Evening star., 1933-04-02
D. A. R. CONGRESS
TO OPEN APRIL I
Reception at White House
April Fl to Conclude So
ciety's Sessions.

The forty-second Congress of the Ma
tional Society of the Daughters of the
American Revolution will open Monday
April II, in Constitution Hall, with an
address and report by Mrs. Russell Will
liam Magma, president general.
Meetings will be held daily until 4
pm. Friday, when the Congress will
adjourn after a reception at the White
House by President and Mrs. Roosevelt
Because Of the heavy press of official
duties, President Roosevelt will be un-
able to address the assembly, but it is
hoped by those in charge that he will
be able to pay the congress an unom-
cial visit.
Program Arranged.
The program of the meetings has
been arranged by committee COM
posed Of Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, chair
man; Mrs. G. wallace w. Hagner, vice
chairman: Mrs. william A. Becker, Mrs,
James Shera Montgomery and Mrs.
Charles w. Richardson.
Speakers at the evening session Mon
day will include Secretary Of Agricul-
ture Henry A. Wallace, Senator Tom
Connally Of Texas and Mrs. owen.
The outstanding social event of the
Congress will be the reception by the
president general Tuesday evening,
when the thousands of delegates will
greet their leader and the national
onicers and State regents. The COM
m1ttee In charge OF arrangements for
this function follows:
Mrs. Adama M. Wyant. chairman:
Mrs. Jacob Leander Loose and Mrs,
Joseph II. Frelinghuysen, vice chair
men, and Mrs. Frank H. Briggs. Mrs
II Ere No ~
Cottle, Mrs. william F. Dennis. Mrs
Robinson Downey, Mrs. Samuel William
Earle, Mrs. Horace Martin Farnham
Mrs. Duncan U. Fletcher, Miss Isabel
Wyman Gordon, Mrs. John Brown Her
ron, Mrs. Charles e. Herrick, Mrs Robert
G. Hogan, Mrs. Livingston L. Hun
ter, Mrs. Stephen p. Hurd, Mrs
Charles B. Jones, Mrs. Jacob F
Marshall, Mrs. Charles B. Matthews
Mrs. George E. Matthies, Mrs. Frederick
w. Mllspaugh, Mrs. Frank w. Mon
dell, Mrs. James T. Morris, Mrs. Alex
ander Enos Patton, Mrs. James Charles
Peabody, Mrs. Percy Edwards Quin
MRS. william N. Reynolds, Miss Janet
Richards, Miss Aline E. Solomons and
Mrs. Frank e. Taylor.
Pilgrimage to Arlington.
Tuesday afternoon Mrs. Magma will
lead a pilgrimage to Arlington Gene
| terry and Mount Vernon, where wreaths
| will be placed on the Tomb of the
Unknown Soldier and the tombs OF
George washington and his wife, Mar
tina. The ceremony at Arlington will
| be under direction of Representative
Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts,
| chairman of the committee in charge
and Mrs Amos A. Fries vice chairman
The exercises at Mount Vernon will be
| arranged by a committee of which Mrs
Ealeanor Washington Howard Is hon
| orary chairman and Mrs. Willoughby s.
Chesley chairman.
The program will include addresses
concerts by the United States Marine
Army and Navy Bands, and selections
by Arthur S. Witcomb, trumpeter and
second leader of the Marine Band;
Miss Sylvia Lent, concert violinist anc
Benjamin de Losche. baritone Of the
Philadelphia Opera Co.
On Thursday afternoon, Mai. Gen
| Stephen o. Fuqua, chief of Infantry,
will speak on The Nations Present
J Need for Our Army" Rev. Edmund A
| Walsh, S. j., vice president of George.
town University, will speak on Soviet
Russia and the United States
Secetary of Labor Frances Perkin.
will speak Thursday evening Othel
speakers at the evening session will bt
Seth w. Richardson, former Assistant
Attorney General, and Rear Admira.
Wat Tyler Cluverius, U. S. N.