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THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY; MAY 1, 1945
Tankmen Drive
East in Austria
To Meet Reds
German Redoubt May
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Compliments Seventh '
Paris, May 1 ip The American
Third army thrust across the Aus
trian border at a new point north
of the Danube today in a powerful
drive to link up with Russians
and cut the southern redoubt in
two.
Third army tanks cracked Into
Austria near Ober 'Kappel, 14
miles east of the border fortress
of Passau, 27 miles northwest of
Linz and 83 miles from red army
forces west of Vienna.
To the north, the British Sec
ond army broke out of its Elbe
river bridgehead and stormed
within 22 miles of the Baltic port
of Luebeck in a new push de
signee: to spilt the northern re
doubt and seal off Denmark.
Hamburg Flanked
The British were flanking Ham.
burg on the east and either had
or were about to cut the Ham
burg-Berlin superhighway, main
German east-west- communica
tions link In the northern re
doubt. Marshal Sir Bernard I Mont
gomery's attack coincided with
European reports that the Ger
mans were about to quit Den
mark. I
A London Evening Standard dis
patch from Stockholm said Ger
man troops already were with
drawing from Copenhagen. Other
Swedish dispatches said the Ger
mans were expected to turn back
administration of the country to
King Christian today.
Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Patch's
American Seventh army complet
ed the occupation of Munich,
cradle of nazidom and capital of
Bavaria, last night against sur
prisingly light resistance.
Army Congratulated
- Gen.Qwigjit , S)., ,. KlsenJiQww
sent a message of congratulations
to the Seventh army on the seiz
ure of what he called the "cradle
of the nazi beast." .
Gen. Jacob . L. Devers, com
mander of the Sixth army group,
hailed the conquest of Munich as
a victory that "may well affect
the final stages of the war to a
degree second only to (the cap
ture of) Berlin."
The population of. Munich was
so relieved that the war was over
for them that they greeted the
Seventh army with cheers and
garlands of flowers, United Press
War Correspondent Eleanor Pack
ard reported.
Nazi bigwigs long since had
fled. A few small fry locked them
selves in a cluster of party build
ings, but they were surrounded
and helpless.
Parlor Devastated
The famous beer cellar where
Adolf Hitler and his nazi hench
men plotted the putsch that
brought them control of Germany
and ultimately most of Europe
was in a portion of the city devas
tated by allied bombs, Mrs. Pack
ard said.
There also was no Immediate
word on the fate of the Bavarian
patriots who revolted against
their nazi overlords last weekend
and seized temporary control of
the Munich radio station.
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Count Confers
With Himmler
London, . May 1 ip Count
Koike Bernadotte, Swedish emis
sary reputed to be negotiating
with nazi leaders for Germany's
surrender, confirmed today that
he had conferred with Heinrich
Himmler 10 days ago.'
A Swedish foreign office spok
esman insisted, however, that
Bernadotte had not brought back
any new peace message from
Himmler to be transmitted to the
Allies through the Stockholm
government.
Bernadotte partly lifted the se
crecy covering his recent activi
ties during a press conference
late today in the Swedish foreign
office in Stockholm.
Details Withheld
He refused to give details of
any of his discussions with Him
mler, beyond the fact that they
had met 10 days ago in the Baltic
port of Luebeck obviously to dis
cuss the Allied demand that Ger
many surrender unconditionally
'o the United States, Britain and
Russia.
Bernadntto nnrt ho fnreten of
fice spokesman emphasized that
o new reply from Himmler naa
een transmitted to the Allies
through the Swedish government
today a statement which did not
preclude the possibility of Berna
aotte's communicating direct with
he Allied embassies in Stockholm.
Berlin Says Hifler Dead
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London, May 1 (U.P.) The German radio an
nounced tonight that Adolf Hitler had been killed at
a command post in the middle of the ruins of his once
proud capital of Berlin.
