Evening star., 1936-06-28
BOOST IN REGATTA
VISITORS SOUGHT
Trade Board Streets and
Bridges Groups to Weigh
Needs of City.

Although the Presidents Cup re-
gatta is still three months away, plans
we're begun last week to increase the
attendance at the annual water car
nival September "a to 27 when the
Visitors Committee. headed by Curtis
Hodges, laid plans for publicizing the
event
Hodges said he believed the num-
Der of out-of-town visitors this Fall
could be increased twice that of last
September, when a new attendance
record was established.
Representatives of railroads. steam
ship companies, bus lines air lines
and automobile clubs discussed meth
DDS to be used in attracting people
from outside washington.
Among the plans to be followed are
distribution of posters to yachting clubs
throughout the country and to all
kinds of transportation companies;
newspaper releases TO the smaller
towns of the country. especially along
the Eastern Seaboard. where yacht
ing is popular. and the use Of radio
DIUduCdSlS dIlO SpCNlol w DS
sent radio stations.
Transportation companies also took
up the matter of granting special eX-
cursion rates during regatta week.
In addition to Hodges. who is also
director of the Greater National Capt.
tai Committee of the Board of Trade.
members of the Visitors Committee are
Granville GUIDE, vice chairman: Ed
ward Plack, Seaboard Air Line Rail-
way: Nathan We'll, Pennsylvania Rail-
| road George P. James Atlantic Coast
Line; r. E. Coleman, Baltimore a.
Ohio Railroad; j. B. Edmunds, Chesa-
peake g. Ohio; l. S. Walker, Norfolk
& Washington Steamship Co.; NJ N.
Hannum. Fries. Beal & Sharp; NAL
lie j. Murphy. Thomas r. Shipp Co.;
e J. Smith Short Line, Inc; L. c.
Ma ior, Greyhound Lines; Herbert D.
Ford, American Airlines; c. z. Shoe
maker, ir., Central Airlines: John
Molitor, Transcontinental e. Western
Air. Inc: C. D. Renouf, United Air
lines Transport Corp; William B.
Briggs, Eastern Air Lines. and George
z. Keneipp, Keystone Automobile Club.
Survey 1887 Program.
/ A Joint meeting of the Bridges and
| Streets and Avenues Committees OF
the Washington Board of Trade will
be held Thursday at 1890 pm at
the Harrington Hotel, it was an
nounced yesterday.
! George c. Shinn, chairman Of the
Bridges Committee, and George V.
! Graham, head .of the Streets and
Avenues Committee, called the meet
ing. They will review the provisions
Of the new District appropriations bl'
that have to do with bridge ard
highway construction. and outline ~
needs for the appropriations bill.
Mrs. Muchmore in Boston.
Mrs Sally P. Muchrlore. me- Il
dising manager of the Better B..
ness Bureau, left Friday for BIO
to attend the annual convention c
the Advertising Federation of Ame-Ic,
The federation is the forerunncr o.
the Better Business Bureaus, hay
ing organized a unit to sponsor truth
in advertising 25 years ago in Boston.
/ Mrs. Muchmore is expected to b.
away from Washington all next week.
Attendance Increased.
Another example of the great in
crease in convention attendance in
Washington was demonstrated at the
meeting of the National Soiourners.
which came to a close yesterday afte:
a three-day meeting at the May
flower Hotel. Curtis Hodges. chair
man of the Greater National Capital
Committee. reports.
More than 500 delegates were regis
tered for the convention, witch tripieI
the convention held last year III
Buffalo and doubled the attendance
of the 1884 csn;ention in Chicago.
Mai. Edwin S. Bethlehem was chair
man OF local convention arrangement
The Sojourners arc made up Oh
officers of the United States ARM.
Navy and Marine Corps. the Coast
and Geodetic Survey and Coast Guard
who are Masons. The delegates came
from all sections of the United States.
from several foreign countries and
from ships at sea.