Evening Star Newspaper, August 7, 1923, Page 2

KEPNER ON TRIAL FOR LIFE TODAY Frederick Architect Faces .. Charge of Having Mur- dered His Wife. By a Staff Corregpondent. FREDERICK, Md, August 7.—B. Fvard Kepner, worn to a mere shad- of the once robust figure that helped dictate the social and business ufairs of this thriving little Maryland city, went on trial for his life todgy in the county cireuit court here, charged with the murger of his wealthy wife, Mrs, Grace Simmons Kepner, a daughter of one of the old- est families in the state. Surrounded on all sides by fashion- 2bly and the social elite of Frederick, Mr. Kepner sat be- side and unwaveringly himself branded by States’ At- Aaron R. Anders as *a modern Jekyl and Hyde, a_master of women, Who for the love of a siren had slain the little wife who had been his loyal . inion for more than a score of dressed women his counsel heard torney Hundreds Flock to Business w rial. = forgotten in Frederick this morning and before § o'clock the wundreds of men and women who nounded at the court's doors all day mission began to form in long their turn to slip of awaiting watch one battling for life and free- Half an hour before the judges® red and convened the court seats reserved for spectators had i and twelve special police- required to maintain orger corrid which were crowded pushing, perspiring mass of vd citizens 50 men were in the with a persons For every man in the crowd there were at least two women. From ev- ery walk of life and every hamiet in this section. one of the wealthiest sgricultural counties in the United ates, they came by the hundreds. There were women of wealth, gowned | the finest silk. their throats and fairly sparkling with jewels. also were sunbonneted women in_their stiffly starched pink and white gingham dresses. ore favored soci elite ©d within the rail where the artorneys battled: the others were bliged " to take turns on the long traight back benches in the rear of the aller chamber. And farm biue The somewhat Kepner Arrives. o 9 o'clock A. Jones and Mr. in the former's sbattered car of popular make. Mr. had to avoid t by arriving early, but he was run the gauntlet of a veritable lane of curious persons who thronged the walk through the yard the courtroom. He wore a light crel suit and showed plainly the strain of his ten days in the .county (il while waiting to be tried Immediately before the judges en- t hat, held both of the prison- 1 and ‘women came through a rear door and took seats in the front row directly the judg: Lench. Each the prisoner's hand warmly passed. One, 1 attractive It was Sheriff r ar just Jam xactly s Kep- ve up Kepner hoped e crowd abliged to shook s they l their leading | the | mud-| »ung woman, who wore | Floral Trib_utés. + Must Be Taken to Capitol Door To tacilitate the influx of the floed of floral tribufes to the Capitol today and tomorrow morning, the committee on nr- rapgements of the Capitol to- day iweued a circular instruct- ing all loeal florixts and others ntending (o send flowers und wreathes to the Capitol to take th side nds, an i | dctiver the floral picces at the i ground floer entrance just ] *outh of the east front eentral stepx. All laenl floristx today h charge | i of nrrange- tx have requested that such route fax dexignated be fol owed out. A clerk will be i waiting at the door to receive #uch tributes and sign for them. —_— hardly believe the reserved Mr. mer had gone to such pain to him the respect of the ‘day “Mr. Kepner has said that in his wife's bedroom less than minute. His father-in-law decla he was with his wife, whether s was dead or alive. at lcest ten m utcs and the colored maid testific that he was up there some time. Showed How to Une Pistol. “Kepner told us that his pistol lay lon the mantelpiece of his Ledroom wrapped in-a cloth. He said that he did not know how to use it. but Sager, a hardware merchant, told m. that {wo days before Mrs, Kepne death, he had showed the b bow {o load and fire the wun Kipner's request. We alsy «xpect show that Mr. Kepner's finanoial con- {dition was not very strong. Hethad debts agaregating about $8.000. and as unable even to pay his city faxes further expect to show that his wife's will left everything to him “In short, our proof will be that Benjamin Evard Kepner is a modern 1Jek¥1 and Hyde, no novice at the darl he was playing, but a master of women, why for the love of a siren d slain the fittle wife who had been his loyal companion for more than i score of years. That even the night his wife lay in her easket. he visited Lulu Ricketts and gave her a present of $30 or $40 Leo Weinberg, chief counsel for th defense, retraced some of the {attornes's declarations, but {them 1o paint Kepner @& a m {had fought his way to success, de [the opposition of his wife's ! Contention of Defenxe, | “Mr. and Mrs. Kepner wer {until two vears ago.” the attorncy {began. “Then Mrs. Kepner went to la hospital for a sefious operation | From that moment her mental cond tion underwent an awful chang hid severe periods of depressi knelt by her bed crvi take me home, | cannot ‘s longer” Then there came into !Ev Repner's life a woman. He, un- { fortunately, aid vield to the voice of the siren, but the torture of his con i science over that actic {him more severely [ever do. Mr. - Weinberg {Houck asx “n Kep- L he wi a Mr { people. happy painted poisonous viper | had poured into t ars of Mrs, ner words of suspieion about he band that had destroyed her reason | The lawyer