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CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
Volume LIU
THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, APRIL 28. 1945
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LONDON HEARS SURRENDER TRY IS REJECTED
Himmler Said
To Have Made
Offer to Quit
Russia Not Included
With'AHies, Asserts
Rumors From Europe
Washington, April 28 (IP)
Martin Agronsky, Blue network
correspondent, said. In a broad
cast today that an offer had
been made by the German high
command to surrender to the
United States and Britain.
Heinrich Himmler was not in
volved in the offer, Agronsky
said.
By Phil Ault
(United Preu Staff Correnpondent)
London, April 28 (U The gov
ernment today took official cog
nizance without affirmation or
denial, of a report that Heinrich
Himmler had offered to guarantee
the unconditional surrender of
Germany to America and Britain
excluding Russia and had re
ceived a blunt rejection.
A statement from No. 10 Down
ing St., apparently written by
Prime minister Churchill, hinted
that some offer of capitulation
might be received from the nazis
at any time.
The execeptional procedure of
issuing such a statement,' coupled
with its assertion that the govern
ment had no information on the
subject -"at this moment," sug
gested that Churchill might be
standing by for any proposal.
Offer Reported
The report on which the of
ficial statement was based said
that Himmler, German interior
minister and gestapo chief, of
fered to guarantee the uncondi
tional surrender of Germany to
the United States and Britain.
In the words of the Downing
street statement, the report added
that the western allies "replied,
saying that they will not accept
unconditional surrender except on
behalf of all the Allies, including
Russia."
The version of the report as
broadcast by the Allied-controlled
Luxembourg radio and recorded
here by the BBC said:
"The following message has
been conveyed to the foreign min
isters of the United States, Great
Britain and Russia:
Message Cited
"Heinrich Himmler has sent a
message in which he guarantees
the unconditional surrender of
Germany to the United States and
Great Britain. The governments
of the United States and Great
Britain have replied that uncon
ditional surrender will only be ac
cepted if. the offer is addressed
to all the Allies."
Soon after the Luxembourg
broadcast, No. 10 Downing St.,
official residence of the Prime
Minister, issued the formal state
ment on the report.
Nowhere did the statement say
that the report was false. The
implication appeared to be that it
might be true. The statement
said only that the government
had no information to give about
H. .
It concluded with a reiteration
of the oft-expressed Allied policy:
"It must be emphasized that
only unconditional surrender to
the three major powers will be
entertained, and that the closest
accord prevails between the three
Powers."
Thus was renewed implicitly
ne warnings of he remnans of
Germany that there was no need
to try the old dodge of playing the
Anglo-American against the Rus
sians. Superforts Hit
At Jap Mainland
Washington, April 28 (IP A
large force of Superfortresses
struck at six major air installa
tions on the Japanese home is
land of Kyushu today with "good
, to excellent" results, the war de-
Jpartment announced.
' he attack was the third maoe
Kyushu in three days. It was
jmed at Izumi, Miyazaki, Kanoya,
Kokuba, and Miyakenojo. '
A 20th air force communique
id enemy air action was "aggressive."
Nippon Suicide Planes
Strike at JJ. S. Vessels
. Guam, April 28 (UP) Tokyo said today that a 100-ship
American invasion fleet oft Okinawa appeared to be preparing
for "new operations.'.! . -. ,
The fleet includes four or five battleships, six cruisers,
10-odd destroyers and approximately 80 transports, a Tokyo
broadcast said.
On Okinawa itself. 24th armv corns troons in the southern
sector reached the vicinity of Machinato airfield, two miles
north of the capital city of Naha, in a general advance. Enemy
Clothing Pickup
Set for Sunday
Dozens of Boy Scouts, Elks and
members of the Lions club today
stood in readiness for the final
spurt of the salvage clothing drive
tomorrow as Bend residents were
making a final search of their
closets and trunks for contribu
tions of garments for the relief
of war-stricken foreigners.
