Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-29
ARMY OF SCOUTS
.DECORATES GRAVES
OF HEROIC DEAD
KiwanianS, Engraving Bu-
reau and Printing Office Hold
Ceremonies Today.
ADDRESSES BY TYDINGS
AND SUMMERALL HEARD
Pilgrimages to Arlington and
Mount St. Alban Are Included
in Tomorrow's Program.

spring blossoms or American flags
rested reverently today on all the graves
in Arlington National Cemetery. where
tomorrow comrades of the fallen hosts
Will pay their annual Memorial day
tribute to the Nations heroic dead.
The preliminary decoration of the
graves was carried out by an army of
several hundred Boy Scouts, who as
sembled across the Potomac early this
morning under the direction of Col.
e. l.. Mattice, assistant TO the local
Scout executive.
The boys, solemnly cognizant of the
important privilege, placed carnations
on the graves Of all Spanish War
soldiers and flags on all the other plots.
special memorial services were spon.
sored today by the Kiwanis Club and by
employees OF the Government Printing
once and the Bureau Of Engraving and
Printing.
Kiwanians Hold Service.
The Kiwanians held their annual
service in honor Of deceased members
at the Washington Hotel early this
afternoon, with Jesse H. Binford of
Richmond, governor of the local
k1wanis district, as the speaker. Fol-
lowing the meeting the members mo-
tored to Arlington, where Mr.. Binford
placed wreath on the Tomb of the
Unknown Soldier in behalf of Kiwanis
International.
A committee consisting of Past Presi-
dent Edgar Morris, Edwin H. Etz and
Dewey Zirkin decorated the graves Of
late members of the club. The list Of
men so honored included Samuel Nil.
Ter, Elmer Simpson, William H. Warner.
Perry B. Turpin, Arthur Kimball.
Lawrence Barr, Franc Sherry, Edwin F.
Cook, Achille Burklin, Alfred Hiebie.
Frank Wagner, James A. Kelliher, Rob-
ert s. Downs, Roy L. Neuhauser, George
HUBBARD, Samuel Clark, Willard Track.
sr. Lincoln Townsend. Charles Murray,
Randall Parsons, Ivan Weld, pearce
Raynor. Baker Weaver and Daniel Sui
Ivan. The graves of Charles Mitchell.
st. Cloud, Mimi; william w. Towson.
Baltimore, and Paul j. McFadden, Nv.
ack, N. Y, will be decorated by clubs in
those cities at the request Of the WASH
tngton club.
Senator Tydings Speaks.
Senator Willard F. Tydings of Mary.
land delivered a Memorial address at
the annual services this afternoon at
the Bureau Of Engraving and Printing,
under auspices of the bureau post OF
the American Legion. Alvin w. Hail.
director of the bureau; Paul j. MEGA
han, national executive committeeman
OF the District department of the Lee
g1on, and James F.. Kehoe, commander
OF the Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing Post, also spoke. Invocation and
benediction were offered by Rev. How
ard E. Snyder, chaplain of the District
department. Mrs. Elsie Hart, Soloist,
and the orchestra of the Marine Band
contributed a musical program. The
service closed with taps, sounded by
Arthur s. Witconb, second leader of the
Marine Band
The program was arranged by q
committee headed by Francis F. Mil
Ter and including William H. Dobbins,
Martin A. Dyer, Buena v. Pagan,
Leonard H. johnson, James F. Kehoe,
Hugh M. Marsh, Thomas A. Nc
Donougn: Vincent j. Orlando and
Eulogies we're paid the bureaus hon.
ored dead who included James r.
Goggins, William p. Slattery, Thomas
E. Fiddell, Richard A. Purcell, John
M Cooney, Clarence O'Connell and
Francis ]. Osterman.
Maj. Gen. Charles p. Summerail,
ChiSl VI SCdII Oh the Army, was the
principal speaker at the exercises in
Harding Hall of the Government Print
ing Office later in the afternoon. The
program is in charge of the United
States Veterans of American Wars. All
employees of the Office are attending.
The orchestra of the Army Band q
furnishing the music.
Hoover to Be Away Tomorrow.
President Hoover will be absent from
the national memorial ceremonies at
Arlington tomorrow, as he will journey
to Gettysburg to take part in the serv-
ices there. Otherwise the Capital will
carry out as usual its annual COM
munion for the dead Of all wars, marked
by the customary pilgrimages to the
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in
Arlington. the tombs Of Woodrow Wilson
and Admiral George Dewey at Mount
st. Alban, and to the scattered graves Of
the rank and file in various cemeteries.
Early in the day the surviving vete-
rams of the Civil War, augmented by
younger veterans of later conflicts, will
once more their depleted ranks
and march proudly on Pennsylvania
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