Evening star., 1943-11-07
D. {. Organizations
Plan Services for
Armistice Day

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in
Arlington Cemetery, will be paid
on Armistice Day, Thursday, in
District area observances featured
by the annual American Legion
memorial service in Arlington
Amphitheater.
Speakers at the amphitheater
service, from :05 am. to 1:30 pm,
will be Warren Atherton of Stock
ton, Calf, national commander of
the American Legion, and Mrs.
Lawrence Smith of Wisconsin, ma
tional president of the American
Legion Auxiliary. Their addresses
will be broadcast over a national
hookup.
AS In previous years, local pa
triotic and fraternal organizations
have been invited to have their col
ors present for the impressive ad-
vancement and retiring OF the col
ors ceremony. This ceremony IS
sponsored by the National Guard
of Honor of the American Legion,
of which Capt. Gail T. Judd is dl-
rector.
Churches Plan Services.
Honor also will be paid to the
dead of the last war in ArmlStlce
Dav services in churches and else
where.
Federal employees will work as
usual, but most District Govern
ment employees will observe the
holiday, as we'll as banks and many
private businesses.
District school children will be
given a holiday Thursday, but must
return to classes Friday, school Oh
ficials have announced.
Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle, preSi-
dent of the Board of Education, will
speak on the fifth annual Educa-
tional Week broadcast sponsored by
the High School Teachers ASsoci-
alton at II m. Thursday over Sta
ton WMAL. The male double
quartet of Mckinley High School
will sing.
Other Observances Planned.
Other Armistice Day high lights
follow:
The Washington Chapter of
France Forever will hold a mass
for France at II am. in St. Mat
thews Cathedral. Father R. B.
Ducatillon, who served as chaplain
with the French fighting forces, will
come from New York to celebrate
the mass.
The Washington Cathedral will
hold a service at 3:15 pm. in CO.
operation with the Woodrow Wilson
Committee. Huston Thompson,
Washington attorney, close friend
and former student of President
Wilson, will deliver the main ad-
dress.
At II am. at the Thomas Jeffer-
son Memorial, ministers from
Washington and elsewhere will hold
a service of information, to tell
citizens of the principles of the
Declaration Of independence. The
Rev. j. H. Marshall will preside, and
the Rev. j. c. Olden, director of
the Militant Church Movement, will
speak on Thomas jefferson and
the Negro"
To Meet at Capitol.
From the jefferson Memorial this
meeting will be shifted to the
Capitol Building. where a brief
prayer service will be conducted by
the Revs. Robert Anderson. J. H.
Peters and j. w. Tate. At night
the meeting will be held at the
Metropolitan Baptist Church. The
Rev. E. L. Harrison will preside
there, and Judge w. H. Harrison of
Chicago will deliver the address.
Mrs Mark w. Clark, wife of the
commanding general of the 5th
Army in Italy, has accepted the
honorary Craftsmanship Of the an
nual Armistice Day ball of the Dis
trict Department, Veterans of For
e1gn Wars, at the Willard Hotel.
The central building of the Wash
ington Public Library at Eighth and
K streets NV. will be kept open
from l to 9 pm. on Armistice Day.
Telephone information service there
will be available from 9 am. All
branch libraries will be closed all
day.
A highlight of the American
Legion memorial service will be the
placing of the Presidents wreath on
the Tomb Of the Unknown Soldier
at II am, commemorating the ex-
act time of the Armistice with Ger
many Is years ago. Following this
ceremony, the Legion exercises will
begin in the Amphitheater, it was
announced yesterday by Fred G.
Fraser, chairman of the Legion S
Armistice Day Committee.
Air Force Band To PLAY.
Music will be provided by the
Army Air Forces band, of Boiling
Field. The invocation will be by
Msgr John T. McManus of Kansas.
national chaplain of the American
Legion, and the benediction by the
Rev. Dr. Howard Snyder, District
department chaplain.
William H Hargrave, national ex-
ecutlVe committeeman from this city,
will deliver an address of welcome.
National Comdr Atherton will be
presented by District Department
Comdr. Francis Mccarthy. The So
loist will be Corpl. Glenn Darwin,
former Metropolitan Opera baritone.
AS in former years, complement
OF men of the armed services will
act as guard of honor during the
wreath-laying ceremony.
Officials to Attend.
Members of Congress, the cabinet,
diplomatic corps and Government Of
flclals plan to be present
In addition to the American I,e-
glon ceremony, arrangements have
been made by the following orgari-
cations for the placing of wreaths
on the tomb of the Unknown Sol
dier Thursday:
Washington High School Cadets,
9:15 am; Department of Virginia,
Veterans of Foreign Wars, GAS am;
Veterans Administration, 1:3O pm:
Jewish War Veterans LAX ~ ~,