Evening star., 1940-10-06
Norman Thomas
Will Speak Twice
In District Today
Many Events Scheduled
BY Republicans and
Democrats This Week

DemOCIOtS InlS week
Norman Thomas, four-time So
eialist candidate for President. will
deliver two addresses here today
under sponsorship of the Washing
ton Independent Committee fol
Thomas and Krueger. His first ad-
dress will be broadcast by Station
VOL at GAS am, and the second
will be given at the Madrillon
Restaurant at IL am.
At l o'clock this afternoon he is
scheduled to hold press confer
ence at the Roger Smith Hotel and
at pm. he will leave for Rich
mond to speak.
Local Republican and Democratic
organizations have scheduled num-
Der of events this week.
Claude w. Owen, director of the
Speakers Bureau of the Willkie-
McNary Campaign Club of the Re-
publican State Committee in and
for the District of Columbia, an
nounced that Ira E. Bennett, former
local newspaper editor, will speak
at 2:30 pm. tomorrow before the
League of Republican Women in the
Mavflower Hotel.
At 8 pm. tomorrow vice chairmen
and captains of the Willkie- -McNary
Campaign Club are to meet at the
clubs headquarters in the Wood
ward Building.
The Roosevelt for 40 Club, Arthur
Clarendon Smith, president, will
meet at pm. tomorrow in the
Burlington Hotel.
Seton Darr, attorney, will speak
at pm. Tuesday at the weekly
meeting of the Women's National
Democratic Club at its headquarters,
1926 New Hampshire avenue NV.
At pm. Wednesday Mr.. Owen,
speakers bureau director, an
nounced Henry I. Quinn, attorney,
will speak at a meeting of the Will
kie-McNary Campaign League, in
Lincoln Temple, Eleventh and R
streets NV.
A 8:l5 pm. Friday Manuel j..
Davis, attorney, and George Warner,
both of the speakers bureau, are 10
speak at a meeting Of the Young
Republican Club at 1900 Connecti-
cut avenue. Motion pictures of ac-
tivities of the Willkie- McNary Cam
paign Club and the Absentee Voters
Bureau are to be shown for the
f1rst time.
The Willkie Washington Commit
tee. District headquarters of the As
sociated Willkie Clubs of America,
will sponsor a series of eight s.
minute broadcasts featuring promi-
nent local Democrats who are sup
porting the candidacy of Wendell L.
Willkie, it was announced yeSter-
day.
The broadcasts will be every Tues
dav and Thursday over Radio Sta
ton VOL, beginning next Tuesday
and ending october 81 at Tbs pm.
In the series. titled, "A Democrat
for Willkie," the speakers will ex-
plain their individual reasons Tor
supporting the G. o. P. nominee in
spite of their Democratic Affiliations.
First on the list of speakers will
be Haven B. Page, prominent local
attorney who heads the Willkle
Washington Committee. Next
THURSDAY evening Charles Dray-
ton. local attorney, will speak on
October Is. Ross Garrett, director
of the Health Security Administra-
ton. will speak on the Nations
problems of health and security and
what Mr.. Willkie proposes to do
about them.
Although most Of the speakers
have already been selected, the
Willkie Washington Committee said
It still has open dates which it pro-
poses to make available to persons
who want to air their views over
the radio. Interested persons were
asked to submit scripts to commit
tee headquarters at 727 Fifteenth
streettNW.
Charles L. Hutchinson, Capitol
Park Hotel manager, has been ap-
pointed District chairman OF the
hotel mems division of the Re-
publican National Committee, it was
announced yesterday by Charles E.
Rochester. national chairman.
The West Virginia Democratic
Club of the District of Columbia will
operate voting bureaus in the Ra-
leigh Hotel and at 2l9 First street
NE, opposite the Senate Office
Building it was announced yester-
dav. The club requests all West
Virginians to telephone, call IN per-
son, or write to either office details
about registration and absentee
ballots.
Mrs. Kathleen Norris, novelist,
and Mrs. Worthington Scranton OF
Scranton, Pa, Republican commit
teewoman from the latter State and
vice chairman of the Republican
National Committee. will speak here
at a rally meeting at 8 pm. October
16 in the Willard Hotel, under aus
pices of the Women's Membership
Committee OF the Willkie-McNary
Campaign Club.
The rally is expected to be one
of the largest Of a political nature