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CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
Volume Llll
TWO SECTIONS -.: THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND. DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1945
NO. 103
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U S Tank Forces Racing East
After Encircling Foe in Ruhr
Allied Armies
Surge Forward
On Long Front
. F!na German Defenses
Before Berlin Believed
Cracked By Elsenhower
Paris, April 5 IP Two Ameri
can armies stormed Into the Ruhr
valley to finish off an estimated
150,000 trapped Germans today.
Other American tank forces were
reported racing eastward into the
Harz mountains, 120 miles from
Berlin. ,
The western front from the
North sea to the Black forest
blazed with seven allied armies
surging forward in a coordinated
onslaught that sent the Germans
reeling back.
British and Canadian armies at
the top of the assault line drove
across the flat coastal plains to
ward Bremen and the Dutch Zuid
er Zee to cut off the last escape
routes for the Germans in western
Holland. -
...American Ninth army troops
stormed across the Weser river,
Germany's last big natural barrier
short of the Elbe river and Ber
lin, and teamed up with the U. S.
First .army to destroy the enemy
divisions in the Ruhr.
Opposition Light
Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's
American Third army troops were
reported sweeping against weak
opposition through a 100 -mile
breach in the German central de
fenses guarding the central roads
to Berlin.
To the south, French First ar
my forces struck for Stuttgart,
and Berlin reported that the U. S.
Seventh army was swinging
southeastward from captured
Wuerzburg in a bid to outflank
the nazl shrine city of Nuernberg.
Whatever' defenses the Ger
mans had left in front of Berlin
appeared to have been swept away
by the allied drive, on me norm
era and central fronts at least.
Aerial reconnaissance reports
said the roads east of the Weser
river 'as far back as Hannover,
136 miles from Berlin, were
jammed with fleeing Serman
transports, suggesting a whole
sale nazi flight behind the Elbe
river, which loops back to within
43 miles of the capital.
Plains Cleared
American- Ninth army troops
cleared a 40-mile stretch of the
Weser river's west bank, captur
ing Minden, Bad Oyenhausen, and
Hamlin, and deployed the crossing
into the open plains stretching
back to Berlin.
Simultaneously, the British Sec
ond army sent a half-dozen mile
long columns of troops, tanks,
and guns speeding 26 miles north
ward into the railway center of
Diepholz, 37 miles southwest of
Bremen and 91 miles southwest of
Hamburg.
Hitler Makes Appeal to Men
To Hold Lines Against Allies
London, April 5 UP A nazi
broadcast said today that Adolf
Hitler, in his first public utter
ance since the allied breakthrough
in the west, appealed to German
soldiers to hold until a new Ger
man offensive is launched soon.
Hitler made the appeal a few
days ago while addressing an ar-
my unit which had distinguished :
itself on the eastern front, a brief j
broadcast by the German West
phahan station said.
He told the soldiers it was neces
sary for the German army to hold
firm against the enemy until the
new offensive could be launched,
the station said in a broadcast re
corded by the BBC.
European reports said Hitler
was believed to have moved every
prominent allied personage in
German hands into a "last-stand
zone" around Berchtesgaden
where they wil be used as hos
tages to bargain for the lives of
nazi war criminals.
Among those shifted to hide-
These Japs
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These Japanese civilians on Tokashikl Shlma preferred capture to suicide during our Invasion which was
preliminary to, Okinawa assault. Hundreds of other committed suicide and those failing to kill themselves
were quickly rounded up by D. S. Army troops, given medical care, food and water. Jap soldiers machine"
sunned Americans as
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B.H.S. President
Called into active service in the
army air carps, in which he en
listed last year, Phil Brogan, Bend
high school student body presi
dent and a member of the senior
class of 1945, will leave for Fort
Lewis tomorrow morning, R. E.
Jewell, high school principal re
vealed today when announcing
plans for a special assembly, held
this afternoon. Phil will be suc
ceeded as president of the asso
ciated students by Bill Plath, now
vice-president.
Taking part in the farewell as
sembly this afternoon were Jew
ell, representing the high school;
Doug Wirtz, representing the let
termen, and Iris Thomas, Pep
club leader. Bill Plath presided,
following an opening program by
the band.
Gifts Presented
Harold Smith, president of the
Lettermen's club, presented Phil
with gifts from the student body,
and Betty Davis led the students
in singing the army air corps
song.
Phil, a football, basketball and
track letterman, and member of
the Torch Honor society, is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Phil F. Bro
gan, 126 Harmon boulevard.
