Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 April 1945 — Page 4
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the Warm Springs foundation. Some | two hours before the faint beat.of
the muffied drums signalled the approach of the cortege, the patients like Mr, Roosevelt, victims of infantile paralysis—had hobbled out in - front . of the main dormitory Some were wheeled by: their nurses. In a semi-cir¢le they watched the
+ cortege pass. Here there were tears,
and frank and open sorrow, A 13-year-old, Jay Fribolrg, said: “I love him so much.” He clenched his teeth to keep back the sobs. - Chief Petty Officer Graham Jackson, a Georgia Negro who was a favorite of the President's, stepped
fromthe. circle of mourners. He
had his .accordion which he had Soften played ToF-2-Roaevell:s As the cortege approached, he lifted the accordion and played the haunting strains of Dvorak's “Going Home” from the new world symphony. - Then he played “Nearer My God to Thee.” e " Standing there, too, was old Tom Logan. For 14 years he had been Mr. © Roosevelt's waiter at Warm Springs. His chin trembling and his shoulders shaking, the whitehaired Negro watched the body of his friend pass by. “Lord God, take care of him now,” he said.
Placed Aboard Train
Slowly the procession passed on. The victims of the malady with
whom Mr. Roosevelt had a special
bond watched it Sissppear in the distance. At 10:55 a. m. the President's casket was placed aboard the train by eight enlisted "men, the picked body guard for the last journey. Mrs. Roosevelt, accompanied by the President's two cousins, Miss Laura Delano and Miss Margaret Suckley, and Grace Tully, the President’s secretary, boarded the train.: The train was the same as the Presidents usual special, with one extra car” making eleven cars in all. Crowd Bares Heads As the troops in their olive drab stood at attention and the. townsfoik of Warm Springs bared their heads, the train pulled out of the station at 11:13 a. m, E. W. T. (10°13, a. m. (Indianapolis Time). The crowd stood silently as the train gathered speed and rumbled northward along the tracks. Finally it rounded a bend and all that could be seen was a thin trail of black smoke. Even then the townsfolk and the troops stood silently as the Georgia sun beat down more strongly. Then, in: little knots the crowd
broke up.
The army troops broke rank and into the busses that were. tp take .them - back Benning: rom” Townsfolk strolled to their homes ‘Farmers climbed into their cars for the drive back. For the last time the President had left Warm Springs. The train will make a slow run to Washington. It is scheduled to| arrive in the capital's union sta-| tion at 9 a. m. (Indianapolis time) |
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Jomorrow.
The President died at 3:35 p. m (Indianapolis time) yesterday of a cerebral] hemorrhage that struck him 2'2 hours earlier. Death came to him in a small bedroom of “the Little White House” at the Warm Springs foundation, his : “other home.” He was 63. { Services Tomorrow
Funeral services will be held in the east room of the White House at 3 p. m. (Indianapolis time) tomorrow. At 9 p. m., the same day, | the funeral party will leave Wash- | ington by train for the ancestral Roosevelt estate on the Hudson at Hyde Park, N. Y. It will arrive there at 8 a. m. Sunday. The President will be buried at
9 a. m. (Indianapolis Time): Sunday
in the sunlit garden between his
. Hyde Park home and the Franklin
D. Roosevelt library—a garden bordered by hemlock hedge and a profusion of rose bushes. In Failing Health Mr. Roosevelt had been in slowly failing health for more than a year, but no one knew that he was suffering from any critical organic weakness. The first foreshadowing of death came at about 2 p. m, yesterday. The President suddenly put his hand to the back of his head and said he had “a terrific headache. They were the last words he ever spoke. He fainted a few minutes later and never regained consciousness. The funeral party going to Hyde Park will include the cabinet, heads of government agencies, a group of representatives and senators; su-| preme court justices, members of the family, and some of the President's close friends, Family Summoned The Roosevelt family wak being summoned. to Washington, Two sons now overseas will not be able to attend the funeral—Lt, John and;
Lt. Cmdr. Franklin Jr, both in the) navy—but their wives will be there. | Other family members at” the serv- |
ices will include Col. and Mrs.! James Roosevelt and Brig. Gen, and | Elliott Roosevelt.” Elliott coming from Europe, Until the burial, the President's!
body will be guarded 24 hours a |
by four chosen from enlisted men |
The sentries were d at each of the four corners the coffin and will be rotated gular shifts. was the only guard of honor | We These wetw 5 plate sident to le iy state in|
What the trouble was.
the navy, the army and the man the new President.
