T'nlr of Dm Hhrarv
BMD)' BUlLLEfM
Save Tires
To keep the war program rolling
on rubber, drive carefully, recap
In time, maintain a car pool.
Weather Forecast
Partly cloudy ' with Mattered
showers today, tonight and Tues
day. Little change In tempera
ture. :' ....
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CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
Volume LIU
THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, MONDAY, MAY 28, 194$
NO. 148
Truman Urges
Reconversion
Job Assurance
Congress Told It Must
Close Maior Gap; Steps
Outlined By President
Washington, May 28 (IB presi
dent Truman today urged con-
gress to close what he described
as a major gap in the reconver
sion program "the lack of ade
quate benefits" for workers tem
porarily unemployed during the
transition from war to peace."
He proposed that congress act
at once to assure war workers,
through supplementation of state
unemployment benefits, of 26
i weeks of payments in any one
year if they are Jobless that long.
He proposed af least $25 a week
for unemployed workers with
dependents.
"We must provide maximum
security to those who have given
so fully of themselves on the
lighting and production fronts,"
the president said in a message.
to congress.
Part of War
"The transition from war to
peace is pait and parcel of the
war and we cannot shirk our obli
gations to those temporarily un
employed through no fault of
their own."
He recommended specifically
that mnfrresfi;
4 1. Take emergency action to
I widen the coverage of unemploy
4 ment compensation and to in
I crease the amount and duration
1 of benefits at least for the dura-
tion of the emergency period of
J reconversion.
J 2. Extend unemployment com-
1 pensation coverage to include
federal employes, maritime work
ers and others not now insured.
3. Provide supplementary emer
gency funds to assure each elig
ible worker 26 weeks of benefits
in any one year, if unemployed
that long. .... ...
(for the orderly reconversion of
our wartime economy to peace
time production," he said. "They
are badly needed for the dura
tion of the reconversion emer
gency ... as a bulwark against
postwar deflation." .
No Collapse Expected
Meanwhile, other administra
tion leaders said they , foresaw
no economic collapse during re-
nnnWKinn hut rnfhpr a nprind nf
expanding .civilian economy in
I which small business would re
ceive every encouragement. The
emphasis from now on, they said,
will be on easing government
production controls to permit the
I forces of free enterprise ahd
i competition to get back to work.
In today's message, Mr. Tru
I man said he assumed that con
's gress would deal soon with the
I broader question of expanding
and improving the social security
program. But he expressed the
belief that deliberations on these
broad issues would take too
much time to be of benefit dur
ing the first phase of reconver
sion. Engineer Returns
From Conference
Clyde H. Spencer, construction
engineer for the bureau of recla
mation in building of the North
Unit irrigation Droiect. today was
back from Boise. Ida., where he I
attended conferences at the bu- been initiated into Phi Beta Sig
reau's regional headquarters. The ! ma, national honorary society in
engineer reported that ho had i education at Eastern Oregon Col
sought increased personnel for . lege of Education. Membership in
the purpose of speeding up the the organization is limited to stu
construction of the big waterway, I dents In the field of education
and had also discussed repayment j who show promise of becoming
contracts. 1 outstanding teachers.
Bundles of Paper for Victory
1 I To Serve asTickets to Show
Bundles of paper for victory,
and a free admission to the Capitol
theater.
That was the unusual combina
tion which scores of Bend boys
and girls between the ages of six
and 14 years, were expected to
take advantage of tomorrow.
For through arrangements be
tween the theater management
and the Bend Junior Chamber of
Commerce, all the children who
bring salvage paper to the theater
will be admitted free to a special
show.
