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THE BEND BULLETIN. BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY. APRIL 181945
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RED ARMIES IN SIGHT OF FLAMING BERLIN
Russians Link
45-Mile Front
On Oder River
Germans Assert Stalin
Men Only 17 Miles From
Capital of Third Reich
London, April 18 cipi The of
ficial soviet newspaper Red Fleet
said today that the Russians were
fighting within sight of burning
Berlin. The dispatch made no di
rect reference to the big Berlin
bound offensive nor did it locate
advance soviet positions, but the
nazis admitted the Russians were
only 17 miles northeast of the
capital.
A German DNB dispatch said
me onensive had reached its "cli
mactic phase" with nine attack
ing soviet armies scoring new pen
etrations west of Kuestrin on the
Warsaw-Berlin highway and north
of Wriezen, 23 miles northeast of
the capital.
Lone Front Formed
Berlin earlier revealed that the
red army also had linked up all
of its Oder river bridgeheads to
form a solid 45-mile front east of
Berlin and had all but isolated
Frankfurt, the capital's main out
er defense bastion.
To the south, the Germans said,
other Russian forces stormed nine
miles beyond the Neisse river, a
tributary of the Oder, to the
Neisky area, 45 miles northeast of
Dresden and possibly .65 miles
from a junction with the Ameri
can Third army.
The Russians threw operational
reserves into battle beyond the
Neisse in an attempt to force a
quick decision, the DNB agency
said.
Two Million On Move
Altogether, perhaps 2,000,000
soviet troops were on the march
to the west along a 180-mile front
from the Baltic port of Stettin to
Goerlitz in the Sudeten foothills,
the nazis said.
Arnim Schoenberg, German
Transocean agency commentator,
said Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's
First White Russian army had
made "deep penetrations" of the
German defenses between Frank
furt, Oder river stronghold 33
miles east of Berlin, and the
Oder-Spree canal.
Another German broadcast said
the fighting had spread to the
Oder plain above Beeskow, 27
miles southeast of Berlin an in
dication snearheads along the ca
nal had reached a point almost
due west of Frankfurt, tnreaien
ing, If not cutting the Berlin
Frankfurt superhighway.
Rmla Near Junction
Schoenberg reported other
"deep penetrations" by soviet
forces in the hills on either side
of Seelow, 26 miles east of Ber
lin, and in the Altfriedland area,
24 miles northeast of Berlin.
The Russians in the Seelow area
were roughly 15 miles or less
from a junction with those along
the Oder-Spree canal that would
encircle Frankfurt.
Berlin said the Russians had
linked up their bridgeheads across
the Oder river along a solid front
all the way from Eberswalde to
Lebus, 34 miles east of Berlin on
the northern edge of Frankfurt's
fortifications.
I roops on Battle Fields
Hear Truman9 s Address
Washington, April 18 (U.E) President Truman's reports
to congress and the armed services outlined a cautious pattern
today for the crucial 100 first days of an administration he
promised to conduct in "the American tradition."
Plans were being made, as he broadcast last night, for a
meeting of the "big three" foreign ministers here preliminary
to the ban Francisco conference. China and France may also
be represented.
In his broadcast to the millions of uniformed Americans.
tne new president told of his
VV ine Rvrrfre C
rr fiw VI WlliC WlUf
1st Lt. Marcus Corwin, former
Bend resident and son of Mrs. Wil
liam Smith, Prlneville, has been
awarded the bronze star lor merit
orious services against .'the Jap
anese forces in the British Solo
mon islands. .
Big Rubber Plant
Seized by Yanks
With U. S. First Army Before
Leipzig, April 15 (Delayed) un
American troops have captured
the I. G. Farben company's great
est synthetic rubber plant and its
chief chemist, army oniciais re
vealed today.
The ereat. sprawling, modern
istic plant which until three days
ago produced rubber at a rate of
6,000 tons a month was taken un
damaged yesterday.
Todav. Dr. William Hahn, mild-
mannered industrial chemist for
'he concern, fell into American
hands. .
To Pacific Starts
Washington, April 18 PThe
army already has begun the job
of shifting men and equipment
from Europe to the Far East.
Authoritative quarters dis
closed today that the original
schedule for deploying U. S. mili
tary might from Europe against
Japan has been advanced about
four months due to the rapid
crumbling of German strength.
Key service forces personnel
are being sent to the Pacific to
build and care for bases that will
be needed when full army
strength is transferred to the east.
