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First Session
Will Be Brief;
Shadow Seen
By Lyle C. Wilson
(United Press Buff Correspondent)
War Memorial Opera House,
San Francisco, April 25 HPi Rep
resentatives of 46 nations united
in war against the axis meet here
in plenary session at 4:30 p. m.
PWT today, determined to make
the post-war world safe for peace
loving peoples.
The objective is the same at
which the world shot after in 1918
and missed.
The delegates gathered here on
the shore of the Pacific do not in
tend that the world shall miss
again. They meet this time with
war still raging.
Foreign Minister Anthony Eden
of Great Britain arrived by plane
early today, completing the list of
prominent personages present for
the important conference.
Day Is Clear
A beautiful, sunny California
day furnished a favorable augury
for the opening of the conference
and greeted the hundreds of dele
gates as they awoke on this fate
ful day which may mark the open
ing of a new chapter in world his
tory a chapter of international
peace.
The hundreds of delegates, ex
perts and aides are as mixed a
group as ever Is likely to gather.
Almost all the world's languages
are spoken here today. There are
men from the desert, men and
women from great cities, spokes
men of poor nations and spokes
men of the rich. But they have
much in common. They know that
men of anti-axis armed forces are
being killed or wounded as they
sit down together and talk today.
To Be Brief
They call this the United Na
tions Conference on International
Organization. The first session
will be brief. It takes place under
the shadow of a stubborn Big
Three dispute over the status of
the Russian-sponsored provision
al government of Poland.
Secretary of State Edward R.
Stettlnius Jr., chief of the Amer
ican delegation, will open today's
session and Introduce President
Truman who will broadcast a 10
minute opening address from
Washington. Local officials win
deliver messages of welcome.
Stettlnius will speak again and
the opening session will end.
It is 23 years since the United
States was host to a great inter
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(U.E) The "Big Pour" sponsoring powers convened a surprise
meeting among themselves today a few hours before the
United Nations conference for international organization was
to begin its task of safeguarding world peace.
The first plenary session meets at 4 :30 p.m., PWT, in a
spirit of determination to prevent another world war. The
delegates will be addressed in today's brief session by Presi
dent Truman, speaking from Washington.
In the Fairmount hotel office of Secretary of State Ed
Fire Destroys
Prineville Plant
Prineville, Ore., April 25 IP
Central Oregonians today were
licking their chops at the thought
of thousands of pounds of fresh
meat burned to more than a crisp
In a fire that destroyed the plant
of the Prineville Packing Co.
The plant only one serving
Crook, Jefferson and Deschutes
counties burned while two fire
trucks from Prineville dashed
back and fourth over the two
miles to Prineville for water,
which was not available in the
dry irrigation ditches near by.
Only water with which to 'fight
the fire was that in the fire trucks'
tank, which had to be replenished
during the relays to Prineville
hydrants.
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BULLETINS
London, April 23 IP The
royal air force wrecked Adolf
Hitler's country house near
Berchtesgaden today with a di
rect hit by a six-ton earthquake
bomb.
It seemed certain that nobody
in the house could have sur
vived, but there was no assur
ance that Hitler was there. The
German radio has insisted for
three days that he Is leading the
defense of Berlin.
(Br United Press)
A Mutunl network broadcast
from Stockholm said today that
Swedish newspapermen In Ber
lin expected the city to fall to
the red army within 48 hours.
FIHE HITS QUARTERS
Lisbon, April 25 U"i A fire of
undetermined origin swept the
German legation quarters here today.
CENTRAL OREGON'S
THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1945
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ward K. Stettlnius, Jr., the
"Big Four" conferees met for
90 minutes. The others were
F o r e i g n Minister Anthony
Eden, of Great Britain, For
eign Commissar V. M. Molo
tov, of the Soviet Union, and
Foreign Minister T. V. Soong,
of China.
Molotov Leaves
Molotov was the first to leave.
He departed while state depart
ment press attaches were trying
to arrange a group picture of the
"Big Four." The photographers
were barred. ,
None of the conferees would
discuss their meeting other than
to say that it was "to complete ar
rangements for the conference"
convening a few hours later in the
War Memorial opera house.
Soong replied "assume nothing,"
to an inquiry whether it might be
assumed that the conferees had
discussed the Polish question.
FBI agents mingled with the
100 reporters and photographers
outside the conference suite. So
viet Union police sat outside the
hotel in a large black limousine.
Ruling on Punch
Boards Pending
Municipal court action in the
cases of William Baer and Earl
Wood, proprietors of men's reerea-
tion centers on tsona street, who; Berchtesgaden with six-ton earth
were accused of operating punch quake bombs today, t
boards without a license, was held
in abeyance today pending the out
come of a conference this after
noon between District Attorney A.