Don Higgins, president of the
Jayees, said today that a truck
would be placed in front of the
theater at 10 a.m. tomorrow for
the convenience of the young
sters. He said that there ap-
parentlv was some confusion ,
aDout tne awarding oi a sd waripn . "- " " u..nuic , :
Dona ror tne largest paper aon-
tion. irnnii nf th rhilriren believ-;
Ing they must bring the largest
himi. . ovrinoH
that the bond wiU be given for the
Marines Battle in Okinawa Capital City
:
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Temporarily pinned down by Jap fire are these Sixth Division Marines during fighting among wrecked
tomes and rubble of Nana, capital city of Okinawa Island. They take cover behind thla wall a one peers
, cautiously around corner. ' .......
Woman Loses
Goes Into North Unit Canal
Mrs. Aza Toothaker, Ontario; Dead, Daughter '
Is Seriously Injured; Man Pinned Under Auto
Plans to hold an inquest into the fatal crash of an auto
mobile into the concrete . canal at the intake of the North
Unit irrigation ditch, killing one woman and injuring two
other persons, were dropped today by authorities. Coroner
C. P. Niswinger said that there would be no inquest, after
he had conferred with District Attorney A. J. Moore. The
district attorney held that further investigation of the ac
cident would be unnecessary because only members of the
family were involved.
Man Victim of
William Haffner, 33, 65 Frank
lin avenue, an employe of the
Oregon Trail Box factory, today
was in the St. Charles hospital in
a serious condition from loss of
blood, as police investigated his
stabbing in the face with a broken
beer bottle in the Shamrock on
Minnesota avenue late yesterday.
The attack resulted in the sever
ing of arteries and injury to dif
ferent glands, attending physi
cians said.
Bend officers said that they
knew the identity of Haffner's as
sailant, but hesitated to take him
into custody because of the vic
tim's reluctance to prosecute.
Haffner told Officer Walter
Greissinger that he was in the
Shamrock and was about to place
a nickle' in the music machine,
when the assailant stepped up to
him and asked:
"What nationality are you?"
"I'm an American of German
descent," Haffner said he replied.
Whereupon, according to Haff
ner, the man reached on the bar,
picked up a beer bottle, broke it,
then started jabbing it into the
left side of his face. The victim
lost a considerable amount of
blood before receiving treatment
at the hospital.
PRINEVILLE GIRL HONORED
Eastern Oregon College, La
Grande, May 28 (Special) Miss
Helen Mason, daughter of Mr.and
Mrs. Joe Mason of Prineville, has
largest quantity of paper, and not
the biggest bundle. Thus, he said,
the boys and girls may make re -
peated trips to the truck during; has been stationed in the Phillp
the day, when their bundles will I pines.
be weighed. Mrs. Foley and two children,
Higgins stressed that the paper Terrence and Mickey, have been
must be securely bound, or packed j making their home in Bend.
tight in paper cartons, as it will ;
be taken direct to Portland from j AMERICAN ADVENTURE'
the theater.
This novel Idea of collecting sal
vage paper for the war effort i
was decided upon because incle
ment weather has prevented an
other city-wide pickup. The Jaycee
committee estimates the children
might produce as much as 20,000
pounds In order to see the show.
Featured on the screen begin-
ning at 2 p.m. will be the Zane
Grey story. Heritage of the Des-1
uaiv
Duck cartoon. The th
nd a Donald J
theater .doors i
open at i.ju ociock, ana me Dona
will hp nresented to the winner
during Intermission. I
Life When Car
' Killed in the crash was
Mrs. Aza Edda Toothaker,
whose body will be sent to
morrow to Ontario, Ore., for
a funeral and burial. ' Nis
wonger and Winslow, funeral
directors, said it was planned to
take' the body to Ontario, .and
that the funeral probably would
be there on Wednesday. '
Still in the St. Charles hospital
was Mrs. Joe Thompson, wife of
the driver of the car who escaped
with minor injuries. Attending
physicians said that she showed
slight improvement In the night.
Time Is Fixed
The accident occurred shortly
after midnight as Thompson, his
wile and Mrs. Toothaker, his
mother-in-law, were returning to
their home near Tumalo from a
lodge dance. Crashing through
guard posts, the car hurtled into
the deep canal, coming to a rest
upside down, pinning the occu
pants underneath.
