Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-17

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this organization will come from all
parts OF the country to attend a ma
| tional encampment, which is to be held
at Baltimore. Md, from August 81 to
September 5, inclusive. Comrades who
served together in China, in the Philip
pines ana In France will meet again to
renew old memories,
! The LORD Baltimore Hotel has been
designated as headquarters for the ma
tional organization, as well as for the
District of Columbia Department The
| Emerson Hotel will house national head
| quarters of the Ladies' Auxiliary. the
| Supreme Pup Tent of the Military Or
| der of the Cootie, fun society of the "
F. W., will cayort at Hotel Southern
while the Society of the Army of the
Philippines and other associations af-
! f1liated with the Y. F. w will maintain
! their headquarters at the Rennert Hotel
| The District of Columbia Department
of which William L. Thomas is depart
ment commander, purposes to submit a
number of constructive resolutions deal
| ing with the welfare of veterans and
their departments, as we'll as concerning
! matters which will affect administrative
policies of the organization under the
direction of the officers elected to the
national body, looking to promoting and
subscribing the best interests of the
v F. w.
Each post of the District of Co
lumbia Department is planning to send
| large contlngentS to the encamprnent.
and the department adjutant. in con-
! junction with the committee chairman
! on transportation, has conducted cor
| respondence with bus lines and inter-
urban electric and railroad lines re-
/ specting tariff rates, etc. 1t is probable
! that number of 35-passenger buses
will be employed for moving the COM
rades over to Baltimore: the boule-
wards also will be Travelled by very
many who auto to the convention city,
and others will use the railroad IA
! cilities.
! Plans adopted by the Encampment
Committee contemplate an outstanding
| feature of entertainment for each day
of the period set aside for the con-
vention. The annual memorial services
will be held in Maryland's famous ALL
| Wars Memorial Building on August 81
The joint opening ceremonies of the
| encampment at the Lord Baltimore
Hotel will feature the Monday program,
while a dinner for distinguished guests
| will be given at the Southern Hotel
| that evening On September encamp-
ment sessions of both the v. F. w. and
| the auxiliary will adjourn shortly after
noon for the annual military parade,
which will be reviewed, according to
| present plans. by President Hoover,
Secretary of War Patrick J, Hurley. a
past vice commander in-chief of the
V. F. w; Secretary of Navy Charles
F. Adams, Gov. Ritchie of Maryland,
Mayor Broening of Baltimore and other
| notableS.
The parade will be followed by an
l'interservice track and boxing tourna-
ment to be held at the Baltimore
Stadium Tuesday evening, an affair
| that will bring together. in tribute to
| the v. F. w. guests, athletes of national
| prominence.
Brig. Gen. Frank r. Hines. admin
istrator of veteran affairs, will address
the first big gathering of World War
| veterans since accepting his increas-
| ingly important new Office. Gen. Hines
has been a distinguished guest and one
of the principal speakers at nearly
every annual convention of the Vet
Grams of Foreign Wars since he assumed
Office as director of the United States
Veterans Bureau in 1928. This year,
| under the consolidation plan which
groups the Veterans Bureau, the
Pension Office and the National Sol
| diers' Home under one controlling body
with Gen. Hines as administrator his
message is expected to be Of added in
terest for Spanish-American War vet
Grams listed among the membership of
the v. F. w. and to all overseas vet
Grams.
In anticipation of a record number
of musical units the Convention Com
mittee has set aside the suem of So 900
for cash awards, cups and medals to be
won in competition by visiting band
corps and delegations. During the week
of the veterans reunion scores of drums
and bugle corps, bands and uniformed
drill and degree teams from all sec
tons of the country will vie for honors
at the convention. Bitter competition
threatens the championship crown of
Freemond Madison Post Drum and
Bugle Corps of Albert Lea, Mimi, win
ners of first-prize honors at the 1929
National Encampment, held at st. Paul.
Among the serious contenders will be
our own Overseas Military Band, Drum
and Bugle Corps, commanded by Capt.
Harvey l.. Miller. past department COM
mander and the Jealous organizer of the
corps.
Members of the Overseas Military
Band, Drum and Bugle Corps will to-
day assemble at West Seaton Park, be-
tween Four-and-a-half and Sixth
streets Buildings D and E, in blue uni
form. for perfecting their drill forma-
tons.
On next Sunday, from 1890 am I'M
til noon, review and inspection by the
department commander will be made of
the corps at West Seaton Park, which
will be the final dress rehearsal forma-
| ton before the corps completes in the
Labor day firemen's parade and on Sep
| TENDER and in the National En-
campment parades. TIL competition at
| Baltimore is sure to be keen, and Capt.
Miller is bending every effort to bring
his corps to a very high degree of eX-