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Show PROVO (UTAH) -DAILY- -HERALD THURSDAY,- -MARCH' -12;. - PAGE FOUR Harden-sMife Dringo Eccapad Prisoner Cack Here's Day With President Doing Nation's Toughest Job .v. S ! T. i r r 1 MBMiwaiMMMMMMMMWMIIMiMBi!!ry sVsnwnSSSSSMnsi .wu-,'.'.'npnvw he's alone, in his study. - BY TOM WOLF NUA Service Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, March 12 Since . President Roosevelt first took office 10 years ago, his Job has been the toughest of any individual in the United , States. Actual war has brought only one major change. It "has made that toughest" Job a v whole lot tougher. Actually th routines of the Presidential day have changed little since Dec 7. But their whole . tempo has . been quiclc-ened quiclc-ened and intensified. If there ' is such a thing as a "typical" jvarr time day for President Roosevelt, its chronology would read ' some-' thing like this: - The President awakens at ' about eight. As has been bis long ens torn, he eats breakfast la bed; bat even before it, be looks at some morning mall and then tarns to the newspapers. Some of his predecessors preferred pre-ferred to have- their daily papers clipped and only the most pertinent perti-nent sections brought them. Mr. Roosevelt, a very rapid reader, likes to read them In their entirety. Breaicrast, and very oxten me i st)ect: Formal entertaining is r of trimmings. Breakfast is nsu- dent eats dinners-Ms big meal .m, ll, tnr nr. Rom t. Mcln- of the day either in the family tvr. th. PrMldMf. nersonal dining room (the only family physician, wants him to keep his room on the ground floor) or, if weight arouna i7 pounds. After breakfast, Mr. Roosevelt holds a bed-side conrerence wiw After dinner he usually con-his con-his three secretaries, with whom tinues in his study. (The whole he runs over the day's appoint- white House takes complete ments. At about 10:30 he goes blackout precautions every night.) to his office over m the executive Almost any time during the even-wing. even-wing. The big oval office is mark- ingf Mr. Roosevelt may turn to ed with few frills of Presidential njS favorite hobby, stamps, for rank the President's seal is carv- relaxation. He has seldom found ed in the center of the high white time to attend the White House ceiling; coats of arms adorn the movies since war's start, but window valances; the Hue Presi- somehow he still gets a few min-dential min-dential flag stands behind his utes almost daily for reading cur- desk along with the stars and rent books. Stripes. The green office walls are crowded with prints that ; speak of Sailor Roosevelt's love of the sea. ' Mr. Roosevelt works at a large desk cluttered with Its now-fa mous maze of trinkets porcelain Scotties. Democratic donkeys, a pig bank, etc. A miniature Am erican flag flies from a small desk flagstaff. Directly across the room, facing the President, is a large colored map of the world. which now hides the executive or , flee fireplace. - The President works at his . .desk ail day, .usually, having his lunch rolled in on a hot-wagon. Before the war's start, he re - " ceived visitors only during the morning. He is seldom able to rtick to that scheme now, often has his schedule changed as late m 4 p. m. While there are a number of people, including the entire cabinet, who can usually see the President on a moment's notice, the only man . in Wash ington Who is always sure to get an Immediate interview Is Sec retary of State Hull. During the days of peace, Mr. Roosevelt usually went back to the White House around 5: SO In this evening. Now it's usually nearer 6:30 or 7 before he gets "home." Whenever he geto a chance, he dons his dark blue barbing suit with Its maroon monogram and goes for a swim before dinner. Even here he does not get completely away from duties of state. He often invitee for a swim men with whom he wants to talk. . The war has lightened Mr. Roosevelt's duties only in one re- Xi "" t w , Mi Working at his desk all day, the Presl dent may relax with his stamps at night, : - ? CANON CITY, Cblo4 March 12 (HE) Mrs. ' Roy; Best, motherly wife of the Colorado State prison warden, thought an armed posse might get too rough so she set out alone- and brought back an escaped' escap-ed' convictlt:-.;, -. f Explaining her action, Mrs. Best scoffed at suggestions that Harold Coulson, former - house boy at the warden's" residence, might have been trying to capture her as a hostage when he telephoned from a Canon City .' store and told her he was ready, to return. She said she was "not at all afraid." Police were ; scouring the countryside coun-tryside for Coulson,-who fled from the warden's house Sunday night, but Mrs. Best drove to the address without notifying her husband or Other prison officials. She took Coulson . back to the penitentiary and calmly turned him over to surprised sur-prised prison guards. ,T knew Mr. Coulson would treat me as a lady should be. treated," Mrs.- Best said. ' "He knew me as a friend, and he called me when he was in trouble. I did not want anything any-thing to upset that confidence by - ' '-' i " , r-ljSAt ,,,-,1,01! j Hnf) .Tin--"-r ti iWMtw,,, -ws t JLt fc IWlvWe1, ' ' J ' '"n... .jt i-j ,.ti.ii ,,f 4 mi V ' AJassMMasMsassssr7-a-Jt- Trio of Army-- gliders sweeps gracefully Into the air at training center in California .where U. S. Isi lesson of Crete. Single plane tows up to three gliders by using cunerent rope lengua' practicing-ttie ':and releases the&i for soaring at 3000 feet, These are attack weapons - - well-intentioned persons; who might not understand." .. Warden, Be'sVrevealed the story of the capture last' night with a grin arid said he thought .it was the first time ' in' prison history that a warden's wife had captured an escaped convict. ' Because of the .escape, Coulson must serve' four Tnor e years of , his term for armed robbery instead of "he would have been paroled. Prison officials said his action in surrendering surren-dering to Mrs. Best had excused him from solitary confinement. . BODIES OF EIGHT WASHED ASHORE ST. , JOHNS, Newfoundland, March 12 OLE) The bodies of eight the six months he had left before more United States . seamen who were drowned last month in a roaring gale off t the south New . foundland coast . have been re covered in Placentia Bay, it was - revealed today. ; At least 1$9 men were lost whea ' a storm pounded to pieces the destroyer Trutun and cargo ship ' Pollux on the 'rocky coast. i The President goes. to bed us ually around 11 p. m. 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