The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-04
New Pilot Is Sworn Into
Office by Chief JUS
tiCe Hughes.
THOUSANDS SEE RITE
Heaviest Burden of Peace
time Responsibility Is
Taken From Hoover.

WASHINGTON, March 4.
Franklin D. Roosevelt be-
came President of the United
States today.
With uplifted hand, the advocate
of the new deal" was sworn in by
Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes
before thousands of spectators on
a. white-painted stand in front of
the Capitol.
AS the solemn voice of the chief
justice echoed across the vast
throng, Mr.. Roosevelt took from the
shoulders of Herbert Hoover the
heaviest burden of peace-time re-
sponsibility that any President since
Lincoln has faced.
Biting raw winds swept the
crowds. Cold. gray skies chilled
many thousands of spectators who
had been waiting for hours.
COlOrfuI Ceremony
A few moments before Vice Presi-
dent John N. Garner had been
sworn inside the senate chamber
with the outgoing and incoming
Presidents, the supreme court, the
old and new cabinets, diplomats in
their brilliant uniforms and hun
dreds of smartly dressed women in
the galleries looked on.
Then Mr.. Roosevelt and Mr.. Hoo
YER appeared on the high wooden
stand erected against the east wall
of the historic capitol building. A
white painted canopy, garlanded
with laurel strands and decorated
with American flags and the coat
of arms formed the setting for the
event.
Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. Hoover
sat near each other during the cere-
mony Practically every important
figure in The old and new admins
trations, and of congress, was
gathered on the platform.
The hour of destiny had arrived.
With it came the gravest domestic
responsibilities of any President
since Lincoln.
The nation waited eagerly, hope
fully prayerfully as it's newly chosen
leaders took over these responsible
wasities shortly after noon.
Con0reSc AIva;{e CoH
Mr.. Roosevelt's hour of triumph
was sobered by concern over the
banking situation in a number of
states.
His plans completely we're screened
behind tight silence.
Anticipating that he would be
ready to act swiftly, members of
the new congress had been ordered
by their leaders to stand by for
possible immediate call.
Until almost midnight Mr.. Roose-
welt sat with his circle of serious
advisers in his room at the May
flower hotel. Three blocks away in
the Lincoln study at the White
House sat President Hoover, with his
advisers. Nothing that transpired
in either room was permitted to be-
come public.
Until $3.50 a, M, lights burned in
the treasury building, where Treas
ury Secretary Ogden Mills. William
H. Woodin, the incoming treasury
head, and Professor Raymond
Moley, one of Mr.. Roosevelt's adj
visers, met in secret conference
with members of the federal reserve
board. The building was surround
ed by extra guards and the doors
locked.
100000 Inaugural Visitors
Mills, after remaining with Pres
ident Hoover until nearly midnight.
had hurried from a back door across
the street to the treasury building.
Acknowledgement William Mitchell
and Henry M. Robinson, Los
Angeles banker and one of Mr.. Hoo
ver's personal economic advisers, sat
with Mills in the Presidents study
as they went over the entire situa-
ton.
Mills will remain in Washington
several weeks to be available in
event his counsel is needed. Mr..
Hoover, changing his plans for
fishing trip, will stand by in New
York City for few days. attending
to personal business, meanwhile.
Out on the streets there was
gayety today Music from hundred
bands floated over the flag-decked
city, spreading tidings that Happy
days are here again" Nearly $50
600 visitors scanned the skies, and
noted that it was fair and warm