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CENTRAL. OREGONS DAILY NEWSPAPER
Volume LIV
THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1945
NO. 1
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It's just a year since the wires flashed the electrifying news that the long-awaited D-Day had or-f
rived, with Allied forces storming the Normandy bastions of Hitler's Fortress Europe. It took less
than that year to achieve V-E Daywhen the German Army was ground into unconditional sur
render. To thousands ot Yanks, V-E Day meant a return home permanently for some, lempo
.. . ,; . ........ . rarily for others .,-de,ijjed tarry on the fight against Japan, j 4. j :-
China Troops
Capture Field
Lost By Yanks
By George Wang
(United Prw War Correspondent)
Chungking, June 6 till Chi
nese troops liave recaptured Liu
chow, former American air base
which was overrun by a Japanese
drive into central Kwangsi prov
ince last November, a ftdntlinc
dispatch said today.
Although the dispatch was not
confirmed officially, last com
muniques had reported Chinese
columns closing in on the city,
400 miles southeast of Chung
king, from the southeast, west
and north.
Capture of Liuchow would in
dicate an early collapse of the
entire Japanese hold in Kwang
si province. It was the last ma
jor enemy stronghold before
Kweilin, another former Ameri
can ajrbase, 90 miles to the
northeast.
Wind Aids Fighters
With Liuchow again in Chinese
hands, Canton and Hong Kong to
the southeast and Hengyang, a
Japanese base 180 miles north
east of Kwelin, would be brought
within range of allied fighters
and medium bombers.
Liuchow, junction of two main
railways and the Kwangsi-Indo-China
highway, fell to the Japa
nese last November in a three
pronged offensive launched from
the Canton area.
A telegram from the Kwangsi
province governor said Chinese
troops had entered Ungshu, com
munications center of the west
river, 10 miles from Wuchow, 170
southeast of Liuchow.
Japanese troops were reported
preparing to evacuate Wuchow
whose loss would sever their
communication line wiih the Liu
chow peninsula to the south.
Dromes Attacked
Headquarters announced that
planes of the Chinese air force
attacked airdromes at Nanking
yesterday and strafed more than
100 enemy junks in the Kiukiang
section above the city. Four
transports and 20 steam launches
were damaged.
The Chinese airmen carried
out other attacks on rail lines
and gun emplacements in Hunan
province.
Fling support for Chinese
ground forces on the Honan
front, they killed more than 400
Japanese and set fire to eight
villages behind the Japanese
lines.
Lonely Symbols Mark Beach
Where Men Landed Year Ago
Wreck of Craft, Smashed By Guns of Nazis,
Still Visible; Sailors, Soldiers on Visit
By W. R. Higginbotham
(United Press Staff Correspondent!
On the Normandy Invasion
marks the site . , ." begins a
beach.
"In proud memory of . . ."
ment on Utah beach.
These are the lonely symbols in the quiet today where
exactly one year ago American troops stormed Hitler s
Europe.
At Omaha, the wreck of an
broken on the sands where the
German guns smashed her as
her troops swarmed across
the sands and up the steep
cliffs under terrible fire.
A Liberty ship down by
the stern still lay off the flat
Utah beachhead. A bomb opened
her seams there. Nearby are
the masts' of a smaller vessel
that struck a mine.
Service Men Visit
Curious soldiers and some sail
ors many remembering D-day,
the guns, flames, smoke and men
falling strolled on the sand. But
they were only a few compared
with the thousand who once were
here.
They were not even as numer
ous as those who lie beyond the
beachhead under white crosses
and small fluttering flags.
Alongside the relics of war are
the symbols of peace. French
children paddled In the water
beside the piers of the artificial
harbor at Omaha in sight of the
line of blockships sunk offshore.
Utah beach was cleaner. As on
Omaha, German works were
mosuy s nit- iiau ucwi, uul These were the first ones mlssine
the engineers have since nanJ?.n
the roads over which men
marched for men who fell to take
them.
Brazil Declares War
Against Nippon Empire
Rio De Janeiro, June 6 iw
Brazil declared war on Japan to
day. The action will enable the
United States to utilize bases in
Brazil for the Pacific war.
