Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-09-25
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YORKTOWN EVENT.
151st Anniversary of Begin.
ming of Siege There Will
Be Marked Saturday.

The District of Columbia Society OF
the Sons of the American Revolution
next Saturday will celebrate the 151st
anniversary Of the beginning Of the
siege of Yorktown. Later in the month
the anniversary of the battle will be
commemorated in Paris by members Of
the National Society Of the Daughters
of the American Revolution.
AS feature timely to the beginning
of Navy month Secretary Of the Navy
Adams will speak on the influence that
sea power had in the American victory.
The exercises will take place on the
lawn of the national headquarters OF
the Sons of the American Revolution,
1927 Sixteenth street.
A pageant of State flags, carried by
members of the society dressed in Con-
tinental uniforms and directed by A. A.
Hoffman. will open the program. Spe-
cial attention will be given to display
of the new District of Columbia flag.
adopted lust before >the Bicentennial
celebration began. The pageant will be
headed by Mai. c.. c. Griggs, assisted
by Henry Whitefield Samson. 1t will
be followed by the color guard OF the
National Society, composed Of four past
presidents, Albert D. Spangler, Selden
Marvin Ely. Kenneth S. Wales and Rob-
ert c. Tracy.
Fleet at Yorktown.
Secretary Adams will describe how.
from the Summer OF 1880 to the sum
mer of 1881, Washington tried to bottle
UP" the British Army in New York, but
without avail, as the British Navy
always kept that port open for fresh
supplies and munitions. Then the
French fleet, under Admiral De Grasse,
came over and Washington used TINS
great sea power to cut of Lord Corn
wallis at Yorktown. De Grasse drove
back the British feet and Yorktown
surrendered.
During the program an oak trans
planted from Mount Vernon and his
torical data gathered by the local So
ciety will be presented to the National
Society. S. S. williamson. president
of the District of Columbia Society,
S. A. R.. will make the presentation to
F. w Millspaugh of Nashville, presi-
dent general of the National Society.
Shortly afterward DR.. r. j. G. Dorsey
will speak and Fred East will sing
baritone solo.
Tablet to Be Unveiled.
dwelling of a bronze tablet marking
the occasion will conclude the program.
Before the unwilling, however, John
Paul Earnest will place a copper box
containing historical data in the con-
crete base that will support the tablet.
The base will then be sealed and Brig.
Gen. William E. Horton. a charter
member of the society, will unveil the
tablet.
The aid of the French at the battle
OF Yorktown will be concentrated in
Paris october 10 by a group represent
ing the Daughters Of the American
Revolution.
In what President Hoover recently
termed "a splendid gesture of apprecia-
ton certain to promote an historic
international friendship" the group
will dedicate a tablet bearing names of
Frenchmen who were killed at York
town. The group will sail on October
4, and the dedication will be held on
the 151st anniversary of the battle.
The ceremonies will have the official
recognition of the French government.
Members of Committee.
Mrs. David D. Caldwell of this city,
vice president general of the D. A. R.
and chairman of the Committee on
Arrangements for the D. A. R. Paris
pilgrimage, will represent Mrs. Russell
william Magma, president general.
Other members of the committee are
Mrs. John M. Beavers, Mrs. Stanley
Foreman Reed and Mrs. William Louis
Dunno, national officers; Miss Ada
johnson, vice regent of France, and
Mrs. Randolph Hopkins.
Among the group will be Mrs. James
r. Morris of Washington and Mime
apolis, who has just been made a
chevalier of the Legion of Honor for
her distinguished service. 1t was
through the efforts of Mrs. Morris,
while chairman of the D. A. r. Com
mittee on Preservation of Historic Spots,
that Yorktown was approved as ma
tional park rather than becoming an
amusement park AS chairman of the
yorktown Sesquicentennial Committee
last year Mrs Morris, through research
in America and abroad, gathered the
names of all American and French SOL
diers who lost their lives at Yorktown.
Tablets bearing these names were
placed at the base of the Yorktown
monument last Fall.