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_WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1940. B—1.
Let Industry
Build Planes,
Jouett Advises
Tells Air Forum
Federal Control
Would Be Unwise
The show of military and
civilian airplanes at Bolling
Field has been held over
through tomorrow.
Visiting hours tomorrow will
be from 12 noon to 11 p.m.. while
the hours today were from 3
p.m. to 11 p.m. At least 30,000
persons inspected the air equip
ment at the big Army field yes
terday. Larger crowds are ex
pected tomorrow, when more
than 200 airplanes, mostly mili
tary, will be on display.
Warplane construction in the
United States can be increased only
by expansion of existing plants,
through private industry, and not
through Government control, Col.
John H. Jouett, president of the
Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce,
warned the National Aviation Forum
today.
Although his speech was written
before President Roosevelt appoint
ed William S. Knudsen, president
of General Motors, to take charge
of production under the defense
program, Col. Jouett declared that
witlij^t aviation experience by man
agement "there can be no large
production, and there can be no high
quality.” He said airplane produc
tion had changed so much that only
those who had been in the industry
continuously for the past 8 or 10
years were capable of mastering the
production problems.
"Our American trait of unbounded
enthusiasm and faith in ourselves
when faced with a new and serious
problem often leads us to action
based upon unconsidered thought,”
he declared in counseling that the
word “caution” should underline
attempts to carry out the program
of the 50.000 planes a year called for
by President Roosevelt.
“You cannot get production of
planes, engines or accessories in time
to be of value in this defense pro
gram merely by dumping public
funds into brick and mortar in new
localities, regardless of the inevitably
extravagant cost of the attractive
political factors which Government
plants would involve,” he said.
Previous Moves Recounted.
He pointed to the “chaos” of World
War attempts to expand military
aircraft and efforts by the French
government to nationalize her air
craft industry three and a half years
ago with a resultant serious drop in
production of 40 per cent.
Government ownership and super
vision in England caused “delay and
obsolescence,” while private manu
facturers of warplanes "managed
to turn out good equipment and
atep up production,” he said.
In Germany, he added, plants are
privately owned and operated, but
it took “years of intense effort” un
der the dictatorship to build up her
immense production “regardless of
cost, of the rights of labor, of fair
living conditions, of democratic in
stitutions.”
“I do not want anybody to think
that our industry is trying to free
Itself of Government controls,” Col.
Jouett declared. “We need certain
general controls, probably more than
we shall get for some time to come.”
Many problems of the industry,
he added, can be solved only by
“official co-ordination under the full
strength of Federal authority.”
Not at Full Capacity.
He pointed out that despite the
huge war orders received from the
Allies, American warplane plants
are not operating at full capacity.
Turning some of the automobile
plants into the production of war
planes, he added, would present al
most insuperable difficulties and
waste through lack of knowledge
and trained personnel, while the
aviation plants can exceed their
production with more orders and
have plenty of space to expand their
factories.
Research Emphasized.
A larger capacity for research in
aviation is as important at the
moment as a large capacity for
construction, Dr. Vannevar Bush
of the National Advisory Council for
Aeronautics declared.
“Research must keep pace with
construction,” he said. “We can
not afford to disregard it in the
scramble for air power. We must
continue to look ahead five years."
Dr. Bush recommended that the
industry restudy the whole research
program now in effect with a view
toward enlarging facilities and en
gineers.
Comdr. C. E. Rosendahl, lighter
than-air expert of the Navy, decried
“indifference” to airships and the
possibilities they represented for
long-range scouting and patrolling.
“Warfare in Europe is not a gauge
of the warfare which may face the
United States in the vast stretches
of both oceans,” he said. “A watch
dog is no good in an apartment
house. Airships, however, may yet
turn up in the European war.”
He declared it is possible to build
•n airship half again as large as any
previously built. It could carry 10
bombers or fighting planes, capable
of greater speeds than that of any
In existence and because of the
pick-up arrangement from airships,
it could cruise farther than any
airplanes and faster than any sur
face vessels, he asserted. Helium,
of which the United States has a
monopoly, practically nullifies in
cendiary bullets, he added.
A forecast that American private
airplane production will reach 100,
000 units a year “before many
years” and that 500,000 planes will
be sold in this country annually
Within two decades was made by
Ernest R. Breech, vice president of
. General Motors Corp.
