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THE ARMIES MEET '
News yesterday that the juncture between the Russian and
the American armies had been effected was not so much news
after all. So many had guessed that the juncture was already
an accomplished fact, so many experts (including the sell
accredited ones) had pointed out that the invaders from the
east and the invaders from the west could get together almost
any time, practically to suit their own convenience, that the
announcement failed to astonish. ,
First of all it failed to astonish because it is merely what
people have been expecting ever since the crossing of the
Rhine Progress of our forces has been so rapid that the
Mth thp Russians has been generally looked on as
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just anotner step, mmuugu.u ,in,oJTO..
B.1 a?... fi,.,n tViiu hnwevnr. the sharD newness of the an
nouncement was blunted by intimations carried m dispatches
and radio broadcasts for days, all emphasizing not only the
imminence of the juncture but suggesting the possibility that
it could already have been effected. .
The reason for such anticipatory news treatment is not
far to seek. In a succession of extremely important world
news stories which, by inter-allied arrangement, were to be
released simultaneously Dy tne press services ot uu"'-
involved, Reuter's, the British news agency, "beat the gun,
while American services scrupulously waited for the release
signal It cannot be doubted that correspondents feared that
something of the kind could occur again; the agreement for
release was no more definite, in fact could not be more defi
nite, than on previous occasions. . - - . .
American correspondents, although adhering strictly to
the rules laid down, prepared for this. As a result, when
the official news was made known, it was already assumed and
occasioned hardly a flurry. ,
Perhaps it is as well that the news should have been so
de-emphasized; better, certainly than that it should have been
over-emphasized. As it has been presented and as it has been
received, it will lead to more general understanding of Presi
dent Truman's pointed message of warning and encourage-
mel'This is not the hour of final victory in Europe, but the
hour draws near, for which all the American people, all the
British peoples and all the Soviet people have toiled and
prayed so long."
When troops engaged in actual combat desert to seek the
enemy lines and surrender, it is evidence of a serious deteri
oration in morale. Reports tell us that this sort of thing has
been going on rather extensively in Europe, but yesterday's
news that Japanese troops on Okinawa are doing the same
thing is far more interesting.
The Japs, we had been told, were not supposed to sur
render, much less to seek the opportunity to surrender. It
wals against all tradition. They were supposed to welcome
death in battle. But now it seems they prefer to live. Even
among the picked soldiers defending Okinawa there are those
who prefer to live. He-w shocking this will be to their emperor,
Bend' Yesterday
FIFTEEN YEAUS AGO
(April 28, 1930)
U'rura 'the Bulletin Film)
Temperatures fall as Bend resi
dents view the eclipse of the sun
through a haze.
E. L. Clark, supervisor of the
fourth census district ot Oregon,
withdraws his candidacy for state
legislature from the 21st district.
Sheriff Dussalt of Jefferson
county, and Sheriff Ayrcs of
Crook county, report the seizure
of a lame steam distillerY on
Willow creek, 24 miles from Mad- i
ras, and a large quantity of moon
shine. New chairs arc In Drake park
' grandstand for the use of the
band, which will practice tonight.
TIVKNTY-I'IVK YKAliS A(iO
(April 284 11)20)
President D. G. McPherson ot
the Bend Commercial club, at a
meeting of the organization in the
Pilot Butte inn, reports that the
club is short of funds and unable
to function properly, and a com
mittee Is named to attempt a solu
tion of the problem.
Df. J- II- Rosenberg of Pline
ville, announces that he will seek
the position of president of the
Oregon State Elks association.
Grade school declamatory win
ners are announced as follows:
Myrtle Olson, first division; Hub
ert Foley, second, and Mary Ben
nett, third. Mrs. J. Alton Thomp
son, Mrs. II. J. Overtinf, and
Mrs. Helen Damon acted as
judges.
THIRTY YKAKS AGO
(April 28, 11115)
Dr. U. C. Cop and Dr. B. Kei rell
announce that they will soon open
a hospital In the Guerin house on
the bluff above the river.
Mrs. H. O. Ellis receives n
sprained ankle and rib Injuries
when she slips in the family
clothes closet.
The following Bend Masons no
to Prineville to attend a meeting
of the lod(,'C there: Gem-go S.
Young, J. C Rhodes. C. M. Mc
Kay, H. E. Allen, E. M. Thump
son. J. H. Corbet i, F. O, Mill1)!' and
R. V. l'ointlexter.
THIRTY-FIVE VICARS AGO 1
(April 28, 101111
Flro deslmvs completely the
lumber mill of the Pilot Butte De
velopment company.
Bend decides to get a water
wagon and have no more dust.
Nick Smith's new store building
on Wail sired is completed.
Ona Year .
