Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-06
.ashington, BaM-
more andSavannah
to Observe Anni-
.versary of Death
Of Polish Leader Of
american Ca0ahy
.Who Ga0eLife at
Southern City,
Fighting for Free
dom on This Con-
tineNt.
BY FLOYD MONTGOMERY.

--HREE American cities will observe ON
October 9 and IL, the 150th ami
versary of the death Of Count Casimir
Pulaski, daring Pole, who, as first
commander of American cavalry, gave
his life to the cause Of American liberty, after
having fought vainly for freedom in his own
land.
death wound will observe the date of October 9
with double ceremonies in commemoration of
the battle of Savannah and the fatal wound
ing of Pulaski
Baltimore will pay its respects to Pulaski Oc-
tober IL, the date of his death. The Baltimore
ceremonies are founded on the fact that Pula-
ski recruited his Pulaski legion" in that city
and that the legion was largely composed of
Marylanders.
washington, the site of the $4,000 memo
rial to Pulaski, will observe the anniversary of
his death october II, with ceremonies nearly
approaching those of May 10, 1911, when the
equestrian statue of the famous Pole was UNI
yelled in the triangle formed by Pennsylvania
avenue, E and Thirteenth streets.
The people Of the United States have been
asked, in a proclamation issued by President
Hoover, to take part in the anniversary cere-
monies concentrating Pulaskis death. The
United States Pulaski Sesquicentennial Com
mission was created by Congress to insure the
success Of the triple celebration. The Ameri-
can Legion, the Daughters Of the American
Revolution, the Sons of the American Revolu-
ton, other patriotic organizations and great
number of Polish SOCIETIES and organizations are
. cooperating.
Col. Paul " McNutt, national commander of
the American Legion, is chairman; Mrs. Lowell
F. Hobart, president general of the D. A. r.,
is vice chairman, and Tytus Filopowicz, Polish
Minister to the United States, is honorary
chairman of the National Pulaski Memorial
Commission.
AN official mission from the Polish Republic.
designed by President L Mosccki, will make
Pulaski pilgrimage to America, while school
children throughout Poland will study the life
Of, and be taught to revere, the man who once
was banished from their land.
The governors of eight American States have
accepted membership on the national memorial
commission. They are Franklin D. Roosevelt
of New York, John S. Fisher of Pennsylvania,
Walter Kohler of Wisconsin Myers Y. Cooper
OF Ohio, Albert c. Richie of Maryland, Fred
w. Green of Michigan Frank G. Allen of
Massachusetts and Morgan F. Larson of New
Jersey.
The Coast Guard patrol boat Pulaski will take
the mission from Poland to the approximate
place IN the Atlantic Ocean where Pulaskis
body was consigned to the waves $50 years ago,
so THAT wreath may be dropped upon the
waters.
The patrol boat Pulaski is the successor to
the cutter Pulaski, which saw almost continu-
delS service from the time of the War of 1872
until the Civil War. The new Pulaski was
launched in 1927.
Paul Claudel, French Ambassador to the
United States accompanied by Comdr. Louis
Sable, the French naval attache, will attend
the memorial celebration at Savannah, in
Difference to the French troops that comprised
more than so per cent of the attacking force
In the seige of that city.
French cavalry troops formed part of Pula-
skis command while a landing force from a
French feet under Vice Admiral Count
DEStaing outnumbered tsle American land
forces in the battle.