Evening Star Newspaper, July 15, 1923, Page 53

Veterans of Great War The Disabled American Veterans of the World War will immediately es- tablish in the Veterans' Bureau here @ salaried service officer to handle the cases of all members who have claims, according to an announcement by J. R. McDonald, who has just returned from the national convention at Minneapélis, where he was elected to the national executive committes to Tepresent the fourth district, which includes Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and the Distriot of Columbla. James A. McFarland of Dalton. Ga., Tew national commander, and Judge Robert 8. Marx of Cincinnati and Capt. . H. Cook of Buffalo, both past rational commanders, wili come to Washington the latter part of the month for a series of conferences at the Veterans' Bureau to explain_the Program the Disabled American Vet- erans have outlined for the coming Year. Tn seventeen states and territories ©f the United States and in six for- €ign_countries contributions to the WAmerican Legion overseas graves en- dowment fund have exceeded the mmount set by national officers, ac- cording to reports of Robert H. Tyn- dall. national treasurer. The states and territories are Rhode Island. Delaware, West Virgini Maryland, Vermont, New Mexico, Con necticut, South Carolina, District of Columbia, Wyomin zona, Wash ington, New Jersey, Georgla, Ar- kansas, Hawail and the Philippine Islands. The foreign countries are Japan, Canada, Mexico, Argentine, Brazil and Cuba. These figures are based on amounts set on per capita membership in the legion. Approximately five-eighths of the fund necessary for decoration in per- Detuity of graves of American world war dead has been subscribed through the legion. Pennsylvania leads in the total amount collected, though Ohio is second by but a few hundreds of dollars. Subscriptions to the fund will be held open until reports are complete from all departments of the organization. The War Department, Navy Depart- ment. Postal Department and Civil Service Department of the United States, together with the United States Veterans' Bureau, have advised national headquarters of the Veterans of Foreign W. that leaves of ab- sence will be granted to the officers, enlisted men and employes of the various departments and also _the trainees of the United States Vet- erans’ Bureau In order to attend the twenty-fourth national encampment of the Veterans of Forelgn Wars at Norfolk, Va. August to 31, inclu- sive. All members Foreign Wars of the Veterans of who come under the Jurisdiction of the above departments Should make requests’ for leave through their department heads. glon, the Adjutants General Associa- tion and the Veterans of Forelgn Wars_met at the Washington Hotel early in the week to consider plans to compel Congress to grant retire- ment to the permanently disabled emergency officers of the Army. As matters now stand, the officers of the Regular Army, Navy and Ma- rines and the Marine and Navy re- serve and the Army provisional of- cers are retired, leaving the perma-| nently disabled emergency officers of vihe Army as the ones denled the privi- eg! All of organized veterandom is be- hind this measure, which, it is ex- pected, will be presented to Congress in December by Maj. Walter Lind- berger of California, himself a wound- ed volunteer officer. With the resumption of the confer- ences of the allled veterans' organi- zations on laws of the Veterans' Bu- reau, Frank J. Irwin of the Disabled American Veterans was named chair- man of the subcommittee on the codi- fication of the rules, laws and regu- lations of the Veterans' Bureau, and J. T. Taylor of the American Leglon was named chalrman of the sub- committee to work out any legislation necessary from the recodification. It is the plan at present for the American Legion, Veterans of For- eign Wars and the Disabled American Veterans to join on one program cov- ering the situation and place it before Congress with the full influence of the three recognized national organi- zations behind it Equality-Walter Reed Post has just closed another successful quarter, the membership report showing a net gain of five, although numerous members vere lost during the quarter on ac- unt of transfers, etc. Commander oward E. Chase has arranged an intensive activity program, which will be inaugurated by the post directly after the national encampment, which will be held in Norfolk, Va. August 27 to 31, W. G. Jamieson, H. C. For- tey and Sam Berlin have been ap- pointed as members of the member- ship committee and plans