Evening Star Newspaper, February 26, 1928, Page 61

NONAGENARIANS ON ROLL OF G. A.R.POST Ceven Members of Burnside * Bodv—XKsep in Touch With Colleagues. Savan members of Burnsids Post, No. | £, Grand Army of the Republic, who| sorved their countsy woll during the | troublous times of the Civil War, in the Tnevdsy of their youth, are now nearing | v 1 life, all bring more | ag>. Some have! and same have done but all soldi x 0 vak ir com- rade~ highly some ore unable asi, they still retain membarship and keon in toueh with their collragues. Thess nonagenarians are W. F. Broniver of 627 A sirect southoast. who | E, 131st Peunsyl- | 1 Judge Charles S. Bundy, who was 8 sccond licutenant in Comvany K t. Col. E. W. 3d Minnesota s his_hot in Wal Brig. Gen. David Stuart | U. S. Army. now living at 1408 nue: William M. King L 10 served as sergeant in Company K. 184th Ohio: Maj. §. Willard Saxten, who did @ in the U. S. Volunteers and now lives 1347 Harvard street, and G. B. Towles, who served in Company A. 3d Battalion, of the District of Columbia. and now lives at 3358 Eighteenth street. Mr. Breniger. who reached the age of 90 on December 27. 1927, emplove on the Governmen! and is a cabinetmaker in the Army Medical Muscum and Library, in the ! Smithsonian grounds. He was born in | Harrisburg. Pa.. and was made a ser- geant of his compeny. He was wou in Virginia. and after the war was em- | ploved with W. B. Moscs & Sons as a | In Dccember. 1903, he | in is the oldest | entpay roll | re- | 912, | when he wes transferred to | post. 1 Escapes Apartment Fire. | Judge Bundy recently had a narrow | escape from death when fire gripped | the Kensington Apartment. in which he | . resided. but he escaped without injury although more than 95 years old. He | is a retired judge of the District Mu- | nicipal Court. was honored by ap- | pointment to various offi by Presi- dents Haves, Garfield, Aril Cleve- ITang, Harrison, McKiniey, Rocsavelt and | aft Judgz Bundy served for 35 years on| the municipal bepch, having boen ap- | pointed first tn 1878 t0 a post in the | old Justice of the Peace Courts. He| was reappointed each year until 1910, when he was made a judge of the Dis- trict Municipai Court, when th> other | courts were zbolished. | Born in Windsor, Broomes Count: N. Y. July 3, 1831, Judg> Bundy was | graduated from Hamiiten College, N: York, in 1854. and served as a private, orderly sergoant and sscond lieutenant during the Civil War. . He sorved for a ! + few vears as a clerk in th> War Depart- | ment, and on June 1. Y873, was named | & justice of the peace and reappointed | successively every four vears uatil Jan- | uary 11, 1910, when he became a Mu- nicipal Court sudge. Active in civic | aflairs. Judgs Bundy first became a| the ia Heights Citi- | )‘4 and is stiil a sarved as | is president apl for seven years was | ts treasurer. He is now.a Lfe hon- | col ber of the Wi ton of Trade | and weas for 32 years chairman of its commitiee on parks and reservations. | He has long been active in the afairs | of the Columbia Historical Socioty and b ng:‘:n nonorary mem{bfl'. He has| servy vice ident of t! 5 - tion of Oldest Mlnhlbfllgls. cadsine Jugg_‘fi'.lnd, i a_member of S Protestant Episcopal Church and is the author of ddy’s Justis “Frontier Guard” Surivor. Gen. Gordon is best known as being | the sole survivor of the famous | Frontier Guard” which kept vigil over | Lincoln at the White House, but he | bhas an enviable record as a fighting man against the Indians and in th:| Civil War. This stirrinz career began on May 23, 1232, in Pranklin County, | Pa. A dashing cavalry officer he was in Civii War days, having cntered the service when he was 29 years old, ap- | pointed from Kansas to a commission as second lieutenant of the 2nd-Dia- goons. Meritorious services won him | promotion during the struzgle. opened the first fizht at rfax Court House, June 1, 1851, and at the first battle of Bull Run. July 21, 1881, ho | was captured and spent 12 hs in Confederate prisons, including the fa- mous Libby prison in Richmond. He! was exchanged, Oclober 3, 1862, at An. Md.., immediately re- round Washing- | led his cavalry | Mosby and his raiders. i For his “gallant and meritorious serv- l ice” in the Gettysburg campaigp, Gen | Gordon was breveiied » major. At the | on, he was . nd learn- | edy, he put pickets along | the hope of capturing | stationed ing of the the roads Booth Following the Civ; . | was dispavched 1o . where he | campaigned witn Crook. Custer ana | other noted