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CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
Volume Llll
THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY; OREGON, MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1945
NO. 94
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Isles Close to Japan Proper
Invaded, Nip Radio Reports
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Tokyo Asserts
Kerama Group
Yanks' Target
Enemy Says Landings
Preceded By Heavy Fire
From Huge U. S. Flotilla
Guam. March 26 (Ul Tnkvn
if f said today that 2,000 American in
vasion troops were storming two
and perhaps three tiny Islands in
the Okinawa group in a major am
phibious leap toward Japan prop
er, only 380 miles to the northeast.
(A Tokyo broadcast, quoted by
BBC and recorded by CBS, said
the Americans "tried to get
ashore on Okinawa island," the
principal island in the group.)
Thirteen aircraft carriers, 11
battleships, 10 cruisers, 32 de
stroyers and other smaller craft
were supporting the invasion with
a terrific air and naval bombard
ment that began Friday, Japanese
broadcasts said.
Stiff Fight Reported
At 11 p. m. (Tokyo time), Tokyo
radio recorded by United Press,
San Francisco, said the Japanese
garrisons were putting up "fierce
resistance" to American "laiuUng
operations in the Kerama group,
which includes Tokoshika and
Aka.Thls Indicated possible beach
head fighting, and eliminated the
word "attempted."
In this broadcast Tokyo said
there were "four groups of enemy
task forces and many other war
craft" cruising off the Ryukyus.
Earlier Tokyo had said the Amer
ican task forces disappeared Mon
day morning after the Sunday
morning landing "attempt."
"Intercepting" Forces
Though not saying specifically
that the Americans had succeeded
in landing on Tokoshika and Aka,
Tokyo reported that "our garrison
units are now intercepting enemy
forces . . . which attempted a
landing."
Another broadcast said the gar
risons were offering "stiff resist-
f j a nee.
f j There was no official confirma
'A tion of the landinps availahle at
y 4 Pacific fleet headquarters, but one
f jfand possibly two task forces of
me racmc ueet were Known to De
In the Okinawa area.
Headquarters did confirm that
battleships, other warships and
carrier planes had bombarded
Kerama Retao which includes
Tokoshika, Aka and Zamami
along with Okinawa and other is
lands in the Ryukyu chain stretch
ing down from the southern tip of
Japan to Formosa on Friday and
Saturday.
Would Cut Distance
A landing in the Okinawa group
would put American ground forc
es nearly twice as close to the
Japanese homeland as the ma
rineson neawly-captured Iwo, 695
miles south of Japan. However,
Iwo lies only 750 miles south of
Tokyo, whereas Tokoshika is
nearly 1,000 miles away.
The Okinawa group also Is less
than 400 miles from the China
coast at a point south of Shang
hai. Tokoshika and the other islands
in the Kerama Retto appeared of
no importance themselves except
as bases from which to attack
Okinawa, site of a naval base 'and
important air installations mid
way between Kyushu, southern
most of the Japanese home is
lands, and Formosa.
Okinawa, largest island in the
group of the same name, is 67
miles long and has a maximum
width of 10 miles. Thickly-populated,
it has some 450,000 inhabi
tants, of which 66,000 are concen
trated In the Naha area of the
southwest coast, opposite Toko
shika. BULLETIN
Twelfth Army Group GHQ,
March 26 IIB Gen. Dwight D.
Kisenhow-er today conferred
"i ui i,t. en. umar nnuiiey or
y the I2(h army group. Let. Gen.
George S. Patton of the Third
-.. army and Lt. Gen. Court
ney M. Hodges in what was de
scrlhed as "a significant conference."
Japs Report Ryukyu Landings
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were storming several islands of the Okinawa group in the Ryukyu
chain, in a major amphibious leap toward Japan proper.
25 Tons of Paper Collected
In Jaycee and Scout Drive
Bend Provides Enough Salvage in One Day to
Fill Boxcar to Overflowing, Workers Report
Members of Bend's Junior
viewed with satistaction the salvage paper city-wide pickup
yesterday, which they reported met with success, with an
estimated 25 tons of paper gathered in the city.
Although a larger boxcar had been provided for the ship
ment of the paper to the processing plants, at least another
ton of paper was left over, according to Don Higgins and
George Thompson, co-chairmen of the salvage drives. The
car was reported to have had
a capacity of 50,000 pounds,
and it was packed full.
Since the Junior chamber
men assumed sponsorship of
the paper salvage work last Au
gust, they have collected approxi
mately 100 tons, they reported
today. Only once before was the
total tonnage exceeded, and that
was in the first pickup when 35'4
tons were collected.
