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CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
Volume LIU
THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 23, 1945
NO. 118
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Reports, Not Yet Verified,
A 1 1 ied
Patton Strikes
For Nazi Alps
In Quick Move
U. S. Forces Racing for
Redoubt at Mile en Hour
Pace; River Is Reached .
Paris, April 23 Pi Three
American and French armies
opened the battle for nazl Ger
many's last retreat in the Bavar
ian Alps today amid a flurry of
reports that other American
forces south of Berlin had linked
up with the red army to merge
the western and eastern fronts.
Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's U.
S. third army shot out in front of
the Bavarian offensive with a sud
den armored lunge south along
the Czechoslovak border into the
Danube valley 120-odd miles north
west of Berehtesgaden.
Patton's flying tank columns
reeled off gains of as much as 32
miles in as many hours, sweeping
up thoursands of stunned nazi
prisoners and liberating at least
one enemy prisoner-of-war camp
v with hundreds of allied captives.
' jVaab Klver Crossed -Late
dispatches said the third
army crossed the Naab'river on a
seven-mile front after capturing
Nabburg and Schwarzenfeld and
pushed southeast four to five
, miles to the Kemmath and Wilhof
areas. At Kemmath, they were 23
miles north of the Danubian fort
ress of Regensburg, little more
than 70 miles from Munich and
123 miles from Berehtesgaden.
Other third army forces were
moving down on the Danube along
a frdnt of more than 30 miles ex
tending west from the Naab river
to Neumarket, 18 miles southwest
of Nuernberg. Amberg, 14 miles
west of the river, was captured
by an unidentified third army in
fantry force.
At the same time, the U. S.
seventh army broke across the
Danube at Dillingen, 64 miles
southwest of Nuernberg, and fan
ned out along a seven-mile stretch
of the river's south bank to Hoch
stadt and Lauingen, about 53
miles northwest of Munich.
Danube Beached
Another seventh army column
reached the Danube farther west
at Ehingen, moving within 10
miles of French first army troops
who pushed 18 miles eastward
from their Danube bridgehead at
Siemarineen to Kerjpel.
' Front dispatches also relayed
a sensational but unconfirmed re
port that Adolf Hitler and a num
ber of other toD-ranklng nazi lead
ers might be hiding out in. the
(Continued on rage a)
Ex-Cook's Helper
Bags 16 Nippons
Manila, April 23 (IB A former
cook's helper who quit his pots
and pans to volunteer for front
Una rlt.t., ea a fnmttayA CPnllt' TO-
cently killed 16 Japanese near
caguio in live ana uiie-ium nuuo.
"It wasa busy day," admitted
Dfi T-i T Tn-tnttni 07 nf
Centralia, Wash., an Infantryman
oi ine jra arvtsion.
Aftot- HrouHni, pnpmv machine
gun fire, Kerstetter sneaked with
in 15 yards and killed five Japa
nese with his rifle. Then he
moved forward and picked off
two more machine gunners.
He returned to his command
post for more food and ammuni
tion and resumed his patrol. He
bagged three singles and killed
three more flushed from fox
holes. He got his 13th when a
Japanese hopped from a foxhole
and ran toward the brush.
He spotted three more Japa
nese en route back to his base
and killed them with his rifle.
He came through his busy day
without a scratch but two days
later a machine gun bullet hit his
shin bone and glanced up his
thigh.
"This time I didn't even fire a
shot," Kerstetter said. "I was just
an innocent bystander."
an d. Soviet Li mies Merged
Nearly 12,000 Nippons Killed
In Battles on Okinawa Island
Nimitz Reveals Marines Have Landed on Two
More Spots; 125 Japanese Warplanes Bagged
By Frank Tremaine
(Uoited Proa War Concspondant)
Guam, April 23 (UJ?) American aerial forces wrecked 126
Japanese planes and six ships in two days of battle along
an 850-mile front from Japan to the southern Ryukyus.
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz announced the .heavy toll of
Japanese aircraft today. He also revealed that U. S. marines
had landed on two more .islands off Okinawa and disclosed
that army troops had killed 11,738 Japanese and captured
27 on southern Okinawa.
The Japanese planes, of which 105 were destroyed, were
accounted for by Mustang fighters from Iwo and carrier
planes from the U. S. task force in the Rykyus. In addition,
: a large force of B29 Super-
fi I
Hold Conferences
Washington, April 23 (IP) The
foreign ministers of Britain, Rus
sia and the United States strove
with feverish speed today to iron
out kinks in big three relations
and weld a united front; for the
San. Francisco world security con
ference.' For another few hours this cap
ital was in for a fast-paced series
of closely-guarded diplomatic ne
gotiations that began last night
only three hours after Soviet for
eign commissar V. M. Moltov
reached here by plane.
