Evening star., 1955-06-12
BY VIRGINIA CULLEN
Special Correspondent Of The Star

REHOBOTH BEACH, Del,
June 11.-War veterans are TAX
ing over this Delaware resort
town with the advent of the big
June convention month.
The Department of Maryland
Of the relatively new World War
! Veterans Organization started
OF the trend of patriotic con-
claves June 4 when Rehoboth
Beach became the nucleus of a
new Department of Delaware
Barracks.
Seventeen World War I veter-
ans Of this resort area are now
charter members of the proposed
Delaware unit.
The Maryland group, now five
years old, has as its objectives
some national legislation toward
pensions for veterans of the first
World War and their families,
and other privileges enjoyed by
veterans since the Revolution.
Bills with these aims are now
before Congress.
The Delaware Departments
Veterans of Foreign Wars and
Auxiliary are holding a silver
jubilee in st. Edmond's Hall. At
a banquet tonight the principal
speaker was to be Omar B. Ket-
cham. national legislative direc-
tor Of VFW.
Legionnaires Due Soon
Topping off the influx of vet
erans will be the 37th annual
convention next week end of the
American Legion's Department
of Delaware. This will provide
a parade Saturday afternoon,
with an estimated 1000 in the
line Of march. featuring an air
show by the 104th Fighter
Bomber Squadron Of the Mary
land Air National Guard, COM
posed of some go officers and 450
airmen. Putting on the show
win be pilots of F-51 Mustangs,
and F-86 Jets, the latter flying
here from the Andrews Air Force
Base in Washington.
Maj. Gen. Charles Irving Car
penter Of Alexandria, Va, chief
of chaplains Of the United States
Air Force, will be here to address
the Legion's convention banquet
Friday night in the Rehoboth
High School. Gen. Carpenter, a
former pastor Of the Epworth
Methodist Church here, also
made the address last night at
the commencement exercises of
Rehoboth School. His mother,
Mrs. Frank F. Carpenter. resides
here.
Art League Season Opens
The Rehoboth Art League
launches its 1855 exhibition sea-
son this Sunday with its annual
members show in Corkran
Studio in Henlopen Acres. Mem
bers. who contribute their art
work including oils, watercolors,
sculpture, ceramics and other
crafts, will be eligible for five
popular vote awards at the close
of the show July Z. There is no
charge to visit the exhibition.
At. the leagues annual picnic
on June % under the Charter
Oak between the two studios.
two staff members of the
DUPONT Museum of Winter
thur, Wilmington, will be special
guests to discuss antiques and
other relics brought to the picnic
for expert analysis.
Symphonette Starting
Rehoboth's summer theater
group, the Show Boat Players, is
sponsoring a Rehoboth sym
phonetic, its first concert on
July 9 to benefit Beebee Hospital
at Lewes. The symphonette will
be conducted by Edward j.
Schwatlo, former concertmeister
of the Wilmington Symphony
Orchestra.
Other summer benefits an
nounced for the Beebe Hospital
will be q fashion show at the
country club June "a, sponsored
by the Rehoboth Junior Auxil-
iary Of the hospital, and a char
ity ball on July Is at the club.
staged by the Lewes Senior Aux
iliary Of the hospital.
A farmers market, located op-
posite City Hall, is featuring sea-
food and the traditional bar
bequed chickens for which lower
Delaware is famous.
De Kauffmanns Take Cottage
This resorts diplomatic set
will be augmented this season
by the family of Denmark's Am
bassador, Henrik de Kaufman,
including Nine. de Kaufman
and their daughter, Miss Lisa de
Kaufman. They have taken for
July and August the cottage in
Henlopen Acres owned by other
Washingtonians, Maj. and Mrs.
jackson c. Davis, on Pine Reach
road.
Miss Lucie Mortimer arrived
last Saturday at her place on
Oak avenue, with Mr.. and Mrs.
Paul Bell as guests. Mr.. and
Mrs. Oscar G.. Whitlow were
here with guests. Mrs. Whitlow
Is the former Miss Anna Heider.
Miss Sandra Leach, daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Sanford B
Leach, was to arrive today with
her parents at their cottage on