Evening star., 1950-05-28
Many Services
For War Dead
Set for tuesday
Tributes to Include
Prayers for Peace;
Visitors Crowd City

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Ceremonies at Arlington Ma.
tional Cemetery and Throughout
the country will reflect the re-
quest of the President and Con.
gress that Americans join in &
Memorial Day prayer for perma-
nent peace.
While the chief ceremonies viii
be held Tuesday some memoria.
programs have been announced
for today and tomorrow.
Meanwhile, thousands of Wash
ington residents had left the city
for the long week end, and hotels
were crowded with visitors here to
attend memorial exercises and to
enjoy spring outings in the Capt.
tai.
Terminals Crowded.
TWo-Way travel reached a peak
late Friday. with throngs at Union
Station, National Airport and the
bus terminals resembling those of
the war years. Thousands OF
Government employees are taking
tomorrow off for holidays to end
with their return to work Wednes-
day morning.
Government departments and
business establishments will be
closed Tuesday, along with pub
lie schools in Washington and
surrounding communities with the
exception of those in Prince
Georges County.
Gen. George C. Marshall will
deliver the Memorial Day address
at Arlington Tuesday afternoon
The ceremony is to be sponsored
jointly by the Grand Army of the
Republic, United Spanish War
Veterans, Veterans of Foreign
Wars, the American Legion, Dis
abled American Veterans and the
Amvets.
Wheaths to Be Placed.
Acting for President Truman
Capt. Adam Eisenhauer, White
House Army aide, will deposit
memorial wreaths for the Chief
Executive at the Tomb of the Un-
known Soldier at II m. and later
at monuments to Union and Con-
federate dead.
The Armed Forces plan to place
an American flag this year at each
grave in National cemeteries in
the United States, Alaska, Puerto
Rico and Hawaii, and on graves
in countries throughout the world
where the war dead still rest.
The National cemeteries now
contain more than SOL 900 graves
and more than $1,000 World
War I dead and $4,000 of the
last war lie in burial grounds
overseas.
Special services will be con-
Quoted for the dead overseas al
cemeteries in Great Britain, Eu.
rope, Australia, Japan, the Philip
pines and some Pacific islands, the
Associated Press reported.
A memorial poppy anchor con-
tributed by the American Legion
Auxiliary will be f1oated on CheSa
peake Bay near the Naval Acad-
emy, Annapolis. in honor OF
American fighting men lost al
sea. The ceremony will be helc
at noon.
Joint Service Scheduled.
The joint service at Arlington
Amphitheater will open at l pm
with the presentation of colors
The Rev. James E. Brooks, de-
partment chaplain of the Catholic
War Veterans, is to deliver the
invocation.
Gen. Marshall's speech will be
followed by an address by Car
Saunders, editor of the Jackson
(Mich) Citizen Patriot, and win.
ner of a 1850 Pulitzer Prize fol
his editorial, "A Prayer for Peace.
In addition to the Presidents
wreath, hundreds of floral tributes
will be placed at the Tomb of The
Unknown Soldier by veterans anc
civic organizations. During this
period, which ends at 1890 pm.
Dr.. Alexander ,McCurdy of Phila-
delphia will play memorial selec-
tions on the carlton. The Marine
Band also will play.
The United Spanish War Vet
Grams will hold services at 10 am
at the Spanish War Monument
while the Women's Relief Corps
of the GAR will conduct services
at the Tomb of The Unknown
Soldier at the same hour. Ten
O'Clock exercises also will be held
at Grave 1886 for Allied officers
and enlisted men of foreign ar
mics.
The Washington General AS
sembly, Fourth Degree Knights of
Columbus. will sponsor memorial
mass in Arlington Amphitheatel
at 10 o'clock this morning with
the sermon to be delivered by Brig
Gen. James H. O'Neill, deputy
chief of chaplains.
Nurses Services Today.
Memorial services for nurses O.
the Armed Forces will be helc
at l pm. today by the Jane A
Delano Post No. 6, American Le
gion, at the Jane A.. Delano Mon.
ument in Arlington. The CUES
speaker will be Watson B. Miller
commissioner of immigration ant
naturalization.
Fifty members of the Metropoli
tan Pblice Boys Club and SO pu
pills of the Holy Comforter Pa
rochial School will place flora
tributes on graves in Arlington
Cemetery tomorrow.
The Fleet Reserve Association
branches in Washington will con
duct exercises at Watergate nea
Memorial Bridge at 11:15 an
Tuesday.
Memorial services usually he'll
at the monument on the Arlington
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