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CENTRAL ORGjON'S DAIJ-Y NEWSPAPER
Volume LIU
THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1945
NO. 93
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Soviets
Armies
Germans Hint
Final Struggle
Is in Progress
Capital of Reich Now '
Goal, Asserts Enemy;
Moscow Is Still Silent
London, March 24 (IP) Nazi
broadcasts said at least 90,000 red
army troops, already six miles be
yond the Oder river, were storm
' ing German defenses 32 miles east
of Berlin today In what may be
the first stages of the climactic
battle for the capital.
Six Soviet rifle divisions, sup
ported by 100 or more tanks,
cracked through the Oder river
line opposite Kuesfrin and smash
ed down the shortest road to Ber
lin as far as Golzow, 32 miles from
the capital, before being halted
yesterday, German broadcasts ad
mitted. The Germans said a "ding
dong" battle was raging in the
outskirts of Golzow.
Other German broadcasts said
Soviet pressure was' increasing
all along the Oder front between
Kuestrin and Frankfurt, 16 miles
to the south.
Attacks Are Fierce
ing Klessin, 33 miles east of
Berlin and nine miles south of
Kuestrin, fiercely "from all sides"
for nine days, the Germans said.
The reference to "all sides" indi
cated the fortress town two miles
west of the Oder may have been
surrounded.
While Moscow did not immedi
ately confirm the thrust, both
Russian and nazi dispatches for
the past few weeks have reported
preparations for a resumption of
the Soviet march on Berlin almost
complete.
Allied observers have speculat
ed that the Russians would strike
toward Berlin simultaneously
with an allied smash across the
Rhine in the west in coordinated
win-the-war offensives.
Berlin Releases News
Berlin said crack units of Mar
shal Gregory K. Zhukov's First
White Russian army launched
their attack yesterday from Oder
' miles southwest of Kuestrin, and
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Bomb Nip Palace,
Urges Dr. Steiner
Seattle, March 24 OP) A rain of
bombs on the Japanese imperial
palace in Tokyo was urged yester
day by Dr. Jesse Steiner, former
resident of Japan.
Steiner, now executive officer
of the University of Washington
sociology department and who
spent seven years as a teacher in
Japan, said sparing of the shrine
now is "unrealistic and absurd."
"Bombing the palace and hit
ting the old gentleman himself
wouldn't be sacrilegious In any
sense," he said. "The Jap govern
ment itself has claimed for years
lhat the official shrine of Shinto
is not religious and that Shlntoism
is not a religion."
Steiner said the Japanese peo
ple would think their gods have
deserted them and the people
would "go to pieces."
"We overestimate their brave
ry," he said. "The time is ripe to
bomb the palace now."
Off? cial Envisions
Battles in China
Seattle, March 24 IP U. S.
naval installations around Seattle
were under scrutiny today of
Cmdr. Lin Sian-Kwan, Chinese as
sistant naval attache to the United
States, helping his country plan
for an enlarged postwar navy.
The officer, formerly personal
aide to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-
Shfk nrnrilntnH ihnt thn final hnf.
iVi" between Japan and the United
canons win be on Chinese soil.
"The Japs now have about
1,500,000 soldiers in China," he
Mid. "They must be beaten before
"pan is conquered. And the fight
ing will be In China."
Storm
Only
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Hundreds of white crosses dot the volcanic sand of Iwo Jima In this cemetery for the men of the Fifth Marina
Division who died in fighting to secure the Island. This is only a part of the toll American fighting men paid
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City wide Paper Pickup
Scheduled for Sunday
As news dispatches told of the crumbling German fronts
and the retirement of Japs closer to their homeland, residents
on the home front in Bend today prepared to intensify
their warfare against the foe by contributing much needed
salvage paper when the city-wide pickup takes place to
morrow. For the fourth time, a committee of the Bend Junior
chamber of commerce, prepared to sweep the city of old paper
and send it to processing plants where it will be made into
Chamber Opposes
Valley Authority
The Bend Chamber of com
merce, following the example of
the Deschutes county Sportsmen's
association, today was on record
as being opposed to two congres
sional measures which would set
up the Columbia Valley authority.
Previously the sportsmen's group
had adopted a resolution oppos
ing the bills on the grounds that
such an authority might affect
fish and wildlife in the Deschutes
country.
