DEATH OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 13 April 1945, Page 5

DEATH OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT

SUDDEN PASSING AT WARM SPRINGS COTTAGE

"Did His Job Till the End" VICE-PRESIDENT TRUMAN SWORN IN

(Press Association, Extraordinary.) (Rec. 10.40 a.m.) WASHINGTON, April 12. The death occurred this afternoon of Mr Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States since 1933. He died suddenly from cerebral haemorrhage at his summer cottage at Warm Springs, Georgia.

Mrs Roosevelt informed the Vice-President, Senator Henry Truman, who has been swcxrn in as President for the remainder of President Roosevelt’s fourth term, according to United States constitutional usage. Senator Trun*-n said: “It will be my endeavour to carry on as I believe the President would have done. To that end I have asked the Cabinet to stay with me.’’ The Cabinet is meeting.

President Roosevelt’s four sons are serving with the American forces. In a message to them telling of the death of their father Mrs Roosevelt said: “He did his job to the end, as he would have wished to do."

The funeral will take place on Saturday. A service will be held in the East Room, White House, and the burial will take place at Hyde Park, the President’s New York home. THE KING AND MR CHURCHILL SHOCKED (Rec. 1.30 p.m.) London, This Day. When the tragic news reached London it was immediately conveyed to His Majesty the King, who was deeply shocked. Mr Churchill was also informed immediately and he was also distressed. It is expected that Mr Churchill will pay a personal tribute to President Roosevelt as soon as the House of Commons meets. The American Ambassador in London (Mr John Winant) on learning of the sad occurrence, said: “The greatest American of our aee is dead.” The news came as a great shock to the people of Britain, who had no notice of the illness of the President, though photographs taken at the time of the Yalta Conference gave some indication of failing health.