The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-05-30
NATION PAYS
TRIBUTE TO
ITS HEROES
On Land and Sea Honors are
Paid to Men Who Fell In
Country's Conflicts. Hard
ing to Deliver Address.
DECK FRENCH GRAVES
CBy Associated Press)


WASHINGTON, May 3o.-Members
of the cabinet, high government Off
cials and ranking officers of the army
and navy will foregather with the
throngs today on the sacred ground
or Arlington national cemetery to at
tend the ceremonies at which
President Harding, leading the nation
/ in commemoration of its heroic soldier
and sailor dead, will deliver at the
amphitheater the Memorial Day ad-
dress.
The ceremony will mark the resump-
ton of a custom broken only by the
| stress Of war-tne annual address Of
the President of the United States in
the midst Of the graves of the nations
| dead. Prior to the ceremonies to be
held in Arlington. the president
planned to review from the White
House a parade OF veterans and reg
ular army troops led by Lieut.. General
Nelson A. Miles Members of the
Grand Army of the Republic, Veterans
Of the Spanish-American War, the
American Legion and the Veteran of
Foreign Wars were to form in the
marching ranks.
| Besides the general ceremony at
Arlington, special exercises were ar
ranged in memory of the unknown
dead, who fell in France.
| While the nation is honoring its
hero dead at home, those lying in
foreign soil also are being appropri-
ately remembered.
PARIS. May 3o-Memorial exercises
were held today in every American
cemetery in France, and even on
isolated graves of Americans who died
| In this country during the war,
wreaths were placed The French
government exerted every effort to
make sure that not a single American
hero was forgotten.
| At the suggestion of the government,
there were guards of honor at the
principal cemeteries, and wherever
Americans were unable to send delega-
| tons to conduct services, the French
offered to lead the exercises, as we'll
as to participate in the programs. The
cemetery at Romagne-sous-Monfa
where 10000 Americans who fell in the
battle Of the Argonne were buried. is
now closed to the public because OF
the removal of the bodies of the Amer
leans. The principal program for the
/ day, therefore, was given at the
| Suresnes cemetery, near this city
where Hugh C. Wallace, American am
bassador; Major-General Henry T
Allen, commander Of American troops
at Coblenz, and Marshal Petain
spoke.
NEW YORK, May 30.-Soldiers and
sailors who gave their lives to Ameri-
ca were honored in New York today
with the most elaborate program of
Memorial day ceremonies in the his
tory of the metropolis. On land and
sea tribute was paid to heroes who
fell in the civil, Spanish-American and
World wars. From early morning
when the parade of veterans of the
three wars swung into line at 72d
street, until late at night. when a huge
wreath about the shoulders of the
Statue of Liberty is illuminated, the
program called for impressive arrays
| of pageantry in all the five boroughs
with special ceremonies at practically
every spot having historic significance.
! For the first time men who gave
their lives In the service of the mer-
chant marine were given a place in
the days exercises. Their mothers
the gold star mothers Of the merchant
! marine. 200 strong, put out in little
| fleet of launches on the Hudson river
and as they passed between the long
rows of United States navy destroyer.
anchored there, flowers were dropped
upon the water in memory of their de.
parted heroes whose graves are at the
bottom Of the sea.