Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-20
WOMEN TO DEMAND
NAVY BILL PASSAGE
Patriotic Conference on Ma
tionaI Defense viii Open
Meeting January 20.

Prompt passage of the cruiser bill,
now pending before the Senate, viii be
urged at the fourth annual Womans
Patriotic Conference on National De-
tense, which meets in Memorial Con-
tinental Hall January 90, 80 and 81.
The delegates also are expected to adopt
vigorous measures to oppose pacifstic
propaganda directed at wonlen'S societies.
Mrs. Boyce Ficklen, chairman of the
conference, has announced that the 500
delegates, representing 80 national or
CARNATIONS, will visit their Representa-
tiveS in Congress to urge passage OF the
cruiser bill, if that measure Is not dis
posed of by the Senate prior to the
conference.
Congress Told of Stand.
The organizations in the conference
have notified Congress of their stand
favoring the cruiser bill, through reso-
lutions adopted in their national meet
ings, Mrs. Ficklen said.
Mrs. Alfred j. BroSseau, president
general of the Daughters of the Aneri-
can Revolution, vice chairman of the
conference and chairman of the program
committee, has announced that the con-
ference will open with mass meeting,
open to the public, on the night of
January 20. Sessions will follow We'd
neSday morning and afternoon and
Thursday morning. On Thursday after
to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
at Arlington.
Speakers will include several members
of the Senate and House, representatives
of the Army and Navy Departments.
The keynote address will be given by
Mrs. Ficklen, as chairman, and by
Comdr. Paul v. McNutt, national COM
mander of the American Legion.
The conference is held coincident
with the national board meeting of the
Daughters of the American Revolution
and the American Legion Auxiliary, so
that women from every State will be
present. Every organization has stated
that 1t will be represented by from 10
to 200 delegates
Several entertainments have been
arranged for the 80 national presidents
OF the organizations in the conference,
including a dinner by the Eight ad
Forty Society of the American Legion
Auxiliary at the Washington Hotel,
January 30, and a luncheon by Mrs,
FlcElen at the Washington Hotel, Janu-
airy 81. These women also will be spe-
clal guests of the Legion at its annual
ball at the Willard Hotel the night of
January 80.
80 Organizations Represented.
The organizations which compose the
conference are: American Legion Auxil-
1ary, American War Mothers, American
Women's Legion, Auxiliary, Sons of the
Union Veterans of the Civil War; Aux
niary, Disabled American Veterans of
the World War; Colonial Daughters of
the Seventeenth Century, Daughters of
the American Colonists, Daughters of
the American Revolution, Daughters of
the Union Veterans of the Civil War.
Daughters of the Colonial Wars, Daugh-
ters of the Revolution, Government
Club OF New York, Government Club of
Chicago, Ladies of the Grand Army of
the Republic, Ladies of the Union Vet
Grams Legion Ladies' Auxiliary. Vet
Grams Of Foreign Wars of United States:
National Society of Colonial Daughters
OF America, National Society, Daughters
OF Founders and Patriots; National So
ciety, United Daughters of 1912: Ma
tional Auxiliary, United Spanish war
Veterans; National Society, Danes of
the Loyal Legion: National Society of
New England Women, National Allied
Veteran and Patriotic Organizations,
National Society Patriotic Builders of
America, Inc; National Patriotic Coun-
Gil, New York Colony of New England
Women, Order of the First Families of
Virginia, Society of Sponsors of United
States Navy, Women's Relief Corps
Women OF the Army and Navy Legion
OF Valor, Women's Overseas Service
League, Women's Naval Service, Wom-
ems Constitutional League of Virginia.