Evening star., 1940-02-04
BIood.Serum Bank
Benefit Scheduled
By KiIIeen Unit
Vincent Costello Group
To Meet Tuesday;
Husbands Invited

The Killeen Unit and Post will
sponsor card party Tuesday night
at the Killeen clubrooms, 1904 M
street NV, for the benefit of the
Blood and Serum Bank" for the
Children's Hospital. The affair will
be held as a memorial to the late
Comdr. James Morris. Call Mrs.
Marguerite Buscher, Mich. 1853, or
Mrs. Isabelle Peinbraker, Mich. 1856,
for reservations. q,
Mrs. Mary B. Mcmillan, depart
ment president, will make an official
visit to this unit on Wednesday
evening. There will be an Ameri-
canism program.
The Junior meeting will be held
at 2:30 o'clock on February 10 at
the clubrooms to make sweaters and
scarfs for the Red Cross.
On February % a bingo party
will be held at Naval Hospital. Mrs.
Della Barber will be hostess.
Vincent B. Costello Unit will meet
Tuesday at 1927 New Hampshire
avenue NV. at pm. All men,
bers are urged to be present; also
to invite their husbands.
The unit will hold its annual
dinner at the Bamboo Gardens, 8O4
Fourteenth street NV. on February
is at pm.
Potomac Unit will hold a card
party at the Palisades Field House
on February is at o'clock, for the
benefit of the Blood and Serum
Bank" of Children's Hospital.
Washington Police and Fire Uni,
will meet February 9 at the New
Colonial Hotel at pm. Mrs. Ju.
dith S. Harmel will present a pro.
gram on Americanism and nationa
defense, featuring Benjamin F. Pol.
lack as the speaker. A recitation oi
Il Am the Constitution" will be
rendered by Miss Romona Weigand
Music by Mrs. Beulah Waller.
The Kenneth H. Nash Unit viii
meet February in the Washing
ton Hotel at 7:30 pm. The unit
will present an Americanism pro-
gram under the direction of Mrs
Mary C. Conrin, Americanisn
chairman. Senator Robert Rey.
nolds will be the guest speaker
Mrs. Estelle Hunt Dean, soloist, will
render songs. Cooperating with
Mrs. Conrin in the presentation ol
this program are Sons of the Legion
OF Nash Post and the juniors oi
the unit
Sergt. Jasper Unit will meet Tues.
day at pm. at the Raleigh Hotel
An Americanization program, ar.
ranged by Mrs. Anna Elliott, and q
national defense program, arranged
by Mrs. Gertrude Pierce will be
given.
Mrs. Clarkson will be hostess at a
benefit party for the juniors on Feb
ruary Is, and Miss Margaret Ham,
mer will be hostess at a bingo
party for the veterans at Mount
Alto Diaginostic Center on Feb
ruary 16.
Gen. U. G. McAlexander Unit
will hold benefit party for the
blood and serum bank" on Febru-
ary 10.
Plans are being made by the
Americanism chairman, Mrs. InZa
Dickerson, to hold special pro-
grams in February, dates to be an
nounced later.
Mrs. Edith Warren Quinn. presi-
dent of Cooley-McCullough Unit
announced the post and unit will
give a card party and floor show
at the Annapolis Hotel February Is
at o'clock for the benefit of the
Blood and Serum Bank" at Chill
drens Hospital Hostesses will be
Mrs. Edith w. Quinn, Mrs. Rae R.
zaonts, Mrs. Helen M. McCabe,
Mrs. Edith P. Landvoigt, Mrs. Emma
M. Warren, Mrs. Ann Zaruba, Mrs
Ann Crump, Mrs. Madeline P Will
lams and Mrs. Lenore McComas
DR.. James T. Lowe. professor and
parliamentarian of Georgetown Uni
versity, will speak on the Consti-
tuition of the United States at the
Americanism program, sponsored by
the unit, at the Y. w. c. A., GA E
street NV, February 6, at pm
Other guests invited are Depart
ment Comdr. William T. Slattery
and his staff, Department President
Mary B. McMillin and her staff
Capt. Horace w. Lineburg and his
staff and the departmental Amer
icanization chairman, Miss Minnie
Mae Hardy.