Evening star., 1943-04-11

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Buddy Poppy Campaign
Will Be Conducted
May Is, IA and IS
Silent tribute was paid to the late
Comdr. John L. Hart of Columbia
Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, by
the Council of Administration at a
meeting Monday night at the Dis
trlct Building. Department Comdr.
Richard A. Burton, presided.
Fast Department Comdr. Leon B.
Lambert announced radio broad
cast, Speak Up for Democracy"
on the afternoon of May IL. The
Buddy Poppy" committee campaign
Will be conducted by the posts on
May 13, IA and Is
McKlmmie-Catterton Police and
Fire Post elected the following Of
flcers: Commander, Joseph M. Nc
lnerney; senior vice commander.
Charles M. OMalley; Junior vice
commander, Samuel j. Holladay:
quartermaster, Charles w. Shaw:
advocate, Charles j. P. Weber; sur
geon, R. E. Dodson; chaplain, John
JaSinWski; trustees. John Koester,
H. B. Statz and J. T. Mooney. In
stallation ceremonies will take place
April Is, 9 pm, at 4728 Fourteenth
street NV, and Past Department
Comdr. Oscar w. Hollingsworth will
be the officiating officer. The Ladies'
Auxiliary OF the post will also install
its officers. following the postss
exercises.
Officers will be installed In John
Lyon Post $3.50 at the Ashton
Heights Women's Clubhouse, Lyon
Park, Va. at the next meeting.
They are George w. Tidler, COM
mander, A. D. Bordeau, vice COM
mander; Webster H. Spear, junior
vice commander; Chester H. Sipes,
| jr, adjutant and quartermaster:
w. R. Pickens, surgeon; Harry Ce-
Oar, post advocate; James C. Bu-
chanan, chaplain. and Emil J.
Steger, Paul A. Hill and Ray P.
Hlgbee, trustees.
Auxiliaries.
Treasury Auxiliary met last Mon-
day evening with the president, Mrs.
Sarah Johns, presiding.
The newly elected officers are Mrs.
Sarah Johns, president: Mrs. Eva
Fletcher, senior vice president; Mrs.
Edna McCut, Junior vice president;
Mrs Devota Klein, treasurer; Mrs.
Christine Burke, chaplain; Mrs. ALL
gusta Herman, conductress; Mrs E.
| Fowler, guard; Mrs. Helen Phillips,
secretary.
The Past Presidents Club met at
the home of Mrs Adelaide Grant
last Monday evening with Mrs.
Charlotte Strathern and Mrs. Betty
Williams as hostesses. Mrs. Ida
Emmert presided. The annual get
together of the club will be May 7.
Officers elected were Mrs. Adelaide
Grant, president; Mrs, Mildred Car
ter. vice president; Mrs Josephine
Wright, secretary, and Mrs. Beth
johnson, treasurer
Potomac Auxiliary will meet to-
morrow at Thirty-frst and M streets
NV.
Equality Walter Reed Auxiliary
will meet at Sixteenth and Harvard
streets NV. ON Tuesday.
I National Capital Auxiliary will
have joint installation with their
post April 16 at 1903 Fourteenth
street NV.
Firecracker Cootiette Club met
with the chief grayback. Mrs. Helen
Phillips, presiding. The charter
has been reopened.
Charles B. Jennings, past depart
ment commander; Frank Siler,
United States Coast Guard; Lyle D.
Chapline, Theodore F. Osterbe and
Edwin Bartlett were initiated into
the Cote Degree on Tuesday at 935
G. place NV, with Past Seam
Squirrel Leonard J. Bacon, master
Of ceremonies and Past Supreme
Comdr. Frank Topash conductor.
The members were commended
on their hospital visitation program
by Supreme Hospital Visitation
Commissioner Philip Lindsay, Kan
sas City, Mo.
Capt. Dan A. Tarantola, Engineer
Corps, U. S. A, supreme commander,
has conferred the honorary title Of
| Supreme Marine Gunner on william
F. Stewart. son of William Stewart,
U. S. Marine Corps, who is sta
toned somewhere in the Pacific
war area and grandson of Supreme
Wet Nurse Mary L. Tucker
| The 18th anniversary dinner will
be held April 20 at 935 G place NV.
Representative James E. Van
zandt of Pennsylvania, past ma
tional commander, installed Of
ficers of United States Naval Gun
Factory Post, as follows: Com
mander, Harold E. Ruff: senior vice
commander. Floyd Howell; junior
vice commander, John j. Mccain
ley: quartermaster, Charles c.
Vunk; advocate, Peter B. Jochum;
chaplain, Edward M. Howard; sur
geon, Carol L. Johnson; trustees.
Ebert M. Bonar. Joseph Warga and
Howard C. Bond council members,
James r. Cruise and Maurice E.
Norton.
Officers of Washington Post will
be installed by Past Department
Comdr. Lambert on Wednesday eve
ming at 1903 Fourteenth street NV.
They are: Commander, Lloyd Gra-
ham; senior vice commander, Ger
aid Ryan: junior vice commander.
Earl w. Ezell; quartermaster, Fred
Wacker; advocate, l.. W. Guilford;
chaplain, Archie u Turner; sur
geon, William E. Burch; trustees,
Aram Kojasser, Peter J. Rich and
Ernest F. Hogue.
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