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Crush the Japs
War bonds made it possible for
Weather Forecast
Partly cloudy today, tonight
and Sunday; scattered showers In
mountains; not much change In
temperature.
Americans to crush Germany. Now
Duy oonas to crush Japan.
CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
THE BEND BULLETIN. BEND. DESCHUTES COUNTY. OREGON. SATURDAY. MAY 26, 1945
NO." 147
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Blasted Capital
Is Under Siege
Nearly 10.000 Yanks
Listed Dead, Missing
In Grim Isle Battle
Guam, May 26 dpi u. S. ma
rines captured a sixth of Nana,
shell-shattered capital of Oki
nawa, in a 500-yard advance to-
A front dispatch said the Japa
nese appeared to be abandoning
tne city lor a final stand to the
death in the fortified inland city
of Shuri. ,
Considerable enemy troop
movements out of Naha east and
northeast toward Shuri have
been sighted, United Press War
Correspondent Edward Thomas
reported from Okinawa.
Elements of the Sixth marine
division jumped off from the
south bank of the Asato river in
northern Naha yesterday for the
climactic assault on the capital.
At last reports, they were 800
yards from both Naha harbor
and the mouth of the Asato.
Tanks on Move
Reinforcements of men, sup
plies and a considerable number
of tanks were pouring across
four Asato bridges toward the
Of Okinawa
3 1UUJ- J
A heart
Ff The
of Naha, Thomas said.
The Japanese pounded the ad-
4,vuicing' .marines wun :i:f3-muu-
meter artillery lire irom tne
south shore of Naha harbor, per
haps to cover their own with
drawal to Shuri. The rubble
heaped streets of Naha were
mined.
Heavy rains and deep mud
stalled the first marine, 77th in
fantry and 96th Infantry divisions
in their frontal attacks on the in
land fortress of Shuri, central
anchor of the Okinawa line.
The Seventh army division ad
vancing south along the east
coast below Yonabaru also was
slowed by mud and rain.
Casualties High 1
A Pacific fleet communique
disclosed that Americans were
being killed or wounded at the
ite of more than 800 a day on
Okinawa and in supporting fleet
operations during the five days
ended Thursday.
Casualties for the first 54 days
. .1 ul Lilt; uaiiiuaii'n nan rpacnwi .m.-
-116 by that date, an increase of
1.4,590 for the period ended May
18. A breakdown showed 9,602
1 killpri ni- miccintr ntlH 95 51d
i wounded.
With their main defense line
on the ground shattered and their
fleet too weak to challenge
American naval forces, the Japa
nese stepped up their efforts to
strike back from their.
A big force of enemy suicide
planes attacked the American
fleet off Okinawa and installa
tions ashore Thursday night and
Friday. They damaged 11 light
American naval units, one of
them heavily, but lost 111 planes
to American guns and aircraft
in the effort.
GENERAL OPENS QUARTERS
Jr i aniuuri-on-ivi a l n, uermany,
May 26 (IB Gen. Dwlght D. Eis
enhower opened his new head
quarters here today.
jreTerans MaKe
ror Memorial Day Services
Plans have ben completed for, Following the program at the
1 observance of Memorial Day In
nnnri it . .j u.,
Bend it was reported today by I
Joy walker, chairman of a com-;tne
mittee of the Deschutes County
Veterans' council, which is spon
soring the event.
ihe observance opens with a
general assemblv in the high:
school gymnasium at 10 a. m. to j the departed warriors,
which the public is invited, as At the cemetery services, In
well as all veterans of world wars vocation will be by Rev. Watson
1 and 2, and Gold Star mothers, of the Nazarene church, and the
A special section of the gymnasi-! benediction will be by Elder L. H.
um will be set aside for service ! Boswell, of the Missionary Bap
men stationed at Camp Abbot. 'tist church.
Tho veterans were asked to at-! Further evidence of Bend's
tnnH tn tmtfn-m !tinmaDH trt ItQ HpnartpH snrvinA
A Company B, Bend's unit of the i
I'rpgon state niard. will act as.aownmwn
honor euard durimr the cere-l
monies at the gymnasium. I efforts of the veterans' council
On the program at the school 'and auxiliaries of the four vet
will be an address by Rev. Rob-'erans' organizations, all down
ert Mcllvenna. numbers by the: (own business houses will display
Bend Gleemen, and a solo by j flags on staff s placed In holes on
Seaman 2c Izzo of Camp Abbot. 'the curbs.
