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Truman Barley Clubs dinner, to be
served in the main ballroom and
four other rooms.
The hotel was filled to capacity
last night, officials reported, and no
more were to be accepted. The ar
rivals there included Cows. Forrest
Smith Of Missouri, Okey l.. Patter-
son Of West Virginia and Fuller
Warren of Florida; Mayors Martin
Kennedy of Chicago and Edward
Delaney of st. Paul, and former
Postmaster General James A. Farley.
Hotels Near Capacity.
Other downtown hotels were ex-
pecting to be filled by tonight or
tomorrow.
The Willard Hotel was requiring
all guests without inaugural reser-
vations to leave by noon tomorrow.
Among the visitors checking in there
were James Roosevelt and Gov.
Thomas J. Mabry of New Mexico.
A similar vacating agreement was
being enforced on non-inaugural
guests at the Statler. There, where
capacity occupancy was expected by
nightfall, the registrants included
Gov. Vail Pittman of Nevada, Mayor
James M. Cur1ey OF Boston, former
Postmaster General Robert Hanne-
gan and Vivian Truman, brother
of the PresidenI.
Former Partner Coming.
Eddie jacobson, once the Presi-
dents partner in haberdashery
was en- route to Washington and
held a reservation at the Statler.
The Raleigh Hotel was expecting
80 per cent occupancy by tonight
and a capacity house by late to-
morrow.
There was feverish activity at
1949 Inaugural Committee head
quarters in the Tariff Commission
Building.
Mr.. Truman was to work further
on his 15-minute inaugural ad-
dress today-a speech already an
nounced as a major policy pro-
nouncement. Tonight he will be
guest of honor at the Truman
Brakley Clubs banquet.
Another event was added to the
crowded Truman family inaugural
calendar today. 1t was announced
Mr.. and Mrs. Truman and Miss
Margaret Truman will attend the
Kentucky Society ball for Mr.. Bark
ley at 10 pm. Friday in the Shore
ham Hotel.
Housing Bureau Busy.
Perhaps the busiest agency of
the Inaugural Committee today was
the Housing Bureau at 500 Four
tenth street NV. Mrs. Ernest K.
Lindley pleaded with householders
to call in person and list further
accommodations. She said $4,000
beds had been registered, and the
bureaus switchboard was damned
with telephone calls-many of them
long distance from housing
seekers.
Stage and Aim entertainers were
beginning to arrive for the In
augural Gala tomorrow night in the
Armory, and rehearsal sessions were
being arranged.
Photographic conditions were not
good, but camera-carrying sight
seers were in evidence at historic
sites and monuments. And the line
was long at the Freedom Train
displaying its cargo Of historic doc
uments on a siding at Fourteenth
and D street S.W.
inaugural Medals Sold Out.
The inaugural medals were re-
ported sold out at committee head
quarters, with several thousand I'M
filled orders on hand.
Along Pennsylvania avenue anc
on the Capitol plaza, workmen were
putting finishing touches on the
seating and decorations and the
elaborate wiring systems required
by radio, television and newspaper
reporters.
In the swarms Of Union Station
arrivals were many groups repre-
senting professional, civic, bushes:
and veteran groups. Fifty-five Mid.
western postmasters and their wives
were among those reporting in dur
ing the morning.
Microscopes, opera glasses and bin