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May Split Isle
Into Two Parts
Tokyo Reports Landings
On Kume, 52 Miles to
West of Battleground
Guam, April 2 P American
invasion troops have smashed
forward more than half-way
across Okinawa in a swift ad
vance against scattered Japanese
sniper - and pillbox resistance,
front dispatches reported today.
An announcement that Okinawa
had been split in two was expect
ed hourly.
Hard fighting flared on the
southern flank of the American
army marine front where tank
led infantrymen were driving
toward Naha, the island's burn
ing capital, less than seven miles
distant.
Tokyo radio reported without
allied confirmation that Amer
icans completed a new landing
today on the island of Kume, 52
miles west of Okinawa, and 340
miles northeast of Formosa.
Troops Race Ashore
Tens of thousands of troops of
the new American 10th army
swarmed ashore along a wide
beachhead. .Two airfields and
more than a' dozen villages were
captured. It was indicated U. S.
planes soon would be using at
least one of the two captured
airdromes. f-.i-. -
United Press War correspond
ent E. G. Valens, accompanying
forward elements of two army
units driving across Okinawa
from the captured Kadena air
field, said resistance continued
comparatively light. This column
was heading downhill toward
Noza and the Nagusuku bay
naval anchorage on the east side
of the Island.
"The only enemy resistance,"
Valens said, "is from a few scat
tered pillboxes, snipers, and 100
pound land mines."
Civilians Attack
A dispatch from the 24th army
corps headquarters on Okinawa
said an armed band of civilians
including women, attacked an
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Soft Coa! Miners
Halt Strike Plans
Washington. April 2 IIP) The
nation was assured today of at
least another month of strike-free
production in the soft coal fields.
The threat of . an immediate
strike was removed when Presi
dent John L. Lewis sent Easter
day telegrams to his United Mine
Workers, asking them to stay on
the job another 30 days under
their old contract while he and the
mine operators continued efforts
to work out a new one.
The old contract expired at mid
night Saturday. The government,
aware of the miners' policy of "no-
contract, no work,' appeared
ready to seize the mines yester
day when Lewis announced that
he had requested UMW members
to stay on the job.
The burly mine chieftain said
he was doing so because he was
"conscious of the imperative ne
, icessity of continuing the produc
tion of coal for war."
, Discussions Continue
He and the operators arranged
to continue discussions today,
with the war labor board ready to
take a direct hand if there is no
substantial progress within a
week. The first 30 days of nego
tiations failed to bring agreement
on a single issue.
The WLB ordered the contract
extension Saturday, stipulating
that any wage adjustments
agreed upon should be retroactive
to April 1. The operators agreed.
But a final obstacle arose when
Lewis demanded that they give
bond or written guarantee that
the miners would get any retro
active payment coming to them.
That the operators refused to do.
. The WLB called an unusual
Sunday session yesterday. When
, it broke ud, there was every indi
' cation that the government would
have to seize the mines to keep
soft coal production going. Soon
afterward, however, came Lewis
telegram announcing that he was
asking the miners not to strike.
NAZI ROCKET
Swift Advance
D
'Last Reace Proposal' Rumors
Circulate Widely in Europe
Nazi Propaganda Takes on Desperate Tone;
Germans Given Orders to Fight or Perish
London, April 2 (U.E) Rumors of a so-called "last peace
proposal" by Adolf Hitler circulated today as nazi home
propaganda took on a desperate tone, calling on all Germans
to "fight or perish" and claiming that an underground nazi
"werewolf" movement was arising in occupied German terri
lory. .
Source of the peace rumor was the "free German" press
bureau in Stockholm. - '' ;
This source said that Hitler ted asked Foreign Minister
Bend's Easter
Far From Fair;
Ground White
Bend's weather on Easter Sun
dav April 1, was definitely of the
April fool variety, local residents
agreed. District forecasts indi
cated that Easter Sunday weather
would be "generally fair." But
this forecast failed to "jell,'.' and
the day was one of the most disa
greeable Easter Sundays in a
number of years.
Bend's weather for the day
ranged from snow to dust, and
finally, as the day ended, snow
fell on top of dust and last night
the temperature dipped to 14 de
grees above zero. Yesterday's
maximum was 38 degrees.
Heavy showers of snow, at
times intermingled with rain,
were general over Central -Oregon.
Considerable snow fell in the
Cascades. v .
Nippons Warned
Okinawa Vital
(By United Prera)
The Tokyo newspaper Yomiuri
Hochl, in a remarkably frank edi
torial on the significance of the
Okinawa invasion, warned the
Japanese people Monday that the
loss of that key position will mean
that "there can be no hope of
turning the course of the war."
