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CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
Volume LIU
THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 17. 1945
NO. 113
THE
BEND
Foe Airforce
Dealt Crippling
Blow By Allies
1,305 Planes Bagged
In Single Day; U. S.
Airmen Ruling Skies
London, April 17 (IPi American
war planes roared over Germany
again today, .following up the
crippling blows which yesterday
shattered the dwindling Luft
waffe by destroying or damaging"
at least 1,305 German planes.
The U. S. strategic air forces
having officially completed their
strategic bombing mission, sent
the 8th air force Into action over
Germany again, presumably fol
lowing up yesterday's devastating
smash at German planes on the
ground and other tactical targets.
933 Planes Bagged
They administered the coup de
grace to the German air force
yesterday by destroying at least
932 German fighter planes, and
damaging at least 373 more for
a total of 1,305 the biggest day's
bag of the war. The eighth air
force share of this was 724 planes
destroyed on the ground, three
destroyed in the air and 373
damaged. Eighth airforce losses
were 19 fighters and three bonlb
ers. Most were destroyed on the
ground in raids from Munich to
Prague.
Hundreds of RAF planes open
ed the new all-tactical phase of
the air war. last night and early
today with a series of raids on
German targets all the way from
the Baltic to the Czechoslovak
border.
Naval Units Hit
RAF Lancasters with an es
cort of Mustangs attacked Ger
man naval units at Swinemuende
at the Baltic entrance to Stettin
bay in support of the Red army.
Other bombers hit railway targ
ets on either side of the German
Czechoslovak border in support
of the American First and Third
armies.
Still a third British force hit
Berlin itself, caught in an American-British
pincers. RAF . Mus
tangs shot down six German night
fighters near Berlin. Only one
Lancaster was lost in all the night
raids.
Gen. Carl Spaatz, commander
of the strategic American air
forces in Europe, announced the
victorious conclusion of the stra
tegic bombardment of Germany.
Snyder Is Sought
As Loan Official
Washington, April 17 IIP) John
W. Snyder, St. Louis banker, was
nominated by President Truman
today to be federal loan adminis
trator. This was the first major ap
pointment, made by Truman since
he became president last Thurs
day evening.
Snyder, vice-president of the
First National bank of St. Louis,
has been a friend of the president
for more than 25 years.
As head of the multi-billion-dollar
reconstruction finance corp.
and other lending agencies, Sny
der will fill the place left vacant
by Fred M. Vinson's transfer to
the post of war mobilization di
rector. Vinson served as loan adminis
trator for a few weeks after presi
dent Roosevelt removed Jesse H.
Jones from the dual posts of loan
administrator and commerce sec
retary. Henry A. Wallace was
put in the commerce post.
Long In Business
Snyder has been in the banking
business since the last war. From
1930 to 1937 he acted as liquidator
of national banks in the insolvent
division of the United States com
ptroller o the currency.
From 1937 to 1940 he was mana
ger of the St. Louis agency of the
reconstruction finance corp. and
in 1940 became executive vice
president and director of the de
fense plant corp. and assistant
to the directors of the RFC.
He went back to private bank
ing in St. Louis on Jan. 1, 1943.
President Walks
To His New Job
Washington, April 17 (in This
limousine-infested capital saw
something today it hadn't seen
for a great many years the presi
dent of the United States walking
to work.
President Truman walked to
work this morning, striding at a
rapid pace from Blair house where
he and his family moved last
night across Pennsylvania avenue
and down the long, broad drive
way to the executive wing of the
White House.
Super forts Blast Japan
Airfields Near Okinawa
Guam, April 17 (U.E) A large force of American Super
fortresses blasted six airfields throughout Kyushu today in
an attempt to knock out the staging bases for Japanese
aerial attacks on U. S! forces around Okinawa.
In hitting Kyushu, southernmost of the enemy home is
lands, the B-29's sent the rapidly mounting aerial offensive
against Japan into the sixth straight day.
Splitting into six groups, the Marianas-based Superfor
tresses plastered a half dozen airfields in northern and south
.
