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CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
Volume LIU
TWO SECTIONS
THE BEND SULLITIN, SEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 24
, 1f45 - , NO. lit.
General
Breaks
Nazis Expected
To Make Fight
On River Bank
More Than 2,000 Tanks
Race Toward Hitler's
Last Mountain Retreat,
Paris, April 24 -UPi-American
Third army troops broke open the
outer defenses of Hitler's Bavari
an redoubt on a broad front today
ana rammed an armored spear
head up to the Danube river on
the western outskirts of Regens-
bUrg. ' '
Lt, Gen, George S, Patton's
Third army tanks and armored
troop carriers reached the north
western bend of the Danube oppo
site Regensburg the old Napole
onic city of Ratisbon this after
noon after a 10 -mile advance
through weak and disorganized
enemy opposition, - ,
A few nazi snipers battled the
speeding American armored col
umns along the west side of the
historic river, but were cut down.
Fight Expected
v ' Field dispatches' indicated the
hlnHnnn n ntu;
' the Danube and inside "Regefcl
burg,, "where the enemy was re
ported throwing up barricades and
moving hundreds of anti-aircraft
guns into" position for the battle.
Strong infantry forces were
crowding up close behind the
American tank spearheads, reach
ing Duerling, eight miles west of
Regensburg, this afternoon.
At Regensburg, the Americans
were only 61 miles north of Mu
nich, gateway to the Bavarian re
doubt. :
There was no Immediate word
on the progress of other Third
army columns advancing south
ward along the Czechoslovak bor
der to the east within 105 miles of
Berchtesgaden. '.-
Tanks On Move
More than 2,000 American and
French tanks were on the move
against the nazis' last retreat in
the Bavarian Alps along a 200
mile front manned by Patton's vet
. erans and the powerful American
I Seventh and French First armies. ;
I Headquarters revealed that one
of the greatest armored striking
forces' in military history had
been thrown against the Bavarian
retreat where the hunted nazi
leaders were trying to gather their
remaining SS divisions for the last
battle of Europe.
The American Third and Sev
enth and the French First armies
were advancing flank to flank
through the outer Bavarian de
fenses on a battle line extending
' from the Swiss to the Czechoslo
vak borders, using possibly 10 or
more armored divisions, to spear
head the assault.
Defenses Shredded
Flying tank columns of the U. S.
(Continued on Page 3)
German Radio
Making Last Stand in Berlin
London, April 24 (IB The Ger
man-controlled Scandinavian Tele
graph bureau said today that
Adolf Hitler has abandoned plans
for a final stand In Bavaria and
will stay in Berlin to "conquer or
aie."
The report followed a broadcast
by the German radio at Hamburg
yesterday saying Hitler was re
maining in the "main fighting
line" in Berlin.
The German radio said Hitler
had replied to birthday greetings
from Benito Mussolini with an ex
pression of confidence that Ger
many still can win the war with
"heroism."
"In a spirit of tenacious dfifi
ance of death, the German people
and all those animated by kin
dred spirit yet will bring the on
slaught to a halt, however severe
the struggle, and alter the course
of the war by their unparalleled
heroism at this historic moment
in which the fate of Europe is be
ing decided for centuries tocome,"i
he said
European dispatches said panic
V
Patton, in Sweep to Danube,
Open Hitler's Redoubt
Early arrivals on the San Francisco scene were American delegates Commander Harold Stassen (at
left with Mrs. Stasen); and (at right) Dean Virginia GiMersleeve and Senator Arthur Vandenburg of
Michigan. . . - -- ' -- . .- ,
Bidson Laterals
Asked By Bureau
' Bids jfor the construction of ap
proximately 25 mtle ,pf laterals,
covering 6,000 acres of-ground
north of Juniper butte and east
of Culver, were sought today by
the V. S. bureau of reclamation
In furthering the construction of
the North Unit irrigation project
The bids are to be opened at the
local bureau offices at 10 a, m
on May 23, it- was announced.
Ten miles of the main water
way, from which the proposed
laterals will extend, Is now under
construction- in the vicinity.
