Evening star., 1938-11-09
War Memorial
To Be Scene
Of Service
Legal Holiday Affords
10000 D. c. Children
Duy From School

The District World War Memorial
In West Potomac Park is to be the
scene of one of the most striking
Armistice Day ceremonies here Fri
day, a legal holiday which will afford
the Districts 10000 public school
children a day off from their studies.
The World War veterans who are
members of the District of Columbia
Grande Voiture of the Forty and
Eight will gather around the War
Memorial at 10 am. Friday and lay
wreath. The Grand Chef de Care,
C. Cassard Schroth, will be in COM
mand of the affair, while staff of
colors attends him.
An hour later the principal eXer-
cises of Armistice Day, under the
general charge of the American
Legion, will begin at the Arlington
Amphitheater.
Board Declares Holiday.
The public schools in past years
have observed Armistice Day by
appropriate ceremonies and assem-
blies in the class rooms, but the
Board of Education declared the day
q school holiday when the President,
on the authority of an act of Con-
gress, proclaimed the day a legal
holiday.
There will, however, be two school
ceremonies. At 9 am. Cadet Capt.
Gordon Calvert of the white senior
high schools will lay a wreath on
the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier,
while his staff and the principals
and representative groups of each
senior high school stand by.
Following a custom of many years
standing, the ranking officer at Cen
trail High School will place wreath
at the Tomb for the Jamaica Plains
High School. Boston, Mass. Each
year the Boston school sends check
to the principal of Central to pur-
chase the wreath. 1t Col. Robert
Hart, commanding officer of the
Central High Regiment, will lay the
wreath.
Observance at St. Johns.
st. Johns Church, Sixteenth and
H streets NV, will be among the
many seats of observance here of
the arrival of peace two decades
ago. Brig Gen. Albert L. Cox,
commanding officer of the District
National Guard, heads the commit
tee in charge of this service, which
begins at 10:55 am. with the toll
ing of the bell.
When the bells ring halts, the
clergy are to take their places in
the chancel of the church. At II
am. the bell will be tapped twice.
The congregation will be asked to
stand and observe a two-minute si-
1ence. A service half an hour in
length, during which DR.. Oliver j.
Hart, pastor of st. Johns, is to
speak, will follow.
Three soldiers who fought in
France with the Second Division
of the American Expeditionary
Force have made arrangements to
come here from New York City
Friday and lay wreath at the Sec
ond Division Monument, Constitu-
ton avenue and Seventeenth street
NV, Friday at 2 pm.
The detail represents the Second
Division Post of the American Le-
gion No $50, Department of New
York. Its members will be Leon
ard Omerod, 18th Field Artillery;
Fred E. Guttemeyer, 43rd Company,
Fifth Marines, and Charles Mikel-
berg, 23rd Company of the 9Th Ma
chine Gun Battalion.
Nurses Will Be Honored.
The nurses and other women who
served the United States in the
World War will be honored Fri
day at 3:45 pm. by services in the
Washington Cathedral, under the
joint auspices of the Disabled
Veterans of the World War and
the Cathedral staff. This is the fourth
successive year such service has
been held.
Mrs. George Gordon Seibold
founder and past president of the
American Gold Star Mothers, will
be the recipient of Flowers to the
Living" presented by Lou McCray,
chapter commander of the Disabled
Veterans. The Cathedral Choir
will sing, under the direction of
Robert Barrow, and the United
States Marine Band will play.
In the procession and massing of
colors, units from these organizations
will take part:
The Disabled Veterans, the D. A.
v. auxiliary, the American Legion
and auxiliary, the Veterans of For
eign Wars and auxiliary, the Amer
ican Red Cross, the American War
Mothers, the American Gold Star
Mothers, the Service Star Legion, the
Women's Overseas Service League,