BEMD BULL Help Win War Turn In your used cooking fats to your butcher and get free meat points. Help win the war! Weather Forecast . Mostly cloudy, with occasional rain northern portion today, to - night and Thursday. Cooler east portion today. CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER Volume Llll THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, DESCHUTES COUN Y. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAR. 21, 1945 TWO U SL ARMIES LINK AND WHEEL TO EAST, IrlU U SAIN US Vt NAZIS NEAR RHINE THE ETTO Task Force 58 Into Jap Home Waters Blasts 1 7 Warships, Hits 600 Planes Surviving Ships of Nippon Fleet CrioDled In New Air Blows From Carrier Armada in Enemy Sea; Further Action Held Possibility ; By Frank Tremaine . (United Press War Conespondent) ' i Guam, March 21 (UP) Dispatches from famed task force 58 today boosted the toll of two days of daring air attacks on the Japanese fleet in its home bases to at least 17 warships and 600 or more planes wrecked. . . : - Admiral Chester W. Nlmitz said the raids SnnrW nnrl Monday on Kobe, Kure and other bases in Japan's inland sea had crippled the surviving remnants of the Japanese fleet at a time when -it was rushing repairs to meet an anticipated invasion of Japan itself. ' The carrier-borne fleet of 1,000 to 1,400 U. S. navy planes Man Sought Here 'Found' in Prison In the old ballad "Mose was safe down In the cellar whea the lights went out," and In a similar position was Ray Fitzgerald of Denver, Louisiana, resting in San Quentin penitentiary, California, when Deschutes county Sheriff Claude L. McCauley issued a war rant for his arrest. The Louisiana native first passed a bad check in Oregon in 1940 when he forged his employ er's name, E. E. Butler of the Butler ranch east of Bend, on an sis.DU uckl'i, omcers said, mis lice reports indicate, in the name of Charles E. Chamberlain, Terre bonne rancher, on January 22, 23 and 24 of this year when bad checks cashed netted Fitzgerald $515 in three days. After Sheriff McCauley noti fied state officials, he received a letter from the sheriff at Cath lamet, Wash., stating that an em ploye of the Crown Zellerbach company had received a letter from the convicted man request ins that he sell certain personal belongings left at Cathlamet and forward the money to him at San Quentin. Climaxing the exchange of cor respondence between Sheriff Mc Cauley and Clinton T. Duffy, warden at San Quentin, the fol lowing information was brought to light: Fitzgerald was received M the institution February 22 i- torn the county of San Joaquin feting plea of guilty to the crime of issuing fictitious checks upon an undetermined sentence of from 0 to 14 years. Lt. Vic Whetzel Visitor in Bend Lt (j.g.) Victor L..Whetzel, for merly a member of the J. C. Pen ney store staff in Bend and man ner of the Penney store in Cald well, Idaho, when he entered the service, has arrived in Bend from nls station in New York to visit Ws wife and their son, Ronald, jn the service for the past year, U. Whetzel was given six months jf special training at Harvard un iversity, before being assigned to active duty. Lt. Whetzel made the trip from the east to Boise, Idaho, by plane, ana was met there by Mrs. Whet He will return to New York jWlay by plane. Czar of American Food Says States Will Not Face Famine Washington, March 21 IP) Americans "will continue to have Wenty of good, wholesome food" (hough they have to take a new hitch in their belts in order L help starving peoples, War ;od Administrator Marvin Jones said today. The nation's food chieftain is W a 300-word statement con wiling the outlook for American WtS. Tn fnort in,hn ho 'o, is a practical matter and a ' ui war itself. AO nno v, i. t ... - v.it naa guilt? HUllgiy ill ! ciramcM m.