Evening star., 1936-05-24
District Legion Arranges
Memorial Day Program
Service and Various Patriotic Groups to Par
'ticipate in Parade Jewish Veterans
Sponsor Service Today
A N ELABORATE program has

~ been arranged by Ray l.. ZWln-
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4 \ lumbia Department, American
Legion, Memorial day exercises next
Saturday
There will be a parad,, participated
in by troops of the Regular Array,
Navy, Marine Corps, National Guard,
Organized Reserves and various pa
triotic and civic organizations. All
Legion musical units as well as post
members will be in the line of march.
The parade will form at Sixth street
and Pennsylvania avenue at 10 am.
and march west to Seventeenth street.
Department Comdr. Joseph j. Mall
10y will place a wreath at the Dis
trict of Columbia World War Memo
rial in East Potomac Park. Later he
will speak at exercises at the grave
of Vincent B. Costello in Arlington
Cemetery conducted by Costello Post.
The Legionnaires will participate in
the memorial services at the amphi-
theater at / O'Clock. Comdr. Malloy
will also place a wreath on the grave
of the Unknown Soldier.
Members today at 2 pm. will par
ticipate in memorial services under
the auspices of the Jewish War Vet
Grams, at the Adas Israel Cemetery
and at pm. will participate in the
annual massing of the colors cere-
monies at the Washington Cathedral
An invitation has been received from
J. A. Maigret, chairman of the Memo
rial Day Committee of the Church of
the Epiphany, inviting members to
attend memorial services in memory
of American war dead Of all wars in
the church tonight. All post color
bearers, with their colors, together
with color guard, are requested to
attend these services.
The Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing memorial service will be held
Friday from noon until l pm. and
memorial services will also be held by
the Government Printing Office Post
at 8 pm. in Harding Hall. Depart
ment Comdr. Malloy will be the speak
er at both services.
Fort Stevens Post will participate
in Memorial day parade next Saturday
morning. The Drum and Bugle Corps
will also appear in concert in the after
noon Memorial day services at Airing
ton National Cemetery.
Comdr. j. Delbert Kiley and Ameri-
canism Officer j. A. Walker will hold
a meeting Wednesday of the School
Award and Flag Day Committees.
The posts annual Summer dance
will be held at Indian Spring Country
Club June 6.
Musical Director r. H. Viancour has
been appointed to life membership in
the All America Drum and Bugle
Corps. Drum instructor Tommy
Thompson and Drum Major Jack Car
roll are also members of this national
musical organization.
Capt. Tom Howard Of the posts
squadron, S. A. L., has issued a call
for business meeting next Friday in
the club rooms.
Members of the U. S. S. Jacob Jones
Post No. are requested to be in uni
form and take part in the massing Of
colors service at Mount st. Adams
Cathedral today at $3.50 pm.
Necrologist Oficer Edith Quinn re-
ported that flags and poppies would be
placed on IS graves Of deceased mem
bers of the post.
Members having uniforms are re-
quested to participate in the Memorial
day parade and 70 meet at Sixth and
Pennsylvania avenue at $50 am.
The seventeenth anniversary of the
post was celebrated last Friday eve
ming. May %, at the Washington
Club.
Comdr. Helen Opitz and Dept.
Comdr. Malloy spoke.
Little Miss Barry performed a tap
dance and did the minuet. She was
accompanied by her sister, Miss Vir-
ginia Barry at the piano. Miss Frances
Shea was soloist, accompanied by Miss
Latimer. Master Carl Hershey gave
xylophone selections. He was accom-
panied by his father.
Memorial services will be held today
at IL o'clock in Arlington National
Cemetery at the grave of Col. E. Lester
Jones, first post and first department
commander of the American Legion.
The services will be conducted by
George Washington Post of which he
was the founder and its first COM
mander in 1919.
Members of the George Baldwin
Mccoy unit of the American Women's
Legion will join post members at 10:15
o'clock at Connecticut avenue and II
street The motor caravan will then
proceed to the West entrance of the
amphitheater in Arlington Cemetery.
The post colors carried by Color
Bearers John E. Dull and Past Comdr.
B. C. MCGEE will lead the procession,
where Guy withers, acting chaplain,
will pronounce the invocation. Tribute
will be paid to his memory by Past
Comdr. Howard S. Fisk. A wreath will
be placed on his grave and the bene-
diction will close the exercises.
The seventeenth annual memorial
services of the Vincent B. Costello
Post will he conducted in Arlington