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Volume LIU
THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND. DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1 1, 1945
NO. 108
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Last Nazi-Held
Area Cleared;
River Grossed
Aged City Strongest
Bastion Athwart Back
Door to Hitler's Reich
; By Robert Muse
(lintted Preu Staff Correspondent)
London, April 11 ip An Aus
trian broadcast said today that
the last three nazi-held districts
of Vienna have been cleared, pre
sumably completing the liberation
of the Austrian capital.
Radio sender Austria said the
Leopaldstadt (second) and Brigit
tenau (20th) districts, both be
tween the Danube river canal and
the river itself, and the Florids
dorf (21st) district east of th
river finally had been liberated.
Occupation of the remainder of
Vienna's 21 districts all those
west of the river and canal-rwas
completed yesterday by Marshal
Feodor I. Tolbukhin's. Russian
third Ukrainian army.
Crossing: Seized .
A soviet front dispatch said Tol
bukhin had captured a crossing
over the Danube canal into the
Leopoldstadt and Brigittenau dis
tricts. ' . ,
Radio sender Austria,' presum
ably operated by Austrian patriots
or the Red army, did not specify
whether the last three districts
were cleared by the third army
or Marshal Rodion Y. Malinov
sky's adjacent second Ukrainian
army. There also was a possibili
ty that Austrian patriots had
thrown the last of the Germans
out of their capital city.
Molinovsky's forces at last re
ports were driving along the east
bank of the Danube less than
eight miles northeast of Florids-.
dorf. They had narrowed the Ger- j
man escape gap from Vienna to
less than 10 miles, already;
spanned by artillery fire. I
Reds Thrown Back I
The German DNB. agency said
the Russians had been thrown
back to the famous Ringstrasse,
a boulevard in the heart of Vienna
and just west of the Danube canal.
Bitter street battles developed be
tween the parliament building and i
the Vienna castle, DNB said.
The liberation of Vienna would
topple the strongest bastion ath
wart the back door to Germany
and the nazi last-ditch defense
zone in the Austrian and Bavarian
Alps.
Tolbukhin's ' forces, without
waiting for the mopup of Vienna,
already have driven beyond St.
Poelten, 32 miles west of the Aus
trian capital, Stockholm said. St.
Poelten lies 201 miles east of
Munich, 141 miles from Berchtes
gaden and some 260 miles from
American Third, army spearheads.
Soviets Get CJty
Moscow did not place the third
Ukrainian army beyond Neulen
genbach, 13 miles east of St. Poel
ten, however. Neulengenbach
was captured by the Russians
Sunday.
Tolbukhin's forces liberated all
but three of Vienna's 21 munici
pal districts yesterday, capturing
the Franz Joseph station, the gen
eral hospital, cavalry barracks,
the science academy and other
buildings.
Still in German hands were the
Leopoldstadt (second) district and
the Brigittenau (20th) district,
both hpfwppn thp Danube river
.canal and the river itself, and the '
Floridsdorf (21st) district, east of
the river.
Group to Present
Progress Reports
Reports from 28 separate com
mittees of the Bend chamber of
commerce are expected to be
made tomorrow when the cham
ber holds a town meeting at noon
in the Pine Tavern. The open
meeting is being held for the pur
pose of presenting the reports,
and determining the progress,
each group is making in its 1945 j
Drop-ram.
The reports are limited to two
minutes each, according to Sec-j
retary Don H. Peoples, who urged .
that all members attend, as well
as non-members interested in the
chamber's work. '
Togo Asserts
Nips Fighting
Survival War
(By United Preu)
Japanese Foreign Minister Shi
genori Togo, in his first speech
since he resumed cabinet office
under Premier Kantaro Suzuki,
said Wednesday that Japan's for
eign policy "will now dovetail per
fectly into military considera
tions."' Togo, regarded in Japan as an
expert on Soviet relations, assert
ed that Japan was "fighting only
a war of self defense," and aimed
only at "universal peace and con
cord of nations based on equal
ity," Tokyo radio reported in a
broadcast recorded by United
Press, San Francisco.
His statements on the future
course of Japan's diplomacy close
ly paralleled previous Japanese
announcements that every effort
would be made to placate Russia,
following Moscow's denunciation
of the Soviet-Japanese neutrality
pact.