Apparently Mrs. Toothaker
was instantly killed. Seven hours
later Thompson, who was em
ployed by County Judge C. L.
Allen, crawled from the wreck
age, made his way to a nearby
home, and telephoned city police.
Firemen were called to lower
stretchers to the wreck with
ropes, and it was some time be
fore they and police were able
to remove the uody of Mrs. Tooth
aker, and get Mrs. Thompson to
the St. Charles hospital.
Thompson said that approach
ing headlights of an automobile
had blinded him in the rain.
Capt. Bob Foley
Is On Way Home
Captain Robert H. Foley, Des
chutes county district attorney
when he was called into the serv
ice, has returned to the states
from nearly three years of duty
in the Pacific theater of war, he
notified his wife, Irene, from a
western port early this morning.
Captain Foley expects to reach
home in a few days.
After the Bend man entered
the service, he first served with
the quartermaster's corps, at
Fort Francis E. Warren, near
Cheyenne, Wyo., then, while in
New Guinea, transferred to the
signal corps. More recently, he
was transferred to the judge ad
vocate general's department and
is a8nhto y of tta
Lewis and Clark -Vn-ii.i I
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Lewis
American Adventure", nrerjared
by R. H. Fletcher, Montana auth
or. It is being- released In The
Rllllptftl thmticrh thn MnWiu . 9
- ..... wu. vtij sa
the American Pioneer Trails an-
soclatlnn and the Montana coun-
"American A,.ven,- .
pared In connection with the 140th
numvcrsary or me ihis and
Clark expedition. The condenaed,
hlstr.rv u Un ... i ... i J
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sianments, and the first wUI be1
fniinri n ih. Hit-t.i . .
The Bulletin today.
The Bulletin today.
(NISA Tttephulol
Dumbarton Oaks
Luncheon Topic
Rev. G. R. V. Bolster, address
ing the Bend Klwanis club mem
bership at the Pine tavern this
noon, explained the Dumbarton
Oaks proposals, declared them to
be greatly superior to; those em
bodied -in the league of nations
and urged that it Is highly im
portant that all Americans should
find time to familiarize them
selves with the plan of organiza
tion suggested for the peace-loving
nations of the world. He
pleaded for understanding and
warned against criticism of Rus
sia not based on understanding.
The speaker stated that while
the league of nations provided
merely,, lor an assembly and a
councll. the Dumbarton Oaks plan
provides also for a military-staff,
an economic and social council,
an international court of justice
and a coordinating secretariat.
He emphasized that while' the
league only outlawed actual war,
the proposals which give the
basis for discussion at the San
Francisco conference outlaw
threats to peace as well. The
league covenant was binding only
on member states, he added, but
the Dumbarton Oaks plan would
control non-members, as well as
members. ' "
Quarter of Bonds
Are Sold in Drive
Deschutes county today was
reaching the quarter mark in its
seventh war. loan bond buying,
having chalked up $273,968.50 of
its $1,140,000 quota, it was re
ported today by A.L.O. Schueler,
war finance chairman.
: With the compilation of fig
ures Saturday night, it was
shown that 30.3 per cent of the
E bond quota has been sub
scribed. Buyers have taken $198,
102 of the $654,000 E bond quota,
Schueler revealed.
Standings of other bonds in the
drive were:
F, $7,566.50; G, $24,300; C, $20,
000; 2'4 per cent, $19,000; 2
per cent, $1,000, and per cent,
$4,000.
Mrs. A. B. Estebenet, Jr. and
Mrs. Carmen Hyde took charge
of the bond booth in Penney's
store today, for the Women of
the Moose.
The Business and Professional
Women provided a staff Satur
day, with Mrs. L. C. McDow, Mrs.
Hazel Barclay and Mrs. Charles
Boardman on hand.
