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DELEGATES TO SEE
Hundreds of Experts to Be
Drawn to Langley Field
May 18.
With a new “gust tunnel” for use
In determining the destructive effects
upon aircraft of violent air disturb
ances, and a report on results of the
first year of operation of the new high
speed tunnel as chief items of inter
est, hundreds of the Nation’s fore
most aviation leaders are preparing to
attend the twelfth annual Aircraft
Engineering Research Conference of
the National Advisory Committee for
Aeronautics at Langley Field, Va.,
May 18.
The high-speed tunnel, details of
which are being withheld by the Gov
ernment to protect American aircraft
development in the high-speed ranges.
Is capable of providing an air stream
at velocities of up to 500 miles per
hour for testing aircraft models and
airfoils.
This tunnel had just been completed
In time for last year’s conference and
the May 18 meeting will give repre
sentatives of the American aeronauti
cal industry their first opportunity of
learning the effects of research proj
ects so far conducted.
The new gust tunnel also is ex
pected to provide material of primary
importance in connection with the
•tructural design of aircraft.
The coming conference also will
afford representatives of the industry
an opportunity to witness tests and
receive first-hand reports of progress
in aeronautical research in the numer
ous laboratories at Langley Field. The
N. A. C. A. also will receive from those
present suggestions as to research
problems of outstanding importance
for study during the coming year.
Most of those attending the confer
ence will assemble in Washington
May 17 and will make the trip to
Langley Field on the Norfolk & Wash
ington steamer leaving here at 6:30
p.m. that day. They will return early
on the morning of May 19.
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D. A. R.
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ered yesterday afternoon in the front
corridor of Constitution Hall to at
tend the unveiling of a bronze tab
let in honor of Mrs. Anthony Wayne
Cook.
Mrs. Cook, an honorary president
general of the society, was president
general when it wras decided to con
struct the hall on Eighteenth street,
between C and D streets. The tablet,
inscribed with the Preamble of the
Constitution and surmounted by an
eagle, commemorates this fact.
Mrs. White Speaks.
Mrs. Harvey Tyson White, hon
orary regent of New York City, who
was chairman of the committee which
raised the funds for the tablet, spoke
of the pleasure she had in honoring
Mrs. Cook, whose presidency ran from
1923 to 1926
The tablet was unveiled by Mrs.
Harper Donelson Sheppard, State re
gent of Pennsylvania, Mrs. Cook’s
State, and Mrs. Becker accepted it in
behalf of the National Society of the
D. A. R.
Anthony Wayne Cook, Jr., only
ion of Mrs. Cook, expressed for his
mother his deep pleasure at the dedi
cation of the tablet. Mrs. Cook, who
Is ill at her home in Cooksville, Pa.,
Is unable to attend the congress.
Earlier, the Marcia Burns Chap
ter of the D. A. R., a Washington
organization of which Mrs. M. A. Tull
Is regent, dedicated two D. A. R.
markers in Rock Creek Cemetery.
Meeting with the National Board
of Management of the society yes
terday, Mrs. Becker reported excel
lent results in the D. A. R.’s program
for the aid of youth during the past
year.
In an account of her recent tour
of the country, which took her to
many State D. A. R. conferences,
Mrs. Becker told of the enthusiastic
work of chapters throughout the West
in helping boys and girls and col
lege students.
Music Week Celebration.
The president general asked that
the society co-operate in celebration
D.A.R. Honors Mrs. Cook
As a prelude to the annual D. A. R. Convention which meets
here tomorrow, high ranking officers of that society yesterday
dedicated a bronze tablet, inscribed with the preamble of the
Constitution, in honor of Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook, honorary
president general, who was largely responsible for the erection
of the society's magnificent meeting place. Constitution Hall.
Shown here are Mrs. William A. Becker, left, president general of
the D. A. R., who accepted the plaque, and Mrs. Harper Donelson
Sheppard, State regent of Pennsylvania, who presented the
plaque._—Underwood & Underwood Photo.
of national music week. May 2 to
May 8. and closed her talk before the
national board by saying:
“As members of a glorious fellow
ship, we are engaged in a sacred task
requiring vision and faith, courage and
devotion, and we will not fail, what
ever the needs of our beloved country.”
