The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 13, 1945, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” , VOL. LXIV., NO. 9935 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1945 PRICE TEN CENTS MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS e e — | TRUMAN TAKES OATH AS U, 5. PRESIDENT American Army Is Within 48 Miles of Berlin " NINTH ARMY PRESSES ON, WILD DASH Third ArmyB—ears Down in Last Lap to Disect Ger- many Near Liepzig Pass ROOSEVELT STRICKEN PARIS, April 13—The American Ninth Army pressed within 48 miles of Berlin in a 60 mile armored dash to Tangermuende, outflanking Den- mark, Hamburg and Lubeck. The swift advance of the Filih Armored Division to Tangermuende —— where the Nazis announced they had | blown the Elbe River bridges, placed | CO"apSed, Sank IfliO Ufl- the Ninth Army within 93 miles of . the Russian 1imes facing Berln trom | (ONSCiOUSNEss and the east, while the Third Army in| the center beat down to the last 18| then Passed Away miles to the great Saxony city of R iy Leipzig in their drive to bisect] wWARM SPRINGS, Ga., April 13.— Germany, join the Russians and bar Franklin D. Roosevelt was struck access from the north to the national ldown as the result of cerebral - redoubt in the Bavarian Alps. hemorrhage when he was making German reports said American plans in hopes that future wars tanks were fighting in Halle, 15|would be prevented at the success- miles from Leipzig, after bypassing|ful conclusion of the present world- the medieval cathedral city of Mers-!ywide conflict. burg, 16 miles due west of Leipzig., Roosevelt had not been in the best Gen. Simpson’s Ninth Armylof health for some time. Last week troops closed up to the Elbe along a|at a banquet for Associate Justice 95 mile front. His Hell-on-Wheels Armored Division yesterday crossed!ed to Senator Barkley the food the toe river at Magdeburg, Putling president had been eating recently tanks on the last 57 ux;‘bro::fnhm;les'md no taste for him. leading to Berlin, as the ] T- | 3 3 mored Division reached the river nt'mff::dlmm.;:fl?:g ;ar!edslg:nth::ol::d vsle?::ufi:se?du;hetomtg::y;::;gnD;; thin, and Mrs. Roosevelt said she . ; also thought he looked too thin. ::;;zy'm(’:;?a:;‘:;%, g‘“d;::;}g'is ;:y The Président had been taking 1 s(;uth;les!, of Befl.in only gruel for several days. m’;;e ATAEHERTT Tmrd‘ Army on| At Warm Springs, Comma_n_der the southwest: approaches, stormed|HoWard Bruebb, Naval Physician, within 18 miles of Leipzig, rought.»smd, the President was in excellent into the streets of Jena and came|SPirits when he saw him at 9:30 yes- within 34 miles of bisecting Ger-|‘erday morning, and again at 1 many in a thrust toward the | O'Clock in the aiternoon. Roosevelt Crechoslovak border. |was then sitting in a chair while The British Second Army, contin- sketches were being made for him uing their siege of Bremen, fought {PY an architect. slowly up the last 50 miles toward| Suddenly, Roosevelt complained of Hamburg, while the Canadian First |2 Very severe occipital headache at Army crashed into the Dutch city oqlhe back of the head, and within a Arnhem, where hopes for an earlier| {€W Mminutes he lost consciousness| and did not regain consciousness be- Imre the end. +bedroom of his little white bungalow latop of Pine Mountain, where he {had been coming for 20 years. | The President and his party went lto Warm Springs on March 30 in- |tending to remain there and rest for at least three weeks. NEW FIRST \ s pirpoveais LADY NOW | SENT DOWN, JAP U DLANES, OKINAWA Mrs. Truman Is Quiet, Re-| (i firing-Has Been Hus- | One Hundred and Eleven band's Close Guide | Nip Aircraft Downed \ WASHINGTON, April 13 — Quiet, 'n Re'a“a"on i Bess Wallac rum: took | roRiy D oo ek GUAM, April 13—Japanese war over the prodigious job of being ’ " planes renewed their suicidal at- the First Lady of the land from tacks on American amphibious active Eleanor Roosevelt, who has| oA . s |forces off Okinawa yesterday, ,sink- o Rorpainiary. clizen again; ‘ing one destroyer and damaging The new President’s wife : has, been her husband’s advlser-ai:es several other surface units, Ad- throughout the rise of the Kansas A City haberdasher from local offices '03Y's communiaue. .