Evening star., 1935-04-07
LARGER SERVICE
RED CROSS TOPIC
Four.Day Sessions Open
Tomorrow With 1000
Delegates Here.

Expansion Of Red Cross services to
meet greater demands Of the public
will be the major topic of discussion
at the four-day sessions of the annual
convention of the American Red Cross
opening at 10 am tomorrow in Me-
mortal Continental Hall
Greater attendance than at any
previous Red Cross convention is fore
cast, with approximately 1000 Senior
and Junior Red Cross delegates indi-
eating they will be present.
Important objectives for 1885 to be
acted upon are launching flrst-aid
program to attack the problem of the
mounting toll of accidental deaths;
increasing home hygiene and care of
the sick instruction, to safeguard the
health Of the home, and strong chap
ter preparedness for disaster relief.
The convention will offer the first
opportunity for chapter executives to
Grayson who will preside at the open
ing session, and later turn the gavel
over to the convention chairman, to
be elected by delegates.
Delegates will be received at the
WQlCe Dy MIS. H.
Roosevelt at pm. Tuesday.
General Sessions Public.
All general sessions of the conven-
ton will be held in Memorial Conti-
mental Hall. and are open to the pub
Lie.
A half-hour concert by the United
States Army Band Orchestra, Lieut..
Thomas F. Darcy, jr., leader, will pre-
cede the opening session; the invoca-
ton will be by Rev. Frederick B. Har-
ris, pastor of Foundry Methodist
Church. An address by Chairman
Grayson will follow. DR.. Edward C..
Elliott, president of Purdue Univer-
sity, Lafayette. Ind, will speak. Seven
million Junior Red Cross members
will be heard through their spokesman,
Miss Linnea Anderson of Tacoma,
Wash, 18-year-old high school girl. A
memorial service, with tribute by
Bishop James E. Freeman, to the late
chairman, John Barton Payne, will
conclude the session.
Group meetings scheduled tomorrow
afternoon are: Central Committee, ma
tional headquarters and round table
conferences on chapter problems.
Vice Chairman James L. FieSer OF
the Red Cross and Donald r. Rich
berg, executive director of the National
Emergency Council, will be the speak
ers at the night session in Memorial
Continental Hall
Tuesday mornings general session
will be addressed by Dr. Thomas w.
Gosling. national director of Junior
Red Cross; James T. Nicholson, man
ager of the Chicago Chapter, and S.
M. Lauderdale, safety engineer of the
Governments emergency conserva-
ton work.
The most elaborate round table con-
ference of the convention will be held
at lis pm. Tuesday in Memorial
Continental Hall, with Miss Mabel T.
Boardman presiding. 1t will be a
panel meeting, with each group OF
volunteer Red Cross workers repre-
sented in uniform.
Hours of Two Events.
Mrs. Roosevelt's reception occurs at
4 to pm, and the convention din
ner at 7 pm. in the Mayflower Hotel
ball room. Chairman Grayson will
be the toastmaster, and Msgr. Edward
L. Buckley of st. Matthews Church
will give the invocation. Speakers
will be: Jesse H. Jones, chairman OF
the r. F. c., member of the Red Cross
World War Council; Senator James
r. Byrnes of South Carolina and Sec
retary Henry A. Wallace Of the De-
partment of Agriculture. Mrs. Flora
McGill Keefer will sing.
The general session wednesday
morning will be addressed by DR..
Michael M. Davis, director Of medi-
cal services of the Julius Rosenwald
Fund. on Factors Essential for So
cial Security; Miss Katharine F..
Lenroot, chief of the Children's Bu-
reau, "A New Deal for American
Childhood" and Robert E. Bondy, Red
Cross director of disaster and civilian
relief, THE Red Cross Part in So
cial Security"
Roll call for membership will be
the subject of the Wednesday after
noon session, Douglas Griesemer. di-
rector Of roll CALL presiding. Speak
ers will be Lieut. Col. Jacob S. Clln-
ton, Schnectady County, N. Y, Chap
ter. and Mrs. Marion C. Adams, Nor
folk Chapter.
Two entertainments are scheduled
for Wednesday night. A water
pageant, Swimming Through Life"
will be staged for Junior Red Cross
delegates in the Shoreham pool. un-
der direction of Commodore w. E.,
Longfellow, Red Cross first-aid and
hfe-saving instructor. Senior delegates
are invited to a playlet, "The Proof
of the Pudding" presented by pub
lie health nursing and home hygiene
staff, in the District of Columbia
Chapter house. Moving pictures of
the recent International Red Cross
Conference in Toxic will be shown,
and Miss Boardman will describe the
conference.
The closing plenary session Thurs
day morning will be addressed by for
mer Gov. John Gilbert Winant of
New Hampshire and DR.. Thomas E.
Green of the Red Cross. Committee
reports will be heard and resolutions
adopted.