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The Ypsilanti daily press., 1945-04-13
Plunges Into Critical Task
as US, World Mourn Loss;
Roosevelt Rites Saturday
Our Enemies Rejoice

AS America mourns today, enemies rejoice.
In the death of Franklin Deano Roosevelt Germany and
Japan seek hope. Our great loss will temporarily
rebuild for them their vanishing morale. Every waning
ounce of resisting strength will be stimulated to action
but it must be to avail. Our fighting will
that and to here home falls the responsibility of back
ing those unfalteringly and with seadfas
determination.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt master leader and statesman
that he fighting against terrific odds waved aside
the handicap of affcton and lived to hear from his
erals the encouraging word that upon the hresh
hold of victory in Europe. AS tribute to his brilliant
leadership armies will fight for this early victory
has fought before.
1t will be joyful message for saddened nation. 1t
will be the first and biggest step toward total victory and
world peace but of most vital significance will be its i'm
perative demand for greater effort forceful
and better united than the best of the heretofore,
Immediately confronting is first opportunity to
demonstrate appreciation sincerity faith our
will for reedomthe Seventh War Bond Investment OPP
portunity 1t is truly opportunity In honor Of the
memory of our late President for the giving their
lives and if you to consider it, for your selfish
interest personal profit for the greatest good of the
whole world, buy, buy, buy bonds-and save them.
1t is a sad day when flag stands at half mast Let
every man. and youth resolve, as we bow IN TINS
interim of grief that deed will go undone as opportun
ty is offered intensity perseverng drive for early
victory.
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Seventy One
Die In Storm

Oklahoma City, Apr. l3-AP-Ok-
lahoma counted It's tornado-dead
at II and the homeless in hundreds
TODAY after twisters bounced craz-
lily over the state 20 spread dcstruc-
ton in dozen cities and rural
communities.
The storms swept on into Ar.
kansas. killing three, and two per
sons were reported missing in a
storm at Morrisville. Mo.
Most seriously hit in Oklahoma
by yesterday afternoons storms
were Antlers with Il dead. Mus
kogee with il and Hubert and Red
Oak. Greenwood Junction and Row
land. In Arkansas, two we're killed
at Dora and one near Fayetteville.
There were no accurate esti-
mates OF ini1ries and damage in
the typical Oklahoma storms but
hundreds OF persons we're hospital
lied and whole sections of cities
were swept away by the winds
fury.
Red Cross Chairman Paul Os-
born at Antlers, struggling to
bring order into rescue work, said
one-third Of the city OF 5000 was
demolished when wind caught up
500 or 500 residences. Army posts
and Red Cross chapters were send
ing all available personnel into the
area. and Will Rogers Army Ar
Field at Oklahoma City sent a
badly needed portable electric
power plant.
At Muskogee a twister wnirled
through the eastern outskirts. ser
iously damaging every building OF
the Oklahoma school for the blind,
many OF whose inmates were hos
pitalized. A large part OF the CITY
was without electric power for
several hours when lines from a
plant on the Arkansas River were
blown down.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1945-04-13
(Rv Associated Pressl


