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ESTABLISHED 1S9G
Reds
Capital Siege Near
End As More Yank
Soviet Forces Meet
LONDON, April 2S (UP) Russian troops driving
through the heart of Berlin have captured the north
west part of ("harloltenlnirg district, the western part
of Moabit and the eastern part of Sehoonherg, a Soviet
communique announced tonight.
Capturing the Siemenstadt electrical district, Marshal
Gregory. K. Zhukov's first While Russian army joined
forces with the first Ukrainian army which captured
Fricdennu, Gruenewald and Ruhalehen, the communique
said. ;
Southeast of Berlin the Russians surroun:led a large
Gentian group and are "annihilating it."
LONDON, April 28 (UP) Marshal Stalin announced to
that the Red army in a sweeping advance north of Berlin
had captured Torgelow, F.ggesin, I'nsewalk, Templin and
Strasburg. ,
Russian shock troops today broke into the Tiergarten,
heart of Adolf Hitler's last-ditch defense citadel in encircled
Berlin. Moscow said the siege of the nazi capital swiftly
xnie
Pyl
Pyle Prepares
To Leave Marines
On Okinawa
(Editor's Note: In addition
to the story- which appears
here today, we will print one
more by the late Ernie Pyle.)
By ERNIE PYLE 'td up with the Americans fol-
OKINAWA (By Navy Radio) : lowing the original junction at
There is one very small marine I Torgau, CO miles below the eap
who is as nice as he can be, al-, ital.
ways smiling and making some t icast nine-tenths of Berlin
crack. But- the boys say that in niveadv was under Russian con-
battle ho doesn't give n damn for
anything.
The lirst afternoon il joined
his company he didn't know who
I was and as we passed, he said
very lespectfully, "Good evening,
colonel." I had to chuckle to my
self. Later he mentioned it and
'we laujhed about it and then he
started calling me Ernie.
He is Corp. Charles Bradshaw
f Indianapolis. He is only 19
but on his third campaign in the
Pacific. He's had three pieces
of shrapnel in him at various
times and months later they
would work out through the skin.
Another one is just about to come
out his finger now.
In the marines Corporal Brad- j
Miaw is cauea nrany ioi snort.
See PYLE . . . Page 8
Former Premiers
Return to France
PARIS, April 28 (UP) The
French press agency reported
"reliably" today that Edouard
Herriot. Edouard Daladicr, and
Paul Reynaud, former premiers
of France, and Gen. Maurice
Gamelin had arrived safely in
France.
Hitler's Death by Own Hand or
Allied Bullet Foreseen by Aide
MAGDTBURG, Germany. Ap
lil 28 (IT) Adolf Hitler will kill
himself or be killed in Berlin
- within a few hours or days and
Hip war will end, Lt. Gen. Kurt
Dittmar, German hifih command
spokesman, said in his final war
commentary in American cus-
. tody.
Dittmar, who surrendered to
the American Ninth army r,n the
Fjhe river Wednesday, told his
captors that Hitlrr and Prnpa
, unda Milliner Joneph Goobljcls
i wci in IJtrlin and will thv there.
"Tile war r ill end in a few
di..vv" Ditthaf)snid. 'v"IIitler will
either be itHliK) It ho will com
( Oiit suicide. Ony of three gen
erals von Braurfiitsrh. Guderian
or von Rutirfytedt will tafci) con
iroi and will make peace immed
iately on almost any terms."
Asked about the Bavarian re
doubt, he said, "There's talk
Breach Last Berlin Defenses
was approaching its end
Reports reaching London also
said fighting was raging "very
near" Adolf Hitler's rcicheschan
ccllery on the Wilhelmstrasie,
'he roichstag on the northeast
corner of the Tiergarten, the
Mate opera house and other
buildings in the center of Berlin.
A Moscow dispatch said Soviet
Cossack divisions swept nearly
50 miles west of Berlin and
reached the Ellw river opposite
the American ninth army. The
Russians were awaiting an "im
minent junction" with the ninth
army, Moscow said.
