Evening star., 1941-01-13
Starting and Police
Talk Over Plans 10
Guard President
Services at Inaugural
Court Of Freedom Will
Stress U. S. Solidarity

Details of plans for policing the
Capitol and protecting President
Roosevelt during the inaugural cere-
monies next Monday were reviewed
at conference today between Secret
Service and Metropolitan and Capt.
tol police officials.
Those who took part included Col,
Edmund w. Startling. head OF the
White House Secret Service DETAIL
Inspector Bernard w. Thompson,
chief of detectives, and Capt. Ira
Keck assistant chief of detectives OF
the Metropolitan Police Department.
The police plans are being kept
secret. 1t was learned, however,
that scores of Secret Service agents
and Police Department detectives
are to be scattered through the Cap
itol and among the spectators VINO
will see the inaugural ceremonies at
the east plaza of the Capitol.
Religious Service Plans.
Plans were completed late yester-
dav for the religious services next
Sunday afternoon in the Inaugural
Court of Freedom to symbolic the
solidarity of the American people
Interdenominational services VIII
be conducted under direction OF
Catholic priest, a Protestant minis
ter and Jewish rabbi.
The program was announced by
Capt. R. D. Workman, chief OF
chaplains. U. S. N. who is chair
man of the Inaugural Committee on
Religious Services.
Explaining that the exercises Will
be one of a series of services IN
which divine guidance will be In
voked for the Chief Executive and
the Nation in a period of world
wide emergency, Capt. Workman de-
clared that they speak round the
world for what America stands-the
solidarity of its people regardless OF
religious conviction and the religious
/ freedom which is the right of every
man in this bulwark of democracy
To Last Only 20 Minutes.
The Court of Freedom services
will last only 20 minutes. but during
that time music and PRAYER by rep
resentativeS of the three great
religious groups in the country will
be heard Brief remarks will be
made by the Rev DR.. John Keating
/ Cartwright. pastor of the Church
Of the Immaculate Conception, rep
! resenting the Catholic faith; Rabbi
/ Norman Gerstenfeld of the WASH
ington Hebrew Congregation, repre-
/ senting the Jewish faith. and the
/ Rev. DR.. Seth R. Brooks, pastor OF
/ the Universalist National Memorial
/ Church, representing the Protest
ant denominations. The Rev. DR..
| Albert J. Mccartney, pastor of the
| Covenant First Presbyterian Church,
will offer prayer. The Washington
| Choral Society, under direction of
Louis A. Potter. will sing to the
accompaniment of military band
| from one of the services.
1t is pointed out by the Inaugural
Grandstand Ticket Committee that
| holders of any grandstand tickets,
regardless Of price or location, will
be permitted to occupy seats in the
Court of Freedom for these services.
On Inauguration day. while Presi-
dent Roosevelt and his family kneel
| in PRAYER in the ST. Johns Episcopal
Church at 1890 am, just before
he goes to the Capitol to take the
oath of Office for the third time.
five-minute radio broadcast will call
the Nation to pray with its PreSi-
dent A quartet will sing the words
to the old hymn "Oh God, Our Help
in Ages Past. Our Hope for Years
to Come" and an anonymous voice
will intone a tWo-minute prayer.
Listeners will be asked to observe
minutes silence in prayer for the
Nation and the program will end
with the playing of The Star Span
gled Banner" by one of the service
bands
Planned by Committee
These exercises have been planned
by Capt. Workman's committee,
which includes the Rev. H. S. An
derson, Col. w. R. Arnold. U. S. A:
Mrs. j. S. Bennett. the Rev O. F.
Blackwelder, DR.. Oliver Bowles. the
Rev Esther M. Boyer. DR.. A. C.
Christie, L. w. De Cast, Maj Charles
H. Dodd, Maj. H. M. Erch, the Right
Rev. James E. Freeman. Episcopal
Bishop of Washington: Rabbi Ger
stenfeld. Elder Wallace M. Hales,
Miss E. Haney, the Rev. w. H. Jerna-
gin. Wilbur La Roe, the Rev. R. H.
Miller. the Rev. U. G. B. Pierce, DR..
C. E. Resser, Alonza B. Russell, the
Rev. Maurice S. Sheehy, the Rev
H. P. StrOck, the Rev. Rufus w.
Weaver and the Rev. R. M. Williams
Joseph E. Davies, chairman of the
Inaugural Committee, and Mrs.
Davies were to be guests at
luncheon today of the Women's
Democratic Club, at their clubhouse
on New Hampshire avenue. Mr..
Davies planned to speak on plans
for Inauguration.
Meantime the railroads began
making preliminary arrangements
to handle the crowds expected to
surge into the Capital for the in
auguration. Special trains will come
from various sections of the country.
The Pennsylvania Railroad an
nounced it's city ticket office at
Fourteenth and G streets NV. will
be open Sunday, January 10. from
$3.50 am. to $50 pm. and will re-
main open Monday, Inauguration
Day, until pm. for the sale of
tickets, making reservations and
furnishing of information by tele-
phone,