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CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
Volume LIU
THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON. SATURDAY, APRIL 2 1, 1945
NO. 117
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J;S: Troops Make Bid to Break
Through Lines,
Elbe Crossed
At New Point,
Germans Say
Ike's Men Expected to
Link With Stalin Army
In Assault on Capital
Paris, April 21 (IB American
troops were reported storming the
Elbe river line at a new point
northwest of Berlin today in a
major bid to break through and
join the red army in the linal
assault on the German capital.
Word of the new crossing at
tempt on the U. S. Ninth army
front before Berlin was flashed by
the German DNB news agency as
three other allied armies In the
south struck along a 200 -mile
front for Hitler's last redoubt In
the Bavarian Alps.
DNB said the Americans at
tacked in the Wittenberg area, 62
miles northwest of Berlin and 70
miles north of the Ninth army's
other bridgehead across the Elbe
at Barby.
Crossings Fail
The enemy agency added crypti
cally that "as far as is known"
all the crossing attempts, had
failed., v. '
There was no confirmation at
allied headquarters of the enemy
report. But a crossine at Witten
berg would put the Americans on
the Hamburg-Berlin railway only
79 miles from a juncture with
Russian troops In the northeast
ern outskirts of Berlin and 70
miles from soviet units at the
capital's southern gates.
In the Barby bridgehead, the
Americans were 40 miles west of
the red army vanguards and meet
ing stiff opposition.
As the battle for Berlin thun
dered into its final hours, the
American Third and Seventh and
the French First armies in the
south opened their assault on
nazidom's last strongholds in Ba
varia. '
Drives Gain Power
The three-army offensive war
rolling with increasing weight
against the outer ramparts of the
Bavarian redoubt on a front loop
ing northeastward from the Swiss
border to northwestern Czecho
slovakia. The fiercest enemy resistance
was reported concentrated against
the U. S. Seventh army striking
straight down from Nuernberg to
ward Munich. Three thousands of
fanatical teen-aged nazis fought a
savage and partly successful de
laying action on the road to Mu
nich. Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's
American Third army rammed a
half-dozen armored spearheads up
to and across the Czechoslovak
border on a front looping In to
within 58 miles of Pilsen and 98
miles or less west of Prague, the
last main escape corridor between
northern and southern Germany.
Fate of Fliers
T& Be Learned
Nuernberg, Germany, April 21
Ui The fate of thousands of
American and British airmen list
ed as "missing" may be learned
soon.
A processing center for Allied
fliers shot down over German
territory was discovered in the
nearby town of Buchenbuhl. A
master index file detailing what
happened to 45,000 Anglo-American
airmen was found in the cen
ter. Each captured flier was record
ed in the master file and listed
on a separate card. He was given
a number and his belongings were
placed In an envelope with the
number.
Bushels of rings, watches, fra
ternity pins, and dogtags were
found at the processing center.
" NEAR PHILADELPHIA
; Bt United Proa)
j Russian troops reached within
1 10 miles of Philadelphia today.
The Philadelphia in this case is a
S German town 12 miles southwest
of Berlin.
!jaifaytifmberrd
Nazi Party Members Forced
To Dig Up Prisoners' Bodies
Angry Americans Stand Guard as Germans Use
Bae Hands in Removing Corpses of 500 Men
Gardelegen, Germany, April 21 (ME) American soldiers
stood guard today while healthy, prosperous nazi party mem
bers dug- up with their bare hands the hastily-buried bodies
oi ouu oi tneir lormer prisoners.
These were the bodies of anti-nazi Frenchmen, Belgians,
Russians, Poles, and Dutchmen who were burned to death
and shot a few hours before the Americans took this town.
Then they were dumped hurriedly into make-shift graves.
A great majority of the townspeople are nazi party mem-
Gets Purple Heart
Pfc. Ray L. Howard, a graduate
irom tne iseno nigh school with
the class of 1939, has been award
ed the purple heart for wounds
received in action in Italy on Feb.
