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Two Great Cities in Germany
Being Destroyed By Fire, Guns
As Troops Race for Hamburg
By Ralph
(United Prcsa War
Two great German cities,
being destroyed by fire and cannon today as American una
British forces bypassed those objectives and raced on for
Brunswick and Hamburg. The drive on Hamburg was pointed
at reaching the Baltic at Lubeck to close a gigantic trap on
all of Denmark and Holstein, including the great naval in
stallations at Kiel.
Except in the north, where
noose around 80,000 Germans
slow progress on the other
sectors of the western front.
Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's
Third army movements were
kept secret but it was known
that the Germans were fight
ing hard to hold back his run
away armor and keep open the
.Leipzig safety gap to southern
redoubt.
The red armies captured Koen
igsburg and cleared more than
two-thirds of Vienna, leaving bare
ly 10 square miles of the city to
the Germans,
Thousands of allied planes hit
German transport and communi
cations lines in the west and
bombed naval installations at Kiel
Italian Front Active
On the Adriatic sector of the
Italian front, the British Eighth
army spilled into the eastern Po
plain between Bologna and Raven
na by crumbling the German de
fense line on the Senlo river.
. In the Pacific where Japanese
resistance north of Naha on Okin
awa was furious and fanatical,
Tokyo threatened by radio to
throw its "whole airforce and
whole fleet" into action to halt
the American Invasion of the
Ryukyus.
American forces continued to
spread rapidly north over the
Motobu peninsula on Okinawa
and more than half of the island
was in our hands. On the Naha
sector, however, the fighting is a
repetition of the slow, costly bat
tle of Iwo. Americans were forced
to rout the Japanese but of caves
and pillboxes, but here the enemy
still had artillery and mortars and
apparently the greater part of the
island garrison was concentrated
In that small southern tip. By
landing on Tsukata island In Na
kagusuku bay, American troops
were clearing an excellent naval
anchorage within 330 miles of the
homeland.
- Nazis Change Tactics
Germany,, losing troops pres
ently at the rate of 1,000,000 a
month, has reached the point
where it has shifted from con
tinuous front defense tactics to
chains of disconnected strong-
points at crucial places on many
sectors to save manpower.
The best demonstration of this
revised strategy is on the sec
tors of the Third and Seventh
American armies. American ar
mor was able to advance deeply
into Germany without signs of a
continuous defense front any
where. Yet behind the tanks,
large and fanatical concentrations
of Germans still hold out in
strongly fortified isolated post
tlons. That accounts, for example,
for the fierce fichting that Is
going on today at both Hellbronn
and Crallsheim, on tno seventn
army's front, obliging the tank
columns to slow down or halt
while infantry attacks the strong-
points.
Huge Bag Taken
Gen. Omar N. Bradley's 12th
army group, according to its last
official report, has bagged 1,006,
366 German prisoners on the west
front. The third army took 418,501
of them, and the First army took
405,703.
American headquarters spokes
men estimated that 500,000 Ger
mans have been killed, wounded
or captured in the last 10 davs. In
the first week of April alone, the
Germans lost 250,000 men to the
allied western armies. Most of
them were prisoners. That count
does not Include more than 20,000
of the estimated 150,000 enemy
troops who were caught in the
Ruhr pocket.
The U. S. navy, during 1944,
commissioned 29,777 ships, Includ
ing combat vessels, patrol boats,
mine vessels, auxiliaries, landing
craft and other types of boats.
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Bremen and Hannover, were
Canadians also tightened their
in the lowlands, there was only
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Army to Receive
Young Inductees
With 18, 19 and 20-year-old men
earmarked for the army as In
fantry replacements for a period
of three months, one of the few
remaining avenues through which
persons in these age groups can
enter the navy is by qualifying
for the radio technician (radar)
training program, it Is emphasized
by Chief Specialist Paul Connet,
recruiter In charge of the Central
Oregon navy recruiting station,
Bend.
Because of the fact that the
fleet is rapidly approaching its
authorized strength and the en
listment of 17 -year -old volun
teers is exceeding all expecta
tions it was decided by army and
navy officials to channel the three
youngest groups of selective serv
ice Inductees Into the army.
The only exceptions were young
men who qualified for radar train
ing, construction battalion (Sea
bee) ratings or combat aircrew-
men training. Quotas for both
Seabee replacements and combat
alrcrewmen, however, are so
small that only a comparatively
few applications result m accep
tances. Program Open
At present the radar program,
however, is wide open. Anyone
between 17 and 50, inclusive, who
can pass the Eddy aptitude test
Is enrolled as a seaman first class
and given at least 11 months of
Intensive training in radio elec
tronics. A petty officer rating us
ually accompanies graduation
from the course.
