The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-14
Simple Funeral Rites
 Today At 4; Interment |InHyde Park I omorrow
BY HERMAN SMITH
United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspordent)
 Washington, April IA. = (UP) - A hushed throng led by President Truman stood by in reverent tribute today as Franklin Delano Roosevelt returned for the last time to the city of his triumphs.
 MT. Truman, cabinet off, cers, military leaders and foreign dignitaries were among the thousands who damned Washington's vault ed Union Station to meet the special train that returned the Presidents body from Warm Springs, Ga, scene of his death two days ago.
 Anthony Eden, Britain's foreign secretary, sped to this country by plane to represent Prime Minister w inst ton Churchill at the funeral of his good friend.
 Mrs Roosevelt, who accompanied the body back to tte capital, was escorted to a black limousine to tcin the funeral procession to the White House, where simple services Will De held at p. m. EWT.
 A warm sun shone as the process sion formed but the sky was marked by occasional clouds. The weather | bureau predicted showers or a pos sible thunderstorm for this after 1 noon.
 A black military caisson wheeled up to the train to receive the Presi- dents flag -draped casket for the final journey to the White House
 The assembled throng watched in silence. All-the high officials, the generals, the ambassadors, and the plain people whose welfare Franklin Roosevelt always cherished-all had come to bid farewell to great friend and leader.
 Thousands of persons, some weep ing, some tight-lipped, formed along the line of march between the sta- ton and the White House.
 The east room of the executive mansion was selected for the final services for the man who took office in a dark hour in 1883 and went on to lead his nation to the brink of victory in it's gravest war.
 Burial Tomorrow
 The cortege leaves tonight at 10 D. m. for Hyde Park and the burial tomorrow.
 The train rolled northward at deliberate, funeral pace-north from the rolling countryside and red clay roads of the Presidents "other home," in Warm Springs, Ca. At every town and city, mute crowds lined the trackside to watch the cortege pass. Some women cried and men barred their heads.
 Thousands massed at the stations in the bigger cities to catch a glimpse of the hower-massed cas- ket in the final car of the train.
 At night through South and North Carolina workers in war plants along the rail lines left their machines for moment to huddle at the windows as the train ap- peared.
 Each time the train paused-At Atlanta, at Greenville, s. C., Spar tansburg, S. C., Charlotte, N. C., Salisbury, N. O., Danville. Va, masses of flowers were put aboard the car where the casket rested.
 The casket, draped by an Amer ican flag, was placed on small platform toward the rear of what had been the lounge car of the pres idential special. Overhead lights il- luminated the car brilliantly and through the three windows the crowds could see the casket, the in- creaSing mound of flowers and four guards posted at each corner.
 Every two hours the guards each representing 8 branch of the armed forces were changed.
 The crowds at the stations seem- ed to swell as the night wore on. One of the largest was at Charlotte, N. C., where street intersections for blocks wre thronged with mourn CTS. As the train moved through the station without. stopping troop of Boy Scouts started to sing: ''On- ward Christian Soldiers and the crowd took up the hymn in ring.