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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1945.

NO. 150

PAIUS, April 13.—(UP) — American flying columns were reported rolling across the Berj,n plain within 40 anti perhaps 36 miles of the wrecked German capita! today. To the south, two other American armies— the First and the Third smashed nearly twothirds of the way across Germany to within heavy artillery lange of Leipzig, transportation bottleneck through which Nati troops were rushing south for Adolf Hitler’s Alpine redoubt. Fiist Army tanks were 16 miles or less of Leipzig. Third Army forces were 17 miles from Leipzig and 70 miles from Dres-

den.

Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, commander of the Britibh 21st Army Group, told his troops that the Nazis were engaged in destroying ail Germany us they fell back for a fight to the death in the Bavarian and Austrian Alps. “The German military macnine. which is in the hands of the Nazis, will never surrender,” he said. “They will go on fighting to the last and will bring Germany down with them.” But even as he spoke, the American Ninth Army’s “hell on wheels” Second Armored Division was roiling across the Beriin plain with the Elbe river, the | capital’s last formidable water barrier, far behind it. A security blackout was thrown over the Second Armored Division following its crossing of tiie Elbe yesterday, but the American broadcasting station in Europe said the Americans were only 40 miles from

Berlin.

An even more spectacular report was broadcast by the Palis mdio and credited to another station which it identified as

“Voice of America.”

GIRL SCOUTS AID IN CLOTHING COLLECTION During Friday and Saturday Gfrl Scouts under the direction of the Tri Kappas and the Scout leaders will canvass the town to remind people of the United National Clothing Collection. The girls will, also, give information concerning this clothing drive. Additional people who are help ng with the drive are several persons who have been selected to have charge of the cL thing collection in the following towns: Fillmore, Miss Mabel Joseph; Reelsville, D. L. Mayle, Bainbridge, Lyman Newlin; Cloverdale, Donus Denny; Putnamvillc, liev. William McCord; Uussellville, Rev. L. L. Blckett. Collection centers in Greencastle are the churches, schools, and the posb ffice. However, if there are any persons who, due to illness or for other reasons, are unable to take clothing to the centers, they may call either Mrs. Joe McCord or Mrs. R. Beasley Moore and some provision will be made.

100 Killed In Oklahoma Storm

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., April 13—(UP)—An estimated 100 p-rsons were kill”.I and imire than 500 others were injured last nigh: when a tornado ripped across Noutliwestern OkLititonia, causing extensive damage and casualties la a half dozen communities. i There were at least 71 known d/vid and the toll was rising hourly us rescue workers ree.avored more bodies from (he ruins of wrecked Iioiucm and buildings. ,

QUINCY, 111., April 13 (UP) - A freak tornado tore through the downtown section of Quincy lust night, causing an • stimated $500,000 damage to business houses and Injuring at least 16

persons.

No deaths were reported Mayor Edward J. So.incldman said, but two persons found in the rubble of one building were This ver- injured serously.

sion said allied paratroops had landed near Brandenburg at a point only 16 miles west of Berlin and linked up with the Sec-

tnd Division.

The report was partly borne out by U. S. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson’s announcement in Washington that Amerii.ins at some points were within 75 miles from a junction with the Red Army. Brandenburg lies 75 miles southwest of Russian troops in the big bend of 'the Oder liver northeast of Ber-

lin.

Latest front dispatches from the Ninth Army front did not mention any opposition on approaches to Berlin and the ease with which its tanks forced the Elbe river some 60 miles away indicated the Nazi capital might fall after only a token de-

fense.

Ninety German divisions, probably the last sizeable operational force left in central Germany, were arrayed along the Oder river east of Berlin, but the • Nwi command obviously heslt-' ated to turn them west for fear, tl unleashing a mighty Russian tide. ! The next 24 to 48 hours should prove decisive. An American' break-thorugh to Berlin probab-!

ly would be followed quickly by! a junction with the Red Armyj Mrs. Harriet M. Burris, widow that would split Germany in two of the late J. B. Burris, passed and clinch victory In Europe for away Thursday afternoon at the the allies. j Putnam County hospital. She Max Krull, German DNB was seventy-four years of agi agency commentator, admitted and was a life-long resident of that the western front had been Clovcrdale. She had been in fa.lTht in two. In the “accepted ing health for some tirrte but entense of the word,” he said, the tered the hospital only the day western front no longer exists before her death. K has given way to two fronts Survivors included a daughter, c ’h8 in the northern and the Mrs. Christine Michael and her ether in southern Germany, he husband, iperry, and daughter

Hardly a building in th; business district escaped damage from the violent wind which ripped through the city at Uk.'ib J\ M. The tornado lasted about 20 minutes, leaving in its wake uprooted trees, shattered Juildings and broken power lines. The fact that the wind was conf.ned t , the business district kept casualties to a minimum

Schncldmsn said.

