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CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
Volume Llll
' THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1945
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NO. 101 ,
Soviet Legions
No Yen for His Yen
Sweep Across
Yanks on Okinawa Still Unopposed
Austrian Lands
TANK FORCES REACH GOTHA
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Capitol of Nazi Puppet
State, Slovakia, Is Also
Entered By Red Armies
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London, April 3 IP Russian
armored columns were reported
today to have smashed into both
Wlener-Neustadt, Austria's most
important industrial center, and
Bratislava, capital of Germany's
puppet state ol Slovakia.
The German Transocean agen
cy said the German high com
mand had announced that the
Soviets had "penetrated beyond"
Wiener-Neustadt into the area
south of Vienna. The broadcast
did not specify whether the red
army had captured Wiener-Neustadt
or merely by-passed it.
The breakthrough into Wiener-
Neustadt, 23 miles south of Vien
na and site of one of Germany's
biggest Messerschmidt aircraft
factories, was revealed by Ernst
von Hammer, German DNB agen
cmilitary commentator, in a
Zd 'Berlin broadcast.
iignrnig iteporuxi
"Heavy" street fighting was un
derway, Von Hammer said.
Marshal Feodor I. Tolbukhin's
Third Ukrainian army group, by
Soviet account, was only eight
miles southeast of Wiener-Neustadt
Sunday. The city has been
bombed on numerous occasions
by Italy-based American planes
seeking out its aircraft plants.
Moscow dispatches said Mar
shal Rodio Y. Malinovsky's Sec
ond Ukrainian army group drove
into the outskirts of Bratislava,
eastern gateway to Vienna, after
capturing Biskupice, two and a
half miles to the southeast.
Bratislava lies 30 miles east of
Vienna. Other Russian units were
within gun range of the greater
Vienna area delineated by Adolf
Hitler in 1938 and less than 20
miles from the city itself on the
i i soutneast.
aSi'31 . Zero Hour Near
'iVi f lMiL:j-i'th Mncmw r.nnrtrt
Vidence increased that the zero
hour for the red army's frontal
smash from the Oder river
against Berlin was approaching.
The Russians plunged into the
city limits of Bratislava under a
canopy of shells laid down by
massed Soviet artillery. Moscow
said the fall of Bratislava would
pull the plug from Vienna's front
al defenses for Soviet advances
along both sides of the Danube.
Vajnary, four miles northeast
of Bratislava and 29 miles east of
Vienna, also fell as the Second
army group drove up to the foot
hills of the small Carpathian
mountains on a 25-mile front. Ad
vances of up to 14 miles were re
ported. Deschutes Circuit
Court Is Delayed
The spring term of Deschutes
county circuit court, originally
scheduled to begin this week, has
been postponed because the listed
cases are not yet ready for trial,
Circuit Judge Ralph S. Hamilton
reports.
Judge Hamilton said the jury
will be called as soon as the cases
are ready. He expects that date
will be in the near future.
HANGINGS PROTESTED
Bombay, April 2 (IPi Business
houses were closed In various
parts of India today in protest
against the scheduled hanging
later this week of seven men ar
rested after the widespread riot
ing in 1942.
FURNACE IGNITES FUEL
A clogged-up stoker on the
furnace at Allen's cafe on Wall
street this morning caused the
fire to back up and ignite the fuel
in the hopper, firemen reported.
Damage was confined to smoke
smudge.
Hitler Plans to Die in Baffle
At Head of Troops, Says Nazi
By W. R. Higglnhotham
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
London, April 3 (IP A captured
German general told front corre
spondents today that Adolf Hitler
Plans to die In battle at the head
f the SS Elite guard troops es
pecially picked for the honor of
dying with the fuehrer.
SS units already were being
designated for the sacrifice, Gor
man Maj, Gen Hans Boehlsen
said in an interview with a Lon
don News Chronicle correspond
ent on the Third army front.
Another captured German,
Prince Engelbert Charles Aren
perg, first German prince to fall
Into allied hands, said he had re-
wived private word that Reichs
marshal Hermann Goering was
dead.
Other high nazi chiefs still were
hve and making their escape to
some hideout, presumably in the
Dj-.Z!-'. !
t Pfc. Steve Phillips, New Brunswick, N. J., ponders his issue of
American made yen, Issued to army, navy and marine personnel
landing on Jap-held Okinawa island. Exchange of American money
for the yen (at rate of JO cents on the Yankee dollar) was made to
prevent Japs from securing American money which might be used
laier in reparations payment. (U.
