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Show LEHI FREE PRESS. LEHI. UTAH Ernie Pyle With the Navy: Marines Land on Okinawa Without Battle Casualties Presidents Life Was Characterized Action By Vigorous Entire Nation Mourns Death Of Franklin D. Roosevelt; Vast Tasks Face Truman presidents, TTi:t was not Franklin Delano Roosevelt Franklin When oorn into poverty on arrived at Hyde Park, N. Y.. came into he 1802, 30, January wealth family that had possessed Roose-velt- s for many generations. The been thrifty landowners had first in the Hudson valley since the Holfrom over came of the family also land. On hia mother's side there was a substantial lortuuc. were many Among his ancestors m men who had served the state various capacities. vnc Franklin attended the very fashionable Groton school, where he prepared for Karvara universny. fto, mm Dieting the liberal arts course he entered Columbia U. law d school, from which he was grauu-aearlier, Two 1907. years in however, he married his distant cousin,' Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. Eleanor was a niece of Theodore Roosevelt, at that time in the Whte "iniT-rabi- Leathernecks Show Nervous Tension as Zero Hour Nears ' By Ernie Pyle OFF THE OKINAWA BEACHHEAD (By navy radio). This Is the last column before the invasion.- - It is written aboard a onto Okinawa. troop transport the evening before we storm We are nervous. Anybody with any sense is nervous on the You feel weak and you try to think of things, night before but your mind stubbornly drifts back to the awful image of tomorrow. It drags on your soul and you have nightmares. But those fears do not mean any You wouldn't believe it. And we lack of confidence. We will take don't either. It just can't be true. Okinawa. Nobody has any doubt And yet it is true. we know we will y. about that. But The regiment of marines that I have to pay for it. Some on this ship am with landed this morning on the will not be alive 24 hours from now. beaches of Okinawa and were absolutely unopposed, which is indeed an ' We are in convoy. Many, many odd experience for a marine. big ships are lined up in columns . Nobody among us had dreamed of with our war such a thing. We all thought there ships escort on would be slaughter on the beaches. ' V the outsides. We ) There was some opposition to the are an impresright and to the left of us, but on sive sight yet we our beach, nothingt,absolutely noth,;are only one of .. ing. ,;; many We don't expect this to continue, A marine doesn't fool of course. . We Jeft from himself pke that. Certainly there different !jmany will be hard fighting ahead and we We have 'places. all have our fingers crossed. But been on our way to get the firm foothold we have, Ernie Pyle raany days. We with mo t of our men ashore and are the bitreest. is a gift for strongest force ever to sail in the Pa- our supplies rolling in, cific. We are going into what we which we are gratefuL erpect to be the Liggest battle so This is Easter Sunday morning. fiT in the PacLlc. Our ship is in APA, or assault It is a beautiful one. One of the after spending months in transport The ship itself is a war marines, the on tropics, remarked a while ago, veteran. She wears five stars her service ribbon Africa, Sicily, "This weather feels more like weather than anything Italy, Normandy and Southern American France. She wears the Purple since I left home.'f It is sunshiny and very warm. We Heart, Bronze Star and Legion of Merit Silver Star. She has fared had heard it would be cold and well on the other side. We hope many of ' the boys wore heavy underwear. Now we are sweating and her luck holds out in the Pacific. I wore two pairs of We are carrying marines. Some regretting. of them are going into combat for pants, .but I am about to take off the first time. Others are veterans one of them. from as far back as Guadalcanal. Marinee Equipped for They are a rough, unshaven, compeEventuality Every landI am of bunch Americans. tent We are dressed in green herringing with them. I feel I am in good bone combat uniforms. Everybody hands. made the trip in kbaki and changed I've shared a cabin with Marine this morning aboard ship. The men Maj, Reed Taylor of Kensington, left their old khaki lying on their Md. He is a Guadal vet and be bunks and they'll be collected by jokingly belittles newcomers who the navy, cleaned and used to clothe weren't through "Green Hell." The prisoners and our own casualties major and I are sort of two of a who have lost their clothes. On our ship we were up at 4 a. m. stripe and we get along fine. We have the nicest cabin