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88 LOGAN, OHIO, FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1945 PRICE FOUR CENTS NATIONMOURNS a LAST PHOTO OF FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELTl Air Offensive Of Japs Broken Nip Pilots Sink U. S. Destroyer By LEONARD MILLIMAN Associated Press War Editor American forces broke up a powerful Japanese air offensive by shooting down 116 enemy off Okinawa Thursday and in an offensive of their own landed on Bohol, the last major island in the Philippines to be reinvaded. One American destroyer was nk and several other ships darned in the day-long air battle off Okinawa, 325 miles from Japan. suicide pilots centered the second disastrous attempt within a the invasion fleet and supply dumps on the west coast of the island where Yanks unloaded 55,000 tons of material in the first ten dayp of the invasion.

A Japanese communique claim- eight U. S. ships were sunk and damaged. Breaking the six official American silence on highly publicized suicide corps, Fleet Adm. Chester W.

Nmitz said they have met with only They have sunk a number of destroyers and damaged some major fleet units, but no battleship, fast carrier or cruiser has been sunk. Scores Dead In Western Tornado OKLAHOMA CITY, April counted its tornado-dead at 74 and the homeless in hundreds today after twisters bounced crazily over the state to spread destruction in a dozen cities rural communities. storms swept on into Arkansas, killing three, and two persons were reported missing at Morrisville, Mo. Most seriously hit in Oklahoma by yesterday storms were Antlers with 50 dead, Muskogee with 14 and Hulbert and Oklahoma City with three each. Boggy had one fatality, as did Red Oak, Greenwood Junction and owland.

In Arkansas, two were tiled at Dora and one near Fayetteville. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (AN EDITORIAL) he belongs to the These words were uttered by a mourner about another President who died iji Lincoln. But no even those who opposed, him most deny that Franklin Delano Roosevelt has won a place in the archives of the history and a right to that epitaph. His death, on the threshold of a victory over a nation whose philosophy of government he hated, is bitter, ironic tragedy. And in his passing the nation has suffered an incalculable loss.

But most bereft are those the common men, whose cause he espoused so strongly for the 12 years, one month and nine days he served as President of the United States. The stunning impact of his sudden passing come as a numbing blow to the country he served so unselfishly to the rest of the freedom-loving world. For he was the bearer of the banner of freedom to all downtrodden and oppressed people. His influence on the United States and the rest of the world will be felt for even come. By any standards of measurement, he was a great and a great soldier.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a casualty of the war as surely as if he had met death in the front line of a battlefield. Only he, his family and his closest associates knew tlyat he was risking his life by his unswerving and unfailing devotion to duty. But regardless of the risk, he continued to spend his failing strength in directing the course of the nation in the war. He never lived to see the victory that is soon to come. He died only a few short days before a conference of the United Nations at which he hoped to fashion a peace that would last for generations.

The nation must rally from the shock. successor must carry to fruition the ideals, the hopes and the dreams he championed so strongly. The people of the United States must ever BE united. Else the tragedy will be multiplied a million-fold and the lives of the American youths who have died in battle will have been spent in vain. President Truman Takes Up Burdens Pledges Self To Follow Path of Dead Leader COAL DEALER8 CITED COLUMBUS, April Office of Price Administration has filed treble damage Buits against two Washington Court House coal dealers for ceiling price violations.

They are Clyde K. Smith, $2160; and Alvin fultx, $00. DEATH CLAIM8 VANCEBURG, April Rev. Ira W. Stout, pastor of the Vanceburg Christian Church for the last 15 years, died at his home this morning of coronary thrombosis.

A native of Illinois, Mr. Stout came to Vanceburg from Jackson, 0. FILE DAMAGE 8UIT8 COLUMBUS, April Office of Price Administration has filed four treble damage suits in federal court against four Zanesville coal dealers for alleged ceiling price violations. They were Charles H. Harper, $1080; Ralph Lucas, Earl Morgan, $1440; and Lester Thimmes, $945.

Whisky Ration Pariod Increased to 5 Weeks COLUMBUS, April next whisky ration period beginning Monday will be for five weeks, instead of the current four, and gin will be returned to the ration list, Liquor Director Robert M. Sohngen announced today. That means, Sohngen explained, that customers may purchase one unit (a quart, fifth or two pints) of whisky or gin during the next period, which ends May 19, put not a unit of each. Other intoxicants remain unrationed. The current period ends tomorrow.

