Evening Star Newspaper, March 18, 1928, Page 66

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHING TON. D. €. MARCH 18. 1028 PART 1 Veterans of Great War American Legion. Organization of American Legion n: tional convention savings clubs for savings funds to attend the meeting at San Antonio, Tex.. October 8 to 12, are under way, according to Philip B. Stapp. general convention director. The plan, Mr. Stapp stated, will make it possible for many members of the Legion and the Legion Auxiliary to at- tend their national conventions who would not otherwise be able to do so. Under the Legion savings plan, as worked out by Mr. Stapp in conjunc- tion with C. A. Hunter, exccutive vice president of the to-Travel Associ- the Legionnaire ning one of the 1 agree to make deposits of agreed upon with the bank or banks will pay regular th avings ac- Legion posts are PP to contact their nge at once for bs. They are also matter actively be- of their membership organization of way possible. fore the and to savings The N depertment of the American Legion Auxiliary ha. ptured the Tawne membership trophy for the second time, it was announced at na- tional headquarters of the auxiliary. To win the trophy, which is awarded annually to the auxiliary department which cnrolls the largest percentage of its past vear's membership by March 1. the N {ppi _department _enrolled 108.29 per cent of its 1927 membership. Miss Emma Hadorn of Topeka, Kans., assumed the duties of national s v of the Am ar t for three vears. e w national treasurer by Wenz of Indianapolis, Ind. ‘The appointment of Mrs. F. M. Hardin _of Harlingen, Tex.. president of the Texas department of the Ameri- can Legion Auxiliary, as general chairman of the auxiliary's 1928 na- tional convention committee has been announced by Mrs. Irene McInt Walbridge. national president Walton D. Hood of San Antonio, T was named executive chairman. The women are in charge of arrangements for entertaining auxiliary members who will attend the national gathering in San Antonio October 8 to 13. a figh School completed a 110 Miss Virginia Gordon, recent graduate of the Central Miss Marie Miller, who sceretarial coutse, &s the holder of the | post scholarship, has been placed in » responsible position with ons of 1he leading department stores in ihe eity, Maj. John E. Brooks, past post com- mander, will deliver an address at the post meeting March 28, on th> historic documents in the files of the War De- partment, with special references o the military careers of Gen. George Washington, President Abraham Lin- coln, \who served ms a captain in the Blackhawk War: Commodores Per and Decatur, and other heroes of th Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 The legislative committee is closely following the progress of the propos modification of the present fmnugratic quota, and the proposal to extend the quota to Mexico, Canada and cur sister republics to the South. Comdr. Ben L. Fuller and Past Comdus. W. R. M. Calhoun, J. B. Jones and F. A. Livingston have been appointed a committee on ways-and mes for post development, membel social activities. Plans are now being worked out by Watson B. Miller, chairman of th> na- tional rchabilitation committee of the American Legion, to conduct a school of struction for American Legion service officers_during the national convention of the Legion next Fall at San Antonio, Tex. The purpose of the school is to better inform the service officers of Veterans' Bureau procedure, with par- ticular reference to the handling of dis- ability claims for disabled veterans Service officers of posts and other Legion units have been invited to attend. The session of the school or conference W Legion service experts Bureau officials. It service officers from tha ations will b2 in attender John M. Beauchesne Pos will meet at 1108 Sixteenth & morrow evening, when plans tensive drive to secure miiit, ence for veterans in the Goiernmen employ will be discussed. Nomination for post offices will be received, and delegates 1o the special department_convention to be held in April will be selected. John B. Everts, William P. Wright, Adolphus_McKenzie, Joseph T. Dail>v John R. Teunis, Otto J. Stockman and Herbert D. Smith have been designated by Comdr. Earl Jennings Brown as a committee to personally interview mem- bers who have not been active and ! bring them to the meeting. | Legton, was held at the Thomas Cir- {cle Club, 1326 Massachusetts avenue, Monday. The post clected delegates and alter- | nates to the department convention, to | be held in April, as follows: Delegates, Commander Mabel F. Staub and Helen McCarty_and Amelia Boberg: alter- nates, Charlotte Berry, Lucille Allan and Helen Sprague. A farewell party for Ulla Tracy was held at the home of Luctlle Allan, | March 15. Comrade Tracy was ad-| jutant of the post at one time and has | been an active worker in the post. The welfare officer reports she can still utilize magazines for the hospitals, and requests all members to save them for this purpose. Comrade Tatspaugh’s home fund team will have a rummage sale in the late Spring, and it is requested all comrades who have discarded clothing save it for this sale. Comrade Tatspaugh will see that all donations are called for. Cora Drake and Eloise Broaddus