The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-23
II ORCH PARADE IS E |NAL TRIBUTE ID.
 r FAMOUS AER0NAUTS
Last Evening Marked By Snap py Spectacle In Business Section, With Cadets,
 Music and Autos

Three companies of the reserve of ficers training corps ofNtlie Central High school with their, band. led by their
 major and staff and followed by more than dozen automobiles decorated with
 flags and colcrs, and filled with the dis tinguished guests who will take part in the balloon race today,s constituted one of the prettest and most impressive torch-light parades which Birmingham
 has witnessed in many a day.
 The parade is the last public enter
 tainment that will be accorded the visit
 ing pilots from the foreign nations be- fore the hop-off of their huge balloons in the international race this afternoonl
 Promptly at 5:3o o'clock yesterday af- ternoon. Lust as it was growing dark enough for the red torches to glow, the
 parade started at Sixth avenue and
 Nineteenth street, north.
 Four motorcycle officers rode at the head of the parade. The major and
 his staff of the reserve officers train-
 ing corps came next They were fol-
 lowed by the band who kept the crowd
 cheering by playing the patriotic songs Of the different countries whose represen- tatives were the guests of, the city.
 Directly behind the band marched the Thigh school students who constitute the members of theSR. o. T. C., and they
 were followed by many automobiles. The parade started at Sixth avenue and Nineteenth street north marched to
 First avenue and Nineteenth street turned up First avenue to Twentieth street, then north on Twentieth street and marched to the Tutwiler hotel.
 In the first automobile was Major vir- gil Evans and Dr. Frank Wiifis Bar n xph crr fod ha ,tv,svI Chamber of Commerce. Allen Hawley. representing the Aero Club of America, was also in the first car. The purpose of the parade Was to fa- | miliarize the townsfoks with the per sonne of the contesting delegations. This 1 was. accomplished by assigning an auto mobile, suitably lettered and decorated. to ! the crew of each of the competing bal l looms.
 | One car was naped Iza Lorraine. tho I French balloon. and was intended to carry the French contestants. Captain | Hirochsur and NJ. Nathan. These off | cers were detained at the balloon field
 however. and did not arrive in time tc I participate in the parade. Then came
 the Belgian car, ''Belgica," occupied by Lieutenant DeMuyter and his aide. Lieu tenant DeBrusse, escorted by Sam c l Bowman.
 l The next car was named "Audens," oc
 cupied by Major Vafle and Major La | dore. two of the Italian entrants, es corted by P. J. Serio of the Italian com 1 mittee. They were followed by "Trum 1 phale IT, whose crew is Major Leone
 and Lieut.. M. Pirazzoli. The car named l Goodyear IT. carried not only ,Ralpl l Upson, the holder of the nternationa 1 trophy, and his aide. Van Ormann. bu also Mrss Van Ormann. 'sU. s. Army No r. was next in line. The pilot, Lieu | tenant Thompson. was absent and hi place was taken by Major Van Ostrand | representing the air service, Washington 1 with Captain H. E. Weeks. aide. Tht I last of this group was Kansas Cit, 1 IT." piloted by Homer F.. Honeywell l Doctor Kingsbury as aide. together witt