Jap Balloon Attacks Revealed
(NBA Ttlephoto)
Announcement by V. S. War and Navy departments that Japan has been
sporadically attacking western United States with bomb-laden paper
balloons lent fresh Interest to this photo released some months ago. It
shows officials examining balloon bearing Japanese inscriptions which was
found in western TJ. 8. Left to right: MaJ. J. F. Bolglano, Army Air
Corps balloon expert; Capt W. 8. Standard, Army Intelligence officer;
W. Q. Banister, FBI agent; and Ens. 9. M. Jackson, Navy intelligence.
N$wCut in U. S.Army Looms;
Reds' Entry Into War Hinted
However, Committee Stresses Allies Facing
Hard Fight in Pacific; Budget to Be Reduced
Washington, May 26 (U.E) Members of congress told
the United Press today there
sharp reduction in the size of
The revelation was made
meeting of the house subcommittee on war department ap
propriations with Chief of Staff Gen. George C. Marshall.
Committee members said
in size of the army was based on the chance that Russia
would enter the war against Japan. In that event, they
said,, the United States would
need less men in the Pacific,
All insisted, however, that
Marshall did not discuss with
the committee the possibility
of Russia's entry into the war
against the Japanese. Russia is
now militarily at peace with ail
nations.
Hard War Ahead
Committee members also indi
cated that the remainder of the
Pacific war would be a longer,
more gruelling struggle than
many expect and that army costs
would not be reduced greatly
next year.
They said Marshall did not sub
mit the war department budget
for the 1945-46 fiscal year, but
that it might be from 10 to 20
per cent under the current year's
$49,000,000,000.
This countered speculation that
the new army budget might be
as much as one-third below cur
rent spending.
Transportation r e q uiremelits
and increasing production of
bombs mean that army spend
ing will go on at a heavy rate,
committee members said.
Arrangements
e""""", .tjhiuihku mi.-iuuii-
ai service ui eaun veterans or-
anization here, will held at
pjiot Butte cemeterv. led bv
Rev. G. R. V. Bolster. Presi
dents of the auxiliaries will as
sist in the service. Members of
each veterans' organization will
place wreaths on the graves of
men will be the appearance on
streets of scores of:
American
flags. Through the
n oralis psum
Revea
irp
was a possibility of another
the army reasonably soon.
following an all-day secret
the possibility of a reduction
Hangman's Body
Secretly Buried
London, May 26 (Ul The body
of Helnrich Himmler, the nazi
hangman who cheated justice by
committing suicide, was buried
secretly in a nameless grave in
Germany at dusk Friday, a Lon
don Dally Mail dispatch said t
day.
A small party of British sol
diers carried the blanket-swathed
body to the grave on the edge of
Lueneberg Heath, Just outside the
British headquarters town in
which he swallowed poison while
being questioned Wednesday
night.
Last Kites Held
An army chaplain said last
rites as the body was lowered into
the grave, the Daily Mail said.
The grave Immediately was filled
in.
A few hours before the burial,
the Daily Mail said, a Second
army pathologist examined the
body and took a death mask and
ear mask. Dentists took down de
tails of his teeth as further evi
dence In the event of any future
question of his identity.
Snow Still Deep
On McKenzie Pass
balem, Ore.. Mav 26 (ll'iIt mnv
be some time before the McKon.
zie pass Is opened to traffir Ktat'l5 to Julv Si Mr rh,,num ...:
j highway engineer R. H. Baldockjtake my place," he said.
uiuiL-diea loaay.
Highway inspectors have re-ito
ported that the snow is packed
to a depth of three feet several
mnes east of the summit, and
that the snowpack Increases In
depth near the summit. It has
been snowing heavily over the
pass for the past several weeks,
tsaioocK said.
No report has been received;
from the west slope of the pass,
Baldock reported, although a sur-i
vey is
ut-iiig mane ny men :
equipped with snowshoes.
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ARMY PLANE CRASHES
Washington, May 26 (IPi A two-
englned army plane crashed and ;
burned near Sllvpr Snrin, mh
burned near Silver Spring, Md..of trial to preparethe defend
north of Washington today, kill- The date of he trial has taaS
inu nit norttrtne nhnanl '"n otm bei
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Roll Shells) r-
Nips
Down Isle Hills
As Allies Strike)
Japs Also Use Spears'--In
Bloody Battle on. . '
tar&kan, Off Borneo .
Manila, May 26 (IP) Savage
fighting raged today on Tarakan
island off Borneo as trapped Jap
anese troops counterattackedwith
spears and rolled artillery shells
down hills on the heads of allied
soldiers.
