Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-05-13
OCAL membership in the Ameri-
can Legion is expected to reach
from Is to 80 per cent in excess

was indicated by survey OF
the local department made by Depart
ment Membership Officer Frank A.
Connolly as of May /. Total paid-up
membership in the District of Column
bia Department at that time was 1903,
which is 88 per cent of the total men,
bership at the close of the Legion
membership year on October 20 last.
The standing of the posts as of
May l in numerical strength was:
Vincent B. Costello, 1872; Sergt. Jasper,
800; Victory, 2e1; U. S. S. Jacob
Jones, $780, Bunker Hill, 2l8; Fort
Stevens, 204; Jane A. Delano, 1865;
Lincoln, lat; Bureau Engraving, 1856;
Kenneth H. Nash, 1873; George Wash
ington, 1856; James Reese Europe, 1872;
Quentin Roosevelt, 121; Washington
Police, ia; Stuart Walcott, l04; Au-
gustus P. Gardner, go; Henry c.
Spengler, II: James E. Walker, IL;
Stanley Church DePue. Sc; Second
Division, 81; National Press Club, As;
Stephen p McGroarty. 80; Lafayette,
rs; Tank Corps, 20; Belleau Wood, Is.
The following posts have made the
100 Per Cent Club, having their full
strength of last year or more paid up
by May l. One of these posts, the
Kenneth H. Nash Post. has reached
POT per cent of its last years men,
bership. The other posts in order
are: Bunker Hill, ia per cent; Fort
Stevens 1903; Jane A Delano, 107;
Sergt Jasper, 100.
Other posts in the order OF their
percentage are: Second Division, 81
per cent; Stuart Walcott, 95; Washing
ton Police, go; Victory. go; James E.
Walker, 81; Belleau Wood, 80; Ma
tional Press Club, 81; James Reese
Europe, 81; Quentin Roosevelt, 81;
Tank Corps, 80; Lafayette, IS; Bureau
Engraving, II; Augustus P. Gardner,
rs; Lincoln, IS; George Washington,
"a; Henry C. Spengler, IA; Stanley
Church DePue, IA; U. S. S. Jacob
Jones, SO; Stephen P. McGroarty. SIS:
Vincent B. Costello. 81.
National Comdr. Edward A. Hayes,
Department Comdr. Rice w. Means
of the Department of the District of
Columbia. Past Department Comdr
Watson B. Miller, chairman of the
National Rehabilitation Committee,
and Past Post Comdr. John Thomas
Taylor, vice chairman of the National
Legislative Committee, have been
commended for their accomplishments
in connection with the recent passage
by Congress of legislation covering
veteran relief, by the Department of
the District of Columbia Executive
Committee
A committee will be appointed by
Department Comdr Means to take up
the matter of transportation and
other expenses in connection with
sending the various local drug corps
to the sixteenth annual national con-
vention next Fall at Miami, Fla.
The members of posts are COM
peting for the American Legion uni
form to be donated to the post in
the local department obtaining the
largest number of new members by
May go next. Department Comdr
Means has appointed the following
members of a special committee to
make the ward: Frank A. Connolly,
chairman; Henry w. Longfellow, Leo
j. Reel, William A. Killerlane and
Joseph J. Malloy.
Thomas E. Fawcett is completing
plans for active participation of the
various posts of this department in
exercises starting May q and con-
tinuing through Memorial Day. As
signments are now being made of
posts to decorate the graves of vet
Grams in the national and local ceme-
teries in the National Capital. He
is being assisted in this work by
Past Department Comdr. Charles A.
Knight and Past Post Comdr. William
F.. Franklin. At the same time
Graves Registration Officer r. A.
Eichhorn is requesting the various
posts to appoint graves registration
officer to cooperate with him in the
registration of every veteran in and
about Washington. Department Adjt.
q Howard S. Fisk has communicated
with the District Commissioners re-
questing the replacement of lost or
damaged memorial markers on Six
tenth street extended and the re-
alignment of those markers misplaced
since the construction Of curling
along that thoroughfare.
John Smith, a member of Stuart
"a
the Vaughan Glass of Calvary Bap-
fist Church, has invited the legion
naires of the local department to at
tend memorial exercises May 81 at
$50 o'clock at that church.
Vincent B. Costello Post; No. Is, has
adjudged Selma M. Burstein of Lang
ley Junior High School to be the win
aer of the competitive essay on Amer
icanism" conducted in the Junior high
schools throughout the city in connec-
ton with the post Americanism work.
The Legion Scholarship Medal will be
presented next Wednesday to Miss
SurStein at the school assembly with
appropriate exercises.
The next meeting of the post will
be held Tuesday in the board room,
District Building.
The monthly meeting of the U. S. S.
Jacob Jones Post, No. 2, will be held
at 8 pm. tomorrow at the Thomas
Circle Club, 1926 Massachusetts, ave-
nue.. Action will be taken on the re-
port of the Committee on Revision OF
the Post Constitution and Bylaws
attend.
Members of the post are invited to
attend the 10th annual Mothers day
services of the American War Mothers
at the Arlington Amphiteater at 2:3o
pm. today.
The last Braille shellacking meet
ing of the season will be held at the
Red Cross Chapter, House, 1870 E
street, at $50 pm. May Is. Alberta
Lacy and Cora L. Drake are in charge
of this work.
The drill team meets each Wednes-
day from 7:30 to $50 pm, at the
Thomson School. Uniforms are not
required.
Plans for the fifteenth anniversary
dinner and dance, at the Hay-Adams
House May %, are being completed by
Chairman Mary 2. Weide and her
committee.
Jane A. Delano Post, No. 6, met al
Graduate Nurses Headquarters May 3
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