Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-06

for a Commanders and Adjutants'
Conference to be held October Is
and rs. Policies inundated by the
national convention in Boston and
local schedules will be outlined by
national officers and department
chairmen.
Department Membership Of1cer
Haywood Saunders reported 1924
advanced memberships at the Bos-
ton convention. Posts leading in
this prepaid membership are Police
and Fire, 206; Sergt. Jasper, 157;
Government Printing Office, $50;
Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
100: I'd Division, 30; Victory. IS;
Fort Stevens, 81; Bunker Hill, so:
Department of Labor so; National
Cathedral. 48; James Reese Europe,
48.
Past Department Comdr. James
O'Connor Roberts has been ap-
pointed to head a newly organized
/ building committee Members to
serve with him are Roy Music, G. P.
o. Post: Daniel Goodacre. Sergt.
Jasper Post: Robert Duvall, Depart
ment of Labor Post, and Norman
Grant, Costello Post.
All posts, marching units and
color guards which will participate
in the annual parade of the United
Confederate Veterans, should re-
port to Mr.. Smith at 10 am october
II at Fourth street and Constitution
avenue NV
Kenneth H. Nash Post will meet
in their clubrooms next Wednesday
evening to elect the members of
the Executive Committee.
Comdr. George E. Seiders an
nounces the appointment of chair
men to the following committees:
Membership, Joseph Goldberg;
welfare, Rexford H. Madden; emer-
gency aid. Robert E. Lee: Sons Of
the Legion, William H. Lossman;
ways and means, Everett A. Totten.
The following we're recently &C
cepted into membership: Leo J.
Woods, Howard E. Skipper, Forrest
E. Peters and William F. Henkel.
The squadron has completed its
organization with the election of the
following: Capt. Bernard Lewis,
First 1t Samuel E. Walker Sec
ond It. Robert T Urban, Adjt Roy
M. Miles. Chaplain Gordon Clark,
Finance Officer John Keller, Sergt.
at Arms Charles l.. White and His
torian Wayne Nix. Installation was
conducted by the post officers.
At elaborate ceremonies held at
the Colonial Hotel last wednesday
evening Dept. Comdr William H.
Hargrave installed officers of the
Sergt. Jasper Post. He was assisted
by his staff, while the Legion's
Guard of Honor, in command of
Capt. Horace w. Lineburg, served as
the escort.
Speakers on the program included
of the Veterans Administration;
Capt Watson B. Miller, national re-
Mobilization officer of the Legion,
and Thomas Owen, national his
torian, as we'll as a number of other
prominent Legion officials. E. I.
Lewis, director of the Bureau of
Valuation, and Louis Hood, chief
valuation engineer, both of the
Interstate Commerce Commission,
also spoke.
AS each new officer was installed
he was presented with an official
badge of Office by the installing Off
GER. and at the conclusion of the
ceremony the retiring post COM
mander. Douglas 0. Reed, was pre-
Sented with a gift from the members
of the post.
A dance in honor of the new Of
ficers followed the meeting. The
officers include Ayden A. Dibble,
commander; Charles H. Pierce, first
vice commander; Martin A. Schu-
bert, second vice commander; Victor
j. Farrar, third vice commander,
and Charles F. Brown, chaplain.
w. A. Corley. chairman of the
Department Selective Service Com
mittee, reports that while there has
been many volunteers for work as
registrars for selective service on
october IT, there is still need for
many more. Legionnaires may VOL
unteer through their commanders
by giving their name, home address,
business telephone number and in
dictate whether they prefer the 7
am. to 2 pm, or the 2 pm. to
9 pm. shift.
The District chief registrar an
nounces a meeting for instruction
of registrars. will be held at each
registration point shortly before reg
istration day. Each volunteer regis
trar will receive notice about
October IL, giving registration point,
shift. date of instruction meeting
and possibly copy of the Govern
ment pamphlet containing regula-
lions.
Chairman Jack Mulvey of the
Membership Committee for the
Forty and Eight has organized all
members of local Voiture No. 174 to
make a drive for new memberships
and renewals in their respective
Legion posts so that the Bessel Tro-
ply, given by the national body for
American Legion membership Sc
cured by each voiture of the Forty
and Eight, will again be won by this
voiture making it three years in
succession.
An initial report will be made
on or before December l.
Installation of officers and ladies
night will feature the meeting OF
George Washington Post on Tuesday
night at 2108 Sixteenth street NV.
Department Comdr. William H.
Hargrave, accompanied by his staff
and the national guard of honor,
will ipeto11 tho officers TheV are