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The Morning News from Wilmington, Delaware • Page 18

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The Morning Newsi
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Wilmington, Delaware
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EIGHTEEN WILMINGTON MORNING NEWS, WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1945 the U. S. Ninth Army near tne west- West FrOnt- 22 miles into the center of the Holland trap, where an estimated Nazi Horror Camp 000 Germans are pinned against Continued From First Page Ci 11 UU1 UCl Ul HIV vi i Three-fifths of the area had been whittled away and more than 43,000 prisoners had been brought out. The YOU'LL FIND IT AT came the news that the First Army's the sea and fought on beyond the Issel River where the enemy hopes to hold up the Allied drive to liber Third Armored Division had reeled Germans said tne itunr manumtiui off a 26-mile gain on the First's ate Rotterdam and Amsterdam. The Canadians by battling Into north flank and had driven more than two miles beyond Sanger-hausen, 84 miles southwest of Spier were 12 miles from the com Market Street Below Fourth ing city of Bochum had fallen.

BETTER HURRY UP I BOSTON (U.R) Police are hold- lng a bag left in a taxi by fourj sailors. It contains one dozen pic The advances of these two power ful armies, biddine for a auick de 1 if Opa Friday it Erenina kles, a bottle of olives, a package i Mrs. Roosevelt Continued From First Page and John telling them of their father's passing. He slept away this afternoon, she told them. He did his job to the end, as he would want to do.

Bless you all and all our love, She signed It Mother. The death of President Roosevelt chocked Washington to its foundations. The capital prepared for a funeral In the East Room of the White House Saturday. The burial of the only man to serve three terms as President only to die in the third month of his fourth term is to be at Hyde Park, V.Y. That is the home for which he said last year all that was within him cried out for.

The President's death was an cision in the war in Europe by balk munications center of Assen and 25 miles from the North Sea. The Ruhr pocket, where an estimated 150,000 additional Germans originally were surrounded, was falling apart as U. S. First Army troops made spectacular gains. They were within 20 miles of a junction with ing a die-hard stand in southern of crackers, three slightly stale frankfurters and a copy of the life of John Barrymore.

Germany, were expected to be West ern Front sensations once the blackout is lifted. Buy War Bonds and Stamps! 16 Miles From Leipzig (Paris radio said tank spearheads were 16 miles from Leip- -g and 19 miles from the Czech border.) Three tank columns of the Third Army ripped beyond the heart 11 of Germany in dashes of more than ll 46 miles and were 129 miles from the Russian lines, 40 miles from the Czech border and 109 miles from nounced by his secretary, Stephen Early, who on Dec. 7, 1941, gave the world the news of the Pearl Harbor attack that plunged this country Into Berlin. The Ninth Army was 115 miles from the Russian -lines. RBST on a war.

The White House called the three ine Third Armv ovprwhpimcrt Mm Weimar, birthplace of the German ii Republic in 1919. major news services at about 5:45 p. m. (EWT), on a conference call. Weimar surrendered bv binvrl tela There was a Jong pause.

George S. Patton's 80th UULE DEO Then Early came on the wire and Infantry Division. Negotiations for tne electrifying announcement. His voice sounded fairly calm surrender of the city of 50,000 where I tne iTeaty or Versailles was ratified and measured, but he obviously was was made in the village of Troistedt. three miles south of the city.

laboring under intense emotion. His first words were "Here is a flash. ine rroistedt burgomeister hoDDed on his bicycle, pedaled into Weimar, I and delivered the ultimatum to rn 3k, TCV u. Army Signal Corps Radiotelephotp Weimar's mayor, who came out and i reported the city was ready to ca-jl pitulate. American troops then en-ip, American soldiers of General Patton's Third Army stand in awe as they mew brutal handiwork of Nazis at concentration camp at Ohrd- terea uie nistonc city witnout a shot, tramping through streets 1 1 ruf, Germany.

Bodies are those of slam internees. Americans, cap- lined with civilians cheering tunng the camp, found that many had been cruelly beaten to death. It was estimated 6,000 prisoners had been slain among the sick and "The President died suddenly early this afternoon Reporters Amaied There was a sudden flurry among his listeners. "You mean President someone shouted over the line. "Of course," Early replied.

"There Is only one President." Although interrupted several times, he continued to recite what he called "notes for the story." "I have no statement," he explained. Mr. Roosevelt had not been in the best of health for some time, it was disclosed tonight. Last week at a banquet for As wounded. Find 30,000 Captives Three miles northwest of Weimar ji the Americans found 20,000 to 25,000 political prisoners in the infamous Buchwenwald concentration camp.it second in size only to the even more notorious camp at Dachau.

A guard tit tViwnn nv-mmct Vii fnmn im fl 4 Delaware Men Reported Dead, 3 Others Wounded 1 it was decided what to do with the I inmates. sociate Justice Hugo Black of the Private W. F. Lynn, Pfc. Gilbert Bryan 100 All-Wool Double-Wear Worsted Suits Theie famous Double-Wear Worsteds have everything you expect in your new suit they have style, tailoring, fit and endurance! The 100 all-wool worsted is woven to double strength, and is double shrunk! Its smooth resiliency gives the cloth more resistance to wrinkles, and makes "the press" last longer.

