Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 20, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                 East april 1945 flow Witch is control is within the japs to hot Okinawa crossed it with trenches to make it unusable old glory unfurled Over Jap Home soil i Tiei in Southern Okinawa artillery of North Fern Oki marines pressed their mop up of enemy latest of the enemy desperate Aerial attacks Cost them 368 War planes Chester Nimitz revealed tuesday that Jap anese planes have been destroyed on the ground on in the air since the opening of the Ryukyu Campaign on the Navy announced that ame rican casualties on Okinawa Dur ing the first nine Days of the in Vasion were the yanks kill ing 11 japanese for every ame rican b29s attack Jap airfields Guam super forts added their might to the Campaign to destroy airfields in Southern sweep ing out from Marianas for the third assault tuesday within Jour six airfields on Kyushu were hit but no were immediately elimination of Tokyo War production is also becoming a definite goal As b29s continued monday to rain destruction on a 27isquare mile area of the staff officers of Curtis Lemars 21st bomber command figure All will come to standstill without actual destruction of the 65squaremile Urban Industrial super forts were Over Tokyo and Kawasaki on sunday in reported strength of 400 and left fires Burn ing for seven Molotov to head Russ delegation at Frisco meet acting on the suggestion of presi Dent has decided to Send soviet foreign commissar Molotov to the san Francisco con Ference starting april the White House the russian Premier acted after Truman advised him that such move would be welcomed As an expression of Earnest cooperation in carrying Forward plans formulating the new International Stalin had designated ambassador Gromyko As russian soldiers of the 77th infantry division and coast guardsmen stand at attention As the american Flag is raised on 20 Miles off own Ernie Pyle Dies in action on Pacific Isle Luzon forces enter Baguio yanks Are fighting inside a Jap stronghold and Philip Pine summer the 33rd division met increase heavy resistance As it approached the City from the heavy Rains also have hampered movements toeing Deve loped in an encircling other units of the 33rd Are moving up on the Southwest Kinnon Road and More Are in from Moun Tain trails from the West and South As Macarthur men reached Banios the pressure on the Jap garrisons enabled some seven thousand civilians to their nationalities include Switzer Bel Italy Ger Many and among those liberated were Brig Gen Manuel former speaker of the philippine and Milagros daughter of president Sergio kill americans cruelly earlier in the the yanks landed on Bataan Midway Between Luzon and they quickly eliminated Jap d planes struck o at shipping in the South China seas and Shanghai Saigon and Macarthur announced that nor Giovi killed and 204 Truman not to attend peace meet Washington president tru Man is leaving american responsibility for the san Francisco con Ference with this country delegation headed by of state faced with the necessity of familiarizing himself with All the intricate details of Europe tangled Truman decided not to at tend the United nations it will be up to Stettinius and his seven delegation colleagues to make decisions on any differences that arise of the Dumbarton Oaks formula and the big three agree ments proposing Truman began acquiring Back ground information in a conference with James for Mer War Mobilizer who attended the Yalta and will continue in meetings with Siet Mius and continued from Page 1 Nin quirk of Fate he was covering his beloved infantry when that Bullet Truman voices sorrow president Truman expressed his countrymen sorrow in a state ment issued immediately after the Navy departments the nation is greatly saddened the president by the death of Ernie no Man in this War has so Well told the Story of american fighting men As american fighting men wanted it More than any other Man he became the spokesman of the Ordinary american in arms doing so Many extraordinary it was through his Genius that the mass and Power of four military and naval forces never obscured the men who made he wrote about people in arms is people but a people mov ing in determination which did not need pretentious As a part of nobody knows How Many individuals in our forces and at Home he helped with his but All americans understand now How How How honestly he served his coun try and his he de serves the gratitude of All his his modest language the navys announcement said More than anyone else he helped America to understand the heroism and sacrifices of her fighting for that achievement the nation owes him its unending of War Stimson said our soldiers have lost a the understanding of americans in Battle which ran through All Ernie Pyles dispatches was drawn from hours spent with them under sharing the dangers they the to noughts he expressed in modest language came to be re cognized by the nation As the essence of our fighting he lived with them and now has died with their Comrade to the Ernie Pyle was a Skinny his  weighed Only he would have been 45 August he was born in where his pop1 still he came to