The editorial, as quoted by To
kyo and recorded by United Press
at San Francisco, said the "entire
strategy of the Pacific" was based
on the battle of Okinawa.
"The loss of Okinawa will mean
the collapse of the vanguards of
Japan proper," the newspaper
said.
Others Hopeful
Two other Tokyo dailies main
tained the usual Japanese propa
ganda line. The Asalit bhlmbun,
according to the broadcast, as
serted the invasion "does not
mean the war situation is turning
in their (allied) .favor," adding
that at the "decisive moment
everything should be thrown Into
the encounter."
The Mainichi Shimbun said that
"if we succeed in destroying the
enemv. we will be able to turn to
the offensive."
2,500 POLES RELEASED
Paris, April 2 Uli U. S. First
and Third army troops have lib
erated 2.500 Polish officers, in
cluding nine generals, and 246
Russian officers, allied headquar
ters announced today.
Over 308,000
By MacArthur
Bv H. D. Qulffff
(United Press War Correspondent) .
Manila, April 2 tp Americar
troops killed or captured 308.18C
Japanese in seizing control of 32
Islands in the Philippines during
the last six months, it was an
nounced today.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur"s com
munique, In disclosing the Japa
nese casualties, also announced
continued gains by U. S. forces on
Luzon, Negros, Cebu and Min
danao. In the last five days through
out the Philippines the Japanese
casualties amounted to 10.971
killed and 185 captured,' while the
American losses for the same peri
od were 340 killed, 48 missing and
919 wounded.
The heavy casualties on the
Japanese were inflicted by the
u s Sixth and Eighth armies
which reconquered the main por-
tlon of the Philippines, including
the capital of Manila, ann icn on -
lv one major island Bohol
CENTRAL OREGON'S
THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON. MONDAY,
rove lwaro
Joachim Von Ribbentrop to
deliver to Britain a last peace
proposal.
The Hitler bid was said to
include a request for an im
mediate armistice in the west;
maintenance of the German ar
mies in the east; joint occupation
of west Germany by British,
American and German armies;
and a European peace conference
at which Russia would not be rep
resented. Rumors Aired
Hitler was described as deter
mined to continue his war against
Russia but was said to be willing
to retire if a general election
showed he was not wanted by the
German populace. He was also
said to be prepared to allow Aus
tria a plebiscite on whether she
desires to continue as part of the
relch. '
The so-called underground nazi
movement in the west was the
subject of innumerable nazi
broadcasts. .
These said that German men,
women, and boys and girls were
banding together in an under
ground movement, calling them
selves "werewolves." Werewolves,
in German folk lore, were wolves
inhabited by human spirits who
made forays at night.
Leaders Get Orders
All local party leaders were or
dered to stay at their posts and
anyone 'who left his post was
called "a low scoundrel."
The "werewolf" movement was
said to have instructions to attack
any allied soldiers and any Ger
man who collaborated witn tnem
Train Hits Car;
Woman Is Killed
Hermiston, Ure., April z tun
Mrs. L. L. Mohr, wife of the fire
chief at Ordnance, was killed Sat
urday night when a Union Pacific
passenger train struck her car at
a crossing west of Hermiston.
Mohr was only slightly hurt.
Union Pacific officials said It
appeared the Mohr car turned off
the highway to go south, missed
the crossing, and became caught
on the tracks. The approaching
train was unable to stop before
striking the automobile.
Portugal Planning
To War on Japs
London, April 2 U Portugal
is preparing to declare war on
Japan and take an active part in
the Pacific campaign, according to
reports reaching diplomatic quar
ters here.
Portugal is reported to be as
sembling troops and material in
Mozambique to use in an offen
sive to regain Portuguese Timor
which was occupied by the Japa
nese early In the war.
Japanese Killed
s Men in Philippines Action
still under Japanese control.
On Luzon, ground forces con
tinued to compress the Japanese
Dockets while Fifth air force
bombers again hit the shattered
port of Lewaspi, on the south
eastern tip of the island, with 200
more tons of explosives.
Elements of the 11th corps
pushed into the Santa Maria river
valley east of Manila at a point
nine miles southeast of Tanay",
but were meeting increasing re
sistance. Two columns of American
troops were moving slowly over
the rugged terrain in northern
Luzon against Baguio, former
summer capital and Japanese
headquarters in the Philippines.
One force was less than three
miles south of the city and the
second contingent had moved
within five miles from the north.
