Show 400 4' - - A -- ---- ''- - - i ‘ t 1II 1r ' ie491 i Ow - 1 - : 11 t ''' - el' 1 ' tt --- x T 4 t :" I 1 0 t At 0 "1 44N 4- - ''' 'd' c-:!- -: I dd" i s : '1i f ' i r ''' ' ': ) :i I ris' r is ‘4 I 1 4 f '''' ') i i v 4 rtt noi --- s 4 4 id I I 10 riff ' ) — -rbounted"111iZ It America's No 1l MI1111011 Is : I t 1 i s 4 4 s I 1- '1 Axe" THE LEGEND OF I I ' III ifflOSTS IN ' f ' '1 1 )777 1 '''' 4i 7 i i — i k 0 I 'I 1 ' ' ? li ' :1 1 4—" N i ' 1" " IN 40!v ' ‘ " - --- Ail- ' 1 '''' A - --- H- ' iIto d I ii - q - 1I i f ) 1) -- T-i ' I It 01mob 4-- -- - ---- 1 ' ''''01 ::411it wrJ 1 4 '' 1" - t f '531 4 ts4 I 1 - - — 07 st 0 4‘ ' ' - ‘O i 777P - - o 1 - -- - 1 - 'i ir VIM 1 ---- 14 ': - - - 7----- - :0 li li dr I ---- NM I 4 1 ii r :: i 1 1t S 1 t FormerJsi41nt Truman i Mrs Trprienight mettles over the White House IV does the ghost of Lincoln rown the lonely corridors? Does the wraith of Andrew Jackson send bursts of eerie laughter echoing from the Great Beyond? Have the mncabre shadows that are said to lurk in the moonbeams of the Oval Room a opectral leg to 'stand on? Or are these "phantoms" — which caused overnight guests to keel over in a faint and servants to flee — merely illusions created by curtains shimmering in the breeze and ancient beams groaning under the weight of history? The notion that our Executive Mansion might be haunted isn't Just a wild of my own The idea would seem preposterous had it not been dignified by a mention from President Harry S Truman's own pen in the book "Mr President" Tucked away in his diary entry for May 27 INS on page 116 is the following psasage: "My daughter and her two pals lane Lingo and Mrs Wright — both lovely kids we sleeping in Lincoln's bed tonight! If! woe not afraid it would scam them too bsdly I would have Lincoln appear The maids and butlers swear be has appeared on several occasions It is said that even Mrs Coolidge saw hine7 Now here was an admission that no reporter Could afford to disregard t an intimation by the President of the United States that he might be sharing the White House with a ghost — and a Republican President at that others feport eerie Here I- a roundup of - I Roosevelt n in the old a th by I ieber a a nany sion s d4 ece a 4' 1 r' 4Adecided this was one ghost story worth pipe-drea- m (My first hope was that Mr Truman would trite it himself He agreed to discuss this pos-iihdity in Kansas City When I arrived at his (office the stepped briskly from behind his desk shook my hand warmly and thanked ine for making the long trip from New York The Democratic leader struck me h as the sort of man who would have dealt firmly with any ghosts who happened to worm their way into his administradown-to-eart- tion Whoa thumbs Wallis our conversations Mr Truman demunsd at actually doing- the article himDURING - self However be did express himself openly co the subject It was true be said that people in the White House sometimes daimed to see ghosts there heartl‘ He had feet them from his barber in the White tiptoe Then ghost Truman ly the visible spirit of the liGrfteametdE1 7 ter to the legend this wraith troubled mad restive eve of national calamities such as borlmg As moldy pine phmks— vintage 1814 woodwork could account or ghost alarms But Mr Truman cited at least one incident that might qualify as "creepy" In fact he said the sanw thing had happened to him twice during the war He had been awakened in the night by a rapping on his bedroom door Each time he thought it was somebody notifying him that Winston Churchill was phoning frown London Ile got out of bed hastened to the door opened it — and stood aghast Nobody was btricks?mid At such times Mr Truman told me House staffers who are "attuned" to things 'mist they can hear Lincobes pacing worried back and forth m the second floor We asked Mr Truman if be personally had ever mewl anything "spooky' during his tenancy He prefaced his answer with a cautious reminckr that many old houses atak at the nouns hie storm-tosse- d ochoonen And prior to its operation in 1917 the Executive Mamsion was strucawally F — a face-lifti- 4-- nightmare of sagging ceilings falling piaster leaning Wank shaky chandeliers cracked NW Was liana I LT Kansas City detemined to peer deeper behind Ekanor the gossamer artain Next stop: Roosevelt Frankly I expected Mrs Roosevelt to refuse to discuss the subject I was wrong The former First LadY who had used Lincoln's bedroom as her sitting room gave me mote than I had bargained for "Ghost scare? Yes you might say we had one shortly after we moved into the White House" said Mia Roosevelt "It was in 1934 There was a member of the staff named Mary Eban One afternoon she went to the second floor She couldn't have been up there more than three minutes But when she ran dow- nstairs she was terribly wrought up She gasped that she had just seen Abraham Lincoln seated on his bed pulling on his boots" I asked Mn Roosevelt if she ever had any Castilemed on pop 28 I 7 |