Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-19
Legion Auxiliary
Executive Unit
Meeting Tomorrow

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The Executive Committee OF
the District OF Columbia Depart
ment, the American Legion
Auxiliary. will meet at 8 p. m
tomorrow at the American Legion
Club, 2437 Fifteenth street NV
Mrs. Rose E. Perkins, department
president, will preside.
A representative of the District
Girl Scouts will speak on the aims
and detectives of that organiza-
ton and suggest ways in which
the auxiliary may be of assis-
lance.
Since March is nationally dedi-
Gated as Community Service
month, Mrs. Mary Spence, depart
ment chairman, requests all unit
presidents to bring donations and
gifts to the meeting for presen-
tation at Easter to the inmates
of the District Home for the Aged
at Blue Plains.
It was announced 2,315 women
were enrolled In the District of
Columbia Department for 1850 as
of last week.
Mrs. Pearl Heagerty, depart
ment membership chairman, re-
ports this is an all-time high
record for this department and
predicts the national goal of one
million members will be reached
this year.
The department president and
her staff will make an official visit
to James Reese Europe Unit on
Wednesday night at $50 O'Clock
Mrs. Edith Smith, president, will
preside.
The meeting, on this occasion,
will be held at the Banneker Cen
ter, $500 Georgia avenue NV.
instead of the regular meeting
place. A musical program will be
presented.
Mrs. Matte Frye, president of
General Accounting Office Unit,
will preside at a meeting Friday
at the Legion Clubhouse at pm,
when the department officers will
make their official visitation.
The ritual team of D. C. Salon
IA, Eight and Forty, consisting of
Mrs. Mae Hart and Mrs. Alice
Slattery (demi-chapeaux), Mrs
Esther Carico, Mrs. Grace Con-
way, Mrs. Bertha Kohner, Miss
Mary Ellen McCabe and Mrs.
Ercelle Quinn formally initiated
for following members of United
States Department of Agriculture
Unit last Tuesday night: Mrs.
Virginia Cooper. Mrs. Mary Alice
Boles, Mrs. Belle Cameron, Mrs.
Mabel Howard, Mrs. May M. Flor
ence. Mrs. Irene Hardaway, Mrs.
Marjorie Ortlip, Mrs. Lydia Payne
and Mrs. Mae A. Thompson.
The application of Mrs. Anna
D. Glasper was approved for mem
bership.
Mrs. Pearl Heagerty, Pan Amer
lean chairman, reported the units
Pan American Night. scheduled
for April II, may have to be
changed to some other date. Il
so, members will be notified.
Mrs. Phyllis Belden, rehabilita-
ton chairman, and members Of
her committee will visit Ward F.;
Of Mount Alto Hospital on Friday
at 7 pm.
Mrs. Florence Dietsche, depart
ment volunteer hospital workers
chairman, has placed the trophy
which will be presented this year
in memory Of the late Mrs. Estelle
Haldenstein, for volunteer hos
pital work, in the auxiliary head
quarters.
Volunteers are urgently needed
at Mount Alto Hospital where the
personnel has recently been dras-
tically curtailed.
Women of the auxiliary are
watching with keen interest the
progress of the subverSive activ-
tiles control bill in Congress, &C
cording to Miss Iva Smathers,
Americanism chairman.
Meetings this week:
Sunday-Sergeant Jasper Unit,
coffee hour, Mount Alto Hospital.
7 pm.
neutrality-suspicious. Execu-
tive Committee, Legion Club,
8 pm; Police and Fire Unit, min
strel show, Mount Alto Hospital,
1880 pm.
Observation-Disclosures Unit, eve
ming of games, Mount Alto Hos
pital, 1880 pm; Potomac Unit,
Palisades Field House, Sherrier
and Dana place NV, 8 pm.
Wednesday - James Reese
Europe Unit, Banneker Center,
$500 Georgia avenue NV, $3.50
pm; National Cathedral Unit,
Legion Club, 8 pm.
Friday General Accounting
Office Unit, American Legion
Club, 8 pm; United States De-
partment of. Agriculture Unit,
Ward F-3, Mount Alto Hospital,
II pm.
Saturday-Volunteer Hospital
Workers. Mount Alto Hospital,
2:30 pm.
Chicago Livestock