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$14953.26. Illinois was second with
$l4,402 and Connecticut third with
$11 ,383.45. She listed as achieve
ments of the year the construction
of two new buildings at the Tamas-
see D. A. R. School in South Caro-
lima and the Kate Duncan Smith
D. A. r. School in Alabama. Sev-
eral thousand children, Mrs. Camp
bell reported, were assisted or to-
tally supported through the school
year. More than 1000 boxes OF
books and clothing were sent to the
approved schools, she added, and
many other gifts of equipment.
Students Presented.
Mrs. Campben's report was fol-
lowed by the presentation of stu
dents and teachers from Northland
College, Blue Ridge Industrial
School, Hillside School, Pine Noun
tain Settlement School, Tamassee
Kate Duncan Smith and Lincoln
Memorial University.
Mrs. George D. Schermerhorn
chairman. reported for the Junior
Membership Committee after the
juniors had staged procession
and taken their places in the tiers
of the auditorium nearest the plat
form.
Reporting that the society now
has 1000 Junior members, Mrs
Schermerhorn looked forward to
the day when a junior member
could be counted for every senior
member of the society.
She referred to the junior men,
bers, most of them pages for the
congress, as "the finest flower OF
young American womanhood.
After an introduction by Miss
Thelma LIE Bar Brown chairman of
the 1910 D. A. R. Junior Assembly
reports on the junior activities were
made by Mrs. Janice Louise McNary
Americanism; Miss Lois Lentz, Red
Cross; Miss Eloise Bonnet, approved
schools and scholarships; Miss Mary
Hawley Perry, braille, Mrs. w. Logan
Hill, conservation: Mrs. John Boyce
Smith, national defense, and Miss
Margaret Gillian, Echoes, the junior
group magazine.
C. A. r. Represented.
The Children of the American
Revolution were represented by
Lyons Rowland, junior national
president, who greeted the Daugh-
ters and introduced Miss Mary
Childs, who last year won first prize
in the c. A. R. stunt night.
Miss Childs, speaking on "The New
Patriot" referred to the United
States as "a nation of immigrants"
and won a round of applause when
81, said this country has no use for
hyphenated Americans who think
and act as such.
In her report on the work of the
Motion Picture Committee during
the past year, Mrs. LIE Roy Mont
gomery, chairman, said that there
has been "a definite trend toward
better pictures, both of an historical
and educational nature" She told
the delegates they could "look with
pride on the very high type of pic
lures which all the different COM
panies are striving to produce"
Pointing out that the D. A. r. has
been attempting to discourage
double feature movie programs, Mrs.
Montgomery reported that double
features seem, to be on the wane In
many sections of the country" and
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large number of theater managers
are becoming more willing to give
single features with good short sub
jects try" Mrs Montgomery said
that her committee is continuing
encouragement of the movie going
public Ito choose their entertain
ment wisely from advance informa-
ton as to theme and Values" espe-
cially regarding the selection of pic
lures for children that are suitable
for their age and understanding.
Miss Eleanor Greenwood, chair
man Of the Junior American Citi-
zens Committee, greeted the dele
gates on behalf of "146,83l Junior
American citizens, members of 4264
clubs throughout the country" Miss
Greenwood said that next years
goal Of her committee will be a
membership of 100000 in the Junior
citizens clubs.
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D. A. R.
Continued From First Page.)

