Evening star., 1927-10-13
PARK VIEW PLANS
! CARNIVAL TONIGHT
Miss Catherine Beck Is
Chosen Queen From 28
Seekers After Honor.

With Miss Catherine Beck Of 512
Newton place as queen, the Park
View Business Mems carnival will he
gin tonight in celebration of street
improvements and a new and better
lighting system recently installed in
that section.
The queen was chosen from about
2S candidates at the finals last night
in the York Theater. The candidates
were selected by applause by the au-
dience, one aspirant for the honors of
queen and two maids. of honor each
night beginning with Monday.
Monday night Miss Kathleen Mof-
fett of 1916 Fifth street was held to
have received the most applause.
while Tuesday night Miss Beck was
selected to be the other contestant.
"NIiss Washington" Decides.
Last night the two stood 40. the
age OF me theater and Miss -Ga6yS
Goodman. this years Miss Washing
ton" acted as arbiter to decide which
girl received the louder acclaim.
The maids OF honor. besides Miss
Moffet. are Miss Isabelle Mcdonald,
Miss Rita ~eldenberg, Miss Dorothy
Mahaney and Miss. Hannah Hughes.
The queen will be officially crowned
this evening on the playground of The
Park View School by District Commis-
sioner Proctor L. Dougherty.
Cooperating with the Park View
business men in staging the carnival
are the citizens associations of Park
View and Columbia Heights, both %
which organizations are represented
on the carnival committee. G.. Theo-
dore DenekaS is the general Chairman"
and j. Clinton Hiatt is vice chairman
and represents Columbia Heights.
Final Arrangements Set.
Final arrangements for the parade
and pageant were made at a bust
ness meeting of the committee last
night at the Park View School. Mr..
Hiatt presided.
The parade will form this evening
at 8 O'Clock at Georgia avenue and
Harvard street 1t will proceed north
on Georgia avenue to Rock Creek
Church road, from there east to
WardIr street and south on Warder
street to the Park View School. where
the first division will disband. The
remainder will continue south on
Warder street to Kenyon street.
The parade will be led by Capt.
Fred Cornwell of the tenth police
precinct, followed by a police escort.
The American flag viii be carried by
Percy. Baker. Then will come the
Boys Independent Band, followed by
automobiles occupied by Commission
ers Dougherty and Ladue; Maj. Will
liam E. r. Covell, Assistant Engineer
Commissioner: Maj. Edwin B. Hesse.
superintendent of police; Chief George
s. Watson of the Fire Department
and Representative Frederick n. Zihl-
man Of Maryland.
Decorated automobiles, in which
will ride ofnovrs and members Of the
citizens associations of Park View,
Columbia Heights and Petworth and
representatives of the Park View
Community Center, will end the first
division.
Exercises at 9.
The second division will be led by
the Costello Post band and a float
bearing the queen and her maids of
honor. A float entered by the Colum.
bia Heights Business Mems Associa-
tion and decorated trucks belonging to
the merchants of Park View will COM
pletesthis section.
The third and fourth divisions will
be composed principally of commercial
floats. Included in each division will be
several bands, among which will be the
Elks' clown band. the Boy Scout band
and two public school bands.
At 9 O'Clock, the exercises at the
school will begin. The queen will be
by Commissioner Dougherty
and the following will speak: Fred S.
Walker, the presiding officer; John G.
McGrath, president of the Park View
Citizens Association: A. B. Carly,
president of the Columbia Heights
Citizens Association; Commissioners
Dougherty and Ladue,, Maj. Covell,
William Nick. Clayton, chairman of
the public utilities committee of the
Federation of Citizens Associations;
Representative Zihlman, and Mr..
Denekas, the man who has been large
ly responsible for the successful plans
for the carnival.