The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-08
MEMORIAL PLANNED FRIDAY
 WITH SERVICES IN TEMPLE

Birmingham is making extensive the memory of the nations dead chief executive, Warren G. Harding. The municipality and the churches of the city will hold memorial eXer- cises and observances Friday. the day designated by President Calvin Coolidge as the day of mourning. President D. E. McLendon of the city commission has issued a procla- nation closing fer the day, at Il o'clock in the morning, all municipal offices and the ministers of the city will conduct public services in the Masonic temple in memory of the dead President.
 Offices. stores and other places of business in the Birmingham district will be closed from to 3:15 o'clock Friday afternoon $ tribute to the memory of the late President. Dur ing this period street cars and other public vehicles, mines and manufac- turies will pause for five minutes. President McLendon issued an or der Tuesday that all traffic on the streets stop for five minutes prompt | ly at o'clock, and orders will be issued to the police department We'd nesday, especially to the traffic po- 1 licemen, to halt all traffic. save the automobiles of doctors, ambulances and other emergency apparatus, at | q It Is President McLendon's desire | that all pedestrians halt their prog ress on the streets and men remove | their hats during the five-minute | period.
 The Birmingham Chamber of Com merce ordered a massive floral tri bute sent to Marion. Ohio, to be placed with other flCral tributes at | the funeral.
 l. The Jefferson county court house will be closed Friday afternoon and the federal building will not be opened all day.
 Masons of Birmingham offered the auditorium of the Masonic temple for a public service Friday and the prof fer was accepted by the pastors union. The clergymen will conduct public services in the temple. at o'clock in the afternoon to which the public is invited.
 Because the temple will not hold the great throng expected several trict will be open for similar cere- l monies. These churches will be an- nounced Wednesday.
 McLendon's Praclamation. | President McLendon with the con l currence tf the other members of the city commission, issued the fol- lowing proclamation Tuesday after noon:
 "To the People of the City of Bir-
 mingham. Ala:
 Since Almighty God in His divine | providence has called from the peo- | pie of the United States the soul of a man, good, patriotic, and true, their l honored President, Warren Gamaliel l Harding; and since the people of this city share with all other people of the United States genuine grief be- cause of this their great loss, and | desire to manifest their deep sorrow suffered In his departing, and to re- we're the memory of his good name; and since the President of the United States has appointed Friday, next, l August 10, the day on which the body i of the late President will be laid to Its final rest. as day of mourning and prayer throughout the United | States:
 ''Now, therefore, I, D. F. McLendon, i president of the commission of the city of Birmingham. do publish and declare that on Friday, next. after II o'clock noon, no work will be per servants of the city, and that all of fices of the city be closed during said time; that all traffic upon the streets and highways of said city cease for five minutes, beginning at 3 o'clock, D. m., while the last flu neral rites are being held over the body of the late President Harding, | and that all stores, offices, manufac-
 turing plants and business of all
 kinds within said city be closed so
 far as possible for Is minutes, be-
 ginning at o'clock, p. m.. and that
 the people of Birmingham attend the | memorial services at the Masonic temple at II o'clock under the auspices of the ministers of the city"
 A A
 Send Wreath To Marion
 Tn loving memory of our Presi-
 dent; by the citizens of Birmingham,
 Ala.," will be the inscription on the
 card accompanying the large and
 handsome floral offering that the
 Birmingham Chamber of Comperce
 in the name of citizens will have
 made and forwarded to Marion, Ohio, | on the occasion of the funeral of the
 late President. Florists of Birming-
 ham were called in and, when the
 character and size of the offering
 was explained to them, they thought
 1t best to have 1t made nearer the
 scene of burial so as to be sure that
 1t arrived In good shape and the
 flowers fresh. The order was, there
 fore, transferred by the Birmingham
 florists to a firm at Cleveland, who | will make the design and have it
 taken to Marion, 60 miles distant, by truck.
 The chamber has ordered no ex-
 pense spared and it Is probable that Birmingham's gift will be among the
 handsomest and most imposing dis 1 played on the solemn occasion. | The chamber has requested all
 street cars to stop on the day of the
 funeral for five minutes, that is,
 from BOO to 3:o5, that manufactur- | ing plants close for the same length will be made attractive. according to ] nrnsent nlanS It was stated that the