Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-04-23
RED CROSS MEETS
HERE TOMORROW
Annual Conventions of Ma
tionaI and Junior Societies
to End Thursday.
The annual conventions of the Amer

The annual conventions Of the Amer
lean Red Cross and Junior Red Cross
will open in Washington tomorrow anu
continue through Thursday
Vital problems of unemployment re-
| lief. which have faced the Red Cross
chapters in more than 5000 commune
ties in the Nation, will be the theme
| of discussion at this annual conclave.
Sessions of the American Red Cross will
| open at 1920 am. in Memorial CONT
mental Hall with Chairman John Bar
ton Payne presiding. A convention
chairman will be elected later to pre-
side over these sessions. which will be
attended by probably more than l,OOU
Smith of New York. one of the new
members of the Central Committee,
will be in attendance.
About 200 high school boys and girls
will come here for the Junior sessions.
which will be held in the assembly
room Of the Red Cross headquarters
| building at As o'clock tomorrow.
| Walter S. Gard. assistant National d.
rector of the American Junior RED
Cross, will preside at the opening ses-
sion.
First Lady to Officiate.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt has con-
scented to present the roll call honor
| flag. won this year by the State I'll
Montana. to Senator John E. Erickson
| of that State, at the closing session of
the American Red Cross Thursday
morning. Miss Mabel T. Boardman,
secretary will preside at this little cere-
mony. Mrs. John A. Johnston, roll
! call chairman for the District of Co.
! lumbia Chapter, will surrender the flag,
which has been held two years by
Washington, because it has had the
highest enrolment of members in pro-
portion to population, in the United
! States.
At the opening session of the conven-
ton, the invocation will be given by Rt
Rev. William F. Mcdowell of Washing
ton The first speaker will be hign
school student of Richmond, Ind,
Dwight c. Spillman. who won this
/ honor in contest. He is the spokes-
man of the 100000 Junior Red Cross
members. His subject will be Social
Responsibility. Junior Red Cross OPP
portunity" Election of convention Off
GERS will follow.
| Five = minute presentations OF the
| service activities of the Red Cross by
the National directors of the services
will be next on the program. with the
speakers as follows: War service. Don
c. Smith; disaster relief. Robert E.
Bondy; nursing service, Miss Clara u.
Moves; public health nursing and home
hygiene, Miss l. Malinde Harvey: first
aid and life saving, Harold F. Elbows;
volunteer service, Miss Boardman;
Junior Red Cross. Edward w. Mar
cellus;; public information and roll
call, Douglas Griesmer.
| Central Committee to Meet.
Chairman Payne will outline the
years work of the Red Cross.
The Central Committee of the Red
Cross will meet at 2:30 pm. with sew
eral new members in attendance.
/ Round table conferences in the after
noon will be attended by delegates and
a reception in their honor by the men,
bers of the Central Committee will
be given at 4:30 o'clock in the head
quarters building.
| A general session will be held to-
morrow evening in the United States
| Chamber of Commerce Building with
| Charles B. Borland, chairman Of the
Norfolk, Va, chapter, presiding. The
speakers will be Brig. Gen. Frank T.
Hines, United States Veterans Admin
+ istrator; National Comdr. Louis A.
johnson of the American Legion, and
James L. Fieser. vice chairman in
charge of domestic operations of the
| American Red Cross.
Meeting Relief Needs" will be the
theme OF the Tuesday morning session
in the Chamber of Commerce Building.
Addresses will be by william M. Bax-
ter, jr., manager of the Midwestern
area of the Red Cross, with head
quarters at st. Louis; Rev. John
O'Grady, director of the Catholic
Charities of Washington; j. Prentice
Murphy, general secretary of the Child
ren's Bureau of Philadelphia; William
B. Rodgers, executive director OF the
| Pennsylvania State Emergency Relief
| Board, and Fred C. Croxton, assistant
to the directors of the Reconstruction
| Finance Corporation General discus
sion from the floor will follow these
addresses.
Convention Dinner Tuesday.
+; The convention dinner will be held
| at pm. Tuesday at the Mayflower
Hotel, with Chairman Payne as the
| POSTMASTER. The invocation will be
by Very Rev. Coleman Nevis, S. j.,
| president of Georgetown University, and
| addresses will be by Dean Annie w.
Goodrich of the Yale University School
of Nursing; Dr. Henry Noble Mac
Cracker, president of VaSsar College,
| and DR.. j. L. Biggar, national commits
sioner of the Canadian Red Cross
Society.
Miss Catherine s. Leverich, chairman
of volunteer service of the New York
City Chapter. will preside at the Wed
nesday morning session in the Cham
Der of Commerce Building. Addresses
will be by Miss Boardman. Harvey Glib
son. chairman of the Emergency IN
If MoUl