Japanese in Southern Luzon
Squeezed Into Hopeless Trap
Yanks Overrun Port of Legaspi Following
New Landing; Coastal Batteries Open Fire
1 Manila, April 3 (U.E) U.
Japanese into a hopeless trap
alter an ampnioious landing tnat overran the port ot Legaspi
and its airfield.
Seasoned veterans of Brig. Gen. Hanford McNider's 158th
regimental combat team completed the encirclement of the
Japanese in southern Luzon Sunday with a surprise landing
T .1 1 r 1 i 1 , .
near j,egaspi, zuu nines soutneasi oi Manna.
Fire from heavy coastal batteries met the invasion craft,
but opposition faded when the
Cold Wave Hits
Northern States
Chicago, April 3 (tP) Residents
in the northern half of the nation
hung their spring suits back in
closet today and settled down
to another cold wave.
The weatherman had nothing
but sad news, as temperatures
fell rapidly in a broad area from
the great lakes region as far
southwest as Arizona and new
Mexico. The mercury dropped
40 degrees in 12 hours in the north
central states.
In the northwest, the mercury
hovered between the five and ten
degree mark, with a reading of
eight above zero registered at
Cheyenne, Wyo., during the night.
Kaln Drenches Area
Easter bonnets were doffed for
umbrellas as almost continuous
heavy rains fell in southern Illi
nois and lower Michigan. Light
rain was reported in the northern
New England states.
Intermittent snowfall continu
ed in Wyoming and Colorado and
the west portions of South Dakota
and Nebraska with 12 inches of
snow blanketing the ground at
Cheyenne.
Elsewhere, temperatures were
only slightly below the unseason
able balmy March records.
i aio ha tntH a IinHnn
Dailv Telegraph correspondent on! Frank H. Loggan of the Bend
the American Ninth army front. I Chamber of commerce, was elect-
The mince, along with his printed chairman; Maurice Hitchcook
cess Valerie Marie, who claimed i of Sisters, treasurer, and Don H.
to be a great granddaughter of j Peoples, secretary. M. A. Lynch
Queen Victoria and a distant cous-iof the Redmond chamber of corn
in of King George VI, were found imerce, and Wilfred Jossy, of the
in their 300-room palace at Nor- Bend Junior chamber of com
kirchen near Ludinhausen in imerce, were other members at
Westphalia. tending,
A dispatch from the Swiss bor- The committee decided to ad
der said Gestapo Chief Heinrichivlse the Klamath Falls tourist
Himmler spent Easter at the Ba-1 organization of tentative plans,
varian town of Bregenz with other and exchange information with
members of the nazi inner gang .the group.
planning a last stand in the Ba-
varian mountains. what no ham?
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wno sneedway
mousne on the Avus speedway
L ,.rn Berlin and Potsdam yes-
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S- assault troops squeezed the
on southeastern Luzon' today
troops hit the beaches under
cover of a naval and air bom
bardment. Within three and a
half hours, the Americans had
secured Legaspi, largest port in
southeastern Luzon, its nearby
airfield and started a drive to the
north. s
Gen. Douglas MacArthur said
the landing and capture of Le
gaspi, which had a pre-war popu
lation of 15,780, was effected with
"little loss."
Legaspi Area Blasted
A 10-day ore-invasion aerial
bombardment, in which more than
2,000 tons of bombs were dropped
on Legaspi area, had shattered the
Japanese defenses and forced
them to withdraw inland.
The Japanese coastal fire failed
to damage seriously any of the
landing torces. Northwest from
Legaspi, southern terminus of
the Manila railroad, MacNider's
troops advanced through a pass
onto Bicol Plain and were moving
rapidly over open rice fields.
MacNider's drive was aimed at
effecting a junction with first cav
alry and 11th airborne division
troops fanning east and southeast
through the island below Laguna
bay.
Officers Named
By County Group
Members of the Deschutes coun
ty advertising committee met yes
terday, elected officers and dis
cussed postwar plans for adver
tising and promoting tourist travel
in me cuumy.
