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THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1945
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Ideals of FDR
To Be Upheld,
Says Truman
New President Warns
. Enemies Unconditional
Surrender Still Goal
Washington, April 16 UP) Pres
ident Truman in his first appear
ance before the congress today
assured the nation and the world
that he would support and defend
the ideals of President Roosevelt
"with all my strength and with all
my heart."
He said that in the war "our
demand has been, and it remains
unconditional surrender."
"So that there can be no possi
ble misunderstanding, both Ger
many and Japan can be certain,
beyond any shadow of doubt,
America will continue the fight
for freedom until no vestige of
resistance remains."
And, he continued, "we are
deeply conscious of the fact that
much hard fighting is still ahead
of us.
"Having to pay such a heavy
price to make complete victory
certain, America will never be
come a party to any plan for par
tial victory. To settle for Ynerely
another temporary respite would
surely jeopardize the future se
curity of all the world.
Is Emphatic
"We will not traffic with the
breakers of the peace on the
terms of the peace."
He also was emphatic in say
ing that this country's war strate
gy, conceived under the late Presi
dent and the chiefs of the armed
services appointed by Mr. Roose
velt, would not change.
"The grand strategy of the
United Nations war has been de
termined due In no small meas
ure to the vision of our departed
commander-in-chief," he said. "We
are now carrying out our part of
that strategy under the able direc
tion of Adm. Leahy, Gen. Marshal,
Adm. King, Gen. Arnold, Gen.
Eisenhower, Adm. N i m i t z and
Gen. MacArthur. I
"I want the entire world to j
know that this direction must and j
win remain uncnangea ana un
hampered." Looking to the April 25 con
ference of the United Nations in
San Francisco, Truman said "we
will face the problems of peace
with the same courage that we
have faced and mastered the prob
lems of war."
Not To Fall
"In memory of those who have
made the supreme sacrifice in
the memory of our fallen Pregi
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Three Soldiers
Listed Wounded
Three Central Oregon members
of the armed forces have been
wounded in action, according to a
release today by the office of war
information. They are:
Pfc. James E. Kerr, of the ma
rine corps, and son of Mr. and
Mrs. James D. Kerr, Madras; Pfc.
Ted J. Dillon, son of Mrs. Ruth
E. Longnecker, Route A, Box 2,
Redmond, and Cpl. Cecil Bruno,
son of Jerry Bruno, Warm
Springs.
Dillon and Bruno were wound
ed in the European theater of
war, but the OWI did not reveal
where Kerr was wounded.
Europe Aflame
Stating End of
London, April 16 P An un
confirmed French report said to
day that Gestapo Chief Heinrich
Mlmmler had thwarted a new uer
man army plot to overthrow I
Adolf Hitler and sue for peace.
The report, of doubtful authen
ticity, came in the midst of fever
ish speculation that major devel
opments can be expected on the
military and diplomatic fronts be
fore Prime Minister Churchill ad
dresses commons Thursday.
Rumors were circulating In
Stockholm that Germany's capitu
lation could be expected today,
"probably this afternoon."
Other unconfirmed reports said
martial law had been declared in
Berlin with chiefs of staff and
reign diplomatic representa-
es forbidden to travel outside
the capital.
The attempted coup against Hit
ler was reported by the French
telegraph service in a Madrid dis
patch intercepted by BBC.
It said the plot got under way
Throngs Pay
A tight-lipped, grief-stricken crowd stands outside the White House
velt was borne by a military caisson back to his former Washington residence to rest for a few hours
before returning in deathless fame to his boyhood home at Hyde
Ordination Services Are Held
In Bend; Churches Honor FDR
, Prayers Intermingle With Those of Nation
In Solemn Requiem; Convocation Is at End
Edward Herrick Cook, Harvard university graduate, let-
terman and member of the Harvard Daily Crimson's editorial
board in his underclassman days, was ordained to the priest
hood at impressive services here Sunday that highlighted the
closing sessions of the 34th
copal church, Eastern Oregon missionary district. Present
for the convocation and ordination were church workers and
delegates from practically every county east of the Oregon
Cascades, over which William P. Remington of Pendleten
presides as bishop. .
