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April 21:
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Forecast Partly cloudy tonight
pnd Sunday.
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Yanks Close in On Hitler Retreat
New Push
Launched
Over Elbe
PARIS, April 21 (UP)
American troons were report
ed storming tlie Kibe river
line at a new point northwest
ol Berlin today in a major
bid to break through' and join
the Red army in the final as
sault on the German capital.
Word of the new crossing at
tempt on the If. S. ninth army
front before Berlin was flashed
by the German DNB news agency
as three other allied armies in
the south struck along a 200
mile front for Hitler's last re
doubt in the Bavarian Alps.
In the Brunswick area, SS in
fantry riding- armored vehicles
thrust deep into the positions of
the U. S. Ninth army. Several
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WITH U. S. NINTH ARMY.
Germany, April 21 (UP) The
U. S. Ninth army has been put
on the alert or a junction with
Russian spearheads near the
Elbe river, it was revealed to
night. groups containing several hund
red men each were engaged in
the stabs. The largest was in the
juea of Koenigsluiter, 10 miles
southeast of Brunswick.
Front dispatches said many of
the Germans were being mopped
up. An 84th division counter
blow hurled back the main Nazi
thrust after infiltrating units ad
vanced halfway across the corri
dor toward the remnants of Ger
1 ii'an forces pocketed in the Harz
wald area.
DNB said the Americans at
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School Musicians
Meet in Eastern
Oregon Festival
Ratings were given today in
the Eastern Oregon high school
music festival, being held at the
local college, for string solos,
string ensembles, brass solos,
chum solos, woodwind solos and
instrumental ensembles. The
competition continued during the
afternoon.
Both regional and section rat
ings are. given at the event, the
regional being higher than the
sectional, starting at 1 and going
mrough 5, with 1 the highest.
Ratings for the various events
follow: String solos, violin, sen
ior division Mary Kirby, St.
Francis academy, Baker, 2; Wil
liam Gorger, St. Joseph's acad
emy, Pendleton, 2; Jacqueline
5-mith, St. Francis, 1; Irvin
Wright, La Grande, 3; Iris Roy,
St. Joseph, 1 ; Beverly Smith, La
Grande, 2; Geraldinc McGinnis,
St. Francis. 2:
Violin, junior division Patrie-
w mienel, La Grande, 2; Donna
Gordon, La Grande, 2; Donald
arn, St. Joseph, 2; Doris Jean
Giay, La Grande, 1; Jack Evans.
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PRESIDENT BUYS FIRST POPtY Standing oi the president's
desk, little Margaret Ann Forde, S. pins the first Buddy Poppy of
the 1945 Buddy Poppy salo on President Truman's lapel. Margaret
is daughter of a disabled ex-sorvice man and made the trip to
Washington from the Veterans of Foreign Wars national home for
widows and orphans of ex-service men i.i Eaton Rapids, Mich.,
where she and her sister and two brothers are now living.
Churchill Hints
He May Retire
After V-E Day
BRISTOL, Eng., April 21 (UP)
Prime Minister Churchill hint
ed today that he might retire
rr be retired after the defeat of
Germany.
In a speech accepting the free
dom of this city, he said that he
"or whoever stands in my place i
will have to ask war-weary Bri- I
1;.in "for a new leap forward, for :
b new lifting of the soul and
body" to defeat Japan. . j
Churchill said that in the event ,
there was a new prime minister
he would support him, whoever ,
it may be, but did not elaborate
further. However, a general elec- i
lion will be held after V-E day. i
"We have the Japanese to fin
ish," Churchill said, "and we
have to stand absolutely with our
great American ally in paying off
at the other end of the world
debts as heavy as ever wee in
flicted on us."
He called on Britain to help
prosecute "this second war . . .
to a conclusion free from any
doubt."
Churchill again dampened l.ilk
ol a premature V-E day.
"We have no intention of en
couraging any festivities or
thanksgiving until we are a.-sur-
j cd from our military o
nnnd-
s that the task
l iete that everyone may
cheer.
he said.
The refcrnce was taKen as
indication that victory would
pioclnimed only after all pi-el
e. German resistance have V"
erased.
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Elephant Steaks?
No It Hasn't Quite
Come to That Yet
PORTLAND, Ore., April 21
(UP) Employes at the Port
land livestock yards gaped to
day when a 6300 pound ele
phant lumbered out of a box
car.
"Has meat rationing come to
this'.'" somebody remarked.
Inquiry brought the news
that the elephant was headed
for Jantzcn Beach, amusement
park located near the livestock
yards. The loading dock was
the nearest rail connection and
Ihe pachyderm walked the rest
of the way.