J. Moore and City Manager C. G.
Reiter. Both Baer and Wood plead
ed not guilty to the charges, and
contested the legality of a city
ordinance calling for the licens
ing. District Attorney Moore said
that a 1939 decision of the at-
torney general hold that the punch
boards are a lottery, and are!
therefore Illegal. He pointed out !
that the city, therefore, would be An official announcement said
guilty of entering into a con-1 Hitler's house, SS elite guard bar
spiracy with the board operators: racks on the grounds, and his
by granting them licenses.
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(My United Tress)
American troops broke through
Japanese defenses on southern
Okinawa today to seize an im
portant hill feature north of Naha,
the capital, while marines oceu
pied three more nearby islands.
Radio Tokyo meanwhile ad
mittdd "nothing seoms possible
now to stop extermination of the
Japanese nation.
The broadcast disclosed that
American Superfortresses had de
stroyed 770,000 homes, making
3,130,000 homeless at Tokyo, Osa
ka, Kobe, and Nagoya.
Crewmen of Superfortresses
which bombed the huge Itachi air
craft plant, 14 miles west of To
kyo, yesterday reported they
"blew the factory all to hell.
Fighters Downed
During the attack the Amori
cans shot down 13 Japanese fight
ers and probably destroyed 13
others. Four Superfortresses were
missing.
The breakthrough on southern
Okinawa ended a six-day dead
lock. A terrific naval bombard
ment blasted a path for the Sev
enth army troops who battled
across hilly terrain to reach the
new position west of Ishin vil
lage. (Continued on Page 6)
Hitler's
London, April 25 HP) British
Lancaster heavy bombers escort
ed by American fighter pianos,
attacked Adolf Hitler's Bavarian
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The air ministry announced the
first air attack of the war on
Hitler's house In the Berchtes
gaden area.
Big forces of American heavy
bombers ranged over the nazis'
"national redoubt" In the Alps to
day before the British heavies
swept In to strike heavily at Hit
ler's house.
American Mustang pilots es
corting the Lancasters over the
Hitler hideout said the nazis
Talk
threw up an intense barrage ofjed out, however, that such a
anti-aircraft fire.
mountain refuge of Kehlstein,
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Defeat Nazis
Americans Are Heading
For Gateway to Retreat
In Bavarian Mountains
Paris, April 25 (111 Lt. Gen.
George S. Patton's American
Third army raced for the Austrian
border and the Salzach valley
gate to Berchtesgaden today,
stampeding thousands of crack
nazi troops 80 -odd miles from
Adolf Hitler's Bavarian death
roost.
Field dispatches said the Ger
mans were breaking Into a con
fused and disorderly rout before
the Third army drive, falling oacK
30 miles and more a day over the
last approaches to the Bavarian
redoubt.
Patton's men officially were re
ported 30 miles from the Austrian
border, 52 miles from the en
trance to the Salzach valley and
fewer than 90 miles due north of
Berchtesgaden late last night.
Opposition Is Light
But his rough-riding tanks col
umns were meeting little or no
opposition all along their 100-mile
front, and the speed of their ad
vance indicated they might be 30
miles closer to their goal before
nirhtfall.
Patton's vanguards were fewer
tiin 120 miles from' ret! . army
'forces pounding' along,. the'' southJ
banK tor tne Damme aoout nu
miles northeast of Berchtesgaden
More than 19,000 hand-picked
nazi elite guards were captured
by the Third army yesterday and
thousands more were being over
run ana surrounaea Dy me Miner-
jeans' forward tank columns.
; At the center of their line, Pat
ton's men were storming the
Danublan fortress of Regensburg,
while their western wing rammed
down within 52 miles of Munich,
capital of Bavaria -and the birth
place of nazism.
On Patton's southwestern flank,
Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Patch's
American Seventh army poured a
flood of men and armor through
seven bridgeheads across the Dan
ube, with their vanguards oarciy
40 miles northwest of Munich.
French First army forces far
ther to the southwest were rolling
eastward along the German-Swiss
frontier around the shores oi
Lake Constance and were rapidly
clearing out thousands of trapped
Germans in three pocKets Deiiina
their lines.
Far to the north, the American
First and Ninth armies deployed
along the Elbe and Mulde rivers
west and southwest of Berlin,
awaiting an imminent juncture
with the red army.
GETS MEAT WITH GUN
Bellevile. III.. April 25 Ul'i
Clarence Wessel, proprietor of a
hutcher shoo, comolained to nonce
a woman entered his store, flashed
a gun and demanded a four-pound
roast. When ho handed her the
meat,, he said, she threw $2 and
a handful of red points on the
counter and fled.
