The Washington herald., 1919-06-01
D|pLoMATSJO join
B. c. COMMITTEE.
IN JULY4PLANS
AL Free Nations to Aid In
Big Celebration
Here.
MEMBERS ANNOUNCED
Secretary Lane and Com
missioner Brownlow
/. Lead Movement.
MEMBERS ANNOUNCED

tee. through whom the Independence
Day festival viii be held in wash
ington this year. were announced
yesterday Franklin K Lane. Sec
retary Of the interior. Is the hon
orarJ Chairman and CommisSioner
Louis Brovnlov active chairman
Not only the people Of Washing
ton and of the United States, but
all the peoples OF the free nations
Of the world win join this year in
the celebration of the Fourth of July
here In the District of Columbia" !"
said Commissioner Brovnlov. In
making public the personnel of the
committee
The first call for q meeting to ar
range for the celebration was issue
by Secretary Lane. Mr.. Brownlow
said He stated further that every
foreign nation represented a Wash
fngton has accepted q position on
the general committee and PRACTICAL
ly every one OF them will be repre-
sented at the ceremonies and page
antry-
Four Vice Chairmen.
The membership of the committee
ircludes: W. Gwynn Gardiner. Col
CHARLES w Eutz. H b F. Macfar-
land and Cuno II. Rudolph. vice
Chairmen; Edwin S. Hege, secretary;
Frank l.. Polk. Acting Secretary of
state: John Barrett. director gen.
eral of the Pan-American Union.
Of he
diplomatic corps have agreed to
serve on the committee:
The Spanish Ambassador. the
Minister from Great Britain. the
Minister from Portugal, the Minis
ter from Bolivia. the Minister from
Norway. the Minister from Den
mark, the Minister from Venezuela,
the Minister from Salvador. the
Minister from Ecuador. the Minister
from Colombia, the Minister from
Switzerland. the Minister from Mic
aragua, the Minister from The
Netherlands, the Minister from
the Serbs. Croats and Slovenes; the
Minister from Haiti, the charge de
anaires of France, the charge de
anaires of Brazil, the charge de af-
faires of Italy. the charge de af
faires OF Russia the charge de af-
faires of Guatemala. the charge de
anaires of Sweden, the charge de
anaires of China the charge de af-
faires of Honduras, the charge de
affaires of Rumania, the charge de
aiaires of Persia. the counsellor of
the japanese Embassy. the Com
missioner of the Czecho-Slovak Re-
public, the secretary OF the Polish
National Committee and the secre-
tary OF the Lithuanian National
Council
Civic Bodies Represented.
Other members of the committee
ares
Walter A Brown, president of the
Board of Trade; Robert N. Harper.
president of the Chamber of Com
merce; Joseph Burbank. president
Of the Retail Merchants Associa-
ton: Joseph A. whitfield. president
Of the City Club: william B. West
lake. president of the Federation of
l. Peyser. chairman of the commit
tee on ways and means: Mrs Marie
Forrest. chairman Of the committee
on pageantry: c. H. English, repre-
senting the War Camp Community
Service: e c. Graham, chairman of
the committee on fireworks: Maj
Raymond w. Pullman. chairman of
the committee on public order: Ell
liott Woods. chairman of the COM
mittec on Capitol arrangements: :
Col. Charles s. Ridley. chairman of
the committee on grounds; Capt
X. r Glen. chairman OF the COM
mittee on parade; Charles Lee Cook.
chairman OF the committee on in
rItations: Fred d. Owen. chairman
of the committee on decoration of
grounds: E. ]. Murphy. chairman of
the committee on decoration of the
streets; Isaac Cans. chairman OF the
committee on chairs: Peter w.
Dykema, chairman OF the committee
on music, and John Oliver LaGorce.
chairman of the committee on pro-
grams
Theodore W. Noyes. Clinton T.
Rrainard, Edward B. Mclean. Arthur
Brisbane. Frank Morrison. William T.
Galliher. NJ. D. Rosenberg. A Left
wich Sinclair. NJ. A. Deese. Mai. Gen.
George Barnett, Mrs. Susie Root
Rhodes. Miss Cecil Norton, Miss Flor
ence Brown, Mrs. Minnie Van Win
kle. Rabbi Abram Simon, William
Knowles Cooper. Monsignor Thomas.
the Rev. Charles Wood, the Rev. H.
w. o. Millington. the Rev. Randolph
II. McKim, the Rev. Dewitt C. Crois-
SAINT, John F. Costello. z. F. Colloday,
Miss Gertrude McNally.
other Members.
John Poole. Corcoran Thorn, B. F.
Saul. f. E. Thompson, Milton E. Allies,
George E. Hamilton. the Rev. John
Van Schaick. Edward L. Thurston,
Stephen Z. Kramer William d Camp-
bell. Sydney W. Strauss, N. Landon
Burchell, Roland s. Robbins. A. Bry-
lawski, Alonzo Tweedale. Conrad H.
Syme.
Mrs. Newton D. Baker, Mrs. Jose
phus Daniels. Mrs. Archibald Hop
kins. Mrs. Henry =. Dimmock, Clar-
ence r. Wilson. John E. Laskey,
Breckenridge Long. Houston Thomp-
n. Robo. Walter I. Mccoy. Ashley N.
Gould. Wendell p. Stafford, Frederick
L. Siddens. William Hits, Thomas 1.
Bailey. Kathryn Sellers, Robert Hardi-.
son. James p. McMahon, J. Harry
Cunningham.stArth E. Seymour,
Charles ]. coinmbus. John Brewer,
Lester Lansbmgh. Joseph p. Kauff-
man. A S. Alvord. John ]. Edison,
William Corcoran Eustic, Edward J.
~.ellwaden. Gen. r. d. Sims, Gen.
William E Harvey, Col. Z. Lester
Jones, c. Fred Cook, Earl Goodwin.
Newbold Noyes. E. Morty Bell, ].
Lynn Yeagle. Mrs. Coralie Cook. DR..
j. A. Warfield and the Rev. d. Z.
wiseman.
Other members will be announced
in the next two or three days by Com
missioner BroynloW