either We had done our final packing of of us ever had at sea. And we've gear last night. We brought ashore taken advantage of it by sleeping only what we could carry on our away almost the whole trip. We've backs. ' When we put on our new slept day and night. So have many green fatigues, one marine reothers. marked, "The latest Easter style There is a daily argument on ship herringbone twill." whether or not you can store up sleep and energy for the ordeal My schedule for landing was an ahead. The doctor says it's no- early one. I was ashore a short nsensethat you can't store up sleep. time after the first wave. Correspondents were forbidden to go beLife on Ship Found fore the fifth wave. I was on the En Route Rather Dull seventh. Our trip has been fairly smooth I had dreaded the sight of the and not many of the troops were sea- beach uttered with bodies. sick. Down in the holds the ma- My first look up and mangled down the beach on four rines sleep racks tiers high. was a reluctant one. And then like It isn't a nice way to travel. But a man in the movies who looks end I've never heard ? anybody com- - looks away and then suddenly looks plain. They come up on deck on back unbelieving, I realized there nice days to sun and to rest and to were no bodies anywhere and no wasih clothes, or. lie and read or wounded. What a wonderful feelplay cards. We don't have movies. The ship ing! In fact our regiment came is darkened at sunset and after that ashore with entire two casualties. One only there are only dim lights. The food was a marine who hurt his foot getis good. We get news every mornting out of an amphibious truck. ing in a mimeographed paper and And the other was, of all things, a once or twice a day the ship's of- case of heat prostrationl ficers broadcast the latest news over to fulfill the picnic atAnd the loudspeaker. listen to this mosphere, of us informed They've kept dally Aboard ship we had turkey dinner the progress of the Okinawa bombardment that preceded our land- last night. So this morning they ing. Every little bit of good news fixed me up with a big sack of turkey wings, bread, oranges and apcheers us. Meetings are held daily among the ples. So instead of grabbing a hasty offcers to iron out last minute de- bite of K rations our first meal tails of the landing. Day by day, ashore, we sat and lunched on turthe marine troops are fully briefed key wings and oranges. on what they are to do. There are low chalky cliffs on this Everything we read about Okinawa 'stresses that the place is lousy island. In these cliffs are caves. In with snakes. It's amazing the num- the caves are brick colored urns a ber of people who are afraid of couple of feet high. And in these snakes. Okinawa "snake-talk- " crops urns are the ashes of many honorable ancestors. into every conversation. Our bombardment had shattered On the last day we changed our money into newly manufactured "in- many of these burial vaults. What vasion yen," drew two days K ra- our guns missed, the soldiers and tions, took a last bath, and packed marines took a- precautionary look our kits before supper. We had a into by prying off the stone slabs huge turkey dinner and, say, we at the entrances. In front, looking out to sea, stands have steak and eggs for breakfast. "Fattening us up for the kill," our nvghty fleet with scores of little black lines extending to shore our the boys laughingly say. thousands and thousands of landAt three o'clock on the last afternoon there was a celebration of the ing cit ft bringing more men and Lord's Supper. It was the afternoon big gtrs and supplies. And behind me, not two feet away, before Easter Sunday. A lot of us could not help but feel the tragic is a cave full of Which is just the way it should be. What a irony of it, knowing about tomornice Easter Sunday after all. row's battle. t, . , t t - 5V,X - 77: . l After two years of legal practice, Franklin entered politics, Democratic running on the ticket for the New York state senate. He unexpectedly defeated a strong Republican candidate. From the beginning of his career he identified himself with reform movements, opposing the poverful Tammany organisation in the statehouse. He was in 1912, by which time he had become a leader of faction. the fii,lll7vn f similar Cross-Count- Radio ry Programs Sent Via Wire Millions of Americans do not realize that many radio program, they hear travel greater distance over telephone lines than throuea the air". For example, a network Prol gram that originates in New York and is heard in San Francisco, through a local station is trans, mitted some 3,000 