Evening star., 1943-04-01
B'nai Birth Aides
Present Plaques
For Hospitals
Plates to Hang in
Rooms Furnished
By Members

PLAQUES for Is sunrooms and day.
rooms In nearby hospitals and
camps furnished by members Of
the Women's Auxiliary of Argo
Lodge, Bnai Birth, were presented
formally at the March meeting of
the auxiliary yesterday which fea-
tured Red Cross activities.
The plaques, inscribed with the
names Of the donors, were accepted
by Mrs. w. j. Dubose, District of
Columbia vice chairman of the
Red Cross Camp and Hospital
Service.
Red Cross officials who attended
the meeting included Miss Mabel
Boardman, national secretary and
chairman of volunteer special serv-
ices for the District Chapter, and
Mrs. Franklin harrington, a vice
chairman of the District speakers
bureau. Mrs. harrington, the Aus
tralian-born wife of an American
businessman stationed in the Far
East for many years, gave an ac-
count OF her experiences in Java
prior to her escape after the jap
anese invasion.
Collect Playing Cards.
The auxiliary also collected play
ing cards for the Red Cross rooms
in several hospitals and appropri-
ated 500 from it's treasury for the
Red Cross War Fund. In addition
small donations totaling $50 were
made to the war fund
The program included demon
stration of Red Cross bandage
rolling and an original reading by
Ellen Wood which was dedicated to
the Red Cross.
Several of the members who have
furnished day or sun rooms made
their gifts in memory of relatives
who have died, while one woman
chose to honor her twenty-flfth we'd
ding anniversary.
The auxiliary itself furnished sew
eral of the rooms and there were
several anonymous gifts.
The donors included Mr.. and Mrs.
Louis Janof, Mrs. Sidney Simon,
Miss Fannie Dodek, Mrs. Philip
Mandell, Mr.. and Mrs. Maurice
Salomon, DR.. and Mrs. Herman
Hertzberg, Mr.. and Mrs. H. Ehrlich
and Mr.. and Mrs. Morris Gewirz.
Nominations Announced.
The report of the Nomina ting
Committee was one of the principal
features of the business session,
which preceded the program at the
Jewish Community Center.
Mrs. Irving Blau was nominated
for reelection as president and Mrs.
I. E. Levinson for reelection as
vice president.
The ticket also included Mrs.
Louis Janof for second vice presi-
dent; Mrs. Nathan KRISTEN. third
vice president; Mrs. Barney Krucoff,
treasurer; Mrs. Harry Parsons, cor
responding secretary; Mrs Joseph
Zupnik, assistant corresponding sec
retary; Mrs. Louis Dubit. financial
secretary; MIS-. George Israel, as
sistant financial secretary; Mrs.
John Laskin, recording secretary;
Mrs. Nathan Hurwitz, historian;
Mrs. Henry OXenberg, parliament
tartan, and Mrs. Paul Pearlman and
Mrs. c. B. Dulcan, auditors.
Nominated for the board were
Mrs. Fred Kogod Mrs Harold Hoff,
Mrs. George Jacobson, Mrs. Sidney
Simon, Mrs. Sol Scher, Mrs. Harry
Rosenthal, Mrs. Bert Tracy, Mrs.
William Perau and Mrs. Ned Bord.
Nominated for unexpired terms
on the board were Mrs. Morris Car
yer, Mrs. Leo Schlossberg, Mrs.
David Barron. Mrs. Charles Schulz
man, Mrs. David Tavan and Mrs.
Edward Wise.
Election to Be Held in April.
Oficers will be elected at the
April meeting and installed May
26 at a Victory luncheon at the
Statler Hotel. Mrs. Gewirz is chair
man of arrangements for the lunch
con. which will be the final meeting
of the season.
Announcement was made that the
auxiliary has been designated as
one of the agencies to have charge
of the War bond sale here this
week end in connection with the
exhibition of a captured two-man
Japanese submarine. The auxiliary
will take charge on Sunday. when
the submarine will be stationed at F
and Fourteenth streets NV
The organization, which already
has passed the S500,000 mark in
the sale of War bonds, announced
that sales featured at series of
March bond teas totaled $50. 900.