Add to this the smart lines, and tailoring of one of America's finest makers and you have a suit that is truly outstanding at $29.50. In stripes" and solid colors, single and double-breasted models regulars, shorts, longs and stouts to size 48. Except for the battle for encircled i I Erfurt, 11 miles west of Weimar, there was no sign of war as the columns rolled eastward throueh Supreme Court, Mrs. Roosevelt disclosed to Senator Berkley of Ken Matching fl llllllllIM ft! jit 1 1 llf I Hi Pfc. H.

T. Black, Sergt. J. C. Thomas Give Lives for Their Country hills capped by ruins of ancient I tucky, the Democratic leader, that the food the President had been eating recently had no taste for him.

castles. Tanks, trucks and jeeps sped along a broad six-lane superhighway at full throttle. The Sixth Four men from this area are reported dead and three wounded Barkley said he remarked that according to the latest casualty lists. The dead are: Armored Division captured two Mr. Roosevelt looked thin and haggard and Mrs.

Roosevelt said she also felt he was too thin. Mrs. Roosevelt said that for sev Private William Francis Lynn, 36, 606 West Street, died March high-ranking officers, one of whom 29 in Germany. Pfc. Gilbert Bryan, 20, of Milton.

March 28 in Germany. eral days previous the President had been taking only gruel because he Pfc. Howard Thompson Black, 21, paratrooper, 2407 Lamotte Street, eau had no taste for other foods. March 26 in Germany. When the death became known Staff Sergt.

Joseph C. Thomas, said: "I had no idea you were here." The 90th Infantry Division liberated 15,000 slave laborers from six nations in a 20-square mile area east of Hersfeld in capturing 100 salt mines. Machinery for making tanks, motor parts and aircraft had been installed in the mines. The First Army, traveling east at a rate of 30 to 40 miles a day. had picked up a new batch of camp fol here, several hundred gathered out 28, of Newark, N.

formerly of side the iron railing of the White TUFTLESS MATTRESS! Wilmington, Feb. 12 dver Bataan. in the air invasion of Luzon. A brother, Joseph Burkett, is with the SeaBees in the Pacific. Corporal Laird, son of Alexander Laird, was previously reported missing in action.

He is now reported improving from wounds in a hospital in Germany. He entered the Army in August, 1943, and went overseas last January. A graduate House grounds. They questioned guards through the fence, without The wounded are: Private Robert Burkett, 19, para success. The lowering of the flag trooper.

1138 East Fourteenth Street. March 11 on Luzon. atop the White House to half staff attracted soores of other passersby lowers liberated Russian slave lab- Corp. Tech. Alexander Laird, orers who turned around and began late In the afternoon.

The phenomenal comfort construction of the Sealy Tuftless mattress makes possible individual sleep 29, 2302 Washington Street. March of the Wharton School of the Uni walking east, believing they could On Capitol Hill, the telephone 11 in Germany. versity of Pennsylvania, he had been get home quicker that way. 1 wi; switchboards were "hopelessly" Charge or Budget Accounts Invited Private Ebenezer F. Mabry, 24, employed in the explosives division I Germany appeared in her final I ing comfort for two persons of 1 jammed with calls.

of the DuPont Company. Two hours of oreanized resistance in the unequal weights. The secret is in Delaware City, March 15 in Ger many. Dr. Mclntyre said that the news brothers are in the service, Lieut.

west as all Allied armies cut loose came to him like a bolt from a clear the long fibres of highland grown Private Lynn served with the Seventh Advances medical corps in Germany. Overseas Other Worsted Suits Fashion Park Suits sky. He had talked to Warm Springs this morning and the President was to $45.00 $55.00 cotton air-woven to retain all ot The V. S. Seventh Army, joining in tha i (a In naif their natural resiliency.

ONLY! all right at that time. ui uic bu t.uu wviuiauj liaii, smashed eastward to within 35 14 months, he entered the service Dec. 29, 1942. He attended St. Peter's Parochial School, Salesianum School and Wilmington High "There was no apprehension this morning," Mclntyre told reporters at the White House.

SEALY CAN MAKE THIS GIANT PILLOW FOR YOUR BODY. See this Sealy now try it and you'll buy it School. Mclntyre told this sequence of His wife has received no details events: i concerning his death. In addition Joseph E. Laird, TJ.

N. andi Sergt. Edward Laird in the Pacific. Private Mabry, husband of Mrs. Doris E.

Mabry of Delaware City, is hospitalized in France from shrapnel wounds in the side and leg. He entered the Army in August, 1944, and went overseas in January. Before entering the Army he was employed by the Sun Oil Company at Marcus Hook. He and Mrs. Mabry have three children, Sara Jean, Martha, 3, and Glenn Francis, 19 months old.

The soldier is the son of E. Mabry of Jonesville, S. C. His brother, Corp. George F.

