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ington was a tourist mecca Mr..
Harnett said.
The first of the sunrise gatherings
will be the fifth annual service spon-
sored by the Organized Bible Glass
| Association at Fort Lincoln. The
service, which starts at 5:23 am,
will be addressed by the Rev. Dr.
Walter W. Van Kirk, executive Sec
retary of the Department of Inter-
national Justice and Goodwill, Fed
eral Council of the Churches of
Christ in America.
DR.. Page NICK. Etchison, religious
work director of the YMCA and
president of the Organized Bible
Glass Association, will deliver the in
vocation, and Chaplain John w.
Moore, USN, will give the benedic-
ton. The prayer will be said by the
Rev. DR.. Horace E. Cromer, Method
ist superintendent of the Washing
ton east district, while Representa-
tive Davis. Democrat, of Tennessee
will read the Scripture lesson. How
ard M. Stackhouse. vice president of
the sponsoring organization, will
preside
Cabinet officers, members of Con-
gress and Government officials will
be among the worshipers at the
10th annual Easter sunrise service
at 7:30 am. tomorrow in Arlington
Cemetery amphitheater. The serv-
ice, sponsored by the Grand En-
campment of Knights Templar of
the United States, will have as
preacher the Rev. DR.. G. Bromley
Oman, Methodist bishop for the
New York area and president of
the Federal Council of Churches of
Christ in America.
Orr to Preside.
Presiding at the service will be
Charles N. Orr, most eminent
grand master of the sponsoring Or
ganization and majority leader of
the Minnesota State Senate. He
will be introduced by Fred E. Blood,
chairman of the Easter Sunrise
Service Committee Army Chaplain
Alfred c. Oliver, jr., retired Army
colonel who was Japanese prisoner
until his release last year, will say
the opening prayer, and the Rev.
DR.. Frederick B. Harris, Senate
chaplain and pastor of Foundry
Methodist Church, will give the
benediction. The Rev. DR.. John
c. Palmer, chaplain of the District
Grand Lodge, will read the Scripture
lesson.
Special buses will be run by the
Arnold lines from Eleventh and E
streets NV, directly to the west
gate and return, starting at $50
am. Mr.. Blood also announced
that additional amplifiers have been
installed so worshipers unable to
enter the amphitheater will be able
to hear the services.
Jefferson Memorial Services.
DR.. Paul F. Douglass. president of
American University, will speak at
the fourth annual Easter sunrise
service at the Thomas jefferson
Memorial at 7 am. tomorrow. The
meeting, sponsored by the Washing
ton Federation of Christian Youth.
will be conducted by Miss Grace
Riddell of the federation. The
Howard University Choir, directed
by Dean Warner Lawson, will sing.
In case of rain, the service will be
held at the New York Avenue Pres
byterian Church.
The Rev. Robert NJ Williams,
pastor of Asbury Methodist Church,
will preach the sermon at the third
annual Easter sunrise service, at 7
O'Clock, at Lincoln Memorial Gem
etery, Suitland road near Thirty
eighth street Sc. The Rev. William
H. Jernagin, pastor of Mount Car
mel Baptist Church. will preside.
The 18th annual Eastern sunrise
service will be held at 7 am. tomor-
row at the Lewinsville Presbyterian
Church of Mclean. Va. The Rev.
Alfred st. John Matthews, pastor Of
st. Johns Episcopal Church in Nc
Lean. will preach the sermon. The
Invocation and benediction will be
given by the Rev. Esdras S. Gruver,
pastor of Langley and Andrew Cha
pel Methodist Churches. and the re-
sponsive reading will be led by the
Rev. Franklin B. Gillespie, pastor
of the host church.
| Services will be held at Walter
Reed General Hospital at 7 am.
Maj. William Sharp, post chaplain,
will ofhciate.
The Benning Heights Civic Asso-
citation will sponsor the service at
E street and Alabama avenue Sc.
at am.
YMCA Sponsors Services.
Sponsored by the Young Mems
Christian Association, the first an
nual communicative Easter sun
rise service will be held at $50 am.
at Magruder Park, Hyattsville. Col.
Joseph L. Aman, U. S. A., retired,
who is president of the Hyattsville
YMCA, will preside, and the Mary
land State Guard will furnish the
color bearers.
Five minutes earlier, at 5:25 am,
the second annual dawn service
sponsored by the Seat Pleasant Dis
trict YMCA and the churches of the
community will be held on the lawn
of st. Matthew's Episcopal Church,
Seat Pleasant.
| A mixed choral group composed
of choirs of the churches in the Seat
| Pleasant area will furnish music for