Evening star., 1948-05-27
First Gold Stars
To Be Presented
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Families to Receive
EmbIems Sunday at
Arlington Sunday

EmbIems Sunday at
Arlington Sunday
The first Gold Star emblems for
widows and parents OF men lost in
the war will be presented In the
annual Memorial Day ceremonies
Sunday in Arlington Cemetery.
The presentation will follow q
short address at noon by President
Truman before the mierophones Of
the national networks in the am
phitheater of the Tomb Of the
Unknown Soldier. The President
will place a wreath at the tomb.
after which taps will be sounded.
washington's 100000 Government
workers and employees Of most
private establishments will be given
a three-day holiday. Thousands will
leave Washington tomorrow evening
for trips back home or to nearby
vacation spots.
The Merchants and Manufac-
turers' Association announced that
most retail stores in the District
will be closed Monday. The banks
and most service establishments
also will observe the holiday.
Library to Close.
The Washington Public Library
and all its branches will be closed,
Harry N. Peterson, District Libra
rian, announced. The Library of
Congress will be open on a holiday
schedule of from 2 to 10 pm.
While the Arlington ceremony is
in progress. at about 1880 am,
delegation from the Admiral Robert
E. Perry Ship Post OF the Veterans
of Foreign Wars will conduct spe-
cial ceremony honoring Navy and
Marine Corps dead. A six-foot
anchor, made of 1000 poppies. will
be dropped in the Potomac of the
Navy Yard.
The anchor was presented yes
terday to Assistant Secretary of the
Navy Mark Edwin Andrews by
Omar B. Ketchum. WV legislative
director. 1t will be on display in
the main lobby of the Navy Depart
ment until Sunday,
This service climaxes the VFW's
annual buddy poppy program. In
the week preceding Memorial Day
the organization sells the emblems
for the relief of needy and disabled
veterans and their families.
The I'd Infantry Division Associa-
ton will honor its dead of two wars
at 2:30 pm. Sunday at the ID Divi-
sion Monument on Constitution ave-
nue. NV, between Sixteenth and
Seventeenth streets.
darlington Parade Planned.
At darlington, residents will hold
Memorial Day observances, includ-
ing parade, beginning at l:3o pm.
The American Automobile Asso-
ciation predicted, meanwhile, that
Memorial Day trafic' this year
would be the heaviest in history.
Laying of wreaths by representa-
tives of patriotic and veterans Or
ganizations will begin at 10:45 am.
at the Tomb of the Hqknown Sol
dier and will continue after the
presidential ceremony. The Marine
Band, under Maj. william F. San
telmann, will begin playing at 1880.
The formal program will begin at
11:45, with the arrival of the Presi-
dent, the members of the cabinet,
the Chiefs of Staff and other on
cials.
Representative Heating, Repub-
lican, of New York, who introduced
the legislation establishing the Gold
Star emblem, will explain its pur-
poses. Widows and parents of men
killed who wish the emblem should
apply to the Department Of Ma
tional Defense on blanks obtainable
at any Post Office.
Seven Families Selected.
The seven families to receive the
emblems at the ceremony have been
selected by the District Commits
sioners as representative OF Gold
Star families of men who served in
the Army, Navy, Air Forces, Marine
Corps and Coast Guard.
Army Secretary Royal will pre-
sent emblems to two families, those
of 1t. Col. Carl H. Bradshaw, an in
fantry of1icer killed in Germany, ano
Capt. Charles Overhaul, an infantry
officer killed in italy. The emblems
will be received by Mrs. Grace
Bradshaw, l13 C street NE, 1t
Bradshaw's widow, and by Mr.. and
Mrs. Paul Bradshaw, 90l c street
NE, his parents, and by Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles E. Overhaul, 134 W
street NE. parents of Capt. Over.
hall. Mrs. Charles Overhaul, his
widow, is in a hospital and will be
unable to attend the ceremony.
Navy Secretary Sullivan will pre-
sent emblems to three families, sur
vivors OF men killed in the Navy
the Marine Corps and the Coast
Guard. The men were Pharmacists
Mate John Lawrence Talbert, killed
at Two Jima; 1t Col. John J. He'll
U. S. M. c., killed when a prison
ship was sunk between the Philip.
pine Islands and China, and 1t. A
Evans Bliss, Coast Guard, who went
down with the destroyer escort
Leopold in the North Atlantic.
WidoMs to Receive Emblems.