Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06
War Veterans Plan
Armistiee Day Rites
Al Cathedral
Services Are Scheduled
For Friday at 3:45 PM.
Other Activities

The District of Columbia Depart
ment. Disabled American Veterans
of the World War, and the staff of
Washington Cathedral will hold the
fourth annual Armistice Day serv-
ices jointly in tribute to nurses
and other women who served the
country in time of war" next FRI
day at the Cathedral at 3:45 pm.
Exercises in honor of the war time
President, Woodrow Wilson, will be
held at 3 pm. in Bethlehem Chapel
and will be broadcast. Mrs. Kate
Trenhold Abrams is chairman of
this service. Later they will attend
the services for women.
Members are urged to attend the
services at the Tomb of the Un-
known Soldier at Arlington Gene
terry at II am, when President
Roosevelt will make an address.
National Comdr. Owen A. Calvin,
accompanied by Department Comdr.
Walter c. Hess and his staff, will
lay wreath on the tomb. From
Arlington they will go to the Cathe-
dral. when Comdr. Calvin will de-
liver an address.
Bishop James Freeman will ex-
tend greetings of the church. A
wreath will be presented by De-
partment Comdr. Hess on behalf of
the sponsoring chapter 1t will be
received at President Wilson's tomb
by Mrs. Mary Holt, past department
commander of the Woman's Auxil-
larry. who will place it on the
sarcophagus of the wartime Presi-
dent.
Mrs. George Gordon Seibold,
founder and past national president
of the American Gold Star Mothers,
will be presented with the flowers
in tribute to the living" by Lou
McCray. chapter commander Miss
Ruth Mccullough, 12-year Girl
Scout, will be flower bearer.
The Cathedral Choir will sing,
under the direction of Robert Bar
row. who has arranged a program
of appropriate hymns. The United
States Marine Band will augment
the music and will play Taps"
The joint Committee on Arrange
ments consists of the Very Rev.
Noble C. Powell, dean of Washing
ton; Canon Edward S. Dunlap and
Canon William M. Bradner of the
Cathedral staff, and William B.
Covert, Earl D. Harrell and Lou
McCray of the sponsoring chapter.
An invitation is extended to all
veterans and patriotic units to par
ticipate with their colors, and the
public is invited.
National headquarters has ap-
proved the charter application of
Interior Chapter, which held bust
ness meeting in the north Interior
Building auditorium last Thursday
night. Temporary Comdr. Albert
Hildreth reported the charter will
be inscribed with over so names.
National Capital Chapter has
changed it's place of meeting to 1922
Twentieth street NV. Comdr. Lou
McCray presided at the last meeting
National Comdr Calvin will speak
and be an honor guest at a lunch
con given by the Military Order of
the World War at the Mayfower on
November 10.
The Womens Auxiliary will meet
next Wednesday night at the Sol
diers, Sailors and Marines Club.
Mrs. Dorothy Covert, commander
will appoint chairmen of commit
tees. Plans will be made for pro-
viding baskets for needy families on
Thanksgiving Day.
Mrs. Marie Anderson, past ma
tional executive committeewoman
who was in Paris during the last
D. A. v. national convention, while
there placed a wreath on the Tomb
OF the Unknown Soldier of France
on behalf of the national organiza-
ton. She will describe her ex-
perience in France during the recent