O Check Your Tires From the day the Japi attacked Pearl Harbor, tiret have been a valuable spot in U. S. armor. Be sure to check yours. THE BEND B Volume Llll CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER IfflaftON Weather Forecast , Rain today ana tonight with now In mountains.. Partly cloudy with scattered showers Friday. Cooler today. 0 Konev's Forces Break German Silesian Lines At Least 1 5,000 Foe , Caught in New Trap; . Many Towns Captured London, March 22 ilPi Marshal Ivan S. Konev's army has broken throueh south and west of Oppeln in southern Silesia, advancing 25 miles and trapping at least 15,000 Germans in a sweeping new offen sive that overran more than 400 German towns. Marshal Stalin announced to night that Konev's First Ukraini an army joined forces in a two way drive that toppled most of the defense strongholds in the southern end of Silesia. Neustadt, Cosel, Flakenberg, Suelz, Oberglogau, Steinau, Krap- pitz, and scores of other key towns fell to Konev s forces se curing the extreme left wing of the Berlin front for the brewing push against the German capital. Troops Routed A special order of the day by Stalin said the junction of Konev's two columns in drives south and frest of Oppeln surrounded and routed a formidable force of Ger man troops. "Troops of the first Ukranian front, having broken the enemy's defenses west and south of Op peln, advanced 25 miles in each direction," Stalin reported. "Hav ing linked up in the area of Neu stadt they encircled and routed the German army grouping in the area southwest of Oppeln." Along with the 15,000 Germans, the Soviets captured 464 field guns and great quantities of other war materials. Many Towns Seized The list of captured towns read like a roll call of the major in dustrial centers in the Oder val ley south of the upper or south ern Silesia capital of Oppeln. The Moscow announcement clarified nazi radio reports of the last lew days giving, accounts of loiem, ugnung in uie-ypper Oder illey. A German military com mentator had admitted that the converging drives threatened to trap the German defenders of the area. TWO SECTIONS THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1945 Nazis Told They Face Starvation London, March 22 tu?) . A spokesman for. the ministry of economic warfare said today that only immediate surrender to the allies can save the Geaman peo ple from starvation in 1946. This statement, made to the United Press, followed an admis sion over the Berlin radio by reich agricultural minister Dr. Jo sef Stock that plans for feeding Jfl V German people had collapsed Tif 4 the result of allied advances md the arrival of refugee hordes. The British spokesman said that Cermany, never self-sufficient, had bankrupted its agriculture to aid total war. Unless immediate steps are taken to rebuild food production "not even a kindlv en emy can save them," he said. "The allies cannot feed them," he said. "The world food shortage Is such that we will have all we ran do to feed liberated areas. The only thing for Germany to do is to stop fighting and look after her agriculture. "They cannot longer continue to use nitrogen for explosives and not for fertilizer, nor take work s's off the land and make Volks sturm troops of them." U.S.S. Midway, World's Biggest Carrier, Christened 2k. KfgSv V&v -Rti NO. 91 (NEA Telephoto) Tne u. s. 8. Midway, 45,000-ton-super-carrier, and largest warship ever built, Is christened at Newport News, From Its decks will fly a brand new kind of warplane designed to give the enemy a brand new kind of trouble. It Is estimated the ship Is 1000 feet long, will haw a great oruising speed than any existing carrier, and will house about 3000 officers and men. Its flight deck Is designed to handle with ease two-engine planes -.' bigger Ulan the B-25 Mitchell bomber. , EGG PRICES DROP Washingon, March 22 ilPi A seasonal drop in egg prices sent the cost of living down two tenths jjlone per cent in the month end- -, r vu. io, it was reporiea toaay. LaGuardia Loser In Curfew Fight New York, March ,22 HB New York's night entertainment spots rejoined the rest of the nation to day in observance of the federal midnight curfew as Mayor Fiorel lo LaGuardia prepared a post mortem over his short-lived one- hour curfew extension. LaGuardia said he would ex plain in a nationwide radio broad cast (Blue network) at 4 p.m. I (PWT) today why the curfew was unfair to New