Evening star., 1949-03-20
Conference Of Mayors
Here Tomorrow Draws
European Officials

i government executives from Ger
many, Norway. Belgium and Can
ada will join 900 officials of Amer
lean cities in the three-day annual
meeting of the United States Con-
ference of Mayors opening tomor-
row at the Hotel Statler.
Vice President Barkley will speak
at the closing session Wednesday.
Other scheduled speakers in
clude Bernard M. Baruch, Chair
man David E. Lilienthal Of the
Atomic Energy Commission; Sen
ators Taft, Republican, Of Ohio;
Mcmahon, Democrat, Of Connect
icut and Maybank, Democrat. Of
South Carolina; Representatives
McC Cormick Of Massachusetts,, Bu-
chanan Of Pennsylvania and Rains
of Alabama; Maj. Gen. Philip B.
Fleming, Federal Works admins
traitor, and Robert Moses. New
York City Commissioner Of City
Planning.
Foreign Guests Listed.
Guests from abroad will be
Ernst Reuter-, Lord Mayor Of
Berlin: Mayor H. S. Stoke of
Oslo, Norway. and Senator Emil
Vinck of Brussels, founder OF the
International Union of Cities.
Mayor Lucien Borne of Quebec,
president of the Canadian Fed
Grafton of Mayors, is among Is
Canadian mayors scheduled to
attend.
Mayors Stoke and Borne will
speak at the morning session to-
morrow. Senator Vinck will dis
euss Civic Education as the An
swer to Communism and Fas-
cism" at the afternoon session.
Mayor Reuter-. a leader of the
anti Communist forces in Berlin,
will speak at the Tuesday lunch
con.
The conference will be opened
at $50 am. by Mayor Dorothy
Mccullough Lee Of Portland, Ore.
the only woman Mayor of a large
American city.
Mayor George w. Welsh Of
Grand Rapids, Mich, conference
president, will submit the annual
report. Mayor Thomas D'Alesan-
dro, jr., of Baltimore will report
on housing and rent control.
O'Dwyer to Preside.
Mayor William O'Dwyer of New
York City will preside at the
luncheon session tomorrow at
which Harry Hirshfleld will speak.
Mayor Martin H. Kennedy of
Chicago will preside at the after
noon session.
Speakers will include Mayors
David L. Lawrence of Pittsburgh,
w. Cooper Green of Birmingham,
Ala, Charles P. Farnsley of Louis
vile. KY, Joseph E. Smith of
Oakland. Calf, and Samuel B.
Dicker of Rochester, N. Y. Mr.,
Baruch is tentatively listed as a
speaker for tomorrow.
Two radio broadcasts will orig
mate from the conference.
A round-table discussion of
atomic bomb problems as affect
ing American cities will be broad
cast Tuesday from $3.50 to 4 pm.
over the Mutual Broadcasting
System.
Participants will be Senator
Mcmahon, chairman of the Joint
Congressional Committee on
Atomic Energy; Mr.. Lilienthal
DR.. David Bradley. author of q
report on the Bikini atom bomb
tests; DR.. Harold c. Urey. Nobel
prize chemist at the University
of Chicago's Institute of Nuclear
Studies; Prof. H. j. Muller, Uni
versity of Indiana Nobel prize
winner for X-ray work. and Ralph
J. Watkins, director of plans and
programs of the National Security
Resources Board.
| Broadcasts Scheduled.
Mayors taking part in this
broadcast will include Thomas A.
Burke, jr., of Cleveland; William
E. Kemp of Kansas City, Mo-; w.
Cooper Green of Birmingham,
Elmer E. Robinson of San Fran
cisco, Cyril Coleman of Hartford,
Conn, and Albert D. Cash of Gin
cinnati.
The other broadcast will be
Americas Town Meeting Of the
Air"
It will be broadcast by Station
WMAL and the American Broad
casting Co., from $3.50 to $50 pm.