the 400th anniversary of the dis
covery of the Mississippi by De Soto,
approving the transfer of $4,000
from the national Society's current
fund to the reserve fund and ex-
pressing appreciation to the presi-
dent general, Mrs. Henry M. Robert,
jr.; the press, radio and speakers.
In an address today Fulton Lewis,
jr., radio commentator, pointed out
the effect of radio broadcasting on
international affairs, domestic poll
tics and home education.
Radio can be powerful force
against the exploitation of peoples
| by dictator governments" Mr.. Lewis
said. Radio waves cannot be con-
| trolled."
When people can hear the case
and point of view of the enemy,
Mr.. Lewis observed, there is warm
hope that the exploitation of those
people by self-seeking politicians
who head their governments may be
broken"
BrOadcasts Demand Facts"
The speaker said that politicians,
when addressing radio audience,
lose their graceful gestures, color
full appearance and forceful man.
ner," and must deal in facts and
PROFOUND those facts with cold
logic"
In her report on the activities
of the Radio Committee, Mrs. Frank
B. Whitlock, chairman, said the
D. A. r. this year had broadcast
1000 programs, totaling TAT hours,
over BOT different stations. These,
she said, did not include more than
10000 short announcements per-
tanning to the society.
Mrs. Edward G. Mead, in report
ing as chairman of the Advance
ment of American Music Commit
tee, said: 'The knowledge that the
United States had music of worth
written by native composers is be-
ing spread more broadly than ever
before among our membership"
The two real Daughters of the
| society, Mrs. Annie knight Gregory,
81, of Pennsylvania, and Mrs. Caro-
line p. Randall, 81, of Vermont,
were reported in fairly good
health" by Mrs. Henry Bourne Joy,
chairman of the Real Daughters
Committee.
Other reports were given by DR..
Jean Stephenson, chairman, of the
Genealogical Records Committee;
Mrs. Victor Abbot Binford, National
Historical Magazine Committee, and
Mrs. Jacob friedrich Zimmerman
Press Relations Committee.
The White House reception this
afternoon was the first time Mrs.
Roosevelt and the Daughters have
got together since the Presidents s
wife resigned from the patriotic
society last year in the wake of the
Marian Anderson controversy. Mrs
Roosevelt was out of town when the
annual pilgrimage to the White
House was made last year.
Candidates and Votes.
Candidates elected vice presidents
general yesterday and the votes cast
for each candidate were:
Mrs. Reuben Edward knight OF
Nebraska, 1,442; Mrs. William Har-
rison Hightower Of Georgia, 1,431 /;
Mrs. Jacob F. Zimmerman Of Illinois
1,413; Mrs. Eugene N. Davis OF
North Carolina, l,403; Mrs. B. n
Qsaglsy Of kiehisan. 1.Aol: Nisl
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Air Derby Members
Arrange Program
For Langley Day
Closed Course Races
And Privute-Owner
PIones to Be Feo1ured

Closed-course races for airplanes
Of various horsepower and COMPETE
tive demonstrations Of the latest
private-owner type airplanes will be
outstanding events of the 1910 Lang
ley day air meet, to be held Sum
day, May S, at Hybla Valley Air.
port, near Alexandria, Va, by the
Washington Air Derby Association,
1t was announced today following
a dinner meeting of the association
last night.
Invitations have been sent to
private and sportsmen pilots in the
District, Maryland, Virginia, Penn
sylvania and Delaware to partici-
pate in the closed-course racing
events, under sanction of the Civil
Aeronautics Authority and the Ma
tional Aeronautic Association. Prin-
cipal racing classes will be 80 horse
power or less and 100 horsepower
or more. Both men and women
pilots will be eligible.
An exhibition of aerial acrobatics
will be flown by "Speek" Burnett,
holder of national and international
aerobatics championships. Mr.. Bur-
nett is an instructor for the Civil
Aeronautics Authority's civil pilot
training unit at the University of
Maryland.
George Roberti, local sportsman
pilot and Reconstruction Finance
Corp. employe, was named chairman
OF a committee for educational work
among students in local schools.
The committee Is planning a pro-
gram of assistance to Washington
youngsters who are contemplating
aviation careers.
D. A. Jensen was named chairman
OF a committee to plan an associa-
ton program in honor of student
pilots in the c. A. A. program at the
University of Maryland and George
Washington University, to be held as
the associations June flying event.
Final arrangements were made for
the associations April social event,
a dance at the Indian Spring Club
Saturday night, April 27.
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80 Indicted for Fraud
In Old Race Racket
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 19.-Thirty-
nine persons, including some identi-
fed by Government agents. as
among the slickest confidence men
in the country, were indicted yes
terday on Federal charges of mail
fraud and conspiring to swindle by
means of the old race track "pay-o1
racket"
The indictments climaxed a six
month investigation which showed,
according to Assistant United States
Attorney William H. Makepeace, that
victims lost as much as $4,000.
One group of II, several of them
invalds, the Government contended,
was duped of at least $188, 700 at
Daytona Beach, Fla, in 1936-37.
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Daughters Of 1872
Will Open Annual
Session Sunday
500 Expected to Attend; i;
Mrs. Robert to Address
Dinner Meeting

