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THE
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This Is spring cleanup' week in
Weather Forecast
Mostly clear today, tonight and
Sunday but with occasional tog
night and mottling. Little tem
perature change.
Bend. Are you doing your bit to
S?.-.- beautify the city?
CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
Volume Llll
THE BEND BULLETIN. BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1945
NO. 129
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Nips Repulsed
In Bloody Fight
On Okinawa
Enemy Makes Attempt
To Land Behind Lines
Of Americans on Isle
Guam, May 5 on Some 300 U.
S. Superforts today smashed back
at the Japanese homeland in a
triple attack against bases of
enemy suicide planes and ships
which sunk five American light
surface units in the costliest air
and sea battle of the Okinawa
campaign.
The American ships were sunk
and several others damaged in a
futile but bloody attack yesterday
by Jap' ships and planes shortly
after some 600 Japanese troops
attempted four amphibious land
ings on Okinawa behind U. S.
lines.
The suicide attacks cost the
enemy more than 54 planes, 15
suicide boats and the bodies of
more than 300 soldiers strewn
along the beaches and in the wat
ers off the east and west coasts.
Set New Mark
For the first time in Superfort
history the B-29s hit Japan proper
three times im one day, with a
total of 17 airfields on Kyushu
under attack.
f f .The latest strike was, carried
2Vou) late' "tills afternoon 'against
cniran idusuki ana Kanoya air
fields on Kyushu by some 50-B-29s.
Earlier between 150 and 200
of the big bombers attacked the
Hiro aircraft plant, five miles
east of the great Kure naval base
on southern Honshu. From 25 to
50 Superforts in an early-morning
raid hit Oita and .Tachiarai air
fields on Kyushu. Superfort
crews on all missions bombed
visually from medium altitudes.
Ships Gave Aid
A dispatch from United Press
correspondent Edward L. Thomas
aboard Adm. Richmond K. Tur
ner's flagship said amphibious
tanks and shore defenses joined
with guns of the U. S. fleet and
patrol craft to cut down the Jap
anese as they waded onto the!
Okinawa beaches in their land-l
ing attempts.
l he Japanese made 14 separate
attacks with some 70 planes on
our fleet between 7:45 a. m. and
9:15 a. m. yesterday, with some
of the aircraft diving from as high
as 25,000 feet.
Fifty-four of the attackers were
destroyed 12 by ships' guns, 30
by combat air patrol and 12 in
suicide chases.
The insane fury of the Japan
ese attack was such that two
suicide boats inexplicably rammed
Keise island, Thomas said. The
boats slammed head-on into rocks
and blew harmlessly.
Taps Make Claims
(Radio Tokyo in broadcasts re
corded by United Press in Sari
Francisco claimed the suicide
units Friday sank one large and
one small aircraft carrier, two
battleships, two cruisers and a
destroyer with five damaged.)
Meanwhile, on the southern
Okinawa land front, marines were
comparing the fighting with the
costly battle for bloody nose ridge
on Peleliu. Marine pilots said
the Jap antiaircraft fire in rear
areas was increasing rather than
decreasing.
Gunman at Vale
Held as Killer
Vale, Ore., May 5 IP Indict
ment of Kenneth Bailey, 26, on
charges of first degree murder In
the gun battle killing of Sgt. Ted
Chambers of the Oregon state po
lice was returned here late yester
day. Chambers was killed and two
other officers were wounded in a
gun battle last Sunday at Weiser,
Idaho. Bailey was wounded and
his partner, Ronald Duffy, 22,
as killed while attempting to
escape across a field after the
shooting.
( Bailey, who reportedly began
jL.his crime career at the age of 13,
"as wanted by Idaho state police
fir disarming two officers at
ampa, the day before the gun
battle, when caught stealing gasoline.
Quiet Again Reigns in Berlin;
Barricades Being Removed
Writer Describes Devastation,; Civilians
Suffer Greatly; Nazi Troopers Register '
By Roman Karmen '
, . WRITTEN FOR UNITED PRESS
(Copyright by United Preu. 19) -
Berlin.'May 5 (U.E) The
torn down today.
Quiet reigns in the city.
molishing the barricades which are present literally at every
step. At many, intersections there are dug-in tanks and guns
that are silent forever.
Berliners, reassured, that
irom cellars and moving their belongings back from the base
ments to upper floors.
Law and order prevail. Only now that the whole city is
Need for Lumber
In War Stressed
By John W. Dunlap
(United Preu Burt Corredpondent)
Portland, Ore., May 5 up Ci
vilian controls on lumber will be
eased gradually in the next few
months but the industry still faces
a major production problem in
Pacific war demands, national
WPB lumber administrator J
Philip Boyd said today.
