Evening star., 1927-05-08
American l Legion.

Costello Post met at the board room
OF the District Building Tuesday eve
ming. Past Comdr. Thomas ]. Walsh
presided.
Kin Carroll announced that arrange
ments were completed for the nfth
performance of the minstrel show to
be given at the Jewish Community
Center for Victory Post May IA at
nm. There will be dancing after
the show.
The post approved the steps taken
by the special committee for the
formation of the Costello Post Welfare
Club. the purpose of which is welfare
and entertainment for Costello Post.
Membership will include wives, moth
ers and daughters of members OF this
post.
Fourteen new members were elected.
They were Max Sturman, Lee f. Muir
laugh. James John O'Brien, John G.
Ofenstein, Joseph J. Oliger Redmond
NJ. Fitzgerald, Frank Hohson Lord,
Joseph Semo, Edward Francis Clark.
Allan Raymond Nelson, James Perry,
Percy Clarence Klein, Andrew Joseph
Cunning, William ~. Hutchinson.
The charter was :iraped in memory
of Comrades Koppef and Max Pollner.
both of whom passed away since the
last meeting of the ftost. Bugler Love
less sounded taps and the post stood
at attention while this last honor was
being paid to our dead.
The James F. Walker Post. No. 26.
American Legion, met April % at the
Twelfth street "Y." Reports of vari.
ons committees were received, and
plans for Decoration day were dis
cussed. Chief among these reports
xJ,aY ,I.x I'm 1nG
by Pa Y Hamilton. The third annual
joint memorial services of the Joint
Memorial Association of Military So
cieties will be he'll, at EbeneZer NJ. +.
Church, Fourth aad d streets south
east, May % at Ssp.m., in which this
post will participate allied with the
9. a. r.. Women Relief Corps, Army
and Navy Union, United Spanish War
Veterans and other posts of the Ameri.-
can Legion.
The post plans the sale of a large
number of poppies beginning with the
week of May % The proceeds are to
he used for the, welfare fund of the
post. Women who viii volunteer to
help are asked fo write to 1853 L
street.
Announcement twas made that the
Initiation ceremoEy OF the following
new members will he observed at the
next meeting, Nav Il: Harrison Lamb,
Monroe Mason, Allen S. Davis, u. G.
B. Mason, Clifton gambler. A. c. Moses
and Lawrence IT.. Smith. Refresh.
ments will be erted by the auxiliary
at the Twelfth t2eet "Y."
The regular moNthly meeting of the
u. 5. S. Jacob ..fones Post. No. 2,
American Legion. will lie held al the
Thomas Circle Club. 1926 Massa-
rhnGptfS 1
Two special featpTes are on the pro.
gram, a lectures on Ports of the
World" by Chghf Gunner George
Bradley. and a .alk by the depart.
ment France tfAveI officer, Joseph
: Idler, giving the latest news relative
TO the pilgrimagF to France in Sep
tember.
The annual flower gathering which
was TO have takyh place last Sunday
was postponed ('st account of the in
clement weathepg on Saturday, as it
was thought he'ground would be too
wet to pick fiSwers the following
day. May is has been set as the day
for the event. The party will meet
at the Coliseuia entrance on the
south side Of Pennsylvania avenue at
Eighth street, Rt 10 am. and pro-
ceed by automobiles to the vicinity
of Great Falls. 4 committee has been
appointed 10 taAe charge Of the re-
freshment arrangements and lunch,
con win be serted in the woods.
A bridge and five hundred benefit
card party is fring arranged by the
Forty Femmes :and Eight Chapeaux
Of the Americas Legion Auxiliary. to
be held in the Chestnut Farms Audito
rum, Twenty-sixth street and Penn.
sylvania avenue. May q, at o'clock
The general chairman of the card
party is Mrs. Thomas T.. Fawcett The