Evening star., 1946-05-29

MemOrl0I Exercises
Planned Throughout
City by Many Groups
Memorial Day services for the
Nations war dead will be led by
President Truman at II am. tomor-
row when the Chief Executive
places wreath at the Tomb OF
the Unknown Soldier in Arlington
National Cemetery.
Memorial Day exercises are sched-
uled all day throughout the city
with Gen. Omar N. Bradley, vet
erans' administrator, speaking al
HAS am. in the Arlington Amphi-
theater under auspices of the GAR
Memorial Day Corp. Following the
presidential Wreath-laying cere.
monies, floral tributes will be placed
at the tomb oy veterans, patriotic
and civic organizations.
The Arlington Amphitheater pro.
gram will include presentation oi
the colors, invocation pronounced by
the Rev. William M. La Roche, and
recitations of Lincoln's Gettysburg
Address" and The Americans
Creed" James G. Yaden, president
of the Memorial Day Corp. and
past department commander of the
United Spanish War Veterans, will
preside. The United States Marine
Band will provide music.
Scouts to Decorate Graves.
Boy Scouts of the National Capt.
tai Area Council will follow the
annual custom of decorating some
10000 Arlington graves during the
day. Scouts also will participate III
various other exercises.
AS part of the Arlington services
three Army Super Fortresses will fly
low and drop out flowers over the
graves of the dead At sea, a buddy
poppy memorial anchor will be cast
into the waves to commemorate the
Navy war dead.
The Ladies Auxiliary of the GAR
will hold services at the Arlington
Mansion starting at 1915 am, and
the District of Columbia Depart
ment of the United Spanish War
Veterans will sponsor a program at
the cemetery at the same hour. AT
1890 pm. American Legion cere-
monies will start at the Argonne
Cross and the AEF Plot, while the
Disabled American Veterans will
hold services at the Canadian Peace
Cross two hours later.
The first individual observance of
Memorial Day by the Marine Corps
will feature an address by Maj. Gen.
Clifton D. Gates, U. S. M. C. This
ceremony will be held at 4 pm. at
the Two Jima Monument on Con-
stitution avenue.
Children to Participate.
Public school children will deco
rate graves in battle-ground Ma
tional Cemetery at Brightwood in
services starting at 3 pm. Maj.
Gen. U. S. Grant III, chairman of
the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission, will speak.
The Fleet Reserve Association
will sponsor services at IL am. at
the Potomac Water Gate, with Rear
Admiral Robert B. Carney delivering
an address, and Boy Scouts of the
Sea Scout ship Hartford participat-
ing. The invocation will be spoken
by Comdr. Alvo o. Martin, chap
lain, who served on Two Jima.
Services at the Maine Mast in
Arlington will be conducted at 1o:45
am. by the Admiral George Dewey
Naval Camp, and Gen. Nelson A.
Miles will be honored in services at
his grave conducted by the Gen.
Miles Camp.
The District of Columbia Branch
Of the Second Division Association
will hold ceremonies at 2:30 pm. at
the Division Monument, Seven
teenth street and Constitution ave-
nue., with Maj. Gen. G. B. Erskine as
principal speaker.
G. U. Plans Ceremony.
Col Joseph v. D. Dillon, provost
marshal of the Army Air Forces, will
speak at Memorial Day exercises of
the Georgetown University Law
School starting at 10 a m. in the law
library, Sixth and E streets NV.
William Francis OHara, legless vet
eran now in his senior year at the
university. will read the names of
the A Georgetown men on the
schools roll of honor.
Dunbarton College of Holy Cross
will open memorial services with a
mass at $50 am.
The Ellen Spencer Mussey Tent,
Daughters of Union Veterans, will
in the Arlington exer-
cises.
Fresh-cut flowers deposited this
with police precincts and
fire station houses by local residents
were to be collected some time this
afternoon and taken to Arlington
tomorrow