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CENTRAL OREGON'S DAI L Y NEWSPAPER
Volume Llll
THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1945
NO. 116
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Yank Troopers
Lunge Toward
Island Capital
Tokyo Reports Landing
Attempt Is Made Near
Naha; Fight Is Fierce
Guam, April 20 P) American
troops lunged to within three and
a half miles north of Naha, capi
tal of Okinawa, in the most power
ful offensive of the Pacific war
today.
Radio Tokyo said other troops
attempted to land on the south
coast of Okinawa about eight
miles southeast of Naha yester
day from a 30-ship Invasion fleet,
including 20 transports and sev
eral battleships.
Such a landing would deeply
outflank Naha, a city of 65,000,
and clamp a pincers on Its garri
son of 60,000.
Three army divisions possibly
45,000 men smashed deep bulges
into both flanks of the Japanese
line across southern Okinawa
yesterday under cover of the
greatest coordinated ship and ar
tillery bombardment ever given
American troops for the size of
the target anywhere in the world.
Nearing Capital
Front reports said Americans
now were less than 6,200 yards
north of Naha and approaching
Machinato airfield on the west
coast and nearing . the northern
end of Yonabaru airstrip on the
east coast.
A hill overlooking Shuri, two
miles inland from Naha, was all
but cleared in the center of the
line. The town of Machinato, a
mile north of the -airfield of the
same name, was captured in the
Initial phases of the offensive yes
terday. Maj. Gen.- John R. Hodge, com
mander qf the 24th army corps,
said his forces had made "good
gains" in the heart of the enemy's
main line of resistance. Key
ground had been won, he said.
Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buck-
ner, commander of the 10th army,
said the offensive was going "just
about as we expected."
"'""Line Is Powerful
. "The Japs have as well an or
ganized line as I have ever heard
of anywhere," Buckner said. "We
all know that we still have to use
' a blow torch and corkscrews to
get them out of their caves."
Tokyo radio said the amphibi
ous forces attempted to land on
the southern coast at Chinen and
Minatokawa, 4H to 5 miles south
of Yonabaru, but were driven off.
The enemy report described the
American invasion force as com
prising 20 transports, two to four
battleships, one cruiser and five
destroyers.
Tokyo also claimed that Japa
nese naval units had entered the
Okinawa area and shelled two
American-held airfields.
Deschutes Ghest
Of fer Rejected
The Deschutes county war chest
committee's offer of $500 to the
Salvation Army is not satisfactory
to the Oregon and southern Idaho
division officers of that organiza
tion, H. R. Edward, chairman of
the local war chest unit, has been
notified. The chest officers voted
at a recent meeting to allocate
S500 to the Salvation Army, with
the provision that officers not
conduct a drive for funds here this
year.
Lieutenant Colonel James Dee,
divisional commander of the Sal
vation Army, with headquarters
in Portland, wrote the following
letter to Edwards:
Letter Quoted
"We have just received a letter
from Mrs. William Niskanen, sec
retary 'of the county war chest
committee, of which you are the
chairman. Evidently the commit
tee met and they offered "us $500.
"This, however, is not satisfac
tory to us. We have many friends
in Deschutes county who have
supported our work for many
years and we would hardly feel
justified In accepting such a small
amount.
"Therefore we feel it would be
: better for you to eliminate the
name of the Salvation Army from
your coming fall campaign and
we will take care of our own ap
peal as in the past. This will
eliminate confusion and will no
doubt be more satisfactory to your
committee."
German Radio Stations
Silent, England Reports
London, April 20 iui Regular
radio broadcasts virtually disap
peared from the air waves today.
The United Press listening post
in London was unable to hear
single German station at 12:30
pm. (DBST), when the German
home service news and commen
tary usually are broadcast.
Last Birthday?
St
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler, the defeated dicta
tor, passed his 56th birthday in
his dying empire today, and there
were no celebrations. There are
many who believe that this will be
Hitler's last birthday.
Hitler Is Silent
On 56th Birthday
. London, April 20 UP Adolf Hit
ler, the defeated dictator, passed
his 56th and probably last, birth
day today.
