Evening star., 1923-05-29

morning until midnight during the
convention Each window will be ar
ranged alphabetically, so that no con-
fusion should exist there.
In addition the Post Office Depart.
ment will operate a moving post Of
person may buy stamps and mail
letters or packages, other than parcel
post material. Other post offices will
be maintained in each Of the informa-
from the Peace Monument to 18th
street, and in the Harrington, Will
lard, Washington and Powhatan
hotels.
The same committee reported that
yesterday the Chesapeake and Poto-
mac Telephone Company's special
Shrine" exchange handled no less
than 5000 calls-the first day it was
opened. Traffic over that exchange
will grow by leaps and bounds from
now on.
Signal Corps to Aid
When it comes TO communication
! perfection the parade and patrol
committee has left nothing to be
desired 1t has arranged TO have all
! of its communications handled by the
! 3i Signal Company, United States
/ Marine Corps. This company has set
up headquarters in the committee s
the headquarters of the visiting
temples There will be no mistake 6
about the various patrols and march
ing bodies getting their orders for
position and time of sounding off
| in the various parades. The company
Will be commanded personally by
Capt. E. f. Eiler.
Ample provision has been made for
| medical attention to the visiting
hosts. Both the Army and the Red
Cross will have field hospitals ready
| :or emergency cases and every hos
pital in the city has made plans to
step in, should the emergency be-
come great. The Army has set up it's
| tented hospital at the southeast cor
| rer of 18th and streets. 1t con-
sists of a hospital and ambulance
unit comprising sixteen officers and
zoo men.
The units came here from Carlisle.
Pa, this morning. where the Medical
Field Service School has been in op-
| Grafton. Mai. Joseph +. Bastion is
his readiness to look after visiting
Shriners or guests who fall victim to
| accidents.
To Have Emergency Station.
The Red Cross will have an emer-
gency station pitched in front OF its
administration building on 18th street
| It will also hold in readiness several
| nOnQr6u co.'s "nlCH may De put into
use on minutes notice.
J. c. Mcnamara of Mahi Temple
| Lake Worth, Fla. Is the first Shriner
10 park his Uncovered. gasoline
| propelled camel in the tourists camp
| on the speedway. With Noble Nc
| Namara are his wife and two little
| children, Jack and Grace. They all
| pitched camp several days ago after
| seven days of hard travel. in the
| course Of which they crossed the
Black mountains.
| A meeting of the correct-use- of
| the-f1ag committee of the Daughters
/ of the American Revolution and other
/ interested bodies has been called bJ
Mrs. William Wolf Smith, chairman
| The meeting will be held at 10:3(
| o'clock Thursday morning in the
| Franklin School. The meeting viii
! be for the purpose of enlisting sew
| eral thousand volunteers to visit
| merchants who have displayed the
| American emblem illegally. point out
| the mistake and request them &c
make the necessary change. Those
behind the movement pointed out
| that the mistakes were purely unin-
| tentioned and in no manner the fault
| Of the Shrine committee.
| Telegraph Offices are to be main
| tanned in Keith's Theater, at the
Baltimore and Ohio parking grounds
and at Shrine Park in Alexandria.