No. 1 Problem
The Big Three discord over Po
land headed the list of problems
confronting the chunky Molotov
and his Anglo-American counter
parts, secretary of state Edward
R. Stettinius, Jr., and British for
eign minister Anthony Eden.
With but two hours to shake off
the weariness of his six-day trip
from Moscow, Molotov hurried
into an introduction to President
Truman at the Blair house, then
crossed Pennsylvania avenue for
an 80-minute conference with
Eden, Stettinius and Anglo-American
experts on Russian-Polish re
lations. Molotov is staying at the Blair
Lee house, official guest mansion
adjoining the Blair house.
Ministers Meet
The Big Three foreign minister
met at 10:30 a. m. EWT. Molotov,
according to authoritative sources,
also planned to follow up his in
troduction to Mr. Truman with a
business visit to the White House.
The three foreign ministers
were expected to leave for San
Francisco by tonight.
The lateness of the Russian's
arrival made it certain that the
discussions already begun would
be continued during the early days
of the United Nations conference.
The Polish dispute in particular
is almost certain to require priv
ate Molotov-Eden-Stettinius talks
after the big parley gets ur.der
way Wednesday.
German Radio
Rumor Asserts
By W. R. Hlgginbotham
(United PreM Surf Correspondent)
London, April 23 (IP) The Ger
man radio said today that Adolf
Hitler was In the "main fighting
line" in embattled Berlin.
If Berlin and Prague are lost,
the German broadcast said, "all
Europe is lost."
"Therefore, Hitler has remained
in Berlin," it said.
"He will stay there despite all
rumors. The main frcnt line runs
straight through Berlin and the
newly -established 'Frickcorps
Adolf Hitler' Is fighting with wo
men in its ranks."
The broadcast was carried by
a Hamburg station, one of the
few in Germany still broadcast-
' Imr under nazi control. It said
Hitler was determined that ,
neither Berlin nor Prague shouW I
fall to "bolshevism.
Allied circles doubted that Hit
ler still was in Berlin despite the
propaganda broadcast, but re
called that neutral sources had
reported the fuehrer was contem
plating death in battle at the head
fortresses from the Marianas
may have destroyed many
others in a raid on Kyushu's
airiieids.
Flying a 1,500-mile round trip
mission from Iwo, the army Mus
tangs destroyed or damaged 47
planes in an attack yesterday on
Suzuka airfield, 32 miles south
west of Nagoya on the principal
Japanese nome island of Honshu
Nine Shot Down
Of the planes destroyed, nine
wrecked on the ground. The
were shot down in combat and 17
others were damaged Op probably
destroyed. .The' Mustangs ' also
swept over ise bay, south of Na
goya, to sink two small oilers, one
small tanker and a 66,000 to 8,000
ton ship and damage one coastal
vessel.
Carrier planes shot down 49
planes from a "substantial" Jap
anese force which attacked Ameri
can ground and naval forces in
the Okinawa area yesterday after
non. The Japanese succeeded in
sinking one light fleet unit, Nim
itz said. The raid followed one on
a smaller scale Saturday night,
when four Japanese planes were
shot down.
Civil Air Patrol
Starts Training
The local Civil Air Patrol squad
ron started its summer training
program Sunday with an early
morning field day at the Bend
municipal airport. The cadets
met at headquarters at 6:30 a.m.
and assembled for roll call at the
field at 7:15 a.m.
A breakfast was served at the
field for all members, with SSgt.
Lowella Cook, Cpl. Hazel Prator,
and Pvt. Robarta Childers in
charge.
The remainder of the morning
was spent making flights, with
cadets as observers, and on mili
tary drill. '
MAYOR ROGERS DIES
Hillsboro, April 23 nil Funeral
services for Hugh Samuel Rog
ers, 75, mayor of Hillsboro, will
be held tomorrow in Hillsboro.
Rogers had been elected mayor
four times. He was born in' Iowa,
and lived in Oregon most of his
life and in Hillsboro since 1912.
Says Hitler on Berlin Front;
Fuehrer' Is in Mountains
of a suicide battalion.
