Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-22

The following officers were elected at
the thirty-flrst national encampment
of the United Spanish War Veterans at
Denver, Colo, last week: Gov. Fred
w. Green of Michigan, commander-in-
chief; Robert Wankowski OF California,
senior vice COMMUNICATIVE chief; Fred
Bauer of Tennessee, junior vice COM
mander- in-chief, DR.. H. l.. Davis OF
Illinois, surgeon general, and Roy B.
Parcel of Ferndale, Wash, chaplain
chief.
Following his election, Commander
in-chief Green announced that the
Washington headquarters would be
maintained as in the past and reap
pointed James J. Murphy Of the District
Of Columbia as quartermaster general.
The following resolutions were adopt
ed by the encampment: Urging pas
sage of legislation increasing the pen
Sions of Civil War veterans and their
widows; urging passage OF the knutson-
Robinson bill granting pension for age
for Spanish War Veterans; urging that
the cruiser Olympia, Admiral Dewey's
flagship at the Battle of Manila Bay,
be preserved in Washington, D. c., as
ae@patriotic memorial; recommending
increase in the pay schedules affecting
officers and men of the Army, Navy,
Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Public
Health and Geodetic Survey for both
the active and retired lists, as advocated
by the Interdepartmental Pay Board;
Endorsing Senate bill 1898 and House
bill 3239, providing higher rates for
manned soldiers favoring retention OF
the hospital at Fort Bayard, N. Mex.
under the jurisdiction of the United
states VeteranS's Bureau; transferring
Jurisdiction of the annual Maine me-
mortal services at Arlington National
Cemetery to the national headquar-
tiers, United Spanish War Veterans;
Urging medals of honor for the men
who volunteered for service as nurses in
the yellow fever camps; urging particl-
patton of the United States and Cuba
in the erection of a memorial at Tampa.
Fla. the port of embarkation for the
first expeditionary force to Cuba; APP
proving the movement to erect monu-
founder and first president Of the Amer
lean Red Cross; urging amendment OF
the law affecting the rank Of ordnance
sergeants; appropriating $1,000 for the
purpose Of placing a Spanish War VET
erans' pillar in the proposed memorial
chapel at Walter Reed Hospital; re-.
uuesting Congress to amend the CIVIL
service employees retirement law so as
to grant veterans of all wars the option
-
after Is years, providing they have
reached the age Of 81 years; urging the
extension of disqualification rights un-
der the United States Veterans Bureau
to all veterans who are entitled 10 pen
sion; urging a penSionable status for
members of the crews of the Yale. Har-
ward, st. Louis and such other vessels
as come in the same category OF service
during the War with Spain; urging the
granting of travel pay to certain vet
Grams Of the Philippines service; direct
ing the national legislative committee
to secure an Interpretation OF the exec
utive order of March 2. 1929, granting
preference to veterans. so as to prevent
discrimination and, falling that, to seek
legislation clearly defining the prefer
ence to be given; urging extension OF
tract surgeons.
The Ladies' Auxiliaries, at their ma
tional convention at Denver, elected the
following officers: Lulu Shakespeare OF
Everett, Wash, national president
Edith H. Bird, Toledo. Ohio, senior v1ct
president: Clara Hendricks, st. Louis
Mo. junior vice president; Anna Jes'
n1ier of California, chaplain; Cora A
Thompson, oregon, judge advocate
Margaret Herzog, Wisconsin, inspector
Mamie B. Schmidt, Georgia. patriotic
instructor; Julia Coursey South Da-
kota, historian; Inez Fowler, Denver
Colo, conductor; Lucille Danielson
Florida assistant conductor: Sarah E.
Fox, Texas, guard; Lucille Pinard,
Colorado Wyoming. assistant guard:
Gertrude McCarron, Oregon, member OF
the scholarship loan board.
National President Lulu Shakespeare
announced the appointment of Carrie I.
Nolan of the District of Columbia as
national treasurer in charge of the
washington, D. c., headquarters.
The following recruits were mustered
into active membership at the last
meeting of the Gen. Nelson A. Miles
Camp: Daniel E. Campbell, Company
K, 18th Regiment. United States Vol
unteer Infantry; Charles Glass, Frank
e. Greenawalt, Company G, LIST Regi-
ment, District of Columbia Volunteer