PARKING TAGS ISSUED
Two automobiles registered to
Bend residents were tagged for iit UpeTce
fauty parking. Bend officers re-1 offers to the allied powers."
vea ed today The cars were: The Swiss broadcaSti gvjng no
registered to Mrs John McCarthy, source tor the report 'ajded.8 "
and Bob James 574 Seward street. These reports are given spe
Police said the McCarthy cap was cja significance by the announce
improperly parked, and the James ment that the Russian ambassa
automobile had been parked 16 , dor to Japan is back in Moscow
feet from the curb. j on business.
Beaches, June 6 (TJ.E) "This
plain board sign on Omaha
starts a legertd on a monu
infantry landing craft hangs
18 U. S. Wacs
Lost in Africa
Washington, June 6 UPl An
army transport plane carrying
18 Wacs and a crew of three has
been missing in Africa since May
30 the war department announced
today. The plane was lost on a
766-mlle flight from Accra, on the
Gold coast of British West Africa,
to Roberts field, Liberia.
The plane was last reported
over Takoradi, British West Afri
ca, 150 miles west of the take
off point. Aircraft and surface
vessels are searching for It over
a wide area of the French Ivory
coast.
The Wacs had been stationed at
the air transport command base
at Accra since last October. They
were being sent on a new as
signment. A war department spokesman
pointed out that approximately
17,000 members of the women's
corps have been sent abroad
The missing Wacs and their
next of kin include:
Pfc. Alice D. King, Mrs. Emma
King, mother, Rfd Box 2G1, route
1, Oswego, Ore.
Jap Peace Move
Rumor Is Heard
Bj United Press)
A wholly unconfirmed report
broadcast by Bern and heard by
the Blue network said today that
"reports continue to nersist In
Moscow that the U.S.S.R. has been j
Russia Guards
By Asking for
Governing Rule of Germany
Dispute Centers Around Use of Single Word
In Plans for Reich Control; Zhulcov Also Acts
To Have Yanks Removed From Soviet Territory
By Joseph W. Grigg, Jr.
(United Prss SUff Correspondent)
(For The -Combined- American Press)
Berlin. June 5 (TIE) Russia's last minute insistence on
the deletion of a single word
promise her neutrality with Japan delayed signature ot the
Big Four pact on Germany for nearly six hours today.
Marshal Greirorv K. Zhukov. the Soviet delegate, also
blocked immediate establishment of the a'lied control coun
cil in Berlin and discussion of coordinated policies for the
four occupation forces. . - .
Zhukov said he had not bqftn empowered by his govern-
cussions until American
troops had withdrawn from
the zone of Germany assigned
to the Red army. . i
The Russians had prepared
one of their now-famous ban
quets In celebration of the sign
ing of the pact. However, both
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and
Marshal Sir Bernard L. Mont
gomery, the American and Brit
ish delegates, said they had to
return to their headquarters to
night. Meeting: Breaks Up
The meeting broke Up shortly
before 7 p. m. and the leading
American and British delegates
drove back to Tempelhof air
drome for their return flight. .
(Drew Middieton of the New
York Times, in another dispatch
for the combined press, said the
day which "began with such
high promise ended In frustra
tion.") The dispute which delayed the
signing of the Big-Four pact from
noon to 5:45 p. m. centered
around the word "nationals" in
article 10:
Article Quoted
"The forces, nationals, ships,
aircraft, military equipment and
other property in Germany or in
German control or service or at
German disposal, ' of any other
country at war with any of the
allies will be subject to the pro
visions of this declaration and
of any proclamations, orders, or
dinances or instructions Issued
thereunder."
The Russians wished to elimi
nate "nationals" from the article.
If allowed to stand, Japanese
citizens caught in the Russian
zone of Germany would have to
be handed over to the western
allies, despite the fact that Rus
sia is not at war with Japan.
Word Deleted '
The word finally was deleted
temporarily pending the outcome
of discussions at government
level, and the pact was signed.