are | members of Mary Welde's home fund | team. This team will hold card parties every first and third Monday of the month at Mrs. Chambers' home, be- ginning tomorrow. i | Many prominent officials attended | the dinner this week given in honor | of Col. Charles Burton Robbins. As- sistant Sccretary of War, by the mem- bers of the Grande Voiture for the | District of Columbia of La Societe des | 40 Hommes ot 8 Chevaux, the honor | society of the American Legion. The function was held at the Arlington | Hotel and was arranged as 'a tribute | to Col. Robbins. who is a_past depart- ment commander of the Iowa Depart- ment of the American Legion, and who succeeded Col. Hanford MacNider of Towa as Assistant Secretary of War. | Maj. Paul J. McGahan, national exccu- tive committeeman and_past depart- ment commander of the District Legion Department, and the premier historian national of the “Forty and Eight” was | the toastmaster. Present and among the speakers | were threc national officers of the “Hommeys,” headed by Pelham St George Bissell of New York, the chef de chemin de fer, or national com- mander, and Stafford King of St. Paul, Minn., a past department adjutant of the Legion Department of that State, and a sous chef de chemin de fer, and Dr. Charles J. Gilden of Phila- delphia, Pa. another of the national vice commanders. The American Legion speakers in- cluded Senator Bronson Cutting of New Mexico, who is a_past department com- mander of the New Mexico American Legion Department; Representative J. Mitchell Chase of Pennsylvania, a past department commander of the Penn- | sylvania American Leglon; Maj. J. G. Simms of Tennessee, a past department commander of that State and a past national vice commander; Senator Daniel F. Steck of Iowa, a past de- partment commander of the American Legion of that State; Representative | ber of songs. {of 'a_past commander. | Washington Post, No. 1, War Veterans of the Congress of the | United States; Maj. Gen. Amos Fries, past department commander of the District of Columbia Department; Fred C. Nelson of Minnesota, a dis- trict commander in the Leglon organi- zation of that State: Department Comdr. J. Miller Kenyon of the District of Columbia Department of the Amer ican Legion. and Grand Chef de Gar James F. Plerce of the District Fort and Eigh Kin Carroll gave a num- A feature of the evening was the| presentation to Austin S. Imirie, grand chef de gare passe of the golden badge This was done | by Chef de Chemin d¢ Fer Bissell, who | praised the work done last vear under the leadership of the recipient of the medal. Carl Brown, correspondent, and Fred | Fraser, commissaire intendant, were the committee on arrangements. Delegates to the special depart- | mental convention to be held April| 11 to 12 will be elected by the George | at the mr‘!"—‘ ing Tucsday evening. The number of delegates to the convention will de- | pend upon the paid-up membership of | the post. | This will perhaps be the last meet- ing of the post in the clubhouse at 1820 Eye street, as plans are now ! being made to vacate this building and move to the new headquarters. An important announcement concerning the new home will be made at the meeting. Henry C. Spengler Post, No. 12, will mect at the Thomas Circle Club, 1326 ' Massachusetts avenue, March 28, at| which time the delegates to the special | department convention will be elected. | Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan, a member | of Columbia Post, has been appointed chairman of the committee in charge of | raising the District of Columbia quota of the expense of America’s entrants in the 1928 Olympic games. Gen. | Stephan requests all members of the post to obtain and wear one of the | buttons which the committec has au- thorized for distribution to those who contributed to the fund. The legislative committee is engaged in endeavoring to obtain action at the present session of Congress on the bill allocating the Pension Office to the Dis- | trict of Columbia National Guard. The | 1 committee has stressed the Inadaptabili- | ty of the present temporary quarters assigned to the Guard, and the unde- | rable effects on morale and enthusi- sm resulting from the present unsatis- factory armony facilities. The entertainment committee is plan- | ning a birthday celebration of the post, and Commander Ben. L. Fuller fs | co-operating with the committee. Vincent B. Costello Post, No. 15, will meet Tuesday in the boardroom of the District Building. Five delegates and five alternates to the special department | constitutional convention, to be held on April 11 and 12, will be elected. | Post, No. 139, of Virginia, at Clarendon, erans, at the ' Wilson Normal School, Eleventh and Harvard streets, at 8 p.r War motion plctures, selected from Gov- ernment archives, entitled “America Goes Over,” with a sequel, entitled “Ten Years Later,” showing pictures of the Paris convention, will be shown. The_post will present to Arlington Va., 'a machine gun and other German war trophies voted to them some time ago. Gen. Willlam Mitchell will make the presentation address, and a_large number of members of the post, led by the Drum and Bugle Corps, will be present. The following have recently been | made members of the post: George K. McCracken, Irving