Health Meetings
Are Announced
Three conferences are schedul
ed for the week by the Deschutes
County health department.
Tuesday a child health confer
ence will be held at Prineville be
tween 10 a. m. and 2 p. m.
Thursday a child health confer
ence will be held in the health
department quarters In the court
house, by appointment only.
Friday, June 1, the regula
ar lm-
tan clln'c wi'' held' in
Bend' between 1 and 3 p.m.
Three Boys Born
At Local Hosnial
Three boys were boVn at the
I1;,08 hosPitaI Sunday and
Sunday, sons were born to Mr.
irt rIm 11 t . .
and Mrs W
Awbrey roari land tn Mf w
VI ,.y,Joa.n-?. t0 Mr- and Mrs.
"" wneai oi lillchrist.
Mr. and Mrs Rnho r, ..
, ..,"u. lr"- ""oert Davenport,
I of a baby born today.
of a hah v h.Uf.. tne Parcn,s
Two More Nazi
Chieftains Die
By Own Hands
Soering's Successor
Takes Poison; Brother
; Of Himmler Captured
j London, May 28 HPi Two more
nazi bigwigs, one of them the suc
cessor to Reichsmarshal Her
mann Gberlng as commander of
the German air force, were dead
by their own hands today,
i A third, Albert (Little Hitler)
Foerster, who as gauleiter of Dan
zig paved the way for German oc
cupation of the Polish corridor in
1939, surrendered peacefully to a
British lieutenant and a sergeant
In a Hamburg hotel. .
f In Foerster's pocket was found
a poison phial similar to the one
With which Gestapo Chief Hein
rich "Himmler killed himself In
British custody last week,
i Nazis Named
I The two latest nazls to follow
Himmler In suicide were Marshal
Robert Rltter von Greim, who suc
ceeded Goering as commander of
the luftwaffe April 26, and Dr.
Hugo Jury, gauleiter of lower
Austria and former social welfare
minister in the notorious Seyss
Inquart government of Austria.
A small, empty phial was found
beside Greim's bed in a Salzburg
hospital, where he was confined
or treatment of a minor leg
J'ound suffered during the final
tages of the battle of Berlin. The
position of the wound indicated it
may have been self-inflicted.
4 Also caught up In the allied net
were two married sisters of Adolf
Hitler and a brother of Himmler,
The sisters, found in the Bavarian
Alps, were identified as Angela
Hammitsch, 61, of Altmuenster,
Austria, and Paula Wolf, 48.
Brother Arrested
Himmler's brother, otherwise
unidentified, was arrested by the
British Second army In northwest
Germany.
From Rome came word that
Col, Heinrich von Viethinghoff,
Geman commander in the south
west, finally Was taken Into cus
tody last Wednesday, 23 days aft
er his . envoy officially surren
dered his army to Marshal Sir
Harold K. L. U. Alexander.
A BBC broadcast said other
German soldiers still at large in
the Chemnitz sector of southern
Germany were fighting some
thing like a civil war with civil
ians in the area.
The troops were said to be
plundering towns and villages for
food and supplies after being re
fused permission to cross into the
American-held area as prisoners.
Navy Is Building
20,000 Warships
Washington, May 28 (IPl The
U. S. navy is building an addi
tional 20,000 warships to give it
a total of 127,000 ships of all types
to complete the final phase of the
second World War.
This gigantic number of ships
would be sufficient if placed end
to end to make a virtually un
broken bridge from San Fran
cisco to Yokohama, Japan.
it will prove the vast armadas
for the invasions of China and
the Japanese homeland some
5,000 miles from American shores.
A United Press survey found
that the navy now has under con
struction 19,882 warships, includ
ing 271 front-line fighting ships
and 16,093 landing craft.
Ships now under construction
include two battleships, 15 air
craft carriers, 30 escort carriers,
47 cruisers, 104 destroyers and six
destroyer escorts.
