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Ctnniln lumina Journeil IN 1881 LINCOLN 1. NEBRASKA, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1945 FIVE CENTS World mourns with nation in tribute ROOSEVELT FAMILY PLOT AT HYDE PARK view of the Roosevelt family plot in the cemetery adjacent to St. James Episcopal church at Hyde Park, N. where Franklin D. Roosevelt will be buried Sunday, includes the graves in foreground (right) of Mr.

father, James, and his grandmother, Mrs. Rebecca H. Roosevelt. (AP wirephoto). By The world mourns with the United States Saturday as tribute is paid to Franklin Delano Roosevelt (n funeral 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 Saturday and Sunday. The London Times gave voice to sorrow in an editorial declaring: is mourned here as perhaps no other of another country has ever been." Reverently, American soldiers and sailors stationed in Britain will file into churches during the day for a last tribute to their dead commander-in-chief. The British will honor the late president at Sunday church services. As Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden flew to the United States to represent Britain at the funeral, the king and queen canceled plans for a week end trip to Gla.sgow and the court went into mourning. High Russian officials were expected to attend a simple ceremony in Moscow at the home of U.

S. Ambassador Averell Harrlman. The Moscow radio said the council of commissars had ordered mourning flags flown from all state and official buildings for two days. Generalissimo Chiang Kai- shek invited high Chinese offl- cials. foreign and reprc.sentative.s of ailied military forces to a memorial service in Chungking Monday.

In Jerusalem, special tributes and religious services were planned. From Moscow, where he now is visiting. Premier Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia addressed condolences to Mrs. Roosevelt and President Truman, calling the late president a "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. two rival governments both paid high tribute.

In Venezuela, the municipal court of Caracas was asked by a political party to name one of the principal streets of that city in honor of Roosevelt, "thus perpetuating the memory of such a great man In the birthplace of the liberator (Simeon Bolivar) of America." Roosevelt bidden farewell Ninth wins crossing of Elbe First and rites State pays 3rd past Leipzig Advance to Bayreuth PARIS. The American Ninth army won a second crossing over the Elbe river Saturday and fought slowly forward on the outer defenses of Berlin. First and Third army tanks hurtled well past besieged Leipzig, neared the Russian lines and advanced into the nazi mountain stronghold of Bayreuth. The flanking sweep past Leipzig carried deep into Saxony to within ten miles of Chemnitz, 88 miles from the Ruaian lines and 38 from Dresden. To all practical purposes, Germany was virtually bisected from the last direct communications from Berlin the superhighway to cut.

The Third army was within 18 miles of Czechoslovakia and had bypassed the northwest tip of that republic. THE NINTH army captured Dortmund, second largest city of the Ruhr and 11th largest in Germany. Its 537,000 peacetime residents worked in the great coal mines over which the city sprawled and in its vast steel and iron mills and synthetic oil plants. The city was an important traffic center but was a ruin from bomb and shell. The First army closed with 55 miles southwest of Berlin, widening the siege arc being fashioned around the capital by the Ninth army to the west and the Russians to the east.

A 30 mile armored dash carried within three miles of Dessau, where the Mulde river meets the Elbe. The Canadians seized Arnhem, 11th city of Holland, population 89,000. The First army captured the industrial center of Luedenscheid (50,000) and came within two and a half miles of cutting the Ruhr pocket in two near Hagen, menaced on the north of the Ninth army. THE FRENCH took Kehl across the Rhine from Strasbourg and 60 other places including Buehl, Achern, Reystadt, Gamhurst, and Otterswier plus quantities of and prisoners so numerous they could not be immediately counted. Absie, the American station in Europe which beams propaganda broadcasts to the continent, said See WEST FRONT, Page 2.

Cl. 1 Negro valet of president grieves WASHINGTON. (UP). Near the end of President funeral cortege to the white house Saturday was a khaki-painted army car. A husky Negro in a chief petty uniform sat alone in the back seat, head bowed in grief.

