A parade, synagogue services and speeches will mark the thirty-fifth annual memorial services of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States Sunday.
The speakers’ list at the service, which will be held at the Park Avenue Synagogue, 50 East Eighty-seventh street, includes Governor Herbert H. Lehman, Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, Attorney General John J. Bennett, Major General Dennis E. Nolan, Senator Royal S. Copeland, former Congressman W. W. Cohen, James W. Gerard, Herman Bernstein and Aldermanic President Bernard S. Deutsch. Samuel Untermyer will also speak. His address will be broadcast over Station WMCA.
After the services the group will mass outside the temple and march to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, 110th street and Amsterdam avenue, to attend services sponsored by the United Spanish War Veterans.
The parade preceding the service will start from Temple Emanu-El, Fifth avenue and Sixty-fifth street, with the veterans marching in full uniform. William Berman, commander-in-chief of the organization, together with his staff and guests, will review the marchers.
The parade will be under the command of the grand marshal, Major Morris Florea. Among the other veterans’ groups to participate will be the Spanish War Veterans, American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Disabled American Veterans, Belgian Legion, Italian Legion, French Foreign Legions, British Great War Veterans, Polish Veterans of the World War, American Palestine Jewish Legion, Shomrim Society, and units from the regular United States Army and Navy.
Bands in the parade will include the Paterson, N.J., Band, Fife and Drum Corps of the McNally Post of the American Legion, Rockaway Post Fife and Drum Corps, and the Hebrew Orphan Asylum Band.
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