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CENTRAL OREGO NS- DAI LY NEWS PA P E R
Volume LIU
THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND. DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON. MONDAY, APRIL 30. 1945
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As Gap Closes
Corridor Now Separates
Foe's Two Fronts; Has -Width
of Fifty Miles
Paris, April 30 (in American
First and Ninth army troops
linked up with the red army at
two new points on the Elbe river
below Berlin .today, widening to
50 miles the allied corridor sepa
rating Germany's northern and
soutnern fronts.
Another and more important
fusion of the allied western and
eastern battle lines appeared im
minent in the south, where the
nazis' boasted Bavarian redoubt
was breaking up under converg
ing blows from five and possibly
six allied armies.
There the American Third and
Russian Third .Ukrainian armies
were closing up a gap of perhaps
30 miles or less between their
vanguards" in the Danube valley
northeast of Berchtesgaden.
Link With Reds
Doughboys of the American
Ninth army drove 22 miles east
ward along the northeastern bank
of the Elbe to Join up with the
Russians for the first time in
the Wittenberg area, 40 miles
southwest of the enemy capital.
At the same time, U. S.s First
army patrols stabbed up from
the southwest to meet the Soviets
in the same general area. The
First army afready was linked up
with the Soviets farther south of
Torgau and Riesa.
The Junctures gave the Amer
icans and Russians a solid cor
ridor through the heart of the
Reich along a 50-mile stretch on
the Elbe between Wittenberg in
the north and Riesa in the south.
Redoubt Flank Opened
South of that wedge, the bulk
of Germany's surviving armies
were primed for the kill after a
tremendous allied victory in
northern Italy that Gen. Mark
Clark announced had "torn to
pieces" 25 nazt divisions and end
ed all effective German resistance
there.
The victory laid the southern
flank of the Bavarian redoubt
open to invasion by the American
Fifth and British Eighth armies,
both of which were driving up
within 80-odd miles of the Bren
ner pass.
Simultaneously, the American
Seventh drove through the Alpine
passes from the north to take the
Olympic resort town of Paten
kirchen, only 20 miles northwest
of Innsbruck, northern exit of the
Brenner piss.
Other Seventh army troops bat
tled savage resistance from a
small but fanatical German rear
guard in the streets of Munich,
birthplace of the nazi party and
the fall of that city appeared im
minent. Patton on Move
Northeast of Munich, Gen.
George S. Patton's U. S. Third
army burst across the' Isar river
at three points on a 60-mile front
and streamed southward through
the rolling Alpine foothills barely
30 miles from the Inn river valley
and Adolf Hitler's birthplace at
Braunau.
Unconfirmed reports said Third
army troops already had linked
up with the red army in the Dan
ube valley 80-odd miles northeast
of Berchtesgaden.
The Seventh army driving on
the Brenner pass was about 115
miles north of allied troops ad
vancing through northern Italy.
Resistance Fades
German resistance was almost
non-existent at most points as the
two American armies plunged
into nazidom's last redoubt. To
gether the Third and Seventh
armies swept up almost 124,000
prisoners Saturday and Sunday,
eliminating a blow at the bulk of
the divisions massed in Bavaria
for the dying third reich's last
fight.
The notorious Dachau concen
tration camp seven miles north
of Munich the first and blackest
of the political death camps es
tablished in the early days of the
Hitler regime was overrun by
ne seventh army yesterday.
REDMOND MAN WOUNDED
Pfe. Harold E. Perccll. husband
f Mrs. Lenore J. Percell, box 412,
edmond. has been wounded in
action in the European war thea
ter, the office of war information
reported toijay.
More Disputes Slow Peace
Conference at Golden Gate
Invitations to Argentine, White Russia and
Ukraine Cause Dissention; New Action Taken
San Francisco, April 30 IIE Bids to the Argentine,
White Russia and the Ukraine to attend the United Nations
security conference were approved today by the executive
committee, it was understood, but dispute over the matter was
so bitter that the entire question was referred back to the
steering committee.
The steering committee was expected to take final action
on the matter at a meeting which still was under way at
noon PWT. . .
However, the steering committee immediately was con-
. -fronted by another dispute,
Target of Japs
Guam, April 30 U Avenging
Superfortresses today blasted the
Kyushu bases of Japan's suicide
planes, one of which crashed into
and badly damaged the navy hoS'
pltal ship Comfort Saturday night
Twenty -nine persons were
killed, 33 wounded seriously and
one was missing after the enemy
plane nit tne helpless and brilliantly-lighted
hospital ship south
of Okinawa, a communique an
nounced.
