Stamp collector role retained by Roosevelt
WARM SPRINGS, Georgia (UP) – President Roosevelt was an enthusiastic stamp collector to the end.
White House Secretary William D. Hassett said the last direction he received from Mr. Roosevelt yesterday morning concerned the purchase of some stamps for his collection.
The president told Mr. Bassett he wanted to buy some of the San Francisco United Nations Conference commemorative issue which goes on sale April 25. And the president said he wanted to buy them from the San Francisco postmaster.
Medal of Honor urged for Roosevelt
DETROIT (UP) – Congressional bestowal of the Medal of Honor to the late Franklin D. Roosevelt was proposed editorially today by the Detroit News.
“He was as truly a war casualty as any man who stepped into a withering fire at Iwo or the beaches of Anzio or Normandy,” the News said. “And let us here, in all reverence, propose that the Congress of the United States vote him posthumously the highest award for valor in its gift, the Medal of Honor.”