20. A member of the 10th Moun
tain division, formerly a sky troop
unit, Pfc. Howard is now in a hos
pital in Italy. His wife and three
small children live in Bend, at
1475 Fresno. The soldier is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. R. M. How
ard, 340 West 12th.
Port of Bordeaux
Opened to Allies
Paris, April 21 IP The Port of
Bordeaux was reopened for allied
shipping today for the first time
in four years following the clear
ing of German, forces from the en
tire Gironde estuary.
The campaign to eliminate the
German pocket around the Gir
onde on the "forgotten front"
virtually ended yesterday
seven days after the French be
gan the offensive along the At
lantic coast.
A communique said French
troops hoisted the tricolor at the
extreme tip of Pointe de Grave,
signalling the end of the cam
paign. WOMAN MISSING
Spokane, Wash., April 21 ipi
Authorities today conducted a
county-wide search for Mrs. Her
mina Ischi, 72, reported missing
from her home since Wednesday.
913,237 CAPTURED
Paris, April 21 IP The allied
western armies captured 913,237
German prisoners in the first 20
days of April, headquarters an
nounced today.
Huge Sky Fort
Plane Bases; Americans Lose
By Frank Tremalne
Guam, April 21 Upwards
of 300 Superfortresses today
blasted the Kyushu bases of Jap
anese suicide planes blamed for
the sinking of some of the 15
American war vessels lost in the
battle of Okinawa and Japan dur
ing the past month.
On Okinawa Itself, three Ameri
can divisions thrust deeper into
the enemy's last-ditch defense
line less than three and a half
miles north of Naha, capital of
the island, on the third day of the
greatest ground offensive of the
Pacific war.
Advances of up to a mile were
reported all along the ftur-miie
line extending across the south
ern end of the island yesterday.
Swarms of planes and big guns of
warships Joined massed land artil
lery In an unprecedented support
ing bombardment.
The big fleet of Superfortresses
bombed nine airfields altogether
To Join
" Ders. Most are prosperous
merchants. The town looks
like any other German town
clean streets, clean homes,
clean people with rosy, plump
cheeks.
But they could not have failed
to notice when the SS troops,
aided by the volksturm, herded
the prisoners Into a stone bam
to the outskirts of the city, sprink
led gasoline on the straw flooring
and set it afire.
- Shot By Guards
Some fear-crazed victims tried
to escape by squeezing under the
doors but the guards shot them.
The volksturmers dug a 60-yard
long trench behind the barn and
dumped 500 smoldering corpses
into it.
''Arrival of the Americans pre
vented burial of all the victims.
- Gardelegen today is filled with
hate. Civilian efforts to be friend
ly are rejected coldly by the Amer
icans. This changed the civilians.
They avert their eyes when they
pass the American soldiers.
The Americans demand an Im
mediate, correct and respectful
answer to questions and they
get lt.
Civilians Rounded Up
Each day for six days the Amer
icans have been rounding up
groups of civilians and marching
them a quarter-mile to the scene
of the massacre for a silent ser
mon. Now the Germans, 200 of them,
including 50 principal party mem
bers, are being forced to dig up
the bodies of the dead.
Points in Bulk
Step Out of Car
At Stockyards
Portland, Ore., April 21 (IB
Employes at the Portland live
stock yards gaped today when a
6,300-pound elephant lumbered
out of a boxcar.
"Has meat rationing come to
this?" somebody remarked.
Inquiry brought the news that
the elephant was headed for
Jantzen beach, amusement park
located near the livestock yards.
The loading dock was the nearest
rail connection and the pachy
derm walked the rest of the way.
Before leaving, he stoked up on
a bale of hay.
SPY EXECUTED
Manila, April 21 LP Japanese
sergeant-major Sakai Narioka
was convicted by a military com
mission of spying in civilian
clothes. and hanged Thursday, lt
was announced today.
