Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-27

announces that the American Legion
last week passed the largest nationa
membership In Legion history and ha
had a most successful legislative year
In 1920, the peak year Of membership II
the organiza ton. GAS 900 veterans wer
enrolled. and the $4,000 mark is nov
about to be reached, according to infor
nation forwarded to Comdr. Knight b,
National Comdr. o. L. Bodenhamer
The American Legion monthly maya
zine. has passed the $50 900 circulation
National rcemdr. Bodenhamer in {
communication to Comdr. knight says
"Odr community service and citizen
ship programs have advanced In .
wonderful way. Legion officials arr
rendering better service work In behalf
of our disabled. On every hand, Pos
officials and Legion leaders have re.
sponded wonderfully to the call of the
Legion and want to thank all for the
part which you have played in making
this year so successful"
OF interest to local Legionnaires Is
the announcement that il passed the
quota in membership set by national
headquarters and is still forging to the
front and will continue to do so until
the national convention in Boston, Oc-
tober 8, z, and 8. The exact per-
centage of the 1880 quota was 100.lS as
officially announced.
AS the result of the membership
standings of the various departments
on June Is, the Department of Arizona
will lead the big parade in Boston
Tuesday, October 7, this departments
percentage being 1882 out of the 4s
domestic departments. The Depart
ment Of the District of Columbia will
occupy twenty-ninth place in the parade
in view of the fact that the Depart.
ment of Massachusetts,, which finished
in twenty eighth position in the men,
bership race, yields to last position In
the parade as host department, which
moves the Department Of the District OF
Columbia up from thirtieth position to
twenty-ninth in line.
According to information received by
Department Adjt. Howard s. Fisk, the
big parade is being routed in order that
100000 persons on the streets of Bos-
ton will be able to view it, Present
plans call for making this the largest
and most entertaining national con-
vention ever held in the history Of the
American Legion. Housing accommo-
dations are expected to reach 108, 1900
for Legionnaires, while delegations
from Maine and New Hampshire and
other nearby departments wial stay
with relatives and friends In the vagt-
Gus posts, total of about 5000 adot-
tional Legionnaires. Legion halls VIII
have space available with the various
chlbs prepared to house several hun
dfed members The Army and Navy
Headquarters and bases have volunteer
ed their help. ans the Summer hotels
on the North Shore along the ocean
front expect to house $500. Rooming
houses will take care of $4,000, Pull
Rsaaysr mn and ct Vv1Are ahNlIt < nm
The entertainment features ARE the
most elaborate ever attempted at a
Legion gathering.
The convention in Bo=ton involves
the responsibility of all New England
departments or States, because on the
convention corporation have been Sc
lected prominent citizens and Legion
mares from each Of those States. It Is
the second time in the history of Le-
gion conventions. that corporation
has been formed by the Legion oficials
directly concerned, solely for the pur-
pose of arranging the convention and
Former President Calvin Coolidge is
the honorary chairman of the corpora
ton. Mai. Gen. Clarence r. Edwards
is chairman of the board of directors.
Forty-five active committees are all or
ganized and functioning, directing a
total of 800 mems duties in preparing
for the big event. In addition to the
plans of the convention committee
about rs posts are going to entertain
visiting Legionnaires in special ways.
National headquarters Of the Ameri-
can Legion will be in the Hotel Statler.
The executive offices will be In Horti-
of the convention to be held in the
Arena Building, one block from Horti-
cultural Hall. The delegation from the
District of Columbia will be housed in
the Copley Plaza Hotel The head
quarters of the American Legion Ma
tional Auxiliary will be in the Somerset
Hotel, with daily sessions of the con-
vention in Symphony Hail. across the
street from Horticultural Hail.
The convention week will open Sun
day afternoon, October S, with a pa
triotic pageant with between 100 and
200 floats. That evening. under the d.
rection of National Chaplain George
F. Kettell of Macedon, N. Y, there
will be memorial meeting in Faneuil
Hall, the Cradle of Liberty"
AT the close of the convention ses-
sion Monday there will be held an avia-
ton show with the greatest aggrega-
ton of lighting planes ever seen In
this country. about 200, floating over
the Hub" city, putting on an attack
They will be accompanied by the Los
Angeles airship. Monday evening the
annual parade Of the Forty and Eight,
honor and play society of the Ameri-
can Legion, will be staged, while the
annual dinner of the national COM
tnander will be held the same evening.
The big parade Is scheduled for
Tuesday and the annual States dinner
OF the American Legion Auxiliary will
be held and is expected to be a bril-
liant affair. Dancing will also take
place that evening in Copley Square.
Open house at Revere Beach will be
another feature for the visiting Legion
naires. Wednesday the historic ball
and pageant will be held. This prom
ises to be a colorful event and is q
reward for Legion and Auxiliary men,
bership workers throughout the Ma
ton. Costumes of eve-y description
from the early period o. American his
tory will be represented.
Thursday will be Sle final session OF
the convention, wits its attendant cleo
ton OF q new natiJslal commander and
other national officers. The City of
Boston will be q veritable fairyland
both day and night, for the four days,
and nothing Is being left undone to
make this the most attractive and in
Viting convention in Legion history.
Quentin Roosevelt Post, No. IL,
American Legion, will hold its July
meeting tomorrCw night, at o'clock
at the Potomac Boat Club Delegates
and alternates to the Department Con-
vention Of the Legion will be elected
and these delegates will attend the con-
vention with instructions TO support
for department commander DR.. B. G.
MacNeil, post surgeon. Plans for
entering float in the parade Of the
Legionnaires, to be held on August Is,
20 open the department convention
will be discussed, and 1t is r=obable
that the post will enter something of q
nautical nature, carrying out the idea
Of the relationship of the post men,