A dispatch from Vice Admiral
Richmond Kelley Turner's flag
ship off Okinawa said there was
no doubt the attack was deliber
ate.
Some 200 B-29's participated in
today's raids on Japan. Though
the majority concentrated on the
suicide-plane bases on Kyushu for
the fifth straight day, some
bombed the Tachlktiwrt army ar
senal, 24 miles west of Tokyo.
200 Planes Used
Despite the consistent Ameri
can raids on Kyushu, the Japanese
managed to hurl 200 planes
against the U. S. forces around
Okinawa Saturday night and Sun
day, causing some damage to
light fleet units. A total of 104 of
the Japanese planes were shot
down.
United Press war correspondent
Edward L. Thomas reported from
Admiral Turner's flagship that
the enemy plane which hit the
Comfort made several "runs" over
the white hosiptal ship in the
moonlight before going into its
suicide dive.
At the time the Comfort was
about 60 miles south of Okinawa,
steaming unescorted toward the
Marianas with several hundred
American troops seriously wound
ed in the Okinawa campaign.
Sgt. Hugh Bean
Hurt in Action
SSgt. Hugh A. Bean, son of
Mrs. Edgar Bean, 725 West 12th
street, was Injured on April 5 on
Luzon, according to a letter re
ceived today by his mother. Sgt.,
Bean reported that he is in a hos
pital in the Netherlands East
Indies, and that the worst part
of his injury is a ruptured ear
drum. Set. Bean, a graduate of the
Bend high school with the class
of 1940, is a member of the 25th
division.
Mussolini Dies Begging for His Life
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By James E. Roper
(United PreM War Correspondent)
Milan, April 30 IP The broken
body of Benito Mussolini lay un
claimed beside his slain mistress
in the Milan morgue today, dis
honored in death by the people he
led to empire and ruin.
The fallen duce dlea Daaiy in
the sight of the partisan execu
tioners who killed him and his
paramour, Clara Petacci, in their
hideout on Lake Como last Sat-jble
urday.
And the people he ruled for two
decades paid him their last tri
bute bv hanging his remains head
down from the rafters of a gaso
line station in Milan's Loreto
square.
i or nours alter ine oouy ui Hu
executed dictator was brought to ;
Milan with that of his mistress :
and 16 other slain fascist leaders, j
Mussolini lay in a tinny pile oi
dirt in the center of the square.
Then the mob tied wire about the;
ankles of II Duce and Clara Pe
tacci and suspended them upside
down from the roof of the gaso
line station.
Hysterical men and womeniof 16 of his henchmen, executed i
brought on by a Russian pro
posal that the world labor con
gress now in session at Oak-1!
land be accredited as the offi
cial labor affiliate of the new se
curity organization and be invited
to send advisory delegates to the
meeting.
The labor proposal was viewed
gingerly by the American dele
gates since the American Federa
tion of Labor is boycotting the
meeting due to participation of
soviet trade unionists. -! ,
Not Unanimous
. Action of the executive commit
tee on Argentina, White Russia
and the Ukraine was not uanl
mous, it was understood.' How
ever, issuance of invitations to
each of the countries was ap
proved by a two-thirds vote. Some
of the delegates refrained from
voting.
The Russians, it was said, con
tinued to oppose bringing Argen
tina In, again raising the Polish
question.
! Foreign Commissar V, M. Molo-
tOv was said to have advanced ! he
argument that if Poland was be
ing kept out because her govern
ment was not representative why
should Argentina be invited with
a government which he regarded
as equally unrepresentative.
The conference was working
under pressure in an effort to
speed up its work in fear that the
military collapse of Germany will
cause delegates to start a rush
back to their home ' countries in
Europe. .
Seven Firms Bid
On Canal Work
Seven bids were opened at the
Bend headquarters of the U. S.
Bureau of reclamation today, for
the construction of approximately
five miles of laterals and sub
laterals for the North Unit irriga
tion project in Jefferson county.
Presenting an estimate of $35,
698.50, the United . Construction
company of Seattle was lowest
bidder.
Other bidders were Leonard and
Slate, Portland, $41,540; Blickle
and Caton, Portland, $46,001: J.
M. Conlay, Portland, $47,795; E.
B. Bishop, Orland, Calif., $49,720;
Henry L. Hamilton, Eugene, $53,
219, and O. J. Montag and sons,
Portland, $65,315.
The laterals are to be situated
near Opal City, and south of Ju
niper butte.
closed In screaming about thj
dangling corpses.