Principal items of work called
for In the invitation for bids In
clude:
Excavation ' of 136,000 cubic
yards of dirt and 1,100 cubic yards
of rock; making 130 cubic yards
of compacting embankments and
moving 6,000 station cubic yards
of overhaul; excavating 13,000
cubic yards of earth and 1,500
cubic yards of rock for struc
tures: 7,000 cubic yards of back
fill; 3,600 cubic yards of compact
ing backfill; laying 3,030 cubic
yards of concrete for structures;
placing or ISAUUU pounds oi rein
forcing bars; erecting 48 million
feet of timber for structures; in
stalling 18,000 pounds of gates
and miscellaneaus metalwork,
and the placing of 2,625 feet of
different sized concrete pipe.
TANKS BLOCK TRAFFIC
London, April 24 IB The Mos
cow radio, in one of Its rare flash
es of humor in war broadcasts,
said today that Russian tanks ad
vancing into Berlin were "serious
ly infringing traffic regulations,"
particularly by filling all the lanes
instead of staying on one side of
the street.
Reports Hitler
and riots were sweeping those sec
tions of embattled Berlin still in
German hands. Radio Moscow
quoted a prisoner as saying that
"hell is reigning" in the center of
the eanital. -
A new version of the reporT of
Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph
Goebbeis' reported flight from
Berlin said he boarded a four-motored
private plane west of the
capital for a flignt to Bavaria or
Norway, probably the latter.
An Exchange Telegraph dis- j
patch from the British Second ar -
mv front said British troops were,
speculating that they may have ,
caught Gestapo Chief Helnrtcn
Himmler in an ambush,
British armored cars shot up a
big Mercedes limousine on the) fcjed property. Police were unable
Bremen-Hamburg road. The sedan 1 a estimate the loss, because they
was escorted by German armored could not determine what the
cars and about 20 SS troops on ; house contained,
motorcycles. i The property had recently been
Three bodies were found Inside occupied by a soldier and his wife,
the burned-out car, the dispatch ; officers learned, A neighbor re
said. Himmler was known to have i siding across the street told no-
been in the area last week, visiting)
garrisons at Bremen and Ham-
burg.
Early Arrivals at Conference Scene
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With U. S, First Army In Ger
many, April 24 tm Front cor
respondents were unable to
confirm a Junction with the
Russians on the American First
army sector up to noon today,
'despite fc Moscow fudhJ' report'
that a link up had been made.
With V. a Ninth Army,,Ger
many, April 24 UP) American
troops cleaning out the Harfz
mountain pocket Monday cap
tured the commanding1 general
of the German 11th army and
a majority of his staff, it was
announced today.
Borne, April 24 XT. S.
Fifth army troops captured the
big Italian naval base of La
Spezia today and crossed the I'o
river at several points north of
Bologna.
At least -10,000 prisoners were
captured by Gen, Mark Clark's
swlft-movlng 13th army group.
Senate Approves
Pre-Fight Study
Washington, April 24 UP) The
senate today adopted an amend
ment to the selective service ex
tension act requiring six months
pre-eombat training for 18-year-
olds. ,
The amendment requires six
months pre-combat training for all
inductees under 19, but provides
that the navy may assign 18-year
olds to vessels for completion of
training, even though the vessels
may ultimately be engaged in
combat.
It was introduced by Sens. Tom
Stewart, D., Tenn., Edwin C. John
son, D., Colo,, Chapman Rever
comb, R,, W, Vm., and George A,
Wilson, ft, la. .
Meanwhile, Sen. Owen Brewst
er, R., Me, introduced another
amendment to prohibit drafting
of men over 31 after next May
31. -
Brewster said this amendment
was In accord with the action of
the British government, which
recently announced that after that
date it would stop the draft of
men over 31.,
House Burglary
Probed by Polfce
Burglars who broke a west
window open and entered by that
means( completely ransacked a
ousg at 353 East Second street,
according to police today. Offi-
Cers investigated the burglary at
the request of C. A. Sutton, 153
East Olney street, who said that
he had an equity in the burglar-
lice that he saw two girls, about
14 years of age, coming out of the
house late yesterday.
