Evening Star Newspaper, April 13, 1930, Page 4

‘0. A.R. DELEGATES - SIWARNY INEO CITY 39th, Continental:' Congress , Convenes: Tomorraw, Con- ™ tinuing' Through: Week. (Contfnued From First Page.) originally to: address the D: A. R. Pri- day evening, but requested a change in the program: at the last moment. Qn the program with the President at thia meeting will to Right Rev. James B. Freeman, Bishop of Washington; who will deltver the- invocation; Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley, who will extend! greetings to the Dauglitern; Acting Sec~ retary-of the Navy Ernest' Lee Jahncke and Senator: Simeon D. Fess of Ohio. Acting; Secretary” Jalinoke- will speak omr “The Traditions of Our Country” and Senator: Pess will talk on *“The Consti- tution of the- United: States.” Music will be- furnished: by. the: United States: Marine-Band. Dr. Reichelderfer to Speak. ‘The- high' spots of the opening ses- sion in the' morning will' be the ad~ dress of tlhe president general, the presentation of the cefling flag for Con~ stitution Hall \by Mrs. J. Charles Linthi- cum of ‘Maryland and’ greetings from the new presiclent of the board of Dis- trict Commissioners, Dr. Luther H. Reichelderfer, snd: from the heads of varfous patriotic organizations; These include Mrs. Percy Edwards Quin of the National Society, Children of the American Revolution; Mrs. Henry T. Kent of the National Society, Daugh- ters of the Revolution; Mrs. Donald Macrae of ‘the National Soeiety, Ameri- can Legion' Auxiliary; Howard C. Row- ley, National Saciety, Sons: of the American Revolution, and Brig. Gen. George Richwards, U. S. M. C., General Society, Sons! of the Revolution. At the afternoon.session the congress will get down o business. The session. will be devotet to the reading of re- ports of the officers and committee: chairmen. Of owutstanding interest is. the report whith Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3rd, will 10ake as associate di centennial Commissyon. Tuesday morning Wwill be taken u with the first, report of -the resolutions’ committee by Mrs. 1imma L. Crowell, rector of the Geoyse Washington E:J chairman, outlining the 1930 policles of’ the D. A. R.: the report of the Con- stitution Hall building committee, by Mrs. Alfred J. Brosseau, chairman and: honorary president general, and the re- port of the Constitution: Hall' finance committee, by Mrs, Russell William Magna, chairman. Mount Vernon Pilgrimage Tuesday. The annual pilgrimage to Mount Vernon., home and. burial place: of George Washington, will be held dm-g: f the afternoon, the delegatcs leaving hall at 3 o'clock in automobiles. Mxs. Eliza Ferry' Leary is honorary chair- man and Mrs. D. Mauchlin Niven is chairman of the committee that will place wreatns in memory of George and Martha Washi . ‘That eve- ning at 9 o'clock the reception of the president general, vice presidents gen- eral and national officers will pe held, furnishing the principal sociai event of the sessions and followed by a ball in honor of the 200 or more young women pages in the Willard Hotel at 10 oclock. “The President and Mrs. Hoover will entertain for the continemtal congress at the White House Wednesday after- noon at 4 o'clock. Mr. Hoower’s sister- in-law, Mrs. Theodore Jesse Hoover, is one of the candidates for vice president general from California. Scssions of the congress Wednesday morping an afternoon will be devoted to other busi- ness matters, with a further report from the resolutions committee. Among some of the topics that will come the congress in these reports are better films, by Mrs. Mildred Lewis Russel; the D. A. R. loan fund, by Mjss Merjorie Spaulding, and the Ellis Island report, by Mrs. Harvey Tyson White. Miss Linceln to Report. During the afternoon, Miss Natalle Sumner Lincoln, editor of the D. A. R. ‘magazine whieh is enjoying an unusual period of inereased cireulation inside the Tanks of the society, will make her re- port as will Mrs, James F. Donahue, chairman of the Tmagazine committee. One of the most important reports will deal with legislation in the United States Congress of special interest to the CANDIDATES FOR D. A. R. ELECTION mend, Staten Island, and Mrs. Lower, left to right: Mass., Mrs. David D. A. R. Mrs. Fred C. Morgan is chairman of this committee. ‘Wednesday evenlng is to be another business session, with the presentation of State regents' reports. Mrs. William Sherman Walker, chair- man of the national defense activities of the society, will render her report Thursday morning. In view of the London Nawal Conference and the ques- ‘tions of adequate national defense and ‘reduction of armament arising out of