The chamber directors extended
their opposition, however, and in
letters to Senators Guy Cordon
and Wayne Morse, and to Rep.
Lowell Stockman, claimed that
passage of the bills might affect
state water rights, county road
programs and fish and wild life.
The letters, pointing out the
chamber's opposition to Senate
bill 460 and House resolution 18,
241 were addressed to the legisla
tors today.
Smoke Blanket
Front; Big Guns
By C. R. Cunnlmrham
(United Press War Correspondent)
Aboard Piper Cub over Ninth
Army Rhine Bridgehead, Mar. 24
(IP American troops streamed
across the Rhine this afternoon
like New York commuters head-!
ing for the Jersey ferries. I
The biggest hazard of flying
over our bridgehead is the con-,
cusslon of American artillery :
shells which fill the air and have
started huge fires in the positions i
which our troops are moving upl
to assault.
A blanket of smoke covered the
Rhine front as I flew over the
lines In the rear cockpit of a Piper1
Cub. piloted by staff Sgt. BoV
McConahey, Long Beach, Calif.
We winged up the Rhine from a j
point near Cologne. j
There was plenty of our own ,
artillery in action. The outgoing i
Defenses Alorig Oder;
32 Miles From Berlin
White Crosses Mark Price of
"various weapons for use
against the land of the Rising
Sun and the reich
Beginning at noon tomor
row, trucks will follow a des
ignated route in the city, pick
ing up wnat tne committee mem
bers hoped would be a car load
of paper. On last Jan. 14, the
Jaycees gathered 22 tons of sal
vage paper in Bend, and they
hoped that this amount would be
exceeded tomorrow.
Scouts To Aid
Under the leadership of Leo
Herbring, Boy Scout troop No. 24
will actively assist the junior
chamber men in gathering bun
dled paper, it was announced to
day. Numerous other scouts,
eager to aid the campaign, today
were asking for Instructions as to
how they might participate in to
morrow's war effort.
Don H i g g I n s and George
Thompson, co-chairmen in charge
of the salvage paper drive, said
that there is no designated meet
ing place for the other scouts, and
that they are expected to confine
their efforts to their own neigh
borhoods. The scouts who volun
teer their services were asked by
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Covers Rhine
Assist Yanks
shells rocked our little plane so
much that both of us felt a little
seasick.
So far as 1 was able to deter
mine the Germans were hardly
putting up any resistance. That
phase will come no doubt within
the next 24 to 48 hours.
American artillery battalions
are throwing everything they
have at the German rear. There
were fires in numerous towns and
villages and one big fire in a city.
The artillerymen seemed to be
making the Job a little easier for
the doughboys.
From the Piper Cub It was easy
to see that this was no Remagen
bridgehead. Here the crossings
were on a grand scale with men
and equipment on the scale of
D-day. It appeared that this was
the beginning of the end for Ger
many. I
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County Attains
Red Cross Goal
Campaign workers who for 24
days have been waging the Des
chutes county drive for the Amer
ican Red Cross fourth war fund,
today triumphantly announced
that it was "over the top," and
that the county's quota of $22,300
had been exceeded by nearly $300.
When figures were checked at
the Red Cross offices in the Bank
of Bend building this morning, it
was shown that a total of $22,
599.80 had been collected. ,
. This makes Deschutes county
the 16th one of the state to report
it had reached Its goal, according
to a United Press report from
fortiana state headquarters.
Returns Surveyed
A survey of returns, according
to Bruce Gilbert, county campaign
chairman, showed that the resi
dential district of Bend subscribed
almost as much as the city's busi
ness firms. Breakdown of dona
tions follows:
Bend business district, $6,422.75;
residential area, $6,282.71; Brooks
Scanlon Lumber Company Inc.
employes, $2,215; The Shevlln-Hlx-on
Company employes, $2,253.75;
Ninth service command ordnance
shop, $463.60; rural districts,
$474.33; Redmond. $3,552.71; Sis
ters, $769.75, and Laplne, $165.
One of the last donations came
from the United Air Lines,
through John H. Standlsh, district
traffic manager. The company
gave a check for $50 to Loyde S.
