G. 0. P, Senators
Pledge Faith in
New President
J WASHINGTON, April 13.
AP) The Republican senate
onferenee representing 40 of the
.body's 96 members pledged their
"faith and trust" in president
Truman today. .
. They gave their pledge as
erief-stricken eongressinal lead
ers cancelled routine business and
met Instead to arrange memorial
services to the memory or prcsi
dent Roosevelt.
This Is the resolution the re-
publicans adopted at an emergen
cy meeting calico an nour Deiore
the senate met for the first time
In the Truman administration:
"In this critical and sorrowing
hour when you are called to the
supreme responsibility of the re
public, we send you this expres
sion of our faith and trust in you
and the assurance of our sustain
ing prayers."
"We shall cooperate with you
. for the winning of the war and
a successful peace at home and
abroad. We have directed a com
mittee to call upon you at your
convenience to advise with you."
Their expression of unity was
telegraphed to the new president
' St the White House. The message
was signed by senator Vanden-
berg of Michigan, conference
' chairman, and Senator Burton of
Ohio, secretary.
Vienna Falls to Reds
; After Eight-Day Battle
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75 miles from the Bavarian bor
der. ,
Russian 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, Czecho
slovakia, which Is 68 mile north
of Vienna, after cutting last life
lines between the two cities.
Berlin reported a general nazl
withdrawal west of Vienna to
ward Berchtesgaden, Hitler's
mountain hideout.
Graz Now Red Goal
South of Vienna Tolbukhin's
Third Ukraine army slabbed into
the' Austrian Alps foothills on a
28-mile front, taking 40 towns
on the roads to Graz Austria's
second city. Simultaneously Mar
shal Malinovsky's Second Ukraine
army advanced on the east and
GIGANTIC
HORSE AUCTION
OPENING SALE OF THE
SEASON AT THE
Dave Brown Horse Ranch
Miles E. Goshen, On Hiway SB,
8 Miles 8. E. of Eugene, Oregon
Sunday. April 15 1 p. m,
ThU sale Is being held for
the purpose of getting horse
lovers of the Northwest to
gether. You will find quality
nt this sale, sucn noises s;
Rainbow-Whirlwind
Registered American saddle
stock, brouaht to this valley by
Fred Stlckley, has sired some
of the finest colts In the west,
Beau i Boy -
Registered by American Re
mount .'ssoclatlon In the Kale-
Bred Stud Book. A Chestnut
Stud Colt.
1 6-vear-old Arabian Stud
1 Clydesdale 8 yr. old Stud
Younq's Silver Allen, Tennes
see Walking Horse and sev
eral Palamino Studs and
Mares will be on exhibit.
Kentucky-Bred Stock
1 8-year-old Bay Gelding,
"Sandy"
1 Black 6-year-old Gelding
1 Grey Gelding
1 Bay Gelding
1 Black 7-vear-old Mare
1 Bay Coir
1 Brown Colt
All Saddle Broke
SO Head of Eastern Oregon
range stock of Saddle Horse
type, partially broke by
Indians.
Farm & Logqinq Horses
1 Grey team, 3,400 lbs., in
excellent condition, ready
to go
1 Grey team. 3.000 lbs.
1 Bay team, 2,800 lbs.
1 Sorrel Gelding, work or
ride
1 Bay, Stock Saddle Mare
1 Iron Grey team, 3 years
old
1 Iron Grey Gelding, 6 years
old
1 Bay Gelding, 4 years old
1 Black Geldina, 8 years old
1 Black Mare, 3 years old
40 odd work horses
Several Teams of Mules.
15 New Saddles for men,
women and child, en. Bridles.
Spurs, Blankets, Shapps will
be on display.
1 English Saddle.
10 Used Western Saddles.
It will be remembered that
Dave Brown, the man sponsor
ing this Sale, was the leader
last year In developing the first
Junior Rodeo In the North
west, also organized the first
4-H Horse and Colt club in
Oregon. Mr. Brown's Interest
in the boys and girls club has
been highly appreciated.
Dave Brown, Owner
Terms Cash
Westley Flint of Eugene,
Auctioneer
K. A. Ddnstrom of Cresweli,
Auctioneer
Gus DeVos, Clerk
Lunch Served All Day by
Goshen Grange.
west banks of the Moravia river
toward Bruenn.
One thin escape gap now re
mains for the Germans In Vienna.
