Allies arid Russians Meet
In Heart of Nazi Germany
Washington. April 27 Uii -Fol
lowing is thetext of President
Truman's announcement of the
juncture of Anglo-American and
Soviet forces in Germany:
The "Anglo-American armies
under the command of General
Eisenhower have met the soviet
forces where they intended to
meet in the heart of nazi Ger-
uit? junction or our
101 ces at this moment signalizes
to ourselves and to the world that
the collaboration of our nations in
the cause of peace and freedom is
an effective collaboration which
-un surmount the greatest diffi
culties of the most extensive cam-
many. The enemy has been cut j Paign in military history and sue
in two. ceed. Nations which can nlan and
This is. not the hour of final light together shoulder tr chm.i.
victory in Europe, but the hourl der in the face of such obstacles
draws near, the hour for which as distance and of language and
all the American people, all the j of communications as we have
British peoples and all the soviet
people have toiled and prayed so
long.
The union of our arms in the
heart of Germany has a meaning
lor tne world which the world will
not miss. It means, first, that the
last faint, desperate hope of Hitler
ana nis gangster government has
been extinguished. The common
front and the common cause of
the powers allied in this war
against tyranny and inhumanity
have been demonstrated in fact
as they have long 'been demon
strated in determination. Nothing
can divide or weaken the common
purpose of our veteran armies to
pursue their victorious purpose to
its final allied triumph in Germany.
overcome, can live together and
can work together in the com
mon labor of the organization of
me woria lor peace.
Finally, this great triumph of
allies arms and allied strategy is
such a tribute to the courage and
aeiermmatlon of Franklin Roose
velt as no words could, ever speak,
and that could be accomplished
only by the persistence and cour
age of the fighting soldiers and
sauors oi tne allied nations.
But, until our enemies' are fi
nally subdued in Europe and in
the Pacific, there must be no re
laxation of effort on the home
front in support of our heroic
soldiers and sailors and we all
know there will be no pause on
the battlefronts.
Berlin Battle
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what front they were shifting
- from.
Some 60 miles south of Berlin,
Marshal Ivan S. Konev's First
Ukrainian army either already
has or was about to link up with
the American First army after
capturing Torgau, on the west
bank of the Elbe river 16 miles
from the American lines.
A CBS correspondent broadcast
yesterday that he had crossed the
Mulde river, driven with other
newspapermen through the
streams of German refugees to
Torgau, crossed the Elbe briefly
and then returned to the Ameri
can lines without a shot having
been fired.
. Russians on Move
North of Berlin,' Marshal Kon-
stantin K. Rokossovsky's Second
White Russian army spilled out
across the Mecklenburg plains 135
miles from British Second army
forces below Hamburg after cap
turing Stettin, Germany's third
port.
In the west, the Russians cap
tured the ruins of Siemenstadt,
site of what before the allied air
offensive was the largest elec
trical equipment works in the
world.
CHAMBER OFFICIAL DUE
Earl C. Reynolds, assistant
manager of the western division
of the Chamber of commerce of
the United States, San Francisco,
will be in Bend next Tuesday to
confer with directors of the Bend
chamber of commerce, it was an
nounced today. Reynolds, who is
former manager of the Klamath
county Chamber of commerce,
was expected to discuss national
legislation.
Sisters
Sisters, April 26 (Special)
Norma Enscore of Redmond, vis
ited at the home of her friend,
June Dobkins, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Jess Ireland and
family were Sunday dinner guests
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd
Dobkins. .
Mrs. Ettis Brockett spent a few
days at the home of her parents
at Powell Butte.
Mrs. Walter Boardrow is quite
ill at her home.
George, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Boardrow, who has been
ill for so long, is now better and
is learning to walk again. He is 10
years old.
Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Wolfe of
Portland, are visiting friends and
relatives at Sisters.
Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Ulleman and
Mrs. Delia Ulleman were in Port
land last weekend.
Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Olmsted of
Seaside, Ore., are visiting this
week at the home of their daugh
ter, Mrs. Gail Miller.
Willis, infant son of Mr. and
Mrs. James Chandler, was 111 for
a, few days.
1 Lucille McKenzie spent a few
days in Portland last week.
Those who cut wood for the
Sisters Townsend club Sunday to
help raise funds for the Town
send daily paper were the presi
dent of the club, W. F. Glover,
V. H. May, Aurora May and Alma
May. James Chandler hauled
wood and his brother, Dale Chand
ler, piled wood. Those who cut
wood both days for the club were I
w. f. Glover and V. H. May. Mrs.
Perit Huntington furnished the
lunch.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Beougher of
Bend, were Sunday visitors in Sis
ters.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Johnson are
constructing a nice home in Sis-
Canada's Prime Minister at Conference
ft
. . (NEA Tehphoto)
A guard of honor greets Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King, leader ol
the Canadian delegation to the World Security Conference, as he arrlvei
In San Francisco.
of Idanha, Ore.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Gabley of
Idanha, have purchased the Em
erson King property.
F 1c Ray Smith Is home on a
19-day leave from San Francisco
and will return to that base after
his leave. Asked how he liked it
back in Sisters, he said, "It sure
is swell to be home again."
