Evening star., 1938-12-17
Woodring Children
To Represent U. 5.
In Broadcast
Juvenile Christmas
Program Will Be
Given Tuesday

Marcus and Melissa Woodring,
children of Secretary of War and
Mrs. Woodring, will represent the
United States in world wide
broadcast of the seventh annual
international children's Christmas
program, to be presented at pm
Tuesday over station WMAL.
In the program, which is being
staged by the Greater National
Capital Committee of the Washing
ton Board of Trade and the Ma
tional Broadcasting Co., the Wood
ring children will be among the 27
sons and daughters of foreign diplo-
mats in Washington who will par
ticipate in the program. Originat-
Ing in the Shoreham Hotel, the
broadcast will be relayed nationally
over the blue network" and inter-
nationally over short wave stations
W3XAL at Bound Brook, N. j., and
W8XK at Pittsburgh.
Speaking first in their own Ian
.-euage and later in English. each
child will send Christmas greetings
to children of the United States
and to those in their native lands.
The Marine Band under the direc-
ton of Capt. Taylor BranSon, will
play the national anthems of coun-
tries whose child representatives are
on the program.
This is the first year that chill
dren of an American official have
taken part in the program and
their participation was planned as
q gesture of international good will.
Among the children who will par
ticipate in the program will be-:
Maurice Lopez, son of Senor Don
Miguel Lopez Pumarejo, the Am
bassador of Colombia; Mary Reel
nos. daughter of Senor DR.. Don
Adrian Recinos, the Minister of
Guatemala; Marjorie Bertha Nor
, genstierne, daughter of Mr. Wilhelm
Munthe de Morgenstierne, the Min
lister of Norway; Teresa Castro,
daughter of Senor Dr. Don Hector
David Castro, the Minister of Ell
Salvador; Mirga Zadeikis daughter
of Mr.. Povilas Zadeikis, the Minis
ter of Lithuania; Pola Fotitch,
daughter of Mr. Constantin Fo-
itch, Minister of Yugoslavia: Llama
De Bayle. daughter of Senor Don
Leon De Bayle, the Minister of Mic
-aragua; Robert Patrick Brennan,
son of Mr.. Robert Brennan, the
Minister of Ireland.
Amr Hassan, son of Mahmoud
Hassan Bey, the Minister of Egypt:
Maria Teresa Cosmelli, daughter of
Signor Giuseppe Cosmelli, Charge
d'Affaires ad interim of the Italian
Embassy; Cesar Caceres, son of
Senor DR.. Don Julian R. Caceres,
Charge dAffaires ad interim of the
Honduras Legation; Paul Wan
kowicz, son of Mr.. Witold Wan
kowicz, Counselor of the Polish EN-
bassy: Neils Eickhoff, son of Mr.
Wilhelm Eickhoff, Counselor of the
Danish Legation; Mary Riddell
daughter of DR.. Walter A. Riddell
Counselor of the Canadian Legation;
Blanka Brejska, daughter of DR..
Iaarol Borjska, Counselor of the
Czecho-Slovakia Legation; Charles
Lombard, son of 1t. Col Emmanuel
Lombard, Military Attache of the
French Embassy; Stella Maris Zanni,
daughter of Col. Pedro Zanni, Mill
tary Attache of the Argentine EN-
basSy; Nicolau Bina Machado. son
OF Maj. Jose Bina Machado, Military
Attache of the Brazilian Embassy;
Elizabeth Pirie, daughter of Group
Capt. G. c. Pirie, Air Attache of the
British Embassy; Gisela and Dieter
Tannenberg, daughter and son of
Herr Wilhelm Tannenberg, First
Secretary of the German Embassy.
Raimundo Cuervo, son of Senor Don
Ralmundo Cuervo. Second Secretary
OF the Mexican Embassy; Jacueline
van Troostenburg de Bruyn, daugh-
Ter OF Mr.. A. F. H. van Troosten-
burg de Bruyn, First Secretary of
the Netherlands Legation; Leon
Leonard, son of Mr.. Charles Leonard
Assistant Agricultural Attache of the
Belgian Embassy; Sachiko limbo
daughter of Shuzo limbo, Attache
OF the japanese Embassy.