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Page 10 The Dubois County DAILY HERALD, Jasper, Ind. Monday, April 14, 1975 Orphans Frolic On Army Base, 'Didn't Have A Life There' his armchair. the doctor, somebody said. "I- ran outside where all the cars with the Secret Service men were usually stationed. But it was lunch hour and only one Secret Service guard remained.

President is sick. Call the I cried. The guard did not seem to understand. I repeated my plea and ran back. "Entering the hall, I had my last glance of President Roosevelt being carried to his room.

I could not quite see exactly by whom. doctor- could not be Swiss Airline Refused To Fly Gold From Saigon NEW YORK (UPI) South Vietnamese officials tried unsuccessfully to persuade" a Swiss charter airline to fly $73 million worth of gold bullion from Saigon to Switzerland, Time magazine reports in its current edition. The bullion was listed as "some personal belongings" of South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu and Cambodian President Lon Nol, the magazine said. The request reportedly was turned down by Balair, an affiliate of Swissair, on the grounds that such a weight in a concentrated space would cause dangerous weight and balance problems. The airline also was concerned that the bullion might be part of the official reserves of the two countries.

The gold apparently still is in Saigon, Time said. Fisher And Karpov To Discuss Match MANILA (UPI) Bobby Fisher today accepted an offer by world chess champion Anatoly Karpov to meet and discuss- terms for, a match under rules negotiated by the two players, a Filipino chess official said. Florencio Campmanes, Deputy President of International Artist Tells Story Of FDR's Last Hours (Concluded from Page 1) Hassett was standing waiting for the signed papers to dry. They were all over the room, on every chair and table, his 'laundry as the President called it, and laughed heartily. "I established my easel near the open door to the porch with the light to my left and the table with my paints and a glass of water to my right.

"Had I only known how all this would be in my way a short while later! The President was already seated on the designated spot with a card table before him, covered with papers, mail that he was planning to look through. "As I started mixing my paints, I looked very carefully at his face. I was struck by his exceptionally good color. That gray look had disappeared. (Roosevelt had returned from the Yalta Conference so ill he had to deliver his report to Congress sitting down.) "Later on, I was told by doctors that this was caused by the approaching cerebral hemorrhage.

Much later on when I visited Lizzie, the maid, in Atlanta, she told me that the President was in a very good mood that morning. "When he was having breakfast, he'd heard laughter from the pantry and asked what it was all about. Apparently, the Filipino butler had overheard the story I'd told the night before. It was a ghost story about reincarnation. "Being a believer himself, he asked Lizzie what she would, like to be in her next incarnation.

'A canary bird', Lizzie said. "And because the enrhantinp NEW SIGHTS FOR YOUNG EYES Still in their original cardboard boxes, a couple of small Vietnamese orphans take a look at their new temporary home as their nurse prepares to settle them in for the night. The children are either already adopted or spoken for and should not be at T. .1 1 4 I A A 1 i. Denning, ua.

lor any great lengui oi ume. wuucu xres lawmauoam) Bv LEWIS LORD He told an interpreter rocket fire near Saigon had kept him awake at the orphanage. "We were afraid we would have to run," the boy said. Most of the orphans will be picked up here by their foster parents within the next two Hf FT BENNING, Ga. (UPI) The rockets can no longer disturb the sleep of Vu Tien Phung, 10, or force Ha Mai Khoi, 9, to live in a tunnel.

Phung, Khoi and dozens of other Vietnam orphans frol- 1VVI1UI1I JL SlC4HO Hli aaymv icked in an American srhnni. weeks, but young Khoil started i II r. 1 ll i yara on tms big U.S. Armv new nomeounaay, Lizzie was extremely fat and heavy set, this created great laughter. So when the Presiden" heard about it, he had a heart laugh himself.

"I began working with intense speed with Lucy (Mrs. Lucy Mercer Rutherford, a longtime friend of FDR) and located right away, as he was at lunch. "Meanwhile, the cars of the Secret Service began crowding the space before The Little White House. Servants were dashing back and forth. Miss Tully (Grace Tully, the presidents' personal secretary) arrived.

