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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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(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.
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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. -