Evening star., 1947-01-05
Legion Auxiliary
To Give Defense
Program Friday

The national defense program of
the American legion Auxiliary will
be presented Friday evening at
the Department Of Commerce audi
torium with the American Legion
participating.
Department Comdr. Guy c. Ne
deau requests all Legionnaires to
attend and post commanders to have
their colors present.
Appearing on the program will
be 1t. Gen. Raymond S. McClain,
Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, Repre-
sentative B. w. Gearhardt Of Cali
fornia, the United States Army
Band. and the Mckinley High
School Glee Club closing with
showing Of motion pictures by the
United States Army.
1t. Gen. McClain will be intro
duced by National Executive Com
mitteeman Joseph j. Malloy, who
served with Gen. McClain in the
ETO during the recent war. De-
partment Comdr. Nadeau will re-
spond to the greetings as expressed
by Mrs. Lillian Judd, department
president of the auxiliary. while
John Lewis Smith, jr,, the Legion's
National Defense Committee chair
man, is assisting in the arrange
mentS.
Sergt. Jasper Unit will meet to-
morrow evening at the Legion Club
with its president, Mrs. Ola D. Lee,
presiding.
The recent national convention Of
the auxiliary, held at San Francisco.
Calf, named national defense and
legislation on the calendar of events
for January since these two subjects
are closely related.
In this connection, Mrs. Ruth
Bolvin, unit chairman of national
defense, will discuss the national de-
fense program and will also repre-
sent the unit as q delegate to the
National Women's Patriotic Confer
ence on National Defense, to be held
at the Statler Hotel on January "a,
Is and 26.
During the meeting, Mrs. Lillian
Howard, unit chairman of legisla-
ton, will give talk on the legisla-
tive program of the Legion and its
auxiliary for the year l947.
Eight and Forty.
Mrs. Ellen Louise Warren. national
child welfare chairman of the Eight
and Forty, who is a member of local
Salon No. IA, will leave here next
Wednesday to attend a number OF
area conferences throughout the Ma
ton.
She will first 60 to Omaha, Nebr.,
where she will be the principal
speaker at the Area D Child Welfare
Conference. She will then 60 tx
San Francisco, Calf, and will re-
turn to the Eastern States to address
the Area A Conference at Rutland
VT. From here Mrs. Warren will &c
to Atlantic City, N. j., to address the
Area B Child Welfare Conference
of which the local Department oi
the Eight and Forty is a member
Here Mrs. Elizabeth S. Champion
child welfare chairman of the loca
salon, and Mrs. Eva B. Carrico, vict
chairman, will represent the leca
department. 49, a
| Mrs, Corinne Craig, lie q chapeal
rationale Of the Eight and Forty
/ viii also appear as a speaker witt
Mrs. Warren at the Omaha confer.
ef,ee and from that point viii return
to national headquarters at .Indi'
annapolis, Ind, to attend, the Ma,
tional Executive Committee meeting
of the auxiliary, later coming to sthis
city to attend the National Womens
Patriotic Conference on Nationa
Defense.
Meetings this week: ..
Monday - Sergt. Jasper Unit
Legion Club, 8 pm; Department ol
Commerce Unit, room 1901, Com.
merce Building, pm.
Tuesday-Vincent B. Costello, AIS
Seventh street NV, 8 pm; George
Killeen Unit, 1904 M street NV, 8
pm; Government Printing Office
Unit, 1919 K street NV, 8 pm.
Bunker Hill Unit, Legion Club, 8 pm
Wednesday-James Reese Europe
Unit, 1914 Vermont avenue NV, 8
pm: Kenneth Nash Unit, District
Building. 8 pm; Cooley-McCullough
Unit, Legion Club, 8 pm.
Thursday-Second Division Unit,
NJouv Colonial Hotel & n m
Friday-James E. Walker Unit,
17l9 Thirteenth street NV, 8 pm;
Police and Fire Unit, Legion Club
Is p.m.; Kenneth Nash Unit, bingo
party, Mount Alto Hospital, z pm
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