Evening star., 1949-03-28
Truman 10 See
Army Parade
|0n April 6
Johnson, ForrestoI,
Bradley Also to Be
| In Reviewing Stond

President Truman will lead the
Nation in honoring the Army
April 6 by reviewing a mammoth
parade which will pass along Con-
stitution avenue.
1t will be Army Day, an event
sponsored annually by the Mill
tary Order of the World Wars,
and the hour half parade
here will be the high light of
events throughout the country.
With Mr.. Truman in the re-
viewing stand will be Secretary of
Defense Louis johnson, James v.
Forrestal, Mr.. Johnson's predeces-
sor, and Gen. Bradley, Army
Chief of Staff, the Military Order
said.
The observance here will be cli-
NAKED by dinner at 7:30 that
night at the Mayfower Hotel, at
which Chairman Tydings of the
Senate Armed Services Commit
tee will be the principal speaker.
Guests of honor at the dinner
will be Mr.. Johnson, Mr.. Forrestal,
Gen. Bradley, Admiral Louis E.
IDenfeld, Chief of Naval Opera
tions; Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg,
Air Force chief of staff, and Gen.
C. B. Gates, commandant Of the
Marine Corps.
Troops to Be Varied.
Special guests in presidential
reviewing stand and at the dinner
will be three outstanding enlisted
men of the Army. Navy. Air Force
and Marine Corps. They will be
selected by the services.
Troops of the Military District
of Washington will be joined by
Marine Corps, Navy and Air Force
units in the parade, as we'll as by
National Guard and reserve units.
The military order announced
that in addition to a crack COM
posite unit of the 82d Airborne
Division at Fort Bragg, N. c., there
would be units and wheeled equip
ment of various types from Fort
Belvoir, Va: Fort Lesley j. McNair
and Fort Myer. The District Ma
tional Guard will form a division
in the parade.
Also in the line OF march, which
will begin at New Jersey avenue
and B street Sc. and proceed
across Capitol Plaza to Constitu-
ton avenue, will be ROTC units
from universities and colleges here,
high school cadets and various
groups.
Open House Planned.
The parade is expected to pass
Capitol Plaza at 1:30 pm. and
reach the presidential reviewing
stand a half hour later. Tickets
for stands along the parade route
may be purchased from the Mill
tary Order. 1900 I street NV.
Virtually every Army installa-
ton in this area will hold "open
house"
The Walter Reed Army Medical
Center will launch the observance
with an open house next Sunday,
Brig. Gen. Paul H. Streit, COM
manGer, announced today. There
will be a continuous tour of the
center, showing the steps in
volved in the care and treat
ment of a patient. An unbroken
chain of simulated cases will pro-
vide a realistic atmosphere.
Tours of the prosthetics re-
search laboratory, dental labora-
tory and medical research and
graduate school also will be pro-
vided at Walter Reed.
A military ball will be held at
Fort Myer April 6. with music
furnished by the Army Band. The
ball will climax an open-house
program.
Fort McNair and Fort Belvoir
also will be open to the public.
The 1949 Army Day theme is
"The United States Army-Part
of the Team-for Security" The
observance was instituted in 1923.
This years observance will also
mark the 32d anniversary of the
United States declaration of war
against GERMANY in World War ].