are being made to start a big membership cam- paign September 1. The post will hold its next meeting August 2 This will be the only meeting in_ August, but beginning September 6 the usual two meetings & month will be resumed. The Ladies’ Auxiliary of Equality- Walter Reed Post will also inaugu- rate its fall activiti early in Septem- ber, and the post has invited the ladies to be the guests of honor at the open meeting and entertainment scheduled to be held September 6. John Wisch- husen, Sam Berlin and H. C. Forney are arranging an interesting program for the evening. The post has already distributed 300 tickets for the annual department excursion and the auxiliary has dis- tributed 100 for the same activit It is anticipated that an unusualiy 1arge number of Veterans of Foreign _THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGION, D. C. Blondes and Blue Eyes Grow Scarcer With Old Americans Teceipts from this outing go into the department rellef fund. California ls preparing to demon- strate her advantages to the 150,000 world war fighters expected to attend the American Leglon's national con- vention in San Francisco next Octo- ber. Citizens from outlying citles and towns, industrial and commercial centers, farming reglons and the ranch country will assemble in th convention city to welcome the vial- tors, Plans are being completed for the annual excursion of the American Legion of the Diftrict of Columbia to Chesapeake Beach, July 31. It is from the sale of tickets to this event that the department organization realizes & portion of the money necessary to carry out the relief work and other activities making demands upon de- partment funds and Department Com- mander John Lewis Smith has earn- estly besought the interest of all legionnaires and their friends in mak- ing the’approaching exoursion a suc- cess. The excurslon -is under the direc- tion of the entertainment committee, of which Willlam F. Franklin, past Commander of Vincent B. Coestello Post, is the chairman. Serving with him ‘on the committee are: Joseph J. Idler, the department executive offi- cer of the Edward D. White Post; Mrs. Kenneth A. McRae, department vice commander and former com- mander of the Jacob Jones Post; Miss Edith M. Warren of the Jacob Jones Post, Francis B. Miller of the Bureau of Hngraving and Printing Post. Jo- seph N. Rabbitt of the Robley D. Evans Post and T. Norman Templeton of the Stuart Walcott Post The committee has already planned & number of unusual attractions for the excursion, which it Is hoped will attract one of thesargest gatherings of the familles of war veterans so far assembled in the District of Columbia. this year. One of the special fea- tures’ will be the events that have been arranged for the children of the leglonnaires. By an arrangement the sale of children's tickets has been withheld until the day of the outing when they can be obtained at the Distriot line. There 18 to be a base ball game be- tween the American Legionnaires' team and the United States Marine Corps team from Quantico. which is scheduled for next Tuesday at the American League Park. This event is under the auspices of the George Washington Post, No. 1. and the funds accruing will be devoted to the bufld- ing purchase fund being raised by that post. ° A epecial meeting of the National University Post, No. 4 Disabled American Veterans of the World Wa was held Wednesday night. Ralph L. Chambers, delegate to the third an- nual convention of the mational or- ganization held at Minneapolis in June, presented his report. R. A. Phil- bert ‘and George Spaulding were ap- pointed to arrange for the dinner to be given in honor of the new Nutional Disabled American VetBrans' com- mander, James F. McFarland of Dal- ton, Ga. when he comes to Wash- Ington next moénth for econference with Veterans' Bureau officials. National post is one of the largest In the Diatrict and an effort is heing made to obtaln the membership of every vocational student in school.