Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-02
MILITARY FUNERAL FOR !
PRIVATE !, +. SWIFT
Body Expected Today and Will
be Buried With Military Hon.
ors Monday Morning.

Plans more elaborate than anything
| taat has been attempted herstofor~
! Il, doing honor To Wilmington scptha
| who made tbs aurrema aarritee aver
scar are In process or formation for
the burial of the body of JaInes y.
Swift. who was killed In action in
France In 1918. The body was sched-
ulcd to leave Hohol<en. N. j., this
morning about lilo o'clock and TO arr
rive In this city this afternoon about
5 o'clcck. Tonight there viii be a
meeting in Brownson Hall, 'ourth
and jackson streets 10 complete th.
preparations for the funeral.
Swift was - years old and was a
son OF Charles and Julia Swift, who al
present live et a07 West sixth street.
lie was frst-class private In Com-
aany Il, 3i2th Infantry, 7sth Divi-
sion. and served overseas from MAY
20. 1918. until October Is, 1918. when
he was killed IN action during the
Meuse Argonne drive. lie fell while
his company was striving to capture
the town of Grend-pre.
The 18th Division had been ordered
to relieve the nth Division, which
was reported to have taken the town
of Grand-rre. but when the men OF
the 1sti. reached the Aire river. just
south Of the town, they fbund th.
Germans stiil in possession and the
fridge blown up. The Tsth members
bad 10 swim the liver in the face of
:. hot FIR. from German machine guns
conceded in a woods and II was here
that Swift fell. His death Is reported
to have been instantaneous, when he
WAS struck by a spray of bullets from
a machine gun.
In the event his body arrives IN
this city on time IT ia planned 10 TAX
II to Rrownsoh Library Hall. where
II will rest in state on Sunday, with
e guard of honor. ON Monday MORN
ing it will be removed to st. paul's
+. c. Church Fourth and jackson
streets, where thert viii be 2 military
'nass. Rev. Thomas r.. walsion. pa stor
of st. paufs. Is In charge of the ara
ranseneiits and The snenS1ers of the
Rrownson Library Association are CO.
operating with him. The funeral will
be attended BY representatives of the
American Legion and several other
organizations. There will b. q hend
and the usual firing squad. IL is ex-
uacted the ceremonies will be largely
ATTENDED by the young mans many
friends. for he was Very popular in
this city.
II was the original plan 10 do honor
to the memory of swift and Frank 3.
Waist at the same time. as 1t was
understood the body of Walsh ,voald
arrive in Wilmington with that Of
Swift, but nothing definite has been
heard as to when Walshs body might
o. expected. Walsh was member Of
the same company i'm which Swift
aeryec and he fell i'm the lighting
about Granu-pre two days after his
close personal friend. Swift. has been
killed. Walsh went overseas May 20
1918. and was killed October ls.1a1S,
having been shot down by machine
gun fire. In the lighting about
Grand Pre- the American forces final
ls took the town and the eutire diN-
sion was cited in army orders for tho
bravery of ali the men during that
ensapsfnSnt. More shan goo men fell
in that battle. When Walsh's body
IS delivered h%re II is the plan 20 give
him the same burial as hat of Swift