New-York tribune., 1921-11-05
Buglers to'Open
Solemn Arlington
Memorial Service
Program for Arnlistice Day
Honors TO Nations I'm
known Hero Includes One
Address-the Presidents s

WASHINGTON, Nov. A-The call of
an army bugle sounding Attention"
will bring the gathering at Arlington
National Cemetery to its feet at noon
on Armistice Day to stand two minutes
in silence as a memorial TO Americas
unknown dead from France. For the
same period a similar pause in the na-
tion's life everywhere, by proclamation
of the President, viii testify to the
country's regard for its nsmeless sol
diers in France.
Secretary Weeks will act as Official
master of ceremonies. The detailed
program for the services marking the
| burial Of tho unkaown at the Memorial
Arphitheater was made public to-day
by the War Department. To conclude
the period of silence the Marine Band
will lead the audience in America"
and the address of President Harding,
the only address to be delivered over
the casket, will then be made.
A quartet from the Metropolitan
Opera Company of New York Will fol-
low with the hymn The Supreme Sac
rifcc.' Those composing the quartet
are Miss Rosa Ponselle, Miss Jeanne
IOiucn. AAoTEdu hiIgStOH ana w liilafI
Gustafson
The honors bestowed by the United
States government and by the allied
governments on the unknown soldier
will then be conferred. President
Harding will pin on the casket the
Congressional Medal OF Honor and the
Distinguished Service Cross. He will
be followed by Lieutenant General
Baron Jacques, who will bestow the
Belgian Croix de Guerre. Earl Beatty,
Admiral of the feet, will pin the Brit
ish Victoria Cross beside the other
decorations. Marshal Foch will place
and Croix de Guerre, General Armando
Diaz, the Italian gold medal for brav-
cry, DR.. Bedrich Stepanek, Czecho-
Slovak Minister, the Czecho-Slovak
war cross and Prince Lubomirski, Pol
ish Minister, the Mirtuti Militari
The audience will join the quartet in
the hymn, 80 God, Our Help in Ages
Past Chaplain Lazaron will read from
the Psalms, Miss Ponselle will sing ~
Know That My Redeemer Liveth,"
Chaplain Frazier will recite a Scrip
ture lesson, and the services within the
amphitheater will conclude with the
singing of Nearer My God to Thee"
by the audience.
The casket will then be carried out
to the crypt on the terrace of the
amphitheater, the President and Mrs.
Harding, the Vice-President and Mrs.
Coolidge. senior foreign delegates to
the conference, Secretaries Hughes,
Weeks and Denby, the distinguished
foreign officers and General Pershing
following. AS the casket is placed IN
the crypt the burial service will be
read by Chaplain Brent and floral deco
rations will be placed on the tomb by
Representative Hamilton Fish, of New
York; Mrs. R. Emmett Digney, r pre-
senting American war mothers, and
Mrs. Julia McCudden, British war
mothers. Chief Plenty Coups. of the
Crow nation, will place his war bonnet
on the tomb as tribute from the
Indians Of the United States to the
unknown dead
Three salvos of artillery will mark
the regular triple volleys for military
dead. Taps will be sounded by an
army bugler, and the national salute
Of twenty-one guns, fired from a near
by field battery, will end the ceremony.