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the mm MW1MMN Weather Forecast r Mostly cloudy with showers at low levels, snow flurries over mountains today, tonight and Sun day. Not much ; temperature . ' change. May Save Life -' Paper makej flr parts, helmet linings,, blood plasma containers.' Save yours. " : CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER Volume Llll THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, .DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1945 NO. 1 05 Russians Break Into Vienna, Dramatic Broadcast Reports; Warning Bells Heard in City .Home Guards Called Into Line as Soviets . . Battle Way Into Heart of Metropolis and Red Legions Gain; Final Stand Is Expected London, April 7 (U.E) A dramatic broadcast from Vienna said today that the Russians had broken into the Austrian capital and were nearing the center in heavy street fighting. , The rattle of gunfire punctuated the broadcast, London newspapers said. Speakers called on the inhabitants nearly 2,000,000 in 1939 to stand firm. , . "Volkssturmers (home guards) are going into line," the broadcast; said. "With the German wehrmacht, grenadiers and SS men, they are going to defend their homes. , "Every yard of ground is being defended to the last, but the Russians have increased In Vienna Battle Marshal Feodor I.' Tolbukhln, above, commands the Third Ukra nian army group which, today's news revealed, has entered Vien na and Is battling in the streets. Tolbukhin's army was tje first to cross tne Austrian oriier. Pace Advance In Luzon Drive Manila, April 7 IP Airborne troops, who hopped 20 miles to seize the provincial capital of Lucena, sparked an American drive that was rapidly clearing the entire southern half of Luzon today. Elements of the 11th airborne division landed at Lucena, capi tal of Tayabas province, in small liaison planes Wednesday and quickly seized the city and its two airstrips, two miles inland from Tayabas bay. The airborne units were pacing the American drive down the southeastern part of Luzon to ward a junction with other U. S. troops which already had cleared Sorsogon province at the end of the island's long tail. Provides New Base Seizure of Lucena's airfield pro vided another base for Gen. Doug las MacArthur's aerial forces which were maintaining a firm blockade of Japanese shipping through the China seas. The Philippines-based bombers and fighters were revealed to have hit Hong Kong for the third fa tit-.' ' " d?'; o Sky Soldiers ...:.. y . , ,,-,,.,, j nine per it-m ui ine onvers us- Srl4JnKht2r?," Pacific hhv duri"S sunn it ocean-going ireigniei, M h k t ,h, cnwl. ai - ho. totalling at least 440,000 tons, in widespread attacks throughout the southwest Pacific. Nearly 50 Liberators carried out the latest raid on the big port of Hong Kong, plastering the port area with 164 tons of high explo sives. In the three days, the Lib erators dropped more than 450 tons of bombs on Hong Kong without the loss of a single plane. Two of the sunken Japanese vessels were 10,000-ton freighters. One was caught in the Hong Kong harbor and the other just east of the port. Sneeze Unmasks AWOL Sailor Vancouver, Wash., April 7 IP A cough served to unmask a snap py blonde at a bus station here. . MPs noted the curls and the de mure martnpr of the Derson. but coughing spel disclcsed a bass I Following his investiture as voice and brought on an invest!- premier, foreign minister and gation at the police station. greater East Asia minister, sue- The blonde proved to he Seaman I ceeding the discredited Kuniaki Vc Harold Carner Hughes, want-1 Koiso, Suzuki revealed himself to ed for being AWOL from the San be thoroughly pessimistic over Ja Diego naval base. pan's chances of holding off the The curls were Just part of a Pacific allies, wig I "The present war, which Is E!J on around and in Vienna it self . . .- garrison units are fighting against the Russians on the edge of the city's cen ter." House-to-house. f:ghting was un der way, the broadcast said. Program Interrupted Monitors said the announce ment interrupted a program of patriotic songs over the Vienna station. It was preceded by the ringing of the bells of St. Steph en's cathedral, which also sound ed the alarm when Turks stood at the gates of Vienna many years ago. There was no Immediate con firmation of the report that the Russians were nearing the center of Vienna, but Moscow dispatches said the red army was fighting for the Simmering district just inside the city limits on the south east. '. The red army reached Simmer ing, site of Vienna's main gas, power and water stations after capturing adjoining Schwechat on the edge of the city yesterday. Fighting Reported (A German Transocean broad cast reported by the FCC said fierce street fighting was in prog ress. iuth rstdential suburb of Moedling, six miles southwest of Vienna.) - Two soviet army groups were storming Vienna, back door to Germany and the Bavarian Alps where nazi diehards were plotting a final stand. Marshal Teodor I. Tolbukhin's Third Ukrainian army group cap tured Schwechat and presumably was the first to enter Vienna Itself.