By UNITED PRESS Secretary of State Edward R
American to become first in line for the presidency of the United States. Stettinius would automatically become acting president under an act of 1886 in the event of death, resignation, removal or disability of President Harry S. Truman, Only two other secretaries of state bécame second man of the nation upon ascension of the vice president after the death of a chief executive. They were John Hay, of state when Theodore Roosevelt succeeded William McKinley,
Stettinius is the third non-elected |
secretary !
and ¢
TCHarles Bans Hughes; ~seeretary-
of state when, came Presiden Warren Harding.
givin. Coolidge be: pon the death of
Early, who flew with Mrs. Roosevelt here from Washington, said she bore her grief “very nobly—in fact, was heroic.” "First-Lady, in Seclusion Shortly after she reached the little White House, Mrs. Roosevelt went into seclusion. Previously,
however, she had discussed the fu-| {neral plans with members of the
staff and reached quick-clear cut
{decisions for the simple rites which she felt the President would have |
wanted. All through last night the President's staff worked at a feverish pace for “The Boss,” as they called him. Hundreds of Warm Springs and Meriwether county neighbors wanted to stop by and shake a hand and offer a word of consolation, but marine and/ secret service guards stopped them at the gates to the foundation. The President's death brought big city turbulence to this normally placid little village. Scores of reporters, photographers and radio
she |
representatives poured in by the
hour. A very few of them were|
admitted to the foundation grounds. Death Cancels Barbecue While Mr. ‘Roosevelt lay dying | yesterday, a large party of his
|
Mr. Roosevelt Warm Springs on March 30. He had spent the previous week-end at his Hyde Park home, stopping off | in Washington for five hours. in between. Railroad crews worked all night getting the 11-coach funeral train inorder for the trip-to Washington. They took the same meticulous care
with the presidential special as‘in |
the past. Two big engines of the Southern railroad were assigned to pull the train, and that was about the only thing to distinguish it from any other. The President's car was the last one 5 The White House luggage and effects of others who were to ride the train were loaded last night. -A small ctowd of curious stayed
around the loading platform most but marine guards “earbifies” “Sng” “BVT “THERE
of the with _shoufbers kant ‘them from. Seing; too close.
New Precident Prompt on Job
WASHINGTON. April 13 (U. P.).—Life pretty much- followed its usual routine at the White House today as the first: new President in more than 12 years Began his first working day. White. House executive 'employees, including Press Secretary Jonathan Daniels, began arriving about 8 a. m." (7 a. m. Indianapolis time), a little earlier than usual. - But the atmosphere was a good deal more normal might have been expected. Outside, a groundskeeper methodically guided a motor-driven lawnmower across the north lawn. At 8:41 a. m, a bright green bread truck snaked down the northwest driveway, unloaded its ! wares at the pantry door and | then rumbled back to Pennsylvania ave. ; At 8:58 a. m. the captain of White House police announced to ,the mushrooming - crowd of newsmen and photographers: “Get ready, boys. He'll be here
night,
i in a couple of minutes.”
friends were waitifig in innocence |
ioned barbecue given by Mayor
Frank Allcorn of Warm Springs.
The Brunswick stew was bubbling!
in a huge cook pot, country fiddlers were playing “The Cat and the Chicken,” and everyone was on his
TRUMAN TO FIGHT
toes for the chief executive's ar-|
rival. He was supposed to have been there at 4:30 o'clock and when he didn't arrive at
for him to appear at an old-fash-| Arrived just two minutes
President Harry S. Truman, riding in a black limousine wellguarded by secret ‘service men, later, at 9 a. m.—exactly the time he | said last night he would begin work. | |
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FOR FOR PROGRAM
WASHINGTON, April 13 (U.P).
that scheduled | —Congress expects, President Trii-
moment, someone called ‘the: “Little man to fight for ghe legislative pro- |
White House”
switchboard to ask’ gram fostered by President Roose=! At the same velt to commit the United States to ROMER, “Eouisa Hatkmeister, the | | a program of worly” colistoraNien |
President's personal telephone oper- | after the war. ator, reached Allcorn’s cottage with
the news. Last night Mr. Roosevelt was to
have attended a minstrel show PUL | that legislation.