Indian soldiers. He was | with the men who went to aveng: Custer's massacre at the Little Big Horn | and again fought the Bioux when h» | went 1o the relief of Mai Petterman’s command at Fort Phil Kearney. Por | his campsign against the Indians in | Wyoming, the generzl was breveited lieutenant colonel. He was retired Ma; 23, 1896, afer 25 years of act | ice. He rated as the olde member of the Army end N, Horticultural Lxpert. Mal King, as he served for more tia Department of Agriculture garded ar one of the country’s in horticu He is now 95 3 &nd 15 e Boy Booul f ment. witt he has been i fied for several yemrs. In the De ment of Agriculture, he served in ‘n Bureau of Crop Estimz hout 249 division of seeds for four years. For muny yrars he was conneced with ne editonal ssfls of ferm snd P Tnroughout the Ciy with the United St mission, He 1= a George ¥, Meade Grend Army of the born axton has hed ence of L been technically “Qes@” by wn insurance ! when he reached the sge of | and collecting bis own e pulicy. He was retired 192), = more than 50 yewrs' service wih the ¥egerel Gov- ment, neving served on the Treasury &0 Commerce Depurunents | Born st Deerfield, Mess, August 12, | 1829, Me) Sexlon wes w printer for | & number of years and was a member o the famous Brook Feim Associstion West Joxbury, Muss, u sociel organ- Yetion ©f Uenscendentslists, who enter- eied st verious Limes the noted New Frglend poets and suthors of that day £lier nis marrisge i 1861, Ma) Bazton Ve epponted by President Linculn us cuptain on Lne B e i Earton, whose ) North | €6 Bouth Cerobps sngd Flu Gen | Sexton wes & brother of M | | | | { | Baxton, | Near the epd of Lhe war Maj. Saxton | wer promoted o major AL the close of the Civil Wer, he was Lguec W Washingwn on the stafl of " THE. SU?\'TFAY' STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. FEBRUARY 26 1928—PART Veterans of Great War American Legion. ghncs. pers}f‘:;r-nce and suacess of Special naturalization privileges -c.l eorge Washington were portrayed by corded aliens who served with the|Comdr. Ben L. Fuller. armed forces of the United States dur-| The membership of the post was well ing the World War will be again ex-ll’fl)l’CR‘yn‘(‘d at the exercises at Alexan- tended for -‘ period of three years if Sj:;. Va., and participated in the pa- favorable action is taken by Congress| ? on a bill recently introduced in the! T. R. Dunn, a veteran of the World House, Watson B. Miller, chairman of | War who served in France with the the American Legion national rchabili- | 20th Engincers, was elected to member- tation committee, has announced. ship and will be initiated at the March Under this measure World War vet- | mecting. Comdr. Ben L. Fuller reported erans of foreign birth would be relieved | the progress being made by the depart- of complying with the usual residence ment cxecutive committee toward the requirements and could obtain citizen- | revision of the department constitution ship papers immediately upon proper |and by-laws The post passed upon the identification. oir service | Proposed modifications suggested by the during the war onorable, Mr. | department executive committee, and Miller said. This would be the third | the decisions of the post will be used by extension of the are. The present | the post commander as his guide in fu- extension oxpi 26 next. | ture discussions of the proposed changes. P 5 |~ Maj. Frederick Livingston, Maj. Frank The Butler bill. H. R. 5494, which | Lockhead and Capt. J. Allen Praether would enable mothers and unmarried have been appointed a committee on Widows 0{ dow:;erli solxrhcrs. saxtlar‘s ax\f; | revision of the post by-laws. arines interre n the ccmeterics o — Inhin Plans arc already advanced for the Europe to make a pilgrimage to these | 1 cemeteries. has pasi:)'dlslh:‘ Hous>. tenth annual nationzl convention of There arc 30.000 World War dead th® American Legion, to be held at San jburicd | cortificates or other proof of age be | inglon et its meeting Pebruary 22 | ea {in the quicksand. American cometeries in | France, Belgium, Italy and England. | In settling_adjusted compensation | death claims the U. S. Veterans' Bureau will not insist in the future that birth | submitted by the veteran's beneficiary unless there is evidence indicating that the beneficiary might be a minor. the national rehabilitation committee of | { the American Legion has been informed This matter was recently brought to) the attention of Gen. Frank T. Hines.