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mander within - 2 ~
"a hours after Comdr. Chadwick.
the adjournment of the convention.
Department officials, unless elect
ed as delegates or alternates, have
no privileges in the national con-
vention except as the guests of their
respective delegations, the official
call set forth. 1t added that de
partment commanders and depart
ment adjutants might we'll be made
members of their department dele
cations, as the experience of these
officials will be exceedingly valu-
able"
Reports on the number of dele
gates, alternates, committeeman,
press representatives and visitors
expected from each department
must be in the hands of the chair
man of the Hotel and Housing Gem
mittee not later than August 26, the
call advised.
Convention headquarters will be
opened by National Adjt. Frank E.
Samuel in the Palmer House, Chi
cago, at 9 am. September 10.
The 2lst annual convention of the
American Legion, Department of the
District of Columbia, is called to
meet at the Mayflower Hotel August
10. II and IL.
Each post will be entitled to one
delegate and one alternate and to
one additional delegate and one ad-
ditional alternate for each so men,
bers or major portion thereof whose
current dues have been received by
the department finance officer Is
days prior to the meeting of said
convention.
Lists in duplicate of delegates and
alternates, duly certified, should be
filed with the department adjutant
at department headquarters not
later than August 2. 1t is requested
that at the time of certification of
delegates and alternates that each
post indicate: /, chairman of dele
cation: 2, member on Rules Commit
tee: 3, member on Credentials Com
mittee, and 4, member on Resolu-
tions and Constitution Amendments
Committee
1t. Thomas Mason, department
chairman of the Trophy and Awards
Committee, requests that all posts
submit to the department their
nomination of member recon-
mended for the Watson B. Miller
Trophy, to be awarded at the depart
ment convention to the member of
the Legion who has performed the
most outstanding work in the Legion
for the past year. There will be a
meeting Of this committee at depart
ment headquarters July 81 at pm
Department Adjt. Daniel NJ Good
acre requests that all material which
each post or affiliated group wishes
published in the department con-
vention program must be at de-
partment headquarters on or before
July II in order that same may ap-
pear in the program.
Fort Stevens Post has exceeded
its 1888 membership, with 400 en-
rolled at this date. The final drive
ends July Is at midnight.
Serving on the department dele
cation with Comdr. Abraham Miller,
chairman, are Membership Officer
Robert M. Kennedy, Senior Vice
Comdr. Ed Donaldson, Athletic Off
Ger Joseph A. Ashi, Americanism
Chairman Joseph A. Walker, Past
Comdrs. John T. Long, William H.
Hargrave and Leo J. Reel and Past
Drum and Bugle Corps President
Michael j. Lyons.
Alternates are Harry Hungelman,
Geolee Norton, Frank Bloom, Carl
Rittenhouse, George w. Phillips,
Floyd G. Caskey, Joseph T. Oliver,
Ross E. Amos and Ralph Terrence.
A moonlight excursion for August
II is being arranged by Timothy
Mcdowell.
The following members of the
U. S. s. Jacob Jones Post, No. 2,
were elected to represent the post
at the department convention:
Delegates, Comdr Anne Frame,
Estelle Ruby, Charlotte Berry,
Dorothy Drunken, Lillian Caldwell,
Edna Smith, Jane Cox, Jessie Col
Inns, Alma Sarton, Belle Graves;
alternates. Nelia Eichhorn. Alice
Derrow, Helen Opitz, Lillian Sawyer,
Ruth Marks, Louise McDermott,
Rose O'Hara. Blanche Sinclair, Edith
Quinn and Bertha johnson.
The post is sponsoring a MOON
light cruise on the steamer City of
Washington on August 2 at $50
pm. Tickets may be obtained from
Comdr. Frame or Alma Sarton, ways
and means chairman.
At the last meeting of Sergt.
Jasper Post, No. 13, the following
delegates were elected to represent
the post at the department con-
vention: H. A. Hummer, chairman;
Mark T. Little, Ayden A. Dibble,
William A. McCallum, Daniel M.
Goodacre, Douglass o. Reed, Will
liam P. Kershner, Henry A. Weaver,
Edward L. Marthill, Frederick F.
Money, Harry w. Jarrett, c. Francis
Mccarthy, Thomas j. Frailey, Mark
A. Droughman and Harry N. Ware.
Comdr. Hummer appointed As
sistant Adjt. Charles q. Dougherty
to the Office of adjutant to succeed
Francis G. McKenna, who moved
to Minneapolis, Mimi, and Stephen