Truman Honored By World Notables At Cathedral Rites

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5—With solemn words and music, Government officials and diplomats mourned and memorialized Harry S. Truman here today.

“There were no wrinkles in his honesty,” the Very Rev. Francis B. Sayre Jr. told the more than 1,900 people who nearly filled the Washington Cathedral. “He wore the mantle of our trust with truth and bore his solitary power with humility.”

Mr. Truman, the 33d President of the United States, died 10 days ago and was buried in Independence, Mo., after a simple private funeral to which only a few family members, friends and fellow politicians were invited.

The service today provided an opportunity for official Washington and foreign governments to offer formal tribute to a man Dean Sayre called “a fearless son of simple soil, our brother, Harry.”

Seated in the spacious nave of the soaring Gothic structure were President Zalman Shazar of Israel, Premier Kim Chong Pil of South Korea, Prime Minister John Lynch of Ireland, Carlos Romulo, Foreign Secretary of the Philippines, as well as members of the United States Supreme Court, Congress and the Cabinet.

Mr. Nixon, who flew to Missouri the day after Mr. Truman's death to pay his respects to the family, was represented at the service today by Vice President Agnew, who was seated in a front row of chairs along with Mrs. Clifton Daniel, the late President's only child; her husband an associate editor of The New York Times and chief of its Washington bureau, and Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the widow of the man who succeeded Mr. Truman in the White House two decides ago.

Mr. Truman's widow, who is 87 years old and in poor health, did not attend the 40‐minute service, conducted on a blustery, brittle day lead‐heavy with hints of the year's first snow here.

A long line of dark limousines began winding its way up St Albans Hill to the 66‐year‐old, still uncompleted cathedral a half‐hour before the service was scheduled to begin at 11 o'clock, and Secret Service agents, Army personnel and District of Columbia policemen watched carefully as the dignitaries and officials left their cars and entered the north transept.

Dobrynin and Laird

Inside, a Bach organ prelude spread sonorously through the cavernous sanctuary. The altar area, with its dark wood and light marble, was bathed in the brilliance of light for television.

The members of the congregation, even allowing for the President's absence, represented much of the political and governmental power in an international arena that Mr. Truman helped shape in the seven and one‐half years of his Presidency.

Anatoly F. Dobrynin, the Soviet Ambassador to the United States, sat a few feet away from Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird, and William P. Rogers, the Secretary of State, was within shoulder‐tapping distance of Egon Bahr, the West German minister, and Giovanni Elkan, Italy's Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs.

Senators George McGovern of South Dakota, the defeated Democratic Presidential candidate; Edmund S. Muskie of Maine and Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, sat quietly in their seats while not far away, Governor Rockefeller carefully studied the printed order of service.

The clergy, led by Mr. Sayre, dean of the cathedral, and the 45‐voice choir in white surplices entered on the last few bars of the prelude and the Rev. John E. Howell, pastor of the Washington First Baptist Church, where Mr. Truman attended services, reed the opening sentences.

In his eulogy, Dean Sayre, who is a grandson of President Woodrow Wilson, spoke of history's inexorable chain and the virtues of being prepared to partake of history's demands.

‘Humble But Not Afraid’

“In the eyes of his countrymen, Harry Truman was found to be such a man,” he said. “When the time came, he stepped to the anvil humble but not afraid, relying always in his independent way upon the goodness of the Lord, in Whose hand is the hammer of our fate.”

There were hymns and anthems and prayers—for Mr. Truman, his home‐state of Missouri, for the nation, and for his mourners—and then the Right Rev. William F. Creighton, the Episcopal Bishop of Washington, moved to the center of the crossing of the nave and the transepts and began the final blessing: “Unto God's gracious mercy and protection we commit Harry.”

The massive, 8,882‐pipe organ began the recessional, “O God, Our Help in Ages Past,” its deep rumblings rising and reaching into the tiniest cracks and crevices in the cathedral's gray limestone, and the choir's voices offered a last benediction for Mr. Truman, singing:

Time, like an ever‐rolling stream Bears all its sons away They fly, forgotten, as a dream Dies at the opening day.

Canada Pays Tribute

OTTAWA, Jan. 5 (Canadian Press) —The Commons paid tribute today to President Truman.

Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau said that while some of the decisions made by Mr. Truman would be debated for years, others would go down in history as the most enlightened of the century. He referred specifically to the establishment of the Marshall Plan to help reconstruct war‐ravaged Europe.