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Prime Minister Churchill summoned his cabinet in emergency session there had come fears that the President's death was a blow to the San Francisco objectives. .
Eden Coming for Funeral Churchill was sending Foreign, Secretary Anthony” ‘Eden ‘to attend the President's funeral. There was no. doubt that more than a gesture
"of respect lay in the action,
The arrival of Eden within 48 hours of the President's death will afford the first opportunity for a quick .review by the British foreign secretary and the Anierican President of the complex problems which center around the peace. In Moscow there and sorrow equalling that London. No other world ‘had quite achieved the intimacy and informality of the relations between Premier Stalin and Mr, Roosevelt during the Yalta conference. , the average Russian Mr, Roosevelt had been the very symbol of America and the name of Truman was unknown. Whether the Russians would match the British gesture by dispatching Foreign Minister V. M. ‘Molotov to the United States was not known but was re arded: as unlikely, “Chr Capito): Hilk where Mr. Tri“Han made the unprecedented ges- |? ture of ‘journeying up. to consult his old associates there were plans for a memorial service to’ Mr. Roosevelt. The date was not immediately fixed. A call to the nation’s workers to maintain the natiohal war production “unbroken, despite the President's death, was issued by the war production board in line with what were believed to be Mr, Truman's desires. Stettinius- rushed into Mr. Traman’s office at 10:15, He was the first administration official to confer with the new President. It is Mr,
to Mr. Roosevelt's ambitions that it constitute the foundation stones of 8 permanent structure of world peace. Asks Cabinet to ‘Stay, On’
Mr. Truman arrived at the White House exactly at 9 a. m, (8 a, m. Indianapolis Time).
The first caller of- his adminis- | desire to stay on.
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leader |
Truman's desire that 8an Francisco constitute a memorial |
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hiefs, Proclaims Mourning!
Little White House' Where President Died
Here is the “Little Witte House” at Waim Springs, Ga,, where President Roosevelt died,
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He often
referred to it as his “second home.” and had been resting there since March 30.
Warm Springs, Ga. that
‘Roosevelt was dead. He asked Mr, Roosevelt's cabinet|4 p. m. Saturday, even before Chief|President will travel for the last
to “stay on” Justice Harlan Fiske Stone administered the oath, which the new President took in the White House Sabine room, his family looking on. > Last night the Trumans slept in hep fye-roorm: Cappecticyt apartment in‘ northwest Washirig= ton. There they will remain a little while before moving to the White "House, was beginning’ to change, The secret service guard which
had been somewhat off a formality]
-and a bit of an innovation, Loo — was imposed in earnest. The modest man from. Missouri was discovering himself one of the world’s great public figures with responsibilities to match. Great problems of strategy and state were piling wp, not for another to determine, but for him, The richest nation in the world was adjusting itself to a new managing director.” In- the sharpest sense of the phrase, Mr. Truman
was on the spot, confronted with as| difficult a job &s this nation ever |
entrusted to any man.
Elected to Senate “Twice Mr. Roosevelt, at 63, hat served
{12 years, one month and eight-days
in the office whose cruel exactions
No other man
tration was Hugh Fulton, counsel had served more than eight vears.
for the senate war investigating when Mr. Truman was its chairman. Fulton came to the White House with and spent more than one hour with him. Mr. Filton is expected to be one]
Mr. Truman will be 61 on May 8 Twice elected to the senate after a career in Missouri politics, Mr
the President | Truman had been vice president
only since noon of last Jan. 20. Then in the sequence of a heartbeat yesterday, the unassuming man
of the new President's closest ad | from Missouri became the head of
visers,
, ‘As Mr. Truman went into the White House he smiled at two dozen |
or more photographers. A newsman asked if he had any statement. “Nd, nothing beyond what I said yesterday,” he replied. The new President took the oath of offiee at 6:08 (Indianapolis Time) last night on word from
| the greatest going coricern on earth. The taking of an oath merely formalized a fact. The White House has {ts comman man. Home to Hyde Park Mr. Roosevelt is coming home, {but not to the White House. There {will be a brief pause there tomorrow after the Southern railway funeral specia] arrives from Warm Springs. In the east room, where
WE, TOO,
Are grieved at the sudden
death of our great leader
and join the millions in
offering our heartfelt sym-
pathy.
