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Evening star., 1945-04-14
; Suicide Planes Hit Ship,
Then Gunners Get Fourth
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
GUAM, April l4.-It was real
Friday the 18th yesterday for a
landing craft support ship off Oki-
nawa, but it had happy ending.
Three suicide planes crashed into
her during heavy air attack in
the afternoon. She received an
8-foot hole in her side which
extended below the water line.
Her lower compartments were
flooded and some of her guns were
put out of action. The water system
in the galley went out of operation
and all living quarters became
uninhab bitable
Then things changed.
When the fourth japanese plane
came over, the little ship shot it
down. Then she proceeded to
anchorage under her own power.
She gets credit for four planes.
Evening star., 1945-04-14
By the Associated Press.

bs the hSSOCldttu FIesS-
ATLANTA, April 14-In speech
written the night before he died
President Roosevelt declared Amer
leans were determined there should
not be third World War.
The text of the speech, which the
President was to have delivered by
radio last night in observance of
$50 Jefferson Day dinners through
out the Nation, was handed to news
men by Presidential Secretary
Stephen T. Early as the funeral
train paused in Atlanta. The din
ners were Cancelled.
The text follows:
Americans are gathered together
this evening in communities all over
the country to pay tribute to the
living memory of Thomas Jefferson
one of the greatest of all Demo-
Gratis; and I want to make it clear
that I am spelling that word dem
ocratS' with a small d
Il wish I had the power, just for
this evening, to be present at all of
these gatherings.
In this historic year, more than
ever before, we do well to consider
the character of Thomas Jefferson
as an American citizen of the
world.
Foreign Policy Recalled.
"As Minister to France. then as
our first Secretary of State and as
our third President. Jefferson was
instrumental in the establishment
of the United States as vital fac
tor in international affairs.
1T was he who first sent our
Navy into far distant waters to de-
fend our rights. And the prOmul-
CATION of the Monroe Doctrine was
the logical development of Jeffer-
sons far-seeing foreign policy
To-day this Nation which Jeffer-
son helped SO greatly to build is
playing a tremendous part in the
battle for the rights of man all
over the world.
To-day we are part of the vast
Allied force-a force composed of
flesh and blood and steel and spirit
which is today destroying the
makers of war, the breeders of hate,
in Europe and in Asia.
In Jefferson's time our Navy
consisted of only handful Of
frigates-but that tiny Navy taught
nations across the Atlantic that
piracy in the Mediterranean-acts
of aggression against peaceful COM
merce and the enSlavement of their
crews was one of those things which,
among neighbors, simply was not
done.
Responsibility Stressed.
To-day We have learned in the
agony of war that great power in
wolves great responsibility. Today
we can no more escape the conSe-
quence of German and japanese
aggression than could he avoid the
consequences of attacks by the Bar
barry CorsairS a century and half
before
I'VE as Americans do not choose
to deny our responsibility.
Evening star., 1945-04-14
Kurusu Tells japanese
Trumun Will Fight On

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, April IA
Saburo Kurusu special envoy to the
United States when Japan struck at
Pearl Harbor, asserted today that
President Harry S. Truman hasn't
Roosevelts ability to lead and con-
troll the American people and
thereby will confront difficulties
In japanese Domei news agency
broadcast. recorded by the Federal
Communications Commission, Ku-
rusu added, however, that it "is
presumable Truman's determination
will be to fight Japan to the bitter
end. and we, too, will fight to the
end"
Evening star., 1945-04-14
Russia Raises Flags
In Official Tribute
To Roosevelt
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, April 14.-Russia went
into official mourning at dawn today
for Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Black-edged red flags of the Soviet
Union were hoisted over the Krem-
lin, all public buildings, in city
squares, over apartment houses and
even at private residences.
1t was a gesture to a head of a
foreign government unparalleled in
Soviet history.
Acquaipting the Russian people
with President Truman, the Moscow
radio this morning gave a long
biography of the new American
leader. Exhaustive details of his
life took up the entire foreigns news
report from 6:15 to $50 am.
Last night thousands crowded into
Moscow theaters showing pictures of
the Crimea Conference for look at
President Roosevelt. Other thou
sands were turned away.
Theater managers said there was
open weeping during showing of the
Roosevelt pictures
Russian officialdom is attending
special memorial services at Spasso
House, residence of United States
Ambassador w. Averell Hartman.
which will be conducted by an
American Army sergeant, George E.
Thomas of Chicago.
Alexander Troyanovsky, first
Soviet Ambassador to the United
States, wrote tribute to Mr.. Roose-
welt in the army newspaper Red
Star.
Recalling that Mr.. Roosevelt
brought about American recognition
of the Soviet Union, Mr.. Troyanov-
sky said: TT is altogether apparent
that the present collaboration of
the United States of America and
the Soviet Union in the struggle
against Hitlerite aggression would
have been impossible without the
establishment of diplomatic rela-
tions in 1888"
Evening star., 1945-04-14
Joseph B. BoyIis Dies;
Will Be Buried Here
BY the Associated Press.