\ to the Senate,’ Vice-Presidency and| All damaged United States ships now to the chief office of the na- femained in action, as 111 Japanese planes were shot down in the tion, and in recent years, the new .. afternoon attack, after seven had President entrusted much of hls‘been Bl s a asening ik fe. set’:xr;;ar::m:'o:r:vfi; isurswi enmse_"rhe afternoon attack also reached volb. who “Fis hests the ‘Taeat active American land forces on Okinawa, g Nimitz said. President’s wife in United States - history, was a great influence in| Anti-aircraft batteries on shore, her husband’s life. |as well as ship's guns and carrier No less, perhaps, though less in Planes shared in downing the Jap the forefront, may be the influ. Planes. ence of the new mistress of thelmns Whitehouse. Some years 8go, Presi- v dent Truman, then a Senator, made her position clear, .when under po-' MIs. Kptherine Hooker is 8 pa. litical fire he was criticized for Uent at St. Ann's Hospital as a his wife as a Senate Fesult of a fall. in "her home, in zl‘:!?kl"yé:g public funds, saying, “I Which her left arm was broken. need her there, that's the reason Mrs. Hooker was still recuperating I've got her there, I never make a "0’;‘ :g oba‘iin f;:lie rseutrtrer\ivd as:bu?:t: : 1i speech without Y& g » ] ;i':o?m':fn: e‘:v"er % which broke her hip and confined Sy her to bed for many months. Mr. and Mrs. David C. Mithoan, s 1% 2T rage, are ests ‘at the! Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Mason, of g‘nr:r‘::flh;:til. 7 _Sitka, are guests at the Baranof, Allied victory were killed last-fall by the defeat of the British First Parachute Division. - e KATHERINE HOOKER FALLS, BREAKS LEFT ARM Death Ends Career of Great Salesman in N SUDDENLY {Hugo Black, Mrs. Roosevelt disclos-| He passed on in the | CAPTURE OF VIENNA IS ingofRoosevelt ANNOUNCED | The tradition-shattering presiden- | [tial career of ~Franklin Delano| Lero Hour Reporied fo Be { Rcosevelt spanned turbulent years) H of peace in which he worked to ift| Near for Russian the Nation oui of a depression and| ® ‘lumultuous years of war when he| I.Unge on Beflln | played a dominant role in charting | e BULLETIN—MOSCOW, April |an Allied victory. $ | While he gained the adulation of | 13— Premier Stalin announced tonight the capture of Vienna. | millions, the unprecedented moves| |he made and the political theories| The fall of the Austrian he embraced made him the frequent| Capital, historic gateway to in- |target for blistering criticism. | vasions of Bavaria, came after | Accusations ranged from ‘“dema-! ejght days of bloody street |goguery” to ‘“dictatorship.” The; fighting and battles along the {public debt jumped to a record| hanks of the Danube. Vienna peacetime high, then to even great-| 5. the eighteenth European er wartime peaks. Critics charged capital to fall to Allied Armies. the President with trying to “‘pack” Russian artillery hammered ithe Supreme Court after that tri-| German defenses along the {bunal had thrown out several of his Qger, and aerial reconnaissance {favorite projects and he sought 0| jngicated zero-hour is mear for [inject “new blood” by reorganizing| ¢ne new Russian lunge on the membership. Some party stal- geriin, but the immense Soviet warts forsook him. | % But he became the first President f;:“::;\:"m s« 2 ol n history to be elected to a third |term=and by a smashing majority {—and then won the nomination for| la fourth term. SOVIET SPEARHEADS | LONDON, April 13 Russian (troops are moving on the Czecho- An International Statesman slovak city of Bruenn, 68 miles Mr. Roosevelt had attained 2 north of Vienna, after cutting the | substantial international stature in last life-line between the two cities, Ithe years when he was concemed)in attacks which doomed the re- | primarily ‘with applying revolution~'maining Nazi forces in the capital |ary remedies to an economic blight city, Moscow reports said. Irooted tn World War L. | Soviet spearheads have thrust to And after the flames of a second within 33 miles of Bruenn, in the |global conflict were kindled, he be- jnyasion over the southern Mo~ came the pivotal statesman of mOre rayian border. Inside Vienna, |than 30 United Nations which POl- of which is expected hourly, bitter led their might to smash a German- pouse-to-house fighting goes on, as | Italian-Japanese Axis. ¥ Marshal Tolbukhin's Army yester- | Kings an?s f"”":{- prfiselgen:: f;':e‘ day seized 60 blocks in the Jewish {prime ministers, ave! quarter of Leopoldstadt. | White House to consult him. | Between the Danube and the | ‘The military strategy of “?