V-K Day Awaited ,
The announcement that stra
tegic aerial warfare against Ger
many has been completed was
expected to mean a sharp stepup
in reassignment oi air lorees,
shock at Franklin Delano
Roosevelt s death.
"He never faltered," he said,
"nor shall we."
Truman spoke to the troops as
a veteran who knows the mud,
muck and danger of battle. -,
"I have done as" you do in the
field, when a commander .falls,"
he said. "My duties and responsi
bilities are clear. I have assumed
them. These duties will be carried
on in keeping with the American
tradition.
Is War Veteran
"I know the strain, the mud,
the misery, the utter weariness of
the soldier in the field. And I
know, too, his courage, his stam
ina and his faith in his comrades,
his country and himself.
"We are depending on every
one of you."
' The five-minute broadcast was
beamed from 32 short wave sta
tions in this country. It was re
broadcast by army and navy sta
tions. Amplified transcriptions
reached those forward elements
which couldn't get it otherwise.
Some 8,000,000 armed Americans
overseas heard the report to th
services.
ine president ended with a
paragraph from Lincoln's second
Inaugural address:
. Lincoln Quoted
"With malice toward none: with
charity for all; with firmness in
the right, as God gives us to see
the right, let us strive on to fin
ish the work we are in: to bind
up the nation's wounds; to care
for him who shall have borne the
battle, and for his widow, and his
orpnan to. do all which mav
achieve and cherish a just and
lasting peace among ourselves.
and with all nations."
Truman demonstrated sound ra
dio technique on the air last night.
His text, delivered to newspaper
offices some hours before deliv
ery, was a model of short-sen
tence composition. That is tho
punchiest and simplest method
oi transmitting idea.
The first day of Truman ad
ministration routine left report
ers gasping, ine new president
was a country boy. He goes to
work around 8 a.m.
U.S. Troopers
Storm Baguio;
Guerillas Aid
Over 7,000 Civilians I
Rescued; Four Filipinos
To Face War Charges
Most of the troops in Europe , OX L A,. ., C
e expected to go directly to the I OTn rOTCeS
Neanng Bologna
are
Pacific, probably through the !
Suez canal. Some will be returned
to the United States for furloughs.
LEO POTTER DEAD
Eugene, Ore., April 18 JIP
Funeral services were held today
for Leo.A. Potter, 50, vice presi
dent of the Potter Manufacturing
company of Eugene. Potter died
Monday after an extended illness.
He was born in Eugtne, served in
the first world war and was active
in Masonic activities.
Rome, April 18 IP Eiehth ar
my forces drove within ten miles
of Bologna from the southeast to
day and another, column out
flanked the city from the north
east. American Fifth army units pre
viously had driven within eight
miles of Bologna, due south of the
city. In new gains they cleared the
rugged peaks of Mt. Moscoso and
Mt. Davigo, 12 miles southwest of
the city.
By Don Caswell
(United Preu War Correspontlent)
Manila, April 18 (IP --.U. S.
troops today stormed the out
skirts of Baguio, Japanese cita
del from which Filipino guerillas
have rescued more than 7,000 ci
vilians In the last three weeks. . I
The civilians, who were brougtit
to the American lines, included a
number of U. S. citizens, President
Sergio Osmena's daughter, Mila
gros, and Brig.- Gen. Manuel Rox
as, former speaker of the Philip
pines assembly. ..i
Four members of the Filipino
collaborationist government also
were captured by the daring Igo
rot natives who stole into Baguio
at night and brought out the c
vilians in groups ranging from
two to 1800 persons. 1
Collaborationists Held
Gen. Douglas MacArthur said
the four collaborationists would be
held for the duration of the war
and then turned over to the Philip
pines government "for trial and
judgment."
The men and their positions in
the Japanese-controlled puppet re
gime were: Jose Yulo, chief jus
tice of the supreme court; Antonio
ae iafl-Aias, minister of finance;
Teofilo Sison, minister of interior.
and Quinton Paredes, minister of
justice.
MacArthur also announced that
troops of the 33rd division had
reached the northwestern out
skirts of Baguio, former Japanese
headquarters in the Philippines
and one-time summer capital for.
ine islands, two other American
columns at the same time reached
points less than three miles from
the southwestern and southeast
ern limits of the northern Luzon
city.
China Sea Blockaded
Philippines-based bombers con
tinued the firm blockade of China
sea shipping and sank or de
stroyed at least 21 enemy vessels,
including a destrover and sub
chaser.
