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THE
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BULLETIN
Volume LIU
CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
4-:
Nazis Sign Surrender Terms
With Russians in Devastated
Berlinr Zhukov Is Witness
Keitel, in Full Dress Uniform, Places His
Signature to Document; Last Minute Attempt
To Play for Time Is Blocked By Red Officials
By Joseph W. Grigc, Jr.
, . (United Pren W.r Connpondent)
(For Combined Press and Radio)
miniHi "umjv a neaaquarters, Berlin, Mav 9 (IIP) The
nnai seal was set on the wehrmacht's defeat and humiliation
ef'lihLlduWh,en eld Marshal Keitel, titular head of
V.k T 1, . "V"""" aer wehrmacht was brought
to Marshal Zhukov's headquarters in the rW..o n.Jr'
capital early this morning and signed the formal rattf cat on
of Germany's unconditional surrender.
. As one of the first two American nm.r,,,.,. .-n-
permitted to go to Berlin since the Russiccuinn T
rnessea tne
To Speak Here
TWO SECTIONS , THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1945
i - . I .
Weather Forecast
Scattered clouds today, tonight
and Thursday. Cooler wnt of the
Cascades today.
NO. 132
Dr. A. L. Strand, Oregon State
college president, is in Bend today
to address two"-local meetings,
with "Peace Proposals" as his
,subject. Dr. Strand tonight at
7 oclock will speak before the
Business and Professional' Wom
en's club in the Pine Tavern. The
address, to begin tit 8 p.m., will
be open to the public. This after
noon. Dr. Strand addressed 4-H
club leaders at the courthouse.
simintni-p in -tha
large white-washed hall of an
army technical school in the
eastern residential suburb
Karlshorst, now used by Zhu
kov as his headquarters.
. The document was more or less
identical terms as that signed at
Reims on Monday morning, with
certain additions requested by the
Russians defining more closely
the details of the surrender of
German troops and equipment.
Ztiukov Signs
On the allied side it was signed
by Marshal Zhukov for the Rus
sians, by Air Chief Marshal Ted
der on behalf of General Eisen
hower and was witnessed by Lt.
Gen. Spaatz and Gen. de Lattre de
Tassingny. On the German side
Keitel, as oberkommando de
wehrmacht signed together with
Admiral Friedeburg, commander-in-chief
of the German navy, and
Col. Gen. Paul Stumpff, commander-in-chief
of the luftwaffe.
With signatures of the heads of
ll the German armed forces ap-
penuea, inis nisionc aucumcm
forestalls forever any future
claims that the'Cerman army
ended the war unbeaten.
Keitel, tall, haughty grey-haired
figure wearing the full dress uni
form and red striped pants of a
field-marsnai, maintain-
Britain Prepares
For War on Nips
London, May 9 UP Britain ob
served the second day of the V-E
celebration in comparative calm
today as she turned to the task
of throwing her full resources
with the United States in battle of
annihilation against Japan.
The Job ahead for the British
was outlined personally by Prime
Minister Churchill last night in a
victory speech from the balcony
of the ministry of health building
in White Hall.
Churchill said it was well that
wit: rjriusn coum lane anoiner
holiday today when "our great
Russian allies will also be cele-
brating victory." i
To Rebuild Land
But he added, after that the
people must begin the task of re
building their land and
"We must turn ourselves to ful
fill our duty to our own country
men and to our gallant allies of
the United States who were so
foully and treacherously attacked
by Japan."
"We will go hand in hand with
them," Churchill said. "Even if it
is a hard struggle, we will not be
the ones who will fail."
Churchill's brief message high-'
lighted a day and night of joyous
celebration in which a rousing
multitude thronged London's
streets and literally besieged
Buckingham palace.
War Spotlight Turns West;
Japan Invasion Plans Made
Admiral Nimitz Reveals Large Forces Are
To Be Shifted Prom Europe to Pacific Lands
By Frank Tremaine . y .
' . (United PrM War CorreKpondent)
Guam, May 9 (TIE! The joint chiefs of staff now are
working on plans for an invasion of Japan, Admiral Ches
ter W. Nimitz disclosed today.
