Evening star., 1947-05-25
Arlington Rites
Today to0pen
Memorial Week
80 Catholic Societies
To Decorate Tomb
Of Unknown Soldier

In the white marble amphitheate
Of Arlington Cemetery, in churche
and In quiet cemeteries Memoria
Week opens today.
The Unknown Soldier will be re
membered today and again mex
Friday, Memorial Day. More thai
30 Catholic societies will lay wreath
on the tomb today. Next Friday tn
ceremonies begun in 1868 by tn.
Grand Army of the Republic will b.
rededicated in the Arlington am
phitheater with Attorney Genera
Clark speaking.
In each military cemetery over.
seas and at home, flags will b.
placed Friday on the graves OF ever,
soldier, sailor or Marine who CAV,
his life for his country. More thar
266,o0 who died in World War I,
will be thus honored. Memoria
services have been arranged at the
permanent cemeteries, and at the
temporary cemeteries recently beau.
titled with shrubs and flowers.
Bishops to Preside.
Today's Arlington Cemetery rites
at 10:30 am. are sponsored by the
Washington General Assembly
Fourth Degree, Knights of Colum-
bus, and the National Committee oi
Catholic Societies. The wreaths fol
the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
will be blessed by the Most Rev
Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, apos-
tolic delegate to the United States
or by the presiding bishop, the Most
Rev. Peter Ireton, Bishop of Rich
mond.
Presiding at the mass with Bishop
1reton at this ninth annual memo
rial will be the attending bishops
the Most Rev. Arsene Turquetil, o
M. l., and the Most Rev William R
Arnold, former chief of Army chap
lains.
The preacher will be the Very Rev
1gnatius Smith, dean of the school of
philosophy, Catholic University, and
the mass will be sung by the univer-
sity's Carmelite Choir.
Deacons of honor to the delegate
will be the Right Rev. John K
Cartwright, rector of ST. Matthews
Cathedral, and the Right Rev. John
j. Russell, rector of st. Patricks S
Church.
Col. Ryan to Be Deacon.
The active deacon will be Col
Patrick ]. Ryan, Army deputy chief
Of chaplains. The subdeacon will be
Capt. John Hughes, Navy deputy
chief of chaplains. Master of cere-
monies will be the Rev. Walter
5chmitz, S. S.
Members of the armed forces
;,,'no lost their lives at sea will be
.lonored at 10:30 am. today at the
Watergate by the United Spanish
War Veterans auxiliaries. The
Army Band will play and 1t. Comdr.
Alvo o. Martin, chaplain at the
Naval Medical Center, Bethesda,
will deliver the address. Veterans
of other organizations have been
invited to participate in the strewing
of flowers on the Potomac immedi-
ately &1Ger Cne Services.
Potomac Electric Power Co. Post
No. 43 of the American Legion will
hold Its fourth annual services at II
am. today at Hamline Methodist
Church, Sixteenth and Allison
streets NV. The sermon will be
given by Admiral Williams N.
Thomas, chief of Navy chaplains,
and the memorial services conducted
by George l.. Myers, post chaplain.
The church choir will sing.
Memorial for Gen. McNair.
At 2 pm. today services commemo-
rating the birthday anniversary of
the late Gen. Lesley j. McNair will
be held at the National War College
Building. The services are sponsored
by the Lesley and Douglas McNair
Post No. So of the American Legion.
The post is named for Gen. McNair
and his son. both of whom were
killed in World War II.
Gen. Jacob L. Devers, command
ing general of the Army Ground
Forces, will deliver the address and
prayer offered by the Rev. Albert
J. Du Bois, rector of st. Agnes Epis-
copal Church and former 103d In
fantry Division chaplain. A wreath
will be placed On the McNair memo
rial plaque by Lee L. Garling, post
founder.
The chapel at Glenwood Cemetery
will be the scene of services at 2:30
pm. today far Glenwood, Prospect
Hill and ST Mary's Cemeteries. The
Rev. Paul L. Reaser, pastor of the
Lutheran Church of the Atonement,
will give the invocation and benedic-
tion.
There will be songs and recitations
by students of Langley Junior High
School, under the direction of Kit
Carson Womau's Relief Corps II.
auxiliary to the Grand Army of the
Republic.
Rites at st. Luke's.
All veterans organizations will
unite for rites at st. Luke's Episcopal
Church, Fifteenth and Church
streets NV. at 7:30 pm. today.
Thomas Dixon, national commander
of the United American Veterans
organizations, will deliver the ad-
dress and the Rev billiard H. Brown
will preside.
Navy dead will be honored at $50
pm. tomorrow when Mrs. Edith
Junkins and her daughters, Sandra,
4. and Judy. 2, present an anchor
made of nearly 1000 Buddy Poppies
to Assistant Secretary of the Navy
w. John Kenney.
Mrs. JunkinS, whose husband, Pfc.
Theodore Junkins of the 1st Marine
Division, was killed on Peleliu, will
represent Perry Ship Post of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars in the
ceremonies at Mr.. Kenney's office.
The anchor will be placed on dis
play in the main corridor of the
Navy Department Building until Me-
mortal Day, when it will be placed
aboard naval vessel and cast over
board at sea.
Services to Be Broadcast.
Yesterday Miss Mabel F Staub.
president of the Father Francis J.
Hurney auxiliary of the Catholic
War Veterans, placed a wreath at