Evening star., 1936-05-29
THREE MEMORIAL
SERVICES TO OPEN
D. c. RITES TONIGHT
George {. KiIIeen Post of
Legion to Have Exercises
at 7 Pm.
COSTELLO AND MALLORY
TO BE AMONG SPEAKERS
Special Observance at Titanic
Monument-Ceremony. Also
at Hebrew Congregation.

Three memorial exercises, one Of
them to honor those who render
service in time of peace, will open
the observance of Memorial day in
the Nations Capital tonight.
Following its annual custom, George
E. Killeen Post. No. 35. American
Legion, will hold its service at pm.
on the lawn of Grace Episcopal
Church on Wisconsin avenue, just
south of M street. Addresses will be
delivered by Eugene Costello, post
commander; Joseph Mallory, District
Legion commander; Isaac B. Nord-
linger and John Hadley Doyle.
The Titanic Monument in Potomac
Park will be the scene of a special
observance at pm. honoring firemen.
policemen, doctors and nurses. The
Washington Youth Council is sponsor
Rabbi Norman Gerstenfeld will lead
services of the Washington Hebrew
Congregation and the Jewish War
Veterans, Washington Post, No. So, at
the same hour at the Hebrew Con-
gregation. BIG Eighth street. Rev. Dr.
Abram Simon will preach on the sub
ject Dare We Forget" The regular
service will be held at the congrega-
tion at 1890 am. tomorrow.
Parade Tomorrow.
A parade tomorrow morning will
come before annual Memorial day
rites at Arlington National Cemetery
at pm, where Gen. John j. Per-
shing, commander in chief of Ameri-
can Expeditionary Forces during the
World War. will be the main speaker
President Roosevelt will head a large
group of high governmental and mill
tary officials who will participate. The
G. A. r. Memorial Day Corp. COM
posed of veterans of the Civil, Span
ish-American and World Wars, is
sponsoring the rites
Forming on Pennsylvania avenue
between Seventh and Ninth streets at
$50 am, the parade will march at
10 am. down the Avenue into E
street, thence to Fifteenth street and
to Constitution avenue, and past the
reviewing stand located on Constitu-
tion between Sixteenth and Seven
teenth streets.
Senator O'Mahoney of Wyoming will
deliver the principal address at exer-
cises at $3.50 pm. tomorrow at Battle
Ground National Cemetery, Bright
wood. under auspices Of the G. A. R.
and the Brightwood Citizens Associa-
ton. John Claggett Proctor is CO.
chairman of the committee in charge
For the first time. organized labor
will hold formal observance of the
occasion with broadcast over Station
WJSV at 1870 am. with Frank
Morrison, secretary-treasurer of the
American Federation of Labor, de-
livering an address.
Thirty students of Georgetown Law
School who died in the World War
will be honored at 10 am. tomorrow.
Speakers will be Col Allen w. Gullion
of the Judge Advocates Department
Of the Army and Justice Harold M.
Stephens of the U. 8. Court Of
Appeals for the District.
The American Institute Of Archi-
tects will honor the memory Of Robert
Mills Q781-1852), the first Federal
architect, with dedication Of monu-
ment at his grave in Congressional
Cemetery at GAS am. Memorial day.
A Memorial day mass sponsored by
the Father Francis j. Hurney Post of
Catholic War Veterans will be held
at 9 am. tomorrow at Immaculate
Conception Church, with Rev. DR..
John Cartwright delivering the SER
mon. A parade from the Knights Of
Columbus Hall will precede the mass,
and a breakfast will be held at the
hall afterward.