The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963, April 14, 1945, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextUnWotowItt THE BENJ1J) aMMMHh. . WMMM Check YoUr Tires : From the day the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor, tiret have been a valuable spot in U. S. armor, Be sure to check yours. Weather Forecast r Tartly clouily northern, clear ; , soul hem portion today and to night! partly cloudy Sunday. Warmer today and cooler Sinday. CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER X to w THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND. DESCHUTES COUNfY, OREGON. SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1945 NO. Ml Volume LIU Even os G. . Joe , ulent-Capital- Honors F.D. U.i mvtN a& a i joe YANKS CLOSE IN ON BERLIN 5 Square Miles Of Jap Capita! Swept By Fire Tokyo Reports Flames Spread to Palace and Destroy Nippon Shrine By I.yle Shoemaker (United Press War Correspondent) - Guam, April 14 (in Hundreds of Superfortresses set fire to a five-squaremile arsenal area of Tokyo today and the Japanese re ported the flames spread to the mikado's palace. A Tokyo communique said the fires broke' out in part of the buildings within the imperial pal ace, the Omiya palace and the Asasaha detached palace but "were soon extinguished." The main building and sanctu ary of the grand Meiji shrine, one of Japan's greatest memorials, was "burned to ashes," the com munique said. Omiya palace, adjoining the im perial palace, is the residence of the empress dowager. Huge Fires Started Explosions from the huge fires that ripped through the vital war production area of Tokyo were heard more than 100 miles away. Thousands of tons of high ex plosives . and incendiaries were dumped on the Japanese capital in a section congested with three large munitions plants and chem ical works. . Huge fires blazed furiously through the target area, one of Japan's most vital war production centers, as the Marlanas-based B-29's completed the 16th raid on the enemy capital. When- the B-29 in which I was riding flew over Tkyo near the end of today's raid, fires were raging through the stricken area and thunderous explosions nasn ed across the city. -. Damage Admitted Tokvo radio admitted that se- vere damage resulted from the fires, which raeed several hours after the bombers left. The com munique said approximately 170 B-29's took part in the raid and claimed that 41 of them were shot down and 80 others damaged. . Although the size of the Super fortress force was not announced officially, it was known to com pare with those used in previous raids when as many as 325 bomb ers dumped over 2,000 tons of fire bombs in a .single attack. The section singled out for to day's attack was about six miles northwest of the imperial palace and on the edge of the 17-mile area devastated in the March 10 fire raid. Ack-Ack Encountered The raid started at 1:30 a. m. When our plane, the next to the last one in the force, reached the target about 30 searchlights were groping through the darkness and ack-ack bursting around us. As we sped through the bomb run and the bombardier was get ting ready to release our fire bombs, tremendous explosions threw our plane 5,000 feet up ward. It shuddered there at 15,000 feet and then started straight down for burning Tokyo. We dropped 1,000 feet before the pilot, Capt. Richard Paquette, Burlington, Vt., got the plane under control. Smoke from the inferno below was billowing high past our plane and must have arisen at least five miles into the air. Bureau Outlines Work for Oregon Washington, April 14 !P) The kumqn nf voiamntinn tndav es timated the construction cost of 21 proposed irrigation, iiooa con trol and power projects In Oregon n ca7 Two of 'the projects, the Klam ath ana UCSCnuies iiiHiiiaiiuii.s, ore under construction. The Klam oth irricatinr, nrolect will be com pleted in less than two years it a cost of $410,000, the interior de partment estimated in a report to tie nOUSe appiupwemuua wiim... The irrigation project on the Deschutes river, consisting of an earth dam and canals, will be completed in less than two years af"r an expenditure of $2,300,000. Other projects for irrigation arrt flood control are planned at Canbv, Merlin, Bully Creek reser voir Crooked river, Baker, Illinois aHcv, Paulina, Post, Waptnitm and Salem. o-uiiririr IS STALLED T,ir. Drn Anril 14 HP A cave-in on' the coast highway 14 miles south ol Keeaspon siineu traffic Friday and a stream lead ing from Tiel lake to the ocean was forced to change its course. More than 1.000 feet of the highwav was damaged when a and dune collapsed. Water from the stream flooded the highway. ''CVn. r,Ohyh.Bj