More than 500 delegates and
their friends are expected to attend
the 48th annual Associate Council
of the National Society, United
States Daughters of 1912, Sunday
through Wednesday, at the Willard
Hotel.
Registration of delegates. includ-
ing national officers and State pres
idents, will take place tomorrow
morning on the tenth floor of the
hotel.
Although the society will not open
its sessions formally until 8 pm.
Monday, it will hold a memorial
service at 3 pm. Sunday at the
Church of the Epiphany, of which
the Rev. Ze Barney Phillips is pastor.
An address by Mrs. Henry M.
Robert, jr., president general of the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton, will feature a dinner meeting
of charter members and State presi-
dents at 7 o'clock that evening at
the Willard.
Afternoon Reception.
A board meeting at 8 am. Monday
at the hotel will be followed by q
reception at 3 pm. at the groups
national headquarters, 1851 Rhode
Island avenue NV.
Rear Admiral P. S. Rossiter, U. s..
NJ, retired, will be the principal
speaker at the opening session.
Greetings from the General Society,
War of 1872, will be extended by
Col. Frederick Gilbert Bauer, presi-
dent.
Reports of committees, national
officers and charter trustees will oc-
cupy the Tuesday morning meeting
beginning at 8 o'clock. Mrs. Arthur
j. O'Neill of Chicago, president ma
tional, will preside.
Nominations for national officers
will feature the afternoon session at
2 o'clock. Mrs. Percy Young Schel-
ley of Philadelphia is a candidate
for president national to succeed
Mrs. O'Neill.
Annual Banquet Tuesday.
A reception for delegates and visit
ing members will be held at pm.
Tuesday. to be followed Immediately
by the annual banquet. The pro-
gram will include three patriotic mo-
ton picture shorts, entitled "Give Me
Liberty Bill of Rights" and Dec
laration of Independence.
Reports of State presidents, given
in order of the admittance of the
States to the Union, will be heard at
the Wednesday morning meeting, be-
ginning at o'clock.
New national officers will be in
stalled at 2 pm, after which the So
ciety will adjourn. Mrs. Robert p.
Armistead of Washington is general
chairman of the Associate Council.
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Program Mapped
For 4-Day {. A. R.
Convention Here
Formal Opening Ceremony
Takes Place Tomorrow
In Continental Hall

Children of the American Revolu-
tion open their four-day convention
this afternoon by participating in
the reception given at the White
House by Mrs. Franklin D. Roose-
velt for the D. A. r.
Barbara Kimberly, az years old,
Of Harriet M. Lothrop Society and
Charles H. William, jr., of Richard
Lord Jones Society, both of this
city, will present flowers to Mrs.
Roosevelt.
Mrs. John Morrison Kerr, national
president of the c. A. r., delivered a
radio talk this morning in which
she discussed the aims and accom-
plishments of the organization.
Dedication Service.
At Washington Cathedral this aft
ernoon at o'clock a dedication
service was planned. Gifts were to
be presented by the G. A. R. to the
Children's Chapel there as a me-
mortal to Mrs. Eleanor Washington
Howard, for 80 years national vice
president and the last girl born at
Mount Vernon. The gifts include a
missal brass stand, a prayer book
and hymnal for clergymen and Sc
little hymnals and prayer books for
the 36 seats in the chapel.
Stunt night will be observed to-
night at Epiphany Parish Hall. Mrs.
Carl H. Giroux is chairman. Will
liam Carter Pennington is chairman
for reception in La Fayette Hotel.
Formal opening ceremony in Me-
mortal Continental Hall will take
place at 9 am. tomorrow. Greet
ings will be brought by Mrs. Henry
M. Robert, jr., president general of
the D. A. r.; Messmore Kendall,
president general of the Sons of the
American Revolution, and 1t. Col.
John Bion Richards, national presi-
dent of the Sons of the Revolution.
The Junior national president. C. A.
r., Lyon Mills Rowland, a student
at the University of Michigan, will
preside.
Committee work will be demon
strated tomorrow. Principal speaker
tomorrow morning will be 1t. Comdr.
Bernard Austin. U. S. NJ, who will
speak on The Continental Navy"
The annual pilgrimage to Mount
Vernon will take place Sunday un-
der Craftsmanship of Mrs. William
T. Clerk.
Children from many States and
the Canal Zone will assemble for the
convention.
Miss Helen M. ToWner of this city
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Star Staff Photos.

