Evening star., 1941-06-29

| vernon Will leave the seventh street
wharf at $3.50 pm.
In connection with the trip there
will be Miss American Legion"
beauty contest. 1t is expected each
post will be represented by a con-
teStant. 1t is for girls from 18 to
Is years of age. They should wear
street or evening clothes. Bathing
suits are barred. The winner will
ride in state in the parade in con-
nection with the Department Con-
vention July 81.
A meeting of post commanders
and post chairmen of the Building
Committee will be held Wednesday
evening at the Mayflower Hotel, in
stead of Monday as scheduled.
In view of the fact that a num-
| ber of the children being cared for
by the Legion Welfare Department
are going to camp this summer, there
| is a great need for children's play
| clotheS-sun suits, canvas shoes,
bathing suits, etc. Anything along
these lines which you have will be
| collected. Telephone the Welfare
Department, ME. 42l1 or Benjamin
Aronsohn, RA. 6317.
Department Comdr. William Har-
grave presented Capital Transit Post
with a permanent charter at the
last meeting. The Forty and Eight
degree team inducted the members
An auxiliary unit was formed on
June 16 at the Hotel Grafton. Mrs.
Helen McCabe, department presi-
dent, presided. The following Off
GERS were elected: Mrs Nellie Gun
nell, president; Miss Claudia Hall,
vice president; Mrs. T. Arehart, Sec
cretary- and Mrs. Helen
Brauer, sergeant at arms.
Comdr. E. j. McKenna presented
auxiliary pins to the new members
as a present from the post.
The James Reese Europe Post on
June "a elected delegates and al
ternates to the department conven-
ton, which will convene July 81,
August l and 2.
DblbSdleS are SOlIluI. w llIIdlI IL
Kelson, chairman; Past Comdrs.
Clifton C. Anderson and Harvey L.
Bean, Finance Officer Frederick A.
Dawes. Past Comdr. John r. Ander-
son. Robert P. Rhea and Harry Nc
Kenzie, Adjt. Albert l.. Dunlap, First
Vice Comdr. George B. Hunt and
Legislative Officer Howard A.
Walker.
Alternates are Second Vice Comdr.
Girard Edmunds, John Albert. John
T. French, Harry Wonder, William
Banks. Walter A. Jackson, William
Mckinley jackson, Harlan A. Carter
and J. D. Williams.
Cooley Mccullough Post, at its
last meeting Comdr. Guy c. Nadeau
presiding. elected the following dele
gates TO the department convention,
Comdr. Guy C. Nadeau chairman;
L. F. Zaruba, Chadles kohen and
Carl Kuldell.
Alternates are David Block,
George 10th, William Albrecht and
J. S. Haldenstein.
its auxiliary in sponsoring Miss |
Helen NJ Zaruba, daughter of Sc
nior Vice Comdr. and Mrs. L. F. |
Zaruba, to represent it in the Le-
gion beauty contest for the title
Miss American Legion" The VIM !
ner is to be selected on the Amer
ican Legion moonlight excursion |
down the Potomac aboard the S. 5.
Mount Vernon on July 3.
New members accepted were o. c.
Anderson. Walter F. BloSs, NJ E.
Moore. Floyd w. Trantham, Gordon
! Williams, J. F. OMeara, Angus |
Ferguson. B. B. Greenblatt and AL
fred C. rockingham.
The next meeting will be held |
july Is at 8O2 F street NV. at 8 |
pm.
The next meeting of the Sergt. |
Jasper Post will be held Wednes-
day evening at Pythian Temple,
with Comdr. Ayden A. Dibble pre-
siding.
Delegates and altefnates to the
department convention will be
elected.
Chairman Asbury Hammond of
the Housing Committee reports the
post has raised over thousand dol
lars toward the purchase of the
proposed new American Legion
Home.
United States Department OF
Agriculture Post met Friday night,
with Raymond Smith presiding.
Joe Allison, chairman Defense
Committee, reported on the meeting |
of that committee with the District |
Defense Committee. That commit
tee is making a survey among CIV
ilian residents of the District to |
determine their classification, use
fulness and application for home
defense When the survey is COM
pleted the Legion will be incorpor-
ated into the plans now being for
mulated for home defense work but |
not as a separate entity but as |
members in the respective section
in which they live or will work.
Delegates and alternateS ap-
pointed to the District convention
were Joe Koehl, Joe Allison, Law
renee Sample, Harry Kabat, Everett |
Wilcox and Comdr. Raymond Smith.
The post on June 13. at Shaw
Junior High School, awarded the
good citizenship awards to Miss
Beatrice Odessa Byrd and Wesley
Anthony Brown of the graduation
class. Lawrence Sample, post Amer
icanism officer; Lloyd Burkey, his
torian, and Harry Kabat, second
vice commander, attended the
services.
The Welfare Committee is CO.
operating with the post for the
blood serum bank for the depart
ment. The committee is supervising
all blood tipping of Agriculture en-
ployes and selection of donors for
emergency cases.
Internal Revenue Post met last
Monday evening at the Hayloft Club,
1905 MocSo cbuSetts avenIIe NV |