The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 16, 1945, Page 1

i PRSP '’HE DAILY ALASK “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” A EMPIR VOL. LXIV., NO. 9937 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1945 MLMB[ R ASSOCIATLD PRESS PRICE TEN CEN?é TRUMAN MAKES FIRST TALK TO CONGRESS Germany Bisected In Final NAZIS RUSH UP TROOPS, WEST FRONT Ninth Army Still 45 Miles Distance from Ruin- ed Capital City PARIS, April 16—Third Army in- fantry, which has advanced within| eight miles of Czechoslovakia, has‘ virtually bisected Germany, whose\ western front is already split into| northern and southern commands. | The Germans rushed troops and[ tanks from the Eastern Front i Berlin, to oppose the grave threat to, their ruined capital city being made by elements of the Ninth Army,| only 45 miles away. ! North of Magdeburg, three Nazi divisions stamped out the original| Elbe River bridgehead at Mag-| deburg, but another east bank sal-, ient at Barby was deepened to four miles by Ninth Army troops, within | 53 miles of Berlin on the open‘ Brandenburg plain. ; Liquidation Today | Some 3,000 Germans were surren- dered by their commander in the eastern segment of the severed Ruhr | pocket. War Correspondent Don Whitehead said, “there is the strongest possibility that both sec- Superforts rained incendiaries early‘momem !squared his shoulders as if to as- | tions of the Ruhr pocket will be li- quidated today.” Already 146,349 German prisoners have been counted from the Ruhr, square miles were burned out. Re- 0f Mr. Roosevelt. with hundreds more filing to prison connaissance photographs showefl‘ Franklin D. Roosevelt had left cages from the great industrial ré- 206,000,000 square feet of Tokyo's'a task unfinished but had blazed | | glon. Assault On Bremen British troops opened their assault the area devastated by mcendlnry‘l 51:""' Vchde l;l A:ms and to; world peace and’ plenty. on Breman, and moved within 2% miles of that port, while Third Army | beselged the big Saxony center of Chemnitz from about the same dis- tance and the U. 8. First Army tightened its grip on Leipzig, clear- ed the northern third of Halle and fought to within 2 miles of Dessau, 52 miles southwest of Berlin. 200,000 Nazis Pocketed | Canadian and Polish troops reach- ed the North Sea within five miles of Emden, pocketing perhaps 200,- 000 Germans. , The U. S. First and Ninth Armies ‘med another trap in the Harz Mountains, on 350 mile front, while Berlin reports said Third Army troops afe 75 miles or so from the Russian lines, and a juncture is imminent. ¥ A German communique said Am- ) erican troops had broken into west- ' (Continued on Page B’iah!) The Washmgion Merry - Go- Round‘ By DREW PEARSON m.Dol.lohvns Allonnwn.mn service with the Army.} WASHINGTON —Harry Truman| will be known -as the man who| didn't want to be President. | Unassuming, modest, in love with | his jo as Sepator from Missouri, Harry never wanted to be Vice- President in. the first place, And! after he was elected, he dreaded the thought .that anything might happen to President Roosevelt. | Once, during the campaign, he awoke in a cold sweat. He had dreamed that Roosevelt had died and he was called upon to assume his mantle. Harry said he never had such a terrible dream before in all| his life. Truman had arrived in Speaker Sam Rayburn's office to discuss that same awesome possibility when the call came to hurry to the ‘White House. On Wednesday, the night before, Speaker Rayburn had had a pre- monition of things to come. Dining with friends, Raybyrn said: “This country is in for” a great tragedy, and I feel it's coming very soon. I don't think the President .will be with us much longer.” Rayburn’s listeniers were shocked. When they asked the Speaker for an explanation, he re| 8 “Roosevelt’s not a man.” Refusing to be more specific, he/ ——— e (Continued on Pa' Four) " Body of Roosevelt in Final Resfing Place in Native 400 SUPERS - MAKE RAID Incendiary Bombs Are Dropped - Saturday’s Fires Still Burning BULLETIN— WASHINGTON, April 16—The Twentieth Air Force reports that 11 Super- forts are missing in the latest Tokyo raid, but some of them may turn up later. This repre- sents the highest loss of Supers in any attack, but the size of the force, presumably up to 400 Forts, made the percent- age loss low. | 16—Another 400 | GUAM, April this morning on Tokyo, which was jon | Franklin Delano Roosevelt was yes- {terday committed to the warm |under a cloudless spring sky. ON TOKYO |into the grave in the flower garden |of