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Weather Forecast Partly cloudy today, tonight and Tuesday. For night and morning near the coast. Little temperature change. ESiBl -ii- CENTRAL OREGON'S! DAILY NEWSPAPER NO. 71 Volume Lll THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND.

DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 28. 1944 it it it it it ii 15,000 NAZIS TRAPPED I IN VALLEY OF RHONE it it it. it it it it it it it it it Paris Reconquered By Allied Armies Stalin's Armies GERMANS USE THREATS. GUNS AGAINST BALKANS By J. Edward Murray (United Preu SUff Correspondent) London, Auff.

28 (IIP) Adolf Hitler, battlinsr with guns and threats to hold his deserting Balkan satellites in line, launched a' full-scale attack on Bucharest today and rushed his diplomatic trouble shooters to Sofia to block a Bulgarian declaration of war on the Reich. The German Transocean news agency said fierce fighting had broken "out between nazi troops and their erstwhile allies in Romania, where 11 German divisions were reported to Marne Valley Battle Opened By U. S. Troops Battered Nazi Legions Reported in Retreat as Allies Race Into East ffj Sid Foe19.hArmy Is Encircled By Americans Escape Bridge Across River Torn By Airmen; Hitler Men Badly Licked Rqne, 28v (IP) American tank and artillery, racing more than 50 miles overland into the Rhone valley, closed behind the beaten remnants of the German 19th army at Montellmar today and turned a murderous fire on some 15,000 nazis trapped against the east bank of the Rhone. With their' bridges across the broad Rhone cut' by allied bombers, the survivors of the 19th army faced imminent death or capture between the converging of the main American forces moving up from Avignon and the enveloping column at Montellmar, halfway between the Mediterranean coast and Lyon.

Pinned In Valley Headquarters spokesmen, who previously had Issued an ambiguously worded statement indicating that 15,000 Germans were killed, wounded, or captured in the new Americam stroke, explain that that figure referred to the number of Germans now pinned against the Rhone river. The trap was sprung by a strong armored force that swept Into. Montellmar after a secret forced march from the Sisterone-Grenoble highway more than 50 miles to the east. The battered nazis, fleeing up the east bank of the Rhone, raced Into Montellmar to-find the Americans ready and waiting. Front dispatches said the startled Germans fell back to the river edge and braced for a death battle against the Americans closing around them.

Many Nazis Killed American and hundreds of warplanes joined in the (Continued on Page 5) nave peen KUiea, capturea, or trapped since Romania broke her ties with Berlin and went over to the allies last week. Transocean said German troops had encircled Bucharest where Premier Marshal Constantin Se-natescu and his new antl-nazl cabinet "wew! holding the former Premier Ion Antbnescu and members of a-German military mission. Bucharest Cut Bucharest has been cut off from' all communication with the rest of the country, Transocean said, asserting that the Romanian army itself has been divided Into two camps, one supporting Sena-tescu and the other continuing the fight against Russia. At the same time, signs multiplied that Bulgaria, after breaking with Germany over the Romanian clash, was on the verge of declaring war against the Reich. The nazl DNB news agency said Hitler's ambassador to Bulgaria had returned to his post in Sofia after a hurried conference with Foreign Minister Joachim Von i This Is view nf thf fnmnrl when the German armies battled Paris was again the scene of disturbances over the weekend, with Spipers' Mark Gen.

Charles De Gaulle Gen. Charles Gaulle, who heads liberated France, was twice the target of world-be assissins over the week-end, according 'to word from Pans. Gen. De Gaulle Assassin Target Paris, Aug. 28 IP) French partisans and police, aided by allied troops, searched Paris today under orders to shoot on sight German snipers and armed collaborationists following the death of at least 15 persons in a series of abortive attempts to assassinate Gen.

Charles De Gaulle during a "liberation parade" Saturday, One attempt on De Gaulle's life touched off a miniature battle in Notre Dame cathedral, snipers hidden in the gallery exchanged shots with worshippers during a thanksgiving service climaxing the parade. Other entrenched on the roof of the American embassy, had fired into crowds on the Place De La Concorde, killing two persons and Wounding 16. Still other shots came from buildings near the city hall as the De Gaulle party approached. But even as authorities pressed their- manhunt, Paris already was on the road to normalcy after its most exciting week since the French revolution. World Series to Open in St.

