Evening star., 1936-09-01
BODY BACK
IN SALT LAKE CITY;
THRONGS MOURN
Crowds Stand With Heads
Barred as CaSket Is Taken
From Train.
PRESIDENTS SPECIAL
ARRIVES, BLINDS DRAWN
Roosevelt Not to Leave Coach
Until Just Before Funeral
Late Today.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY, September l.
George Henry Dern. who left Utah to
the acclaim Of thousands cheering his
appointment as Secretary of War. re-
turned today amid the hushed silence
of throngs' saddened by his death.
The funeral train from Washington,
closely followed by one bearing Presi-
dent Roosevelt, arrived at black
draped Union Station at am, Noun
tain standard time 90 am Eastern
standard time).
Secretary Roper was the first Of the
cabinet and other high Government
officials who accompanied the Dern
family here for the funeral at 3 pm.
(5 pm, Eastern standard time) to
leave the funeral train. Attorney Cen
eral Cummings and Secretary Wallace,
among others, followed with bowed
heads. Acting Secretary Of War Harry
Woodring was with them.
Engine Draped in Black.
The presidential special, diverted
from a tour of the Midwestern drought
belt that Mr.. Roosevelt might attend
last rites for the Nations war chief,
followed the funeral section by 10
minutes.
The engine of the train bearing the
Dern family and Government officials
was draped in black. White streamers
| f1uttered from either side. Blinds were
tightly drawn on the presidential train.
A guard formed quickly on the station
| platform
Six Regular Army soldiers, wearing
black arm bands of official mourning
bore the casket from the train through
silent lines of grieving city and State
officials who knew the War Secretary
in his rise from mining clerk to the
governorship of Utah before he was
| named to the cabinet.
500 Inside Station.
About 800 persons were permitted
inside the station, all by special Secret
Service pass. Among them was Gov.
Henry H. Blood Outside an estimated
1000 stood with barred heads as the
casket was carried to waiting hearse,
surrounded by special guard Of State
and city motor cycle police and soldiers.
Mrs. Dern, her face hidden by long
black veil, followed the casket with the
children and close friends.
Slowly, as traffic was held at q
| standstill in the downtown section,
the procession was directed to State
street, turning there up a hill toward
the pillared State capitol.
The President remained in his train.
He was joined by Secretary Wallace.
Already with the Nations Chief were
high-ranking administration leaders
who accompanied him here, including
Rexford Tugwell, Undersecretary OF
Agriculture; Harry L. Hopkins. Works
Progress Administration administra-
tor, and William l. Myers Of the Farm
Credit Administration.
President Here Four Years Ago.
Only four years ago, lacking one
month, the President came here on
a different mission, to address voters
as the Democratic presidential nomi-
nee. He was met by the man he
later elevated to cabinet rank. To-
gether they spoke, that September,
in 1892, in the same great Mormon
Tabernacle prepared as the scene to-
day of the War Secretary's funeral.
The huge tabernacle frequently has
been used for convention sessions, in
cluding clergical meetings of both
Catholic and Protestant orders, but
the funeral will be the first held there
outside the faith.
No appointments were made for the
President during his stay in the city.
After the service, he arranged to at
tend the Masonic and military grave
side services at Mount Olivet Gene
terry, and then return Immediately to
his train. He will leave at pm.
(M. S. T) tonight for Des Moines,
Iowa. where Thursday he will hold
drought conferences with the heads OF
seven States, including Gov. Alt M.
Landon of Kansas, his Republican
opponent for the presidency.
White House aides said the Des
Moines parley, to be attended also by
the Governors of Iowa, Nebraska,
Missouri, Oklahoma. Minnesota and
Wisconsin, probably would be sepa-
rate for each State. This was the
program followed in the Bismarck
conferences with the Governors Of
North Dakota and Montana and the
Pierre meetings with the heads Of
South Dakota and Wyoming.