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VOL. XXV. NO. 311
VERDICT BROUGHT
EDR ASA CMOIER
AFTER4O MINUTES
New Orleans Woman Frankly 1
Expresses Surprise at Out
come of Her Suit Against
Mr, Candler
Preparatory to leaving for his
home in New Orleans, Attorney
Harry Gamble issued a statement
Wednesday in which he declared
i that his client, Mrs. Onezima De-
Bouchel, won a “clear moral vic
tory’’ in her $500,000 suit against
| Asa G. Candler, Sr., of Atlanta, al
’ though a jury in the United States
court Tuesday had denied her any
damages.
Mrs. Deßouchel and the friends '
who attended her during the trial
of the case left Tuesday night for I
New Orleans, soon after Mrs. De- i
Bouchel had given’out a statement .
in which she expressed surprise and !
disappointment over the verdict of i
the jury, which was returned Tues ■
day afternoon at 3 o’clock.
“The irresistible necessity for
leaving Reno and defending henielf
.against the scandal said by Mr. Can
dler to be circulated in Atlanta was
clearly perceived by Mrs. IX-
Bouchel,” Mr. Gamble said, in h.s
statement. "Under grievous disad
vantages, she did so and gave her j
enemies their day in court. She has |
the deep satisfaction of a clear moral i
victory.
Character Vindicated
“If she feels some disappointment
that her enemies have not been
punished for the injury and expense
they have caused her, it is natural.
That is a human, but j fleeting feel
ing, and weighs little in the balance
with the complete vindication of het
1 character as a good woman.
“Except for such legal steps as
we may take, we do not complain.
On the other hand, we owe much
to the people of this fine city; they
have been uniformly kind and over
whelmingly sympathetic, with ’
woman whose hands were tted ant
whose tongue vyas dumb, in the
trial of the case/’
Mr. Gamble would not say wheth
er any appeal would be taken to the
federal circuit court, and Attorney
Albert Howell, Jr., leading Atlanta
counsel for Mrs. Deßouchel, said
no announcement could be made
until counsel had conferred.
The jury was absent from the
court room less than 45 minutes be
fore returning the verdict for the
defendant, and the actual delibera
tions occupied about 30 minutes.
Five minutes before it returned to
the court room, the jury sent out
and inquired how to write the ver
dict, indicating that an agreement
hhd been reached.
Surprised, She Says
“While 1 freely confess surprise
and disappointment that the
ity of my divorce decree, which
was rendered in Nevada ami lecog
nized by th e courts of that state,
may be affected by the verdict in
this case, nevertheless I am con
roled by the fact that this defense
was first made by Mr. Candler as
a technical defense twelve months
after he had filed his answer m
court, 'admitting, under oath, sub
stantially every assertion ot my
petition sustaining my character,
Mrs. De Bouchel said in her state- {
ment.
“The jury in this case, for tech- |
_ nical legal reasons, was afforded;
I no opportunity to condemn Mr.
itCandler and punish him for his in- ;
attack upon my chai-,
acter. An attack so inexcusable that
upon the trial of this case he of
fered no witness-to sustain his roa- I
sons for breaking our engagement,
and his counsel openly admitted
that no attack of any kind could
be made on me.
“While I have had no opportunity
to consider further plans with ref
erence to my decree, I will,
course, give this matter such
prompt consideration as may be
necessary for my own protection.
> “In bringing the form of suit
vAhich I brought, I was advised by
my counsel that it was my only re
source and hope to develop the
source of the rumors upon which
Mr. Candler had broken his engage
ment; and it us my chief regret
that the nature of the defense wa>
such that L was cut oft and
I suppose forevc r, from exposing
. the utter want of foundation for
them.’’
Text of Verdict
“Wo. the jury, find a verdict for
the defendant," was the verdict writ
ten across the back of the original
petition and read by Deputy Clerk
John D. Stewart.
Neither Mrs. Deßouchel nor Mr.
Candler was in the courtroom, and
Asa Warren Camiler, of the firm of
Candler, Thomson & Hirsch, was the
only member of counsel present
when the jury, headed by Foreman
W. R. Prescott, filed into the cham
ber and aligned themselves before
Judge Samuel H. Sibley.