Blakley, city commissioner, who
in turn presented it to Chairman
Gilbert.
Loss of Ration
Books Reported
Pprsnns whn Inca thai fnt(Anp
brinks fano a Hnlat rf at- innr.- on
- vi a. l u.a.Ti itj
days In getting replacements, Har-
oiti (j. marine, cnairman of the lo
cal war price and ration board
renorted tnrfnv. In nt-inrr tuni
holders of these OPA books take
every precaution to safeguard
mi?rn.
Mank books have been lost In
Bend and vicinity recently, board
members report, and, they add, It
appears to be the belief of the pub
lic that these books can be imme
diately replaced.
At prpsent, these books are
more valuable than money, OPA
officials warn, and they ask that
the ration books be given the
same protection as money."
REDS TAKE NEISSE
London, March 24 IP Marshal
Ivan S. Konev's First Ukrainian
army today captured the south
Silesian strongholds of Neisse and
Leobschuetz, opening up the bor
der area of Czechoslovakia.
Big Foe Naval
Base, Okinawa
Under Attack
Carrier Planes Launch
Blow at Citadel Only
300 Miles From Japan
By Frank Tremalne
. (United PreM War Correspondent) .
Guam, March 24 (IB Tokyo re
ported that hundreds of American
carrier planes attacked Okinawa
island, enemy naval and air base
300 miles southwest of Japan, last
evening and today.
Some 230 planes opened the as
sault late yesterday and other for
mations carried it into a sucond
day with raids still continuing
after eight hours today, Japanese
broadcasts said.
Miyako island, 180 miles south
west of Okinawa and only 210
miles northeast of Formosa, also
was under attack today, Tokyo
said.
The planes presumably came
from the Fifth fleet with Vice
Admiral Marc A. Mitcher's force
of a dozen or more carriers fresh
from wrecking at least 731 Japa
nese planes and damaging 17 war
ships In attacks on Kyushu and
Japan's inland sea Sunday and
Monday and In air battle to the
south Tuesday and Wednesday.
"New" Force Sighted
Tokyo, apparently seeking to
justify the new raids in the light
of earlier claims that Japanese
planes had broken up the fleet
with the sinking of 11 warships,
said Okinawa and Miyako were
being attacked by a "new enemy
task force."
The new force, with two or
three aircraft carriers as its nu
cleus, appeared off Okinawa yes
terday, Tokyo said. Earlier Tokyo
broadcasts had reported Mitcher's
force approaching the waters east
of Okinawa Wednesday night,
however.
Today's raids began at 7 a. m.
(Tokyo time), Japanese broad
casts said, and still were continu
ing at 3 p. m.
Important Link
Okinawa lies midway between
Japan proper and Formosa in the
Ryukyu island chain and is an Im
portant link In the belt of air and
sea bases protecting the southern
approaches to the enemy home
land. The task force which struck at
the inland sea earlier this week,
Tokyo insisted, was "reported In
flight" near Fork gulf, 600 miles
east of Formosa, "with the great
er part" of its carrier units smash
ed by the Japanese attackers.
Capt. Etsuzo Kuihara, chief of
the Japanese navy's press section,
boasted in a Tokyo broadcast that
if the American task force again
should appear off Japan, "we'll
deal them another crushing
blow."
Near Zero Chill
Grips High Passes
Near zero weather prevailed on
lofty Cascade passes last night,
the Bend headquarters of the
state highway department report
ed today. New snow fell on the
high divides, but all highways re
mained open to travel.
A report from the Santlam sum
mit said that it was two above
zero this morning, and that the
total snow depth was 91 inches.
On the Willamette highway a
depth of 73 inches of snow was
reported.
Packed snow was on both high
ways and maintenance men ad
vised cantious driving and the
use of chains on automobiles
crossing the lofty passes over the
weekend.
Low temperature in Bond early
today was 17 degrees above zero,
with warmer weather and pos
sible rain being forecast for the
weekend.
NAZI CHIEF CAPTL'RED
With British Second Army In
Germany, March 24 UP) - The Ger
man garlson commander at Wesel
was captured by British troops to
day and a Major General Deetsch,
commander of nazl antiaircraft
forces in the area was killed.
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With 21st Army Group, Mar.
