Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-20
BILLY sunday
TO REVIEW BIG
VICTORY PARADE

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and staff, and Mayor Ed. P. Smith
and the city commissioners; the
welcomed, the returned soldiers,
preceded by officers and 400 men
from Forts Omaha and Crook; the
men who fought in former wars, and
the men and women who worked at
home.
It's makeup follows:
Platoon Of police.
Grand Marshal and staff.
City officials
Second Division.
Wounded soldiers in automobiles
Officers and troops from Fort Omaha
and Fort Crook.
Band.
Legion Of returned soldiers, sailors and
marines.
Third Division.
High school band
Spanish War veterans
High school cadets.
Fourth Division.
Victory liberty loan committee
Officers and executive committee of the
Chamber of Commerce.
Red Cross officials and workers. includ-
ing the National League for Women's
Service. -
Band.
American War Mothers.
Joan of Arc club.
Jewish Women's Welfare League
Band.
Knights of Columbus.
salvation army.
Y. NJ. C. A
Jewish Welfare league.
War Camp Community service workers
Loyal Legion.
Camp Fire Girls.
Boy Scouts.
Fifth Division.
q. A. r. in automobiles.
Of much interest, too, Monday
will be the opening of the shops in
the reconstruction hospital just in
side the doors of the court house.
Wounded soldiers from Fort Des
Moines will demonstrate all week
the work done in re-educating men
who have been incapacitated by the
war from pursuing their regular vo-
cations.
War Tanks Tuesday.
The war tanks will make their ap-
pearance on the streets Tuesday,
driven by men who served on the
other side in tank service. Three
tanks will be used in Omaha, and
various stunts will be gone through.
Warren Howard, who is arranging
the tank program, expects to have
race and perhaps the destruction
of some old building.
Wednesday and Thursday will be
quiet" days of work for the sales
force, with speeches on court house
square at noon Wednesday by
Judge A. c. Wakeley and Thursday
by William M. Burton.
Friday Carter Glass, secretary of
the Treasury of the United States,
will visit Omaha. He will review
the great 100 per cent parade of
firms, all of whose employees have
taken Victory liberty loan notes, and
afterwards will speak at the Cham
Der of Commerce.
The Wood Oswald company, live
stock operators in the Live Stock
exchange, is the first firm to an
nounce 100 per cent among its EN-
ployes. The force will be given first
place in the 100 per cent parade Fri
day.
Seven Belgian officers and 108 SOL
diers of Belgium with guns and ac-
coutrements of war will be in the
city, and at noon the commanding
officer will shove the ship on top of
the court house into port at New
York.
To Give Honor Flags.
To each community oversubscrib-
ing its quota a community honor flag
will be awarded by the treasury as
an official acknowledgements of The
achievement. Similarly an industrial
honor flag will be given to each bust
ness firm, church, lodge or other
organization with IL or more mem
bers, whose members subscribe &C
cording to prescribed proportion.
More than 100000 of these flags
have been placed in the hands of dis
tributing agencies.
Among the military and naval
bands which will give concerts in
cities is General Pershing's Ameri-
can Expeditionary Force headquar-
tiers band of $50 picked musicians,
which will tour the large cities of the
east.
Publicity Unparalleled.
Washington, April 1o.-Prepara-
tons for conveying the Victory loan
appeal forcibly to the public are said
to constitute the most elaborate and
far-reaching publicity methods ever
undertaken. Thirty special trains
are touring the country with speak
ers and exhibits, including the far
famed aerial circuses. Six thousand
films, 100000 feet in length, are
being shown throughout the nation.
Two hundred and twenty tanks are
ambling over various sections of the
country and are attracting the great
est attention.
Direct appeals to New Workers
will be made by Vice President Mar
shall, cabinet members and other
public men on every day of the cam
paign. Speaking into a tube ar
ranged at loan headquarters in the
treasury here, their voices will be
conveyed electrically to New York
and "ampliied" by scores of horns
placed on Fifth avenue corners, 50
that 10000 persons may hear each
speaker.