Evening star., 1938-10-16
District Legion Membership
Quota for 1889 Fixed at 5. .9l8
National Coal Is Set at 9OI, ,l73-Te TentI,
annual National Telegraph Roll Call
to Be Conducted in November.

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conform to formal resolution adopted
at the Los Angeles convention. have
been released to the So departments
by H. l.. Plummer, assistant national
adJutant in charge of membership
| The new quotas establish total men,
bership goal for 1899 at 901,173.
As of October S, the membership for
1888 was 975,7l8, a figure exceeded
only once in previous history of the
organization. The District of Colum-
bia quota for 1889, based on the four
year average, is 5,9l8. However, the
local branch had a membership total
in 1887 of 6,so5.
The 10th annual national tele-
graphic roll call will be conducted at
national headquarters during the Sec
ond day of the department command
ers and adjutants' conference on No
vember Is at Indianapolis, Ind. This
will occur at IL am, at the close of
the membership section of the pro-
gram and just after the department
contest challenges have been launched
All departments are requested to send
in new memberships in this roll call
Th department membership officers
request all post membership officers
in the District to turn in their men,
berships to headquarters at an early
date so that the Department of the
District of Columbia may win the
award.
The next joint meeting of the Sons
of the American Legion will be held
at Fifteenth and Chaplin streets NV
on October 81. Past captains and
present captains will be presented with
badges. Department Comdr. James
T. Brady and his official staff will
install the officers Entertainment and
refreshments will follow.
A field day will be held today at
Lux Manor similar to the one held
last Sunday. All are to bring a picnic
lunch and the games will start at
l pm. In addition to the rifle team,
three football teams and other games
there will be skeet shooting for the
fathers of the sons. Quentin Roose-
welt, Internal Revenue, National Ca
thedral, Jacob Jones, Kileen, Nash,
Sergt. Jasper and Potomac Squadrons
have signed up for the teams.
Fort Stevens Post; Armistice Day
exercises will be held in Memorial
Chapel. Army Medical Center at 9
am, November II, with cooperation
of Brig. Gen. Wallace Dewitt, COM
manding Joseph A. Walker is in
charge of arrangements.
The Executive Committee will meet
in the club rooms on October Is, at
8 pm, with Condr. A. Miller presid-
ing. The Halloween dance to be held
in Stansbury Hall on october 81 will
be costume affair.
New members recently admitted are:
Henry J. Carr, l55th Depot Brigade;
Raymond F. Mickum, 54th Transport
Corps; George B. Mickum, 7th Ammu-
milton Train; Herbert Franklin Parr,
1st Machine Gun Battalion; Douglas
w. Henry, Ordnance Dept; Dennis
w. Lane. 1l2th Engineers; Bernard
F. Darnall, U, S. Navy; William E.
Hoppinjams 303d Aero Squadron;
Ralph E Price, 324th Field Artillery;
Timonthy O. Mcdowell, Field Artil-
lery; Ralph A. Kirsch, Quartermaster
Corps; Opal Simpson, U. S. Infantry
and Joseph L. Stanley,
The next meeting of the post will
be November 3,
Sergt. Jasper Post, No. 13, met at the
New Colonial Hotel, when the following
Comdr James T. Brady and staff, who
was escorted by the National Guard of
Honor: Hiram w. Hummer, command
er; Mark T. Little, first vice COM
mander; Ayden A. Dibble. second vice
commander; Henry A. Weaver, third
vice commander, and Justus c. de
Booy, chaplain.
An entertainment and dance followed.
Addresses were made by Department
Comdr. T. Brady, Joseph J. Malloy,
national executive committeeman;
Daniel M. Goodacre, retiring post COM
mander; William P. Kershner, post
membership officer, and Mrs Virginia
Mccarthy, president of Sergt. Jasper
Auxiliary.
Condr. Hummer has announced the
following appointments: Adjutant,
Francis C. McKenna; finance officer,
Douglass o. Reed; membership officer
William P. Kershner; publicity officer
Leo Collier; historian, Thomas j..
Frailey, and color bearers, James F.
Sturgis and George H Miller.
The post has entered team in the
Department Bowling League.
The next meeting of the post will be
held at Pythian Temple on November
2, at pm.
The last meeting of the Jane A. Delano
Post was held at the War Mothers Club,
1927 New Hampshire avenue NV.
Officers were installed by Department
Comdr. Brady and his staff as follows:
Commander Annie Miller; senior vice
commander, Blanche Mckinney;
junior vice commander, Sarah Corson:
adjutant, Anne D. Pryde; finance off,
Ger, Winifred S. Nichols; chaplain,
May Lee Reinoehl sergeant at arms,
Isabel Knight; assistant adjutant,
Loretto Maloy; membership, Loretto
past presidents pin and past presi-
dents ring