Evening star., 1936-12-30
DISTRICTS HEADS
SET STRICT RULES
FOR INAUGURAL
Order and Safety During
Ceremonies January 20
Planned.
PARKING UNDER BAN
IN CONGESTED AREA
Sale of Souvenirs or Other Mer.
chandise and Advertising
Requires Permit.

Strict regulations governing tramc,
parking of cars, sale of souvenirs and
use of private as well as public space
for spectators were promulgated today
by the District Commissioners for the
Inauguration of President Roosevelt
January 20.
Thirty-three paragraphs of special
rules, designed to assure order and
safety during the ceremonies. were
drafted by Police Supt. E. w. Brown
and officials Of the Inaugural Parade
Committee.
Parking Of automobiles was forbid
den from midnight January 10 to
midnight January 20 in specially
created "congested area" which runs
from Sixth street and Virginia avenue
southeast to Washington Circle and
from Constitution avenue to a point
as far north as L street at one place.
The Commissioners also banned
parking between the same hours on a
list Of 10 traffic arteries running into
the congested district. Making of "U''
turns on any of the streets included in
the parking ban at or between inter-
sections also was forbidden.
The penalty for violation of these
and other special police regulations
was fixed at fine of not more than
500 or imprisonment up to 60 days.
Boundaries Of Area.
The boundaries of the special Con-
gested area" starting at Sixth street
and Virginia avenue southeast, are:
North on Sixth street to Pennsylvania
avenue southeast, west to Second street
southeast, north to C street northeast,
west to First street northeast, north to
Union Station Plaza and around to
Louisiana avenue, south to D street,
west to Fifth street, north to G street,
west to Fourteenth street, north to H
street, west to Seventeenth street, north
to I street. west to Nineteenth street,
north to K street, west to Twentieth
street, north to L street, west to New
Hampshire avenue, south and around
Washington Circle to Twenty-third
sstreet. south to Constitution avenue,
least to Sixth street, south to south side
of Mall east to Third street southwest,
south to Virginia avenue southwest and
east to Sixth street southeast; both
sides Of Delaware avenue southwest
from Virginia avenue to I street SOUTH
west; both sides Of street from Twelfth
to Seventeenth streets: both sides of M
street from Thirty sixth street to M
Street Bridge; north side of New York
avenue between Eleventh and Twelfth
streets; both sides Of Pennsylvania
avenue southeast from Sixth, to
Eleventh streets southeast; both sides
of Third street southwest from Vir-
ginia avenue to M street southwest; 4;
west side Of Fourth street from D to
F streets; both sides of Twelfth street
from G to streets; west side of
Eleventh street from I to L streets,
and both sides of Fourteenth street
from Water street southwest to
Thomas Circle.
The special police regulations also
forbid any persons to sell or offer for
sale any badge, emblem, book, PAM
phlet, souvenir or other miscellaneous
merchandise on any streets of the
District except those licensed prior to
January II, and no such sales will
be permitted in the special congested
area. This would not apply to the
,on1cial inaugural program booklet.
Permits for Signs.
Building owners or agents or guests
are forbidden to hang any advertising
signs Of cloths On the exterior Of
buildings unless they obtain a permit.
Carrying of any imitation or toy
revolver is banned.
No one will be permitted, under the
rules, to place any box, barrel, table,
ladder. chair or other obstruction along
any street or sidewalk, or on any public
parking on or adjacent to the in
augural parade route.
! Distribution of handbills, and the
like, is forbidden on any street in the
District.
No owner or leasee of any building
on the line of the parade or on any
intersecting street, avenue or alley. or
reservation, will be allowed to permit
the use or occupation of any porch,
balcony. above the ground floor, by
spectators without first having obtained
q permit for the purpose from the Dis
trict inspector of buildings.
Selected members of six national
veterans organizations will form a
guard Of honor for the President dur
ing the parade, under plans an
nounced by Admiral Grayson. general
Inaugural Committee chairman.
Forty-eight positions in the imme-
diate vicinity of the presidential re-
viewing stand have been allotted for
the purpose by Admiral Grayson and
. Gen. Malin Craig, grand marshal of
the parade.
Admiral Grayson also made public
the names Of the following members
Of the Inaugural Program Committee,
selected by J. Fred Essary, chairman:
Ernest G. Walker, vice chairman;
Felix Morley, Miss Ruth Finney, David
Rankin Barbee, James D. Preston,
Mrs. Isabel Grifin, Clifford K. Berry,
man, George Rothwell Brown, Miss
Bertha Joseph, Lawrence D. Camp
bell, Henry Litchfield West, E. A.
Merkle, Uric Bell and Bascom Tim
mons.
Through the American Automobile
Association and its own units, the
Inaugural Committee Is completing
plans for the housing of the thousands
Of visitors who are expected here.
The committee is anxious to have
all available rooms listed with the
Housing Division. rooms 127 and 128
Of the willard Hotel. So far, it was
stated, few rooms have been listed.
This may be accomplished by calling
District 6040.
Archives Examiner Honored.
Philip c. Brooks, special examiner