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CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
: Volume Lill
THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY. OREGON, WEDNESDAY. MAR. 28, 1945
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ill. S.-Russian
Junction Goal,
Moscow Hints
! Stalin's Men Drive to
Point Only 21 Miles
From Austria Border
I London, March 28 IT -The red
army drove within 21 miles of
the Austrian frontier and about
J65 miles of Vienna today with a
Jightnlng thrust to Sarvar on the
3laba river, 26 miles west of Papa,
f Other soviet columns wore push
ing toward Csorna, 75 miles south
east of Vienna and were reported
already across the Raba river just
east of Csorna.
t Moscow dispatches for the first
ime spoke of the drive as aimed
at an ultimate junction with the
forces of Lt. Gen. George S. Pat
Ion which already have ' spear
headed halfway to the Czech bor
er across southern Germany.
Oder Line Blazes
At the same time malnr flcht.
ng was reported on the Oder line
svhere the Hazis claimed they were
frying to drive a corridor through
to German elements which they
Maimed were still resisting inside
Kuestrin, 38 miles east of Berlin.
I German reports admitted the
Jed army had crossed the Marcal
Canal lying just east of the Raba
nd Moscow reports said that it
was believed the Raba also had
J German accounts said the Rus
aians were attacking in great
- strength, apparently in an effort
to by-pass and neutralize the nazi
garrisons at Komaron and Gyor
; which guard the Lake Balaton ap-
1 nrnafhoc tn Aiictt-in
:i Kuestrin Is Center
J The Vienna-bound drive coin
cided with new and extremely
utixvy auviei uuauits uii tnt? wuei
nver line, centering arouna Kues-
r n, 38 miles east of Berlin.
Nazi accounts admitted soviet
penentrations at Kuestrin where
they claimed an encircled garri
son still was hclding out.
it The Russians were mopoing up
hi Gdynia and Ranzig and expect
ed to complete occupation of the
Baltic cities today or tomorrow.
Russian accounts said that the re
gaining defenders largely were
poorly trained marine battalions,
including many boys and elderly
,men.
l It was estimated that the red
.llhtiu hnrl fnntnrnsl nhmir Iflnnnn
prisoners in the past week's fight
ing, principally around Koenigs
berg and in northwestern Hun
Kfry. , 4 Reds Near Austria
rTTo the south, the Soviets drove
W within 20 miles of Austria and
58 of Vienna as a Fourth Ukraini
an army group joined an offen
sive crumbling Germany's south
ern defenses along a 350-mile
front.
Still another army group to the
northeast battled through the
streets of the twin Baltic Dorts
t unu uuyiua. ana meir
liberation appeared near. The Rus
sians had reached the center of
ancient Danzig.
A German infantry general
speaking over the Berlin radio
said Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov
i of jthe First White Russian army
f group was assembling huge ar
t mored and infantry forces In the
JjXMer bridgehead beyond Kuestrin,
ptermiles east of Berlin.
Allied Prisoners, Under Air
Fjre, Signal With Bare Backs
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By John B. McDermort
ted Press War Correspondent)
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JVilll Hie U. O. rill ttinu tii.im; oieiioj mat. no Jiaaiicu i
Germany, March 28 iU" A thous-
and American and British soldiers
wno had been captured oy tne
uermansstoodlnthesuniigniioriKiiiea ana some, including me ,
si hours with their naked backs lieutenant whose name I cannot
spelling out in eiant letters P O W,
, prisoners of war.
They were attempting to save
themselves from their friends
t flilots of P47s who were diving
;na strafing under the mistaken
i" " tBsiuii uidL wee sMuui -
ung. at uermans.
- Eheard the story today of one
" nv strangest ineiuenis 01 ine
r from an American lieutenant
fcho talked from a stretcher in a
Miospitai. 'me ou ck thinking oi
iuw omcers who ordered tne men
Eto strip off their shirts and get
into formation to spell out the'
EXPECTED TO LINK WITH
Navy Planes Wing Over Burning Jap Homeland
A pair of U. S. Navy carrier-based Helldivers wing their way over burning hangars and other air installations
at Omura during the Navy's devastating strike at Kyushu in the Japanese home islands on March 18. U. 8
Navy photo.
Fires, Out
Raging in Cebu Capital
Manila, March 28(U.E) American invasion forces swept
over Cebu today to within two and a half miles of burning
Cebu city, capital of the central Philippines island.
Elements of the American division, which landed on the
mine-strewn beach at Talisay on the east coast Monday, were
battling the Japanes garrison at Pardo just south of the capi
tal. Cebu city is the second largest port in the Philippines.
