The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-09-27
VETERANS END TENTH ANNUAL
 MEETING HERE
American Legion and Aux. Hilary Sessions Close
 with Ball, Banquet

The Tenth Annual Convention of the American Legion and American Legion Auxiliary, Department of Alaska, last night wound up it's three-day session here in whirl- wind fashion, the closing events being the Annual Banquet and Convention Ball The veterans ard their friends celebrated in true Le. gicnnaire style, taking the town by storm llei i,,sss
 The Ketchikan and Petersburg delegates and visitors left at 2 am. today for their homes on the Beryl E. A large crowd attended them to the dock for a hilarious farewell salute. s sa ire'9s sa Hs 3.isti Pass Resolutions
 Eight resolutions were pass sd yesterday by the Legion in it's fina: business meeting. One of these expressed the appreciation of the ]! Legion for the assistance given the several posts by the Auxiliary units. H One rendered thanks to the citizens of Juneau, mentioning particularly K Gov George A. Parks, Rev. Harry | R. Alien, The Elks Lodge of Juneau, the Chamber of Commerce, Capt. | E. s. Addison, Comrhander of the | Unalga, the Juneau Volunteer Fire \ Department, Alaska Juneau G old Mining Company, the Alaska Daily Empire, Stro1ler'si Weekly and Rev. |iA. P. Kashevaroff, for courtesies | shown the delegations o e Other resolutions include: placing the Legion behind the oh ol Awards as asrf1eans of promoting good citizenship; recommending all posts have a Muster Roll Call at the meeting nearest Armistice Dav, | supporting the recommendation oi tho American Legion National Re l mobilization Committee for an ex- | tension of tho date of presumptiVe | service connection in cases of vet erans suffering from and with a true diagnosis of tuberculosis from
 January l, 1925, as now established by law, to January l., 1880.
 Need Service Officer
 Another resolution adopted au thorizes t he Department Com mander to appoint service officer for the Department, and rccom- mends an amendment to the By laws to provide for appointment or election annually of such an offi- cer.
 The Departments Official publi- cation, T he Alaska Legionnaire
 was officially endorsed and mem bers are urged to patronize the ad- ve1tisers who make possible its publication.
 Congress, in another resolution, was urged to amend the laws af- fccting disqualification of veterans to make it possible for Alaska vet erans needing treatment to enter local hospitals under some form of contract.
 Banquet is Held
 The banquet, held in Moose Hall was attended by Q capacity crowd and was featured by remarks from many members of the Auxiliary and by Legionnaires. F. M Policy. Committeeman-at-Larg presided
 as tcastmaster and introduced the
 honor guests at the speakers table
 who were; Doc" Carver, veteran
 of the American Revolution; Maur-
 ice Sharpe, new Department Com
 mander Mrs. Mary J. Fla. retiring
 Department President of the Auxiii-
 ary; Harold Dawes, Past Depart
 ment Commander; Mrs. Edi t h Sheelor, President of the Juneau
 Auxiliary; Frederick Nelson, Past Dept Commander; Mrs. J. B. Bern
 hofer, Past President of Juneau
 Unit; Karl Drager, Past Com
 mandcr Ketchikan Post and Secrc- tary-Treasurer of the Territor'a a, Boxing Commission; Mrs. McGE- . vary, President of the Ketchikan
 Unit; William Breslin, Delegate oi
 Fairbanks Post; Mrs. Johnson, Firs,
 Vicc-Prcsident of the Department
 Auxiliary; Edward Hermann, Post
 Commander of Juneau; Mrs J. T
 Petrich, Department Adjutant oi
 the Auxiliary; Tom Petrich, De.
 partment Adjutant of the Legion
 A. c. Fisher Past Department Com
 mander; Harry Sperling, Past Com.
 mander of Juneau Post, and Oscal
 Shinnenan, Delegate from the Sitks
 Post.
 A distinctive feature of the even
 ing came when MT. Policy asket
 that every one in the banquet hal
 arise and bow their heads in silen
 prayer for ten seconds asking fo
 the complete and immediate recoy
 cry of Dr. s. c. Shurick, retiring
 Department Commander who i
 now patient in the Veterans
 Bureau Hospital at Walla Walla
 Wash, and who is in very seriou
 condition.
 A profusion of deep golden mari
 golds and gaily colored dahlias len
 colorful note to the occasion. Red
 white and siue favors also carriet
 out the color scheme, of the Am
 erican Legion, as did three hug