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Newspaper Page Texto E mite f o rain) I TO Weather Data for 24-hour period ending at 7 a. m. Temperatures: Maximum 49 Minimum 31 Forecast: Partly cloudy with possible showers tonight and Sunday. ESTABLISHED 1S96 Nation Pays Homage As Last Rites are Held for Roosevelt THE WHITE HOUSE, Washington, April 14 (UP) An Episcopal funeral ritual for Franklin D. Roosevelt was read over his flag-draped casket today in the flowev-bnnUed east room of the White House. i The solemn service for the dead was spoken in the presence of President Truman, Mrs. Roosevelt, members of the Roose velt family, the leaders of the government and representa tives of foreign states. Among them was Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, who flew from London. It was the last rite in the nation's capital for the man who through 12 years, one month and eight days of peace and war had led his country longer than any other man since the founding of the republic. Japanese Premier Extends Sympathy To People Of U. S. By United Press Japanese Premier Admiral Kantaro Suzuki has extended his "profound sympathy" to the American people on the death of President Roosevelt, the Japanese Domei agency said today. An English-language d i s patch reported by the FCC quoted Suzuki as telling a Dome! corerspondent: "I must admit Roosevelt's leadership has been very effec tive and has been responsible for the Americans', advantage ous position today. For that reason I can easily understand the great loss his passing means to the American people and my profound sympathy goes to them." : Domei. reported that Suzuki "candidly" said, however, that he did not expect America's war efforts against Japan to! change because of the presi dent's death. School Leaders Meet Here For Area Conferences School superintendents of east ern Oregon counties today at tended a meeting called by Rex Putnam, state superintendent of public instruction, at Eastern Oregon college, to hear reports by Dr. Roben J. Maaske and Miss Maurine Laber on the White Mouse conference on rural educa tion. Dr. Maaske, president of the local college, who was a delegate to the conference, spoke briefly, giving reports on the conference. Miss Laber, president of Oregon state teachers association, spoke on "Follow Up Meets Held in Oregon on the White House Con ference." Mrs. Lucy Rogers, superintend ent in Morrow county, this after noon was to lead a discussion on "Next Steps application in east ern Oregon counties." The superintendents also were to join the school principals this afternoon in Ackerman school to hear Dr. James Millar, Oregon council of churches, speak on "Tasks in Our Times." Principals Meet Meeting coincidentally in the Ackerman school were approxi mately 35 persons at a regional conference of elementary school principals, held under the auspi ces of the department of ele See SCHOOLS . . . Page 7 Fire Started by U. S. Bombers Spreads to Hirohito's Palace GUAM, April 14 (UP) Hundreds of superfortresses set fire to a five-square-mile arsenal area of Tokyo today and the Japanese reported the flames spread to the Mikado's palace. (Tokyo broadcasters said Emperor Hirohito and his fam ily were unharmed, but they denounced the bombing as an "atrocious action" prompted by American "disappointment" uver the death of President Roosevelt). , A Tokyo communfcftie said the fires broke out in'part of thejiuiWjngs within theCin penul pmace, the Omiya pal ace and the Asasaha dctncrnfj) palace tut "were soon dis- (d) tinguishfifi The main building and sane iuary of the Grand Meiji 9". i 2 f The piesietonts body arrived just before 10 a.m. today from Warm Springs, Ga., and was borne through the streets of Washington in a mile-long mili tary procession. Citizens by tens of thousands lined Constitution avenue and gathered around the White House for a last look at tilt shrouded. military caisson on which the casket was pulled by six gray horses, with a seventh as lead horse. Simplicity Marks Ceremony It was a wartime ceremony, simple, quiet and solemn. Picked detachments of the armored for ces escorted the cortege. Police estimated the crowd which watched the funeral pro cession at between 300,000 and 400,000, one of the greatest in the capital's hisloiy. Tonight the funeral train will steam north to the president's beloved Hyde Park estate. There ainid the rolling acres where he was most happy, his body will be placed to rest on Sunday morning . , ... . i.. . In the old east room of the White House, where Dolly Mad ison once hung the presidential washing, the solemn words of the Episcopal ritual were in toned by the Kt. Rev. Angus Dun, bishop of the Diocese of Wash