- . ' , country," he said. "No one is their battle. Civilians during the '"'IE hungry." war, he said, have eaten more Of dire predictions that the na-! food per capita than they did be 2 faces a meat famine and , fore the war. c"ies of other foods, Jones i Meanwhile, Price Administrator ? "We have heard these things Chester Bowles accused the Amer "we." I lean Meat Institute of causing "This storm will pass and cer- j "newspaper headlines of famine." "2 facts win stand out," he said, i He told the senate banking com- e pointed out that in 1943 food j mittee that "the facts do not Jus wouction was expanded 32 perWify the scare stories." in Bold Strike Droke off its attack late Mon day. A Japanese communique said the task force, including its escort from the Fifth fleet, was "fleeing southward" to ward the Marianas with Japa nese aircraft in "close pur suit." . , May Renew Attack : Radio Toky said, however, that there were "plenty of possibili ties" the task force might renew its attack. . : . - . Nimltz's communique on the at tack listed 15 to perhaps 17 war ships as damaged, but late radio dispatches from task force 58 said at least 17 and possibly more warcraft were left smoking and bomb twisted. The toll included a minimum of seven aircraft carriers, probably all that remained in the Japanese fleet, and two or more battleships, dispatches said. In addition, six freighters were sunk and seven damaged. The number of Japanese planes destroyed or damaged was re vised by late dispatches from 575 to at least 600. "Japan's hopes of rebuilding her crippled air force and fleet were smashed," United Press war correspondent Lloyd Tupling re ported from the flagship of Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher, com mander of task force 58. Results Listed The toll of enemy warships was the greatest since the second bat-j tie of the Philippine sea last Oc tober, when 24 Japanese warships were sunk, 13 possibly sunk and 21 damaged. Later reconnaissance may reveal that some of the war ships hit in the inland sea later sank. The Japanese resisted the de fiant American challenge to their persistent air attacks on the task fleet with the heaviest and most force and its planes since the air- sea battles off Formosa last Sep tember. Guns of the fleet and carrier- borne fighters broke up most of the attacks, but dive-bombers slipped through the barrage to put one ship out of action. It was able to head toward port under its own power, however. Other American ships which suffered minor damage remained fully operational, Nimitz said. PROWLER IS REPORTED Mrs. Kendall Franklin, 1217 Fresno street, today reported to Bend police that a prowler shortly before midnight last night loitered around her home for almost half an hour, and tried the windows of the house. cent over pre-war levels and in 1944 boosted another five per cent, and this year farmers them selves set goals that call for an even greater acreage. (A report of farmers' planting Intention re-, leased yesterday indicated, how ever, that this year's crop acreage will be slightly less than last year and considerably below the goal.) The United States has the best fed army in the world', Jones ntatfvl nnrl American iooa nas nnnMiu1 Iia nllloa tn mrrv nn Salutatorian Beverley Wennerstrom, honor student with a erarte overfly at Ul, has been selected as Bend high school torian. senior class saluta- ,1 fJ hi 1 Bend High School Class of '45 Makes Plans for Graduation Bill Lane Named Valedictorian, Beverley Wennerstrom Salutatorian; Date Is Set - Bill Lane has been named valedictorian and Beverley Wennerstrom salutatorian of the Bend high school class of 1945, it was announced here today as final plans for com mencement exercises, to be held on May 25, neared comple tion. Bill, son of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Lane, won the right to represent his class as valedictorian by virtue f a four-year grade average of 1.29. Beverley's average, 1.81, was second highest of the class. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Wennerstrom. , ... A total of 115 students are tentatively scheduled to receive 8 Feet of Snow Covers Summit Travelers to and from the Wil lamette valley grumbled today about traffic conditions in the Cas cades, but eight feet of snow which covers the Santiam summit brought smiles to irrigationists of the Deschutes valley. Reports to the state highway department headquarters here to day as the storm had subsided, told of the measurement of 96 inches of snow, which, however, had settled to a depth of 82 inches. A total snow depth of 63 Inches was noted at the summit of the Willamette highway. At the