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funeral of President Roosevelt tn
Hymn.
Bishop Angus Dun of the Episco-
pal Diocese of Washington:
am the resurrection and the
life, saith the Lord: He that be-
lieveth in Me, though he we're dead,
yet shall he live; and whosoever
liveth and believeth in Me, shall
never die.
know that my Redeemer liveth,
and that He shall stand at the later
day upon the earth: And though
this body be destroyed, yet shall !
see God: Whom I shall see for my
self, and mine eyes shall behold,
and not as a stranger.
We brought nothing into this
world, and it is certain we can
carry nothing out. The Lord gave
and the Lord hath taken away;
blessed be the name of the Lord.
Reading of two Psalms by the
Rev. John G. Magee of st. Johns
Church.
Psalm 46. God is our hope and
strength, a very present help in
trouble.
Therefore we will not fear, though
the earth be moved and though the
hills be carried into the midst of
the sea;
Though the waters thereof rage
and swell, and though the noun
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New Drives Mounted
By Russians After
Capture Of Vienna
Offensives Aimed at
Prague and Germans
Mountain Defenses
RITLLETIN.

LONDON R. Marshal
Gregory X. Zhukov's 1st White
Russian Army is attacking
toward Berlin from Oder
River bridgeheads at Frank
furt and Kuestrin, 80 miles
east of Berlin, the Berlin ra-
dio said tonight. Nazi Com
mentator Ernst Won Hammer,
who made the report, said the
attacks we're Gin regimental
strength" and were prepara-
tory rather than an all-out
frontal assault.
Ey the Associated Press.
LONDON, April 14.-Powerful
Russian forces, released by the
fall of Vienna, mounted new
drives today aimed at Prague
and the Nazis' mountain fortif1-
cations in Southern Germany.
At the same time every sign in
dicated that four massive Russian
Army groups were approaching the
zero hour for the drive against
German divisions maSsed on the
eastern front from Silesia to the
Baltic.
The Austrian capital on the
Danube fell yesterday to the COM
bined weight of the I'd and Sd
Ukrainian Armies under Marshals
Rodion Y. Malinovsky and Feodor l..
Tolbukhin after a week-long siege
that resulted in the capture OF $780,
900 Germans, by Moscow account.
Vienna, second city of the Greater
Reich and bulwark of the invasion
routes to Bavaria little more than
100 miles away, was the 10th Euro
pean capital occupied by the Red
Army and the 18th liberated or
dominated by the Allies.
Moscow said that between March
IS and April 13, II German tank
divisions were smashed as Russian
forces closed in on the Austrian
capital, and the Soviet radio last
night said the Viennese had saved
the honor of the Austrian nation"
by assisting in the liberation Of the
city.
The Viennese celebrated their
liberation with public waltzes in the
city's squares. The streets we're hung
with Austrian and Soviet flags as
the populace saluted the Red Army
with "unconcealed JOY" Moscow
broadcast reported.
Meanwhile, Malinovsky's troops
northeast of the capital captured
the war center of Hodonin in a
surge across the Moravian border
that carried to within 80 miles of
Bruenn (Brno), Czechoslovak arms
center. The Soviet forces were
storming the Moravia River along
14-mile stretch and driving for
ward on a 25-mile front in this
sector.
Tolbukhin's tanks were rolling
back the Germans across Austria
west of Vienna between the Danube
and Drava Rivers. Berlin already
has reported wholesale withdrawal
of Nazi troops on this wide 170-mile
front.
Tolbukhin was driving hard to-
ward Berchtesgaden, Hitler's Bavar-
ian Mountain stronghold, but per-
haps more significant was Malin-
(See RUSSIANS. Page A-2)
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We Day May Not Coincide
With Linkup of Two Fronts

not likely that it would still be re-
garded as an active phase of the
European war.
We day will come, according to
the best available opinion here,
somewhere between the Allied link
up and the end of subsequent fight
ing. And it will come by Allied proc
lamation, and not by German sur
render.
Events since Gen. Eisenhower a
fortnight ago predicted that the
Germans would continue to fight
as best they could until the last
(See We DAY, Page A-6.)
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BuIIitt Report Denied

PARIS, April IA (R.-The French
today denied q broadcast report
that william Bullitt, former United
States Ambassador to France, had
been appointed governor of the cap
tured German town of Baden Baden.
Mr.. Bullitt is serving in the lst
French Army as a liaison ofiicer.
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Admiral Hipper Damaged

