Evening star., 1934-10-14
District Legion Group
To Leave Friday Night
Delegation Will Represent Department at
Sixteenth Annual Convention at Miami
Ocober % to 25.


Columbia, American Legion
Il at the sixteenth annual ma
tional convention of the Amer
lean Legion at Miami, Fla, from Oc-
tober % to 25. will leave the Union
Station next Friday night at 1859
o'clock over the Seaboard Air Line
Railway in special cars.
The delegation will be headed by
Department Comdr. James O'Connor
Roberts. He will be accompanied by
other delegates and alternateS, arriv-
ing in the convention city Sunday
morning at 7:30 O'Clock in order for
the members to assume assignments
on convention committees, which con-
vene Sunday at l o'clock. A number
of Legionnaires will also be in the
party, including a number OF visit
ing members of the organization.
The following day at $50 o'clock a
special train will leave with the vast
majority of veterans and their fam
lilies and members of the American
Legion Auxiliary, Forty and Eight,
and Eight and Forty organizations for
the Southern city The train will b.
over the same railroad and is eX-
pected to arrive in Miami at 5:o0
o'clock Sunday evening.
The headquarters of the District
outfit while in Miami will be in the
McAllister Hotel, which is also the
headquarters of the national organ
ization. Those outside the delegation
will be housed in the Fairfax and
Pershing Hotels, located near the
headquarters hotel. A number OF
Legionnaires from the National Cap
ital are motoring to Miami, while
several have gone down in advance
to attend the convention of the Mill
tary Order of the World War, which
concluded yesterday in the same city.
The headquarters Of the American
Legion Auxiliary will be in the
Miami-Biltmore Hotel at Coral Gables,
a suburb of Miami. The annual aux
iliary convention will be held in this
hotel at the same time the American
Legion is in session.
The convention will open Monday
morning at o'clock and will be an
open-air convention in Bay Front
Park. The convention will be called
to order by National Comdr. Edward
A. HAYES at $50 o'clock, following
musical selections by the Blatz Post,
No. 373, Band of Milwaukee, Wis, and
Herbert F. Akroyd Post, No. 1872, Drum
and Bugle Corps of Marlboro, Mass,
both national champion organizations.
Addresses will be made by Gov. Shultz
of Florida, the mayor Of Miami and
the president of the American Legion
1884 Convention Corporation, which
will be followed by response by Past
National Comdr. Louis Johnson.
At 1890 o'clock memorial services
will be conducted by Rev. Robert j.
White, national chaplain, with mu-
sical selections appropriate to the
occasion, followed by silent prayer and
TAPS" Addresses by distinguished
guests and the report Of the national
commander will complete the session.
The big parade on Tuesday will
start at 1890 o'clock in the morning,
with the Department of the District
of Columbia in the fifth division and
department No. rs of the 49 depart
ments represented in this annual
event. There will be 10 divisions in
the parade, which will be led by the
department Of Arizona. The colorS OF
all delegations will be maSsed and
the reviewing stand will be on Bis
cayne boulevard.
The business session will be re-
sumed Wednesday in the Olympia
Theater at o'clock with the presen-
tation of the various committee re-
ports. Addresses will also be made
by several distinguished guests who
will attend this session. The final
session will be held Thursday in the
theater, concluding in the afternoon
with the annual eelction of officers.
The first of the convention COM
nittees will hold sessions Sunday aft
ernoon, the Credentials Committee
meeting at o'clock, the Committee
on Permanent Organization at 1:15
O'Clock, the Committee on Rules at
1870 o'clock and the Sons of the
American Legion Conference at 2
o'clock, all in the McAllister Hotel,
The Child Welfare Conference will
take place at 2 o'clock in the Elks'
Club and at o'clock meeting of the
National Executive Committee is
scheduled.
William N. Morell, chairman of the
National Pilgrimage Committee of
the American Legion, member of
the local department, has arranged
to receive any visiting delegations as
they pass through this city en- route to
Miami desiring to visit the Tomb of
the Unknown Soldier. The national
organization has advised the various
departments to this effect and also
if any programs are scheduled during
the visit.
The first victory to come to the
District in the shape Of national
trophies has just been received at de-
partment headquarters in the news
that it has been awarded the Bryce P.
Beard Trophy for having chartered
the greatest number of squadrons in
relation to the number of American
Legion posts of the Sons of the Ameri-
can Legion.
The date of the first permanent
organization of the Sons of the Ameri-
can Legion was November 80, 1888,
and the list of squadrons by depart
ments chartered as of September %,
1884, showed that the District of Co
lumbia finished first with percent
age of 1888 and was declared the
winner of the Board Trophy. The De-
partment of Pennsylvania finished
second with a percentage of 1858.
Out of a total of 27 posts the District
organized and received charters for
nine squadrons during that period
The detachment commander during
this first year was George F. Cook
of Lincoln Post of this department.
The trophy will be presented at the
Miami convention next week.
Quentin Roosevelt Post, No. II, will
meet tomorrow night at $50 o'clock
at the Potomac Boat Club, Thirty-siz
and K streets. Arrangements will be
made for the observance of the
fifteenth anniversary of the post or
November 49, The annual oyster roast
will be held November 4.
Oficers of Jacob Jones Post, No. 2
were installed Monday night at the