A few minutes after the verdict
was returned, a Journal reporter
found Mr. Candler in the lobby of the
Candler building, surrounded by
' friends who were congratulating him
on the verdict.
•‘I have no statement to make
other than that I was very happy,"
said Mr. Candler. "I didn’t expect
anything else.”
Mrs. .Deßouchel and a group of
friends were eating lunch at the
Piedmont hotel when a Journal re
porter brought news of the verdict.
Her attorney, Harry Gamble, of New
Orient.*, who left the table to receive
the news, said Mrs. Deßouchel had
no statement to make at present, and
that de''Use’s, counsel in the case
would not make t statement just
now.
•Indue Sible.i's Charge
The jury began consideration of the
ease at 2:15 o’clock Tuesday after
noon. following competion of argu
ments and Judge Sibley’s charge.
Judge Sibley reviewed the ac
tion. told the jury that only the
portions of the original petition
which were admitted were to be con
sidered as true, but cautioned the
jurors against considering the pcti-
(Continued tjn race 2, Column 4'
Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
NEWS OF THE WORLD
TOLD IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON. Rear Admiral
Thomas Oliver Selfridge, retired,
dies here.
ATLANTA.—Asa G. Candler, Sr.,
wins breach of promise suit brought
by Mrs. Deßouchel.
VlENNA.—Official sources deny
printed report that Austria has rec- I
ognized soviet Russia.
VERA CRUZ. —Official dispatches
confirm news of evacuation of that
city by Mexican insurgents.
CROSBY Minn.—Forty-one miners
are reported killed when bottom falls
out of small lake and floods iron
mine.
WASHINGTON.—German embassy
announces that it will fly its flag at
half-mast in memory of Woodrow
Wilson.
CHICAGO. —Middle west is digging
itself out of one of the worst snow
and sleet storms in at least twenty
years.
WASHINGTON. —Mrs. Florence
Kling Harding calls at home of For
mer President Wilson and expresses
her sorrow.
BRUSSELS. Cardinal Mercier
pays tribute to Woodrow Wilson as
a man who was thorough in his
honesty.
CHlCAGO.—Special grand jury
meets today to investigate conduct of
veterans bureau under former Di
rector Charles R. Forbes.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.—Prison
guards in intense blizzard near Jef
ferson City, Mo., kill three escaped
Convicts from Missouri penitentiary.
HELP FOR MNKS
IN WHEAT GROINING
SECTIONS IS URGED
WASHINGTON, Feb. s—Plans ‘
for immediate formation of a $lO,-
000,000 corporation by private inter
ests to provide assistance to agri
culture with the aid of the war
finance corporation, if needed, and
other recommendations indorsed by
the conference called by President
Coolidge to consider the situation
in the northwest jyere outlined in
the form of a report today for the
president’s consideration.
The conference completed its ses
sions yesterday and adjourned after i
appointing a committee to present |
its views to Mr. Coolidge. It also
authorized another committee to su
pervise organization of The propdfeW
corporation, and suggested that the
president appoint a permanent com
mittee to deal with the agricultural
situation, at the same time indors
ing proposals to assist banks in the
wheat-growing sections and calling
upon mortgage companies and sim
ilar institutions to extend wherever
practicable' the maturities of farm
ers’ obligations. .
The conference, confronted with
a vigorous division of opinion over j
indorsement of pending bills to pro
vide government funds to help wheat
and other farmers to diversify their
production and to establish an ex- |
port corporation, took no action on j
legislation measures, but the com
mittee instructed to present the re
port to the president decided to sub
mit a separate recommendation of
its own that such bills be enacted.
The functions of the corporation
weiv not defined, being left for its
incorporators to determine, but Sec- '
retary Hoover pointed out that its I
credit resources would total many ■
times the $10,000,000 capitalization :
in view of the aid that could be ex- I
tended by the war finance corpora- !
tion.