Die's in Action
9- i ,
Lt. Leonard C. McCauley, son of
Shcrilf and Mrs. Claude L. Mc
Cauley, Bend, has been killed in
action in the European theater ol
war. Lt. McCauley, a graduate
from he Bend high school with
the class of 1939, was serving with
the infantry..
Lt. McCauley, 23,
Killed in Action
First Lt. Leonard C. McCauley,
23, son of Sheriff and Mrs. Claude
L. McCauley, Bend, was killed in
action while serving with General
George S. Patton's forces In Ger
many, his wife,. Betty, a resident
of Colorado Springs, Colo., has
been notified by the war depart
ment. The telegram was relayed
here yesterday from the Colorado
city by Mrs. McCauley's parents.
Mr. and Mrs. McCauley last
heard from their son about a
month ago, and at that time he
indicated he had been in some
tough engagements, including the
Battle of the Bulge. The young
lieutenant, a native of Bend and
a graduate from the local high
school with the class of 1939, was
serving with an armored infantry
division.
Son Also Survives
Lt. McCauley, who last visited
his parents here about a year ago,
was married in Colorado Springs
on Nov. 9, 1942, to Miss Betty
Woodward, at a military wedding
in the Colorado city. A son,
Michael Lee, was born to Lt. and
Mrs. McCauley last November 18,
at Colorado Springs.
Lt. McCauley went overseas
last June. No details of his death
were contained in the telegram
received here.
Aside from his parents, Lt. Mc
Cauley is survived by a brother,
Don McCauley, Bend high school
junior.
Mattress Plant
Razed by Fire
Portland, Ore., April 17 (in A
spectacular two-alarm fire de
stroyed the Western Mattress
company of Portland late Mon
day, causing approximately $25,
000 worth of damage, according
to fire investigators.
Paul Byland, foreman on duty,
said the fire started in an over
heated carding machine and that
it spread quickly to the highly
inflammable mattress material.
Harry S. Truman, Poised, Confident, Gives
Firsf Interview, With 348 Reporters Present
Washington, April 17 U
poised and confident Harry
Truman told his first presidential ,
news conference todaya jam-1 ""-"
packed session that he would , was asked.
run the government for the time! 2. Said he would not lift the
being from his desk here. ! horse racing ban and that the mid-
He said he would not attend night curfew and the brownout
the San Francisco security con-i"ad been Rod for the nations
ference, because this country had morale. Asked if he would lift
a competent delegation at the con-1 ,hese restrictions on V-E day, he
ference. He said he would back' 531(1 : Iet s walt tlU V-E day.
up its members from Washington j 3. Asserted he would try to
where he belongs. Head of the i carry out Mr. Roosevelt's public
delegation Is secretary of state power programs and intentions
Edward R. Stettinlus, Jr., whose , wherever possible and necessary,
ultimate Dlace in the new admin-1 Truman stood throughout the
istration has been in some doubt, i
The new president faced a rec-!
ord number o: reporters in
the same circular room where
Franklin D. Roosevelt met the
press twice weekly. He took their,
questions as fast as they came,
answered promptly, pithily, and
twice drew applause a rarity at
White House press conferences.
Truman:
ern Kyushu with demolition
bombs rather than incenddi
aries which were heaped on
Tokyo twice in the last 72
hours.
The targets were the airfields at
Kanoya, East Kanoya, Izumi, Ko-
kubu and Nittaoahara, all in
southern Kyushu, and Tachiarai
in the northwestern section of the
island.
Airfields Blasted
Kanoya airfield also was hit
yesterday by P-51 Mustangs of
the seventh fighter command
from newly-won bases on Iwo is
land. Tachiarai was bombed twice
previously by B-29's during the
past month and East Kanoya was
raided only 10 days ago.
All the airfields were known to
have held planes which have been
hitting at the U. S. sea, land and
air forces in the Okinawa area,
some of them in suicide attacks.
