Evening star., 1943-07-03
Record Holiday
Travel Seen
Over Week End
Roll Official Warns
Many Persons May
Be Stranded

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Bus and railroad officials braced
themselves today for the heaviest
holiday traffic of the year as thou
sands of District residents, taking
advantage of the Fourth of July,
made preparations to leave the city.
At Union Station, where the peak
was expected this afternoon. officials
said advance reservations and ticket
sales indicated the heaviest July 4
traffic in several years. Most of the
travel will be to Baltimore, Phila-
delphia and New York, they said.
Greyhound Bus Lines reported
traffic by the end of the day would
be the heaviest of the year. but not
quite as heavy as other July 4 holi-
days. Many persons phoning the
terminal here are being told bus
mileage has been cut and that the
company cannot guarantee them
accommodations. it was said.
Since the holiday falls on Sunday,
most places of business will observe
the holiday Monday, along with the
majority of District government en-
ployes. For Federal employees Mon
day will be another work day as
usual.
Warned Against Travel.
From a railroad executive came
the prediction that If civilians in
sist on attempting to travel, thou
sands of them will find themselves
stranded on the station platforms,
for there just won't be room for
them. We have all our equipment
in service all the time without any
means of getting additional cars"
With the stress on the principles
of freedom for which American
youth is dying throughout the world,
the local celebration of the holiday
will center tomorrow at the Sylvan
Theater at 6:15 pm. when the
Washington Board of Trade holds a
patriotic rally.
District Commissioners Young,
Mason and Kutz, in a proclamati ton,
urged local residents to display the
American flag until noon Monday.
They said it is fitting that I'VE, in
the Nations Capital. should dedicate
ourselves anew to the preservation
of the freedoms to which the fore
fathers pledged their lives, their for
tunes and their sacred honor
Several thousand persons are eX-
pected to attend the annual holiday
ceremony on the Washington Monu-
ment Grounds. The traditional pa
rade and fireworks associated with
peacetime July 4 celebrations will be
missing in wartime.
Program Given.
The Sylvan Theater program fol-
lows:
6 pm, flags report at base of
Monument; 6:15, concert by Marine
Band; 6:45, procession of the flags;
:. fag-raising ceremony; TOP, in
vocation, by Brig. Gen. William R.
Arnold, chief of chaplains, Army
Service Forces: 7:04, pledge to the
flag. led by Chairman Granville
Guide: 7:O5, singing of America,
led by William R. Schmucker; 7:08,
reading from the Declaration OF
independence by W. Hayes Yeager;
TIA, singing of America the Beau
tiful," led by Mr.. Schmucker; 7:16,
introduction of the speaker by
Chairman GUIDE; TIT, address by
Rear Admiral Clark H. Woodward:
7:29. singing of The Battle Hymn
of the Republic; 7:30, benediction
bv Gen. Arnold: 1872. ceremony of
lowering the flag and singing OF
"The Star Spangled Banner; 7:3o,
occasional of the flags.
In urging citizens to attend the
Sylvan Theater rally the Commls-
.ioners called on residents to unite
IN affirming allegiance to the nag
snd our determination to stand
behind the men and women VINO
ere risking their lives overseas 10
safeguard our homes
Marathon Slated.
At 10 a m. tomorrow 5-mlle
marathon run sponsored by the Dis.
trict Recreation Association ana
named the Mike Lynch run III
honor of the veteran local mara
thoner, will be staged. Inc course
will be from ROCK Cleeh soAA
To Takoma Park.
Monday there will be patriotic
celebrations by the Association OF
Oldest inhabitants of the District OF
Columbia at 1890 am. at the Old
r1nion Engine House. Nineteenth and
4 streets NV, and by the Greater
wcodridge Committee at 10 am. al
r,anpdon Park. DR.. Elmer Louis
Kavser. dean of students. George
Washington Unive1 sitv, will be the
sneaker at the Oldest Inhabitants
ceremony.
Exercises also will be held at e
nm. tomorrow in the park in North
Takoma. Nd, with Rear Admiral
Harry G.. Hamlet, U. S. G. g., re-
tired, as the speaker.
This afternoon, beginning at 3
o'clock. an athletic program was to
be staged at the Takoma Recreation
Association on Third street between
Sheridan and Van Buren, streets
NV From 9 to II 80 pm. dance
is scheduled to take place on the
concrete tennis courts at Third and
Van Buren streets. In local
churches independence Day will
provide the theme for numerous SER