When the mob tired of its
ghastly sport the bodies were
taken down and dumped Into an
open truck. They were carted to
the city morgue and the pair were
placed on a metal slab in the
morgue courtyard.
Someone tilted the death slab
upward so the bodies were visi-
to hundreds of persons still
mming aoout tne morgue, peer
ing over the stone and plaster
wall.
In contrast to Mussolini's dis
figured features, his mistress' face
remained youthful and beautiful
even In death. Her even, white
teeth now splotched with blood.
were visible through her parted
lips and her dark brown, curly
hair still hung in tidy ringlets.
uy me nine jviussoiinrs nody
reached tne morgue his Jacket had
been torn away, revealing his bar-
rel chest encased in a short
sleeved undershirt.
Sharing the morgue with U
Duce and Clara were the bodies I
25 German Djvisions in Italy
"Torn to Pieoes,r Says Clark
In AnnoundnlGreat Victory
. i
Foe Resistance in North Nearing Collapse;
, Venice Captured By British; Rout of Naii
Armies Continues; Oraiiani Also Captured
Rome, April 30 (UJ?) Allied victory in Italy was an
nounced today by Gen. Mark W., Clark in a triumphant
proclamation that 25 German! divisions had been "torn to
pieces" and no longer could resist effectively the U. S. Fifth
and British Eighth armies; : i
"The military power of Germany in Italy has practically
ceased," Clark said. His statement put the official seal on
clearcut evidence that nazi resistance in North Italy was
collapsing. ; ;
The allied commander in Italy issued his victory announce
12 Tons Clothing
Collected in Bend
Bend residents contributed more
than 12 tons of clothing foe over
seas war relief, in a campaign
which ended here yesterday with
a city-wide pickup.. All sections of
the city were canvassed by Boy
Scouts, Elks and members of the
Lions club, and when the day
came to a close there was a pile
of garments and footwear the
size of a double garage in the
basement of Leedy's.
Most notable aid given to the
campaign was by grade school pu
pus, wno in less tnan a week;
gathered an estimated six tons of
clothing. This fact accounted for
the failure of the Scouts and club
men to get more than one ton
yesterday as they drove around
the city, attesting to the thorough
ness with which the boys and girls
made the rounds.
In order to make room In the
salvage depot for more garments,
3'4 tons of the salvaged goods
were shipped to Portland yester
day. 1
Lions Take Rent
Clarence Bush, chairman of the
Lions sponsored drive, said today
that his workers were "taking a
much needed rest," and that they
would not undertake the sorting
and packing of clothing until to
morrow night. At that time, Bush
said, volunteer workers would be
asked. He also said that the com
mittee needs more cartons in
which to pack and ship garments.
Persons having empty cartons
were asked to take them to the
salvage depot.
Winners in the grade school
competition for an fee cream, and
cake "treat" were announced to
day by Loyde S. Blakley, Glenn
Gregg, Del Hale and Ray Dahl,
who judged the garment-raising
contest. In the Kenwood school
grade 5, section six won first
place. This room Is taught by
Miss Helen Peak. Second place in
that school was won by grade 3.
section 14, which Is taught by Miss
lony Biair.
Treats Won
In Reld school the ice cream and
cake was won by grade 4, room 5,
(continued on Page 5)
Benito .Mussolini
like them by Italian patriots after!
peoples trial." They shared
his final disgrace as thev had the
infamy of his life.
ment as nis f ilth ana Eighth
armies were stampeding
through north Italy. The Brit
ish captured Venice. Jugoslav
ian forces were reported fight
ing In the streets of Trieste to
ward which the British Eighth
army was driving only 58 miles
away. The Americans took Ales
sandria in northwest Italy and the
British took Chiaggl In the north
.east on the Adriatic sea.
- Reach Piavo Klver .
. As New Zealanders of the poly
glot Eighth reached the Plave
river, 17 miles northeast of Venice,
radio Belgrade reported Marshal
Tito's forces had entered Trieste.
In northwest Italy, American
Fifth army forces raced north
ward 40 miles from Genoa to cap
lure Alessandria,' halfway along
thcrhighway from Genoa to Turin.
That put them within 78 miles of
the French frontier, where French
forces had crossed into Italy.
The only sign of German resist
ance was. at the northern end of
Lake Garda, where the nazis were
battling to keep open the Brenner
pass, au miles to the north. A com
munique described the resistance
as fairly heavy."
' liout Continues
But elsewhere the rout of the
beaten nazi armios in north Italy
continued. One entire German di
vision the 148th infantry divi
sion surrendered to the Brazilian
troops fighting with the Fifth
army.
