The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-11-01
MAJOR GENERAL WOOD .
SCHEDULED TO SPEAK
AT LEGION MEETING

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind, Nov 1.-The
program for a state conference of COM
~manders and adjutants Of Indiana
posts of the American Legion, to be
held at Culver Military Academy, Sat
urday and Sunday, November 6 and Z,
will include an address by Major-Gen-
eral Leonard A. Wood, according to
announcement by l.. Russell Newgent,
state adjutant.
Approximately 500 Legionnaires
will attend the conference. They will
go to the conference at reduced rail-
road rates. Commanders of the state
departments Of Illinois and Ohio Will
be present.
The first session of the conference
which will begin Saturday afternoon
at $3.50, will open with music by the
Culver cadet band. First call and
assembly will bring the Legionnaires
to attention, and they will sing THE
Star Spangled Banned" The Rev. ].
A. Lord. of Hebron, Department chap
lain. will give the invocation. and l..
f. Gignilliat, department commander,
who as commanding officer of the
Culver Academy, will be host at the
meeting, will call the Legionnaires to
order.
DR.. Hunt TO speak.
The afternoon program will include
discussions Of Legion activities to be
conducted during the winter and
spring. Russell G. Greviston, assist
ant national adjutant, will lead a dis
cussion of post activities, in which
Philip B. Stapp, commander of the
post at Greensburg, and DR.. Gregory
B. Hunt, commander of the Richmond
al faE Post COM
manders will discuss membership
drives, and action will be taken on a
-- proposed statewide drive to be con-
Quoted before the first of the year.
DIR. John II. Gilpin, FIT. Wayne post
commander. and Ross Hutchinson, Ar
lington post commander, will lead a
discussion on stimulation of post at
tendance and social activities. Frank
McHale, Logansport post commander
and Joseph d. O'Neal, M.Incie post
commander, will talk on plans for rais
ing money for and equipping Cub
rooms.
Plans for a state Legion basketball
league, and district and state tourna
ments to determine the state cham
pionship, will be made following dis
cussion led by James H. Mason. OF
Gary, department athletic officer
Walter H. Unversaw, kokomo post
commander, will lead a discussion OF
-- auxiliary activities. Plans VIII De
made for a state auxiliary membership
drive, and for the formation of state
auxiliary organization. A state con
vention for the auxiliary will probably
be held in December.
Witness Legion Ceremonial.
At 1870 p. m, the Legionnaires Will
CT ion Of the ia blPdU
and ceremonial to be followed by To-
cal posts in Armistice day celebra
tons for presentation of Victory med
ais. Music by the SaXaphone seXtet
of the 15Oth Field Artillery, moving
pictures of Indiana Legion activities
and three Ground boxing matches will
be included in the program, when
will close with a swim for the visitors
The Sunday morning session will
open at 1920 o'clock, with an address
by DR.. Don D. Tullis, educational di
rector of the Indiana Y. M. c. A, who
will talk on THE General Scholarship
fund of the National War Work coun
Gil OF the Y. M. c. A" Judge Robert
Marx. of Cincinnati, president Of the
Disabled American Veterans OF the
World War; will talk on Service TO
Our Disabled Comrades" Gerald j
Murphy, QlreCIOf OIL llle udllOLeti oOi
ice division of the Legion will discuss
a Cleanup Campaign"
To Review Cadets.
At 3 p. m, Major General Leonard
A. Wood and F. w. Galbraith, Jr., ma
tional commander of the Legion, will
review the infantry, cavalry, artillery
and aviation corps of Culver cadets
. Exhibitions will be given by the BlacF
Horse troop and infantry corps in the
gymnasium Immediately afterward.
The closing session will be held a.
4:3O p. m, when addresses will be
made by Judge Raymond S. Springer
on The Legions Amerlcanlzatlol
Program" and Major General WOOD
Music by the cadet band will close the
conference.