Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-07
American Legion.

More than 100000 peoples were sold
by the American Legion Auxiliary in
the annual Memorial day poppy sale
this year. according to the annual re-
port of the auxiliary, which will be pre-
sented to the national convention at
San Antonio, Tex, october to IL, ard
later filed with Congress.
The money raised by the sale has been
devoted to the rehabilitation of disabled
veterans of the World War and in child
welfare work. The disabled men who
made the peoples received about $4,000
for their work, according to the report
Mrs. Adalin Wright Macauley of Me-
nominee. Wis, past national president of
the American Legion Auxiliary, has been
elected president of the Women's Aux
I iliary of Fidac, the interallied veterans
federation, according to cable re-
ceived at national headquarters of
the auxiliary from Bucharest Ru-
mania, where the annual Fidac congress
was held. Mrs. Macauley, who was at
tending the congress as one of the
American delegates, is the first Amer
can woman to be elected to the Fidac
Auxiliary presidency.
While national president of the aux
iliary last year Mrs. Macauley led the
convention In Paris and the pilgrimage
to the World War battlefields and GENE
teries. She is returning to America fol
the national convention at San Antonio
Tex, after which she will go to Paris to
take up her duties at Fidac headquar-
tiers there
Besides the American Legion Auxiliary
the women's auxiliaries of the World
War veterans organizations in Great
Britain, France, Italy, Poland, Rumania
Belgium, Jugoslavia and CZechoslovakia
are member organizations of the Fidac
Auxiliary
Mrs. Irene Mcintyre Walbridge, ma
tional president of the American Legion
Auxiliary. has returned after completing
tour of auxiliary departments which
carried her into every State in the
Union. Mrs. Walbridge is the first ma
tional president who has visited every
auxiliary department in the United
States during her term of office. In adj
dition, she visited the department O!
Hawaii. being the first national pres-
dent to go to this island department
The department of Alaska and the de-
partment of Panama are the only two
departments in the entire organization
to which Mrs. Walbridge has been I'M
oOlC W give a pCAoUhdA FloII uuIu lS llEI
administration.
Delegates and alternates represent
ing the Department of the District of
Columbia at the tenth annual national
convention Of the American Legion at
San Antonio, Tex. October to IL, ar
rived last night at the convention city
and are today attending the various
committee meetings to which they have
been assigned Tomorrow morning Ma
ttonal Commander Edward e. Spafford
will call the convention to order and
will preside until his successor is elect
ed Thursday afternoon, the final ses-
sion OF the convention.
The delegates representing the District
are as follows: Dclegates-PaSt Dept.
Comdr. j. Miller Kenyon, Augustus B
Gardner Post; Past Dept. Vice Comdr
j. Thad Baker. Sergt Jasper Post;
Department Adjutant Howard S. Fisk
George Washington Post: Past Dept
Comdr. Julius /. Peyser, Vincent B. Cos
tello Post; Past Post Comdr. William
Mitchell. Vincent B. Costello Post:
Comdr. Emily j. Carey, Belleau Wood
Pest; First Dept. Vice Comdr. Thomas
D. Walsh. Vincent B. Costello Post; As
sistant Dept. Adiutant William F.
Franklin, Vincent B. Costello Post; Nor
man B. Landrau, Cooley mccullough
Post.
Alternates-Past Dept. Comdr. Amos