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HOW PRESIDENT HEARD THE NEWS Secret Service Radios Sad News; Had Just Eaten Aloft KANSAS CITY. Mo., July 26—(U.R) crescent Truman’s plane was JjliRtf 5.000 feet .over Cincinnati, O at 11:26 a.m. CST when he «c»ived the message that his 94 ear-old mother. Mrs. Martha El jen Truman, was dead, Charles Ro‘sS, White House press secretary revealed tonight. K was 19 minutes after the death of the President’s mother, that the message was received ,board the Sacred Cow, the Pres ident’* special, plane. Ross said this was the way the message was handled: ! The Kansas City office of the ,ecret service transmitted the message through the Civil Atro jisutics authority range station. ar!Ci addressed it to the secret je. vicc agent aboard the plane. The message — “President’* mother died J.1 a.m. CST”—wa« received by the pilot, Capt. Charles Mills through his radio beadDhores. (The time 01 death as announc ed b> Dr- Joseph Greene, the fam ily physician, was 11:05 a.m. CST) The message was signed “U. S. jecret service.” Capt. Mills gave the message to the secret service agent, who passed it to Presidential Secretary Matthew Connelly. Connelly pass ed the note to Brig. Gen Wallace Graham, the President's personal physician. Graham took the note into the President’s stateroom. Mr. Truman had just finished eating lunch forward in the plane and had returned aft to his quar ters. He had indicated he would take a nap. “I have a message for you, Mr. President,” Graham said. It was obvious from the look on Mr. Truman’s face that he under stood the nature of the message. Graham said. Graham read the brief message. Mr. Truman paused a moment «nd then said: ‘■Well, she. won't have to suffer any more.” Then he added: ‘‘She must have passed away just a little while after we took off. ’ Then he lapsed into silence. Later he anq Graham, who had personally eared for the Presi dent's mother, discussed her ill ness. He talked briefly en route with other members of his staff aboard the plane. He spent most of his time, though, apparently reading the Congressional Record. Mr. Truman was taking the loss of his mother “rather philosophi cally,” Ross said. He added, how ever, that “even though you know death is going to come, it is still quite a shock.” Russia Cuts Austrian Army Of Occupation VIENNA, Austria, July 26—(U.R)— Russia, without explanation, has reduced its occupation army in Austria from 60,000 men to less than 15,000 within the past three weeks, a highly placed Austrian government official today. * This official has access to re ports from the Soviet occupation rone. He himself was not able to explain the sudden and unexpected action. Continue Search For Mississippi Fanner’s Slayer NEW ALBANY, Miss., July 26 •Pj—North Mississippi officers con tinued today to search for the slay of 30-year-old Elbert Dillard, New Albany and Tupelo cattleman. Dillard’s body was found in a wooded area near Potts Camp, Miss., last Thursday. The victim bad been shot through the head, beaten and then robbed, Sheriff Rod Harmon said. For Newspaper Service Dial 2-3311 World Mourns With Him PRESIDENT TRUMAN, shown in a serious pose, and with whom the world today mourns for the loss of his mother, Mrs. Martha Tru man, yesterday. The President, told of her death while he was in flight to her side, said: “Well, she won’t have to suffer any more.” Wife And Daughter Greet \ President Upon His Arrival (Continued from Page One) After the private rites, buriaj will be in Forest Hill cemetery, in the southern part of Kansas city, where Mrs. Truman’s father ar d husband are buried. Four grandsons and two neph ews will be the pallbearers. The President had been aloft tor 35 minutes after the takeoff from Washington when his mother passed away. He had been ad vised there was little hope that she would survive the day. The news of her death was handed to him at 11:26 a.m. (CST) as the plane flew over Cincinnati. Mrs. Truman suffered a frac ture of her rignt hip in a fat in her bedroom last Feb. 13. Most of the time since then her condi tion has been serious, or critical. For 12 days late ir. May the Pres ident spent hour after hour at her side and then she pulled back somewhat. Her last relapse began July 3. Sne had been bedfast since that time. As ne stepped from his plane, ‘‘The Sacred Cow,” Mr. Truman was greeted by his wife and daughter, Margaret, who hurried to his side, threw her arms around his neck and kissed him. Notably absent was the usua' package he always before had carried on his numerous home comings — a “present for mama.” Mrs. Eess Truman ana Margaret reached the Grandview home at 1:05 p.m. They have been staying at the ‘summer White House” at Independence this sum mer and it was to that home thaf Mr. Truman we.nt tonight. Announcement of the death ot Mrs. Martha Truman first came from the home of Vivian Truman. He lives' on a farm near this little Jackson county community. Mrs. Truman’s death came aft er a relapse last Sunday. She had rallied miraculously several times since she fell February 13. frac luring her hip for the third time. She had been bedfast most of the time since but upor, occasion had recovered sufficiently to sit in her favorite rocker several hours at a time. She lost consciousness last night and the President was noti fied that his mother could not livt through the day. Until last night, Mrs. Truman had been able to tr.lk with members of the family, and her mind was bright End alert. Mrs. Truman’s rally recent, y surprised the family. She ordered pancakes for breakfast. Mrs. Truman’s amazing rally ‘Just As Spry—’ ... . ...i—i—i—a MRS. TRUMAN is seen sitting in her Grandview, Mo., home as listens intently to the radio. She was an ardent student of affair and her son’s closest link to all that he associated as American. HERE’S GOOD NEWS FOR DESOTO And PLYMOUTH OWNERS I lireatt-Jordan Motors, Inc. NOW LOCATED IN THEIR NEW HOME Ai Eleventh And Princess Streets ire now in position to render reliable, efficients economical service. Let us help you keep your car 'n good mechanical condition with well trained