An interesting feature of the open
ing program tomorrow night will be
the presentation to the congress of the
48 good citizenship pilgrimage winners,
among whom is Dorothea Kopsch who
represents Washington. Each winner
will receive a medal from Mrs. Becker.
Right Rev. James E. Freeman,
Bishop of Washington, will give the
invocation, after which the congress
will receive greetings from these digni
taries:
Sir Ronald Lindsay, Ambassador of
Great Britain; Georges Bonnet, Am
bassador of France;. Commissioner
Melvin C. Hazen. Mrs. C. A. Swann
Sinclair, national president of the
National Society. Children of the
American Revolution, and Messmore
Kendall, president general, National
Society, Sons of the American Revo
lution.
Sumner Welles to Speak.
Sumner Welles, Assistant Secretary
of State, will close the formal first day
program in the flag-bedecked Consti
tution Hall with an address on “The
Peace Policy of Our Government.”
The convention will settle down to
business activities Tuesday morning.
Committees will be announced and re
ports of national officers will be pre
sented.
Representative Sol Bloom, Demo
crat, of New York will outline the plans
of the commission in charge of the
program for the forthcoming sesqui
centennial of the signing of the Con
stitution. Representative Bloom is di
rector general of the constitutional
celebration.
National committees and State dele
gations will meet Tuesday afternoon.
At 9 p.m., Mrs. Becker, assisted by the
national officers and the State regents,
will receive in Constitution Hall the
members of the society.
Later Tuesday evening the tradi
tional pages' ball will be held at the
Mayflower Hotel. This is always the
most brilliant social affair of the
congress.
The Resolutions Committee will
present its report Wednesday morn
D. A. R. Program for Tomorrow
Concert, 8 until 8:30—'The United States Marine Band Or
chestra, Capt. Taylor Branson, leader.
Assembly call—Grace Adams East, trumpeter.
Entrance march—The United States Marine Band Orchestra.
Entrance of the president general and national officers,
escorted by the pages with State flags.
Forty-sixth Continental Congress called to order by the
president general, Mrs. William A. Becker.
Invocation—The Right Rev. James E. Freeman, D. D., Bishop
of Washington.
The pledge of allegiance to the flag—Mrs. Martin L. Sigmon,
national chairman, Correct Use of the Flag Committee.
The national anthem—The assemblage, Grace Adams East,
leader.
The American’s creed—William Tyler Page (author).
Greetings:
His excellency, the Hon. Sir Ronald Lindsay, Ambassador
of Great Britain.
His excellency, M. Georges Monnet, Ambassador of France.
Hon. Melvin C. Hazen, president, Board of Commissioners,
District of Columbia.
Mrs. C. A. Swann Sinclair, national president, National
Society Children of the American Revolution.
Mr. Messmore Kendall, president general, National Society
Sons of the American Revolution.
Music:
Mario Chamlee, tenor, Metropolitan Opera Co.
Harvey Brown, accompanist.
“Dido’s Lament”____Purcell
Air from Milton’s “Comus”____.Dr. Arne
“Mother o’ Mine” _____.Tours
“Song of the Open”....-....'..La Forge
Address—"Living for the Ages,” Mrs. William A. Becker, presi
dent general, National Society Daughters of the American
Revolution.
Address—“Youth,” Hon. A. Harry Moore, United States Senator
from New Jersey; member, Advisory Committee N S
D. A. R.
Presentation to the congress of the winners of the D. A. R.
good citizenship pilgrimage, and the awarding of medals.
Music:
Mario Chamlee, tenor, Metropolitan Opera Co.
Harvey Brown, accompanist.
“Homing” —.—..Del Riego
“Don’t Ceare”. Carpenter
“A Dream”. Bartlett
"Dawn”- Curran
Address—“The Peace Policy of Our Government,” Mr. Sumner
Welles, Assistant Secretary of State.
The retiring of the colors.