By the ASSoclatec Press.
HARTFORD, Conn, April IA
Joseph B. Baylis, 54, president of
the Connecticut State Golf Associa-
ton and manager of the General
Fireproofing Co., died yesterday. He
was a native~of Wilmington, Del,
and before coming here was en-
ployed by the Haviland Oil Refinery
Co., Chicago.
Mr.. Baylis leaves his widow, two
sisters, Mrs. H. Russell Rinehart of
Cynwyd, Pa, and Mrs. J. H. Phillips
of Washington, D. c., and BROTH
er, Capt Charles D. Baylis, United
States Marines Corps, retired, Los
Angeles. Funeral services will be
held tomorrow with burial in Ar
lington Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
Evening star., 1945-04-14
Presidents Unde|ivered Speech
Stresses Need for Banning War

| Nor, do we intend to abandon
our determination that, within the
lives of our children and our chill
dren's children, there will not be
third world war.
I'VE seek peace-enduring peace.
More than an end to war, we want
an end to the beginnings Of all
wars-yes, an end to this brutal
inhuman and thoroughly imprac-
tical method of settling the differ
ences between governments.
s"The once powerful, malignant
Nazi state is crumbling, the jap
anese war lords are receiving, in
their own home land, the retribu-
ton for which they asked when
they attacked Pearl Harbor.
But the mere conquest Of our
enemies is not enough.
I'VE must 60 on to do all in our
power to conquer the doubts and
the fears, the ignorance and the
greed, which made this horror pos
sible
Thomas Jefferson, himself a dis
tinguished scientist, once spoke Of
the 'brotherly spirit OF science
which unites into one family all its
votaries of whatever grade. anc
however widely dispersed through
out the different quarters of the
globe
To-day, science has brought all
the different quarters of the globe
so close together that it is impos-
sible to isolate them one from an
other.
To-day we are faced with the pre-
eminent fact that, if civilization is
to survive, we must cultivate the
science of human relationships
the ability of all peoples, of al
kinds, to live together and work to-
gether, in the same world, at peace
Let me assure you that my hanC
/ is the steadier for the work that is
to be done, that 1 move more firmly
into the task, knowing that YOU
millions and millions of you-are
joined with me in the resolve tc
make this work endure.
The work, my friends, Is peace
more than an end of this war-ar
end to the beginning of all wars
yes, an end, forever, to this imprac-
tical, unrealistic settlement of the
differences between governments by
the mass killing of peoples.
To-day as we move against the
terrible scourge Of war-as We &C
| forward toward the greatest contri-
button that any generation of hu-
man beings can make in this world
the contribution of lasting peace
I ask you to keep up your faith.
measure the sound, solid achieve
ment that can be made at this time
by the straight edge of your own
confidence and your resolve And to
you, and to all Americans who dedi-
cate themselves with us to the max
ing of an abiding peace, I say:
The only limit to our realization
of tomorrow will be our doubts of
today. Let us move forward with
strong and active faith -
Evening star., 1945-04-14
Western Front
Continued From First Page :,

