Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-30
Veterans and Citizens Join
in Solemn Tributes
to Hero Dead.
ARLINGTON is MECCA
FOR MOST OF PILGRIMS
Sergt. Younger, Who Dropped First
Wreath to Designate Unknown
Soldier, Participating Today.

Led by the remnants of the Grand
Army of the Republic, the Capita
bowed its head today at the blossom.
banked sepulchres of the Nations mill.
tary dead-known and unknown.
BY the simple gesture of a tenderly
placed wreath, the stirring eulogy of ar
inspired voice and the plaintive note:
OF the soldiers requiem, TAPS" rev.
erent ranks Of citizens and uniformed
forces Joined solemnly in an impressive
tribute to those who died in Their
country's defense.
Arlington Is Mecca.
Arlington was the mecca of a ma
Jority of the pilgrims, but all day long
other groups of men, women and chill
dren wended their way to far-flune
shrines of the dead-from the heights
OF Mount st. Alban, where Americas
World War President lies at rest, to
the isolated graves of less distinguished
patriots in scattered cemeteries.
President Hoover journed to the mon
ument-studded farm fields of Gettys-
burg, where special ceremonies were
planned on the site made famous by
Lincoln with his immortal battlefield
address. While the trip necessitated the
Presidents absence from the afternoon
rites in the Arlington Amphitheater, in
terest in the ceremonies at the Tomb of
the Unknown Soldier was heightened
this year by the presence of Sergt. Ed
ward S. Younger, the man who selected
the body which lies enshrined there.
Sergt. Younger Participating.
Sergt. Younger, now a mail clerk in
Chicago, was to re-enact this afternoon
the breathless scene nine years ago in
q makeshift chapel in Chalons-Sur-
Marine, when he dropped wreath of
roses on one Of four casketS and
designated for all time the unidentified
soldier who was to become a national
symbol of patriotism.
Wreaths previously had been laid or
the marble tomb by the American
Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars
and the Disabled American Veterans.
A colorful and touching preliminary
to the Arlington services was the an
nual Memorial day mobilization OF the
aging veterans Of the Civil War. Weak
ened In body by the ravages of time,
but stin possessed of the spirit which
carried them to victory in pattle, the
broken ranks staged anew the trium-
plant march Of the Grand Army on
Pennsylvania avenue. The faded blue
forces were augmented by evteranS OF
the Spanish and World Wars.
Reluctantly the proud marchers Of
the G. A. r. ended their procession at
downtown street railway terminal and
Boarded special cars which carried them
% the gates of Arlington.
Floral Offerings Distributed.
Upon arrival in the beautiful cenie-
terry across the Potomac, the veterans
again formed their files and collabo-
rated with the Woman's Relief Corps,
Of the G. A. r. and other auxiliaries IN
honoring the memory of the unknown
soldiers of the Civil War. Floral offer
ings were laid at the monument mark
ing the tomb of the Civil War heroes.
Lieut.. Col. u. S. Grant, Sd, grandson
of the noted Union commander, was
among those scheduled to address the
crowds which assembled early for the
ceremonies in the amphitheater. Sena-
tor Robinson of Indiana and Repre-
sentative Gibson Of Vermont also were
to speak.
The Arlington services were to begin
promptly at l O'Clock, with Hosea B.
Moulton, past department commander
of the q. A. r., presiding. Marking the
program will be a color ceremony and
salute, solos by well known artists, APP
propriate selections by the Marine
Band, reading of Lincoln's Gettysburg
address, and Gen. John A. LoganiS
order establishing Memorial day, and
prayers by Rev. Jason Noble Pierce.
pastor of the First Congregational
Church, and Rev. Francis J. Hurney,
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