made it plain that his {whole defense would be based upon ithe theory that Mrs D Wi ldriven to suicide by the suspicious | whisperings of her sist H DR. NEVITT WITNESS. £l IDr. Rogers Also to Testify at Kep- 1 ner Trial. # modish brown dress and a black | picture hat, hi held both of the in proson- kissed party man, young hands wi her own and ily. Nome of the was a ive of the accused ind no one recogniwed that Woman in particular. Father Listens Attentively. Neither Miss Eleanor nor Miss Eliza- th Houck, sisters of the slain wom- was present in the courtroom. father whose old country Mrs. Kepner was murdered la 1i 1S, occupied a seat among other | witnesses and quietly listened to the | procecdings. Mrs. Ezra Houck, jr., a| sister-in-law of Mrs. Kepner, and a| 3 g women dressed in the | season’s ext fashion, sat well l\o-! hind the unused jury box, where they heard everything that went on, but| were carefully concealed from the crowd in front Immediately after entering with As- sociate Judges Glen H. Worthington and Edward C. Peter, Chief Judge! Slammond Urner announced that the court would adjourn during the period that the funeral train of the late| i'resident Harding was passing over the soil of Frederick county. He then ordercd the trial opened. The atmosphere was tense as the lerk called upon Kepner to rise and 1 him the indictment that charges | 1 with “wilfully, maliciously and feloniously assaulting and murdering his wife." ‘How plead Kepner, guilty clerk demanded 1 eads “Not Gullty.,’ i “Not guilty.” the prisoner replied in | hollow nd immediately sat voice, without waiting to be told to| i the court. { State’s Attorney Anders retraced history in his opening statements.and told the court of Kepner's courtship; | Low he was then a mere clerk and| how his suit for the hand of the| wealthy Grace Houck was frowned | upon by her aristocratic_ parents. Fven for years after the wedding, the state's attorney said, the Houck fam- ily refused to accept or recoive Kep- ner as a son-in-law, and it was only in the past ten or twelve years, after the husband had won a reputation for himself, that he was permitted to en- | ter his wife's ancestral homestead. “But no man or woman stood higher | in our community than Mr. and Mrs 3. Evard Kepner, up to the last year, the state's attorney sald, “Then this awful tragedy came on. Shock followed shock and finally the action of Mr. Kepner, and his actions alone, have brought’ him before .the bar of justice, charged with the mur- der of his wife. She worshiped the zround he walked on and up to the day of her death knew nothing of his double life. But one year ago Mr. Kepner began to take his meals at a certain restaurant, where there was a walitress vounger and prettier' than nhis wife. He grew tired of the com- panion who had stood by him for twenty vears, more and more fond of the siren who had Infa‘uated him. Until the last winter most of his Jife was spent away from tha home that loved him. The life of B Evard Kepner had turned from that of the beautiful sunlight to the darkest sins of midnight. % “Did his wife worry over his ab- sence? Yes, but she never dreamed of the clandestine life he was leading. While she was yet trusting he already was beginning to find fault with her, complain bitterly about her nagging him and told his sister-in-law, Miss Elizabeth Houck, several weeks be- fore the murder, that some day they would wake up and find him gone.” The state’s attorney graphicaily Their home Tune vou, or Benjamin Zvard not ~guilty,” the wn %0 by {perience with bullet wound « dvet {mortis sets in. ¥ Nevitt Joseph D, p served as deput are to b the def er case o { pr { coroner. {10cal {coroner several ve: jcallea in the Kepner murd {in Frderick, Md. Both physicl trial have had m ex- nd rt - Hit in is stated. are regarded as e shootings. Recently (hey 1 cxperiments with the make of the one have been used in the affais Nefther was nature of the testimony give at the trial, but it Is said stimony probably will have ing on the auestion of powder i or burns on clothing and hod when shots are fired at close or long range. It is also probabte that the ington phyeiciang will be ex a3 to the length of time that lupse between death and the time rizor The physicians prob- not be summoned to th late in the week or early willing to d the. v ably will trial until mext Weck. PARRY TALBERT McCURDY BURIED IN BALTIMORE Nimerous Washington Friend Owned by Deceased—Died at Age of Ninety-Four. Funeral services were held yester- day afternoon for Parry Talbert Mc Curdy at the residence of h dest son, Robert D. McCurd 511 North Arlingt avenue, Baltimore. Mr. Me- Curdy died Saturday in his ninety- fourth year. He had numerous friends in this city. The services were #nducted by Rev. C. C. Cox of York, Pa., ass by ‘the Rev. J. R. M. Sumwalt Baltimore. At conglusion of the sery ice a prayer was offered b Ames McCurdy, a son of the deccased, on behalf of a sister and brother who are at present absent from the ily circle tn Europe. The pallbearers were Robert D. McCurdy jr., and J. Stinson McCurdy. both grandsons of the Louls Schoeffer, W. W. Dav Sheckells and R. H. Griffith, Interment was in the family burial lot at Western cemetery, beside the the sted Milton {grave of his wife. District of Columbla, ss. President of THE swear that the actunl number of copies of the paper named. sold and_distributed during the month of July,”A.D. 1923, wils as follows: DAILY. Coples. Days. 89.28% 1 1 1 ] 5 (] B8.015 i3 79,200 28 87697 it~ E Less adjustments.. ... Total daily net circulation.... 