Louis Chicago, Aug. 28 (IP The 1944 world series will open at Sports-men's park, St. Louis, on Wednesday, Oct. 4, Judge K. M.

Landis, commissioner of baseball, announced today after a meeting with representatives of the St. Louis Cardinals of the National league, St. Louis Browns, and Detroit, Boston and New York of the American league. Reconquest of i 'r Pour Through Gap at Galati Cavalry Crosses Border Into Hungary, Berlin Says; Moscow Is Silent By Robert Musel (United Press 8Uff Correspondent) London, Aug. 28 Soviet cavalry forces over the eastern Carpathian mountains through Transylvania and crossed the Hungarian border to day Berlin broadcast admitted while two other Russian armies poured through Galati Gap oh Bucharest and Ploesti, where German and Romanian troops, erstwhile allies, were reported fighting against eacn otner.

The German DNB agency ad mitted that soviet cavalry units had penetrated the Hungarian border at an unidentified point, but claimed that nazl and Hungarian troops had repelled them and that all the passes In the northern Carpathians still were firmly in German hands. Moscow Silent Although Moscow remained si lent on the German announcement the report indicated that Marshal di Y. Malinovsky's 2nd Ukrainian army was making good progress toward a major breach into Transylvania, bone of contention between and Hungary since its award to Hungary by German dictate in 1940. DNB also reported that in northern'. Bucharest In the' Ploesti area, fighting broke out when Romanian troops, "accord ing to soviet -instructions," attempted to disarm the Germans.

It asserted, however, that German troops were "holding out in their positions everywhere." -Cossacks Pace Drive Malinovsky's mechanized Cos sacks paced the drives down through the Galati gap which military observers believed would complete the liberation of the Balkans In a few weeks. They drove a spearhead through Plo-esti's outer defenses and sent another force racing toward the Ro manian capital farther south. Fanning out south of Ramnicul-Sarat, where Malinovsky brought his forces to within 57 miles of Romania's rich oil fields and 72 miles of Bucharest, one column swept along the railroad to Ploesti and the other struck down the main highway to the capital. The red army troops, moving along the western side of the 45-mile wide gap below Focsani, were meeting only token resistance from the fleeing Germans and Romanian troops were surrendering on contact. In sweeping to Ramnicul-Sarat, a rail junction of the Cernauti-Ploesti railroad 18 miles northeast of Buzau, Malinovsky's army made a spectacular 49-mile advance that pierced the Galati gap at Focsani and threatened to cut off the escape routes of German forces in the Balkans.

BAP ON WING London, Aug. 28 (IP) Forces of RAF warplanes crossed the channel towards the Boulogne and Calais areas tonight, and a short time later the German radio reported planes approaching the Reich from the northwest and the south. Mac Arthur's These men foresee the possibil ity that a further extension of MacArthur's strategy mayachleve similar result on a scale perhaps five times as great the reduction to military impotence of hundreds of thousands of Japanese In the Dutch East Indies and the Philip-pines with American losses proportionately as light as those of New Guinea. This would be achieved by reJ iniuiiK me rnmpmnes to which President Roosevelt has said Mac-Arthur would return. Once American ground, naval and air forces are firmly established there, all Japanese conquests to the south would be pinched off, Including her most important sources of raw materials.

The reconquest of the Philippines can be achieved, It is felt here, by the same methods which brought the New Oiilnpn nn. paign to a successful conclusion, vlnlpnt strppr flphtinp nprnrrprl control of the French capital. two attempts made on the life of Sgt. Dale Gibson Wins Silver Star TSgt. Dale Gibson, son of Mc Qlbsonf -820 Newport avenue; has been awarded the silver star for gallantry In action, it has been learned here.

The letter of commendation sent him by command ing officer of the infantry unit to which he is attached, fellows'; "I note with pride that you have been awarded the silver star medal in due recognition for gal lantry in action on May 28, 1944. "I wish to add my personal commendation to that contained in the citation and to express the sincere hope that the official recognition which you have received will be an incentive to more and higher achievements in your fu ture military career." The sergeant, with his 21-year old twin brother, SSgt. Darrell Gibson, both former members of Bend company Oregon National guard, were absorbed by the 41st division in 1940 and later sent to the South Pacific. The twins, believed to be in the New Guinea area, have not been home since the latter part of 1941. Quadruplet Boys Born in Georgia Gainesville, Georgia, Aug.

