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NEWSMAN RECALLS MEMORIES OF FDR (Continued from Page One) I ing” in his stateroom to escape the curiosity of friends who board ed the train along the way as to his political intentions. "*That absorption of newspaper folk who are rated trustworthy seems to be a Roosevelt family trait. It was even stronger in Franklin than in Theodore. Many a newshound, old and young, of my acquaintance can testify to that. When I came up from stirring days with the Fleet, troops and Marines at Vera Cruiz, Mexico, in August, 1914, my first Washing ton AP assignment was to take over the Army-Navy run in Wash ington. It happens that it was from Bill Hassett, one of Frank lin Roosevelt's two surviving Pres idential secretaries, then an AP man too, that i took over. The fher surviving secretary, Steve arly, almost immediately be came what still is, my closest and dearest friend. We worked the State-War-Navy building togeth er as a team for the AP before, during and after World War I ex cept for the time Steve spent as a machine gun officer with Per shing’s crusaders in France. Naturally when I first met Franklin Roosevelt at the Navy Department I tended to compare him in manner and in perfor mance of his official capacity with his illustrious predecessor and distant kinsman. I can re call now the charm of his smile as I was introduced by Louie Howe, his secretary. I still can feel • the magnetism of his per- ' sonality taking hold of me. It was an irresistible force to most men, 1 regardless of personal or politi- . cal differences. Nevertheless. I wondered how ; this upstate New York bluestock ing of aristocratic Dutch ancestry 1 came to be mixed up with Demo- j BACK ACHE? USE HEAT Heat relieves muscle pains—quickly, effec tively. 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I wondered, too, how this rumored play-boy of politics would match up against the dynamic personality, the punch and vigor in word and action of the Roosevelt who had preceded him in that “Little Cabinet” post. It is laughable to recall those inmature reflections now in the light of what the following three decades were to.disclose. I mean young Frank Roosevelt's capacities as statesman, politician or as “a sailor ashore” eager to promote the welfare of the Navy and its power and efficiency. It is said that his dearest boyhood ambition was to be a sea-going sailor, a naval officer. I think that was true. It is not my function to appraise Franklin Roosevelt’s place in his tory or politics, domestic or for eign. My task is only to tell of him as I came to know him more inti mately and personally than I have ever known any other public man, as I saw him year in and-year out from the priceless vantage point of a place as a friend and onlooker in the inner circle of his closest and most trusted com panjpns. These companions were to go with him to the White House, ana two of them, Louie Howe and Magvin MacIntyre, were to die in harness as Presidential secretar ies. Steve Early alone survived “the boss”—as he was known to this group. Even Early was on the eve of stepping out for other work when the end came in Georgia. I suppose, in fact I know—I might have had- a place in that Roosevelt White House inner circle team had [ wished it. What Franklin Roosevelt had to give was any friend’s for the ask ing, it often seemed. But I pre ferred life on the Washington news front as an AP man and have nev er regretted that choice. It is from :hat angle, and from personal con acts with Franklin Roosevelt that 1 will draw as best I can “Frank :in Roosevelt As I Knew Him” in succeeding articles of this series. I only hope they will bring the nan himself, not the Governor, :he President, the Commander-in ”hief, or the world leader more clearly before the eyes of readers as he stands today before mine and will always stand. (Tomorrow: Navy Department da vs.) 20 PERSONS DIE IN PLANE CRASH (Continued from Page One) crashed in sto-m weather yester day. The big plane, flying from Pitts burgh to Birmingham was smashed in pieces and the bodies of the victims mangled. Wreckage lay strewn through a thousand yards of ash-reeded underbrush. Searchers on foot reached the transport this afternoon after it had been spotted from the air by one of several planes searching since it was reported overdue last night. The plane, flight No. 142, left Pittsburgh at 4:37 p. m. (E.W.T.) The scene of the crash was in Coopers Rock State forest, situat ed in the Cheat Mountain Range of Preston county. Only a mass of smouldering rub ble was left. Wisps of smoke rose from char red wreckage. Clothing fluttered from broken tree tops. The plane’s right tailpiece point ed skyward from the wreckage in which only the bodies of the pilot, co-pilot and one woman were rec ognizable. Nearby lay a brief case in perfect condition. Searchers discovered a watch stopped at 5:0J p. m. A heavy over cast hung on the mouniain tops at that time yesterday. The regular 4 p. m. flight from Pittsburgh had left there 41 minutes late. The bad weather cut off radio communica tion between the plane and the Morgantown airport, 12 miles from the crash. Five of the passengers were service men, the others civilians. -V Luxembourg Radio Says Prince Wilhelm Taken LONDON, April 15.