There were no celebrations In
his dying empire for .the most
hunted man in history. The only
victory salutes came from the
guns of allied armies, closing in on
him from east and west. :
Berlin, where In Hitler's heyday
the red flags with the black swas
tikas flew and his storm troopers
paraded, echoed with the artillery
of the oncoming red army, report
ed only nine miles away.
The German radio, which once
boomed Hitler's birthday speech
es from Berlin, had only news of
fresh defeats to offer, There was
no Indication the fuehrer would
make a . birthday broadcast, al
though a Swiss report said 21
Gauleiters had asked Goebbels
last week to persuade Hitler to
speak for the sake of morale.
' In Mountains
The same dispatch, quoting a
Munich source, said Goebbels and
Himmler had refused- to act on
the matter.
The fuehrer was believed to be
at his mountain retreat at Berch
tesgaden, planning a "twilight of
the gods" finale to his career of
conquest. Some recent reports
have suggested Hitler still was in
Berlin, but few believed he would
remain that close to the red army
if he could help it.
A Zurich dispatch, quoting a
German diplomat who supposedly
left Berlin last week, said the
reich capital had been stripped for
its capture. According to the re
port, all na.i organizations and
government offices had been evac
uated to the Bavarian redoubt,
where Hitler plans his last stand.
The dispatch said anything that
might identify nazi party mem
bers uniforms, emblems, and
even books and pictures of Hitler
had been destroyed.
Redmond
Soldier
To Be on Radio
"Hawaii Calls," a program
broadcast from the distant Ha
waiian islands, tomorrow will in
terview a Redmond soldier, Wil
liam V. Hogan, son of Mr. and
Mrs. William" Hogan, a telegram
received today by The Bulletin
from Honolulu states.
The interview will be broadcast
over KBND Saturday at 3:30 p.m.
"Parents of the soldier have been
notified and will be listening in.
Dorothy Scharff, an Oregon girl
serving with the Women Marines,
will also be Interviewed. Miss
Scharff, who has visited Bend on
various occasions, is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Scharff,
of Amity.
L . ii
President Truman's Day Starts Very Early;
Crowds Gather on Avenue to See New Chief
By Mcrrlman Smith ,
(United rrew stir wrre.por.aent) ing to .work about 300 yards
Washington, April 20 HP-Presl- from Blair House to the White
dent Truman's favorite thne of House. He says howdy-do to peo
day is when the street cars are i pie along the short route, walking
just beginning to run, the birds j constantly at a rapid clip. The
are after their first worms and
most everybody in the city is still
asleep.
His usual rising time is 6:30
o'clock in the morning. He shuf
fles around in his pajamas and
bedroom slippers for a while, gets
dressed and sits down to break
fast about seven. , !
Breakfast starts with fruit j
juice then a big bowl of cerea -
usually oatmeal topped off with
toast and milk :. According to his
staff, he is not much of a coffee j
drinker.
After breakfast, he reads four
or five metropolitan newspapers.
He's In his office by 8.30 a. m.
U.S. fighters
GetBeachhead
On Moro Gulf
Mackmen Unopposed
In March Across Island;
Yanks Near Davao Port
By Don Caswell
(United PreM War Correspondent)
. Manila, April 20 IIP American
troops thrust almost unopposed
across Mindanao to within 80
miles of the big port of Davao
today. ,
The'drve was movkig nearly a
mile an hour and already had
secured an approximate 400-
sauare mile beachhead on the
eastern shore of Moro gulf.
'.At. the same time other U. S.
troops occupied without opposi
tion Balabac island, south of
American-controlled Palawan and
only 45 miles from the northern
tip of Borneo.
Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichelber
gers eighth army troops met only
occasional sniper fire as they
pushed south along the coast and
inland on Mindanao, southern
most and last major island in the
Philippines not controlled by the
Americans.
New. Hops Made
In a series of shore-to-shore
hops from the original landing
beachhead, assault forces pushed
15 miles southward to capture the
towns of Cotabato and Tamontaka
on the north and south shores of
the Mindanao river.
