Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-06

pointed as follows: Adjutant, G. w.
Browning Victory Post; finance officer,
John w. Shultz, Victory Post; Hospital
Committee, A. N. Schroeder, Victory
Post; Civic Activities, N. P. Cassidy, Vic
tory POST craftsmanship director, o.
M. Schriver, Costello Post; color bearer,
Edward McCabe, Costello Post; markers
officer, William Franklin, Costello Post;
Distinguished Guests, julius I. Peyser,
Costello Post; director welfare, Francis F.
Miller, Bureau Engraving Post; men,
bership officer, James Kehoe, Bureau
Engraving Post; Resolutions chairman,
Martin Dyer, Bureau Engraving Post;
assistant adjutant, Emily j. Carey, Bel
leau Wood Post; assistant adjutant,
Jane Breen, Jacob Jones Post; Hospital
Committee, Charlotte Berry, Jacob
Jones Post; child welfare officer, Annie
Humphrey, Delano Post; liaiSon officer,
Warren E. Miller. Walcott Post; radio
officer, Samuel Rose, Walcott Post: G.
NJ. T. C. officer, Theodore Cogswell.
Gardner Post, Hospital Committee, DR..
T. Edward Jones, Walker Post; Ameri-
canism officer, Forest F.. Bartl, Lafay-
cite Post legislative officer, H. l.. Will
son, Lafayette Post; Boy Scout officer,
Altus Moore. Police Post; color bearer,
w. P. Ais. Police Post; sergeant at
arms, Bernard Buscher, Killeen Post;
master at arms, H A. REM jr., Tank
Corps Post; department surgeon, DR.. w.
l.. Kline, Lincoln Post; council, DR.. M.
M Fowler, Lincoln Post; Armistice day
Cullough Post; Memorial day officer,
William E. Spicer, I'd Division
Post; quartermaster. Thomas Fawcett,
Spengler Post; Permanent Home chair
man, Edgar Hale Spengler Post; en-
ployment officer, Amos A. Fries, Ma
tional Press Post; uniform officer, E. E.
Corwin, McGroarty Post; Veterans Pref
erence, Joseph j. Idler, McGroarty Post,
Helen Mccarthy Jacob Jones Post, and
Frank Peckham, Tank Corps Post; For
eign Relations, Howard Bresee, NASH
Post; judge advocate, William Kehoe.
Jasper Post, and athletic officer, Daniel
Pratt, Jasper Post.
Department Commander F. G. Fraser
this week addressed his first message to
post commanders and adjutants as fol-
lows:
Membership cards for 1892 are now
available and all posts are requested to
call for these at the earliest possible
moment.
The department commander and
Executive Committee meeting offered a
prize of $50 for all Legionnaires whose
IL and whose cards are at headquar-
tiers at that time. The prize viii be
voted as follows: First, $25; second,
SIS, and third, $40.
The department commander is offer
ing prize of $25 to the comrades Sc
curing the greatest number of re-
inStatementS prior to November IL,
1881, to be voted as follows: First, $40;
second, $3.50; third, SIS. and fourth,
$3.50
THE Department Executive Commit
tee authorized prize of $25 to the
comrade selling the most books to aid
the drum corps to go to Detroit.
Persons desiring hotel and railroad
accommodations to the national con-
vention should contact Adjutant c. w.
Browning at department headquarters
at once. All hotel reservations must be
accompanied with SIS deposit per per-
son.
"Contirding the arrangement in eff
feet in the national convention cities
during the past few years. there will be
temporary flag STATS available for visit
ing posts and departments at the De-
troit convention. These stats are al
ready in Detroit and will be furnished
free upon arrival to all posts and de-
partments WHO desire them as a gift
of the Boston Convention Corporation.
Upon arrival in Detroit contact should
be made with the Offices of Alton T.
Roberts, executive vice president, 1881
National Convention Corporation, 2515
Barlum Tower.
1T is requested that in your next cir
cular to comrades of your post you ask
them to volunteer for services, such as
serving on Department Hospital Com
mittee, Department CeremonialS Com
mittee funerals at Arlington) or for
any services that they might wish to
render.
The Department Executive Commit
tee meeting will be September II.
Change is necessary due to national
convention dates, which are September
81 to "a, inclusive"
The National Child Welfare Confer
ence of the American Legion will be
held in Detroit the afternoon Of Sep
TENDER 20, just prior to the opening of
the Legion's thirteenth national con-
vention. Greetings will be extended by
James F. Barton, national adjutant of
the Legion; Mrs. Robert L. Royal, ma
tional president of the auxiliary;
Charles w. Ardery, national secretary
of the 40 and 8, and Mrs. Ethel Muir
ply, lie chapeau national Of the 8
and 40.
Addresses in connection with child
welfare will be made by c. w. AreSon,
formerly with the Child Welfare League
of America, and j. Prentice Murphy,
executive secretary of the Childrens
Bureau of Philadelphia.
Reunions of various units have been
planned in connection with the ma
tional convention in Detroit September
81 to "a. They are the Sd Division,
9th Division, 32d Division, 37th Divi-
sion, 42d Division, 18th Division, 81st
Division, Air Service Mechanics, 49th
Aero Squadron; 23d and 26th Engineers
tillery, 313th Field Signal Battalion,
Company D, 326th Machine Gun Bat
talon; Motor Transportation Corps
301-2-3, Motor Transportation Corps
420, Naval Base No. q, Naval Battery,
Poitiers University; Tank Corps outfits,
U. S. Naval Base No. 6, Submarine
U. S. Submarine Veterans, U. S. S.
Annapolis, U S. S. Arethusa, U. S. S.
Michigan, U. S. S. North Dakota, U. S. S.
Rhode Island, U. S. S. Wilhelmina,
U. S. S. Wyoming, Aero Squadron, 9Th
Air Service; 18th Aero Squadron
47th C. A. c. Artillery, Company K,
337th Infantry; 47th Engineers, Mine
Force Association, Ordnance Depart
ment, Bassens and st. Nazaire; q. S. S.
Powhatan and U. S. S. Michigan.
The advisory council Of u S. S. Jacob
Jones Post, No. 2, will meet at the horcs
of the publicity officer. Eloise BroadduS
next Thursday evening, with Rose
O'Hara, child welfare officer, and Estelle
Richardson. assistant adjutant, as
co-hostesses.
Permission has been granted this post
to hold its next regular monthly meet
ing in the board room Of the District
Building in order to accommodate the
large number expected on the occasion
of the election of officers.
The post has Endorsed the plan Of
national headquarters to sponsor the
production of a feature sound and talk
ing picture of the Legion's thirteenth
annual national convention, to be held
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