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Yank Soldiers
In Quick Move
Reach Border
Break-Through Carries
Third Troopers to Point
25 Miles From Munich
Paris, April 27 IP American
armies invaded Austria today and
smashed into the western fringe
01 tne Bavarian redoubt in a gen
eral break-through that carried
witnm Ito miles of Munich, birth
place of the dying nazi regime.
Wheeling suddenly away from
the direct roads to Berchtesgaden,
the U. S. Third army's 11th arm
ored division sent a flying tank
column racing nine miles east
ward to cross unopposed into
Austrian soil near Schwarzen
berg, two miles south of the
Austro-German-Czechoslovak bor
der triangle.
. Ninth Country.
I It was the ninth European coun
rtry entered by American armies
in World War II. The tide of
American military power already
had rolled over Italy, France, Bel
gium, Luxembourg, Holland,
Czechoslovakia, Germany, and the
tiny principality of Monaco.
The Third army alone had
fought over all but Italy, Monaco,
and Holland since its activation
last summer.
There the Americans were 86
miles north-northeast of Berchtes
gaden, 35 miles northwest of Linz,
the third city of Austria, and only
85 miles from a juncture with
Russian, troops pounding in on
Hitler's mountain hideaway from
the east. ' '
Column Closes In
A second armored column was
closing fast on the Austrian fron
tier a few miles farther south, en
tering Gegenbach, a mile west of
the border and 34 miles from Linz.
There was no immediate word
y force moving down on the border
, city of Passau, 67 miles due north
of Berchtesgaden.
Almost 150 miles to the south
west, the American Seventh army
broke loose on a terrific armored
sweep that all but enveloped the
fortress city of Augsburg and roll
ed on within 25 miles of Munich.
The Seventh army's plunging
tanks swamped the stubborn nazi
defenses in the rugged triangle
between the Iller and Danube riv
ers and piled up gains of as much
as 18 miles in a matter of hours.
Still farther west, the French
First army ground steadily east
ward along the lake-studded German-Swiss
frontier, caving in the
western flank of the Bavarian re
doubt at a rapid pace. The border
city of Konstanz was reported in
French hands.
Where World Peace Is Being Sought
San Frflhcisco's Civic Center, showing two principal meeting places of the United Nations Con-
ference the War Memorial Veterans Building, seating 1100, and the War Memorial Opera House,
3250. Both were completed in 1932. The domed building is City Hall; tower beyond is the Fed
eral Building. Civic Center includes other government, educational, and assembly buildings.
Bend Plavs Host
f To High Schools
Jap Resistance Cracks
On Southern Okinawa
Guam, April 27 (U.E) Japanese resistance began to crack
on southern Okinawa today and Tokyo reported a new Ameri
can landing on the northwest coast of the strategic island. '
American troops assaulting the southern defense shielding
Naha, capital of Okinawa, captured bitterly-contested Saw
tooth ridge, highest point on the island, and wedged-deeply
into the enemy line less than a mile from the inland town of
Shuri,
Radio Tokyo said the Americans were landing men and
materials from barges in the vicinity of Minatagawa on the
Motobu peninsula, which juts out of northwest Okinawa.
The landing put. American units in the rear of Japanese
pockets still holding out on the peninsula and should speed
the opening of the Unten harbor navy base to American
ships. '
Capture of bloody Sawtooth ridge was regarded as the
turning point of the Okinawa campaign. From here out, it is
a downhill battle with the Americans looking down the
enemy's throat. ' ,
Two of the last three airfields on the island were almost
within the Americans' grasp.
Maj. Gen. John R. Hodge, commander of the 24th army
corps, told a United Press front reporter that numerous Japa
nese troops were deserting to the American lines.
"Soldiers don't do this until they begin to crack," Hodge
said. "I think the Jap is pretty well disorganized and in my
opinion the time for a possible counter-offensive has passed."
Some 400 miles to the northeast, a fleet ot 150 B-29 Super
fortresses today hit seven Japanese suicide-plane bases oil
Kyushu, southernmost of the enemy's home islands, for the
second time in 24 hours.
Russians, Yanks
Meet By Chance
With the United States First
Army in Germany, April 27 U'i
The' first juncture between the
American and Russian forces ac
tually took place Wednesday
and by accident!
A 20 -man American patrol,
which failed to receive orders to
halt its advance, walked into the
Russian lines. The formal Junc
ture at Torgau did not take place
until ine next day.
The surprise meet Ine occurred
at the little town of Riesa on the
Elbe river. A radio message had
been sent to the little American
task force, ordering it to halt
after it reached five miles beyond
the Mulde river. But the Ameri
cans never got the message.
On and on they went, mile after
mile, until they were 23 miles
beyond the point where their
orders had told them, to halt.
