Evening star., 1934-04-17
OFFICERS RECEIVE
AT PARTY TONIGHT
Mrs. Magma to Honor DEL
eqates to 43d D. A. R.
Congress.

DeleRaueS 10 CQe 1OrCy-CnlrQ annual
Continental Congress, National Society
Daughters Of the American Revolution,
will lay aside the cares and issues of
the business sessions tonight and don
their best "bibs and fuckers" for the
brilliant reception planned in their
honor by the president general, Mrs.
Russell William Magma.
The president general, the vice pres
ident general and national officers, as
sisted by the State regents, will receive
the members in Constitution Hall at 9
O'Clock. Preceding the formal recep-
ton, there will be a concert in Consti-
tuition Hall by the United States Army
Band, Capt. William j. Stannard.
leader, conducting, and later the band
will play during the reception, with
Master Sergt. Karl Hubner conduct
ing.
Mrs. Adam M. Wyant is chairman of
the committee which is arranging the
reception, and has working with her as
vice chairman Mrs. William A. Becker,
chairman of the National Defense
Committee, and Mrs. Flora Myers Gill
lentine, both announced candidates for
the Office Of president general Of the
society; Mrs. Harry K. Daugherty. Mrs.
Frank S. Hight, Mrs. Jacob Leander
Loose and Mrs. Josiah A. Van OrSdel.
Others on Committee.
Also on the committee are Mrs
Aaron c. Bagg, Mrs. George Barnett,
Mrs. Hiram Bingham, Mrs. John Laid
law Buel, Mrs. Joseph w. Byrns. Mrs.
William F. Dennis, Mrs. Robinson
Downey, Mrs. John E. Erickson, Miss
Isabel Wyman Gordon, Mrs. Albert j.
Gore, Mrs. John Brown Heron, Mrs.
Livingston L. Hunter. Mrs. Stephen P.
Hurd. Mrs. Robert j. Johnston, Mrs.
Charles B. Jones, Mrs. Charles H. Le-
Fevre, Mrs. j. Hamilton Lewis, Mrs.
Arthur M. McCrillis, Mrs. Jacob P.
Marshall, Mrs. Charles B. Matthews,
Mrs. George E. Matthies, Mrs. James
T. Morris, Mrs. John H. Overton, Mrs.
Alexander Ennis Patton, Mrs. James
Charles Peabody. Mrs. Percy Edwards
Quin, Mrs. David A. Reed, Miss Janet
Richards, Mrs. Bertha M. Robbins,
Mrs. Thomas D. Schall, Mrs. c. A. S.
Sinclair, Mrs. Hubert D. Stephens, Mrs.
Aline E. Solomons and Mrs. Frank E..
Taylor.
The president general, with the
national board of management, Will
play hostesses tonight at colorful
dance at the Mayflower Hotel, In
honor of the pages Of the congress.
The ball will open at 10 o'clock and
shortly afterwards the president gen.
eral and the board will go to the hotel
to receive the pages, who come from
every State in the Union. Mrs.
Harry Colfax Grove is chairman OF
the dance honoring the pages and her
four vice chairmen are Miss Dorothy
DEG. Jenkins. chairman of the pages;
Mrs. Jean j. Labot, Mrs. E. Ray Eng
Ter and Mrs. Charles S. Shermerhorn.
Serving on the committee are Mrs.
Maurice H. Bletz, Mrs. Sterling
Bockhoven, Mrs. Claud A. Cook, MIS-.
Rudolph T. Harrell, Mrs. Eliot c.
Lovett, Mrs. Cloyd Heck Marvin,
Mrs. Edwin L. Morrison, Mrs. Charles
Nash and Mrs. Earle w. Richardson.
This afternoon is without session,
this time having been set aside for
the annual pilgrimages to Mount
Vernon and Arlington and the State
DELEGATIONS and national committee
meetings.
The meetings of the delegations and
committees are important factors. OF
the congress. Many momentous
questions are settled at this time and
the results of not few campaigns for
president general of the society have
been foreseen at similar gatherings.
Perhaps one Of the most interesting
meetings today is that Of Mrs. Will
liam A. Becker, chairman of the Ma
tional Defense Committee. National
defense is one of the society's chief
projects and with Mrs Becker an an
nounced candidate for the highest
Office of the organization, heading
the Committee of National Defense. a
large attendance was expected.
Mrs. Magma to Place Wreath.
At Arlington at $50 Mrs Magma IS
to place q wreath on the Tomb of the
Unknown Soldier. She will be &C
companied to the National Cemetery
by the delegates to the congress.
Representative Edith Nourse Rogers is
chairman of the Arlington pilgrimage,
assisted by Mrs. Amos A. Fries. Mrs.
Aaron c. Bragg. Mrs. Nathaniel
Beauman, Mrs. william B. Burney,
Mrs. Louise w. Knight, Mrs. Clifford
S. Lyon, Mrs. John A. Marvin, Mrs.
James G. Polk, Mrs. Livingston Rowe
Schuyler and Miss Harriet G. Scott.
Wreathes are being placed at Mount
Vernon at o'clock, on the tombs of
George and Martha Washington by
the president genera. in the presence
OF the delegation which accompanied
her to Mount Vernon. Mrs. Eleanor
Washington Howard, the last girl
child born at Mount Vernon, is hon.
orary chairman of the Mount Vernon
ceremony, and on the committee are
Mrs. Willoughby S. Chesley. Mrs.
Charles w. Fairfax. Mrs. Charles B.
Keesee, Mrs. Benjamin L. Purcell,
Mrs. William D. West, Mrs. George
w. Blanchard, Mrs. George K. Brad
field, Mrs. Daniel Mershon Garrison,
Mrs. Howard L. Hodgkins, Mrs.
George w. johnson, Miss Ada john
son, Mrs. Edward G. Moran, Mrs. G.
Carroll Reece, Miss Jessica Ran
dolph Smith, Mrs. Arthur M. Shipley.
Mrs. Cabot Stevens, Mrs. Walter L.
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