| director of th> bureau. by Watson B.! chairman of the Legion com- Miller said there were many especially where fathers or mothers were named beneficaries. where it was absurd to ascume that the beneficiary could b2 & ¥ Birth | certificates have been requested. Di | for Hines said, in order to prevent pay- | ments to minors for whom guardial should first b2 appointed. . Vincent B. Costello Post, No. 15. American Legion, met last Tuesday evening in the board room of the Dis- | trict B Commander Thomas Mason, jr. sided. Th> post took tion urging Congress to adcpt the Tyson-Pitzgorald measure for the retirement of disabled cmer- | | gency Army officers with the same al- Jowances. according to grade, as thos» given officers of the Regular Army. It was stated that equality for all officers and enlisted men was promised in the selective service act of May, 1317, and the promis> has not been carried cut The post also indorsed the Updike measure calling for the legalizing ,of amateur boxing matches in the Dis- trict of Columbia. Plans were announced by Adjutant Martin Goerl for the public presenta- tion, with approptiate ceremonies, of cartain it>ms of the captured German war es now In the custody of Costello Post to Arlington Post, No. 139, of Virginia. The post voted to attend the ninth | anniversary meeting of George Wash- | ington Fost, No. 1, at its club hous2, March 7. Members of the post who fought In the Verdun sector still have time to | | s2nd their copies of discharges to Ad- Jjutant Goerl in crder to get the medal which has been awarded to thes> vet- c1ans by the city of Verdun. Onc dol- lar should be sont with th2 copy of th> dischasge. Thz post. »d by the Wolfare' Club. held its Valentine danc> at Knights of Columbus Hall February 18. A fcature wes the moment when Sergt Bugler Henry Loveless called the as- semblage to attention and sounded “To the Colors™ as the curtain was parted and revealed the natipnal colors on the | stag>. Th> proceeds will be placed in | the welfare fund of Costello Post. | HEary C“Spongler Post. No. 12, hogored the memory of Georg®# Wash- | at| ssist { the Thomas Circle Ciub, 1326 Mass chusetts aven The devotion, unsel! Gen. O. O. Howard and has resided | here continuously since. | May. Eaxton has been particularly | fond of music and makes a specialty of | ting concert programs. He kept | ary since he was 16 years old, but tais up recently. He is a member | of the Loyal Legion, th> Ascociation of | Oldest Inhabitants and the Laymen's League of the Unitarian Church. An experience similar to that of Mark Twain was encountered by an- | other of the septet, Mr. Towles. In- | formed that he had been drowned in the Plaite River, his family placed erepe on the door of the residence on H street between Eighth and Ninth. and summoned the minister Mr. Towics, however. tived to see his obitu- ary notice printed in The Star many ars ago. Tt all happened when he 21 years of age as a member of * expedition to Pike's Peak He twok 111 while on that assignment and returning Eas: | with a comrade by coach. they were | forced to take mules across the Platte River. As the animals began to sink | the travelers dis- | carded ail exces: bagzgage. including | their overcoats and sult caics, These fioated down the river and were later | picked up and the War Department | was notified that they had drowned. | BSuzh wes not the ease, howev | The pair made their way to a shack, | and as Mr. Towles had some gold in his biue shirt, they were abie to travel | to Omaha. Mr. Towles then took a steamer for Bt. Louis, where he had | { relatives, but while there he was strick- en with typhoid fever and was Guite ill He recovered and lived to become one of Washinglon's outstanding patent attorneys. Served as Lincoin’s Alde. Mr. T was born in Waslington. Septembrr 1, 1847, He sepvcd 2ide to Lincoln and dunng Clev second inaugural he was en aide to en. Horatio Kmg of New York, son | ot the Postmaster General, and an old boyhiood friend r Towles practiced patent law in Dington for about 40 years and for rs had his office in the old Rob- Building at Seventh and F streets under the noted Wash- tworney Pollock. Duning r he served 1 and about of the two survivors in Wih- of the o'd Mations! Itides M: i now more than 90 years oid Randolph, ussiztant enicl cierk, War Department, is 1t other or of the Natjor oft of Burnsi for 1928 are: wentieth ceper cuver, «hap- on. DE. W T adjutant Petty quar- Convis Barker and patsiot] Dr. Witham ‘Tindall Dunbar termuster instructor | o | Says Dust Dims City