Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-12
TALKS SCHEDULED
E. ON CONSTITUTION
Address by Marvel Tonight
! viii Inaugurate Program
Sponsored by Bar.

A Constitution week program, spon-
sored by the American Bar Association,
will be inaugurated tonight at O'Clock
with a radio address by the newly
elected bar president, Josiah Marvel OF
Wilmington. Del, whose message on
"The Spirit Of the Constitution" Will
be broadcast from station WEAF. New
york. over the network Of the Ma
tional BroadcaSting Co.
Mr.. Marvel will Introduce his address
by reading a letter from President
Hoover indorsing the program OF the
har association Next wednesday eve
ming, which is the anniversary OF the
adontion of the Constitution, Repre-
sentative James M Beck of Pennsylva-
MIA. former solicitor general of the
United States and one of the outstand-
ing authorities on the Constitution, VIII
broadcast a speech over the network
of the Columbia system. Col. Thad
Brown. general counsel of the Federal
Radio Commission, will address the
Ffdac delegates in New York on the
following evening, under the auspices
of the bar committee. The address VIII
be delivered at the Wardr'"r Park
Hotel at a dinner at which N. Per-
shing will preside, The otner speaker
will be Col. Bodenhamer, national COM
niander of the American Legion.
TiIson Will Speak.
Next Friday evening Representative
John @. Tilson, majority leader OF the
House. will speak on the Constitution
over a national network from New York
CITY. Other speakers expected to be
on the program are Solicitor General
Thomas D. Thatcher, Charles Warren
and Frank j. Hogan of this city.
Local committees of the District Bar
Association are distributing thousands
of copies of the Constitution and OBJ
serystions made on it by American
leaders. including President Hoover and
former President Coolidge.
Clergymen have been asked to make
gpecial mention Of the Constitution IN
their sermons Sunday, and hand books
furnishing information and commen-
taries will be furnished them upon re-
quest.
The District of Columbia Bar Asso-
citation, of which j. Miller Kenyon is
president, and the Federal Bar Asso-
citation. of which william r. Valance,
assistant solicitor of the State Depart
ment, is president, are actively engaged
in preparations for Constitution week
Local Sponsors Of Program.
The local sponsors of the program
are the following:
Chief Justice Alfred A. Wheat, JUS
tice Wendall P. Stafford, Justice Fred
erick L. Siddons, Justice William Hitz,
Justice Jennings Bailey, Justice Jesse
c. Adkins, Justice Oscar r. Luhrlng,
Justice Joseph w. Cox, T. Scott Ohutt,
Leo Rover. Col. ]. Miller Kenyon, VIII
liam w. Bride, j. Harry Covington, DR..
David Jayne Hill, John Joy Edison,
Julius L Peyser, Wade H. Ellis, Thomas
p. Littlepage, Charles Warren. George
John Spaulding F1annery, DR.. Herbert
L. Wright, Col. u. S. Grant, Sd, William
j. Hughes, John Z. LaSkey, John Lewis
Smith, Joseph A. Burkart, William G.
Sullivan. william E. Leahy, Edward E.
Gam, Maurice D. Rosenberg, Elisha
Manson, G.. Thomas Dunlop, Roger ].
E. A. Hartman, George G.
Ehinn, Sidney F. Taliaferro, Alvin L.
Newmyer, Edward Clifford. Harlan
Wood, DR.. Hugh j. Fegan, William P.
MacCracken, jr.; William r. Valance
and Col Walter c. Clephane.
The District Of Columbia committee,
of which F. Regis Noel is chairman,
consists of the following: william c.
Ashford, Charles s. Baker, jerome F.
Barnard, Alexander H. Bell, jr.; John
Fl. Burnett, G. Rowland Chase, Lowry
N. Coe. Robert F. Cogswell, Theodore
Cogswell, Paul B. Cromelin, F. Joseph
OOnOnoe, arthur +. OIuIyt NOIHldn p.
Frost, Clifford p. Grant, Harry A.
Grant, George z. Hamilton, jr.; Francis
w. Hill, jr.; George d. Horning, jr.;
Woodson p. Houghton, William j.
Hughes. jr.; Richmond Keech, E. Rus
sell Kelly, Edmund L. Jones, John E.
Larson, Bolitha j. Laws, George z. Nc
Neill, Frank p. Neshit, David A. Pine,
Joseph A. Rafferty,. Henry Ravenel,
Frank S. Smith, Frederick Stohlman,
Lucian II. Vandoren, Richard H. Will
mer, T. Gillespie Walsh, Joseph G. Nc
Garraghy Victor S. Mersch and Ken
meth N. Parkinson.