The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-28
MEMORIAL DAY
RITES PLANNED

The entire newfoundland not Me.
mortal Day alone-will be devoted to
honoring Americas war dead by the
Patriotic organizations around the
District of Columbia.
Although the pretentious Memorial
Day parade and exercises will not
take place until Monday, a number
of acts Of reverence will be per.
formed tomorrow. while at least one
service. that of ths Bureau of En-.
craving and Printing Post, No %,
American Legion. will be held to-
day. This service, from 1915 TO /
o'clock. honor those men and women
employees of the bureau who gave
their lives in the World War.
Flowers viii be thrown overheard
from the stern of a launch on the
Potomac River tomorrow. by mem.
bers of the Women's Relief Corps
Department of the Potomac. in
honor of service men who died at
sea.
The exercises will form the first
of a series of memorial observances
In connection with Memorial Day.
The quartermaster launch % will
take the flowers down the Potomac.
At $3.50 o'clock tomorrow, airmen
will fly over the river, dropping
flowers from planes in honor of
dead airmen.
Monday, starting at II o'clock,
exercises for the Army dead will
be held at the tomb of the Unknown
Soldier, In Arlington National Gem
etery by the Women's Relief Corps,
assisted by representatives of a
number Of other patriotic organiza-
tons.
Battlefield nuns of the Civil
War will be remembered in serv-
ices to be conducted tomorrow
afternoon at o'clock at the Nuns
Monument, Rhode Island Avenue
and M Street Northwest, by the
Ladies Auxiliary of the Ancient
Order of Hibernians. Brig. Gen,
Lutz Wahl. u. s. A., will speak.
Mrs. Coolidge. wife of the ?resi-
dent. will place a wreath on the
monument.
To Decorate Graves
The Irish American Union. in
conjunction with the Friends of
Irish Freedom, will decorate the
graves OF former members hurried in
Mount Olivet Cemetery on Memorial
Day. The services will be held
Sunday at II a. m.
Monday at ] o'clock President
Coolidge will deliver his annual Me-
mortal Day address at Arlington.
Preceding this will be parade,
starting from in front of the New
Willard Hotel. of veteran organiza-
tons. The Grand Army of the Re.
public will lead. Next will be the
Spanish War Veterans, then Vet
Grams of Foreign Wars. the Ameri.
can Legion. Disabled American Vet
Grams of Foreign Wars. American
Veterans of Hellenic Descent and
Veterans of Indian Wars.
A mounted police escort and the
Marine Band will head the parade.
1t will proceed on Pennsylvania Ave-
nue. to the south of the Treasury,
west of the Treasury, thence east on
Pennsylvania Avenue and down Fiji
tenth Street and east again on
Pennsylvania to Twelfth and B
Streets Northwest, where the march
ers will entrain for Arlington Gene
terry.
For those not able to go to the
Arlington Cemetery, services will
be held aboard the L. s. s. Por-
poise at the Navy Yard, the
Soldiers Home, Battle Ground
Cemetery. Congressional Cemetery.
Holy Rood and Oak Hill Gene
teries, and at the following ceme-
teries. Glenwood, Prospect Hill,
st. Mary's, Mt. Olivet, Harmony,
| North East and at St. Elizabeth
Hospital
Veterans participating have been
| asked TO wear their uniforms.
Memorial Day exercises also will
be held at the Georgetown Unit
| versity School of Law, in the Ii
brary, at o'clock Monday. Prof.
William Jennings Price will speak.
The German Orphan Asylum will
hold its annual observance Of Me-
mortal Day at o'clock Monday
with folk songs, dances and special
drills.
Virtually all business in Wash.
ington will be suspended Monday.
All branch public libraries will be
closed, but the main library at
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