Overseas Troops
To Get Furloughs
Washington, April 11 (VP) Con
gress took its first steps toward
demobilization legislation today
as the army revealed plans to
send virtually all physically-fit
troops in this country overseas
as soon as they can be replaced.
Chairman Andrew J. May, D.,
Ky., of the house military affairs
committee said he believed the
fall of Germany was "close
enough" for the war department
to lei congress in on its plans for
demobilization and reorganization
of the army after V-E day.
He asked Secretary of War
Henry L. Stimson to send the
proper army officers to a closed
meeting of the committee next
Tuesday to discuss legislation "to
coordinate the general problems
with which we will all be con
cerned." News that the army is plan
ning to get all able-bodied troops
in this country overseas, presum
ably to take the place of battle
weary combat troops for occupa
tion duty in Europe and fighting
in the Pacific, came yesterday in
a letter from Stimson to Rep.
George M. Mahon, D., Tex.
Mahon suggested that the army
"scrape the bottom of the barrel"
in this country before switching
combat troops from Europe to
the Pacific after V-E day.
Photos Show Nazi
Battleship Sunk
London, April 11 LP The air
ministry announced today that
aerial reconnaissance showed the
German pocket battleship Admiral
Scheer was sunk by RAF bomb
ers in an attack on Kiel the night
of April 9.
The Admiral Schcer was one
of Germany's two pocket battle
ships of the 10,000-ton class. The
other was the Luetzow, formerly
the Deutschland.
Win 'Five Star' Ratings
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Three more Bend Bulletin carriers have won "Five Star" ratings,
and accordingly have been presented with S25 war bonds as a reward
for their efficiency and salesmanship. They are: right to left, Clyde
Rhoades, 1605 Galveston avenue; Billy Niskanen, 525 Broadway, and
Bobby Moody, 427 Riverfront. Each Is 12 years of age, and has been
carrying The Bulletin for more than six months. Requirements to
win the "Five Star" rating are that the carriers must have worked
at least six months, have less than four complaints, get two new
subscriptions each month, and have all bills paid by the 15th.
Yanks Capture
Isle Sub Base
On Okinawa
. Resistance of Nippons
Stalls Advance of U. S.
Forces Toward Naha -r.
By Frank Tremaine
(United Pres War Correspondent)
Guam, April 11 (IB Bitter Japa
nese resistance stalled the 24th
army corps' push toward Naha
in southern Okinawa today, but
marines in the nbrth seized a sub
marine base in a mile-and-a-half
advance.
. Other army troops unlocked the
entrance to Nakagusuku bay, one
of the finest naval anchorages
south of Japan, with an amphibi
ous landing Tuesday on tiny
Tsugen (Tsukata) island, about
10 miles off the southeast coast
of Okinawa.
The invasion troops stormed
quickly inland from the south
coast and captured the town of
Tsugen against only slight opposi
tion. Moderate resistance in the
form of small arms and mortar
fire developed later, but officers
expected the entire mile-long is
land soon would be in American
hands. ...
.. . Ships Use Bay
Japanese broadcasts said Amer
ican warships already were oper
ating in Nakagusuku bay. Nearly
two-thirds of the Okinawa shore
of the bay has been captured.
Marines captured Japanese sub'
marine pens and other naval in
stallations at Unten bay on the
north coast of Motobu peninsula,
which juts out of the west coast
of northern Okinawa, yesterday
after beating off two small enemy
counterattacks the previous night.
Torpedoes and mines were
seized at Unten bay, but the en
emy had evacuated all submarines
and other craft. The base - was
known to have been a lair for mid
get submarines, though larger
types also may have used it.
Japs Decimated
The marines decimated counter
attacking Japanese Monday night,
then advanced their lines to Unten
bay in the northwest and the Man
na river in the southeast. Tsuwa
village was captured.
While resistance continued al
most non-existent in the north,
troops of the 24th army corps in
the south were fighting a battle
almost as bloody as Iwo in an
effort to crack through the last
four miles to Naha, capital of
Okinawa.
Marine artillery was moved
south to supplement army guns
in the heaviest artillery bombard
ment of the Pacific war. Naval
guns ranging up to the 16-inch
rifles of battleships offshore also
were pounding away at the enemy
defenses.
