Evening star., 1932-04-04
b,ODO TO MARCH
| IN C|TY'S GREATEST
| ARMY DAY PARADE
Erection of Reviewing Stands
for Wednesday Pageant
Gets Under Way.
88 UNITS AND SCORE
OF BANDS TO BE IN LINE
President to View Spectacle on
Constitution Avenue-War Moth
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MOIc bIldl iOsUUU udTcnerS are eX-
pected 10 take part in the mammoth
Army day parade down Pennsylvania
avenue Wednesday, according to Spon-
sors of the event, who indicated it would
be one OF the outstanding military and
civic demonstrations to take place in the
Capital in recent years.
Planned as an integral part of the
Districts program for the celebration
of the George Washington Bicentennial,
the day will mark on an elaborate scale
the fifteenth anniversary of this coun-
try's entry into the World War. The
event IS under the joint auspices OF the
District and United States Bicentennial
Commissions and the Military Order Of
the World War
Erection of reviewing stands on both
sides of Pennsylvania avenue and at
points on Fifteenth street and Consti-
tuition avenue, which form the route of
the parade, began this morning.
Seats for $4,000.
Approximately $4,000 spectators can
be accommodated in these stands, ac-
cording to the District Bicentennial
Commission, which is handling reServa-
tionS for seats. General admission
charges for the stands will be so cents
and 81, while reserved sections will be
81 and 81. Children will be admitted to
the stands at half price.
The marching column in which SO
units and nearly score of bands and
drum and fife corps will participate,
will require approximately two and one
half hours to pass a given point.
President Hoover and members Of his
cabinet as well as other distinguished
guests will review the parade from
special stand on Constitution avenue
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High officials Of the Army, Navy and
Marine Corps invited to review the
march include Gen. John ]. Pershing,
Admiral william S. Sims, q. s. NJ, re-
tired; Admiral william s. Benson, U.
S. N, retired; Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur, chief of staff of the Army:
Lieut.. Gen. Hunter Liggett, Lieut.. Gen.
Robert l.. Bullard, Maj. Gen. Hugh L.
Scott, Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune, Maj.
Gen. James G. Harbord, Brig Gen.
| Charles G. Dawes, Maj. Gen. Mark L.
Hersey, Maj. Gen. Joseph E. Kuhn,
| Maj. Gen. Hanson Ely, Brig. Gen. and
Mrs. John Ross Delafield, Capt. and
Mrs. John Parker Hill, Maj. Gen.
| Clarence G. williams and Maj. Gen.
johnson Hagood.
Malone Grand Marshal.
Mai. Gen. Paul B. Malone VIII be
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| form on New Jersey avenue southeast
/ and contiguous streets at 1880 O'Clock.
| The column will begin moving at
o'clock, when it will round the Capitol
Plaza, where members Of Congress will
review it. Turning down the driveway
of the Capitol Grounds north OF the
Senate, the parade will swing into
Pennsylvania avenue at the Peace Mon
ument and proceed to Fifteenth street.
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south to Constitution avenue and then
west, disbanding at Seventeenth street
and Constitution avenue.
Brig. Gen. Delafield is commander IN
chief Of the Military Order Of the World
War. With him in the reviewing stand
will be Maj Edwin s. Bethlehem, who
has been in active charge of arrange
ments for the parade.
In announcing the program OF ar
rangements and policing Of the event,
Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford, chief
Supt. E. w. Brown will have super
vision of police handling the parade.
He will be assisted by inspectors o. T.
Davis, A. j. Headley and T. r. Bean.
No vehicular traffic will be permitted
anywhere on the parade route after
las O'Clock, and street car traffic on
Pennsylvania avenue between Fiji
teenth street and the Peace Monument
will be suspended after 1:55 pm.
Buses to Be Rerouted.
North and south bound street cars
will be permitted to cross the Avenue,
however, when they will not interfere
with the parade. Buses also will be
rerouted after so O'Clock. Nearly 500
police will be scattered about the area
OF the parade to carry out police orders
Organizations participating in the
parade will march in four divisions. The
first of these will include units of the
Army, Navy and Marine Corps; second,
the National Guard and Organized
Reserves; third, cadets, headed by the
Georgetown University contingent, un-
der Maj. w. H. Hobson, and fourth,
veteran and patriotic organizations, un-
der Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries.
With the second division of the pa
rade composed entirely of Organized
Reserve Units, Col. j. Miller Kenyon,
president of the Reserve Officers Asso-
citation of the District, today urged the
attendance of every man in the organ
ization. There will be ample room In
the parade, he said, for all members of
the Officers Reserve Corps. He has
issued instructions to the members of
the Reserve Officers Association to as
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nue. southeast at 1870 pm. They will
be Immediately in the rear of the Or
ganized Reserve units which will be
commanded by Col. Leroy w. Heron.
Reserve Officers to Mass.
Col. Kenyon has asked all Reserve
officers of the Army who are in Wash
ington and who do not intend to parade
with other organizations also to as
semble with the members of the Dis
trict association.
The members Of the District Of Co
lumbia Commandery of the Military
Order Of Foreign Wars will fall in the
parade with members of the Military
Order of the World War. Mai. Paul j.
McGahan, commander OF the District
of Columbia Commandery, has issued
the necessary instructions.
For the first time in a parade, the
American War Mothers will carry the
American service flag. The flag is the
one which Is flown from the dome Of
the Capitol each Armistice day. The
War Mothers will be In automobiles
and will take their places with veterans
who assemble at Garfield Park, First
and r streets southeast at 80 O'Clock.
Word has been received from the
superintendents Of Washington,s trac-
ton lines that each street car viii
carry little American flags as q part of
the general decoration scheme