Admiral Karl Doenitz. chief of- the German navv.
takes over the leadership of the nation, the enemy
broadcast said. Apparently the Germans, beaten to
their knees by the Russians and the western allies,
plan to go on fighting for a while. Doenitz called on
the nation to continue resistance. ". . ,
. , There was a mournful dirge of music on4 the Ham
burg radio tonight and then the announcer said :
f . Announcer speaks ;.
"It is announced that our fuehrer. Adolf Hitler.
this afternoon at his command post in the reichschan
cellory, fighting till his last breath against bolshevism.
fell for Germany."
The text of the German radio report as from the
fuehrer's headquarters:
"It is announced that our fuehrer, Adolf Hitler,
this afternoon at his command post in the reichschan
cellory, fighting till his last breath against bolshevism, j
tell tor Germany. ,
"On April 30 the fuehrer appointed Admiral of the
leet Doenitz his successor. The admiral and succes
sor of the fuehrer now speaks to the German people.
timer i .aimed
"German men, women and soldiers of the wehr-
macht: ' ' .M iSittt
"Our fuehrer, Adolf Hitler has fallen.
"In the deepest sorrow and reverence the German
people bow, - . te
He recognized the terrible danger of bolshevism
at an early date, and dedicated his existence to this
struggle. .
"The end of this, his struggle, and of his unswerv
ing path of life is marked by his heroic death in the
capital of the reich."
ignt Not over
There was no immediate reaction or confirmation
from allied capitals, but Doenitz made it clear that the
Russians, Americans and British still had some fight
ing ahead of them before Germany would quit. He is
sued a proclamation saying:
"Fighting now is going on to save the German
people. We shall have also to fight on against the
Anglo-Americans." '
Doenitz described himself as head of the state and
commander-in-chief of the wehrmacht.
Data Awaited
If, as the Germans said, Hitler died fighting at a
command post in blazing Berlin, the details of his
death probably will come from the Russians. i
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Allied Forces Invade Borneo Island
Troops Strike
At Stronghold
In Night Hours
Tokyo Reports Tierce
Combat1 Raging; Naval
Units Give Assistance
Manila. May 1 (IP) An allied In
vasion of Borneo,. Japan s biggest
and richest Island conquest In thei
rauuic, was unnuunceu oy au
tralian government officials In
Canberra today. , . .
A Canberra dispatch relayed to
the United Press In Manila said
Australian Treasurer J. B. Chief
ley announced the invasion of
Borneo to the commonwealth leg
islature today.
Chief ley said Australian troops
participated in the, landing. Indi
cating that American invasion
forces also were Involved. ,
There was no immediate con
firmation at Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur's headquarters, but an
earlier Tokyo broadcast said al
lied troops were pouring ashore
on the east coast of the immense
ly rich oil and rubber-producing
island in the Dutch East Indies.
Navy Action Reported -The
Japanese broadcast said the
troops went ashore last night un
der cover of a naval bombard
ment In the Tarakan area, 175
miles southwest of American bas
es at the southern end of the Sulu t
arahlpelago. .? s 1 ,w
i ne ji araxan area one pnne
largest oil centers - in tne Jiast
Indies. Tarakan itself, however, is
a comparatively small island In
the Celebes sea several miles off
the east coast of Borneo.
Tokyo said the invasion forces
landed late at night and were en
gaged in "fierce combat" by thei
Japanese garrison. Although the)
reponea invasion sue was nor
given, it presumably was in the
wide delta area on the eastern
shore opposite Tarakan.-
A previous landing! attempt was
made at noon yesterday, the
broadcast said, but was repulsed.
Bomlied Repeatedly
Borneo, the world's third largest
island covering 392,000 square
miles, and particularly Tarakan
have been bombed repeatedly
since Gen. Douglas MacArthur's
American forces swept through
tne southern r'nuippines.
The Tawi Tawi base at the
southern end of the Sulu archi
pelago is only 30 miles frqm the
northeast corner of Borneo while
American-controlled Palawan, in
the southwestern Philippines, is
but 180 miles from the northwest
corner.
