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THE TRUE NATURE
OF GOD
Attend a Free Lecture
entitled
•‘CHRISTIAN SCIENCE:
THE KNOWLEDGE OF
CONTINUOUS WELL-BEING”
by EVELYN F, HEYWOOD, C. S. B.
of London, England
Member of the Board of Lectureship of The
Mother Church, The First Church of Christ,
Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts.
SUNDAY, APRIL 25
3 P.M.
*
IN CONSTITUTION HALL
Under the auspices of the Five Churches of Christ,
Scientist, and Christian Science Society,
of Washington, D. C.
ALL ARE CORDIALLY INVITED
CAR to End Sessions i
Today With Trips to
Arlington, Mt. Vernon
The National Society of the
Children of the American Revolu
tion brings its annual three-day
convention to a close today with a
pilgrimage to Arlington Cemetery,
Mount Vernon and Christ Episcopal
Church in Alexandria.
Chartered buses were to leave
Memorial Continental Hall at 9:30
a.m.. carrying more than 400 dele
; gates on their annual tour of nearby
historic sites.
At a ceremony at the Tomb of
the Unknown Soldier, a young dele
gate from the William Bizzell So
ciety, Arkansas CAR, was to place
a memorial wreath. Color bearers
on the pilgrimage were to be John
1 Eagleton, of the George Washington
Society, and John Magruder, of the
Mount Vernon Society, both of the
District CAR chapter.
State CAR Gifts.
Wreaths placed at the tombs of
Martha and George Washington at
Mount Vernon will be gifts of the
Washington and Illinois State
CAR’s.
At two convention sessions yester
day, in Memorial Continental Hall,
the delegates, all of whom are un
der 21, heard reports of officers and
committees.
Veterans Administrator Gray told
the children at a morning session
! they must remain, true to the faith
which moved their forefathers to
found and build America.
Gen. Gray called on the youthful
delegates to remember that only
a nation-wide belief in God would
suffice to keep America strong, j
Reads Prize Essay.
Robert Boyd, jr., 17, member of
the Mount Vernon Society, read Ins
! prize-winning essay on "The Great
Seal of the United States.” Young
Boyd's entry won over hundreds
submitted by school children in
Kentucky, Illinois, Massachusetts,
New' York, Maryland, New Jersey
and the District in the CAR’s
annual contest.
Winners in a number of other
CAR-sponsored patriotic contests
also were announced at yesterday's
sessions.
The convention unanimously,
elected Mrs. Roger Williams, of
Michigan, senior national registrar.
Mrs. Williams' election was the only
one conducted, other officers con
tinuing through the second year of
regular two-year terms.
A resolution calling for establish
ment of a traveling fund for the
junior national president was passed
unanimously. At present, the offi
cer must pay his own expenses in
Siate-to-State traveling.
A Cuban flag, presented by Miss,
Nancy S. Jones of Parkfairfax, Va..
granddaughter of Mrs. Joseph;
Jones, head of the Cuban CAR, was;
among a number of gifts delivered
to the society at the session.
At a preconvention session Fri
day, the society's National Board,
composed of members of the spon
soring Daughters of the American
Revolution, voted to appoint a
committee to confer w'ith officials
of the DAR on plans for a $900,000
expansion of DAR headquarters
here. The CAR will obtain occu
pancy of a suite of offices in what
is presently the DAR library, when
construction is completed.
Mrs. Truman received the dele
gates at 2 p.m. in the White House
yesterday. The society held a past
convention banquet at the May
flower Hotel last night. Mrs. Don
ald B. Adams, senior national pres
ident, and Miss Patricia Edwards,
junior national president, presided.
Dr. W. M. Gewehr to Speak
Dr. W. M. Gew'chr of the Univer
sity of Maryland history depart
ment will speak at 11 a.m. today,
in the Chapel of the Redeemer.;
Fairway Hills. His subject will be
"The Christian Approach to Russia. ”
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Western High School Pianist
To Play in Constitution Hall
A 15-year-old Western High
School pianist is due for a big thrill
Friday night.
The young musician is Robert
Hilker, son of Mr.
and Mrs. B. Ross
Hilker of Falls
Church. At 8:30
p.m. Friday he'll
make his Consti
tution Hall debut
as soloist with
the 5 5 - p i e c e
band of the
Boys' Club of
Washington.
He’ll play Cho
pin's “Fantasie
Imprompt u,"
with which he
took first prize in
the Boys Club's Robert Milker,
recent National Capital Instrumen
tal contest.
While that gave him an eight
week summer scholarship to the
Deerwood Adirondak Music Center
in Saranac, N. Y„ Robert still insists
music is just a hobby with him. His
real ambition, he says, is to be a
doctor.
Master of ceremonies at Friday's
concert will be Richard Bales, music
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Art, who was chairman of the in
strumental competition. Conductor
of the band is Andrew G. Bodnar,
foimer Marine Band member.
Part of the proceeds from the
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Orchestra. Tickets are available at
the Symphony Box Office in Kitt’s,
1330 G street N.W., and at the Boys
Club, Seventeenth street and Mas
sachusetts avenue S.E.
Another benefit for the National
Symphony will be discussed tomor
row when Nancy Osgood, director
of women's activities for the Na
tional Broadcasting Company in
Washington, lnferviews Mrs. George
Mesta at 9:30 a.m. over Station
WRC. Mrs. Mesta is chairman of
the benefit opening of the new
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Polish Fair Dominated
By Soviet Cars, Planes
By the Associated Press
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international fair opened here today
with Soviet Russia dominating the
display of airplanes and automo
biles.
The Soviet Union topped all other
nations except Poland in space oc
cupied, showing 80 railway carloads
of product*. Passenger airplanes,
military training craft, farm ma
chinery and locomotives headed the
display.
The United States and Mexico
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