- Altketenhof and Rothneu seidl, both four miles west of Vienna, also fell to the Third ar my group as it clamped a pincers around the city. Industrial Fund Group to Meet A meeting of all contributors to the Bend Industrial Fund has been called for Monday night at 8 o'clock in the circuit court rooms, officers announced today. This will be the group's organi zation meeting, and a constitu tion and by-laws will be adopted, outlining the functions of the new civic unit. Directors to administer the fund who were elected recently by the membership includes W. A. Lackaff, Glenn Gregg, William Niskanen, H. A. Miller and B. A. Stover. As soon as the constitu tion Is adopted, the organization can start functioning, officers ex plained. It is important, members of the fund-raising committee said to day, that every contributor be In attendance Monday. DRIVERS EXCEED SPEED Salem, Ore., April 7 lUt Only March kept their speeds at or be low the 35-mile wartime limit, Secretary of State Robert S. Far rell disclosed today. War Situation (Br United Frai) Premier Admiral Baron Kan taro Suzuki Saturday announced a new "battle" cabinet for Japan and, in a foreboding inaugural statement, warned his people that the war situation "warrants not the least bit of optimism what ever for our nation's survival." "The enemy has now firmly established themselves on our homeland," Suzuki said, referring to the American Invasion of Ja pan's Okinawa prefecture less than 400 miles from Kyushu. He offered to die in battle, if necessary. &m smmmmm sow .ft ft ft '. ft ft & . ,. ft ft ft , ft ft ft ; ft ft ft ft ft ft NAZIS NORTH FLANK SHATTERED 2 Large Cities Bypassed By Armored Units Bremen and Hannover Reported Isolated as Armies Rush fo East Paris, April1 7 ir Flying tank columns of the American Ninth and British second armies ripped 22 to 26 miles through disorgan ized opposition on the north Ger man plain today in twin break throughs that outflanked Bremen and Hannover and carried within 133 miles of Berlip. The entire northern flank of the German battle screen covering the North sea ports, the Danish pen insula and Berlin itself appeared to have broken wide open under the double-barrelleq Allied assault. A rigid military security black out was thrown over the speeding armored forces of the British sec ond army after a terse official announcement- that their van' guards had reached an undisclos ed point 150 miles beyond the Rhine. British Near Bremen, . Delayed . front dispatches, ad mittedly lagging hours behind the battle, placed the British within 10 or 12 miles southwest of Bre men. At their new location 150 miles past the Rhine the Tommies apparently were somewhere be tween Bremen and Hamburg, less than 70 miles from the Baltio pert or Luebeck. On the British right flank, the U. S. Ninth army's second armor ed division burst out 'of its Weser river bridgehead and raced 26 miles east of Kamelin to reach the Hannover-Hildersheim road at a point 133 miles due west of Berlin. There were Yanks 11 miles southeast of Hannover, and that great armament and railway cen ter was effectively outflanked. Germans In Flight Front dispatches said the Anglo American advance was still surg ing ahead so rapidly that the flee ing Germans were unable even to sow mines across the path. The only opposition reported from most sectors came from occasion al snipers who were cut down by tne charging allied tanks. Schulenberg, 19 miles east ofi000.000 French francs, 4,000,000 Hamlin, was taken by the Ameri cans early today and the advance earned seven miles or more be yond that point, crossing the Leine river. The twin break-through threat ened momentarily to close off the entire northwestern corner of Ger many, numbering perhaps 50,000 men, in northern Holland. U. S. First army headquarters, meanwhile, disclosed that the great German force trapped in the Ruhr basin, estimated unof ficially as high as 150,000 men, was made up of the German fifth panzer and 15th armies. APPOINTMENTS MADE Salem, Ore., April 7 IIP) Reap pointment of Earl Fisher and Charles V. Galloway as members of the state tax commission was announced by the state board of control following a special meet ing oi the board this morning. The terms of the two commission ers expire June 4. The reappoint ments are lor lour-year terms. Grave, Asserts fought for the very existence of our empire, has come to the most important crucial stage, which warrants not the least bit of opti mism whatever for our nation's survival. If the situation con tinues like this, the basis of our nation's existence might be threatened," Suzuki said. "The resisting power to destroy the arch enemy and