South of Berlin, the Russian
I army organ Red Star said, two
more Soviet divisions had link-
Lrol following a new junction of
.hi- first White Russian and first
Ukrainian armies in the Charlot
tenburg district just west of the
Tiergarten.
The remainder of the encircled
3.'12-square-milc city either had
been cleared or was bing mop
ped no against varying losislancc.
Complete occupation of the
burning rubble - beared capital
) m.-iv mm- (hie ti-onlr-nnH
Lions Are Named
For Bond Drive
Appointment of a Lions club
committee to promote the sale
ot bonds during the seventh war
loan campaign, was announced
today by Horace Nelson, presi
dent of the club.
Members are: A. H. Labbc,
chairman, Ernest Bcrglund. Bert
Worley, W. R. Winters. Wilbur
Baer and C. R. Ebcrhard.
The appointments were sent to
W. C. Perkins, county war fi
nance committee chairman, with
the announcement they will work
with the Rotary club committee
rieviously appointed.
:bout it. and the map will how
you that two pockets are being
formed, one in the north includ
ing Norway and Denmark and
one in the south in the Alps and
Italy. But that is probably less
l.y intention than by force of cir
cumstances." At any rate, he thought, the
ar could not last after the fail
of Berlin, which he said was a
matter of hours or at the most
days.
"I saw Ihe war was lost on
July toth," sajcl Dittmar, refr;.-.-rn;
to the frifsUaled, attempt M
Hitler's lii'o. ' i )
Dittmnr talked to conespjnd-
nts in hi b,ost kctlire platform
manner. Butwhen he talked
with the commander of the divi
sion to whiche surrendered, he
,-ppeared nervous. He stanfV).it
the floor and rubbed his hollow
checks.
Often
l.A (WlANUli,
NAZI TORTURE RE-ENACTED General. Eisenhower watches grimly while occupants of a German
concentration camp at Gotha demonstrate the way in which they were tortured by nazi sadists oper
ate lg the camp. General Eisenhower (with Generals Bradley and Patton, shown at lefl) visited the
camp during a tour of the Third army front.
Security Conferees
Are Spurred by
Nazi Peace Rumor
MEMORIAL OPERA HOUSE,
San Francisco, April 28 (UP)
Reports of a new German erack
up sent United conference en
thusiasm soaring today as the
delegates headed toward further
showdowns between the power
ful United States and Russian
delegations.
Conference business today was
all talk with tile hard business
e! decisions postponed until next
week. At a plenary session this
morning the conference heard
from seven delegations:
Czechoslovakia, India, Iran,
Lebanon, Honduras, The Nether
lands and Egypt.
The addresses were the formal
rpening statements of good will
expected from each group.
Rumor Cheers Delegates
There was a baekslapping and
handshaking interruption, evi
dently caused by reports that
Heinrich Himmler, Nazi gestapo
chieftain, had advised the Amer
icans that Hitler was dying.
A rumor that Hitler is dy
ing was heard here through a
British source which attribut
ed it to a message sent to the
British and American govern
ments, presumably by Heinrich
Himmler. II said:
"It is feared that Hitler is not
very well and may not live an
other 24 hours."
There were no details on how
c; when the message was sent to
the British and American gov
ernments other than that it came
through Stockholm. Whether it
See SECURITY . . . Page 7
U. S. Forces Reach
Swiss Border In
Italian Campaign
ROME. April 28 (UP) The
American Fifth army drove into
the Swiss border area of Italy to
rey, capturing Bergamo, 30 miles
( ast-southeast of the frontier at
Cc.mo. and the transport hub of
Brescia, 48 miles cast of Milan.
A Zurich dispatch reported
that the Americans had reached
the Italo-Swiss border.
The Fifth army's spectacular
sDurt to the border zone bisect
ed northern Italy, trapped tenr
of thousands of Germans, and
isolated Milan and Turin.
