R.OOSEVE
Cerebral Hemorrhage
Brings Sudden Ending
. At Warm Springs, Ga.
Warm Spring, Ga., April 12. (UP) Franklin
D. Roosevelt, president for 12 of the most momentous
years in this country's history, died suddenly at 3:35
p. m. (CWT) in a small room in the "little white
house." . ?
Mr. Roosevelt had been in Warm Springs which
he liked to call his "second home" since March 30.
The week preceding he had spent at his home in Hyde
Park, N. Y.
He was 63 years of age and served ai president longer than
any other American.
With the president at the time of his death was Cmdr. Howard
G. Breunn. who was on the staff of Vice Adm, Ross T. Mclntyre.
the president's personal physician.
SECRETARY GIVES SAO NEWS
News of Mr. Roosevelt's death came from Secretary William D.
Hassett. He called in three press association reporters who had ac
companied the president here and said:
"It is my sad duty to inform' you that the president died at 3:35
of a cerebral hemorrhage."
Simultaneously the news was telephoned to the White House in
Washington and announced there too. '
In Washington the cabinet was immediately' convened in
emergency session at the Whits House with Vice President Harry
S. Truman, who will become the nation's new president.
The president, 63, had spent a leisurely two weeks' in Warm
Springs. At no time was there any indication that he was sick,
beyond the fact that he had not made his usual visits to the Warm
Springs swimming pool, where in 1924 he began his life-long battle
to overcome withering effects of infantile paralysis.
Almost daily during his stay the president took long automobile
rides in the soft Georgia spring sun and had been keeping up
constantly with developments In Washington and abroad by tele
phone and through official papers flown to him every morning.
On April 5 the president conferred for a day with President
Sergio Osmena of the Philippine commonwealth. He told Osmena
that he hoped the Philippine independence would be restored far
in advance of the congressional statutory date of July 4, 1946.
At the conference with Osmena Mr. Roosevlt reaffirmed his
firm lntontlon to see that Japan and all of her mandates would
be under complete allied control and policing for an indefinite
period after the war ends.
IN GAY SPIRITS AT LAST MEETING
The occasion of his meeting with Osmena on April S was the last
time the three wire service reporters accompanying the president
saw him to talk to for any length of time.
He was in gay spirits then and chatted lightly as he sat behind
paper-laden card table, waving his long cigarat holder jauntily
and wisecracking with the reporters.
At that time the president had a good suntan, but his face was
unusually drawn and there was evidence of a slight cough.
But he did not look or act like a man who was going to die
In week.
This morning the president followed his usual routine of han
dling paper work that had Just arrived from Washington.
White House Secretary Stephen T. Early announced in Wash
ington that funeral services will be held in the east room of the
White House Saturday afternoon. Burial will be at the president's
Hyde Park, N. Y., estate on Sunday afternoon.
In Washington, where the news of the president's death at first
produced shocked disbelief, officials immediately wondered what
effect the tragedy would have on the many domestic and interna
tional projects the president was guiding.
Whether It would cause postponement of the United Nations
security conference at San Francisco remained to be seen. No one
knew in the confusion of the tragic moment. -
CONFERENCE CLOSEST TO HEART
But the conference was perhaps the project closest to the presi
dent's heart, and there was some belief that In tribute to him the
United Nations would carry it through.
Here In peaceful Warm Springs, Dr. Bruenn said that at 9:30
a. m. today the president was "in excellent spirits" and showed no
evidence whatever of feeling badly.
Shortly before 1 p. m. the president was sitting for sketches to
be made by an artist.
At about 1 o'clock the president, according to Bruenn, suddenly
complained of a "very severe occipital headache." This Is a head
ache in the back of the head.
About 1:15 the president lost consciousness and Bruenn was
with him by 1:30.
NEVER REGAINED CONSCIOUSNESS
The president never regained consciousness and died without
pain at 3:35.
After his attack Bruenn had quickly called Adm. Mclntyre In
Washington and Mclntyre in turn called Dr. James P. Paulin of
Atlanta, an Internal medical specialist and honorary consultant to
the surgeon general. '
Paulin rushed to Warm Springs and was with Bruenn and Lt.
Cmdr. George Fox in the president's bedroom when the chief execu
tive died.
In the little white house, but not in the president's bedroom,
were two of his cousins who had been in Warm Springs with him.
