Evening star., 1936-01-19
PLANS PROGRESS
FOR BOARD DINNER

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"Horse and Buggy Days"
to Feature New York
Entertainers Feb. |.
Plans are almost complete for the
annual mid Winter dinner OF the
Washington Board Of Trade to be held
at the Mayflower Hotel Saturday,
February /.
Karl FARRELL is chairman Of the
committee in charge and the theme Of
the meeting will be Horse and Buggy
Days"
"A distinguished list of Federal and
District officials and diplomats have
been invited to be guests Of honor.
Hayward Marshall, chairman of the
Entertainment Committee. has made
several trips to New York to procure
professional stage and radio perform
ers and arrangements have been made
to have the entire group of enter
tainers come to Washington in spe-
cial car
Plans for the dinner itself have
been completed with Robert Davis as
chairman.
Other subcommittee chairmen are
Thornton w. Owens, souvenirs;
Herman Carl, telephones and ampli-
fiers; Preston w. PerkinSon, advisory
committee; John Saul, invitations;
Robert v. Fleming, reception; Archie
K. Shipe. tickets; Hollis B. Fritts,
floor; Harry P. White. printing; Harry
L. Merrick, publicity; w. Herbert Gill;
property, and William B. Combs,
transportation.
Junior Dinner Wednesday.
The Junior Board of Commerce Is
completing arrangements for its an
nual dinner to be held at the May
flower Wednesday night.
Dr. Harold G. Moulton, president of
the Brookings Institute, will deliver
the address of the evening, and
fathers and senior employers of the
Junior Board members will be honored
guests.
A group of professional entertainers
from local night clubs and radio STU
dioS will present the evenings enter
tainment.
Otis T. Wingo, jr., is chairman of
the General Committee and sub
committees are headed by Corcoran
Thorn, jr.: Loren Cluster, Arthur Gle
phane. Robert w. Wilson and Aloysius
Sheehan.
Flower Style Show Sought.
Albert Barber, executive secretary
OF the Florist Telegraph Delivery
Service, was given a reception at
Washington Airport when he arrived
in Washington last week to confer on
the possibilities of bringing the organ
ization's flower style show to the Cap
ital in 1897.
He was met at the airport by a
group headed by Curtis Hodges, execu-
tive director of the Greater National
Capital Committee; members Of his
staff, group of local florists and
District officials.
The show, which represents close
to $4,000 in flowers and plants, will
mean that the national convention of
the organization will also come here
If suitable arrangements can be made.
d. C. Advertising Studied.
A survey of all Washington adver-
tising, which will continue for a pc
riod Of three months, is being made
by the Better Business Bureau Mrs.
Sallie P. Muchmore, merchandising
manager announced last week in her
weekly radio broadcast.
I'VE did not start this survey be-
cause we felt that Washington ad-
vertisers were not being fair with the
public" Mrs. Muchmore said ITO
the contrary. we know that the great
majority of our merchants are being
perfectly honest with their customers,
and because they are honest they
have your confidence. Our purpose is
to give this Office a more complete
picture of advertising over a period of
time.
After we have catalogued it and
attempted to digest it. we are going
to present the facts to our Merchan-
disc Advisory Committee, a group of
merchants from all fields. It may be
that the survey will bring out the
need for more stringent standards for
accurate advertising. and then again
1t may bring out that some of the
standards under which the bureau op-
crates are not necessary"
Diplomats to Speak.
Count Robert van der Straten-
Ponthoz, the Belgian Ambassador;
James Gustavus Whiteley, Belgian
counsul-general at Baltimore, and
Francis B. Sayre, Assistant Secretary
Of State, will be the speakers at the
monthly meeting of the Washington
Board of Trade to be held Tuesday
at 8 pm. at the Mayflower Hotel.
Members of the Foreign Relations
ana Affairs Committees of the House
and Senate, the staff of the Belgian
Embassy. officials of the Belgian
Chamber of Commerce at New York,
the United States Chamber of Com
merce and the State and Commerce
Departments will be guests.
The meeting will be devoted to a
celebration Of the first reciprocal
trade agreement signed between the
United States and a country of Europe.
A buffet supper will follow the
meeting.
Yule Prizes Awarded.
Prize winners in the annual Christ
mas home decorations contest spon-
sored by the Junior Board of Com
merce received their awards at