O
FU.Dim
5th Army Closes
In on Navy Base
Rome, April 24 HP The Ameri
can Fifth army closed In on the
great naval base of La Spezta Jo-
ity on the heels ot last-retrennng
German forces in northern -Italy.
Allied - force headquarters reH
ported the Americans were mov
ing In for the Mil at La Spezia,
while Italian radio reports said
the city was flanked from the
east and northeast and faced en
circlement. A security blockout obscured
exact Fifth army positions.
La Spezia, with a peace-time
population of 89,000, has a large
harbor and was the Italian navy's
chief base.'
Eighth In Action
Meanwhile, Eighth army units
fought a bitter battle in the out
skirts of Ferrara, where the nazls
were "-"s tt ; united In their determination to
save at least one Po river crossing succeed j estaoll!jhing a world
for their routed forces. ' organization."
that the Fifth and Kghth armies Hfa mMimimm wwe 1 by
generally had closed to the Po, veteran statesman, Field Marshal
banks along a wide front, but a Jan christian Smuts, South Afri-
strleter-than-ever security Mack-1 can premier and the only veteran
out prevented the mention ofif Versailles who Is niavlnir a
specific positions.
So far there were no reports of
crossings of the Po, last great
river barrier In northern Italy
VI Day Closing
In Bend Opposed
Bend stores will not be closed
on V-E day, If the recommenda
tion of the retail trade committee
of the chamber of commerce Is
carried out, it was reported today.
The committee met last night in
the chamber offices and reached
that decision, as well as recom
mending holidays on which estab
lishments should close.
The committee members were
reported to have felt it would be
unfair to mill workers and others
engaged in war production who
must "carry on," to, close the
stores and permit the employes
a holiday. It was suggested, how
ever, that employes wishing to at
tend1 thanksgiving services in the
churches, be allowed time enough
off for this.
Sam Scott, chairman of the
committee, said that its members
proposed that stores close on the
following days : New Years.
Christmas, Memorial day. Fourth
j of July, Labor Day, Armistice day
and Thanksgiving,
Labor Board Gives
Miners Big Raise
Washington, April 24 IW The
threat of a soft coal strike this;
year appeared to have blown over I
for good today.
This followed war labor board-
approval late yesterday of all
money provisions of the new soft
coal wage contract. The board
estimated the new contract would
give 310,000 miners an average
raise of f 1,02 a day.
M soy Say IPfeJs
Barrier
England Backs
Russia's Bid
For 3 Ballots
Stettinius Is Confident
i Parley in San Francisco
Will Meet Final Success
By Lvle C. Wilson
lUnrteJ Frees StK CemmpsmAmkt - -
San Francisco, April 24 Uii
Secretary of State Edward R.
Stettinius, Jr., expressed eonfl-
uenee today the world security
cumei eiiL-u wouia succeed ana
Britain re-p!edeed her supom-t to
Russia's demand for three votes
In the security assembly,
Britain's pledge was placed on
record by Maj. Clement R. Atlee,
deputy prime minister, who also,
expressed hope that the knotty
Polish controversy might be set
tled along the lines of the Yalta
proposal for broadening the base
of the present Warsaw govern
ment. Atlee said that since the
Ukraine and White Russia both
have foreign ministers the Rus
sian proposal that these states
be represented in the security as-
semmy was sound, j
Questions Unanswered
XStettinlus, first of the Wg three
to arriva oy plane irom Wash
ington, confined himself to i gen
eral statement expressing confi
dence In the success of the con
ference. He declined to answer
specific questions about the Po
lish problem which was left still
unsettled when time ran out on
the foreign ministers and they
were forced to transfer their de
liberations to San Francisco,
Stettinius' colleagues In the Po
lish discussions foreign Secre
tary Anthony Eden and Foreign
Commlsar V, M. Molotov are
due here later by plane from
Washington.
Stettinius expressed "firm be-
lief that the Untied Nations are
major role at San Francisco.