Gen. Patton's troops 25 miles past
the northwestern tip of Czecho-
slovakia and into the rear zone Of
German lines in the east.
! On Gen EiSenhoWer'S southern
! flank, the 45th (ThunderbirdD Divi-
sion of the 7th Army fought into
Bamberg, a rail center of $1,000
which is a transshipment point for
the Ludwig Canal leading to the
Danube Bamberg is 80 miles north
east of Nuremberg.
! Dresden, capital of Saxony, was
/ 38 miles from Gen. Pattons swift
armored columns.
His troops moved within IS miles
of the Skoda munitions works at
Pilsen and SO miles of the CZecho-
slovak capital of Prague.
Aside from Dortmund and Arm
hem. places captured in the last "a
hours included the aircraft center
of Brunswick t20l 306), the Ma
poleonic battle city of Jena 100000 !,
Zeitz $4,000, Saalfeld 10000 u.
Rudolstadt $4,000 and the Dutch
stronghold of Assem- 100000.
Canadian troops fought inside or
at the edge of the Dutch cities of
Groeningen 100000, Appeldorn
(71.156) and Zwolle $4,000.
The Americans fought inside
Magdeburg (334,358). Beyreuth and
Gera t75.0OOD. The British besieged
Germany's second port of Bremen
and menaced and outflanked Ham
burg, the largest port. The French
were miles from Stuttgart.
Three of Gen. Omar N. Bradley's
armies were less than 100 miles from
the Russian lines. The Sd Army was
within SO miles of the Soviets, the
9Th Army was 80 miles and the 1st
Army-fighting for Leipzig and be-
yond-Was reported 95 miles from
the Red armies flushed with the
conquest of Vienna, victory which
deeply preached the eastern end of
the German national redoubt.
Nazis Without Cohesive Front.
The Germans fought without
cohesive front and without a CO.
hesive command. The rear of the
mass of their armies along the Oder
was being penetrated by the swift
advances of American armies which
gained 80 or more miles in a day.
The British I'd Army cut loose in
the north in an advance to UelSen
49 miles southeast of Hamburg, out
f1anking Hamburg just as the 9Th
Army outtianked it yesterday with
its race TO the Lower Elbe, which
by-passed the Denmark Peninsula
and the port of Lubbock. The Brit
ish besieged Bremen from miles
away; the Canadians fought to
within miles Of the North Sea and
onto the approaches of Emden.
| The I'd Armored Hell on Wheels
Division of the 9th Army had estab-
lished firm bridgehead over the
Elbe-last river before Berlin-in the
Magdeburg area 81 miles from the
capital and was progressing slowly
on the fiat Brandenburg Plain. The
18th Engineers were forced to pro-
ceed slowly with bridging the 45O-
Aoo1 ilVoi, 1ol VIC 1el llldIlS lldu tIlc
site under direct observation and
heavy artillery fire.
Difficulty in Bridging EIbe.
The 5th Division north of Magde-
burg was closer to Berlin-45 miles
away-but at last reports still was
on the west side of the river.
rThe point of the newest cross
ing of the Elbe was not revealed
Immediately, but the British radio
said it was made Is miles below
Magdeburg at Barby)
Bridging the Elbe presents even
greater difficulties than the Roer
or Rhine, Associated Press Core
spondent Yves Gallagher said. The
Evening star., 1945-04-14
Memorial Services
For Roosevelt Set
Throughout World
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The world mourns with the United
States today as tribute is paid to
Franklin Delano Roosevelt in fu-
neral services at the White House.
In many other nations, whose high
officials still were sending a stream
| of condolences to this country
memorial services were called for
today and tomorrow.
The London Times gave voice tc
Britains S sorrow in an editorial de-
claring:
He is mourned here as perhaps
no other of another country has
even been"
Servicemen Attend Services.
Reverently, American soldiers and
sailors stationed in London will file
into churches during the day for
last tribute to their dead Command
er in Chief. The United States Army
has scheduled Protestant services at
Grosvenor Chapel, Catholic mass at
st. James Church and Jewish serv-
ices at the West End Synagogue
American naval personnel will at
tend a service at St. Marks Church
The British will honor the late
President at Sunday church serv-
ices. Many clerics plan to devote
sermons to his work and accomp-
| liShmentS.
AS Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden flew to the United States tC
represent Britain at the funeral
the King and Queen Cancelled plans
for a weekend trip to Glasgow and
the court went into mourning.
American, British and Canadian
military forces in Northern ireland
will attend a memorial service Sun
day at the famous Londonderry Ca
thedral
Simple Ceremony in Moscow.
High Russian officials were eX-
pected to attend simple ceremony
in Moscow at the home of United
States Ambassador w. Averell Har.
riman. Sergt. George E. Thomas Of
Chicago. a former pastor at Lynn
Mass, will conduct the services.
The Moscow radio said the Coun-
Gil of Peoples Commissars had or
dered mourning flags flown from al
Soviet state and official buildings
for two days.
Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek
invited high Chinese officials, for
eign diplomats and representatives
of Allied military forces to a me-
mortal service in Chungking Mon
day.
In Jerusalem. special tributes and
religious services were planned. Lord
Gort, British high commissioner
will attend a memorial Sunday in
ST. Georges Cathedral.
Tito Offers Condolences.
From Moscow, where he now is
visiting. Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia
addressed condolences to Mrs
Roosevelt and President Truman
calling the late President fighter
for the freedom of the independence
of small nations"
The Portuguese fleet lowered its
flags to half mast and the flagship
is firing salutes every half hour until
Sunday.
Poland's two rival governments
both paid high tribute.
In Venezuela, the Municipal Coun-
Gil of Caracas was asked by a po-
litical party to name one of the
principal streets of that city in
honor of Mr.. Roosevelt, thus per-
petuating the memory of such a
great man in the birthplace of the
liberator (Simon Bolivar) of Amer
ica,"
Evening star., 1945-04-14
12-Inch CIoudburst
IsoIates Oklahoma Towns
Ey the Associated Press.