me chanics. Rembmber—it’s Eleventh And Princess Streets | was attributed by Brig. Gen. Wal lace Graham,, the President's per scnal physician, to her knowledge that her devoted sen put her wel fare ahead of the pressure of state business and spent- every minute possible at her side. “She has sat up with me mary times,” the President said. “The least I can do r.ow is to stay with her when she needs me.” Important state papers and bids passed by Congress were shuttled from Washington by plane for the President’s action during he- ill ness while he was at her side last month. Before the President was called home that time complications in volving the liver had devel >ped and Mrs. Truman began running a temperature. The complications reared up and General Graham hoped to have Mrs, Truman walk ing within a few days, the frac ture having knit satisfactorily. She suffered two sinking spells, however, result of a weakening heart, Graham said. Her son's arrival brougnt an immediate improvement, which doctors said was due entirely to her son’s presence. The hip fracture last February was the third serious injury for Mrs. Truman in recent years. In 1940 she fractured a hip, and four years later she again fractured her hip and shoulder. Despite her advanced age, she recovered each time and was able to fly to the White House in Washington on Mother’s Day, 1940, after her son became President. ‘NOW, HARRY, YOU BE GOOD’ This Was Always Her Ad monition When ‘Harry’ Left Her BY SHEILA SINGLETON GRANDVIEW, Mo., July 26—(VP) —Peppery Mrs. Martha E. Tru man, whose “iron will” to live brought her through several criti cal se‘backs, died today in the small frame cottage from which she had watched her son rise to the highest office in the land. Here in quiet little Grandview, where the doughty 94 year old woman lived modestly, friends and neighbors knew her as a twinkling-eyed, white-haired, kind ly old lady who kept abreast of the times—and spoke her mind. Her world for more than a year had consisted of her bed and her rocking chair. Her eyesight was failing but the remarkable old lady never let her interest dwindle in affairs of the world outside and in “Harry ’s doings ' in Wash ington. Almost until the last, she was up - to - the-minute on current events. Unable to read because of poor eyesight, she had Miss Mary Jane Truman, the President’s sis ter, read to her daily from news papers and the Congressional rec ord. She also listened with interest to the radio. Born Martha Young Nov. 25, 1852 on a Jackson county farm only a few miles from the house where she died, the president’s mother lived the life of a farm woman, rising early, working hard. Her early life on a post-Civil War farm built a hardy constitu tion and a hardy character. This strength of will was evident to the end. Brig. Gen. Wallace Graham, the President s personal physician, said, during one of Mrs. Truman’s last illnesses, that her “iron will to live” was all that pulled her through, with the odds of a weak ening heart and body against her. Mrs. Truman was such a staunch Democrat her family i sometimes laughingly - called her “the old rebel.” She had not want ed her son to be vice-president, preferring he remain in the Sen ate because “Harry was doing some good” there. When Mr. Truman became chief executive she said: , “I can’t teally be glad he’s President. because I’m sorry President Roosevelt is dead, but I know he’ll do all right.” She always had a wrord of ad vice for her President-son, when he departed for the White House after a visit with her Her admoni tion “Now, Harry, you be a good boy.” The first ship built in America ,vas the Virginia, a “pretty pyn race of about some thirty tonne.’’ constructed at Popham Beach Maine, in 1607. 1 me 15 Witnesses ^Given Testimony In Hush Session CHESTVIEW, Fla., July 26—(U.R) Fifteen witnesses today gave evi dence at a closed hearing to deter mine what charge shall be made against Margaret Irene Poland, young war bride from the Isle of Man who shot and killed her sol dier husband Thursday night. Assistant State’s Attorney Pa trick Manuel questioned the wit nesses privately, and postponed completion of the hearing until Monday. He wished to give Mrs. Poland, 21-year-old black-haired beauty, an opportunity to retain a lawyer before taking her testi mony. DRIVER ARRESTED SALISBURY, July 26—(/P)—Fred Nolan Brown, Cannon mill em ploye of Route 4, Kannapolis, was turned over to the State highway patrol authorities here today by city police who arrested him last night as driver of an automobile from which Lucille Wellman of Kannapolis was thrown Wednes day night and critically injured. ‘She Was Good Citizen’ IN SPITE of her age, Mrs. Truman was determined to do her part and exercise her franchise as a free American. Here she is shown voting, a duty she performed with each opportunity. CAPITOL HILL MOURNS DEATH Both Houses Act Ao Les sen Burden Thrust Upon President WASHINGTON. July 26 — (U.P.) - The House and Senate paused in their end-of-ssssion labors today to send President Truman their condolences in the death at Grandview. Mo., of his 94-vear old mother, Mrs. Martha Truman. The Senate unanimously voted to send a floral wreath to the President. Senate Democratic leader Alben W. Biakley made the motion at the suggestion of Senate Republi can Whip Kenneth S. Wherry. Barkley interrupted the Sen ate’s work to announce that Mrs. Truman had died before her son could reach her bedside. She was one of the finest char acters in the history of the United States — a simple American,” Barkley said. “We deeply mourn the loss ef the President's mother and sym pathize with the President in that I loss.” A few minutes later, the House was notified cf Mrs. Truman'* death by Democratic Leader Sam Rayburn, of Texas. He offered a resolution, which was adopted, observing “with profound sorrow” the “death of the mother of the President of the United States.” The resolution described her as one “whose life exemplified in the highest degree the finest qualities of Arnrican womanhood.” Of the motton of Rep. 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