The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-09-23
STATE DELEGATION
TAKES IT EASY AT
LEGION CONVENTION
Makes Big Hit in Parade Tues,
day; Had Place Near Head
Of Procession

Detroit. Mich, Sept. 23.-PeMost
of North Dakota's $50 representa-
tiveS at the national convention Of
the American Legion were taking it
easy Wednesday, save the hard
working Grand Forks drum and
bugle corps which is making q bid
for national recognition in the drill
contests being staged at Navin field.
Tuesday the North Dakota delega-
ton paraded before the greatest
throng ever to witness q Legion
parade.
Estimates Of the crowd ranged up-
wards Of 100000 to 100000. The
parade, which began at 10 in the
morning, did not close until nearly
10 hours later, a solid stream of COL
or parading and battling its way to
the reviewing stand. Police guards,
arm-ln-arm. held the mob to the
curbs. Just before reaching the
stand, the North Dakota section mar
rowly escaped being crushed, but a
group of 10 cavalry men STAYED oft
the rush.
Band Is Applauded
The North Dakota delegation, be-
cause Of the fine membership show
Ing last spring, Jared we'll in the
parade, being within half q mile of
the head. The group was headed by
the national and state flags, follow
ed by State Commander Joe Rabino-
vich and Mrs. A. G. Porter, Edgeley
state Auxiliary leader. Behind them
In order came the state band, the
delegates, and the red and white uni
formed Grand Forks corps.
Headed by Cy Adams as drum
major, the Grand Forks unit joined
with the state band in reception Of
an enthusiastic greeting which saw
the two groups the favorite targets
of news and movie cameramen. Miss
Audrey Houglum, state band enter
tainer and Agricultural college fresh
man, got as good a hand as any in
dividual performer.
Wednesday the state band renewed
its ballyhoo of the city's streets and
principal among its numbers was the
yellow and the Green" which will he
played for the North Dakota Agri-
cultural college football team as II
meets Minnesota at Minneapolis Sat-
urday.
If Grand Forks drum and bugle
corps doesn't achieve national recog.
milton in Wednesdays drill contests
it won't be because they haven't hat
plenty Of practice and fresh air.
Have High Parade Ground
For four hours Tuesday night thu
Grand Forks boys, who didn't know
whether they we're to enter nationa
competition until last Friday, march.
ed through their intricate maneuver'
atop a History hotel here. Thei
drums were muffled and their bras!
muted. But they were high abov'
the bedlam which reigned as thre,
thousand policemen sought to un
tangle the traffic jam which has pre-
vailed since the Forty-an-Eigh
parade Of Monday night.
Mrs. Louise w. Williams, Tucka,
hoe, N. Y, and Mrs. w. H. Morgan
E~dwardsville, ILL.,, will be placed il
nomination Wednesday for nationa
president Of the Auxiliary, with in,
dications Of q close contest when tn,
election is held at the closing SEES
sion Thursday.
Other national officers OF tn,
Auxiliary also will be placed il
nomination Wednesday, including
the five vice presidents. Thes
nominations to be followed by cleo
ton tomorrow, are mere formalities
inasnuch as the vice presidents hav
been selected at divisional caucuses.
The vice presidents thus named in
clude Mrs. G. F. Shower, Of For