Evening star., 1935-06-30
Senator Byrd to Be Main
Speaker at Monument
Exercises.
OLDEST INHABITANTS
ARRANGE PROGRAM
Address by Col. Francis Scott
Key-Smith Planned-Clark
to Speak at Arlington.

The noise end glare of exploding
skyrockets will light the sky above
Washington Thursday night in climax
of the Districts annual Independence
day celebration in the Monument
Grounds.
Eight thousand chairs will be pro-
vided on the north slope of the Mon
ument for spectators of the Fourth
of July program, which will begin
with an address by Senator Harry
Flood Byrd.
Throughout the day various other
community celebrations will be held
with sports and athletic contests as
their main features.
The annual celebration arranged
for the occasL'n by the Association Of
Oldest Inhabitants will take place at
1890 am. at the associations head
quarters, Old Union Engine House.
Tentative pans. according to Sec
retary J. Elliott Wright, jr., include
a patriotic address by Col. Francis
Scott Key-Smith and the reading of
the Declaration of Independence by
William Spencer Armstrong.
Musical Selections.
Other features of the program in
clude selections by Miss Dorothy
Sherman Pierson, soprano, accompa-
MED by Miss Katherine Cullen and
the reading Of an original poem by
John Clagett Proctor.
High point II the services planned
by the Jewish War Veterans in the
Arlington Amphitheater is q speech
by Senator Bennett Champ Clark.
Final plans for the city-wide cele-
bration will be worked out at a noon
meeting tomorrow at the Harrington
Hotel.
The spectacular fireworks display
scheduled for the Monument grounds
will be featured by some intricate py-
rotechnic portraiture of George Wash
ngton and President Roosevelt.
A constant succession of bombs,
rockets and shells, throwing multi
colored smoke and fire high into the
air. will disturb the peace and excite
the onwatching children, who are ex-
pected to be thrilled and excited by
the comic pictures framed in fire.
The Fireworks Committee is headed
by Edgar Morris and includes Fred A.
Smith, Harry H. r. Helwig, Wallace
Robinson, Thomas L. Eagan and John
Scharf.
Procession of Flags.
A colorful procession of flags Of all
nations will precede the fireworks,
with representatives of military, patri-
otto and veteran organizations parad-
ing under a waving canopy of banners
from the speakers stand to the Monu-
ment.
Boy Scouts, carrying flags to SYM
bolize the original 13 States of the
Union, will lead the procession, which
will move forward from Sixteenth
street and Constitution avenue at
tbs pm.
The Marine Band will play and the
drum and bugle corps of Costello Post,
American Legion. will perform intri-
cate drill maneuvers.
Seats will cost 25 cents apiece.
The Very Rev. Coleman Nevils. S. J.,
president of Georgetown University.
will deliver the invocation before the
festival commences.
After Senator Byrd's speech, which
will be broadcast, Col. Edwin Alexan-
der Halsey, secretary of the Senate.
will read the Declaration of Inde-
pendence. c. Melvin Sharpe. chair
man of the Citizens Fourth of July
Committee, will preside at the cere-
monies.
The Honorary Committee for this
years celebration. includes Commits
sioner George E. Allen, DR.. Frank W.
Ballou, Arno B. Cammerer, Senator
Arthur Capper. Senator Royal S.
Copeland, Frederic A. Delano, C.
Marshall Finnan, C. C. Glover, Ad-
miral Cary T. Grayson, Commits
sioner Melvin c. Hazen, Senator Will
liam H. King, George P. Marshall,
Lowell Mellett, Eugene Meyer, Arthur
Newmeyer, Representative Mary T.
Norton, Newbold Noyes, Mrs. Eleanor
Patterson and Col. Daniel I. Sultan.
Taking care of the financial end
of the celebration will be S. Percy
Thompson, H. A. Brooks. C. T. Clagett,
George E. Fleming, Robert v. Fleming,
Isaac Cans. w. F. Ham, John H.
Hanna, Mrs. L. w. Hardy, Mark Lans-
burgh, DR.. William Mcclellan, Maj.
Julius Peyser, Samuel j. Prescott,
John Saul. Marcy L. Sperry, Cor
coran Thorn, Wilmer j. Weller, Will
liam w Wheeler and 1Ovd a Wilson