He was Arthur Prettyman, devoted valet to Mr. Roosevelt for the past six years. At Warm Springs it had been the lot of Prettyman and a Filipino mess boy to place the president in bed when he suffered his fatal stroke. Meats here at new low Likely to be even more acute Meat supply for Lincoln restaurants and hotels now is at the lowest point since the start of the war, and probably will be even more acute before mid-summer, according to war food administration officials and Lincoln meat holesalers. The shortage first became noticeable about a month ago, when hotel and restaurant operators discovered that meat supplies had dropped almost 50 percent from what they had previously been using.

Arthur Anderson, district representative of the WFA, asserted Saturday must recognize there is going to be less meat for civilian ANDERSON SAID that the WFA is making every effort to divert as much slaughter to federally inspected plants as possible in order to insure that the government will get as much meat as it needs for military requirements. Sixty percent of the total output of federally inspected plants is going to the government on an overall basis, Anderson said, which leaves only 40 percent for civilian consumption. Lincoln has relied on small non-federally inspected plants for most of its meat supply, since shortage of meat first became acute. The non-federally in spected plants are not required to turn any of their meat over to the government. NOW, the WFA in its attempt to get meat to the federally-inspected plants thru the defense supplies corporation has See MEAT.

Page 2. Col. 8. The Weather OKINAWA. (By navy radio).

Our war with Japan has gone well in the last few weeks. We are firmly on Okinawa, which is like having your foot in the kitchen door. Our wonderful carrier pilots have whittled down the Jap air force daily. Our anti-aircraft from ships and from shore batteries has plugged Jap fliers for the highest ratio ever known from ack-ack. Our task forces have absolutely butchered the only Jap task force to put to sea in many months.

are hitting Japan, with fighter escort from Iwo jima. Airfields are springing up on Okinawa. We all say we sure are glad we are not in thp One main question asked over here now is, long will the Jqos hold There are all kinds of opinions, but actually nobody knows. WE know, because no one in his right mind can pretend to understand the oriental manner of thinking. 'hey are unpredictable.

They are inconsistent. As one officer said, are uncannily smart one day, and dumb as hell the next." Their values are so different from ours. The news broadcasts from Tokyo and Shanghai are an example. These broadcasts are utterly ridiculous. During our first week on Okinawa they consta 'ly told of savage counter-attacks vhen there any.

They told See PYLE, Page 2, Col. 2. Lincoln: Cloudy with light rain or drizzle Saturday night; lowest temperature near 36 degrees Sat urday night; Sunday mostly cloudy with occasional rain likely, slight ly warmer with highest tempera ture near 47 degrees. Nebraska: Partly cloudy Satur day night and Sunday, little change in temperature Saturday night with lowest temperatures mid in west to 30 to 35 in east; warmer Sunday. Kansas: Mostly rloudy Saturday night, In eastern third of state, slight dritzle In southeast and light snow or drizzle In southwest; lowest temperature 25 to S(l in northwest to mid 40's In southeast; Sunday partly cloudy, somewhat wanner In west portion.

low-a: Cloudy In south, fair with freezing temperatures In north portion Saturday night; Sunday cloudy and rather cool with showers In west portion. Sunrises, 8:48 a. son sets, 7:06 a. m. HOCBLV TEMFERATCRE8.

-s' 8:80 p. m. .........86 8:30 S. .40 p. ID.

.........58 4:30 m. .89 p. tn. .........686:30 a. .88 6:80 p.

m. .........51 6:30 a. p.m. .........48 7:80 a. ..86 8 80 in.

8:30 a. ........,.85 p. m. .........469:30 a. ..85 10 30 pm.

a. ,.85 11 80 pm 4611:30 a. ,.87 11 SO am. Mat. 44 12:80 p.m..

.88 1 HO a m. .48 1:80 p. 3 to am.422:30 p. m. 40 Hlzhput temperature a year ago, 59.

I.4iwest temperature a year ago. 49. weatuer reaaings for 24 hours ending at 6:30 a. m. b.

1.1 h. 1. Blsmarek 22! New oVrk 80 54 Chadroa 88 241 North Platte 41 26 Chicago 70 401 Omaha 84 86 Denver 41 20i Rapid City Des Moines 54 SOI St. Louis 76 82 Snow continues in west portion Snow continued to fall in western Nebraska Saturday and the weather bureau predicted partly cloudy weather for the state with little change in temperature. It will be warmer Sunday, the weather bureau said.

