Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-20
Veterans of Great War

Gladys Allen; color bearers, Mary Tats'
paugh and Rose O'Hara; historian
Cora Drake; chaplain, Amy Hammond
uuartermaSter, Charlotte Berry; ser
geant-at-arms, Helen Opitz; trustee
Mabel F. Staub; adjutant, Jane M
Breen; assistant adjutant, Edna NJ
Nelson; editor of log, Lois B. McRea
finance officer, Elizabeth I. Sage; as
sistant finance officer. Ethel Wilson
Skinner; chairman ways and means
committee, Elsie Pinney; chairman
membership committee, Mary Weide
publicity, Alberta Lacy; reception, Hope
Knickerbocker; welfare, Ruth L. GlaS.
cooke; entertainments, Carolyn Her
man; refreshments, Edith Armstrong
legislative officer, Kate Briggs.
Lieut.. Col. Thomas Dickson, chaplain
delivered an address on America and
Verdun" at the last meeting of Jane A,
Delano Post, No. 6, at 1887 K street.
Members of Jacob Jones and Belleau
Wood Posts were present.
Announcement of new assignments of
States to regions and sections in the
1929 American Legion Junior Base Ball
World Series has been made by Dan
Sewers, director of the American COM
mission of the Legion, who is in charge
of the activity.
The District of Columbia is included
in Region No. 10. The States also rep
resented in this region are Pensylva-
mia, Maryland, West Virginia and Della
ware
A special meeting of the national
rehabilitation committee of the Amer
lean Legion Auxiliary, to be held at ma
tional headquarters January "a, has
been called by Mrs. A. H. Hoffman of
Dcs Moines, Iowa. chairman. Plans for
aiding the American Legion in its in
creased work for the rehabilitation of
the disabled World War veterans will
be drafted at the meeting. Watson B.
Miller, chairman of the Legions ma
tional rehabilitation committee, will be
present.
Authorization to all regional attorneys
of the United States Veterans Bureau
to cooperate fully with the American
Legion in connection with the appoint
ment of Legion DaddieS" to insure per-
sonal supervision of the welfare of all
minor wards of the bureau has Just
been issued by Director Frank T. Hines
The Legion plan, which was inaugu-
rated and fully organized throughout
Nebraska in the last few months, and
said to have functioned satisfactorily,
contemplates the designation by each
post Of a necessary number of Legion
DaddieS to contact each ward person.
ally to see that they are living under
proper conditions; that the Government
funds for their support are being ex-
pended judiciously, and that they are
being reared in accordance with the
principles of good citizenship.
The instructions issued to the re-
gional attorneys emphasize the fact that
the care to be given these wards by the
Legion DaddieS does not in any way
lessen the obligations or responsibilities
of the regional attorneys toward these
minor beneficiarieS, but Is merely addi-
tional, personal care for which the laws
governing the functions and operations
of the bureau make no provision.
Maj. Walter o. Woods, register of the
Treasury and member of Victory Post,
No. 4, was nominated by President Cool
idge slast Tuesday for the position of
United States Treasurer, and was i'm
mediately confirmed by the United
States Senate. He is at present eXecu-
tive committeeman of Victory Post.
During the radio broadcast of the So
journers' banquet at the Mayhower
Hotel January IL National Comdr. Paul
McNutt congratulated Department
Comdr Harlan Wood upon the perform
ance and appearance Of Victory Post
Drum Corps.
The victory Drum Corps, under the
tutelage of Sergt. Instructor John Kelly,