A Grief-Stricken In Tribute fo Late President Hamlet and Metropolis Pay Homage to War Leader; Flags Placed at Halfstaff Over U. Sf "''" (By United Press) . : . Hamlet and metropolis alike paused today to pay tribute to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. - Governors and mayors from the Atlantic to Hawaii or dered periods of mourning and the lowering of flags to half staff on all government buildings.. ' . ' Snprial memorial services were planned in thousands of churches and movie houses and joined in wholesale shutdowns velt s funeral service in Washington at 4 p.m., twi. War plants throughout the nation, urged by the war pro- duction board to continue op-' eration as their tribute, planned periods of -silence of three to" five minutes' at the start of the Washington serv ice. Pause Ordered In Chicago, New York and Hol lywood all transportation facili ties will pause for one minute "at 4 p.m. (EWT). The American Telephone and Telegraph Co. will observe 'a 30 second pause in all communications at that time. All leased wires of the-United Press will stand idle for one min ute at 4 p.m. Financial houses in the major cities declared a full holiday. Com mercial and business houses in New York and other large cities also closed down far the' day. Movie production ,in Hollywood was suspended until Monday. Dewey Mourns Leader Taverns, nightclubs and movies announced they would postpone openings until after 6 p.m. (EWT) in deference to the White House ceremonies. Legitimate theaters on Broadway cancelled Saturday afternoon matinees. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York was joined by other govern ors in proclaiming a 30-day mourn ing period with flags at hail staff. Vice Admiral Emory Land said all American merchant ships throughout the world had been ordered to lower their flags for 30 days. In the Pacific, American battle ships will observe the flag-lowering tribute where battle conditions permit. Britain, Mourning FDR, Hears In Europe May Be Near; Eden London, April 14 U Britain was torn today between mourn ing the death of President Roose velt and a mounting tension fed by persistent and thinly veiled hints in the press that the formal end of the war In Europe might come at any time. Prime Minister Churchill was described as persuaded by the possible imminence of great events to cancel the preparation of a plane and specially picked crew to take him to the United States for Mr. Roosevelt's funeral. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden was commissioned instead to represent the British govern ment. Early today an announce ment said he had departed by plane for the United States. He left aboard a royal air force trans port plane by daylight Friday, and probably had arrived at some prooao y naa arr.veu transatlantic point before h.s de-; parture was announced. Mr. Roosevelt s death was re- corded In the court circular last niEht. For the first time it refer- red to the death of the head of a forelen state not related to theivelt. president of the United n-i;'eH rnvni family Tt raid: "The king has received with profound regret tne news oi me death of Mr. Franklin D. Roose-' Nation Joins other places of entertainment out of respect to Mr. Roose Hitler Last Hope, Goebbels Reveals (By United Press) Propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels tacitly resigned the fate of Germany today in the hands of the "savior" Adolf Hitler. Inan Interview with the Japan ese Domei news agency, Goeb bels admitted that Germany was at the point of exhaustion and that the very existence of the Ger man nation was threatened. "I know that our nation is now engaged to the point of exhaus tion but I also know for certain that our savior, Fuehrer Hitler, will find a way out of this dilem ma for all of us," Goebbels said. Advice Given The Japanese broadcast, heard by United Press in San Francisco, quoted Goebbjes as saying that the German people should resist the Allied offensives by their own efforts and not rely upon their army. "The prospects of the German resistance have been reduced by the recent loss of territories and the most pressing problem now is how to save the threatened ex istence of the Geryian people themselves," he said. "All Ger mans should prepare themselves to stake their lives for this end this resistance must be national not only of the armed forces but the resistance of the whok; people.'