Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-06-04
ALMAS MEMBERS
WILL AID POLICE
Guard of 40 Shriners Have
Been Sworn In as Mem.
berS of Force.

! A Shrine provost guard Of 40 mem
bers of Almas Temple will cooperate
with police in maintaining order
during the imperial conclave here
next week.
This was announced today jointly
by Maj. Ernest w. Brown. superin-
tendent of police. who is member of
Almas Temple and Robert P. Smith,
director general of the Convention
Committee.
The guard of Shriners will CO.
operate with police and will ride with
uniformed members in police cars on
a constant lookout for any violation
of law. They already have been sworn
in as members of the police force.
This provost guard headed by
Edwin c. Dutton. past .>otentate Of
Almas. The first vice chairman is
Swagger Shirley.
1900 Force Planned.
Mai. Brown. explaining details Of
police arrangements for the Shrine
convention. said that. including spe-
cial forces from several cities in the
East and his Metropolitan force here.
there will be total of more than l 500
men. 1t will require 936 men to police
the parade and the streets adjoining
the parade. In addition to this, the
Police Department must patrol all the
rest of the District of Columbia.
Ten policewomen from Eastern
cities will be among the outsiders COM
ing to assist the local forces. Others
include $50 uniformed men from New
York City, 100 from Philadelphia, 10
motor cycle State police from Penn
sylvania and rs detectives from the
principal Eastern cities, who are ia
miliar with gangsters and the GRIM
inal element of this seaboard and
would be ready to pick up any of these
discovered among the throng OF visi-
tors.
Emergency traffic lanes will be set
up across the line OF march in order
to allow late arrivals to cross Penn
sylvania avenue. should the parade
have break of sufficient length to
allow this.
THE Shrine is DESTROYS of main
tanning perfect order during the con-
vention,' said Maj Brown, and We
have set up an organization which
we believe will be able to do this"
Will Wear White Uniforms.
Maj. Brown explained that the
Washington motor cycle police who
will accompany him at the head of all
parades will be dressed in white uni
forms and will ride white motor cycles
Maj. Brown, riding in a special car
painted with the Shrine colors of red.
yellow and green. will ride at the head
of all parades and will wear his red
Almas feZ.
A gigantic dance for the public, to
which all Shriners and everybody
else are in~Sed, will take place over
an immense stretch of downtown city
pavement on Wednesday and Thurs
day nights, it was explained today
by Director General Smith. This
will be known as the dance of the
nations" and will be on Fifteenth
street from Pennsylvania to Consti-
tuition avenue, city street almost 80
feet wide and five blocks long 1t will
be brightly Illuminated, and the
music will be furnished by Shrine
bands and orchestras amplif1ed to
provide music sufficiently loud
throughout the area. In order to
smooth the pavement for dancing,
the streets will be strewn with corn
meal. Arrangements for this are in
charge of John c. Rooms. chairman
of the Entertainment Committee
The dancing will follow the two big
night parades and will start at II
o'clock.
Real Indians in Parades.
Real Indians of the Mandam tribe
will appear in the parades in their
native costumes, Smith announced.
These men are all Shriners trcm Ell
Zagel Temple, Fargo. N Oak.
The first exhibition of the pic
turesque Roman chariot race will
take place tomorrow afternoon at
Fort Myer, when foul of the eight
chariots that are to participate in the
pageant on Thursday night next week
will be driven by drivers dressed as
Roman soldiers. The chariots, which
have been specially built for The &C.
caSion, are gaudy in color and both
horses and drivers will be decked
in glamorous trappings for the try
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