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3d Army Flanks
Nuernberg in
New Advances
1st Army 55 Miles
From Berlin; 9th
Crosses Elbe Anew
BULLETINS.
WITH THE UNITED STATES
3d ARMY <£*).—'The 3d Army’s
90th Infantry Division today
reached a point 18 miles from
the Czechoslovak border as
the 4th Armored Division
drove to a point within 7 miles
of Chemnitz.
LONDON <.47.—ABSIE, the
American station in Europe
which beams propaganda
broadcasts to the continent,
said today the 9th Army’s en- j
try into Berlin was “immi- ;
nent.” The station explained, |
however, that this statement j
was based on the broad pic- j
ture drawn from front-line !
dispatches.
(Map on Pape .4-9.1
Ey 1 he Associated Press.
PARIS, April 14.—Lt. Gen.
George S. Patton's 3d Army to
day advanced 15 miles, out
flanked the Nazi shrine city of
Nuernberg and entered Bayreuth,
German center of 41,000.
Bayreuth, scene of Wagnerian
music festivals, is 124 miles north
of Munich and 173 miles from Hit
ler's mountain home at Berchtes
gaden.
Other American forces to the
north besieged Leipzig, while still |
further north the 9th Army won a j
second crossing over the Elbe River
and-fought slowly forward on the
outer approaches of Berlin.
In the center, the 1st Army closed
within 55 miles southwest of Berlin,
widening the siege arc being fash
ioned around the capital by the 9th
Army to the west and the Russians
to the east.
A 30-mile dash by the 3d Armored
Division carried within three miles
of Dessau, a city of 120,732, where
the Mulde River meets the Elbe.
Arnhem Captured.
the Canadians seized Arnhem,
11th city of Holland and populated
by 89,000.
The French took Kehl, across the
Rhine from Strasbourg, and 50
other places, including Buehl, Ac
hern. Reystadt, Gamhurst and Ot
terswier, plus "enormous quantities
of material’’ and prisoners so nu
merous they could not be imme
diately counted.
The Americans on the southern
front by-passed Leipzig and tight
ened the siege arc around the great
Saxony city where 1,000,000 German
civilians have been reported await
ing the Americans. The closest
troops were reported 4 miles away.
To all practical purposes, Ger
many was virtually bisected for the
last direct communications from
Berlin south—including the super
highway to Munich—were cut.
The 1st and 9th Armies virtually
eliminated the Ruhr pocket, taking
114,000 prisoners from the 150,000
originally estimated trapped.
Dortmund Captured.
The 9th Army captured Dort
mund, second largest city of the
Ruhr and 11th largest in Germany.
Its 537,000 peacetime residents
worked in the great coal mines over
which the city sprawled and in its
vast steel and iron mills and syn
thetic oil plants. The city was an
important traffic center, but was a
ruin from bomb and shell.
The 1st Army captured the indus
trial center of Luedenschied (popu
lation 50,000) and came within 2Vi
miles of cutting the Ruhr pocket in
two near Hagen, menaced on the
north by the 9th Army.
The nearest 9th Army troops last
were reported 45 miles from Berlin.
Those east of the Elbe were encoun
tering profuse fire from flak bat
teries guarding the capital and
making slow progress on the flat
Brandenburg Plain.
Third Army troops were 88 miles
or less from Russian lines and with
in 23 miles of the Czechoslovakia
frontier. Their drive across South
east Germany to within 10 miles
northwest of the Saxony industrial
city of Chemnitz (335,000) carried
One additional man from
the District area has been re
ported killed in this war. See
"On the Honor Roll.” Page A-2.
(See WESTERN FRONT, Page A-4)
Holdout Germans
At Bordeaux Hit
By 1,150 Bombers
Big American Attack
Follows RAF Blow
At Kiel Navy Base
ry the Associated Press.
LONDON. April 14—A force of
1,150 American heavy bombers
made a surprise attack at dawn
today on German strong points
and antiaircraft positions on
both sides of the Gironde Estu
ary north of the French Atlantic
port of Bordeaux.
This is one of a half dozen iso
lated places along the French coast
where Germans estimated to total
170.000 are still holding out.
The bombing fleets dropped 3.500
tons of explosives through clear
skies in a two-hour attack which
started soon after daybreak. Con
crete fortresses, troop concentra
tions and largely silent anti-aircraft
batteries were among the targets
struck in the area around Royan.