Prayers of the large group
Russian, Allied
Air Units Linked
Paris, April 16 IP Aerial van
guards of the American and Rus
sian armies made their first tac
tical contact above the Leipzig
Dresden corridor today, barely 40
miles ahead of two great United
Slates tank armies plowing
through the shattered defenses of
central Germany.
The aerial contact between the
converging armies was made by
American and Soviet fighter-
bombers ordered out to work over
the German lines east of the Elbe
in the area north of Dresden
target of American First and
Third army ground troops.
The American and Russian fli
ers, presumably by pre-arranged
plan, teamed up immediately to
bomb and strafe nazi ground po
sitions throughout the corridor.
News Is Dramatic
Word of the dramatic aerial
liaison, which appeared to presage
an eany juncture between the I
miiea gruuuu lurues, came as ine
American First and Third armies
struck through the center of the;
nazi front with probably the
greatest armored host in history.
With Rumors
War Is Near
with clashes between regular
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storm troops in Munich, head-
quarters of the nazi party
Himmier immediately stepped
in and foiled the coup by occupy
ing the German high command's
premises, however, the dispatch
said.
Were it not for his action, the
plotters would have attempted to
eliminate Hitler and negotiate for
peace with the support of Relehs
marshal Hermann Goering and
Lieutenant General Meissner, for
mer gestapo official in Serbia, the
dispatch asserted.
SS guards were placed over
regular army officers and Goer
ing was forbidden to communi
cate with anyone outside Munich
without Himmler's authorization,
it said.
The French agency said that
even the German embassy in Ma-1 Mrs. Niskancn. ment in the mountainous area
drid expected the reich's capltula- The meeting will be open to all I south of Bologna Sunday after
tion yesterday. Interested. noon."
Homage and Farewell to FDR
annual convocation of the Epis
attending the convocation, and
those ot other Bend congrega
tions, were mingled with pray
ers of a nation grieving over a
departed leader, in a solemn
requiem for Franklin Delano
Roosevelt. Early Saturday aft
ernoon, there was a union
service for the late president at
the First Presbyterian church,
and the spacious auditorium was
filled to capacity as Bend paid
tribute to Mr. Roosevelt, at the
same moment when services were
being held in the White House in
Washington, D. C. Taking part in
the services at the First Presby
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North Unit Canal
Bids Requested
Local headquarters of the U. S.
bureau of reclamation today
sought bids for the construction
of approximately five miles of lat
erals and sub-laterals for the
North Unit irrigation project,
near Opal City, south of Juniper
butte in Jefferson county. Bids
will be received, it was reported
until 10 a. m. on April 30, when
tney will he opened here.
The laterals are for the carrv-
ing of water from the main canal
into a portion of the first 20,000
acres to be irrigated by the North
Unit ditch.
Principal items of work in the
new development is the excava
tion of 3G,500 cubic yards of earth,
500 cubic yards of rock, making
380 cubic yards of concrete in
structures, placing of 28,000
pounds of reinforcement bars, the
laying oi 380 linear leet of 18-
inch concrete pipe, 460 linear feet
of 24.inch concrete oioe. and the
installation of 5,100 pounds of
! gates and miscellaneous metal
! work.
Symposium Unit
To Speak in Bend
"Responsibilities of Congress"
will be the topic discussed by a
symposium group at a dinner
meeting of the League of Women
Voters Tuesday at 7 p. m., at the :
fine lavern, committees ini
charge announced today. Mrs.
William Niskancn Is to be chair
man of the meeting.
Taking part In the discussion ! large scale effort begun a week
will be a symposium team com- ago by the British Eighth army
posed of Circuit Judge Ralph S.I The Fifth army attack was pre
Hamilton, Mrs. Harry Beach and : ceded bv an all.nnt air. v,v,V,i
as the body of President Roose
Park, N. Y.
