The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-11
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 !. BE ENTERTAINED ROYALTY JULY |6-|7
Rides, Parties, Dances and Dinners Planned-ROOse- welt, Lindsey and Inzer
 to Speak

Executive committeeman of the Bir mingham post, No. l, have announced the , soldiers. sailors and marines who as semble for the first state convention in
 Birmingham, July Is and r. will be hos pitably entertained by the local chapter by automobile rides. theater parties dances and sight seeing tours, while the business sessions will be held in the lief ferson theater.
 The election of state commander for the Alabama convention IS expected to be an interesting race. It Is already stated Col. William P. Screws of the famous 167th infantry regiment Of the Rainbow division, will be nominated He will probably have Matt Murphy of the Bir- ! mingham chapter, as an opponent. MT. Murphy has said he would not be can didate. even though his friends urge him to enter the race, and expressed his de- sire to support Colonel Screws of Mont gomery for the honor
 Prominent out-of-town speakers includ- ing Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., who is ac credited with being the instigator of the first legion meeting at Paris shortly af-
  ming of the American legion, Chaplain John W. Inzer, member of the national executive committee, who will deliver his speech, 'The American Legion, the New America and the New World" and Col Henry D. Lindsey, have already been se- lected to speak to the delegates A meeting of special importance has been called by Commander Joseph A Yates of local post No. for Monday night at which time many matters of import ance will come before the chapter. The meeting is to be held in the rooms of the war camp community club in the Gelders building on Fourth avenue and Twentieth street, at which time full attendance is urged.
 ''This meeting" said Commander Yates. ''is called for the purpose of electing delegates to the state convention. Let every member of the American Legion who has the best interests of the organi- zation at heart attend this meeting and vote for delegates who will rebound to the honor of the Birmingham post. Our delegates will be up against the brains of the entire state"
 Everything is being placed in readiness for the reception of at least 300 deie- gates, representing every county in the state The state organization has estab- lished one chapter or more in every county of Alabama ana the TepreSeitd- tives chosen are expected to be the pick of the communities in which chapters are located.
 Members of the state executive commit tee have stated they believe that follow ing the state convention in Birmingham next week at least 90 per cent of the boys who served the co1ors will be affiliated with the organization in a short course of time.
 Of the announcements made it was stated that the Birmingham Civic asso- citation and the War Camp Community service would take a prominent part in the financing and entertainment of the convention. T. J. Crittenden was selected as chairman of committee of civic work CTS yesterday, Secretary Manager Charles Harold to work in close liasion with the executive committee of Birmingham post No. 1, American Legion, in the final plans for the convention.
 Field Secretary Kenneth Smith an- nounced that a registration booth for the delegates of the American Legion would be erected in the Tutwiler hotel, the head quarters of the convention. and that busses would meet the legionnaires at both the terminal and Louisville ana Nashville stations and ride them to their respective hotels.