"At last came the doctor. "He rushed to the president's room and in a short time returned. I wastanding in the hall trying to get my easel together and get all my things' out of the way. I happened to be right near -the telephone when Dr. Bruenn (Dr.

Howard G. Bruenn) put his first call to Dr. Mclntyre (Ross Mclntyre, the White House physician)" Mrs. Shoumatoff said Dr. Bruenn 's message was that the President "was quite well when I left him this morning but complained of a slight pain in his neck.

But now something very acute has happened." "I heard no more of the conversation," the artist continued, "for I hastened to remove my things and leave the house. When I returned, Lucy and the other girls were standing in the living room. Nobody seemed to know whether they were coming or going. "I suddenly heard a strange sound. At first I thought it was the dog Sista, who habitually snored in her sleep.

"Then I realized the sound was coming from President Roosevelt's room. I knew the end was near." Mrs. Shoumatoff recalled that Lucy said, "We must pack up and go. The family's arriving by plane and we must go to Aiken (Lucy's winter home in South Carolina) before dark." Mrs. Shoumatoff 's record continues, "In a few moments we were hurriedly tossing our things into suitcases.

Lizzie, the maid, was weeping as she-helped us. "As I was packing the unfinished portrait, she had her first look at it and wept even 'The three of us got into my car. I took the wheel and hardly seeing where I was driving, we left The Little White House under a dark cloud of sorrow and distress. On reaching Macon, the three women stopped at a hotel so Mrs. Rutherford could call home to Aiken and also to Warm Springs.

The artist said that getting through normal channels to Warm Springs was impossible, so she suggested going to a hotel on Main Street and asking one of its switchbefard operators to try the special call. a i infantry base Sunday moving in with hadnt, Hoa Newsome. and herA husband. It was the first full day in their new homeland for the 173 children, most of them from the An Loc orphanage in Saigon founded by the late Dr. Tom Dooley in 1954.

They had been evacuated Bill, an electrical engineer at nearby Columbus. "He is really happy to be here," said Mrs. Newsome. "He couldn't sleep in Vietnam because of the rockets. He spent much time in a tunnel." trom Saigon during the week end in the Operation Babylift Tfhey really didn't have i ordered bv PrairW llfe mere.

Bill Newsome "They really didn't have a ordered by President Ford Phung's legs were maimed by a Viet Cong rocket years ago. He kept up with his playmates by crawling around on his feet and hands. who met his wife while in Vietnam. "All they could look forward to was more sickness and more war. That's all they've ever known." Mrs Rpttv T.iHalo tho painting a dying President, I Columbus pediatrician's wife asked the who organized the massive "No," she said.

"He was airlift, was on the phone for thinner than when I'd painted hours trying to keep track of 25 him in 1943. But you must children who were left behind remember this was 30 years in California Saturday because ago. Later, we learned he had of illness, had strokes. A private organization estab- "Then, the public was not lished by Mrs. Tisdale, An Loc told.

Now, if a president has an Omhanapp Tnp nairf the. Chess Federation, said Fischer called from Pasadena, and asked him to send a cable to Karpov accepting the 23-year-old Russian's proposal for a match with the rules worked out between the two of them. Campomanes, a long-time friend of Fischer, said he had sent the cable to Moscow, and he released the text to newsmen: "It is a fine gesture of Mr. Karpov to offer to talk personally with me on terms and conditions for a match," Fischer said. ''I propose to meet with him in Manila or elsewhere.

Everything should be open to discussions. I want to discuss this matter seriously. Soonest reply will be appreciated." Fischer lost his world title early this month by default because he refused to accept the International Chess Federation rules for a $5 million championship match with Karpov in Manila. Karpov, the challenger, was proclaimed the new champion, but he shortly afterward offered to meet Fischer anyway with the rules, worked out on a man-to-man basis. Injured In Crash Of Antique Auto VALPARAISO, Ind.

