Evening star., 1947-10-28
President May
Attend Rites for
- -:
Returned Dead
First 20 Of 5000
To Be Buried at
Arlington Thursday

/ President Truman is expected to
head a group of high-ranking civil
Jan and military leaders and repre-
Sentatives of veterans organizations
;at the joint interment services for
s20 returned World War II dead in
darlington Cemetery at II am
] Thursday.
Defense Secretary Forrestal and
Secretaries Royal, Sullivan and
Symington of the Army, Navy and
Air Force, respectively, along with
the top military leaders, will attend
the first Capital ceremony paying
homage to heroes returned from the
sPacific. 3
4 The 20 to be buried Thursday will
fbe the first of some 5000 expected to
be reinterred at Arlington. Most OF
the first 20 have next OF kin in the
District area, the Military District
of Washington releaved in an
nouncing the list yesterday. The
American Graves Registration Divi-
sion, in announcing plans for the
services in Philadelphia a week ago,
said they would be the first bodies
sent to Washington and that many
could be expected to reach the Cap
ital hereafter as the 100000 to be
returned arrive In the United States.
Simple Services at Graves.
The<86- piece Army Band will open
the exercises with appropriate music,
as four enlisted men of the service
Of the deceased take their places
beside each of the caskets. Army
and Navy chaplains of the Protes-
tant. Catholic and Jewish faiths will
conduct the simple but impressive
graveside services. This will be fol-
lowed by military honors of three
rifle volleys and taps blown by a
bugler.
Before each casket is lowered into
the grave the four honor escorts will
step forward, remove the flag from
the casket and present it to the
next of kin.
Grave sites are located in section
II in the cemetery. which is bounded
by Mcclellan, Grant, Porter and
Patton avenues. Next of kin have
been asked to 60 to the superin-
tendents Office, from which point
military escorts will conduct them
directly to the grave site. In event
of rain, canopies will be erected
above each grave site. Services will
be held only at the grave sites, with
no ceremony planned for the ampi-
theater.
Heroes and Kin.
Those to be reinterred include
the following, who served in the
Army, with their next of kin: Pfc
James w. Brent, Berkley Brent
dather), Mountviile, Va; First 1t
Claude r. Lander, Estelle L. Mana
shaw (rnother>, 6429 North Twenty
second street, Arlington; T/3 Lorenz
D. Smith, Edgar D. Smith Gather)
Columbia Heights Station, Wash
ington: T/Sergt. Charles e. Schafer,
Rose E: Schafer ewife), Baltimore,
Md.
Also the following, who served in
the Air Force and their next of
kin: Maj. Andrew A. Barna, Mildred
j. Barna (wife), 4006 Sixty-second
street NV. Second 1t. George "
Pyles, Dennis w. Pyles (father)
5000 Temple road Sc; Second 1t
William E. Somsel, jr., William E
Somsel, ST. father, Primos, Pa.
Capt. Hobart T. Walker, Mrs
Hobart T. Walker. sr. (mother)
1921 Twenty-first street NV.
The following, who served in the
Navy, and their next of kin: cit
q. g. Randall B. Adams, DR.. Henry
D. Adams father), 1925 I street
NV; Ensign Donald w. Angus.
terrier, Leona NJ. Augusterfer (moth.
err, 4422 New Hampshire avenue
NV; Storekeeper sc Baltasser
Giacofci, Lucy B. Giacofci Cmother)
112 Seventeenth street Sc; Avia.
tion Machinist Mate SIC Donale
Keith Hathaway, Paul L. Hathawa,
father, 1926 T street NV; Gun
,ner's Mate &c John Campbell
fPensyl, Ruth Roxanna Pensy
(mother), 1446 Fairmont stree
NV; Pharmacist Mate 1/c Arthu
William Russett, Gertrude L. Rus
sett (wife), 2421 M street NV.
The following who served in Ma
rine Corps and their next of kin
T/Sergt. Shelby Lowell Cox, Ger
'trude l.. Emanuel (mother), $40,
First place NV; Maj. Henry Tai
mage Elrod. Mrs. Henry T. Elrot
lwife). Henderson Hall, Arlington
Pvt. Martin F. Hunt. Mrs. Martir
p. Hunt (motheD, 3o7 Allisol
street NV; Second 1t. James F
Kehoe, jr., James F. Kehoe. sr
(father). 1928 Fessenden stree
NV; Pfc. Samuel Arts Westray
Mrs. Mabel L. Westray (mother)
1925 East Capitol street: Mastel
Tsergt. Carl L. Rice, Mrs. Car
&, Rice (wife), 1887 Monroe stree
M