Funds to provide the $10,000.00" ;
capital for the service corporation ,
•are practically gv ran teed, Sec re-I
tary Hoover said, although sub- i
scriptions from the industrial and .
commercial interests pledged to its
creation have not been entered. It
will be the object of the' corpora
tion to conduct its enterprise wit-l
out profit.
“Its purpose will be to take the
widest and most generous view in
rendering aid,” Mr. Hoover said.
“Its primary purpose will be to
assist the farmer situation direct
ly. It will have the full backing ot
the war finance corporation and
consequently will be able to obtaia
many times its capital stock for
; Functioning of the corporation
will not depend upon action by
congress. Mr. Hoover added. He
expressed the opinion that the ac
tion taken by the conference had
gone far toward eliminating the im
mediate danger in the wheat-grow
ing area where depressed prices
have occasioned financial troubles
{ during recent months.
Delegates ’directly representing
i agriculture in the conference met
j today and niter presented to Presi
! dent Coolidge resolutions indorsing
- “the substance and basic principles"
i of the McNary-Haugen bill to ue
i store farm purchasing power and
• the Norbeck-Burtness measure for
; government credits to promote di-
I versification of production in the
wheat area.
President Coolidge responding de-
I dared he hoped justification for an
increase in the tariff on wheat
| would result from the present in
vestigation of the wheat duty by
I the tariff commission.
'The wheat investigation was insti
, tuted by the tariff commission sev
eral months ago on petitions of
wheat growers in the northwest who
; asserted that the present duty of 30
cents a bushel did not cover ade
quately the difference between
American and Canadian production
costs. If the investigation proves the
correctness of these assertions the
president may under the flexible pro
i visions of the tariff act increase the
I duty by one-half or to 45 cents a
I bushel.
Wil l. TREAT CATARRH DEAF
NESS AND HEAD NOISES FREE
Davenport, lowa.—l'r. W. O. Coffee, suite
2146 St. .lames Hotel bldg., announces lie
found a treatment which completely cured
him of catarrh of the nose, deafness and
head noises. Ttio i-amls have used it suc
ve-sfullv He believes it will relieve any
ea- 11c offers a 10 day supply Free io
er.-v res T'r of tb’« paper « Ihj writes him.
s ml .'"'i: name au-.i addri"'
tAli ertueioeaL)
i
LONDON. —Gandhi, Indian nation- I
a list leader, reported seriously ill, j
has been released from prison with- ;
out conditions, Bombay dispatch
says.
WASHINGTON. Mr. Wilson
I made the explicit wish that no pub- '
- lie official exercises be held at his
! funeral and burial, it is authorita
tively announced.
NEW YORK. —Wire communica- t
tion between east and west in the'
United States is seriously impaired
by blizzard that for a time isolated
Chicago. e
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. Father
Hubert Dahme, pastor of Roman
Catholic church here, is shot and
killed in crowded main street by an
unidentified man. who escapes.
MONTREAL. —Canadian govern-
ment in note to state department ex
presses its willingness to go ahead
with certain proposals for developing |
the St. Lawrence deeper waterway
project.
DETROlT.—Personal holdings of
i late John F. Dodge, Detroit automo
bile maker,' are listed at $32,312,442
and- state of Michigan will get $936,-
633 in- inheritance taxes.
NEW' YORK.—Charles Herbert
Levermore, of New York City, secre
tary of the New York Peace society,
is winner of Bok peace plan and re
ceives check for $50,000 at Philadel
phia.
WASHINGTON/—President Cool
idge wished to suspend all govern
ment activities for Woodrow Wil
son’s funeral, but discovery of a law
passed in 1893 prevents such suspen
sion for a former official.
3 RILLED. A HURT
AS CYCLONE HITS
■ PREACHER‘S HOME
* BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Feb. s.—The
i home of Rev. Wallace Carpenter,
Presbyterian minister, was demol
ished near here last night by a cy
clone and his wife and his oldest
tson were instantly killed. Another
son died later in a hospital. Five
other members of the family, includ
ing Mr. Carpenter, were badly hurt
and are in a lo6al hospital. *
The storm swept through a narrow
section on the Cahaba river about
i 12 miles from this city, but the Cur
j penter home was the only one re-
I ported blown down. No member of
I the family escaped uninjured.
