Evening star., 1927-05-29
SECOND DIVISION
TO HOLD REUNION
et-Together Rally Thursday
Will Start Event for
5000 Veterans.

With a get-together rally at the Ra-
leigh Hotel on the evening Of Thurs
day, the ninth annual reunion of the
Second Division Association, which
will bring to Washington a disIin-
guished group of Army officers and
upward of 5000 soldiers, will get under
way. The reunion will continue for
two days, with the following program:
Thursday, 8 pm, get-together rally,
Raleigh Hotel. Vaudeville skits. Cff1-
cial War Department motion pictures
Of the Second Division in action over
seas; music by Army Band.
Friday, 10 am, registration at VIII
lard Hotel: ] pm, sightseeing tours
and theater parties s pm, unit meet.
ings as follows: Hotel Washington,
Second Field Artillery Brigade, Sec.
Ond Ammunition Train, Second Supply
Train, Second Headquarters Troops
and Second Military Police Company,
Fourth Machine Gun Battalion, Sec
ond Trench Mortar Battery and
Quartermaster units. Willard Hotel,
Third Infantry Brigade, First Field
Signal Battalion and Fifth Machine
Gun Battalion. Raleigh Hotel, Fourth
Brigade of Marines, Sixth Machine
Gun Battalion and naval medical per.
sonnel.
Saturday, 10 a.m.--Business meet.
ing. Willard Hotel.
IL noon--Visit to the White House.
l p.m.-War time "choW" lunch at
Washington Barracks.
1:30-Cruise down the Potomac on
the Gen. Rucker and the Porpoise,
with programs by Army and Navy
bands and airplane demonstration by
fliers from Boiling Field and Naval
Air Station.
p.m.-Annual banquet at Willard
Hotel.
MacNider Is President.
At the business meeting election Of
new officers will be the chief interest.
Col. Hanford MacNider, assistant
Secretary of War, Is president of the
association. but desires to relinquish
this post. ....
In the event the Willard banquet
hall is inadequate to seat all the vet
Grams, overflow banquets will be held
at the Washington and Raleigh, to
which a radio hook.up will enable the
diners to listen to the complete pro.
gram. Veterans of the second divi.
sion who are now in Walter Reed Hos
pital or the Naval Hospital, will be
honor guests at the banquet, at
which, also, over 100 Gold Star
Mothers, whose sons died in the war.
will be present. Simultaneous with
the Washington banquet, second
division members in Seattle, San
Francisco and Los Angeles also will
meet.
Will Mass COlOrs.
All the war colors which were taken
overseas with the I'd Division will
be assembled for the first time since
the Armistice at the Washington re-
union. These will be brought here
from San Antonio, where the present
I'd Division is located, and from
Quantico and Fort Bragg. N. c.
Among the distinguished generals
who will be present are Maj. Gen.
James G. Harbord, u. S. A, retired,
formerly chief of staff: Maj. Gen.
John A. Lejeune, commandant Of the
Marine Corps; Maj. Gen. w. C..
Neville, U. s. NJ. c.; Maj. Gen. Preston
Brown, Brig. Gen. Albert ]. Bow.
ley, Brig. Gen. Paul B. Malone and
Col. James c.. Rhea. Gen. Malone,
who Is now in command of the diyi-
sion at San Antonio, will bring to
Washington a check representing the
receipts from the premier showing Of
wings a motion picture in which
the I'd Division took part. The
check is to go toward the divisions
war memorial.