Evening star., 1928-12-16
DAWES AND WILBUR
TO ADDRESS PARLEY.
Jewish Welfare Board Con-
vention Will UnveiI Memorial
Tablets This Afternoon.

\ Vice President Dawes and Secretary
of the Navy Wilbur will address the
Jewish Welfare Board today at the
Sewish Community Center, Sixteenth
aad @, streets.
Geveral hundred delegates, repre-
sentatives of centers and Y. M. H. AS
and kindred organizations, will attend
the conclave, called to discuss problems
in connection with the center move
ment and the care of service men and
disabled veterans of the Jewish faith.
The Jewish Welfare Board, organized
in 1917, worked in coordination with
the Red Cross, Y. NJ. c. A. and other
relief agencies in caring for service men
both here and abroad.
Since the war the Welfare Board has
helped thousands of disabled veterans
to obtain compensation from the Gov
ernment. In the last two years it has
aided the Government to settle more
than 1000 Russian claims, involving
nearly $5,000000.
Aided Center Here.
In addition, the Welfare Board has
taken the leadership in the Jewish Gen.
ter movement and it was largely
through its encouragement and finan-
cial assistance that Washington Jews
erected the S500,000 Jewish Center on
Sixteenth street several years ago.
A number of delegates registered last
night and an informal reception was
held for them at the Center. Others
will register this morning before 10
o'clock, when the first session starts.
Official welcome will be extended by
Harry King. first president of the local
chapter. The business of the conven-
ton will then get under way with an
address by Judge Irving Lehman. pres
ident of the Jewish Welfare Board. The
rest of the morning session will be
devoted to reports by DR.. Cyrus Adler,
chairman of the Army and Navy COM
mittee of the board, Harry Glucksman,
executive director; Benjamin j. Gut
tenweiser. treasurer, and Leon j. Ober-
mayer. chairman of the constitution
committee.
After the luncheon the business ses-
sion will be opened with an address by
Secretary of the Navy Wilbur. who will
speak on the work of the Welfare
Board among the service men. Follow
ing the Secretary's address, reports will
be read by the heads of the several
Y. M. H. A. Federations.
Felix Fuld will report on the growth
of the Y. M. H. A. work in New Jer-
sey; Bernard B. Given and M. Maldwin
Fertig, on the New York Federations;
Jacob L. Wiseman on New England,
Samuel Druck on Pennsylvania, and
Henry Weinberg on the Middle Atlantic
States Federation, embracing the Dis
trict, Maryland and Virginia.
will UnveiI Memorial
Following the reports tablets will be
unveiled in the Center lobby. DR.. Cy-
rus E. Adler, president of the Jewish
Theological Seminary, will offlciate at
the exercises with Rabbi Louis j.
Schwefel performing the religious cere-
mony. The business session win then
be resumed and reports heard from
the heads of the committees on Gre
dentials nominations and resolutions.
The convention will close with BAN
quet, scheduled to start at $50 p. m.
Maurice D. Rosenberg, chairman of cfle
local committee which arranged for the
convention, will act as POSTMASTER. A
concert by the United States Marine
Band will precede the speeches. Others
besides Vice President Dawes who will
speak are Louis Marshall, Judge Irving
Lehman, Morris CafritZ, DR.. Abram
Simon and Mrs Alexander Wolf.
Although the convention proper
closes tonight, many delegates will re-
main over until tomorrow for the con-
ference of the National Association of
Directors of Jewish Centers. Maurice
Bisgyer, director of the Washington
Center. is secretary of the association.