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Show PL! BIG CHURCH PARADE SI CIP CArP LEWIS, Tacoma, Wash., July -6 Twenty companies, totalling approximately approx-imately 4000 men, will participate in a church parade in the 166th depot brigade on Sunday morning, August 4, in the first ceremony of that kind to be held here, and one of the few held in the country since the declaration of war, according ac-cording to officers in the brigade. The men will leave their barracks, marching in battalion formation to the drill ground, where they will form in a huge horseshoe. There the Y. M. C. A.'s song director, John Henry Lyons, will lead them in singing "America," "The Battle Bat-tle Hymn of the Republic," r "Onward, Christian Soldiers" and "The Star-Spangled Star-Spangled Banner," in the order named. Chaplain John H. Gardner will talk on "American's Life," contrasting this country's ideals .with those of Germany. Attendance at the parade and services ; will not be compulsory, but it is believed that every man will take part. The program pro-gram will take forty-five minutes. The parade and song service, followed by the talk, originated with the Chaplains' as- , sociation here. Regimental Sergeant Major Thomas Helrnuth Ritter, who a few months ago , was the central figure in charges against ; him that he was a spy in the service of Genmany, and that ho was also the grandson of the quartermaster general i of the Eighth German Army corps, was made a sergeant today in the 166th depot brigade. Ritter was released two months ago from the guardhouse of the depdt brigade, where he had been confined following fol-lowing his removal from the county jajl in Tacoma. He was assigned to the depot brig-ade for duty as a private, hav--ing been reduced while in confinement. The charges against him were not proved. |