Evening star., 1937-04-20

Alabama Society Of Washington
will be held Thursday evening
Il at the Willard Hotel at 9
o'clock, when the Alabama delegates
to the D. A. R. Congress and prom
inent women in official circles of
Washington will be the guests Of
honor.
Included in the Alabama delegation
to the D. A. r. Congress will be Mrs.
Zebulon Judd, national vice president
general; Mrs. E. A. Richey, Alabama
vice regent; Mrs. E. R. Barnes, State
regent-elect; Mrs. r. H. Woodrow,
president, Daughters of 1872; Mrs.
James C. Bonner, chairman, Good
Citizenship Committee; Miss Helen
Gaines, State treasurer, and large
number of Alabama women who will
attend as delegates and alternates, as
we'll as a group Of young women who
will serve as pages.
Among the prominent women who
have accepted invitations are Miss
Frances Perkins, Secretary Of Labor;
Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, director,
Bureau of the Mint; Mrs. Marion
Banister, Assistant Treasurer of the
United States; Mrs Ellen S. Wood
ward, assistant, Works Progress Ad-
ministration; Mrs. Jewel SWofford,
chairman, United States Employees
Compensation Commission; Miss Stella
Akin, Assistant United States Attorney
General; Judge Marion j. Harron,
United States Board of Tax Appeals;
Senator Hattie Caraway, Mrs. Carroll
L. Stewart Mrs. Lucy S. Howarth and
Mrs. Laura S. Brown, members Of the
board Of appeals, Veterans Admins
tration.
Senator and Mrs. Claude Pepper,
Senator and Mrs. Josh Lee and Mrs.
w. w. Hubbard, president, National
Women's Democratic Club, will also
attend.
Following the reception the guests
of honor will be escorted to boxes and
later in the evening will be presented
to the members of the society and
their friends by Representative Lister
Hill of Alabama.
Mr.. Alphonse Lucas, president of
the society, and Mr.. Ira Balm, chair
man of the Floor Committee, have
invited a group of young men and
young women to assist them as hosts
at the Spring ball, among whom are
Miss Frances Boykin, daughter OF
Representative and Mrs. Frank Boy
kin; Miss Dorothy Patterson, Miss
Juanita Buchanan, Miss Nan Fox,
Mr.. Louie De Mouey, Miss Jean Badly,
Mr.. Hollis Black, Mr.. E. E. Cox and
Mr.. Roy Dimmitt, jr.
THE Massachusetts, Society will cele-
brate Patriots day, the celebration
Of the anniversary Of the day when
Paul Revere made his famous ride,
with a formal dancing party and
entertainment in the main ball room
of the Wardman Park Hotel, this eve
ming. Mrs Frank L. Norton of Scituate,
State regent of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, and her staff
will be present. The ladies' committee
OF the society, with Miss Josephine
Wunder as chairman, are in charge OF
arrangements, and many patriotic
novelties in keeping with the day will
be introduced during the evening,
among them being the Paul Revere
dance.
The high light of the evening will be
q talk by the junior Senator from the
Bay State, Mr.. Henry Cabot Lodge,
jr., who will talk on Lexington and
Concord. The guests will also be en-
tertained by the Children Of the
American Revolution, as we'll as q
native son, the well-known baritone,
MIR. Robert Sheehan from Stoneham,
now a student at the School for
Foreign Service at Georgetown. A
delegation of the Sons Of the American
Revolution will also be present. All
former residents and visitors from
Massachusetts, are cordially invited to
attend. Guest tickets may be obtained
from the secretary of the society, Mrs.
Leon Chagnon at $500 K street.
I>HE sugar party of the Vermont
State Association will be held
Tuesday evening, May 4, at the Wash
tngton Club, 1701 K street northwest,
at $50 o'clock.
This annual event will not be a
dinner, but an old-fashioned sugaring-
off party, with sirup, hot biscuits,
pickles, doughnuts, sage cheese and
coffee.
There will be short program, in
which Judge Wendell P. Stafford has
promised to take part. The program
will be followed by music and dancing.
Officers of the association are Mrs.
Charles Webb, moderator; Mr.. Phillip
Hooker, town clerk; Mr.. Hugh Smith.