Evening star., 1940-05-05
Red Cross 10 Open
Annual Convention
Here Tomorrow
Relief Activities in
Europe's War Zones
Will Be Outlined

Relief activities Of the American
Red Cross in Europes war zones
will be outlined when the Red Cross
opens its annual three-day conven-
ton tomorrow In Constitution Hall.
The morning session will get un-
der way after q keynote address by
Chairman Norman H. Davis. Speak
ers will include Robert jenkins,
La, Crosse (Wis) high school boy,
who viii represent the Junior Red
Cross, ana DR.. Frank Graham, pres:-
dent Of the University Of North Car
olina. 8
The afternoon will be devoted to
sectional meetings. with the Junior
Red Cross convening in the new In
terror Department Auditorium and
with round-table discussions being
held as follows: -.
Public Information Service, G..
Stewart Brown presiding, United
States Chamber Of Commerce Build
ing; disaster relief and prepared
ness, De Witt Smith presiding,
United States Chamber Of Commerce
Building; Nursing Service, Miss
Mary Beard presiding, United States
Chamber Of Commerce Building;
volunteer services, Production Corps,
Sewing and Knitting Section, Inte-
rior Department Auditorium; surgi-
cal dressings, Motor Corps and Can
teen, District Of Columbia Chapter
Building; Junior Red Cross, adult
leaders, Mayflower Hotel.
Dance for Visiting Juniors.
The District Junior Red Cross will
entertain visiting juniors from 4 to s
pm. at q tea dance at the Pam
American Union.
A reception to delegates by mem
bers Of the Central Committee will
be held in the Red Cross garden
from S to 6 pm.
Tomorrow nights session in Con-
stitution Hall, featuring war relief
activities of the American Red Cross
in Europe, will convene at 7:45
O'Clock with q concert by the Navy
Band Orchestra. Eliot Wadsworth,
member of the Central Committee,
will preside, and the speakers will
be Ernest J. Swift, vice chairman In
charge of insular and foreign op-
erations; Malcolm Davis, associate
secretary general Of the League OF
Red Cross Societies, and James T.
Nicholson, director of the Junior
Red Cross.
Featured at this night session will
be a tableau on Red Cross services,
directed by D. Melville Carr of the
Chicago chapter, and acted by Dis
trict chapter members. "Mobilized
for Mercy" a new Red Cross film,
In which are many scenes made OF
District Red Cross activities, will
have its first public showing.
Tuesday mornings session will be
held in Memorial Continental Hall
on the subject Membership and the
Support of Red Cross Service"
Nicholson to Speak.
The Junior Red Cross will meet
Tuesday for morning and afternoon
sessions In the Interior Auditorium.
The groups dinner dance will be
held at Z o'clock In the Washington
Hotel. Mrs. August Belmont Of New
York, a member of the Central Com
mittee, will preside, and Mr.. Nichol-
son will be the speaker.
The convention dinner will be held
Tuesday night in the grand ball.
room Of the Mayflower Hotel. Chair
man Davis will be the toastmaSter
and Associate Justice Stanley Reed
Of the United States Supreme Court,
and Norman Sommerville, chairman
of the Canadian Red Cross Society.
will be the speakers. The invocation
will be by Bishop Joseph M. Corri-
gan, rector of Catholic University
The final plenary session Of the
convention will open at $50 am.
Wednesday in Memorial Continental
Hall.