European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 20, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday november 20, 1958 th1 stars and stripes for s decline visible year before death Washington up the physical decline of Franklin d. Roosevelt was moving at such apace that even before his Nomina Tion and election to a fourth termin 1944 some of his intimates Felt that death was approaching rapid disclosure was made in off the record with for 1942-1945," anew Book by William d. Hassett Secretary to the late president who also served on the secretariat of former president Truman. Has sett s work was published by rut Gers University press. The Book is a 347-Page journal with selected entries from Hassett s world War ii diary dealing for the most part with his trips to Hyde Park n.y., the Roosevelt Homeland warm Springs ga., with the chief executive. Road Secretary Hassett during this period served As the Road Secretary or Rankin staff member accompanying the president on his frequent off record weekends at Home when wartime voluntary censorship prevented the newspapers of the nation from disclosing Roosevelt s whereabouts. The intimate relationship betwee the author and the president Cas an authoritative new Light on Roosevelt s rapid physical failure a process that was externally indicated to Many laymen but Stout denied by White House doctors in their Public reports that from the Spring of 1944 More than a Yea before Roosevelt died of a cerebral Haemorrhage april 12, 1945, at warm Springs he was deeply concerned about for s health and so confided in Basil o Connor onetime Law partner of Roosevelt and then head of the american red Cross. Layman s View Hassett also discussed Roosevelt s decline intermittently with a Nav heart specialist cmdr Howard Bruenn who served As an assistant and frequently As travelling doctor for Roosevelt under the commando rear adm Ross t. Mcintire the White House doctor. By March 30,1945, Hassett reports that Bruenn shared his Layman s Point of March 24, 1944, the diary re ported the president not looking so Well in his bedroom this morn ing nor later when he held press and radio conference voice husky and out of pitch. This latest cold has taken lots out of him. Every morning in response to in Quiry As to How he Felt a characteristic reply has been Rotten or like hell glowing report after a physical checkup in june Mcintire made a glowing Public report on Roosevelt s health say ing he was in better physical shape than the average Man his arrived in warm Springs on March 30, 1945, and that night Hassett went to Bruenn about Roosevelt s health saying he is slipping away from us and no earthly Power can keep him , now living in retirement at his Home in Northfield it said he warned Bruenn of the same situation four months earlier. Theauthor says he admitted frankly to the doctor that he himself had been maintaining a Bluff when he was actually convinced there is no help for March 31, Hassett was shocked at his appearance worn weary exhausted on april 2, weary and his journal concludes with a moving account of for s death on april 12. Notables will flock to zoo for diverse titbits anteaters whet appetites for meet by Sam Fogg Washington up a fellow ship of notables who possess either tremendous appetites or uncontrollable curiosity will Dine Here on such exotic items As alaskan Cari Bou and tender guatemalan lizards. They get to do so because of their membership in the anteaters assn., which convenes annually at the Washington zoo to explore new frontiers of eating. In the past the anteaters have been tempted by such Blue plate specials As australian Kangaroo Rattlesnake crab eating Seal from South America peruvian Llama and sardinian four week festival gets under Way with Caribou Ham steaks featuring the Bill of fare. On nov. 25 and26, the menu will become almost commonplace Spring pheasant will be , on dec. 2 and 3 comes the guatemalan Lizard or iguana As the feature of a game plate. The annual eating meet ads on dec. 9 and 10 with cock pheasant As the anteaters assn., which now boasts about 2,000 members waste brainchild of or. William m. Mann former curator of the zoo. Established 14 years ago the club has no dues no officers no rules of order no speeches and a Long waiting list. 6n the roster Are ,811011 notables As actress Veronica Lake supreme court Justice William o. Douglas Gene Tunney author James , socialite Alice Longworth and the South pole explorer rear adm George j. Dufek. Diplomats congressmen government officials and just also Are members. Of the lizards the club announce ment proclaims the Pink meat incomparable to Frog Leps but with the taste of the tenderest Capon. These 20-Pound lizards flown in from South America Avo known As Chicken of the Marsh " the menu makers Are being even More selective about their cuts of Caribou. They Are importing Only the Barren ground Type rather than the Woodland variety. Chef Russell Deremer Points out that the Saddle of Caribou is tits tenderest when the Ham is Char Coal broiled or roasted. The rest can be braised or stewed he observes. Anteaters will be served Only the choicest of coded Queen proclaimed Little Rock will choose from 15 for school Board Little Rock Ark. A in i congressman to a Veteran Law three weeks Little Rook voters will have another Opportunity to express sentiment on school integration. They will choose among 15candidates seeking school Board membership a now somewhat dubious Honor. In recent balloting Little Rock voters have preferred1segregation and closed Public schools to integration and open schools.2a staunch segregationist As Sailor shoots up ship wounds one in escape try Boston a a 22-Vear-okl Susan Cox 18, of Lewiston ida., smiles As Gary Cooper pins a Banner naming her miss Rodeo America 1959" across her Cowboy outfit. Helping the actor in Las vegas is last year s Winner Jan Porath 20, of Detroit. United press International photo Clear Cut rules of ethics urged for . Agencies Washington a Clear thanks for the lift Marietta a. Up Davi Hostetler did some Quick thinking when his car stalled on tracks and a train