Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-09
House Sergeant
alarms Will
Plan Rites.
AIKEN FLOODED
BY MESSAGES
Condolences Sent
From All Quarters
of Globe.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
AIKEN, S. c., April 9.-NicholaS
Eongworth, Speaker of the Ma
kional House of Representatives,
kuccumbed to pneumonia here to-
day.
The debonair, kindly, dignifed
statesman fought for more than
three days, exhibiting vitality
that was the marvel of his physi-
eians, against the infection of the
lung, but succumbed at 10:49 am.
Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth,
widow of the Republican leader.
made arrangements with the
Speakers Office at Washington to
have the body taken directly to
Cincinnati, where funeral services
will be held at o'clock Saturday
afternoon.
Funeral arrangements were
placed in the hands of Sergeant
at Arms Rogers of the House, at
Washington, and he Immediately
got into communication with rail-
road officials to make special pro-
visions for the funeral party.
Messages Pour In.
Miss Mildred Reeves, Speaker
Longworth'S secretary is to leave
Washington for Cincinnati today
to complete ARRANGEMENTS there.
Services viii be held in the Long
worth home, lockwood.
Declining a state funeral, Mrs. Long
worth said special train would leave
Aiken tomorrow morning barring the
Speakers body directly to Cincinnati.
~ viii arrive there Saturday morning
A congressional party, TO be named
later to represent Congress at the fu-
neral viii leave Washington Friday
afternoon and 90 direct TO Cincinnati.
It probably will include Vice President
Curtis. Senator Watson of Indiana
will be a member.
Shortly after the news of his death
was flashed to the world, telegraph boys
began to deliver messages Of coincidence
which poured in from all over the globe.
Unusual Stiffness.
There was an unusual stiffness about
the big Colonial house as car after car
came up, packed and the occupants
walked slowly into the building.
The window of the first floor room
where the Speaker lay fighting for his
life from Monday, was shaded for the
first time in days to keep out the
sunlight.
1t was from this window that
physician signaled to newspaper men
across the street that the debonair,
friendly statesman, whom even the
smallest street urchin loved, had died.
Stricken Last Monday.
At the bedside of the Speaker when
he died was his wife, the former Alice
Roosevelt, daughter of ex-President
Theodore Roosevelt. and his friend,
Mrs. James r Curtis, at whose home
he contracted the disease.
His daughter, Paulina, was not with
him.
Taken sick Monday, physicians dag
nosed Speaker Longworth's Illness as
pneumonia Monday night. He steadily
grew worse and 43 hours later they ad-
nitted his condition was desperate.
Mrs. Longworth was notified as soon
as it was determined he was suffering
from pneumonia and she arrived in
Aiken Wednesday morning. Her forti-
tude, DR.. r. H Wilds of Aiken, one Of
the attending physicians said, was re-
markable.
No Plans for Funeral Yet.
Two of Mrs Loneworths brothers,
Kermit and Archibald Roosevelt. were
believed to be speeding to the bedside
in plane, but they had not arrived
at the time of the Speakers death.
Mr.. Longworth arrived in Aiken
March 80 to rest after the arduous du
ties as Speaker of the House He de-
veloped a cold soon after arriving, but
1t was not believed serious until this
week
He had played little golf after ar
irving, friends said. but had done little
else in the way of exercise.
Mr.. Longworth came TO Aiken on
March 80 for a visit TO Mr.. and Mrs.
Curtis, Washington residents with
Winter home in this resort. The
Speaker contracted a cold last week
and Monday night was found TO have
pneumonia No announcement was
made of his illness until Tuesday
Mrs. Longworth arrived yesterday
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