Evening Star Newspaper, June 19, 1930, Page 44

c—12 INDEPENDENCE DAY PROGRAM OUTLINED Takoma Park and Vicinity to , Stage Community Cele- " ¥a4e. bration. . " ¥he eitizens of Takoma Park and vicinity will participate again this year in & community celebration on July 4 with a monster parade depicting “The History of the Declaration of Independ- ence.” There will be approximately 40 floats in the parade, half of which number have been assigned to members of the general committee for prepara- tion on this occasion. ‘The parade will be headed by the United States Army Band, with Capt. W. J. Stannard in command, for the sixth consecutive year. A detachment of soldiers with colors and color guards will follow the band. Dr, Horace W. Whittaker is chairman of the general committee and is com- pleting the detalls of the various com- mittees. Mrs. M. P. Dodge is chairman of the pageant committee; Maj. Jesse B. K. Lee, chairman of the reception committee; Mayor Ben G. Davis, chair- man of the patriotic exercises com- mittee; William M. Leavitt, chairman of the printing committee; Herbert Wal- ton Rutledge, chairman of the guest committee; Martin F. Iverson, chairman of property and construction committee; Rudolph Wilson, fireworks committee; Chester C. Waters and T. K. Burrows, chairman and vice chairman of the committee on finance: Mrs. Henry W. Ewing, chairman of the entertainment committee. ‘The Independence day celebration will start with the pageant-parade at 9 o'clock, passing through the main streets of Takoma Park, with the ter- minus at the Takoma Park Public School grounds, Piney Branch road and Dahlia street, where patriotic exercises will be held at noon. In the afternoon athletic games will be staged, conclud- ing with the fireworks display at night. Efforts of the committee are to make this year's event an outstanding one in the communit $350.000 ESTATE LEFT BY SIMMONS Lawyer and Real Estate Operator Had Deeded $148,898 Prop- erties to Son. Leo Simmons, lawyer and real estate operator, who died June 7, left an estate valued in excess of $350,000, ac- cording to the petition of his son, Berkeley L. Simmons, and the National Bavings & Trust Co., his executors, for the probate of his will. Shortly before his death Mr. Simmons had conveyed 1o his son. Berkeley L. Simmons, prem- dres 1108 Sixteenth street, assessed at $63,800, and premises 2139 Wyoming avenue, assessed at $85098. His re- maining real estate holdings are as- sessed at $341,925, and his personal es- tate is estimated at $9,187.35. By his will, executed May 27, 1930, Mr. Simmons left $2,000 to his secre- tary, Frank J. O’Connor, and gave his letters pateit to his son, Berkeley. The remaining estate is to be held in trust by the son and the National Savings & Trust Co. for the benefit of the widow, Nellie M. Simmons. Specific directions are given as to the distribution of the proceeds from property at Thirteenth and C streets, now being acquired by the Government in condemnation pro- ceedings for the Federal triangle. By the terms of the will of Mrs. Mercia H. MacLennan, who died June 4, $15,000 is left to her daughter, Mar- garet Stonebraker, and $2,500, a dia- mond engagement ring and some pic- tures to Elizabeth MacNamara. The ‘Women's Alliance of All Souls’ Unita- rian Church is to have $250, and sev- eral friends are given specific bequests of jewelry and furniture. The remain- ing estate goes to Mrs. Stonebraker, ‘who, with J. Barrett Carter, is named as executor. The value of the estate 1s not disclosed. . TUncle Sam’s FI, SRR y-by-Night Birds. A race of night-flying pigeons is be- ing developed under supervision of the ‘War Department. Soon after the World War the United States Army Signal Corps started to develop these ds, realizing that they would be of invalu- able service in case of war or in time of great national disaster, such as floods, cyclones or carthquakes. At the Army Signal School at Fort Monmouth, N. J., there is now a loft containing only night-flying birds. These are the result of careful training of homing pigeons, selection and breeding of the most in- telligent, the sturdiest and those that had habitually flown in twilight or darkness. Lumber and phosphate shipments from Tampa, Fla, set a new monthly Tecord in May Luxurious Service to Cbz'cago i by the cool route West. . NE of the most luxuri- ous fleets .of trains in the world is that of the Penn- sylvania Railroad . . . bind- ing Washington to the in- land cities of America. 8 trains run daily to Chi- cago 6 to St. Louis. And each travels the cool route West through the beau- tiful wooded valleys of the Appalachians. 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