Exit march—The United States Marine Band Orchestra.
lng before Mrs. Harper Sibley speaks
on "Religion and the New Genera
tion” and George E. Sokolsky discusses
"Youth and Our Government.” State
regents' reports will be given.
To Visit White House.
Mrs. Roosevelt will receive the mem
bers of the congress at the White
House Wednesday at 3 p.m.
The chief business before the con
gress Thursday will be the election of
officers. The results of the balloting
will be announced Thursday evening
by Mrs. Prank L. Nason, chairman of
the tellers.
Speeches Thursday include those by
P. A. Silcox, chief of the Forest Serv
ice, "America's W'oods and Templed
Hills;” Sveinbjorn Johnson, professor
of law at the University of Illinois,
"Military Training as a Factor in Edu
cation;” Ruth Richardson, "Youth's
Viewpoint;” Judge John J. Parker,
"Democracy and Constitutional Gov
ernment;” Charles P. Taft of Cincin
nati, “Youth and Modern Times;” Ed
ward Howard Griggs, author and lec
turer, "Philosophy of Life for Ameri
can Youth.”
Mrs. Robert J. Johnson will present
the final report of the Resolutions
Committee Friday morning for adop
tion by the congress. Dr. Amos O.
Squire, former chief physician of Sing
Sing Penitentiary, will talk on "The
Man of Tomorrow.”
Friday afternoon the newly-elected
national and State officers will be in
stalled and with the benediction and
retiring of thfe colors, the Congress
will be adjourned. The banquet will
be held at 7:30 p.m., at the Mayflower.
Many Entertainment Features.
The whole program will be studded
with brilliant entertainment features.
Mrs. Geoffrey Creyke, chairman of
the Program Committee, announced.
The Marine Band, the Army Band
and the Navy Band will furnish the
music for the Congress, and there will
be selections by these musicians:
Grace Adams East, trumpeter.
Mario Chamlee, tenor, of the Metro
politan Opera Co., who will appear in
a group of songs on Monday evening.
Nancy Stillwell Williamson, con
tralto, who will sing Wednesday
morning, when Mrs. Frank Akers
Frost, organist, will play.
Mrs. J. Horace Smithey, organist,
who will play Thursday morning,
when the Madrigal Singers, with Mrs.
John Milton Sylvester as director, will
be a feature of the program.
Miss Phyllis Raymond, mezzo-so
prano, who will sing Thursday after
noon.
Ross Farrar, tenor, who will sing
Thursday evening.
An unusual musical treat will be
the whistling of Verna K. Lambert.
Friday morning the Gordon Junior
High School Glee Club will be on the
program.
S. A. R. WILL ELECT
OFFICERS TOMORROW
Society Expects to Hear Address
by Messmore Kendall, Pres
ident General.
• The annual meeting of the Dis
trict of Columbia Society of the Sons
of the American Revolution will take
place tomorrow night at the Willard
Hotel.
Polls will be open until 9 p.m. for
election of officers for the year, but the
tellers will begin counting early re
turns at about 7:30. The general
business session is expected to start
about 8 o’clock.
The society hopes to hear an ad
dress from Messmore Kendall of New
York City, president general of the
National Society, S. A. R.
Col. Charles Y. Latimer, president
of the D. C. Society will preside. There
will be a musical program by Erna
Embrty, soloist, accompanied by Mrs.
Jewell Downs.
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Legislative Action
Next Week.
By the Associated Press.
LANSING, Mich., April 17.—Gov.
Prank Murphy put finishing touches
today on a four-point program to in
sure the industrial peace in Michigan
which he has sought during the first
three and one-half months of his
strike-beset administration.
Murphy, who already has enunciated
a policy that labor “must organize
or be crushed,” hinted his program
would be ready for legislative action
within a week.
Points in Program.
It will provide, he said:
1. A labor relations act “which Is
vital if we are to avoid industrial con
flict.”
2. A schedule of minimum wages.
3. Compensation for occupational
diseases.
4. A factory Inspection law to elimi
nate bad working conditions for labor
and, among other things, control the
speed-up of the assembly line auto
mobile factories.
