Evening star., 1924-09-11
PLANS COMPLETED
FOR TEST Of C|TY'S
MILITARY STRENGTH
Final Arrangements for Big
Parade Tomorrow An
nounced by Leaders.
UNITS TO ASSEMBLE
FOR MARCH AT 1:3O
Program to Follow Review by
Coolidge includes Speech
by Pershing.

Washington will show its military
strength on first call to the colors
in time of impending national emer-
gency when its citizens of military
age, supporting it's regular armed
forces, will march tomorrow In the
Defense day test parade, passing ir
review at the Zero Milestone, on the
Ellipse, before President Coolidge>
COMMUNICATIVE chief of the armed
forces; Secretary Weeks of the War
Department and other notables.
All arrangements have been com
pleted for the formation OF the units
military and civilian. and appropri-
ate orders issued by the police for
handling the vehicular and pedestrian
traffic
In orders issued from headquarters
of the district of Washington, the va
rlous units have been instructed tt
begin assembling at designated points.
beginning at 1880 O'Clock.
The procession will start promptly at
Z O'Clock from the Peace Monument
along the following route: West on
pennsylvania avenue to Fifteenth street
west on Treasury place, thence south
and west past the reviewing stand at
the Zero Milestone, thence west around
the Ellipse to the south entrance,
thence north to assigned positions on
the Ellipse. The mounted units will
turn south at the south entrance of
the Ellipse. but the others will be
massed where they will be able to
hear the speakers by means of
amplifying devices which have been
installed.
Program Announced.
The following program for the
ceremonies subsequent to the parade
has been announced: invocation by
Right Rev. Bishop Freeman, Amer
ica." by the Marine Corps Band; ad-
dress by Secretary Weeks of the War
Department, THE Stars and Stripes
Forever" by the Navy Band: address
| by Gen. ]. j. Pershing, "Over There"
| by the Army Band, and the National
! Anthem by the Army Band.
| Officials who have been in charge
of the mobilization of the units for
! the parade expect now that there will
| be a large turn out of the civilian
| males of military age.
! Many of the organizations have
! been mobiliZing their units indepen-
IDENTIFY of headquarters. and for this
reason it has not been possible TO
! obtain any accurate figures on the
! turn out.
! The parade will form in five sec
! tions as follows: First section, the
| military uniformed units of the reg
| ular establishments: second section,
National Guard of the District of CO.
| lumbia; third section, Organized Re
serves; fourth section, veteran, mill
/ tary and patriotic organizations, and
! fifth section. citizens associations,
| firms or business houses.
Work Not to suspend.
! There will be no suspension of busI-
ness or work in the Government de-
partments. but all who have enrolled
will be released for the period OF the
| parade. 1t is one of the purposes or
! the Defense Test to show the re-
sponse of men of military age, and
at the same time leave enough be-
hind to keep business and Govern
| ment moving.
Announcing completion of the en-
rollment, Lieut.. Col. c. Fred Cook,
adjutant general of the 10Th Division.
today made public the roster of Off
| GERS and non-c commissioned for the
| goth Division Headquarters Company
and Attached Troops, the members OF
which have been notified to report at
| o'clock tomorrow afternoon in the
| assembly room of Scottish Rite
| Cathedral, 433 Third street. The ros-
| ter follows:
Complete Roster.
Sponsor committee-ElwoodP P. Mo-
rey. Reynold E. Blight and William
F. GUIDE.
Lieutenant colonel-Stirling Kerr.
| Captains-Charles H. Ourand, E. C.
Edwards, William NJ. Mooney, L. NJ.
Stevens and Frank NJ. Roller.
| First lieutenants-Joseph f. Shev-
| lin and Harry W. klotz.
FNo
Warrant officers-F. Frank kim
| mel, Bertrand H. Roberts. Harry NJ.
Clark, c. G. Schenken, w. H. Hay
cock, William NJ. Clark, Horace At
kinson, Aldrich A. Moon, Morris j..
Hole, Rev. DR.. John c. Palmer and
Milton Baer.
! Master sergeant-Harold Stephan.
| Technical sergeants-Edgar Bit
| finger. Kenneth L. Patten, Arthur
Raderman, Elmer c. Wood, Ira Y.
Balm and E. H. Ellis.
| First sergeant-Guy Z. jenkins.
| Staff sergeants-Elton T. Bulwer,
William L. Boyden, Samuel Swiggett.
Claude c. S. Moberly, w. z. Parker.
| d. L. Grossnickle, w. J. Hope, George
J. Mcconnell, Ronald L. Mcdonald,
H. C. Werlich and Joseph B. Fergu-
son.
| The members of the Association
! of Oldest Inhabitants Will gather for
the parade on Sixth street northwest
near Pennsylvania avenue at 1:30 pm.
| Points Out Difference.
Test of defense plans will be only
"telescoped" picture of what an
| actual war expansion would mean,
| Secretary Weeks said today in a final
| statement explaining the origin and
| purposes of the Defense day project
Actual mobilization, he added, must
| of necessity be a prolonged and
| progressive process with the increase
| of the Army to its war footing. pro-
| ceeding in successive mobilization fn
| order of the Regular Army, National
Guard and Organized Reserves. No
practicable way of conducting a test
of that nature could be devised, Mr.
| Weeks pointed out, and the one-day
| test in which the preliminary opera
| tions of all three phases of the
defense plans should be consolidated
for a simultaneous partial try-out
affored the only method by which
needed information as to their sound
ness could be obtained.
The War Secretary said that In an