(Middieton said all article 10
was stricken from the pact tem
porarily at Russia's request. If
the Russians had agreed to the
article, he said, they would have
had to "seize Japanese persons
and property in the Soviet Union"
as well as in Germany.)
tisennower nad landed at Tern.
pelhof airdrome from his head-
quarters at Frankfurt at 11 a. m. required to report any sums cx
and was driven immediately to aiceeding $10,000 in vaults, regard-
muse vum near Berlin s sou tn-
(Continued on Page 3)
Body of Adolf Hitler Found and Identified
'With Fair Certainty,' Says Soviet Officials
By Joseph W. Grlgg
(United Press SUff Correspondent)
(RepresenUnir Combined U. 8. Press)
Berlin, June 6 r Adolf Hit
ler's body has been found and
identified with fair certainty, it
was learned from a high Russian any element of uncertainty exists
rH!ary ource nere today. j the Russians do not wish to state
The body, smoke-blackened and ! definitely that Hitler's body has
charred, was one of four discov- j been found,
ered in the ruins of the great un- The source added, however, that
dcrground fortress beneath the j there seems little doubt that this
new reichschancellery after the actually Is the corpse of Hitler,
fall of Berlin. Examination of the body
These four bodies, any of which 'showed that Hitler almost cer
answered pretty well to Hitler's talnly died of poisoning. Whether
aesenpnon, were removed and
carefully examined bv Rtiubn
army physicians. All were badly
with which the red army soldiers
finally cleared out the under
ground command post where Hit
ler and his leading nazis made
, "y"' ",K "ame inrowers
ineir iasi-atcn stand.
After Careful examinaftnn nfian r.-Ml M.nl-vl en.,nMl
teeth and other characteristics,
j Jap Neutrality
Change in Pact
which she feared would com
U. S. Fliers Bag
Nippon Balloons
Spokane, Wash., June 6 an
The Spokane Chronicle disclosed
today that U. S. planes have shot
down some of the bomb-carrying
balloons launched against this
country by Japan.
The newspaper said that in one
Instance a plane was readied for
a take-off after a balloon was
J ghted but the bag vas at too
nign an aituuae u,uuu iecr.
Revealing it had obtained data
from police officials and witness
es, the Chronicle reported that a
western farmer "captured" a bal
loon wnicn landed in a field, tied
it to a fence and notified the fed
eral bureau of investigation.
' Children Escape
1 Two children played with two
bombs their fathers found in the
woods. They innocently removed
the arming and detonating de
vices, but the bombs did not ex
plode, i
(The war department recently
announced that six persons were
killed May 5 near Lakeview, Ore.,
by the explosion of a balloon
dropped bomb).
The newspapers said two bombs
weje reported to have exploded
near a city but that officials could
not find a trace of fragments or
the balloon itself.
Bank Data Sought
By U.S. Treasurer
Bend banks today were operat
ing ur.dor orders of Secretary of
the treasury Henry Morgenthau
to report any retention of cur
rency in vaults or cash or cur
rency transactions likely to be
made for the purpose of tux
evasion. The secretary of the
treasury threatened banks or
other financial Institutions with
penalties for failure to make
such reports.
Under the terms of the order,
the banks are required to re
port any transaction Involving
$1,000 or more in which currency
of $50 denomination or higher is
used. Likewise, the hanks are
less of the denominations of the
I currency.
the Russians singled out one body
which they believed almost cer
tainly Is that of the nazl fuehrer.
Asked why no official an
nouncement of the discovery has
been made yet by Moscow, this
T7llQlnn ttnnivn ciilrl na lnnir no
this was self administered orlclde.
: whnti,r uuu,. bini h n I hi
of his henchmen there is no sure
means of know ne.
It will ho iwallorT hnwovor. thnt
Russian sources recently reported
tnat Hitler died of an Injection
given him by his physician. Dr.
! Morel, after he had been Insane
days.
Planes to 'Bomb' City Prior
To Infantry War Bond Show
Jungle Fighters Due to Arrive in Bend This
Afternoon, to Demonstrate Tools of Warfare
Bend will be bombed tomorrow!
But the planes which fly over the city will be friendly
ones, and the missiles dropped from the skies will be aimed
at the Japs rather than the local folks.
Under an arrangement with the civil aeronautics authori
ty, the Bend Civil Air patrol will send five airplanes over the
city between 12:30 and 1 p. m., and from low altitude will
drop 5,000 leaflets asking the 'support of the seventh war
fund drive. The leaflets urge the purchase of bonds, and
call attention to the "Here s'
Your Infantry" war games to
be presented at the high
school athletic field at 8:30
p. m. tomorrow.
