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for the rites eliminating in services
at the Arlington Amphitheater.
Prior to the final rites. solemn
services will be held at Walter Reed
Hospital and at the Capitol.
Tomorrow, the body OF Gen
Pershing will be placed in the chapel
of the Army Medical Center, where
relatives, close friends and long
time fellow patients at Walter Reed
will pass the bier. Size of the
chapel will not permit the public
to be admitted, the Army said.
At l pm. Sunday, the casket
containing Gen. Pershing'S body will
leave the hospital for the Capitol
The procession will proceed down
Sixteenth street to Pennsylvania
avenue. The Army said the exact
route could not be given because
the Metropolitan Police reserved the
right to choose the route OF the
cortege so as to take advantage OF
The lightest Sunday traffic possible
Gen. Gay to Command Escort.
The escort from the hospital to
the Capitol will be commanded by
Mai. Gen. Hobart r. Gay, COM
manding the Military District OF
Washington. 1t will include a
motorized detachment of IL arm
ored scout cars, the car bearing the
generals body, cars for the members
of the Pershing family and police
escort.
AS the generals casket is carried
into the rotunda of the Capitol the
Army Band will play Nearer My
God to Thee" Gen. Pershing issued
the order on January 10, 1922, Great
ing the band and each year since its
organization the band has played
for him on his birthday.
Throughout the ceremonies con-
nected with the burial of Gen
Pershing the Army Band will wear
for the first time in many years the
gray uniforms which Gen. Pershing
ordered for it when he was chief OF
staff.
A group of high Army officials will
be at the Capitol awaiting the al
rival of the cortege. They will in
clude Secretaries Royal of the Army
Sullivan of the Navy and Symington
of 1.-The Air Force; Gen. Bradley,
Army Chief of Staff, and Gen. J.
LaWton Collins, deputy chief of staff
Guard to Be Posted,
After the casket is carried into
the rotunda, a guard of one officer
and four enlisted men from Fort
Myer will be posted the officer
at the head OF the casket and the
men at the four corners. With fire.
quent reliefs, the guard will be
maintained during the "a hours the
body will lie in state in the Capitol
Guards will be on hand to direct
the public visiting the Capitol to
pass the bier.
The rotunda will be closed to the
public at noon Monday to prepare
for moving the casket to Arlington
At l pm. the casket will be taken
from the rotunda while the Army
Band plays The Mighty Fortress
Is Our God" to take its place in
the huge funeral procession.
4: that time, the procession
numbering $500 persons, 5000 OF
them military-Will have been
formed on Constitution avenue. 1t
will begin its slow 41a-mile march
for Arlington promptly at ITO pm
Four minutes later the caisSon bear
ing the generals casket will move
north along the Capitols east plaza
toward the line of march.
Caparisoned Horse to March.
Drawn by six. perfectly matched
gray horses, the caisson will be fol-
lowed by caparisoned horse
which, in Army tradition, is march
ed only in funeral professions for
general officers and cavalrymen. In
Gen. Pershing's rites, the presence
of the sleek black horse with its
trappings of somber black is doubly
appropriate. In addition to being a
general officer of the highest rank,
Gen. Pershing began his military
career as a cavalry officer.
The procession which the caisson
will join at Constitution and Della
ware avenues, will be headed by an
escort of Metropolitan and Park
police led by Gen. Gay.
The main body of the procession
will be formed in three groups as
follows:
Group THE Army Ground
Forces band. Sd mechanical squad
ron from Fort Meade, Md, and the
Field Artillery battalion of the 82d
Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N. c..
with 81 vehicles and II 105 howit-
zers.
Group 1.-Two squadrons of Air
Force troops from Boiling Field, one
company of Bluejackets from the
Potomac River naval command, one
comany of Marines and $50 men,
bers of the 410th Engineers Con-
struction Battalion, Fort Belvoir.
Group 3 COmponents.
Group 3-The Army Band: Isl
Battalion of the 512th Parachute
Infantry Regiment, 82d Division
467 third class men officered by 81
first class men from West Point;
the National colors: the officiating
clergy. Maj. Gen. Luther D. Miller
chief of chaplains, and the Very Rev
John w. Suter, dean of Washington
Cathedral: the caisson, flanked by
active body bearers from the eere-
ront,iai cnr,onanu od 1nfnntru rsort