Most seriously damaged were St. Peter's church, which wae completely wrecked and three ol the city's hotels. The third story of the Fremont Hotel was caved i in and residents had to be movthe ( c( j ^ emergency quarters in the , armory. The wind also blew off j the dome of the county court-

house.

Coast guardsmen, state militia and auxiliary police wore called out to aid in the emergency and Gov. Dw glit H. Green ordered 100 militiamen from outside the i eity ta help in guarding the | many business houses ripped

, open by the wind.

Rites Saturday For Mrs. Burris

STATE MOURNS THE DEATH OF MR. ROOSEVELT FLAGS AT HALF MAS! OVER HOOFiER CAPITAL IN INDIANAPOLIS INDIANAPOLIS, April 13.— (UP)—Indiana mourned along with the nation and the world today the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Flags atop the statehouse flew at half mast and activities in Hoosicr government, business and political circles weie curtailed in the capital city and throughout the state as Governor Gates prepared to issue a proclamation culling for a period of mourning today. The governor and other Republican and Democratic leaders issued statements last night expressing the shock and sorrow with which tiie word of the President’s passing brought forth. “The death of the President of the United States comes at a time when the nation and all the nations of the world were looking to him for leadership,” Gates

said.

The sympathy of the citizens if the state was conveyed to Mrs. Roosevelt in a telegram which Gates sent last night. Henry F. Schricker, former Democratic governor of Indiana,

said:

“The terrible tragedy of the President’s death can hardly be comprehended so soon after his passing. Our nation and the world have suffered the loss of a great, if not the greatest ( .'lampion of the lights of the common man.”

President Returning From Yalta

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Simple Rites Planned for Mr. Roosevelt; Burial Sunday at Hyde Park

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Mr. Roosevelt was snapped ab vo as he returned to the White House from the recent hlstorie conference at Yalta with Josef Stalin and Winston Churchill, other members of the famous B g Three.

Mr. Roosevelt May Have Known End Was Near

Local Women Sutter Burns Mrs. Orville Stewart received severe burns about the face and hands Thursday evening at her home on Bloomington street, while attempting to light a gas beater. She is under a doctor's care. Miss Orin Acree was seriously burned at her home on Poplar street, Thursday afternoon whil. burning trash in a wire basket, which collapsed and fell causing her clothing to catch fire. Miss Lucy Howard, a neighbor, aided in extinguishing the fire 'iy throwing a coat around her. Miss Acree was then taken to the Putnam county hospital for treatment.

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Wallace Blue was Initiated into the local chapter of the Pnl Uelta Kappa fraternity. Mrs. C. J. Arnold was a vlsito* in Indianapolis. Dick Taylor was home from Purdue University. Mace Vermillion was in Martinsville on business.

I Amy Katharine, all of Cloveri dale, one sister, Mrs. Alden H. Hadley of Moorcsville, one niece

‘ and three nephews.

Funeral services will be held ' Sat irday afternoon at three o’clock at the Reed Funeral , Home in Clovcrdale. Burial will be in the CloverdaUi cemetery.

WOUNDED

Sgt. Arley V. Downs, Roachdale Route 2, has been reported wounded In action with the army [forces in the European area.

J. W. Hutcheson Called By Death James William Hutcheson, age 78, passed away in Lebanon, Indiana on Friday morning. Ill for several months, he had been living with a half-brother in Lebanon for the past six months. Mr. Hutcheson resided in Clove.'dalc until recently. He was well known in the southern part of Putnam county where he was ,i farmer until his retirement. His wife and only son proceeded 1 im in death. The body will be brought to Cloverdalo where the funeral services will be held at the Reed Funeral Homo on Sunday afternoon at 2:00 p. m. The Reverend Gilbert McCammaek will conduct the services at the RceJ Funeral Home. Burial will be in lhe Cloveidale cemetery.