P.-T. A. Head Renamed
tin. Matt A. Doetsch has been
re-elected president of the Parent
Teacher Association of st. Michael’s
parish School, Silver Spring, Md.
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Corcoran Art Students Receive
Awards at Closing Exercises
WINNER OF TOP AWARD—C. Powell Minnlgerode, director of
the Corcoran Gallery of Art, is shown presenting a certificate
and first prize of $50 to Mrs. Mary Jane Corr of the life and
portrait classes at the annual commencement exercises of the
Corcoran School of Art last night. —Star Staff Photo.
More than twoscore art students
last night divided honors at the
annual commencement exercises of
of the Corcoran School of Art, held
in the auditorium of the Corcoran
Gallery.
rop awards, prizes or *50 each
went to Mrs. Mary Jane Corr and
Christine Westerstrom, in life and
portrait classes; Mrs. Marion Nelson,
in the portrait class; Mary Power,
in the painting class; Ralph V.
Robinson, in the composition class;
Frank de Moreland, in the drawing
class, and Eleanor Drown, sculpture
class.
The awards were presented by C.
Powell Minnigerode, director of the
gallery. The jury of awards for the
classes in painting and drawing in
cluded Richard Lahey, principal;
Eugen Weisz, vice principal: Mrs.
Mathilde M. Leisenring, Kenneth
Stubbs and Francis Speight. Heinz
Warnecke was jury for the sculp
ture class.
umer Awards.
In addition to those winning top
honors, others receiving awards
were:
Life and portrait classes, judged
by Mr. Lahey—Second prize, *25,
Alexandra Kay; honorable mention,
Mrs. Jean Benefield, Francis Mc
Gilvery, Holbrook Muller and Wil
liam Rutherford.
Life and portrait classes, judged
by Mr. Weisz—Second prize, *25,
June Virga; honorable mention,
Mrs. Julia Herwitz, Aida Prencipe,
John Ratmond and Eleanor Rust.
Portrait classes, judged by Mrs.
Leisenring — Honorable mention,
Mrs. Clara M. Leavitt and Mar
garet Minitree.
Still life, class, judged by Mrs.
Leisenring—First prize, *25, to
Mignon Atchison; honorable men
tion, Mrs. Nelly S. Benet. 1
Painting classes, judged by Mr.
Stubbs—Second prize, $25, to Wil
ma Dinowitzer; honorable mention,
Nancy Fiske and Eleanor Rives.
Composition Class Awards.
Composition class—Honorable men
tion, Rubin Brant, Eli Luria and
Eleanor Rives.
Drawing class—Honorable men
tion, Nancy Lynn, Howard Martin
and Clifford Prine.
Etching class—Honorable mention,
Mrs. Genevieve Juliar.
Landscape class—Honorable men
tion, Mrs. Jessalee Sickman.
Antique drawing and painting
class—Mention to Neita Sparkman.
Sculpture class—Honorable men
tion, Muriel Jane Austin and Belle
Bellerose.
Saturday Student Awards.
The following awards were made
in the Saturday classes for high
school students:
Drawing and painting—First prize,
$5, Catherine Paxson; honorable
mention, Corinne Matheison and
Jane Ramsdell.
Drawing and painting—First prize,
$5, Phyllis Baldwin; honorable men
tion, Eugene Frederick and Virginia
de Atley.
Modeling—rirst prize, $5, Dean
Carter; honorable mention, Joanna
Brown.
Scholarships to the school for the
coming year were won by these high
school graduates: Virginia Averill,
Hyattsville High; Ann Clark, Cen
tral; Katherine Grove, Western;
Dorothy Miller and Bertram Wil
liams, Woodrow Wilson. Honorable
mention, Ruth Sauer and Keith
Wells, Hyattsville, and Blaine Carter,
Western.
Certificates accompanied all awards,
which, with the exception of first
prizes, donated by Mrs. Corcoran
Thom, were given by the Corcoran
School. ’
D. C. Land Sale Order Admits
Purchase Error 13 Years Aao
Indirectly confessing a “mistake”
made by District officials 13 years
ago, the Commissioners today
ordered the sale of land at Six
teenth and Webster streets N.W.,
purchased in 1927 as a site for a
fire engine house, only to find there
was a covenant running with a title
to the land forbidding its use for
anything but residential purposes.
