Evening star., 1947-04-11
100000 Likely
To View Cherry
Blossom Fete
Sunny Weather, With
Trees in Full Bloom,
Seen for Week End
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!, More than 100000 persons are ex-
pected to jam the area around Tida,
Basin for the Cherry Blossom Fes.
tival this week end, when the
weather promises to be good anc
assurance is being given the bios
SONS will be in bloom.
The Greater National Capita
Committee summed 1t up this way
today: Mature will extend its
friendly hand to the officials Of thu
Cherry Blossom Festival COMMITTEES
to make the festival to be staged al
the Tidal Basin Saturday and Sun.
day one of the gayest, most colorfu
and spectacular Of Washington''
events"
A full schedule of events has beer
arranged fG the two days, including
the crowning of the Cherry Blossom
Queen, Miss Nancy Anderson ,daugh-
ter of Secretary of Agriculture An
derson, at 2:30 pm. tomorrow.
Sunny Day Forecast.
The Weather Bureau predicted
mostly sunny weather and rather
windy for tomorrow. Temperatures
will be milo Sunday also is ex.
pected to be- fair with the tempera-
ture staying in the COS.
The weather today will be warm
reaching in the middle 70s by after
noon. Clslds will increase anc
showers ans expected late this after
noon or tonight but not over the
week end.
Edward :. Kelly, assistant su.
perintendent of National Capita
Parks, said "a scattering OF cherry
blossoms are out already" and ex-
pected warm weather today to com.
plete the job in time for the fes-
tival.
Band Opens Program.
The program at the Tidal Basin
tomorrow begins at 1870 pm. with
a band concert by the United States
Army Band, led by Capt. Hugh j.
Curry.
At 2 pm, Miss Anderson and her
court will arrive at the pageant area
with District leaders. Thomas P.
Morgan, jr, general chairman of the
festival committee; Edgar Morris
chairman of the Greater National
Capital Committee, and Commits
sioner Guy Mason will welcome the
crowds. The queen will be crowned
at 2::30 pm. by Attorney General
Tom C. Clark.
After the theme song of the festi-
val, Cherry Blossom Time" is sung
by Soloist Connie Krueger, a pageant
celebrating Peace Under the Bios
SONS" with representatives of the
United Nations participating. A
peace Tableau" will be presented
by the Evelyn Davis Dance Play
house Group, Taking part In this
will be Miss JoSelyn Freer, Miss
Helen Bowdoin. Miss Mary Ann
Cummings, Miss Eunice Kennedy
and Miss Patricia Polk Morgan.
Assembly to Sing.
The pageant will be closed with
the entire assembly singing Amer
lea, the Beautiful" and the "Star
Spangled Banner"
Oh Sunday similar program will
be given at the Tidal Basin at the
same times, with the exception of
the crowning.
A band concert by the United
States Navy Band, with 1t. Comdr
Charles Brendler conducting, will be
given at $3.50 pm, both tomorrow
and Sunday.
The park police yesterday issued
regulations for driving and parking
in the Tidal Basin area during the
festival.
Motorists may enter the park
from Fourteenth street NV. via
the Inlet Bridge road south of the
Jefferson Memorial and via River
side drive from the Lincoln Me-
mortal. Trar1c leaving the park will
be routed north on Seventeenth
street NV.
No Parking Permitted.
No parking will be permitted on
the Tidal Basin roads, the Park
Police warned. They urged that
visitors park their cars north of the
Mall and walk or use public trans
portation. Walking is the best way
to obtain the best views of the bios
SONS, the Park Police emphasized.
Meanwhile, plans for another
Cherry Blossom Festival in the
Bethesda and Chevy Chase sections
on April 10 were under way.
Miss Nancy Darby of Gathers
burg, queen of this festival, will be
crowned in ceremonies at the Naval
Medical Center, Bethesda, at 2 pm.
April 49, Following these cere-
monies Miss Darby and her party
will lead a motorcade through the
area along a special route which
shows the best of the cherry bios
SONS.
The route runs from Dorset ave-
nue to Brookside drive, north on
Brookside drive to Woodlawn ave-
nue., west on Woodlawn avenue to
Shadow road. north on Shadow road
to Chamberlain avenue and east on
Chamberlain avenue. to Bradley
boulevard