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Show IE LAST WAR DEAD RECEIVE HONORS Arrival Is Symbolized By Solemn Rites Over Body of Private NEW YORK. April 3 Arrival ot the last of America's 70.000 war dead commemorated In Brooklyn Sun-9 Sun-9 day i ino body, that of Private Qharle W Craves, of Home Chi., symbolized for the time, tho bodies of the 1.0C. soldiers sol-diers which " were returned from France last week on the United States transport G&mbrai. Amid tho hushed vasfness of an army pier, his 1066 silent comrades "in long, unbroken r inks of f Ing-drap - i caskets, maintained t bivouac ot the dead, while Borrowing1 thousands, of high and low degree, paid the last respects of a grateful nation. His body, enthroned n a gun caia- son u n drawn l.v sl hirses. had ln-'-n borne through the ranks of silent njul-l 'titudes Stern generals had saluted Ojs flag which wrapped him. Hundreds of ' his comrades had marched beside him. Uins had boomed in his honor, stutes- IM jnen nacl euniKifCl ms tii-i-vm. mmmi had wept over him. and "taps' tb' POldlerS' farewell, had given him God-H God-H speed 1 The body of Private Gravis had ill -I'Cen chosen to receive tho honors of II i ho day, because he. of the 106f aboard the transport was the lost to be taken from the hold and placed on IF lils native soil Thus It was that he was the enter f a profoundly Solemn demonstration. If while his comrades w:ilt d in the echoing echo-ing silence of the big terminal. SOU OWN PRO! I SSIOS Private Graves' body, in a gray steel caket. was mounted upon a hors-drawn hors-drawn gun caisson at the army base. Before the calswOn rode a detachmen'. of, mounted police. A squad of privates of the Thirty-fourth Thirty-fourth infantry formed a cordon of 1 honor. Behind them marched the honorary' hon-orary' pall-bearers' Commodore Robert Rob-ert P. Forsher. Brigadier Generals Jl -'Charles L. DeKevole.s. Franklin "W. Ward, Palmer E. Pl-n . lames W Lester. Hewitt Weld William Wcigel, and Captain James Vogelsan Hundreds of flag-bearers followed. If -holding aloft th many colore,: t-m-H blems of 150 organizations that hid soon service at the front. With them, tt in platoon formation, marched rei-t rei-t ment after regiment of soldiers, sail- ors and marines, each with Its rogl-P rogl-P mental bond or drum corps. And, U - swelling the pro fession, were other ! thousands of tho American legion, iu Votcrans of Foreign Wars, the civil war. tho Spanish-American war, and M women eterans of the Red Cross and II ' other welfare services. I As the funeral cortege neared Fort Hamilton Parkway, army and naw I bombing planes swooped low over the caisson, releasing cargoes of flowers I " over the bier of Private Grave and almost obscuring tin- huge wreath of I I roses which President Harding had presented In behalf of the natu.r Wltn the flowers, the president sent this message to Colonel E. A. Simmons, master of the ceremonies: "You and your associates are going to voice the last testimony of love and affection from living comrades for I their dead. You may be very sure that tho whole nation will echo your sentl- l mcnts, and feol with you tho thrill of I a common pride and a common sorrow sor-row pride In the glorious service and historic achievement of these, our 1 brothers who freely gave all exacted of them "Thev have set for oil of US the per-I per-I feet example of service, and sacriflo . jj and it Is well that their associates. through this tribute, remind the nail na-il lion of Us eternal obligation to prove worthy of the devotion Its pons have iv shown for 1U "Already In the light of the morning of hope after the storm, we descry very real Justification for trust that a I jl sadder and wiser world will find means to save the future from repetition of the tragedy wherein they played .- noble a part. Let us unite In faith and work for such a consummation That would be the slncerest testimony J that we fully appraise their Buffering" and sacrifices." PARENTS WEEP SOFTLY Formal services over the body were held In the gray-walled enclosure of 1 the army base, where chairs had been placed for 0000 gold star mothers and their escorts, Notables of the army, the navy and j the marine corps, with Kovcrnor.", senators, sen-ators, congressmen and bishops occupied occu-pied tho speakers' stand. Those m-j m-j eluded Assistant Secretary of War J Mayhew Wainwrlght. Vice Admiral 1 Hilary P. Jones, commander of the At-i At-i Mantle fleet, and Major Genera John I .A. Lejune. representing the marine I corps: Gov ernor Harrv L. Davis, I I II Ohio; Governor Everett J. Lake of I Connecticut; Governor Edwards of m New Jersey. Senators Colder of New ) York; Ferdinand Of Maine: Harris of Georgia; Spencer of Missouri, and D k Broussard of Louisiana; several Unit-' Unit-' ed States representative-. Archbishop H ,j Hayes. Bishop P. S. Gailor. and the I Rev, E". Joseph Silverman. Only the occasional nobs of bc-I bc-I . reaved mothers, widows and fathers , broke the stillness which enfolded the throng while the program was in progress. prog-ress. And. when, at the clone of his address, Assistant Secretary of War ' Wainwrlght bowed toward the flower flow-er decked caisson and said. "Heroic dead, we salute you. Sweet be 'our deathless sleep. You live with the immortals. Hall and far, w II ' A sore of women fainted and were carried car-ried from the seen-- by soldiers. At i ho conclusion of th ceremonies the . body of Private Graves was returned 1 1 to tho shed where waited Uiokc of his i 1 065 comradi a |