Ambulances which rushed to the >
section following the report of the
storm were unable to reach the Car
penter home until trees were cleared
out of the roadway.
Birmingham was ■ visited about 6
o'clock last night by a wind and
rain storm, and minor damages were
represented.
Lieutenant Governor
Os North Carolina on ,
Trial m Bank Failure
WILMINGTON, N. C.. Feb. s.—|
(By the Associated Press.) —Clarence
Latham, of Raleigh, chief state bank
examiner, was the first witness intro
duced today in the conspiracy of
Lieutenant Governor W. B. Cooper
, and his brother. Thomas E. Cooper
i in United States district court.
I The actual hearing of evidence be- ,
| gan after the reading of the indict-
i ment which charges the two broth- ;
■ ers with various alleged criminal t
i acts in connection with the failure
'about a year ago of the Commercial j
1 National bank of Wilmington, of |
; which the Coopers were the chief of-
j fleers. Reading of the indictment by
I District Attornye Irvin B. Tucker
i required more than forty minutes.
Government witnesses to the number
of forty-two were introduced and
sworn, the defense offering no wit
nesses at this time. x
Mr. Latham was questioned by I
the district attorney regarding an
examination made in November, 1921,
of the American Bank and Trust
Company of Wilmington, the state
I bank, which was later reorganized
land became the Commercial National
i bank.
Over defense objection, lie said '
| that the report showed the bank at j
' that time had alleged losses on its j
■ books in the form of “bad notes" I
I amounting to from $200,000 to $250,- !
100I 000 ’ -
Signal Mountain Inn,
Destroyed m $200,000
Fire, Will Be Rebuilt
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Feb. 5
The main building of Signal Moun ’
tain Inn, cn the crest of Walden’s
Ridge. 10 miles from Chattanooga, '
was destroyed by fire Monday aft- |
ernoon. C. E. James, owner of the i
hotel, estimated the lo«-s at $200,000.
Mr. James announ id that he would
take steps to rebuild at once.
The Weather
|
FORECAST FOR THURSDAY
Virginia—Fair and coNer.
North Carolina, South Carolina and
Georgia: Fresh westerly winds di-I
minishing.
Florida: Fair.
Extreme Northwest Florida: In-;
creasing cloudiness ptobably becom- ■.
ing unsettled.
Alabama and Mississippi: Increas
ing cloudiness probably becoming un
settled.
Tennessee: Fair in east, and in
creasing cloudinesa in west portion.
Kentucky: Generally fair.
Louisiana: Fair, warmer.
Arkansas: Partly cloudy, rising I
temperatu res.
Oklahoma: Fair, rising tempera
ture.
East Texas: Partly cloudy, warm-
i er. _ I
West Texas: Fair.
TECHNICALITIES AIR
FAIL IN THWARTING
OIL LEASE PROBERS
Leading Figure in Oil Lease
Scandal Will Claim Senate
Has No Duly Constituted
President
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Atlanta Journal News Bureau,
408 Evans Building.
BY THEODORE TILLER
WASHINGTON, Feb. s—While
the senate's investigation of tar
naval oil lease scandal was halted
temporarily today because of the
mourning for the late President W’l
son and also because the former
secretary of the interior, Albert L
Fall, has challenged the jurisdic
tion of the investigating commit
tee, The Journal's correspondent
learned what will be the next move
of Fall to escape a jail sentence
for contempt of the senate.
It is revealed now from authori
tative sources close to Fall just
bow he will combat the approach
ing efforts of the senate to hold
him in contempt and to put him in
jail for refusal to answer questions
of the senate committee.
The coming move of Mr. Fall and
his attorney and advisers will in
volve the status of Senator Albert
B. Cummins, of lowa, as president
pro tempore of the senate and the
authority of Cummins to sign and
send lo the district attorney of the
District of Columbia a document
citing that Fall is defiant and ir.
contempt of a branch of congress.