“As I explain it to you next week,”
Murphy promised newspaper reporters
assembled in a press conference, "you
will find it is a carefully conceived
program.” He declined to disclose
details at this time.
The Governor indicated he would
use the weapon of public opinion as
one means of enforcing compliance,
especially in regard to the bill which
will provide for inspection of factories.
Work Conditions Inspected.
“Michigan,” he said, “is one of the
two or three States in the Union now
providing facilities for inspection of
its laborers’ working conditions. A
careful program of legislation can get
it to the top.”
He said it would be designed to
eliminate such conditions as those
responsible for explosions, accidents
in which men are maimed or killed,
and those which have caused in
dustrial discontent.
“We will see that there is a report
to the public concerning such mat
ters,” The Governor said, "and look
to public opinion to help us to correct
them.”
Gov. Murphy already has announced
that his wage-and-hour labor program
would be patterned in large extent
after the terms of the Wagner act.
He has contended the Wagner act,
had the Supreme Court upheld it
earlier, might have prevented the far
flung automobile strikes that plagued
his administration.
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PEACE OATH OMITTED
New York School Heads Told Pro
nouncements Too Sweeping.
NEW YORK, April 17 UP).—'The
Board of School Superintendants of
New York City instructed all prin
cipals today that anti-war oaths—
particularly the so-called "Oxford
oath" against bearing arms—must not
be administered to public school chil
dren on “Peace day," April 22.
The board felt, its announcement
said, that such pronouncements were
‘‘far too sweeping” for school children.
The announcement said student par
ticipation in peace demonstrations
outside school buildings might result
in withholding of diplomas.
N
Presidency and Six Other
Honors on Program for
Tuesday’s Election.
Mrs. William Henry Pouch, a former
vice president general of the Daugh
ters of the American Revolution, has
been nominated for national presiden
cy of the Children of the American
Revolution, it was announced yester
day by Mrs. John Morrison Kerr,
chairman of the Nominating Com
mittee.
Six other prospective national of
ficers are on the ballot for Thursday's
election, to be held in the Women’s
War Memorial Building auditorium,
where the forty-second annual C. A.
R. convention is to be held this week.
Mrs. Henry Bourne Joy, Mrs. John
Francis Weinmann, Miss Myra Hazard
and Mrs. Edmund Burke Bell will be
considered for national vice presidents
general, Mrs. Ryland C. Bryant for
national registrar and Mrs. Graham
Lawrence for national chaplain.
Credentials Presented.
Presentation of credentials yester
day was limited chiefly to representa
tives of the 15 District of Columbia
C. A. R. societies and delegates from
out-of-town societies temporarily resi
dent in Washington.
At 9 a.m., an hour before registra
tion in Memorial Continental Hall was
scheduled to start, 11-year-old Varina
Claire Richard of 4811 W street ap
peared at national headquarters to be
listed as alternate delegate for the
Richard Lord Jones Society here.
Most out-of-town delegates will reg
ister tomorrow, Mrs. Amos A. Pries,
publicity chairman of the convention,
said yesterday.
Religious Services Today.
Morning service at Christ Church,
Alexandria, and vespers at the Wash
ington Cathedral are the only activi
ties scheduled today for the delegates.
Prom Tuesday until Thursday, how
ever, all available hours will be utilized
in business sessions, colorful pageantry,
sight-seeing tours, ceremonies, recep
tions and parties.
Although many of the juniors are
in their high 'teens, Mrs. C. A. Swan
Sinclair, national president, said she
believed there may be some among the
delegates well under 1 year of age.
Relief
(Continued From First Page.)
fiscal year draws to a close must be
made up by deficiency appropriations.
For some time the President has
been pulling at his hair while poring
over figures with Secretary of the
Treasury Morgenthau and Daniel Bell,
acting director of the budget. The
first headache came when he was ad
vised that the anticipated revenues 1
had fallen considerably below what
was counted on earlier in the year.
To make matters worse, the expenses
have grown beyond expectations.
With the hope of helping matters,
even just a trifle, the President re- j
i cently sent out a notice to the depart
ment and various agency heads ad
vising them of this unhappy situation
and urging that they save money
wherever possible.
