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THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1945
Okinawa Battle Gains in Fury
As Yanks Wedge Into Nippon
Major Defense Line Near Naha
Casualties on Both Sides Mount; One Third
Of Island Under American Control; Vessels
Open. Up With Big Guns to Aid Land Weapons.
By Frank Tremaine .
(United Press War Criespondent)
Guam, April 9 (U.E) Tenth army troops have wedged into
the enemy s first major defense line before Naha, capital of
Okinawa, in fighting approaching the fury of the bloody Iwo
campaign, front reports said today.
Casualties on both sides were mounting, but the Ameri
cans were killing three to 18 Japanese for every American
killed, United Press war correspondent Mac R. Johnson re
ported from the invasion flagship.
"A bloody, bitter fight is raging on this southern front
"with man against man and
artillery against artillery,"
jonnson said
Santiam Snow
108 Inches Deep
A storm which struck with bliz
zard fury along the summit of the
Cascades yesterday, deposited 12
inches of neW snow, and piled up
the greatest depth ever recorded
in the history of the new high
ways over the Sanitam pass, it
was reported today at the offices
of the state highway department
here. A total depth of 108 inches
was noted near the Santiam sum
mit, and it was continuing to
snow lightly there today.
For a time yesterday the Wil
lamette pass was closed to traf
fic owing to a slide near the sum
mit, and today traffic was being
restricted to one way as plows
battled to keep the highway open.
Twelve inches of new snow fell in
that region also yesterday, rais
ing the total depth to 76 inches,
it was reported.
Roads Icy
Both the Santiam and Willam
ette highways were reported ice
bound near the summits, and for
a number of miles east of the
crest both highways were Covered
. with packed snow. "
While snowfall continued this
morning along the mountains,
clearing weather was predicted
for tonight, but with increasing
cloudiness in store for tomorrow.
Bend shivered in a temperature
ot 14 degrees in the night, with
warmer weather 26 degrees be
ing reported along the mountain
tops.
Clothing Drive
Launched Here
This week has been designated
"Clean Out Your Closet week,"
by the Bend Lions club, which is
sponsoring the city-wide cam
paign to produce usable clothing
for the United National Clothing
collection. Clarence Bush, chair
man of the drive, in. announcing
intensive plans for the campaign
this week, said that the clothing
is urgently needed to clothe 125
million victims in the war-ravaged
countries. He said that un
less this country furnishes the
clothing, there was a likehihood
that thousands in European coun
tries might not survive next win
ter, v
Showing "what you can do,"
Chairman Bush outlined a two
point program:
Rules Given
1 Get together all the service
able used summer and winter
clothing you can spare. This in
cludes: Men's, women's, children's
and infants' wear and shoes. Over
coats, topcoats, suits, dresses,
shirts, skirts, jackets, pants, work
clothes, gloves, underwear, sleep
ing garments, robes, sweaters,
shawls, all knit goods and blank
ets and bed clothing.
2 Take your contribution to
the salvage depot located In the
basement of Leedy's at the cor
ner of Oregon avenue and Wall
street, or notify a member of the
Lions club to pick it up.
Park Is Not Plan ,
For Crater Area
Receipt today by members of
the staff of the Deschutes national
forest of House resolution 608, in
troduced in congress by Rep.
Lowell Stockman, revealed that
the measure did not contemplate
the making of a park in the New
berry crater and Paulina lake dis
tricts. It was at first believed
that the bill contemplated use of
the region for a park.
Instead, the measure provides
for setting aside 43 sections of
ground covering the region, in
which any mining operations
would be forbidden. The bill,
designed to preserve the geologi
cal beauty of the region, is now
before the committee on public
landsi
Soldiers of the 24th corns
penetrated the first Japanese
defense line In slugging advances
of 200 to 400 yards yesterday aft
er capturing Uchltomarl, four
miles north of Naha, and Kaniku,
four and a half miles northeast,
Saturday.
Control Extended '
The advances, coupled with an
almost unopposed marine push in
central- Okinawa, ; brought one
third or more of the island under
American control as the invasion
entered its second week.