"South Africa," Smuts said,
"has only one proposal to make
and that Is for the success of the
conference. AH the rest Is detail."
Smuts strongly urged that the
preamble of the charter setting
up the peace organization declare
"a statement of our faith, our ob
jectives, the things we stand for."
Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk
of Chechoslovakia, arriving In
San Francisco, said that "little
people should be seen and not
heard." He said that later on "I
may have something to howl
about."
Red Banners of Conquering Russians Fly
Over Berlin; Writer Tells of Grim Battle
hm following d(patrh to Ote fir)
eyewitness ilory from Innlfle blailnff
Berfhi, It wa, writbfg Mclmaelir tm
United Press fcr the fsm&i n&mflmm
reparler. Wmmn Kmtmm Vctsrsn re
porter of the SiianUh and Chineeo were,
Ksrmefi fcs folfcmed ttm KM mmt?
thrswrh e-very him ksWJe, IfiziiMimm
tagrsJ, Ststhwsd, mmA Weresw.
By Roman Kifmrn
Written Fr OgW rress
tt,wr((rfrt, 1(B. hf VmitM PrsJ
Berlin, April 21 'tn Tim deeper
we penetrate Berlin the more
fierce the battle rages.
But already the victorious red
banner files over the nazi capital,
I am writing this inside tank
T-34, which the command placed
at my disposal to enter Berlin
with the vanguard units.
We rode across the sunurus 01
Blankenburg and the Malkhov and
Wclsensee districts on Benin
streets cleared of the enemy. On
Helckenstrasse and Berliner Allee
heavy enemy artillery and mor
tars pound Incessajitly.
The streets are deserted. Our
Infantry, clinging to the house
fronts, advances chalnwlse, Furf-i
Okinawa, Nof Yet Conquered.
Being Prepared as Big Base
Nimitz Asserts Island Will Serve as Vital
Area in Next Phase of March Toward Japan
American forces have conquered three-quarters of Okin
awa inland and are preparing it aa a key base for the next
phane of the'murch toward Japan and the China coast, Adm.
Chester W. Nimitz said today, ;
A fleet of 150 Superfortresses, meanwhile, smashed for
the first time at the huge Hitachia aircraft plant in the Tokvo
iirea and ground forces in the Philippines cut Japanese forces
in two on Mindanao and continued a virtually unopposed
drive toward the principal city of Davno.
The attack on the Hitachi plant at Tachikawa, 14 mile
west of Tokyo, was made from
meamm ainruae and good re
sults were expected. Radio To
kyo, acknowledging the ; at
tack, Raid 70 B-29's were in
the raiding force and claimed
six were shot down and 20
damaged.
The broadcast sold the bombers
also attacked air oases at Tachl
kawa and nearby Tokorowa, . ,
Forces Stalled
Nimta' regular communloue
said warships and carrier planes
1 continued to bombard Japanese
I posnions on southern Okinawa
I but said there u-a wi furttaw .
port of progress by ground tore-
es, temporarily stalled before en
emy defenses three and a half
mum north of Nana,
The communique said carrier
planes and fighters destroyed 38
enemy aircratt tnrougn the Ryu
kyus Sunday and Monday.
A Tokyo broadcast said Japa
nese sujchte planes had damaged
two allied ships northeast of Okin
awa and set fire to a transport all
the southwest coast. It soW also
that Japanese artillery fired on
snips entering Nagasuau bay yes
terday and sank a destroyer,
I Nearly 1I.MW KISe
Gen." Douglas MncArthur, an
nouncing the gains on Mindanao,
disclosed that 10,896 Japanese
Bad been Wiled nd 353 captured
throughout the Philippines In the
last eight days.
The figures boosted total Japa
nese casualties In the Philippines
to 3M.46S, compared with 84,518
tor American forces. The Ameri
can casualties included 7,491
Wiled, 38,808 wounded and 421
missing, The majority of Japa-
nese casualties represented known.
dead
3, Marines Shoot
Down lo" Planes
Aboard Adm, Turner's Flagship
Off Okinawa, April 24 W Three
iriarines became aces In 20 min
utes of aerial combat about 80
miles northwest of Okinawa last
night.
