The Washington times., 1933-08-28
THRONG To HAIL
RECOVERY BY
JOINT SING
Fireworks to Climax Big Fete
Tomorrow Night; Johnson,
LittIepage to Speak

expected to view the mammoth
night parade, fireworks display,
and commemorative exercises of
Washington's National Recovery
Day celebration tomorrow.
The parade, with 200 floats,
military bands and troops, Army
tanks and large contingents of
labor and Government employe
groups, will move up Pennsylvania
Avenue at 1880 p. m.
At it's head will be Brig. Gen.
P. L. Miles, commanding general
of the Army's Sixteenth Brigade.
Spectators To Sing
At the reviewing stand, the
festivities will get under way at
Z p. m. with a half-hour concert
by the Army Band, followed by
musical program in which the
spectators will join during the
singing of three numbers.
Interspersed will be brief ad-
dresses by Brig. Gen. Hugh S.
johnson, National Recovery Ad-
r-linistrator; Thomas P. Littlepage,
general" in charge of the local
IRA campaign, and T. A. Walters,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce.
Meanwhile, an oak tree brought
from Mount Vernon will be
transplanted on the Ellipse, with
Eleanor Washington Howard, last
of the Washington family to be
born at Mount Vernon, turning
the first spadeful Of earth.
Parking Regulations
Police officials announced today
the parking regulations during
the parade.
After 5 p. m. tomorrow there
will be no parking on Pennsyl.
vania Avenue from First to Third
Streets Northwest; Maryland Ave
nue. from First to Third Streets
Northwest; Maine Avenue from
Third to Sixth Streets South.
west; Missouri Avenue from Third
to Four-and,a-Half Streets North
west; Third Street from PennSyl'
vania Avenue to Maryland Avenue
Southwest; and Four-and-a-Half
Street from Pennsylvania Avenue
to Maine Avenue.
After 6 p. m. there will be no
parking on the line Of march
down Pennsylvania to Fifteenth
Street and thence to Seventeenth
Street by way of Constitution
Avenue and no parking on Four
teenth Street from Pennsylvania
Avenue to Water Street South.
west; and on Seventeenth Street
from Constitution Avenue to New
York Avenue.
Crossing the parade route by
vehicles will be prohibited after
p. m. until the parade has passed,
and street car traffic will be
eliminated on the line of march
from 1920 p. m. until after the
parade.
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Fireworks as Climax
The celebration will come to a
close with a gigantic pyrotechn:-
cal display on the Monument
Grounds.
Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries, gen.
eral chairman Of the National Re-
covery Day celebration here, has
announced that all of the fea-
lures will start on scheduled time
Both the Columbia and Ma
tional broadcasting networks will
broadcast the ceremonies.
Persons high in official, diplo-
matte, military and social circles
will view the parade from 1000
seats erected under the direction
of Albert Clyde Burton, who also
has charge of the fireworks dis
play.
Thousands of seats for public
use have also been erected.
Those along the line of march
may be procured for IS cents
each, and those near the review
ing stand at the Ellipse for 40
cents, either at 615 Seventh st.
N. w., or by phoning National
8664-5.
Other developments in Wash
ington's NRA campaign are the
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to place 100 per cent of local
business firms and citizens under
the Blue Eagle; and the an
nouncement that the radio cam
paign will be centered over sta
tions WMAL and WJSV this
week, made by Joseph D. Kauf-
man, chairman of the radio COM
mittee.
Under a program by H. v.
Maybee, secretary of the speakers
bureau of the Community Chest,
nine speakers high in Washing
tons business and social life will
be heard for five minutes each
over the air at different times
during the week.
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