Parade Commotion

In 1932 the city's traffic commissioner Bevery Ober did what he should never had done in Baltimore - he announced a change. He said that the start of the Annual Thanksgiving Day parade would be moved back from 2:30 to 11:30 - citing the congestion when at 2:30 the traffic from the City-Poly game was causing wild traffic jams his staff could not handle. But Baltimoreans were furious at the change and police commissioner Beverly Ober was close to being the only Police Commissioner ever to start a riot.