Evening Star Newspaper, March 11, 1930, Page 5

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1930. s A_S U. 5. HONORSTAFT {[ - CAPITAL PAYS FINAL HONORS TO WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT AT CAPITOL BIER Hundreds Stand With Heads Bowed as Cortege Moves Through City. o (Continued From First Page.) £he affectionate outgivings of the public Whom he loved und who loved him. The rain began an hour before the body was taken from the home on | ‘Wyoming avenue, where he died, to lie in state until noon under the rotunda of the Capitol, before it should be taken at last for the ministrations of the church and military entombment at Arlington. Only a few were permitted to have 8 last view at the home, and the many thousands of others who wanted the rivilege of a last look were formed in ine at the rotunda, where more than an hour had been set aside for them to file slowly by the bier. Early in the morning, two policemen who have known the former President and Chief Justice for years, and who have been guarding his home during his illness, were permitted to enter and | stand for a few minutes by the side of | the flag-draped, flower-laden coffin. | All Flags at Half-Staff. Throughout the city, flags stood at half-staff. The embassies and lega- | tions of foreign nations had joined with the American Government in displaying | their standards. Two troops of Cavalry from the 3d Regiment of Fort Myer drew up at| attention before the Taft home at 8:48 am. Behind it came the caisson, preceded by the colors of the United States, of the regiment and of the troop. The dun-colored Cavalry horses were perfectly matched. The black caisson was drawn by white Artillery horses with red saddle blankets. The two troops filled the half block in front of the home. The cavalrymen back against the far side of the curb drew their sabers to present, avaiting the appearance of the casket from the home. In front of them were the artillerymen. At 8:56 the military, pallbearers, eight ehlisted men of the Army, Navy and Marines, entered the front door of the home. By this time, the drizzle had slack: ened. A crowd of perhaps 500 p: sons lined the street. Two minutes later; while a bugle called, the casket was borne slowly down the steps to the caisson while the cavalrymen sat with thelr sabers at salute. Taft Begins Last Journey. | ‘The casket was draped with an Amer- icon flag, which covered its burnished black surface completely. The blue field was at the rear of the coffin over the face of Mr. Taft. When the coffin had been placed in position two black straps were fastened over the flag, holding i securely in place. As soon as this had been secured, the Cavalry. at an order of “fours right,” | swung off down Wyoming avenue toward the Capitol and William Howard Taft had begun his last journey. A slight breeze, springing up simul- | taneously almost with the command, fluttered the flag on the coffin and the Cavalry guidons. On leaving the home the caisson and | its burden were preceded by one troop of Cavalry and the national and regi- | Hous | President and Mrs. Hoover stood Taking the body from the Taft home. on Wyoming avenue. mental colors. Another troop brought up the rear and a squad of motor cycle policemen kept the way clear behind. Meantime, at the Capitol, three squads of Marines in full dress, white belted, bayonetted and wearing white gloves, marched solemnly into the ro- tunda. All of them were sergeants, vicked men from the Marine barracks at the Washington Navy Yard. Following them' were three squads of tall and husky bluejackets from the diving school at the navy yard. Three squads of soldiers from Fort Myer represented the Army. bare-headed under the north portico | of the big mansion. After the caisson | | moved on toward Pennsylvania avenue, | the President slowly walked toward his office, temporarily located in the State | and War Departments building. i Avenue Cleared of Traffic. Pennsylvania_avenue was cleared of | all traffic; on the south side, the streets | were guarded by police, reminiscent of | the blizzard day, 21 years ago this! month, when Taft was inaugurated as | the twenty-seventh President. Today the drums were muffied and the stirring | | notes of the pands were missing. | off and thousands had gathered along Then the whole Avenue was roped | Red Cross Presents Wreath. the curb. Today, the procession passed As the soldiers stood at attention |along the south side. Frequently street & huge wreath, a red cross of carna- | cars passed it going either way. A thin . | wi red heads looked on. placed In the southwest corner of the | ' The cortege passed the Peace Monu- Totunda by