The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-11
CITY HONORS
WAR DEAD IN
FITTING RITES
Eleventh Anniversary of
ArmiStiCe Day Signal
for Celebration.
THOUSANDS IN PARADE
Eight Sections of Military,
Civic, FraternaI Units
Form MarCherS.

Citizenry Of Indianapolis Joined
hands today with the rest of the
world in celebrating the eleventh
anniversary of peace.
Although the echo of the World
wars last cannon fire on a distant
battle front has died long since.
ArmiStice day was observed on a
worldwide scale, and in Indianapo-
lis with spirit of reverence for the
thousands Of soldiers who gave their
lives in the conflict.
The sound of the bugle and the
rattle of drums in a giant parade
through downtown Indianapolis
marked the citys rejoicing over the
end of the war, while ceremonies
honoring the city'S war dead held
plea for continued peace among
nations.
Fortune Is Speaker
William Fortune, president Of the
American Peace Society, spoke
from the Circle monument. His adj
dress, broadcast from radio station
WFBM, enumerated events of the
World war and sounded a plea for
world peace.
1.-THE world has Striven, these
eleven years to find a basis of mu-
tual understanding, he said. when
the armiStice came it found a de-
mand for revenge and g hatred.
Little by little vision cleared.
Hearts were cleansed of hatred, and
the desire for revenge against peo-
pie who had been mislead, became
fainter and fainter each year.
GAS the victors went back to peace
pursuits, they discovered that q
black trail of disaster follows VIC
tory no less than it follows defeat,
The cost in men and misery no hui
man mind can compute and thus
we have been more eager during the
succeeding decade, to resolve it must
never happen again"
Band of 400 Pieces
Ceremonies began at 10 a. m. as
the parade passed down Meridian
street from Et. Clair street to the
Monument Circle. There, at 1920,
exercises were opened with the
martial air "Stars and Stripes For
ever" by a massed band of 400
pieces. Invocations we're pro-
nounced by the Rev Michael w.
Lyons, pastor of Our Lady Of
Lourdes Catholic church.
Loud speakers we're used around
the Circle, permitting thousands of
spectators to hear the ceremonies.
At a reviewing stand on the south
steps of the monument where the
parade passed in review, were
Major General Dennis E. Nolan,
commanding officer of the Fifth
army corps area and former head
of the intelligence division of the
A. E. F. With him we're Mayor L.
Ert Slack, James F. Barton, national
adjutant of the American Legion;
Major General Robert H. TyndalI,
commanding officer of the Thirty
eighth division, and DR.. Carleton B.
McCulloch, chairman of the COM
mittee on distinguished guests.
Benediction BY Rabbi
Memorial rites following the re-
view were conducted by the Rev.
Thomas R. White, pastor of the
Meridian Heights Presbyterian
church. The Rabbi M. M. Feuer-
LIGHT of the Indianapolis Hebrew
Congregation pronounced benedic-
ton.
About five thousand persons par
ticipated in the parade, which was
divided into eight sections, the first
in commend of Police Chief Claude
M. Worley, and headed by Colonel
A. J Dougherty, chief of staff Of the
Eighty-fourth division, and Bowman
Elder, chief of staff.
Police post, American legion, with
a motorcycle and mounted detach-
ment, broke path for the parade.
In the second section, under COM
mand of Colonel H. P. Hobbs, was
the Eleventh infantry band, United
States marine detachment, United
States navy detachment, a provi-
sional battalion of the Indiana ma
tional guard and the United States
reserves.
In the third section were members
Of the Grand Army of the Republic,
Disabled War Veterans, American
War Mothers, Daughters of the
American Revolution, Daughter Of
the Confederacy, all conveyed in
autos. A drum corps and the Indi-
ana Central college band preceded
the section.
FraternaI Groups March
Colonel Robert L. Moorehead COM
manded the fourth section. COM
posed of fraternal organizations.
Uniformed bodies Of De Molay,
Eagles, Masonic order, the Moose
and Red Men were among the par
ticpating orders.
Following was the civic section,
commanded by Felix M. McWhirter
and led the Butler university sixty
piece band. Floats Of business houses
and civic organizations were In
cluded.
r. o. T. C. sections from Indian
apolis high schools, with the Amer
lean Red Cross, Boy Scouts, Camp
Fire Girls and Girl Reserves COM
posed remaining section.
The days ceremonies were TO be
concluded with an American, Legion