FIRE DESTROYS MILL
Eugene, Ore., April 25 un Fire
destroyed the Austra Lumber
company sawmill, in the south
west corner of Lane county, Mon
day night. Only the loading plat
form, ramps and carrier were
saved.
tiougn ti
Bavarian Home
five miles from the house, were
attacked.
Separate forces of Lancasters
carried out the attacks between
9 and 10 a. m. today (3 and 4 a. m.
EWTl. Two of the Lancasters are
missing.
The first announcement gave
no hint of the effectiveness of the
attack. Significantly, however, It
said the bombers attacked spe
cific targets, and the practice
heretofore has been to identify
such pinpointed objectives when
the attack is successful.
Whether Hitler was in his
mountain hideout was uncertain.
The nazi radio says he is in Ber
lin personally directing the de
fense of the city. Observers point
claim mieht be nronaganda de
signed to help the morale of the
Berlin garrison.
First reports did not specify the
size of the British squadrons
British Chief
Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden of Great Britain arrived in
San Francisco by plane early to
day, to represent his government
in the historic Bay city conference.
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War Scribe Flies Over Berlin,
Finds Nazi Capital in Flames
Lowell Thomas Views Bombardment By Reds,
And Sees Answering Flashes of Hitler's Guns
By Lowell Thomas
(NBO Wor Oorrmpotulintl - V, -.
(Distributed by United Press) . -
Paris, April 25 (U.P) Berlin is In flames from one end to
the other. Dense clouds of smoke hide most of the city.
1 flew to Berlin" yesterday
pilot of the b7th reconnaissance group of the Ninth air force.
I saw the city In flames, saw the bombardmpnt going on
between the Russians and nazis. and then I raced back across
hall of Kurope to Paris last night.
My flight came about this way : For two days I had been
with the ground troops near the advancing Russians with
uenerai terry Allen and his
104th division Timberwolves,
on the Mulde river, with the
Russians only 18 miles away,
and the Germans in between.
All along the front, the one
thought had been: When do we
join up with the Russians? An
allied pilot with the Timberwolves
brought word that the Russians.
some miles to the north, were driv
ing west nt ton speed. It looked
as thouih the Second armored di
vision of the Ninth army would he
the first to make It.
Looks Over Front
So I decided to trv to find a
fighter pilot who would like to take
a look all up and down the front.
When I was back with the 67th
reconnaissance group they had in
vited me to do this. So there I
flew in a light artillery plane i
and in no time two fast Mustangs
were on the line.
Here are some of the things we
saw:
Berlin in flames, but not en
tirely. Potsdam and the southern
side of the city seemed compara
tively undamaged. The rest was in
flames, from one end to the other.
An artillery duel was going on,
heavy guns on both sides going all
out dense clouds of smoke blow
ing over Berlin, concealing much
of it.
OAR LOCKS STOLEN
Theft of the oar locks from his
boat while It was In the rear yard
at his home, today was reported
to Bend police by Rev. Robert
Mcllvenna, 816 Riverside drive.
The minister said that the looks
were apparently removed within
the last two nights.
which attacked the Berchtesgaden
area.
More than 250 Liberators of the
U. S. Eighth air force bombed
rail targets at Traunsteln, 25
miles northwest of Berchtes
gaden, at Salzburg, 15 miles to
he north; at Hallein, 10 miles
northwest, and at Bad Relchcnall,
ID miles northwest.
The concentration of allied air
power on the Berchtesgaden area
coincided with a sweep by Lt.
Gen. George S. Patton's Third
army against the "national re
doubt." The U. S. 15th air force In Italy
joined the attack on nazi strong
points in southeastern Europe.
They bombed the main rail sta
tion and ran yards at Linz, tne
biggest transport center left to
the nazis In Austria. It is only 65
miles from the Russian lines.
Along with the attacks on the
Berchtesgaden area, hundreds of '
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Heads Soviets
Foreign Commissar V. M. Mol-
tov of the Soviet union has arrived
In San Francisco for the United
Nations conference that opened
this afternoon, with 46 nations
represented..
lri a plane with a tirnck air.iorce
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Hitler Injured,
Sweden Hears
Stockholm, April 25 (IB
Wholly unconfirmed press re
ports said today that Adolf Hitler
had been injured severely in a
"serious accident" in Berlin.
No detnils of the supposed ac
cident were available, but the
German radio, announced tarlier
this week that Hitler was remain
ing In the "muin defense line" In
Berlin.
The nazicontrollcd Scandina
vian telegraph bureau said Hitler
was directing the defense of Ber
lin from a subterranean fortress
under the high command building
on Benderstrasso, already under
soviet artillery fire.
It was at his headquarters else
where In Germany last July 20
that Hitler nurrowly escaped as
sassination in a military coup. A
bomb exploded only a few feet
away from him and he was
burnexl and bruised. An associate
was killed and a dozen others
wounded.