The Japanese, compressed in
the central hills of the island,
were fighting their most primitive
and desperate sort of battle
against Australian and Dutch
troops. The conquest of Tarakan
was virtually complete, with all
the island's major installations in
allied hands. But the'mopping-up
of the remaining Japanese troops
was turning into one of the dirti
est jobs faced yet.
Japs Use Spears
In the counterattacks, one Jap
anese force charged allied lines
brandishing spears like the war
riors of centuries ago. In another
action, small soldiers struggled to
lift heavy .75 millimeter shells,
then dropped them like giant gre
nades down steep hills on allied
troops below.
A communique from Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's headnuar-
ters reported naval units and
(' nl '.. . 4k. i. . . Y. -m
weic uiruwu iiuo ine er
fort to wipe the last Japanese
from the island. Tokyo yesterday
reported a new allied attack un
der cover of a naval and shore
bombardment. "
In the Philippines native troops
took the lead in fiehtlne to lib
erate their homeland by scoring
notable gains on the east coast of
Luzon. Guerillas, now fighting as
the Philippine army, took Infanta,
44 miles east of Manila, and near
by Misua. The entire Dinahlcan
peninsula was in their hands..
Land on Peninsula
The Filipino forces earlier had
made an amphibious landing on
the peninsula, which is on Polillo
strait, 10 miles across from the
neighboring island of Polillo.
The native troops joined with
the American First cavalrv divl-
sion to pursue the Japanese to
ward the uneplored hills in the
northwest.
In northern Luzon the 32nd di
vision broke through a strong
Japanaese pocket on the Villa
Verde trail and crashed within
three miles of Santa Fe.
ine itta division moping up in
the Ipo dam sector northeast of
Manila reported it was still kill
ing Japanese at the average of
ree Parley
Dates Are Hinted
ixmaon. May 26 (Uiprime
Minister Churchill said today that
the next Big Three meeting may
be held sometime between June
"", JU,y o. at the height of
Britain a neneral nliviinn ,
palgn.
In an election speech delivered
at suburban Loughtor), Churchill
gave the strongest official inti
mation mat a meeting with
President Truman and Pmmior
Stalin is Imminent, and that he
might have to leave Britain for
the conference.
Hints of Absence
"If I have to be away from
this constituencv during tho 17
days of the election period (June
-jt may be I shall have to go
some conference of what they
I call the 'Big Three.'
I
Not Guilty Plea'
Made By Indian
iviciwinnvuie. Ore., May 26 (IB-
Phillln John Wnr'Lr. ia i i
(Grand Ronde Indian pleaded In
nocent when arraigned in circuit
coun on cnarges of second iWroe
muiucr ui rienry mair.
, . . ,J , t n. . n
Blir died May 13 from a blow
on the head.
Warrpn'a nttnvnn., r ,
ing, requested a three weekVXl ,v
i-i " "ree ,reeKS delay
June lam.
M
Named By
'U,J , , , INKA Telephnto)
Named by President Truman to take new posts In cabinet shake up ar (left to right). Federal Judge Lewis B
BcheHenback, Spokane. Wash., to become Secretary of Labor: Rep. Clinton P. Anderson (D., N. M.) to b
Secretary of Agriculture; and Tom O. Clark, Dallas, Tex., to be Attorney Otoeral.
Truman Seeking
Hoover's Advice
, Washington, May 26 (IB The
White House announced today
that President Truman had In.
vited Former President Herbert
Hoover to the White House for
a conference Monday i on the
Jodd situation in Europe.'--v
White House Press Secretary
Charles G. Ross said Hoover had
accepted the invitation.
Koss said the president felt
"that Mr. Hoover had informa
tion which would he valuable to
him. Hoover was chairman of a
commission for relief in Belgium
from 1915 to 1919 and during two
years of this time from 1917 to
the middle of 1919 he was food
administrator for this country.
Headed Council
Following the last war, he
served as head of the American
relief administration and the
European relief council.
Hoover Is now in New York
City.
It is believed the Monday con
ference will be the first time
Hoover had been in the White
House since he left it in 1933 at
the time of the first inauguara
tion of the late President Roose
velt, who defeated him for re
election in 1932.
Man Pulls Lever,
Firemen Answer
Spokane, Wash., May 26 Ui
Four alarms rang through the
Spokane fire department yester
day and three companies clanged
to the scene. There they found
a puzzled, middle-aged man still
desperately pulling the lever in
the alarm box In a futile effort to
mail a letter..