24 (Ui Heavy fighting; was go
ing on this evening In the
Wesel-Dees area along the east
bank of the Rhine. The British
second army took more than
1,500 prisoners.
Guam, Sunday, March 25 (IP)
Approximately 225 superfort
resses dumped hundreds of tons
of demolition bombs on Nagoya
today In an attempt to knock
out Japan's Mitsubishi aircraft
industry.
London, March 24 111) Radio
Berlin said tonight that allied
airborne landings occurred this
.morning at Bocholt, ten miles
east of the Rhine and an equal
distance northeast of Rees.
Cisllch, East Bank of Rhine,
March 24 P Scottish troops
linked up with American air
borne forces around noon to
day, some two hours after the
first paratroopers landed.
Sailors Join
U. S. Soldiers
In Rhine Fight
- By Clinton B. Conger
(United Press War Correspondent)
With United States Navy oni the
Rhine, March 24 (IP) Bereft of
their mother ships and fostered
by tank retrievers, amphibious
forces of the United States navy
today are fighting on the Rhlnsjj Dff two' German-counterattacks against the Remagen
after five cock-eyed months of
army life ashore.
The navy task unit, attached to
the American Ninth army, con
sists of officers and men running
LCM's and LCVP's which were
dragged on trailers over damaged
roads and through narrow village
streets for the operation.
The men had been waiting pa
tiently since October. They were
mainly veterans of D-day in Nor
mandy who volunteered for this
particular Job.
Uniforms Barred
Since the members of the unit
assembled in England in October,
they have been forbidden to wear
their navy uniforms or to mark
their vehicles with "USN." They
had to paint their boats an olive
drab instead of regulation battle
ship gray. They were even forced
to Jettison the navy's traditional
ship rule, drawing the army
ration instead.
But the boatswain's mate, sit
ting In the command post on the
bridge still tells callers "the
skipper's Just come aboard sir"
or passes along word for his
steward to "secure galley" (quit
making coffee).
Sklp'iered Fleet
The skipper is Lt. Cmdr. Wil
lard T. Patrick of Ark, N. J., who
led a squadron of infantry land
ing craft onto the beaches in the
first blazing hours of Normandy.
He skippereo) a fleet minesweeper
off Panama for two and one-half
years before Joining the amphibi
ous forces.
"I don't think they like It par
ticularly," Patrick said of his
brown-clad navy. "They've learned
that army living Is damned un
comfortable and they've gotten an
inkling Just an inkling of what
the riflemen are going through
up forward. v
"Even way back here the quar
ters we get can't compare to navy
accommodations. Army food Just
Isn't navy food."
Japanese Forces Flee Into West Luzon Hills
As Yanks Thrust Toward Stronghold ofBaguio
Manila, March 24 1P Japanese
troops were reported fleeing into
the western Luzon hills today be
fore American 33rd division forc
es which overran Naguillan and
its airfield and thrust to less than
10 miles from the enemy strong
hold of Bagulo.
Naguillan, whlrh had a pre-war
population of 15.000, was taken
against only minor resistance. Its
airfield provided another base for
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's bomb
ers which sank or damaged 11
more Japanese ships, including
two destroyers and a minesweep
er, in new attacks through the
China sea.
The Japanese had blown up the
250-vard bridge across the Na
guillan river and the American
troops were forced to wade across
the river to reach the town.
Break Foe Lines
Yanks, British and Canucks Strike Sudden
Blow on 40 Mile Front; Massive Forces
Smash Eastward Toward Blazing Westphal
Paris, March 24 (U.E) Four allied land and airborne
armies swept across the Rhine on a broad front north of the
Ruhr today and won a bridgehead more than three miles deep
on the rim of the northwest German plain stretching east of
Berlin. , 1 v ' , . ' ' .
Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's engineers at once
began bridging the Rhine in a bid to establish a solid passage
over Germany's breached western barrier for a win-the-war
push into the heart of the reich. 'r .
Field dispatches this evening said the U. S. Ninth army
was driving east against light to moderate resistance, it con
sisted mostly of small arms fire, with forward elements run
ning into growing artillery shelling.
FRONT FALLING APART
(11; United Press)
The whole Rhlneland front before Inner Germany Is ap
parently falling apart, allied headquarters announced tonight.
