Roosevelt third to die away from Washington
WASHINGTON (UP) – Franklin D. Roosevelt was the third President to die while away from Washington.
Warren G. Harding, the 28th President, died in San Francisco and William McKinley, the 24th, in Buffalo, New York.
Only two Vice Presidents were forced by the death of their Presidents to take the oath of office outside the capital.
When Harding died, Calvin Coolidge took the oath from his father in Plymouth Notch, Vermont. Theodore Roosevelt was sworn in at Buffalo after McKinley’s assassination.
Baruch, Rosenman returning from London
LONDON (UP) – Bernard Baruch and Samuel Rosenman, personal emissaries of the late President Roosevelt, were understood today to have left for the United States.
Both had come to Europe on special missions on behalf of the President.