Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-20

in Washington in the near future, was
an interested listener at the luncheon.
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MRS. FRANK B. FREYER, wife of
Az Capt Freyer, u. S. NJ, gave an
Illustrated lecture on Peru following the
Thursday evening open house dinner at
the Woman's National Democratic Club
last week. Mrs. Freyer, who spent sew
eral years in Peru while her husband
was stationed at Lima as head of the
first naval mission from this country
to the Latina American republic, includ-
ed in her lecture an interesting account
OF the life and habits of the Inca In
dams, who were the ancient rulers of
the land before the invasion of the
Spaniards. She told also of the ad-
vanceS made in women's status in
recent years, and described the quaint
ness Of Cusco, the Indian capital.
Mrs. George M. Eckels, chairman of
the program committee, presented Mrs.
Freyer to the gathering.
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A MEETING of the executive COM
mittee of the National League of
Women Voters will be held in Washing
ton THIS week. opening tomorrow morn
~AA6 cNAAA NO14e1iuAl5 IOI Three Gays.
Miss Belle Sherwin, president of the
organization, will preside over the ses-
Sions. Others who will attend include
Miss Katharine Ludington, first vice
president and chairman of the finance
committee; Mrs. Roscoe Anderson, Sec
ond vice president; Miss Ruth Morgan,
third vice president and a member of
the department of international COOP
Grafton to prevent war; Miss Elizabeth
| j. HauSer, fourth vice president and
a member Of the department of eff
hclency in government; Mrs. w. W.
Ramsey, fifth vice president, a men,
Der OF the department of public well
fare In government, and Mrs. Henry
Steffens, jr., secretary.
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T United STATES SENATOR WAL
- TER EDGE, Republican, of New
Jersey, and chairman of the Senate
committee on interoceanic canals, will
be the guest speaker in the Voters
Service" half-hour program broadcast
Tuesday. January %. from station
| WRC, Washington, under the Joint
sponsorship of the National Broadcast
ing Co. and the National League OF
Women Voters. The program will be
heard at pm, Eastern standard time
Senator Edge will discuss a resolu-
ton of which he is author, and which
is pending in the Senate, to provide
for completed survey of the inter-
oceanic canal route through Nicaragua
| The United States has purchased the
canal rights of the Nicaraguan water
route, and Senator Edge will point Out
the reason for seeking early authori-
zation OF the survey. Special interes
is being shown in the canal route al
the present time because of President.
elect Hoover'S trip to that country anC
his discussions with the Nicaraguar
leaders in regard to the utilization O,
our canal rights.
Senator Edge has had wide expert
ence in public affairs. For the last
10 years he has been in the United
States Senate. He began his punli(
service as a journal clerk in the New
ing Governor of New Jersey in 1916, hi
had served as a majority leade: if
both branches of the New jersey
Legislature.
The second speaker in Ale program
will be Charles G. Ross, Washington
correspondent of the st. Louis Post.
Dispatch. He will present his regular
fortnightly review of What Congress
Is Doing"
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CREATION of the Inter- American
Commission of Women and the
recognition of equal rights as a nationa
political issue were cited as the out.
standing advances in the feminist
movement during the past year, by Mis-.
Mabel Vernon, executive secretary o.
the National Wonlan's Party, in hel
annual report read before the nationa
council at its monthly session held or
Capitol Hill last Tuesday.
Outlining plans for the 1929 legis.
lative program of the Womans Party
following the reading of Miss Vernon's
report the women of the council de.
cided that their immediate field of &C.
ton would be in the Hobbies of thu
halls of Congress, urging the passage
of the Porto Rican suffrage bill in thu
short session. The bill already ha.
, passed the House and was reported
favorably to the Senate last week from
/ the committee on insular affairs, headed
: by Senator Hiram Bingham.