Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-20

The activities of the Department of
the District of Columbia, the American
Legion, will be featured this week with
the annual department ball at the May
flower Hotel, with dancing from to 1
o'clock. With President and Mrs.
Herbert Hoover heading the patron
and patronesSeS' committee and many
notables in military and social circles
among those who will attend. the func-
ton gives promise of being a most
brilliant affair.
The boxes on the ball room floor
and the mezZanine will be decorated
with American flags and colors of the
various posts and organizations repre-
Sented, while in the Chinese room the
colors of the allied nations participat-
ing in the World War will form an at
The guests on arriving will be well
coined In the Chinese room by the re-
ception committee and escorted to the
main ball room. A detail of sailors,
soldiers and marines in full military
uniform will escort the distinguished
guests on this occasion. The various
committees have been busily engaged
for several weeks past preparing the
details of the ball and the event is
expected to be most colorful one.
The department membership COM
mittee, through William E. Spicer,
chairman, announces that the COM
manders' drive for members will close
May II and is being conducted in
honor of Department Comdr. l.. E
Atkins, whose term of Office as AS
sistant Engineer Commissioner of the
District expires within a few days
thereafter. He has been ordered to
duty in Alaska and Chairman Spicer is
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department go lover the top" before
his departure. Every post is being
urged to secure new members as well
as see that all 1929 members remit
dues for the present year. In order to
stimulate interest in the campaign,
Chairman Spicer has issued a bulletin
showing the number of paid-up men,
bers last year and the number of dele
gates, together with the present stand
ing of all posts with the number of
delegates to which each post is entitled
at the present time.
The monthly meeting of the depart
ment executive committee will be held
Thursday evening at 8 o'clock in the
board room, District Building, and will
be the last meeting over which De-
partment Comdr. Atkins will preside
prior to his retirement and departure
for Alaska. In his new detail he will
be Engineer officer of the Alaskan
Road Commission.
Mrs. Donald Macrae, national presi-
dent OF the American Legion Auxiliary,
was entertained at luncheon last Mon
day afternoon at the Hay-Adams House,
Sixteenth and II streets, by the adj
yisory council of the American Legion
Auxiliary of the District of Columbia.
She was here attending the D. A. r,
Congress.
Mrs. Amos A. Fries, chairman of the
advisory council, introduced Mrs. Mac
rae during the luncheon, who told of
the wonderful work being accomplished
by the auxiliaries throughout the coun-
try, with $4,000 gain in membership
over last year. She expected to have
at least 100000 members by the time
OF the annual convention at Boston this
Fall. She was presented with a shoul-
der bouquet of rosebuds and hand
made pocketbook, the handiwork of
one of the disabled veterans at Walter
Reed Hospital. Maj Julius 1. Peyser.
vice president of the F. l. D. A. c., also
presented her with a shoulder bouquet
of orchids.
The following auxiliary presidents
were introduced by Mrs. Fries: Mrs
George Eckels, MRS. Mary X. Killeen,
Mrs. Franklin Nash, Mrs. @. Louise
Fisk, and the following gold star
mothers: Mrs. Mary @, Costello, MRS,
John Spengler, Mrs. Mary K. Killeen,
Mrs. Clara Sonneman, Mrs. George
Seibold and Mrs. Clara DOGGY,
Among those present at the luncheon
were Mrs. Rice w. Means, Mrs. AMY
Hammond, Mrs. Leon Arnold, Miss Mil
dred Nash, Mrs. Ada v. Murray, Mrs,
T. l.. Book, Miss Fisher of Iowa, Mrs.
Frank Wilson, Mrs. Reta Callahan, Mrs.
Dickson, Mrs. E. Bach, Mrs. Thuney
Mrs. Ethel Wilt, Mrs, Dorothy B. Har-
per, Miss Mary Widmeyer, Miss Irene
Keys, Miss Gilbert Gone, Mrs. Ethel
Fowler, MRS. Preston, Miss Edith
O'Connor, Mrs. Mary K. Killeen, Mrs
Amos A. Fries, Mrs. c. Louise Fisk,
Mrs George Eckels, Mrs. Franklin Nash,
Mrs. George Seibold, Mrs, Mary c.
Costello, Mrs. Clara DOGGY, Mrs. Clara
Sonneman and Mrs. John Spengler.
Mrs. Macrae made a personal visit
to the disabled veterans in Walter Reed
Hospital Thursday afternoon, bringing
messages of cheer from the American
Legion Auxiliary to them, together with
refreshments prepared by the local
members of the auxiliary. Those &C.
campaigning Mrs. Macrae were Mrs, Rice
w. Means, Mrs. Roberta Fawcett, Mrs
Clara Sonneman, Mrs. G. Louise Fisk
and Mrs. Clara DOGGY.
The members of Vincent B. Costello
Auxiliary are planning a Mothers day
celebration to be held at Immaculate
Conception Hall, Eighth and N streets
On Mothers day, May II.