Scouts Assist
Boy Scout Troop No. 24 as
sisted the Jaycees in yesterday's
pickup en masse, and other indi
vidual scouts played an important
role by carrying paper bundles
from the homes of donors to the
routes followed by the trucks.
Higgins and Thompson reported
that they encountered some dif
ficulty because contributors had
not securely tied their paper,
causing considerable delay in han
dling it and storeing it in the car.
Jaycees who worked in the pick
up were Higgins, Thompson,
Bruce Gilbert, Carroll Meeks, Joe
Van Wormer, Marion Cady, Wal
lace Guthrie, Harold Gentry, Vir
gil and William Lyons, Mark
Sanders, Richard Brandis, Frank
Prince, Jr., Don Connor and Wil
fred Jossy.
In-Plant Feeding
Plans Abandoned
Portland, Ore., March 26 IP -Plans
for installing in-plant feed
ing facilities in the three Kaiser
shipyards here, after being ap
proved by tne government Mar. 8.
have been abandoned, U. S. mari
time commission officials said to
day. The project would have cost
$1,100,000 for construction of
buildings and installation of equip
ment at Vancouver, Oregon ship
and Swan island yards. The facili
ties review board, a part of the
WPB, refused to grant the neces
sary materials, it was reported.
that American invasion troops
chamber of commerce today
Japs Are Licked,
Admiral Asserts .
Aboard Admiral Mitscher's
Flagship off Japan, March 20
(Delayed) (U?) The Japanese are
licked and they knew it, Vice Ad
miral Mac A. Mitscher said today.
His mighty task force had just
swung its latest blow at remnants
of the enemy's fleet and air force.
In a two day attack on Kyushu.
Shikoku and southwestern Hon
shu his carrier planes beat off the
heaviest Japanese counterattacks
In seven months and destroyed or
damaged 30 enemy ships and at
least 629 planes.
War Not Over
"The war may go on another
five years," Mitscher said. "But
the Japanese are licked and they
know it. Their navy is beaten and
their air force is very, very weak.
If they disappoint me a couple of
times more by their refusal to
fight, I might become sorry for
them."
The devastating attacks Sunday
and Monday by almost 1,150 bomb
ers, fighters and torpedo planes
had three major effects:
1. Decimation of the last large
concentrations of Japanese planes.
2. Checking of enemy attempts
to rebuild Its air forces through
the wrecking of aircraft supply,
repair and pilot training centers.
3. Rendering the fleet inoperat
able as a result of destruction and
damage to remaining capital
ships. .
GRASS FIRE PIT OIT
Bond city firemen last night
were called to the 1500 block on
Hill street, where a grass fire was
getting out of control. No dam
age resulted, the fire fighters reported.
Russian Army
Nears Vienna
In New Drive
Soviets Strike Within
35 Miles of Hungary; ,j
Million Reds on March ;
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By Robert Musel ,1
(United Praia Staff Corrcsiiondent) j
London, March 26 ilP Berlin
said today that the Russians havi
thrown a Third army group lntp
their Vienna-bound offensive, alv
ready within 35 miles of the. Ausi
trian border. '?
Ernest Von Hammer, Germarj
DNB commentator, said the new
force seized a bridgehead across
the Hron river near the Siovakian
Hungarian border some 96 miles
east of Vienna in an attack that
began at 4 a.m. Sunday.
The army group went over to
the attack north of the Danube
river while two other red arms
groups the Second and Third
Ukranlan were driving the Ger
mans back toward Austria in dl
order along a 90-mlle front south
of the river.
City Outflanked
Vanguards of the Third Ukrain
ian army already had outflanked
the western Hungarian fortress
city of Gyoer and were less thari
78 miles soutneast oi Vienna.
The new assault widened the of
fensive front to at least 130 miles
and put well over 1,000,000 Rus
sian troops on the march In a de
termined bid to thwart nazl "lans
for a last stand in the Bavarian
and 'Austrian Alps beyond Vlermir.'
Von Hammer acknowledged
that the Russians had forced the
Hron on a wide front In the new
attack north of the Danube river,
but asserted that apart from a
"narrow bridgehead" southwest
of Leva, they had been unable to
obtain a "firm foothold" on the
west bank. j
"The small bridgehead is ex
posed to heavy German artillery
fire and attacks," Von Hammer
said.
Lies On Border
Leva lies on the Hungarian
Siovakian border some 30 miles
up the Hron river from its con
fluence with the Danube. Forcing
of the Hron would open the way
for an attack on Komarom, 29
miles to the west, one of the main
strongholds on the trunk railway
from Budapest to Vienna.
