The Washington times., 1930-04-07
MRS. SABIN TO
ADDRESS
GROUP
Head of Prohibition Re-
form Will Preside at
Meeting Here

Mrs. Charles H. Sabin, who
is the driving force Of the
Women's Organization for Pro-
hibition Reform, will come from
New York to address the mass
meeting which the Washington
group is to hold Wednesday
evening at 8:15 o'clock in the
ballroom of the willard. This,
with meetings in many other
cities, is preliminary to the ma.
tional convention of the organi-
zation in Cleveland, Ohio, April
% and "a, at which a construc-
tive program for modification
will be drawn up.
Permanent Organization
The Washington branch of
this national organization has
now been permanently organ
lied, with Miss Bell Gurnee as
chairman and Representative
Mary T. Norton as vice chair.
man. It's other officers to date
are Mrs. William B. Mason,
secretary, and Mrs. John F.
Dryden, treasurer. More than
1000 members are already en-.
rolled in the local group and
the national membership of the
Women's Organization for Ma
tional Prohibition Reform has
passed the $4,000 mark.
Representative Norton will
preside at the meeting on
Wednesday and the speakers,
besides Mrs. Sabin, will be
Senator Millard F. Tydings,
leader of the wet bloc in the
Senate, and former Senator
James w. Wadsworth, jr.
Interested
Women who have been active
ly interested in the Washington
organization since its beginning
a few months ago are Mrs.
James F. Curtis, Mrs. James
Carroll Frazer, Mrs. Victor
CuShman. Mrs. Frederick H.
Brooke and her daughter, Mrs,
Charles Parker Stone, who has
been recruiting a group from
among her young friends to
help with the campaign. In
formal meetings have been held
from time to time through the
winter, but this is the first
public demonstration Of the
local organization.
Mrs. Sabin, daughter of the
late Paul Morton, has been
active in politics for a long
time. She was a Republican
national committeewoman for
New York but resigned her
post as a protest against the
Republican stand on prohibition
determining to do her bit to
bring about modification.
Home Again
Miss Helen Robinson. daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore
Douglas Robinson. has returned
to Washington after a trip to
to Europe. where she spent
several months.
The Duchess de Richelieu has
returned to her home in New
York from a visit to her mother,
Mrs. Frederick M. Wise, in West
Virginia.
Mr.. and Mrs. John r. H.
Cecil are at the Chatham, New
York, from Biltmore, N. c.
At Hot Springs
Senator and Mrs. Hiram
Bingham and their family, &C.
companied by Miss Bessie
Hoover, are at the Homestead.
Hot Springs, Va, from Wash.
ington.
Miss Margaret Randolph has
gone from Washington to Bal.
timore to be the guest of Miss
Mary Boone.
Princess Margaret Boncom.
pagni has returned from a visit
to Hopedale, Mass, and will be
at the Hotel Ambassador, New
York, for a few days before re
turning to Washington.
Sailing Wednesday
Leonardo Vitetti, first secre
tary of the Italian embassy, is
at the Ritz-Carlton, New York
from Washington. He will sail
Wednesday on the Roma.
Mrs. Viola Root Cameron
genealogist, of New York, is al
the Hotel Mayflower during the
congress of the Daughters OF
the American Revolution.
Mrs. Cameron recently opened
a branch office in the hotel.
Paul ClGudel Leaving
To Attend Premiere