Evening star., 1940-06-30


Victory Post, the American Legion,
at its last meeting at the clubhouse,
Ala Ninth street NV, elected dele
gates and alternates to the depart
ment convention to be held at the
Mayflower Hotel, August l to 3.
The delegates are: Patrick j. FitZ-
gibbons, chairman; Allen K. Hines,
Rules Committee; Arthur P. Gill,
Credentials Committee, and Edgar
c. Macdonald, Resolutions Com
mittee. Alternates are: Albertus N.
Schroeder, Harland Wood. John E.
Lindholm and Graciano Carvajal.
Cooley Mccullough Post will hold
its next meeting in the home of
Junior Vice Commander L. F.
zaruba, jr., 10 w street NV, July
2 at 8 pm. The Guy C. Nadeau
membership trophy will be awarded
to Patrick A. Sugrue.
The posts Junior baseball team
will play the Fort Stevens team on
the Ellipse, north diamond, at pm,
today.
Fort Stevens Post drum and bugle
corps, under direction of Harry
Hungelman, will participate in In
dependence Day celebrations of Ia
woma Park, Md, and Washington.
D. c., next Thursday, the former
at q On oy1d tho laffor a On
pm. The corps will also appear in
the Nativity Church carnival parade
tomorrow night.
Exercises marking the anniversary
of the Civil War Battle of Fort
Stevens will be held at the fort
site at $50 pm. on July II.
Because of the Fourth Of July
holiday, Comdr. Edwin L. Donaldson
has postponed the regular meeting
until July II when there will be
election of delegates and alternates
to the department convention.
The Advisory Council of the U. S.
S. Jacob Jones Post will meet at
the home of Dorothy Drunken, 300
Woodmore drive, Silver Spring, Nc,
tomorrow at 8 pm. with Bertha
Johnson and Mary Marston as CO.
hostesseS.
The American Legion School
Award for outstanding pupils were
awarded by the post as follows: Stu
art Junior High School, to Mary
Thompson, outstanding girl; Horace
Higdon, outstanding boy; Dennison
Vocational School for Girls, Betty
Ida Moncure. Harrison Leonard
won the medal of merit for the out
standing pupil at the National
Training School for Boys.
The patients at Glenn Dale Sana-
torium were entertained by the min
strel troup from Columbia Post last
Monday. The same show was pre-
sented Thursday at st. Elizabeth's
Hospital
Specialties were supplied by Paul
Morgan and Johnnie Tass, hill-bil-
lies; Joseph Lyman, Percy Silver
berg and George Kiley, soloists; Sam
Mawhood, accordionist; Plunkett.
Morris, Stern and MANHOOD, END
men, with Eddie Marshall in the
middle and Mrs. Mae Chick at the
piano
James Reese Europe Post elected
as delegates to the department cor
vention Clifton c.. Anderson, John
r. Anderson, Harvey L. Bean, How
ard A. Walker, George B. Hunt,
Harry Mills, William H. Kelson,
Albert L. Dunlap, Robert P.
Rhea and Comdr. Harry E.
Wilson, chairman. Alternates:
Frederick A. Dawes, Harry McKen-
zie, Joseph Hall, John T. French,
William M. Johnson, william Boggs,
Mason L. Fields, J. D. williams,
William Jackson, Walter Morgan.
The post, which was organized
June 81. 1919. celebrated its 21st
anniversary Thursday with ban
quet at the Republic Gardens.
United States Department Of Ag-
riculture Post will hold a moonlight
dance cruise on the S. S. Potomar
on July 16 at 8:45 pm. Tickets may
be obtained from post members.
The post held an open meeting
at the 260th Coast Artillery Arm
ory on June 81, in order to assist in
the recruiting campaign of Battery
B, 260th Coast Artillery, Anti-Air-
craft, District of Columbia National
Guard. Comdr. Elmer L. Venner-
drow presided. Fenton Walter was
in charge of the entertainment.
The speakers we're: Mai. Heale.
1st Battalion, 260th Coast Artillery.
D. G. National Guard; Capt. Lin
derer, Battery B, 260th Coast Artil-
lery, D. c. National Guard: Snrgt.
Joseph Cooper, National Guard: De-
partment Senior Vice Comdr. Hey
ward Saunders, Department Junior
Vice Comdr. John Mulvey and Mr..
Klett, president of the Fraternal
Order of Rats, United States De-
partment of Agriculture.