Evening star., 1945-05-13
Veterans, in PuIpits,
To Join in Makinq
YES Day Of Prayer

Wounded veterans will appear in
the pulpits of mary District churches
today as the Capital observes a day
OF prayer and thanksgiving over vic
tory in Europe.
Protestant, Catholic and Jewish
congregations in Washington will
commemorate the day with special
services in accordance with Presi-
dent Truman's proclamation making
this day of prayer.
WorShipers at the Washington
Cathedral will hear DR.. Marc Boeg-
ner, pastor of the Protestant Church
at Passy, France, and president of
the Protestant Association of France,
at the pm. service, sponsored by
the Washington Cathedral and the
Washington Federation of Churches.
The Rev. Carroll C. Roberts, preSi-
dent of the federation, announced
yesterday there will be a process
sional of clergy in gowns preceding
the service.
The Very Rev. John Wallace Suter,
dean of the Cathedral, announced
that Brig. Gen. George F.. Rixey.
Army deputy chief of chaplains, will
read President Trumans proclama-
ton at the IL am. service. Brig.
Gen. Luther D. Miller, Army chief
of chapiains, and Navy Chaplain j.
Jack Sharkey also will participate
in the morning service.
Students at University.
The Rev. Thomas M. Steen, de-
tense commission director of the fed
Grafton, made public yesterday a list
OF veterans who will speak at morn
ing services. The returned service
men, all students at American Uni
versity, will talk on The Work Is
Not Completed" and deliver a
prayer composed by Machinist Mate
1/c l.. Dee Belveal, USNR, back
from l8 months in the Southwest
Pacific.
The veterans and the churches at
which they will speak are Corpl.
John A. Farrell, st. Johns Episcopal
Church Lafayette Square,; Sergt.
Garland S. Ladd, Columbia Heights
Christian Church; Aviation Cadet
Douglas L. Baker, AAF, Mt. Rainer
Christian Church; 1t. Leon Gayton,
| Vienna (VaD Presbyterian Church;
SOM &c Hollis A. Smith, Merchant
Marine, Grace Lutheran Church:
Pvt. John Andrisko, Wilson Boule-
ward Christian Church, Arlington,
Va, and Corpl. Peter G. Patall, Al
bright Evangelical Church.
Also Chief Steward Bernard R.
Jordan, U. S. N, Resurrection Lu-
theran Church, Arlington, Va; Pfc.
George J. Forakis, National City
Christian Church; Pfc. Charles N.
Girard, Takoma Park Christian
Church, Silver Spring, Md: Pvt.
Albert G.. Hasler, Concordia Evan
gelical and Reformed Church; Pvt.
Marcus G. Cameron, Ninth Street
Christian Church; Corpl. Earl G..
Nixon, First Evangelical and Re-
formed Church; Pvt. Frank G.
Wood, Mount Vernon Place Method
ist Church, and Pfc. Philip L.
Smelke, Luther Place Memorial
Church.
To Place Wreath.
The veterans will place a wreath
at 4::3O pm. at the Lincoln Memorial
to commemorate the men who fell
IN battle in this and the World War.
Rear Admiral Robert D. Work.
man, Navy chief of chaplains, will
speak at the II am. service at st.
Thomas Episcopal Church.
Representatives of American War
Mothers will be among the wor-
shippers at the morning service at
Universalist National Memorial
Church.
Representative Koppelman
Democrat, of Connecticut, and
Samuel Rothstein, president of the
United Synagogues of America. will
talk at the special pm. service at
Adas Israel Congregation, Sixth
and I streets NV The speaker at
the Washington Hebrew Congrega-
tlon at a special pm. service will
be Chaplain David Jacobson of
Walter Reed Hosnital