Evening star., 1948-06-29
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Procession Will Beqir
At Noon at 4th and
Pennsylvania Avenue

More than 60 units, comprising
military. veteran, patriotic, youth
and business groups. will be in the
line of march this Saturday for the
first major event in the three-day
celebration of the Tooth anniversary
of the Washington Monuments
cornerstone laying.
The parade. approximately an
hour long, will begin at noon at
Fourth street and Pennsylvania ave-
nue. NV. 1t will proceed along the
avenue to Fifteenth street, then to
the reviewing stand on the Mon
ument Grounds.
At the reviewing stand President
Truman will make a Nation wide
radio address. Secretary of State
Marshall, who also is first vice presi-
dent of the Washington National
Monument Society, will preside. Gen
U. S. Grant III will tell the story
of the Monuments 100 years.
Barrett to Lead Parade.
Arrangements are being completed
by Harvey L. Jones, chairman of the
Parade Committee~of the Washing
ton Monument Centennial Com
mittee, and Col. Edwin S. Bettel-
helm, vice chairman. Leon Chate-
lain. jr., is general chairman of the
overall committee.
The parade will be led by Supt
of Police Robert j. Barrett and q
platoon Of motorcycle police.
Second in line will be Fleet Ad-
miral William F. Halsey, grand
marshal, and his staff. Marshal for
the first division will be Col. James
v. Cole. who will lead the Sd In
fantry Regiment and the oath En-
gineers, whose mobile equipment
will include jeeps. personnel car
riers, prime movers. trailers carry
ing pontoons and boats for bridges,
a motorized crane and other equip
ment
Navy units will include a bat
talon of bluejackets from the re-
ceivihg ship and mounted anti
craft guns. Also in the line will be
Marine and Coast Guard units as
we'll as platoons of Wacs and Waves.
The Army Band will lead the di-
vision, followed by the Marine Drum
and Bugle Corps and the Air Force
Bandmens School Band.
Gen. Cox to Act as Marshal.
Marshal for the second division
will be Brig. Gen. Albert L. Cox,
commander of the District National
Guard. This division will include
the Police Band, two military police
battalions, jeeps with regimental
colors, the 260th AAA group and
AAA gun battalions, tractor drawn
weapons, radar aircraft warning
trucks, the 104th Ordnance Main
tenancc company, the 18th Air
Control Group and the 18th Fighter
Group with a plane on a truck.
The third parade division will be
headed by Maj Ernest J. st. Jacques
and will include units of the Vet
Grams of Foreign Wars, the Ameri-
can Legion, Disabled American Vet-
erans, Regular Veterans Associa- =
ton, Jewish War Veterans, Irish
War Veterans, the Salvation Army
the VFW Band and the Almas Tenn
pie Shrine Bands.
The parade's fourth division will
be headed by the visiting newsboys
from other cities, including several
also named Washington. Also in
cluded in this division will be floats
from Chinatown and floats entered
by the District Grocery Stores. the
Marines. Guide Brothers Co.. Wash
ington Gas Light Co., the Washing
ton Post, the Graphic Arts Associa-
ton, The Evening Star, Call Carl
Inc; Greater National Capital Com
mittee Of the Washington Board OF
Trade and mobile bond selling
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