Evening star., 1934-04-05
Parade and Banquet viii
Be Among Events Mark
ing Entry Into War.
PROCESSION TO START
FROM HOUSE BUILDING
Four Main Divisions to Includ,
Army, Navy, Marines, Coast
Guard and Reserves.

Completion Of arrangements for til,
annual Army day celebration tomor-
row was announced today by Maj. Ed
win S. Bethlehem. jr., chairman of the
committee in charge of the observ-
ance, which will include a parade.
banquet and other events-all
marking the seventeenth anniversary
of the United States entry into the
World War.
The celebration, sponsored by the
Military Order of the World War, will
be centered around the procession.
which Is scheduled to get under way
at 80 pm.
The parade will form in the vicinity
of the House ONCE Building IS min
utes before the scheduled starting
time. Led by Maj Gen. Paul B.
Malone, U. S. A, grand marshal, and
his staff. and escorted by a platoon
OF policemen under Mai Ernest w.
Brown, the procession will move across
the east front of the Capitol and
swing into Constitution avenue.
Four Divisions in Parade.
From there on. the route will be
west on Constitution avenue, west on
Pennsylvania avenue, south on Fiji
teenth street, west on Constitution
avenue again, past the reviewing
stand to Seventeenth street, where
the parade will break up. President
Roosevelt will not be in the stand.
because he has extended his vaca-
ton for another week.
The procession will be in four main
divisions. The first will consist of
representatives of the Army, the
Navy, the Marine Corps and the
Coast Guard; the second of National
Guardsmen and members of Reserve
Corps units; the third of Reserve
Oficers' Training Corps members and
high school cadets, and the fourth of
representatives of various veterans
and patriotic organizations
Ten minutes before the parade gets
under way the thoroughfares on the
route will be cleared of traffic and a
general parking band will be enforced.
Public reviewing stands are being
erected all along the line of march,
the seats to sell for 40 cents each
for adults and Is cents each for chill
dren. First-aid stations also will be
set up along the route, which will be
patrolled by ambulances.
Marshals of Divisions.
Marshals of the divisions will be:
First, Brig. Gen. Perry L. Miles;
second. Col. w. Oehmann: third,
Capt. Thomas Holmes, and fourth.
Brig. Gen. William E. Horton.
Colors will be massed at the head
of each division.
Because the Marine Band will
march in the procession, along with
numerous other musical organizations,
the concert scheduled for tomorrow
evening at the Marine Barracks has
been Cancelled, it was announced
today.
Secretary Of War Dern, Col George
E. 1jams and Gen. Malone will be
speakers at the Army day banquet
in the Mayfower Hotel The banquet,
scheduled for 7:30 pm, will be fol-
lowed by a military ball
In addition to participating in the
parade, members Of Costello Post No.
Is, American Legion, will present a
program Of entertainment at Mount
Alto Hospital in the evening.
Street Cars to Be Rerouted.
Street cars operating along Pennsyl-
vanian avenue will be rerouted dur
ing the parade, 1t was announced to-
day by the Capital Transit Co. Up
town and croSs-town transportation
will be made available, it was said.
through transfers between various
lines.
Cars will be routed off Pennsyl-
vania avenue from the Treasury to
the Peace Monument after 1:30 pm.
South-bound Fourteenth street cars
will be routed to Nineteenth and +
streets or to Rosslyn. Cars operating
from either Seventeenth and Pennsyl-
vania avenue southeast or Eighth and
F streets northeast, after passing
Union Station will be routed through
Massachusetts, avenue and G street
to a terminus at Fifteenth and G
streets. There will be transfers at
Fifteenth and New York avenue.
The West End bus line will make
~" turn at Fifteenth street and
New York avenue, returning to Sew
enteenth street and Pennsylvania
avenue and then to G street to the
regular route.