Evening star., 1922-12-17

James L. Walker Post, No. 26. the
American Legion, has elected officers
for the ensuing years as follows: Com
mander. West A. Hamilton; first vice
commander, Thomas J. Delaney: second
vice commander, Campbell C. Johnson
chaplain. Charles S. Lomack; surgeon,
Albert RidgeIey: quartermaster, John
SWEENEY; historian. Sylvester H. Epps
sergeant t-arms. Wallace P. Cant;
master-at-arms. Walter A. Brooks; col
or bearers, Robert Dyson and Augustus
Garner
Commander Hamilton has appointed
Sylvester H. Epps as adjutant and Ben
1amin d. Boyd as finance officer for
the third term
Delegates to the department conven-
ton were selected as follows West A.
Hamilton and Sylvester H. Epps. with
alternates: Thomas J. Delaney and
Campbell G.. johnson.
At the last meeting of Henry c.
SPENCER Post. No. II. the American
Legion. officers were selected as follows:
Commander. George l.. TAFT: first vice
commander. Fred A. Livingstone second
vice commander. w. Laurence Hazard
finance officer James g. Jones: quar-
termaster, Douglas A. White: chaplain,
Arthur l.. Smith post surgeon. DR.. Mil
lard J. Holmes: sergeant-at-arms, Glenn
{. Dorsey maSter-at-armS, Fritz II.
Heidenreich: color bearers. Alvin u.
Hathaway and Tom E. Fawcett. and
historian. Paul h. TWyman. The pos
decided to enter team in the American
Legion Bowling League. Contributions
Were made for the Christmas funds Of
both the department and Spengler Aux
lliar:es. The following were elected to
represent the post at the department
convention: Delegate at large, Anton
Stephan delegates: George l.. TAFT and
Fred A. Livingstone alternateS: Alvin
d. Hathaway. Fritz II. Heidenreich and
members were elected James E. Bur-
dette and Pearce +. Hales.
The following officers of Government
Printing Office Unit, No l. United Vet
Grams of American Wars. have been
elected for the ensuing year: Com
mander W. j. Cassiday; senior vice
commander. c. S. Beilman: junior vice
commander. F. Platz; chaplain. c. Ar
muorer: officer Of the day. j. Burnett:
color sergeant. f. Wilson: trustees. S.
G. Mawson, 7. H. Graves. a. Graef.
Robert Zacharias was elected to head
the Cooley Mccullough Post. No. 90. of
the American Legion. at meeting
Tuesday night al the Arlington Norman
Landreau was elected senior vice com
mander and Elmer Stewart junior vice
commander. Other officers will be ap-
pointed by commander.
All three officers served as officers in
France. Zacharias. formerly of the Dis
trict National Guard. served as cap
tain with the 60th Coast Artillery. Lam
dreau. also former national guardsman.
served as lieutenant in the flying corps
overseas. Stewart. also Of the guards
served as captain Of the coast artillery
in France.
Equality-Walt Reed Post. No. 2s4.
Veterans of Foreign Wars. at its last
meeting celebrated its third anniversary
with an entertainment and smoker The
entertainment committee. consisting of
John J. Wischhusen. Sam Berlin and
Daniel j. Fenton. arranged the following
program: Music by the Washington
Boys Independent Band: cornet duet by
Earl Small and Chester Hayes: vocal
solo. Leo Schaleford Representative
Burton +. Sweet spoke on Veteran
Legislation and the interest that he
had taken in seeing that every dis
abled soldier received the fullest pos
voca tionai training obtained the great
est benefit from il. Robert /. Rees. as
sistant director L. s Veterans Bureau,
made short address. telling Of the
work Of the bureau.
The guests were: Department Com
Of the Republic: Watson b Miller. de-
partment commander OF the American
Legion; Capt. Charles b. Pembura, edi-
tor of the Veteran, of New York city:
Department Commander Gen. Anton
Stephan and Senior Vice Department
Commander Mai. George Void of th.
u. c. department.. all of whom made
short addresses.
one of the interesting events was the
number OF new applications for mem
bership received. A total of twenty five
were received and the following appli-
cants were obligated: Robert l. Rees
Frank L. Quilln. Harold Sterling Will
bur A. Prestele. Harry r. Lemerise
John G. Robbins. Claude b. Phelps.
George A Dunnigan. John Mahonry.
Edward Campbell. Anthony H. Peuelle.
II. l.. Leslie. Dewey F.. Rice. John a.
Preissner. Edward \. johnson. Charles
p. Gilpin. Herbert A. Cady and Robert
Brown
A telegram was read from Inspector
General Robert b. Handy. jr.. member
Of this post. a present located in New
York. congratulating the post upon its
three years of success and its present
prosperity. A. f. Finch made a short
talk upon the proposed ladies' auxiliary