There they met the Russians.
Peace Envoys
Face Deadlock
At Conference
'Thing Is in a Mess,'
Representative Says;
Soviets Get Demands
Washington, Aprl 27 (IP)
Soviet Russia, victorious In Its
first two major demands on the
United Nations security confer
ence, agreed today to a compro
mise on its third whereby Sec
retary of State Edward K.
Sli'Wlnlus, Jr., gets the confer
ence's two most Important jobs.
FRUIT IS STOLEN'
S. Pike, residing at 142 Jeffer
son place, reported to Bend no-1 Itv
lice today that someone had en-Masting peace.
iiritu ins casement tnrougn a"
manhole and made off with a ;
quantity of fruit. Officers found1
some burned matches, and several I
DroKen jars or jelly, and suspected
children of the theft.
By I.yle C. Wilson
' (United Prena Staff Curreitpomlent)
San Francisco, April 27 (Hi
The steering committee of the
United Nations . world security
conference was summoned to
meet 'today In an. effort to. break
a deadlock forced by Russian dele
gates on the question of confer
ence chairmanships.
The Russians were conceded to
have won already two major de
mands for three votes in the
assembly of the world organlza
tion to be created here, and for
the right of a major power to
Veto military action against it
self.
Thing Is "Mess"
But there was no general will
ingness to accept Russian objec
tions to making Secretary of
State Edward R. Stottinlus, Jr.,
permanent conference chairman
An American delegate sadly told
the United Press that "the whole
chairmanship thing is In a mess."
In Washington, President Tru
man in announcing the junction
of American and Russian armies
in Germany reaffirmed his faith-
In the ability of the Big Three
powers to work together to main
tain peace.
"Nations which can plan and
fight together shoulder to shoul
der in the face of such obstacles
as distance and of language and
of communications as we have
overcome," he said, "can live to
gether and can work together in
the common labor of the organi
zation of the world for peace."
Speed Asked
Disclosure of the junction 75
miles south of Berlin focussed at
tention on British efforts to speed
up the conference and wind it up
in four weeks. The British want
to (leave details to a future con
ference and close this one down
before the European war ends.
The chairmanship deadlock,
however, was delaying a start on
the conference's real job draft
ing the charter of a world sccur-
organization to maintain a
Historic Juncture
Splits Nazi Lands
Paris, April 27 (U.P) American and Russian armies have
joined forces on the Elbe river below Berlin in a historic
juncture that cut Germany into three broken fragments and
sealed the doom of Hitler's nazi regime.
Vanguards of the two armies merged their eastern and
western fronts yesterday at the river town of Torgau, 75
miles south of the German capital, at the crossroads of the
long and bloody trails from Stalingrad and the beaches of
Normandy.
London, April 27 UP Russian siege forces captured
Potsdam and Spandau today, unhinging the western defenses
of Berlin, and the nazi radio said the capital's plight was "still
more critical" after soviet troops reached the heart of the
city.
Bend's first district music fes
ilval and the annual Central Ore
gon track meet brought to this
city today probably the greatest i
numoer of high school students
ever to assemble in this upper
Deschutes river town. More than
400 students are taking part In
he music competition festival,
and scores of young people were
here from Crook and Deschutes
counties for the track meet, that
started at 1:30 p. m.
"end high school students,
Allied Armies Smoke Out Nazi Ringleaders;
Mussolini's Capture Report Not Confirmed
(By United Pr;)
Allied armies, herding the rem
nants of nazi fighting forces into
a dead end corridor of Germany
for the kill, were smoking enemy
ringleaders from their hideaways
today. .
According 10 various r-urupean
tary commentator of radio Berlin
was reported in allied hands. A
BBC broadcast today reported his
capture by allied armies in the
west.
3. Benito Mussolini and Roberto
Farinacci,
Italy and
mand of a division.
5. Gestapo Chief Heinrlch
Himmlcr. The Ixmdon Evening
News reported that Hlmmler was
dead. Reports are current In I nn.
The former duce of don, the Evening News said, that
lie former secretary of Himmler met his end In an un
reports the following headliners the fascist party were playing : known manner.
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hosts to the hundreds of visiting i had been captured or were being , hounds and hares In today's dis- Meanwhile, radio Hamburg in
lne nunareas OI Visiting 1 " ,...Cj .,, , nlthniiirh , natrhnQ Rartin Rnmo ronoatnrtl,, sUtod Ih.it l,lolr Itui 7-j
u"ng people, were enjoying a
half-day recess this afternoon.
ne of the first large visiting
RrOUOS tn erpiua Iibm i-n o frnm
Klamath Falls, and earlv this aft
ernoon the visitors were inspect-
"K tne local school and visiting
iuaents and staff members-
driven toward capture, although : patches. Radio Rome repeatedly sisted that Adolf Hitler was lead
allied confirmation of these re-j broadcast a Swiss agpney report i ing the defense of Berlin in a
ports was lacking: that Mussolini was In allied hands! "martyr's" last stand.
