THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1945
PAGE EIGHT
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Rumors of Peace Are Heard
As Die-Hard Nazis fight to
Death in Rubble of Berlin
By Louis F. Keemle
' (United Press War Editor)
Delegates Hear President's Address
Q l fTYr " ' '11 ' ' ' - ' er,,py "'f1 prinrm
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Die-hard nam's fought desperately in Berlin and Munich
today as the allied armies there and elsewhere proceeded
methodically with the destruction 01 wnai remained 01 uer
man resistance.
Amid various rumors of
neutral emissary was reported enroute to Stockholm with
Heinrich Himmler's reaction to the demand that Germany
surrender unconditionally to
Britain and the United States.
Regardless of the surrender talk, the fanatical nazi sur
vivors battled savagely in Her--" ,
lin, where they were com- found on a nearby railway siding,
pressed into a flaming pocket' loaded with bodies, torture cham
f nicrfcf emiurn mil.w urnnnrl ! berg and other apparatus which
the Tiergarten and Unter Den I
Linden in the center of the
city. Moscow believed the bat
tle mieht end tomorrow in time
for the May day celebration.
Resistance Fades
Resistance was less stout In
Munich and was being rapjdlv
overcome by troops of the Ameri
can Seventh army. Elsewnere In
the highly -touted southern re
doubt it was almost non existent.
The Seventh and Third armies,
which had taken almost 124.000
prisoners over the weekend,
lunged at will through the Alpine
foothills.
' The Seventh army was within
27 miles of the Brenner pass, be
yond which shattered German
forces in Italy were being moppc-d
up. Rome reported that the only
sign of effective resistance was
at the northern end of Lake
Garda, where the nazis fought to
keep open an escape route to the
lirenner pass,
Gen. Mark W. Clnrk, allied com-
mander in Italy, proclaimed allied
victory there declaring, that the
German armies nave been so
smashed they have been virtually
eliminated as a military lorco.
. British Move East
" British ; Eighth army troops
which took Venice headed east
ward along the coast toward Tri
este, 58 miles away, to join with
Marshal Tito's Jugoslav forces re
ported fighting inside that port.
Negotiations continued for the
surrender of some 50,000 troops
of the Italian LIgurian army com
manded by Marshal Rodolfo Gra
zianl, who had been captured. The
Germans were surrendering in
great numbers, and one entire
Infantry division gave up to the
Brazilians fighting with the Fifth
army.
The situation In the redoubt on
the other side of the Alps was
somewhat similar.' The Third ar
my crossed the Isar river at three
points on a GO - mile front and
streamed southward through the
foothills barely 30 miles from the
Inn river valley and Hitler's
birthplace at Braunau.
Big Camp Selzi- l
In storming Munich, the Sev
enth army took over the Infamous
Dachau concentration camp seven
miles to the north, killed or cap
tured 300 nazi SS guards, and lib
erated 32,000 political and relig
ious prisoners. Fifty boxcars were
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I END-OREGON
the dea'h of Adolf Hitler,
Kussia as well as to Great
the nazis were preparing to re
move.
In northern Germany, British
and Canadian forces were smash'
ing ahead in a drive aimed at the
big ports of Emden, Wilhelm
shaven, Bremmerhaven and Lue-
beck.
SHIP COMMISSIONED
Philadelphia, April 30 (U'iThe
13,000-ton cruiser Bremerton, first
warship to bear the name, of the
Washington city, was commission
ed yesterday at the Philadelphia
navy yards.
A giant new centrifuge installed
at the University of California for
use in poliomyelitis research de
velops a force approximately
150,000 times that of gravity.
