An Act to incorporate the Conference of State Societies, Washington, D. C.
PL 82-293 (H.R.4467), enacted 04/03/1952

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Public Law 293 
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CHAPTER 131 
AN ACT 
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To incorporate the Conference of State Societies, Washington, District of 
[H.R. 4467] 
Columbia. 
C o nf e re nee of 
S t a t e 
Societies, 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the following 
named persons: 
^"incorporation. 
Honorable Albert Rains, (xadsden, Alabama; Miss Ruth James, 
Gadsden, Alabama; Hoyt G. Irving, 512 Hoatson Street, Warren, 
Arizona; Miss Mary Capps, Nogales, Arizona; Claude M. Hirst, Pres-
cott, Arkansas; Mrs. Gertrude Scott, 1123 Stratford Aveime, South 
Pasadena, California; Howard W. Scott, Box 122, Palisade, Colorado; 
Benjamin Sherman, Hartford, Connecticut; Miss Catherine Flynn, 
Meriden, Connecticut; Honorable J. Caleb Boggs, 1250 Kynlyn Drive, 
Wilmington, Delaware; Mrs. Ruth F. Henderson, Seaford, Delaware; 
Charles A. Henderson, Seaf ord, Delaware; Charles G. Lavin, Jack-
sonville, Florida; Miss Utha Gray Smith, Orange Court Hotel, 
Orlando, Florida; Colonel K. N. Parkinson, Blackfoot, Idaho; Honor-
able Addison T. Smith, Twin Falls, Idaho; 
Arnold M. Lederer, 5222 North Christiana Avenue, Chicago, Illi-
nois; Miss Charlotte A. Marr, 6327 North Okato Avenue, Chicago, 
Illinois; Honorable Ralph Harvey, Rural Route 4, Newcastle, Indi-
ana; Honorable Charles A. Halleck, 601 Jefferson Street, Rensselaer, 
Indiana; Mrs. Esther Costa, Indianapolis, Indiana; Honorable Bourke 
Blakemore Hickenlooper, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Honorable Ben 
Franklin Jensen, Exira, Iowa; Honorable Andrew F. Schoeppel, 115 
South Rutan Avenue, Wichita, Kansas; Charles H. Helsper, 1199 West 
Street, Topeka, Kansas; Robert W. Salyers, 1801 South Third Street, 
Louisville, Kentucky; F. M. Broussard, Lafayette, Louisiana; Paul 
Jones, Winfield, Louisiana; Honorable Homer E. Capehart, Capehart 
Farms, Washington, Indiana; Miss Pauline Pino, 2507 Boulevard, 
Las Vegas, New Mexico; 
Honorable Charles P. Nelson, Waterville, Maine; Charles LeRoy 
Haines, 21 Pine Street, Ellsworth, Maine; Miss Dorothy Bigelow, 
Easton, Maine; Donald Larabee, Gorham, Maine; Mrs. Winifred H. 
Grant, Wayside, Maryland; William R. Clay, 3 Pooks Hill Lane, 
Bethesda, Maryland; Charles F. Sharkey, 31 Thurston Street, Somer-
ville, Massachusetts; Mrs. Leona K. Knight, Bloomfield Hill, Michi-
gan ; Miss Hazel Ireman, 922 South State Street, Ann Arbor, Michi-
gan; Honorable Ruth Thompson, 816 Division Street, White Hall, 
Michigan; James A. Davis, 2027 Twenty-ninth Avenue, Meridian, 
Mississippi; Mrs. Donald Osborne Hays, Flora, Mississippi; Paul D. 
Best, Tunica, Mississippi; 
Eric G. Jannson, 5738 Walsh Street, Saint Louis, Missouri; Clar-
ence McCune, 6425 McGee Boulevard, Kansas City, Missouri; 
Lawrence Scheewe, 540 Hillsdale Avenue, Helena, Montana; Miss 
Molly Clasby, Missoula, Montana; Miss Jessie Stearns, Lincoln, 
Nebraska; Walter R. Johnson, Omaha, Nebraska; William F. McMen-
amin, 1131 Ralston Street, Reno, Nevada; Miss Mildred LatTiam, 29 
East First Street, Reno, Nevada; William J. Fleming, 45 North Sten-
ton Street, Atlantic City, New Jersey; Ralph G. Denn, Rio Grande, 
New Jersey; Arthur Angel, 926 South Pacific, Las Vegas, New 
Mexico; 
Wilfred S. Dowling, 330 West Seventy-sixth Street, New York, 
New York; Miss Marie T. Dowling, 1882 DeKalb Avenue, Ridgewood, 
Brooklyn, New York; John K. Slear, 511 North Church Street, Char-
lotte, North Carolina; Mrs. W. Ney Evans, High Point, North Caro-
lina ; Peter Valiar, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; John S. Bartlett, 
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458 Moreley Avenue, Akron, Ohio; Carl M. Walker, Pierre, South 
Dakota; Miss Iva Van Horn, Kennebac, South Dakota; William L. 
