Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-07-01
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JULY AIN CITY
CannOn's Roar Will Officially
Start Festivities at $3.50
4. m. Monday.

Final details OF the Fourth Of July
celebration ia indianapolis were com
plet4d this afternoon in meeting of the
American Legion general committee az
the Chamber of Commerce. Following
the parade Of former veterans of all wars
through the downtown streets in the
morning the legionnaires and the crowds
viii 20 10 the State fair ground for the
principal features Of the celebration.
The program, as finally completed, is
as follows:
as o'clock-Patriotic band concert;
grand stand.
90 o'clock-Athletic events; race track.
Public dancing. continuous from until
O'Clock under auspices Of Woman's
Auxiliary, American Legion, IN the Auto
mobile building.
$3.50 o'clock-Program Of patriotic ad-
dresses. Band concert and selections by
the Gypsy Smith choir; Coliseum build
ing.
80 o'cIock-Running horse races.
3 80 c'cl0ck-SpeciaI exhibition of day
light fire works by American Italian Fire
works Company in front of the grand
stand.
80 o'cIock-Awarding of trophies on
the race track in front of the grand stand.
500 oclock-Dare Devil Chandler, bal
loon ascension and parachute leap,
EVENING.
Z 80 o'clock-Patriotic band concert,
grand stand. Public dancing, continuous
until 10 o'clock. Auspices Woman's
Auxiliary, American Legion; Automobile
building.
5 80 ocIock-Dare Devil Chandler, dive
for life from illuminated ladders in front
Of grand stand.
900 o'c,ock-"The, Battle of Jutland,"
ar elaborate fireworks display staged by
the American Italian Fireworks Company
in front Of the grand stand.
PROCLAMATION ISSUED
BY MAYOR JEWETT.
A proclamation urging the citizens to
unite in celebration the Fourth, written
by Mayor Jewett, was issued today. The
mayor Is en- route East to witness the
Dempsey Carpenter bout. 1t is as
follows:
"The Fourth of July is Americas
greatest holiday. 1t commentaries
the birth OF our Nation. 1t is alto
gether fitting that the American Le-
giOn have full supervision for the
celebration of this great day. There
fore, the citizens of Indianapolis will,
i am sure, give TO the American Le-
gion their heartiest support and their
full cooperation In making the Fourth
of July a real celebration, and at the
same time holding high the standards
of Americanism and inspiring our
citizenship to remuneration of
their lives to the principles of our
Constitution and the real purpose of
America and Americanism."
The cannon which once doomed in the
Confederate cause during the Civil War
will fire a salute for the States of the
Union on the Fourth of July, Joe r.
Beckett, president of McIlvaine- Kothe
Post, No. 153, of the American Legion
announced today. The gun is that with
which the German War Veterans Asso,
citation, a body of union. veterans of the
Civil War of German birth or blood,
used to celebrate each patriotic occasion
1t was given to the McIlvaine- Kothe Post
about year ago and has been used upon
each patriotic holiday since.
firing squad, -un Ter the command
Of Lewis J. Roster, Jr., and Herbert II.
Eickhoff. will fire a shot for each of the
forty eight States. The cannon will be
located in the courthouse yard. Firing
will start at 80 O'Clock Monday morn
ing, which is the hour when the Fourth
of July parade starts assembling at Sen
ate avenue and Washington street. At
regular intervals the gun will be dis
charged, continuing while the parade
marches past on Washington street and
being timed so as to be nnlshed as the
end the end of the column approaches
The cannon will then be limbered and
the entire post with the piece will fan
into the line of march.
The color guard of McIlvaine- Kothe
Post, in command of Robert Winslow,
will be on duty with the firing squad
After the cannon was captured from
the Confederates it was stored in a Gov
ernment arsenal for a few years. 1t then
was sent to indianapolis for the use of
the German veterans organization Be- 4
tween holidays it is now stored in the
Barn Of one Of the members of the post.
Russell j Ryan and Paul Fechtman,
who are M charge of parade arrange
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