Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 20, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                New York phone strike averted new Youk eighteen thou Sand Telephone operators in new York City voted this week to leave their switchboards in protest against a weekly wage increase ordered by the War labor Board in lieu of the requested web conducted the strike vote among the members of the federation of long1 lines Telephone workers under of Smithson Nally the pending strike was postponed indefinitely after work ers and company officials reached an agreement on a new wage for Mula to be submitted to the War labor employees had voted to strike after web reduced by the com Pany offer of a weekly employees had asked for a weekly raise of the request was turned Down by web on grounds that it could not justified under the stabilization Detroit strike front in employees of the Ford Willow run Plant have re turned to following Settle ment of a Over production workers of the Kelsey Hayes wheel company Are still on at Lake pickets and employees Are awaiting the govern ments seizure of the strike bound cities service 100octane gasoline refinery following the presidential order on tuesday both Union and company officials disclaim responsibility in the walk out stemmed from a dispute Over rents charged employees at the nearby privately operated housing Fala returns to scene of Pup Hood april 1945 stars and Fala around very Fala came Back to the Lionie of his original his fou year career As Tho presidents favorite Pup at an now he acts like he wanted to get out and Hunt rabbits just like any other said miss Marga ret Cousin of the late president who gave Fala to the chief the presi Dent said that if anything Ever happened to him lie thought i should take care of she so now Hes going to live with Fala twice before stayed with miss when the president was away at Teheran and again at often Hes been in her care on presidential Rhinebeck is a Short drive up the Hudson Valley from the Roose velt estate at Hyde Fala spent sunday afternoon playing with two puppies he la there about a month miss Suckley thought lie seemed in bet Ter Fala has been very much de pressed for the last three he kept wandering very sad at warm miss Suckley 133 die As floods sweep so a Horn a bears d r o troops lend a with Rug and other furnishings piled in a two men evacuate a Home in As the flooding red tributary of the swirls through after breaking through a thousands of families were forced from Homes and set up housekeeping in tents with Hie Aid of the red press Oklahoma Clit disastrous wind storms and Conti Nuin floods brought new death and destruction to a Kansas and Missouri last week during three Days of dangerous weather which subsided slightly Over the the dead from both causes wind and numbered countless others were injured and the extent of property damage May reach Oklahoma was hardest its death toll from the Tornado stood at 85 and its homeless numbered hundreds after twisters bounced crazily Over the lashing a dozen scattered cities and Rural As a single bore the Brunt of the with a population of the cites known death toll was 63 the twister reduced much of the business Section and splintered several Hundred Early this army troops and civil ians were searching the ruins for other As scores were still 14 killed in Muskogee at 14 were president died in Shadow of warm Springs foundation which had aided him so much nazi degree to sailors London radio Berlin has ordered All German sailors who Are not on duty at naval bases to report immediately to the nearest German army command warm Springs death came quickly and almost painlessly to 63yearold Franklin he had spent thursday morn april quietly in his Small cottage on the Rise of ground called Pine handling paper work hat had arrived from Wash then at 1 while sitting at a window posing for sketches an artist was making of he then raised his left hand to his left within a very few minutes a lost consciousness from which he never he died at the president had been at warm Springs since March he had planned to spend three weeks then go to Washington for a Day and thence to san Francisco for the opening of the United nations conference on april in excellent spirits Howard who was acting As his physician during his said he had seen the presi Dent thursday morning and that he was in excellent Bruen was called immediately and arrived at the Bun Galow at James Paullin of Atlanta joined the naval physician in but within a Short while the president passed Bruen said that the president had died from a cerebral which Means a Sud Den extensive bleeding in the brain due to a ruptured blood Ross the presidents physician who was in was kept advised of the the news came to he said like a Bolt a Clear i talked with warm Springs and the president was All right this morn two cousins present in the cottage when the presi Dent died besides the two were George Fox the White House pharmacist and Long an attendant on the and two miss Laura Delano and miss Margaret who often Kent House for the president at the president had plan Ned to go to the Hill cottage of Frank mayor of warm for an old fashioned late afternoon already the country fiddlers were outside All corns cottage with patients and guests of the warm Springs foun waiting for Tho presidents the three Piess association Cor respondents who habitually cover the president were in the group Douglas Cornell of associated Merriman Smith of United press and Robert Nixon of inter National news simultaneous announcement before the correspondents were called to the Little White House where presidential