M.DNIAM INHIIRANTK POM-1
kawi or KuinuuHun, in Hconana. om
the 3 lit day of December, 11144, mailt,
to tht Insurance Commissioner ot Uie State
ot OrtKOo, pursuant to law:
INCOMU
Net premium received ..2,:i63,721.61
Total Intereat, dividend and
real estate Income - 134.543.tfl
Income from other sources. 76,352.11 1
Total Income - 12,574,816.88
DISBURSEMENTS
Net amount paid pollcyhold-
. ere for losses ..$1,162,098.07
Loan adjuatment expenses. 44,791.21
Axenta' commissions or tiro
lierane , 728.020.07:
Solon c and fees officer.
director, home office cm 1
m Ploy - ,-- 128.191,33
Tax fa, license and fee.... 77,072.03
Dividend paid to itockhold
era , Nona
Dividend paid or credited to
rlicyholders ...... None
other expenditure ... 265,770.201
Total disbursement
, , , ADMITTED
Vatus of real estate o
.406,853.17
360,356.94
Loan on mortgages" alia'coT
Nona
Value of bondaowneii-7mrm
, ortlied) . . 2,886,272.00
Value of stock owned (mar
ket value) 1.034.371.00
Cash In bank and on hand. 528,990.83
Premiums In course of colleo
tlon written since ticptem-
tember 30. 1944 318,976.89
Interrst and rent due and
accrued 19.478.30
Other assets (ntt) 84,486.24
Total admitted assets $5,041, 937.96
UAB1UTIK8. BURPLU8 AND
OTHbTR FUNDS
Total unpaid claim S 705,071.39
adluslmVnt
expanse ror unpaid claim 37,000.00
lYtmrii tnr iinnalA nUlna
Total unearned Dreinhim nn
all unexpired rliki 3,262,354.14
Salaries, rent, expenses, bills,
accounts, fees, etc., due or
accrued 3.000.OO
Estimated amount du or ae
crucd for taxes S4.000.00
Commission. broktraj?e, or
other charges du and ao
All other llablllti Z 312:293.17
Total liabilities, except
Capital pal3"up'
$3,27318.70
w, a. uupus-
a it S 500,000.00
Surplus over all
liabilities 1.308.219.28
Surplus u ressnU policy.
holder . 1,708.210. 2A
Total ... S3 041 037 OA
Net premiums received Jiri.9ll.li
Net, losses paid 22.313.95
Dividends paid or credited to
policyholder None
NTu,nJ,o?k,i?.:AN(vA.LEDONUN IM-
N".Wn5.'ol"llr"",n Botrd: HENRY
UAKJ rJ$.
PY0' B' Mn,g,r! T- WEB.
fltalutorr R.alil.nt Altnpn.v tnr vtM.
1NUURANCK COMUlaalONKK. Utl,mi
SYNOPSIS Oh' ANNUAL, STATKMKNT
Ob' TIIK
IIAHTFOIII) A(T1IIRNT AND
INIIKMMTV COMPANY
of Hnrtfonl. In Oie .tat. of Connecticut, on
tin, 31t tiny of December, 1944. made to
the Inaurnnc. comniLMloner of tile Ntate of
ureKiin, pursuant to law:
lnrom.
Net premium receive,! $ ul.134,061.00
louti uuerni, uivitienil. and
real date Incomo 2.aR7.818.R3
Income from other auurcea . . 12o,0(i7.76
Total income $ 63,617.033.19
liunurecm.nta
Net amount naitl oolicyhoM-
era for f 20.047. 178. 17
i.oit. nojuMiment oxpenaca
AKcnta' roinmiafllnna or
hrokerawe
Salaries and fee officer,.
illrectors, home office cm.
ployea
Taxes, license and fees ....
Dividends paid to storkhi'UU
ers leash. ll..17r.ii)n . h,.h.l
3,803,076.42
d.227,016.81
1.336,182.00
7.I42,4!5.00
1.37R. 000.00
inner exnennuurcs 6,160.114. H4
Total disbursement 49.483,311.84
aflaiiirt Asset.
alue of real estate owned
(market val'iel $
Ians un mortuaKes
Value of Itemls ownml
152.608 46
17.3C0.(IO
e.938.IO!I.OO
18,620.082.00
i market valuol
Value of stocks owned tmnr-
ket vbUicI
Cash In hanks and on hand.
