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Show oo SIR MOSES EZEKIEL BURIED IN ARLINGTON WASHINGTON. March 30. Within sight of the confederate monument, his last and his greatest work, ijie body of Sir Moses Ezekiel. sculptor and confederate soldier, wns buried today In Arlington. The commitment services were accompanied by memorial memo-rial exercises, in which President Harding, Secretary Weeks and Roland Riccl. the Italian ambassador, joined In tribute to Sir Moses, who died In Rome In 1917. President Harding, in a letter read at the exercises, characterized Sis Moses Mo-ses as a "great, Virginian a great artist, art-ist, a great American and a great cltl-1 zen of world fame." secretary Weeks made the principal princi-pal address while Ambassador Riccl spoke on 'Sir Moses Ezekiel as an adopted son of Italy ' and Colonel Robert Lee as a representative of the confederacy for which Sir Modes i as a Virginia Military Institute student stu-dent fought at the battle of New Mnrl-n. In 1 - .. 4 -.,,'r -.0 hlu cnhlurl I ' Sir Moses Ezekiel as an American and as a southerner." |