Portland, ore., April a u- Tne
ii"-- '' "-"6- .wo.tj.
near Port and. Blondle a pet hen
iih ., i,
in Klsieys hock iam two large
eggs in less than one minute.
JaDS Believed
Across Island
Foe Troops Expected toj
Be Exposed to Fire Frorti
Battleships and Cruisers
' - , .''
Guam, April 3 an Front dis
patches said today that the Japa
nese defenders of Okinawa ap
peared to be making preparations
for their first major defensive ef
fort against American soldiers
and marines who thus far have
been virtually unopposed. '),
The enemy stand, it was' be
lieved, will be made across thtf
narrow, bottleneck isthmus guardV
ing the approaches to the capital
city of Naha and its huge, nearby
airfields. At last report, units oi
Mai. Gen. John R. Hodges' 24tt
army corps were a little mori
than six miles from the city. '
The doughboys who severed
Japanese defenses on Okinawa by
dashing six miles to tne east coast
in less than 30 hours widened
their hold on the vital Nakagusu
ku bay naval anchorage to at least
three miles and still were pushing
lorward benind tanK companies.
Face Craft Fire
United Press correspondent Ed
ward Thomas reported that if the
Japanese attempt to mass troops,
along this front they will be ex
posed to American battleship an
cruiser fire, plus strafing an
bombing attacks by carrier planes!
Marines at the northern end of
the 10th army's front broadened
the west coast beachhead -to 'ft r,
least 10 miles with an advance of
more than a mile.
The marines cleaned out and se
cured Zampa cape and sent an ar
mored spearhead along the coastal
highway to the north.
Casualties continued astonish
ingly light on both sides. One ma
rine division counted only 15
bodies and all but three of them
were -civilians killed in the pre
liminary bombardment. Another
marine division has killed 130
Japanese while suffering casual
ties only a small percentage of
that number.
Yanks Cross Island
First word that tank-led army
troops had reached Wakagusuku
bay came from an observation
plane which flashed back a mes
sage that it was watching Ameri
can soldiers swimming in the nude
off the east coast beaches.
The 24th corps' push to the east
coast gave the Americans a wide
corridor from which to attack
either north or south and also se
cured a foothold on all vital north
south communications, including
roads, railroads and telephone
lines.
Edward L. Thomas, United
Press war correspondent at 24th
corps headquarters, said the first
doughboys reached the beaches of
Awasidatomari harbor near To-
bara village at 3 p.m. yesterday.
Bend Flier Gets
Home Front News
For more than a vear. Lt. Louis
u. ueioncn, Bend fighter pilot,
has been far from the American
mainland, presumably in the west
ern Pacific, but, he writes, he has
Been able to keep pretty well in
touch with the home front bv
reading The Bend Bulletin. At
times, several weeks passes be-
tore the airman receives his home
paper, but eventually he receives
a large bunch then he starts
catching up on home news.
"I try to keep track of my
friends through The Eulletin. and
at times I manage to find some of
the boys through information in
the paper."
"Keep The Bulletin com ne out
this way, and maybe before long
I can have it delivered at mv door
on Bend," Lt. Gelbrich wrote.
Nazi General Gets
Into Wrong Line
London, April 3 apt Even Ger
man generals get lost in these
hectic days on the western front.
Mat. Gen. Hans Boehlsen. a ril.
visional commander, piled Into his
Volkswagen and started along a
highway.
VlSibl ltV Was not tnn irnnH
After a time Boehlsen discovered
Erecting Line
there was an American tank Inimaria tv.n .nii,riina amnmpnt i
front of him. Looking back he also i
.uu.m urn? Di-nina mm. He eouidn t
go in either direction and was!
taken prisoner When the column i
stPPl-
!N1 Tankmen Slay Yank Qciicra:pat0n's Units
As Officer
With First U. S. Army in Ger
many, April 3 Hl'i Maj. Gen.
Maurice Rose, Denver, Colo., com
mander of the Third armored di
vision, was shot to death by nazi
tankmen while taking off his
pistol to hand over to his German
captors, it was announced today.
Rose's aide, Maj. Robert Ballin
ger, White Plains, N. Y., said Rose
already had surrendered to the
crew of a German Tiger tank
when tankmen with a "burp" gup
shot him.
Rose was riding south of Pader
born last Saturday when he was
captured. He was trying to reach
a portion of the Third armored
task force which had been cut off.
