Evening star., 1940-02-18
.Washington's. S.
Rites
Are Scheduled

6ASISlSSS lUJIUSO
Here, in Alexandria
And at Mount Vernon
Numerous exercises here on
Thursday will commemorate the
208th birthday anniversary Of
George Washington.
The day will be q holiday for
Government workers and many
stores will close at pm. The
House and Senate will be in session,
however, and each body will desig-
nate a member to read Washing
tons farewell address.
The annual ceremonies at the
Washington Monument will begin
at 8 am, when the guards will raise
flags representing each State in the
Union. At 9 am. White House
military aide will lay a wreath at
the base on behalf of President
Roosevelt, who is in the Caribbean
on a cruise. Various patriotic So
cieties will lay their floral tributes
from 10 am. to noon.
Exercises Scheduled.
In Memorial Continental Hall,
Representative Fish of New York
will speak on Have Faith in Amer
ica" at 10:45 am. before the Dis.
trict Society of the Sons of the
American Revolution, the Sons Of
the Revolution in the District, the
District Daughters of the American
Revolution and the District Society
of Children of the American Revo-
luton. Chalmers Seymour McCon-
nell, president of the Sons of the
American Revolution, will preside.
Prior to the exercises the Marine
Band Orchestra will give a musical
program. Following the meeting
representatives Of the organizations
will lay wreaths at the Monument.
Also placing floral tributes at the
tall gray shaft will be the National
Park Service and the Department
of the Potomac, Grand Army of the
Republic. The park service also will
place wreath at the equestrian
statue to Washington in Washington
Circle.
At a luncheon at / pm. at the
Mayflower Hotel the Sons of the
American Revolution will hear Wade
H. Ellis, former Assistant Attorney
General, talk on ittle-known events
in the life of Washington. The
group will nominate officers for the
annual election in March.
Oldest Inhabitants Observance.
The Association of Oldest Inhab-
itants will hold its annual observ.
ance at the usual meeting place.
the Old Union Engine House. Nine
teenth and H streets NV, following
. business session beginning at 1890
AIN. Senator William H. King,
chairman of the Senate District
Committee; will deliver the principal
address and jesse C. Sutef will read
Washington's farewell address, al.
ways feature of the exercises. John
Clagett Proctor, first vice president,
will preside.
The Washington National Mon-
ument Society, the organization
which raised more than $40O, 900 to
build the first 1856 feet of the monu-
ment before Congress appropriated
funds for its construction, will hold
its 107th annual meeting at the
Metropolitan Club, Seventeenth and
H streets NV, at 1890 pm. Presi-
dent Roosevelt is ex oficio head Of
the society and retired Supreme
Court Justice Willis Van Devanter
is first vice president. Secretary of
the organization is William r. Harr
and treasurer Theodore w. Noyes.
Services at Mount Vernon.
Mount Vernon will be the focal
point for pilgrimages by several or
ganizations and Alexandria, Va, re-
plete with landmarks familiar to
Washington, will observe the occa-
sion in many forms.
Mount Vernon Chapter, No. %,
Military Order of the Purple Heart,
will hold services at the tomb Of
Washington at noon.
At Z pm. members of the order
will gather at the Mayf1ower Hotel
for awarding of Purple Heart deco
rations. Senator Gillette of Iowa
and Ralph o. Brewster, former Gov
ernor Of Maine, will be the principal
speakers.
Members of the Alexandria Wash.
ington Masonic Lodge, No. %, will
gather at the tomb for exercises at
8 am. David E. Bayliss, master Of
the lodge, will lay a wreath on be-
half OF the organization. At $50
pm. the lodge will gather at a ban
quet to hear. former Gov. Nice of
Maryland speak.
Parade In Alexandra.
One of the main events Of the
celebration In Alexandria will be the
parade sponsored by the Veterans
of Foreign Wars at 2. pm. The pa
rade is under the auspices Of the ma
tional organization, the Alexandra
unit and Departments of Maryland,
West Virginia, Virginia and the Dis
trict.
In addition to service men from
the Army. Navy, Marine Corps and
the Coast Guard, participating in
the parade will be bands, drum and
bugle corps and members of the Ma
tional Guard, Naval Reserve, Marine
Reserve, high school cadets, Boy
Scouts, school patrol units and Civil
ian Conservation Corps groups.
The v. r. w. organizations will 20
to Mount Vernon at 10 am. to place
floral tributes and will hold q ban
quet at Z pm. and q dance at 10
pm. at the George Mason Hotel.
Samuel B. De Vaughan. command.
er, Department Of Virginia, Is chair
man OF the National Organization
Committee for the celebration.
The George Washington Memorial
Association win hold its annual
meeting IN the Masonic memorial ut
Alexandria The granite steps to the
memorial to washington built BY the