Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-08
MRS. \. v. WILEY
IS COUNCIL HEAD
Washingtonian Is Honored by
Elevation by National
Woman'S Party.

Mrs. Harvey w. Wiley of Washington
Council of the National Woman's Party
for the 1930-31 biennial period at the
closing business session of the national
convention of the organization yester-
day afternoon at the Dodge Hotel. The
presidency of the party remains in the
hands of Mrs. o. H. p. Belmont of New
York and Washington.
Miss Gail Iaughlin of Maine, Mrs
Florence Bayard Hilles of Delaware and
Miss Anita Politzer of South Carolina,
were elected vice chairmen of the Coun-
Gil; Miss Marguerite Smith of MaSsa-
chusettS was named secretary and Miss
Emma Void of Oregon, treasurer.
Miss Alma Lutz of Massachusetts, was
elected to membership on the council.
No other changes we're made in the
roster, % old members being reelected
They are Misses Edith Ainge, New
York; Laura Berrien, Georgia; Marion
May, New York Elsie Hill, Connecticut;
Doris Stevens, Washington and Me-
braska; Mabel Vernon, Delaware: Mar
garet Whittemore, Michigan; Maude
Younger, California; and Mrs. Anne
Archbold of this city, Mrs Florence
Brewer Boeckel of this city, Mrs. John
Winters Brannan, New York; Mrs.
Elizabeth w. Dixon, Maryland; Mrs.
Bertha w. Fowler, Colorado: Mrs. Edith
Houghton Hooker, Maryland; Mrs. IneZ
Haynes Irwin, New York; Mrs. Eliza
beth Kent, California Mrs. Ruth VAN
deer Lift, New York; Mrs. Dora G.
Ogle, Maryland; Mrs. Stephen Pell,
New York; Mrs. Elizabeth S. Rogers,
New York; Mrs. James Norman Smith,
New York; Mrs. Richard Wainwright of
this city and Mrs. Valentine Winters,
Ohio.
Will Visit President.
Mrs. William Kent of California. Miss
Gail Laughlin of Maine and Miss Emma
Void of Oregon were named to head
the delegation of 100 women who will
call upon President Hoover tomorrow
at noon to ask that he appoint pleni-
potentiafies favorable to an equality
of nationality" ruling for the First Con-
ference on the Codihcation of Interna-
tional Law to be held next March at
The Hague.
The high light of the closing hours of
the biennial's routine program was the
report of Miss Stevens, chairman OF
the committee on international action.
Miss Stevens presented the plea for an
agreement among nations that there be
no distinction based on sex in their
law or practice relating to nationality.
Mrs. Wiley formally accepted the
Craftsmanship of the national council
at the international dinner at the Will
lard Hotel last night.
Ambassador Is Speaker.
Mrs. Irwin presided over the dinner.
She presented Signor Orestes FeFrara.
Cuban Ambassador, as the principal
speaker, who she said, had done much
Others who spoke at the dinner in
cluded Mrs. Jane Norman Smith OF
New York City, retiring chairman OF
the National Council; Mrs. Olive Stott
Gabriel of New York, president OF the
National Association of Women Law
yers; DR.. James Brown Scott, secretary
of the Carnegie Endowment for Inter
national Peace, and president OF the
Institute of international Law; Miss
Stevens, chairman of the Inter-Amer-
lean Commission of Women and OF the
committee on international action OF
the National woman's Party; Miss Fan
-Bunand- Sevastos of Paris, Drew
Pearson, journalist: Mrs. Bertha Moller
of Chicago, an officer of the Illinois
branch of the National Woman's Party;
Miss Gail Laughlin of Portland, Me-,
vice chairman of the council, and Sem
ator Arthur Capper Of Kansas.
This afternoon at o'clock members
of the party will hold ceremony in
the Crypt of the Capitol honoring Mrs. !
Emmeline Pankhurst, leader of English /,
militant suffragists, to which they have
invited members of the diplomatic |
corps. members Of Congress and repre- !
sentative of every club and organiza- |
ton IN the city.