ington. Sea Hymn Opens Service First there was a hymn, one of those the president had sung since boyhood, ringing out its tones in his strong, vibrant voice. It was "Travelers by Sea and Land" a hymn of the sea, in harmony with the president's love of sails and salt. Then the opening words of the ritual: "I am the resurrection and the life ... I know that my redeemer liveth . . . The Lord gave and th-3 Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord." The Rev. John G. Magec of St. John's church read the fortv See NATION . . . Page 7 Clubs Will Join , For Peace Address The Lion's club, the Rotary club, the Soroptimist club and the Neighborhood club will meet for a noon luncheon in joint ses sion Monday in the basement of the lOOF hall, to hear a discus fion on the Dumbarton Oaks pro posals and the world security con lerenee in San Francisco. This meeting will take the place of the weekly luncheon meetings of the clubs. The speaker will be Dr. James Millar, field representative of the Oregon council of churches, who has mad? a study of the Dumbar ton Oaks proposals. shrine, one of Japan's greatest memorials, was "burned to ashes," the communique said. Omiya palace, adjoining the Imperial palace, is the resi flence of the Empress dowager. Explosions from the huge fires that ripped through the vital war production area of Tokyo were heard more than 100 miles away. Thousands of tor.s of high explosives,., and inc-ndiari.s'i were riumjied on the Japanese capital ;,fj a section congested (ith three large ibr.nitions tjj.irifj and chomical worksY Huge ffrys blazed furit '"' through trie target arcan one (p) Japan's most vital wai pro duction centers, as the wariQ' anas-Dascct u - via s-compieiij -complek-d I the 16th raid on vneiSy I capital. LA (iKANl)K. tnMlinwitft!r-- tA-j& I TRUMAN' BECOMES PRESIDENT As his wife and daughter, Margaret, look on, Harry S. Tru man, lakes the oath as 32nd president of the United States. It was administered Thursday in the White House by Chief Justice Harlan Stono of the United Slates Supreme court. La Grande Pays Silent Tribute To Memory of Great President Requicscat in peace. May he rest in Peace This phrase in many variations was in the minds and on the lips of a services were conducted in the executive mansion in the nation's capital for Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In La Grande, as in hamlet and metropolis alike throughout the land, and on the battlefronts of the world and on ships at sea, Americans turned their thoughts to the departed president the friend of the "forgotten man." For ten minutes business was halted as this city's merchants, their staffs and patrons paused in silent meditation who but a few hours ago was called unex pectedly by his maker. Special memorial services were conducted in thousands of churches and movie houses, and other places of entertainment joined in wholesale shutdowns out of respect to Mr. Roosevelt., War plants throughout the nation, urged by the war pro duction board to continue opera tion as their tribute, planned peiiods of silence of three to five minutes at the start of the Wash ington service. In Chicago, New York ai.d Hol lywood all transportation facili ties paused for one minute, and the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. observed a 30 sec ond pause in all communications at that time. Financial houses in the major cities stispended operations for the day. Commercial and busi ness houses in New York and other large cities also closed down. Muvio production in Hol lywood was suspended until Monday. - Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York was joined by other gov ernors in proclaiming a 30-day j mourning period with flags at half-staff. Vice Admiral Emory i Sec LA GRANDE . . . Pago 7 American Forces Close In On Japs In Baguio Area MANILA, April 14 (UP) Elements of the 33rd division pushed within th rep milf'S tnH:tv I of Baguio in northern Luron. once the Japanese headquarters in the Philippines. The American troops batt -n-d through mountain terrain and against determined enemy re. sistance to capture Mount Cal auag, last high point overlook ing the city, former Philippim-s capital. At the same time other Amer ican forces continued to foice antaci a?i,inst stubborn 0 posi- tmn ii I Balete the mountains s-iulh of Pass. Japanese etiL" wnute into the Cagayan valifv of , j.northc-!...rn Ltis'.n. Guv lx. ig -! lias MocArthur'g rnmirmmquc- iaid num.rvii.'i erfrry infiiira- I t'Wn r-aitii s wore !tetrtd,:in.WnM iivMing of riv 'h my(SSHJQH (fw. Qrf,'e OMr.fr.uniq' tmjth4Vlt6 (o mak'U afiy, subsjantW. hat Jtvo Aoig-icacoHnyover a,.