Borneo, with a population of ap
proximately 2,300,000, is . 325
miles east of the Malay peninsula.
550 miles southeast of French In-do-China
and Is flanked around
the south by Sumatra, Java and
Celebes.
Its oil. rubber and other natur
al resources were vastly exploited
by the. Japanese,
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Admiral Horhy
Found by Yanks
With U. S. Seventh Army in
Germany, May 1 ut Admiral
Nicholas Horthy, ex regent of
Hungary, has been found by
American Seventh army troops at
Weilheim in southwestern Ger
many and has been placed in
"protective custody," It was an
nounced today.
U. S. Troopers Near Naha, Okinawa Capital;
Sky Forfs Start Big Fires in Tokyo Arsenal
By Frank Trcmaine jUraway, loio., were nrlng shells. last Saturday.
(Umtd rrew war t-orresponneni, ,mo anui i irom a niu one mile
Guam. May 1 IIP American! north of the city, the dispatch
troops swept within two miles ot sain.
110,000 Prisoners
Freed From Camp
Moosburg, Germany, May 1 UP)
The 110,000 prisoners of this
great camp won a battle of will
and wits from their German captors.
By their own firm attitude and
self-discipline the prisoners con
vinced their captors they would
not be bent to their will. .
When the 47th tank battalion,
commanded by Lt. Col. James W.
Lamm, Amory, Miss., entered the
camp, Its members were amazed
by the Iron discipline and mili
tary appearance of all the pris
oners. The prisoners cheered. They
yelled. They nearly stood on their
heads. But when enlisted men
talked to officers they saluted,
and at all times they carried them
selves like soldiers.
Much of this was the work of
Col. Paul R. Goode, former West
Point instructor from Corvallis,
Ore., who was captured at Fuid
pass in North Africa. ,
Goode never let his fellow pris
oners forget they were soldiers.
The 11,000 Americans here work
ed just as if they were a division,
and their organization was even
broken down into regiments and
battalions. There were regular
inspections of the enlisted men's
barracks each Saturday.
There were 29,000 prisoners In
Mooshurg Itself, and the rest of
the 110,000 were spread In smaller
camps in the immediate neignnor-hood.
Naha, capital of Okinawa, today
and brought Its northeastern out
post of Shuri under direct tank
fire.
The two-pronged drive, support
ed by an unceasing air-land-sea
bombardment was paced by the
Confessed Slayer
Held in Seattle
Seattle, May 1 UB Joe Bill, 33-year-old
confessed slayer of five-year-old
Irma Irene McGough, to
day was transferred from the
Tokyo radio meantime renortpd ' city Jail to the county Jnii to pre-
that American Superfortresses; vent an attempt at suicide,
raided Kyushu, southernmost of Detective Cant. James Law-
Elements of the seventh division ! Japan's home islands, for the fifth rence said "he's been wanting to
also continued to push down the
eastern coast and were reported
closing in on Yonabaru airfield,
consecutive day today In an at-ido away with himself ever since
tempt to neutralize the bases from we put him in jaiL"
which the Japanese have been Prosecutor Lloyd Shorett said
five miles across the Island from j launching suicide aerial attacks on I Bill would be arraigned Friday on
tne Okinawa area. ! first degree murder charges. He
The report was not confirmed. I was arrested Saturday after a
although the 21st bomber com- week-long search. He admitted he
mand announced that the hip! raped and strangled the child
Naha.
The Japanese still were fighting
27th armv division which overran j bitterly from strong defenses clus
Machinato airfield and pushed Into ; tered around the capital. An ar-
the strong Japanese defenses on my spokesman estimated that j B-29's started huge fires yesterday ' April 22. leaving her body in a
the northern outskirts oi -ana. jmoie man i,uu jdiwnese were in tne Tachikawa army air ar-! charity salvage center warehouse.
