Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-05-18
Democratic Women
Will Hold Rally
Thursday, May Is
Mrs. Henry F. Grady, Of
California, To Address
Spring Meet At Bethesda

Mrs. Henry f. Grady, Democratic
National committeewoman from Cali
fcrnia, will be the principal speaker
at the annual spring rally and
luncheon of the United Democratic
Women's Clubs of Maryland, Thurs
day, May %, at the Congressional
Country Club near Bethesda.
Other speakers at the luncheon
which will be presided over by Mrs.
Frances E. McFadden, of Mount
Rainier, chairman Of the State
group, will be Governor Herbert r.
OConor, and Undersecretary of State
Sumner Welles.
Among those who have accepted
invitations to attend are Mrs.
OConor and Mrs. Welles, Mrs. Mil
lard E. Tydings, wife of the senior
Senator from Maryland, United
States Senator George L. Radcliffe;
Mrs. Henry Wallace, wife of the
Secretary of Agriculture, Fourth
Assistant Postmaster General Smith
W. Purdum and Mrs. Purdum; Rep
resentative William D. Byron and
Mrs. Byron; Representative Lans-
dale C. Sasscer and Mrs. Sasscer,
Mayor Howard w. Jackson and Mrs.
jackson; Attorney General William
C. Walsh and Mrs. Walsh; State
Comptroller Willard Tawes and Mrs.
Tawes; Judge Elizabeth R. Menefee
and Judge Joseph Mattingly.
Senator Tydings will be unable to
attend because of an out-of-town
speaking engagement.
The program will include vocal
selections by Mrs. Dorothy Beatty
Mitchell Of Chevy Chase, who will
be accompanied by Mrs. F. F. Elliott,
also of Chevy Chase.
Mrs. Brewer L. Stouffer of Hagers-
town, Western Maryland, chairman
of the United Democratic Women's
Clubs is general chairman, and Mrs.
Ralph A. Wells, chairman of the
Woman's Democratic Club of Mont
gomery County, is in charge OF
arrangements.
Other committees are as follows:
reception committee: Mrs. Charles E.
Roach, Friendship, Heights, chair
man, Mrs. E. A. Merritt, Chevy
Chase, Mrs. Roger Shaw, Rockville,
Mrs. Alfred ]. Steffen, Chevy Chase,
Mrs. Robert C. Lyddane, Takoma
Park, Mrs. Phillip ]. Fischer, Leland,
Mrs. Charles Y. Latimer, Takoma
Park, Mrs. Robert M. Poole, Silver
Spring, Mrs. Irene Christopher, Be-
thesda, Mrs. John B. Diamond, 3rd,
Silver Spring, Miss Ruth Shoemaker,
Bethesda, Mrs. Edith P. Allnutt,
Rockville, Mrs. Charles Allies, Chevy
Chase, Mrs. Lawrence D. Wolfe,
Hagerstown, Mrs. Fannie B. King,
Frederick, Mrs. F. Edmonds, Cum
berland, Mrs. Harry Hutson, Hagers-
town, Miss Louise Mcpherson, Thur
mont, Mrs. Alice Hutzell, Sharps-
burg, Mrs. S. Rinehart Cohill, Han
cock, Mrs. Clark Siebert, Clear
Spring, Mrs. Naomi Harsh Taylor,
Williamsport. Decorations committee
Miss Laura Gilliland, Chevy
Chase, Chairman, Mrs. Alfred j.
Steffen, Chevy Chase, Co-Chairman,
Mrs. John B. Diamond, Jr., Gathers
brug, Mrs. F. Eliot Middleton, Be-
thesda, Mrs. Howard Griffith, Silver
Spring, Mrs. E. A. Merritt, Chevy
Chase. Ticket committee = Mrs.
Townley E. Gamble, Silver Spring,
Chairman, Mrs. Hex Ware, Takoma
Park, Miss Margaret Jones, Rock
Vlue' Mrs. T. Marshall Duff, Chevy
chase, Mrs. John White, Brentwood,
MRS. Annie E. Elliott, Baltimore,
MRS. Charles Mask, Hagerstown,
Mrs. Marguerite Keys, Dundalk,
Mrs Mayne Collins, Crisfeld. Print
lng-Mrs. M. X. Varnell, Chevy
chase, chairman, and Mrs. Brewer
+ Stouffer, Hagerstown and pub
hclty-Mrs. E. Paul Clark, Silver
Spring.