Evening star., 1920-06-13

Frank T. Fuller. past commander of
Henry c. Spengler Post. No. 12. of the
American Legion, has been appointed
adjutant of the District of Columbia
department of the legion, succeeding
/ Howard S. Fisk, who resigned at the
same time that his chief. Col. E. Les
ter Jones. relinquished the District
commandership. Mr.. Fuller has been
most active in the interest of the
| legion for more than a year He
served during the war as a lieuten-
ant Of engineers and is now acting
superintendent Of the engineer repro
duction plant at Washington barracks
Miss Esther Laubach of U. S. s.
Jacob Jones Post. No. 2. and Paul r.
Twyman of Henry C.Spengler Post,
No. II. have been appointed assist
, ant adjutants.
| Reunion day" will be observed by
! members of the Washington and Bal
timore posts of the Veterans of For
eign Wars at Chesapeake Beach on
August II. the arrangements for the
members in this city being under the
| direction of the central committee.
Special trains will be run to the beach
| from the District line, and the Balti-
more veterans will travel by boat. Of
f1cers of both cities are cooperating
| in arranging an athletic and enterz
| tainment program.
Following the initiative of the Bal
! timore V. F. w. organization the CEN
| trai committee in this city is nego-
| tlat1ng with local traction companies
to arrange for free transportation for
wounded soldiers to and from hos
| pitfalls.
| Application has been made for a
! charter for a new post of the Amer
| lean Legion to be known as the
| George E. Killeen Post. No 25. being
named in honor of a Georgetown
| soldier who died in the service.
Bernard S. Buscher has been elected
| commander of the new post. the other
| officers being Augustus Hess. senior
vice commander. Paul Schetier. junior
vice commander; Louis Beauregard,
adjutant: C. Norman Hess. finance of
fieer; Leo Case, historian; Arthur
Prodigy, master at arms; w. w. Bur
roughs, sergeant at arms, and r. l..
/ Lindner, color bearer.
The new post. which is organized
by residents of Georgetown who
served in the late war. will hold it's
| meetings in the Potomac Savings
Bank. building, 32d and NJ streets.
The inter-post championship base
ball game of the Veterans of Foreign
! Wars will be played at the American
| League ball park September Is. the
offer of Clark Griffith to allow the vet
Grams to use the park on that day hav-
1 ing been accepted with thanks by the
| central committee. The game will be
a feature of the national encampment
of the order to be held in this city
| the week of September 13.
Chairman George j. Neuner of the
central committee has named COM
mittee on committees, which will have
| the duty of picking the men who will
| do the active work to make the en-
campment a success, New members
of the central committee are Messrs.
| Beck and Ullrich of Equality Post,
No. 2S4. and Mr.. Gould of Fred Bar
reck Post. No. 341.
| After considerable discussion of
the question of suffrage in the Dis
| trict of Columbia the Z. S. S. Jacob
Jones Post. No. 2. of the American
| Legion. went on record last week as
being in favor of national representa-
1 ton for the residents of the District
! of Columbia. The meeting was held
at the post clubhouse 1919 X street.
with Commander Rose F. Stokes pre-
siding.
| Necessity of moving out of the
| city because of illness in his family
! has led Charles r. Lettow to resign
| as commander of Equality Post No.
| 2S4. of the Veterans of Foreign Wars
| His resignation was accepted with re-
gret at the meeting of the post last
week and his successor will be elected
and installed at a meeting to be. held
| June II. The membership of the post
! was increased by more than $50 dur
ing the May drive.
Owing to the abandonment of Camp
| Meigs and the transfer of many men,
bers of Camp Meigs Post of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars to other
stations. the post has ceased to be a
| barrack post. and all former service
| men eligible for membership and who
| live in the northeast section of the
| city have been invited to join. Com
| mander Young is now on duty in st.
| Louis. where he is organizing an
other post Of the order.
Several former service men of
Washington attended the reunion of
| the second regular division men in
Atlanta. Ga, last week. held under
| the auspices of the Second Division
Association. Invitations for the 1921
| reunion were received from dozen
large cities, including two on the
Pacific coast but it was voted to
! hold the next gathering at Camp
Travis. at San Antonio, Tex, where
the division is now located under
fore the ballot objection was made by
one member to reunion at Camp
Travis on the ground that the division
| might not be there next summer.
"If we are not there, we will be
just over the line, and every mothers
son of you will be there with u.s."
replied an officer from Camp Travis,
a sentiment that was roundly cheered
Maj. Gems. Lejeune, Harbord and
Neville were among those at the
| reunion.
| The ladies' auxiliary of the Veterans
of Foreign Wars is now conducting a
membership drive, which will continue
! throughout the month of June. and in
| connection with this campaign an
| j.open meeting and entertainment will
| be held at Carroll Institute, 91S 10th
! street the evening of June %. Wives,
| mothers. daughters and sisters of
| members of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars are eligible for membership.
4 short session next December it will
I! take up the measure introduced by
| Senator Borah, designed to aid former
l service men in buying farms and sub
| urban homes. 1t would appropriate
| $500, 900, 900 to be utilized to that end
during the next ten years, not more
| than $50,O0O,000 to be expended an
! nually. A favorable report on the bill
! has been ordered by the Senate pub
4 lie lands committee. Under it's pro-
| visions a board of three members
would be appointed by the President
| to administer the loans, not more than
$4,000 being advanced to any one man.
| Former service men also would be
| able under it's provisions to acquire
| reclaimed land.
| At the anniversary meeting of Bel
!! Ieau Wood Post. No. 3. of the Ameri-
| can Legion at the marine DarraCkS