to meet to complete the organization of said corporation by the selection of officers, the adoption of a constitution and bylaws, and to do all other things necessary to bring into effect the provisions of this Act.

Sec. 3. The purposes of the corporation shall be to further the establishment of a new era of just peace, security, opportunity, and mutual understanding among the peoples of the United States and of the nations of the earth; to further in the interests of a lasting peace the study of the causes and the history of the Second World War; to foster our democratic way of life; to enlist its members in the service of the Nation in peace as they have served it in war; to aid its members in the attainment of useful positions in their community; and to preserve among its members the sense of comradeship born of war.

SEC. 4. The corporation hereby created shall have the following powers: To have perpetual succession with power to sue and be sued in courts of law and equity; to receive, by purchase, gift, devise, bequest, or otherwise, hold, own, use, and convey or otherwise dispose of such real and personal property as shall be necessary for its corporate purposes; to adopt a constitution, bylaws, and regulations to carry out its purposes, not inconsistent with the laws of the United States or of any State; to use, in carrying out the purposes of the corporation, such seal, emblems, and badges as it may adopt; to establish State and Territorial organizations and local chapters; to publish magazines, newspapers, or such other publications consistent with the purposes of the corporation; and to conduct fraternal, patriotic, historical, and educational activities and do any and all such acts and things as may be necessary and proper in carrying into effect the purposes of the corporation.

SEC. 5. Any person who served in the armed forces or the merchant marine of the United States at any time during the period beginning on September 16, 1940, and ending on the date of termination of the Second World War and any citizen of the United States who served in the armed forces of any of the other United Nations at any time during the period of such nation's participation in the Second World War shall be eligible for active membership in the American Veterans Committee. The members of this corporation shall have the power to admit such other persons to honorary membreship as they may see fit.

SEC. 6. The corporation and its State and local subdivisions shall have the sole and exclusive right to have and use in carrying out its purposes the name "American Veterans Committee" and such seal, emblems, and badges as the corporation may adopt.

SEC. 7. The corporation may and shall acquire all of the assets of the existing unincorporated association known as the American Veterans Committee upon discharging or satisfactorily providing for the discharge of all its liabilities.

SEC. 8. All of the personal property and funds of the corporation held or used for the purposes authorized by the provisions of this Act, whether of principal or of income, shall, so long as the same shall be so used, be exempt from taxation by the United States or any Territory or any District thereof.

SEC. 9. As a condition precedent to the exercise of any power or privilege herein granted or conferred, the American Veterans Committee shall serve notice on the secretary of state in each State the name and address of an authorized agent in such State upon whom legal process or demands against the American Veterans Committee may be served.

SEC. 10. The said corporation shall on or before the 1st day of February of each year make and transmit to the Congress a report of its proceedings for the preceding year, including a report of its receipts and expenditures.

SEC. 11. The right to repeal, alter, or amend this Act at any time is hereby expressly reserved.

[S. 305, 79th Cong., 1st sess.]

A BILL Providing for the incorporation of the National Council of Negro Veterans

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the organization known as the National Council of Negro Veterans, the membership of which shall be limited to (1) members and former members of the Army of the United States, the United States Navy, the Marine Corps, the Coast Guard, or of any component thereof including women's auxiliary services and the National Guard: (2) persons undergoing or who have undergone training under the Civil Aeronautics Administration War Training Service program; (3) members and former members of the merchant marine; and (4) the sons, daughters, and wives of any of the foregoing, is hereby created a body corporate and politic of the District of Columbia, by the

name of "National Council of Negro Veterans", by which name it shall be a person in law, capable of suing and being sued, and of having and exercising all incidental powers as litigant or otherwise as if it were a natural person, with power to acquire by purchase, gift, devise, or bequest, and to hold, convey, or otherwise dispose of property, real or personal, as may be necessary to carry into effect the patriotic, fraternal, and charitable purposes of its organization, and to use in carrying out the purposes of the corporation such emblems and badges as it may have heretofore or may hereafter adopt, and generally to do any and all such acts and things as may be necessary and proper in carrying into effect the purposes of the corporation.

SEC. 2. The object and purpose of this corporation shall be to perpetuate the name of National Council of Negro Veterans and preserve in corporate form said organization as now and heretofore maintained and conducted, and to provide and continue an agency and instrumentality through and by which its members, for and during the remainder of their natural lives, unite in the fraternal bonds of comradeship; maintain law and order; foster and perpetuate freedom, justice, and equality of citizenship; preserve and transmit to posterity the principles of individual opportunity and the right to achieve and enjoy the fullest participation in the benefits of our Government. The corporation shall not at any time engage in any business for pecuniary profit and gain.

