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VOL. XLVn. No. 47. NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1945 PER. COPY —157
WASHINGTON, April 18— (ffi)
* —Ernie Pyle, 44, famous war cor
respondent has been killed in the
Pacific. News of his death became
known when President Truman
issued a statement of condolence.
The wiry little reporter of the
Scripps Howard newspapers, who
f- told the story of the war in GI
language, reporting the fighting
on Okinawa previously covered
the war in North Africa, Sicily,
Italy, Britain and France.
Truman said “all Americans
understand how wisely, how warm
heartedly, how honestly he served
*his country and his profession de
serves the gratitude of all his
countrymen."
Twice, while in Europe, Pyle
narrowly escaped death. He was
winner of the Purlitzer prize.
Truman Will Run
Office With
Firm Hand
By JACK BELL .
WASHINGTON, April 18-^)'
—President Truman intends to
^ run his own show. He will take
advice from friends but will make
his own decisions. That is the in
terpretation Washington has put
on several separate actions.
His firmness is not surprising
to those who knew him on Capitol
* Hill where he definitely over
ruled the high command nomin
ating Lt. Gens. Patton and Hodges
to four star rank. He picked John
Snyder, St. Louis banker friend
of twenty-five years for the Fed
eral Loan Administration. Wash
ington understood Roosevelt had
been planning to shift Budget Di
rector Harold Smith to the Post.
He told a news conference yes
terday rather tartly, “Of course
Molotov will stop in Washington
to pay his respects as he should.
He announced positively, flatly,
9 and briefly that he wants the
Bretton Woods monetary agree
ments and reciprocal trade enac
ted by Congress. He also found
time yesterday to direct the seiz
ure of the Lake Charles, Louisi
ana, high octane refinery plant
which has been left idle by the
controversy over rente charged in
the nearby housing project
BRITISH CROSS BAILEY BRIDGE-. A sentry watches British soldiers lead pack
mules across a Bailey bridge thrown over the Mu river in Burma.
Russians Only 18
To 20 Miles From
German Capital
LONDON, April 18—(JP)—Ger
man broadcasts declared today
that the battle on the eastern ap
proaches to Berlin “recahed its
climax” with Russian troops
breaching the defense lines only
eighteen to twenty miles from the
capital and declared the Soviets
launched an offensive south of
Stettin aimed at linking the Allies
an the north German plain.
Front dispatches to Moscow as
serted the Russians could see Ber
lin burning did not specify any
offensive underway. Nine Rus
sian armies are smashing toward
Berlin, German broadcasts said,
conceding Red army gains
through strong hedgehog posi
in a blazing arc east and north
east of the bomb shattered city.
The enemy declared Stalin had
thrown a third offensive on a sev
enteen mile front south of Stettin
seeking to slice between the Bal
tic port and Berlin to Join the
western Allies north and west of
Berlin.
CASE AGAINST JOSEPH
TAGUTARAK DISMISSED
The case against Joseph Tagu
tarak for negligible homicide was
dismissed by Judge Kehoe due to
lack of evidence. The jury was in
structed to bring in a verdict of
not guilty. The Strock case was
set for tomorrow morning.
Truman Says
Nation Will
Not Falter
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WASHINGTON, April 18 — (JP)
—President Truman told United
States forces throughout the world
that the nation would not falter in
the cause which President Roose
velt gave his life. “All of us have
lost a great leader, far-sighted
statesman and a real friend of
democracy.”
He declared “You have lost an
old friend of the services. Our
Hearts are heavy, however the
cause which claimed President
Roosevelt also claims us. He never
faltered, nor will we.” His broad
cast was to the men and women
of the Army, Navy, Marinoa, and
Coast Guard as well as to the peo
[ pie in United States.
Americans Reach
Baguio Outskirts
On Luzon
Br FRED HAMPSON
MANILA, April 17 — (IP) —
American troops reached the out
skirts of the enemy’s mountain
citadel of Baguio in northern Lu
zon and have already rescued
more than 7000 civilians, General
Douglas MacArthur announced.
The majority of the liberated
were Filipinos. Other nations rep
resented were United States, Brit
ish Commonwealth Soviet Russia,
China, France, Poland, Switzer
land, Spain, Turkey, Cuba, Bel
gium, Czechoslovakia, Italy, Ger
many, and Austria. The rescue
was possible, MacArthur explain
ed by the pressure of his forces,
which enabled them to escape
from the Japanese during the
night and make their way to the
American lines. They are being
cared for by the Army. Among the
freed is Gen. Manuel Roxas,
former speaker of the Philippines
National Assembly. Four mem
bers of the Cabinet of the Filipino
Collaborationist Government were
captured.
Louisiana Flood
Situation Remains
Very Acute
NEW ORLEANS, April 18—(/P)
—The flood situation of the Red
river below Alexandria remained
acute as Army engineers con
tinued their twenty-four hour
vigil of the lower reaches of the
swollen Mississippi. Part of the
eight thousand families who were
driven from their homes by the
rampaging Red river at Alexan
dria prepared to return to their
homes.
Eighth And Tenth
Armies Advance
In Italy
ROME, April 18— (fP) —Polish
troops of the Eighth Army sweep
ing up the Po advanced to within
ten miles of Bologna, major Ger
man base in northern Italy. The
Fifth Army also fought slowly
close to the big Italian art and
industrial center, battering their
way through enemy troops en
trenched in scores of caves, tun
nels and pillboxes along the
mountain highway from Florence.
BASEBALL
TUESDAY'S GAMES
American League
New York 8, Boston 4; Wash
ington 14, Philadelphia 8; St.
Louis 7, Detroit 1; Chicago 5,
Cleveland 2.
National League
Brooklyn 8, Philadelphia 2;
New York 11, Boston 6; Chicago
3, St. Louis 2; Cincinnati 7, Pitts
burgh 8.
Coast League
Sacramento 9, San Francisco
11. Only game scheduled.
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WEDNESDAY'S GAMES
American League
Boston 2, New York 6; Detroit
11, St. Louis 0; Washington 0,
Philadelphia 1, twelve innings.
National League
Philadelphia 6, Brooklyn 2;
New York 8, Boston 4.
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