LONDON P.-The German
heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper
and the cruiser Emden are be-
lieved to have been damaged
in the Kiel raid on April 8,
when the pocket battleship
Admiral Scheer was sunk, the
British Air Ministry said late
today.
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PATTON E8 MILES FROM CZECHOSLOVAK|A
HoIdout Germans
At Bordeaux Hit
By 7,750 Bombers
Big American Attack
Follows Raj Blow
At KieI Navy Base
the Associated Press.

y
LONDON, April 14.-A force OF
1,15O American heavy bombers
made a surprise attack at dawn
today on German strong points
and antiaircraft positions on
both sides of the Gironde EStu-
ary north of the French Atlantic
port of Bordeaux.
This is one of a half dozen iso-
lated places along the French coast
where Germans estimated to total
10000 are still holding out.
The bombing fleets dropped $500
tons of explosives through clear
skies in a two-hour attack which
started soon after daybreak. Con-
crete fortresses, troop concentra-
tions and largely silent anti-aircraft
batteries were among the targets
struck in the area around Royan.
Unescorted, the bombers met no
fighters.
Some time later supreme head
quarters announced that French
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Truman Empowers
Security Delegates
To Make Decisions
President, Studying
World Affairs, Won't
Attend Conference

President Truman. intensively
preparing to take President
Roosevelt's place in the Big
Three, is leaving American re-
sponsibility for the San Fran
cisco Conference with this coun-
try's delegation.
This turn of affairs developed to-
day as the new President arranged
to lead the Nation in sorrowing
funeral rites for its late Commander
in Chief.
Faced with the necessity of IA
miliarizing himself with all the in
tricate details of Europe's tangled
affairs, Mr.. Truman has decided not
to attend the United Nations meet
ing.
He probably will send a strong
statement of approval to the dele
gates who will tackle the task of
constructing a world peace-keeping
league.
But it will be up to Secretary of
State Stettinius and his seven dele
CATION colleagues to make on-the-
spot decisions on any differences
that arise over the Dumbarton Oaks
formula and the Big Three agree
ments proposing revisions. -..
Studies Background Information.
Mr. Truman, meanwhile, set oui
on the task of acquiring the back.
ground information he must have a,
his command If he is to meet Pre-
mier Stain and Prime Minister
Churchill on even terms.
He began that educational process
in conference yesterday with
James F. Byrnes, former wal
mobilization director, who attended
the Yalta Conference with President
Roosevelt. He will continue it with
Mr.. Byrnes, Secretary Stettinius and
others.
The cascading advance of Allied
forces across Germany may precipi-
tate a demand for another meeting
of the heads of the three nations
much earlier than had been
anticipated.
The feeling in official circles here
is that when Gen. Dwight D. Eisen-
hover declares officially that organ
ized resistance has ended, Premier
Stain and Prime Minister Churchill
will want to meet with Mr.. Truman
almost Immediately to settle prob
lens involving the whole economic
if not political, future of Europe.
There will be an immediate re-
quest, it is said, to realign each
nations troops within the four
agreed zones of occupation in Ger
many. French troops will occupy
one of these areas and Gen. Charles
de Gaulle, provisional President of
that nation, will want to be in on
the conference.
Agreement on Reparations.
At this meeting there are indi-
cations the nations directly involved
will want agreement on the repara-
tions in kind which were projected
at Yalta. This means they want
to know how many German plants
and other installations in their oc-
cupied zone they can dismantle and
ship home to replace their shattered
factories.
The question of prisoner labor for
reconstruction also will be up, as
we'll as the disposition Of foreign
refugees who have migrated or been
transported to the Allied countries
during the war.
President Truman Is reported to
have told friends that he knows he
must have an American answer on
lSee TRUMAN. Page A-2l
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Blair House 10 Become
Temporary White House

President Truman, his wife and
daughter. are scheduled to move
temporarily into historic Blair House,
across Pennsylvania avenue from
the White House.
They are leaving their five-room
apartment on Connecticut avenue
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MAP on Page A-9.)

