Friday, April 5, 1929

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The Headlines

FRANCE BIDS HERRICK TOUCHING FAREWELL; BODY STARTS HOME; In Panegyric at Paris Embassy Poincare Calls Envoy 'Great, Good Man, Faithful Friend.' PERSHING LAUDS 'FINE SOUL' Thousands Stand Bareheaded in Cold Streets as Troops Escort Body to Church. GRIEF SHOWN AT SERVICES Special Train Conveys Body to Brest, Whence Cruiser Will Sail With It Today for America. Touching Tributes Rendered. Scene a Memorable One. Touching Scenes at Paris Funeral of Ambassador Herrick The Only Women Present Procession to the Church. Church Draped With Flags. The Start for the Coast. ORATIONS AT THE FUNERAL. Herrick's Virtues Extolled by Poincare, Pershing, Quinones de Leon. Wanted Presidents to Meet. Obeyed Instuctions Scrupulously. Pershing Likens Foch and Herrick. Had Qualities Americans Admire. Offers Sympathy of Nations. EXPOSURE FATAL TO HERRICK. Also Caused Foch's Death, Surgeon General Cumming Says.

Best-selling Sheet Music

Singin' in the Rain

Nacio Herb Brown

The must-have

Duncan Yo-Yo

You Share a Birthday With

• Thomas Hobbes (1588)
• Bette Davis (1908)
• Gregory Peck (1916)
• Pope Urban VIII (1568)
• Spencer Tracy (1900)

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Tech Check

Car Radio, Sunglasses (Mass Produced) & Coaxial Cable.

Cost of Living (1920)