it, this question looms large before the »sessions. ‘With the President speaking tomor- row evening, only two other evenings during the conventjon hold special in- terest outside the business affairs of These are Thursday and iday evenings. ‘The speakers Thursday night will be Princess Cantacuzene, Richard Wash- burn Child, former United States Am- baysador to Italy, and Dr. Edmund A. Waish, 8. J,, vice president of George- tawn University and regent of the School of Forelgn Service. This meet- ing will serve as a call to arms for Amexicans eveywhere to be alert against destructive forces seeking to ‘bore from within. Russia to Be Described. “My' Experiences of Bolshevism” will be the subject of Princess Cantacu- (zene, who' will tell of what she heard and saw In her travels in Russia. Mr, Child’s topic is “Umshackled America” and Dr. Walsh, one of the leading au- thorities on the conditions and poli- cles of Russin, will speak on “Soviet Russia and the World.” A reception to the delegates and offi- cers in the Pan-American Building will be given Thursday afterncon at 3:30 o'clock . by Dr. L. S. Rowe, director gen=- eral of the Pan-American Union. The session Friday morning will close in time for a memorial service in Constittition Hall, and immediately aft- er this service Mrs. Hobarrt, accom- panied by the Daughters, will place a wreath upon the D. A. R. memorial At 3:30 o'clock in the afternoon auto- mobiles will convey the officers and delegates to Arlington National Ceme- tm-y, where a wreath will be laced on the Tomb af the Unknown dier with D. A. R. PROGRAM Monday, April 14, 10 AM. Organ recital, 9:30 -Arthus Assembly call—, r S. Whitcomb, Band. Entrance of .the t general, officers, escorted by the pages. until 10 a.m.—Mrs. James Shera. Mont, ontgomery, organist. second leader United States Marine vice presidents general and national Thirty-ninth Continental Congress called to order by the president general, Mrs. Lowell Fletcher Hobart. Scripture and prayer, Mrs. William “The Salute to the Flag,” use of the flag committee. Music, “The Star Spangled Banner, leader. Rack Painter, the chaplain general. Mrs. Charles Brand, national chairman correct » the assemblage; Ruby Smith Stahl, “The American's Creed,” William Tyler Page (author). Music, Presentation—Ceiling flag Maryland. “America,” the assel i for Constitt Ruby Smith Stahl, leader. ution Hall, Mrs. J. Charles Linthicum, Greetings, Commissioner of the District of Columbis. Greetings, the honorary presidents Mrs. George Thatcher Guernsey, QGreetings, National Society, Percy Edwards Quin, national preside Greetings, National Society. Daughters of Kent, president general. Greetings, National Society American Legion Auxiliary, Mrs. Macrae, national president. Greetings, National Society, Sons of Rowley, president general. Greetings, General Soclety, Sons of the Revolution, honorary president. Richards, U. S. M. C., general: Mrs, Willlam Cumming Story, ynard Mrs. George Ms; Minor, Mrs. J. Brosseau. nt. the Revolution, Mrs. Henry T. Donald the American Revolution, Howard C. Brig. Gen. George Address to the congress, the president general. Report of committee on credentials, Roll call, Mrs. Charles Humphrey Report of committee on program, Mrs. mpmuznmm-.umm e Announcements. Recess, Assembly call. Entrance of the pages. Announcement of resolutions committee. Repotts of national officers: The president general, Mrs. Hobart; the chaplain general, Mrs. Mrs. Herbert Backus, chairman. Bissell, recording secretary general. G. Wallace W. Hanger, chairman. L. Crowell, chairman resolutions Monday, 2 PM. ‘William Rock recording secretary general, Mrs. Charles H. Bissell; the corresponding secretary general, general, Mrs. William A. Becker; Miss Margaret B. Barnett; the organizing secretary the registrar general, Mrs. Josiah A. Van Orsdell; the treasurer general, Mrs. Harriet Vaughn Rignon. Report of finance committee, Report of auditing committee, The historian general (in Mrs. Miss Margaret B. Barnett, ohairman. Samuel J. Kramer, chairman. report of committee on historical corporating research), Mrs. Flora Myers Gillentine. The librarian general (incorporat Continental Half Library), Mrs. Mondsy, ting_reports of committee on Memorial Russell Willlam 115 P From 7:45.until 8:15 o'clock, the United States Marine Band Orchestra, Capt. Taylor Branson, leader. Assembly call. Entrance march, . Marine Band Orchestra, “gtars.and Stripes Forever” (Sousa), the United States Entrance of the pages with State flags. Invocation, Right Rev. James E. Musie, Elea Address, “Traditions of Our Coun Jahncke. Music, “Ye That Have Faith” (set member Maryland Wi ashington