-s ftmJna-ir asrW.' sP( th. apia? their Japroj esO inO.i0..n I e.u n, wrwc ine Ame rican (WXi- sion had gainoa control of BJol I island in the central Philippines. I t'!!!!!;M!!!i;!:i:i';ijjHi.-,Hi,f,!!!?!!i ww i.1UIU UMUui iaUltO! iUMIUIi Union end Wallowa Covn'ti OUKUON SATURDAY EVENlNfi, APRIL II, li) 15 sorrowing nation today as funeral ! Roads In Three States Blocked -By Big Snowstorm CHEYENNE, Wyo April 1-1 (UP) A "typical" April blizzard swept across parts of Wyoming, Colorado and Nebraska today, blocking roads in Wyoming with snow as much as 22 inches deep in some places and endangering livestock. Wyoming had the heaviest snowfall. Twenty-inches was re ported at Lander, 10 at Douglas and 14 at Casper where 35 per sons were reported stranded at a night club 12 miles from the city. The snowfall decreased as the storm spread south and eastward, with four inches reported at Den ver and one inch at Sydney. Nebr. The storm, accompanied by high winds, covered an area 300 miles long along the continental divide and extended eastward about 150 miles. The weather bureau said the storm would last throughout most of the day. CASPER, Wyo., April (UP) Twenty-year-old Dorothy Taylor, weather observer at the Ward well airfield 10 miles north of here, and two other airport of ficials, have been stranded on duty since Thursday afternoon by one of the worst early spring blizzards to have swept this sec tion in many years. Efforts to rescue the trio were unsuccessful yesterday , becaus--of heavy drifts blocked roads. Miss Taylor has kept in con tact with the Casper weather station. She said there is ample ; food and fuel for herself, Il.'tnv j Salisbury, station manager fi 1 Western Air Lines, and Sigmund Piolrowski, radio operator for j the CAA. Naha Defenders Slow Up Marines GUAM, April 14 (UP) Troops of three army divibions !nltl 'i slowly through southern Okin awa today after turning back a strong Japanese counter - alt jt'k Uf'tig the Naha defense line. Tilt- .Vtark wa made hv b," jtwrtn nWi aii'i 7Vl Japanese and : Utur nrni.oi iu.n of tnom we)'' in the futile, attempt t;. th'tclr h Ax 'Mian diiw. eVlhoieh e.oimd artJIerv Sad h P&vv pAVal L'ons 'nntiniu.d m' t nMln inaw;SWviT, moving ahead on Motobu p sula and Ishikawa isthmus against ineffective resistance. a n v ua . l,B'l IM-IKr Veterans Advised Against Immediate Farm Purchases Recommendations that return ing veterans who are inexper ienced in agriculture be discour aged from purchasing farms were approved at a joint meeting of the Union county veterans ad visory committee and the county loan certification committee at a ! joint meeting Thursday night in the city hall in Union. It was the sense of the meet ing that there is little chianec for an experienced man to make a success in agriculture, and that it would be better for a veteran desiring to engage in this in dustry to lease a farm or obtain employment with a successful farmer for a year or more and learn the fundamentals of farm ing and whether they are suited for this type of work. In neither event, it was point ed out, the benefits of the GI Bill of Rights would be avail able to the veteran for purchase of farm machinery and livestock. Educational Loans Urged It was the consensus that vet erans with no farm experience be urged to take advantage of the provisions of the bill for edu cational purposes. County Agent R. W. Schaad read and discussed the report of the advisory committee, and Freeman Dull of the Farm secur ity administration told of the work of the certification com mittee, through which veterans' applications for loans for farm purchases must be cleared. Hugh Hulse, chairman of the advisory committee presided. Other members of the advisory group are: James Wilson of North Powder, Henry Hermann, Island City, Thco. Edvalsen and Morton DL-vir of Union, and Schaad. On the c.rMiS' -mIim! committee are Dull, S. E. Starr, Harry Schwcbke, Irnbler, Lee Childers of Cove and George Tiss of La Grande. Attack Launched In Bordeaux Area LONDON, April - 14 (UP) About 1.150 U. S. heavy bombers attacked the German pocket on the Gironde estuary northwest of Eoideaux today and supreme headquarters in Paris- said troops under French Gen. Edgar De Larminat opened a limited atlack in that area. United Press Correspondent Joseph W. Grigg filed a dispatch j nounced today by A. I!. Olson, from the GiroiKle area which said co-chairman of llnf general c4m tho attack was aimed at open- paign committee, ing up the waterway t' the P-ort j He announced that Alb,ntHop of llurdeaux, blockaded by the . kin's, school superintendent at German pocket since the swefp I ftTibler, is the 'thill! matfJfor iHat across, France last fall. ' community anif tOiat jrnjtciving A 'renrovship w;narl bscurefi I the status1--'! i ,,r -v..:. ... .i: tit ) lf)tu'd it. iftiilR no parti Piri iifleire ,.7i;),s i (Kin,:.'