Scottsbluff, on the edge of a snowstorm which swept over Wyoming Friday, reported approximately two inches of snow on the ground and a temperature of 22 Saturday morning. Highways east from Scottsbluff were open but to the west they were still impassable. Skies were overcast but it was not snowing. The weather bureau said there was two inches of snow on the ground at Big Springs and Sidney and one inch at Chadron and Ainsworth. It was reported snowing at Sidney and Big Springs Saturday morning.

Other precipitation reported in the state included 1.55 inches at Plattsmouth, one inch at Sutton and lesser amounts at Fairbury, Wymore and North Platte. Temperature ranges for the last 24 hours included: Chadron 33-24, Grand Island 47-30, North Platte 41-26, Omaha 5436, Valentine 40-24, Beatrice 56-37, Lincoln 56-34. At mid-morning Saturday it was 39 in Beatrice, 26 in Chadron, 31 in Grand Island, 26 in North Platte, 37 in Omaha and 22 in Scottsbluff. Katy passenger plunges in creek MUSKOGEE, Okl. The Oklahoma highway patrol said Saturday it was informed or eight" persons drowned when a Dallas-Kansas City passenger train plunged into a creek southeast of here.

Rescue workers were able to reach the submerged coaches only by boat and information was meager. The stream was swollen by heavy rains. The Katy office in Dallas said the train was No. 4, which left Dallas at 9:40 p. m.

Friday night. It had three Pullman coaches, two day coaches and a baggage car. There was no estimate of the passenger total. respects to dead chief By tlw Pivm. Nebraska paid its respects to Franklin Delano Roosevelt Saturday, pledging virtual cessation of normal activity from the time of his funeral at 3 p.

m. (c. w. Saturday afternoon until after his burial Sunday. Business houses in all parts of the state announced they would close during the funeral services Saturday afternoon, and prayer meetings by groups of every religious denomination were scheduled for Saturday and Sunday.

Goverinor Griswold asked that Nebraskans observe five minutes of silence at 3 p. m. Large public memorial services were planned at Omaha, Lincoln, Scottsbluff, York, Crete and many other communities Saturday. The public service, expected to be largest in the state, will be held Sunday at Omaha, where a joint military-civilian memorial will be held at the city auditorium. At Crete the services were to consist of the reading of the last inaugurqL.

address tof the late president. Held on the Doane college campus, the service was conducted by College President Bryant Drake and Lt. C. Darrah, commanding officer of the navy V-12 unit. Memorial services were planned at most of the major churches in the North Platte valley.

In almost every instance prayers were to be offered for both the late president and divine guidance for his successor. State and county offices announced they would close in most parts of Nebraska Saturday afternoon and many were not scheduled to reopen until Monday. Brig. Gen. Guy N.

Henninger, state selective service director, announced draft board activities in every part of Nebraska would also cease during that period. In Omaha, Mayor Dan Butler issued a proclamation setting aside Saturday and Sunday as days of mounring and urged all people pay fitting homage to the memory of the man whose death they so sincerely A solemn pontifical hivh mass was said Saturday morning at St. cathedral in Omaha by Bishop-Elect Edward J. Hunkier. In Beatrice, a flag, flown at half staff at the death of every president who has died in office since Abraham Lincoln, hung from the high school flag pole.

LEAVES FOR Prime Minister Winston Churchill, solemn-faced, leaves 10 Downing street for the house of commons to pay tribute to President Roosevelt. (AP wirephoto via signal corps radio). held in Bells toll as city mourns; stores close At 3 in Lincoln Saturday the tolling of bells began an irregularly cadenced dirge which swept across the city in melancholy tribute to the dead president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Notes of the bells fell slowly and mournfully upon the enveloping grayness of the day as flags fluttered listlessly at half mast. By mutual accord the busy, accustomed life of the city came to a pause as people of Lincoln moved Instinctively toward their churches, or, if at posts of duty, laid down their work for a moment of contemplation and prayer.

As the last solemn rites for the president of the nation began in Washington, each city and hamlet each citizen in his own way mourned for his going. TO CONDUCT Rev. Dr. George W. Anthony (above), rector of St.

