Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-09
ZOO RED CROSS
DELEGATES MEET
HERE TOMORROW
Is Foreign Countries to Be
Represented at Four.
Day Convention.
FLOOD RELIEF WORK
WILL BE- DRAMATIZED
Movies, Pageantry and Sketches
Of Disaster Activity to Be
Open to Public.
More than 1000 delegates are ex-


More than 1000 delegates are ex-
pected for the four-day annual con-
vention Of the American Red Cross,
which opens at 10 am tomorrow in
Memorial Continental Hall, Seven
teenth street between c and D streets
Eighteen foreign countries members
Of the International Committee of the
Red Cross, will be represented by EN-
bassy and legation staffs, who will &C.
cupy boxes.
A dramatic presentation of Red
Gross and governmental relief activi-
ties In behalf Of the victims of the
Ohio and Mississippi Valleys flood Of
last January and February will feature
the convention Motion pictures,
pageantry and sketches by radio stars
will give reality to this drama Of dis
aster, which is open to the public. 1t
begins at pm. tomorrow in Consti-
tuition Hall, Eighteenth street be-
tween c and D streets.
The narrator will be Hugh Conrad,
voice Of the March of Time" radio
program. Players from Station WLW,
Cincinnati, will present program
showing how their station played a
vital part in rescue and relief as the
Ohio River flood waters spread over
the streets and into the buildings OF
downtown Cincinnati.
Gen. Craig to Speak
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and the Red Gross will be wildly de-
picted and described. Speakers will
include Gen. Malin Craig chief OF
staff, U. s. A.: Rear Admiral r. r.
Waesche, commandant of the Coast
Guard: Administrator Harry L. Hop
kins OF the w. P. A., Assistant Surg.
Gen. w. F. Draper, United States
Public Health Service; Senator Bark
ley OF Kentucky, James L. Fieser, vice
chairman of the Red Cross; Dewitt
Smith, general director of Red Cross
relief, and Howard French, Evans
Vile, Ind, scnoolboy. who saw the
Hood.
Another unusual event of the con-
vention will be a dinner Tuesday
Miss Mabel T, Boardman, secretary
of the American Red Cross, on COM
pletion Of 81 years Of volunteer service
to the organization. She is national
director OF Volunteer Service.
Admiral Cary T. Grayson, chairman
OF the Red Cross will be POSTMASTER.
Rev. Arthur A. OLeary, S. j., pres
ident of Georgetown University. will
give the invocation. Speakers will
include Assistant Secretary of State
Moore. Vieompte Bonabes de Rouge OF
France, secretary general of the
League Of Red Cross Societies, who
will convey the greetings of 81 other
nations to Miss Boardman, and Mrs.
August Belmont of New York
Girl to Bring Greetings.
Colin Herrie will convey the greet
ings of the Red Cross staff throughout
the United States, and Betty Ward,
Fairfield, Conn, school girl, will bring
greetings from 100000 members OF
the American Junior Red Cross
Music will be by the Navy Band, Alex
ander Morris, assistant leader, con-
Quoting. An historical review of
notable events from the Red Cross
past he's been arranged for the dinner.
Brig. Gen. Frank r. Keefer, chair
man Of the District chapter of the
Red Gross. will preside at the opening
session OF the convention tomorrow.
Celebration this year Of the 25th
anniversary OF Red Cross Public
Health Nursing will be the occasion
for the major address on the opening
program by Miss Elizabeth Gordon
Fox Of Yale University, associate pro-
lessor of nursing education in relation
to public health.
Children from the Embassies and
Legations here then will present
pageant, each child carrying flag
representing his native country. Mem
bers OF the Junior Red Cross of Eliot
Junior High School will sing the Red
Cross song Of service Donald Turner.
from an Omaha, Nebr., high school.
will speak on the purposes of the
Junior Red Cross.
Junior Convention Tuesday.
About 300 high school girls and bows
from all over the United States will
open the Junior Red Cross conven-
ton Tuesday afternoon in the audi
forum in the new Interior Depart.
ment Building.
The adult convention will close
Thursday noon with q luncheon at
the Willard. Gustavus D. Pope. De-
troit. will act as toastmaster for the
affair, which will be broadcast on a
Nationwide network of the National
Broedcasting Co. from 2 pm. to 2:45
pm. Frank B. Moves, president of
both the Associated Press and The
Evening Star Newspaper Co., will
speak. Other speakers are l. r. Lohr,
president Of the National Broadcast.
ing Co., and Will H Hays, president
OF the Motion Picture Producers and
Distributors OF America.
Delegates are invited to a tea ut
4 pm. Tuesday in the Red Cross
house At Walter Reed Hospital by
Mrs. Henry R. Rea, the Gray Ladies
and the Red Cross stan of the hos
pital. The juniors will hold a dinner
dance at 7 pm. Tuesday At the May
flower Hotel.
The late Clara D. Moves. director of
the Red Cross Nursing Service, who
died since the last convention, will
be honored by . memorial service at
the Thursday morning session. Miss
Boardman, Maj. Julia c. Stimson, re-
tired superintendent Of the Army
Nurse Corps, and Mrs. August Belmont
will offer eulogies in Miss Noyes'
memory.
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Girl, 4, Burned at Play.