Miss Margaret Buckley and Miss Laura Delano, and also Grace
Tully, the president's private secretary, and Hassett
MASSIVE HEMORRHAGE CAUSE
The doctors described the cause of Mr. Roosevelt's death as a
"massive cerebral hemorrhage."
The tiny community that makes up Warm Springs was plunged
quickly Into deep gloom by the death of Its literal patron saint.
The president at 4:30 o'clock was to have gone to the mountain
side cottage of Frank Allcorn, the mayor of Warm Springs, for an
old-fashioned late afternoon barbeque.
As the president died, country fiddlers were en the mountain
side by Ailcorn's cottage testing out their violin and planning
what they were going to play for the president.
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Washington. April 12 (U.R)
Vice President Harry S. Tru
man, before taking the oath of
office as 32nd president of the
United States, announced to
day that he had asked the
late Franklin D. Roosevelt's
statement in the House of
cabinet to remain in office.
London, Friday, April 12
(U.R) Great Britain received
the news of President Roose
velt's death shortly before
midnight as a shock of stagger
ing degree from Prime Minis
ter Winston Churchill's en
tourage to the man in the
street.
Albany, April 12 (U.R)
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, 1944
Republican presidential nomi
nee, said late today President
Roosevelt's deaih will be
"mourned by all of the free
dom loving people of the en
tire world."
Washington, April 12 (U.R)
Mrs. Franklin D. Roose
velt today was faced with the
unhappy task of telling her
four sons in the armed forces.
White House Secretary
Stephen T. Early said the sense
of he. message was that the
president slipped away this
afternoon.
He did his job to the end
(the message said) as he would
want you to do. Bless you all
and all our love.
Early said Mrs, Roosevelt
signed the message, "Mother."
London, April 12 (U.R)
Prime Minister Winston
Churchill's secretary, informed
by the United Press late tv
night of President Roosevelt's
death, exclaimed "good lord!"
He said he would advise the
Prime Minister at once but did
not expect a public statement
until Churchill made a formal
Commons probably tomorrow.
NHS OF DEATH
Mcdford and Jackson county
residents were stunned this, af
ternoon when the nation's news
services flashed word at shortly
before three o clock that Presi
dent Roosevelt had died at Warm
Springs, Ga. As the word
spread, all ordinary tasks were
dropped and shocked persons
gathered in groups to discuss the
momentous news.
Since ordinary news sources
had had no slightest indication
In recent day that the president
was not well, the news came as
the greatest surprise to every
one. No other piece of informa
tion not even the capitulation
of Germany or Japan, could
have brought such instant and
widespread reaction.
Within three minutes after
first word of the unexpected
death was on the Mail Tribune's
United Press leased wire tele
phones began a constant ringing
as subscribers called to check
the news.
Only hint which news staff
workers had of any unusual oc
curence was a note on the United
Press wires last week that the
president would not hold his
usual weekly press conference
but that no mention was to be
made of this. Such notices have
been carried in the past preced
ing announcements that the
president had left the capital for
trips around the nation or
abroad.
ANTI-TRUST SUIT FILED
AGAINST WESTINGHOUSE
Washington, April 12 (U.R)
The Justice department an
nounced that it filed a civil anti
trust suit today against Westing
house Electrical and Manufac
turing Co., charging it with
maintaining restrictive interna
tional cartel agreements with
two German firms.
The department said the suit
was filed in federal district
court at Newark. N. J. In addi
tion to VVestinghouse, the suit
also charged Westinghouse Inter
national with participating In
the cartel agreements.
San Francisco, April 12 (U.R)
Bobby Johnson, outstanding
bantamweight flRher of the early
nineties and trainer of the San
Francisco baseball team, died
yesterday after a lingering Ill
ness of xthma and heart trou
ble. He was 60. .
"Hell on Wiieels" Outfit Storms Over Elbe
In Home -Stretch Drive on Doomed Berlin;
Russians Start From Oder River Bridgehead
MASSED TO HEAD
Long-Delayed. Sweep Be
lieved Touched Off; Reds
Aim at Berchtesgaden.
London, April 12 (U.R) Mos
cow reported today that violent
fighting had blazed up in the red
army's Oder river bridgehead on
tne approaches to Berlin as
American mobile forces raced
toward the Nazi capital from the
west.
"Soviet troops are waging
fierce battles beyond the Odei
on me approaches to Berlin," a
Moscow broadcast said.