The MILLER JEWELRY CO. Ine.
Mr, |so often he had been an. easy host, [there will be a funeral service at
| Rev. ave, | McGee of St. [conduct . the White House services: | Present will be the elect of official
But everything last night | thousands who would do Mr. Roose-
‘quiet,
killed him, but also stimulated hig To0sevelt 10r their own,
‘lcan get tough,
Then the late
time to his beloved Hyde Park. The Rt. Rev. Angus Dunn, Episcopal bishop of Washington; the Howard S, Wilkinson -of St. Thomas' church; the Rev, John G. John’s church will
ldom, a choice 200 persons of the
velt personal honor here if they but could attend, Truman Can Get Tough The Rev. W. George Anthony of St. James churéhr will conduct the burial services in Hyde Park Sunday afternoon. Simple as the White House funeral will be, the Hyde Park services will be simpler. There on the banks of the Hudson his neighbors will come, not to bury the President, but to bury the country squire in his own garden. President Truman and his family, gray-haired Mrs. Truman slim, blond daughter, Mary Margaret, will travel north on the Roosevelt funeral frain. The cabinet and the army and navy brass, great figures of congressional and judicial life may go too. But the villagers and the farm folk of Dutchess county will claim Mr.
and
“Qur new President is a quiet, easy-going, smiling fellow like the man Up_the block. Like him, he too. This politically sensitive capital would put him down as somewhat more conservative than Mr. Roesevelt. but inclined -toward the underdog. He's not so left-of-center, if*at all. Will Maintain Policies “It will be my effort,” Mr. after taking the oath, “to - carry on as I believe the President would have done and to. that end I have asked the cabinet to stay on with me.’ Any vice president succeeding to
Truman announced a few minutes:
much and mean it, too. The tests: of objective and policy come later as events unfold. But the men who know him here are confident today that President Truman begins his administration hoping to approach most problems the way he believes Mr. Roosevelt would have approached them. Above all there is agreement “That The Hew “President iawn gi man, profoundly impressed by the |
essity for surrounding himself with | the most competent advisers obtainable.
May Change Advisers
Almost ‘inevitably there will be White House changes and perhapg in time some cabinet shifts. The'| late President's closest advisers— outside the membership of the
gubernatorial days. Their era of great influence probably is coming toward a close. Hurrying to Washington today is James FB. Byrnes, former associate justice of the supreme court and until a few days ago director of the office of war mobilization. Byrnes resigned less devoted to Mr. Roose- | velt than he had been. He was among those bitterly disappointed! at the Demoeratic national conven-! tion last summer. Byrnes, Sen, Alben W. Barkley (D. Ky) and some others thought they had the nod from Mr. Roosevelt to seek the vice presidential nomination in an open field. | F. D. R. a Uniting Force Hardest hurt of all wags Henry A. Wallace, then vice president and
Roosevelt against Byrnes, rest. and let the Word be passed that Harry S. Truman was the man. With =~ Mr. Roosevelt | force that held together the opposing segments- of the New DealDemocratic partys
flashed fhe red light Barkley and the
the White House would say as
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|cities. The dinners’ were in the
{nature of between election years
.| rallies.
Hoosiers cherished memories of Mr. Roosevelt'sc infrequent visits |
to the Midwestern state which gave | him its electoral votes in 1932 and (1038, but deserted him in 1940 for la favorite son, Wendell L. Willkie, |and again in 1944 for another native | { Midwesterner, Thomas E. Dewey, | | t8rmeriy. of Michigan. The President campaigned in Indiana in 1932 and. .1936. His last visit to Hoosier soil was last fall when, shortly before he was elected to a fourth- term, his presidential train crossed northern .Indiana in the course of a trans-continental campaign tour. Mr. Roosevelt appeared briefly at Ft. Wayne and Gary on that occasion. Indiana claimed - the site where
Indiana Activiti ~~ By Death of President
[the ‘Roosevelt destiny was charted. | In 1931, after attending the In-|
Political Washington foresees that
ies Canceled
| dianapolis 500-mile speedway. race. Mr. Roosevelt, then governor of New York, went to French Lick, |Ind, for a three- day conference | with Democratic “governors of 35 | other states. There, the groundwork was laid for his nomination at the 1932 Democratic national conyen- | tion in Chicago. Governor Gates led Hoosiers in | expressing the state's sorrow. “The death of the President of the United States comes at a time
him for leadership,” Gates said.
