Evening star., 1939-05-14
Buddy Poppy Drive
To Be Launched tuesday
Memorial Services to Be Held at
Cedar Hill Cemetery May %
commander.

Cedur Hill Cemeter
The 18th annual three~day
buddy" poppy drive of the Veterans
of Foreign Wars of the United
States will be launched here Tues
day Chairman George McLeish
announced last week he expected
the campaign to be the most sue
cessful in the history of the organi-
zation.
Proceeds are to be used for relief
agencies of the organization, some
of which are the veterans in hos
pitals, who make the poppies: local
veterans and their dependents and
the national home for widows and
orphans at Eaton Rapids, Mich.
The annual memorial services of
the " F. w will be held at Cedar
Hill Cemetery May % at 8 pm.
Chaplain Howard w Snyder will
render the invocation. The Over
seas Military Band will furnish mu-
sic for the occasion and one of the
prominent members of Congress will
deliver an address. All members
are urged to be in the cemetery not
later than 2;45 pm.
Maj Gen. Clarence R. Edwards
Post. in cooperation with the
Yankee Division Society of Wash
ington. will make their annual pill
grlmage to the grave of Gen. Ed
wards in Arlington Cemetery Me-
mortal Day. Services will begin at
II am.
The National Capital Auxiliary
held installation at the Washington
Post Club. Florence Muschlitz was
the installing officer. The V. F. w.
Orchestra furnished music for the
supper dance which followed the
installation.
President Mildred Carter an
nounced the appointive officers.
Membership Chairman Ethel Send
lax of the auxiliary announces the
membership drive closes June l and
all membership cards are to be re-
ceived by the secretary not later
than June 5. Chairmen of hospital
rehabilitation, home fund, legisla-
tive, Americanism and junior ac-
tivity are requested to forward re-
ports to their respective department
chairmen in order to have a COM
plete report at the department en-
campment.
Department President Whitcraft
announces encampment committees
as follows: Credentials, Florence
Armstrong, chairman; Lucille Ber-
nard and Mercedes McCallum.
Greetings, Edith H. Whitcraft and
Ethel Sendlak Resolutions, Eola
Wright, chairman; Clay Keene Mil
Ter and Adelaide M. Grant. Hospital,
Dorothy Depro. Maybelle Bucking-
ham and Roberta Fawcett.
Members are invited today to the
annual Mothers Day service, Am
phitheater, Arlington Cemetery.
Federal Unit, Daughters Of the
V. F. w, held installation cere-
monies at the Soldiers. Sailors and
Marines Club on May 5. Carrie Irv-
ing, president of Federal Auxiliary
was the installing officer. Past De-
partment President Adelaide NJ
Grant presented President Florence
Hayes with a bouquet, and Junior
Activity Chairman Dorothy Lohman
presented the retiring president,
Marion Wright, with a gift, and also
presented her the past presidents
pin. Speeches were made by De-
partment President Whitcraft and
Past Department Presidents Roberta
Fawcett and Adelaide M. Grant.
Follow Me Auxiliary met at the
Thomas Circle Club on Tuesday,
with President Mary Campbell pre-
siding. The following were elected
delegates and alternates to the en-
campment: Delegates, Bessie Haislip,
Hattie Byram, Blanche Melton.
Helen Dantzic, Virgie Evans and
Blanche King; alternates, Maude
Miller, Clara Campbell, Marie
Hargy, Julia Hooker, Helen Hughes
and Katie Gross. On account of the
Buddy Poppy sale, the regular social
will be postponed until May 23
Mayme Collins was initiated.
Federal Auxiliary announces the
Endorsement of Dorothy Lohman for
department president.
Department President Edith H.
Whitcraft announces she will not be
a candidate for reelection.
The next Council of Administra-
ton will be held at Pythian Temple
on May %, 8 pm.
United States Treasury Auxiliary
will hold a dance at the Soldiers,
Sailors and Marines Club on May 20.
The District of Columbia will par
t..cinate in the Memorial Day parade.
Units are ordered to assemble at
Constitution avenue and Seventh
street NV, at $50 am.
The degree team of Follow Me Post
went to Arlington, Va, last Tuesday
evening to put on the ritualistic cere-
mony for new members who were re-
cruited in the past month by John
Lyon Post of Arlington, Va.
The Poppy Committee of Police
Fire Post will be established in the
Hamilton Hotel during the campaign
next week. All workers of the post
are requested to report early Tues
day morning. At the last meeting
OF the post an appropriation was au-
thorized to obtain a card table to
be presented to the Retired Police