Troops of the first cavalry dl
j vision advanced 12 miles along
ine suuuirm ui uikuiih
I bay in southern Luzon to reachlkyus,
BASES ALLIED SAL
-ir . & ; a ; ft ft ft ' r' ft ft ft &
Russian Army
Onl
" Armored Columns Sent
Ahead to Knife Way ,
Through Nazi Defenses
London, April 2 lPu-Red army
spearheads were reported only
about a dozen miles from the
greater Vienna out$kirts today
and Russian reports said disor
ders had broken out in the Aus
trian capital' and elsewhere in
Austria. 1
Forward columns of Marshal
Feodore Tolbukhin's forces were
reported fighting in the Leitha
mountains, only about a dozen
miles from greater Vienna.
The Russians were reported
sending armored columns ahead
of their main body of troops to
kniie through the well-organized
German defense system and turn
it before the nazls could brace
themselves for a stand. -Air
Force Aids
The red army advance con
tinued to be aided by heavy bom
bardments of the U. S. 15th air
force carried out against Vienna's
rail communications.
The Moscow radio reported that
increasing disorders were spread
ing in Carinthia and Styria and
also in Vienna itself.
Weiner Neustadt. Austria's most
important industrial center, and
had pushed to within sight of
Bratislava, capital of the German
puppet state of Slovakia.
The London Daily Mall quoted
unconfirmed German reports that
30 Russian divisions, possibly
450,000 men, had begun a massive
assault on Stettin, Germany's big
gest Baltic port, from points on
the east bank of the Oder oppo
site the city.
Keds Near Vienna.
Marshal Feodor I, Tolbukhin's
Third Ukrainian army group
plunged to within 20 miles of
Vienna after capturing Trausers
dorf, 22 miles southeast of the
Austrian capital and just west of
Lake IMeusiedler.
The advance also .carried to
within 10 miles of the "greater
Vienna" area delineated by the
Germans after the 1938 anschluss
and embracing 250 square miles.
Both Vienna and Wiener Neus
tadt, 24 miles to the south, were
outflanked by another column
which drove 27 miles inside Aus
tria -and captured Kirchau, 36
miles south southwest of Vienna.
This force cut the Wiener Neus-tadt-Zagreb
railway and advanced
to within five miles of the Vienna
Venice trunk railway.
14 More Nippon
Admirals Killed
(By Unite! Prcw)
The Dome! news agency an
nounced today that 14 more Japa
ncse admirals had died in action, I
bringing to 108 the number or
high enemy naval officers whose!
deaths have been reported since.
May, 1944. !
The dispatch was recorded by
the FCC.
or Captured
the outskirts of San Pablo city.
Mechanized units of the 40th
division on Negros pushed 11
miles north of newly-captured!
Bacolod, capital of the island, to!
Tallsay where the Japanese dug
v 12 Miles
From Vienna
m lor a strong detense of the air-1 man hospital in Portland this nit
field, with its 4.500 foot runway, i ernoon that the condition of Sea
Bombers and fighters stronelvton Smith, who underwent a ma-
supported the ground forces onijor operation Saturday morning,
Negros and nearby Cebu and de-!was much improved and that he
siroyea 10 grounded Japanese
planes. Another was destroyed on
uonoi.
Philippines -based bombers
again raided Formosa and Japa
nese shipping throughout the
China sea, sinking or damaging at
least vessels, including a de
stroyer escort.
Seven of the Japanese ships
alone were destrnvert nff
Knr.
mosa, where MacArthur's bomb -
ers plastered airdromes, factories!
and rail Installations. Formosa Is
just south of the invaded Ryu -
DAILY; NEWSPAPER
Caioreal oft OkDimawa
LmSIwmm, , i.
The huge British battleship
base after the warship and other
tack on Ryukyus.
Church Basement
Flooded In Night
1 Bend firemen yesterday re
moved approximately 5,000 gal-
i.uf .the Christian church? on Isew-
port avenue, which had collected
there Saturday night as a result
of a plug being blown out of the
water piping beneath the church.
When the flooded condition was
discovered there was about AVi
feet of water in the basement,
according to Fire Chief LeRoy
Fox and Engineer Vern Carlon,
who removed the water.
A pumper from the Ninth Serv
ice command ordnance shop was
brought into service when it was
found that the city's large pumper
could not be maneuvered into po
sition to get at the water. The
water was pumped down to about
five inches deep, and thetfiremen
bailed out the balance.
Aside from possible damage to
motors on the air conditioning
sVstem, and the thorough wetting
of furnace wood, there was no
other loss, firemen said.