TO EXPAND POWER
Portland, Ore., April 5 ilPi Ra
dio station KEX of Portland will
be expanded to 50,000 watt power,
with post-war provision for FM
(frequency modulation) and tele
vision, it was learned today from
the owners, Westinghouse Radio
Stations, Inc.
outs in the Bavarian Alps, the
London Daily Herald said, were
reported to be King Leopold of
Belgium, former French Premier
Paul Rcynaud, Jakob Stalin, son
of Premier Stalin, and Kurt Von
Schuschnigg, former premier of
Austria.
The Herald suggested that Hit-
ler was planning to threaten to I
kill these hostages unless he and i
members of the nazi gang were
granted amnesty.
Frontier reports said Hitler
himself already had retired from
his headquarters outside Berlin
to Berchtesgaden. The huge vic
tory maps which formerly lined
the walls of Hitler's underground
study have been torn down, these
rcpons said.
A Zurich dispatch to the Lon
don Daily Mail said Hitler alter
nates between long, spells of si
lence and violent, screaming at
tacks of rage. He sleeps rarely
and his face is lined with worry,
the dispatch said.
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Slow Breakup
Of Nazi Rule
Is Expected
Washington, April 5 IP Gen.
Dwight D. Elsenhower, supreme
commander of allied armies in
Europe, has written President
Roosevelt .that there probably
"will never be a clean cut mili
tary surrender" of the German
armies, the White House disclosed
today.
Eisenhower said that if the
present situation continues, V-E
day (victory in Europe) will be
signalized only by an allied proc-lamatlon-and
not by any definite
collapse of German resistance.
He foresaw "guerilla warfare
which would require for its sup
pression a very large number of
troops."
2nd Army Joins
In Vienna Siege
London, April 5 IP Moscow
revealed today that the Second
Ukrainian army is sweeping west
ward from captured Bratislava to
join in the siege of Vienna, where
other Russian forces were bat
tlingHn the southeastern suburbs.
Marshal Stalin announced that
the Second Ukrainian army had
captured Bruck, rail junction 17
miles southwest of Bratislava and
19 southeast of Vienna.
Sweeping west against Vienna
on a front of more than 30 miles,
Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's
forces also overran Malady, 33
miles northeast of Vienna.
In west-central Slovakia, other
units of Malinovsky's army seized
the Carpathian rail and highway
towns of Banovce, 89 miles north
east of Vienna.
Survey of Fuels
In Bend Urged
Fearing a further shortage of
fuels In the summer months, and
eSDeciallv wnnri. RnnH Hnalnra in.
day were called upon by the OP A
to mak; a survey at once of avail-
able supplies to determine wheth-
er further rationing will be nec
essary, it was reported. In the
face of the threatened shortage,
consumers were also warned that
tney must report their annual
unlawful" .8nd l,hat !
unlawful to place an order with
more than one dealer at a tt
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ine UrA also renorted that in '
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me iai quarter oi iirewood
sales dropped In Bend. In that
period last year 4,098 cords of
in ihe same n, r.T, ? , Stt e'126 i Eu8en. The mill was constructed
dusl t and ho Ji rf13' about 19 years aS' Operations
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to Suicide
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Parking
Again Discussed
' Possibility that the city of Bend
may install parking meters on
downtown streets loomed today
as a result of a flare-up in the
city commission meeting over the
issuance of parking tickets by po
lice. While no official action was
taken by the commission, it was
pointed out that other cities have
used them with success, and May
or A. T. Niebergall said:'
we may come to it yet. ;
The parking debate opened in
a flurry of heated words and ac
cusations when Ken Moody ap
peared with a ticket he said had
been put on his machine whil? it
was parked in the alley adjacent
to Minnesota avenue.
Displaying a small handful of
tickets, several of which he said
were his, Moody shouted:
Promises Court Flirht
"I'm not going to pay a one of
these, and I'll fight the city in the
highest court I can if it tries to
collect on them!"
Moody charged that officers
show favoritism in the issuance
of parking tickets, claiming that
he could produce witnesses to
show that other violators have
not been "tagged." He also con
tended that the alley in which he
was parking was not properly
signed to indicate parking is pro
hibited. Moody also demanded a
private parking strip in front of
nis store on wall street, and
threatened to circulate a oetition
among business men demanding
this privilege.
The commission was asked by
a delegation from the Deschutes
County Veterans' council to place
a measure on the budget election
Dallot, asking for the creation of a
fund for the erection of a Vet
erans' Memorial building in Bend.
ueorge tuston, j. s. Davis and M.