Roosevelt Gates sent last night. Henry FP. Schricker, former Democratic governor of Indiana,
hended so soon after his passing. Our nation and the world have suffered the loss of a great, if not the greatest, champion of the rights of the common man.”
Others Express Feelings
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: We Join With the Nation in Reverent Respect to a
¢ Great American Leader.’
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| Philippines under Roosevelt,
| has fallen. The truest friend of hu- | | manity has passed away,” Mr, Bays |
| feeling which makes work a burden, and
The STAR STORE
~ * —STORE CLOSED ALL DAY SATURDAY
Other ‘Indiana politically prom- | inent persons commented on the, | President’s passing. Hoosiers broke into the national | spotlight with Mr. Roosevelt. Doubtless his best personal friend | from Hoosierland was Wayne Coy | of Franklin, who served as al presidential aide and in various | federal government capacities until
| he resigned to return to the news-
paper business last year. | Former Indiana Gov.” Paul V. McNutt of Franklin and more -re-
{cently a resident of Martinsville, | became High commissioner to. the | then |
assumed the role of war manpower commissioner, a position he still holds. En route to Washingfon when ne) formed of the President's death, both Fred Bays, state Democratic | chairman, and Mrs. Edna A, Bing-| | ham, state vice chairman, expressed | their deepest regrets, “The greatest soldier in the world |
said. “The nation and the world today mourn the loss of the greatest leader of all time,” Mrs, Bingham sad. |
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bigness of his new job and the nec-|
Roosevelt family — were Harry L.| Hopkins and Judge Samuel I. Ros-| enman, associates of his New York!
now secretary “of commerce. — Mr. |
He left even Wallace stranded |
died the.
when the nation and all the na-, tions of the world were looking to!
The sympathy of the citizens of | the state ‘was conveyed to Mrs. | in a telegram which)
said: “The terrible tragedy of the Pres-| ident's death can hardly be compre- |
leaders of more conservative party elements for the new President's support, | If the White ‘House swings away from the policies of the C. I. O., the
Wallace is on. +
It will come more on domestic issues than, foreign affairs. Mr, Truman has not beer: profoundly informed on international questions, as
not asked. Under him the state department will’ have a freer -hand than under Mr. Roosevelt who was more often than not his own secretary of state. But Mr. Truman will do everything |®
laboration for peace. ‘And thé new President will look!
Jriendship among legislators, * promises for a time, at least, enormously better relations between
Homely dnd colloquial in conver-| sation, Mr. Truman expresses him-|
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Flair for Friedship 1
he would explain even if he were
about next Monday there will begin | self about as your Beighbor might.) {ooference at the White House int a contest between Wallace, the| One of his most recent informa) re- the next four years which should - | spokesman of the left wing, and the!
| marks on post-war problems went avoid many a bruising battle on like this? ithe floor of house or senate, “There's nothing I can do about It will be almost the: same as it because I'm a political etnuch | when Senator Truman sat with his (he rated the influence of the vice co)leagues in Ed Halsey's capitol ofpresidency prétty low). But, I'd do fee at those intimate luncheons
battle between Mr. Truman and 2nYything in the world 1 could 0 which the late secfetary of the sen-
prevent another war,’ ate delighted in giving. Or’ as in No Stiff Conferences his own office When a few political The new President is expected to!or newspaper cronies gathered for a translate that pledge into action by chéérful hour. maintaining the closest possible as. | There will be something different, sociation with the senate—all the too.,. The President of course, will senate—as the San Francisco con-|still be Harry to his friends on inferees negotiate toward agreement. |formal occasions. Best bet here today is that what-
ever agreement comes from the San | Francisco conference with Mr. Tru- | man’s okay will ultimately obtain!
he ca¥ 1n the field of world col=/ Missouri knows his senate inside.
"5 OULTRY There should be nothing stiff or | ° ®
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the White House and Capitol Hill, [af the company is good he'll take
senate approval. The man from
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of the United States likes a drink! before lunch—a good stiff one. And ba A RIO two—a bird can't fly on one wing. i A There'll be’ many a pre- luncheon |
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