Evening star., 1939-10-29
Plans Revealed
For Halloween
Dance, Parade
Ball Tomorrow Nioht
At Raleigh to Open
Giunt Celebration


Coronation of the Halloween
queen at an elaborate ball tomorrow
night will touch off what is ex-
pected to be one of the most spec
tacular Halloween celebrations in
the city's history.
The ball, an innovation this year,
will be staged in the Pail Mall Room
of the Raleigh Hotel at 8 pm. to-
morrow as the initial event in the
two-day celebration, which will be
climaxed Tuesday night in a man.
moth parade of floats, marchers,
bands inflated balloon figures and
hundreds of frolickers on Constitu-
ton avenue.
Elsewhere in the Washington area,
efforts also are being made to pro-
vide supervised entertainment for
youthful Would-be pranksters who
otherwise might be engaged in dis
lodging some ones porch or express
ing their artistic ability with soap
on window panes.
The Chevy Chase Citizens ASsoci-
alton will gather several thousand
children into the Woodrow Wilson
and E. V. Brown School auditoriums
and entertain them with movies
from 7 to II pm. on Halloween
night. At the Central Branch Of
the Boys Club of Washington some
900 members will be occupied with
pie-eating contests, races of various
sorts and other harmless entertain.
ment.
Vigilantes at Greenbelt.
AT the Greenbelt Community,
schoolboy patrolmen will act as
vigilantes to aid in keeping harmful
pranks at minimum. while at Glen
Echo. Md, children's Halloween
government will be in force during
the evening.
Lawrence E. Williams, president OF
the Board of Trade, will be master
of ceremonies at the coronation ball,
with Robert v. Fleming serving ae
the 'coronator.'
Pretty 18-year- old Winnie Porter,
who works behind steam table in
a Pennsylvania avenue restaurant
on other evenings, will begin her
two-day reign as queen along with
the king, Edgar Kloten, and assisted
by the ladies of the court, who are
Patricia Mayfeld, Virginia T. Clark.
Dorothy Ready, Jane Nolan. Hazel
Warren. Agnes Mills, Donna Dean,
Evelyn Martin. Teddy Oderman and
Erma Wooding. William Milton is
the court jester.
Seats for 5000.
General Chairman John J. Has
ley has made arrangements to pro-
vide seats for 5000 persons along
the parade route on Constitution
avenue. Obtainable at cost of 25
cents, these seats will be adjacent
to the queens section on the south
side of the avenue between Fifteenth
and Seventeenth streets and oppo-
site the official reviewing stand.
The parade will start moving at
7:30 pm. from the formation point
in the Mall between Third and
Seventh streets, Pennsylvania anc
Maryland avenues, to Constitution
avenue as far as Seventeenth
street.
Leading the marchers will be Maj.
Ernest w. Brown. superintendent of
police, and the grand marshal. Col.
John w. Oehmann They will be
followed by the Police Boys Club
Band and platoons of District Ma
tional Guardsmen and Marine Corps
Reserves.
Section marshals will be Robert
Smith. Claude w. Owen, former
president of the Board of Trade:
Thomas P. Morgan. jr; Lyle
O'Rourke. former president Of the
Junior Board of Commerce: c. Mel
win Sharpe. member of the Board
OF Education. and George O'Con-
nor. They will meet at the Willard
Hotel at 6 pm. to receive assign
ments to divisions of the parade.
Two Parties Scheduled.
Also scheduled during the evening
is a party at the Willard before the
parade for distinguished guests
from nearby Maryland and Virginia
communities, and party at the
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for the queen and her court. Dis
trict officials and members of the
Halloween Celebration Committee.
Robert w. Davis is chairman of
the parade judges, who include
George Lohr, commercial floats;
George Thompson. civic floats;
Harry L. Merrick, decorated private
vehicle, F. George Clendaniel.
group marchers; Arthur Gray, indi.
vidual marchers. and James M.
Thurmond, bands.
Assistant judges will be Louis
Lowe, Harry Dean, j.. Hawlev
Smith, Charles Cooke, A. w. Lee.
Henry S. Owens, Joseph E. Sardo.
William Lamar, William N. Shaefer.
William H. Sardo, jr.; James j,
Cassidy, H. H. Burroughs, ]. P.
Swami and Hugh Patterson.
Officers of the District National
Guard will supervise formation of
columns, and commissioned of.
flcers of the Guard will be used to
guide those reporting to their posi-
ton in columns. All streets in the
formation area will be closed to
vehicular traffic.