Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-15
UNIT RULE LOSES
IN LEGION SESSION.
AFTER HARD FIGHT
Delegates to Vote According
to Post Instructions-Many
Nominations Are Made.
COGSWELL AND MACNEIL
COMMANDER CHOICES
Election Tonight Climax of D. c.
Department Annual Con-
vention.

At session marked by debate for
several hours over the so-called unit
rule" the District of Columbia Depart
ment of the American Legion nomi-
mated officers and adopted part of Q
list of many resolutions last night in
Western High school. The meeting was
the second one of the twelfth annual
convention of the department, which
will be concluded with the election OF
officers and adoption of other reSolu-
tions in the school tonight.
Theodore Cogswell, register of wills
for the District and member of the
Augustus p. Gardner Post, and DIR. B.
C. MacNeil of the Quentin Roosevelt
other for the Office of department COM
mander. A lively contest is anticipated
for tonight by their supporters. Mr..
CogSwell'S name was placed in nomi-
nation by Past Department Comdr J.
Miller Kenyon, while Eugene A. Co.'S
tello placed DR.. MacNeils name in
nomination.
Richard A. O'Brien of Costello Post
and F. G.. Fraser, commander of Sergt.
Jasper Post, were nominated for the
Office of first vice commander. How
ard F. Bresee, commander of the Ken
meth H. Nash Post, was the sole NOM
inee for the office of second vice COM
mander.
Nomination Of Others.
Others nominated at last nights
meeting were:
Miss Jane NJ Breen, commander Of
the U. 8. S. Jacob Jones Post. and Miss
Marjorie Woodzell, commander of the
Jane A. Delano Post, nominated for the
Office of third vice commander; Rev.
Howard E. Snyder of George Washing
ton Post, nominated for reelection to
the Office of department chaplain; John
Lewis Smith, past department COM
mander and member of George Wash
ington Post, and Paul j. McGahan,
nominated for the office of national
executive committeeman, and William
Wolff Smith, nominated for reelection
as national executive committeeman
alternate. Mr.. McGahan is the present
national executive committeeman. Dele
gates and alternateS to the national
| convention of the Legion are to be
nominated at tonight's session and
elected
| A lengthy debate over the unit rule"
as to whether delegation should cast
+! its votes as unit or split them, resulted
| in the adoption of resolution to allow
the delegates from any post to vote in
accordance with instructions from their
| post-caSting their entire vote for q
canQlQate or SplCClng IL.
The convention adopted a resolution
| urging "the Congress of the United
States and all others in authority"
toward building up the United States
Navy to the maximum strength allowed
under the London Naval Treaty.
Memorial Building Urged.
The building Of a memorial in the
National Capital to all those who served
War was urged in a resolution. The
resolution urged Representative Robert
Luce, sponsor of proposed legislation for
such a memorial, to seek to have the
| memorial take the form of a building
to include an auditorium and rooms in
which war memorials and trophies may
be stored.
Watson B. Miller, past department
commander and chairman of the Ma
| tional Rehabilitation Committee of the
Legion. was commended in resolution
for the work he has done in the cause
of disabled American veterans. An
other resolution expressed regret over
the recent death of Maj. Gen. Charles
T. Menoher. retired, former Chief of
the Army Air Corps. A copy of the
latter resolution was ordered sent to
the family.
Another resolution was adopted ask
ing that salaries of field employees of
the United States Veterans Bureau
that have been reduced due to the Tex
tension of the classification act into
the field" be restored to their original
amount. Legislation was urged for this
purpose.
Information Drive Urged.
The convention also adopted a reso-
luton urging the Legion to carry on an
extensive campaign to inform all vet
Grams of their right to renew their in
surance at the Veterans Bureau, I'M
der rights given them through Iegisla-
ton enacted In 1928,
M. E. Zumwinkle, past commander of
the Department of Minnesota, in a
brief address before the convention,
urged that the American Legion make
world peace one of its main detectives.
The resolutions adopted last night
had been reported on favorably by the
resolutions committee, Clyde Stovall,
chairman.
Among resolutions which the dele
gates expect to be brought before the
convention tonight is one advocating
the repeal of the eighteenth amend
ment. A similar resolution has been
considered In committee many times
before, delegates say, but has been
killed in committee before 1t could
reach the convention proper.
-----------o--------A