Already more , than eight tons
of usable garments have been
contributed by local persons for
snipment overseas, and campaign
workers expressed the belief that
this amount will be increased by
at least two more tons when a
city-wide pickup takes place to
morrow. Clarence Bush, general chair
man ol tne drive for the Lions
club, said that all arrangements
have been made for the canvass
of the city, and that the workers
are to assemble at 2 p.m. at the
salvage depot in the basement of
Leedy's, Wall street and Oregon
avenue.
Instructions Given
Meantime residents were urged
to have their clothing donations
made ready in bundles, and placed
on their front porches. Shoes and
other footwear should be tied to
gether, it was said. Throughout
the afternoon and evening the
Scouts, Elks and Lions will gather
the contributions and take them to
the depot and pack them for ship
ping. Last night a large corps of Elks
and Lions worked at the salvage
depot, and today they had count
ed nearly 170 filled cartons, and
predicted that there would be at
least 250 by Monday.
Grade pupils of the city lent
what Chairman Bush called "mag
nificent help" to the drive when
they competed room against room
in clothing collections. The Elks
and Lions had agreed to "treat"
the winning rooms of the Ken
wood, Reid, Allen and St. Francis
schools with ice cream and cake.
Winners in this competition are
to be announced Monday.
First Goslings
Seen on River
Goslings, first reported from
Bend's Mirror pond this season,
were afloat on the Deschutes this
morning, with six reported by
Mrs. S. W. Thompson, 748 Har
mon boulevard. The tiny geese,
carefully guarded by the parent
bird, were reported enjoying an
early morning swim near the
Tumalo avenue bridge.
The goslings are believed to
be from a nest on the "islands"
just below the bridge.
U-BOAT BAGGED
London, April 28 (IP) A U-boat
was sunk recently by fire from
two mine sweepers escorting a
convoy in the north Atlantic, the
admiralty announced today. Sur
vivors were taken prisoner.
Russian Troops
Moscow Says
London. April 28 (IP) Russian
shock troops today broke into the
Tiergarten, heart of Adolf Hitler's
last-ditch defense citadel in en
circled Berlin. Moscow said the
siege of the nazi capital swiftly
was approaching its end.
Reports reaching London also
said fighting was raging "very
near" Adolf Hitler's reichschancel
lery on the Wilhelmstrasse, the
reichstag on the northeaBt corner
of the Tiergarten, the State opera
house and other buildings in the
center of Berlin.
a f.,tr rficnatrh said soviet
Cossack divisions swept nearly 50'tenburg district just west of the
milos west ol Benin ana rauitu;
piho rlvpr oDtiosite the Ameri
can Ninth army. The Russians
were awaiting an "Imminent Junc
tion" with the Ninth army, Mos
cow said. ,
South of Berlin, the Russian ar-
'strong points in the west coast
village of Nakama were by
passed: .
The Americans were be
I i e v e d already through the
strongest Japanese defenses and
the complete conquest of the is
land appeared in sight.
Nearly 400 miles to the north
east, American B-29 Superfort
resses blasted six Japanese sui
cide - plane bases on Kyushu,
southernmost of the Japanese
home Islands, today for the third
straight day.
Good Results Obtained
It was the first time that the
giant bombers have carried out
such a sustained offensive. Be
tween 100 and 150 B-29's partici
pated in the attack, bombing from
medium altitudes.
"Generally good results" were
observed in yesterday s raid on
the bases, a 21st bomber command
announcement said. Crewmen said
Japanese fighters dropped phos
phorous bombs on the Superfort
resses in a futile attempt to halt
the raid.
The offensive was designed to
neutralize the bases from which
Japanese pilots have been taking
off in explosive-laden planes for
attempts to crash into American
warships.
1 A few Japanese planes broke
through to the American ships off
Okinawa yesterday morning, a
Pacific fleet communique said.
