Evening star., 1929-06-30

The all-day outing and excursion OF
the Department of the District of Co
I,lInbia, the American Legion, at Mar
shall Hall, July 13, accorolng to reports
CT the various committee chairmen
gives promise of being gala occasion
for the Legionnaires and their friends.
The affair is being given for the .pur-
pose of raising funds with which to
send the Victory and Costello Posts
drum corps to the eleventh annual ma
tional convention at Louisville, KY,
September 80 to October 4. At the de-
partment convention held in this city
last August a resolution was adopted
to this effect and Department Comdr.
Harlan Wood Is carrying out that man
date. It is the desire of the excursion
committee to make this the largest and
most successful social event OF tne
present administration. According to
the plans as outlined by the excursion
committee the program OF events Will
include athletic contests, a base ball
game, prize dancing, beauty contest
and many other novel features Tor the
day. The winners In the beauty con-
test and prize dancing will be announc-
ed in the evening in the ballroom.
The reception committe will be mead
The reception committee Will be mead
Wood, assisted by the officers OF MS
oficial staff. The chairmen of the
other committees include the following;
Beauty contest, H. A. REM; dancing,
II. Hummer; music. Raymond A. Burke
and James Lynch; base ball, z. b.
I,von: athletics, Joseph ]. Idler; ad-
vertising, r. A. Burke; tickets, Depart
ment Adjt. Howard S. Fisk; stunt
advertising, James Lynch; voting con-
test, Mrs. Joseph J. idler ana MISS
Edith Summerson: publicity, Paul j
McGahan. A meeting of the commit
tee was held Thursday night at de-
partment headquarters in the Trans
portation Building at which time COM
plete reports were presented.
The members of the general commit
tee are as follows: Francis F. Miller,
chairman; Raymond A. Burke, vice
chairman; Department Third vice
Comdr Emily j. Carey, secretary; De-
partment Adjt. Howard s. Fisk, treas
urer; publicity, Paul j. McGahan'
=. LYON, L. E. Atkins. j. B. Jones, r.
n Madden. George Cook, 7. Norman
Templeton, Miss Edith Summerson. t
3. Brewer, Theodore Cogswell, George
p. Unmacht, Earl j. Brown, William
Grass, H. B. Marsh. H. A. REM Wini-
fred Nichols, H. Hummer, Mrs. Ger
trude Lowen, Bernard G. MCGEE, James
r. Pierce, Joseph j. Idler, T. Shee-
han, j. O'Connor Roberts, Mrs. Doro-
tiny b. harper, MIS-. Auh " AAAyt t'NA %
Melvin ]. Wilt, Mrs Mary Killeen, Mrs
Amos A. Fries, Mrs. Frank L. Peckham
Mrs. Thacker " Walker. Miss Gilbert
Cone, Mrs. Joseph j. Idler.
According to the latest tentative re-
port from national headquarters the
Department of the District of Columbia
was still holding second place in the
contest far the John r. Quinn trophy.
Among the advantages in winning this
contest are the location of the various
departments in the American Legion
parade, convention hall and housing as
signments for the coming national con-
vention. The Department of Hawaii is
leading the So departments in the
Legion with a percentage of paid-up
members over q four-year average OF
2O3.33 per cent; District of Columbia,
second with 154.64 per cent; Mississippi,
third, 144.53 per cent; Indiana, fourth
with 1902 per cent and Kentucky fifth
with 141.68 The Department of Ken
tucky. which will be the host depart