Evening star., 1941-04-13

N. j., for curator general, and Mrs.
Harry E. Marcy of Spirit Lake, Iowa,
for reporter general to the Smith
sonian Institution.
Only one candidate is in the field
for honorary vice president general,
elected for life. She is Mrs. Frank
Madison Dick of Cambridge, Md.
Nominations Wednesday.
Formal nominations will be made
Wednesday evening, with the polls
open the following day. The new
officers will be installed with tradi-
tional ceremony at the close of the
congress on Saturday.
The customary full Sunday sched-
ule has been curtailed because it
comedies with Easter Sunday. In
stead of making their annual me-
mortal pilgrimages to the Tomb of
the Unknown Soldier and to Mount
Vernon today, the Daughters have
reserved Tuesday afternoon for the
pilgrimages.
Memorial services for Daughters
who have died during the past year
will be held in Memorial CONT
mental Hall at 3 o'clock this after
noon.
The service Will be continued at
the Founders Memorial Monument
In the garden of Memorial Conti-
mental Hall. where Mrs. Henry M.
Robert, jr, outgoing president gen.
eral, and Mrs. Loren Edgar Rex,
chaplain general. will dedicate a
eat-grandchild" of the Washing
ton elm to the only two remaining
Real Daughters. They are Mrs.
Annie knight Gregory, 9s, of
Williamsport, Pa, and Mrs. Caro-
line P. Randall, 81, OF Clare
mont, NJ H.
Descendant" Of Famous Tree.
The 7-foot tree Is descendant"
of the old elm on the Commons Of
Cambridge, Mass. Under this elm
Gen. George Washington took COM
mand of the Colonial Army on July
3, 1776. Soil put at the base of the
D. A. r. tree was collected from
eight. places connected with the
life OF Washington. from Wake
field, where he was born, to Mount
Vernon, where he is buried. .
The congress proper will open
with customary pageantry tomor-
row at $50 pm. Formal greetings
will be extended to the congress by
Loren E. Souers, president general
of the Sons of the American Revo-
luton, and Mrs. John Morrison
Kerr, national president of the
Children of the American Revolu-
ton.
On Tuesday morning the national
officers will make their reports. Com
mittee chairmen's reports will be
scattered through the week, many
of them featured by addresses by
guest speakers.
Tuesday evening will be turned
over to the historical pageant cele-
brating the golden jubilee of the
national society. Words spoken in
the first four scenes were actually
uttered in reports or speeches be-
fore earlier congresses by the char
acters to whom they are attributed.
The pageant pictures the five dec
AIDES of the society with a word at
the end on the future of the organ
ization
Instead of the traditional for
NAL reception, the president general
and her national officers will greet
members of the Congress informal
ly on the stage of Constitution Hall
after the pageant, while State re-
gents receive in their State boxes.
State Regents to Report.
wednesday evening. will be de-
voted to the reports of the State
regents, beginning with Kentucky
and ending with Arizona.
While the daughters are in ses-
sion Thursday evening the pages
who serve during the congress will
gather in the Mayflower Hotel for
the annual pages ball. After the
Constitution Hall session, at which |
she will make her address to. the
congress, Mrs. Robert and members
of her cabinet will attend the ball.
The annual White House reception
will be. held Friday at 4 pm. Mrs. |
Roosevelt, who resigned from the
D. A. r. two years ago. in protest
against the society's refusal to allow
Marian Anderson the use of Con-
stitution Hall for a recital, will not |
be present at the reception. Mrs. |
Henry Wallace, wife of the Vice
President, and wives of various cabi-
net members will receive the dele
gates.
The annual banquet will be held
at the Mayf1ower Friday evening and
the Congress will conclude with the
installation of national officers |
shortly after noon Saturday.