28 ip Quadruplet boys, born last night to a 22-year-old farm girl, the wife of an army private, were reported in good condition today in their Hall County Memorial hospital incubators. Their births were described by Dr. George W. Karelas as nor mal. The quads are the sons of Pvt.

and Mrs. Charles E. Lee, Gainesville. Lee is stationed at Camp Blandlng, Fla. Medical records snow quadruplets are born only once In 757,000 births.

Supreme Headquarters, AEF, Aug. 28 (IP) Triumphant Ameri-can troops stormed through the valley of the, Marne today, approaching the historic battleground of Chateau-Thierry, while a powerful British armored force streamed across the Seine about Paris in a double-edged threat to the nazis' robot bomb bases and the borders of Germany itself. The battered German armies of northern France were In full re- treat and nazl reports said one American column had thrust on beyond captured Troyes to reach the Marne at vitry-en-Krancois, 100 miles southeast of Paris and barely 90 miles from the German frontier. As the Americans struck east ward, long lines of Britsh tanks and mechanized Infantry swarmed across the Seine river bridgehead at Vernon, 38 miles northwest of Paris, and struck out for Fleury, six miles beyond the Seine and 14 miles southeast of Rouen. Seine Crossed Other British columns swept across the Seine in force at Mantes, Elbeuf and a newly-won bridgehead at Louvlera, almost; midway between Vernon and El- On feeble enemyL.dppositlow was-encountered by the British but headquarters spokesmen warned was too early to determine whether Hitler had ordered his troops in the Pas De Calais to hold at all costs or to abandon their flying bomb bases to avoid encirclement.

Equally weak resistance met the American columns In their swift thrust up the Marne, and official reports placed the Yank spearheads on the apnroaches of Chateau-Thierry, barely 30 miles south-southeast of the forest of Complegne where the armistice of 1918 was signed and where Germany imposed her harsh truce of 1940 on beaten France. Battle Starts The third battle of the Marne was on, but official reports Indicated that this time the Germans had nothing left to stem the khaki tide sweeping eastward on1 their frontiers. Lt. Gen. George S.

Patton's victory-flushed Yanks met sharp resistance at a number of places from enemy rear guards numbering up to 1,000 men, but at most points only a handful of nazis barred the way and they were destroyed swiftly. Meaux, 23 miles east of Paris, was captured by the advancing Americans and headquarters said Patton's men crossed to the north bank of the Marne and were approaching Chateau Thierry, 23M miles farther to the east. Column Streams East On their right flank, between the valleys of the Marne and Seine, a second American force drove at a furious pace across rolling farms and woodlands still pitted with the marks of 1918. Headquarters said the Yanks had plunged on beyond captured Troyes without meeting more than token resistance from the (Continued on Page 3) Is somebody who can give us some answers in Oregon." "We need somebody who can say yes or no," Peterson said. Emphasizing the need for "somebody with authority," Peterson said: "The way things stand now, it constitutes merely a series of meetings and conferences with no results.

If there were officials here with some authority, It would save us a lot of grief and you, too." Bowles replied that because a majority of the problems were national, a "cover-all" policy of administration had to be adopted, and added that "If we let every community make its own decisions, we'd have a situation like the present one in the Balkans." Bowles admitted that the OPA had made "plenty of He said that results achieved during the administration, however, had been satisfactory in that the OPA was a "new thing." Phnmns TC1vrs.0r.av In Paris, whprp with citizens and allied military Allied Airmen Rake German Escape Routes London, Aug, 28 rtPi Hundreds pi auiea ngnter pianes ana ngnt-er-bombers defied difficult weath er today to rake German escape routes nortn oi tne seine, and supply routes along the Franco-German border. American and British planes from both Normandy and British bases struck at the German, trans port system. By noon today the 8th air force, which put 400 fighters into the area of north France, Belgium, Holland, and western Germany, claimed 200 locomotives destroyed or damaged, 200 railway cars destroyed and another 1,000 damaged, and 200 motor vehicles destroyed or damaged. The 8th also claimed damage or destruction of numerous barges, oil tanks, radio and power stations. Four Prisoners In Jail Break Okanogan, Aug.

