Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-29
Rites 10 Mark
Day
In Capital
Parade to Stort at
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lean and World Wars.
The rolling hills of Arlington Gem
etery, crowned by national shrines
and Sprinkled with the graves of
military heroes, will be the focal
point of the observance here, al
though other exercises are planned
throughout the city.
Government departments will close
for the national holiday, as will most
downtown retail stores.
Many Government employees
planned to take leave of absence on
the Saturday half holiday to spend
a long week end at beach and noun
tain resorts.
Parade at GAS AM.
The principal observance will
begin with Memorial Day parade
to march from Ninth street and
Constitution avenue at GAS am.
The column, composed of military
units and veterans and patriotic or
CARNATIONS, will be led by the Sd
United States Cavalry Band. Brig.
Gen. Albert l.. Cox, director of Sc
lective service for the District, will
be grand marshal
The parade will move west on
Constitution avenue, passing the re-
viewing stand near Sixteenth street
and disbanding at Seventeenth
street NV. Most of the marchers
Will proceed to Arlington Cemetery
by automobile to participate in ex-
ercises there.
Military units in the parade will
include the rifle troop of the Sd
cavalry: motorized equipment; the
Sd Battalion, 18th Infantry; the
United States Marine Band, a COM
pany OF marines, color detach-
ment from the Coast Guard, the
United States Navy Band and a
company of bluejackets. MANY
American Legion units and other
organizations of World War veterans
Will be represented in the parade.
Sergt. York to Speak.
Sergt. Alvin C. York. the Iankv
tennessee mountaineer who became
an outstanding hero of the A. EFF.
Will be among speakers at exercises
to begin at 1880 a m. at Arlington.
under auspices of the Grand Army
OF the Republic Memorial Day Corn.
The observance will open with a
Wreath-laylng ceremony at the
Tomb OF the Unknown Soldier of
the World War, and Sergt. York
VIII place floral tribute at the
tomb on behalf of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Representatives of numerous other
veterans and patriotic groups will
deposit memorial wreaths, including
James G. Yaden, president of the
Memorial Day Corporation, and
officers OF the American Legion, the
/ United Spanish War Veterans, Dis
abled American Veterans, Women's
Relief Corps, auxiliary of the Grand
Army OF the Republic.
The ceremony will be directed bv
Haywood N. Saunders, District de-
partment vice commander of the
Legion. Music will be furnished BY
the Marine Band and the American
Legion Boys Drum Corps and the
Fort Stevens Fost Bugle Corps. A
presentation of colors ceremony viii,
be held at 12:45 pm. with Legion
and Veterans of Foreign Wars ma
tlonal guards of honor participating.
Gen. Hines to Speak.
Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, admin
lstrator Of veterans affairs. will be
principal speaker, and solos will be
sung by James Melton, the prom
inent tenor.
Services in honor of members of
the A. E. F. buried in German-occu-
pied sections of Belgium and France
Will be held at 2:30 pm. at the
Argonne Cross in Arlington under
auspices of the National Legion.
Legion officials explained the serv-
ices will be held because veterans
posts in Belgium and France ARE
unable to observe fittingly Me-
mortal Day this year as has been
their custom in the eight national
military cemeteries each year since
the World War"
Annual exercises under auspices of
the Department of the Potomac.
Grand Army of the Republic. will
open at 1890 am in the Fort Myer
section of the cemetery with Rep
resentative Martin F. Smith of
Washington, chairman of the House
Committee on Pensions, and long
active in veterans affairs, as princi-
pal speaker. Col Howard E. SNYDER.
United States Army chaplain, will
give the invocation. and music will
be provided by an Army bugler and
cornetist.
Services in honor of the dead of
the Civil War will be held at II am.
at the Tomb of the Unknown Dead"
under auspices of the Women's
Relief Corps, auxiliary of the G.
A, R. Color bearers Of the corps
and allied organizations will form
a procession to be led by the Marine
Band.
Wreaths to Be Placed.
Memorial wreaths and sprays Of
flowers will be placed in behalf Of
President Roosevelt; w. w. Nixon,
commander of the G. A R.; John
NJ Kline, commander of the De-
partment of the Potomac, G. A. r.;
Mr.. Yaden and many other leaders
of veterans and patriotic organiza-
tions.
The Relief Corps also will particle
pate in services in Arlington AM
phitheater at l pm. Wreaths will
be placed on the Tomb of the I'm
known Soldier of the World War
and at the Maine Mast in honor
of the sailors who died when the
battleship was sunk in Havana
Harbor.
The United Spanish War Vet
Grams of Admiral George Dewey
Naval Camp, No. 7, will sponsor a
memorial service at the Maine
Monument at noon. The program
will include addresses by Repre-
sentative Smith and by William M.
La Roche. camp commander. Mu-
sic will be furnished by the Elks
Boys Band, and Mrs. Marjory