Evening star., 1935-11-03
NINE CONVENTIONS
SET THIS MONTH
Conference of Mayors to Be
Held November 18 at
Willard Hotel.

Washington will be host to nine
conventions this month, Curtis
Hodges, executive director Of the
Greater National Capital Commit.
tee of the Washington Board Of Trade,
announced yesterday.
One of the largest and the one ex-
pected to attract most national at
tention is the annual United States
Conference of Mayors, to be held Mo-
vember 1920 at the Willard Hotel.
Meeting in the Willard at the same
time will be another large aSsemblage,
the joint convention Of the ASsoci-
alton of Land Grant Colleges and
Universities and the State University
Association.
Important ques,Ions OF municipal
financing and the responsibilities Of
cities to their poor are expected to
come up for discussion at the mayors
conference. The current gradual re-
tirement of the Federal Government
from the field of direct and home re-
lief is shifting a substantial part of
this burden to communities and thus
presents to the mayors an increas-
ingly serious Problem.
Hoan and WalmsIey Coming.
Perennial delegates to the mayors
convention are the colorful Dan Hoan,
Socialist mayor of Milwaukee, and T.
Semmes Walmsley of New Orleans,
whom the late Huey Long made al
most a mayor without city.
The Association of Land Grant Col-
leges and Universities will be adj
dressed by high officials of the Agri-
culture Department and Federal edu-
cational agencies, including DR.. C. w.
Warburton, director of agricultural
extension. A similar program has
been arranged for the National Asso-
citation of State Universities, conven-
ing at the Mayflower Hotel November
20-22. The program Of the National
Youth Administration to help finan-
cially disabled undergraduates and
graduates will be discussed at these
meetings.
A convention of the Association Of
American Feed Control Officials was
held Friday at the Raleigh Hotel.
The next November convention here
will be a district meeting of the
Junior Order, United American Me-
chanics, to be held at the Raleigh
Hotel next Thursday and Friday.
Chemists Meet November Is.
Members of the Association OF
Official Agricultural Chemists will
convene at the Raleigh Hotel a week
from tomorrow and conclude their
sessions the following day, November
13. The Federal Government will
be represented by experts from the
Bureau of Chemistry and Soils and
other agencies of the Agriculture De-
partment which deal with the chem.
ical phases of farming.
From November 13 through Novem.
Der Is, the Y. NJ C. A. International
Railroad Conference will be held in
the Mayflower Hotel.
The last convention of the month
will be that of the Alpha Phi Pi
Fraternity, to be held at the AM
bassador Hotel November 20 to De-
cember /. Arrangements for the
meeting are being made by the local
Alpha Epsilon chapter. Stanley Hay
man, chancellor. Hayman has just
returned from visits TO chapters
throughout the country. He dis.
played motion pictures of Capital at.
fractions. Representatives of each Of
the following chapters visited by Hay.
man are expected to attend the con-
vention: Elizabeth, Newark and Pat.
erson, N. J.; Rochester, Brooklyn,
Far Rockaway. Yonkers and Rich
mond Hill, N. Y; Baltimore, Md, and
Boston, Mass.