Evening star., 1937-05-29
THOUSANDS PLAN
EXODUS FROM CITY
FOR LONG HOLIDAY
Pre-Memorial Day Rites
Are Being Held This
Afternoon.
FAIR, WARM WEATHER
PROMISED TOMORROW
Services Will Center Around
Exercises at Arlington
Amphitheater.

As Washington's army OF Govern
ment employees prepared to embark
this afternoon on holiday which will
continue through Monday, a solemn
note Of reverent tribute to the Nations
war dead was sounded at pre- Memorial
day services in many of the citys
cemeteries.
Promised fair and warm weather
tomorrow with the possibility of rain
Monday, thousands prepared to aban-
don the city for nearby recreation
points over the week end Federal
and District government employees Will
leave their desks at l pm. today and
will not report back for work until
Tuesday morning.
Memorial day services tomorrow will
center around the services in the
ampitheater at Arlington National
Cemetery.
Program Opens at 3 PM.
Today's program Is to open at 3
pm. with simultaneous services in
four cemeteries and the placing OF
flags beside the Sixteenth street
markers erected in memory Of the
Districts World War dead.
Services in Holy Rood and Cedar
Hill Cemeteries will be conducted at
pm. by members of Gen. NJ. Eln-
mitt Urell Camp. United Spanish
War Veterans. At the same time
services will be held in Mount Zion
and Union Cemeteries by members
of James Reese Europe Post, Ameri-
can Legion, and its auxiliary.
The decoration Of the Sixteenth
street markers will be carried out
by the American Gold Star Mothers
and the American War Mothers.
Other Services Arranged.
At 5 pm. there will be services IN
Holy Rood and Oak Hill Cemeteries,
sponsored by the William B. Cushing
Camp, Sons of Union Veterans.
Services at the grave of Jane Del
ano. Arlington National Cemetery.
will be conducted at $50 pm. by
members of the Jane Delano Post,
American Legion.
Services at the Memorial Monu-
ment to Nurses of the Civil War,
Connecticut and Rhode Island ave-
nues, will be held at $50 pm. by
the Women's Relief Corps, Grand
Army of the Republic. Wreaths will
be placed, followed by short serv.
ice Mrs. Della L. O'Brien will be in
charge of the program.
Washington citizens who wish to
donate fresh-cut flowers for use in
decorating the graves Of the Dis
trict's soldier dead are asked to leave
them today at any police station or
fire house They will be collected
and placed on the graves by Boy
! Scouts.
Senator Clark TO Speak.
Senator Clark of Missouri. one o!
the founders of the American Legion,
will be the speaker at the annual
Memorial day services at 1890 pm.
tomorrow in the Amphitheater at
Arlington National Cemetery. The
program. lasting an hour, will be
broadcast over a Nationwide radio
network, including all local stations,
it was announced. There will be
music by Mary Ferguson Koontz,
formerly of the Cincinnati Civic
Opera. and Frank K Sanderson.
Veterans of the Battle of Manila
Bay will pay tribute to Admiral Dewey
at his tomb at Washington Cathedral
tomorrow. Admiral Dewey Camp OF
the United Spanish War Veterans
will hold services at $50 am. and
hor oF No II
Medal Mems Association will place a
wreath on the tomb at l2:45 pm.
Memorial Day" will be the theme Of
sermon which Right Rev. James E
Freeman, Bishop of Washington, will
deliver at the peoples evensong serv-
ices in the Great Choir of the Cathe-
dral at 4 pm. tomorrow
The annual military memorial field
mass of Lincoln Camp. No. 2, Sons
of Union Veterans Of the Civil War.
will be held at 10 am tomorrow in
Mount Olivet Cemetery. Rev. A. G..
Burggraff, c. S. P, will be celebrant,
with the assistane of Rev. T. A. Call
nan, department chaplain. The SER
mon will be preached by Very Rev.
ASllolluo olllllil, VI Vic NCpdI
ment Of philosophy. Catholic Uni
versity.
At the Georgetown Law School
! tomorrow at 10 am. a Memorial day
program will be conducted in memory
! of 20 law students who died in the
armed services during the World War
A wreath will be placed by the senior
| oil hoF toh al
in the law library. There will be
addresses by Col. Ned B. Rehkopf
assistant commander of the Army War
College, and Thomas Francis Nc.
Allister, special assistant to the At.
torney General.
| Peacetime Heroes Honored.
| Last night an unusual memorial
service in honor of the District;
peacetime heroes was held by the
| Washington Youth Council or tht
, plaza in front of the Public Health
Building, Nineteenth street and Con-
. stitution avenue. Tribute was paid
to members of the Metropolitan Pc.
. lice and Fire Departments who died
| in line of duty during the past year
! The annual memorial services II
, honor Of employees of the Bureau O
Engraving and Printing who died IL
! the military service was held yes.
terday in the rotunda Of the bureal
by the bureau post of the American
: Legion. At the same time simila
, services were held in the auditorium
| of the Agriculture Department b.
, the American Legion post of tina
, department
Services were held yesterday eve
ming in Cedar Hill Cemetery unde
t direction of the Tank Corps Post
r American Legion. Last night ther
= were joint memorial services in tn,
e Eighth Street Temple of the Wash
S ington Hebrew Congregation unde
4 sponsorship of the Jewish War Vet
t erans.
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