The body of the late Victor L. Berger, Socialist leader and former Congressman, will lie in state in the rotunda of City Hall here until the funeral on Saturday. A civilian guard of honor was appointed by Mayor Daniel W. Hoan. Mr. Berger’s body will be the third to lie in state in the City Halland the first in twenty-four years.
Funeral services will be held at Forest Home Cemetery at 2.30 P. M. Saturday. Men associated with Mr. Bergeron “The Milwaukee Leader,” Socialist newspaper of which he was the editor, will be pall-bearers. These will include Leo Wolfson, news editor; Frank P. Hagarty, city editor; Ray G. Leach, composing room foreman; Theodore Sweers, production manager; Louis P. Baier, auditor, and Elmer A. Krahn, advertising manager.
Dr. A. Eustice Haydon, of the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, will officiate at the cemetery. Oscar Ameringer, editor of “The Oklahoma Lader,” of Oklahoma City, Okla, and of “The Illinois Miner,” will speak.
Several organizations with which Mr. Berger was affiliated plan to send delegations to the services, and seven Milwaukee members were appointed to represent the State Senate.
Mr. Berger will be eulogized by New York Socialists at a meeting at the Peoples House, on August 14, it was announced. Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for Mayor; Morris Hillquit, and James O’Neal will be the speakers.
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