"Now that the war in Eurorje
is ending, government will pro-
viae me lumDer industry witn all
the tools It needs, including equip
ment, tires and manpower," Boyd
said. "More than any other In
dustries, lumber and textiles must
work even harder in the shift of
armies Into the Pacific, and I can
say tnat both will be the 'fair
haired boys'." . iV. , , .
Eater to Assist
Boyd said the lumber industry
was eager to carry on the war
ana stui assist in prompt recon
version to permit civilian con
struction. He added that an order
ly lifting of civilian controls while
keeping strict supervision over
war demands would make it eas
ier to resume competitive peace
time production when the war
ends.
Boyd said military leaders es
timated that 75 per cent of the
European war equipment can be
crated and redeployed to the Pa
cific in the next six months.
"The lumber industry faces in
creased demands from the army
and -navy, a relatively small cut
back in the military program, ex
tremely heavy demand for domes
tic production, legitimate demand
for reconversion, the desire of
everybody to build a house or re
model, and emergency demands
for foreign uses adding up a
load which will require increased
production," Boyd said.
REPORT CAPITAL SHEIXED
Stockholm, May 5 IP Copen
hagen reports, said German war
ships began a 25-minute shelling
of the Oesterbro quarter of the
Danish capital at 10 a. m. today,
killing at least 10 persons.
JAPS SLOWED DOWN
Chungking, May 5 IP Fiercely
resisting Chinese troops have
slowed down a Japanese drive
near Laochokow in northwestern
Hupeh province, a communique
said today.
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This is the fate of the man who spent 43 years building up the best army In the world," was the ruelul com
ment of Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstcdt (foreground, with cane) when, as pictured above, he was captured
by American troops In bis Bavarian retreat. With him are his son, Lt. flans O. von Rundstedt (center) and
a medical attendant.
barricades of Berlin are being
The people themselves are de
the war is over, -fire crawling
occupied have I been able to
traverse it from one end to an
other to see the terrific scale
of the devastation caused by
bombings. Entire streets are
obliterated.
Many Civilians Killed
Berliners told me that the ci
vilians suffered enormous casu
alties. In many cases hundreds of
inhabitants were killed by one
bomb.
Col. Gen. Berzarin, military com
mandant and chief of. the soviet
garrison, has ordered the popu
lation to stay put to preserve or
der. The nazi party and all sub
sidiary organizations have been
disbanded and their activity out
lawed. Within 72 hours of the publica
tion of the order, all members of
the wehrmacht, the SS and the SA
remaining in Berlin must regis
ter. Executives of all enterprises
of the party, the gestapo, the po
lice, security battalions, prisons,
and all other state organizations
must personally appear at region
al commandants' offices.
Elk Lake Region
Under Deep Snow
The Elk lake region is still und
er a deep blanket of well-packed
snow, about three , feet on the
level, and the mountain lake, far-
famed for its trout, is still covered
by ice, Myron H. Symohs, operat
or of the resort at the popular
Century drive recreation area, re
ported today on his return from
a ski trip into the high country.
He was accompanied by Norman
Venable. They left here Wednes
day, drove a mile beyond Des
chutes bridge, crossed the snow
field on skies and returned to
Bend today.
Summer homes and cabins at
Elk lake came through the winter
without any damage, Symons re
ported, and for the first time in
many years, the telephone into
the lodge was in working order.
There are few trees on the road.
Opening Date May ,13 I
Elk lake will open for fishing
on May 12, but Symons is not
yet making any prediction about
the accessibility of the lake for
motorists on that date. He will
make his forecast when he makes
another trip into the lake, in the
next few days. The lodge will be
open when the first angler arrives,
ne promises.
Ex-Commander in
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Big Naval Guns Nar
Blast Tarakan;
Airmen Assist
Australian Troopers in
Drive for City's Heart;
Two Transports Bagged
Manila, May 4 (IP) Allied bomb
ers and warships blasted a path
today for Australian troops driv
ing toward the heart of Tarakan
city on Tarakan island off the east
coast of Borneo.
Japanese gun emplacements.
ammunition dumps and numerous
buildings were destroyed by the
dual bombardment as the Aus
tralians swept through the west
ern part of the city.
The military barracks and the
important water supply Installa
tions in western Tarakan were
captured by the Australian troops,
who were meeting desperate Japa
nese opposition from mortar and
machine-gun fire.