—UP)—1The Lux embourg radio said tonight that the Allies had captured Prince Aug ust Wilhelm, fourth son of the late Kaiser, who at one time participa ted in Nazi activities as member of the Reichstag. ABSIE, American broadcasting station in Europe, said 96-year-old Field Marshal August Von Mac kensen, German commander on the eastern front in Galicia in the first world war, also had been captured by the Allies. ANNOUNCING The Opening of an F. C. X. Dealer Agency —IN WILMINGTON— ? With Complete Line of: Poultry Feeds and Mashes, Dairy and Live Stock Feed, Pig and Hog Ration and Goat Feed—Kalsite Grit — Brooders and i Poultry Equipment — Insecticides. WILMINGTON FEED STORE 112 North 10th Street Authorized Distributer For the FARMERS COOPERATIVE EXCHANGE Today and Tomorrow By WALTER LPTMANN ( AUUSATI^IjI 19 UUilik The nation has received the news of President Koosevelt’s death with profound sorrow but withbut dismay. Surely he would have wanted it to be that way. For the final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The man must die in his ap pointed time. He must carry away with him the magic of his pres ence and that personal mastery of affairs which no man, however gifted by nature, can acquire ex cept in the relentless struggle with evil and blind chance. Then comes the proof of whether his work will endure, and the test of how well he led his people: whether when fie is no longer able to give voice in their hopes, wheth er the course which he laid out when he was in power fixes the place where the broad highways will run over which the nation will continue to move. If not, then a man is great only in his own moment, a spectacular acci dent, like a comet which does not alter the course of things. But if others can finish what he began, can decide what he had not yet decided, can plan what he did not have time to plan, can do what needs doing beyond the things he actually did, then his work is founded in reality and en dures. * * * In the first hours after the Pres ident w'as dead, men took con solation in gratitude, and in their wuiixiumiViC luut uic jiatiuu iiov. xj. now knows where it is going, and why, and how, felt relief from the shock and loss. This noble mood caij pass away as it did after Lincoln' and Wilson were dead, and high resolve be squandered and dissipated in the quarrels of the pygmies. A wise but saddened man once said: “the tragedy of wars is that peace is made by the survivors.” No people has greater reason to know this than we have: we who know what came ofter Lincoln and after Wilson. Only by bearing it ever in mind can we make sure that all our highest hopes and purposes do not disintegrate un der the harsh factionalism of our public life, the pitiless pressures which are the price of our free dom, and the indiscipline which accompanies our individualism. * • * Yet, though we cannot and must not hide from ourselves the risk which is imposed upon us by the death of the leader, who personified so much of what we can hope for and most need to do, there is good reason to think that we shall not repeat the dis NOTED BARITONE WILL SING HERE Robert Weede, baritone of the Metropolitan Opera Association and popular star of the radio net works, will sing in Wilmington at 8:30 p. m. today under the aus pices of the Community Concert Association, in the auditorium of the New Hanover High School. Admission will be by membership card only. All cards are trans ferrable. Mr. Weede will be the final art ist presented this season by the Concert Association and his ap pearance has been eagerly await ed by the membership. He will be assisjpd at the piano by Pablo Miqual, who will also play a group of solos. A native American, having spent his boyhood on a farm near Balti more, Mr. Weede has had a suc cess story that might read like a fairy tale. Early winning recog nition in his home town of Balti more, he went from one triumph to another, winning award after award. Singing the title role in Rigo letto at the Metropolitan Opera House on February 27, 1941, Robert Weede made his formal debut with that Association and completely swept audience and critics off Iheir feet. His phenomenal success on that occasion has been likened to that of Lawrence Tib bett in his sensational debut. Critics the country over, hearing him in recital as well as in opera use terms that might be consid ered extravagant in their praise of him. Such terms as “finest singing of the evening’’ and “mag nificent performance’’ are met in every criticism. The program for toight has been chosen with consideration for the average music lover, and runs Erom easily accepted songs in English to great arias from the meras. -v Two Persons Injured When Car Hits Tree Two persons were injured yes terday morning about 2:30' a. m. when an automobile driven north in Third street near Orange street lit an oak tree. The injured were E. W. Calla lan, of 317 North Fourth street, iriver of the car, who suffered iruises and abrasions about the lace and a possible fracture of he ribs and Mrs. E. W. Callahan, vho suffered severe lacerations of he lower lip and abrasion and lac tations of the legs. They were ;aken to a local hospital, along with a third passenger, J. M. tfoore of 15 Court I Lake Forest Vho escaped injury. All were dis nissed after treatment. Callahan told police that he was traveling "about 20 miles an hour, when he was blinded by the lights if an "oncoming” car. The front :nd of the auto was considerably lamagd. No arrests were made. | • aOLClD rv Auiiunvu uui Ullier wars. For the experience of the past has become part of us, and if we are on better men, we are forewarned and therefore wiser. The nation has suffered. In al most every home there is an anxious vigil, in so many, sorrow and irreparable loss. We have learned much and learned it in the hard way; few men living to day but have had