Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-15
CURTIS PRESENTED
ANOTHER SILK HAT
Vice PreSident-EleCt Is Asked
to Wear Bowler
in Parade.

| Vice President-elect Curtis was pre-
sented today with another of the sue
cession of hats the Hoover Curtis Club
Republican officials in Washington. The
hat given TO Mr.. Curtis today was a
silk high hat, and the Vice President
elect was asked to wear 1t in the in
augural parade. Maj, Robert S. o. Daw-
son of New York. and Matthew Quay
CHASER, president of the club, made the
presentation in the Office of Senator
Curtis in the Senate Office Building.
The case in which the hat came, is
inscribed. Hon. Charles Curtis, Vice
President of the United States, from
his friends the original Curtis boys,
Matthew Quay CHASER and Robert S. Q.
Lawson"
There will be no dearth of singing
and instrumental talent during the in
augural, for the inaugural committee
has been offered more such talent than
can possibly be used. A special music
subcommittee, headed by Miss Sybil
Baker. in association with Sidney Lusk
and Percy Foster, working in conjunc-
ton with Washington civic interests, Is
concentrating on the Washington ex-
hibit to be held at the Rialto Theater
the night of March 2.
Hazel Arth on Program.
Hazel Arth, winner of the Atwater-
Kent vocal competition, has already &C
cepted place on the program. Others
who have volunteered, but who have
not been definitely accepted, are the Re-
publican Glee Club of Columbus, Ohio,
an organization with 72-year history;
the Indian Reserve Orchestra, the Ham,
ilton Glee Club of Chicago and the
Media Grotto Chanters of Topeka, Kans.
Col. Guy E. Henry, commanding off,
Ger at Fort Myer, has arranged with
the entertainment committee for a spe-
cial Cavalry and Field Artillery exhibit
ton at the riding hall on Saturday,
March 2, at 800 o'clock. Admission
will be by ticket only.
A partial list Of governors and their
STATS who will be in the inaugural pa
rade was announced by the inaugural
committee as follows: Alabama, escorted
by staff, band of "a pieces and two COM
panies of National Guard; Connecticut,
Foot Guard and National Guard: Della
ware, staff, 50 members of State AS
Sembly, band and artillery of 198th
Coast Artillery, National Guard; Florida,
20 personal aides; Georgia, Official staff;
Illinois, staff and State officials; Iowa,
personal staff; Maine, personal staff;
Massachusetts, personal staff; Michigan,
personal staff: Minnesota, escort of three
persons; Mississippi, 20 staff colonies
and adjutant general Missouri, New
Hampshire, New Mexico, Rhode Island,
South Carolina, Tennessee. Vermont,
Wyoming, personal stats; New Jersey,
l nf lot
Troop, 102nd Cavalry, National Guard;
New York, two representatives of Gov.
Roosevelt: Ohio, cabinet members and
other State officers; Pennsylvania, State
Assembly. State officers and cabinet,
general officers. colonies and colors of
National Guard; Virginia, $50 members
OF historic military units and fife and
drum corps: Wisconsin, LAB cadets and
band, members of st. Johns Military
Academy,
Veterans to March.
Thirty-five members each of several
veterans organizations will l.larch,
among them the following: Military
Order Loyal Legion, United Spanish
War Veterans, National Yeomen, v.
F. W., Women's Overseas Legion, Dis
abled American Veterans of the World
War, United Confederate Veterans and
Auxiliary, Jewish Veterans, Wars of the
Republic. The unit of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars will include the Boys
Band Of Warren, Ohio. The Army and
Navy Union delegations has a drum
corps of 20 pieces, and the American
Legion will have delegates from six
States and the prize band from Wichita,
Kans.
The following patriotic organizations
will march: Daughters of Union Vet
Grams of the Civil War, Sons of the
American Revolution, American War
Mothers, Boy Scouts of America with
fife and drum corps. Military Order of
Foreign Wars, Military Order of the
World War with Victory Post Drum
Corps, National Sojourners, marching
clubs from Iowa, New Jersey, New
York, Texas, Mississippi. Ohio, Virginia,
Kansas and Pennsylvania.
The second division, which. according
TO the wish Of Mr.. Hoover, will reflect
the life and work of the people, will
include cowboys and cowgirls from the
West, number of Indians, and many
other colorful units. At the head of
the division will ride Commissioners
Dougherty, Taliaferro and Ladue. The
division will have as its marshal,
Hubert Work, chairman of the Re-
publican national committee.
Mrs. Virginia White Speel held a
meeting of her committee on housing
and hospitality last night and outlined
the work which has already been ac-
complished toward caring for thousands
OF visitors to washington during the
inaugural. She was presented with a
basket of flowers after the meeting by
her committee members.
Herbert Hoover's school teacher will
ride in the parade with the Iowa dele
cation, along with others Of the old
| time friends CT the President-elect from
the tall corn State. She is Mrs. Mollie
Carran, who taught the future Presi-
dent of the United States in q little
school in Iowa nearly half a century