Mabry, is in India. to his wife, he is survived by his YOU'LL FIND IT AT of the Munich-Berlin most important north-south Ger-: 3 man road link, and was nearinglS Bamberg, 30 miles northwest of the Nazi shrine city of Nuernberg. The Seventh Army captured 1 Schweinf urt, a ballbearing manu- 1 acturing center of 42,000 population, i while farther to the southwest the 1 French First Army seized the Black Forest cities of Baden Baden and Rastatt. I The first word he had came In a phone call from Warm Springs at 3:05 p. Washington time.

He was told that the Chief Executive PAY CASH USE OUR 30-DAY CHARCE OR USE OUR CONVENIENT BUDGET ACCOUNT mother, Mrs. William Lynn of Chester; two sisters, Mrs. Susan McLane of Chester and Mrs. Margaret McMonigal of a son, William Francis Lynn, III, and had fainted while having his por trait painted. It was then that he phoned Dr.

Paullin, who made brother, Sergt. John Lynn, with Delaware's Leading Credit Department Store Market Street Below Fourth high speed trip from Atlanta to the the paratroops in Germany. Open Friday Mle 'Til 9 o'Clock Other Mte 5:30 Open Friday Til 9 o'Clotk Other Mies 5:30 Georgia resort. On the northern end of the front, Before entering the service Prl the British Second Army captured DEALS DEATH TO BLACK MART II The President had planned on coming back to Washington the first Open Friday Evening vate Lynn was in business with his father, a funeral director. His Celle, a German training center forif I biMBSfep mi of next week and Mclntyre Had gas warfare 50 miles south of Ham-; father has since died burg, and deepened its Aller River i planned on going down to him this The son of Mr.

and Mrs. William TOLEDO, O. (U.R) Major violators of rationing regulations in China are subject to death before a firing squad, according to C. C. Yang, head of the civilian division of the min- istrv nf Armnftmir.

a.f fairs in C.hnnff- H. Bryan of Milton, Private Bryan bridgehead thrust within 45 miles of that second greatest German city. week for two or three days oi gou, LONG WAR WITH JAPS was previously reported wounded Jan. 13, and was hospitalized in Ger- The Canadian First Army drove many. He was returned to duty and king.

Yang mA OPA offlcials herc SEEN AS POSSIBILITY The Japs are serious when they More and Better Boys' Togs yesieraay was rcpurucu recently that the slightest penalty is a 20 fine. Price inflation in China, he said, is tremendous, with talk of a 100-year war with the United States, Chief Warrant Of action, ne eniercu uie scivkc June, 1944, and was employed on the John Houston farm prior to that date. He attended the Lewes High School. Two brothers are serving some commodities 500 tunes their fleer A. L.

Frelinger told the Admiral pre-war price. Samuel F. dWPont Post, No. 2084, last night at the post's installation 1 Bigger and Better 3 Savings! GI BRAINCHILD WORKS meeting in ttie Hotel DuPont. with the armed forces in Germany, Private William Thomas Bryan, 26, and Private Stirling P.

Bryan, 22. FORT WAYNE, Ind. (U.R) Here Paul Podolsky, twice a commander is a new one and the first sergeant! of the Department of Delaware, believed it nothing else he could do! Pfc. Robert Simons was en route V. F.

W- and a former post com mander, was installed as commander to the base at Baer Field in his of the duPont Post. coupe early one morning when one of his wheels rolled off and went Appointments announced by Mr. Private Black went overseas in August, 1944. He entered the Army in January, 1943. The son of Mr.

and Mrs. J. Henry Black of the Lamotte Street address, he was graduated from Pierre S. duPont High School and was employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad. Sergeant Thomas, son of Mrs.

into a nearby little lake. Simons Podolsky included: Henry O. Swen son as service officer; Joseph Ian nelli, chairman of the relief com gauged the wind and then went mittee; Francis W. Buckley, post around to the other side of the lake and waited for the wheel to float to him. he related to.

the sergeant after arriving an hour late. chaplain; Wilton Hughes post ad Anna Murray of Newark, N. had vocate, and Abraham Tompolski made his home here with Mrs. Edna H. Fry of 107 North Clayton Street.

chairman of the entertainment committee. He attended Bayard Junior High School. He enlisted in the Army in EVEN ALARM OBLIGES December, 1942, and overseas WATSONVILLE, Calif. Ohfi) The with the Air Forces in March. 1943 WOMAN ACTS AS CHAPLAIN BATH.

Me. (U.R) When' Mrs. Hil-mer Larson of Stamford, noticed that no clergyman was present at the launching of a destroyer honoring her son, she promptly bowed her head and offered the invocation herself. local fire department went "all out' Private Burkett is now hospitalized in the Philippines. He entered the Army in April, 1944, and went In the matter of hospitality the other night when it showed off its new fire alarm switchboard to 50 visiting overseas in November.

He took part firemen attending a meeting of the Central Coast Firemen's Association. Just as the group gathered around the switchboard to see how it would work under proper conditions, in came an obliging alarm. MORE PLANES URGED JGxp QJojUA awn SpjoUthlinq SEATTLE Oi.R) In a report to air- craft manufacturers in Western; states, Gen. Donald F. Stace, commanding general of the Western Air Technical Service asked for tremendous increases in plane production for 1945.

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