thereby pro tect our own fatherland can only be found in the sincerity shown to the throne by the entire nation now, Japanese, and only now is the time for the 100,000,000 oeo- fend the honorable policy of our nation. "I am firmly determined to lead the nation, prepared to offer my life itself at the foremost front In this task. "My sincere wish Is that you, the entire nation, will do your best to set the august mind of the New Jap Premier ' 2' "" ' t ML. X. 3 f1 IfubA leleohotol Admiral Baron Kantaro Suzuki, 77, president of the Japanese Privy Council, was ordered by Emperor Hirohito to form a new, Japanese cabinet to succeed cabinet of Premier General Kuniaki Koiso which re signed en bloc "because of the grav , tty of the situation.'' Nazi Wealth Found Stored In Deep Mine With 90th Infantry Division, April 7 (IB American troops to day probed into a salt mine and captured what is believed to be the entire gold reserve of the German Reichsbank. The treasure trove, evacuated from Berlin in the last six weeks, was found hero in one of the laigest salt mines In Europe 90 mile s west of Weimar. German officials, captured at the trove, estimated there were 100 tons of gold In the mine. That would be $84,000,000 at th Amer ican rate of $35 a Troy ounce. U. S. Money Included In addition, the Germans said, there were about $3,000,000,000 in paper reichsmarks, $2,000,000 in U S. dollars, about $440,000 in English pounds, as well as 100, Norwegian crowns, and lesser amounts of other currency in the mine. The art treasures Include orig inals by Raphael, Rembrandt, Durier, and Renoir. The Germans said there were 1,000 cases of paintings and statues, 150 tapes tries, thousands of engravings and izu cases oi the original Goethe collection from Weimar. Stored In Chamber The gold was stored in a cham ber 2,100 feet below the ground. The doors of the gold vault had been jammed and it was impos sible immediately to verify the story of the German officials. Lt. Col. William I. Russel, Chevy Case, Md., military gov ernment officer of the 90th, said there was no reason to doubt the story. BRITISH FORCES GAIN With British Second Army In Germany, April 7 ui British armored forces advanced today to an undisclosed point 150 miles be yond the Rhine. New Premier throne at rest In elevating the fighting power of the nation with the bravery traditional to our country." The statement was broadcast by Tokyo radio and recorded by United Press, San Francisco. Along with announcement of a new cabinet, consisting of two other admirals, a general and a j group oi career civil servants, it was disclosed that the Japanese army administration had been re shuffled. The reshuffle Included creation nf a oonarai grm ,i a general army air command in ! the Japanese homeland, presum- i ably to strengthen the nation's de fense against an anticipated allied landing. Marshal Gen. Sugiyama, war minister in the Koiso cabinet, and Marshal Shunroku Hata, former supreme commander of the Japa nese expeditionary forces in 400 Air Forts Blast Honshu, HitFacI ones . Largest Sky Armada Ever Hurled Against Jap Empire Is Used Guam, April 7 UPulLong-range Mustang fighters of the Seventh air force teamed for the first time with, an estimated 400 Superfort resses In a double attack on Japa nese aircraft factories on the is land of Honshu today. The air. armada, largest land based force ever to hit the enemy homeland, raided the Musashina factory at" Nakajima near Tokyo and the giant Mitsubishi1 plant at Nagoya. These factories account for roughly three-fourths of the pro duction of Japanese combat air craft engines. They have been the targets of several previous raids by Superforts and serious dam ge to these plants would badly cripple enemy aircraft production. Today's strike was made at me dium altitude and the big bomb ers dropped hundreds of tons of demolition bombs. The planes droned over the targets just be fore noon in what early reports indicated was good weather, per mitting visual bombing. It was the first time the Super- forts ever hit Japan at this hour of the day. '' Tokyo Tareet ' The fighters came from-.bases -ah Iwo Jlma only 750 Miles south of Tokyo. They have been in ac tion against nearby targets in Bo nins since before Iwo was captur ed, but this was their first mission to Tokyo. The 7th AAF fighter command Is headed by Brig. Gen. Ernest M. Mickey Moore, a for mer West Point track star. Tokyo radio said 40 of the Mus tangs bombed and strafed west ern Tokyo and the nearby port of Yokohama. Tokyo broadcasts said the raid began at 9:30 a, m. Tokyo time and lasted an hour. "Our air defense forces In Inter ception battles against the enemy raiders scored good results, al though the exact number of ene my planes shot down or damaged at present is being checked up," radio Tokyo said. "In skies over Tokyo alone, four or five enemy' planes were reported to have