The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-10-20
NEWS FOR VETERANS

Honors usually reserved for gen
rails will be accorded tn unknown
American dead, when the body Is
buried in Arlington National Gene
1ery on Armistiee day. In addition
there viii be ceremonies not provided
FOR in army regulations.
According to an announcement by
Secretary of War Weeks, the burial
# Americas unknown dead will be
marked by the most imposing military
funeral in the history of the nation.
The escort of the body will consist
f a battalion of field artillery,
~quadron of cavalry, a combat regi-
nent of foot soldiers, made up of one
battalion of regular infantry, one bat
talon of marines and sailors COM
6ined, and one battalion of National
Guard troops, and the Marine band.
The honorary pallbearers will in
clude eight general officers of the
army and four adniirals of the navy.
The active pallbearers will be FIVE
noncommissioned officers Of the army
and three from the marine corps and
The navy. All of them Will be select
ID for their war records.
All Medal of Honor men, one re
preventative for every 10000 men
who served in the World war, one
member of the American Legion from
very state and one member of the
other permanent veteran orgahiza-
lions will be invited to attend the
ceremony.
The body of the unknown dead will
ne in state at the capitol before the
ceremony. The ruote from the cap
itol to Arlington will be lined on both
sides with infantrymen, one every five
yards. It is estimated that it will re-
quire at least 5000 troops for this
service Minute guns Will be fired at
Fort Myer during the procession of
the funeral cortege.
President Harding, who is TO de-
Iivdr the eulogy, will meet the process
sion at the entrance Of the amphi-
theatre, near the spot selected for the
permanent resting place Of the un-
known hero. He will be accompanied
by the foreign delegations here for
he conference on the Limitation of
ornaments. In his party also Will be
he diplomatic agents of every nation
represented in Washington, who Will
place wreaths on the grave.
10000
na negligence" characterized treat
ment Of service men of the World war
who fiocked TO Torrington, Wyo.,
september ,, to settle on newly open
cd government land, the American
Legion's national legislative commit
tee declared, following its study and
report OF the land-drawing scheme
For every man who received a
farm 200 were turned away empty
handed and disappointed, the report
points out. Almost 1000 former SOL
siiers. sailors and marines, wounded
and disabled men among them, came
from thirty-siX states of the Union to
try for the 2O3 government farms. In
order 10 get their names in the draw
ing pot the young men put up half a
million dollars in cash deposits The
majority of the half million went back
into the pockets of the 1897 who
We're not lucky enough to get a farm
Governor Carey of Wyoming,
drew the first card. The winner was
a soldier from Pennsylvania, wound
ed overseas.
10000
The West carried off the honors of
the 22nd annual eneampment of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars, and mark
ed a stepping stone in the growth of
the organization from its small nue.
leus prior TO the World war toward
the truly national character and inf1u-
ence which it has rapidly acquired.
The spectacular episodes of the en-
campment were the reelection of
Captain Bob Woodside of Pittsburgh,
as national commander-in-chief, over
Colonel Til Houston of New York, by
1928 votes to 2I3, and the selection of
Seattle for the next meeting place
over Atlantic City, after st. Paul
withdrew from the race and threw
its support to the Pacific coast city.
Seattle won the 1922 national en-
campment from Atlantic City. The
Pacific coast won two national officers
and the Middle West two more The
eneampment expressed its approval OF
the suggestion that national head
quarters move to the Middle West.
And more important than any OF