Evening star., 1942-09-25
Parade in Alexandra
Tomorrow 10 Climax
0ne-Day Scrap Drive
Metal Scheduled to Go
Out on Sidewalks at
PM. for Collection

A victory parade of 1000 civilian
defense workers, led by Norman H.
Davis, president of the American
Red Gross, and Capt R. B. Simons,
commanding officer of the Naval
Torpedo Station, will march down
King street in Alexandria, Va, at 8
pm. tomorrow as a climax to the
city's one-day scrap drive.
Mayor William T. wilkins and
Carl Budwesky, civilian defense CO.
ordinator, also will participate in
the parade, which is planned to show
the various phases of civilian de-
fenSe.
Five divisions win be included in
the line of march, which will start
from Fairfax and Cameron streets,
proceed south on Fairfax to King
street, west on King street to Payne
street and north to Cameron street.
Four bands will be in the line Of
march-the George Washington
High School Cadet Corps Band, the
Citizens Band, the Shriners' Drum
and Fife Corps and the American
Legion Band.
Four hundred AFRAID wardens
wearing their helmets and arm
bands will march behind Chief War
den Bernard Padgett. Capt. Edgar
Sims will lead 200 regular and auxil-
iary police, all uniformed, and 300
volunteer and auxiliary firemen will
parade, led by Fire Chief James M.
Duncan, jr.
Red Cross Represented.
The Red Cross will be represented
by members of the motor corps
nurses aides, staff assistants and
canteen workers, all in their color
full uniforms.
1t. Col. Everett A. Hellmuth will
lead the 18th Battalion of the Vir-
ginia Protective Force as well as the
newly organized Minute Men.
A group of airplane spoilers will
march with their leader, Sidney
We'll.
The Emergency Medical Unit
headed by DR.. j. Cameron McCluer
will man ambulances in the parade
Trucks from the Virginia Public
Service, the Alexandria Water Co
and the Gas Co. will represent utili-
ties, and the Chesapeake & Potomac
Telephone Co. operators as well as
volunteer control center operators
will represent communications.
City Engineer C. Luckett Watkins
will head group of repair trucks
and Salvage Chairman Albert Smoot
will lead the workers in the salvage
campaign.
Scrap Loads in Parade.
A feature of the parade will be
the trucks bearing the metal scrap
/ collected during the afternoon, one
of which will bear a placard giving
the estimated amount of scrap col
lected.
Historic relics will mingle will
kitchen utensils and garden tools il
the scrap collection.
Charles Edward Davis. superin
tendent of City Hall, has gathered
large collection of discarded cit,
property and has piled it outside tn
police station for the trucks.
In the collection is rusty bal
and chain, said to have been tn
first one used in an Alexandra
chain gang.
Eagle to Join Scrap.
A cast-iron eagle, painted silve
and weighing about so pounds, wi
60 on the scrap heap. Its forme
location was on the statue at Primo
and Washington streets, where
served to decorate lights at tn
base. These were removed becaus
they interfered with traffic, and tn
eagle has been hidden in the cit
shop until now.
The prize of the collection is a
! old sword, rescued by MI. Dav
, many years ago when he was
member of the Alexandria Fir
: Department.
He says he found the sword in tn
i old Hume mansion on Braddoc
: road, and he kept it after til
house and contents burned to til
; ground. He recalls that there was
: card attached to the sword bearin
} the name of an admiral and tt
S date 1872
S The city's whirlwind scrap drive
scheduled to start at / pm, an
5 citizens are urged to have scra
: out on the sidewalks ready for tt
t trucks.
/ Volunteers will drive and ma
! the trucks, which have been loane
e by city firms, and Mr.. Smoot, {
= salvage chairman, plans to have q