With the war spotlight now focused solely on the Pacific
theater, Nimitz also told a press conference, the United States
immediately will step up "very materially" its air .bombard
ment of the enemy homeland. ' .' : ' ' 'V
He spoke as adverse weather slowed ground operations
on southern Okinawa, where five American divisions were
hammering at the strongest
Japanese defenses inthe Pa
cific only a mile above Naha,
capital of the island. '
American battleships and cruis
ers knocked out enemy gun era
placements, artillery and mortars
in a heavy bombardment. Ilium!
nation shells fired by the war
ships at night curbed Japanese
infiltration of the American lines.
To Shift Forces
Nimitz told his press confer
ence that he was anticipating the
shifting of large forces from Eur
ope to the Pacific and added that
his command was endeavoring to
obtain areas to support them. ;
Additional air strength prob
ably would arrive first, he said.
Their attacks would be supported
by increased raids by American
carrier planes, he said.
Asked if he thought the -Japanese
would capitulate before their
homeland were invaded, ne saia:
"I don't know how much the
Japs can take. If they see the
handwriting on the wall, they can
see what happened to Germany.
We will plan the invasion of Ja
pan and go ahead on the basis
that the invasion will be neces
sary,
Curfew Lifted,
Vinson Reveals
Washington, May 9 (IP War
mobilization director Fred M. Vin
son today lifted the midnight cur
few on amusement places but
said restrictions on transportation
must continue.
He also revoked, effective at
once, the government ban on rac
ing. Vinson discussed almost every
phase of home front activity at a
press conference in which he said
that he was confident the Ameri
can people would "keep their feet
on the ground and not go hay
wire" during the coming months
Vinson announced revocation of
the midnight curfew with the
words "curfew will not ring to
night." He then went on to other
aspects of civilian life in wartime.
to rroceea vigorously
Vinson said production of elec
tric refrigerators and washing
machines will be started immedi
ately in "moderate" quantities.
Reconversion, he continued,
must proceed "vigorously." He
warned, however, that complete
change-over to a civilian economy
must await the defeat of Japan.
Vinson also announced that:
l.'War plants will continue on
the 48-hour work week. , ,
2. The Little Steel wage for
mula ana otner stabilization Don
ties will be retained.
3. The administration still fa
vors legislation to put manpower
Hprmnn
ed his Prussian arrogance to the ceilings on employment.
bitter end.
Plays For rime
a fior his signature already had
been appended to the document
and while the allied chiefs were
cionirnr. Keitel made a last min-
nto attempt to nlay for time. He
beckoned the Russian interpreter
to him and .began haranguing
him, bitterly protesting there was
ffirient time to notify the
forces under his command of mi
nor mortifications in the capitula
tion text and asking for another
24 hours grace before it became
effective.
He could clearly be heard re
peatedly saying to the interpre
ter: "I Insist you go to the colonel-general
I mean Marshal Zhu
kov and tell him I must demand
another 24 hours respite."
Club to Entertain
Bend's Guardsmen
The Enlisted Men's club, an off
shoot of Company B, 20th battal
ion, Oregon state guard, will per
form its first function tonight
after the regular drill of the unit
in the high school gymnasium, by
serving coffee, doughnuts and ice
cream to the members. The club
was formed on May 2, at the
suggestion of Capt. Ralph G.
Graham, in command of the Bend
guard unit.
Pvt. John Newby was named
president of the clubr Pvt. L. B.
Foster, secretary-treasurer, and
Pvt. August Schwartz as acting
mess sergeant. The purpose of
the club, it was pointed out. Is to
provide entertainment for the
Prisoners Told'
Of Nazi Downfall
Seattle, May 9 HP) Five hun
hundred German prisoners at
Fort Lawton were advised for
mally of their homeland's down
fall late yesterday, but there was
no evident emotion and demon
stration. A proclamation, read in Ger
man by one of the prisoners, told
them the national socialist gov
ernment of Germany was dead
and that they were "released
from any obligation entered into
with a government that no longer
exists."
