THE BEND BUUETIN, BEND, OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY 8. 1945
PAGE SIX
War-End Hope
High in World
In Late 1944
(By United rmai
Allies made ready for victory
during October and November,
1914. The war will be over by
Christmas, was an often heard
prediction. Freedom's hopes were
high throughout tho world, as
powerful forces drove for a show
down battle on the broad Cologne
plains, a battlefield which still
lay covered with snow on Christ
mas eve.
On Oct. 11 Lt. Gen. Courtney
II. Hodges' U. S. First army closed
a vise around Aachen. Hodges
gave the German commander his
choice between surrender and
comulete destruction. The Ger
mans answered by attempting to
break through American lines
surrounding the embattled garrl
son which had turned the rail'
road Junction city Into a hedge-
nog-barrier, nampering American
advances on the Cologne plains.
The defense of Aachen, like
that of Metz, to the south, and
the shores of the Schelde estuary
guarding the approaches to Ant
wero in the north, doomed thou-
sands of German expendables, as
part of the German general staff's
plan to buy time.
Aachen Surrenders
By Oct. 12 Aachen was 85 per
cent ruined by air raids and artll
lery bombardment. Lean, deter
mined veterans fought their way
Into the ruined town, first Ger
man city entered by allied forces.
Aachen had become a macabre
caricature of a modern city. Five
counterattacks on Crucifix hill
failed to break the allied grip, and
Aachen surrendered.
In the Meuse river bend, the
British Second army was advanc
ing its right flank. The Canadian
First strove for the big strategic
prize, the Schelde river estuary,
American Seventh and French
First armies fought for passage
through the densely wooded
Vosges mountains.
During October, too, the driv
ing Kussian forces stood for the
first time on German soil, at
Eydtkau, East Prussia, hurling
nazi defenders back on a 200-mile
front. They isolated the lower
Balkans from Germany by ad
vancing through the Carpathians
more than half-way across the
Balkan peninsula, and cutting off
150,000 German troops on a west
ern -Lithuania front by taking
Riga, Latvian capital.
By the middle of October, the
powerful red offensive had taken
from Germany her last satellite
ally In Europe. Hungary had
asked for an armistice. Belgrade
and Debrecen, Hungary's third
city, had been liberated, and Rus
sians were advancing Into fight
ing at Budapest on the Danube.
Civil war raged within Hungary
as fascists sought to obtain con
trol. Hitler Calls Men 16 to CO
The Russian drive spread out
like the fingers on a gigantic
hand, reaching for Norway, and
liberating the important port city,
Kirkenes, on the Barents sea,
near the northern Finland border.
A hard-pressed German govern
ment, with Helnrich Himmler In
charge, by Hitler's order, ordered
all men between 16 and 60 for a
last-ditch defense of the roich.
The people's resistance was stif
fened by Himmler's Schutz Staf-
fel ISS) guard.
The German people needed
more than Himmler's form of
morale-building. They had lost
their last battleship, the Tlrpitz,
sunk in its hiding place off Nor
way, and their military hero.
Field Marshal Erwln Rommel, the
desert fox. Berlin announced that
he had died from injuries received
In an automobile accident. Allies
were certain that his car was
strafed by an American pilot and
the general fatally wounded.
Reich leaders gave their people
a shot In the arm with a new
secret weapon, V-2. The huge
rocket weapon, traveling more
than 1,000 miles per hour, with
a range of 2,000 to 3,000 miles,
crashed indiscriminately over
London and southern England,
destroying with Its one-ton ex
plosive charge homes, schools and
people. The secret weapon, which
resembled an airplane, was be
tween 30 and 50 feet long and
equipped with tail fins. Because
it traveled faster than sound and
descended with a sudden swoosh,
it was more frightening than the
smaller robot bomb, V-l; which
hit Its targets while moving only
300 miles per hour and was more
easily intercepted.
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Greece Liberated
Despite desperate nazl secret
weapons and equally desperate
threats, allied forces moved for
ward. Only in Italy were allied
armies bogged down, as they
fought along the muddy, bloody
banks of the Fo river. See-saw
fighting resulted in small gains I
and small losses. Field Marshal
Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander ad
mitted that the campaign was
rather stuck." .
