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' A RUGGED FINISH |FOR ALL to MIGHT ^ DURABLE COLORS { ^ _ A Sfcttdiu/ FINISH Watson Standard Co. 915 7th Sh N.W. NA. 6686 Free Parking in Rear \ Two More Chairmen Named in Drive for U. N. Children's Fund Milton S. Kronheim will be chair man of the business unit and Mrs Robert Guggenheim chairman oi the advance gifts unit, in the Washington are a “Crusade foi Children,” it was announced yester day by Mrs. Raymond Clapper public relations chairman. The crusade, to raise money foi ; the United Nations Children’s Func and 25 other organizations aiding distressed child victims of war^ will begin officially in this area at 1 p.m. May 17 with a stage show at the Sylvan Theater including a per sonal appearance by Margaret O’Brien, child actress. Speaker Martin, Senator Bark ley, and Mrs. Clapper will speak for the crusade at 12:15 o’clock this afternoon over Radio Station WINX on the program, “Is Con gress Doing Its Job?” > Other unit chairmen Include Mrs. John B. McNamara, associations and membership organizations; At torney General Clark, Government employes’ unit, and Arthur Flem ming, church groups. H. R. Bauk hage, radio commentator, is general campaign chairman. School officials and officers of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers in Washington and near by areas have been invited to as sist in planning for youth partici pation in the crusade. Among those already working with staff members of American Overseas Aid—United National Ap peal for Children, it was announced, are: Dr. Hobart Corning, District Superintendent of Schools: Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle, president of the District Board of Education; Mis. Curtis Walker, president of the Montgomery County Board of Edu cation; Dr. Fern Schneider, high school supervisor of Montgomery County; Miss Frances Ronaldson of Honeywell Foundation; Miss Helen Zartman of Friends School; Mrs. O. G. Hankins, president of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers, and Mrs. Jean S. 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Baltimore Art Authority To Speak at Gallery Today Miss Dorothy Miner, librarian and keeper of manuscripts at the Wal ters Art Gallery, Baltimore, will lecture on “Medieval Painting: the Manuscript Tradition” at 5 pm. today in the National Gallery of Art. At 8 tonight the National Gal lery Orchestra will give the second concert of the Gallery’s Fifth Amer ican Music Festival, which began May 2. Paul Chandler Hume will narrate the text for Virgil Thomp son’s “The Plow That Broke the Plains.” Leonard Shifrin will be home of K . Attentionl i Arlington Ford Owners E — Have your Ford tuned for spring . . . any necessary repair or service per formed by Arlington’s 25-year m LET US BID ON YOUR 1 i | I i BFl9l7 N. MOOILE ST. 11 f II I tl U&Hz {&& <£&etfc/ 111 *Kl ^ soloist and Richard Bales will con duct the orchestra. The “Picture of the Week” to morrow through next Sunday will be Winslow Homer’s “Hound and Hunter” in Gallery 77. Miss Eliz abeth A. 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