They were Ma. George C. Ax-
tell, Jr 84, commanding officer
of a marine fighter squadron who
shot down five Jap dive bombers
and damaged three others; Maj.
Jefferson Davis Dorrah, 24, who
sent six bombers crashing Into
the sea, and Lt. Jeremiah J.
O'Keefe, 21, who bagged five
bombers,
Dorrah Is from Hood River,
Ore, His wife lives In Riverside,
Calif.
MBit DKSTKOYS STORE
Milwaukle, Ore., April 24
r ire destroyed tne noesty Brotn-
era Furniture and Appliance store
today with loss estimated at about
$35,000.
ous battles rage In neighboring
street's.
We run into a group of cap
tured volkssturmer unescorted.
Our assault units, consisting of a
tank group, anti-tank guns and
self propciied guns together with
sappers, smash toward the renter
of the city, storming each house,
cellar, and balcony turned lno
tortreimea.
Barricades constructed from the
wreckage of houses Mock our I
way. There Is heavy cannonading
from, the northern, eastern, and
southern districts.
These are unforgettable min
utes. It is a long way from the
grim days pi the battle of Mos
cow, I remember famished, be
sieged Leningrad and Stalingrad,
We marched and fought four
years on battle-scarred roads, pro
foundly confident the day would
come when the red army would i
hoist Its victorious banner ovcrlour lines. But they dared to fly)
the nazi capital. We have just
done that. j being so overwhelming, J way about 60 miles east of Alwmy
The tank unit which I am ec-I There was great enthusiasm was dosed as a precautionary
companylng battled ahead 15 kllo-I among our soldiers as they drove measure today, after a small slide
meters Jn ousting the enemy from 1 within sight of their four years'! jammed a culvert on the road the
several fortified villages on thejgoal. Their Hps burned with one state highway department saw-ay
to Berlin, wort, "Berlin," 1 today.
Marshal Retain
To Give Self Up
Bern, April J4 am Marshal
Henri Philippe Petaln, chief of
state of the defunct Vichy govern
ment, fled into Switzerland from
Germany today preparatory to
surrendering to French authori
ties. A Swiss government announce
ment said Petaln had been grant
ed permission to enter Switzer
land on his plea that he wished to
return to France to answer charg
es of treason, .
The ra-year-old marshal, hero
of world war I, crossed the bor
der at St. Margrethen on Lake
Constance at 6 ajs, la a nine-car
caravan after spending the night
at Bregenz, He went there from
Sigmarlngen, seat of his puppet
government,
Petaln will wait In Switzerland
for instructions from Paris aa to
the time and place of his sur
render, the Swiss announcement
saw. - 1 s
He Is wantedi for,, Irtal as, i
traitor In surrendering France to
Germany in 1940 and subsequent
ly coltaboraflng with the nazis,
His trial was to haveir-een heW In
absentia next month, but the
Swiss announcement means that
he will be on hand for the ope
Scouts Pick Up
9 Tons of Paper
Redmond, April 24 (Special)
Nine tons ox semis naner collect
ed was the result of the Boy
Scouts' work Saturday in Red
mond and the adjoining country
side. The drive was directed by
Gorton Strotnberg, scoutmaster,
who has announced that the work
will be continued next Saturday,
April 28. There will also be a pick
up of clothing for the allied war
relief on the same day,
Residents are urged to nave1
paper, magazines and pasteboard
cartons properly tied and placed
on the curb to facilitate their
moving. Clothing should be ar
ranged in cartons or neatly and
Hrmly in bundles and placed with
the scrap paper,
MICE GET OXYGKN
Chungking, April 24 MMU. S.
pilots flew 100 white mice over
the Himalayas to Kunming
for
the Chinese-British scientific co
operation Institute, It was dis
closed: today. At ISflOO feet alti
tude, the mice were given oxygen.
Before retreating the Germans
hurled against us huge artillery
and tank forces, counterattacking
on each defense line established!
on favorable terrain. Our tank
unite were compelled to build their
own bridges and roads.