The river positions were quick
ly consolidated and under a heavy
air cover the troops drove 22
miles inland on both sides of the
river to the road junction of
Lomopog. . - , '
Gen. Douglas MacArthur' an
nounped that the northern beachv
head at Malabang was being rap
idly expanded and that its air
field, built by the Americans be
fore the war, already was In op
eratlon.
March Unopposed '
While the advance through the
heart of Mindanao was virtually
unopposed, American troops were
meeting continued fierce resis-
tance in northern Luzon around
the enemy citadel of Baguio.
The Japanese attempted to
break the siege arc northwest of
Baguio Tuesday in a tank-supported
counter-attack. But the as
sault, which may have been the
final enemy offensive attempt at
Baguio, was repulsed and all the
tanks destroyed. The number of
tanks used by the Japanese was
not disclosed.
Over 20 Men Die
In Plane Crash
, Sweetwater, Tex., April 20 IP)
Between 20 and 25 passengers
aboard a twin-engine army trans
port plane were killed today when
it crashed and burned three miles
south of here.
Army officials refused at first
to release the number of men
aboard the plane until an accurate
check of the bodies could be made,
but local undertakers said that
"more than 20 bodies" were in
Sweetwater funeral parlors.
The plane, based at Midland
army air field, was en route to a
New Jersey destination when it
crashed shortly after 6:30 a. m.
Capt. Schumacher was one of
the first to arrive at the scene of
the crash, about three-fourth of
a mile east of the San Angclo
highway, and said that all of the
occupants were dead by the time
he arrived.
Deputy fire chief Roy Stephen
son of Avenger field's department
said the men "had no chance
whatever" to escape.
Just now Truman Is
walk-1
new president likes people very
much and is flattered when some
of them want to shake his hand.
That was all right when he was
not president, but he will find
now that he has less and less time
to be Harry S. Truman and must
devote almost every waking hour
to being the president of the '
United States and commander-in-j
chief of the armed forces. 1
The presidents daily twomin-
ute walk from the Blair house to
the executive offices started at
fj36 aih,,od5yA cfowd ' ")nTe
than 500 lined street car loading i
piatiorms on Pennsylvania ave-1
nue as Truman appeared.
R
eels
Hitler's Parly ;!
Shrine Is Taken
On Birthday
Conquering Yanks Head
For Adolf's Retreat in
Mountains of Bavaria
Pnrls. Anrll 20 UP The Amer
ican Seventh army captured the
ruined nazi shrine city of Nuern
berg today and struck south for
Munich to open the battle for Hit
ler's last retreat In the Bavarian.
Alps. i
All organized resistance ended
in Nuernberg after a savage,
house-to-house battle that front
dispatches said had gutted the
once-beautiful medieval city.
The last . survivors of a nazi
eiite guard corps surrendered to
the Americans inside the old wall
ed city in the center of Nuernberg
late this afternoon Ironically on
the 56th birthday of the fuehrer
who had ordered his party shrinl?
defended to the death. . i
IS Cities Fall
It was the 15th city of the reich
and the third big nazi stronghold
to fall to the rampaging American
armies in the past 24 hours. Halle
and Leipzig were taken by the U.
S. First army yesterday after a
prolonged fight that outdid in
fury even the bloody battle fol
Nuernberg.
Nuernbe
Armored vanguards of the Sew ,. x "''. , y ' : ' v y 1
enth army were racing 25 rmlrlTj ?; TUunjeP ef Batla Heard, on Jaoi' le Shima i?
and more bevonri rvuernbere' even
befoije the last enemy resistance
ended there. They struck within
70 miles or less of Munich, cradle
of the nazi party and northern
outpost of the Bavarian redoubt
where Hitler had boasted his fol
lowers would continue the fight
even if all else In Germany fell.
The Seventh army triumph
highlighted a day of unspectacu
lar but strategically important
gains scored by the allied armies
against by-passed German strong
holds up and down the western
front.