In another sector of the Medit-
teranean theater, the coming of
winter brought liberation. As a
consequence of Romania's surren
der, the capitulation of Bulgaria
and Russian passage Inio Yugo
slavia, the Germans were com
pelled to evacuate Greece. British
and Greek troops occupied Ath
ens. By Nov. 1, the British had
reached Salonika, and on Nov. 4,
Greece was officially liberated.
The nazl star sank lower, and
German power waned as both
Great Britain and the United
States resumed diplomatic rela
tions with Italy, having already
recognized the French govern
ment of Gen. 'Charles jde Gaulle.
By November, the ' Russians
were preparing for their final
drive on the reich. A heavy ted
force laid siege to Budapest, cap
ital of Hungary. Striking across
the flat Hungarian plain, the
Russians apparently aimed to
take the prize by storm rather
than to reduce It slowly by bom
bardment. .
Ited Army 'Month'
November was traditionally the
month when the red army began
its winter offensive.
In 1941, the Russians ended
their long retreat, throwing the
Germans back from Moscow. In
November, 1942, they began the
counteroffensive at Stalingrad
which marked the turnlne Doint
of the war. In 1943. thev smashed
the Dnepr barrier, carrying their
offensive 250 miles west by spring
through the pre-war borders ofj
Poland and Romania.
British, American and French1
armies, too, were preparing for
the final winter offensive. Their
armies were ranged along the
500-mile length of the western i
front from the Netherlanda to the '
Swiss border. Six great armies:
drove into nazl lines und two
more were available. i
Lt. Gen. George S. Fatfbn's1
Third army forces, which had
spearheaded the assault berln. '
ning in August in tho Avranehcs
breakthrough, had taken Metz,
fortress city since the time of At-
tilu the Hun, entered Germany,
reaching Sehndorf, near the Junc
tion of the German-Luxembourg
border; then moving on to the
Saar river. Finally Patton's
troops had broken Into burning
Saarlnutein and were holding a
14-mlle stretch along the Saar
river. 1
The French First army had ;
reached tho Rhine river near
Kembs and taken Belfort after
passing through the Belfort gap
in the Vosges. By the middle of
November, French forces moved
into Strasbourg. The U. S. Sev
enth army dug in on the German
frontier along a 17-mlle front
from the Vosges to tho Rhine and
crossed the border in two places
in the Palatinate. 1
The massing of six allied ar-j
mios aiming for the heart of For. I
i tress (Jermania was nhase thnv.
iof the offensive against the reich. I
'Phase one was the June 6 inva
i sion and the establishment of a
: permanent bridgehead. Phase two
j had been the burst out of the
I Avranehcs peninsula, setting In
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motion the multiple attack which
smashed the wehrmacht in
France, driving Its remnants back
to the reich frontier and through
the Siegfried line.
This was the lineup of troops
at five gateways to Germany:
British Second army in the Neth-
erlands, at the Westphallan gate
in the lower Rhine valley, the
best approach to Berlin; the U. S.
First and Ninth armies at the
Cologne plain gate, between Bel
gium and the Rhine; the U. S.
Third army, striking from Metz
at the Moselle gate; the Seventh
U. S. army at the Lorraine gate;
and to the south, the French First
army at the Belfort gap.
Churches Arrange
V-E Day Services
In accordance with the procla
mation of the president of the
United States that Sunday, May
13, be set aside as a day of prayer,
the Bend Ministerial alliance has
announced a union service Sun
day at 2:30 p.m. at the Methodist
church.
Rev. Kenneth Tobias will be
the speaker, and the public Is In
vited, Rev. W. I. Palmer, president
of the alliance, reported this morn
ing. THREE BABIES BORN
Three recent births were report
ed by the St. Charles hospital, In
cluding two boys who were born
today, and a girl born yesterday.
Boys were born to Mr. and Mrs.
L, D. Bruch, 435 Riverside, and to
Mr. and Mrs. (ilen Pangburn,
Route 1.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Ward, 1220
Hill, are the parents of the girl.