A single navy Liberator ac
counted for two of the ships, an
8,000-ton transport and a 2,000-ton
freighter, in a raid on Singapore
Saturday night. It was the first
time that a Philippines based
plane hit Singapore, big enemy
held port at the southern tip of
the Malay peninsula.
Most of the rescued civilians
from Baguio were in good physi
cal condition. They had been aid
ed Dy tne Jgorites who ma ntained
communications with the 33rd di
vision by what the Americans
dubbed the "G-string telegraph
'I'll Support F.D.R. Ideals" Truman
President Harry S. Truman, In his first appearance before the Congress, assures the nation and the'woridthnt
he will support and defend the Ideals of President Roosevelt "with all my strength and wM, aU luyheart-
Land Office Approves
Timber Exchange Plan
CETS $118 AND KISS
Seattle, April 18 (U'i Pretty
Frances Keller reported to police
today that a burglar rifled her
apartment of $118 last night and
that just before he left he awak
ened her with a kiss, affection
ate and lingering.
Big Forts Blast
Nippon Air Bases
Guam, April 18 (Ul More than
100 Superfortresses ripped Ja
pan's six main suicide-plane bases
in southern Kyushu before dawn
today for the second time in less
than 12 hours.
The Superfortresses' fastest
one-two punch yet against Japan
was designed to knock out air
fields from which enemy sulcicd
pilots have been taking off to
crash their explosive-laden planes
against American warships off
Okinawa.
Today's raid marked the third
anniversary of Lt. Gen. James H.
Doolittle's historic carrier-based
raid on Tokyo, now nearly one-
tenth destroyed as result of B-29
lire raids In the past six weeks.
A Japanese broadcast said
American troops have landed on
tiny Menna island, Just south of
nearly-conquered Ie island and
three miles off Okinawa's em
battled Motobu peninsula.
The Invasion, like that of Ie,
was designed to gain additional
airfields for the Americans, the
broadcast said. It Indicated the
landing occurred simultaneously
wiin inai on ie Monday.
Klamath Falls, Ore., April 18 OLE) County courts of
Lake and Klamath counties today studied a decision by the
general land office dismissing county protests against a pro
posed land exchange between the National forest service and
The Shevlin-Hixon Compariy of Bend.
L. .An appeals, permitted. '' . ; ... '.,
, a lie laiiu unite opinion waa vusea on grounus ine exchange
was in the public interest, that the consent of the county or
umDer conservation commission is not legally required, and
require the 25 per cent pay
ment in the case of land ex
changes. The courts had contended that
the counties will not receive 25
per cent of the value of the Na
tional forest timber to be cut, as
would be the case in a cash sale
of National forest timber. They
also argued that the exchange ma
terially affects the tax bases of
the two counties, and the counties
and the stale timber conservation
commission had not given con
sent.
Proposal Outlined
The proposal calls for the com
pany to offer to the government
k,sm acres or land in Lake and
Klamath counties, for the right to
cut and remove National forest
timber worth $172,183 from about
16,600 acres In the two counties.
The land office contention was
based on the opinion of the chief
forester that the exchange will
result in a National forest inven
tory of thrifty, younger trees. He
was quoted that the county will
not be deprived of returns from
the sale of the timber but such
return will merely be postponed
in the interest of greater uniform
ity and stability of timber supply.
Repeal of Milk
Bills Is Sought
Ernie Pyle, America's No. 1 War Reporter, Dies in Action
Washington, April 18 un Ernie .doing in the Pacific. i He was m mimh f u TI.,
Pyle, the greatest front-line re- He landed on Okinawa on what was no loneer vniina-im VjJ?,
r n r a f ftf thic war had hopn thou i-o11oH "T Mra rliti" Vi .riU. .
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BULLETIN
With U. 8. Ninth Army, Ger
many, April 18 IIP) Troops of
the 80th division found a vault
at Magdeburg containing silver
and currency worth $20,000,000
and s number of stored art
treasures.
killed in action. of the first assault.
The skinny, little Scripps How- The news of Pyle's death sad
ard war correspondent beloved i dened an already bereaved White
of U. S. fighting men the world! House. A few moments after the
over was killed by a Japanese I report got out, the president said:
machine gun bullet on a little is-1 "The nation is quickly saddened
land off Okinawa. j again by the death of Ernie Pyle.