2,228,421 described the events of the day last June that Mrs. Kepner was shot to death. He told how Kepner had zone to Baltimore to see a dentist, how he had purchased flowers on his way back and presented them to_his affinity, Miss Lulu Ricketts, before calling up his wife to assurc her that he was home and feeling better. The prosecutor laid great stress upon Kepner's testimony be- fore the coroner's jury that Mrs. Kepner had been in good spirits when he talked to her, which was only a few hours before her body was_found. “We expect to prove” the state's attorney continued, “that on his way ©ome that afternoon. Mr. Kepmer 100K & particular interest in the peo- ple he saw en route. He almost fell out of his car speaking to Mr. Hahn, Xbo was so astonished that he could Daily average net paid circu: Daily average ~number of coples for Service, ete.. . .... Daily average net circulation SUNDAY. Coples. Days. f4.340 22 . . 03266 29 1111110 93,083 85,708 Copies. 92 92206 465.460 Less adjustments... g Total Sunday net circulation. Average net paid Sunday cir- CUlRLION ........on..ee. Average number of copies for service, etc.., 463,051 2.002 Average S unday tion = Subscribed and sworn to before me this Gth day of August, A.D. 1023, (Seal.) ELMER F. YOUNT, Notary Public, wr. | { sband state’s | who | bear- | fam- | _THE E LU S WORERS ARE IVN HOLIAY | 1New Order Closing Depart- l ments Until Saturday Is- ! sued by Hughes. Because of doubt on the authorities as o the s of ceutive order issued by Sec- b direction of the President, Saturday, closing the | | executive departments from this afternoon until Saturday morning, in {respect to the memory of the late | Pregident, the Secretary of State late sterduy issued a second ct extending its executive estab- part of some fthe B | retary Hughes, afternoon th a on sub rovisions s “ul | Ashm, | The new order follows i "By order of the President. the 1923, clos- | departments on | at and after 1 on Wednesday, Y, August § to wll execu- nd these shall on the said order issued on August 4, ing the executive Tuesday August 7 o'clock” pm. and Thursday and I'ri and 10, 1923, shall ap tive esetablishments be closed accordingly days.” . Appliex to A ed at the State endment w Depar design Iy to extend the scope of the 1 order to all independent fed- Jlishments not directly at- _to any of the regular execu- i departments,” par rly the government printing office, the Li- {brars of Congress. the Interstate mmission. the United bor Board, th, " bu- the board of vocational trai the War Finance Board, the nited States Emergency Fleet Cor- Joration, the Smithsonian Institution, he National Museum, the general ac- ounting office, the Civil Service ‘ommission, the bureau of efficienc: he federal trade commissio nited States Shipping Boa ‘nited States Railroad Administra- ion, the War Finance Commission, he ‘alien property eommission, the ited States tariff commission, the ites employes’ compensation mission, the federal r & bourd, The revised order applies to all teral employes ading diem ser b divisions o dea remain work body ¢ Wa the with open. and t Hardin earlier than ex- ta E. J. He partment tods uspended in the Lubor | in %o far as the burenus | dealing with human ned Laber Depart Henr with hum, artment of an beings" em) D loyes t niess | ent to 'Work. said the 1 r D t ageney dealing and as such can- some of the have the humpan sively is crowded «with must be moved,” M ning declared. “and the other ork of the depariment must go on. al order to-continue work the departments today in view of delay of the train bearing the of the lute President had not n issued, and oue Was not contems- ! the State De- er departments yelock, although many 1 at their desks close 1<t exel nts, who im- n partment 1 n we Many. { tie District spare ind n amen or closing tie wow < under strict building. which today by~ the Conumissioners Tt £ pointed out that it would be ! virtually impossible to 401 “af the per diem e munici | pal zovernment s con- with the wer de rents. mei evid fterday by W commander TPost er { i in the cially t water and t to the re closing order of a Coolidge Franklin, Vincent B American Legion lared that 1500 empley rict building would privilege of rendering frib- » the memory of the late Presi- Harding if They were required to stay at their posts, while all gov- ernment work is at a standstill i Library to Cloxe. 1 | Out of respect for the late President | ! Harding and pursuant to the order of | closi the District government, is- | ued by the Co s, the Publie]| Library will b ed this and all day Wednesday, nd ¢ Tt will be | August 11, fro | variation from past | of th Cos- of the frernoon | on Thursday open all of Saturdav, m. to 9 pm. This the usual Satur- hours of the summer half holi- season and is provided for this k only in order that Washington {readers may have an opportunity to lexchanige their books befure Sunday. | 'KING GEORGE NAMES | PROXY FOR FUNERAL | Henry G. Chilton of British Em- i bassy to Represent Ruler—Takes ‘Wreath to Mansion. {aay e George of England officially ignated Henry Getty { Chilton, counselor of the British em- ! bassy here, to represent him person- {ally at President Harding's funeral | tomgrrow. The British ruler, through | | Chilton,® will also present a h. This the emb: | Ring today | de: afternoon the counselor of ¥, accompanied by H. W. Brooks, first secretary of the em- bassy, aml