Evening star., 1935-05-26
SHRINE HOSPITAL
MEETING PLANNED
Officials Map Business Pro-
gram for 9,0O0,0 900
Enterprise.

Preliminary plans for the annual
meeting of the board of directors of
the Shriners' Crippled Children's Hos
pitals, to be held here June to 8,
prior to the Imperial Shrine Conclave,
are being made by conference OF
national Shrine officials at Almas
Temple.
Sessions of the committee opened
Yesterday and will be continued today
to plan the business program for the
Hospital Board, which directs Is hos
pitals throughout the country.
In the conference are w. Freeland
Kendrick of Philadelphia, chairman
of the Hospital Board; James H.
Price, Lieutenant Governor of Vir-
ginia, who is imperial recorder of the
Shrine. and Leonard P. Steuart OF
this city. deputy imperial potentate,
who will be elevated to imperial po-
tentate during the Shrine conclave.
In their hospitals, the nearest one
OF which Is at Philadelphia, the
Shriners, 1t was explained by Ken
drick yesterday. have an investment
of more than s9,0o0,00o. These hos
pitals have effected cure or improve
ment In 1880 cases and have treated
$4,000 more in the out-patient de-
partment, or clinics, of their hos
pitals.
s1,0OO.0OO Per Year.
The annual operating expenses are
about $l,0o000O raised in part by a
contribution of 81 each by members
of the Shrine throughout the country.
Another important meeting OF
Shrine leaders, which, however, will
be separate from the imperial con-
clave itself, will be held here Mon
day, June 10, at the Raleigh Hotel
the Recorders Association of the
Shrine.
In announcing this gathering,
Robert P. Smith, director general OF
the Shrine Convention Committee.
explained the recorders association
had been founded by F. Lawrence
Walker of this city. who has been re-
corder Of Almas Temple for many
years. Walker was president of the
recorders association for three years.
Officers at present who will parti-
cipate in the recorders session here
June 10 include Schuyler c. Peck of
Denver, president; Louis M. Donna
tin. New York City. first vice presi-
dent; w. Howard Millington, Pitts
burg. Kans.. second vice president:
James S. Gould, Minneapolis, third
vice president, and Albert Ellis, Wich-
ita Falls, Tex. secretary treasurer.
To Make Recommendations.
The recorders will hold a business
meeting regarding the membership of
temples. rules and regulations and
ways and means of making them more
efficient and more serviceable. The
recorders will make recommendations
to the Shrine Imperial Council, but
has no power 20 act officially for the
council.
Meanwhile, sale of seats in the
grandstands along the line of march
continued rapidly. Construction of
these seats will go forward this week,
providing accommodations from the
intersection of Constitution and
Pennsylvania avenues to Seventeenth
street and Pennsylvania avenue.
Plans are virtually complete for the
ceremonial to be held tomorrow when
Almas Temple will induct class of
about 100 candidates into membership
so they may have full privileges as
Shriners during the conclave.
New uniforms have arrived for the
six marching units of Almas, and will
be on public display for the first time.
After a business meeting tomorrow
evening at Almas Temple, the march
ing units will form an escort for
Potentate Smith. and the class of
novitiates. to march to the Mayflower
Hotel. where the work will be conferred.
Singer to Be Heard.
Miss Melba Abbott, coloratura Lyric
soprano, will be one of the artists on
the program of the Imperial Council
banquet Tuesday night, June II. She
will be heard in number of other
Shrine features during the week of
the convention.
Miss Abbott is well known to radio
listeners, having won first prize in the
Atwater Kent contest in 1927. Her
solo work with a group of musicians
from the Boston Symphony Orchestra
brought her such recognition that she
has been soloist with many orchestras
throughout New England, and lately
with the Women's Symphony Orches-
ira Of Philadelphia and the Frankford
Symphony Orchestra of Pennsylvania.