There was little to suggest that I 'Mr. Roosevelt's death would eve) | any significant effect on the fate It appeared cer-
fon by infantile paralysis patients) (sin that Mr. Truman would be
[in- wheelchairs and on crutches. | The performers, wheeling chairs out of the tiny playhouse | where they ‘have been rehearsing, were -a throat-clutching sight. Their idol, their biggest source of hope was gone. For it was here 20 years ago that Mr. Roosevelt began to show them. how a person could overcome crippling polio and go on to great things. ~The President's train was sched-
{uled to go from here to Atlanta,
then up through the Carolinas past
their | cessor in seeking to avoid domestic
{even more cautious than his prede-|
dispute§ which might leave political scars jeopardizing the administration's legislative program. Time alone can shed light on Mr Truman's success in rallying public support for ‘his«legislative proposals The major controversies now con-
, fronting congress are:
Greenville and Spartanburg, 8. C., |
and Charlotte, N.C. Lonely Vigil Mrs. Roosevelt spent a lonely vigil at the small cottage where the body
of her husband was being embalmed a
and put in a casket by Atlanta undertakers. Outwardly, she evidenced nothing but sad calm. The President's daughter; John Boettiger, did not accompany
Mrs.
her mother here from Washington.
She remained behind at the White House to supervise the funeral arrangements. there and to prepare for turning the mansion over to| President and Mrs. Truman.
1. Ratification of the Bretton Woods international monetary agreements, now before the house banking committee. 2. Extension and liberalization of the reciprocal trade agreements act, | now before the house ways and| means committee. 3. Senate ratification of the eement expected from the San ancisco world security conference.
WHO'S WHO WASHINGTON, April 13 (U. P) —The 1944-45 issue of Who's Who in Americd devotes 12 lines to the| biography of President Truman. on the same page, the biography of | President Rafael Leonidas Trufillo| Molina of the Dominican republic | is related in 32 lines.
Truman Telephoned News
To Wife in Their Apartment
WASHINGTON, April 13 (U. P), ~Hariy 8. Truman informed
wife of the fateful
event which of any telegrams.
mitted no one to dist'ub the fam-
his! ily and did not permit the delivery
All phone calls
made him President of the United were refused.
States Lady:
and Mrs
Truman the First
Mrs. Truman,
fand Margaret Truman, slim, with|
had arrived at]
{ him.
{ flower by
| Stewart, | Bloomington hospital early today Before he committed the act Bor- |
| tute providing for
| trim, gray-haired.|
Newsboys were swamped as they took to the streets yesterday with the extras carrying details of President Roosevelt's death, Here, as people swarm around the newsie, late afternoon sun rays cut two
spot- -like swaths.
ry .
CHURCHILL CALLS | Truman Oldest
SPECIAL SESSION
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sympathy to the king on the death of “his cousin”—the time-honored designation of the head of a gres* and friendly state. Amid the mourning for Mr. Roosevelt, the realization persisted that the “Big Three” is dead with Saddened and bewildered diplomats, British and allied. felt that the peculiar personal type of negotiations brought into full the Roosevelt-Churchill-Stalin triumvirate had passed away at Warm Springs, never to be revived. o Future in Doubt Whitehall and allied government offices fn London were filled with | wonder at what would happen now | Some quarters even raised the
| question whether the United States |
{would even sit in world security | councils now that Mr. Roosevelt is!
| gone. [ President Truman is virtually Jacob L. Devers, commander of the | There was a 6th army he | history world | Delano proposals greatest President.”
{unknown in Britain. fear .borm -of uncertainty might be unable to get securi organization id the U. 8. senate. As one allied government diplo|mat put’ it, “Everybody here rejoiced. when Roosevelt - was re(elected, chpcanse we. felt we knew | what American poncy: wold be “for! the next four years. But now we are confused.”