In years following 1927 there de
veloped a determined battle between
Sixteenth street property owners and
some District officials over the issue,
and the District never was able to
start construction of the intended
firehouse. The District paid $28,
198.93 for the site. The current as
sessed value has been placed by the
District at $12,861.
While ordering the sale of this
property, the Commissioners also,
with the approval of the National
Capital Park and Planning Com
mission, ordered the sale of six other
District-owned parcels in adopting
recommendations developed by the
District Real Estate Committee, of
which Capt. John L. Pearson Is
chairman.
In one case the Commissioners
accepted an offer from a buyer.
This is property at the corner of
Blair road and Peabody street, part
of the original site of the Fort
Slocum School. The Commissioners
accepted the bid of the Rev. J. F.
Fannon, pastor of the Church of the
Nativity, of $2,200, or more than the
currently assessed value for the
property, which the church proposed
to use in the development of a
parochial school.
me commissioners win advertise
for bids for sale of the following
District-owned properties, as well
as the old fire-engine house site at
Sixteenth and Webster streets:
Anacostia Road School, Minnesota
avenue and B street S.E.: Chamber
lin School, Twenty-sixth and East
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streets N.W.; Tunlaw Road School,
Forty-fourth and Macomb streets
N.W.; the old sewage pumping sta
tion, Thirty-fourth street and Ban
ning road N.E., and a school site
at Fourteenth street and Fort drive
N.W.
At the suggestion of the Park and
Planning Commission, the Commis
sioners deferred proposals for the
sale of the following:
The old tobacco warehouse at 1062
Wisconsin avenue N.W., which, It
was understood by District officials,
was donated early in the 1800s to
the Corporation of Georgetown for
use as a tobacco warehouse; prop
erty at 472 School street S.W. and
the pumping station site on Clark
street west of Elliott place N.W., the
latter being included within the
project lines of the Potomac Pali
sades.
Roosevelt Renominates
Black and Eicher
President Roosevelt today sent to
the Senate the renominations of
Albert G. Black to be a governor
of the Farm Credit Administration
and of Edward C. Eicher to be a
member of the Securities and Ex
change Commission.
Traffic Record
The traffic record, as revealed
at police headquarters for 24
hour period ending at 8 am.
today:
Fatalities, none.
Accidents, 20.
Motorists injured, 3.
Motorists arrested, 341.
Pedestrians Injured, 7.
Pedestrians arrested for vio
lation of pedestrian control reg
ulations, 2.
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Playgrounds
Open in June
At 44 Schools
20 Additional
Instructors Possible
In Summer Program
Plans for the opening soon of 44
summer playgrounds were an*
nounced yesterday by Lewis R. Bar
rett, co-ordinator of recreation, as
Paul Edwards, director of the Dis
trict W. P. A., tentatively offered to
assign 20 additional playground in
structors to aid the program of
Commissioner John Russell. Young
for expanding play opportunities for
Washington girls.
Mr; Barrett announced that some
of the 44 school grounds would be
placed in operation June 20 and
that all of the additional summer
units would be placed in service by
July 1. The number of summer
grounds, he added, is the same as
was operated last summer. About
125 additional instructors will be
employed temporarily for this pur
pose.
Requirements to Decide.
The offer of the W. P. A. director
is contingent on whether the pro
posed plan for increasing play op
portunities meets W. P. A. require
ments, but Mr. Edwards voiced be
lief that he could promptly assign
20 extra instructors for the program.
The W. P. A. now has 175 instructors
assigned to the Community Center
Department.
Mr. Edwards said he believed it
would be possible to reassign 10 of
these for the proposed new pro
gram and that his office might be
able to hire 10 additional ones. He
suggested also that if legal condi
tions were met his office might be
able to provide some further help.
Miss Sibyl Baker, director of the
Community Center, has been named
by Commissioner Young as chair
man of a committee to survey pos
sibilities of increasing play oppor
tunities for girls. The committee is
to meet again by June 15. The com
mittee already has agreed infor
mally that the principal need lies
in employment of additional person
nel to direct play at existing fa
cilities.
Conference to Follow
Possibilities of using additional
W. P. A. instructors to help fill this
gap are to be discussed by Mr. Ed
wards and Miss Baker after her
committee has collected more facts
as to specific needs of various sec
tions of the city.