Light. | “That th weeks' dust in a modern y will lower an electric lght's bril- | ney by 10 per cent s the claim of | M. Lingenfelsen, an iluminating en- | gineer of Germany For maximum efi- | clency, he deciares, lamps und reflectors snould he cleaned every 10 dnys, with | monthly use of soup and water The | e lght thux saved in a large Industrisl | plent would repay the wages of a light- | Lender. . Fitty-nine per cent of the pugils who | enver high school do not reach o radustion i SPECIALIZED SERVICE | On Starting, Lighting, Ignition, Carburetor, Speedometer, Auto Parts CREEL BROS. 181417 14th Bt N.W, Pot. 173 i | ence on National Defense was given and | man, rehabilitation chairman, for hos- | time. years . 'old. and will be in the nature of a joint H Antonio, Tex., from October 8 to 12. The committee on arrangements has advised national lNeadquarters it ex- pects more than 100,000 Legionnaires and their families to attend. Philip B. Stapp, general convention director, has announced a. program of entertainment which will include many features. There will be rodeos, side trips to the great ranches and border towns on the Rio Grande, entertainers from Mexico City, foot ball games, a Broadway show and military demon- | stration. Housing arrangements are going for- ward under the direction of Ralph W. Neelands, formerly adjutant of the De- partment of New York. A!l reserva- tions will be handied by department headquarters through the convention bureau at San Antonio. Charles W. Scruggs., formerly adju- tant of the Department of Texas, 16 /s- sistant general director of the conven- tion burcau. Howard C. Smith, for- merly assistant publicity director for the national organization of the Le- i charge of the publicity for the Pennsylvania is leading, Iliinois is a i clos2 second and New York is third in the al number of membérs in the reatost Amcrican Legion membership race in the history of the organization at this time cof the year. The total mambership for all the States, the District of Columbia and the depariments outside the continental limits of the United States is_slready 45 per cent of th> total for 1927, whicn was a record ycar, and 1928 is hardly started. Henry C. Spengler Unit, No. 12, held its vegular mecung Wednesday night at Thomas C: Club. The president, Mrs. Amos A. Pries, presided. A re- port of the Women's Patriotic Confer- made a part of the official records; also a report from Robert M. Tolson, veha- bilitation chairman for Area B, with at knowledgment of 525 sent him from the unit for veteran welfare. Pifteen dol- lars was appropriated to Mrs. Sonne- pital work and a renort given from Mrs, R. S Jcnes, child weilare chaigman The un:t will make 2,000 large ics emorial day. this activity to be in e of Mrs. Carl C. Brewn. Mrs. | Dale will advise the place of ! meeting for making popples at a later Mrs. H. Edrund Bullis was initi- ated and the namos of Mrs. J. Miller Kenvon cnd Mrs. Frank A. Pritchard were presented for membership. It was voied to co-operate with the 8-and-40 in their plans for the May dav fete at the Marine Berracks. May 1. Col. John Thomas Taylor, legion legislative com- mittee, gave a resume of veteran legis- lation now pending before Congress. At the invitation of S; Post _the unit members were guests the Pgfl the close of the ting. 24 The March meeting will observe the unit’s birthday anniverzary, six party with the post. John M. Beauchesne Post. No. 28, the | American Legion. held {ts- regular monthly meeting February 17 at 1108 Sixteenth street. Earl Jennings Brown, commander, presided. were for- rd-?lxhud for an intensive membership ve. Resolutions were adopted setting forth that the post indorses the bill pes in Congress which would legalize box- ing in the District of Columbia; that the executive committee of the District of Columbia Department look into the matter of ex-service men and women' who have not been given preference in Government poritions, and indorsed the Welch bill providing for equitable sal- | arfes for Government employes. { Kenneth M. Nash Post. No. 8, will | hold a card party March 2 at Thomas | Circle Ciub, 1326 Massachusetts avenue, | Proceeds will go toward purchasing a silk banner for the post. The next me~ting of the post will be held at the Hamilton Hotel at 8 p.m., March 7. “Old timers'” night will be celebrated by a smoker. Piens for a membership ‘drive are being made. Committees will visit Ma- sonic lodges In the District in the near future and make an appeal to ex-serv- ice men