Evening star., 1934-04-08
RED CROSS OPENS
SESS|0NMONDAy
Reservations Indicate Larg.
est Attendance Since
1891 Meeting.

More than 1900 delegates-the
largest attendance since 193l-are ex-
pected to be present at the opening
Of the annual American Red Cross
Convention tomorrow morning in
Memorial Continental Hall. Reser-
vations by delegates from chapters all
over the Nation have been unusually
heavy, Red Cross officials stated.
OF this number 270 will be boys and
girls, delegates to the annual Ameri-
can Junior Red Cross Convention,
which runs concurrently with the
adult body. There will be four Junior
sessions, in which topics Of interest
to their more than 100000 school
boy and girl members will be up for
discussion. This is one Of the few
boy and girl groups which conducts its
own deliberations; it elects its own
chairman and secretary. adopts its
own resolutions and conducts its dis
cussions in true parliamentary form.
Sessions of Juniors will be con-
Quoted III the Hall of Service, District
Of Columbia Chapter House, 1880 E
street.
Payne to Open Session.
Chairman John Barton Payne will
open the session in Memorial CONT
mental Hall at 1920 am. tomorrow.
The invocation will be by Bishop
James E. Freeman of Washington
Cathedral. A concert by the Navy
Band will precede the calling to order.
This session, together with other gen.
eral sessions of the convention to be
held in the United States Chamber
Of Commerce Building, is open to the
public. The Monday morning pro-
gram will be broadcast in full by the
National Broadcasting Co. and the
Columbia Broadcasting System.
The chief address will be by James
L. Fieser, vice chairman in charge
OF domestic operations, on activities
Of the past year.
Election of convention officers will
follow. A 15-minute discourse by
Henry Morgenthau, ST., of New York
City. a member of the Board of In
corporators of the Red Cross, is
scheduled. The last event on the
program will be an address on "The
Challenge of the New Frontier" by
14-year-old William David Cook of
st. Louis, spokesman for the Junior
Red Cross. William was chosen for
this honor because of outstanding
scholarship and ability as an orator.
The first session of the juniors
will occur at 1880 pm. The Central
Committee Of the Red Cross, COM
posed of its governing officers, will
meet at 2:15 pm.
Conferences Scheduled.
Round table conferences beginning
at 2 pm. will be held as follows:
Civilian home service, st. Johns Par
ish Hall; disaster relief, first-aid and
life-saving, public health nursing and
home hygiene and war service, in va
rious rooms in the Chamber of Com
merce Building.
The Junior delegates will have a
dinner and dance at the Mayflower
Hotel tomorrow evening.
Harry L. Hopkins, Federal emer-
gency relief administrator, will be
the chief speaker before the general
session tomorrow evening in the
Chamber Of Commerce Building,
Frederick A. Wallis, chairman of the
Kentucky State Roll Call Committee,
will preside. Rev. William F. Rosen-
blum, rabbi of Temple Israel, win
speak A reception to the delegates
in the patio Of the building. given
by members of the Central Commit.
tee, will follow the session. Music
will be by the Navy Band, Lieut..
Charles Benter conducting.
Miss Frances M. Perkins, the Sec
retary of Labor, will speak at the
Tuesday morning session. At the
Tuesday afternoon session, when the
theme will be organization and ad-
ministration Of chapters, the three
area managers Of the Red Cross will
be heard-William M. Baxter, jr., of
st. Louis: A. L. Schafer Of San Fran
cisco, and Richard F. Allen Of WASH
ington.
Miss Mabel T. Baardman, secretary
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