Involved also is th ft death of the
late President Harding, whJcn
■brought to the White House Calvin
Coolidge, until that hour vice pres
ident of the United States, and
president of the senate, by consti
tutional provision, j
Senate Presidency
The fact that there is now no
president of the senate because the
vice president of the United States
has gone to the White House a-n.A
that Senator Cummins, according
to the contention of Fall’s attor
ney, has not been elected even as
president pro tempore in the sixty
eighth congress, gives Fall oppor
tunity to raise two fine legal
1 points. His attorney, Levi” Cook?, is
known to have decided to utilize
every means to prevent the testi
mony of Fall before the senate com
mittee, and likewise to fight/ thi i
contempt proceedings that seem in
evitable.
If Senator Cummins affixes the
seal of the senate to a document
sent to the district attorney ir.
Washington, td bring Falls’ recalci
trancy before th e grand jury tor
action, Cooke will plea*' that this
i is impossible under section 104 of |
j the revised statutes.
That section provides that when
ever a witness is summoned by a
c.nate or house committee to tes
tify and fails to testify, “the presi
dent of the senate or the speaker j
of the house, as the case may .>e, I
shall ceiitify the facts, under the
seal of the senate or bouse to the >
I
I district attorney for the District ->f ,
Columbia, whose dut.y it shall be '
; to bring the matter before the grand I
I jury for their action.”
Former Secretary Fall and his al
: and advisers, who have li
ready raised the point that the sen
ate committee’s investigation is un
authorized because the resolution of
inquiry was adopted by the senate
of the sixty-seventh congress an i
not congress, will
then raise these additional points'
That the constitution provides
that the vice president of the
United States shall be the presi
dent of senate; that the senate
has nc president because Mr. Cool
idge today is in the White House,
, and that Mr. Cummins cannot sign
I a document as the senate's presi
1 dent.
'Furthermore, that even if Cum
i mins as president pro tempore, is
authorized to act as the president
:of the senate, he has not been
; elected as president pro 'tempore ot
i the present? senate, but is holding
: over under an election of March
7, 1921.
Constitution jCih’d
In this connection, Fall's attor-
I ney will cite the following clause
1 from the constitution as Che Uniie-i
i States:
“The senate shall choose their
i other officers, and also a president
■ pro tempore, m the absence of the
; vice president, or when he shall ex
ercise the office of president of the
United States.”
The legal point will be raised that
I even it it were permissible for Ser,-
| ator Cummins to hold over as
i president pro tem. from one-congress
i io another, and under the existing
{gentleman's agreement in the s- i
. ate, which grew out of the success-
I ful fight to keep Cummins from
I holding two jobs, including the
• chairmanship of the interstate com
merce committee, his direct elec
tion by the present senate was
necessary under the peculiar cir
cumstances
These circumstances, it will be re
i cited in behalf of Fall, are unusual,
| because when Mr. Coolidge went
into the White House last August,
■ the senate lost its constitutional
president, and yet Mr. Cummins was
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Resting Place of Dead Leader
TN THE NATIONAL CATHEDRAL OF WASHINGTON, pictured below, is the Bethle
hem Chapel, which contains the crypt wherei n now lies all that is mortal of Woodrow Wilson,
the man who led America through the darkness of the war of the world.
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I STATES DIMING
OUT OF SNOW IS
BLlffl PISSES
CHICAGO, Feb. 6. —The middle
west and central sections are shaking
off the grip of the storm which dur
ing the last two days has caused
nearly a score of deaths and damage
amounting to millions of dollars to
transportation and wire ccmmunica- i
tion facilities.
Although more snow was forecast
for today, the blizzard’s force is ebb
ing as it moves slowly eastward, |
Railroads, telegraph and telephone
companies are hopeful of improving i
conditions that have virtually iso- ,
lated many points in the storm area,
although sometime will elapse before
train schedules will be normal and j
complete wire service restored.
Radio continues to be Chiacgo’s
chief means of communication .-I Jews, !
market reports, train bulletins and
orders havd been broadcast to and
from the city. Towns where tele- I
graph and telephone service had been ;
prostrated were kept in touch with
world events through messages in
the air.
