The body of the late Charles H. Jordan, executive vice-chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee, which was found drowned in a river at Prague after his mysterious disappearance in the Czechoslovakian capital, was expected to arrive here tonight, it was announced today by officials of the JDC here.
With the Jordan remains are expected also the tissues taken from his body by Czech pathologists in Prague and turned over to Prof. Bernard Hardmeyer, a prominent Swiss pathologist, who is director of the Legal Medical Institute at Zurich.
JDC officials said that, after the remains and tissues are received, a decision will be made as to the time of the funeral which, in any case, they said, will be private. There were hints that, before funeral arrangements are made, there may be further examination of the remains and tissues by pathologists here.
According to officials of the JDC, the Czech Government hesitated about releasing the body, holding that the remains should be first cremated in Prague. However, JDC and Mr. Jordan’s widow, now in New York, Mrs. Elizabeth Jordan, insisted that cremation should not precede the shipment of the body here.
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