5th Army Makes
Spectacular Dash
Rome, April 28 (IP) A Zurich
dispatch said today that the Amer
ican Fifth army had reached the
Swiss border in a spectacular 60
mile dash that cut northern Italy
in two, trapped tens of thousands
of Germans, and isolated Milan
and Turin.
The dispatch said the Ameri
cans entered Como, on the Italian
side of the frontier, last night
after an advance from their last
reported positions west of Lake
Garda.
The patriot-controlled Milan
radio reported that the Americans
also had entered Milan, Italy's
second city, but this was not con
firmed. The radio said patriot
forces already had liberated the
city.
Turin, the other great indus
trial center of Northern Italy, also
was isolated by the advance which
cut the last roads to Austria from
nortnwest Italy.
The German garrison in north
west Italy now was hemmed in on
the east by the Filth army, on the
north by neutral Switzerland, on
the south of the Ligurian sea, and
on the west by other allied forces
along the French border.
NEW GAINS MADE ;
London, April 28 (IP) Marshal
Stalin announced today that the
red army in a sweeping advance
north of Berlin had captured
Torgelow, E g g e s 1 n, Pasewalk,
Templin and Strasburg.
Break Into Heart of Berlin;
Siege of Bastion
my organ Red Star said, two more
S6viet divisions had linked up
with the Americans following the
original junction .at Torgau, GO
miles below the capital.
Red Star said only that the two
divisions met the Americans else
where than Torgau and added:
"The link-up of our armies on a
broad front became a fact"
At least nine-tenths of Berlin
already was under Russian con
trol following a new junction of
the First White Russian and First
Ukrainian armies in the Chariot-
jrajancn,
The remainder of the encircled
332-square-mile city either had
been cleared or was being mopped
up against varying resistance.
complete occupation 01 tne
burning, rubble-heaped c a p 1 1 a 1 1
Super
Council
Handles Work
Of Conference
Two Plenary Sessions .
Scheduled By Chiefs; ,
New Disputes Probable .
Memorial Opera House, San
Francisco, April 28 llPJ Reports
of a new German crack-up sent
united conference enthusiasm
soaring today as the delegates ,
headed toward further show
downs between the powerful:
United States and Russian dele
(rations.
By tyle C. Wilson
(United Prs Staff Correspondent)
San Francisco, April 28 ip The
United Nations conference, now
directed officially by a super
council of "Big Four" foreign
ministers, speeded up its sched
ule today with two plenary ses
sions, morning and afternoon.
The decks were cleared, after a
couple of days of stalemate, when
the surprise "Big Four" council
was voted Into existence by a
plenary session late yesterday.
But delegates who ' hoped to
have the week-end off missed their
sight-seeing. Secretary of State
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., an
nounced that there would be two
not one, but two plenary sust
slons. That was in line with grow
ing belief that this conference
should be completed within a
month.
New Dispute Looms
And there were a . few dark
chinks in -the aura of sweetness
and light which now pervaded the
conference halls. Another poten
tial United States-Russian dispute
was in the making.
The United States, it was learn
ed, will present to the conference,
an amendment providing for post
war review of treaties and such
wartime political decisions as the
one on Poland if they involve in
justices to the peoples involved.
It is a hot potato and is expected
to draw vigorous Russian opposi
tion.
The amendment is based on one
proposed by Sen. Arthur H. Van-
denburg, R., Mich., and has been
unanimously approved by the
American delegation. Vandenburg
was understood to prefer the new
language not yet revealed over
the wording of his original pro
posal.
question Ditched
The conference has ditched the
Polish question, agreed to Rus
sia's demands for three votes in
the assembly and now is begin
ning to look seriously into the
idea of Inviting Argentina to join
in these deliberations.
Delegates are beginning to
whoop it up for speed. The Brit
ish suggested a one-month limit
on the deliberations. Field Mar
shal Jan C. Smuts of South Africa
urged the steering committee to
fix a three-week limit. Soviet For
eign Commissar V. M. Molotov
jumped up to ask: Why not two
weeks or 10 days?
