Evening star., 1949-01-12
|naugura|T Talk
Will Be Major
Po|icyStatenent
Ross Says President
Is Drafting Address
Of IS to 20 Minutes
STORES AND OFFICE BUILDINGS
Along Inaugural Parade Routes
Will Offer Seats to the Public.
Page B-1.

STORES AND OFFICE BUILDINGS
Along Inaugural Parade Routes
Will Offer Seats to the Public.
Page B-1.
President Truman's inaugural
address a week from tomorrow
will be major policy pronounce
ment, Press Secretary Charles
G. Ross said today.
Mr. Ross said Mr.. Truman has
started work on the address. which
will run from IS to 20 minutes.
The President will speak after the
swearing-in ceremony at the Cap
itol.
There has been some thought that
Mr. Truman might choose the oc-
casion for a foreign policy discus
sion.
The President will have time for
hardly more than sandwich and a
cup of coffee by way of lunch be-
tween the time he gives his address
and leads the big parade down the
Avenue.
Plans now call for a buffet lunch
lasting mot more than half an
hour" in the Office of Leslie L. BIZ
fle, Secretary to the Senate and
close friend of the President. MIR.
Bif1e. in setting the time limit, said
only about 20 persons will be able
to join IN the light lunch, including
members of the Presidents and
Vice President -elect Barkley's fam
lilies and the Joint Congressional
Inaugural Committee. Mr.. Biff1e is
secretary of the committee.
Problem for Congress Members.
The Inauguration Day schedule
calls for the oath of Office to be ad-
miniStered at noon, January 20, the
time Mr.. Truman'S full four-year
term begins, according to the Con-
stitution. The Vice President is
expected to take the oath first. The
President S address will Immediately
follow his oath taking.
Since the parade is due to begin
at l pm. sharp, Mr. Truman is ex-
pected to go to Mr.. Biffle's
Office in the Senate wing of the
Capitol for quick bite before head
| ing the parade.
Members of Congress, Gll of whom
will have seats to view the parade
in the official reviewing stand in
front of the White House, will have
to figure out for themselves how to
get lunch and make their way to
the parade seats before the Presi-
dent, in the first section of the
eight division parade, arrives at the
White House. Since seating capac-
ity of the Congressional restaurants
is not adequate to hold all the
members at once, some are likely
! to go without lunch-unless they
bring along a sandwich from home
in the morning.
Meanwhile, plans for the inaugu-
raj gala, scheduled for the Armory
the night before inauguration Day,
are still being perfected.
More Entertainers Listed.
Latest additions to the long list Of
entertainers scheduled to appear in
clude Edgar Bergen with Charlie
Mccarthy and Mortimer Snerd, Phil
Harris and Alice Faye, Margaret
O'Brien, Lena Horne, Jane Froman,
Gene Autry, Dick Haynes and Joan
/ Davis
The number of singers, dancers,
stage, screen an dradio stars and
inStrumentalistS now scheduled for
the big event is more than 300, ac-
cording to Carter T. Barron, chair
man Of the Parade and Special
Events Committee.
The Gala Ticket Committee, un-
der the Craftsmanship of Frank M.
Boucher, already is filling what is
described as "a tremendous mail
order advance sale" for the gala.
The date and hour will be an
nounced later for opening of the
public ticket sale over the counter
at inaugural headquarters, Tariff
Building, Seventh and E streets NV.
Tickets are priced at $3.50, IS,
$3.50 and $40 each with the greatest
demand for the $40 seats, the COM
mittee said today. Orders now may
be mailed to the Tariff Building
ticket office
Mr.. Barron said three "big- name"
orcheStras of contrasting styles and
two choral groups, numbering so