Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-25
VETERANS TO KEEP
TRYST WITH DEAD
March to Arlington Will Fea-
ture Memorial Day
Activities.


Friday, veterans of the Grand Army Of
the Republic and younger men of more
recent wars will assemble at Q O'Clock
on Pennsylvania avenue to participate
in the annual march to Arlington Ma.
tional Cemetery.
President Hoover will be unable to
take part in the exercises at Arlington
as he is to deliver the address at the
Memorial day observance at Gettysburg
In his absence Representative Ernest
w. Gibson OF Vermont, Lieut.. Col. U. S
Grant, Sd, director of public buildings
and public parks, and DR.. Thomas E
Green of the American Red Cross will
be the speakers at the amphitheater
exercises. featuring the Memorial day
program. The exercises in the Airing
ton Amphitheater will begin at O'Clock
in the afternoon.
Judge Hosea B. Moulton, past COM
mander of the G. A. r., Is general
chairman of the committee and presi-
dent of Memorial Day Corporation
Col F. j. Young, commander OF the De-
partment of the Potomac, will call the
assemblage to order.
The annual memorial services of the
Department of the District OF Columbia.
American Legion, covering period OF
several days, started at noon yesterday
with the erection of Flanders Field
cross in front of the District Building
and the playing Of appropriate hymns
on the chimes OF the Church Of the
Epiphany.
Will Decorate Graves.
In the afternoon members of George
WASHINGTON and End Division Posts Will
decorate graves and hold services in
Rock Greek Cemetery. Past Post Comdr.
Charles B. Hanford of George Washing
ton Post Is buried there.
Starting at O'Clock this morning
members of Stephen P. McGroarty, La
fayette and Lincoln Posts will hold serv-
ices at Fort Lincoln Cemetery, followed
with services by Sergt. Jasper Post at
Prospect Hill Cemetery at noon. At the
same hour Vincent B. Costello Post and
Auxiliary and Belleau Wood Post, with
other veteran organizations, will con-
duct services at Mount Olivet Cemetery.
At 3 o'clock this afternoon the Legion
naires will assemble with other veteran
organizations on the grounds Of Wash
ington Cathedral for the massing OF the
colors' service which will be held IN the
open-air amphitheater. The Legion
naires will visit the tomb of Woodrow
Wilson, who was a member OF George
Washington Pest. Their. Department
Comdr. Charles H. Knight will conduct
q brief service and place wreath On
the tomb.
Ouentin Roosevelt Post will visit Bat
tleground National Cemetery at o'clock
this afternoon, and at 8 o'clock this
evening a service will be held in Zion
Baptist Church under auspices OF James
Feese Europe and James E. Walker
Posts with other organizations.
Tomorrow evening at z o'clock Vic
tory Post and Auxiliary will assemble at
Hams Point to place wreath on the
waters Of the Potomac in memory OF
the naval dead. Graves In Holy Rood
and Oak Hill Cemeteries will be deco
rated at o'clock by George E. kiileen
Post and other veteran groups. AT
o'clock peoples and flags will be placed
at the markers on Sixteenth street ex-
tended by the American Gold Star
Mothers, assisted by Comdr. Knight and
Victory and George E. Killeen Posts.
Dill will Be Orator.
Senator C. c. Dill of Washington
will be the orator at the Battle Ground
Cemetery exercises on Memorial DAY.
The program starts at 3:15 o'clock:
cant Herbert Turner will raise the nag
and r. J. r. McElroy will read the
orders of the G.. A. r." DR.. Henry
A. johnson is chairman Of the COM
mittee in charge. Lincoln's Gettys-
burg address will be recited by Talbot
0. Pulizzi as one of the features OF the
program. Music will be furnished by
the Battle Ground Quartet, composed
of Mrs. Thomas H. Mullenberg. Mrs.
Sallie S.. Wilson, L. r. Randolph and
DR.. A. Owen Penny, accompanied by
Harry Wheaton Howard.
The guests Of honor include the Dis
trict Commissioners, Luther II. Reich
Id CrOghv
and Col. william B. Ladue, as well as
other officials, including Senators and
War Department officers. The program
Is under the auspices of the g. A. r.
and the citizens of Brightwood.
Under the direction of Col. e. L. Mat
tice. assistant to the Scout executive,
Boy Scouts of the District Council
will place a wreath on the Spanish War
soldiers graves on Thursday morning.
Scouts will assemble at Fourteenth and
B streets at $50 o'clock for transporta-
ton to Arlington. Decorations Will be
placed, it was announced. rain or shine.
About 400 boys will participate.
Student Body to Honor Dead.
At the Georgetown University Law
School on Memorial day at 10 o'clock
the student body will honor the men,
DRY of approximately so law students
WHO ulco III ccAFlCC OuAh LIB VIC "oAAo
War. George e. Hamilton, dean Of the
law school, and Brig. Gen. Michael j.
Linehan, U. s. A., will make the prin-
cipal addresses. There will be adj
dresses also on behalf Of the senior
class.
Thursday, employees of the Bureau
of Engraving and Printing will hold ex-
ercises in the afternoon under the aus
pieces of the bureaus Legion post.
Washington Kiwanians will hold
service at the Washington Hotel Thurs
day at 1890 o'clock. Jesse H. Binford
Of Richmond, governor of the Capital
Kiwanis district, will be the speaker.
Following this the Kiwanians will motor
to Arlington, where Mr.. Binford will
place wreath on the Tomb Of the I'm
known Soldier in behalf of Kiwanis
International. Graves Of deceased
members of the Washington club also
will ha dororofod