Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-09
INAUGURAL MEDALS
TO Be PUT ON SALE
Souvenirs to Be Offered at
Price Between So and So
to Help Defray Expenses.

Elaborate souvenir medals bearing
likenesses Of Herbert Hoover and
Charles Curtis, President-elect and Vice
President-elect, are to be offered for
sale during the Hoover-CurtiS inaugural,
under auspices Of the inaugural COM
mittee, to help defray the expenses Of
the celebration, it was announced today.
These medals, intended to be lasting
mementos of the inaugural, are to be
sold publicly at a price between So
and So, the committee announced to-
day.
Arrangements for their sale, and for
striking of the official medal which
custom demands shall be presented to
the new President and the new Vice
President, are being made by the COM
n1ittee on medals and badges, Of which
Julius Garfinckel is chairman. The
medals to be presented to Mr.. Hoover
and Mr.. Curtis will be OF gold, and will
as well as the date and any inscription.
Statement to Be Clarified.
Qualification Of the statement given
out yesterday by the committee was
planned at a luncheon meeting arranged
by Lieut.. Col. U. S. Grant, Sd, chair
man of the inaugural committee, this
afternoon at the New Willard Hotel.
One of the most important points to be
cleared, in so far as Washington's partici-
patton in the inaugural parade is con-
cerned, is whether the District National
Guard shall be part of the procession.
The statement of yesterday limited the
military features of the parade to the
Army, Navy and Marine Corps in the
immediate vicinity of Washington. In.
asmuch as the District National Guard
is a local military unit and Is Sin the
immediate vicinity of the Capital, this
part of the statement was taken to
mean that the local militia organization
will be in the parade.
Gen. Anton Stephan, chairman OF
the parade committee, interpreted that
part of the statement referring to par
ticipation Of organizations and groups
representing the life and work of the
people to mean that floats will not be
barred. He has accordingly issued in
structions that those delegations which
wish to bring floats with them may do
so. Gen. Stephan said there will not
be the slightest difficulty in keeping the
parade within the two-hour limit set
yesterday at the conference between the
President-elect and Col. Grant.
Many questions of detail remain to
be settled. but there is no mistaking
the fact that the committee is well
satisfied with the outlook. The size and
location of the reviewing stands must
be settled shortly so Charles H. Tomp-
kins, local builder and chairman of the
committee on grandstands. may proceed
with his plans. Considerable revenue
ia m RI fon
to aid in defraying the expenses of the
inaugural from sale of seats in these
stands at prices ranging from IS to 81.
These prices exceed the rates charged
during the Coolidge, inaugural.
New York will send $4,000 visitors
to the Capital during the inaugural
period, according to Matthew Quay
CHASER. president Of the Hoover Curtis
Club of New York. The club will spon-
sor thousand official visitors, all of
whom will wear the distinctive "five
gallon Western hat The New York
Hoover Curtis" CLUB Is one of the
first of such organizations, and is still
functioning actively. In addition to
perfecting arrangements for a liberal
representation at the inaugural, the
club also is cooperating with Mrs John
A. Daugherty in arranging for the
charity ball, to be held the evening of
March f.
Hotels to Cooperate.
Washington's hotels are to abandon
their usual competition during the in
augural period and make cooperative
arrangements by which each hostelry
will be kept informed of the available
space at other hotels so guests can be
accommodated with the least possible
loss of time, Augustus Gumpert, a
member of the subcommittee on hotel
accommodations, announced that &C.
commodationS are not all taken for
the inaugural period, and that reserva-
tons may be made by visitors. The
Hotel Mems Association, Mr.. Gunpert
said, has pledged its members to turn
no guests away during the festivities.
The District Commissioners have an
proved and sent to the Budget Bureau a
request for an appropriation Of $3.50
to provide for additional police in Wash
ington during the period of the inaug-
uration. At the same time, q request
for $4,000 to establish medical stations
and comfort stations. made by the COM
mittee, was laid before the Commits
sioners. Special policemen, familiar with
known crooks and pickpockets, will be
brought here for the inaugural to avoid
embarrassment to the official guests.
Marshall w. Pickering, chairman Of
the subcommittee on housing and hos
pitality. with Offices in the House once
Building, has addressed letter to men,
bers of the Senate and House urging
that members of Congress who wish to
take care Of constituents and friends