to become members. Dr. Elliott A. Hunt has been appoint- FREE SCIENTIFIC BRAKE ADJUSTMENT A Machine Test Not Guesswork The Only Brake Shop in City Owned and Operated by a Brake Expert—25 Years' Experience Somc of Cur Prices Chevrolet Foot Brakes Pontiac Foot Brakes. Dodge Voot Brakes Hupp. 1 Foot Brakes Essex Fool Drakes Bulek Foot Brakes Hudsen Foot Brakes Studebaker Foot Brakes Nash Foot Drakes OPEN ALL DAY NUSDAY o ————————— FORD BANDS COMPLETE, $1.50 White Fastury Co OF WARHINGTON 711 G Bt NORTHEAST Catl Linenln W10 Called for und n Overalls BB BRYAN. Fron, ed chairman of ;‘,20 entertainment com- mittee, . K. d and W. B. Keely comprise the publicity committee. Eight and Forty Salon, No. 14, held its midsocial assembly at the home of Mrs. Amy Hammond, 214 Massachu- setts avenue northeast, last Wednesday evenl Prior to the social feature the business session was held, Mrs. Viola Benedict acting as secretary in the ab- sence of la Secretaire Catherine Crompton Mrs. Mark K. Killeen, Eight and Forty member and president of the George E. Killeen Unit, Legion Auxiliary, has been appointed by De- partment Comdr. Kenyon a subchair- man ot the Legion poppy committec and will have charge of the making of 15,000 large poppies for placement on the graves at Arlington on Memorial day. The salon voted to assist in this work and will make 500, with Mrs. Ro- larr‘tln Fawcett as chairman of this ac- vity. Preliminary plans were definitely for- mulated for the May day fete to be held May 1 at the Marine Barracks. A three-number program is being ar- ranged by the committee, and includes the old-time maypole dance, presented by the children under the direction of Mrs. Gertrude Lyons. Dancing will fol- low. About 1,000 admittance cards will be_issued. Patrons and patronesses to date in- clude Senator and Mrs. Porter H.'Dale, Department Comdr. Kenyon and Mrs. Kenyon, Grand Chef de Gare Pierce and Mrs. Pierce, Gen. Amos A. Fries and Mrs. Fries, Col. John Thomas Tay- lor and Mrs. Taylor, Col. H. E. Bullis | and Mrs. Bullis, Maj. William Wolft Smith and Mrs. Smith, Thomas J. Frailey, Paul J. McGahan, Dr. Douglas A. White and Mrs. White and Miss MH- dred Nash. The children of the District’s men who lost their lives during the World War will be honor guests of the eve- ning. Any child whose father dicd dur- ing the World War is requested to mail name and address, with name of father | (stating whether with Army. Navy or Marines), to Mrs. Dorothy B. Harper, Portland Hotel, and receive the honor badge which will acmit them to the May day party. The three women's posts of the 4 is leaving the city March 7. While en route to a meeting of the Americanization committee of the five major veterans' organizations in Phil- adelphia, Comdr.-in-Chief A. C. Strayer of the Veterans of Foreign Wars stopped over in Washinglon long enough to be the honored guest of the local depart- ment at an impromptu reception, held at the Army, Navy and Marine Club. Nearly 200 members of the local V. F. W. attended. . | District of Columbla Department, the Jane Delano; Belleau Wood and Jfi_:uh Jones, will hold & joint meeting March 1 at 8 o'clock at 1337 K street. The mecting will be in the nature of a get-together meeting and prominent speakers are expeeted. ; . A large number of members attended the theater pérty 'at . Keith's last Monday evening. Several members of the post gttended the George Wash- Ington memorial exercises in Alexan- dria Wednesday. There will be a meeting of Mary Weide’s home fund team. at the cap- tain’s home tomorrow night. Victory Post No. 4 will hold its next meeting Tuesday in the Woodman's Hall, 935 Grant place. A progressive 500 card party will be given Wednes- day in the Northeast Masonic Temple for the benefit of the post drum corps. All members of the drum corps are requested to appear at the post meet- ing Tuesday for a short practice. Rob- ert Hundley announces that refreshe ments will' be served in the dining room after the post meeting. Veterans of Foreign Wars. Mcetings for coming week are: Mon- day, National Capital Post, No. 127, Pythian Temple; Federal Post, No. 833, ‘Thomas Circle Club. program of the V. F. W., the growth of the National V. F. W. Orphans’ Home at Eaton Rapids, Mich., the increase in membership being reported from nearly pects for the greatest national encamp- ment ever held by the V. dianapolis next Fall. Department Comdr. Beatty and a specfal committee last week inspected a site for a proposed Summer camp for the use of local vets anfl their