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Ohio State Museum IRth and High (Com) International News Service International Illustrated News Picture NING TRIBUNE BUY WAR BONDS UNION COUNTY'S HOME DAILY BUY WAR BONOS Vol. XLVII, No, 170. MARYSVILLE, OHIO, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1945 By Carrier, 15c a Week BERLIN OTHER TROOPS ARE VERY NEAR CZECH BORDER UNCONFIRMED REPORTS SAY NINTH ARMY IS NOW 15 MILES OF CAPITAL By INTERNATIONAL, NEWS SERVICE American forces, thrusting ai'mored spearheads deeper into the heart of a dying Germany, stood poised for the final thrltst today at Berlin and armored units, less than 90 miles from the Russian front, slammed to within 40 miles of the Saxon "Dresden. An unconfirmed Paris report said Gen. William H.

Simpson's, Ninth Army armor had speared to within 15 to 17 miles of Berlin's out- sklrtii. This report was not Confirmed by headquarters or front dispatches. Another American column apparently was threatening the German capital 'from the north of Stendal for the Berlin radio reported that U. S. armored columns had reached Wittenburg, miles northwest of Berlin.

great German city of Leipzig, nifeanwhile, was threatened by U. S. First'Army forces -which smashed more than 25 miles through linif opposition 'to -within 'aevert miles of the city, Leipzig also was menaced by the Third Army, Which swept eastward only 10 miles to the south. The city is 34 miles front the Czechoslovak, border. Near BoMer Two Third Army columns surged across the Mulle river in a push into disorganized German positions threatened by a Russian" push from the east and are now less than 25 miles from the border.

At the northern end of the west. front British, driving toward (Continued on page 3) JAP 'SYMPATHY' IS BROADCAST NEW YORK, April sympathy" to the American people on the death of President Roosevelt was Extended today by Boron Kantaro Suzuki, the new premier, according to an amazing Dome! agency broadcast beamed to America and recorded by the FCC. "I must admit Roosevelt's leadership has been very effective and has been responsible for the Americans' advantageous position today," the premier was quoted as saying. "For that reason I can easily understand the great loss his passing meuns to the American people and my profound sympathy goes- to them." funeral Today TRUMAN REPORTS FOR WORK President Harry S. -Truman as he arrived at the White House yesterday to begin his first day as chief executive and commanr der-in-chief of the U.

S. TRUMAN BREAKS PRECEDENTS BY GOING TO SEE SENATORS PRESIDENT TO ADDEESS CON. CRESS MONDAY AND BROADCAST TO ARMED FORCES TUESDAY By ARTHUR HERMANN International News Service WASHINGTON, April Harry S. Truman, humbly assuming the burdens of the White House, led the peoples of the war- torn United Nations today in pay- ing solemn homage to the late Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Mr.

Truman' met the Roosevelt funeral train when it arrived in Washington this morning. Then he rode with the funeral procession through downtown Washington and along Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House, where, he will attend services at 4 o'clock this afternoon. Golnf To Burial Tonight, the president will accompany the mortal remains of Mr, CONSPIRACY SENTENCES HAVANA, April Pe- former chief of the Cuban my, and five associates, were sentenced to one year imprisonment In the Isle of Pines today after conviction on charges of "conspiring against the ENEMY LOSES 1277 PLANES NIMITZ REVEALS STAGGERING AIR LOSSES OF JAPS DURING PERIOD OF MONTH (Continued on page 3) GOVERNMENT IN GERMANY HAS ENTIRELY COLLAPSED FOOD DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM BREAKS DOWN AND NAZIS LOSE CONTROL OVER LOCAL GOVERNMENTS By WILLIAM E. ZIMMERMAN Knieriuttional News Service WASHINGTON, April American experts on German affairs today described Germany as a lif.adlesd horseman nicirig into military, political end t-cojjomlc collapse. The rapid advance uf Allied mili- tary forces in well known, they said.

Less known is the fact that civilian morale has disintegrated and tho country's economy has reached complete debacle, The state and commerce depart-' menls Muve learned the following' significant facts about the collapse within Germany: The German system of food distribution has completely broken down. No attempt is being rnude to I move food supplies from one area to another. Bombings have caused GUAM, April American carrier task forces continued today to guard the United States invasion armada off Okinawa and ground forces on the Island, itself, as Fleet Ajcbniral Chester W. Nimitz announced that United States Nuvy units destroyed more than 1,277 Japanese planes in less than a month of operations in far Pacific waters. The staggering toll of enemy aircraft included more than 218 shot down in the Ryukyu area last Wednesday and Thursday when the Japanese made their second all-out air attack against American forces.