Santiam junction a total depth of 60 inches of snow was re ported, and this had settled to 38 inches by noon today. The south Santiam highway re mained closed to traffic today, but highway maintenance crews re ported that the north Santiam artery was clear and almost bare of snow. Highway Icy Icy conditions prevailed on the Willamette highway this morning, when the temperature stood at 17 degrees above zero. It was expect ed, however, that the ice would vanish as the sun struck the pave ment. Reports were lacking from The Dalles-California and the Wapini tia highways, indicating, accord ing to highway officials, that con ditions were normal on these routes. Clear conditions were reported in the Willamette and Santiam highway sectors. Diphtheria Closes Molalla School Molalla, Ore., March 21 HP) Because of the prevalence of diphtheria in this Clackamas coun ty town of 99b population, the grade school and theater were closed today. The school was closed for a week and the theater closed as a precautionary measure after 19 cases had been positively identi fied as diphtheria and 17 other cases diagnosed as "probable." Said Dr. Dan P. Trullinger, county health officer: tor a town of this size, It amounts to an epidemic." Small Boy Dies Under Milk Truck Portland, Ore., March 21 'lr A little boy's whim to-stand hind a milk truck cost him his ! life. Ten-year-old Ernest F. Schaferl was killed when Robert C. Perrin backed his delivery truck over theireeular flow of distribution under lad after making a house call. Valedictorian Bill Lane, whose grade average , on u " ' 7 ' " 71 torlan of the Bend high school graduating class of 1945. Ttheir diplomas at the May 25 graduation exercises, at which Rex Putnam, state supenn - tendent of schools, is to be the speaker. Last year, 104 were graduated. Both Bill and Beverley are Torch Honor students. Bill took all his high school work here, and Beverley entered from Hope, North Dakota. Both have been ac tive in student body affairs. Honor Students Named Grade averages this, year are slightly below those of the class of 1944, school officials have an nounced. The ten students high est in scholarship will be en titled to wear the gold honor cords. They follow: Bill Lane, 1.29; Beverley Wen nerstrom, 1.31; Ed DeGroot, 1.54; Patsy Scott, 1.61; E. B. Hogan, 1.62; Bob Lintz, 1.68; Connie Lo ree, 1.74; Iris Thomas, 1.77; Au drey Bright, 1.79; Norman George, 1.79. Other honor students of the class of 1945 whose grades range up to 2.0 follow: Sally Schilling, 1.83; Evan Johnson, 1.86; Shirley Meagher, 1.87; Phil Brogan, 1.88; Helen Hudson, 2.00; Joyce Armstrong, 2.00, and Gerald Henderson, 2.00. Snowplow Victor In Moose Battle Moran, Wyo., March 21 (IP) Undaunted by unsuccessful brushes with a car and a snow plow, "Moody the Moose" roamed the mountain fringed Jackson hole territory today, looking for new worlds to conquer. The roving hatrack attacked a car driven by Dr. D. G. MacLeod and came off, at best, a draw. He bruised his knees and nose In a head-on charge Into the vehicle, but the car also suffered some minor damage. His next encounter was with a snowplow driven y George Melcoe who wasn't a bit disturbed by the "banzai" attack. Melcoe just opened the throttle a little wider, scooped the moose up and dumped him unceremoniously Into a near by ditch. Food Stocks Low, Churchill Says London, March 21 (IP) Prime ItTinfetAt. r-l.,,Fv.t.lll 1 .1 today that Britain's food stocks .Knmv i,. .' jww have shrunk to less than 6,000,000 tons, and prospects were for more shrinkage to a point barely suf ficient to maintain regular sup plies for the nation. Shipment of foodstuffs to the imeraiea countries or Europe will be-cause stocks to go down to some i 4,750,000 tons by the end of June. (Churchill said. "This latter figure is no more than is necessary to maintain the present conditions," he added. Berlin Reports New Action on Eastern Front I t Germans Say Reds Now i Ready to Start Drive ? On Capital of Reich i London, March 21 nil Nazi Broadcasts said today that the red sjrmy has resumed its attacks 30 ridd miles east of Berlin prepara tory to a full-scale assault on the bomb-devastated capital. '.An attack by upwards of 1,000 soviet troops