further had been
heard from the island.
A Pacific fleet communique
said marines were mopping up
Isolated Japanese remnants In the
rugged northern part of the con
quered Island.
Some Japanese have donned the
unllorms of marine dead, the com
munloue said. One Japanese so
dressed stopped an American am -
bulance. shot and wounded the
driver and escaped. Snipers still
wore active.
Fifty-one Superfortresses were
revealed to have made emergency
landings on captured airstrips on'l
iwo because or low gasoline sup
plies or engine troubles.
Army fighters, presumably
from Iwo, bombed and strafed
barges and radio and radar facili
ties on Chichi, Just north of Iwo.
Army Liberators- bombed Chichi
airfield.
New York Club Owners Keep
Places Open as
New York, March 19 itit The
operators of New York's multi
million dollar nlcht time drink,
food and entertainment Industry
beamed today over a one-hour
extension of the midnight cur
few ordered by Mayor Florello
l.a Guardla and placed orders for
black Ink. But they kept their
fingers crossed and cocked both
ears toward Washington.
A majority of nlrht clubs, bars
and restaurants took advantage
of the mayor's modification tn
remain open until 1 a.m. todav. A
few onerators. mostly hotel men
frankly skeptical, closed their
nlnces at midnight In lieu of of
flrlM word from the capital.
Some of those who took ad
vantage of the delayed rlnsinp
had oiinlms about what federal
authorities might say. Others ex
pressed no trepidation, feellnr
that La Guardla must have known
what he was doing whether the
rest of the country liked It or
not (and it didn't).
The mayor, announcing the new
Weather Forecast
Rain and strong wind west of
Cascades. Cloudy with occasional ,
rain or snow eat o? Cascades and
over mountains.
NO. 88
Yank Pincers
ii
In Rhine Area
U. S. Bombers Strike
At Fleeing Foe; 1000
Vehicles Are Destroyed
Paris, March 19 IP The Ger
man First and seventn armies
began a general retreat from the
Saar-Palatinate triangle today un
der a rain of American air bombs
and gunfire.
A gap of 40 miles or less re
mained open between the Ameri
can Third and Seventh armies,
closing In around the confused
Germans from the north and
south. -
Inside the pocket, long columns
of German troops and armor were
reported streaming eastward to
ward the Rhine In a belated and
apparently disorderly attempt to
withdraw before the points of the .
American pincers close.
Roads Under Attack
American bombers attacked the
packed roads at dawn. By mid-day
the U. S. Ninth air force had sent
more than 1,300 medium bombers
and fighter-bombers against the
fleeing nazls and the massed
slaughter still was going on. Fly
lne weather over the target area
was perfect with indications that
the number ot sorties would be
doubled by nightfall.
Returning filers said the high
ways were black with German
troops and civilians. The scenes
woVe reminiscent of the German
Invasion of France In 1940, the
fliers said.
About 1,000 nazl motor vehicles
and 100 tanks or armored cars
were destroyed or damaged yes
terday. Today's toll promised to
be greater.
80,000 In Pocket
An estimated 80,000 German
soldiers wore believed left inside
the closing pocket. Their long de
lay In starting the retreat threat
ened to cost them heavily in the
next few days.
Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's U.
S. Third army spearheads already
were within 15 miles of Kaiser
Iautern, where the main escape
roads center.
The Germans were reported
putting up only sporadic opposi
tion in the pocket. They fought
hardest alone the northeastern
shoulder of the gap to keep open
the roads to Mainz and uawig
shafen, Rhine cities.
Patton's troops early today
were only 14 miles southwest of
Mainz and about 35 miles north
west of Ludwlgshafen. They
crossed the Nahc river, main Gor
man defensive position on the
northern flank of the Rhine-Apa-latinate
at several points. At last
1 reports the Yanks were moving
rapidly south and southeast.
Siegfried une manned
Strong German covering forces
were still manning the Siegfried
line fortifications along the south
ern rim of the Saar against the
advancing Seventh army in a
large-scale delaying action to
cover the retreat.
Field dispatches said the Sev
enth army and French First army
troops moving down the Rhine
valley, scored gains running to
five miles and more today.
Mayor Acts
regulation in his weekly radio
talk yesterday, said his own sur
vey of the New York situation
had convinced him that midnight
was Just too early for the wel
fare of the metropolis. He felt
"an hour of tolerance" was fair
to all.
Mayors of other cities from
coast to coast said they had no
Intention of following La Guar
dia's lead. But the screams that
rose from outraged owners In
other cities left no doubt that
they felt such action was unfair
to them. It seemed obvious that
Washington would have to act
milckly one way or the other.
The concensus In New York was
that the curfew was on the way
out. either partially or totally.
Enforcement of the midnight
curfew was placed with the war
manpower commission by Byrnes
but it has no police power. The
oretically lt could move in and
take nwav a place's employes and
the office of price administration
could withdraw food ration points.
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