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association also encourages athletic &C.
tavities, arranges entertainments, and
In various ways promotes the welfare OF
the employees.
The association was formed in 1927
sponsored by Gen. Frank T Hines, then
director of the United States Veterans
Bureau. With the merging of the Ma
tional Home for Disabled Volunteer
Soldiers, the Bureau of Pensions, and
the United States Veterans Bureau,
the work OF the association has con-
tinued under the Veterans Administra-
ton and today is one of ths outstanding
organizations of its kind in Government
departments.
Mr. A. j. BroSseau, president Of the
association, states that over 81 900 was
expended by the association last year in
benefit to employees. Other officers of
the association are Mr.. George Bache,
vice president: Miss Barneice Carr, sec
retary, and Miss Frances NJ. Miller,
treasurer. Miss Maude Joyner is chair
man OF the Relief Committee, and Mr.
g: H. Sweet, chief of personnel, is the
administrator representative.
MISS Janet McRae, chairman of the
Gard Committee, has received many
reservations for card tables and a suit
able prize will be awarded at each table.
She will be assisted by various members
OF the Welfare Committee.
DR.. and Mrs. William NJ Mann will
be the guests Of honor at the Arts Club
tomorrow evening, when Dr. Mann, who
Is the director of the National Zoolog-
1cal Park, will give talk on his recent
trip to British Guinea and describe his
new geological specimens. The pres!-
dent Of the club and Mrs. Fulton Lewis
viii be the hosts.
The Washington Chapter of the
Daughters of the United States Army
viii have its regular monthly meeting
at luncheon to be held at the Shore
ham Hotel Monday at o'clock.
DR.. and Mrs Claude NJ FuesS Of And
over, Mass, are spending a few days at
the New Willard. DR.. Fuess is carrying
on researches connected with his forth
coming biography Of Henry Cabot
Lodge.
Mrs. William E. Frackelton and her
two children, Gloria and Billy, of De-
troit, Mich, are at the Shoreham for
the Easter holidays.
Mrs. L. M. Werner and Mrs Frank
Thorp of Greenwich, Conn, are at the
Carlton for short stay.
Mr.. and Mrs. Holstein De Haven Fox
and their two daughters, Miss Elsie
Lewis Fox and Miss Dorothy Colket
Fox, of Haverford, Pa, motored to
washington and are at the Shoreham
through the Easter holidays.
Gard Party Friday Evening
To Benefit Epiphany Chapel.
Plans have been completed for the
card party for the benefit of Epiphany
Chapel Friday evening at O'Clock, at
the Raleigh Hotel. Mrs Clarence Bean
Is chairman of the event.
Hundreds of boys and girls of the
Capital will attend the performances
Of THE Pied Piper of Hamelin," be-
ginning tomorrow afternoon. when the
guests will be children from the or
phanages and missions of the city, and
concluding Saturday afternooI at 2:30
O'Clock, when many other boys and
girls will entertain their own guests
at the special childrens matinee, which
Is always a feature of the bring op-
eretta of the Girl Reserves.
Patronesses for the children's mat
tnee will include Mrs Harold Blee,
Mrs. William Burdick, Mrs John w.
Burke, Mrs. Wilson Compton, Mrs
Harold Doyle, Mrs. John G. Lohmann,
Mrs Eugene Meyer, Mrs. A. Chambers
Oliphant, Mrs Edwin B. Parker, Mrs.
william Mcclellan Ritter. Mrs. c. A.
Snow, Mrs. Robe5 Watson and Mrs.
viii Wright.
Girls from ell the Reserve clubs In
the senior and junior high schools in
Washington and nearby Virginia will
play leading roles in the operetta. and
the role of the Piper will be taken by
Miss 10 Carter of the Arlington Hall
School for Girls. Other girls appear
ing in the performance are Miss Nor
fldd Thomas. Miss Barbara Davis.
Miss Maxwell Galloway. Miss Elizabeth
Mayo. Miss Virginia Evans and Miss
Helen Foley.
Reservations for the children's mat
inee Saturday may be made at the
Girl Reserve Office of the Y. w C. A.
and tickets for the Friday evening per-
formance may likewise be obtained
there.
The list of distinguished patrons
sponsoring the annual Spring ball to
be given by the veteran units Of the
Catholic Students Mission Crusade at
the willard Friday includes the Vice
President, Mr.. Curtis. Other patrons
are the Secretary Of War, Mr.. Patrick
J. Hurley; the Ambassador of Italy,
Mobile Giacomo de Martino; the Am
bassador of Great Britain. Sir Ronald
Lindsay; the Ambassador Of Japan,
Mr. Debuchi, and Representative Mary
T. Norton.
A ball celebrating Army day will be
held at the Shoreham Hotel April 6
when the New England Society will play
host to the Nation. All State societies
have been invited to participate, includ-
ing the Society of Natives of the Dis
trict of Columbia.
Colonial gowns again will be brought
out for this occasion, although the ball
will not be restricted to such garb. A
play entitled Martha Washington at