Armada Bombs
on Kyushu, southernmost of the 1
Japanese home islands. The raid
was the third in five days on the
suicide-plane bases, but two of
the airfields Usa, near the north
east coast, and Kushira in the
south were hit for the first
time.
A 21st bomber command an
nouncement said the attacks cov
ered the "length and breadth" of
Kyushu.
There was no mention of oppo
sition and it was indicated that
both fighter and anti-aircraft re
action by the Japanese was neg
ligible. A Japanese broadcast said ap
proximately 200 B-29's had raided
airfields on Kyushu for four
hours this morning. Damage to
ground installations was slight,
the broadcast claimed.
A Pacific fleet communique
listed for the first time American
naval losses In ojeratlons off Ok
inawa and Japan between March
Russians
iCebuConauest
Is Completed,
illions Freed
Over 5,000 Nippons Die
In Battles on Island;
New Campaigns Planned
By Don Caswell
(United Preaa Stat, Correapondtnt)
Manila, April 21 IB American
troops shattered the last Japanese
organized resistance .on Cebu to
complete the conquest of the cen
tral Philippines today.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur said
the sweep through the central
Philippines liberated at least 6,
400,000 persons ,on more than a
score of islands. ( v r
He promised that the resources
of the freed area, measuring near
ly 33,000 square miles, would be
used for the rehabilitation of the
Philippines and "for prosecution
of the war against Japan itself."
5000 Japs Killed .
Japanese' losses on Cebu
amounted to approximately 5,000
dead as veterans of the American
division burst through the last de
fenses in wide enveloping moves
to complete the campaign. A few
enemy stragglers scattered
through the hills to become prey
ior mipmo guerillas. '
The conquest of the central is
lands in the archipelago enabled
the Americans further to concen
trate on the offensives on Luzon
and Mindanao.
They were the last two large
islands on which Japanese organ
ized forces were active, although
the enemy garrisons slowly were'
being compressed into decreasing
pockets for final annihilation.
Advances Made.
On Mindanao Eighth army forc
es were pushing. out rapidly from
the new beachhead on the Moro
gulf and sent an additional col
umn thrusting 16 miles inland
along the main, road to Davao.
At the northern end of the
beachhead, other American tronns
advanced 15 miles northeast of
Malabang and reached the shore
of Lake Lanao, a scant 25 miles
across the narrow neck connect
ing Zamboanga peninsula with
tne main part of Mindanao.
Front reports said the troops
were advancing without meeting
serious opposition, although a
group of Japanese made a small
and futile counterattack on the
southern column north of Cota
bato. Geese Molested,
Officer Reports
Chasing of ducks and eeese off
their nests on the islands below
the Tumalo avenue bridge, today
brought a severe reprimand to
two Bend boys who were caught
in the act by Officer William Bur
ton TJio nffloot. hrA U... I..
the scene after he had received
a telephone call.
The boys, each 14 years of aee.
were found by Officer Burton to
be rowing among the islands.
They admitted chasing one joose
ncni, uie uuicer reported
Jap Suicide
Many Vessels
18 and April 18. Against 15 Ame
rican ships sunk, the Americans
destroyed at least 100 Japanese
vessels during the period, all pre
viously announced.
American losses were:
Five destroyers Haligan,
Bush, Colhoun, N. L. Abele,
Pringle.
Two mine craft Emmons,
Skylark.
One destroyer transport Dick
erson. Five smaller warships One
gunboat, one LST, one LCI, one
LCS, one LCT.
Two ammunitions ships ,
Hohbs Victory, Logan Victory.
The 100 Japanese ships sunk
included a Yamato class battle
ship, two light cruisers, five des
troyers, five destroyer escorts,
four large cargo ships, 18 medium
cargo ships and 28 smaller cargo
ships. In addition, 2,569 Japanese
aircraft were destroyed.