“‘:“: Danube Canal, the Nazis have con- [ ::$§§:1;:?écz5mzflw“::r coenb of Centrated their Vienna forces for a aace final stand on a small strip of Jits population—a strategy which sen’ land between the two waterways. { American fighting men, m’;‘;' q One thin escape gap now remains war weapons, American ¢ e Axis to the Germans, along the rail- American dollars to c“"‘f‘" s 5 road running northwest from the —was mapped at °‘°" whis (city, but Moscow said this too is which he took a leading part. under heavy Russian artillery fire. | In Unprecedented Parlevs | Berlin reported a general Nazi He constantly shuffied and = re- withdrawal west of Vienna along lvised a prodigious war production the Danube Valley in the direction | program, framed stupendous war of Hitler'’s Bavarian mountain fort- budgets to be met by taxes that ress of Berchtesgaden. hurt and, also at home, fought an| T inflation peril hardly less dangerous {to the Nation than its enemies at, oRGANllED "All arms. i He drew up with United Nations' colleagues, as the war progressed, FIGHII"G Io E"D blueprints for peace—a peace design- WITHIN FE Officers of General Staff ed to avoid the hasty mistakes of the Versailles treaty. Express Their Opinion fo Senafors i | International conferences on {scale never before seen in history ihelped the President to formulate his war plans. Rising to a pinnacle of world attention with him in, these councils was Britain's sturdy Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. His intimates said nothing less than the threat of war, and finally fall | NATIONALDAY " OF MOURNING © PROCLAIMED | 'Business, However, Will | Continue Without | Interruption WASHINGTON, April 13.—Presi- | dént Harry Truman proclaimed to- motrow a national day of mourning for President Roosevelt, but there is | t0 be no general interruption in the flow of supplies to the fighting fronts. | SShortly after Truman issued his | proclamation asking the country to! observe the day of Roosevelt's fun- eral services at the White House, by visiting churches in their respective | e@mmunities, War Production Chair- man Krug issued a call to all war iplan to work full schedules today jand tomorrow. This, Krug said, is \%Ul‘.sunm to the wishes expressed s morning by President Truman.” ‘Secretary of War Stimson pro- cimmrd a 30-day period of mourning for the Army. Naval ships and sta- | tipns around the globe are flying the ign at half-mast on orders from | retary of Navy Forrestal who ilarly designated a 30-day period mourning at sea. he President’s proclamation is- sued by the State Department form- | ally announced the late President's | death, “but though his voice is silent, | his courage is not spent, his faith | n#buextinguished. The courage of | great men outlives them to become | the courage of their people, and the | | peoples of the world. It lives beyond | them, upholds their purposes, brings their hopes to pass. | GOVERNOR'S STATEMENT | Here in Juneau Gov. Ernest Gruen- ‘ ing said he believed “it would be | | appropriate and responsive to lhr‘i ! feelings of our people if memorial | services for President Roosevelt were held in the churches throughout the | Territory on Sunday.” The Governor did not ask that ) business activities cease tomorrow,i but stated: “While our flags should | remain at half-staff for 30 days, it } would seem to me inappropriate to suspend any normal activity during | the work-day week. We are at war. ] | There is no cessation of conflict and | sacrifices on land, on sea, or in the | air. Our men are not pausing in! their march to Berlin and north- | ward on Okinawa on the route to | Tokyo."” | ORDER OFFICES CLOSED Late today the U. 8. Forest Service | was instructed from Washington | that all government offices are to | close at 1 p. m. tomorrow out of | respect to the late President. ——.—-—— — | | Frra i ABANDON SEARCH "FORLOSTPLANEIN INTERIOR ALASKA New (omma HARRY S. TRUMAN New Execufive and Family Abeve is President Harry S. Trum: and M Truman, thé new First Lady of the Land. nder-in-Chief NEW CHIEF EXECUTIVE SWORN IN Pledges Himself fo Follow . RooseveltPolicies-Asks Cabinef fo Remain | WASHINGTON, Apru 13.