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TWO SECTIONS THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND. DESCHUTES COUNTY. OREGON, THURSDAY. MARCH 15, 1945
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VICTORY OVER NAZIS NEAR, SAYS CHURCHILL
ritish Leader
Pledges Help
In Nippon War
England to Repay JapsA
For Cruelties, States
Premier in London Talk
London, March 15 IT Prime
Minister Churchill said todav that
victory in Europe may come be
fore the end of, summer "or even
sooner.
The quickening progress of tho
war means Germany will be
forced into unconditional surrend
er or "beaten to the ground in
'chaos and ruin," he told the an
nual, conference of the conserva
tive party.
Churchill's prediction that the
war in Europe may end within
six months coincided with a wave
of optimism throughout Britain
and on the western front.
One front dispatch said reliable
non-military sources believed
peace possible within six weeks.
A former Berlin correspondent
now in Stockholm wrote that
Adolf Hitler early this month had
made a peace feeler through Swe
den to the United States and Bri
tain, but had been rejected.
To Battle Japan
Churchill promised an intense
Brtish war effort against Japan. ,
"No mood 01 war weariness'
must prevent us from doing our
amy 10 ine last men ana to tne
last minute," he said.
Japan is not limited by man-
power. 1 nai win oe reaaiiy lorin
coming. It is limited by shipping
and other means of transport over
vast ocean spaces and through
steaming jungles."
He said Britain must repay "in
fernal cruelties perpetrated
against British subjects" by the
Japanese.
There may be less blood and
fewer tears in the months to
come, he said, but physical sweat
and the united resolve of every
man and every woman to give all
that is in him will be required
"long after the last bomb or can
non has ceased to thunder."
Must Play Part -
"We have to finish, the war
against Japan and play our part,
not only as loyal allies of the
United States and other nations
in that conflict, but also to re
gain, as we are regaining, the ter
ritories which the Japanese wrest
ed from us," he said.
It will be Britain's ceasless en
deavor to "hurl our utmost
strength into Japan's way," he
said.
Churchill Inferentially told the
United States and Russia that
Britain has no need of advice on
how to run the British empire and
commonwealth of nations.
Recalling that the entire empire
with the exception of southern
Ireland rallied behind the mother
country "to die or conquer with
us in righteous cause," he said:
Latin Quoted
"Certainly, with this unparal
leled record, we have no need to
seek advice even of our most
honored allies as to how we
should conduct ourselves with re
gard to our own affairs.
"'Imperium et libertas' em
pire and liberty is still our guide.
Without freedom, there is no
foundation for our empire. With
out the empire, there is no safe
guard for our freedom.
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iwu jima Kjuiciauyyaprurea
After 24 Days of Bloody War
Nimitz Named Military Governor; Nippons
Hidden in Caves Still Fight; 20,000 Dead
Guam, March 15 (UP) Marines still were hacking away
at two shrinking enemy pockets on Iwo Jima today, but the
island was declared officially captured with 20,000 of its de
fenders already killed.
The Stars and Stripes were raised over the tiny stepping
stone island 750 miles south of Tokyo at a formal ceremony at
9 :30 a.m. yesterday 24th day of the battle of Iwo.
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz proclaimed himself military
governor of Iwo and "other" occupied islands in the Volcano
TcrouD. nresumablv barren
Kangoku and Kama rocks off
the west coast of Iwo seized
two days ago.
Maj. Gen.. Keller E. Rockey's
fiftli marine division gained 200
to 400 yards in compressing the
main enemy pocket at the rocky
northern tip of Iwo yesterday.
Sets Tokyo Afire
.k.
Brig. -Gen. Thomas Power, above,
commander of Guam-based B-29
raiders, headed a force of 300
bombers that set fire to 10
square miles of Tokyo. It was
largest group ever to raid Japan.
DEATH TOLL HINTED .
Guam, March 15 UP) Ameri
can marines have suffered less
than 4,000 death casualties In
the bloody . 25 day campaign
which has ended in the tactical
capture of Iwo .lima, Vice Ad
miral Richmond .Kelly Turner
Indicated today In a battlefront
Interview.
Revised Old Age
Bill Is Now Law
Salem, Ore., March 15 (IP
Gov. Earl Snell today signed the
Harvey bill (HB 52) which elimi
nates the $40 "ceiling" on old age
pensions.
The bill emerged as a compro
mise of many legislative pension
plans. It permits old age relief
recipients to be helped on the
basis of need without regard to
the previous limit of S40 per
month.
Also included in the signed bill
are liberalized provisions lor con
tinuation of aid while receiving
hospital care, and burial benefits.
