Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-17
.FIDAC DELEGATES
TO Be GIVEN ROYAL
CAPITAL WELCOME
Three Bands to Escort Vet
Grams From Union Station
to Breakfast.
GROUP WILL VISIT TOMB
OF UNKNOWN SOLDIER
Plenary Session to Open at 2:30 in
Continental Memorial Hall
With Official Greetings.

Maj. Julius I. Peyser of Washington.
vice president of Fidac for the United
States, will return here from New York
tomorrow morning with the dis
tinguished foreign guests and delegates
to the eleventh annual congress of the
allied veterans. whose sessions will be
resumed in the National Capital.
washington will match New Yorks
nearly welcome to the veterans of 10
nations upon their arrival at Union
Station at 1885 am. tomorrow. High
civic leaders and legionnaires, headed
by the United States Army Band and
the bands of Costello and Victory posts
OF the American Legion, will greet the
veterans at the station and escort them
to breakfast and later to their re-
spective hotels, where they will be per-
mitted brief period of rest.
The round of entertainment will end
ohclally in New York tonight, when
the delegates will be the guests OF
Mayor James ]. Walker at a formal
dinner. They will leave for Washing
ton on special train at 2 am. Mai.
Peyser, prominent in Legion circles.
was member of the official welcoming
committee upon the arrival Of the Fidac
delegates in New York last Monday.
win Visit Arlington.
After breakfast here, the Fidac group
viii visit Arlington National Cemetery
Tor a ceremony before the Tomb Of the
Unknown Soldier Of the World War.
This ceremony will be expressive of the
homage of 100000 veterans of the
allied nations, who constitute the mem
bership Of the Fidac. The Fidac Aux
iliary, representing a membership Of
$4,000 women, also will be represented
The plenary session of the congress
Will OPEN at 2:30 O'Clock in Continental
Memorial Hall. There will be an invo-
cation by Rev. Francis H. Hurney and
addresses of welcome by Maj. o. L.
Bodenhamer, national commander of
the American Legion, whose member
ship comprises the American section Of
Fidac; Mrs. Lowell P. Hobart, presi-
dent general of the Daughters of the
American Revolution; Maj. Gen. Her
bert B. Crosby, representing the Dis
trict Commissioners, and Mrs. Donald
Macrae, national president of the
American Legion Auxiliary.
White House Reception Planned.
The principal event in the afternoon
is to be the White House reception at
5 o'clock, when the President and Mrs.
Hoover will receive the distinguished
delegates and guests. some of whom are
members of the parliamentS of their
respective countries. At $3.50 o'clock in
the evening, Gen. John j. Pershing will
be host at a dinner at the Wardman
Park Hotel. Maj. Bodenhamer, Col.
Thad H. Brown, general counsel of the
Federal Radio Commission, and repre-
sentative of the French government,
will be the speakers. Tomorrow, the day
Of arrival here, has been dedicated TO
France.
The events Of Friday viii be dedi-
Gated to Great Britain. Assistant Score
tary of the Navy Jahncke will make the
principal address at the congress ses-
sion in the morning. At q luncheon at
the Mayfower the delegates win be ad-
dressed by Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries and
then will be taken on a sightseeing trip
OF the city and on visit to Mount
Vernon and Alexandra.
Secretary of War Patrick j. Hurley
IS to be the official host Friday evening,
the delegates having been invited to a
dinner at the Congressional Country
Club. Besides Secretary Hurleys re-
marks, there will be addresses by DR..
Thomas H. Healey, assistant dean of
Georgetown University School of Foreign
Service, who was an Artillery officer
during the World War, and a represent
alive Of Great Britain.
Fidac Awards to Be Presented.
Presentation of the Fidac awards will
be made Saturday morning at 10 o'clock
by Brig. Gen. L. r. Gignilliat, followed
by luncheon at the Washington Hotel,
when Col. j. Miller Kenyon will speak.
The final business session of the Fidac
Congress will be held in the afternoon
with an election of officers This will
be followed in the evening with din
ner at the Willard Hotel, at which Sec
rotary of State Stimson is to be the
host. Saturday is dedicated to Italy
and a representative Of that government
will speak.
The nation of the day on Sunday will
be Poland. At IL O'Clock the delegates
will attend special services at the
Washington Cathedral and will place a
wreath on the tomb of Woodrow Will
son, Americas war President, who is
buried in Bethlehem Chapel.
Following luncheon at which As
sistant Secretary of the Navy Jahncke
and a representative of Poland will
speak, the delegates will journey to An
napolis to visit the United States Naval
Academy. They will leave Washington
that night for short tour of the East
before returning to New York
Police Escort Arranged.
Police arrangements for escorting
delegates to the Fidac Convention were
completed today by Capt L. I. A. Ed
wards, personnel officer Of the Police
Department.
A detail of motor cycle officers will
meet the delegates when they arrive
at Union Station tomorrow morning at
7:35 O'Clock and escort them to the viii
lard and Carlton Hotels. Captains of
the first, third, sixth and fourteenth
precincts were instructed to carry out
the police arrangements.
The delegates will be taken from the
station to the two hotels in rs autonno-
bleS. The procession will be headed bv
the police motor cycle escort