Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-14
MaefiuO This Week

Meeting This Week.
Thursday, pm, Equality Walter
Reed Post, No. 284, Pythian Temple,
1912 Ninth street.
Department Comdr. Thomas, accom-
panied by Past Department Comdr.
Beattie, Senior Vice Comdr. Hollings-
worth and Department Quartermaster
Maj. Brodie, is in New York City today
to assist National Comdr in Chief Paul
G. Wolman in the official ceremonies
OF tomorrow morning at the United
States Lines dock, Hoboken, N. j., in
cident to the presentation of memorial
plaque concentrating the return to
American soil for final burial of the
bodies of Sc World War veterans killed
in action in North Russia. Department
commanders from the New England
States and the Atlantic Coast States, as
we'll as from the Central States and
some of the far Western and Pacific
Coast States, will also be in attendance
at the solemn ceremonies.
The plaque will be placed on the
S. S. Roosevelt, the ship which brought
back these honored dead. The Sc
bodies were returned to America late
in 1929 by a Veterans of Foreign Wars
mission, which stepped into the gap and
assisted the Federal Government by ar
ranging for and receiving the exclusive
permission of the Soviet government to
enter Russia for the purpose of bring
ing back to their homeland the bodies
Of their comrades, and which v. F. W.
mission spent nearly three months in
the shadow of the Arctic Circle exhum-
ing and identifying the bodies of Amer
ica'S heroic dead. The mission was
composed of former Michigan veterans
who made up the Polar Bear Expedi-
ton, back in 1918, and in its work
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jurisdiction actively participated. The
plaque will be dedicated to tAe mem
DRY Of the heroic dead.
A conference has been called by
Comdr. in Chief Wolman Of the de-
partment commanders Of the Middle
Atlantic States, to be held in this city
January 10 or IL, to consider operative
plans for the approaching v. F. w. ma
tional membership drive. National
Chief of Staff Van Zandt who is
charged with the program Of conduct
ing the Statewide recruiting drive, has
conferred with Department Comdr.
Thomas, and arrangements are being
perfected by the local departments
special committee to receive Comrade
Wolman and department commanders
accredited to officially represent the
States Of New Jersey, Delaware, Penn
SylVanla, maryland, virginia, WeSL VIZ
ginia, District Of Columbia, New York
and Tennessee. The District Of Column
bia Department, in conjunction with the
several local posts, will cooperate in
every way to make the conference
notably successful.
Reports Of national officers Of the
organization disclose that the grant of
more than 200 charters have been is
sued to new posts and that net in
crease Of more than $4,000 members
has been achieved during the past year.
Rear Admiral Robert E. Coontz, re-
tired, as the junior vice commander in
chief, will participate actively In the
deliberations Of the conference.
The headquarters Office Of the Dis
trict Of Columbia Department, under
the management of Senior Vice Comdr.
Hollingsworth, is conducting a sue
cessful welfare service, and appeals are
being directed to civic, patriotic and
veterans groups for full-hearted CO.
operation In finding employment for
former service men out of work. With
the Winter months approaching, the
appeal should be heard by the public
and general aid extended from buSi-
ness executives and industrial man
ayers. Serviceable clothing has been