Evening star., 1934-05-30
PRESIDENT BEGINS
. SHORT TRIP TODAY
Will Review Fleet in New
York After Gettysburg
Address.

President Roosevelt is leaving Wash
ington early this afternoon aboard a
special train for swing into Pennsyl-
vania, New England and New York.
with the intention of being back in
Washington early Monday
The first stop of his train will be
at Gettysburg, Pa, where late this
afternoon Mr. Roosevelt is to deliver
Memorial day address at the Ma
tional Cemetery on the Gettysburg
battlefield.
The Presidents train will leave for
New York Immediately after the exer-
ciSes, arriving there late tonight. He
will go to his home on Sixty ninth
street and tomorrow morning will go
aboard the heavy cruiser indianapolis,
from the decks of which he will re-
view the American fleet tomorrow
afternoon off of Ambrose Light at the
end of New York Harbor.
Going to Groton.
The President will return to his
New York residence after the review
and later tomorrow night will entrain
for a run to Worcester. Mass. On
Friday he will motor from Worcester
to Groton, Mass, where he will see his
son John graduate. and the next day
he will visit his alma mater at Groton
and will make an address incident to
the celebration of the schools flftieth
anniversary.
His train will leave Worcester that
night, arriving in Hyde Park Sunday
morning. where he will spend the day
with his mother at her Krum Elbow
home on the Hudson, and will start
back for Washington that night, ar
irving in time for breakfast at the
White House Monday morning.
This is the second time this year
that Mr.. Roosevelt has left Wash
ington while Congress is in session.
He originally intended to remain at
his Hyde Park home two or three
days, but aovices received by the
President during the past few. days
have indicated that sentiment on the
part of Congress was for an early
adjournment. probably the latter part
of next week, and he curtailed his
visit to be back in Washington to
help Congress wind up its affairs and
get away.
Will Remain Busy.
While Mr.. Roosevelt relished the
idea of this opportunity to get away
from his desk at the White House.
if only for a few days, he has no
intention of remaining idle.
While the train is speeding along
- ioh l1a yryi1l oi n
plete his war debts message, which he
hopes to have ready to transmit to
Congress Friday. He also will en-
deavor to find time while travelling to
complete a message to Congress out
lining the administrators water pol
| icy. He is anxious to have this mes
sage ready to send to Congress by the
early part of next week.
Standing at his right as the Presi-
! dent reviews the fleet tomorrow will
be Secretary of the Navy Swanson
and at his left will be Josephus
Daniels, under whom he served while
and who is now Ambassador to Mex
! ico.
| Mrs Roosevelt and other members
| OF the family, as we'll as some members
| of the cabinet and Government Off
cials, will be in the presidential party
aboard the indianapolis.
Mr.. Roosevelt kept busy right up
| to the time of his departure from the
city. The fact that it was a holiday
for the Government seemed to make
no difference to him. From an early
hour he was busily engaged in his
study on the second floor of the White
House, and during the forenoon went
to his desk in the executive Office and
endeavored to clear his desk before
| leaving the city.
He held his customary biweekly con-
ference with newspaper correspondents
| and signed his name to a basket full
| of routine papers.