The Japanese were lighting to
the death from Jong-prepared de
lenses. Pocket Under Assault
A smaller pocket was under as
sault by Maj. Gen. Clifton' B.
Cates' fourth division on the east
coast. , , .
Pacific fleet headquarters, in
fixing the number of enemv dead
w-iwd iat.20t000 .through yester-,
day, emphasized that its estimate
was conservative and less than
the detailed estimates of front
line commanders.
The figure was based on the
number of Japanese bodies buried
and a "very careful" guess as to
the numbers sealed in the forti
fied caves which the enemy re
fused to surrender. On Mondav
alone, 115 such caves were sealed
with demolition charges.
Casualties Not Given
There has been no announce
ment of marine casualties since
March 3, when 2,050 Americans
were listed as dead. At that time,
the number of Japanese dead was
placed at 12,864.
borne American dead were
found to have been booby-trapped
by the Japanese.
tAn NBC broadcast from Guam
said unofficial information indi
cated American casualties on
Iwo would be "very high." An
NBC commentator in Washington
predicted they would total 17,000,
including 3,000 dead.)
Spanned
River
East of Berlin,
Nazis Report
Poles Ask Place
At Parley Table
London, March 15 IIP) 1rhe
Polish government - in - exile an
nounced today that it has filed a
vigorous protest with the United
States, Britain, and China against
its exclusion from the forthcom
ing United Nations security con
ference at San Francisco.
A Polish spokesman said a for
mal protest was filed with the
three powers on March 12, em
phatically insisting on the exiled
government's right to participate
in the San Francisco conference.
Exclusion of the London Po
lish group, the protest said, is
"the first disquieting case of the
application of the right of veto of
a great power which has been
made even before the United Na
tions have approved or accepted
the proposals concerning the in
ternational security organiza
tion." No Polish representatives,
either in Lublin or London, yet
have been invited to San Fran
cisco by the big four "inviting
powers" the United States, Bri
tain, Russia and China pending
formation of a representative co
alition government in liberated
Poland.
A seat at the conference table
was reserved, nowever, ior tne tanker and freight cars was
proposed coalition government 1 draped with bunting and bore a
provided it could be established five-star flag and American and
before the opening of the United Filipino flags. It bore also a large ing soviet bridgeheads on the west
Nations council on Anril In. Isitrn- "MapArlhui. cnnmal " n-tnU
Ma cArthur Train
Reaches Manila
Manila, March 15 (IB A new
diesel electric locomotive pulled
into the Manila station today on
the reopened 132 -mile railway
from Llngayen gulf.
In the cab rode Gen. Douglas
MacArthur.
He boarded the train, the first
to arrive in the capital on the re
opened line, at Caloocan, three
miles away.
At every crossroad along the
way Filipinos gathered, shouting
and cheering. Tho train of 16
Germans Say Russian!
Pouring Over Oder in
Great Attack Waves -
London, March 15 P The
German radio Indicated today
that the red army had a bridge
across the Oder 33 miles duo east
of Berlin, and men and arms were
pouring over it In "massive soviet
attack waves." ,
The nazls broadcast a Trans
ccean news agency, dispatch,
which said German artillery
scored eight direct hits on a
bridge near Lebus, Oder river
town 10 miles south of captured
Kuestrin..
Whether the bridge was a pon
toon span or a permanent struc
ture was not disclosed. That It
withstood at least seven direct
hits suggested the possibility of
its being some solid structure
which the Russians might have
seized in a coup similar to the
American capture of the Rema
gen bridge over the Rhine.
Rod Forces Strike
Transocean said the concen
trated bombardment dispersed
Russian concentrations "prepar
ing for action in the centers of
gravity" of the soviet offensive at
KI
speciively
of Kuestrin, eight miles south of
Kuestrin, and nine north ol
Frankfurt.
Between Frankfurt and Kues
trin, the nazis said, the Russians
were attacking repeatedly in as
sault waves. Thus Marshal Gre
orgy K. Zhukov appeared to have
fused his bridgeheads west of the
Oder for the big push against
Berlin.
Other German broadcasts ad
mitted that the Russians scored
deep penetrations in the defenses
of Danzig, Gdynia and Koenigs
berg. i
Danzig Stormed
Moscow said Marshal Konstan
tin K. Rokossovsky's Second
White Russian army was storm
ing the suburbs of Danzig and
Gdynia. A nazi military spokes
man conceded that tho Russians
had plunged wedges deep into the
German defense arc before the
two cities, but claimed that they
had not yet reached Gydnia
proper.
A mass onslaught by seven sov
iet armies broke into the German
defense front near Koenigsberg,
capital of East Prussia, a Berlin
broadcast said.
