Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-01-03

Columbia Department of the American
Legion will be held January 20 at the
May1ower Hotel.
! The President and Mrs. Hoover head
the list of patrons and patronesses and
! boxes are being reserved by members of
the judiciary, executive and legislative
| departments and by the various posts
OF the department. Maj. E. H. Hale Is
chairman Of the General Committee and
Thomas J. Frailey vice chairman.
At the last meeting of the Stuart
Walcott Post, No. TO- at the Dodge Ho-
tel the following officers were installed ::
Commander, DR.. Ray F. Guynn; senior
vice commander, Charles L. Curtiss, jr :;
junior vice commander, Leo F. Wise
Judge advocate, John L. Julius; his
| torian, E. j. Hurdle; quartermaSter,
Ange Robertiello; sergeant at arms, Err
nest j. Kay; master at arms, Allen NJ.
Ergood; chaplain, DR.. Charles E. Ralph;
surgeon, DR.. M. E. Gardner; trustees,
Vernon S. Auld and William F. Watt.
Installation was performed by F. G.
FraSier, commander of the District of
Columbia Department of the American
Legion, assisted by Junior Vice Comdr.
William F. McGrath. Addresses were
! made by the department commander
and junior vice commander. Henry F.
| Zones and Henry w. Francis were ap-
pointed by DR.. Guynn as adjutant and
| finance officer, respectively.
| Warren F. Miller spoke on the sub
| ject of donations of old serviceable
| clothes for needy ex-service men. A
| box to receive these old clothes is now
| located In the Veterans Administration
| Building and effort is to be made to
have similar boxes placed in other Gov
eminent departments in the District.
All who desire to donate cast-off cloth
| ing to needy ex-Service men are re-
quested to make deliveries at the Vet
Grams Administration Building, but If
this Is not convenient. the Laundry
owners Association of Washington has
volunteered to collect and make deliv-
| cry of old clothes to headquarters.
In appreciation of their services dur
ing the past year, an emblem ring was
presented to Vernon S. Aud, past COM
mander; watch charm to Paul K
Carr, past vice commander, and a post
adjutant pin to Henry F.. Zones.
Action on motion for consideration
by the post of the subject of political
suffrage for the District of Columbia
was deferred until the next regular
meeting. The views of every member
| of the post on this important subject
arc solicited and it is requested that as
many members as possible be present at
the next meeting, so that full considera-
ton may be given thereto
Announcement wa made by the post
commander that cash prizes of $25, SIS
and $40 will be given to members bring
ing in the greatest number of new mem
bers during the year 1882.
Entertainment was afforded by Miss
Edith Reed as pianist, Miss Blanche
Arison in selection of songs and Miss
Frances Williams in tap dancing A
selection of barn dance music was rem
dered by the Hill Billies" of Silver
Spring, Md, comprising ]. N Cuddy
H. L. Thompson, Joe Hopkins, H. Dun
can, William Schneider and C. Rector
The American Legion Auxiliary will
be we'll represented at the seventh an
nual Women's Patriotic Conference on
National Defense, to be held here Feb
ruary /, 2 and 3. Others participating
In the conference will be American Gold
Star Mothers, American War Mothers,
Colonial Daughters, Daughters of 1912,
Women's Relief Corps, United Spanish
War Veterans Auxiliary, Ladies' Aux
Hilary Veterans of Foreign Wars;
Daughters of the American Revolution
and Women'S Overseas Service League
Mrs. Lowell Fletcher Hobart, president
general of the Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution, is the chairman. Mrs.
Frederick C. Williams, national presi-
cent of the American Legion Auxiliary,
will serve as first vice chairman.
The conference will open Monday
night, February l, with a mass meeting
in Constitution Hall, the new auditorium
Of the Daughters of the American Revo-
luton here. Other sessions will be held
In Memorial Continental Hall, another
D. A. R. auditorium. Leading authori-
ties on national defense subjects will
address the various sessions.
Henry C. Spengler Unit No. II, held
its regular meeting at the Thomas Cir
Gle Club December %, with President
Jennie F. Knight in the chair The
Rehabilitation Committee reported hav-
ing visited wards 10 and IL at Walter
Reed Hospital that afternoon with the
chairman, Mrs. Clara Sonneman, head
ing the committee, and presenting the
units Christmas boxes to the patients
n those wards
Mrs. Sue P. Minis, department presi-
dsnt, presented the citation awarded
by the National American Legion Aux
illary to Henry c. Spengler Unit for
outstanding achievement in its activi-
ties through 1930-31; other distin-
guished guests present were Depart
ment Commander F. G. Fraser, De-
partment Vice Commander William H.
McGrath, Department Adjutant c. w.
Browning and Mrs. Willette Preston,
departmental chaplain of the 8 and 40.
Miss Anita Schade gave readings of
Christmas and Christmas carol evolu-
ton. Members brought toys for the
Christmas tree, which were later sent
to make worthy children happy.
Salon No. IA, DIES HUT Chapeau ct
Quarante Femmes, will give public
card party at the Northeast Masonic
Temple, Eighth and F. streets north
east, January 9, commencing at pm.
The committee will provide tables for
bridge and five hundred. The card
party is in CHARGE of the WAYS and |