Evening star., 1932-02-11
HOOVER WILL LEAD
NATION TOMORROW
|NL|NCOLN TRIBUTE
President to Speak at 1890
Pm. Over Nationwide
Radio Hook-Up.
PATRIOTIC ORGANIZATIONS
TO CONVENE AT SHRINE
so or More Societies to Take Part
in Daylight Services at
Memorial.

From the famous Lincoln study IL
the White House President Hoover will
lead the Nation tomorrow In payinl
homage to Abraham Lincoln.
Before Mr. Hoover pays tribute t.
the martyred President in a Nation
wide radio broadcast at 1890 pm.
fourscore or more patriotic organi.
cations will assemble at the Lincolr
Memorial to commemorate the 1896
anniversary of his birth
The memorial services will be helc
at noon under the auspices of the
Military Order of the Loyal Legion Of
the United States. Senator Hiram
Bingham of Connecticut will deliver
an address and Comdr Gale A. Poin-
dexter, U. S. NJ, representing President
Hoover, and Maj. Donald A. Dawson
on behalf of the District Commission.
erS, will lay wreaths at the foot of the
Lincoln Statue.
Colors of the National and District
Communicates of the Loyal Legion will
be escorted to the special birthday serv.
ices by a detail of soldiers, sailors
Marines and Coast Guardsmen. Music
will be supplied by the United State!
Marine Band.
Will Open Museum.
After the exercises at the Memoria
the Legion commandery will go to tht
Ford Theater, where Lincoln was shot
to attend the opening of the Lincoln
Museum.
Republican Club will assemble at tn,
Willard Hotel for its first annua
Lincoln day dinner President Hoover!
address will be heard via radio by tn,
club. Secretary Of Interior Ray Lymar
Wilbur, Senator James E. Watson o
Indiana and. Mrs. Edward Everett Gam
will deliver addresses.
The Grand Army of the Republi,
will meet at pm. in the First Con
gregational Church, Tenth and {
streets. Meeting with the g. A. R. vii
be the Sons of the Union Veterans o
the Civil War, Ladies Of the G. A. r
Woman's Relief Corps and Daughter
of the Union Veterans of the Civil War
Col. U. S. Grant to Speak.
The assembly will be addressed b.
Lieut. U. S. Grant. Sd. grandson O.
the famous general-President; Senato
Samuel M. Shortridge of California ant
Representative Homer w. Hall o
Illinois.
This evening in the main ball room
Of the Continental Hotel, the Curle!
Club of Washington will hold specia
Lincoln birthday valentine party. Lieut.
Col. William L. Peak. superintendent o
the District jail and president Of tn
Archdiocesan Union Of Holy Name So
cieties, will be the principal speaker
Mgr Eugene j. Connolly Of st. Peter
Church also will speak. Miss Grac'
Mary Colliflower and Arthur Bradle!
White will recite; Mrs Estelle Hun
Dean and Joseph Hornsby will SIM
and Prot. John w. Hart will play tn
piano.
Organizations Participate.
Among the organizations participat
ing in the Lincoln Memorial services O
the Military Order of the Loyal Legior
are: American Gold Star Mothers, Lin
coin Post, No. IT, The American Le
gion; Department Of the District of Co
lumbia, American Legion Auxiliary
American Women's Legion, District o
Columbia Chapter, the American Ret
Cross Aztec Club of 1847, District o
Columbia Council, Boy Scouts of Amer
lea; Capital Society, Children of thu
American Revolution; District Of Co
lumbia Society, Danes of the Loya
Legion; National Society, Daughters o
the American Revolution: District o
Columbia Daughters Of the American
Revolution, Mrs. Ellen Spencer Musse.
Tent, No l, Daughters of Union Veter
ans of the Civil War; Disabled Ameri
can Veterans of the World War; Dis
trict of Columbia Federation of Wom
ems Clubs, Department of the Potomac
Grand Army of the Republic; Kallipoli
Grotto, National Society. Ladies of th'
Grand Army of the Republic; Becl
Circle, No. 4, Ladies of the Grand Arm.
of the Republic; U. S. Grant Circle, No
l, Ladies of the Grand Army of tn,
Republic; Abraham Lincoln Circle, No
3, Ladies of the Grand Army of tn
Republic; District of Columbia Chap
ter, Military Order of the World War
National Patriotic Council, Nationa
Commandery, Naval and Military Or
der of Spanish American War; Orde
of Indian Wars Of the United States
National Society. Sons Of the American
Revolution; District of Columbia So
ciety, Sons of the American Revolu
ton; William B. Gushing Camp, Nc
80. Sons of Union Veterans of the Civi
War; Lincoln Camp, No. 2, Sons o
Union Veterans of the Civil War
Spanish American War Nurses, De
partment of the District of Columbia
United Spanish War Veterans; Depart
ment of the District of Columbia
United Spanish War Veterans AUX
iliaries; Vaughan Bible Glass of Cal
vary Baptist Church; Department o
Potomac, Woman's Relief Corps, Gran,
Army of the Republic; Lincoln Corps
No. 6, Woman's Relief Corps, Gran,
Army of the Republic: Sheridan Corps
No. IL, Woman's Relief Corps. Grant
Army of the Republic Burnside Corps
No. 4, Woman's Relief Corps, Gran,
Army Of the Republic.