Evening star., 1933-03-30
ROOSEVELT JOINS
PRESS CLUB ROLL
Becomes Seventh President
to Receive Membership
in Organization.

President Roosevelt last night became
the seventh successive Chief Executive
to become member of the National
Press Club.
A silver certificate of associate men,
bership was handed him last night at
a party in the club auditorium cele-
bratings the 25th anniversary of the
founding of the newspaper mems Or
ganization.
He also became the second President
Roosevelt to be taken into the club.
Teddy" was the first President in
Quoted into membership and every
Chief Executive through Franklin D.
also has Joined.
Once the editor of the Harvard
Crimson Mr Roosevelt last night was
denoted to cub by Toastmaster Frank
B. Lord
I'VE find him the most promising
cub that ever came out of Hyde Park.
and we not only have decided to admit
him to membership, but we have assign
ed him to cover the White House." said
Lord.
Raymond P. Brandt of the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch, club president, then
presented the Chief Executive with the
silver membership card.
Presented With Swords.
Two OF the vast army Of colonels-
Col. Louis McHenry Howe and Col.
Marvin H. Mcintyre. members of the
presidential secretariat-were presented
with swords to go with their gold
braid" The one given Col. Howe he
was admonished to use in cutting the
plum pie for distribution to the big
office seekers. The saber presented TO
Mac" Toastermaster Lord recalled,
was "unsullied"
Buck Pvt" Stephen T. Early. an
other Of the Presidents secretaries. not
being q colonel" was given q rusty
horse pistol and commissioned IN Ma
Ferguson's Texas Rangers. Bascom
Timmons. past president Of the club
and a native Texan, made the pres
entation to Early.
Both Early and Mcintyre already
were club members, so Col. Louis was
the only one of the three secretaries
to be made member of 'Washington's
Amalgamated Pencil Pushers" How
ever, a host of Democratic office hold
ers were inducted, among them Post
master General Jim" Farley. Attorney
General Homer S. Cummings. Secretary
Of the Navy Claude A. Swanson and
Woodin 'by proxy.
John Charles Thomas. noted BARI
tone. and Morton Downey, populaE
radio star, furnished the entertainment
highlights. A skit, The Stork Stalks"
was presented by club members.
The list of invited guests follows:
Charles S. Abel. Franklin Adams,
Phelps H. Adams, V. P. Ahearn, Frank
j. Abus, Robert H. Alcorn, Theodore
c. Afford, Edgar P Allen. Paul Y.
Anderson. Hardin B. Arledge, Robert
D1l,1 %
jr:; G. Rogers Arundel. J. G. Atchison,
W. H. Atkins and Darrell Preston Aub.
Frank L. Baer. J. NJ Baer. James L.
Baity, Carlisle Bargeron. George H.
Barrows. A. K. Barta. George Bar
thelme, Walter M. Bastian. Norman w.
Baxter. Mark Beeman. Russell o. Beene,
Henry Ward Beer. Uric Bell. Henry A.
Bellows, Silas Bent. Kenneth H.
Berkeley Robert w. Bingham, w. w.
Blake, Sol Bloom, r. M. Boeckel,
Stephen Bonsal. John j. Boobar. Everett
Boyd. Ernest w. Bradford. Henry D.
Bradley Charles J. Brand, Wilbur
H R. Brandenburg, Raymond P. Brandt,
Herbert M. Bratter. Harold Brayman,
Roy F. Britton, Eugene c. Brokmeyer.
Lyle A. Brookover. James Wright Brown,
w. L. Bruckart, James William Bryan,
T. Campbell Bryan, Joseph A. Burkhart,
Louis T. Bussler and Harry c. Butcher.
Vincent F. Callahan, James F. Call
breath, J. Bart Campbell, Lawrence B.
Campbell, P. P. Campbell. c. c. Carlin.
...S c; C. GarLds Garin; lTT csr+oI W R. Gar Car,
b Caste, Claude c. Caylor, Floyd chal-
fant. Charles Lyon Chandler. w. R.
Chapline. Virgil Chapman, Frank S.
Chappell, John F. Chester, C. C.. Childs,
Raymond Clapper. Charles P. Clark,
Harvey L. Cobb, John J. Cochran, Mar
tin Codel. Robert F. Cogswel, John S.
Cohen. Charles Wallace Collins. Ralph
A. Collins. William J. Collins, John B.
Colpoys, George W. Combs, Samuel T.
Conkling, Leland S. Conness, Francis
A. l. Connolly. Jack S. Connolly, Edward
l. Corbett, John F. Costello, Robert G.
Covel. John H. Cowles, George How
Craig. ir: T. A. M. Craven. A. S.
Crockett. Paul B. Cromelin. o. H. Cross
Thomas F. Cullen Homer D. Cummings,
John Cummings and j. Harry Cum
ningham.
Richard D. Daniels. Edwin B. De-
GraW, William c. Deming, John j. De-
why, Arthur j. Dodge, Vernon M.
Dorsey. Emmet Dougherty, Lewis Will
liam Douglas. Harold E. Doyle, James
F. Doyle, William Atherton DuPuy
George, E, Durno and Clinton L.
Doggett.
Stephen T. Early, J. Orville Ecker.
John H. Edwards, Milton T. Elgin,
Milton S. Eisenhower. Fred A. Eldean,
William T. Ellis. R. G. Emerson, Fred
A. Emery Morris D. Erwin, j. Fred
Essary and Silliman Evans.
Herman Fakler. James A. Farley,
Joseph C.. Fehr, Abner H. Ferguson,
Carter Field. F. v. FITZGERALD, Henry
c. Flynn. Joseph Flynn, Leo J. Flynn,
Howard p Foley. I. NJ Foster, Albert
Whiting Fox, George B. Fraser Leo
pold " Freudberg, Amos A. Fries and
Sam Fuson.
E. w. Gableman. E. Herbert CASTOR,
Earl F. Gates. Robert M. Gates. Jacob
Gayer, Bon Geaslin, Bond P. Geddes,
Floyd Gibbons, William B. Clifford. jr.;
Melville Gillett, Strickland Gillian,
c. J. Goeckeler. William F. Goddard,
Stuart Goodwin, Louis T. Golding, John
B. Gordon, Theodore S. Grape, Karl
Greene. James Benjamin Grice and
r. P. Guthrie.
Ernest Hackett, Andrew G. Haley,
Charles A. Hamilton. John Martin
Hammond. Lauriston H. Hannar, Rob-
tert N. Harper, George w. Harris, Harry
r.. Harris, Joseph c. Harsch, Lee Poe
Hart, Penn G. Hastings. James Hay,
Er: Stuart S. Hayes Frank Healy