The Associated Press. whose Chica
go office was most vitally effected
by the breakdown of wire service,
was'able to supply news virtually to
every paper in its membership. Points
not supplied with radio receiving fa
cilities received their nows dispatch
es by commercial wire and telephone
| service.
Three deaths in Milwaukee resulted
from exhaustion in combating the
I force of the blizzard. Two Chicago
children. coasting, were struck and
killed by an automobile. Blinding
I snow caused three persons in Michi
gan to die from injuries resulting
I from collisions. A Rockford, Ills.,
i girl, is believed to have perished in
| the storm while on an errand. Three
; were killed in Alabama, the southern
[ edge £f the storm area, during a cy
i clone.
Milk famines in several cities are
I being faced today because snow
' blocked roads prevented dairymen
I from transporting their supplies,
j Only one-fifth of Milwaukee’s normal
| supply was brought in yesterday.
! without a supply yesterday.
ASSOCIATED PRESS VIRES
SI FEER FRF STORM
NEW YORK. Feb. 6—Wide
spread pros' ration of telegraph and
; telephone wires in the middle west
and elsewhere as a result of severe
storms necessitated today an tin
: usual rerouting of the vast , wire
service of the Associated Press in
j order to furnish its newspapers with
I the world's news.
Chicago has be/m cut off from
direct communication with New
York since Monday night and news
has been sent circuitously through
Canada to Winnipeg, from which
place it has been relayed io St. Paul
and thence to Chicago. Pacific coast
St. Louis. Denver and Points in the
dominion.
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Atlanta, Ga„ Thursday, February 1, 1924
Suspect Held m Death
Os Woman and Child
In Burning House
ATHENS, Ga., Feb. €.—(By the
Associated Press.) —Dirk Aiken, res
ident of near Jefferson in Jackson
county, is in jail today awaiting ac
tion of the grand jury now investi
gating the death of Mrs. Mag Sim
mons and her young daughter,
Rosalie. T/wo charred bodies, taken
from the ruins of a burned farm
house ten miles from Jefferson fol
lowing a fire the night of December
15, last, were identified as the bodies
of Mrs. Simmons and her daughter.
Aiken was arrested upon sus
picion of having some knowledge of
the crime, officers said, but they
declined to state whether he is
wanted for any acutal part in the
m u rd er.
Despite the fact that precautions
have been taken to guard with
secrecy the investigation of the
grand jury, reports came from the
courthouse today that other sus
pects in the case are being grilled.
Death of the woman and the nine
year-old girl aroused the entire
county hereabouts. All investiga
tions conducted by officers were
fruitless.
Plight of Willie Jones x
Causes Athens Girl
To Attempt Suicide
WINDER. Ga.. Feb. 6.—The 18-
ycar-old girl who attempted to xnd
her life by taking poison in the wait
ing room of the Seaboard station
here last night was, sufficiently re
covered this morning ttf return to
Athens with her mother, who came
here after notification that her
daughter was in a hospital recover
ing from the effects of the poison.
■ A note clutched in the hand of the
girl when she was found uncon
scious in the station gave her name
as Elsie Hayden and said that she
could stand to live io onger because
“the boy I love” was to be hanged.
The note closed with a request that
word be sent to Willie Jones to come
to see her. or that the .judge at Co
lumbus. Ga.. allow him to come.
Relatives of the girl .said that so
far as they knew she had never seen
the young man, who, with Gervis
Bloodworth, was denied a new trial a
few days ago on the charge of killing
a salesman of Reynolds, Ga. They
said that severe burns which the girl
suffered some years ago, affected her
mind. It is supposed that she came
to Winder on the train arriving here
at 5 o’clock.
Aubrey Lee Nickels
Granted New Trial
TAMPA. Fla.. Feb. s.—Aubrey
Lee Nickels late Saturday was
granted a new trial, when the su
preme court reversed the circuit
court of Volusia county in its re
fusal to grant a writ of error coram
robis in the case. Application for
the writ was based on the ground
that Nickels pleaded guilty to a
charge of criminal assault b<?cau--»
>f fear •'<’ personal violence in the
court room,
FLAG Os GERMANV
AT HALF-MAST IN
RESPECTTO«
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—The
flag over the German embassy flies
at half-mast out of respect to Wood
row Wilson.
