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1st and 3d in Artillery Range of Leipzig As Simpson Forces Sweep on Berlin BROOKLYN EAGLE LATE NEWS WEATHER Fair, mild tonight; cloudy, warm tomorrow. 104th YEAR No. 100 DAILY AND SUNDAY BROOKLYN, N. FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1945 3 CENTS The Brooklyn Eagle. NATION IN MOURNING Truman Sworn, Pledges War to a Finish TWO ARMIES IN GUN RANGE OF LEIPZIG Simpson Spearheads Roll Toward Berlin; Early Capture Hinted By BOYD LEWIS Paris, April 13 (U.R American flying columns were reported rolling across the Berlin plain within 49 and per- 'Will Prosecute 2-Front Fight With Vigor7 as Roosevelt Would Have Wished; Cabinet Stays On F.D.Rs Body En Route to Washington Today for 4 P.M.

Service Tomorrow; Burial at Estate in Hyde Park By MERRIMAN SMITH Warm Borinss. Ga April 13 (U.P Franklin D. Roosevelt By LYLE C. WILSON Washington, April 13 (U.R) President Harry S. Truman leaves at 11 a.m.

today on his last journey to the White House. took up the burden of the world's most powerful office today REDS FIGHT WITH 3D With IT. S. 3d Army in Germany, April IS (UP) Red Army troops went into action alongside American doughboys for the first time today when some 20,000 Russian soldiers broke out of a prisoner-of-war ramp near Weimar. The Russians overpowered their (Hards, seized German weapons and established a contact with His body rests in a copper-lined, mahogany casket.

Four service men stood watch as a guard of honor over him as the special train that brought him here was prepared for the sad return. The train will make a slow run to Washington. It is scheduled to arrive in the capital's Union Station at 10 a.m. tomorrow. Mrs.

Roosevelt, bearing her sorrow bravely, flew here to make the journey back to Washington. The President died at 4:35 p.m. yesterday of a cerebral hemorrhage that struck him 2'i hours earlier. Death came to him in a small bedroom of "the Little White House" at the Warm Springs Foundation, his "other home." He was 63. Funeral services will be held in the East Room of the White House at 4 p.m.

tomorrow. At 10 p.m. the same day, the funeral party will leave Washington by train for the ancestral Roosevelt estate on the Hudson at Hyde Park. It will arrive there at 9 a.m. Sunday.

The President will be buried at 10 a.m. Sunday in the sunlit, garden between his Hyde Park home and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library a garden bordered by a hemlock hedge and a profusion of rose bushes. wnn a pledge to win the war which Franklin D. Roosevelts leadership had carried to the verge of victory.

Shocked a.s all others by news of Mr. Roosevelt's death. Mr. Truman spoke his promise to the world a few minutes after taking the oath of office last night. "The world may be sure," he said, "that we will prosecute the war on both fronts, east and west, with all the vigor we possess to a successful conclusion." Conferences with army and navy leaders are understood to be high on the new Presidents' list today.

The new President took the oath of office at 08 last night. Mr. Roosevelt, at 63, had served 12 years, 1 month and 8 days in the office whose cruel exactions killed him, but also stimulated his desire to stay on. No other man had served more than eight years. Mr.

Truman will be 61 on May 8. Twice elected to the Senate after a career in Missouri politics, Mr. Truman had been Vice President only since Jan. 20. Then in the sequence of a heartbeat yesterday, the unassuming man from Missouri became the head of the greatest going concern on earth.

The taking of an oath merely formalized a fact. The White House has its common man. Todav they are fighting alongside units of the 3d Army's 4th Armored Division. haps 16 miles of the wrecked German capital today, and alarmed German spokesmen gaid other Yank forces were storming the Elbe River 61 miles northwest of the capital. To the south, two other American armies the 1st and 3d smashed nearly two-thirds of the way across Ger 'Comm.

Franklin Warm Springs Processioi Those who arranged Service at White Hous In the East Room. here Mr. rvel North on th ral train. The Cab-rmv and navy lead- figures of congressional Roosevelt so often had been host, there will be a funeral at 4 p.m. Saturday.

Then parture here made certain thai ihe other family members at the patients at Warm springs like him include Col. and victims of infant lie paralvsis would Roosevelt and Brie. Gen. have a chance to say goodby to the Mlv Kliioti Roosevelt. Elliott is i man who was their champion and illg jrom Europe.

ed it the recession Army, Navy, Marine Guard nri judicial President WU Our new asy-going fellow like I Park many to within heavy artillery range of Leipzig, transporta to the train would drive Mowlv patl Until the bnria The Rt. Rev. Angus Dunn. Epis-ipal bishop of Washington, the Howard S. Wilkinson of St.

guarded 2' tion bottleneck through which i put man up wan get toward so left-of. Georgia Hall, the main building of'b(Xi, the foundation and the first place, the President always went when he 5 came here. The patients will behste Nazi troops were rushing south for Adolf Hitler's Alpine redoubt. lined up in their wheelchairs. I posted at each of I Thomas Church, the Rev.

John G. McGee of St. Johns Church will conduct the White House services. Present will be the elect of officialdom, a choice 200 persons of the thousands who would do Mr. Roosevelt personal honor here if they but could attend.