The 44 summer school grounds to
be opened, in addition to the 65
year- round units, are: Baton, Lafa
yette, Murch, Pierc4 Mill, Corcoran,
Fillmore-Gordon, Stoddert, West
ern Stadium, Shepherd, Bernard,
Brightwood, H. D. Cooke, Powell,
Fairbrother, Brookland, Noyes,
Woodridge, Benning. Eliot, Hayes,
Lincoln Park, Ludlow, Maury, Stan
ton Park, Wheatley, Congress
Heights, Orr, Stanton, Van Buren,
Cleveland, Garrison, Grimke, Harri
son, Bruce, Slater^-Langston, Morse,
Douglass-Simmons, Bundy, Briggs,
Wormley, Crummell, Bell, Syphax
and the Smothers.
Curtiss' 1910 Flight
Down Hudson Marked
The 30th anniversary of an avia
tion milestone was being marked
today as pioneers of flying recalled
Glenn Curtiss’ flight down the Hud
son River from Albany to New York
City, N. Y„ May 29, 1910, the first
lengthy plane trip over water.
Paced by a train carrying his as
sociates and other well-wishers, Mr.
Curtiss hopped from Albany to
Poughkeepsie and then took to the
air again, completing the historic
flight at Governors Island, where
he was received by the Mayor and
other New York City dignitaries.
Hikers to Tour Gettysburg
A Memorial Day tour of Gettys
burg battlefield will be sponsored by
the Capital Hiking Club. Special
buses will leave 1416 F street N.W.
at 9 a.m. tomorrow, taking partici
pants to Gettysburg, where a num
ber of short hikes to points of inter
est are scheduled.
FLOWERS FOR THE FALLEN—Children at Wheatley School are shown today arranging flowers
brought to school to decorate the graves of soldiers in Arlington and other cemeteries. The chil
dren are, left to right, Suzanne Roux, Lila May Lee, Belva Anne Jones, Sydney Jones, Elizabeth
Bayne, Louise Paravati, Rita Lou Haun, Bessie Balodemas and Marcia Sniegoski.—Star Staff Photo.
Wallace Asks Arms
To Command Respect
Of Nations for U. S.
Secretary Addresses
Employes Gathered at
Memorial Exercises
To assure peace in the Western
Hemisphere "we must be prepared
for any eventuality,” Secretary of
Agriculture Wallace told workers of
his department gathered at me
morial services today.
"The ruthless and the desperate
overseas undoubtedly have designs
on the Americas.” he declared. "The
ideas of the madmen run beyond all
imagination. They respect force and
force alone. We must be sufficiently
armed therefore to command respect
and fear from each and every ag
gressor."
World Wide Repercussions.
Speaking at services sponsored by
Department of Agriculture Post No.
36 of the American Legion, to honor
the meipory of Agriculture Depart
ment employes who gave their lives
in the service of their country in
time of peace as well as war, Secre
tary Wallace devoted the major part
of his address to a scatching attack
on those who “callously violate all
precepts of international morality.”
Warning that the actions of the
belligerents have world-wide reper
cussions, he declared: “Desperately
as we may cling to our political neu
trality, we cannot hope to escape
the economic, political, social and
moral repercussions which easily
spread across the Atlantic.”
“Political neutrality,” he pointed
out, “cannot neutralize the subtle
influence of ideas nor the less subtle
impact of a clashing economic and
political order.”
Strong Democracy Asked.
The auditorium of the Agricul
ture Department was crowded as the
Secretary pleaded for a strong and
workable democracy—“our first line
of defense and certainly our last
line.”
Paying tribute to the men who 23
years ago "took up the sword and
never came back,” Secretary Wallace
urged department workers to re
dedicate themselves to the task of
establishing “the kind of world
these men would have viewed with
pride.”
Immediately after the services,
wreaths were placed at the war
memorial plaque in the patio of the
administration building and at the
Forest Service Memorial tablet.
Democrats to Dance
The Young Men’s Democratic
Club of Barnesville and Poolesville
will hold a dance tonight in the
Barnesville (Md.) pavilion starting
at 8 o’clock. Members of other clubs
in Montgomery County and their
friends have been invited.
