Evening star., 1933-01-20
Subscriptions Already Total
$4,000, With Other Sub
stantiaI Sums Promised.
PROGRAM NOT TO CARRY
ANY ADVERTISEMENTS
Will Be Made Real Souvenir.
Rooms Being Listed-Various
Committees Active.

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guarantee fund for the Roosevelt In
augural Committee appeared likely to-
day with 100000 in subscriptions al
ready reported unofhcially by the f.
nance subcommittee, and other guar
antors reporting ready to subscribe
substantial sums daily.
According to one member of the FL
nance Committee, the amount received
to date represents subscriptions of less
than go business and professional men
here, and Is the result of little more
than weeks work on the part of
the Finance Committee
Full subscription of the amount
deemed necessary to carry on the af-
fairs of the Inaugural Committee is
expected within the next week or 10
days.
This, it is announced, will greatly
facilitate the work of the committee,
| for 1t will then know to just what
extent it can commit itself financially
for entertainment and other features
of the inaugural celebration.
Guarantors to Be Reimbursed.
The money will be set up as a fund
against which the various subcommit-
tees of the General Inaugural Com
mittee can draw until the time when
the producing end of the committees
activities starts bringing in money
from the sale Of grandstand tickets,
souvenirs, programs and medals The
committees income is expected to
enable it to repay all guarantors in full
ana TO nave some money left over for
charity. Under the arrangement by
which the committee obtaineJ from
Congress exemption of the gran Jstand
tickets from taxes. all net proceeds of
activities OF the Inaugural Committee
Will go to charity. This does not in
clude the inaugural ball, all of the pro-
ceeoS OF which Will be turned over to
charity.
The subcommittee on official mo-
gram. OF which j. Fred Essary, Wash
lngton correspondent of the Baltimore
Sun, is chairman, today announced
this years program would be a
departure from the usual inaugural
program practice, in that it would tc
produced entirely free Of advertisirg
matter.
Mr.. Essary announced that he and
MS committee members feel that
without advertising, this years program
Will be more than ever a souvenir Of
the occasion, which purchasers viii
like to keep.
~ SAoO Woo D1OuSllI Oul lIldL
men Will not be interviewed this ves-.
as in past inaugural years, by soliel.,vs
1or advertising space in the prcgranl.
IN this way, the business men who have
1elt they have done their duty by sub
scrlbing to the inaugural guarantee
1und Will not have to put I'D addi-
tlonal money for advertising space in
the program
Another point emphasized bv the
committee Is that there can be- with
the Roosevelt inaugural program. no
ol1ncuty on the part of any business
man OF determining the authenticity
OF any program proposal that may be
made. Any project involving the sale
OF advertising space will not have the
sanction Of the Inaugural Committee
Program to Have GA Pages.
The program. it is announced. will
contain about "a pages, giving all in
formation which may be of value to
inaugural visitors and spectators, and
delVing deep into the history of such
occasions. 1t is planned to sell the
program for 35 cents. The contract for
ltS publication has been awarded to
Ransdel. Incorporated a local con-
Germ, and the work Of preparing the
material already has begun. To facili-
tate this work. the following have been
adoed to the Program Committee:
DaVlo RANKIN Barbee, George Rothwell
Brown, E. A. Merckle and c. D. Ritter
The resolution which would exemp.
inaugural tickets from taxes went to
the White House yesterday after its
passage by the Senate. The House
had acted favorably on the resolution
earlier
1t was announced today that the
Senate district H.
take up the resolution sponsored by
Senator Capper, Republican, of KAN
saS, authorizing an appropriation of
S25, 600 to be used by the District Com
mlssloners IN maintaining public order
and making other arrangements for
the Inauguration.
The Commissioners have told Con-
gresS they plan to bring 200 uniformed
policemen from Baltimore to augment
the local force and an additional force
OF rs plain clothes detectives will be
brought from various large cities.
This appropriation, Congress was told,
also would cover the cost of removing
street car loading platforms from the
of first aid stations, comfort stations
and information booths for the crowds
of thousands of visitors expected.
The Capper resolution also gives the
Commissioners power to enact special
police and traffic regulations for the
inaugural period, from one week before
March until one week after.
Rooms Being Listed.
An explanation of the huge task OF
caring for these visitors to the inaugural
ceremony and celebration was made il
an address yesterday over Station WRC
by Mrs. Blair Banister. chairman of
the Housing and Hospitality Subcom-
mittee. Her committee. Mrs. Banister
said. Is listing all available rooms at
its headquarters in the Willard Hotel,
forming its own list of available accom-
modations from those established by the
George Washington Bicentcnnial Com
mittee. the Y. M C. A., the Y. w. C. A.
and other organizations, and from regis
trations which are being made daily
after thorough investigation as to rates
and other factors.
Cooperating with the work Of the
committee, she said, are various civic
bodies, such as the Washington Hotel
Association. of which Arthur j. Hart
nett is president; the Washington Board
Of Trade, the Washington Chamber of
Commerce, the American Automobile
Association and other groups.
Serving with her as vice chairmen
are Mrs. Richard v. Oulahan, Curtis A.
Hodges, executive director of the Great
er National Capital Committee of the
Board of Trade, and Edwin A. Halsey,
who, with the advent OF the Democratic
administration, will become secretary of
the Senate. Col. Halsey, she said, will
act as liaison officer between tho
Housing and Hospitality Subcommittee