As on Iwo, the Japanese de
fenders of Naha were fighting
from caves, interlocking pillboxes
and other strong points on heights
from which they could sweep the
advancing Americans with mur
derous crossfire, i
Frequent hand-to-hand combats
were developing as the Americans
bit deeper into defenses manned
by upwards of 60,000 Japanese.
One knoll alone was found to
have as many as 15 entrances to
its underground tunnels and cav
erns, where large quantities of
supplies and ammunition were
found.
Jans Infiltrate
L At night, .the Japanese were-at-
temptlng their favorite tactics of
infiltration. Some American
troops were killing Japanese with
in two or three feet of their fox
holes in the night blackness.
Japanese batteries opened fire
on American guns em placed on
Keise Island, some eight miles
west of Naha, and a violent ar
tillery duel followed. American
battleships finally intervened with
broadsides that silenced the en
emy guns. .
Despite the fury of the fight
ing, Col. Brainard Prescott of
East Aurora, N. Y., a 10th army
staff officer, said casualties on
Okinawa were much less than
originally estimated.
Japs Make Report
A Japanese communique, obvl-
ously exaggerated to bolster home
morale, claimed that 3,600 Ameri
cans had been killed or wounded
102 American tanks knocked out
33 guns destroyed and 16 barges
sunK in tne iirst weeK of tne In
vasion.
Japanese losses were listed
merely as 400 dead.
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The British Second Army Is pushing ahead at a rapid pace to come downi
on Bremen from the we?t and north while the D. 8. Ninth Army Is en-''
veloping Hannover anr Brunswick to strike at famous North &a port;
from the soutn. Farther south, General patton s xnira Army nas met.
frenzied counter-attacks on Its road to Berlin, but is only temporarily
baited on the drive for the German capital.
Torch of Liberty
To Be Re-Lighted
New York, April 9 (IP) The
torch on the sfatue of Liberty will
blaze with "electric fire" resem
bling actual flame when V-E day
arrives, Westinghouse Electric
and Manufacturing company said
today.
"Dimmed during wartime light
ing curfews and used merely as a
warning marker for planes and
ships, the torch flame which
burns 300 feet above New York
harbor will be relighted in a
mightier blaze as a victory sig
nal," the company said.
Japs Say Imperial Navy Ready
For Big Offensive in Pacific C
"Roar of Special Attack Planes Taking Off !
For Okinawas1 Described By Nipponese Radio
Guam, April 9 (U.E) Carrier planes and Superfortresses"
followed up the top heavy American air victory over the
Japanese fleet with new attacks on Japan and the Amami
islands, 200 miles to the southwest, it was announced today.;
The carrier planes, which sank the 45,000-ton Japanese
battleship . Yamato and five other warships Saturday off
Kyushu, southernmost of the enemy home islands, set fire to
a small cargo ship and sank a lugger in the Amamis yesterday.
Other installations also were hit.' . .. v -
- y( A . Tokyo Dortiei dispatch' reported "by the" FCC said thetagainst.
Japanese imperial navy had
oeen mooiiizea tor a grand
offensive" and told of a naval
base resounding "with the
roar of special attack planes
taking off for the Okin
awas.") A substantial force of giant
B-29's from the Marianas bombed
important airfields at Kanoya and
Kanoya East on the southern tip
of Kyushu through clouds by in
strument yesterday. There was
no fighter opposition and little
anti-aircraft fire.
Admiral Marc A. Mitscher, com-
Hitler Reported
In Full Command
London, April 9 (UiAdolf Hit
ler again has taken full personal
command of the army in Ger
many's gravest hour, reports
from the western, front said to-day.
Documents captured by the Al
lies showed that all German at
tacks, withdrawals or other opera
tional movements had to be ap
proved by Hitler in advance, BBC
correspondent Chester Willmot
reported from Germany.
All generals down to divisional
commanders must consult Hitler
before acting, and must do so in
time for Hitler to counter the
orders if he feels so inclined, Will
mot said.
Never in history, Willmot said,
has there been such an attempt
to centralize such control in com
mand. Hitler also was insisting
that his commanders communi
cate the blunt truth directly to
him.
'In the future, I will drasticallv
punish any attempt at veiling the
facts, whether done of purpose or
through negligence." Willmot
quoted Hitler as saying.