his family estate. |Truman stood with dim eyes and ! Soil, Hyde Park | By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL (Associated Press Correspondent) HYDE PARK, N. Y., April 16—As | President Harry S. Truman looked | with a face frozen in grie(\ l | [ | brown earth on his native soil the late Chief lowered solemnly | The body of Executive was ‘Waiting, with strained faces, were members of the family, dignitaries of the Government, and little sad- faced groups of the plain people— employees on the place, neighbors | from the countryside. A detail of grey-clad cadets from West Point fired a volley of three farewell salutes. A bugler played taps, its sweet but still notes echoing through the | wooded estate. i Soldiers, Sailors and Marines, who held the American flag over | the casket, folded it and handed it | to Mrs. Roosevelt. | A few feet to the rear, | President | lowered head. { high government officials. There was a hush—then in that of supreme grief, he\ (D-Tex), Fred M. Vinson sume completely and finally the still burning from last Saturday’s fire in which 10 and three-quarter arsenal area was burned out Sat-| urday, bringing to 27% square miles’| raids on Tokyo since March 10. Saturday’s fires swept over twice the target area, including the prized Itabashi Arsenal, the Japa- | nese communique conceded. | Today's raid started a “consider- | able number of fires,” the Tokyo radio admitted, and some of them | burned for seven hours. The Tokyo communique claimed,; |without confirmation, that 55 Supers were shot down and 50 damaged. | | The Kawasaki industrial suburbs, |Room of the White House. - 5 ldjmmng ‘Tokyo on, the south, was the second target to be raided.| Kawasaki is the ninth largest city in Japan. Pilots returning from to- day's holocaust said fires were| still visible for a distance of 150 ‘miles. The section hit' extends in a| 25 miile strip along the Tokyo Bay land contains railroads, power and commumcauon systems. i - e - PLANERUNS | - OUTOF GAS; LANDS; SAFE Two Crew Members of, Missing Craft in Inferior | Finally Reach Deering | FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April 16.—| The new Stinson Gull plane ‘that; had been flown from Chicago, and that left Galena on March 26 for Candle, ran out of gas at Devil Mountain, 75 miles north of Deer- Search for the plane had been| given up. Pilot Henry Duncan of Chicago, and Mechani¢ George Burkhart of Deering, the only persons aboard,| arrived in Deering yesterday after-| i !ing, and landed safely. 1 i | Inoon on a dog sled. They had walk-| " i 'memory Sunday, scores of clerics ed from the grounded plane until they met reindeer herders. Duncan said he overshot Deering in a storm, and as the gas ran out, landed the plane. The airplane is the property of the Arctic Circle Exploration Com- pany of Deering. — o —— |state papers, the gift to the world | :Snmrday night from Washington, | |Pranklin D. Roosevelt. Jtheir plan for a weekend in Glas- enormous burden left by the danh‘ OFFENSIVE RUSSIANS for his successor, paths he be- | lieved would lead most surely to IN ITALY OPEN BIG UNDERWAY British Eigfland U. S.iGermansAMncelarge-i Fifth Fighting on En- Scale Drive from East whete tiie’ sthte; RS Nas held | fire Battlefront Along 60-Mile Front Saturday afternoon in the East! i | ROME, April 16.—The Spring ol- LONDON, April 16.—The German Cabinet members, Supreme Court |fensive in the Mediterranean theatre Command announced the Russlans} members, representatives of other ! o{ war has started and the United have launched the long- awmwd‘ lands, members of the Senate and !|States Fifth and British Eighth Ar- large-scale offensive from the east| House and other high officials in|mies are engaged in operations side of the German waist. public life, accompanied the body along the entire battlefront. At Berlin, the High Command de- | to this place. | The British Eighth is striking at|clared the big Soviet steamroller | The body was removed from the the eastern end of theé front and the sWung into action diong a 60-mile Where Body Lies l The garden where Mr. Roosevelt | rests, lies between the family home‘ where he was born 63 years ago' and the library which houses his | which recognized him as one of the preeminent leaders. | The body had been brought here | -~ Truman Takes Oath as President of Unifed Stafes Harry S. Truman (left center) is sworn in as President of the United States at the White House on the evening of April 12, in the presence of Ieft to rightare: War Secretary Henry Stimson; Cemmerce