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' PAN-AI MM TO BE DISCUSSED Diplomats* Business Men and Others Will Meet Here in December. State Department officials, chiefs of diplomatic ini&sions from Latin Amer ican countries, representatives of the Pan-American Union and other agen cies concerned with inter-American relations and heads of large hanking, export and shipping companies in this field will discuss "Pan-American ism—Its Justification and Future” at George Washington University De cember 6, 7 and 8. The conference will open with a general meeting December 6. Speak ers will include Sumner Welles, Un dersecretary of State; Senor Manuel de Freyre y Santander, Ambassador of Peru; Senor Adrian Recinos, Min ister of Guatemala; Dr. Leo S. Rowe, director general of the Pan-Ameri can Union, and Dr. Cloyd H. Mar vin, president of the university. During the two days following group meetings are schedule for discussion of various phases of the subject. These meetings, with the topics, will be held as follows: Tuesday afternoon, December 7, cul ture and education; Tuesday evening, law and education; Wednesday after noon, news and communications, and Wednesday evening, commerce and finance. George Howland Cox, director of the Inter-American Center, will be general chairman of the conference. IRISH CLUB DANCE SET Annual Fall Ball to Be Given Wednesday Night. The United Irish Club of Washing ton will hold its annual fall dance /it, 10 p.m. Wednesday in Knights of Columbus Hall, 918 Tenth street N.W. Proceeds of the dance will be used to establish a sick benefit fund. Denis E. O’Connell is head of the commit tee in charge of arrangements. Fair and Fowl at Show No harm intended, but that's the way it appears as Rita Vermillion, who will be one of the participants in the National Capital Parks Horse Shoio, to be held November 14 at the Rock Creek Park Equestrian Field, meets Tommy, a bantam rooster, who will be mascot for the riders. J. B. MacMurray holds Tommy. —Star Staff Photo. ARMISTICE DAY TALK Rev. W. J. Parsons Will Address Cosmopolitans Thursday. The Rev. W. J. Parsons, professor of history at Georgetown University, will deliver an Armistice Day talk at the regular meeting of the Cosmo politan Club Thursday in the Carl ton Hotel. The club will consider plans for a ladies' night program in the near future. The question of indorsing the traffic poster campaign of the Ameri can Automobile Association also will be discussed. CARNEGIE LECTURE SET _ % A. V. Kidder to Speak on Exca vations in Guatemala. Archeological discoveries in Guate mala will be discussed by A. V. Kidder, chairman of research, Carnegie Insti tution of Washington, at (f:30 p.m. Tuesday, November 16, at the institu tion. Two seasons of excavation near Gua temala City have made it possible to determine the chronological relations between the Maya of the old empire and the early civilizations of Mexico, Mr. Kidder said yesterday. HOUSE SHOW SET 150 Mounts Expected to Be Entered in Contests Next Sunday. About ISO of Washington’s smart est bridle path mounts are expected to be entered in the second bi-an nual horse show sponsored by the Office of National Parks at 11 a.m. next Sunday in Rock Creek Park. Trophies and four ribbons will be awarded winners in each of eight classes. Entries are being restricted, it was said, to horses that have not previously competed. Maj. James W. Bamett of the Army War College is manager of the show. Other officials announced yesterday are Fenton Fadely and Maj. Frank L. Whittaker, judges of events; Percy Niepold, starter; Edward Kelly, an nouncer, and Albert Clyde Burton, awards and arrangements. Two new classes have been added for this show. - One is a junior horse manship open to all juniors under 16 years of age. The other is an open jumping class, the jumpb not to exceed 4 feet In height. 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