representatives of the Red | ment at the foot of Capitol Hill. It Cross. Mr. Taft was president of the | then crept slowly up the winding drive- society yhen he was Chief l:xec.mvc‘:‘.,y to the broad east plaza. There of the United States. : the casket was lifted from the caisson | Qn the opposite side a huge wieall ¢! | and carried up the long flight of steps. oo o and Easter liles | Carried through the east door, the | diplomatic. corps. Blue Tbbons Lung | C2sket was placed upon the catafalque | s i o AUNE | in the center of the rotunda. A floral | = it hed the Capitol | Plece from the White House, composed e ey o aeoed pne Ceuniiol | of yellow rosebuds, mignonetie and del- from the home of Wyoming avenue | Phinium, was placed at the head. there was a perceptible rtir among the | File Is Halted at 11:40. rapidly growing crowd standing in the| gnortly after 11:40 a.m. the file com- Some of the hundreds who waited in the rain on the Capitol Plaza for a last glimpse of the former President and Chief Justice. misty rain on the outside cf the re- stricted area on the Capitol Flaza. The funeral procession passed slowly from quiet Wyoming avenue into the swift rush and noise of motor vehicles | on Connecticut avenue. There it was picked up by a squad of motor cycle |ing through the main entrance of the | Capitol was stopped. The military con- | tingents reformed on_the outside. In the rotunda the _military pall- bearers took their post. A moment later they placed the casket on the carriage. As they started toward the east door licemen, who formed & fan in front B it as the cortege swung south toward 1: gl rotunda bowed its o et le formed a | AS 8oon as it passed the threshold it LAl along the way people formed & !was litted up by the military bearers. thin line that stood and watched 8ol | A bugle sounded. The soldiers and emnly. ts were removed A8 yine | Marines on the long Capitol steps and A e B the plaza beyond snapped to attention. IS TS hots v -l nds. A drizzling rain made footing treacher- Crowds' Sorrow Is Evident. ous on the steps. el hers were servants in the fash-{ The American flag. remove | inrgtbl:“resldennal district, who knew |Fotunda, again draped the (cufllg:‘.mm: and loved Mr. Taft because of his kind- | _The inspiring strains of | pess and geniality. % \gyhr‘:l!ta\r’\msi;ledlg:xnd was played slowly All were sorrowfully reverent as their | A 5 distinguished neighbor left his “home | Headed by the Army Band, playing Dlock” for the last time Chopin’s funeral march, the cortege ‘As the procession slowly was winding | ound down the north road of Capito through the Northwest section of the Hhfll shortly after noon en route to the ity final preparations were made at | church e capitol.” A biack.draped catafalque, | At the base of the hill the cortege which has borne the bodies of other | passed in‘o Pennsylvania avenue. distingwished Americans, was placed in | It was over this same route that Wil- the center of the rotunda shortly be- fare 9 o'clock. At its head was a simple floral piece of white lilacs and yellow roses. Plowers continued to arrive at short ntervals and were grouped about the catafalque. One was a wreath, fully five feet in diameter, built up of or- b chids, iris and lilies, with a large silken flag. on an ornate staff through the cofgier £ Silence Grips Dupont Circle. s the cortege reached Dupont Circle thE rain let up. A few moments before 1§ Wrrived the circle was filled with peo- hurrying to their officer. When the foession approached all paused. Traf- Lt Only the clattering of and the rumble of the could be heard as the blinked on and off, but no | liam Howard Taft moved as thousands cheered after his inauguration 21 years | ago this month as he went from the Capitol to the White House. | Crowds Increase Despite Rain. The crowds that had watched the | ody as it passed on the way to the | | Capitol had thickened, despite the rain | that had changed from & thin mist to | {2 Steady drizzle. 