Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-30


who have served this Nation"
Thousands of persons are expected
to attend Washington's official Fourth
OF July celebration on the Monument
Grounds Friday evening, to be featured
by patriotic exercises in the Sylvan
Theater at 1880 O'Clock, followed by q
gigantic fireworks display at 9.
Senator Simeon d. FesS of Ohio will
deliver the Independence day grafton at
the Sylvan Theater His address will
be preceded by the reading of the Decla-
ration of independence by Rev. DR..
John c. Palmer, pastor of the Wash
lngton Heights Presbyterian Church.
The exercises will be opened with a
concert by the United States Marine
Band.
DR.. Luther H Reichelderfer. chair
man of the Board of District Commits
sioners, will deliver official greetings to
the assemblage. The ceremonies will
conclude with massing of the colors
under the direction of patriotic and
veterans organizations There will be
a torchlight parade from the Sylvan
Theater to the base of the Washington
Monument Benediction will be given
at the exercises at the theater by Rev.
francis j. Hurney, pastor of the I'm
III,
Fireworks a Feature.
Promptly at o'clock, on the north
SIDE OF the Washington Monument the
fireworks display will get under way. to
be featured by spectacular presenta-
ton. Among the scenes to be presented
Will be portraits" of George Washing
ton, President Hoover, Betsy Ross max
ing the hrst American flag, and Miss
Columbia"
An innovation will be the display
from 500 feet in the air of an American
nag, suspended by a parachute and
Illuminated simultaneously by flares of
$4,000 candle power. The Graf Zeppelin
and Niagara Falls also will be depicted.
The climax will be two devices, THE
Battle in the ColudS," spreading 9. 500
feet in the heavens to form a scene of
rare beauty and battle reproduction
marked by realistic representation of
terrific encounter. There will be the
quick rattle of musketry, the boom of
heavy cannon and the flash and smoke
of battle.
Some Tickets on Sale.
Tickets for a limited number of seats,
TO be placed on the north side of the
Washington Monument for the fire.
works display, were put on sale today
at 9 o'clock at 14l7 G street, under the
supervision of H. r. Helwig, vice chair
man OF the fireworks committee, which
IS headed by A. K. Shipe. The tickets
sell for rs and SO cents.
Other members of the fireworks COM
mittee are Claude w. Owen and Luther
w. LinklnS, vice chairmen; Jerome F.
Barnard, Edwin H. Bayly, Elmore T.
Burdette, Herman F. Carl, Robert ].
Cottrell, James B. EdmundS, Thomas L.
Egan, William Ellis, w. E. johnson.
Rufus Lusk, Joseph McGarraghy, Edgar
Morris, j. Mitchell Owens, w Z. Reed.
0. w. Riley, Milton F. Schwab and
Dwight Terry
The committee on patriotic and
veterans organizations which will have
charge of the maSSing of colors cere-
mony, will meet in the Franklin Ad-
ministration Building tomorrow after
noon at 4: As O'Clock. The committee is
headed by Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries,
retired. Other members of the COM
mittee include: Capt. Charles j. Painter.
vice chairman: Maj. W. w Burns. Mrs.
Pedro Capo- Rodriguez, Roscoe j. S.
Dorsey, Selden M Ely, Capt. Louis M.
Gosorn, Brig. Gen. F. r. Keefer, Miss
Dorothy Greene, Mrs. James Henry
Harper, A. G. Lehman, Everett S.
LOCKER, Col. William McKelvy, Samuel
j. McWilliamS, jr.; Ben de Mier Miller,
Col: E. L. Mattice, Mrs. Bryan K Ogden,
Judge John H. Shepherd, L. Harold
Sothoron and j. Franklin Wilson.
Final Meeting Wednesday.
The final meeting of the committee
OF 100 citizens appointed by the Com
miSsionerS, with E. j. Murphy as chair
man, will take place Wednesday
morning. The executive committee for
the celebration follows:
E. j. Murphy, chairman; vice chair
men-Miss Sibyl Baker, Charles w.
Darr, E. C. Graham, George C. Haven
ner, Mark Lansburgh, George Pitt;
treasurer, Miss Eta B. Taggart, and
the following chairmen of Subcommit-
tees, Charles w. Darr, city decorations
and illumination; George G. Havenner,
community participation; A. K. Shipe,
fireworks; Lieut.. F.. B. Butler, grounds;
Edgar G. Snyder invitations Mai.
Gen. Anton Stephan, military partici-
patton; Maj Gen Amos A. Fries, pa
triotic and veterans organizations; Capt.
Ray G. Montgomery and Mai Henry
c. Pratt, traffic and public safety; Brig.
Gen. F. r. Keefer and Charles j.
Painter
Members of the honorary committee
for the celebration are: DR.. Frank W.
Ballou, superintendent of schools; Sena-
tor Arthur Capper. chairman of the
District committee of the U. S. Senate;
Charles F. Carusi. president of the
Board OF Education; Maj. Gen. Herbert
B. Crosby of the District of Columbia
Board of Commissioners; Lieut.. Col.
u. S. Grant, 3rd, director of Public
Buildings and Public Parks in the Ma
tional Capital: Col. William b. Ladue,
u. S. A., District Commissioner; DR..
Luther Halsey Reichelderfer, president
of the Board of Commissioners; Gen.
Charles p. Summerall, U. S. A.. and
Representative Frederick N. Zihlman,
chairman of the District Committee OF
the House of Representatives.