been, bagged." A later Japanese communique said 120 planes raided Tokyo and 150, Nagoya. BICYCLE HITS GIRL Anne Boudreau, 4-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Bou dreau, 1361 Federal street, was severely bruised today when she was struck by a bicycle while walking in Drake park, her par ents told police. Witnesses said that the bicycle was being ridden by a boy of high school age, and that he was speeding on the side walk. The victim was returning to her home after attending the story hour at the library. Anne's father is a member of The Bulle tin mechanical staff. AGREEMENT NEARS Washington, April 7 HI"' Chair man Ezra Van Horn of the soft coal wage conference announced today that the conference now be lieves it will reach agreement on a new wage contract for the na tion's soft coal miners. of Jap Empire China, have been appointed com manders of the now general army command. Gen. Sho.o Kawahe was appointed commander of the general army air command. Significantly KenJI Doihara, Ja pan's "Lawrence of Manchuria," regarded in some quarters as the instigator of the Infamous "Muk den incident" setting off hostili ties In Asia, was returned to pub lic life. He was appointed inspec tor general of military education. Other army appointments: Lt. Gen. Torashlro Kawabe as vice chief of the army general staff Lt. Gen. Mamoru Sara, director of military education headquar ters and army .mechanized force headquarters; Lt. Gen. Otara Uzlyama, commander of the cen tral army zone; Lt. Gen. Yoshlo Kuzuki, commander of the chosen (Korea) army forces; and Lt. Oen. Takashl Mori, commander of the Imperial guard division. East China Sea P ' ' t japan,, HSr VniNAZ tart Ohm S- Jf ' rt&W, r a ; A . rw , " f T( Jformosa-IiOT V ) 111 I llf W'l , OcMH l , j 5 , W- VOLCANO I, a I) ' , 11 J : BATAH . SI -- MARIANAS , - : i!!i:l!li!!PMWdrLJll IBMLIII fl 1 , . a - V In a battle fought in the-East Japan lost its great battleship, the The Japs' Rtrike at Okinawa also total of 3i aircratt. The area in curred is charted here, with the Moscow Paper Of Many Attacks on Russia Stalin's Publication Cites Conflicts and Says Nips Waging War Against Reds' Allies By Henry Shapiro (Umtad Prext Staff CorrcsDnnclAnt.) Moscow, April 7 (U.E) The government newspaper, Iz vestia, charged today that "during the most difficult time for the Soviet Union Japan strengthened her collaboration with Germany, giving the reich "substantial aid against the Soviet Union. Izvestia said that the Russo-Japanese neutrality pact had proved useful, especially during the period when "Germany sought new imperialistic conquests and the domination of Europe." However, Izvestia said, Germany's initial successes in Russia "turned the heads of many Jap politicians who were ready to gamble on Germany's cards. Izvestia said that in view of developments the Russo-Japa nese pact had become mean ingless. Izvestia said that relations with Japan had been highly unsatisfac tory for 20 years after the com munist revolution and that soviet denunciation of the pact "is the direct consequence of the fact that Japan is the ally of Germany which is waging a bandit-like war against the Soviet Union and that Japan is waging war against the Soviet s allies, the United States and Britain." Izvestia recalled Japan's Inter vention In Siberia In 1918, her oc cupation of northern Saghnlln, and the endless border conflicts which culminated in the battles in outer Mongolia In 1938. "This Is a far from complete list of acts testifying that the ruling circles in Japan In a space of many years waged an aggres sive policy against the Soviet Union, leading to repeated sharp conflicts," Izvestia said. Jups Accused When the wehrmacht was halt ed before Moscow, Izvestia said, some of the "hotheads" of Japan sobered up, but the "ruling mili tary and political circles even at that time developed the Idea of the necessity of exploiting their golden opportunity and began to materialize their secret Imperial istic designs in the south seas, leading to Pearl Harbor." "Even when in the court of the war it became unmistakably clear that the German adventure was doomed to collapse," Izvestia wild, "Japan did her utmost to solidify her alliance with Germany and aid the plunderous German Im perialism." The soviet press gave great dis play to the reaction In the United States and Britain to the treaty denunciation. A Tass dispatch from Washington said that "the American people are devoting ex traordinary attention to the de-l nunciation." Battle Scene OUAM I LUZON, "! 