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savenue in front of the White House
The Welcoming Committee at
Union Station will be composed OF
commissioners J. Russell Young and
Guy Mason: Charles Stofberg, spe-
scial assistant to Commissioner
Young; A. L. Wheeler, chairman OF
the District Democratic Central
Committee; Mrs. j. Borden Harri-
man and RMS. Ernest K. Lindley of
The Democratic National Committee;
j. @. Turner, chairman of the Ar
rangements Committee for the
homecoming event, and Tilford T.
Dudley, an alternate TO the Dem
ocratic Committee.
Others in the group win be c. r.
Preller, Judge w. L. Houston, Ger
hard van Arkel. Arthur Clarendon
Smith, Harlan Woods, James Will
liam Bryan, Mrs. Hugh Thomas and
Mrs. Estelle Pearce. '
Police Band to Play.
AS Mr.. Truman is escorted to
the plaza Immediately In front of
the station, the Metropolitan Police
Band, under Capt. Charles Benter,
will play, I'm Just Wild About
Harry"
Police Supt. Robert ]. Barrett
sssaid the motorcade should leave the
!. station about Ills am. and will
move at walking pace to the White
r House. where the estimated time of
: arrival is 11:35 am.
. Bands to be stationed along the
& route of the procession and their
: location are:
{ Navy Band-Union Station Plaza.
i. Metropolitan Police Boys Club
rCapitol Grounds in the vicinity of
delaware and Constitution avenues
{ st. Johns College High School
sFourth street and Constitution
savenue.
Elks-seventh street and Pennsyl-
svania avenue.
Quantico Marine-Tenth and D
streets.
! Howard University-Near Four
ateenth street and Pennsylvania
avenue.
Army-Treasury Department steps
Army Air Force-Lafayette square
: National Guard-To be placed.
: The Marine orchestra from the
washington Barracks will be sta
stioned inside the White House.
Arches to Be Erected.
The arches to be erected by Dis
strict firemen will be at Fourth street
sand Pennsylvania avenue, on Penn
ssylvania avenue between Thirteenth
.and Fourteenth streets and on
Pennsylvania avenue at East Execu-
tive.
Anxious to make the Presidents
homecoming as impressive as pos
sible, officials Of the celebration
have arranged to have 100000 Fed
eral workers, plus 1900 District
employees, released from their jobs
long enough to participate. In ad-
dition School Supt. Hobart M.
Corning announced late yesterday
that schools will honor excuses
written by the parents of the co.
900 school children to cover their
absence during the time Of the
celebration.
It also will be permissible, DR.
Corning said, for school teachers
within. a reasonable distance of the
downtown areas to conduct their
classes to and from the line ot
march.
The Montgomery County Board OF
Commissioners today adopted res
elution urging all county residents
to attend the reception for Presi-
dent Truman tomorrow. The reso-
luton was proposed by Commis-
sioner Wesley I. Sauter, Bethesda
-Four of the five board members are
Republicans.
Every available man of Police
supt. Barrett's uniformed and
plainclothes force will line the
motorcade route to honor the Presi.
dent, protect him and keep back the
throngs. No ropes will be strung to
keep the crowds in check. Fire Chief
Clement Murphy viii detail an ad-
ditional $50 firemen to augment the
police force on duty in connection
with the celebration.
President Truman and his party
will proceed to the White House
along the time -honored route of VIC
torious candidates: Southwest on
Delaware avenue NE. to Constitu-
ton avenue, west on Constitution
avenue to Pennsylvania avenue
west on Pennsylvania to Fifteenth
street, north on Fifteenth to New
York avenue and thence west to
the White House.
The route will be gaily bedecked
in flags and bunting, which crews
of District workmen began putting
up late yesterday. AS an economy
measure, w. z. Kern, electrical en-
gineer in charge of the flag-placing,
plans to leave the flags in place
until next Thursday - Armistice
Day.
Merchants and advertising men
will provide large signs and plac-
ards, congratulating the fighting
President on his underdog victory
over Gov. Dewey.
The drab, 46-year-o1d District
Building will take on new look
In gay bunting and flags In honor
of the Presidents return. To add
more color to the occasion, the
Democratic Committee will purchase
several thousand small American
flags to give to school children to
wave as Mr.. Truman passes.
Big Committee at Work.
Plans for the celebration, under
the honorary Craftsmanship of the
District Commissioners, are being
worked out by a 40-man committee
of Washington residents and off,
calls under Mr.. Stofberg and Mr.
Wheeler.
They are counting on a hall
million people seeing the celebration
The idea for the celebration was
conceived simultaneously yesterday
morning by the city heads and the
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