baritone, accompanied by the United States Marine Presiden States. Freeman, Bishop of Washington. Greetings, Secretary of War Hurley. nor Eaton, soprano; Viola Peters at the piano. try,” Acting Secretary of the Navy to music by Bertha Curtis Johnson, Chapter, D. C.), Herman Fackler, ‘Band Orchestra. t of the United ; Viola col Exit march, “Hall to the Marine Band Peters at' the Bt onator Spirit of Liberty” (Souss), the United States THE SUNDAY ‘STAR, WASHINGTON, Hoover’s Address Before D. A. R. to Be on Wide Hook-up President Hoover's address be- fore the D. A. R. Congress to- morrow evening will be broadcast by the National Broadcasting Co. over a Nation-wide radio hook- up from 9 to 9:30 o'clock. A portion of the opening ses- sion of the congress tomorrow morning will be broadcast over the same system from 10 to o'clock. a) g:oprhu exercises. Mrs. Stephen Abbott is chairman in charge. Friday evening the last public ses- sion will be featured by addresses of ex-Gov. Edwin_ P. Morrow of Ken- tucky on “The Heritage and Its Keep- ing,” and Alfred H. Halg, director of international shipping at the George- town University School of Foreign Service, whose topic is “The American Merchant Marine.” The closing day of the sessions will be devoted to the election of officers, adoption of the report of the resotu- tions committee and the installation of newly elected officers. Following ad- gm;nmmt of the thirty-ninth congress | he afternoon, the annual banquet will be held at 7:30 o'clock in the Wil- lard Hotel. Candidates for Places. In addition to eight vice presidents general and one honorary vice president general, the congress is expected to rat- ity the appointment of Mrs. Lyman B. Stookey of Los Angeles as reporter gen- eral to the Smithsonian Institution. She was appointed by the national board of management to fill the vacancy in the f| 2,000 immigrants, with the e office created by the resignation of Miss Anne Margaret Lang. Candidates for vice president other than Mrs. Caldwell of the of Columbia, Mrs. Hoover of and Mrs. Bristol of . Charles Herbert Carroll of New Hamp- shire, Mrs. Newton D. Chapman of New York, Mrs. James Charles Peabody of Massachusetts, Mrs. Francis W. Wilson of New Mexico, Mrs. Martin L. Sigman of Arkansas, Mrs. Benjamin Leslie Hart of Missouri and Mrs. Grant E. Lilly of Kentucky. TM: -ngmen all are veteran sl:::e regents and campaigners, having been indorsed thelr ve States for national office, and all have been active in the national affairs of the D. A. R. ‘The two candidates for honorary vice president general, from whom one will be elected, are Mrs, Eliza Ferry Leary of Seattle, Wash., and Mrs. Charles B. Bryan of Tennessee. Mrs. Leary has served as vice president general and now is vice chairman of the Mcunt Vernon Ladies’ Association. Her of,.onent, Mrs. Bryan, is one of the leadin,; Daughters of her_State and is the daughter of Capt. Raphael B. Semmes, who com- manded the famous Confederate cruiser Alabama during the Civil War. Last night Memorial Continental Hall WAS CrOw with delegates and friends for the concert given for them by the United States Marine Band and a lec- ture by Neil M. Judd, explorer and dis- coverer of the “Pueblo Bonito,” who told about this prehistoric metropolis of the Southwest. Mr. Judd is American archeology of the National Museum. His lecture, illustrated with colored slides and motion pictures, was given through the courtesy of the N: tional Geographic Soclety. ‘The Pekin-Bukden Railway in China is planning s daily train lceomnofl'::.lnx jon that 300,000 will immigrate ti year. 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TO BE GUESTS Reception Thursday BEveaing to Include Address by William Tyler Page—Other Features. ‘The Missourl Society of will give a reception Thursday eve at 9 o'clock at the Washington the Missouri delegates to ress. Representatives, speaker, and Miss Ida Hoyt Chamber- lain, an author-composer, will be heard ?uh" own compositions. Dancing will ollow. Representative Joe J. Manlove is president of the society, and Mrs. Otis J. Rogers is secretary. Admission to the hall is by card. French Set Clocks Ahead. PARIS, April 12 (P.—Citizens of Prance set their clacks and watches for- ward an hour at 11 o'clock when Summer time went into ————— ‘The air mini of Italy has estab- lished three acl ‘where members of the Avan the Fascist Boy 4 Regularly $650 cheet” Pasci Scout -m"e:::um taught glider fiy- of | ing. Ri 1930—PART: ONE. CATHEDRAL STONE WOMAN'S TRIBUTE | Mrs. Rhett Goode of Mobile to Be Honored by Children 2 5 14 f ; 4 wPgs gi & 1 § °E % 222 278 SER £ |3 D. A. R. 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