Secretary Henry A. Wallace; War Production Board Chief J. A. Krug; Navy Secretary Jimes Forrestal; Agriculture Secretary Wickard, unidentified person, Alwmev General Frances Biddle, Tru- man, State Secretary Edward R. Stettinius, Jr.; Mrs. Truman, Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes, Chiel Justice Harlan F. Stone, Sam Rayburn Rep. .John M;rtln, Rep. Ramspeck and R:p, John McCormick. (AP erephoto» | OFFENSIVE Drive On Berlin STRATEGY OF PRESENT WAR 10 CONTINUE | President Says There Will | Be No Change, “"Uncon- ditional Surrender” l WASHINGTON, April 16—Presi- dent Harry S. Truman promised the grand strategy of the war will re- | main “unchanged and unhampered” by his accession to the Presidency. ; Making his first address to a joint session of Congress, the new |President declared this nation, |along with its allies, must shoulder |the “grave responsibility” of making secure the future peace. To accomplish this objective, Truman said, the United States must join in punishing those guilty of bringing on the war. | For ting Peace | “A lasting "peace can never be secured if we permit qur dangerous opponents to plot future wars with impunity in amy mquntain retreat, {'however d " the President said, in an apparent allusion to \reports that Hitler may attempt |to seek refuge in the Bavarian |mountains. " “The armies of liberation are m- day bringing to #h end Hitler's ghastly threat to dominate the - |world,” President ‘Trumarn said, and 1 “Tokyo rocks under the weight of .our bombs. The grand strategy of the United Ni in the war has |been dete! , due in no small {measure to the w of our de- parted Ce ider-in-Chief. We are now carrying out our part of that strategy under the able direc- jtion of Admiral Leaby, Gen. Mar- shall, Admiral King, Gen. Arnold, Gen. Eisenhower, Admiral Nimitz and Gen. MacArthur. . | “I want the entire world to know this direction must and will remain unchanged and unhampered.” Tribute To Roosevelt Speaking only one day after the burial of Franklin Roosevelt, Tru- man paid high tribute to his pre- decessor, saying a “tragic fate has |thrust upon us grave responsibili- ties, and we must carry on. Our |devoted leader never looked back- |ward, he looked forward, moved forward. That is what he would want us to do, that is what America lwill do." President Truman went to the \special train along the side of the United States Fifth has jumped into {rent from the mouth of the Neisse shimmering Hudson River, just be-the fight along the central and wes- | River, southeast of Berlin, to lhel low the hills which sweep up to!tern sectors. Oderbruch, a low plain on the west | the estate. | Heavy bombers of the U. §. Fif-|bank of the Uder River, northeast uh The Casket was placed on ajteenth Air Force Sunday hit Ger- Berlin. & caisson and driven slowly along man targets south of Bologna. It is “Bitter fighting is in progress nn4 between lines of men in uniform indicated the British Eighth will the entire front,” “Berlin's bu"ttm; standing stiffly alert in honor of have a hard fight in an effort to said. ‘German broadcasts indicated their late Commander-In~Chief. lbrcak out of the mountains south:the Russian assault is being mounted | Behind the caisson, Negro caval-|of Bologna into the broad Po Valley. ¢ an even broader front, as they, The Germans appear to have chos-| éported a new bridgehead acros: (Continued on Page Thiree) —————— |en to fight in Northern Italy de-|the Oder forged in the first hounr: !spite military disasters which are of the offensive in the Schwedt area, ' WORI.D I" {ipping ‘Che’ Beldh gpacs, e e B h e % | * MOURNING |German Currency . " Aisatian Headache tank forces made breaches in Ger- yman lines in their attacks toward Eeelow Heights, 27 miles east of| Berlin and 11 miles west of Kues-| |trin. Assording to German accounts, | The Germans said strong Soviet | |the Russian offensive is directed by | FOR F D R | SAVERNE, Prance—The process General Vassily Sokolovsky, said by| | ] {of chasing German currency and the enemy to have replaced Marshal | coins out of Alsace continues, and Zhukov as Commander of the Fhsz lP‘rench money soon will displace Russian Army. The world mourns with the;c}erman exchange throughout south-| At the southern end of tne front, | United States in the passing of jern Alsace. Mmccw dispatches said the Rus- | Alsations who were taken over the sians have driven well past St. Poel- Saverne gap to refuges in the south ten, 28 mile swest of Vienna, in their |of France have provided a minor drive up