southwest of the r river crossing town of Klen- itz, 33 miles northeast of Berlin, was "warded off," the German Transocean agency said. The official German DNB agen cy said a ".certain flare-up" in fighting In the Kuestrin area, 10 miles southeast of Kienitz and 38 miles east of Berlin, indicated the Russians soon would attack in strength. Nazis Give Version German artillery was credited with scattering "major enemy de ployments" southwest of Kues trin, whose capture was announc ed by Premier Marshal Stalin March 12. Moscow has reported soviet troops across the Oder well ; beyond Kuestrin on the Warsaw Berlin superhighway. The nazi reports followed by less than 24 hours the capture of Altdamm, directly across the Oder river from Stettin, and the conse quent elimination of the last ma jor German pocket on the east foahk of the river north of Berlin. ' The clearing of the northern flank along the Oder was believed 1 one of the last Items on Stalin's battle schedule before sending his armies Into action in frontal and flanking offensives against Berlin. Altdamm Seized Marshnl Gregory K. Zhukov's First White Russian army cap - tured Altdamm after slashing up behind the city from the south- west and cutting its three bridge links with Stettin, three and a half miles across the Oder estuary. Overrun In the advance were Podejurh, four miles southwest of Altdamm, and Finkonwald, site of Stettin airfield a mile and a half southwest of Altdamm. The Germans fought for every block In Altdamm and thousands were slain, the soviet high com mand announced. Far to the northeast, the Third White Russian army under Mar shal Alexander M. Vassilevsky, red army chief of staff, trimmed the German pocket southwest of Koenigsberg to 50 square miles and captured Braunsberg, 1 1 s principal stronghold. Man Is Held on What started as an asserted liquor party evolved into a free-for-all brawl, climaxed by a stab bing when Lee B. Ellington last night visited his lormer wne s home an'd attacked Henry Lutz hoft, employed there as a painter, Sheriff Claude L. McCauley re ported today. Accompanied by Albert Shipley, Ellington headed for the home of Pauline Donnelly, his former wife, about one mile south of the citv limits, with a quart of whis key, officers said. The pair arrived at 6:30 p. m. and lnvlteu Mis. Donnelly and Lutzhoft to partake of the liquor with them. Kciusing, Mrs. Donnelly was said by the sheriff to have showed Ellington the door and when he remained adamant, requested Lutzhoft to act as "bouncer." Ellington, the sheriff said, then pulled a knife and lunged toward the painter, in flicting several light cuts and one six inch slash in the abdomen. The men then fled, according to the sheriff. Man Arrested Later that evening, Sheriff Mc- I pu'ti .u"n. .n,i rhnier i Robert Houtchens and Chester Nordstrom, arrested Ellington at a Bond street tavern on a chnrge of drunkeness. The sheriff reported that El lington will be transferred from I the city jail to the county jail to- a,A i f..pir,t nnlhle rhnran nf .-.'sennit with intent to kill. The extent of the charge will be determined at a conference be tween Sheriff McCauley and Dis trict Attorney A. J. Moore. Lutzhoft is undergoing treat ment in a local hospital. Yanks, in ReachC (United frees Wer Manila, March 21 (U.P) American troops linked with strong Filipino guerilla forces on Panay today in an offen sive that burst into the suburbs of burning lloilo and swept through more than 250 square miles of the island. The lightning strikes of Maj. Gen. Rapp Bush's 40th division, which threw the Japanese into disorder on Panay's south central plains, ripped through three key road towns and tumbled Mandurriao airdrome, with its big 4,500-foot run way. The rapidly developing campaign on Panay, sixth largest of the Philippines, was dis- closed in Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur's communique which also revealed new important gains on Luzon and continua tion of neutralizing air at tacks on Formosa and Japan's shipping lanes in the China sea. Beachhead Widened Brush's seasoned troops over ran Japanese machine-gun points and small arms resistance in a two-pronged offensive that carved out a beachhead 18 miles