The raid, which was carried out
at about 4:30 p.m., today, was the
third in 72 hours levelled against
the Japanese homeland by the
huge bombers.
Tokyo reported that approxi
mately 80 Superfortresses took
part in the hour and a half raid,
concentrated on Kyushus air
fields. -The
heavy blow came as Amerl
can infantrymen were cleaning up
tiny Ie island, three miles west
of Okinawa, where they landed
yesterday and seized another base
for the Increasing aerial cam
paign. MaJ. Gen. Curtis E. Lemay's
big Superfortresses took over the
pounding on Kyushu after Admir
al Chester W. Nimitz' carrier
planes and land - based fighters
from Iwo lashed the island for
five days.
Cover
n
Pioneer Is Dead
A covered wagon brought Mrs.
Viola Arnold, 86, west from Iowa
to Oregon country in 186G and
her death sealed the memories of
one of the oldest pioneers in Des
chutes county, when she died yes
terday at the home of her daugh
ter, Mrs. Elva Kline, of Bend.
Born Oct. 28, 1858 in Iowa, Viola
Healy, her parents, 4 brothers and
2 sisters boarded a well equipped
covered wagon and joined a train
so long that when the individual
wagons formed a corral the diam
eter was M mile across. The
pioneers, unmolested by Indians,
traveled through Grande Ronde
valley and The Dalles to Portland
where they stayed one winter.
Later they resided briefly in Leb
anon. In 1866 the family moved to
Linn county and in 1897 to the
Sisters district. They migrated to
Shasta county in 1910 where they
lived for 7 years, returning to Sis
ters in 1917. Bend had been Mrs.
Arnold's home for the past 9
i years.
Viola Healy married Thomas
Arnold in 1877 at Sodaville, Ore
gon. Survivors Include two sons,
Leo Arnold of MacArthur, Calif.,
W. F. Arnold of Sisters, one
daughter, Mrs. Elva Kline of Bend,
six grandchildren, and five great
grandchildren. Final rites will be held tomor
row at 2 p.m. in the Niswonger &
Winslow funeral chapel with burl-
al to follow beside her husband at
Greenwood cemetery.
1. Wholeheartedly endorsed all
items of Roosevelt foreign and
.,,, . ,,, ,,,ulriU u
press conference. The crowd over-1
flowed from the conference room
out mi sme terrace, i ne room
became almost unbearable hot, '
but the present played his role
with complete ease and good,
numor. i aatied, he should.
He preserved Mr. Roosevelt's) The president would not dis
news conference rules such as no cuss any official appointments In
direct quotations unless especially volvlng the cabinet or other top
authorized but announced he I government personnel.
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Yank Fighters i
Launch 3-Way
Drive to East ;
Field Dispatches Say
Germans in Wild Race ;
To Bavarian Redoubt V
Paris, April 17 IP American
troops stormed Leipzig, Nuern
hers and Berlin's other fortress
of Magdeburg today in a triple-.
threat drive, to DreaK inrougn io
the nazi cap'ital, link up with the
red army and seal off Hitler's Ba-i
varian redoubt.
North and south of embattled
Berlin the German front was dlsi
integrating under the converging
blows of the Amerlcan and Rus
sian armies.
Field dispatches revealed that
tens of thousands ol Germans
were fleeing southward through
the Oder Elbe corridor toward
Bavaria, with thousands more in
full flight northward toward tne
Baltic coast in a last-minute race
to escape the closing trap.
Garrisons Hold Out
Strong nazi garrisons still were
holding out before Berlin, Leipzig,
Chemnitz and other strongpoints
along the central German front.
Far to the west, American First
and Ninth army infantrymen
combed through the ruined cities
of the Ruhr to complete the de
struction of two German field ar
mies trapped there. More . than
200,000 of the pocketed Germans
already were' prisoners' antr'Only"
about 30,000 remained to be elim
inated.