G. Stewart, V. G. Stovall, Andrew W. Manger, James E. Lay, Ellis Allen Wakefield, John Allen Long, Charles M. Sommerville, Howard, Ellsworth Mertz, Peter Walter Bertonls, Jack Erickson, Henry Carr, Mathew Ryan, John D. Sadler, John Haslin and Cyde C. Shafer. Veterans of Foreign Wars. Mectings this week are: Friday, Po- tomac Post, 1085, Morth-ast Masonic | Temple, and T. N. T. Tent, Cooties, Woodmen's Hall. Word has been recelved at the head- quarters of the local department that the national council of adminisiration, meeting recently in Chicago, authorized Commander-in-chief Frank T. Strayer to conclude an agrecment with the Americanization department of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in the sale of an authentic history of America | which creates an enacwment trust | fund, with a goal set at $3,500,000, to| mature within the next 10 years, for | the future development and mainte- | nance of the V. F. W. National Home | at Eaton Rapids, Mich. | The V. F. W. home was founded | for the dows and orphans of | deceased during the adminis- | Gen, John H. Dunne ts_as commander-in- The purpose of this endowment fund will guarantee a future for the benefit of the home and will in no way affect the iniiial con- | tract of 1924, involving a percentage of profits allotted to the home. The local department vill launch its 928 buddy poppy drive May 27 end will end the campzign at midnizht May 29, it was docided by the poppy | committce at its last mecting. Nonc | vill be sold on Mcmowal day. All| popples sold under the auspices of the V. F. W. are manufactured by men | handicapped by war disabilitics. As in previous years, 1 cent for each | poppy sold_ will be forwerded to the V. F. W. National Home. Last year a total of $37.000 was given the home from the sale of these memorial | poppies. | Maj. Gen. George S. Gibbs, chief | signal officer of the Army, will shortly | the ceremonial work of the | A. | all legionnaires, auxiliaries and all vei- | by one of the local degree teams of Pvt, 1052, of an | has been elected a member Harry Colton Post, No. Fernando, Calif, and a reques been recelved from the commander of thal post that he be given the ritual- istic work by this department inasmuch as the general is at present stationed in this city. A. Grudd, In charge of the On-to- Indianapolis Club, announces the Penn- sylvania Rallroad has been selected as the official route to the 1928 encamp- He requests commanders make a survey thelr members and ascertain as| | nearly as possible the number of vet- the encamp- ment so that he can begin negotiations with the hotels in Indlanapolls before | the choice accommodations are ment of the V. F. W. all post of erans who will attend tracted for by other State delegatl All hereby notified that delegates District_of Columbia department. en- campment are to be elected at the last their | to this! The number of delegates each post is entitled to is based on the | | per capita tax paid at the end of this meeting of this month, and names immediately forwarded department. quarter, Capt. E. J. Bettelheim, jr., legislative . W recently cared before the committee in Con- and urged favorable action on as H. R.| 91461, which has for its purpose the chairman of the w., gre the Andrews bill, known granting of double pnsions | victims of submarine disasters, Bettelhelm advised the commitiee that s especially interested in making the provision retroactive so as to include the widows and depend- the V. F. W. ents of the S-4 disaster. Admiral Robert E. Peary Ship, No.| 427, unit of the V. F. W., has unani- | adopted_a resolution of confi- dence In the Secretary of the Navy, Rear Admiral Frank H. Brumby and | under his command, espressing g and to all new members ad thos the belief that the sinking of the S-4 was unpreventable, under existin ditions, Appeals have been m: American forces in China and Nica- magazines and_other Department Comdr. requests all posts to forward all available reading meterial to these Packazes can be forvorded to addresses: Chapluin, United States Marine Corps welfare care of postmaster, San Francisco, Calif., and in, United States Marine detach- ragua for bool re2ding matter Beatty boys. cither of the following expeditionary forces, China; officer. U. S. S. Marblehead, che: ments, Nicaragua. The Veterans of Foreign Wars will assist eny veteran who served actively in the Verdun sector in obtaining the Verdun Commemorative Mcdal, is being awarded to 21l members of the who were under shell fire in the area lying be- Forest and Any one interested can obtain | Capitol Post, No. 1. French and allled armies tween the Mihiel Argonne Hi st ha con. fons. posts of this jurisdiction are to th to_the Capt. g con ade b whic! S | F. W. Service Bureau, Bank Bullding. Comdr. Frank Lockhead of Colum- bia Post. No. 833, has announced the appointment of Col. Winfield 8. Scott as chalrman of the post’s legislative com- mittee. | At the meeting of the post March 14 At the Thomas Circle Club, Maj. Gen. | Creel O. Hammond spoke on national | defense and Ma). Harry Coop gave a | | ecital of his observations during his re- | cent tour of duty in the Philippine | Islands, as adjutant of the Department of the Philippines The 8t. Patrick’s day entertainment and card party was held last