Ex-Marine Gets
County Position
Harry Johnson, former member
of the U. S. marine corps, today
accepted the combined position of
general deputy sheriff and jailer
for Deschutes county, Sheriff
Claude McCauley has announced.
The former marine succeeds I.
M. Wells, who resigned his posi
tion with the county to enter busi
ness in Salem. Johnson, who has
resided at Madras and Redmond,
served with the marines during
both World Wars and recently re
ceived a medical discharge be
cause of back injuries suffered
while on overseas duty.
His wife will serve as matron
and cook for the occupants of the
: county jail, McCauley reported.
I George Brooks, former jailer
I and panitor, is now employed by
! the state liquor commission. The
positdion of matron and cook had
: been previously filled by Mrs.
Brooks.
SMITH IMPROVING
It was reported from the Hahne-
is feeling better. "He is apparently; local rink Saturday nignt, some
past the critical stage," the Unit-lone opened her purse and stole a
ed Press reported after calling the; wallet containing Sfi and some
hospital, where Smith, Bend high j valuable papers, Melba Hoselton,
school Instructor, is a patient. ot the Shady Nook auto court, re-
- j ported to police today. She told
12 MEN KILLED
Alamoeorrto. N. M.. April 2 HP)
Twelve men of the crew of a
iour-ene neo nomoer wen.- run--u
; when the plane crashed eight
miles northeast of Alamogordo,
: Colonel John W. warren, conv
jmanding officer of the army air
I field here, announced today.
APRIL 2, 1945
British Battleship Joins in War
King George V rides at anchor at
units ot tne tsrmsn i-acuic tieei.
'
Byrnes Resigns as Director;
Fred M. Vinson Is Successor
"I Think V-Day Is Not Far Distant," Says
Chief of War Mobilization and Conversion ,
Washintrton. Arjril 2 (U.E)
dieting that "V-E. day 1 not
director of the office of war
President Roosevelt, expressing: "heartfelt reirret," ac
cepted the resignation and immediately nominated Fred M.
Vinson, head of federal loan
Vinson formerly was director of economic stabilization.
He took over the loan job only a few weeks ago after Jesse II.
Jones was ousted by the president.
Byrnes had been mobilization director for a year and 10
months. He was charged with'
coordinating all home - front
phases of the war effort and
settling disputes among gov
ernment agencies.
Blocks Itttclng
Ho issued the disputed orders
closing race tracks and imposing
a midnight curfew on entertain
ment places. He promised on Sat
urday night these bans would be
revoked on V-E day.
Byrnes asked that his resigna
tion become effective today. But
the president requested- that he
make it effective on the date that
Vinson is confirmed. Byrnes
agreed to stay In Washington un
til his duties are transferred to
Vinson and then will return to
his home in Spartanburg, S. C,
for a rest.
An exchange of correspondence
between Byrnes and President
Roosevelt recalled that early as
last June Byrnes had announced
his desire not to remain in office
to administer the reconversion
program. After the election in No
vember Byrnes again reminded
the president of his desire to
leave. The agreement then was
that he would accept the war mo
bilization directorship only until
V-E day.
Still Interested
In addition to the exchange of
correspondence,
Byrnes author
ized While House press secretary
Jonathan Daniels to make the fol
lowing statement for him: j
"Though I could not see my
way clear to accept the detailed
task of reconversion for the peri
od I know it will take, it does not
lessen in any way my intensive
interest in the prosecution of the
war and the making of an endur
ing peace. I hope I can make some
contribution as a private citizen."
After reminding the president
in his letter of resignation of his
previously expressed wishes to re
sign, uyrncs sam:
"I think V-E day Is not
distant.
far
waii rt is stolen
While she was skating at the
I otlicers sne naa no suspecis.
GENERAL CAPTURED
London, April 2 IP The Swiss
radio said today that U. S. Third
army troops captured German
General Von Schulenberg, Identl
j fled as a relative of the former
I German ambassador to Moscow.
on Japs
4 5
a western Pacific American naval
joinea American lurccs in we av
Justice James F. Byrnes, pre
fatt distant,'.' resigned today as
mobilization and reconversion
agencies, as Byrnes' successor.
Air Forts Bomb
Big Tokyo Plant
Guam, April 2 (1H More than
200 B-29 Superfortresses started
big fires, in the Nakajima-Musa-shlno
aircraft engine plant In the
outskirts of Tokyo Just before
dawn today.
A Tokyo broadcast acknowledg
ed that fires raged out of control
In the target area for more than
an hour after the hour-long at
tack. The giant bombers struck at
low level at the sprawling plant,
situated about 10 miles north
west of the Imperial palace. With
the Mitsubishi plant at Nagoya,
which was hit last week, the fac
tory produced about 75 per cent
of the engines for Japanese army
and navy planes.