1 | The dirge played by one band died | iaway, but as if from an echo another | | took up the strains. The Marines, picked men, sWung: immediately " behind _them was the | | Rain Becomes Downpour. Passing the White House. —Star Staff Photo: | | There were those who recalled him | bespeak his similar place over all the in the bloom of his mature manhood, ' Nation's sea forces. who saw still in fancy his wide, cheery the bubbling along in front and next came a detach- |and the diplomatic corps and the Jus- ment of bluejackets, white capped, and | tices of the Supreme Court. All these were mustered to lead the way to a peaceful, tree-girt Virginia hill- side, its clustered branches and under- growth already budding with the life | of a new Spring, the scene of the last occupied by casket. A guard of Infantry, Marines |Taft over a period of many years was | and sailors brought up the rear. | filled with flowers, the vivid red of roses | smile or heard again | flashing agamst the creamy white of | chuckle that gave mirthful punctuation |to_many a public address, e L | DUFFY FUNERAL RITES {TO BE HELD THURSDAY Widow of James A. Duffy to Be Buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery. Funeral services for the late Mrs. | Margaret J. Duffy of 77 K street. will | be held Thursday morning at 9 o'clock | at St. Aloysius Roman Catholic Church, | North Capitol and I streets. Mrs. Duffy, who died at Georgetown University Hospital yesterday, was the widow of James A. Duffy, who was well known in business circles. Friends and relatives have been invited to gather at the residence at 8:30 a.m. tomorrow, preparatory to the singing of requiem mass at the church for the repose of the soul. Interment will be in | Mount Olivet Cemetery. | are Miss Mary C. Kearney, Luke J.. Frank P. and Joseph M. Kearney, Miss Mary D Frank A. and James A. Duffy. By the Associated Press. present, Chief Justice Hughes of the United ' States entered the Supreme Court chamber today and went through the formality or adjourning the court until Thursday. : | " Outside, at the time, the body of his | predecessor in office, William Howard Taft, was being borne from the Capitol | | | | ALL CLASSES PAY TRIBUTETOTAFT Thousands File by Bier in Capitol Rotunda to Honor Him. (Continued From Pirst Page) half of the lid of the casket was re- | moved so that the throngs to come might take a last look at the wan but peaceful countenance. Those within the rotunda were per- mitted to pass by the bier first. The placid features of the former Chief Jus- tice bore but the faintest semblance of | the smile for which his countenance in other days was noted, nor was the | face so full as it was when Mr, Taft was in the best of health Silence Holds Sway at Bier. All was silence beneath the dome of the Capitol as the seemingly endless pilgrimage continued during the morn- | ing. The silence was broken only now and then by the low-voiced orders of police and soldiers assigned to guide the mourners past the body. Long before the caisson neared Capi- {tol Hill thousands of persons had gathered around the great roped-off area of the plaza. Patiently these stood in the intermittent downpour of | showers, many without umbrella or raincoat. As the people filed into the rotunda an_unofficial check showed that they were passing through at the rats of about 60 a minute. No one was permit- ted to stop beside the bier, although a number paused briefly as they came to the catafalque. One of the impressive floral pleces was graced by a silk flag on the staff of which was a gold piate inscribed “In Memory of a G Man.” This tribute, it is understood, came trom the Wanamaker family in Philadelphia, whose great mercantile establishment & | Mr. Taft dedicated years ago. Supreme Court Chamber Is Near. But a short distance away was the chamber of the United States Supreme Court where Mr. Taft presided as Chief Justice. Many employes of the court were among the company in the ro- | tunda this morning. There was no member of the Taft family at the cere- mones in the Capitol. A number of Senators and Repre- sentatives were recognizad in the pass- ing lines. | _Among these was Representative | Ruth Bryan Owen, whose father, the | late William Jennings Bryan, Mr. Taft opposed at the presidential polls in 1908, Two other woman members of Congress, Representatives Florence Kahn and Katherine Langley, also filed by. | Among Senators noted were Oddie, Phipps, Keyes, Nye, Copeland and Hale. Broatz Hobbles by Bier. Herman Broatz, 83, white-haired na- | tive of Germany, whose characteriza- tlon of Santa Claus has won the ad- miration of thousands of Washington | children, hobbled by the bier. Close behind him was a colored man in overalls. He told a Capitol guide as he passed: “I sure did admire Mr. Taft.” Charles P. Taft, son of the former Chief Justice, with his two young daughters, were among the last to view }gl;‘en !godtyh in u':xe “:utuml!;‘. and they | e res wi | catafalque. P CITIZENS DEVAND A S S EXTURTION COMMUNIST PROBE e,z e 2o o victed by Jury. Association Urges Reports of | ™ e Sans “Nen 11— Anthony | . Montforthe, wealthy head of the Plas- | Propaganda in Schools terers’ Information Bureau, and Michael ) McCloskey. delegate " for' the ' Wood : ers' Union, were convicted of ex- Be Investigated. tortion by a jury in Bronx County Court A sister, three brothers, a