The prisoners, most of them
captured during the Normandy
breakthrough, are employed by
the Seattle port of embarkation
at a processing lot where motor
vehicles are prepared for ship
ment overseas. -
Jap War Ahead,
Bond Buyers Told
Washington, May 9 ipi "The
collapse of Germany should In
spire all America and give us re
newed courage and determination
in our fight for total victory,"
Ted R. Gamble, national director
of the war finance division of the
treasury, said today.
"In thousands upon thousands
oi American homes there is pride
and sadness; from these homes
have come our fighting men who
died to bring us this far on the
road to victory.
"The battle of Japan has just
begun. Those who have loved
ones in the Pacific know that the
war is not over. Japan has four
minion soldiers strongly entrench
ed and fortified in China to say
nothing ot otner Japanese troops
in the various islands of the
south Pacific. We must continue
to supply our armies there with
clothing, food and fighting mate
rials in unlimited quantities.
"Buying and holding all the war
bonds we possibly can is the least
that we at home can continue to
do."
Draft Extension
47 REPORTED MISSING
Portland, Me., May 9 (Ui -The
navy today announced that among
47 officers .and missing after the
sinking of the USS PE-56 off
Cape Elizabeth, April 23, was Wal
ter M. Goe, MM 2c, wife, Mrs.
Jean Goe, 133 Boren avenue, Seattle.
Washington, May 9 .(IP) Presi
dent Truman today signed with'
reluctance a draft act extension
measure which carries an amend
ment requiring that 18-year-old in
ductees be given six months train
ing before being sent into combat.
The president said he signed
the legislation only because Im
mediate extension of the selec
tive service act is necessary for
continuing the war against Ja
pan. The measure extends the act
for one year after May 15.
"I am reluctantly giving my ap
proval to this legislation," the
president said in a statement. "I
do not wish this approval to be
interpreted as expressing my con
currence in section two of the bill,
which places added restrictions
on the war and navy departments
in their management of the fight
ing forces.
"I signed the legislation only
because the immediate extension
of the selective service act is of
compelling necessity in the con
tinuance of military operations
against japan.
The senate added the amend
ment about training for 18-year-
olds to the extension bill despite
the strong objections of military
leaders. The house concurred in
it.
Prague Falls to Soviet Army
ft
it -ft
ft
ft
Qoering Seized by Americans
Foe Hierarchy
Leaders Held
By 7th Army
Garage Folk Buy
Bonds on V-E Day
Employes of the Bend Garage
company had a real patriotic way
oi ceieoraung v-t; day.
For when the announcement
came that the War was ended in
Europe, they "went over the top'
in tne seventn war bond cam
paign, considerably exceeding
their quota, it was reported today
by Lome Carter, in charge of
business firm solicitation.
The garage firm has 12 em
ployes, and each subscribed 100
per cent, according to the announcement.
U. 5. Drafts Compromise Formula to Settle
Own Disputes; Molotov to Return to Russia
By R. H. Shackford , W. Averill Harriman and
uniid rrM sun corrwondent) Archibald Clark Kerr, U. S. and
San Francisco, May 9 IP The British ambassadors to Russia
United States has drafted a com- are expected to return to Moscow
promise formula which would al-! soon. Harriman, Clark Kerr ant"
low the western hemisphere to j Molotov comprise a special corn
settle its own disputes within the i mission set up at the Crimea con
framework of the world organi-1 ference to work out an acceDtable
zation, it was learned today. I reorganization of the Polish gov-
The formula, which would pres-, ernment.
erve the Pan-American security European and Latin American
system without weakening the countries nroDosed todav that thn
authority of the world organize I old league of nations hold a final
i tton, was disclosed as tne unitea ; meeting n San Franclwn mil
men after each drill. AH members " ucui nimi an u iu amnoniy over to
of the unit were ureed to attend ' ,uua7 lu tlu mrem. ui imp , me new worm organization. Such
tonight's drill, and partake of the j
ciub s hospitality afterward.
IlIMMLER IN NORTH?