Nimitz reported that the 1,277 Jap planes were destroyed by carrier planes and ship's during the period from March 18 to April 12. The total, however, did not include tiuvenil hundred additional Japanese planes destroyed or damaged over the Nipponese home islands by fighter-escorted Superfortresses and in other ureas by planes and hhips the British Pucinc Fleet now REDS DRIVE NOW HEADED FOR PRAGUE STALIN ANNOUNCES ELEVEN GERMAN TANK DIVISIONS SMASHED IN VIENNA BATTLE By NATALIA RENE International Newa Service MOSCOW, April Army forces freed for the plunge into southern Germany's so-called historic Vienna drove today toward the capital of Prague and the HeicfhV last rail routes to northern Italy. Col. Alfred Von; Olborg, GermJ'tt DNB Agertc'y military commentators' reported German lines 3Ss miles west of Vienna "ripped Soviet armies'Slamming forward on a new 120-mile front stretching from west of the Austrian capital to the Drava River in Yugoslavia. Cairture 130,000 As Marshal Joseph Stalin announced the capture of 130,000 Nazis and the smashing of 11 tank divisions in the 28-day battle for Vienna, Soviet assault units northeast of crossed the Morava River to seize 1 the strongpoih't of.

HocfoStnT Simultaneously, the lower wing of the Third Ukrainian Army drove to within 30 miles of Fraz, Austria's second city southeast of Vienna, in a thrust toward the Trieste gap route to the Italian plains. Meanwhile, signs of imminent Red Army offensives on the fronts before Berlin and the Baltic port of Stettin and along the approaches to the Saxon capital of Dresden came from bbth Berlin and Moscow. BOYS MISSING IN BLIZZARD CASKET WITH HONOR GUARD CASPER, April 17-year-old boys who left a ranch near Casper to look for a horse, were missing today, apparently lost in a raging snow storm which spread over a flvu state region. The heaviest snow storm In recent years in central Wyoming virtually paralyzed transportation and business In Casper. All highways into Casper were blocked.

At Lander, the snow reached a depth of'24 inches. Twenty-four inches of snow also was reported at Douglas and 15 inches in Casper. Enlisted men form a 1 guard of honor at the flag-draped casket of President Franklin D. Roose- 1 velt in the railroad car, which is Washington. Following funeral services in the East room White House, the president's body will be taken to HJfde Park, N.

for burial "his reirfaina'to gardens on his estate. TOKYO PALACE AND SHRINE REPORTED DAMAGED IN RAID FLEE TO JAPAN MANILA, April Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese commander in the Philippines, and Jose P. Laurel, presdent of the Philippine puppet government during the Nipponese occupation, have gone to it was reported today. ANTHONY EDEN FLYING TO U. S.

JAPANESE SAY LATEST STRIKE BY SET PTHE TO HOME OF THE EMPEROR. WASHINGTON, April new delay in presentation of the army's 1946 in anticipation 6f the imminent fall of disclosed by the House Appropriations Committee. LONDON, April British government announced today that Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden is enroute to the United States by plane to attend the funeral of Franklin D. Roosevelt. At the same time, diplomatic circles indicated Eden would suggest an early meeting between President Truman, Prime Minister Churchill and Marshal Stalin in view of the swift pace of military events, It was understood Eden would meet with Truman after the late president's funeral.

PRESIDENT WILL NOT ATTEND UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE By INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE The Japanese people hit a demoralizing blow today when a force of B-29 Superfortresses rained fiery destruction on Tokyo and, according to the Japanese Domei Agency, set afire buildings In the Imperial Palace grounds and razed the Meiji Shrine The avowed policy of American i forces has been to avoid damaging Japanese shrines and the emperor's palace in bombing raids and today's 'strike against the enemy was centered in the heart of a Tokyo industrial area, about six miles from the Imperial Palace. The Jap Domei Agency, as monitored by the Federal Communications Commission, reported that buildings of the Imperial Palace, and the Asasaha detached palace, were set afire by Superfortresses which hit Tokyo for nearly four hours beginning at 11 p. m. Friday night, Japanese time. Domei, quoting an Imperial headquarters communique, also claimed MILLIONS TO PAY RESPECT Hy.INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVfCK From the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the St.

Lawrence to the Rio Grande. 130,000.000 Americans will pause momentarily this'afternoon to pay final homage to the late Franklin Delano Roosevelt, thirty-first president of the United MSpecial services will be conducted IMIvK RF 111 ahnost every church in 'DEATH CAMP many simultaneously with the neral. rites hi the east room of White House at 4 o'clock. Others Will hold memorial services LHJERATE PERSONS FROM CAMP IN WHICH LOST THEIR LIVES JENA, Germany, April Twenty thousand inmates of Buchenwald camp, near here, one of the most dreaded of German concentration camps were free today after its capture by Berlin-bound American troops and unfolded a story of horror dating from the inception of the Nazi regime in 1933. years approximately (XXI persons to sadlffUe or a living hell passed through the gates of the electrically-charged barred-wire enclosure as infamous as the camps at Dachau and Oranienburg.