1 Relchmarshal Hermann Goer- nt Pallanza on Lake Mncclore.l And British dispatches said Ru
ing Radio Moscow said the "eagle: The Italian government did not I dolph Hess, an early fugitive from
of thp luftwaffe" had escaped confirm or rienv the report. ! nazis circles, reportedly had gone
from Berlin by plane with a S20,-j 4. Lt. Gen. Emil Remer. Ac- insane in captivity.
000 000 (Ml nest egg. Earlier, ra-i cording to a British broadcast.; Marshal Erwin Rommel's wi-
rw:Z ------ M tratnhuro saw Goorine nao mis loyai nonenman oi inner corn-i now told her U. S. Kcvi.mh nrmv
fesual &h his command of Ger-imltted suicide April 20 after his, captors that the "desert fox died
al tonight .k. .i mm manv's beaten air force oecause division oroKe Dciore nussian.in tea a broken man." A heart
Detitirm ...in L irvi , T. :( hl.arf trouble 1 pressure on tne eastern front.
Sn(Wn!1held vitmnth i 2 Lt Gen Kift Dlttmar. The Remer was credited with foiling
Falk orcrTnii wm spokesman of the German high; the tomb plot against Hitler last
be feature? P command and widely-quoted mili- I July and was rewarded with com-
Russian in bed a
attack finished him, she said, as
he apparently was recovering
irom snrapnei wounds Inflicted by
an allied fighter pilot.
Son Admits He
Killed Father
Baker, Ore., April 27 tf State
police today announced that Al
bert Forrest Bowman, 28, of
North Powder, confessed he killed
his father, Albert K. Bowman,
prominent sheepman, and tossed
the body In a well.
The confession was made after
all-night questioning by state po
lice and Baker county authorities.
The younger man was arrested
after the body was found Monday
by workmen at the Half creek
ranch.
.Father and son had been quar
reling, workmen said. The 58-year-old
victim's legglns were found
In his home Sunday night and It
was known he seldom dressed for
work without them Nolghbors
Joined In the search Monday and
the body was found partly sub
merged and hanging across a
crossbar In the well.
The son admitted he beat his
father to death with a rock after
a fight Sunday on the isolated
ranch between Baker and La
Grande.
The juncture split the reich into three crumbling islands of
resistance centering around the North sea ports, -Berlin and
the Bavarian redoubt in the mountains of southern Germany
and Austria. .'
New Linkup Looms
Still another American-Russian linkup appeared immi
nent in the Bavarian foothills bordering Hitler s Berchtes
gaden retreat, where Gen. George S. Pattori's Third armstf s
tablished radio contact with a red army force apparently only
30 to 40 miles away., , .; ;. M i . - . w: ". ' J
""- Doughboys of the U. S. First army's GO'th infantry '.5m-
sion pushed out from the Mulde river, 80 miles from the Elbe,
to join up with the 173rd Russian guards regiment in Torgau,
on the west bank of the Elbe.
As they went forward, hundreds of war-wearied German
prisoners lined the roadsides to watch the parade of Ameri
can power that foretold the death of nazidom and the final
destruction of Germany's military might.
News Released
The electrifying news of the juncture on the Elbe was
announced simultaneosuly in Washington, London and Mos
cow. Leaders of the Big Three hailed the event as the decisive
triumph of the European war.
"This is not the hour of hnal victory but the hour draws
near . . . President Truman declared in a brief White House
statement.
"The last faint, desperate hope of Hitler and his gangster
government has been extinguished."
Patrols from the two armies met for the first lime on the
Elbe Wednesday evening at 8:40 p.m. (11 :40 a.m. PWT) but
the first junction in force was not affected until 8 p.m. (11 a.m.
PWT) yesterday when the 69th and the soviet guards regi
ment joined hands in Torgau.
Resistance Collapses
Major-Gen. E. F. Reinhardt, commander of the 69th, led
his division into the battered river town where almost two
centuries ago another Russian army joined its Austrian allies
to fight Frederick the Great of Prussia, their common enemy
in the Seven Years' war.
German resistance appeared to have collapsed completely
in the juncture area. The dusty roads west of Torgau were
reported choked with thousands of beaten nazi soldiers and
German civilians, all fleeing for the Mulde river in a panicky
rush to enter the American lines and escape the avenging!
red army.