All other information indicated
that Hitler was in Bavaria or
ganizing a final stand in the Al
pine redoubt around Berehtes
gaden. One report was that he
had set up headquarters at Salz
burg, Just north of Berehtes
gaden. Paul Joseph Goebbels, nazi
propaganda minister and gaulei
ter of Berlin, was reported to
have fled Berlin shortly after
broadcasting Saturday night that
he would remain with the city's
defenders to the end.
In reporting that Hitler still
was in the capital, the Hamburg
commentator saia:
In this hour of supreme test.
we do not forget the principal I
guiding rules of nazl policy. We i
remain iauniui 10 our tasx of :
saving Europe from bolshevism.
"If the enemy conquers Berlin
and Prague, there is no longer
any Europe. Therefore, the fueh
rer has remained in Berlin right
in the main defense line.
Allied Tanks Shatter German
Lines in Italy; Surge North
In Gains of Some 35 Miles
Armies Reported Neanng River Po at Points
Widely Separated; Nazis Flee in Disorder as :
Yanks Strike Out Aftef Capturing Big Center
.?'- t
Rome, April 23 (UJR) American and British tanks neared
the Po river today after surging 20 to 35 miles north from
Bolosrna in less than 48 hours;
Eighth army units had smashed within 2500 yards of the
airfield at Ferrara, key road center three miles south of the
Po.
Modena, other immediate objective of the northward push.
also was directly threatened,
hi,d the position of fifth army forces driving on the city. '
Allied force headquarters reported that after "good pro
gress," fifth and eighth army troops were nearing the river
Po at several widely separated places an indication thev
William Burton
Killed on Luzon
"Pfc. Willfam G. Burton, 20, son
of Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Burton, 2143
East Third street, Bend, and a
graduate from the Paisley high
school with the class of 1942, was
killed in action while serving with
the Sixth United States infantry
on Luzon March 10, his parents
have been notified.
No details of the manner the
young soldier, who was previous
ly wounded in action, met death
were contained in the war depart
ment telegram.
A native of Bend, William at
tended school both here and in
Paisley, and entered the service in
September, 1943. He went over
seas just a year ago, in April,
1944.
Mr. and Mrs. Burton's last let
ter from their son was dated
March 6.
Aside from his parents, Pfc.
Burton is survived by one sister,
Mrs. Mary Redfield, of Silver
Lake. '
Four Found Dead
In Missing Plane
Austin, Tex., April 23 (IP) A
four-day search for a missing
army plane ended north of Bur
net, Tex., early today with finding
of the wrecked craft and its four
member crew dead.
They included:
Second Lieut. Herbert D. Flem
ing, 23, co-pilot student.. Portland.
Ore.
The plane had been mlssine
since Wednesday midnight when
it left Bergstrom field for Mason,
Tex., on a training flight.
"The fuehrer has thrown in
from Berlin all the military pow
er available to Germany so that
it can be hurled at once against
Bolshevism."
the broadcast was Inaudible, but
the speaker began his talk with
a reference to the "climax of the !
military crisis of the German
people"
The speaker was not identified,
but veteran monitors believed he
was Dr. Otto Krieg, one of Goeb
bels' chief radio spokesmen.
sensational rumors were
sweeping Europe in the wake of
the red army's entry Into Berlin
One
le persistent report circulated
Stockholm that armistice nego-
m j5tocKnoim tnat armistice neeo-
! tint Ions were under way In the
nazl capita).
A captured order of the day
signed by Hitler revealed that he
had told his forces on the shat
tered western front to abandon
frontal attacks and resort to guer
illa warfare in an effort to pro
long resistance as long as possible.
Say
but a partial news blackout
had tanned out along a wide
front after breaking loose on
tne lJo plain.
Near Po Banks
Measured due north of Bologna
a 35-mile advance would nut the
Americans virtually on, the, banks
I of the Po.vjast brgriicr barrier
sourn oi tne Italian Alps, guard
ing the back door of Hitler's Bav-
arian redoubt.
The Germans were fleeing In
disorder after the Bologna break
through, their retreating columns
nammerea and named by allied
air forces. Minefields, rather than
enemy resistance, slowed Ameri
can troops in the area northwest
of Bologna and just south of the
ranaro river.
The British advanced toward
Ferrara astride the Po di Prlmaro
river, which flows through the
city.
Patriots on Rampage
Adding to the German woes,
Italian patriots were reported on
the rampage behind the nazi
lines in northern Italy. A com
munique from patriots headquart
ers In occupied territory told of
numerous successful ambushes
throughout Piedmont
(The BBC reported that the
Italian government had told Apen-
nine patriots that the hour to
strike had come, and they should
act according to secret instruc
tions given them earlier.)