Tokyo claimed that 15 B-29's
were shot down.
(A Tokyo broadcast recorded
by the FCC said the raiders drop
ped time bombs in some sectors
and they exploded 20 minutes to
five hours later.)
Deschutes Gets Rectograph
To Record Legal Documents
A massive machine designed to film paper, which Is distributed
eliminate possible damage suits
which result from inaccurately
followed legal documents, proof
reading and ragged nerves of
courthouse typists has found
sanctuary In the counly court
room of the courthouse.
The rectograph, a substantial
appearing mass of sheet and
stainless steel' metal, aluminum
and fluorescent lighting equip-
ment, costing approximately
is xonay unuergomg me
process of Installation under the
supervision of R. W. Kerrigan of
the Seattle office of the Haloid
company of Rochester, N. Y.
Completely eliminating any
possible margin for error in ex
act reproduction of documents,
the rectocrranh will provide a fac -
simile of all copy including seals If plumbing and electrical in
and signatures. In one eontinu-istallation proceeds according to
ous process, it automatically pho-1 plan, the rectograph will be In
tographs, develops, washes and running order in several days,
dries the prints. No dark room is Nell E. Terwllllgcr, recorder In
required. The exposing chamber the county clerk's office, will op
holds a 300-foot roll of negative I erate the machine.
Weather Forecast
Tonight and Tuesday slightly
warmer west portion today anil
cast portion Tuesday.
. , NO. 100
British Units
Head for Coast
In New Move
Holland Liberation Is
Objective of Troops;
Ruhr Foemen Pocketed
Paris. April 2 (IP) British ar-
mored divisions drove more than
15 miles beyond Muenster today
and struck for Bremen and the
Dutch North sea ports In a bid
to knock out the nazi V-bomb
bases and liberate Holland.
Armored vanguards of the Brit
ish Second and Canadian First
armies were 74 miles southwest ot
Bremen, Germany's second port,
and about the same distance south
of the Dutch seacoast. ...
German resistance was broken
all along the' broad British front
and a swift dash to the coast that
would complete the liberation ot
Holland appeared well unde way.
t Reach Muenster
Official reports said the British
and supporting American unita
were in Muenster and 15 miles
beyond at an undisclosed point.
Berlin spokesmen placed the al
lies 36 miles farther east on both
sides of Bielefeld, 189 miles from
Berlin, . '
Remnants of the German 25th
army, possibly 50,000 strong, were
racing eastward from the Dutch
seacoast in disorderly flight to
escape the British tank columns
closing 'across their une joJ,, re-
trear.
Simultaneously, the American
First and Ninth armies closed an
armored ring around the Ruhr,
and perhaps 150,000 cmck nazi
troops were trapped In the Indus
trial basin.
At the center of the collapsed
German battle screen, Lt. Gen.
George S. patton's Third army
tanks drove more than half-way
across the reich to within 152
miles of Berlin.
Blackout Lifted.
Field Marshal Sir Bernard L.
Montgomery's 21st army group
headquarters lifted the security
blackout on the British Second
army today to reveal that the
Britons were in and beyond the
Westphalian capital of Muenster,
227 miles west of Berlin.
Scottish and English veterans
of El Alamein and Montgomery's
march across North Africa were,
out in front of the blazing tank
drive that promised to clear the
naz s from all Holland in a mauer
of days and lay open the short
road to Berlin.
Cierman resistance was report
ed melting away In the path of
the Biitish tanks. The armor roae
down die-hard German gunners in
the streets of Muenster, while
outriders swept east, northeast
and southeast to points 100 miles
or more beyond the Rhine.
All of the Ruhr basin, Ger
many's last and greatest military
arsenal, was enveloped by the
American First and Ninth armies
and doughboys of the two strik
ing forces were driving In swittly
from the west, nort'?fljnd east to
finish off the reivjtits of 1
German divisions caught In the
4,500 square mile pocket.
in lots regulated by the number
of copies desired. The size of
copies produced may vary from
one-half the original measure
ment to twice the Initial size. The
theory of the rectograph was first
Invented In 1904, Kerrigan said,
and released to the market in
1906. The first machines produced
were chiefly of wooden composi
tion. Space Allocated
Tentative plans, as outlined by
County Judge C. L. Allen consist
of partitioning the county court
room In half, assigning Arthur E.
Hill, deputy collector of internal
revenue, quarters in the other
half and transferring county
court proceedings to Hill s pres-
: ent office on the second floor.