The remnants of Germany s northern armies were going
down in the smoke and flame of encircled Berlin and in the
wrecked North sea ports of Hamburg and Bremen, taking
with them the nazi dynasty that Hitler boasted would endure
for a thousand years.
Force Trapped
Another large nazi force was trapped hopelessly in central
Germany and Czechoslovakia, pinned between the merged
American and Russian lines in the north and the rampaging
American Third army into Austria in the south.
The size of the central German pocket was uncertain, but
the cornered enemy forces there were showing little signs of
fight and there appeared little likelihood that they would con-
inue the battle after the fall of Berlin.
Invaders Press
Blazing Siege
Of Foe Capital
Hitler's Forces Move
To Central Park for
Final Death Struggle
London. April 27 fUf Moscow
Germans were pulling back lnto
the Tlergarten in the heart of eh '"
circled Berlin for a death stand : ,
irom an siaes. - ;
The First White Russian and
First Ukrainian armies held three-.
quarters of Berlin as their blazing
siege of the nazi capital neared
the end of its first week.
Moscow said the battered, deci
mated German garrison once
estimated at 500,000 and purport-1
edly under the personal command ''
of Adolf Hitler had withdrawn
everywhere behind the circular
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v ' Artillery Massed
German artillery and troops "
were massing In the Tlergarten,
Berlin's famous central park west
of Unter Den Linden, under a
hall of Soviet shells that reduced
famous buildings within the re
doubt area to heaps of smoking
ruooie, Moscow said. -
German reports relayed by the '
Hamburg radio said Soviet van
guards had penetrated the inner
city as far as Grosser Stern,
which runs through the Tlergar-
ten. Another spearhead was said
to have reached at least tempor
arily the Potsdamer Platz, geo-;
graphical center of the capital.
Both Potsdamer Platz and Gros
ser Stern were less than a half
mile from Bendlerstrasse, where
Hitler was said to be directing the
defense of Berlin from an under
ground citadel.
Nazis Shift Troops
Another Hamburg broadcast
said "fresh German forces under .
leading German generals" were
marching toward Berlin to relieve
the capital, but gave no hint as to
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Thundering Salvo of Moscow
Victory Guns Reveal Junction
London, April 27 IP Marshal I "In the name of the Soviet gov
Stalin announced the Russian-1 ernment, I address you, command-
I em ana men oi tne red army, and
of the armies of our allies. The
American junction tonight to the
accompaniment of a thundering
salvo by Moscow's victory guns.
The Russiun radio broadcast a
terse order of the day by Stalin
proclaiming the junction at Tor
gau and noting that it cut Ger
many In two parts.
Stalin ordered a salute of 24
salvos by 324 guns In honor of
Marshal Ivan S. Konov"s First
Ukrainian army and "our allied
Anglo-American troops."
The United Press listening post
reported that after the order was
read, the guns in Moscow were
heard plainly.
The text of a statement to Rus
sian and allied troops by Marshal
Stalin, broadcast by recording
from London over CBS:
victorious armies of the allied
powers, waging the war of libera
tion in Europe, have routed the
German troops and linked up on
the territory of Germany.
"Our task and our duty are to
complete the destruction of the
enemy, to force him to lay down
his arms and surrender uncondi
tionally. The red army will fulfill
to the end this task and this duty
to our people and to all freedom
loving peoples.
"I greet the valorous troops of
our allies who are now standing
on the territory of Germany,
shoulder to shoulder with the
Soviet troops, and who are full of
determination to carry out their
duty to the end."
German Collapse
Signs Are Seen
Washington, April 27 un The
sudden folding of nazi defenses
from northern Germany clear
down to Italy was seen by mili
tary observers here today as a
sign of possible approaching Ger
man collapse.
(The German high command
Implied yesterday that the battle
of Berlin might end the European
war. It said in its daily commu
nique that the struggle was "of
decisive importance for the future
of the reich and for the existence
of Europe.")
Allied armies yesterday seized
the northern German ports of
Bremen and Stettin, fought into
Regenshurg in southern Germany
and Brno in Czechoslovakia. The
U. S. Third and Seventh armies in
the south were pouring across sev
eral bridges over the upper reach
es of the Danulie while other forc
es seized Veron In northern Italy.
Nazis f.oso Heart
This rapid disintegration of the
entile German front was seen as
marking a new low in enemy mo
rale and the will to fight.
Observers believe the sudden
slackening of German resistance
may be attributed to the surround
ing of Berlin and occupation of a
large part of the nazi capital, the
Imminent or actual union of west
ern allied and Russian forces and
the rout of German forces in
Italy.
The only show of German
strength appeared at Hamburg in
the north and Passau in the south,
suggesting that the nazis still may
have power to make a stand in
Denmark and a small part of Ger
many near the Kiel canal, and In
the redoubt In the southern mountains.