Evening star., 1949-04-04
Army'sParade
lobe Reviewed
ByPresident
10000 Due to March
Wednesday; Tydines
To Address Dinner

A mammoth parade reviewed
by President Truman and oper
house at military installations
will feature observance Of Army
Day in the District area Wednes-
day.
Mr.. Truman will be joined by
Defense Secretary johnson, Gen
Bradley, Army chief of staff. ano
other dignitaries in reviewing the
10000 marchers, more than a
score of bands and assorted mill
tary equipment as it moves down
Constitution avenue.
The events here will be climaxed
by dinner at 7:30 pm. at the
Mayf1ower Hotel, at which Chair
man Tydings Of the Senate Armed
Services Committee will be the
principal speaker.
Army Day is sponsored annually
by the Military Order of the World
Wars. The 1949 theme is 1.-The
United States Army-Part of the
1edm-lUT ocCuIlIy.
The thousands of parade spec
tators will be swelled by Federal
employees who will be allowed to
leave their posts for the occasion
Donald Dawson, White House ad-
ministrative assistant, notified the
departments and agencies to per-
nit those who participate in the
parade to have unchanged leave
and also to permit those employees
in the vicinity of the parade route
to take time off to view it.
Tickets Available.
Public stands have been erected
opposite and on either side of
the presidential reviewing stand.
Tickets may be purchased from
the Military Order. 1700 I street
NV.
In the parade, scheduled to
start at 1880 pm. and proceed
from the Capitol along Consti-
tuition avenue to the disbanding
point at Seventeenth street, will
be Army. Navy, Air Force and
Marine units; the District Ma
tional Guard, organized reserve
and Reserve Officer Training
Corps groups, school and college
reserve units and representatives
of veteran and patriotic groups.
Maj. Gen. Hobart r. Gay, COM
manding the Military District of
Washington. will be the parade
grand marshal.
Weapons, jeeps. half tracks and
other equipment of the District
National Guard will be on display
at the Armory Wednesday and
Guardsmen will be present to ex-
plain their operations.
Fort Lesley j. McNair and Fort
Myer also will be open to the pub
lie and a gala military ball will
close the events at the latter in
stallation. 81
Scheduled guests at the BAN
ouet include Mr.. Johnson, Gen.
Bradley. Gen. Hoyt S. Vanden-
berg, Air Force chief of staff;
Admiral Louis A. Denfeld. Chief
of Naval Operations, and Gen. c.
B. Gates, Marine Corps COM
mandant.
The Army and Air Force Post
81, American Legion, will dedicate
the post colors at a ceremony in
the Pentagon auditorium at 1890
pm. Wednesday. Col, Paul H.
Griffith, past national commander
and now an assistant to Defense
Secretary Johnson, and Eugene M.
zuckert, Assistant Air Force Sec
retary, will take part.
Displays in department store
windows will point up Army activi-
ties of the District area today.
Among the displays will be those
at the Hecht Co. stores in down.
town Washington and Silver
Spring, Md; Woodward & Lothrop
and the Keith Theater.
The order of march in the pa
rade follows !:
Police Supt. Robert j. Barrett
and platoon of Metropolitan Po-
lice; Grand Marshall (Gen. Gay)
and staff.
First Division. +
First Division-Marshal (Col.
James v. Cole) and staff; Army
Band; 3rd Infantry Regiment; a
WAC company; Walter Reed Medi-
cal Center Band; 82nd Airborne
Division units; End Battalion,
505th Airborne Infantry Regi-
ment: Battery B, 456th Airborne
Field Artillery Battalion; Battery
A, 503rd Airborne Automatic Anti
Aircraft Battalion; Signal detach-
ment, 505th Regiment; Medical
detachment, 504th Regiment; pla-
toon of Company B, 307th Air
borne Engineer Brigade; Quarter
master detachment. 407th Air
borne Company; Ordnance de-
tachment, 82nd Division; detach-
ment, 82nd Division Reconnais-
sance Company.
Fort Belvoir. Va, Band; COM
posite Engineer Battalion; float,
Medical Center; Marine Band,
Marine Battalion, Navy Band,
company of seamen, squadron
from Boiling Air Force Base.
Second Division-Marshal (Brig
Gen. Albert L. Cox and staff
massed colors, District National
Guard. 257th Army Band, 1880
MP Battalion. 171st MP Battalion
260th Automatic Anti-Aircraft
Group, 340th Automatic Anti
Aircraft Battalion. 380th auto
matte Anti Aircraft Battalion
104th Ordnance Maintenance
Company, 715th Truck Company
Third Division.
Third Division-Marshal (Col
Fred w. Boyle and staff; Navy
School of Music Band; Organized
Reserve Corps, Military District
of Washington: University OF
Maryland ROTC Band and cadets;
Howard University ROTC Banc
and cadets; Georgetown Univer-