In addition to this the social se
curity law has been disappointing in
the matter of producing revenue and
now the administration is faced with
injunctions following the decision of
a Federal court last week holding the
law unconstitutional.
New D. C. Directory Shows
Unequaled Growth of City
supporting the prediction of Chair
man Ross Collins of the House Ap
propriations Subcommittee that the
District's population will grow rap
idly during the next few years, Wash
ington's 1937 city directory virtually
bulges with new and old names.
Between the covers of the longer,
wider but somewhat thinner edition
of the Capital’s “Who’s Who” of both
the elite and the hoi polloi, there
are a total of 405,632 names, a gain
of 8,832 over the 1936 volume, 35,752
over 1935 and 120,792 over 1928. Ac
cording to the publishers, R. L. Polk
& Co., this indicates a growth in
total population unequaled by any
other city in the country during the
1930's.
Keeping pace with population in
creases, the business and professional
life of the city shows a gain of 19 new
lines within the last year. The direc
tory workers also found 749 different
kinds of enterprises in operation.
For those curious about firsts and
lasts in the new directory, Alton
Aaberg is the former and Albert J.
Zyvoloskl the latter.
For those “Government-minded”
there are five Whitehouses, eight
Speakers, one Uncle, four Sams, five
Courts and nine Oldens (not old men).
For those interested in labor there
is one Labor, three Strikers, one Sitter
and 12 Downers, but none named Cap
ital.
There are even Wars and Peaces,
the former greatly in the minority.
And in keeping with the season
the directory is sporting a Spring
like top covering of pastel yellow.
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VARINA CLAIRE RICHARD,
11, of 4811 W street, first to
present credentials for annual
C. A. R. Convention, holding
silver baptismal ewer to be
presented to Christ Church,
Alexandria.—Star Staff Photo.
GUILD CONTRACT SIGNED
Buffalo Times Recognizes Edito
rial Employes’ Organization.
BUFFALO, N. Y„ April 17 UP).—
The Buffalo Times and the American
Newspaper .Guild announced today
the signing of a contract covering all
full-time editorial employes of the
paper.
Under the terms of the agreement
the Times recognizes the guild and
agrees that no employe shall be dis
criminated against for guild activity.
The contract does not contain a
closed-shop provision.
Minimum wages, hours and working
conditions are provided and a five
day, 40-hour week and severance pay
and death benefits.
NEEDING D. C. DATA
Voorhis Urges Citizens to
Ease Misunderstanding
With Information.
There Is a great deal of misunder
standing in regard to District affairs
in Congress, Representative Jerry
Voorhis of California told members
of the Conduit Road Citizens’ Asso
ciation and representatives of several
other West-End citizens’ associations
at an open forum meeting last night at
the Palisades Park Field House, and
the immediate task of citizens’ organi
zations is to see that Congressmen are
better Informed.
“I think members of Congress
should sit in on a few meetings like
this,” he said, "then they will find out
a few things.”
Discussing the possibilities of a vote
for the District, Representative Voor
his declared that he was not alto
gether sure it would be a good thing.
"Other Representatives,” he said,
"feeling that the two or three Repre
sentatives from the District were there
and were looking after District prob
lems, would wash their hands of the
matter. As it is. every Representative
is, or at least he should be, taking
some Interest in what goes on there.
"Washington should be the ideal
community of America, and the way
to do it is to have the people back
in the States feel that they have
in Interest there,” he added.
Following the speech by Represen
tative Voorhis, Wilbur S. Finch, chair
man of a recently organized citizens'
committee to study various plans of
local government and representation,
outlined the history of the voting
privilege, and declared that "There
was no intention on the part of the
framers of the Constitution or the
Federal officials who first sat heae
to disfranchise the District.”
Finch explained the so-called Bur
roughs plan of local government, of
which he is one of the authors, and
which calls for a Federal area under
the exclusive jurisdiction of Congress,
a city council elected by the people,
a city manager appointed by the
President of the United States, and
heads of departments appointed by
the city manager, with the consent
of the city council.
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