Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-29
CATHOLIC WOMEN'S
COUNCIL CONVENES
100 of 400 Expected Dele
gates in City Saturday Night.
High Mass Planned.

More than 100 of 400 expected dele
gates had registered last night for the
five-day annual convention of the Ma
tional Council of Catholic Women,
which will open today. Commissioner
Proctor L. Dougherty will deliver the
address of welcome at public recep-
ton to the delegates and visitors to-
night. at 8 o'clock at the Mayf1ower
Hotel where the sessions will be held.
Delegates registered up to last night
represented 20 States. BY tonight 1t is
expected that at least 80 States will be
represented. as we'll as several foreign
countries. Registrations are being made
at the headquarters of the council, 1912
Massachusetts, avenue.
Last night visiting members of the
council were guests at an Illustrated
lecture on Washington by Charles w,
Eliot, I'd, city planner of the National
Capital Park and Planning Commission.
High Mass Planned.
Todays program will open with pom
tifical high mass at the National
Shrine of the immaculate Conception,
Catholic University, at II am. Right
Rev. Joseph Schrembs, Bishop of
Cleveland, will act as celebrant. The
sermon will be preached by Right Rev
Christopher E. Byrne, Bishop of CAL
weston, Tex, whose opposition to the
international bathing beauty review re-
Gently held in that city created wide
comment. His theme will be Christ
and Society,"
Following the mass Bishops Schrembs
and Byrne and members of the national
executive board of the council will be
luncheon guests of Mrs. w. E. Mont
Eomery, 1743 Rhode Island avenue.
Officers of the council and delegates
to the convention will be escorted to
Arlington National Cemetery this after
noon where they will place wreath on
the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at
2p.m.
ception and tea to officers and dele
gates at the National Catholic School
of Social Service. Mrs. George White
cotton will be chairman of the commit
tee of hosteSseS.
Miss Mary G. Hawks, president of
the National Council of Catholic
Women, will preside at the public re-
ception to delegates and visitors, which
will officially open the convention at 8
o'clock tonight in the Mayflower Hotel.
The opening prayer will be delivered by
Bishop Schrembs. Following the ad-
dress of welcome by Commissioner
Dougherty. greetings from Washington
women will be voiced by Mrs w. e.
Montgomery. The response will be
made by Mrs. George F. Satory, third
vice president.
The address at tonights reception
will be delivered by Commissioner
Thomas F. Woodlock of the Interstate
Commerce Commission, whose subject
will be The Visible Church"
Nuns to Be Honored.
Tomorrow morning, following mass at
8 o'clock in st. Matthews Church. a
l. h. loil H.
to nuns of the battlefield. The COM
mittee in charge is headed by Miss
Mary G. Hawks, president of the Ma
tional Council of Catholic Women, and
will include Mrs Thomas P. Koran,
member of the board of the council,
Mrs. Mary Silk, president of the ladies'
auxiliary, Ancient Order of Hibernians,
and Mrs. Ellen Ryan Jolly.
The opening business session Will be
held at $50 am. tomorrow, with Miss
Hawks presiding. Committees will be
appointed and reports will be submit
ted by Mrs. George v. Mcintyre, Secre-
tary, and Mrs. Agnes M. Bacon, treas
urer. The session will close with the
annual address of the president. An
afternoon session will be held at 2 pm.
Among the delegates to the conven-
ton is Mrs. Anna Lee Eason of Okla
hon1a City. who recently received one
of the highest papal decorations that
can be conferred on a woman. She
holds the rank of Dame of the Holy
Sepulchre, first class, which entities
her to wear a large woollen mantle
with a red cross on the left breast and
special insignia of cross and crown.
She was honored by Pope Plus in
recognition of her assistance in char
liable and educational work in the
diocese of Oklahoma City. She will
represent the recently organized Coun-
Gil of Catholic Women of her home
city, of which she is treasurer.