Marion Seelye of Kansas, 1856, and
Mrs. Fred c. Morgan of Maine,
l,349.
With vote of 1880, Mrs. Wilbur
B. Blakeslee of Baltimore automati-
cally became vice president general
for one year to fill an unexpired
term. The others were elected for
three-year terms.
New honorary vice presidents
general and votes cast for them are
Mrs. Gerald Livingston Schuyler OF
Colorado, l.475, and Mrs. William
Henderson Vaught of West Virginia
1,425. A majority vote was required
In the cases of the vice presidents
general and two-thirds vote for
the honorary Offices.
Annual Banquet Tonight.
I he annual banquet of the
Daughters, winding up their FIVE
day meeting, will be held at the
Mayf1ower Hotel tonight.
To the flags OF the States carried
by pages in nightly professions were
added the 81 flags of the American
republics in the meeting last night
ommemorating the 50th anniver-
sary of the Pan-American Union.
DR.. L. S. Rowe, director general o1
the Pan-American Union, told the
D. A. R. in Constitution Hall that
in the last analysis" in the two or
ganizations have both the same
high purpose in view"
This society (the D. A. r. is
dedicated to the preservation OF
those democratic institutions that
constitute the very foundations OF
the Republic" he said. "In larger
sense the purpose of the Pan-Amer-
ican Union is directed toward the
preservation of an international
system in which democracy can sur
vive.
Sees Insecurity as Threat.
"We have hardly begun to realize
the reactive influence of a nation S
international position upon her do
mestic institutions. If there is any
lesson that history teaches, it is
that democratic institutions cannot
survive in an atmosphere of inter-
national insecurity"
The years Immediately ahead, he
declared, are "fraught with great
dangers to democratic institutions
and it is to patriotic institutions
such as yours that We must look for
the preservation of those funda-
mental principles that we all prize
50 highly"
If the spirit of aggression should
triumph in Europe and Asia, Dr.
Rowe said, ut will be to the Amer
ican republics that we shall have to
look" for the maintenance of de-
mocracy.
Assistant Secretary of State Henry
F. Grady, summarizing this coun-
try's efforts toward the good
neighbor" policy, declared that there
had been Substantial increase in
our exports to the American re-
publics," but preservation of these
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is chairman Of pages, ushers and
lor-bearers. Vice chairmen are
Miss Rosalyn Buchanan, Mrs. r. st.
Clair Green, Miss Mary Ella Hop
kins, Miss Gail Koss, Miss Peggy
Turner, Miss Estella West, Miss
Juliet Willard and Mrs. Ford
Young, jr.
Personal pages to the national
president are Miss Mary Louise
Forbes and Miss Barbara Hamblin,
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gains after the European war de-
pends "on the direction in which
our present commercial policy and
activities are to be guided"
Speaks for Trade Agreements.
If our present efforts to bring
about closer trade relations with
the American republics are to pro-
| duce lasting benefits, they must be
directed toward placing such rela-
tions on a solid and permanent basis,
such as provided in our trade
agreements program" DR.. Grady
said.
It is as important ito get trade
barriers between the Americas re-
duced," he declared, "as it is to keep
the territorial boundaries clear of
menacing and provocative military
Notifications.
Or. Hector David Castro, Minister
VI Ell Salvador, declared that the
American republics have shown the
world that they are ready to defend
the integrity of their territories and
their status as free and independent
| countries either individually or by
concerted action as the case may re-
Quire"
THE American republics through
work of their international confer
ences are perfecting their means of
cooperation in order to protect their
freedom and all their sovereign
rights as independent states which
are part Of their common heritage
Senor Castro said.
"They have jointly declared neu-
trality in the present conflict of Eu-
rope and they are bound to dis
courage war by placing themselves
in that position of serenity which,
being impartial, commands the re-
spect of all nations"
Bates Speaks for Boys.
Sanford Bates. executive director
of the Boys Clubs of America, Inc.
told the delegates yesterday after
noon that the building of boys is
the No. construction job in the
United States today"
"We cannot leave the question OF
what's going to happen to youth
to public authorities" he asserted
''The time to build youth is when
we're on friendly terms with them
and not when the law is ranged
on the other side"
Boys, he said, need five things
recognition, an outlet for their
creative instincts, measure OF
security, adventure and friendship
Security he defined as sense of
belonging and termed the security
created by the dictators better
called slavery"
If we can satisfy the wants.
he asserted, I'VE don't need re-
formatories and prisons"
He said the job of helping youth
cannot be left to politicians and as
serted that Everybody that talks
about democracy isn't practicing it, >
paraphasing everybody that talks
about hebbin amt goin' there"
United Action Held Imperative.
He said that the united action
of the community is essential in
helping youth, and expressed op-
timism for the future of the coun-
try's youth, asserting that "the pres
ent crisis Of youth is an opportu-
nifty, not a disaster"
The afternoon program was de-
voted to the junior members of the
D. A. r. and students and teachers
from the approved schools. Mrs.
Samuel James Campbell, chairman
of approved schools, reported that
a total Of $89, ,92443 had been
contributed by the D. A. r. to the
16 schools on the approved list and
similar schools.
New York was first in contribute
| ing to the institutions with gifts OF
Evening star., 1940-04-19
Betting Slips in Hub Cap

PHILADELPHIA, April 10 CP.-
Curious about the frequency with
which Frank McGovern removed q
hub cap from his car, detectives de-
cided to investigate. They un-
screwed the cap-and promptly ar
rested the man on gambling charges.
They said they found records of 461
numbers game plays and eight horse
race bet Sins.
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D. A. r. Program
T0night.

