Evening star., 1946-05-26

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In Annual Observance
Of Memorial Day Rites
Led by President Truman, Wash
ington will honor the veterans of
all wars Thursday with Memorial
Day services throughout the city.
1 Memorial observances will start
today and continue through the
week. The eighth annual Memorial
Field Mass will be held at 10 am.
today in Arlington Amphitheater.
The sermon will be delivered by
Cardinal Spellman of New York.
The mass will be celebrated by
the Most Rev William R. Arnold,
military delegate of the Army and
Navy Diocese and former Army
chief of chaplains. The narrator
will be the Rev. Eugene Gallagher
of Georgetown University.
Truman to Place Wreath.
President Truman will open
Memorial Day ceremonies when he
places wreath on the Tomb of
the Unknown Soldier at II am. in
the Amphitheater of Arlington
National Cemetery.
Gen. Omar N. Bradley, Veter-
ans Administrator, will speak at the
ceremonies sponsored by the G. A.
R. Memorial Day Corp. on Memorial
Day.
Presentation of the colors, sing
ing of the Star Spangled Banner"
and invocation pronounced by the
Rev William M La Roche will
open the program. The veterans
will repeat the "American's Creed
and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
/ Veterans, patriotic and civic
groups will follow the President in
placing wreaths on the Tomb of
the Unknown Soldier.
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Ladies Auxiliary of the G. A. r.
at the Arlington Mansion at II
m. Thursday and the United
! Spanish War Veterans at the Span
ish War Monument At 1890 pm,
the American Legion will hold cere-
monies at the Argonne Cross and
A. E. F. Plot, and at 2:30 pm. the
Disabled American Veterans will
conduct services at the Canadian
Peace Cross at Arlington
Marine Corps Ceremony.
The United States Marine Corps
will have its first individual observ-
ance of Memorial Day at 4 pm. at
the Two Jima monument on Con-
stitution avenue in memory of the
. Marine dead of all wars.
Maj. Gen. Clifton D. Gates, who
commanded the 4th Marine Divi-
sion on Two Jima, will speak.
A buddy poppy memorial an
Choir will be committed to the sea
in commemoration of Navy war
dead during Memorial Day serv-
ices, the Veterans of Foreign Wars
announced Yesterday.
The memorial will be presented
to John l.. Sullivan. Assistant Sec
retary of the Navy for Air, tomorrow
/ by Louis E. Starr, VFW vice COM
mander. Mr.. Sullivan will then turn
the anchor over to the commander
of the Admiral Robert E. Peary Ship
No 427, VFW.
Public school children will deco
rate the graves in battle-ground Ma
tional Cemetery at BrightWood in
services starting at 3 pm. under
the auspices of the G. A. R. Me-
mortal Day Corp. and the Bright
wood Citizens Association. Maj.
Gen. U. S. Grant III, chairman of
the National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission will speak.
Scouts Sponsor Service.
The Fleet Reserve Association and
the Sea Scout Ship Hartford" of
the Boy Scouts will sponsor Me-
mortal Day services at II am. at
the Water Gate, West Potomac
Park.
Georgetown University School of
Law will conduct exercises on Me-
mortal Day at 10 am. in the law
library at Sixth and E streets NV.
Col. Joseph V. D. Dillon, provost
marshal of the Army Air Forces,
who was graduate from George
town in 1885, will make the princi-
pal address. William Francis
O'Hara, legless veteran of the senior
class, will read the names of the
"A Georgetown men on the univer-
sity's roll of honor.
The student body of Dunbarton
College of Holy Cross will observe
Memorial Day beginning with mass
at $50 am.
Memorial services for Jewish vet
Grams will be held at 1:30 o'clock
this afternoon at the cemetery of
the Adas Israel Congregation, Con-
gress Heights.
Spanish Veterans Rites.
The District of Columbia Depart
ment, United Spanish War Veterans
and its auXiliaries. will hold me-
mortal services at 1915 am Thurs
day at Arlington National Cemetery.
Services will be held at the Maine
Mast by Admiral George Dewey
Naval Camp at 1045 am. Thursday.
The annual Spanish War Veterans
services will be held at 23O pm.
today at Hitchcock Hall, st. Eliza
beth Hospital
The grave of Gen. Nelson A. Miles