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Volume LIU
THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON. FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1945
NO. 140
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Leaders Study
Ways to Speed
Charter Work
Britain Holds Out Hope
That Veto Power May
Be Abandoned Gradually
By K. H. Shackfonl
(United Frew Staff Correspondent)
San Francisco, May 18 Hit
Secretary of State Edward R.
Stettinius, Jr., today called the
heads ot the four commissions of
the United Nations conference to
his apartment to discuss ways of
speeding up the work of drafting
the charters for a world security
organization.
The commissions are ready to
begin public sessions at which de
cisions of their subordinate techni
cal committees will be debated
and cleared for final conference
action. The first such meeting is
scheduled for tomorrow, on judi
cial organization.
The Big Five had been studying
ways all week to speed the work
nere ana to Dring ine conierence
to a reasonably quick close. Stet
tinius was exoeeted to eonvpv the
Big Five ideas to commission
heads. -
Proposals Made
Those ideas include proposals
for limiting the time a delegate
can speak, limitation on the num
ber of times a delegate can speak,
and combining similar amend
ments for purposes of debate.
June 5 Is currently regarded as
a tentative very tentative dead
line for ending the conference.
Meanwhile "debate on the con
troversial veto power of the Big
Five started In committee with
Great Britain holding out hope to
the little countries at this confer
ence that the veto power may
gradually be abandoned as the
world organiaztion grows.
May Not Yield
Neither Britain nor any other
Big Five nation has any intention
of yielding now to modification of
the voting formula for the secur
ity "council. Tt was adopte'd'by the
Big Three at Yalta and grants
each of the Big Five nations a
veto over virtually any decision
by the security council.
But the little nations have serv
ed notice that their acceptance of
the voting formula if necessary
will be only acquiescence.
The long awaited debate on this
controversial issue began In tho
conference committee on security
council procedure late yesterday.
New Zealand, Australia and the
Netherlands led the attack, and
British permanent undersecretary
of state for foreign affairs, Sir
Alexander Cadogan, did the de
fending. Defense Outlined
His defense was based on the
theme that the unanimity of the
Big Five is needed -at this time if
the world organization is to suc
ceed. The special position of the big
powers can be justified, he said,
by realizing that they represent
more than half of the world's
population. Any falling out of the
big powers Would result in war
anyway, he argued, and the unani
mity rule among them is especial
ly needed in the early stages of
the organization.
Budget Law Bill
Target of Suit
Salem, Ore., May 18 (IPi An
Injunction suit, designed to pre
vent the secretary of state from
Including house bill 403 of the
1945 legislature In the session law
book, was filed in the Marion
county circuit court here late
Thursday.
A hearing on the bill was sched
uled for late today in the court
of Judge George R. Duncan.
The suit, filed by the Oregon
Business and Tax Research, Inc.,
of Pprtland, claims that the in
advertent non-inclusion of a con
ference committee report makes
the bill, as signed by the gover
nor, invalid, because it is not in
the form the legislature intended
it to be.
The bill, Incorporating amend
ments to the local budget law,
provides that a cash working
fund could be set up for various
accounts of municipal corpora
tions. The unincluded report,
which was adopted by both house
and senate, changes the amount
of the fund from 15 to 10 per cent
of the total estimated expenses of
the corporation for the ensuing
year.
Provisions Explained
The conference report would
also have increased the amount
0! estimated expenditures from
S5.000 to $7,500 for a corporation
before it would be necessary to
advertise them, and it exempts
dock commissions from provi
sions of the bill.
The suit is holding up the com
pletion of the 1945 session laws.
They Called It Fundamental the Judge. Polygamy
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Denied freedom In their final appeal under the law, lS.polygamlsts, who call themselves "Fundamentalists." .
