The Washington times., 1929-02-26
MIL | | AR !
FORCES
To LEAD
MARCH

inaugural parade plans are
now being whipped into final
shape. Gen. Charles P. Sum-
merall, chief Of staff, q. S. A.,
and grand marshal of the
pageant, announces that in the
first grand division will be
military and naval forces of
the regular services, the Coast
Guard, the National Guard, the
Naval Reserves, and Officers
Reserve Corps
In the regular Army section,
Brig. Gen. H. o. Williams, COM
manding, will be his staff; Third
Battalion, Twelfth Infantry, Major
A. M, Patch, commanding, Fort
washington, Md, Engineer Band;
Thirteenth Engineers, less Second
Battalion, Major Dewitt c. Jones,
commanding, Fort Humphreys, Va;
Third Calvary Band and First Bat.
TALON Sixteenth Field Artillery,
Major Cortland Parker, command
ing, Fort Myer, Va.
Navy Section
The Navy section, commanded by
Brig. Gen. Henry Lee, U. S. M. C.,
win consist of the formers staff,
the Marine Band, a composite Ma
rine regiment, commanded by Col.
Eli T. Fryer, the Navy Band, and
composite bluejacket regiment,
commanded by Capt. Willis Nc
Dowell, United States Navy.
The United States Coast Guard
section, commanded by Lieut..
Comdr. H. G. Bradbury, U. S. c. G.,
will include a staff, the United
States Coast Guard and a composite
| Coast Guard Band and a composite
| Coast Guard battalion.
Mai. Gen. Anton Stephan viii COM
mand the National Guard section,
comprising the staff, the band OF
| the 121st Engineers, Headquarters
| and Headquarters Special Troops,
Twenty-ninth Division; the Twenty
ninth Military Police Company, l2lst
Engineers, Company A, 372d Infan-
try, and the 260th Coast Artillery.
Naval Reserve Section
In the Naval Reserve section. COM
| manded by Lieut.. Comdr. F. Bascom
Smith. U. S. n. r., will be staff
and the First Battalion, District Gf
/ Columbia Naval Reserves.
This division ends with an Officers
Reserve Corps section commanded
4 bv Brig. Gen. John Ross Delafield,
New York, O. r. c.
Second Grand Division
The second grand division will
be headed by DR.. Hubert Work,
chairman of the Republican ma
tional committee. His chief OF
staff is Col. E. G. Peyton, U. S. A.
DR.. Works automobile will be fol
lowed by 200 members of the in
augural committee, 100 members OF
the Republican national committee
100 State chairmen of the Repub
lican national committee, and the
District Commissioners.
The governors section probably
will be larger than in any previous
inaugural procession. Twenty-six in
all, with their staffs, will be In
line.
In the military colleges and
schools section following will be
the Reserve Officers Training
Corps, Infantry unit and band, OF
Georgetown University; r. o. T. C.
Infantry unit of Howard University
the Washington High School Cadets
and band. st. Johns College and
Benedictine High School Cadet
Corps. Richmond.
Then follows the veterans organi
zation section, arranged in this
order of the dates on which they
were founded.
Patriotic Organizations
In the patriotic organizations sec
ton will be the American WaI
Mothers, Sons of the American
Revolution, Military Order o
Loyal Legion, Daughters Of Unior
Veterans of the Civil War, Order
of Ahepa, a delegation of cowboys
in costume, a delegation of $50 In
dians, accompanied by the United
States Indian Band, Tulsa, Okla.
the Boy Scouts of America, accom-
panied by drum and bugle corps
Company G, Third Regiment; Boy.
Brigade, Pittsburgh, Pa, and tn,
, Girl Scouts.
State marching clubs will follow
arranged in order of their entry
: into the Union: Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, New York, Ohio, Texas
Iowa and Kansas.
Air Divisions
The air divisions, which will II,
over the route of parade and pas
the reviewing stand at the Whit,
House in advance of the grounC
parade, will have as their marshal
Brig. Gen. Benjamin D. Foulois, U
S. A. Their sections by station
will be:
Boiling Field, ten observation anC
three pursuit planes; Langley Field
! nine bombers and 10 observation
t planes; Mitchell Field, 10 observation
, planes. The Navy will have min,
observation and nine pursuit plane.
| and the combined Army and Navy
: lighter-than-air division, marshalet
2 by Commander Charles F. Rosen
dahl, U. S. N, will he composed O
: the Los Angeles and two nonrigi;
dirigibles of the Navy, Lakehurst
2 n. j.. and two nonrigid dirigible!
: of the Army, Langley Field, Va.
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