FIRE DAMAGES DAVENPORT
Fire, presumably started by a
lighted clcaret. last night almost
destroyed a davenport and caused
considerable smoke damage to
the room at 1662 West Fifth street,
city firemen reported today. The
dwelling is the home of Glen W.
Thompson.
Plane Production Facing Cutback, But Japs
Promised Heavy Tonnage of Bombs This Year
Washington, May 26 (tPi Army
plane production took a sharp,
planned nosedive today but it was
not good news for Japan.
A well-informed congressman
said the land of the rising sun
would be plastered during the
coming 12 months with more than !
double the weight of bombs the I
allies dumped on Europe In the
last year of the war there.
The congressman. Chairman J.
Buell Snyder. D.. Pa., of the house
sub-committee on war department I
appropriations, told renorters aft-
ipr an aI1-day closed meeting with i
chlpf of staH Gen George C. j
''";"
YOlt C
"You can say that In the com-1
ing year more than two and a half !
times as many tons of bombs will i
be dropped on Japan as the allies
dropped in Europe last year."
Snyder did not elaborate.
However the army's announce
ment of plans for a 45 per cent
slash, in its plane output during
Dim
ea irly
Truman to ToUe Ca6;'ne Posts
as;;
V -
S tate Superintendent Speaker
At Bend Graduation Exercises
1 13 Seniors Receive Diplomas as Climax of
Commencement Program; Class Is Presented
One hundred and thirteen
of whom are in the armed
at commencement exercises
nam, state superintendent of
Lthe commencement address. v
anu as ne spoKe to ine uenu
1945 thunder crashed outside, and flashes of lightning illumi
nated the high windows of the big gymnasium.
Putnam paid tribute to the
in tne armea forces, ana re-
minded the audience that,
with their high school career
at an end, many -of the other
boys and girls will soon be
taking up their assignments,
to assist their nation in the grim
days ahead. He touched on grand
acts of world history, then added:
"For the most of us, the grand
act is the sum total of a human
life nobly lived.
Graduates March in
Promptly at 8 p. m., the gratia
ates, in gowns of blue and with
yellow tassels dangling from
their mortar boards, filed into the
packed hall to the processional,
"War March of Priests," played
by the high school band. The
seniors took their seats on a
specially prepared stage, which
extended out over the regular
stage, to face the large audience.
The band, directed by C. Dale
Robblns, was stationed in the
room over the main entrance.
Following the Invocation by
Rev. Robert Mcllvenna, the girls
choir of 20 voices, directed by
Robblns, was presented in two
numbers, "The Swallow" and
"Iris."
William Lane, valedictorian of
the class of 1945, and Beverley
Wennerstrom, salutatorian, were
presented by R. E. Jewell, Bend
high school principal, who also
announced the awards, which
were presented at the assembly
Monday. Honor students were
i introduced
Class Presented
Presentation of the class of
1945 was made by Howard W.
George, city superintendent of
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the next 18 months also made It
clear that the giant B-29 Super
fortresses would carry much of
the burden of the reduction of
Japanese armed might.
The army said that while many
plane types will be cut back and
even eliminated production of
B-29's would Increase for several
months.
The still shadowy B-32 "Doml-
nator sunerbomber. which had
been exDected to take its Dlace
alongside the B-29, apparently is
destined to fade entirely out of
the picture. Its production will he
cut back sharply and ended at the
Big sister of the B-24 Liberator
enn or ine year.
bomber, the "Domlnator" has
never been re:
ported In action. Its
sudden curtailment seemed to in
dicate that after some degree of
production It had unexpectedly
proved unfit or uneconomical for
use in tne Japanese war.
There have been other, even
Dim
Destroyed
Bend hicrh school students. 11
forces, received their diplomas
here last night, with Rex Put
public instruction, delivering
"Tha Grand Act" was his tonie.
nign scnooi war-time class or
11 graduates who are already
Deschutes Men
Get Service Call
A number of men who had been
processed for physical cxamlna
tlons for Induction and were
about to depart for Portland yes
terday, were reclassified and
withdrawn from the list, It was
announced today at the Deschutes
county selective service board,
Removal of tho men from the
list came as a result of new fed
eral regulations, which permitted
the reclassification of men over
30 years of age who are engaged!
in essential Industry. Tne men,
who were reclassified to the 2-A
status, are:
Harold Smith Darling, Clell
Clayton McCrea, Lcland Carl
Erickson, Donald Howard Hart
ley, William Rolan Hatch, George
Edward Williamson, Chris Nlcho
las Renno, Marlon Delbert Spen
cer, Bruce Perry Gilbert Earl T.
