Evening star., 1933-11-05
DISTRICT IS READY
TO HONOR LUTHER
NotabTes Will Help Churches
Celebrate Anniversary of
Great Cleric.

Members of the diplomatic corps, tine
Senate and House and prominent Fed
eral and District officials as we'll as
heads of a number of colleges and pa
triotic organizations will serve as pa
irons Of the Martin Luther 450th ami
Versary celebration Friday at pm. in
Constitution Hall.
The services will be under auspices Of
the Lutheran Churches of Washington.
All Protestant denominations. however.
will join in the celebration.
Rev. Paul E. Scherer, pastor OF the
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church of New
York, will be the principal speaker. DR..
Hans Luther. German Ambassador to
the United States, and collateral de-
scendant of Martin Luther, also will
speak. An elaborate vesper service will
be one of the features of the celebra-
tion. The combined choirs of all Wash
1ngton Lutherane Churches, directed by
John Monroe, and the Washington
Orchestral Society, will take part.
The list of patrons announced by the
committee in charge of the services,
follows:
The Ambassador of Germany; the
Minister of Norway and Nine Hal
ward H. Bachke the Minister of Den
mark and Nine. Otto Wadsted. the
Minister of Sweden and Nine. w. Bos-
from the president of Gettysburg
Theological Seminary and Mrs. John
Aberly. the president of Roanoke Col
aege, and Mrs. Charles j. Smith. the
president of Susquehanna University
bnd Mrs. G. Morris Smith. the presi-
dent of Muhlenberg College, John A.
w Haas: the president of Gettysburg
College and Mrs. Henry w. A. Hanson,
the president of the United Lutheran
Church and Mrs. Frederick H. Knubel
Bishop William Fraser Mcdowell, the
chaplain of the Senate and Mrs. Ze
Barney T. Phillips, Bishop of Washing
Ncr James E. Freeman, the president
pt the George Washington University,
Cloyd Heck Marvin; the president of
the National Lutheran Council and Mrs
g. A. Brandelle, the chaplain of the
House of Representatives and Mrs.
James Shera Montgomery, the president
Df the Lutheran World Convention and
Mrs. John A. Morehead. the president
of the Huguenot Society of Washing
ton and Mrs Asa Emory Phillips, the
president of the Washington Ministerial
Union and Mrs. Frederick Brown Har-
ris, the chancellor of the American
university and Mrs. Edwin H Hughes,
the provost of the George Washington
University and Mrs William Allen Will
bur, the executive secretary of the
Washington Federation of Churches and
Mrs. W. L. Darby.
Senator John E. Erickson Of Montana,
the president of the Washington Fed
teration of Churches and Mrs. William
D. Tufts, the secretary OF the Smith
sonian Institution and Mrs. Charles G..
Abbot. the Rev Canon and Mrs. C.
Freeland Peter, the Rev. Canon and
Mrs. Anson Phelps Stokes, MIR. Justice
tive and Mrs. John w. Boehne, jr.; the
president of the Young Women's Christ
ian Association. Mrs. William Adams
Slade: the president of the Board of
Commissioners of the District of Column
bia and Mrs. Luther H. Reichelderfer
Representative and Mrs. A. L. Bull
Ninkle.
The Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia and
Mrs. Alfred A. Wheat, the president
emeritus Of the Young Women's Christ
fan Association, Mrs. William Hamilton
Bayly; the president of the American
Lutheran Church and Mrs. Carl C.
Hain. the president of the American
Lutheran Conference and Mrs. Otto
Mees, Senator and Mrs Henrik Ship
stead, the president of Mount Airy
Theological Seminary, Charles M. ia
cobs; DR.. Otto H. F. Vollbehr, the
president general of the Daughters of
the American Revolution. Mrs. Russell
William Magma; the director of Ma
tional Parks and Buildings and Mrs.
Arno B. Cammerer, Mr.. and Mrs. M
r. Moller.