Evening star., 1938-07-03
PARADE W|LLLEAD
CAPITAL TO DERBY
Nine Boys Bands Invited
to Participate in March
for Soap Box Race.

Color. music and youth will be
blended into . big boy parade" IS a
preliminary to Washington's first Soap
Box Derby on Saturday, July 23.
Featured by flying banners and full
dress uniforms, . parade txo-thirds
Of mile long will march early that
morning from . central location to the
race course where more than 200
boys will coast downhill in home
built cars in quest Of the metropolitan
area soap box championship.
Plans for the parade. as part of the
Derby sponsored by The Star and the
American Legion. were disclosed yes
terday by William Hargreaves, chair
man Of the Derby Parade Committee.
Invitations have been extended to
nine boys bands and drum and bugle
corps. Mr.. Hargreaves said. The
parade will come to an end with the
raising of tolors at the judges stand
on the finish line of the Derby course.
The bands will play at intervals dur
ing the day As elimination heats are
run of on 4 wide, well-paved concrete
race track.
Units Are Invited.
THE parade will be short. snappy
and colorful." Mr.. Hargreaves said.
We have asked the drum corps of the
Sons Of the American Legion OF the
District, Takoma Park and Fort
Stevens. and the boys bands of the
National Training School, Holy Com
forter, the Elks Club. Kiwanis Club.
Boys Club OF Metropolitan Police and
the Fox Boys Band to participate"
In addition, uniformed members
Of the Boy Scouts and Sons of the
Legion and members of the Police
and Washington Boys Clubs and the
boys section of the Y. M. c. A. will
be asked to march in the parade
Members Of the Parade Committee
are Charles c. johnson. detachment
commander. Sons Of the Legion; John
A. Carney. assistant Boy Scout execu-
tive; Zeb T. Hamilton. member of the
Americanism Commission of the Le-
gion and assistant director OF the
Derby; Rudolph Blick, representing
Capt. Guy Nadeau of the Guard of
Honor: Robert B. Harris, director of
No. Police Boys Club. and Stanleigh
jenkins. vocational director Of the
Boys Club of Washington.
Still Time to Enter.
Meanwhile, o. c. Holleran, director
Of the Derby and chairman of the
Americanism Commission, reminded
boys living in the Washington metro
politan area that there Is still time to
enter the Derby. The final deadline
for new entries will be announced in
q few days." he said. Boys in Wash
ington and Montgomery County, Nd.
will have no trouble at all building
their racing cars with the f1ne manual
training shop facilities that are avail
able in the high schools"
Registration for the Derby is being
conducted by Chevrolet motor car
dealers in Washington, Silver Spring
and Hyattsville, Md, and Alexandria,
Clarendon and Falls Church, Va. Rules
and directions for Derby entrance will
be found elsewhere on this page.
Mr.. Holleran urged boys who have
finished their Derby racers to observe
the safety pledge they signed when
they entered the competition. The
pledge reads: Il promise not to run
my Derby racer on the streets or side
walks in such manner rs to endanger
my own safety or the safety of others"
Many boys already have been testing
their racers on the streets in various
parts Of the city, said Mr.. Holleran.
He was ,gratified to learn that q group
Of Derby aspirants in the Brookland
section had gone out before 6 O'Clock in
the morning to try out their cars.