night at | Thomas Circle Club, 1326 Massachusetts avenie, i Columbia Post officiated at the burial {in " Arlington Cemetery of _Arthur | Michael, a veteran of Company H. 108th Infantry, who died at Bellevue Hospital, New York City. Maj. E. H. Hale con- ducted the burial ritual of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. , 319 Metropolitan 5 National Capitol Post, No. 127, met Monday evening at Pythian Temple, 1012 Ninth street ‘The matter of purchasing the build- ing and property at 3309 Prospect ave- | nue for a future home of the post was debated and a resolution made placing the investigation of the premises in the hands of a committee, of which | H. H. Hoffmann is chairman. The buddy poppy committee gave a report and stated that the matter of securing concessions for the 1928 cam- | paign Is now in progress and a meeting of the committee in conjunction with | the Ladies' Auxiliary will be held in the | near tfuture, The post was authorized to purchase a supply of the membership certificates which have recently been adopted by | he Department of the District of Co- | {lumbia, V. F. W. These certificates | | when completed will be distributed to all | | members of the post now in good stand- mitted 10 _the post in the future. | The resignation of Senior Vice Comdr. Jacob Orken was accepted with regret. At the next meeting, March 29, the | nomination and election of a senior vice commander to fill the vacancy created | by the resignation of Mr. Orken will be held. There will also be nominated at this meeting delegates to the depart- | ment encampment which will take place in the near future. The commander, | | R. C. Muschlitz, requests all members be present at this meeting. The following new members were | clected and obligated: Vance Stedman, | | 932 K street, and Robert Martin, Walter | | Reed Hospital, former heavyweight | champion of the A. E. F. | Dept. Comdr. of the District of Columbia Joseph F. Beattie gave a talk | relative to veterans' legislation. the | naval program and the civil service preference act. The Ladies’ Auxiliary to National , Veterans of For- o h t, | e | The post will meet, March 27, open to | Veterana of Forelgn Wars, to he given | full information by addressing the V. sign Wars, st a recent meeting in Pythian Temple held a Colonial pa Little Miss Greenberg entertained wit: songs and dances, with Mrs. Nettis Wolf at the piano. Comdr. Muschlitz addressed the meeting, outlining his program for the year and pledzing the support of the post. Past Comdrs George Neuner and Dan Healey spoke of the progress of the auxiliary an were followed by Comrade Wickstrand and Comdr. George V. McAlear of Gen Nelson A. Miles Camp, U. 5. W. V., 'flh? spoke briefly on the work of the o8 Refreshments were served. Mrs. Be:- sie Gumlau, senlor vice eommander, with Mrs. Laura Weaver, presiden:, welcomed the guests, The auxiliary, witn Mrs. Ena Allen a- chairman, will hold a 8t Patricks dance Tuesday at Oyster's auditn, Twenty-sixth street and Pennsg) avenue. Mre=. Julia Pitcock, national chairman of hospital work, has just appointed Mrs. Margaret Lidstone chairman of this work for the District of Columbia. Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan, command- ing the District National Guard and the 29th Reserve Division of the Na- tional Army, was the honored guest of Columbia Post, No. 833, at the meet- ing March 14, at the Thomas Circl- Club. Gen. Stephan delivered an addre s on the industrial growth of Washinz. ton and explained the effort: of * local merchants to influence desiran! manufacturing plants to locate in Capital and its nearby suburbs, poi ing out the advantages the ci'y po sesses in rail and water transportation facilities. Lieut. Col. Henry Coope gave a vivid description of life in the Philippine Islands under the changed and proved conditions resulting from constructive administration of islands’ affairs by officers of the Fed- eral Government, Col. Coope also d scribed incidents of his journey ho by way of the Orient, and gave some very colorful descriptions of his stop- overs at Singapore, Port Said, Maita, Alexandria and London. Capt. Frank Lockhead. commander of Columbia Post, submitted his re- port of the action taken at the -Jast department executive meeting. ~ The post employment commitice re- ported having placed a number o erans in positions during February. Past Post Comdr. James B. Jones was empowered to arrange with Henrv C. Spengler Post, No. 12, and t! Society of the 3d District of Columb Infaniry for joint decoration cer: monies at the graves of departed co: rades of these three organizations morial day. Department Adjt. Arthur C. Fowle and Past Department Comdr. Georzs J. Neuner spol n the ideals of the Vat. erans of Foreign Wars. | Harold G. Hoffman of New Jersey, a The monthly meeting of the U. S. S.! Legionnaire: Representative J. Carroll Jacob Jones No. 2, American Reece of Tennessee, chairman of the er Post, No. 12, has secretarial scholar- College Lowest price in history 6753_ Ew WILLYS-KNIGHT Standard Six 1145 Enthusiastic public welcomes this outstanding value Seldom, if ever, has a new car been accorded such a hearty reception as that which has welcomed the Willys-Knight Standard Six. 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