Japs Have Advantage
The Japanese were answering
almost shot for shot and had the
advantage of emplacements on
two ridges from which they can
observe every American move.
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United Nations Jurists Meet in
United Nations Jurists meet in Washington to begin work on a new world court in line with the Dumbarton
Oaks proposal calling for "an international court of Justice." Here Secretary of Btate Edward Stettinlu
(center) welcomes Dr. Wang Chung-Hui of China (left) and Sir Michael Myers of New Zealand, Who an
swered the address of welcome.
Troops of 41st Division
Capture Suju Isle Group
Manila, April 11 (UH) American troops today crushed
all-..organized Japanese resistance Jn., southern L$ii?on,Bnd
seized complete control of the Sulu archipelago in the southern
Philippines. - " -
Elements of the 11th airborne division shattered the final
Japanese defenses in southern Luzon with a 22-mile drive
that carried from Lucena to the east coast at Atimonan, 72
miles southeast of Manila.
"All organized enemy, resistance in southern Luzon has
collapsed and its liberation is at hand," Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur announced.
Virtual completion of the conquest of southern Luzon came
Truck Fire Loss
Reported Large
Loss to merchandise and other
cargo, including 200 cases of li
quor, will run into thousands of
dollars as a result of a fire which
early yesterday destroyed a Bend
Portland Trucking service trailer
on the Wapinitia highway, on the
Maupin grade, northwest of that
town, it was reported here today
by officials of the line. Fire des
troyed the trailer and its 12 ton
cargo, after a flat tire had caught
fire from friction and set the
vehicle ablaze.
Besides the liquor, the trailer
contained tons of staples and
other merchandise, Portland news
papers destined for Central Ore
gon, and motion picture films
bound for Madras, Redmond and
Bend theaters.
The truck was being driven bv
William Blanchard of Portland. He
said that after he noticed smoke
issuing from the trailer, he
brought the heavy vehicle to a halt
and tried to extinguish the flames.
Failing in this, he detached the
tractor and drove it to safety,
then salvaged several tires off the
trailer before the flames prevent
ed further salvage work.
Food Merchants
HoldConfe rence
Members of the Bend chapter
of the Food Merchants associa
tion today were on record as fa
voring OPA policing by local
boards, rather than by outside?
representatives of the office of
price administration, as a result
of a meeting of the group last
night In the chamber of com
merca offices. The group author-
izea james Mayne, president, t
write tne Oregon Food Merchants
association soliciting that body's
support of the plan.
At the meeting, speakers ex
pressed the belief that local
boards could better enforce OPA
regulations because of their more
Intimate knowledge of local con
ditions. It was asserted that OP
officials have caused merchants
in other localities considerable in
convenience and trouble by sum
mary investigations and decisions.
J .
as veteran troops of Maj. Gen.
Jens A. Does 41st division
seized control of the entire
Sulu archipelago with the oc
cupation of the principal por
tion of Job island.
Airfield Seized
Jolo capital city of the same
name and the 4,000-foot Zettel
airfield were captured by the 41st
troops which made a double land
ing Monday on the Island midway
in the 200-mile long archipelago
stretching from Mindanao In the
southwestern Philippines to Bor
neo. Other units of the 41st divi
sion also Invaded Busuanga is
land, north of American controlled
Palawan across the Sulu sea
from Mindanao, and ended Japa
nese control of approximately
3,000 lepers In the Culion colony,
largest leper colony, In the world.
The landing at Coron bay on
Busuanga was made without op
position and a supply ship imme
diately began unloading medical
supplies and food the first the
colony had received in three years.
Screen Actress
Victim of Fire
ITr.ll A..;i 11 HXn Tltnnfl
film actress' Gloria Dickson, 27, !
was burnpd to death ast nlcht In;11 "
a fire that destroyed her palatial
hillside home.
Her body, clad only in a pink
slip and charred almost beyond
recognition, was found in an up
stairs bathroom where she ap
parently had been trapped by the
flames. Nearby was the body of
her pet dog.
Death, resulted from severe
burns and suffocation, police said.