York, center of the nation's night life industry. LaGuardia said his address would be designed for' those out' side New York and would contain little news for citizens of his own city. He scheduled the broadcast, however, before entertainment leaders decided at a meeting last night to respect the midnight cur few set by War Mobilization Di rector James F. Byrnes rather than the 1 a.m. closing set by La Guardia. Hearing Sought The nightclub, theater, cafe and saloon owners did not desert La Guardia, however. They said they would ask for a hearing in Wash ington on the wisdom of a mid night curfew for the city. The decision to ignore the one hour extension followed an army navy crackdown on after - mid night drinking and entertainment by all military personnel. The two services ordered full and immedi ate observance of the original cur few request of War Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes. The gist of the owners' decision was that if they couldn't serve service men during the extra hour they wouldn't serve civilians. Navy Plane Crash Claims Two Lives Seattle, March 22 (in A navy bombing plane crashed near the Astoria, Ore., naval air -station yesterday, killing its two occu pants, the 13th-naval district an nounced today. The victims were Chief Avia tion Pilot Stanley A. Thompson, 26, nephew of Everett H. Ringer, Dorchester, Mass.; and Herbert A. Lynn, AMM 1c, 22, of Se bring Fla., whose wife, Seaman Charlotte E. Lynn of the waves, is on duty at the naval hospital, Treasure Island, Calif. The . plane, based at Astoria, went into a spin at 5,000 feet and crashed in a heavily wooded area seven miles southeast of the sta tion. . Panay Island Falls to Yanks; Planes.Pound Nippon Vessels About 70 Per Cent of lloilo Burned, Blasted By Japanese, But Dock Facilities Undamaged Manila, March 22 (U.E) American troops and Filipino guerillas tracked down scattered Japanese remnants on Panay today after crushing the last organized resistance with the capture of lloilo, capital of the island. Virtual completion of the Panay campaign came as Ameri can, bombers from the Philippines stepped up their aerial of fensive to pound the Japanese shipping resources from the eastern Philippines to the coast of China. Thirteen Japanese vessels, including five small warships, were destroyed or damaged in the widespread attacks car ried out by almost -every type of aircraft, frorhwfighter9 to heavy Liberator bombers. Japs Overwhelmed The rapid campaign on Panay, sixth largest of the Philippines, overwhelmed the main Japanese forces in 52 hours and left only small scattered pockets to be Subsidy on Cattle Wjll Be Increased Washington, March 22 tlP) The government today sought to U.S. 5th Fleet Reported Near Okinawa Isles Japs Gives Version of Pacific Action, Warn New Blows Are Probable By Frank Tremaine (Unitul Pre Wr Correapomlcnt) Guam, March 22 The Fifth fleet today was reported ap proaching the Okinawa islands, 300 miles southwest of Japan, pos sibly for new blows at Japan's waning sea ana air power. (A Tokyo broadcast said 120 American Superfortresses, Liber ator bombers and Lightning fight ers raided Japanese-held Hainan island off the south China coast yesterday. The broadcast, record ed by the FCC, said the Japanese garrison caused "considerable damage" to the planes.) Pacific fleet headquarters has screened the fleet's actiivties with a security blackout since its planes crippled 17 enemy war ships and wrecked 600 aircraft in Japan's inland sea Sunday and Monday. Task Force 'Flees But Radio Tokyo said the task force with its dozen or more car riers last night was "fleeing at full speed" southward toward waters east of the Okinawa is lands, site of an' important naval base and several airfields midway between Japan and Formosa. With Japan's inland sea naval bases still smouldering from Sun day and Monday's attacks, Oki nawa might offer a tempting tar get to Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher's fast carriers and their escort of battleships and other warships under Admiral Ray mond A. Spruance. ' The naval base is situated on Okinawa, largest island in the group of the same name,about midway In the Ryukyu chain run ning southwest from Kyushu, southernmost of the main Japa nese islands. - j l.. Okinawa Bombed UKinawa nas -been-oomijed on several occasions by carrier-borne pianes ana also nas Deen attacked by land-based bombers from Gen. Douglas