Premiums in course of collec
10.024.630.63
tion written sine. Scptem-
her 80. 11,44 .704.6OS.!8
Interest and rents due ami
accrued 325.221.07
Other asscu (net) 1.624,184.87
Total admitted assets .... 1110.702.7110.31
Trial uticald clHitiu.
.,s.,i,e, nurpius anif other Fun,.
I 42,irj3,o(,,i.r,o
h.sllma'wi hws adjustment
exoense for unoafd claims.
Total unearned iircmiums on
. nil unexpired risks
Salaries. rents. cxttenscs,
hills, ai'couitts. fest. etc .
due or accrued
F-stimsted amount due or ac.'
crued for taxes
Cummlss.-n". hr.kerave. or
other rharKC due and accrue-'
. .
All other llshilities ' (coii
ttmrency rwcrvei
Voluiltsry tcsrrve
6tKl.2M.00
20.7Ttt.847.17
723.00!). 00
rUY.ii.ono.fifl
1S.tKM.lttHS.2S
1VLI Hkl.ilitit,
'v.itfii I..., nV;
Surplu mor nil jhilit:
-I 8.702,7f;o n
.$ r..oim.onrt.(in
. "A. ooo.oon. no
Suriilirt
.1 .10.000.000.00
. . . U! 702 "iso.ai
for ihr -r
HA 0()U 111
Htiiinii In Orftnn
u.vtcfri.u
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H.trvH(..).-ri ...
If ARTFonn ArriDFNT AND
1VOHMN1TY TO.
P"l. HUTHKHPOHO. Vtf.
JOHN U BARTER. 8r.
n(iuiry mMnt Btiorrirv tnr mtvW
lftjiifti.ee rommUiioncr of Orison.
General view of interior of San
attention to president Harry s.
Iwo J i ma Hard
Foxholes, Says
The setting on Iwo Jima, the
Hell island'' where the United
States marines held the bloodiest
engagempnt of their history, is
vividly described in a letter sent
to Mrs. Leo Bishop, 213 Vine lane,
by Willard E. Nelson, pharmacists'
mate 1c. Nelson, son of Mrs.
Ernest Nelson, Is a former guard
and forest lookout in the Des
chutes national forest. lie wrote
in part:
"Iwo Jima was quite an island,
or I should say, cinder pile be
cause that very effectively de
scribes it. Alt. Suribachi was the
highest point on the Island (538
feet) and it is just a cinder, vol
canic cone not an awful lot un
like Lava butte--even had a crater
in it. Mt. Suribachi was located on
the narrow end of the island, so
the rest of the land fanned out
from its base and was kind of
pear-shaped. It was only a couple
of hundred feet above sea level.
There were several sulphur pits
on the place and live steam came
out of about all of them. They
drew water from one for showers.
and it was so hot it would scald
you.
There wasn t much vegetation
on the island and what there was
had a sickly green color to it. I
did see a few little birds on the
vegetation, but that was alll. The
Japs didn't even have any live
stock there except chickens.
On yes, there was (so I am
told) live steam issuing out of
the bottom of the crater in Suri
bachi. I hope that's the closest to
the 'hot spot' I ever get!
We had a lot of work to do on
Two.-The whole company got hot
ana set up a complete 80-bed hos
pital in eight hours, complete with
X-ray, laboratory, pharmacy, den
tal, wards and surgery. I worked
sTks -J WM H I
l1
Francisco Opera House as Security Conference delegates give rapt I
Truman s opening address irom
Place to Dig
Bend Youth
In surgery again and this time we
really worked. Day and night. It,
in my opinion, was much rougher
than Salpan. It wasn't as bad as
Saipan in a few respects though,
as there were very few flies. No
mosquitoes and very few land
crabs.
"The first ' night ashore we
caught a little shrapnel. The Japs
were trying to hit the CP. area so
we were liberally sprinkled with
mortar snrannei. it's a runnv feel
ing to lay in a fox hole and hear
that stuff sing over head and thud
into the ground nearby. Not' a
funny feeling, either, but quite a
bad feeling because you would
never know until it hit if the piece
was coming into your foxhole or
not.