. Huge fires were reported out of control in, Cebu city and.
the Japanese apparently were following their theme of de
More Snow Falls
asses
Snow again fell along the crest
of the Cascades today, causing
highway department maintenance
crews to press plows into use to
keep the two Santiams, the Wil
lamette, W a p i n 1 1 1 a and The
Dalles-California highways open
to traffic. The forecast was for
occasional precipitation through
out the day and night.
Highway conditions were re
ported as follows:
Santiam snowing; tempera
ture 30 degrees; Willamette
packed snow east of the summit,
a half-inch of new snow making
a total depth of 70 inches with
the temperature standing at 23
degrees; The Dalles-California
snowing, with packed snow in the
vicinity of Sun mountain, temper
ature 30 degrees, and the Wapini
tia snowing, packed snow on the
higher levels, total depth 54
inches, and temperature 20
grees.
de-
OPA Prices Rule
Sale by Sheriffs
Salem, Ore., March 28 IP
Farm machinery may not be sold
at an execution sale by a sheriff
at a price in .excess of OPA ceil
ings, Attorney General George
Neuncr ruled today.
The sheriff is constrained by
state law to accept the highest bid
for items up for auction, he said,
but if this provision conflicts with
federal law it is the local law
which must yield.
letters POW saved many lives.
Eventually the Allied pilots got
(kn ctnnot thi, liiqn Kninn f1i(-linrt,
j to them from the naked backs :
down below. But they didn't got I
it until some oi ine prisoners were t
reveal now, were wounded.
Two men wandered out of the
, formation occasionally. One was
'an American catholic chaplain
ana tne otner was a tsruisn cnap-
lain. All tnrougn captivity tney
; ....fi...s ...y.
jconsuiaiiun tn reunion ana in mis ;
grim hour they were performing j
i- i-o "n- ".i"b. i
I "Those red-nosed P-47s were I
diving right at us," the lieutenant
saia. iou just prayea to Loa,cierK at tne u. s. Dureau or Stan-
iinai yuu woman i get it.
t The ordeal by fire took place
last sunaay auernoon.
ft Tfir
-sV
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of Control,
struction, which devastated
Manila and other island capi
tals in the archipelago.
A naval bombardment from
cruisers and destroyers cov
ered the landing by Maj. Gen.
W. H. Arnold's veterans of
Guadalcanal and Bougainville-Beaches
Mined
Although the Japanese were
caught off guard by the Invasion,
the shallow beaches were mined
and the assault troops ran Into
mortar fire from the Talisay area,
five miles south of Cebu- city.
Bombers and fighters of the
13tl air force joined the drive
and blasted a path for the ground
forces as they cut across the nar
row gauge rail line and moved
onto the hard-surface road paral
leling the coast.
Five small villages were swept
up and a stubborn Japanese pock
et was knocked out nearly two
miles north of Talisay in the drive
which carried to the town of
Pardo, two and a half miles south
of Cebu city.
lias Fine Harbor
The capital, with its three large
piers and airfields, was a prime
target for Gen. Douglas MacAr
thur's forces. The city, which had
a pre-war population of 150,000
has a harbor second only to Ma
nila in the entire Phillipines.
Cebu city is just across a nar
row strait from historic Mactan
island, where Magellan died in
the 16th century from a poisoned
arrow. It is only 75 miles from
Ormoc on American-held Leyte
and approximately 350 miles
southeast of Manila.
Eisenhower May
Signal War's End
(Br United Presl)
The end of the war in Europe
probably will become known
through a formal announcement
by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower'
that German resistance on the!
western front has been broken.
In response to a question by
Boyd Lewis, United Press Europe
an news manager, Eisenhower
said in Paris yesterday that he
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nnnnri tn mnUn cnrh an an.
nouncement when the proper time
arrived
Tne plans 0f the Allied supreme
commander were made known '
vesterdav while erroneous renorts '
mat tne uermans naa surrenaerea 1
or were about to surrender spread ;
through the United States.
FIVE GIRLS DIE
Washington, March 28 U The
""-.last ox a. eel oi quiniupieis oom
t0 a negro mother here last night; feet In the Wickiup reservoir and
died early today. 131,920 acre feet, In the Crane
Airs. Anua turner, Mi, was the
mother of the five eirls. Thei
father, Harold Turner, 36, is a;
oaras nere. ine coupie nas six .
other children, Inclining four-
year-old twins.
