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CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
Volume Lll
THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY. JULY 2t. 1944
NO. 39
Nominated for Fourth Term
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PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
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as their candidate for president of the United States. He will oppose
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Wallace Claims New Support
As Democrats Meet to Name
Running Mate for Roosevelt
-'However, Truman Remains in Race and Says
He Has Good Block of Votes Lined Up for -
First Test; Much Political Talk Scheduled
Chicago Stadium, July 21 (EE) Democratic orators of
fered a dozen or so vice presidential Dossibilities to their
party convention today bufr only two of them Henry A.
Wallace and Sen. Harry S. Truman of Missouri had any
real voting strength lined up and it appeared doubtfult that
euner couia win on tne tirst ballot.
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Chicago Stadium, July 21 (U.E) The Democrats met in
their fifth convention session today to pick a running mate
for President Roosevelt, with supporters of Vice President
Henry A. Wallace claiming new delegate strength but with
Sen. Harry S. Truman of Mis-
souri promised Massachusetts'
34 first ballot votes and a good
chunk of Illinois 58 votes on
the second ballot.
Chairman Sam Jackson jtav
i elled the session to order at 12:12
p. m.
With Roosevelt nominated
for a fourth term, it rpmalnprt fnr
the delegates to settle a contest travelers from Berlin arriving at
between the left and right wings Malmo late today said the Ger-
In. State of Siege
Stockholm, July" 21 (IP) Air
Japan's Senior Army, Navy
Leaders Seeking New Cabinet
Tokyo Reports Headway Being Made Following .f
- Fall of Tojo's Rule; Koiso, Yonai in Charge
Japan's two senior army and navy leaders, .designated by
Emperor Hirohito to form a new irovernment. were rennrted;
making some progress todav in reDlacinir the fallen regime
f ri Tf. i l m
iii ueii. niueKi JOJO.
V spokesman for Gen. Kumaki Koiso. who. with'Adm.
Mitaumasa Yonai. was charted to organize a new Jananexft
cabinet, said he expects Koiso will be able to submit list
of names of ministers to Emperor Hirohito by Saturday morn-
ing (japan jimej, lokyo radio announced.
The broadcast, heard bv United Press in San
quoiea ix. oen. raneita sailo,
speaking for Koiso's head
quarters.1
The official Domei news
agency, quoting a statement
issued at "cabinet information
headquarters" In Tokyo, said that
Gen. Kuniaki Koiso and Admiral
Mitsumasa Yonai held a confer
ence that progressed "very
smoothly and earnestly."
Koison is governor-general of
Korea and Yonai is a former
premier and a member of the
supreme war council. Each is 64
years old.
Saito Is Spokesman
The Domel dispatch, trans
mitted by wireless to the East
Asia Press and recorded by FCC
monitors .said the statement was
issued by Saito.
The conference was held. Do
mel said, after Koiso and Yonai
visited the Imperial palace and
afterward discussed the situation
with other Japanese officials, In
cluding Tojo. ' A' ' '
- While, the designation of two
men by the emperor to form a
new government at first Indicated
the possibility of a toint Dremler-
snip, it appeared that Koiso was
taking the lead in the activities.
According to Domei. Koiso vis.
ited Tojo at the premier's official
residence and also went to the
army general staff headquarters
to talk with Gen. Yoshijlro Ume
zu, who replaced Tojo as army
chief of staff in one phase of the
governmental crisis.
of the new deal-democratic par
ty and either renominate Wallace
or retire him to Iowa.
Strength Claimed
Wallace claims of additional
man capital was in a virtual state
of siege.
Passengers aboard two planes
from Berlin said only SS and ges
strength were voiced by Harold -tapo men were in sight, while all
tary and campaign manager, who
said that since yesterday his man
had Increased his total of prom
ised votes to 580, nine short,of a
mii.u.. '
The Massachusetts decision to shoo,in8 or wvoU-
go for Truman on the first ballot !
regular troops apparently had
been sent outside the city.
They said, however, that Ber
lin was quiet, with no signs of
was the best of news for the
nllssourian. This was one
Jargest blocs of votes that had
wen uncommitted on the first
ballot.
"lajiur cawara J. fteuy 01 ni
caRo. Illinois democratic leader,
said his delegation would cast all
58 votes for Its own Sen. Scott W.
