Evening star., 1945-10-02
San Francisco
To Greet Nimitz
|0n Way Here
Admiral to Rest
Before Washington
Welcome Friday

Admiral Chester w. Nimitz,
who will receive the Nations ac- :
claim in Washington Friday, was
scheduled to fly to San Fran
cisco today on his way to the
Capital.
San Francisco had planned
rousing welcome, with the admiral
conveyed along Market street to the
City Hall, where the keys to the city
were to be presented His plane
was due in Oakland at pm. (EST.
After few days rest at his home
across San Francisco Bay, Admiral
Nimitz will leave for Washington.
Schools to Dismiss.
The Board of Education an
nounced today that school children
will be dismissed at II am. Friday
to attend the Nimitz day parade,
which starts shortly after pm. and
the program in the Monument
Grounds, which will begin about 2.
Government workers will be released
during the three hours of the cere-
monies, and department stores will
be closed.
Workmen are completing the re-
viewing stand at the Monument
Grounds, which will be in the form
of the deck of the battleship Mis-
souri,. More than $50 flags, borne
by veterans organizations, will be
placed on the rim of the platform.
Fifty sailors and so WAVES, in
whites, will take positions on the
simulated battleship.
Seventeen-Gun Salute.
The admiral will be greeted as
his party enters the ground with
l7-gun salute. The famed COM
mander of the Pacific Fleet will
review the 40-minute parade, which
will disband on the Monument
Grounds as the National Anthem
proclaims the beginning of cere-
monies there. Commissioner John
Russell Young will present the keys
to the city. The "Cavalcade of the
Pacific" drama with music and
narrative, will be a feature of the
program.
The parade will leave the foot
of the Capitol and proceed along
Pennsylvania avenue to Fifteenth
street and south to the Monument
Grounds. 1t will include extensive
detachments of bluejackets and
Marines, with a vast armada of
planes flying constantly over the
line of march.
Ninitz day will close with the
banquet at the Mayf1ower at 7:3O
pm. About 1000 citizens are ex-
pected to attend.
There are still plenty of seats to
be had for the parade and ceremony
at the Monument Grounds. They
are available at the keystone Au-
tomobile Club, 1643 Connecticut ave-
nue. NV, and the American Auto
mobile Association, Seventeenth
street and Pennsylvania avenue
NV. Bleacher seats, placed along
the line of march, cost 81 each, and
reserved places on the Monument
Grounds are $120.
/ The list of heroes to receive the
Congressional Medal of Honor from
President Truman Friday was in
creased to five today The Navy an
nounced that Pharmacists Mate &c
George Edward Whalen and Comdr.
George Levick Street III will re-
ceive the Nations highest award.
Two Jima Bravery.
! Pharmacists Mate Whalen, from
Ogden, Utah, serving with the 26th
Marines. 5th Division, was cited for
outstanding courage on Two Jima.
Although wounded three times he
remained on the battlefield and
continued to give medical aid to his
comrades. Unable to walk after
the third wound he crawled so yards
to help a fallen Marine, says the
citation.
Comdr, Street, whose home is near
Norfolk, Va, commanded the sub
marine Tirante in a raid on Jap
anese shipping April II, 1945. He is
cited for conspicuous gallantry and
intrepidity at the risk of his life
above and beyond the call of duty"
Penetrating deeply into the mined
and Shoal-obstructed harbor of
Quelpart Island, past numerous
enemy patrol vessels, says the cita-
ton, the submarine sent two tor
pedoes into japanese ammunition
ship. When it exploded with a
white glare, the Tirante was in
stantly spotted by the enemy. AS
| the submarine S0od from tho harho,.
Comdr. Street ordered her last two
torpedoes fired. Both struck frigates.
He cleared the harbor, then ordered
the sub to dive deep as Jap patrols
dropped depth charges.