Entrenched Japs
Stall Marines
Guam, April 16 tP) Marines of
the third amphibious corps pushed
along the last 10-odd miles toward
the northern tip of Okinawa
against light resistance today..
In southern' Okinawa, army
troops of the 24th corps beat off
Japanese counterattacks and, by
Tokyo accounts, prepared for a
full-scale offensive against Nana,
capital of the Island.
The .army forces have been
stalled for nearly a week by up
wards of 60,000 Japanese troops
entrenched in defenses built into
hills shielding Naha, only a scant
four miles south of the American
lines.
American infantry killed 195
Japanese in smashing three coun
terattacks yesterday. The enemy
troops swarmed down from well
defended Kakazu ridge, 1,000
yards inland from the west coast
and about 6,000 yards north of
Naha.
laps Use Spears
Some of the enemy troops were
armed only with spears, but oth
ers carried Tommy guns, gre
nades and explosive charges.
A Japanese communique said
the Americans were making "full
preparations for an offensive in
southern Okinawa in spite of pow
erful blows sustained under our
counteroffensives."
some 1,700 American troops
were Kiuea or wounded between
last Thursday and Sunday, the
communique said.
Other Tokyo broadcasts said
Japanese planes had launched an
other "large-scale" assault on
American task forces and carrier
concentrations around Okinawa at
dawn Monday.
5th Army Opens
Crashing Attack
Rome, April 16 M The U. S.
Fifth army opened a crashing at
tack in the Italian mountains be
low Bologna today and Gen. Mark
W. Clark announced that the al
lied 15th army group's, general
spring offensive now is on.
"Hit them with all you have got,
and with God's help we will have
a decisive and perhaps final vic
tory," Clark said in an order of
the day.
Whole Front Ablaze
The whole Italian front was
ablaze. British Eighth army forces
were beating back the Adriatic
wing of the German line. Fifth
army troops were striking along
me approacnes ot Bologna and to
the west were slugging up the Li
gurian coast toward La Snezia
unu us great naval Paso.
Clark, commander of all allied
forces in Italy, issued the follow-
ing special communique:
"The spring offensive in
thf:
Mediterranean theater has heuun
The Fifth army started its often
sive this morning. Joinine the
Sunny Garden
Final Resting
Place of FDR
Nation Pays Solemn
Tribute to Its Chief;
Services Are Simple
By Merriman Smith
, (Ul)itetl Preftfl Siaff Correspondent)
i Hyde Park, N. Y., April 16 UP
The body of Franklin Delano
Roosevelt rested today in the soli
of a sunny rose garden on the
family estate overlooking the
Hudson river.
A few minutes before 10 o'clock
yesterday morning, a lone gun in
a nearby field stilled those wait
ing in the hedge-locked garden
with the first round of a 21-gun
presidential salute. Forty -seven
minutes later the simple service
for the 31st president of the Unit
ed States were over.
As the echo of the gun faded,
the strains of "Hail to the Chief"
played by the West Point Cadet
band came through the nearby
woods. The funeral procession
moved up the hillside, paced by
the muffled drums. " .
Cadets Take Part
First came the band, then 600
West Point cadets. The presi
dent's flag-draped casket rested
on a black caisson drawn by six
brown horses. Behind it was Mrs.
Roosevelt and her family, Presi
dent Harry S. Thuman and his
wife and daughter.
Inside the garden, the late
president's aged aunt, Mrs. James
R. Roosevelt, waited in a chair
beside the graveside. At her side
was Fala, the president's flog.
Planes few across the proces
sion, low on a straight course.
A drum began a dirge. Three
beats and a slow roll, three beats,
slow roll, three beats, slow roll
endlessly.
