Evening star., 1936-03-08
TOMORROW SET
OROYSTER ROAST
Long-DeIayed Trade Board
Party Final Confident of
Food Supply.

Now that oysters are no longer
scarce the annual joint meeting Of
the Public Order and Membership
Committees Of the Washington Board
of Trade will be held tomorrow night
at the Capital Yacht Club, foot of
Eleventh street.
The date will set a precedent; the
meeting will be the latest on the
calendar ever held. all because the
frozen Potomac River caused a short
age of oysters. Heretofore it has been
held in February.
Odell S. Smith. chairman of the
Public Order group, and Wallace B.
Robinson, head of the Membership
Committee, have sent invitations to
group of distinguished guests to
attend the roast.
Officers and directors of the Board
of Trade will share honors with the
specially invited guests.
New Hotel Group Formed.
Hotel men of the city have formed
a new organization-the Hotel Sales
and Promotion Managers-which has
begun a series Of weekly luncheon
meetings, rotating among the hotel
members.
Unique among trade associations,
there are no officers, no dues, no laws.
At the first meeting Harry P. Somer-
vile of the Willard was guest of
hopor Ho u,oc optorto;pod II, L,ye ou,,,
hotel by other local managers.
Primary Law to be Studied.
Study Of the proposed new primary
law for Washington will be resumed
Friday at luncheon at the Harrington
Hotel.
George w, Offutt, chairman of the
Law Committee Of the Washington
Board of Trade, has called a meeting
of the committee for that date.
Mrs. Muchmore to Broadcast.
During the time she will serve as
acting manager of the Better Business
Bureau, Mrs. Sallie P. Muchmore,
merchandise manager, will fill in on
the radio the regular addresses given
by Louis Rothchild, business manager,
who will begin a we'll earned vacation
March Is.
The new manager, Joseph w.
Marshall, will not assume the post
until the first of next month. There
after he will fill Rothchild's weekly
radio engagements.
The unfounded gossip that Wash
ington is crowded and has not facili-
ties to take care of visitors Is being
refuted in many quarters, Curtis
Hodges, director of the Greater Ma
tional Capital Committee. reports.
In the latest issue of the Hotel
World Review is an article setting
forth the real facts. The article is
based on statements made by the
Greater National Capital Committee
and by w. M. Kochenderfer, secre-
tary of the Hotel Association Of
Washington.
Kochenderfer quotes room occu-
pancy percentages of Washington as
compared with percentages in other |
large cities. These figures, which are
gathered by nationally known firm |
of accountants, prove beyond argu-
ment that Washington as compared |
with other cities has ample facilities.
Commenting on the article Hodges |
said: 1T might be pointed out that |
very recently two large conventions |
met in Washington the same time, the
k>- L., IA
Of 3,424. These conventions were the |
Wildlife Institute with q registration |
of 1,424 and the United Mine Workers |
with registration of 1000. There
was no complaint as to the lack Of ac-
commodations for these two meetings.
ut is usually true that once every
four years, at the time of the presi-
dental Inauguration, the crowds are
large, but on that occasion there Is
O tyI,oV |