JUVENILE QUI QUARREL BLAMED IN DEATH
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, April 13] {U. P.).—A juvenile quarrel was | blamed today Ping
that
fgr the death of Dale | 15-year-old Bloomington -high school sophomore Monroe county coroner Ray Borland said that the youth shot himself through the head last night in the home of his girl friend, Jackie 15 The boy died in
land said. Dale ripped into shreds a photograph of Jackie
U.S. Now Has No
Vice President
ON THE TIP of many tongues today is the question’ “Who now is the dent?” There is none. In 1886 congress enacted a stasuccession to the presidency in.event both the president and vice president are removed from office. The order of succession is | through the cabinet secretaries of state, treasury, war, attorney general, postmaster general, navy and interior. :
vice presi-
RAINBOW VETS TO SEE, INVASION: MOVIES
The Indianapolis chapter of the |
Mrs. Truman received a telephone | jong blonde hair, wore simple brown Rainbow Veterans will hold a din-|
call from her was Coanecticut ave. they have occupied for the past four years Stunned, she immediately called a
friend, Mrs. Oscar J. Ricketts, man=| affection for eaca other.
husband while she gyits. in their unassuming five-room |
“We'll miss them,” Mrs. Ricketts
apartment’ which | yhserved pensively. |
“They just don't come any nicer] or any finer, “I never saw a family with more It’s rather |
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ager of the apartment house, and | ousiantng.
asked her to come up. Leaves by Back Door Mrs. Ricketts said she found her in tears. A few minutes later Mrs Tru-| man, with her/20-year-old daughter, | Mary Margaret, left {he apartment,
| House limousine whica took ther to their future home. There they witnessed the. simple ceremony which made Harry 8. TruThe new ! President, his wife and daughter returned to their 7:30 p. m.
They entered by a back door as | auguration,
secret service men \nbld back a small crowd of curious’ neighbors. . A squad ot abou: 3 dimen | secret J - stationed about
is| house by the back door in a White |
ner ‘meeting at 6:30 p. m. today in | the Hotel Riley. Sound movies of the invasion of Tarawa and Iwo Jima will be shown by Carl Fries, film committee chairman of the Red Cross. Reservations for the dinner are to be made with Harmon W. Young, secretary.
F. D. R. Seventh President To Die While i in Office
NEW YORK, April 13 (U. P).~1{ Franklin D. Roosevelt was the) seventh President to die in office, | and the first during wartime, Tie |
other six were: WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON
apartment at_ai 68 of pneumonia in Washington | second term,
T April 4, 1841, a month after his in-
ZACHARY TAYLOR at 65 of
re Rois fever in the White House on
Jase. she ear Ialowiiy bis
jan assassin’s bullet in Buffalo on
absassin’s bullet in Washington on April 15; 1865, immediately after the fend of the Civil war and at the start of his second term. WILLIAM McKINBEY at 58 of
Sept. 14, 1901, in the first Year of
JAMES GARFIELD at 49 of an assassin’s bullet in Elberon, N. J, on Sept. 19, 1881, the year he ‘was inaugurated.
WARREN G. HARDING at 87 of]
heubuontd 85 Francisco on Aug.
Germany,
Of Successors
By UNITED PRESS President Harry S. Truman, 61 is the oldest vice president to succeed to the Presidency upon the death of a United States chief executive. The others who moved to the White House upon the death of presidents were: JOHN TYLER succeeding” William Harrison at 51. MILLIARD, FILLMORE succeeding Zachary Taylor at 50 ANDREW JOHNSON succeeding Abraham Lincoln at 56 CHESTER. ARTHUR succeeding
|_James Garfield at 50.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT succeeding" William McKinley at 42 CALVIN COOLIDGE succeeding Warren Harding at 51
DEVERS LAUDS F. D. R. : WITH THE U. S. TTH ARMY, April 13 (U. P.).—-Gen that
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WASHINGTON, April 13 (U. P.).|
~—Franklin Delano Roosevelt's last public appearance was on the night |
conch} in Jovial Mood Aft Last Press Conference
By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press Staff Correspondent WARM SPRINGS, Ga., April 13/{ (U, P.)~This is the story of President Roosevelt's last press conference, On April 5 he called in the three press association reporters who have trgyeled with’ ‘him during the war. At about 2 p. m, they were ushered into the living room of the “Little White House” where the President and President Sergio
| Osmena__of the Philippines had
been in day-long conference. Mr. Roosevelt was sitting before the living room fireplace—his favorite spot in the house. He seemed to be in an easy, friendly mood as he presented the reporters to Osmena. Fitting a cigaret into his famous, scorched ivory holder, the Presi: dent started talking about what he
~|and Osmena had discussed during
the day. Osmena was a guest only for the