MISS N. A. F. AND "MISS ALMOST”—Chosen “Miss National
Aviation Forum” from among 160 airline stewardesses, Miss
Dorothy O. Travis (center) of Defiance, Ohio, is pictured yester
day receiving flowers and certificate of award from Capt. C. 8.
Irvone. Miss Jean Purucker (right) of Pittsburgh was runner
up. The presentation was made beneath the wing of a large
Army bomber at Bolling Field. —A. p. Photo.
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Reynaud Lauds
U. S. Soldiers
Who Died in '17
A Memorial Day cablegram from
the French Premier, Paul Reynaud.
was received at the War Depart
ment today and Secretary of War
Woodring cabled an immediate re
sponse.
M. Reynaud said:
“The entire French Army, united
on this solemn Memorial Day to the
American Army by sentiments of
unalterable brotherhood formed by
common sacrifices on the field of
battle, piously joins in homage to
the valiant American soldiers wno
fell on the soil of France and
salutes their heroism with emo
tion.”
Secretary Woodring responded:
“I have been deeply touched by
your Memorial Day message and by
your thought of the American Army
on this day sacred to the memory
| of the valiant dead. Please accept
my grateful thanks and be assured
of my hope that our common dead
i may not have been sacrificed in
! vain.”
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i Veto Calls Claims
Of Two Aliens False
Asserting that a State Depart
ment inquiry had revealed false
statements by the individuals in
volved, President Roosevelt today
vetoed a bill for the relief „of Egon
Karl Freiherr von Mauchenheim
and Margarete von Mauchenheim.
Identifying the pair as German
aliens, the President said the legis
lation would have conferred upon
them the status of legal residents
of the United States and would
direct the Secretary of Labor to
cancel an outstanding warrant for I
their deportation.
His veto message follows, in
part:
‘‘The aliens in question entered
the United States on May 19, 1936,
and were permitted to proceed in
transit to Canada for the purpose of
applying for quota visas. Denied
visas there, they re-entered the
United States. The Department of
Labor, finding that they could not
be given the status of legal residents
in the United States, held them for
deportation proceedings, but because
of the fact that they represented
themselves to be political fugitives
from Germany, they were accorded
the privilege of voluntary departure.
"An investigation conducted by
the State Department has disclosed
that these aliens made false state
ments with respect to acts com
mitted by them in Germany prior
to their departure therefrom in
1935, which acts resulted in the
initiation of Federal proceedings
against them for fraud and civil
claims for the recovery of property.
The State Department was unable,
moreover, to discover that these
aliens had been involved in any po
litical differences. It does not ap
pear that this information was be
fore the committees of the House
and Senate when the bill was being
considered by them.”
Mattingly Confirmed
The Senate yesterday confirmed
the appointment of 14 Maryland
postmasters, Including Joseph F.
Mattingly, Indianhead.
Memorial Day Exercises
Observances Scheduled to Begin Today
And Extend Through Thursday
TODAY.
5:30 pjn.—Lt. Stephen T. McGro
arty Post will conduct services at
Lt. McOroarty’s grave in Arlington
National Cemetery.
TOMORROW.
8:30 am.—James Reese Europe
Po6t, American Legion, services at
Mount Zion and Union Baptist
Cemeteries.
8:30 am.—Sergt. William H. Car
ney Camp, Sons of Union Veterans,
services in Harmony Cemetery.
9 am.—Boy Scouts meet at zero
milestone on the Ellipse, proceeding
to Arlington to decorate graves with
flags and flowers.
9:30 am.—Army and Navy Union
services at grave of Col. William L.
Peak, Arlington.
am.—Annual Memorial Day
parade starts from Ninth street and
Constitution avenue N.W., proceed
ing west to Eighteenth street.
10 am.—Senior class of George
town University School of Law ex
ercises in memory of former stu
dents killed in World War; Senator
King of Utah and Brig. Gen. Frank
M. Andrews, U. S. A., principal
speakers.
10 am.—Department of the Poto
mac, G. A. R., Memorial Day Corps,
services for officers and enlisted men
In foreign Allied Armies of the
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3 D. C. Bills Ready
For White House
After Senate Action
Affect Parole Law,
Adoption and Parking
By District Employes
Three of the five District bills
passed by the Senate yesterday
afternoon are ready today to go to
the White House for signature, while
the other two await House action.
