Evening star., 1945-06-17
City Prepares
Hero 'sWe|co1le
To Eisenhower
Parade Tomorrow
To Launch Full
Day of Greeting
MAP AND DETAILS of plans for
Eisenhower parade appear on

Eisenhower parade appear on
Page A.
A grateful city tomorrow will
give a hero's welcome to a mod
est Kansas farm boy who be-
came supreme Allied commando
er of our victorious forces in
Europe. :
Gen. Eisenhower, accompanied by
his son, First 1t. John Sheldo1
Eisenhower, and So other officers
and enlisted men, will touch foot on
American soil for the first time since
victory in Europe at the Air Trans
port Command Terminal at II m.
to begin triumphal march from
the Pentagon to the Capitol.
Overhead will roar the 100 bomb
ers and fighter planes which will
have formed Gen. Eisenhower's
aerial escort from the coast.
The parade-expected to draw the
biggest crowd of cheering specta-
tors here since the war-will launch
a day devoted to rendering Gen.
Eisenhower and his party of combat
veterans the gratitude of his COM
mander-in-chief, the Congress, the
Secretary of War and the people Of
Washington.
Favorable weather for the cele-
bration was predicted last night by
the forecaster. Washington will be
fair and cooler" tomorrow-at least
10 or IL degrees cooler than it was
yesterday.
At one point, Gen. George S. Pat
ton, jr., whose Sd Army had a lot
to do with an early victory, will take
part in the Eisenhower welcome.
Gen. Patton will be one of the guests
at the buffet supper President Tru-
man will give tomorrow evening.
Gen. Pershing Remembered.
Another general also will be re-
membered. Gen Eisenhower will 90
to Walter Reed Hospital either to-
morrow or later to visit General of
the Armies John j. Pershing. The
visit will be made at Gen. Per-
shing's convenience.
Gen. Eisenhower already has paid
tribute to the man who brought
victory in 1918. Last month, on
We day, Gen. Eisenhower wrote
Gen. Pershing that 'the some of the
men you led in battle in 1918 have
much for which to thank you"
There will be many a family re-
union at the airport as more than
Is relatives rush forward to greet
their loved ones, but for Mrs. Dwight
Eisenhower it will be a double re-
| union. The generals wife hasn't
seen her husband for a year and .
half nor her son since January.
After graduating from West Point
year ago, Lieut.. Eisenhower spent
short leave with his father at
Supreme Allied Headquarters in
London and then returned for COM
bat training at the infantry school
at Fort Benning, Ga. He went over
seas in January of this year with
the list Division with which unit
he remained until his assignment
to signal information and monitor
ing company. Last month, he was
assigned to the 1st Division, 1st
Army.
After a short leave here, the
generals son will return to his unit
overseas.
In-laws Here for Welcome.
Mrs. Eisenhower's mother and
father, Mrs. John Sheldon Doud Of
Denver, Colo, also will be in the
welcoming party
Immediately after Gen. George G.
Marshall, chief of staff of the Army,
greets Gen. Eisenhower at the air.
port, the Army Band will render
four ruffles and four dourishes and
the Generals March.
It will be the bands. first public
appearance since it returned to this
country, after two years overseas,
in time to share in WaShington's
reception for Gen. Eisenhower. Dur
ing its overseas the band played 500
concerts to hundreds of thousands
of GIs and civilians in Tunisia.
Italy, France and Germany. 1t
played in opera houses and hos
pitals and a little over week ago
in Frankfort, Germany, and it
played when Marshal Georgi zhukov
conferred the Russian Order of Vic.
tory on Gen. Eisenhower.
Pentagon Workers to See Him.
While the relatives are being
rushed to the Capitol for the joint
session of Congress in the generals
honor, Gen. Eisenhower will ride
to the Pentagon with Gen. Mar.
shall
There, in the inner court, most O.
the $4,000 Pentagon workers vii
gather to see the man whose vic
tory they shared. After a brief ex'
change of greetings with Secretar,
Stimson, Gen. Eisenhower will be.
(See EISENHOWER, Page A-40