Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-04-12 | Page 19 | Unknown Soldier's Tomb is Completed

Unknown Soldiers Soldier's Tomb Is Completed W WASHINGTON April 12 W Th 1 The marble tomb bene beneath th which rests Americas America's unknown soldier was completed completed com com- today at Arlington national cemetery After six six years a design commemorating rating peace victory and andlor valor lor loras was as finished on the monument by Thomas Hudson Jones New York sculptor The unknown soldier was buried at Arlington on Armistice day 1921 to symbolize forever the nations nation's naton's reverence reverence rev rev- for those who iho sacrificed their lives in the World war Five years later congress authorized an appropriation for a simple sarcophagus sarcophagus sarcophagus sarco sarco- of white marble eleven feet high and nine feet wide It I was was set setin setin setin in place last December and s sa a sentry paced his post beside tho the tomb the sculptor completed his ts task