Evening star., 1937-01-24
LEGION AUXILIARY
AIDS CONFERENCE
18th National Defense Par.
ley to Start Here on
Tuesday Night.

The twelfth Womens Patriotic
Conference on National Defense will
open with a colorful mass meeting at
$3.50 pm. Tuesday at the Mayflower
Hotel, with the national president Of
the American Legion Auxiliary, Mrs.
o. w. Hahn, presiding. Speakers Of
national repute will participate.
Sessions will be held all day We'd
nesday, with the conference dinner
as a climax of that day in the ball
room of the Mayfiower. Sessions on
Thursday.
A pilgrimage to the Tomb OF the
Unknown Soldier will be made Tues
day at 3 pm.
There will be qualified speakers on
each angle of national defense. Prom
inent officials and high ranking officers
of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps
will address the conference. There
will be a speaker on youth activities,
and one on subversive movements. An
open forum will be held Wednesday
morning, at which time the delegates
will have the opportunity to raise any
question pertaining to national de-
fense. The conference is sponsored by
the American Legion Auxiliary, and
participated in by 40 women's patriotic
organizations.
The District of Columbia depart
ment will give tea on Tuesday after
noon from S to pm. at the War
Mothers Home, 1927 New Hampshire
avenue in honor of the national and
department delegates. and the District
of Columbia Department Executive
Committee.
The Department Executive Com
mittee honored the department presi-
dent. Mrs. Mary K. Killeen at a sur
prise birthday dinner. Thursday an
open meeting will be held in honor Of
the national vice president. eastern
division, Mrs. John J. Bromley.
Miss Katherine Lenroot Of the
Children's Bureau will be q guest
speaker at the Child Welfare confer
ence dinner at the Wardman Park
Hotel, Friday. Visiting auxiliary men,
bers and District of Columbia depart
ment members are urged to attend all
sessions of the two-day conference.
Mrs. o. w. Hahn, national president;
Frank E. Samuel, national adjutant,
and Mrs. Mollie E. Averill, national
chapeau will be among the speakers.
Miss Emma c. Puschner, national di-
rector Of the Legion Child Welfare
division, and Mrs. Mary Esther Kolhos
OF the local department are in charge
Of general arrangements.
Sergt. Jasper Unit.
The juniors Of Sergt. Jasper Unit
No. 13 met Saturday, Mary Winifred
Mccarthy presiding.
A supply Of clothing was turned over
to Mrs. Mildred Bell, chairman. as
the juniors January contribution to
the child welfare program. The
American Automobile Associations
safety" picture was screened.
Czechoslovakia by the senior and
junior unit members. Department
Vice President Ellen Louise Warren
has offered prize to the unit writing
and sending in the greatest number
Of letters.
Police Unit.
The Washington Police Unit, Amer
ican Legion Auxiliary, held a meeting
of its junior organization. under the
direction Of Mrs. Margaret Carroll. at
her home last evening. It was decided
that the Juniors would make several
scrapbooks to be presented to the Chill
dren's Hospital in the near future.
Mrs. Ola D. Lee, unit vice president,
will represent the unit at the national
defense program, to be held at the
Mayf1ower Hotel during the week.
The program will last for three days
and will be presided over by the ma
tional president of the auxiliary, Mrs.
o. w. Hahn.
United States Department Of Agricul-
ture Unit No. 36.
The United States Department Of
Agriculture Unit, No. SO, American
Legion Auxiliary, met January 10.
The unit approved the following ap-
pointments made by President Perna
6OIt. NlCC IICSlOCub -. EsotCAAC AooAASs
delegate to the Women's Patriotic Con-
ference on National Defense; Vice
President Emma Warren and Child
Welfare Chairman Anna o. Boyd,
delegates to the Area "B" Child We'll
fare Conference to be held at Ward
man Park January 20.
The sympathy of the unit is ex-
tended to Mrs. Margaret Montgomery.
historian, in the loss of her young son
Joseph, who died at Walter Reed Hos
pital January ID.
Killeen Unit will hold q party At
Mount Alto Hospital, February l. and
q card party February 3 ut Killeen
club rooms. Two delegates, Mrs.
Katherine Waters and Mrs. K. Hood
were appointed TO attend the National
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