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should be represented, we hope that
the press and radio will invite them
to send their delegates.
Important Meeting.
I'VE urge the ranking officer or
his or her representative to attend
because very important information
will be given verbally at the meeting
which we have not had time to COM
municate to these organizations by
mail
Furthermore" he added, there
will be ample opportunity at the
meeting to answer questions con-
cerning all of our plans for max
ing the November 5 plebiscite one
of the highest achievements in the
history of the Nations Capital"
Accomplishments of the meeting
will be reported by Mr.. Collif1ower
in a radio talk at sos o'clock to-
night over station WMAL.
Much headway already has been
made in setting up the organization
needed to run the big referendum,
but much more still is to be done,
plebiscite officers explained.
Two more important appoint
ments were announced by Chair
man Collifiower.
Mrs. Dunn Appointed.
Mrs. Milton Dunn of the Voteless
District League OF Women Voters
has been made chairman of the
Speakers Bureau and Radio DiW-
son, a part Of the Committee on
Publicity and Promotion, headed
by Chairman James S. Beattie.
Thomas Sheehan has accepted ap-
pointment as chairman of the Get
Out the Vote" Committee. also to
be associated with the plebiscite &C
tivities supervised by Mr.. Beattie.
Mr.. Sheehan is treasurer of the
Traffic and Safety Committee of the
Junior Board Of Commerce. He
will mobilize" members of that
organization and other groups to
arouse the widest possible interest
in the straw vote.
Mrs. Dunn and Mr. Sheehan will
present preliminary reports on their
committee activities at the meeting
today. Already, Mrs. Dunn re-
ported, Stations WMAL, VOL,
WINK and WWDC have offered to
make time available to speakers in
the campaign.
Plebiscite headquarters is con-
sidering plans to bring the ballot
to shut-ins in institutions and
homes throughout the city. Details
remain to be worked out. 1t is be-
lieved there are thousands of shut
ms unable to 60 to the public polls.
Plans for locating polls in public
schools and possibly other build
ings throughout the city will be
discussed by Frank c. Waldrop.
chairman of the Committee on Dis
tricts and Facilities
Stu0entS 10 Assist.
Cooperation of the public school
system has been so generous that
plebiscite headquarters has under
serious consideration expansion OF
of referendum activities to private
schools and colleges of the area.
Not only will the public schools
be used as polling places, under
authority of the Board of Education,
but the Junior and senior high
school pupils will hold a referendum
of their own and some Of them
will help at the polls.
Voluntary support is coming in
rapidly to plebiscite headquarters.
BY letter aand telephone call. many
persons are offering their assistance.
The YWCA has pledged full CO.
operation in any way feasible. The
offer was extended at meeting
of the staff yesterday at headquar-
ters, Seventeenth and K streets NV.
Facilities Offered.
Miss Mabel R. Cook, executive
director of the YWCA, who has SUI
pervision over activities of five
building throughout the city and
is in touch with thousands of young
women, declared she believes firmly
in the plebiscite. She offered the
YWCA building as one Of the sup
Elementary polling places.
Her offer came after talk to
the staff by Edwin N. Lewis, Of the
Board of Trade, who also is secre-
tary of the plebiscite executive COM
mittee. He spoke on washington
Looks Ahead"
Several other offers of polling
places have come to Chairman
Colliflower.
DR.. Walter E. Hager. president of
Wilson Teachers College said he
hoped the college could be used as
a supplementary voting place. He
reported many veterans and other
students of voting age want to cast
their ballots for national representa-
ton or local suffrage.
Board Congratulated.
The Brentwood Terrace Citizens
Association, through Mrs. A. L.
Street, secretary, forwarded reso-
luton congratulating the Board Of
Trade, and offering its services to
conduct the poll in that area. The
residential section there, she point
ed out, has been built up consid-
erably since 1888, when the last
referendum was taken.
Charles J. Dean, adjutant of
Father Francis j. Hurney Post, No.
112, Catholic War Veterans, Inc,
commended the Board of Trade for
the plebiscite and pledged "our ut
most support and cooperation in
this ultra civic undertaking."
Clifford H. Newell, chairman OF
the Committee on Precinct Organi-
zation, is busy laying preliminary
plans for staining the polls.