Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 20, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                Hushed throngs Flag raped coffin borne by men of armed forces at White House services Washington in the striking absence of pump and formality that was a Mark of his Washington paid final tribute to president hushed thousands jammed the streets As the cortege followed from Union station to the White where a 200 at tended the East room funeral and Back to the special train that was to take the late president on his final trin to Hyde the train arrived from Georgia shortly before ten Oclock saturday a sunny during the 22hour trip irom warm the presi dents casket had lain on a Small april w5 stars and  East line route a platform in the rear car of the at night All other lights in the remaining three quarters of the car were darkened to permit the thousands who lined the path of the funeral train an impressive glimpse of the making the nocturnal picture All the More touching were four Spe Cial army and Navy enlisted men standing guard Over the Flag raped they changed every two in the next car firm and composed in her widows quietly to news men passing through the train and giving her their she replied you have been very two children meet train on the arrival in Washington Union where she and the president had so often gone to receive the worlds great who came to visit them in the White Roosevelt was greeted by her Only son to arrive in time for the Elliott Roose who from and her Only blonde Anna Roosevelt who had serving on her fathers secretarial staff for the past with Roettiger was her John with the family group were Iho four Roosevelt and Elliott Roose self the screens Faye Emerson Tiad flown from Hollywood and were joined at san Diego by John Franklin came to the capital from the dressed in they walked Franklin is to be at sea com manding a destroyer escort in the Okinawa operation neither James Roosevelt of the marines nor John Roosevelt of the naw was expected to arrive from the a none of the grandchildren was after the family president of Commerce Henry War Mobilizer Fred Vinson and longtime presidential adviser Bernard Raruca joined pallbearers All enlisted men at the rear of the car bearing president Roosevelt body stood an army Caisson with seven White horses waiting to receive the outside the station Washington police estimated the largest crowd Over assembled in Iho Ca Pital at about then began to trip to the White the cortege proceeded from the Union station toward the Ca up Delaware a von no to Constitution to fifteenth whore it turned at Penn Sylvania entering the North portico of the executive Man Sion at the Northwest enlisted service personnel served As pallbearers and along the mile route troops from All the services at regular inter leading the March was a police escort squad of scout units of Field army air army service a Navy Waves and women the Caisson itself was flanked by the National colors and the presidents a huge american Flag covered the mahogany in the car immediately behind the Roosevelt and her two next came a limousine the four daughters another with president Truman and then scores of cars of top government in historic East room the hushed throngs watched this procession with bared Heads and tear stained the route which m the past had seen the president return from hundreds of thousands of Miles of triumphant travel was numbed with silent no bands no signal guns boomed and no Flowers were in overhead circled flying fortresses and a muffled drum beat was the Only arriving at the White where the Marine band was softly playing Lead kindly the casket was taken to the East room the great White and Gold state room which has known so much american history and so Many Lions of visitors and three of the Walls were banked with Flowers the fourth looked out across the South past mourn ers beyond the Iron Fence and to Ward the Washington Monument in the in this nearly 80 years be fore to Abraham Lincoln had lain in state Many times in the past 12 years Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt had entertained from the East Wall portraits of George and Martha Washington looked Down on the scene that same Gilbert Stuart portrait of Washington which Dolly Madison had rescued from the burning room in Majestic simplicity now the three great chandeliers cast a dim the casket was entered on a Small Oriental Rug guarded again by enlisted men from the armed forces at Parade rest with Bay netted rifles out two Hundred straight backed chairs stood in rows behind a dozen upholstered Arm chairs for the at 4 Bishop Angus Dun began the grief rites of the Epis Copal Church remember thy Penant Franklin the simplicity was Majestic assisting the Bishop of Washington were rectors of the two Ca pita cd relies with which the president was most intimately con the Howard s Wil Kinson of thomas1 of which in his Early Days in the while House the president was a and the John of Johns across Lafayette Square from the White House and where the president had paused for prayer Lefore his Ina concluded Hislop on whom have fallen new responsibilities in High tasks of with thai simplicity of heart and Trust in thee which thy May accept from 1 Jet Amri stood in silent tribute leaving the capital after the the casket remained in the has Kimm until when the procession re for return to the station train formed Ami t again the silent the crowded again the memories f triumphal arrival and of the Shanly uner Franklin d his just journey from funeral the presidents cortege arrives at the White Over which old glory Hies at half the Flag raped coffin of president resting on a horse drawn proceeds along the crowd lined Street during the funeral procession in members of president Roose dts Are shown at Union awaiting the arrival of the president s body from warm left to Elliott Roosevelt and wife John and Franklin Roosevelt own Truman is briefed Roosevelt conferred monday with tru explaining social and House hold duties of the first film capital Ifird i zip Alent in a two hour radio tribute to president Roose i Sun div colors lowered for month it was announced that the National Flag be displayed at half staff at Headquarters of All military commands and vessels under control of the War dept of Cox local april until Sunset May War Ope rations pledge to Truman Washington a Republican Senate representing 40 of the 96 has pledged its Faith and Trust in Washington James Byr former web said he had no plans to come Bakefe the