There was no further word on
the progress of the Russian col
umn which the Moscow newspa
per Pravda said yesterdav had
driven across the Oder river be
yond Kuestrin on the direct road
to Berlin, some 37 miles to the
west.
Nazis Give Version
Berlin said two soviet armies
from Marsha Gregory K. Zhu
kov's First White Russian group
were fighting for high ground
west of the Oder between Kues
trin and Frankfurt, 18 miles to
tho south. Gorman artillery on the
contested hills has been pound-
FDR Confers With San Francisco Delegates
President Roosevelt confers with members of American delegation to forthcoming San Francisco
world security conference in first of several meetings designed to unify the delegation of goals to be
sought in deliberation with other United Nations. Left to right: Rep. Sol Bloom; Virginia Glider
sleeve; Sen. Tom Connally; Secretary of State Edward Stettlnlus; Cmdr. Harold Stassen; Sen. Arthur
Vandenberg; and Rep. Charles A. Eaton. Former Secretary of State Cordell Hull, eighth member of
delegation, was unable to attend meeting because of Illness.
Nippons' Big Osaka Arsenal
Believed Hit By US. Bombs
Explosion Tosses Planes Thousands of Feet
ts5,-iKlsfai!ivM4-'PidzlK.--- Into. Sky;, Pilats Tell of Terrific Blasts ... ...
pectively three miles southwest!'" T' " ' f '' " " "'
iiunm, iviarcn 10 .iur.i a uuuuing ueneveu 10 nave ueen
the Osaka arsenal, one of Japan's biggest war plants, blew
up during Wednesday's fire raid in an explosion so violent
that it nearly wrecked two Superfortresses a mile and a half
overhead, it was announced today.
Definite proof of the explosion awaited clearing weather
that would permit reconnaissance photographs of the five-square-mile
area devastated in the 2,300-ton attack on Osaka.
The arsenal, well within the target area, covers 150 acres
and produces ftnti-aircraft guns, artillery, machine guns,
Peace Offer to Britain and America Made
By Adolf Hitler, States Swedish Newspaper
rifles, shell cases, bombs and
fuses. The plant also contains
a steel mill, chemical works
and a research laboratory.
The explosion sent two Su
perfortresses rocketing 3,000
to 4,000 feet into the sky with
in a few seconds.
Plane Tossed Skyward
"JoltiiV Josie," a Salpanbased
plane piloted by Maj. J. J. Catton
of (523 West 6th street) Los An
geles, was blown from 7,000 to
10,000 feet. Out of control, the
B-29 plunged back to 8,000 feet
before Catton was able to right
the ship and limp back to Saipan.
A Tinianbased plane piloted by
1st Lt. Stanley C. Block of Helena,
Mont., was blown from 7,000 to
11,000 feet, where it turned over,
made a slow roll and fell to 2,000
feet before being brought under
control. All of its rivets wore
sprung and the plane was dis
carded as unfit for further flying.
(A Tokyo Dome! dispatch said
the Tokyo and Osaka stock ox
changes were closed, presumably
because of the Superfortress raids
on the two cities.)
London, March 15 Ui The
Stockholm newspaper Svenska
Dag Bladet published a wholly un
confirmed report today that Adolf
Picture Shows
Bulletin Being
Read in Pacific
Describing It as his "favorite
position," Coxswain Helmar Wal
len, of the U. S. navy, stationed
in New Guinea, sent his mother,
Mrs. Fritz Wallen, 1037 East Fifth
street, a snapshot showing him in
nis bunk reading a copy of The
By the Stockholm Dag Bladet jrotain power "in order to avoid Bend Bulletin. Mrs. Wallen
re-
account, Hitler was persuaded to chaos" even if Germany
mnUo iha a. -,.,.. u.. i surrendering unconditionally
t,. ....... j -- ....
Hitler made a peace offer to .foreign minister Joachin Von Rib- tte eyJ'ffibrB n
.! h i. D" , ,f " ' a oramauc comer-j moving words the dangers of Ger- face, with The Bulletin held at
month and it was rejected. ence" at Berchteseaden. the najl ffian bolshevization." full width Iwfnrp him Prnmincni
leader's Bavarian retreat. I Three reliable non-military 1 also in the picture are Wallen's
Hitler wst rpnrowntoH 'Sources told a United Press war, feet, encased In socks. A netting
were.ceived the nhotoeranh todav.