Unauthenticated but possibly
correct reports said Field Marshal
Walter von Model, German com
mander on the western front, com
mitted suicide inside the Ruhr
pocket in despair over the course
of the two-week battle that al
ready had swept more than 750,-
000 of his troops into allied prison
cages.
lleiu-h Magdeburg
Fresh disaster was shaping up
for the Germans along the Elbe
before Berlin, where the U. S.
Ninth army's 30th infantry and
units of the second armored divi
sion stormed into Magdeburg, 61
miles southwest of the capital's
city limits.
The attack kicked off in the
wake of a four-hour aerial and ar
tillery bombardment that brought
hundreds of buildings inside Mag
deburg tumbling down around the
heads of 2,000 to 4,000 elite guards
and Hitler youth fighters.
Field dispatches said the Ameri
cans had broken into the city, the
last Important German foothold
on the west bank of the Elbe in
the Berlin sector.
FORGETS TO PAY
A new method of thwarting the
gasoline ration stamp require
ments was revealed to Bend po
lice today by the proprietor of the
Century Drive service station,
who reported that he had been
bilked by a motorcycle rider. The
cyclist, it was said, came to the
station and ordered two gallons
of gasoline and a quart of oil. The
gasoline was put into the ma
chine, and while the station oper
ator was getting the oil, the rider
took off without either navine
for the fuel or giving ration
stamps.
would hold only one conference
each week, whereas the late pres
ident normally held two.
Truman was questioned exten
sively about foreign policy.
He endorsed the Bretton Woods
international monetary program
that had been sent to congress by
the late President Roosevelt for
approval.
He also voiced full support for
the reciprocal trade program, with
its accompanying export-import
bank.
He disclosed that he planned
to see Soviet foreign commissar
v. m. Molotov while the Russian
leader is en route to the United
Nations meeting in San Francisco.
Mr. Truman said Molotov was so-
ing to stop in Washington to pay '
his respects to the president of:
the United States. Ami. Tn,m.ni
s. nr
roopers Storm L
Last Resting Place of Franklin D. Roosevelt
New York state troopers guard the last resting place of Franklin D. Roosevelt. His grave Is banked
high with flowers after funeral rites of sad splendor in the garden of his Hyde Park, N. Y. home.
Mourned by the nation and honored by the world, his coffin was lowered as the simple Episcopal com
mitment service was read.
Vote on Dog Tieup
"Again Looms Here
-Efforts on thertlo!fTarfbu)
Bend dog owners to have the city
ordinance requiring four months
tie-up of the animals in the sum
mer repealed, today appeared to
be meeting some opposition as
reports were circulated that vict
ory gardeners and others may
appear before-tho city commission
tomorrow night and voice pro
tests. Petitions were being cir
culated in the city seeking to have
the ordinance placed on the spec
ial budget election ballot. Date of
this election has not yet been set.
Some city officials,, who de
clined to be directly quoted today,
said that they had heard that
those opposed to stray dogs would
sponsor a movement to have the
animals tied up year around
such as is the case in several other
Oregon cities.
Dog owners last summer had
their inning when they moved
the city commission to reduce the
tie-up period by one month. But
indications today were that the
opposing group would make them
selves heard at this time, seek a
year-round tie-up regulation.
General to Delay
Time of V-E Day
Paris. April 17 mi Gen. Uwlght
D. Eisenhower will proclaim V-E
day only after the last important
German pockets on the western
front have been wiped out.
He served notice to this effect
yesterday at an interview at his
field headquarters with a group
of visiting American radio cor
respondents. The war in Europe is not likely
to end unlil Allied troops have
occupied Germany completely, he
said. He doubted there ever
would bo a formal nazi surrender.
.int; Fight l':xM'ct'd
'Nazi units, including divisions,
corps, armies and finally army
groups will give up separately
as they exhaust ammunition and
gasoline or find themselves hope
lessly encircled," he said.
(Military and government sour
ces in London warned there prob
ably would be serious fighting in
Germany "for many weeks" after
Berlin has been captured. The
announcement of V-E day even
may be hold up until German res
istance has been racked in Nor
way and Denmark, it was said.)
