Evening star., 1933-08-30
10000 EXPECTED
F0RLABQRP PARADE
Ritchie Among Governors to
Attend and Michigan Hero
Will Be Here.

A number of Governors, including
Albert C. Ritchie Of Maryland, are ex-
pected to participate in and review the
Labor day parade down gaily decorated
Pennsylvania avenue. while officials an
nounced today that more than 10000
visitors are expected to come to Wash
ington for the event.
Plans for the parade and decorations
along the route are going forward un-
der chairmanship, of Sergt. A.. J: Bar
gagni and his decorations chairman,
Fireman r. A. Barton of No. 81 Engine
Company.
Barton has reported that stores and
places of business along Pennsylvania
and elsewhere along the line of march
are cooperating with his decoration
plans, and that the flags and other
patriotic adornments to lamp posts,
along the route, put up for last nights
recovery parade, will remain up through
the firemen's procession.
The Evening Star has offered cash
prizes of SIS, SIS and $40 for the three
best decorated buildings along the route
of march and Chairman Barton expects
lively competition among merchants
and business men for the awards.
Judges of the decorations will be named
late today or tomorrow by Robert j.
Cottrell, secretary of the Board Of Trade.
so Floats Ito Appear.
The parade, in which more than 80
business floats are expected TO appear
in addition to the police and firemen's
groups and military units, is to start
from Second street and Constltutlon
avenue, march west on Constitution
avenue TO Pennsylvania avenue, up
PENNSYLVANIA to Fifteenth, and south on
Fifteenth street into the Elllpse. Judges
of the float will be seated in Judges
stand in front of the District Building,
and Judges of the decorations will r1oe
in the parade. from which vantage
points they may view all the decorated
stores and buildings along the parade
route.
Although the prizes are offered only
for stores and buildings on the line OF
march, Chairman Barton has urged an
business firms in the city to unite in
decorating as a welcome to the many
visitors the convention and parade are
expected to bring to the city.
The Nations outstanding hre nero
a 23-year-o,d Flint, Mich, youth-W1H
attend the national contention OF nre-
men opening here SATURDAY. ana VII
appear in Mondays parade. He IS
Warren Dues, who saved six little chii-
dren and a girl Is. from death IN
fire in Flint two years ago which re-
suited in one fatality. Dues Is eXpecIco
to have prominent place in the paraoe,
In addition. it is expected Dues Will
be presented to the President. He IS
an UNEMPLOYED chauffeur and former
messenger boy.
Luncheon After Parade.
Luncheon for the guests OF honor
Will he held in the Willard Hotels
presidential suite Immediately following
the parade, according to Odell S. smith.
chairman of the Citizens Committee
In charge Of arrangements.
Tonight a special boxing emotion
! will be held at the Twin CITY Arena
near Laurel and a portion Of the re-
ceipts are to be used to help defr2y the
parade expenses. Bob GoodW-r one
of the principals in the main b. is
member of the Herald Harbor ! u
partment and one Of the three
light-heavies of the country.
oppose Joe Knight in the mai
the evening.
Pvt. c. I. Fletcher. Truck
No. 7. is in charge of housing
/ to the city, and is composing
! hotels and rooming houses in
which they may be sent on arr
! Washington Guides Associaticl
+ assisting in this work. and til
Utilities Commission has agreed
cab stand on E street. adJace
registration headquarters at No.
Company, on New Jersey avenue
the Capitol, to facilitate housing @
men after they are registered.
The Ladies Auxiliary Of the Dis
of Columbia Fire Department has
ranged to serve hot coffee and So
wiches to the men in the parade in
morning before it begins. Pvt. S.
Cocimano of Engine Company No.
will be in charge of this detail.
( Pvt. Fletcher said many requests are
coming in for rooms in the vicinity of
No 8 Engine Company. and asked that
any one in that area who has rooms for
rent get in touch with him preferably
by writing. in care of Truck Company
No. 7. No. Engine Company is To-
Gated on North Carolina avenue SOUTH
east. between Sixth and Seventh streets.
Fletcher also asked that hotels and
, rooming houses list themselves with him
so that he might know all places to
which men might be sent.