It was run up this afternoon, two
| hours before the Wilson funeral
services began.
I A litxle group of men gathered
near the. embassy shortly after noon
to see whether the flag would bo
I - haff-masted. During the morning
no flag flew from the staff over the
embassy building.
A servant Tan ui> the German en
sign half way. Th? little crowd in
I the street cheered. Among the
: group was Paul Maloney, Sault Ste
j Marie,, Mich., who last night, with
J the aid of several taxi drivers,
j fastened an American flag over the
; front door of the embassy, where it
remained until police took it down
this morning.
Jt was stated on behalf of Ambas
sador Wiedfeldt today ( that instruc
tions had come from Berlin to half
mast the flag, as it was not the in
tention to show disrepect to Mr.
Wilson’s memory.
BERLIN GOVERNMENT
ISSUES STATEMENT
BERLIN. Feb. 6.—(By the Asso
i elated Press.) —The attitude of the
i foreign office in refusing to extend
i official condolences on the death of
' Woodrow Wilson has resulted in a
; revival of newspaper comment re
; garding the late president, in which
i the government's action meets with
*>apnroval in some quarters While
I rebuked by others. \
The following official statement
was issued today:
"In response to an inquiry from
the German ambassador in Wasl -
ington whether the condolences of
the German government on the
death of Mr. Wilson shall be given
official expression, the German gov
ernment informed Mr. Wiedfeldt
that an official expression of efln
; dolence by the German government
I is to be dispensed with, but that
I the ambassador may decide for him-
I self whether and in what manner be
may personally participate in the
; national ceremonies of mourning.”
NEW YORK CONSULATE
IS MINIS FLAGSTAFF
NEW YORK. Feb. 6—” We lave
no- staff for a flag.” a vice consul
h. re today said when asked whv tlie
German flag Was not at half-mast
over the German consulate, in mem
i oty of Woodrow Wilson.
The consulate has had no flag
staff since the war, it was ex
plained.
FKEN( H HALF-MAST FLAGS
AS TRIBUTE TO WILSON
PARIS. Feb. 6.—The flags on all
■ public buildings in France were at
I half-mast today on the occasion of
i the funeral of Woodrow Wilson.
ARG E N TIN EMOUR NT N G
ORDERED in UIL.MDEM
BUESNOS AIRES. Feb. 6.—A day
’o f public mourning was decreed to
j dav hv President Aivear on ;he
i occasion of the funeral of Woodrow
j Wilson* _
a CEN'la A COPS,
SI A YEAR. ,
WEJDROW WILSON
LAID TO REST AS ■ i
NATION MOURNS '
Solemn Simplicity and Ex-
pressions of Nation’s Love M
and Ad mi ration Mark Serv- ■
ices Over Fallen Leader ■
Chief Justice Taft Is I
Stricken by Indigesion '
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. —Chief
Justice Taft was taken with acute
indigestion today and unable to
m t as an honorary pallbearer for «
former President Woodrow Wil
son. Justice Brandeis was in
vited to represent the supreme
' court. The chief justice’s attack
was said to be yielding to treat-
i ment.
| WASHINGTON. Feb. 6.—(By the
j Associated Press.)—Woodrow W.ilson
! passed forever today frofli the world
i stage where once he towered, a com
-1 manding figure.
i In the sacred privacy of the home,
last rites were said —as simple as the
! faith of the man himself in the good
! ness of God. Only the presence of
i president and the few who were his
colleagues in days of greatness, and
the quiet thousands waiting outside ,
under wintry skies for a humble ■
share in the last leave-taking, mark
ed this as the funeral of a great man.