day and he and the President had |
talked. looking forwar to “a not- too-distant “day when
dependent. Talked About Bases
The President said that Japan,
like Germany, would not be .allowed to retain or build up any force capable of waging war. Ja-|
pan, he added, ‘will be policed like
Germany will be. He sald it would be necessary to throw the Japanese out of all their | bases and mandated islands be-
cause they had violated their man- |
dates by arming® these island ports. | He said he and Osmena had] talked about bases for forces of | | the tinited nations — particularly | this country, because obviously the | | United States will be more or less | | responsible for security throughout {the Pacific after the war. The start of their discussion, he
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2 | the President's cousin, Miss Laura
| Delano, snoozed and snored coms fortably at one end of the room. Fala, the President's Scottie, waddled around from person to person, sniffing trouser cuffs and trying to take some of the lime light away from the snoring of the Irish setter. The President was enthusiastio about his hopes for early Philippine independence. He said he thought it could come to pass in a -matter of months. . He said he had a series of possi= ble dates when the Philippines could be given their own, free government and that he was happily confident that this would be done in advance of the July, 1946, date | for Philippine independence set by congress as a deadline,
Reporters Interrupt There were a number of other quéstions involving this country {and the Philippines which the
President and Osmena discussed—
q| tard, relief- and the redemption of
er Rhilippine. Laxasion. money S8.E by
¢ our forces.”
tails about our taking over the Jap= anese mandates under what the | President called" a trusteeship. Who { would be in control, they wanted to
know. The President said simply—,
the united nations; practically, the (nations who have been doing the | fighting, He thought this countyy should | provide relief for the Philippines | according to a definite plan, on the theory that the Philippine people | became involved in the war because of this nation and the Japanese ale | tack on Pearl Harbor. The United States, he said, should restore certain practical things, such as highways and bridges. He | said in this connection. that he | thought surely this country would | want the old Manila cathedral of
of March 22 when he was a guest | said, was in terms of need on a|gt Dominic restored as a gesture
at the annual dinner of the White | House Correspondents association here. | He joined some 800 others—news- | papegmen and their guests—in en{joving a special program by radio entertainers. i Mr. Roosevelt, a twinkle in his eve, closed the dinner by announcing that since he thought about the welfare of humanity morning, noon and night he was canceling his | press conference scheduled for thei following morning. { He figured that the newspaper: men might like to celebrate long and heartily without concern about having to arise too early the next day.
PLANS CARD PARTY | The South Side Service club will have its monthly card party at 8:15 p. m. tomorrow. Mrs. Thomas O'Neil and Mrs. Thomas York are
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| world. basis, not just a national ! basis. And, he added in a grave voice,
we accept a trusteeship to main-
{tain adequate naval and air in-
stallations to take care of that,
| section of the Pacific
He did not define “that section” but made it plain he was thinking in terms of any Japan might seize in another era for aggressive purposes, > Seemed at Ease As he “talked, the stopped ‘to cough lightly at fre- | quent intervals. He smoked 'sev-
eral cigarets, but seemed -to be at|
complete ease. He sat back in his big chair and leisurely séanned a
memorandum on Philippine condi-|
tions as he talked.
It was a peaceful, sunny after-|
noon. The Georgia sunshine streamed in through the big windows at the President's back.
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| of sentiment. ‘Some Other Things’ Osmena nodded agreement to | everything. He looked a little frail, | dust having undergone an operation at Jacksonville, Fla., but his dark 2) 3 lighted up when the President | spoke of independence. The interview was about over. Mr. Roosevelt began to scan some
other papers and the reporters got
{the idea that one of the greatest news wells the world has ever known was. about to go dry—for | the ‘moment, at least. “There are some other things* a reporter said, “such as what hape pened with one vote versus three votes for Russia at San Francisco.” | That, the President said, with a laughing roar, is not even subtle, | Then he assured “the boys” thas he would talk with them several times more before the trip ended, But’ he didn't. He died.
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