Hitler was supposed to have
surrendered control of the army
to the German high command
following the Allied break
through in France and the subse
quent Russian break-through to
the approaches to Berlin.
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Reach Heart of Vienna
Fall of Capital
Believed Near;
Stations Seized
Moscow Says German
Chief Assassinated;
Seige Forces on Job
London, April 9 ir Berlin ad
mitted today that Russian siege
forces had smashed more than
half way through Vienna into the
north part of the city, the fall of
which appeared near.
Vienna's historic landmarks
were falling by dozens to red
army forces fighting through the
Austrian capital. Nazi broadcasts,
acknowledging the loss of vari
ous key points, said the battle
which had been raging in the
southern and western parts of the
city "now has been extended to
the northern part."
The German high command
noncommitally reported only that
"in the southern and western
parts of Vienna our troops are
engaged in heavy fighting."
Reach Cathedral
Marshal Feodor I. Tolbukhln's
Third Ukrainian army forces
were believed already to have
smashed past St. Stephen's cathe
dral, geographical center of the
city. They were less than a mile
from the cathedral yesterday.
Vienna's three largest railway
stations were in soviet hands.
Only two shell-swept secondary
railways remained over which
the nazl garrison could escape or
receive supplies.
The ,Free Austria radio said in
habitants of Vienna Vere rising
against the Gerniaiis. Anirv
crowds demonstrated In the
streets of the occupied portion of
ine capital ana nana grenades
were thrown at German troops,
the broadcast said. j
Nazi Assassinated
Radio Moscow reported that SS
Gen. Sepp Dietrich, ruthless nazi
commander in Vienna, had been
assassinated by patriots who
pumped five revolver shots into
him at virtually point-blank range
while he was en route to give a
pep talk to his troops.
Dietrich, one of Hitler's favorite
commanders, had been in com
mand of the Sixth panzer army
in the Ardennes breakthrough
Ensign McGarvey
mander of the carrier task forces last December before being shift
suum ui uttpun, saia ne oeuevea
the air battles Friday and Satur
day had broken the back of Ja
pan's air and naval strength.
"I believe Japan's fleet and Ja
pan's entire air force is dwirlprilv
on the wane," he told United Press
war correspondent Lloyd Tupling
aixjHia nis iiagsnip.
Mitscners planes headed out
to attack the naval force led by
the battleship Yamato In a mile-
long procession and struck short
ly after 10 a.m. Saturday some 50
mnes soutnwest of Kyushu.
"As soon as we started diving
from the overcast, thev threw
everything they had at us, includ
ing a barrage from the Yamato's
16-inch guns," said Lt. Crr.dr.
Chandler W. Swanson of Coro
nado, Calif., and Montclair, N. J.,
who was credited with the first
torpedo hit on the big battleship.
TED CRAMER DIES
Corvailis, Ore., April 9 IP
Theodore P. (Ted) Cramer, Ore
gon State college business man
ager since 1940, and former mem
ber of the state legislature, died
unexpectedly last night.
ed to Vienna
Moscow also broadcast an of
ficial declaration asserting that
led army troops had entered Aus
tria as liberators with no terri
torial ambitions or claims. Rus
sia will cooperate in restoring
Austria's pro-Anschluss independ
ence, the declaration said.
Liberation Near
Tolbukhin issued a proclama
tion promising that Vienna's lib
eration was near and calling upon
the populace to prevent the Ger
mans from mining the city, blow
ing up bridges or looting.
He said the nazi party in Aus
tria would be disbanded, but add
ed that its members would not be
molested if they cooperated with
the rea army.
Yank Forces Cut Jap Escape
Routes in Baffle for Luzon
Cavalrymen Meet Little Resistance in New
Advances; Over 6,000 Nippons Die in Week
By II. D. Quigo
(Unltrd tm Wr Correspondent)
Manila, April 9 (HE) First cavalry division troops neared
a junction with airborne forces along Tayabas bay today after
a 17-mile advance which cut all Japanese escape routes from
south Luzon.
Front reports said the cavalrymen were meeting little
resistance in the rapid advance which, carried from Cavinti,
on the southeast coast of Laguna, bay, to within five miles
of the 11th airborne troops holding Lucena, capital of Tayabas
province.
