Evening star., 1941-01-17
Elaborate Precautions Mapped
As Part of Inaugural Plans
$500 Policemen and Fremen Will Have
Special Assignments Monday

SPeCloi assignment:
More than $500 policemen, fire
men and plainclothes detectives are
to be given special assignments COW
ering Inauguration Day activities,
Maj. Ernest w. Brown, superintend-
ent of police, said today.
And these are, of course, in addi-
ton to military guards and the sew
eral thousand soldiers, sailors, ma
rineS, Coast Guardsmen, cadets Of
West Point and midshipmen of An
napolis, who will swing down Penn
sylvania avenue in the inaugural
parade.
precautionary program was made by
Maj. Brown late yesterday following
q conference late yesterday with
officials of the Park Police, Termi-
nal Police, the Fire Department,
White House Police and the Secret
Service.
To assure protection, not only for
the President but for the crowd of
several hundred thousand persons
expected in Washington during the
inaugural period. Maj Brown said
that all known criminals and suSpi-
cious persons will be taken out Of
circulation" Since the local police
force has been augmented by 80
plainclothes detectives and 300 uni
formed men from other cities out
of-town pickpockets and others who
might cause trouble probably will be
picked up and held as vagrants or
| ''for investigation"
Credentials to Be Requested.
Between now and Monday detailed
inspections will be made of all build
ings, stands and grounds adjacent to
inaugural proceedings in which the
President will participate. Only per-
sons presenting proper credentials
can enter any of the nearby Struc-
tures-and this applies to members
of Congress, as well as those seek
| ing window seats overlooking the
| parade route Speaker Rayburn told
House members yesterday that un-
/ less legislators have official cards
they would have difficulty" getting
past guards.
Few of the special arrangements
made by the Secret Service have
been made public, but it will be re-
membered that at the last Inaugural
ton skilled marksmen were sta
toned on buildings commanding a
view of all scenes of major activity.
Such care to safeguard the Presi-
dent of the United States has not
been approached except for the sec
ond Inauguration of Woodrow Will
son and the first Inauguration of
Abraham Lincoln.
Lincoln Changed Trains.
Wilson was sworn in. one will re-
call, amid the tension that pre-
ceded Americas declaration of war
one month later. Lincoln changed
trains en- route to Washington to
forestall possible attack by South
ern sympathizers, who were report
edly planning to attempt to kidnap
or even assassinate the President
elect as his party passed through
Baltimore.
And during Lincoln's inaugural
parade sharpshooters were assigned
| to every Pennsylvania avenue roof
top, with orders to shoot down on
sight any person making a suspicious
move toward the President.
Parade Route to Be Barred.
Maj. Brown said the route the
President will use in going to and
from the Capitol will be barred to
vehicles after 1880 am, except for
automobiles with special passes, am
balances and the like.
Pedestrians will be allowed to
cross the parade route, providing
they do not interfere with the
procession, everywhere except be-
tween Madison and Jackson places,
it was said.
To provide the public with tele-
phone service that might be denied
because of restrictions on entering
buildings along the parade route,
the Chesapeake &, Potomac Tele-
phone Co. announced telephone
trailers, each equipped with five
booths and an attendant, will be
placed at Lafayette Square just
north of the Court of Freedom, in
the park north of the Commerce
Building. behind the stands be-
tween Fourteenth and Fifteenth
streets, on the south side of Penn
sylvania avenue at Ninth street and
on the grounds east of the Capitol.
window Space.
Sale of window space in privately
owned buildings overlooking the
Pennsylvania avenue parade course
has been fairly brisk despite in
clement weather. Prices run as
high as $7.70 for choice seats, with
the average around $3.50.
The Inaugural Committee re-
ported that about $4,000 worth of
seats in its special stands were still
| available, mainly in the niger price
| brackets Sales up to this morning
amounted to about $55,000, it was
said. The ticket Office Is at 727
Fifteenth street NV.
Joseph e. Davies, Inaugural Com