approached. He called to bystanders who lifted the 3,197 Pound Auto off the rails before the train whizzed by. Cut rules of ethics for government agencies rather than any drastic cutting of their functions were recommended to Congress As a remedy for Shady practices an attempts to Wield influence. The House legislative oversight subcommittee investigating re ported attempts to influence government regulatory commissions took time out to listen to recommendations of a panel of Law professors and lawyers in and out of government. Several defended the agencies Overall while conceding that bad practices and a lax atmosphere had affected some individuals. Robert Ginnane general counsel of the interstate com Merce commission startled some committee members by saying there have been More judicially determined cases of outright Pur Chase and Sale of Justice in fed eral courts than in the repeat asked chairman Oren Harris dark said he found the statement so surprising that he wanted Ginnane to repeat it. Ginnane did so with out watering it Down. Then he said he thinks there would be Little trouble if it were clearly understood that no person approach to a member of a Regula tory body would be proper if Thame sort of approach could no properly be made to a federa judge. The panellists generally recommended against transferring to the Federal courts the Semi judicial unctions now exercised by the agencies. Prof. Kenneth gulp Davis of the University of Minnesota said that destroying the agencies would Beno More appropriate than destroy no the courts because of some abuses among them. Definition needed i do not believe the agencies Are saturated with influence Ped doers he said. Moreover there Are plenty of commissioners whore conscientious men trying to play the game according to the rules but they can t find the Davis said what is badly need Dis a Clear definition of which practices Are ethical and which unethical. Sailor awaiting court martial terrorized shipmates aboard the picket ship investigator forced thereto accompany him at gunpoint and shot one during a wild Auto ride through East Boston. The Sailor fireman Raymond j Lizzotte of Poplar mont., was captured later in Providence , after he burst into a lodging House and demanded George Gilbert Cap tured him a half Block away aftera struggle in which he knocked out Lizzotte with a punch to the nose. Gilbert said he had no time to draw his own gun when Lizzotte went for his so just swung. Awaiting court martial wounded was Seaman Donald Hicks 19, of Atlanta a. Naval authorities said Lizzotte shot Himin the jaw when he failed to Fol Low driving instructions. Hicks was reported in satisfactory con maker with mod onto racial is no indication however that any candidate for the six school Board jobs will run on an integration platform. Instead the issues probably will be segregation at any Cost versus maintenance of Public schools even it the Cost of integration. A dramatic mass resignation opened All six school Board positions to the regular dec. 6 school election. Five members walked sixth or. Dale Alford will leave to enter Congress As a write in Victor Over rep. Brooks Hays. In pulling free of the Federal state Vise in which the school Board hns been caught since sep tember 1957, the resigning Mem Bers noted that their successors whoever they might be still would be faced with Federal court rulings commanding integration. The new Board also will have tory to reconcile the Federal courts decisions and gov. Orval e. Faubus unyielding anti integration stand which led to the closing of Littlerock s four Public High schools. Ruling to be followed . District judge John e. Mil Ler of fort Smith Ark., said he would proceed in an orderly fashion in carrying out the latest directive of the eighth . Circuit court of appeals. The St. Louis court has forbidden leasing of the empty High school buildings for use As private segregated schools and directed the District judge and the Little Rock school Board Totake positive Steps toward integration. The incoming school Board willbe selected from such diverse candidates As an insurance Man we edition. Up said Lizzotte was con fined to the ship awaiting summary court martial on awol charges Lizzotte began his terror reign the Navy said shortly after 1 Sajnin a washroom aboard the ship when he fired two shots at fire Man Howard Holliday of peking 111. Boiler tender Willie Charles Arrington 24, of Alabama and fireman Sam Payne 21, of Balti More my. Once called gov. Faubus a Skunk and a housewife who recently took a negro woman to a White Church. B52 Sac base reveals Lowig vigilance routine Westover fab mass. Up this air base six hours from Moscow has kept b52 bomber Crews on Alert for months in a routine of vigilance the 8th air Force said its Parent strategic air come recognized several years ago that eventually it must be Able to launch its strike Force within minutes or die on the spokesman said that for this reason the 8th started a routine of vigilance in october 1957 and is gradually working toward the goal of one third of the bomber Force on runway , while one third of the Force is flying another third will be on the Alert and ready to go. The third part of the Force willbe on the flight line preparing to move their aircraft onto the Alert line the next Day the spokesman said. Sex alcoholics fete a hero new York up More than2,300 dried out alcoholics helped a fellow former drunk celebrate his24th anniversary on the Wagon. They drank his Toast with water. Identified Only As Bill w.," the Herb of the evening was honoured Asa Confounder of alcoholics Anonymous which has thousands of Mem Bers across the country. The Aas gathered in the grand ballroom of the hotel Astor to pay tribute to Bill a 62-year-old broke who during his drinking Days used to steal from his wife to buy wife was at his Side at the Celebration. He faced death or insanity in1934 when he met or. Bob an Akron surgeon and fellow alcoholic. Bill decided he could sober up if he could help another problem Drinker. So he helped Bob. Both of them went on the Wagon for Good and founded a. Bob died in 1950,