British. on Move
In the north, Canadian First
army troops completed the libera
tion of northeastern Holland and
wheeled northeast and west for
the naval base of Emden and the
V-bomb coast of western Holland.
British Second army forces seal
ed off all but one slim escape
route for the Germans in the
burning port of Bremen, rammed
an armored spearhead within
three miles or less south of Ham
burg, and battled for a crossing
of the Elbe fewer than 120 miles
from Berlin.
U. S. Ninth army troops on the
British right flank deepened their
Elbe river bridgehead southeast
of Magdeburg against fierce op
position and dispersed a strong
nazi counterattack near the American-British
hinge after the enemy
had made some initial gains.
Nazi Pilot Lands
On U. S. Airstrip
With Third Armv. Germany.
April 20 (Ui A German fighter
plane buzzed an American air
strip in Germany yesterday and
wagged his wings in greeting.
The amazed tower control fired
a red flare and ordered all guns
to fire. As they opened up, the
plane zipped around the field and
calmly landed.
The German officer nilot
stepped out and was captured.
The crowd annlaudod. (he nresl.
dent grinned and waved and then
walked briskly across the street
with ftla Dn,n, 1
...... .... ,tl n,-lvliL. i-aL,,ii.
Although Truman likes to
walk, he'll probably do most
of i
his walking In the White House
grounds after another week or so.
When he moves into the White
House, his strolls to work will be
only through the corridors of the
executive mansion and not down
Pennsylvania avenue.
He works at a maehlneeun
pace during the mnrnlno Whon !
an appointment is scheduled foribers. and Bill, who is in the navy
11:35 and is supposed to end at I air corps, is the son of Mr. and
11:45, it ends at 11:45 This is In Mrs John Currie
contrast to . the late President I Two other Bend boys, Ted
Roosevelt who etxended the time
lls,ed on nls appointment sehed
ule because of his habit of "bull
Ing" with his callers once business
was out of the way.
i m
it
rg Falls to American
W 1 .:S a jM VIW
w i v ' (NBA Tehpholol .
The late Ernie Pyle. famous Sorlpps-Howard- war correspondent killed In action on island of le, near Okinawa,
Is pictured here with "That airl" his seldom photographed wife, Mrs. Oeraldlne Pyle, In library of their Albu
querque, N. M., home Just before he left for the Pacific. With the couple Is .their pet Shetland sheep dog,
.,iV; t Cheetah. Life photo by Bob Landry.
Ernie Pyle Buried on
n i r i j -
oesiae ooiaiers
f . .
As Coffin Lowered; Doughboys Pay Tribute
By Mac R. Johnson .
. (United PreM War Correspondent)
Okinawa, April 20 (U.E) Ernie Pyle was buried on le
Shima this morning beside some of the doughboys he glorified.
As a chaDlain read a brief burial service and spoke the
final words, a squad of riflemen
flag-draped cottin was lowered
Even as the final services
of the battle the tiny Hoosier
crescendo on nearby Okinawa
fighting and dying in a drive to
Plans Take Shape
Plans are rapidly taking shape
for the south Central Oregon
music competition festival, to be
held in Bend on Friday, April 27,
with high school units from four
counties taking part, It was an
nounced today by C. Dale Robbins,
In general charge of arrange
ments. The competition will be
open to the public, and Robbins
Is confident that music lovers of
Central Oregon will have a real
treat.
The feature of the festival will!
bo the program in the high school
gymnasium, at 7:30 p.m. on the I
day of competition. Banrls from i
Prineville, Redmond, Klamath I
Falls and Bend will participate.
Each band is to play one quick
step march and a longer, more
serious number. Also taking part
will be five choirs, two of them
from Bend. Each choir is to sing
two or three numbers.
Full Numlier Due
The Klamath Falls orchestra is
to play a full orchestra number
and one string number.
On Friday afternoon, at 2:30
p.m. in the Episcopal parish hall,
solos will be Judged. There will be
eight instrument solos, of various
kinds, and eight or ten vocal solos.
Ratings will bo given by three
national Judges at the end of each
program. '
Neighbors Meet
In Mail Line on
. .
