Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06
Presidential Couple
Heads Patrons List
For Y. F.. W. Ball
10th Annual Armistice
Day Event Will Be
CoIorfuI One

President and Mrs. Franklin d.
Roosevelt will head distinguished
list of patrons and patronesses for
the goth annual Armistice Day ball
of the Veterans Of Foreign Wars at
the Hotel Willard next Friday. Sec
rotary of War Harry Woodring and
Mrs. Woodring will be among the
distinguished guests.
The present progress of plans in
dicates that the approaching event
will be easily the most colorful In
the history of the v. F. w.
Many of the Districts most i'm
portant citizens will join with the
veterans comprising the 20 posts in
the organization and their friends
in the celebration of Armistice Day.
Patrons include: Col. Vincenzo
Coppola, honorary aide -de-camp to
H. M the King of Italy; Ambassador
Mario de Pimentel Brandao of Bra
I'll, Phya Abhibal Rajamaitri. Minis
ter of Siam; the Swedish Minister
and Nine. w. Bostrom, Comdr.
Pierre Bench and Nine. Benech,
naval attache to France; Mai. Don
Diogenes Escalaete, Minister of Ven
ezuela; Maj. Gen. Henry Gibbons of
the War Department. the Minister
Of Norway and Nine. Munthe de
Morgenstierne, Mr.. and Mrs. Garth
Healey of the Irish Legation, Miss
Mabel T. Boardman, secretary of the
American Red Cross: the Minister
OF Rumania and Nine. Irimescu,
the Secretary of the Navy and Mrs.
Swanson, Comdr L. Mccormick
Goodhart, R. N. v. R., retired; the
Minister of Panama and Sonora de
Boyd, the Minister of Portugal and
Nine. de Bianchi, the Minister of
Finland and Nine. Jernefelt, the
Secretary and Mrs. Julian r. Cace-
res OF the Honduras Legation,
Senior DR.. Don Luis Fernando
Gauchalla, Minister of Bolivia, and
the Colombian Ambassador and
Nine. Lopez.
Ronald Kay is general chairman.
Tickets may be obtained either from
the department headquarters. at
1924 H street NV, or any individ-
ual post.
Coolies Of Top Notch Tent No. l
met Tuesday at 935 G place NV.
Newly elected officers were installed
by Cootie Frank Topash. supreme
council member of the Fourth Dis
trict
They were: Seam Squirrel, A. B.
Hammond, Equality Walter Reed
Post; Blanket Bum, P. w. Graves,
Fire & Police Post; Hide Gimlet,
William L. Manning. Fenwick Post
No, 749, Maryland; Custodian of the
Grumpy Duffel Bag, E. T. Spedden,
Front Line Post; Sky Pilot, Timothy
G. Mccarthy, Washington Post;
Pill Pusher, Herbert J. Bryson, Front
Line Post; Shirt Reader, Leonard j.
Bacon, Equality Walter Reed Post;
Officer of the Day, Charles Wolf, Po-
tomac Post; Jimmie Legs, Garrett
Mattingly. Front Line Post; Wind
TANNER, Fred A. Wright, Treasury
Post; Tight Wads, Joseph Perron,
Treasury Post; A. V. Cercell and v.
G. Guillermain. Front Line Post.
Supreme Comdr. Patrick H. Houle
Of Lackawana, N Y, and Supreme
Junior Vice Comdr. Ashley Beck of
Detroit, Mich. will be honored
guests of T. N. T. Coolies on Armis-
tice Day. Ceremonies will be held
at the Tomb of the Unknown SOL
der, Arlington Cemetery. at $50
am. After the ceremonies there
will be an auto tour to Mount Ver-
non. The supreme officers will at
tend the V. F. w. Armistice Day
Ball that evening.
Through the efforts of the Dis
trict of Columbia Department of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Dis
trlct Commissioners have proclaimed
| the week of November II to Is Vet
Grams Week. Patriotic programs
will be sponsored by the various vet
Grams organizations in the city as
! part of the observance of the goth
anniversary of the signing of the
| ArmiStice.
National Capital Post met last
Tuesday evening at the Soldiers,
Sailors and Marines Club. The post
will participate in the Ladies Aux
Hilary birthday party on November
II. Department Comdr. Philip R.
Belt, Department Junior Vice Comdr.
Kay, Comdr. Graves of Police-Fire
Post and Past Comdr. George Neu-
ner of National Capital Post and
| now a member of Front Line Post
spoke. Comdr. John l.. De Mayo
| presided.
| Follow Me Post at its meeting at
the Northeast Masonic Temple was
joined by Potomac, Defense and
H. L. Edmonds Posts. Milton Embry
and Clifford H. Sparks were indicted
into membership. Comdr. King an
nounced social will be held jointly
with the auxiliary at the Thomas
Circle Club on November II.
National Capital Auxiliary will
meet November 10 at the Washing
ton Post Club. Edith Hiser, patriotic
instructor. is chairman of the Armis-
tice Day program to be held by the
auxiliary at the Americanization
School November 10. Dorothy Depro
is chairman of the auxiliary birth
day party, with Ethel Sendalk, Clay
Keene Miller and Edith Hiser on
the committee.
Equality-W Reed Post Aux
iliarv will hold q dinner of tho Eoir