Evening star., 1924-04-18

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little doubt in the minds of the spec
tators how the majority of the dele
gates feel toward the question.
1t was a small and tired audience
that Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook. the
president general, called to order this
morning. For two nights running
the delegates had sat until past mid
night-W night to nominate
their vice president general and other
officers and last night to hear the re-
suits of the elections. The result
brought few. if any, surprises.
Mrs. Rhett Goode of Alabama was
elected chaplain general by acclama-
ton, succeeding Mrs. Thomas A. Edi-
son, who resigned. None of the three
candidates for the lone office of hon
orary vice president general succeeded
in getting the necessary two thirds
majority vote and the delegates were
busy today balloting on the selection
of some one TO fill that chair.
Vice Presidents Elected.
The vice presidents general elected,
in order OF the votes they received,
were: Mrs. Anne W. Lang of Oregon,
Mrs. Paul D. Kilt OF Missouri, Mrs.
Logan S. Gillintine of Tennessee, Miss
Amy Gilbert of Iowa, Mrs. Noval
Smith of Arizona, Mrs. r. w. Spence
of wisconsin and Mrs. Frank Cain of
South Carolina. All but Mrs. Cain
were elected for three years. She got
the short term of two years.
This morning was devoted to a me-
mortal service Immediately after Mr..
Johnson had concluded his address.
1t opened with the singing of De
Koven's "Recessional." by Mrs. Flor
ence Sindell, Mrs. Maurice Beckham,
Floyd Williams and H. Alvin, Lake,
accompanied by Miss Mabel c. Linton.
All of the national officers and most
of the state regents were dressed in
black.
Tributes Are Paid.
Tributes were paid to the following:
Mrs. Matthew T. Scott, honorary
president general; Mrs. Erastus Gay
lord Putnam, honorary vice president
general; Mrs. John Francis Yawger.
former recording secretary general;
Mrs. Esther B. F.. Noble, former chap
lain general; Mrs. J. Eakin Gadsby,
former historian general; Mrs. George
M. Baker, state regent; Miss Lucretia
H: Clay. former vice president gen.
eral; Mrs. John c. Hazen, former vice
president general: Mrs. James +.
Maupin. former vice president gem
eral; Mrs. Henry McCleary, former
vice president general, and Miss
Tomorrow the thirty-third CONT.
mental congress will pass into his
tory, the session in the morning fol-
lowing the usual business will con-
sist of the final report of the reso
luton committee, unfinished business
and new business. In the afternoon
the newly elected officers will be in
Quoted into Office and in the evening
the annual banquet will complete
the congress.
Some Of our best people" and sew
erai prominent members of the. mo-
tion picture colony at Hollywood
were subjected to the verbal lash of
speakers who addressed last nights
session.
The speakers were Secretary of La
Columbus, Ohio. While the former
made no effort to spare rich men and
women who use their influence to
hout prohibition laws, the latter cleo
trff1ed his audience when he named
three prominent moving picture stars
as having been implicated in soviet
propaganda movements here.
Appealing to the delegates and
their guests for a pure American
ism. Maj. Mumm told of having posi-
leges hundreds of young men SOL
emnly signed a pledge never to raise
their hand in defense of the United
states, mo matter what might hap.
pen he said hundreds of high
school girls had sworn never to give
their children to the Army or Navy
of the country.
Refers to Pamphlet.
Then, referring to a pamphlet en-
titled 'The Reds in America" published
by the American Defense Society, he
charged that Charlie Chaplin, Norma
Talmadge and her husband, Joseph
Schenck, prominent motion picture pro-
ducer, have been in communication
with ENJOYS from Moscow regarding
the production of bolshevik propaganda
in the United States That part of the
pamphlet to which he referred and
quoted from, reads as follows:
Last August, Charles Recht, the New
York lawyer, who was on the staff Of
Ludwig c. A. X. Martens, the bolshe-
vik ambassador, who was ordered de-
parted after an investigation by Con-
gress. probably the highest ranking
soviet official in the United States con-
suited with Will Hays, then lately made
head of the moving picture industry in
this country, regarding the production
in America of propaganda films calling
for an expenditure of $4,000, 900, an or
der for which Recht said he had then
recently received from Moscow.
Bias In Films Charged. 49,
These pictures were to be cleverly
constructed, anti-religious, anti-capitaI-