The New York herald., 1920-01-12
MANY RECEPTIONS AND DANCES
OF AMERICAN LEGION POSTS HERE
ON PROGRAMM E FOR THE WEEK
Miss Mae RICHTER, of Edith Ca
veil Post, to Lead March
at Imperial.

Activities during this week among the
American Legion posts here include many
receptions and dances. Chief among then
viii be the reception and dance OF the
Edith Cavel Post. No. 10, of Brooklyn, in
the Red Room of the Imperial Hotel
Manhattan, next Saturday night Miss
Mae Fighter, OF No. so Nevins street
Brooklyn, who is president of the post
will lead the grand march.
| The Edith Cavell post was the first
woman's post of the American Legion ir
the United States. Immediately after the
first national caucus of the Legion in St
Louis last May the lady gobs. or yeo-
men CD, as they prefer TO be called, be-
ing informed that they were eligible to
membership made application for a post
charter and the application was approved
by state Headquarters May %
The personnel is made up largely of
women who served during the war at the
New York Navy Yard.
Following the issuance OF a. report bI
Charles r. Hughes of an investigation OF
tne Bureau of War Risks Insurance, the
Legion, through its posts and State War
hslsk officers, is aiding the bureau in get
ting former service men who have allowed
their government insurance to lapse to be-
come reinstated
Richard T. Sell at State Headquarters
or the legion No. '54 Wall street, is the
State War Risk Insurance Officer of the
Legion. The Bureau of War Insurance is
at No. $50 Broadway
The New York County Organization Of
the Legion announced yesterday tho for
nation OF a War Risk Compensation Conn
rnli1eee 10 assist members through their
post offlcers in obtaining the fun benefits
unoer the provisions of the War Risk In
surance Act, as amended by the Sweet
Pill and IN obtaining prompt action bv
the War Risk Insurance Bureau IN tbeir
lndlVioual claims. Monson Morris. C.oltIn,-
Ola University Post, is the chairman of tha
committee y meeting of the committee
mas been called for Wednesday night oe
Ihls week at eight o'clock in the. TweIftb
hesineht Armory, to discuss the details
of the plan.
AS a means OF ascertaininr which Of +h q
thousands OF Legion posts in the Init a
SCd.eS seS are dolnG the best work the Home
oector' q weekly publication for forrne,.
service men and women. makes the fol-
lp" ing announcement in the current iss1ie
ol prizes amounting TO s1,200:-
20 the post of ex-service men in this
- WnIch IN the opinion of the judges
10 be chosen for this contest bay ,ter0
formed is performing and has cor,nre-
nenslVe plans for continuing to perform
lhe most practical service in its connn,ilnf
", the Home Sector will award . ,riyo
Oh sooJ; 10 the post, which comes second
III lHllng these qualifications the Home
SeoloI stoo WIN pay $3.50 to the third and fourth.
SloV each, and to the next five, $50 each .
In an effort TO find suitable sauitari,,ns
tor tuberculosis where discharged soldiers.
Seamen and marines may be treated near
their homes, the United States Public
Health Service has appealed to the New
YORK state headquarters of the legion for
information which will enable il properly
TO place tuberculosis patients in institu-
tons furnishing approved treatment in the
Empire state. Patients who desire treat.
ment IN government Sanitarium and are
found in a condition to be transferred ia
distance will be admitted to public instl-
tutions near their homes
| The Army and Navy Club. No. IS Gram
ercy Park, has inaugurated a movement of
expansion, which will make the organiza-
tion national in scope. It offers to all who
at any time have been officers in the fed
eral service. "a modern club house, with
restaurant, baths, gymnasium and other
/ conveniences and comforts. Lieutenant
Colonel Charles 5. Bryan is chairman OF
the membership committee.
Frank J. Leech. of No. 500 North Main
street, Fall River, Mass. has asked the
American Legion to locate Captain George
y. Acker, formerly of No. 125 East Fifty
seventh street, who was stationed during
the war at Fort II. Q. Wright. n. V. for
a year and then placed in command of a
hospital unit which came from Camp
Pike. Ark, in September. 1918. He ar
rived with the unit in Liverpool in No
lvember, 1918, on the L. S. ). Leicester
shire. Letters sent to his old address
have been returned undeivered by the
postal authorities.
The regular meeting of the Barbara
F'rietchie Post. No. 43. will be held in the
ballroom of the Pennsylvania Hotel al
| eight o'clock tonight. Captain q. Il
Stone. U. S. N, will speak on "Sinews oi
the Navy"
! With a desire to pay tribute to Com.
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