New Britain herald., 1926-07-12
FORMER SECRETARY
 J. W. WEEKS PASSES
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down into this small shire town where MT. Weeks was born 66 years ago. Ever since his return here the people had watched with respectful anxiety the battle with death being waged on the hillside. The news as it traveled from doorstep to door step this morning caused no surprise but brought expressions of sym pathy.
 No plans for the funeral had been formulated at the lodge, where the family sought a little rest after their long bedside vigil. Dr. E. F.. Wilde, the personal physician, stated his morning that the body would undoubtedly be taken to Washington for funeral services.
 Lancaster, nearly the northermost of inc White Mountain towns, at his season of the year is normally wearing an air of gaiety and ousue as the summer visitors and tourists nour in for their vacations. Today the flags at half staff and the little a+oups quietly discussing the hte or the man who lay dead on Mount Prospect gave a changed appearance the village.
 Burial in Arlington
 Funeral services will be held al his home in West Newton, Mass and his body will he temporarily n1acad in 9. vault there to be trans ferred later to a permanent resting place in Arlington National ceme- tery here.
 The war department was inform el Of this arrangement today oy telephone from the Lancaster N. H. farm where Mir. Weeks died carly this morning.
 Burial in Arlington will be ar ranged in accordance with the Wlsn often expressed by the former sec rAtarv of war. Before his retire. ment from the cabinet he went per eona1lv to Arlington to select a site for his grave but the plot he re- served later was released so that 1t might he given over for the burial of William Jennings Bryan, An other site nearby will be chosen for him.
 If is not expected that Mir Weeks body will be brought here until 4 monument is erected.
 Later in the day MT. Davidge, eor-in-law of Mir Weeks, stated that funeral services would be held on Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the home in West Newton. Mass, of Sinclair Weeks, son of the tor mar secretary. The family. he said, would take the body from the lodge tomorrow 10 Massac sachusetts'
 Beyond this, MT. Davidse stated no plans had been made and he could not say where burial would he
 Entered Harding's Cabinet
 r. vas generally assumed in the event the republican party won the national elections in 1921 that John W. Weeks would ahe q member of President Harling'S cabinet. Ills selection for secretary of the navy or secretary of the treasury was re- carded as certain. His success as : fnancier was recognized. His grad nation. at Annapolis and experience in naval affairs had been recorded 1s fitting him for the navy secretary 1 ship.
 A big surprise came. however. . when President Harding an nounced he would appoint Mr. . Weeks as secretary of war.
 A rich life experience in the so . years preceding the appointment vas . found 10 have equipped Mir, Weeks . for that duty also, and he soon was . recognized a q fortunate selection ! for the army, then facing the post i var problems of reorganization ana i reduction to a pcace-time basis. ]
 Slid Into His Job
 r. was said of him that he slid ]. into his job" the easiest of any ot ! the other cabinet officers and grasp i ed the conglomerate details of army i administration with q thorouGhheSS { and qnjckness that spelled conh- i dcnce throughout the war depart ment for the staff officers and hun dreds Of subordinate chiefs
 Those who sought light on the methods used by the new secretary . soon found it. They had only 10 re- view the many-sided life of the man, which showed at a glance that ho . had lived among live things, had