M
Truman Greets
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President Harry S. Truman greets George Bldault (left), French minister
White House after his arrival In Washington with other French delegates
to right. George Bldault, James E. Dunn, assistant secretary of state, and
Pioneer of Bend
Is Heart Victim
Theodore Aunc, 63, Bend pio
neer, former city councilman here
and Crook county deputy sheriff
In early days, died at his home at
123 Franklin last night at 6:15,
victim of a sudden heart attack.
Mr.. Aune was a resident of Bend
for 42 years, coming nere m ihuz,
when this town was little more
than a stopping place for freight
teams on the long haul into the
interior and for stockmen trailing
flocks into the mountains.
A native of Orkedalen, Norway,
where he was born on Feb. 23,
1882, Mr. Aune came to America
with his Barents when only six
years of age, urst living in jviicni'
can. then moving to Ashianu, Wis
consin. He was a youth of 20 when
he came to the pioneer village of
Bend in 1902, with his brother,
Anton Aune. In 1906, the Aune
brothers entered business here,
and in that year constructed the
big livery stable on Bond street
that for many years served as a
center for freighters that moved
long "strings" over- dusty Cen
tral Oregon roads and for stage
drivers operating between Shan
iko, then the railroad terminus,
and Bend, via Prinevllle. The big
barn that the Aune brothers con
structed nearly 40 years ago re
mained a land mark in Bend until
modern Bend practically envel
oped the huge structure. It was
finally razed.
. Was Deputy Sheriff
Mr. Aunc served as deputy sher
iff of Crook county when the
Bend area was still a part of that
county and this portion of Central
Oregon was referred to as the
"west side." Mr. Aune served for
two terms on the city council, be
fore Bend adopted Its present
managerial form of government.
In early days, Mr. Aune en
gaged in contract work, and when
the big mills came to Bend he
assisted with many contracts on
logging railroads, wagon roan's
i leading into the midstate woods
and in general construction at the
mills. In recent years, Mr. Aune
assisted his brother In the opera
tion of the Aune Feed store, erect
ed on the site where the sprawling
Aune livery stables stood for
many years.
Mr. Aune was a member of the
First Lutheran church of Bond
a church which he assisted to con
struct. Services will be held Tues
day at 2:30 p. m., from the
Nlswonger & Winslow chapel,
with Rev. M. A. Thompson of the
First Lutheran church in charge.
Family Survives
Aside from his wife, Martha,
Mr. Aune Is survived by two
i daughters. Mrs. Everett L. Wiles
and Mrs. A. E. Lcdbctter, notn oi
Bend, and one son, TS Boise
Aune, who is serving with the
American forces In the Italian
theater of war. Also surviving are
his brother, Anton, and three sis
ters, Mrs. Margaret A. Smith,
Bend; Mrs. W. K. Wilkenson,
Portland, and Mrs. B. A. Nilsen,
L'Anse, Mich. Grandchildren are
Robert Klnnnn, Marsha Lynn Ied
better and Karen Louise Wiles.
7,.VM PLANES DESTROYED
Washington, April 21 P The
IT. S. navy alone has destroyed
7,500 Japanese planes In the Pa
cific since the start of the Philip
pines campaign last October, a
naval spokesman revealed last
night.
French Delegates
Nazi Leaders
Fleeing North,
Sweden Hears
London, April 21 tin Leading
nazi party members are fleeing
to Norway aboard what planes
the Luitwatie nas leit, dispatch
es from Sweden reported today.
While other reports told of
peace riots In Berlin and Munich,
the Stockholm-newspaper Morgon
tidnlngen reported mysterious
plane movements over tne swea-Ish-Norwegian
border the past
two nights.
Swedes near the border saw
large numbers of planes on their
way to Norway, contrary to tne
practice of allied planes in main
taining blackout, these planes
switched on their lights immedi
ately after they flew over land,
apparently mistaking sweuisn
border reeions for Norway.