Secretary William Hassett told them it is my sad duty to announce that the president died at of a cerebral he urged the reporters to Rush to their Tele phones immediately As a simultaneous announcement was being made at the White in Washington the announce ment was made by presidential Secretary Steve who then accompanied Roosevelt in a plane for warm the Shock of this health to which president Roosevelt had Given so much in return for the it had Given him since his affliction with infantile paralysis in can he he had planned in the evening to go to a minstrel show put on in his Honor by the patients in the foundations main Georgia warm Springs Benefactor during his recovery and Long before he Ever considered running or the new York Franklin Roosevelt founded the warm Springs foundation with which he has been closely identified Ever in his Rise to Eminence he always his fellow sufferers in braces and warm Springs regulars noted lost Spring that the president had lost a Good Deal of his accustomed vitality and ability to recover from minor he had then spent a month batting bronchitis at the South Carolina coastal estate of Bernard Baruch and also As much time As possible at Hyde lost time the three service reporters had talked with the president for any length of time was on april when he had received president someria of the philippine Roosevelt arrives at that time he was in Gay spi rits and punctuated his customarily Pithy comments with wave of his Long cig Aret he had a Good mint but his face had seemed drawn and there was Evi Dence of a slight within a few hours Roose velt and Early arrived by air and arrangements were completed for the trip Friday morning the lie arse circled before the foundations part coed main building while patients on crutches am in braces and wheelchair bowed their Heads in it the world had much for which to thank Franklin warm Springs and its hopeful sufferers had even we will follow Roosevelt path to Victory killed after the twister through the Eastern Tho seriously building of the Oklahoma school for the Oklahoma i it reported three deaths and ported from other scattered Jet Nln in the Section of the soldiers bulldozers hunted the rubble for persons re ported Arkansas deaths jumped to with five were killed in the vicious wind storms wreaked double disaster on the three states with Louisiana and Kan were simultaneously suffering from although Clearing skies indicated some the Mittle Sodden levees was expected to last several More hundreds of families in Eastern Southern Missouri and Northern Arkansas evacuated their Homes sunday As the rampaging Francis and White Rivers continued to fed by torrential f the grand and North Canadian Rivers in Oklahoma were doing heir heaviest damage in a sweep Oward the Arkansas Oklahoma in the Missouri ozarks and in Northern the White River neared an Al time Oklahoma flood toll Only Oklahoma reported flood a sudden Cloud burst partially inundated Seminole saturday leaving four dead and six others the rainfall from 6 on Friday to 4 saturday totalled four persons were drowned when High water swept a Road into a deep another carry ing six other is All highways blocked by Seminole was completely isolated from the outside Rescue boats picked up persons from roof tops and at which was lashed by two trains were involved in accidents attributed to the seventy five persons were rescued from atop the merged coaches of a passenger train which slowed into a flooded a similar Accident befell a freight train pulling 16 in the red Rivers flood Crest is hearing the Mississippi Junction the Battle against crumbling levees the rampage of the red River drove persons from their Homes and inundated acres of the Mississippi River has sub sided from to i rfcs but from that Point to he Gulf of the Waters Are Washington president tru Man promised monday that the grand strategy of the War will re main unchanged and unhampered by his accession to the presi making his first address to a joint session of the president declared that this Aloner with its must shoulder the grave responsibility of making secure future to accomplish this he the United states must join in punishing those guilty of bring ing on the lasting peace can never be secured it we permit our dangerous opponents to plot future wars with he tragic Fate has thrust upon us grave respond we must carry Truman said american policy re Man Mains unconditional declaring that the nation is deeply conscious that much hard fighting the presi Dent having to pay such a heavy Price to make com Tete America will never be come party to any plan for partial we will not traffic with Breakers of peace on the terms of the nation must face the problems of peace with the same courage that we have faced and mastered the problems of the House of representatives rang with whistles and applause As the joint session greeted the nations new chief after the congressmen of both parties and visiting Diplo Mats praised the presidents address As Fine and Cou switchboard links world to Frisco san Francisco the worlds first International Telephone Exchange has been completed in the basement of the veterans memo rial site of the world Security conference which opens on april operators speaking All United nations languages will operate tace the Job has been termed by Pacific Telephone and Tele graph officials As one of their overseas and National Calls will be answered with the salutation air crash kills 17 a Pennsylvania Central airlines More than 15 has been located Between Brucetown and in West first reports indicated that Pijie 17 five of whom Ware military Are the Airliner was bound Pittsburgh to