Hugh Tennant, Ambas- dor’ Geddes' private secretary, will all at the White House and leave the wreath. Mr. Chilton stated that because of the_Jateness of the arrival of the late President's body the State Depart- ment had requested him to follow this procedure. At the same time that the Tepre- sentatives . of the British eémbassy {leave King George's wreath at the | White House they will also leave two !others, one from the British govern- ment and one from the Canadian | government. At the state funeral tomorrow the I British Empire will be represented by Mr. Chilton, Great Britain; A. B. Copp, Canadian secretary of state, who arrived in Washington this af- ternoon, and the Australian commis- sioner in New York, Donald Mac- Kennon. MANY DIE IN REBEL CLASH. Casualty List Reported Heavy in Brazilian Uprising. BUENOS AIRES, August 7.—After nearly a month of inactivity, hostili- ties have again broken out between the Brazilian rebels and regular troops in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, says a dispatch from Rivera to La Nacion. The two forces clashed about thirty miles from the Uruguayan border. Many were killed and wounded on both sides. Details of the fight are lacking. e Concrete stoves are made in Ger- many and are said to be unusually economical of fuel, due to the heat- insulating properties of the material. was adopted | ! | i Station {its military and official civillan es PRAYS FOR HIS SON’S WELFARE. Before the rest Sunday, Jahn C. Coo the congreg: tdge, father t hurch at Plymouth, Vt., he Prexident. entered the small, old- faxhioned house of worship and in silent prayer prayed for hix son's welfare and success. Thix exclusive pho Thousands Stay mraph was made at that time Up All Night To See Funeral Train Pass ntinued from First Page.) Iinois and in was practically that the funeral would not reach Washington scheduled hour of 1:30 p.m.. much later the arrival would somewhat of a question Tribute Epochal. Though the trip through i luding Chicago, caused the train to lose time on its eastward journey, the tribute paid to the mem- ory of the late President throughout that section -will be told.and retold for years to come. Estimates of those accustomed to KAURINE the siz of crowds were that more than a million persons had witnessed the passing of the cortege, all with bared and sorrowing hearts. No chiel ecutive of the nation, living or ever received such a tribute, in »pinion of the members of the | funeral party The state of Indiana, not to b done by her sisters to the wes an almost continuous tribute last night as the train thundered along in the darkness. Those who reverent- I¥ waited the passing of the train ‘ould be distinguished by those board by the lights at the station forms and by the glare of auto- | lights at almost every point ud_crossed a highway. But they were there and they were able to present their respects to the hon- ored dead and catch a glimpse of the flag-covered coffin with its .military guard in the last car. Throngs Increase in Size. Entering Ohio, the throngs seemed increase in Size despite the ex- lateness of the hour, and at th £ Akron and Youngs- town, several thousand were waiting | to pay @ final mark of respect to | heir fellow Ohioan. 1f the bareaved widow could have directed the train | without regard to the other consid- | erations, it probably never would ! have left the boundaries of Mr. Hard- | ing’s native state, tion of the natio with her approval on into Pennsvlvania and follow the route through West ginia and Maryland to the at Washington Harding was steeling herself today us the train hurried onward for | the scenes of sorrow and mourning in the Capitol. Those who had talked! with her said she was quite prepared | to go through the formal services in the same calm manner she has main- | tained during the trip across the country. Everything will be made as | easy for her possible, and when the train arrives in the capital she will be escorted from the station be- | fore the body is taken from the train and driven to the White House in ad- vance of the cortege. She will take| a route through the quieter streets, Avoiding the more crowded thorouzh- | fares, such as Pennsylvania avenue. | Mrs, Harding will be accompanied to the White House with a few of her most intimate friends from among those on board the train. The other menmibers of the party which accom- panied President Harding to the I cific coast and to Alaska will go the White House with the bod of Towa and Chicago. It parly today the how was at but be Towa and ! out- paid to treme larger cities prevailed | train sped ; then to ! Vir- | Union | cla and the Mrs Floral tributes in large numbers continued to be placed aboard the train today. with the result that fresh blossoms ever lay beside the bier. Among the wreaths presented in Chi- cago was one bearing the card of the “grand dragon of the realm of 1lli- nols” and the initials of the Ku Kiux, Klan in blue letters through the cen- ter of a cross. MISS HARDING ON TRAIN. By the Associated Pres: WILLARD, Ohio, August 7.