Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-29
FOCH MILITARY
PARADE WILL BE
GREATEST EVER
Every Unit of National Guard
of Indiana to March
on Nov. 4.

Every unit Of Indianas reorganized
National Guard will pass in review before
Marshal Ferdinand L. Foch when he Wis
its indianapolis on Nov. 4. according to
the announcement q preliminary plans
made last night by Aljutant General
Harry B. Smith, grand marshal Of the
parade. at a meeting Of the Foch day
committee chairmen. Regular army sol
diers detachments of marines and sailors,
nine military bands OF the State, and
thousands Of former service men ana
women will also be in the column.
General Smith said that he believed the
parade would be the greatest military
spectacle in the history of the state. one
Of the features will be the Third bat
TALON OF the 1slst field artillery com
pletely equipped with all its heavy ord
nance In the line. Eleven nat ears VIII
be required to transport the l56 mllii-
meter guns aud other equipment OF this
unit from Madison to Indianapolis. Gen
eral Smith said that regular army officers
who recently inspected this battalion pro-
nounced It the finest appearing heavy ar
tillery outfit they had ever seen.
PARADE IN
FIVE DIvIsIoNs.
The parade will bo In five divisions.
with an assistant grand marshal at the
head Of esch division. These men viii be
the hig .est ranking officers OK the ladi-
ana National Guard. Regular army sol
disrs will be at the head Of the column,
as provided by United States army regu-
Iations The first unit Will be the llth
infantry from TT. Benjamin Harrison.
headed by the 11th Infantry Band. Next
will come the detachments Of marines
and sailors. The regulars will be fol
lowed by the Culver Military Academy
Band at the head Of the Marshal Foch
escort two platoons Of the Culver Black
Horse Troop, Marshal Boch and his party,
with outriders OF the troop beside the
machine and then the three remaining
platoons Of the cadet cayalrymep.
RAINBOW VETERANS
IL FULL UNIFORM.
The second division will be composed
OF the Indiana National Guard and the
overseas veterans of the Rainbow divi-
sion. In uniform and full marching equip
ment The fb0th Infantry Band Will be
in the lead, followed By the 150th in
fantry and the engineering units Of the
State militia Next Will come the lSlst
field artillery, headed by its band. Be
hind the heavy artillerymen viii be the
both field artillery regiment. Leading
the 42d division men will be the Purdue
University Band.
The 150th field artillerymen are largely
from indianapolis, Lafayette, Hartford
City, FIT Wayne, Shelbyville, Greencastle
and Bloomington, and they have a very
active association. This IS the Indiana
unit which saw almost continuous service
at the front 1t will be holding its an
nual reunion at the same time the Foch
celebration is in progress and so tae
officers anticipate an unusually large per
centage of the unit to be in the parade
These veterans will be IN their overseas
uniforms with tin hats" which they
wore at the front.
The third division will be the former
service men and women, headed by the
American Legion Land Of Indianapolis.
The veterans in uniform will be at the
head. followed by the Amedican Legion
auxiliary, the American Women's Over
seas League in uniform, the Indiana Uni
versity band and then the nonunlformed
formed service men.
COLORED
LEGION BAND.
Indiana's coIored veterans will compose
the fourth division. 1t will be led by
the colored American Legion band Of In
dianapolis.
Disabled soldiers in automobiles will
form the fifth division. with the De Pauw
University band at the head. Mrs. VIII
bur Johnson, chairman Of the committee
which is arranging for the participation
of the wounded soldiers said that she
had been promised fifty five cars and
that she expected the promise of several
more before the parade Each machine
will be driven by a member of Red Cross
Motor Corps in uniform, and each car
will be decorated with French and Amer
lean flags, with a Red Cross emblem
flying from the radiator Relief cars In
charge of Miss Margaret McCulloch will
follow the parade.