| A vice ‘commander will be elected at the next regular meeting to take the place of Edgar W. Pumphrey, who was recently elected state commander of the District. artment of District .of Columbli eld a meeting at 1423 New Yorr ave: nue last Wednesday evening. [t was decided that the department conven- tion would be held in September, when delegates to the national onn- vention will be elected and officers will be elected for the coming year. Mra. R. E. Fawcett, president pre- alded. Mrs. Mamie Palmer Dorsey gave a report of the splendld success of the “poppy making” at memorial, of which committee she was chair- man, A garden party is planned for the future. P The unit of the Stuart Walcott Post, No. 10, held a meeting at the home of it secretary, Mre. Templeton, last Monday evening. The next meeting of the Auxiliary of the Vincent B. Costello Post, M 15, will be at District bullding, Tues- day, at 8 p.m. The auxiliary of the H. C. Spengler Post, No. 12, gave an entertainment at Walter Reed Hospital vesterday. A successful card purty was givem re- cently by this unit ut the home of Mrs. Spengler. Their next meeting will be August 15. The unit of the George E. IKilleen Post, No, 25, is planning a lawn fete to be given sometime in August Their next meeting will be August 4. Jasper Post, No. 13. the jon, held its meeting kit on the steamer St. Johns in conn on_ with an outing down the river. Leo Bolick, George M. Faul, Reynolds T. Harnsburger, Walter J. Fleming and Charles E. Schuyler, were elected to membership, A report on the recent District of Co- lumbia convention was given by Com- mander Thomas J. Fralle James MeFarland' of Dalton was elected confmandeg of the Dis- abled American Veterans of the World War, at the annual convention in Minneapolis. Other officers elected were J. O'Connor, San Francisco, s commander; Richard V. ton, Pa. rst junior v Herbert E. Michaels, Cincinnati, s ond junior vice commander; Harry valsh, St. Paul, third junior vic ommander: Charles Moore, Colorad: Springs, fourth junior vice com- mander; Raymond A. Lasence, Cinein- nati, national _adjutant; Grover Swartz, Waukesha, Wis, national chaplain. xecutive committeamen—District No. 1, Bdward Hyland, Providence. R 1.; district No. 2. Robert M. Smythe, Bufralo, . Y. dis ct No. 3, Allen H Sergt. American L Wednesday Ga.. William 7 JULY 15, MéLean, Frie, Pa.; district N. 4, J. R. McDonald, Washington, D. C.:-district No. 5, Claude L. Gray, Asheville, N. C.; district No. 6, Judson Snead, Univer- sity, Ala.; district No. 7, Judge Robert 8. ‘Marx,” Cineinnati; district No. -8, Sidney J. Allen, Detroft, Mich.; dis- triot No. 8, John Davey, Tecumpach, Neb.: district No. 10, Frank R. Nance, St. Paul, Minn.; districi No. 11, George B. West, Denver, Col.; district No. 12, Henry €. Wentworth, San Francisco, | Calif; district No. 13, Fred Knapp, Seattle, Wash.; district No. 14, H. C. Jordan, Fort Worth, Tex. The American Legion will be repre- sented at the biannual conference of the British Empire Service League, to be held in London, starting tomor- row. Alvin Owsley, national com- mander of the veterans' organization appointed the following committee of leglonnaires as representatives at the meeting: Donald W. Smith, adjutant of the London post of the legion: Os- car N. Solbert, London post com- mander; Francis Drake of Paris and Riehard Tobin, United States minister to the Netherlands. The British Em- Service League is composed of entatives of ex-service/ men's organizations of Great Britain, Cana- . South Africa, Australia, Rhodesia, aland and Newfoundland. Its patron is the Prince of Wales and its president is Field Marshal Sir Doug- las Haig. COUZENS WILL STUDY FOREST WORK ABROAD Senator, on Trip to Europe, Says He Will Prepare for Hearings to Be Held in Fall. B the Ansoclated Preps OIT, July 14.—Senator James 18 plans a study of forest con- rvation and reforestation in Ger- many and other ropean countries, it was learned when he ai nounced he would sail for July 28 for a two-month st: The, Senator, a member of the Sen- mmittee on reforestation. sald he planned particularly a visit to the Black Forest of ( mar where he understood conservation work is well a mmittee will begin he co September 2 . “I already have the timber lands of the which will be in the immediate éinity of this I 1 think that by making this study abroad I can 1iy be of more service to the com- | mittee than by revisiting the western rings sald gone west | D1 vi- over will stitute are hair. eratio in 1923—PART of males and one-sixth than with brown cyes and medium to dark Only about 1 per cent of both males and females have black hair. Alout two per hundred of males and four per hundred of females have red Lair. o Brunettex More Frequent. Brunette girls are much more fre- quent than bl Amerlean _stoc pure blonde or brunette. ! | PUr. Hirdlicka has been studying the urope |, ¢ive American stock for the past Pfint yeurs and has examined over 5.000 indiviguals whose ancestors on oth sides ‘had been residents of the tates for at least three gen- ondes. seldom are either They perhaps . the freckled boy or girl had a dark ancestor who married a blonde. The