—The special train bearing the body of President Harding to Washington reached Willard at 5:10 a.m., eastem ! standard time, and loft at 5:23 after stopping to change engines. Mrs. Harding, who obtained four hours of sleep in spite of the ex- citement attendant upon the trip through the President's home state and the large crowds whigh awalted the train, awoke and talked with Dr. Carl Sawyer, who came here with others from Marion to consult| her about arrangements for the fu- | neral services. Miss Abigail Harding, the Presi- dent's sister, boarded the train here to continue to Washington. As at other way points, a large crowd awalted the arrival of the train and sadly watched it proceed on its journey, hours behind schedule. ‘Wait Through Night. DEFIANCE. Ohio, August The largest crowd thai has ever as sembled in the history of Deflance waited hours to see the train bear- ing President Harding's body pass through at 1:19 am. The train, which was to have arrived at 7:47 p.m., stopped six minutes to permit the assemblage, estimated at approx- |y, imately 5,000 persons, to pass by the car and view the presidential coffin. At 1:40 a.m. the train was reported to have passed Holgate, about fifteen miles east. CHICAGO SHOWS!GRIEF. Funeral Train Creeps Through Miles of Mourners. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 7.—Father Dear- born bowed his head in mourning last night as the nation’s burden of sorrow reached Chioago. Through miles upon miles of people the funeral train bearing the body i other | the and the considera- | & I significant fact th; of Warren . Harding passed scarcel faster than a man might walk Fifteen miles from the railroad termin the bareheaded throngs grew dense s the funersl cor drew near the largest city through which it will pass Slowly the black-draped en moved through the great throngs, at times dense that they were crowded upon the tracks in front « the funeral cortege even the tried to make a path for the train o mourning Trafilc Halted for Blocks. the trai hed the railroad vards where ferred from the Chlcago and Northwestern road to the Baltimore and Ohio to continue its long journey from the Golden Gate to the capital traffic was halted blocks «t every street intersecti and the people were massed so dense- Iy along the way that the train could p and at times It probably was ation for i pub- cver witnessed compare only with the re wccorded the body of the only ief Executive of the nation ught here— Abraham Lincoln as As n rea it t id can ception « ever 1 - in 1863 Not aid people gather in hot. railroad yards and stand for hours wedged so tightly together that t could scarcely breatne, but they peered by the hundreds windows and from the house tops very point of vantage had its com- only dusty {plement of mourners Train Four Hours Late. the crowds that thronged funeral tri it re more densely populated sectic of Towa and Illinols, the cortege tered Chicago shortly before 6 v'clock, over two and one-half hours behind hedule, it depagted at Tiv o'clock, nearly four hours behind the estimat- d_running time The formal demonstration of city’s sorrow was made through commit which to rd the train at the Kedzie avenue op a huge wreath of iilies and roses bearing the inscription “Chicago's sympathy.” The wreath was present- ed to Secretary by_Acting Mayor The train paused in Its trans nental flight only long enough for the change of engines and the necessary operating delays. Due 1o the crowd: howeyer, it wax here more than an hour, moving along at a snail's pace mueh of the time. Besides the « floral offering, many other floral pieces were put aboard the train here. As the train bearing the President's body moved along those watching from the train saw the sorrowful faces of the thousands. with all e directed toward the last coach, where lay the body of the nation's chic where rode his widow. Tears trickled down the checks of men and women as the funeral cortege passed. Little children followed the train as it moved down the tracks, some of them sobbing. Despite the cr Due about t to Martin J. O'B; —and it was e timated that those who saw the fy neral cortege here numbéred from 200,000 to 350,000 persons—there was scarcely a sound as the train rolled by ple stood with heads uncov- red and almost breathless as they witnessed the spectacle for which some of them had stood along the dusty, hot and uncomfortable right of way for more than four hours. Planes Drop Flowers. Airplanes dropping flowers circled overhead ag the train entered the city. Wending its way through the rail- road yards, the funeral cortege might well be said to have passed through a cross section of America. Through the great steel and indus- trial section, the packing plants and the lumber yards the nation's burden of sorrow was carried, and the ma- chinery along the way was stilled as the workers stood bare-headed out- side the factories. Then on into the wholesale and business sections crept the funeral special, and again the places of busi- ness were silent and the hum of com- merce was stilled. As the train crawled onward through the silent mass of humanity it entered the residential section, and here again it was met in silence, while from windows flags dropped and from porches crepe eddied, all eloquent of a city's grief. Forelgners Pay Tribute, Tn making the trip through Chicago the train passed through the sections commonly designated by the nation- alities inhabiting them, and it was a gt _through these uarters of the city, so often termed ‘foreign,” the train was met by the same sorrowing thousands _that greeted it elsewhere. Italians, Poles, Greeks, Jews, Germans, negroes, Slavs—they all were Americans mourning the passing of Warren G. Harding as the funeral cortege swept Mrs. Harding, at a window near the casket of her husband, for a part of the time watched the sympathetic sorrowing faces of the crowds, the tear-stained cheeks of men, women and little children. She must have felt that no living President in the country's history ever drew his coun- trymen to his side as did Warren G._Harding in death. 