It Is along a railroad runnln"
northwest from the city, but Mos
cow said early todav that this,
too, was under heavy Russian ar
tillery fire. .
The nazis have suffered terrific
losses lit the Vienna fighting,
with 4.000 officers and men killed
yesterday, the Russians said.
Zero Hour For Berlin Nears
Russian artillery hammered
German defensive positions along
the Oder and aerial reconnais
sance indicated that the zero
hour was near for a new Rus
sian lunoe on Berlin, but the in
mense soviet ground forces were
not vet on the move.
German milllarv commentators
always prompt to report kus
sinn activity on the Berlin front
said oniv that massive Russian
concentrations along the Oder
were ready or nearly ready for
attack.
Truman Regrets
Barriers Created
By His Hew Job
Bv ERNEST B. VACCARO
WASHINGTON, April 13
(AP) Harry S. Truman asked
me today to let his old friends
know that his sudden elevation to
the presidency hadn't changed his
neighborly spirit.
If he can't get together infor
mally with his pals especially
the boys of the old 129th with
which he served during the first
World war it's because of the
duties of his new lob and not be
cause Truman wants It that way.
The president asked me to pass
that word along as we rode to
the While House this morning
from his modest Connecticut ave
enuo apartment.
"You know, if I could have my
way," the new president said, and
there was a plaintive note in his
voice, 'I'd have them all come in
wihout knocking."
The door to Truman's vice pres
idential office at the capitol was
always wide open and people
came in droves to shake his hand
reporters, old war "buddies
and countless others.
There were always school kids,
privates, yeomen, and folk of
everv description.
"I'm going to miss all of that,"
Mr. Truman said.
And he meant it, for President
Truman likes people. He enjoys
talking and Joking wltn them.
This morning I was standing
In the driveway at the rear of
his apartment house when he
came down to enter an automo
bile guarded by the secret serv
ice. President Truman spotted me,
anil waved me over.
"Come on in, Tony," ho said,
"Let's get started."
That's the kind of a fellow he
Is.
Roosevelt Funeral
Services May be
Broadcast to U.S.
First word of President Roose
velt's death came to Roseburg
over KRNR's radio wire teletype
at 2:54 p. m., Thursday, and Just
.J seconds after the news was
flashed to local listeners. Follow
ing the- Initial shock, of the news
and during the short interim
thereafter frequent flashes of
news and additional details were
made. Shortly1 before 4 n. m..
KRNR suspended Its entire com
mercial announcement and pro
gram schedule and released only
the programs originating from
the Mutual Don Lee network.
It is likely that no resumption
of regular programs or commer
cial nnonuncements will occur
until Monday morning. The sta
tion will make emergency an
nouncements when necessary to
meet any local crisis or specific
situation. Listeners may tele
phone No. 4 to report such an
nouncements. Although definite word has
not yet been received, it is be
lieved that the complete funeral
services on Saturday afternoon
will he released in a broadcast
over all networks, under the
auspices of the Ministerial asso
ciation In Roseburir. the Preshv-
icrian rnurcn win open Its doors
at 12:45 and set up a radio re
ceiver for the broadcast of the
services, j he church will be open
to all who wish to listen. Serv
ices will originate in Hyde Park.
New York, at 4 p. m., EWT
u:uu p. m. I'aciitc war time).
UNCLE SAM TO
HAND OUT 44,200,050
EXTRA RED POINTS
The greatest windfall of extra"
led points ever Is going this
month, and each mouth follow
ing, to American housewives
throughout Uie country.
44 million extra red polnts,"p-1
proximately, will be handed out
by meat dealers to customers who
turn In used fats in a great Vlc-
tory drive for Uils essential ot
medicines, gunpowder, synthetic
j rubber, soaps, palms and a hun-
' dred other necessities on the
battlefield and bomo front. For
each pound of fats turned In. "
every housewife is entitled to 2
ltd points.
The need for used fats Is still
Urgent. Women are urged to save
very drop, every spoonful of
grease possible and keep saving
until final Victory over both
Germany and Japan.
Faraday Club at R. H. S.
Exhibits Experiments
Professor Clyde H. Beard of
l.lnlleid college ana former prin
cipal of Roseburg Senior High
school spoke to a Senior High
assembly yesterday afternoon.
After Ids talk, which emphasized
tlie breadth of opportunity lor
today's youth and the importance
of higher education, the i-'araday
eiuo exhibited a group oi ex
periments.
