The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-16
West Point
Men Salute
Former Head
Truman And Other Disni-
ts:ies Attend Final
Rites In n. 7.

HYDE PARk, IN. l., hPiAI
ip-As President Truman looked
" with a face frozen in grief,
Tranklin D. Roosevelt was commit
ted today, to the warm brown EARN
Of his native soil.
Under a cloudless, spring SKY.
4he body of the late Chief Execu-
five was lowered solemnly into a
grave in the flower garden OF his
family estate.
Watching with strained. faces
were members of the family, dig
nitaries of Government and little
sad-faced groups Of plain people
the employees on the place and the
neighbors from the countryside.
A detail of grey-clad cadets from
the U. S Military Academy at West
Point fired volley of three fare
well salutes. A bugler played
TAPS" its sweet but still sad
notes echoing through the wooded
estate
Soldiers, sailors and Marines
who had held an American flag
over the casket, folded it and hand
ed it to Mrs. Roosevelt.
A few steps to the rear, Presi-
dent Truman stood with dim eyes
and lowered head. There was a
hush, then. in that moment OF
supreme grief, he squared his
shoulders as if to assume COM
pletely and finally the enormous
burden left by the death of Mr..
Roosevelt.
Franklin D Roosevelt had left
his task unfinished, but he had
blazed for his successor the paths
ne believed would lead most sure
ly to swift victory at arms, and to
world of peace and plenty.
The garden where Mr.. Roosevelt
rests lies between the family home
where he was born So years ago and
the library which houses his state
papers and the gifts of world
Which recognized him as one of its
pre-eminent leaders.
The body had been brought here
overnight from Washington, where
state funeral was held yesterday
N the East Room of the White
House. The Cabinet, Supreme
court, representatives of other
lands, members of Senate and
House and other high officials in
pubic life accompanied it.
Removed from special train
alongside the shimmering Hudsoe.
gust below the hills which sweep
up to the estate, the casket was
paced on a caisson and driven
slowly along between lines of men
Al uniform standing stiffly alert
70 honor their late COMMANDMENTS
chief
Behind the caisson, Negro
saValryman led black horse
olaped in black, carrying sabre
. enu boots symbolic of M. Roose.
t tell position as head of The Ma.
oonS military forces.
II was exactly 10 a m. (EWT)
.1en the first gun of a President.
"a! "a salute was fired from a battery
AT 1T me library grounds to the east
s ~ 'ne quarter-acre garden. They
S sOolhed at solemnly-spaced inter
ar An honor guard lining the hem.
, VeA hedge around the garden
Stood at attention.
va, "a lew moments later. the distant
n atiooy Of bugle came to those
h ha'nIn the garden. A fight ~
nl r.aoefS and another of trainina
planes an dsoned overhead.
,,o nne peat of muffled drums ir
woo ~ sao 1'.[ rolled through ths
IN O4 9u hills above the Hudson
nes sne distance, gradually drawing
dirae el' band played a funera
Anrttbomptly at 1920, the Nationa
Of tba sounded and, as the wheel.
srau ne c "a noisil y ground III.
Of ~ N VI the roadway, the note.
were ', nia; My God, To Thee,
sagew pray eH softly. Through a pas
grey.bassnae one corner, the elderly
dent,s e9 reo rector of the P~esi
park T., Episcopal church at Hvd,
cGnn m walked across the new1v
T Tpeo grass toward the grav,
wa me Rev. George w An fou'
,lr ~, wearing the black and whit.
H. p luce and stole of the clerav
n as removed black v e,1v ci .s,la :,
head @ of IT,, took his position at tn,
The t ~ sne grave, toward the west
-'''llly followed him. Facin,