Evening star., 1939-04-02
Parade Plans
Complete for
Army Day
Thursday Morehers
Will Be Seen Along
Constitution Avenue

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completed last night.
The parade will begin at 80 pm.
at the East Plaza of the Capitol and
will move down Constitution avenue
to Seventeenth street NV.
The presidential reviewing stand
will be at Constitution avenue and
Sixteenth street and from this point
the parade will be viewed by cabinet
members. ranking Army and Navy
officers and military attaches of
foreign embassies Public reviewing
stands are being erected on Consti-
tuition avenue between Fourteenth
and Sixteenth streets NV.
Notables to Witness March.
In the presidential reviewing stand
will be seated Secretary of War
Woodring, Gen. Malin Craig. chief
of staff of the Army; Admiral Will
liam d. Leahy, chief of naval op-
erations; Senator Morris Sheppard,
Representative Andrew J. May, Rear
Admiral Harry G. Hamlet, retired,
Order of the World War, which is
sponsoring the parade.
Government workers and school
children who wish to view the parade
will be excused during the after
noon. it was announced.
Maj. Gen. James K. Parsons of
Baltimore will serve as grand mar
shall of the parade and Maj. Edwin
S. Bethlehem, jr., adjutant general
of the Military Order of the World
War, is chairman of the Parade
Committee.
Guard Unit to Be Large.
The District National Guard will
represent one of the largest con-
tlngents in the parade. The Guard
troops will be led by Mai. Gen.
Albert L. Cox.
The American Legion is seeking
the biggest turnout in its history
for the parade. James Pistorio. who
was cited for bravery during the
World War. is chairman of the Le-
gion Army Day Committee and
marshal of Legion division in the
parade
Prizes will be awarded the best
Legion units in the parade. Loving
cups have been donated by Depart
ment Commander James T. Brady:
Legion Auxiliary President Minnie
Mae Hardy, Luck Goldberg and the
Bond Clothing Co. Mrs. Lucille
Tamm, president of the auxiliary of
the G. A. r., has offered an Ameri-
can flag.
Judges Of the Legion units in this
competition are Capt. Patrick H.
Tansey, Capt. H. S. Bishop. jr., and
Capt. D. G. Shingler, Assistant En-
gineer Commissioners. Other mem
bers Of the Legion's Army Day Com
mittee include T. R. Callahan, A. D.
MacKinnon. Mrs. Rose O'Hara. Rob-
ert D. Beeton and Harry D. Nieren-
berg.
Following are the units which will
participate in the parade and the
order in which they will march,
GRAND MARSHAL DIVISION.
Maj. Ernest w. Brown and pla-
toon of Metropolitan Police, WASH
ington, D. C.
Maj. Gen. James K. Parsons, U.
S. A., (Baltimore); grand marshal
and staff
FIRST DIVISION.
(Army. Navy and Marine CORPSE
Marshal. first division. Brig. Gen.
Maxwell Murray, U. S. A.. and staff
United States Army Band
1st Battery, 34th Infantry (Fort
Meade).
34th Infantry Band.
I'd Battalion, 34th Infantry.
18th Infantry Band.
18th Infantry from Fort Wash
ington and Fort Howard.
5th Engineer Band.
5th Regiment Engineers from Fort
Belvoir.
Band, Sd Cavalry.
Sd Cavalry, less 1st Squadron
from Fort Myer.
Machine Gun Troop. 10th Cavalry
1st Battalion, 18th Field Artillery
(Fort Myer).
Ambulance Detachment (Army
Medical Center).
66th Infantry $50 light tanks.
U. S. Marine Band
Detachment, Marine Corps Trum-
peters.
Detachment, U. S. Marines.
Detachment of Blue Jackets.
SECOND DIVISION.
tNational GuardD
Marshal, second division. Brig
Gen. Albert l.. Cox, D. c. N. G., and
staff.
Headquarters Detachment
12lst Engineer Band.
12lst Engineers Col. John w. Och
mann. commanding.
Band. 1st Maryland Infantry.
Special Troops. Headquarters, 29th
Division maj. William T. Roy, COM
mandingD
Company A, 372d Infantry Capt.
Sylvester Blackwell, commanding).
Drum and Bugle Corps, 26Oth
Coast Artillery.
260th Coast Artillery (Col Walter
W. Burns, commanding).
1st Battalion, 104th Quartermaster
Regiment.
THIRD DIVISION.
(OrganiZed Reserves)
Marshal third division, Col. Le-
roy w. Heron. commanding Organ
lied Reserves, r. o. T. c. and Cadet
Corps, and staff.
Massed colors. Reserve units.
Organized Reserve units-155th
Field Artillery Brigade (3l3th and
3l5th Field Artillery, 306th Cavalry
320th Infantry. 9l3th Coast Artillery
622d Coast Artillery. 343d Engineers
376th Engineers. 364th Medical Reg
iment-service units and other Re-
serve officers.
Col. West Hamilton and staff.
428th and 429th Infantry and at
tached colored officers.
Maryland University Cadet Band
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