Negotiations continued for the
surrender of the Italian Llgurian
army of captured Marshal Rodolfo
urazianl, and estimated five divi
sions numbering perhaps 50,000
troops.
In historic, canallaeed Venice
the Eighth army joined hands
with Italian partisans and com
pleted the moppingup of the city.
Eighth army units already were
17 miles beyond Venice at points
within 70 miles of both the Yugo
slav and Austrian borders.
Nothing to Worry About,
So Nippons Don't Worry
(Ily UnlUd Prons)
Tokyo radio said today that
fires caused by American air raids
would contribute to public morale
by destroying private property.
Destruction of private property
relieves Individuals of worry over
personal eflecls the Japanese ex
plained. Mussolini died badly." said
Edouardo, leader of the lO-man
firing squad which sent the dicta
tor to 'his death.
When he was Sentenced to
death, the man who had ruined
his career through Illusions of
empire ironically cried, "Let me
save my life, and I will give you
an empire."
"No, no," were the last words
from II Duce, who had said "yes,
i yes" so many time to his axis part
ner, Adolf Hitler. He cried his
"no's" as the men of the firing
squad raised their rifles to their
shoulders.
The execution tdok place at
4:20 p.m. Saturday near the town
of Dongo, on Lake Como. Musso
lini was killed at the villa where
he had been living since their ar
rest last Friday night with Clara
Petacci, the Roam doctor's daugh
ter who wanted to be a movie
star.
Mussolini, the "Jackal" to the
ast, wa.s C2"?M as "cmpted
it r uwiiiiniiu ill a wv("i
convoy, his bulky frame cloaked
in a German military overcoat to
i escape detection.
International Harmony
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r. ' pi '
O - (TV
Secretary of State Edward Stettlnlus, his arm about the waist ot Secre
tary of Foreign Affairs Anthony Eden, chat with smiling CommlMar
Molotov during a lull In a plenary session of the San Francisco Cunterenc.
Oregon S fate
Killed in Weiser Gun Battle
Dick O'Brien, Former Bend Resident and for
A Number of Years Burns Police Chief, Hurt
Weiser, Ida., April 30 (IIP) Two men were killed and
three wounded in a gun battle Sunday in a Weiser school base
ment as law enforcement officers attempted to capture two
rortianu men allegedly caught
"Nampa, Idaho.
1 he dead were Sgt. Ted Chambers, Oregon state policeman
of Ontario, Ore., formerly of Prairie City in Grant county,
and William Ronald Duffey, 22, one of the fugitives.
The wounded were Richard N. O'Brien, Ontario state
police officer formerly of
Bend, Ore., Chief of Police
Clarence Saunders of Weiser
and the second fugitive, Ken
neth Bailey, 26.
Deputy Sheriff Al Wanter of
Washington county said he, O'Bri
en, Saunders and Chambers traced
the men to the school and were
fired upon as they entered the
basement, where the two hid In
a coal bin.
Killed Instantly
Sergeant Chambers was killed
Instantly, Officer O'Brien was shot
in the shoulder, and Chief Saun
ders in the arm. Saunders was
then captured by the bandits and
used as protection when the fugi
tives broke from the cellar.
Fierce gunplay continued as the
two ran through a nearby field,
using Saunders as guard. Rifle
fire from officers finally dropped
(continued on Page 2)
'I heard Mussolini was arrested
and taken to a villa near Dongo,"
said Edouardo, who commands all
the partisan forces south of the
Po. "None of us wanted Musso
lini to be freed or escape to Switz
erland so I sent 10 men with an
officer to Dongo.
"Mussolini was In the cottage
on the hill with Slgnorina Petac
ci. When he saw Italian officers
coming to him, he thought they
had come to free him and he em
bniced his sweetheart.
"When he understood he was
going to be tried he was shocked.
But our men gave them both a
trial and condemned them
death."
to i
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Then It was that Mussolini, who
had dealt death to so many others.
offered the empire he didn't hive
In exchange for his life. Hut
firing squad -men from the 52nd
Garibaldi brigade went ahead
with the execution, there at the
villa on the hill.
Mussolini did not wear a blind
fold. As the squad raised their
rifles, he cried "No, no." A second
later he fell from a bullet that
entered his left forehead.
(NEA T.lwAoloJ
Police Cfffic
icer
stea niir tfiiso ine Saturday in
Nazi Enslavement
Not Soviets' Aim
Moscow, April 30 (IP) The red
army has posted notices In Berlin
denying that Russia intends either
to destroy or enslave the German
people, a dispatch to the news
paper Pravda said today.
