The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-25
WAR MOTHERS
OPEN BIENNIAL
CAUCUS IN CITY
81 States Represented as
300 Delegates Start
Weeks Farley.
INDIANA CHIEFS MEET
Official Business Sessions
to Be Started tuesday;
Visit Fort.

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A vesper service early Sunday
night opened the pre-cenvention &C
Invites Of the eighth biennial con-
vention Of the National War Moth
ers meeting in the Claypool- This
was followed by a general reception
sponsored by the Indiana state
chapter Of war mothers.
The formal opening of the con-
ventiOn was held this morning with
a breakfast for state presidents IN
the Travertine room Of the Hotel
Lincoln with members of the Indi-
ana unit of the Womans Overseas
Service League as hostesses.
Registration Is Started
Registration and a conference Of
state presidents in Parlor B or the
Claypool will complete the morning
program.
Traction cars leaving the Ter
minal at l this afternoon will take
the visitors 10 Fl. Benjamin Har-
risOn for a review of troops at 2.
National officers, delegates and Wis
itors will be guests of the Veterans
of Foreign Wars at a reception and
entertainment in the Riley room OF
the ClaypOol at tonight.
Tuesdays program will include
an address by Mrs. E. May Hahn,
Indiana state president and general
chairman of the convention; music
by the Arsenal Technical high
school band; a professional and
color escort of soldiers, sailors and
marines and presentation Of ma
tional officers.
Officers to Be Installed
Invocation will be given by the Rt.
Rev. Joseph NJ. Francis, bishop Of
the indianapolis diocese of the EpiS-
copal church, and a flag salute will
be led by Mrs. Irving Fairweather
of Idaho, national chairman Of
Americanization.
thirty-one states are expected to
register for the convention. The
program will close Saturday after
noon with installation of officers.
Decorating the interior of the
main floor of the statehouse was to
be begun late today in preparation
for the honorary dinner to be held
in the capital building Wednesday
night for the War Mothers. The
dinner is an honorary affair given
by the Twelfth district of the Amer
lean Legion, and all delegates and
alternateS to the convention as well
as all other War Mothers who be-
long to the national organization
and who register for the convention,
will be guests.
1900 May Attend
Plans for serving the dinner,
which will be at $50, have been
arranged by Robert Mason. COM
mittee chairman. and Captain Otto
Raw. Twelfth district legion COM
mander with the catering manager
of the ClaypooI. In addition to the
700 or 800 War Mothers, it is eX-
pected that about 1000 others, prin-
cipally from the ranks of the legion,
will attend.
aborate plans have been made
the dinner. including an enter
lnment program during the din
Ter and a dance in the north cor
ridor of the statehOuSe afterward.
The decorations Will include the
flags from twenty-SiX American
Legion posts in the Twelfth district.
p. Brennan is chairman OF the
lmittee on decorations. Comics
! will play for the dance.
nored guests and speakers at
lie dinner will include Governor
Paul V. McNutt and other state
officials. national and state officers
of the War Mothers. American Lee
gion and Legion Auxiliary. Per-
mission to hold the dinner at the
statehouse was obtained only as a
special honor to members OF the
War Mothers organization. Old
timers at the statehouSe claim that
this is the second time in a score OF
wears that a banquet has been
served in the state capitol building