Our advance was a continuous
mass of materiel relentlessly
sweeping ahead like an ava-
lanche, Thousands of motorfwsJ
vehicles were rolling on several
lanes on a dozen parallel hlL'h
ways,
Around the clock hundreds of
fighters, bombers, and asfwult
planes swept the skies, l-'lres
blazed everywhere, The artillery
cannonade did not cease for a
single minute, Motors roared over
our heads carrying tons of deadly
gum westward,
The Luftwaffe also was active, I
dropping parachute flares over!
only at night, our air superiority J
QSCOW SayS
. , P .
ianKS,ioviei
Armies Linked
Capital of Germany Is
Now ftinjed iy 5al m
, Ryistam Lash hWt
London, April 24 aB-Eusstan
siege forces were reported fate to
day to have driven into the Char
lottenburg area of west "Central
Beriln, apparently after knifing
clear through the heart of the
devastated and tottering city.
"The Imminent fall of Bt"-!!" "
a Moscow radio commentator said
this evening, "wffl break the last
vestiges of resistance, the lust
convulsive ihroes of the wounded
monster,"
Unof f ielal advices reported (hat
the siege ring had been closed
around Berlin in a grand scale
encirclement maneuver by t.a
red armies, trapping any nrt
leaders who stayed to see tne
death of their capital.
in um Hours
In what Moscow called Berths'
last hours, a United Press Dis
patch from the soviet capital re
ported that the" red army and the
tf. S. First army had maite the
long-awaited Junction from eai
and west some 60 miles south of
the German capital. The report
ladted of flclat confirmation by an
expected, Joint statement tr.
cow, London and Washington on
thesuBJect. "
The BBC renortett that Marshal
Gregory K. Zhukov s First V r...s
Russian army had broken into
Chartottenburg, the sprawling
area of Berlin iyhtg directly west
of the business area, Zhukw s
forces had been beating straight
across the cow of Beriln on a
siege Una between the norfkwes:
and southeast parte of the city.
The report tallied.ith' an earli
er hint from nail ourci that i fee
hart pressed defenders were fan
ling back Into. the northwestern
I quarter of , Berlin for their last
J stand, J
CMy Half Captured
I One third to one half of Berlin
already had been captured. The
'usually reWaMe Luxembourg ra
dio said red banners were flying
over the ruins of the reichstag,
Also In soviet hands, it said, were
Potsdanw P I a t z, geographical
center of the capital, Aoahalter
station and ihe famed Tfcrgarten,
The United Press Bureau in
Moscow cabled Uatiy that Marshu I
Ivan S. Kontv"a First Ukrainian
army has linked up with the
American First army some tu
miles south of Berlin, The First
White Russian army northwest
of Berlin was rolling toward an
imminent Junction with the Amer
ican Ninth army at Stendal, Mos
cow said,
Hadlo Luxembourg, regarded as
the voice of allied supreme head
quarters, said the Americans and
Russians had Joined hands along
a broad front near Tbrgau on the
Elbe. The Russians reached tne
Elbe along a 39-mile front yester
day. Work Together
"American writ Russian tanks
and motorized columns already
are working together," The Lh
embourg broadcast said. It was
recorded by the Exchange Tele
graph agency.
The Soviet-American junction-
severing Europe and cutting off
Berlin ana northern tJermany
from the national redoubt in the
south was expected to be- an
nounced formally soon by mash
Ington, Moscow and Lonrton.
A poll of high soviet officers in
Moscow revealed that they be
Moved all German resistance north
of Berlin and south of Dresden
would be crushed In the next fort
night, leaving only the redoubt to
be conquered,
Ex-King Ferdinand
Reported Killed
Ankara, April 24 iui A report
from Vienna said today that for
mer King Ferdinand of Bulgaria
had been killed in a road accident
while attempting to flee irom his
home in Slovakia to Austria,
Fcrflnand, M years old, z.
cated his throne in 1918 in favor
of tils son, ihe late King. Boris,
Salem, Ore, April 24 HP) A
section ot the south SanUam hi re