Ray Cooper, representing the vet-
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Long Tom Plant
Razed by Fire
Elmlra, Ore., April 5 IP Dam
age of approximately $45,000 re
sulted from a fire which de
stroyed the Long Tom Lumber
Co. sawmill, homes of employes
and a carload of lumber, it was
learned today.
Cause of the fire is unknown.
The mill, which employed 20 men
M 5kd 7art a y
ho ir,n,.rnn, j l
cuiung some 40,000 feet of lum-
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Gordon Keith. Globe, owned the
mill In partnership with his fath
er, J. E. Keith, and Geori-e Ow-n.
Resistance of
Okinawa Foe
Is Stiffening
Machine Gun, Mortar
Fire Slow Advance of
Invading U. S. Troops
By Edward L. Thomas
(United Preiw War Correnpondent)
An advance army command
post, Okinawa, April 5 Ui
Army troops driving southward
toward a 600-foot hiU mass guard
ing the approaches to Shuri met
heavy Jap artillery, machine gun
and mortar fire from well-prepared
emplacements today that
slowed our advance on Okinawa
to a snail's pace.
Apparently we have reached the
outpost of enemy defenses in the
south where a force of as many
as 60,000 Jags may feasibly be
concealed.
Frontline troops encountered
mine fields. A unit advancing
toward the village of Kaniku was
halted while our artillery and
nlanes struck at an unknown
number of enemy tanks and
troops massed about 1,000 yards
ahead.
Artillery fire was heavy In this
sector and we suffered casualties.
We are relying heavily on
tanks now as their high velocity,
point blank fire is the only thing
effective against strong Jap em
placements. Jap strongpoints
ahead now appear to be located
in hill masses around the towns
of Kaniku, Tsuwa and Tanbaru.
If we can take these hill mas'
ses. we will have visual command
-of the entire southern portion of
Okinawa and be In a position to
hit the Jap ,where and when -we
Dlease. For this reason, it Is
believed he will elect to put up
a stubborn defense in this sector.
Jap artillery concealed in caves
and ridges is being wheeled out
only long enough to fire. It is
then retired again, making it dif
ficult for us to spot and knock it
out. ,
Terrain Is Good
The plain south of Kaniku of
fers excellent terrain for armored
warfare. The presence of Jap
tanks in the area possibly fore
shadows a major tank battle.
Frontline troops are noticing
more enemy attempts at night in
filtration but nothing yet has ap
peared that could be called a counter-attack.
There were' Isolated
reports last night of Jap patrols
armed with "potato masher"
charges that apparently were
after our vehicles, dispersed a
short distance behind our lines.
Several patrols also made suicidal
bayonet attacks during the night.
The weather turned today and
a light misty rain fell. The tem
perature dropped to the low 60s.
The rain was welcome for it set
tled the dust on the roads.
Big Cargo Plane
Reported Missing
Everett, Wash., April 5 (U'i A
silver twin-engined army cargo
ship C-45 with three men aboard
is missing on a cross-country
training flight from Mountain
home, Ida., to Seattle, army air
force officials at Paine field an
nounced today.
The ship was last seen over
Ellensburg, Wash., at 4:47 yester
day afternoon. It was due In Seat
tle about 5:30 p. m.
Pine field officials asked citi
zens to report any information on
the whereabouts oi tne snip io
law enforcement agencies.
Japs' Stolen Empire to South Is Isolated
As Men of Mac Arthur Seize Masbate Island
Manila. Anril 5 iUi Gen. Doug
las MacArthur brought the Philip
pines campaign to Its final stage
todav with the seizure of Masbate
iDianl anA cairt .fannn's entire stol
en empire to the south now was
isolated.
lanH nff thn Kntithpastnrn tio Of
Luzon, was the 35th island In the
Philippines invaded Dy mat-Mr-thur's
American forces. Units ofi
tho 4Hih division landed on Mas-1
hate Tuesday against little opposl- j
tion and were rapidly securing the
entire Island.
Maintaining the strict blockade i
of the southwest Pacific, swarms!
of heavy and medium Domoers
and fighters shuttled across the
China sea from the Philippines
in widespread assaults from the
China coast to French Indo-China.
Jap Cabinet Out
As Crisis Looms
' London, April 5 (U.E) Premier Kuniaki Koiso and the
entire Japanese cabinet, powerless to halt the American ad
vance on their homeland, resigned today with a frank admis
sion that Japan's plight had become grave.