A juncture of the two forces would complete the encircle
ment of virtually all the bat- :
terea Japanese garrison in
Luzon's Bicol peninsula. . '
- The compressing drives by
the 14th corps at the northern
end of the peninsula and the 158th
regimental combat team at the
south was taking a heavy toll of
the enemy's dwindling forces.
Over 6,000 Killed
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's com
munique disclosed that 6,495 Jap
anese were killed and 179 cap-i
tureu curing me pasi weeK, Dring
Ing the enemy's total casualties in
the Philippines campaign to 314,
854. (A Japanese Dome! agency dis
patch, recorded by the FCC,
claimed that American forces suf
fered 10,242 casualties during
March in the campaign around
Balete pass In northern Luzon.)
Headquarters revealed that the
158th troops seized the town of
Bacon, Philippines entry point of
the trans-Pacific cable, after a 22
mile amphibious hop from Lfr
gaspl, which was captured Easter
sunaay.
Dtl
push northwestward from Legas
pi, on Albay gulf, although the
drive was somewhat slowed by
strong Japanese machine gun and
mortar fire. Front reports said
most of the Japanese in the Le-
gaspl area were navy personnel
assigned to delaying action.
American bombers again car
ried out extensive attacks on Japa
nese positions and shipping
throughout the southwest Pacific
3 U. S. Armies
Surge to East
In New Drives
4
Other 158th units continued to
Over One Hundred Million Dollars Worth
Of Gold Found at Bottom of German Mine
By Reynolds Packard
(United Press War Correspondent)
At the Bottom of a Salt Mine,
Merkers, Germany, April 8 (De
layed) (IP) The Yanks hit pay
dirt deep in Germany today
more than $100,000,000 worth of
It.
The vast hoard, most of it in
gold bullion was found in a brick
vault at the bottom of this salt
mine, 2,100 feet below the sur
face.
U. S. troops chanced on the
nazl secret yesterday, but lt was
not until this morning when on
officer blasted a hole in the vault
that the Americans could see with
their own eyes the German treas
ure trove.
(An Exchange Telegraph dis
patch from Zurich said six high
officials of the German reiehs
bank and their assistants were ar
rested by the gestapo in Germany
because of the Third army's cap
ture's of the bullion. The dispatch
said Berlin claimed that the gold
was only a fraction of Germany's
reserves and said the rest still was
hidden safely.)
It was a fabulous sight neat
piles of bags of gold bricks, mil
lions of dollars worth of Ameri
can, British, French and other
foreign currency, and stores of
iamous art works.
After the vault was blown open
and the stock taken, Werner
viecK, a reiensbank official, look
ed over the treasure and said:
"I am convinced this all reichs
bank gold."
He had been present when the
gold and other valuables had been
sealed In the vault. After count
ing this morning, Vieck estimated
the gold alone amounted to 100
tons.
The gold and foreign currency
probably had been removed from
the treasury at Berlin in connec
tion with Adolf Hitler's efforts to
escape to a neutral country.
The treasure appears to have
been stored here purely on Hit
ler's own orders, presumably with
the hope of keeping the fuehrer
in ease in some neutral country.
Chicago, April 9 (IPiDr. Mol
chlor Palyi, former chief econom
ist of the deutsche hank nf Hnr.
lin and adviser to the reichsbank,
said today that the allied seizure
of a $100,000,000 nazi hoard was
certain to paralyze Germany's fi
nancial operations.
The hoard, most of lt In gold
uumun, was iouna Saturday in a
German salt mine. It constituted
all of Germany's pre-war gold re
serve, Palyi said.
"The seizure of the gold leaves
Germany in a state of financial
paralysis." he said.
"It is likely the allies will take
the gold as a-reparation. That
means Germany won't have any
gold to back up her currency. Her
money won't be any good outside
Germany. Inside Germany, the
money will be good only if strictly
controlled."
Red Cross Called
To Aid in South
New Orleans, La., April 9 dl'i
More than l,2r0,000 acres of Louis
iana farmland was under water
today as rescue workers prepared
to meet the threat of unprecedent
ed river crests during the week.