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Victory News
To Be Released
By Churchill
London, May 1 UP) The home
office announced today that when
news of the end of hostilities in
Europe is made public. It will bo
done by Prime Minister Churchill
in a radio broadcast.
An official announcement said
that on the evening of the day the
news is broadcast, King George
will speak over the radio at 9 p.m.
Churches of all denominations
will be open for prayer, and
church bells will be rung through
out the country.
At the express wish of the king,
the Sunday after the announce
ment will be a day of thanksgiv
ing and prayer In Britain.
Bend Lieutenant
FDR Honor Guard
Lt. George Chambers, Jr., son
of Mr. and Mrs. George Chambers,
Sr., 1G55 West Second street, was
a member of the honor guard at
the funeral services in Washing
ton and at Hyde Park for Presi
dent Roosevelt, he has written his
parents. The young officer had
been called to the special duty
from Quantlco, Va., where he is
stationed with the marines. At
that time George was a staff serg
eant, but he received his lieuten
ant's rating on April 25. Lt.
Chambers was a graduate of 1940
from the Bend high school, and
had spent two years at the Oregon
State college.
Sherman tanks of the 9btn aivi- last u nours. matsu, 60 miles southeast of Na- LAVAL AT BORDER
slon. pushing down the center oi , me Japanese also were report- j goya. Zurich, May 1 (IP) Pierre Laval,
the Island shelling Shuri, second . ed to have-placed expert riflemen I It was the first Superfortress Marcel Deat and Jean Luchairc,
citv of Okinawa, three miles . in strategic spots. One regimental I raid on Hamamatsu. which waRlleadini? collaborationists riurine
northeast of Naha. oincer saio ine Japanese snarp- j picked as an alternate target when the nazi occupation of France, ar- ton, Calif
The tanks, Irom a piaioon com-1 n o a i e r s snoi nve mencans weatner closed in over Tachikawa I rived at Hoechst on the
manded by Lt. Robert B. Lyons, ' through the head with five shots I during the attack. border today.
Man Confesses '
He Killed Wife
Oregon City, May 1 Ui A life
Imprisonment sentence Is to be
Imposed tomorrow on Wilmer
Carl Brinkhoff, 29, who pleaded
guilty to the poisoning of his wife
last July.
His plea Monday of guilty to
second degree murder makes the
life Imprisonment mandatory.
His confession states that he
emptied capsules of a headache
remedy and refilled them with
strychnine. His wife, Wilma Lcn
ora, 27, died several days after
taking the powders.
Suspected at the time of his
wife's death, Brinkhoff went free
until arrested last month In Stock-
on a forgery charge.
Sgt; Detaney, 22,
Is War Victim
TSgt. Emmett C. DeLaney, 22,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Chris De
Laney, 1015 Hartford avenue,
fiend, died on April 19 of wounds
received In action In Germany, his
parents have been notified by the
war department. '
No details of the action in which
Emmett was fatuity injured were
contained in the telegram. The
young sergeant was serving with
a tank battalion, attached to the
Ninth army.
Emmett was graduated from
Rosholt, S. D., high school In 1941,
and came to Bend In April, 19-12.
Ho was employed by The Shevlln
Hlxon Company, in the box fac
tory, up until his induction Into
the army in January, 1943. Em
mett trained at Kudkur, Ala., and
at Fort Knox, Ky., and took part
in the maneuvers on the Arizona
desert in 1943.
Aside from his parents, Emmett
is survived by two sisters, Ardella
DeLaney and Violet Nentl: one
brother-in-law, Alfred Nentl, and over the Moscow radio for NBC,
World Awaits
News of Fall
Of Foe Capital
Citadel Reported Ready
For Collapse; Hitler
Believed Still in City
London, May 1 (Ui-Dylng Ber
lin tottered on the brink of defeat .
today and nazi broadcasts said
Adolf Hitler was fighting in the
midst of his soldiers defending the
capital to the end.. . .