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INEA Telephoto) '
Japs Say Ships
Open Sea Battle
Guam, Thursday, March 29 u?
Japan today claimed naval sur
face and air battles have been
joined in waters of the Ryukyu
chain and reported, wholly with
out allied confirmation, that
"grim" fighting was raging be
tween reinforced American inva
sion troops and Japanese garri-
J i i ...wu . rr '
awa. ' '
Tokyo radio said that Japanese
"air and. surface vessels are now
unleashing fierce counterattacks"
against the American naval task
groups which have pounded the
strategic Okinawas, 380 miles
south of Japan proper for five
consecutive days. ,
Claims Not Barked
There was no evidence from an
allied source to support Japanese
claims of surface and toaval ac
tions or American invasions on
Tokoshika or Aka islands in the
Kerama group guarding the west
ern approaches to Okinawa, larg
est and most strategically impor.
tant island of the Ryukyus chain.
If the Japanese fleet has ven
tured forth to challenge Vice Ad
miral Marc A. Mitscher's Fifth
fleet carrier task forces, it would
be the first time the enemy's navy
has risked battle since its great
defeat in the Philippines battle of
Oct. 23-24, 1944.
The U. S. navy had announced
bluntly that the purpose of its
carrier strikes against Japan's in
land sea a week ago was to seek
out and destroy sequestered units
of the enemy's navy in home wa
ters. The navy's top admirals all
have said they would welcome a
final, decisive engagement with
whatever remains of the Japanese
fleet.
Farrell Speaker
At Lodge Session
In one of the liveliest meetings
ever held by the Bend Elks lodge.
91 new members were initiated
Into the order last night. Partici
pating in the ceremony were 50
Elks and their musicians from
Salem.
One of the principal speakers
of the evening was Secretary of
State Robert S. Farrell, Jr., who
accompanied Clarence Ellis, an
other state official, to Bend.
Following the ceremony, the
visiting
Elks, members of the
local lodge and the new members
were treated to a dutch lunch.
Reservoir Water
Is To Be Released
Water from the Wickiup and
Crane Prairie reservoirs will be
released into the Deschutes for
diversion into the four irrigation
canals in Central Orecmn nn Anrii
1, ana win continue to flow
through the canals until Novem
ber 1, announces Aubrey E. Perry,
county watermaster.
Following a trip into the upper
'Deschutes country vesterdav the
watermaster reported 65,920 acre
l'rairio reservoir
17 PERSONS KII.I FD
Mex cor tv. Mar on npiti,,.
teen persons were killed and 18 in-
Jured last night when a locomo
'tive rammed a passenger bus.
w , w . w..
Front Reports Indicate Nazis
Heading to Mountain Region
For Final Do or-Die Struggle
PatWs Movements Blacked Out, But Belief
Is Held His Troopers Have Raced 100 Miles
' East From Rhine; British Forces Also Lash Out
" Paris. March 28 (U.P) American and British forces to
day joined in a northern tank
corner of the Ruhr at a 20-mile
spearhead was reported 210 miles or less southwest ol Uerlin.
A front report from the Third army said that the Germans
were making a "general movement to the east and southeast"
in front of the pulverizing jabs of the First and Third Ameri
can armies possibly toward Bavaria and the mountain re
gion for a final do-or-die stand.
Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's advanced armored columns
were still blacked-out for security reasons but at least one
German report said they had driven almost 100 miles east of
the Rhine and had swung north in the region of Graefendorf,
a scant 210 miles from Berlin.
' ' , Armlea On Move .
But the 'blitz was not confined to the First and Third
American armies.
Both the British Second and the American Ninth armies
had shaken loose from the bitter resistance the nazis wore
putting up in defense of their Ruhr cities of Duisburg and
Essen. .
In parallel columns of heavy, armor the British Second
and American Ninth severed
the Ruhr and headed east. '
They crossed the Dortmund-Ems canal and slashed the
Duisburg-Hamm military highway, shifting the main bulk of
t.hpir Wiaitrhi: annf tnurntr1 Tlot.lin ltkua than OAt tviilaa oMrnir
Cunningham with the Ninth army said it appeared "the Ninth
army is on the verge of breaking into a wide open race to join
tne f irst ana rnird armies."
British
The. Ninth army kickoff was aided by the British Sixth
guards armored brigade which crashed along the northern
bank ot the Lippe canal and river and entered Dorsten to re
lieve pressure on the Ninth from the crack 116lh German
panzer division.