The "bombing" will take
place at about the time 80 sea
soned Infantrymen will be pre
paring for tomorrow night's
show. The heaviest "bombard
ment" will be In the vicinity of
Wall 'street-and the foot of Ore
gon avenue, where the infantry
men will have on display tomor
row their actual tools of war
fare used against the Japa. The
display is scheduled between 10
a. m. aiiu 4 p. m.
Pilots Named
Pilots of the Bend CAP who
will "raid" the city are Lts, Larry
Lermo, Ollle Bowman, Ernie
Ranger, Maurice Hitchcock and
Tom Brooks. The CAP Is also
furnishing a public address sys
tem for the athletic field events
at night, and this will be oper
ated by Lt. James A. Chamber
lln. Before the veteran Jungle fight'
ers were scheduled to arrive in
Bend this afternoon, downtown
merchants displayed -American
flags as a token of greetings to
the soldiers. They were asked
by Mayor A. T. Niebergall to also
display the flags tomorrow while
the Infantrymen remain in the
citv.
A. L. O. Schueler, Deschutes
county war finance chairman, re
ported that all was in readiness
to quarter the visiting soldiers
at the Rim Rock Riders barracks
at the cavalry barns, and in the
gymnasium at the high scnooi.
Admission Free
Schueler also stressed today
that admission to the "Here's
Your Infantry" show at the ath
letlc field Is free, but that per
sons wishing to buy bonds may
obtain them there. A booth will
be operated by 21 members of the
Sigma Beta Phi sorority for the
convenience or purcnasers.
Boys and girls of the Bend
Youth club also came to the fore
today to aid the seventh war
fund drive, with the announce
ment that they will hold a dance
at the club Saturday night. Ad
mission will be by a 25 cent war
stamp or more. Youths attend
ing the dance may also sign up
for war bonds during dance in
termissions, it was stated.
Announcement was made also
by the Eagles auxiliary that Its
members will staff booths in va
rious downtown and the banks
on Saturday to sell war stamps-
Persons with partly filled stamp
books were urged to purchase
stamps on that day and complete
their books.
Bond Kales Lag
Chairman Schueler sounded
note of discouragement today
when he released the latest fig
ures on bond sales In this cam
paign. He said that approximate
ly $6G2,000 have yet to be sold in
the next 20 days to attain the
(Continued on Page 7)
According to a telegram sent
seph Goebbels to Grand Admiral'
uy uu;uniuiiua niiiiiu-i rnui uu -
null iiiiiui 01 o.u
p. m. on May 1. Goebbels himself
apparently committed suicide
shortly afterward, Just before the
last stronghold of nazidom In Ber
lin felf to the Russians.
Goebbels' own body was discov
ered by the Russians In the same
underground shelter, together
with those of his wife and chil
dren. All had died by poisoning.
Goebbels apparently had admin
istered poison to members of his
family and then committed sul -
MAa
His body was found practically
decapitated by a shell splinter!
lor explosive charge which nan
! r-.ii.pht him full in the back, al -
I most tearing his head from his
body..
The bodies of Goebbels and his
family also were badly burned,
but were Identified by the Rus
sians without too much difficulty.
Veterans Coming
t . yf"iT'rTitfi I UMrMsslsss - $ "
"TV S f I
Showing how war. bonds provide
the weapons that enable Infantry
men to defeat the enemy a' pair
or overseas veterans and a pair
of pretty girls. pose with a pretty
(to a fighting man) machine
gun. Similar weapons will be
displayed here tomorrow, prior
to the "Here's Your Infantry"
show on the Bend high school
athletic field,
Betas Arrange
Charm Contest
As an aid to the seventh wnr
fund drive, members of the Beta
Sigma Phi sorority will hold their
own "charm contest" tomorrow
night while soldier veterans stage
"Here's Your Infantry" at the
high school athletic field, it was
announced today. Prizes will be
given in the form of bonds to the
winners whose "charm" resulted
In the sale of the greatest number
of bonds to spectators.
The girls will operato a boolh
on the grounds, and a blackboard
at this station will show the trend
of the contest during the eve
ning. Girls selling a $25 bond will
get 25 votes, the seller of a $100
bond, 100 votes, and so on, it was
explained. The winner will be an
nounced immediately alter tne
show and bond sales cease.
Besides the bond prizes, the
winners will be given 10 free
passes to the Capitol theater,
which entitles them to take a
friend.