The tradition n-shattering pTesi-
Dental career Of Franklin Delapo
Roosevelt spanned turbulent years
of peace in which he worked TO
lift the Nation out OF a depression
and tumultuous years OF war when
he played dominant role in chart
ing an Allied victory.
Mr.. Roosevelt had attained a
substantial international stature
in the years when he was concern
ed primarily with applying reyolu-
tionary remedies to an economic
blight rooted in World War l.
And after the flames of a second
global conflict were kindled, he be.
came the pivotal statesman Of more
than 80 United Nations which
pooled their might TO smash Ger
man-ltalian-Japanese Axis.
Kings and queens, presidents and
prime ministers, travelled to the
White House to consult him.
The military strategy of nations
representing 80 per cent OF the
earth's surface and 60 per cent of
iNH pOBuidNIOiA hNldAtSg ALIdN hCul
American fighting men. American
war weapons. American food and
American dollars TO combat the
Axis-was mapped at conferences
in which he took leading part.
In Unprecedented Parleys
He constantly shuffled and re-
vised a prodigious war production
program. framed stupendous war
budgets to be met by taxes that
hurt and. also at home. fought an
initiation peril hardly less danger
Gus TO the Nation than its enemies
at arms.
lie drew up with United Nations
colleagues, as the war progressed.
blueprints for peace-a. peace de-
signed to avoid the hasty mistakes
OF the Versailles treaty.
International conferences on a
scale never before seen in history
helped 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
war itself could have prompted
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dent TO stay al the Soviet embassy
during his participation in perhaps
the most significant Of all United
Nations war talks.
In Complete Agreement
-Four days OF deliberatiOn pro.
duced. Roosevelt, Churchill and
Stain said, a determination that
our nations shall work together
in the war and in the peace that
will follow" They added they had
concerted plans for the "destruc-
ton OF the German forces and
had reached complete agreement
as to the scope and timing Of opera
tions which will be undertaken
from the east, west and south
From Tehran, Stain went back 10
Moscow, Roosevelt and Churchill
to Cairo to be Joined by President
lnonu Three days OF conferences
in Cairo brought forth another
communique which reported that
the closest unity existed between
the United States OF America,
Turkey and Great Britain in their
attitude toward the world situa-
ton
En- route home, the President
stopped at battle-scarred Tunis,
Malta and Sicily. The Secret Ser
vice had 20 restrain him from look.
ing in on fghting in Italy.
Action Follows Conferences
BY mid -ls44. the full signif.
canoe OF the Cairo.Tehran meetings
had become apparent
In fulhllment OF the commit
ments. the invasion Of France got
under way from the west and south,
Russia pounded hard on the ess;-
ern front and by fall Allied arms
were on German soil. Victory In
Europe was in sight.
And in the Pacific. Allied forces
won success in Burma, flushed
the japanese from one island
stronghold after another, dealt ser.
iOus blows TO the enemy's navy
and sent bombers winging with
increasing frequency over the heart
OF Nippon.
War was far from Mr. Roose-
velts thoughts on that March {.
1898. when he declared IN his first
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NationaLD
ofMourning
Set

Washington. APR. ID AP -
President Truman called the ma.
tion's top military chiefs into con.
ference on the war situation today
as he took up the reins Of govern.
ment.
The White House announced
presidential conference for / m,
with Fleet Admiral William d.
Leahy. the late President Roose.
velts military adviser, Fleet Ad.
miral Ernest j. King, chief OF the
Navy; General of the Army George
&. Marshall. Army chief OF stan
Secretary OF War Stimson. and Sec.
retary or the Navy Forrestal
The new Presi ent thus put into
immediate effect the statement he
made shortly after he was sworn In
last night that one OF his prime
tasks would be To prosecute the war
vigorously on all fronts.
The White House said no other
callers had been scheduled official
ly yet and the assumption was that
the New Chief would devote the
major portion of his day to familiar.
izing himself with military condi.
tions all over the world,
|. Mourning Proclamation
AS one Of his first official acts.
President Truman was putting the
finishing touches To a proclamation
calling for a national day OF mourn.
ing tomorrow In tribute 10 the mem.
ory OF his predecessor, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt who diod at
Warm Springs. Ga, yesterday.
Funeral services for the late
President will be held IN the White
House East Room Saturday with
burial In the family plot at Hyde
Park, N. y, Sunday morning.
As Truman began his first full
day In the Office ~ which he ss'
I oended from the vice presidency.
he summoned Hugh Fulton. New
York and Washington lawyer. to
work with him in the executive OF.
| fees.
Fulton. former counsel for the
Senate War Investigating Commit
tee OF which President Truman
once was chairman, has been men
| toned for the Attorney General
ship II changes are made In the
| cabinet.
The new President announced at
the outset that he would try 10
carry on the Roosevelt policies. He
asked the cabinet to stay on, gave
assurance that the United Nations
conference will open in San Fran
cisco April % on schedule
There were reports at the White
House. not yet official. that Mr..
Truman may address n joint ses-
sion OF Congress next week, possib-
ly Tuesday.
After a Commute conference
with the now President Stettinius
left hurriedly for the State Depart.
ment.
Mr.. Truman's FIRST conferences
apparently gave immediate direc-
tion to his statement after taking
the oath last night that one OF his
| prime tasks would be to prosecute
| the war vigorously on all fronts
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at Half
Mast in City