Far to the north, the Russian
siege of Danzig and Gdynia, twin
German-held ports on the Baltic,
appeared to be entering its last
days.
Soviet forces captured suburbs
within a mile and a half north
west and two and a half south
and southwest of Danzig and
within a mile and a half south
west and two miles south of
Gdynia yesterday. They also wid
ened their wedge between the two
ports to seven miles.
800 Persons Die
When Fliers Err
London, March 26 IP More
than 800 persons were killed and
1,000 Injured In a mistaken bomb
ing of The Hague, Dutch capital,
by RAF planes March 3, it was re
vealed today.
The RAF planes were attempt
ing to attack rocket-launching i
sites but their bombs fell widej
oi rne marK and hit the heavily
populated civilian area.
Big Jap Hydro-Electric Plant on Formosa
Bombed and Destroyed By American Fliers
Manila. March 26 lPi Liberator
bombers were believed today to
have paralyzed all enemy war pro
duction in two-thirds of Formosa
by shattering the island's big Jit
segetsu hydro electric plant.
More than 50 Liberators and es
corting Lightnings from the Fifth
air force hit the hydro-electric in
stallations Friday with 145 tons of
explosives which wrecked the
power plant and transformers.
A communique said the raid left
"water pouring from the pen
stocks" and a spokesman estimat
ed the attack knocked out 75 per
cent of Formosa's hydroelectric
generating capacity.
"The whole southern two-thirds
of Formosa and its war industries
will be very seriously hampered
and perhaps even cut off," a Fifth
air force staff member said fol
lowing a study of reconnaissance
photographs.
Bad Neivs Due Qermans, Nazi Chief
Says on Eve of Emergency Parley
London, March 26 (IB A Zurich
dispatch said today that Adolf Hit
ler has called an emergency meet
ing of his ministers and gaulelters
(district leaders) for tonight at
Berchtesgaden.-
Subject matter of the confer
ence was not disclosed, the dis
patch said, but it quoted a German
war office spokesman as saying
that Germany "must be prepared
for unfortunate "nws."
The dispatch, distributed by the
Exchange Telegraph agency, said
the plans for the meeting were dis
closed by " an "unquestionable
source." Ministers and gaulelters
will be transported to Hitler's Ba
varian retreat by plane, it said.
Reports reaching Sweden from
Berlin said the nazl capital was
Nippons Expect U. S. Armies
To Invade 'Sacred Mainland'
'The Situation Requires Us to Sit and
Think Deeply,' Speaker Warns Jap Rulers
(By United Priwul '
Members of the Japanese diet concluded their 86th
session today with gloomy forebodings of tin American inva
sion of the "sacred mainlnnd."
Tadahiko Okada, speaker of the lower house, declared in
an interview after the closing that it was "earnestly desired
that the government put into practice a powerful policy to
surmount the national crisis."
"The situation requires us to sit and think deeply to pon
der the enemy's successes and his new undoubted attempts at
invading our sacred mainland," Okada said.
"Never before in history have we faced a (like) situation.
; The daya ahead have no past
Rock Slide Blocks
Santiam Route
A rock slide today had forced
the closure again of the south
Santiam highway,, according to
the Bend headquarters of the state
highway department. There was
no likelihood' that it would be
opened today, it was stated.
This highway was closed for
two days last week by deep snows.
As six inches of new snow fell
In the night, and it was reported
snowing lightly, plows were oper
ating to keep traffic moving on
the north Santiam highway. At
the summit of this artery, a total
depth of 90 Inches of snow was
reported this morning.
The Willamette highway was
reported shrouded in fog this
morning, with snow being packed
on the pavement east of the sum
mit. A total of 72 inches of snow
was reported along this route.
Weather conditions were said
to be clear along The Dalles-California
highway, with packod snow
being on the route in the vicinity
of Sun mountain.
Airplane Is Used
In Hunt for Car
Lima, O., March 26 (U'i O. F.
Reynolds went up in the air when
his car was stolen and had it
back today.
When his car painted a pecular
green color was stolen Saturday,
he hired a plane and cruised over
the city, looking for that color. He
spotted the car in a war plant i
parking lot, landed and called the I
highway patrol.