SEC. 3. The corporation (a) shall have perpetual succession; (b) may charge and collect membership dues and receive contributions of money or property to be devoted to carrying out the purpose of the organization; (c) may adopt a corporate seal and alter it at pleasure; (d) may adopt and alter bylaws not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States or any State; (e) may establish and maintain offices for the conduct of its business; (f) may appoint or elect officers and agents; (g) may choose a board of trustees, consisting of not more than fifteen persons nor less than five persons, to conduct the business and exercise the powers of the corporation; and (h) generally may do any and all lawful acts necessary or appropriate to carry out the purpose for which the corporation is

created.

SEC. 4. The supreme governing and controlling authority in said organization shall be maintained in the National Council of Negro Veterans, composed of representatives from the several departments or State councils, as are now or may hereafter be organized: Provided, That there shall never be any change in the plan of organization of said National Council of Negro Veterans that shall materially change its present representative form of government or render possible the concentration of the control thereof in the hands of a limited number or in a self-perpetuating body not representative of the membership at large.

SEC. 5. The qualifications for membership in said organization, except as they are limited by provisions in section 1 of this Act, and the rights and privileges of the members thereof, shall be such as are fixed by the constitution and rules and bylaws heretofore or hereafter adopted by said National Council of Negro Veterans.

SEC. 6. The activities of said corporation shall be exercised through and by the following agencies in accordance with the constitution and rules and bylaws now in force or such as may be hereafter enacted by the National Council of Negro Veterans by action of its national convention, or by action of board of trustees thereof, namely:

First. Through the national convention, its officers, and committees. Second. Through such State departments as may have been heretofore or as may be hereafter organized, their officers, and committees.

Third. Through such councils as may have been heretofore or may be hereafter organized, their officers, and committees.

Fourth. Through such auxiliary organizations by whatever name or designation as have been heretofore or may hereafter be authorized by the National Council of Negro Veterans.

Such departments and auxiliary organizations shall be subject and subordinate in authority to the National Council of Negro Veterans, and such State departments, auxiliaries, and councils shall be also subject to such control exercised through the State departments and State department officers of the particular State departments to which they belong.

SEC. 7. Said corporation and its State and local subdivisions shall have the sole and exclusive rights to have and to use in carrying out its purposes the name "National Council of Negro Veterans".

SEC. 8. The national convention or board of trustees may, by resolution, provide for the disposition and future ownership of its property and archives, and may declare the event in which such disposition shall become effective and such

ownership vested, and a duly authenticated copy of such resolution shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia. Upon the happening of the event thus declared, and upon the filing of a petition in the office of the said clerk of the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia reciting said facts, said court shall take jurisdiction thereof and, upon due proof being made, the court shall enter a decree which shall be effectual to vest title and ownership in accordance with the provisions of such resolution.

[S. 1295, 79th Cong., 1st sess.]

A BILL To incorporate the National Committee for All War Widows, and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following-named persons, namely: Lillian Richards, of California (honorary life chairman); Virginia Lee McKinney; Doctor Mary Oswald; Marjorie Mandala; and Elsie P. Carter, and their associates and successors duly chosen are hereby incorporated and declared to be a body corporate of the District of Colubmia by the name of National Committee for All War Widows, and by such name shall be known and have perpetual succession with the powers, limitations, and restrictions herein contained.

SEC. 2. The persons named in section 1 hereof and such other persons as may be selected from among the membership of National Committee for All War Widows, an association of women whose husbands served in the armed forces during any war participated in by the United States of America and made the supreme sacrifice, are hereby authorized to meet to complete the organization of said corporation by the selection of officers, the adoption of a constitution and bylaws, and to do all other things necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this Act, at which meeting any person duly accredited as a delegate from any local or State organization of the existing organization known as National Committee for All War Widows, shall be permitted to participate in the proceedings thereof.

SEC. 3. The object of the corporation shall be to perpetuate the honor bestowed on the members of such corporation by having been called upon to give their husbands in the service of the Nation, and to create ways and means (a) of helping war widows in need, (b) of directing war widows to positions of employment producing satisfactory income for their support, (c) of aiding in the support of minor children of war widows, (d) of devising plans of insurance for war widows in case of accident or sickness, (e) of making provision for legal and medical aid to war widows when needed, and (f) generally of promoting the welfare of war widows and their dependents.

SEC. 4. The corporation shall hold its meetings in such place as the incorporators or their successors shall determine.

