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Thursday, March 20, 1930 TRIP TO EUROPE (h? GOLD STAR MOTHERS Writer in National Journal intabuut $4,500,000 Plain Words Points Out , H Some Silliness l Mrs, Caroline Never before did the Quartermao ter General of the Army have a job like this-personally conducting five or six thousand women on a Euro. pean trip, says a United Press diss patch from Washington. _ The Quartermaster General's office has all arrangements eormtleted for the pilgrimage of Gold Star mothers' to France this summer. Only the muney for the trip is lacking. and that will be provided in the first de. fieiency bill which goes through Con- gres. The tirst boatload should sail some time in June. And when you consider that of the tive or six thousand women who have signified their desire to make this pil- grimage. the majority averaite 65 years if age and the oldest is 88. you can imagine just what the job means. i $800 Average _Cusl Eight hundred dollars will be the average cost pet individual. Hut n" individual pilgrim will handle any of her expense money, except, between her home and New York, coming and going. From New York in France and back again. she won't have to spend a nickel: everything will he dune fur her and everything ur- rangexl for her. Even such details as the morale of the Various parties have hcetrcon- .tulered by the ettieient Quartermas- ter Gum-ml‘s otfiep, in working out plans for the trip, An Army oifieey will he in charge of each group. on each boat-not very large in any case. as all must travel first' class under the law authorizing the expen- diture. _ Part of his juh will he to son that the pilgrims gm; acquainted and have Sumathing to think about besides sen- sickncss and the sad journey on which they are embarked. ' All Details Planned The (rip will be broken so that none of the elderly women, most of them unused to travelling, will be taxed beyond her strength. If they need to rest in a New York hutel bu. fore sailing for France, that will be arranged. In Paris they will have two days 1 , recuperate frnm the Mat trip hefove starting to arc the graves of their dead; and on the way back will havo five days' rest in Paris be- fore sailing for home. The trip to the cemeteries will crm. sumo seven days and will be made by bus and carefully handled. Each bus party will be routed to the large town nearest the cemetery it has come to visit, and from that town as headquarters, individuals will be taken to the graves oftheir war dead. An army office rs. carefully instructed for the work, will be in charge of each No Sight Seeing Thon- will be no sight seeing, either there or in Paris. The trip is a pilgrimage to the graves of the war dead, and will be handled as such. Arrangements have been made in Paris so that the ministrations of Catholic priests, Jewish rabbisPetaoi )US Protestant ministers Jewish rabbi! and Catholic priests will be available to such of the pilgrims as desire them. The total cost of the pilgrimage, figured at $800 per person, will be Mrs. Caroline A. Heydeckor, Widow of the late Christian T. Heydeeker, and a resident of Waukegan fur morn than half a century died " her home in that city last week, after an ex. tended illness. MOST IN RADIO My for People Who Want the New Features found Only tn GHube Philco Screen Grid Plus, the super-radio for super-performance This New Super-Phil“ l Automatic volume control and anti. , fading device, which tends automatic- . ii ally to equalize the reception from strong , or weak stations and hold the reception, reducing the fading of distant stations. Automatic reduction of background noises, Including static, at any given "e volume or distance. 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