The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-13
BY JACK BELL
ASSOCIATED Press Political
News Editor


world today watched Harry S.
Truman pick up the banners OF
war and peace that slipped yes
terday from the lifeless fingers
of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Stunned by the shock of its
leaders passing, a mourning ma
ton gave solid backing to the
gray-haired man in the gray
business suit who became Presi-
dent of the United States at
TOO p. M last night.
Mr.. Roosevelt died at Warm
Springs, Ga, just two hours and
"a minutes earlier.
Mr.. Truman, who didn't even
want to run for Vice President.
went to work in the White
House today - a question mark
for all humanity.
WILL CARRY ON
The new President himself an
nounced simply that he would
try to carry on as he believes
President Roosevelt would have
done.
Then, swiftly, he asked the
Roosevelt cabinet to stay on. He
gave assurance that the United
Nations Conference would open
in San Francisco April Is, on
schedule. He issued statement
that the war would be prose-
cuted to the utmost on all fronts,
east and west.
Today as international friends
and enemies looked on, as men
high and low Unanswered to
find their place in new u. s.
orbit, these prospects doomed:
SWIFT DECISIONS
/. A speedy summoning OF
Gen. George c. Marshall and
Admiral Ernest j. King for the
most important fill-in on the
military situation any world
leader ever needed at such
critical hour.
2. A conference with Secre-
tary of State Stettinius on press
ing and complicated interna-
tional situations demanding the
attention of man who knows
only the inside details he gained
from cabinet meetings.
3. The sorrowful duty of help
ing arrange for White House
funeral at 4 p. m, Saturday fol
his predecessor, the nations first
fourth-term President.
These transcribed such i'm
portant questions as the likeli'
hood that the new chief execu'
tive will want to meet as soor
as possible with Prime Minister
Churchill, whom he know:
slightly, and Premier Stain
whom he knows not at all.
WAR THE THING
Domestic problems could be
pushed aside temporarily, too
left to cabinet that stays or
now, but may see some change:
later.
To the 60-year-old, ruddy
complexioned new President fel
the immediate and sorowful task
of burying chief executive fol
whom he had boundless admir-
alton and unfaltering loyalty.
Mr.. Roosevelt was struck
down by a cerebral hemorrhagt
as he posed for sketching ar
fist in his cottage at the Warn
Springs Infantile p ra ly 81!
Foundation where he had gone
last month for a rest.
Carried into the bedroom o.
the little white cottage on Pine
Mountain that was his vacation
home. he died without regainini
consciousness.
It was as simple as that, thu
blow that struck the nation tt
it's heart as it read of climactit
military successes in German,
and of a quickening of the wal
in the Pacific, and speculated or
the success or failure OF thu
Forthcoming conference to form
an organization Mr.. Roosevel
hoped would prevent future
wars.
RUSH TO WHITE HOUSE
Mrs. Roosevelt, at a charit!
benefit, received the news b.
telephone. Without word, sht
went to the White House. The
call went out for Mr.. Truman
He rushed there with a hastily
assembled Secret Service escort
His first words to Mrs. Roose
Welt were of her and the foul
Roosevelt sons. Mrs. Roosevelt
had sent them a message tina
their father had slept away. HI
did his job to the end as n
would have them do, she said.
what can I do?" asked tn
new President.
"Tell us what we can do.
Mrs. Roosevelt replied bravely
us there any way we can hell
your"
Outside on the street, a quiet
unbelieving GROVE gathered
quickly. Confused and dazcd
hundreds stood in Lafayette
Park, across from the Whit
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