Evening star., 1950-04-30
U. 5. Chamber 10 Hear
Taft as 3-Day Session
Opens Tomorrow

The 38th annual meeting of the
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States will open tomorrow
at the Hotel Statler, with Senator
Taft, Republican, of Ohio and
Harold e. Stassen among sched-
uled speakers.
More than $500 businessmen
and women are expected for the
three-day meeting. Senator Taft's
subject at the first session start
ing at 9:45 am. The Individual
and His Government" Mr.. Stas-
sen, president of the University
of Pennsylvania. will discuss THE
Story Only Business Can Tell" at
pm. luncheon.
A keynote address by National
President Herman w. Steinkraus
will follow the invocation by the
Most Ret. John M. Mcnamara,
Auxiliary Bishop of Washington.
Another speaker at the morning
session will be Robert A. Bryce.
president of the Canadian Cham
Der of Commerce. The United
States Military Academy choir
will sing.
"Shop Talk Session" Scheduled.
Following the luncheon at which
Claude Robinson, president of
Opinion Research Corporation,
Princeton, N. j., will also speak.
there will be a $3.50 pm. shop
talk session" for local chamber OF
commerce managers. Ben B.
Lawshe, manager of the CONNER
cial organization department of
the national chamber, will be
moderator.
There will be two "organiza-
tion night" dinners tomorrow at
pm. at the Statler and May
flower hotels. Secretary of Com
n1erce Sawyer has been invited
as honor guest at both.
Winning the Peace" employ
ment, pensions, transportation.
Federal and private power de-
velopment, and the Federal budget
are among subjects programmed
for Tuesday sessions.
ECA Head to Speak.
A business education breakfast,
with School Supt. Herold c. Hunt
of Chicago, as speaker, will start
the day at 7:45 am. A 10 am.
panel discussion on Winning the
Peace" will include Walter Lip
pmann, Economic Cooperation
Administrator Paul G. Hoffman,
Eugene Holman. president of the
Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey,
and Representative Vorys. Re-
publican, of Ohio, a member of
the House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee.
Speakers listed for one of four
Tuesday luncheons are Clifford F.
Rassweiler of New York. Johns
Manville Co. vice president for re-
search and development, and
Arthur H. Motley of New York,
president and publisher Of Parade
Publications, Inc. They Will dis
cuss the general topic More Jobs
and a Better America
Aspects of employees pensions
will be considered at another
luncheon at which speakers will
be G.. Gibson Terriberry, New York
MANAGEMENT conSultant; Dor
nance c. Bronson of the Wyatt
Co, Washington Herman c..
Biegel of Lee, Toomey and Kent.
Washington, and Earl Kribben of
Chicago, treasurer OF Marshall
Field Co. = l.
THE Press Looks at Transport
tation" is the topic for a luncheon
panel discussion by William H.
Schmidt. jr., of Chicago, associate
editor of Railway Age Magazine;
Stanley Ferguson, shipping editor
of the New York Journal of Com
rnerce; Robert j. Bayer of Chi
cago, editor of Traffic World
Magazine; Wayne w. Parrish Of
Washington. of Editor & Publisher
and American Aviation. and Leon
F. Banigan of New York, editor of
Fleet Owner.
The fourth luncheon group will
hear a power development panel
discussion by Senator Watkins,
Republican. of Utah; C. E. Oakes,
president of the Pennsylvania
Power and Light Co.; William E.
Warne, Assistant Secretary of the
Interior; Richard K. Lane, presi-
dent of the Public Service Co. of
Oklahoma, and Kinsey M. Rob-
inson of Spokane, Wash, presi-
dent of the Washington Water
Power Co.
At the fifth luncheon. Senator
Ferguson. Republican, of Michi-
gan; Edwin G.. Nourse, former
chairman of the Council of Eco
f1omic Advisers, and Marx Leva,
Assistant Secretary of Defense will
talk on the Battle of the Budget
Bulge"
Miss Dorothy Thompson, author
and commentator, will speak at
q women's luncheon at the May
flower Hotel at l pm. Tuesday.
The Brazilian Embassy will have
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