Evening star., 1939-04-23
p ans Finished
For Red Cross
Convention
Roosevelt and Hull
Among Speakers
On Program


With the red and white banner Of
the American Red Cross flying
throughout the downtown section
along with the Stars and Stripes,
plans were completed yesterday fer
the opening tomorrow of the four
day annual national convention of
the American Red Cross.
President Roosevelt will speak to
the 5000 or more delegates from the
south portico of the White House
at 5 pm. Tuesday.
Secretary of State Hull will be the
principal speaker at the dinner
Tuesday night at the Mayflower Hc-
tel, commemorating the 18th ami
versary of the formation of the
treaty of Geneva, under which the
International Red Cross and ma
tional societies operate.
Another address will be made by
Chairman Norman H. Davis of the
American Red Cross at the conven-
tion's opening session tomorrow
morning at Constitution Hal!
Junior Red Cross Sessions.
Concurrently, 800 high school boys
and girls, representing a total men,
bership of more than 100000 boys
and girls, will be here for the Junior
Red Cross Convention, which opens
tomorrow afternoon in the new In
terror Department Auditorium. The
session will last four days.
Delegates were arriving from many
sections of the country yesterday.
Registration will be under way at
the headquarters of the Red Cross,
on Seventeenth street, from 9 am.
to 9 pm.
Various sessions of the two con-
ventions will be spread ouv over four
days, and into 10 different buildings,
including national headquarters,
District of Columbia Chapter
House, Constitution Hall, Memorial
Continental Hall, Mayflower Hotel,
new and old Interior Department
Buildings, Chamber of Commerce
of the United States, Corcoran Gal
ler'' of Art and the Belasco Theater.
The opening program. tomorrow
morning will start with registration
from 9 to GAS am. The United
States Marine Band, under direc-
ton of Second Leader William F..
Santelmann, will feature the Amer
ican Red Cross March" in a half
hour concert. The Georgetown Uni
versity Glee Club, conducted by DR..
Edward P. Donovan, will give a re-
cltal during the first plenary session.
Davis Will Speak.
Roy l. Neal, chairman of the Ma
con CGao Red Cross chapter, will
act as convention chairman and
preside at all general sessions. =,
Approximately 400 Red Cross
volunteers, dressed in colored uni
forms symbolic of various Red Cross
services, will lend an impressive
note of color to this opening ses-
sion when they march into Con-
stitution Hall at the conclusion of
the Marine Band concert. Chair
man Davis will convene the dele
gates in formal session, and the
Right Rev. James E. Freeman,
Bishop of Washington, will give the
invocation.
In addition to Mr. Davis opening
address, others will be given, to-
morrow morning by the Rev. FL
more Mckee, rector of st. Georges
Church, New York; Ernest J. Swift,
Red Cross vice chairman in charge
of insular and foreign operations,
who will speak on Two Red Cross
Anniversaries and by Charles NJ
DAILY, jr, of Hartford, Conn, who,
representing the Junior Red Cross,
will speak on The Junior Red
Cross in the High School,"
At tomorrow afternoons session
in Memorial Continental Hall DR..
Georges Patry, representative of the
International Red Cross Committee
in Geneva, will discuss Our Treaty
Responsibilities" and will stress Red
Cross developments through the IS
years since formation of the treaty
of Geneva, under which the Inter-
national Red Cross and national So
cieties operate Eliot Wadsworth,
a member of the American Red
Cross Central Committee, will speak
on Our Charter Responsibilities, -
and Brig. Gen. George P. Tyner,
assistant chief of staff. United States
Army, will discuss the relationship
between the American Red Cross
and the Army in war and peace.
James K. McClintock, Red Cross
vice chairman for financial affairs,
will speak on the organization S
financial responsibilities.
Dinner Dance Tomorrow.
Junior Red Cross delegates will
open their convention tomorrow
afternoon in the new Interior De-
partment auditorium and will have
their convention dinner dance that
evening at the Mayflower Hotel.
Surg. Gen. Thomas Parran of the
United States Public Health Serv-
ice will speak on Health Needs
of the Nation" on Tuesday morning
at the conventions general session
Miss Mary Beard, recently appoint
ed director of the Red Cross Nurs-
ing Service, will speak on '"The
Nurses Part" in connection with the
conventions survey of the Nations
health conditions, while Private
Initiative and Public Health" will
be discussed by DR.. Frank G. Bou.
dreau, director of the Milbank Me.
mortal Fund. New York.
Preceding Secretary Hull's address
at the convention dinner Tuesday
evening a second concert will bt
given by the Marine Band. Mr.
Davis will preside as toastmaster
and an address will be given on "Tht
American Red Cross-Past, PresenI
and Future" by Miss Mabel Board
man of Washington.
Miss Boardman, who was largely
instrumental in the development O.
the present organization since 1T
charter was granted by Congress il
1905, will emphasize the influence
the American society has had OF
| po1icieS of the International RAf