The Ely miner., 1932-05-20
VIM. FURL0NG
LEGION CHIEF
Eighth District Nominates VIM.
Furlong of Hibbing as
District Commander.

nominated at the district convention in
Cloquet Saturday for the Office of dis
trict commander, the annual election
of the district officers to take place in
June at place to be named shortly.
Others put up for offices at the time
were George Vivian, Duluth, for ad-
jutant, and for vice commanders are !:
Charles HonSka, International Falls,
border area; John Bachens, Coleraine,
Mesaba- -Itasca area; j. j. Beaton, Nash
wauk, Mesaba-Itasca area; Ray Matt
son, Tower-Soudan, Mesaba-V -Vermilion
area, and Earl Guimont, Biwabik, Mes
aba-Vermilion area.
Delegates nominated to attend the
national convention of the American
Legion at Portland, Ore, in September
include: Louis Eckenrode, Eveleth; DR..
H. w. Schmidt, Hibbing; George SjoSe-
Illus, Duluth; Patrick Farnand, Hibbing;
Galen Finnegan, Grand Rapids, and E.
j. McGilvray, Cloquet. From this group
three will be named as delegates and
three as alternates. There was dis
cussion of backing E. v. CPat"O Cliff
of Ortonville for national commander,
and Nate v. Keller, Virginia, was in
dorsed for delegate-at-large to the ma
tional convention at Portland, to be
voted upon at the state legion conven-
ton at Bemidji in August.
No nominations of any kind were
made at the legion auxiliary meet Sat-
urday, both the nominating and elect
ing of officers and delegates being left
to take place at the meeting in June.
About 125 delegates from points in
the Eighth congressional district at
tended the one-day meet with more
than 200 in attendance at the banquet
program and dance held in Eagles hall
in the evening. The Ely Auxiliary was
represented by Mrs. Peter Schaefer.
Judge Elmer McDevitt, Duluth,
colonel of the One Hundred and
Twenty-fifth field artillery, was the
principal speaker at the banquet. c. L.
McNair of the local Carl Anderson post
was the POSTMASTER. Short addresses
of welcome were given by Mayor H. G..
Kaner, who presented the key to the
city to Mrs. A. G. Schaefer, Duluth,
district auxiliary vice president; T..
Shantz-Hanson, Cloquet post COM
mander, and Mrs. j. E. McClintock,
president of the local auxiliary unit,
with responses made by Jack RIVAL,
Hibbing, district legion commander,
and Mrs. Schaefer, Duluth, district
auxiliary vice president.
There followed the introduction of
distinguished guests, who extended
greetings, including: Oscar Youngdahl,
Minneapolis, state legion commander;
Mrs. Halsey D. Cory, Winona, state
auxiliary president; Mrs. John Rowe,
Eveleth, state auxiliary chaplain; A. b.
Kapplin, Duluth, and G. v. Barron,
Cloquet, past state commanders; E. j..
McGilvray Cloquet, district commander,
and Mrs. Fred Decker, Cloquet, district
auxiliary president. A presentation of
past district commanders lodge was
made to Judge McDevitt, first to hold
that post in the district, by E. j. Nc
Gilvray, present commander. In ap-
probation of her work and interest and
that of the local auxiliary, G. v. Bar
ron presented boquet of roses to
Mrs. Decker from Carl Anderson post.
Judge McDevitt in his address Of the
evening, National Defense" declared
this country, despite its comparative
great wealth, resources and population,
has at the present time pronounced
lack of national defense. He insisted
there is actual need of greater means
of defense tranquility and peace for this
nation.
Speakers at the business session of
the legionnaires held in the legion club
rooms, starting at P. NJ, were Oscar
Youngdahl, Minneapolis, state COM
mander; Paul Dickensheets, Mime
apolis, veterans bureau; Lewis Lohman,
st. Paul, and Homer Carr, Proctor, dis
trict service officer. A report on hos
pitalization, adjusted compensation and
disability allowances in the district was
made by Mr.. Carr. Membership and
community service were also discussed.
The Eighth district legion auxiliary,
meeting in the jefferson school audi
torium, opened at 3 o'clock with a
memorial service dedicated to auxiliary
members in the district who had died
in the last year. Small children placed
carnations in cross of evergreens in
dicating the loss of a member. Mrs.
Rowe, Eveleth, district chaplain, read
the service
Auxiliary members who have died
in the last year and to whom the SER
vices was held in memory were: Mrs.
Anna Madsen, gold star mother, Moose
Lake; Mrs. Caroline Peterson, gold
star mother, and Mrs. Augusta Katzel,
Barnum; Mrs. Annie Harrison, Duluth;
Mrs. Asora B. Week, Two Harbors; Mrs.
S. B. Sher, Hibhing; Mrs. Mary Elirtson,
Mrs. Louise Carlson and Mrs. James
Coad, Mountain Iron: Mrs. Lucy Spawn,
Grand Rapids, and Mrs. Hannah Helix
kala, Ely.
Nineteen of thirty-f1ve units in the
district were represented, giving splen-
did reports on work done by each unit
from January to May, in Americaniza-
ton, child welfare and disqualification
Ways and means of raising money to
help disabled veterans and families were
discussed.
Memorial Day Program.