The Swiss dispatch said the
Americans entered Como. on the
Italian side of the frontier, last
night after an advance from their
last reported positions west of
Lake Gaida.
The patriot-controlled Milan
radio repoilcd that the Ameri
cans also, had entered Milan.
Italy's second city, but this was
not confirmed. The rtljo said
patriot foictu Jilready liber
,led the city.
Turin, the other groat indus
trial center of northern Italy, al
so was isolated by the advance
which cut the last roads to Aus
tiia from northwest Italy.
Unioi and Wallowa Covni'ti
OREGON SATURDAY EVENIN(J, Ai'IlII, 28, 19-15
U. S., Russian Meeting Links
Vast Army to Crush Germany
PARIS, April 28 (UP) The American-Russian junction south of
Berlin linked 13,000,U00 allied troops for the final act of the battle of
Europe, military observers said today.
Though superficially the armies of the east and west became a
mighty combined force, no change in the command wl-up was be
New Grand Jury
Will Hear Bowman
Murder Charge
Empaneling of a new county
:rand jury, one of the first duties
of which will be action in the
?ase of Albert Forrest Bowman,
charged with tho murder of his
father A. H. Bowman, North
Powder district rancher, was
anounccd today al the court
house. Twelve talesmen were instruc
cd to report to the circuit court
at 10 a.m. Monday when seven
if their number will be selected
0 serve as the county's inquisi
torial body for 1045.
On the grand jury list arc Lil
lian Wells, Aliccl; Pearl Conrad,
Imbler; George South, Union:
Lee Childers, Cove, and the fol
lowing residents of La Grande:
Ona Scriber, Lela Dahlstrom,
Homer II. Taylor, Lois Thompson,
Joe Clark, Margaret Swart and
. B. Cherry.
Funeral services were conduc
ed today in Baker for Bowman,
vho for the entire 58 years of
lis life hod lived on the ranch
'n the North Powder district.
The rites were conducted but
1 few hours after the son was
"ormally charged with murder in
in information filed in the court
f Justice George Cunoy by Dis
riet Attorney C. R. Eberhard.
Meanwhilil, the younger Bow
nan is held in the county jail
irre pendihg arniiqnn:-'-nl.
Baseball Results
American League
Washington 1 0 1
N'ew York 2 10 3
(13 innings)
Pieretti and Gui rra: Bonham.
rurrr and Barbark, Crompton.
Vision 000 102 5008 15 2
"hilad'phia 000 100 0034 4 1
Cecil and Garbark; Kneir, Ber
ry, Schieba, Black and Hayes.
Detroit 000 112 0105 11 0
Cleveland 000 000 0011 2 I
Benton and Swift; Bagby. Kl.i
nan. Henry and Ruskowski.
Chicago ut St. Louis, postponed
'ain.
National Lnajjue
r,itlsbur:h Df 000 000- .-0 1 1
Chicago ( -100 iWi O0xli 14 2
Butcher, ' Gi'rhf.iuMiiT, (): ter
nudlcr and Salkc Id; Wjff nn'l
Livingston.
Philadelphia 031 200 1(107 II
Boston 302 001 02x 8 10 t'
Spioull, Kennedy, Karl a:;(i
Mancuso; Barr-jtt, Kailr-y, lliitih
ings and Masi.
eirmaiini synririnioiB i
lieved contemplated.
Premier Marshal Stalin was
c xpected to remain in command
of his seven Russian armies and
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, in
command of the five American,
one British, one French and one
Canadian armies of the western
allies.
Best estimates of a 1 1 i. e d
strength placed S50 divisions
roughly 8,250,000 men at the
c-isposal of Stalin and 4,500,000
men under the command of Eis
enhower. Also "moving in for the kill
from the south were the Amer
ican Fifth and British Eighth ar
mies in northern Italy and Mar
shal Tito's Yugoslav liberation
army.