Drive Hampered
Front reports said the Austral-
Ian drive on the island's airfield,
northeast of the Llngkas beachhead,-was
being hampered by an
extensive system of electrically
controlled land mines. The troops,
however, secured all high ground
around the edge of the airfield.-
About 50 Liberator bombers
again pounded Borneo's airfields
lirneuti-auzation -attacks aimed uljhe total of amounts AetuaHy ha
preventing interference with the proved for expenditure In the cur-
unloading operations at the Tara
kan beachhead.
American P-T boats also ranged
through the sea lanes between
Borneo and Celebes sinking two
Japanese transports of 3,000 tons
leach, six freighters, seven river
boats, two tugs and a number of
'small craft.
Neurs Climax
The Mindanao campaign was
rapidly clearing Davao city
! against resistance described as
not very heavy.
Other American troops also
pushed east and north of Davao,
with one column reaching Santa
Ana, Just above the city, and c
second at'Mintal, two miles from
Libby airfield.
In the Interior, nearly 50 miles
past nf navan. elemnnts nf thn!P"ai as an auoeu icaiure oi me
31st division advanced another 14!
miies northward and captured the
road junction of Klbawe, 35 miles
above Kabakan.
Area Cleared
Filipino guerilla forces mean
time cleared the Japanese from
entire Surigao province at the
northeastern tip of Mindanao,
opening a number ttf good har
bors for allied shipping. The prov
ince is just across Surigao strait
from American held Leyte is
land.
In northern Luzon, the 33rd di
vision completed mopping up of
the Baguio area and seized the
villages of Antamok and Itogon.
six miles east of the city, and
Acops more than five miles to the
north.
Allied Hands
tNEA Pmlin.T.Unhnln)
In Norway to Surrender
' By Jack Fleischer
! (United Pmm War Conwondent) . ' ' : '
: Outside Munich, May 5 (U.P.) The tired, bewildered remnants of the Ger
man First and 19th armies estimated at between 200,000 and 400,000 men sur
rendered unconditionally today to Gen. Jacob L. Devers.
' Lt. Gen. Hermann Foertsch, commander of the First German armyheaded
the delegation of 14 German officers who nee-ntiaterl th aurrenrW tinnn t.h au
thority and order of Marshal Albert KesselrTng.
- jjevers, commander or. tne sixth army group the U. S. Seventh and French
First and six other American officers accepted the surrender, effective at noon
tomorrow. . ..
The second mass German surrender in two days collapsed resistance to the
American and British forces on the continent except for Norway, Czechoslo
County Budget
Given Review
' Deschutes county's budget com
mittee, meeting at the courthouse
for its preview session on 1945
1946 estimates, last night set down
all appropriation requests and
found at the end that these would
make up a general fund total of
$116,746.84 as against $117,389.64.
allowed lor the c u r re n t year
In general the trend was upward.
Reductions of $4,700 In the budget
for relief, and of $2,226 in the
clerk's budget (reflecting the fact
that there Is insufficient Increase
to make up the $2,831.50 spent this
year for a
photostat macnine)
kont the total of reouests below
rent year,
The budget makers found that
the county Is already well-fi
nanced on Its post-war program
with $150,000 on hand In the post
war road fund and an approxl
mate $15,000 in excess receipts
expected to be added to the fund
in the coming fiscal year. There
was likelihood that the levy In ei
fect this year would not be con
tinued. Receipts, as has been the
case for years, would be much
greater than the general road
budget, set up for the coming
fiscal year at $49,900.
Hospital Considered
Cash on hand from the general
fund, it was Indicated, might per
mit introduction of an Item of
$40,000 to $50,000 for a county hos-
county's activities for post-war
days. No action had been taken
on this at last night's session nor
on suggestions from the veterans
council that the county partici
pate in the cost of a memorial
building, construction of which
is being promoted for peace time.
All members of the county court
Judge C. L. Allen and Commis
sioners E. E. Varco and A. E.
Stevens -r- were present at the
meeting in the circuit court room.
Appointed members are A. J.
Glassow, who was elected chair
man; M. A. Lynch, who was
named secretary, and John Hohn
stein. Glassow could not be pres
ent for the opening meeting.
Truck Burns Up,
Films Are Lost
Portland, Ore., May S Uli A
fire in an Oregon film service
truck en route to Amity Ore., re-
suited in. the loss of $4,000 worth
of motion picture film and thou
sands of newspapers being taken
south for distribution.
The newspaper loss was the sec
ond recently for the Oregon
Journal, which lost a load of news
papers on the Waplnitla cutoff
when a punctured truck tire was
ignited by friction, causing a blaze
which destroyed the papers and
an accompanying shipment of
whiskey.
Release of Ration
Books Requested
Bend merchants today were
warned by Harold Carllle, chair
man of the local war price and
ration board, not to accept cou
pons from ration books issued to
men now in the armed forces.
