Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-06-18
AIonq the Line Of March
Eisenhower Buttons Tops in Demond
As Vendors Do Lond Office Business

AS vendors DO |
Gen. Eisenhower is the second
Army man to be honored in this
war at a joint session of Congress.
The first was an enlisted man,
TISergt. Jake w. Lindsey, Lucedale,
Miss. the tooth infantryman to re-
ceive the Congressional Medal of
Honor.
Spectators stared when a police
patrol wagon pulled up on the line
of march and began to unload about
10 am. In 1t were number of
members of the Metropolitan Police
Band, which began playing at 1890,
under direction of Capt. Charles
Benter.
Vendors didn't heed the Police
Department warning about staying
of the line of march. They did a
landofice business in ice cream,
peanuts, flags and a variety OF but
tons. The buttons pictured Gen.
Eisenhower. Gen. Macarthur, Presi-
dent Truman and the late President
Roosevelt. They also sold Roy
Rogers pistols. Among novelties the
Eisenhower buttons and the pistols
sold best.
War Bond sale efforts continued
up to the time of arrival of the
procession. The Junior Board of
Commerce caravan parked in front
of the District Building, with loud
speakers blaring their bond appeal.
A group of so Commando War Bond
girls circulated among the throng
selling bonds.
Mrs. George Carton of Des Moines,
Iowa, wife Of 1t. Col. Carton, arriv-
ing at the airport in the generals
party, after % months overseas, de-
liberately wore jaunty black and
green turban-the type of hat that
has always made her husband laugh.
made Of newspapers with flags
sticking out of the top. One boy
told the others You got to re-
member to save your hats-they're
paper salvage"
Man Colla1.,es From Heat.
As the parade came down the
street the crowd cheered and waved
handkerchiefs, flags and bonds.
A man standing on the corner
of Fifteenth street and Constitution
avenue collapsed from the heat He
was taken to Emergency Hospital
by the Red Cross first-aid station
volunteers.
The AAF band of a hundred
pieces that played for Gen. Eisen-
hover March 20, l945, in Paris, well
coined him at Fifteenth street and
Treasury place by playing an air
forces selection as he passed the
corner on his way to the Capitol.
The band is headed by Capt. George
D. Howard.
At the official reviewing stand at
Fourteenth street and Pennsylva-
mia avenue, Gen. Eisenhower stood
up in his Army car and shook hands
with Commissioner John Russell
Young. He then accepted the keys
to the city. tied with blue and white
ribbon.
AS microphones were handed to
the general, Commissioner Young
and others on the reviewing stand
waved for the crowd to quiet down.
High Spot of Life.
Gen. Eisenhower said that in "All
Of my three years as commander
In chief, in all my life, I have never
been so proud and so thankful as
to have been given the key to the
Capitol city Of my country. This is
undoubtedly the high spot in my
life"
Gen. Eisenhower said he took the
key as symbol of Washington OPP
snlng Its heart to our returning
veterans-men who have or who
have been willing to give their ALL
Commissioner Young and Gen
Eisenhower exchanged brief re-
marks when the generals car came
up, but the din prevented any one
else from knowing what was said.
Gen. Eisenhower yelled Hi Joe"
to Assistant Engineer Commissioner
Joseph D. Arthur, jr.
Gen. Eisenhower, looking very
tanned and smiling broadly, waved
to the crowd and saluted Engineer
Commissioner Charles w. Kutz.
Despite police lines, the crowd
swarmed by the generals car, and
the bumpers virtually pushed the
crowd aside as police struggled to
make way for the car to rejoin the
procession to the Capitol.
Parade Passes Eleventh Street.
Applause, yells, shouts of Hello
there Ike" and Welcome home"
greeted Gen. Eisenhower as he
passed Eleventh street at 1913
o'clock.
Adding machine tape, torn news
paper and other confetti-like greet
ings were tossed from buildings
along the Avenue as he passed, pre-
coded by military vehicles and movie
cameramen.
Camera fans along the curb, many
of whom had taken up vantage
positions several hours before,
clicked the shutters of their
cameras.
Gen. Eisenhower received a ire
mendous ovation from large crowds
along Constitution avenue in the
vicinity Of the Capitol. Confetti
and paper streamers were tossed
into the air as the caravan passed
by First street and Constitution
avenue about 1915.
Uncomfortable for the moment,
several hundred persons Of a throng
of thousands in front of the Capitol,
burst through police lines when Gen.
Eisenhowers' car paused there and
damned momentarily around the
vehicle before Metropolitan, Capitol
and military police could force them
back.
Waves to Crowd.
Gen. Eisenhower seemed not to
mind, but waved and smiled repeat
edly tn the crowds and tn a large