Leaders of Nazis
Fleeing to Norway
LONDON", April 2i (UP)
Leading nai partv members ale
fleeing to Norway aboard what
planes the iuftwaffe has left, dis
ratches from Sweden reported to
day. While other reports told of
pi ace riots m Berlin and Mun
ich, the SW-ckholm newspaper
Morsonlidningen re:ort?d mys
terious plane movements over
the Sweduh - Norwegian border
the past two nights.
Swedes near 111? border saw
iai'fce numbers of planes on their
way to Norway. Contrary to the
practice of allied planes in main
'.axing blackout, tlnse planes
switched on th-.-ir lights mime-
iiatelv afti r lilev flew over land
npau-ntly mistaking Swedish ,
i,irier rcciiii for Norw ay. '
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OREGON SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 21, 194o
Kyushu Is
Pounded
By B-29s
By United Press
More than 300 Superfortresses
bombed Kyushu again today and
American ground forcos complet
ed conquest of the central Philip
pines ahd battered out new gains
in the bloody battle for southern
Okinawa.
The B-2'l's, hitting Kyushu for
the third time in fivo days, blast
ed nine bases for the Japanese
suicide planes which were
hlamid for sinking some of the
15 American war vessels lost off
Okinawa and Japan during the
last month.
Navel Losses Revealed
A Pacific fleet comunique list
ed for the first time the naval
losses between March 18 and
April 18. Included were five
destroyers Halligan, Bush, Co
noun, N. L. Abele and Pringlo;
two mine craft Emmons and
Skylark; the destroyer transport
Diekerson; five smaller warships;
and two ammunition ships ,
Hobbs Victory and Logan Vic
tory. During thu same period the
Americans' destroyed at least 100
Japanese vessels, including a
Yamato class battleship.
Advance on Okinawa
On Okinawa, three American
divisions drove deeper into tl.o
enemy's last ditch defense line
less than three and a half miles
north of Naha, the capital. Ad
vances up to a mile were reported
all along the four mile line across
Ihe southern end of thi island.
Other troops on nearby Ie is
land continued their drive.
Through Wednesday 736 Jap
anese had been killed on the is-Sc-3
KYUSHU . . . Page 7
Former La Grande
Man Is Killed
In Plane Accident
Friends in La Grande have
' i '.n advised of the death in
i ranee of Oliver E. Tudor, a for
mer resident of La Grande, and
a flight olficer in the ferrying
division of tho army air trans
port command.
He had landed on the army
field and was taxing his plane
along the landing strip when the
propeller flew off and sheared
through the cabin, killing the
pilot instantly. The accident oc
curred last December 5.
Tudor was best known as a
guitar player, and after leaving
La Grande he was employed in
the movies in Hollywood, appear
ing with Gene Autiy. He also
was an intimate of Smiley Bur
nette, with whom he made num
erous personal appearance tours
prior to entering the army.
His widow and three children
hv? in North Hollywood.
Tudor, who was familiarly
known as M on tie, attended
Greenwood school here, and left
about 10 years ago to go to Cahf-
ornia.
of Allied Airmen Revealed
our lads were half-starved and soft from yeals iti prison camp.
"The guards fixed bayonets and an officer yelled in Urrmun
quirk mJirciv'r,s we start.yl run(Un,g and s'timbling tjie mlrics
',-'S'rt in. i'hiy slashed our backs, shoulders, and groins. If a
PAHIS. Anril 21 (VP) Gen. D.i Eiieihowor blxt issi0d orders
(hut tff victim of nasi torture ait itarvalion in overrun camps
be gilcn a eecenl burial by German ctviliait.
iBisenbwerl'i chif)of staff, Maj. Gen. WaltoroBedori Smith, re
tailed the me today by the supreme comntTfSr.
Burial parlirai are recruited from the civilian pogdatjtr)! of the
nearest towns, given rnoels, and made to bury the bodies pro
F(0)y. The workers must take their own V.hos if they expect
to eat during the task(5)
man stumbliand fell, Kj)vould get the bayonet and be clubbed
with rifle butts.
' German civilians stood along the road and laughed at us.
Thj nwinv! h?-ff)'Ai':: dogs which woH mh in on the fallen
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NAZIS' LAST BASTIONS FALLING As great American a. id
Russian armies drive across Germany, overrunning all rosistanco
and at the gates of iho capital itsolf, they also are moving ever
closer to a junction to tho south, where they aro driving at iho
Bavariai Alps to prevent a marshalling of the disrupted onomy
forces for a last stand. The map shows the relative positions of
ihe various allied units yesterday.
Leslie F. Smith
Elected Head of
Scout Committee
Leslie F. Smith, a member of
ihe high school faculty, was
elected chairman of the Mt. Em
ily district council of Boy Scouts
at a mectng of the district com
mittee last night in the Presby
terian church. Ho succeeds Itev.