his War correspondent Job As a nearer Green Hoen and found his real Angle when scrip Showard told him to cover an african press conference of Admiral on his Way t the interview a swarm of Stukas swooped Down on the Field and Ernie dived into a ditch behind a Avien it was Over Ernie nudged his that was Cleafe he he was no the Soldier was prewar years from then on Ernie wrote of the Little Guys of the at first he worked but with time he came to realize and relish the conviction that his Job want to write of the generals and the and but of the Ordinary Folk turned Ernie knew the common Man for five years before the War he had written of them in a column not so famed As his War pieces hut equally loved and relished by All Lucky enough to see he toured the states with that Geraldine the Small blonde government girl he had married in he Zig across the continent 35 wore out three cars doing ii and wrote whatever he pleased a Kellys Apple pies Down in of a hotel clerk in Kan of the time his pants Zipper got along Side the editorial Page columnists of 40 papers his column was a Downto Earth he kidded himself about his Small worried Over his complained about the Little irritating habits of that looking its easy to see that this was the column that grew into the nations favorite wartime watched London Blitz he went to England to watch the common Man in the fury of the How much International and Goodwill those pieces Man can but Washington who known him he started his junkets of the states As a quiet editor of Washington lunch time daily were pleased at Ernie humanizing no one Ever was jealous of Ernie he too too and you just Plain liked came close Many times to Ernie after that adventure in the algerian in March of 44 a Jerry bomb hit the correspondents Headquarters at Anzio and if Ernie haunt changed his bed a while before hed have gotten it aim in during the breakthrough ii Frau a last summer lie was brought no unassuming almost finished by the Allied bombers which accidentally killed Lesley no Safe Way about the dangers of being a War v he wrote a Friend i try not take any foolish but theres just no Way to play it completely Safe and still do your the front does get into your blood and you Roniss it and want to be life up there is very very in devoid of All jealousy find meanness that floats around Headquarters cities and time passes so fast its Ernie usual practice was to spend a week or so with a unit in hed live the life the men doing no simply Tak ing names and then hed go Back to a base and write the columns which collected have made National bestsellers and the inspiration for a soon Tobe released Hollywood film in which Burgess Meredith is playing he worked slowly and preferred to he alone when he was at gis got to know him As a Good a Teller of tales you  Tell your Mother and a Man with one of the finest belches in Christen from making fun of his fretting Over warm clothes and they grew to and mire and love the Guy who shared their dangers and told the folks at Home a Kurt reunited with that girl probably no proxy marriage in history had More Well wishers than the one in 1943 which reunited him with that girl after their divorce the proceeding he spent two months with her this Winter in their Small White House in and from there wrote of course i am very sick of the War and would like to leave it and Yot i know i Ive been part of the misery and tragedy of it for so Long that Ive come to feel a responsibility to it or i dont know quite How to put it into but i feel if i left it would be like a Soldier desert to him came rare affection in his this year he was awarded the pulitzer prize for distinguished he had the purple heart for wounds on the Anzio and he had that but he didst japanese order dated March 8 and signed by the Jap trl men can troops dont kill gue ror the Empe win and children Roosevelt column resumed a Roose my Washington resumed her column on saying when you have lived for a Ong time in close Contact with the loss and grief which today per Vades the whole any per Sonal sorrow seems to be lost in the general sadness of there is Only one Way to repay utmost for the cause of Liberty an Justice died in the Hope that through their sacrifice an enduring peace would be built and a More just world would emerge for any Man in Public life is bound n the course of years to create Ertain she but when he is his main objectives stand out clearly and one May Hope that the spirit of Unity May arouse people and their leaders to a Complete understand ing of his objectives and a determination to achieve those objectives Roosevelt syndicated by United was interrupted on the Day the president died but it is understood that she will continue from tuesdays re Burma base taken last Jap anese Supply base in a akan on the West Burma has been captured by the British 14th in Central Burma 14th army troops have advanced South and South East of and Are driving on the Yean Yaung Chauk Oil Fields on the East Bank of the Irra rapid Progress is described in cleaning the japs from Central Okinawa flagship hit Jap suicide plane crashed in the water Only 20rr Yards from the amphibious Shin of Richmond Turner while he and Simon Buck Ner 10th army watched from