Evening star., 1939-06-18
William 7. SIottery Is Named
New District Legion Head
30-Doy Mourning Period Ordered
For Comdr. james T. Brody

William T. Slattery is the new
commander of the District of Co
lumbia Department, American Le-
gion, succeeding the late James T.
Brady.
At special meeting last week of
the Department Executive Commit
tee at department headquarters in
the Denrick Building, Past Junior
Department, Comdr. Thomas Mason
jr., installed Mr. Slattery and Julian
Long, first vice commander and
Joseph l.. Koehl, second vice COM
mander.
Because of the death of Comdr
Brady all posts of the department
will be in mourning for a period Of
80 days. during which time all colors,
flags and charters will be draped in
black and all social functions sus-
pended.
William H. Hargrave, chairman.
Department Convention Committee
announces there will be an important
meeting of the committee at depart
ment headquarters on Tuesday at 8
pm. He requests that all members
be present.
Fort Stevens Post Executive Com
mittee will meet June % in the
club rooms with Comdr. Abraham
Miller presiding. to consider plans
for a building on tract of land re-
Gently acquired on Riggs road NV.
The same meeting will obtain for
meetings of the Americanism Com
mittee, the Membership Committee
and the Service Committee.
The following members have an
nounced their candidacy for post
commander, nomination to be held
at the August meeting and election
at the September meeting. Frank
Bloom, finance officer; Edwin l..
Donaldson, senior vice commander;
Robert Kennedy, past senior vice
commander and present member
ship officer, and Joseph A. Walker,
past AmericaniSm officer and pres
ent chairman of the Departmental
Americanism Commission.
On July s the post will meet in
Stansbury Hall for election of dele
gates and alternates to the annual
convention. Past Comdr. w. H.
Hargrave is general chairman of
the Department Convention Com
mittee.
Charles Eckenrode, chairman of
the S. A. L. Advisory Council, an
nounces squadron competition for
the several trophies to be awarded
for S. A. L. activities during the
closing Legion year. The Drum and
Bugle Corps meets each Tuesday at
7 pm. in Theodore Roosevelt High
School.
Under guidance of Musical Di-
rector McElroy, the Senior Drum
and Bugle Corps is preparing rou-
tine for national competition at the
Chicago convention. The corps will
participate in the exercises marking
the anniversary of the Civil War bat
tie of Fort Stevens on July II, this
in cooperation with the BrightWood
Citizens Association.
The Past Commanders Associa-
ton conducted its third entertain
ment for inmates of Glenn Dale
Sanitorium last Tuesday evening.
Pres. Charles Kohen was in charge
Cooley Mccullough Post will pre-
sent the school award medal and
certificate to the outstanding STU
dent of the Abbot Vocational School
on June 20 at pm. The posts
Americanism chairman, Capt. Guy
C. Nadeau, and Maurice Eakers of
the F. B. I. will be the principal
speakers.
At the last meeting of George
Washington Post at the Club Ad-
miral the ritual team of the Forty
and Eight conducted an initiating
ceremony. Among those initiated
we're w. A. Corley, Hugo Darling,
jr.; Charles L. Eickmann, Alonzo
Gray, Leroy w. Heron, Harrison
P. Tallman, Patrick j. Foley, George
H. Galloway, Joseph D. West and
Edwin w. Lovejoy.
New members elected are Ralph
Boyer, Hamilton v. Bryan, C. B.
Hurst, H. v. McCabe, John S. Wynne
and Austin A. Ware.
First Vice Comdr. G. Cassard
Schroth, who is chef de gare of the
Forty and Eight, presided at the
meeting in the absence of Comdr.
Amos A. Fries.
The Jane A. Delano Post pre-
sented Medals of Award to Alice
Paige and Hugh Proctor, outstand-
ing pupils of the June graduating
class of the Francis Junior High
School. The presentation was made
by j. A. Walker, chairman, Ameri-
canism Commission, and Mrs. Hazel
Baehschmid, the post Americanism
officer.
Daniel M. Goodacre, chairman,
Department Convention Program
Committee, announces that the Le-
gion program for the department
convention in 1899 is to be restricted
to the Legion and its affihates only,
and it will contain no advertising,
and that each post will be requested