Stockholm, May 9 'U Uncon
firmed reports reaching here said
today that gestapo chief Heinrich
Himmler and other prominent
nazis were in Norway.
nical committees. No plenary ses- action, they said, would remove
sions were scheduled. 1 any question of the legality of
Soviet foreign commissar V. M. ; transfer of authority over terrltor
Molotov was expected to leave les mandated to certain powers
today for Moscow where the ques-! especially Japan, by the old
tion of expanding the Polish gov-; league.
iiiiitiu h--. ' " "c""s i iix Muiencan xormuia, lt was I use of force however nrai
at the conference here will be set-! learned, was presented to a Rir i r.h J..?:???1
tiH pi m.i i. v.. 7 wu.ii.-ii wouia oe
Sir.tary of state Edward R. Stettinius.
Tr. It would allow the Pan-Ameri-an
system to deal with hemis
heric disputes without referring
'hem to the world organization
'or a limited period of time so
long as they were strictly hemis
Dheric. But once such disputes were
nrolongedand the security council
decided that they threatened
world peace, they would come
under the jurisdiction oUhe world
oreanization.
Under the original Dumbarton
Oakes amendments, all Interna
tional disputes In a Plvpn area
could be handled bv a rpffinnal
security system up until the time
for positive enforcement action.
For application of sanctions or
Ex-Reichmarshal Says
He Was Condemned to
Die By Adolf Hitler
Paris, May 9 (Ui Rcichmarshal
Hermann Goering and Marshal
Albert Kesselrlng, two of the
leaders In the fallen nazi hier
archy, are In the hands of the
Amercian Seventh army, supreme
headquarters announced today.
Goering said he was condemn
ed to death by Adolf Hitler for
suggesting on April 24 that he
Goering take over the leadership
of Germany.
Hitler s SS elite guardsmen ar
rested him, Goering said, but
members of his own air force
rescued him.
Kesselring had been command
er in chief of Germany's western
iront since early March. He was
believed to have taken over from
Marshal Karl von Rundstedt
now also in allied hands after
the Germans suffered a series of
disastrous reverses In the west.
Caught by Patch -
Gen. Jacob L. Devers' Sixth
army group headquarters relayed
tnrougn shaek the announce
ment that Lt. Gen. Alexander M.
Patch's Seventh army had cap
tured Goering and Kesselring.
The first reports of Goerlngs
capture gave no details of his
meloovamatie report thatHitlel
condemned nim and he was res
cued by members of the luftwaffe
he commanded in its heyday.
me whereabouts of Goerine
had been one of the major mys
teries of the collapse of the nazi
command in Germany. A few
days before reporting that Adolf
Hitler had been killed in battle,
the German radio said Goering
had been relieved of his air force
command because of bad health.
First of "Big Three"
Goering's was the first of nazi
dom's "big three" names Hitler,
uoering and uoebbels to be writ
ten off by the Germans In the
closing phase of their resistance.
Confirmation of their report
that Hitler was killed In Berlin
still is lacking. Goebbels has been
reported killed in Berlin, but no
official allied announcement has
been made.
Goering's obesity and love of
medals made him a favorite sub
ject of caricaturists. He was an
ace airman In the first world war
and was credited with laying the
foundation for and building up
the German air force that was the
scourge of Europe in the early
years of World War II.
Americans Capture Goering
ClllQ
Relchmarshal Hermann Goering Is a prisoner of the American
Seventh army, It was announced today. Goering said he had been
conaemned to deatn by Hitler,
Nippons 'Regret'
(Hr UniU-d Prii) -
Japan announced todav that It
will keep lighting as hard as ever
in spite of Germany's surrender.
l ne announcement broadcast
by Tokyo radio and recorded by
FCC, was made after a special
meeting of the Japanese cabinet
under Premier Kantaro Suzuki.
