Evening star., 1948-05-23
District Observation
OF Memorial Holiday
Begins a Week Early

Washington will begin to mark
Memorial Day today although the
holiday in honor of the Nations
war dead does not come for
another week.
Archbishop Patrick j. O'Boyle will
conduct the 10th annual mass for
war dead sponsored by the Knights
of Columbus and the National Capt.
tai Committee of Catholic Societies
at 10 am. today in the amphithe-
ater at Arlington Cemetery.
Government officials, members Of
Congress and members of the diplo-
matte corps are expected to attend
the mass. which will be followed by
wreath-l laying ceremonies at the
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
Representatives of more than 100
Catholic organizations are sched-
uled to participate.
Msgr. Cartwright to Preach.
Assisting Archbishop O'Boyle at
the pontificial mass will be the
Right Rev. Patrick J. Ryan, Deputy
Chief of Army Chaplains, and the
Very Rev. John Hughes, Deputy
Chief of Navy Chaplains, honorary
deacons; the Right Rev. Msgr. John
j. Russell, pastor of st. Patrick's
Church, arch-priest; the Very Rev.
Neil Gargan, 81, rector OF St.
Aloysius Church, and the Rev.
Joseph Moran, pastor of the Church
of st. Thomas the Apostle, assist
ants, and the Very Rev. Walter S.
Schmitz, SIS, of Catholic University,
master of ceremonies. The Right
Rev. Msgr. John K. Cartwright, rec
tor of st. Matthews Cathedral, will
deliver the sermon.
This morning. wreath will be
placed at the tomb of the Unknown
Soldier by Capt. Thorbjorn, master
of the Norwegian passenger ship
"Stavangerfjord." He will be ac-
companied by the Norwegian Am
bassador and other officials as well
as crew members.
The ceremony is part Of tour
of the capital arranged by the Nor
wegian Governments Welfare Of
flee for the Merchant Marine, de-
signed to give the seamen a better
knowledge of the United States and
the American people"
Children to Conduct Rites.
At 2:30 pm. today pupils of Lang
ley Junior High School will present
their Memorial Day exercises in
the chapel of Glenwood Cemetery.
The program is presented an
nually in honor of the dead at Glen
wood. Prospect Hill and st. Mary's
Cemeteries under auspices of Kit
Carson Woman's Relief Corps, an
auxiliary of the Grand Army of the
Republic.
On Friday, President Truman will
pay tribute to the four heroic chap
lains who went down with the tor
pedoed troopship Dorchester. They
also are being honored by special
three-cent stamp issued that day.
Two of the chaplains' widows. the
sister OF the third and the father of
the fourth will be at the White
House ceremony. One of the widows
is Mrs. Teresa Goode of 5000 Second
street NV, whose husband was
Rabbi Alexander Goode. Two
chaplains were Protestant and the
other Catholic.
Stores to Close May 31st.
Since Memorial Day falls on Sum-
day this year, department stores
and speciality shops as we'll as
schools, banks and most public
buildings will close on Monday, May
81, officials of those establishments
said yesterday.
On Memorial Day, a week from
today, the Veterans of Foreign Wars
will be among the groups repre-
sented at the annual ceremonies at
the tomb OF the Unknown Soldier.
This Wednesday, in another WV
ceremony, an anchor made OF nearly
1000 poppies will be presented by
omar Ketchum, VFW legislative d.
rector. to Assistant Secretary OF the
Navy Mark Andrews. The ceremony
will take place at 1l:30 am.
Another Memorial Day Sunday
exercise will see an outstanding
Marine Corps fighter and educator,
Mai. Gen. Lemuel c. Shepherd, jr.,
of Quantico, deliver the Memorial
Day address at Georgetown Uni
versity School Of Law in exercises
honoring 46 students who gave their
lives In two World Wars.