By the time he got to the can
it was guarded by patrolmen. The
thief didn't come buck. I
"All southern Formosa will suf- While the Fifth air force was
fer an enforced blackout and its concentrating on the Island fort
industry an enforced layoff," he . , . . , .
said. "The probability of repair Is I ress' sparch and Pa,ro1 Pancs of
out of the question because all j ,np Seventh fleet ranged over the
transformer stations were de- China sea to continue the block
stroyed and generator stages In arte of Japan's shipping lines. Six
the plants received a number of freighters were sunk or probably
direct hits by 2,000-pound bombs." destroyed and a destroyer escort
ine piani, wnien was divided
Into two sections and powered by
water from Jitsugetsu lake, had
a total capacity of 170,000 kilo
watts. Among the main war fac
tories to feel the power loss will
be the two larrre aluminum plants
at Tnkao and Karenko. They hnvo
an estimated 40,000-ton capacity
each and are believed to have pro
vided 15 per cent of Japan's alum
inum supply.
One Liberator was lost to anti
aircraft fire In the Jitsugetsu raid,
which was the second 145-ton
strike in two days on Formosa.
more jittery and tense than at
any time since the invasion of
Normandy. Travelers arriving at
Malmoe from Germany said the
nightly air raids were driving Ber
liiierv"to dementia."
GeAans expect further sur
prise WB-borne-landings still deep
er behind the German lines, Swed
ish dispatchers said.
. Arthur Axmann, nazl youth
loader, called on German girls as
well as boys to throw themselves
into Germany's last battles.
"Not words but deeds can help."
he said after reciting how boys
already had guided shock troops,
blown up bridges, acted as spies
and unmasked Allied spies.
"C o n s i dcr the concentrated
precedent, and we must find
our own way out." .
- Tokyo radio, heard by Unit
ed Press in San Francisco,
said the diet expressed "in be
half of the people a firm deter
mination to repel an enemy at'
tempt at invading the homeland."
Homo Battles Expected
Members of the diet approved
35 legislative budget bills. Pre
mier Gen. Kunlakl Kolso closed
the session by reading an Imperial
rescript.
.Addressing the closing session
of the house of representatives of
the diet,, Koiso predicted that Ja
pan will be turned Into a battle,
field. This, he added "would com
plete the structure In which we
will be ready for any eventual
ity."
"We are not only determined
not to allow the enemy to land
easily on our soli, but also to
drive ahead ourselves in an of
fensive for the recovery of Iwo
Jima, of course, as well as Salpan
and Guadalcanal," Koiso said. "In
order to prepare our offensive,
we must first draw the enemy
into the trap of our homeland."
His remarks concluded with the
statement that Japan would fight
lor 100 years if she found it neces-
sary.
Post in Alaska
Hit by Jaundice
Headquarters, Alaska Depart
ment, March 26 upi Quarantine
was lined today from personnel
of the Whittler, Alaska, army post
who have been restricted to the
base for the past two weeks be
cause of an outbreak of Infectious
Jaundice.
No now cases of the disease
were reported during the two
week period, health authorities
said. The jaundice is carried by
rats to domestic animals and then
transmitted to humans.
ana tnree ire chters damaged In
the latest sweeps Friday.
The 13th air force also main
tained neutralizing attacks in the
central Philippines Friday with
Liberators and Mitchells hitting
Cebu city with 210 tons of homhs.
Large fires and explosions In vltnl
Installations were started on
Cebu, which is near American
controlled Panay.
In the ground campaign on Lu
zon, bloody fighting raged In the
rainswept northern mountains
around Belete pass, escape route
into the Cagayan valley.
Btrength of our millions of en
thusiastic boys and girls the
youth of Adolf Hitler must be
come the center of our national
resistance. You boys and girls
must never capitulate. , There is
no going back for us any longer."
Hundreds of thousands of young
volunteers "stand ready behind
our soldiers," he said. Axmann's
talk was broadcast by the Berlin
radio.
The Paris newspaper Figaro
said a preliminary contingent of
10,000 specially-trained SS troops
had been placed at the disposal
of gestapo chief Heinrlch Himmler
and begn training as the nucleus
of an underground army to carry
on guerilla warfare after the col
lapse of organized resistance.
Hellcatter Home
(NEA Telepholo)
Lieutenant Louts A. Menard, 23, of
Palmetto, Fla one of the first Navy
Hellcat fighter-bomber pilots to get
a crack at Tokyo pictured upon his
return to San Francisco, With nine
Axis planes and a long list of medals
to his credit, Menard Is here to re
port that the Japs do not do so well
when the chips are down,
Strike Vote Due
For Coal Miners
Washington, March 26 mi
The soft coal wage controversy
entered its most crucial phase to
day with mounting signs that the
government will step in at any
moment to prevent a strike.
The present contract between
the mine operators and John L.