7, Two Pullman coaches laden ‘with floral offerings to a point which made passage through them _impossible gave mute testimony of the outpour- ing of love which has been Amer- ica’s response to the death of its leader, all the way from the Golden Gate to the city on the shores of Lake Michigan. the from | the | of Commerce Hoover | VENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1923, itol at 11 o'clock will assemble on the plaza while the casket is being brought to the rotunda No meduls will be worn by troop: in the line of march. On the sabers jof officers will be the usual badge of mourning, and the colors of varlous organizations will be draped. Bayo: nets will be fixed. Gen. Pershing and Rear Admiral F. . Jackson, U. . were in charg: of the arrangements for the military and naval participation. Arrival at Capitol. The hour of arrival at the Capitol ends entirely upon the time con- umed by the long processional. It is estimated Ly Col. Shegrill that the body should arrive there very shortiy after 11 o'clock. ¢ The caisson will stop at the foot of cast steps of the Capitol band will take a position south facing north and sket 18 being removed from caisson and is being carried ,up steps to the rotunda—will an appropriate hymn or aria. No other band will play at this time. ' After tne cavalry and have continued through the plaza [grounds and started for Fort Myer | the foot troops will be grouped about i{the cast front of the Capitol and {stand “at rigid attention while the | casket si being borne into the build- ing a. artillery In State Until 6 PO The body carriers will proceed di- to the middle of the votunda, where the casket will be pli he catafalaue, where it will tate until 6 o'clock tomorrow ng, when it will removed n station and aboargd 4l train to terment there Friday afternoo As s00n as appropriate after the re- mains have arrived in the rotunda the state serve started.” The services will he ted by AL Free- {man Anderson. assistant pastor of {Calvary Baptist Church, who will be assisted by Rev gomery, chaplain of the House Immediately after the conclusion of services in the rotunda of the Capitol tomorrow morning the public will be owed to view the body. Those de siring ta see the body as it lies in state will pass through the Capitol rotunda in two lines. Only those holding cards of invita- dmitted to the; rotunda uneral services the be during the The order of m SEC General rch follows TION I. of the Aymics commanding of the ¥ escort CTION II procession Senator Henry Cabot Ledge, chief Clergym tderson A. Freeman An- of the Calvar and Rev. James Shera Montgomery, chaplain of the United States House of resentatives. 1. Physicians who attended the late nt: Gen. Charles E. Sawyer Lieut. Commander J. T. Boone, Navy. Guard of hono ficers of the Arm Honorary pail tempore of tl hinet, six Caisson. Honorary palibearers—Speaker the House of Representatives bers of the cabinet senators. Pallbearers in line. The fumily and relatives of the late President n. Rev P pastor Paptist Church —Three general three admirals. rers—President pro Senate, members of the cnator! of- of mem- SECTION TIf. 1. The President of thewUnited States (military aide) 2. William Howard dent of the United Justice of the 3. Waoodre of the United States (aide) 4. Foreign ambassadgrs 5. Associate justl of the preme Court of ‘the Uniged State 6. Foreign ministers” and charge @affaires Senators of officers of the Members of the | itatives of the Uni officers of the House 4. Governors of states and terri- tories and Commissioneys of the Dis- trict of Columbia : ex-Presi- and Chief de) ident ALY, States Suprem W Wilson B u- Enited States and Acting partments cult Courts of d States. Court of Stutes. H United States Court: of Customs Appeals. “ourt of Appeals of the District of fumbia Supreme Court of the lumbia. The und secretaries of the de- Appeal of the Claims of the United « District of Co- retaries and assistant The stant postmasters general land assistant attorneys,general United States marshal United States attorney. The chairman or senivr of lowing Federa] Reserve Board Interstate Commerece Commission, United States Civil Service Commis- sion. American British Cliims Arbitra- tion Commission : Mixed Claims Commis: cretary of the Smit tution. Director of the Pan-Aferican Union, Librarian of Congress Controller general of States Director of the Bureau of the Bud- get. United States Railroad Labor Board. Yeterans' Red Cross. Federal Trade Commission. United States Shipping Board United States Shipping Board Emer- geney Fleet Corporatioh United States Railroad Administra- tion : War Finance Corporation. Alien Property (Custodian. United States Tariff Commi Rureau of efficiency. United States Employes Compensa- tion Commission. Federal Board for Vocational Train- ing. International Joint Commission. International Boundaty Commission, United States and Canada United States section of the American’ High Commission, Military Bodtes. The following is the order in which veteran and military organizations (not part of the military escort), will march in the procession on the oc- casion of the funeral services of the late President Harding; 10 o'clock a.m., August 8, 1923, The representa- tion from each organization shall not exceed ten men. Medal of Honor Men, Officers of the