Identified as the husbands of 65 women and the fathers ot 281 children, flled'through the gates of Utah Stat
Prison to oegln terms ot not to exceed five years each. Several members of the group are pictured above
talking with prison guard. Left to right: David B. Darger, Albert E. Barlow, Heber K. Cleveland, Alma
Kelsch, Capt. of.Quard H.-B. Smart ' -
Dr. Ley, Defiant Hitlerite,
Asks Captors to Shoot Him
German Front Labor Leader Declares He Will
Remain Loyal to Fuehrer; Denials Are Made
Sixth U. S. Army Group Hqrs. Germany, May 18 (U.E)
Dr. Robert Ley, former German labor front leader, told his
American captors today to shoot him because "life has no
more meaning for me" without
"I knew that after Hitler
one-time leader of the strength-through-joy movement. "Life
has no more meaning for me. You can do away with me. Shoot
me right now. I don t care.
Quietly defiant, Ley said:
"I myself shall always remain loyal to Hitler and the
nnzi party program."
Ley once was a pot-bellied,
Sub Bearing Dead
Nears U.S. Port
Portsmouth, N. H.. May 18 Ut
Navy spokesmen discounted to
day a published report quoting a
captured nazi as saying that his
submarine was submerged in
Portsmouth harbor for nn entire
day in 1943.
The nazi was identified only as
a petty officer who was aboard
the U-873, one of three German
submarines brought here this
week after surrendering to U. S.
naval units.
Navy spokesmen said it was in
credible that an enemy undersea
craft could have entered Ports
mouth harbor undetected, ilnce
the harbor has been guarded by
a submarine net from the outset
of the war.
Bearing a luftwaffe general
and two dead Japanese attaches,
the last of five German subma
rines to surrender to U. S. naval
Atlantic patrol units is due at
Portsmouth tomorrow at 8 a.m.
The 1,600-ton U-234 which sur
rendered while en route to Japan
will be anchored near three other
German submarines brought here
in the past four days. The fourth
was escorted into Delaware bay.
The German officer aboard the
U-boat was identified by the navy
as Maj. Gen. Uurich Kessler, for
mer commander of Germany's air
forces in the Atlantic area. The
unidentified Japanese were be
lieved to have committed hari-
kari before the vessel surren
dered.
341 Sailors Killed When
Washington, May 18 IB Big
Ben has came back from the most
terrible U. S. ship disaster in this
war and will fight again on
borrowed time.
Behind her in the bloody Pacific,
where for 15 hours she was a
flaming funeral pyre for heroes,
she left more than 1,000 casual
ties as the price of her survival.
It was the heaviest price thus far
paid by an American fighting ship
in world war II. It was twice
the cost of the entire battle of the
Coral sea.
Big Ben is the USS Franklin,
27,000-ton Essex class carrier. An
hour after dawn on March 19,
as she stood 60 miles off Japan,
she was as proud and trim a war
ship as ever rode the waves. She
was a carrier division flagship
poised to strike with other units
of Vice Adm. Marc Mltscher's
task force 58 at remnants of the
Japanese fleet in the inland sea.
A few minutes later, because
one Japanese dive-bomber got!
through, she was a volcanic chaos .
of bursting bombs, flying gas-1
nlinp. and exploding rockets and ,
!gun ammunition. i
By nightfall she counted her
heroes high in the hundreds, her
I dead at 341, 'her missing at 431, !
' and her wounded at more than j
300. '
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Hitler.
there would be chaos." said the
' -
bull-necked, hard-drinking,
profane labor boss. Today
there were neither strength
nor joy left m him as he lan-
guished in a 15th corps pris
oner of war cage. He appeared
to weigh no more than 150
pounds, and heiyas cold sober,
"Nazis Will Continue"
However he was a nazl to the
last.
"You cannot kill off 80,000,000
Germans," he said. "We nazis will
continue. You don't know who
most of them are."
He pointed through a window
to Austrian flags flying in Salz
burg's streets. "Many of those
flying them are the most fanatic
nazis.
Ley calmly denied that foreign
workers in Germany were slaves.
He said they all had worked vol
untarily, and that he had followed
orders to feed everybody alike
who worked, Germans or for
eigners. Neither Would Ley admit that
he had liquidated the old German
trade labor unions.
"I merely took them over," was
his explanation. "Their organiza
tions still were there. In fact
some of their treasuries are larg
er." He admitted he supported the
nazi policy of persecuting Jews
except "killing them outright."
But he also said "as such, Jews
don't exist for me."
