Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-28
VETERANS SPECIAL
TO LEAVE TONIGHT.
Three Coaches Set Aside for
Delegation of Legionnaires
Going to Louisville.

A special American Legion train
carrying delegations to the eleventh
annual national convention of the
American Legion. opening at Louisville,
KY, Monday. will leave this evening
at $50 O'Clock over the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad. arriving in the conven-
ton city tomorrow morning at 1915
o'clock. The train is operating as the
second section of the National Limited.
Accompanying the delegations are the
Victory and Costello Drum Corps of
this city, which will furnish music for
the DICTIONARIES in the big parade next
Tuesday morning in the convention city
over a tWo-mile route The Maryland
delegation, which had been invited by
the local convention travel committee
to join the District outfit occupied three
coaches on the train. In addition, an
other coach will be added at Cumber-
land, having on board LegionnaireS
from the Western part of Maryland. 1t
is the largest party of Legionnaires
ever to depart FROM the National Capt.
tai to the convention city.
Organizations on Trip.
Included in the organizations making
the trip are the American Legion, De-
partment of the District of Columbia
the American Legion Auxiliary, Eight
and Forty and Forty and Eight, which
latter two are the honor societies of
the major organizations. Delegates and
alternateS from the respective organ
iZations will attend conventions which
are scheduled to be held throughout
all of next week.
The delegation representing the De-
partment of the District of Columbia
the American Legion, is composed OF
the following:
Observation-Disclosures Comdr. L. F.
Atkins chairman; Thomas D. Walsh
vice chairman; Department Adit How
ard S. Fisk. secretary; Past Department
Comdr Harlan Wood, Past Department
Comdr. Amos A. Fries. j. Thad Baker
Third Department Vice Comdr Lucille
Allan, Eugene A. Costello, Forest F.
Bartl, Past Department Comdr. and
National Executive Committeeman Paul
j. McGahan.
Observation-Disclosures Cogswell, Clyde
B. Stovall, Winifred Nichols, E. l.
Marthill, E: c. Minter, Charles ]. Paint
err, James H. Phillips, Mabel F. Staub
w. E. Opitz; national executive COM
mittee alternate, William Wolff Smith.
Auxiliary Delegation.
The American Legion Auxiliary dele
cation is composed of the following:
Delegates-Mrs. Amos A. Fries, Mrs
L6Ol AIIlOlO, MIS-. 1IlOIlldS T. rdWCeLU
Mrs. Ada Murray, Miss Hodges, Miss
Mildren Nash.
Alternates-Mrs. Ethel Wilt. Mrs
Mary E. Killeen. Mrs. N. N. Mock, Mrs
Nash, Mrs. Ethel Fowler and Mrs. Mary
Soper.
The Eight and Forty will be repre-
scented as follows:
Delegates-E. T. Hitch, F.. G Fraser
Austin S. Imirie, Norman B. Landrea
and j. O'C. Roberts
Alternates-Charles H. Knight. James
H. Phillips, Thomas D. Walsh, T. J.
Sheehan and E. G.. Fliester
Among the past commanders of the
local department attending the con-
vention are John Lewis Smith, Paul
J. McGahan, Frank l.. Peckham, Julius
l. Peyser, Amos A. Fries and Harlan
Wood. Included in the party will be
two past national commanders lin chief
of the United Spanish War Veterans,
John Lewis Smith and Rice w, Means,
and also James G. Yaden. past de-
partment commander of the District of
Columbia.
Will Support Peyser.
The local delegation attending the
American Legion convention will sponsor
Past Department Comdr. Julius l. Pey-
ser for one of the national vice COM
memberships. At the recent department
executive committee of the local depart
ment he was unanimously Endorsed for
that high Office. and at a meeting last
week of the delegates and alternates 10
the convention it was voted to put forth
every effort to land this much-coveted
Office in the national organization.
The department Louisville convention
travel committee which arranged the
details of the special train was COM
posed of Department Adjt. Howard S.
Fisk, chairman; Eugene A. Costello,
secretary; Miss Hope Knickerbocker,
Miss Winifred Nichols, Thomas u.
Walsh. Norman B. Landreau and Alex
ander Mann. The train is in charge of
L. o. Drumright, Legionaire of this
department, assistant city passenger
agent of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad.