Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-09
Brilliant Annual Ball
Sponsored by D. C. Unit
OF American Legion
Official, Business and Social
Folk Deeply Interested in
Event Scheduled for jan
uarv Is.

"Just another ball" is the descrip
ton that the committee in charge OF
the annual ball of the Department OF
the District of Columbia, the Amer
lean Legion, is determined shall not
be applied to that event which will
take place in the ballroom of the May
flower Hotel on Saturday night, Jan
uary IL.
Every phase of Washington official
social and business life will be repre-
scented and the support to be given the
event by the veterans themselves all
go to indicate that it will be a success.
full and brilliant affair.
There is distinguished list of
patrons, headed by the President and
Mrs. Coolidge, and the Vice President
and Mrs Dawes and Secretary Of
State and Mrs. Kellogg will head the
notahes to be present Maj. Gen.
Amos A. Fries, L. s. A., chief of the
Chemical Warfare Service and the de
partment commander, has received a
report from Capt. Theodore Cogswell,
senior vice department commander.
who is chairman of the ball commit
tee, that plans for the ball are now
complete and await only the arrival
of the night of the event to he AIDE
quately followed out.
The American Legion hall this year
will have an added feature in the fact
that a larger humber of boxes are
available than on previous years, and
the committee is making every effort
to dispose of them all. The proceeds
from the ball-expenses for which
are being kept to the absolute mini
mum-are to be applied to the general
treasury of the department organiZa-
ton. which heads up all American
Legion activities on the part of the
&c posts in the District of Columbia.
The department adjutant. Capt.
George +. Unmacht. with offices in
the chemical warfare division in the
Munitions Building, is treasurer of
the ball committee. and tickets and
box tickets may he had from him or
from local Legionnaires or at the
hotel the night of the ball.
Miss Esther v. Hall, third vice de-
partment commander and chairman
of the committee on patrons. has an
nounced the following partial list of
sponsors for the event:
The President and Mrs. Coolidge,
Vice President and Mrs. Dawes, Sec
rotary of State and Mrs. Kellogg. Sec
rotary of War and Mrs. Dwight F.
Davis, Secretary of Agriculture and
Mrs. William NJ. Jardine, Postmaster
General and Mrs. Harry S. New, Di-
rector of rthe Veterans Bureau and
Mrs. Frank T. Hines. Assistant Secre-
tary of the Navy and Mrs. Theodore
d. Robinson, Assistant Secretary of
War Hanford MacNider, Commission.
er and Mrs. Sidney f. Taliaferro. SEN
ator and Mrs. Laurence D. Tyson,
Senator and Mrs. Hiram s. Bingham,
Representative and Mrs. Lamar JEFF
fers, Representative and Mrs. Lloyd
Thurston, Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Amos
A. Fries, Gen. and Mrs. Albert G.
Dalton. Director of the Bureau and
Mrs. Alvin w. Hall. Mr.. and Mrs.
John Hays Hammond, Miss Mabel T.
Boardman, Mrs. Henry F. Dimock.
Mrs. Alfred Pembroke Thorn, Mrs.
Peter Gerry, Mrs. Fox Conner, Mrs
Frederick Dent Grant. Mrs. Wood
bridge n. Ferris, Mrs. Henry c.
Smither. Mrs. Tasker H. Bliss, Mrs.
Clarence G.. Williams, Mrs Charles b.
McVay. Mrs, PsterssC, Harris, Mrs,
Charles Lovndes:. Mrs. Peter A.
Drury. Mrs. Vt iIliaira G. .Deming, Mrs.
Charles O. S1fnm9raT Mrs. Charles 7.
Bell and Mr.. Isaac Cans.