| Show Entire Nation Mourns Death Of Franklin D. D Roosevelt Vast Tasks Face Truman l 4 i 4 A v I I t Js r H J FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT JANUARY 30 APRIL 1882 APRIL 1882 APRIL 12 1945 19 S THE guns of Americas America's fighting forces sounded ever closer the doom of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan Franklin Delano Roosevelt died in Warm Springs Georgia where he had been resting for 10 days Death resulted from a cerebral hemorrhage at 4 35 p p. p m. m on April 12 Mr Roosevelt was 63 He had been President for 12 years one month and nine days The White House was announced as the site of the funeral with interment at the family estate at Hyde Park N. N Y Less than four months had elapsed since he had taken his historic historic his his- oath of office for a fourth term Only a few weeks before he I had returned from the Yalta conference where in company with Marshal Stalin of Russia and Prime Minister Churchill of Great 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 citizen citi citi- citizen zen who mourned the untimely passing of the in Commander-in- Chief felt that he was a casualty of the war just dust as every G. G GI Marine and Sailor who had fallen in battle Never before had an American President died in wartime Abraham Abraham Abraham Abra Abra- ham Lincoln fell feU under Assassin Booths Booth's bullet just five days after the surrender of General Lees Lee's army at Appomattox in 1865 Woodrow Wilson lived to see victory over Germany in World War Var 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 greatness greatness great great- ness might have been dimmed in inthe inthe inthe the conflicts over reconstruction that followed the War Var Between the States just as Wilsons Wilson's prestige was lost in the conflict over the league that followed World War Var I. I Thus Franklin Roosevelt dying at atthe atthe atthe the height of his career just dust as victory victory victory vic vic- vic vic- tory was to be achieved over Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many seemed likel likely to live in history history history his his- tory 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. S Truman For on the shoulders of this slight gray year old Missourian had been laid a responsibility such as asno asno asno no American President had ever borne What the consequences of the Presidents 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 kly determined two things The war must be prosecuted to as speedy and victorious victorious' a finish as possible Lasting peace must be And so regardless of party art or of past political differences the people people peo peo- pie have rallied behind Mr Truman The new President faces the immediate immediate immediate im im- im- im mediate task of directing American participation in the United Nations' Nations blueprints for a permanent world organization He likewise faces the responsibility of establishing working working work work- I ing relations with other members of the Big Three so that the personal personal personal per per- cooperation which existed between between between be be- tween Franklin D. D Roosevelt Josef Stalin and Winston Churchill in inI leading the Allies toward victory I y y 4 r r f HARRY BARRY S. S TRUMAN IAN PRESIDENT OF U. U S. S e S may be maintained in helping win the peace He faces the range long-range job lob of guiding the nation to postwar economic prosperity once Nazi Ger Ge Germany Germany Ger- Ger many and Japan are finally defeated Known as a plain modest man who has not dramatized himself personally President Truman nevertheless has demonstrated demonstrated demonstrated dem dem- on many occasions that he can be a leader of force and determination His work as chairman of the Truman committee committee committee com com- in the U. U S. S senate in investigating investigating investigating in- in the conduct of the war is cited as an example of this And his conduct of the Vice Presidency y has shown that he can work successfully with political leaders of both parties in getting needed measures passed and in reconciling opposing opposing opposing op op- op- op posing points of view The President was born in Lamar Mo May 8 1884 although the home of the family for four generations had been on a farm near Independence Mo Served in World War I. I When World War I broke out Truman became captain of Battery Battery Battery Bat Bat- tery D in the field artillery of I the Division and saw action action action ac ac- ac- ac tion at St. St Mihiel 1 and in the Argonne Meuse-Argonne offensive Back in Independence Truman and a war buddy opened a haberdashery haberdashery haber haber- business He Ho married his boyhood sweetheart Bess Wallace and they have one daughter Mary Margaret Truman later turned to politics for tor a career which started with his election as County Judge of Jackson Jackson Jackson Jack Jack- son county Mo In 1926 he became the presiding judge of of Jackson county with the endorsement of Tom political boss of Kansas City He studied law at night and supervised the construe construe- j |
