Evening star., 1934-04-01
RED CROSS PLANS
. CONVENTION HERE
DELEGATES From All Parts OF
Nation to Gather.
April 9 to II.

the NatlOn IN dlIeIuduCe. 1Hc oA-
nual meeting of Junior Red Cross
delegates, representing more than
5000, 900 school children, will be held
concurrently with the adult conclave.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will ad-
dress the convention Wednesday
morning, April II, and Secretary of
Labor Perkins will speak before the
Tuesday morning session, April 10.
The general theme of the conven-
ton meetings will be readjustments
in social work, in health work and in
public education which will have to
be made following present conditions
in the Nation.
An interesting feature Of the con-
vention will be the round table con-
ferences during the afternoons, de-
voted to a review of accomplishments
in the various Red Cross services,
such as life saving and first aid, pub
lie health nursing, disaster relief, VOL
unteer activities and service for war
veterans and their dependents. Plans
for greater service by Red Cross chap
tiers in their communities also will be
made at these round table meetings
Navy Band to Give Concert.
The opening session of the con-
vention will be held in Memorial Con-
tinental Hall with Chairman John
Barton Payne presiding. The United
States Navy Band orchestra. with
Lieut.. Charles Benter conducting, will
give a concert from 10 to 1890 am
The invocation will be by Bishop
James E. Freeman.
James L. Fieser, vice chairman In
charge of domestic operations OF the
Red Cross, will make the chief ad-
dress of the session, reviewing the
work of the past year and discussing
new trends in service which relief
organizations may have to face in the
reconstruction period ahead. Henry
Morgenthau. sr., of New York City, a
member of the Board of Incorporators
of the Red Cross, will speak and the
session will be closed with an aodress
by william David Cook, IA, OF st.
Louis, Mo. This boy was chosen to
present a Junior Red Cross address
before the adult convention as a rep
resentative of the millions of boys and
girls in grade and high schools who
are members of the junior group.
The program will be broadcast.
Junior Group to Convene.
The Junior Red Cross will hold its
opening convention session from 80
to4pm. Monday, April 8, in the Hall
of Service of the District of Columbia
chapter house, 1880 E street north
west. Walter S. Gard, assistant ma
tional director of the Junior Red
Cross. will preside until the conVen-
ton elects its own officers.
The Central Committee, which Is
the governing board of the Red Cross,
will meet Monday afternoon.
Junior delegates will attend din
ner and dance at the Mayflower Hotel
Monday evening.
A general session will be held Mon
day evening in the council chamber
of the United States Chamber OF
Commerce Building. where meetings
on succeeding days will be held. Fred
erick A. Wallis of Paris, KY, chair
man of the State Roll Call Committee
of the Red Cross, will preside and
speakers will be Harry L. Hopkins,
Federal emergency relief administra-
tor, and Rabbi william F. Rosen-
blum of Temple Israel, New York
City. A reception by the Central
Committee to the delegates will follow
In the patio of the building, with
concert by the United States Navy
Band orchestra.
DIR. Mcdaniel to Preside.
DR.. Archie D. MCDANIEL. chairman
of the Ward County Chapter of Minot,
N. OAK, will preside at the session
Tuesday morning, April 10. Miss Per-
kins will make the chief address.
Other speakers will be William Hod-
son, commissioner of the department
of public welfare of New York City;
DR.. Ira v. Hiscock, professor of public
health of the Yale University School
of Medicine, and Supt. James N. Rule
of the Pennsylvania department OF
public instruction.
Junior delegates will meet in morn
ing and afternoon sessions, with the
afternoon devoted to discussion of
social relationships of the juniors
throughout the world.
A general session devoted to dis
cussion of chapter problems will be
held from to 430 pm. Tuesday,
with Blanchard Russell. jr.. of the
Baltimore chapter, presiding. Speak
ers will be William M. Baxter, jr.,
manager of the Red Cross Midwestern
area, st. Louis: A. L. Schafer, man
sger of the Pacific area, San Fran
cisco: Richard F. Allen, manager of
the Eastern area. Washington, and
DR.. Frank o. Kreag-- of Louisiana
State University.
The convention dinner will be held
Tuesday evening at the Willard Hotel,
with Miss Mabel T. Boardman, Secre-
tary of the Red Cross. presiding.
Archbishop Michael Joseph Curley of
Baltimore, will give the invocation.
Brief addresses will be by Mile. Lucie
Oder of Geneva, Switzerland, a men,
ber of the Comit de la International
CroiX-Rouge: Mrs. August Belmont of
New York. Mrs. Henry P. Davidson of
Long Island. Mrs. William K. Draper
of New York. and the Rev. Joseph R.
Sizoo of the New York Avenue Presby-
terian Church.
Mrs. Roosevelt to Speak.
sion Wednesday morning, April II.
The annual roll call of the Red Cross
will be the subject of several speakers,
who will relate experiences in their
communities. Robert F. Marden of
Lowell, Mass: J. w. Ross of Topeka.
Kans., and Douglas Griesemer, ma
tional director of roll call and public
information, will be the speakers.
Junior delegates will meet Wednes-
day morning and in the afternoon will
visit Mount Vernon.
An entertaining feature will occur
Wednesday evening, when the Ameri-