The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-06
CLUBS LINE UP
 TO PARTICIPATE
 IN DEFENSE DAY
Citizens Offer Co-opera- tion-Half Holiday To
 Be Declared

as far as it's civic, fraternal and pat riotic organizations are concerned, the general committee in charge of Defense Test Day arrangements was advised at its meeting Friday afternoon at the National Guard armory. Reports showed that every organization that has been asked to cooperate in Defense Day plans has promptly and cheerfully of fered its aid.
 Despite the fact, moreover, that the committee had not urged the stores or industries of Birmingham to declare a half-holiday. the retail merchants di- vision of the Chamber of Commerce voted to close mercantile establishments at 12 o'clock next Friday, and the Ten nessee Coal, Iron X Railway company, Alabama Power company, Gulf States Steel company and other corporations have done likewise. This will make it possible for the employees of these con- cerns to take part in the parade, in which there will be place for every man, woman and child in Birmingham who is willing to participate.
 Registration Opens.
 Registration blanks which volunteer marchers are to sign have been placed at downtown drug stores, cigar stores and other places, and have been fur nished to the various organizations talk ing part and to industrial plants. Vol unteers may march either with one of the various units sponsored by the organizations, or may join in one of the units assigned to general marchers, as indicated in the list below.
 The starting point of the parade is West End Park, Fifth avenue and. Seventeenth street, and the hour of representing the various organizations are to report to the officer named as commander of the unit sponsored by the organization in each instance. Vol unteer marchers not attached to any of the organizations will find Captain Sterling A. Wood, Jr., and thirty as- sistants at West End Park to tell them where to line up. Marchers are under no obligation of any kind. They simply volunteer their presence in the parade, which is to be split up into units representing numerically the strength of Birmingham's army reserve units.
 Theater Engaged.
 The Temple theater has been engag- ed from p. m. to 80 D. m. on Ma tional Defense Test Day, next Friday, September 12. From 1 to 3 o'clock the usual picture program will be retained, and theater patrons will be admitted for the usual admission price. The program will go on as usual after 80 p. m. At 3 o'clock the patriotic exer- cises will begin. Congressman W. B. Oliver will be the chief speaker and there will be other interesting features. Mrs. w. J. Adams is chairman in charge of the mass singing, and the Temple theater orchestra has been se- cured for other features of the musical program. Admission will be by card only. They will be available at various distribution points before the day of the parade, but their number will be limited, owing to the fact that the Temple thea ter seats only 5000. Preference will be given to marchers in the distribu- ton of tickets.
 Following are the military units of the parade, with their commanding of ficers and the organizations sponsoring them:
 Organized Reserves
 Artillery headquarters, 14th Army Corps, Major Lee Mason Banks, com manding; 47 men; Engineer headquar- ters, 14th Army Corps, Major A. S. Vim, IT men; Medical headquarters, 14th Army Corps, Col. Scale Harris, 17 men. These units sponsored by Ala bama Power company.
 Headquarters Company, 14th Army Corps, Lieut.. J. R. Gardner, 381 men sponsored by citizens of Woodlawn, Avondale and East Lake.
 Headquarters company, 345th In- fantry, Captain George McA. Bragan, 121 men; Company A, 345th Infantry, Captain Clarence l.. Darby, 200 men These units sponsored by Kamram Grotto, V. P. E. R.
 Medical Detachment, 345th Infantry, Lieut.. Col. Cabot Lull, S7 men; Loyal Order of Moose.
 Service company, 345th Infantry,