The picture shows the Bend
sailor reclining In his bunk, a
broad and satisfied smile on his
Red Cross Goal
Seems Assured
juota-
$22,300
-Received to date Balance
. $18,550.76 . $8,740.24
Willi less than $4,000 yet to be
raised to complete Deschutes
county's American Red Cross
Fourth War Fund quota of $22,
300, campaign workers expressed
the belief today that the campaign
would be over by the end of the
week.
Employes of The Shevlin-Hixon
Company contributed largely to
the fund when they turned in
$2,253.75, It was revealed by Bruce
Gilbert, county drive chairman.
Workers at the Ninth Service com
mand ordnance shop also made a
sizeable donation when they gave
$163.60, according to GIHiert.
Residents of Redmond have do
nated a total of $2,481 to date, and
are still working, according to
reports from there.
Before the campain stuff closed
its headquarters in the Chamber
of commerce offices yesterday
they had received $2,720 for the
day, Mrs. Don Hlggins, chairman
of the Junior chamber auxiliary
In charge, reported.
Since the headquarters has been
closed, donors were asked to send
in any additional contributions to
iContlnucd on Page 6)
Cascades Snow
Depth Increases
Seventy-two inches of snow,
heaviest ,midaVchcoVer'af"re;
cent years, blanketed the Santiam
pass area today as a winter storm
continued to whip over the high
Cascades. Snow showers from
the mountain storm occasionally
visited Bend through the day,
but the flakes melted as they
touched the ground.
At Santiam summit, as well as
atop the Willumette highway. It
was reported "snowing hard,"
with a depth of 62 inches on the
Willamette summit.
The storm was reported lighter
along the Wapinitia route, where
a total depth of 54 inches was re
ported for the season. Four inches
of new snow had fallen on the
Willamette summit, but the Bend
headquarters of the state high
way department had no report
as to the amount of the fall in the
present storm.
Uniform Salaries
GrantedJudges
A British foreign office com
mentator said he had no infor
mation regarding the Stockholm
reports of a nazi peace gesture. 'agreeing to send a high official
The Dagbladet dispatch was of the German foreign office
wnuen oy Arvia jreaoorg, me unld tm d , h dis tcht weeks.
ent in Berlin. He said a nazi i Stockholm
emissary made contact with
Kalem, Ore., March 15 (ill A
bill granting uniform salaries for
all the circuit Judges of the state
passed the house today.
The bill (SB 186) calls for $6,000
for each circuit Judge within the
i correspondent at British 21st which screens the picture is proof slate, wiin ine exception in v,iatK
aiiny gruup neaoquaners mat
pefice was possible within six
Bend Boy Patrols
French Community
Pfc. Walter J. Connolly, Jr.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Con
nolly, 1415 West Ninth street, has
been transferred from England to
France where he is In charge of
a unit patroling a French town,
according to word received today
by his parents and sister, Mrs. R.
A. Rcinhart, 1051 Federal street.
Walter, who went overseas In
June, 1944, is attached to the 53rd
troop carrier wing.
HOAX IS ADMITTED
Chicago, March 15 di'i Fled
Walcher, the 44-year-old tavern
porler who police believe planned
his own crucifixion, admitted it today.
Germans Hint
All-Out Drive
Is Under Way
Berlin Reports Main
Highway Reached; U. S.
Sources Are All Silent
Paris, March 15 (ID Five
American armies were reported
storming the Rhine and Saar
basin defenses of Germany today
in a coordinated offensive along
a 200-mile front from Duisburg
to the Karlsruhe corner of Alsace.
A flood of German reports and
Allied front dispatches indicated
that a general offensive to crush
the nazi armies in the west Is in
full swing along the entire south
ern half of the western front.
Officially it was disclosed that
the U. S. third and seventh armies
were driving with armored and
infantry divisions Into the north
ern and southern corners of the
Saar basin.
To the north, the United States
first army struck eastward from
its Rhine bridgehead in a power
drive that may already have cut
the Rhine-Ruhr-Berlin superhigh
way and split the German front
east of the Rhine.
lioad Crossed, Say Nazis
Unconfirmed, nazi reports said
the Americans were astride the
highway which parallels the Rhine
frorfdlspatches," however, said
they were fighting from street to
street through Agidienberg, less
than a halfmile from the road
and 6 Mi miles northeast of Rema
gen. Rhondorf, on the river bank
6',ii miles north of Remagen, was
captured after a fierce battle.
Berlin said the newly-formed
U. S. 15th army had Joined in the
battle In the bridgehead east of
the Rhine and that perhaps 180,
000 American troops were moving
eastward in an all-out try for
a break-through into the Ruhr in
dustrial section.