Lucas on the first ballot. There
a'ter, however, a majority of the
Mate's votes will go to Truman,
Kelly predicted.
An aide to Kelly said the mayor
talked this morning with Presi
dent Roosevelt and received the
President's assurance that Lucas
would be acceptable to him as a
vice presidential nominee.
To Bark Truman
New Jersey delegates said the
bulk of their 34 votes would go to
Truman. A CIO member said New
Jersey would cast eight Wallace
Stockholm .Julv 21 UP" A trav-
jr tne i
of the'e'er from Berlin said on his ar
rival in Malmo late today that he
had heard that "many hundreds"
of Germany's best officers had
been executed in an attempt to
Hull Asserts
Nazis Aware '
Defeat Near
Washington, July 21 IP Sec
retary of State Cordell Hull.
warning against "over optimism,"
said today the attack on Adolf
Hitler clearly indicates that the
realization of Germany's "In
pending defeat" is spreading in
the reich.
The appointment of Heinrich
Himmler as commander in chief
of the home front, Hull said in a
formal statement, is an illustra
tion of the "steadily deteriorat
ing military position of Ger
many." He warned.
"We should intensify our ef.
forts here at home to bring about
and make all the sooner and more
certain the defeat of our enemies."
Reich Aircraft
Plants Blasted
London, July 21 IP American
heavy bombers attacked Germany
from both Britain and Italy today
for the fourth straight day when
the eighth air force sent 2,000
planes against aircraft plants in
the southeastern reich and the
15th bombed Brux. In the Sudet-
enland 130 miles south of Berlin.
About 1,100 Fortresses and Lib
erators flew from Britain against
factories supplying the German
air force after British night bomb
ers nit targets in Germany, Bel
gium, and Northern France.
. Round Trip Made
The heavy bombers from Italy,
flying a round trip of more than
l.uuo miles, dropped their explo
sives by instruments through a
smoke screen thrown up over
Brux, dciow uresden near the old
Bohemian border.
The eighth air force bombers
hammered an assembly plant at
Regensburg, 55 miles southeast
of Nurnberg, the vital ball bear
ing factories at Schwelnfurt and
Eberbach, also in the Nurnberg
area and other military targets
in soutnern uermany.
Eubanks Reported
To Be Improving
Ray Eubanks of Bend, who a
week ago was shot in the leg by a
Corvallis man who thought he
was. shooting at a coyote across
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Hitler Strikes
To Curb Revolt
ter Attack
; Fuehrer Sends Legions
Of Vengeance on Hunt
i For Conspiracy Chiefs
London, July 21 UP Adolf
ruuer opened the floodgates on
a nazi blood, path today in re
prisal for an abortive revolt
which threatened to plunge Ger
many Into civil war, as Berlin
announced the execution of rni
Gen. Ludwig Beck, former chief
of general staff, as a ringleader
oi me ami Miner conspiracy.
Gestapo Chief Heinrich Hi mm.
ler, newly vested with the com.
mand of all armed forces In Ger-
irany, appeared to have sent his
legions of vengeance on a ruth
less hunt for dissident and sus
pected elements, with the wheels
or "nazi justice already grinding
out their toll.
Nazi broadcasts emphasized
that the revolt was "completely
crushed," and Hitler seemed to
te in firm control again at least
for the time being with all com
munications out of Germany fully
m nis service.
Hitler Strike Out
Hitler struck back with the
same speed and fury that charac
terized the first great blood bath
tf, Germany on June 30, 1934,
wfiich' wiped out the Taut sizeable
tacuon or open antl-nazism in the
Keicn.
His first prominent victim was
Beck, one of the most distin
guished figures In German mill
tary life. The DNB news agency,
in announcing his execution, said
"there is revealing proof of his
contact with'fcn enemv Dowpr.
i nis evidence is tne card on which
Germany's enemies apparently
staked everything."
Another already executed wn
Col. Count Hans Schenk von
Stauffeberg, member of the Ger
man general staff, named by the
nazis as the officer who planted
the bomb which eXDloded at a
conference ot the military hlnrnr.!
chy yesterday. It burned and i
bruised Hitler, killed ono nf hi J
colleagues, and wounded 12 other
goiaoralded high officers in
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troops have landed on Guam, first impri,n iaiani ait n
the Japanese In the Pacific war, a communique has announced. Early
nu.i.mcu me tamiiu warn invHueu ai mree points ana tnat
resistance was not as strong as was anticipated.
summit, today was reported -nsi thVnn... i,... "
coming along fine." the United i. A
Press reported. The victim and
CANADIANS ADVANCE
London, July 21 ut Canadian
troops advanced southward from
captured St. Andre-sur-Odon be
low Caen today and seized St.
