Evening star., 1934-11-15
PRESIDENT LEAVES
| TODAY FOR SOUTH
Thanksgiving Proclamation
Prepared Prior to Three
Weeks Busy Soiourn.
BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG.


President Roosevelt win leave Wash
ington late today for q three-week
stay at Warm Springs, Ga, after q
visit to the Tennessee Valley.
Mr. Roosevelt was busy In the early
part Of the day clearing his desk and
disposing Of other pressing business
so as to get away this afternoon.
With q view to giving his uninter-
rupted attention to this task, MFR.
Roosevelt made no engagements.
He did take time to write the an
nual Thanksgiving day proclamation,
however, remaining in his private
study on the second floor OF the White
House.
Although looking forward to the
opportunity to get away from tha daily
grind at the White House, the Presi-
dent has arranged number Of i'm
portant conferences at Warm Springs,
some of them with cabinet members
and heads Of the special agencies en-
gagged in pushing forward his recovery
program
In addition, Mr.. Roosevelt will be
busily engaged studying the compile
ton Of the budget estimates for the
next fiscal year and the drafting of
the annual message he must have
ready for Congress when it assem-
bles again early in January.
the fact that he intends to devote
most of his time working while away
is shown by the bundles Of papers
he is taking away with him and the
size of his secretarial staff accom-
panying him. Included in latter
are Col. Marvin Hunter Mcintyre,
one Of his assistant secretaries: Miss
Marguerite A. Leland, the Presidents
personal secretary. and Miss Grace
Tully and Henry NJ Kannee.
On the train with Mr.. Roosevelt
when he leaves Washington viii be
Mrs. Roosevelt and her secretary.
Mrs. M. T. Scheider. and Secretary
of State Hull, who is a native Ten
nesseean. Secretary of Interior Ickes
will join the party at Cincinnati
early tomorrow.
Return December 4 or 3.
The Presidents intention is to re-
turn to Washington around December
4 or S. He IS looking forward to
carrying out a custom started several
years ago of having Thanksgiving day
dinner with the patients at the Warm
Springs Foundation Sanitarium, and
to preside over the annual meeting
of the trustees Of the foundation the
day after THANKSGIVING.
The schedule Of the Presidents
train trip to Warm Springs has been
so arranged as to enable him q rea-
sonable time to personally visit the
, more important projects In course Of
construction IN the Tennessee Valley.
as well as other places Of interest en-
route. Therefore, Warm Springs win
not be reached until late Sunday night.
Besides these projects IN the Ten
nessee Valley the President will visit
Harrodsburg. KY, which will be
reached early tomorrow. There he
will participate m ceremonies incident
to the dedication of a granite memorial
to the first Angio-Saxon village west
OF the Allegheny Mountains at Har-
redsburg. This was the temporary
home at various times Of most Of the
ealy pioneers Of that section.
OficiaI Itinerary.
The remainder Of the ofieill itin-
erary follows:
F, BY special train tomorrow from
Harrodsburg to Coal Greek, Tenn,
thence by motor late in the afternoon
to inspect the Norris Dam, now under
construction on the Clinch River.
By motor, thence to Knoxville to
board special train for overnight ride
to Nashville, by way Of Chattanooga.
Saturday morning by motor to the
Hermitage, home Of President Andrew
jackson, and breakfast there. En-
route a stop at the capital grounds to
place wreath on tomb of President
James Z. Polk.
| To the Hermitage the Old Hickory
route will be followed and the Le-
banon pike on the return.
At the Hermitage, Mr.. Roosevelt
will lay wreath on the tomb Of
President Andrew jackson. He also
will visit Vanderbilt and Fisk Univer-
stiles at Nashville.
Leaving Nashville before noon, the
presidential special train will pro-
ceed to Town Greek, Ala. Thence he
will motor to Wheeler Dam and then
to Wilson Dam on the Tennessee
River.
The train will be reboarded at
Sheffield. Ala, for an overnight ride
to Tupelo, Miss, where the President
will arrive on Sunday morning.
He will attend Sunday services In
the public square where Senator Har-
rison Of Mississippi will introduce him
A visit also will be made there to
the subsistence homestead project.
The President will proceed to his
Warm Springs home during the day
with the train making q l0-minute
stop early in the afternoon at Bir-
mingham. Ala, for operations.
Before leaving Nashville, II time viii
permit, President Roosevelt will SC
arrange his motor ride from the
Hermitage to make a brief visit to
i Fisk and Vanderbilt UniyersitieS