little brown dots on the skin are the outcropping of the darker blend in the blood. American eyes differ widely original human eye probably Dr. have a deeper meaning than plenty of runshine. some 9 The American race of the futureslightly from blonde. Tt darker, generation after generation. This is the conclusion of Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, head of the department of anthropology of the Smithsonian In- here, deduced from a is getting long serles of experi- mernts on the changing appear- ance of those familles domiciled in the United States for at least three genérations. At present only five men in & thousand are lighter than me- dium and only fifty-two girls in a thousand. All of these cases are associated with pure light eyes and very light or red hair. On the other hand, a lit- tle over one-fourth of females medium, usually Males of the old Hrdlicka's report, indicate that at in the remote hazel to dark brown, At _present all negroes and Indlans and the majority. of white people have brown eyes, but mixed eyes— blue, green and gray—are becoming moré common in the United States. The majority of old American men are swarthier than the average of the race. This does not hold true of the women, however. Freckles fre most noteworthy among the descend- ants of the Seotch and Scotch-Trish settlers 4nd indicate, Dr. Hrdlicka beljeves, that at some period a darker- skinned tribe mingled with this Celtic people. _————— WHITFIELD HITS LAW. Murder Charge Unconstitutional Plea in Demurrer Suit. CLEVELAND, July 14—Attorneys for John L. Whitfleld, held in jail here charged with slaying Patrolman Dennis Griffin, today filed a demurrer in com- mon pleas court, assailing the consti- tutionality of the Ohio statute that makes first-degree murder the price ex- acted of those who slay law officers in the performance of their duty. Griffin lost his life while seeking to arrest Whitfield. Assistant Prosecutor James Cassidy sald he would bring all influence to gain a hearing on the demurrer within the next week, so that the héaring would not conflict with the date set for the trial, July 23. —— . TELLER TO FACE TRIAL. Bank Employe Accused of $25,000 Embezzlement in Jail. RALEIGH, N. C., July 14.—John D. Sykes, jr., former teller of the First and Citizens' National Bank of Eliza- beth City, who was brought back from Montana latesyesterday, will go to trial at the fall term of federal district court. | opening In Elizabeth City October 8, Assistant District Attorney Briggs said | ho is charged with embez- | here today Sykes, zlement of $25,000 from the bank, was placed in Wake county jail here, and it was stated that his bond of $10,000 vy would be made soon. B FY crevit LY CREDIT I T CrepiT I Polish Band Robs Synagogues and Sells Lootin U. S. By the Assoclated Press. WARSAW, July 14 (Jewish Tele- gTaph Agency).—The police of Warsaw have uncovered the network of un organization of' synagogue thieves who operate throughout Poland, disposing of thelr religious loot in America. More than alxty scrolls of the law have been stoben from Poli=l synagogues recently. Scrolls of this type, being of sheepskin and hand-written by trained scribes, command a high price, and there is a brisk demand for them, par- ticularly in Amemican synagogues ‘The gang, the police say, Is thor- oughly organizedl, one group do- ing the stealing and another nego- tlating_for the sale of their loot in the United States. Several ar- rests have heen made. 1 | WEBSTER E5eiis || 719 9th St. N.W. Wars' members and friends will_go The District of Columbia Depart- th Chesapeake Beach August 9. ment of the Disabled American Vet- erans of the World War decided dur- ing the week to give a dinner in honor of James A. McFarland ) of Georgia, new national commander, and Judge Robert S. Marx of Ohio and Capt. C. Hamilton Cook of New York, both past commanders. who are to come to Washington shortly for a series of conferences with federal offi- cials on matters concerning the war's disabled veterans At the dinner an agreement is ex- pected to be reached how best the Disabled Ameri N Veterans can bring together the various chapters "‘ this section that have been Strengthened lately by the national membership drive that has brought tens of thousands of new members into the organization, according to the reports made at the recent con- vention in Minneapolis J. R. McDonald of this -city, was chosen at Minneapolis as national committeeman the fo th district, which includes the District of Colum- bia. 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