WILLKIE WILL GIVE SHORT SPEECH AT COMMON HERE FRIDAY AFTERNOON

With a retinue of police cars, local officials, and party workers, Republican Presidential candidate Wendell L. Willkie will hit town Friday afternoon for a ten minute rally near the Square.

The Willkie procession will stop here at 2:30 o'clock Friday afternoon, just long enough in its tour through the environs of Boston for the Republican nominee to give a short talk at the west side of the Common. A special ramp for Willkie's car will be constructed next to the subway wall, from which he will speak over a public address system.

Coming direct from New Bedford, where Governor Leverett Saltonstall will join him, Willkie will eat lunch Friday at the Somerset Hotel. Then he will wind his way up Memorial Drive, turning by the Lars Anderson Bridge up Boylston Street to the Common. After his speech, his procession will go clock-wise around the Common to Kirkland Street, turning at Washington Street, and then to Union Square in Somerville.

A limited number of free tickets for general admission to the Bees Field, where Willkie will give a prepared speech at 8 o'clock Friday evening, are now being distributed by the Harvard Willkie Club.