Huberd, Lloyd Ralph Downs and
Theodore T. Vllhauer.
Others who were sent to Port
land for examinations, and new
board transfers, follow:
Ordered to report for pre In
duction physicals in Portland
May 25: Vernon A. Forbes, Nor
man H. Ovens, Leslie Daniels,
Ralph V. Wilson, Edward Glaab,
John William Pickles, Frank Ed
ward Webster, Norman Carl
Hewitt, Henry Helmholtz, Mervin
F. Klrby, Albei t Gordon Craig,
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bigger superbombors reported In
various stages of development. To
aate, nowever, there has been no
official Indication that any of
them were far enough along to
oe usea in this war.
The army's announced cutback
will eliminate a total of 17,000
planes from production previous
ly planned for the next 18 months.
By weight, there will he a 30
per cent cut In the last half of
this year from production in the
first half. Another 10 per cent
will be lopped off during the first
half of 1946 and an additional five
per cent during the remaining
portion of next year.
This 45 per cent total produc
tion, which will affect three fight-
er planes, three bombers and :
three cargo planes, will touch vir
tually every city In the nation
manufacturing planes.
The army gave no indication of
how many employes would be
thrown out of work by the cut-
back.
ky5
Rre Damages
Enemy Reveals
Entire Capital Must Be ;
Rebuilt, Premier Says;
Japanese Are Very Mad
Washington, May 26 IIP)
Nineteen Superfortresses were :
lost in yesterday's great fire ..
raid on Tokyo, the 20th air
force announced today. This
was the largest number of
B-2Vh ever lost on a single
mission. Twelve were lost in
tho earlier Tokyo raid this
week.
Guam. May 26 (IB Premier
Kantaro Suzuki announced to
night that huge fires touched oft
by American Superfortresses,
damaged Tokyo so extensively
that the entire city will have to be ,
rebuilt. Japan also reported Em
peror HtrohitoV palace virtually
was destroyed. :
"Our beautltui capital must De
completely replanned from a bare
start," Premier Suzuki told his
nation In a radio broadcast Satur
day night (Japan time), "There is
no present hope for mere restora
tion." Earlier Japanese broadcasts
said flames started by 4,000 tons ,
of Incendiary bombs and whipped
by 70-mile-an hour gales had r'laid
waste" to most of the remainder .
of Tokyo. .-, i.
On Large Scale
Suzuki said the Saturday B-29
raid was "comparatively on a ,
large scale," and "it must be ad-'
mltted that considerable damage
was caused by the numerous fires
fanned by strong winds."
"We must now make a positive
drive with our very all for a strug- -gle
for victory."
The capital, once the world's
third largest city, was literally
"scorched to the ground," one
broadcast said. Virtually the en
tire central business section, in
cluding many government minis
tries, was said to have been lev
elled by the flames.
A Japanese announcement said
Hlrohlto and his empress were
safe, along with the Empress
Dowager, his mother, whose near
by Omiya palace also burned to
the ground.
Meeting Called
. Premier Baron Kantaro Suzuki
called an extraordinary meeting ,
of his cabinet while, inhabitants
of the capital still were fighting ,
the fires kindled by boo B-zas
with 4,000 tons of incendiaries .
just after midnight. '
Suzuki Issued a statement re
garding the burning of the Im
perial palaces, radio Tokyo said,
and the cabinet ministers pledged
to work for the "renovation of
the administration."
Vice ministers also were called
Into session later and deliberated
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County Expense
Estimates Made
Deschutes county's budget com
mittee, in another late meeting
in the courthouse last night, vir
tually completed its expense es
timates for the 1945-46 fiscal year,
forecasting a tax reduction of ap
proximately three mills, but hold
ing post-war construction allow
ances to $17,500.
No reduction had been expected
in the earlier meetings of the com
mittee, it having been Intended
t0 fun(1 lne savlng resulting from
..., navment of the $44,090
payment
county school tax for post-war
building. Later examination of
the new statute providing for the ,
payment indicated, however, that
the amount must be budgeted and
levy made for It, with the saving '
appearing later for direct benefit
of the taxpayers when it is used
by the assessor to adjust the levy.
Memorial Budgeted
On the assumption that this in
terpretation of the law would
stand, the committee decided to
make use of the full six per cent
levy increase permitted by law.
$8,994.22, and to reduce the con'
templatcd $35,000 county hospital
appropriation to $5,000. An ap
propriation of $12,500 for a vet
erans memorial, already promi
sed, would stand.
The money for the memorial
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Royal Palace