11 Million Nazis
Killed, Captured
(lly Unlti-,1 Pres.)
A Moscow broadcast reported
by the FCC said today that 1 1,000,
000 Germans have been killed or
captured on the eastern front.
Of the total, 2,000,000 casual
ties were Inflicted since Jan. 1.
Bombed
Flying Fortresses and Liberators
bombed the Skoda arms works at
Pllsen, probably the last major
source of weapons for the nazis.
Just before the big bombers
struck, supreme allied headquar
ters broadcast a warning over the
Luxembourg radio to slave work
ers to leave their benches imme
diately and remain away until
afternoon. The Skoda works, only
a little more than 40 miles ahead
of American Third army spear
heads, were the pride of pre-war
Czechoslovakia. With the loss of
arsenals in the Ruhr and Silesia,
Germany must depend almost en
tirely on Skoda for weapons for
her final stand.
Altogether 550 American heavy
bombers and 500 Mustang fight
ers were out over Germany and
Czechoslovakia today. An airfield
at Pllsen and railway targets In
Germany also were hit.
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Weather Forecast
Partly cloudy today, tonight anil
, ThudRday, few scattered light
showers along; coast today. Not
much change In temperature.
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Soviets Seize
Half of City;
Climax Nears
Two Russian Armies
Join Forces. for All
'Out Blow at Capital
' London, April 25 r Two Red
armies completed the encircle
ment of Berlin today. Snapping a
trap on its fanatical nazi defend
ers and dooming them to surrend
er or stand and die without hope
of reinforcement.
Marshal Stalin, in an order of
the day sealing the fate of Berlin,
announced that the armies of
Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov and
Marshal Ivan S. Konev had linked
up northwest of Potsdam, thus
closing the gap between the
prongs of the giant pincers
around Berlin.
The encirclement of Berlin camo
as the two seige armies slugged
through the streets In the heart
of the city in what reports des
cribed as perhaps the most, violent
and spectacular lighting of the
entire war.
Fall Is Expected
Swedish correspondents in Ber
lin forecast the fall of the city
within two days, and Moscow,
reporting panic and chaos in the
German capital, said the climax
of the struggle was near. '
Stalin announced that the con-
i verging advances, ot the Zhukov
and Konev armies hooking around -the
capital on the north and south
had cut all the roads west out
of the city and fused the barrier
around ibinto a complete ring.
In the final push to complete
the encirclement, Konev's first
Ukrainian army captured Ketzln,
22 miles west of the Potsdamer
Platz in the heart of the city.
Zhukov's . first White Russian
army seized Mauen, 23 miles due
west of the center of Berlin;
Rohrbeck, 14 west-northwest of .
Potsdamer Platz; and Elstal, six
miles west of Spandau.
All Roads Cut
"Troops of the first While Rus
sian front cut all the roads lead
ing out of Berlin to the west and
today linked up northwest of
Potsdam with troops of the Uk
rainian army, thus completing the,
encirclement of Berlin," Stalin's
order said. It was addressed
Jointly to Zhukov and Konev.
Mentioned hi the order was Gen.
Ivan Y. Petrov, former command
er of the fourth Ukrainian army
in the Polish-Czechoslovak border
area, who recently was relieved
by Gen. Andrei Yercmenko. Pet
rov now is chief of staff to Konev.
Stalin ordered a salute of 20
salvos by 224 guns in tribute to
the troops who encircled Berlin,
Gateway to Pass
Neared By Allies
Rome, April 25 IP Allied
armies struck north from the Po
river In northern Italy today to
within 30 miles of Verona, gate
way to the Brenner pass.
Swiftly expanding their bridge
heads across the Po, Gen. Mark
W. Clark's forces Joined the race
to trap remnants of Adolf Hitler's
armies in his national redoubt in
the Bavarian Alps.
Both the Fifth and Eighth ;
armies were advancing north of
the Po toward the Brenner pass,
backdoor to the redoubt, against
weakening German resistance, al
lied force headquarters reported.
The Eighth army at Bogoforte
was less than 30 miles of Verona
and held a 50-mile front along the
Po from there to Ferrara.
Near Brenner Pass 1
French First army and Amer-'
lean Seventh army units were
only 90 miles from the northern
entrance to the Brenner pass at
innsorucK, wnue Third army
troops were driving In from the
north.
Headquarters revealed that the
Fifth army's Tenth Mountain di
vision spearheaded the push
across the Po, establishing the
first bridgehead Monday morn
ing, April 23, after a 55-milc drive
in two days.
With their last natural barrier
south of the Alps smashed, the
Germans were in a confused
state. Front reports said nazi di
visions were broken, and their
battalions were operating mora
and more on their own.