SEMINOLE, Okla. April A
Rains which the airport weather
observer said measured 1910 inches
at Seminle today isolated Seminole
and Wewoka, submerging some
homes and leaving residents with
limited supplies of drinking water
Police Chief Jim Fore at WeWoka
said three persons were missing and
presumed drowned after their car
was caught in a cloudburst east OF
Seminole.
The car was occupied by five
workers of the Oklahoma City Doug
las Aircraft plant returning to their
homes at Wewoka. o. R. Hughes
driver, grabbed a telephone pole as
the car whirled past it and managed
to get out. His wife was found
shortly afterWard in critical condi-
ton.
Mr.. Fore said no trace had been
found of the other three. Mrs Ben
Doyle, her son, Berton Doyle, about
%, and Mrs. Lorene Bailey.
Evening star., 1945-04-14
Red Propaganda Head Disputes
Theory All Germans Are Nuzis

German officers fight for the canni-
bal system, then others throw bombs
at Hitler and his clique or persuade
Germans to put down their guns"
Alexandrov declared that Premier
Marshal Stain foresaw long ago
what was now happening in the
German Army and among the Ger
man people
If it is admitted that Ehrenburg's
stand is correct" Alexandrov went
on, then it follows one must as
sumo that all the population of Ger
many will share the fate of Hitler's
clique. In the given case, Ehrenburg
does not express Soviet public
opinion.
THE Red Army, fulfilling its
great Lucrative mission, is waging
war for the liquidation of Hitler's
army. The Soviet government never
has and does not have as its aim
the determination of the German
people.
This would be stupid and un-
thinkable.
THE Soviet people have never
considered as one and the same the
German population and the criminal
Nazi clique ruling Germany"
Alexandrov said Ehrenburg cor
rectly condemned the bloody work
of the Germans in Russia, "but re-
grettably, from unarguable facts,
Ehrenburg draws erroneous conclu-
sions.
Noting that 'impudent Germans
conduct themselves with Americans
as with some neutral power, Ehren-
burg says tough resistance of the
Germans on the Soviet-German
front was caused by fright and fear
in view of the coming payoff for their
cruelties committed on Soviet SOIL
| AleXandrov asked what plan Ger
many was following in carrying out
transfer of troops to the eastern
front from the west
Can such action be explained by
fear OF the German command for
responsibility for bloody crimes COM
mitted on Soviet territory?" he
wrote THE Hitlerites are trying by
their action to create distrust in the
United Nations camp, to bring about
dissension among the Allies, to post
pone, if only temporarily, the last
mortal blows of the Allied armies
and, by the help of provocative mill
political tricks, to save that
which they failed to achieve with
the help of the armed forces"
The propaganda chief added that
the unfounded conclusions and de.
ductions of Comrade Ehrenbure
confuse the question and, of course
do not help expose the provocative
politics of the Hitlerites directed
/ toward dissension among the Allies.
Evening star., 1945-04-14
National Day of Mourning
Observed in France

PARIS, April IA lP).-France OBJ
served an official day of mourning
today for Franklin D. Roosevelt,
with flags at half-staff, all amuse-
ment places closed and primary
schools oevoting the day to the
study of his life.
Special services will be held to-
morrow at Notre Dame Cathedral
at the American Cathedral Church
and in Paris synagogue.
The Paris press played up favor
ably President Truman's assertion
that he would follow Mr.. Roosevelt S
policies Perhaps not one French
man in 10 even knew the new Pres
ident's name before yesterday. To-
day it is on every ones lips.
Evening star., 1945-04-14
Police Find Hunted Pair
And Suve Their Lives