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, April 14.-Lt. Gen.
George S. Patton's Sd Army to-
day advanced Is miles, out
flanked the Nazi shrine city of
Nuremberg and entered Bayreuth,
German center of 41,000.
Bayreuth, scene of Wagnerian
music festivals, is 124 miles north
of Munich and 173 miles from Hit
ler's mountain home at Berchtes-
gaden.
Other American forces to the
north beSieged Leipzig, while still
further north the 9th Army won a
second crossing over the Elbe River
and fought slowly forward on the
outer approaches of Berlin.
In the center, the lst Army closed
within SIS miles southwest of Berlin,
widening the siege arc being fash
ioned around the capital by the 9th
Army to the west and the Russians
to the east.
A 30-mile dash by the Sd Armored
Division carried within three miles
of Dessau, a city of 120,732, where
the Nude River meets the Elbe.
Arnhem Captured.
The Canadians seized Arnhem,
18th city of Holland and populated
by $4,000.
The French took Kehl, across the
Rhine from Strasbourg, and SO
other places, including Buehl, Ac-
hern. Reystadt, Gamhurst and Ot-
terswier, plus enormous quantities
of material and prisoners SO nu-
merous they could not be imme-
diately counted.
The Americans on the southern
front by-passed Leipzig and tight
ened the siege arc around the great
Saxony city where 100000 German
civilians have been reported await
ing the Americans. The closest
troops were reported 4 miles away.
To all practical purposes, Ger
many was virtually bisected for the
last direct communications from
Berlin south-including the super
highway to Munich-were cut.
The 1st and 9th Armies virtually
eliminated the Ruhr pocket, taking
114,OO0 prisoners from the 100000
originally estimated trapped.
Dortmund Captured.
The 9th Army captured Dort-
mund, second largest city of the
Ruhr and 11th largest in Germany
It's $4,000 peacetime residents
worked in the great coal mines over
which the city sprawled and in its
vast steel and iron mills and syn
thetic oil plants. The city was an
important traffic center, but was a
ruin from bomb and shell.
The 1st Army captured the indus
trial center of Luedenschied (popu-
lation 10000 and came within 21a
miles of cutting the Ruhr pocket in
two near Hagen, menaced on the
north by the 9th Army.
The nearest 9th Army troops last
were reported As miles from Berlin.
Those east of the Elbe were encoun-
tering profuse fire from flax bat
terieS guarding the capital and
making slow progress on the fiat
Brandenburg Plain.
Third Army troops were 88 miles
or less from Russian lines and with
in % miles of the Czechoslovakia
frontier. Their drive across South
east Germany to within 10 miles
northwest of the SaXony industrial
city of Chemnitz (335,00O) carried
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BY JAMES M. LONG,

Associated Press War Correspondent.
SUPREME ALLIED HEADQUAR-
TIERS, Paris, April 14.-The German
Army, still fighting fiercely in, the
East, no longer has either a cohesive
front nor a coherent command in
the West. The long-awaited Allied
linkup severing the Reich in the
middle is near-but that does not
mean that the war in Europe will
end at that time.
There might still be military fight
teg on into next winter, but it was
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Many Weep Openly
AS Coisson Carrying
Roosevelt Goes By
Impressive Cortege
Accompanies Body
To White House

Led by President Truman, a
sorrowing Washington today
joined the Nation in a day of
mourning as the flag-draped
caisson bore Franklin Delano
Roosevelt to the White House.
There, in the East Room, simple
funeral services will be held at 4 pm.
for the 31st man to hold the Ma
tion's highest office.
From the highest dignitaries Of
the land to the smallest children.
the city devoted the day to the last
farewell for its fallen leader.
The Presidents body reached the
Capital shortly before 10 am. to
start the trip to the White House
between aisles of men from all the
armed forces gathered to honor
their late Commander in Chief.
There was no demonstration as
the cortege moved slowly by, but
many who watched it wept un-
ashamedly.
Secret Service estimated the
crowd along the entire procession
route at 100000.
Maj. Edward Kelly, superintendent
of the Metropolitan Police. said it
was the largest crowd he had seen
on the streets of Washington in his
IL years as policeman.
The body reached the Executive
Mansion at 11:l4 am. and was car
ried into the East Room, where the
funeral rites of the Episcopal
Church will be recited this after
noon.
Dewey Here for Services.
In the group there will be Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey Of New York,
who sought unsuccessfully in No.
vember to wrest the presidency from
Mr.. Roosevelt as the wartime leader
was reelected to fourth term.
Present, too, will be British For
eign Minister Anthony Eden. who
flew from London to represent his
government. Canada will be repre-
sented by the Governor General, the
Earl of Athlone, who was White
House guest just before Mr.. Roose-
velt left for Warm Springs to rest.
Both representatives of the British
government arrived today.
Funeral rites will be in the high
ceilinged room where just II weeks
ago today Mr.. Roosevelt, with
bowed head, attended divine serv-
ices on the inaugural day which
started him on his fourth term.
Bishop Dun to Officiate.
The funeral rites will begin with
hymn. Then Bishop Angus Dun
of the Episcopal Diocese of Wash
ington will give the prayer begin
ming, Il am the resurrection and
the life, saith the Lord"
After his prayer, the Rev. John c.
Magee of St. Johns Church will read
two Psalms, the 46th and the 121st.
The Rev. Howard S. Wilson, rector
of St. Thomas Church, where the
President and his family worshiped.
will read the Lessons from Ro-
mans viii.14 and st. John xiv. I.
A hymn and several prayers will
conclude the simple rites.
The usual pomp and ceremony OF
high office funerals was reserved
almost entirely to the professions
which accompanied the dead Presi-
dent from one place to another. The
actual funeral ceremonies were pat
termed in the simplicity which Mr..
Roosevelt had fixed as his own way
Of life in wartime.
AS early as am. spectators be-
gan taking up favorable positions in
front of Union Station and along
Constitution avenue, to view the
funeral procession. They found
places on the steps of the National
Archives, Labor Department and In
terstate Commerce Commission
buildings and on the east side of
IC.. nOOCI1YYI1T n T.O. .
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for the yellow home where kings
and chiefs of state usually stay as
guests of the President.
It was understood they would
not move into the White House un-
til the Roosevelt family is ready to
leave.
Prince Amir Faisal, Saudi Arab
ian delegate to San Francisco, IS
staying in Blair House now but will
leave after the Roosevelt funeral
today.
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Sd Army F|anks
Nuremberg in
New Advances
lst Army 55 Miles
From Berlin; 9th
Crosses EIbe Anew
BULLETINS.