deep and 14 miles wide on Panay's south ern coast. One column raced seven miles In one day. along the hard-surface coastal road, captured the seven span carpenters bridge across the lloilo river and stormed into the suburbs of the capital, already aname zrom large tires. The extent of the blazes Indi cated the Japanese were attempt ing the same destruction of Hollo and its 90,000 inhabitants as they did at Manila. At the same time, Brush's sec ond force speared inland to seize Janiuay, 18 miles north northeast of Hollo. From there it made a sharp turn to the east, raced seven miles to the big road junc tion of Potoan and continued an other eight miles eastward to cap ture Barotnc Nuevo, l(J!i miles northeast of Hollo. The drive inland enabled the American troops to join with Pa- ; nay's strong guerilla forces, said jto be the best organized in the entire Philippines, Deschutes Quota For Drive Is Set Deschutes county's overall quota for the Seventh war loan drive, to open on April 1, will be $1,141,000, it was announced this noon at a special luncheon meet ing in the banquet room of the Pilot Butte inn, with county fi nance committee members and executives from the state office present. The "E" bond quota will be $654,000, It was announced by Kenneth Martin, executive man ager of the state war finance committee. The quota assigned Deschutes county was officially accepted by A. L. O. Schueler, county war bond chairman. Martin In Speaker Martin pointed out that money flowing into the treasury via "E" bond channels comprises the in flationary dollar which will bo safely out of circulation awaiting active duty during the post-war period in laying the groundwork f 0r a stable economy. Conferring at the session with Schueler and W. A. Bingham, chairman of the payroll sav ings division of the state war fi nance committee, were officials of the latter's staff and chairmen of the Deschutes county commit tee. C.J; " f OUUfclTO VCI UruerS TO l-eUVe i New York Taverns atMidnight New York, March 21 (Hi May - or i. H. La Guardm stuck by his ,onSi ssu,,,, n hLs w,My rll,0 ta? regard! ' Sunday. New y0rk had less of the wishes of President become the first and only large Roosevelt and the army, "I'm run- city to defy war mobilization di ning the city." rector James F. Byrnes' midnight Asked for comment on Prcsl- curfew request, dent Roosevelt's statement yester- The army's order hit New York day favoring a midnight curfew on entertainment, i.a uuanna said- "He's running the country, I'm Just running the city." Asked for comment on the war department order that all soldiers evacuate saloons and other night spots by midnight an order that went into force hpre last night and led to the spectacle of civlll-, Guardla's "hour of tolerance" had .... .. 11.11... I ans continuing with their drink-iDeen nit a nouy mow. ine while soldiers were ordered, Several saloon keepers, already - away from the Dars, L,a uuaruia sal,!: I'm running the city, I tried fn,mld they would probamy return lo run the army but they woijlWft ', lot mc." 1 ' Swift Blow, QUICG CarreeiHtnrientl Killed By Japs Major .General Edwin Patrick, commander of the 6th U. S. lnfan- try division on Luzon, was killed by a Jap machine-gunner who hid behind the American Ifnes east of Alanua Brilliant Planet Fools Sky Gazers There were stiff nocks around today, just because some sky gnz- er discovered a Bllvery object In the eastern heavens late this morning, far above fleecy clouds of spring. Binoculars and tele- scopes were brought Into use, but the mystery of the sliver disc was not solved until Don Williams, at the Brooks-Scanlon plant; brought imiu niBHiieijKiinimi - C ' "I out a copy of The Bend Bulletin, first army exploded a new often dated last Saturday. i8ve northward from Its Rcmagen On the editorial page was J , bridgehead and swept out into clipped editorial from the Grants opcn tnnk country less than a Pass Courier announcing that the j ttoZen miles from the southern brilliant planet Venus Is now visl-, Uank of tne Ruhr basin, ble Just east of the sun. Further-1 0n the hees of tne First army more, the editorial had directions break-through, Gen. Dwlght D. """i iiuiin j-iui-n, KJ lliv.'inliv of Oregon astronomer