Germany Quits
Oh boy! Two down and one
to go.
So let's set 'em up in the
other alley and get the thing
over, so we can again enjoy
a life of peace.
Let' s praise the Lord and
pass our boys the ammunition
to finish off the yellow "Sons
of Heaven!"
Jack Halbrook
Halbrook
Meury &58h' Lincoln
Bond and Minnesota
Four Million Men
...
As Army Reserves
Wanted By Chiefs
Washington, May 8 fliwrhe
war department wants a postwar
peacetime standing army of 500,
000 regulars backed up by 4,000,-
000 active .reserves, it was dis
closed today.
The army's postwar plans were
outlined at a closed session of the
house military affairs committee
by Brig. Gen. Edward A. Evans
of the army general staff com
mittee for reserve policy.
Committee members said army
plans, based on the assumption
that congress, will approve com
pulsory peacetime training, would
give the nation a total of 4,500,
000 trained men who could be
thrown into the field In approxi
mately 120 days.
Flans Indefinite
What congress will do about
compujsory training program re
mains to be seen, Dut cnairman
Clifton A. Woodrun, D., Va., of
the house postwar military policy
committee has announced " that
his group will begin open hearings
on the subject next month.
The total of 4,500,000 asked by
the army would include the 500,
000 regulars, 400,000 to 500,000
mpn who would be in the com
pulsory training program at a
given time, active reserves' who
had completed their training and
probably the national guard, com
mittee members said.
Under compulsory training bills
before congress, a trainee would
be listed as an "active reserve"
for a period of several years after
completing his training.
Army Was Small
In comparison to the size of
this force, the army had 302,968
enlisted men and 23,192 officers on
Aug. 31, 1940, a year and a half
before the Pearl Harbor attack.
Committee members were pre
sented a memorandum dated Aug.
25, 1944 by chief of staff Gen.
George C. Marshall who said the
nation could choose between two
types of military establishments
after the war:
1. A large standing army.
2. A standing army "no larger
than necessary to meet normal
peace-time requirements, but
backed up ,by "competent citizen
soldiers" who had acquired ex
perience through temporary train
ing. Out Of Place
Marshall said the large standing
army system Is the type used by
Germany and Japan and "has no
place among the institutions of
a modern democratic state based
upon the conception of govern
ment by the people."
Meanwhile, Rep. Walter G. An
drews, R., N. Y ranking republi
can on the house military affairs
committee, has accepted "full res
ponsibility" for the disclosure
that the army plans to discharge
2,000,000 men in the first 12
months after V-E day.
The war department originally
Intended to make public its de
mobilization plans on or after
V-E day. However, last Saturday
lt confirmed demobilization stories
which quoted "congressional
members" as their source.
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China Benefit
To Take Form
Of Card Party
Arranged as a benefit for Chi
nese nurses, a card party is plan
ned for Friday, May 18, at 8:15
p. m. at Trinity Episcopal parish
house by members-of the Busi
ness and Professional Women's
club of Bend, an affiliate of the
national federation which has as
one of its projects the financing
of training for nurses in Asia's
most thickly populated country.
In addition to aiding a gallant
ally in -its great struggle,, the
project will also help promote a
closer friendship between profes
sional women of the United States
and China, federation leaders
ooint out. The Chinese theater is
especially important now that the
European struggle Is over and
American troops will be transfer
red to the stand against Japan, it
is stressed.
The Bend club, organized a year
ago, gained prominence during
the sixth war loan drive, when
they made dolls which were given
with bond purchases.
Very - attractive prizes ' have
been donated by members for the
party next week, it is said. A bas
ket of groceries topped with a
pound of butter, a carton of cig
arets and a pair of coveted 61
gauge hose are mentioned as spe
ciail incentives to buy tickets,
which are available at the City
Drug or from members of the or
ganization. Tomorrow night the club will
hold a dinner meeting at 8 p. m. in
the Pine Tavern, when Dr. A. L.
Strand, president of Oregon State !
college, will speak on "Peace
Proposals."
Mothers Invited Job's Daugh
ters will hold a meeting at 7 p.m.