Six Moniha
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Official Learns
Greshum, Ore., April 28 tr
Post master Ivan SwUt has been
In a dither all week putting into
effect the new door-to-door mail
delivery service requiring all
stores and houses to have street
numbers.
The only thing he forgot was to
put up a number on the poslol
flee. Buy National War Bonds Now'
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To The
BATTLE
of the
CENTURY
TUESDAY NIGHT
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THE
VI
When we took over the Amer
ican House, we had only one
regular boarder. This was Mr.
Martin Tapley, who owned the dry
goods store. Mr. Tapley was a
bachelor, middle-aged and grow
ing bald. He dressed very untidily.
His teeth were stained, and his
skin was sallow. ("That's what
mimes from his smoking so. many
ciearets," people said, nodding
wisely.) But smoking wasnt the
worst of it. . . . '
He had a good business people
were careful to point out tnat he
had inherited it but ho took it
liehtlv. seeming not to care
whether his books showed a profit
or loss. He seldom appeared in
his dry goods store until noon,
leaving everything to his two of
ficious clerks.
you could always count on Mr.
Tapley to be contrary. He called
himself a Socialist and kept a
picture of Eugene Debs in his
office. Whenever the Censoring
Committee of the library banned
a book one by Henrik Ibsen or
George Bernard Shaw or Upton
Sinclair or Robert Ingorsoll, for
Instance ho sent away and
bought a copy and then carried
it around openly under his arm.
Naturally, there was a lot of
talk about him. People didn't ap
prove of his never going to
church. They didn't like the idea
of his selling his house it had
been in the family for three gen
erations and moving into a ho
tel. There was talk, too, about
the way his family lot was kept.
There wasn't even a marker on
his mother's grave.
Mr. Tapley's mother had been
a very important person in the
village. No project was ever be
gun without her approval or com
pleted without her zest. She was
superintendent of the Sunday
School, president of the Thursday
Circle, and founder ol our branch
of the W. C. T. U.
"What a blessing it is that she
Isn't alive to see the way her
son has turned out," her friends
said, sighing.
Mr. Tapley's drinking had be
come almost a legend. Whisky
was like water to him. What he
drank regularly In a prohibition
state would have kept anyone
else unconscious, so the story ran.
Yet he boasted that no one had
ever seen him drunk. Even tipsy.
a
My mother was one of the few
women in the village who had a
good word to say for him. "I be
lieve If that' girl had stood by
him '. . ." she said one day long
before we moved.
"What girl, Mama?" we de
manded. It seemed Impossible.
She was never one to gossip.
"There is no paint in digging up
the past," she said firmly. "It
was just that he had a girl who
didn't dare stand up against his
mother. She married someone
else." ,
By this time we were all ears.
"Who was she. Mama?"
"Was she someone Irom around I
here?"
"Now, ; now," she said. "I'm
sorry that I ever brought it up.
You just go and play some game."
But it was too late. !
"Just tell us if she was someone
from around here, Mama?"
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"Just tell us If H was someone
we know."
My father couldn't stand teas
ing. "Tell them," he said. "Now
that you have gone this far,'!
"Well," She went on reluctantly.
"But see that you don't repeat It
to anyone." -
We promised.
"It was Eunice Sawyer. She
was Eunice Hinckley then." '
"Eunice Sawyer," we gasped.
Eunice Sawyer was a plump,
hearty farm woman with a hus
band half her size and three ro
bust boys. They lived five miles
out of the village. It was hard
enough to believe any middle
aged people we knew could have
ever felt romantic love. But Mr.
Tapley and Eunice Sawyer . .
"Oh, Mama," Sue said.
"ijhe was a real pretty girl,"
my mother Insisted, "and I guess
she makes a good wife, too."
One Saturday evening late in
May Julia and I were sitting on
the steps of the American House
watching the farmers come In to
trade. In one of the buggies that
passed we recognized Luther Saw
yer and Eunice, weighing down
her end ol the seat.
We looked at each other, re
membering. Then we looked back
at her. She was still pretty in a
heavy, faded way. Too pretty, at
least wp decided, for thi little
I pinched man who tied the horse
on the railing oi tne general store
and without a word headed to.
ward the barber shop.
We watched her get out, pat
the horse, pick up her- basket,
and start off.
"Do you suppose she will go to
his store?" asked Julia.
I had just been wondering that.
We didn't take our eyes off her
as she passed from one store to
another. First the meat market,
then the hardware, then the cob
bler's across the street again to
read the notices on the Post Of
fice. Then toward the long line of
gray buildings where the dry
goods store was. Would, she go in?
She didn't go in. She didn't even
look in. Head up, eyes straight
ahead, she went on to the bakery.
We watched the next Saturday,
the next, and the next. She had
gone into, every store but his.
Had they met face to face since
their quarrel? We wondered.
What would happen If they did?