Airborne and land armies have Joined forces east of the Rhine
and are plunging Into the plains of northwest Germany.
Commandos Aid
An unofllcial dispatch said Scottish commandos linked up
with troops of the allied first airborne army. In the biggest
single descent of the war, they had showered down on and
behind the Germans positions while the' land forces broke
over the Rhine. , ,
Dispatches reported heavy fighting along the Rees-wesel
stretch of the Rhine where the new bridgehead was bulging
inland through a number of German towns and villages.
Bridgehead Held . .
In the Mainz-Worms area at the other end of the Rhine
front, Lt. Gen. George S- Patton's Third army was revealed to
hold a bridgehead four miles deep across the Rhine. Patton'a
forces sprang the amphibious operation on the stunned Ger
mans last night, and bad a foothold over the Rhine before
the nazis knew what was happening. '
TVio TT !S rinf ovmn of fVm renter nf tllA RVlirlft front
bridgehead. Suddenly resurgent resistance in some sectors
was described officially as "very heavy." Yesterday it was
reported virtually non-existent at some points around the
bridgehead.
Infantry Advances
U. S. infantry advanced eastward 200. yards at the south
end of the Remagen bridgehead today for a total gain of
4,000 yards in the past 24 hours against light resistance.
Today's operations boosted to six the number of allied ;
armies having footholds eaHt of the Rhine. They were the
U. S. Third, First and Ninth, the British Second, the Cana
dian First and the allied First airborne.
A Third army front report said the Americans were push
ing on against light opposition. Elements of the 12th corps,
including armor, had crossed the Rhine, and one bridge
thrown over by the engineers was in operation.
Four Towns Taken
Four towns had been captured in the new bridgehead- By
10 p.m. Friday "hundreds" of troops .already were over the
river.
The broad Rhine barrier was breached at four or more
points along a front of perhaps 40 miles extending south from
the Rees-VVesel sector to Duesseldorf in the Ruhr basin. ,
MasRive armored and infantry forces of the American
Ninth, British Second, and Canadian First army were smash
ing eastward across the burning Wcstphalian plain against
amazingly weak opposition.
Veteran amphibious assault teams of the United States
navy were working side by side with the ground troops, man
ning hundreds of big invasion craft massed secretly behind
the Rhine for the spectacular crossing.
Germans Stunned
Twenty hours after the first British shock troops plunged
across the river into Wesel the stunned Germans had failed
to mount a single major counterattack.
Their boasted battle screen along the east bank of the
Rhine was shattered beyond repair, and a decisive allied
break-through that could knock Germany out of the war ap
peared a definite possibility.
Headquarters spokesmen said the Germans' main reserves
had not yet joined the battle and it was indicated that the
tremendous allied aerial bombardment of the past three days
had crippled the enemy's main communications lines.
Almost 40,000 veteran American and British sky troopers
were reported running riot through the German rear, slashing
communications, knocking out gun positions and clearing the
way for a lightning armored sweep into the German heartland.
A rolling artillery barrage blast
ed a path for the advancing
troops and they met little opposi
tion in pushing Into Naguillan
Wednesday. One heavy artillery
shell scored a direct hit on a Japa
nese ammunition dump, causing
an explosion that rocked the earth
for several miles.
(Tokyo radio said the Ameri
cans had concentrated four divi
sions In the mountainous area
south of Bnlete puss, and were
biilldlng n road "indicating their
Intentions of penetrating Into Ca
guyan valley."
(The broadcast declared the
Japanese counterattacks which
MacArthur said had been repuls
ed with heavy losses had been
"carried out by only a handful of
soldiers.")
A front report said the Japa
nese around Naguillan were flee
ing into the hills before riflemen
under the command of Lt. Col.
Arthur Collins, Boston, Mass.
The thrust carried the 33rd di
vision to less than 10 miles from
Bagulo, former Philippines sum
mer capital and headquarters for
Japanese forces In the Philippines.
There were no further reports of
another American column which
last was revealed only six miles
south of the city.
Bitter fighting continued in
north-central Luzon, where Amer
ican troops were closing a two
way drive on Balete pass, escape
route into the Cagayan valley.
Four sharp counter-attacks were
repulsed by the Yanks as they
moved within four miles north
and south of the pass.