Unescorted, the bombers met no
fighters.
Some time later supreme head
quarters announced that French
(See AERIAL, Page A-6.)
New Drives Mounted
By Russians After
Capture ot Vienna
Offensives Aimed at
Prague and Germans'
Mountain Defenses
BULLETIN.
LONDON (£*>. — Marshal
Gregory K. Zhukov’s 1st White
Russian Army is attacking
toward Berlin from Oder
River bridgeheads at Frank
furt and Kuestrin, 38 miles
east of Berlin, the Berlin ra
dio said tonight. Nazi Com
mentator Ernst von Hammer,
who made the report, said the
attacks were “in regimental
strength” and were prepara
tory rather than an all-out
frontal assault.
Ey the Associated Press.
LONDON, April 14.—Powerful
Russian forces, released by the
fall of Vienna, mounted new
drives today aimed at Prague
and the Nazis’ mountain fortifi
cations in Southern Germany.
At the same time every sign in
dicated that four massive Russian
Army groups were approaching the
zero hour for the drive against
German divisions massed on the
eastern front from Silesia to the
Baltic.
The Austrian capital on the
Danube fell yesterday to the com
bined weight of the 2d and 3d
Ukrainian Armies under Marshals
Rodion Y. Malinovsky and Feodor I.
Tolbukhin after a week-long siege
that resulted in the capture of 130,
000 Germans, by Moscow account.
Vienna, second city of the Greater
Reich and bulwark of the invasion
routes to Bavaria little more than
100 miles away, was the 10th Euro
pean capital occupied by the Red
Army and the 18th liberated or
dominated by the Allies.
Moscow said that between March
15 and April 13, 11 German tank
divisions were smashed as Russian
forces closed in on the Austrian
capital, and the Soviet radio last
night said the Viennese had “saved
the honor of the Austrian nation”
by assisting in the liberation of the
city.
The Viennese celebrated tneir
liberation with public waltzes in the
city's squares. The streets were hung
with Austrian and Soviet flags as
the populace saluted the Red Army
with “unconcealed joy,” a Moscow
broadcast reported.
Meanwhile, Malinovsky’s troops
northeast of the capital captured
the war center of Hodonin in a
surge across the Moravian border
that carried to within 32 miles of
Bruenn (Brno), Czechoslovak arms
center. The Soviet forces were
storming the Moravia River along
a 14-mile stretch and driving for
ward on a 25-mile front in this
sector.
Tolbukhin’s tanks were rolling
back the Germans across Austria
west of Vienna between the Danube
and Drava Rivers. Berlin already
has reported a wholesale withdrawal
of Nazi troops on this wide 170-mile
front.
Tolbukhin was driving hard to
ward Berchtesgaden, Hitler’s Bavar
ian Mountain stronghold, but per
haps more significant was Malin
(See RUSSIANS, Page A-2.)
V-E Day May Not Coincide
With Linkup of Two Fronts
By JAMES M. LONG,
Associated Press War Correspondent.
SUPREME ALLIED HEADQUAR
TERS, Paris, April 14.—The German
Army, still fighting fiercely in the
East, no longer has either a cohesive
front nor a coherent command in
the West. The long-awaited Allied
linkup severing the Reich in the
middle is near—but that does not
mean that the war in Europe will
end at that time.
There might still be military fight
on into next winter, but it was
not likely that it would still be re
garded as an active phase of the
European war.
V-E day will come, according to
the best available opinion here,
somewhere between the Allied link
up and the end of subsequent fight
ing. And it will come by Allied proc
lamation, and not by German sur
render.
Events since Gen. Eisenhower a
fortnight ago predicted that the
Germans would continue to fight
as best they could until the last
(See V-E DAY, Page A-6.)
FUNERAL PROCESSION MOVES TOWARD WHITE HOUSE—The caisson bearing the remains of President Roosevelt moves up
Pennsylvania avenue from Fifteenth street and nears the White House, hidden in trees in the upper left of picture. Men and
women of the armed forces march ahead of their late Commander in Chief. (Other pictures on A-3, A-4, ^-5.1—Star Staff Photo.
President Roosevelt’s body lies in state In the east room of the White House with representatives of the armed forces
standing guard beside the flower-banked casket. Simple funeral rites of the Episcopal Church were to be held at 4 p.m. today.
—Associated Press Photo.