Crests far over anything ever
recorded which threatened to
burst through the vast levee sys
tems at many points will begin
passing over the heavier populat
ed sections of the state this week.
John Figg, of the Red Cross
staff, reported considerably more
than 25,000 persons had been
evacuated and that the Red Cross
was operating about 35 refugee
tent camps throughout the strick
en area. Red Cross officials were
expecting to evacuate 60,000 per
sons beforo the flood danger
passed.
BULLETINS
London, April 9 UP The red
army has raptured Koenlgs
berg, capital of Kant Prussia,
Marshal Stalin announced tonight.
(By United Press)
A British broadcast recorded
by C BS today said the great
Krupp armament works in Es
Men "are In the hands of the
American Ninth army." Front
dUpatahe had reported street
fighting In Essen.
Deschutes Goes
Oyer Bond Quota
Tipping the scales of war bond
purchases at second place in the
state-wide record of monthly
sales, Deschutes county purchased
$125,211 worth of bonds, or 102.2
per cent of the March quota which
was $122,500, A. L. O. Schueler,
county chairman, reported today.
Multnomah county was but
one notch in the lead, Schueler
revealed, with March purchases
totalling 102.5 per cent of the es
tablished quota. In comparison,
state sales reached only 89.5 per
cent of the Oregon quota, he said
Activities are being launched to
day, Schueler asserted, In prepa
ration for the Seventh war loan
drive scheduled to open May 14
with various committee chairmen
conferring on the standard of pay
roll savings to be set for each
business organization. Determin
ing the amount of deductions
based on number of employes
and average monthly wage are
George J. Chllds, payroll savings
chairman; Loren B. Carter, chair
man of the merchants committee
and Mrs. Ralph Hensley, chair
man of women's organizations
committee.
Will Credit Loan
"All sales of 'E' bonds this
month will be credited to the Sev
enth war loan drive," Schueler
emphasized. "The accent must be
on increased payroll savings in
the three current months to take
advantage of the April, May and
June paychecks. Because finances
gathered during only two war
loan drives must pay for the com
ing victory in Europe and the ris
ing offensive In the South Pacific,
a greater impetus must accom
pany the Seventh drive."
Sterling McGarvey, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank S. McGarvev.
Bend, and a graduate from the
local high school Vlth the class of
1941,"wdn the fatmg 6f nslgtt in
tne united states navy at gradua
tion exercises recently held at
Corpus Christi, Texas. Ensign Mc
Garvey is to report at Sanford,
Fla., on April 11, for operational
training. He visited his parents in
Bend this past week.
Industrial Fund
Group to Meet
Contributors to the Bend In
dustrial fund will meet tonight at
8 o'clock In the circuit court room
to adopt a constitution and by
laws for the post-war organiza
tion. The committee, headed by Ken
neth Longballa, will present the
proposed form of organization to
the group. All contributors are
urged to be present.
Veterans of 41st
Get Rubber Trees
Headquarters. 41st Division.
Zamboangn, April 9 (li'i Veteran
infantrymen of the famed 41st
division, who captured the island
of Basilan off western Mindanao,
nave seized the first extensive
rubber source to be recovered
from the Japanese, lt was an
nounced today.
The island contains .TSG.OOO rub
ber trees, all in good condition,
which formerly supplied the en
tire requirements of the Philip
pine Islands and provided a sur
plus for U. S. manufacturers. The
holdings are ownea ny tne Ameri
can Rubber company, San Fran
cisco. The Japanese burned the proc
essing mill and warehouses before
fleeing the Island, but apparently
Jiad not extracted any rubber
from the trees during their three
year occupation.
Rhine Is Spanned
By U. S. Engineers
Wesel, Germany, April 9 (111
The first allied railroad train was
scheduled to roll across the Rhine
today on a bridge built by Amer
ican engineers in a record-breaking
11 days.
The 2,588-foot structure was
started at 6 p. m. March 29 and
the last section went into place
last night.
Hodges' Men Spear to
70 Miles of Citadel;
Warplanes Lead Attack
Paris, April 9 (Ui Lt. Gen.