James church at THESE ot Inlen.ol Roosevelt. (AP Six Roosevelt women attend funeral rites WASHINGTON. (iP). Dres.sed in a black, Mrs. Franklin D.

Roosevelt stood erect and steady as the caisson bearing her body halted at the entrance of the white house for brief ceremonial tribute. Standing next to Mrs. Roosevelt was the one son able to be here, Brig. Gen. Elliott Roosevelt of the army air forces.

On his other side was the daughter, Mrs. Anna Boettiger, and to Mrs. right was Vice Adm. Ross McIntyre, physician to the former president. Behind them stood the four daughters-in-law, Mrs.

James Roosevelt, Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Mrs. John Roosevelt, and the son-in-law, Col.

John Boettiger. All the women of the Roosevelt family wore unrelieved black. THE UNITED STATES flag and the flag dipped and Star Spangled Ban- See WOMEN. Page 2. Col.

7. Markets thruout nation are closed Yugoslavs take Rab NEW YORK. The island of Rab, in the Adriatic sea off the northwest coast of Yugoslavia, has been captured by Yugoslav troops and naval units, a broadcast Yugoslav communique said Saturday. NEW YORK. Security and commodity markets thruout the country were closed Saturday in observance of the funeral of President Roosevelt.

Banks functioned as usual in line with wishes that war production operators go on without interruption. and unified grief seemed in the minds of many mourners to form a deep line of demarcation between the past and the immediate future. A strong guiding hand had dropped in death. The nation groped for another. The crossing over from a fam- iUgr established course to one momentarily strange was recognized by speakers at memorial services in Lincoln, but with a note of confidence and hope inspired by a desire to follow plans well laid down by the late president and by a confidence in the nature and workings of the democracy of which he had so long been a leader.

A CRITICAL and decisive said Dr. R. A. McConnell to those gathered at Flrst- Plymouth Congregational church, strikes down with stunning suddenness one of the greatest architects of the present situation and of the opening future. At first this striking power seems almost malevolent, an evil will to thwart But if we be- See CITY.

Page 2. Col. 5. Vlekota urges veto of L. B.

132 Continuing his long battle against creation of the Nebraska industrial development commission as proposed in L.B. 132 Sen. John Mekota said Saturday in a letter to Gov. Dwight Griswold that the bill should not be approved not only because it was not properly passed by the legislature but because the bill is fundamentally Mekota in his letter to the governor challenged the opinion of Atty. Gen.

Walter Johnson who held that the bill was passed by the legislature when it received 22 votes. room Hyde Park to receive body of executive WASHINGTON. (JP). Franklin Deiano Roosevelt returned in death Saturday to the white house he had graced longer than any other president. While a whole people paused in brief, a funeral cortege bearing jthe body of the late president silently up to the white i house door at 10:14 a.

m. It was the end of a long train trip from Warm Springs, where the president died Thursday. At 3 p. m. Saturday the nation officially bade him goodbye at simple and solemn funeral services in the east room.

Saturday night, the body will be taken to Hyde Park, for burial at the family home Sunday. President Truman will accompany the Roosevelt family to Hyde Park for the burial service. Franklin D. wirephoto). Open earth at Hyde Park for burial service MEKOTA contends that the bill could not pass with less than 26 votes for the reason that it provides for an appropriation of $100,000 which was not included in the budget.

The attorney opinion said that because the Nebraska industrial development commission as provided for in L.B. 132 was not in existence at the time the governor prepared his budget that a three-fifths vote (26) in the legislature is not needed to pass the bill as would be the case if the legislature were to increase an item in the budget IT IS contention that the supreme court case on which the attorney general bases See MEKOTA. Page 2, Col. 2. SERVICEMENT GUARD (above) stand guard over the casket of President Roosevelt aboard a special train enroute from Warm Springs, to Washington, D.

C. (AP wirephoto). Judge Delehant now grandfather Federal Judge John W. Delehant became a grandfather early Saturday and shortly after noon hastened to Omaha to meet Constance May Delehant, 8- pound daughter of Lt. and Mrs.

John W. Delehant, jr. Mrs. Delehant was formerly Miss Irene Konat, Omaha. Lieutenant Delehant is somewhere on the western front.

