Evening star., 1923-09-23
Veterans of Great War

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| for the meet. Nearly fifty events
have been included in the program.
| meet, aquatic sports, golf, tennis and
| rifle tournaments and exhibitions of
base ball, baslx et, ball, foot ball, box
ing and wrestling.
| L. S. Ray, John E. Wright and j. A.
Gray have been named as a committee
| to handle the annual Forget-Me-Not
| drive, November 10, for the District
of Columbia Department of the Dis
| abled American Veterans.
In the past this celebration has been
| held on sArmistice day, but as this
year November IL comes on Sunday,
1 1T was decided to move up to Novem-
| Der 10. This is the only day of the
wars disabled appeals nationally to
the public for funds and the campaign
last fall showed the disabled man
matched the public dollar for dollar
in the receipts.
! Volture Locale. LA. the Washington
unit of La Societe des 30 Homnes ct
| 8 Shevaux, the playground organiza-
! tion of the American Legion, will be
represented. at the national conyen-
| tion at San Francisco next month by
| q delegation of ten members. The
| five delegates recently elected In
; clude Il. w. Jordan, the chef de gare;
Thacker V. Walker, DR.. Walter F.
sullivan, N. B. Landreau and l. II.
Horton.
Guy Withers was named as the
cheminot national and Thacker v.
Walker was designated as the alter
|, nate. Paul J. McGahan, department
! commander of the American Legion
of the District of Columbia, who is
the historian, has written a history
/ of the organization, which VIII be
| submitted at the promenade national.
AT a recent meeting of National
Capital Post, No 1877, Veterans of
! Foreign Wars, 1t was announced that
| Mai. Gen. Anton Stephan had donated
| a loving cup to the department, to be
known as the Stephan recruiting cup
and will be competed for by all
| posts in the District of Columbia. The
post having the largest number OF re-
cruits at the end of three months VIII
be entitled to keep the cup for three
months, when 1t will again be award
ed. Any post winning the cup for
three consecutive quarters VIII De
entitled to permanent possession.
| The post has organized a bowling
| team, and asks that any member oe-
string to join communicate with com
rade Gardelia, 311 Massachusetts ave-
| nue. northeast.
The Ladies' Auxiliary of Equality
] Walter Reed Post, under the leader
| ship of Mrs. James II. Reed, presi-
dent, have all plans completed for
their fall membership drive, and Tor
; the present the headquarters OF the
| auxiliary will remain at 1928 street
southwest, The post, with the assist
ance of the auxiliary. having already
conducted one successful poppy cam
/ pSign, is now making plans TO again
! 90 over the top next spring with an
other poppy campaign. The post COM
| IT, o.
son, Edwin S. Bethlehem and Sam
Berlin committee to arrange for
and carry on the next poppy drive
| requesting the president of the auxii-
larry to appoint a like nnmner 10
serve in conjunction with the post.
At the last meeting of Tank Corps
Post. No; 10. Henry u Whitley. Dun- Dun
George e. Jones and Joseph G. Bent
lev were elected to membership.
Finance Officer George p. Frailey was
appointed chairman of a committee 10
make arrangements for a post dance
| to be held in November.
| The following bowling committee
! was appointed: Wade H. Akers. chair
man; o. Z. White. George L. Jones,
F.! Henry W. Bell, John r; Hogan. Ray
mond H Toense and George F.
| FraiIey The committee was author
| lied to organize a team to represent
! the post in the American Legion
Bowling League during the coming
| season.
| Mrs. t. K. Fawcett was elected
president of the American Legion
/ Auxiliary of the District of Column
bia at the closing session Of the an
nuaI meeting Wednesday night. Other
of1cers elected were: Mrs. Thomas
| Probey. vice president; Mrs. Eva NJ.
Taylor, second vice president; Mrs.
Daniel Miller. chaplain; Miss Eliza
beth Fisher, historian, and Miss Mar
lgaret Smith. sergeant-at-arms.
A permanent charter was given to
George Washington Post Auxiliary.
with Mrs. Thacker V. Walker as its
president.
women will be centered on Washing
ton next month, when the senatorial
committee Investigating the Veterans
Bureau starts public hearings. Sena-
! tor David Reed of Pennsylvania,
tchairrnan of the committee, came to
Washington last week for. the first
time since his European trip and con-
ferred with representatives of the
/ Disa bled American Veterans The d..
/ A. V. told the chairman that the dis
abled men throughout the country
: were becoming restless over the fall
, ure to obtain any Information on the
probe, and Senator Reed then said
] the taking of open testimony would
begin about the middle of October.
Nearly 1000 complaints have been
received by the committee, but many
of these would be found to be with
out reasonable foundation. On the
other hand. complaints of more
serious nature have been filed. and
these are now being investigated by
some of the 500 doctors and lawyers
who were obtained by the committee
to serve as investigators without
! salary.
Between now and the beginning OF
the hearings the three members of
the Senate committee will make a
Iseries of personal Investigations Sem
ator Oddie of Nevada will visit the
schools and hospitals in the north
west, Senator Walsh of Massachusetts
will go to the southwest to see con-
Editions in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas
and California, while Sepator Reed
Twill make several short trips to watch
the workings of the bureau offices and
Vocational schools.
I The Disabled American Veterans have
prepared a program of constructive
criticism and representative of the
Organization will appear before the
committe to offer changes that will
serve to speed justice to the disabled
Imam and woman.
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