Martin de Fontenay, allied head-
his wife and some friends were
fishing on the lake at the time of
the accident.
Eubanks is well known In
Bend, and was catcher on the
Bend baseball team In mid-Columbia
league days.
put down unrest and disorders, quarters reported.
Pasco Man Killed
By Motorcycle
Pasco, Wash., July 21 UP)
Archie Ellestad, 53, was killed yes
terday when he was struck by a
motorcycle on a Pasco street.
Witnesses said Ellestad was
crossing In the middle of the
black when the vehicle, operated
by Tommy Shrots, emerged from
an underpass and struck him.
Ellestad is survived bv his
wiaow, Matei, reported here to
be living at Mount Vernon.
Beck Gets Blame
DNB said Beck, chief of (he
FDR, Speaking From West Coast Naval Base,
Accepts Democratic Fourth Term Nomination
With President Roosevelt at a
Pacific Coast Naval Base, July 21
tLP President Roosevelt, speak
ing from this unidentified west
coast naval base, accepted the
fourth term nomination last night
and warned the people not "to
turn over this 1944 job this
world-wide Job to Inexperienced
votes, but Mayor Frank Hague of and Immature hands."
' TtiA nrpsidpnt. sneaKinr xrom
the guarded security of his spe
cial train In which he journeyed
from Washington, said that he
would accept the nomination de
spite "my desire to retire to the
quiet of private life" and prom
ised that he would not "campaign
In the usual sense, for the office."
"In these days of tragic sorrow.
I do not consider It fitting." he
'Besides, In these days or
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Money Is Stolen'
From Local Office
Police today were Investigating
he theft of $85 from the cash
drawer in the safe of the Portland
Loan company, in the J. C. Pen
ney bulldinir. an renorbxl hv Mrs.
found that no forcible entrance global warfare, I shall not be able
naa heen made to the office and! to una me iime. i snaw. nuwi.-Ycr.
re inclined to the belief that a feel free to report to the people
rasual visitor to the establishment the facts about matters of con
hlle it was open was responsible cern to them and especially to cor
'or the theft rect any misrepresentations."
Roosevelt said that it seemed
"wholly likely" that the allies will
have gained a complete victory
over Germany and Japan within
the next few years and the world
will once again be at peace under
a system that he hoped would
prevent a new war.
"In any event, new hands will
then have full opportunity to re
alize the ideals which we seek."
He said that In the last three
elections not only democrats but
forward looking republicans and
independent voters have turned to
a progressive leadership which;
has sought consistently "to ad
vance the lot of the average Amer
ican citizen who had been so for
gotten during the period after the
last war."
He added that his acceptance of
a fourth term nomination was
"based solely on a sense of obli
gations to serve if called upon to
do so by the people of the United
States."
general staff until Nov. 1, 1938,
for years had "played a part in
hostile announcements of an im
minent general Putsch in Ger
many." A tightly controlled curtain of
secrecy, dropped over the situa
tion in Germany by the nazis,
clouded the extent of the reprisal
rainpaign against tne elements
iomentmg the first known war
time rebellion against Hitler.
However, the nazis reported
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T Bond Sales
Gain in Oregon
Portland, Ore., July 21 UP)
Fifth war loan EVmd sales rose
Thursday to $32,417,538, or 85.3
per cent of quota, E. C. Sammons,
state chairman of the Oregon war
finance committee announced to
day. Oregon's oversubscribed total
quota was reported at 139 4 per
cent, representing sales of $174.
208.696. Oregonlan Ted R. Gamble, na-
tional director of the war finance
ov win strategy must be carried wno is nere on a brier visit to
our. iney do not concern merely iook after his business interests,
a party or a group. They will af-! expressed confidence that the
feet the daily lives of Americans' state E bond quota would be
iur generations 10 come. ' i reacnea.