Mrs. Delehant sr. had been in Omaha for several days. Index Mere Mention 2 News 3 Editorials 4 Sports 5 Radio 6 Want Ads 7 Comics 8 HYDE PARK. (JP).

The earth of Hyde Park, warmed by sjuing sunshine, wa.s laid open Saturday to receive the body of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In a rose garden shielded by an ancient cedar hedge, a grave was prepared for the burden it will receive Sunday morning when a white-haired, white- bearded clergyman recites; Almighty God we commend the soul of our brother departeti, and we roinrnit his body to the ground, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope of the resurrection unto eternal DAFFODILS blossomed in the garden, hidden between the Roosevelt manor house overlooking the Hudson and the Franklin D. Roosevelt library, and rose bushes were leafing near the freshly-turned earth. The village of Hyde Park, still. the sudden death of its first citizen, mourned quietly and proudly.

Pale, 78-year-old Rev. George W. Anthony, who will officiate at the burial, said villagers would gather at the old ivy- covered Episcopal church of St. James immediately after the brief service at the grave. THEY WILL sing his favorite hymns: God is working His purpose out Master, let me walk with Thee Help me bear the strain toil, the fret of care and nearer draws the time, the time that shall surely be, when the earth shall be See HYDE PARK, Page 2.

Col. 7. Hopkins di8Cii88 fiilure WASHINGTON. Harry Hopkins, friend and confidant of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, lunch at the white house Saturday with President Harry S. Truman.

Looking haggard from illness, Hopkins told reporters he did not want to discuss his plans for the future in any way. I just carne buck to say goodbye to a very good friend of he in an obvious reference to President Roosevelt, then added: 1 came down to pay my respects to the president, and wish him well. I know get what he support of all the American people this Hopkins, who flew to for the funeral from Mayo clinic at Rochester, spoke so low that his voice was hardly audible to the reporters who crowded about him as he left the executive mansion. Hopkins said it was hard lor him to tell what was in his mind and heart at this time. But he said he had arranged, when he gets out of the hospital, to see President Truman again and him with any information I might have about government that I might have acquired in my relationships with Mr JUST 12 weeks ago Saturday In the east room Roosevelt with bowed head, attended divine services on the inaugural day which started him on his fourth term as president.

In the first car directly behind it were Mrs. Roo.sevelt, Mrs. Anna Boettiger, the only daughter, and Brig. Gen. Elliott Roosevelt, the second son.

IN THE SECOND car were Col. John Boettiger and the wives of the Roo.sevelt sons. Prc.sident Triunan, Secretary of Commerce Wallace, and James F. Byrnes, recently resigned war mobilization chief, rode in the third car flying the American and presidential flags. Many along the funeral route were in tears.

As the procession entered the white house grounds. President car swung out of line and the new chief executive dismounted at the steps of the executive wing, entering the white liouse there. The caisson halted before the main white-columned portico and the casket was borne into the white house by uniformed members of the armed services. 4 MRS. ROOSEVELT and mwn- bers of the family slowly followed.

The navy band played Star Spangled The silence in the throngs about the white house before the music Sec NATION. Page 2. Col. 3. Four Russian armies poised MOSCOW.

(JP). Every sign indicated Saturday 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 Russians were rested and ready for the campaign which promises to destroy a principal part of Adolf staggering military forces. The expected blow might result in the greatest battle of the second World war. (Berlin broadcasts said Saturday that the Russians about to launch their great on the eastern front aimed at Berlin and a link up with British and American armies driving toward the reich capital from the west.

One German correspondent said Ru.ssian artillery was in position for the preliminary bombardment. (The Germans indicated they expected soviet forces to strike to outflank Berlin from the north and south while Marshal Gregory K. First White Russian army, now approximately 30 miles due east of Berlin, staged the frontal blow.) Soldier faints in funeral line WASHINGTON. (JP). An unidentified soldier fainted Saturday as the caisson bearing his late body approached the white house.

As he fell the bayonet he had been holding rigidly at attention gashed his chin. Two navy enlisted men gave him first aid as he lay in the street while the funeral cortege passed by. He was removed in an official limousine before his identity could be leJrned..