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GERMAN RESISTANCE
Patton's Men
Rapidly Close
In on Citadel
German Redoubt Shakes
In South as 4 Armies
Advance to Sanctuary
. Paris, April 26 UP Allied
armies bending back both wings
of Germany's western front
captured the wrecked North sea
port of Bremen today and drove
within 8'4 miles of the Austro-German-Czechoslovak
border
triangle.
Paris, April 26 IP The British
second army cleared virtually all
of the wrecked North sea port of
Bremen today and In the south
American Third army troops clos
ed swiftly on the Bavarian fort
ress of Passau, 67 miles from
Berchtesgaden. ,
German resistance In Bremen
collapsed suddenly this afternoon
after more than a week of savage,
close-In fighting and three days
of concentrated aerial bombard-
ment that reduced the reich's sec
ond port to rubble
Front dispatches said a few die
hard nazis, including the Bremen
commander, Gen. Becker, still
were holding out in the ruined
port area along the Weser river
late today.
Capture Seems Near . . '" "
But tough Scottish riflemen and
armored troop carriers were rac
ing through the streets to finish
them off and complete the cap
ture of the city seemed imminent.
(A BBC broadcast recored by
FCC monitors in New York said
Bremen had been captured.)
United Press war correspondent
Richard D. McMillan reported that
Becker had refused a final sur
render ultimatum and fled with
a few nazi troops to a hideout
in the Bremen port area.
Thousands of German civilians
swarmed up from cellar doug
outs, however, to greet the incom
ing British.
The second and greatest nazi
redoubt already was shaking in
the south under the blows of four
American, French and Russian ar
mies closing in from the north,
northwest, west and east on. Hit
ler's Berchtesgaden retreat.
Patton In Lead
Gen. George S. Patton's U. S.
Third army was far out in front
of the four-cornered drive, mov
ing southward along the Bohemi
an plateau on Passau, only 98
miles from a juncture with red
army troops advancing from the
east.
Delayed front dispatches, lag
Ping 12 hours and more behind
Patton's racing tanks, said the
Americans- were only 11 miles
from Passau last night and roll
ing unchecked through disorgan
ized German-opposition.
There was every possibility that
the Third army would cross the
Danube into Austrian soli near
Passau within a matter of hours,
if it had not already done so, to
close the northern arm of the.
Soviet-American pincers on the in- j
ner defenses of nazidom's Bavari-1
an redoubt. " I
Scenes Remintscenf of 1918
Enacted as Nazis Surrender
By W. R. Hlgginbotham
(United Praia Staff Corrmpondent)
London, April 26 (IP) The Ger
man army was disintegrating to
day amid scenes reminiscent of
1918.
Even as in the last days of world
war I, fully-armed German sol
diers were surrendering in groups
as large as 1,000.
Supreme headquarters announc
ed that allied forces in the west
took 43,405 prisoners on Tuesday
alone.
The bag of prisoners grew most
rapidly in the narrow corridor
between the American and Rus
sian armies on either side of Ber
lin. In Berlin Itself, the encircled
garrison was fighting fantasti
callywith the guns of the gesta
po and SS at its back, but west of
the city all who could were march
ing into the American lines to
escape the soviet war machine.
The traffic was so heavy that
American First and Ninth army I
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, eve ot the Security Conference, they gaze out toward 8an ftancisco's great and graceful Golden Gate Bridge
gateway, perhaps, to world peace forever, If success crowns the efforts of the conferees, the soldier's sacrifice
o,nl nnt hovo hun In vain unrt th HtH hov will never have to march off In Annthnr war.
Marshal Petain
Heads for Home
Paris, April 26 mi Marshal
Henri Philippe Petain started for
France today to face trial as a
traitor to his country.
Swiss dispatches reported the
aged marshal and his party left
the Swiss mountain town of
Weesen at 9 a. m. for the frontier
town of Vallorbes, where his ex
tradition will take place at 8:30
o'clock tonight.
Petain's secretary said he would
be arrested by French authorities
at the border.
The secretary also said that Dr.
Walter Stucki, former Swiss min
ister to Vichy, would be Petain's
first defense witness. Stucki ar
rived at Weesen yesterday empty
handed, and left with a big port
folio of documents.
Petain's entourage entered
France yesterday, but he remain
ed in Switzerland for orders from
the French government.
The 89-year-old "hero of Ver
dun" was penniless. The Swiss
federal council was paying his
bills at the old Hotel Mariahalden
in the town of Weesen, overlook
ing the dark waters of the Wallen
sea.
