Evening star., 1928-11-09
FEATURES LISTED
FOR ARM|ST|CE DAY
Event to Honor War Dead.
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson
to Attend.

The Capital VIII stop In It's CeleDra-
tion Of the tenth anniversary of the
signing of the Armistice tomorrow and
Sunday to honor the World War dead
of the Nation. The observance Of the
anniversary will begin tomorrow morn
ing at IL o'clock with a Boy Scout
service at the Tomb of the Unknown
Soldier and end Sunday night with
President Coolidge, Gen. Pershing and
Paul " McNutt, newly elected national
commander of the American Legion,
giving their Armistice day messages
over a Nation radio network from
the Washington Auditorium.
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson has announced
her intention of attending the special
ArmiStice day service to be held at the
tomb of the wartime President Sunday
afternoon. beginning at 3 o'clock
Mrs Wilson will attend the services,
1t is announced, as the guest of the
committee of followers of President
Wilson, which originated the custom
of paying tribute to him on Armistice
day before his death The first of such
tributes was paid him on November IL,
1921.
The services will be held in Bethle-
hem Chapel and will be conducted by
the Right Rev. James E. Freeman,
Bishop of Washington, with the Rev.
James H. Taylor, pastor of Central
Presbyterian Church. of which Presi-
dent Wilson was member, assisting
him.
Tomorrow night the annual Armi-
stice ball at the Willard Hotel will be
one of the most brilliant affairs of
the week end celebration.
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at Arlington National Cemetery will be
attended by 500 Scouts and officials
of the organization, with Col. E. l..
Mattice, chairman of the program
committee for the service, master or
ceremonies.
Services at Unknown Tomb.
Roll call, followed by two-minute
interval of prayer, and then taps will
be sounded over the Unknown Sol
dier's tomb at IL o'clock, the dead
line hour for hostilities 10 years ago.
Eagle Scouts will place wreath on the
tomb and Richard Babcock, Wash
ington Council bugler, will sound the
bugle calls.
Honor also will be pa at the graves
of Brig Gen. Lloyd M. Brett. who was
a vice president of the Scouts; Lieut..
Edward Comegys and Sergt. Lawrence
Azbell, members of the organization.
The latter two gave their lives in
France.
The ball tomorrow night promises to
be brilliant affair. Mrs. Coolidge
heads the list of patronesses. 1t will
be attended by Comdr. McNutt, Maj.
in-chief of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars, and Vice Comdr. Paul Wolman
of the same organization.
Secretary Mellon of the Treasury De-
partment has placed his box at the dis
posal of the patients of Walter Reed
Hospital. Box holders for the affair in
clude Mrs. LarZ Anderson, who has
turned her reservation over to the Wom-
ems Overseas League, of which Mrs
Herbert Hoover Is third vice president;
Frank B. Noyes and Maj. L. E. Atkins.
Assistant Engineer Commissioner for
the District.
Mrs. Coolidge Heads Patronesses.
The list of patronesses, besides Mrs.
Coolidge, included Mrs. Anderson, Mrs.
Dwight F. Davis, Mrs. c. w. Dyson,
Mrs. Charles P. Sunmerall, Mrs. John
A. Leieune, Mrs. Charles F. Hughes,
Mrs. F. G. Billiard, Mrs. Amos A. Fries,
Miss Mabel T. Boardman. Mrs. Frank
T. Hines, Mrs Harlan Wood, Mrs. Frank
Lockhead, Miss Jessie Dell, Mrs. John
Hull. Mrs. Edgar Jadwin and Mrs. Ed
ward Saltwater Battle flags of the
World War and tn, signal pennants of
the presidential yacht Mayflower will
be used in decorating the ballroom.
Girl Scouts will sell forget-me- -nots
for disabled veterans at the ball.
Cnndou tho TOpoh nf tho TIN -
known Soldier members of the Jewish
Welfare Board, the Salvation Army. the
Y. w. C. A. and Y. M. G. A., the War
Camp Community Service American
Library Association and National Cath
olic War Council will hold services.
Richard Babcock, Boy Scout bugler,
will sound roll call and taps, sepa :
rated by two-minute interval of
prayer.
Five hundred veterans from the serv-
ice hospitals of the city will attend the
special Armistice day concert at the
Auditorium, beginning at $3.50 Sunday
afternoon, under the auspices of the
Washington Cooperative Vesper Con-
certs and the District of Columbia
Chapter of the American Red Cross.
Concert Artists Listed.
The program will include three New
York concert artists, Louise Lerch,
Metropolitan Opera Co. soprano. in her
first Washington appearance: DR.. Henry
F. Seibert, official organist of Town
Hall, and Sigmund Spaeth, critic and
America and American Music"
Two sermons, one by Right Rev.
James E. Freeman, Bishop of Washing
ton, and one by Rev. Anson Phelps
Stokes, canon of Washington Cathedral,
will mark the day at Mount ST. Alban.
Bishop Freeman will speak informally
at o'clock in front Of the tomb of
Woodrow Wilson during service which
has been arranged by the Woodrow
Wilson memorial committee as a tribute
to the war President.
At 4 o'clock he will preach sermon
on the spiritual significance of the
tenth Armistice day. His sermon will
be delivered during the choral evensong
service, which will be devoted to Armi-
stice day commemorations and special
music by the Cathedral choir.
Canon Stokes will preach at the
morning service. beginning at II
O'Clock, which will have special Arni-
stice day music. All services will be
in Bethlehem Chapel.
Plans for Overflow Audience.
Arrangements have been made for
overflow congregations in the afternoon
services in the Chapel of st. Joseph
Of Arimathea and the Chapel of the
Resurrection and its adjacent ante
chapel. Amplifiers will be used.
An episode in the celebration of Ar
miStice day in Paris 10 years ago will
be broadcast, beginning at 9 o'clock
tonight on WRC, and will include many