Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-04
RED CROSS OPENS
MEET TOMORROW
Hoover Will Extend Welcome
to 1900 Delegates at
Convention.

More than ZOO delegates represent
Ing chapters Of the American Red Cross
will assemble in the council chamber
of the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States tomorrow morning to hear
President Hoover extend his official well
come to the annual convention.
Preliminary to opening of the con-
vention Mt about 10 o'clock, the United
States Navy Band will give a half hour
concert. President Hoover will speak
Immediately after Chairman John Bar
ton Payne calls the meeting to order
and Mgr. E. L. Buckley of st. Matthews
Church delivers the invocation. The
Presidents remarks will be broadcast
over the National and Columbia Broad
casting Systems.
The theme If this years meeting will
be sounded by Vice Chairman James
l.. Fieser, in charge of domestic opera
lions, who will speak on the part the
Red Cross plays in the home. Ad-
dresses will follow by Col. Earnest P.
Bicknell, vice chairman, in charge of
insular and foreign operations, and
James K. McClintock, vice chairman, in
charge of finance.
Hear Junior Spokesman.
The delegates will hear for the first
time q spokesman of the Junior Red
Cross at the convention opening. She
is Constance Payne, 16, of Terre Haute,
Ind. whose address concludes the
mornings program. Miss Payne was
tional essay contest, conducted by all
chapters. She will read her winning
essay. At the conventinn, the Junior
Red Cross will be represented by 225
delegates.
The only night session during the
four days convention, will be held to-
morrow at 8 o'clock with q half hour
Of music by the Navy Band Orchestra.
Chairman John Barton Payne, who Is
both the directing head of the Ameri-
can Red Cross and the chairman of
the League of Red Cross Societies, and
DR.. Rene Sand, technical counsellor of
the League of Red Cross Societies, with
headquarters in Paris, will speak.
Some needs of the home will be dis
cussed at the general session converting
ut $3.50 Tuesday morning. Speakers
will be DIR. Thomas w. Costing, SUI
perintendent of schools of Akron, Ohio:
Prof. C. E. A. winslow, director of the
School of Hygiene of Yale University,
and DR.. Ellen Potter, director Of the
division of institutes and agencies of
the New Jersey State Department of
Welfare.
The convention dinner will be at
the Mayfiower. Hotel at o'clock Tues
day evening, with Dean Charles E.
jackson Of Grand Rapids, Mich, as
presiding officer. On the program are
Rev. John G. Palmer of the Washing
ton Heights Presbyterian Church,
Douglas Griesemer, director of public
information and roll call Of the Red
Cross; w. M. Brunson OF Elba, Ala;
Miss Nan Dorsey, superintendent Of
the Red Cross Students Home, Lon
don, and DR.. Thomas Z. Green, direc-
tor Of the Red Cross speaking service.
An outstanding event will be
launched Wednesday at the Mayfiower
Hotel at 12:45 O'Clock, which will be
broadcast. Julius Klein, Assistant Sec
Rotary Of Commerce, will speak on The
Red Cross and Industry" Senator
Arthur Capper Of Kansas has taken
the topic, The Red Cross and the
Farm" Karl. 8ickel. president Of the
United Press Association. will discuss
1.-THE Newspaper As Connecting Link
Between the Red Cross ana the
Home" Augustus K. Oliver OF Pitts
burgh will preside.
Inc final pienary session Will be held
ut the Chamber of Commerce on
Thursday morning.
Red Cross services are to be taken
up in various round table conferences
tomorrow, Tuesday and Thursday aft
ernoons. At these meetings and Red
Cross stan officers and directors and
the directors and delegates viii con-
slider common problems. Except for the
meetings of the volunteer service work.
ers, which are held in the new World
War Memorial Building Of the District
chapter, these round tables will be held
In the Chamber Of Commerce Building.
To- Junior Red Cross will be repre-
Se..seu AT the convention by delegates
chiefly from the ranks of the high
school membership. The junior dele
gates will attend the opening and final
sessions of the convention In a body;
and a series of conferences has been ar
ranged particularly for their benefit. at
which they will discuss their problems.
The juniors will summarize the results
of their conferences in resolutions,
which will be presented to the entire
delegate body ut the final plenary ses-
sion. They will elect officers Tuesday
morning. and hear Secretary of Labor
Wilbur that afternoon.
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