Evening star., 1947-01-01
Board Of Trade
Lists 4 Major
January Events
Members Of Congress!
To Be Welcomed
At Dinner Saturday

The first month Of the New Yea,
finds the Washington Board o.
Trade with a schedule Of four majol
events, according to an announce.
ment Of plans made yesterday BY
President Joseph G.. McGarraghy ir
the first 1947 issue of "The Washing.
ton Board of Trade News"
First on the list Is q dinner x
honor new members of Congress
next Saturday. It will be followed
by luncheon conference on arteria,
highways, January 10; the monthly
general membership meeting on
January 16, and the annual mid
winter dinner, to be staged in two
sections on January 81 and Feb
ruary /.
More than two-thirds of the 124
new members of the Eightieth Con-
gress have accepted the Board OF
Trades invitation to the welcome
to Washington dinner, sponsored by
the Congressional Relations Com
mittee and the first of its kind to
be held here. Additional guests will
include former members of the
Senate and House District Commit
tees and the three members of the
Board of District Commissioners.
Prettyman to Speak.
The address of welcome will be
delivered by E. Barrett Prettyman,
associate justice of the United
States Court Of Appeals for the Dis
trict and Board of Trade past presi-
dent. Commissioner John Russell
Young and Bruce Baird, sponsoring
committee chairman, also will speak
at the dinner which will be held In
the ballroom of the Mayhower
Hotel.
Miss Dorothy Kristen, star Of the
Metropolitan Opera Company, will
sing the national anthem and sew
eral other selections. A new sound
motion picture in color, Invitation
to the, Nation" produced for the
Greater National Capital Committee
of the Board OF Trade. will be'
shown.
Saturday afternoon from s until
Z o'clock, the wives of the new legis-
lators will be entertained by Mrs.
McGarraghy and the wives of off,
GERS and directors of the board at
reception at the Carlton Hotel.
More than 100 are expected.
Lunch Meeting Planned.
The luncheon meeting on WASH
1ngton's Arterial Highways, sched-
uled for 1890 pm, January 10, In
the Mayfower, is under auspices of
the Highways Committee of which
Charles M. Upham is chairman.
Leslie Williams of New York, city
planning engineer of the American
Transit Association, will be the main
speaker. Capt. Herbert C. White
hurst, District director of high;
Maj. Gen. u. S. Grant III, chairman
of the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission; James A. An
derson, Virginia State highway COM
and r. M. Reindollar,
Maryland State Roads Commission
chairman, will discuss various
aspects Of the highway problem.
District Commissioners and heads
of District departments and agen-
cies will be guests of honor on Dis
trict of Columbia Night, January
16, when the board holds its gen
eral membership meeting in the
Mayf1ower.
A "meet-the-press" panel discus
sion of highlights of the fiscal rela-
tions between the Federal Govern
ment and the District in 1947 and
194S will be broadcast over radio
station WMAL.
Editors to Speak.
Spokesman for the press will in
clude John T. O'Rourke, editor of
the Washington Daily News; Frank
c.. WaIdrop, editorial writer for the
washington Times Herald; Alex
ander F. Jones, managing editor of
the Washington Post, and B. M.
McKeIway, editor of The Star and
former president of the Board of
Trade.
Entertainment will be furnished
from the Wonder Flame radio
show sponsored by the Washington
Gas Light Co. Several brief COM
mittee reports will complete the
agenda, Kenneth H. Berkeley, chair
man of the Program Committee,
said.
j. Merrill Connor, chairman of the
Mid Winter Committee, has notified
members they may make reserva-
tions for friends and special guests
for the annual frolic on January
81 and February l now that each
member has had an opportunity
20 purchase one ticket.
Theme of the dinner is mid
Winter Holiday" with identical
programs for each of the evenings
in the Mayf1ower ballroom. A double
dinner was scheduled, making
Board of Trade history, because in
recent years it has been impossible
to provide Accommodations for all
members and guests who wished to
attend.
Information on reservations for
the events may be had through the
Board of Trade, Room 204, Evening