Evening star., 1937-05-23
MEMORIAL RITES
FOR D. {. AND ]. s.
WAR DEAD TODAY
Services Are Preliminary to
Annual Observance
Next Sunday.
C0lORS OF 400 UNITS
IN MASSING EXERCISES
Concert by Marine Band Precedes
Ceremony in Mt. St. Alban
Air Amphitheater.

Memorial services for the war dead
OF the District and the Nation will
be held here today as preliminary to
the annual Memorial day observance
next Sunday.
The largest and most colorful of to-
days services will be the tenth annual
masslng of colors at Washington Ca
thedral at $50 pm, in which the
colors Of more than 400 separate units
will be carried in procession. There
will be a service in the Memorial Circle
OF the Washington Hebrew Congre-
CATION Cemetery, Congress Heights, at
p.m in memory of the Jewish SOL
dler dead in all local cemeteries. Me-
mortal exercises in honor of Vincent
B. Costello, first District employe
killed in action in the World War
will be held in Arlington National
Cemetery at 2 pm.
Since Memorial day will fall on
Sunday, Monday, May 81. will be
observed as an official holiday. All
Federal and District government Of
hces will be closed and the day will
be observed as banking holiday. The
District public schools also will be
closed.
Services in Amphitheater.
The Washington Cathedral services
are to be held in the open-air amphi-
theater on Mount st. Alban. under
auspices of the Military Order of the
World War and the Cathedral. There
will be preliminary band concert by
the United States Marine Band at $3.50
pm. Arrangements have been made
to take care of $4,000 persons.
Very Rev. Noble C. Powell. new
dean of the Cathedral, will preach
the memorial service and Representa-
tive Lucas of Illinois the Law address,
Col Alva j. Brasted. chief of the
Army Corps of chaplains; Capt. Ed
ward A. Duff, chief of Navy chap
lalns; Maj. Arlington A. McCallum.
chaplain general of the Military Or
der OF the World War, and Mai How
ara E. Snyder, chaplain of the Dis
trlct chapter of the order, will take
!eadlng parts in the services.
Sir Ronald Lindsay, the British
Amoassad dor Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and
Mrs. William H. Taft are expected
to head a distinguished attendance
which will include members of the
PRESIDENTS cabinet, the diplomatic
corps, members of Congress and rank
ing officials OF the Army. NAVY and
Marine Corps.
The Cathedral Guild of Ushers
assisted by $50 Boy Scouts, will direct
the seating Of the congregation. Open
air ampliflers and public speaker
systems have been installed. In case
OF bad weather, the ceremony will
be conducted in the Great Choir of
the Cathedral.
Col. Burns to Lead.
The color guards of the participat-
Ing organizations will form in the
grove OF the Cathedral grounds and
will march to the Pilgrim Steps, where
Lieut. Col. Walter w. Burns of the
District National Guard will take
charge and lead the procession, headed
by the Drum and Bugle Corps of
Fort Stevens Post, American Legion.
down the steps, around the assemblaee
and into the amphitheater. The
colors will be massed on both sides
OF q rostrum on which will stand a
cross Of poppies.
There will be four main division in
the column, in charge of the following
marshals: Maj. Russell P. Freeman,
Lieut.. Comdr. J. Douglas Jones, Mai.
Walter r. Metz and Lieut.. Francis
Callahan. The Reception Committee
will be headed by Maj. John D. Cut
ter, commander of the District Chap
ter OF the Military Order Of the World
War, and will include Maj. Edwin N.
Lewis, secretary of the Washington
Cathedral; Lieut.. Col. Charles Demo-
net. Maj. Edwin S. Bethlehem, jr.:
Capt. George w. Calver, U. S. N, and
Lieut.. Col. Bynum K. Cash.
The memorial services at Congress
Heights will be held under the
auspices of Washington Post, No. So,
Jewish War Veterans, and its auxiliary.
(see MEMORIAL, Page B-2)