Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-10-05
GOTHAM AC0C OVER SERIES
RANDOM AWAITS WORD TODAY
PRESIDENT AFOOT TO HEAD
CORTECE IN HONOR UNKNOWN
US. DEAD ON ARM|ST|CE DAY

Washington. Oct. 4.-Plans for the
solemn ceremonies of Armis;ic Day
when the nation will pay highest hon
ors to its unknown dead of the Great
War. reached climax TO-DAY when
President Harding and his cabine:
decided to trudge afoot up Pennsy,-
vania avenue at the head of the fu
neral cortege. BY presidential proc
lamation the business and pleasure
of the nation will stand at rest two
minutes on that day in tribute to the
dead as the body. from lonely,
nameless grave III some great strug-
gle of the war, is carried to its last
rest in the peaceful Virginia hills the t
look down across the Potomac on the
nations capitol.
Not since President Wilson led a
preparedness march up the great ave-
nue. in 1916 has the chief executive
appeared afoot in any parade in tho
, capital and never previously has any
president set for himself so long a
| trip s President Harding will under
take.
The war department announced to-
day the makeup of the military es-
cort which will precede the gun car
riage on which the casket is carried
In addition to the regulars sailors
ana marines. a provisional battalion
of New York and Pennsylvania Ma
tional Guard will share in the hono-s
| to the dead comradc. Under army
regulations the escort will be that
provided for the highest military rank
of the service-a general.
\ The body will come direct to Wash.
ington navy yard from France The
war department has ruled that there
shall be no other ceremony but the
! nations tribute in the nations can.
ltai. When the cruiser Olympia COM
/ plctes her mission the casket will he
7 carried at night to the vast rotunda
of the capitol to lie in state with {
full military guard of honor through
the day and night of November 10
under the great dome.
While the names of the general of
ficers of the army and marine corps
and rear admirals of the navy who
will be honorary pail bearers. have
not been disclosed, the war depart
ment made public today the list 'of
non commissioned and warrant Of
+ ficers who will actually bear the
casket to and from the caisson on
which the last stage of the long
journey from a French battlefield to
Arlington will be made. They are:
Sergeant Samuel Woodfll goth
Recruit Company. Fort Thomas, KY
who has served in the army since
1901, reacing the rank of captain
! during the war and promptly re-
enlisting after the war. He was
severely wounded in France and
among his many decorations wears
the Medal of Honor.
Sergeant Harry Taylor, Headquar-
tiers Troop, First Cavalry, Douglas,
Ariz.. serving his sixth enlistment
with the Cavalry and cited for gal
lartry in the Meuse- Argonne action.
Sergeant Thomas d. Saunders,
Camp Trevis. Tex: also wounded
overseas and decorated with the Dis
tinguished Service Cross for gall
lantry.
Sergeant Louis Raga. send Coast
Artillery, Camp Eustis, Va; also
wounded in action overseas.
Staff Sergeant James W. Dell.
18th Field Artillery. Camp Travis,
Tex, veteransOf long service with
the guns and cited for gallantry in
France.
From the navy will come:
Chief Torpedoman James Delaney
He wears Navy Cross for con-
spicuous gallantry and was taken
prisoner by the Germans when the
steamship Campania was sunk by
the ISL but refused any informa
ton to the enemy in the face of re-
pcated threats of death a.
Chief Water Tender Charles Lee
OConnor of eight years service
a1oat and awarded a decoration for
heroism when the L. s S. Mount
Vernon was torpedoed 81
Gunnery Sergeant Earnest A. jan
son, Marine Corps, who has served
one army enlistment and three in the
Marine Corps and fought overseas
with the 49th Company, Fifth
Marines, was severely wounded and
wears the Congressional Medal of
Honor and other American and
French decorations for gallantry.