Flags at schools and public build
ings were at half mast here today
and all places OF business other
than those engaged in vital war
work will be closed at 2.30 p. m.
Saturday out OF respect for the
memory OF Franklin Delano Roose-
welt, President, who died Thursday
at Warm Springs, Ga.
Woodruff School marked the
passing OF President Roosevelt with
a service at 2 O'Clock this afternoon
which opened with the pledge Of
allegiance. followed by The Prayer
for Peace" sung by the sixth grade
choir. The Presidents fayorite
Bible passage, the thirteenth chap
ter OF the first Epistles to the Corin-
thians, was read. followed by
hymns Floyd Smith, principal 0f
the school, outlined a brief history
OF the Presidents life. The entire
student body sang the doXology.
and closed the program with THE
Star Spangled Banner"
Ypsilanti High School, through
PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS this nation is shocked
and plunged into sorrow by the
tragic news OF President Roose-
velts untimely death. and
THEREFORE, !, Ross X. Bower
Mayor OF Ypsilanti. by virtue OF
my office, do request that all
places OF business and amuse
ment. excepting those engaged in
vital war production. close from
and after 2:30 y. m. Eastern War
Time on Saturday, April II, l945
to enable the citizens OF the City
Of Ypsilanti to mediate and pray
for strength and guidance in car
rying on the ideals and aspira-
itons OF our great President, the
late Franklin d. Roosevelt.
ROSS X. BOWER
the speaker system, listened to
memorials. At Harriet School, each
room has its own observance.
The entire student body at Pros
pcct School were assembled for a
flag ceremony this afternoon, u1en
returned to their class rooms for
memorial programs.
Lincoln Consolidated School held
special flag raising services at 20
o'clock this morning during which
the students and employees main
tanned complete silence except for
the salute TO the flag. led by Phillip
Petri.
As the flag was lowered to half
mast. Thelma Howell, a student,
played Tap on the trumpet. After
a few moments Of silent prayer, the
students returned 10 their classes.
Roosevelt students and teachers
we're called to general assembly
al 3.l5 Central War Time, for a
short memorial service, consisting
OF prayer and hymns.
4 flag raising service was held At
the St Johns Prochial School
shortly after o'clock this after
noon. with the students and teach
ers uniting in prayers.
The USO dance held at the vii.
low Run Air Base each Friday
night, has been Cancelled.
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i. S. TroopS
Land on
Boho[

tRys the Asslfeisted e Iressb
American forces broke up a pow.
erful Japanese air offensive by
shooting down JIG enemy planes or
Okinawa yesterday and in an Of.
fensive OF their own landed on
Bohol. the last major island in
the Philippines TO be reinyade1.
One American destroyer was
sunk and several other ships dam.
aged in the dayton. air battle on
Okinawa, 1926 miles from Japan.
Nippon's suicide pilots centcred
the attack their second disastrous
attempt within a week-On the in.
vssion fleet and supply dumps on
the west coast of the island where
tanks unloaded $4,000 tons OF ma
terial in the first ten days OF the
invasion
4 japanese communique claimed
eight L. S. ships were sunk and
IL damaged
Negligible Success
Breaking the six months official
American silence on Japan's high
ly publicized suicide corps, fleet
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz said they
See PACIFIC Page ;
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Mr.. Roosevelt TO stir IN political
turmoil in tremendous proportions
by shattering the 15O-year-old two
term presidential tradition begun
by George Washington, and then
running for a fourth term.
Says He Preferred to Retire
In 1910, the Chief Executive told
the Democratic National Conven-
tion he vas accepting renomina-
tion for a third term only because
of a storm" raging in Europe. He
was reelected Overwhelmingly over
Wendell L. Willkie, the Republican
candidate.
His 1914 opponent was Thomas
f. Dewey of New York.
A tremendous figure Of man,
despite legs left withered and use
less by infantile paralysis in 1921,
Mr.. Roosevelt shouldered burdens
as heavy as any Chief Executive
ever carried. While he stood up
under a job which had wrecked
the health OF many a predecessor,
the years naturally left their mark
on him.
Forced TO Take Rest
Influenza, sinusiais and bron-
chitis weakened him in the winter
OF 1943-44 and rumors spread about
his health. In April. 1914, be bundi-
ed up his old clothes and took a
n onth off to conyalesce in shirt
sleeves on the languorous planta-
tion coast OF South Carolina. when
he returned TO Washington. his
physician said he was in as good
shape as any man OF G2 could
hope to be and that his condition
offered no bar to another four
years in th1 White House.
Mr.. Roosevelt accepted the
fourth-term nomination by radio
from a naval base at San Diego.
Calf Immediately. he boarded a
cruiser for his first wartime trip
into the Pacific and consultations
In Hawaii--where a sneak punch
brought America into the war on
December 7, 194l-with top COM
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U. S. WEATHER FORECAST

Lower Michigan: Showers south
and east portions, cloudy northwest
portion tonight. Saturday mostly
cloudy. Cooler.
Highest temperature yesterday,
-. lowest, 50.
Highest temperature one year
ago today, 5s; lowest, SO.
Highest temperature this date IN
last 7S years, 81 in 1941; lowest,
81 in 1910.
The sun sets today at $40 p. m.
and rises Saturday at 1858 a. m.
The moon sets today at $50 p.
m. and rises Saturday at S:33 a. n.
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Less Than Hour