WITH THE UNITED STATES
Sd ARMY lPl.-The Sd Army'S
Goth Infantry Division today
reached a point 18 miles from
the CzechoSlovak border as
the 4th Armored Division
drove to a point within 7 miles
of Chemnitz.
LONDON R.-ABSIE, the
American station in Europe
which beams propaganda
broadcastS to the continent,
said today the 9th Army'S en-
try into Berlin was "immi-
nent." The station explained,
however, that this statement
was based on the broad pic
ture drawn from 'front.' line
dispatches.
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One additional man from
the District area has been re-
ported killed in this iDdr. See
"On the Honor Roll." Page Az.
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(see WESTERN FRONT, Page A-N
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Fooing the order the Burial Of the Dead used at the
funeral of President Roosevelt this afternoon:
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(See AERIAL, Page A-6)
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(See ROOSEVELT, Page A-3J
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(See TRUMAN, Page A-20
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(See RUSSIANS, Page A-20
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-07-12
What's Your Self
Respect Worth?

Are you willing to help win the war
against Japan? Naturally you will say yes
There are two outstanding things those of
us who are privileged to remain at home
can do to aid our fighting forces. First, we
can work to the limit of our strength and
ability, without interruption; second, we can
deny ourselves luXurieS in order to buy the
war bonds necessary to give our fighting
men every ounce of equipment and food
they need.
While millions of men are. facing death
and foregoing the pleasures of home and
family life, every mothers son of us should
put every dollar we can into financing this
war, so that by the sheer weight of the
equipment we throw into it we will bring
it to conclusion at the earliest possible
moment, thereby saving the lives of count
less loved ones.
After all, this is our war; our boys are the
ones on the firing line; our homes are the
ones being saved. How much would your
life or property be worth if the japanese
army and navy had not been held at bay,
and were not eventually demolished? Don't
think that in buying war bonds you are in
some manner doing someone else favor;
you are the one who is really favored by
having an opportunity to buy them. Think
"AoI Ii Liedio W Vic OOyS dt tllS 1IOLL W
know that the necessary money is given
willingly to back them up.
All war loans necessary to knock out the
Japs must 60 over the top with a bang
American bullets and American money are
the most discouraging things they can face
today. Why should we hesitate about buy
ing that extra bond when the boy with
rifle hits the beachheads without question
not knowing at what moment he may be
blown to bits or blinded or crippled for life
and then we bubble about loaning $25 or
500 to buy more SUPPLIES for him
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-07-12
Poland On The Chess Board At Frisco