HIGH SCHOOL HOLDS MEMORIAL SERVICES

Memorial services wore held in the high school auditorium Fiiday afternoon at three o'clock in respect to the memory of Frank1 n Delano Roosevelt. Dean Louis Dirks spoke briefly on the 'life and work of Mr. Roosevelt and a prayer was upoken by Rev. Cecil Fellers. The students then sang “America” closing the briej

impressive service.

HOG MARKET

Hogs 5,000; active, steady at celling; good and choice 160-400 and bulk 140-160 lbs. $14.80; 100140 lbs., $13.50-$14.50; good and

choice sows $14.05.

By Merriman Smith (Copyright, 1945, By U !’•) WARM SI RINGS, Ga., Aprii 13 (UP) D.d President Koose veil know that he was an ill man and that the time had come U husband his strength ? Many of us who saw him of ter and traveled with him believe hi

did.

There was nothing wrong wit!: him organically. But the tremon dous pressure of the tougher' j.ob on earth had begun to tal i its bill in nervous energy. This was first noticeable lari year after the Tehran conference. For two months he suffered from sinus trouble and bronchitis, anu it was then that he decided to go to Bernard M. Baruch's estate near Georgetown, S. C., and f.ght it out for himself. Ho was fighting more than bronchitis. He was, 1 think, trying to decide whether he a as able to go thiMugh the rigors of another presidential campaign. He thought he had won. He took it easy in South Carolina for a month and ca ne back to Washington, confident that he was in t p-top shape. But he did not snap back as he used to do. IPs voice was weaker, his tan faded faster and he began spending almost every week-end in the restful atmosphere of Hyde Park. Then came the fourth-term campaign, a terrific physical beating. He spent hours touring cities In an opei c:.r. often in miserable weather. He del.vered a speech at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn standing bare-headed in a old. driving rain. Next day at dy 1e 1'ariv he laughed jil those in his party who lisd the sniff'.-s and told them he feit

fine.

But ti- Yu'ts conference was ahead if hnv sel that tiip, I think. w*s a yerirus drain on his v.talitv. was probai ly th-; hard '.st 10 days he ever '.vent through in h's life On the s-'ip com ng back I saw more of :.:m than I b“d ever s en in the same length ef time. It seemed he had ag< :1 ten years in ten c. ’.vs He sat > !1 lay in the sun mi the boat trip back He hud lost weight, but h.' ref used to take it vorioilaly, said he ’ ould gain it bark at Warm Springe On ‘.'''irch 1 he made th & report in, own health in his spec ’h to Congress on the Yalta confer, nr ‘: “I hope you will pardon me for the unusual posture of sitting down during the presentation of what I wish to say, but I know you will realize that it makes it • a lot easier for me not having to carry about 10 pounds of steel around the bottom of my legs and also because of the fact that I have just completed a 14,000mile trip. “—1 am returning fiom this trip that took me so far, refreshed and Inspired. I wa-j well the entire time. I was not ill for a lecnr.! until I arrived oack in (Continued on Pave Two)

MAYOR ASKS FIVE' MINUTE PAUSE SAT.

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Whereas our nation is bowed in giief over the sudden passing of our beloved president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, we feel it fitting and pro|HT I hat Ihitnani county eitizens pay homage to his memory at 3 o'elock Saturday uflertion, the hour of his funeral in Washington, and Ihal all aetivilies tease lor a period of five minutes at that time. It would also lie filling that our city churches oimmi their doors al that hour for any and all who desire to gather In silent meditation to pay honor to our departed president and seek the. divine blessing lor our nation and its leaders in the trying days to come. Walter S. Ballard, Mayor of Greeneastlc. 30-Day Mourning By Armed Forces PARIS, Apr! 13 (UP) Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered a 30-day mourning period for American troops throughout the European theater today in memory of President Roosevelt. Eisenhower flashed back the order to supreme headquarters from the front, where he was conferring with his generals of the final phases of the battle of Germany. The battle was drawing to the end 1 ng ago envisioned by President Roosevelt. And ;t was under the direction of the man he picked to be supreme commander on the western front. Word of the death of the President spread rapidly through supreme headquarters and Paris, leaving sadness and grief in it ; wake. Gen. Charles De Gaulle, provisional president of France, cabled President Truman that the French government learned of Mr. Roosevelt's death with “gn at emotion and deep sadness.” He ordered flags lowered to half-staff throughout France.

