Evening star., 1937-07-14
Maid Discovers
Him on Bath
Room Floor.
.ARkANSAN DIED
4HOURS BEFORE
Suffered a Slight
Attack Last
Week.

Senator Joseph T. Robinson of
the Senate. was found dead early to-
day at his home here at ITO Mary
land avenue northeast.
Death of the veteran legislator who
was in his 65th year, was attributed
to heart attack.
Mary Jasper, a colored maid, who
had been with the Robinson family
dead on the bath room floor when she
arrived At the apartment shortly be-
fore 3 o'clock. She Immediately no.
tined Chesley Jurney, sergeant at
arms Of the Senate, while an elevator
boy in the building called Casualty
Hospital.
Responding with the hospital am
bulance, DR.. Warren Fletcher attrib-
ated death to a heart attack, pre-
sumahly suffered by the Senator
around midnight. He was clad only in
pajamas when found. Coroner A.
Magruder Macdonald said Robinson
had been dead -four or five hours"
Mrs. Robinson, who is in Little
Rock. was notified Immediately. The
couple had no children.
Funeral Plans Tentative.
Subject to Mrs Robinsons wishes.
still being awaited. tentative plans
mere being made 10 conduct funeral
services in the Senate chamber, after
which the body would be taken to
Little Rock for burial
Informed Of the Senator's death
~ soon AZ he had arisen this morn
ing, President Roosevelt Immediately
wrote . note Of sympathy to Mrs
Robinson and dispatched a telegram
Of coincidence to the Governor of
Arkansas.
It was announced at the White
House that the President and mem
bers Of his cabinet will attend If
services are held in the Senate.
Because Of official business. it was
announced. the President will not be
able to attend burial services at Little
Rock, but will be represented by Vice
President Garner. now on vacation at
his home in Uvalde, Tex.
1tOUNHS0n oSeECUHkC.
Senator Pittman, Democrat, Of Ne
vada. president pro tempore Of the
Senate, told newspaper men Mrs.
Robinson was so shocked by the sud
den death Of her husband, that she
had been unable to talk to leaders
about the funeral plans.
A group of leaders. including repre-
sentatives of both parties, gathered in
the office of Edwin Halsey, secretary
It the Senate, to arrange the funeral
plans. They talked with Mrs. Robin
son in Arkansas by telephone. but
she broke down and was unable to
continue
DR.. George Calver, Capitol ply
sician. said he had consulted with the
senator on several occasions recently
about the condition Of his heart, which
had bothered him for about six
months.
Suffered Attack Last Week.
DR.. Calver said the Senator suffered
slight attack last week when he
touched of the court bill debate in a
long speech in behalf of the COM
promise bill.
II did not see him at the time"
Calver said, but many who were there
noticed he became very pale and ap-
parently cut his speech short. Sen
ator Copeland "a physician rushed
to his side when he stopped speaking"
A key figure in the Democratic
party since 1922. Robinson was en-
gagged this year in the difficult task of
leading the fight for enactment of the
administrations court reorganization
plan. 1t had been generally expected
that he would receive appointment to
the Supreme Court at the end OF the
present session Of Congress, to fill the
vacancy caused by retirement of
Justice Van Devanter
Not in Best Of Health.
Working during recent weeks with
the terriffic energy which was char
aeterAstic Of him. not only on the court
reorganization plan, but on all parts
dR the extensive legislative program
Of the administration, the Senator had
not been in the best Of ehalth.
Yesterday morning, for instance, he
1see ROBINSON, Page A-3J