Seventeen-year-olds and men
over 37 who can qualify technical
ly and physically for the racial
training can be enlisted at once.
Those in the selective service
bracket of 18 to 37, Inclusive, who
can qualify and who are not In
an essential Industry can volun
teer for Induction and will be
given a letter of directed assign
ment into the navy.
The recruiter suggests that any
one interested in this program
come to the navy office In the
postoffice building to determine
whether ho can qualify. Tho
Eddy test can be taken there by
those eligible to take it.
Pacific Veteran
Visits Parents
Marino Pfc. Theodore C. Lord,
20, formerly of Route 1, Is
home on furlough. He recently
returned from the Pacific where
he was a heavy equipment oper-
aior wun a tourtn marine air
wing squadron. Ho was based in
the Ellis and Marshall Islands.
Lord enlisted in March. 1943. He
Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. T. R.
Lord, also formerly of Route 1.
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Industrial Fund
By-Laws Adopted
Articles of incorporation and by
laws for the- Bend Development
association, a non-profit corpora
tion, were adopted at a meeting
held last night by the contributors
to a post-war Industrial fund
raised in January and February
of this year. The contributors or
dered that tho articles of incor
poration be immediately filed with
the state so that the association
can start to function.
The bylaws were adopted, with
a few minor alterations, as sub
mitted by a committee composed
of Kenneth Longballa, chairman;
H. H. DeArmond, George V. Eus
ton, Vance Coyner and N. R. Gil
bert. They provided In general
that any person may become a
member who shall subscribe not
less than $10 and all membership,
regardless of size, shall only have
one vote. A governing board of
five directors is provided to be
elected by the direct primary. The
board shall meet at regular peri
ods, have power to appoint com
mittees and make expenditures
and enter Into agreements that
will tend to promote increased
payrolls for Bend and vicinity.
Directors indicated at the meet
ing that a copy of the bylaws will
be furnished each member of the
association ut an early date.
I n lid Is Sought
Members present last night vot
ed to ask the city to budget a
fund of $5,000 In the 1945-4ti.bud-get
for industrial promotion. Ten
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Plus 10'0 Tax
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thhA lelephoio
thousand dollars Is now in the
city funds and will be re-budgeted
to make it available during the
coming year, when it is expected
that It will be needed. To date,
no expenditures have been made.
Association funds received from
contributions now total approxi
mately $13,400, and these will be
turned over to the directors by
the fund-raising committee, as
soon as the incorporation is com
pleted. It Is planned to canvass
present non-subscribers to raise
$1,600, making a $15,000 fund, the
equivalent of that to be requested
from the city.
Oirectore Listed
Directors recently elected are
William A. Lackaff, B. A. Stover,
William Nlskanen, H. A. Miller
and Glenn Gregg.
In the absence of Carl A. John
son, temporary chairman, who
was called to Chicago because of
illness of his mother, Frank H.
Loggan, a member of the fund
raising committee, presided. Sum
ner Deltrlck Is the third member,
and Don H. Peoples is temporary
secretary.
AUXILIARY TO MEET
A meeting of Veterans of For
eign Wars auxiliary members will
be held at 8 p. m., Wednesday in
the Moose hall. Plans for in
stallation of new officers, to bi
held on April 21 at the Pine Forest
grange hall, will be made.
"All candidates are being asked
to be present, as this will be the
last meeting for new members,
under the present officers, and
the contest will be closed", an an
nouncement stated.
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Ofhman Attempts to Crash
Parley of World's Big-Wigs
Bv Frederick C. Olhman
(United Press StafC Correspondent)
Washington, April 10 ll Hav
ing been sunburned by the arc
lights and dazzled by the golden
turbans of three delegates (one
with horn-rimmed eyeglasses) I
now can report what a plenary
session of a peace conference is.
The boys held one here, as a
kind of a prelude to the San Fran
cisco meeting, and I hate to disil
lusion you, but it didn't amount
to much. It lasted 19 minutes, long
enough for the international big
wigs to say howjado. Then the
united committee of Jurists ad
journed "for lunch at the supreme
court. '
The plenary session was exactly
that (I looked it up in the diction
ary): All hands were there and
tho visiting firemen, too, to hear
graceful little speeches by Secre
tary of State Edward R. Stettin
ius, Jr.; Sir Michael Myers of
New Zealand, and Dr. Wang
Chung-Hui of China. Later on
they got together In the well-
known smoke-filled room to start
.
"PP&L's pioneering has figured
in the success of my shop"
...says Clayton Speck, Automobile
Dealer in Sunnyside, Washington
"When I first started in the automobile
business, I ran a blacksmith shop along with
it for bread and butter, and was lucky to
have a single electric motor and four
32-candlepower carbon filament lamps. I
shod horses by the light of one of the lamps,
pumped tires by hand, and delivered gaso
line from a measuring can filled from a
pitcher pump. That was 33 years ago.