George S. Patton renewed his
march on Berlin today, wheeling
forward up to six miles on a 45
mile front within 120-odd miles of
the nazl capital toward which
four allied armies were racing ..'
flank-to-flank.
Patton's U. S. Third army broke
Its temporary halt enforced by
taut supply lines as the American
First army on its left charged out
of its Weser river bridgehead and
drove eastward 18 miles in a
flanking drive around the Hartz
mountains. Lt. Gen. Courtney H.
Hodges' forces speared to within
70 miles of Magdeburg, Elbe river
stronghold on the outer approach
es to Berlin.
Brunswick Is Goal
The American Ninth army far
ther northwest and the British
Second army beyond it stormed
the outskirts of burning Han
nover and Bremen. Elements of
both forces were pushing toward
Brunswick, 104 miles short of
Berlin.
Thousands of allied planes,
ranged ahead of the allied armies,
strewing devastation in their path.
The heaviest blow was dealt at
the great port of Hamburg, where
British heavies loosed 11-ton
earthquake bombs on nazl U-boat
lairs. , .
i Fleet's Sot America wkrplanes
totalling more than 2,000 swarmed
,beyond the battle lines and
bombed 10' German airfields
around Munich in a new bid to
knock the limping nazi air force
out of the final battle of Germany.
Nazi Strength Cut
Supreme headquarters announc
ed that the allies had ground
down the German army at a rate
of 50,000 a day. for the last 10
days. The loss of 500,000 men In
that period drove a stout spike in
the now well-carpentered coffin of
nazidom.
Front dispatches revealed that
Patton's Third army, shaking off
the shackles which had held it
down since last week, had pushed
ahead along a 45-mile front be
tween points 10 miles east of
Muehlhnusen and the same dis
tance east of Suhl.
It was In the area of Schlothe
Im, 126 miles southwest of Ber
lin, that the Third army last week
made the closest allied approach
to the German capital from the
west. Today's dispatches did not
make clear exactly how much
the advance measures' In the '
Schlotheim sector. It appeared
likely that the gap between Pat
ton and Berlin was narrowed to
a little more than 120 miles.
Patton Advances
Patton's troops pushed two
miles to the vicinity of Klettstedt,
12 miles southeast of Muehlhaus
en. Other units moved into the
area of Nottleben, five miles
northeast of Gotha. Elements of
the 89th division In a four-mile
gain reached Crawlnkel, 11 miles
south of Golha. Troops of the
87th advanced six miles cast to
the area of Stutzhaus, 12 miles
south of Gotha. ,
Ninetieth infantry forces gained
three miles to the area of Stutzer
bach, seven miles northeast of
Suhl,
8,000 Persons Killed By Foe
In Hadamar 'Shudder House'
By Ann Stringer
(United Press War Corresixmrient)
With the U. S. First Army In
side Germany, April 9 "'I The
'shudder house" of Hadamar
stands on a high hill overlooking
the peaceful German town.
In the cemetery beside It are
bUried some 8,000 persons killed
In the "shudder house" by a poison
injection in tne neart. adminis
tered at the orders of the gestapo.
The Germans in the town call
the house the "sehauerhnus."
They all knew what had been hap
pening there since 1939 but the
complete story was not known
until American troops overran the
big rambling "hospital" where ef
ficiency was the watchword.
I he doctor who ran the "hospi
tal" and his head nurse were cap
tured. They told part of the story.
Tne graves and lo volumes ol
death certificates found in the hos
pital cellar told the rest.
In the huge cemetery outside
the hospital are 300 huge mass
graves. In each grave there are
10 to 15 wooden coffins, each hold
ing two bodies, many of them
women.
In the cellar were found the
volumes of death certificates
one volume for 1939; two for 1940;
two for 1941; three for 1942; four
for 1943 and six for 1944.
Each book lists about 500 death
certificates. All are the same. The
name of the person has been
murked down, then "profession
unknown, nationality unknown."
The "patients" were sent to the
hospital by nazis and gestapo of
ficers for "treatment," the doctor
said. Each was described as a
"mental patient" and the doctor
was instructed to put them to
death.
The doctor explained he carried
out the instructions by Injecting
directly into the heart a poison
which caused immediate death.