Mr. Roosevelt ailing health for will 1 First Army tanks were 16 miles or1 in less southwest of Lemzm Third he vas the only guard of honor Army forces were 17 miles from will be my effort," Mr Tru-announred a few minutes taking the oath, "to carry on believe the President would done and to that end I have i the Cabinet to stay on with weakness. The first foreshadowing 1 Planllpd Leipzig and 70 nulc.s Horn Hresde To the north, the 9th Army 'a (Hell on Wheels Armored Divisi was rolling across the Berlin pit The Rev. George Anthon-. "fSt.

imes Church will conduct the burial of death came at about 2 p.m. p. Brooklyn time) yesterday. for the President to lie in state Washington. White Hou.se Secretary Step! jservices in Hyde Park Sunday after Last Words He Spoke ho accompa Continued Page I The President suddenlv pin lv.s Roosevelt here (rem Washington, noon.

Simple as tne White House funeral will be, the Hyde Park services will be simpler. There on Humble Man Above all. there new Presiden and to the back of his head and said she bore her grief "very nobly iiri he had tern ir headache lad. she Thev were the last words he ever Shortly after she reached the will fainted a few minutes Lmle White House Mrs. Roosevelt Inauguration Third Held in White House Washington, April 12 U.R President Harry S.

Truman's inaugura Pre-ir later and never regained conscious- i i his Continued on Page 4 Tf'ter the services in the White Cabinet to Attend tion was the third in the White I President Truman and his linnet, gray-haired Mrs. Truman at; will be Page 4 Franklin Delano Roosevelt 31st President of the United States Jan. 30, 1882 April 12, 1945 House. The first was in 1877, when Rutherford B. Hayes took his oth successor to Ulysses S.

Grant. Sixty- heads of Gov- But Work Goes On sum, omnae naugnier, Mary Mai neies. a group of Re pre-1 Rear Admiral Preelftnd A. Daubin. eight years elapsed until President Roosevelt took his fourth term oath sentatives and Senators.

Supreme commandant of the Brooklyn Navy Court Justices, members of the 'Yard, has announced all flags In family, and some of the President's the Navy Yard and all institutions in the historic presidential residence. close friends. connected with the yard, including Here's Right Way In Showing Flag to Mourn President Hayes took his oath in the Red Room, Mr. Roosevelt on the South summoned to Washington. Two sons mast today.

Production for the Portico and Mr. Truman in the TENTATIVE SCHEDULE FOR FUNERAL TRAIN Washington. April 13 (UP Her is a tentative schedule of the funeral train bringing the body of Franklin Roosevelt from Warm Springs, to Washington to- Leave Warm Springs. Ga 11 a.m. Arrive Atlanta.

Ga 2 p.m. Arrive Greenville. S. C. 6:50 p.m.

Arrive Spartanburg S. 8 p.m. funeral Lt. John and Lt. ever.

Cabinet Meeting Room. display of Orders 30-Day of mourning for Presider -It. according to the 3 U. S. Leaders Mourn Passing of President Service Command headquarters Manhattan: On an upright or horuinr.t aff the colors should be displave half-staff for 30 days.

If the flag is displayed flat on Mourning, by Europe A. E. F. April 13 fU.R) Gen. Dwighi D.

Eisenhower ordered a 30-day mourning period for American troops throughout the European theater today in memory of President Roosevelt. Eisenhower (lashed back the or- Va 4 50 a.m. Herbert Hoover Says The Grieving Nation Will March Forward War's Greatest Loss To Peace-Loving People, Says Mayor 'which does not permit lowering the colors, a bt ishould be attached at outside corner of the itl MAYOR LAGIARDIA HERBERT HOOVER WHERE TO FIND IT ing fringe of the flag. This The greatest loss differ What Sunny, Warm Weather Suprcme Headqi loving people have suffered in the of Its entire war. Our leader has died, but ences he lives on.

His mspiration is with in the us. His leadership is with us. An tunate it is for- Seen for Late Today the additional duty and responsibility magnifier has been thrust upon us. a duty to hgn id n.i'.ies are under again early today lifted later an leadership that we: the rest of the day "Will be sunn While we mourn i and warm" with highest tempera death, we shall ture about 75 degrees, dropping mid-50's tonight, according i the Weather Bureau Tomorrow 9, 13 11.11 Word 8 carry on. Mr, Roosevelt' Franklin Delano Roosevelt is not march forward.

GOVERNOR DEWEY will be cloudy with showers. dead. His ideals live. That pattern is so definite, it is so permanent. Yesterday President Roosevelt's death will be1 i Sadness Abroad Word of the death of the President spread rapidly through Supreme Headquarters and Paris, leaving sadness and grief in its wake.

Gen. Charles De Gaulle, provisional President of France, cabled President Truman that the French government learned of Mr. Roosevelt's death with "great emotion and deep sadness." He ordered flags lowered fo half-staff throughout France. In the cabarets, at the Red Cross rainbow corner and along the bou- rio r- 571. At 3 6 IWenu 3.10 not avoid it.

Centuries and centuries JAMES F. BYRNES from now, as long as history is re- Former Director o1 the Off orried. people will know Franklin! War MobilaaUm Delano Roosevelt loved humanity. knew Uie President when i Berlin, Munich Bombed of London. April 13 British Mosquito bombers made 'hree separate aa attacks on Berlin last night and also raided Munich in southern Ger- 7 many.

In order to present all the news about the death of President Roosevelt, the Brooklyn Eagle todav omits all display advertising. NEW PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF Horry Truman, hand on Bible, rands before Chief Justice Stone and takes oath of office making him 32d President Continued on Fa 4.