Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-03-26


Legion Auxiliary, will sponsor a
coffee hour for the patients and
their visitors tonight in the rec
reation hall of Mount Alto Hos
pital from 7 to 9 o'clock.
Mrs. Shirleyanne Compton,
president of Patton-Tank Corps
Unit, and Mrs. Trula Murphy.
president of Maritime Unit, will be
co-hoStesses. They request vol
unteers to assist in the prepara-
ton and serving of sandwiches
and cakes.
A meeting of the Department
Constitution and Bylaws Com
mittee has been called tomorrow
at the Legion Club at 8 pm. by
the chairman, Mrs. Gertrude S.
Pierce.
All past department presidents
are members of this committee
and representatives of all units
are expected to attend.
T. o. Kraabel, American Legion
National Rehabilitation Commit
tee, will be principal speaker at a
meeting of the department re-
Mobilization committee tomor-
row night at the Legion Club. Mr..
Kraabel will talk on the Veterans
Section of the Hoover Report.
Mrs. Margaret E. Carroll, de-
partment rehabilitation chairman,
will preside. In addition to the
unit rehabilitation chairman, all
volunteer hospital workers, under
direction of Mrs. j. Florence
Dietsche, department chairman of
volunteer hospital workers, are in
vited to attend.
In an effort to attain a 100
per cent response to a radio poll
conducted by the auxiliary's Ma
tional Radio Committee, all men,
bers of the District of Columbia
department are requested to send
post cards as soon as possible to
the department radio chairman,
Mrs. Alberta Lacy, 1905 Potomac
street NV, zone 7. naming 10
radio programs, listing them in
order of preference.
After the 10 programs receiving
the highest number of votes have
been determined, the national
committee will conduct final
poll to select the winner from that
group. A report on the votes
from this department must be
sent to national headquarters on
March 80.
Mrs. Ada Riley, chairman, and
Mrs. Kutty Peters, co-chairman
of the Poppy Committee, will be
at department headquarters to-
morrow night to distribute addi-
tional material and issue instruc-
lions for making peoples. They
will be placed on graves of vet
Grams in the various cemeteries OF
the Washington area on Decora-
ton Day.
James Reese Europe Unit will
hold benefit turkey dinner to-
day at the Europe Post home, 1914
Vermont avenue NV, from l to
8 pm.
Mrs. Nellie Hayes is in charge
OF all arrangements. Proceeds
will be used for the units rehabil-
itation work.
All department committee chair
men are requested to send in their
reports to department head
quarters by March 81. in order
that they may be ready for pres
entation to Mrs. Charles H. Mills,
national eastern vice president,
on the occasion of her official
visit to the District of Columbia
Department on April 8.
She will be honor guest at a
dinner at the Burlington Hotel
at 6 pm.
Tickets for the dinner must be
secured by April 4.
Reservations can be made by
calling Mrs. Sarah Deery (HO.
3205) or Mrs. Edith Armstrong
eco. 8407).
Following the dinner there will
be a meeting at which Mrs. Mills
will tell Of national aspects of the
auxiliary's detectives.
A meeting of Army and Air
Forces Unit on Tuesday night at
the New Colonial Hotel at 8
O'Clock has been designated as
Charter Night" Mrs. Toni Tin
g president, will preside. The
department president, Mrs. Rose
E. Perkins, will present the units
charter.
The department officers will
make official visitations this week
to, the following units: Wednes-
day night, Henry C. Spangler
Unit, and Friday night, United
States Maritime Unit.
Mrs. Wynne of the Rehabilita-
ton Committee of United States
Department of Commerce Unit
visited Ward B of Mount Alto
Hospital last week and distributed
80 gift-wrapped sunshine packages
to the patients. Two hundred
"who-done-it pocketbook" editions
were donated to the library of the
hospital.
Government Printing Office Unit
will hold dinner for the benefit
of rehabilitation and child welfare
work Thursday at the Club EN-
bassy, 1921 K street NV, from
5 to 8 o'clock. All food, provided
by the unit members, will be home
cooked.
For reservations and tickets,
telephone Mrs. Nellie Gallaghan,
dinner chairman, at Decatur 1859.
This unit meets regularly on