Blair House to Become
Temporary White House
President Truman, his wife and
daughter, are scheduled to move
temporarily into historic Blair House,
across Pennsylvania avenue from
the White House.
They are leaving their five-room
apartment on Connecticut avenue
for the yellow home where kings
and chiefs of state usually stay as
guests of the President.
It was understood they would
not move into the White House un
til the Roosevelt family is ready to
leave.
Prince Amir Faisal, Saudi Arab
ian delegate to San Francisco, is.
staying in Blair House now but will
leave after the Roosevelt funeral
today.
Bullitt Report Denied
PARIS, April 14 (A*).—The French
today denied a broadcast report
that William Bullitt, former United
States Ambassador to France, had
been appointed governor of the cap
tured German town of Baden Baden.
Mr. Bullitt is serving in the 1st
French Army as a liaison officer.
Admiral Hipper Damaged
LONDON (/P).—The German
heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper
and the cruiser Emden are be
lieved to have been damaged
in the Kiel raid on April 9,
when the pocket battleship
Admiral Scheer was sunk, the
British Air Ministry said late j
today.
I
Many Weep Openly
As Caisson Carrying 1
Roosevelt Goes By
Truman Empowers
Security Delegates
To Make Decisions
President, Studying
World Affairs, Won't
Attend Conference
President Truman, intensively
preparing to take President
Roosevelt’s place in the Big
Three, is leaving American re-,
sponsibility for the San Fran
cisco Conference with this coun
try’s delegation.
This turn of affairs developed to
day as the new President arranged
to lead the Nation in sorrowing
funeral rites for its late Commander
in Chief.
Paced with the necessity of fa
miliarizing himself with all the in
tricate details of Europe’s tangled
affairs. Mr. Truman has decided not
to attend the United Nations meet
ing.
He probably will send a strong
statement of approval to the dele
gates who will tackle the task of
constructing a world peace-keeping
league.
But it will be up to Secretary of
State Stettinius and his seven dele
gation colleagues to make on-the
spot decisions on any differences
that arise over the Dumbarton Oaks
formula and the Big Three agree
ments proposing revisions.
Studies Background information.
I Mr. Truman, meanwhile, set out
i on the task of acquiring the back
ground information he must have at
his command if he is to meet Pre
mier Stalin and Prime Minister
Churchill on even terms.
He began that educational process
in a confereftce yesterday with
James F. Byrnes, former war
mobilization director, who attended
the Yalta Conference with President
Roosevelt. He will continue it with
Mr. Byrnes. Secretary Stettinius and
others.
The cascading advance of Allied
forces across Germany may precipi
tate a demand for another meeting
of the heads of the three nations
much earlier than had been
anticipated.
The feeling in official circles here
is that when Gen. Dwight D. Eisen
hower declares officially that organ
ized resistance has ended, Premier
Stalin and Prime Minister Churchill
will want to meet with Mr. Truman
almost immediately to settle prob
lems involving the whole economic,
if not political, future of Europe.
There will be an Immediate re
quest, it is said, to realign each
nation’s troops within the four
agreed zones of occupation in Ger
many. French troops will occupy
one of these areas and Gen. Charles
de Gaulle, provisional President of
that nation, will want to be in on
the conference.
Agreement on Reparations.
At this meeting there are indi
cations the nations directly involved
will want agreement on the repara
tions in kind which were projected
at Yalta. This means they want
to know how many German plants
and other installations in their oc
cupied zone they can dismantle and
ship home to replace their shattered
factories.
The question of prisoner labor for
reconstruction also will be up, as
well as the disposition of foreign
refugees who have migrated or been
transported to the Allied countries
during the war.
President Truman is reported to
have told friends that he knows he
must have an American answer on
(See TRUMAN, Page A-2.)
Impressive Cortege
Accompanies Body
To White House
r
Led by President Truman, a
sorrowing Washington today
joined the Nation in a day of *
mourning as the flag-draped
:aisson bore Franklin Delano
Roosevelt to the White House.
There, in the East Room, simple
funeral services will be held at 4 p.m.
for the 31st man to hold the Na
tion’s highest office.
Prom the highest dignitaries of
the land to the smallest children,
the city devoted the day to the last
farewell for its fallen leader.
The President’s body reached the
Capital shortly before 10 a.m. to
start the trip to the White House
between aisles of men from all the
armed forces gathered to honor
their late Commander in Chief.