"These fox holes are quite a
problem for us, too. There was no
sand or dirt to mix with these vol
canic cinders and hold them up.
As fast as you'd throw out a
shovelful of the stuff another
shovelful would come cascading
down the side into your foxhole.
We finally drove barrel heads In
the cinders and sand-bagged our
fox holes."
C.A.P. Members
Finish First Aid
Twenty local C.A.P. members
under the instruction of John Mo
gan recently completed the stand
ard first aid course ' and were
awarded certificates by the Bend
Red Cross chapter. Classes were
held in the Civil air patrol office
upstairs in. the Bank of Bend
building.
Those receiving certificates
were Fred Barnett, Clarence'
Bells, Don Brown, David Coyner,
t-niiunrs, joueiia Cook,
E XT R A-M I L E AG E
DSECAIPIPDRKG
BEND GARAGE CO.
South of Poitoffice
Washington, D. C. (NEA Telephoto)
Nels Hanson, Laurence Dyer.
Don Hinshaw, Robert L. Jack
son, Harvey Jacobson, Irene Mor
tiner, Wilfred Officer, Dorothy
Salisbury, Tom Sandwick, Fayet
Scoggln, Delia Swagert and Marie
Waters. .,
Polio Regional
Director Coming
Eugene Hall, regional director
of the National foundation for in
fantile paralysis, will be in. Bend
Wednesday, May 2, to confer with
members of the local chaDter. and
will address a luncheon meeting
at 12 o'clock in the Trallway cof
fee shop, according to announce
ment by Mrs. J. F. Arnold, Des
chutes county polio chairman.
Hall has just returned from a
national conference In New York
City, where he conferred with na
tional chairman Basil O'Connor
and other committee members.
He Is expected to have a report
which will be of great interest to
local workers, Mrs. Arnold said.
All members of the local chapter
are urged to attend the luncheon,
Mrs. Arnold stressed.
College President
Kiwanis Speaker
' Discussing the "wartime prob
lems of an educator," Dr. Morgan
O'Dell, president of the Lewis and
Clark university in Portland, to
day addressed mem'oers of the Kl
winas club at their noon-day meet
ing In the Pine Tavern.
Introduced by Jack Burpee, pro
gram chairman, Dr. O'Dell said
that colleges and universities will
have to greatly exnand to accom
modate! an expected Increase of
attendance after the war. He pre
dicted that thousands of the re
turning -.fighters will enter col
leges or resume their studies
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where they left off upon enlist
ment. Martin Skarr of .Redmond, was
a guest.
FOUR GENERALS CAPTURED
Rome, April 30 IIP The Amer
ican First armored division has
captured four more German gen
erals in northern Italy, including
Major-Gen. Von Behr, commander
of the 90th panzer grenadier di-
Synopsis of Annual Statement of the
General Insurance Company of America of
Seattle, In the htate or WnamnRton. on
the thtrty-lirst day - of December. 19-M.
made to the Insurance Commissioner of
the Mate or Oregon, pursuant to law :
INCOME
Net premiums received. S15.087.504.47.
Total interest, dividends and real estate
Income. 31.H43.7n6.6lf.
Income from other sources, $279,048.P0
Total income. $16,710,320.0.
blSBURSEMENTS
Net amount paid policyholders for losses
S6.I0I.2S4.31.
Loss adjustment expenses, S371.403.81.
Airents commissions or brokerage. S4.
586.746.61. Salaries and fees officers, directors,
home office employes. SI. 141, 642.71
Taxes, licenses and fees, 8416.344.83.
Dividends paid to stockholders (Cash,
tlllill.OOO.OO. stock. SOI, 83AO.OOO.OO '
lMvtd.en.ls paid or credited to policy-
hoMerfl. tKt0.0r2.92.
AH other cxiwmli turrit, $71G.710.!)6,
Total dinbumi'monU, J t4.;iIU, in.s.t;-,.
ADMITTED ASSETS
Value of rfftl estate owned (market
vnluet, $174,096.57.