But there are others who fig
ure four to five weeks as a mini
mum. Molotov evidently was pleased
that the Soviet Union had ob
tained entry for White Russia and
Ukraine who will cast the two
extra Russian votes in the assem-
Ibly to this conference.
N earing End
may come this week-end. Lt. Gen.
Kurt Dittmar, spokesman for the
oerman high command, surrend
ered to the American Ninth army
at Magdeburg and said Berlin
would fall in a matter of hours,
or at most in a few days.
Dittmar said he believed Hitler
and Propaganda Minister Paul
Joseph Goebbels still were in the
doomed city as late as Wednes
day and would remain there, dead
or alive.
All escape from Berlin had been
cut off. The Soviet midnight com
munique confirmed the capture
of Tempelhof airdrome, last ave
nue to even temporary freedom
open to the trapped nazi leaders.
Small Soviet bombers already
have begun operating from Tem
pelhof for pinpoint bombing of
the remaining German strons-
holds, a Moscow dispatch said.
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M
. V. Molotov, soviet foreign commissar, appeals .to his listeners at a
Nazi Henchmen
(My United Preu)
The whereabouts or status of
nazi leaders and their satellites
todav on the basis of announce
ments, rumors and reports on the
allied manhunt:
Adolf Hitler - In almost con
quered Berlin, where he will kill
himself or 'be killed within a few
hours or few days, iccording to
Lt. Gen. Kurt Dittmar, former
nazi high command spokesman.
One Swiss rumor said he was snot
three davs aco.
Benito Mussolini Captured by
Italian patriots in Lake Como
.border area, according to Rome
radio. Reported takun with him
were such former fascist col
leagues as Roberto Farinnaci,
party secretary; Alessandro a-
volinl, propaganda minister; mar
shal Rodolfo Graziani, chief-of-staff;
and Guido Bufarlni-Guiili,
interior minister.
Goering Dead?
Hermann Goering A diplomat
in Switzerland said yesterday he
shot himself and daughters in exe
cuting death sentence pronounced
by nazis.
Joseph Goebbels Shot three
days ago, according to Swiss bor
der report.
Heinrich Himmler Swiss re
port said he flew to Berlin yester
day; Luxembourg radio said he
made offer to surrender Germany
to Britain and United States.
Pierre Laval Asked twice last
night for permission to enter
Switzerland ( according to border
advices.
Dr. Otto Moisner, undersecre
tary of state Exchange Tele
graph said Himmler ordered his
arrest.
Panic Is Blamed
For Plane Deaths
Washington, April 28 IP
James Wilmott, president of Page
Airways, said today that panic
among the passengers was re
sponsible for the fatalities and
serious Injuries when a Page
plane burned as it was attempt
ing to take orr from National air
port here yesterday.
Four of the passengers were
fatally Injured and the other seven
were seriously burned in tne lire
that ,wtrv,i tho niann nftpr It'alone In the west were so extend-
nosed Into a ravine at the edge of
the airport runway.
Wilmott said the pilot and co
pilot told him no one was "even
scratched" when the plane struck
the ravine.
"If they had kept their heads,
they could have opened the door
and gotten out safely," he said.
"They couldn't open the door at
first and were jammed up In the
aisle. The co-pllot finally had to
come back from the cockpit, open
the door and help them out
through the flames."
The pilot, V. Decker, Willlams
vllle, N. Y., and the co pilot, Edwin
A. Sanford, Rochester, N. Y., suf
fered burns and Injuries.
NAZIS IN FLIGHT
London, April 28 HP) The Mos
cow radio reported today that
numerous high nazi officials were
In the Baltic port of Luobeck and
trying to flee to Norway or
Sweden.
