The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-19
VETERANS OF
A. {. F. MARCH
AGAIN in PARIS
Thousands lam Parade Line
as Americans Come Back
to France.
OLD MEMORIES R0USED
Yanks' Procession Passes
Historic Places, Honors
War Dead.
OLD MEMORIES RoUSED
BIZ A. L. BRADFORD


United Press STAFF Correspondent
PARIS. Sept. 19-The first foreign
peace-time army in history to parade
Through Paris moved along the
capitals most famous thoroughfares
today.
The peaceful marchers came from
the seaboard, the mountains, and
the plains of the United States.
While thousands of Parisians
cheered, the American Legion
second victory parade started from
the Place Diena at 1859 p. m.
The marchers were led by a
calvacade of the Republican guard
and a battalion of French infantry.
Legion standards dipped and thou
sands, of marchers turned their
eyes to the left in honor Of the
Americans who fought in French
uniform, as they passed the Alan
Seezer monument.
Thousands In Line
Into the, Place de Letoile, where
the Arc de Triomphe stands, swung
thousands Of doughboys, gobs,
leathernecks, Red Cross workers,
Salvation Army girls and nurses Of
the A. e. F.
Around this place and down the
champs E1Ssees a German army
headed by Uhlans marched fifty-six
years ago when they occupied Paris.
Now the chains which have circled
the Arc de Triomphe since Frances
defeat in 1871 are broken and for
the second time in history the legion
passed under the arch as it did in
the victory parade Of 1919.
Drop Flowers at Tomb
French and Legion bands we're
stilled. Colors dipped. Legion
naires dropped red, white and blue
flowers as they passed the Tomb OF
the Unknown Solder, Frances
greatest hero.
Compared to the millions who
fought in the great war, the Legion
parade was small. But the march
ers' ranks were swelled as they
passed beneath the sacred arch by
hosts of unseen marchers. They
were the men who fell at ST. Mihiel,
along the Meuse, in the Argonne,
at Chateau Thierry. They were
from the Marine, the User and from
Verdun.
Silent and unseen, the wraiths of
memory fell in with their buddies
once more. They were the $4,000
American dead risen from tended
gtaves and forgotten thickets, from
scattered tombs and from wherever
an American boy lay down to sleeep
forever in France.
Pass Reviewing Stand
Circling the Place de la Concorde,
where the victims cf the Revolution
passed to the guillotine, the parade
passed the reviewing stand, where
1t received the salutes of French and
American officials, thence down the
Rue 2oyale to the Madeleine
church and along the boulevards to
the opera.
From the Avenue de pOpera, the
paraders entered the Rue Rivoli and
passed by the historic Hotel de Vile
and city hall.
Crossing the bridge and disband-
ing before the church of Notre Dame
there came the moment of supreme
emotion. Hardened veterans wept
with gold star mothers. They were
joined by silent crowds Of French
and women who remembered.
General Pershing, Marshal Foch,
and Howard P. Savage, national
commander Of the Legion, rode un-
covered in an automobile i'm
mediately behind the French troops
Of the oath Infantry. Behind them
came the Legionnaires.
Convention Opened
The Ninth annual Legion conven-
ton was opened officially at $3.50 a.
m. by President Doumergue of
France, honorary chairman.
The delegates seemed somewhat
overawed by, the presence of the
mary notables and the opening of
the convention was not marked by
the customary byplay Of previous
Legion conventions.
Colonel Dougherty of Nogales,
Ariz., dressed in buckskin and yell
low neckerchief, who usually stages
buck-and-ying stunts on the slight
est provocation, actually seemed i'll
at ease.
Thirty-thousand Legionnaires and
their friends filled the vast audi
totium, which with its forest o.
signs marking state delegations re-
sembled national political conven-
finra in the limited States