The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-04-01
LEA TO LEAD
BIG PARADE
Tennessee's Former Senator,
Accompanied by Col.
Gleason, Will Lead.
SUPREME COURT COMING
Distinguished Visitors Will Be
Guests of Committee Heads
at Luncheon.

T .COl. Luke Lea viii pS LiiS Coiii-
manding officer in charge Of all the
troops that are 20 march iii the pa
rade Thursday morning and will lead
the proces ssiou which will start at
Market and Main streets promptly at
II o'clock.
Riding with Col. Lea will be Col.
Jas. A. Gleason, who will ride at Col.
I.ea's left. Col. Gleason is from
Knoxville and was in command of
the 1l4th regiment enroute from
Newport News until it reached Knox
vile where he turned it over to Col.
Lea. Col. Gleason is attached to the
l44th. He was formerly lieutenant
colonel Of the l15th field artillery, and
in anticipation Of the transfer of Col.
Harry >. Berry to some other duty,
Col. Gleason was recently promoted
70 colonel to command the ll5th
However when Col Berry returned
to the 115th Col Gleason was at
tached to the 1lith field artillery and
returned from overseas with the bows.
Col. Lea will also. be accompanied
by his staff. consisting Of Mai. Lar
kin Smith, Capt. Frank B. Evers,
Capt. John l.. Craig, Chaplain w. s.
Claiborne and Lieu. Philip Lovejoy.
This will no donbt be followed by
the 114th field artillery land with
battery b next, followed by the other
batteries c, d ani r. the regimental
supply company and the sanitary de-
| tachment.
Following this will come the 114th
machine gun battalion. composed of
company +, commanded by Capt, d.
n. Mcmillan, Of Chattanooga. This
company will no doubt be placed first
through the respect to the Chatta-
nooga officer which is in command.
The others following in their re-
spective ORDER will be companies A,
c and d. As company d is also
! commanded by Capt. e. w. Mcmillan,
brother of Capt. Douglas Mcmillan,
commanding officer Of company B, it
is possible that these two companies
Will lead the machine gun battalion.
Gen. Scott to Review Parade.
Gen Scott, commanding officer at
Fort Oglethorpe, will review the pa
| rade and will be seated in the re-
viewing stand in front of the Hotel
| Patten. Seated with Gen. Scott will
| be eXMayor T. c. Thompson, Maj.
| Phil Whitaker. chairman OF the well
| coming committee. and members OF
Gen. SCOTS operating staff, as fol-
lows: Col. Henry, Col. Rutherford,
Maj. w. NJ. Blunt, Capt. Phillips,
! Capt. Jacks and Lieut.. Ellis.
Wounded Soldiers.
Approximately ninety wounded SOL
| diers. members oF the Thirtieth divis-
ion, who were sent home with the
casual company. and who are sta
toned at Oglethorpe will be brought
in for the parade and will be seated
in a special reviewing stand in front
| OF Schwartz shoe store. VIII
Schwartz is chairman of the arrange
ments for this feature OF the parade
and although he has been confined
! to West Ellis hospital for the past
( two or three days as a result of hav-
/ ing his tonsils removed, II IL thought
| that he will be able to be out
! Wednesday.
Decorators were KEEP; busy all day
! Monday and were seen Tuesday
morning hard at work decorating the
downtown tsores. while Mark X. Will
| son, chairman of the decorating COM
mittee, fas only made special request
that the Market street merchants and
. those on Broad street decorate their
stores, many of the others on the
side streets are doing likewise and by
Thursday a wonderful display Of "Old
Glory can he seen.
Whole Supreme Court Coming.
Interest in the events Of the day
Thursday will center around the ar
ray of distinguished men who will
be here almost as mich as around the
demonstration and parade in the
morning. 1t developed Tuesday moru-
/ ing that the supreme court Of Ten
! nessee had accepted the invitation 20
| he here in BODY, and these, to-
eethe- with Senators Shields and Nc
/ kellar. Gov. Roberts. Ex-Governor
| Rye. Assistant Secretary Of War Gro
well. Gen. Scott, and officers of the
! returned units, VIII be guests of en-
( tertainment committee heads at the
/ Hamilton club for lunch Immediately
after the parade.
I Senator McKellar wired L. II. Will
! liams. chairman Of the committee on
I the patriotic mass Elccting following
| the events Of the day. from Knoxville
! Monday night that he would surely
| be here and make his address ON the
| league of nations. He asked that he
! lie notified exactly when he was ex-
I pected.
! Arrangements have also heen per-
fected to make :he dance on BROAD
street in the afternoon one OF the
| most spectacular ana enjoyable al
/ fairs in the history OF the city. \
young ladies committee, composed Of
Misses Cathryn Henderson. Marga-
ret Oehs and Louise Bradford. has
heen appoirted. and the general flooc
committee Of Young men met for final
4 instructions at the chamber OF COM
merca Tuesday afternoon