Evening star., 1948-02-19
Capital 10 Honor
Washington on
Monday
Ceremonies Planned
AT Mount Vernon and
In Alexandria

tons 126th birthday anniversary in
the Nations Capital will be extend
ed over Sunday and Monday, with
special ceremonies in the District
and nearby Virginia.
With February falling on Sum-
day, Government Offices will follow
a holiday schedule Monday.
Attorney General Clark will speak
at Mount Vernon Sunday at
wreath-laying ceremony sponsored
by the American Legion and to be
over the Mutual network
from 1870 to 2 pm.
District Legionnaires, led by Owen
c. Holleran, department COM
mander, will join Virginia legion
naires led by John Minnigh of
Alexandria in conducting the Mount
Vernon ceremonies. Wreaths will
be placed on the First Presidents
tomb by George Washington Post
No. l and Alexandria Post No. "a.
OAR Observance Monday.
Chief Justice Marvin Jones of the
United States Court of Claims will
join the District chapter, Sons of
the American Revolution and
Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion. in their 34th annual Washing
toms Birthday observance in Conti
mental Hall, Seventeenth and D
streets NV, at 1890 am. Monday.
Justice Jones will speak on THE
First Presidents Part in Framing
the Federal Constitution"
Following the public ceremonies
in Continental Hall. wreath will
be placed at the base of the Wash
ington Monument. Later in the day,
Justice Jones will address members
of the two patriotic groups at a
in the Mayfiower Hotel at
1890 pm.
Senator Cain, Republican, of
will speak at II am
Monday in the Old Union Engine
House, Nineteenth and H streets
NV, in special Washington's
Birthday observance sponsored by
the Association of the Oldest In
Birthday Ball Planned.
The Mount Vernon Citizens AS
sociation, some of whose members
live on part of the First Presidents
original estate, will sponsor birth
day ball at Collingwood on the
Mount Vernon highway Saturday
night.
The ball, which the association
hopes to make an annual event,
will feature a grand march at 1890
p m, led by couples dressed in col
orful Colonial costumes. The dance
is open to the public, according to
Robert j. Wilson of Arcturus, asso-
citation president.
A neighborhood observance of
Washington's Birthday will be held
in the Dupont Stoddert Recreation
Center Community Hall, Ridge road
and C street Sc, at pm. tomor-
row. The party, sponsored by the
District Recreation Department,
will feature dramatization of the
old English ballad, I'm Biberley
Town." by chorus and cast of %.
In other observance the Veterans
Of Foreign Wars here and through
out the Nation will honor the First
VFW Schedules Banquet.
The Department of Maryland
VFW will place a wreath at Mount
Vernon at l am. Sunday as part of
the national groups two-day cere-
Charles B. Buscher, Mary
land Department commander, will
lead the pilgrimage.
The VFW will honor George
Washington at banquet here Sat-
urday night.
The annual George Washington
Birthday parade will be held at 2
pm. Monday in Alexandria, high
lighting a three-day celebration of
the First Presidents birthday an
sponsored by Russell
Mitchell Post No. 500, VFW. In
cluded in the three-day event will
be a banquet and dance Saturday
night in the George Mason Hotel.
A luncheon will be held at l pm.
Sunday in the George Mason
Hotel.
Other Celebrations Set.
Other Washington Day celebra-
tions include the costume ball of
the State Council of the Daughters
of America, Inc, at 8 pm. tomorrow
at the Almas Temple and dinner
and musicale of the Baltic Scan
dinavian Society of Washington at
7 pm. Sunday in the banquet hall
of the Bendall Motor Sales, Inc,
1925 Prince street, Alexandria.
Children's parties at Christ Set
tlement House, 608 Massachusetts,
avenue NE, and Southeast House,
324 Virginia avenue Sc, today were
to initiate a series of Washington
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