Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-13
Veterans of Great War
this estimate is based upon training
like number next year.

this estimate is based upon training a
like number next year.
The installation Of officers Of the
u. S. s. Jacob Jones Post, No. 2, COM
posed of yeomen Cd who served in the
World War, will take place tomorrow
evening at o'clock at the Thomas
Circle Club, 1926 Massachusetts avenue:
The retiring commander is Miss Mabel
Mrs. Lucille Allen.
The annual banquet of the Eight and
Forty and the Forty and Eight honor
societies of the American Legion, Will
be held at the Washington hotel in the
Rose Room, Wednesday, January 30 at
$50 o'clock, just prior to the annua!
department ball at the New Willard
Hotel. The affair is to be given in
honor of the national officers OF the
American Legion, the American Legion
Auxiliary representatives attending the
Women's Patriotic Conference on Ma
tional Defense to be held at D. A. H.
Hall, January 20, 80 and 81. Mrs.
Irene Arnold and Mrs. Roberta FaWcett
of the Eight and Forty Will act as CO.
chairmen at the hostess room IN the
washington Hotel, January %, 20 and
80.
Acceptances have been received from
National Comdr. Paul w. McNutt, the
American Legion: Mrs. Boyce F1cklen,
ir.. national president, the American
Legion Auxiliary; Mrs. M. Ann Sey-
mour. la chapeau national OF the Eight
and Forty, and John Chick Comny,
chef de chemin de Der OF the Forty ana
Eight organizations.
Miss j. Beatrice Bowman. Superln-
tendent Navy Nurse Corps, and mem
Der of Jane A. Delano Post, was an
honor guest of the Maryland nurses at
the annual State banquet OF the
American Legion, Department OF Mary
land, January 10, at the Southern Hotei'
Baltimore, Md. National Commander
Paul v. McNutt also was guest.
Disabled World War veterans In 30
government hospitals and conValescehs
Workshops in different parts of the
country are working busily making the
paper peoples which the American
Legion Auxiliary will sell for next Me-
mortal day, according to Mrs. Paul
Akin, the auxiliary's national poppy Oh
rector, at national headquarters. Ma
terials for millions of peoples have
already been shipped to the hospitals
and workshops and the work was I'M
der way in all the poppy making CEN
tiers by January /, she said
The disabled men will earn approx
mately 100000 through their poppy
making this Winter, Mrs. Akin est1-
mated. AS the men employed IN the
work receive little or no Government
compensation, their earnings VIII help
support their families during the Win
ter or will provide them with stake
1irI@
when they leave the hospitals. In adj
dition to the money paid the disabled
poppy makers, the auxiliary expects 70
raise funds from the poppy sale to n
nance its extensive program or rellei
for the other disabled men and their
families, in which 1t expends nearly
81 100000 yearly.
Official notification that the National
and American Leagues have again ap-
propriated $4,000 to underwrite the ex-
penses of the American Legion's ma
tional Junior base ball competition in
1929 has been received by Dan Sewers,
National Americanism director OF the
Legion, from Kenesaw Mountain Lam
dis, commissioner of base ball. The
Legion now is enabled to go forward this
year to bring base ball to the greatest
said Sewers, who is in charge OF the
program.
In announcing organized base balls
continued support of the sandlot activi-
ties of the Legion, Commissioner Lands
spoke Of the success of the Legion dur
ing the 1928 season, when 122, 900 boys
under IT played on the Legion teams.
and when championship teams from
Virtually every State were brought TO-
gether In national elimination play for
the Junior championship of the world.
The 1929 competition will be con-
Quoted along the same lines as the COM
petition of the past year, with only
minor notifications Of the rules
Sewers said. He expressed confidence
that the number of boys playing this
year will be largely increased.
In addition to the cooperation OF
the big leagues, assurances of the sup
port for the boy base ball program have
come from the minor leagues which
aided the activity very materially IN
their territories last year. Sewers stated
BY giving the use of their parks to the
boys for important games and tourna'
nents, supplying umpires, grounds per.
sonnet, equipment and other aids, the
minor league clubs were an important
factor in making the competition
complete success. Assurances have also