Evening star., 1936-06-28
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ship. The names of Delano and Roose-
velt for two generations and more have
been identified with every fine, for
ward looking movement in this COM
munity"
Police estimates of the crowd rose
as high as 10000, but owner Clark
Griffith was certain not more than
1900 were at the stadium
AS the tunes of Happy Days Are
Here Again" blared over the radio
from Philadelphia at the close of the
Presidents speech, the Boys Club
Band lined up behind Commissioner
Kazen and his entourage and the pa
rade, which had begun at Z pm. at
Tenth street and Constitution avenue,
began to tour the field.
For the most part the paraders
were as lukeWarm as the carriers of
a daisy chain. The 30l2 marchers.
augmented by one donkey and 33
horses. demonstrated before thou
sands of sidewalk gazerS how badly
they wished the Presidents nomina-
ton.
An occasional outburst of cheer
ing, blaring bands that mixed jazz
with somber turnes, and waving red
flares kept up the interest in the
procession.
Parade DisappointS.
Heralded as a mammoth procession
with $4,000 marchers, the parade.
strung out to the point of struggling,
took one hour and nine minutes to
pass.
AS usual. Police Supt. Ernest w.
Brown was the first to come along.
He rode alone in the tonneau of
touring car and was followed by
score of motor cycle police.
Close behind came Commissioner
Melvin c. Hazen with an equestrian
group of men and women wearing
derbies and knotted scarfs.
The Police Boys Club Band pro-
Vided touch Of color with their red
coats and caps and blue trousers, and
the first laugh was furnished by a
damsel in a seedylooking hack who
rode just ahead of a shiny limousine.
A walker who paced the horse-drawn
hack carried q placard announcing
the exhibition as relic of the horse
and buggy days" while another ban
ner held up the limousine as an ex-
ample of Roosevelt days"
A portly gentleman, wearing a
dented silk hat and carrying a satchel
labeled DOC Hoover" led a man.
powered elephant with two jackasses,
also stuffed with humans, on the
flanks.
Float Carries Indians"
Next in line was a float carrying
an Indian tepee and a pipe smoking
chief. Dancing girls in white head
dresses and scanty spangles cavorted
around the float, which carried a
sign, "On the Warpath With Roose-
velt."
Arlington County was represented
by truckload of hill billies," bus
with banner worded Move to Ar
lington County and Have a Vote"
and sizable delegation of marchers.
Alaska was we'll up among the Sec
tional groups The Colored Demo-
cratic League featured a contingent
of Boy Scouts and a crowded truck
blazing with flares.
Georgia and West Virginia pre-
sented the largest units. They shamed
some of the more silent marchers by
keeping up constant din with whis-
ties, bells and shouts of "wahoo' and
such.
A colored truck rider in the Allied
Democratic Club group reassured
Roosevelt supporters with cries that
Everything is OK. All the rough
edges are knocked off-youn get a
good deal, square deal with Roose-
velt.''
The Civil Service Commission had
warned its employees against carrying
signs in the parade, but the commits
sion found its name emblazoned in
2-foot letters on banner announcing
''Landon Ignored Kansas Civil Service
Iowa, Minnesota, North Carolina,
New York, Pennsylvania and Montana
groups carried placards declaiming
they were "for Roosevelt"
A dozen youths from South Dakota
sang Home on the Range" very
but New Jersey marchers
enlivened things bit with snatches
of Hail, Hail, the Gangs All Here"
Oklahoma's representatives would
ask themselves, kin we yell?" and
then proceed to whoop it up. A Ten
nessee farmer threatened himself as
he marched by waving a fare danger