Ixmns on mortK&Ret. nmt collateral, etc.,
$in.:tm.!io.
VhHi of bonds owned (amortized),
$H.3:.7,597.011.
Value of storks owned (market value)
Stn.9fiD.284.0a.
Cah in banks and on han1, ft. 880,323 44.
Premium in course of collection written
since September 30, 1944. $1,479,853.38.
Interest and rents due and accrued, $70,-
Other assets (net), $606,548.84.
9K7.06.
Total arfm it ted asueta. $29.52 1 .992.28.
Strike out "market" or "amortised.
LIABILITIES. SURPLUS AND
OTHKR FItNI-S
Total unpaid claims, $2.3$t.529.00.
hfltimateti Ioah ailjurttment expeniie ror
unpaid claimn, $1211.600.00,
To'al unearned u rem i urns on all unex-
plretl risk. $14,287,:tt.!.i(9.
Salaries. rents, exensen, bills, accounts,
fees, etc.. due or accrued. $2P.tP2.62.
hxtimated amount due or accrued for
Uxtt. f:iD5.9(U.48. I
ComminAion, brokernvre. or other charires
due and accrunl. $H4fi,l)00.00 i
All other liabilitieH, $1,059,197.84. I
Total llabilitie. except capital, 118.434,-1
704. as. i
Capital paid up, $1,000,000.00.
Surplus over all liabilities. $10.087.287. Vi, !
Surplus as reRards policyholders, $!!, j
Tt.Ul. t29.A21.998 28.
BUSINESS IN OREGON FOR THE
YKAR
Net premium received. $794,968.11.
Net Ii-mm paid. $S14.il.fi0.
Dividend paid or credited to policyhold
er. $8.;i46.92. .
Name of Company, General Insurance
Company of America.
Name of President. H. K. Dent.
Name of Secretary, L. B Crowe.
Matutnry resident attorney for eric.
E. K. Ohpenheimer, Portland, Oregon.
ELMER LEHNHERR, Central Oregon Representative
217 Oregon Ave. Bend, Oregon Phone 525
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vision, and his entire staff, It was
announced today.
BRITISH NEAR RANGOON
Calcutta, April 30 (IPi Armored
columns of the British 14th army
nave reached within 36 miles or
Rangoon, capital of Burma.
Formerly almost all the cigaret
paper for U. S. smokes was im-
ported from France; now it is
made in America.
Synonsift of Annual Statement of the
Firnt National Insurance C(mpany of
America of Seattle, in the State of Wash
ington, on the thirty-first day of December.
1!M4, made to the Insurance Commissioner
or tne state or urepon. pursuant to law:
INCOME
Net nremlums received. i1.2Rfl.027.12.
Total interest, dividends and real esUte
income, itu.n6.S6.
Income from other sources, $1,301.00,,
Total income. $I.S41.434.48
DISBURSEMENTS
Net amount paid policyholders for tosses,
$492,650.76.
Isosa adjustment expenses, $30,250.53.
A iron U commissions or brokerage, $228,
408..H6. Salaries and fees officers directors,
home office employes, $132,978.88.
Taxes, licensea and fees. $60,314.89.
Dividends paid to stockholders (Cash,
none, stocks, none).
Dividends paid or credited to policyhold
ers. $16,118.95.
AU other expenditures. $77,083.85.
Total disbursements. $1,036,706.21,
ADMITTED ASSETS
Value of real etttate owned (market
vaiuei, none.
Ixnns on morttrattes and collateral, etc..
None.
'Value of bonds owned (amortized) $2,-
S22.680.36.
Value of stocks owned (market value)
$221,750.00.
Cash in banks and on hand, $242,647.27.
Premiums in course of collection written
since September 80, 1944, $248,691.71.
Interest and rents due and accrued, $9,
943.14.
Other assets (net), $16.67.
Total admitted assets. $3.04(1,728.16.
Strike out "market" or "amortised".
LIABILITIES. SURPLUS AND
OTHER FUNDS
Total unpaid claims. $108,848.00.