American fliers who swarmed out by the thousands to
bomb and strafe the fleeing enemy reported that the allied
tide was sweeping eastward with tremendous speed and
power. '
Except for, a few stubborn pockets of resistance in the
by-passed Ruhr valley, German opposition was melting every
where from the Karlsruhe corner to the Dutch border.
Berlin said British tanks had advanced 33 miles beyond
the Rhine crossing at Wescl to the Dortmund-Ems canal, al
most 20 miles' past their kick-off point this morning. There
the Tommies were past the main arsenal centers of the Ruhr
and only 245 miles due west of Berlin.
Returning pilots said the battle lines were moving ahead
so rapidly that new bombing zones had to be established every
20 minutes-
Contact Broken
At some points the pursuing British were completely out
of contact with the fleeing enemy.
Troops of the American Ninth army on their right fllunk
charged into the Ruhr itself and cut the Duisburg-Hamm
military highway. Radio. Luxembourg said they captured the
factory city of Sterkrade, nine miles northwest of Duisburg
The Germans were in the midst of a general retreat that
had broken into a disorderly rout at many points, with hun
dreds of allied tanks riding hard on their heels.
The allied tank armies, shaken loose for the first time on a
major scale, were hurdling their own infantry lines and
racing almost unopposed across the burning reich anywhere
from 30 to 90 miles beyond the Rhine.
IllKader Faced ' ,
Into a few blazing hours that threatened Germany with
her greatest military disaster of the war were packed these
developments:
, , Tl?e American First army swept 60 miles or more beyond
the middle Rhine to the outskirts of Giessen, 230 miles south
west of Berlin, splitting through the center of the wehrmacht
front and outflanking Frankfurt-On-Main.
(Continued on Page 6)
Tokyo Reports
Of Japan, in Support of Kerama Invasion
Guam, March 28 lii Tokyo
said that American carrier planes
raided southern Japan today in
support of the reported invasion
of the Kerama Islands, 280 miles
to the southwest.
A broadcast Domel news agen
cy said that approximately 90 car
rier planes raided Kyushu, south
ernmost of the Japanese home Is
lands, this afternoon (Japanese
time.) The raid was centered on
the Miyazakl and Kagoshima pre
fectures In the southern part of
the island, Dome! said.
An early Tokyo radio broadcast
reported that American reinforce
ments had landed in the Kerma
islands, southwest of Kyushu, and
said "savage battles" were under
way.
ports of landings in the Keramas,
part of the Okinawa group, is
only a prelude to imminent land
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P ATTGN ARMY
blitz that swept around the
day pace and one I hird army
the northern communications of
Lash Out
American Raid
ings on Okinawa island Itself, site
of an important naval base and
several airfields in Japan's Inner
Jefense belt, radio Tokyo said.
Supporting American warships,
including at least 11 battleships
and 15 aircraft carriers, shelled
and bombed Okinawa and other
Islands to the west and south for
the sixth straight day today,
Tokyo said.
Pacific fleet headquarters re
mained silent on the enemy re
ports of landings in the Keremas,
but confirmed that warships and
carrier planes continued to attack
"enemy forces and land defence
installations" in the Ryukyu
chain, of which the Okinawa
group is a part.
A delayed dispatch from United
Press War Correspondent Lloyd
Tupling aboard Vice Admiral
Marc A. Mitscher's flagship off
Secretary Visits
. IL Is A 1"" J
Robert S. Farrell, Jr., Oregon's
secretary of state, visited In Bend
today and conferred with local
officials, and Bend residents. He
was accompanied by Clarence
Ellis, head of the state's financial
responsibility division. Farrell
and Ellis returned to Salem to
day, over the Santiam pass.
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(By United P rent)
V. S. 1st Army GHQ, March
28 lll'K-A partial blackout on
news of V. S. First army ad
vances, tt was said tonight, may
Indicate that sensational gains
are In the making. The situa
" tlon was described' as "the mont
fluid Imaginable."
London, March 28 -IIPI The
red army cracked the last nazi
defense lines protecting south
east Austria today and swept
up to within 12 ml It of the bor
der and 55 miles of Vienna.
(Ily United l're)
Atlantic radio said that the
German battleship Gneisenau,
anchored at Gdynia, was blown
up by the nu.in shortly liefore
the garrison surrendered to the
Russian army today.
London, March 28 till A spe
cial order of the day by Marshal
Stalin tonight announced the
capture of Gyyor and Koma
roni, the nazi keystones to tbo
defense of the Lake Ballaton
approach to Austria.
