Evening star., 1945-09-22
Spectacular Parade
Planned byCommittee
In Honor Of Nimitz

The most spectacular parade in
Washington's parade-filled history
was promised the Capital as a cit
liens group worked today on final
preparations for Nimitz day Oc-
tober S.
The hour-long parade will depict
scientific achievements of the era
in pageantry not possible a few
years ago. AS outlined by Carter
Barren, vice chairman of Nimitz
day, at meeting of the citizens
committees in the board room in the
District Building late yesterday,
there will be four levels in the
procession:
The first level will be the sailors,
marines and others afoot, with
their floats and jeps. The second
level will be Navy blimps, trailing
streamers proclaining the Nation S
welcome to Fleet Admiral Chester
w. Nimitz and his Pacific heroes.
The third will be light Navy planes,
flying at the lowest safe height,
probably spraying a trail of red,
white and blue smoke. The fourth
level will be an umbrella of heavy
bomberS and transports, 1000 of
which are being detailed by the
Navy to fly over the line of march.
Parade Starts at Capitol.
The parade will start at the Cap
itol, after Admiral Nimitz has been
received at a joint session of Con-
gress, and will start about 11D pm.
1t will move on Constitution avenue
into Pennsylvania avenue and to
Fifteenth street, where it will turn
south and 60 to the Monument
Grounds.
Admiral Nimitz will head the
parade. On the Monument Grounds
he will review the pageant, which
will march by the multitude there
before disbanding and taking a re-
served position.
The reviewing stand will be built
in the shape of battleship.
A feature planned for the Monu-
nent Grounds-and Washington and
probably no other city has seen any
thing like it's a 500-foot high v
shaped banner suspended on bar
rage balloons and holding gigantic
pennants saying: ''W e &c o m e,
Admiral"
To Be Given Scroll.
Commissioner John Russell Young
will present Admiral Nimitz with
the key to the city and a scroll from
its citizens. The admiral will re-
spond. An original musical compo-
sition, "Cavalcade Of the Pacific"
will open the program.
Admiral Nimitz will leave at $3.50
for the White House, where Presi-
dent Truman will welcome him.
Nimitz day will close with what
promises to be a memorable ban
quet. 1t will begin at 7:3o o'clock
at the Mayf1ower Hotel with about
1000 guests. Tickets for the $10-a-
plate dinner will be assigned civic,
patriotic and fraternal organiza-
tions, Joseph C. McGarraghy,
chairman of the Banquet Commit
tee, explained, and the organiza-
tions will do their own distributing.
Reservations began today at the
Board of Trade.
Units in Parade.
The public celebration will start
at 1890 pm, when Admiral Nimitz
and his party are escorted to the
Capitol. While he is being received
by Congress the parade will be as
sembling on the south side of the
Capitol, ready to move when the
admiral is.
Harvey Jones, chairman of the
Parade Committee, has arranged for
the parade to include 1000 midship-
men withs their own band, 600 Ma
rines with the Marine Band, mo-
torized detachment of Marines, mo-
tor floats depicting exploits of the
Marines from Guadalcanal to Oki-
nawa, 600 bluejackets with exhibits
and floats portraying the great naval
battles of the Pacific, Zeros and 9TH
er captured japanese planes, $50
Coast Guardsmen with their own
band and SPARS and WAVES in
details of 400 each, with Drum and
Bugle Corps.
Floyd Akers, general chairman Of
Nimitz day, reported that there
would be 5000 seats at the Monu-
ment Grounds and several thousand
along the line OF march. These
seats will be sold to help defray ex-
penses. Prices and other details
will be announced later.
The citizens group will meet again
at pm. Monday.