He listed three objectives for
America In 1944, to win the war, to
form world-wide International nr.
ganizatlons and to build an pmn. QUOta test In lhf fifth war Irun
omy for our returning veterans' drive.
and for all Americans, which will ! "It has been very successful."
provide employment and decent i he said. "It appears that the war
standards of living. bond sales in this drive will ex-
ncii in a statement ODviniii.iv.ceea muiM.rinri.mn iri in nvnr.
Roosevelt said he was "at this
naval base in performance of my
duties under the constitution. The
war waits for no election. DpcI.
slons must be made plans must division. United States treasury
Russian Mobile Forces Cfqse
Against Lwow From 3 Sides
Cossacks Mass in Forest for Speedy Thrust
Over Border Into Germany; Air Battles Rage
'.Moscow. July 21 (U.P) Soviet front A ittrmt-hpa aal1 tnrluv
Ik.l D 1 it r . . ' . --"" v..-j
inai, mmniuii inuuue iorces were rinsinir n cm nut i.wnur fmm
three directions for the final assault on the Polish fortress
city and, far to the north, were approaching the frontier of
LJttni rruHKia.
Marshal Ivan S. Konev's armored columns swept in over
the north, east, and south approaches to Lwow, already bat-
.cii-ii uy H soviet, cannonade ana Dy-passed on the north, and
miltary quarters were confident of the early liberation of
the biggest base in lower Po
land.
At the same time, Russian
Cossacks matised in the for
ests alonjr the west bank of
the Bug1 river north of Lwow
for a speedy sweep across the
Polish plains toward the Vistula
and Germany beyond.
On the Baltic front, Gen. Ivan
D. Chernlakhovskv's third nrmv
of White Russia was fiehtlncr for
tne junctions controlling the roads
to r.ast I'russla and extending its
Rains west of the Nlemen river
in lower Lithuania.
War Near Border
(Nazi broadcasts yesterday re
ported fighting at Augustow,
eight miles from the border of
East Prussia. The Moscow dis
patch did not specify the mileage
Involved In the approach to the
German soil.)
Big air battles raaed over the
Nlemen sector as German planes
Will Meet Quota
He said substantially nil the
states would meet the E bond
War Prisoners
Receiving Aid
Salem, July 21 Materials for
relieving the monotony of prison
camp routine have now reached
American prisoners of war In
eight Japanese prison camps, ac
cording to information received
by the Oreean War chest from
the National War fund.
The report stated that 23 cases
of materials, shipied by War Re-,
net services, incwc, a participat
ing service of the National War
lund, had been received and dis
tributed at prisoner of war camps
under Japanese domination lo
cated at Osaka, Tokyo, Hakodnto,
Zentsujl, Fukoka, Korea, For
mosa and Kiangwan.
Each case was packed as a com
pletp unit, the report stated, and
contained books, occupational kits
and games.
Contributions made by resi
dents of Deschutes county to the
County War chest help the Na
tional War fund finance the work
of War Relief services and War
Prisoners aid which are active In
endeavoring to make easier the
plight of Americans Interned In
Japanese and German prison
camps.
Vote Is Light
As City Ballots
On New Budget
An extremely light vote was In
dirated today as registered voters
of Uend balloted on the proposed
4.-J city ouaget or 9213,110.
While there were 5.134 register
ed voters In the city's 11 precincts
enginie to vote, only four had cast
their votes at the Kenwood school
up to noon, and only eight In the
city hall by 1 p. m.
Haunting was being done In
Marines and Army Join .
In Try to Regain First ,
Base Lost to Japanese -
By Frank Tremalne : '. ' ' '
United Vrmm War Curmpondint) ' I
Pearl Harbor, July 21 UK V. S,,
assault troops, expanding their" .
foothold In the enemy's Inner de-1
fense zone preparatory to'strikinn
at Japan Itself, landed on Guam
early Thursday and seized beach-,
heads on the first American Island
to fall to the Japanese in the Pa-
el tic war, a communique announc
ed today.
Army and marine forces still
were pouring ashore today under
cover of a mighty sea and air
bombardment and against only"
"moderate ground opposition,"'
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz's
early-morning announcement re
vealed.