(UPI) James Broadhurst, 32, Valparaiso, was critically injured Saturday when his vintage show car crashed south of here. Authorities said the car, a 1923 Ford, was demolished and the loss was estimated at $20,000. Investigators said the engine pf the touring car exploded, causing it to careen out of control along U. S. 30.

Police said Broadhurst, the driver, and a passenger were thrown from the vehicle when it overturned several times. The passenger escaped with cuts and bruises, PAN AM HANDICAP HALLANDALE, Fla. (UPI) Overtaking pace-setting Duke Tom, Buffalo Lark showed he was something besides a class turf horse Saturday while splashing to victory in the $1499 Pan American Handicap by tenths In a record J-S. The race was switched frecu the turf to the main track to to heavy rsisstsrnv i rMvi Margaret (Margaret Suckley, a cousin of. the President) sitting on the sofa at the other end of the room, talking and sometimes exchanging remarks with FDR.

I began putting on the first layers of paint and started as usual with the eyes. a little while the eyes were placed and the familiar expression began to show. "But it was not quite the look I was accustomed to during the last few days. The President seemed so absorbed with papers and something else that as he would look up at my request, his gaze had a faraway aspect and was complete! solemn. He brightened up wher several times remarks were exchanged about the afternoon's activities between Lucy and (The Filipino butler entered and began setting the table.) "The president glanced at me and said, 'Well, we've got 15 minutes more to "As I remember, those were the last words he uttered.

After that, he became increasingly absorbed with his papers. "Not wishing to disturb him. after that I continued to paint the upper part of his face near the hairline, "Suddenly he raised his right hand and" passed it over his forehead several times, in a strange jerky way and without emitting a sound, his head bending slightly forward. "I had never heard him say anything about his having a headache. The girls sitting on the sofa were completely oblivious to what was happening." Shoumatoff recalled calling, "Lucy, Lucy! Something terrible has "Within seconds, Lucy and aucessea loom, tne world knows about it." Mrs.

Shoumatoff ended our conversation by repeating part of an address she gave in Warm Springs at the commemoration, of the 25th anniversary. being ushered to the stand, I started to give a brief account of what haDDened 25 $20,000 air fare from California to Ft. Benning, and heT husband. Dr. Patrick Tisdale, said that charge was covered by contributions from Ft.

Benning area residents last week. The children will all get foster parents soon, according to Mrs. Tisdale. They spent their first night in years ago and ended by telling uie united States in an w-wv can my impressions of Roosevelt as 1 ahandnnoH iHnriov (Tartan EU fcVAl UUUU an artist who had painted him ing on the base. Half of the 173 youngsters were tended in cribs "I said that what amazed me by Army nurses, and the older most during those hours that! children slept on cots, spent him (there were two The orphans bolted into the sittings), was the fact that schoolyard the instant their at no time, was I Army nurses let them out.

conscious or aware that the Within minutes they were man whom I was immortalizing kicking soccer balls and play- with my brush was crippled in ing chase, any way, A burly MP bounced a red "His alertness, his energy, balloon' back and forth with a interest in everything were half dozen grinning orphans, always there. I concluded with Several children straddled the these words: It has been said shoulders of sokSers and tried that you cannot disable ability to pull each other down, and you cannot discourage While the babies consumed courage. formula and, baby food, the "Franklin Delano Roosevelt older children ate a breakfast proved with his Lfe thxt of oatmeal cad tcramUed ccz is impossible. And that, fend sascfes cf Gsterade, believe; fist createst feeritacs ies. crackers and peanut he left to wan.

better. went upstairs, entered the telephone office and saw two operator girls weeping. 'The President is one of them said. "The blunt statement came like a shock even though I had just been in the midst of it all. "I rushed back to Lucy, who was sitting in the lobby waiting for me.

She sat motionless and Temained utterly silent. But the expression I saw on her pale face was more eloquent than-words." Mrs. Shoumatoff described Ute relationship between Mrs. Rutherford and Roosevelt as "very poetic, very romantic. She worshipped him." Did yoa know yo were uargaret were on raetr feet I pished sH ray painting to one 538.

"Meanwhile, the President had collapsed unconscious i.