Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08

| services IN COmmemOraClOn Oh CHe
dead of the United States battleShip
Maine will be held under the direction
| Of the United Spanish War Veterans ma
| tional organization at Arlington Ma
tional Cemetery, February Is. The De
| partment of the District of Columbia
United Spanish War Veterans will have
charge of the exercises. John Lewis
Smith, chairman of the committee, an
nounces that the exercises will start at
2:15 o'clock pm. at the Riding Hall at
Fort Myer, Va.
The National Auxiliary will hold its
ritualistic rites at the shaft of the
Maine, and wreaths from the President
CT the United States, the National
Auxiliary, the United Spanish War
Veterans, the Cuban government and
others will be placed at the foot OF the
shaft. The services at the Maine shaft
will be under the direction of Bertha r.
Cook, president of the District of Co.
lumbia Auxiliary United Spanish War
Veterans, assisted by officers of the ma
tional organization and by members of
her staff From the Maine shaft the
assemblage will proceed to the Riding
Hall at Fort Myer, Va, where the pro-
gram of the United Spanish War
Veterans will be held.
The services at Fort Myer will be
broadcast over a network of stations by
Station WRC of the National Bread
casting Co. Judge Edward S. Matthias,
commander in chief United Spanish
War Veterans; Senator Smith w.
Brookhart and DR.. Orestes Ferrara,
Cuban Ambassador, will speak.
Jere A. Costello, chairman of the
Committee of the Department Good and
Welfare, announced last week that the
banquet to be rendered to Edward S.
Matthias. commander in chief, will be
held at the willard Hotel, February Is,
at 1880 o'clock.
At the meeting of the Council of Ad-
miniStration of the department of the
District of Columbia, January 81, 1t was
voted that the annual excursion held on
Santiago day, July II, be held at Mar
shall Hall.
Lawton Camp met February 2, with
Comdr. Glaze presiding. Past Comdr.
George McDermott was presented with
a past commanders badge by Past De-
partment Comdr. James G. Yaden.
Representative Wurzbach of Texas, Past
Department Comdrs. James G. Yaden
and Arthur H. League, Department
Comdr. Benjamin Motley and Past
Comdr. Charles A. Strobel Of Petit
Camp made addresses.
Petit Camp met January 81, with
Comdr Robb in the chair. George j.
Mueller, Company K, 1st District of Co
lumbia Infantry, was mustered into the
camp. Past Department Comdr Ar
thur H. League and w. L. Boughman
of Mckinley Camp of Dayton, Ohio,
spoke.
Aston Camp met February 2, with
~ rVTr..-
The following were mustered into the
camp: Harry N. ellis, Battery M, I'd
United States Artillery; Louis A. Becker,
Company z, 9th United States Infan-
try, and Raphael S. Roach, Hospital
Corps, United States Army, transferred
from Harden Camp. Guy G. McDon-
aid will be obligated at a later meeting.
Past Condr. Hemmeter, Naval Camp,
Philadelphia, of the Department of
Pennsylvania, spoke.
At the last meeting of Petit AuXil-
larry, January 26, it was voted that the
second meeting of each month Of the
auxiliary be devoted to short business
meeting, to be followed by a social seS-
sion. Edna r. Symmetrical, chairman
of the Entertainment Committee, will
ments and socials of the auxiliary at
the second meeting each month.
Bessie Afford was elected historian of
the auxiliary. She was installed by
Carrie Nolan, national treasurer of the
organization.
National President Edith Bird of To-
ledo, Ohio, appointed the following
members of Petit Auxiliary to assist at
the Patriotic Women's National Defense
Conference: Rebeka Pedigo, to assist
Mrs. Rice w Means on the Dinner
Committee; Edna r. Summerfield. Gre
dentialS Committee, and Myrtle Monkey
as page.
Ide P Kimmerling president of the
Dewey Auxiliary, announced that owing
to the banquet being rendered to Ed
ward S. Matthias, commander in chief,
which will be February 16, the meeting
of Dewey Auxiliary scheduled for that
night has been postponed to March 2.