Covington, 1510 Gale Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee; D. C. Scott 
Daniel, Paris, Tennessee; W. M. Burkhalter, McKenzie, Tennessee; 
Miss Bessie D. Thrasher, 2308 Highland Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee; 
Maurice R. Barnes, Kaysville, Utah; Don Cassidy, Tooele, Utah; 
Robert W. Barker, 1217 Washington Boulevard, Ogden, Utah; John 
Y. Merrell, Brigham City, Utah; Miss Dorothy Hurley, Saint Albans, 
Vermont; 
Captain George P. Grove, 3608 North Albemarle Street, Arlington, 
Virginia; Mrs. Grace Montgomery, 301 Bellview Boulevard, Alexan-
dria, Virginia; Colonel Heber H. Rice, 206 West Eleventh Avenue, 
Huntington, West Virginia; Willis G. Kemper, 45 Maple Avenue, 
Morgantown, West Virginia; Honorable Harley M. Kilgore, Beckley, 
West Virginia; Honorable J. R. Farrington, 3180 Pacific Heights 
Road, Honolulu, Hawaii; Mrs. Margaret C. Turner, 607 Stangenwald 
Building, Honolulu, Hawaii; Ray E. Davis, Melbourne, Arkansas; 
George A. Herman, 11 Crocker Road, Medford, Massachusetts; Ken-
neth W. Ingwalson, Little Falls, Minnesota; J. F. Caprenter, Crooks-
ton, Minnesota; Earl Cox, 17 Alfaretta Avenue, Akron, Ohio; John 
M. King, 1318 Northwest Ninety-first 
Street, Oklahoma 
City, 
Oklahoma; 
Kenneth N. Hardy, Edmond, Oklahoma; Keith Hall, 808 North 
Holman Street, Portland, Oregon; Miss Pherne Miller, Eugene, Ore-
gon; Honorable O. E. Teague, Bryan, Texas; L, Tex Easley, 1106 
Wesleyan Avenue, Fort Worth, Texas; Honorable William K. Van 
Pelt, 47 Oak Lawn Avenue, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin; Walter Haefs, 
Oshkosh, Wisconsin; H. Mills Astin, 815 East Fifth Street, Casper, 
Wyoming; Miss Marian Jones, Lingle, Wyoming; Honorable John J. 
Allen, Junior, Oakland, California; Milo Palmer, Concord, New 
Hampshire; Miss Victoria E. Dobroska, 78 Temple Street, Nashua, 
New Hampshire; Major General Floyd L. Parks, Greeneville, South 
Carolina; Reverend J. Warren Hastings, Seattle, Washington; 
and other persons who are members of the Conference of State Socie-
ties, Washington, District of Columbia, their successors, and persons 
admitted to membership pursuant to the provisions of this Act, are 
hereby created and declared to be a body corporate by the name of the 
"Conference of State Societies, Washington, District of Columbia", 
and by such name shall be known and have perpetual succession and 
the powers, limitations, and restrictions contained in this Act. 
Purposes. 
gj,^, 2. The purposes of this corporation shall be to promote friendly 
and cooperative relations between the various State and Territorial 
societies in the District of Columbia, and to foster, participate in, and 
encourage educational, cultural, charitable, civic, and patriotic pro-
grams and activities in the District of Columbia and surrounding 
communities, to act as contact agent with States for carrying out 
State and National programs. 
Powers. 
gj,c 3 xiie Corporation shall have the following powers: 
(a) To sue and be sued, complain and defend in any court of com-
petent jurisdiction; 
(b) To adopt, alter, and use a corporate seal; 
(c) To choose such officers, managers, and agents as the business 
of the corporation may require; 
(d) To ordain and establish bylaws and regulations, not inconsis-
tent with the laws of the United States of America or of any State in 
which the corporation operates, for the management of its property 
and the regulation of its affairs; 
(e) To contract and be contracted with; 
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(f) To take and hold by lease, *?ift, purchase, grant, devise, or 
bequest any property, real or personal," necessary for carrying into 
effect the purposes of the corporation, subject to applicable provisions 
of law of any State (1) governing the amount or kind of real and 
personal property which may be held by, or (2) otherwise limiting 
or controlling the ownership of real and personal property by, a cor-
poration operating in such State; 
(g) To transfer or convey real or personal property; 
(h) To borrow money for the purposes of the corporation, issue 
notes, bonds, or other evidences of indebtedness therefor, and secure 
the same by mortgage, subject in every case to all applicable provisions 
of Federal or State law; 
(i) To use and display such emblems and badges as it may adopt; 
(j) To publish a newspaper, magazine, or other publication con-
sistent with its corporate purposes; 
(k) To do any and all acts necessary and proper to carry out the 
purposes of the corporation. 