The measures approved by both
Houses are:
To amend the District parole and
indeterminate sentence law to bring
it more into line with the Federal
law.
A minor change in the law gov
erning adoption of children.
Authorizing District employes to
rent automobile parking space in
the garage in one of the new city
buildings in Municipal Center.
The two measures that must go
to the House are:
Authorizing the Attorney Gen
eral to appoint a five-man commis
sion to recodify the law of the
District.
To grant retirement status to for
mer Policeman Amos B. Cole.
One of the requirements of the
new parole bill is that the courts
could not impose a tnlnimum sen
tence in excess of one-third of the
maximum actually imposed. The
committee said that as the law now
stands there are instances where
the maximum sentence, when re
duced by the allowance of time for
good behavior, expires before the
prisoner has served his minimum
sentence.
The bill also changes from one
fifth to one-third the length of
time after which a prisoner is eli
gible for parole.
Industrial Bankers Hear
Good Citizenship Plea
A pies for industrial bankers to
promote the sale of good citizenship
was made by Abit Nix of Athens,
Ga., in a speech this morning be
fore the American Industrial Bank
ers’ Association at the Wardman
Park Hotel.
Mr. Nix, in calling attention to the
“fifth column” movement in this
country, along with other subversive
interests, stated that “it is the su
preme duty of every American cit
izen nowadays to study the history
of the community, the State and the
Nation.”
The meeting this morning was
presided over by Clifton M. Eisele,
vice president of the association,
who introduced John A. Reilly,
president of the Second National
Bank of Washington, whose sub
ject was, “Credit Machinery in the
Modem Bank.”
Chester C. Davis, governor of the
Federal Reserve Board, was unable
to make a scheduled talk on “Con
sumer Credit Studies by Federal
Banking Authorities.” His place was
taken by Woodlief Thomas, chief
statistician of the Federal Reserve
Board.
At the conclusion of the conven
tion today the delegates will go to
New York, where they will be guests
of the World’s Fair tomorrow.
World War who died on mission
here, Arlington.
10:30 am.—Fleet Reserve Associa
tion services at Water Gate; Rear
Admiral Spencer S. Wood, U. S. N.,
principal speaker.
10:30 a .m—Warren G. Harding
Camp, Sons of Union Veterans,
services at Arlington.
11:30 am.—President Roosevelt’s
wreath laid at Tomb of Unknown
Soldier, Arlington. Wreaths laid by
patriotic organizations every two
minutes thereafter until 12:25 pm.
Noon—Capt. Joseph B. Coghlan
Chapter, No. 4, Dewey Congressional
Medal Men’s Association, services in
memory of President Wilson and
Admiral George Dewey, Washington
Cathedral.
1 pm.—G. A. R., United Spanish
War Veterans, Veterans of Foreign
Wars, American Legion and Dis
abled American Veterans of the
World War exercises in anu*iithea
ter at Arlington National Cemetery;
Federal Security Administrator Paul
V. McNutt, principal speaker; Jo
seph Bentonelli of the Metropolitan
Opera Co., soloist.
3:15 pjn.—G. A. R. and Bright
wood Citizens’ Association, services
at Battle Ground National Ceme
tery.
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White House
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Wreath to Be
Put on Tomb
Capital Will Join
Nation in Observing
Memorial Day
President Roosevelt’s wreath will
be placed at the Tomb of the Un
known Soldier tomorrow as Wash
ington joins the Nation in observing
Memorial Day.
The President’s wreath will be
laid at the base of the tomb by
Maj. Horace B. Smith, senior White
House aide, at 11:30 a.m. The Presi
dent has made no plans to attend
the service, it was said at the White
House.
Following the laying of the Presi
dent's wreath these groups will pay
tribute at the tomb at intervals of
a few minutes apart:
G. A. R. Memorial Day Corp.,
James G. Vaden; United Spanish
War Veterans, Thomas F. Donovan;
Veterans of Foreign Wars, George
G. McLeish; American Legion, Wil
liam T. Slattery; Disabled American
Veterans, Dr. W. C. Hess; Ladies of
the G. A. R„ Mrs. K. P. McElroy;
United Spanish War Auxiliary, Mrs.
