Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-11

rial services broadcast over q Nation
wide radio hook-up.
The colorful National Guard display
at the Capitol this morning were par
ticipated in by the musical units and
color guards Of the 260th Coast Artil-
lery, the 121st Engineers and Company
A, 37th and 29th Military Police COM
panies. Sergt. Henry LoveleSs, bugler
various calls. ~
PeIshing TO Send Message.
The $4,000 posts of 1.-THE American
Legion throughout the country, num-
bering some $4,000 was veteran mem
bers, will be listening in tonight for the
Armistice day messages which Presi-
dent Hoover and their national COM
mander, Mai. Bodenhamer, will deliver
at one of the largest mass meetings
ever held in Washington. From 8:15
o'clock to $3.50 o'clock the program at
the Washington Auditorium, under the
auspices of the American Legion, will
be carried to countless thousands by the
widest radio hook-up ever established.
A message from Gen. John j. Pershing,
who led the armies of America during
the World War, will be transmitted to
the great throng inside and outside the
AuultOKAuh ny AuSdAIS Vi GAC AdAAo-
atlantic program.
Amplifers have been erected by the
Army Signal Corps in the park adjoin-
ing the Auditorium for the $4,000 peo-
pie who are expected to congregate out
side the building. Every seat inside will
be occupied. The service will be heard
in Washington over Stations WMAL
and WRC. This will be the second pro-
gram of its kind held by the Legion.
Assembled to hear the President and
the national commander will be one of
the most distinguished audiences ever
gathered under one roof in Washing
ton. Virtually all the members Of the
cabinet, the United States Supreme
Court and diplomatic corps will be pres
ent. High officers of the Army, Navy
and Marine Corps also will be among
the guests. Other Government officials,
members of the Senate and House of
Representatives and representatives Of
practically every patriotic organization
In the Capital will help swell the ranks.
HOover's Address Significant.
Special significance is attached to
the message which President Hoover is
to deliver in view of the recent visit
here of Ramsay Macdonald, the British
prime minister, in the interest of dis
armament.
Holders of reserved tickets are re-
quested to present themselves early so
that all may be seated promptly with
out confusion.
The American Legion's Armistice day
committee consists of John Thomas
Unmacht, Theodore CoggSwell, Paul j.
McGahan, Walter o. Woods and Francis
F. Miller. They arranged all the
Legion observances for today and to-
night.
McNutt to Introduce Hoover.
Maj. L. E. Adkins, department COM
mander of the District, will present
Past National Comdr. Paul v. McNutt
at the opening of the exercises this
evening, and he, in turn, will introduce
President Hoover and Comdr. Boden-
hamer and the Rev. George F. Kettell
OF New York, national chaplain, who
will deliver the invocation. The Army
Band will furnish the music.
The presentation of the colors, an in
spring sight, will be feature of the
elaborate ceremony. Victory Post, No. 4,
with its 50-piece bugle and drum corps.
will lead in this event. This is the
champion bugle and drum corps of the
District, Maryland and Virginia. The
corps led the Legion parade at the re-
cent Louisville convention. Its drum
major is Jack Carroll and its instructor
Is Sergt. John Kelly.
Earlier in the day at Arlington, the
American Legion committee had placed
wreaths upon the tomb of the Unknown
Soldier, in which local posts repre-
sented by their color guards also par
ticipated Music was supplied by the
drum and bugle corps of the Vincent B.
Costello Post. A feature of these cere-
monies was the placing of wreath in
behalf of the American War Mothers
by Mrs. william Hamilton Bailey Of st.
Louis and star by Mrs James Gordon
Seibold, president of the American
Gold Star Mothers.
Members and officers of George
washington Post, No. /, of which presi-
dent Wilson was member, will take
part in the Wilson memorial exercises
this afternoon.
Many Ceremonies Held.
Many and varied were the ceremonies
held throughout the day both at Arling-
ton and elsewhere. Students OF Central