Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-04
HOLIDAY PROGRAM
TO REACH CLIMAX
WITH NIGHT EVENTS
Parade, Fireworks and Air
Attack to Feature Eveninu
at Monument.
SENATOR TESS TO GIVE
PRINCIPAL TALK OF DAY
Many Leave City to Take Advan-
tage of Rest Period Over
Week End.

week End.
With their respite from work extended
by the special act of Congress which
made tomorrow a legal holiday also.
that portion Of Washington's popula-
ton which resolved to remain in the
city for the Fourth of July was engaged
in an enthusiastic observance of the
l54th anniversary of the signing Of the
Declaration of Independence.
Community celebrations, combining
patriotic programs with athletics and
street parades, were in progress in all
sections of the city. But the principal
event of the city-wide celebration re-
mains for this evening, when the official
municipal ceremonies start at 1880
O'Clock in the Sylvan Theater, culmi-
mating in a realistic aerial attack upon
the city and a fireworks display that
Monument grounds and which will be
visable for miles around. Washington's
official exercises tonight, at which the
patriotic concert and Senator Simeon
D. Fess of Ohio will make the indie
pendence day grafton, will be heard
over a Nationwide hook-up of Nation
al Broadcasting Company stations.
The National Capital, relieved tempo
rarily of the strain of congressional
session, found expression for its relief
in various ways The adjournment of
Congress paved the way for a general
exodus of officials, including the Presi-
dent, who left late yesterday to join
Mrs. Hoover in their camp on the Rapi-
dan River, to remain there until Sun
day.
Senators Rush Home.
Many Of the Senate members, seeking
what rest they could get before Mon
day, when the Senate will reconvene
also beat tracks for nearby homes and
holiday retreats. Tourist agencies re-
ported an unusual exodus from the
Capital to mountains and seaShore, and
probably just 6S many visitors to the
city arrived to take the places of de-
parting citizens over the week end.
The thousands of persons assembling
on the Monument grounds this evening
will be enabled to hear the entire pro-
gram OF speeches and the reading of the
Declaration of Independence, and will
take part in the oath of allegiance TO
the flag led by Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries,
by means OF system Of ampliflerS in
stalled yesterday by the United States
Army Signal Corps.
Special details of police will take care
of the traffic congestion in and about
the Monument grounds and official
parking space has been reserved at the
Sylvan Theater for the especially in
vited guests, who include most OF the
nd x~Fi
diplomatic corps, who are still in the
city.
There was a rush for tickets to the
bleechers and reserved seats on the
north side of the Monument, where |
several thousand people will take adj
vantage of these facilities to watch the |
fireworks display in comparative COM
fort. But the great portion of the |
populace will crowd the open spaces
about the Monument on foot, for the |
rows Of seats, it was announced, will |
not interfere with standing room space. !
Parade Follows Address.
z. ]. Murphy, chairman of the citi- |
zens committee appointed by the Dis |
trict Commissioners to arrange for the |
day ceremonies, will pre- !
side at the exercises A parade OF |
patriotic and military organizations will |
take place after Senator Fess has con- |
cluded. Under brilliant flood lights the |
marchers will proceed between long rows |
of flaming red torches from the base !
Of the Monument to the stage of the |
theater and there take the oath of !
allegiance to the United States. The |
standards Of the United States and vari- |
Gus organizations will be carried In the |
parade and the drum and bugle corps |
of Costello Post, No. Is, and Victory |
Post, No. 4, and the band of the Vete- |
rams of Foreign Wars will take part.
When the oath has been repeated. |
the Marine Band will lead the march |
ers and the public in the singing of |
The Star Spangled Banner" After !
the singing, Rev. Francis j. Hurney will |
deliver benedictiOn and the marchers |
again Will parade between the red |
torches around the base of the |
Monument
The torchlight procession will close |
the formal exercises, and as the march |
ers finish a lone Army plane will en- |
gage the District Of Columbia National |
Guard in an aerial battle Lieut.. w. |
A. r. Robertson Of Boiling Field will |
simulate an attack over the Monument |
grounds, and 1t will be the Job of the |
gunners to spot his plane with power
ful searchlights and pick him OF with |
the batteries. Members of the 26Oth |
Coast Guard Artillery will man the |
gun positions. I
AT few minutes past 9 o'clock this
spectacle will be concluded and the !
fireworks display on the north side of |
the Monument will begin, opening with
a giant salute OF 81 nine-inch aerial |
maroons and prismatic illumination of !
the grounds with so national colored |
lights changing with superb effect.
To Enter From Fourteenth st.
1t was announced on behalf of the !
CltlzenS Committee, that color bearers
ano color guards participating in the |
sylvan Iheater ceremonies are to enter |
the Monument Grounds from Four
teenth street at the roadway Just north |
OF the Bureau Of Engraving and Print
ms ard are TO find parking space for |
tnel automoblies at the west side OF |
the Monument. They are to form for |