Evening star., 1928-12-27
INAUGURAL GROUPS
ATTACK PROBLEMS
Plans for Event here March d
Pushed at Committee
Meetings.

Inauguration plans gained headway
today, with two special committees
meeting to knead out knotty problems,
third chairman accepting the post
and plunging into the task Of choosing
his committee, and the general commit
tee rounding up a rougn draft of the
ceremony for presentation to President
elect Hoover on his arrival here jan
uary q,
More than 200 men and women have
accepted posts with the general and
special COMMITTEES, many of the COM
mittees already have met and formulat-
ed their plans and the whole lnaugu-
ration, with the parade and all the
trimmings, is beginning to assume some
definite form. But there Is still great
deal of work to do.
Gen Anton Stephan, chairman Of
the parade committee, and his aides
met today to take up what Is believed
to be the most difficult task OF the
whole uguration-keeping the pa
rade down to such proportions as would
enable it to pass a given spot in three
hours
Public Relations Group Meets.
The public relations committee,
under Theodore p Noyes, also is meet
ing today to take up the publicity
situation.
Julius Garfinckel this morning ac-
cepted the Craftsmanship of the COM
mittee on badges and souvenirs. Mrs.
Isaac Cans, Mrs. Clyde Aitchison and
Frank Coleman have been invited to
be ON the committee on housing and
hospitality. A meeting of this COM
mittee will be held January 2, at 3
pm, at the willard, it is announced.
Corcoran Thorn has accepted the vice
Craftsmanship of the subcommittee on
tickets and invitations. Mr. Thorn has
been connected with previous inaugura-
tions and is acquainted with the routine
to be followed in the distribution OF
tickets and invitations.
1t was a particularly knotty problem
which Gen. Stephan and his committee
attacked today, in formulating the
plans for the parade. So many want
to march in the parade that the task
of keeping it down to three-hour
limit is becoming increasingly difficult.
The various Republican clubs, military
schools, State organizations, special
military organizations, and other groups
which have applied for place in the
parade, or from which applications are
expected, would, if they were all ac-
cepted, make the parade an almost
endless one, Gen. Stephan says, and
the committee is faced with the delicate
Job of getting representation for all OF
the organizations entitled to it, without
going above the three-hour limit.
One solution of the official State
representation problem, In addition to
the governors and their escorts, Gen.
Stephan suggested today-that each
State send float, to be identified with
the State and be of educational or his
torical significance-was being taken
up by the committee, and in the letters
to governors asking the individual
States inaugural plans the float idea
is being broached.
Another difficulty that is facing Gen.
Stephan is that in many Of the States
the present governors go out Of office on
January /, new governors come into
Office, and little can be done about
getting a line on the States plans until
after the confusion of the new gov
ernors taking Office and Strengthening
out their own affairs has died down.
Committee Members Announced.
The complete membership of the pa
rade committee was announced today at
inaugural headquarters in the Willard:
Gen. Stephan. chairman; Admiral
Charles F. Hughes, Maj. Gen. Greed G..
Hammond, Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune,
Brig. Gen. H. o. Williams, Lieut.. Col.
Frederick H. Smith, Lieut.. Clayton c..
hewitt and Brig. Gen. George S. ST.
monds, chief of staff.
The personnel of the committee on
printing and engraving also was an
nounced as follows: E. F. Crane, chair
man; Albert Brewood, Bertrand Rob-
erts, George H. Carter, Alvin w. Hall,
Paul Sleman, j. B. Mcqueen, oscar t.
Wright, Frank P, Howard. John H.
Davis. H. C. C. Stiles, w. w. Rapley,
S. M Darragh, Charles D. German,
W. F. Roberts, Byron S. Adams, w.
Seton Kent, Benjamin F. Darr, Karl v.
Eikaer and George B. Kennedy.
M w. Flynn, managing editor Of
the Washington Herald, and j. J. Fitz-
patrick, editor of the Washington
Times, have accepted posts on the gen.
! eral committee.