The Washington herald., 1913-12-11

| son, all Of Ohio. and al honored for
services rendered during the floods In
their State last spring.
Other Medals Awarded.
Maj Clyde S. Ford. Medical Corps. U.
s. A; Hoffman Phillips, Of CONSTANT
nopIe, and Mrs. w. W. Rockhill, wife of
the former American. Ambassador at
Constantinople, and John Buckerod Jack
son, Of Bucharest. Roumania, received
medals for service performed during the
Balkan war. Harmon H. Buck. OF Manila,
received a medal for work done at the
TaaI Volcano disaster. and Maj. Charles
Lynch. Medical Corps. q. S. A, and W.
W. Peet of Beirut. Syria. were awarded
medals for activities in Red Cross work.
Announcement was made that the fol-
lowing persons would be awarded GER
tificates: Charles Franklin Beckwith,
Malta, Ohio; Thomas Fowke Cooke. Buff
falo, N Y; Walter Lee Cosper, Cleve-
land, Ohio; James Dunn. Toledo. Ohio;
Ian Wesley ElIenherger. GAINESVILLE,
Ohio; Edward Thomas Devine. N, " York
City; James Louis Fieser. Columbus Ohio;
Cornelius Lynton Quincy, st. Louis Mo. /;
Robert Lewis Hines, Baton Rouge, La. /;
Charles Meredith Hubbard. St Louis.
Mo-; Carrie Luron Hughes. Cleveland.
Ohio; James Frederick jackson, CIeve-
land, Ohio; Sherman Colver Kingsley,
Chicago, H.; Louis Hiram Levin, BaIti-
more, Nd; Eugene T. Lies. Chicago, III. !;
Martin McDonough, Buffalo, N. Y; WILL
lam Mcdonald KcGrath, Birmingham,
Ala: Rose John McHugh. Chicago, III. |;
James william Magruder, Baltimore, Md. !;
Edgar Stanley Martin, Washington, D.
c.: Hilda Keene Mills, Hamilton, Ohio:
Stephen Poulterer Morris, Denver. Colo.
Robert Gildersleeve Paterson, Columbus
Ohio; David Coombs Peyton, Jefferson
vile, Ind; Amelia Sears, Chicago. III. ::
Albert Eby Sinks, Wheeling, W. Va. /;
Harry Writ Steele, Baltimore, Nd: Al
bert Ellis Webster, Chicago. HI
Wilson Heads Organization.
President Wilson was unapiu,ou.Iv
chosen president OF the society: Robert
w. De Forest, vice president; John SkeI-
ton Williams, treasurer, and Gen. John
w. Davis. u S. A, retired, counselor.
Charles L. Aagee was reelected secre-
tary.
Members of the central committee Of
the society were chosen as follows: Brig
Gen Charles Bird, of Delaware; Assistant
secretary OF the Navy Franklin d. Roose-
welt, to succeed Beekman Winthrop.
Charles d. Norton, of New York. and
Robert W. De Forest
DR.. Livingston Farrand, executive Sec
rotary, National Association for the
Study and Prevention of Tubercu
losis, told of the work being Accomplished
IN the war on the white plague by the Red
Cross seals.
DR.. Edward T. Devine spoke on the
mood relief conducted at Dayton during
the flood, and Charles z. Rosewater gave
a talk on the relief work done following
the Omaha tornado.
Annual Reports Made.
Annual reports of the different branches
of the organization were presented at the
morning session as follows:
Central committee, Mai Gen. George
w. Davis, U, s. A, retired; treasurer,
Assistant Secretary John SHELTON VIII
llams, of the Treasury; war relief board,
Brig Gen. George H. Torney, surgeon
general, U. S. A; national committee on
Red Cross nursing service, Miss Jane A.
Delano; committee on first aid, Mai
Robert U. Patterson, Medical Corps, U.
5. A; international relief board, John
Bassett Moore. counselor, Department of
State, and national relief board, Ernest
P. Bicknell, national director.
Delegates to the meeting were given a
reception by Miss Mabel Boardman, mem
Der OF the central committee of the Red
Cross, at her home, 1901 P street north
west. last night.