Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-10-19
SOUTH WAY NAME
NEXT Commander
p Of DICTIONARIES
Bonus and Rehabilitation
Stand Of Candidates to Be
Prime Factor in Election Of
Officers

NEW, ORLEANS, Oct. 1S.-(By the
Associated Press) Outstanding
among the developments of today
among the delegates to the Ameri-
can Legion was the announcement
of Alvin M. Ousley, Dallas, Tex, a
vice president of the organization,
that he was an active candidate for
the national commander of the Or
ganizatnon, to succeed Hanford Mac
Nider.
Among those familiar with
Chances" it was generally believed
this morning that the south would
name the next national commander
Of the legion, and that, according to
present indications, the choice lay be-
tween Mr.. Ousley and Matthew Muir
ply, attorney, Of Birmingham, Ala.
FORTY THOUSAND DELEGATES
TO PARADE STREETS
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 1910
the tunes that sent them from the
training camps to embarkatlon
points and foreign battlefelds, mem
bers of the American Legion, 10000
strong, will march the streets of
New Orleans today.
For one afternoon the activities Of
the convention will be centered on
one point--the widely scattered dele
;~if hoy
in a common purpose. From the
streets and hotels, where jollity and
mirth has prevailed, from the con-
vention hall, from committee rooms
and state headquarters, where poll
tics and policies are being discussed
through the midnight hours, will
come the visiting host to impress
the living by their unity and honor
the dead on the field of battle.
Hardly less important among the
events of the week will be the
morning session at the Girod Street
assembly hall, where policies fresh
from committee rooms will be
thrown in the hopper.
Tomorrow comes they@fireworks, -,
were the closing words of Com
mander MacNider, at yesterdays
Candidates for Office
The reception accorded by the
delegates, to committee reports IS
expected to have considerable bear
ing on the contest for national Off
GERS. Many large and influential
state delegations are ION the fence"
it is learned, waiting to see what
develops. They have no candidates,
and are not proposing any trades.
The bonus" convictions of as.
pirants for the honor of national
commander are subject to consider
able scrutiny by many of the dele
gates, it is reported
The annual parade of the Ameri-
can Legion starts at p. m. Places
will be accorded state delegations
in the order determined by their
membership increase during the
past year.
Major Allison Owen, of New Or
leans. will be marshal of the day.
Leading the parade will be the
guard of honor" comprising four
men each from the navy, army,
marine corps and national guard.
At the reviewing stand in front
of the city hall, the parade will
halt while the reviewing officers
and distinguished guests of the
legion take their places in the stand
Passing the cenotaph in front of
the custom house, in Canal street,
the marchers will honor their dead
commemorated by the monument
Bands will be silenced, and the dead
saluted.
Kennesaw M. Lands, supreme
baseball commissioner, will be a
speaker at the morning session of
the legion, in convention hall On
the program also is general Eli X.
Cole, representing Major General
John j. LeJune, who has been un-
able to attend the convention be-
cause of illness in his family.
British Guest
Major j. B. B. Cohen, representa-
tive of the British legion, will be
a distinguished guest at the morn
ing session. Major Cohen lost both
legs at the third battle of Ypres.
and is totallyFdisabled. He has been
treasurer of the British legion the
past five years, is member of the
British parliament, and devotes
most of his time to the solving Of
problems Of the ex>service men.
Among the committee reports
that are expected are. those Oh
military affairs. constitution. in
ternal organization, naval affairs
and finance.
The American Legion auxiliary
will hold a brief business session
during the morning. when reports
OF Departments ard committees will
be heard. Adjournment will be tax
en- at|noon, when the members will
march in body to a reserved
grandstand to view the legion pa
rade. Another business session will
be hald tonight.