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Show SEATTLE HOST AT VETERANS' CARNIVAL SEATTLE. Wash . Aug 15 The vo-men vo-men a auxiliary of the Veterans uf ! Foreign Wars today open-d their .'3rd J annual encampment the first evar held by the organization In a Pacific f-cast city. A carnival for the veterans. veter-ans. 20,000 of whom ;ire expected to he here during the convention, whlc h la to last all this week, opened .Monday .Mon-day night. Veterans of the world war are numerous num-erous today In the throng containing those who fought in Cuba, the Philippines. Phil-ippines. "Taking care of disabled and needy veterans, who by right should have had their !onus long before now, will probaWy be our principal work during dur-ing tho coming year," declared Mrs. Lena B, Panznor, of Detroit, national president of the iiuxiiiary. Headed by J. II. Dunn, commander In Massachusetts, the bay stut-- delegation dele-gation announced that It would put u- a fight to have the convention held next year in Boston. |