Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-11
Area Will Join
In Tribute 70
War Veterans

to its more than 22.5 million
living veterans Of the wars.
The ofiicial Veterans Day holi.
day will be observed tomorrow
The Amvets are SPONSORING
! a service in Arlington National
Cemetery at II am. today
James Stewart. the actor who
piloted a bomber in World Wal
III, will be principal speaker.
Woodrow Wilson'S permanent
resting place and q memorial
bay in the Washington Cathedra,
will be dedicated at 4 pm. to-
day. Veterans will be repre-
scented by the George Washing.
ton American Legion Post, Of
which President Wilson was 9
charter member.
The service will be conducted
by the Right Rev. Angus Dun
Bishop of Washington, and the
Very Rev. Francis B. Sayre, jr.
dean Of the cathedral anC
President Wilson's grandson.
Baruch to Speak
Bernard Baruch, a friend anc
associate Of the World War
President, will deliver the prin-
cipal address.
Georgetown University's an.
nual military mass will be at
am. today in McDonough Me.
mortal Gymnasium. ROTC ca
diets will attend.
Services are scheduled at the
First Division Monument at II
am. today.
The 95th Infantry Division
Association will sponsor an OBJ.
Iservance Of Veterans Day from
4 to 6 pm. today at st. john
Parish House, 1925 H street NV
MemOrlaL Service
| The Veterans of Foreign War
Ipost in Alexandria will hold {
memorial service at 2:30 pm. to.
day at its monument on tn,
city's Union Station plaza. Pos
members will place wreaths OF
the monument.
4 Air Force Col. Glenn Weather.
spoon will address the group
(which is expected to include city
officials and the Fort Belvoil
Army band.
Alexandria's American Legior
Post "a will observe Veterans
Day from 3 to S pm. during ar
open house at Gadsby's Taverr
for members and their families
A memorial service for vet.
Grams will be held at IL am. il
Pohick Church, on Route / ir
Fairfax County. Groups to bt
represented include Fort Belvoir
the Quantico Marine Base, the
American Legion's 10th district
WV. Disabled American Vet.
Grams, AMVETS and the Order
Of the Purple Heart.
American Legion Post $50, Of
Alexandria, will hold 10 am. me-
mortal services in Arlington Ma.
tional Cemetery today at the
graves Of former members Free
man Lebarron and Harry Grit.
fiths.
a. Mail Holiday
Ceremonies will be held today
at 1890 am. by the Dyer.
Gunnell American Legion Pos
of Vienna at Flint Hill Gene.
terry. Oakton, Va.
The Rev. H. Thompson Rod
man, pastor of the Vienna
Episcopal Church and former
chaplain for the Wyoming De.
partment Of the Legion, will
speak. Taps will be blown BY
Richard Mac h m an, former
Fourth Marine Division bugler.
Free State Post No. $3.50 OF
the Prince Georges County Vet
Grams of Foreign Wars will stage
an all-day observance Of Vet
Grams Day beginning at 10 O'Clock
this morning at the post monu-
ment at Annapolis road and
Seventy-first avenue. Landover
Hills.
The Bryan-Toole Post No. 172,
American Legion, will conduct a
memorial service at 8 pm. at
the Lanham Methodist Church.
The Veterans Day observance
sponsored annually by the Prince
Georges County American Legion
at the Peace Cross in Bladens-
burg will not be held this year
because Of road construction in
the, area.
Tomorrow will be q holiday
for Government workers.
District public school children,
and some in Virginia, also will
have tomorrow of. Pupils in
nearby Maryland. Fairfax County
and Falls Church will attend
school. however.
Mail carriers will have the
holiday. But because most busi-
ness firms are operating on
workaday schedules. there will be
an extra pickup in the afternoon
in the business districts.
Maryland and Virginia county
Offices will be closed, as will the
city Offices in Alexandria and
Falls Church.
There will be no courts open
in these jurisdictions, except
Alexandria which will hold q
police court long enough to PROF.
ess prisoners charged over the
weekend.
District government Offices
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