New Britain herald., 1930-10-06
Legion Briefs

days of tribulation for desert iguan- as, horned toads and rattlesnakes. Several iguanas and toads. creatures of the menagerie brought by the Ari- zona delegation, will eat nothing but large red ants. The supply brought from home has been exhausted and none are to be found in Boston. The snakes are anxious for their diet of flies, the stock of which must be re- plenished at once. A number of lizards have already passed away but keepers declared it was the cold that did for" them-they just plain ''froze to death." A monkey faced owl, much prized member of the collection. got itself lost almost as soon as it reached town.
 ! Out where shellfish is an uncom- mon delicacy there seems to be a great taste for it. Delegates from south and middle western states are lreported to have accounted for the entire stocks of Holsters of several downtown grills and restaurants be- l iolC looil sCStCl Oos. 1iit A>C" A-4eo land clam chowder lasted only a scouple of hours longer.
 Nassau County, Long Island, New York, may be small numerically but it ranks large in state departmental affairs. Edward J. Neary of West bury is state commander and dis abled veteran, Maurice Stember of
 Freeport is state adjutant, Major
 Ralph c. Cook of Cedar Hurst will
 be state marshal in the big parade,
 while Mayor Joseph M. McCloskey of Freeport is also & Legionnaire.
 1t is mileage rather than the bus mess depression which kept the Ala bama delegation down to 100, said Rufus H. Bethea, state commander. but nothing could keep the natty Birmingham drum corps home. The players sport turkey red coats, white military trousers and white helmets while their sleeves are adorned with | the state flag in miniature.
 The Jackson, Mississippi drum and bugle corps, which is state champion, came out tenth in last years national contest, and modestly admits it expects to do much better 1 this time. Incidentally, Mississippi is boosting w. Dudley Owen, past state commander for national vice. commander. Forest G. Cooper of Indianola, state commander, and | Robert T. Morrow of Jackson, state adjutant, are running Owens cam l paign.
 New York's marchers are going to look very spiffy in blue and gold berets, blue ties, white flannels, dark coats and shoes as there'll be a few thousand of them.
 If Los Angeles takes home the | 1881 convention it won't be any fault of Detroit. Legionnaires from the Michigan metropolis argue that their, city is the geographical center of Legionnaire population, has low CT hotel rates and better accommo- dations than any city outside of New York and, in a time of business de- pression, will save lot of railroad ] fares that would have to be expend- ed on the west coast trip. They say they have S50,000 to back up their promises. Mayor Frank J. Murphy is going to present the invitation on behalf of the city while Wilber M. Bruckner, republican nominee for governor, Twill say it for the state. Medford Mass. which is official host to 25O Detroit veterans played the same role 25 years ago to De- troit G. A. R. veterans who attend ed the annual encampment of that organization at Boston.
 Sergeant Sanford Moeller has marched into town still beating the
 drum. He started out from New
 York on September A beating. AL
 though old enough to have served in
 the Spanish American War as well
 as the World War Moeller walked
 the whole 270 miles.