Annual banquet. Mayflower
Hotel. 7:3o o'clock. Mrs. Elmer
E. Woollen, chairman; Mrs. Loyal
r. Alden, vice chairman; Mrs.
Charles Carroll Haig, vice chair
man, and Mrs. Ryland G. Bryant,
Mrs. William A. Buckingham,
Mrs. William Herring. Mrs. Or
lando H. Kirk, Mrs. Eliot C.
Lovett and Mrs. william E.
Northarn.
Music by United States Marine
Band Orchestra.
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Hikinq Club Tour

The tour of the Capital Hiking
Club on Sunday will be along Billy
goat Trail, skirting the Potomac
Palisades from Outlook Rock to
Great Falls, Md. Special buses will
leave l4l6 F street NV. at 9:15 am,
Sunday, returning in the afternoon.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-11-06
Greeks Bring
Prisoners
To Salonika
nv 4. YVES GALLAGHER,

Saluniha, Greece, NOV. 6-tA!),~
The Greeks were reported IN frontier
adviccs today to have entered the
Albanian city of KOritza, the Italian
military base for the Greek offensive
and to have captured many thousand
prisoners.
Large groups of Italian prisoners
arrived in Salonika today transported
here in buses.
| saw five bus loads near the
Salonika railway station. The cap
tivcS appeared poorly clothed for the
battles in the frigid mountain area.
CThc report Of the capture Of
Koritza may be premature, since it
is NOT claimed in later adviccs from
Athens, which merely say the Greeks
have captured Notifications dominat-
ing the city and arc Smelling it,
One Of the men questioning the
prisoners quoted them as saying they
had been told by their officers that
Greece will not fight. We will Just
walk in"
Greeks here said also that the
Italian bombers apparently were
meeting resistance that surprised
Continued on Page Five
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-11-06
Greeks Reported In Koritza
w. E. Fenner,
Rocky Mount
Leader, Dies

Richmond, Va. Nov. 6.--(AP)-W.
f. Fcnncr of Rocky Mount, N. e.,
died in Richmond hospital at 6:55
a. m. today. He was admitted to the
hospital November + and underwent
an operation.
Fenner. who was 60, was umop-
posed yesterday in his bid for a
fourth term as a representative IN
the State Legislature from Nash
county.
Fenncr had been associated with
the tobacco industry in Rocky Mount
for the last SO years, operating at
the time Of his death two large ware
houses at Rocky Mount and one at
Triton, Ga. He was native OF HAIL
fax county. Serving continuously IN
the legislature since 1885, Fenncr
headed the House agriculture COM
mittee in 1897 and the finance COM
mittee in 1889.
survivors include his widow, the
former Miss Ethyl Paschall OF Den
yer, Col, one son, Julian, ana w"
brothers. John H. Fenner and Df'
Edward Fenner of Henderson.
plans for the funeral had not been
made early this afternoon.
AT Raleigh, Governor Hoey ISSUED
, statement expressing regret al
FennerS death.
Fenner was member OF the adj
visory commission when IS Sche-
duIed to start hearings tomorrow.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-11-06
Policies
Approved
Secretary Hull Says
Nation Can Now Go
Forward With Foreign
Policies.

Washington, Nov. 6.-(AP)-Sec-
retarv Hull said today the nation
now could go forward in the firm
continuance of those foreign policies
which. he said. were given nation
vide approval" in yesterdays cleo
ton. :,
The State department chief SAID
n a formal statement:
Consciousness Of the tremendous
responsibility which rests upon al!
Of us in the present crisis should
,versnadoW any sense OF personal
,lation or disappointment over the
,utc0me Of the election.
1T is d matter OF profound sig
7iricancc that Cur foreign policies
the basic features OF which Wcr" sup
,ortcd by both the leading candidates
"oI president, were given yesterday
nationwide approval.
with the election over, our nall"r
an now 20 forward with the iullcS'
ensure of practical teamwork by
70 Government and the people IN Inc
I'M continuance Of those foreign
policies. This cour"C offer TIC GrH?''
contribution our rrun'r" e!
.(.,,4ip,,or m Pa-e FlVe)