Evening star., 1938-01-23
Legion's Employment Group
Will Meet Here Nest. Week
National Commander Doherty to At.
Observation-Disclosures Conference
at Same Time.

VII tCiOtdllS
will meet here January Is through
January %. National Condr. j.
Doherty will attend.
Two other important gatherings of
special interest to Legionnaires will be
held here during the same sweek. The
annual national rehabilitation con-
ference will be January 81 and %
while the 18th annual Women's
Patriotic Conference on National De-
tense is scheduled for January Is, Is
and q.
The program of American Legion
activity on behalf of unemployed
Legionnaires during 1898 will be
drafted at the employment conference.
Officers of Augustus p. Gardner
Post, No. 18. recently elected were:
Commander William c. De Lacy;
vice commander, Adam Kemble: his
torian, James A. Purcell: surgeon,
William T. Davis: chaplain, Alfred B.
Baker; adjutant and finance officer,
Ernest F. Williams Executive Com
mittee: A. Coulter Wells. Charles F.
Wilson, Arthur H. Deibert, Theodore
CogsWell. James A. Purcell, Erskine
Gordon, Chester Wells, William c. De
Lacy, Adam Kemble and Ernest F.
Williams.
The Kenneth H. Nash Squadron
Sons of the American Legion, elected
the following officers: j. F.. Dodd. cap
tain; N. D. Right, lieutenant: S. E.
Walker, second lieutenant; r. M. Miles.
chaplain; E. w. Smith, sergeant at
arms: r. E. Seiders, adjutant; c. r.
Grimes. historian. r. j. Mulvey,
finance officer.
Plans for the opening of the Nash
Post clubhouse at 2o9 Pennsylvania
avenue Sc. were completed at the
meeting of January H.
New members admitted to the post
were Ralph R. Combs. William F.
Vanasch and Paul E. Konan
Medals and award certificates will be
presented to q girl and boy student at
Hine Junior High and Eastern High
School by Americanism Officer Daniel
Haldeman.
At the last meeting of Government
Printing Office Post plans were made
for an oyster roast and dance on Feb
ruary %, at Pythian Temple. The
post will present medals to students Of
Elliott Junior High School.
The Executive Committee of Vincent
B. Costello Post, No. is, met at the
Office of Comdr. julius I. Peyser last
Thursday. The post will meet Febru-
ary l. The Entertainment Committee
reported it is making arrangements for
a dance to be held in the near future.
U. S. Bureau of Internal Revenue
Post No. 80. will hold Washington
Birthday ball at the Mayfower Hotel
on February 10. The commissioner of
internal revenue and all of his staff
will be honor guests.
Due to the resignation of Miss Anne
D. Pryde. director of welfare and relief
for the local department, DR.. Ray F.
Guynn, chairman of the Advisory Com
mittee, asks, in order that the position
may be filled as soon as possible that
all legionnaires who may be qualified
for the opening make application to
him. A qualified legion social worker
must have at least four years of COM
pleted college work leading up to a
degree and two years postgraduate
work in school of social service to-
gether with a practical understanding
of the work as it pertains to the legion
in general.
The Bureau Of Engraving and Print
Ing Post met January 10 at the Red
Mems Hall. Comdr. Haywood Saun-
ders urged members to take an active
part in the membership campaign.
The post will hold a dance Febru-
ery 10.
Miss Anne D. Pryde. who recently
resigned as director of welfare relief
Tor the Legion, who left Thursday to
become matron of the new Veterans
Facility for Women at Bay Pines. Fla,
was rendered a farewell dinner last
wednesday at the madrillon by past
commanders of Jane Delano Post.
Ihose present were: Mrs. Dorothy
B. Harper, Emily Carey, Mabel staub,
Francis Miller and Mrs. Miller, Jack
OConnell and Mrs. O'Connell, Gene
KING and Mrs. King, David and Robert
Halpln, Mary Stewart Wilkinson, Carl
Mccarthy and Mrs. Mccarthy, Mrs.
Elizabeth Essick, Col julius I. Peyser.
Mrs. John Long. Martin Goerl, Mrs.
Annie Mccormick, Mrs. Winifred
Whitney. Col, Harry Coope, Annie
Miller. Isabel Knight. Marietta Pier
son and Winifred Nichols.
Sgt. Jasper Post will meet at the
Pythian Temple February 2. Plans
Will be announced for the annual ban
quet to Junior Past Comdr. Fred
Money, now serving the department
as its senior vice commander. It will
be held February rs at the Colonial
Hotel. Comdr. Daniel Goodacre has
appointed Hyrum w. Hummer in
charge OF tickets and reservations. He
may be reached at 44O1 Window Place
NV. or by calling Cleveland 1855.
All members of the post who have
sons are requested to have them join
the Sons of the Legion Squadron.
The captain of the squadron is w. M.
Mclaughlin, 6415 Sixth street NV.
The Washington Police Post will
meet IN stansbury Lodge Hall, 1892
Georgia avenue NV January Is at
3 pm. Another picture of the recent
New York convention parade will be
shown.
National Cathedral Post will meet
January rs in the Reno Esther Hall.
1923 Window place NV, with Comdr.
James T. Brady in the chair. Com
rade Carroll is leading the post re-
cruiting honor roll with a total of
"a recruits. closely followed by Comdr
Brady with IA.
The post squadron of the Sons Of
the Legion will meet today at 2:30 pm.
In Victory Post Hall. 1120 Eighteenth
s'avst NV, to make plans for future
activities. The post supervisory com.