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Washington will pay homage to
Its war dead in a series of services
starting today and continuing
through Memorial Day on Wednes-
day.
Highlighting the solemn cere-
monies Wednesday will be the an
nual services in Arlington Cemetery
amphitheater.
War Mobilization Director Vinson
will speak at the cemetery exercises
at 12:l5 pm. Wednesday under
auspices of the Grand Army OF the
Republic Memorial Day Corp, in
which the GAR, United Spanish
War Veterans, Veterans of For
eign Wars, American Legion and
Disabled American Veterans are
represented.
Some persons will take advantage
OF the holiday for brief vacations.
Already transportation officials have
noted rise in travel by holiday va
cationers, and increasing travel is
expected through Memorial Day.
Wreaths to Be Placed.
Preceding the main part of the
amphitheater program in which
the Marine Corps Band will play
and Sergt. Glenn Darwin of the
Army Air Forces Band is to be So
lolst, will be the traditional cere.
mony at II am. in which the Presi.
dents wreath will be placed. fol-
lowed by the placing of wreaths by
representatives of patriotic and vet.
Grams groups.
AT the Battle Ground National
Cemetery, the Rev. Frederick Brown
Harris, chaplain of the Senate, will
speak at services at $3.50 pm. spon.
sored by the five veterans organi.
cations and the Brightwood Citizsns
Association.
Music will be furnished by the
Navy School of Music Band. with
Francesca Della-Lana as soloist.
John Clagett Proctor, chairman, will
recite an original poem, and children
OF the public schools will decorate
graves Of soldiers who fell at Fort
Stevens.
Mass Scheduled Today.
among services scheduled for to.
day are the seventh annual solemn
memorial military field mass for the
war dead in which representatives
OF more than so Catholic groups will
place wreaths at the Tomb of the
Unknown Soldier.
The Most Rev. DIR. Michael ].
Ready. Bishop of Columbus and
former general secretary of the Ma
tional Catholic Welfare Conference
here, will preside at this service. to
be held at 10 am, in the amphi.
theater.
The mass is being sponsored by
the Washington General Assembly,
fourth degree, Knights of Column
bus, in association with the National
Capital Committee of Catholic
Churches.
Memorial services also are being
held at the Tomb of the Unknown
Soldier at 3 pm. today by the
Daughters of America.
rOun0fy services TUESDAY.
A pre-Memorial Day service will
be held at II am. Tuesday in
Foundry Methodist Church at which
leading District clergymen of differ
ent faiths will participate. Spon-
sors will be the Washington Council
OF Church Women and the WASH
ington Chapter of Hadassah.
Clergymen to participate will be
DR.. Harris, pastor of Foundry
Methodist Church; the Rev. S. p.
Schllling, pastor of Brookland
Methodist Church; Rabbi Solomon
H. Metz of Adas Israel Hebrew Con-
gregation, and the Rev Powell Da-
vies, pastor of All Souls Unitarian
Church.
Georgetown Law School will con-
duct Memorial Day exercises We'd
nesday at 10 am. honoring the 20
students who gave their lives in
World War I and the nine who are
already listed as dead in this war.
Brig. Gen. Charles Roosa Sander
son. U. S. M. c., and the Rev.
Francis E. Lucey. S. j., regent of
the law school. will be the principal
speakers. Alumni are invited to the
exercises which will be held at the
law school, Fifth and E streets NV.
A bronze plaque in the law Ii
brary bearing the names of the
World War dead will be decorated
by a guard of honor composed of
49 officers and enlisted men in serv-
ice who are students at the law
! school. Capt. James O. Toomey,
Marine Corps Reserves, is to be in
charge of the guard. James Fay
Hall, jr, editor-in n-chief of the
Georgetown Law Journal, will pre-
side.
Rites at Water Gate.
Services will be held at II am.
Memorial Day at the Water Gate
in Potomac Park by Branch No. 4,
Fleet Reserve Association. Ship
mate Alexander Steele. past national
president of the Fleet Reserve As
sociation, will lead Two Bell"
ceremony and 1t. r. c. Robinson,
chaplain, U. S. N. r., will deliver
the memorial grafton. Music will
be furnished by the Navy School of
Music Band.
Miss Clara Herbert, librarian, has
announced that the District Public
Library's central building at Eighth
and K streets NV. will give full
service from l to 9 pm. Memorial
Day, with telephone service Begin
ming at 9 am. but that all other
branches will be closed for the day.
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