Truman to Speak
To Armed Forces
Washington, April 17 HIi Presi-!
dent Truman s special message
tonight to the U. S. armed forces
hrouchout thf ' world will be
,3a "t by 32 shoT wave s
. .1 ",y-J ',. .u ......
tlons in the United States, the war
department announced.
The message at 7 p.m., PWT,
will bo picked up In all war thea
ters and rebroadcast by armed
forces radio stations.
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Japi on Luzon Make Intense
Night Attacks on U. S. Forces
Drive Against Former ;Nip Headquarters Is
"Slowecl By' Terrain and Enemy Resistance
Manila, April 17 (U.E)
today heavily counterattacking American forces closing in on
Bagnio, former enemy headquarters in the Philippines.
The desperate Japanese assaults were concentrated mostly
in the rugged mountains around the Monglo-Mt. Bilbil area,
eight miles northwest of Baguio.
Gen. Douglas Mat-Arthur's communique snid the enemy
forces were making repeated counterattacks at night before
Baguio and front reports described the attacks as "intense."
Truman Signs
Lend-Lease Bill
Washington, April 17 U't Pres
ident Truman today signed the
lend-lease extension act. He said
the lend-lease program "will be
carried on until the unconditional
surrender or complete defeat of
Germany and Japan."
. The president signed the legis
lation shortly after he had con
ferred briefly with members ol
the American delegation to the
United Nations conference at San
Francisco.
"Lend-lease," he said In a state
ment, "has been an effective in
strument to help assure a com
plete United Nations victory with
the least cost in American and
allied lives."
The signing produced a histori
cal novelty Truman's name ap-
.lpeared on the bill twice. He
SIKIIKU 11- Ul llllillljr .- i
officer of the senate, and then
again today as president.
Truman in his senate rolo broke
a tie vote to kill an amendment
to the extension act that woulri
have tightened restrictions on
post-war use of lend-lease goods.
The legislation extends the lend
lease program until June 30, 1946.
Sgt. Anderson
On Casualty List
Staff Sgt. Donald W. Anderson,
son of Mr. and Mrs. N. O. Ander
son, Bend, has been wounded In
action while serving with a para
troop unit in Germany, it wa3
learned here today. Sgt. Anderson
is now in a Paris hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Anderson were
first notified by the war depart
ment that their son was seriously
Injured, but a letter received from
the young sky trooper yesterday
said that his Injuries were con
fined to one foot.
The Injury was suffered on
March 30. Sgt. Anderson, In the
service for the past five years,
was originally in the air corps,
but transferred to the paratroop-
ers.
OIL CENTER CAPTURED
(Rr UnlMI Pran)
Marshal Stalin In an order of
the day announced the Red army
has captured Zistersdorf, Austrian
oil producing center.
Zistersdorf Is 29 miles north
cast of Vienna.
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Japanese troops were reported
Stubborn resistance and tne
I tough terrain also was report
ed slowing the drive of two
other American columns ap
proaching Baguio, lormer
Philippines summer capital,
from the southwest and south
east. Air Support Given .
Tactical air forces continued
steady support of the American
and Filipino forces throughout
the Philippines. Headquarters dis
closed that more than 700 tons of
bombs and incendiaries were
dumped on Japanese positions in
at least 800 sorties Saturday and
Sunday.
In central Luzon other Ameri
can troops eliminated several
more strong Japanese pockets in
the Novaliches-Marikina water
shed northeast of Manila.
Long range bombers and fight
ers from the Philippines main
tained a firm blockade of China
sea shipping, raked the Asia coast
from Shanghai to Saigon, and
dropped another 200 tons of
bombs on the Davao area of Min
danao. NAVY PLANS WOKK
Washington, April 17 mi The
navy plans to spend $2,593,000 re
furnishing air facilities in the Pa
cific northwest, It was announced
today.
Plans for Huge
G
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iven Congress By Officials
Washington, April 17 mt A
tentative navy plan for a postwar
fleet of 1,11)1 combat ships al
most three times the size of the
prewar fighting fleet was pre
sented to congress today.