The nazis also reported that the
American ninth army had gone
over to the offensive from its
springboards on the east bank of
the Rhine opposite the Ruhr.
crossing Keponea
-.- i ne i,erman iransocean news
1.aaU A , V. A
ninth army attempted to force a
crossing of the Rhine opposite
Duisburg but were "smashed" on
the river bank.
There was no Allied confirma
tion of the reported appearance
of the 15th army on the Rhine
bridgehead nor of the ninth
army's assault on Duisburg.
The Germans gave no immedi
ate indication as to the size of
the attacking force in the Duis
burg area, but the reference sug
gested that the thrust was made
in considerable strength.
Far to the south, the Germans
appeared to be getting ready to
abandon their arsenal cities in the
in,liiuttuil CJitnr hnuin tn PRpanp
envelopment between the seventh
army attacking along the south
ern rim of the Saar and the third
army sweeping down from the
north and northwest into the rear
of the Siegfried fortifications.
Two More Isles in Philippines
Seized as Yanks OpenChannel
Manila, March 15 H' U. S.
troops secured the southern ap
proaches to the main shipping
channel through the Philippines
today with the seizure of two
mote Islands southeast of Luzon.
Elements of the 24th division
captured the islands Romblon
and Simnra in the Sibuyan sea, I and sea bombardment. The vil
,east of Mindoto, in a surprising lages were Recodo on Caidera
tactical operation Sunday night ; point, eight miles west of Zambo.
overcoming the Japanese on those
Islands, the largest in the archi
pelago. Five more villager 'vere seized
by the Americans as they fanned
out from the Zamboanga city
area under the cover of an air
Military sources at the hrad-
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This emissary purportedly got IC " "1
"fnR"8,J and American circles" in; In touch with similarly unldrntl-lend appeared considerably closer
StocKhoim to advance Hitler's jfied American and British "rir. tha
Inrnrvtcal i nlac" in Cin.i.u.i . . t . . 1 ' ' "
!"" . . . ... . !-" ivi.njiuiiii. Liraiaci was. rtlcnard It. McMillan
BIRNS MAN RETt'RNED
Washington, March 15 dP The
name of 2nd Lt. George W. Eilers
of Burns, Ore., was among Ameri
can prisoners of war returned to Rumors of the move by Hitler ; said to have been
Allied control in thp Enronpan-1 coincided with a wave of ODtimism Swpriiuh icckianm
Mcaiterranean theaters, the war
department announced today.
Next of kin was listed as Theodore
of the oft-mentioned battle the amas ana Muunoman, wnere me
fighters have to wage against county is to provide an additional
mosquitoes. On the photo Helmar, 51,000.
wrote- I As explained by Rep. William
"Here's a snapshot of me in my Nlskanen, Bend, the uniformity
favorite position 'In the sock. ','s Jus fled because Judges o
J : small districts often are assigned
l to cases in large districts, and
THUKK MI.VKUS K1I.I.KI) i Rep. Burt Snyder, Lakeview, dis
Kcnllworth, Utah, March 15 'll'i played a three foot-long list of
G. Eilers, box 296, Burns.
vptf-ran
'n uniiea rress war correspondent TnrPe mjn,,rs w,.ro killed and cases which one judge heard out
u- in inn KfiinH i . . ... . .. ... . i .
over prospects for an early vie- The Dag Bladet said the envoy said ho h XrHe -h nn 0.'no.r ?.uLnc. .' ,'v.P,.st'r!!!u .. ' "S,fAS?,",?LT- ...
and some sectors of the western He ( was said to have insisted "one big hit" would collapse the mine here late yesterday. Four "They are circuit riders again,"
- nwi iirui vjci limn resistance,
I escaped injury.
I Snyder said.
against light opposition, a com
munique said.
The small Japanese garrison on
Romblon, midway between Tab
las and Slbuynn Island, put up
several brief skirmishes near Hie
town of Romblon but was quick
ly destroyed.
Romblon and Simara were the
22nd and 23rd islands In the
Philippines invaded by V. S.
troops of Gen. Douglas MacAr
thur's southwest Pacific forces.
All but two Luzon id Minda
nao were under complete con
trol, but American regulars and
Filipino guerillas were rapidly
anga, Mercedes, five miles north
east of the city, and Masilay, Har
low and Tumaga to the north.
Elrht Japanese gun batteries
In the hills behind Zambnanga
were silenced by Mitchell medium
bombers and American warships
off shore, while several small en-
I emy craft were sunk by P-T boats.
ITokyo radio recorded by Unit
ed Press in San Francisco said
three allied battleships, three
cruisers, six destroyers and 10
transports off Zamboanga were
"directing their bombardment
against the Japanese positions"
on Mindanao.