Diana Dye Introduced the mem-
bers of the club and Lowell
Noble and Robert Denton dem
onstrated electric heat and arcs.
The next experiment was per
formed by Eugenia Wolsk and
Lowell Noble, who produced
smoke rings and Diana Dye
created a minor explosion using
phosphorus and a solution of
sodium hydroxide.
Yankee Ninth Within 90
Miles of Russian Lines
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un to the stream.
Diilsburo Captured
Far behind the advanced front.
Duisburg, great river port in the
Rush valley pocket and Ger
many's 14th city, fell to the
Ninth armv.
The U. S. First army was clos-
Ine in from the northwest on
Leipzig under a security news
blacKout.
A front dispatch said "the vir
tual complete disappearance of
the German air force over the
Third army front appeared to
substantiate reports ot a luit
waffe revolt."
"The war cannot last much
longer, nazl ProDaganda Min
ister Goebbels declared mourn-
fullv. "We have sunk very low,"
and a Stockholm dispatch quoted
a Berlin renort that Germans
there believed allied tanks would
enter the nazl capital within the
next few davs."
Behind Lt. Gen.. Simpson's
Ninth armv aovance. Brunswick
and Magdeburg, last large cities
on the approaches to Berlin, were
besieged and toppling.
Lt. Gen Patton's Third army
drove past captured Weimar, the
geagraphical center oi the reicn,
cutting numerous roads to the
enemy's Bavarian Alps fortress.
Near Leipzig and across the Saale
river patton's tanKs were a
miles from Dresden. Saxony cap!
tal threatened bv the Russians.
Erfurt, Germany's 24th city, has
fallen.
To the south the Seventh army
was 25 miles from Bavreuth and
29 from the nazl shrine city of
Nuernberg.
While the U. S. First and Third
onerated under partial news
blackouts, the Canadians In the
north crashed Into Arnhem, Hoi
land, where British parachutists
were cut up last fall and the
British continued the siege of
Bremen, me British sreond army
was battling slowlv uo the last
50 miles toward Hamburg, Ger
many s second city unci her great
est port. :. .
Truman Now President
Following Roosevelt's
Death at Warm Springs
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mler Stalin, whom he knows not
at nil. -
Domestic problems could be
nushed aside temoorarily too, left
to a cabinet that stays on now,
but mav see some changes later.
To the (10-year-old, new presi
dent fell the Immediate and sor
rowful task of burying a chief ex
ecutive for whom he had bound
less admiration and unfaltering
lovalty.
Mrs. Roosevelt Acts Bravely
Mrs. Roosevelt, at a charily lien-
efit, received the news of her hus-
bands death by telephone. With
out a word she went to the White
House. The call went out for Mr.
Truman. He rushed there with a
hastily assembled secret service
escort.
His first words to Mrs. Roose
velt were of her and the four
Roosevelt sons. Mrs. Roosevelt
had sent them a message that
tbelr father had slept away. He
did his Job to the end as lie would
have them do, she said.
"What can I do?" asked the
new president.
Tell us what we con do. ' Mrs.
Roosevelt replied bravely. "Is
there any way we can help you?"
Outside on the street, a nulet.
unbelieving crowd gathered
quickly. Confused and dazed.
hundreds stood in Lafayette Park.
across trom the White House
Open Play
Every
Tuesday, Friday
Saturday and
Sunday
WE
HAVE PIN SETTERS
o
Roseburg
Bowling Alley
square, far inlo thp flight,
Acsurances Heartening
To the fighting men there was
reassurance In the later Truman
statement: -
'The world may be sgre that
we will prosecute the war on boih
fronts, past and west, with all the
vigor we possess, to a successful
conclusion."
To (lie allied and neutral world
there also was hope in declara
tion by Stephen Early, a White
House secretary, that Mr. Tru
man "wants to say that It will
be his effort to carry on as he
believes the president would have
done and to that end he has asked
the cabinet to stay on Willi him."
United nations leaders took
heart, too, at Mr. Truman's de
cision that the San Francisco con
ference go on without delay.
Major Questions Arise
These things were fairly tan
gible, but there remained a thou
sand questions to be answered
only by time. Some of these:
Will Mr. Truman continue In
definitely without alteration Mr.
Roosevelt's foreign policies? The
new president's intimates think
there will be slight, if any, chang
es in over-all policy.