As the procession neared the
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Hitler to Defend
German Capital
London, April 16 HP) Adolf
Hitler said today the red army had
launched Its last mass olfensive
and called on his troops to drown
the assault on Berlin in "a sea of
blood" and turn the tide of war
"at the very moment when destiny
has removed from this earth the
greatest war criminal of all
times."
Hitler Issued a special order of
the day to the troops of the east-
ci n i, uilt aayiilK mat uu- , cu hi ihj
V.-.I t....u.i .. .... nrr..nL.l..n
nan iuuiiuicu a tutxan uhuii.-iyi.
He promised that this offensive
and the attack In the west would
be beaten off if his troops stood
firm. He warned them to obey no
order to retreat, whatever the
rank of the officer giving it, un
less the officer personally was
known to them.
He instructed his troops to
shoot any officer whose orders
they suspected and warned them
of German officers who sought to
save their skins by aiding the
Russians, possibly in German uni
forms. "Berlin remains German," Hit
ler said. "Vienna will once more
become German and Europe shall
never become Russian."
the
U. S. Ninth Army Stalled Along Elbe River
Due to Savage
Paris, April 16 nil Savage Ger-lfire
man resistance stalled the U. S. i
, .u c,u -I.,,.-
Ninth army along the Elbe river !
hut other American forces rolled i
unchecked toward a Juncture with
the Ked army, une column wasfcioe inrougn ine oorus suiicih ;
reported astride the German-
Czechslovak border.
With the thunder of battle al-
ready rolling back over their
wrecked capital, the nazis turned ;
to fight for their last-ditch line
along the Elbe with a desperate
fanaticism.
They hurled the American sec-
ond armored division back across
the Elbe Just north of Magdeburg. I
60 miles southwest of Berlin, and i
opened a heavy artillery
bom- I
bardment on the Ninth army's
otheV bridgehead at Barby, 15
miles to the southeast.
But the army bridgehead won
by the 84th infantry division Sat
urday, was reported firmly es
tablished and expanding steadily
in spite of raking enemy shell-
Uncontrolled Fires Race
Through Japan Capital
Guam, April 16 U.E B-29 Superfortresses burned out
10:i square miles of Tokyo
mander announced, and another huge air fleet heaped new
destruction on the still-burning capital today.
Some 300 to 400 B-29's dropped possibly 2,000 tons of
high explosive and incendiary bombs on war plants in south
east Tokyo and Kawasaki, an industrial suburb southwest of
Tokyo, in today's early-morning raid. Fires raged out of
control'for seven and a half hours, Tokyo broadcasts said.
Approximately 100 carrier-
based planes and a small force
of Liberators bombed and
strafed southern Kyushu,
southernmost of the Japanese
nome islands, lor about 50
minutes this afternoon, radio
Tokyo reported.
The raid was the first by Lib
erators yet reported against Ja
pan proper.
Tokyo Releases News
Another Tokyo broadcast said
40 "small type" and carrier planes
raided Boso peninsula, eastern
arm of Tokyo bay, for 50 minutes
yesterday. Neither broadcast
could be confirmed here.
The destruction wrought by the
superfortresses in Saturday s raid
on Tokyo included factories con'
tributing to seven major-war mak
ing industries, Including the prize
target the Itabashe arsenal.
Also damaged were chemical
plants, powder factories and shell
plants. The devastated section was
twice as large as the specified
target area for the raid five
square miles.
"It accomplished more than we
expected," a conservative 21st
bomber command review of the
attack said.
,; L Huge Area Blackened
Coupled with the original fire
raid March 9, Saturday s attack
completed the devastation of 27V4
square miles 17,650 acres of the
center of Tokyo. In round figures,
Saturday's raid alone knocked out
6,850 acres or 296,000,000 square
feet.
Tokyo broadcasts said fires
spread Saturday to the Mikado's
palace and otner imperial puiiu
ings. Fires still were raging in Tokyo
when today's huge armada arrived
over the capital to, in the words of
an official announcement, con
tinue the strategic destruction of
Japanese industries."