He had come close to death: No man in this war has so well
told the story of the American
fighting man as American fight
ing men wanted it told."
"He wrote about people In arms
as people still, but a people mov
ing in a aetermination which did
not need pretensions as a part of
countless times before in North
Africa, Sicily, Italy, and France.
It was on the little island of Ie,
near Okinawa, that Pyle was
killed.
Pyle started covering the war
In England and North Africa. He
staved with it, except for a brief ; power."
furlough home, until the Ameri- Pyle was a fox-hole reporter,
cans were sweeping the Germans; He said he knew nothing about
out of range. j strategy of tactics. What inter-
Then he came home again, leav- ested him was the G.I. in the dust
ing the front, he explained, simply ! and the muck. So that is what he
because he couldn't stand the, wrote about.
sight and smell of death any I He had spent the years before
longer. j the war writing a rambling col-
He didn't want to go to war j umn about places he had seen and
again, but he felt he owed it to people he had met.
America's soldiers and sailors andi He lacked the physique for war.
marines to report what they were He was slight, weatherbeaten.
But he liked people. When he
went to war, he kept on writing
about people. The people he wrote
about were in fox-holes, so Ernie
spent a lot of time in f ox-holes.
Once In North Africa some Ger
man Stukas began dive-bombing
anu nuajing me place where he
was. He dived Into a ditch behind
a soldier.
When the raid was over, he
""dged the soldier and said
Whew, that was close, eh?" The
soldier didn't answer. He was
dead.
Pyle, saying over and over again
that he was constantly afraid,
went from near-miss to near-miss,
from North Africa to Ie.
In France. Pvle fin;iliv uu all
the death he coulri utanH tr, a
while. He wrote candidly that he
could no longer take It. He had
to come home.
Soldiers wrote him letters tell
ing him they knew just how he
felt, and t$cy didn't blame him.
But Pyle couldn't stay away
from a war that he felt was his as
much as it was the Joes fighting
ir. o ne went to UKlnawa.
isaiem, Ore., April 18 (IP) Pre
liminary referendum petitions de
signed to repeal the so-called
"milk control" laws of the recent
legislature, were filed with th
secretary of state here today.
The petitions were signed by
acvcu iimnoers pi ine dairy-' in
dustry, most of them affiliated
wirn tne uregon dairy alliance,
of Portland.
The laws (house bills 234-370-
Jtii, provide lor the compulsory
jju.iicuiiiuuon oi an mine except
that from certified disease-free
ncras, lor the grading of food
products and for the fixlnc nf
aiuiiuuius ior iiuiu milk and
cream ny tne department of agri-
cuu uie.
The preliminary petitions now
go to me attorney general who
has 10 days In which to prepare
Full petitions, henrtnor 14 di-
signatures, must be filed by June
iu put' me measures on the
i3it general election ballot.
Henry Frutlger, president of
the dairy group, indicated last
week that the petitions would be
filed. He was one of the signers.
Others were: Frances L. Frutlger,
secretary-treasurer of the group:
Ernest F. Gourley, Albany; A. L.
uucner, uorvallls; C. Stuy, New
berg; L, H. McKee. Perrvtlnlp. nnl
n. u. ijenny, ucaverton.
(By United Prow)
Ernie Pyle was "singled out" by
a Japanese machine gunner and
was killed instantly while he was
talking with an officer In a com
mand post on Ie Shlma, Larry
Tighe, Blue network -correspond
ent, reported from Guam today.
(The famed correspondent was
shot three times through the tem
ple while under Japanese machine
gun fire. Blue network correspond
ent jack Hooley broadcast from
ie snima.
(Pyle was headed for the front
line fighting with Lt. Col. Joseph
Coolldge of Arkansas when a sud
den burst of fire sent them scram
bling from their teen Into a ditch
beside a narrow coral road, Hooley
said. i
(After a few minutes they
peered over the edge of the ditch
and the gun rattled again. Cool
ldge ducked back to find Pyle
dead beside him).
G.O.P. Senators
Visit President
Washington, April 18 Uii Eight
republican senators called on
President Truman today to ex
press their good wishes and offer
to confer with him at any time
as his "loyal opposition."
The dflegation was headed by
Sen. Robert A. Taft, R., O., who
said the group went to the White
House "to tender our regards and j
good wishes and express our will-1
ingness to have him call us in at
any time on any subject."
