Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-19
Veterans of Great War

| to view parade. the stadium; parade
arrives stadium 2 PM; LIZ pm. Ia
crosse game and aviation features at
stadium. 2 pm. parade enters sta
dunn for review by national COM
mander, Gen. Dawes, Vice President
of the United States, and host Of dis
tinguished guests. $50 PM. secre-
taries' dinner-aMxiliary (St. James
HoteD. pm, banquet-Forty and
Eight and Eight and Forty. pm,
dinner-Legion Nurses Penn Athletic
Club. pm. organization dinners
and reunions (hotels, clubs and
armories) Z pm, evening tour
, Sesquicentennial Exposition. 8 pm.
quartet contestS-Broad street. 8,
dancing-hotels and Broad street. 8
nm.. band concerts-central city.
October 10: Army day. am,
convention session exposition audi
tortum); 9 am, Eifle and pistol con-
tests rifle range, Essington); 9 am.
trap shooting contests Quaker City
Gun Club; 8 am, band contests
$50 am, auxiliary tour Of Sesquicen-
tennial Exposition: Ii am, junior
world series base ball championship
game (stadium): 2 pm, Army circus
and aerial acrobatics (stadium): pm,
band and drill contests (stadium): 5
pm, reception, for Legion Women,
Pennsylvania Building exposition
grounds); pm, States dinner, auxili-
airy CElks Club; 8 pm, bugle contest
finals (stadium): s pm. dancing
hotels and Broad street; 9 pm, 1.-The
Spirit of Liberty-1776-1918," stipend
GUS and memorable spectacle tsta-
dunn.
October IA: Navy day. am,
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torium): 10 am, junior world series
base ball game (stadium); 10 am,
tour of League Island Navy Yard and
inspection of historic warshipS Con
stellation" and "Olympia;" special
features; IL am. inspection Of naval
aircraft factory in operation; 1l:3O
am, demonstration of airplane cata-
putt; = pm, foot ball, Navy VS..
Marines (stadiuml; pm, Forty and
Eight parade central city,; 8 pm.
Eight and. Forty initiation (roof gar
den, Hotel Adelphia): s pm, dancing
hotels and Broad street; 8 pm,
Forty and Eight initiation academy
of Music); 10 pm. convention ball
exposition auditorium): special fea-
lures: la Drill contests; (b) Quartet
finals; (c) Minnesota Glee Club; -
pm, awarding Of free round trips to
France and return (surprise featured.
October Is: 9 am. closing conven-
ton session exposition auditorium;
10 am. Sesquicentennial Exposition
tour and visit to Camp Anthony
Wayne: 10 am, excursion to Valley
Forge; PM, junior world series base
ball championship, final games (2)
(stadium); 2:30 pm. swimming tOurna-
ment, auxiliary (Elks Club pooh.
October 16: Tours: (a) Sesquicenten-
NAL Exposition; (b) League Island
Navy Yard; (c) Atlantic City for week
end visit.
The Stuart Walcott Post, American
Legion, will have a benefit night at
the President Theater next Tuesday
to raise funds for welfare and relief
work of the post for disabled and dis
tressed veterans.
The committee in charge of the
benefit is composed of George w.
Schrcech. chairman and secretary;
Henry f. Zones, treasurer; T. Nor
w. Woolley. senior vice commander;
David l.. Grossnickle, Junior vice
commander; J. Osborne Reid, George
H. Davis, Frank Pooh. Judson c..
Dale, Warren F. Miller, DIR. J. L..
Hall, DIR. Charles f. Ralph, Eric S.
Stearns. John r. Dover, Paul X.
Carr, Allen M. Ergood and N. j.
Beausoliel.
Members of the post drill team and
many other Legionnaires boarded the
motor caravan at the District Build
ing September II headed for Masons
Beach. Md. The caravan arrived at
the beach in time for dinner. After
a fishing trip early Sunday morning
the entire party left for home. The
committee in charge consisted OF
N. J. Beausoliel, chairman Allen Nj.
Ergood and John A. Smith.
The delegation and members OF the
post are completing plans for the trip
to the national convention in Phila-
ton and Senior Vice Comdr. Floyd w.
Woolley will head the delegation. All
members Of the post who intend to
make the trip are requested to COM
municate with Adjt. John r..
Dover, in order that railroad and no.
tel reservations may be made.
Veterans of Foreign Wars.
National Capitol Post, No. 127.
Veterans of Foreign Wars, at its BIZ
monthly meeting last Monday, voted
an appropriation Of $25 to the District
Police and Fireman's Relief Fund.
Samuel G. Mawson. the youngest
Civil War veteran living in the Dis
| lIlCI, was pLCScIIlCu WAIAi a ShNOA
fountain pen as a token of esteem
from the post on the occasion Of his
eightieth birthday. He served under
Gen. Nelson A. Miles in the Indian
campaign of the early 70s and under
Gen George A. Custer during the IA
nous Black Hills expedition Of 1874.
James H. Rees, who served in the
312th Machine Gun Battalion during
the late World War, and Frank M.
Smith. who served with the list Dis
trict of Columbia Volunteers in Cuba
and the 9Th Field Artillery in the Phil
ippines, were obligated as members
of the post.
The post will hold banquet Octo-
Der 25. F. e. HUM, chairman of the
entertainment committee, made final
report on the Marshall Hall excursion,
showing it financial success.
Disabled American Veterans.
Already approved by President
Coolidge and Director Frank T. Hines,
the annual Forget -Me-Not drive of the
District Of Columbia Department of
the Disabled American Veterans. Oc-
tober 2. was last week Endorsed by
the District Commissioners, Arch
bishop Michael Curley and Bishop
William F. Mcdowell in letters to