Adopt Slogan
With the slogan "we are lovely
girls some old Benditcs, some
new buy bonds from the Betas,"
the following girls will partici
pate In the "charm contest":
Gerrl Arney, Dorothy Apple
gale, LaVerna Billiard, Elizabeth
Beaver, Eleanor Hechcn, Margar
et Dougherty, Helen haddis, Vi
cenla Grlno, Lucille Hedstrnm.
Katherine Her, Pat Kelleher, Eun-
i, , . ., T-it.... u.-.t. m n-
- -'
i . ... . c. .
i ..A"n s '- ...?,,h''i
Katy Wise, Lucille
Wood and
Ruth Yellcllng.
U. S. Flag Week
Dates Announced
Salem, Ore., June 6 (IllPatri
otic observances were urged dur
ing national flag week, June 10
! V,7, by,,C'7 '"'n
He said that the flag should he
' flown on public buildings, places!
of business and private homes
""""k "-
1 flag under which, for four years,
men and women of the U. S. have
oeen iignimg.
June II Is flag day, the governor
said, the 168th anniversary of the
adoption of the flag by the con
tinental congress.
Jittery Enemy
Warns People
Trouble Ahead
Tokyo Hints Island Is .
Lost; Homeland Asked
To Make Death Stand
By William F. Tyneo
(United Press Wnr Correspondent)
Guam, June 6 U" The battle
of Okinawa entered the mop-up
stage today and Tokyo predicted
American invasion forces next
will land In Japan Itself in the
"near future."
Admiral Chester W. Nimltz was
expected momentarily to issue a .
communique announcing the end
of all organized resistance on
Okinawa, already being converted -.
into a major base for the invasion
of Japan. ' -
For the first time since the
10th army landed on Okinawa 66
days ago, Nlrpitz failed to mention
ground action In his regular Pa
cific communique today. It was
possible he was preparing a speci
al "victory communique.
Forces Destroyed
Nimltz announced yesterday
that the principal enemy forces
on Okinawa already had been des
troyed.
Radio Tokyo, whllo regarding
Okinawa as doomed, said Japan
ese troops were firmly entrench
ed in new positions : yesterday
and were "locked In fierce fight? -lng
with numerically superior
qnomy forces." . v
- .Tokyo estimated that 500 Ameri
can troops had gone ashore on
Oroku peninsula on the southwest
coast below Naha. . ; i
Field , dispatches said the
seventh division overran Chinen
peninsula on the southeast coast
of Okinawa to its easternmost and
southeasternmost tips yesterday.
Seventy-five to 100 Japanese soldi
ers were killed on the peninsula
and more than 10,000 hungry rag
ged civilians were taken Into cus
tody. Reports Lacking
There have been no reports of
American progress on the rest of
the island since Monday, but it
was likely that murines on the
southwest coast- had completed
the capture of Naha airfield, big
gest, best and lust airfield on the
island.
Other units inland were be
lieved to have squeezed the last
survivors of the original garrison
of perhaps 80.000 Jaoannse into
the southern tin ot the island for
final, mass annihilation. 1
Tokyo already was writlna" off .
Okinawa and attempting to rally
the Japanese people for a stand
to the death of their home islands.
Seventh War Loan
At Halfway Point
Washington, June 6 miThe
Seventh war loan reaches its half
way point today with approxi
mately 60 per cent ot the $7,000,-
000.000 Individual goal and 50 per
cent of the $1,000,000,000 E bond
goal subscribed. ,
Twenty-three days remain for
war bond volunteers to sell $2,
8i;i,000,000 worth of bonds, in-
eluding nearly $2,000,000,000 in E
bunds.
Latest reports up to last night
put total sales at $4,139,000,000,
Including E bond sales ot $i,ua
000,000. Sales of securities other than
!E ,.",nils w're ahead of schedule
wniie t. ooniis were railing snori.
Director Ted R. Gamble of tho
treasury's war finance division
notificHl slate chairman that it
was lime to review all their opera
tions to make sure that no weak
nesses existed which might en
danger the achievement of the
E bond quota.
Victory Rose Wins
At Portland Show
Portland. Ore.. June 6 (tin -This
rose, by any other name, would
It is the victory rose, entered in
the 57th annual Portland Rose
Show and winner of first prize.
It was entered by Paul W. Miller
ot Corvallis.
Second-prize rose was one en
tered by Mr. Nat Schoen of Van
couver Wash.