Ypsilaufi Daily Press eytra
announcing tho death of Pes
ident Roosevelt Thursday eve
ming was in type in less than
an hour after announcement
was made from the White
House
n was the first newspaper
10 break the news to Npsilani
residents.
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Tanks But is
Miles From
Leipzig

(Bv Associated Press)
L. S. Third Army tanks knitted
TO within Is miles of Leipzig today
and broke into Jena, historic Ma
poleonic battle-ground. while to the
north the Ninth Army massed for
the push to Berlin. 81 miles away.
and to the Russian lines, 115 miles
from American positions on the
Elbe River.
A front dispatch said the virtu-
al complete disappearance of the
German air force over the Third
Army front appeared to substan-
tiate reports of Luftwaffe re.
volt"
Russian troops stormed across
the border of Moravia, which with
Bohemia represents the last big
Nazi war production area. The Red
army cut across the frontier 33
miles from Bruenn. Czechosloyakia.
which is 6S miles north of besieged
Vienna. after cutting last lifelines
between the two cities.
The war cannot last much long
er," Nazi Propaganda Minister
Goebbels declared mournfully. I'VE
have sunk very low And a Stock
holm dispatch quoted a Berlin re-
port that Germans there believed
Allied tanks would enter the Nazi
capital within the next few days. -
Besiesed, Topping
Behind 1t. Gen. William II.
simpsons Ninth Army advance
Brunswick and Magdeburg, last
large cities on the approaches to
Berlin, were besieged and topping.
1t. Gen. George 5. Patton S
Third Army drove past captured
Weimar, the geographical center of
the Reich cutting numerous roads
to the enemy's Bavarian Alps fort
ress. BY this morning the drive
had carried within 81 miles of the
Czechoslovakian frontier. Near
Leipzig and across the Saale Riv-
er Pattons tanks were - miles
from Dresden. Saxony capital
threatened by the Russians. Erfurt,
Germany's Gath city, has fallen.
To the south the Seventh Army
was - miles from Bayreuth and %
from toe Nazi shrine city OF Nuern-
berg.
British Eighth Army troops in
eastern Italy advanced steadily IN
the lower .Po valley against par
TALLY disorganized resistance. al
ter beating back counterattack5
. 81
River bridgeheads. The three
bridgeheads were expanded de-
spite massed Nazi Tiger tanks and
antitank guns. Polish troops
threatened Imola from the south
east and Italians and Partisans
threatened it from the Santerno
valley. as the enemy salient was
squeezed methodically. Allied planes
rained destruction on Nazi troops
and installations.
The Americans on the West
Coast gained more than a mile on
the coastal road from captured
Massa to La Spezia, driving
through diminishing resistance.
Berlin reported a general Nazi
withdrawal west OF vienna toward
Berchtesgaden, Hitler's mountain
hideout. Bitter house to house flght.
ing ragged in the Austrian capital
as Nazis concentrated for a last
stand in the narrow strip between
the Danube and the Danube Canal
Victory Garden plots for rent. 81
each ready 10 plant 1875 r. Mich
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Colorful Public Career at
End, Rites Will be Saturday

historic East Room of the White
House.
The body Will not lie in state.
Burial will be at the family homt
at Hyde Park. n. Y, Sunday.
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AUCTION CALENDAR

TUESDAY, APRIL 24th-st 1900
o'clock. 2 miles south Of Ann
Arbor at 1895 State Street Road
or Il mile north OF Ann Arbor
Airport. Sale includes 40 head Of
cattle. Jacob Eprill, Proprietor.
Guy 2. Thompson, Auetioneer,
4o4 Ferris ST. Phone 25te. Ben
Simons, Clerk. Adv. 423
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Navy Mothers Rummage Sale to-
day and Sat. IL and Il. $50 to 500
p m. 53ii y. Huron V. F. W. Hall
Adv. i13
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SATURDAY, APR. 2t-at I o'clock,
2 miles east OF Milan on Plank
Road on farm known as the ia.
eobs Farm. Raymond Lsuff. own
er; George Lauff, Proprietor.
Guy 2. Thompson, Auetioneer.
404 Ferris St. Phone 25te. Thur
low Heath, Clerk. Adv. 420
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WARM SPRINGS, Ca UP -
Franklin d. Roosevelt leaves at IL
a. m. EWT today on his last jour
ney to the White House. His body
was placed in a copper-lined, ma
hogany casket. Four servicemen
stood watch as guard of honor
over him as the special train that
brought him here for rest was
prepared for the sad return as a
general Cortcge.
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WASHINGTON-UP-WithHa Har-
~ S. Truman installed as Presi-
dent, the nation will be without a
vice president until Jan. 10, 1949
when the present term of office
ends. While there is provision for
s cession of cabinet members to
the presidency and vice president,
there is no provision for a success
sor to the vice president when that
Office becomes vacant.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1945-04-13

