Evening star., 1944-10-27
SOCIETY AND GENERAL NEWS
WASHINGTON, D. G.
Great Pacific Victory
Sparks Celebration
Of Navy Day in D. {.
Parade to Be Feature
Of Observance With
Marine Heroes in Line

victory in the Pacific providing
a perfect backdrop, Washington
today began it's most ambitious
celebration of Navy Day since
the observance was started.
The high spot OF the city-wide
celebration was scheduled for 1:30
pm. when the first Navy Day parade
ever held in the District will begin
its march along Constitution avenue.
Thousands of naval personnel and
marines, augmented by some civilian
groups, will set out from Fourth
street and Constitution avenue,
march to Seventeenth street and
proceed along Seventeenth street to
the John Paul Jones Monument,
where participating units will dis
perse.
Marine Heroes in Line.
Parade-hungry Washington, which
has been treated to few spectacles
of this kind since Pearl Harbor, Is
expected to flock to points along
the line of march for an admiring
look at units representing services
which have played such an i'm
portant role in the progress of the
war.
Included among the estimated
5000 in the procession will be several
hundred marine veterans of bloody
Pacific battles, many of them wear
ing citations for their parts in the
victories at Guadalcanal, Tulagi,
New Georgia, Tarawa, Namur, Bou-
gainville, Roi and Eniwetok.
Ceremonies paying tribute to the
men of the Navy will be held at
the foot Of John Paul Jones statue
at the conclusion of the parade.
These exercises will be in the hands
OF the Military Order of the World
War.
Admiral Gets Flowers.
A basket of flowers was presented
to Rear Admiral w. B. Young, pay
master general of the Navy, on be-
half Of Maj. Gen. Edmund B. Gre
CORY, quartermaster general of the
Army, this morning in keeping with
custom inaugurated three years
ago.
The Navy Day observance will
officially close with a dinner at g.
pm. in the Mayfower Hotel, where
Joseph c. Grew, former ambassador
to Japan, and Undersecretary of
War Patterson will be the principal
speakers.
At Mckinley High School, all
former students who are now in the
Navy. Coast Guard or Marines, were
invited to attend open house"
After exercises in the assembly, the
guests were served refreshments
and given an opportunity to renew
acqualntances with their former
teachers.
VIII Last One Hour.
The parade is scheduled to last
an hour. Chief figure in the re-
viewing stand is to be Admiral Will
liam D. Leahy, chief of staff to
President Roosevelt. Rear Admiral
F. l.. Reichmuth, commandant of
the Potomac River Naval Com
mand, is marshal; Royce Powell,
general chairman of the Navy Day
program sponsored by the Navy
League, and Capt. H. c. White
hurst, chairman of the Parade Com
mittee.
Also in the reviewing stand will
be Secretary of Labor Perkins, Gen.
Henry H. Arnold, commander of
the Army Air Forces; Mr.. Grew,
Vice Admiral Emory S. Land, chair
man Of the United States Maritime
Commission: Admiral H. E. Yarnell
and Vice Admiral F. j. Horne; Mai
Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, director of
Selective Service; Commissioners
John Russell Young. Guy Mason and
Col. Charles W. Kutz; Capt. Sue
Dauser, head of the Navy Nurse
Corps; Comdr Tova P. Wiley. as
sistant director OF the WAVES; 1t.
Comdr. Helen B. Schleman. assist
ant director of the SPARS; Mai.
Katherine Towle, assistant to the
commandant of the Marine Corps
Women's Reserve, and E. Barrett
Prettyman, president of the Wash
lngton Board of Trade.
The line Of march will be studded
with bands, including the Marine
bagpipe band from Quantico. Va.
which earned a place in the hearts
OF the Irish when it made its first
public appearance in Londonderry,
Northern Ireland, year and a half
ago. Other Marine bands, as well
as Navy and Coast Guard units. will
be represented.
Others to March.
Also In the line of march will be
veterans organizations, high school
cadets, American Red Cross units,
merchant marine, sailors and cadets
from the Naval Academy at Annap-
oils.
The reviewing stand is on Con-
stitution avenue between Sixteenth
and Seventeenth streets, where a
band from the Navy School of Music
will be stationed to play a concert
before the procession reaches that
point. Paraders are expected to
assemble in the formation area, near
Fourth street and Constitution ave-
nue. at l pm.
A special motorized section has
been included in the parade to make
an appeal to spectators to purchase
more War Bonds in connection with
the opening of the Sixth War Loan
campaign next month.
AS a precautionary measure, three
first aid stations have been set up
along the line of march-one at
the Justice Department Building,
another at the Interdepartmental
lobby at Fourteenth and c streets
NV, and the third at the John Paul
Jones statue.