Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-05-26
RITES THIS WEEK
HONOR WAR DEAD
Patriotic and Civic Groups
Will Hold Memorial
Exercises.

First of those scheduled for today
will be that for The war dead IN the
Jewish cemeteries, The program to be
sponsored jointly by the Jewish War
Veterans, Vincent Costello Post of
the American Legion and the Jewish
Welfare Board. The service will be
held at the Washington Hebrew Con-
gregation Cemetery starting at pm.
The principal addresses will oe given
by Representative Mccormack, Mas
sachuSetts Democrat, and Joseph
Barr, national Judge advocate of the
Jewish War Veterans.
A memorial chant will be led by
Cantor Louis Ncviok of Adas Israel
Congregation. The Army Band and
Mrs Nathan N. Wallack will aid in
the musical program. DR.. Ivy A.
Pelzman will te presiding officer.
Benjamin Aronsohn is chairman of
The committee arranging the pro-
gram.
Service for Nurses.
At S 80 pm. today sunset memorial
services for nurses who served in the
World War will be held in Arlington
National Cemetery under auspices of
Jane A. Delano Post, No. 6. American
Legion.
The exercises will take place in the
nurses section of the cemetery. Por-
ter and Mcpherson avenues, opening
with selections by the United States
Army Brass Band Quartet, with Sergt.
Ostrom as leader. The invocation will
be pronounced by Chaplain R. C. Dy-
bert of Fort Myer.
Department Comdr. James O'Con-
nor Roberts of the American Legion
will speak and wreaths will be placed
on the graves of the nurses who served
in both the Army and Navy The
principal address will be delivered by
Judge Herman j. Galloway.
Post Comdr. Elizabeth Essick and
members of the post will be in attend
ance with the colors.
COl0rs to Be Massed.
Most colorful of today's programs,
perhaps. will be the eighth annual
maSsing of the colors service at the
open-air amphitheater at Mount St.
Alban, due to start at 3 so pm. More
than 10000 persons are expected.
On Memorial day. Thursday, Serv-
ices will be held at various places and
times. Most pretentiouS of the plans
are those of the G. A. R. Memorial
Day Corp, consisting of the Grand
Army OF the Republic, the United
Spanish War Veterans, Veterans of
Foreign Wars, the American Legion
and the Disabled American Veterans
of the World War.
With these and other organizations
participating, a parade will form at
Thirteenth and Pennsylvania avenue
next Thursday at 10 am, proceed to
Fifteenth street, then again to Penn
sylvania avenue and past the White
House, where President Roosevelt is
expected to review the line The U. S.
Marin Corps Band led by Capt. Tay-
lor BranSon, will lead the procession.
Earlier that morning the Boy Scouts
of the District. directed by Col. E. l..
Mattice and Charles H. Knight, will
decorate each of the 43 900 graves in
Arlington Cemetery. At II o'clock
the marching organizations are ex-
pected to reach the Tomb Of the
Unknown Soldier, where wreaths will
be placed. Ceremonies then will be
held in the amphitheater, with Sena-
tor l.. j. Dickinson, Republican, of
Iowa scheduled to deliver the main ad-
dress. Mrs. Flora McGill Keefer will
be vocal soloist for the program with
James G. Yaden presiding over the
exercises.
Rites to Honor Costello.
A special service in honor Of Vim
cent B. Costello, first employe of the
District government to be killed in
action in the World War. also will be
held at Arlington. This service, to be
held at II o'clock, will be under aus
pices of the Vincent B. Costello Post
of the American Legion. Represent
alive Herman p Kopplemann. Demo-
crat, of Connecticut and Department
Comdr. Roberts will be the speak
ers. Miss Dorothy Reddis will be vocal
soloist.
At 10 o'clock that morning the an
nual memorial services will be held at
Georgetown University School of Law
Solicitor General Stanley Reed and
Capt. w. D. Puleston, director of
naval intelligence, will be the prin-
cipal speakers. The services are to
be held in the law library before a
bronze memorial tablet on which are
subscribed the names of 80 law STU
dents who died In the service of the
Government during the World War
The tablet was erected by the class
of 1920.
Maj. o. A. Saunders of the Army
War College, who is senior at the
Law School. heads a military guard
of honor. A wreath will be placed
before the tablet during the exercises.
Morrow to Preside.
William M. Morrow, president Of
the evening section of the senior class
will preside and Rev. Francis E.
Lucey, S. j., regent of the school,
will deliver the invocation. Dean
George E. Hamilton will speak on be-
half of the faculty and two students,
George P Lamb of the evening sec
ton and William H. Scissor of the
morning section, will deliver addresses
for the seniors. DR.. Hugh J. Fegan,
assistant dean of the school, is in
charge of arrangements for the ex-
ercises.
At the Battle Ground National
Cemetery, Representative Hatton w.
Summers, Democrat, of Texas, will
speak at services at $3.50 o'clock The
G. A. r. and the Brightwood Citi-
zens' Association are cooperating in
this program.
The United States Navy Band,
quartet from the Emery M. E. Church
South and Mrs. Elsie Suffer Radle are
to take part in the musical program
The G. A. r. Committee is headed by
Department Condr. John M. Kline,
ST., while the chairman of the Execu-
tive Committee is John Clagett Proc
tor. Many prominent personages in
the District and Federal Governments
and in the Army and Navy have been
invited.
The Department of the Potomac
G. A. r.. will hold special services for
officers and enlisted men of foreign
nations who died here during the
World War. The exercises will be