Molotov in Dramatic Pose
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Music Festival in Bend
Attracts Big Audience
' Present for the program
phase of the south central Oregon music competition festival
was an audience that filled the Bend high school gymnasium
to capacity, and this huge audience remained until three na
tional judges announced ratings, with two first places as
signed to Bend music groups, two to Klamath Falls and one to
Redmond: In addition tnree no. z ratings ana one no. a rat
inur were announced. ' " ' ' .
The music festival, in which more than 400 high school
students took part, opened yes-
terday afternoon in Trinity
Parish hall and concluded with
the evening program that at
tracted music lovers from all
parts of Central Oregon.
Judges were Stewart Smith, In
charge of music at Ballard high
school, Seattle, Wash., and mem
ber of the University of Washing
ton summer school faculty; Glenn
Griffith, supervisor of vocal mu
sic in the Eugene public schools
and director of the Eugene Choral
club and assistant director of the
Eugene Gleemen, and Douglas
Orme, supervisor of Instrumental
music in the Eugene public
schools and conductor of the Eu
gene Junior symphony.
KohbliM In Charge
The music competition festival
(Continued on Page 5)
13,000,000 Men
Facing Germans
Paris, April 28 (Hi The Amer
ican-Russian junction south of
Berlin linked 13,000,000 allied
troops for the final act of the
battle of Europe, military observ
ers said today.
Though superficially the armies
of the east and west became a
mighty combined force, no change
in the command set-up was be
lieved contemplated.
Premier Marshal Stalin was ex
pected to remain In command of
his seven Russian armies and
Gen. Dwlght D. Elsenhower, in
command of the five American,
one British, one French and one
Canadian armies of the western
allies.
Neither was any change likely
In the supplying of the red army
despite the opening of the east
west corridor. The American lines
ed that in the first two weeks of
this month, 35,000 tons of supplies
had to be sent east of the Rhine
by air.
050 Divisions Avnllablo
Best estimate of allied strength
placed 550 divisions r o u g h 1 y
8,250,000 men at tne disposal of
Stalin and 4,500,000 men under
the command of Eisenhower.
Also moving in" for the kill
from the south were the Amer
ican Fifth and British Eighth ar
mies in northern Italy and Mar
shal Tito's Yugoslav liberation
army.
Against this mighty array of
allied power, the German high
command can muster fewer than
2,500,000 troops. These were be
lieved to be the remnants of 230
divisions in Germany and 24 in
northern Italy.
Approximately 125,000 addition
al German troops were believed
still in Yugoslavia and 125,000 in
Norway.
it- ?
press conference in San Francisco.
last night that marked the final
Mindanao Isle
Is Split in Half
Manila, April 28 nil The 24th
infantry division virtually spilt
the Philippine island of Minda
nao in half today by slashing
ahead 10 miles to within sight
of Davao gulf.
In their drive down the home
stretch to the gulf, the 24th met
only scattered opposition. One
hundred Japanese encountered at
the village of Bulatukan, on the
road to Digos, were dispersed
quickly.
Digos, where the doughboys
will reach the gulf, is 27 miles
southwest of Davao city. Averag
ing 10 to 12 miles a day, the 24th
had driven across Mindanao in 10
days from their original beach
head at Parang, 88 airline miles
to the west. On their way they
captured Cotabato, capital of the
island.
SEAMEN ARE FREED
With British Second Army, Ger
many, April 28 ilPi British troops
liberated 4,300 American mer
chant marine prisoners of war
today when they seized the Wes
teertlnke camp northeast of
Bremen.
Also freed were 2,200 i3rltish
seamen.
End of War Is
Gen. Dittmar,
Magdeburg, Germany, April 28
(IPi Adolf Hitler will kill himself
or be killed in Berlin within a few
hours or days and the war will
end, Lt. Gen. Kurt Dittmar, Ger
man high command spokesman,
said In his final war commcntury
in American custody.