AdmirnltV
Two boys who lived next door
to each other in Bend, Jim Cham
bers and Bill Currle, met recently
by chance in the distant Admiral
ty islands, while waiting in line
for mail, local relatives have
learned.
Jim, a navy torpedomnn, is the
Bnn nf Mr nnrl Mm Parv C.httm-
Hughes and Don Graham, are In
the Admiralties, and, according to
word received here, there Is going
to be a real "Bend party" in the
far Pacific very soon now.
ft ft
This Was Last Trip Home for Ernie
Island
u-
orified
ne
. .-
fired a volley of shots and the
into the ground.
were being held, the thunder
hated but endured rose to a
where other doughboys were
attain the enemy's capital city.
On le itself, soldiers were
struggling to root the Japs
from positions on Mount Iegu
sugu. The lovable little war corre
spondent, killed by Jap machine
gun bullets Wednesday, was ac
corded a military funeral when It
was discovered he was a seaman
first class in world war I. That,
and not the fighting he did with
his typewriter in tills war was
decided upon as the official reason
he was entitled to be hurled with
"appropriate" military honors.
Loss In Mourned
Here in the Ryukyu Islands, as
on every American fighting front,
the G. I.'s still mourned the loss
of the man who told their story
better than anyone else.
Ernie was Just getting acquaint
ed with the men on le Shima,
when he was killed. But they all
had read his columns through the
war, and each man felt he was a
very personal friend of Pyle, be-
cause that was the way his col
umns affected readers.
An ammunition bearer in the
flOth division, Pvt. Edwin L. Hill,
Kansas City, Kans., put down his
load, shook his head and said, "I
read his columns and he knew
what he was talking about. His
death is a great loss to the com
mon soldier."
Fish Bill Valid,
Attorney Rules
Salem, Ore., April 20 mi The
compromise "fish bill" of the re
cent legislative session, which
closes a number of coastal streams
to commercial fishing, is both
constitutional and valid, Attornej'
General George Neuner has ruled.
The opinion was for M. T. Hoy,
muster fish warden of the stiife
fish commission.
BULLETIN
Paris, April 20 tP Gen.
Dwlght D. Eisenhower said to
day In an order of the day that
the "ragged reiiinanU of Hit
ler's armies nf the west now are
tottering on the threshhold of
defeat."
Elsenhower's order of the day
was addressed to "every mem
ber of the allied expeditionary
force" on the conclusion of the
battle of the Ruhr, where more
than 300,000 German troops
were trapped and eliminated as
a fighting force.
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Til 1
Students Elect
icers
Lee Relnhart, football letterman
and member of the school's sym
posium team, today was elected
president of the Bend high school
associated students for the year
1945-46, at an election in which
students registered in advance,
then cast their ballots In "pre
cincts." Downtown Bend saw
little of the pre-election campaign
this season, but high school of
ficials say, lt was one of the most
outstanding ever conducted here.
"Campaign speeches this year
were better and generally more
serious this year , a school ol
ficial said, in lauding the manner
the students conducted their cam
paign.
.Jack Irvine Named
Jack Irvine was elected vice-
president at today's election, in a
race with Don McCauley that was
so close a recount was necessary.
Jackie Hahn was named secretary
and Maureen Lyons, paymaster,
with Jackie Chute to serve as
treasurer In the coming year.
Dale Hall was named yell leader.
A student body constitution am
endment was also voted on, giv
ing the eighth grade representa
tion on the student council.
The new officers will be Install
ed at the last assembly of the
school year, on May 21. Bill Plath
is head of the student body at
present, taking over when Phil
Brogan was recently called to ac
tive duty with the army air corps.
PRINCESS DIES
London, April 20 iui A 'corre
spondent of the Daily Telegraph
reported today that Princess Ma-
I falda, 42, daughter of King Victor
Emmanuel, of Italy, died at the
Infamous prison camp at Buchen
wald, Germany, of gangrene re
sulting from an arm wound suf
fered in a bomb ridd last August.
