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THE BEND BULLETI
CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
Weather Forecast
Partly clcudy today, tonight and
Thursday with occasional light
rains west of Cascades tonight and
Thursday. Cooler west portion.
Jap Suicide Plane in DiveToward U.S.Warship
fVKA
THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY MAY 2, 1945
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Telenhoto)
This remarkable photo shows the pilot of a Japanese suicide plane seeking to maneuver his explosive-laden
craft onto the deck of a D. S. Pacific Fleet warship. V nsuccessf ul, the plane crashed into the sea a lew sec
onds after this picture was taken. ...... ,
Enemy Radio
Hints of New
Island Landing
Manila, May 2 (IP) Tokyo radio
reported today that about 5,000
allied troops had landed on Tar-
akan island off the east coast of
Borneo in what may be the sec
ond invasion of that area.
The enemy broadcast said the
troops landed at Llngkas on Tar
akan early Tuesday, about 12
hours after allied forces were
said to have invaded Borneo it
self. -
Gen. Douglas MacArthur did
not confirm either of the report
ed landings although an official
Australian announcement yester
day said the Australian troops
had taken part in a landing on the
east coast of Borneo, world's third
largest island.
Is Oil Center
Tokyo said the troops went
ashore on Tarakan, an important
oil center, at 6:30 a. m. yesterday
after three cruisers and 13 de
stroyer had bombarded the island
consistently since last Friday.
The broadcast claimed the Jap
anese forces on the island were
"holding secure to their positions,
obstructing the enemy's advance."
There was no further Japanese
comment, however, on the report
ed landing on Borneo in the Tar
akan area.
Allied headquarters here report
ed that. only Dutch pilots, flying
B-24 Liberator bombers, Joined
the neutralization campaign
against Borneo's airfields in at
tacks Saturday and Sunday.
British Invasion Unifs Storm '
Ashore Close to Rangoon
-Reports Indicate Japs to Giyo Up Capital -Without
Fight; French Battleship Assists -
Calcutta, May 2 (TIE) British invasion forces stormed
asnore in soutnern Burma only 20 miles south of Rangoon,
chjjiuii ui me uccupiea critisn colony; today.
The landing clamped a three-way pincers on Rangoon
and brought the liberation of Burma and its supply roads to
China to the climactic stage.
The troops went ashore on both sides on the mouth of the
rvangoon river in a aaring ampniDious thrust deep into Japanese-held
Mataban gulf.
Paratroops paved the way for the landings. They jumped
from lnw . f 1
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planes yesterday and knocked
out defenses covering the in
vasion beaches, a special
southeast Asia command com
munique revealed.
Island Bombarded
London Banners
News on Hitler
London, May 2 (IP) .Morning
newspapers today generally "gre
eted" the reported death of Adolf
Hitler and bannered the news in
the largest type used since Presl
dent Roosevelt's death.
The Daily Express, however,
went a step further with a three
column box headed "obituary."
it said:
"The Daily Express' rejoices to
announce the report of Adolf Hit
ler's death. It prints today every
line of information regarding the
manner of his death.
"It wastes-no Inch of space on
his career. The evil of his deeds
are all too well known. It gives
no picture of the world's most
hated face. It records that Hitler
was born Schikelgruber at Bran-
au, Austria, April 20, 1883, and
his days upon the earth he sought
to conquer were too long."
Annual Clean-Up of Premises
In Bend Set for May 4 to 15
The period between May 4 and i as a clearing point for calls. Be.
May 15 is to be set aside for the cause of a shortage of help and
A British naval task force also
supported the invasion with heavy
air and sea bombardments of
Great Nicobar island,' 675 miles
southeast of Rangoon, and Port orders issued
Blair in the Andaman islands 425 Alexander.
NO.
?..!
Austria Units.
Also Included
In Peace Pact I
Immobilization of All
Ground, Sea and Air V1
Forces of Foe Is Due 4
By Herbert G. Klnp '
(IWUil Prera War Cvrrmuontleni)
(Reprcaonttnir Combined U. S. -PreM) 5.
