LEE-JACKSON RITES SLATED

Descendants Of Both Generals To Attend Dedication

Descendants of Generals Robert E. Lee and “Stonewall” Jackson, including Robert E. Lee 4th, will attend the dedication of the Lee-Jackson Memorial in Wyman Park at 3 P.M. May 1.

Also participating in the ceremonies will be Virginia State officials, 345 Virginia Military Institute cadets in full dress uniform and units of the Army and Maryland National Guard.

May 1 is the eighty-fifth anniversary of the day that General Lee and General Jackson parted company, on the eve of the battle of Chancellorsville.

Mr. Ferguson’s Will

Mrs. Laura Gardin Fraser, sculptor, designed the double equestrian statue, financed by the late J. Henry Ferguson, native of Mary-land, who died November 24, 1928.

Mr. Ferguson left $100,000 to honor the generals, who have been called “the greatest American combat team” by Douglass Southall Freeman, Lee s biographer.

In his will, Mr. Ferguson wrote:

“General Lee and General Jackson were my boyhood, heroes, and maturer judgment has only strengthened my admiration for them. They were great generals

and Christian soldiers. They waged war like gentlemen, and I feel that their example should be held up to the youth of Maryland.”

Parade Route Given

A military parade, including V.M.I. cadets, detachments of military police and the WACs, the 51st Regiment Band, companies of the Signal Corps, infantry and artil- lery,

and a color guard will form at Charles and Twenty-second streets shortly before 3 P.M. May 1.

The parade will march up Charles street to Art Museum drive, where it will wheel left and halt in front of the statue.

Former Senator George L. Radcliffe, a member of the memorial committee, will preside over the dedication program.

The Rev. James E. Moore, pastor of Mount Washington Presbyterian Church, will deliver an invocation.

Speakers Listed

Speeches will be made by Governor Lane, Dr. Freeman, Mr. Radcliffe and Mayor  D’Alesandro.

The Rt. Rev. Noble C. Powell, bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Maryland,

will pronounce a benediction.

Martial music will be played by the 51st Regiment Band: a V.M.I. band will play the national anthem.

William J. Casey, vice president of the Maryland Trust company,

and treasurer of the Municipal Art Society in a recent address to the Lawyers’ Round Table of Baltimore, recounted the history of the monument.

Delayed By An Invasion

Italy’s invasion of Abyssinia delayed the sculptor’s construction of the clay model of the statue for the most suitable clay, Mr. Casey said, comes from Abyssinia.

Restrictions on the use of bronze during World War II caused a further delay.

The statue was cast in Providence, R.I., and brought down to Baltimore on a twenty-wheeled truck at 15 miles per hour, traveling part of the way with a police escort.

To negotiate one low underpass, the truck driver found it necessary to deflate the vehicle’s twenty tires.

Apart from its value as a work of art, Mr. Casey said yesterday, the statue serves as a reminder of Baltimore’s strong ties with South.

“The men at V.M.I. are delighted about it.” he added. “I hear they can talk of nothing else.”