The report Indicated that Mar
shal Gregory K. - Zhukov had
lighted the fuse of his long
brewing . push agalmt Berlin
synchronizing it with the U, S
ninth army drive to squeeze the
heart of Nazidom in a nut
cracker,
Due East of Berlin
Zhukov's reported, onslaught
hit the German defenses in the
Oder valley about 30 miles due
east of Berlin. There he had
massed In his bridgehead across
the order a great array of Soviet
troops and arms. Only yester
day formidable forces of Cossack
cavalry were reported on the
move, evidently into positions to
spearhead a lightning sweep
westward.
The Soviet high command
never officially reported the
Oder crossing in front of Berlin
But Berlin and Moscow re
ports have made it evident that
Zhukov has won a springboard
beyond the river for the climac
tic assault, now apparently be
ginning. The Germans reported last
night that their army had lost
Klessin, on the Berlin side of
the Oder, 33 miles east of the
capital.
Aim At Berchtesgaden
In the Danube valley west of
virtually-conquered Vienna, an
other red army push was aimed
at Berchtesgaden and the Bavar
Ian Alps, touted as a sanctuary
for the Nazi hlerachy.
Soviet armor was reported fat
up the Danube from Vienna and
a Nazi commentator, Lt. Col
Alfred von Olberg, bluntly ad
mitted that the Germans were
retreating In Austria.
Von Olberg said that stiff re
sistance between the Danube
and Drava in Austria "merely
screens disengaging movements
of the German formations which
are falling back toward the
northwest."
5 TONS CLOTHING
Approximately five tons of
old clothing '.a., been turned In
for .he United National clothing
drive in Medford, according to
Junior chamber of commerce of
ficials. The national quota has
been set at five pounds per per
son which makes a county quota
of nearly 123 tons.
Junior chamber officials said
men':, clothing dominate- the
contributions. Final pickup from
the street receptacles will dc
made Monday. In the meantime,
donations may be left at Hum
phrey Motors, Fichtner's Garage
street boxes, or at the Holland
Hotel after the receiving depot
have been closed at night
Schools will end their drive Fri
day night, Supt. E. H. Hedrick
Mid.
MEDFORD, 0T v A, THURSDAY, APRIL 12,1945
OVER 400 B-29'S
I WAR PLANTS
IN T0KY0REGI0N
One of Largest -Air Fleets
Hit at Japan From Land
Bases; Fighters Join In.
By United Press
An American aerial armada
of 400 or more B-29 Superfort
resses and fighters blasted today
at Japanese war plants In the
Tikyo area and at Koriayama
110 miles north.
The fleet, possibly the largest
yet hurled at Japan from land
bases, split over the enemy home
land, with half bombing the
Musashlna aircraft plant in
Nakajima, a Tokyo suburb.
The rest attacked aircraft
plants and a power plant at
Korlyama.
" Fighters Join In . "
The B-29's, striking their 15th
major blow in the Tokyo area
flew 3, BOO miles in the round
trip between their Marianas
oases and Korlyama. Mustang
fighters joined the group from
Iwo, 750 miles south of Tokyo. ,
While the aerial campaign
was being renewed, American
invasion forces on southern
Okinawa remained stalled for
the fourth day by heavy Japa
nese artillery and mortar fire
from defensive positions tout
miles north of the capital Naha
Marine forces to the north
continued advances on Ishiwaka
peninsula.
A Japanese Domel dispatch
reported by the FCC, said about
BO American carrier planes raid
ed Formosa off the southwestern
tip of the Ryukyus for about two
h.urs today.
Radio Tokyo said an allied
task force which Included the
British battleship Queen Eliza
Doth and anothei believed to be
the French battleship Richelieu
attacked Sabang on an island off
northwest Sumatra in the Jap
anese-occupied Dutch East In
dies. It was the first report of a
major French vessel partlclpat
inc in Pacific war operations.
Tsugen Occupied
Admiral Chester W. Nlmltz
announced that American trjops
naa completed occupation of
Tsugen island off southwest
Okinawa, controlling the en
trnnse to Nakagushku bay,
Nimltz disclosed that Ameri
can casualties in the first nine
days of the Okinawa campaign
were 432 killed, 2,103 wounded
and 180 missing. The count of
Japanese dead through Sun-lay
was 8,009. '
In the Philippines, units of the
first cavalry division drove 14
miles through disorganized Jap
anese resistance to secure a sec
ond toolhold on the east coast of
Luzon.
5 DIE IN BLAST, FIRE
IN PLASTIC FACTORY
Des Moines, la., April 12.
