Show Senator Glass Gloss Dies After Long Illness WASHINGTON May 28 UP Sen Carter Glass D D. Va the peppery little unreconstructed rebel who devoted 46 years to public service died here earl early Tuesday following a a. long Illness Ho He was 88 The time one-time lion Hon of or Virginia succumbed to congestive heart failure a at a. a m. m Dr W W. A. A Bloedorn who was summoned to Glass Glass' hotel suite when he appeared appeared ap ap- ap- ap t to be sinking said the end came quietly an and J pe peacefully At his bedside was his hilS wife wIre the former Mary ry Scott Meade whom whom V he married d when he was WM 82 She had shared Glass' Glass seclusion during the last year of ot his life Ute Funeral services will be held helli at 3 p. p m. m Thursday at M Montview Glass Glass' homo home in Va Burial will be bein in Spring SpringHill Hill cerne- cerne cemetery tery there The Tho elder statesman of the Jeffersonian Jef- Jef Democrats and oldest man in the senate had been in failing health f for r nearly five years He had not appeared on the senate floor since 1942 Some of his constituents tried to have him removed from office last year on grounds that he was physically unable to perform his duties but the supreme court rejected re rejected rejected re- re the move The senate eulogized Glass See Page fi 5 Column 4 t f Carter Carler Glass Dies After Dies Alter Long Illness Continued from Page rage One Tuesday and then out of respect for his memory Glass Glass' lite lice spanned four wars He was a turned newspaperman ed- ed statesman who devoted more than half of his life to pu public lic service Although he attended public and private schools Glass Glasa was always al always always al- al ways proud to include in his brief senate biography that he was educated educated educated edu edu- in the newspaper business as well Glass served In Washington from Dec 2 1901 until his death today oday He Hc first was elected representative representative representative rep rep- fro from Virginia an and wi with th the exception of two years when he was secretary of treasury treasury treasury treas treas- ury in the Wilson administration remained in the thc house until 1920 when he was elected to the thc senate He was reelected every time his senate seat was Wt at stake His current current cur cur- rent term would have ended in 1919 1949 Took Wife VUe at 82 Six years ago Glass surprised the he capital and most of his colleagues colleagues col- col leagues by taking his second wife a widow some 20 years his junior She was from Amherst Va Also surviving is a son by a previous marriage Carter Jr who served in n the army during the war Another Another Another An An- other son Powell died last year yearn in n Lynchburg Va Glass while unable to attend senate enate sessions made his influence influence influence I I ence felt b by exercising proxy votes in n committees through his secretary secretary secre- secre tary ary Rixey Smith He had de- de lined dined to see strangers during the thelast thelast last ast few years although occasionally occasionally occasion occasion- ally receiving intimate friends on special occasions like his birth birth- day Glass bought the Lynchburg x 11 ji 5 N Ji di J yr s 's M Carter Glass Senate rebel succumbs at ago of 88 News In 1888 1886 with he bor bor- rowed Five years later he acquired acquired acquired ac ac- ac- ac the Lynchburg Virginian Virgini n nand and Advance merging the three papers into two enterprises publishing publishing publishing pub pub- lishing and evening news news- papers He remained publisher until his death despite his vigorous vigor vigor- ous public career which began in 1899 when he was elected to the Virginia Virgin fa state legislature Glass liked to refer to himself as a relic of constitutional government gov gov- He was scarcely a modernist in other respects either About 16 years ago he fought against installation of dial telephones an infernal nuisance nui nui- sance in sance in the senate office buildIng build Ing ing He contended air mail wasa was wasa a foolish fad It was President Roosevelt who called him the unreconstructed rebel There was an element of mutual regard between the late president and the Virginia senator senator senator sena sena- tor despite their frequent vehement vehement vehement ve ve- disputes |