Evening star., 1939-04-09


Fire Post have 485 and 482 members
respectively. Other membership
are: Vincent B. Costello Post, 435
U. S. S. Jacob Jones Post, 1894; For
Stevens Post, 1856, and Government
Printing Office Post, 354 Those
posts having filled their 1889 mem
bership quota are Victory, Wash
ington Police and Fire and Potomac
Electric Power Co.
Maj Thomas Frailey, chairman
has called a meeting tomorrow a,
4:45 pm. in department headquar.
ters of the general committee ar
ranging the annual departmental
ball on April % at the MayfoWel
Hotel.
There will be a meeting of the
full employment commission in tht
Denrike Building at 8:15 pm. or
Tuesday. Chairman Franklin J. Por.
ter announces plans to be discussed
will include Employment Week. des-
ignated between May l and 6, in.
elusive.
U. S. S. Jacob Jones Post No
will meet Monday at 8 pm. at the
Thomas Circle Club, 1926 Massa.
chusetts avenue NV. with Comdr
Anne Frame presiding. April ha:
been designated as Child Welfare
Month" The guest speaker will be
Capt. Rhoda Milliken, director Of
the Women's Bureau of the Metro
politan Police, who will take or
the general welfare of children.
Neila Eichhorn, chairman of chile
welfare of the post, and her COM
mittee are preparing 60 Easter bas-
kets for children. A number OF
articles of wearing apparel have
been distributed to the needy.
Government Printing Office Pos,
No. 33 will meet in the Bunker Hill
Clubhouse, 800 Monroe street NE.
on Monday at 8 pm. Nine commits.
sioners will be elected to serve vary
ing terms of Office on the newly
created board that will compose the
governing body of the posts new
home.
Sergt Jasper Post has purchased
a box for the departmental bal
and a number of the members are
planning to attend.
A contribution has been made tt
the department child welfare milk
fund.
Early reports to the committee
arranging the second annual Wash
ington Soap Box Derby, sponsored
by The Evening Star and this de-
partment, indicate entries will fal
exceed those of last year.
In order that subcommittee may
be organized and start to work or
their part of the program, Chair
man Joseph A. Walker urges tina,
names of members to serve from the
several posts of the department be
forwarded to department headquar-
ters at once. He also requests that
posts to participate in the prize
pool and which will sponsor entries
under their names should submit
written memoranda thereon.
Fort Stevens Post, No. 80, squad
ron, S. A. L., drum and bugle corps
and marching unit, will meet in
Roosevelt High School Tuesday at
7 pm. in preparation for participa-
ton in the Youth Day parade on
Wednesday, Joe Walker, jr., and
Jack Spears have been appointed
official mascots of the Junior League
baseball team. which will oppose
Potomac Post in the opening game
on April %.
Comdr. Abraham Miller has ap-
pointed Michael j. Lyons to serve
on the Memorial Day Committee
and Past Comdr John T. Long to
arrange a second bingo party for
patients at Mount Alto Hospital
Moonlight cruises will be held on
June 8 and August II.
A resolution urging adoption and
use of the Fort Stevens memoria,
ritual by the Department of the
District of Columbia will be pre-
sented to the Executive Committee
at its next meeting.
In memory of Albert Winter
Tucker, former vice commander ano
a graduate of Roosevelt High School
a trophy bearing his name will be
presented annually to the outstand-
ing company of the cadet brigade OF
Roosevelt High School. American
ism Chairman Ross Amos and his
committee will present safety pro-
gram for students of ST. Gabriel's
School on April 81.
The Past Commanders Associa-
ton of the District of Columbia will
hold its annual dinner party meeting
Saturday in honor of incoming and
outgoing officers. Dinner will be
served at TIT Fourteenth street NV
at pm.
President Charles Cohen and Col
Joseph Randall, a past president
will share the presiding officers du-
ties. Wives of members and eligible
past commanders are welcome.
Grande Voiture, No. 174, Forty anG
Eight, will meet in the Portnel
Apartment on Wednesday at pm.
with Grand Chef de Care C. Gas.
sard Schroth presiding. The names
of 80 Legionnaires are to be consid.
cred for induction on May q.
Mid-Atlantic Promenade President
John Emil McCabe reports thai
voyageurs from Maryland, Virginia
Delaware and Pennsylvania will joir
the local delegation here for the TRIP