V. 8. First Army GHQ, March
28"W A strong First army col
umn Is driving southward to re
inforce the V. S. Third army. It
was said tonight but nothing
mire regarding (Ills may lie re
vealed. London, March 28 (111 Radio
Berlin reiiorted tonight that
American tanks have reached
llummellMirg, 204 miles from
Berlin anil 22 miles north of
Wuerzburg.
With V. S. Fourth Armored.
Division, March 28 Ul'i I,t. Gen.
George S. I'atton's famous
Fourth armored division Is on
the loose tonight and Is striking
north on the roads that lead to
ward KasKcl and the heart of
the greater rolch.
(lly United l'rcsii)
A Tokyo newspaper professed
to bring the Pacific war to a
decision within the next month.
on Mainland
Okinawa said battleships, cruisers
and destroyers pounded the main
Island of the Ryukyus group with
more than 1,000 tons of explosives
Saturday.
Surface forces attached to
Mitcher's famed carriers paraded
for four hours along a 10-mile
stretch of the southeastern coast
of Okinawa, Tupling said.
The big guns of the battleships,
cruisers and destroyers blasted at
Japanese gun emplacements, pill
boxes and other shore installa
tions. Tokyo said the task force was
gradually being reinforced and
was now estimated at 100 vessels.
"At present the enemy's move
ment is believed an attempt to
cover its landed force on Kera
ma," Tokyo said, adding:
"There are signs that the ene
my is aiming at a major attempt
to land on the Island of Okinawa."
German Arms
Production Is
Fliers' Target
Big Air Armada Strikes
At Berlin, Hannover in
' Move to Hasten War End
London, March 28 (Ul More
than 1,300 American bombers and
fighters attacked German arms
plants in Berlin and Hannover -today
in twin blows calculated to
hasten the end of the war In'
Europe.
- Well over 950 Flying fortresses
rained nearly 3,000 tons of demoll-'
tlon and fire bombs on the two
cities between 10 and 11:15 a. m. -BST,
an American communique
announced. The bombers were
escorted by more than 350 Mus
tang fighters.
The raid? were, designated .to
cripple two of Germany's arms ;
plants outside the great Ruhr
valley, already threatened by ad-1
vancing American ana tsmisn,
armies.
To Evacuate Berllners .
A German DNB dispatch broad-
nnQt tiiQt nftor tha rnirt nnnnnncerl
that arrangements had been made
to evacuate Berliners, particularly
women and children, to less-exposed
areas because of the "air
terror." ... . .
kaf Mosquitos nazi Broad
cast said a 75-mile procession of
them had hit Berlin less than
12 hours previously-for the 36th
straight night. They dropped
two-ton block busters and show-,
era of fire bombs.
Little more than a smoking
shell remained of the Berlin that
once was the world's fourth
largest city. It has been the
target of a greater weight ot
bombs than any other city in the
Fires of various sizes have
burned almost ceaselessly In Ber
lin since the RAF began its cur
rent series of nightly Mosquito
raids supplemented by occasional
American daylight attacks.
German Morale Low
Today's daylight raid came at
a time when German morale was
at Its lowest ebb. British and
American armies were driving al
most at will through Germany's
western defenses and an all-out
offensive aguinst the capital it
self by the Red army appeared
imminent.
Neutral sources have reported
that hundreds of thousands ot
Berliners have fled the city, clogg
ing railways and highways in
their haste to escape the rain ot
bombs. Those who remained be
hind, these sources said, were
driven almost to madness by the
constant attacks.
Most governrrfent offices have
been evacuated, Swedish and
Swiss dispatches said, but key of-
iicicti!) sun were in ine city.
To Start Sunday
Bend dog owners have only'
three days in which to license
their animals and make prepara
tions for the annual summer tie
up, according to a warning is
sued at the city hall today. On
April 1, all dogs must either be
tied up or be placed in pens, or
they face being impounded and
their owners fined In the period
enuing juiy di.
Not only should owners be get
ting out their leashes and ready
ing their pens, but they should
also tukc advantage of the city's
license "bargain," George Slmer
ville, city recorder, said. Licenses
which are now $1 for males and
$1.50 for females, go up an addi
tional 50 cents after next Satur
day, Slmerville stated.
Many Dogs Unlicensed
According to the city recorder
there are approximately 250 dogs
In the city yet unlicensed. Li
censes are sold at the county
clerk's office, city police head
quarters and at the city hall, Slm
erville explained.
The city's ticup ordinance was
adopted as a protection for Vic
tory gardens and nesting water
fowl along the Deschutes river, it
was reported.