Rose, one of the outstanding
tankmen of the war, led the Third
armored division spearhead
through northern France into Bel
Many Officers
Here for Parley
Thirty-one law enforcement of
ficers from all parts of Oregon,
including special agents of the
federal bureau of investigation,
gathered last night in the court
house and discussed up-to-the-minute
law enforcement practices
and problems confronting them.
The meeting, called by the FBI,
was attended by officers from
Bend, Madras, Redmond, Seaside,
Astoria, Portland an Pendleton.
J. R. Thornton, soedlal agent in
charge J of the 1 FBI a Portland,
presided, and announced tnat lt
is the plan of the federal agency
to conduct two such meetings a
year.
Latest methods of moulage of
plaster paris casts of footprints,
tire tread and other clues were
demonstrated by Special Agent
Julius H. Rice, and Agent Ralph
C. Vogel discussed "Law Enforce
ment Officers' Viewpoint on Evi
dence." Officers Listed
Officers attending the meeting
were, Bend: Dale McMeen, inspec
tor for the state liquor commis
sion: Chief of Police Ken C. Gul
ick; Officers Walter H. Greissin
ger, William J. Burton, Wanda
Boardman, Lyn Bartholomew,
Robert Houtchens, Chester A.
Nordstrom, Fred L. Painter, Sgt.
L. L. Hirtzel of the state police,
and State Officers R. J. Hafstad,
Walter V. Remington, Walter W.
Smead, Floyd T. Chestnut, Sheriff'
C. L. McCauley, Deputy Harry
Johnson, and District Attorney A.
J. Moore.
From Madras were Sheriff H.
A. Dussault, Deputy Sheriff B. E.
Gard and Police Chief Ralph
Moore. From Redmond were
Chief Jesse Edgar, John McKel
vey and William E. Reece. Others
attending were Sheriff Eldon Sitz
of Harney county; W. E. Mynatt,
Oregon liquor control investiga
tor from Pendleton; Chief Crim
inal Deputy Myron E. Jones, As
toria; and Assistant Chief Crim
inal Deputy Frank C. Daly of Sea
side. Agents Attend
The federal bureau of investi
gation was represented by J. R.
Thornton, agent in charge at Port
land, and Special Agents James A.
Hunt, Ralph C. Vogel and Julius
H. Rice.
The FBI men left today for Eu
gene, where a meeting of law en
forcement officers is scheduled
for tonight.
Senate Rejects
Manpower Bill
Washington, April 3 mi The
senate today rejected the compro
mise manpower. bill.
The vote was 46 to 29.
The decision had been expected
ever since the bill came to the
floor last Wednesday.
The house previously had
adopted the bill by a small mar
gin. Sen. Carl A. Hatch, D., N. M.,
made the concluding argument
for it. He said it was needed for
increased war production and as
a boost for the morale of the men
at the front.
Sen. Forrest C. Donneil, R., Mo.,
against the measure. He said the i
moral argument was not vana,
and that the bill would do more
harm Ihin onnH tn war nroduc-
Ition.
Attempts to Surrender
gium and his unit was the first
to breach the Siegfried line.
Ballinger said the general's
jeep, followed by a command
halftrack, ran into a German tank
column, They pulled off the road
and started through a field trying
to escape the nazi tanks when
they ran into a Gorman Tiger
tank on the edge of the woods.
. The general and his aide got odt
of the jeep and stood with their
hands over heads in surrender.
As Rose was unbuckling his pistol
holster, he was shot, Balllnger
said.
Later, armored units returned
to the spot and found the gen
eral's body and the command
halftrack. The car was unrifled,
indicating the nazis either were
a green crew or had been fright
ened away before they, had time
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BULLETINS
(By United Preu)
Washington, April 3 UPV A
"very large" force of Super
fortresses struck today at indus
trial targets in three Japanese
cities in the Tokyo area.
Kassel, Germany, April 3 UP)
The 80th division captured
historic Kassel today after three
days of the bloodiest fighting
by Third army forces since the.
crossing of the Rhino.
The Chungking radio report
ed Tuesday that "formidable
fleets" of British destroyers
. were attacking Japanese coastal
' installations on Sumatra,' the
1,000-niile long Netherlands
East Indies Island which guards
the approaches to Singapore.
