The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-09
ARMISTICE DAY PLANS COMPLETED More Than 5000 Persons Expected To Partic-
 ipate Here PARADE TO FEATURE CITY'S CELEBRATION Boy Scouts To March In Full Strength-Stores
 To Close STREETS DECORATED ! BY NATIONAL COLOR Services At Auditorium To Fol
 low Parade In The Afternoon
PARADE TO FEATURE CITY'S CELEBRATION
STREETS DECORATED BY NATIONAL COLOR

 tion ever planned in Birmingham will occur Tuesday when a parade of more than 5000 members of the city's fra. ternal, civic, military and professional organizations will march at :3o o'clock, with patriotic assemblage to follow in the city auditorium, featur' ing an address by Harwell G. Davls attorney general of Alabama.
 Under the auspices of the Birmlng ham Boy Scouts who are fostering the celebration this year, every detail has been carefully planned in advance. Com mittees appointed for the various fea- lures of the occasion have reported ev- cry detail ready, to D. B. Dimick, gen eral chairman.
 Elaborate decorations for the streets down which the parade will march were hung Friday night, in charge of J. D. ,Rosenburger, who has arranged for especially appropriate decorations for the Twenty first street viaduct. A tesselated array of electric lights will be placed above the street across both ends of the viaduct, on which will ap- pear the words Rainbow Division"
 Stores To Close
 Coleman Blach, in charge of the com mittee on closing, has announced that : allNth stores in the retail division of the chamber of commerce will close flor half day, and numbers of the employees of the city's large firms will march in the demonstration.
 Other than 100 additional policeman who will patrol the streets down which the parade will pass, several troops of Birmingham Boy Scouts will aid in keeping the crowds behind the police lines. Approximately 15,00O feet of rope will be used for lining the streets two hours before the parade.
 Armistice Day is the only day in which the entire Boy Scout organiza- tion is mustered, according to D. B. Dimick. Beside the. unique feature of the complete mobilization of the Boy Scouts, approximately 30 school chil- dren, from each of the g schools, will participate in the parade, beside the regular R. O. T. c. units. in the high schools.
 One section of the parade will be composed of the negro veterans of the World war, and will march with the main parade down Nineteenth street to First avenue, where they will leave the line, and march down First avenue to Eighteenth street, up Eighteenth street
 
 the negro Armistice Day program will be staged. This feature is entirely new to Birmingham
 Seven Divisions
 The parade will contain seven tii- visions, first military, police detach- ments and city commissioners. The second division will be composed of the National Guard and various military units stationed in Birmingham, and the Boy Scouts. World war veterans and other war veterans are to form the third division. The high school military units and other public school children will compose the fourth di- vision. The fifth division will contain the private schools, civic and fraternal orders and similar organizations. The sixth, motorized, will be the Civil war Spanish war veterans. The seventh di- vision will be composed of negro civic organizations.
 The final of the orders issued to par ticipants by Colonel T. s. Moorman, emphasized the duty of all marchers to salute the National Colors as they pass men to uncover and hold their hat with the right hand at the height of breast and against the left shoulder {; women to hold right hand over heart and all to stand at attention.
 B. D. Dimick, general chairman, Saturday issued plea to display Amer ican flags and flags of the allies in front of their homes on both Monday and Tuesday.
 The parade will move promptly at 80 o'clock and will march down Nineteenth street to First avenue down First avenue to Twenty-first ifHet counter marching down First laic to Twentieth street and up <. iSth street to the reviewing stand
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