Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-17
EXERCISES MAPPED
FOR MEMORIAL DAY
Lone Survivor of "LasI
Mans Club" to Attend
Arlington Ceremonies.

Capt Charles M. Lockwood, lone
survivor of THE Last Mans Club" of
Civil War fame, has accepted an invi-
tation to attend the sixty-third annual
Memorial day exercises at Arlington
National Cemetery and will occupy a
seat in the rostrum on that occasion.
Assembly" will be sounded by a
bugler from the United States Marine
Band at 12:45 o'clock, to be followed
by an overture by the United States
Marine Band. Dept. Comdr. Samuel
@. Mawson of the Grand Army of
the Republic will call the assemblage
to order and introduce James c..
Yaden, past department commander of
the United Spanish War Veterans and
president of the Memorial Day Corpora
ton, who will preside over the exercises.
Miss Jeanette E. McCaffrey will
sing THE Star Spangled Banner" fol-
lowed by the presentation Of the colors
by Percy Parker. Sons of Veterans, and
salute to the flag and pledge of al
legience. Rev. Howard E. Snyder,
chaplain of the District of Columbia
Department of the American Legion,
will pronounce the invocation.
Drain to Deliver Address.
Lee T. Turner, department COM
mander of the Disabled American Vet
Grams. will read Gen. Logan's order
establishing Memorial day, after which
Mrs. Elsie Jorss Kelley, president Of
Federal Auxiliary, Veterans of Foreign
Wars, will sing the official song of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars, sleep, Sol
der Boy" Past Dept. Comdr. Har-
Ian Wood of the American Legion
will recite "Lincoln's Gettysburg Ad-
dress" Miss Ruby Smith Stahl will sing
The ReceSsional," at the conclusion OF
which Gen. James A. Drain, past ma
tional commander of the Legion and
past department commander of the
District Of Columbia, will deliver an
address. Mrs. Gertrude Lyons will fol-
low with solo. Soldiers Day Is at
It's Close" Representative Royal G.
Johnson of South Dakota and chair
man of the World War Veterans Legis-
lation Committee of the House. will
make an address and Miss Dorothy
Sherman Pierson will sing There Is No
Death"
After remarks by William L. Thomas,
department commander Of the Vet
Grams Of Foreign Wars, Rev. v. C.
Anderson, department chaplain, Vet
Grams of Foreign Wars, will pronounce
the benediction and the audience will
America" The United States Marine
Eand will play the Accomplishments to
the various singers on the program.
Parade Starts at 10 O'Clock.
The annual parade will start from
Ninth street and Pennsylvania avenue
at 10 o'clock, the route beng along
Pennsylvania avenue west to Fifteenth
street, thence south CT the Treasury
Building; north on the west side of
the Treasury to Pennsylvania avenue;
west on Pennsylvania avenue to Seven
tenth street and south on Seventeenth
street, disbanding at Seventeenth and
E streets.
The formation of line win be as fol-
Jews: Mounted police escort; United
States Marine Band; Grand Marshal
McCaffrey; Grand Army of the Re-
public; Dept. Comdr. Samuel G. Nav
son and staff, G. A. r.; post depart
ment commanders, G. A. r.: Grand
Army of the Republic posts; United
Spanish War Veterans, department
commander and staff United Spanish
War Veterans camps; Veterans of
Foreign Wars, department commander
and staff, led by the Veterans of For
eign Wars Overseas Band and Drum
Corps; Veterans Of Foreign Wars posts;
the American Legion, department COM
mander and staff; American Legion
posts; Disabled American Veterans Of
the World War, department COM
mander and stan; Disabled American
Veterans of the World War chapters;
National Indian War Veterans; the
Indian War Veterans; the American
Veterans of Hellenic Descent.
The aides to Grand Marshal McCaf-
frey viii be william H. McGrath,
American Legion, and George w. Phil
lips, Disabled American Veterans.