Evening star., 1934-10-14
ROOSEVELT PLANS
- 2ADDRESSESFOR
VIRGINIA PEOPLE
William and Mary College
to Confer Honorary Degree
on Nations President.
YORKTOWN PLANS GALA
CELEBRATION THIS WEEK
Defeat of CORVALLIS and Visits
of Lafayette Inspire His
toric Ceremony.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, October 13.-
President Roosevelt will deliver two
addresses in Virginia within the com.
ing week, one in Roanoke Friday anc
the other in Williamsburg Saturday
In Roanoke the President will dedi.
cate new veterans hospital and il
Williamsburg he will receive an hon.
orary doctor of laws degree from the
ancient college of William and Mary
and participate in the rededication ol
old Duke of Gloucester street, restored
nearly to its appearance as the prin-
cipal thoroughfare of early American
days.
Gov. George Campbell Peery will
Introduce the President at Roanoke
and John Stewart Bryan, who is to be
inaugurated as the nineteenth presi-
dent of the college Immediately be-
fore the thirty-second President OF
the United States speaks, will intro
duce him at Williamsburg.
School Antedates Nation.
One of the first duties of President
Bryan after his Inauguration will be
to confer upon President Roosevelt
the degree of a college which ante
dates the National nearly 100 years In
history. An honorary degree also will
be conferred upon Gov. Peery.
Simplicity will mark the celebra-
tions for the President in both of the
Virginia cities which are widely sep
arated-Roanoke to the West, and
Williamsburg to the east.
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noke on a special train Friday after
noon and go directly to the scene of
the ceremonies, which are under the
direction of Gen. Frank T. Hines, ad-
ministrator of veterans affairs. After
his address and the program is con-
cluded the President will leave on his
train for Tidewater, Va.
To Appear in Parade.
He will arrive in Williamsburg on
the morning of the following day. He
will appear in parade down Duke of
Gloucester street to the college. The
parade will rededicate the street made
famous by the tread of such states
men as Washington, Jefferson, Mason,
Henry, Lee and others. Restoration
of the street is one of the last major
construction projects of Colonial
Williamsburg, which has been financed
by John D. Rockefeller, jr. Mr.
Rockefeller is expected to be present
After the ceremonies at the college
and a luncheon in his honor, the
President again will board his train
and depart.
The anniversary of the victory that
resulted in American independence
will be celebrated, and the anniver-
sary of the death of Frenchman who
helped win that victory will be OBJ
served in a two-day ceremony at
yorktown, Va, Thursday and Friday
One hundred and fifty-three years
ago Friday Lord CORVALLIS surren-
dered after the siege Of Yorktown
just 110 years ago the Marquis De
Lafayette returned to Yorktown for
the 43rd anniversary celebration OF
the victory he helped win, fighting
with the American forces under
Washington. One hundred years age
that gay Frenchman died.
It will be these three events that
the Nation, the State, and patriotic
organizations will join to commemo-
rate Thursday and Friday.
Park Service to Aid.
The Nation will be represented by
the National Park Service, which now
is engaged in developing the colonial
national monument, including the
three historic shrines linked with the
birth of the Nation-Jamestown, Will
liamsburg and Yorktown-and con-
Meeting them with picturesque road
way.
The State will be represented by
Delegate Ashton Dovell, floor leader
of the House of Delegates from Will
liamsburg.
The patriotic societies will be rep
resented by delegates from the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton and the Sons of the American
Revolution.
The citizens of Yorktown and the
College of William and Mary also will
participate.
Several viii Speak.
The principal speakers will include
DR.. William Mather Lewis, president
of Lafayette College; Mr.. Dovell, Rob-
ert Fetchner, director of the Emer-
gency Conservation work; Mrs George
D. Chenoweth, regent of the Comte
De Groasse Chapter, D. A. r: B
Floyd Flickinger, superintendent Of
the Colonial National Monument;
Representative S. Otis Bland, Arno B
Cammerer, national park director;
Mrs. Russell William Magma, presi-
dent general of the National Society
D. A. R., and Walter B. Livezey State
president and vice president general
of the National Society, S. A. r.
The two-day program will include
the formal opening of the recon-
structed Wormley Pond area of the
Yorktown battlefield, pageant in the
Moore House depicting scenes in the
old house when the four commission
ers of the American and British
Armies met to arrange terms of sur
render in 1871 and the re-enactment
of a military breakfast given for La
fayette when he returned here in
1924. The original breakfast was
given by the officers of the United
states Army. Numerous markers and
monuments will be unveiled and
dedicated.
In review of the Virginia news dur
ing the past week, among the out
standing items was the opening OF
the grand jury investigation of cir
cumstances which permitted the es-
cape of Tri-State Gangsters Robert
Mais and Walter Legenza, who blazed
their way out OF the Richmond City
Jail with guns smuggled in to- them.
They were doomed to die in the Vir-
ginia electric chair for the gangland
murder Of e. M. Huband, Federal Re-
serve bank truck driver. The inves-
tigation was conducted by a special
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