Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-05-27
HOSPITALITY UNIT
NAMED BY ALMAS
200 Members of Temple to
Act as Aides for Visit
ing Temples.

AS Almas Temple prepared to in
itiate more than 100 into mysteries of
the Shrine at a ceremonial tonight in
the Mayf1ower Hotel, Director General
Robert P. Smith of the Shrine Con-
vention Committee announced ap-
pointment Of Hospitality Committee
for the Imperial Conclave here June
9 to Is headed BY Allen H. Potts, chief
rabban of Almas..
This Hospitality Committee. Smith
explained. will consist of 200 members
Of the temple. They will be assigned
to the incoming temples from all parts
of the country and will act as hos
pitality aides throughout the entire
week Of the convention. They will
march in the parade with their guest
temples and If their services are re-
quired as guides will pilot the visitors
anywhere throughout the city.
Vice Chairmen Named.
Assisting Chairman Potts Of the
Hospitality Committee. Smith has ap-
pointed three executive vice chairmen
to be liaison officers and IS other vice
chsirmen These men are: Executive
vice chairmen. P. w. Benninghoven,
Frank E. Ghiselli and Alvah Patterson.
Other vice chairmen are Roy A
Plympton. William w. Webb. Mel
Nelson, Martin Hysong. Charles C.
Shipton. w. L. Gausman. Edgar c.
(Sam Rice, L. E. Meany. John C.
Schufrumpt, DR.. Stewart M. Angelo.
Samuel Farmer.
These men will head group of 200
No temple will arrive at Union Station
or by bus without being met by Chair
man Potts himself and the aide
assigned to that temple
SO far all temples except two plan
to come by train. Smith said. The
two coming by bus are Jaffa Of
Altoona, Pa, and Alaghan of Cum
berland, Md.
Largest Rites Since 1923.
The ceremonial tonight at the May
flower Hotel will be the largest held
by Almas Temple since 1928. just be-
fore the big imperial conclave here of
that year.
A business session will be held at
Almas Temple at $50. At tbs the
six uniformed bodies, respondent IN
their new regalia of many colors. will
march from Almas to the Mayflower.
The ceremony will start at the May
flower at o'clock.
Smith today received assurances
from the Hotel and Restaurant ALI
ance, Local 781, that they will post
pone negotiations for new wage scale
until after the Shriners' convention.
In q statement explaining their po-
sition, Charles E. Sands, business rep
resentative of this union, said:
1T has come to the attention Of our
organization that rumors to the effect
that our organization is to present de-
mands during the Shriners' Conven-
ton, with a threat of cessation of work
if said demands are not complied
with, are being circulated.
Requests Deferred.
I'VE wish most emphatically to deny
this rumor. While it is a fact that
we usually negotiate with out employ
ers about June /. this year we are
deferring presenting our requests until
after the convention has concluded.
I'VE have pledged to the Executive
Committee of the Shriners' Conven-
ton that there will be no trouble in
the hotels or restaurants of Washing
ton during the convention. We pledged
our heartiest cooperation to the end
that the Shriners' Convention shall be
a success. that the Shriners will leave
Washington only with praise for the
hospitality that has been rendered"