SEC. 4. (a) The headquarters and principal offices of the corporation 
shall be located in Washington, District of Columbia, but the activities 
of the corporation shall not be confined to that place, but may be con-
ducted throughout the various States and Territories of the United 
States. 
(b) The corporation shall maintain at all times in the District of 
Columbia a designated agent authorized to accept service of process 
for the Corporation, such designation to be filed in the office of the 
clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. 
Notice to, or service upon, such agent, or mailed to the address of such 
agent, shall be deemed sufficient notice or service u])on the corporation. 
SEC. 5. The membership of the corpora<tion shall be made up of the 
members of the various State and Territorial societies in the District 
of Columbia. Eligibility for membership in the corporation and the 
rights and privileges of members shall, except as provided in this 
Act, be determined according to the regulations and bylaws of the 
corporation. 
SEC. 6. The officers of the corporation shall be a ])resident, first vice 
president, second vice president, secretary, assistant secretary, treas-
urer, assistant treasurer, historian, and such other officers as may be 
designated by the governing body. 
SEC. 7. (a) The governing body of the corporation shall be a board 
of representatives which shall consist of one representative from each 
State society and Territorial society in the District of Columbia. 
Such board of representatives shall exercise the powers herein granted 
to the corporation, and each member of such board shall have one 
vote upon all matters determined. 
(b) The officers shall be elected by such board of representatives 
at an annual meeting and shall serve for a term of one year. 
(c) The first board of representatives shall be composed of the 
following: 
Chairman, Charles LeRoy Haines; first vice chairman, Lawrence 
Scheewe; second vice chairman, Mrs. Esther Costa; secretary. Miss 
Bessie D. Thrasher; assistant secretary. Miss Dorothy Bigelow; treas-
urer, Mrs. Charles Henderson; regional directors, William J. Flem-
ing, chairman; region I, Miss Catherine Flynn; region II, William 
Clay; region III, John Slear; region IV, James A. Davis; region V, 
Arnold M. Lederer; region VI, Miss Carlotta Reedy; region VII, 
Claude M. Hirst; region VIII, Major Robert Joy; region IX, Colonel 
K. N. Parkinson. 
Ray E. Davis, Hoyt G. Irving, Mrs. Gertrude J. Scott, John J. 
Shaforth, Miss Utah Gray Smith, Ernest W. Ellis, Gertrude L. 
He ad qu arters, 
etc. 
Agent to accept 
service of process. 
Membership. 
Officers. 
Governing body. 
Election 
ficers. 
of of-
B o a r d of repre-
sentatives. 
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A c q u i s ! tion of 
certain assets. 
I n f o r m a t i o n to 
Congress. 
D i s t r i bution of 
assets. 
Propaganda. 
Political 
contri-
butions. 
Acts of officers. 
R e c o r d s of ac-
count, etc. 
Stock. 
Loans. 
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Annual audit. 
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R e p o r t to Con-
gress. 
Groman, Mrs. Edna Rose Pearson, Mrs. Donalcl O. Hayes, James H. 
Pearson, William McMenamin, Wilfred S. Dowling, John S. Bartlett, 
Mrs. Maurine Howard Abernathy, Carl M. Walker, Don Cassidy, 
William Garnett Lee, Walter Haefs, Heber H. Rice, Miss Marion 
Jones, Miss Dorothy Hurley, Charles F. Sharkey, Arthur Angel, 
Ralph A. Patterson, Miss Hazel Ireman. 
SEC. 8. The corporation may acquire any or all of the assets of the 
existing organization known as the Conference of State Societies, 
Washington, District of Columbia, upon discharging or providing 
for the payment and discharge of all its liabilities; and shall promptly 
file with the Congress full information with respect to such discharge 
provisions. 
SEC. 9. No part of the income or assets of the corporation shall 
inure or be distributable to any member or officer thereof except upon 
dissolution and final liquidation of the corporation as provided in 
section 17 of this Act. 
SEC. 10. No part of the activities of the corporation shall consist of 
carrying on propaganda. 
SEC. 11. The corporation, and its members and officers as such, shall 
not contribute to or otherwise support or assist any political party or 
candidate for elective public office. 
SEC. 12. The corporation shall be liable for the acts of its officers 
and agents when acting within the scope of their authority. 
SEC. 13. The corporation shall keep current and complete books and 
records of account and shall also keep minutes of the proceedings of 
its members and of the board of representatives or committees having 
any authority of the board of representatives. It shall keep at its prin-
cipal office a record of the names and addresses of its members entitled 
to vote. All books and records of the corporation may be inspected by 
any member or his agent or attorney for any proper purpose at any 
reasonable time. 