The Stockholm newspaper said
it was believed leading nazis were
aboard the planes.
Churchill Warns
Jap War Ahead
Bristol. Eng.. April 21 UP)
Prime Minister Churchill hinted
today that he might retire or be
retired after the defeat of Ger
many. In a speech accepting the free
dom of this city, he said that he
'or whoever stands in my place'
would have to ask war-weary
Britain "for a new leap forward,
for a new lifting of the soul and
body" to defeat Japan.
Churchill said that in the event
there was a new prime minister
he would support him, whoever it
may be, but did not elaborate
further. However, a general
election will be held after VE
day.
We have the Japanese to nn-
Ish." Churchill said, "and we have
to stand absolutely with our great
American ally In paying off at
the other end of the world debts I
as heavy as ever were Inflicted
on us.
Asks War Aid
He called on Britain to heip
protect "this second war . . .to a
conclusion free from any doubt."
Churchill again dampened talk
of a premature V E day.
"We have no intention of en
couraging any festivities . or
thanksgiving until we are assured
from our military commanders
that the task Is so far complete
that everyone may cheer," he said.
The reference was taken as an
Indication that victory would be
proclaimed only after all pockets
of German resistance have been
erased.
Two Bit Cars on
Portland Market
Portland, Ore., April 21 IP
Can you imagine paying two bits
for an automobile?
Well, that's just what happened
to two Portlanders and It was le
gal since they bought them from
City Purchasing Agent Gentry W.
Yates.
The cars, among 18 jalopies that
had been left on the city streets
by their owners, were auctioned
off after being hauled to the city
yards.
to Conference
(NEA Tttephatot
of foreign affairs, in garden of the
to Ban Francisco Conference. Left
French Ambassador Henri Bonnet.
Bologna Seized
By Allied Troops
Rome, April 21 (Ui American
and British troops today captured
Bologna, big Italian gateway city
to the German-controlled Po
plain. 1 J , .
Troops of the American Fifth
and British . Elffhth Armies
OT.ashed Into 'the greafc-ijtallan'
stronghold from three sides.
The city's capture will enable
the allies to use their great su
periority In armored forces in the
battle tor northern Italy.
Astrldo Road
Doughboys of the Fifth army
already were astride the nazis'
main escape rpad northwest of
Bologna and hundreds of allied
tanks and armored cars spilled
out Into the flat floor of the Po
valley for the dash northward.
American Fifth army troops
continued their attack across the
Bologna-Modenan highway Into
the Po valley, cutting off any
German escape from Bologna to
the northwest.
The Fifth and Eighth armies'
advance was aided by bouth Afri
can troops who smasnca into
Casalecchlo, three miles south
west of Bologna.
Fire Truck Skids,
Chief Is Bruised
Fire chief LeRoy'Fox received
cuts and bruises, and some dum-
age was done to the city's new
fire truck late yesterday when
the vehicle skidded on loose gravel
at Hill street and Deschutes place
and collided with a telephone pole.
The truck and firemen were en-
route to 140 Xerxes avenue in
answer to a general alarm.
The fire chief received his in-
urles when he saw that collision
between the truck and the pole
was inevitable and he jumped to
avoid the impact. He had been
riding on the left running board
of the truck. None of the other
firefighters was Injured.
A second fire truck was sent
for, but by the time the crew ar
rived at the scene of the blaze,
fire had destroyed a pile of stove
wood. No other damage result
ed from the blaze, firemen reported.
1,800 Allied Airmen Clubbed,
Beaten in Nazi Death March
Twenty-Flrst Army Group
Headquarters, April 21 IP Eigh
teen hundred allied airmen were
beaten and bayonctted by nazi
guards on a torture march they
dubbed "the Stettin jaunt," a Ca
nadian survivor said today.
The Canadian, Warrant Officer
Armand Joseph Pamhurn, Bonl
flce, Manitoba, an airforce navi
gator, said the victims Included
1,000 Americans.