Lewis' united mine workers ex
pires Saturday and there was vir
tually no hope that a new one
could be negotiated in the six days
remaining. "No contract, no
work" has been the motto of the
UMW in the past.
The miners' readiness to follow
that principal this time will be
tested day after tomorrow when
they take a strike vote under
supervision of the national labor
relations hoard. The government,
however, has set up machinery to
seize the mines to prevent a work
stoppage.
The government may step in
even before the vote is taken.
Howard T. Colvin," acting director
of the U. S. conciliation service,
conferred witth both parties at
their closing session last week and
indicated that government inter
vention might come after today's
session.
Amedee Smith
Dies in Portland
Portland, Ore., March 26 (tit
Amedee M. Smith, 7li, president of
Willamette Iron & Steel Corp.,
and a former president of the
Portland chamber of commerce,
died here Sunday.
Mr. Smith, a native of Buena
Vista, Ore., was Multnomah coun
ty commisioner from 1D24 to 1928,
and during his term of office was
instrumental in construction of
three bridges in Portland. While
he was chamber of commerce
presldent-ln 1033 and 1934 he
received much of the credit for
expediting federal legislation re
sulting in construction of the Bon
neville dam.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Myrle Bradshaw Smith; two sis
ters, Mrs. William Britts and Mrs.
Nell Stansborough, and a brother,
Harold S. Smith.
80-Mile Drive
Carries Allies
To Frankfurt
Entire Western Front
Is Reported Cracking;
Patton Again on Loose
Paris. March 26 (IP) Germany's
western front cracked wide open
today with the American First ,
army streaking eastward in a 22-
mile gam ana Lien, ueorge .
Patton's tanks running wild and
reported entering Frankfurt-on-Main,
nearing the Bavarian
stronghold of Wuerzburg in a
sensational 80-mile drive and
reaching the outskirts of Wies
baden. The First army advance was
made from the southern sector ot .
the Remagen bridgehead.
Patton's Third army was on the
loose and was reported ranging
behind the crumpled German de
fenses almost at will.
City Nearly Empty
Reports from Radio Brussels
and Radio Luxembourg said that
Third army forces drove into
Frankfurt-on-Maln this morning
and found the city practically
empty.
Other reliable quarters report
ed that some units of Patton's
forces had raced forward 80 miles
by highway from the Rhine
bridgehead to a point near Wuerz
burg. That would represent a
gain of 37 miles to the southeast
from the last reported positions
at Aschaffenburg on the Main. -
Radio Paris said that Patton's .
advance elements also penetrated
to the outskirts of Wiesbaden, .
-about. live-mUoi north Otilainz...
on the north bank of the Main
river. , .
Patton on Move
While the reports of the sensa
tional Third army gajns still
lacked official confirmation they
were In line with the free-swinging
advance by Patton's tankers
who had been running wild in the
German rear ever since the hard
crust of nazl resistance was
broken.
The exact location of the First
army break-through was not im
mediately specified. A 22-mile ad
vance would place the First army
spearhead in a position to threat-
en or flank Limburg, 22 miles
east of Coblenz.
A report from the British Sec
ond army front said that the
whole Germaajthlne defense sys
tem appeared to be collapsing;
This correspondent said there '
were Indications that the Ger
mans had given up efforts to
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Lloyd George, 82,
Ex-Premier, Dead
London, March 26 U? David
Lloyd George, world war I prime
minister of Great Britain, died to
day at 82 after a lengthy illness.
Lloyd George's condition had
been grave for more than a
month. He had not been in good
health for several years but had
continued to make occasional ap
pearances In the house of com
mons until recent months.
Turns For Worse
Lloyd George's condition took
a turn for the worse in the last
24 hours and his physicians gave
up hope.
The former world war prime
minister died at 8:35 p.m., It was
announced.
The official announcement said
"Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor
passed peacefully away at 8:33
p.m."
Attending physicians who sign
ed the announcement Drs. R. Rees
I'rytherch and S. Wentworth Pat
terson, added that Lloyd George
died in his sleep.
Rhine Crossed by
Prime Minister
London, March 26 (tin Prime
Minister Churchill went across
the Rhine again today in company
of Field Marshal Sir Bernard
Montgomery who said the "battle
is going extremely well."
unurcmii visited British Second
army troops, acorn ponied by Chief
of the Imperial General Staff Sir
Alan Brooke and by Lt. Gen.
Miles C. Dempsey. commander of
the British Second army.
Lnurcniu watched troops and
vehicles streaming across the
Rhine and inspected troops on the
west bank on the site of Satur
day's battles.