—Harry | 8. Truman was sworn in as the ‘Thh‘ty-second President of the United States at 7:00 o'clock last | evening, Eastern War Time. | With his hand on a small black bible, whose pages are edged with “ red, Truman repeated the oath after | ciief Justice Stone. To his left was his wife and daughter. Following taking of the oath, the | new President shook hands with the group around him, all solemn-faced and many with red eyes. | The new. President later solemnly | pledged himself to the policies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, then an- nounced in quick succession: 1—He will try to carry on as he | believes President Roosevelt would | have done. 2—The San Francisco United Na- tions Conference - will go on as scheduled, April 25.. < 3—He asked the Roosevelt Cabinet | to stay with him. 4—The war will be pressed to a #4 Teast and west, ¥ | Truman took the oath of office as | President just two houfs and 34 \minutes after Franklin D. Roosevelt jd{ed at Warm Springs. A { | NEW DUTIES TAKEN OVER BY TRUMAN !Goes fo White House, . Holds Conference as Dazed Wfild Walches WASHINGTON, April 23— President Truman says he will outline his foreign policies CHASE STATLER s | an, his daughter Margaret, aged 20, Truifiafi Began Life On Farm, Then _Vignl Up Harry S. Truman, now President war itself, could have prompted Mr. Roosevelt to stir up political tur- WASHINGTON, April |Army officials told Senators the ' end of organized fighting in Ger- 13—High | jof the United States, was born at miral Chester W. Nimitz said in | ‘moil in tremendous proportions by shattering the 150-year-old two- term presidential tradition begun by George Washington, and then run-| ning for a fourth term. mistiy, offisers of thg GeneralStaft Says He Preferred To Retire lexpressed the opinion to the mem- In 1940, the Chief Executive told bers of the Senate Military Affairs the Democratic National Convention'Committee that the collapse of the {he was accepting renomination for Nazi Armies is imminent. a third term only because of a| “storm” raging in Europe. He Was ference said the Army chiefs stated re-elected overwhelmingly OVer that only pockets of resistance will Wendell L. Wilkie, the republicnn;,emain to be cleaned up after the | candidate. |collapse. » | Four years later, Mr. Roosevelt | said his preference was to retire to; the family estate at Hyde Park, N.| | Y., where he was born January 30, !1882. He told Democratic Chair- | man Robert E. Hannegan in a let-! | ter: “All that is within me cries out| to go back to my home on the Hud- | | son River, to avoid public responsi- | | bilities, and to avoid also the pub- | licity which in our democracy fol- |lows every step of the Nation’s Chief Executive. | “Such would be my choice. But |we of this generation chance to live |in a day and hour when our Nation has been attacked, and when its | future existence and the future ex- !istence of our chosen method of many will probably come within a few days. Describing the pell-mell dash of the American Armies across Ger- . GOLDSTEIN BLDG RECONSTRUTION LOAN GRANTED Gov. Ernest Gruening announced itoday that his office has been in (formed that the Reconstruction i Finance Corporation has approved a |loan of $250,000 for reconstruction of the Goldstein Building in Juneau. Charles Goldstein, owner of the e comment regarding his immediate J plans for rebuilding the structure, Senators who attended the con-| FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April 13— The all-out search for Pilot Henry Duncan of Racine, Wisconsin, and | his mechanic, George Burkhart, has been abandoned. The two men have been missing | since March 27, when they vanished while on a flight from Galena to Candle, an unfamiliar route |virtually unméarked tundra. The two men were ferrying a new plane for the Arctic Explora- tion Company. Army search planes and Civil Air Patrol planes have been aloft for days without finding a trace of the lost ship or men. gLt s B MRS. CHESTER D. MOORE | VISITS LOCAL RELATIVES | Mrs. Chester D. Moore is visiting relatives in Juneau, having arrived yesterday by plane from Wrangell, enroute to her home in Seward by |the ‘first