SEC. 5. The corporation created by this Act shall have the following powers: To have succession until the membership as hereinafter provided for shall become extinct, with power to sue and be sued in courts of law and equity; to receive, hold, own, use, and dispose of such real estate and personal property as shall be necessary for its corporate purposes; to adopt a corporate seal and alter the same at pleasure; to adopt a constitution, bylaws, and regulations to carry out its purposes, not inconsistent with the laws of the United States or of any State; to use in carrying out the purposes of the corporation with such emblems and badges as it may adopt; to establish and maintain offices for the conduct of its business; to establish State, Territorial, and local subdivisions; to publish a magazine or other publications, and generally to do any and all such acts and things as may be necessary and proper to carry into effect the purposes of the corporation.

SEC. 6. All of the personal property and funds of the corporation held or used for the purposes hereof, pursuant to the provisions of this Act, whether of principal or income, shall, so long as the same shall be so used, be exempt from taxes by the United States or any Territory or district thereof: Provided, That said corporation shall not accept, own, or hold directly or indirectly any property, real or personal, except such as may be reasonably necessary to carry out the purposes of its creation as defined in this Act.

SEC. 7. Membership is limited to women, and no woman shall be a member of this corporation unless she is a citizen of the United States and unless her husband served in the armed forces of the United States prior to the termination of the present war, as proclaimed by the President, and lost his life in such service under honorable conditions.

SEC. 8. The corporation shall be nonpolitical, and as a corporation or organization shall not promote the candidacy of any person seeking public office. SEC. 9. The corporation may acquire any or all of the assets of the existing organization known as National Committee for All War Widows upon discharging or satisfactorily providing for the payment and discharge of all its liabilities. SEC. 10. The corporation and its State, Territorial, and local subdivisions shall have the sole and exclusive right to have and to use in carrying out its business purposes the name of National Committee for All War Widows.

SEC. 11. The corporation shall, on or before the 1st day of January in each year, make and transmit to the Congress a report of its proceedings for the preceding calendar year, including a full and complete report of its receipts and expenditures: Provided, however, That said report shall not be printed as a public document.

SEC. 12. As a condition precedent to the exercise of any power or privilege herein granted or conferred, this corporation shall file in the office of the secretary of each State the name and post-office address of an authorized agent in such State upon whom local process or demands against National Committee for All War Widows may be served.

SEC. 13. This charter shall take effect upon its being accepted by a majority vote of the incorporators named herein who shall be present at the first meeting of the corporation, due notice of which meeting shall be given to each of the incorporators nemed herein, and a notice of such acceptance shall be given by said corporation, causing a certificate to that effect, signed by its president and secretary, to be filed in the office of the recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia. SEC. 14. Congress may from time to time alter, repeal, or modify this Act of incorporation.

SEC. 15. There shall be presented by the Secretary of War or the Secretary of the Navy, to every woman whose husband served in the land or naval forces of the United States prior to the cessation of hostilities in the present war, as proclaimed by the Preisdent, and lost his life in such service under honorable conditions, a suitable pin or insigne to denote such service.

SEC. 16. September 6 of each year is hereby designated as War Widows Memoir Day, and the wearing of a morning glory on that day shall be representative of memories of the husbands who served in the armed forces of the United States and who made the supreme sacrifice.

[S. 1395, 79th Cong., 1st sess.]

A BILL To authorize the incorporation of National Association, Rainbow Division Veterans Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

CORPORATION CREATED, INCORPORATORS, NAME

SECTION 1. The following persons, to wit: General Douglas MacArthur, of Wisconsin; Mathew A. Tinley of Iowa; George E. Leach, of Minnesota; William J. Donovan, of New York; J. Monroe Johnson, of South Carolina; Fred Crawford, Junior, of Illinois; Howard G. Smith, of Illinois; Barre Blumenthal, of Illinois; William P. Screws, of Alabama; John J. Mangan, of New York; Cooper D. Winn, Junior, of Virginia; Lawrence B. Gibbs, of California; Wilbur M. Brucker, of Michigan; M. Manning Marcus, of District of Columbia; Ruby D. Garrett, of Missouri; Leland L. Whitney, of Ohio; Jack A. Clarke, of Maryland; Daniel I. Glossbrenner, of Indiana; Elmer F. Neagle, of District of Columbia; William S. Nevius, of New Jersey; Walker H. Colston, of District of Columbia; Albert Hoyt, of Ohio; Robert R. Reno, of Illinois; Edward C. Weitzel, of Ohio; Robert J. Hayward, of New Jersey; Roy Grant, of Ohio; William Hemme, of Michigan; James T. A. Mason, of New York; John H. Winningham, of Alabama; R. Allen Gibbons, of Virginia; George E. Seaman, of New York; Emil A. Letzer, of New Jersey; Reverend John A. Callan, of Oklahoma; E. L. Herron, of Iowa; Henry J. Reilly, of Illinois; William S. Butts, of Oklahoma; Edward P. Cook, of Indiana; James R. Dent, of Virginia; H. B. Flowers, of Minnesota; Homer W. Gardner, of Iowa; Irvin C. Henry, of Ohio; Hartley A. Moon, of Alabama; Marx P. Rosenthaler, of Michigan; Wilmer W. Warner, of California; Lawrence G. Wood, of Oklahoma; Arthur C. Davis, of California; Vincent D. Fleckenstein, of Pennsylvania; Thomas C. Hanson, of Michigan; Floyd L. Harper, of Indiana; Garrett W. Olds, of Indiana; Alan B. Stout, of Maryland; James E. Thomas, of Iowa; John J.