COURT OPENED, CLOSED
Madras, May 18 (Special) Cir
cuit Judge Ralph S. Hamilton of
Bend was in Madras Monday to
open and adjourn court, as there
were no cases on the docket. Jef
ferson county has two terms of
court, in the spring and fall.
Big Ben's story can be told now
because she came back. After
steaming 12,000 miles under her
own unquenchable power, Big
Ben. unrecognizably seared and
Essex-class carrier, USS Franklin, operating approximately 60 miles from Jap coast, Is victim of attack by
Jap dive bomber. Picture shows great ship turned blazing furnace after attack, with cruller Santa Fe, left,
moving away after pouring water on fire. Frsnklin'a citw chat forward. .
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Trieste Troops
Trieste, May 17 lUWBoth Allied
and Yugoslav troops In Trieste
are trying to avoid incidents, pend
ing final decision on who Is to;
occupy the port.
An estimated 1,000 Yugoslav
troops still patrolled the streets
today, but more mature soldiers
have replaced those who original
ly entered the city. Many of the
young Yugoslavs blamed for Ir
responsible shootings which might
have started serious incidents are
gone.
There have not been any kick
backs yet from the seizure of
loot from troops under Marshal
Tito's command by American for
ces in the' Foritzla area. The
Americans set up roadblocks and
searched the soldiers at they
crossed to the east of the Isonzo
river as "Tito had ordered them.
Most of them were from the
Garibaldi Italian division.
Soccer Game Played
Here in Trieste relations have
been improved by a soccer game
between the Yugoslavs and the
Scots guards, which the Yugoslavs I
won 6 to one. The mountain-
trained Yugoslavs had more en
durance for the last-half drive.
The food situation is bad heir:
now, and there are many people
begging for food In the streets,
The bread ration officially is 150
grams daily, but some people have
waited in lines from five in the
morning without getting bread.
Japs Mend Fences
To Please Soviets
Tokyo, May 18 (IB A Tokyo
radio spokesman said today that
Japan, by severing her axis ties
with defeated Germany, has
established ."completely friendly"
relations with Russia.
The spokesman, identified by
FCC monitors as Ichiro Baba,
acknowledged that Japanese-Russian
relations had been "unpleas
ant" because of -Tokyo's adher
ence to the axis alliance. He as
serted, however, that these diffi
culties had been swept away with
the downfall of Germany.
Baba also branded as "propa
ganda" recent rumors that Japan
was putting out peace feelers to
the United States and Britain.
battered and mangled, is home at
long last In a berth at the Brook
lyn (N. Y.) navy yard. There she
will be made whole again.
The Japanese bomber. Its ap-
U.S. Troopers
On Mindanao
Near Airfield
Elements in Outskirts ,
Of Valencia; Nippons"
Counterattack Stopped
By Don Caswell
(United Pros War Correspondent)
Manila, May 18 mi American
troops on Mindanao today closed
in on Valencia and Its important
two-strip airfield after a surge of
six miles along the Sayre high
way. A communique which gave the
31st division's position as of Wed
nesday put the leading elements
in the outskirts of Valencia and
only two miles from the airdrome.
The 31st had slashed ahead six
miles Wednesday and five miles
the day before, and there were no
indications their advance had
slowed.
, To the north, however, the 40th
division met stiff opposition from
Japanese artillery and mortar po
sitions In the Mahglna. canyon.
The 40th was working Its way
south through difficult, hilly coun
try carpeted with 12-foot high
grass.
Gap Being Closed
The two divisions were 31 air
line miles, or 45 miles along the
winding Sayre highway, from a
junction which would split Minda
nao lengthwise. "
The 31st already was being sup
plied by planes landing on the
Maramag airstrip, captured last
week. The fall of Valencia would
provide two more excellent air
strips for the ferrying of sup
plies and the flying of close sup
port missions.
On Luzon, seasonal rains con
tinued to' hamper American ad
vances but the battle for Ipo dam
appeared nearlng a close. The
43rd division Continued closing In
on a Japanese .force trapped In
the dam arpa. northeast or. Ma-
SUa, and only a matter of nun
reds of yards separated Its north
and south lorces.
flaps Repulsed
Beyond Balete pass in northern
Luzon the 25th division, wnicn
had advanced due north, and the
32nd division, which cut In from
the west, idinod forces for an at
tack on Santa Fe. Today's com
munique reported enemy troops
steadily were being driven back
rn Santa Fe. A Japanese counter
attack was repulsed In that area.
