Evening star., 1938-04-22
c. A. R. TO HOLD
SESSION TONIGHT
Stunt Night Program Will
Be Held Tonight-Three
PiIgrimages Set.

The 43d Annual Convention of
the National Society of the Children
of the American Revolution began to-
day with a breakfast for national
officers, State directors. State pro-
moters. presidents, organizing presi-
dents and State chairmen at Allies
Inn. The breakfast was followed by
a round-table meeting to perfect plans
for the convention.
A stunt night" program will be
held at 8 o'clock tonight in the audi
torium of the Womens War Me-
mortal Building. American Red Cross,
with Mrs. John Morrison Kerr as
chairman and John U. Tate Sd, John
Foster Society of Mississippi, as mas
ter Of ceremonies.
The convention proper will run three
days, tomorrow, Sunday and Monday.
Sunday will be given over to pill
grimages to Mount Vernon. Arlington
National Cemetery and the Capitol,
where . ceremonial will be held.
Mondays program will be given over
entirely ia business Of the society.
The convention will open oficially
with session at 8 am. tomorrow In
Memorial Continental Hall. After an
opening concert by the Marine Band
Orchestra, Capt. Taylor Branson. lead
er, there will be assembly call and
. professional of color bearers and
pages escorting the national officers.
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The convention will be called to
order by the national president Mrs
william H. Pouch, and the invoca-
ton will be delivered by the Rev. F.
Bland Tucker, rector Of St. Johns
Church, Georgetown. The pledge of
allegiance to the flag will be led by
Marilyn Francesca Raleigh of Arkan-
sas, and the Americans Greed. by
William Tyler Page. will be read by
William Tyler Page, Sd. of the Harriet
NJ Lothrop Society of the District Of
Columbia.
The delegates will be welcomed by
Charles Franklin Bellows, Junior State
president of Pennsylvania. with a re-
sponse by Beryl Hague of New Jersey.
Greetings will be delivered by Mrs.
William A. Becker, president general
OF the National Society, Daughters OF
the American Revolution; Messmore
Kendall, president general Of the Ma
tional Society, Sons of the American
Revolution: DR.. Thomas E. Green,
national chaplain of the National So
ciety, Sons OF the American Revolu-
ton; Mrs. Charles Carroll Haig
State regent of the District of Co.
lumbia Society. Daughters OF the
American Revolution. and c. Seymour
Mcconnell, president of the Sons OF
the American Revolution in the Dis
trict.
To Present Banner.
Mr.. Kendall will present q travel.
ing banner to the society as the gift
of his organization. The banner will
be received by Mrs. James Henry
Harper, the State director of the Dis
trict of Columbia. and Miss Mary E
johnson. the State director of New
York. A similar banner, the gift o1
Junior D. A. r. groups, will bt
the State nag of South Carolina, the
presented through Mrs. Pouch. anc
gift Of the Gen. Robert Anderson So
ciety Of South Carolina. will bt
presented by Lula Hammett Orr, jr.
president Of the society.
Delegates will be received at th<
White House by Mrs. Roosevelt a
| IL am. tomorrow.
There will be an afternoon ses'
sion. beginning at 80 o'clock, and ,
reception and dinner dance at ga!
pm. in the Sulgrave Club, Eighteenth
street and Massachusetts avenue NV