Wednesday in the Masonic temple,
wnen tneir mothers will be special
guests. There will be refresh
ments and entertainment for the
meeting, it has been announced.
DRUNK CHARGE FACED
Harold Neeters, 22, of 1490 New
port avenue, today was held in the
city jail on a drunk charge, as a
result of his arrest last night in a
Bond street hotel. Neeters faced
hearing in municipal court this
evening. .
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Ensign Whisenand
On Ocean Voyage
A Bend boy was aboard a tank
landing craft which recently made
a historic 4,000-mile overseas trip,
it became known here today. He
is Ensign Ben Whisenand, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Whisenand,
954 4i Broadway.
For the feat in taking the small
craft sucli . a distance, the com
manding officer sent the follosv
ing. message to the crew:
'your arrival today was watch
ed with great interest and pride.
By successfully completing this
long overseas passage you have
added another milestone to am
phibious warfare. Well done to
you and your group. I dare say
all of you feel like Columbus."
Reference to the long trip was
made in a recent NBC news
broadcast.
Bend Boys Meet
In Pacific Zone
Two Bend boys now serving in
the South Pacific recently got
together-for a few hands of pi
nochle and a talk about old times,
according to Mr. and Mrs. A. H.
Welch, 1225 Albany, whose son,
Pvt. Homer Welch, wrote that he
had seen Slc Melvin Sauers and
enjoyed a two-day visit with his
former chum.
Both boys arrived only recently
in the South Pacific theater. In
the same mail with the letter
about their chance encounter,
Homer's parents received a letter
for Americans us news comes of Europe's
OD of our fathers,
Lord of our far -
Beneath whose awful Hand we hold
Dominion over palm and pine
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget, lest we forget!
The tumult and the shouting dies . . .
i
The captains and the kings depart . . .
Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice,
An humble and a contrite heart.
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget, lest we forget!
This rxarpifrvm Rudiard Kipling's famous pom 'Rtcissicnal" is publishtd as a Iribuu to the men,
women and children of the United .Vations uhe have sacrificed much to bring victory to the cause of freedom,
A reproduction of this message in color (sise 10 W) suitable for framing, n-ith no company signature
will be sent free on nauot. Wnle Standard of California, S,w &..-, as Bush Street, San Francisco so
STANDARD OF
from their son asking for Melvin's
address. 'The young seaman is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. M. L.
Sauers, 425 Riverside boulevard.
Soldier Honored
With Citation -
I Clarence E. Saeer. who lost his
i life In Luxembourg' in the battle
of the Belgian bulge, has been
posmumousiy awarded the pur
pie neart and the presidential ci
tation, according to his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Duryee, 1363
Harmon, who recently received
tne decorations.
Pvt. Sager was killed in ac
tion in an advance near Berle,
Luxembourg, Jan. 5. Memorial
services were held Palm Sunday
at the Methodist church here.
In addition to his parents, he
is survived by his wife, the for
mer Mary Elizabeth Esson, and
one brother, Wallace Duryee.
CARS ARE TAGGED
Four more cars have been
tagged for parking violations', ac
cording to city police records to
day. The cars were registered to
' Ed Culberson, 4 Franklin avenue;
P. S. Olson, 138 St. Helens place;
1 A. Mayfield, Bend, for overtime
parking, and Charles Boardman,
' 413 East Greenwood avenue, for
parking in a loading zone.
HOSTILITIES TERMINATE
London, May 8 UH The parti
san-controlled Czech radio said to
day that hostilities have ended by
I agreement in Prague, one of the
I last nazl pockets of resistance in
known of old . . .
flung battle-line ...
CALIFORNIA
MOURNING UNCHANGED
Washington, May 8 UrWn
mnnlh's nprinri nf mournino-
t rankiin u. nooseveii win run its
full length until next Monday
despite the victory in Europe.
RINSO'S FRIDAY NlfiRT KUDLINEBS-v
say: "De Kingfish don', win
no arguments wid us since
we been listemn' to de
Richfield Reporter. We
fades all his points wid a
world of facts from de
Richfield Reporter.
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