Rofoins Roosevelt Cabinet; Summons Military Heads By JACK BELL Associated Press Political News Editor WASHINGTON, April dazed and questioning world today watched Harry S. Truman pick up the banners of war and peace that slipped yesterday from the lifeless fingers of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Stunned by the shock of its passing, a moiirning nation gave solid backing to the gray-haired man in the gray business suit who became President of the United States at 7:09 last night. Mr. Roosevelt died at Warm Springs, two hours and 34 minutes earlier.

Question Mark Mr. Truman, who even want to run for vice president, went to work in the White House question mark for all humanity. The new president announced simply that he would try to carry on as he believes President Roosevelt would have done. Then he asked the Roosevelt cabinet to stay on. He gave assurance that the United Nations Conference would open in San Francisco April 25, on schedule.

He issued a statement that the war would be prosecuted to the utmost on all fronts, east and west. Today as international friends and enemies looked on, these prospects loomed. A speedy summoning of Gen. George C. Marshall and Admiral Ernest J.

King for the most important fill-in on the military situation any world leader ever needed at such a critical hour. Confers With Btcttinluo A conference with Secretary of State Stettinius on pressing and complicated international situations demanding the attention of a man who knows only the inside details he gained from cabinet meetings. The sorrowful duty of helping arrange for a White House funeral at 4 P. Saturday for his predecessor. These transcended such important questions as the likelihood that the new chief executive will want to meet as soon as possible with Prime Minister Churchill, whom he knows slightly, and Premier Stalin, whom he knows not at all.

Domestic problems could be pushed aside temporarily too, left to a cabinet that may see some changes later. To the 60-year-old, ruddy complexioned new President fell the task of burying a chief executive for whom he had boundless admiration and unfaltering loyalty. Mr. Roosevelt was struck down by a cerebral hemorrhage as he posed for an artist in his cottage NEW CHIEF EXECUTIVE wmm. A President Harry S.

Truman (Continued on page two) NinthJbmy Tanks Push Toward Berlin; Patton Nears Leipzig Goabbals Admits War Cannot Last Much Longer As Squeeze on Reich Tightens BULLETIN U. 8. Ninth Army tanks in a 60-mile dash sped today to within 93 miles of Russian lines, reaching Tangermuende in a masaive outflanking maneuver which threatened to isolate the entire Daniah Peninaula and ahear off Hamburg, second city By WILLIAM L. RYAN Associated Press War Editor U. S.

Third Army tanks knifed to within 18 miles of Leipzig Friday and broke into Jena, historic Napoleonic battleground, while to the north the Ninth Army massed for the push to Berlin, 57 miles away, and to the Russian lines, 115 miles from American positions on the Elbe River. A front dispatch said virtual complete disappearance of the German air force over the Third Army front appeared to substantiate reports of a Luftwaffe Russain troops stormed across the border of Moravia, which with Bohemia represents the last big Nazi war production area. The Red army cut across the frontier 33 miles from Bruenn, Czechoslovakia, which is 68 miles north of besieged Vienna, after cutting last lifelines between the two cities. war cannot last much Truman Proclaims Day of Mourning WA8HINGTON, April Harry 8. Truman proclaimed today that tomorrow ahould be a day of mourning for Franklin D.

Roosevelt throughout the United 8tatee. (Continued on page two) EXCEED8 QUOTA COLUMBUS, April H. Lester Smith, of the Ohio Methodist Church announced today Ohio surpassed its quota of in Crusade for campaign. Humble and Great Pay Sad Tribute By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Around the world, the humble and the great paid mournful tribute Friday to Franklin Delano Rooeevelt in words of praise and sorrow. The flags of virtually ail nations flew at half mast.

Many governments decreed a period of mourning. Expressions of sympathy streamed into the White House from world capitals Prime Minister Churchill, Premier Stalin and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek addressed messages of condolence Mrs. Roosevelt. Churchill, declaring he personally had lost a said the death was loss of the British nation and of tha cause of freedom in every land." Stalin said the Russians and of the cause of freedom in every Stalin said the Russians valued President Roosevelt as a great organizer of the struggles of freedom-loving nations against the common enemy and as the leader in the cause of ensuring the security of the whole Chiang said the name would be a light to humanity for centuries to and declared sorrow was intensified by the gratitude she owed him. The news that the President had died was flashed quickly to troops in the field and sailors at sea, fighting toward a victorious end of history's greatest war.

