Evening star., 1940-05-26
Memorial Day
Services 10 Start
In D. {. Today

Commemorotion to Be
CIimoxed With Many
Exercises Thursday
A program Of commemorative
services eliminating in Memorial
Day activities Thursday will be
started today by the Capitals Patri-
otic and fraternal organizations. In
addition to the Knights of Columbus
solemn memorial military field mass
in the amphitheater Of Arlington
National Cemetery, number Of
other observanceS are scheduled to
take place in and around the city.
Police and Fire Department Post.
Veterans of Foreign Wars, will
honor the memory of the late Sena-
tor James Hamilton Lewis of Illi-
nois at $50 in services at his crypt
in the Abbey Mausoleum, near
Arlington National Cemetery. Mrs.
Lewis and members of the Illinois
delegation in Congress are expected
to be present.
Richard j. Harden Camp, United
Spanish War Veterans, will hold
services at 9 am. in Glenwood, Pros
pect Hill and st. Mary's Cemeteries;
Gen. Nelson A. Miles Camp will con-
duct services at $50 am. at St.
Ellzabeth's Hospital; Kenna-Main
Post Of the American Legion Will be-
gin program there at II am, and
the Disabled American Veterans OF
the World War will stage an observ-
ance in Lincoln Memorial Cemetery
at the same hour. Also at II am.
the Veterans Of Foreign Wars will
pay tribute in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
and the World War Veterans of the
United States Merchant Marine will
place wreath at the Navy and
Marine Memorial, Columbia Island.
in memory of men of the merchant
marine who lost their lives at sea
during the war.
Members of the U. S. S. Jacob
Jones Post of the American Legion
will gather at the Argonne Gross in
Arlington National Cemetery at
noon.
Services at Watergate.
Flowers will be cast upon the
Potomac River and poppies will be
dropped from an airplane as part of
services scheduled to begin at pm.
at the Watergate in memory of
men who lost their lives at sea or
in the air while in the Nations
armed forces. Miss Mary G. Pin
mock. president of the Department
OF the Potomac, Women's Relief
Corps, auxiliary to the Grand Army
OF the Republic. and Mrs. E. Helen
Temple. past department president,
will conduct the program.
The Irish War Veterans Union.
Catholic War Veterans and Father
Francis j. HYrney Post. American
Legion, are 70 attend vespers and
benediction at 1880 pm. in Mount
Ohvet Cemetery; Representative
Bertrand w. Gearhart of California.
past commander of the States
american Legion Department. is
to be the principal speaker at 2 pm,
when Washington Post No. So.
Jewish War Veterans of the United
States, and its auxiliary hold Joint
services in Adas Israel CONGREGATION
Cemetery, and William B. Cushing
Camp, Sons of Union Veterans of
the Civil War, is to hold services
at 2 pm. in the Abbey Mausoleur.::
Other Services. Scheduled.
Other services today include:
U. S. Grant Circle, Ladies OF the
G. A. R., Department of the Poto-
mac, rotunda of the Capitol. 2:3O
pm; New Jersey State Memorial
Association and District Department
OF the American Legion Auxiliary,
tomb OF President Wilson, Washing
ton Cathedral. 3 pm; Kit Carson
Post, Women's Relief Corps, and
warren G. Harding Camp, Sons of
Union Veterans, Glenwood, Prospect
Hill and st. Mary's Cemeteries, 3
pm; Second Division Association
OF the District of Columbia, Second
Division Monument, Seventeenth
street and Constitution avenue NV
8 pm, with address by Representa-
tive Melvin j. Mas of Minnesota.
music by the United States Marine
Band and detachments of soldiers
sailors and marines in attendance.
lnomas N. Fenwick Post, No. TAG
veterans OF Foreign Wars, st. Luke's
Episcopal Church, Bladensbure. Nd
pm, address by T. Howard Duck
ett banker and attorney.
Also Jane A. Delano Post, Amer
lean Legion. Arlington National
Cemetery, $50 pm; George Is. Kill
leen Post, American Legion, and it's
auxiliary, Grace Episcopal Church
cemetery, 6 pm, and James Reese
europe Post, American Legion. Gal
oralth African Methodist Episcopal
Church, 8 pm.
Services Tuesday Nisht.
The Bureau of Engraving ond
PRINTING Post of the Legion will con-
DUCT services Tuesday night, begin
nlng at BIS o'clock, in the new an.
mex OF the bureau, and 1t. Stephen
l: McGroarty Post of the Legion
Will decorate veterans graves in Fort
Lincoln Cemetary at 4 80 pm. Tues
gay and follow at $50 Wesdnesday
with services at 1t. McGroartys
grave IN Arlington National Cemetery
several hundred Boy Scouts will
meet at the Zero Milestone on the
EulpSe at 8 am. Thursday and then
VIII proceed to Arlington to assist in
decorating the graves with flowers
and flags, including blooms left At
schools and police and fire stations
yesterday by school children and
adults. ~
The annual Memorial Day parad.
Will start at 9:45 am. from Ninth
street and Constitution avenue NV
proceeding west to Eighteenth
street, where 1t will be disbanded
The reviewing stand will be located
on the north side of Constitution
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