Carlile said that ration books held j
oy men entering tne service must;
oe turned into tne ooara, ana mat
it is a direct violation of OPA
rules to use such books.
A serviceman returning on fur
lough may receive "furlough
points" at the ration board, Carlile j
said. I
i Sources Say Armies
vakia, ana some coastal pock -
ets.
Germans in Czechoslovakia,
eastern Austria and the Dres
den - Chemnitz area of, Ger
many still were fighting the
Russians.
In the last two major is
lands of German resistance,
Czechoslovak sources in Lon
don reported that a patriot up
rising had liberated Prasrue.
and a nazi source said the com
mander of occupation forces
in Norway had decided to sur
render, with an announcement
of capitulation expected at any
time.
Surrender Announced
Supreme headquarters In Paris
announced tne unconditional sur
render of the German armv grouD
'C the First and 19th armies
to Devers. commander of the U. S.
Sixth army group. It obliterated
nazi resistance from the Czecho.
Slovak border area north of Llnz
southwestward to the Swiss fron
tier.
The first announcement at
SHAEF said the surrender em
braced the entire front southwest-
ward from the Chemnitz area of
Germany, including that before
the U. S. Third army now fight
ing in Czechoslovakia.
Supreme headquarters first an
nounced that German troops In
Austria and Czechoslovakia
tne
First, Seventh and 19th armies
had surrendered.
Then SHAEF corrected the an
nouncement to eliminate the Sev
enth German army the one In
Czechoslovakia from the list of
those surrendertng.
Details (lven
United Press war correspond
ent Jack Fleischer reported that
the surrender of the First and
19th German armies was nego
tiated at a U. S. Sixth army
group post outside Munich. A del
egation of 14 German officers sur
rendered on the authority and!
order of Marshal Albert Kessel-
ring, who took command of the
western front from the now-captured
Marshal Karl von Rund
stedt. Devers and six other American
generals accepted the surrender.
It was effective at noon tomor
row but it was announced by ra
dio that hostilities were to cease
immediately
Lt. Gen. Hermann Foertsch,
commander of the German First
army, headed the delegation rep
resenting tne broken, bewildered
fragments of the enemy army
Th ' ,llrlnil.. ,, n i
,., ' ' c . commanded by
Ui Cm FrMrich wilhelm
cnunz.
Kcftfu-lring Sought
The surrender provided that If
Kesselring or any ot his head
quarters staff were found within
the area, they would become pris
oners. On the U. S. Third army front,
the Germans' 11th Panzer division
surrendered en masse to the 90th
American division. The capitula
lion put 12,000 German soldiers, ! a delegate to the United Nations
1,000 vehicles and about 20 tanks conference, told the United Press
In American hands. that a just-concluded survey of
Gen. Dwlght D. Eisenhower said ' war damage, showed that reha
In a statement Issued at SHAEF .Mutation would require 20.000.-
that today "has been a steady con
tlnuation of German demoraliza
tion and disintegration" on the
western front.
Ho said confusion was so rife
In the ranks of the surrendering
enemy group that Foertsch could j
not give any accurate estimate of
the German strength, but believed
the group Included between 200,
ow and 400,000 men.
GERMAN ARMY QUITS
Paris, May 5 HW The German
24th army surrendered to the
French First army, the French
war ministry announced tonight.
'
Body of Hitler
Believed Hidden
London, May 5 dpi Adolf Hit
ler's body has been hidden so well
that lt never will be found, nazi
propagandist Hans Firtsche told
his Russian captors today.
Radio Moscow said Firtsche,
deputy German propaganda min
ister taken prisoner in Berlin, as
serted that the fuehrer's corpse
had been concealed in an "undis-
coverable blace."
Neither Hitler's body nor that
of Propaganda Minister Paul Jo
seph Goebbels has been found In
Berlin, Moscow- said. Red army
troops who attempted to search
the ruined Relchschancellery In
-Berllrcwerp;; beaten back by jag-,
ing iircs. ,
Frlrh Captured
But two other prize nazis have
fallen into the American hands:
Dr. Wilhelm Frick, German
minister without portfolio, relchs
protector of Bohemia and Mora
via and Helnrlch Himmler's pre
decessor as interior minister.
Max Amann, deputy to Himm-
ler, chief of the nazi party pub
lishing department and publisher
of Meiq Kampf.
