Evening star., 1930-06-22


and appointed at the District Encamp-
ment June 10: Department COM
mander, William L. Thomas Equality
Walter Reed Post; senior vice COM
mander, Oscar w. Hollingsworth, Ma
tional Capital Post; junior vice COM
e1ander, Preston G. Wheeler, Follow-Me
Post; department adjutant. Arthur c.
Fowle, EqualityWalter Reed Post; de-
partment quartermaster, Clifton A.
Brode, Federal Post; chief of staff Jo-
seph F. Beattie, Equality Walter Reed
Post; judge advocate, Maurice Grudd
Front Line Post; surgeon, DR.. A. Vic
tor Cercell, Front Line Post: chaplain,
Rev. V. o. Anderson Federal Post; in
spector, Henry Ewing, Potomac Post;
patriotic instructor w Laurence
Hazard, Columbia Post; historian, Fred
G. Lucas. Federal Post; chairman re-
lief committee, j. Allen Praether, Co
lumbia Post.
Council members-National Capital
Post, j. j. Allen, r. J. Cavanaugh
D. J. Leahy and B. S. Bladen; Equality
Walter Reed Pc D. E. Campbell,
James w. Boyer, j.. : John D. Wis
chusen; Columbia Post, H. E. Shilling
and j. Grady Owens: Federal Post
Grover G. Moore and Samuel B. Lapin:
Potomac Post, w. j. Tyrell and Frank
rington, j. B. Gardella and Walker
Belt.
ALI officers and council members were
obligated Saturday night, June ID, by
Fast Department Comdr. Joseph S.
Beattie.
Without a break in the prospective
program of activities of retiring De-
partment Comdr. Harvey L. Miller, the
newly elected department commander.
William l.. Thomas, declared his pur-
pose is to have most successful year
OF " F. w. administration.
His first move was to secure
permanent headquarters for the D.
G.. Department. Through the CO.
operation of Mai. Gen. Anton Stephan.
Y. S. A, commanding the District of
Columbia National Guard units. Off
cial headquarters for the District of
Columbia Department No. l., Veterans
OF Foreign Wars, will be made avaiIa-
BILE at the National Hotel Armory
pennsylvania avenue and Sixth street.
Occupancy of the Office will be OBJ
tanned June %, on which date all Off
clal records, equipment and parapher-
MALTA of the D. c. Department will be
installed
In the established headquarters Sen
ior Vice Comdr. Hollingsworth will
maintain an open Office, where all per-
sons should contact who have con-
structive organization programs to Of
be arranged for timely consideration
by the departments council of admin
1stration. Comrades of this Jurisdiction
are requested to visit the headquarters
and employ under proper control reg
ulations, its facilities for promoting
V. T. w. interests. The number of the
ONCE room and of the telephone service
will be announced at a later date.
The matter of paramount Importance
and interest to the veterans is the ap-
preaching national encampment at
Baltimore, Nd, from August 80 to
September 6. From all indications, the
District Of Columbia will be represent
ed by more than a thousand members
of local posts and their auxiliaries, to-
gether with their friends.
The chairman of the National En-
campment committee. Past Department
Comdr. Beattie, requests all post adju-
tants communicate to him at once the
probable numerical strength of the
attendance of the unit posts in order
that he may make proper reservations
for transportation and hotel accomrno-
dations. and from him particular in
formation concerning rates, ETC., can be
obtained upon application.
The department headquarters were
visited by Past Department Comdr.
Frank Lockhead, captain, U. S. A., who
has just returned to the city from the
Army School at Fort Benning, Ga It
vas his intention to attend the depart
ment encampment to address the con-
Vention, but due to an automobile
accident he was unable to do so.
From now until the twenty-f1rst
annual encampment at Baltimore Md.
the Overseas Military Band, Drum and
Bugle Corps will hold weekly rehearsals
on Wednesday nights at 339 Pennsyl-
vania avenue. On each Of these occa-
Eions the street and concert programs
to be used in the competition at the
National Encampment will be repeated.
The Overseas Corps goal is to win all
national honors at the encampment and
TO be officially designated as the Vet
Grams of Foreign Wars National Band
1t Is anticipated that the strongest COM
petition to be met by the crack local
organization. which has already won
two grand prizes and four first prizes,
will be encountered from the band OF
the Morley-Cates Post, Lansing, Mich:
the New York State V. F. w Band.
the Detroit V. F. W. Police Band and
the V. F. w. Band from Revere, Mass.
A number Of the Overseas Military
Band have joined the goth Marines, and
from July to l3 will be at the Marine
band members will be given opportunity
10 drill up on smart military parading
and formations. few of the buRlers
are also going TO Quantico with the
10th Regiment, and upon the return
from Quantico OF the goth Regiment
Sunday morning drills for the Overseas
Military Band, Drum and Bugle Corps
Will be held during July and August to
rehearse and perfect the formations and
movements 10 be used in the competi-
tion at the Baltimore National Encamp-
ment 1t Is understood that a squad of
buglers representing the Rear Admiral
shortly afhliate with the Overseas
Corps More buglers are needed and
individual posts desiring to be further
represented in the Bugle Corps are
invited to send in the names Of candi-
dates they wish to equip.
The Band, Drum and Bugle Corps at
its last meeting was addressed by Past
Department Comdr. Frank Lockhead
and also by Department Comdr. w. L.
Thomas Comdr. Lockhead congratu-
lated the corps upon its growth in the
past year. Comdr. Thomas announced
that no change In policy would be made
in regard 10 the corps and that it
would continue under the leadership of
Past Department Comdr. Miller, original
organizer of the corps. Comdr. Thomas
expressed appreciation of the corps
and pledged it support.
The Overseas Corps will hold an
exposition and bazaar at Thirty
street and Wisconsin avenue from June
2T to July 8. The carnival is in charge
of a committee headed by Comrades
Oscar H. Kee and Jack Mullane.
At the Iune Is meeting of Federal