The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-06-24
LADD FUNERAL
SERVICE TO BE
HELDTHURSDAY
Colleagues of Dead Leader
to Attend Last Rites
in Capital City
BURIAL IN FARGO
May BE Month or More
Before Interment in
N. ID. Is Made
BURIAL IN FARG<

Washington, June 24.-(P)-Fun-
eral services for Senator Ladd of
North Dakota, who died in a Balti-
more hospital Monday, will be held
at Gawlers Chapel here Thursday,
at 3 p. m. Brief services will attend
the placing of the body in vault at
Glenwood cemetery, where it will re-
main until Mrs. Ladd is strong
enough to accompany it on the long
trip to Fargo, N. d., for interment.
Rev. J. J. Juir, chaplain of the
senate, and DR.. Thomas G. Clark,
pastor of the Takoma Park Presby-
tcrian church, will officiate. and the
services will be attended by col
leagues of the late senator who are
in the city.
Congressional committees to rep
resent the two houses will be ap-
pointed to accompany the body when
it is removed for final burial.
Body Arrives in Capital
Senator Ladd's body reached
Washington yesterday afternoon,
and was met at the station by his
two sons, Milton and Vernon. The
casket. covered with flowers, was
taken to the Gawler undertaking es-
tablishment.
Mrs. Ladd, who was exhausted by
the strain incident to her husbands
illness, is bearing up we'll, but it is
not expected that she will be able
to accompany the body to North Da
kota for a month or longer.
Music at the funeral will be fur
nished by the male quartet from the
First Baptist church Of Washington.
The active pail bearers will be Sen
ator Ladd's secretary, d. H. Nc
Arthur, C. T. Nolan Of the National
Lead Co., New York; Western Starr
and George Wallace, formerly of
North Dakota, now practicing law
here; former representative j. M.
Bacr of the first North Dakota dis
trict, and F. Creech, Washington cor
respondent of the Dearborn 1nde
pendent.
Mrs. Ladd and all the children ex-
cept Elizabeth, who was detained at
Cleveland, spent several hours today
at the chapel where the body was
taken yesterda upon it's arrival
from Baltimore.
Floral tributes of sympathy in
great profusion, including a bouquet
from the White House and condol-
ences from all parts of the country,
have been received.
President Coolidge sent a long
message of coincidence to Mrs. Ladd
A. C. SENDS FLOWERS
Fargo, June 24.-Floral tributes to
adorn the casket of the late Senator
Edwin F.. Ladd of North Dakota, who
died Monday at Baltimore, Md, and
Ill
pathy to Mrs. Ladd, were sent by
committee of the faculty of the
North Dakota Agricultural college
Monday night.
Many of the professors at the col
lege were intimate friends and CO.
workers of the late senator who. in
his climb to the public limelight, be-
came aneminent chemist and ed
ucatOr.
The message to Mrs. Ladd was as
follows:
"Mrs. E. F. Ladd, Tacoma Park,
Maryland. The faculty of the North
Dakota Agricultural college extends
to you and your family, its sincere
sympathy, and trusts that you may
find some degree of comfort in the
fact that your grief is shared by the
many friends of senatF Ladd and Of
yourself"
Secretary Kellogg sent letter.
Secretary Hoover wired sympa
thies from San Francisco.
Mrs. Robert NJ. La Toilette, from
Madison, Wis, wired:
"On behalf of myself and the chill
den, I offer our deepest sympathies
to you and yours. Senator Ladd's
life of untiring devotion to the
common people will assure him
lasting place in their hearts. He
was Mr.. La Follette's good friend.
We share your loss"
Messages of Sympathy
kilograms of sympathy were re-
ceived, from number of senatoTs,
including Capper of Kansas, Harrdd
Of Oklahoma, Cameron of Arizona,
and Edge of New Jersey; also Fed
eral Judge Andrew Miller. North
Dakota, formerly Governor R. A.
Nestos and L. B. Hanna of that
state, and from Representatives Sin
clair and Burtness.
Former Senators H. B., Hanna of
Hansborough, N. D., wired his deep
est sympathies. declaring that the
state had lost "an honest, able and
courageous servant"