Evening star., 1933-05-20
10000 TALL CEDARS
TO Join PARADE AS
SESSION NEARS END
Gay CoIors and so Bands Will
Feature March Start
ing at 2::30.
ROOSEVELT is UNABLE
TO REVIEW PAGEANTRY
Visitors Place Wreath on Un-
known's Tomb and Initiation Rites
Will Close Sessions Tonight.

Attired in uniforms of gay colors
approximately 10000 Tall Cedars OF
Lebanon were to march down Pennsyl-
vania this afternoon to the tunes OF
half a hundred bands, as climax tc
their four-day national convention
which has aeen in progress at the
Raleigh Hotel since Wednesday.
The more than threescore units o1
the parade were to assemble at Third
and Constitution avenue, preparatory
to the start of the march at 2:30.
A detachment of Artillery from Fort
Myer, the mounted band from that
station and a troop of Cavalry were to
escort Harry M. Littell, supreme Tall
Cedar, down Pennsylvania avenue from
John Marshall place to Fifteenth street
where the line of march turns south to
Constitution avenue, then west past
the reviewing stand.
Roosevelt to Be Absent.
Maj. Ernest w. Brown, superintend-
ent, and police escort were to lead
the parade, composed of about so units
and SO bands, with a drill team accom-
panying most of the units.
President Roosevelt, himself a Tall
Cedar, informed Marshal j. Fred Huber
that he will be unable to review the
procession, and in his place will be a
number of Senators, Representatives
and other high Government officials
Marshal Huber estimated the procession
will require about an hour and a half
to pass down the Avenue.
The Tall Cedars visited Arlington
Cemetery this morning, where they
placed wreath on the Tomb of the
Unknown Soldier, and the convention
will close formally tonight with initia-
ton services for Capitol Forest, No. 104,
Washington, in the Belasco Theater.
President Roosevelt received a dele
cation of the supreme officers and past
supreme officers in his Office at the
White House today. For several min
utes the President chatted with his
visitors and then posed in a group
photograph.
Last night the grand ball was held at
the Raleigh, while at the same time a
public carnival with the dance of the
tall cedars" was staged beneath flood
lights on Constitution avenue between
Fifteenth and Seventeenth streets
Earlier in the day drill teams of a
number of the forests and bands took
part in competition on the Ellipse.
Officers Installed.
Formal installation Of the newly
elected officers, including James T.
Knots, as supreme Tall Cedar, was
held during the day. The delegates de-
cided to hold the convention next year
at Asbury Park, N. j.
In addition to Knots, Russell E
Crawford of Norristown, Pa, was elected
senior deputy and Thomas Urspruch OF
Baltimore was chosen for the post OF
junior deputy.
Other officers named were Louis G
Groh of Philadelphia, supreme scribe
August Reommele of Newark, supreme
treasurer; Samuel Schreckengaust OF
Harrisburg, Pa, supreme preceptor; Rev
Otto F. Mohn Of Asbury Park, supreme
chaplain; Harry A. Barber of Phila-
delphia, supreme ranger, and George F.
Baier Of New Brunswick, supreme SEN
tinel
Harry w. Wenninger of Wilmington
Del, Frank B. Sterner of Port Rich
mond, N. Y, and Harry M. Lttell were
named trustees. Washington was hon.
ored by the appointment of a member
of its forest, Thomas C. Havell, as rep
resentative of District No. 13.