Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-19
D. A. R. WILL RENEW
PATRIOTISM FIGHT
5000 Delegates Arriving for.
Convention Which Opens
Tomorrow.
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dress and Mrs. Joseph Hayes Ack1en,
State regent of the Tennessee D. A. r.,
will preside. The State chapter active
" sponsored the erection of the Sewer
statue and the one to Andrew Jackson,
which is Tennessee other Offering TO
the national Hall of Fame. The United
States Marine Band will furnish music
at the exercises.
The address of acceptance will be
delivered by F. Trubee Davis, Assistant
Secretary of War, after the statue is
unveiled by two of Sewers descendants
Embree Hoss Headman and Fenton Al
len Gentry. Gov. Horton will make the
speech of presentation.
In the Battle of Kings Mountain,
where Congress has erected a national
monument on the battlefield. Sewer and
his sturdy band, on october z, 1880,
We're first and foremost in the charge,
contributing vitality to the victory OF
the American forces. In 1896 Sewer
became the first Governor OF Tennes-
see, remaining in Office six years. Like
many other noted TenneSseeans, he was
o native Virginian.
Constitution Hail. where the sessions
of the Continental Congress are to be
held, will be respondent with State
banners tomorrow morning as the presi-
dent general, vice presidents general
and national officers, escorted by pages,
make their grand entrance. The
United States Army Band, William j.
Stannard, leader, will furnish the
music.
Crosby to Extend Welcome.
Greetings from the Board of Dis
trict Commissioners will be extended
by Maj. Gen. Herbert B. Crosby. Then
will follow greetings from the officers
and from the following heads of pa
triotic organizations: Mrs Samuel Shaw
ArentZ, Children of the American Revo-
luton; Justice Josiah A. Van Orsdel,
Sons of the American Revolution; Mrs.
Robert Lincoln Hoyal of the Women's
National Conference on National De-
tense and national president of the
American Legion Auxiliary; Senator
Simeon d. Fcss of Ohio, the Wash
dngton Bicentennial Commission, and
Mrs. James T. Morris, chairman of the
yorktown Sesquicentennial Commits
sion.
Mrs. Hobart will address the con-
gress, following which reports will be
rendered from the standing commit
tees. This matter of business will oc-
cupy the remainder Of the day.
tomorrow night Vice President Curtis
and Secretary of Agriculture Arthur M
Hyde will address the congress. There
Will be a concert by the United States
Marine Band before the exercises be-
gin. Flora McGill Keefer, mezzo-so-
prano, will sing, with Mildred Kolb
Schul0e at the piano.
Tuesday will be devoted to business
reports. On Wednesday morning Surg.
Gen. Hugh S. Cumming Of the Pub
lie Health Service will be the speak
er and during the afternoon ses-
sion the question of immigration will
be discussed by Representative Thomas
A. jenkins of Ohio. Nominations will
feature Wednesday nights session.
The speakers on Thursdays program
include Frederick william Ashley, chief
assistant librarian of Congress, who
viii speak on George washington In
the Library of Congress" with two adj
dresses scheduled for that evening.
Capt. John II. Towers of the Bureau
Of AeronauticS will speak on Modern
Development OF Air Craft" and DR..
Laurence NJ. Gould, second in command
of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, will
tell about their experiences at the bot
tom Of the world"
Friday the guest speakers will be H.
J. Anslinger, United States commits
sioner of narcotics: Representative
Hamilton Fish, jr., of New York, and
DR.. Thomas H. Healey, assistant dean
of the Georgetown University School of
Foreign Service. On the Friday night
program. Our Navy" will be discussed
by Senator George H. Moses of New
Hampshire; Red Cross Drought Re-
"Our Citizen Army" by Maj. Gen. Will
liam G. Everson, chief of the Militia
Bureau.
Interest In Election.
Although Mrs. Hobart has another
year TO serve before expiration of her
term as president general, the elections
this year will be intensified In the cam
paigns that are being conducted for the
seven vacancies that occur In the posi-
tons Of vice presidents general. Thus
far the race is confined to 10 candi-
dates. each a power in her own State
and in national D. A. r. circles. They
have been announced as Mrs. Walter
Christopher johnson Of Tennessee, Mrs.
James Bliss Crankshaw of Indiana, Mrs.
William H. Pauch of New York, Mrs.
James Thomas Roundtree of Texas,
Mrs. Charles F. Bathrick of Michigan,
Mrs. Robert Fay Gaffney of Georgia,
Mrs. Charles z. Herrick of Illinois, Mrs.
William Henderson Vaught of West Viz
GINA, Mrs. Watt Thomas Brown Of
Alabama and Mrs. James Franklin
Trottman of Wisconsin.
Mrs. Alexander Ennis Patton Of Penn
sylvania is the only candidate an
nounced as yet for the life Office of
honorary vice president general, second
only TO that of president general In
honors of the organization.
The retiring vice presidents general
are Mrs. Charles B. Jones Of Texas,
Mrs. James L. Gavin Of Indiana, Mrs.
Henry B. Joy Of Michigan, Mrs. Brooke
O. White, jr., Of Florida: Mrs. H. Eu-
f1h11nk1yfrk ~ xyaSA
man Harrison Conway Of West Viz
GINA and Mrs. Ralph Everett Bristol
Of Utah.
Visiting delegates will be dined and
entertained as never before on an off,
election year. Naturally, the White
House reception Wednesday afternoon,
when the President and Mrs Hoover
will receive the 5000 delegates, is the
one which none declines Members of
do their share of the entertaining dur
ing the week, but no chapter meeting
has been scheduled
Annual Memorial Service.
The annual memorial service will BE-
held at 2 o'clock Thursday. when Mrs.
Hobart will place a wreath on the D.
A. r. memorial. Immediately following
a pilgrimage will be made TO the Tomb
Of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington.
There the Daughters may see the newly
furnished Arlington mansion.
The pilgrimage TO Mount Vernon will
be held Tuesday afternoon. This is one
Of the solemn occasions, and wreaths
will be placed at the tomb Of Washing
ton by the various officers and chair
men. The annual banquet, for which
Mrs. Frank S. Hight is chairman of the
committee, will bring the weeks enter
tainments to a close Saturday night
after the election of ofhcers.
italian government employees whose
salaries were reduced totaled more than
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