Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-02
Veterans of Great War

gagged In rounding up their members
who intend to take the trip.
All records in American Legion
membership have been broken by the
advance 1927 enrollments being re-
ceived at national headquarters, and
ment of space to the various States
for the pilgrimage to France is ex
pected to spur the departments to
even greater efforts.
The total reported is two-thirds
larger than for the same period In
1925 for 1926 members, James F. Bar
ton, national adjutant, said. The ad-
vance 1927 membership cards received
as of December II places Illinois at
the top of the departments in. total
enrollments, with Minnesota second
are holding up their reports because
of membership contests.
The fourth allotment of space for
the France trip will be made to all
departments based on their 1927 paid
in membership as of December 81
1926 AS an illustration, a depart
ment whose 1927 membership as of
December 81, 1926. amounts to 20 per
cent of the 1926 membership, as of the
tnlldOeipIA COHFeIlllOH, VIII We CIT
titled to a fourth allotment equal to
20 per cent of its first allotment.
The allotment system is intended
to act as a protection to the various
State departments, assuring each
State of space for a representative
delegation, as the total is limited to
10000 The first allotment aggregated
approximately 20, 900 places. The other
two allotments also were based on
membership.
Mr. and Mrs. Leon Arnold enter
tanned the s Chapeaux ct 40 Femmes
with a Christmas party at their home
Wednesday. There was a Christmas
tree and a Santa Claus, who presented
a gift to each guest. Dancing and
games were a part of the evening S
entertainment and buffet supper was
served
The regular meeting of the salon
will be January 5 and Miss Bernice
Carley will entertain at Rauscher's.
All partners are urged to attend the
meeting.
The salon has taken a box for the
American Legion department ball at
the Mayf1ower January 10.
Final plans for the staging of the
first annual minstrel show and ball
will be formulated at the meeting
Tuesday in the District Building of
Vincent b. Costello Post, American
Legion. Plans will also be completed
for the first of a semi-monthly series
of athletic nights staged by the post
for members of all posts of the Legion
and their guests. Members of the
for the minstrel show and
for the athletic events are requested
to be present. Charles Hess is chair.
man of the former committee and
Heinie Miller of the latter.
The annual ball Of the District De-
partment, composed of 26 posts, viii
be held at the Mayfiower Hotel Janu-
airy Is.
Senior Vice Department Comdr.
Theodore Cogswell, who Is chairman
Of the ball committee, reported last
night to Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries, the
department commander, that the pre-
liminary plans have been completed
and that the tickets have been placed
in the hands of post commanders for
distribution to the members Of each
unit. There are so boxes available
for the ball, and Chairman Cogswell
and the members of his committee
have made the request that each post
take a DOA anu alu III TIC ulSpOSlllOII
of the renal lining number.
Junior Vice Department Comdr.
C. H. Hillegeist, who was chairman
of a special committee on music for
the ball, which included Past Senior
Vice Department Comdr Thomas
J. Fraiiey and Past Comdr.
Charles ]. Kohen of Costello Post. has
announced that there will be a ~
piece orchestra.
Cooperation is being given the
Legion committee by the members Of
the Department of the District of
Columbia Of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars. Arrangement has been con-
cluded whereby an appreciable per-
centage of the receipts from tickets
disposed of through the v. F. w. viii
revert to the treasury of that organi
zation, and therefore the Legion ball
this year takes on the nature of
Joint affair
Miss Esther V. Hall, third vice de-
partment commander, who is chair
man of the committee on patrons, has
announced that distinguished group
of Neutrality-suspicious. has accepted the
Legion's invitation to be included in
the list of sponsors, which Is headed
by the President and Mrs. Coolidge.
A meeting of the ball committee
was held Wednesday, and Chairman
Cogswell announced that another
meeting would take place in the board
room of the District Building next
Wednesday at 4:30 o'clock.
The personnel of the ball committee
has been completed. and as announced
last night includes: G. Fl. Hillegeist.
vice chairman; Capt George F. I'm
macht, the department adjutant, treas.
urer; Miss Esther V. Hall: National
Executive Committeeman Paul J. Nc
Gahan; Comdr. Gilbert T. Rude of
George Washington Post; Miss Emily
J. Carey, commander of the Belleau
Wood Post; Past Senior Vice Depart
ment Comdr. Thomas J. Frailey: j. W.
Schultz. department finance officer;
Past Department Comdr. Julius I.
Peyser. Miss Marietta Fl. Person.
commander of the Jane A. Delano
Post; l.. W. Schwalm, Past Depart
ment Vice Comdr. Miss Helen j.
O'Neill, DIR. Elliott Hunt, Forest l..
Bartl. commander of Lafayette Post;
II. Norman Templeton, commander of
the Stuart Walcott Post: Austin s
Imirie. grand chef de care. La Societe
Rationale des 40 Hommes ct Che.
vaux; DIR. d. A. White, Henry G.
Spengler Post; J. Thad Baker. com
mander of the Sergeant Jasper Post;
Thomas ID. Walsh, past commander