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filiate group. 1t is requested that
each post or affiliate group remit,
together with the material which 1t
is desired to publish in the conven-
ton program. at the earliest possible
convenience, at any rate on or before
July /.
Fort Stevens Post, No. 80, Junior
League baseball entry attended the
American Legion jamboree, held un-
der auspices of the Virginia depart
ment at Colonial Beach last week,
to play exhibition games. Comdr.
Abraham Miller and Manager Jo-
seph A. Ashi accompanied the team.
American Legion citizenship med
ais were presented to Rose Marie
Schmutzer and Ralph Burks of the
graduating class at Mcfarland
Junior High School on award day.
Adjt. Carl Rittenhouse announces
a meeting of the Executive Commit
tee in the clubrooms, Wednesday at
8 pm. The next regular meeting
will be in Stansbury Hall on July 6.
when delegates and alternates will
he elected to the department con-
vention.
Members of the James Reese Eu-
rope Post are officially notified by
Comdr. Harvey l.. Bean to be pres
ent in full uniform and white gloves.
also members of the Drum and
Bugle Corps and drill team, to par
ticipate in the Veterans of Foreign
Wars parade on June 28 They are
requested to assemble at 7:10 pm.
at Fifteenth and H streets NE. The
parade will start at 7:30 pm.
Delegates and alternates to the
department convention will be
elected at the next regular meeting.
Candidates for mastering and initi-
alton into the Legion and all appli-
cations for membership must be In
the hands of the membership officer
by June u.
The Kenneth H. Nash Post, No. 8,
met in their clubrooms at 200 Penn
sylvania avenue Sc. June IA, with
Comdr. Robert E. Lee presiding
Membership Officer George Seiders
closed the membership drive, an
nouncing the Red team, J. j. Null
vey. captain, the winner. Mr.. Null
vey was presented with a pen and
pencil set and a gold Legion button
Monte Stottler received a gold pin
for bringing in five new members.
The meeting night has been
changed to the second and fourth
Friday nights of each month, be-
ginning the latter part of July. The
next meeting will be June %.
A resolution was adopted urging
the department to indorse Samuel
A. Macintosh, present director of
personnel of the District Works Prog
ress Administration, for the position
of assistant to the administrator of
the Works Progress Administration
This action was taken because of
the exceptional attitude that is ever
displayed by Mr.. Macintosh toward
veterans and their problems in en-
ployment.
At the last meeting of the South
east Veterans Club the following
were elected George Grommett
president; James Ubil, first vice
president; Everett Totten, second
vice president; Joseph Dodd, secre-
tary; George Seiders, treasurer;
John Mulvey, Joseph Goldberg, Rex
ford Madden, Louis Conner and
Joseph Keech, Board of Control;
Joseph Goldberg, Tony Sakovitch
and Joseph Keech, trustees.
At the last meeting of Govern
ment Printing Office Post, No. 33
in the Bunker Hill Clubhouse, 809
Monroe Street NE, the following
were nominated as candidates to
the department convention in, Au-
gust: Edward j. Newman, Ed Muir
ray, Edward R. Dixon, Massie w
Blankinship, Alex Weinberg, Roger
Kee, Claus Gathgens. r. F. Neason
William J. Cassidy, Albert J. Clarke
Louis c. Vogt, Robert E. Brooks,
Herbert Teed, Roy S. Musick, Her
bert r. Street, Gus Gibbons, Dan A.
Mahoney, Walter Gerdes, Harold
E. Hampshire, Robert j. Graef
Charlotte Kostick, G.. F. Whalen
B. A. Johns, Penn Howard and A.
E. Giegengack. The candidates will
be subject to election, which is to
be held on July 10. Polls open in
Harding Hall at $3.50 pm, close s
pm; open Bunker Hill Clubhouse
Z to 9 pm. Eight delegates and
nine alternates are to be chosen.
The Fort Stevens ritual team
headed by Capt. Charlie Warren
conducted a ceremonial
The meeting of Columbia Post
scheduled for July has been moved
back to June 20 at Soldiers, Sailors
and Marines Clubrooms. There will
be nomination and election of dele
gates to the department convention
The post is sponsoring Samuel Nav
hood, age 13, as their entry in the
Soap Box Derby.
Quentin Roosevelt Post, No. II, at
its meeting last week elected the
following as delegates to the de-
partment convention: Past Comdr
Robert Duncan, Comdr. George
Hutterly, Senior Vice Comdr. Gerald
Lawler, Junior Vice Comdr. Edwin
Warren and Adjt. Milton Eshleman
T. Ward Wright, Charles Allies
Louis Allwine, G. w. McCambridge
and Elmore Mckay are alternates.
On June 16 and II, 1899, Depart
ment Adjt. Daniel M. Goodacre at
tended, as a representative OF the
District Department, the regional
conference, American Legion, fol-
Virginia, at Colonial Beach, Of rep
resentatives of the first and eighth
Virginia districts.
The conference considered mat
ters affecting the activities Of the
American Legion Of Virginia II
these counties and Adjt. ooodacre