Evening star., 1939-04-23
President and Mrs. Roosevelt
Invited to Sponsor Legion Dance
Will Be Held Saturday Night
At MoyfIower Hotel

1ACSAOcllC dIlu MATS. CTallk4lu -
Roosevelt have been invited to act
as patron and patroness to the an
nual military ball of the District
of Columbia Department, the Amer
lean Legion, to be held next Sat-
urday night at the Mayfower Hotel.
Many high-ranking officials and
veterans have accepted invitations to
attend.
Department Comdr. Samuel Engle
Burr and his staff of Delaware also
will attend. They are also coming
here to present to James T. Brady,
local department head, q member
ship trophy which the District won
in a contest upon the reported men,
bership to national headquarters as
of December 30, 1898.
Maj. Thomas j. Frailey, general
chairman of the ball, has called a
final meeting of his committee to-
morrow at 4:45 pm. in department
headquarters.
Through Station VOL the Mu-
tual Broadcasting System, talks on
National Music Week and the pro-
gram to be presented by the Depart
ment of the District of Columbia
at the Sylvan Theater, Monument
Grounds, on May Z, will be made by
Joseph j. Malloy, national executive
committeeman and past depart
ment commander; Ferdinand G.
Fraser, chef de chemin de fer passee,
Forty and Eight. and Past Depart
ment Comdr. Herbert H. Teed, de-
partment music officer. The days
allotted are May /, 3 and 4, 9:l5
to $50 pm.
Fort Stevens Post Executive Com
mlttee will meet in the clubrooms
Wednesday at pm. Plans for
memorial church services on May
2S will be considered.
Last Friday safety program was
given students of st. Gabriel's School
and on May Capt. Kenneth Mel.
son, U. S. Medical Corps, will be the
principal speaker of health pro-
gram there.
Chairman Carl H. Rittenhouse
will supervise pro rata replacement
OF memorial markers on Sixteenth
street NV. under program OF
the department of graves registra-
ton officer.
Committeeman Charles Coombs is
advising on construction of 1899
Washington Soap Box Derby entries
at Paul Junior High School, work
on over 40 racers having been COM
menced in the shop there.
Condr. Abraham Miller will serve
on the 1889 Department Convention
Committee and Benjamin Aronsohn
has been appointed to arrange for
Flag Day talks on June IA. A meet
ing OF fathers and sons is being ar
ranged for May in Stansbury Hall
Capt. Riordan of the Squadron S
A. l.. will share presiding honors.
The Kenneth H. Nash Post met
in its clubrooms, 2O9 Pennsyl-
vania avenue Sc, with Senior Vice
Comdr. George Grommett presiding.
Americanism Officer Dan Haldeman
made report of the Soap Box Derby
activities.
Resolutions were adopted to ask
the Traffic Department to place
traffic lights at all streets between
Pennsylvania avenue and the bridge
on Eleventh street Sc; to place a
war memorial marker on Sixteenth
street NV; that the post opposes
Grover C. Bergdoll's entrance into
the United States, asking other
posts to do likewise.
Earl R. Wiseman and Max Bur-
man were elected to membership.
The next meeting will be April 26.
A special program on child well
fare followed the last meeting of
Sergt. Jasper Post. Fred G. Fraser,
national chairman of the Legion
April Child Welfare Month, and
Samuel j. Parrish, department child
welfare chairman, made addresses.
Plans are being made by Vice
Comdr. Ayden A. Dibble and his
committee for the post and auxil-
iary dance to be held at Indian
Spring Country Club on June II.
The Junior Legion baseball team,
sponsored by the post, will open
its season by playing a game with
Pepco Post at 3 pm. today on the
north diamond of the Ellipse.
Judge Fay Bentley of the Juvenile
Court will be the principal speaker
at the April meeting of the Co.
ordinated Child Welfare Committee
of the department tomorrow at the
Southeast branch of the Boys Clubs
OF Washington, Seventeenth street
and Massachusetts, avenue Sc, at 8