The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-10-03
PILGRIMAGE TO
SAN ANT0NI0IS
! TEXAS TRIBUTE
$4,000 to 100000 to Celebrate
Decade Since World Wars
Close
PERSHING LEADS AGAIN
Allenby, Scapini, and Lind
Il bergh Among Valorous Who
Will Attend
PERSHING LEADS AGAIN
San Antonio, Texas, Oct. 37.-(R)

/. San Antonio, Texas, Oct. 37.-(P
The Yanks are coming!
Between $4,000 and 100000 mem.
. bers of the American Legion and
|. its feminine auxiliary are expected
!. to be in San Antonio, October
. to IL, for the tenth national con-
vention Of the World War veterans
organization.
For many Of the soldiers and
nurses Of decade ago the conven-
=, ton will be, in way, home COM
ing. More than quarter Of mil
lion men trained for the war at the
dozen military posts near San An
tonic. including Fort Sam Houston,
Camp Travis and Kelly Field.
To others it will be the first pill
grimage to a great shrine of Amer
lean valor in battle-the Alamo,
where 172 Texas soldiers, fighting
!, an army Of 1000 nearly q century
(. ago, died like the Spartans at
F. Thermopylae.
On the plaza Of the Alamo will
be the reviewing stand for the big
parade the second day Of the con-
vention. There Gen. John J. PERISH
ing will see again the men whom he
commanded ten years ago. He will
be back in the city from which he
! was called to Washington in 1917
to take command Of the American
army.
Heroes In Stand
4av. In the reviewing stand with Cen
.yseral Pershing will be Field Mar
shal Sir Edmund H. H. Allenby,
commander Of the British army
(which liberated the Holy Land;
---Maj. Georges Scapini, blinded war
hero of France, now q member Of
s-,the chamber II deputies, and Col.
Charles Lindbergh, who, like
many of the marching men, received
ibis earliest army training at San
Antonio.
Leading the parade as grand
marshal will be Col. Beaumont Buck,
= retired officer, who, as . major
general in war time. carried out the
first American offensive at Can
figny. Armed with only q riding
Quirt, he led the first wave Of the
asattack. For this example Of bravery
:.sto his men he was decorated with the
pistinguished Service Cross and lat
@--er made q chevalier of the French
EIegion Of Honor.
- The automobile which Woodrow
Wilson used when he was COM
-.+anander-in-chief Of the men who
answered his call to make the
---world safe for democracy" will roll
~.salong in the legion parade. Mules
- as well as motors Of war days will
appear, too. Among these will be
-~.Verdun, mascot Of the Fifteenth
field artillery that was foaled in
~-1S17 on the battlefield after which
lit is named.
- To Stage Battle
Besides bands, advancing colors
land marching columns, there will
BE q reprodu -tion Of . night in
- France to remind the veterans Of
.~-1917 and 1918. Regular army SOL
--diers are the actors for this drama.
and . large piece Of the military
- observation at Fort Sam Houston il
their stage, They have dug
trenches, marked off another mo
mans land" laid mines and re-
s-hearsed the battle, which is to- be
- huge display Of pyrotechnics.
Louisville, Detroit, Miami, Buff
s~faIo and Seattle are contenders for
next years convention, while Bos.
ton and Los Angeles dominate the
tield Tor the 1890 bidding.
*r Scenes Of previous national con-
ventions Of the American Legion
and the commanders they elected:
1 1Sl9-Minneapolis; Frank D'Olier
of Philadelphia.
1920-Cleveland; F. W. Galbraith
.ssof New York.
1021--Kansas City; Hanford Mac
~Nider Of Mason City, Iowa,
1o22-New Orleans; Alvin NJ.
Owsley Of Dallas, Texas.
1S2S-San Francisco; John r.
Quinn Of Dslano, Calf.
S 1924-St. Paul; James A. Drain
pf Washington.
I'D 1926-Omaha; John r. McQuias
bf East Cleveland, Ohio.
~ 1926-Philadelphia: Howard P.
SAvage Of Chicago.
"a l927-Paris; Edward E. spafford
Sof New York.