Army, 'headed by the Assistant Secretary of! War; officers of the Nav Secrgtary of the Navy:-officers of the Coast Guard and Publié Health Serv- ice, headed by the Assiszant Secretary of the Treasury; officers.of the United States Coast and Goedetic Survey, headed by the Asslstani Secretary of the Department of Comaierce. (Four individuals will ride i#_each motor car by arrangement wit§ each other. Detailed information in reference to this to_be secured from fen. Heintzel- man, War Department, ‘granch 1651. Grand Army of the Rfpublic. Loyal Legion. { United Confederate Viterans. Indian war veterans'jsocleties. Veterans of the Spafilsh-American war (national, depatimental and local). g Military Order of Forsign Wars. Veterans of Foreign Wars. 01a Guard of New York, Military Order of the World War, Disabled American Veterans of the World War. Legion ‘American 1ocal). ‘World War Veterans. Knight Templars, representing all Masonic bodies (in unifgrm). Knights of Pythias (in uniform). (President Harding was a member of the Knight Templars and the Knights of Pythias.) ‘American Red Cross. Sons of the Revolution, the fol- on, sonian Tnsti- the United ion. (national and Funeral Tomorrow to Typify Sorrow of Grieving Nation i 5| Sons of Colonial Wars. The | | to James Shera- Mont- | of Repre- | Inter- | hcaded by: the Assistant | Daughters of the American Revolu- | | tion. | The Colonial Dames | Sons of the American Revolution Order of Cincinnatl, Children of the Ame tion Sons of Veterans Daught. of Union Veterans. Salvation Army. . Y. M. C. A, Knights of Columbus Jewish Welfare Board. American Library Association. Overseas Scrvice Le Red Cross Overseas Servic National Disabled Soldiers' Women's Overseas Se American Women's League. American Defense Society. 1+ Allied patriotism societies. | Army and Navy Club of America. Military Training Camp Association Army and Navy Union | Grand Armies of America. ational War Mothers Committee of one hundred, repre senting civic, fraternal and other im- | vortant publie organizations in Wash- ington each designated by the C missioners of the District of Tumbia jeorgetown O. T. C. Unit). | ‘Washington B outs. | Women's Rel of the Potomac. Americanization School Asso Junior Order United Amert: chanics, Anacostia Council Department of Potomac War Veterans Women's National Republica Women's ~ Department Civic Federation Delegation from Chureh National Sojourners Club ! [ Women's ™ Christian Temperance nion | Tnited states | merce American can Revolu- viee ague. League University Cade High School Cadets. »f Corps, Department ation. N Me- Spanish Club ational Calvary Baptist Chamber of Com- Merchant Marine | Association (Automobile S District of Columbia, r. ten marchings.) Kiwanis Club, National D. A. R. (auto). Americanization chool ational Federation of Employes ational Republican Club of New Kk, one car, all Cedars of Lebanon, one car, ten marching. Rotary International, one car. | Retired federal employes, | XNational Alliance, Daughters of Vet- | erans, { Order of Red Men, Grand Lodge of Distriet of Daughters of Local lods. Lib, ection) A R. D. a Columbia Chapter, American Colonists. olored Elks, Salute to Be Fired. A salute twenty-one guns will be fired at the station on the arrival the President’s remains, providing this is not after nightfall, in which case no salute will be fired Minute guns will Le fired from time the remains leave the White House until they reach apitol. A salute lof twenty-one guns will be fired at | the time the remainy are moved frox { the Capitol to the station. | The organizations assembling motor cars should assemble not la than 9:30 v'clock at Washington ¢ A troop of e th of is in I ter | avalry will from the New | Hotel « raflway station to meet the remains of the late President | Harding, and they will similarly es- jcert him when he proceeds to_the | White House and from the White House to the Capitol { PICKS LEGION DELEGATES. | | Commander Smith Chooses Ten to Willard Be in Funeral Cortege. John Lewis Smith. commander. District American Legion, today Col. Sherrill, in charg neral arrangements. the the ten men to represent ganization in the procession row. These representativ headed by Department Smith and will consist partment Commander Jones. Jossph J. Idler of the Edward | In. White Post, Frank L. Peckham of the Tank Corps Post. Paul J. Mc- | Gahan. national historian of La S {ciete des 40 Hommes et 8 Chevaux J. Miller Kenvon of the Gard Post, Alexander M. Bremer of Stuart Walcott Post, Dr. Walter Sullivan_of the Vincent B. >ost. William Wolff Smith ional Press Club Post and Thomas | Frailey of the Sergeant Jasper | Post 1 The department color bearers will \ Hamilton of the Joseph Europe Post and Kenncth | of the McGroarty-O'Connell | r The color guards will be | Joseph W. Rabbitt of the Robley D.| Evans Post and Francis F. M the Bureau and Engraving and Print- ing_Post. Through Willlam F. Frankli department contact officer, a call to members of the American’ Legion in | Columbia to don their | the District of uniforms and mass in front of the | District_building tomorrow morning | at 9 o'clock has gone out 1 This group of legion take no part in the f slon proper. although many members have so interpreted the call that was issued. The ¥ group of Washing ton legionnaires to march in this wil | be the committee named by Depart- ment Commander Smith. 