Estimated Ions adjustment expense for
unaid claims. $7,600.00.
Total unearned uremiuma on all un.
expired risks, $1,324,366.86.
'nrie. rent, expenses. Mils, accounts,
fees, etc.. due or accrued, $9,128.17.
Kitimnted amount due or accrued for
taxe. $48,459.24.
Commissions, brokeratre. or other ihrirM
due and accrued. $30,000.00.
Reserve for dividends to uolicvholders.
$?..-.... 61.
Reserve adjustment due to rate of .
chana-e on Canadian, $3,600.00.
Total liabilities, except capital, $1,558,-
196.87.
Capital paid up, $1,000,000.00.
Surplus over all liabilities. $487,531.39.
Surplus as regards policyholders, $1,487,
531.28. Total, $3,045,728.16
BUSINESS IN OREGON FOR
THE YEAR
Net premiums received. $100,146.78.
Net )uues paid. $24,064.62.
Dividends Da id or credited to no1tcvhnli)er
j None.
rtame oi company, r irsi national in
surance Company of America.
Namr of President, H. K. Dent. I
Name of Secretary, L. K Crowe,
Statutory resident attorney fur service, i
E. K, Oppcnhcimcr, Portland, Oregon. I
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STRICTLY POSTWAR STUFF
Cincinnati (lit -This is a post
war project.' The Kielson Cigar
C6. held a meeting recently to
teach Its salesmen how to sell
cigarets and other tobacco prod
ucts. '
It Is beine recommended that
i roofs of barns be Dainted a lieht
rcolor for the summer months, to
I make it cooler for the livestock
occupants.
Synopsis of Annual .Statement of the
General Casualty Company of America of
Seattle, in the State of WimhinKton. on
the thirty-first day of December. 1944,
made to the Insurance Commissioner of the
State of Oregon, pursuant to law: f
CAPITAL
Amount of capital stock paid up, $1,200,
000.00. INCOME
Net premium! received during the year,
$6,825,666.12.
Interest, dividends and rent received
during the year, $276,460.43.
Income from other sources received dur
ing the year, $49,302.86
Total income. $7,150,319.41.
DISBURSEMENTS
Net losses paid during the year including
adjustments expenses, $2,654,612.70.
Commissions and salaries paid during
the year, $1,848,761.74.
Taxes, licenses and fees paid during the
year. $876,764.30.
Dividends paid on capital stock during
the year. $664,000.00.
Dividend paid to policyholders during
the year. $16,324 27.
Amount of all other expenditures, $154,
908.65. Total expenditures, $6,696,261.66.
ADMITTED ASSETS .
Value of real estate owned (market
value), none.
Loans on mortgages and collateral, tr.,
None.
Value of bonds owned (amortized), $".
190.256.51.
Value of stocks owned (market value)
$2,066,211.00.
Cash in hanks and on hand. $640,881 18.
Premiums in course of collection written
since September 30. 1944. $960,628.03
Interest and rents due and accrued, $34.
458.24. Other assets (net). $217,436.24.
Total admitted assets, $11,099,870.20.
. LIABILITIES
Grosa claims for losses unpftid, $4,002.
742.70. Amount of unearned premiums on
outstanding risks, $3,464,016.44.
Due lor commission and brokerage, $1"0.
000 00.
AU other liabilities. $349.$06.69.
Total liabilities, except capital, $8,006.
264.73. Capital paid up. $1,200,000.00.
Surplus over all liabilities, $1,893.605.4..
Surplus as regards policyholders, J-1.
093.605.47.
Total. $11,099,870.20.
BUSINESS TN OREGON FOR
THE YEAR
Net premiums received during the Vr
$919,022.07.
Net losses paid during the year. 12:5,
253.78.
Name of Company, . General Casualty
Company of America.
Name of President, H. K. Dent
Name of Secretary, L. E. Crowe
Statutory resident attorney for servicf,
K. K. Oppenheimer, Portland, Oregon.
Strike out "market' or "amortited"'