Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-24
VANzETTrS ASHES
WILL Be TAKEN ON
TOUR Of EUROPE
Remains of Two Men to Lie
in State Until Cremation
in Boston Sunday.
PLANS FOR EXHIBITING
BODIES ARE CANCELLED
No Prayers Will Be Said at Serv-
ices in Various U. S.
Cities Sunday.
BY the Associated Press.

Bv the Associated Press.
BOSTON. August 24.-The ashes OF
Bartolomeo Vanzetti are TO be taken
on tour Of Europe. Miss Luigia Van
zetti. who came from Italy to see her
brother before he was executed in the
state Prison yesterday, is to accom-
many them. After cremation here the
ashes will he taken TO New York, Lon
DON. Paris. Berlin, Stockholm and
other cities before going 10 Italy,
Nanzettis native land.
The body OF Nicola Sacco, who was
executed with Vanzetti. also is 10 be
cremated. His ashes will he claimed
by his widow, who resides in Boston
with her two children.
Cremation to Be Sunday.
Announcing a cancellation of plans
for exhibiting the bodies of the two
men in various American cities be-
cause Of the physical impossibility.
the Sacco-VanZetti defense committee
said the cremation would b. next Sun
DAY, with funeral professions or
memorial services in various American
cities. The bodies would lie in state
until Sunday in the North End, the
Italian section Of Boston, the an
nouncement said.
Plans of the committee were tenn
poraruy halted when the owner of the
han which the committee desired for
the occasion refused permission for
IFS use. The defense committee i'm
mediately set about to procure an
other hall.
Difficulties developed in this connec-
ton today. City ordinances require
burial within four days of death.
Mrs. Glendower Evans, wealthy So
ciety woman associated with the de-
Tense, said that death masks would be
made of the two men and many copies
distributed.
State Still Holds Bodies.
The State today still held the bodies,
but the tenure which began with their
arrest for murder in 1920 seemed like
" to be broken before night by de-
livery of the bodies to the Sacco-Nan'
zetti defense committee.
The men refused to the last to re-
turn to the Catholic religion of their
youth. Respecting their beliefs, 1t was
announced that no prayers would be
said, but that comrades would speak
briefly before the cremation.
4 call has gone out for a. national
conference IN New York on August
81 and % TO organize league Ito
establish the innocence of Sacco and
Vanzetti and to expose the conspiracy
which sent them to death.
Plan Senatorial Investigation.
1t was proposed to accomplish this
by a senatorial investigation OF the
Department of Justice. inquiry into the
-
visory committee and by exposing the
vicious undercover activities of pri-
vate and governmental detective
agencies 1t was hoped also to raise
= fund for Mrs. Sacco and to create
a memorial for the two men.
Final letters from Sacco and Van
zetti have been made public by the,
defense committee. One was by Van
zetti to Sacco's young son, Dante.
Il tell you now all that l know of
your father" the letter sad; he is
not a criminal, but one of the bravest
men lever knew. Some day you will
understand what I am about to tell
YOU. That your father has sacrificed
everything dear and sacred to the
human heart for his faith in liberty
and Justice for all. That day you will
he nroud of your father. and If you be-
come brave enough you Will take his
place in the struggle between
tyranny and liberty and you will vim
dicate his tour names and our blood.
Leaves American Bible.
The letter said NanZetti was leaving
Dante his American Bible" which
the letter did not otherwise identify.
In a joint letter to the defense CON-
mittee, Sacco and Nanzettf wrote:
t.nYI,1 two of JIG will Our ideal
you our comrades, will live by mil
lions"
Six persons, four women and two
men, who appealed from convictions
of sauntering and lettering in con-
necton with their picket line in be-
half of Sacco and VanZetti in front
of the State House, were at liberty to-
day pending further hearing of their
cases.
Miss Edna st. Vinant Millay, Miss
Katherine Huntington and Miss FL
len Hayes told the court they be-
lieved they had perfect right to pro-
test as they did, particularly as each
was descended from early settlers in
New England Miss Millay said she
was born in Rockland, Me-, and was
p graduate of Nassar. Miss Hayes, a
former professor of astronomy and
mathematics at Wellesley. is now en-
ga ged IN WHITING.
Powers HapgOOd Freed.
The other three who fought the
charges against them were John H.
LAYTON, New York playwright;
Mother" Ella Reeves Bloor of San
Francisco and William l.. Patterson,
president of the American Negro La
bor Congress. Arthur 6. Hays of the
American Civil Liberties Union de-
Tended them.
Another demonstrator who was free
TODAY was Powers Hapgood. His at
torneys, not knowing that he had al
ready been released from the Psyco-
uathic Hospital, where he was sent
for observation, yesterday, said they
would attempt to eXtricate him by
court proceedings, Hapgood had been
arrested four times for melting to
riot and lesser offenses and was fac
ing a six-month sentence from which
no had appealed when he was again
taken by the police on Monday ana
sent to the hospital. He had no com
,oeut IN make after his release.