Evening star., 1932-07-28
LEGION IN CAPITAL
.URCESBONUSARMY
TO RETURN HOME
District Department Conven-
ton Goes on Record Favor
ing Representation.
POLICE ARE COMMENDED
IN HANDLING OF B. E. F.
Repeal of Dry Law Also Sought in
Resolutions Adopted at Stuart
Junior High.

Although favoring prompt payment
Of the soldiers bonus, the District of
Columbia Department Of the Ameri-
can Legion adopted resolution last
night urging the bonus marchers to
leave Washington and return tmme-
diately to their homes.
The resolution was unanimously
adopted at the Legion's fourteenth
annual convention in Stuart Junior
High School. 1t came as an amend
ment to a prior resolution commencing
Supt. of Police Pelham D. GlaSsford
and members of the local Police De-
partment for using excellent judg-
ment" in handling the Bonus Expe-
ditionary Force assembled here
The convention also adopted by an
overwhelming vote a resolution calling
for immediate repeal of the Volstead
act, to be followed by the repeal of
the eighteenth amendment.
Urge Representation.
Representation in Congress and ma
tional suffrage was urged for the resi-
dents of Washington. In a resolution
urging the national convention at Port
land, Oreg., to take similar action, the
Legion said: ut is one of the basic
principles Of our Government that there
shall be no taxation without repreSen-
tation, this principle being violated in
the District of Columbia where no
citizens are entitled to vote, nor are
they given any voice in Congress or
the country"
Chairman Robert NJ Tolson present.
ed number of resolutions from his
committee, which were adopted. Among
them were the following: Sympathy for
DR.. B. C. MacNeil, past department
commander, on the death of his wife:
opposition to any change in national
defense act and pledging continued
support for national defense: opposition
and to furloughS; Endorsement OF De-
partment Comdr. Ferdinand G. Fraser
for national vice commander at the
Portland convention; opposition to abo-
lition of United States Employment
Service; that education of World War
orphans be made a major activity Of
the Legion; transferring Of veterans
and widows to classified service after
three years; excusing Of veterans to at
tend funerals Of veterans without loss
of pay; favoring unqualified preference
for veterans; giving aliens right to re-
ceive adjusted compensation and con-
Solidation of military and Navy rec
ords, preferably under jurisdiction Of
Veterans Administration.
Other resolutions adopted provided
for a joint reunion of the Grand Army
of the Republic, United Confederate
Veterans and the American Legion in
1888, disqualification for Russian invalid
veterans who served with United States
troops in World War and approval Of
sending out questionnaires by national
headquarters on national civic queS-
tions.
Communists Condemned.
The convention went on record con-
demning the activities Of the Commu-
mist party to overthrow governments by
force and opposition to official recogni-
ton of Russia. The national conven-
ton will be urged to adopt resolutions
opposing the cancellation of the whole
or any part of the debts owed the
United States by foreign countries. The
adherence of the United States to the
World Court on any terms and oppoS1-
ton to Joining the League of Nations in
any form was also provided IN resolu-
tions adopted.
other reports adopted during the ses-
sion included that of Department AdJt.
c. w. Browning. Francis F. Miller.
director of welfare and relief; National
Executive Committeeman John Lewis
smith. Athletic Officer Daniel H. Pratt,
Employment Officer Ralph W. Campbell
and Historian Elsie Pinney. A rising
vote of thanks was extended to John
Shultz, department finance officer, for
his untiring efforts during the past year,
following the adoption Of his report for
the year.
The convention was thrown into an
uproar when efforts were made to dis
cuss q resolution protesting against the
action last week of the American Le-
gion Auxiliary of the District of Co
iurnbia in suspending the James E
sion, a motion was presented for the
convention to go into executive session
Attending the session were over a hun
dred members of the auxiliary, but the
attempt to exclude them from the meet
ing resulted in the defeat Of motion
nv rs to 35.