north-bound boat from the Capital City. . | While in Wrangell, Mrs. Moore was the guest of her 'daughters and their families, Mr. and M Martin Massen and Mr. and Mrs, Bert Nore. ! While in Juneau, Mrs. Moore is husband, whom she has not seen for a number of years. over | |Lamar, Missouri, May 8, 1884, where his parents were temporarily re- |siding away from “Grandview,” a rolling bottomland farm on the |outskirts of Kansas City, the home |of four generations of the Truman |family. His middle initial is “8,", {Just'an inltial and does not stand for a name. | That was because his didn't want to play favorites |tween his two grandfathers, he e: iplained. The first name of one grandfather was Solomon, of the other, Shippe. So the parents com- \promised on the initial. Truman failed to accomplish one {of his most earnest desires — to lacquire a college education. About the time he should have entered college his father, known .as the |“best horse trader in the county,” isuffered financial reverses. Young Truman received an appointment |to the U. 8. Military Academy, but i[ailed the physical examination be- {cause of weak eyes. parents | Goes To Work | So, after finishing high school, he went to work, holding such jobs as one in the mailing room of the property which was destroyed by '8 guest at the home of Mr. and‘,Kansas City Star, on a railroad fire several years ago, today had no Mrs. F. E. Moore, a brother of her ‘wnstrucuon gang and as a bank clerk. Five years after graduating {from high school he was making briefly at a joint session of Congress at 10 a. m. (PWT) Monday, and will speak to the nation’s armed forces by radio ‘Tuesday night. Meeting with Senators at a luncheon today, he said he was 100 per cent for Roosevelt's foreign policies and, with tears in his eyes, asked Senators and newspapermen present that “if , you fejlows pray, please pray for me. I mean that.” lonly $100 a month. About this time his grandmother | asked the elder Truman and ms! sons to take over the 600-acre!, family farm and. for, 10 years he | was a farmer. Years later, when he was receiving thousands of con- | gralulatory messages as a result of | the investigation of war spending.‘ he said he liked best the tribute his mother paid him, \ “That boy could plow the | straightest row of corn in the| county. He was a farmer who could | WASHINGTON, -Afhl 15 — A . dazed, questioning world watched Page Siz) |Harry S. Truman pick up the be- | (Continued_on X \banner of war for peace that slip- ped from the Ilifeless fingers of Franklin D. Roosevelt yesterday. | Stunned by the shock of its leader's passing, a mourning Na- tion gave solid backing to the gray-haired man in a gray business {suit who became President last 10-CARFUNERAL ~ TRAIN MOVING TOWASHINGTON == ABOARD THE ROOSEVELT to run for Vice-President last No- FUNGRAL TRAIN, April 13. — The |vember, went to work in the White body of Franklin D. Roosevelt is |House today, a question mark for enroute north on the 23-hour run all humanity. to Washington for funeral services | Shoulders Work | in Washington tomorrow and burial | The new President immediately Sunday in Hyde Park. !seized on the grim problems of The 10-car special is full with winning the war and securing friends and associates who hurried |a lasting peace as he shouldered here as the news of Roosevelt's/the responsibilities of the Chief death spread. | Executorship. The train left at 10:15 o'clock;| Leaving his modest Connecticut CWT, from War Springs. The body Avenue apartment early this morn- was taken to the train on a motor- ing for the White House, the new hauled army cassion through a lane |President held an emergency War of soldiers from Fort Benning. |Council, and his top military com- - - manders reviewed the world and ATLANTA, Ga., April 13. — The |political problems for 20 minutes. Roosevelt funeral train arrived heré |He held a short conference with at 1:32 o'clock this afternoon en-|Secretary of State Stettinius, issued route to Washington. Crowds lined |a proclamation for a National Day the adjacent viaduct to the station |of Mourning for Roosevelt, con- area, Two soldiers in summer bat- |ferred with his close lawyer friend, tle dress guarded the track as the { train came and left at 2:10 o'clock. “Continued on Paye Sevem)