# PRESIDENT HARRY S. TRUMAN
"I pledge: ONE—That I will try to carry on as President
Roosevelt would have done. TWO—The San Francisco United
Nations conference will go on as scheduled, April 25. THREE—
Have asked the Roosevelt Cabinet to stay with me. FOUR—The
war will be pressed to a successful conclusion."
PRES. ROOSEVELT DIES
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dent looked thin and hagard. Mrs.
Roosevelt said she also felt he
was too thin and said the Presi
dent had been taking only gruel
for several days.
When death became known
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several hundred people gathered
outside the iron railing around
the Whitehouse grounds.
He will be buried from his
Hyde Park home for which he
said last year all that was within
him cried out for.
Vice President Truman was
sworn in as the thirty-second
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STALIN TERMS ROOSE
VELT ORGANIZER
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1 row. The Soviet people highly
i valued President Roosevelt as a
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i great organizer of their struggles
^ of freedom-loving nations against
! their common enmey and as a
| leader in the cause of ensuring
J security in the whole world.
Signed, Josef Stalin.”
Stalin also sent a separate note
' to President Truman, “On behalf
of the Soviet Government and
! myself personally.” Message said
! “I express our profound condol
I ences to the Government of the
j United States of America on the
occasion of the premature death
of President Roosevelt. The Amer
ican people and the United Na
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tions lost in the death of Frank
lin Roosevelt a great politician of
world significance who pioneered
the organization of peace security
after the war. The Government of
the Soviet Union expresses sin
cere sympathy to th/e American
people in their great loss. Their
conViction that the policy of
friendship between the great pow
ers who are shouldering the main
burden of war against their com
mon enemy will continue in the
future.” Signed Josef Stalin.
President of the United States at
7:09 p.m. eastern war time. With
his hand on a small black bible
whose pages were edged with red,
he repeated the oath after Chief
Justice Harlan Stone, with his
wife and her daughter standing
at his left. Then he shook hands
with the group around him. All
were solemn-faced and many
with red eyes.
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Americans Rapidly
Advancing Across
Germany
PARIS, April 13—C/P)—Ameri
can Ninth Army pressed to within
48 miles of Berlin in a 69 mile
armored dash to Tangermuende
outflanking Denmark, Hamburg
and Lubeck in a swift advance to
Tangermuende where the Nazis
announced they had blown Elbe
river bridges plcaed the Ninth
Army within 93 miles of Russian
lines facing Berlin from the East.
The Third Army in the center
beat down the last eighteen miles
ot the great Saxony city of Leip
zig in a drive east to bisect Ger
many and join the Russians and
bar access from the north to Na
tional Redoubt Bavarian Alps.
Germans said American tanks
are fighting in Halle, fifteen miles
1 from Leipzig after bypassing the
i medieval cathedral city of Mers
! burg. Simpsons Ninth Army
closed pu to the Elbe along a
ninety-five mile front. His Hell on
Wheels armored division crossed
the river in the Magdeburg sector
j yesterday putting tanks on the
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last fifty-seven unbroken miles
leading to Berlin. The Fifth Ar
mored Division reached the river
at Seehuasen. The Eighty-Third
closed up to the stream at Barby,
outflanking Magdeburg fourteen
miles northwest of Barby and fif
ty-eight miles southwest of Ber
lin. Merseburg lies on Salle, trib
utary of the Elbe sixteen miles
due west of Leipzig. The Ameri
can Third Army on southwest ap
proaches stormed to within eight
een miles of Leipzig and fought
into the streets of Jena coming
within thirty-four miles of bi
secting Germany in a thrust to
the Czechoslovak border. The
British continued their siege of
Bremen and fought slowly up the
last fifty miles toward Hamburg,
Germany’s greatest port. Canadi
ans crashed into the Dutch city of
Arnhem where hopes of an earlier
Allied victory were killed last fall
by the defeat of the British First
Parachute Division.
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