Seventy-five thousand died shooting, hanging overwork, hunger or disease. Within the enclosure were everything from for the efficient disposal of the bodies stacked like cord wood to hanging rooms with bloodstained clubs used on resisting victims. A total of 3.641 were killed or died at Buchenwald.during last February alone. The camp, with a "normal population" of some 40,000. ordinarily had 1,200 as guards.

But several days ago when the sound of American gun-fire became audible, 600 Gestapo desperadoes departed after previously marching thousands of prisoners off to unknown destinations. row, in conjunction with the regu- lar sabbath prayers. Official Washington, where Presi- Roosevelt held'sway for the past 12 years, was in full mourning. overwhelmingly saddened by the sudden death of the nation's wartime comma nder-in-chief. After I state services there, the body will jbc taken to the Roosevelt.ancestral home at Hyde Park, N.

for final jiitcs and "interment on his huge Hudson Valley, estate. Nation Pause In most cities, the nation's busl- and commercial life will come jto a complete stop at foite for from one minute to an hour to allow all employees time to offer i prayer and silent homage. For one minute nt 4 o'clock no telephone will ring in the United i States, and no messag'es be i transmitted by Western Union Tcle- graph Company. Motion picture theatres of the na! tion will not open until six this; ever ning, and the rfest of the amusement. TRUMAN ALSO TELLS SENATE COLLEAGUES HE EXPECTS TO DELEGATE AUTHORITY TO (Continued on page 8) (Continued on page 3) By WILLIAM S.

NEAL International News Service WASHINGTON, April Harry S. Truman has revealed to senate colleagues that he does i not expect to attend the United Nations conference at Sun Francisco but will address it by radio. Senate friends of the new president said today he also made it plain in conferences with them that he will seek the constant advice of congressional leaders to usher in a new era of harmony. lie akso revealed that he plans us president to widely delegate authority to cabinet otllcers and agency heads, and then hold them rigidly responsible. Different Course Thus the new president, within 24 hours after taking office, in.di- calird a sweeping change in the office of chief magistrate of the nation.

Hecuuse of his lung service in the- White House President Roosevelt (Continued on page 4) (Continued on page 2) BLAME HUNGER ON ROOSEVELT PARIS, April of the German radio's morning program was devoted today to hysterical denunciations of the late Franklin D. Roosevelt as the man responsible for Germany's present plight. At frequent intervals throughout the program, male voice shouted: "Who wanted the war? franklin Roosevelt! Who wanted to destroy Germany? Franklin Roosevelt! There is hunger in Germany, in Frankfurt the people have nothing to eai. Who brought this misery i over the Franklin Roosevelt!" TOPPED QUOTA COLUMBUS, April H. Lester Smith of the Ohio Methodist Church announced yesterday Ohio surpassed its quota of $1,545,925 in "the Crusade for Christ" campaign.

fund is a part of $25,000,000 which was raised in the United States to rehabilitate churches In war-torn foreign nations. industry will beifnuted. 1. I Sixteen European capitals ob- I served an official day of mourning 'with flags of as, many nations Hi half mast, including ancient Vienna, i liberated only a few hours before by Soviot troops. Thousand) Tiain Hundreds of thousands of farm and city folk in southern states from Georgia northward through Virginia lined the BOOrmile route yesterday and last night to pay silent homage.

They came from the fields and farms, from hamlets and crossroads; i and in the cities they thronged by i tens of thousands, to stare in humble reverence and at the train that bore the flag-draped casket of the nation's great wartime president back to the White House. Through the night the flag-draped (Continued on page 3)' LAST SPEECH OF ROOSEVELT STRESSED HOPES FOR PEACE TEXT OF UNDELIVERED SPEECH DECLARED WINNING OF THE WAS NOT ENOUGH WASHINGTON, April Roosevelt's lasf official word to the American people, which he was to have made on the radio lac', night at the Jefferson Day Democratic dinners, was a credo of his beliefs in the permanent outlawing of wars by a family of nations and the banishment forever of aggression among nations In the world The President's threa minute speech, which he completed shortly before his death, was made public by Secretary Stephen T. Early. It summed up, perhaps as no other document, the things' the president was fighting for and for which he wore himself that were almost within his grasp when death came Thursday afttr- noon. 'The once powerful, malignant Nazi state is crumbling.

The Japanese war lords are receiving, in their own home-land, the retribution for which they asked when they attacked Pearl Harbor. "But the mere conquest of our enemies is not enough. "We must go on to do all in our power to conquer the doubts ami fears, the ignorance and the greed, which made this horror possible." The President went on to (Continued on page 4) BUY WAR.