Evening star., 1940-08-11

election will be held at the Ma
tional Encampment of the organ
ization in Los Angeles, August Is
to 30.
Department Comdr. Leonard
Bacon presented to Jack Holiday,
executive officer of the Equality
Walter Reed Post Junior Drum and
Bugle Corps, a meritorious award
from the American Legion for the
drum corps participation in the
annual Legion convention parade.
Comdr. Bacon urged each member
In the local organizations to obtain
v. F. W. uniform before the an
nual Armistice Day ball. Uniforms
may be purchased in Washington
by communicating with Comdr.
Bacon.
A committee, headed by Comdr.
Esterbrook of United States Treas
ury Post, was appointed by Comdr.
Bacon to investigate the feasibility
of purchasing a public address sys-
TEN, to be given to Mount Alto
Hospital for use of the patients.
The committee will report its find
tngs at the meeting at the Washing
ton Post Club on September 4.
At the last meeting of U. S. Treas
ury Post Senior Vice Comdr. Leon
B. Lambert and Chief of Staff
Stephen Nicka were guests. How
ard Bryan Clark ana Frank A.
Striplin were elected to membership
and administered the obligation by
Comdr. ESterbrook
Past Department Comdr. Oscar
W. Hollingsworth and Past Comdr.
Sumner Perry of Potomac Post ad-
dressed Washington Post at the last
meeting. Past Comdr Hollingsworth
invited the post to hold a picnic In
his estate in Virginia.
The post voted not to take any
action in forming an auxiliary until
the first meeting of next year.
The post voted to petition the
supreme Scratch at Los Angeles,
Calf, indorsing Frank .Topash as
supreme senior vice commander of
the Military Order of the Coolies.
Follow Me-Defensc Post met at
2o2O Rhode Island avenue NE. last
Thursday evening. Comdr. Snider
presided.
The post will sponsor it's annual
moonlight cruise on the S. S. Poto-
mac next Friday.
Comdr. Gill announced at the
council meeting that National Capt.
tai Post had established an attend
ance award to be given at each meet
ing of the post.
The Top Notch Tent, Military
Order of the Cootie. will give a So
cial at the Bunker Hill Post club
rooms, 8O9 Monroe street NE, today
from pm. to midnight. All men,
bers and their friends are invited.
Federal Junior Unit held their
last meeting at the home of the
president, Thelma Lohman. Federal
Post treated the Juniors to their an
nual outing to Marshall Hall. Races
won were: Potato race. Ruth
Graves; 25-yard dash for large
juniors, Florence Hayes; for small
juniors, Dorothy Gorham; sack race,
Marion Wright; 20-yard dash, Pau
line Johns of Treasury Unit. Louise
Downs of Follow-Me Auxiliary won
both events for women.
Auxiliary meetings on Tuesday
are Potomac, No. 1885; Washington
Post Club, Seventeenth and L streets
NV. and Equality Walter Reed, No.
284, 2015 Massachusetts avenue NV.
Mrs. Ethel Sendlak, department
president, announced Alice Dickin-
son from California was guest at
the last department meeting and
spoke. Mercedes McCallum, depart
ment ways and means chairman,
gave various suggestions for raising
money and announced that she will
start her activities in October.
The following have been installed
as district presidents: Mary Camp
bell, Augusta Herman, Josephine
Walsh. Josephine Wright, Florence
Armstrong and Elizabeth Beaslsy.
The chairman of the Armistice
Ball, given by the Veterans of For
eign Wars of the District of Colum-
bia, has appointed Mrs. Sendlak as
a vice chairman on the General