The Washington times., 1935-08-28
CONSTITUTION
DAY PLANNED
FOR DC.
Enthusiastic Meeting
Gives Gen. Fries
Command

Elaborate plans for the celebra.
ton in Washington Of Constitu-
ton Day September 17-got
under way today.
At rally late yesterday in the
District Building committees were
appointed and program was out
lined. The call Of Mai. Gen.
Amos A. Fries, brought scores Of
delegates from patriotic, civic.
fraternal and business organiza-
tons to the meeting.
General Fries In Charge
General Fries, at the instance
Of Joseph J. Malloy, District de-
partment commander of the Amer.
lean Legion, was given charge Of
the celebration program.
Reenactment Of the ConStitu-
tional Convention on the banks Of
the Potomac River the night Of
Constitution Day, to be preceded
by q parade from Washington
Monument and followed by a. fire
works display was the suggestion
made by General Fries for Wash
ington's celebration.
The idea will be presented, with
many others, to the program COM
mittee at a meeting to be held
Friday afternoon in the District
Building.
F. Regis Noel, representing the
District Bar Association, Sug-
geSted a Constitution Day essay
for school children in connection
with the celebration.
List Of Attendants
Those attending yesterdays
meeting included: Mrs. w. E.
Ochiltree, president OF the Wash
ington unit of American War
Mothers; Mrs. Mary Logan Tucker,
past president Of the Daughters
of 1912, and Edward B. McDade,
Of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Charles E. Sands, Clyde B.
stovall, Willard B. Kochenderfer,
A. P. Haake, Mrs. Fred w. FRANKIE,
Leon Sclawy, Eric Lloyd, Miss
Elizabeth Malott Barnes, Miss M.
E. Conley, Mrs. William Wolff
Smith, B. Gwynn Dent. John
Bowe, Lyle Walter Ashby, Belmont
Farley, katherine Smith. Mrs.
Catherine L. Hood, Joseph j. NAL
10y, Mrs. H. H. Burroughs.
Mrs. Cabat Stevens, Mrs. w. E.
Ochiltree, F. Regis Noel. Isidore
Hershfield, Mrs. William s.
Walker, Mrs. Mary T. Shanahan,
Miss Freda Dorothy Egbert, Col.
H. S. Kimberly, F. G. Fraser,
Ernest Lee Stewart, Orrin Davy,
A. johnson, E. G. Bliss, Major
Campbell C. johnson, Anthony
Latona, L. A. Carruthers, George
w. Potter, E. L. Mattice, B. w.
Payne, Miss Bessie B. Warren,
Norvelle w. Sharpe, Edward B.
McDade, F. Regis Noel, George
Lee, Edward D. Reed, H. G. Tor
bert, Mrs. Mary Logan Tucker,
Richard M. Ham, Charles j. Col
umbuS, A. j. Driscill, Walter w.
Stout, Mrs. George Madden
Grimes, Mrs. Alfred E. Davidson,
Mrs. Frederick Newburgh, John
Hurley, Adjutant w. c. Young
and C. F. Moore, jr.
National Fete Plans
Enlistment of at least IS mil
lion persons in the national OBJ
servance of the 150th anniver-
sary of the Constitution two years
hence was projected today.
The Congressional Commission,
named by Vice President Garner
and Speaker Byrns, at it's organi-
zation meeting selected President
Roosevelt chairman. Sena tor
AshurSt CD of Arizona, vice
chairman, and Representative Sol
Bloom CD of New York. director.
With an initial $4,000 appro-
priation, Mr.. Bloom today laid
plans for utilization of the press,
radio, screen and theater to edu-
cate the citizenry in the history
of the immortal document and
the battles waged for its preserva'
ton.
Historical pageants will be
staged in the capitals of the first
13 States which ratified it. Thirty
million school children will par
ticipate in an essay contest on
it's origin.
Principal ceremonial will be
held in independence Hall, Phila-
delphia, on September II, 1887,
the 150th anniversary Of the
meeting Of the founding fathers
at which the final draft was
made.
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