28 (IP) Four prisoners three of them awaiting transfer to the Walla Walla state penitentiary took ad vantage of the jailer's day off at the Okanogan jail yesterday. While the jailer was spending his regular Sunday at home, the men fashioned a key and escaped, apparently aided by the fact that one of them, Gordon Knapp, 26, was a trusty allowed the freedom of the jail. Knapp and two others of the escaped prisoners, Joe Aguilar, 24; and Wlnthrop Davis, 31, all were charged with parole violation, and were to be sent to Walla Walla. The fourth was Marion Ives, 29, held for questioning in an assault case. Sheriff Art Mitchell said he considered all but Knapp potentially dangerous.

G-l Jaywalkers Cause Trouble Seattle, Aug. 28 (IP) G-I jaywalkers are leading Seattleites astray, acording to the city's police chief, Herbert D. Kimsey. "We are having our troubles," the chief said. "Many of the servicemen visiting Seattle are from the country, and aren't familiar with traffic lights.

We work hard to get them trained and then just when they are educated, they are moved away and a new bunch arrive." "Meantime," the chief glowered, "our own citizens are black-sliding and Imitating the servicemen." TAKES OWN LIFE Seattle, Aug. 28 (IP) Offering his body for science, 33-year-old Dwlght Eldridge Warthen, shipyard worker, committed suicide in his gas filled room last night, leaving deputy coroners today to speculate on his motives. for uen. cnarles t)e uaulie. Girl in Antelope Shot and pied i The Dalles, Aug.

28 P) State police and sheriffs -were Combing the country, about 85 miles south ofthere today for Charles Wilson, 45, Antelope, who allegedly shot and killed his 13-year-old stepdaugh ter, Genevieve Fulkerson, as she lay in bed with her mother early Sunday morning. District Attorney M. W. WI1- kerson of Wasco county said that Wilson had arrived at his home in Antelope from The Dalles, and becoming embroiled in an argument with his wife, produced a pistol and fired one shot which struck the woman In the finger and deflected, entering the girl's chest. He had been drinking, according to Mrs.

Wilson. She told police that Wilson had left the house shortly after the shooting. Wilkerson said that Wilson had arrived here from Tennessee, and had been working as a laborer for cattle and sheep ranchers In the area. State police from the Bend dls-trlst have joined in the manhunt for Charles Wilson, sought for the fatal shooting of his stepdaughter, Genevieve Fulkerson, at Antelope yesterday. Officers Earl Huff and Walt Smead joined the posse yesterday, and today Officer R.

J. Hafstad relieved them In the hunt. Labor Day Rodeo Plans Announced Sponsored by the Deschutes county Veterans' council, a rodeo will be staged In Bend over Labor day, Sept. 3 and 4, It was announced here today. The big wild-west show will be held at the Bend recreation field.

The rodeo will be under the guidance of Mack Barbour, for 25 years a producer of rodeos throughout the west. Barbour said that he would bring to Bend a string of famous bucking horses and Brahma bulls. Besides riding of the untamed horses and the big bulls, some of which have never been ridden, calf roping, bull-dogging and other ieatures win enngmen tne snow. According to Barbour, the rodeo will be held each afternoon and that large purses have been arranged for the performers. Health Meeting To Be Wednesday The regular bi-monthly child health conference conducted by Dr.

W. S. Ramsey, director of the Deschutes Courtty Health Department will be held Wednesday afternoon of August 30th. Admissions to these conferences are by appointment only. The regular weekly immunization clinic of the department will be held Friday, September 1st from 2 to 4 p.m.

in the health de- partment offices, room 109. Rlbbentrop presumably to warn the Bulgars against any war move. Reflexes Workr Two Lives Saved Seattle, Aug. 28 (IB Slgrud Larsen, 46, and his 16-year-old son, Richard, of Seattle, are alive today because their reflexes are in good working order. The two Seattleites were In a line of cars that had halted to wait for the Anderson island ferry, near Stellacoom, Wash.

Their car was directly across the Northern Pacific railway tracks. Larsen said that a speeding freight train suddenly hurtled around a blind corner and was almost on top of their car Before they saw it. The Larsens jumped to safety a few seconds before their car was demolished. Bend Is First In Statewide Safety Contest Bend won first place in the state sponsored vocational safety campaign, it was disclosed hero today by A. W.