Tierney, of New York; Frank West of Minnesota; Henry C. Wood, of Alabama; John D. Brenner, of Pennsylvania; Meyer Levy, of New York; Joseph Justad, of Minnesota; Raymond Ramsey, of Missouri; James T. Lean, of Maryland; Edward G. Riekert, of New York; Arthur E. Slattery, of New Jersey; William E. Talbot, of Texas; Harold B. Rodier, of District of Columbia; Eskil I. Bjork, of Illinois; and such persons as may be chosen who are members of National Association, Rainbow Division Veterans, an unincorporated patriotic society of the veterans of the Rainbow (Forty-second) Division of World War I and of the veterans of the Forty-second (Rainbow) Infantry Division of World War II, and their successors, are hereby created and declared to be a body corporate. The name of this corporation shall be National Association, Rainbow Division Veterans.

ORGANIZATION OF CORPORATION; DELEGATES

SEC. 2. The persons named in section 1 of this title and such other persons as may be selected from among the membership of National Association, Rainbow Division Veterans, an unincorporated society of the veterans of the Rainbow (Forty-second) Division of World War I and of the veterans of the Forty-second (Rainbow) Infantry Division of World War II, are hereby authorized to meet to complete the organization of said corporation by the selection of officers, the adoption of a constitution and bylaws, and to do all other things necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this chapter, at which meeting any person duly accredited as a delegate from any local or State chapter of the existing unincorporated organization, known as National Association, Rainbow Division Veterans, shall be permitted to participate in the proceedings thereof.

PURPOSES OF CORPORATION

SEC. 3. The purposes of the corporation shall be to commemorate the best traditions of the citizen-soldier; to foster the spirit of patriotism and loyalty to the Constitution of the United States; to perpetuate that spirit of comradeship which was the greatest single factor in the success of the Division; and to keep alive the heroic incidents of our Division and preserve the memory of our departed comrades.

POWERS OF CORPORATION

SEC. 4. The corporation hereby created shall have the following powers: To have perpetual succession with power to sue and be sued in courts of law and equity; to receive, hold, own, use, and dispose of such real estate and personal property as shall be necessary for its corporate purposes; to adopt a corporate seal and alter the same at pleasure; to adopt a constitution, bylaws, and regulations to carry out its purposes, not inconsistent with the laws of the United States or of any State; to adopt, and have the exclusive right to manufacture and use such emblems and badges as may be deemed necessary in the fulfillment of the purposes of the corporation; to establish and maintain offices for the conduct of its business; to establish State organizations and local chapter organizations; to publish a magazine or other publications, and generally do to any and all such acts and things as may be necessary and proper in carrying into effect the purposes of the corporation.

PERSONS ELIGIBLE TO MEMBERSHIP

SEC. 5. No person shall be a member of this corporation unless he served honorably as an officer or enlisted man in the military service of the United States (a) in World War I, in a unit of the Rainbow (Forty-second) Division at some time during the period between August 13, 1917, and May 17, 1919; or (b) in World War II, in a unit of the Forty-second (Rainbow) Infantry Division after July 14, 1943.

POLITICAL ACTIVITIES PROHIBITED

SEC. 6. The organization shall be nonpolitical, and as an organization, shall not promote the candidacy of any person seeking public office.

ACQUISITION OF ASSETS OF EXISTING ASSOCIATION

SEC. 7. The corporation may acquire any or all of the assets of the existing unincorporated national organization known as National Association, Rainbow Division Veterans upon discharging or satisfactorily providing for the payment and discharge of all its liabilities.