Royal Palace at Caserta, Neat
Naples, May 2 till The German
armies of northern Italy and west
ern Austria formally surrenderee?
to the allies today, effective at
8 a.m. EWT. 1
The surrender affects betweem
600,000 and 900,000 men command
ed by Col. Gen. Helnrich von Viet
inghoff and Gen. Karl Wolff,
chief of police and security for
northern Italy and western Aus
tria. Lieut. Gen. W. D. Morgan, of
the British army, who negotiated
in behalf of Field Marshal sir
Harold R. L. G. Alexander, su-
Dreme commander in the Mediter
ranean theater, said the terms "In
effect are complete and unconal
tinnnl surrender."
The documents. were signea in;
til roval Dalace here on faunaay
Dy Morgan ana iwo uerniHn ur
fleers, one of whom represented
von Vietinghoff and the other
Wolff.
Thp surrender will permit the
nlllpn to make an unhindered ad
vance to within 10 miles of Adolf
Hitler's former country home at
Berchtesgaden. It also uncovers
the flank of Col. Gen. von Lehr,
commanding enemy troops in the
Trieste area.
The surrender documents were
siffnpd in the presence of a group
of allied officers which included
Russians. Secret negotiations for
the surrender have been going on
far several days.
The terms are the immediate
immobilization and disarmament
of enemy ground, sea and air
forces.
The surrender Imposes upon the
German commander-in-chiel tne
obligation to carry out any further
py f ield Marsnai
yinreimdleir Dim
126
Falls to Yanks
Hamburg
Field Marshall Karl Von Rund
stedt, the man who battled the
Allies from Normandy to the
Rhine, has been captured by the
Seventh army, in Germany', it
was announced today.
annual spring beautiflcation of f equipment, hauling service
aena, it was announced today Dy
the Bend chamber of commerce
cleanup committee, headed by
Carl E. Erickson, following a con
ference of local haulers, commit
tee members and city officials.
inis period will give Bend resi
dents two week-ends In which to
and
may
not be immediately available, but
it will be provided as quickly as
possible, haulers promise.
Haulers also ask home owners
not to pile refuse and leaves on
top of limbs. From city officials
comes a reauest that all alleys be
'cleared of refuge, and that wood
miles southeast of the occupied
capital.
Battleships, Including the
French Richelieu, as. well as cruis
ers and destroyers participated in
the bombardment Monday. Tokyo
Droaocasts said tne bombardment
continued into a second day yes
terday. Two small Japanese, craft sail
ing from Rangoon to Moulmein
were intercepted and destroyed
by the naval forces.
' Japs Leaving City
Other British ground troops
plunging down from northern
Burma cleared Pegu, the last nat
ural defense barrier before Ran
goon, and pushed to within 28
miles northeast of the capital. An
other British column last was re
ported 36 miles north of Rangoon.
mere were indications that
Rangoon, biggest port in Burma,
might fall without major battle.
Liberated prisoners and allied ci
vilians who escaped from Japa
nese custody said all Japanese
senior officers and certain collab
orators left the city some time
ago.
Von Vletlnghoff's command In
cludes all of northern Italy to
the Isonzo river and the Austrian
provinces of Voralberg, Tyrol,
Salzburg and parts of Corinthia
and Styria.
get their grounds and alleys in
shape, the committee pointed out.
Because of the shortage of help,
gasoline and rubber, property
owners and tenants are being
asked by the committee to coo
erate with haulers this season by
burning as much trash as possible,
Ipntrini, nnl.. I nnA tmhnmprl
debris to be taken to the city At the same time, he stresses that
dump. Careful burning, through j the greatest of caution must be
the use of small fires at safe dis-i taken with even at . Present
lances from h..lMinrrs or trees, i because of the unseasonably dr
are being advised. No tires must ; spring weather.
be Diled.
Fire Chief LeRoy Fox was pres
ent for 'the cleanup conierenea.
Health Officer
Names Aufranc
Portland, Ore., May 2 ilP State
health officer Dr. Harold M. Erick
son announced today the appoint
ANNOUNCEMENT MADE
Washington, May 2 IP Presi
dent Truman today announced the
"unconditional surrender of all
German forces in Italy.
