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Show Pres. Roosevelt Dies Suddenly At Georgia little White House' i President Franklin D. Roosevelt died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage hemor-rhage at 4:35 p.m. eastern war time (2:35 p.m. mountain war time) this Thursday and Harry S. Truman was sworn in at 7.08 pjn. as the 32nd president of the United States. Mr. Roosevelt, the first man ever to serve more than two terms as president, died in the "Little White House" at Warm Springs, Georgia; as armies he helped to muster drove toward final victory over nazi Germany. Worn out at 63, he died as other forces fighting in freedom's name foretold the doom of militarist Japan. He died on the eve of what he had hoped would be the inauguration inaugura-tion of an era of peace in a world at long last free of want and fear. Mr. Roosevelt left as his successor the 61-year-old Harry Truman of Independence, Missouri. The thirty-first president died at 4:35 p.m. eastern war time of a "massive "mas-sive cerebral hemorrhage." The thirty-second president took Ithe oath of office from Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone less than three hours later, j The new chief executive's first j statement was: j "It will be my effort to carry! on as I believe the president would j have done, and to that end I have I asked the cabinet to stay on. with me." Mr. Truman's second act as president was to instruct Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius jr. to go ahead "as planned" with what perhaps was Mr. Roosevelt's dearest project the united nations 9 conference at San Francisco April 25 to chart a road to peace on earth. Mr. Roosevelt's body is to be taken to Washington Friday. Mrs. Roosevelt went to Warm Springs by plane Thursday night to accompany accom-pany her husband back to the" White House for the last time. Funeral services will be held in , the east room of the White House I on Saturday afternoon. Mr. Roose-j Roose-j velt's last resting place will be on ! the ancestral estate he loved at j Hyde Park, Ney York. I The president's death before ' realization of the victory he work-j work-j ed so hard to assure shocked the world and stunned the capital. It occurred on a pleasant spring day in a charming little room overlooking over-looking a green and lovely Georgia valley. ' ! He died in his quarters at the Warm Springs foundation, which he called his "second home". He called it that because in Warm Springs' healing waters he often had found surcease from infantile paralysis, the affliction which he had borne without murmur since 1024. He had gone there in a vain effort ef-fort to throw off the weariness which seamed his face and sagged his shoulders after perhaps the most momentous event of his international career the big three meeting at Yalta. A victim of the paralysis which had left his legs withered, he was a shining example of courage and determination to millions of like sufferers the world over. He proved to them that physical calamity need not crush the spirit. |