Evening star., 1940-05-26
Jones Post of Legion to Hold
Services Today in Arlington
Post Comdr. Fred Fraser to Speak;
Jone DeIono Group to Honor Nurses

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U. s. S. Jacob Jones Post, District
of Columbia Department., the Amer
ican Legion, will conduct services at
the Argonne Cross In Arlington Ma
tional Cemetery today at noon when
Past Department Comdr. Fred Fraser
will make the principal address. De-
partment Comdr. William Slattery
and his staff will attend the services
Mr. Slattery and National Execu-
tive Committeeman Joseph Malloy
will speak at services later in the
day in memory of World War nurses,
conducted by the Jane Delano Post
at the Nurses Monument in the
cemetery.
The guard of honor will escort
the department commander and his
staff to services conducted by Killeen
Post at 6 pm. in the Grace Episcopal
Church, Georgetown, and to Fort
Stevens Post services at 8 pm. at
st. Pauls Methodist Church.
On Memorial Day the members of
the Legion will form for the parade
at Ninth street and Constitution
avenue N. w. at 9:15 am. 1t will
move west on Constitution avenue.
be reviewed at Fifteenth street, and
will disband at Seventeenth street.
William Hargrace will be grand
marshal.
Fort Stevens Post will hold me-
mortal services in st. Paul Methodist
Church, Thirteenth and Crittenden
streets NV, tonight at o'clock.
The Rev. Charles F. Phillips will
conduct the ceremonies and the
national guard of honor and the
senior drum and bugle corps will
assist. All ,Legionnaires and friends
are invited.
Members and the senior drum and
bugle corps will assemble at Ninth
street and Constitution avenue NV,
9:15 am. to participate in the Me-
mortal Day parade. Following exer-
cises In the amphitheater, Arlington
National Cemetery, services will be
held at the grave of Chaplain Don
Long in commemoration of all de-
ceased Fort Stevens members.
A dance will be held in Stansbury
Hall on Memorial Day at 10 pm.
There will be refreshments.
American Legion awards and Ger
tiflcates will be presented at pm.
on May 81 to students of St. Gabriel's
School and at 2:15 pm. to students
of Nativity School. Presentations
will be made by Comdr. Edwin L.
Donaldson and Americanism Officer
Joseph A. Walker.
r. L. Duvall, commander, Depart
ment of Labor Post, announces Flag
Day exercises to be held in De-
partmental Auditorium, Thirteenth
street and Constitution avenue NV,
on June IA from II am. to noon.
Employees of the Department of
Labor will be excused from work in
order to attend and the public is
invited.
The faculty and student pody of
Jefferson Junior High School will
attend and will parade from the
school to the auditorium.
The speaker will be announced
later. :.
Tribute will be paid today at 2:15
O'Clock at the grave of COL E. Lester
Jones, one of the organizers of the
American Legion, in Arlington Ma
tional Cemetery by members of
George Washington Post, of which
he was one of the founders and its
first commander. Acting Comdr.
Charles S. Beilman will preside and
a wreath will be placed on his grave.
The post will participate in the
Memorial Day parade. Later they
will go to Arlington National Gene
terry and take part in the exercises
in the amphitheater.
Past Comdr. Bernard c. McGee.
members of the post and a dclega-
tion of Boy Scouts will decorate the
graves in Rock Creek Cemetery.
Nominations for delegates to the
department convention in August
will take place at next meeting of
Sergt. Jasper Post on June at the
Pythian Temple.
The post colors will appear today
at the Grace Memorial Church serv-
ice and at Arlington next Thursday.
Comdr. Douglas o. Reed will place
wreath at the Tomb of the I'm
known Soldier in the name of the
post.
The American Legion won its 10
year fight for Government-issued
fiat markers for the graves of World
War veterans, when President
Roosevelt signed the bill. This
measure authorized the Secretary of
War to furnish fiat grave markers.
The Government has been issuing
upright headstones for many years.
United States Bureau of Internal
Revenue Post will meet tomorrow at
8 pm. at 2108 Sixteenth street NV.
Past Comdr. Jonny Long has made
arrangements to show motion pic
ture. of the American Legion Con-
vention in Chicago last fall.
Comdr. c. w. Curran announces
the post will hold boat ride on
the S. S. Potomac on the evening of
June Is. Proceeds will be used for
post blood donating squad and other
post activities.
Americanism Chairman Jeffreys
will present the American Legion
School Award to two members of