NEW YORK-AP-T service
men at the Stage Door Canteen,
many of them wounded veterans.
sat for a moment under a pail of
shocked silence and then quietly.
unashamedly. some of them began
TO cry when they heard the news
of the Presidents death. In a
newsreel theater men sobbed aloud,
women burst into tears and ran
into the street.
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Victory Garden plots for rent. 81
each ready 10 plant 1876 r. Mich
igan. Phone 92l-W evenings.
Adv. il3s
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1945-04-13
Berlin 81 Miles Away, Jap Planes Downed
Condolences Received

Il have caused thee Ia
see it with thine eyes, but
thou shalt not go over
thither. So Moses the ser
want Of Jehovah died there
in the land of Moab, ac-
cording TO the word CT Je-
hovah.."his eye was not
dim, nor his natural force
abated. And the children
of Israel wept for Moses
thirty days" .Deut.
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tribute to President Roosevelt Sta
lin said:
THE Soviet people highly valued
President Roosevelt as great or.
ganlzer of the struggles OF freedom.
loving nations asgfnst TIE scommtsl
enemy and as the leader in the
cause of ensuring the security OF
the whole world"
Generalissimo Chang Ksi Shek
said.
The Presidents name will be a
beacon light to humanity for cen.
turies to come and declared China )
sorrow was intensified by the graf
itude she owed him
Field Marshal Jan Christian
Smuts, prime minister of the Union
of South Africa. said: His passing
leaves us very poor indeed, and
when | 90 to America to the San
Francisco ConferenCe-wh which will
be one Of the biggest things Of our
aRe-I feel that we shall suffer 4
tremendous loss in not having Pres
ident Roosevelt's great leadership.
King Haakon of Norway. now in
exile in London, sent mcssaAes OF
sympathy and grief to Mrs Roosc-
See COMMENT Page 3
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The most widely known man Of
all time, leader, statesman, COM
passionate philanthropist, Frank
lin Oelano Roosevelt, for more
than Il years President Of the
United States, fought to the
threshold Of victory and there died
in the active service Of magnifi-
cent leadership, a hero TO all man
kind.
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Prime Minister Churchill, declar-
ing he personally had lost a a"cher-
ished friendship said the Presi-
dents death was the loss Of the
British nation and of the cause
of freedom in every land
Premier Marshal Stain led the
Russian people today in paying
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TWENTY-FIRST ARMY GROUP
HEADQUARTERS ms - In a
message TO his troops today, Field
Marshal Sir Bernard Law Mont
gomery said that the Germans
"have been well and truly beaten
-" "They are completely and ut
terly finished" Montgomery said,
but the military machine which
is in the hands OF the Nazi party
will never surrender. They will
Just fight on until the last"
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WASHlNGTON-INS-- Franklin
D. Roosevelt was the sixth presi-
dent elected to office at 20 year
intervals since 1910 to die before
completing their terms. Zachary
Taylor, who was elected in 1S4S,
was the sole exception.
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LOTDON-AP-Gen. Eisenhow-
or issued a general order today
decreeing 80 days OF mourning for
American troops in the European
theater in connection with the
death OF President Roosevelt A
shortage Of materials. however, will
prevent the men from wearing
black armbands.
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CHICAGO-AP-Grain markets
broke sharply in a wild and CON
fused opening today but a food Of
commission house buying orders
appeared on the break and prices
ran up quickly, July rye gaining as
much as Ave cents, the limit, in the
first ten minutes. The trade was
extremely active and nervous. Part
ly responsible for the opening
breaks was early weakness Of the
stock market which also rallied
quickly.
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WASHINGTON ms --- Latin
American ambassadors recalled to-
day that President Roosevelt had
given them assurances the good
neighbor policy would continue re-
gardless OF what happened to him.
When the news of the Presidents
death reached the embassies more
than one ambassador recalled the
remarks the President made TO
them five years ago-on Pan Amer
lean Day, april 4, 1910.