Naomi Harrison; Veterans of For
eign Wars Auxiliary. Mrs. Eola
Wright; American Legion Auxiliary,
Mrs. Mary B. McMillin; Disabled
American Veterans Auxiliary, Mrs.
Frances Sparkman.
Heywood N. Saunders will officiate
at the wreath-laying ceremonies and
will arrange for other pariotic, civic
and fraternal units to participate
in the exercises at the Tomb.
Concert by Marine Band.
The Memorial Day services in the
national amphitheater at Arlington
National Cemetery will be preceded
by music by the American Legion
Boys’ Drum Corps and the Drum and
Bugle Corps. The United States
Marine Band will give a concert
from 12:30 until the assembly at
12:50 p.m.
Federal Security Administrator
Paul V. McNutt will deliver the Me
morial Day oration and Joseph Ben
tonelli of the Metropolitan Opera
Co. will be the soloist, singing “Good
Will to Men,” “There is no Death”
and “The Star Spangled Banner.”
Others participating in the exer
cises will be Mr. Yaden, president of
the G. A. R. Memorial Day Corp.,
who will preside; the Rev. Wil
liam H. La Roche, department chap
lain of the U. S. W. V„ who will
deliver the invocation; Mr. McLeish,
who will read Gen. Logan’s order
establishing Memorial Day; Harlan
Wood, past department commander,
American Legion, who will recite
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, and
Dr. Hess, reading excerpts from the
Declaration of Independence.
“Taps” will be sounded by Win
fred Kemp of the Marine Band and
the Rev. E. Snyder, department
chaplain. V. F. W., will offer the
benediction.
Parade Starts at 9:45 A.M.
Earlier in the day. the annual
Memorial Day parade will take place
on Constitution avenue, with the
marchers starting from Ninth street
and the avenue at 9:45 a.m. They
will pass the reviewing stand mid
way between Fifteenth and Seven
teenth streets and disband at Eight
eeth street.
Brig. Gen. Albert L. Cox is grand
marshal of the parade, which will
comprise three divisions and repre
sent the three branches of the
service, as well as scores of patriotic
groups.
Among the numerous other Me
morial Day events will be the exer
cises at Battle Ground National
Cemetery at 3:15 p.m., sponsored
Jointly by the G. \ R. and the
Brightwood Citizens’ Association.
Senator King of Utah will be the
principal speaker at the exercises
which honor the soldiers killed in
action July 11 and 12, 1864, in front
of Fort Stevens.
Children to Decorate Graves.
Children from the neighborhood
public schools will decorate the
graves in a circle about the flagstaff
in the center of the cemetery while
the United States Marine Band
plays.
Opening with a concert by the
band, the exercises will continue
with the raising of the flag and the
salute to the colors, led by Maj. John
Deavy. R. J. F. McElroy will read
the order setting aside Memorial
Day and John Clagett Proctor will
introduce Department Comdr. John
M. Kline, chairman of the commit
tee for the exercises and oldest G.
A. R. veteran in the District.
The Rev. F. Ernest Warren will
pronounce the invocation, Francesco
Della-Lana will be soloist, Mr. Proc
tor will recite an original poem, Tal
bot O. Pulizzi will deliver the Gettys
burg Address, and “The Star Span
gled Banner” will be recited by Lt
Col. Francis S. Key-Smith.
Assisting in tte services will be the
Ellen Spencer Mussey Tent, Daugh
ters of Union Veterans of the Civil
War. Miss Jessie Lewis will place
a wreath in the name of the tent
and Miss Grace Hurd, national
treasurer, will place another wreath
in behalf of the national president
of the organization. A wreath pre
sented by Mrs. Delia L. O’Brien,
past senior vice president of the
National Woman’s Relief Corps, will
be placed at the base of the flag
staff.
Engraving Bureau Rites
Honor War Dead
Urging “internal unity that will
stand any test,” Government and
American Legion officials paid
tribute last night to this country's
war dead at services in the Bureau
of Engraving and Printing Audi
torium.
The memorial exercises, which
were also dedicated to deaceased
employes of the bureau, were spon
sored by the Bureau Post 23 of the
American Legion.
“We win stand again for liberty
and Justice,” Gen. Frank T. Hines,
director of the Veterans’ Adminis
tration, declared, “even though the
guns are firing again over the heads"
af the soldiers burled on the scene
af the present fighting.