Truman, Eden
In Conference
Washington, April 16 tlPi Presi
dent Truman conferred for 20
minutes today with British for
eign minister Anthony Eden who
delivered several messages from
Prime Minister Winston Churc-
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I mil.
Also present were secretary of
state Edward R. Stettlnlus, Jr.,
and British ambassador Lord Hall
fax. Four More Nazi
Generals Seized
With U. S. First army in Ger
many. April 16 iU'i Four more
German generals were captured
by American troops in the itunr
today, and it was believed that
the top-ranking nazi leader, field
marshal Walter Von Model, was
still trapped in the pocket with
about 30,000 soldiers.
Resistance of
that lime and again wrecked
the American pontoon nr ciKcs.
Veteran tank crews of the sec-
, armorC(J divl.son, d.V(.n fl-om
day after 48 hours of furious
fighting, bounced back across the j
and joined the doughboy attack.
The combined divisions slugged
their way forward four miles or
more to positions about 50 miles
southwest of Berlin.
Two more Ninth army divis
ions, the fifth armored and the
30th Infantry rammed up to the
Elbe river along a front of more
than 50 miles north of Magde-
burg and deployed for a crossing
at points as close as 45 miles from j
Berlin
The fierce German stand before
Berlin, however, was being nul
lified swiftly by the overwhelm
ing sweep of the American First
and Third armies advancing into
eastern Germany along a twist
ing, 200-mile front.
American First army troops
Saturday, the 21st bomber com
3 U.S. Columns
Close in on City
Manila, April 16 IP) Three
American columns closed In to
day on Baguio, last major enemy
held city on Luzon, with one force
only three miles away.
The columns were approaching
the city, former Japanese head
quarters in the Philippines, from
the northwest, southwest and
southeast.
One force, which pushed up
from the original Llngayen inva
sion beachheads reached within
three miles of the southwestern
city limits, while a second column
drove through Monglo, four miles
northwest of Baguio, and the
third contingent advanced beyond
Lawitan to within 10 miles south
east of the city.
Islund Is Seized
In southern Luzon, other Amer
ican troops seized Cagraray Island
off the east coast of Albay gulf,
where the 158th regimental com
bat team landed two weeks ago
at Legaspl and since have pushed
far up the Bicol peninsula.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur dis
closed that bombers and fighters,
In direct support of the ground
forces throughout the Philippines,
dropped approximately 400 tons
of bombs on Japanese front posi
tions. Four Youths Die
In Crash of Car
Centralla, Wash., April 16 (IP)
Four youths were dead today and
three more were critically injured
as result of an automobile acci
dent early Sunday about six miles
north ot Centralla.
Dead were:
Donald W. Lawlor, Chehalls
soldier; W. L. Christian, 17, and
Chester P. Henderson, 20, Cen
tralla all killed outright. John F.
Coffman of Chehalls died shortly
after being taken to a Centralla
hospital.
The Injured Include:
Charles L. Obrift, 20, of Che
halls, who is thought to be the
driver of the car; Waldo Kli g, 18,
of Chehalls, and Harley llaitman,
17, ot Centralla.
According to deputy sheriff J.
E. Stearns of Thurston county,
the driver apparently fell asleep
and the car swerved and struck
a tree.
LEIPZIG UNDER SIKGK
Paris, April 16 ill American
forces brought the ancient Ger
man strongholds of Leipzig and
Nuernberg under siege fire today
and, according to nazi reports,
prepared to launch a vast new
crossing of the Elbe on a 25-mile
front directly west of Berlin.
German Forces
were little more than 80 miles
from a Juncture with the Soviet
divisions massed on the Nelsse
river.
They reached the Mulde river
just south of Dessau, only 15
miles from the Ninth army bridge'
nt-au ui namy, cupiunng ine pik-
Igest Junkers aircraft plant In the
relch. Their armor and Infantry
stormed into Hale, 25 miles farth
er south, and entered the western
outskirts of Leipzig, Germany's
greatest remaining military base.