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WILL BE HELD

WASHINGTON, April 13. (UP) United Nations will meet in San Francisco as scheduled on April 25, determined now to create as a memorial to Franklin D. Roosevelt a woild organization capable of keeping the

peace.

Mr. Roosevelt was one of the major architects of the new peace structure. His great collaborators Premier Josef Stalin and Prime Minister Wfhston Churchill described him on Itis death as the world leader in tiie cause of ensuring security for the whole

world.

To Stalin he was “a great pol-it-cian of world significance and a pioneer in the organization of 1 cace and security after the

war.”

To Churchill, whose friendship

New President l akes Up Duties , WASHINGTON, April 13.— (UP) President Harry S. Tinman took up the burden of the world's most powerful office to(.ay with a pledge to win the war liieit Franklin D. Roosevelt’s i.'adership had earned to the .erge of victory. Shocked as all others by news of Mr. Roosevelt’s death, the new President spoke his promise to the world a tew minutes after .aking the oath of office last

light.

“The world may be sure,” he aid, “that we will prosecute the wai on both floats, east and .vest, witli all the vigor we poaito a successful conclusion.” In simpler and considerably more forceful language he has (. (pressed the same thought many times before. “We’ve got to whip those so-

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with Mr. Roosevelt began at th :! ■ "''-hos,” he would tell you, /1lantic Charter meeting in the ‘ v,li l > em g 00 '!-’

GUAM, April 13 (UP)— The officers and men of the U. f. Pacific fleet will pay u wartime tribute to their late Commander- j

in-Chief. Memorial seivioes will | . . . , . . be held on nil ships and stations '»>

where war conditions permit, on

summer of 1941, he was “the world leader in the cause of freedom.” Mr. Roosevelt, who had done so much to pieparo tiie United Plates this time to t.ike its proper place in the new organization and to avoid the mistakes of 1920, had planned to address th oiiening session at San Francis CO. His sudden death will not de lay the conference. His name and his thoughts still will dominate the opening meeting. Representatives of the United Nations vowed within hours of his death that the memory of his vision, courage, statesmanship and leadership would inspire them in the task of building world peace.

fokyo Reports B-29s Overhead

(By United Press)

FoniMtinns of B-'’9 Superior I-

resses ralihxl Tokyo beginning about midnight Friday, tiie

Japanese radio reported.

Tokyo reported the slilke while it was in progress at 13:17 A. M-Salur-'ay (T >kyo time). Tin

the day of the President's funeral. Colors will fly at half-mast for 30 days.

Churchill Pays Tribute To FDR

LONDON, April 13-(UP) 'Prime Minister Churoliill to) Commons today that Presiden' Roosevelt's fr.cndship for th. cause of freedom an 1 “for th causes of the weak and the poo have won him Immortal re known.’’ After Churchill's brief spcecf the House adjourned out of re spect for the late President.

Conferences with army an i ...ivy leaders are understood to be high on the new President’s t;Bt today. White House Secicary Jonathan Daniels said Mr iTurnan would be on the job

early.

The new President took tho ath of office at 7:08 (EWT) last night on wotd from Warm Springs, Gu., that Mr. Roosevelt

was dead.

He asked Mr. Roosevelt's cabinet to “stay on” even before • idef Justice Harlan Fiske Stone administered the oath, which the iew President took in the White House cabinet room, his family

■ oking on.

Last night the Truman's slept in their five-room Connecticut Avenue apartment in northwest Washington. There they will remain a little while before niovug to the White I louse. But everything last night was beginning to change. The Secret Service gu ird j which hud been somewhat of a formality and a bit of an innovation, too was imposed in .:rrest. The modest man from Missouri was discovering himelf one of the world's great public figurea with responsibilities to watch. Gri at problems of : trulogy and state were piling up, not for another to determine,

1 ut for him.