German planes bombed and
strafed newly-liberated Bologna
last night and early this morning.
United Press War Correspondent
James Earl Roper reported from
Bologna that the German bombing
started a small fire In the central
part of the city.
French Take Over
Supply Program
Paris, April 23 (III Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower announced today
that, beginning May 1, the French
provisional government will as
sume responsibility for the entire
French supply program.
Previously, supply of essential
civilian needs in France had been
handled by allied headquarters on
behalf of the United States and
Britain.
Most of France already has
been removed from allied head
quarters' Jurisdiction.
High allied military and civil
officers worked out the change
over' in collaboration with the
French provisional government
and the headquarters mission to
France and under supervision of
GeAn:11c5nr'es 5e Ga.ulIp- .
1UA11I,0,J. headquarters reserved
heM1ri8ht to handle supplies for
civilian needs in the operational
zo"cs of e,as,ern France, and coal
a.nd petroleum products will con-
tinue to be provided through mili
tary channels.
;MrS. HoneVman
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1 eilUUiiy III
Portland, Ore., April 23 (in
Mrs.Jessie M. Honeyman, 92-year-old
civic leader 'of Portland, is
seriously ill in the Good Sameri-
tan hospital in Portland, it wasi
learned today.
She Is president of the Oregon
roadside defense council and has
been active In Portland civic life
for 60 years. '
Waits Fate in
mm ct 9p
tow "
With ankles chained and under heavy guard, Nazi Storm Troop Leader
Joseph Kramer anxiously waiU to see what fate is In store tor him alter
Allies discovered he was commander of Belsen death camp where British,
found thousands of dead, dying and starving men, women and children.
3 Project Jobs
Three of the major jobs on the
North Unit irrigation project are
nearly completed, It was reported
today at the U. S. Bureau of rec
lamation headquarters in Bend.
Wixson & Crowe, Redding,
Calif, contractors, have completed
concreting Tunnel No. 2 In the
Smith Rocks northeast of Terre
bonne, with the exception of the
transitions, it was said. Crewmen
today were busily engaged in re
moving all concreting equipment
from the 3,400-foot-long subter
ranean water way Into Tunnel No.
1, to the south. It was estimated
that 2Mr months would be requir
ed to complete Tunnel No. 1.
The huge siphon across feher-
wood canyon, connecting the two
tunnels, has been completed ex
cept for the cleaning up, by the
McLaughlin Construction comp
any of Livingstone, Mont.
Only the connection of electric
circuits is necessary now to com
pletion of installing of a huge
fish screen at the canal's intake
at the Deschutes river, north of
Bend. The big screen, one of the
largest ever to be Installed, is
elect rically-operated.
Camp .Set Up
Meantime conscientious objec
tors from the Wickiup camp have
nearly finished a camp eight miles
north of Bend on the canal right-of-way,
where "conchies" will
make headquarters while priming
and puddling the big ditch.
Twenty men are now stationed at
this camp, hastily constructed
with CCC buildings removed from
near Camp Abbot. As work be
gins in cheeking the canal for
leaks, more men will be brought
down from the Wickiup camp, it
was said. Bureau officials said
that water would be turned into
the ditch and the priming and
puddling work be started, as soon
as warmer weather comes.
Chemical Blast
Burns Local Boy
Clarence Bells, 16, a Bend high
erhnril snnhnmnrp. l:it nlr,ht re
ceived serious burns about his !
face and neck when an explosion
occurred in his chemical labora
tory at his home, 415 Hill street,
it was reported today. The boy
was taken to St. Charles hospital i
where attending physicians des
cribed the burns as "severe."
Clarence Is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. C. V. Bells, and was study
ing chemistry at the high school.
GRASS FIRE PL'T OL'T
Bend city firemen yesterday
mornlne were called to the river ;
gate of the Brooks-Scanlon Lum-
Neanng r
ber Company Inc. to extinguish j packing and shipping, he explain
a grass and sawdust fire. Fire- ed. On the other hand, those un
men reported It required 240 gal-1 able to go to the depot were asked
Ions of water to bring the fire! to prepare their bundles for next
under control. Sunday's pickup.
Allied Hands
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Paris, April 23 UP) tt Gen.
George S. Patton's U. 8. Third
army drove forward an addi
tional 11 miles In its Bavarian
offensive today and broke Into
the Danulw valley 13 miles
northeast of Regenslturg.