- After a conference of elder statesmen, it was announced
that Admiral Baron Kantaro Suzuki, 77-year-old president of
the privy council, has bjeen ordered by the emperor to form
a new cabinet.
Japan's second wartime cabinet fell only four days after
American invasion forces'
stormed ashore on Okinawa
island, 330 miles southwest of
.the enemy's home islands,
against almost non-existent
opposition.- ....
The Japanese board of Infor
mation announced that the resig
nations were decided upon "in
view of the gravity of the war
situation and in order to bring a
more powerful cabinet" in to of
fice. Meeting; Called
The decision was taken at an
emergency cabinet session at
9:50 a.m. Tokyo time, the Tokyo
radio said. Kolso proceeded to the
imperial palace and presented the
resignation "en bloc" tp Emperor
mromto at hj:ju a.m.
The Kolso cabinet went into of
fice eight and a half months ago
after "the overthrow of the ex
tremist government of Gen. Hlde
ki Tojo in a political crisis
touched off by the loss of Salpan
in the Marianas.
Koiso's ministers, mostly con
servative elder army, navy and
business leaders, had been expect
ed to rally the Japanese people
and armed forces for new exer
tions to stem the allied march
toward Japan.
1 Disaster Comes
But Instead disaster followed
disaster. .The cabinet weathered
the furor caused by the Super
fortress offensive against Japan,
the invasion of the Philippines
and even the loss of Iwo island,
only 750 miles south of Tokyo, to
American marines last month.
The successful invasion of Okina
wa was the final straw, however.
Who will succeed Koiso was
problematical. Kolso, like Tojo,
was a product of the ruthless
Kwangtung army in Manchuria,
though perhaps slightly more
moderate than his predecessor,
Should another army or navy
man be chosen to succeed Koiso,
Far Eastern observers looked for
final frantic effort to prepare
Japan to repel the ultimate allied
invasion oi tne nomciano useu.
May Seek Peace
An all-civilian cabinet, however,
might be the first step toward
peace.
The text or tne ooara oi mior-
matlnn announcement on the res
lunation of the Koiso cabinet, as
quoted by Tokyo, was as follows:
fcn view of tho gravity of the
war situation, the entire Kolso
cabinet decided to resign en
masse. Premier Kolso. after hav
ing assembled the resignations of
the cabinet leaders, presented
them to the throne today.'
Both Wars Near End,
Representative Says
Pendleton, Ore., April 5 lf
When will the war end?
Representative Lowell Stock
man, home to rest from Washing
ton D. C, gave as his personal
opinion the guess that both wars
would end this year.
PAUL TIIALHOFEK NAMED
Prinevllle, April 5 (Special)
Paul Thalhofer will head student
affairs at the Prinevllle high
school next year, as determined
by popular vote of the student
body.
More than 100 Liberators, es
corted by fighters, delivered the
first heavy attack on the big
shipping base of Hone Kong Mon
day from Philippine bases. The
Kowloon and Tauoo docks were
plastered with 12G tons of bombs
which smarted fires sending smoke
more than a mile Into the air.
Three Japanese planes were
shot down and two others prob
ably destroyed over Hong Kong
without loss to the American
forces.
Mitchell medium bombers again
raided Formosa, hitting rail trans
port targets in an alcohol plant
near Talnaln which was left burn
ing fiercely, while naval patrol
planes sank a destroyer escort. A
10,000-ton tanker and six freight
ers in strikes from Shanghai to
French Indo-China.
Koiso Quits
Hl IW II
Ben Kuniaki Kolso, 64-year-old
governor general of Korea who
has headed the Japanese war cab
inet for the past eight months,
today informed Emperor Hirohito
he and his enure cabinet were re
signing. This move occurred as
Japan faced a grave crisis in its
. ; world war yenture.
Ickes Advocates
Seizure of Mines
Washington. ADril 5 (IP) Fuel
administrator Harold L. Ickes'and lt is impossible for it to be
said today he believed the govern-
ment should take over the soft
coal mines at once.
I don't think we ought to
wait," Ickes told a press confer
ence, in view of continued wild
cat strikes that have cut soft coal
production to 65 per cent this
week.
With the demand what it Is
today and the prospects in Eu-1
rope, we seem to be running into
trouble.
I don't think any miners have
the right to lay down their tools
at a time like this when all we
need is to continue what we are
doing to win through to victory
In Lurope. It is unsuppoitable
and Inexcusable."
Bend Track Meet
Plans Cancelled
Because of a combination of cir
cumstances, including the illness
of Coach Claude Cook, the tri
angular track moot scheduled for
the Lava Bear stadium tomorrow
afternoon has been called off, R.
