Evening star., 1940-06-09

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Saturday-Internal Revenue
Post, boat ride, S. S. Potomac.
tion which will be held on August
l, 2 and 3. at the Mayflower Hotel,
will be nominated.
Columbia Post Minstrels recently
entertained patients at Mount Alto
Hospital. Comrade Morris and DR.
A. Sterns sang. Eddie Marshall was
interlocutor The endmen were
Messrs. Plunkett, Snyder, Morris
and Al Stearns. Percy Silverberg
was soloist and Mrs. Mae Chick ac-
companist.
Cooley-McCullough Post met last
Tuesday at the home of Comdr.
Charles Kohen. The following
were elected delegates to the Dis
trict of Columbia convention:
Charles Kohen and Pat A. Sugrue;
alternates, Guy C. Nadeau and L. F..
Zaruba.
The post donated s42 to the de-
partment toward the iron lung fund.
The post and unit gave IA enter
tainments at the various veterans
hospitals.
The JUNIOR baseball team, winner
of the first half of the junior base
ball series, were invited by Clark
Griffith and as his guests at the
Griffith Stadium last Thursday wit
messed game and also met Bobby
Fellers, a former American Legion
junior baseball player. The Guy
c. Nadeau membership trophy was
won by Pat. A. Sugrue. Prizes
of Legion caps, donated by First
Vice Comdr. Nadeau, were won by
George 10th, George LIE Dane, Carl
Kuldell and l.. F.. Zaruba New
members admitted were R. H. Cor
liss, j. L. Horn, H. P Newman.
w. F. Williams. J. E. Malarkey,
Comdr. H. L. Phelps, I. R. Hale,
E. E. Jacques, A. D. McFarlane,
L. R. German. I. E. Naher, F..
Passalaqua, w. B. Wells and W.
Sheard.
United States Department of
Agriculture Post held memorial
services in the auditorium, South
Building, on May 30, with Secretary
OF Agriculture Henry A. Wallace as
the speaker.
The program included vocal Sc
lections by Clarke Paulsen, accom-
panied by Fenton Walter; Miss
Charlene Kindig, accompanied by
Miss Margaret Hudson, and the
male quartet, United States De-
partment of Agriculture Symphonic
Choir, accompanied by Miss Vir-
ginia Baker.
Wreaths were placed at the World
War Memorial Plaque in the Ad-
ministration Building and at the
Forest Service Memorial Tablet in
the South Building.
Lincoln Post will meet tomorrow
evening at o'clock in the Arcade
Building, Fourteenth street and
Park road NV. Comdr. Hampton
D. Percy will preside. Delegates
and alternates to the department
convention will be elected.
The meetings for July and August
will be called off.
United States Bureau of Internal
Revenue Post will hole a boat ride
on the S. S. Potomac next Saturday
evening. All Legion members and
their friends are invited. 1t would
be appreciated if those who intend
to attend this boat ride would secure
their tickets from Comdr. Charles
w. Curran or one of the other off,
GERS of the post.
The officers of the post will pre-
sent the American Legion School
award to two members of the gradu-
ating class of the Woodward School
for Boys on June IL.
Vincent B. Costello Post met Mon
day evening at Henderson's, 2l08
Sixteenth street NV. Election of
delegates for the department con-
vention was held.
A boy will be selected to represent
the post in the Soap Box Derby.
Past Comdr. Henry Heine, in
charge of the organization of the
Sons of the Legion, has called a
meeting for June II at 8 pm. at
Henderson's, 2108 Sixteenth street
NV.
Police and Fire Post will meet at
the Odd Fellows Temple, 419
Seventh street NV, on Wednesday
evening and will entertain their
sons. There will be a short enter
tainment and refreshments.
Department Comdr. Slattery and
his staff have accepted an invitation
of Department Comdr. George G..
McLeish, of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars, to attend the annual encamp-
ment next Wednesday evening, at
the Woodrow Wilson High School.
Chairman A. E. Giegengack, of
the convention program, has re-
quested that all posts get in the
material for their posts page in the
convention program by June Is.
Frank Norton, chairman of the
Sub Committe of the Seating Of
Delegates at the convention advises
that the seating arrangements for
the delegation will be based on the
posts membership as of Is days,
prior to the opening of the con-
vention.
Department Historian Harvey
Bean reports that the department
history has been compiled from the
time of the Paris Caucus in 1919,
to the present administration. Plans
are underway to have the history
printed and distributed at the con-
vention.
An American company will es-
fo h1jSh a. a1aor, roion Y1lort II,