miles by wire but le6s than 30 miles by radi waves. House. . , n" Many ; POST'S fom BRAN GOIDEV FIAKS OF COMBAED anti-Tamma- Woodrow Wilson appointed Roose- velt FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT JANUARY 30, 1882 APRIL 12, 1945. THE guns of America's fighting forces sounded ever closer AS the doom of Nazi Germany and Imperial. Japan, Fran&in died in Warm Springs, Georgia, where he had Roosevelt Delano 10 for been resting days. Death resulted from a cerebral hemorrhage at 4:35 p. m. on 12 April 12. Mr. Roosevelt was 63. He had been President for years, one month and nine days. The White House was announced as the site of the funeral, witn interment ai me zamuy esiaie ai Hyde Park, N. Y. Less than four months had elapsed since he had taken his historic oath of office for a fourth term. Only a few weeks before he had returned from the Yalta conference where in company with Marshal Stalin of Russia and Prime Minister Churchill of Great v Britain he had labored to built an enduring peace. Fate denied Franklin Roosevelt the chance to enjoy the fruits of victory over the Axis. Yet history seemed destined to enshrine him as one of the immortal American Presidents. And every citi zenwho mourned the untimely passing of the Commander-in- Chief felt that he was a casualty of the war just as every Lr.l., Marine and Sailor who had fallen in battle. Never before had an American President died in wartime. - . Abra- ham Lincoln fell under Assassin Booth's bullet just five days after the surrender of General Lee's army at Appomattox in 1865. Woodrow Wilson lived to see victory ever Germany in World War I, but he fought a losing battle for the League of Nations and died early in 1924, a defeated leader. Many historians believe Lincoln's greatness might have been dimmed in the conflicts over reconstruction that followed the War Between the States, just as Wilson's prestige was lost in the conflict over the league that followed World War I. Thus Franklin Roosevelt, dying at the height of his career just as victory was to be achieved over Germany, seemed likely to live in history as a great man. As the American people from Main Street to Riverside Drive mourned the death of Franklin Roosevelt, their prayers went up for his successor, Harry S. Truman. For on the shoulders of this slight, Missourian had gray, been laid a responsibility such as no American President had ever borne. What the consequences of the President's death would be to the United States and the world, time alone ' would tell. But as Americans recovered from their first shock at the news, they quickly determined two things. The war must be prosecuted to as speedy and victorious a finish as possible. Lasting peace must be established. x!"ss&tii", of the Roosevelt proved himself an efficient administrator, handling billions of dollars' worth of contracts for ships and supplies. He served in this post throughout the war. Ran for Vice President. In 1920 the Democratic national convention chose him as running mate for James Cox. While campaigning for the vice presidency Roosevelt made many scquaint-ance- s valuable in later political life. Cox being defeated, F.D.R. returned to legal practice. The following year the great tragedy of his life struck him infantile paralysis. The big, strong young man became a bedridden invalid, For months he lay without ambition, almost without hope. Slowly his powr, erful will took command, and by persistence be regained the use of ' partially his muscles. It was during his convalescence at Warm Springs, Ga., that he determined to do what he could to eradicate the scourge that had almost ruined him. The "March of Dimes" campaign was the result. At the Democratic conventions o 1924 and 1928, he aligned himsel with the group supporting Alfret E. Smith, New York's governor. When Smith was nominated in 1928, Roosevelt ran for governor of his state and was elected. At the end of his term he was again elected, this time by the greatest majority ever given to a New York governor. As governor he continued the reform and improvement policies of his predecessor Smith. His achievements attracted nationwide attention. As the depression that began late in 1929 deepened, his efforts to control the mounting business failures, unemployment and in his state revealed his abilities as a vigorous leader in grave times. Swept in as President. When the national convontinn met in Chicago in 1932 Roosevelt was quickly chosen. He was swept into office by a plurality of seven million votes, carrying 42 states. Both houses went Democratic. Before he could take office a wave