.' I Anthony Eden, representing the Brltish mpirc arJived , h, ington. D. C. by plane today, to . r . . ' j J" n pZZ , States of America. His ma lent v mourns the loss of a staunch ally anu a xn?ai personal iriena. Memorial services lor Mr. VV ' ' fey London Hints Britain Ready For Bh Movement of Allies Is.) Under Blackout; Units f Cut Foe Escape Lines Paris, April 14 IP American! Ninth army infantrymen .Won 3 second bridgehead across; uie Elbe river and drove on east to loin their armored spearheads In the attack on Berlin today. T& the south, the U. S. Third army cut the enemy's main escape roads into Bavaria and raced wnin out odd miles of a juncture with the" Red army. DIsDatches from the blacked- out Ninth army front said dough; bovs of the 83rd infantry division hurst across the Elbe at Barby, 15 miles soumeasi oi iviagut-uuiis and 57 miles southwest of Berlin The Yanks were reported clos ing up fast in the wake of the second armored division, whose tank columns crossed the river at an undisclosed point between Barby and Magdeburg 48 hours ago. Reports Not Confirmed Headquarters refused to con firm reports that the American spearheads were barely 15 miles west of the wrecked enemy capit al, but sensational London re ports said Britain had been elert- ed for imminent news ox tremen dous importance possibly an entry Into Berlin, a link-up with the" Red army. German capituLa tion, or all three. . .- ... .' ABSIE. the American broad casting station in Europe,' said the Ninth army marcn into Ber lin was expected imminently. Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's vet eran Third army tank crews plunged toward the Russian lines at a mile-an-hour clip against the weakest German opposition, out- nanKing Leipzig ano anving wun- in 38 miles of Dresden, two of the biggest east-front military bases left to the battered, wehr- macht. ..''.' Far to the north, one and per haps more American Ninth army divisions raced down the home stretch before Berlin under a rigid military security blackout. There was no confirmation of reports that they had reached positions 15 to 16 miles from Berlin, and latest official information lagg ing 24 hours or more behind the battle placed the Americans about 45 miles from the capital. London dispatches said all Brit ain was tense with expectancy, awaiting an imminent announce ment that the Americans had en tered Berlin and linked up with the Russians. "The barricades are up In Ber lin; the reich is entering Its final hours," London newspaper head lines proclaimed. LODGE ROOMS CLOSE In tribute to the memory of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Elk lodge rooms will be closed until 4 p. m. today, officials of the lodge announced. End of War Named Envoy Roosevelt will be held next Tues day at 11:30 a. m. at St. Paul's cathedral. U. S. Ambassador John G. Win ant said expressions of condol ence poured into the embassy all day yesterday. More than 1,000 telephone calls were received, and there was a flood of telegrams from Individuals, communities and organizations. Wilson Broadbent, the Daily Mail's diplomatic correspondent, said the news of Mr. Roosevelt's death apparently was one of the greatest shocks Churchill ever suffered. He returned to find Churchill's eyes wet, a half smoked cigar cast aside, and dis patches scattered open before him. Churchill ordered arrangements made for a flight to America, Broadbent said. A plane was or dered. When Churchill awoke in tne morning, he still intended to "l1 to the United States. But within a few hours urgent dis- ; patches from the front reached him. Broadbent said. He cancelled i the nlnna fnr the trHn kncn hn j decided that important decisions migni ne required of him at any I moment, . News , Truman mi i pi if (s7K Harrv S. Truman (left) Is swoi Stone as members of the cabinet and congress look on. Mrs. Truman is at White House. (NEA-Telephoto.) Angling Season Opens in Oregon4 Reports were lacking 'from old sters who were fishing elsewhere on the Deschutes, and the Meto lius rivers, but youngsters who gathered in Drake park and cast their bait into Mirror pond were not faring too badly as the angling season opened in Central Ore gon today. , Excited boys as well as girls, who were on the banks of the stream as the first warming rays of sunshine filtered through, the bines, reported "good catches." Some boys proudly displayed Browns up to 15 Inches In length. While dozens of the youngsters were readying their tackle at dawn today, a greater migration to the park and below to the dam was expected this afternoon when all other activities were to be halted in respect to the late Presi dent Franklin D. Roosevelt. Cast In Itiver There was a general belief that previous and prolonged cold weather might hinder fishing when the season opened before dawn today, but scores of anglers, nevertheless, were absent from their local haunts, and out fishing. First-day