The minister of justice said the
marshal would be put at the dis
posal of the high court of justice
as soon as he arrives in France.
His trial for treason was sched
uled for May 17.
patrols which headed cast in an
effort to link up with the Rus
sians were forced to give up the
task and return to their own lines.
Russian - fearing civilians also
were clogging the roads west of
Berlin, hauling a few precious be
longings in carts and baby car
riages. It was like France in the
dark days of 1940.
Only German soldiers or sus
pected war criminals were per
mitted to enter the American lines
and surrender, however. Other ci
vilians were turned back and told
to go to their homes.
A BBC broadcast said a former
lord mayor of Berlin was cap
tured by' the American second di
vision as he attempted to flee
south between the American and
Russian lines.
Lt. Gen. Heinrich K. Kirchheim,
captured by an American tank
unit near Magdeburg, voluntarily
sought to Increase the bag of his
countrymen with a broadcast over
the Luxembourg radio.
CENTRAL OREGON'S
THE BEND BULLETIN. BEND. DESCHUTES COUNTY. OREGON. THURSDAY, APRIL 26. 1945
At Golden Gateway to World Peace
(fee Wfi
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Yanks Smash Japs' First Big
Line of Defense on Okinawa
Over 21,000 Nippons Killed on Small Island
Near Mainland; American Dead Placed at 889
Guam, April 26 (U.E) Front reports said today that U. S.
army troops had smashed the first major Japanese defense
line on southern Okinawa.
All key terrain on which the line was anchored was cap
tured by the Americans as they pushed more than half a
mile throutrh the strono- .TannnPHo r?nfnuoa tn lacs than tlivoo
and a half miles from Naha,
ine developing UKinawa campaign brought a force of 200
V-2 Attacks End,
Churchill Reveals
London, April 26 U? Prime
Minister Winston Churchill told
commons today that German' V-2
attacks on England ended March
27 and revealed that the giant
rockets killed 2,754 persons and
injured 6,523. '
Churchill said London bore the
blunt of the attacks, which began
last Sept. 8 and ended when Brit
ish soldiers over-ran the launch
ing sties.
Asked whether he now was able
to make a statement on the V-2
bomb raids, Churchill said:
Yes, sir, they have ceased.
Data Released
The attacks reached their high
est point during February. Ap
proximately 1,200 bombs fell on
England during the entire cam
paign. The worst V-2 raid killed 167
persons in November when a rock
et scored a direct hit on a depart
ment store during the lunch hour
rush in tfie New Cross section of
London. '
In another attack 133 persons
were killed when a rocket hit an
apartment building. .
Another major rocket incident
was in London's Farringdon mar
ket in March when the stalls were
crowded with shoppers and 115
were killed. Bloodhounds were
used 1o trace trapped persons.
Horse Fly Causes
Collision of Cars
Portland, April 26 HP) Maybe
horses went out of style with the
advent of the automobile.
But horse flies are still with us.
Cyru Tie told police he was try
ing to swat a horse fly, lost con
trol of his car. and wrecked an
other automobile, injuring a
woman passenger.
He (Tie not the fly) was cited
for driving on the wrong side of
the street.
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capital of the island.
to ztu fauperiortresses rang
ing over Japan again today in
new neutralization raids on
airfields in Kyushu and Shi
koku, two of the enemy home
islands.
While the Japanese staggered
under the weight of the. American
land, naval and aerial blows, Ad
miral Chester W. Nimitz an
nounced that 21,269 enemy troops
were killed on Okinawa and the
surrounding islands up to yester
day. Garrison Hard Hit
Most of the Japanese were
killed on Okinawa and it was esti
mated the enemy had lost one
third of its original garrison in
the bloody fighting on the island,
325 miles from Japan. Only 399
Japanese were taken prisoner.
American casualties in the cam
paign as of April 22, were: army:
889 dead, 4879 wounded and 289
missing; marines, 257 dead, 1,103
wounded and seven missing.
i I
All Meats, Except Mutton,
To Require OP A Red Points
Washington, April 26 (IP) Price
chief Chester Bowles today
brought 99 'k per cent of all meat
under rationing in order to spread
more evenly civilian supplies ex
pected to drop another six mil
lion pounds in May.
Beginning Sunday and continu
ing until the start of the next
ration period June 2, all meats
except mutton will require red
points, including cull and utility
grades of veal and lamb and ail
grades of less popular cuts of
veal and lamb such as breasts,
shanks, necks and flanks.
