Evening star., 1942-08-30
British Spitfire Hero
To Attend Student
Assembly Here
Latin Republics Send
40 Delegates; Sessions
To Open Wednesday

Young men and women from
many countries abroad will be in
Washington this week for the IN
ternational Students Assembly,
which opens here Wednesday and
continues through September s.
President Roosevelt will send the
meeting message on Thursday.
A young man who took part in
the raid on Dieppe will be among
the English delegation of four, the
International Student Service an
nounced yesterday. He is Wing
Ccmdr Scott Maiden, %, a Spitf1re
pilot, who has shot down six enemy
planes in A sorties on Northern
France. He was awarded the Dis
tinguished Service Order last week.
The other three Englishmen are
Capt. James Cochran, %, whose uni
form is the kits of the Cameron
Highlanders. a graduate of oxford
and a veteran of Libya and Italian
East Africa; Sub-Lt. Richard Miles,
"a, former secretary Of the oxford
University Liberal Club, now in the
Royal Navy, and Alan Booth, a
Methodist minister.
Latins to Attend.
Forty students from 16 of the
Latin American republics will at
tend the conference. Delegates will
come from Argentina, Bolivia. Chile,
Cuba, Ecuador, Dutch Guiana,
Haiti. Nicaragua, Panama. Colom-
bia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Para
quay, Peru, Uruguay and Salvador.
William Howard, a student at
Swarthmore, and Frank Well,
student at Bard College, will form
the Argentine delegation.
Eight students from Chile who
are at present students in American
universities will be present. Official
Chilean delegate will be Danilo
Luksic, student at Stanford Uni
versity.
Ecuador's official delegate will be
Carlos E. Andrade, student at
Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Elise
NJ. de Miranda, who Is studying at
Catholic University, will represent
Dutch Guiana. Two official dele
gates will be present from Haiti,
They are Jules Blanchet and Albert
Mangones, both students at Cornell
University.
Two Nicaraguan students. Rodolfo
Abuanza and Eduardo Montealegre,
who are studying at Georgetown
and George Washington Universi-
ties, respectively, will form the
of1cial delegation Of Nicaragua.
Colombia Delegations.
Colombia will be represented by
Elvira Gale, a student at New York
University; Jaime Nieto Cano,
studying at Yale; fernando Groot,
Harvard Medical School student;
Gonzalo Bozo Mejia, a student at
New York University, and Graciala
Galindo.
Odilie Cantillano Wives, student
at West Virginia University, and
Virginia zunija will represent Costa
Rica. Peru will have Carmen An
draca of the University Of Michigan
and Eduardo Cilloniz, student at
Stanford University as national OBJ
servers. Panama's official delegates
will be Pedro Calonge, l. J. Sousal,
student at the University of Texas
and Laura Topia Of Camp Waber-
MAXI. Me.
Paraguay's official representatives
will be Juan F. Morales and Luis
Ramerez. Uraguayan natives, Mazi-
n1ino Garcia, student at Spring.
field College, and Adolfo Halty-
Dube, studying at the University of
Illinois, will make up their country's
delegation.
Victor Keilhauer of the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology
will be the ofIlcial representative Of
Salvador.
Registrations continue to come
Into the credential committee and
with five countries still to announce
delegations, 1t is expecteds that the
Latin-American quota of IS student
delegates will be easily reached.