! Lo(k)n sources said ) nsor released the dispatch pre- lu(ot.'. (2) Ihiee and a half hours oftyt-J its denial, SHEAF said a ljmil(' attack began in an unspecified sector of the Gironde area. ' FIVE CENTS New Political Era Expected With Truman WASHINGTON, April 14 (UP) Despite invitations to the Roosevelt cabinet to "stay on," Washington observers today fore see a new political era dawning and a time of new political stars. Franklin Delano Roosevelt is still dominant here, even In death. Bui this is his last ap- WASHINGTON, Apr iY" 14 (UP) President Truman pledged his whole-hearted sup port today to the good neigh bor policy developed by Presi dent Roosevelt. In a message to the Pan Am erican union, read by Secretary of State Edward R. Steitinius, Jr., Mr. Truman revealed that Mr. Roosevelt had prepared a message to the Pan American union for today's Pan American day observance. pearance in Washington. Presi dent Harry S. Truman joined to day in the rites for the man who last July decided that he should have his chance to be vice presi dent of the United Stutes. After tomorrow, the complex ion of this government will begin to change as the mun from Mis souri and his men take over. "Cabinet Government" Expected There is talk already of "going back to cabinet government." That means a cabinet of stronger men on the average than Mr. Roosevelt was accustomed to have around him. They would be men who would expect to participate more fully In forming policy than the late president sometimes permitted his official councillors to do. The unofficial cabinet will change too, in time, and Mr. Truman will have his own men around him. Fundamental Aim Remains Fundamental in the policies of the Truman administration as in See NEW POLITICAL . . . Page 8 Japs Are Pounded In Three-way Blow In Burma Area CALCUTTA, April 14 (UP) The Allies continued the war against Japanese in the Burma theater by land, sea and air to day. The triple offensive resulted in the sinking of several coastal vessels in the Andaman sea, the entering of Hlaingdet by troops in the Meiktila area and wide spread destruction by bombings throughount Burma. The unspecified number of Japanese coasters were sunk in a continuation of the anti-shipping sweep which caused the destruc tion of a Japanese convoy by the East Indies fleet in the latter half of March. Prior to the naval battle the British fleet bombed Sigli and the Port of Blair in the Andaman islands west of the lower coast of Burma. Shore installations were also tombarded at Great Coco island, north of the Andamans. The entering of Hlaingdet, eight miles east of Thazi, by Hoops of the 14th army opened the way for a drive eastward along the road leading into the Shan states. Three Communities Join In Clothing Collection Drive Participation of the communi ties of Imhlor, Elgin and Sum inervilN" in the United national clothing collection was an- station has been etftiblisned in u.. Jui.. -..U....I Mrs. W. II. volhns, Summer ville chairman, announced clivth- ing may be deposited at the Sun im- mC(ille grocery. The campaign in Elgin is spon sored by the Women's improve ment club, with Mrs. W. V. Con nor and Mrs, Bernal Hug as co-chairmen. 9th Army Reported Hours AwayFroml Battered Capital LONDON, April 11 (UP) A radio Luxembourg bi'oadraHt said today that American tank spearheads have driven to within 13 miles of Berlin. PARIS, April 14 (UP) Three American armies ripped almost at will through the German defenses before Berlin, Leipzig-, and Dresden today in an all-out drive for a juncture with the Red army that might collapse the crumbling weS macht. A rigid military security blackout cloaked the progress -of the ninth army's second armored and 83rd infantry' divisions beyond the Elbe, but London boiled with rumors that an entry into Berlin was perhaps only hours away. ' . ABSIE, the American broadcasting station in Europe, said the ninth army march into Berlin was expected ; imminently. . ,. Dispatches from the black-out ninth army front said doughboys of the 83rd infantry division burst across the Elbe at Barby, IS miles southeast of Magdeburg and 57 miles southwest of Berlin. v. The Yanks were reported closing up fast in the wake of the second armored divisions, whose tank columns crossed the river at an undisclosed point between Barby and Magde burg '18 hours ago. Headquarters reiused to con firm reports that the American spearheads were barely 13 miles west of the wrecked enemy cap ital, but sensational London re ports said Britain had been alert ed for imminent news of tre- LONDON. April 14 (UP) Private advices from Lisbon today said the papal