"Today, thanks to PP&L's progressive
ness, we use more than 30 electric motors,
and light the shop as bright as day. And we
get all this electricity at a small fraction of
the cost per kilowatt -hour 33 years ago.
"In this great farming territory that ships
600,000 tons of food to market every year,
it's our job to keep farm machinery and
trucks repaired and on the go. And we're
doing it, with electric power tools and
PP&L's dependable electric service.
"Pacific Power & Light Company has
played a big part
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the real work.
As I understand it (from listen
ing to some language de luxe)
they are trying to cook up plans
for a new world court and thereby
save the San Francisco confer
ence considerable bother.So much
for the international issue; now
for that plenary conference:
It-opened at 11:04 a. m. in the
interdepartmental auditorium,
which is a kind of federal im
provement on the Roxy theater
in New York. The baby blue ceil
ing is four stories high, the drapes
are gold, the seats are soft and
the potted palms around the stage
are beautiful.
Secretary Stettinius' teeth glist
ened in the blue-white glare of the
flood lights, which simultaneous
ly heated the top of my head. A
babel of many tongues subsided
as he welcomed the leading
ludges from the United Nations
and recommended peaceful meth
ods for settling international
squabbles.
In three minutes flat he had
completed his speech and intro
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in development of the
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by Pacific Power &
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heatir.g era on the way.
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1930 Thewholcelec
food saving and health
trie industry promotes
protection with elec
trical refrigeration.
duced Dr. Wang, a former mem
ber of the original world court.
The doctor was a wispy little citi
zen with horn-rimmed eyeglasses,
a Charlie Chan mustache and a
voice barely audible over the whir
of a dozen movie cameras.
"With a spirit of cooperation
and singleness of purpose we
shall not fail," he said.
Then came Sir Michael, the
chief justice of New Zealand, in
striped pants, a black coat, and a
bat-wing collar. His accent was
clipped, like this: "Mr. Seck-try,
failure would be a world trag
dy." By now it was 11:23 a. m. End
plenary session. Stettinius said
he'd appreciate it if the delegates
would stay seated for one minute
while the movie makers made a
panorama. The lads with the
cameras went crazy, the. inter
national judges looked startled
(as you doubtles will notice in the
newsreels later this week) and
all but three of the members filed
outside.
These were from Saudi Arabia;
they wore robes of black and
white wool and white turbans
with gold filigree. They would
have gone, too, but the camera
man wouldn't let 'em. They had
their pictures taken from every
Yakima Valley. Its forward-looking poli
cies, good service, and reasonable rates have
helped a lot in getting the new businesses
and food processing industries that are lo
cating in this area."
Clayton Speck, owner and manager of Clayton
Speck Motors, has been identified with business
activity in Sunnyside since 1909, and with th
automobile business since 1911.
A native of Lenark, Illinois, he was working for
the Milwaukie Railroad in Chicago when he came
to Sunnyside on a vacation trip in 1909. He saw
the promise in the Yakima Valley, resigned his
railroad job, collected a month's pay of $80, and
staked his future on the development of the Sunny
side district.
When he established his own automobile busi
ness, in 1912, there were only about 30 cars in the
entire lower Yakima Valley. In 1936 he built his
own modern garage building and completely equip
ped it with electric power tools. Much of his elec
trical equipment has been busy during the war,
machining valve fittings for Liberty ships.
The Speck home makes generous use of electric
ity, too. Their first electric range was bought in
iyii!. Ana tney nave had electric r.fr;rorn
s;nce 1924,
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1940 Development
of fluorescent lighting
offers improved oppor
tunities for "Better
Light Better Sight".
conceivable angle; then they hur
ried out with skirts flying and
hopped into their limousine.
Most of the other peace-makers
boarded four buses of the Capital
Transit Co., for their journey to
the high court lunch. They looked
like four loads of tourists.
Juniper Is Cured
In Local Plant
Heartened by the discovery that
juniper can be successfully cured
in the pilot plant of the Western
Pine association on The Shevlin
Hixon Company properties here,
members of the Bend chamber of
commerce industrial committee
are continuing their tests, it was
reported today.
Tests already made have proven
that juniper plank up to six quar
ter have been effectively cured
wtihout checking, and the possi
bility presented itself that juniper
might be produced more rapidly
for production of novelties
through this method, It was said.
America has shipped Russia 20,
000 tons of seeds for 1945 spring
planting, largely for garden and
field crops.
G R E S S
1945 Television now
ready for post-war
homes. Great advances
in science of electronics
await peacetime use.
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