MacArthur s command The battered Japanese rrnl7 ; r, . alleviate the meat shortage by in mopped up by the American Lrmsin the shvMv o;H,B slaughterers. The Increase would troops and the Filipino guerillas, The last organized resistance was broken when Maj. Gen. Rapp Brush's veteran forces stormed into lloilo under a cover of low flying Mitchell medium bombers. Approximately 70 per cent of the capital city was burned 6r blasted by the Japanese, although the docks and fine anchorage fa cilities were found undamaged. Hollo's harbor, fronting on the lloilo river and the strait, is one of the best in the central Philip pines. The river, which bisects the city, can accommodate ocean-going vessels two miles inland. hod Available for Civilians Due to Take New Drop Soon Washington, March 22 (IB The amount of food available to Amer ican civilians is due to take an ther drop in the next three Ninths, it was revealed today. 'The supply for fighting men, Bowever, will go up while alloca tions for foreign relief and similar Wrposes undergo a slight reduc- War food administration offi P gave this picture of the al "Xation of the total American supply during April, May and American civilians "3 per cent ? the total store rnmnared with f n recent months. . u- armed forces 17 per cent, "Spared with 14 per cent for first quarter of 1945 and about u Per cent before that. ad-lease eight per cent. , united Nations relief and re- ation administration, Red Mental Outlook Good, Situation Bad, Says Koiso (By United Pre,) Premier Kunlaki Koiso of Ja pan told the diet's house of rep resentative Thursday that, In ef fect, nothing succeeds like failure. Tokyo radio, in a broadcast re corded by United Press at San Francisco quoted Koiso as saying: "The mental outlook of the en tire Japanese nation has changed from one of stalemate to bright optimism since the formation of my cabinet." Since Koiso took over from Premier Hideki Tojo last July, United States forces have recap tured the Philippines: success fully invaded Pcleliu in the Palaus and Iwo Jima in the Volcano is lands, only 750 miles from Tokyo; reduced Japan to a third-rate nav al power; sent B-29's and carrier planes over the coemy homeland. be up to 50 cents a hundred pounds. The plan was announced by Price . Administrator Chester Bowles before the senate banking committee. His disclosure came after he had spent two days be fore the committee defending his agency's meat price policies against heated criticism of pack ers and republican senators. The critics said packers were going broke. Subsidy Explained The additional subsidy would be based on the amounts paid by slaughterers for live cattle. It will be computed on the basis of the amount paid by the individual slaughterer In excess of the "floor" established for live cattle prices, and will reach the maxi mum of 50 cents a hundredweight when the slaughterer pays ceiling top permissible prices for cat tle. Spokesmen for meat slaughter ers and packers told the commit tee they are losing money under present OPA policies and regula tions on handling both beef and pork. Bowles said he thought the now subsidy "will put packers in a reasonably good position." Depth of Snow Still Increasing Salem, Ore., March 22 an. The maximum depth, of snow on the Cascade range will be reached on Cross and shipments to U. S. ter ritories two per cent. More than half of all lend-leased food goes to Great Britain, one- third to Russia and the rest to: or about April 1, R. H. Baldock about a dozen other friendly na-3tate highway engineer, said lo tions. The important role of day. American food in the United Na- The snow pack is deeper than tions war program is demonstrat- average this year, Baldock said, ed by the fact that food exports with the thickest blanket meas have expanded 10 times since thei ured at Weston-Elgin, where there pre-war period. are 108 inches. In the face of charges that the Other depths reported are: San administration is shipping too tiam 90 in.. Wapjnitia 64 in., Wil much food overseas for foreign' lamette 65 in., Sun mountain (The Mogok Captured By British Army Chungking, March 22 u The British 36th division has captured the communications center of Mo gok in central Burma, 65 air miles northeast of Mandalay, a com munique reported today. Mogok also is known as the ruby capital, of the world and had a pre-war population of 10,000. It is the most famous gem area in Burma. with