The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-30
PRESIDENT DELIVERS
 MEMORIAL ADDRESS IN ARLINGTON TODAY
Exercises Already Begun at Capital, But Formal Homage of States Will Not Be
 Paid Till Today
By Associatsd Press

By Associated Press
 Washington, May 2s.-LeadinE the nation in commemoration of its he- roic soldier and sailor dead. President Harding tomorrow will deliver the Memorial Day address at tho amphi- theatre of the Arlington National cemetery.
 Exercises in the national capital in honor of the men who followed their country's flag began today, but the formal homage of the states will ba paid by the chief executive himself the son of 6 veteran of the union ar mics, who resumes a custom broken by tho war, the annual address of tho President of the United States in ths midst of the graves or the nations dead.
 Cabinet officers. high government officials and officers of the army and navy, together with the representa- tives of foreign governments, are to attend the ceremonies at Arlington which are to be conducted by the Grand Army of the Republic.
 Miles to Lead Parade
 Prior to the ceremonies a parade o1 veterans and troops of the regular army will pass in review before the White House. Led by Lieut.. Gen. Nell son A. Miles, the marching ranks are to include members of the Grand Army of the Republic, veterans of the Span ish-Ame erican war, the American Le- zion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the National Disabled Soldiers league.
 In remembrance of the men who fell in the World war paper poppies, pat termed after the blood red flowers of I1~,c l. l. Co f e rt. button by school children. Besides the official ceremonies at Arlington, the graves of service men in other ceme- teries in Washington and its environs are to be decorated with fitting ex- ercises by veteran and patriotic or- ganizations.
 Special services will be held at Ar lington in memory of the unknown dead who fell in France while tribute will be paid the nations dead airmen from the banks of the Potomac.
 Memorial day was described tonight by Secretary Denby as "the day of SOL emn pride.''
 All graves of American soldiers and sailors in Europe will be decorated tomorrow with an honor flag and wreath according to advices from Paris, the American Red Cross an- naunced. Not a single grave in France, Belgium. England, Servia, Czecho-Slovakia and Spain has been forgotten, It was stated and wreaths and flags have been sent to seaport tawns " laAs,a ssts.- sas mary soldiers are awaiting transportation overseas. FRANCE JOINS WITH U. $.
 IN MEMORIAL OBsERyANCES
 Paris, May 21.-France, in military and religious services. joined with America today in the first of two days observance of Memorial Day for the Americans who gave their lives in the World war. With British, Belgian and other allied participants, the French people symbolized their reverence for those who fell by notable ceremony at the Arc De Triumph where soldiers and civilians placed wreaths on the tomb of Frances unknown soldier which Hugh c. Wallace, the American ambassador, speaking for his nation, coupled his tribute to the dead with an expression of the worlds admiration for the spirit of France.
 Throughout France, wherever there were American graves memorial, serv- and in Paris there were observances of the day in all the English speaking churches. Americas day for the dead has become almost 8 French rite.
 The ceremony at the Arc De Trfomphe served as a symbol of the fraternity of the comrades in arms in the late war when a composite battal- ion of the American forces of occupa- tion from the Rhineland. with it's band playing "Madelon," swung up the Champs Elysees, under the arch, and passed the French guard of honor with 3 sprinkling of other allied uniforms in the massed forces at the arch.
 Government Represented
 Ambassador Wallace. Maj. Gen. Henry Ton q af fco forces of occupation; scores of Amer ican officers and enlisted men, delega tions of British and Belgians, and rep { resentatives of American and French organizations attended services which were held In the American church of the Holy Trinity. The French govern ment was represented there and Mar shal Foch, who was absent from Paris sent his military aide. Meanwhile tha American battalion stacked arms and formed outside the church. while tho French battalions of infantry and cav- airy were massed in the adjacent streets.
 Headed by the mounted guarde re- pubAcaine. the procession formed out side the church with American. battal- ion and the French troops in line. fol- lowed by delegations with colors, from the American legation and from scores of American and French veterans and military societies, uniformed detach- ments of British and Belgian troops each contingent carrying a wreath for the polious tomb.
 Ambassador Wallace laid wreath on the tomb and delivered an address. He said: T place this wreath upon the grave of the unknown soldiers who rests here as the very type and symbol of heroic France. He died for France as herself stood ready to die for lib- erty if there was no other way He died for France and glory could gran, no more. Who shall call him unknown when every French mother who lost 2 son may claim him as her ownr'
 WOMAN BEING HELD
 By Associated Press
 Baltimore, May 29.-After being re- ported as thrown into the Patapscc river and then kidnapped by her as sailants. Miss Mabel Bigby will be given hearing in the Southern police court tomorrow. Last night police re-