daughter| Mrs. Clara Virginia Brooke Rind, 83 and two sons survive Mrs. Duffy. They | years old, died yesterday at the home v | By ke, wi v [HUGHES ADJOURNS COURT. | Aveoee: Neamniasor ot the Dumbarton AL ST | returned to this city five years ago from Chief Justice Only Member of Tri- Vet Virginia. G bunal Present for Formality. | Mrs. R. E. Riddleberger of this city, With no other member of the court|of Hagerstown, Md. and Conrad Rind | The Stanton Park Citizens' Associa | tion, meeting last night at Peabody last night. Their trial grew out of a grand jury | investigation of the racketeering in the building trades in the Bronx. The in- quiry was begun after a series of fires, , School, petitioned, the Board of Educa- | glleged to have been started by racket: | Ing” investigation of reports that Com- | munist propoganda is being’spread in | ! tion to make an “immediate and sweep- , the public schools. The board particu- | larly was asked to learn if the Com- | munist party of the United States, the | Trade Unity League or the Young | Pioneer movement, have been active in | distributing ~ printed matter among | students. { _Such an nquiry, according to H. M. | Stull, who introduced the resolution, | would bring. to light information on | which to base an appeal to Congress | for_protective legislation. The investigation would be made, the resolution recited, with-a view to elimi- nating from the school those ‘“who teach or advise the overthrow of the United States Government or attempt to_undermine its institutions.” Following the reports of the standing | committees, the association nominated Mr. Stull to the Citizens' Advisory | Council. Nine new members were added to the rolls at the meeting, which | :‘-asdwell attended. A. C. Gregory pre- e MRS. CLARA V. B. RIND EXPIRES AT AGE OF 831\ |Long Illness Ends Fatally for| Daughter of the Late Dr. | B. F. Brooke. eers, destroyed, uncompleted apartment bulldings wil losses estimated at $3,500,000. The two men were charged with ex- torting $800 from Bernard Lyons, a Bronx plastering contractor. | _ Judge Barrett set next Tuesday as the date of sentence. Conviction on the charge of extortion carries a sentence of |from 7'z to 16 years’ imprisonment. Boy, 13, Accused of Slaying. JACKSON, Miss., March 11 (#).—Of- | ficers yesterday charged T. J. Payne, 13- year-old son of William Payne, with shooting his father to death at their | Rankin County farm near here Sunday | night. ‘The youth said that his father severely | whipped his mother, threatened to kill | the entire family and then rushed from their house in an angry mood. You Always Save Money at Hechingers Lumber Plumbing Millwork Doors & Sash of her daughter, Mrs. A. K. Westrater, | 1505 Irving street, after a long iliness. | Mrs. Rind, a native of Virginia, passed her early life in Georgetown, where her father, the late Dr. B. F. She is survived by six other children: Willlam B., Seabrook and B. O. Rind of Martinsburg, W. Va.: G. C. Rind of Los Angeles, Calif. | _Funeral services will be held tomor- row morning at 10 o'clock from the n‘:slslxldesce &r r;\{‘r». Westrater. Interment | wi 3 ount Heb v, L s lebron Cemetery, Roofing Hardware Wallboard Paint I 7, 7 PRICE "s‘ 3—Branches—3 MAIN OFFICE-6™ & C.Sts. S W. CAMP MEIGS-5™ & Fla Ave.N.E. BRIGHTWOOD-592! Ga Ave. NW Lo { Milfes. on ssed by the big Patterson| The rain increazed to a downpour 85| pyung high into the recesses behind| Many had seen the swift vears etch | farewell. o D P faed by the Coslidges as | {he cortege procceded tp PennsyIvania | tne puipit was a phalanx of flowers n | thelr inexorable story on his face aa| The burial plot had been chosen by |toward All Souls’ Church and thence & temporary White House, and moved | "Venue, drenching those in the proces- | dewy profusion. | they watched him walking among them | the family of the dead former President. | t0 Arlington National Cemetery for Massachusetts avenue. | sion and the waiting spectators. d day by day. And now they came {o|From that slope Washington looks hazy | burial £ moving down Massachusetts | The flags and guidons stood straight Marine Bands Plays Dirge. look their ‘last upon him, reverent, |and beautiful in the distance beyond R BRI VU directly in front of the pro-|OUt In the wind, and the lines of the | President Hoover, Chief Justice | silent, slow-moving lines of plain |the wide river. And on this quiet nook | several blocks di could be | Cavalty escort were irregular as the | Holmes, committees’ of Senate and | citizens. | all the wealth of honor for the dead| PROF. BLISS TO SPEAK. BEAVER BOARD pipin gy feld Scott, | Norses pranced and tried to turn before | House, cabinet