When completed they will give
the navy an unprecedented array
of mighty sea powr.
Bitter Fighting
In Philippines,
By Don Caswell
(United Preai 'War Correspondent)
Manila, May 28 (IP) The Philip
pines are secure today, four
months after Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur's triumphant return to
Manila. But the dirty Job of mop
ping up goes on, and American
soldiers probably will be fight
ing and dying on these islands as
long as war lasts.
American and Filipino armies
control 95 per cent of all the use
able ports, towns, airfields, high
ways and agricultural centers in
the islands.
But bitter, cruel fighting rages
night and day on four main fronts,
and there are few places in the
sprawling archipelago where a
white man can wander unarmed in
fety. ,
The biggest and toughest core
of Japanese resistance remaining
'"day ' in northern Luzon. There
the enemy still is firmly in con
Tokyo Reports U.S. Airmen
Hit Capital on New Mission
Airfields Near Smouldering Cify Strafed
. By Fliers; Fire Loss Great, Foe Indicates
By Richard W. Johnston '
(United frm War Conpondtnt)
- Guam, May 28 (U.P) Three B-29 Superfortresses and 30
Mustang fighters bombed and strafed airfields near smoul
dering Tokyo for 40 minutes at mid-day todny, Japanese
broadcasts said.
If true, the planes also may have been attempting to get
detailed photographs of the destruction spread through the
capital by 4,000 tons of fire bombs in last Saturday's B-29
raid.
Two other groups of B-29s today mined Hakata bay off
nurinern nyusnu ana Kan-1
mon straight, between Honsu
and Kyushu, radio Tokyo
said. Tokyo claimed that
Japanese fighters shot down
four of the big bombers and
damaged eight others.
Utilities Hard Hit
The enemy broadcasts also re
ported that the Japanese foreign
ministry, greater East Asia minis
try and possibly 40 to 50 per cent
of Tokyo's public utilities were
destroyed in Saturday's disas
trous air raid.
Tokyo newspapers were refer
ring to the smouldering city as a
"new battlefield," the broadcast
said.
Radio Tokyo conceded that fu
ture American raids may be even
more terrible.
"The enemy raids will Increase
in ferocity in the future," Tokyo
said. "He, with his naked am
bition, will certainly attempt to
destroy and burn down every Inch
of the capital city."
Called Successful
Officers of the 21st bomber
command said preliminary re
ports indicated the attack was
"very successful," but were
awaiting reconnaissance photo
graphs to determine the exact ex
tent of destruction.
Fires still were burning In
Tokyo yesterday, more than 36
hours after the raid, but heavy
weather prevented fliers from
taking reconnaissance photo
graphs.
Tokyo. broadcasts earlier said
most of Emperor Hlrohlto's pal
ace was destroyed and the re
mainder of the capital "laid
waste'.'. In the attack. The cen
tral business section was only a
ruin, they said. ' '
The Japanese cabinet held an
extraordinary session "yesterday
to discuss emergency measures
"against air raid disasters," tok
yo added.
Legion Auxiliary
To Make Wreaths
Members of the American Legion
auxiliary announced today that
all women who sold poppies In the
recent sale are invited to attend
a meeting at 7:45 tonight at the
home of Mrs. Anne Forbes, 36 Ore
gon. Bouquets and wreaths will be
fashioned of poppies for decora
tion of graves of veterans on Mem
orial day, it was said. Mrs. B. A.
Shellhart will be in charge of the
work.
2 Officers Back .
From Europe War
Two Central Oregon veterans
of the European Invasion, First
Lt. Arthur J. Miller, Redmond,
and First Lt. Steven K. Anderson,
Madras, have returned to their
homes on rotation leaves, It was
announced today from Fort Lew
Is. They were Included in a group
of '60 officers and enlisted men
that reached Fort Lewis. -
The men will report for reas
signment after their leaves.