KM tsc Frank Wolfe is home
on a 19-day leave.
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Benson are
visiting Benson's parents in Port
land. Jerry leaves for the army
May 4.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Winkle of
Shevlin, have movecj back to Sisters.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Anderson
were Sunday dinner guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Harvey Brandon.
W. F. Whitely of Portland, is
spending a few days in Sisters.
Wendell Kwing, Arnold Aase-
rude and R. M. Kallnnder of Sa
lem stayed In Sisters while on a
fishing trip. They reported good
fishing.
L. L. Mosley of Sheen CamD.
100 miles from Sisters, was in
town Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Snyder, formerly
of Kansas, now living at Cas
cadia, Ore., visited at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Don Trushiem. Mr.
and Mrs. Snyder will reside in
Redmond in the near future as
they will run the Royal cafe
there.
James Trushiem passed his
physical examination at Portland
Friday and is in class 1-A. I
The Christian church' Sunday
school is planning to have a
Mother's day program May 13.
Several contests will be held. Par-'
ents and children are Urged to at
tend. Mrs. D. L. Farleigh spent the
weekend In Redmond.
Mrs. Guy McLaughlin enter
trained in honor of her mother,
Mrs. Lulu Alley of Hillsboro.
Thursday
Norden Bombsight No Longer
Secret; Gadget Put on Display
By Frederick C. Otliman
4 IJnittHl PreiU Sufi CrrHmltt!itl
Washington, "April 27 Uli I
guess the war's nearly over, all
right even though the man did
say "go easy with that thing, it's
delicate."
He was talking about the Nor-
said, "aiming at the point of a
pin on the ground and hitting it
right on the button."
He then went to .work on the
Norden sight with n screwdriver,
so senators and bystanders could
see the interior ganglia; he told
exactly what made it tick. I
uen bomb sight, which six months j listened carefully. I jolted down
hku was me nusn-nusinesi, top-; one oi ins statements, thus:
diawerdest. most super-secretive I "There is a two one-thousandths
thing this tuition owned. Now it
was sitting on a table in the sen
ate caucus room, with a couole of
hundred people staring at it and
butter-fingers Otliman ' being
warned not to bust it.
It is difficult to describe tlu
Norden bomb sight. It is a black
back-lash clearance on the rear
Head speed disc. '
That is, he added, when
take into consideration all
gears.
So much for the technical side
of the Norden sight and its 3,800
parts. You'll probably be more
you
five
widget about two feet tall, with interested in the urmy air corps
silvery bumps on il and two built-! captain, with battle stars on his
in telescopes. It looks like it Is f chest and a shooting iron on his
about to bite. I barely touched : hips, who was assigned to guard
it. Even ,so, it snapped at me. ' it.
The senate's small business I "This kind of makes me blink."
committee ordered it up for dis-, he said "Overseas we had to guard
play at hearings on the machine i these things with our lives. Now
tool business, as an indication, of ! look. Hoy, you (he was talking
what incredible things automatic! to a photographer), go easy with
machinery can do. it. Anyhow, we had to keen the
John w. Shipman, engineer of! sights covered at all times and
Germany. The pilot said there
was not a chance. So my friend
kicked In the Norden bomb sight
with his foot. Then he shot a
couple of .45 slugs into it and
when he'd wrecked it completely,
the pilot said he guessed he could
make it back home after all. He
did, too. The bombardier hauled
out about 15 cents worth of junk
that had been worth $45,000 before
he went to work on it. He was an
unhappy man."
The captain went on to say that
he could not see what the small
business committee's interest was
in 1he Norden bomb sight. Of
all the wpnders of the war, he
said, this one seemed to have the
least possible postwar future.
"Unless," he udded, "you might
want it on the regular airlines
so that you could use it to drop
off a couple of passengers, say,
at St. Louis, and aim the next ut
Cincinnati."
That does it. Phone me If
there's anything else you want to
know about the Norden bomb
sight. ,
War Briefs
the Victor Adding Machine Co..
which helped buiid it, told how
the bomb sight was accurate at
altitudes to 45,000 feet
yhen we went aloft the bomb-
ardier had to swear that he would
destroy it if there was a chance
of a crash. So there was a pal of
Individual Limit
Placed at $5000
Clarifying the belief of many '
war bond buyers who now hold
the limit of $5,000 in series E
bonds as co-owners, that they are
restricted to this amount, A. L. O. j
Schueler, chairman of the Des
chutes county war finance com-1
mittee, today explained that each !
individual in such a partnership '
may own the $5,000 limit:
For example, Schueler explain
ed, some families of four persons j
have already bought $5,000 worth
of E bonds, and have refrained
from further purchase because of i
the belief that this is all they may ,
buy. Each member of the family,
however, may buy up to $5,000
maturity worth of this type of
bonds, Schueler said. ;
"That's like standing on ton nflminn hnmiit-Hir, r a
i!le?!"pil'0 S,utu buikl'"g" he' He thought he was a goner over
Lewis and Clark
Official Coming
Morgan O'Dell, president' of
Lewis and Clark college in Port
land, will bo the guest speaker at
the First Presbyterian church
Sunday morning at 11. He will
also talk to the Westminster Fel
lowship of Youth Sunday evening'
at 6:30.