Alone In House
Miss Dickson was alone in the
house at the time. Her husband,
William Fitzgerald, a marine vet
eran and former boxer, tried to
enter the blazing mansion to res
cue her, crying "I've got to get to
my baby," neighbors said.
Ho collapsed' when told of her!
death.
Firemen said the blaze appar
ently started In an overstuffed
chair in the rumpus room and
spread qdlckly through the lux
urious home. Five Hollywood and
Beverley hills XI re companies
fought the flames.
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114 Inches of Snow
Blankets Divide
Prospects that the eight-year
jecQrd for snow depths on the
Cascade summits might be sur
passed if the present forecast for
more storms hold true, were Im
proved today as last night's fall
ranged from 12 to 14 inches all
along the crest. Showers in the
lowlands, increased cloudiness and
snow flurries over the mountains
was the weather man's prediction
for the next 24 hours.
Greatest depth of snow recorded
the past eight years was slightly
over 149 inches In 1943, and this
morning on the Suntium pass
highway maintenance crews re
ported a total depth of 114 Inches.
This surpasses the deptji noted in
1939, when 111 inches were re
ported. Next highest since the
Santiam route was opened was
120 inches in 1938.
Local headquarters of the high
way department today reported
road conditions as follows:
Koad Report Made
Santiam: drifting snows with
light fall, plows - operating, 12
inches of new snow and a total
depth of 114 inches.
Willamette: Intermittent hard
snow fall with packed snow east
of the summit, plows operating,
new snow 14 Inches and a total
depth of 96 Inches.
Wapinitia: -light snowfall, with
packed snow conditions on the
highway, 14 inches of new snow,
and a total depth of 84 inches.
Motor traffic across the divide
has been materially slowed the
past 24 hours, it requiring in
some instances more than two
hours over the usual travelling
time between Portland and Bend.
Chains Advised
One way traffic prevailed on
both the Santiam and Willamette
highways. Motorists were warn-
ed to carry chains. The one-way ".7-,ri' ,
traffic on the Willamette hlgh-i""1" l'h ""Tif
way was west of the tunnel. One-! ersls f Mr' and
way traffic existed on the Sntl.l wrg' J- w- ''""XT'-
am route for a distance of six
miles crist of Tombstone summit ;
and there was a narrow two-way
lane fo,r " "'stance of four miles
Snows that struck the Cascades
with blizzard-like fury In the
night, carried over into the Des
chutes valley, depositing one inch I
of snow In Bend. Morning sun
shine, however, quickly dissipated
this, but winds caused icy con
ditions in shaded spots.
Private Stevens
Hurt in Action
Pvt. J. O. Stevens, fighting with
the U. S. infantry in Europe, was
wounded In action and is receiv
ing medical attention at a Bel
glum hospital, correspondence re-
celved by his wife, Mrs. Margaret
Stevens of Rt. 1, box 13, revealed
Overseas six months, the army
man suffered facial and eye
burns while In the front lines.
A native of Arkansas, he was
stationed at Camp Abbot for ad
vanced training prior to shipping
overseas.
U. S. Division Only 63 Miles
From Berlin in Bold Advance
Into East; Gain
Hell-on-Wheels Armored Unit Sweeps as Far
As Magdeburg, to Bivouac on Final Barrier
Before Capital; Super-Highway Is Big Help
raris. Anril 11 (U.E) The Ninth army's hell-on-wheels
second armored division in one of the most spectacular drives :
of the war tonight raced to the banks of the Elbe river at ;
Magdeburg, 63 miles west of Berlin. ;
The Elbe is the last water
vance upon the reich capital.
, The second armored s advance was one of the most dashing
in a campaign that rapidly was developing into a speed race
along the super-highways that Adolf Hitler once built for the '
use of the wehrmacht.
Far behind the American
elements captured Essen.
The American First army thrust forward within 140 miles
of a juncture with the red army and the Third army started
a three-division armored race that put them up to 20 miles
closer toward Berlin. .
But the hell-on-wheels outfit was away out in front. At
Magdeburg it was only 117 miles west of the ted army's lines
on the Oder river elbow just northeast of Berlin.
It's commander, an American brigadier - general, had
sworn when he took off this morning from a jump-off point
southwest of Brunswick that he would be at the Elbe tonight.