Paris, April 3 (IP) Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower said In
a special order of the day to
his armies today that German
troops encircled In the Ruhr
were "ripe for annihilation."
One whole Germany army
group and part of another were
caught In the Ruhr trap, he
said, and their "fate Is scaled."
Niskanen Speaker
At Club Luncheon
Highlights of the 1945 session
of the state legislature, with
special reference to measures af
flicting Central Oregon, were re
viewed for members of the Bend
club of Lions at their noonday
meeting in the Pine Tavern today
by Representative William Nis
kanen. The coast and stream bill,
which was passed by the legisla
ture, and the public health bill,
which failed of passage, were also
mentioned. As compared with
others, the 1945 session ranked
high, Niskanen said. He added
that partisan politics were vir
tually absent.
In response to their wish, ex
pressed over a KBND broadcast
last night, Lts. Phil and Sam Poo
pies, Bend fighter pilots stationed
in the Mediterranean theater of
war, were pledged oversized, deli
clously cooked steaks at the Pine
Tavern ..'hen they return home.
The "IOLi" for the steaks was
signed by Maren Grlbskov, tavern
proprietor, with all members of
the Lions club as witnesses to her
signature. The IOLi's will be sent
to the voung pilots.
Claude Cook, Uend nign scnooi
coachr spoke briefly, and made a
plea for used track shoes, for his
1915 squad.
Japanese Admit
Big Fire Damage
Tokvo. Anrll 3 '111 Radio Tokyo
finally has admitted that the B-29;
fire bomb attack on the cap ta .
March 10 caused vast damage but
insisted that "a new Tokyo was
n.sing jruin uii: ant.-.
The broadcast, reported by the
FCC only a few hours after the
Superfortresses launched their
latest attack on Industrial targets
In the area yesterday, conceded
that factories had been burned to
the ground and that thousands of
residents were homeless.
SMITH KKSTING BKTTER
It was reported from the Hahne
mann hnRnitnl in Portland this
nftpmnnn thnt Seaton Smith.
Bend high school instructor, was
resting nener loony arm mni. m-
was doing as well as could be ex
pected." Smith underwent a major
operation saiuraay,
to search it, Balllnger said.
Hie- tank commander stuck
his head through the turret and
started shouting orders at us, but
we couldn't understand what he
was saying," Ballinger said.
"General Rose kept saying over
and over, 'I don't understand. I
don't understand.' Then we de
cided the German was telling us
to disarm so the general reached
down and, taking his holster off
over his head, started to toss the
gun onto the ground.
"Just then the nazis opened up
with a Schmeisser machine pistol
and let. the general have it
through the head."
Balllnger and the jeep driver
jumped into the ditch as did the
crewmen from the halftrack. All
worked their way back to the
lines.
Convicts Escape,
Six Recaptured
Philadelphia, April 3 tin Ten
convicts, two of them serving life
terms for murder, escaped today
from the State Eastern peniten
tiary by burrowing from a cell
block to the street.
Six were recaptured by city po
lice within the first hour after
their escape. Both life termers
were recaptured.
Horace Bowers, serving a life
term for complicity in the slay
ing pf a. Pennsylvania slate po
liceman, was shot in the stomach
when he attempted to ram a po
lice car with a stolen milk truck.
He was taken to a city hospital.
Escape In Truck
The four still at large escaped
In another da'ry truck after they
knocked tne driver to the street
and threatened to cut his throat.
They escaped on foot after aban
doning the truck in the city.
The prison identified them as
William Russell, serving 10 to 20
years for burglary; David Aiken,
10-20 years for armed robbery;
James Grace, 10-30 years for
armed robbery, and Victor Szy-
mansKl, 20-40 years for armed
robbery. All were sentenced to
prison from Philadelphia.
Warden Herbert Smith, in a
preliminary statement, said the
men tunneled HO feet from their
cell block under the prison yard
to the street. Their escape was
discovered after a breakfast
count.-
Rehearing Appeal
Denied Bend Man
Salem, Ore., April 2 HI') The
state supreme court today denied
a petition for rehearing In the
Deschutes county circuit court
case of J. N. Hunter vs. Max A.
Cunning, administrator of the
estate of Emily F. Gilchrist.
Hunter sought a $29,062 brok
erage commission on a $590,000
sale of timber lands for Mrs. Gil
christ. He was awarded the com-
mission In the Deschutes court
but the suoreme court had held
that he did not have a broker's II-
sense at the time of sale, and was i
not entitled to the commission.