families. The site is on the Severn River, having facilities for bathing, boating, tennis, base ball and every other form of out- door recreation. A report will be made at the next meeting of the department council of administration. The poppy committce, under the cently and preliminary details for the Buddy Poppy Drive were discussed. Comdr. Strayer spoke on legislative | every State department and the pros- | Post. No. 833, was an alde on the staff | Cusick, Dr. tions in the parade W day at Alexandria, V: . Dtinlop P. Penhallow, flanked on by Msj. Charles Willlam Preeman .and Lieut. Charles Riemer, president of the clud, followed bills now before Congress in which vet- erans are interested. Potomac Post was host to a large fmherlnu of vets Pebruary 18 at its hall n Northeast Washington and an enter- tainment was presented. A buffet lunch was also served. Comrades Chamber- h&nxanfl Helse were in charge of this affair. - Front Line Post, at its meeting Feb- | E. Pickett, 3d, and Master George E. ruary 22. obligated a class of eight new | Pickett, 4th, grandson and great-grand- members, among who was Jack Ken- |son of Gen. George E. Pickett of Get- drick, comedian at the Gayety Theater | tysburg fame, marched with the club. the past week. He was a member of the | ~ The newly elected board of govern- 202d Coast Artillery during the war. grrMafii. Wllllgce S:N":wr Isazc OIIB e udge Robert E. Mattingly, Alonzo Comdr. Frank Lockhead of Golumbia ‘D6 way. Roy B Hughes, Raiph A Charles Mor 3 of Capt. Dieh!l. grand marshal of the'Capt Charles O. Shaw. Lieut. Lawrenc " F. W. at In- | parade in Alexandria, Va. Washington's| p. "walton, S. H. Wolberg, Col. D. P. birthday. Past Dept. Comdr. Charles H.' pennallow, Karl Greene, Capt. Harvey Reilley and Dept. Judge Advocate E. H. 1, Miller, Maj. Willlam L. Browning, | Hale “vere members of the staff of Dept. gimer J. Haberkorn, George J. Mueiler, Comdr. Joseph F. Beattie. jr.: Lieut. Comdr. George B. Trible— An entertainment and 509 card party ‘will meet tomorrow evening at the of- will be hold at th Thomas Circle Club. | fices of the club in the Metropolitan | 1326 Massachus~its avenue, the evening | Bank Bullding. President-elect Charles of March 17. The proceeds will be de- | Riemer will preside. voted toward the expenses of the dele- gates to th~ National Encampment at leaderchip of C. B. Jennings, met re-| Th_e.Little Demon Guard Against Him and Indianzpoils. At the March meeting | the post will elect its delegates and al- | tyrnates to the depar.ment encamp- { ment. ! e athletic committee s arranging | The District of Columbia Department, Veterans of Forelgn Wars, presented a | vaudeville show at the Naval Hospital the evening of February 20. The entire program_was in charge of Miss Edith Loutse Reed and Charles A. Kohen, head ot the V. F. W. hospitalization | committee. This was one of a series of | entertainments held at local hospitals | during the Winter by the V. F. W. and | for which the local department has re- ! | ceived highest commendation. The last {of the indoor entertainments was given | at Mount Alto Hospital Thursday night. | A program of specialties from the Fox | | Theater featured the cvening. Depart- | |ment Comdr. Joseph F. Beatty gave a short talk. | The welfare committee has plflnm‘\i‘ | @ smoker and get-together March 6 to { enable the members to show apprcda-" | tion of the efforts by Charles Kohen as {rh'\llmm\ of the hospitalization and en- | tertainment committee for the past three vears. Due to private business he | Chairman Jennings has as his assistant | E. J. Hale. Department Adjutant Fowle an- nounces he has on hand the first aliot- | ment of membership certificates and | that the posts can get as many as the: desire by communicating with him. In dividual members should apply for thes> certificates to their post quartermaster. | Th a | ve bia Post in various events during th» | coming Spring and Summer. | American War Veterans' Club. marched with other veteran organiza- Approximately 400 members of th> ! local department, under the leadership ! of Maj. Frank Lockhead. chicf of st= participated in the parade at Al andria, Va.. on Washington's birthday. Comdr. Beatty was the principal speaker at an entertainment given by National Capital Post at Pythian Tem- ple, February 21. Kin Carroll and his Costello Post Entertainers were at the head of the program. Pest Comdr. Muschlitz and E. J. Wickstrand were in charge of arrangements. 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