rihe ruby and sapp hire mines. Before the war, more than 200, 000 carats of precious gems were produced annually in the area. ' relief, officials pointed out that L'NRRA during the next three months will share two per cent of the U. S. food supply with the Red Cross and U. S. territories. UNRRA director General Her- Dalles-California highway) 60 in., Siskiyou 9 in., Blue moun tains 36 .in. Jewish Nationals Pay for Murder Cairo, March 22 lf Eliahu Bet Tsouri, 18, and Eliahu Hakim, 23, Jewish nationals, were hanged to day for the assassination of ord Moyne, British president commis sioner of the middle east, in Cairo NYv. 6. They had said they killed Moyne !jnly Nips Evacuate Three Million From Capital (Br United hoi) The Domel (Japanese) news agency indicated Thursday that about 3.000,000 persons have been evacuated from Tokyo, which be fore the war was the world's third largest city with a population of approximately 7,000,000. The Domel dlspateh, recorded by the FCC, quoted Home Minis ter Shigeo Odachl as saying that the "heavy evacuation of victims of recent air raids have greatly expedited the depopulation of the Tokyo metropolis, in consequence of which Tokyo's population is now probably less than 4,000,000." Odachl was quoted as asserting he expected th depopulation "to be further intensified" and that the government has not yet "de termined the number of people Tokyo should retain." Thousands of Allied Planes Set Ruhr Aflame in Tactical Bombardment of West Front Berlin Fears Heavy Blows to be Prelude to Full-Scale Drive Across Rhine; Big Chemical Center Captured By Yanks; Blackout Imposed Paris, March 22 (U.E) Thousands of allied warplanes set the Ruhr and Dutch Rhineland aflame today with a great tactical bombardment that Berlin said was the prelude to an imminent full-scale drive across the Rhine. The U. S. First army east of the Rhine already was on the move northward against the southern flank of the Ruhr val ley. The Americans shoved the northern wall of their bridge head up against the Sieir river, 10 miles south of the Ruhr, and expanded their east bunk salient to a width of 81 miles. simultaneously, a front dis-f" Better Lighted City Proposed ToCommission How Bend can be madp "nno nf the best lighted cities in the coun try" at an additional cost of only $1,500 a year, was related to mem bers of the city commission at their meeting last nleht bv Wil. liam A. Lackaff, manager of the Pacific Power and Light company in Bend. Presentine n-.aDS ami figures, Lackuff explained that for the money he mentioned, the city could have three times the lights it now has, and with in creased lumens. Lackaff proposed a total of 330 lamps, or an Increase of 130, and the Installation of a light on every corner in what he called the con gested district. He particularity stressed the need for additional lights In the mills district, and along Riverside drive adjacent wrjMiKe parn. ". i ,- . Decorative lights were proposed by Lackaff along the park side ot Klverside drive. He said that such lights would cast their beams fleet, along the residential side of the further crippled by the damaging ; thoroughfare, as well as deep into ot 17 ot its warships in the in- tne parn. land -sea raids, would be power less to interfere even should It Could Not Change The present ornamental lights patch revealed that a partial security blackout had been clamped on the American Ninth, British Second and Ca nadian First armies deployed along the west bank of the Rhine from Nijmegen south ward almost to Cologno- Air Forces Active The full striking power of the allied air forces was being thrown inio me attacK on a scale not exceeded even in tlte Normandy bombardment that preceded the invasion of France last summer. Well over 2.000 American and British heavy bombers spearhead ed the assault, dumping a great weight of explosives on a chain of German military camps, airfields and communications centers in the Ruhr and along the east bank of the Rhine farther south. Simultaneously, the U. S. First and Ninth and the British Second tactical nlr forces normally about 4,000 planes struck all along the front from the Swiss border to the North sea, bombing and strafing German troop con centrations, gun positions, and road lines in the path of the poised a i nea armies. Berlin .littery Jittery Berlin propagandists said the allied armies of the west were expected to launch their "vic-J tory drive" across the Rhine "at any hour." They indicated the tre mendous allied air blows marked the opening phase of the ground assauir. Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's ram paging Third army ran into a Stalingrad - like defense at Lud wigshafen but swept into the Yanks Trap Nazis -At Mtf t V.S.1ST " Mn... j)C0,UNZ V ' Wiiiiiiu . V, V s , At -. Mni K.Iul.unjjyi-; f fXANCt U.M!wt5 Jf H1MM fi fl 10 30 M - h J want to with any new strikes on downtown streets should not!,own '" bitter righting and cap at the Ryukyus or Japan. be chaneed. Lackoff stated. He'turod the I. G. Farben works, the The Japanese air force, which 'added that the war production largest chemical plant in Ger lost 600 planes destroyed or dam-j board had recently rellxed its ml-lm?"y;, ., ,, aged in the inland sea raids alone, Ing, and that new lighting fix- f,'1'1;1 djf?n c 1Pa snld " 6-mllc also was far from the formidable tures for munlcioallties could 1 n."U of nrtlflclnl smoke blanketed now be obtained. ' ."'"J; !. "ern ,en.a 01 "T At a previous meeting Com- la"'""1 1 J ' I Behind the smoke screen Field -1 enemy lt once was. A Japanese propaganda broad cast claimed that a total of eight American ships had been sunk and four "heavily damaged." New Blow Expected "The enemy made a hurried re treat but few enemy ships es caped destructive Japanese air at tacks," Tokyo said, adding: "It must be expected the enemy will reorganize his force and at tempt a new plan of operations. To intercept and smash all future enemy plans of attacks immobile positions have been set up and full preparations made to trap the enemy at a moment of our choice." Admiral Chester W. Nimitz yes terday failed to confirm enemy reports of asserted damage to the American fleet. He said only one warship had been damaged seri- ouly enough to retire from action Sunday or Monday. No ships were i sunk, Nlmitz said. missionrr Melvln Munkres had called the attention of the com mission to the need of additional ugnung in ueiiu. inc uummiMiun , Klv(1 arm,.,i nri Infnntrv forces last night took the matter under of his Br,lsh Secondi cnndan advisement, and discussed the i (,-irK,. nnri AmpHBn N,nth Marshal Sir Bernard L. Mont gomery was deploying the mas- possibility of providing funds for additional lights in the next bud get. (Continued on Page 3) REPRESENTATIVE DIES Washington. March 22 IF Ron. James V. Heldlnger, R., 111., died today at the Good Samaritan host pltal at Phoenix, Ariz., it was an-' nounced In the house. Deadline Is Set For Gas Coupons Washington, March 22 HP) The office of price administration said today that B-5, C-5, E l and III gasoline coupons and all D coupons not serially numbered will not be good after March 31. Most of these types of coupons have been used up, OPA said, and it is desirable to remove from circulation the few remaining In hands of consumers. OPA announced that first quar ter l!H.r) T coupons also will ex pire on March 31. Service station operators will hnvc through April 10 to turn in their coupons. for what both sides agreed would be the decisive assault on the Rhine barrier. Hodges Moves North Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' U. S. First army already was on the move northward from Its sali ent east of the Rhine. It battered with tanks and Infantry against the narrow Sieg river barely 10 miles from the southern flank of the Ruhr. The' offensive was coordinated with a crippling air strike by more than 1,300 American heavy bomb ers and 700 fighters against a chain of German military encamp ments and air fields In and behind the Imperiled Ruhr basin. Simultaneously, the American Third and Seventh armies to the south clinched their most decisive victory of the war with the de struction of all but a handful of an estimated 80,000 to 100,000 Ger mans In the Saar-Palatinate. (NBA Ttkphoto) U. S. Third and Seventh armies tore into Germans retreating from Saar, and joined to trap thousands of nazis in pocket. Today's news revealed that the two armies "closed with a rush" against the last 30-odd miles of the Rhine's west bank held by the nazis near Karlsruhe. Final Blow Against Nazis on Western Front Looms; Yanks, Britains Mass Men, Equipment By Ilovd Iwls I Usually the closer one gets to 'few weeks has had what he has (UnlM I'ruu Wnr CorrwpomiMii) I the front the more conservative! never had since D-day good Shaef, Paris, March 22 ilP The'one becomes about