The president said that "the col
lapse of military tyranny In Italy,
however, is no victory in Italy
alone, but a part of. the general
triumph we are expectantly await
ing on the whole continent of
Europe."
"Only folly and chaos can now
delay the general capitulation of
the everywhere defeated German
armies," he said.
The president Immediately sent
messages to Field Marshal Sir
Harold Alexander and Gen. Mark
Clark, congratulating them for
the "complete defeat of the Ger
mans in Italy."
At the same time he warned
Japan to understand the full
meaning of these events.
Foe Field Marshal
Taken By Yanks
With Seventh1 Army in Ger-
mnnv M:i 9 t ! PI An ImArlran
tank crew surprised .teld Mar
shal Karl von Rundstedt'-'at h'fs
dinner table and oaptured the
man who had battled the allies
from Normandy to the Rhine, It
was announced today.
Von Rundstedt, twice command
er of the German armies in the
west since the allied invasion, was
taken at 10 p. m. last night at
Bad Tolz, a resort town south of
Munich.
He was having dinner with his
wife and son, Hans Gerd, when a
tank commanded by Lt. Joseph
Burke (home town unknown)
rumbled into the hospital grounds
at Bad Tolz. Von Rundstedt, who
was taking a health treatmont,
was living In a house attached to
the hospital. j
Ready to Quit
Von Rundstedt said he had not
expected the Americans until the
next morning. He told his captors
he last saw Adolf Hitler on March
12th.
Pfc. Herman Jobe, Warrens-
burg, Ind., who drove von Rund
stedt and his family to the prison
er of war cage, said, "He seemed
ready to surrender."
The units which look Von Rund
stedt were attached to the 3Cth
division's 141st regiment, com
manded by Col. Charles Owens.
SLIGHTLY OVERDUE
Portland, Me., May 2 miMrs.
Eunice Dunn testified that the
last time she saw her husband
was 29 years ago when he left
heron a Halifax, N. S., street after
promising to "see yau later." She
wants a divorce.
Kiel
Ports Cut Off
In New Gains
British Second Army
Slashes to Baltic in
Vicinity of Wismar
Paris, May 2 (IP British Sec
ond army troops were reported
to have slashed to the Baltic at
Wismar today, isolating the great
ports of Hamburg and Kiel and
reaching within some 30 miles of
a junction with Russian forces
sweeping westward along the
coast. .
Lightning advances by both
British and Russian troops ap
peared to have undermined the
entire position of the nazis in
northern Germany where Admir
al Karl Doenjtz, the new self-proclaimed
fuehrer, and the German
high command were believed
holed up.
A. United Press dispatch from
the Canadian First army front
quoted a German prisoner saying
Doenitz had ordered the German
forces to cease fighting the west
ern auieg and "withdraw east
ward." .. .v.- j.-.u...
Annies On Movtt .
The apparent collapse of the
uerman pocKet in the north coin
cided with the onrush of two V. S.
armies wedging deep Into the Ba
varian sack and racing over the
last 40-mlIe stretch before Berch.
tesgaden against only spasmodic
resistance.
The British Second army thrust
a spearhead to the Ba tic in
lightning spurt of 30-odd miles,
scaling off Denmark and the
Schleswle-Holsteln finger of Ger
many, a British correspondent re
ported.
me sixth airborne division
sprinted to Wismar In a few
hours, the front report said
They were 58 miles northeast of
Hamburg and about 30 miles from
Rostock, In the area of which was
the vanguard of the Second White
Russian army.
Gap Is Closiner
Supreme headquarters said air
men spotted swarms of motor
transports fleeing northwestward
to Denmark through the closing
gap oeiow Luebeck.
To the west, the U. S. Seventh
army cracked through the Ger
man defenses south of Munich to
within 66 miles of Berchtesgaden
and drove an armored spearhead
less than nine miles from Inns
bruck In a bid to seal off the
Brenner pass escape road for the
broken nazl forces in Italy.
Far to the north, British Sec
ond army troops are supporting
American units closing fast on
the Baltic seaport of Luebcck In
a drive that carried more than
16 miles beyond their Elbe river
bridgehead.