There was no demonstration as
the cortege moved slowly by, but
many who watched it wept un
ashamedly.
Secret Service estimated the
crowd along the entire procession
route at 500,000.
Maj. Edward Kelly, superintendent
of the Metropolitan Police, said it
was the largest crowd he had seen
on the streets of Washington in his
41 years as a policeman.
The body reached the Executive
Mansion at 11:14 a.m. and was car
ried into the East Room, where the
funeral rites of the Episcopal
Church will be recited this after
noon.
Dewey Here for Services.
In the group there will be Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey of New York,
who sought unsuccessfully In No
vember to wrest the presidency from
Mr. Roosevelt as the wartime leader
was re-elected to a fourth term.
Present, too, will be British For
eign Minister Anthony Eden, who
flew from London to represent his
government. Canada will be repre
sented by the Governor General, the
Earl of Athlone, who was a White
House guest just before Mr. Roose
velt left for Warm Springs to rest.
Both representatives of the British
government arrived today.
Funeral rites will be in the high
ceilinged room where just 12 weeks
ago today Mr. Roosevelt, with
bowed head, attended divine serv
ices on the inaugural day which
started him on his fourth term.
Bishop Don to Officiate.
Tire funeral rites will begin with
a hymn. Then Bishop Angus Dun
of the Episcopal Diocese of Wash
ington will give the prayer begin
ning. “I am the resurrection and
the life, saith the Lord.”
After his prayer, the Rev. John C.
Magee of St. John's Church will read
two Psalms, the 46th and the 121st.
The Rev. Howard S. Wilson, rector
of St. Thomas Church, where the
President and his family worshiped,
will read the Lessons from Ro
mans viii.14 and St. John xiv. I.
A hymn and several prayers will
conclude the simple rites.
The usual pomp and ceremony of
high-office funerals was reserved
almost entirely to the processions
which accompanied the dead Presi
dent from one place to another. The
actual funeral ceremonies were pat
terned in the simplicity which Mr.
Roosevelt had fixed as his ow"<t way
of life in wartime.
As early as 8 a.m. spectators be
gan taking up favorable positions in
front of Union Station and along
Constitution avenue, to view the
funeral procession. They found
places on the steps of the National
Archives, Labor Department and In
terstate Commerce Commission
buildings and on the east side of
(See ROOSEVELT, Page A-3.)
Order for the Burial of the Dead
At Funeral of President Roosevelt
Following is the Order for the Burial of the Dead used at the
funeral of President Roosevelt this afternoon:
Hymn.
Bishop Angus Dim of the Episco
pal Diocese of Washington:
I am the resurrection and the
life, saith the Lord: He that be
lieveth in Me, though he were dead,
yet shall he live; and whosoever
liveth and believeth in Me, shall
never die.
I know that my Redeemer liveth,
and that He shall stand at the later
day upon the earth: And though
this body be destroyed, yet shall I
see God: Whom I shall see for my
self, and mine eyes shall behold,
and not as a stranger.
We brought nothing into this
world, and it is certain we can
carry nothing out. The Lord gave
,and the Lord hath taken away;
blessed be the name of the Lord.
Reading of two Psalms by the
Rev. John G. Magee of St. John’s
Church.
Psalm 46. God is our hope and
strength, a very present help in
trouble.
Therefore we will not fear, though
the earth be moved and though the
hills be carried into the midst* of
the sea;
Though the waters thereof rage
.and swell, and though the moun
tains shake at the tempest of the
same.
There is a river, the streams
whereof make glad the city of God;
the holy place of the tabernacle of
the Most Highest.
God is in the midst of her, there
fore shall she not be removed; God
shall help her, and that right early.
Be still then, and know that I
am God; I will be exalted among
the nations and I will be exalted in
the earth.
The Lord of hosts is with us; the
God of Jacob is our refuge.
Psalm 121.
I will lift up mine eyes unto the
hills; from whence cometh my help?
My help cometh even from the
Lord, who hath made heaven and
earth.
He will not suffer thy foot to be
moved; and he that keepeth thee
will not sleep.
Behold, he that keepeth Israel
shall neither slumber nor sleep.
The Lord Himself is thy keeper;
the Lord is thy defense upon thy
right hand;
So that the sun shall not burn
thee by day, neither the moon by
night.
The Lord shall preserve thee from
" (See FUNERAL, Page A-4.)