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Show VETERAN DROPS FROM FATIGUE IN G. A. R. PARADE AND DIES Fifteen Thousand Aged Boys in Blue March in Streets Of Des Moines, Their Blood Stirred By Martial Music of Fife and Drum DES MOINES, Sopt. 27. (By tho Associated Press.) One of tho civil war veterans In the annual grand army of the Republic parade dropped from fatlguo it noon today, from the line of march si It neared tho capital capi-tal extension grounds and died within fifteon minutes. He Is kown to bo ii veteran from Minnesota and Is believedj to be M. J. Maekanhausen of Great Benr Iako, Minn. DES MOINES, Sept. 27 (By the Associated Press ) Bowed In body and thinned In ranks, but stalwart In tho spirit that sent them marching through history from Fort Sumter to Appomattox court house, 16,000 surviving sur-viving veterans of the grand urmy of the republic, marched again, trlum- phant, through tho streots of Dos Moines and passed In reVLow before! their communder in chief tod.iv. To the familiar roll of their battle, drums and the shrill call of the flf- i they stepped off at a brisk pace behind be-hind the colors they bore to victors more than half a century ago. As the command "forward, march!"; rang out, the platoon of puli e stepped off ahead of Marshal Polk and his staff of mounted Officer! and the American legion Argonne post ban.l blared out a military march. Side by side in the first automobile of the parade General Lewis S fllchef of Brooklyn, commander in chief of the grand army of the Republic tnd Harford MacNlder of Mason City, la., national commander of the American Amer-ican legion, occupied the position of honor at head of the marching host of veteran." Six automobiles carried the other national officers of the grand army Colonel (Jus S. Brewer with bl ald( i Kerlng as chief of the second division,' preceded the famous I". S. Grant drum corps, behind which followed the Ii-I linoil department, Grand Army of the Republic, honored With the front position posi-tion among Its comrade departments by reason of seniority in the date of Us charter. Pennsylvania, with a su-prlslngly su-prlslngly large attendance, followed Illinois. The Wisconsin veteran drum corps, led the Wisconsin department In the ranks of the Ohio department. Inconspicuous among his comrades, marched the father of the president, Dr. George T. Harding of Marlon, Ohio. Za Ga Zag shrine drum corps led the third division General PllchSr's own state department from New York marched at the front of the parade, which Included also tho New England departments, Connecticut, Massachusetts. Massachus-etts. Ww Jersey and Maine. Pasadena's Pasa-dena's drum corps which has made tho city echo with its invitation to tho grand army to go to the Pacific . oast in 1 924, united the veterans from tho two oceans, following Maine and leading f'allfornla. With California the members of the same department from Neada had ther place in the column and the order or-der then crossed back over the continent con-tinent to include Rhode Island and New Hampshire. Drum corps predominated in the fourth division commanded by Colonel Col-onel L. Andrews, as chief. Vermont, Potomac. Virginia, North Carolina and Maryland, the states that knew the brunt of tho bnttle at its worst, followed. fol-lowed. Nebraska's drum corps led Its state department forward by its brother musicians! Of the Michigan drum corps and the Badger state veterans vet-erans The pdegraff drum corps In the forp of the Indiana department, the Denver veteran drummers, follow by Colorado and Wyoming, old soldiers sol-diers and the Kansas drum corps, with Kansas and Delaware veterans brought up the rear of tho division Colonel M. Staley chief of the fifth division with a Des Moines high school military band, commanded the Mln nosota. Missouri. Oregon and Kentucky and West Virginia division, then marched the South Dakota drum corps and a long uninterrupted column of the soldiers of South Dakota Washington Wash-ington and Alaska. Arkansas. New Mexico, Utah. Tennessee. Louisiana and Mississippi, Florida. Montana. Texas. Iduho, Georgia and South Carolina. North Dakota, Alabama and ( iklahoma |