m=mbers, diplomats and | For the mighty of the Government | that marked the day centered. S . & Mexican War hero. the whipping rain most ¢f Lhe others of the distinguished | places were made with the family at| It was by Dr. Plerce that the last 5 e ¢ British fiag wase drooping at The procession went forward slowly company had assembled in the church | the church services following those brief | spoken word of the simple committal | Prof. Louis B. Bliss of Bliss Electrical The Orl lnal bt B the catsson slowly rumbled | 10 the sound of mufed drums. | before the cortege had completed its | hours of lying in state at the Capitol. | service was given. That, and his read- | College will be the principal speaker at g past the Canadian legation, part way| Umbrellts, hundreds, lined the side- | trip of more than an hour and a half | There turned the nearest and dearest | ing of Tennyson’s “Crossing the Bar” at | the weekly meeting of the Optimist betwe he graveside, came last before the|Club of Washington at the Hamilton Fiber Wall Board n Dupont and Scott Circles walks. Hals came off as the casket from the Capital. The Marine Band |of his personal friends, the colleagy passed In the midst of its rain-pelted | d a dirge as the cafsson came to|of the Supreme Court, the diplomats | ranked guns, shrouded in the trees of | Hotel tomorrow afterncon, it was an- Procession Goes by Treasury. guard of honor SR D "opposite the Ted, green and | come (o speak for Kings and Presidents | the hillside above, awoke their clamor- | nounced today by Herbert B. Nevius, From Scott Circle the cortege sWung | ‘Tourlst Washington from shops | white canvas canopy stretching from 'the world over and committees of tne ous word of farwell. | president of the club. into Sixteenth street, once known as|along Pennsylvanin ayenue displayed | church door to curb. The units of | House and Senate made up of men who | Amid those rocking, resounding blasts | A special meeting of the board of of the Presidents. Both|from its windows lnrge biack-bordered | the excort deployed in a hollow square, | held themselves his friends rather than | an Army bugler caught up the quak-|governor: of the .club to consider a Y ° broad street are hne\; with | prints of ‘Taft, entitled “We Mo\ Neighbors Pay Him Tribute, Pess "w“hflfflfltfll - [ in_sehoes o _She ol1d wraveyard and | m.llrln::rnolfd l!hil fl?b"(:us]mes? maggers ’ SN abartment hotels. | | ST 4 Vel o t was there, too, that Preside 4 hem again in the - plaintive [ eld following the luncheon. e homes and apa Los™ A few colored posteards g esident Hoo- | lulled t! g plain e Telephone North 1343 down Sixteenth street, above | Taft's presidential days, unpa ked i Long before the set hour a host of | ver turned to deliver his own and the | notes of “Taps,” the soldier's farewell. - of Lafayette Park, the roof of | long forgotten stor - | plain Americans of every creed and color | Nation's silent message of sorrow to - - < sta # House could be seen [ pentance and were mutom ot the | Was wailing at the Capitol. Most of | che grieving family. Many Syisters in Troland Building Biggest Yacht. the park, the procession |crowd the former President’s life’ was lived | For the last scenes, Army orders ha any Sp Feland, BATH, Me.. March 11 (#).—Work on t H street, passed the Vet-| Al Bouls' Unitarian Ohureh, high ob |in Washington. There were many | summoned the full 'pomp of military | Reports of the Irish Free State, just | J. P. Morgan's yacht, the largest in the Bureau and ‘wheeled inlo West | Sixtoonth atrest Ml began 16 Ml with | humble neighbors and friends of the | funeral pagentry, horses, foot and |published, show a greater percentage of | World, is progressing. _The Corsair, Executive avenue. It was 8:30 o'clock | distinguished personages long before the | years who found their places in that | artillery, ranked in battalions as befitted | spivsters of all ages than in any other | fourth of the name to fly the Morgan as the procession entered Pennsylvania ! procession Appronehe ntide, apecial | seemingly endless queue. Men, women | the high place the dead man once held | country in the world. Between the ages [ pennant, will be 3,080 tons and 343 avenge Dlaces had heen ressrved fof President | and even children were there in hun- | as commander-in-chief, and flanking 'of 30 and 35 at least 42 per cent of the | fect over all. She will cost more than As the procession passed the White and Mre, Hoover, members of Congress' dreds who had known him in life.columns of marines and bluejackets to women are unmarried. $2,500,000. 4 2101 Georgia Ave. NW. Lumber, Millwork DuPont Paints, Coal, Hardware Building Supplies