Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-14

Thirty-first National Encampment in
Baltimore, and Kansas City, Mo-, was
selected for the National Encampmeni
in 1881.
Mrs. Ada E. Harrison of New York
was elected national president OF the
Ladies Auxiliary, succeeding Mrs. BeS-
sic Hanken of Revere, Mass, who held
the post two years.
The new national commander was an
ordnance sergeant with the 3l3th In
fantry in France from July, 1918. until
August, 1919. A native of Carroll
County. he has lived in Baltimore most
of his life. Mr. Wolman was to have
been graduated from the University of
Maryland Law School in 1918, but the
war delayed his qualification for de-
gree until 1920. After the armistice he
studied law at the Inns of Court, Lon
don, at Government expense, return
ing to the United States i'll August.
1918. He was one of the group from
his regiment reported annlhilated at
Montfaucon during the war.
He began to practice law in 1920
and is now on the American Bar As
sociation's Board of Legal ConSultants
to the United States Veterans Bureau.
Mrs. Wolman, whom he married IN
1925, also is an attorney. On their
return from a wedding trip in Europe
they went to the V. F. w. Convention
at Tulsa, Okla, where Mrs. Wolman
became legal counsel of the Ladies
Auxiliary, a specially created office.
Mr.. Wolman, a member Of Mont
faucon Post, American Legion, and
past commander of the Lieut. George
b. Redwood Post, v. F, w, first be-
came a national officer of the or
ga1ization in 1924, when he was elected
to the National Council of Admins
tration. In 1926 and 1927 he served
the v. F. w. as judge advocate gen.
eral. The following year he was eject
ed junior vice commander and IN 1879
senior vice commander.
Darold D. McCoe was elected Junior
vice commander in chief. Admiral
Robert E. Coontz, L. S. NJ, retired, who
is now on the Pacific Coast, having re-
Gently returned from Alaska, and r. b.
Handy, IT., were elected by ACCLAIM alton,
as Junior vice commander and quar-
ternaster general, respectively. George
A. Henderson of Newark, N. j., was
elected Judge advocate general and DR..
Guy Seward of Fremont, Nebr., was re-
elected surgeon general.
Edwin S. Bethlehem was for the
eleventh consecutive time appointed
chairman of the National Legislative
Committee and chairman of the Service
u. S. NJ was, for the third time, ap-
pointed naval liaison officer; James W..
Boyer, jr, who was reappointed chair
man of the National G. M. T. G. Com
mittee, and Val N. Brandon, former
commander of Front Line Post, was
elected to the National Council OF Ad-
ministration. Comrades Handy, Bettel-
helm and Boyer are members of Equal
ity-Walter Reed Post, and Lieut.. Weick-
4. l. 49,. e ATnf oil
Post, while Comrade Brandon is now
resident of California, and has been
honored by the State organization with
the Office of senior vice commander.
A further distinction which will attach
to the District of Columbia department
is that the Overseas Military Band,
Drum and Bugle Corps, commanded by
Maj. Harvey L. Miller, won the first
prize in band competition at the en-
campment, and by virtue of such honor
will doubtless be designated by the
commando in-chief as the National ".
F. w. Band, and which distinction will
in all probability gain for the Overseas
Corps the opportunity of attending the
next annual encampment at Kansas
City, in 1881, at the expense of the ma
tional organization. For the 1882 en-
campment, Paris. France Hawaii, AS
bury Park, N. j.; Los Angeles, Calf,
and other cities have made strong bids,
but with the holding of the Olympic
games in 1892, at the last named city,
the unrivaled attraction will probably
determine for its selection.
Practically every resolution sponsored
and submitted by the District of Column
bia Department was adopted by the en-
canpment, which speaks well for the
intelligent and discerning study and in
terests Of the local posts to promote vet
erandom's welfare.
The encampment gave consideration
70 and passed upon more than 400 reso-
lutions affecting every phase of the vet
Grams problem, which will be reflected
in the enactment of further remedial
legislation before the next session of
Congress adjourns.
Subsequent to the adjournment of the
national encampment, this city was
visited by a number of notable v. F.. W.
personages, among whom were Comdr.
in Chief Wolman, Senior Vice Comdr
in Chief De Coe, accompanied by his
wife, who holds the Office of national
conductress of the Ladies' Auxiliary;
AdJt Gen. Handy, National Council
Member Brandon. formerly of Washing
ton, d. c., but now of California: John
@. Lewis, national council member of
Tennessee; Frank A. Tabor, past de-
partment commander of Indiana; Lewis
Shippler, senior vice commander of
New Jersey, as well as hosts of other
comrades who either wished to renew
and strengthen old friendships or else
contact the Federal bureaus in control
of the administration of veterans relief.
Gen. Frank T. Hines. administrator
of veterans affairs, addressed the ma
tional encampment on Thursday and,
together with Acting Director George E.
Ijams of the United States Veterans
Bureau, was rendered a reception by
the delegates. Gen. Hines spoke of the
disability compensation act and the
acquisition of domiciliary facilities to be
made available to beneficiaries through
the consolidation of the Veterans Bu-
reau, Pension Bureau and Soldiers
Home as being two important features
OF recent veterans legislation, and that
the analgamation of the three Federal
agencies would enable the administra-
ton to meet the trend in hospital or
domiciliary populations and make serv-
ice needs by individual patients avail
able from a single source, and that it
would be the policy to make the most
of every opportunity to increase service
TO the veterans and to tighten up on
administrative expense.
The first official act Of Mrs. Ada
Harrison, following her election as ma
tional president of the Ladies' Auxiliary
Veterans of Foreign Wars, was to lay a
wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown
Soldier at Arlington Cemetery. Mrs
Harrison let it be known that she would
be in Washington for both the Memo
rial day and Armistice day ceremonies
During her stay in Washington Mrs
Harrison was the guest OF Mrs. Clay
Keene Miller, who has been appointed
for a second term as national legislative
chairman of the Ladies' AuXiliaries
National President Harrison presented
to Past Department Comdr. Miller &
diamond-studded v. F.. w. lapel buttor
in appreciation of his support of th'
Ladies Auxiliaries during his admins