The public was given Its first
glimpse of the navy's postwar
blueprint as the house appropria
tions committee recommended a
$24,879,510,150 (B) navy depart
ment budget for the 194 fiscal
year starting next July 1. This
was a slash of $452,(155,104 from
estimates previously approved by
the budget bureau
Vice Adm. Frederic J. Home,
vice chief of naval operations was
revealed to have told the appro
priations committee that the navy
expects to end the war with 1,528
combat ships, ranging down in
size to destroyer escorts and sub
marines. Of these, 337 obsolescent
craft would be scrapped or used
as target vessels
Of the combat ships remaining
In the postwar fleet, 482 will be the number of each within essen
on active status and 709 in anltial bounds."
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Nazis Assert
Soviet Armies
17 Miles Away
Moscow Is Silent on
Newest Developments;
Penetrations Admitted
London, April 17 iipi Red ar
mies perhaps 2,000,000 strong tore
new holes in the eastern defenses
of Berlin along a 150-mlle front .
today and one column was re
ported only 17 miles from the nazi ,
capital.
While armored forces fought
near Eberswalde, 17 miles north
east of Berlin, two more tank
supported soviet divisions plunged
through the nazi line east of
Letschin, 26 miles to the southeast
and 30 miles from the capital, the
Germans said. -
Another German broadcast said
the soviet attack at the southern
end of the new assault front had
assumed the character ol a large-
scale offensive" In Itself, apparent
ly aimed at linking up with the
American Tnira army tsu ouu
miles to the west. '
Paratroopers Used
Soviet paratroops dropped even
closer to Berlin, but were encir
cled and wiped out, nazi broad
casts said. i i .
A Paris report said the red
army already had linked up with
the Americans in the Elbe valley
southeast of Dresden, but latest
officials dispatches placed the
Soviets nearly 50 miles and the
Americans 40 miles from the pur
ported Junction point.
Berlin said Premier Marshal
Stalin had thrown nine infantry,
five tanks and two air armies Into
tne lasi great pusn jrum ira.-i,
now in its second day.
Nazi broadcasts listed penetra
tion after penetration in the Ger
man line all the way from
Schwedt, 45 miles northeast of
Berlin, lo Muskau, nearly i j nines
southeast, despite Adolf Hitler's
order to hold fast and drown the
offensive in a "sea of blood."
The soviet high command, as
was ils custom, remained silent on
the offensive, but soviet historian
Eugene Tarle said in a talk over
the Moscow radio that the attack
on Berlin had begun "from the
cast and west."
Small Girl Hurt
In Car Accident
Caroline Cook, 4 - y t? a r-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne
Cook, 441 Riverside drive, was
seriously injured shortly after
noon today wnen sne was au
by an automobile while playing
i,nh anniher small Eirl In the
street near her home. The victim
was rushed to St. cnaries nospuai
where arrangements were made
to take X-rays to determine
whether she is suffering from a
fractured skull.
nrHtnir tn Bend officers, the
automobile was driven by Joe Bal-
lantyno, employe of a Beno ciom
ing establishment. He told officers
that he was driving north on
Riverside drive at about 20 miles
an hour when the victim ran Into
the side of the automobile.
Postwar Fleet
Inactive state. Skeleton crews
would be retained on the inactive
ships to maintain them and keep
them In immediate readiness for
service. It was also understood
that the navy would follow a ro
tation plan In its use of available
ships.
The contemplated post-war fleet
of 1,191 combat ships compared
with a force of 364 comparable
craft In service on June 30, 1939.
While the committee recom
mended approval of most of the
navy's requests, it sharply cri
ticized personnel policy and ex
pressed the belief that there was
"entirely too much" commissioned
and enlisted personnel jobs nor
mally filled by civilians, both tn
Washington and throughout the
country.
It urged Secretary of the Navy
James Forrestal to "take Immedi
ate measures to effect such cur
tailment both of white-collar and
service personnel as would bring