Salpan Conquered
The Invasion of Guam, a pre
war U. S. naval station 1,579 miles
southeast of Tokyo, followed by
only 12 days the final conquest of
Salpan, 130 miles to the north, at '.
the heaviest cost in any single
operation in the Pacific war
15,053 killed, wounded, and miss
ing. First reports Indicated that the
initial opposition was not as
strong as that encountered at Sal
pan, but the island's 225 square
miles as compared with Saipan's':
71 may foreshadow a longer cam-
palgn. ' '
The Invasion came while Japan
was In the midst of its gravest .'
political crisis of the war. Only
yesterday, Tokyo announced the
fall of the war-lord cabinet of Pre-'
mier Gen. Hldeki Tojo as an after-.
math of the conquest of Saipan
with naval base and airfields 1,439
miles below Tokyo. ':
fleet Gives Aid
Hundreds of carrier-based'
planes and the big guns of battle-
ships, cruisers, and destroyers
irom the powerful 5th fleet
pavea me way tor tne landing ,
with an almost non stop bombard
ment lasting 17 days the most
intensive ever mounted for any
amphibious operation in the Pa
cific war.
The terrific barrage of bombs
and ells reached Its peak as tiny
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Sailors Battle
Grassland Fires
Pasco, Wash., July 21 UPiAp
proximately 500 men on duty at ,
the naval air station In Pasco .
have been battling grassland and
grain fires which have been rag
ing In the area for the past 72
hours, it was reported today.
Working shifts, the sailors were
organized so that full crews were
available at all times to combat
the blazes which already have
rloni thnnannHa nf Hnllni-a' umt.li
in r u oRairai 1 n e soviet 1 0f damage
bridgeheads and crossings In an j The worit fire was reported on '
attempt to slow down the red i the Patterson ran in Hentnn
army advance and gain time for
ine name or Kast Prussia.
The battle of Lwow dominated
the news from the long front,
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county where thousands of acres
were burned over. One sailor suf
fered second degree burns when
trapped by a blaze In one grass
lire.
aimed at the youthfulnesa of thejall tales, which Is $4,000,000,000: only the two polling places,
all
(B) above the quota." voters on the west side of the
oamble said the sixth war loan river being required to vote at
drive would begin about mid-No-1 Kenwood school and those resld-
Wffllwr an4 LntitH elnaat trniinl , kntr nn tha Mil rUn B , V. . ..;..
m ta,t .1.1. .... .i.:.L.r" a, i". i -: z ...... " " -- -
j i. wnemer iney i-ean narnor oay. ne saia 11 was; nail,
wish to turn over this 1944 job I likely the sixth war loan mlgnt In the last municipal budget
tnis world-wide job to Inexpert-1 be scaled down a little from the voting for the fiscal year of 1943
enced and immature hands." $16,000,000,000 (B) ot the filthy 44, only 88 votes were cast.
s-year-old republican nnmin
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, the presi
dent said:
The people of the United States
Rommel Withdraws His Tanks
To Avoid Allied Encirclement
Supreme Headquarters, A EF, northwest. St. Andre -sur-Orne
July 21 MriAllicd armies drove! was captured, clearing the bank
forward In drenching rainlhrough 1 of the river four miles due south
five villages in Normandy today: of Caen, and to the west a drive
as Marshal Erwin Rommel with- more than four miles below Tilly
drew most of his tanks from the sur-Seulles overran the village of
expanding British break-through Monts.
salient along the road to Paris in; American forces closing in on
order to escape a threatened en- Periers, central base of the Ger
clrclement. man defenses on the first army
A United Press dispatch from I front, captured Seves, 2V miles
the Caen front reported that thel north of Periers; raids, on the
battle "still Is going well" with j Carentan Periers highway four
the definite failure of the German! miles to the north: and Lies Mes
counterattack, and "It now Is safe1 nil Eury, eight miles southeast of
to say that the allied offensive is
over the hump."
The battle of Troarn on the left
flank of the Caen pocket raged
Into its second day, with British
assault forces fighting ahead from
the captured rail station on the
edge of the town.
Other British forces were fight
ing street battles In Evrecy, south
west of Caen, and the vill.ige of
Bougy mile and a half to the
Periers on the St. Lo highway.
Front reports said the nazi com
mand was trying to rush armor
to Normandy from northern
France and Belgium. In that con
nection, the royal air force last
night carried out a concentrated
bombardment of the big rail hub
at Courtrai, Belgium. Three main
lines from Germany through Bel
glum and Into France pass
through Courtrai.