Evening star., 1933-01-08
EXPEDITED
FOR INAUGURATION
Senate Group Votes $4,000
GraySon and Roosevelt
Confer on Plans.

With less than go days remaining
before Franklin D. Roosevelt is indicted
into office as the thirty-Second Presi-
dent of the United States. plans for
the ceremonies that will surround his
inauguration were Speeded yesterday.
While Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson.
chairman of the General Inaugural Com
m1ttee- was conferring with Mr.. RoOSe-
velt at his home in Hyde Park, N. Y,
on arrangements for the celebration
March 4, Senate subcommittee was
adding $1,000 to the deficiency appro-
priatlon bill for expenditures in con-
nection with the event, and those asso-
ciated with Chairman Grayson here
were laying their lines for action when
he returns.
The fund voted by the Senate group
Yesterday will provide for the erection
OF the customary platform and stands
on the east front of the Capitol for
the inauguration and other necessary
expenses. 1t is $4,000 less than was
spent for the ceremony which put his
predecessor into Office four years ago.
IL VIII be considered with the rest of
the deflciency bill tomorrow by the
Senate Appropriations Committee.
Full Committee to Meet.
AS soon as possible after his re-
turn from New York, Admiral Grayson
plans TO meet with his entire COM
mlttee and personal staff, and outline
10 them the recommendations and sug-
geStlonS received from President-elect
Roosevelt. Then, it has been agreed
the chairman of the subcommittee will
form their own organizations, and get
to work on the tasks assigned them.
Widespread interest in the inaugural
already Is being manifest throughout
the country, it was stated by Curtis A.
Hodges, executive director of the Great
er National Capital Committee of the
Washington Board of Trade.
He reported that inquiries about the
inaugural are being received by his COM
mittee in large numbers daily. and
many requests for Washington book
let's and maps are being received from
tourists planning to be in Washington
for the colorful ceremony of induct-
ing a new President into Office.
In the South he said, there has been
noted especially quickened interest in
the Capital at inaugural time and he
expects the solid South" to send large
delegations from its far-f1ung boun-
daries to see the Inauguration of the
first Democratic President in IL years.
The West, too, he believes, will take an
added interest in this years inaugural,
and will send large delegations.
The East, from which Washington
draws its greatest number of visitors, is
expected to meet all expectations.
Increased Travel Likely.
Md Hodges said yesterday:
Although. due to economic condi-
tions, there have been some unfavorable
I'D k1rlf LI,oA ~,
augural, and the unusual interest that
is being manifest in the new admins
tration, the travel to Washington dur
ing the period preceding, during and
after the celebration can be made to
compare favorably with other inaugural
years, or even go ahead of them"
The committee, he said, is preparing
to provide motorists, through its travel
information booths on the outskirts of
the city, with all information desired
about accommodations and any other
information that might be desired and
the full cooperation Of the committee
and Of the Board of Trade has been
rendered Admiral Grayson's committee.
The same cooperation has been offered
by the Merchants and Manufacturers
Association, the Washington Chamber
of Commerce and by numerous other
trade and CIVIC organizations.
Huston Thompson to Speak.
In addition the Greater National
Capital Committee has entered into an
extensive program of publication of
the inaugural. One feature of the pro-
gram is the providing to merchants with
large out-of-town correspondence, of
stickerS for business letter envelopes
urging attendance at the inaugural
ceremonies.
Huston Thompson, chairman of
Admiral GraySon'S Subcommittee on
General Entertainment, will speak to
about 1000 prominent Washington busi-
ness men at the meeting of the Board
Of Trade at the Mayf1ower Hotel on the
evening of Monday, January 16, at
o'clock. AT that time he will outline
to WashingtonianS his committees plans
for entertaining the thousands who are
expected to be here for the celebration.