Veteran of Co. I
o
1.0; '"'.;.'!.' mm . v . "-
Stalin Reveals
Sgt. Ralph B. Matson, Co. I vet
eran of south Pacific battles and
son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Matson,
Bend, has received a medical dis
charge after more than four years
of service. He was one of five
brothers who served In U. S.
forces. ' .
Great Victory
Lions, Elks Call
For Volunteers
"Workers are urgently needed
to sort and pack clothing for
United War Relief." That's the
plea of the Lions-Elks committee
In charge of the drive.
At a three-hour work session
last night Lions hardly' made a
dent in the huge clothing col
lection In Lydick's basement.
Packing cases are also needed,
Burt Stevens, In charge of last
night's work, today hoped for at
least 20 workers to start at 7:30
p.m. and issued a city-wide call
to any who can spare an evening.
Women could help In the sorting,
he said, and the men could do the
heavier packaging.
Help Needed
Committees In charge pointed
out that the clothing Is to be
packed and shipped this week but
it will not be possible unless more
volunteer help Is available.
William Naylor, George Slmer-
vlllo and son, Delbert Hale, Ed
Volgt, O. G. Jacobsen, Frank Log
gan and Stevens were those pres
ent last night.
MAY 1 WARM
Bend yesterday experienced It's
warmest weather of the year
when the mercury mounted to 78
degrees as a May day sun crossed
cloudless sky. The warm dav
was followed by a mild night, with
minimum of 37 degrees recorded
before daylight.
warm May weather continued
In the northwest today, with a
maximum of above HO degrees
forecast for most points.
Hitler Victim of Brain Hemorrhage, U. S.
General Eisenhower Is Informed By Envoy
IT.1' 1 I iV- w.n7.i ment of Dr. W. H. Aufranc as his
LUIlHIICl UillVC, 04IU jmm.
ed out that a city-wide cleanup
is necessary at present if the
fire hazard is to be reduced in
the dangerous season just ahead
Laval and Party
Arrive in Spain
Madrid, May 2 W Pierre Laval
flew from Switzerland to Barce
lona today, and the Spanish eov-
1 Ul Ul. I'l , I ItlS Mt'Il 1 J 1 , , , , .., ...1 . ,
of the state's venereal, 5""' '. . " '
rnntrnl nrnoram in ; """" " " """ J
assistant.
Dr. Aufranc, a United States
public health officer, has been in
charge
disease control program
once.
T aval fn-mn. Vint... .f
hv FrirUunn. rwwitlv tnarto lnl ' . . . " ' ul
i....r,i. -i.i. government, Marcel Deal, an
1943, and fills the post vacated ;
health chief.
' other ardent collaborationist, and
? leit burning alter aarn, n ij
stressed.
Bend earbaee collectors andi
other hauTerTare prom sing full barred when the hazard Increases,
cooperation the rommittee. An inspection of local property
Bned1ambe?Tcom: by firemen will follow the end of
merce office is being designated I the cleanup period.
In addition to continuing the Wih- iJ1" .
No fire permits will be required VD control program, Dr. Aufranc ; Barcelona aboard a German Junk-
rs 88.
The party was reported waiting
tr. hum at nresent. but it is ex-1 win assume airection oi tne coun
niH that all burning will be' ty health units.
London, May 2 UP) Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower said today that
there was some evidence that
hemorrhage instead of a hero's j
death in battle as the nazis j
claimed.
The statement by Eisenhower i
was the first from any allied of
ficial to shed light on the mystery
or Hitler s reported death.
Eisenhower said the enemy
claim that Hitler died fighting the
Kusslans In Berlin was In con
tradiction of facts" given by Hein-
ncn Himmler at a conference with
Count Folke Bernadotte of Swe
den at Luebeck eight days ago.
Himmler and a General Schll
lenbrug, who accompanied him to
the conference, said Hitler had a
brain hemorrhage and might not
live 48 hours, Elsenhower said In
a statement Issued through su
preme headquarters In France.