1 . MINOORyr -EYTe 'PAUU (NEA Telephoto) China Sea today and yesterday, Yamato, and five other warships, proved costly, as Yanks bagged a which the air and navy battles oc arrow pointing to Okinawa. A ccuses Old Guard Called For Final Stand London, April 7 mi The old guard of the nazls, the brown shirts of the SA stormtroopers, were summoned today in the name of Adolf Hitler to a sacri ficial defense of Germany. Wilhelm Schepmnnn, SA chief of staff, issued an order of the day admonishing the brownshlrts to make the "utmost sacrifices" in a supreme effort to crush their enemies, not only in the home land hut "in enemy-occupied terri tories and everywhere." The eleventh-hour appeal was broadcast by the Berlin radio's home sendee in the name of Hit ler. It put on Hitler's own storm- troopers the responsibility of sac- rlficlng everything, including their lives If necessary, in a last ditch defense of Germany. Hitler I.unds Men The order of the day appealed to the "honor" of the storm troop ers. Jt said Hitler always hau called them the "guarants of the national socialist revolution." 'Our people are looking at you and the example you are setting," Schepmann's order said. "Our be loved homeland is at stake. Our German nation and the final re alization of German socialist re construction are at stake. 'Think of the sacrifice of all our comrades who were killed and prove yourselves wherever you may stand as leaders of storm units." The order struck an almost hys terical note in appealing to the brownshlrts to "stand In the fore most line In these grave days." It said, that "today more than ever before everything depends on our selves." HODGES CROSSES WESER U. S. First Army HQ, Germany, April 7 itri Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' troops are across the Weser river northeast of Kassel, it was announced today. U.S. Task Unit Battles Enemy Near Mainland 3 Destroyers Are Lost ; In Action in East China Sea; 391 Planes Bagged By Frank Tremalne- t (United Press Wftr Correnpondent) , Guam, April 7 IP Japan's greatest battleship, the 40,000-ton Yamato, and five other warships were sunk today by aircraft of Vice Admiral Marc A. Mttschers carrier task forces In a naval-air battle fought In the East China sea. More than a fourth of the en emy's remaining fleet was de, stroyed in the engagement. '- , Three hundred and ninety-one Japanese aircraft were shot down or destroyed by American airmen in a r battles Friday and satur-. day ranging from embattled Okln-. awa to Kyushu, Japans most southerly, home island. . t Japan thus gambled her waning surface and air fleet In a desper ate attempt to stem the inexor able advance of allied arms,, and lost heavily again.- Cruiser Bagged A light cruiser of the Agano class, a small cruiser and three destroyers were sunk by U. S. pi lots In addition to the Yamato in the battle off southern Japan. The enemy's fleet consisted of 12 war- ' ships. j : 1 American battle losses were sev. en aircraft and three destroyers. Several destroyers and smaller aircraft were damaged, Fleet Ad miral Chester W. Nlmitz an nounced. : - ' Twenty -two Japanese- planes were destroyed or damaged on Kyushu airfield by navy search planes, In addition to the 391 shot down in a great aerial victory reminiscent of the , "Marianas turkey shoot" off Guam June 18, 1944. Today was the first time the sequestered Japanese navy has ventured forth to do battle since the great battle of Leyte gulf Oct. 24-25, when the U. S. Seventh and Fifth fleets inflicted a deci sive defeat on a three-pronged surface thrust at the American Philippines bridgehead. Ityukyim Targets In both the aerial and naval counterattacks, the Japanese were attempting to disrupt our success ful invasion of the Ryukyus. The counterattacks were divided into two phases. The first was off Okinawa where large forces of Japanese planes attacked American ships and shore installations In the late afternoon of Friday. The second was on Saturday when Mitscher's first carriers en gaged at least 12 Japanese naval vessels caught emerging from the Inland sea. They were sighted by naval search aircraft as they headed Into the East China sea. The force of destroyers screened the Yamato, pride of the Japa nese navy. Mitschenj steaming toward the Japanese force at high speed, brought It under attack at mid day. No Opposition Met Heildivers, Avengers, Hellcats and Corsairs rose in great swarms from the carrier decks and roared in to the attack. They found no air opposition over the fleet, hut they met heavy anti-aircraft fire. (Continued on Page 3) il!Uliltitllilllilll'IMIIM!IIIIMIIIIttllll'llllli)lllllrUIIllllllllllllllli:illlUI!'Jl BULLETINS London, April 7 The Ber lin radio Nttid today that the Gentian iinny had lost Moed ling, southern suburb of Vienna, after bloody fighting ,from house to limine. With U. S. Ninth Army In Germany, April 7 (1PI The American Ninth army drove almost 26 miles east or Its Wes er river bridgehead today and rearheil a point 133 miles west of Berlin. If. S. First Army Headquar ters, Western Front, April 7 IU") Field Marshal Walter Von Model, commander of the Ger man army group B, Is believed to be among the Germans troops trapped In the Ruhr basin, First army headquarters said today. -