anglers were reported casting all along the Deschutes below Sheep, bridge, and down stream as far as Warm Springs. Fishing is banned for a quarter of a mile below Wickiup dam. A number of automobiles were seen early today, moving out jf the city with full loads of anglers and boats strapped atop the ve hicles. Besides the Metollus and Des chutes rivers, two lakes were also opened to fishing today, Blue and Suttle lakes in Jefferson county. Kerosene Flames Result in Death Kelso. Wash., April 14 UIi T. C. Woodard, 61, died of burns af ter his clothing caught fire Fri day night when he tried to start a lire In a heating stove with kero sene. Mrs. Woodard and a boarder, Cliff Rose, wrapped Woodard in a quilt and placed him In a bath tub, they told officers In Kelso. They turned on the water, but were forced by flames to leave the house. i ' Woodard's body was still in the tub when firemen entered the house after controlling the fire. Rose was burned slightly. Woodard came to Kelso from Missouri last January. VltlV. CALLS ANSWEKKfl Bend city firemen late yester-1 Planes, men and materials. The dav and today answered three ; Germans have nothing. It is un fire calls, and reported that only, fair for the allies to take such slleht damage resulted irom me blazes. Most or tne aamage done at the fine Jone on mi ; street, where a fire behind a wall for a time threatened the estab lishment. A flue fire was extin guished at 608 Congress avenue, - land firemen halted a bonfire which had started to spread at 1309 East Third street. Takes Oath as President 17 V ' '.Hi - n In as nresident of the United States by Chief Justice Harlan Flske Ordination Rites to Feature Church Conference in Bend i Many Parts of Vast Eastern Oregon . District '-fpf3?entedrOpemng Meetings Are Held" Headed by Bishop William P. Remington of Pendleton, Episcopal church workers from many parts of the vast East ern Oregon missionary district were in Bend today for the 35th annual convocation, to be featured on Sunday by the ordination of Edward Herrick Cook to the priesthood. Rev. Cook at present is missionary in charge of the Prineville, Madras and Cross Keys missions. Many of the delegates, from Dalles and as far east as Baker, arrived in Bend yesterday Blizzard Strikes Mountain States Cheyenne, Wyo., April 14 (IB A "typical" April blizzard swept across parts of Wyoming, Colo rado and Nebraska today, block ing roads in Wyoming with snow as much as 22 inches deep In some places and endangering livestock. Wyoming nad tne ncaviest snowfall. Twenty-Inches was re ported at Lander, 19 at Douglas and 14 at Casper where 35 persons were reported stranded at a nlgnt club 12 miles from the city. The snowfall decreased as the storm spread south and eastward, with four inches reported at Den ver and one inch at Sydney, Nebr. The storm, accompanied by high winds, covered an area 300 miles long along the continental divide and extended eastward about 150 miles. The weather bureau said the storm would last throughout most of the day. Casner. Wyo.. April 14 (111 Twenty-year-old Dorothy Taylor, weather observer at the Wardwell airfield 10 miles north of hero, and two other airport officials, after being stranded on duty since Thursday afternoon by one of the worst early spring blizzards to have swept this section in many years, today had high hopes of being rescued. Efforts to rescue the trio were unsuccessful yesterday because of heavy drifts which blocked roads leading to the airport. War Is Very Unfair, Asserts Nazi General With First Army, Germany, April 14 tut A German major general, captured in the Ruhr pocket, said indignantly today: "The war has become very un fair the allies have everything auvamage, PVT. PAUL WOUNDED Mr and Mrs. N. R. Paul, 1315 Ithaca street, today received word from the war department that their son, Pvt. Stanley Paul, has been wounded in action In the Philippines area, they announced. T I stands In center of group. Scene ' as points as far north as The evening, and others are e. pected today. Meeting simul taneously with the convoca tion is the Church Women's Service lengue of Eastern Ore gon, with Mrs. Mabel Hughes, dl oceasan president, in charge. Mrs. C. V. Bowman, president of the Women's Auxiliary of Oregon, Is here from Portland to address the assembly. Sessions Open Preliminary sessions of the con vocation were held yesterday eve ning, with a meeting of the ex ecutive committee of the district in Trinity Episcopal church par ish house and a reception at the Episcopal rectory, at 515 Con gress street. Rev. Gf.HR1 V. Bol ster, rector of Trinity Episcopal church Bend, Is host to the visit ing church workers. V'eek-end proceedings