The Moscow radio said the Rus
sians expected the -red army to
complete the conquest of Berlin
In time for a May day announce
ment. Already the soviet banner
was flying over the relchstag and
other administrative bulldlncs In
the heart of the city . . ;
A nazi broadcast recorded to
night by the Exchange Telegraph
said that at midday Hitler was
fighting among his soldiers, with
bloody struggles whirling through
the streets around him.
Hitler In Berlin
Count Folke Bernadotte, reput- .
ed intermediary between the al
lies and the nazut, said in Stock
holm, according to the Swedish,
radio, that he was sure Hitler was
In Berlin, but did not know wheth
er he was alive or dead. '
Marshal Stalin Issued a speclaL.
order of the day announcing that
Rokossovsky. had captured the
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lating the northernmost tip of
Germany. - i
. Meanwhile, both the Germans
and Russians hinted broadly that
the end of the Berlin siege was In
sight. The Hamburg radio said
tonight that ceaseless soviet on
slaughts had made the situation '
in the capital "still more acute."
The garrison, pressed together
in a narrow space, is "throwing
in its last ounce of strength to
repel heavy attacks and main
tain the coherent character of
their defensive front," the broad
cast said.
.Soviets Gain
"In spite of their gallant de
fense, deep soviet penetrations
could not be prevented."
Russian and German reports
alike indicated an imminent de
cision amidst the blood-soaked
rubble of Berlin, where the red
army was hewing out its greatest
symbolic victory of the war.
The German highcommand
joined the chorus of nazi claims
that Adolf Hitler was in Berlin.
Its communique said that "In the ,
heart of Berlin the gallant garri
son, gathered closely around the
fuehrer, Is defending itself against
superior soviet forces." If Hitler
were there, he appeared doomed
to certain death or capture by
the Russians.
All Moscow broadcasts and dis
patches reflected confident ex
pectation that Marshal Stalin
would cap Moscow's first glitter
ing May day celebration of the
wur with an announcement that
Berlin had fallen.
City's Fall Expected
Robert Magldoff, broadcasting
two nieces, Franclel and Nannette
Nentl, of Bend.
Sgt. DeLaney had been over
seas for one yeur.
A requiem high mass for Sgt.
DeLaney will be celebrated at St.
Francis Catholic church in Bend
said the Russian people expected
the announcement of Berlin's fall
tonight.
Reports lagging well behind the
course of the struggle in the heart
of Berlin said the Russians had
battled onto Unter Den Linden
Thursday morning, at 8 o'clock. I against faltering resistance.
Drastic Cut in Sugar Rations
Faces Americans Rest of Year
Swiss Confession followed his return to
I Oregon for further Investigation
Washington, May 1 IP) Sugar
available to ration book holders
and home cannors will be about
one-third less than the amount
alloted last year, It was announc
ed today by three government
agencies.
The new sugar ration is fixed
at 15 pounds annually for each In
dividual compared to 24 pounds
last year. In addition, sugar stamp
36 which becomes valid today
must last for four months. It is
good for five pounds of sugar.
Home canners will receive alto
gether only 70 per cent as much
sugar this season as they receiv
ed last year. Local ration boards
will limit the amount of sugar for
such purposes to 15 pounds for
each individual compared to 20
pounds last year. The maximum
amount available to any family
will be 120 pounds.
In addition, sugar allotments to ,
sandwich bars and soda fountains
for coffee, other beverages and Ice
cream are reduced 25 per cent
from the November-December al
lotment. Sugar allotments for hotels,
schools, restaurants and other In
stitutional users will be made on
July 1. They will be considerably
lower than present allowances.
According to the agencies which ,
made the announcement the of
fice of war information, office of
price administration and war food
administration the cut is drastic
because "domestic reserves are at
rock bottom."
The 1945 carry-over at the end
of the year Is expected to be only
3.000,000 tons, compared with 4,
100,000 tons for the end of 1944.
At the same time world produc
tion of sugar Is expected to be
100,000 tons less this year ahtn In
1944.