And he made good his promise.
The second armored covered 55 miles along the smooth
hard-surfaced highway to hit the river bank. It was the
greatest single day's advance of the war, obviously against
defenses that we're shattered. . V1 - - '
The great drive coincided with First army forecasts of a ' '
juncture with the red army within the next 24 to 72 hours. -The
second armored, however, was a good 20 miles closer to
the Russians than the most advanced points reported for the
Raiser of Flag
in
One of the five men struggling
to raise Old Glory from the rocky
pinnacle of Mt. Surlbachl on Iwo
Jima in the epic photograph
caught by an army photographer
has been identified as Cpl. Rene
Foubert by his father, J. W. Fou
bert of Klamath .Fails, and an
uncle, Ray DeGagne of 315 Yew
lane, Bend.
A message from the war de
partment received March 27 by
the marines parents Indicated
that but five days after the heroic
struggle to raise the Sturs and
Stripes against a shattering blast
of Jap artillery and sniper fire,
Cpl. Foubert was killed in action.
Was Paratrooper
A paratiooper with the Fifth
marine division, Cpl. Foubert
served overseas for a period of
14 months before reluming to the
states on rurlough. Ho left last
September for his second assign
ment In the south Pacific. Cpl.
Foubert reeelved his basic train
ing at Los Angeles and before
joining the armed forces was em
ployed by the Great Northern
Railroad company at Klamath
Falls.
His wife, the former Rosemarle
The Hague Is Again Proposed
As Site of New World Court
By it. II. Shackford
(Unltal Preu Staff Correspondent)
Washington, April 11 miIn
formal agreement to set up the
new world court at Its old site
the Hague in the Netherlands
today renewed speculation about
the eventual home of the new
world security organization.
The committee of United Na
tions jurists, meeting here to re
vise the old world court statute
for presentation to the San Fran
cisco conference, has agreed that
the new court should return to
the Hague. The final decision will
rest with the full conference.
The Hague has been associated
for a half century
ever since the
first Hague peace conference in
1899 with man's attempt to set
up a workable International tri
bunal for peaceful settlement of
disputes.
But the decision on the "cap
ital" of the world organization
will not be so easy. The most
Is Spectacular
line barring the American ad- ;
spearhead, other Ninth army
irst army.
Paris, April 11 IP The great
German arsenal city of Essen fell
! today in the wake of three Amer
ican armies racing over the last
100 miles to Berlin at a clip that
was expected to bring a Juncture .
with the red army in the next 24
to 72 hours.
In a day of spreading nazl mili
tary disaster that brought the
final collapse of the wehrmacht
measurably closer, the American
First, Third and Ninth armies,
more than 1,000,000 strong, broke
lose on what appeared to be the
final drive for Berlin.
Vanguards of the Ninth army
In the north were 63 miles or less
from the capital early today and
all three armies were pounding .
ahead against disorganized resist
ance. Essen Captured
Essen, Germany's greatest man
ufacturing city and the core of
the Ruhr valley industries, was.
captured by the Ninth army's
17th airborne division in an ad
vance Into the northern wall of
the Ruhr trap.
Home of the sprawling Krupp
works and the sixth largest city
In Germany, it was the richest in
dustrial prize to fall Into allied
hands. The German garrison, al
ready more than 100 miles be
hind the Berlin-bound American
armies offered only weak resist
ance. Essen fell barely 24 hours after
the Ninth army's 84th division
had captured the big railway and
factory city of Hannover. Cologne
and Frankfort-on-Maine are also
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prominently mentioned cities to '
date Include Geneva, site of the
League of Nations, Washington,
Vienna, Prague, Trieste and Que
bec. Against that is President
Roosevelt's expressed desire to
have the "world capital" move
each year.
That will be one of the relative
ly unimportant but difficult ques
tions the United Nations will have
to answer at San Francisco.
The latest suggestion came
from London where the delegates
of the British commonwealth of
nations are meeting for pre-con-ference
talks. Many of them were
represented as naming Washing
ton as their first choice and a
Canadian city, probably Quebec,
as their second.
Some British officials were said
to feel that the American people
probably would play a more ac
tive role In the new organization
if it were in the United States.
They haven't forgotten 1920.