The Winslow Mail

PATHE NEWS
WILL SHOOT
SCENES OF BIG
CELEBRATION

Less than three weeks remains until the big Tri-State Airway dedication, flying circus and aircraft show comes off in Winslow. A lot of work remains to be done toward making the celebration the biggest thing of the kind ever staged in the southwest, but committees having details in charge are on their toes and rapidly perfecting plans.

A meeting of all committees was held at the city hall last evening, when plans for the entertainment of visitors and guests, the housing problem, details of the parade and decorating the city, music, finances, banquet and ball and dedication program were discussed in full.

The biggest crowd Winslow was ever called upon to entertain is expected here for two or three days, and the question of securing suitable quarters for them is the most formidable one the committee has yet to solve. An appeal will be made, by personal canvass of houses and through The Mail for people to throw open their homes at this time so that everyone who visits the city may be comfortably entertained.

Additional acceptances to invitations have been received the last three days, by wire and letter, from several army officers, and Lt. Col. J. F. Fechet, assistant chief of the air service of the United States, who states that despite a government order that "no funds shall be used for the purpose of giving exhibition flights other than those under the control and direction of the war department unless an indemnity for persons and property shall be furnished the government" where an air service demonstration is asked, yet one or two planes would be ordered to visit Winslow without the heavy indemnity required.

Capt. F. N. Shumaker of the Forty-Fifth Division, air service, Denver, wrote Saturday as follows: "I expect to be there and shall probably have with me as passenger my chief mechanic, Sergeant James C. Zeigler of the regular army service. Am very grateful for your personal invitation. The work which Winslow is doing is greatly appreciated by every aviator."

Two wire acceptances were received yesterday, one from Boyd Montieth, a noted California flyer, who briefly stated: "Will be there with my ship," and another from J. R. Johnson, staff representative of Pathe News, to whom an invitation had been sent. Mr. Johnson states that he will be here and is grateful for the opportunity to secure views of the event for the Pathe News release, which will be seen by millions of people all over the United States.

Monster Parade Is Being
Planned for Celebration

No celebration is complete without a parade of floats, marchers, cowboys, Indians, and all the colorful factors that go to make up a pageant.

Plans for the parade for Saturday, May 16, are being rounded into shape by the American Legion under direction of Joe Lieberman. A sufficient quantity of bunting, flags, artificial flowers and decorations of all kinds will be on hand to decorate autos and floats.

Mike Kirk of Gallup will bring to Winslow a bunch of Navajo Indian dancers and Joe Secakuku, of Canyon Lodge, will have his Hopis in the parade. The Rip Track Indians of the roundhouse also will get in.

Charles Erickson, writer, buckaroo and Santa Fe booster, with his forty-quart bonnet, will lead the cowboy contingent.

A number of floats have already been planned, and in every detail indications are that the parade will be worth seeing. Anyone having suggestions will please get in touch with Mr. Lieberman.

Frank Christensen Will
Get Un Band for May 16

Frank Christensen, a competent bandsman of many years' experience with civilian and army bands, will gather together a bunch of local musicians to help with the parade and program of the airway dedication on May 16 and 17. Mr. Christensen states that there are more than a score of former bandsmen in Winslow who will be able on short notice to get into shape for the occasion.

He expects that dates will be played by the band being formed now at the Holbrook races on May 30 and 31, and for the big Legion Fourth of July celebration, and he has hopes that the band may remain permanently organized.

Joe Secakuku, Well-Known Hopi Dancer,
To Direct Indian Dance at Air Celebration

One of the features of the program of the Tri-State Airway celebration will be a number of Indian dances. These are now being arranged and will be directed by the famous Joe Secakuku, for many years leader of the dancers of the Hopi House at Grand Canyon. Chief Secakuku knows, possibly as no other Indian of his tribe, the significance of the ceremonial dances of the Hopis, and possesses the ability to bring out the great beauty of the different ceremonies.

Bulletin Advertises the
Tri-State Airway Meet

Containing a full page devoted to an announcement of the Tri-State Airway meet to be held in Winslow May 16 and 17 and with nine out of a total of twelve advertisements representing Winslow merchants who used the advertising space to boost the meet, the April issue of the Arizona Reserve Officers' Bulletin appeared this week, going into the hands of all the members of the different reserve officers' associations throughout the state.

A tentative program is printed in the issue, together with a general invitation to the officers of the state to attend the celebration. In the invitation they are requested to appear in uniform, particularly at the military ball to be given on the evening of May 16.

WOMAN'S CLUB TO
SERVE BANQUET
AT AIRWAY MEET

At a meeting of the Woman's club held in the Baptist church Friday afternoon it was voted to take charge of the banquet to be given the visiting aviators on May 16, the first night of the Tri-State Airway celebration. Washington school auditorium has been secured for the occasion, and the Woman's club will take full charge of the preparation and serving of the food.

The meeting Friday was attended by about twenty members. In addition to the business transacted concerning serving the banquet, the club voted to purchase a number of new books for the library and to take the handling of the library out of the hands of the literature department and place a permanent library committee in charge.

Following the business meeting the program of Zuni Indian music and history was rendered. The music was in charge of Mrs. J. Day and the program was a splendid success.

Invitation was extended members of the club during the meeting by Miss Hortense Miller, of the music department of local schools, to attend a musical memory contest to be held at the junior high school building May 7. The contest is in connection with national music week, which begins May 1.

In the absence of the president, Mrs. Horace Evans, Mrs. Walter Olds conducted the meeting.