E. Jewell, Bend high school prin
cipal, announced today. The Bears
nave nad only one day oi practice
under the guidance of a coach,
and are not ready for competition.
Inclement weather is also a fac
tor In cancelling the meet.
It is probable that Redmond and
Prinevllle, the two other teams
billed to come here tomorrow,
may join in a dual meet, in Red
mond. ...
The aerial assaults were indica
tive of the strength of the block
ade which MacArthur said was
completed with the seizure of
Tawl Tawi, at the southern end
of the Sulu archipelago and only
30 miles from Borneo.
The long chain of blockading
airfields extends more than 1,000
miles from the northern to the
southern tip of the Philippines
and stretches 2,000 miles eastward
through New Guinea.
It brought the Asiatic coast
within short range of bombers
from the Philippines, MacArthur
said, and left the South China sea
open for easy coverage by planes
and submarines.
"This cuts off enemy sea traffic
to the conquered possessions to
the south and severs the so-called
empire life line to the East In
dies," MacArthur added.
Move Believed
Preliminary to
Nippon War
Announcement Made as
HIrohito Cabinet Quits;
Full Statement Released
London, April 5 Russia to
day denounced . her . neutrality
pact with Japan in an action be
lieved to foreshadow her ultimate
entry into the Pacific war.
Announcement of the action
came a few hours after the fall ot
the Japanese government of Pre
mier Gen. Kuniaki Koiso, presum
ably upon the receipt of word
from Moscow of tne Hussion ac
tion.
Foreign minister V. M. Molotov
announced the Soviet action to
Jupanese ambassador Naotakl
Sato In Moscow.
As a result of the Soviet action,
the Russo-Japanese ftve-year neu
trality pact automatically expires
at midnight April 24, 1946.
The Soviet action immediately
opened grounds for speculation
upon Soviet entering the Pacific
wur and moving into action her
powerful far eastern Red banner
army which has stood guard at
the .frontiers oi smeria and Man
churia since long before the out
break of the European war.
Radio Gives News
Molotov's action was announced
by radio Moscow.
The foreign minister advised
Sato, the account said, that since
the pact was signed on April 13,
1941 the . world situation had
changed considerably. -; , ,u . . '.i . .
Germany, he noted had at
tacked the Soviet union and Japan
has aided Germany in the war
against the Soviet union.
In addition, he said,' Japan is at
war against Great Britain and
the United States who are the
allies of the Soviet union.
Therefore, he told Sato, the pact
I of neutrality "has lost Its sense"
continued.
The text of the radio Moscow
announcement follows:
Text Given
"Today at three-o'clock in the
afternoon the people's commissar
for foreign affairs of the USSR
received the Japanese ambassador
Mr. Sato and in the name of the
Soviet government made the fol-
lowing statement to him:
"The pact of neutrality between
the Soviet government and Japan
was concluded April 13, 1941, that
Is before the attack by Germany
on the USSR and before the out
break of war between Japan on
the one hand and Great Britain
and the United States on the
other.
"Since then the situation has
radically changed.
"Germany invaded the U.S.S.R.
and Japan, an ally of Germany,
Is helping the latter In its war
against the U.S.S.R..
"In addition Japan is at war
against Great Britain and U.S.A.
who are allies of the Soviet union.
In such a situation the neutrality
pact between Japan and the U.S.
S.R. has lost its meaning and the
prolongation of this pact is be
coming impossible.
Itequest Made
"On the strength of this and in
accordance with article three of
the aforementioned pact, provid
ing for the right of denunciation
one year prior to the expiration of
the five -year term of the pact, the
Soviet government hereby declar
es to the government of Japan its
desire to cancel the pact of April
13, 1941.
"The Japanese ambassador, Mr,
Sato, promised to inform the Jap
anese government about the state
ment of the Soviet government."
The Russian action had been
preceded by a number of indica
tions that the pact would not be
continued. Speculation at the
point was raised immediately
when the Yalta conference an
nounced the meeting of the United
States at San Francisco, strategi
cally located on the Pacific, on
April 25, the day following the
due date of the Russo-Japanese
pact.
The Soviet press, taking an in
creasingly stern line with the
Japanese, had provided another
clue as had the action of Marshal
Stalin In denouncing the Japanese
as aggressors in his October re
volution address last November.
STATE FILING MADE
Salem, April 5 (IP' State filing
today include: Increase in capital
stock: Bend Furniture Co., Bend,
from $75,000 to $200,000.