The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-31
MANY TRIBUTES
 PAID MEMORY OF AMERICAS BOYS
United States and England Join Hands in Honoring Soldiers Who Fell in
 Crushing Hun

Washington, May 90.-Decoration of
 the World War will be included tomor-
 row for the first times in the Memorial Day exercises at Arlington National cemetery.
 1 The section set aside as the last rest- | ing place for those who died in the flict is expected to be visited tomorrow by large portion of the thousands who
 go to Arlington each Memorial Day. Last year none of the overseas dead had been returned and only few weeks ago were the first bodies transferred from ceine- teries in France and England to Airing ton,
 The memorial amphitheater, recently dedicated, also will be used for the first time. General Pershing will make the annual address.
 Preceding the exercises at the amphi theater, services will be held as custom ary at the main mast of the battleship Maine at Arlington in honor of the Maine dead. Other exercises, including the un- yelling of a monument to Rear Admiral Charles Wilkes, discoverer of the antarc- tic continent and placing a wreath by the Explorers Club on the grave of Rear Ad- nlTdl GeTTl, ulSCOVeTeT OI the nOTIn pOie, the latter is to be made an annual cere- mony
 Government activities, with the excep- tion of Congress- will generally be sus- pended tomorrow.
 Both houses of Congress decided to con- vene as usual in order to dispose of all possible legislation before the political convention recess or adjournment, ex- pected Saturday,
 President Wilson today received l message from King Albert saying that graves of American dead in Belgium
 would be decorated according to
 American usage"
 Sir Auckland Geddes, the British ann bassador. today sent the following message to Secretary Baker of the war department, Secretary Daniels of the navy and to John McBlroy, com mander of the Grand Army of the Re- public:
 Tn the name of my sovereign. His Majesty. King George, and of the Brit ish peoples throughout the world, hail Americas sons and daughters who have died that freedom may live. | London, May 30.-America's Memo
 rial day for her soldier dead had an unprecedented observance in the Brit
 isn isles today. The graves of 2.500
 American soldiers and sailors buried i r British soil were adorned with l wreaths and American flags--a tribute | from surviving comrades in the Amer 1 ican Legion and the members of other Anglo American organizations. | Services were held at the graves in l the cemeteries at Glasgow Liverpool
 and Manchester but the most signifi cant homage was paid at St Mar
 garet's Church, the official church of 1 the Commons, where Canon Carnegie.
 sub dean of Westminster Abbey. l lauded the deeds of the American "hero dead" He gave assurances that Eng | fish appreciation of the days mean | ing was one of more than sympa l thetic sentiment"
 | John w. Davis, the American ambas-
 sador, read the spiritual lesson. The I Lord Chief Justice, the Earl of Read 1 ing; Maj Gen. Sir John Ieadlam. Rob- l ert F Skinner. the American consul general and many other prominent | Americans and Englishmen attended. A party of Civil war veterans occupied I the front pews.