cept a fateful unbearble mortgage on the
new building. The Polish issue and other
issues surge forward calling for courage
and sincerity as a challenging test. No
force on earth can Stifle the truth. Yet the
conference tried to bypass many truths
that were Self-evident, among them the
truth about Poland
The conference was hastily called with
out thorough preparation without definite
classification of the elements with which we
are to build the new body. 1t was unduly
advertised, oversimplified, overdecorated
and over camouflaged The average and
civilian knew little of the meaning and
Importance of such words as, ''in the first
place." of different interpretations, tricky
motions and diplomatic verbiage. Little did
he know of the mental reservations that
were deeply hidden behind every sermon
and proposal The conference became a
chess game of expert diplomatic champions
The Polish American Congress was there
to remind the players that the Polish pawn,
not power, not queen, but simple pawn,
may win or lose the game for the partners.
1t sometimes happens in SO important
game that little figure placed in strategic
position may mean the game. That little
figure is Poland.
1t is in position to defend the queen or
to become queen and decide the outcome
of the game.
We called the attention of the delegates
that the whole plan of permanent world
peace hinges on this issue. 1t is not only an
issue of boundaries and governments but
of principle field that MUST be crossed
heads high if victory is to be achieved
There was an empty chair at San Fran
cisco. Poland's flag was not among the
flags on the stage.
Yet Poland was present in the conscience
of every delegate.
For many years to come it will be an
issue for America at every step our country
will have to make as it becomes involved
in European affairs
There is no retreat open to us now.
We must 60 forward, determined to
achieve what we are aiming at, to reach
the goal towards which our sons were 60
ing on the road of death and sacrifice.
That goal lies behind Poland.
That goal must embrace really free
Poland. We shall not succeed in by-passing
or hiding the Polish issue.
In 1899 Poland's mo" to Hitler was
turning point in the history of our times.
Poland is again turning point, marking
the way of the world.
The present position of Poland is only
a continuation of her position in 1889.
The Importance of it was already felt in
San Francisco but its warning must register
in the mind of every American.
We were there to point OUT the dele
gates at San Francisco that field marked
Poland" on the chesSboard is the key to
permanent peace.
We have done it faithfully serving out
interests of the United States at crucial
point in our history when our country is
about to accept heavy responsibilities and
still heavier duties.
Polish American Congress Bulletin
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-07-12
SURPLUS PROPERTY
AVAILABLE FOR VETERANS

Veterans requiring surplus gov
eminent property to establish or
maintain themselves in business
should make application immedi-
a.ely to Smaller War Plants Cor
poration, 424 Boulevard Building,
Detroit 2, according to Milton A.
Holmes, SWPC regional director.
Holmes explained that the plan
is available only to businesses in
which veterans own one-half inter-
est or more and in which invested
capital does not exceed $4,000.
Sales of surplus property are con-
fined to individual transactions not
in excess of $4,000. This limits the
field exclusively to small enterprises
and prevents gobbling up of desir-
able items by large concerns.
The SWPC official pointed out
that his agency must determine
whether or not the veteran has a
good chance of success in his VEN
ture before acting upon the appli-
cation. The regulation provides,
however, that if SWPC renders an
adverse decision a special report
stating the reasons must be SUBJ
mitted to the Surplus Property
Board.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-07-12
4WASHlNGTON ~
= AoTS ~

war production, and that condition
will be met for reconversion to
peace production" he told his for
mer colleagues in the House, where
he served until 1887.
The promise satisfied legislators,
disturbed by statements at diStri-
button clinics sponsored by the Ma
tional Assn. of Manufacturers that
'the public is heartily sick of con-
trolled production and distribution. "
Wilson'S statement on prices was
a vital factor In settling the recent
controversy over extension of the
OPA. If any bureaucrats attempt to
prevent fulfillment of his promise
regarding reconversion prices, the
whole subject probably will be
brought up for review in Congress
next fall.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-07-12

idency. Yet the star Of former Gov.
ernor Harold E. StaSsen Of Mime
sofa, veteran of this war, is ascend
ing rapidly. StasSen made a very
favorable impression at the Cover
nors' Conference.
Esther Tufty, sister Of former
Governor Murray D. VanWagoner,
was the recipient Of a big birthday
cake which was presented by Gov
ernor Dewey at a conference recep-
ton given by the Booth Newspa-
perS. Guy jenkins, dean Of Lam
sing correspondents, and M. A. Cor
man, newspaper editor at Flint, had
arranged the surprise.
Ii may be a bit hard 10 convince
the man on the street that the
Governors Conference was worth
SIS 900, its legislative appropriation.
But to anyone familiar with the
cost Of advertising, this amount for
national publicity, coast to coast. By
newspapers, radio and newsreels is
quite a bargain. 1t just depends on
how you look at things.