In addition to the 9:00 a. m. Sun
day service in Redmond Presby
terian community church and the
afternoon ureaching service at
Tumalo at 2:30, Dr. O'Del! will
nave a a o'clock high school as
sembly In Redmond, a meeting
with Bend high school interested
seniors and the message at Hie
Bend Kiwanis club Monday noon. ;
ur. ana ivirs. u t'ell will be the
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Kennel h
Longballa while in Bond.
CARLOAD ARRIVAL
GALVANIZE
WARE
Direct From the Manufacturer
GARBAGE
CANS
Heavy Weight Pre-War Values
10 and 20 Gallons
LAKE CHARGE FACED
Earl McKean of Lakeview was
arrested yesterday by Sheriff
Claude L. McCaulev
Thosp nrpsnnt worn of nhl.'iininrr nrnimi'tw n,,.
ters. They were former residents Mrs. Walter Meyers, Mrs. George pretenses, as a result of a corn-
Meyers, Mrs. Jim Kopers of Sis- plaint from the Lake county court.
ONLY
More' Days 4
To Enter Our 3rd Annual
MOTHER'S DAY BABY CONTEST
Closes May 1, 6 p. m.
Proofs must be selected by 6 p. m.
of Saturday, May 5
. Bring Baby In Tomorrow!
No Appointment Necessary
ters, and Mrs. Gail Blakley and McKean, who was buying horses
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STUDIOS
PORTRAITS OF DISTINCTION"
906 Wall . . Next to USO . . Phone 89 . . Bend
Open Weekday! Closed Sundays
9:30 a. m. to 6 p.m.
Studios also in Klamath Falls, Medford, Albany, Portland.
, Mrs. Homer Roush of Bend,
l Mrs. Lulu Alley Is spending
this week at her son's home in
Tumalo, Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Alley.
Mrs. Guy McLaughlin received
a box from overseas from her
son, Pfc. Emmett Smith, which
i contained some very interesting
: articles which consisted of some
' hand painted pictures, a pair of
: wmte tur slippers, a beautiful
J bracelet, a bottle of perfume and
i one of cologne, two nazi arm
bands one a gestapo arm band and
one from a transport leader and
I a book of actual photographs
taken at the liberation of Paris.
Mr. and Mrs. Glavis Reed have
returned to their home at Dufur.
Mr. and Mrs. Reed spent the
greater part of the winter in Sis
ters. Mr. and Mrs. William Barkdol
returned from Coquille Tuesday
where they visited relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd McDaniel
of Hebo, Ore., have moved to Sis
ters. McDaniel is with the forest
service here. ,
Art Richards spent the week
end In Albany.
C. A. Widmark has been con
structing a dam across Squaw
creek the past week.
m nn- i.rairai uregon area, was
arrested at Redmond. He was re
leased yesterday on $1500 cash
bail.
Wash Tubs
Galvanized Pails
STILL BEST SELLER
Chicago Hit The Bible still Is
the world's best seller. Dr. Daniel
L. Marsh, president of Boston uni
versity, reports that more than
33,000,000 copies of the Bible, or
portions of 11, were Issued and
sent throughout the world last
year.
(By Unltol Prat)
Eastern Front Germans re
ported preparing death stand in
center of Berlin against encircling
Western Front Americans in
vado Austria and smash to west
ern edge of Bavarian redoubt.
Italy Fifth nrmy troops cap
ture Placenza, 39 miles from Mi
lan, and drive into Alps foothills.
Pacific Japanese resistance
ciacking on southern Okinawa;
B-29's blast Kyushu airfield again;
Americans battle toward center of
Baguio on Luzon and reach within
20 miles of Davao gulf on Mindanao.
KOAD STILL CLOSED
Contrary to a report yesterday
that bus service was being re
sumed over the South Santiam
highway, Indicating that mountain
road was again open to traffic,
the route still remains closed to
traffic, due to a landslide, it was
reported from the state highway
office here today. Yesterday's re
port that the South Santiam was
again open was from a source
other than the local highway office.
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Check on Brakes
Started in Bend
Approximately one -third of
Bend s automobiles have faulty
uraKes, n was indicated today as
me cny ponce cnecK-up on cars in
connpction with a month -long
traffic safety campaign swung
into its fourth day. Out of 17 cars
stopped and checked thus far,
police said they found six of the
vehicles with faulty brakes.
Drivers of automobiles who
commit minor traffic violations
are halted bv officers, who check
the brakes. If found to be unsatis
factory, they are instructed to
have them repaired.
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' the Apoca!yp....Conqu3t, War,
Famine and Death..., the scourge of mankind, destroying
everything that lies across their pathway!
We dare not falter so long as these four ride unchecked,
leaving as they do naught but desolation and destruction
behind them. Nor can we expeA our burden of sacrifice
to be lightened, or can there be any lessening of the ra
tioning we are asked to accept.
The price we here at home are expected to pay the
temporary curtailment of some of our luxuries is small
indeed for the fate and destiny of men and nations
hangs forever in the balance.
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