Australian forces on Tarakan
Island, off Borneo's east coast,
drove down the Amal track within
a mile of the island's east coast. A
Japanese counter-attack north of
Tarakan City was turned back.
In another attack on Formosa
Liberator bombers dropped 183
tons of bombs on Shlnchlku, rail
and industrial center.
Quakers Give Aid
To Nisei Family
Seattle, May 18 UP) A Japanese-American
family told today
how seven Quakers called at their
home and voluntarily painted out
"no ps wanted" signs on the
nisei's house.
The Japanese, Shigeo Nagalshl,
his wife, Chlscko, and their two
daughters, were greeted by the
crudely-painted signs when they
arrived home from a war reloca
tion center.
The Quakers also mowed the
lawn for the Japanese.
Carrier
proach undetected, caught the.
carrier at the moment ol greatest
vulnerability when its planes were 1
being launched, its gasoline lines
were full and flowing, and Its
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Four Big Nippon Oil Plants
Wrecked By American Fliers
Oil Storage Facilities Also Targets ot U. S. '
Airmen; Fliers Discover, Blast New Factory
Guam, May 18 (U.E) American planes have wrecked four
of Japan's biggest oil supply plants and n hitherto unknown
aircraft assembly works, it was diclosed today.
The 21st bomber command announced that 400 B-29'a had
"rendered inoperative" the oil centers in attacks on southern
Japan May 10.
' A "50 per cent knockout blow" against the new Kumnmoto
aircraft assembly plant in north-central Kyushu by carrier
planes last Monday was revealed in a delayed dispatch from a
task force off Japan.
Detailed results of the second American B-29 fire raid
in three days on Nagoya yes-
terday awaited reconnaissance
photographs. Returning crew
men said all southern Nagoya,
Including the giant Mitsubishi air
craft works and the dock area,
was in flames when they left.
The bomber command sold that
B-29's which hit Oshlmn, a small
island off southwest Honshu, on
May 10 destroyed all but five of
the 65 oil storage tanks there.
"Out Of Operation"
Bomb damage at the Otake oil
refinery on southern Honshu cov
ered the entire target area. The
plant was listed as "out of opera
tion." "Extensive damage" also was
reported throughout the Toku-
yama naval fuel station, Japan's
main naval fueling station, and
the adjoining Tokuyama syn
thetic fuel factory, principal
source of fuel for Japanese army
planes.
. A dispatch from the flagship of
an American carrier task force
off Japan said pilots who hit the
Kumamoto assembly plant report
ed the factory no longer would be
of use to the enemy.
American officers were un
aware of the plant before carrier
planes swept over it. Cmdr. n.d
mond Conrad of Medina, Wash.
said the plant was brand new and
covered an area equal to four or
five city blocks.
Germans Surge
West From Reds
With U. S. Eighth Corps, Cen
tral Germany, May 18 Hit Thou
sands of frightened Germans
crowded the highways In a mass
exodus from the heart of Ger
many today as rumors spread thut
Russians soon would occupy the
area.
There was no official confirma
tion of the occupation rumors
but civilians have been stream
ing down the highways in alarm-
Ingly Increasing numbers for tne
last several days.
Some were attempting to bring
household possessions on make
shift carts and wagons. Others,
mostly old men and women, car
ried only bare necessities In knap
sacks or wrapped in table cloths.
Veterans In Group
Mingled with the civilians were
hundreds of discharged, war
weary soldiers hiking back home.
Mai. R. M. SherlcK, corps stair
officer, of Poison, Mont., said that
so far no Incidents or trouble had
been reported.
Three pretty German gins, wno
said they had been bicycling three
days from their home west ot
Dresden, admitted they were
frightened of Russian occupation.
They only shrugged their should
ers when Sgt. Felix Llebmann of
Central Moriches, N. Y., assured
them the Russians would not mis
treat them.
