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Scouts will participate. A torchlight
procession. lowering Of the colors and
community singing will supplement
the address by Senator Radcliffe and
the reading Of the declaration by Col.
Edwin A. Halsey. secretary to the
United States Senate. Should rain
, cause cancellation of the program the
fireworks display will be held Monday
night at $50 o'clock and the speeches
will be eliminated.
Tickets for seats at the display will
be on sale at rs cents at the Monu-
ment grounds. Traffic officials have
announced the Monument grounds
will be closed to vehicle trafiic from
p. m. until after the fireworks display
with the exception of the south road
way. which will be open for westbound
traffic to the Fifteenth street road
way in the rear Of the Bureau Of En-
craving and Printing to the East Tidal
Basin roadway. which will be one
way artery from Fourteenth and Wa
ter streets southwest to the John Paul
Jones Statue. Seventeenth street,
from Constitution avenue south, will
be open to traffic both ways as far as
the John Paul Jones Statue, but
southbound traffic will be diverted
westward from the statue around the
Tidal Basin to the polo field.
Program at Capitol.
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programs today will be one broadcast
over WRC and the National Broad
casting Company's network at 2:14
pm. from the east portico of the Cap
itol. Beneath the only United States
flag always flying, veterans from each
of the last three wars and groups OF
Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts will re.
cite in unison the cath of the flag
The program will be rebroadcast over
short wave in England by the Brit
ish Broadcasting Company. The vet
Grams who will participate are Mai.
Robert j. Wilson. Civil War veteran
Col. Samuel j. McWilliams. past de-
partment commander of the United
Spanish War Veterans, and Joseph L.
Koehl, of American Legion Post,
No. 36.
The Association OF Oldest Inhabi-
tants was to hold its traditional meet
ing at the old Union Engine House,
Nineteenth and H streets. this morn
ing.
The Northeast Suburban Independ-
ence day celebration drew thousands
today to the scene of Its festivities at
Taft Recreation Center on Otis street
between Eighteenth and Twentieth
streets northeast.
Parade Features Program.
The gala events of the day began
this morning with a parade of Boy
Scouts and Girl Scouts. a Fort Stevens
squadron of soldiers, the Sons of the
American Veterans Drum and Bugle
Corps. contingent Of Jobs Daughters
from Mount Rainier, Nd, and floats
Of various business firms.
Before the fireworks climaxing the
events tonight there will be presenta-
tions of plaques to the best fraternal
marching unit, the best scout unit, the
best decorated car and the best float.
There will be also a series of athletic
events.
In charge Of the July 4 activities
at Taft are Wilbur 8. Fink and Frank
r. Heise.
Takoma Park also planned an all
day program that was to reach its
climax with an open-air patriotic con-
cert and fireworks display this evening.
The concert will begin at 1880 o'clock
at the new Philadelphia Avenue Play
ground. The pyrotechnics will open at
9 o'clock on Hodges farm. adjacent to
the playground.
A parade featured this mornings
program.
Residents OF American University
Park were to hold q picnic this after
noon at which q program of games