Evening star., 1939-05-20
Bankhead 10 Speak
AT Color Massing
On Mount s.. A|ban
$50 Organizations to
Take Part in CoIorful
Procession
Procession

Speaker William B. Bankhead o1
the United States House of Repre-.
sentatives will deliver the address
at the 18th annual "Massing of the
Colors" service, sponsored by the
Military Order of the World War
and Washington Cathedral in the
amphitheater on Mount Saint AL
ban tomorrow at $3.50 o'clock. AS
the service will go on the air at 4
O'Clock over a Nationwide network
of the National Broadcasting Co.
an earlier beginning time has been
set this year.
More than $50 veteran, military
and patriotic organizations will par
ticipate in the colorful professional
bearing national and organization
colors which will proceed down the
Pilgrim Steps to the amphitheater
at BIS O'Clock. The United States
Marine Band, conducted by Capt
Taylor Branson, will play sacred
music beginning at o'clock. The
professional hymn will be Onward
Christian Soldiers"
The service is open to the public
with several thousand seats aavil-
able. In the congregation will be
many members of Congress, officers
of the Army and Navy, and other
national leaders.
DIR. Hart to Offer Prayers.
Brig. Gen. Albert L. Cox, Judge
Advocate General of the Military
Order of the World War and chair
man of the committee in charge y
the service, will present Bishop
James E. Freeman, who will intro
duce Speaker Bankhead.
After the procession and massing
OF the colors in front of the open
air altar, prayers will be offered by
Capt. Oliver James Hart, D. D., rec
tor of st. Johns Church, Lafayette
Square, and chaplain of the D. c.
Chapter of the Military Order of
the World War. The Rev DR.. James
Shera Montgomery, chaplain of the
House of Representatives, will read
the scripture lesson, and the Very
Rev. Noble G. Powell will conduct
other portions of the service.
An impressive moment will be the
commemOratlon "of all those who
have laid down their lives for their
country" j" led by Maj. Arlington A.
McCallum, rector of st. Pauls
Church, Washington Circle, and
chaplain general of the Military Or
der OF the World War. The entire
assembly will stand in silence while
a trumpeter of the United States
Marine Band sound TAPS"
Canon Edward S. Dunlap of the
Cathedral staff, will act as master
Of ceremonies.
Tablet to he Dedicated.
Distinguished officers of the United
States Army and other friends of
Maj. Gen. Hugh LenoX Scott, chief
of staff at the opening of the World
War, will attend the dedication of
a tablet in his memory, in the south
Nave Crypt of the Cathedral on May
%. The tablet is the gift of Mr..
and Mrs. Samuel Frederic Houston
OF Philadelphia and was executed
by Miss Louisa Eyre of that city.
The inscription was written by
Prof. L. Wardlaw Miles, chairman
Of the department of English in
Johns Hopkins University and WIN
ner of the medal of honor while
serving as an officer with the 3O8th
Infantry in the A. E. F. in France.
Mrs. Scott, widow of the general,
her daughters and other relatives
will be present at the ceremony.
In addition to his military achieve
ments, Gen. Scott was noted for his
study and use of the Indian sign
language-a fact emphasized in the
Inscription on the tablet