Even though this version of
Hitler's death was based on nazl
information, It had the merit of
Retirement of Pearl Emken. I at V hot ,, TVh.a, " -s I 1""""' " na.a .lne m.pr" "I
for 7.0 voarc a Hata u.orj j - " - " i-uiiung 10 tisennower mrougn
lor At years a btate Board ol , mrt. wn m, iMc nn (mm m J d. 3... .
Health employe in various capaci- drld on what should K do ,7,. f:J rvt?
ties, also was announced. them. . .L"u. ' "T'
, uii.c it, uic CTjiiuiiiui vt:j siuji if mil
I '''' ' '.'J
Grand Admiral Karl Doenlta
in the melodramtlc account broad
cast by the Hamburg radio yesterday.
Himmler admitted that Ger
many was finished, Elsenhower
said In the official confirmation
of the Luebeck conference.
Elsenhower said the radio state
ment by Admiral Karl Doenitz, an
nouncing Hitler's death and pro
claiming himself as his successor,
represented an attempt to drive a
wedge between the Russians and
Anglo-American. The attempt was
doomed to failure, he said, be
cause "nothing can change the
agreed operations of the allied
armies."
Doenitz was reported already
to have ousted Joachim von Rib-
lientrop as foreign minister In
what may be the first move to
ward trying to save Germany
from furthering battering.
Radio Hamburg said Doenllz
had appointed Count L u d w I g
.-tcnwpnn von KrosigK, S8-year-old
nephew of the late Kaiser Wll
helm, to the foreign ministership.
The move, coming only 24 hours
after the same station announced
that Adolf Hitler had been killed
at his "command post In Berlin"
yesterday, broke up the all nazl
front In the top German ministries.
As Guns Boom
Siege Described as One
Of History's Bloodiest; , -General
Gives Up Arms '
London, May 2 (UP) The
red army captured Berlin today.-
I ' .
Marshal Stalin announced
the capture of Berlin, the red
army's greatest victory of the
war, in a triumphant order of
the day broadcast from Mos
cow.
Berlin fell to the Russians
after 12 days of siege. Two
Russian armies smashed into
the city from the east and
south and slugged through its
historic streets in what nazis -and
Soviets alike described as
one of the bloodiest struggles
in history. " ...
The. fall of Berlin meant
that the Russian siege forces
had overrun Adolf Hitler's
reichschaneelleryr'wief e ;ther '
nazis said he died in, battle
yesterday.5 . ' :ri '
Evidence Expected
The first reports from Mos
cow did not indicate what the
Soviets found at the reichs-
chancellory, but it appeared
probable that their discovery
must have included evidence
positive or negative of the
accuracy of the nazi report
that Hitler died in battle.
Stalin's order he has is
sued more than 300 during the
war was addressed to all the
forces of the red army and the
navy.
Remnants of the Berlin gar
rison headed by General Wes-
ling laid down their arms and
surrendered at 3 p.m., Stalin
said.
Stalin, calling Berlin the
center of German imperialism
and nest of German aggres
sion, said it was captured by
the First White Russian army
of Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov
and the First Ukranian army
of Marshal Ivan S. Konev.
70,000 Captured
More than 70,000 prisoners
were taken in the battle of
Berlin, Stalin's order revealed.
The fall of Berlin came as
the pockets of nazi resistance
in north Germany along the
Baltic and in south Germany
around the Bavarian Alps
were reported collapsing. Al
lied armies were racing at will
through the last enemy posi
tions. Some high military authori
ties, including Lt. Gen. Kurt
Dittmar, former spokesman
for the German high com
mand, believed that nnzi re
sistance could not last long
after the full of Berlin.
Noose. Tightened
Perhaps as clearly as any
other battle of the war, the
progress in the fight for Ber
lin was revealed by both sides.
Although details were skimpy,
the tightening of the soviet
noose of strangulation was
made evident day by day in
both Russian and German re
ports. Only a few minutes before
Marshal Stalin anounced the
capture of the city, the Ger
man radio said the siege was
nearly over.
ENVOY ARRIVES
Washington, May 2 ilPu-The
new Argentine ambassador to the
United States, Oscar Ibarra Gar
cia, arrived here today.