While it expressed "deep re
gret" over Germany's surrender,
tne orricial statement said tiie
'sudden change of the war situa
tion in Europe will not bring the
slightest change in the war ob
jective of the imperial govern
ment of Japan."
logotner with our allied na
tions In greater East Asia," the
statement added, "the Imperial
government of Japan will devote
her total effort toward the com
plete destruction o' the unjust
ambition o' the United Slates and
Britain, which are attempting to
trample down the GEA on behalf
of their own principles and ex
ploitations, and thereby It expects
to firmly maintain the security of
the GEA."
Of Japs Planned
Guam, May 9 (Ui . Lt. Gen.
Barney M. Giles, commander of
army air forces in the Pacific
ocean areas, said today that
American bombers soon will be
dropping more high explosives on
Japan than ever were used
against Germany.
Disclosing that present plans
call for a "very fast buildup" of
B-29 forces, Giles added:
Round-the-clock bombing of
Japan is in the not too distant
future."
He emphasized Fleet Admiral
Chester W. Nimitz's earlier decla
ration that there will he "very
material" stepping up of the tem
po or the air war against japan
by disclosing that a number of
new type planes, including the
B-32 bomber, the P-80 jet-propulsion
fighter and an Improved A-26
attack bomber will ne nitting tne
enemy shortly.
Giles said additional equip
ment from Europe also will be
available. He added that ground
forces would be moved to the Pa
cific as fast as shipping permits
DUt pointed out the need for
more bases to support the grow
ing air forces.
Kaiser to Build
Homes En Masse'
Over 3 Million
u. o trignrers
Coming Home
Washington, May 9 UP)
army disclosed today that It plans
to withdraw some 3,100,000 Amer
ican troops from Europe by water
and air at a rate of 250,000 to 500,
000 monthly.
Somervell said most of the
troops destined for the Pacific
would proceed by way of the
United States and receive fur
loughs of 30 days or more.
He said wounded and liberated
prisoners would have priority for
return. He said about 40,000
wounded men have been coming
home each month and all remain
ing wounded soldiers should be
home from Europe in three
months.
Somervell said the first 45,000
American soldiers should get
home in May.
City Is Target
Of Nazi Fliers
AtWar'sEnd
Garrison in Dunkirk
Gives Up; St. Nazaire
Germans Surrender
London, May 9 (IP) The red
army, lighting on against out-;
lawed German dlehards after the
official end of the European war.,
today captured the Czechoslovak
capital of Prague In a pre-dawn
attack.
The Prague radio reported that
the Germans, In defiance of the
unconditional surrender agree-. :
ment, bombed the capital and two
other Czechoslovak cities. ,
Nazis garrisoning the Czecho
slovak bastion were the only force
of any consequence carrying on-
after the officially proclaimed
cessation of hostilities at 12:01
a. m. today.
Reports from the continent said
the garrisons ot historic Dunkirk
and the last enemy-neio pockets
at St. Nazaire, La Rochelle and
Lorlent had given up.
Buiiin iicporut iiiiure
Marshal Stalin announced the
capture ot Prague. His broadcast
order ot the day said Marshal
Tvan R- KYinnv'H First Ukrainian
army seized the capital in a tank
and Infantry attack.
Despite the end ot the war 19.
hours earlier, the order of the
day concluded with the usual-formula
"Death t the Germah in-;
vaders." ' - -
The Prague radio reported that
German bombs crashed on the
Thn I Czechoslovak capital and two
OverMillion Men
To Be Discharged
Washington, May 9 (U'i Ameri
can soldiers with lone service rec
ords will learn details tomorrow!
of the point system under which.
1,300,000 of them will be chosen
for dischurge during the next 12
months.
A total of 2,000,000 men are to
be dropped from army rolls with
in a year but the remaining 700,-
000 will be discharged for sick
ness, wounds or age.
About half the men discharged
(other cities hours after the offi
cial end of the war In Europe. It
added that Russian forces had en
tered Prague and with Czechoslo
vak patriots cleared the city of
Germun troops.
Paris press dispatches reported
that the Germans in Dunkirk,
scene of the British evacuation
from the continent In 1940, sur
rendered at 9 a. m. A French com
munique announced the German
capitulations at St. Nazaire, La
Rochelle and Lorlent.