Lt. Gen. George S. Pat ton's
American Third army outflanked
Leipzig with a mlle-an hour
ored drive that all but envoloied
the big textile and communlca
tlons center of Chemnitz, 38 miles
to the southwest.
A sensational but wholly un
confirmed report relayed by the
nazl-controlled Scandinavian tele
graph bureau in Stockholm said
I'atton's tanks had rushed on
34 miles beyond Chamnltz, to
reach Dresden, 53 miles from the
Red army lines on the Nciss.
SovietS Attack
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Eastern Front
Big Push From Oder
Reported Under Way as
Nazis Spread Warning
London, April 16 (IP) The red
army attacked on a 110-mile front '
east of Berlin today In a general
offensive to capture the devas
tated nazi capital and link up wilh ,
allied armies in the west.
In the first few hours of the
long-expected assault, the nazis
conceded, the Russians penetrat
ed the last-ditch nazi defense line
between Kuestrln and Frankfurt
due east of Berlin and seized a
new bridgehead across the Oder
midway between the capital and
Stettin.
The soviet high command did
not confirm the offensive immedi
ately, but the Germans usually
first to announce such major
soviet drives left no doubt that
the supreme push from the east
had begun.
Zhukov's Men Strike
Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's
First White Russian army threw
the mam weight of its all-out of
fenslve against the German line
from Wrlezen, 23 miles northeast
of Berlin, to Fuerstenberg, 42
miles southeast, at 3:15 a. m. un
der cover of a terrific air and ar
tillery bombardment.
"Grim fighting" developed on
Berlin's frontal defenses, nazi ac
counts sald,..an4., soviet.. Jorces .
wedged into the line in at least
one point. Eighty miles to the
west, American forces also were
driving toward Berlin.
With the attack, the Russians
engaged the last sizeable organ
ized portion of the German armv
still fighting in the reich. Allied
observers believed as many as 90
German divisions 900,000 men
had been waiting on the eastern
approaches to Berlin for the sov
iet offensive.
Oder River Crossed
The Russians already had hur
dled their biggest obstacle on the
eastern approaches to Berlin the
Oder river. They held as many as
six bridgeheads across the 45-mile
stretch of the river from whicn
the Germans said today's offen
sive was launched.
The biggest was opposite Kues
trln, 38 miles east of Berlin, on
the direct super-highway and
trunk railway from Warsaw.
Kuestrln was captured by the
Russians more than a month ago.
Ernst von Hammer, commenta
tor for the official nazi DNB
agency, said the Soviets attacked
along the Oder river front from
a point north of Kuestrln, 38 miles
east ot Berlin, to one south ot
Frankfurt, 33 miles east.
Claim Drive Halted
Other nazi broadcasts indicated
the offensive got under way be
tween Wrlezen, 23 miles north
east of Berlin and 22 miles north
west of Kuestrin, and Fuersten
berg, 42 miles southeast of Berlin
and 15 miles south of Frankfurt.
"According to reports so far
available," Hammer said, "the
Soviets were halted by violent
German barrage fire in all sec
tors with the exception of one
soviet local penetration."
Bend to Sponsor
Music Festival
Bands, choirs, orchestras, en
sembles and soloists from four
high schools w,ill compete for top
honors and national ratings in
a competition festival to be held,
for the first time, in Bend on
April 27, it was announced today.
High schools Included will be
Klamath Falls, Prineville, Red
mond and Bend.
A colorful ' evening program
will be given by four bands, two
glee clubs, two a cappella choirs
and an orchestra. In the after
noon the contest program will
include two girls' trios, seven in-
arm-istrumental solos, seven vocal
solos and a string ensemble. A
total of 417 high school musicians
will be putting fourth their best
efforts on this occasion, says C.
Dale Robbins, chairman of the
meet and Bend public school
music supervisor.
Three national competition
Judges will be here to preside over
all events. Tickets will be on
sale In the near future and the
public will be admitted.