A. J. Stanley, who resigned.
Claire Cahill, field executive,
urged that the various troops co
operate more fully by providing
their membership quotas on the
distreit committee.
After a dicussion of the com
missioner staff and extension
rommittee, it was announced that
Smith will appoint neighborhood
commissioners and committee
men in the near future.
Lee Reynolds explained a new
acivanccment award which will
be inaugurated at the court of
honor to be held April 30 in Bak-
or.
A discussion of the waste pa-
per drive next Wednesday
r.rought out the information that
there will be no house to house
collection on that date, and that
the various scout groups will
have to gather their paper and
turn it in to a central depot be
fore pick-up day.
The summer camp at Wallowa
and Anthony lakes was discussed
end it was the sense of the meet
'ng that every troop leader, par
ent and employer be urged to
give boys every chance to take
advantage of the camping aclivi
tics.
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K1VE CENTS
Allies Control
Half of Hitler's
'Greater Germany'
By Unl'au Pross
Allied armies have occupied
one-half of the 225,256 square
miles of Adolf Hillor's "grcator
Germany."
Tho advancos by Soviet
troops converging onto Borlin
brought the total area under
allied control to the half-way
mark 112,630 square miles.
"Greater Germany" includes
the 182,471-squarc-mile reich
end 24,064-square-mile Austria
and 8,721 squaro miles of tho
Czechoslovak Sudctenland.
Health Nurse Is
Named at College
The appointment of Mrs. Bruce
More-head as health nurse at
Eastern Oregon college was an-
nounced today by President Ro-
I on J. Maaske. She replaces
Miss Betty Jane Griee who has
been commissioned second lien-
tenant in the army nurse corps.
Mrs. Meirehead, who took up j e-d in at headquarters in rapidly
her duties at the school, yestei - increasing numbers.
e.;.y, is well known locally. She j Smuts Expects Results
is a registered nurse, having Field Marshal Jan Christian
earned her rating al St. Luke's Smuts, 75, prime minister of the
school of nursing in Boise. I Union of South Africa, and one
JAP SPY IS HANGED
MANILA, April 21 (UP) Jap
anese sergeant-major Sakai Nar
ioka was convicted by a military
commission of spying in civilian
nothes and hanged Thursday, it
was announced today.
men, biting their ani'dnd le,-. Eve. thing began swimming he
f:ne my ess. I stumblal ,ul" tell. A marine clubbed rne with a
rifle butt. "I pass.i out and when 1 came C4. It was ,ttin'ciing over
1 With a bayonet. I asked why
You fliers bomWiFour wives
NUERNHEKt Genujnjrj, April 21 (UP) Thfale f th...ands
it Aiddican and British Brunei) listed as "missing" rnay be((v)u ned
oon. 5
A processing center for allied flieis shot down over Gorman ter
ritory was discovered in the nearby town of Buchcnbuhl. A
master index file detailing what happid to 45,000 Anglo-(BS)-rican
ai(g)-n was fouiin the center.
xach captured f(g) was recorded in the master file and listed
on a sepai (S) card. Hi; was given a number and his belongings
were placed in an envelope with the number.
Bushels of rings, watches, fruternity pins, and dugtags were
found at the processing center
Fighting Rages im
Streets on Rim of
German Capital
LONDON, April 21 (UP) The Red army announced V-
tunight that it had captured half a dozen of the keyy
stroiiKpoints in front of Berlin and was fighting in the-"
streets on the rim of the reich capital. " -
A Soviet communique said Russian forces besieging
IlerMn had seized Erkner, half a mile from the south- ;jl
eastern edge of the city proper, together with fortified -towns
scattered over an arc pressed close against the ' '
city and reaching to Bcrnau, three miles from the north
eastern side of the capital.
The German high command had earlier acknowledged
today that Russian siege armies were storming Berlin arid
that a lied army lightning thrust of more than CO miles had
outflanked the doomed capital completely on the south. ; ;
Nazi broadcasts said converging Soviet armies had
clamped a blazing siege arc against the eastern, southeastern
and northeastern suburbs of Berlin, and that Red army artil
lery had begun pumping shells into the heart of the city.
A German communique reported that a Soviet column had
raced up the Spree valley, by-passed Berlinon the south, afld
reached tho area of Jueterbog, 2b miles southwest o,f the city
mid '10 miles from tho U. S. ninth army's bridgehead across.
the rJbc.
Supplementary broadcasts re
ported Russian forces ranging the
legion southwest ot Berlin in the
areas ot Truenbrietzen, 211 mil-is
fiom the capital, and south of
Bcelitz, 111 miles southwest of
Berlin.
