Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1920 — SAYS LEAVE BODIES IN FRANCK [ARTICLE]

SAYS LEAVE BODIES IN FRANCK

Widow of Col. Roosevelt Opposes Return of Soldier Bodies. New York, Jan. 24.—Mrs. Edith Kermlt Roosevelt, widow of Theodore Roosevelt, is honorary president of an association of gold star mothers and fathers organized hers to oppose the return of the bodies of American soldiers killed in France. At the organization meeting yesterday Col. Edw«yrd Olmstead, assistant chief of staff of the 27th division, and several army chaplains spoke against transfer of the dead, asserting it was Inadvisable for practical as well as sentimental reasons.