Against this mighty array of
allied power, the German high
command can muster fewer than
2,500,000 troops. There were be
lieved to be the remnants of 2H0
divisions in Germany and 24 in
northern Italy.
Approximately 125,000 addi
tional .German troops were be
lieved still in Yugoslavia and
125,000 in Norway.
Increased Butter
Output Sought
In Subsidy Boost
WASHINGTON, April 28 (UP)
The government sought today
to stimulate butter production
with a revised program of sub
sidy payments to dairy farmers.
War Food Administrator Mar
vin Jones, announcing the dairy
subsidy rales which will be paid
foi April 1 to next March 31, of
fered farrncis a substantial hf
erease in the payments of hutter
i.t. The government price struc
ture of ceilings and subsidies
oiiginally was set up lo encour
age the marketing of whole milk.
The pin pose was to get greater
output of dried milk, evaporatpd
milk and other by-products for
the army and lend-lease. As a
ie?ult butter production sufferni.
The M subsidy program is
designed to make it pri.fitabio
i.r tanners in the butUr area to
increase milk production and
market their milk in the form of
bntteifat.
FIAFT RIDE IS ThTP.U
. NEW11KIIG, Ore., Apiit 28
(!'!' Si t-) cap-old Boyd iS.out
was drowned toia; v.'hiva. he aitd'
his brother, Itich.Wl, 0, VII from
a homemade raft the log pond
(,r the Ilffley (Julp acd paper
company near Newbcr
Other boys pullodout Richard
but could not roaclfcj'.oyd.
FIVE CENTS
Japanese Say
New Invasion
Move Looms
WAS II INtJTON, April 2S
(UP) A large force of
Superfortresses struck at six
major air installations on the
Japanese home island of Kyu
shu today with "good to ex
cellent" results, the war de
part ment announced.
The attack was the third
made in Kyushu in three
days. It was aimed at I.umi,
Miynxaki, Kanoya, Kushira,
Kokuhu, and Miyakenojo.
A 20th air force communi
(iie said enemy air action was
"aggressive." The H-29's de
stroy wl four Japanese fight
cs hiii! prolmhliy destroyed
five others. One Superfort
ress was lost to enemy action.
By United Press
American forces struck new
air and ground blows today In
the mounting Okinawa campaign
and radio Tokyo said a 100-ship
U. S. invasion fleet off the
island's west coast appeared to
be preparing for "new opera
tions." The fleet was reported to in
clude four or five battleships, 10
or more destroyers and approxi
mately 80 transports. The broad
cast said 10 transports were in
Nago bay on the west coast and
the other ships were cruising off
Hie island.
Okinawa Conquest Seen
On southern Okinawa, 2-llh ar
my corps troops advanced to the
vicinity of Maehinato, two miles
north of Nulla, the capital. It
was believed the Americans had
( racked through the strongest de
See JAPANESE . . . Page 7
Oregon Aviation
To Be Fused Into
National Program
Oregon airstrips and airways
will be co-ordinated with the
rational aeronautical program as
a result of a meeting of the civil
aeionaulics authority and the
Oicgon state board of aeronautics
yesterday in Portland, called at
the request of Paul Morris, re
gional administrator of the CAA.
The state and national boards
have worked out a 10-year pro
cram, known as the sixth i?vised
plan, for the purpose of integrat
ing all existing slate facilities and
including them in the national
setup. Facilities constructed in
the future and existing facilities
will be coordinated with the na
tional system.
Plans were discussed to con
struct numerous class 1 airports
iMnall) with 1800 foot airstrips
at sea level.
On May 1. the CAA, accom
panied by the stale board, will
make Ihe first of a series of
flights covering the state, to in
terview people of small commun
ities not now having airports, so
tin ir ne-:'ds may be incorporated
in the national system. The first
Sec OREGON . . . Page 7
New Ration Stamps
Valid luesday
WASHINGTON, April 28 (UP)
A total of 10 ni w blue and re-d
stamps worth 100 ration points
for buyine, processed foods, meats
and fats will be- good May I, of
fice of price administration an
nounce d today.
