The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-03-14
MRS. SIMPSON
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Makes Two Months Trip
 to East Coast Attends Women's Conventions


 trip in the States, during which she attended the convention of the Women's National Council of Defense in Washington, D. C., and an executive meeting of the American Legion Auxiliary, Mrs. Robert Simpson returned home on the steamer Alaska.
 Leaving Juneau January 16, Mrs. Simpson went direct to Chi cago where she spent a few days before proceeding to Indianapolis for the Legion meeting. She spent several days there, and the conclusion of the convention, proceeded to Washington.
 Socials and receptions were giv. en each of the five days she spent there, she said, and many cour- tesies were extended the repre- sentatives to the convention. She attended one of the presidential receptions, at which she met Pres ident and Mrs. Coolidge and num- erous senators and congressman who had been to Alaska.
 From Washington she went to New York City, where she spent three days, Bryn Mawr, where she was the guest of an old Quaker family, and then returned to Washington. after first stopping in Philadelphia for a day.
 Returning, she stopped in Mont. gomery, Alabama, where she visit ed James and Edmund McKanna. former Juneau lads. Edmund, the elder, is to graduate from a military academy this spring. she said, and is one of the finest pu- pills in the entire school. His pa- pers, she said, are usually marked by the Dean of the Academy as extraordinary, and although he is but Is years of age, be plans to attend the University of Washing ton next fall. Mrs. McKanna and her daughter are in Montesano, Wash, Mrs. Simpson said.
 Westbound. she visited Tusko- gee University, founded by Book CT T. Washington. In Albei- querque, New Mexico, she spent two days visiting, and later, spent some time in Phoenix, Arizona, Los, Angeles, Palo Alto, Oakland. San Francisco, Carson City and Reno, Nevada, at all of which places the Legion women were entertained at Legion affairs or by government officials. o.
 The American Legion and it's auxiliaries were responsible for the establishment of the Veterans Bureau, Mrs. Simpson asserted, and the auxiliary sent it's dele. gates throughout the United States on inspection tours to see that men in the Bureau hospitals were contented. ast&
 Mrs. Simpson, visiting sanitar- iums and hospitals. on the Pa cific Coast, declared the men were excellently cared for, all modern equipment being employed, and that all appeared happy in the best of surroundings. She spoke particularly well of the establish ments at American Lake and Cushman, in Washington.
 s;he met three Alaskans in, the hospitals, and declared she also met. Alaskans all oyer, the coun- try, almost all of whom longei to return to the territory as soon as possible.
 During her stay in Seattle she attended a Legion affair where she met many former Juneauites and Alaskans, and she was one of the principal speakers. Forty eight men were initiated into the Legion under a committee com posed of five Judges of the Wash ington State Supreme Court, she said.
 On her tour of the country, Mrs. Simpson had with her slides of Alaska, particularly of the terri tory near Juneau, and boosted the territory all she could. Mrs. Simp- son declared people in the east were universally eager to make the summer tourist trip to Alas ka, and she anticipates a heavy traffic this coming season.