The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-15
NATIONS CAPITAL TO PAY TRIBUTE TO WAR LEADER
Memorial Exercises Will Be Held For Woodrow
 Wilson
(By Associated Press.)

WASHINGTON Dec. l4.-from- inent personages of at least four administrations will participate m the memorial exercises which Will be held at noon tomorrow, III tne chamber of the house of representa- lives for Woodrow Wilson.
 Members of the Wilson cablnet, ms widow, one of his daughters and close friends, will join with President Cool- ;dre and his official family, supreme court iustices. ambassadors and mlnl- sters, senators. representatives. soNer- nors of states army ard naval officers and invited guests to do reverence to the memory of the war president.
 Dr. Edward Anderson Alderman' president of the University of Virginia which Mir. Wilson attended as law student, will deliver the eulogy. The Rev. J. J. Muir, chaplain of the sen ata will pronounce the benedlctlon, with the house chaplain, the Rev. James &. Montgomery, offering the opening prayer.
 To Broadcast Service
 The memorial services will be raaio- cast through a chain of stations no' at Washington; WG1. Srheilec'aus WIZ and WEAF, New Iolk and others to ha determined upon in last minute arrangements. ..
 As mn additional mark of respect, congressional leaders are planning to ad- ;curn inc senate and house after the exercises.
 The great white capitol will close its doors in the morning. to all except mem bers of congress and attaches. AL hail pest 10 the east door leading 10 .he rotunda will be onened to those holdihs tickets of admission. for when there has been great demand. The Marine band will furnish the music.
 The speakers gavcl will call the house to order shortly before the custo- mary gathering at midday and members of the senate. after reassemhlinS TOT prayer, will proceed to the house. Inc president pro tempore of the senate will occupy the speakers chair'
 Taft To Attend
 Prominent among the assemolaGe Will be Chief Justice Taft. the only lvlnS former president of the nited States. whom Mir. Wilson succeeded as chlef executive.
 A unique procedure in house annals will be followed by seating special guests on the floor of the chamber.
 Mrs. Wilson will occupy selected space, as will the late President daugh- ter, Miss Margaret Wilson. His other two daughters, Mrs. William G. Me Adoo and Mrs. Francis B. Sayrc. who is abroad will be unable to attend. His brother John R. Wilson. of Baltimore, will be pres ent with his wife.
 Mrs. Wilson's brother. John Ran tlolph Boiling. secretary to Mir. Wilson after he left the White House, will at tend. Mrs. Wilson will be accompanied by Mrs. Claude A. Swanson. wife of the senior senator from Virginia, and Mrs. Alderman, wife of the orator of the occasion.
 Those closely identified with the war president in the White House who are 10 attend the services include William J. Bryan, Robert Lansing, William C. Redfipld, Josepheus Daniels. William B. Wilson, Bainbridge Colby, D. F. Hous- ion, Joln Barton Payne and A. Mitchell Palmer. who served in his cabinet.
 Rear Admiral Grayson, his personal physician, who attended him in his last illness, and Joseph F. Tumulty, his secre- tary during his presidency also will be present, and Colonel +. NJ. House Bernard Baruch, Breckinridge Long, Homer Cummings, Frank Polk, Ray mond T. Baker and Clem l.. Shaver, democratic national committee chair man, have been especially invited.
 Thomas k. Marshall, who served with Mir. Wilson as vice president, indicated in brief telegram to the committee on arrangements today that he would be unable to participate, and sent his re- grets.
 McAdoO Can't Attend
 William G. McAdoo, the late presi- dents son-in-law, telegraphed he would be unable to attend, saying:
 Tt is with profound regret that I find myself unable to attend and to participate personally in this merited tribute to one of the most notable of American statesmen and to the leading humanitarian of the modern world"
 Senator Swanson, democrat, Virginia, who became closely associated with President Wilson during the League of Nations fight. and who was wont to cheer his declining days in games of chess and checkers, served as the senate chairman of the joint committee on ar arrangements. Representative Isaac Bach rach, republican New Jersey, who was a member of his states house of as sembly when Mir. Wilson was its gov crnOr, was the house chairman of the joint committee