The speed with which the Kid
army mobile units raced beyond
Berlin indicated that the nazis
had mustered every last ounce
of their strength for the defense
of the capital itself and on the
Elbe lino to the west, leaving the
city's back door unbolted.
Early Breakthrough Seen
A Moscow dispatch said the
final breakthrough on the Bcilin
front was expected this weekond.
Thousands of Soviet guns and
planes were pouring steel and
explosives into tho elovastatcd
city in a steady rain. RAF Mos
quitoes joined in the bombard
ment with Six separate block
buster raids during the night.
The muffled thundor of the
bombardment was audible to
American ninth urmy troops
along the Elbo river, 45 miles
west of Berlin, a front dispatch
from that area said.
(A BBC broadcast said that
American and Russian patrols
wero only 25 miles apart in an
unidentified sector of Germany.
The report was attributed to
"messages reaching Moscow." A
United Press dispatch from Mos
cow said patrols already may
HEART . . . Page 7
President Truman
! Will Welcome S. F.
; Parley Delegates
i
j SAN FRANCISCO, April 21
, (UP) The United Nations con
! fcience on international oigan
i ization will convene in its first
! plenary session Wednesday aftcr
I noon to hear a broadcast wel
: coming speech by President Har
I ly S. Truman from the White
i House, it was announced today.
I Secretary of State Edward R.
j Sicttinius, jr., Governor Earl
' Warren of California and Roger
1J. Lopham, mayor of San Fran
cisco, will speak on the same pro
! gram.
Michael McDermoll, slate de-
I parlment press director, outlined
1 probable conference parliament-
1 my procedure for the opening
week beginning April 25, as dele-
' tr.tes and their secretariat check
of the free world s great states
men, arrived atioard an It. A. r.
Liberator from New York. He
was optimistic about the confer
ence, and the prospects for' post
war peace.
'This liipe I believe we will
pull it off," Smuts said.
he wasii:ig tl"A, ail herald:
and children.' "
Ernie
Pyle
On the March With
Marines Writer i'X
Finds Laughs '. S-;
(Editor's notei Ernie PylVi
wrote his daily columns sever-
al days ahead of publication
date as a means of preventing
unbroken continuity in thi'
event of temporary delays u'
iranrmission. The following Is'
ono of those ha wroia but
few days before he met daatl)'.
at the hands of a Jap machine,
gunner. Others will follow for
several days.) ": '', k
By. ERNIE PYLfc ,:' A,.
OKINAWA(By Navy. Radio)
My company of marines starred
moving just after breakfast. We
wer-3 to march about a mile and
a half, then dig in and stay In
one place for several days, pat-'
rolling and routing out tho few
hidden Japs in that area. 1 .'
We were In no danger on the
march at least w: thought we
weren't, so not all tho marines
wore steel helmets. Some wore
green twill caps, some baseball
caps, some even wore civilian
felt hats they, hod found in Jap4
ancsc homes.
For some reason soldiers the
world over like to put on odd
local headgear. I've seen soldiers'
in Italy wearing black silk opera
hats. And over hero I've seen
marines In combat uniform wear
ing Panama hats.
I've always enjoyed going
along with an Infantry com
pany on the move, even soma
of the horrible moves such as
we had in Italy ond Franca.
But the move we made that
morning here on Okinawa was
really a ploaiant one.
It was early morning and the
air was good. The temperature
was perfict. The country was
pretty. We all felt that Eonsc
of case when you know nothing
very bad Is ahead of you. There
is no weight on your spirit. Some
of the boys were even smoking
cigars.
0 -
There are always funny' sights
in a column of soldiers moving,
along. Our mortar platoon had
commandeered a dozen ' local
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Port of Bordeaux-
Reopens to Allies
PARIS, April 21 (UP) Th,e
port of Bordeaux was reopened
for allied shipping today for tc,
first time in four years follow-,
'ng the clearing of German lot'-'
js from the entire Giflrnde estu
i.ry. ThS campaign to cliioinate the
Geiijnan pocket around the GirJ
one virtually ended yestcrdayj
rthen toe German commandant
jjCotiin-ole Ift'in, and his entire.
siwt word capiurea, tnc com-
muniq added, and only a fewj
nemt, troops remaining to bet
mopped up. J
Enterprise Soldier , I
Wounded in Action I
,Army casualty lists today in-
eWde the name of Pfc. Louis E.
Simmons of Enterprise among
the soldiers wounded hn action In
the European theater of opera
tions. - ,
Next of kin, who was notified
prior to the public announce-"
incnt, is listed as his father, Datv
iel E. Simmons of Enterprise.