(To Be Continued),
COALS TO. NEWCASTLE
Hyannis, Mass. iipi Food pro
duced on Cape Cod soon may be
sold in English markets. An Eng
lishman tasted some lend-lease
marmalade In France and has re
quested that it be placed on- sale
in England.
" .JUST IN CASE
Lincoln, Neb. UH "It is unlaw
ful," according to an austere re
minder by the state safety patrol,
"for anybody to drive a motor ve
hicle on our streets and highways,
when they are embracing or have
another person on their lap." ';
mf irttxWA MUM
Two Chinese
Orphans
This little boy In the oversiie
coat has a friend his not-much-bigger
sister. Left desti
tute he and she need other
friends. friends with spare
clothing. Contribute yours to
the collection now!
Sunday Pickup
Starts 2 P. M.
Leave on Front Porch
BRADETICH
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FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
WlTMYOU QUAINT DAINTIES
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Sergeant Perry
Wins Silver Star
With the 25th Infantry (Tropic
Lightning) Division on Luzon in
the Philippines Staff Sergeant
Marvin R. Perry, 1425 Cumber
land, Bend, Ore., has been award
ed the stiver star for gallantry In
action against the Japanese with
the 25th Infantry (Tropic Light
ning) division on Luzon in the
Philippines.
A squad leader in an Infantry
platoon, Sergeant Perry, prior to
his unit's attack on an enemy held
town, led reconnaissance patrols
deep, in the heart of enemy terri
tory, where he acquired valuable
information about the enemy.
This information enabled friend
ly artillery to soften up several
heavy enemy concentrations prior
to his unit's scheduled attack.
Later Sergeant Perry led an
other patrol In search of an ene
my field piece that had been
shelling his unit's positions. The
patrol located the enemy artillery
piece and by the sergeant's skill
ful deployment of his rifle grena
diers and anti-tank grenade
launchers, was able to destroy the
field piece.
Sergeant Perry and his dough
boy buddies are now meeting a
bitterly resisting enemy in the
rugged Caraballo mountains' of
northern Luzon.
Two Bend Boys
Called to Duty
Harold F. Childers, son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. W. Childers, 780 Tren
ton, Bend and Roy Lee Edwards,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy E. Ed
wards, 1145 - Cumberland, Bend,
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1945
were called to active duty for
transfer to a naval training center
on Friday, April 27.
Both toys applied for navy en
listment through the Central Ore
gon navy recruiting sub-station
f j in Portland, Ed-
wards being sworn in on Febru
ary 23 and Childers on March d
They will receive approximately
three months indoctrination train
ing before being assigneo iui u"-
Temporary Salary
Raise s Granted
Salem, Ore., April 28 W -Voters
of the Sajem school dis
trict yesterday voted nearly four
to one in favor of an Increase in
teacher's salaries here.
The temporary raise, amounting
tn tinft vearlv for teachers and
administrators and $120 for other
school employes, will come irum
Salem's share of. the additional
sannonno voted schools by the
state legislature at the last ses
sion. The monev will be from in
come tax surpluses, offsetting a
special levy.
The vote was needed because
the increase was over the six per
cent limitation. The "bonus" pay
ment should be sufficient to bring
applications trom teacners wiiu
30 existing vacancies in the Salem
school district, it was estimated
by Frank B. uetinett, superintend
ent.
The vote on the proposal was
406 in, favor, 124 against.
'SOUVENIRS' SCARE COPS
Springfield, Mass. A small
boy walked into pouce neaaquar
ters with two souvenirs which he
had found and asked if he could
keep them. Horrified officials
grabbed the souvenirs for they
were two live Japanese-made
hand grenades.
FIRST DAY
When the San Francisco Conference ends, the delegates
will have experienced their "first day of school" for the study
oi the complex problems of world peace, and for the develop
ment of a curriculum for a permanent school.
Everyone everywhere should clearly understand that this
Conference is the most important international -meeting in
history. ,
We can be thankful that our nation is represented by wise
and experienced statesmen with a sincere desire for peace,
and we are sure the other nations have the same type of rep
resentation. '
The Conference will furnish the leadership and the plan,
but peace depends upon the peoples of the United Nations
upon their will to peace, upon their sacrifice for peace, upon
their works of peace.
The difficulties are enormous, some of the problems can
not be solved immediately, and compromises will be made by
all nations in order to arrive at conclusions that will be fair
to all countries.
The Conference cannot create an enduring peace. But it
will lay the foundations for a plan for peace to be put into
effect as soon as possible, and which we and future genera
tions of the world must maintain.
Let us be sparing in our criticism and generous with our
encouragement and constructive suggestions.
And above all let us pray that the thinking people of the
world will take advantage of the opportunity afforded by the
"first day of school" and build continuously toward an en
during peace.
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