The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-06-17
G. o. p. Women Buying NeW Bonnets for Safari
To PhiLadelphia With Republican Elephant
Tours. Special
Sessions Planned
For 200 Delegates
BY GERRY DICK
NEA Service Stan Correspondent.

Washington, June l7,-Women
who follow the Republican elephant
are buying new bonnets for the COM
ing safari to Philadelphia.
Attracted to the party's national
convention will be SO national COM
mittee women, more than 200 wo-
me delegates and innumerable wives
OF Republican senators, congress-
men, governors, and other party
leaders, as well as handful Of pros
pective first ladies'"
Their official hostess will be
brown-haired Mrs. Worthington
Scranton, national committee wo-
man from Pennsylvania for 70
years. She has planned luncheons
and dinners for the convention-go.
Ing sorority and has organized q
Women's Hospitality Committee de-
signed to aid In finding lodgings,
autos for hire, old classmates, hus-
bands-in short, whatever the wo-
men at a national political conven-
ton may expect their hostesses to
turn up.
WOMENS CLUBS
OPEN DOORS
Pennsylvania's unofiicial hostesses
will be pretty brunei Dorothy
James, daughter Of the states Wild
over governor and his first lady,"
and Mrs. Dobson Altemus, mother
Of Liz" Whitney and president Of
the Republican Women Of Pennsyl-
vania.
Headquarters Of the g. o. p. wo-
mems division will be at the Belle
vue-Stratford hotel with able Mar
ion Martin, head OF the party's wo-
mems division, presiding. The wo-
men will also use the Old Acad-
envy OF Music, where Abraham
Lincoln once spoke and where U. s.
Grant received the presidential
nomination.
All the women's clubs OF the city
are opening their doors to women
visitors during the convention, and
sightseeing trips to Valley Forge and
other scenic and historic spots for
women who shun the smoke.filled
convention hall.
Conferences OF the women before
the morning and night sessions OF
the convention will be presided over
by Miss Martin, who Is national
committee woman from Maine. At
the close Of the convention proper
there will be a meeting Of the new
committee women, picked to serve
until the next presidential election.
ThereIl be many familiar faces
to be seen In the crush OF the wo.
men politicians, among them Mrs.
Jacob Baur Of Chicago, with a spot
Of red accenting her costume; Mrs
Paul Fitzsimmons, mother Of Gov
William H. Vanderbilt Of Rhode
Island; smartly-gowned Ruth Pratt
Of New York; Mrs. John Il. Hillman
Of Colorado, vice-chairman OF the
Republican National committee;
Katharine Byrne Of Connecticut;
Christine Bradley South Of Ken
tucky, anu hatnaTlne kennedy
Brown Of Ohio.
Wives OF candidates for the nom
ination will be on hand to help
their husbands welcome well-wish-
ers, On duty In the various factions
headquarters will be Mrs. Arthur II.
Vandenberg, Mrs. Frank Gannett,
Mrs. Wendell Willkie, Mrs. Robert
/ A. Taft, Mrs. Thomas Z. Dewey, and
others. Assisting Mrs. Dewey will
be her husbands political sponsor,
Mrs. Ruth Hanna Sitnms.
FAST TALK
OR ELSE
The feminine delegates who move
up to the convention floor micro.
phone to speak their pieces will
probably be more distressed than
anyone else to learn that the COM
nittee this year hopes to keep nonni-
mating speeches down to 20 minutes
and limit all seconding speeches to
five minutes.