Evening star., 1939-09-03
DC. Legion Will Send Two
Drum Corps and Band to Meet
Appropriations Made to Defroy
Expenses on Chicago Trip

Expenses on Nnlco9'
Two drum corps and a band will
accompany the delegation from the
District Department Of the Ameri-
can Legion to the annual convention
at Chicago. They will leave by spe-
cial train over the Pennsylvania
Railroad at Sis pm, Saturday,
September %.
At meeting of the Department
Executive Committee last week 5000
each was appropriated to the Fort
Stevens Post Drum and Bugle Corps,
to the James Reese Europe Post
the department champion last year;
Drum and Bugle Corps and to the
James E. Walker Post Band, to-
ward. their expenses for the trip.
The committee also made an ap-
preparation of $500 for the expense
Of sending the Sons of the Legion
to the convention.
Department Comdr. William Slat-
terry, who was to have headed the
local delegation, will be unable to
attend, as he has gone out Of town
on business. Senior Vice Depart
ment Comdr. Haywood N. Saunders
will head them.
Tickets for this special train are
on sale at department headquarters
in the Denrike Building. c. Cassard
Schroth, grand chef de gare passe
of the Forty and Eight, and William
Hargrave, newly-elected grand chef
de gare, are in charge of the ar
rangements.
Officers of the new Department Of
Commerce Post, No. As, will be in
stalled next Friday in the Depart
ment of Commerce Auditorium by
Department Senior Vice Comdr.
Saunders and other department
officers.
The Kenneth H. Nash Post No. 8
met August IS at 200 Pennsylvania
avenue Sc. with Comdr. Robert E.
Lee presiding. Nominations for Of
flcers were made and will be held
open until September 8, when elec-
ton and installation will be held,
The following were elected to
membership: Harold Cavanaugh,
Allan G. Evans, Frank E. Gregory,
Max F. Moore, Francis H. Sheltz
and William j. Schaefer.
Fort Stevens Post No. 80 will meet
in Stansbury Hall next Thursday at
8:l5 pm. for election and installa-
ton of officers and executive COM
mitteemen. Comdr. Abraham Miller
will preside.
Installation ceremonies will be in
charge of Department Comdr. Will
liam T. Slattery, who with his staff
has been invited as guest of honor.
On behalf of the District of Colum-
bia Department., Comdr. Slattery
Will present to the membership
trophies for Americanism and COM
munity service work won during the
Legion year just closed. A national
citation for the latter will be pre-
sented later, according to word from
Indianapolis.
Fifty additional members are now
entitled to five year" membership
cards which may be secured through
the adjutant.
The senior drum and bugle corps
received a pledge of support from
the department Executive Commit
tee and from the Forty and Eight
and are continuing practices on
Tuesday and Friday nights in Roose-
welt High School in preparation for
national competition at the Chicago
convention.
Entertainment and music will be
furnished by the clown band during
bull roast. given for the benefit OF
the corps, to be held in Stansbury
Hall on the afternoon of Septem-
ber II.
A meeting of the Department of
Labor Post, No. AZ, will be held at
the clubrooms of the Kenneth Nash
Post, 209 Pennsylvania avenue Sc,
on September 7. There will be nom
ination of officers. Refreshments
will be served.
Election of officers will feature the
meeting of George Washington Post
Ne l Tuesday night at, the Club
Admiral, Seventeenth street and
Rhode Island avenue NV.
The nominees are: For command
er, G. Casard Schroth; first vice
commander, Charles S. Beilman;
second vice commander, Fred H.
Dreyer; third vice commander, A.
H. Thompson and Harry H. Brown;
chaplain, the Rev. Howard E. Sny-
der; quartermaster, James C. Clarke:
sergeant at arms, Samuel L. Crump;
master at arms. Stanley Harrison;
surgeon, DR.. M. H. Darnall; his
torian. Past Comdr. Howard s. Fisk;
color bearers, Past Comdr. Bernard
c. MCGEE and George Hooven.
Arrangements will be made for
displaying the post colors, which
have been in every national event
since 1919, again this year In the
parade in Chicago next month.
Grand Voiture 174, Forty and
Eight, received special acclaim in
the Baltimore Legion parade, the
"wrecking crew" in white costumes