Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-03
MILITARY CARNIVAL
WEATHER IS IDEAL
indian Summer Will Usher in
Huge Army Exposition
Starting Tomorrow.

With the Indian Summer promised
by the Weather Bureau, the stage was
set today for the opening tomorrow
afternoon of the three-day military
exposition and carnival at Washington
Barracks, featuring more than 1000
troops and a vivid demonstration of
Uncle Sans war machine swinging
into battle.
The big show. heralded as the most
complete exhibition of the latest de-
velopmentS in all branches of the Army,
will be ushered in by a parade of the
principal participants along Pennsyl-
vania avenue. The parade will form at
HAS tomorrow morning. march through
the city and back to Washington Bar
racks; the big iron gates there will
swing open to the public at 1890, and
the show is scheduled to get under way
at 2:3O. The program will be presented
each afternoon and evening.
While the demonstration will include
an array of the crack outfits of the
whole Army, the show is centered
around a sham battle which each after
noon and night will enact the Fight
Of the Lost Battalion" to the noise
of barrages and rife fire and the smell
of the smoke of battle.
President Is Patron.
The exposition and carnival, spon-
sored by the high command of the Army
for Army relief, has President and Mrs.
Coolidge leading the list of patrons and
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Summerall, chief of staff, as head of the
general committee Gen. Summerall will
officiate at the opening ceremonies to-
morrow afternoon from the headquar-
tiers tent.
Thousands of spectators are expected
to attend according to those behind the
show, who feel they are putting on the
outstanding event of the Fall season In
the Capital Tomorrow is to be observed
as Virginia day, Friday as Maryland day
and Saturday as District of Columbia
day. The best automobile routes to
Washington Barracks are Third, Sixth
or Seventh streets.
The opening parade tomorrow will
have as marshal Maj. A. M. Patch, jr,
of the 18th Infantry, Fort Washington,
which is to have an important part in
the big show. The parade will form
on Sixth street at Missouri avenue at
AS and will be headed by the Army
Band.
Features of the parade will be the
Sd Battalion of the 18th Infantry,
tank on a truck, machine gun nest ar
ranged by the l2th Infantry, anti-air
craft guns mounted on trucks, Battery
of the 18th Field Artillery, Sd Cav
airy Band mounted; I'd Squadron, Sd
Cavalry, and many other military ex-
hibits.
Line Of Parade.
The parade will move along Penn
sylvania avenue to the Treasury De-
partment up Fifteenth street and turn
left along Pennsylvania avenue to
Twentieth street, south on Twentieth
street to New York avenue, west on
New York avenue to Twenty-first
street, south on Twenty-first street to
B street, east on B street to Seven
tenth, south on Seventeenth around
the Tidal Basin to Water street, to G
street southwest. east on q street
southwest to Sixth street southwest,
grounds, arriving in time for the OPEN.
ing of the gates at 1890.
As these big gates swing open to the
public there will be revealed colorful
picture of what is rated as one of the
most complete displays of Army battle
flags ever collected. Arrayed on stand
ards thanking the avenue and streets
leading away from the gates are the
banners of every unit of the Army, in
GLIDING corps, division, brigade and
regimental flags.
Part of the gigantic stage on which
the show itself is to be staged has been
transformed by transplanted trees into
a virtual forest. About the big field
are placed an array of tents exhibits
and carnival and amusement features
Scores of society girls will sell novelties
and food.
The program for the demonstrations
showing the hour of starting each fea-
ture discloSes also the wide variety and
scope OF events. The program, in brief,
is as follows:
Program of Events.
$50 pm, Cavalry; 2:42, Infantry;
2:54 Signal Corps, ground to air radio
telephone demonstration, by the famous
I'd Bombardment Group, Langley Field;
1859, Air Corps program, including
formation of five bombers, acrobaticS
by single pursuit planes, formation of
three pursuit planes, attack of three
PuAouls PiuIlCo h6dulSt dIl OuSCI VdLIUIl
plane, combat, smoke screen laid by
pursuit plane against a formation of
Ave bombardment planes, flight of air.
ship; 3:19, tank demonstrations 3:41,
pigeon race; SAT, Cavalry; 400, fight
Of the Lost Battalion, reproduction of
the attack of october 2-8 by Maj. Whit
tleSeys Battalion of the 306th Infantry;
5:l5, pigeon race.
The evening program: $50, Infantry;
8:42, Artillery; 1855, Signal Corps radio
telephone demonstration; 900, Fight
of the Lost Battalion
Free parking will be provided for
$500 cars. the management announced
today, and grandstand seats have been
erected to care for a crowd of $4,000,
with no seats reserved. A supper tent
has been provided for those who wish to
purchase their evening meal on the
grounds, and there will be no second
admission charged for those who wish
to come In the afternoon and remain
for the night show.
CONVICTED OF ASSAULT.