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4Aac rHE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER. SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 2. 1956 Ihrong of 102,000 at Army-Navy Football Classic Is Thrilled and Chilled traffic between central city and The Baltimore and Ohio Rail at the last moment to cancel plans to attend, the ranking dignitaries the stadium. More than 600 police road operated 13 special trains on hand were Secretary of Def anse were assigned to various phases of the event by Police Commissioner from the Baltimore and Washington area to and from the stadium Four of the special trains trans Charles E. Wilson and Chief Justice Earl Warren.

President Eisenhower, as is his custom, did not Thomas J. Gibbons, and were By FREDERIC G. HYDE Continued From First Page ENLIST NOW NAVY" sign was replaced with a -BEAT NAVY" banner. I As the dense smoke cleared, seven goats pranced from the back of the truck. The Army stands roared as each goat, bearing a saddle blanket with a letter emblazoned on it.

were lined up to Spell out "BEAT NAY." The sheepish cadets reported the goat carrying the letter had ported the 3700 midshipmen. Naval Local rooters on their way to and from the Stadium also found public -transit rallying its forces to accommodate them. The Philadelphia Transportation Co. provided scores of special buses for direct service to the Stadium from 15th st. and Pennsylvania blvd.

Extra streetcars also were operated on Route 20 on 12th st. direct to the game, and both forms nf transit were waitins for spec under command of Deputy Com missioner Howard R. Leary. Academy officials and the Navy attend. The Chief Executive is re ported to feel that his office should Directly in charge of traffic were 318 Foot- Traffic and Highway demand impartiality, and that as a huge lots operated by the Naval Academy Athletic Association.

All told, more than 20,000 cars were crowded into lots within easy walking distance of the game, while other motorists had to be content with such space as they could get, at high prices, on the outskirts of the area. Police were kept busy supervising th smaller lots to guard against so-called "bootleg" operators who attempted to park, cars without a city permit. Transportation To the tremendous task, of bringing 100,000 football fans from all parts of the land together for their few hours of fun and furor, and doing it in smooth and seemingly effortless fashion, the area's rail, air and bus lines lent a major hand. In what its officials called "the largest and most concentrated rail movement in the world," the Pennsylvania Railroad operated 29 special trains, consisting of nearly 500 locomotives, coaches, Pullman and dining cars, to bring some spectators to the scene and take them home again. Its passengers included the entire West Point Cadet Corps, the Military Academy band, the football squad and guests who occupied "specials" running from New York.

Newark. Washington, Baltimore and Wilmington. Patrol officers under Acting In West Point graduate and former spection Maurice B. Pliner. Those football player there, he could assigned to police the stadium, both inside and out, included 160 band.

In addition to the Annapolis brigade, the B. O. brought in thousands of passengers. Army and Navy alike, from such Defense Department installations as Annapolis, Fort Meade, Aberdeen and Bainbridge. They mingled with a heavy influx of "brass" from Washington, Silver Spring and Baltimore.

In most cases B. O. trains were held at the Stadium tators on the east, south and west hardly remain a neutral. Distinguished guests also in patrolmen and 125 detectives, sides of the Stadium as tne game commanded by Inspector George ended. Major changes in its bus J.

Kronbar. i I 4 1t A 1 1 pi 'i i .1 I 1 gone AWOL before the game. Army's cheering section, first to ake the stands, gave the extravaganza its first touch of rough humor West Point brand. As the middies deployed over the grid-Iron and turned to the east stands to salute their arch rivals, three made by PTC both before and after eluded former President Herbert C. Hoover, who was an Army rooter for the day along with former Army Secretaries Robert Stevens and By long established custom.

Broad st. traffic was limited to one the game to make allowance lor special one-way traffic conditions. way southbound from Vine st. to siding through the game. Frank Pace.

All were guests of Gen the during the four hours prior to the game, 10 A. M. to 2 huge canvas signs sprang up one ONLY AT JACOBS ROS.P P. and northbound from the end of the game until regular two- Garrison H. Davidson, superintendent of the Military Academy.

Gen. Davidson's guests also numbered two former Army Chiefs of Staff, Gen. J. Lawton Collins and Gen. way traffic was ordered restored Matthew Ridgway, and Gen.

