Evening star., 1937-04-11
EXPLAINED
BY K. OF c. BAND
Will Be Given April 29-Pro.
Ceeds to Be Used to Pur-
chase Uniforms.

Plans are being completed for the
first annual concert by the newly or
ganized Knights of Columbus Band at
the Knights of Columbus Club, el8
Tenth street, the Thursday evening
Of April 20. The proceeds will be
used to purchase uniforms and equip
ment for the band.
The concert is being sponsored BY
the Knights of Columbus Boosters
Club, of which District Deputy James
McKeon is president William Vogel-
son of Keane Council, is the organizer
and manager of the band.
Grand Knight Charles J. Considine
OF Potomac Council has announced
that the feature Of the meeting to-
morrow will be a debate by members
Of the council. The question to be
discussed is: Resolved, that the
twenty-second amendment to the
Constitution of the United States
should be ratified" This is the famous
Child Labor Amendment. The af-
flrmative will be discussed by Walter
I. Plant and J. Harry Byrne, while
the negative will be argued by two of
the younger members of the council,
John Byrne and Edward l.. Diamond.
The judges will be Henry l. Quinn,
president Of the District of Columbia
Bar Association, and member of the
School Board; Charles Fahy, member,
National Labor Relations Board, and
Martin j. Mcnamara, Washington at
torney. Past Grand Knight Edward
l.. Tucker will act as chairman. The
debate will start at 9 pm, and will be
open to prospective members.
The annual communion mass fer
members in Washington will be held
April 18 at 8 am. in st. Matthews
Church. Rev. Edward H Roach, as
sistant pastor, will be the celebrant of
the mass. The sermon will be deliv-
cred by Dr. George johnson, professor
Of education at the Catholic Uni
versity of America.
Following the mass there will be a
communion breakfast at the May
flower Hotel,
Julian I. Cromeline, grand knight
Of Washington Council. will preside AT
meeting Of Washington Council
Tuesday evening at 8:l5 O'Clock. Plans
will be announced for the exempif-
cation Of the third degree May 2. to
be participated in by the five local
councils.
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April l8 at 8:15 o'clock the knights
Of Columbus Of Washington, in CO.
operation with the United Irish So
cieties Of the District, will present "A
Night in Ireland" in which will be
featured Irish folk songs and dances
in native costume. Miss Helen Lam
dreth, author, has been invited as
guest speaker and the Minister of the
Irish Free State and Mrs. Michael
MacWhite. have been invited to be
guests Of honor. The affair is spon-
sored by the Travel Club of tbs
knights Of Columbus.
Francis J. Rafferty,, faithful naN.
gator of Washington General Assem-
bly,, Fourth Degree, will preside at a
meeting April 19 at Sis o'clock at
the Mayflower Hotel
Following the meeting the Pam
American Anyways will present "Blaz-
ing the Lindberg Trail motion pic
ture dealing with South American
countries and which are of vital in
! terest to members of the order.
| Rev. Joseph E. Gedra, assistant pas
tor of the Church of the Immaculate
Conception and chaplain of Carroll
Council. will speak at meeting of
that council April 20 with view to
the organization of the Knights of
Columbus Study Club.
| The annual retreat for members Of
| the Knights Of Columbus will be held
at Manresa- on -the-Severn, at An
napolis, Md, beginning May and
continuing until Sunday evening, May
8. Members of the order desiros of
making the trip have been invited to
register at the local club house.
| Alfred Paul Neff will conduct a
bingo social in the Knights OF Colum-
bus Club next Saturday evening.
Because next Sunday morning the
annual communion mass will be held.
John .. Allen, grand commander of
Alcantara Caravan, Order of Alham-
bra, has announced the proposed
ladies night, scheduled for next
Saturday evening, has been Cancelled.
A new date will be established at
meeting of the divan this week.
A meeting of the caravan was held
in its club rooms at the Willard Ho-
tel last Monday evening at which re-
ports were received relative to the
forthcoming annual convention in At
lantic City on September Is, l9
/ and 20.