the Danube Valley in Aus-| {problem. They went with German, 'tria. money, they speak German or a dia-| Berlin reported the Ruwans lect of it, they have been conditioned southeastern Moravia and (By Assoclated Press) High officials of many nations are still sending streams of con-| dolences. The London Times says “He is| mourned here as perhaps no other | of another country ever has been.’ o140 LR, IDAtHACA ARG WiT. Saturday, American soldiers an |sailors stationed in Britain filed |into churches. The British honored Roosevelt's in {in the French body politic. intended that no more Alsatians be| his outnumbered French army, won shifted across the Vosges and those!a classic victory over Russian and - » BondLoanDrivefolast Ad~, Czechoslovakla. are driving strong-| |mittedly they have proved a thorn!ly from Goeding toward Austerlitz,| d | It is|the battlefield where Napoleon wm” now there will be brought back a.s‘Austrlan forces in 1805. 1 /Capitol after two early-moming | conferences on- international af- (fairs, the first with Secretary of State Stettinius, and the second {with British Foreign Secretary An- {thony Eden and British Ambassa- ldqr Lord Halifax. | ‘Long before the President ar- irived at the Capitol, police and Secret Service men placed a care- !ful guard about the building. Only |holders of special cards of ad- !mission were allowed in the House (gallery, where the joint session |was held. i “Unconditional Surrender” Speaking from the rostrum where he heard Roosevelt on March 1 |describe the accomplishments of the \Ynlta Conference, Truman said the | American policy remained ‘“uncon- ditional surrender.” Declaring the nation is “deeply consclous” that much hard fighting 'remains, the President said, “hav- e Y T ing to pay such a heavy price to make complete victory certain, {America can never become a party 'to any plan for partial victory. We cannot traffic with the breakers lof peace on terms of peace.” Great Assemblage President Truman and Mrs. Tru- |man reached the Capital at 12:27 (0'clock this afternoon and were met From a 1 4 'o une {by their deughter, Mary Margaret. |They went immediately to the of- | fice of Speaker Rayburn where the R ” ) " |President waited for the formal S M . President Harry 8. Truman, smiling, walks into the White House April 13 as he reports for his first day’s duty as the natien’s Chief Execu- tive. Secret Serviecemen guard him from the rear after escorting him from his Connecticut Avenue apartment. (AP Wirephoto) (ampalgn of Tth War i FISHBEIN ViSITS JUNEAU Julius Fishbein, of New York, soon as possible. | —— | ESTETH IN JUNEAU ! eulogizing him. The King and Queen cancelled BOW. is 'Hotel during his stay in Juneau. e gl MAY IN JUNEAU A. R. May, of Hood Bay, ‘guest at the Baranof Hotel. Howard Esteth, of Anchorage, Chiang Kai Shek invited highl|i, Juneau and a guest at the| officials and foreign. diplomats to & |garanef. { memorial service in Chungking to-| T | -y JOSEPHINE LYNN HERE MacKENZIE, WIFE HERE Mr. and Mrs. J. F. MacKenzie, of Petersburg, are guests at the Gastineau. Special tributes and religious services were held in Jerusalem. ‘The Portuguese fleet lowered the, flag to half-mast. Josephine Lynn, of Whitehorse,| . ST. MARTIN HERE is a guest at ‘the Baranof Hotel| John St. Martin, of Skagway, is whfle in Juneau. ja guest. at the Baranof Hotel. City, is a guest at the Gastineau i is a; By MAX HILL .m,m in the me two months a year Senate and House Committee to | WASHINGTON, April 16—Why ago. {escort him to the House chamber ! will you be asked to buy more hond»‘ The income of the people remains to deliver his message. in the seventh wgr loan than you ga¢ a5 dizzy level, In the house, the customary |have bought in any previous drive?| Goods available for civilians areicluster of microphones was ar- | You have a right to an answer. geumg scarcer. That puts more Joose ranged on the speaker's table be- |It's your money. money in people’s pockets. The fore the President, and on the | Officials of the Treasury’s War| more of this sort of money there is, floor was a great assemblage of his | Finance Division' talk about the the harder it is to control prices and | former colleagues, Senate members, |geventh war loan 'in these terms:|jeep inflation within bounds. |House members, and in the front | The cost of the war is not declin- | That doesn't mean we are to buy row of seats were Justices of the iing. In January @nd February, war | | el expenditures were) actually hfgher (Continued on Page | 7 (Continued on Page Three) - -