His first decision tn'icr he look I he oath was that the San Fran-1 cisco World Security Conference I _

SPECIAL FUNERAL TRAIN LEFT WARXI SPRINGS THIS MORNING WASILNGTON, April 13 — (I P)—1 resident ’» rim in t day pic la: nej Su.Grday a> a liuy of no:;r.ling ;ml prayer thrmiylvnit Lie lulled Mates in resp-c to he late !'l.llikliti I). Rc/hcV dl. WARM SPRINGS, Gil , Apiil 13. (UP) Franklin D. Roosovelt left at 11 a. in., EWT today m his last journey to tiie White House. His body was placed in a copper-lined, mahogany ea.sket. Four servicemen stood watch ■s a guard of honor over him ;u • he special train that brought him here for a rest was prepared lor the sad return as a funeral cortege. The train will make a slow run 11 i Washington. It is scheduled to arrive in the capital's union station at 10 a. m. EWT tomor-

row.

Mrs. Roosevelt, bearing her sorrow bravely, flew here to make the sad journey with the body back to Washington. The President died al 4:35 p in. EWT yesterday of a cerebral heiuorihage that struck him ‘J 1 -.. hours earlier. Death came t > him in a small bedroom of “The Little White House” at the Warm Springs foundation, his •'other home.” He was 63. Those who arranged for the departure here made certain that the patients at Warm Springs like him victims of infantile paralysis would have a chance to say goodbye to th*' man who was their champion and inspiration. They arranged it so tiie procession to the train would drive slowly past Georgia Hall, the i.ittin budding of the foundation <>IT'! the ♦irrr’phiee the President always went when he came h re. The patients will be line 1 up in their wheel cnairs. Mr. Roosevelt had been in siowly failing health for more than a year, but no one knew that he was suffering from any nitical organic weakness. The lust foreshadowing of death came at about 2 p. m. EWT yea-

t-iday.

The President suddenly put bis hand to the back of his lv id end said lie had “a terrific headache.” They were the lost words • <• ever spoke. He fainted a few minutes later and never regaine I consciousness. The Roosevelt family was being summoned to Washington. Two sons now overseas will not I i able to attend the funeral I :. John and Lt. Coindr. FrankI n, Jr., botli in the navy but

United Press In San Francisco. “Formations ol 11-39 airerafl are now hovering over the Tokyo area in a night raid attempt,” j 25.

the unconfirmed enemy announ-! Mr. Roosevelt, at 03, had seiv

cement said.

llicir wives will h there. Other family members at the services will include Col. and Mrs. James Roosevelt and Brig. Gen. and yirs. Elliott Roosevelt. Elliott

i.: coming from Europe.

Until the burial, tiie President’s body will be guarded 24 hours a day by four sentries chosen from enlisted men of tha Navy, the Army and the Marin.’ | Corps. The sentries were posted at each of the four corners of the coffin and will be rotated ir

regular shifts.

! This was the only guard of ! honor planned now. There were no plans for the President to lu

jin state in Washington. The Rt. Rev. Angus Dunn,

Episcopal bishop of Washington. I the Rev. Howard S. Wilkinson of

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“Japanese fighlers and antiaircraft batteries are giving

| stimulated his desire to stay on.

hearty receptions to the invaders., j^ 0 0 tp er man hail served more

By midnight ten enemy planes | thun eignt years

were shot down.”

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6 Todays Weather 0 0 and O 0 Local Temperature 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Cloudy with scattered thund1 rstorms today and scattered i bowers tonight and Saturday.

cd 12 years, one month and eight days in the office whose cruel (xactions killed him, but also

Mr. Truman will be Cl on May Cooler tonight and Saturday.

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BUY PRIZE BEEF Elvln Harlan, of Greeneastlc,

Twice elected to the Sena(C j i after a career in Missouri poi-, ,, , . itlcs, Mr. Truman had been vice! purchased a second prize hull ati ulent on , y slnce „„„„ of last; the State Aberdeen-Angu.' Then , n tho 8equonce Breeders’ sale in Lafayette this | ( f a h( , urtbeat ye3terday> the lm . week. Leo Sumpter, of Russel!-i ...an from Missouri biville, bought a first prize cow. tamt , ^ head of the gl . eateBt David Grines, city also attended the sale. (Continued on Page 4)

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