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WASHINGTON, April 16—(JP)
—President Truman promised the
grand strategy of the war will re
man “unchanged, unhampered”
by his accession to the Presidency.
Making his first address to the
joint houses of Congress the new
President declared this nation
along with its allies must shoul
der “grave responsibility” in mak
ing secure the future peace. To
acomplish this objective Truman
said United States must join in
punishing those guilty of bringing
^on the war. “Lasting peace can
never be secured if we permit our
dangerous opponents to plot fu
ture wars with impunity in any
mountain retreat however dis
tant.” The President apparently
alluded to reports that Hitler may
attempt to seek refuge in the Ba
varian mountains,
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The armies liberation of today
is bringing an end to Hitler’s
ghastly threat to dominate the
world.” The President said “Tokyo
rocks under the weight of our
bombs.” The grand strategy of i
the United Nations has been de
termined is due in no small
means to the wisdom of our de
parted Commander in Chief. We
are now carrying out our part of
; that strategy under the able di
rection of Admiral Leahy, General
Marshall, Admiral King, General
Arnold, General Eisenhower, Ad
miral Nimitz and General Mac
Arthur. I want the entire world
to know this direction must and
will remain unchanged, unham
pered.
Speaking only one day after the
burial of Roosevelt, President
Truman paid high tribute to his
predecessor: “Tragic fate thrust
upon us a grave responsibility we
must carry on. Our devoted leader
never looked backward. He looked
forward and moved forward.
£hat is the way he moved and
what he would want us to do, and
that is what America will do."
Truman went to the capitol af
ter two early conferences on in
ternational affairs, the first with
Stettinius and the second with
Stettinius, Eden, and Halifax.
Long before the President ar
rived at the Capitol. Police and
secret service aea placed a care*
1&1 guard about the building. Only
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Bla_. v7ar Xaegr'i <Nar' Tokyo
e axi FRANCISCO. CALIF. — U. S. Navy Soundphoto — Here is one of first photos showing
American carrier based planes blasting Jap industrial targets near <Tokyo. The tail assembly of an
attacking plane frames the photo, with smoke rising from hits which struck the factory a few seconds
previously^ This scene is typical of the damage wrought on enemy war production as the mighty
rier strike rocked the Tokyo area.
holders of special cards of admis-1
sion were allowed in the House
gallery where the joint session
was held.
Speaking from the rostrum
where he heard Roosevelt on
March first describe the accom
plishments at Yalta, Truman said
the American policy remained
“unconditional surrender,” de
claring the nation is “deeply con
scious” that much hard fighting
remains. The President said “hav
ing paid such a heavy price to
make complete victory certain i
America never can become party j
to any plan of partial victory. Wej
must not traffic in breaches of
peace on terms of peace.”
BASEBALL
Coast League
FRIDAY'S GAMES
Oakland 0, San Diego 2; Port
land 7, San Francisco 4; Seattle 7,
Hollywood 5; Sacramento 1, Los
Angeles 0.
SUNDAY GAMES
Portland 5, 0; San Francisco 1,
2; Sacramento 5, 0; Los Angeles
1, 3; San Diego 3, 4; Oakland 2, 3;
Seattle 10, 14; Hollywood 3, 4. I
Superfortresses
400 In Number
Blast Tokyo
GUAM, April 16—(fP)—Another
four hundred Superfortresses
rained incendiaries early this
morning on Tokyo and found the
city still burning from last Satur
day’s fire raid, which burned out
ten and three-quarters square
miles. Reconnaissance photo
graphs showed that 296,000,000
square feet in Tokyo’s arsenal
area had been burned out Satur
day, bringing to twenty-seven and
a half square miles of area defin
itely credited to incendiary raids
on Tokyo up to March tenth.
Saturday’s fires swept over
twice the target area including
the prized Itabashi arsenal. Jap
an’s communique conceded to
day’s raid started “considerable
number of fires.” Radio Tokyo
admitted some of them burned
for seven hours. The enemy com
munique claimed, without con
firmation, fifty-five Superfort
resses were shot down and fifty
damaged.
Kawasaki the industrial subur
ban joining Tokyo on the south
was the second target. It is the
ninth largest city in Japan and
shares with Tokyo and Yokahamaj
railroads, highways, power sys
tem, communications network.
The three cities combined form a
twenty-five mile long built-up
area along the western shore of
Tokyo bay. Pilots returing from
today’s raid said they saw many
fires still fuming from their visit
forty-eight hours before. Today’s;
holacaust was visible one hun
dred fifty miles away. That is the'
farthest distance Yank fliers have
reported seeing flames on any of
their raids. j
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Russians Open
Huge Offensive
On Eastern Front
LONDON, April 16—(&)—'The
German command announced that
the Russians have launched the
long awaited large scale offensive
from the east side German waist
at Berlin. The high command de
clared that the big Soviet steam
roller swung into action along a
sixty-mile front from the mouth
of the Neisse southeast of Berlin
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U. S. Third Army
Almost Bisect
Germany
PARIS, April 16—UP)—Th*
Third Army infantry advanced to
within eight miles of Czechoslo
vakia and virtually bisected Ger
many whose western front is al
ready split into northern aad
southern commands. The Ger
mans rushed troops and tanka
from the eastern front to Bertha
to oppose the grave threat to their
ruined capital forty-five mile*
from the Ninth Army elements acfr
Madgeburg.
Three Nazi visisions stamped
out the original Elbe river bridge
head at Madgeburg, but another
east bank salient at Barby deep
ened four miles to within fifty
three miles of Berlin on the open.
Brandenburg plain.
Some three thousand Germans
surrendered by the order of thei*
commander on the eastern seg
ment and severed the Ruhr poc
ket. Correspondent Don White
head said “strongest possibility
that both sections of the Ruhr
pocket will be liquidated today."
Already 146,349 German prison
ers have been counted from the
Ruhr with hundreds more filing
into prison cages from the indis
trial region.
The British opened their as
sault on Bremen and moved to
withfn two and a half miles of the
port. United States Third Army
besieged the big Saxony center of
Chemnitz from the same distance
while the First Army tightened
its grip on Leipzig and cleared
the northern third of Salle, fight
ing to within two miles of Desiau
fifty-two miles southwest of Ber
lin.
Canadians and Poles reached
the North Sea within five miles
of Emden, pocketing perhaps two
hundred thousand Germans. The
First and Ninth armies formed
another trap in the Harz moun
tians of three hundred fifty miles.
Third Army troops are seventy
five miles or so from the Russian
lines southwest of Berlin. Enemy
said the junction is imminent