Bombed
bomb and rocket stores exposed.
r rom tne time me enemy a iwu
500-pound armor-piercing oomos
found their marks until the agony
was over, Big Ben took enough
punishment to Kill a nunureu
ships, enough to wreck a city.
In the hours of her ordeal,
200,000 pounds of the carrier's
own bombs, rockets and ammuni
tion blew up, and an estimated
12,000 gallons of high octane avia
tion gasoline either burned In
cascades of flame or exploded In
volcanic eruptions.
Of the ship's complement of
more than 2,500 sailors and men
of air group 13, many scores died
In a flash. Others hundreds were
blown Into the sea, where many
drowned. Fire, fumes and smoke
trapped and killed still others
below decks.
Heroic rescue work, brilliant
seamanship, and incredibly ef
ficient damage control operations
saved many hundreds. The exact
number of survivors remains un
disclosed because the navy does
not want the enemy to know
Just how many men the Franklin
carried.
But at least 706 of the crew sur
vived to sail the carrier from the
scene of disaster, and other hun
dreds of sailors and airmen weir
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Speaker Tells
Of Big Tourist
Opportunities
"You have a 12 months' oppor
tunity and a million dollar Indus
try In your lap, and here you are
asleep at the switch!"
With this observation, An
Kirkham. vice-president of radio
station KOIN In Portland and an
ardent promoter of Oregon tour
ist travel, today addressed a rec
ord gathering In a town meeting
of the Chamber of commerce at
noon In the Pine Tavern. -
Before discussing the wonders
of the Deschutes country, the
speaker told of the before-the-war
protlts from the tourist business.
saying that $7,uuu,uuu,uuo was
added to the national Income in
1941. He told how the state of
Maine Is doing a $100,000,000 an
nual business from tourists, and
that while that New England
state is only a third the size of
Oregon, this state did only 50
million In 1944.
Blir Melon Split
The five counties of southern
California split a 250 million dol
lar annual melon a year, Kirkham
stated, adding that there are more
people engaged there in the "herd
ing and caring for tourists" than
there Is In IndustrVr " ' "
- The speaker told how. Callfor-
nia nad preserved tne redwoods
lor tne enjoyment or travelers,
had created a resort handling
250,000 persons annually In the
"arid and desolate country"
around Shar.ta reservoir, and
claimed that for each $1 Invest
ment the Callfornians make $202
profit.
Kirkham also related how the
state of Washington proposes a
million dollar "Palm Springs of
tne Northwest' In tho desert
country of the upper reaches of
the Columbia river, and called
Oregon "merely a shuttle route
for tourists between California
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Two Men Held
On Death Charge
McMlnnvlllo. Ore.. Mav 18 lUi--
Two men were held on murder
charges today after an autopsy
indicated that 56-year-old Henry
W. Blair died from a severe head
blow Instead of natural causes In
Grand Ronde.
The Yamhill sheriff's office an
nounced that Phillip John War
ren, 29, a 250-pound Indian, and
Vern Martin, were In custody and
warrants had bpen Issued churg
Ing them with Klnlr's murder.
Warren was arrested last night
at Grand Ronde while Martin wus
in Jail In Toledo on another
charge and was ordered held
pending the murder Investigation.
Injury Is 1 utul
Blair died Sunday and Dr. Jo
seph Beeman, state criminologist,
announced after an nutopsy that
his death was caused by a blow
on the side of the head. Warren
and Martin were the only persons
present st the time of death, of
ficers Raid. Warren denied attack
ing Blair in a statement lifter hi.i
arrest. Blair was an occasional
laborer in Grand Ronde.
Warren is the son of the late
Phil Warren, Grande Ronde In
dian who received considerable
attention several years ago whi-n
he was tried and acquitted for the
murder of two prohibition of
ficers. Jap Ship Bagged
By U. S. Airmen
An Aleutian Base, MHy 16 (Via
Navy Radio) (Delayed) Hit
Liberators of the 11th air force
sank a Japanese vi-sscl today In
an attack on the Kataoka naval
base at Shuhushu island in the
Kurlle chain north of Japan. The
ship was identified tenntlvcly as
a destroyer escort or cargo ves
sel. Three direct hits sent the ship
to the bottom within five min
utes. A 6,000 -ton cargo vessel was
bombed off Kashiwabara, but re
sults were unobserved because of
a tactical smoke screen laid down
by the Japanese' defenders.
