Evening star., 1932-03-27

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at department headquarters, the Amer
ican Legion, Transportation Building.
/ Finance Othcer Joseph j. Malloy has re-
| ported that the post now has 420 mem
berS in good standing, which is in excess
of 100 per cent of the quota assigned
| The next meeting of the post will be
| held on Tuesday evening at the Thomas
Circle Club, 1926 Massachusetts, avenue.
| for the exclusive purpose of stimulating
increase IN membership during the de-
| partment drive for members. Comdr.
Edward l.. Marthill will preside.
At the March meeting of the Stephen
/ P. McGroarty Post, No. 27, held at the
| Sears. Roebuck g. Co. Art Galleries.
| 1106 Connecticut avenue, the post voted
| to have the colors displayed in the Army
day parade, April 6, and to request
all members to turn out. In the same
communication the members will be
asked to contribute to the purchase of
/ colcrS for the auxiliary. request for
donation to Pershing Hall in Paris was
referred to a committee to consider the
advisabllity OF such a contribution and
to report on the method of raising the
funds necessary. The committee mem
| berS are Egbert E. Corwin, David w.
Close, Frank G. Howell and Joseph j.
! Idler.
The post voted to appoint a commit
tee to cooperate with similar commit
tee from the unit to secure and plant a
tree In memory of Stephen P. Nc
Groarty, after whom the post and unit
are named, in the grounds of the Pres
byterian Church at Falls Church prob
/ ably during this month. The committee
appointed by the commander is COM
posed of Comrades Corwin, Engen, Full
! Ter and Howell
Comdr. Lewis H. Guenther announced
! he would act as the post director on
! the Education of War Orphans Commit
tee of which Miss Eunice Dessez is de-
partment director. Edward Poole Day.
export and William Pruneau were re-
ceived as new members. William d.
Mulkey, senior vice commander Of Ken
meth B. Nash Post, invited the members
to visit his post.
The post will join with the unit in
card party May 6 at a place to be
decided upon.
Rose O'Hara, child welfare officer of
U. S. S. Jacob Jones Post, recently SUD-
Piled many children with shoes. Easter
baskets. filled with eggs, etc, donated
by Daisy Clark, Katherine Crowley. Es-
telle Richardson, Theresa Graves. Jane
COX. Katherine Payne and Helen Opitz,
1 "NtN w NC OIobl lOQ1T,
| A card party will be held Thursday
evening by the Ways and Means COM
mlttee at the home of Edith Quinn.
2l31 Florida avenue.
! Samuel Rose, national radio officer
| or the American Legion, a member of
| Stuart Walcott Post, announces an
american Legion radio program, ''Vic-
tory Membership Broadcast with all
n0SfC fhT0JIOhnl1t tho frr1 n
IN accordance with plans arranged at
national headquarters.
| Ihe broadcasting will constitute one
halt OF the program and will last one
nour, from 10 to IL pm. Eastern stand
ara time. The program in its entirety
VIII last two hours, either the first or
the last half of it being radio of a ma
tlonaI nature and the other half of it
local and Statewide program, but
not radio. The first As minutes of the
Droadcast VIII be over the coast to coast
N; b. =. red network and the last IS
minutes over both the red" and the
blue coast to coast NJ B. C. networks.
Ihe i0,4OO posts of the Legion will be
IN puohc meetings at the same time
| ThoSe on Eastern standard time will
| start their program at pm. and their
1rSt half OF the program will consist
OF State speakers and local entertain-
ment Tor one hour, up to 10 O'Clock
WLen tne national radio broadcast
starts. Each post will have a guest
| speaker from some other city or Com
munity, designated by the department
or State commander.
Stuart Walcott Post held a card marty
Thursday at the Grace Dodge Hotel
IhlS party was preceded by a brief
meeIng, Whlch mad as its honor guest
speaker theodore Risley, solicitor of the
Department of Labor, who was intro~
duced by Past Commander 7 O,C
Roberts, solicitor of the Veterans, AZ.
miniStration.
Jane A Delano Post held its March
meeting at the Graduate Nurses Assn-
citation with Comdr. Anne Pryde pre-
siding.
A dinner will be given at the Grace
Dodge Garden House March 81 at 7
pm. in honor of Past Comdr. Annie
S. Humphrey and Finance officer Ada
w. Duncan.
Past Comdr. Humphrey, department
ch1id welfare oflcer, and national child
welfare oIncer OF area B of the Ameri-
can Legion, IS reS1gning her position
IN the american Red Cross April l and
will make her future home in New
York, though she will retain her mem
bership in this post.
Ada W. Duncan, finance officer, re-
signed.
There will be no April meeting as
the dinner, March 81, will take the
place OF regular monthly meeting.
At the meeting of Victory Post last
Tuesday evening Comdr. C. w. Brown
ing presided and received a large prol1n
of candidates for membership presented
by Edwin c. Minter, membership Off
Ger. The following applicants were
elected to membership: Arthur Edwin
Koch, Sidney Solomon, Anthony j.
MarbolS, Clair A. Ferguson, Albert G.
Nu, George r. Higgs, Martin L. Gal
lagher, Clarke w. Lingley, William u
jenkins, Charles Gallagher and Arvin
M Groves.
Albert J. Kearney, adjutant, an
nounoed the total paid membership
had passed the 400 mark.
The post reaffirmed its request on
Congress for immediate payment of the
adjusted compensation certificates and
instructed N. P. Cassidy, past COM
mander, to protest the pressure from
national headquarters in an attempt
to prevent the Legion's approval of the
immediate payment of the so-called
bonus.
Truman Kratskopf, maior-domo of
the Post Drum and Bugle Corps, an
nounced he had arranged for smoker
April 8 at the Coast Artillery Armory,
Water and o streets. southwest.
The Executive Committee Of the
American Legion Auxiliary, Depart
ment of the District of Columbia, met
at the Sears. Roebuck Art Gallery,
1l06 Connecticut avenue, March II,
with Mrs. Joseph H. Minis, depart
ment president, presiding.
Committee reports were made, as
follows: Unit Activities and Com
munity Serv.re, Mrs. James Kehoe:
Child Welfare Committee. Mrs. How
ard Fisk; Finance Committee, Miss
Edna Mcintosh, announced the de-
partment card party at the Washing