DISEASES REPORTED
Six communicable diseases were
reported last week by all county
physicians, according to health de
partment authorities. There were
three cases of chicken pox and
one each of pink eye, mumps and
whooping cough.
Still Rages on Four Fronts
But U. S. Has Isles' Secured
trol of the entire 125-mlle Cag
ayan valley which was Luzon's
breadbasket, and part of the
Caraballo mountains that closed
in the southern end of the valley.
Filipino guerillas control the
northeastern coastal provinces of
Luzon north of the old summer
capital of Bugulo, closing off the
enemy's northern retreat roads,
and American troops blocked es
cape to the south.
At least enough Japanese to fill
two divisions possibly 30,000
men remain In the Cagayan
valley. They are well organized,
well armed and well fed, although
cut off from all supplies and Is
olated from their homeland.
The second major pocket Is in
central Luzon. Perhaps two Jap
anese regiments still are dug In
on the slopes of the Sierra Madre
mountains, which rise steeply 10
miles east of Manila and whose
water sheds supply the capital.
A third center of resistance Is
Huge Toll Taken
By Yankee Subs
Guam, May 28 i IB American
submarines have sunk 4,500,000
tons of shipping on the ocean that
Is "anything but a pacific one for
the Japanese navy and the Japan
ese merchant fleet."
"You have met the enemv. and
he Is yours," Admiral Chester W.
Nlmitz said yesterday to 14 sub
marine men whom he decorated
after revealing the latest figures
on enemy losses.
Nimltz said that from Dec. 7,
1941, to May 5. 1944. American
submarines have sunk 126 Japa
nese warships, including four car
riers 17 cruisers, and 53 destroy
ers. All told, submarines have
accounted for 1,119 enemy ships
oi au Kinas.
The awards Include:
Commander A. K. Tvree. Sno-
kane, Wash., navy cross.
Navy and marine corps medals
went to gunners mate 3rd cl. B.
R. Fish. Portland. Ore.
Letters of commendation and
ribbons to chief motor machinist's
mate J. C. Smith, Yakima, Wash,
3.42 Inches Rain
Measured Here
Heavy .rains of the nast week
brought Bend's May rainfall up
io j.ii incnes, lar above the 40
year normal of 1.13 Inches, It
was reported today from -the
local weather station. In the
past week, 2.54 inches of mois
ture fell In Bend.
The storm was general In the
interior country, and proved of
great value to stockmen and
wheat growers, according to a
formation reaching here. How,
ever, in some areas the abnor
mally heavy rain was reported
causing damage to alfaira.
Lush feed was reported carpet.
ing mldstate rangelands, on
which sheep and cattle are now
grazing.
The heavy rains have practical
ly assured for Jefferson county
wheat growers one of their fin
est crops In years, according to
reports front Madras.
Rains extended eastward over
the "high desert." Nearly an Inch
of rain fell. In Lakevlew one day
the latter part of last ween.
Lights To Shine
Again on Ocean
London, May 28 IIP) The battle
of the Atlantic officially was pro
claimed at an end tonight when
the British admiralty announced
that ships routed through non
combat areas no longer will be
required to travel In convoy or to
black out.
The new ruling becomes effec
tive at midnight tonight, double
Eritlsh summer time (3 p. m.
PWT).
"Ships that would have sailed
In trade convoys in non-combat
areas will be sailed Independent
ly," the announcement said. "By
night they burn navigation lights
at full brilliancy and need not
darken ship."
In northwestern Mindanao, where
a strong and well organized Jap
anese force of about the size of a
division is entrenched. This unit
including many second-rate serv
ice troops, pulled back Into the
hills of eastern Buldnon province
east of the Satyre highway after
the U. S. 31st, 40th and Amerlcal
divisions cut Mindanao In two
along the road.
Several thousand more Japan
ese In southern Mindanao com
prise the fourth and last major
enemy group in the Philippines.
