Evening star., 1930-12-02
FEATURES CARDED
FOR BENEFIT !! GAME
Drill to Be Staged and Llfe-
Saving Buoy Demonstrated
Saturday.

play Of the breeches buoy which has
saved thousands of lives from vessels
stranded on the shores of America have
been arranged as side attractions for
the foot ball game to be played Satur-
day afternoon at Griffith Stadium by
the Marines and the Coast Guards for
the benefit Of the unemployed of the
District and for the Presidents cup.
Some 900 Coast Guardsmen are COM
ing to washington from Boston, New
London. New York. Philadelphia, Easssss.-
more and Norfolk to attend the gar2e.
These men will come aboard the Coast
Guard cutter Champlain and four Coast
Guard destroyers. The vessels viii tie
up at the Washington Navy Yard late
Friday or early Saturday morning, 1t
was announced today by Comdr. j. S.
BayliS, United States Coast Guard, COM
manding officer of the Coast Guard Re-
ceiving Unit at New London, Conn, and
IN charge of the Coast Guard arrange
ments for the benefit game.
Maj. Gen. Smedley d. Butler Of the
Marine Corps, commanding the post at
Quantico, Va, was in communication
today with Maj. David L. 8. Brewster,
Marine Corps athletic director, and
plans were worked out for the Marines
participation in the pre-game enter
tainment.
Marines win Parade.
About 1000 Marines from Quantico
will come to Washington Saturday by
train and form for a parade at Mary
land avenue and Fifth street. They win
be joined by Marines from the Marine
Barracks in Washington, and viii pa
rade up Sixth street to T street, east
on T street to Fifth and up Fifth to the
stadium.
At the stadium the ''leathernecks,"
under command of Gen. Butler, will
gather on the foot ball playing field and
form a large M, denoting the Marine
Corps. The 200-piece Marine Band Will
play "Semper Fidelis." and then the
whole contingent Of devil dogs" viii
sing the Marine campaign song. From
the Halls Of Montezmua." Then the
Marines will form a huge c. G.. as q
tribute to their gridiron foes.
Next will come a. tribute to President
Hoover, with the Marines executing an
intricate drill to form an III while
the Marine Band plays the Stanford
University march, the song of the Presi-
dents alma mater. Then vthe custo-
mary Hail to the Chief" will be played
for the President.
The breeches buoy drill, demonstra-
ton of how this life saving device Is
used to save sailors on ships stranded
at sea, Will be one Of the pre-game
features. A line viii be strung from q
pole in the stadium to q point near
the Presidents box. and the breeches
buoy will bring man down the line.
The little cannon used to shoot the
line to stranded vessels will be ON
display, but viii not be shot.
Guards to March on Field.
Comdr. Baylis said today that each
of the ships coming to the Capital for
the game would carry as many addi-
tional men as could be accommodated,
aside from their regular crews. The
Guardsmen will form at the bah park
and march on the field. If the Presi-
dent has arrived by that time they will
offer him a salute. If not, they will
march in review before Rear Admiral
Frederick G. Billiard, commandant of
the Coast Guard.
The band from the Coast Guard
Academy, New London, Conn, the in
stitution that turns out the officers of
the Coast Guard. win furnish music for
the Coast Guard contingent.
Isaac Cans, chairman of the special
committee taking care of disabled war
veterans who are anxious to attend the
game, again asked all persons who buy
tickets, but who do not. intend to use
them, to turn them over to him SO they
may be used by. disabled veterans The
game COMMITTEES viii provide buses to
take the veterans from Walter Reed,
Mount Alto and the Navy Hospitals.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars Over
seas Band, of 140 pieces, the largest
veterans musical organization In the
world, will also furnish music for the
game. The band is representative OF
the eight posts of the Veterans of For
eign Wars in the District and will be
led on the field Saturday afternoon by
Honorary Col Thelma Bonini and her
bullpup mascot, Hotsy Totsy, with
William E. Freeman as drum major.
The band, in bright uniforms, will lend
another splash of color to what prom
ises to be a colorful throng.
Boxes VIII Be Decorated.
The boxes of the foreign diplomats
who will attend the game will be dec
GRATED with the flags of those countries
and the Marine Band, between the
halves, will play each country's ma
tional anthem.
The Committee on Employment, CO.
ton Chamber of Commerce, will become
an employer on its own behalf in an
effort to advertise the game.
The committee will employ % men
from the District Employment Bureau,
48O Louisiana avenue, and put sand
wich placards on them and send them
along a downtown route at 15.ninute
intervals.
Newbold Noyes, chairman of the
General Benefit Game Committee, today
announced that the distribution of box
seats for the game will take place
Thursday.
Additional boxholders were listed as
follows: Assistant Secretary of War
for Aviation F. TIubee Dawson; Mrs.
John A. Wilkinson, Mrs. Borden Har-
r1man, Civil Service Commissioner
Jessie Dell, the Minister of the Neither
lands, j. II. Van Royen; Representa-
tive Sol Bloom, the Belgian Ambassa-
dor, Prince Albert de Ligne; the French
Ambassador, Paul Claudel, and the Mic
araguan Minister, DR.. Don Juan B.
Sacasa.
Members of the House today were
urged to attend the game when the
Speaker read letter from Chairman
Noyes
Representative William p. Holiday Of
Illinois also sent to every member of the
House letter urging attendance at the
game, in which he said that 1T is ex-
pected that the House will adjourn over
the week end and the committee has ex-
pressed the hope that the membership
of the House and Senate will attend the
game" Representative Holiday, In eX-
planning the contest to his colleagues,
said:
"The game is to be held to provide q
fund for relief of the unemployed in
the District Of Columbia. It will be
attended by the President of the United
States, the Vice President, the Speaker
of the House of Representatives, the
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court,