(U.R) Five persons, two of them
women, were dead today as the
result of an explosion and fin
that destroyed the Super Pro
ducts Co. plant.
The dead were Identified as
Thomas Carmlchacl, Mildred
Peterson, Mont Walters, Bill
Marshman end Margaret Mc
Dannell.
JOIN UNITED NATIONS
Washington. April 12. ttl.R!
Secretary of State Edward R
Stcttinlus, Jr., today welcomed
Syria, Lebanon, and Audi
Arabia Into the ranks of the
United Nations and praised them
for their contributions to the
war effort.
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London, April 12 (U.R)
Stockholm reports said today
that Adolf Hitler and his hench
men personally would lead the
Nazis In their armageddon at
Leipzig, throwing all their se
cret weapons and possibly poison
gas Into a climatic battle to the
death.
The Stockholm Tldnlngen
quoted military sources In Ber
lin is saying that the final de
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cisive battle of Germany would
ba fought on the historic Napo
leonic bsttlcfli-ld at Leipzig.
Hitler, high party members
and Nazi Gauleiters or district
leaders Intend to die with Ger
many on the Usl battlefield, Uie
unconfirmed Stockholm report
said.
PRINCESS TRAINS
ATS Training Center, South
ern England, April 12. Ol.PJ
Princess Elizabeth has nearly
completed her training course is
i driver and, issociatet said to
day, she can change wheel or
grease truck with the best of
them.
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3 OTHER ARES
SURGE EASTWARD
ON EITHER SIDE
Less Than 100 Miles Separ
ates Russian and Yanfc
Forces In Pincer Tactics.
London, April IS (U.R)
The frequently unreliable ra
dio Paris said tonight that ac
cording to unconfirmed reports
Allied troops have dropped by
parachute IB miles from Ber
lin. Paris, April 12 (U.R) U. S.
Ninth Army Mobile Forces broke
across the Elbe river at Magde
burg today and raced for Ber
lin, which lay only 49 miles or
less ahead of the rampaging
"Hell on Wheels'" Second Ar
mored Division by unofficial ac
count. Three other Allied Armlee
were surging eastward on either
side of Lt. Gen. William H. Simp
son's lightning columns, chop
ping deeper by the hour into the
Weimar, Germany. April 12
(U.R)Welmar, cradle of the
German republic which Adolf
Hitler smashed in his rise to
power, surrendered today te
the men of Lt. Gen. George 8.
Patton's third army who en
tered the city and completed
Its occupation at 10:30 a. m.
The 80th Infantry division
occupied Weimar which had
surrendered to the Americana
despite desperate orders issued
only today by Gestapo Chief
Hslnrlch Hlmmltr that no
town or city of Germany was
to surrender on pain of death
to German officials.
waistline of unoccupied Cer
many, already less than 100 miles
wide between the Russian and
American forces.
26-Mile Advance
The U. S. First and Third Arm
lea advanced up to 28 miles along
a linked front aimed at Leipzig
and Hallo. Lt. Gen. George S.
Patton's Third Army armor
broke across the Saale river at
several points and to the north
the Ninth Armored Division of
Lt. Gen. Courtney II. Hodges'
First Army reached the Sanle at
Naumbcrg, 23 miles southwest
of Leipzig,
Berlin reported that Patton's
left wing had swung up to Lich
tenberg, 10 miles from the Czech
frontier, 70 miles northeast ot
Nuernberg and 40 miles south
east of Jena.
On the north end of the Berlin-bound
front, Scottish troops
of the British Second Army took
th lead. They captured Cello
on the Aller river and speared
within 130 miles of Berlin.
First Army front reports said
the Ninth Armored Division set
the pace for Hodges' men. It
dashed forward 26 miles from
Its bivouac of last night to the
Naumberg area, 121 miles from
the Red Army lines across the
German corridor.
Front dispatches said the First
Army rolled up impressive gains
along Its entire front and was
finding virtually no resistance.
The Third End Ninth Armored
Divisions were spearheading the
First Army push. The Third
picked up 22 miles since last
night, pushing beyond Sanger
hausen, 10 miles west of Eisle
ben and 23 miles from Halle.
Third Army reports said that
despite a blackout on locations,
it could be revealed that ele
ments of both the Fourth and
Sixth Armored Divisions crossed
the Saale rive- at several points
In the JeravNaumberg ares. They
pressed on end reached the rim
ot the Berlin plain at undis
closed points.