New Off
Loyal Party Opposition Liked
By President Harry S. Truman
By I.yle C. Wilson (controversial matters. That does
(Uniicii I'rew stutr corrmnomient) not mean, however, that we're
Washington, April 20 tri , going all the way with this man.
There seems to be no doubt today I "We'll be with him when he's
that President Truman has gotten! right and against him when he's
off to a great start with congress. wrong. Issues will come up when
Republicans are saying just as we'll meet him head-on. We'll
nice things about him as the, do the Job the minority ought to
democrats are. One Sen. C. Way-! do."
land Brooks, R., III. went so far I That will be strictly all right
as to make a prediction of future with Harry S. Truman, late of the
relations between the legislative U. S. Senate. He told a group of
and executive branches: republican senators who called at
"It'g going to be something I the White House with pledges of
we haven't seen before, in your j support on Wednesday that he
lifetime or mine." believed thoroughly In the two-
That, of course, remains to be party system and recognized the
seen. No honeymoon ever lasted responsibilities of a "loyal op-
torever, ana neuner Mr. Truman !
nor tne republicans in congress
are forgetting that It's still a two
party system.
As Senate republican whip Ken
neth S. Wherry, R Neb., put it:
"We have done what we ought
to do pledge our help with non-
Beirloifi)
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Moscow Says
Soviet, Yank
Forces Meet
Battle for Capital Is
At Decisive Stage as .
Allies Surge to East
London, April 20 (in Russian
troops storming the last barriers
before Berlin broke Into a village
seven miles east of the capital
today, the nazls reported, and a
Moscow dispatch said U. S. Third
aurny and soviet patrols probably
had met in the Dresden sector.
"The battle for Berlin has reach
ed the decisive stage," German
broadcasters said repeatedly dur
ing the day In describing the
struggle at the gates of the burn
ing and shell-swept city.
The left wing of an Intensely
concentrated mass of soviet tanks
and men charging straight in
against Berlin was reported by
the Germans to nave pusnea into
the streets of Hangelsbcrg, on the
Frankfurt highway seven miles
short of the city limits.
Contact Probable
A Moscow dispatch said the out
riders of the Russian and Ameri
can armies probably had made
their first contact around Dresden.
Relayed to Lt. Gen. George S.
Patton's Third army front,- a
high-ranklnff Source1 denied ; that
any such meeting had taken place,
"unless," he added jokingly,
"some of our troops deserted us."
But the nazls were paying most .
of their attention to the Berlin
front, where their radio commen
tators said the Russians had driv
en Into the capital's "defense zone
proper."
The German high command, ac
knowledging widespread reverses
in the fortifications in front of
Berlin, said frankly that "the
situation has" deteriorated."
Berlin Is Objective
Other nazi broadcasts reported
soviet tanks and Infantry were
moving directly against Berlin be
tween Muencheberg and wrlezen.
Their center had reached Straus
Imrg, nine miles from the capital,
and the lower wing was at Han
gelsberg, seven miles from Ber
lin. Moscow dispatches, following
up the first soviet high command
confirmation of the showdown of
fensive on a broad Berlin front,
reported that the Russians had
broken across the Spree river and
were closing against Dresden.
It was in that region that, ac
cording to a Moscow dispatch, out
riders of Lt. Gen. George S. Pat
ton's U. S. Third army and Mar
shal Ivan S. Koncv's First Ukrain
ian army, probably have met.
Kcds Give Reports
The first report of a possible
Junction of the American and
Russian forces came from Mos
cow, united Press correspondent
Henry Shapiro reported from the
soviet capital that Russian forces,
after breakin;; through the Spree
river defense line, were thrusting
on toward a Junction with United
States Third army forces advanc
ing on Dresden.
"In the Dresden sector, motor
ized soviet patrols probably al
ready have contacted the scouts of
Lt. Gen. George S. Pat ton," Sha
piro reported.
position.'
But Mr. Truman's aim will be
to seek areas of agreement to
avoid situations in which White
House and congress get entrench
ed on opposite sides of an Issue
as sometimes happened t .the
Roosevelt administratis
Army