Al 4ny Piano You Want fred Gruenther, recently retired NATO commander and President-designate of the American Red by Inspector Pliner. The section of Broad st. from the sttrOium to Oregon in past years a major headache for police and stalled motorists after the game, was kept tree yesterday by holding traffic to the side on which it entered, and preventing fx" If Cross. LODGE. DULLES GUESTS Secretary of the Army Wilber at a Real Savin motorists from cutting across M.

Brucker had as his guests Secretary Wilson: Henry Cabot Lodge. Jr, U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations, and Mrs. Lodge; Allen Dulles, director of the Central In telligence agency, and Mrs.

Dulles. at a iime in tne cadet cheering section. The first read, "3600," referring to the number of middies cn the field. The second said "strong" and the third, "odors." The Navy's Forrestal aircraft carrier was lampooned as a real tin can, and the Army scoffed at the atomic power Nautilus submarine power room. This float Showed a man huffing and puffing away inside a treadmill.

REVERED GOAT APPEARS Still swinging haymakers, Army cheerleaders hung Navy in effigy from the north goal post, a realistic job that had a brave cadet dangling at the end of a rope. About then. Navy's revered goat mascot, Bill XIV, arrived on the scene in real atomic power fashion. A huge float bearing guided missiles and a huge ball of a world, complete with satellite, pulled up in front of the Navy section. The globe opened and out stepped the latest in a long line of Bills.

Navy's stands split the atmosphere with a cheer that must have been heard as far as City HalL In the absence of Vice President JUchard M. Nixon, who was forced Harryet Pape, of Macon, a Navy rooter, sits on 20-yard line marker to get better view of her favorites. Celebrities on the Navy side included Acting Secretary of State Herbert Hoover, the guest of from one side to the other. Broad st. also presented an improvement over conditions a year ago at Packer where eight lanes, open Instead of the narrow two that existed on the old wooden railroad bridges.

HIGHWAY PATROL SHIFTS Pliner credited the rapid and flexible deployment of his men with providing the highest possible concentrations of policemen at crucial points all afternoon. After directing central city traffic prior to the game, 50 Motor Bringing, you a remarkable opportunity to Operations Adm. Robert B. Car ney, and Assistant Secretary of the Navy William B. Franke, with members of their families.

Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Arleigh Burke; Secretary of the Navy Charles S. Thomas: Sen. William F. Knowland (R, Senate Minority Leader; Mrs.

Knowland, and their daughter, Estelle; Gen. Randolph Pate, commandant of the Marine Corps, and members of his family. The Pates and Knowlands were guests of Secretary Thomas. i Still other rooters for the Navy Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks attended as the guest of Adm. Arthur Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as did obtain a renowned and nationally priced piano at a genuine saving, and with the easiest terms and the most attractive extra features at no extra cost, if you ACT NOW.

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Make this Highway patrolmen were shifted to the stadium to supplement the forces there at the "break" of the game. a Afterward, moving ahead of the main surge of 30,000 private cars, buses and cabs, these flying squads returned to central city as reinforcements for the final jam Wilson occupied a box near mid- were former Navy Secretary Dan Xmas. the hap field on the Army side while Justice Warren had a Navy view of the Kimball; former Chief of Naval game. Other high-ranking Government officials who had seats of piest ever -with a Jacobs Bros. Piano! Radio Phonograph Pantheon by honor in the Jam-packed stands there.

natche mits. On eoirtaint th tiuie with Shryock. were Secretary of the Air Force Donald A. Quarles; Postmaster. The traffic flow control to the stadium was expanded by making Pilot AF-860 FM-AM tmw with built i fruaplifcr.

Hialinr mi tun I he last word in High Fidelity General Arthur E. Summerfield; CHBIST MfiS wntral; tht Pilot AA-904 30-att anflMir; ttta Carnr IC-88 near ckantr; anf GE atagattii Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, Army 7 Chief of Staff, and Undersecretary urtri with laaiwi aaf tapphir of the Army Charles C. Finucane and Rear Adm.

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ery. 7th and 10th sts. two-way from Oregon ave. to Pattison ave. prior to the game.

Afterward, double use was made of Pattison ave. by making it one-way eastward from Broad to 11th and one-way westward from Broad to 20th. EVERY FOOT USED As in the past, every foot of vacant ground within a mile of the stadium was turned into precious parking-space yesterday. Private! operators of small lots did a thriv- awakar mteat af Iva loaa'swalare: ta kast woofers. if-ranM rtproalatar.

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