Evening star., 1924-05-24
EDWARD Terry SANFORD.
D. C. BEGINS TRIBUTE
TO WAR DEAD TODAY
Flags and Flowers to Deck Airing
ton Graves, eliminating
Memorial Day.

dsnlns ton annual trlDut6 OF
flowers and tears to the departed
comrades will begin this afternoon
and eliminate on Memorial day with
ceremonies at Arlington cemetery,
dedicated to those whose deeds have
written golden pages in Americas
history of freedom.
Fluttering flags and fragrant flow-
ers will once more deck the graves of
the heroes. Comrades of three wars
again will don their uniforms and
march shoulder to shoulder. Patri-
otic men and loyal women will listen
to the clarion voices of eloquent ora
tors. to the deeptoned resonance Of
piouS prayers, to clear-toned singers
and throbbing bands.
Starting at SO clock this afternoon,
members of the 40 Hommes ct 8 Che
vaux, an honor body of the American
Legion. will pay honor to the 638
Washington boys who died in the
world war. by replacing along me
mortal tree markers destroyed during
the year. Vincent Costello Post
Of the legion will. two hours later,
erect a Flanders field cross on the
lawn of the District building, where
every patriotic resident of the Dis
trict will be invited to place flowers
and other tributes. Cooperating with
other veterans, members OF George
E. Killeen Post this afternoon decorated
the graves OF the veterans in Holy Rood
and Oak Hill cemeteries.
Poppies for Graves.
Various posts of the American
Legion tomorrow will place poppies
on the graves Of their comrades in
the cemeteries of the city. One of the
chief features of the exercises to-
morrow, however. will be in Airing
ton cemetery at o'clock, where the
Confederate Veterans Association of
the District will pay it's annual trib-
ute to the men who followed Lee,
Davis, Jackson, Hill, Johnston, Long
street, Beauregard and Mosby. Pres
ident Coolidge will speak at these
T. Weber Wilson of Mississippi. Capt.
Fred Bealle, commander Of the Dis
trict Confederate Veterans, will also
take an important part in these ex-
erciseS.
All comrades of the American Le-
gion will assemble at 10th street and
Colorado avenue tomorrow morning
to pay homage to the Catholic war
dead. The veterans will march from
10th street and Park road, starting at
$3.50 o'clock, to the place selected for
the exercises. The Vincent B. Co.'S
tello Post, the Gonzaga College Band
and cadets and the Catholic Boy
Scouts will head the procession The
services will be in charge of Chaplain
Francis ]. Hurnsy. The celebrant will
be Mgr. c. F. Thomas of st. Patrick s
Church. An address will be made by
Rev. 1gnstius Smith of the Dominican
College. Mass hymns will be sung by
the Catholic Daughters of America
ed by the Gonzaga Band.
Throughout the day the George E.
killeen Unit will place poppies along
18th street in tribute to the dead Of
the District in the world war, the
Kenneth H. Nash Post will decorate
the graves of their comrades in Glen
wood cemetery; the Edward Douglass
White Post. in Fort Lincoln ceme-
terry; the Tank Corps Post, in Pros
pect Hill cemetery; the James E.
Walker Post, in Woodlawn and
Europe Post, in Harmony cemetery;
the Sergt. Jasper Post, in Cedar Hill
cemetery; the Augustus P. Gardi-
ner Post, at St EliZabeth's cemetery:
the stuart Walcott Post. at Congress
tngton Post. In Rock Creek ceme-
terry; the Vincent B. Costello and
Kenneth Lewis posts, in Mount Oil
vet cemetery.
Memorial services for aviators who
died In the war will be held on the
Francis Scott Key bridge tomorrow
afternoon at $3.50 o'clock. Mrs. Mary
M. North, Women's Relief Corps, will
conduct the ceremony. Services for
sailors and marines will follow, and
will be conducted by Mrs. Mary Van
Ness Fauth. Children will assist in
the service by strewing flowers upon
the Potomac.
The U. S. Grant Circle, No. 1, and
the Abraham Lincoln Circle, No. 8, and
the Ladies Of the G. A. r.. will hold
their annual memorial services in the
rotunda Of the Capitol tomorrow af-
ternoon at 2:30 o'clock. An appropri-
ate musical program will be one Of
the features. Representative Rath-
bone will make the principal address.
Lemuel Warner will read Lincoln's
famous Gettysburg address.
The Irish American Union has ar
ranged to decorate the graves in
Mount Olivet cemetery Of Irish pa
triots and members of the organiza-
ton. This custom was inaugurated
fifty years ago by the union