Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-21
Veterans of Great War
American Legion.


An. outing was held by Potomac
Post, 1855, and auxiliary last Sun
day at Bay Ridge, Md. Nearly the
entire post and members of the auXil
iary attended.
The auto caravan. which was head
ed by Post Comdr. Thomas f. Faw
cett, left Washington at 10 o'clock. A
number of athletic stunts were giver
by the entertainment committee OF
the post, after which swimming con
test was held by both post and auXil
iary. Steve Uhlarik was Judged the
best swimmer and Mrs. Eta Colburr
for the auxiliary.
The next outing will be held August
2S, the place to be announced later
The party left Bay Ridge at o'clock
returning to Washington, and was
entertained at dinner by the president
of the auxiliary, Mrs. Roberta Z
Fawcett, at her home, 1404 Allison
street.
The Macrae trophy, cup awarded
annually to the first department of
the American Legion Auxiliary to
equal IS per cent of the Legion mem
bership in it's State at the close of
the preceding year, has been won
for the first time by the Department
OF Vermont, according to announce
ment from national headquarters of
the auxiliary, at Indianapolis, Ind.
The cup was placed in competition
last year, but no State qualified for it..
New Hampshire and Iowa ran Yer
mont a close race for the trophy this
year.
The Jane A, Delano Post, No. G.,
American Legion, met August and
heard reports of it's delegates to the
District Department convention. 1t
was announced that j. Beatrice bow
man, superintendent of the Navy
Nurse Corps, had been elected third
vice commander of the District De
partment, American Legion, and Mar
jorie D. Woodell a delegate to the
national convention in Paris.
Fifteen members of the post have
planned to attend the national con-
vention. New members admitted
We're: Mildred r. Blat, Florence NJ.
vevia, E. G.. Mullen, Katherine
Burns, Florence Macdonald.
The executive staff of the post gave
a luncheon August 13 at the Collier
Inn, complimentary to Past Com
mander Anne Harkins, who has just
returned from a tour in the Virgin
Islands, and to Past Commanders
Pauline McVey and Alice B. Harvey.
Membership standings of the vari-
Gus departments of the American
Legion August were: Alabama,
1856; Alaska, 494: Arizona, 1861; Ar
kansas, 1857; California. 3S,54S; Can
ada, 204; Colorado. 4,095; Connecticut,
1851; Delaware, 955; District of Co
lumbia, 2.314; Florida, 1864: France,
635; Georgia, $3.50: Hawaii. 932; Idaho,
4.021; Illinois, 66.7S2; Indiana. rs, ia;
Iowa, 31,6OS; Italy. 2,227; Kansas. H..
727; Kentucky. 1916; Louisiana, SAT-;
Maine, 6,112: Maryland, 2,402; Massa-
chusetts. 26.971: Mexico, 29S; Michigan,
1921; Minnesota, 27,340: MISSISSIPPI,
4,O37; Missouri 10,705; Montana, 5,096;
Nebraska, 1884; Nevada, SCI; New
Hampshire, 4,765; New Jersey, 1925;
North Carolina. 9.746; North Dakota.
1850; Ohio, 1885; Oklahoma. 19,464;
Oregon, 9.762; Panama, 449; Pennsyl-
vania, $500: Philippine Islands, 142;
Porto Rico, 1865; Rhode Island. 2,137:
South Carolina, 1852; South Dakota,
9,074; Tennessee, 1895: Texas, 1913:
Utah, 1921; Vermont, 1920; Virginia.
5.775; Washington, 12,037; West Nir-
GINA, 1900; Wisconsin, 25,525; wy
oming, 2,S7S.
A meeting Of the U. S. s. Jacob
Jones Post, No. 2, the American Le-
gion, was held at the Thomas Circle
Club, August s. Funds were appro-
priated to endow bed at Camp Good
Will as part of the Legion's com.
munity work in this department.
Color Bearer Sprague entertained
members Of the post who are going to
Paris to attend the convention. Past
Comdrs. Hall and Dessez, on board the
Leviathan, en- route to Paris, will con-
duct services at sea in the vicinity of
the Scilly Islands off the coast of Eng
land, in honor of the Ga men who lost
their lives on December s, 1917, when
the U. s. S. Jacob Jones was torpedoed
by German submarine. Past Comdr.
McRae will place wreath on the
Tomb of the Unknown in Paris and
Color Bearer Boberg will place a
wreath on the Tomb Of the Unknown
in London.
A surprise party. including "kitch-
en- shower" was rendered the com.
mander last Tuesday evening by
about so members of the post at her
home in Lyon Village
Veterans Of Foreign Wars.
Post meetings this week are: Mon
day, National Capital Post and Fed
eral Post; Thursday, Potomac Post
District of Columbia headquarters
at Providence, r. l., during the v. F.
w. convention will be located at the
Narragansett Hotel. Department AID.
Jutant Fowle is preparing the large
volume of resolutions that the local
body will send to the convention for
action. With his assistant he will go
to the Rhode Island city several days
in advance Of the sessions opening in
order that everything will be ready
for the main delegation of District of