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Funeral of President's,,
Mother to Be Private '
ltydo Pnrk—llPl—Ths Presldonl's
mother 1e dead; and a nation Joined
its Chief Excouth•o In mourning to.
day
.Ares. Sara Delano Roosevelt, who
thrice saw her only eon Inaugurat-
ed ae prealdmt of the United
States, died Sunday at (ho ram.
ling old house which has been the
Roosevelt family home for throe -
quarters of a century. She would
bavo been b7 years old Sept, 2L
II A) lowly citizens and from
may highly placed In the life of
the nation, came messages of sym-
pathy for the Presldent. Telegraph
offices woro flooded, and special
wires were set up to handle them
1'realdent, Wifo At nedsldo
ITom Into Saturday night on,
Proildent Roosevelt and the First
Lady had kept a sorrowful watch
by the bedside of his mother. They
. were with hex when the end came
shortly after noon Sunday.
moth, uzobh Maahne, fUXaiIYv110 said' the
moOhar of the Chief htecutivo had
had "An "-to circulatory collapse,
duo principally to hoadvneod
+ age." e n
She had been 1, a Come- for 12
hours.
The funeral, 11mlted to rck,Uves
and to old neighbors and friends,
will be hold at the family resldence
Tuesday.
.\Irs. Roosevelt will be burled in
the family plot In the eburchyard
Of picturesque St. James Episcopalet
Church. Several generon' of
ROOscvolts have worshlpped at the
little church, and behind It, under
a canopy of aged oaks and elms,
is burled the President's father.
Dfuther, Son Close
Tho CIUcI Esecptive was only 18
when his father, James Roosevelt,
died In 1000 and he and his mother
have been exceptionally close. Her "r
home has been his home all his
life,
Proudly she had seen her son
Inaugurated as the only three -term
president of the United States. Yet
she had never quite approved of
Politics as a career for him. To
her, he was more "my boy, Frank-
lin," than "the President."
She had taken In stride such
historic events a, the visit In June,
1030, of King Georgc and Queen
Elizabeth of England. And she
was not hesitant to Interrupt her
son, even when he wN conferring
with a dlstingulshed pelsonago in
his cluttered study,, If she wanted
to know what he desired for lunch -
Nome Orlgiaally Do Lvnnoy
But then, Sara Delano had some
royal blood, as a descendant of the
Prince of Scyril of France and of
the Dolilnos, rrhe originally spelled
the llama Do Lannoy.
The illst of the family to come
to America, in 16^I, We, Phillp
D,;lano.
Ctrs. Roosevelt's father, lVefren
Delano, who engage,i in banking
and commerce, carte fl ofa a loag
at of aleretlanta`aiU1r .
U'adc. When she was elyln,
and her mother took a four moutt„.
trip to China on the clipper sy,p
"Surprise' and for a time lived
with her father in Hongkong,
rts3es
n
She eras educated by gov
at her childhood home to New -
and and In France and Germany,
la hied, wbeti she rru 2a, She Was
faluTled to Jam" Roosevelt, a
Layer with rail and financial In-
tsresta. who waa exactly twlee her
tea. 911 )Tare Wor he EOught
Hyde Park house, h, if .burro the
Hudson,*buss orlgfaal portloll
farun In 17/i NcaU
There to bar aaeoad.Door bed-
twom, over4mking 11,410 Albany Post
I ttad and a sogmeat of a 1,2W acre ¢Stitt., hies, 2ia"MR dlad,
SPEECH POSTPONED
President to Brondcast
At 10 p. In. Tbursday
Hyde Pnrk—CO—Tho death at
Mat Sara Delano Roosevelt,
mother of the Cldof Fsecutn•e,
resultgl In the postponment from
tonight until 10 p. An. Thursday
of a presidential radio address
which the \vhlte ,louse quid
would he of "mnJor import"".
a'he speech, It Is expected, will
embrace a dtseneslon of the on -
fire Otornallennl situation And,
In plirtfeula., the naval notion
last Thursday between nn ,tmor-
lran destroyer and a Germnn sub.
Marine off lcelAnd.
1 rff,-.l Tmde Done
The red and white pontoons in the picture above are
colorful symbols of the successful completion of one of
the toughest jobs in the Navy's history —the freeing of
the sunken submarine Squalus. from the muddy grip of
the ocean floor. The photo was taken from the salvage
ship Falcon, from which air Imes and gear are seen
running out to the pontoons. Helping to bold the
Squalus up is the salvage ship Wadank, In background.
President Roosevelt, aboard the U. S. S. Tuscaloosa,
visited the scene during his holiday cruise in the North
Atlantic.