Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-17
1900 VETERANS
TOATTENDREUN|ON
OF 10Th DIVISION
Vanguard Arriving for Tenth
Annual Reunion, Which viii
Continue Four Days.
BUSINESS AND SOCIAL
| PROGRAM ELABORATE
Commissioner Taliaferro to Extend
Welcome at Raleigh Mon
day Morning.

The vanguard of the 5000 veterans of
the 80th Division of the American forces
of the World War expected here was
arriving in Washington today for the
tenth annual reunion of the Goth Divi-
sion Association, which will begin a
four-day session at the Raleigh Hotel
tomorrow. The reunion brings members
OF the division from all of the States
in the Union and several foreign coun-
tries, but draws most of its member
ship from Virginia. Maryland and Penn
Sylvanla, from which sections its per-
sonnet was built during the war.
The reunion formally opens with a
public memorial service in the amphi-
theater in Arlington National Cemetery
starting at o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
The time Of this service has been
changed, it was announced today at
reunion headquarters in the Raleigh,
from 8 O'Clock. in the belief that the
weather conditions will be more suitable
Tor the ceremony at the later hour.
Unit Reunions Tomorrow.
Aside from the memorial service. to-
morrow will be given over to individual
unit reunions, private parties and sight
seeing. At 10 o'clock tomorrow evening
there will be meeting of the execu-
tive council of the division association
to map out the plans for the business
meetings Of the association which will
be held Monday, Tuesday and Wednes-
day.
At the memorial service, Lieut. Frank
Schoble, jr, who was blinded in action
with the division, and who is a past
president of the association, will make
the principal address. Representative
Stephen G. Porter of Pittsburgh, who
was to have been speaker at the cere-
I1nc 6na H.
of town. The Army Band will furnish
the music for the service ard wreaths
will be placed on the tombs of the IN
known Soldier and of Brig. Gen. Lloyd
M. Brett. also former president of the
association. Col Earl D. Church of
Washington, is slated to address the
memorial service gathering and the
benediction will be pronounced by the
Rev. Thomas w. Hooper of Culpeper,
Va, who commanded a unit of the
division during the war and earned the
nickname of fighting parson."
Mount Vernon Trip Planned.
Monday morning at 10 o'clock the
first business session of the reunion will
be held at the Raleigh, and the vet
Grams will be welcomed to the Capital
by Commissioner Sidney A. Taliaferro.
Committees will be appointed and the
general business of the reunion will be
transacted. At noon there will be a
joint luncheon of the executive coun-
Gil and the history committee. At 12:45
the veterans will leave the Raleigh for
trip to Mount Vernon. The rest of
the day will be given over to individual
unit reunions and parties
On Tuesday there will be a business
session beginning at 10 o'clock in the
morning, a monkey drill exhibition at
the riding hall at Fort Myer at o'clock,
reception for the wives of the visiting
veterans at the Raleigh at 4:30 o'clock
and at Z O'Clock the annual divisional
banquet will be held at the Raleigh.
Boiling Field flyers will give the
veterans an exhibition of stunt flying
and parachute jumping at 10 O'Clock
Wednesday morning. The final business
session, at which time officers will be
elected and new committees appointed,
will be held at Q o'clock Wednesday
afternoon. At o'clock the old and new
executive council members will hold a
joint meeting and the annual divisional
ball at 9 o'clock will close the reunion.