their whole lives bent and misshapen by the wars and convulsions of our epoch. This then has been no more excursion, no triumphant adventure to be celebrated and forgotten. Our people have repurchased very dearly the freedom which tfcey had inherited so easily and were beginning to hold too lightly. “Whose feet they hurt in the stocks: the iron entered into his soul.” • * * Eoosevelt lived to see the na tion make the crucial decisions upon which its future depends: to face evil and to rise up and de stroy it, to know that America must find throughout the world allies who will be its friends, to understand that the nation is too strong, too rich in resources and in elrin otrn** +o onnonl .nrtnin _ _ ■ remediable the wastage of men who cannot find work and of the means of wealth which lie idle and cannot be used. Under his leadership, the debate on these fundamental purposes has been concluded, and the decision has been rendered, and the argument is not over the ends to be sought but only over the ways and means by which they can be achieved. Thus he led the nation not only out of mortal danger from abroad but out of the bewilderment over unsettled purposes which could have rent it apart from within. When he died, the issues which confront us are definite. But they are not deep and they are not ir reconcilable. Neither in our re lations with other peoples, nor among ourselves, are these divi sions within us that cannot be managed with common sense. » * * The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with suc cessfully. Here lay the political genius of Franklin Roosevelt: that in his own time he knew what were the questions that had to be answered, even though he himself did not always find the full an swer. It was to this that our peo ple and the world responded, pre ferring him instinctively to those who did not know what the real questions were. Here was the secret of the sym pathy which never ceased to flow back to him from the masses of mankind, and the reason why they discounted his mistakes. For they knew that he was asking the right questions, and if he did not al ways find the right answers, some one, who had learned what to look for, eventually would. (Copyright, 1945, New York Tribune, Inc.) II ' 11ORTURE D by burning, I x itching dryness, or by blis I tered, cracked skin? Enjoy a | hot Resinol Soap foot bath. I Then smooth on soothing, I specially medicated Resinol. I Feel like new, as you relax | in quick, lingering comfort. RESINOUS DR. MIKE J. PALMER ‘ OPTOMETRIST PHONE 4004 EYES EXAMINED — GLASSES FITTED 120 Princess St. UPSTAIRS OVER H. Si W. CAFETERIA NOTICE BEER & WINE DEALERS Beer and Wine license expire April 30th, 1945. Before new license can be issued it is necessary to file application with the undersigned. Any person, firm or corporation selling beer or wine without a license is liable to indictment for violating said ordinance. f C. R. MORSE City & County Tax Collector. r NEW"motors "1 I —FOR— I J DODGE - PLYMOUTH PASSENGER CARS 1 I ALSO ANY MODEL DODGE TRUCKS I g A COMPLETE STOCK OF PARTS I I * FOR ALL CHRYSLER PRODUCTS | j SERVICE. j I TO YOUR CAR OR TRUCK BY I Factory Trained Mechanics. Prompt Efficient Service to All' § BEAR WHEEL ALIGNING & BALANCING OCR SPECIALTY ■ I SEE US ABOUT OUR BUDGET PLAN I ■ We are prepared to finance repair jobs of all kinds .... ■ g No matter how large or small. * J | BAUGH MOTOR COMPANY ( * City Briefs "-T~ FINAL MEETING The season’s final meeting of the McClure Fellowship Bible class will be held at 6=30 p.m. today at the YMCA with the Rev. William Crowe in charge. HELD IN STOREBREAKING Henry Jones, Negro, 44-years old, was booked by city police yesterday evening on a charge of attempt storebreaking and placed under $1,000 bon£. He was accused of attempting to enter the Sinclair filling sta tion at 20 South Seventeenth street by breaking a glass in a side door. One Injured In Mishap. At Street Intersection One person was injured about 5 p. m. yesterday when a Yellow Cab driven east on Princess street by Lee Pollock was turned over by a car driven north on Eleventh street by John Henry Yates, Ne gro, of Atkinson. Pollock suffered a bruise over the left eye, according to police re ports, and was taken to a local hospital and dismissed after treat ment. Police reports also stated that Yates was driving at a high rate of speed, and Tailed to stop before entering the intersection. He was arrested for reckless op eration of a motor vehicle. -V Nazi Propaganda Officer And Von Mackensen Taken (Continued from Page One) abouts. He also claimed he had lost favor with top Nazis after be ing expelled from the United States, that he had served 18 months on the Russian front, and only recently had been released to work on the American sector for the German Foreign Office. Thin, nervous, and tugging at his goatee, Zapp said he did not fear capture because he did not con sider himself connected in any way with Nazi atrocities. HW44WWWWHHM» ■ . Visit Our Store For !! ; Quality ';; > JEWELRY and GIFTS :: B. GURR, Jeweler ; | 264 N. Front St ;; W*WWW****»**.HfrI. Bring Vs Your Motor for Repairs ALL WORK GUARANTEED B & E Electric Motor Repair Co. 230 N. Water St. Phone 2-0122 G. F. Wulff — Harry J. Everett GLASSES REPAIRED LENSES REPLACED cIhe Optical Shop In .he Jewel Box 109 N. FRONT 6T. dlhe Jewel Box GIFT SHOP ^■Wilmington’s Only Downstairs Storo B Headquarters For ■ FINE GIFTS ■ Come In and Make Yonr SB Selections! m Located Downstairs Ithe jewel box ■ 109 North Front St. Kingsley L. 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