for the lo- nH'm P'nn,t;,PV(,nlnb,;l,1t sunlight. Right In the spot where Prof. Pructt said Venus could be found was the "silver disc" that had mystified Bend. Fooled Once Ileforo Paul Hosmer, who took part In solving the silver disc mystery this morning, recalled that It was the second time In a little more than a quarter of a"ccntury he has been fooled by Venus. At the start of the first world war, "sig nals" were reported sighted In the Cascudes, near the divide, over a period of a week or more. An Investigation revealed that the "mystery light" was Venus. The lustrous planet will be visi ble tonight for two hours after sunset. I I I 1 Under La Guardla's Instnic-; ; suddenly last night when military i : ponce, accompanied oy snore pa - j trols as "observers," made the rounds of bars and night clubs at I midnight explaining to cluh own-1 ers that they must clear the prcm-; :lses of service men. ! The first reaction from night spot owners was that Mayor La nunious unmn iuk-iik uuvrtnmnci m ...... . - jof the mayor's one-hour extension, hain't got the gas to be chasing the midnight closing "to be on' the safe side." 'AH OraaniZed In Region Ends Not Single Bridge Is in Use as Americans Hit At Fleeing Nazi Hordes Paris, March 21 nn Lt Con. George S. Patton's troops entered Ludwigshafen today, virtually concluding the Soar Palatinate campaign which de stroyed two German field ar mies totaling some 80,000 men. Paris, March 21 (IP All organ ized German resistance in the Saar-Palatinate collapsed today as the American Third and seventh armies joined forces. The com bined forces wheeled In to the Rhine to annihilate a iew thous and nazi survivors along a bridge less, 29-mlle stretch of the river bank from Ludwlgshafen to the Karlsruhe crossing. '-- In one of the most decisive vic tories of the western war, the two American armies had wiped out all but about 10,000 of the 80,000 or move Germans who held the vast Saar-Moselle-Rhine tri angle at the start of the offensive one week ago. Cities Seized I Saarbruecken, Zwelbruecken, Kaiserslautern, WIssembourg, Ma inz and Worms, the keystone! of I the German defensive system, I were ln American hands or on the verge of capture this morning, A slxth Hnd even areater prize, the sprawling Rhine chemical cen ed by two armored columns of the ' Third army that raced to within six miles west and northwest of the city. The last major German escape port across the Rhine at Woerth, opposite the east bank city of Karlsruhe, also was Imperiled by Seventh army troops who smash ed through the Siegfried defen- ses beyond WIssembourg, 15 miles t0 he southwest. Not a single Rhine bridge was standing as the Americans struck for the river this morning. The panic-stricken Germans faced the prospect of mass surrender of a suicidal crossing In boats and " , ' " I Now Drive Opened ! Far to the north, the American i tl cnt. Iiiivnp hrnnHmiu u orrim warnlng to the German civilian population and the thousands of ''. s,v wm.k,rs ,n!(kle the nazi lines to get out of the Ruhr Immediately. Eisenhower declar ed that the entire Ruhr was about to become a battle zone. U.S. Sub Barbel Lost in Action Washington, March 21 (IB The navy announced today that the American submarine Barbel has been lost, presumably In the Pa cific or Far Eastern waters. Forty American undersea craft have been lost during this war. Less than a month ago, the navy disclosed that the submarines Es- colar and Shark were overdue f om patrol and presumed lost. The Barbel was skippered by Lt. Crndr. Conde L. Raeuet. of Nor- folk, Va. It carried a normal com plement of 63 men. All of Its crew were listed as missing In action and their next of kin have been notified. Bandits Use Trolley In Making Getaway Los Angeles, March 21 (IP j inuiu i" k""k .B, humble trolley today had a new use as a getaway car for bandits. F. S. Blayncy told police that two thieves took $235 from the ;rirug store he managed and hop ped a streetcar. Blayney jumped on the running board of a passing car and tne driver gave cnase. ft! - . 1. n ,J nlmAI twnlrllUl IhO urej wu ai.i-...-.i n-n.u.u .. streetcar when the motorist said: .your company s uuugii. uiayney saoiy waicneo me iroi- ley puu out oi signi.