Evening star., 1945-04-14

through the door of the mansion
the band played a few bars of
Abide With Me-"
The cars carrying Mrs. Roosevelt
and other members of the family
and friends stopped few PAGES be-
hind the caisson and all those
alighted and stood as the honor
guard removed the body and pre-
pared to take it into the Executive
Mansion.
Standing with Mrs. Roosevelt were
Roosevelt-the only one of the four
boys who could be present-and
Vice Admiral Wilson Brown, the
Presidents naval aide.
| Immediately behind them were
the wives of the four Roosevelt boys.
AS they followed slowly behind
/ the casket other friends also moved
with them into the White House.
In this group was JoSephus Daniels,
under whom the late President
served as Assistant Secretary of the
Navy in the World War. Mr.. Baruch
also was in the group, which in
cluded members of the President s
personal staff.
Mrs. Roosevelt walked with her
head partly bowed.
| Within the White House, the cas-
ket was placed on a carrier and
wheeled straightforward across the
| glittering bronze seal embedded in
the lobby floor.
! 1t turned left down a long red
carpet, passed the grand staircase
on the left, passed the Green Room
on the right and through the slid
ing doors into the famed East Room
An altar stood before the double
doors in the center OF the east wall
and the caSket was put at rest i'm
mediately before it. Flowers banked
the whole long expanse of the east
wall and overf1oWed into corners of
the room which has seen so many
other solemn occasions-and also the
laughter and gaiety of brighter
moments.
Looking down upon the casket
were the pictures of George and
Martha Washington.
No Flags in Room.
There were no flags. The red
drapeS Of the room were not drawn.
Chairs for the services this af-
ternoon were placed in two semi
circles at either end of the room.
Resting there beneath the glass
incloSure of the caSket. the body
of Mr.. Roosevelt was dressed in a
grayish- blue business spit. grayish-
blue fore-in- hand tie and white,
soft-collared shirt.
He looked younger in death than
when last seen here by friends in
Washington where his office
weighed so heavily.
Outside on the lawn a service band
played an old hymn, Abide With
Me"
The little dog he loved. Fala. was
brought in on leash by Miss Mar
garet Suckley, the Presidents cousin.
Only a few close friends and mem
bers of the White House staff were
admitted to the Executive Mansion.
Crowds View CaissOn.
President Truman accompanied
the body back to the White House,
out went directly to his office in
stead of going to the Executive
Mansion with the rest of the party.
At 1925 am. the police let crowds
held in Lafayette Park stream across
Pennsylvania avenue and press their
faces against the fence to see the
empty caisson.
The horses stood for 20 minutes,
the coffin blocks beneath their feet,
before they were led away.
Tonight Mr.. Roosevelt's body
leaves the Capital, where he came
as a fresh-faced young Assistant
Secretary of the Navy more than
two decades ago, and to which he
returned to assume the highest
office in the land
Tomorrow he will be laid to rest
beneath the trees he loved, in his
ancestral home at Hyde Park, on
the Hudson.
President Truman-thrust with
bewildering suddenness from rela-
tive obscurity into a position Of
world pre- e-eminence-will 60 to Hyde
Park for the burial.
| 1t was a Capital clad in mourn
ing-a hushed, somber contrast to
the carnival atmosphere of other
Roosevelt homecomings-which saw
the 1O-car special train bring Mr..
Roosevelt's body here.
Arrival of the funeral train sig
nailed the start of a months memo
rial in the armed forces. But War
Production Chairman j. A. Krug
asked no interruption in war indus
try.
"NO Better Tribute"
american workers and manage
ment can pay their tribute to Frank
lin D. Roosevelt in no better way
than by staying on the job to main
tain an unbroken production of war
goods" he said.
Separate Senate committees were
named to attend the services at the
White House and at Hyde Park
Designated to the White House
were Senators McKellar, Democrat,
of Tennessee; Barkley, Democrat, of
Kentucky; White, Republican, of
Maine; George, Democrat, of Geor-
gia; Hayden, Democrat, of Arizona; !;
Wagner, Democrat, of New York;
Vandenberg, Republican, of Michi-
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