{ There. wXs more formal tone to
j the cathedral service which follow
i ed. There in the chapel that gives
” entrance to the vault of entombment
igwere gathered the dignitaries of gov
bernments and many men of plac£ ■,
L and power in America. Organ note
Land the pealing voices of the cho.r i
■ added a touch of ceremony to the
i brief religious exercises. Bit at the
very last the dead passed again into ’i,
the keeping of his nearest and deal’-
est who alone might watch over the .1
entombment and hear the resigned ■
faith of the committal service utter
ed. The nation's share in that last
moment was only to stand in silent
; reverence outside, while the tomb re- — > J
‘ceived the keeping of an honored ' |
j American.
j! Natic Bows in Sorrow ' .ri
I During the funeral services the
ji busy life of the nation’s capital stood
1 at pause as elsewhere over America
rm n did last honor to the dead. J
' The drumming guns of sorrow
echoed dully from the distant hills
■[htnTL'rald' d-tiie 'lark, cloudiv rapped
r coming of dav with the somber dim- /
■ or lot salute to a dead commander.'
Wherever the flag lew above ship
or fort, half-masted in token of the
nation's loss, the aims proclaimed
the proud sorrow of a people. 1
About the stricken home and at
the cathedral were massed the flow
ers and wreaths that came pouring
in today, from every nearby city and
town. There were formal pieces anil
many simple clusters of the fragrant ,
blossoms. A story of the greatness
of the man whose last earthly mo
ment they marked, was written on
the cards. There were great names f
among them, those-of kings and pres- <
idents and of ot hers in whose keeping
today is the destiny of civilization.
Among the offerings were some
from comrades who served in the
great Avar under the fallen chieftain,
served in Ihe fightinc ranks of the
nation. They bore such legends as
"to our comrade;” “to our chief” and |
“from his comrades. 1 '
Flowers to Hospital .
The loveliness of the. blooms wdll
not mde unnoted, for the, grief bowed
widow has willed that these tributes
to Woodrow Wilson shall go out to
Walter Reed hospital after the. cere- /
rnony to oarrv their message of hope
land cheer to the wounded men there,
as a last token of remembrance from
the chieftain who has nassed on into
eternity. '
Some hours before the funeral a
was to reach the cathedral, soldiers
and marines without ; rms, had tak
en their places along the winding
way that leads from the home ot
death to the groat cathedral. They
were placed at. intervals along the
avenue and rotidways to stand guard |
until the body of the dead com- ;
rnander had passed.
With the military detail came
fropi I'ort Myer Sergeant Frank
Witchey, the bugler who sounded
taps at the funeral ceremonies ot
America’s Unknown Soldier. The
bugler is attached to the Third cav
alry stationed at Fort Myer and his
home is in Mahonoy City, Pa. The
instrument he used was the same he
used at Arlington, and it bore this
inscription on the gold-plated bell: f
‘ Taps, sounded over the body of
Unknown Soldier at. Arlington Na
tional cemetery, November 11, J 921, ' ;
by staff Sergeant Frank Witchey,
of headquarters troop. Third U. S.
-Cavalry, Fort Mybr, Va. Heard
through amplifer at New York and
San Francisco.”
'I he trumpet again was heard to
day in soldier farewell as the body
was lowered to its tomb.
On both sides of the entrance to
the chapel were g.-oat set pieces of
■ the floral tributes, flanking the way
to the door through which th-j I
1 casket, would pass on “the way to
i peace ’as ran the legend graven in |
the stone arch of the doorway. In- '■
s'ide as at the residence, there were
-:e,it. mountains of Howers banking
i the walls.
Flowers Massed At Altar
Within the chapel the flowers 1 had
Icon massed on both sides of tbo ''
altar and along the altar rails. '*tn
the left of the altar itself, standing
back in a recess light'-d by stained J
ul.-.s-s window-, the flag stood, a mill- Z* ]
tary standard swinging free on its /
st.Uf with no mourning banfi.
Ab ng tn<- < nti ance corridor tn the ,
chapel the wreaths and floral pieces 1
were set in a wonderful array of J
b auty. On one wall hung a mighty
wreath of white and red roses, morty
than seven feet across. Jt was sent
I from New York to express the sym- A
pathy and the gratitude of the Polish
people of New York. Nearby u<si«
j-n nag of r’i. .•nee, lone a in fragrant
blossoms and from some of the em-
I hassles had come"the coats of armW
I of th-' nations made tip in flowers,
i wii’io about the chapel nr the corri-