Resistance Cracks
Telephone reports from Born
holm by way of Copenhagen said
the German resistance on the
Danish island off the tip of Swed
en cracked during the night, and
Russian warships put in after
daylight.
The crumbling of the last nests
of nazi resistance, outlawed by
the unconditional surrender which
made them subject to allied at
tack of any nature, followed word
of the final formalizing of Ger
many's surrender In Berlin.
San Francisco, May 9 (Ui
Hcnrv J. Kaiser, wartime ship
building genius, celebrated his
63rd birthday today by announc
ing the formation of a new $5,-
000,000 corporation for construe- ... b, from (he European theater .! by local authorities, concerning a
one-third from the Pacific and the! person who was at tne scene oi
balance from among men in the j the fatal blaze and disappeared
Uniti'd States returned from over-1 shortly after the flames had been
seas duty. I quenched.
Firebug Possibility
Seen in Moefair Fire
Tacoma, Wash., May 9 iul
Intimation that the Macfalr apart
ment house fire in February
which took the lives of 19 persons
may have been the work of a fire
bug was published by the Tacoma
Times today.
The Times article said informa
tion on a suspect has been sought
tion of two-bedroom houses on a
mass, nation-wide basis, begin
ning immediately.
The houses will cost between
$4000 and $5000 and will include
not only standard equipment but
also stoves, refrigerators, hydraul
ic dish washers, clothes washers,
garbage disposal units and air conditioners.
I'he financier disclosed that the
Kaiser community homes corpora
tion Is ready to start construction
rm fi non hoiiuna in the Ran Fran-
Cisco bay area, Los Angeles and;bt 1 service troops from Italy
Portland. Several plants will hoi directly to the Pacific for the war
built at "considerable cost" to get
the project under way.
Prayerof Thanks
Greets End of War
Allies Start Moving Troops
From Italy to Pacific Zone
Rome, May 9 lli The Allies al-!swering that question even If It Is
ready have begun shipping com-1 unpleasant." he said.
lilt.' liriuill IV nviiiciii ill,; iui
the majority of troops in Italy
would come only after Japan has
been defeated, he said. All troops
In the European and Mediterran
ean theaters had been divided into
groups for future disposition, he
against Japan, Gen. Joseph T.
McNarney revealed today.
McNarney, deputy supreme
commander In the Mediterranean
theater, said other troops would i said.
be sent from Italy to the Pacific "The first group will consist
by way of the United States. of men to be retained overseas
It generally was known that and required for occupation, the
engineering and other technical ; tremendous lob of reestablishing
day for the conclusion of the war ; troops, as well as certain air force law and order In conquered Eur
in Europe and offered a prayer ! personnel, had been embarking i one and of movlnc out our sud-
Vatlcan City, May 9 (Hi Pope
I llu VTI nvrtt-fiuunH orutmirlo In.
k t f ii I . . 1 " .
mo. vmKun yuisung
Is Arrested in Norway
Copenhagen, May 9 iw MaJ.
Vldkun Quisling, puppet premier
of Norway during the German oc
cupation, was arrested at an Oslo
police station today, advices from
the Norwegian capital reported.
Quisling reported In person to and moral ruin in the history of lied troops as to when they would
the police station ,the Oslo re- mankind." be permitted to go home would
ports said. He was accompanied i "Cries of gratitude break forth I be disappointing,
by an unspecified number of his ardently," he said fi hailing the "But It would be unfair If I
cabinet members. 'end of hostilities. 'were not absolutely frank In an-
plies and breaking up installa
tions." he said.
"In the second group will come
combat and service troops who
for a "Just end" to the "bloody 'for the Pacific for several weeks.
struggle" still under way in the j but McNarney's speech was the
far east. i first confirmation that combat
In a broadcast to the world, he troops already were on the way.
said the European war had left McNarney said that his answer' will be transferred to active thea-
in its wake the greatest "material , to preslstent questions from Al- ters in the far east.
"Some In this group will go di
rectly from Italy to the Pacific.
Some already have gone. Others
will go
States."
by way of the United