Strasbourg Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 13, 1945, Strasbourg, Alsace                              Ill 15 four cents april 1945 is of to the nation 20born at Hyde son of James fourth Cousin of president Theodore Roosevelt from Harvard Anna Eleanor Roose member of a Distant Brunch of his Law degree at co Lumbia University and began to practice the bar in new entered politics and was elected to the the tammany Bosses and successfully led the crusade against them at the democratic National convention for the nomination of Woodrow Wilson As appointed Reward by Wilson to the Post of of the a position he held until democratic Candi Date for the hopelessly returns to his Law suffers serious attack of a life despaired of for several returns to politics and sup ports Al Smith at the demo cratic elected governor of new York York governorship extended for a second two year As democratic candidate for the 11 elected president Herbert Hoover with a vote of in his favor the largest popular vote Ever Given in tempted assassination by italian Zangara inaugurated presi March new Deal in soviet prohibition abolished Dollar new Deal business codes declared the Hearst press turns from support of boo sevely to fierce president for the second takes oath of office As failure of attempt i1 pack the supreme court 1avorably to the new a peace plea in Miller and Mussolini when War seems Jno Vilatie Over Che Exchange with great Britain of fifty destroyers against a Chain of bases for be american Navy in British Western Atlantic pos 5 reelected president for a third 7 Pearl resident Loose Ivel visited Teheran and Cairo for conferences with and Chiang president for the fourth Roose velt and Churchill visited Cairo for talks with King Faruk and other rulers of the Arab i Franklin Delano Roosevelt Emblem for new York vets Albany discharge cd veterans from new York Are to get a Spe Cial service under a Bill signed Washington army and Navy since the begin Ning of the have reached Stimson re ported army losses of while the Navy listed its casual ties i the total represents a works increase of slim Sou slated that army casualties reflect fighting up to Early part of 9th again under general Bradley Paris for operational control of the ninth army and the 29th tactical air command has returned to the 12th army group and the ninth air Force sheaf in addition to the Omar Bradley 12th includes the third and 15th making Bradley the first general in american history to command four Field armies Iii one Washington the u employment service placed War veterans in jobs during Washington president Roosevelt died suddenly of cerebral Haemorrhage thursday afternoon at warm vice president Harry take office As a White House statement Vic president Truman has been he was called to the informed by the Secretary of state has been a Cabinet meet ing has been president Roosevelt had been Springs forbore than a presidential Secretary Stephen Earl said Roose velt and Admiral Ross the left Washington by air this afternoon thursday for warm Vic president Truman was working at his the news he immediately went to the White House by Truman Secretary said he presumed the new president take the oath of office at president died in Mountain Retreat president Roosevelt died in his bedroom in his White Bungalow at the top of a Pine Mountain where he had been Vight ing for 20 years to take treatment for infantile paralysis with which he was stricken in Only persons Are believed to have been in the cottage at the time of his they Are miss de Lano and miss Margaret who frequently kept the House for him during his recent after convalescence from bronchial trouble last his doctor said the presidents health was a Good As that of any Man of his the Bombshell broke after a Day of Good War news and after All radios had flashed a confidently expressed Washington military View that the German War would be Over within a this a sudden silence follows receipt of news people came out of their houses and began talking with their in bars a sudden fell for men were unable to adjust their minds quickly tothe loss utter he had been talked of by his enemies is sick in the fourth year of was just As much an accepted part of the american scene As the White House a White House statement said the four Roosevelt boys in the service have been sent a message by their Mother which the president slept away this he did his Job to the end As he would want to god bless you All and our funeral services be held on saturday afternoon in the twist room of he White the interment will be at Hyde continued on Page 2 ninth army Only 57 Miles from Berlin shake has announced that ninth army troops have crossed the Klee Hiver and begun boat hit Down the last 57 dear Miles to third army troops reached the outskirts of to Miles East of Erfurt following a combined air and ground Berlin looms beyond the grasp of general Eizen Howers armies As i he ninth and the British second make sweeping gains through Ideal tank country at the Northern end of the Western while Dempsey British troops Edge to Ward the outskirts of Simpson of the ninth seized Hano ver and sen a Shaft of Armor tear ing past Brunswick toward Mark at than 70 Miles from if the second armoured divisions spurt to Magdeburg is it Wil place Simpsons men near est to Berlin in a Tan head jilting Miles beyond the first or third army according to re ports the flying columns of tanks and self propelled guns bypassed Brunswick Southern outskirts and rumbled eastward on a 10mile front against scattered resistance to the Elbe last water de sense line barring Berlin from the slightly to the another division dashed to the outskirts of overcoming a Messer Schmidt Plant with 50 new the ninth army distinguished itself last week not Only with the capture of Hanover and the drive it also the widest eastward gains of the Al lied coincidental with its offensive the ninth returned to the operational command of Bradley army which also includes grows if Hodges first and patrons rear elements of Simpsons Force continued hacking at the shrink ing Ruhr pocket in conjunction with the first driving Down on these ninth army fighters took and Essen where american tanks trampled the ruins of the huge Frurip munitions army troops to ind de the Eastern and Southern sides of the 45milesquare trap Savage maintaining the Forward rolling momentum of the ninth marshal Montgomery for Large gains with the Jirl Lisle second and the Canadian British troops Bremen in a doubleheader see yanks on