Evening star., 1935-04-14
HONORARY POSTS
:G|VEN2BY D.A.R.
Mrs. Hodgkins and Mrs. Joy
EIeCted-MemberS Are
5 Registering.
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be Attorney General Homer S. Cum
mings and Mrs. Russell William Mag
ma, retiring president general. Ses-
sions will continue through the week,
closing with the annual banquet Satur-
day night at the Mayf1ower Hotel.
Election yesterday of the two hon
orary vice presidents general resulted
after prolonged balloting.
Mrs. Hodgkins is charter member,
holding membership No. 113, and was
regent of the first chapter in the Dis
trict of Columbia. She held the Office
Of recording secretary general and
vice president general.
Mrs. Joy, who is now retiring as
recording secretary general, has often
been urged to run for president gen.
eral. but declined.
Confirmation Provided.
Others who ran for the two offices
of honorary vice president general
were Mrs. CaSSius Cottle of Califor-
mia, Mrs. Alvin v. Lane, Texas; Mrs.
Edmund P. Moody, Delaware, and
olina.
Election of the two honorary vice
presidents general is to be confirmed
by the society as a whole.
Another contest is for the offices of
seven vice presidents general for which
there are 10 candidates. These candi-
dates are: Mrs Charles I. Kent. Della
ware; Mrs. Theodore StraWn, Florida;
Mrs. Asa c. Messenger, Ohio; Mrs.
Robert H. Gibbes, New York; Mrs.
Zebulon Judd. Alabama; Mrs. James
H. Mcdonald. Michigan; Mrs. William
H. Alexander, Pennsylvania; Miss
Nancy H. Harris, Massachusetts,; Mrs.
Charles E. Johnson, Vermont; Mrs.
H. w. Patton, Washington.
Committee Meets Tonight.
Todays informal program includes
the annual breakfast of the National
Chairmen's Association. to be held at
the Willard Hotel. Tonight a meet
ing of the Constitution Hall Commit
tee will be held at $50, in the pres
ident generals reception room in Con-
stitution Hall, when Mrs. Magma hopes
to announce payment of the debt on
the great auditorium.
Tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 in the
banquet room of Memorial Cont
mental Hall the annual national de-
fense meeting of the society will be
presided over by Mrs. Becker. candi-
date for president general and chair
man of the National Defense Com
mittee.
The formal opening tomorrow night
will be musical. colorful and profuse
with flowers. The United States Ma
rine Band Orchestra, in dress uni
form. under leadership of Capt. Tay-
lor Branson, will open the ceremonies
with concert from to $50 o'clock
Radio Star to Sing.
Jessica Dragonette. we'll known
radio star, will sing several numbers.
Greetings will be extended by repre-
sentatives of the District of Columbia
and several patriotic societies prior to
the principal addresses by the Attor-
ney General and Mrs. Magma.
A new feature of the opening ses-
sion will be presentation to the con-
gress of the winners of the D. A r.
good citizen pilgrimage and awarding
OF the Magma D. A. r. Medals for
good citizenship.
Besides the exercises of the Cont
mental Congress itself outstanding
features of the week will consist of
memorial exercises on Good Friday
for members who have died during
the year, pllgrimageS to Arlington,
where wreath will be placed on the
grave of the Unknown Soldier, and to
Mount Vernon. where tribute will be
paid to George and Martha Wash
ington. During the visit to Arlington
marker in honor of Hugh Auld, a
Revolutionary soldier, will be dedi-
Gated. The remains of this patriot
recently have been brought from the
Eastern Shore of Maryland and re-
inferred in the National Cemetery.
Following a previous press confer
ence by Mrs. Gillentine, who had out
lined her policies as candidate for
president general Mrs. Becker yester-
day explained principles of her cam
paign at press conference yesterday
ut the Hotel Mayf1ower.
Mrs. Magma Is HonOred
Yesterdays functions included
meeting of Mrs. Magnas administra-
ton, in Memorial Continental Hall,
when a luncheon in honor of the re-
tiring president general was served in
the banquet hall. The National Off
GERS Club, composed of women who
at some time have served the society
as national officers, held its banquet
last night at the Mayfower, following
its annual meeting and luncheon
Friday at the national headquarters.
The program for the weeks sessions
has been arranged by the committee
OF which Mrs. G. Wallace Hanger is
chairman, Mrs. Charles H. Bissell and
Miss Jane Randolph Young, vice
chairmen. and including other men,
bers, Mrs. E. G. Bowman. Mrs James