Pamhurn said that during the
two-mile march, which took place
last July, German m a r 1 n es
clubbed and Jabbed the fliers to
tempt them to escape. If they
tried, they were mowed down
with machine guns by other ma
rines. The prisoners originally were
held In Stalag Luft VII in East
Prussia, but because of the Rus
sian advance they were sent by
train to Memel, thefice by boat to I
Reds Outflank
Hitler Capital
In Quick Move
Capture of Nazi City
May Occur Very Soon,
News Broadcasts Hint
London, April 21 IIP) Run
slan troops are fighting In the
streets of the suburbs of Ber
lin, a soviet communique an
nounced tonight..
The red army" has captured
Bernau, three and one-half
miles northeast of the Berlin .
city limits, and Strauxberg,
Wemeuchen and Buckow on the
eastern approaches of the city,
the communique said.
The Russians also captured
Ernker, one-half mile from the
Berlin eastern city limits.
London, April 21 ip The Gor
man high command acknowledged
today that Russian siege armies
were storming Berlin and that a
red army lightning thrust of more
than 50 miles had outflanked the
doomed capital completely on the
south.
Gloomy nazi broadcasts said
converging soviet armies had
clamped a blazing siege arc
against the eastern, southeastern
and northeastern suburbs of Ber
lin, and that red army artillery
had begun pumping shells into
the heart of the city. ;
A German communique report
ed that a soviet oolumn had raced
up the Spree valley, by-passed
Denui un uie suuin, unn reacnea
the area of Jueterbog, 26 miles
southwest of the clty'and 40 miles
frnm -tfip ' IT-' S- Mlt,th Nmiv'a
bridgehead across the Elbe.
Strength Mustered
Supplementary broadcasts re-
region southwest of Berlin in the
areas of Truenbrletzen, 23 miles
from the capital, and south of Bee
Iltz, 13 miles southwest of Berlin.
The speed with which the red
army mobile units raced' beyond
Berlin indicated that the nazis
had mustered every last ounce of
their strength for the defense of
the capital Itself and on the Elbe
line to the west, leaving the city's
back door unbolted.
A Moscow dispatch said the fi
nal breakthrough on the Berlin
front was expected this week-end.
Thousands of soviet guns and
planes were pouring steel and ex
plosives into the devastated city
In a steady rain. RAF Mosqultos
Joined In the bombardment with
six separate block-buster raids
during the night.
Dig Guns Heard
The muffled thunder of the
bombardment was audible to
American Ninth army troops
along the Elbe river, 45 miles west
of Berlin, a front dispatch from
that area said.
(A BBC broadcast said that
American and Russian patrols
were only 25 miles apart In an
unidentified sector of Germany.
The report was attributed to "mes
sages reaching Moscow." A united
Press dispatch from Moscow yes
terday suld patrols already may
have met.
The nazi Transocean agency
said the first soviet shells were
hitting the "built-up area of Ber
lin." It said Paul Joseph Goebbels
as defense commissioner nad or
dered Berliners unable to reach
their normal places of work
through "lack of , transport" to
report Immediately for war work.
Line snattcrea
The Germans freely admitted
the situation was deteriorating
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Swlnemunde. En route they
passed through Stettin, giving the
trip the title, "the Stettin Jaunt."
"The trouble began when we
left the boat," said Pamburn.
"The guards were husky German
marines, young fellows about
eighteen. Our lads were half
starved and soft from years in
prison camp.
"The guards fixed bayonets and
an officer yelled In Gorman 'quick
march." As we started running
and stumbling the marines closed
In. They slashed our backs, shoul
ders, and groins. If a man stum
bled and fell, he would get the
bayonet and be clubbed with rifle
butts.
"German civilians stood along
the road and laughed at us.
"The marines had police dogs
which would rush In on the fallen
men, biting their arms and legs.'