SEC. 14. The corporation shall not have or issue any shares of stock, 
nor declare or pay any dividends. 
SEC. 15. The corporation shall not make any loans to its officers or 
members of the board of representatives. 
Any officer or board of 
representatives member who votes for or assents to the making of a 
loan or advance to an officer or board of representatives member, and 
any officer or board of representatives member who participates in the 
making of such a loan or advance, shall be jointly and severally liable 
to the corporation for the amount of such loan until the repayment 
thereof. 
SEC. 16. (a) The financial transactions shall be audited annually by 
an independent certified public accountant in accordance with the 
principles and procedures applicable to commercial corporate trans-
actions. The audit shall be conducted at the place or places where the 
accounts of the corporation are normally kept. 
All books, accounts, 
financial records, reports, files, and all other papers, things, or property 
belonging to or in use by the corporation and necessary to facilitate 
the audit shall be made available to the person or persons conducting 
the audit; and full facilities for verifying transactions with the bal-
ances or securities held by depositors, fiscal agents, and custodians shall 
be afforded to such person or persons. 
(b) A report of such audit shall be made by the corporation to the 
Congress not later than July 15 of each year. The report shall set 
forth the scope of the audit and shall include a verification by the 
person or persons conducting the audit of statements of (1) assets 
and liabilities, (2) capital and surplus or deficit, (3) surplus or deficit 
analysis, (4) income and expense, and (5) sources and application 
of funds. 
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SEC. 17. Upon final dissolution or liquidation of the corporation, 
and after the discharge or satisfaction of all outstanding obligations 
and liabilities, the remaining assets of the corporation shall be divided 
equally among the State and Territorial societies in the District of 
Columbia. 
SEC. 18. The Corporation shall have the exclusive right to use, in 
carrying out its purposes, the name, "Conference of State Societies, 
Washington, D. C.," and such seals, emblems, and badges as it may 
adopt. 
SEO. 19. As a condition precedent to the exercise in any State of 
any power or privilege granted or conferred by this Act, the corpora-
tion shall serve notice upon the secretary of state, or similar officer, 
of any such State of the name and address of an authorized agent in 
such State upon Avhom legal process or demands against the corporation 
may be served. 
SEC. 20. As used in this Act the word State includes the District of 
Columbia. 
SEC. 21. The right to repeal, alter, or amend this Act at any time 
is hereby expressly reserved. 
Approved April 3, 1952. 
Liquidation. 
Exclusive right to 
name, etc. 
Exercise of pow-
r, etc. 
'State. 
R e s e r V a tion oif 
rights. 
Public Law 294 
CHAPTER 132 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to convey a paucel of land 
to the Mount Olivet Cemetery Association, Salt Lake City, Utah. 
April 3, 1952 
[H.R. 5598] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Adminis-
trator of Veterans' Affairs is authorized to convey, without monetai'y 
consideration, to the Mount Olivet Cemetery Association, Salt Lake 
City, Utah, all the right, title, and interest of the United States in and 
to the following-described parcel of land in Salt Lake County, Utah: 
Beginning at the southeast corner of land of the Mount Olivet 
C^emetery Association granted by Act of Congress, approved January 
28, 1909, which likewise is the southwest corner of the United States 
Veterans' Administration hospital reservation. Salt Lake City, Utah; 
thence north no degrees eight minutes forty seconds west along the 
westerly boundary of the Veterans' Administration hospital reserva-
tion two thousand eight hundred thirteen and sixty-five one-hun-
dredths feet to a point, which point is the northwest corner of lands 
described in a deed of easement from the United States of America to 
the State of Utah for public-highway purposes, dated June 29, 1948, 
and recorded in land records of Salt Lake County, Utah, October 2, 
1948, in book 638, page 68; thence east no degrees no minutes no 
seconds a distance of ten and six-tenths feet; thence south no degrees 
eight minutes forty seconds east and parallel to the westerly boundar}^ 
of the Veterans' Administration liospital reservation two thousaTid 
eight hundred thirteen and sixty-five one-hundredths feet to the south 
boundary of said reservation; thence south eighty-nine degrees fifty-
nine minutes fifty seconds west a distance of ten and six-tenths feet 
to the point of beginning. 
SEC. 2. The deed of conveyance shall provide that the parcel of land 
so conveyed shall be used only for cemetery purposes and that if the 
Mount Olivet Cemetery Association ceases to use such parcel for those 
purposes or attempts to alienate all or any part of such parcel, title 
thereto shall revert to the United States. 
V e t e r a n s ' 
ministration. 
Conveyance, 
Ad. 
Deed of convey-
ance.