"We have not and cannot have
such Idiotic aims," the notices
were quoted as saying.
Pravda said soviet military
commandants already have taken
over administration of the occu
pied districts of Berlin.
The commandants poslcd no
tices denying "the false asser
tions of na.l propaganda that the
red army intends to destroy the
whole ticrman nation, Pravda
said.
Orders Given
"We request the population to
submit to the established regime
of order and unfailingly to exe
cute all orders of authorities,"
the notices said.
Pravda said thousands of civil
ians emerged from underground
hideouts and caves in the rubble
of the capital to read the notices.
Later, they lined up at the com
mandants' offices to Inquire how
to establish themselves.
Japs to Fight On,
Asserts Paper
Tokyo, April 30 HI1) The Tokyo
newspaper, Nippon Sancvo Kelzai.
said editorially today that Japan
will fight on regardless of chanees
In Europe "If it means 10,000,000
(M) lives."
"Fuehrer Hitler and other nnzl
leaders iipprar determined to
make their death stand in Berlin,"
the editorial said. "Such being the
case, we need not wait for the en
emy to tell us the worst. We must
make every, preparation to meet
the future."
The Domel news agency broad
cast of the editorial was heard by
the FCC.
Envoy Believed
Ready to Yield
Nazi Empire
Himmler Is Reported '
In Role of Emissary,
To Give Up Country
London, April 30 (lP A neutral
intermediary was reported en
route back to Stockholm today
with Helnrlch Himmler's reply to
ainea demands tnat Germany sur
render to Russia as well as to the
United States and Britain.
Most sources believed that it
Himmler actualy has sent a reply,
it will bo a decision to surrender ,
uermany unconditionally to all ,
three countries.
They contended that he would
not have made' the surrender offer
to the United States and Britain
alone in the first place if he had
not been convinced of the utter
hopelessness of Germany's posi
tion. "
The Evening News political cor-
respondent said Prime Minister
Churchill was understood to have
returned to London from the
country early today. The war cab
inet win consider Himmler's re
ply as soon as It is received, the
aispaicn saia.
. Rumors Heard '.
Stockholm dispatches said the
intermediary, Count Folke Bcrna
dotte, director of the Swedish Red
Cross, . met Himmler Sunday
morning somewhere 5n Denmark.
He was expected to leave Copen
hagen for Stockholm sometime
today, the dispatches said. ' -,
With Germany "tottering on the
brink of total collapse, rumors of '
developments within the shaken
country and her still occupied
neignDors came tnicK ana last
from continental sources.
All unconfirmed and many of
them conflicting, they included:
1. Adolf Hitler is mad, dying or
already dead.
2. German antl-nazl partisans
kidnaped Foreign Minister Joa
chim von Rlbbcntrop.
, 3. German sailors mutinied
at the Baltic port of Rostock and
are engaged in fierce fighting
with SS troops.
Meeting Held
4. A representative of Dr. Ernst
Kaltenbrunner, Himmler's deputy
ior uavaria ana Austria, is meet
ing with Swiss officials at Vaduz,
capital of neutral Leichtenstein.
The subject of the negotiations
was not disclosed, but may in
volve the surrender of further
portions of Germany or Austria.
5. German army and nazi lead
ers In Denmark are ready to ca
pitulate and vithdraw their
troops.
6. The Quisling government In
Norway resigned.
London newspapers predicted
the end of the European war was
only days away. The London
Dally Mall said it may end at any
hour.
Much of the situation was ex
pected to be clarified by Church
II In commons this week, nerhans
Tuesday. He met with his cabinet
as usual yesterday.
Count Bermadotte presumably
gave Himmler, gestapo chief, In
terior minister and possibly act
ing fuehrer of Germany, the
Anglo-American refusal to make
a separate peace with Germany at
their purported meeting In Den
mark Sunday.
Offered Hitler
A Stockholm dispatch to the
London Daily Express said Himm
ler's original offer, made last
Tuesday, called for the surrender
of Hitler dead or alive along
with himself and other high nazis
to the western allies.
BULLETINS
Paris, April .10 (IP) American
Seventh army forces today cap
tured Munich, birth"' re of
nazlsm, Germany's It city,
and the most formidable out
post of the nazis' "national re
doubt" in the Alps.
London, April 30 IP) The Ex
change Teh-graph recorded s
Radio Hamburg broadcast to
night which said that "at any
moment the enemy's flag may
fly over Berlin."
Washington, April SO IP
The United States today re
fused to recognize the so-called
new Austrian provisional gov.
ment set up In soviet-occupied
Vienna.