opened this morning with a celebration of holy communion, at 7:30, with Ven. Archdeacon Neville Blunt officiating. Business sessions opened at 9:30 a.m., and continued until noon, when the assembly welcomed the ministers of various city churches as their guests at a luncheon at the Pine Tavern. Afternoon sessions will be ad journed this evening at 4 o'clock, when delegates are to join in a motorcade to the top of nearby Pilot Butte, at the eastern city (Continued on Page 5' Bend Public Speech Students Take First Places in Contests Oregon State College. Corvallls,, April 14 (111 As finalists in the Oregon high school speech league tournament, students from Rose burg and Grants Pass will thrash out tonight the question of reduc ing the voting age to 1S years. . Finals In a second contest divi sion, after-dinner speaking, will al so take place today. The record number of 147 con testants from 26 state schools took part In the eight playoffs Friday, according to ram a. Knoll, associate professor of speech. Some of the finalists follow: Extempore speaking Fjwln Paxson, Bcavcrton; Kenneth Fret well, Bend; Barbara Breitmayer, Grants Pass; Bill Wilson, Klam ath Falls; Bill Moffatt, Medford; David Simpson, Salem. After-dinner speaking Rosella Knight, Bend; Kelly Farris, Klam ath Falls; Denny Marvin and Az- FuneralTrain Bears Casket Out of South Great Crowds Stand . In Sultry Sun to Pay Tribute to Dead Chief Washington, April 14 (IP The body of President Roosevelt was borne through the hushed streets of the nation's capital today to re ceive the people's tribute. The sneclal train drew into , Washington Union station just before 10 a.m., EWT, and came to a slow halt where President Tru man and the leaders of the govern ment who had worked with Mr. Roosevelt In peace and war were waiting. In the plaza outside and along the broad, troop-lined avenues leading to the White House, silent crowds stood in the sultry April sunshine. It was a war-time ceremony in keeping with an America whose forces were fighting toward vic- tory In Europe and in the Pacific. Battalions oi soldiers, sailors and marines marched slowly ahead of the shrouded caisson that bore Mr. Roosevelt's body.' Troops Take Part . , G.I. troops in olive drab with fixed bayonets and their dusty working leggings and G.I. shoes stood every three paces along the cortege route. - Only one of the President's f-our,son. Bag..Gn. Elliott Roosevelt had reached Washing ton for the ceremony. The others were with the navy and the ma rines at their war posts In the far Pacific. . , i '" Elliott, the four Roosevelt daugters-in-law, and Mrs. John Boettlger were first. to board the funeral train where Mrs. Roose velt waited. They were followed by Mr. Truman, Secretary of Com merce Henry A. wanace and ror mer War Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes. A moment later enlisted sol diers and sailors gently lifted the flag-draped casket from the train and passed it to the body-bearers non-commissioned men repre senting each of the four service arms. Grief Stricken The sturdy marines and sol diers bit their lips in obvious grief. As the casket was placed on the black-draped military caisson, the U. S. marine band played "The Star Sangled Banner," followed by "The Old Rugged Cross" and "Rock of Ages." Battalions of the armed serv ices led the procession through the crowd-packed streets with the marine band leading and march ing at funeral pace. The crowds were so quiet that the clumping tread of the march Ing men down Constitution ave nue sounded like distant surf. Mrs. Roosevelt, outwardly com posed as she has been since the tragedy struck, was clad entirely in black. She wore a heavy dot ted black veil and rode with her son, Elliott, and her daughter, Anna, Immediately behind the horse-drawn caisson. In the next car were the presi dent's daughters-in-law and in the third, Mr. Truman, Wallace and War Mobillaztion Director Fred (Continued on Page 5) ta Sinclair, Lebanon; Robert Rob. in, &aiem; oem oeai, apringueiu. Panel discussion Harold Gard ner, Bend; Bob wicks, uouage Grove: Thomas Hedgpeth, Grants Pass; Connie Newton, Hillsboro; Norman Weekly, Lem anon; Shirley Parker, Roseburg; Cornelius Bateson, Salem. Debate Roseburg and Grants Pass. Humorous reading (manu script) Marlys Prentice and Ro sella Knight, Bend; Mary Louise Allen and Nairn Ballard, corvai- lis; Laurel Hodson and Eva Kielde, Junction City; Donald Cook, Pendleton. Wayne D. Overholser, member of the Bend high school faculty and writer or western fiction Is coach of the local team that is taking part In the state contests at Corvallis. He was accompanied to the college city by Mrs. Overholser.