These troops have been squeezed
Into a hard, well-armod little
pocket Inside Davao city, between
the mouths of the Davao and
Taloma rivers.
In addition to the main fronts,
countless thousands of other Jap
anese are scattered through the
central Philippines, including the
principal Islands of Leyte, Samar,
Masbate, Cebu, Bohol, Negros,
Panay, Mindoro and Palawan.
Japanese Units
In Shuri Face
Encirclement
Nippons Trade Dead for
Time in Effort to Halt
Loss of Okinawa Lines
Guam, May 28 HPI Japanese
forces on Okinawa traded dead
men for time today to save their
collapsing line at the southern
end of the island.
American marine and army
troops, dragging through the
muddy morass south of Yonabaru
and into Naha at each end of the
enemy's defenses, found clumps
of corpses the price of the de
laying action. ;
only a mue or two back oi the
line, the Japanese maneuvered In
an eiiort to halt the threatened
encirclement of their units around
Shurl and its ancient castle for
tress.
If the Japanese attempt to pull
out to the south, as they appar
ently are ready to do, tne guns
of U. S. battleships and cruisers
were prepared to lay down an
other deadly barrage. Naval fire
already has broken up two or
more columns of about 1,500 men
each.
May Abandon Shurt
According to front dispatches.
the Japanese appeared to be
ready to abandon Shurl, the key
stone of their already ruptured
Okinawa defense line, for a new
stand at least a mile and a hall
to the south.
That supposed new line In high
ground south of the Kokuba river
valley even now was being out
flanked, however, by an Amer
ican column slashing down the
east coast against meager resist
ance. The column secured a 300-foot
escarpment overlooking the
beaches of southern Okinawa aft
er killing perhaps 2,000 Japanese
in a three-day. battle, then
smashed on another 2,500 yards
to Ogusuku town, two and a half
miles south of .the port of Yona
baru. v . .....
(A Japanese Domei dispatch re
corded by the FCC said Japanese
suicide planes sank an allied bat--tleship,
two cruisers and three
large transports and torpedoed
five other vessels In Nakagusuku
bay on the east coast of Okinawa
early today. Twelve other allied
vessels were said to have been
sunk or damaged in Okinawa
waters Saturday.)
Marines Ualn
On the west coast, marines of
the Sixth division drove another
800 yards through the rubble of
Nana, capital oi Okinawa, and
broadened their bridgehead across
the Asato river Inside the city
almost to the shores of the East ,
China sea.
The marines also threw a fifth
bridge across the Asato and were
pouting reinforcements of men,
guns, tanks and supplies into the
heart of the capital. The Japanese
were putting up only rear guard
resistance, apparently resigned to
abandoning it for higher ground
lartner south.
The garrison of the inland cita
del of Shurl, which has held up
the American advance for nearly
a month, apparently decided on
an organized withdrawal to es
cape encirclement by 10th army
forces pushing down both sides
of the city.
The all of Yonabaru In the east
and penetration of Naha in the
west already has exposed Shuri's
flanks.
Motorist Drives
Over Narrow Span
An unidentified motorist took
a short cut over the Deschutes
river in Bend yesterday evening
and drove his car across the
Drake park footbridge. There
was no room to spare on the nar
row bridge, but the motorist got
across without scraping rails or
fenders.
The motorist made the cross
ing from the west side, shortly
before dusk, then cut across
Drake park cast of the river,
after detouring around a tall
pine near the east approach to
the narrow span.
So far as known, this was the
second time the footbridge was
ever crossed by an automobile.
Veterans To Help'
On Memorial Pay
To assist In the location of vet
erans' graves and to make certain
that all are marked, representa
tives of local veterans' organiza
tions will be at the Greenwood
and Pilot Butte cemeteries here
on Memorial day morning, and
will be available at the sexton'3
house, It was announced today.
Visitors wishing information
about the location of veterans'
graves will be cared for by the
men on duty. They will be on the
job after 6 a. m, on Memorial day.