Originally published Oct. 14, 1936

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in a 93-minute visit to St. Louis this morning, dedicated the Soldiers' Memorial Building, under construction on Memorial Plaza, made a five-minute non-political speech to a big crowd on the Plaza, and rode over downtown streets on a parade route which took him through the site of the proposed riverfront Jefferson Memorial.

The President's speech, which ha read from manuscript, was an expression of desire to promote the cause of world peace, to further economic recovery and to remove "inequalities in our social order." At its conclusion, the $1,000,000 Memorial building, now rising in framework, was dedicated by the hoisting of a flag, on a signal from the platform.

The President's train arrived from Kansas City at 9:40

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