nunciature there received a confidential note on March 31 saying that Adolf Hitler and his generals had decided to capitulate. The unconfirmed Lisbon re port said Hitler and his gen erals met, discussed capitula tion, decided for It, and to re quest Pope Pius' Intervention to arrange the details. Rumors had circulated pre viously thai Hitler had met with his generals, but they lacked confirmation. mendous importance possibly an entry into Berlin, a link-up with the Red army, Gorman cap itulation, or all three. Hard-driving tank columns of the American first and third armies cut the reich in two with a series of thrusts that carried forward 30 miles and n'loro in a matter of hours. The drivers sev ered the main escape roads south ward from Berlin to Hitler's See BERLIN . . . Page 8 Fire And Wreck DisriiDt Traffic On S. F. Bay Bridge SAN FRANCISCO, April 14 (UP) Rail and motor traffic was resumed today over the eightmile San Francisco-Oakland Bay bridge after fire on the low er deck charred two miles of railroad ties and tied up trans bay commuters for hours lu.,t night. The fire is believed to have been caused by a short circuit on a third rail. Britain Is Alert as 'Great Events' Loom LONDON, April 14 (UP).. Britain was torn today between mourning the death of Presi dent Roosevelt and a mounting tension fed by persistent and thinly veiled hints in the press that the formal end of the war in Europe might come at any time. Prime Minister Churchill was described as persuaded by the possible imminence of great event to cancel the pre paration of a plane and spe cially picked crew to take him to the United Stales for Mr. Roosevelt's funeral. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden was commissioned in Goebbels Sees Hopes on Hitler y United Press - Propaganda Minister; Joseph Goebbels tacitly resigned til's) fate of Germany today in thcQ hands $.1 theQavtor'-rfiilf Hitler. O In ajK iijl'fvK'wOwith the .. m.,...o V ...,,.,. r-,,K- Qiels admitted that (CjjimanO V(BS)at theTioint of exhaustion andjh (h vei)0istence of theGci (gn nation wiffMlircat eneiL "I know that our nation is now engaged to the paint of exhaustion but I also know for certain that our savior, Fuehrer Hitler, will find a way out of this dilemma for all of us," Goebbels said. Great Drive Is Launched By Red Army LONDON, April 14 (UP)-r The Gorman radio said tonight that Russian troops were with: in 26 miles of Berlin while th Russian communique claimed the forcing of the Traisen river had placed Red army troops 125 miles east of Berchtes; gaden. ... LONDON, April 14 (UP) The German Transoccan news agency said today that Red Army troops scored a deep breach in the nazl defenses around Sankt Polten, 31 miles west of Vienna and 132 miles from Berchtesgaden. ' ' Other nazi broadcasts said to day Red armies were opening a general offensive on a 300-mile front arching across Germany less than 30 miles from Berlin and 00 from the American Third army. Soviet forces of the southeast ern front were sweeping across Austria and Moravia in a race with the nazis for the Bavarian redoubt. Their pace was speeded by the fall of Vienna and a cross ing of the Morava river before Brno. j " An official Russian communi que broadcast by Moscow radio. ....!J ,1. . TJ I , 1 . t I sam ine neu army naa captured Lidice, Czechoslovakian "town of death" where the Nazis murdered the entire male population in re prisal for the assassination of "Hangman Reinhardt Heydrick, German protector of Bohemia Moravia. The entire town of Lidice was See RUSSIAN . . . Page 7 stead to represent the British government. Early today an announcement said he had de-. parted by plane for the United States. Churchill ordered arrange ments made for a flight to America, Broadbent said. A America, Broadbeint said. A Churchill awoke in the morn Ing, he still intended to fly to the United Stutes. But within r few hours urgent dispatches from the front reached him, Broadbent said. He cancelled the plant for the trip because he decided that important de cisions might be required of him at any moment. End Near, Pins and Civilians The A ti p a1 ft o e". broadcast, heard by Ui(hed PrVssHn San Francisco, c(0)itecPfi,.hbels as pying tt thotteVman ped p should rcsiS the Allied offijnjiivpi by their own efforts and not Vely upon their army. 01'he prospgi'.s of the German resistance have been reduced by the recent loss of territories and the most pressing problem now is how to save the threat ened existence of the German people themselves," he said, "All Germans should prepare themselves to stake their lives for this end . . . This resistance must be national not only ot the armed forces but the re sistance of the whole people."