Class banquet for WAACs set

Register Des Moines, Iowa »!6 * f «M fCLASS BANUUtl FOR WAACS SET Retdiil^rs Jta Sponsor Party for 444. A banquet will be held Saturday evening at Hotel Fort Des Moines honoring the first graduating clasg of women's army auxiliary corps officer candidates from Fort Defe Moines army post. The party is sponsored by the Des Moines Retailers War Activities" committee, and guests will include 444 WAAC graduates, 44. of them Negroes, and 25 army! post officers and their wives. , Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, national! director of the WAAC, who will be here for the ceremony at the. post Saturday morning, will beL an honored guest, and it was re-= ported Wednesday that her husband, William P. Hobby, a former governor of Texas, also will be here. Speakers Listed. f Two hundred Des Moines civil-' ians will be hosts at the party, and speakers, in addition to Mrs. Hobby, will be Col. Don C. Faith, WAAC commandant here; Dr. r------------ >-<