Taft said the republicans of
fered President Truman the op
portunity to deal with them di
rectly through their senate leader
ship as a means of avoiding as
many legislative battles between
the two parties as possible.
Taft Im Stranger
Taft said It was the first time
he had been In the office of a
president since the days of for
mer President Hoover, the last
republican to hold the presidency.
Others In the group were Wal
lace H. White, Me.; Kenneth S.
Wherry, Neb.; Warren R. Austin,
Vt.; Harlan J. Bushfleld. S. D.:
Eugene D. Milllkln, Colo.; Styles
Bridges, N. H.j and C. Wayland
Brooks, 111.
Sprinkling Rules
Reported Broken
With the advent of snrlna
weather and general lawn sjirin
kllng throughout the city, City
Manager C. G. Reiter todav
warned that the city ordinance
governing sprinkling must be ob
served. He reported that residents
on both sides of the street have
been sprinkling at the same time,
and that firemen have reported
that sprinkling was being con
tinued while fire calls are being
made.
Manager Reiter explained that
the ordinance requires persons
with even house numbers to
sprinkle on even days, while those 1
with odd numbers sprinkle on odd
days. The ordinance also requires
mat an spnnKling he stopped
during a fire.
Berlin Admits
Western Line
Is Destroyed
U. S. Forces Dash East:
To Czechoslovakia in
Move to Join Soviets
Paris, April 18 tun American
armies rolled into Czechoslovakia
and stormed the five keystone
cities of Hitler's crumbling third
reich today In a general offensive
that nai spokesmen admitted had
swept away their western front.-
rlylng columns oi lx. uen.
George S. Patton's American
Third army broke across the Ger
man frontier Into Czechoslovakia
early today on the final lap of a
2uu-mlle dash from the Khtne that
spilt the relch In two.
The Dreak-througn was maae at
an undisclosed point near the
northwestern tip of the enslaved
Czechoslovak republic, barely 100
miles from Prague. .
Patton's Third army troops also
fought their way Into Chemnitz,
about 50 miles northeast of their
crossing point, and 80-odd miles '
west o the advancing red army.
Cornerstones Stormed
Powerful tank and Infantry
forces of the American First, Sev
enth and Ninth armies, mean
while, were storming the remain,
ing four cornerstones of Ger
many's western line Leipzig,
Halle, Nurenbcrg and Magdeburg.
r The Americans already had'
swept for beyond all five nazl
citadels t points as. close as 70
miles front the Russians on the
Berlin front and their fall ap
peared only a matter of days at
most.
Die-hard German garrisons.
most of them held in the fight
only by the guns of nazl elite
guards, were battling desperately
to hold the five strongholds and
prevent a general break-through
that might finish off the Euro
pean war.
Censored field dispatches indi
cated that the fanatical German
resistance around these key fort
resses and supply difficulties had
slowed the armored sweep of the
American armies into eastern
Germany.
Nazi spokesmen admitted som
berly, however, that the stiffen
ing had come too late to prevent
the break-up of their western de
fenses Into a patchwork of dis
organized islands of resistance,
many of them out of contact with
the German high command.
Infantrymen and flame-throwing
tanks of the U. S. Ninth army
ran Into ferocious resistance from
nazl elite guards and some 1,400
members of the Hitler youth or
ganization in the streets of Mag
deburg, but they were reported
making steady progress toward
the city's four Elbe river bridges.
Late dispatches said the Ninth
army's 30th infantry division and
units or the becond armored divi
sion had cleared all of Magde-1
burg's southern and southwestern
districts, except for two streets In
wnicn tne teen-aged Hitler youths
were dug In for a death battle.
Pyle Killed
Makers of Peace
Get Papal Advice
Rome, April 18 HJ'i Pope Plus
XII, acting on the eve of the San
Francisco conference, todav Ik.
sued a special encyclical epistle
warning the makers of the peace
that victors and vanquished will
face a new war unless a fair anil
Just peace Is established.
The Pope addressed his mes
sage to the episcopacy through
out the world, inviting all to In
crease their prayers In order that
God may grant peace.
He had a particular word for
"tne men who will have to decide
the destiny of all peoples."
They, said the Pone, "should
carefully consider before God that
anything surpassing the limits of
Justice and fairness certainly
sooner or later would enormously
damage both the victors and the
vanquished because this would
carry the seed of new wars." I
Ernie Pyle, ace war correspond
ent, has been killed in action on a
small island near Okinawa, offi
cials announced today. .