Imperial Valley press., 1930-03-10
ACCORD
HOMAGE
TO TAFT
Capital Hats All Official
Activities In Respect
To Statesman
FUNERAL TOMORROW
Former President To Be
Buried In Arlington
National Cemetery

The nation prepared today to pay
final and full tribute to William
Howard Taft, who as President and
Chief Justice did much to mold the
course of it's history and develop
mcnt in recent years.
To the clatter of cavalry, the
body of the statesman and jurist
will be borne with full military hon
crs tomorrow to the capitol, where
he was so long n familiar figure on
the supreme court bench, there to
lie in state in the rotunda under the
great white dome. Afterward, he
will be taken to the heights of Ar
lngton, across the Potomac, and
buried among others of the nations
notables in the great National GENE
terry which oeerlooks Washington.
The government paused today in
its activities in respect to the former
President. The supreme court, over
which he presided, closed its doors,
adjourned by its 50 year old dean,
Associate Justice Holmes, at noon.
Congress, likewise, suspended its
business for the day.
Over the White House the flag
was ut half staff, which occurs only
upon the death of a President. An
official mourning period of 30 days,
during which all White House social
functions have been cancelled, was
proclaimed by President Hoover
President and Mrs. Hoover, asso-
ciates of the supreme court, cabinet
members and other high officials,
Will attend the funeral services nj
All Souls Unitarian church here at
. o'clock tomorrow afternoon and
follow the sorrowful procession
across the Potomac and up the wind
ing road which leads among thous-
ands of monuments to the illustrous
dead.
Calvin Coolidge, the only surviv-
ing eX.Prcsidcnt, also is expected to
attend the funeral with Mrs. I
Coolidge.
\ unique honor will be paid the
former President in laying his body
III state in the capitol. Only Presi-
dents who have died in office hither-
to have had this recognition.
Mr.. Taft will share this honor
with Lincoln. Mckinley and Hard.
ing and the Unknown Soldier.
Ruried With Notables
Taft will be the only cN.Prcsident
to be buried in Arlington. The site
selected yesterday by his two sons,
Charles =. and Robert A. Taft, is on
hillside near the tomb of the son
of another exPrcsident, Robert
Todd Lincoln. 1t is about a mile
northeast of the tomb of the Tn.
known Soldier. William Jennings
Bryan, whom taft defeated for the
Presidency in 1908, is buried in the
Arlington.
Mourning for the eth President
and the 10th Chief Justice will be
noted by firing of salutes at mill
tarv posts all over the land at the
time the funeral ceremonies begin
here. The quiet cemetery here will
rcverberate to the echo of 2l guns,
the Presidential salute, from Fort
Myer nearby, when the funeral pro.
ccssion enters the gates.
Among those who called at the
Taft home Yesterday were Mrs.
Woodrow Wilson, whose husband
died in 1924 in the home lust around
the corner from the Taft residence;
Secretary of Treasury Mellon,
Speaker Longworth of the house:
Mrs. Edward F. Gam. sister of Vice
President Curtis, and Charles Mae.
Ncagh, former ambassador to Japan.
There was continual parade of
automobiles through the quiet
street, which slowed no for curious
passengers to get glimpse of the
house.
As the nation paid homage to the
former Chief Justice, the body of
Associate Justice Edward Terry San.
ford, who died Saturday morning,
was nearing Knoxville, Tenn, where
it will be inferred tomorrow.
His body left Washington late
yesterday, accompanied by several
associates of the supreme court who Z
will attend brief funeral services to.
day and return here for the final
rites for Mr.. Taft.