Hunter appealed for a rehear- house-to-house mop-up of its Dy
ing, which was denied today. passed nazi garrison.
U. S. Not to Seek Extra Votes
At Parley, Reports StettJnius
Washington, April 3 (Ui Presi
dent Roosevelt has decided that
the United States will not ask for
additional votes for this country
in the proposed world assembly,
, .,,;,i ,,i
Jt was ,Jisciospcl last wepk that
(hlrln ,hp Crmea conference,
R kcd f throc vo(ps ,
the assembly. The White House
said then that Britain and the
U. S. agreed to sunport this re
quest In Ihc San Frunclsco con
ference. The White House added in last
week's announcement: "but the
American representatives stated
that, If the United nations organi
zation agreed to let the Soviet re
publics have three votes, the
United States would ask for three
votes also."
Today's announcement meant
that the U. S. apparently will con
tinue to support the Russian re
quest for three votes, fulfilling
the promise made at Yalta, but
Now150 Miles
Out of Berlin
British Seize Muenster;
Ninth Army Forges East;
4th Division on Move
Paris, April , 3 (in Lt. Gen.
George S. Patton's tanks today
roared Into Gotha, only 150 mile9
from Berlin and a scant 185 miles
from junction with the Red army.
Gotha is less than 25 miles west
of Wiemar, birthplace of the Ger
man republic, on the important
highway leading to. Llepzlg, lt
miles east of Gotha.
Patton's fresh sweep came as
Field Marshal Sir Bernard Mont
gomery's forces captured the
Westphalian capital of Muenster,
227 miles west of Berlin, and
swept north along the Dutch-German
frontier in a drive that
threatened to trap possibly 50,
000 nazis within Holland.
The U. S. Ninth army fought
its way into the great Ruhr city
of Hamm and its armored spear
heads were pushing within 37
miles of Hannover on the Ruhr-
Berlin super-highway.
Fourth Kolls East
Gotha was entered by Fourth
armored division spearheads
which thrust forward 16 miles
east of Eisenach to enter the city
which sometimes has been men
tioned as a seat of part of the
nazi government.
. The. fourth division,- however,
doubted that it hadvmucn Siance
of scooping up any prominent
nazis.
The fourth division was barely
75 miles from the old Czech front
ier at Gotha and about 185 miles
from the closest Russian army
units. A 12th army group spokes
man said Patton's units were only
1(0 miles from the Red army but
did not specify at what point and
there was no known advance
which was that close to the east
ern front.
Berlin admitted the loss of Kas
sel, pivot of the German'line on
the Fulda river, 165 miles south
west of Berlin, but front dispatch
es said heavy fighting still was
in progress in some parts of the
town where the 8()th infantry was
driving out nazi remnants.
Ilrldge Captured
Other Third army units operat
ing southeast of Kassel, slammed
across the Werra river by captur
ing a bridge intact and pushed
ahead eight miles to the area of
Wanfried, 27 miles southeust of
Kassel and 165 miles southwest
of Berlin. They were 18 miles
southeast of Muehausen at this
point.
Another Third army column
reached the vicinity of Ahlstadt,
27 miles south of Gotha', and only
65 miles from the old Czech fron
tier. Muenster, 227 miles due west of
Berlin, fell to the allies after more
than three days of savage street
fighting and a raking artillery
bombardment that reduced the
city to a blackened rubble.
rwenty miles to the southwest,
soldiers of the American Ninth
army fought their way into
Hamm, the biggest railway center
in western Germany, and began a
not follow this up by asking the
three votes for this country.
The announcement was made
by secretary of state Edward R.
Stettinius Jr., at a record-breaking
press conference attended by
nearly 100 correspontlents.
Stettinius also announced that
plans for the April 25 San Francis
co conference are proceeding with
no thought of postponement. On
the contrary, because of the rapid
tempo of military and political
events, it Is increasingly neces
sary that the plans for creating a
world organization be carried on
promptly.
Stettinius declined to reveal
when President Roosevelt decided
to drop the plans for this country
to request additional votes. His
formal statement merely said:
"The President has decided that
at the San Francisco conference
the United States will not request
additional votes for the govern
ment of the United States in the
general assembly."