the war's end. fighting weather, furv of the American assault on ! On a 10-day front tour from! Second Patton's a r m o re d the Sai.r merely is a foretaste of Montgomery's headriuarters to Lt. , break through upset all previous Impending operations and the! Gen. George S. Patton's meat-calculations and may have short- campaign now peing mounien, cnuppcr openiuunx m mi- j.ir ." " . "'. ' , , ,, I believe is one which will end the dominating feeling was one days and saved thousands of lives ,ho war. ' of optimism. when it comes to the final mop- It is no secret to the Germans: The generals had it. .v (IK) tnojuii. that this attack is coming. infantrymen wanning tne nigj imru am i.m . n v,u.,.,..., (The London Dally Express to- tank carriers moving equipment mdnpwi-i is w-m-vru w i; rtav hannererl! "Rhine: anv hour up to the Hhlne. une oi tnem own muni k.u.u.-. ,..-.- now." It minted German reports patted the butt of his carbine ly estimated. that'the Allied all-out offensive islagainst a tank carrier and said: the Gonnans may have no more about to s"irt) I "Brother, I wish we could Just than 31)0.000 men on the west Gen. Dwlrht D. Elsenhower al-;rllmb aboard that thing right now I front. That means that once the readv has warned the workers of and start getting It over witn." .nnra ctum .-,L i ?. V the Ruhr that their homeland is The man wnn inree siars on .o:m ...m .k.. ...... '""'' hnnt in hernme a battlefield. The his helmet wnose latiKS are eaiing . ......... . i.... ihinr, the f'.erm.-ins don't til) German divisions -v,enei,ii Cascades in Grip Of New Storm : Adding greater depth to the snow which mantles the summits of the Cascades, a heavy storm was reported raging along the crest today, as state highway maintenance crews again brought snow plows Into use. Both at the Santlam and Willamette highway passes lt was snowing haruywlth four Inches of new snow being recorded up to 9 a.m. on the Santl am, and an inch on the Willam ette. The south Santlam highway re mained closed, but maintenance men left for there shortly before noon to make a survey and deter mine whether It could be re opened. The north Santlam route was still open, with plows waging a continuous battle against snow drifts. Bend Gets Ruin Packed snow conditions pre vailed on the Willamette high way east of the summit where a total depth of 62 Inches of snow was reported. As It snowed in the higher re gions, sporadic rain showers vis ited Bend. The forecast was for continued snow in the mountains, with scattered showers billed for the Deschutes valley,, with colder temperatures. Churchill Names Envoys to Parley London, March 22 W Prime Minister Churchill announced in commons today that Lord Halifax, British ambassador to Washing ton, will be a member of the Brit ish delegation to the San Fran cisco conference. The other principal British dele gates will be Foreign Secretary Anthnrw Fden. Denlltv Prime It now is believed j Minister Clement R. Attlee, and Dominions Secretary Lord Cran borne. , I saw the assaults on Beveland because ne represented the gov- R"' is , nl ' flsn heca use attack on the Siegfried line last ANGLING BILL SIGNED ernment responsible for "bad con- start. on s I onm up J"" ' pecember and the first army's If, of anv other tackle hut ditinns" in Palestine. For several days the Germans this is written for family news- I w mW . and tni M army s bert H. Lehman said his agency's ! flies in Sparks lake is prohibited The Egyptian high militarv have been fishing for information papers But he is equally exprcs- oau.e , uu,'- umb allocation for the period would , In house bill 113, which today was court sentenced them to death on the Jump-off date with rumors sive on thesuhjt 'Tumkn big guns and vehTcles amount to 395,000 tons-or one signed by Gov. Earl Snell hVJan. 22. A five-judge jury con-! of Impending operations by field rhere arc three iuomgom-ias'm ..-- wr. ........... (---- - First Eisenhower in tne last ne 10 i-nu im- vai. pound for every 60 American civilians. saved fori Salem, according to a report from victed them Jan. 18 following an marshel Sir Bernard the state capital. eight-day trial. cry's twenty-first army group. U. S. Casualties Go Over 850,000 Washington, March 22 IP U. S. combat casualties officially com piled here reached 859,587 today, 19.998 more than a week ago. The total included 767,680 army and 91,907 navy, marine corps, and coast guard casualties. ,