They were shocked and unbelieving. The American broadcasting sta- tion in Europe, informing the peoples of Europe in a special broadcast, declared world has lost its greatest champion for Berlin and Tokyo first relayed straight news accounts to their people, then later expressed bitter comment. The German radio asserted the President go down in history as the man upon whose instigation the present war turned into the second world war." Tokyo said no Japanese any fond hopes for a sudden drop in the fighting power of and then added: consider Roosevelt a very fortunate person indeed to have died before conditions became U' PRESIDENT Untimely End Comes Thursday AtWarm Springs Franklin Delano Roosevelt Victim Of Cerebral Hemorrhage; Oath of Office Taken By Harry S. Truman By HAROLD OLIVER (Associated Press reporter who had Franklin Delano Roosevelt since 1936). WARM SPRINGS, April Delano long and colorful public career is at an end.

A tragic though painless death halted it abruptly yesterday as the 31st president seemingly was about to see the fruition of his plans for bringing lasting peace to a war-ridden world. He was 63 last January 30. Death came unexpectedly at 4:35 P. M. (EWT) in a simply furnished bedroom of his Pine Mountain cottage.

The cause: a cerebral hemorrhage. Mr. Roosevelt came here March 30 for one of his periodic visits to seek rest and to bask in the sun. He had planned to s4By andftier week, return to Washington, spend a day and start out again for a cross-country trip to Sail Francisco to open the World Security Conference April 25. All this now is up to his successor, Harry S.

Truman of Missouri, with the aid of a sympathetic congress. The body, prepared during the night, was to be taken back to Washington by special train on the Southern Railroad reaching the national capital at 10 A. M. (E.W.T.) Saturday. Mrs.

Roosevelt arrived last night from Washington. She flew in an army plane to Fort Benning at nearby Columbus with Stephen T. Early, White House secretary, and Vice Admiral Ross T. Me In tire, White House physician and Navy surgeon general. Funeral services are to be held at 4 P.

M. (E.W.T.) Saturday in the East Room of the White House. The body will not lie in state. Burial will be at the family home at Hyde Park, N. Sunday.

Presidential Secretary William D. Hassett said the funeral services would be of the same the President decreed for his mother, who died in 1941. Hasstt said that six hours after the services in the East room the body will be entrained for Hyde Park, to arrive at the family estate on the east bank of the Hudson at 9 A.M., Sunday. Burial will be at 10 A.M., in the family garden between the rambling stone and stucco house and the Roosevelt library. Members of the cabinet and supreme court, heads of federal agencies, a representative group of senators and representatives, members of the family and friends will accompany the funeral party from Washington.

The East Room services will be conducted by Bishop Angus Dun of the Washington Episcopal Cathedral; Rev. Howard S. Wilkinson, of St. Thomas Episcopal Church, and Rev. John G.

MaGee, of St. Episcopal Church across La Fayette park from the White House. The J'resident prayed each March 4 at St. until the inaugural date was changed to January 20. In the last two years, however, he attended inaugural church services in the White House.

Conducting the burial service at the graveside in Hyde Park will be Rev. Dr. George W. Anthony, new rector of St. James Episcopal Church where the President was senior deacon.

Mrs. Roosevelt, Early and Mclntire were driven immediately to the cottage alter they arrived by car from Fort Benning shortly before midnight. Mrs. Roosevelt was described by officials as bearing up (Continued on Page two) Committee Studies Food Situation WASHINGTON, April investigations by official senate and house committees interfering with the activities of a special house Republican food study committee headed by Rep. Tom Jenkins of Ironton.

Jenkins says his group has assembled information that will prove valuable to the new bipartisan committees, interested primarily in the meat situation. To CdBbrate Signing Of Greenville Treaty WASHINGTON, April special stamp may be issued by the postoffice department to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the signing of the famous treaty of Greenville. Postmaster General Frank C. Walker is expected to announce his decision shortly. Greenville, Ohio, is arranging a celebration for the anniversary, August 3.

Plans Ready For Welfare Expansion COLUMBUS, April state welfare department has preliminary and working plans ready for some $15,000,000 worth of construction in its contemplated expansion program, Welfare Director Frazier Reams reported today. Gov. Frank J. Lausche recently recommended an $18,000,000 appropriation for the program in his budget message to the state legislature. Reams said blue prints had been drawn for about $9,000,000 in new buildings to provide an additional 5,000 institutional beds, and that preliminary work had been finished on another $6,000,000 worth of construction- designed to relieve overcrowding in hospitals for the mentally ill..