Big Guns Duel
On Okinawa;
Cities Shelled
Tokyo Reports Huge ' '
American Fleet on
Way to Nip Empire
Guam, May 18 (in A great ar
tillery duel of unprecedented fury
In the Pacific war flared along
the Okinawa battle line today as
10th army forces slugged their
way, yard by yard, Into the three
wrecked bastion towns of Nana,
Shuri and Yonabaru.
Tokyo reported without support
ing allied evidence that a power
ful American fleet steamed out
of the Marianas last Sunday or
Monday, presumably for new
roravs apainsr the JiirmnpRe em
pire.
f ront dispatches indicated u. s.
ground forces now were battling
inside. Shurl and Yonarbaru, as
well as In Naha, where marines
of the sixth division expanded a
hard-won bridgehead across the
Asato river.
Shurl Reached
The enemy had reported earlier
that American troops broke Into
snuri, the inland anchor of the
Japanese defense line lying mid
way between Naha on the west
coast and Yonabaru on the east.
Nowhere were the Americans
making big advances. Fiercely-re
sisting Japanese, supported by the
heaviest concentrations of artll-
luiy cvci aaaciliuivu uy ihv Circ-Hiy
In the Pacific war, limited YanK
gains to yards and feet.
Front dispatches said marines
deep inside Naha were cracking
fanatic Japaneso resistance there.
nut later reports said the leather
necks in Naha were "pinned to
many positions," and that only
small amounts of equipment had
crossed tne Asato river at tne
edge of the city.
Shells Heach Lines
Shells from big Japanese and
Amprlcnn puns crflfthpri ceaseless
ly Into the lines of struggling in
fantrymen strung out along the
front. -
Japanese artillery was massed
on high ground in the rear of
Naha, Shurl and Yonabaru. It
was powerful enough to return
the fire of one of the greatest
American land, naval and aerial
bombardments in history.
East of Naha, the First marines
and two army divisions the 77th
and 96th attempted to swing the
American flank southward. The
long-term objective of this drive
was occupation of tho southern
tip of the Island.
t Ity Under Attack
Tho 77th, commanded by Ma,
Gen. Andrew Bruce, was attack
ing Shurl while the 96th stormed
Yonabaru.
A Tokyo broadcast, referring to
the purported U. S. fleet move
ment out of the Marianas, said,
"Although it is not definitely
known whether It Is directed
toward the Okinawas or not, its
activities require a rigid watch."
Reds Celebrate
Defeat of Nazis
Washington, May 18 iUtMili
tary and diplomatic officials of
most of tlie United Nations cele
brated the victory over Germany
last night as guests of Soviet Rus
sia at the ornate soviet embassy.
The two-hour reception drew
upwards of 500 diplomats and gov
ernment officials including Gen.
George C. Marshall, army chief
of staff, Acting Secretary of State
Joseph C. Grew, Secretary of
Commerce Henry A- Wallace, At
torney General Francis Blddle
and W. Averell Harrlman, U. S.
ambassador to Russia.
Highway No. 99 ',
Receives Favor
Sacramento, May 18 UP The
California highway commission
has Instructed Highway Engineer
George T. McCoy to Inform Ore
gon highway representatives that
California favors designation of
U. S. highway 99 from Weed, Cal.,
to Ashland, Ore., via Yreka, as
part of the Interstate highway
system, Commission Chairman C.
If. Pureed said Thursday.
Purcell said that so far as he
knows the Oregon highway com
mission has taken no action on
the question. An alternate route,
through Klamath Falls, has been
proposed, and if the two states
fail to agree the question will be
submitted to the U. S. public roads
administration, he said.
PORTLAND SEES Sl'N
Portland, Ore., May 18 Utt The
sun came out in Portland today,
ending a nine-day rain spell which
boosted May's total to 3.32 Inches,
as compared to the average
monthly figure of 2.19.
A few scattered showers were
likely but the weather bureau
hoped for clear skies by Sunday.