The Roosevelt Week

Last week Franklin Delano Roosevelt:

P: Wired President Hoover for a personal conference on the St. Lawrence River development. The U. S. and Canada are negotiating a treaty on which depends New York's State-owned, State-operated power project at Massena Point. A hitch with the State Department has developed on the State's share of the cost. The Democratic nominee suggested a meeting with the Republican nominee to "hasten the initiation of this vast project which means cheap transportation . . . cheap electricity for homes, farms and industries . . . and employment for thousands of workers." Obvious was the New York Governor's intention to put Water Power squarely up to his Republican opponent as a concrete campaign issue. President Hoover replied that he could not confer yet; negotiations with Canada were in complete.

P: Promised "Happy Days" after March 4, 1933 to 15,000 Albany Democrats who paraded with torchlights at the Executive Mansion.

P: Heard pleas for executive clemency for six murderers condemned to death. P: Received an "Old Home Week" welcome upon returning to his Hyde Park estate.

P: Sailed with three of his sons from Port Jefferson, N. Y. for a week's cruise to Portsmouth, N. H. aboard the Myth 2nd, a 40-ft. yawl chartered for $150.

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