Other changes in the meat and
fat rationing program for May
will lie Increases of one to two
points per pound for most cuts!
of lamb and veal and one po'n'i
tor most Beet steaks; decreases
of one to two points on beef
roasts and other cuts of beef; in
creases of four points for mar
garine; and two points for grade
one cheese.
Butter and hamburger remain!
DAILY NEWSPAPER
IN BREMEN
Tension Marks
Of Conference
. Showdown on Soviets'
Bid for Three Votes Is
Expected Late Today
San Francisco, April 26 un
united Nations delegates assem
bled today for their first working
session with prospects of a quick
showdown on Russia's request for
three votes at the conference, the
question of Argentine participa
tion and, possibly, some new
move on the deadlocked Polish
issue.
. Russia, It appeared, may sub
mit to the initial meeting of the
conference steering committee
her request that the Ukraine and
White Russian republics be grant
ed seats in the conference.
Whether Foreign Commissar V.
M. Molotov will also submit for a
third time a demand that the War
saw provisional Polish regime be
represented was not yet known.
However, it appeared that there
i' had been no actual developments
on the Polish matter since the Big
NThree discussions were suspended
In Washington because ot the lm
minent opening of the San Fran
Cisco gathering.
Showdown Delayed
Some quarters said the Polish
issue would not be brought to a
f.''jlrVk J
t; , . ' TOU""" ft?
MolotOV, W. AVerell Ham
await
e
Harriman,
U. S. ambassador to Moscow, and
Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, British
ambassador to Moscow. These
three comprise the commission
set up at Yalta to deal with Po
land and there has Been no change
In their authority to handle the
issue.
The possibility of quick and
amicable settlement oi tne kus-
sian three vote question and the
Argentine representation issue
emerged sharply.
Molotov made a surprise ges
ture which raised diplomatic
hopes that these hurdles to con
ference agreement might be clear
ed more easily than expected.
He tendered a banquet last
night to some 30 persons, includ
ing the foreign ministers of Mex
ico, Chile, China, Australia,
France, Yugoslavia and Czecho
slovakia. Toasts Offered
Innumerable toasts in vodka
were drunk In the Russian fash
Ion. It was learned that Molotov
was frankly told by the Latin
American diplomats of their de
sire to see Argentina Invited to
San Francisco.
Molotov on his part reiterated
the statement made by Marshal
Stalin to President Roosevelt at
Yalta that Russia desired the
Ukraine and White Russia to be
represented as a tribute to the
suffering they have endured at
the hands of the Germans.
So far as was known no com
mitments were made on cither
side. But the prospect emerged
that the Latin Americans might
support the three vote request if
Russia agreed to let in Argentina.
The Molotov dinner, It was un
derstood, was held in a most cor
dial atmosphere.
(Continued on Page 3)
unchanged at 24 and 6 points per
pound. So do ration values of lard,
shortening, cooking and salad oils.
The expanded program for May
puts meat rationing back where
it was a year ago before most
meats were made point free.
The only meat that remains
unratloned is some five million
pounds of mutton.
Bowles said the adjustments
were necessary to distribute the
available meat supply as evenly
as possible "during the period of
very short civilian supply."
He estimated civilians would
have six million pounds less meat
In May than they did in April,
but said there should he Improved
distribution of what there is as a
result of OPA's newly-announced
meat control program.
The plan calls for expenditures
of $34,000,000 to insure meat pro
ducers against loss, increase the
amount of federally-Inspected
meat available for civilians and
stamp out the black market.
Initial Session
Patriots Break Qerman
Qrip in Northern Italy
Rome, April 6 (U.E) A general uprising of Italian pa
triots was reported unofficially today to have broken the
German grip on north Italy and liberated Milan, Genoa,
Turin, Verona and scores of other towns.
Allied military authorities, whose armies wer Hwppnino-
deep into northern Italy on the heels of routed German forces,
withheld immediate confirmation of reports from the north
of the rebellion against the nazis and fascists.
But accounts of the uprisings were supported by every
iiiiiiiniiiii Miuiiniiiiiii i iiiiiiumiiiiimiiiuiiiiiev.'ence that the patriots had
BULLETINS
, (By United Proi)
A Swiss telegraph agency dis
patch reported by the FCC to
day that according to reports
from reliable sources Benito
Mussolini was captured by Ital
ian patriots In I'allanza on the
west shore of lake Maggiore.
London, April 20 IIP) The
Brussels radio said tonight that
American and Russian troops
had Joined forces on a i'l'i- mite
front.
With U. S. Seventh army,
Germany, April 20 UP) The
wife of Marshal Erwin Rommel
said today that the one-time
desert fox of the Afrkia Korps
died at home in bed on Oct. 14
from a shrapnel wound In
France on July 17.