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES-Police broad
casts described the car of the hunted
couple; officers set up road blocks,
and Highway Patrolman Dan C..
Roth finally brought the search to
an end.
Only no one was arrested. The
couple had mistakenly got posses
sion of a bottle of poison instead of
prescription in nearby drug
store.
Il never was so glad to be stopped
by traffic cop!' the driver ex-
claimed to his wife.
Evening star., 1945-04-14

main fire on the bridgehead came
from the fax batteries.
The 9th Army is SO close to
the Russian front now that the
Germans could move tank division
from one front to the other over
night. and it is expected that some
divisions from the east will appear
on this side Of Berlin if the Nazis
plan to defend the capital" the
dispatch said.
Drive Down Clear Roads.
Gen. Patton's Sd Army was rae
ing across Eastern Germany virtu-
ally unopposed-driving down clear
roads as fast as the greatest aerial
resupply effort of the war could keep
the attacking columns powered.
The four Sd Army armored COL
umns which crossed the Nude
River near Czechoslovakia sent NO
new reports back to Gen. Patton S
field headquarters. The 9Th Ar
mored Division pulled up to the
river.
The Sd Army captured 1888 pris-
oners yesterday, making its total
for "A days 136,741. The LIST Army
captured 34,847 yesterday. During
April the Allies are estimated to have
taken more than 100000 captives.
Low clouds and scattered show
ers were general over the front
today,
Evening star., 1945-04-14
Porker Gets Postmortem

CARNEGIE, Okla. (P).-J. T. John
sons pig died. In its stomach were
found So fence staples, five copper
fragments, 14'pieces of tin, 2 small
stones and 10 pieces of wire.
Evening star., 1945-04-14
BY the Associated Press,

MOSCOW, April 14.-The Com
munist party's propaganda chic
said today the German Nazis were
barring their western front to the
Soviet's Allies and concentrating or
the eastern front as gigantic po.
litical trick designed to create dis.
sension among the nations warning
on Hitler.
They are trying to create dis.
trust among the United Nations-te
postpone at least temporarily the
last mortal blow Of the Allies
armies" said Georgif Alexandrov
chief Of the propaganda section o1
the Central Committee, Communist
party.
| At the same time, Alexandrov sale
Germans and Nazis are not identical
He took issue with one of the Soviet's
top writer's, who had contended thai
all Germans form one "colossa
gang" and that all must pay equally
for NaZi crimes.
Referring to an article earlier thi.
week by Ilya Ehrenburg on thu
whole subject of Germany, Alexan.
drov said in a prominently displayed
story in the Communist party news.
paper Pravda:
Each person who reads attentive.
| ly Comrade Ehrenburg's article can.
not but note its basic thesis is no
we'll thought out and is visibly er
roneouS.
THE reader cannot agree with hi
description of Germany as one sin
gle colossal gang, nor with his ex
planation of the reasons for th'
departure of the German Fascis
army from the western front ant
concentration of all forces of tn,
German army in the east.
"Comrade Ehrenburg assures tn
readers that all Germans are iden
tical and all in equal measure viii
answer for the crimes Of the Hitler
ties"
Alexandrov said it was not diff
cult to prove that the assertions O
Ehrenburg, who writes for boil
Pravda and Red Star. did not cor
respond with the facts. His com
mentary defining the Soviet view il
respect to the German population
and the Nazi rulers of Germany wa
Of the highest Importance
"Currently," Alexandrov sale
every one is convinced, and thi
especially is true in view of the ex
periences of the last few months
that different Germans fight differ
emily and conduct themselves differ
emily"
Declaring that this was true no
only of the civilian population bu
also of the German Army. he added
1T is not surprising that if som
Evening star., 1945-11-13
Krug Refuses $4,000
Movie Job Offer

j. A. Krug, who retired 10 DAYS
ago as chairman of the War Produc-
ton Board, today turned down a
$75, ,000-a-year job as vice president
OF the Motion Picture Producers As
sociation.
Mr.. Krug, who now is in the Naval
Hospital at Bethesda for a minor
operation, wrote Eric Johnston
president of the association, that he
preferred to enter an industry where
his experience qualified him for a
job. Recipient of a half dozen other
offers, Mr.. Krug said he would de-
vote several months to "industria,
surveys before deciding on my per-
manent responsibility
In declining with regret" the
Johnston offer to work out pattern
for smooth labor relations in the
movie industry, Mr.. Krug wrote:
/" - My entire background is in
basic industries like materials, con-
struction and utilities. In those
industries where I have had ex-
perience ! should be able to make
the greatest contribution to the
industrial democracy for which we
Americans have been fighting
He added that in whatever /
have an opportunity to serve we
shall continue to work together as
we have during the war to achieve
understanding of workers and man.
agement in our mutual responsible
ity to make our system work and
give US the kind OF country we all
want to live in"