Can he acquire the background
to meet soon such pressing issues
as raised in connection with the
projected new coalition govern
ment in Poland?
Will he, a world war. artillery
officer who wanted to get into
this tight but was advised to stay
on the job in the senate, want a
strong hand in determining mili
tary strategy? Most observers
think the purely military deci
sions will remain in the hands ot
Marshall and King. .
Will he hold a domestic course
"a little left of center," as Presi
dent Roosevelt described it?
Is Harry Hopkins out as inter
national and domestic advisor?
Few think he will have much fu
ture White House influence. They
believe men like former War Mo-
bilizer James F. Byrnes, who flew
to Washington trom Spartanburg,
S. C, to offer his help, will be
consulted.
Will Truman be more able than
his predecessor to get desired leg
islation through congress? Pres
ident Roosevelt had his troubles
in late years. Truman knows the
value of compromise.
Support Pledges Come
While these and kindred ques
tions concerned the nation and
the world, there came pledges of
support for the new chief execu
tive, mixed with grief at the
death of the old.
Expressions of sympathy and
ONE OF
3D
c
grief came from far and wide In
this, country.
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New
York, Mr. Roosevelt's opponent
in last year's presidential cam
paign, said Mr. Roosevelt would
be mourned- as "a human being
of warm human qualities and
great capacities."
There came, too, pledges of sup.
port for Mr. Truman's regime.
Said Senate Democratic Lead
er Baikley (Ky): "We've got to
help the new president all we
can." Senator Wheeler (D.-Mont.)
who criticized Mr. Roosevelt's for
eign policies, said: "I think Mr.
Truman will make a good presi
dent." The Chicago TribunP, also crit
ical of Mr. Roosevelt's dealings
with other nations, said editorial
ly of Mr. Truman: "He will re
ceive the supDort of nil of us."
Thus the former Kansas City
haberdashery clerk who became
a county judge and then climbed
to the senate with the support
of Missouri's Tom Pcmlergast
pops into the White House with
the nation's best wishes.
The German radio said Mr.
Roosevelt would go down in his
tory as the man on whoso insti
gation the present war turned
into a second World war." Thp
Japanese radio told only of his
death.
U. S. Destroyer Sunk by
Japs in Suicide Attack
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eludes 14 combatant ships and
974 non-combatant.
Battle Still In Deadlock
Nimitz identified four more di
visions In action on Oknawa, all
units of the Tenth armv. 'lite
Sixth and First marine divisions
continued their lightlv opposed
northward advance. Elements of
the veteran 27th (midwestern)
and 96th (New York) divisions
apparently are deadlocked with
the 7th division against powerful
NOTICE
U. of O. Mothers club tea
changed from Umpqua Hotel
to Len B. Fishback home at
corner of 3. Kane and E. Lane
streets from 2:30 to 4:30 Satur
day, April 14. Public invited.
Even though your electric service
was already your biggest household
bargain, your electricity is now.
cheaper than ever. Copco's residen
tial customers get twice as much
electricity for their electrical dollar
as Mr. Average American Citizen
get for his.
While other living costs move up
ward and almost everything else in
your home has increased in cost
your residential electric rates are cut
$165,000 a year.
AMERICA'S BUSINESS -MANAGED ELECTRIC COMPANIES
Nipponese defeases on southern
Ukinawa.
A Japanese communique as
serted that In ten days 6,300
Americans have been killed or
wounded, and 185 armored units
and 79 planes knocked out.
In the central Philippines the
American division Invaded Bohol
island, touted-a small enemy gar
rison near ragmiaran and pusnea
rapidly inland to join guerrillas
who control most of the island.
Other Yanks tightened a trap
on southern Luzon.
China Sea Cleared
Less than half a dozen small
Japanese ships were hit by Philip
pine bombers patrolling the
China coast sea tanes, wnicn uen.
MaeArthur reported were vir
tually deserted.
Mustangs escorting the Super-
forts over Tokyo yesterday shot
down Jl and probably 12' more
interceptors.
Tokyo acknowledged tHat Ja
pan's indefatigable truck card-
ners were preparing to plant
vegetables in B-29 devastated
areas of downtown Tokyo. The
Japanese cabinet, preparing for
an. invasion of the homeland, ap
proved emergency measures for
organizing a fighting civilian
corps and assigning these units
to battle stations.
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