London, April 23 (IP) An ex
change telegraph dispatch from
the northwestern front tonight
said a question Iiun been raised
whether one of three bodies
found In a wrecked car might
lw that of llelnrleh Himnilor,
gesfano chief and commander
of the German homo army.
The car, a big black Mercedes,
was found burned out mi the
ltremen-ltaniburg road after it
was shot up by British armored
cars. Crewmen of the British
vehicles saw the car as It was
accompanied by armored cars
and altout 20 SS troops on
motorcycles.
Washington, April 28 (IP
The German government has
offered to leave all allied prison
ers of war in prison camps as
the allies advunce, the war de
partment announced toduy.
Clothing Pickup
Due on Sunday
The Lions-Elks sponsred drive
in Bend for clothing for overseas
war relief, will be culminated next
Sunday by a city-wide pickup of
contributions, It was announced
today by Clarence Hush, chairman
of the Lions campaign committee.
At that time, Lions and Elks, aid
ed by Hoy Scouts and other chil
dren, will make a canvass of the
city In an effort to greatly in
crease the tonnage of clothing to
be shipped after the first of the
month to process-centers.
Approximately three tons of
clothes and footwear have been
donated, and the salvage depot In
Leedy's basement Is taking on the
appearance of a super rummage
sale. Great piles of clothing fill
the center of the depot, while
along the walls are .scores of paper
cartons tightly packed for ship
mcnt
Elks Give Aid
Almost another ton of clothing
and shoes was gathered Saturday
?l an unique dar.ee and party heJd
by the Elks. Admission to the
event was by garments or shoes
only, and as the evening wore on
a huge mound of usable clothing
grew.
Persons who have contributions
to make and who nro nhle to do
so, were urged by Bush to take
their bundles to the depot in the
basement at Wall street and Ore-
gon avenue. This will facilitate
Marshal Stalin
Says Russians
Deep in Citadel
Frankfurt Is Captured;
Special Order of Day
Reveals Various Gains
London, April 23 (IP) Marshal
Stalin announced tonight that two
great Russian armies were driv
ing deep into Berlin from the east
and south. Other soviet forces
have reached the Elbe northwest
of Dresden, he said, and appar
ently a juncture with American
troops Is Imminent.
- Statin, In two orders of the day,
revealed that Marshal Gregory K.
.hukov's army had shattered Ber
lin's eastern defenses and plunged
within four miles of the heart of
the city, and that Marshal Ivan S.
Konev's forces had swept up from
the south and broken Into the Ger
man capital. .
London, April 23 (U"i Marshal
Stalin announced today that the
red army had smashed within -four
miles of the heart of Berlin,
outflanked the stricken capital
on the north in a push through
Oranicnburg, and captured the
by-passed Oder river citadel of
Frankfurt.
Stalin broke his silence on the -battle
of Berlin with an announce
ment that Marshal Gregory K.
Zhukov had advanced a siege line
deep Into the city and captured
the Brirk e n w e r d e r, Pankowj
Friedrlchsf eld, , Karlshorst and
Koepnlck districts.
- -Moscow broadcast Stalin'i spe-,
cial order- of the day-hls first on
the great offensive as the fal
tering German radio admitted
that Russian armored spearheads
were probing Into the heart of
Berlin from three directions and
neutral dispatches .said soviet
tanks were clanking along Under
Den Linden.
Hitler In Charge
The nazls claimed that Adolf
Hitler had taken personal com
mand of the defense of Berlin in
the twilight hour of the naziism
which hoisted him to the leader
ship of Germany.
The soviet assault forces broke
into Berlin, Stulln said, after over
running many of its key outposts,
including Frankfurt. This city of
85,000 on the west bank of the
Oder, 33 miles east of Berlin, had
anchored the now-crumbled Ger
man defenses in the Oder valley.
Storming into the city from the
east, the siege army overran the
city's districts and drove through
the rubble-strewn streets for
Potsdamer Plazt in the heart of
the city. Neutral reports of the
push to Unter Den Linden indi
cated the soviet vanguard was
within a mile or so of the flatz.
Districts Ringed
The captured districts ringed
the entire northern and eastern
side of Berlin. Among them was
Hennlngsdorf, 12 miles northwest
of Potsdamer Platz.
Stalin ordered a salute of Zhu-
kov's forces of 20 salvos.
Nazi broadcasts claimed that
the Germans were fighting fero
ciously for Berlin, but acknowl
edged steady reverses.
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