The British radio said late to
day that Rome reported the Al
lies were landing at Rapallo In
the gulf of Genoa. .
Already Collected
With an estimated eight tons of
usable clothing already on hand,
and salvage committee workers
striving to get' at least another
9,000 pounds before next Monday,
arrangements were completed to
day for a city-wide pickup next
Sunday, It was announced. Ap
proximately 25 Elks and Lions
last night worked In the salvage
uepui in iiitr uttaciiiL-iu ui icuj o
sorting and packing tne cioming,
in order to make way for the ex
Dected laree "haul" on Sunday.
Boy Scouts, who will aid in the
plcKup on sunuay, ana wno nave
been aiding In the sorting and re
ceiving of clothing and footwear
at the depot, were strongly prais
ed today for their efforts by Clar
ence Bush, Lion drive chairman,
and Ray Dahl, in cnarge oi puo
llclty. to canvass tjuy
Beginning at p. m. Sunday,
Scouts, assisted by Lions and
Elks, will canvass tne city garner
ing up bundles and removing
them to the depot. Residents were
asked to place their packages or
bundles on their front porches,
with shoes being tied together.
The Scouts will remove them
from there.
Meantime the contest among
grade school pupils for a prize of
ice cream and cake was growing
hoi. with the smaller children car
rying great quantities of clothing
to their class rooms. The room In
each of the Reld, Allen, Kenwood
and St. Francis schools having
the largest amount of clothing
will be "treated" by the Lions and
Elks. A committee is scheduled
to visit the schools on Monday
and decide the winning class-
London Reports
Goering Fadeout
London, April 26 ui The
Hamburg radio reported tonight
that Relchmarshal Hermann Goer
ing had been relieved of the com
mand of the German air force.
The nazi radio said Goering was
suffering from acute heart dis
ease, asked to be relieved of the
Luftwaffe command, and Adolf
Hitler granted his request.
Goering, the No. 2 nazi whom
Adolf Hitler once designated as
his eventual successor, was the
first of the party hierarchy to fade
out of the picture in the hour of
Germany's supreme crisis, so far
as enemy reports had revealed.
BRITISH DOL'BT STORIES
London, April 26 lU-The Daily
Telegraph said tonight that no
definite evidence had reached
London that Adolf Hitler was In
Berlin, and suggested the nazis
might be trying to cover up his
escape from Germany.
eir Dim Bernini
COLLAPSES
seized and were operating the
radios in Milan and Genoa
n .
(supplementary reports cir
culated freely in the Swiss
border areas.
Swiss Relav Renorts
Swiss advices quoted an Italian
press dispatch as hinting that
Benito Mussolini was trying to
make a deal with the patriots In
an effort to save his life. He was
reported to have been set up as
a nazi figurehead In north Italy
after he was "rescued" by the
Germans when his fascist regime
cracked up.
This morning," the dispatch
was quoted, "Mussolini sent a man
bearing a flag of truce to the head
of the Milan socialist party and
offered to permit partisans to
take over power on condition
that the Germans and new fas
cists be allowed to leave without
hindrance." .
Resistance Collapses
German resistance in northern
Italy appeared to have collapsed,
Fifth army forces were within 75
miles southeast of Milan and less
than 45 miles from Genoa last
night. Today a headquarters
spokesman said: I
"Things are moving, so fast' we
just don t know where they are."
Rome morning newspapers, in
big headlines, proclaimed the
liberation of Genoa and said the
Germans had abandoned Milan. A
dispatch from Chiasso, on the
Swiss-Italian border, also reported
that tne nazis and their Italian
fascist underlings had handed
over the city to patriots.
Music Festival
Plans Completed
More than 400 young musicians
from Klamath Falls, Prinevllle,
Redmond and Bend tomorrow will
join In a festival here that Is to
feature bands, choirs, orchestras,
ensembles and soloists, with an
evening program to be presented
in the high school gymnasium at
7:30 o'clock. Numbers arranged
for this program, open to the
public, were announced today by j
C. Ualc Kobhlns, in general
charge of arrangements.
A total of 417 high school mu
sicians have been registered for
the music competition festival, to
start tomorrow afternoon with a
program of ensemble and solo
events at the Trinity Episcopal
parlh hall, from 2:30 to 5 p. m.
A Klamath Falls orchestra of 36
pieces will be featured.
fudges Coming
Three national Judges, whose
names are not being announced
in advance, will arrive in Bend
tomorrow, to Judge the various
contests.
