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

In the white marble amphitheater
of Arlington Cemetery, In churches
and in quiet cemeteries Memorial
Week opens today.
The Unknown Soldier will be re-
membered today and again next
Friday, Memorial Day. More than
80 Catholic societies will lay wreaths
on the tomb today. Next Friday the
ceremonies begun in 1868 by the
Grand Army of the Republic will be
rededicated In the Arlington am
phitheater with Attorney General
Clark speaking.
In each military cemetery over
seas and at home, flags will be
placed Friday on the graves OF every
soldier, sailor or Marine who gave
his life for his country. More than
5000 who died in World War II
will be thus honored. Memorial
services have been arranged at the
permanent cemeteries, and at the
temporary cemeteries recently beau
tilted with shrubs and flowers.
Bish ops to Preside.
Today's Arlington Cemetery rites
at 1890 am. are sponsored by the
Washington General Assembly
Fourth Degree, Knights of Colum-
bus, and the National Committee OF
Catholic Societies. The wreaths for
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. T.,
Presiding at the mass with Bishop
Ireton 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
Tgna thus 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. Patrick's S
Church.
Col. Ryan to Be Deacon.
The active deacon will be Col
Patrick j. 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
Schmitz, S. S.
Members of the armed forces
who lost their lives at sea will be
honored at 1890 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 after the services,
Potomac Electric Power Co. Post
NO. 43 of the American Legion will
hold its fourth annual services at IL
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 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. 50 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
NT,{1 a tn Nf ~ 80
pm. today for 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-
ton.
There will be songs and recitations
by students of Langley Junior High
School, under the direction of Kit
Carson Woman'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 al $3.50
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 Kennev.
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