Nelson, member of the Bend high school staff and local coordinator for vocational training, who attended the annual trade and industrial conference in Salem from Aug. 21 to 25. The safety achievement plaque was accepted for Bend by Nelson, who aid that the winner in the safety contest will be announced later. There were 14 different districts in the contest. The plaque was presented to Bend by Chairman L.

O. Arens, of the state industrial accident commission. Nelson asked that any Bend boys who are Interested In part-time work during the school season, notify him by calling 388-W. New Guinea By, BEND BOYS IN CAMPAIGN Taking part In the reconquest of New Guinea were menfbers of Bend's Co. attached to the 41st division, one of the most decorated outfits in South Pacific action.

Bend boys received their baptism of fire on New Guinea, and took part In epochal battles of that jungle campaign. six times as great as the United Kingdom has been reclaimed from the Japanese. American air and sea domination has been brought to within 1,500 miles of the Japanese homeland. In the opinion of Informed observers at MacArthur's headquarters, the results attained are more important in future possibilities than in what already has been accomplished, Impressive as that has been. a Japs' Wotje Isle Under Air Attack (Dy United Press) Allied bombers assaulted 10 major Japanese bases in the Pacific in a three-day series of raids and the Japanese radio announced today that allied destroyers had bombarded battered Wotje Island in the Marshalls Sunday morning.

The sweeping series of attacks made from Thursday through Saturday ranged from the Philip-pinesto the Volcano 750 miles from Tokyo. The targets included: Iwa Jima in the Volcanos; Truk and Ponape in the eastern Carolines; Yap and Woleai in the western end of the Carolines; Aguigan in the Marianas; Nauru, west of the Gilberts; Paulu, 560 miles east of the Philippines; Da-vao harbor on Mindanao in the southern Philippines; and Halma-hera island, 250 miles south of the Philippines, Japs Make Report The Japanese broadcast, recorded by FCC, said the garrison on Wotje "Inflicted losses" on surface units but gave no report of damage. Liberator bombers of the 14th air force raided a storage area at Shanghai and bombed the Amoy harbor on China's Fukied coast. First detailed reports of an allied carrier based air raid on Sumatra last Thursday revealed today that a large cement works had been smashed at Padang and that harbor installations had been damaged at nearby Emmahaven. United Press war correspondent Hugh Crumpler, who was aboard a battleship off Sumatra, reported that returning crewmen said the cement plant, largest in the Dutch East Indies, had been bombed into a cloud of dust.

Japs Pay Tribute To Nippon Fliers (Br United ITM) The Japanese Dome! news agency, reviewing the last American B-29 Superfortress raid on Kyushu, today paid special tribute to two naval fliers named Ozaki and Endo who, it said shot down three B-29's and damaged two others In that attack. (The reference to "Ozaki" apparently gave rise to a report that the B-29s had raided the Japanese city of Osaka today.) OP A Chief Views State Lamb Glut; Final Decision Withheld Forces Nears End; Allied Losses Are Light By William B. Dickinson (United Press War Correspondent) Allied Headquarters, Southwest Pacific, Aug. 28 (IP Gen. Douglas MacArthur's forces have achieved the practical reconquest of New Guinea, the second largest island in the world, with casualties little more than one-tenth of those inflicted on the Japanese who once were called the world's best jungle This means that MacArthur's brilliant strategy, which may be summed up in the words: "Hit 'em where they ain't," has brought his forces to the point where they are poised to strike at the Philippines with fewer American losses than in any campaign of the war.

It means that three Japanese armies totaling some 300,000 men have been smashed with at least half their number killed for a loss of Americans and Australians far less than one-tenth of that figure. It means a land area more than Portland, Aug. 28 impossible relief In the present northwest market "glut" on lamb appeared In sight today following a "quickie" conference here between representatives of Oregon's livestock and transportation Industries, and Chester Bowles, national OPA chief. Bowles who arrived from San Francisco, allocated three hours between planes to consideration of cases presented, but refused to make any "on the spot decisions." He said that many problems must be approached on a national basis, and promised to "take a good hard look" at the critical lamb surplus situation and contact Washington, D. for further consideration of a point holiday or bonus stamp here.

E. L. Peterson, director of the state department of agriculture, stressing the need for more Independence for local OPA offices, told Bowles that "what we want.