Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-03
LEGION DELEGATES
LEAVE TOMORROW
District Representatives Due
to Reach San Antonio
! Saturday Night.

The delegation representing the De-
hsrtnent of the District of Columbia
at the tenth annual national convention
of the American Legion at San An
tonic. Tex October 8 to II. will leave
the city tomorrow evening at $50
o'clock in special cars over the Penn
sylvania Railroad for st. Louis Contin-
uing from that point over the Missouri
Pacific lines to the convention city.
The train is scheduled to arrive Sat
rrday night at $50 o'clock.
The delegation includes the following:
Delegates: Past Department Com
mander j. Miller Kenyon Augustus B.
Gardner Post: Past Department Vice
Commander j. Thad Baker Sergeant
Jasper Post Department Adjutant How
ard s. Fisk. George Washington Post,
Past Department Commander julius /,
Peyser Vincent B. Costello Post; Past
Post Commander William Mitchell, Vim
cent B. Costello Post: Third Depart
ment Vice Commander Emily j. Carey,
Beleau Wood Post; Second Department
Vice Commander Thomas D. Walsh.
Vincent B. Costello Post; Assistant De-
partnent Adjutant William T. Frank
lin, Vincent B. Costello Post; Norman
3. Landrau. Cooley-McCullough Post.
Alternates: Past Department Com
Mander Amos A. Fries. National Press
Club Post: Francis J. Kelley. Lincoln
Post Eugene A. Costello. George E.
Killeen Post; Past Commander Charles
j. Painter. George washington Post;
Commander Mabel F Staub, U. S. S.
Jacob Jones Post; Edward L. Marthill,
Sergeant Jasper Post; Past Depart
ment Vice Commander Beatrice Bow
man. Jane A. Delano Post: Past Com
mander Thomas S. Mason, Vincent B.
Costello Post.
Wood Unable to Attend.
Owing to the absence of Department
Commander Harlan Wood, who will be
unable to attend the convention. he
has been succeeded by Norman B. Lam
drau, as chairman of the delegation
The vice chairman Of the delegation
IS Past Department Vice Commander J.
Thad Baker, with Department Adjutant
Howard S. Fisk as secretary.
A special Car containing large party
of local Legionnaires will leave at 3
o'clock tomorrow afternoon over the
Pennsylvania lines for Chicago, joining
the District delegation at ST. Louis A
number of the officers of the national
organization left this city yesterday via
the Southern Railway and Seaboard Air
Line for the convention city.
One of the main detectives of the
District delegation at the coming con-
vention will be to push the candidacy
of Past Department Commander Julius
I. Peyseh, as one of the five national
vice commanders to be elected on the
final day of the convention. The COM
mittee in charge of the Peyser move
ment at the convention will be Norman
B. Landrau, chairman, National Execu-
tive Committeeman and Past Depart
ment Commander Paul j. McGahan,
Department Adjutant Howard S. Fisk,
Department Vice Commanders Thomas
D. Walsh and Emily J. Carey and Past
Post Commander William Mitchell.
Delegates to 40 and g."
The delegates and alternates to the
Forty and Eight convention, which will
be held during the week of the Ameri-
can Legion convention, will also leave at
$50 o'clock tomorrow evening with the
Legionnaires from the District.
The delegates follow: j. O'C Roberts,
chairman; Norman B. Landrau, Austin
S. Imirie, Harlan Wood. j. Minter.
Alternates: B. c. Mcneil. Julius l.
Peyser, J. T1ad Baker, Thomas D.
Walsh, r. Caraiol. The Forty and
Eight organization is the playground
and honor society of the American
Legion.