Evening star., 1935-03-10
Legion Orders Special
Constitution Meetings
Convention Friday and Saturday First of Kind
Since 1880 Posts of District
Are Included.

n District Of Columbia Depart
II ment, American Legion. will
4 \ be held next Friday and Sat
urday nights at 8 o'clock in
she auditorium of the new Interior
Department Building. Eighteenth and
F streets. Department Comdr. Jamec
OConnor Roberts has called this
special session for the purpose of
revising and amending the depart
ment constitution and bylaws, the
last similar convention having been
held in April, 1923, in the same
building. No other business will be
transacted.
The 80 posts comprising the local
department will be represented by
1O9 delegates and the same number
of alternates. The total number of
votes In the convention, including the
posts, department officers and past
department commanders will be 1876,
which is more than double that of
four years ago.
Suggestions on File.
During the past several weeks the
various posts have sent in suggested
amendments and changes, which were
referred to a special committee to
corelate the various proposals SUBJ
mitted and recommend any neces-
sary changes to the constitution and
bylaws The members of the COM
mittee included Theodore Cogswell,
chairman; Henry G. Warburton,
Joseph J. Malloy, Byron G. Carson,
E Ernest Allwine, Warren E. Miller
and William H. McGrath.
The work of the committee has
been completed and the recommends
tions of the committee have been SUBJ
mitted to each of the posts in the
department Any further suggestions
or changes will be submitted from
the convention floor
According to the latest statement
of standing of the posts by Depart
ment Membership Officer Charles G
Allies, the total number of 1885 paid
up members to be represented in the
approaching convention is 1922. Vim
cent B. Costello Post is leading the
80 posts with total membership oi
$50, with Sergt. Jasper Post second
with 338 and Government Printing
Office Post third with 300 members
Other Post Standings.
The standing of the other posts fol-
lows: Fort Stevens, 276: U. S. S. jacob
Jones, 228; Kenneth H. Nash, 1874;
Hill, 179; James Reese Europe, las;
Stuart Walcott, 1874; Quentin Roose-
velt, 1871; Washington Police, 1873
George Washington, 1877; Lincoln, 1876;
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
1876; Jane A. Delano, III; Victory, los
Augustus P. Gardner. 100; James E
Walker, 80; Stanley Church Deput, 80
Columbia, 73: Henry c. Spengler, 46
Stephen P. McGoarty, A; Nationa
Press Club. 40 I'd Division, 81
Tank Corps, 26; Cooley-McCullough
20; Lafayette, 18; George E. Killeen
l8; Belleau Wood, 16.
Announcement has been received
at department headquarters of tht
American Legion that National Comdr
Frank N. Belgrano, jr., has appointed
Rev. Robert ]. White to fill the un'
expired portion of the year to Novem'
ber l next as chairman of the Worlc
Peace and Foreign Relations Commit.
tee of the national organization
Father White served as national chap.
lain last year and is an instructor
at the Catholic University in this
city.
Victory Post, No 4, at its regular
meeting Tuesday will have Represent
ative Pat McCarran as the speaker
of the evening. Department Comdr.
J. O'C. Roberts is expected to attend.
The post will have copies of the
Vinson and Patman bills, and these
copies will be distributed to all veter-
ans who attend this meeting.
Past Department Comdr Rice w.
Means will render report on the
proposed constitutional changes that
are to be considered at the depart
ment constitutional convention on
March Is and 16. An invitation has
been extended to National Comdr.
Frank Belgrano to attend this meet
ing.
The following members of the Au-
gustus P. Gardner Post. No. 18, were
elected at the last meeting of the
post as delegates to the special de-
partment convention: Maj. Gen. H.
L. Gilchrist, Lieut.. Col. Francis S.
Key-Smith and Maj Theodore Cogs-
we'll. Alternates were elected as fol-
lows: Maj James A. Purcell, Maj.
A. Coulter Wells and Lieut.. Frank A.
Dawson.
The post is planning luncheon
and meeting March % and a dinner
dance at the Army and Navy Club
during Easter week.
At the regular monthly meeting Of
Jane A. Delano Post, No. 6, the fol-
lowing we're elected to serve at the
departmental convention March Is
and 16: Delegates, Comdr. Elizabeth
Essick, Mrs. Mabel Day, Miss Mar
jorie Woodsill. Alternates are Miss
Minerva Bailey, Miss Mary Haw-
thorne and Mrs. May Lee Reinoehl.
Government Printing Office Post,
No. 33, will meet tomorrow.
At the last meeting the following
we're elected delegates to the special
constitutional convention March Is
and 16: Messrs. Gaudette, Johns,
Blankenship. Musick, Cassiday. Dixon
and Perkins. and alternates. Messrs.
Brooks, Carroll. Carter. Peterson,
Newman, Warriner and Minnigh.
On March 4 and the post pre-
sented the All Legionnaires' minstrel
show in Harding Hall.
The band is improving and the
members have been equipped with
new uniforms They gave concert
before the dinner rendered the public
printer at the Wardman Park hotel
on March 2. At the dinner the COM
mander, on behalf of the post, pre-
sented the public printer with tes-
timonial for the interest he has shown
In the post and its activities.
A testimonial banquet and dance
vas held at the Broadmoor Hotel
March 2 In honor Of Joseph J. Malloy
retiring commander Of Sergt. Jasper
Post.