1t is the in- | tention to have those members of | the American Legion who report to the District building tomorrow morn- | ing lined up in solid formation with | the colors and standards of the vari- ous posts of the city massed, and | thus pay an impressive and reverent homage to the body of the late Pres-| ident as it passes over Pennsylvania | snue from the White House to the | Capitol FOURTEEN ARE NAMED. departm of. Columbi presented to of the fu- names of | this or-! tomor- will be Commantle of Past De Lester| i i i | | | | i | { | | i | | | | 1 the ! 1 Costello | of the the aires will | ral proces- | | | K. of C. Representation for Fu- neral Is Selected. i The Knights of Columbus will be represented in the state funeral pro- cession of President Harding by the following members of the Fourt Degree irank of the order. | Charles W. Darr, master of Fourth iDegree, K. of (.. for Maryland and District of Columbia; M. D. Schaefer, navigator of Washington General As- Fourth Degree, K. of C.: Maj . E. Bawards hal; John H. 7 ibel, David J. Barry, W. H. De Lacey i Francis J. P. Cleary, Charles J. Mont- | gomery, rd L. Tucker, Thomas {M. Gailagher, John T. Burns, J. Leo Kolb, A. W. Neal and Bugene Gallery. S. A. R. NAMES DELEGATES. i | { i Group Is Chosen to March in Fu-, neral Procession. Col. C. 0. Sherrill! officer in charge | ! of the funera] arrangements, has been | notified that the following persons will represent the Sons of the Revo- Jution in the funeral procession to- !morrow: Col. Barry Bulkley, mar-| shal: Gallard Hunt, Charles P. Light, Edward F. Riggs, Reeves T. Strick: land, Charles W. Bemish, Harry B. Byrd, sr.; Lawrence G. Hoes, Hamp- | son Gary, Lester A. Pratt and Hugh | 31 southgate. SOJOURNERS TO TAKE PART. ! Committee Chosen to Pay Tribute in Funeral Parade. The National Sojourners’ Club, of which President Harding was a mem- ber, will be represented in the funeral procession by the following officers: Lieut. Col. J. E. Yates, Chaplains’ Corps; Dr. B. J. Lloyd., assistant sur- geon 'general, ited’ States public health service; Capt. A. J. Henderson, United _States coast guard service; Lieut. Commander Carey V. Hodgson, United States coast and geodetic sur- vey; Lieut. Joseph H. Hoffman, U. §. Navy; Lieut. A. G. Quynn, U. S.'Navy; Maj. R. P. Parrott, J.'A. G., O. R. C. Maj. John R. Wheeler, J. A, G, O. R. C.; Capt.- R. A. Kelser, V. C.; Lieut. I nouncea {itol and out of the {stssippi | day ARMY REGULATION OF MOTOR SISUED Cars Going to White House or Capitol Given Route and Parking Orders. The War special 1y White Hou the funeral tome At the W “All cars having them to go 10 the the Capitol, it com sylvania avenue, m th street or any « Washington Cirele nue, thence east or to 17th street “Cars alread Diep: the street Information At the junction g Xecutive avenu & will t inf utive gro their left until umn is ar asdesigr Zero milestone Automobiles passengers for Capitol. but he White Pennsylvani; rout and thence to the Caplto! closed ut-the king space fined on south of the Cars that the White the House Wh for discha Hot pass nue bef After Ho will pag on loaded Al ot Exe bhe s West Cars arriving bef to discha invit the € south of Th charge who } cerema procecd Peace on the yund cession ns When the the civie ore portunity of ing in state. New ipitol and « pitc ow. us fol House pa White ing ne Houge ¢ th of sther to N Furnished. of 1Tth street an officer and ho h White H Ho these cars wi Parking for Cerew out MISSISSIPPI VOTERS CHOOSE C ANDIDATES B the Associnted P JACKSON in a deme miinations state, district & have pa that more thin be polled. Nomir to_election The candidat tora) nominatior Conner of cuse of T s president lege for Wome dore G. Bilb. governor ville, and arksdale, » that & be held 5 de 16 lot be sults wou row or la Ur n J seorge deleg plece i oral Maj the Sojo Ciub at th ANl the meetings various chapters fo ust §, have been o D. C. RESER The naval resery will_attend the fu President Hardi military the District desiring to atter corner of west (at_mew Na am. on Wednesday The uni ratings will chiefs, blac unifor en of the C Ad Na a be sho m" fo white, sleeve rms sword hilt draped Loggings will 1 only arms carried for’ office mot James 17th and ary. which woul ne race for covernor ngth the ba lieved Hefir fore Marine nmacht H lumbus b. has ams, Q tional ~ Sc Marior scheduled r Wedne anceled VES MARCH. & fo ner MeRar Ct viee i vy building) at .“August 8, 1923 1 in enlist black necker will irning badge will be worn, with in black ot be wor will be ™ sidearms VETERANS TO TAKE PART. The Veterans of the United States at the funeral Ly gation: Brig. Ge acting commander F. Bettelheim. jr Brandon, Command Carroll, Col Lloyd M. Brett of New York F. Steffens, nation New York: Mai. partment comman Cecil Burden, dep: chusetts SENATE BO: M Fr Two committees as honorary palll neral ceremonies f ing here and today by President The committee f tomorrow is com Lodge of Massac Kan of North Caroli and Kendrick j of designated to repr Marion are Sen: Wyoming, Willis Spencer of Mi North Carolina, Jo eppard of Texas Frank in Mar . Watson of souri, Fo will ¥ the following dele- n. Anton Stephan -in-chief: Capt Commander Val William H White, F Myron D, 1k G. Thomas, 1l colc e 4 Smith Fred sergeant ferbert Blake, de der of Maryland; artment of Massa DY NAMED. of Senators to act pearers at the fu- or President Hard m were named pro tem Cummins T the funeral her: posed of Senators husetts, Curtis Indi, Overman Fletcher of Floridi Wyomi Those esent th e ators Warren and Fess of Oh Simmon nes of New Mexic and Dial of South g