Frlck, bo, probably the highest
nnzl party and German govern
ment oniciai yet imprisonca Dy
the allies, was captured Wednes
day at his Bavarian country
estate by pure luck, a dispatch
from the 0th army group revealed;
Union Chief Here
For Conference
With the arrival In Bend today
of Vernon Chase, president of the
Klamath district council of the
International Woodworkers of
America (CIO), further confer
ences were slaled today In an ef
fort to settle the disagreement
which caused the shutdown of The
Shevlln-Hlxon Company mill and
logging operations. Chase, it was
reported, was slated to meet with
the U. S conciliator who has been
in Bend two days.
Both the mill management and
local headquarters reported that
there was no change in the situa
tion brought about when the dry
chain crew at the plant ceased
working at 3:30 p.m. last Wednes
day. France Asks for
Germans to Repair Damages
San Francisco, May 5 Kit
France asked todny for the serv
ices of 1,000,000 Italian and
German worKers as part of the
reparations In kind for the deva
station wrought by the axis ar
mies.
Rene Pleven, French minister of j
finance and national economy and
000,000 (B) work hours. That, he
said, is equivalent to 2,000,000 men
working four full years.
lie noted that under the Geneva
convention, Italian and German
prisoners must bo liberated within
a specified time after th? cessa-
tion of hostilities. Therefore, he
said, the prisoners can not be held
long enough to furnish 20,000,000,
000 work hours.
The French government be
lieves, however, that It can re
cruit a large number of prisoners
of war who would consent to re
build war damage at current
French wages. To these men, Pic-
Poles' Arrest
Angers All
ies;
Reds Blamed
Big Three Discussions
In San Francisco End; .
1 6 Leaders Being Held
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San Francisco, May 5 (IP) Big -
Three .Polish discussions blew up
today with the "grave" revelation i
that soviet authorities have ar-
rested 16 Polish democratic lead
ers on a charge of "diverslonist
activities against the red army."
The revelation of the arrests
and their accompanying grave ef- :.
feet upon the Big Three polish .
discussions was made in parallel
statements by Secretary of State ;
Edward R. Stettlnius, Jr., and s ,
Foreign Secretary Anihony Eden. :
The secretaries revealed they1,
had been Informed of the arrests ,
by Foreign Commissar V. M.
Molotov.
The revelation torpedoed the , :
Polish " discussions here which
were formally suspended by the ,
uritlsn and Americans until ivioio-: .
tov provides them with further
Information on the Incident. ,
May Affect Parley ;
It also was feared that lt would
have serious repercussions upon
the work of the whole united Na
tions conference.
The Anglo-Americans had been ,
trying vainly for weeks to pry an ''
answer out ot Moscow as to what i :
had happened to the Polish lead-' 1
ers who had gone from Interior ,
Poland to .confer wltU.-soviet-au. ,.
thoritles in Moscow. " .
The sudden development came
after the Big Three had reached a
wide area of agreement on amend-
ments to be submitted to the
Dumbarton Oaks charter.
However, the Polish develop
ment, coming on the eve of Molo-
tov's departure from the confer- .
ence was expected to affect grave
ly the attitude and opinion of
delegates to the conference, par
ticularly those which already
have Indicated suspicion and dis
trust of Russia's postwar security .
objectives.
Molotov Silent
No explanation was offered by
Molotov for the arrests other than
the so-called "diverslonist" or "di
versionary' 'activities. Nor did the '
foreign commissar give any ex
planation of why there had been
(he prolonged delay and silence
on the matter.
Stettlnius' statement noted that
persistent Inquiries for a month
had been made of the soviet re
garding the Polish leaders.
"Mr. Molotov has now officially
informed Mr. Eden and myself,"
he said, "that these leaders were
arrested on the charge of 'diver- ,
slonist activities against the red
army.'
"We told Mr. Molotov of our
great concern on learning after ,
such a long delay of this disturb
ing development which has a di
rect bearing on the working out
of the Polish problem.
I. IM Sought
"The Crimea agreement on Po
land provided for consultations
with representatives of the War
(Continued on Page 3)
One Million
ven said, France will offer pay
ment in German marks, using for
that purpose a gigantic holding of
billions of marks which the
French government was obliged
to absorb from Alsace and Lor
raine when those provinces re
turned to t ranee a lew months
ago.
He said it also was possible to
recruit Germans or Italians under
contract for work in French mines
as well as in rebuilding war de
struction. Before the war, France
imported Polish miners for the
coal mines of northern France un
der a contract with the Polish gov
ernment. Pleven predicted n serious coal
famine all over Europe before the
end of this year. One of the first
obligations of the victorious Unit
ed Nations, he declared, is to force
a resumption of coal production
as rapidly as possible.
The French minister said Ger
man coal production was now 90
per cent below normal. French
mine output is 40 per cent below
normal, the British down 25 per
cent and Belgian and Dutch down ,
50 to 60 per cent.