Evening star., 1932-07-29
.LEG|ONNA|RES BEAT
RESOLUTION ASKING
VETERANS TO CO
Norman B. Landreau Chosen
Department Commander,
Succeeding Fraser.
AUXILIARY ORDERED
SUSPENDED IN FIGHT
Banning of James E. Walker Unit
of Women Is Declared to Have
Been Unwarranted.

Declaring the amendment presented
Wednesday night at the fourteenth an
nual convention of the Department of
the District of Columbia. American
Legion, urging Bonus Expeditionary
Force veterans to depart to their re-
spective communities. had not been
adopted, the convention last night at
its final sessions in the Stuart Junior
High School directed the secretary to
write letter to the press to this effect
A motion by West A. Hamilton urg-
ing the veterans to return to their
homes was defeated, following sympa-
thetjc remarks by those present. Spe-
cial reference was made to the women
and children here with the veterans.
Landreau Is Elected.
Norman B. Landreau past COM
mander of ooley-McCullough Post, was
elected commander of the department
last night.
Other officers elected we're: First vice
commander, Porter Bush Lincoln Post;
second vice commander, Miss Emily j.
Carey, commander Belleau Wood Post;
third vice commander, James E. Lowry.
Washington Police Post; Chaplain,
Rabbi Louis Spiegler, Stuart Walcot
Post; national executive committeeman,
past dept. comdr. John Lewis Smith,
George Washington Post for term of
two years; alternate national executive
condr. Edward L. Marthin, Sergeant
Jasper Post.
The following we're elected to rep
resent the local department at the ma
tional convention in Portland Greg.
Delegates: Norman B. Landreau,
Cooley Mccullough Post; Ferdinand G.
Fraser, Sergt. Jasper Post; Samuel Ber-
lin, Henry C. Spengler Post: Joseph P.
Daley. Second Division Post; Past
Dept. Comdr Amos A. Fries, National
Press Club Post; Orene West, Jane A.
Delano Post; George w. Leblanc, Lin
coin Post; Warren E Miller, Stuart
Walcott Post: Asa B. Mustain, Stanley
Church de Pue Post; Charles o. Shaw,
George Washington Post.
Altenates: Daniel M. Goodacre,
Sergt. Jasper Post; Malcolm Coles. Ma
tional Press Club Post; T. Edward
Jones, James E Walker Post; Past Dept.
Comdr. Paul J. McGahan, National
Press Club Post; E. c. Minter, Victory
Post; John A Shaw, Victory Post;
Elmer r. Reynolds, Vincent B. Costello
Post Ben Moreel, Nash Post; Charles
P. Ruby, Sergt. Jasper Post: Bernard
Bee, Stanley Church De rue FoSC, ano
George Prendergast, George Washing
ton Post.
New Officers Installed.
At the opening of the session Dept.
Comdr Ferdinand G.. Fraser cleared the
auditorium of all persons except dele
gates and alternates to the convention
and the proposition to suspend the
American Legion Auxiliary OF the Dis
trict of Columbia was then discussed.
A resolution providing that the sus-
pension of the James E. Walker unit
of the auxiliary recently was unwar-
ranted and that the auxiliary depart
ment be Immediately suspended until
and pending action of a subsequent
convention of the Department of the
District of Columbia, the American
Legion" was adopted.
The newly elected department officers
were installed by Past Department
Comdr. Paul J. McGahan. while Past
Department Comdr. Watson 3. Miller
presented retiring Comdr. Fraser with a
gold wrist watch and Past Department
Comdr, Frank L. Peckham presented
him with past department command
er'S badge.