Tr..;1 five new red stamps for
buying nudts and fats are Q2.
1(2, S2. T2 and 1'2. Each one is
v.onh 10 points.
Ttu five new blue stamps foi
buying piecessed fuoils jiic Y2,
7,2. Al, HI and CI.
Five led stamps--T5, U5, VS.
i and X5- -which bVoaino valid
!(. .'!!, 1044, tird live blue
I .amps C3, 1)2. F.2, F2 and G2
validated.' mi Jan. I, I0tr, will
not ih- good otter todAy OPA
said. o
'J(hV in w sQ),a$Dstamp, No. 3fi,
b( ciitnes gooet Mav 1. Sugar
stamp No. 3a will be good until
,lune 2 and ugar (SJaiiQ. No. 36
will be good until Aug. 31.
U.S., Britain Spurri
Peace Move That i
Excludes Russians '
LONDON, April 28 (UP) Tho government today took
official cognizance, without affirmation or denial, of a report
that Heinrich Himmler had offered to guarantee the uncon
ditional surrender of Germany to America and Britain -t
excluding Russia and had received a blunt rejection. : V
A source at allied supreme headquarters in France said
that SI1AKF "has no knowledge of any such offer. If any
has been made, it has been made on a government level." .:
A statement from ' No.
written by Prime Minister
offer of capitulation might
any time.
The excentional procedure
coupled with its assertion that the government had no in"
formation on the subject "at this moment," suggested that;
Churchill might be standing by for uny proposal.
The re
port on which uu.
cial statement was based saif
that Himmler, German interior
minister and gestapo chief, of
fered to guurantee the uncondi
tional surrender of Germany lo
the United States nnd Britain.
Demand Russ Inclusion
In the words of the Downing
street statement, the report add-
WASHINGTON, Apr. 28 (UP)
The White House today dis
claimed knowledge of an offi
cial German peace offer, but
made clear that when uncon
ditional surrender comes it
must be offered to all of ihe
allies.
The White House press sec
retary, Jonathan Daniels, said;
"This government has noth
ing to say at this lime."
od that the western allies "re
plied, saying that they will not
aeocpt unconditional surrender
except on behalf of all the allies,
including Russia.
The version of the icport as
broadcast by the allied-controlled
Luxembourg radio and re
corded here by the BBC said:
"The following message has
been conveyed to the foreign
ministers of tho United States
Great Britain and Russia:
"Heinrich Himmler has sent a
message in which he guarantees
LONDON, April 28 (UP)
The diplomatic corresponde.it
of the Sunday Times said to
night that Germany "may cease
fighting during the next 24
hours,"
"This, I am roliably i.iformod,
is the possible climax of a ser
ies of statements that rang
around the world," the corres
pondent reported.
Ihe unconditional surrender of
Germany lo the United States
end Great Britain. Tho govern
ments of the United States and
Great Britain have replied lhat
uneondiliomil surrender will only
be accepted if the offer is ad
dressed lo all the allies."
Soon after the Luxembourg
broadcast, No. 10 Downing St.,
official lesidence of the Prime
minister, issued Ihe formal state
ment on the report.
Nowhere did the statement say
that the report was false. The
implication appeared to he that
t might be true. The statement
said only lhat the government
had no information to give about
it.
It concluded with a reiteration
See HIMMLER . . . Pago 7
Clothing Given
In Relief Drive
Passes 2 1-2 Tons
More than two and a half tons
of used clothing unel shoes have
been shipped from La Grande
to peoples of devastated war
areas in the United national
clothVng Icoll'dion campaign,
which will be brought to a close
here Monday.
A. ,B. Olson, co-chairman of
the county campaign, said an
effort will be made to clear the
salvage headquarters in the L. C.
