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Show Nation Mourns Death of Roosevelt; . Truman Sworn in as 32nd President F. D. R. HAD SERVED LONGEST IN WHITE HOUSE; FUNERAL SERVICES SATURDAY AT 2 P.M. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, termed by many as the "outstanding statesman of modern times" died suddenly Thursday of a cerebral hemorrhage at 4:35 p. m. Eastern War Time, and today flags were flying fly-ing at half mast as the nation was declared in a state of mourning. Mr. Roosevelt, the first man to serve more than two terms as President of the United States, died in the "Little White House," at Warm Springs, Ga., as the powerful 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 fore-told the doom of militarist Japan. Harry S. Truman, 61-year old Missourian, was sworn in Thursday at 7:08 p. m.. as the .thirty-second president presi-dent of the nation. He has been labeled as "the man who never wanted to be president." ;f ' " . j i X , j t i. ? i 1 . . . ' , v- - . " j s ", 1 ' . ' ' i ' ' ' ' f ? , , ' if ,' k ' I ' H ' s President Franklin D. Roosevelt . . . the nation and United States, mourn his sudden passing The new chief executive's first statement was: "It will be my effort 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." Mr. Roosevelt's body will be brought to Washington Friday. Mrs. Roosevelt went to Warm Springs by plane Thursday night to accompany her husband hack to the White House for the last time. Funeral services will be held in the east room of the White House , Saturday afternoon. Mr. Roose- , velt's last resting place will be on the ancestral estate he loved at Hyde Park, N. Y. The president's death before re- ' alization of the victory he worked so hard to assure shocked the j world and stunned the capital. ! It occurred on a pleasant spring day in a charming little room overlooking a green and lovely Georgia valley. He died in his quarters at the j Warm Springs foundation which ! he called his "second home." He ! called it that because in Warm Springs' healing waters he had i often found surcease from infan- i tile paralysis, the affliction which ! he had borne without murmur since 1924. He had one there in a vain i effort to throw off the weariness which seamed his face and sagged ! his shoulders after perhaps the most momentous event of his in- ternational 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 cour-age and determination to millions of like sufferers the world over. He proved to them that physical calamity need not crush the spirit. The news of Mr. Roosevelt's death was flashed to Washington from Warm Springs shortly after 4:35 p. m. EWT. The president's old friend, White House Secretary Stephen T. Early, broke the news to Mrs. Roosevelt. She took it with shoulders squared and head high. Talking it over with "Steve" and Vice Admiral Ross T. Mc-Intire, Mc-Intire, the president's friend and physician, she said: "I am more sorry for the people peo-ple of the Amntry and the world than I am for us." Then she cabled a brief message mes-sage to each of the President's four sons, all of whom are fighting fight-ing in this greatest of wars. She told them their father did his job to the end as he would ' want them to do. he said bless you all and all our love and signed sign-ed herself, "Mother." Having dispatched the cables, Mrs. Roosevelt turned to the man who was to take over her husband's hus-band's job. "Is there any way we can help you?" she said. Only three persons were with Mr. Roosevelt when he died. They were Commander Howard G. Bru-en, Bru-en, a member of Mclntire's staff; Lieutenant Commander George Fox, a White House medical aid, and Dr. James Paullin, Atlanta physician who had been summoned summon-ed when the President became ill. At about 1 o'clock, Warm Springs time, Mr. Roosevelt suf. I fered a sudden pain in the back of his head. His last words were: "I have a terrible headache." A moment later he fainted, and did not regain consciousness. (Continued on page Eight) I Nation Mourns ! Death of F.D.R. I Continued from pag; Onei i i-i'ut Ion,; before n:s seizure tin: I'r' -.idcnt had worked through at: ' unu sually l;.n;e r.ile of off-icia! papers. His last olficlal act was to sign legislation extending tht life of the Commodity Credit corporation. ; As he did so, he addressed to j White House Secretary William H:e::ett a typical Roosevelt-ian wisecrack: "Here's where I make law," he said. Mr. Roosevelt haa no notion that death was near when he got up Thursday morning. He made plans for an active and varied day. He had planned to attend a minstrel show. The minstrels were tuning up when the word came that the show would not go on. Mr. Roosevelt had served 12 years, one month and eight days of the unprecedented four terms to which he had been elected. Mr. Truman had served as vice president presi-dent since a few minutes after noon, EWT, last January 20. The oath was administered to Mr. Truman by Chief Justice Harlan Har-lan F. Stone in a brief ceremony in the cabinet room of the White House. Witnesses included the cabinet, whom the new president asked to remain in office, and other top ranking government officials. Truman picked up a Bible resting rest-ing on the end of the bag conference- table, held it with one hand, and placed his right hand on top while Justice Stone pronounced the oath from memory. Truman repeated the oath after him. Justice Stone pressed his hand. Members of the cabinet were flanked around Truman and the justice during the ceremony, which took no more than a minute. min-ute. Standing behind Truman was his wife, whose eyes were tear, stained. Members of the White House staff secretaries and stenog-prphers stenog-prphers some of them with tear-stained eyes, stood silently an the three doorways of the cabinet cab-inet room and watched President Roosevelt's successor sworn in. Mr. Roosevelt's funeral will be held Saturday afternoon in the great East room of the White House There the late president has appeared on countless occasions occa-sions to greet guests before his formal state dinners and met with them later for music. He will be buried Sunday after, noon at Hyde Park the place on the banks of the Hudson he really loved. The dearest role to Franklin Frank-lin Delano Roosevelt was that of country squire. The body will not lie in state. Mr. Roosevelt died in a peaceful peace-ful rural scene. Comander How-awrd How-awrd G. Bruenn, a navy doctor who was with him, said the president pres-ident was "in excellent spirits," at 9:30 a. m., CWT Thursday, In Warm Springs. Shortly before 1 p. m., the president presi-dent was sitting for some sketches. sketch-es. He suddenly complained of-what of-what Commander Bruenn described describ-ed as a "very severe occipital headache." That is an ache in the back of the head. By 1:15 p. m., the president had lost consciousness. "Rrnpnn rPD-li. ed him at 1:30 p. m. Mr. Roosevelt did not regain consciousness and died without pain at 3:35 p. m. CWT. Mr. Roosevelt's death was an. nounced at 5:48 p. m., EWT. Mr. Truman was enroute to the White House by then. Mrs. Roosevelt had been informed, of course, and a cable was en route to the four Roosevelt sons in the service that their father was dead. WHAT PEOPLE CALLED STROKE CLAIMED F.D.R, President Roosevelt died from wltat doctors call a cerebral hemorrhage, hem-orrhage, which means a sudden extensive bleeding in the brain due to a ruptured blood vessel. Non-medical people recognize a cerebral hemorrhage under other names: such as a stroke, or a stroke of apoplexy. This is usually what happens in a case like this: As people grow old their arteries arter-ies lose their elasticity. They become be-come hard, brittle. Usually, with advancing age blood pressure increases. in-creases. Sometimes arteries in the brain grow harder and more brittle than blood vessels in other part of the body. Then someday, usually without warning, a blood vessel In the brain gives way. Blood pours J through the brain, paralyzing nerve centers. |