Show Tickets Tic Tickets Who Wh Who Inaugural Fever Hits High Point in V WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Jan 15 UP AThe p- p The fever chart at the Truman in inaugural inaugural inaugural in- in augural committee headquarters shot suddenly upward Saturday but subsided after a transatlantic m i x u p over invitations w was straightened out It began with a a. brief dispatch from London reporting the forthright forthright forthright forth forth- right manner with which a vegetable vegetable vegetable vege vege- table stall operator at Covent Garden Garden Garden Gar Gar- den market had accepted a bid to the Jan 20 ceremonies here The vegetable mans man's name was Arnold Walker Valker the story said and he had turned his back on his Brussels Brussels Brus Brus- sels sprouts and gone out and bought two airplane tickets for the United States One for himself and one for his wife ife There wa wan was a a littlemore inore little more about how he had said the Truman ir- ir ought to be qu quote t as 39 exciting as a a. good rugg f match unquote All Al Is Uproar Within a few tew minutes telephones were ringing all over Washington Said Melvin Hildredth chairman of the inaugural committee Hildreth told reporters the invitations invitations invitations had been sent to Mr and Mrs Arnold Walker Valker of London all allright allright right but they were intended for tor foran foran toran an import export-import firm executive of that name Hildreth whose burdens are growing almost too much to bear beara a as the big day approaches approached guessed the British h postal service had gone awry But he promised to fix up the vegetable man and his wife with tickets nevertheless if it I have to take the them from my own I family gro group p. p Calls Clear Air Then there was a series of transatlantic transatlantic transatlantic trans trans- atlantic telephone calls and it turned put the invitations had been delivered to the right Mr Walker Valk r rafter after all aU Turned out he had an office In iri Cov Covent Gard Garden too How he came cani to be confused with Mr Walker Valker in the vegetable stall was just one of those things hard to explain The inaugural committee has no prejudice against vegetable sellers as such of course course it it just gets upset upset upset up up- set when there i a case of mistaken mistaken mistaken mis mis- taken identity like anybody else Anyway its it's all straightened out now and at last reports Hildreth was out dut inspecting the stands along Pennsylvania ave again The Arnold Walker Valker snarl incidentally incidentally inci mci- dentally promised not to be the only embarrassing incident over inaugural tickets Officials in charge of the ceremonies said they were getting indications that many recipients of thousands of souvenir souvenir nir fir formal invitations were taking them seriously as actual tickets to get into the festivities They expressed fear tear there willbe will willbe willbe be loud wails when the invited appear here and learn that they have to buy tickets to get in and in-and and the tickets are all gone |