Smith building on Depot street
Tuesday anel Wednesday, when
volunteers from the Neighbor
hood club will sort and pack con
tributions for shipment.
Olson said the response to ap
peals for clothing have been
(ratifying and he expressed ap
preciation to members of the
various women's organizations
who have volunteered to sort and
pack the clothing, and to those
who provided Wearables for the
destitute peoples of the liberated
countries.
Clean clothing Tlnd shoes that
are in wearable condition may
be taken to the collection depot,
opposite the F.Iks building on
Ol pot street, Monday.
1 U-BOAT IS SUNK
LONDON, April 23 (UP) A
U-boat was sunk recently by fire
fiom two mine sweepers cscoit
ing a convoy in the north Atlan
lii'lQfhe admiralty announced to
day. Survivors weru taken prisoner.
10 Downing St., apparently .J.
Churchill, hinted that some y
be received from the nazis at n
of issuing such a statement:
Bavaria Is
Reported
In Revolts
PARIS, April 28 (UP) Revo-;
lutionists seized control in Mu
nich today and radioed an urgent
appeal for American help Ml
overthrowing the Nazis. At mid-;'
day, however, a broadcast pur
ported to come from the gaulelf:
cr in the city claimed the upris
ing had been suppressed. -. ; 7
From confused radio broad-'
casts and censored front din-,
patches one clear fact emerged-r.
(he fires of revolution had beep
lighted in Bavaria, .once the.'
strongest citadel of Nazidom. -
And two American armies,
were racing in on Munich from'
positions less than 30 miles to the.
west and north in answer td i
desperate appeal from the rebels,
foi Immediate help.
Late front dispatches said. the.
Third army gained upwards pt
13 miles along an 85-mile front
between the Ingolstadt and
gendort areas,. Units of-the 80tjv
division pushed eight rnllel
southeastward to the - area., ol.'
Hirnkirchcn, 13 miles southeast
of Ingolstadt, 27 northwest " of
Munich, and 22 north of the no
torious Dachau concentration
camp. . ;.
The U. S. Seventh army cross
ed the Austrian frontier at a sec:
ond point when the 44th division
pushed 18 miles south to Berg,
two north of the border, and
moved over the frontier neat
Berg southwest of the 10th ar
mored division's earlier crossing.
Field dispatches from ' the
Third army front Identified the
Munich rebel leader as Gen.
Hans Ritter von Epp, last report
cd as a member of the Hitler
government and one of the first
Nazis elected to the reichstag. ;
A rebel broadcast to the peo
ple of Munich and apparently
also to French slave workers In
Bavaria quoted von Epp as an
nouncing that Germany's capitu
lation was "imminent" and that
"Ihe hour of freedom has struck,"
Meat Production, ;i
Marketing To Be
Conference Topics;
Meot production and market
ing problems will be the subject
of a conference in the city hall in
Lu Grande at 1:30 p. m. Tues
day between state officials of the
office of price administration and
producers, butchers and retail
dealers of Union county,- .;
McDannell Brown, district di
rector of OPA, and Verne Llve
scy, agricultural relations advis
or of the Portliind district office;
will be here to discuss the new
meat program lhat has been
adeipted by the OPA in an effort
lo provide better distribution of
the civilian supplies of meat and
to combat the black market.
Various aspects of the meat
situation will be discussed,
among them the subsidies, price
regulations, permits to kill and
rationing. i
While the meeting will not nec
essarily be open to the general
public, il is the purpose of the
federal agency to bring into the
conference everyone interested 1ft
production, slaughtering and re
tail selling of meat.
This will be the only meeting
hi Id in Union county on this sub
ject, the OPA announced. ;
European Veterans p
Ifoige on Furloughs
Included among 75 Oregon and
Washington veterans who have
arrived here from the European
front on leaves and furloughs
are two fiom eastern Oregon, ic
They are Staff Sergeant Steven.
J. Hippe of Union, and Sgt, MeU
vin O. Wulker of Joseph.
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