Dittmar, who surrendered to the
American Ninth army on the Elbe
river Wednesday, told his captors
that Hitler and propaganda min
ister Joseph Goebbels were in Ber
lin and will die there.
"The war will end In a few
days," Dittmar said. "Hitler will
either be killed or he will commit
suicide. One of three generals
Von Brauchltsch, Guderian, or
Von Rundstedt will take control
and will make peace immediately
on almost any terms."
The elegantly-uniformed gen
eral outlined the war situation
for correspondents, Just as he
used to do for Radio Berlin listen
ers when the nazi army was over
running Europe.
Asked about the Bavarian re
doubt, he said, "there's talk about
Munich Revolt
Rumor Heard;
Appeal Mad
e
Former Hitler Citadel
Is Scene of Uprising;
Germans Make New Plea
Paris, April 28 (U Revolution
ists seized control In Munich to
day and radioed an urgent appeal
lor American neip in ovennrow
Ing the nazis. At mid-day, how. -ever,
a broadcast purported to
come from the gaulelter In the
city claimed the uprising naa been .
suppressed.
From contused radio oroaacasis
and censored front dispatches one '
clear fact emerged the fires of
revolution had been lighted in Ba
varia, once the strongest citadel
of nazidom.
And two American armies were
racing In on Munich from posi
tions less than 30 miles to the
west and north in answer to a
desperate appeal from the rebels
for immediate help.
News Picked Up
Hours after the speeding Amer
ican tank columns picked up the
Munich rebels' call for aid, a
speaker purporting to be the gaul
elter of the city broadcast an an
nouncement that the revolt had
been put down and order restored.
The gaulelter called on Bavaria
to continue what obviously was a
hopeless fight against the con
verging American armies had de
clared that the Munich '(traitors"
had been dealt with ruthlessly.
There was no confirmation of
the nazi claim which in itself was
the first enemy admission that
the dreaded peace revolution had
begun, Just as it did In 1918 in the
final hours of world war one. .
Field dispatches from the Third
army front Identified the rebel
leader as Gen. Hans Rltter Von
Epp, last reported as a member
of the Hitler government and one
of the first nazis elected to reich
stag. Capitulation Imminent
A rebel broadcast to the peo
ple of Munich and apparently also
to French slave workers In Ba
varia quoted Von Epp as announc
ing that Germany's capitulation
was "imminent" and that "the
hour of freedom has struck."-
Von Epp, or a spokesman, de
clared that he had decided to
break off the fighting against
the Americans.
"In this hour, there is but one
thing that matters, namely calmly
and with faith In the new leader
ship to see to it that the blood
shed he discontinued and that the
calamity which has befallen the
German people be not aggrivated
by a fight between Germans and
Germans," he said.
"Preserve calm and order, there
by making it possible for the new
leaders to restore normal life as
quickly as possible."
NEW SPAN FAVORED
Washington. April 28 (in The
senate commerce committee has
approved a bill authorizing con
struction of a toll bridge across
the Columbia river at Astoria by
the Oregon Washington bridge
board.
Near, Believes
Ex-Nazi Chief
it, and the map will show you
that two pockets are being formed
one in the north including Nor
way and Denmark and one in the
south in the Alps and Italy. But
that is probably less by Intention
than by force of circumstances."
At any rate, he thought, the
war could not last aftei the fall
of Berlin, which he said was a
matter of hours or at the most
days.
"I saw the war was lost on
July 20th." said Dittmar, referr
ing to the frustrated attempt on
Hitler's life.
Dittmar first crossed the Elbe
with a white flag of truce at 1:30
p.m. Wednesday with a major
and two enlisted men, who rowed
his boat. He tried to arrange for
the evacuation of civilians and
wounded soldiers in the path of
the Russian advance, and when
he was refused he returned to the
river bank.
Two and a half hours later, Dit
tmar returned to surrender, ac
companied by his 16-year-old son,
Bernhardt.