Evening star. [volume], April 12, 1936, Page A-14, Image 14

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SENTINELS MEET
Program of Convention to
Include Representative
Guyer’s Address.
The National Sentinels, a women’s
organiaztion with expressed purposes
of protecting "children and homes
against criminal aliens and the liquor
traffic" and opposing "dangerous ele
ments inimical to the home, school
and church," will hold their fourth
annual convention In the Washing
ton Hotel tomorrow.
Beginning at 9 am. the convention
program will continue through the
day with a luncheon session at 1:45
p.m. and adjournment scheduled at
6 pm.
Representative Guyer of Kansas
will speak at the morning session on
"The Constitution. Past and Pres
ent.” Other speakers In the morn
ing will include Mrs. Frances Troy
Norcro6s of North Carolina and Mrs.
Jennie Esmond Wright of New York,
Mrs. Jesse W. Nicholson of Mary
land, president of the National Senti
nels, will deliver the keynote address
at the luncheon session at 2 pm,
followed by talks by Representative
Blanton of Texas and Mrs. Victoria
Booth Demarest.
At the afternoon session State
chairmen and officers will deliver
their reports, followed by an address
by Mrs. Clifton Webb. After the
Resolutions Committee reports the
convention will adjourn with the
benediction by Rev. John Carpenter
Palmer.
Germans in Chile.
Chile contains many German emi
grants.
Retiring Pastor Will Be
Guest at Social Agencies
Meeting.
Rev. Joseph R. Slzoo, retiring pastor
of the New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church, who soon will leave Wwh
ington for New York, will be guest
speaker at the annual meeting of the
Council of Social Agencies at 13:30
p.m. Thursday In the Y. W. C. A.
Building. His subject will be "The
Motive Power and Spiritual Values
of Social Service."
The meeting also will mark the final
appearance of Sanford Bates as presi
dent of the council. He will discuss
the work of the organization during
his term of office.
Members at large of the council
and members of the Board of Directors
will be elected at this meeting. A
nominating committee composed of
i Mrs. William Kittle, cheirman; Mrs.
Albert W. Atwood and Walter 8.
Ufford will nominate the following:
For members at large—Mrs. Jesse
Adkins, Rev. John K. Cartwright, Mrs.
Whitman Cross, Clarence Phelps
Dodge, Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle, C.
Marshal Finnan, John Ihlder, Rev. J.
Hillman Hollister, Owen Lovejoy,
Justin Miller, Dr. Frederic W. Perkins.
Willard C. Smith, Walter 8. Ufford
and Mrs. Walter 8. Ufford.
For members of the Board of Di
rectors for three years—Bates, Mrs.
Harry Bernton. Carl D. Wells, Finnan
and Father Cartwright. The com
mittee will also nominate Mrs. Harlan
Fiske Stone for election of one year
to fill the unexplred term of Mrs.
Dwight Clark.
DICTATOR OF LATVIA
BECOMES PRESIDENT
Former Nebraska Student As
sumes Office in Ceremonies
at Biga Castle.
By the Associated Press.
RIGA, Latvia, April 11.—Karlit
Ulmanis, prime minister and virtual
dictator of Latvia since his 1934 coup
d'etat, assumed the office of Presi
dent as well today In ceremonies at
the ancient Riga Castle.
All churches of the city held serv
ices commemorating the occasion.
Ulmanis, once a student at the Uni
verslty of Nebraska, took over the
presidency upon the expiration of the
mandate of President Alberts Kviesis,
to hold this place, under newly pub- j
lished laws, until reform of the Lat
vian constitution has been effected.
He became the first prime minister
of Latvia in 1918 and consolidated
his position in 1934, putting the
country under martial law. His as
sumption of the presidency completed
the concentration of state power over
the nation of 2,000,000 people In his
hands.
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