of bank failnres threatened the whole economic structure. The famous "bank mora-l?order on of Boose-V- f. ?rst offldal acts. closed Is all banks untf! tbey could be on a sounder thus preventing disastrous basis, In the spring of 1932 cameruns. the repeal of the 18th, or prohibi-S,? v eBd!ne.,,t Then cam Industrial Recov- - NEW breakfast i ides ll A magic flavor combination-Po- st's 40 Bran Flakes phis fctj of tender, seedless raisins . . . right in the same package. Folks are raving about it So ask your groctr for Post Raisin Bran in the big package today. It's oexicious! ft', ki n blue-and-whi- ar 0 Islllll The Amazing Fast, Dry Yeast! Use Jast like Compressed Yeest i. dis-tre-ss HARRY S. TRUMAN 33rd PRESIDENT OF U. S. long-rang- I s Meuse-Argon- winch extensive emergency nfWT KTanted t tt . 1 -- un- with numerous executive and acts of this first term Were approved in general as necessarv to the face of widespread lee-islati- .il JJelpbJa tbe conveHon in Phi. nominated Roosevelt acclamation on the first t. He carried 45 states in th. ctions This second term m. Jonty wa, So overwhelming that can Mt a'" beierS from the tb!s Drn? number of mea. "es w Passed to Increase M36 bal-lo- ssfv. V pow- - l?,; .!!".' of public W"C, ntnon2ed to combat employment, together feHeef."PPrPriaUons for Nothing new to learn whea J bake with this quwf rising dry yeast Use k just compressed yeast and turn out batch of delicious, golden croiwj bread and rolls in a few hours. YwTj kvc the wonderful, flaAr nvmm P"Sl-- ne ic Acts Extra Fast! Requires No Special Tricks! m ae-th- in Demo-.crat- 1 delicious hew-eve- two-ye- may be maintained in helping win e the peace. He faces the job of guiding the nation to postwar economic prosperity once Nazi Ger many and Japan are finally defeated Known as a plain, modest man who has not dramatized himself personally, President Truman nevertheless has demonstrated on many occasions that he can be a leader of force and determination. His work as chairman of the Truman committee in the U. S. senate investigating the conduct of the war is cited as an example of this. And his conduct of the Vice Presidency has shown that he can work successfully with political leaders of both parties in getting needed measures And so, regardless of party or of passed and in reconciling oppast political differences, the peoposing points of view. ple have rallied behind Mr. Truman. The 33rd President was born in The new President faces the immediate task of directing American Lamar, Mo., May 8, 1884, although the home of the family for four participation in the United for a permanent world generations had been on a farm near Independence, Mo. organization. He likewise faces the Served in World War I. responsibility of establishing work- -, When World War I broke out, ing relations with other members of the Big Three, so that the per-- , Truman became captain of Batsonal cooperation which existed tery D in the field artillery of tween Franklin D. Roosevelt, Josef the 35th Division and saw Stalin and Winston Churchill in at SL Mihiel and in the offensive. leading the Allies toward victory Back in Truman Independence, 'Extended Action Bill Goes Into Effect and a war buddy opened a haberPRECEDENTS OUT: dashery business. He married his Throughout his career as Presi- boyhood sweetheart, Bess Wallace, Meal hours, instead of being at protect you from bomb burns which dent, Franklin D. Roosevelt was and they have one daughter, Mary 12 and 6 o'clock sharp, were changed may fall on board ship. known as the "rjreodint to run from 11 till 1, and from 4:30 was issued "flash Margaret. Everybody That was first conferred in 1932 Truman later turned to politics could men so on watch that tp 8:30, gear." That consists, of several when title he flew out to Chicago from for a career, which started with his trade off and dash in for a bite. items a thin gTay 'hood that cov- ' election as County Judge of JackThe captain never left the bridge, e's your head and hangs down over Albany, N. Y., to address the convention that had riomi- - son county. Mo. In 1926 he became either to eat or sleep. your shoulders; a white cloth on an the presiding, judge of Jackson When you came into your cabin, clastic band to cover your noso and nated him. It continued nftr M thev endorsement of you found, your bunk had been made mouth; isinglass goggles for yocr election as a result of his informal county, up with a "flash sheet" around it. eyes; and long .gray cloth gloves niifthoda of transacting business. Tom Pendergast, political boss of . 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