City Grading Underway Preparations For Oil Surfacing
Workmen from the City Streets Department under Commissioner M R Amy have begun grading dirt roads citywide. The Fourth ward streets were dragged and graded yesterday as heavy tractors and graders prepare for paving and dust control once weather allows. Tanks at the former Atlantic plant are readied to receive oil contracted with a Warren company, with an old sprinkling wagon fitted as a temporary distribution unit for daily progress.
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State milk price hike blocked by OPA and Harrisburg plan
Harrisburg reports the State Milk Control Commission proposed higher producer prices to maintain milk supply and raise consumer milk to 17 cents per quart, but officials said OPA ceilings likely block approval. The plan, effective April 16, would set producer prices at 640 a hundred pounds for 3.5 butterfat in the northwestern district. Actress Marlon Davies hospitalized in San Francisco with suspected appendicitis. no operation expected, two weeks observation.
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Death of Franklin D Roosevelt Shocks Nation
Washington and the nation reel after the death of President Franklin D Roosevelt. Vice President Truman moves toward succession as Mrs Roosevelt plans to fly to Warm Springs. A White House funeral is set, and Hyde Park becomes the burial site. Early announces the news with restrained emotion amid a wartime backdrop.
Fall of Vienna Nears as Soviet Push Rolls West
Allied reports say Soviet tanks near the Bavarian frontier have reached the Danube bend 40 miles west of Vienna, with occupation of the capital nearly complete. Milinovskys Second Ukrainian Army battles Tolbukhin’s Third Ukrainian Army as they converge near Vienna, while in Czechoslovakia the Second and Fourth Ukrainian Armies connect in the Carpathians connecting Poland to the Vienna front.
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Truman Humble as Burden Falls Amid War-Time Pressure
Vice President Harry S. Truman enters the White House amid a war-time crisis with humble confidence. The piece, by Ernest B. Vacarro, recalls Truman's pledge to seek the best brains to guide policy on war, peace talks, and reconversion. It highlights his courage, self-awareness, and ability to assemble expert opinion through the Truman Committee and his Senate War Investigating work.
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Death Of 4th Term President Died At Warm Springs
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt died at 3:35 P M at his Warm Springs cottage of cerebral hemorrhage. Secretary Hassett announced the sudden death and said further details would follow from Navy doctor Commander Howard Bruenn. Roosevelt, the nation’s first four term leader, had planned to travel to San Francisco for the United Nations conference. He died in the Pine Mountain bungalow after a 20 year stay for rest.
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Roosevelt Helped Fund Polio Shelter and Cottage Death
Franklin Delano Roosevelt who was stricken with infantile paralysis in 1921 died after a stay in a cottage at Warm Springs. He helped found the Warm Springs Foundation for polio victims and had recently expanded it for service men. Two women, Miss Laura Delano and Miss Margaret Sucklihj, were believed to be in the cottage at the time. They had frequently kept house for him on visits, including a 9 day stay last November and December.
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Truman Sworn In As 32nd President Of United States
Washington April 12. Harry S. Truman of Missouri was sworn in as the thirty second President at 7 09 P M EST. He took the oath a few hours after President Roosevelt died from a cerebral hemorrhage.
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