The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-15

Sauo OF ARABIA, wearing the ira.
ditional burnoose, was the only
man with covered head. Governor
Thomas E. Dewey Of New York:
the Earl Of Athlone, Governor
General Of Canada, and many 9th.
er distinguished visitors were
there.
At the same time, the British
colony In Washington conducted
similar services on the lawn Of
the Embassy, before an inaprovis-
ed altar covered with the Union
Jack.
Prayers at both rites besought
guidance and strength for Presi.
dent Truman to carry on.
Throughout the nation, 4 pm,
was the signal for silent prayer,
The Army and Navy set aside
five minutes of meditation, here
and abroad where war conditions
permitted. There will be memori-
al services tomorrow, the war per-
hitting, wherever American for
ces are deployed and American
ships sail.
The sun shone down brightly all
through the historic day except for
brief shower at $40 pm.
Hundreds of thousands, lining
the way from the Union station to
the White House-the route of in.
augural parades saw the flag.
draped casket drawn by six white
horses with a seventh for guide
wend slowly through the streets.
Police estimated the crowd was
the biggest in Washington history
between 100000 and 100000.
Many wept, unashamed.
Overhead, big bombers anc
fighter planes roared back and fol
symbol of the armed might Mr.
Roosevelt worked to develop tt
such great magnitude.
Men and women of the armed
forces marched in slow. measur
ed cadence ahead of the catalogue
and service bands played the
dirge of commander in chic:
fallen in war.
Symbolic of the unfalterins
stride of the nation at war the mil
itary escort marched straigh
ahead down historic Pennsylvania
Avenue when the caisson turned
aside int the White House
| grounds
The family and old friends, O.
The Chief rode in thee cortege,
in shocked sorrow. Their automo.
biles followed the caisson into thu
executive mansion grounds.
In the procession too was Presi
dent Truman, overnight successor
to the man who fought off infan
tile paralysis, battled from whee
chair to the greatest political tri
umphs in the nations history
then was stricken down at the ag,
of 63 by a cerebral hemorrhag,
Thursday afternoon in his Georgi;
mountain cottage.
The long cortege left the RAILROAD
station at 9:58 am. and the mo
torcycle police in the van arrive'
at the White House grounds a
1O:45.
Soldiers with fixed bayonets lin
ed the way, six feet apart. One o
them tainted and gashed his chin
Thousands across Pennsylvani;
Avenue from the grounds jamme'
Lafayette Park but they were s.
silent that the rustling Of squirrel
and the ehirping of birds near tn
stately white columned mansion
could be heard distinctly.
The caisson entered the north
west gate of the grounds at 11:l4
Then the automobile bearing
President Truman swung out Q
line and around to the executiv
offices. Mr.. Truman strod
through the side entrance, grav
and preoccrpied as though harkin
back to Mr.. Roosevelt's final ur
delivered speech in which he lei
this heritage for Americans:
To work for a peace not onl
to end war but to end the "be
ginnings of all wars-yes, an en-
to this brutal, inhuman and thor
oughly impractical method of sci
ting differences between govern
ments.''
This was the Presidents viey
in a speech he had prepared TO
the annual Jefferson Day dinner
of the democratic party whic
were to have been held last night
1t was a speech in which MI
Roosevelt said he was address.n
democrats and he meant "deme
Gratis with small d." 1t wa
| made public aboard the funers
/ train en- route here