The program for the evening
competition, In the higit school
gymnasium auditorium, follows:
7:30: Overture to "The Beauti
ful Galnthea", von Snuppe. Alleg-
(Continued on Page S)
German Sources Insist Hitler
Is Directing Forces in Berlin
London. April 26 (IP Nazi
sources said today that Adolf Hit
ler and Col. Gen. Heinz Gurterlan,
chief of staff of the German
army, personally were directing
the defense of Berlin from an un
derground hideout Inside the on
c'rcled capital.
The German-controlled Scanda
navlan Telegraph bureau said Gu
derian was organizing the death
stand under Hitler's personal su
pervision. It attributed its infor
mation to German papers in Nor
way. Though the German radio for
several days has been reporting
Hitler In Berlin, the STB dispatch
was the first to say that Guderian
also had remained in the capital
and with the fuehrer was facing
almost certain death or capture at
the hands of the red army.
Hitler daily receives command
ers of the various Berlin front
sectors In his underground bunk
Weather Forecast
, Scattered clouds today and to
night. Friday, mostly cloudy with
occasional light showers. Little
change in temperature.
NO. 121
ft
Nazi Chieftain
May Be Held
In City's Ruins
Stettin Falls to Reds
In New Gains; Soviets
Say Junction Is Close
London, April 26 (ID Russian
storm troops today captured Stet
tin, Germany's biggest Baltic port,
and 80 miles to the southwest
they burst Into the heart of Ber
lin within 400 yards ot where
Adolf Hitler was reported direct
ing the defense ot the gutted capi
tal. ...
If Hitler was In Berlin as the
nazis have insisted for four days
time was running short for him.
Berlin was surrounded by Red
army troops and rescue by land
was all but Impossible. The Ber
lin garrison was being pressed
into a tight pocket in the center
of the citv. " " - ' ;
Airdrome seized
Moscow dlsDatches said Rus
sian troops had overrun the Tern-
pelhof airdrome ana capiurea a
number of planes with warmed-up
motors, apparently preventing a
last-minute escape flight by nazi
leaders.
The Hamburg radio reported
the fighting in the Potsdamer
Platz area and in the middle ot
nai'ltn'o Tioronrtpn. ,
Faltering nazi radio reports In
sisted that Adolf Hitler himself
nri n nrize lot -of his henchmen
were in Berlin, and ft ' Moscow
dispatch said that if Hitler is
there, "the Russians will have him
dead or alive."
Called "Mopup"
The Russian army organ Red
Star referred to the battle of Ber-
ltH ..n a "linn lit! 1 ' Qnubt ft nil t
nil an a jfivp " - - --- - - ......
dispatches said there no longer
was any continuous front line In
the ruins of the German capital.
Russian spearheads were goug
Ini? into the heart of the city, and
wild fighting swirled deep behind
the nazi barricades.
Moscow roDorted that the Tern-
plehof airdrome had been virtual
ly overrun, blocking the last haz
ardous escape hatch from the
city. Soviet dispatches said the
struggle swiftly approached its
climax and Red army assault for
ces were driving into the heart of
the city from east, west, north
and south. Some 500,000 German
troops are reported trapped in the
doomed city.
New First Army
Some 70 miles south of Berlin,
Moscow said, other Soviet forces
struck west across the Elbe river
practically to within sight ot
American First army troops along
the Mulde river. Official accounts
put the Russians 17 miles from
the First army as of yesterday.
The battle of wrecked Berlin
roared on into its sixth day in
what Soviet front dispatches des
cribed as a "jungle of stone"
above ground and in the dark,
treacherous caverns of the city's
subway system below.
Canal Crossed
Four more city districts were
cleared yesterday and both the
Spree river and Teltow canal
crossed despite ferocious counter
attacks by the fanatic enemy gar
rison. Thirty-seven districts
nearly two thirds of the city
now were In Soviet hands.
er, STB said. He listens to reports,
gives orders and decorates "those
distinguishing themselves," it add
ed. Another report said that Hit
ler's underground quarters were
beneath the high command build
ing on Bemllerstrasse, which al
ready was under Soviet artillery
fire.
The Stockholm newspaper Tid
ningen said Hitler, Propaganda
Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels
and Reichsmarshal Herman Goer
ing all were In Berlin as late as
yesterday, preparing for a stand
to the end in their underground
citadel with several thousand elite
soldiers.
The north German radio trump
eted: "In Berlin, the destiny of the
peoples of Europe is at stake. In
Berlin, this war will be decided.
For this reason, the fuehrer is in
Berlin."